skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the most relaxing & satisfying things I have ever done with a computer was spending hours updating OSM from fresh satellite images.

It was giddying to discover that Bermuda had great satellite images, but zero mapping and then a few hours later you'd literally put a well-known place like Bermuda "on the map" by drawing in most of the main roads, airport and so on. Great to see that others have built on this with detailed information.

Very fond memories.
To contribute to (say) the Linux Kernel, or Firefox, you need to be a good programmer. To contribute to Wikipedia is a little easier, but you probably need to be pretty knowledgeable about something non-trivial.

To contribute to OpenStreetMap, you only have to know somewhere. It's quite likely that almost everyone knows something that isn't in OSM.

Even 2 people from the same town, but live 1km apart could probably contribute different things to OSM.

Combine that with everyone wanting to see their own town/city/house/area on a map, and it's a recipe for explosive growth.
Not really. OSM started out with a blank canvas. 2007 was still early days.
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I'm not sure why you'd discuss this without mentioning the section of the linked article which addresses exactly this issue (maintaining a stable grid with 100% renewables, and current levels of hydroelectric power):

> Here, we do not model the reliability of an optimized future California grid but discuss a recent optimization study in which 100% WWS in the California grid was modeled for two years. Hart and Jacobson[30] used a stochastic optimization model of system operation combined with a deterministic renewable portfolio planning module to simulate the impact of a 100% WWS penetration for California every hour of 2005 and 2006. They assumed near-current hydroelectric and geothermal but increased geographically-dispersed time-dependent wind, solar PV, and CSP
with 3-h storage. They constrained the system to a loss of load of no more than 1 day in 10 years and used both meteorological and load forecasts to reduce reserve requirements. They found that, under these conditions, 99.8% of delivered electricity could be produced carbon-free with WWS during 2005/2006

> The result of Hart and Jacobson[30] suggests that, for California, a large part of the intermittency problem of wind and solar can be addressed not only by combining the two, but also by using hydroelectric and CSP with 3-h storage to fill in gaps. The remaining differences between supply and demand can likely be addressed with the inclusion of demand-response management; energy efficiency measures, CSP with storage longer than 3 h, additional pumped hydroelectric storage, distributed or large-scale battery storage, compressed-air storage, flywheels, seasonal heat storage in soil, out-of-state WWS resources, the addition of flexible loads such as electric vehicles, vehicle-to-grid methods, and oversizing the number of WWS generators to simplify matching power demand with supply while using excess electricity for district heat or hydrogen production.

If you want to refute this, you need to start with Hart and Jacobsen, and work from there.
At a time when ads get distrusted and engagement is lower than ever, maybe this is the key to put advertisers back in the game.
Is there any good definition of free will at all? Given somebody is in situation X and has options A and B then the choice to do one or the other can either be completely at random or on the other extreme depend completely on the situation X (including the person with the brain and all the memories and the complete environment). Or it may be a mix of both where the situation affects the probability distribution. But none of these scenarios matches what I would call free will, making a choice that is neither random nor a deterministic consequence of the situation, but I can not even think of any mechanism outside of the spectrum from randomness to deterministic consequence.
Can you suggest some applications (Debian) or introductions to use when contributing? I remember having had a look at Merkaator a few years ago and finding it rather unhelpful (or at least neither “very pleasant” nor “actually quite easy”).
The more I think about it, the more I like the auction system.

The big companies that need highly skilled employees can afford to pay en masse.

Now if you are a US based small business and you found a dream employee in say Australia. Either this employee is so valuable that you would be willing to shell out something like 50-100k to bring him/her over, or what is more likely you become flexible and let him/her work remotely.

I do not foresee many small businesses who would actually need to bring a foreign employee in for a constant presence in US. Does a barbershop really need to bring a foreign born barber. If it does then that barber would probably qualify as an alien of extraordinary ability...

My views is biased as a European who programs for a medium sized US business and sees no need to visit US more than once every year.
Mine too! https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#13/40.7858/-73.9732
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Anyone ever tried printing a paper copy of OSM for their region?
Genuine question: Is that 10% CTR being inflated at all considering these ads are much more likely to be accidentally tapped on? That + the "x" button seems to be unnatural to find.

Or for advertisers do they even really care if they are driving the page counts up on their pages?
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I think whats being missed is 7 million people are not going to become eternal, they're going to die anyway at a higher cost (medical costs only go up, for multiple generations much faster than inflation, so an identical death in 2004 and 2014 will by definition cost more in 2014)

Its a good idea. There's no point in causing unneeded pollution. Not to mention pollution doesn't instantly magically cause death among a very small segment of humanity, it ruins quality of life for pretty much everyone which as a side effect culls off the 1% with the worst lung function or whatever.

Where it goes off the rails is there's a business model around extracting all the net worth from 99% level individuals before they die, to eliminate inherited wealth from the middle and lower upper classes. Having them die from something else, a little later, a little more expensively, isn't going to magically make that business model go away.
"Understanding Digital Signal Processing" by Richard Lyons should also be mentioned. Not free, but probably the best text for grasping the concepts of DSP. As a mechanical engineer his style and illustrations really clicked with me.
oh god, I thought that at least big city would be covered when they launched it :/
> Spain is just wanted due to the proximity to Africa and a lot of African immigrants/refugees using this vector.

I hear this from time to time, but data paints a radically different picture. What you describe is only the case for sub-Saharan immigrants who are just a tiny, tiny minority of the inmigrants coming to Spain. Most inmigrants come from:

1-Romania (for which Spain is obviously not in the path to any other country)

2-Morocco (the vast majority of whom arrive legally since the late 90s)

3-UK (and contrary to popular belief, only 21% of them are over 65 years old)

Then, the largest component of immigration is from the former colonies, due to the shared language (so, again, not being used as a vector)

All of this data is available online on the INE (national institute of statistics)
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Finland should have no correlation here, as all the schools are free and you get an allowance from the government for the duration of your studies. Unfortunately it turns out a high income correlates well with having an advanced degree, and a parent with an advanced degree correlates well with a child who has one.

Which results in a situation where the higher socio-economical status of your parents makes you much more likely to have an advanced degree, even though there should be no correlation.
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I think there's plenty of US-liberals in HN too, but it should be noted that there are self-labeled capitalist libertarians advocating for BIG, at least as a "less-bad" welfare system. See e.g. Bleeding Heart Libertarians[1] or the discussions on Cato[2].

[1] http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/

[2] http://www.cato-unbound.org/2014/08/04/matt-zwolinski/pragma...
This article ends on a tech doomsday/fear message? What is the point of that? Outside of that, this is non-surprising - the man thinks. I'm not sure he does much publicly without some sort of plan.
Great, now we can ask you questions! :)

Some of the videos demonstrate unusual "popping" effects and deformations when standing still - especially notable in this video, top right, sixteen seconds in:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...

I understand how the extreme situation of climbing is a challenge, but what is it about standing still that causes this? Do you have any thoughts on how you might tackle this problem in future work? (although it appears you already combine an amazing breadth of techniques, so I'm not sure how many options you haven't looked at)
Yes, I was mistaken about the SLIME integration. I only used a primitive REPL. The rest of your response is total garbage. Guile is a really good Scheme implementation, imo.
There's now a new and easy-to-use in-browser editor, iD; clicking "edit" on the "default" OSM slippy map gets you there by default, and it even has a walk-through for first-time users: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.5011/-0.0194

(As for me, I prefer jOSM - more complex, Java-based, not in-browser; more powerful in various ways: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Download )
Turbo C 1.0 was actually pre-ANSI C. Turbo C 2.0 was compatible with a draft of the ANSI C standard, and I recall having some trouble getting Lua 5.0 to compile with it due to locale stuff.

The video actually features Turbo C++ 1.0, though, which was a different product, so the title is misleading.

Regardless, I agree that standards are very nice to have.
The sad part is that this H1B visa cap will not be raised in the near future as the process is a part of the so called immigration reform (Dodd and Frank bill). Why someone would club legal and illegal immigration together is beyond my understanding.
This is just me guessing but one of the initial goals of Dalvik was to use as little space as possible (due to memory constraints of hardware at that time). Perhaps they thought saving a a byte or two on method identifiers was a good idea. This would not be a problem if it weren't for the fact that dx also squashes all classes into one single class, meaning that instead of being 65K methods per class you now get 65K per apk.
Would've been more useful with a language that doesn't limit one-liners (e.g. you can't have "for x in [1,2,3]: dothing1(x); dothing2(x)").
> As wind is a very good base load provider.

What? Please show us where the wind blows 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, every year.

Not being a nay-sayer, but your comment is very misleading.

"Good base load provider" means high availability - reliable enough so the lights don't go out. When's the last time you remember a power outage in the US that did not make the news? Yeah, that kind of availability. Outages are rare enough that they make the news when they do happen. Right now, wind cannot provide this kind of "base load" guarantee unless we overbuild a huge amount of capacity and implement a very sophisticated real-time system to manage all the inputs/outputs, and even then you'll be lucky to generate stable baseline load. China's trying right now and having a very difficult time both delivering stable power, and making money doing it[1].

[1] http://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1171987/analysis---c...
The lovely and fantastic Internet Archive has exactly this, for US News TV (Eg. C-SPAN IIRC) and they say they have clips from 594,000 shows since 2009 available. From what I've read and heard, they basically eat the subtitle/close caption track that's baked into the video/audio stream.

Feel free to check it out at https://archive.org/details/tv and search around for some fun terms/words.

If you really like it and if you like the Internet Archive, feel free to donate a one-time sum or set up a subscription at http://archive.org/donate/ - they're a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation - so donations are tax deductable if you're US based.
That varies very much country by country - some have had mass imports from other open sources (e.g. open government data), which has helped enormously with streets, roads and suchlike.
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Buzzfeed is not a Journalist company, it's an entertainment / advertisement company.

What AH bet on was a new way to serve Ads (Native advertising) to costumer, and a business with exploding revenues (30M$ in 2012, 60M$ in 2013, 120M$ planed in 2014, ...). It will be crazy for AH to let this opportunity to invest go away.
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They aren't LEDs
The core Scheme language seems pretty small compared to CL so compatibility might not be the best argument to make. The best you can say about CL is that it was designed with the expectation of incompatibility.

For libraries, CL has the same problems as Scheme so it's a wash. I hit this keenly when interacting with the OS (POSIX calls, mostly).
I think printing houses is the app killer.
There are two in-browser editors available from OSM itself, and the site includes tutorials.
I've used iD in Chromium on Ubuntu so I'm optimistic that you could use it with Debian.
For new lines/nodes you can trace over satellite images and/or upload GPS tracks and trace over them. You can also add metadata to existing data - eg mark a road as one-way for motor vehicles.
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"$100K+"

I'm sure that was proposed as ridiculous, but you have to keep in mind that there's only a programming labor shortage in two, maybe three cities on the coasts.

For a national program like this lottery, every non-citizen the .gov lets thru will result in many social program costs not only for the one citizen who won't be employed and at a higher pay rate, plus all the downstream effects of lower salaries and less jobs for citizens leading to lower economic activity leading to lower tax revenue.

A $100K cost per immigrant is below the low side of what it costs .gov to take care of the local citizens.

What I'm claiming is the program is a stereotypical crony capitalist "socialize the losses and privatize the gains" scam. Screwing the program up or limiting it or making it very expensive to participate in is a net economic gain to the country. "Fixing" the program would be a net economic loss to the country. Furthermore the program is literally inhumane, a real wage for a human with real working conditions is X, but as a psuedo-slave psuedo-indentured servant you are less human than a real human so we'll only offer you 50% of X and treat you like dirt because thats highly profitable and helps rich guys get richer at the expense of everyone else. Its disgusting that the program exists on several levels.

Besides Canada has better medical system, better crime stats, arguably better recreational opportunities... I wouldn't necessarily describe being "stuck" in Canada as much of a punishment. Its not exactly like being trapped in Somalia.
But without free will nobody can decide to tell you something and influence your future decisions. If there is no free will then watching the universe over time is just like playing back a movie, maybe with some unpredictable plot twists due to randomness. Me writing this comment was predetermined - at least with some probability - since the big bang. All the things humans have done, from fighting wars to writing all the books to inventing and building all the human made things in the world, are predetermined. And while I think that there is no free will trying to imagine that everything around me is the result of a mindless process is more than my poor brain can do and therefore in everyday life I just keep pretending I have free will.
Automated trading systems very often use doubles for money, and so do quant libs.
Its a fair question, and in truth just printing plastic utensils is not a killer app

I'd say the most relevant word there is "plastic". I don't want replacements for my cheap plastic objects. I'd love to "print" with other materials.
...and the will. There a are lot of things that can be done. It comes down to a complex sociopolitical situation. Naïve to past 'corruption' on everything that doesn't go our way.
Have you looked at the example adds ? They're basically bringing back flash-based popups.

I will, immediately, uninstall any app that shows an ad like this to me.

Here come the "shoot the rabbit and win 100000$" ads ...
You are comparing the act of taking a work and exploiting it for profit, and sharing a movie with a friend.

If try to commercial earn illicit profit by exploiting those people in society that gives software away for free and explicit allow you to run, modify and distribute. Then that is immoral. Comparing it to sharing a movie with a friend is just a shameful act of pushing an agenda.

A more correct comparison with GPL would be bootlegging a CD (ie, for profit) during a charity concert that has pay-what-you-want tickets. Anti-copyright people would likely support the claim that such behavior is immoral.
This is so different from the gpl of before. Did id only do the gpl before because of John Carmack?
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Would you mind giving any examples?
>The only reason they ever published it was because the writer was going to publish it in his own book.

This is an interesting interpretation.

There was legal pressure from the Justice Department and an implicit threat from the Bush Administration that the New York Times could be on the hook for revealing "state secrets" and be held responsible for associated repercussions.

Whether you feel that way or not, there is some conflicted, moral debate about Snowden. It's not like the NYT didn't have and want to bust the story, but the ramifications weren't clear cut, so they delayed. I'm sure you're willing to put your professional career and perhaps freedom on the line at any time, right? In the end, the story got out, as it always tends to do.

The fact that people even use the NY Times and Buzzfeed in the same sentence, as if it's the same business, is hilarious.
That seems unlikely to be the case; the variable being assigned is through a pointer to a struct, which is already being accessed in the context. (Plus, of course, __attribute__((unused)) or similar in a macro would be preferable for silencing warnings) It's pretty likely that, had this occured at the top of a function, and been a direct assignment, the author would not have flagged it (indeed, perhaps PVS-Studio ignores that case; seems easy enough to implement).
Why "dirty"? Attaching and inspecting a live process without cooperation is something that should be expected.

pdb is quite limited in what it can debug if you have a stuck process which is very hard to reproduce. I've resorted to gdb + python extensions too many times to count (which basically allows you do what pyrasite does, though at a lower level).
This looks sweet, but 6KLoC file. How do you even do that and stay sane?
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The "alt" attributes on images (at least on the few templates I saw), are pretty bad. For example, here [0] all the social icons have an alt of "social icon". Have you guys even tried looking at these templates on a non-html email client? Clearly not.

[0] https://github.com/sendwithus/templates/blob/master/template...
Certainly interstate highways had an effect - they squashed growth in towns NOT visited. Unless you have a freeway exit in or near your small town, it can't grow today. Similar to the way rail did the job a century earlier.
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>majority of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11

I'm not sure how that's the fault of the mainstream news media, rather than an ignorant population.
Employment statistics say this. There is already unemployment in engineering. Maybe long-term in a socialist or planned society we could make use of scads of new engineers; but not in the society we have now.
They support Linux now? Rad, I'll have to let some work buddies know. Last I checked they didn't, thanks for the heads-up.
And, probably, surfaces on the paths (http://www.itoworld.com/map/25?lon=6.18181&lat=50.78180&zoom...), rights of way and suggested routes for bikes, speed limits on the roads, and whether the roads are lit at night, where to find cycle parking, and on and on.
That is an interesting question!

Our 10% CTR is based on our results so far. Our technology is basically a lightweight rendering engine which allows advertisers to create their own formats without limitations.

The default behaviour for any graphical element is not to respond to touches. Thus, the advertiser have to specify which elements will call an action.

Don't hesitate to ask us if you have any other questions.
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Perhaps I am misreading, but are they including in their estimates on changed behaviour in the population resulting in the energy efficiency savings?
Currently rsnapshot, however I'm considering a move to duplicity (perhaps via http://chrispoole.com/project/horcrux/ ) in order to get the additional feature of offsite encrypted backups
Because there's no such thing as 'fish DNA'. There's just DNA. Its a code, and code doesn't 'belong' to any organism or know where its at. So transfer of DNA from one organism to another, like monkeys typing, increases the rate of change in species well above that of mutation alone.
but the technology is very different from a Makerbot type printer; something that can never be in regular people's houses, it takes too much specialist framing etc.

When you say "the technology" do you mean some commercial product or ad-hoc assembled equipment?

Could they be more accesible dropping some "very pro" requirements?