skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suddenly imagined a cross function device: I don't see why dropping in a new car stereo should not hold a board like this able to process camera and sensor data for my own use, as well as aggregating for research. I'd love, for example, there be standard physical mounts for cameras and sensors, in front and tail lights, above the rearview, in wheel arches, and a data backplane. One of these, plus a display, would make a nice in car entertainment hub, and barely use the GPU abilities, which could switch to cams, or alert me to tire wear, or even ground condition. If connected to a ECU (regs ahead, sure, but..) you might damp steering input to deal, with camber, or unload the suspension at a corner if a object looked like a puncture risk. Maybe someone should make aftermarket lamp assemblies that accommodate bullet style cams. Would take some handy optical calculations. I think automotive sensing needs a boost for collecting data by affording accommodation to such retrofits, without causing people to do hardware mods, that are likely needing certification or plain ugly, and make a supplier alliance for anonymized data. Opt in, I hope, as nobody's done a good job of instilling trust much, but i'd go for it. As for Internet of Things ideas, driver driven vehicles might be able to broadcast data useful for driverless cars. The need is for retrofitting cars as much as hoping new models will sell, as this is the sort of thing that I imagine would be a option. Make it part of something people want, like strong GPU for mapping, and you might have a deal.
True the harkonens where very squicky - but some dune fans don't mention "that" film.
Then perhaps what you actually need is a better aggregator rather than denying the value of aggregators.

It's almost like what Google did that made it popular!
If you have your ex's receipts from the past few months, you can determine where/when she habitually shops and you can go harass and threaten him or her. I hope their security team is aware of this, especially since they are sending users' passwords over plaintext.
You may not have any to hide...from rational people. But guess what? Not everybody is sane and respectful and waits until all the facts are in. Or are capable of understanding all the facts.

It can be very time consuming trying to explain yourself to random people whose opinions you really shouldn't care about. Because they don't keep those private.
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A substantially better description would be "dynamically type safe".
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Can str() call into a C extension that then loops forever?
This is the exact opposite of an "Uber for Pizza."
You are quite correct on some points. If I book a cheap hotel for a few nights in a city even I use booking.com. If I book a weeks holiday for my family in a villa rental in far flung destination I want something else and I want to speak to the people with knowledge. Sad maybe but a lot of us like this!
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105485

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846076
It seems that GAE, on which my site is running, is not configured well to obtain so many requests. I will see how to manage this.
>these intermediaries are often far more valuable than any individual business in the industry is.

Or they can be utter shit aggregators and middlemen, which they mostly are, and which Google spends most/all of its time on trying to defeat their SEO to get to better content. I'm pretty sure that Google understands his problem and would prefer that his site come up; what I'm not sure about is why you seem to think a problem exists if every time you search for a product, the first page is split between Best Buy, Amazon, and GetElectronicsFastAndCheap.com, and the manufacturer is relegated to the second page.

I think that Google is aware of this and trying to solve it, I just think that it's a problem that isn't possible to solve algorithmically. It is quickly leading to the end of search engine usefulness as a facilitator of discovery rather than of confirmation.
Hmmm, this person<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137337> seems to have trouble doing exactly what you're doing. I wonder what the difference is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw07EXR8mJg
I thought this was common knowledge for social marketers, following everyone you can gains you followers.
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Not from the eyes of the consumer.
Is the strategic priority of Google leadership a subjective judgement? Are these subjective judgements objectively implemented? There are always winners and losers for any given ranking algorithm, the question is whether perception of neutrality has improved or declined in the last 7 years.

What is the perception of Google's neutrality in enforcement of rules against traffic arbitrage, e.g. search toolbars: http://www.benedelman.org/news/012213-1.html ?
I suspect there is an opportunity in working on the other side of this equation, providing a service to identify suspected spam accounts. You could either charge for access to the list, or publish it as a public service, in the same way that abusive IP addresses are published.

You could identify spam accounts in a few ways. A naiive, but probably effective approach, would be buying the "fake follower" services yourself on places like Fiverr [1]. But that would cost a lot of money quickly. A more sustainable solution would be applying any number of machine learning techniques, which have been shown to achieve 80-90% accuracy. apply any number of machine learning techniques with a fair accuracy. [2]

Personally, I would like to do some research into this area. I would assume you could get pretty far just by graphing the networks of accounts, and comparing the shape of them to authentic accounts.

[1] fiverr.com
[2] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2013&q=fake+twitter...
I have a category on my blog dedicated to LDAP: http://ryandlane.com/blog/category/ldap/ I used it very heavily at Wikimedia and had very nice integration with Puppet. In general I think it's good to avoid LDAP if possible. It adds a point of failure and assuming you're not managing thousands of users (we were handling about 5k users in Wikimedia Labs), it's generally more work than managing users in Salt/Ansible/Puppet.

We didn't save a lot of lines of code replacing the user/group code with Salt. We saved a lot of lines of code by using native support for git/pip/virtualenv/npm/etc, which were implemented as a mix of custom puppet DSL and ruby.

We could have likely saved 3-5k lines of code from a puppet rewrite from scratch, but it still wouldn't have been as simple as the Salt or Ansible code.
Of the 3 books Sanderson is credited as having written, he wrote more of the first two than the final volume. A Memory of Light had significant scenes written by RJ himself. Sanderson had to contribute heavily to the first 2 he wrote to get story lines wrapped up to RJ's specs, and to get everything to converge to match RJ's existing passages for AMoL.
Well that will just result in someone manually cutting and pasting stuff into excel and exporting a CSV. We are doomed to live the following by specifying it:

http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm

This is due to government assignment policy which is delegate it until there is no one left to delegate it further resulting in the lowest paid and skilled workers performing the above.
Reducing dynamic typing's safety to a null set claim is exactly the sort of denigration I'm arguing doesn't make sense. Type doesn't disappear just because you aren't encoding it as a first-class PL design concern.
In the case of ASOIAF, it seems like in spite of the mortality of the characters, GRRM has simply built up too many plot lines, too many characters to follow. The many narratives made the first few books compelling and full of perspective on a complex event- but the scope of the event continues to grow...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5899784

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957864
Experiencing heavy load at the moment, allocating more memory to the database now. Try refreshing in a moment if it doesn't load for you.
Carnegie Mellon creates open source tool to 'extract' 3D obecjts from 2D images
Agreed, I won't give a site access to my profiles without seeing some screenshots first.
You definitely don't work at SpaceX for the money. Their salaries are below market rate, the hours are brutal, but you're bootstrapping planetary travel. Just depends on what your motivations as a person are.

Disclaimer: I applied for a low-paying SpaceX IT position in Cape Canaveral, because Mars.
Nope its not. It illustrates the divergence between Google mission statement based on technology and position and evoved reality.
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The prevalence of aggregators suggests that a great many people prefer a system that lets them compare many options at once. That may be followed up by researching a handful of likely-seeming options more deeply, but few people with total ignorance are going to want to go directly to that. It's too time-consuming to start there.
>though that company does sponsor a TA unit so was fairly cool with it.

Do they have a choice in the matter? I'm just curious because here in the U.S. companies are obligated to hold your position for you until you get back.
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Haskell (at least) is actually fine for throwing Segmentation Faults, DivisionByZero, and ArrayOutOfBounds since they can all masquerade as bottom which inhabits every type. Further, this extra inhabitant isn't (too) bad for semantics (it's "morally correct") since you cannot detect it—any attempt to examine bottom results in bottom, it's contagious.

The problem is that you sometimes can distinguish, say, a segfault from an infinite loop. Any code which does that is pretty dangerous.

That's why "pure" exceptions are considered super taboo in Haskell. If you need exception passing then you should do it in something like IO/Either/Cont to contain that effect.

It's also why the couple partial functions in Haskell are all considered warts and never for practical use:

head :: [a] -> a
tail :: [a] -> [a]
(!!) :: [a] -> Int -> a

should all be replaced by

head :: [a] -> Maybe a
tail :: [a] -> Maybe [a]
(!!) :: [a] -> Int -> Maybe a

which now uses exceptions which are marked inside the type system.

Personally, I kind of wish `(/) :: Fractional a => a -> a -> Maybe a` sometimes. It'd get confusing with IEEE floats though since that type already contains values Inf/-Inf/NaN.

[0] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/publications/fa...
Am I the only one who saw this and was curious how bunnies had made it to the front page of HN?
ipdb just made my day.

Thanks.
I had the opposite reaction to Wheel of Time: I got partway through the first book, and immediately thought "wow, this author does way too much gratuitous worldbuilding and way too little story", and dropped it then. Worldbuilding is great, but frontloading way too much of it is a very bad sign, and I've pretty universally found that I don't enjoy books and series that do so.

By contrast, I enjoy stories with a ton of worldbuilding woven into the narrative, discovered naturally as the characters go through it, with no massive infodumps.
I wish this had a better title. If it did, we'd probably see 'tpatcek et al in here giving some analysis and feedback. As it is, who cares about a rabbit?
That makes good sense. Yeah, thanks for clearing that up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Afri...

Influenced "The Constant Gardener," based on a John le Carré novel.
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I have seen more than a handful of stories that the Reno project was shutdown and a majority of construction workers laid off there due to how behind the project is (they were working 24/7 to get back on schedule).
Any startup takes time to get traction, regardless of whether it is unique or a different way to do what other sites are doing.

Google AirBnB 1000 days and you will see that what is perceived as overnight success is in all reality years of hard work and struggle for people to "get it".

Unless you have taken on venture capital or mortgaged yourself into bankruptcy, keep working on it and improving what people click on and get rid of what people don't click on.

Overnight success takes years.
Ask HN: Startup scene in London, can we share a beer?
I am a Developer/Entrepreneur (almost),
i'll be in London the whole next week and i would love to meet and know some startups, or innovative companies, with whom to share some experiences, thoughts, or projects.

Are you/do you know an startup with open door policy, or available to have a chat sharing a beer ?
Not a bad idea, I'll file it as a feature request and see if we can do it in some easy-to-use fashion. The AWS example you mention in the thread below is good, but AWS is super complicated for a random user to use :\
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Thank you for addressing the value of individualized learning and for assessing your experience based on the knowledge you acquired as opposed to your employability.

For every person that learns something on their own, there are many more that pay for courses, tutors, and even private coaching, due to some of the reasons you mentioned. I don't understand why programming is any different.
Almost anyone who loses out will perceive things as being subjectively against them. Almost anyone who wins will perceive it as being a sign of their worthiness and objective value.
... refering to every human-managed society ever, I assume? Perk up, my friend. The world's not so dreary as all that.
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>I don't know about you, but when I google "Las Vegas hotels", I don't want to be shown Rio, Palms, Bally's, or Mandalay Bay at the top. I want an aggregator so I can compare and make my own decision.

I don't. I'm not sure why you assume your opinion is universal. I want a bunch of hotels and their marketing pitches, then I want to go to my favorite aggregator to price compare.

All having the aggregators come up does is create an aggregation tax that every vendor has to pay - and each aggregator gives me a limited view of the market while giving the impression that it is the entire thing e.g. the lowest price on Orbitz is the lowest price amongst the people who pay Orbitz, not the lowest price, and since Orbitz takes a fee, businesses that pay Orbitz are going to be marginally higher cost than businesses who don't.

Those aggregators are just more gatekeepers. I prefer aggregators that perform a function for me, and are beholden to me only.
There are rather good SEO reasons not to do that - specifically, if the blog becomes popular, the search engine ranking won't translate to the main site if the blog's on a separate subdomain.

www.foo.com/blog/ is almost always a better idea than blog.foo.com unless you don't care about organic traffic.
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From the perspective of society as a whole, the most important thing is whether or not this drug works. There are limited doses, it has potential to save many lives, but we need good data on it. That means we can't just take the handful of doses and use them willy-nilly, the patients need to be brought to a lab for observation (and to see what happens if given the best medical care available).

Given that the research for the drugs is happening in the US and the US's CDC is really responsible for all of it, that means the patients need to come to the US.

Given that there is not a snowballs chance in hell of a bringing a non-US citizen to the US when they are known to have Ebola (many didn't even want to let a US citizen back in), it has to be a US citizen.

The 3rd outcome is a result of multiple factors, not some insane racist conspiracy.
>'It seems like the bureaucrats responding to these requests are specifically trained to not release information.'

They are.

I have witnessed someone reprimanded specifically for 'making it too easy' by providing an Excel sheet instead of printing the same to a PDF.
That's more of a contract system than a type system, though.
Crunchbutton (.com) started as something similar (originally called "One Button Wenzel", named after a sandwich famous on Yale campus). It's an interesting idea, and might be particularly suited to orders like pizza, which are predictable and repeatable. Unfortunately in crunchbutton's case, the novelty wore off pretty quickly. I'm surprised to see that they're still around, given how few locations they serve.
I came here to second this. Francesco is incredibly nice and humble. It's not every day someone so knowledgeable about something is also very approachable and eager to share that knowledge. Best of luck to Inaka and Erlang Solutions!
Who downvoted this? This is exactly what LinkedIn does. You ask to be connected to a third party through one of your pre-existing connections. If you get connected to someone with a huge network, you can then connect with even more people without jumping through LinkedIn's hoops, or paying for their service.
Ah, so both the physics and the Random.org affect the outcome of the dice. So you can't actually control the outcome of the dice by swapping out Random.org with a non-random source because the physics are also a factor.
Last time I've checked you can set what LinkedIn will post about your activities e.g. you can probably disable announcing your new connections etc.
One of the problems with developing a product for non-profits and churches is that you run into needing to have your offering assessed by a committee before a decision can be made.

Rather than one business owner or individual being able to say yes, what happens is someone will need to propose the idea to the board/church council etc. and then it will be debated, and perhaps might get the go-ahead. More likely than not however someone in that group will have some objection, or say "my nephew is good with computers - he can do that!" It's going to be a very high-touch environment to work in, and probably not great as a side project just because of the time you will spend.

Could you perhaps target people who design sites for these organizations? They are already doing the high touch sales - perhaps you could come in as the technical partner. That way you'd be selling the reassurance of all the backend technical support, the backups, the CDN etc. but not dealing directly with the end customer but instead hopefully a local web designer who has several of these types of clients.
Given that the same SoC is used in the Nvidia Shield tablet, it definitely can be cooled without a fan. I guess that wasn't their priority for the developer board, or it would have made it harder to fit in the various I/O interfaces.
I thought there already sort of was that kind of pathway. Do Air Force Academy pilots go through boot camp, for example?
The "Uber for Pizza" equivalent would be a service which gets your current location, shows you all pizza stores in the area, lets you customize your toppings, gives you price and ETA up front, and then delivers.

Of course, there are very many of startups that have been doing that for years.

This app is just a button press without any thought.
They want to minimize the amount of time they spend on the FOIA requests, because it comes out of their operating budget. So they select the releasable records and then print them to pdf, where they can do any necessary redaction before release.

Exporting them into another database where they can be manipulated freely is beyond the skills of most database users, and requires an expensive database administrator, who will have to have meetings with the administrator of the original database, which might result in travel requests, expenses...at which point most organizations will invoke the clause in FOIA rules (at least in America) of charging the requestor the reasonable costs of the data retrieval, which in a case like this will be substantial - at least a few thousand. Bear in mind that that FOIA requests are rarely so broad in scope as to justify the release of an entire database; most requests are for a subset of information about particular individuals, timeframes, political administrations or suchlike.

I often dig through stuff like this in PDF format (because I enjoy reading court cases), and while I can't say I like it, if I really need to get the data out I set up some sort of scraping macro. Most people want something in human readable form and I suspect that if they were given an optical disc with an SQL dtabase on it, or even an XML file, they'd complain about the impenetrability of it.

Perhaps you could suggest some good candidates for release formats that met the criteria of being easily accessible/convertible as well as being manipulable and easy to produce.
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As usual, when freyrs3 says "type" he means something simpler and more specific than what you appear to mean. The whole idea is that "type safety" is both specific and not sufficient to mean anything valuable.
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Does he want to transfer it in $10 transactions or what?

Even here in Brazil, where external commerce is completely disincetivised, my bank asks $50 a transaction (the most expensive one).
I don't think that's peculiar to government - sounds like any other large organization with a hierarchical structure.
More importantly, they get public exposure and the government sponsor for their research will more likely resume this project. It was shelved due to budgetary reasons.

However, their project is not really going to be able to compete with companies like Tekmira who have begun human testing, having a much higher efficacy in Primates (and likely humans) and are simply further along.

Ebola would unlikely be a block buster drug for any company - however, it allows them to research technologies and systems for other, more profitable things.
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In the context of this article that's just confusing the issue. "Type" is both well-defined and not the same as "type" in a Ruby context.
I think that way because it's the common shopping experience that consumer life is based around. It's familiar to most people.

When you shop, do you only do business with companies that sell only their own products? Or do you buy your groceries form a store that carries multiple brands of milk?
>Who provide value to the consumer that individual business sites do not.

You're reciting this as if it's obviously true, yet offering no evidence. If a scraper beats a site, it's not a logical conclusion that the scraper was more useful to the consumer than the original site.
For Canadians that have looked across all the banks, why did you choose the one you’re now with?

I have both a CAD & USD account with Tangerine but the lack of wire transfer is hurting now, so looking to switch over to another bank.
It's really quite simple - if I'm not doing something I'm enjoying, I'm not going to churn out a good end result. That's just inherent to the creative process. My priorities lie with helping as many people as possible as much as possible, not with increasing the balance of a corporate bank account, so that result is unacceptable to me.

It's very easy to shout "just get a job!", but the reality is that the moral repercussions of "just getting a job" are far bigger than asking people for voluntary(!) contributions if/when they appreciate what you're doing.

My income is dependent on whether people appreciate what I do, not on whether I tick abstract checkboxes on a list of technical requirements that may very well not serve anyone. I consider that the better option of the two.
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