skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post above says the reasons of not enough benefits is typically offered as an explanation - so using a broad brush to say the left accuses people of being disconnected and racist contradicts that point.
Well, and I say that one of Go's shortcomings is that it doesn't have generics.

See how mere opinions work? Now what?
Best advice (in general not just this particular problem) I heard was by Joe Blitzstein (Harvard): Practice, practice, practice.

Much of statistics/probability is about pattern recognition, and developing pattern recognition requires lots of practice.

I enjoyed and learned a lot from his Harvard course
Statistics 110: Probability

Video Lectures http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube
Any tips for reading up on how different communities can learn to coexist peacefully? I sometimes wonder if different groups go to war because the individuals on either side don't have effective tools for demanding peaceful alternatives from their leaders.
There's a difference between "tracking everything users do" and "tracking everything each user does". Which are you accusing it of doing?
It's more specifically globalization of personal data warehousing and mining, for sale to advertisers and governments. Of course they're promoting adoption in any clothing they can drape it, and of course they're working on universal connectivity. Google came to the same conclusions and is doing the same.
Probably the late 19th-century, when Stanford, MIT and Caltech were founded. They are all now competitors to Harvard.

"Good" universities benefit from outsized tax-sheltered endowments, which can be spent on anything from rock climbing walls, employee perks and bonuses, restaurants, accommodation to land acquisition. Let's do another experiment, what if Harvard's $36 billion endowment was swapped with that of a less prestigious university in a major city, say Seattle University (SU). With now an almost $2 billion in annual expenditure, SU could hire some great faculty, and invest heavily in R&D. Meanwhile, Harvard would need to rely on huge tuition increases (via student loans), equaling $160k a year per student, as each student currently indirectly receives an additional $100k per year in endowment spending, and minimal financial aid. Maybe some wealthy alumni could try and prop it up, but I think it would take less than a generation for Harvard's prestige to sag, and SU's to soar.
> Furthermore, is induced demand that bad?

It's good in cases where you can eventually meet that demand. Say induced demand for broadband leading to more fiber optic cables being laid down.

However there isn't enough space in cities to ever meet demand. What needs to happen is a shift away from the single-car culture in America and towards mass transit.
The telefonternet – a 19th century telephone network
Scientists discover 'Zealandia' – a hidden continent off the coast of Australia
Yes.
And has the right of peoples to self-determination became an old idea?
You could potentially switch to a mesh or some kind of resonant structure with large enough gaps that cell signals could get through while blocking the rooms designed resonant frequency.
SO launched a new feature recently called Documentation. Check out the C++ section [1]. Personally, I'm enjoying it a lot. I think they managed to find a very concise way of showing the basic grips of a language and some advanced ones. Most stuff are through examples, which I think works better when you're already familiar with the language, and just wants to do some specific thing. From time to time, I find myself on the page surfing through the C++ topics.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/documentation/c%2b%2b/topics
My decade of living in London suggests otherwise, on both the notion of inclusion and the claim that no other country has dealt so much with multiculturalism, which just sounds uninformed to me.
What point on mainland of the Netherlands is furthest away from any buildings?
I have found this book to be an excellent resource. Also I have been supplementing it with the oreilly book "Programming Rust" (early release at this point) which has also been great.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920040385.do
I have had very little experience with C style languages in the past and am mostly scripting until recently.
It's been, god, 3 years now since I've started writing large Golang applications and I've yet to look back on a project ~6 months later without noticing flaws in design/architecture/intuitiveness. You are not alone in your hurdles.
There's no such thing as demand being at 100%, certainly not in this context. Demand is a curve. If the cost of driving decreases--i.e. less congestion, easer traveling--people will drive further and more often. It won't happen instantaneously, of course, but demand will adjust even if the population stays the same.

That doesn't mean the new road will fill up completely. There may be other constraining factors. But if a route was highly congested before expansion, you can bet demand will go up after expansion.

> "A year after the freeway opened, traffic volumes along parallel roads like 44th, 56th and 68th streets dropped 40–50%"

That doesn't tell you anything about the total volume of traffic. And in any event it's precisely what you'd expect to see. If a line at the checkout counter has 10 people in it and new counter opens up, expect about 5 people to immediately move over. But _also_ expect a few more people to join one or the other line now that they'll clear quicker.
Is wealth inequality really that important? I don't feel much pressure to "keep up with the Joneses". I'd be much happier being twice as rich even if the people at the top were 4 times as rich.
We've been running on Citus for about 2 months now, with a saas app that has lots of reporting functionality. It's no different than standard postgres in terms of configuration, other than that you have to define a distribution column for the tables you want to be distributed into tenants (e.g. accounts for saas). That's how you really see a significant benefit when working with larger datasets. That and the extra memory they provide over other managed postgres services. For us, "distributing our tables" meant just adding a rails migration using their gem.

We were upgrading from heroku postgres, and chose this over RDS, because they take care of the distribution of data into tenants without us having to change our logic, since everything our users create was already getting associated to their organization / account.

Only issue we've had was at one point we hit our plan's database connection limit of 300 for a few minutes, because of a new long running query we added, that started locking up connections and causing timeouts as soon as we went to production. We reached out immediately and their team jumped all over it to help us free up those connections, while we fixed the query.
Pretty good book.
I was a bit skeptical when I bought, but it was totally worth the price.

Strongly recommend it.
Time to Open Source it guys.. nothing to loose
Yes, but he completely bypasses the question of whether or not it's sane to try to make a global community that works for everyone or whether it's better to stick to smaller localized communities. He acknowledges that there might be difficulties but doesn't acknowledge the possibility that the concept of a global community might be inherently flawed and evil.
It's also a side effect of globalization. As trade barriers come down, the well off from the richest parts of the world will become much more well off. The poor from the richest parts of the world will see their quality of life decline. The rich from the poorest parts of the world will see their power wane and the poor from the poorest parts of the world will see massive increases in quality of life.
It is not yet finished, no-- Chapters 15 to the end are merely outlines at this point.
Democracy, Globalism, sovereignty. Pick Two. Most Countrys Pick the latter two nowadays
Unteathered completely wireless vr springs to mind as a potential advancement in the tech. Depends on how much the headsets draw can be reduced by with foveated rendering.
What if I simply reset my Android phone to factory settings just before exiting the plane? Can they force me to log in to my Android account in order to get to my FB?

And what if my battery is dead or my phone stops working? Can they force me to log in to their own Android phone?

What if I don't carry any phone at all, can they simply force me to log in to an empty phone? (Assuming everyone has an Android or Apple phone or is going to spend couple days in detention.)
That just means that people should be able to turn up and get on any flight without pre-booking.

I'm going to guess that pre-booking is some sort of way to maximize revenue or minimize wasted empty seats.
Definitely not finished yet. The complete text of Chapter 19 is currently:

More Lifetimes
Lifetimes that depend on other lifetimes

'a: 'b stuff: subtyping
Higher ranked trait bounds

for<'a>

Needed for closures
Again, why couldn't any other company build those same capabilities or get the same user base demographics? It's not like in 1997 an almost bankrupt Apple was operating from a position of strength.
Except where it adds a lot more. It's about 45 minutes at our airport, as we've found out a few times.

Plus, they ask you to be even earlier than that just in case it might take longer, so you're stuck there for 45+ minutes after security.
Juggling Applications on Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi Chips
I applied for jobs this year and last year. Last year I applied to 323. I got 5 screening calls, 2 interviews, and 0 job offers. This year I applied to 26 jobs. I got 11 screening calls, 3 interviews, and 1 job offer.

I've learned that the trick is quality over quantity.
Conviction is not the issue. The issue is being detained indefinitely in an offshore torture camp. It's like people don't remember Guantanamo Bay.

The judicial system has no sway in Gitmo. Good luck!
It's nice to see an example of self regulation working once in a while.
Also, layovers.
>For the past decade, Facebook has focused on connecting friends and families.

Look, I get it and I think for a while it actually worked. Mostly because the User base was, offhandedly speaking, more responsible with how they used the Communication Tool of Facebook. When the internet was "difficult" and not as instant as turning on a TV, look, there was a threshold of participation that resulted in Selection Bias of sorts.

Let's take an extreme example of another type of Tool, that when placed in the "Wrong" hands - so to speak - can wreak a lot of havoc: A Firearm. In the hands of a Responsible Person, a Firearm is a Tool, though it can also be a Weapon if so intended. It has pretty limited scope, but it's useful and can be controlled.

Put the Firearm in the hand of an Irresponsible Person and the outcomes will likely be "Unpleasant" to put it lightly. Irresponsibility takes many forms - sometimes it's a case of Emotional Stress (relationship break up), Financial Catastrophe (debt), Desperation (drug addiction). Humans are very much unrefined and uncivilized as much as we'd like to promote a different image.

I mean, when I think about BIG PROBLEMS it's stuff that Facebook isn't really the right tool for the job. You know, things like water. I just checked, and the UN posits:

>783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation.

It might seem like I'm moving the goalposts here, but it's actually kind of a way of twisting your attention around a little.

My impression is that Facebook, in the past two years, has been one of the most divisive, family and friendship havoc wreaking wastelands and, like it or not, a behemoth with only a vestigial relationship to Zuck's latest missive. I've seen far too many posts time and time again about people noticing their lives are happier and more positive by either vastly reducing or altogether eliminating participation in Facebook.

It's hard to bring the world together when providing the forum for it to tear itself apart. Right? Maybe that essay is still in the works.
Ask HN: How will internet change over the next 5-10 years?
So much +1 to this.

I'd like to add a thought too. At the end of the day, this is a centralized system, built by people in a very specific sphere in a single country and thus in a relatively homogeneous culture and world view.

It struck me, fore example, how they had the "change your profile picture" feature for solidarity to the Paris attacks but not for the Beirut ones; even though both were terribly deadly, by the same perpetrating organization, and they happened on consecutive days.

Or how they prompted me to post about the Super Bowl, even though I don't watch or care about American Football, but they ignore other big sporting events.

Facebook is very much anglo-centric and in subtle but important ways amplified by it's massive scale it's imposing a certain world views over others.
The thing with LINQ is that it can represent itself (reified or 'quoted code), so you can transform it into SQL, GPU instructions, whatever. This isn't a new idea, and F# had it before C# did (and LISP had it before, and others).

map/filter/reduce are just basic functional programming elements.
but how many people have a TV that can actually display content at 4k?
It depends on what you want in life. There can not be 7 billion mansions on the waterfront land of the equator. Only one person can own the Yankees. These things are decided by wealth inequality regardless of how rich we all become. If you just want a roof over your head somewhere and food to eat, then yeah it doesn't matter at all.
Perhaps the reason you find it difficult to make friends in the real world

Not what I was saying at all. Perhaps you should reread my comment, or alternatively ignore it if my opinions upset you.
Are you sure that it is the case? I tried looking into it, and it seems like DSM 5 still has ADHD as a separate disorder, non-related to autism spectrum http://images.pearsonclinical.com/images/assets/basc-3/basc3...
Intelligence is not inherited, it is teached. Smart parents raise smart children, but their same children raised out in the jungle would be dumb just like monkeys.
Global cooperation/understanding and globalization are two very different things
You're arguing a collective good but many opponents of globalization are looking at it from an individual rather than collective point of view.
when you pass the local "en-us" that means you use that, and not the user's locale.

the formatting you desired, can also be easily defined with the options argument. see (https://jsfiddle.net/prn4823b/1/)

but these methods, are pretty new, so say we disregard them for a minute.

The serious issue to take note of here, is that you are defining everything, in a function you are calling every second.

you don't need a new date object every second, you don't need to redefine those arrays, you also instead of doing one conditional for amPm, and hour formatting, are doing each in their own ternary.

I'm not trying to be hyper critical, but I did to you, just like I do with most candidates that apply with me, and seeing this, it would make me doubt your statements about javascript.

I would also argue, that showing the time here is a bit odd, as typically for something like this, it would be the time of the contents last update, not their own time, they have a clock already.

Best of luck with getting a gig.
Scathing Report – “Flipped Karts – The Great Indian Tech Meltdown”
Pavement LED strip traffic lights for smartphone users
Quite. The smell was strong from the very first announcement. Didn't stop the media proudly telling us how wonderful and flexible this was. Frankly the whole thing stank and you can be fairly sure the navy wanted cats. Sandy Woodward and Alan West certainly did.

No matter we were going to have 150 F35s by 2012. We've got what, five so far?
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This guy is clearly aching to live in New York, so this advice isn't great...
I also just read a BBC article[1] that includes an interview with Zuck regarding this piece, and I can't help but think "they still don't get it." There are valid concerns regarding globalism that have gone largely ignored by (usually liberal) politicians. Those who raise issues like manufacturing jobs moving abroad[2] or violence from a sudden influx of refugees[3][4] have been labeled racist, bigoted, and ignorant. Connecting the world's population and facilitating the sharing of information and perspectives worldwide is laudable, but in a democracy you can't simply ignore that many people believe a move towards globalization and specifically opening national borders to foreign goods and people is not a decision that should be so cavalier.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38998884

[2] http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/caterpillar-moving-jo...

[3] https://www.rt.com/news/373853-sweden-no-go-zones-gangs/

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/05/germany-crisis...
China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
<3 You're welcome!

The new revision of the book is using mdbook, which hasn't yet implemented playground support [1].

An RFC has recently been accepted to start the infrastructure of featuring the new book (and other resources) on doc.rust-lang.org/book, but the implementation isn't done yet. Soon!

[1] - https://github.com/azerupi/mdBook/issues/29
[2] - https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1828-rust...
We had been cultivating Argentina to help deal with communist insurgencies in South and Central America. For the US the right ending was you to win without the Argentinian public seeing us as an enemy.

So we helped by delivering missiles early and even supposedly offered to lend you a carrier (which would be crewed by the UK), but didn't get involved directly. I doubt the Argentinians were much happier than they'd have been if we started dropping bombs, but that was the thinking.
I've been reading the early access version for a while now, and it is excellent. I hadn't had much luck with the "official" documentation, previously.

Jim Blandy's writing is an exemplar for good teaching technique, and this book is shaping up to be the go-to recommendation for learning Rust, in my opinion.
There's a difference between globalisation, the economic term, and what this is about.

Essentially, he's talking about a world where the "in-group" (in terms of "in-group" vs. "out-group") becomes global. I simply cannot find fault with that, because almost by definition, that should greatly diminish risks of violence and war, increase cooperation, increase real freedom (because you'll have many more options for places to live without being the stranger feeling strange) and so on.

I am already part of several global communities whose members have more in common with each other than with the average citizen of their home countries. HN, (my branch of) academia etc.

The criticism that may be harder to dispel is weather such a community is possible: maybe there is some sort basic need for people to create groups, not just for the benefits they get from being on the inside, but also for some sort of satisfaction they get from the knowledge that others are not.

But even if: it seems at least as easy to believe that humans have an innate streak of violence, and it's part of greatness of humanity to have managed to largely stunt that instinct. If there really is a need for outsiders, I doubt that it could be stronger, or that it couldn't be overcome by the same mechanisms.
This example along with all the similar ones drives home the basic idea that probability is tied to its model and its model is often best phrased as a generative story. If we agree on the generative story we'll agree on the model and then your intuition probably works just fine. In situations where the story is obscured—in this case, only the end results are mentioned so that the story is ambiguous—then you can have ambiguous answers.
Thanks for taking the time to respond. I've been wondering about this for a while.
Just one Dick, not "Dicks", and you posted the same link twice :D
That and the lack of windows might not be to everyone's taste.
What populations do you think have taken the biggest hit to standard of living?
If you're atheist, agnostic, or nonreligious, and are forced to declare a religion, just say "Unitarian Universalist". Official church doctrine is essentially, "believe whatever you want; spirituality is a deeply personal experience, yet it can be shared with others".
Yeah, for whatever reason the right lane very, very frequently turns into an exit with almost no warning.

This is just how the maps are designed. It's only on the rare three lane stretches that you're able to bump over to the middle lane confidently.
It'd seem in that case it's not that demand increased but that people moved further way from their final destination so their commute time was increased.

It may very well be that the same people are still driving or wanting to drive, but simply by living further away the commute times have gone up.
This has been the case in the UK for many years. There's an actual regulatory difference between 'use by' and 'best before': https://www.food.gov.uk/science/microbiology/use-by-and-best...
Stupid question perhaps, but why not:

boy girl
boy(notgirl) boy
boy boy(notgirl) <-reversed order
girl boy

?
It's an old idea: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15220615-500-not-cook...

very far infrared == very short microwave
RoachDB !
Global wealth inequality is decreasing

'We are witnessing, in the words of the World Bank’s Branko Milanovic, “the first decline in global inequality between world citizens since the Industrial Revolution.”'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/01/08/...

Internal inequality is increasing in a number of countries however.
Moderation does a dang good job
I doubt Bertha will be purchasable given the litigation on the SR 99 job. I don't know what you would be able or want to use it for - it's 58.5 ft in diameter. It is unlikely that you will get an inventory of all the parts in the machine.

If you really want a machine then you would just call the contractor and ask them their price. You would likely have to pay for delivery.

The process to establish whether or not one could use that machine locally is just whether or not you have a job that needs a 58.5 ft diameter TBM set up the way theirs is. In other words, the process to establish whether or not one could use the machine again locally is basically to go through the design process for the tunnel (preliminary design, geotechnical exploration, laboratory testing, final design, etc.).
The companies as they are today may not be achieving their mission - that doesn't mean that they won't in the future.

Facebook has succeeded in making the world a more open and transparent place - people have the ability to share information that matters to them and have people around the world find out about it. There are fewer places around the world for those in power to hide information away now. That's different to whether Facebook as a company is transparent.

Uber likewise may or may not be reliable now - surge pricing only ever increases the price of an Uber to the same as the price as a black cab where I live, but it's pretty clear that Uber's ambitions of self driving cars do not include surge pricing.