skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be suggesting

(sum 1 2 3 4 5)

and

sum(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

are the same because they both return 15. That's just one way of looking at things. And that is true only if, that one is the only way of looking at things.

Structurally (sum 1 2 3 4 5) and sum(1 2 3 4 5) are NOT similar. They are not even close, in fact they represent opposite schools of thought.

There is a reason we are insisting on everything being list and them being uniform that way. That's because eventually we can use structures to modify themselves(recursion and macros).

Which is why Lisp's (sum 1 2 3 4 5) and Python's sum(1 ,2, 3, 4, 5) can't be judged on what they return alone, they have to judged on the structure they represent.

There is a interesting macro in Clojure named '-->'.

This basically helps:

(task3
(task2
(task1 work)))

to be

(--> work
task1
task2
task3)

These sort of transformations are not easy with sum(1,2,3,4,5) kind of syntax or even possible in many cases.
I can understand the frustration of OSM users that they have to create their own maps, but providing free tile servers would never be possible with the restricted funding for OSM.
I had such a problem with this. At my college, the professor I had for my entire calc sequence once said, in response to a question about applications, "My degree is in pure math. I don't care how it's applied."

Thankfully(?) I was taking physics at the same time, so I did get to see how double and triple integrals and differential equations could be applied. But it frustrated me to no end that the person who was driving my math education cared so little about helping us understand it.
Maps.me is pretty killer, though. The only issue I see with OSM is lack of traffic data. Generally when I drive with Google Maps, I already know the route but want Google to step in when there's traffic.
threadreaderapp dot com is a great way to "collect"/"rollup" tweets into a single page/long form for reading.

Unfortunately, it doesn't support twitter moments yet (you have to copy the original tweet url) and, really, REALLY unfortunately, doesn't support this particular "old" tweet because the twitter API doesn't allow fetching tweets more than a few months old. :/
Should've clarified. In this case I was on a IPv6-only connection – no IPv4 access available to the outside. Loading with both IPv6 and IPv4 being available of course results in no problems, as it falls back to IPv4 for resources that are not accessible over IPv6 (which is mainly the layout scripts).
Uncatched rejections are deprecated in Node.js. In a future version, an uncaught rejection will crash Node.js
Someone still has to plant, grow and harvest the crops to make the food you eat. Someone still has to ensure the sewers work, the garbage is picked up etc. Most necessary jobs will not be done by robots for decades if ever. And they certainly wouldn't be done by humans for "funzies" until then.

In a fantasy world of perfect human virtue perhaps basic income will work, or maybe once Skynet becomes self aware. But it's a pipe dream on any kind of meaningful scale.
Sorry that guy has no more credibility.
The other, more immediate, problem with this type of thinking is that it's unlikely to change anyone's mind. I doubt that very many Trump voters will read this news and think: "I was influenced by Russia when I voted for Trump." They, like anyone casting a vote, felt they were voting for someone for their own reasons based on their own research. The most common reason I've heard for people voting for Trump is that they felt it was the only way to make their voices heard. Saying that no, actually the only voices that's being heard here is Russia's and thus it's illegitimate seems likely to make people feel the same way in 2020.
Is the claim here that context is irrelevant as long as it was omitted from the featured article?
> this implies that there was no conspiracy on the Trump side of the equation.

No it doesn't. Saying that on a certain day there weren't any clouds in the sky does not mean that for a whole month it didn't rain.

There is absolutely no implication or suggestion of any kind in that statement that indicates no conspiracy on the Trump side.
The titles are the labels, yes, but that's not exactly clear (and definitely not explicit), as shown by the fact that people were confused about it.
Do you have a fixed or dynamic IP? When I tried sending email from my home network (which had a dynamic, if long-lasting IP), I discovered my ISP's addresses where on the PBL[1] and therefore getting rejected by many servers. This was in Europe, not the US.

[1] https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
Learning Explanatory Rules from Noisy Data [with Neural Networks]
Virtually all big science/tech projects from early 20th century were state sponsored, so it was difficult for SF writers to imagine a future where important innovation might come from the private sector or emerge from large scale decentralized contributions. Frankly, this is still large true today if you consider that lots of modern stuff comes from tech companies that are becoming as rich and powerful as small nation states, so they can spare a few billions in basic research with long-term or uncertain ROI.

And to be fair with Asimov, he saw some of that for example with "U.S.Robotics", a fictitious private company that invented the positronic brain and had a monopoly on that business. Also, his Encyclopedia Galactica is the creation of a large group of "encyclopedists" who are basically academic elites, something we could see as a Wikipedia-like except that it wasn't produced by millions of joe schmoes but rather by a kind of priesthood of professional intellectuals. (Foundation makes these people work in a centralized organization, but that happens in a late period of the galactic empire, it's my impression that the origins of the Encyclopedia are way more descentralized.)
Such a business can be sustainable, but the questions are whether it warrants Uber’s valuation and whether getting customers is worth the amount of money Uber pays for it.

Apparently some investors think the answer to both is yes. Otherwise, Uber wouldn’t get the money they get.

Other people disagree, though. I’m one of them. I think it is worthwhile to invest in getting some users to your platform, but I fear they attract way too many customers who are cost conscious, and will move to a different provider without blinking an eye.
I was planning to build a firewall/router using an ESPRESSObin http://espressobin.net/

They cost 50$ and have 3Gigabit ethernet ports
DevSecOps is an Abomination
> biggest market in the world

How so? What about China and India?
A propensity for video games is more a symptom than a cause imo.

If you look at the state of the modern American man, analyze trends and extrapolate forwards things are not looking good. The ratio of men:women in colleges is nearing 60/40. We are moving to a more service based economy which favors women. Lot's of folks are simply dropping out of the economy and are trending towards being strains on society.
You are making the incorrect assumption that a company has to try to compete with Uber everywhere all at once. They don't. Once Uber raises prices to the point where they make a profit, cabs will just come back and undercut them - because they will have less expenses (they don't have to support a massive organization and shareholders). This will happen independently in every city.
How Kimberly Clark hacked Redshift optimization saving over $250k
My contrarian impulse leads me to ask whether for a small portion of people, having a short period of time in which they wash clothes by hand, and afterwards go back to the more convenient and efficient way of doing it might have some benefit by resetting something.

But I'm guessing the answer is "probably not, and if so, probably for exceedingly few people. If something like that was a good idea, washing clothes probably wouldn't be the ideal form of it."
That always struck me as weird too. A few thousand a month is barely a drop in the bucket as far as ad campaigns go.

Either the CPM was so low that practically nobody was seeing the ads or the CPC was so high that the budget would be exhausted rapidly (and practically nobody would see the ads).
That make sense. When I was trying to find actual data, I did find a number of reports of temperature, and some days the temp was well over freezing. +5C°, I think.

I eventually found another article, which appeared to be calculating number of days below freezing in a specific season, and that was the number that was out of whack.

I think you're right. Purposefully excluding raw temperature figures can prevent people from jumping to the 'well, it wasn't that cold' conclusion.
Its seems like they are dropping out of society for some reason.
We probably need to go back and look at why people decide to work in the first place. What the incentives were and how they changed.
Most people aren't working because work is fun, they work because they want the money for some goals like food, housing, families.
Could be worse, like the worst pies in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftfgva9CM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atSbk0vLuRw
I saw "WALL-E" as a sobering critique on the "progression" of civilization.

Maybe walking to the well to get water is an inefficient, time consuming task when you could just use plumbing. But maybe the ones performing this routine throughout their entire life would have healthier blood pressure, or less risk for osteoporosis, because of more frequent physical activity.
Yes, the media is only reporting through the lens that promotes only a single view point of our relationship with Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia...
American (and thus international) banking seems to work on the somehow backwads principle of allowing allmost any transaction without any real authorization (eg. credits cards, direct debits, checks and such, where only thing you really need to know for the transaction to happen is some semi-public number) and dealing with possible issues after the fact On the other hand the system is pretty good at finding the party responsible, or in other words whose insurance will be billed for the missing money (for example when you look at it from this PoV the EMV protocols and cryptography used make sense). But for that to work someone has to be actually looking for the issues.
Being well-received by consumers doesn't have much to do with business success, in the broadband market.

Perhaps it's a matter of low bars, but Google's customer service and general reception definitely was far superior to, e.g., Comcast's.

The issues Fiber ran into were more about taking on entrenched monopolists, and not general uptake or customer dissatisfaction.
He continually undercuts and minimizes any interference.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/13/politics/trump-unconvince...
I think the 10b isn’t sales but it’s to fund whatever insurance policy that they have on their cars . They probably add that to the price of their rides or something .
I just hate how hard it is to get a simple vector map based on OSM, after that it's really fine to use.
The indictment lists a budget of 78 million rubles per month for Internet Research's project. That's north of 1 million USD per month.
1) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/trump-is-back-to-cal...

2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-...
You are applying the Just World Fallacy[0] here

This is the same line of thinking that we all apply for things such as "Karma".

Just because we believe we live in a just world, it doesn't make it so.

It is why crucial for people to remain vigilant of legal loopholes and apply political pressure to make any changes.

As citizens, we have more power than we realize.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
I've read that the Russians didn't hack the vote tallies, instead they hacked and selectively purged certain voter registries, thereby controlling who was "allowed" to vote in the first place. A different strategy to achieve the same goal of modifying eventual vote tallies.
This year [2017], Lyft is on pace for $1.5 billion in net revenue -- the amount of money it generates after paying drivers -- on losses of $400 million, according to the document, which was prepared at the end of the second quarter. Since then, Lyft has spent heavily on a nationwide marketing campaign, including TV spots with actor Jeff Bridges. Investors are now anticipating losses of close to $600 million in 2017, two people said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-11/lyft-set-...
Yeah, I really wish websites would just stop embedding Facebook Like buttons. That would already help a lot.
I've never seen a dualstack connection cause breakage. And if it does break with IPv6 support being available, then it's the developer's fault. Instead of disabling IPv6 you should alert them of the problem and if possible use an alternative service, which supports IPv6.

In the case of Humble Bundle breaking, it seems simply because some of their CDN subdomains are IPv4-only. Since the site loads various resources from those IPv4-only endpoints, it causes everything to just break when accessing over IPv6. In a way I'd argue it's still better than your browser displaying "no valid IP address for this domain" – usually you can at least find an e-mail address at the bottom of the page to alert them to the problem.
> The post calls for OSM to essentially become Mapbox

The problem is that most companies using OSM are using Mapbox. This leads to a few problems, including attribution, which I decided not to touch on, but is a serious problem that Mapbox doesn't address sufficiently.

If they could use OSM directly, they'd be engaged with OSM directly. They'd care about OSM. Right now OSM shoves these users away and makes them into customers of some third party (maybe Mapbox, maybe someone else) instead of caring about OSM itself.

> Expanding the scope of OpenStreetMap to include transient data. Too much other work to do, maybe later for this.

How about letting users experiment and seeing what cool stuff they can come up with?
I nice companion project for it would be a tool for creating these 'explorable explanations'. Anyone know if any good attempts have been made at that yet?
Regarding the loop: that's exactly what I described, you just move lines and fix the indentation. It's super quick. There just isn't significant nesting in good code. It's almost always bad style to nest function calls. In statement-blocks you don't have the "trailing parentheses" problem that you have in LISP, since the closing brace is on its own line - so it really boils down to cutting and pasting lines >90% of the time.

Aside: in original C, this is how you wrote functions:

int f(x, y)
int x;
int y;
{
int z;
...
}
I find the online courses the most entertaining and stimulating. Many are available for free, like on Coursera, MIT.edu. Some offer real classes, where you follow live classes I believe. You cannot start when you want, you have to follow the program.

On Udemy you can find nice courses as well for a good price. They have discounts all the time, each course for $10-20. Never pay the full price. See the reviews, and you can always take a risk for that price, plus they have a 30 day money back guarantee.
My dad was an owner-operator for 30+ years, so I think I know a bit about the industry.

Which part of what I said do you disagree with? That Company Drivers ask dispatch to send the a tire service truck when they have a flat?
I have been looking into Ketamine as there is a clinic which administers Ketamine therapy in my area. The disappointing thing is that it looks like the effects are short lived, and one may need "booster" treatments every 4 weeks, at $400 a shot, for years and possibly forever. I hope with this understanding, we come up with something more permanent.
That's a pretty bold assertion - what are you basing that on? It seems that while there are certainly fields where different genders dominate, how you define "service industry" is going to really skew your views on this. And to state that any differences must be due to sexism alone seems unfounded.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm
Are you suggesting that leadership is some sort of moral indicator? Or morality is necessary for leadership?

I don't understand how you're making the jump from "leading a horse is like leading a team" (which is easy to agree with) to some point about morality.
90% of American public schools now hold mass shooting drills for students
In Windows 10 Pro, you can with Group Policy. My machines are set to "Notify to install" - it's not ideal, as Windows Defender updates use the same path so it's triggered at least once a day, but a small system tray notification of "You need some updates" is an improvement over the more forceful notifications and unexpected reboots.
> Generally when I drive with Google Maps, I already know the route but want Google to step in when there's traffic.

You should try Waze. I too mostly use Google to route me around traffic, but Waze is an order of magnitude better at it. It has more frequently updated traffic data and is willing to take you on side streets.

For example the other day I was driving down a major road, and Google said to just stay on it, but Waze took me down a side street for two blocks and then back to the main road, saving me four minutes, which was 25% of the total trip time.

Also, when making a long drive, Google chooses a route that is optimal right now for the entire route. Waze accounts for the fact that it will be an hour later when you get to the second half of your trip, and uses that to make better choices.
Even stipulating all that, which I would not do, the purpose of this indictment is not to bring these Russians to justice, nor to criminalize "fake news." The purpose is to keep them out of the US, out of US and allies' banks accounts, and, quite possibly, to set up other parties to be "unindicted co-conspirators."
Actually, he has claimed they didn't interfere many times ... for example:
"President Trump said on Saturday that he believed President Vladimir V. Putin was sincere in his denials of interference in the 2016 presidential elections"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/world/asia/trump-putin-el...
Let's see. Here's the original text:

> Rather than thinking in letters, words, lines, or paragraphs, editor modes like paredit let you edit in terms of the structure of your code

So. My question is: which modern programmer thinks in terms of thinks about code in terms of letters, words, lines, or paragraphs?

The truly antiquated tools (like vi and emacs) may still handle code as if it was just text. The actual code editing tools have long been able to deal with the structure of the code. And in ways that paredit may only dream of.

> If you've ever used the XML structure view in eclipse, its the Design tab, you get a better idea.

Erm. The only "think semantically" that paredit pretends it does happens only because Lisp has a rather regular syntax. It doesn't take much thinking or work to move parts of code in and out of parenthesis, or to be able to close a matching bracket.

Actual modern tools know the structure of the code and offer much greater editing and code handling capabilities than that.

Edit:

As a trivial example. Here's IntelliJ and PHP code (yes, PHP). It understands the code, it's structure, and offers context based editing help based code structure and semantics: https://dmitriid.com/i/gm2tmnztha4tenjq.png

Speaking of semantics. Unlike the dumb "move things in out of brackets" the actual tools understand semantics of code. Once again, this is PHP (!), and the tool knows about the semantics of code: https://dmitriid.com/i/gm2tmnbtga4tanjs.png

Editing capabilities available to some other languages would blow your mind.
If you really feel strongly about it, why don't you publish a write up and stick behind what you believe is something we should all hear about, rather than post uncited garble and tell us to read a 100 page court memo with a throwaway account.
Incorrect. See the only place Trump speaks:

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/843865267008655360?ref_src=...
doesn't all the controversy around fake news support the exact opposite of your claims that people are smart enough to only listen to reputable sources?
In the end the driver has to eat, so whatever deception Uber does on the driver pay side is not really sustainable if it doesn't in the end meet the driver market (I was a driver for 1.5 yrs)
Ultimately it comes down to the resources to create such a thing, right? There have been some successes with crowdsourced validations such as Facebook's translation efforts (although I think in that case it was merely a component of the process). And it would rely on a volume of edits that OSM may not have. There may be 1000 people ready to verify the location of the Statue of Liberty, but probably not the location of every building in a remote area being mapped for HOT.

Mapbox has built the start of a validation framework, and they have done very cool stuff. Of course then they get criticized for "forking" OSM. There are definitely valid criticisms there, but it seems like there's no way to win.
> Stock photos of good looking women are routinely used in marketing to attract users

They're photos, though. They're real. Not "fake"
I am sorry for the repost but inspired by recent "Benjamin Franklin technique" I though this blog post of mine might be of interest to some people.
They have less income to spend. This has mostly negative consequences. Lower economic stimulation is the most obvious. Of course, less income means other things too. Young men are living at home with their parents for longer, or in flophouse conditions. At least in the US, this is not a desirable quality to most females, meaning they are getting married later if at all. This means less children, which could mean a demographic crisis depending on which camp you believe. Also these people could be an eventual drain on society as they get older or retire.
Thanks for posting this here! I feel like this is mostly good constructive criticism.

I have given a few talks about using OSM data in the US government and it comes down to authoritative data sources and validation. It's a great starting point, but there needs to be another layer (or two) of validation before it can be used at the enterprise level. The National Map Corps has some good examples of how this can be implemented with data stewardship.

I am also working on a few projects to take public domain data and put it into OSM. While it's useful and mostly open, it's definitely less open than the original data sources. Another issues is that as soon as someone edits the imported data, it will become less authoritative as well.
There's nothing wrong with intuition, but intuition does not write proofs. It can help you write proofs, but you need more than that.

To pick an example:

Intuition is great for understanding the intermediate value theorem. If the temperature was 40 degrees at 8 am, and is 60 degrees at noon, it must have been 50 degrees somewhere in between.

Why, though? How can you guarantee that there will always have to be a time where it was 50 degrees[1]?

[1] provided that temperature is real-valued and temperature change is continuous, the debate of which I'll leave to the science people
I know what you mean, it's that dark kind of humor when you know the person you are directing it to thinks it's funny (because it's so obviously wrong). However I don't think that applies to these messages which just look like plain trolling to me.

Although this thread is so loaded it seems that any suggestion of the possibility of a benign explanation is met with being downvoted into oblivion like you... so let me finish with "this is terrible and all men are bad", there I think I've covered myself.
You may have read it, but the states that were touted as that happening in, quickly debunked it, and it was then retracted.
And its ignoring the long history of folk protest song eg "the world turnd upside down" which is a ECW protest song.

Oh and I forgot the medieval Chanson which is ever earlier.