skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet the original pointed to an article that has a better overview, some details not in the one you changed it to, and more, actually contains the link that you've now set it to.

In short, you've replaced a link to an excellent overview that has a link to more material, with a less useful link. I know we have our disagreements, but this just seems out and out wrong. As I've said before, I find this immensely frustrating.
do you have any examples of this? this seems very interesting
For some reason, I read this as "The Beauty of Robots".
Many bootcamps cover web development.

Oh right. Well that explains it. Web dev does seem to get an enormous amount of press and attention for such a small part of the industry, but then it is the most obviously visible and as you say, it can have a very tight feedback loop for the coder[1].

[1] I expect, based on your words :) Never touched so much as a single line of it.
What would you recommend for self-education?
While it definitely will have bad consequenses, the melting of the arctic ice will not directly lead to rising sea levels (since it is floating).
Uncool Startup Liquidity Nanotech Taps Nearly $8.5M on RockThePost: Let It Flow
Value classes in Scala.
Do you have any examples of these patterns?
I've found that hiring people who are willing to make a sacrifice makes them hungrier to succeed. The company gets better workers, and (in my experience) the team is more solid. Not saying that will always be the case.
Show HN: Following, a tiny Twitter game built in ReactJS
I think I slept though it this morning. I always seems to miss earthquakes.
Unit type is completely different concept in the functional languages. It does not track units and measures.
Where does the overhead come when you look at rates from carriers like http://flowroute.com/rates/ or https://www.plivo.com/pricing/GB/ or http://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing/gb

It might be that wholesale rates are capped but it clearly isn't pushing prices down for consumers who want to call into mobile numbers.
It does however concrete in a lot of awkwardness from working with compiling a static language into a dynamic one then running it.
1. So yes its intelligence is highly specific but it certainly seems like a program like this could be evolved to become very useful for some application. Why hasn't that happened?

2. One big problem when interacting with systems like this I suppose would be that you have to know what is supported by its grammar in order to use it. The best solution I can see to that problem would be to add some sort of smart as-you-type suggestion feature. Making it smart enough would require some research of its own though but probably well worth it.

edit: Somewhat related is a tool for working with grammar for computer applications (parsing and translating between abstract and concrete and between different concrete representations): Grammatical Framework (http://www.grammaticalframework.org/)
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Nope, not seen that.

Sounds like resizing on a poorly written MacOS Classic application.

Possibly it happens and my brain filters it out.
Thanks!

It was interesting to watch the karma swing here, my top post went from +4 to -4 within around 30 mins of your first comment in this subthread.
If you know of a non-free market economy that works as well in a complex and dynamic society with many millions of people (e.g. communism seems to be ok up to about a village), we are all ears?

As far as I know, there are no successes. Most attempts couldn't have open borders, because everyone would leave.

(And yes, there are lots of other factors, like corruption and the natural resource curse.)
You're right. That list is a bit more complicated than it looks though. There are 5 states that allow a teenager to get a learners permit on their 14th birthday.

I was aware of Iowa and Sout Dakota, but I wasn't aware that North Dakota, Kansans, and Arkansas do this as well.

Michigan and Idaho issue learners permits at 14 years and 8 months, and 14 years and 6 months respectively. However they only allow driving during a drivers education class until that course is completed. Also Montanta issues permits at 14.5 if enrolled in a drivers ed class.

Most of these states are also very rural with very small populations, so the vast majority of American 14 year olds cannot get a learners permit.
I'd be interested to hear if you manage to extract a key from a Chromecast. I think I'll root mine now just to keep my options open.
What Color Are Your Bits?
For some of the younger people here, I highly recommend The Great Escape [1] if you're in a mood for a great WWII movie.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/
Meanwhile, 4.3 in the UK, a country demographically similar to France and where it's trivial to get a car and license. This makes me think the process of getting a license plays a big role in fatality rates, but more road quality, layout, better street furniture, signage, etc (which are all notably better in the UK than France).
As much as I like the CLI, I really find this useful, because it takes time to go through document and find the desired option.
I think the real solution is that every CLI program comes with a description file (probably in XML) that describes its CLI options, their types, combination, etc.

The description file should help automatic GUI creating or shell completion.
This is mobile app cargo culting. Running untrusted code on your phone is not a good model for desktop software, particularly in UNIX.
Oh my, thanks for the heads-up I guess it's too late to post on HN. Time to go to bed :)
You might also take a look at F# running on Xamarin's stack, which is probably a bit more mature.
CoffeeScript is not a static language - unless I'm misinterpreting what you mean by "static".

And the compilation is pretty light. The syntax is different, but for the most part the semantics are 1:1 with Javascript.

Having said that, any compile-to-language is going to introduce problems that need to be solved. Source maps and short watch+compile times have basically eliminated any problems for me.
Evolution of Diet
Failed tech bands
Your comment is about football but your links discuss subsidies on entire athletic programs. It is well known that more popular sports offset expenses for less popular ones (especially those satisfying title IX) and many times the schools have to subsidize even further. I think you are confusing the expense/revenue ratio of college football with college athletic programs as a whole.
Cross-platform code would be the obvious answer.
Hrm. I think this article does a great job of explaining weird inconsistencies in Python's current type system, but I think it does a somewhat less good job of demonstrating that adding annotations is actively harmful. What would be some examples of situations where inconsistencies in the type system made annotations problematic in practice? Are those situations compelling enough to warrant not adding any annotations to the language?
So you are suggesting I hire someone who has a full time job already, and is unwilling to give it up to join me, but wants to then burn themselves out doing 10 hours a day Saturday and Sunday - and this is a good deal for me?

Why would I want to hire someone like that? If they cannot tell that's a bad idea how will they judge O(2^n) ?
Thanks for your help. This has been changed.
Your own MVC in PHP
Want the Best User Experience? Make It Harder to Add Features
Apparently cars run on gas fumes. Mileage over 100 mpg.
> People usually take at least 20 hours to learn

I've never heard of anyone taking less than 30 hours. And if you do 30 hours sharp you're one the lucky ones.
I wish there was a transcript to go with these slides, or some context. It looks like an amazing talk.

One thing that jumped out at me right away is that the explosives sniffer is also configured to detect narcotics, amphetamine and marijuana. Is this standard procedure at American domestic airports?
I guess this is true in many countries (no tests for french driving license holders). I'm french, and didn't have to take a paper test, or a driving test when I got my license in Japan. Which is kind of ridiculous considering they don't even check you know how rules differ between the countries, and there are more than a few differences, the most basic one being default speed limits in the absence of indication.
Anyways, I actually didn't get my french driving license before I was planning to move to Japan, and the reason I did get it is because getting a driving license in Japan is even more expensive than it is in France.
Fwiw, I got my french driving license on the first try after 23 hours of lessons and didn't have any of the problems mentioned. In fact, I had all my paper test preparation with a web site that my driving school was contracting, so besides the freelance instructors, I don't see much innovation in that ornikar thing.
Disaster preparedness in the general sense is actually a pretty good idea.

The basics in any situation are largely the same. A supply of water, and/or water purification means. A food supply. Shelter, such as a tent or sleeping bag. Sturdy clothes and boots. Flashlights. A radio that doesn't require mains power to operate.

Inventorying your possessions, knowing what community resources exist, and having proper insurance also helps.

Bdale Garbee made a pretty heart-wrenching presentation (though uplifting overall) of his family's experience with utter devastation which arrived on a few moments' notice. Not an earthquake, but a wildfire, which reduced his Colorado home and possessions to ashes and puddles of molten metal.

It's instructive.

In other areas, hazards include tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, landslides, fire, tsunami, and civil unrest or war. In pretty much all of these cases, a basic "earthquake kit" is a pretty good start on being prepared and increasing your odds of survival and/or comfort should circumstances turn south.
Libertarians can't win for the simple reason that free markets tend towards oligopolies without a system to break them up and because "free markets" suspiciously never account for externalities.
More internet connected local mesh networks like this please! We've got something similar here in Austria as well - http://www.funkfeuer.at has been growing constantly for more than 10 years.

Voice of America article:
http://www.voanews.com/content/austria-programmers-build-fre...

"A group of computer programmers and hackers in Austria is creating a low-cost way of spreading Internet access across communities. FunkFeuer which means network fire in German, uses everyday technology to create a wireless network, called a mesh, that can transmit data from person to person, without involving companies or governments."
Austrian Programmers Build Free Bridge to Internet (2012)
Can't agree more. The system is retarded here. I didn't have the time to pass my license before leaving the country so I had to repay it when I came back from a year abroad. I failed the test then had to wait 6 months to retake it. I just gave up and I will wait to live in another country where it's cheaper and faster to get a license. I have many friends my age (mid 20s) who don't own a license either. If you live in a city you usually don't need one, if you want to travel you either take the train or use blablacar as parent said.
expensive security theater
Good night Jurassic Park, you shall never be the same!
I honestly fail to see why this is a problem.

Growth for growth's sake is an irrational obsession. If people's standards of living are satisfactory, technology leads to reduced consumption without compromising standard of living, and individuals lead a good life, what more is there to it?
w00t! That fixed it. Thanks n-gauge!
So if mesh networks take off, and replace mobile internet for many people, are we going to see an increase in satellite and "traditional" mobile networking (3G, 4G, etc) prices?

How is that going to affect folks outside major metropolitan areas, since their coverage is effectively subsidised by the volume of city users?
Twin brothers, one spastic, completes ironman together
One that I do take seriously, but is local to Colorado (Denver, Boulder) is gSchool (http://www.galvanize.it/school/). It 100% guarantees job placement within a well-to-do startup as a software engineer, and teaches everything from software engineering as a broad concept to building specific types of application (if that makes any sense).

Another one with the same premise, made by the same guy is http://turing.io, and it works very similarly and some consider it to be gSchool 2.0
Standalone version of git's strbuf
The impacts of release (or sequestration) on those scales on other ecological systems are non-trivial. Which is why we care about those releases.
Nimrod features distinct types (http://build.nimrod-lang.org/docs/manual.html#distinct-type) which allow you to implement something like this. Here is an example: https://github.com/def-/units/blob/master/units.nim#L220, I don't think it's complete yet though.
2.65c/min on Plivo? The other prefixes are more 'premium rate' numbers, not mobile numbers. That's about 1.5p/min.

Considering Plivo charges 1.2c/min for US numbers as a benchmark, the difference between US and UK numbers is 1.45c/min or... 0.88p/min, exactly the wholesale cost pretty much. So I think it is working.
If you take your tickets in advance train is cheaper. Also it always seems so unnecessary to take the plane for such short distances (take the transport to the airport, check-in, walk to gate, wait, embark, wait, take-off, wait, landing, wait, find luggage, wait, take transport, you have arrived!)
Yes per 100,000 inhabitants, but to determine driver safety the correct metric is fatalities per x unit of distance driven, which is what the GP was using.

People in the US drive far more often than those in France, you'd expect for driving fatalities.
Visiting SF from Canada, your thoughts please
I'm thinking of visiting for my first time as early as next week, especially while it's still warmish. I recently just started a freelance business and would not mind both visiting the startup capital of the world and see if I cannot get a few clients while doing so (maybe), as well as maybe just absorbing the vibe and bringing some back home. When I was much younger my dad worked for Blizzard in SF and he would tell me stories, it would be nice to grab a piece of that memory for myself too.

Anyways, the flight is looking to be around $600 from Toronto. If I stay for 2 weeks I'm looking to pay around $1200 (airbnb) for a bunk! It's not so shabby because it seems to be a hacker commune:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2058723

I'm estimating around $800 in other expenses like food, beer, cab perhaps etc. So the total is from anywhere from $2500-3000 which is high-ish but reasonable for 2 weeks in SF I think.

I know I'd like to visit the Meteor HQ especially since I'm getting into their technology. I don't know what else I would like to do, just chat it up with others like me, hack at cafe, go to a party maybe, take walks, see the golden gate bridge, and more.
Love that movie, one of those with an all-star cast that is actually good.
Less Wrong told me this day would come.

This is robot written propaganda! You've all heard of them writing articles. Now look at the consequences.
Project Tuva has a great series of lectures Feynman gave around that time http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
I'm sure the Russian roads have coverage too. You're not going to cover places where there is no need to. Many of these areas will not have seen people in decades in Russia I'm sure.

Anyway, it's a moot point. Rural areas are cheap to cover. Stick a macrocell up, microwave some backhaul in from another tower (until you hit the nearest fibre line) and jobs done. Cities are much much more expensive - costs more to put the masts up, need many many more masts and complex frequency allocations, buildings blocking the line of sight, etc. I'm sure that rural capex/opex is a very small percentage of Verizon/AT&Ts budget compared to all the thousands of new 4G sites they're putting up in urban areas.
I agree that those who advocate communism always seem to fall back on what is essentially the "Well it's never been tried out properly" argument, which I don't find convincing at all. It also happens to be the argument I hear most frequently from libertarians.

Essentially, claiming that your economic theory will only work once a dramatic, complete, state-wide change as occured is a non-starter. Nations advance by degrees, and if there aren't small moves that can be made towards the goal that provide evidence that the theory is sound, it would be foolish to believe that big moves will fair any better.

I would genuinely like to see examples of where libertarianism ideals have been tried on a small to medium scale and been successful. And if there aren't any, same question as to jasonisalive: why is there such confidence among libertarians that it works in the real world?
I still cannot bend my head around the idea that a State of the most powerful country on earth should somehow be allowed to reclaim what is to all intents and purposes their mismanagement.

I am sure Oracle (like every large consultant / supplier) over sold their capabilities and stuffed the project with over paid under experienced staff and fed back sweet smelling bullshit to the upper levels. But FFS if the administrators of a whole fucking State do not know this by now, they are the ones to go.

Yes, USGDS is calling the right moves, yes open sourcing reference systems would be a good idea for federal projects but in the end, if you cannot run a software project today, you are going to fuck up everything by 2025. Hospitals, buildings, water pumps, really everything.

Learning these lessons now is a good idea. Thinking "I can still hire Oracle and if they are bad we can take them to court in five years" is not the right lesson to learn.

Edit:
http://www.lawteacher.net/contract-law/essays/the-case-of-wa...

The above is a UK case where a supplier provided defective software, then was sued and claimed defence behind limitation clauses - it went to the high court which said yeah, you were both big boys, they aren't liable.

The principle I think extends here.

Also - that PDF is incredible - things like "they lied about how flexible and suitable it was for us". Aaaaargh! Can you really sue for "we did not do our homework?!"
Yes because everyone has the same morals and follows them exactly. You're basically arguing that we don't need laws if everyone just recognized wrong from right.
>Salaries are the biggest expense at a university, you can easily cut those by shifting to more adjuncts. With the shape the academic labour market is in, that is easily done. Quality of instruction drops, but the students don't mind, they are there for credentials, not for an education.
(Emphasis not in original)

Citation needed. I can see why academics would like me to believe that but whether it's true or not is an empirical question, not one that's immediately obvious on its face.
It could raise levels slightly. By Archimedes principle the floating sea ice displaces an equivalent mass of ocean water, so there's no net mass change. But due to differing densities of fresh and salt water, it displaces slightly less volume of salt water than it will contribute in melted freshwater (by about 2.6%, according to [1]). But this may also be complicated by temperature changes [2].

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007....

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2007GL030784/full
Wow, what a strong reaction! I'm not sure what issue you think I've entirely avoided, I think my comment was pretty fair and direct. But let me try to elaborate a bit.

I certainly wouldn't limit my points to minorities, though the reality of our current society is that the lingering effects of institutional racism means poverty is usually concentrated in communities of color.

The problem with expecting folks to "work things out for themselves" is the extreme asymmetry of information in labor markets. It's far too easy for a single capitalist to take extreme advantage of those in poverty, and far too hard for workers, even when banding together to collectively negotiate, to compensate for that.

The thing is, when you expect people to just "work things out for themselves" it pretty much always ends up favoring those already in positions of power, namely wealthy white males.
Is there a video to go along with these slides? This is fascinating.

The diagram-heavy slides could certainly use some context.
There's a sticker from the inside of the machine that indicates it belonged to the US prisons system at some point. Narcotics detection would seem very relevant to that application.

Some of these vulnerabilities are shocking. This goes beyond carelessness and straight into incompetence.
The WHO is now reporting on Twitter that the species in DRC is not the same as the one causing the West Africa outbreak [0]. In other words, this is a separate emergence event.
[0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/503673397990395904
>hey have half the rate of traffic accident as US or my country (Poland)

Where are you getting this from. Fatilities per 100,000 km driven is very comparable between the US and France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
The Real Price of Fast Growth
I had the same concern when I built it, but the data source I was using only provides centroid information, not boundaries. I thought for a while trying to come up with a solution and ended up ignoring it, since I was mainly interested in a proof of concept. If you'd like to fork it and improve you're more than welcome to!
Why is the fact that it is NP-hard a fundamental problem for real-world systems? Sure, it is hard to solve in the mathematical sense, but in the real world it appears as though approximate algorithms for practically all well-known NP-hard problems exist (check wiki pages), and are very effective and efficient.
Interesting idea. I didn't really try too hard making it a complete product, since I was only interested in proving the navigation concept that Bret Victor had described. But that's a good idea, and if you're interested feel free to fork it and add that capability!
Scala has a number of libraries that lets you do this, for example Squants (http://www.squants.com/) and ScalaQuantity [https://github.com/zzorn/ScalaQuantity].
Not to be confused with his brother, the naturalist and broadcaster, David Attenborough. Took me a moment to grok that.

Still, a great has passed.
I thought it was David Attenborough, the best nature program presenter there is. I'm relieved to see it isn't Sir David... this is sad nonetheless of course...
To be fair, you'll see increases even if this doesn't happen.
Relative Finder
Sadly there are still some kinks to work out so it's going to stay on Nightly only. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041631
Presumably, this is the quoted 60-year old but not cost effective process:
http://www.google.com/patents/US2393035
Notes on Minimalism in code
The exclusion of taxes on prices in the US is so infuriating and backwards. Having to manually calculate every price when you're in a store is just a pointless waste of effort. If you have to pay the tax it's part of the price so just regulate that that is the sticker price.
Two words:

NEW GAMES

Gaming has been on the rise as always, and PC gaming has started picking up heavily, especially with the modern eSports scene pretty much dominated by PC. And you need to upgrade those guys to keep abreast.
They don't seem to be detecting marijuana in their currently configured state.
Auger/augur has been giving me way too much amusement over the last few weeks :-).
Open link in an incognito window.
I think you just described a man page. Except for the xml part. That sounds a lot more like something MS would do.