skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In contrast to the states promoting zipper merging, Indiana recently redesigned some interchanges to effectively eliminate the single merge point. They added extra lanes so that one "preferred" lane (the one that formerly backed up everyone for three miles) is no longer the sole access for any of the off-ramps. Now, everyone has basically three miles in which to merge into, out of, or across this lane, rather than piling into it all at once.

This picture doesn't show the full extent of the redesign, but the yellow highlighted part is the former problem lane.

http://www.in.gov/indot/files/MPOICI69_NBInterchange_2012.JP...

http://www.in.gov/indot/3071.htm
How odd is a cluster of plane accidents?
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I still haven't found a workaround for that, it's due to Chrome slowing down window.setTimeout calls for inactive tabs.
Something involving WebRTC datachannels and decentralized/p2p web services, e.g.

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent

https://github.com/jbenet/ipfs
That's strange. How long did you wait? Did you try opening it again?

The splash screen shows while the ad is loading. Sometimes the ad just takes a while.
They all wanted to work on that type of reactor and the airplane was the last way to get the money.
There's one more rule: traffic on the circular road has priority.

This is how it would work in a sane system, but they don't always work this way. I can think of several examples in New Jersey, particularly around Flemington, where the circle manages the intersection of two roads having different importance. In these cases, the important road is given the right-of-way all the way through the circle, and those coming around the circle from the lesser road are required to yield.
Actually, I think I have used a clone of Lusty on the Vim side and it worked nicely. Getting tags support working would be nice as well -- I really like the global tags option in CtrlP (I got this function name somewhere in an open file, take me there).
I wouldn't expect to see much on the freelancer thread.

Working in advertising tech, we'd be looking for someone to join the team on a permanent basis. Even with data science fundamentals, you have to marry that with a thorough understanding of the industry to develop that productive intuition about how to help folks solve their data problems.
If the phrase "Multimodal container transport really caught fire between 1955 and 1970" ignites anyone's interest, you should check out a book called The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson. It's a somewhat dry (by nature) but fascinating history of the topic.
I gotta be honest, when I read the title, I thought GameOver Zeus not the Greek god.
Hey Duggan!

Thanks for the link. :-) It's nice to see that these initiatives also exist in Europe. In addition to the above, this really makes me think "Why the hell is there not something like this in Denmark?".
SearchBuzz Media provides human powered aggregation. No robots or machinery. No duplicate content. Just pure editorial on a large scale, whilst still offering the bitesize news you are after.

Currently we operate six websites and a YouTube channel with plans to expand in the future, flagship website searchbuzz.co which is US news based.

http://www.searchbuzzmedia.com
truly private and easy to use email for all.

it's a big thing I want for myself, and I know many others who would like it too.

on paper, striking the balance of ease of use and security is hard, since gmail exists. :\
In a war where significant numbers of aircraft carriers are being blown up the environmental damage from this is probably among the least of our concerns.
Because he wrote the best book ever written on the rise of the PC industry, Accidental Empires (http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Co...). And then turned it into a TV documentary miniseries, Triumph of the Nerds (http://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Nerds-Bob-Cringely/dp/B00006FX...), which was best in class as well.
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Encrypted p2p facebook.
Watch out for the hotels where people report 30-40 mps. People are getting those speeds when there's no one else on the network. Which is awesome until you have a full house and no per-user cap, then it will be unusable for most guests
Did I just read a 4-letter C word in my captcha? (the second one)
what did you mean by "after clearing it with the Product Hunt crew." isn't the process just submitting your link?
email. I use gnu's nmh in combination with some tickle folder tricks (43 folders) which would be neat to implement in an app. Alas, no time.
I wrote library a long time ago to solve pretty much the same problem.

https://github.com/kolodny/wttt
This is great stuff, how do you "market" it? There are generally not a ton of tech people at smaller churches and then at the larger/mega churches, they have entire teams, which IME, love vendor software vs roll your own.
Like Google Alerts for Source Code
I have a backlog, actually, that I would eliminate. :D

https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2014/07/poll-next-project-...

As soon as I have free time again (ha!) I'm going to chip away at it.
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Metal Meter Madness is pretty sweet I must say
And here's the world's easiest http://www.indianrail.gov.in/pnr_Enq.html. It's just text and not an image.
My personal open source project, JazzChords.org. It should become a site where people can create and share good looking chord charts.

http://jazzchords.org/

https://github.com/gitaarik/jazzchords
This was originally from 2009, although it received a minor update in 2012. According to the author:

Overdue for an update, still a good read to understand the pieces of the Free Software text rendering stack.
a captcha so fiendishly difficult only a computer can solve it
I think the military, with its billion dollar funds, political action groups, and supportive senators will far better survive any anti-drone backlash than a bunch of hobbyists building things out of kits.
You can always write more software
My current pet project is a Diplomacy adjudicator API. There are some dated web apps out there where you can play the game online, but I'd like for there to be well-tested and refactored backend as the basis for more modern web and mobile apps. Given the time, I would build this API out to pass Lucas Kruijswijk's test cases[0]. Probably not scholarly-level stuff, but it sounds fun and there's much to learn in such an ambitious project.

0: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/L.B.Kruijswijk/
Ey webmaven!

Thanks for sharing that link! :-) That is a very nice tool (motivational too, even though Denmark isn't represented (yet!)). I might just as well start up a brigade of my own!

It would be nice though if the platform behind CodeForAmerica was more international, since this feels like you can only help out the US (which is cool too) and not your local government in your own country.

Maybe that's the next step for the people behind CodeForAmerica?
I don't see that much demand for it. For example if you look on the HN seeking freelancer thread, most people are still looking for RoR or PHP.

True, but HN is not particularly representative of computer science or software engineering related fields (well, it is, but only a small percentage). There's a lot of stuff going on out there both in industry and academia that doesn't make it here or get particularly represented in the jobs/freelancer threads.
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I would take a pet problem that I have and solve it well. Something so personal that nobody else would solve it. A personal time management app just for me. A way to manage all my contacts so that I can keep up with them intelligently. Something to get me to do that tasks I procrastinate on the worst (like going to the Dentist). There are a million general tools for this, but having your own perfect tool is like having a superpower. And it's a great way to get to know yourself.

Alternatively, you could become the world expert in something small and bizarre. Like VIM. Just kidding. No, like some API. I got to know the MTurk api, and it then became an expert at it. Then people started treating me like an expert. It was cool.

A third approach is find somebody you want to learn from and work with them. Any project you pick will never be as important as what you learn from the project.
I'd work on doing all the political and fundraising piece of building some new trails in a local state recreation area. Sure, this isn't IT related, but it strongly benefits the local community and due to having a number of obstacles (funding, gaining community acceptance, getting land manager support) it'd be a full time job for half a year.
I got that as well.
sensationalist as he is, he's usually on the money about IBM. he had a huge following on slashdot too, and has a huge following among IBM employees with many wondering whether or not you get shitlisted for visiting cringely.com.
Large companies and governments are obsessed with big data and data analysis.

You need a degree or relevant past work to land those jobs though.

There are also companies that you would work for that would provide these services rather than being hired or contracted by the company directly. (like SAS)
I'd disagree.

Plot MSFT US Equity over the past 10 years and tell me how a logarithmic scale on the y axis would improve over a regular y axis?

Most stocks don't grow logarithmically, especially over shorter periods of time.

Not to go all appeal to authority, but Bloomberg and Reuters, the two top names in financial information show their charts using a regular, non logarithmic scale. If you think logarithmic is always better you should take it up with them:)

EDIT, the link below actually illustrates my point as it says that logarithmic is good for large jumps, which as I mentioned, don't usually happen over the time periods that people view returns.
And some religions advocate stoning to death. That doesn't make either position correct. Religion should be left out of these kinds of discussions, among many others, but sadly isn't. Let's not do anything at all, that way we'll offend less people.
Yeah I have no clue!! I'm struggling to find good places to announce this or generally make it known.

CITRT (Church IT Roundtable) is a huge community of IT folks which seem to also include some devs, but I really don't know any other good places.

Most of the commercial church software do heavy adword buys and sponsor church magazines and blogs and such. I have no means to do that :(
Nowadays I get a local prepaid SIM card the minute I get off the airplane while traveling internationally.
Swift enumerations and switch statements
I guess it matters equally though that the "four that seemed to register as important to him" were all hand-crafted
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Interestingly, the "Davy Crockett" nuclear rocket had a blast radius in the "building" range, not even quite "city block" range. That's probably why it didn't really catch on. Why use a nuclear weapon when a few, much cheaper mortar rounds would destroy the target just as well and not leave the spot uninhabitable for a long time?
This is my first game published in the App Store and was made with the help of a developer friend, Chris. It's a simple interface but an incredibly challenging game.

Would love to hear feedback. We'll also be doing a post-mortem on our first few weeks in the App Store for those who enjoy that type of thing.

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Looks like async library but without 90% of code
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Here’s how much tax Google paid on its European operations last year
As a guitarist who jumped over to software engineering:

1. An online metronome that allows you to save practice notes, track a history of tempos you've used, and allow you to record/save 30 second clips for reference.

2. A new full length album :)
This looks really promising too! Thanks :-) I could add Aarhus to the map. Oh, if the site just said "CodeForTheWorld" or "CodeForYourCountry". Nothing against coding solely for America (that's totally cool too), it just feels a little odd to contribute solution for say Berlin, but have it published on a site marketed towards the US alone.
Finish writing my novel. Sure, I write after/before work (as did many famous writers as described in the really great book[1]), but it's HARD, and it's taken me 2 years to finish a first draft.

I daydream about my schedule: up at 8, exercise, write/edit from 9-12, then again from 1-2,then do the rest of the mundane stuff that builds up in a day. 100k polished words in 6 months, easy peasy.

[1] http://masoncurrey.com/daily-rituals/
Honest question, why not just go with diaspora*[0], which seems to run relatively smoothly and already has a (small) user base? Is there functionality they do not posess or are there issues with their architecture?

[0] https://diasporafoundation.org/
Based on a stay two weeks ago, I've been craving just such a service. Their reports match what I experienced, at least on the negative end. Now I just have to convince our travel agent to use this for future bookings. :)
> Am I not "getting FP"?

I think that's the case. Haskell never claimed it would save your soul.

Quickly and in particular:

Immutability/purity: of course, but being more explicit is beneficial and challenging, so the compiler helps

Traits: if you mean typeclasses then they are much more than merely traits

Monads: I don't think you understand correctly, sorry

GPU: You don't have to believe it. It exists. Embedded DSLs and cross-compilation are very common in Haskell.

Laziness: it's not a needed thing at all, it increases composability. SPJ has asked that question, but the jury is still very far out.

Closures: Let's not argue readability, it just makes everyone look bad. Instead, I agree that Objects and anonymous functions are similar. The point is not to have them, it's to have a culture which really does use them everywhere that's appropriate.

Syntax: not worth arguing about. If you dislike it, you dislike it.

True parametric polymorphism: I have no idea what you're talking about here. Parametricity leads to much more program correctness and specialization recovers speed. Further, parametricity opens up compiler-enforced behavior leading to fusion which dramatically improves speed.

Forced to write good code: you really aren't, you're just forced to mark it as bad code (i.e. live in IO)

GHC has custom memory allocations, SIMD probably by the next version, and three different string types. Each has their own particular use and forcing them to be the same would lead to inefficiencies or incorrectness all around.

Using CPP is annoying, no doubt. It'd be great if that were different.
seems like this would be the perfect use case for the SSTAR reactors that are being developed at Livermore Lab.
I'm on a retina macbook pro, the latest 13" 256gb. During the first weeks I bought it, it connected from sleep with no issues. I'm almost a month in and is guaranteed to break if I put my mac to sleep now. I have to turn off and on my WiFi for it to work.

I'm also on 10.9.4
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Actually as a dvorak user I find it tolerable. jk are where cv sit and hl is jp, which means going up/down is left hand, left right on the right hand, and the keys are in the correct orientation as well
Needs a (2000) in the title.

And I'm curious, what current events prompted this particular blast-from-the-past?
Were you using console mode emacs? I use evil+emacs and I use it in its own window instead of on the console for that very reason.
This article gives a great insight into the nature of randomness:

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/
Academic wise I am interested in data, and human factors in programming. It might be interesting to develop a database API that is resistant to attacks. ORMs typically provide such an interface so maybe pick one of the NoSQL databases that doesn't already have a ton of ORM support.
What would be your #1 bug to fix email spec?
Let's say you could fix one bug by fiat - instant update to the way all IMAP, SMTPs, mail clients work. What would the one thing be?
This is great! Can you speak at all about what libraries you're using here and why you chose to use them?
Wanna have fun with emacs? Try to integrate evil mode nicely in different plugins. Especially if you use totally different key bindings in vi (non qwerty layout for example). It was very painful experience for me. Yes, vim is far from ideal, yes neo-vim is looking like to be next iteration in vim evolution, yes no parallel tasks execution is pain. But at the same time there is vimproc. For clojure integration there is fireplace.vim which is also amazing in my opinion, for git there is fugitive. I don't see any real comparison in this post, more like "I was bored with vim, now I use emacs".
No way to know who the first victim was, because behavior like this usually starts when people are very young. Also, you set up a HN account JUST to respond to my comment? hmmmmm... I created an account just to comment on this story, because I know people who were affected by this. Clearly you have a connection to this as well.
The future is cloudy and sysadmins are adapting
> We could study it for years and would only know a small fraction of what's going on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative

edit: should clarify, I agree with your premise. My point is only that we are studying it in these two huge projects
I'm curious: Does the requirement that work not be hosted somewhere else extends to a backup service like Tarsnap?
Accounting isn't always intuitive, but in this case I believe it is: His liability for the chicken is $25, because what he owes you is not "a chicken", but "$25 worth of chicken".

To see this, imagine what happens if he has to break his promise to deliver, perhaps because all his chickens get swept out to sea and there are no substitute chickens available in time. He owes you a refund. How much does he owe you? Having spent our lives doing deals like this, we intuitively know the answer: $25. He has to give back all the money you paid. That's why the liability is $25.

Now, once an actual chicken gets handed over to you, and you agree that it satisfies the chicken contract, things are different. Now the $25 liability changes into a $5 cost-of-goods-sold (assuming that wholesale chickens cost $5) and a $20 increase in equity (aka "profit").

(More or less, I think. I'm not an accountant.)
Have you seen Craig Ferguson talking about alcoholism? I thought it might be helpful for explaining to people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVWIELHQQY
Do National Novel Writing Month. You write a 50,000 word novel entirely in the month of November. The goal is quantity, not quality.

Then you can tell people you're working on your SECOND novel, which sounds way cooler.
Gosh, I haven't thought about diplomacy since college! Had no idea that the test cases were outlined in such detail.

I agree, this would be a fun project and not trivial.
Android Games development
I am a python developer by trade. For some time now I have wanted to produce a hobby android game. I would be interested in which tutorials you have used to get into android games programming.

I am only after 2d games development for the time being. A good tutorial would be something which could result in a a full game being developed.
I have a few options I might work on...

As part of teaching myself python, I put together a small GPS logging/analysis package[0]. I have lots of ideas for extending it, so I would work on those.

I am also interested in gaining some hardware experience and seeing what sort of home automation things could be done with hardware like arduinos and raspberry pi. Associated with this, I am interested in exploring the options for natural language control through the inclusion of speech recognition and perhaps neural networks. The goal of this would not be AI, but to be a trainable system which might handle home control work.

[0] https://github.com/privong/magellan/
The person I know who was at Amicus would definitely never go on the record about this stuff, so no, no links. All I'm saying is that I'm shocked by how many people here are willing to take this guy at his word without hearing from anyone else, given the kind of pathological lying he himself admits to in his blog post.
The very, very first clause:

> he causes a computer to perform any function with intent
> to secure access to any program or data held in ***any***
> computer
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I haven't dug into it yet, but that UI is really lovely. Really nice work.
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The screenshots look extremely polished. Good work! Is there anything specific that makes this a social network specially for churches? Maybe you should emphasize those points a little bit more? From 3 features listed in main page ("Directory", "Profiles" and "Groups"), only the screenshot for "Groups" contains something that makes me believe this is tailored at churches ("Prayer Request"). As I said you did a good job, just trying to give you constructive criticism :)
I'm not sure why you think of internet and phone spying as big and drone spying as small. You can opt out of internet and phone spying by not using the internet or your own phone. The only way to escape from potential drone surveillance is to stay in your house and avoid the windows.
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Also a UK driver. Before reading this article it had never occurred to me that there was any other way of merging on lane reduction.
Tell you the truth, I've used Emacs for a long time now (~10 years) and I don't know if I use the C-{n,p,f,b} or arrow keys. I'm more likely to move in larger chunks: search, move by word (M-f, M-b), line (C-a, C-e), etc. If I need to edit a word, I will kill it entirely and re-write it.
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I would churn out a few books on leanpub, around areas of interest to me--another cordova book, a revision of my current cordova book, one on business process automation using APIs and google services, and one on green/sustainable investment.
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You should think of trying to setup at some denominational conventions if you're around a metro area with conference space. Having a simple table with some literature (even if it's just a single black and white sheet) would get it in front of people.
I wanted to include that one too, but I always forget the name of it when I need it.
Thanks for explaining. So it sounds like it's not exactly a rational fear. To me, the concept of Roko's Basilisk seems too binary. I guess I am also too skeptical about the idea of a malevolent AI or benevolent AI.

What really got me was Eliezer's reaction:

> Listen to me very closely, you idiot. YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL. You have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends. This post was STUPID.

Roko's Basilisk is a fun paradox, but this type of reaction treats it like a real thing, which it is not.
I would implement cassowary (the constraint solving algorithm) in Clojure/Clojurescript. And then I would try to find a good way to make it usable for layouting in React-based environments. I think it could be done in a shorter timespan.

Anyone interested in pairing on that?