skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an ongoing video series by a guy building a self driving car in grand theft auto: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeETZEOy4Vd...

I was pretty skeptical of this approach at first, but it actually seems like it can work.
If you can, take a ride on a smaller aircraft over California. The first thing I noticed was almost everything is uninhabited. US Forest Service manages 20 million acres of National Forest land in California. Another large portion is state park systems. California State Parks began the 1990s with over 260 park units, 280 miles of coastline, 625 miles of lake and river frontage, nearly 18,000 campsites, 3,000 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails, and 450 miles of off-highway vehicle trails on nearly 1.3 million acres. [ii]

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=940
Unfortunately you don't just need empty space for people to live, just ask Australians who are effectively limited to the coast or the east.

England is lucky in that what little land it has is good for humans to live in.
sklogic's tool does that for SML with a lot more DSL's, too.

https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase/blob/master/readme...
Only programmer time/effort matters anymore, to hell with the end users time, productivity, battery life and whatever other applications they happen to be running.
It's a model for explaining improvements in cognitive function. The idea is that the brain's energy consumption is fixed, so when you improve its function on something it costs you from elsewhere. So if you take Adderall to get better at school, you're not getting a brain improvement, you're just reallocating resources. It's more like moving money from your Chase account to your Wells Fargo account than it is like getting richer.

During the lead up there are also interesting bits like "if you suppress one part of the brain another does better at its task" and models that explain the interesting behaviour.
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Do you have a source for paragraph 1? It definitely jibes with what I've observed in real life, but it's always nice to have a source.
It seems to me like lisp-like (let's call this "somelisp", defined transpiled using Racket) syntax can be easily transpiled to other languages.

If in Haskell I have for example:

myFunc :: [a] -> Int
myFunc = length
main = do
print $ length "foo"

It seems like you could easy express this in "somelisp" with:

(myFunc :: [] a -> Int)
(myfunc = length)
(main = do
print (length "foo"))

And since you're using lisp-like syntax, you have the possibility to use macros now!

Now, I don't know if it would simply be simpler to encode these macros in your "somelisp" language defined using Racket, if you should make a Haskell extension, or if you should just not use it at all?

What about having macros defined in specific files, and use the target language, say Haskell in your code, but whenever you want to use a macro, use a syntax that Haskell does not accept: $(mymacro print $ length "foo") and have a preprocessor convert this macro to its corresponding haskell code?

I am currently learning Haskell, so I don't know if there are more complex examples where this will not work.
So census blocks include federally owned land? That would account for the emptiness, as most of the west is government owned and not open to settlement
The official Vue docs? The ones where half of the useful stuff is either missing, incomplete, or doesn't work because it's information for a deprecated version?

Vue has a lot of things going for it. Documentation is not one of them.
The crypto-currency Ripple is meant to replace the SWIFT banking system. Right now, transfers between banks are relatively expensive, think for example about a $25 Wire transfer fee.

Ripple would make it so these transactions between banks costs only a few cents, and can be verified easier. That being said, I am not a fan of investing in Ripple because they have no private wallets, and they have stolen from customers because of KYC/AML (Know your customer/Anti-Money Laundering).
Define low cost. Their actual costs per seat mile are closer to AA and Delta than they are to Spirit.

You may be thinking of a time long ago.
I doubt this is true. There are smarter people and there are simpler ones. I guess they're in the same ballpark WRT energy usage. Could you turn the latter into the former? Why not?
Google MacroML for an example.
https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state

Well twenty eight percent is just in Federal lands. So throw in state, city, and local, properties and we can cover a lot. I wonder how much is considered water way? Not sure if that is defined as federal land, but lakes and rivers eat up a bit too. Top it all off with places no one wants to be

Its an odd article that seems to be more sensational than necessary.
> Try explaining why that's not real to a clueless judge.

Judges aren't stupid. You can easily explain why the random data isn't something. You can't explain your way out of unencrypted data being objectively there.

> Anyway, i hope the legal system would recognize the difference between having intent to store cp and not having such intent.

If you know how blockchains work, then it is intentional.

> Otherwise anyone can be made or proven to have stored it.

Not for any real standard of proof.
Detroit has lost something like 60% of its population since 1950 . . . though it might be growing again, now.
The fear is due to racism, scapegoating, and a general inability to cope with a changing population...

https://thinkprogress.org/poll-americans-anti-immigrant-atti...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/136843021667730...

http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/spcl/documents/Craig_Ri...

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10516.html
Hedging can be a net win.

A simple example suppose if price of commodity increases by x your company fails and that has say a 10% chance of happening. If you usually profit 10 billion per year and you can hedge for say 1 billion per year then money wise it seems like a break even. However, failure costs not just this years profits, but every year after that. So, your expected profit over the next 10 years increases even if the hedge does not save you any money over that same 10 years.
Did you push them into the Internet Archive yet? If not, going to grab a beer and start iterating through your IPFS objects.
From what I've read, the hard part isn't cloning, we already have that technology. The hard part is growing it in a womb, where the baby is bathed in various chemicals at various times in its progression, and where the temperature has to be exactly right. Where do you attach the umbilical cord?

Do you know what the body temperature of the womb a pregnant mammoth is? Tough question.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title
> Today there’s a lot of work going into decentralized distributed storage keyed on blockchain indexes; Storj, Sia, Blockstack, et al. This is amazing, groundbreaking work… but why would an ordinary person, one already comfortable with Box or Dropbox, switch over to Storj or Blockstack? The centralized solution works just fine for them, and, because it’s centralized, they know who to call if something goes wrong. Blockstack in particular is more than “just” storage … but what compelling pain point is it solving for the average user?

Ryan here from Blockstack. Our goal with storage is to allow users to bring their own storage (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, etc). We believe in re-using the best infrastructure out there and not reinventing the wheel.

The key is that Blockstack delivers a thin layer on top of all of these storage providers with a common interface and end-to-end encryption, reducing them all to dumb drives. This (1) removes the potential for vendor lock-in (2) puts pressure on all the providers to be more competitively priced (3) enables greater data security.

Additionally, Blockstack isn't just about storage. It's a full stack for an entirely new kind of internet and a new way of building applications. Developers can work with a new blockchain-based domain name system (BNS), a new user-owned identity system, and a new BYOS storage system. The dream is for developers to be able to create a decentralized twitter by simply publishing a bundle of html, css and JS. The app folder runs as a single page application in your browser and can exist and replicate and live beyond the developer without the need for server or database maintenance. Servers could be relied upon for push notifications and feed aggregation, but they wouldn't be critical for operation and they'd be throwaway.

All this represents a pretty massive shift away from the model today. Instead of users revolving around applications, applications will revolve around users.
I hate to answer my own question but it appears the author died in 2011:

https://www.woot.com/blog/post/pouring-the-digital-forty-rip...
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/20519/Ryland-Sanders-has-pass...

Leaving only elderly parents and an adult brother and sister behind. So it appears that the site is lost to history.
Just because Facebook is big and supports something isn't necessarily a good thing

Not in hobbyspace. But in Deliver-a-Product World, it matters a lot.
That's false. There are lots of immigrants to Minnesota, from places like Laos, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Heck, Minneapolis/St.Paul is one of the largest groupings of the Somali diaspora. Immigrants don't just live in the cities but also small towns.

But anyway, who makes the mort stink about immigrants? The exact place you say immigrants aren't coming: flyover country.
Of course, yes. I suspect that as transit, farming and energy technology improves over the next century or two, we'll find a lot more of that space livable.
That explains why the sale is illegal, which is much more straightforward than possession.
"great, I'll put up a camera so I can watch even when we're not together! I'll share the vids on your FB wall, in case our other friends also want to see"
https://google.com/search?q=SF+writer doesn't list writers from San Francico

SF straight in the title of https://www.amazon.com/Other-Worlds-SF-Human-Imagination/dp/...

SF also serves to include both 'science fiction' and 'speculative fiction' but that's a whole other debate
A drug used to treat sleeping sickness may also help with autism
> I'm a firm believer in: you buy it, then you're responsible for ascertaining its safety. If you can't do this, hire someone to do it for you.

This seems like one of those plans that goes

1. Deregulate everything

2. ...

3. All irresponsible companies go out of business when intelligent consumers patronize responsible ones instead

Skipping over the "decades of death/disruption" in step 2, and being awfully optimistic about consumer intelligence in step 3.
True, the Pi has terrible networking over its usb bus, but those machines also cost 5-10 times as much, so you'd certainly expect more performance from them. There are a lot of ~ $100USD fanless mini-pc options (I have a Zotax Zbox) on the market that have gigbit NICs which would should get you about 10X the performance for about twice the price, e.g. http://a.co/4KsxmEa
Compressing Genomes with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot
Microservices Architectures
Go for it! :) I've never pushed anything to IA so far to be honest.
The Anders video (below) shows an example blockchain implementation where each node payload is only plain text.

https://anders.com/blockchain/

The idea that each hashed payload need be a Merkle tree was just a typo by that Wiki author. I'm glad you finally agreed by saying "Merkle tree exists at a higher level of abstraction". Sadly though, when you said "each block in the blockchain contains a Merkle Tree", you actually meant it literally.

If you think the Anders video IS INDEED actual blockchain (and properly called such), then you AGREE with me insofar as terminology. (Although Anders does include the "Proof of Work" piece, which is not in all blockchains)

> You say: "A Merkle tree of degree one can only contain one element"

Are you "stating a tautology" there? (lmfao) or do you genuinely not understand that a tree of order one can still be arbitrarily deep? I'll assume that was a typo or one of your "not to be taken liteally" senences. Maybe you're talking in abstractions again.

BTW: I checked the actual Merkle patent (https://www.google.com/patents/US4309569) to see if i was right that he had considered the OBVIOUS tweak of including DATA from nodes. The last three sentences in his patent mention it.

Direct from Merkle patent:
"The present invention has been described with respect to authentication of signatures. However, its use is not limited to signatures. It may be used to authenticate a piece of information in a list of information, or one item in a list of items. Thus, although the best mode contemplated for carrying out the present invention has been herein shown and described, it will be apparent that modification and variation may be made without departing from what is regarded to be the invention"
In the simplest case, a macro system gives rise to two-phase evaluation - first, there is code that runs at macro expansion time, that produces, as its result, new syntax, and second, that resulting code runs. But having just two phases is (needlessly) restrictive, because you might want macros that generate other macros (and so the macro-generating macros would need to run at an earlier phase than the generated ones).
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I have no idea about the numbers, but had a coworker whose family was from Liberia and moved to Minnesota as a kid. I know I've heard news stories about groups of Somali immigrants in places like Columbus, OH.

Yeah, those places aren't the least dense areas in the U.S., but I was expecting immigrants to almost exclusively be in port cities on the coast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Americans#Demographics
An interesting approach! But old META II (mentioned in the original article) system and its derivatives are looking more practical to me. I think, it's more effective to have two simple DSLs, one for parsing and another one for tree transforming like it was done in Cwic and TREE-МЕТА, which are grew from original META II (self-described in a few lines of code).
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The standards are very tight. If they aren't well defined and tested in a controlled environment it'd be basically impossible for manufacturers to know if their cars will pass or fail.
Android offers to sync your contacts to the cloud/between devices. I think its still opt-in, but could be different on other devices than I've had.
The contract (you can think of it as a class in Java) has a list of private keys who are allowed to make modifications to the database. Each key has has a list of associated privileges - what modifications can that user make. Keys with a higher privilege level have the right to add/remove keys.

When someone creates a booking, he has the right to remove his own booking. Each booking might also have an expiration date, so it's removed automatically when expired. When a key is stolen, a key with a higher privilege level can disable access of the stolen key.

If it's implemented correctly (which will take time and maybe several failed attempts), hacking, bugs and DDOS should not be an issue.
Tens of thousands of dollars can be shovelled into low-probability high-risk outcomes nightly at a single Vegas table, of which there are many, at a single casino, of which there are many. The state lottery jackpot can swell by tens of millions of dollars in a single day when the potential payout reaches nine digits.

This is just high-stakes gambling, it's not a systemic bubble until pension funds, university endowments or state sovereign funds get significant exposure.
For future reference then! https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive
I built my own IPSec IKEv2 VPN using OpenBSD 6 and a BeagleBone Black. It worked really well and I would do it again. It replaced a FreeBSD 11 Raspberry Pi Model B which had only been doing NAT and VLANs. Never ran into issues with either. I do prefer the OpenBSD pf syntax as well as the ease with which OpenBSD facilitates IKEv2.
There is a proposal for new Ocaml macro inspired by racket.[0]

[0]http://www.lpw25.net/ocaml2015-abs1.pdf
Nice tutorial. I have an edge router x and set up l2tp/ipsec on that and it works great but I like that you've made this. Thanks!
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People really are concerned about /jobs/. Most of the US is exactly zero percent richer than 20 years ago. Wages are stagnate. Nobody knows a solution.
It seems that mining is still used today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwTj0tWMh2A
> unbound by human reaction time

> requisite hand-eye-coordination of rival human opponents

it's totally possible to force an AI enemy to "play" through a harness that simulates human reaction time, limits in human visual processing (a human can't perfectly focus on all the screen at once -- check out eye-tracking data taken on people who are playing an FPS!), and the latency/error that happens when a human uses a mouse to aim in a game.

The whole point of AI enemies isn't to expose them to all the game's state and let them input commands with zero latency -- that's not an AI opponent, that's just a cheat engine. It's only fun if the AI has no more information from the game than a human player would have and can control the game with no better control authority than a human can.
It's awfully tangled up with determinism and incompatibilism, neither of which are universally accepted. This makes it difficult to create a definition that is both meaningful and not controversial.
Experiment framework seems a big need in research community. However, focusing on scalability rather than reproduciblilty might be a better strategy.

Reproduciblilty often comes naturally with scalability.
How many Chinese buyers of BTC are buy-and-hold investors into BTC itself versus just using cryptocurrency as a transfer mechanism for real estate, commodities or fiat currency investments?
None of these companies are our friends. Not even in the 'enemy of my enemy...' sense, as these companies happily partner with eachother whenever it makes sense financially.
I'm not saying that JavaScript is an efficient choice, especially when likely depending on a gazillion NPM modules... but do you realise that python is actually an order of magnitude slower than JavaScript these days? unless the body of your performance sensitive code is within a python library python is very slow. I find the problem with most slow javascript is poorly written code and an unnecessarily deep dependency tree (NPM are not flat dependencies !).
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Oooooooooooohhh I like. A scrapbook of the web, built into the browser. great idea.

Please promise to either host it forever or give it to the internet archive when you are done. This could be a nice cultural catalog of humanity.
A trust graph is essentially an ad hominem though.

What if we instead could provide the tools to establish a soundness graph. Evaluate arguments on their own merits rather than their source.

Even Arguments based on false premises can be sound. Just as arguments can be based on true premises and still be unsound. Helping people identify which is which should at least raise the quality of disagreements.
And, as a word of advice, if you're in a company that is reasonably successful and makes you travel as cheaply as humanly possible, it's usually a sign that they don't respect you and that you should probably start looking somewhere else.
People worth working for
Bill Gates tweeted on May 15th career advice on Twitter: "Meanwhile, surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self. As @MelindaGates does for me."

As far as I know there is no platform or website that highlights great people who fall into this category at companies. It's a rough idea, but would you look on a job website that highlights the people that you would work with and the boss that you would work for?
Nice, but antenna patterns are typically shown on a log scale. It would probably be better if he'd 3d printed on a linear scale, which would give a better physical idea of what the antenna is doing.
This. A thousand times this.

They didn't write a defeat device to "fake" emissions, they wrote legitimate code aiming to make the car truly compliant with the requirements.

Then someone made this code not the default and, except when the car is under testing, loaded an alternate mapping of some key parameters which is more tuned for performance and mileage, at the expense of emissions. This is the criminal part, not the first.
This brought memories! There's a video on Youtube showing CED in action...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how a graphical text editor scrolled text 30 years ago on a 8 MHz 16 bit machine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L41oIvre9K0
The advantage that Ethereum adds is other existing DAPPS on Ethereum. For example, a hotel owner could put up a room for sale and buy insurance right away for the case it won't be rented out in the next 24 hours. Or the owner could ask a prediction market, "what price should I set for this room?" to maximize my revenue. It's kind of hard to explain, but the biggest selling point of Ethereum is an ecosystem of Dapps working together.
Gotta disagree on basically all counts. Mathematics is a very precise and yet creative game. And going back to Feynman, one of his most famous quotes is

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.

So I don't get why he's using Feynman as an example here. Feynman was a very inventive and precise thinker. I think the post starts with a false dichotomy so whatever conclusions are drawn are resting on pretty shaky grounds.
By the way, Minnesota is historically fairly welcoming to immigrants. Blame Lutheran, Gerrison Keiller type values, I guess.
Hence the "Drain the swamp" political rhetoric of the last US election cycle.
Yup, this is key to keeping things fun. Like the term 'harness' as well, that illustrates it well.
I have no personal position in bitcoins or any other cryptocurrency but it seems to me bitcoin is the first internet native "money like thing". Based on how powerful and distruptive the internet has been to various industries in the past few decades I'm not sure I would bet against an internet native version of "money".
Raymond Hettingers presentation this year at Pycon was also interesting.

Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas PyCon 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
are these guy all gonna sell at 10k? I'm not rich and love the idea of BTC, but the gambler in me is looking to 10k - mainly b/c I think thats what the ppl with real money on the table are looking to
Many people know the solution, but it requires dismantling the system that got us into this scenario: capitalism.
I wish somebody would explain the foundry business, TSMC, Samsung and Intel are seeing double digit revenue growth. IBM on the other hand had to pay to get its foundries off its books.
If you play FIFA you'll know how dumb computer is. Sure it's faster but it doesn't do any "novel" tricks and it becomes super predictable after you play against it enough times.

I'm looking forward to deep learning based FIFA opponents
In retrospect, the dead snails should have been a sign. I got a lot more copper in the water than fish could survive.

Fortunately there were no fish in it yet.
This guy is all talk, the same thing over and over again...
Median would probably be better because outlier pixels could distort the mean.

But how would you use a Bayesian approach? What exactly are you trying to predict? What are the inputs? What is the model?
Is it that much more "enlightening" to 3D print vs just rotate the model on a computer screen? I can rotate a rendered model and get a pretty solid idea of the shape. I don't have to hold a physical model.