skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear, no. CT is another language for abstraction and the same argument as always hold: languages are equally expressive so it's "just a matter of taste" as to what you use.

Category theory emphasizes focusing on the relations between thinfs instead of the things themselves. This can be a natural fit for some theories. For instance, anyone studying probability theory knows that random variables are already functions instead of "objects" but they are the primary thing to study. The CT-minded expression of probability theory is obviously equivalent to the Kolgomorov one, but takes that r.v. emphasis further. You can decide whether or not that's a good thing.
Correct me if I am wrong but the statement "game’s audiovisual content is primarily stored on the developer’s server and not in the client" is not true for any mmo.

3D models and audio are saved to the clients disk. It's the state of the persistent world that is stored on the server.
Did you read TFA? It said he's not interested in piracy and TPB servers should have been set on fire years ago as far as he was concerned.
The only ICE advancement that really seems interesting to me is adding an extra cycle to inject distilled water into the cylinder for an extra power stroke.

The idea being that the heat from the prior explosive power stroke is used to turn the water into steam. Now you're using wasted heat energy and removing the need for cooling components.
Twitter Through TOR, Twitter Accuses You of Spam
Running twitter through Tor I am repeatedly asked to sign in again and confirm I am human apparently because Twitter says I appear as spam. Isn't this special. Different I.P. addresses trigger this apparently.
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Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model
> The growers have a lot of money though, that can be directed (or not) to supporting lobbying groups/advertising.

They have neither the resources or the lobbyists that come close to what either the pharma or alcohol industries have. Maybe this will change when the markets in CO, WA, and AK mature.
Excellent choices. We try to take the pros and cons from each of those services and make it better. Basically, Scrape.it aims to be simple to use like Kimono and able to handle complex websites as well.

You can scrape websites like Kayak and Airbnb as well by following the Scrape.it Tool.

We also have a dedicated number of hours every month to create the jobs for you so you could just tell us the websites you want to scrape.

We then monitor the jobs so that they will continue working without interruptions (ip throttle, website layout changes).
Does category theory lead to any interesting results in computability?
Cybertown was great. You could import your own VRML created objects to sell in the market for virtual currency; e.g. furnishings for people's homes.
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Oh I see, so the intended outcome is to raise awareness with the general public and shed light on issues with existing software they use in hopes that the powers at be take notice?
Yes there is a lot of money. It's in the pharmaceutical and alcohol industry lobbies. There will be a strong marijuana lobby one day, but it doesn't exist now.
I used to frequent a few of the meetups. People in this city are very friendly. I've gone to a few R users group meetings, some mobile developer meetings, and some informal bar get togethers and I can't remember a time where I didn't learn something new or pick something up from very friendly people.

Just try lots of things. Some groups last and some don't, but it's generally worthwhile to give things a shot.
> Oh right, they don't always work so we need herd immunity.

The problem here isn't vaccines, it's the human immune system, which is imperfect. People who've had the chicken pox as a child can and do get it later in life. Vaccines only work by manipulating the existing machinery of the immune system, and so can only do so much. They're not meant to be some kind of magical potion that confers perfect immunity.

Herd immunity is a key part, however, of how vaccines keep POPULATIONS healthy. By giving a large number of individuals (say, 95%) a significantly reduced chance of catching a communicable disease, the entire population is at less risk of a disease outbreak because it's harder for the infection to spread. This is why polio, measles, mumps, etc. have been exceedingly rare in the US in the later half of the 20th century - because large numbers of people were more resistant to catching the diseases and therefore much less likely to spread the disease to others.

> Make eradication a priority rather than endless vaccination programs that look like corporate welfare. I know this is actually very very hard.

Yes. It's been done once with a human disease, and that was through a massive, worldwide vaccination campaign. What other means do you suggest we employ to eradicate a disease? Massive quarantines? Airstrikes on areas with outbreaks?
Axial engines go back a long way, to at least 1917.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_engine

That format is widely used in hydraulic systems, and is the basis of continuously-variable hydraulic transmissions. Classically, it has problems at high RPMs, but is well behaved at low ones.

It's an idea that might be worth looking at again. With better materials and controls, it might work. The geometry is more flexible than with Wankel engines. The elegant Wankel geometry means there aren't many parameters that can be adjusted to improve combustion. In a piston engine, you can design piston face geometry, cylinder head geometry and fuel and air injection points for better combustion. With a Wankel, you're kind of stuck with the geometry. We'll have to see how this new approach works on pollution control.
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Is "hipster" the new Godwin point nowadays?
Yes but has there been evidence of the cartels funding political campaigns in the US?
Time on page differences?
I don't think any of the BI proponents suggested to finance it by printing new money. More likely taxes, but keep in mind that they wouldn't be spent by the government. But speaking of inflation, in the eurozone, they can't seem to figure out how to increase it. Everyone seems to be anxious about the possibility of deflation. Which seems strange, because if they just printed money and distributed it to everyone, you'd think this would both produce inflation and increase consumption, no?
The more plausible response is:

"He went to jail for piracy? I better be more careful!"
I get your point. I'm saying no segment of the MJ/MMJ market was strong enough in LA County to swing the election. The pushback from rank-and-file residents against the dispensaries was in the front sections of the LA Times for months. The growers were not part of the discussion.

It's true that there are multiple constituencies in the MJ/MMJ community (patients, recreational users, growers of all kinds, licensed dispensaries, unlicensed, street gangs, cartels) and that Prop. 19 split them. Perhaps a different Prop. might have made the MJ community slide definitively to one side or the other, but that's a different question.

The neighborhood where I live was affected by this, and one of the lightning rods was a friend (interviewed in the LA Times several times), as were some people on the other side. That makes me consider myself well-informed, but who knows, maybe I'm biased. ;-)
Author, I'll tell you what the #1 barrier for me to sign up for anything is going to be...

I'm probably going to get spammed if I do.
Because I have to implicitly provide email or social network details, and then I'm inviting myself to be hounded with email newsletters or asked to like your posts, whatever.

Even worse, if your company isn't doing so hot in 3 months, you may decide to sell your contact list to a 3rd party. Your privacy policy for information I provide you may allow for this in a weasel-worded paragraph legal suggested you add somewhere buried in there that I don't care to read, even if that was never your intention.

I invite myself to be bothered by your business (or others) in this way, in perpetuity, in exchange for a service that I'm not sure is even worth the annoyance yet. Again, I'm not even sure if I should bother reading through all your FAQs yet, let alone any EULAs.

This is a difficult value proposition.

Is there some way that a startup can convince me that they will not treat me as a commodity to be sucked up and spat out, but instead a precious potential partner to hold closely and want to serve in exchange for money and/or feedback?

Can you word that into your TOS or EULAs to let us know that you are committed to not jerking me around?

That's what I want before I sign up.

Call it "Sign up", "Try it free", "First Hit's On the House", wording is irrelevant. I'm looking for a commitment and some kind of indicator that the risk to my already at-limit information overload is low.

Oh and for the love of god, please don't make me install another fucking app if you could just as easily do the job with a web page that looks good in mobile chrome or safari.
It's insulting.
I thought the non-existence of time explained why time never runs backward.
It's not that weird if you think about it - same line of reasoning is what finally got Al Capone. Legal or illegal, Uncle Sam always gets his.
A fantasy videogame that teaches programming (within the game referred to as magic) to kids, and especially girls.
http://codemancergame.com

It's cool for many reasons.
1. It's a game, so that's cool.
2. Magic is programming (and vice versa)! I invented a minimal visual programming language for the game.
3. The current cultural context for technology is forbidding to some, so pulling the skill-building out of that context, and into a fantasy world, is more inclusive than most ways of getting started in programming.
4. An author is working on a companion book to go along with the game.
5. I've also promised an online course, 'Python for Codemancers' that will help people who beat the game transfer their skills into a real-world programming language.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobbylox/codemancer-a-f...
No torque at low RPM is true, but I've not found it to be an issue. I use the engine in the same way as I do on my motorcycle - pretty much always above 4000.

The flooding issue I mentioned. It may have been different with the RX7, but the RX8 has a de-flood procedure that works 9 times out of 10. And failing that a bump start usually does it. Although I've never flooded mine, I'm always careful not to shut her down cold.

Oil usage in the real world is not much worse than many other performance cars, in fact it's better than most Honda S2000s. But for people who are not used to having to regularly top up oil I could see it being a ball ache.
Not quite as bad but Google docs is of course used in Google (and others) interviews. It's a bit disconcerting when you realise that all the backspacing/revisions you made are there forever.

(make me want to go back and see whether I can see other peoples comments .... hmmm)
Oh nice! I started a VRML parser in Action Script (Flash), but never finished. Worked with Papervision3D at that time.
He's not interested in TPB, but what about his thoughts on piracy?

> “People ask if I would have done anything different if I could. The answer is no. This has been nothing more than five months of wasted time.”

Prison is supposed to be a place of rehabilitation. If there's no rehabilitation, there's no point to it.
I do agree with you but a turbo diesel isn't a valid comparison because it is:

1) turbo charged
2) diesel fueled

An inter-cooled turbocharger setup on this engine would likely net an additional 100 HP without much issue (presuming the sealing issues aren't horrific). Generally 100 HP per litre of displacement is the gold standard for naturally aspirated engines (see Ferrari).
We have put multiple man months into the same effort - data and BI integration into Redshift for all the data visualizations, etc. This is truly is promising.
Wtftw: xmonad inspired tiling window manager written in Rust
There was the SHA0 -> SHA1 thing. Which mostly illustrates what you say here, of course, just seemed to deserve mention.
> I live in Alaska as a high school teacher.

It's still illegal unless you're 21 or over, so I'm not really sure why that would make your job as a high school teacher any more difficult.
It does matter how many blacks, whites, women, men, gays or straights you hire, if they are all 20-something graduates of the same 10 CS programmes, you have not achieved any meaningful sort of diversity.
I'm white, two kids approached me after looking at me like they never saw a white man before (which might have been the case) and then asked the guy with me (local) if they could touch my hair.

Golda Meir talks about a situation just like this while visiting Africa. Children ask to touch her hair. Furthermore, the kids ask her where she's from, and she replies Jerusalem, and they refuse to believe it's a real city outside of myth.
This argument always comes up and its an argument I hate. If for no other reason, I dislike it because from what I've seen rates of depression are dramatically higher when you introduce these sorts of jobs vs. letting people scrape by working land in a 3rd world setting.

What you're arguing is (excuse the hyperbolic nature of the example) that slavery is better than leaving indigenous people in their natural setting. Your argument makes sense from an economic perspective but I don't believe it holds water when you account for quality of life.
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I'm not a Twitter historian, so I may be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet that their client side rendering allowed them to scale the way they did. When your customers' computers are doing half the work or more, adding a customer costs you half as much or less.
YES, the worst is making custom tweaks. What pain-points have you experienced with them?
I think Facebook is a lot into D, sounds a more appropriate, for lack of a better word, "replacement" for golang.
Same in Slovenia (and other parts of Europe). My mother and her relatives will use words when speaking their village dialect that someone from a short distance away could not comprehend.

In this Reddit story, I think they did things like get him Mandarin lessons, practice various customs, find a Chinese "uncle and aunt" to take him to dim sum and whatever else. Then when signing his son up for college applications, the father noticed the surnames of his kid's birth parents were very typical Korean names. All those good intentions!
Storing the operations for ever is not necessary - they could apply an upper bound on what latency is reasonable; the server then could coalesce changes into groups (sorted by position in the document, transformed into a position at the end of the group of changes) for history. For undo, they could use grouped changes after a certain number of operations of history.

They would then be able to implement sharing without allowing access to the history.

Alternatively, and more easily, they could record the state when someone is given access to the document, and not allow access to operations received by the server before then unless they are granted a separate permission.
My product MyShopData.com uses web scraping for retailers to extract their own data and integrate with marketplaces.
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yep, there is a reason why military for example aren't allowed to form a union. I hope CIA/FBI/NSA aren't allowed to have it too. And prison guards and police shouldn't be allowed to. Holders of "license for violence" shouldn't have masters other than the government hierarchy they belong to thus minimizing conflict of interests.
For the preprocessing part of the problem this might be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8356100
It's not just that the U.S. is a big boat, it's that the federal government is necessarily slow to respond to local changes. At the national level, the consensus in favor of legalizing marijuana shifted to a slight majority just last year: http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/04/majority-now-supports.... Indeed, if we're talking about the voting public, rather than just the general population, the national consensus is likely still in favor of keeping it illegal, since actual voters skew older and more conservative than the population as a whole.

Furthermore, the drug policy boat in particular is very big. A lot of this policy, and the institutions implementing it, was developed in the 1980's and 1990's. In 1991, the consensus in favor of making marijuana illegal was an overwhelming 78-17. Being anti-drug was a political winner, something both sides of the aisle could get behind. Almost everyone old enough to have substantial leadership within the drug enforcement organizations grew up in an intensely anti-drug culture. It will take quite some time for those folks to age out of the system.
AT&T sells its Watson speech platform to Interactions Corp
He doesn't seem the type that would say on record "yes master, I'll be a good boy now" if that's what you're looking for.
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Workday to Put Employees Through a Big Data Analysis
We have a bunch of old rotary race cars in the showroom at the 9-5, you wouldn't believe how much noise and oil they put out the back whenever they need to be moved around :)

wank-wank-wank-wank-BANG!-wank-wank-wank-wank
CoreOS + Docker (with minimal images) also provides those characteristics but feels less alien.
ive thought about this too when considering an architecture like the one described ..seems as though storing in S3 is a good first stop for the data as it takes very little care and feeding for a massive amount of data.

then, depending on your query and data processing needs you can look to other tools such as elastic search, or elastic map reduce or xyz db.

see also : http://petewarden.com/2010/10/01/how-i-ended-up-using-s3-as-...
I assume the application most people have in mind is cars. As others have said, electric seems to be the future there, so while this may be a revolutionary engine, it's possible the timing won't help it.

What about other applications? Would this work well for marine, aviation, factory, or other purposes?
For sure. Or offer "Vanilla" servers. I remember back in the day Ultima Online servers would pop up form time to time with the classic UI.
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Here's simple code for 360 Product Visualizer with CSS and HTML http://codepen.io/samarkandiy/pen/sLzmn
New York Times - NYC - iOS Developer

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You can download the latest YouTube resolver from here: http://teom.org/axes/nightly/

Just "Install from file" it in the settings.
That's assuming the workers could afford food before. I seem to recall that when eastern child labor shops were shut down at the behest of Westerners, we found that child labor dropped- and starvation and kids in the sex trade both increased.

It's wrong to assume indigenous people need saving, but IMO it's also wrong to assume their lives were great before.
Kinda relevant, and less and less relevant every day
I was also referring more broadly to the world in general.

I am a white upper-middle-class knowledge worker who lives in Canada, so I suspect I can objectively say that most of the people in the world are worse off than I am, in terms of security, comfort and stability.

But that doesn't mean they are any less human, or any less worthy of a good and decent life, and the fact that so many are denied that makes me sad.

I do what I can (supporting charities and organizations who help, and doing what I can in my personal life), but it's still easy to feel helpless about the whole thing...
I like the visualizations of the stack behaviour.
Looks really promising. We're using HoneySQL now, but OJ might be even lighter.
Distributed On-the-Fly Image Processing at Vimeo
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Actually, I don't have super strong feelings on the topic. I was being quite literal in saying "This is what I think the OP was trying to say" vs endorsing it 100%.
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Bungie specifically allowed this to happen with the old Myth franchise. They open-sourced their bungie net code when they shut it down. Since then, several fan sites have kept the servers alive. The game was published in 1997.
We're talking not about "anything". We're talking about specific thing where the law enforcement enforces arbitrary prohibition against the will of the same people they pretend to protect. Comparing this to Jim Crow laws makes no sense - Jim Crow laws limited people's rights, legalization expands people's rights. Jim Crow laws was an arbitrary governmental restriction, legalization removes the arbitrary governmental restriction. If anything, you should be asking what if the Feds had Jim Crow laws and some state would say they would not support it anymore - is it good for Feds to try and force them to still abide by such laws?

Not that there is absolutely any evidence theres even 10% of voters in Mississippi - let alone 51% - that would really support instituting Jim Crow laws now. For starters, 37.5% of Mississippi population is African-American, and it would require 88% of white vote to achieve 51%. Are you seriously claiming 88% of Mississippi white population - I assume you don't go as far as assuming African-American citizens of Mississippi want to introduce Jim Crow laws - are not only fervently racist, but actually want Jim Crow laws? Any data to back that ridiculous assumption?
Appreciate the insight @tlb. One of the most interesting things we found when we first embarked on this journey was the seemingly inverse relationship between the size of the check and the donor/beneficiary connection. Great to see innovators like Watsi and Zidisha (DonorsChoose, charity: water, etc) bringing that connection back!

Clickable links for folks:

Watsi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563558 (today's Universal Fund announcement)

Zidisha: https://www.zidisha.org/