jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They're not going to have official US 2020 numbers for a while. The FBI is slow. We're relying on stuff like the Washington Post link where they look at less authoritative sources.

And yeah we would still be lower than the murder rate from decades ago. 5.0 per 100,000 times .3 gets you 6.5, that's lower than the murder rate from 1968 to 1997 if you trust the numbers at http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm.

I lived through the 90s murder rate in a high crime city, I'll be doing that again as an old man I guess.
Could you explain a bit more why it ought to be classified as hate speech?
This is a bin washing machine.[1] "Become your own boss with Morclean’s innovative and award-winning wheelie bin washers."

[1] https://www.morclean.com/wheelie-bin-washers
Well fuck me, that was the entire point of buying this current mac... thanks for the info.
Further reason why the "x political thing is trending on twitter" style headline that has become ubiquitous is stupid.
In consulting, I run into this type of engineer pretty often. And these engineers often work at companies that are scared of being disrupted.

So my work in "Digital Transformation" is a two part challenge of teaching management to think of their IT department as a source of creative energy and not bricklayers, while trying to get the engineers out of the mindset of bricklayers themselves after many years of being shoehorned. It is not easy.
If I wanted oysters, I could just walk down to the beach and get them. I tried it a while back. Steamed them. Not bad. But I don't really care for the taste of oysters anyway.

I suppose it's nice to know they are there as a potential SHTF food supply.
Give me a fast language and I WILL find a way to achieve horrible performance.
Similar to Hacker News for me: interesting tech articles and discussions, but with a different feel. I follow a bunch of graphics programmers and machine learning researchers. There's a lively community with a bunch of famous people participating as well as lesser known people who are really good in certain niches.

Particularly in machine learning it seems like thousands of papers are published every week, impossible to sort through. I find that the few I see people talking about on Twitter are the most interesting and worthy of attention.

Here's a list I made a while ago of the machine learning people I follow: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/b6dwrd/d_b...
We inside wonder how many of the political tweets or memes being shared are from Eastern Europe troll farms. I recently read about a Polish troll farm running “Blue lives matter” groups. The purpose was profit not propaganda like the Russian farms.
`pexpect` is used by Jupyter Notebook, and gets some maintainence from the Jupyter people. So, like the article argues, it is likely to be stable for the long term.
Obviously my EC2 isn't E enough. This should be improved by the time most read this update.

Mono seems to work great using mono develop on osx
Nice.

I did something similar in javascript --> https://github.com/JohnIdol/WasDarwinWrong ... and C# --> https://github.com/JohnIdol/typingmonkey
You are taking him way, way too seriously. I think anyone with a wife or girlfriend knew what he meant.
You're absolutely right, it is always a trade-off. I've added a paragraph at the end of my article focused on that particular problem to address that: https://www.eisfunke.com/article/language-design-machine-or-...
or your engine for that matter, get a bicycle!
Incorrect: They also changed the 30pin standard while keeping it 30pin. Many people found that they could not charge or play music with their new iDevice when plugging it in to a factory-wired (and non-removable) 30pin cable in their car.
Disclosure: I work for Amazon where I build AWS infrastructure, but these opinions are mine alone.

Personally, I think that the word "fork" has a lot of historical meaning in the world of Free and Open Source Software. To me, "fork" means that there is a "vote of no confidence" in the direction of the people who are making decisions about open source software. That clearly is not the case here. The PostgreSQL core team has a very good reputation of being collaborative, and thoughtful, in their work to make PostgreSQL the best database it can be for the community at large, and not build it to benefit any particular commercial interest.

Often software development happens on branches. These are experiments, not forks. Over time, good ideas are propagated, and grafted, between the branches. These are not "forks" to me.
> FFS take a few seconds and read the article.

Please read the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agreed. It was a great post. I tend to think of my self as a "liberal-tarian." With the tenet being to set a goal for a standard of living and social / environment targets that benefits as many as possible, but anything beyond that get out of the way.

In this way I am for socialized health care, significantly stricter regulations or punitive measures regarding the environment. However for most other issues I would rather have a competitive market.

In the end I think some form of UBI may help us get there most efficiently. Ensure the environmental and health sustainability and give people a minimum amount of money to ensure they can reasonably sustain themselves, then let the market consider the rest.
I wonder who'd fund that, and how we'd ensure independence?
The high end Ryzen 5000 series processors even when throttled to their lowest continuous speed still outperform the M1 Macs in multicore. Having twice the cores makes a huge difference.
Category theory jumps out of its software silo and is applied to ... well, everything else. This looks like a fun course!
I've been looking into game programming in my spare time and I was wondering how to best implement the UI as a hobby project. I know there's Scaleform, http://www.scaleform.com/ , that's used for major games like Starcraft 2 but the price tag is way out of my league. Anyone have any suggestions?
No. You have to look at infinite subsets of the input space in order to show a counterexample of a Big-O claim. In particular, choose an input for each input size n, let f(n) be the space usage of the radix tree for that input, and show that f(n) is in Theta(n) or at least that it's not o(n).
Thank you this is very kind! Great stuff.
Posse Comitatus doesn't really apply they're not enforcing a law or acting as a policing force which is all that law actually cares about. The Army Corps of Engineers does a lot of projects like this, it's part of the reason they exist at all. Lots of the flood control along the Mississippi for example are COE works and they come in during emergencies to do stuff like this. For example during Katrina they were the ones repairing the dykes that had failed around New Orleans.
Conceptual Mathematics is a good introduction to category theory (which is all about objects and morphisms) and especially well suited for self-study: http://www.amazon.com/Conceptual-Mathematics-First-Introduct...
And it covers people who sponsor conferences, meetups, and diversity programmes, bloggers and other content creators, and all the other ways that people gain awareness of their products. What do you think the OP, which ends with a call to buy the author's book, is?
The courts are actually pretty capable of rubber-stamping guilty verdicts very quickly. They can also scale up and hire more assistant prosecutors etc.
Can someone bcrypt all these phone numbers & emails and make that public? Share the salt and then everyone can just test their own phone number without sending it to some rando
It could be a legitimate strategy depending on the circumstances, and depending if they can get other public defenders to tag-along.
And in 99% of cases the client is gonna make their own decision bec if the lawyer tried to coerce them in any way they can lose their license.
Also, if somehow the courts managed to take all these cases to trial, for every trial that the public defender lost, she could appeal that they did not receive adequate representation. I don't think she would win those appeals, just because the courts act with spite to anyone who rocks the boat, but it would be correct; there is no way that any public defender could handle that many cases going to trial. They already aren't allotted enough time just to plea bargain.
Don’t the three factors you list all feed into each other ? I recently found a shocking statistic that the lifetime probability for a black man to go to prison is 30 %. That directly leads to social breakdown and lack of economic opportunities. This directly leads to crime being seen as the way out.

Jailing more and more people is a death spiral.

Not even getting into the issues of prisons being run as for profit institutions that can use prisoners as slave labor. Or that prisoners can have their voting rights removed. Or that all this disproportionately falls on certain groups.
"In-place" usually means "using only a constant amount of additional storage." You're using a constant amount of additional storage if you even use a function call (unless you're invoking certain compiler directives and/or optimizations), because C function calls usually involve placing a return address on the stack.

This is also why quicksort is considered to take up log(n) space: it calls itself recursively, and thus uses up a bit of the stack for each recursive call.
Hilarious, but needs more vbscript.
Well, this is an interesting topic

"To do the work, you have to understand, for instance, the ranges of instruments you compose for, as well as the difficulties imposed by the mechanics of the instrument."

True, but knowing the range is "trivial". Knowing the difficulties is much more relevant in the case of an educational program as you mention.

For example, playing C and the C one octave above on a piano is trivial, on a recorder, it's on a distinct educational level.

Sure, you can complain about print designers doing web design and I would agree, but one thing is knowing the limitations and quirks of the medium, another is knowing how to use it (sure, one comes with the other, but it's not "mandatory" that they learn that way)

" self-taught singer-songwriters whose only instrument is guitar and who can play barely enough keyboard to input a score into finale are often confirmed."

Yeah, I don't trust guitar players ;) And I didn't know Finale was still popular.
I agree and the pool of tinkerers and intelectually curious has been growing steadily. There are so many free resources available that the barrier to entry has lowered enormously. However, the enormous growth has gone towards consumption and that is not necessarily a bad thing.
I don't know if you need to handle break/continue specially during the AST parse. Once you do flow analysis and have your basic blocks, it should be pretty easy to place your lexical defers into the right spots, on the graph edges.
Craft commerce is a great platform but not ready to run like Shopify
This feels like it wouldn't square with Know-Your-Customer requirements. Although: those only kick in legally above certain transaction and spend levels, so simply rejecting anonymous payments at those levels (or structured payments below those) would make it legally viable.

It does make me feel good to see a GNU project like this out there - at the core of the free world IMO, the bits of glue which get our society running, it should really be all open-source and open licenses.
Edward Snowden wasn’t a whistleblower. He stole US intelligence material as a contractor, leaked it to the press and fled the country to avoid facing criminal charges.

The whistleblowing process is not break the law then claim whistleblower protection. You report wrongdoing to a specific, independent body and are offered protection against retribution.

A better example of the system is the whistleblower on Trump’s first impeachment, who is still protected under law and still can’t have their identity revealed publicly.

Edit: To clarify, this only applies to the federal government. I only bring it up since you named two individuals who were associated with the federal government. With Amazon and other private companies, leaking to the press is effective and encouraged.
There’s value in the optionality of cash! I know there’s good reason to dollar-cost average (for someone who squirrels money away primarily into index funds) since it’s difficult or impossible to time the market... and the market tends to go up over long periods. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable for an indexer to carry more cash now. I’m not as extreme as you are (I just stop adding to my indexes rather than liquidating them), but the worst case is that I lose wealth to inflation. Best case is that, if market prices decline well past fair value, I can deploy capital. And, since I’m not solely an indexer, if I happen to see a particular undervalued asset while the market remains high, I can purchase it.
Agreed, but to address one of the specifics you mention the "Web Applications" proposal seems mostly to be based on how to use web applications ("how do I delete my account on ___?") rather than how to build them.

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/57/web-application...
Given some of the (independent) people I know who did hit a home run, I'd say you're selling yourself short, though perhaps that depends on your definition of "home run."
Really? Really? So around half of ALL US developers only write for iOS?
"Not to say Delicious didn't do any/all of those well." Then what exactly _are_ you saying? :-)
I've been reading posts about how the "decline of HN" has begun since I began lurking here 2 years ago. Everyone relax, everything will be alright.
Other cable companies aren't doing FTTH either... because it doesn't make sense. The existing HFC plant can support 100 Mbps with DOCSIS 3.0; why spend billions to install FTTH that your customers don't even know what to do with?
For those interested in continuing the conversation, I followed this comment up with a HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2490693
and to add to this, they play nicely together, so you can asdf-install a new local version of a package available through quicklisp, and (require 'that-package) will load your newer local version.
I've heard of WoW guild leaders putting it on their resume. Not sure how they pulled it off, though.
First of all, there is no confirmed credit card theft. Credit card information is held at a higher standard than generic personal information. PCI compliance requires credit cards are encrypted and you are required to get regularly audited. By no means is it perfect, but it's about as good as it gets with securing data that's being thrown around constantly.

Second, Sony did tell credit card companies and they do know about this. I called mine and the operator was well aware of of the data leak. They have been monitoring all accounts from the beginning.

Third, while you can always get a new card number for free, credit card companies tend not to issue new cards automatically. I've had it happen to me once before where they gave me a new one without me asking.

tl;dr These authorized charges are likely coincidental; the CC companies are well aware of the situation.
I understand, and other players might understand. But the people who could read your resume and potentially hire you probably wouldn't.
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You have a great eye for photographic composition. Keep that up, Sam.
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It seems a bit out of the ordinary, but we've found ElasticSearch + facets to be wonderful ways to consume time series data. You can dump in a bunch of information about an event (for example, unix timestamp or even response time in ms) and then return a facet over the range and get bucket counts.

ES also has quite nice clustering abilities that make it pretty painless to scale out. If you are clever about your routing keys you can even go crazy pre-shard hundreds of shards very early on and not have any performance hit for map reductions, but the capacity to scale out with another node without reindexing.

We've been surprised at the swiss army knife like ability of ES.
If you want really accurate math, the best idea for a program is maintain a representation of an expression until it absolutely needs to, since every time the math is condensed into actual numbers there is usually some loss of precision. Even as humans, it makes sense, we rarely write 0.33333 instead of 1/3 unless we have to by circumstance (or at least you souldn't)
Again, let’s try to fix the problem rather than taking sides.
On the other hand, you've disregarded the possibility of continuing to browse after doing three things (or stopping prior to three things). If browsing is an endless stream, then facebook has to be followed by one of the other two, which is the angle he was working from. Depends how you frame the question and what assumptions you make; it's ill-defined right now.

Edit: On another note, in his place I would have sanitized my own history; a screenshot showing redtube and tube8 in the "visited" style is tacky, to say the least.
There are also barriers to entry to becoming a plumber. And there's no reason a plumber couldn't easily become the CEO of his own plumbing company.

People are largely in charge of their own destiny in America (as well as many other countries). No one is made a CEO by birthright.
They are not making acquisitions -- They acquired powerset over 2.5 years ago. More than 10 quarters ago. I'm not aware of any other acquisition since then, or anything in the online space besides that in the last, what, 4+ years?

Not that I disagree with that choice, acquisitions just because you have cash is just as stupid as no acquisitions. Better for them to determine a strategy first.
I found that AOL was nowhere near enough, wasn't 'true network' (I understood this at 10), was heavily criticized by the PC media because of this (which I also used to read) so I switched it off and discovered BBS's

The BBS's were the foundation of almost every person I have met in tech, every job, all dev, every startup I have been involved with and there is a very strong camaraderie amongst the early BBS hackers (most of us went on to become v early web hackers).

So I see from how inside AOL you think your theory might hold, but outside of it there was an entire larger network that was far more interesting
I think that article was essentially a propaganda piece, albeit unintentionally. My guess is that Newsweek puts out blurbs like that in order to reach out to a targeted demographic, in this case women.

The whole question of media bias really comes down to the bottom line. If a format of words plus carefully chosen images favored traditionally conservative causes (which for the most part they don't) there would be widespread complaints about right wing media bias. AS it is, I think there is very little remanent of journalistic ethics in mass media.
This is such small thinking.

As one of the commenters on the page did: http://i.imgur.com/jHLOX.png

It shows a much more likely scenario. Although maybe a bit over the top with the naming of the profit section as Google Kill Zone. Why can't big companies play nice. :)
> Look at how MS tried to enter the mp3 player market, and have completely failed. Their latest phones failed too. Why do anybody expect them to be able to get anywhere when they have a CEO who doesn't understand consumers but only enterprise sales?

We're talking about Android, not Microsoft.

In terms of market share, all the numbers indicate that Android will most likely be #1 in the world (even passing Nokia) while Apple will struggle to be #4 or maybe #3 if they can keep ahead of Microsoft.

Again, I'm talking about market share, not profits (where Apple is the indisputable #1).
Its the circle of (extraordinarily successful startup) life.
GC was probably not a concern in 2009, but these days GC pauses will kill any moderately high throughput app. The stackoverflow blog has lots of content dedicated to the lengths they go to avoid them in C#, such that the resulting C# code doesn't look like idiomatic C# at all.

In F# that would be an even bigger challenge. You could do it, but it would but way ugly. F# is my go-to language for side projects, but for anything server-side that I'm getting paid to work on, I'd be reluctant to suggest F# as a starting point, as much as I'd like to.
You're right about the reduced cost but I can't agree that remote leads to improved corporate culture (that's largely personal preference though).

> Every new startup I’ve seen in the past year has been 100% remote since day one.

Any reasonable company that had the option to work remotely has done so over the past year, it's hardly a trend that you can project into the future.
Please don't make me open an MS Word file to read your documentation.
Hospitals do "let" uninsured people die because they are not obligated to provide the full extent of their care capabilities to people who cannot afford it. Come in with a hole in your abdomen, and for sure they'll patch you up even if you don't have insurance. Come in riddled with cancer? Don't expect the same as they would give somebody who could pay themselves or had insurance.

This said, it is still a shoddy use of statistics. "1 in 1000 uninsured people die each year" by itself tells us pretty much nothing. What is the rate of death for insured people?

Wikipedia tells me that 8.39 in 1000 people die in America every year, so if uninsured people are only dying at a rate of 1 in 1000 every year, it seems to me that either it is beneficial to be uninsured, or uninsured people are not representative of the population (perhaps because many of them are young and healthy?).

I suspect that what is going on is this person actually meant to say something along the lines of "1 in 1000 people die every year in ways that could have been prevented if they had insurance" A subtle but important difference. The actual mortality rate of uninsured people is most likely much higher than 1 in 1000, but the deaths of uninsured people in motorcycle accidents would not be counted in that "1 in 1000" figure.

Either way, it is shoddy.
Thanks to Atom not being really free software and people here suggesting it a lot I give LightTable a try. I'm an emacs user but I like experimenting different foss editors and LighTable + emacs keybindings plugin is a really nice and beautiful tool.

Couldn't get it to work on Debian Wheezy yet (GLIBC_2.15 not found)* but worked on a Windows machine at work so I'm testing it there. I'll get back to linux later. Looking forward for v1.0. :)

* It seems to be a known issue: https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/972
Your computer reminds me of George Washington's Axe.
MMT-caused inflation just an effect of an alternative to taxation and is an effective means to keep spending moving. Like any other outcome of monetary policy it has winners and losers
I dont think this comparison is as relevant as youre presenting it to be - why concern ourselves with the rest of the world when the GP and the linked article are US centric? Furthermore - why would someone struggling and feeling enslaved care one bit about how much harder anyone has it?
It's not just pay. Teachers will willingly take pay cuts to teach at private schools. Why?

1. Students with chronic behavior problems are easier to throw out

2. Parents are less likely to go on idiotic crusades about the content of the curriculum

3. The school board (or, more likely, the state legislature) isn't going to make irrelevant changes to appease voters

Private schools are more likely to treat their teachers as independent professionals rather than glorified babysitters or McEducation employees.
Reminds me of this excellent video https://youtu.be/HLIJkmy3vy8
it's in Spanish, he tells the story of explaining a financial system crash to his daughter. Probably has subtitles in English, I recommend it
> a transfer of wealth from borrowers to debtors

What's the difference between a borrower and a debtor?
Ha, imagine 0.1% of all USD got stolen in one swoop.