skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern cars certainly are designed to protect pedestrians. That was part of the movement away from steel bumpers towards plastic bumpers with foam inside. I used to drive a 1998 Toyota 4Runner, and you could tell it apart from the 1999 4Runner because the '99 had what people call a 'fat lip bumper'. The bumper was enlarged to help protect pedestrians.

Here's an article from 2007 about designing cars to protect pedestrians: http://www.edmunds.com/car-safety/protecting-pedestrians-thr...

Volvo has pedestrian airbags in their newer cars, the car will detect collision with a person and pop the hood up on a cushion to keep the pedestrian safe: http://www.autoevolution.com/news/how-pedestrian-airbags-wor...
I agree, there will always be fewer people needed at the apex of the arts, and in fact that's the definition of the apex!

But an economic plan that revisits the idea of what an apex is, I think would accomplish that 'for everyone else'.

That's why the idea of micro farming is so interesting: in an agrarian system where people grow their own food, as a pastime and 'art', then you can afford many, many apexes - at least one per farm/garden.
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Even easier if you learn how to track-stand, which you can do on any non-coaster-brake bike (fixies are easier, but it's possible with just a freewheel and a slight incline or clever application of brakes). I usually beat cars through the intersection from a dead stop without straining.
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Sure, he's obligated to maintain certain things to go along with the overall storyline that's being told in the cinematic universe. But it could easily be said he has to follow guidelines about any project he would work on that has studios with other people in charge involved. Unless he wishes to fully fund the project himself.
The US is moving to Chip & Signature, rather than Chip & PIN, but the liability will still shift to the merchant, not the buyer.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/chip-pin-vs-chip-signatur...
I read that as "See the way (the solution) they're using to listen to their users."
There are plenty of ways to make money. What we are looking for now is to get more traction. At this stage we need money for advertisement and further product development. If you are an investor who believes in the idea like we do, then let me know.
Do you think human nature might consistently include an interest in power, and a not-entirely-unrelated interest in sex?

Are you going to try to explain the remarkable consistency of these interests across all political systems and historical periods as a purely political phenomenon?

If so, why are there clearly analogous interests in many primates and other animals?

I say you're wrong - and challenge you to provide solid observational evidence to prove conclusively that social and political traditions generate these interests.
> If you have an array that fills a significant fraction of your memory (say, tens of Gigabytes), you don't have another choice but to use mutation (Haskell doesn't support that).

Haskell does support mutation, it just requires it to be controlled. Take a look at Data.Array.ST and Data.Array.IO

> Erlang's light-weight threads are a boon. Having a webserver written in Erlang and using Erlang as a server-side language, you can support a lot of sessions at once.

GHC provides a very similar thing in the form of "green threads".
What am I missing by not having this?
I think MS is responding to an existential crisis.

MS seemingly got blindsided by mobile. When it comes to a consumer who is personally engaging with a computing device nowadays and not just doing it for a job, a huge number of eyes are now glued to a device that doesn't use a Microsoft operating system, apps not written in a Microsoft language, utilizing backend services not running Microsoft servers. They own a good part of the boring corporate world people mostly dislike and a decent share of gaming, but consoles are fairly evenly split and their desktop gaming monopoly is only riding on a continually dwindling amount of momentum (a large chunk of games are multi-platform releases, desktop Windows and the Xbox are popular but not necessary for gaming to continue).
That's Google - the corporate equivalent of a hyperactive 10 year old boy.
Here you can find some interesting podcast about ML and Data Science: http://goo.gl/KF4NGE

Enjoy :)
There's a pretty interesting video of how the Office team uses C++ for their cross-platform efforts from CppCon 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HROqnw-nf4
I'm surprised Ancestry.com doesn't charge people for the data recovery. They would clearly pay since many paid $60 for the third party service beforehand.

There is no way I can believe Ancestry.com doesn't have the technical talent to pull the raw data from the system pretty trivially. Unless it was running on some obscure in-house database backend that doesn't exist anymore and thus can't be read, I don't see why they can't put an engineer on this project for a month [and if it takes them that long...] and at least give people the raw data. Or partner with Spokt or whatever and have them charge a fee to transfer it if they want to cover their costs. People are willing to pay for this data, even if it is incomplete or difficult to digest in the delivered format.

I also can't imagine they don't have a copy of the data somewhere... on some old magnetic backup tape or squirreled away in some DB admin's folders.
I don't quite grasp why they use those spiral graphs in the article. They don't seem to give any more information that a plan old line graph would.
I fell for this...
Can I make a script out of the learned transform operation? Ideally it will be a function that I can paste into some script, and call map on each row.
Yep; the nicer ones I've looked at are in the $2000-$4000 range, or roughly double what normal "nice" road bikes cost. I'd probably feel safer with it in a bike locker or in a coffee shop / work / train station by my side.
I'm glad that it DOES NOT support gifs.
> I wonder, have there been any experiments in major browsers to execute non-javascript code?

Chrome currently supports NaCl, which allows running native-compiled non-JS code in the browser, but doesn't provide direct DOM access. A number of technologies have been used to provide non-JS code in browsers through plug-in APIs. And IE has directly supported, at different times, a number of non-JS languages in the browser as well.

So, yes, and not just "experiments".
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Shocking enough I have a couple of friends that love XCode... I guess there is room for everybody (Although I can't stand XCode either)
Has ExpanDrive launched their Linux client yet?
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I made a list of restaurants:

Input:

taco bell 1
mcdonalds 2
wendys 3
bojangles 4
dairy queen 5

Ex: 1. Taco Bell

Output:

1. Taco Bell
. Mcdonalds 2
. Wendys 3
. Bojangles 4
5. Dairy Queen

? When I take the spaces out of the restaurants I get:

New Input:

tacobell 1
mcdonalds 2
wendys 3
bojangles 4
dairyqueen 5

Ex: 1. TacoBell

New Output:

1. Tacobell
2. Mcdonalds
3. Wendys
4. Bojangles
5. Dairyqueen
On the ones i have used it is 147369
Thanks for this insight. During a low point in my career I took on some contract work to deploy new POS at some QSR. I had to visit the secret menu on the Ingenico card terminals to verify network settings and in some cases (when whatever provisioning process did not work) manually set them. The terminals were to communicate with a local device in a 10.* IP scheme, and were supposed to get their own network settings via DHCP.

I've also had Walmart refund partial purchases without my payment card being present. This shows me that it's possible that Walmart stored the payment card information.
I wish. Outlook's flakiness alone requires more knowledge than just HTML 4.
People consume Google Maps on mobile. Maps is much more the global yellow pages of the 21st century than targeted banner ads or even web search could ever be. I don't know how much Google has started monetizing Maps yet, but the market potential is huge: "OK Google take me to an Italian restaurant" is still much more likely to end with money changing hands than "OK Google take me to a website that talks about pizza". I even think that the primary motivation for creating Android was to secure that spot. Fi would fit very well into that strategy, because Maps gets more powerful when the user is far from home. Therefore, unacceptable international data charges are disproportionally bad for Maps. If fi starts a race to the bottom for data roaming prices, Maps will benefit a lot.
I live in the US, have lived in the following states: CT, NY, LA, and now CO. Almost all of my parents cars have over 210k miles on them and they're still going. My car has 114k miles on it and it runs perfectly, if all goes well it should easily hit 200k and beyond. Also, the next car I buy, if it's for under $3k used, I wouldn't mind it having 140k miles if it's a reliable car.
Huh... Didn't know STL was on HN.. Good to see you here! :)
for this list:

tennis 3 4 5
wilson 1 2 3
robert 5 6 7

some patterns that didn't work:

tennis nis

tennis 12
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WinForms seems to work OK under Mono on Linux, which also IIRC claims WCF support.
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No, all I can find about it is in Dutch, but google translate is your friend.
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I admit I was thinking while reading the email that it would be rather funny if their ad hoc emergent groups elected managers to manage them, and replicated a hierarchical structure.
Looks interesting, but personally, I prefer https://github.com/justinmeza/doge.
You completely missed his point, which is that nobody was in a position to try the U.S. for war crimes after Vietnam. There are many kinds of defeat. To be charged with war crimes requires utter defeat, not merely an unfavorable end to the conflict.
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It did for Trello, to name an example (search for speed in http://blog.trello.com/refining-the-way-we-structure-our-css...).
Overall, very cool project!

The menu animation is really slow on Firefox 37 on Mac OS X. The way pages load and then more animations happen seems jarring. I've not used any material based apps, so maybe I'm just not used to how things work.
Nothing if you are using odeke-em's client. In my experience it's more useful than Google's desktop sync client.
Vehicles are definitely part of fashion for those who care and can afford it.
Day 1: Spend some time setting your machine up for doing machine learning. For Python look at Numpy, IPython Notebook, Scipy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, NLTK, XGBoost wrapper, Vowpal Wabbit wrapper, Theano + Nolearn.

2: Learn how to manipulate Numpy arrays ( http://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~shell/che210d/numpy.pdf ) and how to read and manipulate data with Pandas ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8hle-ni-DM ).

3: Do the Kaggle Titanic survival prediction challenge with Random Forests. ( https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic/details/getting-started-wit... )

4: Study Scikit-learn documentation ( http://scikit-learn.org/stable/documentation.html ). Run a few examples. Change RandomForestClassifier into SGDClassifier and play with the results. Scale the data to make it perform better. Combine a RF model and a SGD model through averaging and try to improve the benchmark score.

5: Study the ensemble module of Scikit-learn. Try the examples on the wiki of XGBoost ( https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/tree/master/demo/binary_clas... ) and Vowpal Wabbit ( http://zinkov.com/posts/2013-08-13-vowpal-tutorial/ ). Practically you want to get to a stage of: Getting the data transformed to be accepted by the algo, a form of evaluation, and then getting the predictions back out in a sensible form.

Then next week start competing on Kaggle and form a team to join up with people at your level. You will learn a lot that way and start to open up the black box.

I found these series very accessible: http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/04/22/scikit-learn-video-3-machi...

Kaggle also recently released a feature to run machine learning scripts in your browser. You could check those out and check out Python, R, common pipelines and even the more advanced neural nets: https://www.kaggle.com/users/9028/danb/digit-recognizer/big-... .
loool @ tennis nis
I gave up long ago and started using insync. The only downside is that I don't feel comfortable a third-party company also have access to files, but besides this, the app is really nice, works just as expected.
That is awesome that your boss enjoys tech like that.
Hmm. Beginner developer and long-time lover of sarcasm. So I read your home page list of cool features.

> Overthrow the oppressive dictatorship!

> Guido rejecting your awesome syntactic proposals? He's not in charge anymore. Annoy advocates of the category theory!

> With Haskell's syntax but none of its type system, dg is the best way to make fans of static typing shut up already.
Be on the verge of progress!

> Syntactic sugar is the most important thing nowadays. And don't let those Java guys tell you otherwise.
Add one more language to your résumé!

I learn most of what is hip in language design from articles posted here. Is "Haskell syntax without the types" something in demand by programmers, Pythonista or not? I am just curious if this is full-on sarcasm or I completely misread the trends I frequently see on HN. These points made me laugh, but I have no idea what to think.
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> Although "relatively" is rather less comforting when the contamination involves dioxins.

Yes. It's incredible how toxic that stuff is.
It took me a little while to figure out that your one-word post meant the practice of selling below cost to gain market share, with the intent to force marginal competitors out of your business and gain pricing power to be used later to make up for the losses.

I am not convinced that this practice is worthy of concern. I don't think that a short-term predatory pricing loss incurred by a dumper can ever be recovered. This opinion is based mostly on the personal belief that the substitution effect is far greater than most economists care to admit, particularly when the potential substitution is to not buy anything at all.

You can't dump alfalfa to bankrupt existing hay growers and then make a killing by raising alfalfa prices once you dominate the market. Why? Farmers will feed their livestock gummy bears[0]. And then they will plant their own damned hay crops at the very next available opportunity. The net result is that you go bankrupt, too, because you took a huge loss right before killing your own market.

[0]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/23/us-usa-cattle-cand...

http://www.naturalnews.com/037351_cattle_candy_marshmallows....

http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/news/economy/farmers-cows-ca...
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I think you can achieve a lot in a week. the big four for python data libraries are pandas, numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn. scikit-learn will provide the most milage of advancement of knowledge relative to the time investment to learn that knowledge. If you aren't concerned with how effective the results are, you can learn a lot from simple implementations. For example, to implement a basic Random Forest is three lines of code:
# create random forest
forest = RandomForestClassifier()
# train random forest
forest = forest.fit(train_data)
# test random forest
output = forest.predict(test_data)

That's just one example, but all implementations are reasonably easy for someone with your foundation to learn quickly. Now... being good at it... that will be your next challenge :-)
Deployment on Windows is a pain. The images are big, they have a lot of reboots (once a month usually). PowerShell is yet another thing to learn/deal with (despite being nice) but the simplicity of being able to SSH/SFTP doesn't seem to be totally there - scripting is still a second-class citizen. (Try setting up IIS as a reverse proxy with no GUI.)

IIS is ... meh, a pain compared to nginx, and nginx is gimped on Windows. I'd prefer to have nginx FastCGI to an ASP.NET server than use IIS.

Windows is fantastic if you've only got a handful of machines and buy into their other management systems that tie into AD. I'm guessing for companies running Exchange and so on, it makes a ton of sense.

But deploying custom apps I've written in F# or C#, Windows only gets in the way. If the CLR ran fine on Linux, that'd remove the only real barrier (Mono's great, but it doesn't fully support ASP.NET, and has other weird edges (but I've used it in production at high volume for years.))

No doubt this was Microsoft's concern all along. But now with Azure, they figure they can make money on Linux. And at the prices they charge for VMs, they could resell Google Cloud and make a great profit. Azure's compute prices are double Google's.
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Here in Texas, where the roads are clean and we drive a lot, cars with 300,000km (or, let's say, 200,000mi which is a similar milestone) certainly exist, but are somewhat unusual. But they're not worth much and likely nearing the retirement point from sheer age.
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Seriously people, logind is at present in charge of handling the likes of laptop lid closure.

It's sure as hell not for me; I still have never booted with systemd. If people choose a distribution in which it does, I wish them luck with that. It probably does solve multiple problems; like I keep saying they are just problems I don't have.
Ancestry.com still exists as a (paid) service, they just shut down this subset of their offering, so it's definitely not "nobody left to turn on the lights".
Try hitting a particularly JS intensive site though in Midori on a Raspi. You'll cry. There's no reason for it, it's just wasteful.
I can attest that this is not unheard of in southern california. 1995 cars are driving all over the place. Cars seem to have a lifecycle where they get sold to poorer owners with more and more miles piling on, and only get junked when they are beyond repair. Even a 150-200k miles car is worthy of selling on craigslist (for super cheap of course, but there are plenty of buyers).

Now to be fair, SoCal has a rather unique and essential car culture, so this is probably an outlier as far as "most" cities go.
Funny, I played with it extensively after your post, went through the examples, clicked the hell out of them.

All still fine.

I blame sun spots.
I recall something about Rust's libc crate being glibc-specific. What's the status on that, and can one build the compiler on Solaris/illumos, NetBSD and OpenBSD?
I agree, except for the sex analogy. You could've easily went with something like:

Haskell is to programming what bugs are to food. Both are functional, an acquired taste and look scary from the outside.
Even in developed countries people are driving their cars way over 300,000 km. Some cars are capable of over 482,803 km without major repairs needed. The Ford Crown Victoria comes to mind, the one used for police cars and taxes. I just read in a forum that police cars are used up to 643,738 km, at that point they're passed off to a taxi service for continued use. http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=show...

Not all places use salt, and even then if you get your car washed and underbody cleaned it should help the longevity of the car.
Drag and drop file sync is nice. Google is much more generous with free space than Dropbox is (15GB vs 2GB), so I would use them more if they had a desktop linux client.
What license are you distributing the code under? I don't see any license noted in your repo.
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The motive and possible solutions goes back further that systemd; see https://lwn.net/Articles/551969/
There is unfortunately no good place to do that.

I work in an enterprise setting and get to talk to the ssd vendors and fish for details on how to best use their ssds and I still find it hard to get full information. Sometimes I wonder if there can even be a single compendium of knowledge about ssds. There are just so many moving parts in there that I doubt the ssd vendors themselves know what is really happening. Many times there are strange behaviors that we hit and then the vendors get to debug their ssds and explain new things about what just happened.

One effect that I can attest to is that I know quite a bit about the ssd inner-workings (or at least how it shows to the outside world, never saw an ssd firmware source line) but it would be very hard for me to sit down and write something about all aspects. I can however answer questions when needed.
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> War crimes are a final insult of the victor over the vanquished.

The nature of war and sovereignty and the absence of international institutions has certainly led to that being a non-implausible perception of war crimes enforcement in the past, but I'm not sure that can be squared with the more recent situation demonstrated by ad hoc tribunals like ICTY and ICTR as well as the standing tribunals like the ICC.

> While the US was not victorious in Vietnam, neither were they defeated by the Vietnamese/USSR.

On the other hand, if you are posting from some alternate universe where that is true, the current experience in war crimes prosecutions might also be different there, too.
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Ouch. I was completely misremembering the cost on the international data passes. I thought it was about $30/GB, but I have no idea where that came from.

I suppose it's still better than Google - the rate limited data is still free, as opposed to paying full price for it, and nothing forces you to buy the full throughput data passes.
It's a mistake to treat corporations like people (no matter what the SCOTUS has to say on the matter). Corporations are just the people who work there. And none of the people involved with Agent Orange are working on GMOs today. They have nothing to do with one another.

Besides, Monsanto long ago spun off their chemical division as Solutia. We're not even talking about the same company.

In the end, you're confusing the name of something with the actual something.
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Been hit by both going at ~ 25mph. Bike every time. F • t = m • ∆v
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> The interviewer was 10 minutes late to the call, barely fluent in English, and used a speaker phone that did not function well.

Sounds a lot like my Google interview. And then it took a month for the interviewer to send his feedback. Along with a bunch of other ridiculous things, it really was the worst interview process I've ever had.
Not surprising. Was not even familiar with the library until I saw the link in these threads to the Github wiki page for ChicagoBoss mentioning features and I saw ErlyDTL, and went to evanmiller's page.

I dug a little deeper because having used Django in a very small does years ago, I have no idea what made its templating so desirable or unique that over stacks copy it.

I assume up on deck: queue jokes about templating non-Erlang in Erlang and how people clamor for anything else.