skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. This. This. Even if you lose a fight, bullies will think twice about going a second round with someone who actually fights back.

It was a jungle when I was growing up. And it is a jungle today. It is unfortunate that zero-tolerance policies keep boys (and some girls) from working out their differences with a little fisticuffs.

Now get off my lawn :-)
Seems like they are going the long way about it to determine a molecule for a test.

Why not just train a dog to smell it?
As mentioned by linksbro upthread:

> [The FCC is] an independent commission created by [C]ongress to "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges"

Given that (almost?) all prisoners in US prisons are "people of the United States", this seems like exactly the correct body.
Radiolab did a show about these surveillance aircraft. In the show the host turns from skeptic to believer-- and here's why:

The plane flies in a circle and records activity. Later on a crime is discovered, say a garage break in . The police call the surveillance team and say 'Look at this spot' and the team rewinds the video and see a blue van pull up and break in. Then the play the video forward and find where the blue van went. Then the cops are dispatched to the blue van's spot and an arrest is made.

Personally, I see the value in that system and am ok with it being deployed. Especially to places like West Baltimore.
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Thanks. It's amazing to see how many folks in the tech industry don't see this when the whole idea of H1B visas is to get workers that can easily be exploited over here. Especially since the first attempt in the late 90's of out sourcing failed.

But out sourcing has worked fabulously for many other industries. And although I agree globalization has many benefits the side effect is many displaced people today seething with anger as the capitalist class gets wealthier. That anger will turn to pitch forks when there's enough of them.

to compete with people around the world means to be exploited here and policy doesn't help it so people feel they are not allowed to participate in society fairly. Capitalists (including me) need to behave otherwise revolution will come and our bourgeois heads will roll.
From what I know talking to AMZN engineers, they still vest over 4 years, but you do not get a big chunk of it until year 3.

Probably still worthwhile when the $200k initial grant turns out to be worth 2-3X more after 4 years.

edit: typo
The hard part of it, to me, really is the notion of a "guaranteed job". They're no more guaranteed a job than I am to wake up tomorrow; though the odds of being successful probably not so bad.

I've seen that "problem" in college graduates as well, and the flurry of problems arising after that guaranteed job never came to fruition.

I can see the fulfillment in having taken someone from nothing to being prepared for (or having) gainful employment in that field. I'm sure screening out folks who perhaps weren't immediately going to be competitive / successful plays into that fulfillment and success as a teacher; higher risk, higher potential gain (or at least, personal fulfillment).

I'm actually signed up for the General Assembly WDI next month in Atlanta; while its interesting to hear that Google has done this with GA, it wont strictly affect my class (I don't think it will, at any rate)... but speaking to that "guaranteed job"-- I do have _slightly_ more confidence that I'll be able to find a place I want to work (vs what I'm doing now, basically doing triage on broken webapp backends for various folks as a consultant).

As for the refunds; yeah, idk-- I could just imagine some really sore feelings surrounding it, and I'm sure there would be individuals raising cain about having spent money and time on the program (though, I don't know of a college that offers refunds...). I can't really speak to a solution there besides having possible remediation style "classes" or having a really strong network of after-hours study groups.
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Thanks. Looking forward to it
MARQUEE started out as a "feature" of very early versions of Internet Explorer, as a way for IE to differentiate itself from Netscape. (Don't hate Microsoft too much for this -- they were just following the lead of Netscape, who had their own proprietary tags. Heck, IMG started out as a Netscape-only tag.)

There was a real danger for a few years in the mid-'90s that competition between browsers would manifest itself in a proliferation of proprietary tags that only worked with one browser or another. The old "Best viewed with..." buttons that sites used to festoon themselves with (examples: http://cjihrig.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/best_view...) were an artifact of this; they advertised that a site used one browser or another's particular set of proprietary tags, which was how you positioned yourself as "cutting edge" in, say, 1996.

Things are better now, thankfully. (Not much better, but better.)
Oh -- so income inequality is evidence of disparity of opportunity, so you are actually concerned with income inequality. You'd prefer incomes to be more equal.

If opportunity were perfectly equal (your ideal state), what would you imagine income distribution to look like? Would that be acceptable then?

In other words, at what distribution would you not argue that the distribution itself is evidence of unfairness?
Ah, thats better as you don't need all the unbound variables. However, you still don't need "graphs" unless for the English reading of the promotion.

In Gremlin3, the above is:

g.V().match(
as("openCypher").out("makesAvailable").hasLabel("QueryLanguage").as("cypher").out("queries").as("graphs"),
as("user").out("uses").as("cypher"),
where("user", within(["Oracle","Apache Spark", "Tableau", "Structr"])),
select("cypher").by("attributes")
A pretty good list you might find things from: http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Puzzles
I think your probabilities are way off. We know that some people can smell some disease factors already (fetor hepaticus). Additionally, there's a LOT of genetic smell differences -- cilantro, cucumber, asparagus, cyanide, etc. Knowing these facts drastically affects both the P(smell) and P(skill) (which you've combined into P(skill)).

Additionally, the likelihood that a particular person would be so convinced in their ability to smell Parkinson's that they sufficiently convince a few researchers AND THEN predict with perfect accuracy is much smaller than 1/4096. This isn't a random person picked off the street--this is a person specifically claiming to be able to accomplish a feat and then being successful on the first try at 1/4096 odds (1/2^12).

Combined, I find this result very interesting and strongly believe the validity of this research. Granted, just because something is likely doesn't necessarily make it true, but it's certainly a strong impetus for future research, or even for people with a similar talent to come forward.
What about when your particular state wants to deviate from the national norm on, say, drug policy or gay marriage (in favor)?
Slightly off-topic gripe, but:

"It’s only sixty-five miles from here to the Capitol Building in D.C., and the area resembles Virginia or Maryland more than Appalachia."

That may well be because Charles Town is a half hour in either direction from Virginia and Maryland, and not really in Appalachia.
The FBI saying "Yes, of course we have spy planes" helps.

>"The FBI's aviation program is not secret," spokesman Christopher Allen said in a statement. "Specific aircraft and their capabilities are protected for operational security purposes."

(And then he bullshits and says they aren't equipped for mass surveillance. Just like how the government doesn't keep phone records and the NSA doesn't spy on the internet.)

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ap-fbi-using-low-flying-spy-plan...
> In contrast, it is easier to learn to avoid the chatrooms where the trolls hang out.

What if bullying is via your only public presence?

> The article mentions bullying on your facebook page, but that is very easy to fix with facebook's privacy settings

Facebook privacy settings only prevent people talking to
you. They don't prevent people talking about you.

> The other thing about internet bullying is that it's much easier to get evidence against the bullies.

The law will rarely do jack shit, though.
Aramaic is in a similar situation. It's dead as in no native speakers, but yet alive because it is still used (and spoken) daily in study by ordinary people not just specialized academics.
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You can still see house styles if you know what to look for.

And none of those look like say a Mustang Super Snake or a R8 or a Porsche 911.
The thing that most surprised me were the odds that a person in the control group (no parkinson's), actually did have parkinson's (diagnosed early according to the woman) and was diagnosed later to indeed have parkinson's.

After all, the prevalence is 0.3% in the general population. The odds at least one of the six in the control group had parkinson's is around 2% (even less considering it's already a filtered audience in a way). Not impossible but very unlikely, which incidentally makes her insistence of that single particular person to have PD all the more interesting.

There's definitely something there, looking forward to more testing.
After rattling thru call menus trying to get a live operator, I'd be pissed off enough to berate the person too.
I am not convinced that urbit is not just some sort of ironic performance-art criticism of computer science. Perhaps it would be elucidating if someone would be so kind as to explain what the point is.
Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
> I find Gremlin a lot nicer than Cypher, and a lot more powerful as well.

Do you have an example of a query that you think is better in Gremlin? I've yet to see one but haven't spent much time with Gremlin.
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Li-ion can't handle our scale.
main discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433318
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I know amazing engineers without CS degrees, and bad engineers with them. It's certainly nice to have one, but it's hardly a prerequisite for becoming a good engineer.
Is it too conspiratorial to think that this have likely had zero law enforcement value but rather just a a real world benchmark or acceptance test for surveillance tech that will end up being used in much more high valued arenas?

If you built some kick ass new sensor you'll probably want to test it in an environment that won't put it at much risk, Baltimore rioting aside isn't exactly Pakistan or Nicaragua.
The theory might be sound but the effects of policy unilaterally advantage the capitalist at the expense of the local worker. This is why people feel they are being treated unfairly. They are competing with other groups around the world who haven't caught up yet.

I believe we will eventually progress to the mean here but until then there are people feeling cheated. The trade agreements and bank bailouts did not consider the displacement in the near term and thus has created a growing group that is angry due to feeling that the system is not fair.
> modern phenomenon of post-pubescent teenagers being forced to spend large amounts of time together

Not new.

> without any real responsibility

Did you read the article? Bullying happens in the workplace, too.
> Does that matter?

No, but when someone alludes to something without saying what it is, curiosity is aroused in people.
The odds of randomly drawing a royal flush are 1 in 649,000 but it happens all the time.
Don't be absurd, in what reality can you actually believe any being understanding the nature of the Universe could "live like a hobo" whatever the hell that means. If you were truly intelligent you'd understand money is a man made construct that you've been socially engineered to want above all else as a means to control the masses. You honestly just asserted we're hard-wired to want money, sex, of course, but money, preposterous! I view status much the same, some of the world's most powerful individuals operate in complete anonymity, and couldn't care less about the adoration of serfs! While I don't claim to possess world power, I can assure you I do not seek the adoration of the mindless masses.
Oh you are so wrong go and look at The Alfa Romeo Disco Volante - Sex on wheels!
Most people would, depending on the amount of inequality and how bad off the least fortunate are. There's been pretty good research on that. Rawls' thought experiment is meant to reveal what people in a society would consider just, not to be prescriptive. Rawls had ideas as to what people would choose and but he was wrong about how much equality they would prefer.
Yep. Reading the federal rules on the difference between equipment and supplies is a good way to understand some of the "fun" in federal budgets.
I think most people don't expect the police to do that to them either. No-knock raids are something that happens to other people. Riots could affect anyone. (Not commenting on the accuracy of this view, just its existence.)
The more powerful part of that episode for me was when they took the technology to Juarez and used it to identify a group of people who murdered a police officer who was on her way to work... They followed the killers to a safe house, where they were met by a different group of people who had committed another murder earlier, and several other groups of people. It's insinuated that they took down the specific cartel responsible for all of the deaths and that the leader had initiated 1,500 murders.

It's hard not to feel sympathetic for a little privacy loss if you can take someone off the street who was responsible for so much death and destruction.
We also put up a new homepage that's hosted on Urbit: http://urbit.org/.
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I'm 32, white, male, and I still get nervous whenever I get pulled over. I can do everything right and still end up dead on the ground with the officer walking away from the situation unscathed.
The video that started it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg

The follow-up post: "Some deep analysis of one-line music programs." http://countercomplex.blogspot.sg/2011/10/some-deep-analysis...
There would have to be strong controls on the recordings so that (a) the police need a warrant to access it, and (b) they can only view the relevant time and place. And I don't mean "a person whose nominal job it is to control access," I mean actual incentives and technological barriers so that unauthorized access becomes difficult to impossible.
You're only 6 - 40 new business customers away from that number, I think it's less daunting that way - just reach out to companies and invite them to use your service, you'll hit it in no time and quickly get good at selling it.
This is an exact replica in Gremlin3:

g.V().has("name","Charlie Sheen").
as("person").out("actedIn").as("movie").
select("movie")

However, this can be expressed in a much simpler form as you don't need all the variables. Simply do:

g.V().has("name","Charlie Sheen").out("actedIn")
These airplanes are flying every single day circling the same cities every single day. These systems are used to crush dissent and crush any form of protest, that's the problem.
I've noticed a lot of people around HN seem to have chosen the blue pill.
Yes! The world needs this kind of work. I would prefer my flight control computers to be free of bugs, provably.

DARPA just concluded a program to do exactly this, and I wonder if Veridrone was funded as part of their efforts:

http://www.darpa.mil/program/high-assurance-cyber-military-s...

A lot of the work that went into formally verifying various aspects of drone and car software for HACMS was open sourced in DARPA's Open Catalog, found here:

http://opencatalog.darpa.mil/HACMS.html
And the money earned with labor is taxed heavily while the money earned with capital is taxed minimally. This seems fair?
I also think that we fundamentally disagree as to what "equality of opportunity" means.

You think it means that the government has a role in making sure the poor and the rich have the same outcomes available to them. In that sense, the rich being able to afford fancier educations, better housing, better healthcare, etc. is something that needs to be fixed.

I think it means that the law is blind as to your station in life -- that you are free to do with your life as you please, as your abilities and good fortune allow. That you do not get special treatment from your government if you happen to be rich or connected -- but definitely not that you can be assured that life will be fair, and that the hand you're dealt will be worth the same as your neighbor's.
Extra golden seeing your username - I bet you are a ruby dev? :D
no, i didn't. i got as much as that explanation from reading the github. i just didn't understand what a temporal graph store is used for.

thanks for offering a productive contribution to the discussion!
Of course. Why would they show you their proprietary code for a totally unnecessary app?
Can we not extract aircraft details from FAA flight records, and operational capabilities from FOIA requests regarding what vendors are providing what equipment for these aircraft?

Also, based on the aircraft's flight pattern characteristics (altitude, flight patterns) can we not infer equipment operating parameters?
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Smell what?

It seems that _how_ this works is still unclear, if it works at all. Once validated, it seems plausible that a device/trained animal could replicate the results, assuming its not like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(blood_donor)
Great extension any plans for FireFox?
That's only the slides. Is there a video of the talk?(assuming there is a talk, that is)
I'm not denying the greenhouse effect, nor that most if not all of its modern increase is anthropogenic.

You need to go back and actually read what I wrote. The greenhouse effect, if any, induced by burning non-fossil plant matter is incidental and temporary. In other words, on those geological time scales you cherish, as well as a human time scale, the net change in CO2 from burning such material is zero. The only way to make it not-zero is to render that land permanently unusable by any type of plant. Which is certainly possible, but not a side effect of slash-and-burn "farming". There's also the very strong possibility that whatever replaces that vegetation is actually going to grow faster, and thereby remove more carbon from the atmosphere than what was there before. Mature trees, in particular, don't grow very quickly.

This is simply a fact. One of us is in denial, all right, but it's not me. You need to get over your excessive fear-mongering; it's not helpful to the cause. Stick to the facts if you want people to believe you.
> Seriously, fuck you for acting like the only way to become a respectable or successful developer is the path you picked.

Can you name me the respectable, successful, known developers that did not get a college degree? I mean, I can think of a few who were in the math/CS program of a top-tier school, who started a company on the side that took off, and dropped out since they were already on a rocket ship. I can also think of a few like John Carmack who just dropped out, but would still fit that category. Although...Carmack has been very straightforward about what he knows, does not know, and is learning, and sometimes I'm surprised that he is just learning a topic I had already studied indepth as an undergraduate.

While people like this are few and far between, I can name many more successful and respectable programmers who have a college degree. Who are the majority.

I look at this equanimously, while you seem to take it very personally. In my experience, those who spent four years at college studying calculus, computational complexity, backtracking, 1st/2nd/3rd normal form, how floating point numbers are stored in memory etc. are usually better than those who have not. That doesn't mean someone who slacked through school for four years is always better than someone who did not go to school for four years. It just means more often than not, someone with four years study of foundational computer science is better than someone without it.

You said you've been at this for three years - so 2012 or so. The tech economy (and to a lesser extent the broader economy) has been booming, as can be evidenced from stories here on HN. You seem to be getting upset...over a comment on HN! Let's see how you do when the economy tanks like it did in 2008-2009. Let's see how you do when tech jobs crash with the dot-coms like they did in 2000-2001. When suddenly the few job postings which appear will say "BSCS required". Why wouldn't they, because in those times, they'll still be flooded with dozens of resumes with people with BSCS's. By then you may have a mortgage, a car, two kids.

Your argument is not with me. Here's a line from a job posting on SF Bay Craigslist - ( http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/egr/5278943482.html )

"Senior Application Engineer @ Slack...Here are a few extra things that would lift you up a couple of notches in our eyes: * Academic background in computer science (BSc or MSc)"

That's the #1 thing they have on their "nice to haves" list. I can assure you - when we go from these go-go unicorn times to a 2000-2001 or 2008 recession, at a time when you need work the most, I can guarantee you that their #1 "nice to have" will move up into the required column.

When the economy takes a dive like it does every eight years or so, and you have a mortgage and two kids, and you're a fifty-something unemployed coder with no degree and gaps in his technical knowledge who refused to take the bull by the horns at a time when you could have (two night class a year over twenty years would get you a degree by the age of 48), you will look back in enormous regret that you did not spend 90 minutes twice a week going to night class to earn a BSCS.
There's an old saying about this:

"The secret to success is being smart enough to play the game well, but not so smart you figure the game out. Then you realize how stupid it is and you don't want to play anymore."

Someone like... say... Donald Trump strikes me as just the right amount of smart.
While most people appear to think that is not a problem, I think that it is... even more so because of some of the sensors/imagery that they use can see much more then what the naked eye can see (unless they obtain a warrant for searching all homes in the area that is being scanned).
I often wondered how you could use datalog to do tree matching in compiler backends, this is cool.
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Although I'm working on deep neural nets, this material is too advanced to me. Looks like deep nets + bayesian reasoning is the next big thing.
Nice! There are plenty of spaced-repetition tools out there, but I wanted to make it really easy to add info into a database, and I thought that text selection would be the easiest.

That episode mentions Gary Wolf's 2008 Wired article [Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm](http://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/), which I think is what inspired me to create Hibou.
How many times have you been pulled over?
Or you can just uninstall the app.
In Gremlin3:

g.V(blah).out("knows").aggregate("friends").
out("knows").where(not(within("friends"))).
select().
by("name").
by(count("friends")).
order().by(valueDecr)
The author of the article actually works at Polymer.
SystemInfoKit – system information and monitoring framework for OS X