skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is too obvious, but might be true:
MTA is not responsible for 1 city, it is responsible for 1 state. The London Tube is only responsible for 1 city.

I can imagine costs really skyrocket if you have to support the "long tail of people living in rural areas." London Tube doesn't have to get along with that issue.
The world is running out of cheap sand. Time to breed swarms of parrotfish?
Right, but this problem seems solvable by having multiple credit cards. I would only make an online purchase with a credit card, never a debit card. If there is a charge that I didn't authorize, I can just click a dispute button on my credit card's web app and never have to think about it again.
Why aren't the companies required to replace the sand with Sahara desert sand, say? They are capable of transporting sand so it would seem straightforward.
A lot of people are using it for payments.
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Are you comparing a semi truck driven at 70 mph in between two lanes of traffic to a piece of farm equipment that maxes out at 15mph and is typically driven without another vehicle in sight?
I found a txt version of this: http://ondoc.logand.com/d/721/txt

It's a bit easier for me to read without a fixed page layout.
Margins are pretty slim in child care. In most parts of the country, you aren't going to get a great group rate.

I think you are better off just giving the person that needs childcare enough money so he can cover it...
The demographics of the United States are fundamentally different than what they once were. Whether people like to admit it or not, IQ and biological origin are linked.
Most Palestinians don’t really have the option of living in a Western-style democracy, as they don’t live in Israel and haven’t been granted Israeli citizenship. Arabs with Israeli citizenship are a small minority of Palestinians.
if they start taking the sahara sand it'll turn into a lake.
That's the thing, most of these are actually pretty bad papers. Their editors were right, it would have been improved with at least a couple of sentences of background info or explanation. For example, why is that problem even an interesting one to ask? Should we expect the answer to the titular question to be no? Is there anything particularly novel or interesting about the existence proof they've provided that could maybe be applied to other problems? And so on.
Good points! Yeah, we're totally up for offering shares as well.

Regarding the money. As it's a grant for specifically this purpose, it's not an option to use it to increase our runway.
Pleasing everybody is the fast way to please nobody.
It seems like the regulators really failed. Short sighted actions and failure to fix past mistakes shouldn’t be allowed. The other sad thing is that, this is the worst case scenario for that plant and it pales in magnitude, but it is overshadowing the sorrow and lost due to the flooding and earthquake.
> I'm a total outsider to this (being European and all that), but could lack of vote-created change be due to lack of serious candidates who are not the "usual suspects"?

I doubt it, mostly because when good candidates run you still see pretty low turnout and the good candidates often lose (and with downballot races, even the few people who bothered to vote have a hard time remembering who they voted for, let alone why). And this kind of apathy is everywhere; it's not uncommon to see some nationally famous political writers who are extremely ignorant about major local elections and don't even seem to care about them. And when it leads to bad outcomes, many people see that as an excuse for even more apathy: "See? We don't have a choice, this is an oligarchy, it's impossible to change things by voting, why bother."

I think you have a decent point about fewer elected offices, but it's hard to make a blanket statement because it's very situational since elected offices vary a lot by state. The political parties themselves could also benefit from fewer elected officials, for what it's worth.
Is flat earth a thing that people who don't live on the coast believe? If you watch the sea, you see boats and birds and clouds go over the horizon. You can see that the ocean horizon is curved.
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Because Bitcoin holders, psychologically (not politically!) are like Trump supporters before the election.

The more negativity/naysers there are, the more stubbornly they continue to hold to prove the elite financial world they are wrong.
It seems clear from your comments here that you still defend editing someone else's comment on a Talk page because the software let you.

This is wrong. If you disagree about transliteration, you should have added a comment of your own with the supporting documentation you mention, without removing the other user's transliteration from their comments.

The fact that the software did not automatically prevent this is irrelevant. My bank's software will let me spend money I don't have, and charge me overdraft fees after the fact; that doesn't mean I had the money to spend since the software let me. Here on HN, that seems to be worst possible justification or rationalization for behavior everyone else both there and here is telling you is not okay.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400760
The difference between localized collapses today and in the late Bronze Age is that today's communication and trade is so much faster that rebuilding within a couple of decades is feasible. Knowledge isn't really lost and what material goods have been destroyed can quickly be manufactured and imported from elsewhere.

This was not the case for most of human history. Once you lost people knowing, e.g. how to forge metal, that knowledge had to be rediscovered mostly from scratch. Trade has been extremely slow, so rebuilding infrastructure was much more difficult.

Luckily we haven't seen a globalized collapse and a dark age in quite some time.
Can anybody explain to me why 'boarding first' is a desirable thing?
I know, good hand luggage space is a limited resource and therefore being one of the first improves your chances of finding a good place for your suitcase directly above your seat. Nevertheless not enough reason for me to stand in queue for hours. With >1.90m I prefer to chill up to the last minute in the boarding area with enough space for my legs. Later I have to sit long enough. Are there any other reasons I missed so far?
I don't know how the rest of the country (and world) is but anecdotally in New England the tolls are almost entirely electronic.

Some (most?) exits don't even have manual tolls at all, you have to go to the website and pay within 7 days if you go through one without the transponder.

Getting pulled over by an officer should (hopefully) be infrequent enough where getting out of the vehicle is not a big deal. Although, I know police officers get very nervous if you motion to get out of your vehicle (understandably) so some communication is in order.
That's you.

Most people simply use what comes with the operating system given no other choice.
The MBTA in Boston does this with its commuter rail lines. Currently the contract is held by Keolis, before that, a consortium of companies led by Veolia Transportation. You can Google "MBTA commuter rail performance" to see how well that's worked out.
Unfortunately not all sand is created equally. Different sand has different purposes.
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What I mean by without prompting is that in all the cases I've seen, nobody's being toxic towards him. He does look prompted by the apparent stupidity that exists all around him though. I'll admit that sometimes I get annoyed by people who are less intelligent than I am, it's something I've been working on for some time. But he's on another level. :)
"Running out of" should, as always, come with the qualifier "at a reasonable price". Rock-crushing is quite energy intensive compared to just dredging.

Generally in the West you'll find substitutes like crushed concrete or pulverised fly ash being added to the mix (although PFA itself will be in short supply as it's a coal-fired power station by product)
You're a german company. You sell cars. A community of gun enthusiasts hosts your ad. You deny it on moral means.

This has nothing to do with cars. People who buy guns can, and often do, buy cars. No relation. Was your buy going to be wasted?
This article on the same topic is worth reading:
How the demand for sand is killing rivers http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41123284
I only skimmed the page but this one caught my eye:

> This maneuvering and filibustering is soon likely to exhaust the patience of any reasonable person who naturally prefers not to reason with the unreasonable, and who, unlike the advocate, has no special interest or passion other than striving to maintain neutrality. Additionally, by continually engaging fringe advocates in endless argument, you run the risk of turning Wikipedia into a battleground or a debating society. At the present time, Wikipedia does not have an effective means to address superficially polite but tendentious, long-term, fringe advocacy.

This is definitely a very, very hard problem.
https://i.imgur.com/ImKOkpH.png
https://i.imgur.com/ih1mK80.png

I guess it's time to love JavaScript, because with 2mb bundles it keeps people with literally no clue like you from not being my colleagues.
No. I'm mostly just chafed when anything for something as overcomplicated as a PC gets marketed as "secure" or "reasonably secure". Sure, most of the HN crowd knows the ins and outs, but a lot of end users don't.

I run into so many people at local interest groups who do less than advisable things on the computer, yet don't even give a second thought to it because "I'm using Tails!" Or
"I'm using Qubes!"

At the same time, I have friends who do security for the military who show and tell so many different (and simple) ways to exfiltrate data that bypass most of the hypervisor/os/software stack.

This is a better condom. That is an accomplishment, and I tip my hat to them. At the same time, if you really don't want the diseases, it's safest to just stay off tindr.
Reinforcement Learning – Epsilon Greedy Algo
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160502-even-desert-city-d...
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It is likely an anti-bot rate limit. It is likely a limit of one submission per five minutes or something.
I did this.
PM is one route and I did explore that at length. I found the same limits.
Instead I went into an area of healthcare technology that required someone who understood technology and curriculum. In my case the entry point was telemedicine. This led me to other technologies and I am now focused on what is called population health data and technology. Healthcare needs smart people who understand how humans use technology and how that translates to how people learn to use technology.
That doesn't answer the question with any sufficient detail.

Sahara sand is not as good for construction, but for filling in "standing pools of water" or alligator habitats it could be just fine!

After all, if it's not being used for concrete and chemical bonds are not being formed for construction, then fine round sand can probably do just as good a job of lying there as larger square grains.
> deserves a dromed-ic revision.

dromed-ic... really? sigh
For other currencies, sure. But minority of moved value would be used to pay for goods/services. Also, isn't the fee extremely high right now?
Crushing rocks to sand already happens. Animats posted some interesting links the last time sand shortages were discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15208432
In this case, Wikipedia's editors are the *ssholes. Of course, not every single editor is bad, but a good editor is somebody that:
a) accepted the rules of wikipedia (that are unfair and prone to abuse).
b) have enough spare time.
c) don't mind or have troubles working with abusive people.

If you are a professional then, it takes a single day to find that Wikipedia is ruled by brats and its not your place.
The parent didn't say his link was about the same subject (to the original article).

They just added the information that the belief that the middle ages believed the earth is flat is recent-ish.

His "Tl;dr" was meant to be for the link he provided, not the original article.
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He was experimenting with productionized main net code.
I realize some of this is YMMV, but IAH is one of my least-favorite airports in the US. It was probably one of the worst-designed pre-TSA airports in the US; I know they couldn't have foreseen the uptick in security but adding security lines to that airport was definitely a hack.

Aside from that, Democratic party machine politics are starting to get dismantled by a wave of pissed-off progressive and tech-savvy millennials who are realizing the biggest hurdle to progress is coming from the Democratic party... Millennials have been abandoned by all the major institutions (unions, government agencies, religions, etc) so they shouldn't be surprised that we're coming for them on both sides of the aisle.
> in practice moving away from nuclear means doubling down on coal

Is it not possible for us to build out renewable energy on a large scale? My impression was that we're reaching points where it's very cost effective to do so.
"running out of sand" parallels "running out of oil". It's not that there isn't any left, it's just not cost effective.
What did you do while unemployed? Even if it doesn't seem directly related to what you want to do, you never know what will peak the hiring managers interest
PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM isn't an acronym, it's Hebrew for "two dots twice", ie, :: (double colon)

I think the two Israeli guys who wrote the first PHP runtime used it either as a private joke or because they couldn't think of how it's called in English.
I agree 100%. Kotlin compiles to JVM, JS and very soon also to native via LLVM. That means you can ship a web app (both backend & frontend) and mobile clients (for android and soon iOS) in one language. This is unprecedented.

For JS, you can use all you favorite front-end frameworks like react (here's an example by JetBrains themselves https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-fullstack-sample) or cycle. And you can import typescript definitions.

Also first class IDE integration.

So yeah, bright future is an understatement.

I guess clojure/clojurescript and scala.js are somewhat similar however I feel like Kotlin has an insane amount of momentum behind it right now.
This article confuses civilization with culture, you probably can't have the first without the latter. but culture by itself won't do great public works, wont even develop a written language.

Civilization means cohesion to a greater level than a mere culture.
MachineLabs announces GPU support with another style transfer demo
Reminds me of:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160502-even-desert-city-d...
You need a healthy coral reef to do that and us humans have done a pretty good job at running out of those too.
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And?

- Extract lots of sand

- Fill it with water

Maybe it will compensate for the increased ocean levels if the hole is big enough
You're right that having some mechanism to act gracefully in the case of errors is almost always required. "Internally" this might be a "main loop" with an exception handler. "Externally" this might be a bash script which runs our binary in a loop, or a systemd service, etc.

The intriguing thing about Haskell's approach is that it shows us that such mechanisms aren't pareto-improvements: we have to give up something, like confluence.

Keep in mind that confluence isn't just academic, it's the thing which makes functional programming attractive for parallelism. Confluence solves the hard problem of taking all possible interleavings of concurrent execution into account, since they act like different evaluation orders, and hence can't mess up the result.

Servers are a scenario where these two features clash: we want concurrency and parallelism for scaling, but we need restart loops to prevent downtime.

The use of external restart loops reminds me of delimited continuations, where even "undelimited continuations" are still delimited by the OS (e.g. Scheme's current continuation doesn't include the state of other OS processes). Likewise, "unobservable errors" can still be observed by the OS (e.g. when our process dies, as in a bash or systemd loop).

I think a good compromise is to "stratify" error handling: we write our business logic (or whatever) in a provably confluent sub-set of our language, and execute that logic using non-confluent features like error handlers. Confluent expressions can take advantage of optimisations (e.g. speculative evaluation) which are invalid for the wrapper.

One thing I'm not sure about is nesting exception-handling code in pure code. Approaches like algebraic effect systems let us mark expressions as requiring effects like 'stdio', yet we can handle those effects in a pure way (e.g. using hard-coded strings during a test). I don't think this is enough to maintain confluence in the face of concurrency though; we'd probably have to pass in a deterministic scheduler, but that may parallelism gains of things like speculative evaluation, work-stealing, etc.
I hate it that you can't see the syllabus without signing in. How is someone supposed to know whether (s)he's interested?

I've looked over it, it's not too dissimilar (on surface) with what I used to teach at the university. Might not be an accident since I remember at some point we switched from our own compiler skeleton to COOL, which is apparently what Stanford uses; so maybe I inspired my syllabus from Stanford's? I forget :) (for sure I did check the syllabi of several big US universities when building mine).

Interesting that he recommends "Engineering a Compiler"; I don't doubt that it's a good book but I don't know it. The third on my list (though admittedly a bit advanced) was Muchnick's "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation".
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so you can choose which one you want. I use both. Webpack is great for front-end apps. Rollup is way better for bundling libraries.
This is exactly what happened to me and I'm glad I did it. My intro to programming was a nightmare jquery app. Then a slightly better Backbone app with too many Globals. Then an over engineered Sails app. And now a collection of React + Redux apps, multiple years old, each with increasing levels of maintainability.

I'm hesitant to see new programmers avoiding a "learn the hard way" project. Without it, there's so much they might never grok.
I would really like to read a well-researched answer to this question. I've heard various theories around instability in Puerto Rico, and people using it to move money out of China. I have no idea if there's any evidence to support those theories.

I really want to understand some of the economics behind the value of a Bitcoin. Some people say that it's actually worthless, but that can't be true. It lets people move practically unlimited amounts of money anywhere in the world for a relatively small fee. It also provides immutable data that can be used to verify records.

I actually spent this weekend adding blockchain verification to my document generation service [1]. It was actually pretty amazing to look at a Bitcoin transaction [2], and realize that this data has so much authenticity and permanence. Not only does it guarantee that my document existed at a certain point in time, but that hash will probably be preserved in the blockchain for the rest of human history.

That one bitcoin transaction cost a lot of money (0.000846 BTC, or $6.95 USD), but it verifies a large number of records by using a merkle tree. [3]

I have no idea how these fees relate to the fiat price, but that must be one factor. Also the price of electricity around the world. There's a lot of speculation and "tulip mania" too, but even if you ignore all of that, I think it's a very interesting thing to research.

[1] https://formapi.io/

[2] https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/4dc1ef829128355fdbbf3afb...

[3] https://chainpoint.org/
Refreshingly packed with info, this article. Gets right to the point with the interesting facts rather starting off with the typical "One day as I slowly walked through a corn field and the pitter patter of rain drops danced along the bill of my cap..."
Isn't Benford's law just a phenomenon that indicates fit to a power law distribution? I'm probably missing something, but why not just try to fit the data to a power law and use the goodness of fit as the measure?
My bank account isn't managed by some sketchy Solidity contract.
This is an undergrad-level course. Of course it needs to teach parsing - a lot of people are going to have to write some form of parser during their career, so it's good to have some fundamentals. (and the Dragon book doesn't exclusively talk about parsing, either)
This nails it. Most first world countries managed to build most of their concrete infrastructure in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, little since then and maintainance isn't so easy.

It's impressive what China builds - they were decades behind but times changed. A huge parts of Shanghai city were rice field until 1990. Most skyscrappers were build since 2005. And now Shanghai has probably more skyscrappers than any other city in the world. Impressive also the amount of 2 or 3 story highways and the high speed trains.
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If by "truth" you mean "what is written on the page." I'm not sure why you're conflating the content of wikipedia with truth, because wikipedia is not a catalogue of truth, but of culture.
even that i would dispute in case of Rome

"To Agitius, thrice consul: [...] The barbarians drive us to the sea, the sea drives us to the barbarians; between these two means of death, we are either killed or drowned."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groans_of_the_Britons
One of my favorite bits of trivia is that Australia sells sand (and camels!) to Saudi Arabia [1]. In fact, the Arab countries import most of the sand used for construction because their own sand is not well suited to that purpose.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Saudi-Arabia-imports-s...
Can't speak for everyone, but it is common on any site.

The assumption is that they _will_ spam, sell the data or do something comparably exciting, so it's nearly always a disposable address first, changing it to a real address later if needed.
Honestly if you know how to troubleshoot and use google, you’re 90% of the way to a successful IT career. It’s remarkable how hard it is to find people who know how to solve problems in the general case, rather than know how to use some specific technology.
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They both have different use-cases. Webpack makes more sense on the front-end for bundling web apps but it sucks for bundling libraries.
The second edition covers techniques for VMs like garbage collection.
You and I might know that but not everyone has studied physics.
A mini rant on this site - I just got uMatrix installed and the amount of scripts on this page is overwhelming. In spite of enabling most CDN related stuff, the article doesn't show up. Used the "reading mode" and somehow the article shows up.
It would be cool if all those miners were also solving a puzzle that incidentally would help cure some disease, or figure out how to beat the speed of light.
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>while at the same time it is debasing education at all levels

Nah, people drop money into CS education and the reasoning changes to "that's just businesses seeding cheap labor 20-30 years from now"
Dont ask questions - just buy more!!! (which is also the answer)
The 2nd Edition of the Dragon Book covers dynamic compilation (JIT) and garbage collection. GC gets about 40 pages. It’s still my favorite.