skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After spending a day installing virtual machines and cabal sandboxes, my verdict:

Until Haskell ecosystem stabilizes and it is possible to install a complex (many dependencies) library/tool without hitting cabal-version hell, nothing much will get done in Haskell.

Highlights from my day, installing released packages on my Mac:

1.

next goal: scion-browser (user goal)
rejecting: scion-browser-0.3.1, 0.3.0, 0.2.19, 0.2.18, 0.2.17, 0.2.16, 0.2.15,
0.2.14, 0.2.13, 0.2.12, 0.2.11, 0.2.10, 0.2.9, 0.2.8, 0.2.7, 0.2.6, 0.2.5,
0.2.3, 0.2.2, 0.2.1, 0.1.3.4, 0.1.3.3, 0.1.3.2, 0.1.3.1, 0.1.3 (conflict:
aeson => text==1.1.0.0/installed-9bd..., scion-browser => text==0.11.*)

2.

cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls:
unordered-containers-0.2.4.0
case-insensitive-1.1.0.3
network-2.4.2.3
HTTP-4000.2.10
Use --force-reinstalls if you want to install anyway.

3.

[2 of 7] Compiling Language.Haskell.BuildWrapper.GHCStorage ( src/Language/Haskell/BuildWrapper/GHCStorage.hs,
dist/dist-sandbox-7b4470b7/build/Language/Haskell/BuildWrapper/GHCStorage.o )

src/Language/Haskell/BuildWrapper/GHCStorage.hs:305:32:
Not in scope: data constructor ‘MatchGroup’

4.

Resolving dependencies...

(searching the entire graph of dependencies, trying in vain for mny minutes, to find a set of package versions that are mutually compatible)
From 1965 to 1975 was the intended program.

In practice there are still some throw backs (pints of milk or beer) except that EU directives mean that the 4 pint milk container has to be labelled 2.27 litres, etc..

Switching my mental model of pricing of fruit was quite hard but it's really annoying now that supermarkets still list imperial prices alongside (and occasionally in breech of regulations, alone). Metric prices are larger numbers and they want to convince us they're not overcharging. Unfortunately my regular supermarket have taken to pricing by the item or bag for fruit - causes no end of problems, all the bags are different weights. More expensive items in 800g bags (or 750g), less expensive in 900g or 1kg. Good for keeping my mental arithmetic going though - which is cheaper those apples for £1.20 a bag on 3-for-2 or these for 40p each with a coupon for 10% off ...! /rant
How to explain to tech illiterates why FB messenger won't bug their iPhone
Wrote this today to explain some facts to FB friends crying wolf about the new Messenger app. Welcome the feedback/critique of the HN community!
As a Brit:

-20: Inside a food freezer.

-10: Ski trousers weather. Doesn't happen where I live.

-5: There'll be snow, or at least frost. Hat & gloves weather. Happens one or two days a year.

0: Freezing, usefully. Full-length coat.

5: Pretty cold - not unusual for a winter day. Fridge temperature. Don't forget your jacket.

10: A warmer winter day, or typical early spring.

15: Spring/Autumn; temperature where I'd stop bothering with a jacket.

20: "room temperature" for science (though many actual rooms are a degree or two higher than this). Comfortable.

25: A sunny summer's day. Pleasantly warm.

30: Starting to get towards uncomfortably hot. Notwithstanding this year, I'd only expect a few days this warm in a year.

35: Doesn't happen where I live. You want to be in the pool or somewhere with AC when it's this hot.

40: On a person, serious fever.

60-70: Nice for a sauna. Warm drink (e.g. tea)
There's something strange about this story. Apple could have turned "MacBasic" into a marginally different language and product and still shipped it, right? Why didn't that occur to them?
>Sure, the Mars incident is a call for consistency, but it's a call for consistency inside NASA.

No its not. Realistically space travel is going to be a humanity as a whole deal, not "inside NASA". Remember that the USA is like 4% of the world population. Even if the US contributes 10x more than everyone else per person that still puts the US in the minority. Consistency here is not a "nice to have"...its mission critical.

>That shouldn't affect carpenters

So you propose teaching your future carpenters and space engineers different units of measure?

>approximate by eye.

Approximate by eye? Seriously? Intel is aiming at 10 nanometers. Nobody is eyeballing anything in the modern world. Note...nanometers not nanofeet...this from an American company.
A choice to screw over the generations that come after them.
Theoretically seems easy but I think practically it's incredibly difficult due to the unpredictable nature of Over the road trucking.

There's no automated cross country trains and those move on a predictable path.

Although I would love to see it happen because of how incredibly efficient it would make the transportation industry.
Microsoft would have perceived it as competition regardless. That's why they insisted on buying it from Apple, rather than just securing an agreement not to release it.
Then why did you include the follow-up statement as a parenthetical addendum to your initial statement regarding the second law of thermodynamics?
I'd be fine with that. You call Obama and I'll call Cameron and we'll get the ball rolling.
Yeah, if man were meant to fly... Every generation has a few people like you.

Anyway, some people like to work on tough problems. No one said it's going to be easy or that progress won't come slowly. There are 7 billion people on the planet. If you can help with early detection of pancreatic cancer, for example, you will impact many lives.
Did you adjust for time spent on site and/or bounce rates?

I've found this kind of temporary traffic burst from high-profile sites is often very transient traffic, people clicking on a link out of curiosity because they saw it somewhere, with a very high bounce rate. It's the kind of traffic from people who open 30 tabs and then briefly visit each one. Doesn't matter (at least for my sites) whether it's Reddit, Slashdot, HN, an NYT Blog, etc.—almost never has the same CPM as "regular" traffic, regardless of the burst source. Visitors who come via organic search or bookmarks are much more likely to spend more than 1 second on the page and read/interact with something.
No, because we actually are good at treating a lot of cancers. It's remarkable. We're good at treating heart disease. It's remarkable.
I remember being blown away by my first encounter with a Mac, as a twelve year old kid. After learning how the mouse worked, I started to wonder "how can I write a program on this thing?". Every computer I had used before let you type BASIC programs right on the command line. But all the Mac had was an 'interrupt' switch that dropped you into an unfathomable console. It was a very discouraging feeling; it had never occurred to me that there could be a computer that didn't let you write programs.
It depends on what you are looking it. Exclusive or type relationships, for example, almost never show up in the natural world.
Don't you think that many of the world's problems: global warming, pollution, war, and so on, might be pursued a little more energetically if people knew they were going to be around for 500 years rather than 80?
The real problem then is our counting system. If base-12 is the most convenient, then we could count in base 12 too. That, however, is clearly never going to happen, so we are stuck with the less efficient base 10 system.
Those are 'export prices', local price is 1/10-1/30 of listed ones. I think someone made this site as a joke, or maybe counting on one sale to offset all of his costs.
As far as I know, that equivalence betwixt "shortage of workers" and "not paying workers enough" holds for economists as far apart as Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. That makes management's policy especially inexcusable.
>they sell something called a "Venti"

I just stick to small/medium/large and keep insisting on that. The employees inevitably cave (realistically they know exactly what I mean).
Well, you argue that all of the phenomena is "computational" if computing in the brain means something.

The main difference between an emotional response and a "rational" or "linguistic" response might be an emotional response would send a signal to the whole system whereas a "linguistic" response might require a chain of manipulations before a final result appeared.

Of course we have a long way to go before these speculations become at all accurate.
For such a conversion, you may need however to specify a screen aspect ratio, because even if the diagonal remain the same size, the height or with will vary regarding a 4:3, 16:9 or 16:10 screen.
This still happens all the time in the software industry. I've been told to put projects on hold because they relied upon 3rd-party APIs from companies whose relationship with my employer was souring, or to shelve certain areas of research because they might anger important corporate partners. I've had coworkers that slaved away for 2 years on a very well-liked feature, only to have it killed because of contract negotiations.

Unfortunately business hardball is a fact of life. I do wish there were laws against using contract terms to explicitly kill a competitors' products or features, since these are blatantly against consumers' interests. I guess they'd be virtually impossible to enforce, though, because you can always get around them by buying the offending software and then choosing not to allocate resources to it.
Occasionally people blurt out "venti" in a place that isn't a Starbucks. The staff always knows that means "biggest cup we've got". Conversely, if I order an "extra large" in Starbucks they always force me to pick one of their sizes and say it's freakin' nonsense name. Also, I'm in Canada (a country that uses metric) and they list their sizes in fluid ounces.
"Imply X" means "one can logically prove X follows as a consequence." When you say correlation does not imply causation you're saying "there are examples of things which correlate but have no casual relationship." Proving such a claim (by finding an example) is a logical disproof of the claim that correlation implies causation. Logical implication has nothing to do with probabilities in this sense.

The point of the article is that correlation (of observed data) does not logically imply correlation (of the underlying phenomena, usually in a more general setting than the data allows).
I'm quite sure something else called Sysmon has been around for ages.

Your comment reminds me of when I tried to come up with an original and descriptive name for a little utility for logging SNMP traps. Everything that came to mind was taken, in some cases by several different projects...
I guess if you want to be formal you need to actually define imply like you have but the author hasn't.

I'd go with A implies B means (not A) or B, ie binary implication. That'd seem to capture the spirit of "correlation does not imply causation" since we can have correlation (A) and not causing (not B), ie not((not A) or B), ie no implication. So I guess we can use it for this too as at least a possible definition.

If we say A is correlation in the sample set, B is correlation in the population, I think we can replicate the above argument and say we can have correlation in the sample set (A) and not correlation in the population (not B), ie not implication. An obvious example would be if we have 2 variables and plotting them gave a simple quadratic curve (say, y=x^2 across x=[-10,10]) - we can find a sample set with strong positive correlation and another with strong negative correlation - but neither really describes the population as a whole.

So being mathematical and using the boolean logic implication definition I think it's a valid statement - but defining implication in context is pretty important.
Are there SQL assignments and how is the quality? Are datasets provided for download or is everything online?
That is one of the reasons why I asked about using anti-trust law.
I think we're quite a bit farther away from self-driving semis than from self-driving cars. Big trucks are much more dangerous vehicles than cars: their braking distances are much longer, their weight makes it possible for them to destroy any cars in their path, they can require multiple lanes to make a turn, many car drivers don't know how to drive safely near trucks, etc.
In my limited experience, most audiobook readers (as in people, not audio players) are not that great, which makes for a dull experience. One of the exceptions has been the Discworld, (mostly) read by Nigel Planer[1], they're just awesome.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Planer
Please explain how this supports your figure. I don't see it. Dividing the consumer unit "average annual expenditure" by the "average number of persons per consumer unit" per column there, only the top two exceed $20k, and only the top 3 approach $20k. It does all exceed $10k, but there's still 27 million households spending less than $15k/yr/person - where it would be more correct to say "about $10k" than "about $20k".
Actually I'm surprised at what can be accomplished in email these days, but in a negative way (sorry to be too pessimistic).

In the browser I already got my peace of mind back when it comes to cross-browser compatibility, because I can design a website in the browser of my choice, and when I test in other browsers, most of times there are no issues, or the issues are too minimal to get upset by having to fix them.

It's cool to have a place with an active community where someone can find tools, resources, workarounds, etc., but that is just a way to alleviate the problem.

An e-mail standard proposal[1] already exists, but providers (especially Google) doesn't seem too motivated to adhere to that standard :/...

[1] http://www.email-standards.org/
The worst is when there is a 'Show HN' or article about a product/service and then someone else comes in from HN with their similar product/service trying to sound all cheerful and how they're not worried and so on. It's so blatantly obvious and yet sad at the same time.

Edit: to those downvoting me, I can only assume you've had your thunder stolen from you, since you're not explaining your downvotes. Sorry someone else launched a similar product as yours.
For me this is too much rationalization for a single fact: people hate to change, even if it is for the better.

So simple. I study Chinese and I am 100% certain than the reason Chinese did not develop like the West was the printing press and the superior method it is to have to print 25-30 symbols instead of 30.000.

Just look at Chinese and even Japanese delay in getting to use computers as ASCII was so simple compared to their language. Japanese use kanji(chinese symbols) for lots of things.

The Chinese writing came first, the Indian copied the Chinese language and basically improved over them, then the Greeks copied that via Persia, and then the Romans copied the Greeks.

Romans started copying Greek culture because they were so ignorant compared with the Greeks, let alone Chinese at the time.

But at the same time, they started anew.The language was so refined, and it took the best thing of each iteration(better than Greek, better than Indian Scripts, better than Chinese).

I worked with someone doing programming and the fact that I used Vim instead of a visual text editor really infuriated him.

So one day I explained it to him and expended 30 to 40 min teaching him why it was so good for me. He looked confused. One month later he only used vim.

The reason most people don't use programs like vim or emacs is because it takes some effort to learn before you get the benefits.

The same happens with metric or any other measurement system.
I referenced Chalmers for saying that we don't yet know what causes consciousness. He points in some possible directions, but they're not yet conclusive.

There's a big difference "we don't yet know the cause" and "we cannot know the cause, let's give up and just call it a fundamental constituent of the universe". I'm pretty his video is arguing the latter point.

There's plenty of literature on why phenomenal experiences are fundamentally different from mechanic devices

Maybe there is but Chalmers even give a very plausible argument. There's lot of literature on theology too. I am aware "philosophical zombies" are a common topic in contemporary philosophy but I feel entitle to demand references to such things in the context of neurology give at least plausible logical arguments rather than arguing from authority or popularity.
No. Not at all. In fact things like pollution and war will likely get a lot worse. I'm shocked people can even publicly admit they support this type of selfish behavior.
Excellent list! I had no idea there was so much interest in home automation software, though ironically Ive considered writing my own more than once.

The next question that comes to mind though is hardware support. Eg, a lightswitch that works with one vendor's software but not another's.

Have tried to find which of those has the widest hardware support?

I would be interested in reading a blog post or article on your adventures in this area.
What do you mean no software stores? What year are you targeting? Boxed software was everywhere as early as the early 80's which is when the Apple II series hit its stride with the IIe... There were aisles of it at even pedestrian stores. Computer clubs and other piracy-potential things were available. 300 baud modems and BBS's... You also had mall stores like Babbages (became GameStop eventually), etc. that specialized in software across multiple platforms.

VisiCalc was released about the time that software became a fairly visible retail item.
Not necessarily: http://json-ld.org/
I hope they undertake work in Geriatrics. According to several articles I've read on NYTimes and other places, Geriatricians is sort of a dying specialization within the medical field.

"Geriatrics is one of the lower-paid medical specialties, in part because virtually all its patients are on Medicare, which pays doctors less than commercial insurers." Source: http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/even-fewer-ger...
It seems like you are defending his claims only based on authority.

I can't say whether modern philosophy has dived into New Age nonsense or whether Chalmers just happened to be in the mood to make lazy, bogus arguments just for the video link you posted.

But when someone starts saying "maybe a photon has a litter bit of consciousness", they have rather clearly entered the realm of pseudo-science.
I helped build Rubberstamp (www.rubberstamp.io) which solves this problem.

Its a super simple purchase order management system that works on mobile and directly though emails for approvers.

We'll be building support for recurring orders, delivering checking very soon.

If you're interested in a trial then just let me know!
I actually work in arts and entertainment! You can see the most recent project that I managed here: http://artalliance.com

So why would someone artistically-minded come to HN? Because the world is changing--in law, in technology, etc. And being on top of that is ALWAYS helpful, especially with such a knowledgeable community.
Probably a neural network analog of an analog to digital converter.
No, in the US the two systems are used for different things. Trucks allow point-to-point delivery. Trains are more useful for carrying bulk commodities.

John McPhee has written some wonderful articles about modes of transport, and the people who work in them: http://www.amazon.com/Uncommon-Carriers-John-McPhee/dp/08654...
Towards daily imaging of Spaceship Earth
A yard is currently defined by the metric system.

Metrology is the discipline of measuring. It concerns itself with ensuring that everyone has the same definition of measuring units. For a long time, the yard was based on physical standards. i.e. Somewhere there sat a physical rod 1 yard long that all other rods were measured against to define the yard. The meter was defined this way until 1960 too. The unfortunate problem with physical standards is that they change. A physical rod is different lengths at different temperatures and will, of course, gradually get shorter as it's handled and wear occurs on its ends.

The meter is now defined in terms of how fast light can travel in a given period of time. That period of time is defined in terms of hyperfine ground state level transitions of a Cesium atom. Yes, it's complex. However, while a physical standard changes, these standards are built into the laws of the universe and are thus reproducible and fixed for all time. For this reason, the yard is currently defined as 0.9144 meters in the U.S.. No matter how the metric system defines the meter, a yard is 0.9144 meters.

So, the U.S. really has gone metric, at least where it counts. The average American is just ignorant of the fact.

P.S. Even the metric system is not completely free of physical definitions... yet. The kilogram is still based on a physical prototype. However, there are proposals to change that to something based on physical constants. Once this is done, the metric system will be defined entirely in terms of physics.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Physical+Side-Channel+Key-Extracti...
How a community is born: The rise of Polish startups
That is not a very useful definition of the word imply, since all events have a non-zero probability in a trivial, quantum mechanical anything-can-happen sense. Gelman likely uses the word imply in the more common meaning of indirect logical consequence.
Another vote for Neuromancer, Snowcrash and the relatively little-known but excellent Pollen. I read some Iain Banks recently at the behest of an old friend who I introduced to science fiction over 15 years ago, but didn't find it particularly engrossing. Embassytown by China Miéville was an excellent and pithy meditation on the nature of communication, albeit longer than I would have deemed necessary.
(Can't reply directly)

I'm extremely interested in understanding your perspective. See, I not only publicly support this, but as an aging researcher, I spend my days, nights, and weekends (right now, in fact) working towards this goal.

I do so because I believe that, in a world full of Bad Things, death is pretty unambiguously the worst of them. Every time someone dies, a wealth of unique life experience and personality is lost, permanently. Forget Larry, I don't want to see my friends, family, and neighbors die. I don't know you at all, but I don't want you to die. And yes, I don't want to die myself either.

If you think that extending life is selfish and wrong, then to be logically consistent, wouldn't the Red Cross and hospitals and so on be evil organizations? What principle could we possibly use to establish when someone's life has been "too long"?
Could you please give an example? It may be that he is defining causal more narrowly and correlate more broadly than you are.
So for the price of Toyota Rav4 you can get this tank now?? Whoha!

http://www.sovietarmor.com/catalog/armored/ats_59.html
There isn't really a process at all. The barrier to entry is so high that those dedicated enough to map usually make it through with good intentions.

Mapping is really hard, and even with all the work we (OSM) have done to make it easier, we still get far less than 1 percent of our users to actively contribute.
If you need something, buy it. Your time is worth more than any number of pens, paperclips, and pads of paper.

... isn't this one of the standard questions from "startup or not"?