skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bent sheet metal for a month. Very repetitive, lots of physical exertion. I could have lasted longer (I happened to move across the country for other reasons), but that was not my idea of a fulfilling life. Same thing a year later when I was doing data entry for months over the same forms. Ugh. I think you're misguided.
Who keeps telling you you are overpaid?
I did Ticketmaster's CheckDisk as my first operating system project at age 20. I modified installed language module code. I made the bulk of their report generator. I converted reports from ASM to Pascal. I made a file compression archiving package for the VAX and PC. When I changed school to electrical engineering for my masters, I changed departments at Ticketmaster. I made 68000 ASM image processing and mechanical design for a stack fed barcode reader. I made hardware and firmware for an 8051 300 VA Line conditioner. I made the firmware for a 68000 ASM Octart-based RS232 barcode reader networking device.
This assumes that the primary problem is merely asynchronous code. If that's the main problem you're facing then there's no reason in the world to believe that having more distinction at no gain is the right tradeoff.

I'm not claiming that you must program in a language which distinguishes lipstick colors. I'm merely claiming that you can and that it's a valuable tool.

To respond to your concrete criticisms:

The non-composability you refer to is actually what I call composability itself. You want the isolation of effectful worlds so that you have different things to choose to compose in the first place. You can do this "horizontally" with binding or "vertically" with free products or lifting (or any number of other techniques). Without this distinction things "compose automatically", but only because you've decided to mix all of your colors and go with brown.

Proper tracebacks and stack unwinding can be a problem, but fundamentally these are problems of how you compile/interpret languages like this instead of semantically whether these languages allow you to express what you would like to at high fidelity. Both of those problems can be addressed, though. The degree to which they're painful in practice is also a question.

The comment about threads is somewhat off topic. There's nothing in what I was saying which precludes the introduction of nice green threads and competitive scheduling. You can implement Go in Haskell quite neatly, for instance.

But yes, I agree. If your problem is pure multithreading then languages like Go and Erlang make it go away completely. They do so by collapsing layers of semantics down to a single one (completely antithetical to the red/blue distinction here) but choosing one such that multithreading is nice.

This can be an excellent spot in solution space for many problems. I would never suggest otherwise.

But as long as we're ostensibly on the topic of "blue/red"-ness of your language then it's high time to talk about effect typing.
Uber and Google don't need to sell cars. They only need to sell rides.
Honestly, I agree. In some ways when I think about the future I feel very hopeful; advancements in narrow AI and medical technology in particular are very easy to imagine as beneficial. Mostly though I feel very cynical and depressed by what appears to be the cultivation of ignorance as a virtue. I am convinced that we are fucked, barring a massive breakthrough in photovoltaic efficiency or nuclear fusion.
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Accidentally creating sentient AI with today's technology would be like accidentally creating a nuclear explosion by rubbing two sticks together.
That's exactly what Henry Ford found when he introduced the assembly line in 1914. He found that he had to hire 10x more men than he needed because 90% would quit the line within a few weeks. That's where Ford's 'generous' $5 day came from (twice the prevailing wage). Most found the tedium of the assembly line to be insufferable.

I worked in several furniture factories as a youngster, and I share that sentiment. Assembly lines are soul killing.
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> By that metric, Windows is also free if you buy a Surface.

There's a difference between Microsoft's model (using a hardware product to better market a software product) and Apple's model (using a software product to better market a hardware product). Microsoft is a software company first and foremost, while Apple is a hardware company first and foremost.

That's the root cause of the reason why your particular comparison isn't exactly valid: that OS X is not at all designed to work on hardware that wasn't built by Apple (and, indeed, getting OS X to work on non-Apple hardware requires a modified OS X and installer on top of matching the hardware of a Mac almost perfectly).
Okay, I'm like 5 years old, but could you explain to me how this is available here for free, yet it costs $32 to read the final published version?

I mean... this is fundamental human knowledge we are talking about... isn't there some better way of doing this than $32-a-pop?
If the agency in question can sufficiently co-opt/coerce the government, they don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
Have you looked at the last couple years of updates? It's way more accurate and complete than it used to be, and for getting names on that last 1%, they have drivers and the ability for the app to say "I don't know that street name, is it new?".
And in a similar vein in Canada, Black's, a photofinisher and photography related goods vendor could not adapt to the digital world. The chain was sold to Telus (a competitor to Bell).

It seems to be a common trend for bankrupt chains' leases in Canada to get bought up for the instant network of stores.

Is this a rare phenomenon in the US?
UberX driver allegedly raped passenger in Los Angeles
It seems like a lot of people are interested in fixing this, and would be keen to see a solution. I believe StratifiedJS is precisely that solution (for JS at least), and it has existed in working form for years: http://stratifiedjs.org/ (it's not just an experiment - it's remarkably stable).

StratidiedJS completely eliminates the sync/async distinction at the syntax level, with the compiler/runtime managing continuations automatically. A `map` function in SJS works just like you would want, regardless of whether the mapping function is synchronous or not.

In addition, it provides _structured_ forms of concurrency at the language level, as well as cancellation (which most async APIs don't support).

Disclosure: I work on StratifiedJS, and just wish more people knew about it.
Obviously not, there is not e that could be replaced with a 3.
No of course not, and I'd like to see less tax money spent inefficiently as well. My point was simply that it's specious to tell any one advocate of increased taxation that they should just foot the bill out of their own private pocket. That's not the point of taxation.
Response article: https://medium.com/@dylanbaskind/fumbling-around-in-business...
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That's a major benefit to rolling this out as a cab company rather than as a car manufacturer - you can enforce limits like that and people won't complain because they won't even know about the 98% of roads you haven't automated yet. Assuming you can get regulators to accept it:

Map area by area - send out human driven cars if a customer requests a journey you can't cover with driverless cars yet..

Assuming they collect GPS traces, they know exactly what areas will cover the most of their business with the least amount of mapping.
I owned and loved a Lumina for a short period also: my issue was that tethering with OS X simply does not work on WP 8.1 (at least on the Lumina 1320), for this reason I moved back to iOS, but damn that phone was great (battery life, performance and WP 8.1 is a /really/ nice OS). All for about a third of the cost of my iPhone.
iOS has a 42.5% market share[1], where are you getting your info from?

[1]https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
I bet the css file is not developed per se but created by some sort of CMS.
Chicken-shit, eh?

I have no idea how you became emotionally invested in this, but I am pretty sure not being able to do something legally is a completely valid reason not to move forward with... well, most things.
Yes, I believe the UI is the biggest failing, though I am also not seeing a clarity of vision, which wiki very clearly had (making it absurdly easy to create hypertext documentation for anything). Federated wiki seems to be about "federation", or individual wikis that can link amongst each other as readily as one can link between documents in a single wiki. That's a great idea. Federation may be the only thing that can save us from the walled garden age of Facebook, Google+, Github, etc. (or maybe it can't...the UI is gonna have to be better than this if it is).

So, I agree that it's biggest problem is UI (and that's what I listed above as being wholly wrong about this thing), but I think it's dangerous to underestimate how much design determines the impact of an idea. I've seen lots of really cool ideas come and go, with bad design as the reason it never takes off. And, it's probably a bad idea to underestimate how hard it can be to fix a bad design, if the design is intimately tied to the implementation. I don't know if that's the case here, though there's certainly a lot of bad design ideas that seem to be important to the developers; at least, they must be important to the developers because they made them flash incessantly.

I've poked around some more since posting my initial comment, and I really can't get over how very distracting those flashing icons are, and can't imagine how anyone on the team is OK with it. How can designers of a content system (which a wiki is, at its core) do so much to make the content seem like the least important thing on the page? The user is literally directed to pay attention to everything but the content.

Again, I say all of this with an incredible amount of respect for Ward and the wiki. But, this thing is a mess.
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Forget Google, Lyft and Sidecar are basically already the same thing as Uber. Plus local cab companies are developing their own apps. The barrier to entry in ride-dispatching is absurdly low. I wish somebody (city government? craigslist?) would just make a free clearing-house for it.
Certainly. It is up to the people that allow the government to persist to surveil the activities of that government to ensure that it is operating within the bounds they have permitted.
Please excuse the possibly stupid question, but what does water have to do with plate tectonics? I always thought that was a consequence of earth being a "live" (i.e. hot inside) planet.
That's a nice punchline, but redditnotes weren't related to karma whatsoever.
I have institutional access so I can't easily check, but I thought most or all Nature journals were now freely available: http://www.nature.com/news/nature-promotes-read-only-sharing...
Natural gas is deregulated in some places: http://www.ohionaturalgas.com/deregulation.html

Honestly though, large utilities are a good case of a "natural monopoly".
RWBY is now on Netflix I believe.
> I think that the big obstacle to Venus is not the hostility of the upper atmosphere, it's the difficulty in getting any non-gaseous resources out of it.

We can get non-gaseous resources out of Venus accessible asteroids. Venus could supply two things -- a beautiful and relatively friendly place to live and also fluorine condensed out of its atmosphere.

I could envision huge aerostat supported structures hundreds of kilometers long that house electromagnetic accelerators to launch raw materials into orbit. Rotating tethers could deposit cargo carriers into the Venusian atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, to deploy ballutes and slow down through aerobraking and then to float awaiting retrieval. In doing so, the tethers would re-accelerate themselves to haul other cargo up from hypersonic aircraft.

Maybe it's not economically and politically feasible now or ever, but it's tons of fun to think about. This sort of thing also demonstrates that it's not physically impossible.
It didn't 'slip by', it likely happened very quickly, without warning, and the doctors and nurses certainly did everything they could to save him (I don't know anything about the specifics of this case, but I'm familiar with the general practices).

There are various medications used for sedation that you wouldn't be exposed to in the course of 'normal' life, so the first time you're exposed to them is on the operating table. That makes it very hard to predict things like this.

It's also possible it wasn't actually an allergic reaction, but one of a handful of other life-threatening reactions that can take place during medical procedures (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_hyperthermia )

No procedure is without risk. It is important to weigh benefits of the procedure against the risks (your doctor should be able to help you judge your specific risk factors and explain the benefits).
Huh? No. Anyone with relatively deep pockets could easily disrupt Uber right now. Uber's technology is pretty simple and straightforward, and not meaningfully patent-protected. You can do the same tech given six months or so and a decent engineering team.

And Uber's customer-base is price sensitive. You can easily get into this market if you're willing to price compete with Uber.

Now, Uber is very willing to price-compete ferociously. It will absolutely drive you both deep into unprofitability. And Uber has quite a war-chest, and it can push around its smaller competitors this way. But as rich as Uber is, there are plenty of companies that are richer. Way richer. Orders of magnitude richer.

I think that so far, the really big boys have said, "Why do we want to get into a price war with Uber? They'll fight until the last breath, I don't see why we should launch a deeply unprofitable ride-sharing service."

Amazon might do it eventually. They have expertise in operating at high scale, low-margin, and they're big enough to destroy Uber. They also might want to use a ride-sharing service to deliver goods. I think that right now, they've mostly said, "We're unconvinced that there's a real logistics business here, and so we aren't going to get involved."

Google might do it for the data.

I can't see Apple bothering -- it's pretty far outside of their corporate comfort zone. But if, I don't know, Tim Cook gets hit by a bus and their new CEO wants to make major changes, they absolutely COULD do it.

Microsoft could maybe do it in an attempt to create a compelling entry-point to their ecosystem, but it's not very Microsofty.

I don't see that any non-computer companies currently have a reason to try it.
I thought most of the scientific computation is written in Fortran. Anyways, I have used a big closed source scientific computation package several jobs ago to conduct experiments. The entire stack was running on windows at the time, but the operating system really did not (and does not) matter. I agree with you that MS compilers should support C99 but it has very little to do with how useful windows is for scientific computing. (Worst case scenario you can use an opensource compiler).

I think the reason why the top 500 HPC clusters are using linux is the price of the operating system and not the functionality.
Completely off-the-cuff, but mobile?
I feel that Alibaba is more of a competitor to Ebay. The quality of goods are similarly low.

Amazon is more of a "get it in 1-2 days (when we guarantee it)" and "We'll make sure you get your money back, anytime".

At least those have been my experiences.

Turning the existing RS network into a non-denominational PackStation-type setup seems like a good idea.
I definitely think he did
Why do they need direction?
> Ask PayPal about their 100% automated fraud detection algorithm (did not work)

...yet.
> So, Uber really needs to start thinking about the mapping aspect. Perhaps they can incent their current drivers to start reporting back all the street info as they pick up their passengers. Of course, this would bring up problems if the drivers eventually realize that this data could be used to replace them. It would be interesting to see uber cars with Google StreetView style cameras on their hoods.

Most likely they would either start having drivers drive Uber cars with steetview-esq data collection gear on it, or pay a premium to drivers who mounted a tray on the roof of their vehicle that contained high resolution cameras, a laser scanner, and a controller to process and forward that data back.

I would not be surprised if Uber was looking at acquiring https://www.mapillary.com for this functionality.
So "we" cry antitrust whenever a company decides to enter a market? That seems odd.
I misread the headline; I actually think that all big companies should attempt to set up their own competitor (with a very small flat team, but resources, users, internal datasets etc.). It would be a big investment but would cement monopoly positions and make it even harder for competitors to gain any sort of traction.

A new search engine from Google written with different goals and views of how things should be done would be very interesting and probably gain a good portion of Bing and Yahoo! Users in the process. This applies to a lot of businesses of course.

An Uber from Google could also be great too but their once clear idea of what they are is getting fragmented and that'll show in the implementation and UX of Google Cabs.
This article confuses the term "startup" and "new business".

By their definition a new hot dog stand, a new independent pharmacy, or a new plumbing business is a startup.

They are not.

A startup is a business that can potentially have very rapid growth.

I actually agree with some of the recommendations of the article but I can't take the authors seriously when their analysis throws everything into the same bucket.
This is just his proposed budget. I'm sure once it'll be a fraction of that once the Republican led House/Senate have their say. It was interesting to read "$160 million for information technology and cybersecurity of the weapons program at the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration." Gotta make sure the nukes are secured.
I think communication structures should inherently be clear enough to pass all critical information over, and if there become communication issues or misunderstandings then you have to eliminate that communication break - whatever that means.

I feel some of these issues can be managed by having specialized teams - but those teams would have to managing a context, not merely certain functions or tasks of a business, otherwise they won't have their hands and attention on everything that will matter.

85% communication effectiveness seems very possible - at least with enough time and enough opportunities.
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Some form of gradual typing is almost certain to reach ES eventually. I don't think anyone is really against it. Whether that goes far enough to make everyone happy… well, it probably won't. But I'm somewhat hopeful about all the research being done around gradual typing, and around TypeScript by MSR in particular that we'll end up with something truly useful and that solves 99% of the use-cases.
Note: This is not only related to Starcraft but planning problems in general. Starcraft is just one of the examples.
Plus ATP, the cell-internal energy distribution mechanism that is a property of all life on earth destroys itself at 52 degrees celcius. That means no controlled energy actions can happen in cells above 52 degrees celcius. We'd have to redesign every enzyme, every single cell function.
I understand what you're saying, and i agree there are a ton in testing. But it's not like i can go to the volvo website and check the box for the "no steering wheel" option at any price. Furthermore if i'm say, WalMart, I can't call up any truck manufacturers and get a self driving option for my next fleet purchases. That's in spite of having a huge infrastructure for supporting and maintaining my trucks.

Today, unless your title is "Director of self driving car research" you can't just go take one for a spin. Again, they're coming, they are the future. Uber wouldn't have cleaned out Carnage Mellon robotics department if it didn't still require original research.
the idea that you're either an athlete or a nerd is such a tired old stereotype. How have we not left this behind? Raise your hand if you got a 1400 on the SAT and also played a sport in high school (for obvious reasons cross-country doesn't count).
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What is the best outlet to apply through? Directly through email, website or AL?
All the car companies are working on autonomous vehicles, too. I think you're right that Uber and Google don't know enough about building cars, I think the smart money is that somebody like Volvo[0] or Volkswagen will be first to market with a commercial autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle.

[0] http://www.cnet.com/news/a-ride-in-volvos-autonomous-car-how...
> Mining the surface is required

Why not get other resources from near-Venus asteroids and Mercury? It would be easy to imagine a near-sun economy that mostly involves people, information, and raw materials making the trip up and down the Venusian gravity well -- with most raw materials and finished goods making the trip down. Most of the energy would be dissipated by aerobraking. In essence, Venus could participate in such a solar-system spanning economy by supplying relatively friendly radiation-shielded Real Estate and fluorine. Raw materials would largely go down, and people, culture, intellectual property, and fluorine would come up.
I do some work for a company that does mapping, so yes, I've looked at it regularly. It may be way more accurate and complete, but it is still updated too rarely to ever be up to date. Cover any reasonable area, and road situations change daily, especially when you're doing things like driving which also needs to account for temporary road closures and the like.

As I say, it's a good starting point, but it's not in any way sufficient, and keeping it up to date is a huge amount of work, which has been reflected in the value of companies that have set themselves up to be able to keep up to date data sets of this.

That said, as I've commented elsewhere I do agree that Uber is in a good position, but mostly because they don't need full coverage. They need thorough and up to date information, but they need it in very tiny areas to begin with, and as you say they can rely on drivers to cover areas they don't currently know how to deal with. They can apply GPS traces to analyse exactly what areas are most profitable to improve map information for to make self driving viable first, and roll it out area by area.
Mobile is a much larger market and a much faster growing one..

I can't find the chart I'm looking for, but on any reasonable time scale that includes PC saturation vs. mobile saturation vs. smartphone saturation, the 'Smartphone' line is damn near vertical.

Here's a decent look:

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/1/11/home-and-the-mo...

Even more impressive that Apple took a big piece of both.
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