skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mesh can work for short-haul. But long-haul routes are a problem. For instance, how would you mesh network between Los Angeles and Phoenix? Or Phoenix and Las Vegas? Those are "local" but long-haul routes for me. I can see the (slim) possibility of Phoenix to Tucson or Flagstaff. There is (almost) enough intervening users (potentially) to form the mesh (although it would be very bottlenecked).

Mesh networks right now are great for large urban populations - megacities, dense sprawl areas, etc. But for everything in between, at least here in US where the issue of Net Neutrality is the thing - not so much.
I'm probably very wrong, but I still feel there is some undiscovered science when it comes to RNG and the fallacy of the maturity of chances ( Gambler's Fallacy ).

Einstein believed the universe was deterministic. Just because it appears to us that there is no correlation between independent events ( the roll of a dice ), does not mean that there isn't some underlaying variable that we are unable to measure or perceive which is affecting the outcome of the roles.
/r/politics is similar to /r/the_donald but it is the exact opposite (it could have been called /r/the_hillary)
Good writing is great editing.
What Does an IoT Chip Look Like? -Semiconductor Engineering
Peter Thiel's version:

"All happy companies are different, all unhappy companies are alike (in that they failed to escape "sameness" or competition).
$150,000 Statutory Damages Per Instance = Going for the jugular in my opinion. If they can prove it, there might be some real, genuine settlement money to be offered. However, if one of these fights comes down to principles first, payout second, we might get some interesting court interpretations. Not necessarily good ones, or helpful ones, but interesting ones.
This was not my experience. Of course you need a team that has the drive to learn the language, whatever it is.

If you go out on your own and decide to build your project with Scala and a big focus on using a functional style but no one else is following, you are going to have a bad time.

I'd like to know what are your issues with Scala and versions because we don't have these. IMHO, Scala is years ahead of Java and it's possibly so different that comparing them does not even make sense.

The transition from Java to Scala is awkward because you can do most of the things you do with Java in Scala. With that said, I think it's counter productive to do it. Scala is very different and approaching it with an imperative Java (even an OO) style is the worst thing to do.

One thing that I realized is that some people can go off and write cryptic code in Scala, very easily. This is true of other languages as well but in Scala, you can do a lot of things that will make you regret it the next time you try to read the code.
I would be happy for AMD to release the hw spec, allowing an open source PSP implementation.
> As someone from a Midwestern state, I fear that all the self-driving car development in California is going to miss the important edge cases we experience here. Snow, plows, salt, dirt, heavy rain, etc all destroy the visibility of lane lines.

You overestimate the quality of roads in California. :) In San Francisco and Oakland the roads are, quite literally, falling apart. Take a ride on 880 -- straight up four lane high way with virtually no road markings.
Just wanna say: I love this.
This is silly. I follow a number of subreddits on topics ranging from baseball, local news (city subreddits), credit card churning, maps, history, and many others. None of them have been affected by /r/the_donald.
Every anonymous, troll-heavy forum will eventually chase out the moderates and only the most vile people will remain.

Saying that it's just humanity is unfair to the people who used to like a forum and then left it behind when it was no longer worth fighting for.

Various subreddits are slowly being taken over by racist agitators who know how this works.
Maybe a hybrid mode, where too many bad rolls bias the dice towards a more "true uniform" - lol - distribution while a series of good rolls just keep it actually fair.

Anyway, nice work!
And WebKit has has a blog for 11 years now https://webkit.org/blog/4/welcome-to-the-webkit-blog/
I think the original Zune had a bad randomizer. In my experience it would tend to play two songs from the same artist back to back.

Whether this was because they had a botched 'smart' randomizer or because they in fact used true random to shuffle, I may never know.
SQL for doing p-value testing in Redshift
(Lots of downvotes here but no comments, so I gotta ask. What do people who disagree actually think?)
Raskell and Pythonista are great.

I also use Continuous [1] for F# dev. Great IDE experience, and being able to play around with apps right on the iPad Pro (2016 model).

[1] http://continuous.codes/
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Every bit of what you're saying is true.
Not really Tumblr, but what it represents. A focus on form over function, for lack of a better explanation.

The west have gotten a very warped idea of "social" these days. Where we will decide of we accept some tech or not depending on how it makes us look on the social sphere more than how it will help us in our daily lives.

Tumblr as a service seems like a focal point of this warping, by way of shaming everything "we" don't approve of.
This stuff is fascinating. Does anybody have any recommendations for a book-length treatment of the same topics? (Something suitable for your average EE)
This is also an example of users saying they want one thing (randomness) when really they want something else (variety).
Reddit has some fantastic and fascinating communities and really interesting cult-like ones (/r/nofap)

However I'd like to point out the admin policy towards hate groups and speech on reddit is in my opinion incredibly dangerous and damaging to our society. They will take action against subreddits like FPH (fat people hate) because of "real life" actions, meawhile there are thousands of highly upvoted calls to violence daily. Is this just a reflection of our society? Probably but I'm always interested to see which sites allow what. Here's what Jack Dorsey had to say about it regarding twitters ban on hate speech "Abuse is not part of civil discourse. It shuts down conversation and prevents us from understanding each other. Freedom of expression means little if we allow voices to be silenced because of fear of harassment if they speak up"

As a minority I've stopped using reddit and know many others like me, the ones that stay stick around to drop in "As a [insert minority group]...it's totally OK that this racist meme is highly upvoted with racist comments - because its a joke ha ha" posts

The obvious counter-argument is silencing them strengthens their argument and makes them a martyr. I don't buy that argument at all, it's far more dangerous to allow them to indoctrinate and appeal to all the fringe disenfranchised youth which they've become frighteningly effective at. In any case it's clear reddit can be used for good like in this article, I'm just not so sure it's a net positive to society as another poster argued.

Is it fair to say it's their responsibility to police society when they just run the platform? Probably not, but I do know there's a big problem here and it's causing immense damage daily, racism and xenophobia are on the rise.
I'm a long-time MongoDB user and largely a fan of it because I believe the interface is superior to some text-based SQL statements.

But whatever DB you like, if you move the state of your application to another application (i.e, a database) you better make sure you really understand how it works.

For SQL databases, many people think they know how they work, but misconceptions seem widespread. Essentially, many beginners believe that SQL databases guarantee serializability everywhere and all the time, relying on the database (and OR-mappers) a lot / too much in my opinion.

Choosing a system that only offers very few guarantees forces you to think about them more explicitly. On the other hand, if you never bothered to understand SQL, you probably won't bother understanding anyDB's restrictions and guarantees either, and then everything goes to sh*t.

Some databases might be easier to understand than others, but I feel MongoDB is on the 'easier' end here. YMMV.
In fact, let's stick with the wikipedia definition:

"Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change."

This is either an honest mistake or a pedagogical trick you're pulling. In the general point, I mean pollution in the sense people mean when they say something like "noise pollution." "Pollution" in my analogy (which isn't the same referent as above) would be excess CO2 -- in large enough quantities this is a bad thing, and everyone should know that fact. The validity of the underlying point really has nothing to do with your nitpick. Just substitute "bad thing" for that word in your head. Your whole argument vanishes, and my point remains.

Your response: ... is an all-or-nothing fallacy!...The worst kind of bad reasoning is the false accusation of a fallacy.

You do have an all or nothing fallacy, and your falsely claimed refutation is actually an irrelevant language nitpick. However, I don't find that a quarter as disturbing as the seeming attachment you have to outrage as some kind of tool for convincing others. That's not convincing. That's coercing.
I had an Acer Aspire 751 with Atom Z520 and the GMA500 GPU you mentioned. It always had terrible driver support in Windows 7. When I updated to the Windows 10 insider preview before it was released, it was unusable. Huge graphics glitches all over the place, text would disappear entirely in some programs, random scrambled blocks of the screen that changed as you navigated. By the time Windows 10 was officially released it had been improved, but still wasn't great. Not surprising that this piece of hardware isn't a good candidate for support in the future.
And what's even worse: /r/politics doesn't look like a parody (like the_donald does) so some people take it like it's a neutral place for discussion :P
This is one of the many reasons Pittsburgh is becoming a hotbed for self driving tech for many companies testing there. It has a lot of bridges, plus all the environmental factors you described above.
They're the privacy option because the data they collect is heavily restricted. Consider my earlier example of the navigation identification tokens — Apple has a similar "amount" of data, but it's significantly less useful in its raw form than Google's. But Apple makes the choice to collect data in that way because it helps protect users' privacy.
How is /r/t_d different from /r/theredpill or any of the other racist/sexist/terrible subs? I haven't really seen any overflow in a lot of the not-default subs, but it could also be the subs I visit. I mostly stick to subs for games I play, programming, and a couple BP support subs.

For me, the crucial change of how I curate my subs happened when 2x became a default. I hated the sudden influx of bad posts, mansplaining, and terrible/abusive comments.
My view of reddit has changed similarly. I think of it as something similar to vBulletin or bbPress with r/all or r/popular as a flagship gateway to subreddits. And recently I purged all my subreddits and started from scratch to build a better reddit experience geared towards self improvement and a more wholesome experience. No more toxic communities. I look for niche communities with civil discourse and common interests.
No it's not. This exactly the kinda of propaganda you should be aware of.

/r/the_donald specifically exists to spread false information, and to dox and harass people.

/r/politics is opinionated because of it's user base. It's not intentionally a propaganda machine.
Both this and the GP are great lessons in software design.
I'm bookmarking this as a case study. You should comment here more often esp when these topics come up. :)
Today in 2017, there is no real reason to use MongoDB other than in prototyping. I am happily waiting until the final nail is put on the coffin of this overhyped, flawed document store.
I'm saying that calling an automobile a successful automobile before you have even put gasoline in it is premature.

The Wendelstein has so far been successful, and will likely perform fusion soon, but as yet it isn't a successful fusion reactor.
The iPod and iTunes used to do this too - it’s because of a behavior you’d actually expect in a true randomizer called clustering.

Supposedly Jobs specifically “fixed” this behavior and it’s why there used to be (still is?) a slider that allowed you to customize that behavior.
/r/politics does not outright run itself as a safe space for a particular group though, unlike /r/the_donald. Any criticism on /r/the_donald gets you a ban, whereas any criticism on /r/politics just gets you downvotes, which are entirely consistent with how the sub should be run.
That simply isn't true. The most obvious evidence of why: there was a huge, endless, sprawling debate about Sanders vs Clinton. I wouldn't deny that /r/politics leans to the left, but it's a big stretch from that to a subreddit dedicated entirely to promoting a single candidate at all costs.
> I think that Japanese should be accepting of other people and cultures.

Asking A to respect B's culture of not covering up tattoos in the onsen is not materially different from asking B to respect A's culture of covering up tattoos in the onsen.
I did the math a while back, don't have the notes at the moment, but scaling an AWS system I built enough to collect 600m points of data each minute and compute on data within 100ms and retain it for a few minutes would run a bit over $10k usd/mo to operate. I operated it at about 3m events/min with a good amount of compute per including ip to geo lookup... Zookeeper would be the only bottleneck in this case assuming good enough partitioning.
> I can't remember the last time in the "32 bit and above" era that a whole class of CPU stopped working release to release. You might be bound by RAM or a particular driver but you were generally ok to upgrade.

The problem isn't with the actual CPU cores but with the graphics drivers. Unlike all other Intel chips, these Atoms have PowerVR GPUs that have been EOL'd by the manufacturer. The existing GPU drivers won't work with the new Windows 10, and reverse-engineering them without manufacturer support would be too much of a pain (there aren't even good Linux drivers for these GPUs, TBH).
I've seen people frequently say that they don't use Firefox because Chrome is faster, and despite being a Firefox user myself, it's close to what I've noticed. In Chrome (on GNU/Linux and mobile at least), pages seem to load instantly. I don't know why that is, but apparently it's not just me who has noticed this. Meanwhile, the most frequent complaint about Chrome is RAM usage, and only when using many tabs. Most people don't use many tabs.

It's a shame that Chrome which appears to be on track to become the most popular browser by a considerable margin is proprietary software. And before I get a reply telling me that Chromium exists, I know that - but I also know that it's not Chromium that's popular.

I think it is also a shame for two more reasons: Mozilla wants to make Firefox look like Chrome, probably to replicate features which seem to draw users in, by changing the extensions API to make it less powerful, by supporting standardised DRM in the browser (though this is a different issue) etc. Secondly, we may see a world in which only Webkit matters, and standards no longer rule, similar to the situation with Internet Explorer years ago. This will also put pressure on Mozilla and other "third party" browser authors to support features just because Webkit supports them, or even to break standard features so that they render like they do in Webkit.

I'd probably get shouted at for thinking it would become a "monopoly", but that's exactly what it is, just not in the legal sense.
I assume that comment is a realistic assessment about how existing infrastructure can't realistically be dug up/torn down to accommodate autonomous vehicles. Incremental changes can be made over time when other scheduled changes are being made. But, for the most part, AIs generally will need to be able to handle the physical and human world as it exists.
It's not common, but also not unheard of for companies to organize properly peer-reviewed journals for their internal research. The two most famous are probably the Bell System Technical Journal and the IBM Journal of Research and Development. From the title I was expecting Apple to be continuing in that tradition, but it seems they aren't.
I'm very skeptical about this kind of timeline, unless we're talking about very well known/controlled routes. Let's see.
/r/the_donald is a subreddit devoted to donald trump. Reddit didn't ban it.

It follows the "safe-space" "you're not allowed to dissent" model pioneered by some "leftist" subs, and will ban people for having perfectly legitimate dissent.

It managed to exploit some loopholes in how reddit works to take-over the front page. The most interesting one was "stickying" new posts so they were shown on their front page. They did this to a new post pretty frequently. This let them

* Coordinate which posts got to the front page of reddit

and

* Exploited the reddit algorithm for determining "hotness"

For a while, 8 out of every 10 posts on the front page were from /r/the_donald.

It marks the first major incidence of the community engineering tools (that I believe were pioneered by subs like /r/shitRedditSays) being used by the right.
If that's true, then perhaps you should put some links to good resource explaining what it is and where to get it? Also maybe something indicating why and how it saves lives, any studies on people who kicked opiates using kratom and can attest to it's life-saving properties?

I know people who use kratom and they have good things to say, but I've known people who say the same thing about x, y, and z supplement/nootropic whatever.
I actually tested the random distribution of Spotify's shuffle functionality: http://michaelmcmillan.net
"things like /r/gamingsuggestions and local city subreddits still make the site worthwhile to me."

Local city subreddits are one of the best things about reddit. National politics sometimes leak in, which is when they're at their worst, but, overall, it's probably my favorite thing there.
There almost certainly is but you can’t collect the data. At some point quantum effects will come into play too.

Theoretically all physical processes are predictable, but in practice there is a limit.
Systemd: hostnamed does not like fqdns with trailing dots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
A bunch of really hateful, and racist people came to reddit because of /r/the_donald. Unfortunately they did not keep to their subreddit. You can see influences of their hateful ideology in other subreddits.

They also game the reddit voting system so their stories and comments are constantly being featured in /r/all -- so much so reddit had to take action.

Their purpose is to troll, and they are damn good at it.
maybe real 'wealth creation' happens because of things like basic science, open engineering platforms, mathematics. soil in which myriad new things can grow.

nothing is created when someone hires some guards and puts up a tollbooth on an existing road.

so i guess i depends on which of these two scenarios you consider 'economic'
RNG stands for Random Number Generator. It is used colloquially, in gaming, to refer to the probability of certain random events or the underlying implementation of them.
Kite attempting to inject code in to open source projects
Some Android phones crash when making calls to emergency services (911 and 112)
Good call - I've done the same myself. As someone who grew up heavily invested in niche forums, I've found subreddits becoming their replacement in my adult life.
In the case you weren't joking: RNG stands for Random number generator. It is an abbreviation commonly used in video games.
I am guessing they hate the sub so much they are negatively responding to what could be a positive characterization "safe dwelling" or disputing that entirely.
That's exactly what it is. RNG = Random Number Generator.
> Some databases might be easier to understand than others, but I feel MongoDB is on the 'easier' end here. YMMV.

I agree with most of this, relational databases have a lot of moving parts that many developers (myself included) don't fully understand.

However, I believe relational databases (Postgres is what I have experience with) has defaults that are basically correct, and unlikely to cause significant issues, whereas in my experience MongoDB did not have this. MongoDB might be easier to understand on the surface, but I think that's deceptive.
Electrification becomes economical wherever there is a lot of _traffic_, independent of the length of the lines. The Transssibirian railway is electrified, and it hosts the longest passenger train-car (Moscow-Pyongyang, 9 days).
I do physics simulations and I generally use -ffast-math. For most simulation types, proper algorithms are stable with respect to small floating-point errors (this has been a subject of research for decades).

The extra speed provided by imprecise math allows for bigger, longer simulations, which ultimately means more accuracy than what is lost in the floating-point operations.
Google and Facebook don't really care - they are big enough to be in the fast lane or zero-rated no matter what, and their startup competitors being killed is good for them.

Netflix alone is just not big enough by itself to outspend the half-billion or so that the Media Big 6 and the Baby Bells spent on buying politicians, ads and spin.
California already has made massive infrastructure changes from streetcar removal to building BART.
Automation risk drops from 38% to 9% when accounting for job-level tasks
Thanks for your answer. I would've never thought of using Wordpress for those applications.

Where would you direct someone interested in learning more about how to extend Wordpress with plugins, themes, taxonomies, custom types, etc.? I'd mostly like to use it in CMS-like roles for personal projects.
Does it include the "Documentation (beta)" feature?
Reddit has been demonstrated time and time again that it is subject to, and vulnerable to, blatant manipulation and propganda. Whether it's a celebrity endoresement masquerading as an interview, threads defending corporations and/or their actions, the manufacturing of consent, the anti-democractic activities of shill accounts, or being subject to blanket disinformation, Reddit is a net-negative to society in my opinion.
Go's type system is "strong," as far as that goes. In comparison to OCaml and Haskell, Go's type system is less expressive. That is, OCaml and Haskell will let you express more invariants in the type system more easily.
Reddit does pretty well as a conversational medium, but not for a medium to retain information.

Unlike a traditional forum with long-running threads that get bumped to the top, many subreddits suffer from newcomers asking the same questions every other week (there's only two stickied threads, and people usually don't bother with the wiki). In addition, the notion of karma encourages unwanted behavior like recycling content.

The ease of use of Reddit can't be emphasized enough, though. Before, you'd need to find a host for your forum, then set up phpbb. And users would need to sign up for a bunch of different forums. Now, one can set up a new subreddit in seconds, and users can join without going through a new account flow each time.
Not quite all; there are still a handful of skills that use a discrete or flat distribution but practically all attack based changes use the pseudo random distribution.
For more info:
http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Random_distribution
I feel the best thing to come out of MongoDB is that Postgres now handles JSON.
On being a remote  manager
Isn't this why most players do shuffling instead of random? This insures that no playlist item can be played twice in a row.