skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a different paradigm in the same sense that Logic programming is a different paradigm. It's not just some API or library you can start calling into, it's a tool which deeply changes how you approach your problem. You need to be comfortable and able to reason with probabilistic concepts^.

Another way to look at it is, similar to how you can have the concept of a program as a differentiable function, you can have probabilistic programs as defining a distribution. Their utility is the ease with which they allow you to model complex probability distributions and then condition on observations. With that, you can do inference.

If you've heard of bayesian networks or graphical models, PPs can generalize these. It's just a few lines to do hidden markov models, bayesian regression, gaussian processes, gaussian mixture models and LDA topic models. Their downside is that performing inference has been less efficient than writing these models out by hand. We know that the ideas are powerful as they produce generative models which work off less data and naturally incorporate uncertainty.

The dream is, just as a more expressive language should have less patterns, probabilistic programming will one day make writing complex generative models so routine people won't bother specially naming them as this or that machine learning algorithm.

^ The kind you find in a book like this: http://www.mbmlbook.com/toc.html
I own a Lexus and Tesla and while nothing has been bad with Lexus service, my experience has been better customer service from Tesla (more friendly, better loaners, more flexible scheduling, etc).

Now, on the other hand: my Lexus has had a lot fewer issues.
Law is a layered subject. Once you have read enough of it you hit an inflection point where it becomes far less difficult. That is what law school is really all about. Most all lawyers can fly through a new case or law and pull out key elements within minutes. The language is actually not thay bad, but this comes from someone who enjoyed taxlaw classes.

Try reading physics, maths or phylosophy papers. There too you must read a few hundred before things start to line up.
How about the BMW i3? The 2017 gets 120 miles to a charge and for a bit more money you can get an onboard generator to bring that up to 300 miles IIRC.

The driver assist capabilities aren't as great but otherwise can't think of much to complain about.
Forgotten passwords are bane of the Internet. Facebook wants to fix that
Life isn't a game.
Thank you! I'm getting into F# from a non-dotnet background: JS > Clojure > Elm > F# :)
Show HN: NYC Fireworks Twitter Bot
How can it throw an warning on the display without a detailed log of the actual cause?
A franchised BMW dealership tried to charge me $15,000.00 for a new engine. It turns out the problem was two spark plus that they installed improperly. Their diagnosis turned out to be entirely manufactured.

The idea that franchised dealerships somehow improve customer service is laughable.
There's a reason you see medallion systems mostly in large citys with cronyist political machine type governments.
"Too intimate" as defined by our culture.
I only heard about it after researching F#. Not only Domain modelling, I also started hearing about Event Sourcing and CQR after learning F#.
Helps that I have an hour commute each way, 5 days a week. Public transport FTW!

Aside from that, patience is key. 10 or 15 cards per day adds up over a period of years
The GPL does not have a terrible reputation. It does, however, have a vocal group of a corporate sponsored detractors that are trying to destroy it. Lots and lots of people are thankful for the GPL, myself included.
We need to remember our kindness and empathy now more than ever.

When someone says this, it's time to run, or maybe a little late for that.
For creative endeavors, you need both.
Only export though? I can't just edit the files in place with emacs, which is my preferred way to edit anything? I don't mind if all the collaboration stuff was only visible with whatever dropbox editing UI, I'd just like the freedom to edit with whatever tool I wish to use.
I bet if you followed the money you'd find some very wealthy city councilmen or bureaucrats who were in charge of determining how many medallions to issue.
> Based on what you were trying to do, maybe writing a simple program to read a record from schema A and insert it into schema B would have been easier and cost less.

Yup, that's basically the lesson learned. Oracle's tooling is terrible, it's just easier to write your own most of the time.
Could it be a placebo effect? If you were to randomly take either 5 mg or 40 mg would you notice the difference?
Well he does use an Android, so it wouldn't surprise me if that was 100% correct.
Any anecdotes from anyone who has used this? What did you use it for and did it work how you expected?

Only curious -- it seems really interesting for a personal project I plan on working on soon.
I'd like to share sometime but it'll take work to filter out copyrighted and personal material.
Yes, of course, because this is the only story I've ever read about Tesla, I never even heard of them before this post.

...of course not.
They were fined by the EPA it wasn't just a California thing. Other governments have also taken some actions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal#G...

For instance, in Canada there is a buyback/rebate program.
Can't help thinking/believing a fair number of people are going to encounter this headline in the media and think, "Too big to fail." As in, the fix is in, for such corporations.

Which will play right into the current political climate.
What is an interchange rate?
> Using your analogy, you might as well blame all US citizens

Of course US citizens are responsible for all the actions of their President. You cant brush off your responsibility by claiming you did not vote for him.
Does an acquisition list exist?link? Any resources on how to get acquired?
This. Apparently, it's shocking and newsworthy that Apple adheres to US law, and moves to rectify situations where they have been misled:

"While there is no official App Store available for the territory of Iran, many companies registered their apps as being outside of Iran to be able to get onto the store."
I really don't think so. In fact, if such a ban would mean that vouchers couldn't be used for Islamic and Jewish schools, I suspect the typical voucher supporter would be relieved.

The normal expectation is traditional private schools. Directly cashing the vouchers for homeschooling (books, chemistry set, opportunity cost of lost wages, etc.) is another possibility.
Frankly this is a vanity metric anyways. Toyota's brake recall back around 2010 was directly related to its rapid global production expansion in an effort to become #1 in sales volume. Their QC and reliability/consistency across geographies suffered as a result.

Iirc the CEO himself was quoted saying the company lost sight of what should really matter -- making products that fulfill the needs and desires of their customers. (sorry, it's been many years so I can't really pull up the source)

When's the last time anyone's said "hey look at this #1 by sales volume car I just got"?
On the other side of the coin, a few months ago I was annoyed by getting a redshift alert one too many times during maintenance that I spent a couple of hours on a Saturday writing a ~20 line Lambda project that took the notifications from Redshift and posted them in a Slack channel.

I didn't have to worry about setting up automation for launching an ec2 instance, monitoring it, paying for it, or any of the complex trouble for what ended up being a single python function that cost abotu $0.10 per month to run.
It's had that for a long time. one of the hallmarks of their OSX tight integration has been in memory patching of different OS versions to display dropbox files tightly integrated with finder.

be scared.
Betting on a government-granted monopoly is still a bet. Just as if I bought stock in a company that thrives because it has a patent that may or may not be overturned on appeal, or a monopoly that might be smashed due to an anti-trust action.

Investments often result in money lost, that's life - as someone that's been in the market for decades now, yes, I do think it's on you to be aware that black swan bubbles exist, and you'll get wiped out if you're all-in on one when it pops.

If you can't handle the risk of your investment going to zero, hold low-yield bonds, cash, or gold.
I thought the original idea was to regulate the sketchy freelance taxis that existed beforehand. The current system of "expensive medallions owned by rich people who then hire poor people to drive the cars for a pittance" is just what happens once capitalism gets hold of a system with poorly thought-out, exploitable rules.
In the last week, it's gone from 'time-to-time' to 'multiple times a day'. Great stuff, but it's getting very hard to keep up with.
>and the handful of people who are sincerely concerned about them are now engaged in a tattered and obviously doomed rear-guard action.

This is very demeaning and insulting. The revolution is alive and well.
OpenWhisk actions (equivalent to functions in other frameworks) have two life cycle events: initialization and execution. The very first activation of an action (a cold start), will initiate both events. Future activations of the action, if they're contemporaneous, will only generate execution events. This is the warm execution, which can take advantage of previous activations. To provide scaling, it is necessary to sometimes create new execution environments for the repeated actions, and so that means new initialization events.

While one cannot rely that all executions after a cold start are warm, it's possible to for the action code to check if it's warm and forgo internal initialization as needed. This is a convenient trick that's common to avoid expensive setup.

For Java actions running in OpenWhisk, this can be done with static fields.

A nice flow of the lifecycle can be seen on slide 24 here http://www.slideshare.net/psuter/openwhisk-deep-dive-the-act....
Does Office have robust real-time simultaneous editing. I imagine Office 365 might have (does it?) - but how about desktop Office?

Genuine question. I'm asking about Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
I'll try to give a bit of an overview to help answer the first three questions.

In Notion, all your documents are basically a big nested hierarchy of pages. Pages (generally) exist within another page, rather than simply being linked to (though you can link to pages in a different part of the hierarchy through either their URLs or by aliasing the page, letting a document live in more than one part of the tree at once). By nesting the pages, you get a nice table of contents in the sidebar.

Pages are composed of "blocks". These are just page elements, and most of these are the kinds of things you'd expect to see in a document (paragraphs, images, sections, bullet lists, etc.). There are some special ones, like TeX equations, inline discussion forums, and other things, but these are entirely optional.

Unlike a document in Word/Google Docs, blocks are more of a real entity that you'd interact with. For example, you can select a whole block (and any children) at once, drag-and-drop them elsewhere in the document (even to the left or right of other blocks, creating columns), link to them, and even transform them into other types of blocks (like bullet lists to numbered lists).

Pages themselves are actually a kind of block, which is neat. Let's say you have a giant page full of content, and you want to split out some of the sections in the page and put them in their own page. Simply click the block options for that section and choose "Turn Into -> Page", and now it's a new page linked where the section used to be, at the right place in the hierarchy.

Task Boards, Design Specs, etc. are really just templates. They're nothing special. You can make them by hand if you want to, or change them however you want. They're really just there to help you get going if you have use of them. No different than templates in Work, Excel, etc.

As far as WYSIWYG goes, since you're dealing with these page elements (bullet points, section headers, etc.), it really is pretty much WYSIWYG. You can select text or a header or whatever and change the styling a bit (colors, sizes, fonts, all to a limited degree).

Along with that, though, there's a form of Markdown processing. These are really more like keyboard shortcuts, though. Type "# " to get a section. Enclose something in backticks to make it appear as code. "* " for a bullet list. Things like that. It's not a full Markdown engine, though. There are a few bugs with some of these shortcuts, but they mostly work.

Editing in Notion is definitely a bit different, because you're kinda forced to think about blocks and hierarchy a bit more, but they've improved much of this over the past couple of months to make it more natural to work with. They've been hard at work with improvements, from the looks of it, so I'm expecting a lot of this to really improve more going forward.
Based on my experience with BMW franchised dealerships your engine replacement may not have been necessary. They told me I needed the same and it turned out the problem was two spark plugs they didn't install properly. Part of that ordeal involved unnecessarily replacing fuel injectors under a BMW extended warranty after an incorrect diagnosis of the misfire.
It isn't their job to care. The job of a citizen is to elect officials to act in his or her (the citizen's) best interest. Another way of looking at it: regulations are a noisy approximation of how much people "care".
I did not do a double-blinded experiment, so I suppose I can't conclusively rule out a placebo effect. All I can say is that the effect is extremely unsubtle. 40mg of melatonin is a lot. It was a bad time in my life when I chose to do that, and I have no intention to repeat the experiment.
Hope facebook will opensource the original Parse platform. Less likely, but just hoping.
Copy protection on software like games can be useful. On Netflix? Not at all. It's easy to bypass, and even if it worked perfectly, you just need a cheap HDMI splitter and a capture card. The reason you don't see a lot of rips off Netflix is because Netflix doesn't get a lot of things first, not because the DRM is effective.

As far as technical barriers, recording a stream is tricky enough in the first place. You can't right click save on Netflix, even in the absence of DRM.
At least with BMW, if you can afford to pay for service, despite being in-warranty, you have the option of going to an independent shop.
I see where you're going, but I'm not sure long-term prior exposure to toxins necessarily dictates just how toxic they are. There are too many confounding variables.

There are plenty of never-been-made-before chemicals that are completely non-toxic and plenty of been-around-forever chemicals that are super toxic (ricin, botulism toxin, etc).
Only works if you can raise billions really fast so that you can have the clout/means to get the legislators to bend the rules for you.
Regarding some of the sentiments in this thread... I have to agree...

How exactly does this help me/large teams?

Their customer list, sure, has "cool names" -- but the workflow support this provides seems to focus on 19 year old college grads who were forced to do group projects and have only ever touched a macbook air.

"beautiful interface" -- do you know how many pitches (including multiple companies from the decades past) attempted to sell their idea on "clean UI" failed and failed and failed?

Look if this works for you - then use it - but a white dude and an asian chick sitting in a clean room with a mac thinking about their "marketing" is pretty boring.

So - what does this do? How about show me the problem the two in the landing are working on...

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"Before - we were trying to get the reqs from the PM to the devs based on the input from the marketing research of what our customers were asking for WRT features... the pipeline was clogged and nobody was on the same page... emails, PPTs, MTGs etc - nothing worked... then we brought in this new tool - spent a month and a half selling it to the devs to get them to actually create a fucking account, and 18 months later - we are 3% more effective than we were before!" YAY!

Sorry - thats how I see tools like such, "Lets disrupt 40 years of DNA on a particular workflow that our experienced devs have been using by showing them a lot of minimalistic whitespace and hi-res stock photos!"

how about turn this into a slack hook and let the devs do their thing and be up-front that this is for marketing and PMs and the devs should never see it. It should create requests of (producer of widget) via whatever method that (producer of widget) is used to....

or... found your freaking startup from day-one on a freaking tool...

Finally, it would seem that things like this are relegated to very small teams - and you should be wary of attempting to get other groups in your co to drink your cool UI kool-aid.

/cynicism...
Since VW has stopped selling diesels in the US, and said they don't plan to reintroduce them, I'm not sure a boycott of that drivetrain is going to have much effect on them.

Fortunately for Europe, most countries have been strengthening incentives not to buy diesel, since they have always contributed more to smog problems -- and the push away from diesel started long before VW got caught screwing the tests over.
Already a post with over 300 comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519765
Yup. I drive a Japanese four-door sedan. It's twelve years old. 156k miles. Runs great. Paid for. But, yeah, I'm bored.
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It'd be nice, but unlikely. They'll probably be snatched up by other companies buying them at a loss. Even if they drop, it probably won't be low enough for individuals to afford.
I want to give vimwiki a try, but I need to be able to also use the wiki (read, search, navigate, write) from mobile. That's the only thing keeping me from trying it. I think I could store the files in Dropbox and at least read them from mobile.
The purpose of the GPL is not to have developers give back to their upstreams, it's to give users freedom. To swing the balance of power in the user's favor rather than the developer's. Either the user controls the software, or the software controls the user.
The touchbar is similar to an iOS device so it is a separate computing device that has a small attack surface so it is difficult to hack.

It for instance controls the camera, so without hacking the touchbar it is impossible to use the camera without the light turning on.

It also controls the fingerprint reader in a way that makes it hard to get the secrets that are protected by the fingerprint without actually providing the fingerprint.
Since it was unclear from my comment: I consider myself an active (if entirely unimportant) participant in the movement, and the state of affairs I describe is one I'm deeply concerned by. I still see it as broadly true that we're in bad shape and losing ground fast.
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I don't see anything in that study about excess melatonin being evacuated. The paper only talks about effectiveness as a sleep aid.
The article does not mention if they actually showed causality. What if there is a third variable (coffee, acquired virus, anxiety, lack of exercise) that simultaneously causes lack of sleep and a depressed immune system? The cause could even be the other way around - I know I don't sleep well when I'm feeling sick.
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> Export is .docx only and the export formatting is atrocious, non usable.

You can also export as MarkDown.
Needs a dongle
Thank God we cleared that up.
I'd also like to know what drivers make in NYC cabs (individual and vis a company) vs Uber vs Lyft, both gross and adjusted for car/fuel costs.

I've lived in some cities where Uber drivers were mostly former taxi drivers who made more with Uber, but I've also lived in places where Uber cut driver income over several years and none of the people I rode with started out as Taxi drivers (and therefore couldn't tell me if the income was comparable).

I agree, Uber doesn't have a great track record of playing fair.
"Jazz" is such a broad arena. It spans genres from Dixieland to Louis Armstrong to Django Reinhardt (not the web framework) to Pat Metheny to fusion to...

You might sample an artist or two from each genre to narrow your interest. I daresay most fans of a given genre are not fans of all. For that matter, the boundary between jazz and blues or rock or even classical are porous (Bob James' version of Bizet's Farandole "L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2[0] immediately came to mind).

My interest was sparked by two initial inspirations: my late brother-in-law (a musician himself) and a local FM radio station which played a broad spectrum of music (ironically, their license was eventually used for KFOG's South Bay version).

One delimiting criterion is pure instrumentals vs. vocals; another is which instruments you favor (guitar vs. brass vs. keyboard emphasis).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlskWL4SjGI
The car displayed to the user that it was not able to start! Presumably, especially given the remarks about the techs pulling the logs from the car, the car logged the fact that it could not start. That, by its very existence, means the car is not "in good working order". Not being able to trust that your vehicle will start is one of the worst feelings a driver can have.
I thought it was devestating at first but I found solace when they went open source. But after stumbling across sashido.io i don't even miss parse.com sashido has the Same service but with better features although they still did not add the export feature to CSV. Which is really useful
My car is out of the factory warranty now but I purchased a third party warranty that allows me to go to independent mechanics.

My local dealership has a 100% failure rate with my car. Every service action they took has resulted in an egregious misdiagnosis or future failure of a part due to improper service.

I'm not sure if I will ever buy a new BMW unless I can be reimbursed for the factory warranty that I will never use. The single most dangerous place to take your BMW is a BMW service location.
can you take a half hour to do a workout in your lunch break?
You don't become King without stepping on everyone, and everything on your way to the top.
"you only see this behavior coming from the left because of your own bias."

You don't see that these are progressive tactics because of YOUR bias.

I rarely see the same tactics used on the right. You don't see the online hashtag campaigns that harass and abuse anyone that supports the current progressive narrative.

"How conveniently you forget the entire US Congress right wing refusing to work with the legitimately elected president of the US and building their entire agenda on defeating him because they disagreed with him."

Heh. You say this as if Trump is illegitimate. A vast majority of Democrats in power are refusing to work with the current legitimate president and sitting on their hands...like children.

Obama was able to pass Obamacare. The only way this was possible was with the support of the Republicans.
Perhaps the overlap between people who meditate and sociopaths is low.
> I doubt that outside of environmental circles that very many people cared.

Do you have any basis for that? I think most people care about clean air and support laws and regulations to protect it. The laws did pass; there are regulatory agencies that are funded.