skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I did a transit through Heathrow I was horrified to discover that they've stopped doing proper transit as well. Entry procedures and security, and it's not like Heathrow does this well at the best of times. At least I didn't have to pick up my luggage.
>"most people think killing people is bad" can be reduced, with great difficulty, into statements about human behaviors and brain activity.

I doubt it, but in any case, the important point is that you can't do the same thing for "Killing people is bad." It's an important distinction. Most people think that homosexuality is bad, but we wouldn't want to conclude that it therefore is.
Awesome. Thanks, @jimu -- I'll try this.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7256960 (104 comments)
The problem is that Google Maps has become a very convenient always available source for maps, and the brand is highly trusted. Moreover, many other online mapping services have adopted the same projection.

Students (or whoever else) who might have previously gone to look up a region of the world on a globe, large paper map, or atlas are now turning to sites like Google Maps instead. The market for high quality paper maps has fallen quite a bit as more convenient online maps become the go-to source for answering all sorts of geographic questions.

Moreover, Mercator maps are turning up as the basis for many other tools. For instance, several online map collections have started georeferencing and reprojecting historical maps onto a Mercator projection, saving them as raster tiles, and allowing visitors to pan and zoom around on those reprojected maps, Google-Maps style. Instead of looking at various original maps with region-specific projections, now the viewer is getting more and more exposure to just Mercator maps.

If you look around the web, there are many examples of good maps with reasonable projections, but there are also many many examples of people using the Mercator projection in wholly inappropriate contexts. For example, I see Mercator choropleths of US statistical data quite frequently, which should be using something like an Albers equal-area conic projection instead. (http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3734308)

On the bright side, work like the D3 guys (Mike Bostock & Jason Davies) and others have been doing has made it easier than ever to construct nice web maps in all sorts of projections, without shelling out big bucks for fancy GIS software.

http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/

https://github.com/d3/d3-geo-projection/
For evidence look at real estate, stock market, and food (e.g. eggs [1]).

Not the government-manipulated "consumer price index" numbers, but the actual, raw prices.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_eggs_price_receivedyearly
Agree wholeheartedly that PayPal's issues with crowdfunding are well known.
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They recently built a really large tunnel near Vienna, which is supposed to be a part of the planned high-speed connection from Bratislava/Budapest to Paris.

It will be "completed" in 2020, so we will probably see Trains going in this direction soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrale_for_Europe
Well, I don't have much experience with pre-1am shuttles, except the one for the return flight which left maybe just 30 minutes late.

But when the 1:30 shuttle shows up at 3:00 and tells you that you should have expected it, I think it does tell something about the reliability and frequency of connections to the city.

The other systems I have experience with are Paris' RER, which is... okay, I guess, Copenhague's metro which makes the journey really easy, and Budapest's public transit which takes 1 hour and several changes. Copenhague is the only one I would consider reliable.
Only if you can't find similar homophobic jokes being told by, say, 60% of the population...

Jokes are irreverent. You don't have to be a "homophobe" to laught at such jokes, you could just as well be gay or a gay marriage supporter etc -- you just laugh at the mechanics of the joke (the word-play, the twist of the punchline, etc).

Same with all kinds of jokes. You don't have to be a serial killer or a sadist to laugh at jokes about murdering people or black humor in general. You don't have to be an atheist to laugh at jokes about religion. You don't have to be an bigot to laugh at jokes about the Irish -- Irish themselves laugh with such jokes (and similar for other ethnicities).

You just have not to be all righteous and/or PC.
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And? So is gasoline and petroleum products. And so is corn products through ethanol, which is legally mandated to be in fuel at 10% for no good reason.
It's a bit early to tell, don't you think?
> Source level compatibility means replicating the bug

No it doesn't. For example: we can fix the the glibc pthread_mutex_lock bug without affecting ABI or source compatibility.
I can't recall where, but it said something like a lot of recent technology was known at the time. Electricity for instance, but wasn't seen as interesting or useful relatively to the need and knowledge to make it so.
Couldn't Google keep cost-per-click artificially high, benefiting themselves at the expense of advertisers?
Doing well on a coding challenge doesn't mean I won't be screened out later for being a "bad cultural fit", which is one reason I see them as a waste of my time.
I don't agree with your argument, but wouldn't have downvoted you if you hadn't written "Suffice to say, doctors don't have all the answers, or even most of them. Many are presumably ignorant altogether." Suffice to say, nobody has all the answers. Or you think you do?
Interesting. I'm on 1.0.0.94391081 on a Nexus 6 running stock 5.1.1 and I don't see that when I highlight multiple photos in thumbnail view. http://m.imgur.com/foXI16d

According to Google Play Store I have the latest version of Photos (I see all the other changes, including the welcome walkthrough).

I don't get a trash icon in either photo or thumbnail view, with 0, 1 or more photos selected.
So logically, being one of the few places which allow transfer of gift card balances

One of their first concerns should be is any facet of this affected by race conditions? It's not that complicated of a problem really..
My mum learned Esperanto - main motivation a kind of idealism where the world can come together with a common language without any particular culture dominating the others in the way you would tend to get if you chose say English as the common language. It also can be a social thing to meet others with a similar worldview.
I am seeing that it uses tags and faces that I previously put on photos within iPhoto and are evidently stored with Exif. So if you used iPhoto to tag your set "honeymoon" it will pick that up.
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Money is like the score on the arcade machine to these people. It's not a measure of lives lost or dreams destroyed; it measures how well you played the game versus your buddies. At the end of the day, the one with the highest score "wins".
No, not price, although they are pretty cheap and run a fair auction system (unlikely other exchanges...looking at you facebook/appnexus). The CTR on adx is actually one of the better ones, and they tend to have less junk inventory.
I had a similar idea a while back... I would also be thrilled if you stole it :)
This may definitely be an issue. Increased prices leading to decline in ridership leading to even more increased prices until it's dead.
I guess it's hard to tell, but do you have any ideas about how the licensing and encoding have helped your revenue? Have you had any customers unhappy that they weren't able to look at the source?
Hi! I'm on 1.0.0.94391081 on a Nexus 6 running stock 5.1.1 and I don't see that when I highlight multiple photos in thumbnail view. http://m.imgur.com/foXI16d

According to Google Play Store I have the latest version of Photos (I see all the other changes, including the welcome walkthrough).

I don't get a trash icon in either photo or thumbnail view, with 0, 1 or more photos selected.

I'm not singed in on the Photos app (I wasn't signed in on the old app either) as I'm not entirely comfortable on the dependence on web services or the auto upload features (which I do appreciate can be disabled). I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Honestly, the old Gallery app was perfect for my workflow. Offline, gave me access to metadata, etc.
News flash: Policies meant to encourage growth in high-tech clean energy are encouraging growth in high-tech clean energy!

This isn't the first time this has been trotted out as an indictment of Musk, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's really goddamned stupid.
Good. I hope he gets as much help as possible.
Nice. This is something I have wanted to find time to write and I'm glad somebody else already has.

I use pdfkit because I have an offline-capable JS app with fairly rich document printing needs. A friendly layout engine on top can save a lot of effort making nice designs.
We treat a lot of animals badly, but uh. We mutilate live and dead plants; that seems on par to me with mutilating dead animals. What's horrific about it?

And that peta page is stupid.

Unrelated: how do you define will to live?
What? Central planners cause unintended consequences with their meddling?
I hear a lot of sour grapes in this article ... the only part worth discussing is whether SolarCity and Tesla Motors can reach self-sufficiency before the funding is removed.

Governments provide these sort of grants specifically to encourage certain behaviors. I don't think Musk is the only one pursuing these credits, etc., but perhaps he's better at it than most? His only real advantage is that he doesn't have the baggage (bureaucracy, history, etc) of the entrenched players ... they could, in theory, partake of the same government largess.
It was a lovely journey, although the scenery meant that it was worth doing in the daytime...
Not a great comparison.

The US doles out $15 to $20 billion annually toward subsidies for fossil fuels. $4 to $5 billion goes to the oil industry.

Exxon and Chevron paid $120 billion in income taxes in just the last three years. US oil majors pay among the highest corporate tax rates on earth. Exxon and Chevron are getting about $1.3 billion in tax breaks per year combined.
I think I saw an article about people using c++14 as a scripting language since infered type, closures and other syntax niceties can make simple c++ as short as python.
This is a very poor interpretation of what actually happens. Elon explained it better himself in an interview. The gov isn't exactly signing a blank check for them, instead it's subsidising by allowing tax credit on land, assets and revenue.

First and foremost, do you really think the American tax payer is doing a greater favour to Elon than Elon is doing to the entire world by moving the whole lot of purely eletrical power?

This reporter is an absolute imbecile to use such titles, market pleasing as they are. If Elon wanted to get rich he would buy an island and sunbathe for the next 40 years. He's already rich.

With respect to the amount of good done, I urge this reporter in particular to join TMZ and keep up with the Kardashians.
For the same reason everything eventually gets rewritten in Javascript: sometimes you want to do it in a browser.

In my case, I have a Javascript app that stores critical information for offline use, and users want to be able to print that information nicely. So I generate PDFs in Javascript. This could make that much easier.
>As Scott Adams points out in an article that someone else linked to here, the science of diet and exercise is a case in point.

That's because most of it in the form it reaches people is not actually a "science", but mostly pop culture and BS from mass media.
He probably meant something like "*.jpg" which is common and works fine on Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX. And probably not the full Regex syntax as known from grep or Perl/PHP.
In terms of fault, we're doing what we can to filter it out when it hits us, but nothing particularly sophisticated yet. On other exchanges, our filters filter out some significant percentage of traffic, but the same filters applied on Adx don't get triggered often. The click and conversion behavior of ads shown number seem to suggest that this is due to google actually doing a really good job of filtering the fraud before it hits us.
It is incomplete in the sense that a theory can only be measured against others by its predictive power and simplicity. You're creating a metric of "success" that Asimov doesn't believe exists -- that a theory has an essential quality which is measurable in any way other than its predictive success.
The simpler calculation was probably chosen because it would be a bad idea to store or analyze data in Web Mercator (so the projection is done each time a tile is rendered).

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the person who set it all up chose the "wrong" radius (from your link) in order to make the projection even less useful for analysis.
If they actually properly price the negative externality into objects like gasoline, there wouldn't be needs for government subsidies of clean energy.
A very easy simple improvement over random search is to use a low discrepancy sequence. They were designed almost for this purpose (avoiding the problems caused by irrelevant dimensions). I don't know why I never see it suggested... it's not as good as gaussian process modeling, but it's very easy to implement and it clearly dominates random search for this application.
I have the same build! How strange. I'm on a Nexus 6 (stock 5.1.1), UK based but SIM-Free (not carrier branded). See my other comment for a screenshot of what I see.

It's frustrating as I have to click the menu button, then Delete, then OK. I used to just hit Trash icon and that was it. For one-off deletions it's only a little slower - for working through a days worth of shots (or worse, high speed drive shots transferred from my camera).
TL;DR: "Subsidies are handed out in all kinds of industries, with U.S. corporations collecting tens of billions of dollars each year [...] and the incentives for solar panels and electric cars are available to all companies that sell them.

[...]

But public subsidies for Musk's companies stand out both for the amount, relative to the size of the companies, and for their dependence on them."
>That seems false as applied to most of my examples. If the Big Bang theory turns out to be true, then that doesn't mean that steady state theories were "incomplete", it just means that they were wrong.

They still seem incomplete (and not "wrong" to me). They served their purpose and were good approximations for calculations we did and observations we had all those years.

>Similarly, if it turns out that eating lots of fat doesn't make you fat, that doesn't mean that previous dietary advice was merely "incomplete".

Only if "previous dietary advice" was only all about fat, and only if it consisted of just saying "fat makes you fat".
It's not explicitly stated, but I agree that if you've heard of Euler the homage is obvious.

Likewise, if you've heard of Jacquard or his invention, then the homage here is obvious as well. Neither case requires a footnote explaining the reference.
Thanks! Very interesting, especially the sandia rapid development tool.Could be really useful in creating low-cost mcu's.

I've looked through a few of the examples, and they are useful, but they require a different toolset from what real-time engineers use(JVM/CodeSEAL), and you probably need to certify your code in order to get eal6+ for your system. All those are big barriers for penetration, which probably creates less incentive for mcu companies to develop eal6+ mcu's with rich peripherials which will appeal to the market.

Do you see a way out of this ? maybe using rust(or some other language), an eal6+ certified RTOS and an eal6+ mcu , would enable people creating secure real-time systems without need of certification?
How mature could this setup be considered? Thanks for pointing it out.
A lot of the time "subsidies" aren't actually money or help given to companies but rather what they have decided to not tax.

That's basically saying we could charge you infinity, but since we didnt, you have infinity subsidy.

Edit: To the downvoters: this is what "incentives" are when considered in tax terms.
Node/npm is terrible. Look at Popcorn Time. This client app has over 4000 files in npm_modules. Most of them totally unneeded, and many of them tiny and for things that should be in a stdlib or rolled with others.

I think it's the same kind of folks that create a huge Java object model, always one file per type. Gives the feeling of being big and doing real work, even when you're not.
That's true, but it's also true that the actual scientific consensus has changed a lot over time. You can't blame this all on the media and pretend that dietary advice from experts has been fully consistent for the past 50 years.
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I furiously looked at the C standard (C99, anyway) and the documentation to the gcc preprocessor, and have to admit somewhat embarassedly, that you are right.
The gcc preprocessor documentation clearly states:

> "If you use the macro name followed by something other than an open-parenthesis (after ignoring any spaces, tabs and comments that follow), it is not a call to the macro, and the preprocessor does not change what you have written."

Thanks for pointing this out to me!
Please don’t use terms like SJW here. I can’t see how it’s relevant or adds anything to the discussion.
What is it with these people making these Haskell lectures?

"Let's show a bunch of half confusing combinators and talk about how immutability is great". As someone who writes Haskell at his job, I find that baffling.

Why would I want to try out Haskell for the reasons shown in the lecture? Convince me with business prospects - not by showing people code they will not understand in 10 minutes unless they already do.

The thing is - there are _tons_ of good examples of using functional programming and Haskell concepts in Swift, using monads in async programming (ala promisekit) or using monads for JSON parsing to get nice syntax are both very real use cases that could save developers lots of time.

One last thing - my Haskell code compiles _a lot_ more than it works, saying "if it compiles it works" is one of the most damaging things people say about Haskell. Having a strong type system does not mean your code somehow doesn't have the hardest class of bugs. Not to mention it's all nice and dandy that it will let you pass stuff around - but when you implement an algebraic structure (like a Monad or a Monoid or whatever) you are the one in charge of making sure it abides to all the laws of that structure - this is fine but it would be awesome if people said that when they show you what monads are, the compiler helps verify your code with your help by you spending time proving assertions about your structures - not magically.

I love Haskell, and I think it taught me a lot about Swift, being able to do things like `Either` in Swift because it has strong enums is awesome (product types ftw). Can we please show people what actually works from Haskell instead of just saying monads and then giggling about it?

I'm sorry for the negative comment - it clearly looks like the author of the talk did a good job preparing it and he's a good speaker - I just think focusing on what he did does a disservice to Haskell and functional programming.
Jordan M. did in fact receive an autopsy, which confirmed he died of an overdose of drugs of the kind he ordered on Silk Road. The defense attempted to refute the autopsy using their own pathologist, who did not conduct an autopsy. The defense witness was an expert-witness-for-hire who resigned a position as Rockland County medical examiner under a cloud of accusations about incompetence.

Your suggestion that I read more of the documents in this case is rude, uncalled for by anything I said, and unproductive.

It is totally reasonable for you to be skeptical or even cynical of the prosecution's case.

It is not at all reasonable for you to demand that everyone else on this thread share exactly your perspective on the case, or to suggest that people who disagree with you must do so because they're uninformed --- an accusation I would not have considered making about you.

Edit: rereading your comment, just to make sure I wasn't out of line (I don't think I was): you don't need to go to PACER to get the Taff declaration (about all 6 pathology cases). All of these documents are available from a Google search, from DOJ, "FreeRoss", and Cryptome.
Indeed. I'd rather have billions go to Elon who will turn it into awesome technology, as his companies have, than have it go to defense contractors who will turn it into another plane that can't fly.
A critical factor here is how far away you live from an airport that services your destination. That can work out to be quite unfavourable, to the point where even a 6 hour car trip is preferable over a 3 hour plane ride.
As an English speaker who once spoke a little Loglan (the 1978 dialect!), I think you're mistaken. Knowing "blue" definitely helps in remembering "blanu". Occasionally there was a word that didn't take a lot of its phonemes from English, and those were definitely harder to learn.

Obviously the benefit is going to be smaller if you don't speak one of the major source languages, but it still seems like a reasonable strategy to me for selecting vocabulary in an artificial language.
>That's because most of it in the form it reaches people is not actually a "science"

...because it's really just "a word from our sponsors".

It uses the language and status of science for marketing and persuasion, without providing any of the rigour or repeatability.

Unfortunately this poisons the well for real science, because non-scientists decide that scientists don't really know anything useful and it's all just a matter of opinion anyway.
I'm kinda disappointed that he didn't develop an algorithm on how to do it in the least amount of steps.

Good work though and gratulations on the wight loss!
No, it's not. Generational, incremental, precise GC generally outperforms non-generational, non-incremental, conservative deferred reference counting.
Tell us more about your anecdata! What specifically do you mean by "provoke"?
A wildcard search, then. Sure, that's more common (although sometimes hilariously broken), I can give you that.

I'd expect wildcard searches too, but only because Google is a search company. When I see a search box, I'm usually happy if it does a contains search instead of an exact match, that's how low my expectations have become.
"singular composite of expressions" - this doesn't mean a lot, and doesn't really fit, I think

Actually, while the presentation here was perhaps overstated, I think there is an issue here. The fact is that other languages split things into expressions and statements, such that the combinations of these things is more limited. This has a downside, in that you are not as free to cut things in the way that best fits your domain or your solution. But it has an upside in that where you cut becomes more obvious, and learning the appropriate size for chunks (particularly as you come back and repeatedly modify the same pieces of code) is an additional thing one needs to learn in Haskell that isn't entirely obvious (at least, it wasn't for me, and I feel I could still do much better than I do).
Right, this is what I said in my first paragraph: science tends to be empirically conservative. As for metrics of success, we're talking about right or wrong here, not successful or unsuccessful. If the scientific consensus in 1900 was P, whereas the current scientific consensus is ¬P, then it's silly to pretend that the previous theory was merely "incomplete". Take plate tectonics as an example. Either the Earth's surface is split into moving plates or it isn't. As it turns out, this hypothesis is correct, and the scientists who denied it well into the 20th century were just flat our wrong.