skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a bit unnerved by the single variable names as well. But frankly, using full world variables adds little actual clarity in most cases where they are used. What the variables are is clear from the types, and what the types are is usually stated very clearly within a few lines, barely a glance away for reference. I will concede however that the python example could use variable names for clarity, since no such types are stated nearby. I have found that long variable names don't help, and sometimes even hinder my understanding of haskell code.

foldRight :: (accum -> item -> item) -> accum -> foldable item -> accum
foldRight combiner initialAccum foldables = appEndo (foldMap (Endo . combiner) foldables) initialAccum

... that didn't help. After all, each variable was used once, and there were only 3 variables in the entire scope. Most functions are like that, and you can easily keep track of it without breaking a sweat. What is important to keep track of is what types those are, and what functions are valid for those types, and how those types are changed with function application and whatnot.

So its not just because of the test example. I actually copied and pasted the original out of the standard library, so it is about as canonical as it gets. The best possible description for f is (a -> b -> b), and while you might hand wave it as a "combiner" or "accumulationStep" or whatnot, that does almost nothing to clarify how this function works.

The cultural choice is not arbitrary. The real cultural difference is in the level of abstraction so often being "above" the semantics. In java, or python, or whatever else, I will religiously use nice, expressive names. But the short names, and other even crazier things like pointfree syntax actually feel somewhat more natural in Haskell.
At the University of Washington dorms, the older ones at least, there are still exposed pipe coverings with asbestos fibers and a big fat warning sticker saying to avoid creating dust... I imagine it'll be a nightmare when they finally tear them down.
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It is not unreasonable to think that "God is less likely than Russell's teapot", but it is definitely unreasonable to say "I am sure god does not exist" since, by definition, god is untestable.

I guess that what I am trying to say is that a "strong atheist" (with judgements based on reason), can not really assert with 100% confidence that god does not exist. He can, nevertheless, be convinced that the likelihood of its existence is for all practical purposes 0.

It is not that he "believes that god does not exist", it is more that he thinks along the lines of "why should I care about this particular teapot?"
> freedoms, strong judicial systems, small governments, free markets, neutrality and civil rights

i wonder what ppl from the east think europe is. europe is one big of a mess of enforced conformity. souvereignty was not in that list but i think it's implied.
there's no such thing in any eu country (except uk, maybe).
even switzerland has laid down to their masters overseas.

civil rights, small government, neutrality? get out of here as long as you can, buddy.
The author thinks he is "helping" the USPTO - to stop bad patents. But he is doing nothing of the sort. The USPTO are part of the problem.

Do you really think that you can strike down a bad patent by simply sending some links for prior art to the USPTO ? Someone who applies for a patent must pay a fee to have it examined by an expert. I'm pretty sure that they're going to have to spend some time re-examining the patent and the new material to decide if it's relevant or not. I don't think that's going to be free.
I'm wondering how they did it? Is there some kind of converter to transform GEO data to Minecraft Worlds?
It doesn't necessarily imply that the electorate is uneducated and easily swayed. I think it's more likely that most of the time these elections are a close call and campaigning sways people who are in the middle or motivates people who might not otherwise vote.

The argument basically just implies that advertising has some influence. Which is true - even for an educated and informed audience. Nothing you do to the electorate can make them immune to advertising. So money will always be a motivation for politicians. Especially since extra campaign money can always be spent on all kinds of fun expenses, and giving well paying jobs to friends and family.

Also, bear in mind that even the most well informed educated electorate has a very limited feedback mechanism. Many people care so strongly about particular issues that they will never change their vote. Which means people in the middle ground only really get to choose between the two main political parties. In practise, it works out a bit like a price fixing cartel. Basically both parties take turns screwing everyone over. Candidates only have to make the appearance of being better than the last guy during election time. During their last term they can do whatever they want, which sets the bar really low for the next guy. It's a race to the bottom.

As long as the influence of money is present, politicians will behave as corruptly as they can get away with. Improving the education level of the electorate reduces the amount politicians can get away with, but because of the two party system, they'll always be able to get away with a lot.
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I didn't say it couldn't be done, just not to expect it.
No Yes and Yes. Instruction decode wars aren't over, its just that the competition have plateaued :) One of the real big hurdles was decoding enough ops / cycle to compete, and the Mill's 33 ops/cycle is way way way more than everyone else, and due to the split stream and multi-phase decoding cunning.

And of course this is intimately dovetailed to cache, so Yes Yes Yes to everything you said too.
> Almost every organization in the world, no matter if it is profit or non-profit, gets more rigorous the more applications come in.

They get more money from processing more patents. They don't get more money by making sure the patents are better quality.
In spite of the silly name, it has some fantastic tech from SmartOS (ZFS, Zones + KVM, nice tools to manage all that) and is great to use as a cloud hypervisor.
Project-FIFO provides a management portal on top of that, so bundling both in a easy to use system makes a lot of sense.
You're talking about a "crypto messenger" that doesn't have end-to-end encryption enabled by default (and is therefore insecure by default, just like Whatsapp and other apps like that), so maybe you're expecting too much of him.

Germany is a good second choice after Switzerland, I think. Iceland would still be my #1 choice for Wikileaks-like companies, but I don't think Telegram is in that situation, and they might prefer a warmer weather anyway.
I don't know why you have been down-voted. You are correct, and most of the replies to the contrary are along the lines of "I knew someone who worked in an Asbestos-heavy-industrial environment and they died from it so therefore it's all dangerous."

For most members of the public, our interaction with Asbestos will be from it's use as a building material for roofs, insulation or pipes. The risk only increases if it is heavily disturbed, usually due to building work or demolition.
OpenSSL package maintainer for SUSE says openSUSE/SLES will stay with OpenSSL (plus handpicked commits from LibreSSL repo), because of missing FIPS and other questionable commits in LibreSSL.

https://plus.google.com/110587864313334050808/posts/R8fkf1A4...
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Because you felt that gave you some legal protection, despite the fact that you're using a US-based company?

The advantage of locating in the Netherlands is that you get served to Europe a little quicker.
> Each blocks represents a ground area of 50 square metres. The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high. Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.

It seems to be a 1:50 scale.
I wonder - to what extent was his opinion based on the PR campaigns a few years by the Canadian government aimed at convincing countries like India to buy their asbestos?
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except uk?
even in China there is no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
Em .. no, thank you.
I think that systemd is a good step in the direction of unifying different distributions. Also, many argument presented on that page have been debunked or are actually good things.
GST itself has a very detailed explanation in Danish.[0] But basically, two of their employees worked to created the converter. They even include a table list of GST's own descriptions of terrain types and what Minecraft biomes they were converted to.

They don't have underground data, so some simple steps have been taken for each area based on a general idea of the underground (e.g. Bornholm's underground becoming stone).

As for buildings, they know the shape of buildings, but not their texture, so they are merely randomly generated in 'unrealistic colours' (as they describe it).

As the map data is updated each quarter (3 months), the Minecraft data will also be updated.

It's a very interesting read, I recommend you learn Danish and read it!

[0] http://www.gst.dk/emner/frie-data/minecraft/om-frie-data-i-e...
In my family's experience Switzerland can be a quite hard place to be a foreigner though, unless you work in one of the UN "enclaves" in the major cities. And then it is just very expensive.
Also; not really. Small changes on the fringes and generally lowering welfare payouts but nothing too massive, luckily.

Firing was made a lot easier in the private sector though; reducing it to essentially at will employment with a forced separation allowance.
I'm a bit late to the party but I wanted to mention that in addition to being a tool created to support the kind of collaborative decision-making that happens in cooperative models (which they are using it for at CoLab, as solarlion kindly mentioned already) Loomio [0] is itself structured as a cooperative with 12 worker-members and growing.

Loomio is part of the larger Enspiral ecosystem (as te_chris already mentioned), which is a network of startups doing business differently, with a social good focus and also upending internal organisation. We're innovating new ways to do core business processes in collaborative, distributed ways. Loomio is an example of that for decision-making, and we're also doing the same in budgeting, strategy setting, governance, and more.

We're quite passionate about the cooperative model and collaborative process design and are happy to talk more in-depth with anyone who is interested.

[0] http://www.loomio.org
[1] http://www.enspiral.com
I saw this earlier and it is amusing that the entire thread acts as a perfect example about what is crap with Stack Overflow these days.

Loads of comments and replies, basically being in denial that there is any sort of problem, telling us why it is better this way, and why it shouldn't change. Not addressing (or even acknowledging) the problem any way.

If a question has a few hundred upvotes, and gets closed by one moderator because it is off topic/ not constructive in his opinion, then the site is failing (in this instance) at what it claims to be good at.
Although the example cited in this article seems pretty obvious on what we have, for all we know (a) it is the very first example of time-sorted photos and (b) there could be further context in the article saying that the analysis is done by reference to specific features, such as assessing movement across a field of view (rather than by reference to a timestamp, which is what seems to be implied).

Who is to say this isn't novel? Seems to me it could be a very helpful technology to sort unsorted old photographs or analyse scraps of cctv footage .

That is just an example, but the major problem is that with AskPatents you will always be looking at these applications in a different context to the context in which they were written. The mere fact that something is being read can tend to make it more obvious, when actually at the time it was dreamt up it could have been quite a leap.

Also, the fact that you are reading the patent some time - up to a year - after the original grant means that it will be read in context of the state of the art today. By the time a patent is published its invention probably in common usage already.

All this tends to bias towards a finding of 'obviousness'. Even finding something close that was previously in use doesn't preclude obviousness - it just means that the inventive step is smaller than otherwise thought. If the reader already has an inherent bias against software patents in principle, this will only compound the problem.

There are several significant legal concepts specifically geared to avoiding that mental bias. They are there for a reason, and could be eroded by poor application. That would have a negative effect for any inventor.
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a. They get money for each patent examined. If they spend more time scrutinizing it, their profit is reduced.

At their annual review, one measure of how hard an examiner worked is probably based on how many patents they dealt with.

b. As an examiner you can send a patent back for a clarification or ask for more details. That's why as an applicant you pack in as many obfuscated details as possible, without giving the game away.

Also, this:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/03/02/214237/inventor-has-w...

c. The money goes to the lawyers. It's not an incentive for the examiners.
even if they did, i'll call anybody who thinks this would make anything better an idiot.

google is in bed with the cia via iqt. lord knows what else is behind this.
they even work together: http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

ppl like to forget the news of yesterday. all is so shiny. all is so well.
Crazy expensive and the winters can destroy your mood (some friends from abroad could not cope and had to go back home). Probably not the best choice for a long term move unless it's already on your mind.
This is a good example. There is indeed nothing that prevents an EU based company from filing for a software patent in the US (or other markets). This particular patent has likely been so lucrative (~$100m in revenues) because it's so easy to spot infringements.
Are you sure that money goes to the Sherpas? I think most of it actually goes to the government (hence the anger) and to supplies.
Even if this is a minor "show-off" project, it's a good reminder for the power of open data. Location services, emergency planning software, tons of other stuff benefit enormously from this kind of openness.

[Crazy fun idea]:Basically, given Denmark's open geographic data one could potentially build an MMORPG which takes place in Denmark and have the terrain pre-generated.
I think I would call this one Hamlet: The revenge.
Well, what do you think is the point, regardless of whether you're carried to the top? I think you'll find that when it comes down to it, for most people the point is the same regardless of the purism you apply to the amount of help you get from others or from equipment.

But this a very old debate, and there may be good reasons for alpine style; though personally I don't think there are very many good reasons to climb the Everest in any style.
If you type a "?" in the textbox it generate the following link: "http://fastask.it/".
I think that in that if the question has no printable characters (?, space, enter) you should behave as if no answer is entered.

What do you think?
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Last time I checked, and I can see it changing since then, TI decided play the wireless phone game wasn't worth it, but it was still pursuing other mobile markets, e.g. WiFi SoCs, which at the time were really popular.

Has this changed?
You should make it obvious that it needs to be a Yes or No answer question
The intent of this data release is to help children explore Denmark in a virtual environment in class. This is to help Danish children at least to better grasp Danish geography.
I agree, i find it very hard to believe that so many distos would make the wrong choice here.
Krakauer's books "Eiger Dreams" and "Into The Wild" (the latter also a good movie) are worth a read as well. And I've listened several times to his audiobook versions of all three.

More than anyone else I've read, he captures the compulsion and the self-doubt of people compelled to pursue such ventures. My highest "climb" is Mt. Shasta, which is nothing in comparison to anything he's done. But I so understand that urge to go and get into the wilderness. It's a compulsion for some, and he documents it, and the vulnerabilities it implies, so very well.
I wonder why it took the best part of thirty years for someone to wonder if there was anything on those disks?

In theory one could have just fired up the machine, put the disks in and seen what was on them. This would have risked damage to the disks, hence the extreme measures here.

However, the task was not exactly huge. I wonder how big this ballooned out to, how many people were needed to work on the grant application to get the funding to approach the right people to get their permission to read the disks? Factor in the TV documentary crew and all the other hangers on, the experts in digital forensics, the art historians, the list could be endless!

I imagine that if the 'artworks' are genuine Mr Warhol was loathed to do anything creative with the new medium. Being a canny guy he probably thought he best stick to the Marilyn and soup themes making sure he put his name on everything so that in aeons hence there would be no doubt whatsoever that these were his definitive artworks.
I came here to write this but am quite surprised that other people don't agree with it and downvoted you. These agencies aren't paid from our tax money to produce toys - they are there to provide a cost efficient service where possible.

I have the same worries about the entire gov.uk rework.

Neat hack yes, but this is government, not private enterprise or personal time.

In the UK we almost called for the hanging of an MP who bought a duck house on expenses and I'm sure these "neat hacks" over time have cost a lot more.
Isn't that what Google Earth is for as an example?

Putting it in Minecraft is a hack and a PR thing, nothing more.
I'd rather see init's problems fixed (i.e. start services in parallel), but systemd is far better than upstart (edit: got it to load at last, I see it's not by upstart fans, so ignore that last part).

That said, a lot of systemd seems like a really stupid idea to me, e.g. binary logs, the massively increased SPOF size, and the "do everything" mentality. Unfortunately, I don't know of any distros that aren't using it now (edit: I didn't even realise Slackware was still a thing...), and upstart is even more of a joke than systemd.
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Tom Gundersen discussed the move to systemd on the Arch Linux forums a couple of years ago.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530

Summary:

0) it is hotplug capable
1) we can know the state of the system
2) it is modular
3) it allows dbus/udev to go back to doing the task they are meant to do
4) we can reduce the number of explicit ordering dependencies between daemons
5) we get a lot of security/sandboxing features for free
6) systemd service files can be written and distributed upstream
7) systemd is a cross-distro project
8) logind will finally deliver on what consolekit was supposed to do
9) systemd is fast
How about leaving Europe for ... Bali?

Its all over the BBC News today: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27043778
Because Russian winters are warm? They may have experience surviving the winter.

(Northerner too)
Clickable: http://fastask.it
there. thanks for proving my point and exposing all those downvoting bastards. not that i care but i guess jtrig just pays too much.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
> It is easy to cover the spectrum with these and I don't see where Haskell would be a better fit. maybe somebody could shed some light on the strengths of this ecosystem.

One of Haskell's unique selling points is the fantastic ease with which you can build software that is correct-by-construction and concise at the same time.

For someone I'm mentoring, I recently came up with two examples of this [1][2].

I don't have time ATM to explain all the details (maybe someone else does), but based on them I intend to write in the near future a blog post titled "Using the expressive power of Haskell's type system to build software that is correct-by-construction". I'll submit the link to HN when that happens.

It will be part 3 of this[3] ongoing series.

[1] https://gist.github.com/dserban/11176875
[2] https://gist.github.com/dserban/11139419
[3] http://techblog.rosedu.org/haskell-part2.html
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I run five side projects/startups with revenue. First there is this appointment scheduling Saas that I hope will become full time some day.

Then there is a website with a couple of small website tools like formmail, tell a friend, news, blog, and guestbook that can be downloaded. It doesn't do too badly but could do better with some effort from my side. But after 12 years, motivation is pretty low.

I also run a couple of disposable email and short URL websites that generate decent revenue via AdSense. Doesn't require much attention apart from disabling the odd spam or malware URL.

Right now I do mostly programming work, either creating web applications from scratch or adding features to existing ones. It's pretty lucrative but doesn't scale well. My time is pretty much split between programming for clients and doing work for the appointment scheduling Saas.
"Bad things that are yet to come" aren't a given...
just yesterday I was searching for publicly available administrative geodata of European countries. it's not an easy task due to language barriers and fragmentation. Does anyone know where to download the source data of this project?
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HI

I think it should say get instant yes/no answers to simple questions.

A border round the input box might be worth while, but I am old school!

Good luck with it!
If you go down the "government should be cost efficient" route, you end up with things like [/PPI/] which, whilst making the government more cost efficient, has thoroughly damaged many vital UK services.

Edit: By PPI, I meant PPP/PFI. I conflated the two into one incorrect abbreviation. Apologies.
Imho if you want to look for someone in the tech industry worth crucifying for his treatment of women, here's your guy.
'systemd flies in the face of the Unix philosophy: "do one thing and do it well," representing a complex collection of dozens of binaries'

So, a collection of lots of single-purpose binaries that work together flies in the face of "do one thing and do it well". I kinda stopped reading at this point, which was sadly quite high up the page.
I won't presume that their arguments are completely air tight in regards to its educational usage. But I'd argue that exploring Denmark from a more close up view (than a map) is more appealing to school children. Google's Street View can only go so far.
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