skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever I do use Laravel the first thing I do is swap out blade for twig. I'm pretty sure no one would use blade if Laravel hadn't decided on it.

It's weird that a framework so self-consciously dedicated to 'best practices' would ignore what's considered one of, if not the, best templating systems in PHP. Particularly given the extra benefits twig provides out of the box (automatic escaping, a function sandbox, hooks for writing your own plugins and parsers, etc.)
Wall Street Analysts Predict The Slow Demise Of Walmart And Target
Yes. I was thinking there was an important distinction about knowing the types statically, and being able to make sure that all options have been handled. But, if in the interface you say "everyone must implement this method" (as I did), and then you don't, the compiler will issue an error in much the same way.

What I was getting at is that when we use the algebraic version of AST, we know exhaustively what forms it can take. The definition tells us. In the OO version, this is note true. If we restrict our use to the polymorphic functions, then this is fine. But if we try to inspect the OO version of AST, ask its true type, and then act on it, then we may get into trouble.
Possibly because the cost/benefit just isn't there.

In the UK, the data shows that speeding (excessive speed for the conditions above the speed limit) is the primary cause in single digit percentage of accidents. I believe there's data from 1996 and 2007 for this, will dig it out when I'm not on mobile.

If you want to spend money on accident prevention, there's much better things to target than speeding.
He said "Gallery Wall" from the second column. As if we would all see that post on the second column of the link he provided. That's not how pinterest works, it is always updating and changing.
this is just a whinge from someone who couldn't hire developers for his startup, which is probably lame and/or complete bullshit, like most of them are
You don't have to build anything or spend a single dollar to reverse this. Simply get the government out of the mortgage market and raise the gas tax to where it's supposed to be.
20% min downpayment @ 6% interest + $7/gallon gas = death of sprawling suburbia.
This is a beautiful article. Thank you for sharing.
Meh, how about I manage my own life and you sod off?
If I read the article correctly, it cost more than $200 million to role out HealthCare.gov...

While I understand the site has to support millions of users, tons of data, etc., is this a normal cost for building such a site?
My iPad comic-reader numbers

Average rating: 4.9 stars
$3 paid upfront: $2750 (first 11 months)
Free with one-time $3 IAP: $1560 (past 3 months)
Currently averaging around $15 per day from IAPs.

Details: http://chunkyreader.tumblr.com/post/93410425677/sales
Port Authority Claims Rights to New York Skyline
NEW INFOGRAPHIC: 10 Personality Traits Of A Great Growth Hacker
He looks quite young - does he have a family to provide for? Does he have only 20 years left to take care of his retirement and financing of his children's education? Has he actually done the maths?
Judge Griesa decision shouldn't be solomonic. He decides based on a contract. His role is not to favour one part or the other.The percentage of bondholder that accepted the restructuring is irrelevant. Also, something that is not usually mentioned is that an appeals court upheld the judge's decision.
Crowdtilt (YC 12) drops the Crowd, and goes Tilt
The R&D for a race car (especially an F1) is often far more advanced then that of a buss. In F1 it literally pays to have the best testing equipment, the best labs, etc. F1 prides itself on being as close to the cutting edge as their rules lets them.

The famous saying, "To earn a small fortune in F1 racing, you must first spend a large one." Is very telling of this. F1 isn't done to make F1 go fast, its done to make other cars go.

:.:.:

A standard durability cell for engine testing for a production engine component will typically have a ~20-30 year old sensors, and 15-20 year old data acquisition system.

F1 all components will likely be <5 years.
it's not exactly the same, but close enough to be cuttingly funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvDHKKsCL4
The highlights:

1. Lidar gun manufacturers test them on limited and ideal circumstances

2. Beam divergence and shakiness make them less useful past 1000 feet, which is generally acknowledged.
This is how we move
Thanks for the link!

My first though was exactly this: print some and put on the wall.
Show HN: A Ruby gem for very strong pattern-matching
Sort of. You can effectively do so in a language like Java, which allows you to inspect the types of objects at runtime. For example if you have a class `Foo` with two subclasses `SubA` and `SubB` you could do something like this:

public static void test(Foo f) {
if (f isinstanceof SubA) {
SubA a = (SubA)f;
/* ... */
} else if (f isinstanceof SubB) {
SubB b = (SubB)f;
}
}

This works okay but you have to implement all the machinery yourself, and for a statically typed language Java is notoriously type-unsafe so if you make a mistake with your casts you're basically not going to find out until you get an exception at runtime. And of course there might be other existing subclasses of `Foo` which means that you get no compile-time guarantee that you didn't miss a possible case.

Standard ML approaches subtyping in a very different way that renders this kind of approach impossible. It gives you less freedom in that it eliminates downcasting, but that ultimately results in a safer language. Of course Standard ML has proper sum types with all of their compile-time guarantees so there's little reason for it anyway.
How Much of Your Fantasy Football Draft is Predetermined by League Projections?
They do work.
How to learn the law without law school
I can see that, but i think that it will fall short on that front. I do not mean to belittle the time and effort you have all put in. I just think that the app is very male focused, so maybe you should run with that. Movies and pop culture to the contrary, most women have a position or two they cum best in, and most guys have a standard 'run of show' that they fall into [fun game-instead of erasing pr0n history, track how long it takes to go from first page to guilt close... i bet the consistency will bug you... mine is 22-32 minutes]. Adding data to this equation does not strike me as a successful approach to enhancing love life. A place where guys can go and share there experiences and questions openly and honestly without fear of ridicule would be a pretty awesome thing.
Not by a long shot.

EDIT: Normal by .gov standards, but from a technical standpoint not really.
How is that even legal? It seems like it would infringe on the requirement of due process anywhere in the world.
Perhaps it's because you're ticketing the vehicle's registered owner, but not necessarily the driver.
Yeah. Considering TV and such in isolation is wrong. You can't just say "you wasted those 15 hours on TV" because, if we assume that that TV watching was wasteful in and of itself, you can't know what repercussions it would have if he hadn't done it. Maybe he would have burned out because he didn't have any off-time.
Be honest with yourself: If you got a ticket where the indicated speed was massively different than the speed you were actually travelling, you'd fight it too. And you might do some research into the validity of the reading, as well.

You'd especially do it in a state where the law says "x" mph over the limit and your license may get suspended (meaning you walk for 60 days). It'd be worth fighting for.
Does the release really say they can do whatever they want with the photos? Or just reasonable stuff to do with their business?

Could they license a photo of you to be used in billboard ads about the dangers of drink, drugs, hardcoded-strings or whatever?
Not too far away is Bath. Here's a road https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.383309,-2.361499,3a,75y,96...

(I wonder if you can tell any of the digits of someone's ATM card by their hand positioning?)

I love the idea of self driving cars and they should make roads like that a bit safer.
That's where I've got all my initial seed data from already!
If I understand correctly from what they've said so far, there is no RAM/register file with N*3 ports, it just reuses the outputs of the functional units.

That's also nowhere near the source of slowness in the Itanium.
I think that choosing a life of being a perpetual precariat is likely to be a bad choice. You can view extreme risk taking as brave or as desperate and foolish.

But I also agree that programmers should grow a spine. In modern society they actually do have substantial power if they acted collectively on some issues.
Does anyone else here finds that there is disproportionnate amount of articles related to death, depression and mental illness that reaches the frontpage of HN ?
I'm not saying it's necesseraly a bad thing, but it makes me wonder about the effects working in IT might have on mental health.
Well, we can. Because it's a static screenshot of his Pinterest view. It's not an embed. (Edit: I very much doubt he thinks that his link always shows the same content, I don't read that from his text at all.)
"I can't believe [average speed camera systems are] not implanted at least in all interstate freeways."

Possibly because a civil society, favoring the preservation of a measure of basic autonomy, does not implement every measure for tracking, enforcing, circumscribing, and monitoring the people.
OR it could be because speeding isn't that dangerous and the current limits on most roads don't represent what speed people actually drive at or what speed people could safely drive at.

It's different on residential streets, but on freeways I think the way Germany handles it is better. Speeding tickets (and most traffic violations really) are not about safety or curbing behavior they're about generating revenue for the town/city.
I think most people think that by far the most likely thing is that they missed something and this isn't doing what they "claim". While quietly hoping it does :P
Likely, the bonds cost a little bit less if they're in a jurisdiction where it's going to be relatively easy, straightforward and fair to sort things out in the event things go wrong.
Worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQyj-kBRdo

I like the way the presenter sums it up...it seems like each contractor was responsible for their own little piece of the stack, and nobody was actually responsible for delivering a website. That should've been the gating criteria.
Neither of those things sounded that painful to me. I just mean you don't have to maintain the full site functionality (and associated cost), because the goal is just to make the data available.
Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money
Amazing to me that this was able to secure a $7m series A PRE-LAUNCH.

20 person engineering team to build a calendar app? I guess they must be doing some serious work on the ML side of things to need a team that large.
Of course law enforcements won't like the Project. Of course there will always be people in this world who think they can do whatever they want, when they want it and kill people using fully automated drones with IMSI-Catchers on board. But why should we think we "can't do anything"? We are the people, we have RIGHTS! So grab your balls and contribute! Oh, and for the shy ones, here's the disclaimer: https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/blo...
Nope, I am saying that Chinese science is not reliable. I'm not saying that they lie about all their science, or that no good science is done in China.

But when you have to go with your gut, and there are only two sources and one of them is Chinese, I would never reach a conclusion such as: "some new science has clearly been done here"
There are some video games, maybe mostly competitive, which certainly do take a lot of mental effort, concentration and insight. Sometimes to the point that those gamers can become exhausted from playing those games.

I guess the point is that everything can be taken seriously enough to the point that it becomes something which takes a lot of effort (and that effort can be rewarding or stressful).
It's not about saving lives. It's about revenue generation.
a person turns into a sociopathic scofflaw as soon as he
gets behind the wheel

Boo this man!

That is an ideological position, and I could easily apply the same blanket label of absolute sociopathy to law enforcement, and I'd be just as wrong.

But there's a difference between a mechanized, automatic law enforcement system and a law enforcment system that is implemented as a practice performed by living human beings. The human version is prone to imperfections and corruption, yes. But mechanized, automated law enforcement really COULD express a perfect ideology and attempt to enforce it perfectly, with an unforgiving brutality, which could not otherwise be accomplished with the complicity of human beings. Please understand that difference.

If you think placing a human being behind the machinery of an automobile is automatically bad, think about what it might mean to place a human being behind the machinery of a fully automated law enforcement system, with that same lens of blanket sociopathy.
My father is a cab driver and your Math is way off course. In order to break even, Cab drivers and most travel agencies offering cab services use a mix of fare systems. If you are hiring a cab for a day, the cab fares are mixture of 'time' and 'distance'. For example, there is a minimum half day charge for 4 hours or 40 kilometer, or multiples of that plus any additional billing for extra kilometers driven.

Tourist cabs are charged separately.

Autos are far far cheaper than any cab you can hire. But the margin of profit in Autos is way less, so the general quality suffers.

The reason your Meru's, Ola's or even Uber can offer cabs for so cheap is they raise enough money to operate on losses. Bankruptcy is pretty common in this business. Every time I talk to my father about a new cheap travel scheme, he only asks me to wait for their imminent demise.

We've been in this business for quite some while to understand how this stuff works. If you wish to understand how sustainable cab business work, have a talk with the office cab drivers. You will get a peek into the life of people who sleep for barely 5 hrs/day and drive 300Km/day to make a living on 12000 rupees a month. All while charging a good deal to travel agencies.

Autos are going to make a killing. If you are thinking you are going to invest your way in to this market, then you are going to be in for a surprise.

There is a saying in my native tongue(urdu): "If you wish to destroy a person's life, get him to start a travel business'.
The Kids Who Beat Autism
I misunderstand nothing: You don't have a right to second chances either. The world either decides to forgive you or it doesn't. It's not up to you, it's up to them. To impose such a right would be to try to force forgiveness in the minds of others, which, again, pretty clearly illustrates the problem.
I'm not sure speed traps are preferred by voters over a 2 point system. I can say that as a driver I'd much prefer the 2 point system instead of the vast quantity of speed trap radars we have in france right now.

I think the main difference is the price, especially since 2 point systems turn into n-point systems if you have a lot of intersections.
The reading was taken at a distance of 1300 feet with a handheld device that is not meant to be used handheld beyond 1000 feet. That's a significant distance. I'm assuming the cop was hiding or trying to stay hidden.
It seems that this is the "secret bitcoin project" that Jed McCaleb (formerly of Ripple) has been working on. Very interesting.
Don't worry about it, the majority doesn't agree with me and arguing about it further is pointless.
Dude, you're projecting your own insecurities onto everyone else. If you think you're at a stage where you've figured out how to live a meaningful life, you're haven't.

I was particularly struck by this "I hope you didn’t work a safe job, at a safe company, in a safe industry for your entire life. I hope you weren’t content chipping away at your 401k day after day, year after year."

"Hi, I'm an individual who didn't struggle financially in life, my job afforded me the luxury of traveling and engaging in activities that make me happy." To me, that's it. If you can do that, plus have your health and collection of interests that keep your mind entertained, you did it. Life is very difficult for the majority of people. Surviving the best you can, enjoying what's out there, doing things that make you happy, is all you can do.
Ask HN: Where I can get free data?
I am looking to create some examples with D3, and I need some free data.

For example: historical price of oil, weather in X city, etc.

Is there any website with tons of free data?
Sure. Do you want to live in a world where every time you violate the letter of the law you're penalized? Before you answer, consider that you're going to have to keep 100-200 years of law hot in memory to ensure your daily compliance.
Wunderlist 3 wants to be the ultimate tool for organizing your life and business
CERN is an acronym and BBC is only an initialism. There is a linguistic trend to using title-case for acronyms; particularly companies seem to be turning their acronyms in to the company name. Perhaps using "Cern" is simply following that trend.
ICE don't compel the registrar, they compel the registry normally; in the case of .com and .net that is Verisign.
That argument works in some countries while in others it doesn't. In UK only people who are explicitly listed on the insurance document can drive the car, and the police can demand that you tell them who was driving the car at the time. In some other EU countries like Poland, you buy insurance for the car,not the driver,so literally anyone can drive it(with your permission of course). Then if you are caught by a speed camera and your face isn't visible you can say that someone else was driving and you don't remember who - in theory there is a penalty for not saying who(200zł = ~$60), but most people opt to pay it instead of the speeding ticket which can be higher - or go to court and dispute that they cannot pay for the crime they didn't commit and they cannot be forced to remember something which they don't remember - and they sometimes win.
Those places pay better salaries than startups for middling and bottom-barrel talent, too. Hell, even companies that aren't famous for being tech companies, but still leverage technology workers heavily, pay better base salaries than most of the startups I've seen.
It can be done, that said, it can't be done in most startups.

Many startups are composed of mid-twenties white males. The culture of work becomes 10am to 8pm, then go drinking.

If you have a family, you could work 7am to 3:30pm and be out the door in time to see your family, then work some more at night. But you'll get glares, and eventually you won't be a "team player" or whatever they decide to make up.

If you can find a startup run by people with children it can be a good fit, but you don't know until you interview.
Ask HN: Ideas for a small passive income site
I'm a web developer, happy to use my spare time to build one or several small passive income sites. Looking for ideas for what to build.
I was pretty sure it had already hit HN, but it seems that it hasn't…
Basics of Statistical Mean Reversion Testing – Part II
Kickstart a Couchbase cluster with Docker
Yeah I guess. I don't regret it but it has cost me money and when I was building it I was naive enough to think that I would make money on it.
We do have a lot of really awesome content from our partner, http://goodinbed.com. You're probably right that the app is male focused, although we did try to get input from our female friends along the way.
Early Earth had Violent Encounters With Giant Asteroids
Snowdrift.coop is developing a platform for the community to provide patronage and other support for projects.
Our business makes several times what patio11's does and we are not a runaway success, either, not by a long shot.

If you do not actually attempt to make a business — by selling something people need and already are willing to pay good money for — then yes, you don't tend to make any money. Just stabbing out in the dark with "good ideas" doesn't work.

I have helped my students gross more than $2 million in revenue from "lifestyle businesses." It is absolutely achievable and not rare.

This:

> The reality is that a side project making $10K a month is even less likely than a multi million dollar acquisition of a venture funded startup.

…is factually wrong. Multi-million acquisitions are rarer than being struck by lightning, some 400-500 a year. There are at least an order of magnitude times new bootstrappers every year making well over $10k a month than there are acquisitions.

Startup acquisitions seem more common because they get talked about. Your basic availability heuristic (aka cognitive error) at work.

"The median outcome is not that you'll get 0.01% of a niche market, it's that you'll get 0%"

There are so many assumptions in here that it's useful to unpack. What makes you think you need to aim for 0.01% of a niche? Why do you think you need a niche? What's a niche mean to you?

It's the unspoken "knowledge" about "how to do it" that holds people back. Everybody "knows" you have to "find a niche." Meanwhile there are millions of painful business problems all around you that get ignored in favor of looking for some weird little niche market.
Wow. I feel deceived for thinking this was a good idea.

I mean, it is a good idea... but this link's relevance is troubling.
Assuming this list was compiled based on the kinds of jobs available on Dice. This seems to indicate that there aren't so many exciting opportunities there. (Unless people are actually excited about SalesForce integrations!)

Sweet hello worlds, btw. ;)
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That's because BBC is an initialism (each letter is pronounced separately) rather than an acronym (pronounced as if it were a word).
France's Iliad Makes Bid for T-Mobile US
As many here never heard of it before but it looks like an awesome service and looks like they have an active community, wondering what went wrong? anybody? and again what was their monetization approach? We can all learn from that.
There are two airlines that already provide this on Android Wear: American & Delta.
You should build a site that helps people find ideas to gain passive income. This topic comes up enough that there is a clear market.
Is the MOOC Bubble Bursting?
Small corrections:
- Holdouts are 7.6%
- Haircut was around 75% nominal, but in practice was more around 40% since there were some GDP growth incentives and better interest rates
Congratulations, you've also named two continents have/are moving away from medieval style city development.
Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec
5 things hip hop teaches us about UX Design
The Forgotten List
C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers
Right, because there isn't numerous examples throughout history where debt-free fiat currency flourished. We have been conditioned by neoclassical economics and have refused to confront the pyramid scheme.
What's worth reporting back is whether Rackspace is worth using in a world where AWS exists. A year ago, the answer was "No". OnMetal looks very interesting, though.
Hackers might have unmasked users of Tor
Tech CEOs who survived slow growth and lived to tell about it
This is very exciting if it pans out. An interchange layer for money that isn't controlled by the incumbent organizations could enable all sorts of interesting innovations. <3
It took a while, but I read the spec and wrote a critique:

http://blog.circleci.com/critiquing-facebooks-new-php-spec/ (comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114919)
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