skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, trucks do deliver more than anything, but that is the nature of roads, UPS, FedEx, and the post office. The Mississippi is a large conduit of bulk items. It is also cheaper to ship than truck or rail ( https://www.cavs.msstate.edu/publications/docs/2013/03/11509... ) with rail being cheaper than truck.

From a little farther in the same article "The water transportation system, including coastal and inland-waterway barge service, is critically important for the transportation of heavy, bulky grains, clays, gravels, etc."

It goes on to talk about adding capacity to the waterways. Plus, you seem to be skipping the multimode column.

> The larger the economy gets, the more goods must be shipped via other modes. At the end of the day, only so much can fit on the Mississippi.

The report you cite is basically is talking about the need for more capacity of our roads. The Mississippi River barge transport is not going away (and expanding) because it is cheap with good infrastructure.
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> until all of a sudden the most distant stars go dim

Why the most distant?
I really consider this a failing of the browser. Clicking back should take me to the previous page I interacted with, never a redirect page.
Ask HN: Can you spot biases in this hiring process
If you've got a moment and care about making hiring less biased and meritocratic, then I'd like to hear from you.

We're a young startup transforming hiring, but we have a lot to learn about inherent human biases and assumptions that exist.

This article outlines the hiring process at American Express.

How to get hired at American Express?
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/interviews/a34618/interview-insider-american-express-career-jobs/

Did you spot any inherent biases being made by the recruiter or the company in outlining their hiring criteria and reference analogies?

As an applicant, do you feel marginalized or excluded for reasons unrelated to your raw talent or skills?

Many thanks for helping out.
Virgin births in animals are no longer rare
That's pretty accurate. So now you need to figure out what a reasonable time is. Once you get public postings about your canary being dead without having made an update it is in beyond repair territory for me. A day late, maybe. More than the normal interval between updates late: too late. In between: debatable, but not looking good either. It's like making a promise and then not keeping that promise.

By how much did you miss your Monday morning deadlines? Did you ever go a whole week without an update? Is someone tasked with doing it and someone else tasked with checking that it has been done (which is the way this should be set up, preferably with more than one person for the second role backed up with an automated process that sends out messages of impending aviary demise).
Seems like it'd be easy enough to verify, if someone in Oakland can go down to a local library and check the microfilm. http://oaklandtribunearchives.tumblr.com/help
Are there any songs you're referring to in particular?
And another which is encouraging pellet stoves as safer and cleaner than paraffin or energy-hungry charcoal: http://www.africancleanenergy.com/
This is good advice for any relationship, not just friendship - including jobs, business, dating etc
I wasn't asserting that money is the determining factor in asserting one's purpose.

I was relating to the parent's point that some people cannot learn to function in society. These people couldn't offer things such as community service and some of them might be so separated from society from their handicap as to not have any one caring for them except the government agencies in charge of them.
I feel there's a language used here to conceal some questionable reasoning;

"Why don't we see a civilizations spanning a galaxy? How would that work? No idea but why don't we see it?"

We could ask why we don't see Lovecraftian gods or giant life forms that each stars. We don't know how that works either.
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What about the spying on Europeans or are they not considered people?
Logs: http://t.co/EZkkBBULGi
Nebraska man developing world’s first ‘warp drive’ in his garage
Yes, but it's time for your meeting with the Bobs.

... I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS, DAMMIT!!!

(apologies if you've not seen "Office Space")
Not this again!
The fact that the article shows only the under developed images (like the over crowded vehicle and the snake charmer) makes me sad. These articles and the tv shows have completely wrong images of india in their mind. You can argue why is it a big deal, but when you see the typecast running in all the articles these days it hurts mostly because it so far from the reality. I have not seen a snake charmer my entire life after staying in the country for 25 years!
The problems he mentions might be true I dont have any experience but I bet its common and holds true for the entire outsourcing business.
Vayu - http://vayu2.brace.io/

My friend is the founder, working in Ann Arbor with an amazing group of aeronautical and electrical engineers, medical researchers, and others. They're building hardened VTOL drones to take medical supplies, samples, tests, back and forth from hospitals to rural India. They have a great team and deep relationships with the NGO and health sectors in India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsLdRAYxa1o
Mindfulness Mitigates Biases You May Not Know You Have
And the first iMacs.
"If you are smart and capable, the US is THE best place to be."

I think this is generally true if you are looking for a place that can best leverage your skill sets for maximum financial rewards, and you are willing sacrifice some quality of life in doing so.

"If you aren't (and enjoy government financial support) the US is not the best place."

I suppose this is the part that got you downvoted because it came across snarky. But it's also not entirely true. You can still be very average or somewhat talented in the U.S. and still hold much better paying jobs in the U.S. than you would anywhere else in the world, if you pick the right sector.
Hide and Seek II off Songs for Tibet is my favorite thing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T60Ttsb-n3w
An open-source data collection system (census, health, economic, anything...) using apps on the ubiquitous non-smart phones: https://opendatakit.org/
Releasing such documents, even if fully redacted, is important for State Agencies when dealing with a branding windfall. This, along with for example Obama's recent memo to the US Intelligence community asking them to be more considerate of civil liberties for allied nations, do nothing to actually address the problem but they do give off the appearance of caring.

Compare this to how a corporation deals with a negative branding windfall. Take the case of GM this year in dealing with their ignition switch recall. The controversy increased as their response was based on rationalization without dealing with the fallout of trust. Eventually the increased negativity brought their CEO to practically beg the public for forgiveness.

The US Gov, perhaps just another corporation, stands in contrast by conducting a rational response like Toyota, albeit slower, but it has no reason to consider the wider trust fallout, apart from measures this article mentions. It feels there is no reason to prosecute anyone for torture (Obama's look forward not backward argument). This protection of their gangsters [1] is a mentality that trickles down through the whole system of governance including how wrongful acts by the police are handled.

When Toyota's trust was damaged they had to beg to keep customers. When the US Gov's trust is damaged... meh, you're not going anywhere.

1. http://youtu.be/tQhIRBxbchU?t=2m9s
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Christmas Eve. Great job attempting to sweep it under the rug, NSA. I hope the papers all wait until after New Years to report.
You could audit the code yourself and self-host.
They certainly didn't have to get the support for 2.2.0 out on Christmas morning, but they (actually, Terence) did.

https://twitter.com/hone02/status/548131759762968576

Although with Matz an employee I'm sure they were well ahead of the curve. ;)
Wow, talk about a blast from the past.
What a beautiful article.
At which point, it will be labeled "last year's news".
What abstraction are you specifically referring to if I my ask?
CylonJS, Artooio, and Gobot are all written by the same people and their contributors https://github.com/hybridgroup/
It's great that intl is getting more visibility!
If you're working with intl, please make sure to use standard only methods. I've recently noticed v8 has some legacy/nonstandard methods exposed on stable build. As expected I've already filed a bug on v8 regarding this issue but a heads up for the developers.
is mozilla missing out on the scene of desktop app? what's next after xulrunner?

Also, i have a legacy app written with xpcom like components. Is atom shell a right platform if i decide to re-write the old xulrunner based application with new platform such as atom-shell, node-webkit or qt may be?

Are there any licensing issue with atom-shell for desktop apps?
That's correct. Android will warn you if the signatures don't match too. Even if we're in the full-on conspiracy theory territory of Google disabling that core security feature, impersonating a third-party developer, and dropping a binary onto a single user's phone, they still couldn't fake the signature.
It's a Christmas theme - check out the numbers on the items as well. When you have enough karma you can set the top-color for yourself, and that over-rides the default. I hadn't noticed the color change because it doesn't show up for me.
Some more food for thought on how startups could be the key to solving this problem for themselves and the industry at large.

The Diversity Cure: How Startups Are The Key

We’d like to show how startups benefit from a proactive strategy to enlist a wide variety of talent and experience.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2014/12/23/the-diversity-...
It's interesting to me that the author spent years looking at these photos and wrote a very long article about them and still doesn't seem to understand the photographs. I think I spent less than a minute before I at least I think I got something more out of it than what the author saw. I could be totally misunderstanding the author though.

All the reasons Nigel gives for what makes those photos interesting miss the point I think.

> "although any of us could have taken those pictures, only one person actually did"

> "Just knowing that these scenes aren’t the most beautiful places along the trail system provokes a rush of tenderness for that forest. It’s the same thing I feel looking at pictures of my wife caught unaware she’s being photographed, when she looks ordinary instead of radiant."

> "reducing each of Struth’s photographs to a list of the plant species it contained and some observations on the successional state of the forest. "

I notice this miss the point on artsy/literary stuff happens a lot when talking to other engineers. It's like there's a blindness that some can't seem to overcome. To see the pictures in another way, the keyword here used in the article was "complexity". Look at one, and image this wasn't a photograph at all. Imagine it if were an abstract painting, like a pollock painting. Forget about the forest, and that there are plants in it, just focus a little bit less and look at the lines. The author is looking at all the wrong details. Struth here seems to care about the tangle of lines, the massive dark structures contrasting with the little bits of tiny complex jumbles. I'd guess the best I could do is to say to an engineer, try to write a program that generates patterns like this. What would that look like? These aren't photos of randomness, there is complex, sophisticated architecture in these plants trying to fight for scraps of light. It's humbling and in a way reminds me of other types of structures in nature like the superstructures in the cosmos, like the CfA2 Great Wall[1]. Try and focus out a little, like I said, try and see it as a painting. Turn off the forest, and then if you get it, turn it back on, because context is important.

A good analogy here might be the 3D Stereograms that were popular in the 90's. Some people looked at those things and couldn't see the 3D (I often couldn't) but would say they see something.

[1] http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2004/31/aa0696/img12.g...
Is the sandboxing released into public builds yet? I've been sort of holding off on making the jump back to FF until that happens. Still champing at the bit a little for precisely the reasons you mention. Firefox is worthy of support simply by virtue of being both open, and supported by an organization whose motives aren't intrinsically suspect.
Clappr: Subjectively compare video with different bitrates, codecs
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A friend of mine has been trying to get me to start a consulting company along those lines. For companies that need computer help sporadically, a lot of automation to their tasks, and regular checkups. But not full time staff. I think it would be particularly appealing to older engineers who have other things they are interested in and want to be able to scale their hours to their schedule rather than the other way around. Certainly something to think about.
Arduino is supported the same most frameworks control the Arduino via Firmata, http://gobot.io/documentation/platforms/arduino/ If you meant you wanted to run Go on the Arduino, then yes that's not possible.

You could always run Gobot on a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone to control the Arduino.
Chinese knockout will use helium gas :-)
We can't calculate the probability of life arising though because even if we did know how it arose here—which we don't exactly—we don't know all the possible different ways it can arise, which may or may not also be a number raised to a large power.
I think that is the point of the NSA and has since the beginning.
Hey, thanks a lot for recommending rust. Since your comment, I've investigated it, and it's exactly what I'm looking for!
Merry Xmas ya glorious basterds!
> In a 2012 case, for example, an NSA analyst “searched her spouse’s personal telephone directory without his knowledge to obtain names and telephone numbers for targeting,” according to one report. The analyst “has been advised to cease her activities,” it said.

How is this not a crime? It they can come over you from downloading off JSTOR using legitimate access, why is this person still employed at the NSA rather than behind bars?
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I attempted OCR with Acrobat, which you can inspect by downloading the PDF. Then archive.org does their own OCR (I believe with ABBY?) which is what you'll see if you look at their .txt version. I haven't had a chance to compare them yet.

I wouldn't expect much from OCRing dot matrix, though I'd be happy for others with access to other engines to give it a try.

Someday I'd like to get all the messages into a browsable form on a website. Hell, we can crowd-source transcription if we have to.
There is also an iPad app, made by John Resig.
I think this needs an additional safeguard, such as the destruction of the private key associated by the messages and a defined 'grace period' (defined up front, not after the fact) in case of a missed update as well as a very good procedure to update and check that the update has indeed been made.
As a friendly reminder, VLC can also play module formats. I mention this because of the text at the top of the page about the files requiring a "module player". As an added bonus, VLC is archive aware, and so one can just open the zip and play them while still compressed (but not e-all.zip, since it contains the individual zipped mods; VLC isn't that savvy).

Thank you so much for hosting this, and for the untold number of hours of work that went into the songs!
It mostly to attract attention to my late application to be honest
Presumably, as Europeans are by definition not subject to American laws, they are not relevant to a case involving an American intelligence agency breaking American laws limiting American intelligence agencies' ability to spy on American citizens.

Because of course, spying on people outside one's own country is what intelligence agencies are supposed to do.
Why should bitcoin "replace traditional currencies" ?

Why cant bitcoin exist alongside them?
Lmao at learning computer science, psychology and economics from Hacker News...
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Has anyone tried any of these systems for anything other than wine? I like scotch but it also reacts with air after the bottle is opened. Obviously this system wouldn't work because the cork on a bottle of scotch has a plastic cap attached at the top. At $100+ for a good bottle of scotch I'd be willing to invest this kind of money for something that worked.
Scrooges of the world, begone
I'd say YC darling http://watsi.org is a prime example of this! They're certainly one of my favorites in this space.
I remember that episode, it was quite good.
Saw it on netflix a while back.
I think parent post is just referring to the number of classes in the source.
Not yet. Sandbox is heavily tied to e10s aka. electrolysis, what is planned for Fx39 (meaning that we should expect it for Fx41+).
I think it was obvious he meant "learning some from these subjects", and not "I actually became as knowlegeable as a psychologist and an economist".
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tl;dr: There are lot of opportunities for software engineers!

6 weeks ago, I left my job and here's my share of the search experience.
1 week after leaving the job, I got a cold email by a company who is 25-min drive away in Foster City. I did initial call with the HR on Dec. 1. On Dec. 2, I did my first phone interview. I was asked to rate my competency in Python and JavaScript on the scale 1-10. Then the interviewer asked me questions that were targeted at that level. I did badly, but not horribly, with the Q/A on technical parts and ok on some of the basic ones.
On Dec. 3, I did second phone interview, which went great in the first half and badly in the second half. In the later part, I just started to get nervous and lost my cool. They still felt I was competent, so on Dec. 4 I did a full day of interview. I did 5 different interviews from engineers to CTO and CEO. By the end of the day, I was offered the position @ 135K. This is where you expect the typical ending of me accepting the salary and living happily ever after. Not so fast there, reader. I pressed for higher salary - 25K more than they were offering. They didn't budge and neither did I, so no cigar.

In parallel to interviewing at that company, I also created my profile on Underdog.io. I spent Dec. 5 to Dec. 16 talking with 7 different companies in New York. I saw that their Salary range is lower than in Bay Area so it did not go far.

On Dec. 13, I created my profile on Hired.Me. Since then I have had 5 offers. I have made strong connection with one of the company and will be having in-person interview in a month (I have 3 week family wedding planned in Jan :)).

From my experience, there are so many companies looking for quality engineers. If you are having hired time getting hired, I am open to talk with you. I personally don't pursue working at big companies for the sake of them being big. I am looking for a company where I fit in based on my programming design sense and culturally.

I'm 27/M/Single/SF - so I don't have much constraints as someone who may be older with family or in non-tech savvy part of the county.
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796819
I said nothing about landgrabing...Just pointing to some of the failings of lollipop.
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"The heavily-redacted reports include examples of data on Americans being e-mailed to unauthorized recipients, stored in unsecured computers and retained after it was supposed to be destroyed, according to the documents."

Therein lies one of the major problems with these mass surveillance programs. Not only are they collecting information on millions of innocent Americans, but now it appears that they are not properly securing that data. This whole thing just makes my blood boil.
I also heard that the new calendar is several steps backwards.
52 Things I Learned in 2014
>What we really need is less SSL and more page signing.

This may more realistically address MITM tampering attacks, but doesn't address the second concern the EFF and others are trying to mitigate, namely passive MITM eavesdropping[1].

CDNs are definitely a prime interception point if HTTPS can't be scaled more securely. To address the (hopefully short-term) scaling issues, I wonder if users will be asked to pick between a fully encrypted but slightly slower experience (anti-tamper + anti-eavesdrop), or a 'mostly secure' (anti-tamper only) and faster experience.

[1] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/faq
What is the meaning of `Int | a` in your parlance? Is it a propositional disjunction, or is it a non-disjoint union type? Or is it something else? And what is the connection to classical logic that you are drawing?

If you are referring to a propositional truncation of the disjoint union, then this doesn't need to come from HoTT, but can be done in any framework strong enough to support setoids (either directly, as in ETT and OTT, or indirectly as you do in ITT). HoTT is cool, but it seems like a lot of the hubbub about it is concerning things that we already had no trouble doing at all in type theory without the homotopy interpretation.

On the other hand, if you are talking about a true union type (not a sum type), then I think that the presence of "type guards" sort of ruins the interesting properties that distinguish union types from sum types (except, as you point out, the fact that Int|Int is pretty much (extensionally) equal to the Int type, etc.).
The "Bitcoin battle" exists mostly in the minds of people promoting some get-rich-quick scheme of their own. There were about 175 altcoins the last time I looked. Only a few have any significant liquidity.

"Blockchain technology" runs into one of the biggest problems on the Internet - identities are too easy to create, so anything based on voting has spam problems. Distributed identity is an unsolved problem. There's a long track record of failures, from Web of Trust to Facebook's "real names" policy. Bitcoin deals with this using "mining". The effect is to require operations the size of Google data centers to maintain a database and transaction rate one desktop machine could handle easily. Bitcoin isn't very distributed any more; there are about half a dozen big players. That wasn't the plan.

None of the alternatives look good. There's centralization (Ripple, Paycoin 2), proof-of-stake (the rich get richer), using algorithms unsuitable for ASIC or GPU implementation (big floating point matrix calculations, maybe), and various tweaks to make the block chain a tree so not everybody has to store the whole chain. So far, those are mostly talk, except for the centralized altcoins.