skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, something like that. facebook makes it quite hard to do that, because the delete is in a popup menue and even that is different from item to item. sometimes it's "delete" you have to click, sometimes it's "unlike" sometimes the best one can do is select "hidden from timeline" ...

for me it's quite clear: facebook does not want you to purge something, ever. if you dare to, you should suffer.
And that it's convex (like an ant hill) rather than concave (like a hockey stick).
I can count with an amputated hand the number of times I had to save a website. Overriding the ctrl+S shortcut is the appropriate move here.
yeah, but then of course you are gone completely. that's not what i want (for now). i want to keep my profile and friendlist. every other content should be purged.
I was in the Navlab once. It had a crew of five - a driver, an operator, and three people in the back at rack-mounted workstations. They had to convert the thing to hydraulic motor drive so it could drive slowly enough.

Their LIDAR was very advanced. They had a 2-axis scanning LIDAR, with one rotating and one nodding mirror. So they had full 3D depth images. Most of the DARPA Grand Challenge vehicles only had line scanners.
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I just wanted to say that I've finally taken a look at Koka after hearing you mention in on HN many times. It's very nice! I appreciate how it provides most of the bang of effect types much more conveniently than one might expect with the explicit monadic structuring going on in Haskell.

Have you looked at Frank [0] by any chance? It has a very similar row-effect type (I guess these were both first explored in Eff?) but in a CBPV language which makes it clear how pure values are separated from effectful computation.

[0] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/slindley/papers/frankly-draft-...
That makes sense, though at some point being at the bottom of a gravity well becomes a real drag.
I'm not saying that Uber wins, just that it has quite a bit of value independently. And similar to Google with search (which learns each time someone searches) there is a reinforcing edge when you're first.

The key probably isn't price. I think it will be convenience. If Uber knows to have a car nearby you when you need it, you'll pay a dollar more to save 10 minutes. (Same with Google)

I wonder about other entrants... Perhaps Apple? Or Tesla?
It does make him look good that so many people like his design enough to copy it so blatantly.
The thing about farming in the Arctic is you're gonna have a short growing season no matter what the temperature is. However, you're not going to get that far, because you're talking about an area that is substantially underlaid by permafrost. When that melts, it subsides and usually fills with water, which is why there are millions of boggy lakes on the North Slope of Alaska. Fertile topsoil is not just dirt, it's a complex ecosystem of its own, and it takes a great deal of time to produce. It's probably slightly easier to start farming in the melted Arctic than in your average desert, but it's a pretty near thing, and your 5C difference is going to wreak havoc on current farming areas. The odds of success on this one are not good.

I think there's probably some limit to how much Earth-resources should be used to terraform other planets, but with what we spend on bombs I don't think it'd be a big deal. Terraforming Earth is a spectacularly bad idea, so it would take a lot of spending to be in any sense worse than that.
I don't see that happening any time soon. More likely to have the automated cars first.
many major car manufacturers

Who?

All demos that I've seen from Mercedes Benz, BMW, Toyota, Volvo, etc. were generations behind google. The self-parking car seemed to be their most impressive feat so far.

Meanwhile Google Car is commuting in live city traffic, without anyone touching the wheel.
What product features should I focus on?
> Imagine if you could help "fix" the IRS with auto-prepped tax returns (definitely seems like the hardest one on this list-- but it's also one that everyone wants to see happen

Actually, its mostly hard politically, because not everyone wants to see it happen. Particularly, tax preparation firms and tax software sellers want tax returns to be difficult so that their business stays in demand, and lobby heavily against government pre-preparing returns, and the political right wants the personal tax process to be as painful as possible so that they can leverage anger at that process to get behind tax cutting moves.
I just love the image of a spaceship hacked to do cartwheels in space while shunting power to its backup antenna to double the Tx rate. And that this was developed after it was already in space.

After this and watching Apollo 13 I now have the impression "hacking" is fundamental to space exploration.
That is pretty surprisingly similar.
I would've thought this is a business problem - it's developing a product which cannibalizes their own market.

Uber's problem is that this is a big public announcement. And so what you have to be wondering is what all the Uber drivers are going to be thinking about their future today with Uber. There biggest problem in the next 5 years if they keep announcing self-driving car stuff could very well end up being that their competitors have an easy time poaching all their drivers.
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I just find the name "U.S. Digital Service" to be god damn inspirational. It reminds me of Kennedy creating the Peace Corps. "Ask not what your country can do for you" and all that. I understand that in reality this is essentially a rebranding of the traditional government job, but it seems like it could be so much more.

I know that during the Healthcare.gov debacle, many people with software experience legitimately wanted to help. We look around at our communities, cities and states and see problems that could be fixed and software that's dying to use common sense modern best practices. But government bureaucracy is an impermeable wall, sometimes for the right reasons but often due to turf protection, intransigence and lack of funding. I would be happy to volunteer my time and experience, to work collaboratively with others and to work within strict standards and specifications in order to improve the quality of government technology for everyone. But the information about how to do so is hard to find and the process isn't very encouraging. I understand that this is a bit off topic, but when I hear "US Digital Service" I think "Peace Corps" for technology.

From wikipedia: "The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries."

WTF aren't we doing this for technology? Provide assistance, help the government to understand tech culture and help tech people understand government culture. If we train volunteers then we don't need to give high priority projects like Healthcare.gov to the contracting firm with the lowest bid and the snazziest powerpoint presentation. Government agencies would have their pick of people who'd proven their technical skills and reliability on projects at the local, state and federal levels. Citizen programmers could feel like they were making a difference for their country, even just a small one, which is something you can't put a price on. Government at all levels would reap huge benefits and improve services for a fraction of the cost, which would increase the general satisfaction of millions of non-technically inclined citizens.

The obvious problem with volunteer labor is that it's hard to hold someone accountable if things go wrong, and the speed and quality of ongoing maintenance and support can vary. But my thought is, the current system isn't exactly working out great either. We have catastrophic disasters at the national level and outdated and incomplete software at the local level. There are millions of people who could help, and working together they can do more good than harm. The greatest asset of the United States has always been the ingenuity and dedication of its human resources. If technology isn't the greatest opportunity and threat of the 21st century then I don't know what is, and it seems like a good time to marshall those resources to make the most of it.
At least you're admitting that you want more taxes so that everyone else is forced to pay for stuff you want. It's the nature of taxation, obviously, but it's so often hidden being euphemisms.
And yet the difference between the strenuous and light joggers are significant (the light jogger mean is outside the strenuous jogger 95% confidence interval and vice versa).
10 or 11, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, BASIC. most likly i started by typing in the examples from the book, working from there. changing lines of code, see what it does to the program. some two years later i got a c64. the basic was a lot worse, but it was the machine i got around my head to assembler, or at least machine code - because i did'nt understand the concept of the assembler, but i very well understood the machine-code-monitor in the final cartridge.

but rasterbars, and softscrollers with (stolen) musik and sprites on the bottom/top border, was as far as i ever got.
Google Maps has destinations and directions. Not sure if they store histories of where people searched for directions. (Anyone in the know have thoughts?)

Uber has, or eventually will have, "User 1VB7X has hailed an Uber from 45th and 6th nine times out of ten when they were within two blocks. They are now 5 blocks away and headed in that direction." If you add this up for everyone who has the app on their phone, it becomes incredibly powerful for optimizing the motion of Uber cars.

I'm still not 100% convinced that Uber wins, but the value of the company is in their data, and the location signals they get from everyone who has the app.
He's also, kind of, known for being the top user in terms of reputation points.

It's a little like there's Jon Skeet, then there's nothing for a while, then there's somebody else. His average reputation increase per day is often more than 300. Of course, 200 is the typical "cap" on daily increase, but somehow he Skeets around that. He'll probably reach a million points this year.

Not that I think reputation points on Stack Overflow is very interesting or meaningful, of course. :)
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>You have seen this happen recently with obamacare-- the government regulated the healthcare industry into the ground, and now nationalized health insurance as a "solution", which is already not working.

Because single payer works really well in other countries and has done for years, a fact that libertarians like to sweep under the carpet.

Obamacare isn't about extra government regulation and it never was. It was about taking an existing oligopolistic market and making purchase mandatory in exchange for a couple of minor concessions.

>Have a heart, protect rights, libertarians agree with you, but learn from the history. IT has never worked.

Oh god...
>The Deep Space Network has only three 70-meter dishes, and there is a lot of competition for time on them;

It seems like I've heard this time and again, that certain data or measurements couldn't be returned from planetary spacecraft because of limitations in the DSN. I'd guess that a relatively modest investment could double or tripe the DSN availability and bandwidth simply through more antennas and the associated receivers. I'm guessing that the reasons are political (funding), are there technical issues I'm unaware of?

Off to read up on this.

edit: They are adding antennas!
First, it's important to note that I teach ESL in a foreign country (Japan). I'm an assistant teacher, but I do lead the classes sometimes. I primarily make handouts and games/activities for helping teach vocabulary and grammar points. That said, it should be easy to see where clip art can help.

- helping students associate new words with images
- illustrating grammar differences via comparison
- breaking up a handout so the flow is easier to follow (think a comic)
- preventing excessive text which could make a handout look daunting
- creating flash cards for students or other such materials

I also took quite a bit of time to learn about typography and combined that with what I learned about UI/UX design in university to make my handouts look easy to read. I also choose fonts carefully because there is no way for me to know if any of my students are dyslexic (this is one great use of Comic Sans type fonts) due to Japan's privacy laws.

I know that my position has little power when it comes to the method of education. So I do my best to provide the highest quality work for the little things I do have control over. Also, the work I do now will no doubt help me when I pursue an education career back in my home country.

I'm too busy to find the sources I've read over the years since I never archived any of them. But if you read up on ESL, special needs teaching, education in general, raising children, psychology, and combine it with a general understanding of design, you'll see that clip art can be extremely useful. Mainly because the best clip art == cartoons boiled down to a single essential point. No extraneous fluff unlike realistic drawing or photos.
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Windows Phone is some shared core components from Windows desktop (which RT is basically just an ARM build of) + its own stuff on top. The shared core has been growing with each release.
>Most municipalities grant monopolies to cable providers based on the theory that it's the only way to get someone to build and maintain the cable infrastructure.

The theory is crap. It's a way to give away public infrastructure to campaign contributors. It's corruption: pure and simple, and it worked really, really well for Comcast.

When some municipalities tried to build their own cable system, Comcast sued.
> What about every single car produced today. I doubt you'd want to upgrade them every 6 months.

Tesla cars get automated over-the-air updates far more frequently than every 6 months.
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Tray apps were binding those keys to open settings panels or tweaking driver configuration on the fly.
It does not make it a "drug free" nor zero tolerance. It simply reinforces the arbitrary and capricious control doctors have over our bodies and mind. Under that order, it's fine to use meth (a schedule II medication), if you have a "valid" prescription, for abusive definitions of the word valid.
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Note that it has a logarithmic scale. On a linear scale it would be close to a hockey stick.
I'd never heard of tokumx, but that would have be nice to know about when dealing with a large bioinformatics project I did on mongo, I'll have to check it out!

Is the remote US only or ?
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I understand where you are coming from, but the competitor here is Google. The Google brand is arguably even stronger than the Uber brand and I don't see why it wouldn't transplant easily to cabs. People trust and like Google. They might as well like its cabs.

This is particularly true because unlike Uber, Google hasn't been maligned by the perception of being a bully (the 'Dont be Evil' mantra is widely still held to be true by the general public).

Here in India, for instance, the Uber brand was tarnished heavily by a rape in New Delhi followed by utterly callous handling of the case by Uber employees (which included sending everyone, along with the rape victim, an email saying 'we are back!').

Google doesn't have that problem. As for payment information, Google already has that for a lot of consumers thanks to Google Play
> But how can you point stably at Earth with your guidance system shut down?

Why doesn't it stay pointed at Earth - is there something destabilizing it? Solar wind, dust, power source, minutely inexact stabilization?
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Any little destablisation will cause it to start to move, because there's nothing to react it. By spinning something around its axis of maximum or minimum moment of inertia, you stablise it - like a bullet being rifled.

The destablisation will come from any number of things - minor gravitational inconsistencies, solar wind, dust, heat radiation from the power source, etc.
Ah, I missed that. Apparently the answer to script's limitations, is ttyrec:

http://0xcc.net/ttyrec/index.html.en

There appear to be many players, eg:

https://github.com/oliy/ttyplay

See also:

https://github.com/jedi4ever/ttyrec.js

Apparently vim-sessions should work:

https://github.com/jedi4ever/ttyrec.js/issues/1

There's a site devoted to tutorials based off of ttyrec:

http://playterm.org/

Or, for just vim, Replay.vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3216

Other than that, I'm inclined to have a look at op's code to see if one might break out the gif-encoding to a sepearate bit -- and "encode" for js/html playback (as well, or in place of) video/gif.
Sometime around 7. At the public library, I found a book titled "How To Make Games." It went through the design and implementation of a text adventure game in BASIC, with a full program listing in the back. I discovered that our family computer had a copy of QBasic 1.0, and from there I was hooked.

Being a little kid, I never thought seriously about the future :)
A copy but not as well executed.

The Bloomberg page is full of pointless and distracting names fading in as you scroll. The name rollover effects on the Grantland page are carefully designed to keep the content uncluttered, not just to be cool; I just noticed there’s supposed to be a similar effect on the Bloomberg page, except it only works when the name itself is rolled over instead of the whole box, the avatars aren’t as stylish or consistent, and some of the the sub-descriptions are too long and spill out of their space.

The overall typography and layout of the Grantland page is better designed; in pretty much every detail where they differ, the Grantland page is done more carefully and with more obvious adherence to a design vision. (As one trivial example, the Bloomberg article uses a mix of straight and curly quotation marks for no apparent reason.)

I’d say Bloomberg’s designers copied the idea and several specific elements from the Grantland page (or another similar one), but ultimately either had shittier design constraints imposed from outside, did a rushed job, or just overall weren’t as skilled or tasteful.
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At 8 or 9 I wrote in an Amstrad CPC 464 a program in Basic that was moving the letters of my dad's company. I remember that at the time, I understood the for/next loop, but didn't think about the nested loop, so I wrote lots of code that could have been a two or three liners. Something like:

FOR I=1 TO 100
PLOT I,1
PLOT I,2
...
PLOT I,50
NEXT
I would posit that what you did wasn't just "dumb luck". You actually went through the customer experience and tried the product, and enjoyed both tremendously. Through that process you actually understood more about the business than you're giving yourself credit for. If you read Peter Lynch's books on how retail investors should pick stocks, this is exactly what he recommends (ex: his wife loved l'eggs stockings, couldn't stop talking about them, and the stock performed tremendously).

Now, I don't believe retail investors should be picking stocks at all, but if you are going to, then this isn't such a bad way to go about things. For instance, I think it beats picking stocks based on what you read in the financial news outlets any day of the week (which a lot of people do).

Source: One Up on Wall Street
Improvement 1: use sentiment analysis to figure out tone of slogan and use that to select color/font etc

Improvement 2: Figure out what the slogan is about and find relevant images
An autonomous drone that has been tasked to kill a human and a machine that decides on its own to kill a human are very much not the same thing. Autonomous killing is nothing new or novel - we've had sentry guns for many years now.
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> However, no serious NLP researcher would suggest building a text-to-speech system by getting rid of the middle OCR layer and just hooking the raw image directly to the expected sound. (Well, at least I think so, but I'd be glad to know if I'm wrong.)

Perhaps you're thinking mainly of Western writing systems?

Presumably since Andrew now works for Baidu, he is particularly interested in reading Chinese. The interesting thing about Chinese is that, as I understand it, the same symbols can have different pronunciations in different dialects, but all pronunciations mean the same thing.

I.e. the symbol has a unique meaning, but multiple possible sounds. Which implies the sound isn't really what's important here.
> global warming is just as bad as a new ice age, which, extrapolating from the past, would be about due by now, if not for mankinds influence

So global warming bought us all a huge chunk of (comfortable) time? Why is it a bad thing then?
Maybe we should have global drone coverage armed with nuclear bombs? MAD's the only way to do, right?
Looks a lot like a Mercedes Benz ad I saw the other day :
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/mercedes_benz_left_brai...
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I would seriously consider joining as a developer. If it didn't mean moving to DC. I couldn't determine if there were any remote opportunities or positions in the Bay Area.
The technical term for what you're asking about is "institutional autonomy". The answer depends heavily on the political competence of its leader.
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> We'd have to redesign every enzyme...

Exactly what the Venusians thought before starting work on ATP!
Naming issue in programming: ClassManager – You shall not pass
Getting more stuff done with less human effort is a good thing. However, combining that with an economic system which sets your ability to feed yourself and your families based on the effort you put in is a bad thing.

Capitalism which was a great 2th century economic system, is not suited for the 21st century where there really aren't any jobs left for humans to do.

The benefits of automation only accrue to the owners of capital, while everyone else gets completely left out. Since the owners of capital are an increasingly smaller number of people (not surprising since capital accrues capital exponentially while labor only accrues it linearly) our economic systems are headed for collapse.