skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me how SF writers were expecting that people will colonize other planets, 50 years ago.

We'll somehow go all the way over there and find a way to live in those hostile conditions.

Guess what, fast forward, people don't just want to stay on Earth, but will also prefer SF proper, Manhattan and/or Paris within 20 arrondissements.

Even smaller cities are losing population. I guess that Spengler's narrative lives on.
China is very similar, more amazing even, check out:

http://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/42/105242-004-D8DEDBD1...

That's a lot of area with less than one person per km2. Of course, even the US and China can't beat Canada and Russia, or even Australia probably.
There's many things Southwest does to remain profitable, but many wouldn't scale out to be useful for every airline.

Not listing your fares on any channel other than your own, for example. People assume you're the cheapest, even when you aren't. And, no big fees to pay the sellers.

Picking only profitable airports and routes. They avoid airports with high fees and slow procedures that keep aircraft on the ground. And they avoid routes that don't support fares or load factors they want.

There's only so much space for other airlines to do the same. Sure, things would correct over time, but no airline has been willing to try it and bleed cash waiting for the normalization.
Yes, but the reason for that convention is just to avoid clutter in the output of ls. It's not to prevent users from deleting files that they shouldn't -- file system permissions, and not logging in as "root" all the time, are the correct way to handle that.
I'm probably wrong here, but I wonder. Why go outside the haskell type system, but still use haskell.

As I see it, haskell is all about the type system, and macros are all about circumventing the limits of the type system. These things seem at odds.

I have to admit I have no idea what racket is, nor did I do much more than scan the article.
> Only heroes put the good of the many over their own needs, and you can't expect everyone to be a hero.

> ...

> it will never happen while the idea of a guild / union for software engineers is still anathema.

Sounds like you're waiting for a union and that's the only solution.

In the interim, we can and should encourage people to be heroes. Let's face it, there are other programming jobs out there. Do you truly need to work for an unethical boss or company?

Everyone may not come up with the same answer depending on their individual situation. We should at least support potential whistleblowers as a community. That's one first step towards becoming a unified group.
I've just observed this, not experienced it, so I'm not sure. It's far easier to see the problem than figure out a solution!

Much will depend on your job prospects and financial position. If you're a fancy programmer type who's constantly bugged by recruiters, move on until you find an ethical company. If you need this job to eat, you'll have to be a lot more careful.

In general, I'd say:

1. Point out the impossibility of the requirements to management. Gently if need be. It's possible they don't realize what they're doing.

2. Contact the local department of labor or whatever regulatory agency would be interested in what's going on. They may be able to take action if management is pushing violations in a quiet way like this. If not, they may be able to at least take action against the workplace if people have started breaking the rules.

3. If you can afford to risk the consequences, follow the rules as much as you can. Don't work off the clock, don't break safety rules, etc. If being fired will make you homeless then maybe this isn't an option.

4. Document everything. If regulators weren't interested originally, they may be interested once you can show a pattern. Upper management may be blissfully ignorant, and you may be able to get them involved once you can show them what's going on. Whatever happens, if things come to a head then it will probably be useful to be able to demonstrate that this wasn't your own doing.
It is generally a portfolio investment approach in which you would invest in multiple coins in the hopes one of them gains 100x and you lose your money in the rest. If you think it is so easy and there are only gains to be had, why don't you go ahead and make a few investments and come back with results?
I wouldn't worry much. I have a few "fans" that follow my comments regularly and mass down-vote me. I also realized lately that my own upvote/downvote does not get accounted for.
Nope! Siberia (especially Northern) is basically an uninhabited land. We can surely host a lot of mammoths and wooly rhinos there.

Why can't we have a new pet now?
The difference is the dot-com stocks had some theoretical value - even Pets.com, people buy pet supplies online after all.

Unlike commodities, equities and so forth, cryptocoins have no value whatsoever. So to try to make it sound like it has worth, its pushers have to cast about for anything they can and finally come upon the only thing they can - the dollar. In fact, they say, it's even better than the dollar.

It would take too long to explain here why the Bitcoin is not like the only thing they have left to compare it to, the dollar. Also, an explanation won't sway anyone who has already had a drink of the kool-aid any how.

May I recommend another message board for all those high on cryptocoins here - 4chan ( http://boards.4chan.org/biz/catalog ). 4chan /biz/ is filled with uneducated, poor kids all looking to get wealthy with little work on the cryptocoin get rich quick schemes.

I think it's a much better message board for all of you of this bent. Here on HN there are still some people who believe in studying math and science and engineering and CS at universities, and then going and doing a lot of hard work and creating wealth. 4chan is mostly filled with your types - the get-rich-quick scam artists. Go read 4chan /biz/ right now - it's filled with no work, no study, get rich quick types like yourself. Leave and go there. HN will be stuck with those "out of it" old fogies who actually believe in study, hard work, that commodities need value to have worth in the long-term, and old-fashioned, out of touch ideas like that.
I think this is the most important part of this discussion. Rationality, roughly defined is about achieving your goals. And Parfit's example about becoming temporarily irrational to achieve a goal that otherwise wouldn't be achievable then it's still rational .
I feel like this would have the opposite effect.

No one will offer insurance against this liability at a reasonable cost.

Instead, car manufactures will offer a guarantee that the car will not break emission standards when they sell the car to the consumer.

This guarantee will be void the second you do anything the manufacture doesn't approve of, such as missing a scheduled servicing appointment, which of course must take place at the manufacture certified servicing center.

Car manufactures will take the opportunity to lock down the firmware even further and block 3rd party servicing centers.
I was very puzzled about that too, so I looked at the repo and... it's written in Javascript.

No wonder.
I don't think the relevant comparison is the cost of an Etherium transaction to the cost of a hotel room. I think the relevant comparison is the cost of an Etherium transaction to the cost of a transaction to a proprietary database.

Distributed consensus transactions are MUCH MUCH more expensive than transactions to centralized databases. Is that extra cost worth eliminating the disadvantages of centralization that you cite? Maybe. But that's not at all obvious to me.

Keep in mind that a transaction on the block chain currently costs about $11:

144blocks/day * 12.5btc/block * $2100/btc / 335000transactions/day
It really depends on the business and the traveler. Some companies are happy to pay a lot of money to keep their people comfortable while traveling. Others want to be as cheap as humanly possible.
I invested in a company that is building in this space. They are hiring: http://righthook.io/
This is also how we end up with "crazy" regulations. Case-in-point: nuclear waste handling. Engineers create complex six-sigma safety plans which are then slowly eroded as the regulations and safety protocols are wacky overkill, right?

The WIPP nuclear isolation site had a 15 year run so management began to cut corners. Then three unlikely events all lined up and nearly got people killed. It started with a truck catching fire, which prompted operators to bypass the HVAC's filtration system. They stopped the bypass for a few days to perform maintenance on the only underground radiation detection unit. That unit gave a false alarm during testing, but was fixed and placed back into service so they started ventilating again. Then a cask was breached ~midnight because someone upstream had used organic kitty litter instead of clay kitty litter. The operator assumed it was a false alarm due to the previous false positive and kept things running. It wasn't until the next morning that they realized they were blowing radioactive particles above ground.

Had management kept maintenance up, enforced protocol, or done more than the absolute bare minimum (i.e. installing multiple underground radiation detection units) US tax payers could have avoided paying $500 million dollars. And this isn't a one-off thing, there are dozens of instances just like this where the US dodged a bullet.

0: https://lessonslearned.lbl.gov/Docs/2091/OES_2015-02%20-%20R...
That's partially due to the fact that the less inhabited areas are mostly uninhabitable or simply very inconvenient.

See this height map of China and see how the less populated areas are simply too high: http://chinatoursandholidays.com/sites/default/files/styles/...

I'm guessing that there are a lot of inhabitable places in the US that are just... not.
I don't even get how this is supposed to be a criticism? Like this guy considers Linux an also-ran OS overall because it is only a bit player in one niche of "desktop OS"?
>Teenagers won't be able to cover their pregnant partners under their insurance

Then maybe force insurance companies to cover partners too?

>Soldiers won't be able to get married before joining.

Then maybe they shouldn't be sent to kill and get killed before they are like 21 either? This way they have 3 full years to get married and enjoy their marriage, even after joining at 18.
I'm under the impression that people are that fed up with politics these days that every politics article gets flagged.
As a child I read a science fiction story about a distant future Earth where sapience was the best survival strategy for complex life.

/me Googles

http://variety-sf.blogspot.com.au/2009/08/raymond-z-gallun-s...

I remain indebted to my parents for their excellent collection of books, to which I had access at a young age.
Thanks, I've tried the code on the linked page, but it didn't work. Luckily the older code wm052717lt did work.
Extensive PDF from the Umwaltbundesamt (comparable to the EPA - it's an independent agency) - http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/254...
Australia is like mostly one very large desert. All our population centres are on the coasts.
I added the raw .gz files to IPFS when Library of Congress announced this last week: https://github.com/ipfs/archives/issues/152

It's slightly more than 100GB and here it is: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWSzgkftVrkh2859bGT44ahzoqcGhFkjsrQUtH...

(Note that the filesizes in the directory listing are all wrong -- that's the original index.html from loc.gov/cds/downloads/MDSConnect/)

This makes it a lot easier to use this dataset at e.g. hackathons, where a lot of people would simultaneously pester that LoC server, which already seemed pretty bandwidth-limited on its own when I downloaded the files.
There are 172 million acres of land in Texas. That means you could give every American man woman and child a half an acre of land to themselves in Texas, with land to spare. The US is really big.
Can you just keep your devices stateless? This works for me.
No red meat, which is the real meat. In many countries you can call yourself a vegetarian and still eat chicken :-)
How to Understand Angela Merkel’s Comments about America and Britain
When Gates and Zuckerberg sound a dire warning about jobs, it’s time to listen
Read up on how international banking and specifically correspondent banking works[0]. There is a lot of counter party risk for banks in that process. Bitcoin or something like it would allow a system to be built that eliminated a lot of that counter party risk.

[0] https://gendal.me/2013/11/24/a-simple-explanation-of-how-mon...
yeah but it obviously takes less risk to invest in Apple in 2015 than 1978
Datalog is a declarative database query language with roots in logic programming.

That's right, and even more holds: Syntactically, Datalog is a proper subset of Prolog!
The human eye has a dynamic range of 10-14 f-stops[1], a Nikon D810 has 14.8.

The human eye has a ~10 megapixel resolution over a 20 degree view. Over 60 degrees that ~52 megapixels. There are DSLRs that exceed that. I don't mean cameras have the peak resolution over 180 degrees, just more than 20 degrees.

Cameras are certainly comparable eyes for space efficiency. Take away the frame, battery, electronics, simplify the lensing, and you have a very small device indeed. It would be better if we had spherical sensors, of course. The human eye's sensitivity can get up to ~1000 ISO after a long adjustment period. Cameras are much better.

[1]: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/cameras-vs-human-...

>Fairly saying there is higher fps AND less blur in a camera means you have to show me a camera the size of a human eye, with the dynamic range of a human eye, with the resolution of a human eye, and the low light sensitivity of a human eye that can produce more than about 60 fps. You can certainly have more fps, but often at the cost of size or resolution or light sensitivity. You can certainly have less blur, but then that means you need a bigger aperture to let more light in so you can crank your shutter down. Are you saying a small camera can beat the eye on all counts?

Do cars not beat humans because they are bigger than people? There is no need for a camera the size and performance of the eye. Machine vision has no need of that resolution or dynamic range, and photography/film have no need of the size. Why would anyone make a smartphone with 50 megapixels? That's impractically large.

Even still, take the google pixel. By volume it's probably less than a tenth the size of the human eye. It's got comparable resolution (>13 MP), though lower peak resolution. The dynamic range is at the low end of a human eye despite the massive size difference. The FPS and ISO are better. All it needs is a fisheye lens. If a camera company wanted to exceed the human eye, they could certainly do it.
How Facebook's tentacles reach further than you think
Most kinds of preserved meat (bacon, sausages) are very unhealthy. Other kinds have lots of artery clogging fat. Grilled meat can also be cancerous.
I don't think the metropolis release will include any POS based consensus.
I expected other people to suggest here, or maybe come up with a link of, a system totally decentralized of peer-reviews.
$13M Rolls-Royce Sweptail Could Be Most Expensive New Car Ever Made
Have you been paying any attention to climate change?

Y'all are the last sorta folks that deserve ANYTHING. "Me me me."
One might argue that the correct fix is to remove the concept of super-hidden files entirely. For backwards compatibility, just never report that a file is super-hidden.

Normal users don't see hidden files, so normal users are served well. Users who want to see the complete list of files (to clean up garbage, notice crap left behind by malware, fix problems caused by leftover malware, etc) probably want to see files that start with ~.

Alternatively, the options could be "hide hidden files", "show hidden files but not protected operating system files", and "show all files, even protected operating system files", rather than having separate, confusing controls.
Trillions of dollars per year? The entire US Defense Budget for 2016 was $600B while the entire budget was $3.8T.[1]

Further, many large scale tech advancements have come from military R&D, originally with the goal of blowing people up, preventing them from getting blown up, or making them recover after the fact. Everything from the Internet to GPS to microwave to many synthetic fabrics to emergency medicine.

I agree that investing in things that don't kill people is great and should be encouraged. It's just outside the scope of government.

1 - https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spendi...
Data Driven Documents with Klipse and Google Charts
Took me a second to figure out your first use of "SF" was "science fiction" and the second was "San Francisco"
Well, you were wondering why the FOAD reaction, and we've clearly described why based on the info you provided.

Your willingness to listen or otherwise is on you. ;)
I don't think that's what is bothering NATO, it's Trump's failure to verbally affirm Article 5 of the NATO Treaty.

On the issue of defense spending, different members of NATO have different economic hardships. Do we really expect Greece to crank up defense spending while in a debt crisis and under heavy austerity already? These NATO guidelines have to be somewhat contextual based on reality of economics.
My view is that the 'blockchain' hype has forced a conversation in the FI community around disintermediation and allowed them to invest in process optimization under the guise of blockchain innovation. I agree that the real innovation in this space is distributed security through proof-of-work, but AFAICT that's not interesting to the banking community.
Yes it was a bit in jest. But the same amount they save as price goes up, they lose when the prices go down. And yes stability is good, but it's not as big of a deal as ppl make it out to be
Shape of you Dance
It appears that the firmware was written by Bosch and not VW themselves. I can't believe that only VW engineers were involved in writing the spec that was sent to Bosch and that only one of those engineers understood that "acoustic" really meant "emissions".

I would imagine that Robert Bosch GMBH and co. are quietly developing a war chest of cash right now. They appear to have been caught writing deliberately naughty code to order.
Emacs: Xah Fly Keys
You can pin it: `ipfs pin add QmWSzgkftVrkh2859bGT44ahzoqcGhFkjsrQUtHen9hVw9`

Or list it: `ipfs ls QmWSzgkftVrkh2859bGT44ahzoqcGhFkjsrQUtHen9hVw9`

Or copy it into your local filesystem `ipfs get QmWSzgkftVrkh2859bGT44ahzoqcGhFkjsrQUtHen9hVw9`
An Effect of Climate Change You Could Really Lose Sleep Over
To be fair, population centers are concentrated on coasts worldwide, if less dramatically
Crap. There will be more programmers in the future who will write defeat code for fun while learning, or pursue it as a business. That's obviously not great for the environment.

Does anyone else feel our current government is not prepared to handle the changes pervasive software will create in the future?
Just someone safe to talk to would be a good start. Maybe if students had an anonymous, easily accessible access to a therapist.
Hiding files starting with a dot is just a cosmetic, view level implementation. This article shows that Windows had coupled this behavior directly to system level file flags.
What do you do all day if you aren't working?
The world is larger than what you know now and you can always live a different life. I get reminded of this every time I travel to a different country. Usually there is a perspective shift. Feels like a blank slate, people who don't know anything about you. And everything you know, your history, problems, it's like it never existed. What I'm trying to say there is no need to keep score, there a millions of people out there, and cities and communities with better opportunities. Funny how sometimes it feels like there is no exit, but then a year later or 10 years later you look back and those problems seem irrelevant and miniscule. Try changing something in your life, do things differently. But also it never hurts to talk to a psychiatrist and get an assessment.
Johnson, the former 11-year-old unwitting bride who is now fighting for Florida to set a minimum marriage age (there is none now), says that her family attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married. Often, she says, this was to hide rapes by church elders.

It sounds to me like she is going after the wrong thing. The problem is not the marriage. This is like, I don't know, outlawing religion because some priests are pedophiles. Go after them for the actual crime they committed. Don't mess with marriage laws just because they get misused.
/biz/ has been great for me, I bought some MOONCOINS at 1 satoshi and I will sell next week at 5 sat at least once the current sell walls have been broken. There also is a very active community behind MOONCOIN.

Why are you so dismissive of this new technology? Can you expand on your idea?
Is neuroenhancement by noninvasive brain stimulation a net zero-sum proposition?
> worse even

you and i have very different definitions of "worse"
> I have to admit I have no idea what racket is, nor did I do much more than scan the article.

why have you commented then? Mao Zedong had a dope saying about this, "No investigation, no right to speak!"

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One answer to your questions, btw, is that macros are useful and interesting regardless of what kind of type system you have. Haskell has something called Template Haskell, which is really quite bad for a number of reasons, but it is certainly possible to imagine a version of Haskell with a well-designed macro system. It just so happens that Racket has an exceptionally well-designed macro system, so the partnership of the two ideas is very plausible and scientifically interesting.

Macros and types are not in opposition. However, macros induce a notion of PHASE which is not usually accounted for in type systems, though it may be possible to account for this in a principled/type-theoretic way using ideas from modal logic and kripke semantics.
No competition? How about Flash, Java applets, ActiveX, Silverlight, and even VBScript -- which Microsoft pushed to compete directly with JavaScript as the embedded scripting language for the web.
Hi! I'm the author of bluebook. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this idea, and any suggestions or improvements you may have.
Study shows psychiatric meds killing more than cocaine, heroin (2016)
2% of Australia lives in the yellow area:

https://au.pinterest.com/pin/89509111317506788
While Vue is awesome, Nuxt is quite horrible. Nuxt's developers have made some very weird design choices that you can't opt out of if you want to use it. For example, you have to define your routes by defining a directory structure[1], which means you have nonsense tree structures, no aliasing, etc. While they've provided an easy to start SSR solution, the rest of it is simply bad.

[1] https://nuxtjs.org/guide/routing/