skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In November each year there is an International Transgender Day of Remembrance. In memorials around the world the names of those murdered for being, or appearing to be, transgender individuals during the previous year are read [1]. These lists include sources verifying the details of their murders.

Counts differ widely because some sources will discount 'gender identity' as a motive, not count a violent crime against a transgender person as a 'hate crime'. For example, the very first link in the OP quote the police as stating, “It’s obviously a man, right? He doesn’t have a female name. I am not going to get into a debate about if he was transgender or not.” Meanwhile a friend of the victim who was at the scene of the crime –i.e. knew the victim personally and interacted with the perpetrator– stated, “If a person gets mad at you for being transgender and then comes back and kills you because his pride was crushed, and he was interested in someone he thought was a woman, it’s a hate crime,” So the police didn't categorize her murder as transgender-related, even though there is reasonable evidence that it was.

Even with differing counts, the number of transgender people murdered in the U.S. this year, and we're only in August, is at a historic high [2].

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[1] Here's the list of known victims, internationally, from 2014 - http://tdor.info/memorializing-2014-2/

[2] http://transequality.org/blog/gender-based-violence-against-... , http://time.com/3999348/transgender-murders-2015/ , and http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/08/transgender-targets-trans... (must deal with advertisements and a survey, but the article itself illustrates well some of the challenges that transgender people deal with.
Sort of related, but in the last year it seems to me that Google's results in general have been increasingly getting worse. Now it seems that at least two or three spam results are always present in the first page of results. Most of these results also happen to be duplicate content of bigger sites though. I have tried reporting on numerous occasions to Google, but just usual "we will investigate" response and never a word back.
Fair enough. Though again, I do sincerely sympathize with him. If my assumption is true, he did what he did for survival of a form. Fine in my book.
I know for sure the K (of the J / K / APL) family does, and I suspect they all do.
"It hurt his physical health (immobility for hours on end punctuated by the occasional food/rest break)and did ridiculous damage to his psychological and emotional health."

You realize you're posting this on a site largely dedicated to computer programmers.
You're probably a verbal thinker, and English-like code matters a lot to you I guess. Probably lots of programmers are.

For me, a mostly visual thinker that ends up building and visualizing a code tree in his head anyhow, Lisp is very readable because I can more clearly see the tree without all the noise.

And when it comes to math, staying close to standard math notation is a clear winner, and this is why all lisps have ways of writing infix for formula-heavy code, stuff like http://data-sorcery.org/2010/05/14/infix-math/ and others. But lispers don't use them that much because they simply get used to the Lisp notation more.

...oh, and Common Lisp is NOT an example of readable Lisp. It's probably the most unreadable and obsfucation-friendly of them all :)

Take a look at some Clojure code for something that's just as readable as Python after you "get you eyes used to it" (jargon for learning to ignore the parentheses and learning the special meanings of the "funny symbols" like :, ~, # and a few more): https://github.com/weavejester/compojure/blob/master/src/com...
Then if the original didn't use timestamping, and the clones did, they'd always win over the original.
Agreed. I've run the last two LTS releases on our ops servers and it has been a pain in the arse to be honest.

I would like to have a bash at Arch but I can't be bothered to install it and it doesn't have a great security reputation.

I'm not too fussed about up to date packages but a recent Python 3 would be nice.
How Ketchup Began as a Fermented Fish Sauce
C would have been a footnote in the history of programming languages if AT&T didn't offered the code to a few universities, whose students created the UNIX workstations like in Sun's case.

In the late 80's the language had zero value in the hobbyist world.

The few compilers that existed generated crappy code, were not even K&R compatible and only mattered to those that had access to UNIX either at work or university.
Studies have shown that intergenerational social mobility in America since the 80s has been a bit lower than is popularly assumed. Stiglitz's book about this is newsworthy because most people still don't know that, despite the fact that economists and sociologists have known it, and talked about it, and taught it to their students, for decades.
Once again you're narrowing the definition of sharing to fit your argument and, as I said, we're arguing definitions.

By the first definition of sharing on the dictionary, my argument is valid.

If you want to use another definition, than don't expect my argument to be valid.
While we're talking dubious statistics,

"While heavy trucks accounted for less than 10 percent of total miles traveled in the United States during 2013, according to federal data, the N.T.S.B. recently reported that they were involved in one in eight of all fatal accidents..."

I would like to point out that "one in eight" is 12.5%.
It's hard to say if it's a good offer without knowing how well you're currently being paid compared to market for the salary, and what you would bring to the company. That said, 5% for a senior executive is pretty typical, I think. And I would expect a seed stage company to pay less in salary for a CTO/VPE than a more established company would for the same sort of role (regardless of titles).

You already got some good advice about how to consider equity as part of your total compensation, but that's not what you asked. Hopefully, you've already done some thinking about how much (or little) to value equity yourself. In a vacuum, 5% seems OK for a CTO. If the technology is a critical piece to their business and you have unique expertise in it, you should probably expect more.
The problem is how one prevents the bad-actors from taking advantage of such a service.
Remember Apple is a product company not an advertising company.

And if Apple could make web browsing 2x-3x as fast, battery life last 2x as long and enumerate benefits to privacy, security and user experience with no consequences why wouldn't they do it ? It makes their devices better in every regard than their competitors. And that's what they care about.
Interesting collaboration.

If Airbnb can get the word out, they may be able to gain a big chunk of Telsa owning Aibnb virgins with deep, fun pockets that have the cash to get a nice place in Aspen for a few weekends a year. Globally, there are 75K+ Model S owners and that number will blossom exponentially as soon as Tesla can start cranking out new models.

Conversely, TSLA gains a few more charging stations in some premium spots.

Synergetic!
This is really surprising. Given that they have so much data, there should at least be several thousand domains that they treat with some special regard when content that replicates them shows up.

Then again, I'm sure that there are plenty of top 1000 domains that would use this to their advantage too, oh well.
...high up-front cost and low long-term cost: the ideal conditions for...

...financing? An industry as well-understood and predictable as trucking will not want for lenders.
The rules are 11/14/70.

11 Hours driving maximum per day, 14 hours on duty maximum per day, and 70 hours maximum per rolling 8 day period (or 60 hours per rolling 7 day period).

Between driving periods, you must take 8 hours + 2 hours (most drivers just do a 10 hour rest period) in the sleeper berth. If you take 34 hours (knows as a reset) off duty, your rolling HOS clock resets to 0 and you can drive a full 70 again.

Being awake for me, and functional for 14-18 hours continuous is never a problem for me, but when I drove I avoided being in a urban area when I was that tired - I'd stop short, sleep outside of town, and head in in the morning to drop the load at the receiver usually.
It's also hurting bees and other parts of the ecosystem. Endless mono-culture all flowering at once. Local bees can't survive and they need to truck in bees to pollinate. A few months ago I was driving past an overturned truck (those trucks from the other article) full of bees. A month later it was a truck full of salmon but that's a different story...
Apple has claimed 55% of US mobile browser usage and 10.5% of desktop. And those customers tend to have a much higher socioeconomic status and a proclivity to spend money.

Would you really want to block access to them ?
This work indicates that language translation is vector addition on a lower dimensional semantic manifold that neural networks converge on, derived from the high dimensional whole vocabulary context vectors of the input.

It is extended by :

Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
by Sutskever, Vinyals & Le

http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215

which adds LTSM, a trainable deep neural net type of long term memory - which allows whole sentences to be digested and translated.

" Our main result is that on an English to French translation task from the WMT'14 dataset, the translations produced by the LSTM achieve a BLEU score of 34.8 on the entire test set, ... Additionally, the LSTM did not have difficulty on long sentences."[1]

another interesting result is the translation of pixels to words that describe the image.

Deep Fragment Embeddings for Bidirectional Image Sentence Mapping by Karpathy, Joulin, & Li

http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5281-deep-fragment-embeddings-fo...

code & a demo is available :

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/
ClojureScript can be used on both Node.js and frontend and is able to call any JS library without any effort. I don't understand what you're talking about at all. It's like saying that Clojure has very few libraries, conveniently forgetting about all of the Java ecosystem which Clojure integrates with seamlessly...
If trucks were operated as drones, wouldn't that make managing hours and handing off from one driver to another much easier?
Most of those companies came out of Harvard and Stanford, though, so you're still not really addressing the issue of social mobility.
Ah, sorry, I didn't realize that! Unfortunately I make use of some of the features in iOS 8 in a way that would make it difficult to add support for iOS 7. If you ever get a new device compatible with iOS 8 I hope you'll check it out!
Or worse: Mini RVs that let people live permanently on the road, taking up even more space.

I'm reminded of the guy in Snow Crash who hooked himself up into a repurposed fire truck that smashed through the LA freeways like a tank.
It's peculiar to me that I've heard so much attention on almonds as a water-intensive crop, and so little about beef, given that they're comparable in terms of water cost per pound or per calorie, and both are major Californian products.

I'm not a vegetarian or an animal rights activist, but my urge to add this disclaimer might have something to do with why that's so.
I don't think the technology will evolve fast enough to solve the problems of driving a combo-tractor trailer in an urbann environment because of the greater size of the vehicle (and greater sensor load). You'd be better off having a rail spur at the local distribution center.
I agree I am a verbal thinker, but that is only because I have to read the words off the screen to begin with - once I have the english in my head my mind switches between verbal and visual images to figure out the next part to write/how to fix the bug etc.

Anyway to take an example from your github:

> if (and form-method (= request-method :post))

am I right in saying this is pseudo-imperative:

if (form-method && (request-method == 'post'))

To me the ability to read it left to right seems like a huge win. With the lisp version I seem to be holding the program in my head until the very last (= ...) just so I can work it all out. Perhaps that is just in-experience though.
How you noticed Ritalin? I mean, what it did that you noticed?
However you can do it in many other places in the world and won't get shot by police even if your skin happens to be of different colour.

There's a lot USA has going for it, but saying any country has the most civil liberties is a bit naive. Some countries do better in certain regards, some in others. It's even more difficult if you don't ignore cultural difference in their perceived importance (e.g. right to bear arms is just considered a loony idea in my country).
I see a lot of comments on the Times regarding unions. We take a lot of things like weekends for granted, and many of these tech companies seem to treat them as a flexible inconvenience.

I wonder if a hundred years from now we will look on the taxes to our mental health today as similarly as we imagine the truly backbreaking labor of the 19th century.
Training and responsibility are different concepts.
Stop Writing JavaScript Frameworks – Joe Gregorio – OSCON 2015
I have some professional experience using a visual programming language on the same files with many coworkers. Here are the biggest pain points I experienced:

Diff, merge, search/replace, copying code directly from chat or websites into a REPL or file to try it out.

I have used a handful of other visual languages and when I see a new one I am on the lookout for use cases that involve more than one programmer, sometimes not even knowing each other; features that make it compatible with existing file and line oriented version control systems or provide an alternative(which is a project in itself, hard, and might not be as modular)

Learning about visual programming languages gave me a new appreciation for the simple elegance of text and IMHO the future of them will be those that easily map back and forth between text and graphics so you can have the best of both worlds and continue to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Does anyone konw of languages that translate to/from text well?
Welcome to HN.

What are your thoughts on rail as an alternative to trucks?
This World of Ours [pdf]
We have lots of examples of hardware and software that does things-previously-thought-intelligent much faster than brains do them.
The Muse (YC W12) is hiring fullstack and back end engineers
Drivers are frequently the ones complaining about the hours-of-service regulations. They get paid by the mile but many of their working hours are non-driving, so more hours on the road is more money.

Drivers unionizing (That would be the Teamsters, right?) to demand fewer hours seems roughly as likely as programmers unionizing to demand something better than their 80-hour weeks.
In the context of a trade agreement.

If they don't agree to harmonized rules, then they aren't part of the trade agreement, and they pay a tariff on all exported goods to balance it out.
I think any multimodal transport has an inherent lag - and I don't think its worth the effort to get the lag out - beyond that because of the inherent delays (you gotta sort the railcar onto a siding, then unload the trailer (if its a can, it needs to be unloaded and mated with a chassis), put it somewhere so it can be picked up, the coordinate to have it picked up by a tractor.)

I'd put the effort on getting shippers to accept the longer shipment times - a little less JIT inventory for example, its a change that needs to be made at all levels.
Perhaps for high-end places where the human touch is important. But for your run of the mill, fast food and cheap chain restaurants, hiring staff is a liability, if you are forced to hire the kind of staff that is willing to work for $8/hour. I've never decided to frequent a particular establishment because their staff was better than average, but there are a lot I won't go back to because they had awful, incompetent staff. Average here means that they deliver something vaguely resembling what you asked for, within a reasonable timeframe, and they can total the order up on the cash register without over or undercharging by an order of magnitude, or crashing the entire POS system of the restaurant.

That's rarer than you might imagine...
Ask HN: Can I sign a waiver to not sue and know why I was rejected?
in an interview
I've used a bunch of graph databases and I find they all fall short in one way or another. Almost all of them don't do anything that a good relational model can't do (except maybe faster for some queries). The biggest thing that leads me to believe that the graph database arena is not mature is that Tinkerpop is becoming the de facto standard. Talk about a joke. It is one of the silliest frameworks ever designed. Most of it's promise is just promise. Apache taking it over will probably lead to it's death.

Anyway, I'm going to give titan a second look with dynamo. I'm using OrientDB and neo4j right now. Both have major scaling issues, we haven't reached their limits yet but expect too very soon. I am wary of Titan because of Tinkerpop.
Air travel used to be very dangerous. This created the demand for safety which has continued as a culture within the airline industry to the point that air travel is the safest way to travel.
> Having lots of connections may be important to Intelligence, but the brain is a knotted mess of connections.

Ok, thank you for the clarification. I still don't see why that's a problem for you. Is it your intuition? Practical experience? Academic knowledge?

I for one am pretty generous with what I think it takes for intelligence, or for that matter the universe its self, to emerge. I don't think the universe is at all constrained by our imagination.
Thanks for adding more information, but that's a perfectly cromulent use of the word they.
Err, don't rockets blow things down, to get an upward push by reaction?
The American dream is like the pony express. It was the product of a great many particular circumstances. It did once exist, for a handful of people in a few chosen places, but disappeared before anyone realized. It's a romantic ideal more important as fiction than practical reality. It is something to be talked about, not something that ever actually happens. So it is no more dead today than ever because it wasn't never really alive in the first place.
GitLab 7.14 released
Yea look at Indians and Chinese in America.
I have read through Paul Grahams essays a few times and do respect his opinion, but I just can't see it myself.

The parenthesis are actually the least bit I have a problem with (as the indentation generally makes flow clear). But the actual function within a function with a function syntax and so on just seems to me to hinder the reading of the code and thus the understanding, maintenance and modification of it.
pagerank works both at the domain and page level, originally with the emphasis on page level(hence pagerank not domainrank).

While it would be hard for these sites to match the cumulative reach of SO, they will have an easier time getting specific pages to rank highly. This can also be abused with a system where most pages link to the .1% of pages that should be emphasized. In this fashion, smaller sites can throw their weight around and get specific pages to rank more highly than bigger sites.

Trying to solve this issue on a purely technical level turns out to be a lot more complicated than it would seem. It is made much worse by how damaging false-positives are for a search engine (Google censored me!). So the result is that this often only gets resolved by manual actions rather than automatic penalties.
The level of stress, and the toll it takes on mental health that we experience today is very low compared to a time when productivity and income were 20x lower.

Our lives have changed, and we are immensely richer than we were 100 or even 50 years ago. People have more mobility, options, and opportunity than ever before in human history. One can argue that certain policies or priorities have affected our lives for the better or worse, but we should not try to compare the relatively minor difficulties we face with those of our forebearers, who left us in a life of luxury.
i think you mean hard-working people with real skills - and copious amounts of luck. America used to be a place where most hardworking people could improve their living standard, now it's a lottery where a small minority do.
Being involved in a fatal accident is very rare for an individual driver. What is being proposed would be seen as a theoretical good for overall society that paid for by the individual.
Additive Manufacturing of Optically Transparent Glass – MIT Mediated Matter
The hard part is that it often seems like you "have" to drive at times. I'm a single guy living alone, so when my fridge is empty, I "have" to get food. Even when tired or sick. Sure I could use public transportation, but when you're that tired, is it even available? Or would you have the energy to use it?

Anyway, that's part of why people still drive while tired. They have to do something important, not necessarily work. So it would be hard to make it publicly unacceptable.
Relevant video [0]

[0] https://vimeo.com/mediatedmattergroup/glass
Yes, certain properties cascade through the shadow boundary. That's completely intended, and easy to work around by using a shadow-scoped reset if you need to, but otherwise it's useful to be able to set the font or color for an entire tree-scope at once.
Wow i'm getting downvoted like crazy. I don't think I said anything that's not factual. At least explain why you think I am wrong if you're gonna downvote. To be clear, I love Stackoverflow and I don't know what the world would have been like if it wasn't around, but I do think there are things that are broken and I just mentioned them. Am I supposed to keep quiet because that's how it's been?
Yes, birds are self replicating units that subsist on food available in their environment. Without food or water a bird will, like any other animal, die in a few days. They're small and flexible. Their range is quite far, depending on species, and some of them use tools.

Planes on the other hand are artifacts, manufactured to spec. They rely on highly specialized and rarefied fuel without which they will catastrophically fail immediately. Their range in tremendous and they've become an integral part of the human species.

Or did you mean the difference between flapping and fixed wing?
I was able to stay on task, at all, for more than 10 consecutive minutes. Without all the goddamn struggle and self-flagellation.
Just use the cilkplus stuff? edit: thanks for the downvotes, but please explain why you wouldn't use cilkplus for this stuff? You do realize it's built into gcc and available for the other compilers?
A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
whether to commercialize something or open source it.

Those are not mutually exclusive positions. Software can be open source (or even free software) and still be commercialized.

In our case, we made all of our products open source for a number of reasons, some ideological and some pragmatic. Whether or not that proves to be a good decision from a financial standpoint remains TBD... but the important thing is, it doesn't matter. If we never make a dime from what we're doing, we'll all have benefited from the process in other ways. And we'll have contributed something to the world that somebody may gain some benefit from one day.
Link to Github repo:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo