skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Anything you do with a piece of hardware that’s provided to you by the employer, every keystroke, is the property of the employer. Personal calls, private photos — if you put it on the company laptop, your company owns it. They may analyze any electronic record at any time for any purpose. It’s not your data.”

I simply can't imagine working under conditions like that. Or in an environment where it is legal.
Edit:probability -> portability.
Sure, that's your reaction and it makes sense.

But for every person like you, there are about 50 others who do browse through all the stuff and perhaps add more to their shopping. Not everyone is in a hurry and capitalizing on small additions and combo deals and sales signups can be great business for the retailer.
You know what the worse thing about this is?

It is that the momentum of this "put it in the cloud" will carry over to late-comers like government/s, who will dump huge swaths of personal data that should never sit in a "public-cloud" because even when the IT-sec guy warned against it, some x-cloud-provider-sales-guy wooed the thick-headed upper-aboves and then ... attacks on that "public-cloud" will become wholesale with some script-kiddy (it could even be a 13 year old running a script) will then have personally identifiable info of x-amount of citizens.

Managing infrastructure is a controllable-cost for any company, and if your company is not doing it right, that should indicate a bigger inefficiency problem in the organization (as a whole).
> A 5 year old child is old enough to go to a grocery store, buy stuff, and walk back home. I’ve done it, all my neighbors did it, and everyone I know has done it.

Depends on where the family lives, how far the grocery store is and on the kid maturity.

Please , don't make general statements like that. Some 5 y.o. are mature enough to do that, some aren't. I wouldn't let my kid go to the grocery store alone if I lived in a crime ridden ghetto with shootings everyday and prostitution+Joes on the corner of my house, and neither would you.
There is no way "nothing else" would change. And your comment is rife with assumptions that I find galling. But I don't have time at the moment to address that.
"Many retail workers now clock in with a thumb scan. Nurses wear badges that track how often they wash their hands. Warehouse workers carry devices that assign them their next task and give them a time by which they must complete it. Some may soon be outfitted with augmented-reality devices to more efficiently locate products."

This is straight out of Manna. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
"And your wider point is wrong. There's no evidence that people with a mental illness pose a risk of harm to other people or to children."

And yet I keep hearing about this need to prevent the mentally-ill from acquiring firearms. Is that just more ignorance? I'd be genuinely interested in hearing your take on that.
I live in Germany, but in the previous thread to this article we came to the conclusion that it’s the same in Finland, Germany, Japan, etc.
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Test your Ruby code in isolation with Spectus
I absolutely adore Hopdoddy's and waiting in line is considered part of the experience to be honest.
Was same in USSR for me (starting from the 1st grade, age 7) :)
Can robots be creative?
Another problem of DNA testing that is hinted at in the article is that as more and more people enter the databases the probability of false positives increases. A 1 in a million chance sounds reasonable when you are testing one person, but with many people tested the probability rises non-intuitively quickly (see: Birthday paradox). For example if you test 100 people the probability of a false positive rises to around 1/200.
I'm surprised http://www.webhook.com is missing.

Edit: it fails rule #1: "The program must be able to output a static website that can be hosted in places like Netlify, S3 or Github Pages"
It seems like these all are exclusive to dynamically/weakly typed languages. Anyone have examples of wats for languages with strong static typing?
Well, if I could find a single district in my state where prostitution would be in residential areas, or where daily shootings happen, sure, I wouldn’t let kids out there either.

But that does not happen. We kids walked a kilometer or two to the library, stores, bakery, etc. Always. As far as I can remember. With like 10 we started taking the bus halfway across the city to sports clubs or stuff.
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You soon enough also have situations where a person belongs to two different generations, as well.
The paranoia is commonly considered as a result of wider media coverage. Every single national and, often, international media covers most child abductions. This widening of coverage gives the, incorrect, impression that child abductions are on the rise. Statistics suggest they are falling rapidly in modern times. .. Citations are left as an exercise for the reader. Personally, I feel the lack of diligence on parents by parents in teaching children safety around roads is probably the last bastion of letting the little critters roam free. (Wait for the lights in all cases when with your children. Never walk behind cars, if in any way possible, stopped or moving.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks, tiny bit over kill but full fills it's job.
Okay, I don't get this one:

>>> False == False in [False]
True
This was posted and discussed at length on October 2nd here..https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10320944
Bool acting as an integer instead of requiring a conversion (True//(True + True) == False*25).
I was definitely nervous when I sold my last car and was rolling around with $20k in my pocket. My brain knows the odds are very low, but my instinct knows the expected loss is very high.

Those kind of risk are hard to evaluate.
Everyone I know – literally everyone – did this. Walk to the library, walk to the bakery, walk to school, etc. Often around a kilometer each direction.

From 5 on, as with 6 we had to walk to school for 1.4 kilometer, and back, so there was no alternative.

And with 10, when many kids go to secondary school, we have to use public transit to get to school anyway, so many kids started at that age to take bus/metro/etc to go to other places, too.
Both "in" and "==" are comparison operators that can be chained and so it's interpreted as

False == False and False in [False]

https://twitter.com/marcusaureliusf/status/55794887300903731...
Not to mention potentially MUCH higher fees to the IRS for becoming an expat:

https://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Expa...
I thought it was standard to assume everything I do is standard.
State crime labs are simply a rubber stamp on whatever story the prosecutor has decided on presenting ahead of time. It's not well known, but crime labs are paid per conviction [1]. Intentional contamination of evidence, falsification of results, and the use of unreliable methods are entirely routine and expected within these departments. They are corrupt through and through. No state crime lab report should ever be considered at all credible in any way.

Occasionally large-scale corruption comes to light such as when a Boston crime lab falsified drug tests on a massive scale [2] or New York state police were found to have fabricated fingerprint evidence for nearly a decade [3]. The "forensics" field has been embroiled in a steady stream of scandals [4]. Far from being isolated incidents, this is the norm within law enforcement.

[1] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0731129X.2013.817...

[2] http://www.policeone.com/csi-forensics/articles/5956534-Mass...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Police_Troop_C_...

[4] http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/crime_labs_under_... http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/csi-is-a... https://www.nacdl.org/criminaldefense.aspx?id=28286 http://listverse.com/2015/02/06/10-heinous-cases-of-miscondu...
Obviously. Often kids start to have to walk to primary school here with 6, so they start to walk alone to library, bakery, etc with 5.

And when they start to have to use public transit to get to secondary school with 10 every day, it makes sense that they start by going shopping or similar places with 8/9 by bus/metro/etc.
It's common for kids in the US to walk to school if the school is close enough. Sprawl means many children don't live within walking distance though.
Here's an example of part of my family tree with Graphviz [1] (using dot layout), and here's one with all my known ancestors [2] (using neato). A reasonably small subset works ok with dot (e.g. note that the first example excludes all siblings for example).

[1] http://hokstad.com/family-tree-using-graphviz-and-ruby

[2] http://hokstad.com/all-my-known-ancestors
Ask HN: Switching from Applied Math to CS (Machine Learning)
I am a graduate student at one of the Canadian Universities, and I will graduate with a Masters Degree in Applied Math this coming December (my GPA is ~3.9/4.0). I am aiming towards getting a job in industry instead.

I decided to do a second Master’s degree starting Fall 2016 in a different field where I can learn useful skills that I can use to get me a job in industry (I am more interested in Canada, but I don’t mind to go to the US as well).

My questions are the following:

1. For those of you who are in Computer Science/Engineering: What major do you recommend I should switch to in order to learn extra useful and applied skills that will increase my chances to land a good job in industry (and also where I will be using and benefiting from my math background)?

2. Is Computer Science (Machine Learning/Data Mining) the best option to switch to (in your opinion) for someone with a strong math background?

3. Do you know other areas within computer science that have promising job opportunities and where I can apply my math background?

4. Do you recommend I should get a Bachelor’s Degree (which will last only two years because there are many Canadian Universities that offer Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science as a Second Degree) in Computer Science instead of Master’s Degree? I heard that employers like to hire people with Bachelors only because they don’t have to pay them much (among other reasons), unlike the people with Masters who are regarded as OVERQUALIFIED by many employers

5. Are you aware of any good Master’s programs in Canada In computer science/engineering that you recommend I should apply to for Fall 2016? Please tell me the name of the program and what specialization/research group you recommend I should get in touch with (I am interested in doing my Masters in Canada ONLY because I am a Permanent Resident of Canada and I want to stay in Canada for at least the next two-three years).
While the article did mention first (Wolfenstein: The New Order) and third (Grand Theft Auto V) person shooters as "action video games", the term could easily apply to games like Rocket League which – while similarly fast-reflex online multiplayer games – are violence free.

The specific description of action video games in the article is:

> complex 3D settings, that feature quickly moving targets that pop in and out of view, that necessitate substantial visual processing of the periphery, that include large amounts of clutter and task-irrelevant objects, that require the player to consistently switch between highly focused and highly distributed attention, and that require the player to make rapid, but accurate decisions

There is no mention of violence or shooting.
DeKalb resident mistakes Airbnb guests for robbers, calls cops
It has been years, but when I placed projects on mturk I had them listed to be completed 2-3 times each. This was the only sane way to filter out input by users which was completely wrong. The positive thing was once you identified someone submitting non-sense you ban them from the project and pay nothing.

Americans are not ready for what is going to happen to the labor market when minimum wage goes to $15 an hour.
My point is that this discrepancy has, in the real world, proved to be a huge public health problem. And we are not talking about mileage. We're talking about NOx that produces O3.

See also nearby: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364933
Java:

* Reassigning interned integers via reflection

* private fields work on a class level, not an instance level, i.e. Instances of a class can read private fields of other instances of the same class.

* Arguably package-private fields as the docs like to avoid mentioning they exist.

* ==, particularly in regards to boxed types.

* List<String> x = new ArrayList<String>() {{
add("hello");
add("world");
}};

* The behaviour of .equals with the object you create above

* Type Erasure
It pretty much does ignore it, pinning backend service issues as at least the primary if not the only major issue:

"So why does it keep happening? It comes down to the fact that most games are now online services, with updated content, special events, virtual economies, player interaction, etc"

As someone who plays both online and offline AAA games on console (PS4, Xbox One) and PC, I haven't seen any evidence that online-heavy games are more likely to ship with major problems than offline games.

For both types of games it is routine these days to get games on day one where you have the base game, you have the near obligatory multiple-gigabyte 0 day patch applied to deal with problems found between gold master and actual release, and then you still have obvious crash bugs, serious problems with animation systems, physics systems, etc. Connection issues with backend services are just one of a very long list of game breaking problems, many of which are seen in totally offline single-player games.

The whole "preorder" culture for gaming is a large factor in this problem, IMO. There's not that much incentive to ship a product that is solid when you've already gotten a large amount of the money you will get on release before the product even ships. This is even more evident in all the failed kickstarters where people have paid for alpha-level games that were never released or evolved much past where they were at the time of fund raising.

To a large degree the gamers are thus to blame for perpetuating this problem due to buying into the preorder culture (presumably in order to avoid loss aversion due to missing out on preorder bonuses).
Sam Altman and Elon Musk Talk about the Future [video]
It's not hard to make a somewhat reasonable hypothesis.

Cancer is not a binary category. In the natural course of a human life it can be observed that some "cancerous" cells cease to exist / be problems, not from some external intervention, but merely through other signals and interactions within the body. Maybe some process detected something was wrong and set in motion another process that corrected it.

What controls these processes? Likely complex electro-chemical reactions that can only occur in certain environments. If a suitable environment does not exist, the reaction does not occur (how can it?).

Now, consider that the human consciousness can be observed to seemingly create complex changes throughout the body, including numerous electro-chemical reactions, and even changes of local environments (e.g. release of neurotransmitters and more general hormones).

If the appropriate environment is created for the appropriate reactions in the appropriate places to "resolve a cancer", then it will happen.

Yes, you can argue about how much fine control a consciousness can have over it's body. You can also argue about what reactions happen in which environments.

>There's a lot of evidence about how cancer cells work and little (if any) gives reason to suspect some sort of conscious connection would affect it.

Such as? You can only find something if you look for it. You would never expect to suspect a consciousness at work if you weren't looking for it.
Yeah, things liked the nitpick on (1,2,3) == sorted((1,2,3)) seem not really `wats`. sorted returns a list, surprise surprise.

The only actual surprise on this list is, I agree, that += operator. Especially because tup[0] = tup[0] + [1] fails as expected.
Most accidents happen at home for the same reason most auto accidents happen within three miles of home; that's were we are most of the time.
I'm not sure I follow your logic here. Although there are reasons to believe the incidents in the book are to some degree real, it is a story told with a purpose of entertaining, not a medical evaluation of chemical action.

Have I mistaken your purpose, and if not, can you clarify the reasoning?
Hi Subliminalpanda,

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Well, you can do write fanout, or you can do read fanout.
It's very difficult to beat the cost, safety and reliability of commercial airlines. If you have $250k burning a hole in your pocket, something like a Cirrus or Corvalis is probably a more useful option for trips up to about 1000nm.
Hi bognition,

Awesome! Glad to hear it.
No, those two statistics alone don't say anything about the total number of CS majors. Per the article, CS represents ~20% (of students with declared majors).
If you built it for fun and are now deciding you'd like to have people use it, then you'd have to go back and get the logistics of getting a user base.

Building an app is one thing. Getting people to use it is something else. So if the goal now is to get people to try it, sit down and map it out. Go out and talk to people you don't know and get their input. Strangers who are willing to give you honest feedback.

To answer an earlier question, there is no site dedicated to a particular space to get users per say. If there are, you have to be very convincing as to why they should use you and not another app.

So do your research properly if the ultimate goal is to get people to use it. Otherwise, it has to remain the fun app for just you, your family and friends.
Shouldn't defendants be demanding that "science" be done in any evidence against them?

Or, at least getting every piece of "non-science" evidence thrown out?
I wonder how much lawsuit will fly in their direction now
"But small-scaled urban spaces and a culture of walking and transit use also foster safety and, perhaps just as important, the perception of safety."

I thought of this while I was watching the video. Japanese suburban fabric is much more compact, fine grain, mixed-use and more spatially coherent than North American equivelents. These contribute to the'eyes on a street'[1] condition in which neighborhood stores and residences look out onto public streets and reinforce communal saftey. The cul-de-sacs and degenerate grids of North American suburbs not only make walking incredibly inefficient[2], but also increase the isolation and community-orientation of the streets.

[1] Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
[2] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014/10/bad-habits-of-north-a...
This is standard Risk Management stuff - the likelihood of causing damage may be low, but when you bring guns into play the magnitude of the potential damage is greatly increased. So the overall risk with guns, even with a low likelihood, is worth mitigating.
> It’s not something special – everyone does it.

That's my problem with your message ,because it is not true ,and it is not something that should be encouraged before it is made sure the environment in which the kid will evolve alone IS safe.

In fact, in my country, doing that can be used against parents in child neglect cases.

So no everyone does not do that and everyone should not do that.
Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (2011)
Most controllable costs get outsourced. It's not that everybody can't run their own datacenter. It's that often it makes a lot of sense not to.

You're implicitly assuming that having not-terribly-tech-savvy organizations (like governments) protect their own data is somehow better.

In theory you could keep all the personal data not connected to the net at all, in any way. In practice, before long nobody is going to do that except extremely paranoid organizations like the NSA, CIA and military (and equivalent non-US organizations.)
Hi junto,

My name is Eva Schweber and I work for AgileBits, the folks who make 1Password.

To answer your question, yes it does.
Right, this articles makes it appear as if Japan was the outlier but the truth is that the US is. I grew up in a mid-size town in Germany and all children went to school on their own starting from age 6. We spent the whole day playing outside roaming the city and surrounding forests and our parents did not care at all. It was completely normal. A year ago I moved to California and my wife and I were shocked to see how paranoid American parents are. We live in a perfectly calm and peaceful residential neighborhood but never see children play on the streets or in the park around the corner. Some people do not even allow their children to play in the garden because of germs and "dangerous" animals and whatnot.
Hasn't mturk in the years since this article was written essentially frozen non-US workers out of the system?
I thought the main use (and the demo only shows map and reduce) was providing standard newer features like map, reduce to non-supporting browsers.

Why not just use native map and reduce here?
I think we need another black out the web day to protest the TPP... Maybe November 2nd?
Speaking of bugs there appears to be an APNG tripping out on the first image [1].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/87gQyZz.gif
The += on tuple elements thing kind of looks like a bug in CPython.
There is a problem with the html escape codes in the sample programs. It shows:

for( int i=0; i&lt;N; i++ )
sum += A[i] // set a breakpoint here, for "i&gt;1e6" or maybe "i&gt;1e7"
If you look at the stats (e.g. the Nall report on AOPA's website), the fatal accidents mainly boil down to two categories: pushing the weather, and low altitude stall/spins, and both of these are mostly down to the pilot.

So if you remove the "accident waiting to happen" category of pilots, the fatal accident rate will likely be much lower. I've heard it said that GA has a similar accident rate to riding motorbikes, which is another activity where the risk mostly depends on the rider.

The type of pilot who is most dangerous is the type-A business owner who feels they have to get to their meeting no matter what the weather. Unfortunately these are the people who will have $250k in their pocket and want to use a plane for transportation. Perhaps the only solution is to have self-flying planes, similar to google's cars. (And of course, they would need to be hacker-proof!)
It is common for parents to walk students to school or the bus stop. But walking alone is also common.
It's a travesty that the forensics lab works as an ally and partner to police and prosecution. Way too many perverse incentives to go off into the weeds on pseudoscience and bad science and, as we had in Massachusetts, outright fraud. Forensics labs should be blind to the cases they are working on, and should be sent QA samples unrelated to cases to measure their error rate, and have no direct communication with law enforcement and prosecutors.
Agreed. tup[0] = tup[0] + [1] fails as expected.
So after excessive background checks and such, it still looks like employers don't trust their employees to do their daily jobs well hence such stringent measures. A bit extreme and just not necessary. Really worrying.
There's an article about how we built the game here: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/10/bitbucket-filev...
I have a favorite NumPy wat:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> 'x'*np.float64(3.5)
'xxx'

(on recent NumPy releases this raises a deprecation warning)

Clearly the correct answer is 'xxx>' ;)
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