skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lived in Las Vegas for 6 1/2 years, including 7 summers. I'd rather live here than in Florida, where it gets nearly as hot, but which is way more humid and uncomfortable in my opinion. I'm not sure where this idea that Vegas is unlivable in the summer comes from -- it's no worse here in terms of extremes than the winters of some cities. No one would realistically think they could stay outside all the time during the 5-6 month winters of, say, Wisconsin or Vermont. It's already in the high 30's for lows in Wisconsin, for example. But for some reason people accept that without question but think it's crazy living in a place where's it hot (but no shoveling snow!) for 3 months and amazing for 9 months.

As far as Las Vegas getting 90% of its water from the Colorado river, that is true. Which is a whopping 4% of the amount available each year. As bad as things are getting in California, we're not too far from needing desalination there which frees up more than enough water for Las Vegas.

More water evaporates from Lake Mead each year (800,000 acre feet) than is used by Las Vegas (300,000 acre feet) -- http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/lakefaqs.html.
So I just went to Singapore for the F1 with a friend for his 40th, in peasant business class! Need to figure out away to go this way next year! :)
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At root, for any of these filtering/parsing projects to work, it means splitting and inspecting raw communication streams. The EFF is currently challenging mass surveillance on this point and arguing that these raw communications are are protected papers that are being searched without a warrant[1][2].

[1] - https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-asks-judge-rule-nsa-i...

[2] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/deeper-dive-effs-backb...
How exactly does one decide if scope is lexical or non-lexical? Or more precisely how do you tell compiler?
> Feminism supports gender equality

There are enough highly vocal people calling themselves feminists who seem more interested in manufacturing outrage, scolding men, and pursuing self-promotional agendas that it's hard to make any generalisations that will ring true about what feminism is and isn't.

> I dislike the idea that men can only be sold on feminism
> if they think there's something in it for them

Try convincing a nerdy, overweight white male high-school student who's never kissed a girl that he occupies a position of privilege compared to the popular girls at school.

You'll do better if you wait ten years, and then try to explain to the software engineer he became that he has relative privilege compared to the sophisticated VP of Sales who dresses to kill, or girls he meets in bars, but still, you're going to have a bit of a struggle.

You and I can reel off 50 ways in which he's privileged, and the inherent advantages he has by being white, male, smart, etc, but what he knows is that he has a daily grind, and that he has a lot of relationships in his life with women where they hold /all/ the cards.

While people continue to be blind to their own privilege, and only see the highlight reels of other people's privilege (eg: forever), you're only going to be able to sell it on gender equality, rather than "women's rights need to increase beyond where they are now".
How do these people get time for reading reddit, twitter, FB and blogs? Just reading HN once in a while sips away pretty much all of my "free" time.
Why?

I find it a little strange that people constantly have such trouble with basic math concepts, such as variables, fractions, or exponents - things I understood clearly as an elementary school kid.

But there's reasons to think that there's a slight variance in our brain structures and how we perceive things, and that this coupled with our inclination to work at what we're good at leaves people with vastly different levels of skill in particular subject areas by the time they're adults.

It likely appalls me that I continually have to explain basic statistics to executives making decisions based on the information the same way it appalls you that you see people who don't seem to understand emotional concepts.

However, insisting that everyone should know what you know, or be as proficient at the things you're good at as you are, especially when all you do is condemn them for not being rather than genuinely helping them understand makes you an asshole.

I think a lot of people who are good at emotions (and more generally, topics related to people) often forget both how talented they are at those topics and the great deal of time they've spent developing those skills (eg, they're likely to have spent considerably more time socializing).

Just because something is obvious or straightforward for you now doesn't mean that it's that way for other people or that they're not just putting in the little effort it would be for you. (This applies to many topics and situations, really.)

tl;dr: Most people persons I've met seem to have forgotten how much work they put in to people related skills, and just assume everyone should be as good as they are at their subject.
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EI is just another tool to manipulate people to the ends desired, and there will always be people who don't think they're emotional creatures.

Kirk always got Spock to do what he wanted.
Calling the police is like using regular expressions: now you have two problems. You shouldn't expect them to stop crime in progress: if you actually ask a cop she'll tell you that's not their job. Instead, they show up at some random time after the crime is over and do cop things: detain, intimidate, shoot pets, destroy property, confiscate, etc. Why would you invite anyone to your home or neighborhood to do those things? In some cases you have no choice because you're required by law to call the police. Those are the only occasions upon which you should call them.
I think people who are downvoting me don't understand how ludicrously retarded most people who output CSV are. CSV is not RFC4180. It's whatever bullshit text file your client has handed you and convinced your project manager is your problem to parse, not their problem to generate even remotely correctly. There is no CSV library capable of handling "CSV". Every time someone asks you for it, you better kick and scream or expect to do a custom job.
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Your system isn't one of these 58 supported platforms? [0]

[0] netbsd.org/ports
Have you considered the possibility that the "political process" is part of the problem? There are other options.
http://ovh.com/us is the best I found!
It's more cost effective in Japan to fly from Tokyo to Osaka than to take the Shinkansen too (Shinkansen costs ~140USD, flights 120USD).

However flying is a lot more time consuming and inconvenient. The Shinkansen system integrates well with the regular train/subway system. And of course serves locations without airports.
This is literally a reddit clone, what's your edge?
I don't understand your geography of groceries. If you are in a dense city where congestion means that 15 miles is a 90-minute trip, it is almost certainly true that there are hundreds of grocery stores in a 15-mile radius, right? Isn't the important thing your actual distance to a grocer, rather than the time needed to travel 15 miles?
That's probably why they said "some vanilla ML" instead of naming an implementation.
Here is a good video of the Compressed Earth Brick press, the workshop they built with the bricks and a brief shot of the interior of the dorm:

http://vimeo.com/49864277

Also their FB Photo stream has lots of interesting work in process pics:

https://www.facebook.com/OpenSourceEcology/photos_stream
It's true that Rust approaches the "if it compiles, it works" property that Haskell has, but otherwise the two languages have very little philosophical or practical overlap. It doesn't make sense to compare them outside the context of "here are examples of programming languages with relatively strong type systems".
Don't think of it as corruption, think of it as aspect oriented programming!

BEFORE: go to jail

APPLY: expensive lawyer, public pressure
A good read for anyone just starting out with some of the more intricate parts of Ruby.

I often think Ruby is unsurpassed for writing readable, English-like DSLs - perhaps because of the combination of the convenient lassitude of Ruby's syntax (not requiring brackets - in many cases - or semi-colons) and the dangerous power of its metaprogramming abilities. The only other language that perhaps comes close and immediately springs to mind, before I've had my first coffee of the day, is (appropriately) CoffeeScript. Any other takers?
As someone who lives outside the US, what did PG mean when he was talking about Facebook starting as a Florida LLC and that "even you guys know not to do that" ?
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Excellent. The comments here simply further the notion that HN is slowly turning into reddit.
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Sure, if you compare technology currently in commercial use to technology where prototypes are just being built (or even better, technology that Richard Branson wants to have), the latter must look shinier. Hardly surprising.

By the way, you didn't really address "Cars are SLOW" part.
but it is more than 400 pages though
I review hundreds of sites a day (thanks to Hackers News and others). I rarely see anything as unpleasant and impractical as Ello, seriously. From time to time, we see some startups that desperately try to be different and do it at any cost - usually at the cost of usability such as applying successful and familiar concepts.

Anyway, why would one use Ello vs Facebook? I don't mind ads if they are intelligent and I've discovered many products and services via Facebook ads. Google AdWords is a different story - often having duplicate links in the search results (which I penalize by clicking the ad, of course), it's a fierce SEO battlefield. I think Facebook has done an outstanding job and I don't mind it. Allowing me to provide feedback is a feature I use from time to time to make my experience in the future better. What I mind in Facebook is the annoying games. If Ello motto was anti-games, then I'd take it, but, thanks, I'm fine with ads, plus, none of my friends are leaving Facebook anytime soon.
It costs a bit to get to/from the airport too, whereas with shinkansen you have all-you-can-ride JR within the city you arrive at, until you exit the final gate. I'd say there comparable in price.
Everyone knows that Jobs didn't start Pixar

Evidently at least one person didn't know that, because my comment was written in response to someone who wrote that Jobs "also started Pixar". If the commenter had written "also a main driving force behind Pixar", no correction would have been required.
I'm not very knowledgeable so take this with a grain of salt, but I believe he's talking about the common strategy of having your business set up in Delaware.
> Large, federalist government has provided us a means towards equality and justice unlike any the world has witnessed prior.

Those two concepts are fairly vague and subjective, but assuming they have increased, what makes you think that large federalist governments are the cause, rather than, say, the industrial revolution, medical breakthroughs, or population growth?
Guy worth hundreds of millions trades one one-percenter job for a couple of smaller one-percenter jobs. Just before the shit massively hits the fan at old job (total coincidence, really!). Comes up with cute story involving daughter. Profit!
> The Shinkansen is expensive; with the rise of low-cost carriers, any train trip that takes more than two hours from Tokyo is less cost-effective than flying.

Nonsense. Narita airport is about an hour away from central Tokyo (by one of two express trains, probably longer by car), and Haneda about 30-40 minutes (by monorail, probably longer by car). Then you get to deal with being in an airport. Both run more smoothly than the ones in the US, but still require early arrival for boarding. Flights are _far_ more likely to have delays. Then you get to deal with another airport again after landing, especially if you checked luggage.

Contrast with the shinkansen: trains leave every 10-15 minutes from the center of the city, have better seats (and green or first-class costs a fraction of a first-class plane ticket), and no dealing with airport security or lines at all.

It would take a 4-5 hour trip minimum for me to fly rather than take a train in Japan.
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Isometric view of GitHub contributions
Is this company in any sense a startup? They seem like a utility to me. I've never seen any ads they've run, and I can't imagine an ad volume that would justify $6 emails, so "sales and marketing" seems to be a euphemism for "lobbying, bribery, and personal entertainment slush-fund". This much basically-stolen money being thrown around is bound to erode ethics. It will surprise no one if multiple principals of this firm get to use these services personally within the decade.
I would never even think about flying. Shinkansen from Tokyo-Osaka is a massive step up in convenience and comfort.
The 'Python community' says those things because the CPython codebase is a PITA to embed, that is the only reason. With a clean design, like the Lua interpreter, embedding vs extending is about equal.
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Don't expect to see that architecture on the floor of a retailer near you anytime soon. Maybe in the EU??? NOT in the US.
The fact that you can order dirt-cheap machined parts, sometimes delivered overnight, is why I never understood the popularity of 3D printing.
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Why I can't pick my username on signup? Why assume my email ID is what I want as my username?! This is a pretty bad anti-pattern!
Purrrl files never expire.
> Or, more importantly, it could cease to exist as useful reservoir with only a few more of the poor water years without a significant break that have been the norm since 2000.

I've seen Hoover Dam from the inside. I'd pay to see it again at the bottom from the former lake bed.
After spending some time in Hong Kong, these are the motivations that I've seen for jailbreak:

1. Piracy. Apps are expensive on iOS, but Hong Kong loves brands. Having an iPhone is a fashion symbol. Also, access to pirated content (video/music) is a big deal in HK; content is often expensive or unavailable in the region. Content piracy apps, such as BitTorrent clients, Baidu music downloaders, and some MKV-friendly video players, are only available after jailbreaking.

2. Carrier unlock. iPhones sold in Hong Kong are carrier-unlocked, but imported iPhones are often carrier-locked. To force a carrier unlock, you must jailbreak your phone. As a result, a lot of iPhones in HK are either jailbroken to allow carrier unlock or use hardware-based SIM card hacks.

3. Tethering. In HK, most data plans did not allow for free tethering (at the time I was there). Jailbreak allows "illicit" tethering that uses the same data plan, without informing the carrier about how the data is being used.

So, don't assume that jailbreakers are necessarily ignorant.

It's unfortunate that jailbreaking comes with non-obvious security compromises.
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It depends where you are. In areas not well served by the JR you can end up spending quite a bit on the Metro. But you're right the costs are comparable.

However given that, I think convenience is the deciding factor in the Shinkansen's favor.
I think the rule is every other not odd-even.
> By the way, you didn't really address "Cars are SLOW" part.

Not scientific but: Top Gear's race in Japan for example.

Car absolutely obliterated the public transportation network which included the Shinkansen (ignoring the "I turned the satnav off accidentally and lost an hour" bit).

Although hard to determine just how much Clarkson was breaking the speed limits..

But it shows that direct point to point travel can make up for slower average speed.
> By the way, you didn't really address "Cars are SLOW" part.

Really ?

> I'm pretty sure we will see at some point motorways for automated cars where cars will go way above current speed limits
Name your machines whatever you want and use CNAMEs to address them. It really shouldn't (and generally doesn't) matter what scheme you use. Naming schemes like this are mostly about personal aesthetics. If you think it looks 1337 to encode a lot of information in the hostname you can do that. You can also choose funny names. When you're small it's easy to manage anything and when you grow any unique key to look up in a server database will do.
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Well, the concept of whether something is "overrated" is a squishy one. Overrated by whom? Rated by what criteria?

As to the question of whether emotional intelligence has value, the answer is clearly yes, as even this author admits:

> Cognitive ability is the capacity to learn. The higher your cognitive ability, the easier it is for you to develop emotional intelligence when you need it. (This is one of the reasons that emotional intelligence and cognitive ability turn out to correlate positively, not negatively.)

So, it's not that emotional intelligence doesn't matter, but rather that it's possible for very smart people to be emotionally intelligent as well.

But where does cognitive ability come from? Quite a lot of what the author calls cognitive ability is actually developed through learning: "the capability to reason and solve verbal, logical, and mathematical problems."

And the first crucial step toward such learning is emotional intelligence. There is quite a lot of research showing that very young children who are taught how to recognize, name, and discuss their emotions achieve more in education and career than those who are not. The book "Brain Rules for Baby" summarizes much of this research.
It depends on the goals of the project I guess. I don't think of Antarctica as a colonization effort so much as a research outpost. There are people living there year 'round, but there hasn't been an effort to move people out there en masse.

If future Mars missions are launched with the goals of establishing a research station, then yeah, I don't expect it to become self-sufficient.

But, if future Mars missions are launched with the expressed goal of establishing an independent colony, then I think there's at least a chance it might work.

Certainly there are a lot of challenges. We probably don't even know what all of the challenges are yet. For all we know, Mars could be host to a deadly microorganism, some extremophile we've never seen before. It could go the way of the Roanoke colony, with a total loss of the whole colony.

I would still go anyway though. Because maybe, after fifty years of chipping away at it, we would have learned enough and developed enough new technology as a result of the effort to have made it all worthwhile.

It is a huge risk for a potentially huge payoff. I'm always amazed when HN, of all places, doesn't see it that way.
Do not conflate "zero emotional intelligence" (i.e. the clueless, innocently blunt) for "destructive personality" (i.e. the arrogant, egotistical, aggressive, confrontational etc.)

Yeah. I'd even go so far as to say that the worst offenders are often very high on the emotional intelligence scale. They're deceptive, manipulative, narcissistic psychopaths like Ted Bundy or Frank Underwood (of House of Cards fame).
Your quote suggests flying is cheaper, not quicker as you're arguing.

That's probably true, but it does it a lot longer.
A regexp would work, but it's usually the wrong level of abstraction to operate at. One wants to say "for the next 2,000 rows, retrieve columns 2 and 4, and the column labeled 'foo'", not write a regexp.
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except reddit wasn't exactly created for the mainstream community either. it just turned out that way. the reddit admins don't exactly have an incentive to cater to everyone, I mean help their giving away stock because they want to not because someone's telling them to or cause it'll profit them (although it might in the long run with PR and all)
Most people would take it as an incentive to learn how to repair tractors but few would go in the direction of building their own tractor. For such an obviously smart guy it's not a very efficient use of either his time or capital.
Sigh. I should have pointed out that I used to be an Air Force engineer. Although my post was a massive oversimplification, it was not for any of the reasons you pointed out. No, dev time would not be more than 1 engineer, at least not for the bomb guidance part. Most bombs that are dropped do not need massive accuracy - anywhere in a 10m radius will do the job nicely. There ate a few targets where you want 1m accuracy, but that's the exception. A phone 'a sensors should be able to do the job sufficiently well.

No, where you're really going to get burned in dev is hooking the bomb up to the aircraft's targeting system. That's a world of pain right there. The best solution might probably involve making a Bluetooth widget that hooks up to the aircraft and then talks to the bomb via radio. They could be pre-paired in the factory. Not ideal though. You're also going to need to spend a ridiculous sum of money on sales, just to get your foot in the door.
a) it doesn't matter b) lua doesn't have these pointer things you speak of. If you are going to hate on 1 based indexing at least have the fine style of EWD.
Hmm. Kind of like the reverse of the bit in Charles Stross' "Merchant Princes" novel series where the trans-dimensional smugglers donate to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America to help keep drugs illegal and the price up.

Except your example is real, just like back in the 80s when the govt (CIA?) helped smuggle in cocaine.
>The amount of advertising...

...was a reason people subscribed to computer magazines in the days before the internet, because it was one of the best ways to find out about (and purchase via mail-order) new stuff.
on the jvm i would say groovy is probably one of the better languages for dsl's. Gradle is a dsl and groovy has inbuilt Builder classes to help you in the creation of dsl's

Clojure being a lisp is extremely powerful in this regard as well, but if you are programming in any lisp I would expect a fair amount of meta programming.
I heard about this a few years ago. So this is how it came out.

Think of this as a startup. The basic concept is interesting. A decade on, it's clear that the execution was botched. The article indicates at least the following problems:

- Trying to do too many things, and ending up doing them badly, rather than doing a few things well. Take a look at the list of machines being built, and the "percent completed". None have reached 100%, and only four are over 75%. This is after ten years.
- Employee retention problems. (A major problem with any volunteer effort.)
- Founder not into delegation.

This has been done before, better. There's a classic series, "Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap" (http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Metalworking-Shop-Scrap/dp/...) from 1982. You start with charcoal, sand, wood, and metal scrap, set up a forge, and cast parts. With the forge, you make parts for a lathe. That's book 2. Book 3, a metal shaper. Book 4, a milling machine. Book 5, a drill press. Book 6, precision tools so you can do accurate work. It's a lot of work, but people have successfully followed those directions and made machine tools.

Further back, there are the Foxfire books, from 1962 (http://www.amazon.com/The-Foxfire-Book-Dressing-Moonshining/...). This was the bible of the hippie "back to the land" movement. A number of communes were set up using those books.
Another iOS 8 screwup:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2689349/cloud-computing/ios...

Don't get me wrong, Apple fan here. Just not a fan of bad work environments.