skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not so sure 6GCRPR6C+24 is a great replacement for an address, but maybe I just don’t know.

Although I could memorize my own address, I’d have a hard time memorizing my friends’ addresses. Yes, nobody knows each other’s phone numbers anymore, but those were a very temporary relic from a very short span of time (the telephone era). Humans have always known each other’s addresses, and have always spent a lot of time telling each other their locations in the form of a spoken address.

On a more technical note, I am guessing this works super-well for auto-completion, but didn’t see any example of that in the README...

All of the various geonaming systems seem very Esperanto at the moment. I think we (as in all of us, the global community) could build upon Google’s effort to come up with a much more human-friendly system to provide easy global addressing. Yes, the address format system is way too localized and breaks down at both scale and small distances; whatever that code was at the beginning of my post (I’ve already forgotten it, and I’m too lazy to re-paste it) is just not nearly as easy to remember as “100 Ocean Drive” or whatever. I also have no clue how I might represent the building next door.
Stone columns of antiquity weren't turned on a lathe.
Confidential Transactions on Ethereum the Using Aztec Protocol
I assume "Diversity (Business)" not "Diversity (Politics)", to borrow the wikipedia disambiguation.
I too was annoyed by the broke back button. But that's a great game. I enjoyed the chance to get it right by the end of the quiz and the educational content after each question.
War on Communication? I’m sure that’ll play out nicely since the war on drugs was such a “great success”...
A shoutout to Rober Dam who built Xaddress, "Give 7 billion people an instant physical address": http://xaddress.org/
Usage is a lagging indicator, yet the author seems to treat it as a leading indicator. Current interactions may not change overnight, but new interactions are more likely to occur elsewhere, and those effects wont be obvious for some time
I don't like Facebook, but I use it for 3 reasons:

1) Events for certain groups of which I am a member, which are advertised elsewhere but to be honest I'm so disorganised so would probably miss out on them without constant reminders

2) Managing my company pages (basically holding pages with very little content)

3) Friends and family who insist on using Messenger

Messenger is probably the main one. I'm sorry but the standard HN answer of "ask your friends and family to switch to Signal" just isn't going to work, and I like them too much to cut them out of my life completely.

I'm certainly not "addicted" and would gladly delete my account if not for these 3 reasons. I don't bother with the newsfeed at all.
I have asked this question to a member of the Google maps team, and have not gotten a precise answer. Is there some scheme which can distinguish between floors of a building? This is very useful, for example, store locations inside malls. The LatLong scheme does not seem to be enough. I'm guessing that it will have to be 3D, but I have never heard of a standard location scheme which incorporates this information.
Brainfuck certainly is small. I think it might also be an example of what I had in mind. Brainfuck could be a little language for the idea of a Turing machine. Perhaps by writing Brainfuck programs, one better understands the mechanics of the Turing machine.
Hmm, some questions from someone who isn't familiar with Swift or much functional programming:

- What does this have to do with Swift? Other commenters seem to agree that Haskell would be more appropriate.

- What does this have to do with functional programming? As far as I can tell, an algorithm about bitstrings has been wrapped up and reframed in terms of types. Could you not do this in C without too much headache?

- The recursion aspect confuses me a bit; is it possible to "find" a predicate like "all indices of the bitstring are 1"? Or is that not an allowed type of predicate?

- Again with the recursion, how does the "find" procedure know to terminate if no viable bit string exists?

EDIT: I should have read kccqzy's post more carefully. I believe it answers the third and fourth questions.
Jira is one of those tools which tend to give managers an illusion of progress at the expense of actual progress.
It's not just Jira, there are many tools today which are like that; they aim to give non-technical managers
a feeling of control over a technical process which they are often not capable of understanding.
These tools are designed to allow non-technical project managers to not trust their technical people - This is a recipe for poor quality results.
The best CEO and CTO that I've ever worked for used Trello as their only project management platform and they personally kept tabs on all the main tasks; even as the company grew.
They had a good intuitive understanding of how long things should take.

There is a really big difference between seeing what needs to be done versus understanding what needs to be done; no amount of advanced project management tooling can make a manager actually understand what is happening.
When I entered a search for my country, the site informed me that the search input is my home country.

I am currently not in my home country. This is also my first time using the site. What background information is the site using to identify this?
Apparently private browsing is pretty easy to detect in any browser:

> Also yes, in case you didn't know, there's lots of ways to detect private browsing using JavaScript. It's kinda dumb that browsers don't work harder to make it imperceptible.

https://toot.cafe/@nolan/101189400134875073
The uk gov now appears to resemble a media organisation whos main purpose is to broadcast the message of fear.
The amount of money that passes in and out of the uk gov and to all the industry security contractors that manage that amplified and antagonised anxiety can probably now be directly related to how much fear it can generate amongst its own citizens that they are under immediate danger of being attacked
Practice identifying the ego underlying your rationale and the way you interact with people. The more you’re able to confront and abandon, the mentally-tougher you’ll be.
Patreon has banned the accounts of several controversial public figures
Read the Stoics. Take up an endurance sport.

What is mental toughness? It is perspective and belief to step back and realise that the suffering is only temporary and will ultimately be worth having endured.
It's indeed interesting how important the command line is now. You might like this mini-book / essay by Neal Stephenson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

It examines the issue of GUIs vs. command line interfaces, among other things.

I'm pretty sure there is an anecdote there that says that Mac OS did have a hidden command line? It was only for Apple engineers, not for end users, but it was there. I'd appreciate a pointer if anyone remembers.
Small hack: You can Google a code, and it finds it on the map, already :-D
I wish delivery services (mainly food delivery) would accept directions using this, like "Appartment block entry at XXXX+XX with entry code YYYY, building entry XXXX+XX with door code ZZZZ" (with code parsing somehow).

They keep getting things wrong for my location, but things like that (= simple and integrated with maps) would make it easy.
Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security
This is really cool, but not really that much easier than coordinates. The good thing about coordinates is that you can choose the kind of granularity you want.

But kudos to Google for doing this.
What's wrong with just using floor names, e.g. "First floor"?
In my experience this is the most common solution for cheap led bulbs.
A week ago articles claimed the delete Facebook movement was making substantial impact on Facebooks user numbers and that users left because of this ethical crisis, like the Uber scandals. If the numbers haven’t gone down much then either users care more about using fb than this ethical issue for whatever reason. Fill in your own narrative here.
There are quite a lot of these in the UK too, again I'm not sure of the legality.

As a driver I've two things to say about them.

Firstly, they do make it easier to spot the cyclist over a solid light so that's a good thing. However, it's almost impossible to track their movement and that is a very very bad thing.

The best solution I feel is to have a flashing light which draws attention in addition to a solid light which is much easier to keep track of in your peripheral.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, since it's rather controversial), they made it proprietary, which means it's basically dead regardless of merit.

Also, I believe that they require large dictionaries, which makes it hard for apps to support it on low-end mobile. Wikipedia says ~10 MB for their database.
I want an address that a drone can use to drop a package on my 3rd floor patio.
There's a feature that vastly improves the human usability for Plus Codes. The least-precision, first-four characters can be omitted and replaced with the City / Region name: e.g., "Nairobi PR6C+24". Considering that uniquely identifies just a few square meters of space on Earth that seems pretty good.
Thanks for your reply! I think I understood some of your comment, but got very lost at the end. I don't know anything about: Kleene trees [1], "total" languages [2], general recursion vs structural recursion [3], or epsilon operators [4]. (But I've looked those up and provided some links.)

I think I understood some of the first paragraph. I'll have to do some mathematics and computer science courses on Khan Academy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%E2%80%93Brouwer_order

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_functional_programming

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14268749/how-does-struct...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_calculus

This seems like a very advanced topic!
Why wouldn't they use 36 (Letters+digits) to break it down in a 6x6 area instead? Much more precise at the same length.

At 6 length, you're already down to the kilometer precision at the equator. At 9 length you're down to 4 meters.

And that's with a dumb grid division, which is very uneven on the globe, the cube projection is probably a better way to deal with it.
Look I agree with you. Everyman should make their their own decisions and do what is right for them. However advertising has had a massive impact on how we see the world. You only need read about how de Beers the world's largest diamond producer changed our perception of diamonds [1]. There all manner of adverts designed to make you feel incomplete. I don't have links now but there have been a few stories here on HN which show what we regard as the norm now was nothing more than advertising campaign.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...
The inclusion of a Citroën DS is nice (as an owner of '74 model, I am a little biased), but it's weird that he doesn't mention the Citroën CX, the fruits of de Casteljau's labours.

It's call the CX because it refers to the coefficient of drag (Cd in English, but CX in French). I have the definitive book on the CX, de originale Citroën CX (it's in Dutch)[0], and they spend a lot of time discussing the mathematics of the design.

It's only unfortunate that I don't own a CX (although I used to have a '85 TRS 22, but it was in too bad shape to keep).

[0] See here for an English article discussing the book: https://citroenvie.com/new-citroen-cx-book-available/
Ask HN: Who is hiring in December 2018?
Actually English has thousands of sibilants and millions of vowels . Think about differences between a Scottish speaker and Guido van Rossum. Problem is of course that there is no standard pronunciation or even method to define it.
What's neat about this is its simplicity; its unencumbered nature; and its independence from any particular mapping or ontology beyond "a rectangularish portion of the surface of a sphere".

One neat application is for biologists recording locations of field samples.
Lat, long, elevation. The original and best for delivering an ICBM to your door.
Ok cool, thanks for the explanation!
Y'know, that's what I like about the European social security systems (not all of them of course, but some). It's just that, security. You can be sure you will have healthcare, you will have housing and you will have food, and so will all your dependents. (Ah and of course you will have to fill out a lot of papers and they will bug you to find a job, and your level of living will be at university student level, but still.)

I really like the peace of mind that gives me and everyone, even if that means I have to pay more taxes.
Here in the south of Spain I regularly see scooters (mopeds) that are 20+ years old. Older scooters often have headlights that are so dim you can barely see them (the bulbs just get dimmer, they don't burn out). As a car driver I'd much prefer to see a bright and flashing light so I notice the vehicle, and a bicycle doesn't make any noise so I'm not going to hear it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and...
You missed the keyword -- "enlightened".

You might not agree, but what you demonstrate is very common among new PhD students (and I would argue that is a desirable trait). I sure had that in my days of yore.

Just clarifying that by 'impossible' I meant a mathematical impossibility theorem, not some notion of "that seems very implausible".

Mathematical science does not progress by making impossible statements possible. Rather they work by scoping out and relaxing things (conditions, assumptions and axioms).

For example, one does not deal with Russel's paradox by removing the paradox, but by scoping things out (in this case putting restrictions on how you define your sets) so that the paradox does not arise in the restricted, yet practically useful setting. OTOH other hand if someone keeps bringing up 'whoa Russel's paradox, whoa Russel's paradox that's a limitation' (albeit a well known and obvious one) that qualifies as newbie behavior, although an enlightened one.

Inference in an arbitrary graphical model is NP hard. It would be lazy to come up with a corner case where a inference algorithm with a short running time will fail. We make progress by accepting that for arbitrary graphs inference is a hard problem and then asking what is a practically relevant subset of graphs where one can indeed give an efficient solution. Pointing out obvious failure cases is exactly what you said -- a [lazy and vapid] pissing contest. It does no one any good, unless the failure case brought up is of a new and an unknown type that provides new insight. If there was any new insight in the cases you brought up I definitely missed them.
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Has Quora not peaked already? I was a fan of it in the early '10s, but around 2013/14 it seemed to experience an influx of users who turned it into an alternative to Yahoo! Answers. With no way of filtering them out, it seemed pointless continuing to use it.
Yes, this is the current solution. I am a bit dissatisfied that it is not a "uniform" address scheme. It would be nice if an app can guide you to the exact store on the exact floor based on one location code.
Yes. What has become clear to me in this discussion is that some people, when talking about being "comfortable", are talking about maintaining a much more lavish lifestyle, funded by passive income, than many people like myself, are used to or feel that they need. For many, comfort is simply feeling like they aren't at risk of starving or becoming homeless. That's the definition I'm working with, but it's clear to me that others are talking about something different, as you have articulated in your comment. Thank you.
Their own site says 20mb
Well, sure, “morality” is just a human construct. So is money. That doesn’t stop us from prosecuting bank robbers.

In the specific case of Facebook, the recently released e-mails quite clearly showed they knew they were crossing boundaries of commonly accepted behaviors. They weren’t arguing about the ethics of using loose permissions on Android to read your SMS. They acknowledged the commonly accepted norms of behavior, and knowingly broke them.
No, it clearly demonstrates that these employees where not creating that much value at the firm.

Progressive betting strategies for example can appear to work in the short term, but anyone executing them is destroying value.
As far as I know GTP is only used for data sessions (PDP) contexts. It should not affect handset registration and circuit-switched voice.
This is presumably a response to the increase in encryption post-Snowden. In which case, it's a good thing from one angle at least - it suggests that moves to encrypt everywhere are frustrating bulk intercept.
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In my first naïve thought this seems trivial. "Just" map WGS84 coordinates to a less clunky identifier. What am I missing?
I don't understand why everyone insists on bundling a transformer with each LED bulb and doesn't just make a standard for LEDs so we can buy one good transformer and then just change the LEDs when they die.
I believe the blink mode is documented as extending the battery life, at least in the manuals I've read.
That's not why they exist.

They exist to protect and maintain the status quo for those that benefit from it.
Floors can be weird; I’m not sure how you’d handle a hotel skipping the 13th floor, for instance. Also, are floors 0 indexes or 1 indexed? It therefore probably shouldn’t be built into the protocol.
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I heard the market corrected in Spain by allowing multiple generation loans https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537511/The-40-year...
Who determines what is the "first floor"? Last week I had a medical appointment. The doctor's office was on the 6th floor; but, it was 7th floor counting up, as the building's ground floor is the "Lobby."
On that i do have a head start I'm Indian
Sounds like marketing to me, nothing more.

from the article: "global superstar"

I guess the bar has been lowered past the floor now.
> IF I want to watch scripted drama like NARCOS, I can't find anything close to that on Youtube

If you step outside of the narrow US/English speaking world this isn't the case.

Here's episode 92 of a popular hour-long scripted family show from Vietnam: https://youtu.be/rqdqn5Rfx6w

You can see that it has 5.7 million views within 5 days of release. That's more viewers than, say, Daredevil gets.
This may work, I should try this. Can current smartphone resolution decide the elevation difference between the first and the second floors of a building?
Thanks for the advice man! Means a lot!
Nothing in your message is backed up by any arguments. I would love to know for example:

Why Intercoin looks like a scam

Why it’s ridiculous to be calling Bitcoin and Ethereum the myspace and friendster of the industry when they are literally the first movers and have been around for 10 years but painted themselves into a corner and are unable to scale - no one uses bitcoin for real world transactions and projects building a token on ethereum who needs it to be actually used regularly says they’ll get off ethereum right in their whitepaper (Kik Messenger for instance).

How can you say Intercoin (or EOS or SAFE network or Stellar) has no advantages over Bitcoin and Ethereum, what planet are you on?

We have half a million lines of public code written over 7 years. We have been trying to fix decentralization for longer than you knew about crypto. And MAidSAFE has been doing this for 12 years!

Why would “projects like this” be “burnt out of the space” in the bear market, when I just said they are the future of the space, which has stagnated?

The promise was utility tokens and ICOs, where the tokens would be presold and the network would be owned by the participants instead of extracting rents. Tht was the dream. That was chilled by regulators, in favor of security tokens.

This reaction is what’s ridiculous. Imagine me saying this about MySQL for instance, or Wordpress. It looks like a scam guys. It has no advantages over current first-gen database systems or CMS, and there can never be anything better

Do you really, honestly think that a system burning more electricity than most countries to do 7 transactions per second, where each full node needs an ever growing amount of memory to even join the network, is the best BFT database and distributed ledger that can ever exist?

Look at other projects like Holochain and Maidsafe. Look at the evolving EOS ecosystem. “People” who dislike cryptocurrency hardly know what’s going on it. “People” also disliked the Internet, the Web, social networking, and thought it was a fad. At the very least, answer my questions point by point and bring some substance. Other people are working for years on free open source software, instead of cushy jobs at some cushy VC funded startup, which is likely to fail, and you are calling THEM scammers because...?

You do realize that these projects produce open source software AND are looking to build a decentralized ecosystem where you no longer have to extract rents and have middlemen like Facebook which can be hacked, influence elections etc. And meanwhile you say once these projects are burned out and we go back to ethereum THEN finally we can get back to the business of decentralization? Ha ha ha.
Do you only have one email adress? I wouldn't give out the main one, but some of the others.. or just make a new account somewhere and forward it to your main, then delete it if it ever collects spam.
Or just look at your finger while you wiggle it vigorously.
I hardly think so. Youtube is a casual Netflix. Unless YouTube comes up with epic tv shows it won't be a serious competitor to Netflix.

But that being said, Youtube is a den of self made videos like Honest Trailers, how it should have ended.

Also sleep can't be a competitor. It is a bad thing if your product is so addictive that people go crazy over it. This is the reaosn why most apps these days let users track their times spent on the app. Because if people are severely addicted, they will not stay addicted for the rest od their lives. They will dump the site. I did the same to Prime, facebook and Instagram.
Thanks a ton for the reply! I was definitely thinking along the lines of a bootstrap workshop!
Jesus Christ, this blog post posits one of the most blatant and comical strawmen I’ve seen in awhile. The author seems to think the only kind of crisis (“crisis”, as the word is used in the headline of the recent NYT investigation) Facebook could face is one that involves a drop in users. Because the NYT purportedly provides little evidence of such, the author asserts “the whole thing seems imaginary: is there an actual crisis, outside the media narrative?”

The article the author references in his intro is talking about the PR crisis and internal conflict that blew up when Alex Stamos spoke out against FB’s lackluster response to a “Russian infestation”. When Sheryl Sandberg is said by multiple witnesses to have screamed “You threw us under a bus!” at Stamos, it is reasonable to think that FB had massive internal strife, unless the author believes the NYT fabricated the evidence of this conflict, which he provides no evidence of.

The lackluster user growth is said by the NYT to coincide with this strife, it is not claimed by the NYT to be the crisis. Does the author believe that the only crisis a tech company could possibly face is declining usage?
That makes sense.

"9C3XFWG3+2G" is barely any shorter than using coordinates, but "FWG3+2G, London" is significantly easier to read or write down than coordinates.
could you explain this a bit more ? not able to understand the implication of this design flaw
JIRA. And Slack.

Not because there's no alternative, but because there's some kind of misplaced cult about it in the industry.