skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California also released a dashboard that covers arrests and the number killed by law enforcement which is based on data that is maintained by the CA Attorney General's Office:

http://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data

I've also done a little investigation into why the number of reported homicides by law enforcement during arrests has been trending upwards in recent years:

http://jonthewang.com/2015/10/06/homicide-by-law-enforcement...
Too bad that a far more interesting discussion about Libertarian communism got flagged (or at least is not visible on a main page). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10351830
Think about it. If you've got nothing and few prospects to ever have anything then why even care?

You might as well get some bit of happiness from something since everything else is awful. People want to feel good.

Were you poor or just broke while you were young? Poverty is far different from being in college and not making much. Poverty is much different than being short on cash. Poverty includes having limited options ahead of you and the prospect of always being poor.
The investigations regarding Toyotas(?) unexplained/unintended acceleration suggest otherwise. The code was apparently pretty bad, halfheartedly reviewed and just unmaintainable. While there the software seemed to have (a huge number of) errors put in by mistake, of course most independent reviews should also spot intentional mischief.

I don't claim that VW had comparably crappy code, but "industry practice" likely wouldn't have caught it either way.
Sad that this https://vimeo.com/130435350 didn't go forward
I remember earning quite a few dollars with < 1K in a savings account when I was a kid. Was awesome to watch it grow. Now I just keep my cash in a checking account. When Chase or TD sends me a "deposit 10k get $500" I consider it.
> At AWS, you're paying for it to be in your same account, have access to your other AWS resources, etc.

You're forgetting the biggest part: you're also paying for the flexibility. Subject to availability, you can provision and deprovision AWS resources at will, which gives you far greater granularity than you can do with your own hardware.

This flexibility enables you to save in the long run if you manager your resources appropriately, but it also comes at a per-unit premium.
Although there's something special about the responsibility of having your very own account, very own card, very own PIN...
Yeah I had that same thought actually. Data scientists are becoming more common lately.
Tried to sign up with a 100 long password, was told max length is 32. What is the reason for this limit?
I have no idea what spirit science is. My question I felt was a legitimate science question for someone not familiar with geo-physics of the planet. not sure why i got downvoted.
I agree, Mindstorms are really good. If they're not that used to programming yet they can start off using the graphical programming language (NXT-G). Then, when they're ready to really dig in, they can start using C.
> the reason why most Americans don't currently view their savings accounts as priorities is because in the current interest rate environment savings accounts and CDs are products with vanishingly little to recommend them.

According to the US Fed[1] and Bureau of Economic Analysis[2], there is a strong correlation that implies. exactly that.

1 - https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/PSAVERT

2 - http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/personal-savin...
First time I hear about MUBI and I'm in film and tv business. I've heard about Fandor. I have a question - what do you see your (MUBI) future like? Still independent or as an integrated 'thing' in netflix, IPTVs (as a channel), etc..?
Cash is good, but I get a better interest rate in my checking account.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/21/the-corre...
I decided at the end of September that anything I couldn't use to do something was going to the scrap heap.

NetBSD will likely end up turning a half dozen old PDAs into various touchpad type devices saving them from the scrap heap. Love how dan portable the code is. I always end up grabbing tar balls from the pkgsrc tree when everything else is failing to compile.
Jailing bank executives for what? I am not vigorously in favor of jailing people for things that are not actual written-down crimes.

Are you asking me if I think there should be more criminal statutes in banking? That's a pretty boring question. Of course I do.
No it's absolutely not what someone would do, but it is what the grandparent proposed, that's why I addressed it. I'd love to see it used for more efficient lighting, as if it was done correctly I think you could get some pretty nicely efficient and long lasting lights that way with a bigger better current driver for the leds. This might be a good idea to move Track lighting to since they'll have more freedom on the sockets and interfaces.

As far as other devices needing the AC power, you've got hair dryers, kettles, vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, water pumps, etc that all need more power than would be reasonable with low voltage DC (some might need 25-50 amps to run at the same power they currently use). All of that just means you'll still have the AC running through the house for a very long time anyway, so you'll end up with nothing changing.
Are you using it to build images? Anyone know of an image building service other than the current CI/CD suspects?
And people wonder why they say Tech is out of touch. Reading the comments here is a great demonstration.

Examples:

> who uses savings accounts anymore?

> Cash on hand or it's invested in stocks, bonds and my home.

> The truth is you're losing more money by not having any of it generating higher potential yields.

> the total net worth of my wife and me is many orders of magnitude greater than what our savings account reflects

These kind of statements just show that the audience here is woefully out of touch with the average person.

The average person in the US is unable to absorb a $1000 emergency. The average person in the US avoids going to the doctor because they can't afford it. The average person in the US doesn't have enough money to justify an investment account of any kind.

But we in tech are privileged and goddamnit if we're not mostly (as a group) utterly blind to it... or worse - in denial that we are (and aggressively defensive about it).

The median household income in the US is $51,939 the median individual income in the US is $28,567. Note: median, not mean. That is the financial reality of the average american.

In tech we're used to making 6 figures and then bitching that other people aren't trying hard enough. We quibble over what "in savings" means. We try our hardest to minimize problems that we ourselves don't experience rather than work on the very real, very clear, issues at hand. This feels like we have a maturity and empathy problem as an industry to me...
I would assume he is speaking on behalf of Volkswagen, not testifying as an individual on his own experiences. Volkswagen's current story is that it was a couple rogue engineers, so he is conveying that. Congress isn't going to get the CEO in to testify, so it's reasonable to assume he is speaking as a proxy.
No way could it be just a couple of software engineers. The engine is a system, and its the engine that has to pass the emissions tests. So that means the whole engine development team had to be in on it, including their technical management. They in turn would not have done such a thing if they had not believed that senior management wanted it, and it is the responsibility of senior management to make it clear what they want.
It's interesting to see this juxtaposed with the story about extreme poverty dropping globally:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352189
Oh man, 20 figures and 38 pages. This one is going to take a while to get through!
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This ridiculous story is not going to hold and they know it so watch for higher ups trying to divest. I mean Bosch told them it would be illegal to use the way they were intending. I surely hope someone is watching who at the company is selling shares.
Im thinking of a score on qualitative data.

Understand that information is lost in its translation to numbers. It's also interpreted to have meaning.

Also understand that values of those assigning the scores plays a large role. For example, an indigenous persob rating quality of life as a score is probably nonsensical to him/her.
But the balance for those not sophisticated enough to invest on their own is 401k. And many jobs [citation needed] (at least the ones I've been at) automatically start you off at 3% contribution, and they will automatically increase it by 1% every year (up to 6%), coinciding with your raises, if you do not tell them to do otherwise. Plus, they will put it in a target fund based on your estimated retirement age (ex. 2035 fund) that starts off aggressive, then gets more conservative when you get closer to that year. So it is mostly foolproof for the average person (although not the best possible returns for them).
This will be for all operating systems?
The native api isn't only necessary for accessing operating system resources or running natively compiled code. It's also to interact with the browser at a fundamental level. It's extremely useful for things that modify the user interface or need to interact with the dom, like vimperator, ublock, tab mix plus, etc...

I think one of the bigger problems with a non-native plugin api is that doing anything non-trivial could become either unnecessarily complex or possibly even intractable. I'd be curious how they are planning to support extensions like vimperator or even no-script.
Agreed, I'd answer $0 because I don't have a savings account. Even if they asked in all bank accounts, it would be about $1500 or less depending on the day of the week. Yet I own a home with 50% equity, a car and have a 6 figure retirement account and separate 6 figure taxable account. What they really should ask is what is your net worth or at least what is your liquid net worth, but I suppose that would be confusing to a lot of Americans.
It really depends on what your use case is. There are still many unknowns related to implementing a web-accessible dashboard to make a decision.

What does your client intend to do with the dashboard? How much interactivity do they want in place? Is the data real-time? What sort of advanced statistical analysis does your client want to run?

Having answers to those might help guide you toward or away from Tableau. As an everyday user of Tableau with a solid technical background, there are some things that Tableau does well and there are some that it doesn't.

I love Tableau because it allows me to join many different data sources together quickly so I can analyze the data. I can easily drag-drop and visualize my data in many different dimensions. That said, sometimes the analysis is basic and it runs slower when there's a huge dataset.
the general principal that people will not be held criminally accountable for use of force reasonably scaled to deal with an imminent threat

As long as once the threshold of lethal force is reached, all lethal force in reply until the threat is over is legitimate.

Midway through it's now almost total ban on guns the U.K. made self-defense with more force than being used on you illegal, first in the courts in the '50s and then by law in the '60s. Outlawing effective self-defense then makes it that much easier to outlaw guns altogether.
I'll ask you this: how many of the ~1.5 billion additional people living in the world compared with 20 years ago wouldn't be considered to be living in "extreme poverty" by US standards?

(I'll give you a hint: more than half the world's present population lives on less than $5 PPP per day, few of them by choice, and it's not the richer countries where the rapid population growth is happening)

If you think people earning as little as the equivalent $5 of US-equivalent purchasing power per day are extremely poor[1], that's more[2] people in extreme poverty than there were in the 1990s, despite all the incremental improvements to poor people's average incomes across the developing world and stark improvements in a few rapidly-industrialising regions.

Where you draw the line matters. And the survey, notably, didn't draw a line. I'm the last person to defend Americans' knowledge of world affairs, but their belief that poverty is actually getting worse in terms of absolute numbers of people subject to it is not unreasonable.

[1]which isn't exactly an unreasonable point of view for anyone used to earning more than that per hour even whilst on minimum wage, even if there's a lot of people in developing countries on that level of PPP-adjusted income that think they're doing pretty well compared with their neighbours.
[2]edit: having had a play with the World Bank's model, it suggests that you end up with more people in poverty in 2012 than the early nineties if you set your threshold for extreme poverty somewhere between $5 and $6 per day of US purchasing power. The number of people below that threshold in sub-Saharan Africa - where much of the poverty relief narrative has focused - has almost doubled.
AFAIK the German government is still investigating the issue. He may have walked away, but that's not necessarily the end of the story.
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At a high level, I beleive VW uses the V-model. Everything implemented should tie back to a high level requirement, and it should have been verified.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Model
This video is much, much more engaging, explanatory and human.

This should come first.

And will I be able to replace the battery? ;)
http://bulletin.csusb.edu/colleges-schools-departments/natur... At least at my college it was a required course for a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. CSE 488 Ethics and the Computing Professional
Ask HN: Why can I not reach HN from my home network?
I've been experiencing errors connecting to HN, and can only reach it via mobile. At first I thought I was banned due to a satirical string of comments or possibly posting an html code and emoji in the AMP thread yesterday.

However, after a quick exchange with dang, he assured me I wasn't banned, the issue had nothing to do with them, and even restored my previosly lost handle "vonklaus'.

Symptoms

> Can not reach HN.

> traceroute returns * for every entry. Also the case for other sites even local ips.

> over 4g i can reach HN and login.

> sometimes i reach cloudflare with unknown errors.

> login redirects immeadiately to "Mozilla firefox cant find file: https://news.ycombinator.com/login?goto=news "

> affects safari and all browsers. Also, my phone when connected to the network, but not when disconnected.

Using a mac book pro 13" retina using el capitan and my dns servers are 8.8.4.4, 8.8.8.8, and openDNS. I think my router/network is possibly compromised. I did a hard reset of my router, renewed the lease, and cleared arp to no effect.

I think it is possible that I am somehow ip banned, have a bad cache sonewhere, or someone is doing something maliscious on my network and HN security features are serving as a canary, and breaking the unsecure connection.

Not really sure how to proceed but would love advice. I could believe a bad config if not for now 3 computers failing to login. Just tried on chrome on PC. Loads fine, then login is err connection refused.

Happened ~2 yesterday. No obvious changes were made.
Get a $30K line of credit with your bank. Don't touch it unless there is an emergency.

Borrow when you need it, then you have some time to figure out what assets to sell to pay it back.
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Or it's because it's in investment or retirement accounts.
Just because VW might have more motive to do this doesn't automatically mean that they're lying when they say it was the fault of individual engineers. Guilt is not determined by "who has the most motive", it's determined by who actually did it.

Now it may very well be true that VW is lying and it was a corporate decision. But it's not completely implausible that this really was the decision of a few individual employees.

Other commenters here are expressing surprise that engineers could "slip through arbitrary code" to do this. But isn't that kind of the job of software engineers, to write code to do things? I would hope they have code review going on at VW, but code review doesn't always catch everything, or maybe several engineers who were working together would review each other's code.
You mean a tax break for 1% business owners who stand to freely profit off research paid for by American tax payers? Because that's how it'll be framed.
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Sorry, I meant "cash savings" account.
U.S. taxpayers fund NASA. Shouldn’t the U.S. people have the right to use NASA’s patents first?
This is, of course, exactly identical to how things work in Erlang, as well. A lot of conditional logic is done implicitly through polymorphic functions of the same arity that pattern match on parameters. Proplists are a surprisingly versatile data structure to exploit.
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Just because he's gay doesn't excuse his behavior. Just change the labels on your post and many would be horrified.
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Can anyone comment on how this compares to http://quay.io? We use that, and I'm less than impressed.
Actually once you have information on depth (which isbwhat they get from multiple camera perspectives), and your bas image at near-infinite DoF you can pretty much dial your depth of field however you want. Actually your next limit is how accurately you can measure depth, and that is limited by the distances between the individual sensors.. With a longer baseline you could do pretty thin focused slices, and blur the rest.
But what was your real interest rate when they were paying 3-7% in interest?

Back in the 1970's savings accounts were paying 15%+. However, inflation was double digits as well. You'd be lucky if your real interest rate was more than a few percent.
Our problem on Capitol Hill is people coming from the rich suburbs to trash our neighborhood, yell "fag" at the locals, fail to tip, and then Uber out, never to be seen again until next Friday. The poster doesn't say "get out of here, self-made engineers!"

That and the construction of cheaply made housing that rents for well above what the neighborhood has ever paid. It's the same story in many other places, of course.

I think John's a treasure, and I love his posters. They express very succinctly what many of us here feel - though there are less every year of course. Not much we can do about it, but a parting "fuck you" seems pretty appropriate to me.
f I were to lose my job today I could easily find a bartending job like I did in college to support myself in the time it takes to find a new job. My situation may be different than a lot of people and I live in a large city.

This is not an option for a lot of people, particularly those with families.

That said, your follow-up makes sense, and I've typically done something similar.
This may be the case in CS, but for EE and other engineering fields, a master's degree is definitely worth it. The expanded job opportunities and differences in starting pay are worth the tuition most of the time.
do a profile run and I'll bet you it will insert as many runtime checks necessary to get around those precondition checks.
I don't understand. Why would software guys fear the results of some chemistry-based process? They don't seem to have any control over that.

The ones fired would have been the mechanical engineers that designed the engine, aren't they?
Using USGS data to create the landscapes for this film is genius.

Between Pixar's new CG techniques and new live action techniques like Alfonso Caurón's Gravity, it's encouraging to see that cinema is innovating.
It might seem to make sense, but it's better to read at least this as a backgrounder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_sexual_orientation
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The US financial industry has been consistently reducing the value of consumer savings accounts. Their interest is poor, their rules are arcane, they're awkward to work with, and they're often oversold as a feature to consumers who neither need nor want them.

In many institutions, interest bearing checking accounts with sufficient minimum balances deliver HIGHER returns than savings accounts for the same balances. In most cases, the march of inflation means your savings account is a pretty depressing way to LOSE money over time.

The savings account is a legacy product from an entirely different era in the American banking system. For the most part, consumers realize this and avoid them.
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Nopes, folks would count their home equity, furby, baseball cards and figurine collections into their net worth.
There are, however, numerous examples of modern era populaces who aren't armed and also haven't been slaughtered by their own governments.
I'm not sure your link supports your claim. The article focuses on wealthy congress people. It does mention Democratic leaning districts having a higher average income:

"Across the country, Democratic House districts have an average per capita income of $27,893. That's about $1,000 higher than the average income in Republican districts. The difference is relatively small because Democrats also represent a lot of poor districts, putting the average in the middle."

That income level is not considered "rich". As for presidential races: "In the election, Romney carried only one income group: people making $100,000 or more, according to exit polls."

You may also want to look at the money Republicans have raised for the presidential race including super PACs. Republicans have a much larger war chest due to large contributions from many very rich people.
That's not what murder is.
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"dog eats software"

- Examine why dogs will eat poop.

- In what way did many dog owners get very upset when their dog eats poop?

- Is this a wonderful opportunity for their dog to interact with someone?

- Talk about what some dogs are.

- How do some dogs have instincts to carry stuff in their mouths?

- What is the cloud?
Yes. Mozilla and Adobe are focusing on the most popular platform first (Windows Vista and later). Once we get it right there, support for OS X, Linux, and Windows XP will follow.
https://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_image_2.jpg

checkout the white outline around the knight, it has a halo. Then the fuzzy bokeh looks stepped somehow.
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Yeah, PS remoting is basically a no-go before server 2012, and even then it's just barely functional enough to be occasionally useful. They're planning on adding SSH support though, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

I don't think something like Python would have been a good choice to use instead of PS. While I'm sympathetic to the complaint that PS is more of a programming language than a shell, that's even more true of Python. I use PS as a shell far more often than I use it for complicated scripting, and as much as I like Python, I just can't see using it as a shell.