skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crime rates are much higher in the United States than in Europe. This website claims rape occurs at a 3 times higher rate and murder at a 6 times higher rate. I couldn't find any good statistics for robbery but I imagine it's in that range. Yes, crime has been decreasing in the United States for around a quarter of a century, but it still occurs at a much higher rate than Europe and almost an order of magnitude higher than in Asian cities with good transit like Tokyo or Shanghai.

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Netherlands...

Whether irrational or not, any public transit paradigm has to take the realities of crime and the citizens' perceptions of crime into account if it's going to be successful. And if the crime rate was as low as it is in Europe, it might be easier to get European levels of support for public transit. This implies the need for better policing, earlier social interventions, etc.
Yes, that's a difference. An NBA player can take it easy, not give his/her best, not slam dunk, not run, watch his/her steps more than the ball - to avoid injury, skip risky defense moves - to avoid injury again, or just because he/she is tired or just not feeling it. And no biggie.

But from a lawyer or an engineer that's not really okay, because even if you say I'm not giving your question my full attention and yeah, I think you'll be okay with just a simple rebar frame and no concrete for your bridge, but don't quote me on that and get a professional's advice ... the asker will be more confident, because he/she just did that, asked a professional, even if not in its proper capacity - and when bridges go down people get angry.

Though thinking about it, people usually get very angry at street ball too!
How much did you listen to? The cacophony comes in waves, and these waves become the sound itself.

It's a technique that goes back to Steve Reich in the 1960's. One day I'd like to see some of this stuff lip-synched to the appropriate visual:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVkdfJ9PkRQ
I'm not saying don't make the individual-level changes. Do them, sure. But that - talking about personal responsibility - is exactly the "old way" that isn't working. I'm looking for impactful things that one can do beyond personal changes.

> Don't forget the power of influence. It's monkey see, money do with us humans!

Sure, marketing / propaganda / public outreach is a very good example of things I'm looking for! However, I assume most people here are better at building than talking, so that's why I asked for examples in which one can apply engineering skills.
The point I was trying to make is that it does not have to be cryptic at all!
I worked on a play app where it was really easy to go around and even JS front-end developers made small contributions.
Maybe some teams need to set up rules, or do more code reviews idk.
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I've heard it called (I think on HN!) an assisted living community for people in their 20s - because all those services are subsidised by VC capital too.
That's a really shitty comparison. Unless cyclists really do drive in such packs (which they don't). In reality, the effective space taken by cyclist on genera purpose road is bigger than a car — you need a huge safety margin to overtake a cyclist, and if you cannot do that you a forced to follow them untill you can and that's really ineffective.
All this does not apply to dedicated cyclist roads/lanes, of course.
Land Rovers do not drive on sidewalks, for a start.
Hinton (now of Google Brain) and DS Touretzsky (yeah, the anti-scientology guy) published a thing in 1985 claiming inferential symbol production a la lisp from connectionist (neural) models (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/symbolsIJCAI.pdf). It only had the disadvantage of being a researchy piece of crap.
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You will randomly bomb technical interviews. Everyone does
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Safer? Debatable. There are no cars in that picture, which represent the largest danger to moped riders.

You'd also need a road 10x wider for the same volume of traffic.
If we have massive amounts of clean power a lot of the problem goes away anyway. It's not worth taking any proposal that uses vast amounts of electricity seriously, since it's the generation of vast amounts of electricity that causes the problem in the first place.
In many cases abroad.

Apple (among other tech companies) indirectly created 1.3 million jobs at Foxconn in China, for instance.

Most economic models (including the Ball State U "study" by Michael J. Hicks and Srikant Devara, MBA) that counted "jobs lost to robots" define productivity as GDP/number of employees employed in America. This indicates upon shallow inspection that Apple, for instance, has a very high productivity (high contribution to GDP/employees).

Or, in other words, economists' models used to declare an impending magic robot revolution right now are defining the 1.2 million Foxconn employees used to make iPhones as robots in their assumptions.

Foxconn itself regularly threatens to replace its 1.2 million employees with magic robots. For instance, see this threat from 2011 made at an employee dance party for some bizarre reason:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robot...

Since then they increased their headcount implying that the threat was made for some other reason than it being say, the truth.
See http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/03/03/tavolga-terminal-tp-t...
I disagree. There is a whole spectrum between "change your own behaviour" and "become a global dictator". It's a spectrum of influencing people around you. Marketing and persuasion are ways to directly influence people, but there are also many more ways to do that indirectly - e.g. creating / improving technologies that change the default behaviour of people for the better. To use a simple example - switching to renewables would not possible without people inventing ways to economically extract power from renewables.
I worked on a Sea of Nodes compiler [0] myself and "backwards data flow analysis and control flow sensitive analysis" has never been a problem.

Changes to the CFG are hard because of the Phi nodes, which have to be adapted in lockstep with CFG changes. However, this is probably inherent to SSA form, but not sea of nodes.

You want a good graph visualization instead of text-based output, because you should actually to see the "non-order of the sea". Text-output with an implicit order can hide issues.

Personally, I believe sea of nodes is better then others, like SSA form is better than non-SSA. There is nothing which makes it inherently more powerful, but it feels more elegant. Unfortunately, there is no objective comparison and anecdotes are apples vs oranges. Similarly, how would you compare object-oriented with functional programming?

[0] http://libfirm.org
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I'm with you two! I like #FF80DD
right b/c you can't clojure.spec everything.
Which is the best iphone app development company
Related: Deep neural decision forests (ConvNets+Random Forests)
http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_iccv_2015/pa...
http://matthewalunbrown.com/papers/1603.01250v1.pdf
https://topos-theory.github.io/deep-neural-decision-forests/
KDE Plasma recently added a new unified theming system, and there is now a theme to make KDE Plasma look and work exactly like macOS with that (with menus in top bar, dock, etc)

But yes, elementary does the "good defaults are impirtant" very well.
Sorry about that. Features are prioritised according to the number of votes they receive on a public Trello board [1]. There's a card [2] for ArchLinux support.

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Unfortunately, `hyphens: auto;` is still not supported on Chrome Windows. I still recommend using it, as it brings nicer layout to the ones you can see it (http://caniuse.com/#search=hyphens) and does not break the layout for others.

CSS Text 4 drafts might bring massive improvements for text handling and will give more fine grained controls over hyphenation, such as `hyphenate-limit-lines` (https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#hyphenate-line-limits), but obviously this is nothing that will make it to stable browsers in the near future. Still, the changes that might come for CSS with this draft would bring it a lot closer to LaTeX or InDesign.
Politics will necessarily have to be a part of it - even if you could bring fusion power to market in the next decade. Politics responds to the shape of the solution landscape, so I see working on technologies (and "social technologies") as one way to influence it, with possibly better ROI than just voting for people who promise to "fix things".

(Also, voting is really a low-hanging fruit, so the best response here would probably be "why not both?".)

My worries about engaging directly in politics - becoming a politician - is that I see it as a very inefficient process, in which you'll have to give away most of your morality (and possibly interest in the original problem) before you get in a position to effect big changes.
Sure, but everyone wants to be a cat. Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at.
The impala bitcode reader/resolver is here: https://github.com/cloudera/Impala/blob/cdh5-trunk/be/src/co...

It also needs a special mcjit resolver: https://github.com/cloudera/Impala/blob/cdh5-trunk/be/src/co...
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Why don't they say that then?

I rate the claim that the 'planet is in danger' or 'life on earth is threatened' false. Four pinocchios.
It's a series of tubes. They can't stay filled up with nostalgia forever.
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The justified alignment looks sub-par in places, like in the middle of the first paragraph of the example pages.
Flush left alignment normally is the better option, if you don't have a hyphenation engine.

Browser inserted Soft-Hyphens could fix this, but since they are language dependent browser support is spotty:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens#Sugges...

By itself most browsers can break soft-hyphens pretty reliable, but they have to be generated first:
See https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenator or https://github.com/bramstein/hypher
Exactly. Style comes from what the media portrays of it, not the reality on the ground.
Google employees own >50% of voting rights of the company stock. They aren't subject to external interests in the same way most other public companies are.

On a tangent, why shouldn't we celebrate projects that benefit both private and public interests? IMO, society would be quite a bit better if the two were more often aligned (like you suggest they may be in this case).
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It is also sad that search hasn't evolved into something that would support unexpected discovery. Google et al. haven't really been able to provide solutions that would help in getting the big picture and guide you to find something interesting.
Is your vision of the world unconstrained by facts? Some 'facts' are more factual than others. Some facts are more relevant than others.

As you wrote, did you not notice that your second sentence (especially its final clause) answered your own question?
Even if we see it as a granted license, separately from the AGPL, it would be "solely on GitHub" that people can enjoy those permissions and the permission do not allow making copies that leaves github.

This would of course not work if github became in future a hosting service where people could run projects as services on their platform.
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Thanks for the detailed response. That's exactly the kind of things I was looking for.

Of course none of those points are something a single individual can tackle, but what I'm thinking about is to:

- identify broad areas in which changes / development could meaningfully help with the problem (like you started doing with this list)

- rank them on impact potential

- subdivide them into smaller areas

- use that as a reference for what to work on, and encourage people to work on that

- track progress in these areas (this alone is a good list item; I haven't really seen anything yet that does a good job of tracking how solutions for big problems are progressing)

EDIT:

Regarding Podaris, how is the project turning out in the real world? Do urban planners use it?
Of course, we all know that Tim makes money by selling ads.
And Google, on the other hand, has nothing to do with it /s
There may be a bit of short distance migration if the sea rises. It's projected to rise a meter or two this century so people could build inland a bit, planning permission willing.
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It's already a challenge to find stuff in German, it's annoying just how much research only focuses on English.
This is literally meta. Lying down and giving up - Facebook makes people sad Facebook is sad
Yes, I very much agree that a command line with autocomplete like Sublime Text's Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P should be available in many more applications. I find menus a horrible way of exposing functionality. It's just so tedious to find anything.
Actually, escalating death of plankton and growth of anoxic zones are more important: it will cause systemic collapse of marine food chain. Storm damage can be mitigated(e.g. netherlands)
http://www.sciencealert.com/ocean-oxygen-levels-are-dropping...
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-black-sea-short-term-oxygen-lo...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-beng...
Anyone can run a server for TF2. In fact, official servers for it are a new thing.
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And that's just single-player games. Will MMORPGs like Final Fantasy XIV still be playable?
When I've seen this it has been browser specific, though I can't remember which way around (in fact it might be sometimes one that does and sometimes the same one that doesn't...) so if you get odd printing results with Chrome try in FF (or vice versa, or add Edge into the mix if on Windows, or ...).

Printing can be quite a faf from web pages.
"All of the AR experiences that I have seen ...are ... far less compelling than what we have seen so far in VR."

The point of AR is not to offer compelling experiences, it's point is to expedite real world industrial and service processes and planning.

Don't think of how cool it's supposed to look. Think how much it saves when the maintenance crew can navigate a new building as easily as in a video game. The selling point is not to have some cool experiences. The selling point is to have for the repair crew a navigation track to the maintenance item, and a red arrow pointing to it.
Fair point nonetheless, being organized is one of the most important factor.
Of course. I used to use my laptop all the time to browse at the couch or watch netflix in bedroom. Now I just use my phone for those purposes.
I've been hearing some variations on "getting better any time now" since about 2003. Stop trying to make the Linux Desktop happen. It's not going to happen. In fact, if you stop making it happen, maybe it will finally stabilise enough that it actually happens.
I agree. But we could use a good summary of what are the most important problems, subdivided into areas that need work / improvement and some estimate of their impact potential, so that people who want to focus on a single thing can choose high-impact things.
Every teams ends up with different subset of features through. When you take over after different team with different culture, the deciphering problem gets back.

Also, through I did not seen it in Scala but in different language, the part of coding I personally enjoy the least was the prolonged fight over which features are going to be used with code reviews being primary tool to force other team members into submission. Seriously, I like following team standards, but new rules suddenly appearing during code review were pretty annoying - giving me a choice between not meeting deadline and following other dude random opinions whether I agree with them or not.
Tyler Cowen (yes, the economist) even runs a blog where he talks about various hole-in-the-wall Asian restaurants in the DC area (particularly NoVa where I suspect he lives).

https://tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com/
The job of finding technically suitable locations is (as far as I know) pretty well covered: it's fairly straightforward meteorology and the industry obviously has a huge interest in getting it right, so they have invested into good tools for it, both for theoretical modeling and for in-the-field evaluation of candidates.

Harder parts are:

* navigating the conflict of interest with/impact on people living nearby, land owners/users, nature, ... to actually get permission to build and operate

* getting locations properly integrated into the grid, since they often are far away from areas using a lot of electricity.

* and of course predicting the legal and market framework for the future, to figure out profitability
With HDMI, the problem is the chip itself, as until Kaby Lake Intel hasn't supported HDMI 2.0 in their CPUs. Sufficiently new DisplayPort has been supported a while, though, but you'd need a motherboard supporting it, as you say.
> In the future I see a fleet of larger vehicles combined with a Uber Pool type app working really well.

This already exists. Or it existed anyway. NYC used to have "Chinatown buses" that ran underserved routes for a fraction of the price. NYC and the MTA prosecuted them and got rid of them. Furthermore, innovation and competition in busing is great in Latin America.

But we're waiting on regulations to change, not for innovation to happen.

I agree that a fleet of self driving mini buses sounds great for efficiency and even housing prices (the pool of commutable properties goes up and the price of rent goes down). Even a fleet of buses with drivers that are allowed to innovate on the business model (monthly subscriptions? scheduled pickup windows? flex pricing?) would be better than what the U.S. has now.
I think people are assuming IEEE 754 floating point (as per the article). Your memory is finite, 32 bits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
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