skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, that sounds exactly like something an engineer would come up with. Saves time, right? It's more efficient so it's better. Except it doesn't even pretend to give the candidate a chance to save face, it's just naked rejection. But why should that matter, it's just emotions, it's not rational.
the link doesn't work for me.
Absolutely NOT. You will hear same thing about iphone battery replacement - just get iFixit kit and diy. What happens is people dont know how to work with glue and try to pry it open ripping 0201 parts off the boards edge.
Engineering manager of the awesome guys working on Portus here!

We are hiring:

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I never found out if I had done something to make everyone so angry. I now suspect that they were massively turned off by a host of things.

It's not you, it's them. You are lucky you got out of there, you would have been miserable.
I personally would have left the room after the comment on the Linux laptop.
Pretty cool set up, but why no NoScript?
There are other ways to kill tens of thousands of people other than nukes.

Weaponized viruses is one. Other indirect ways such as triggering a large scale war, economic warfare, etc.
And we are even more likely to be killed by each other (homicides, vehicle accidents) and ourselves (suicides, vehicle accidents). Honestly I take issue with the statistic. Many criminals are shot and killed by the police for good reasons. I would like to see the statistic for the likelihood of being killed when not in the commission of a crime or unlawfully resisting arrest. This is just sensationalizing the issue.
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Terrible practice. Unless the candidate themselves is rude or doing something totally off base. That has to be really rare. Your pre-screen process should prevent most of the completely unqualified candidates from getting in the door. From there, once invited to your company, it's important to treat people with respect. Besides that being just generally good life advice for Any Situation, it makes good business sense too. People talk, and if I hear a company has a bunch of asshole interviewers that cut people off, I'm not gonna apply there. I'm gonna assume the entire company is assholes.
If you think ill prepared food will have easy time killing you - you have not done your homework. It is hard to get sick.

Salmonella - 1/20000 eggs. Beef/pork - sterile inside, parasites are virtually eliminated from the commercial pork, so only charring on the surface is needed. Salmon - anisakis cannot pass the intestine barrier anyway.

Any food that has been brought to boil/pressure cooker - safe.
Actually you should be scared of the police.
i've lived in China for a few years, and no one's ever seemed to care much about the one child policy. i just asked some people, and they said it depends on where you grew up, but that it hasn't ever really been a big deal for at least their lifetimes (~30 years).

you have to understand that laws here usually range from completely unenforced to strong discouragement with possible financial implications.

it wouldn't surprise me if there were incidents of the stuff you mention, but doesn't seem like any of it was ever common place.
Indeed that's what I meant and perhaps pjmlp thinks that the feature set in numpy could have been / could be implemented in pure python, now that we have PyPy.
shame on them. doesn't sound like a place any self respecting developer would want to spend time at. what company was it?
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And it's resolved: "Dear Developer,

We apologize that the update was rejected due to an snag in the review system. The updated item will be available in the Chrome Web Store within 30 minutes."
Thanks! I'll give this a shot. Maybe finally a reason for me to ditch Chrome and go the Firefox route.
While in essence I agree, I think it is much more nuanced and complicated.

Inequality seems to be deeply encoded in the system. Capacity, in my opinion, only makes sense if you extrapolate from an average human, but there is no such thing as an average human being. However, I don't think it is an exaggeration that our western way of life is not sustainable on a global scale. I wish the fruits of human ingenuity could be enjoyed by every single one of us, but unfortunately it seems utopian.
Yes, forced abortions and drownings of infants are sometimes necessary in some cultures. We shouldn't judge.
Just got the extension update notification, seems like update 1.3.2 has been released. Nothing like a top HN post to grease the wheels.
Sorry for the uninformed response. Been out of the iOS game for a few months and I didn't even bother checking if that was still true since I never thought they'd get rid of that silly requirement. Good for them.
As the ex - He is in the process of healing, dealing with doctors, finding himself and probably in some ways, some of the physical distance might be good thing. What folks don't know is that we co-parent even from a distance. Yes the girls miss him. Miss his hugs, his close presence. However they understand that their Dad is still there for them. We have a good schedule to ensure that during extended breaks he gets to see them, either here or there.

One day we do hope he will come back here as this is where the girls have called home. However can remain patient and nonjudgmental until that time.
It was face-to-face - I went to the Apple Store (in Covent Garden, London) having booked an appointment with the Genius Bar. I explained the problem, and they ran a program from a USB stick and then said it was because the logic board had issues.

They offered to fix it for roughly £400, and I:

* quoted the specific law, and had a print out from the relevant website - it was either Which or Gov.uk or something reputable (i.e. not one of my Hacker News comments)

* demonstrated that others had the same problem - I found posts on StackOverflow and the Apple forums

* that I had used the laptop reasonably - it wasn't damaged in any way, and I had a list of the things for which I used the laptop

* I also pointed out that I was a great Apple customer - I had an iPad, an iPhone, and spent a fair bit in the App Store.

The rep went to his manager, and came out a few minutes later saying they agreed to fix the issue for free.

I'm quite introverted and hate confrontation as well, so my advice would be to pre-plan but without making specific scenarios of what might happen. If you have things in writing, it makes you more confident and it makes the reps a bit more nervous as you have a record of the conversation. Also, definitely keep things impersonal. Make it clear that you're not attacking the rep, or even the company, but just the specific policy which you disagree with. Finally, don't make threats like "I'll post this on social media" or "I'll tell all my friends not to buy from you" as the rep's response will typically be "Go on then". Keep calm, professional and friendly, and a majority of the time the reps will be reasonable and try to help you.

Hope that helps!
This is where that quote comes from: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-...

"You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack"
> Is there any other Docker registry web fronted and/or user and ACL tool besides this and cesanta/docker_auth?

In order to learn how the authentication worked I implemented a very simple one based on htpasswd files: https://github.com/dmacvicar/garita
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Isn't the equation tragedy + time = comedy?
Is git that broken? To focus on replacing VCS, you should have a big reason for that I think. I'm just curious.
Classless and unprofessional in all respects. We can all learn by their example how not to treat candidates.
> "Even the most generous estimates I've seen place the Earth's carrying capacity at 7.7 billion people."

Can you show me these estimates? Do they take into account ways we could live with a smaller footprint (e.g. vegetarian/vegan diet) and/or advances in eco-friendly technology?
Exactly! Although I was talking about 'soccer'
Fewer convicts == fewer prosecutors is irrelevant. Why?

Because the number of prosecutors isn't the limiting factor in whether or not we can safely do a better job of punishing bad prosecutors!

As you yourself stated, it's the legal apparatus of the justice system. Punishing bad prosecutors without allowing abuse and harassment would take a lot of resources, yes?

I was just pointing out that, with a smaller prison population, it wouldn't be necessary to turn judges out into the streets. Freed-up legal resources could be used to thoughtfully tackle the very real problems in the justice system.
"[...]one should ask why police officers are such a significant source of danger."

The statements are based on data from 2011. 155 people were killed by police officers in US, total population was about 311.7 million back then.

That's roughly 0,00005% and we don't even know the circumstances in which they got killed.

Saying you're 8 times more likely to [insert extremely unlikely event] than [insert exceptionally unlikely event] might be true but it's pure sensationalism.
>Same with China - imagine them exploding with an extra 1 Billion people over next 20 years. Who will feed them? What would be social implications of such a move?

Well for one thing, you'd have a billion more potential farmers...

Population growth is a pretty old problem, and if recent developed nations' demographic reports show, it solves itself once you reach a certain level of development.

China's success is not necessarily because of the policies in place by the government. It could very well be in spite of them.
So this is the problem with statistics; these statistics apply to the average person. But there is no such thing as an average "real person". For instance MY chances of suicide are zero; and the chances of me being killed by a terrorist are far below the average person because of where I live and where I spend my time; the same goes for being killed by a police officer. This applies to MOST people for at least the "being killed by a police officer category". I think we all know the subset of society that is most prone to being shot by police officers: those that are breaking the law.
Yeah, 25 minutes late set the tone for that interview. I don't really care what the reason is, I'm going to be pissed if someone is 25 minutes late for anything.
Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms. The law never suggested such enforcement. The law is that you get a financial fine if you have more than one child, that's it. It's actually against the law to force any kind of abortion. That being said, in some rural area, some officials maybe so greedy to make achievement for their "career" that they "enforce" this policy by breaking the law.

Some of the examples you listed have only one report. And it's policy that lasted almost 40 years in a country with a billion people.
A reasonably secure travel laptop
It could be that it worked in China, in concert with other policies. Because it didn't work elsewhere is also correlation without causation.
5 days for 25 years, seems legit
"400,000 Americans have been shot and killed since 9/11;"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/27/polic...

Since we're fucking around with numbers can someone figure out the probability of being killed by another American than a terrorist?
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I know I've read this before, more-or-less, so I went and looked and found a couple of other instances:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178140
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368962

At least it's not copy pasted, but the guy's solution is always to put himself on the jury.
It would be cool if there was a javascript WYSIWYG editor that generated Tex under the hood
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People sometimes give their friend a ride in their car, that doesn't really have anything to do with Uber.
It is a face, aka picon. It reminds me of the GameSpy logo. It appears to be the default face for unknown.

Info about faces in Plan 9: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Adding_your_face/index... doesn't seem to load but is cached is http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CkBURro...

Database of faces/picons: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/
The simplest way is to move the pickup point ever so slightly until you reach a spot without surge pricing, then simply walk there as it arrives.
I'm scared of police and I'm basically a WASP. If I were black or latino, I'd be even more scared. Civil asset forfeiture, drug dogs that always indicate presence of drugs, camera/drone tracking of movements of people, illegal phone searches, militarized police departments with special forces type weapons and vehicles, etc. I'm a former US Marine and the police are basically becoming a domestic occupying military force, similar to what I saw in Afghanistan.
I'm more scared of police than terrorists because it's statistically way more likely that I'll die, be injured or be defrauded by a member of the police/legal/civil industrial complex.
I think it's interesting and strange that people are thinking that this is tasteless or offensive. A lot of that is probably coming from a mental picture of the Rift or VR as inherently like an amusement park ride or "fun entertainment," as if the medium was incapable of being anything more.

This probably happens every generation of new narrative mediums.

Can a videogame portray a tragic event in a tasteful way, or must it always end up as a trivialization of it?
Can a movie portray a tragic event in a tasteful way, or must it always end up as an exploitative popcorn flick?
Can a novel portray a tragic event in a tasteful way, or must it always end up as a cheap pulpy page-turner?
According to CDC estimates 48 million people each year get sick from foodborne illnesses, only 3000 die. That amounts to (much) less than a 1% chance your friend will kill you (even when you get sick), so you can relax, relaxatorium.

http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html
Inside that building is a no camera zone. :) getting imagery is tough.
Agree in principle. But the chance that each of us will die by suicide is not actually zero. Its more closely related to the chance we will experience debilitating depression. Its a disease issue; no one is immune.
He should have walked out the interview the very moment they made the "Can't you afford a real machine?" comment. Even if you pass the interview, do you really want to work for/with these assholes?
The last time I used Android (around 2011, in the Gingerbread days), there were a few home screen replacements that took heavy inspiration from WP7/8. They didn't fit in with the system as a whole, which was saying something considering how fragmented the UX was in Android (pre-Material) at the time.

Good software should be part of a cohesive whole and maintain the system UX whenever possible, not bring it's own paradigm that overrides it's host.

That said, I'd love it someone tried to revive the ideas behind SlideScreen[0]. Instead of a focus on surfacing apps, the home screen instead focuses on surfacing information (in more of a pull style vs push notifications) and letting the user go from there.

[0] http://slidescreenhome.com/
Note: US only.
Jennifer Mbutt-Mann is an Associate Professor in the Engineering & Mathematics department (http://www.bothell.washington.edu/engineering-math/faculty), and has a PhD.

It's often worthwhile to mention when someone is the first in their family to get a bachelor's because it's damn impressive; she not "only" did that but got a PhD!
The full implication of the "wrong" statement is thus "..the first in her family to earn even a bachelor's degree, not to mention a doctorate or professorship."
There is a non-zero chance that an asteroid will slam into the Earth next month, ending life as we know it. There is a non-zero chance that the LHC will create a black hole that will swallow us all. Etc.
The brutality and cruel enforcement is not a widespread problem at least in the eyes of general Chinese population.
The only lawful enforcement for the one-child policy is a financial fine (which more and more people can afford now).
Any other forceful abortion is against the law. And that is the more common situation in China.

The problem of illegal and brutal "enforcement" only exists in some rural areas and nowadays with the popularity of Internet, it a lot more rare than before.

And thus it's not part of the incentive to end the one-child policy.
>This doesn't match my experience of the PyPy project

One experience, with one developer, and without going through official channels to asks for participation etc.
Nice, a more robust version of mousotron.
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The original post said that Andersen prosecuted someone "knowing his innocence." But was that really Andersen's intent?

Sometimes the exculpatory evidence can be clear-cut and you can conclude that the prosecutor knew the defendant was innocent and still went forward with the prosecution. Those cases merit very severe punishment. But here, the main piece of withheld evidence was a statement by the victim's mother about a statement by the victim's three-year old child. The statement itself was inadmissible hearsay.

It should have been disclosed, but does failure to do so really rise to the level of malicious intent to prosecute someone Andersen "knew" to be innocent?
you should kickstarter this - and also the python 3 support.
The YouTube video's highest resolution is 1440p which is also the maximum video resolution of GoPro's light weight Hero Session camera. The video quality of the video looks similar to the Session.
As I implicitly recognised in my initial comment, the number of non totalitarian communist governments is small. Nonetheless there are plenty of people who self-identify as communist (e.g. in Greece) who don't advocate policies that require or imply totalitarianism. That's why the precision matters.
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If you’re talking about really low probability deaths then you need to consider really unusual cases.

Fires gun at fleeing suspect, bullet hits _ -> deaths. Now, how does _ end up with 10 million deaths?

Well, the US Air Force for example has accidently dropped nuclear warheads on several occasions. They are designed to be really tough, but there is probably a non-zero chance a bullet could end up setting a defective one off.

Of course reality can be far stranger than fiction so I am unlikely to think of the most likely risk.

PS: The odds of terrorists being able to kill 10 million people tomorrow is so low it's really not worth considering.
Correct - More people die in hospitals then anywhere else. So should you be scared of going to the hospital?
I worked for public media, the only ads we have are VERY basic PNGs served by DoubleClick or house membership ads for donations. Newsroom != newspaper and your assumption of how all news sites operate based on a few examples is incorrect.
Caveat: this study is for federal courts (which tend to see more serious crimes) but the data on acquittal rates is nowhere near what you are suggesting.

http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

55% conviction rates when tried in front of a judge, 84% conviction rates when tried in front of a jury.

Acquittal rates will also tend fall as the gravity of the charges/court falls--but a lot of that is explained by the prosecution being far more ready to drop charges (or choose not to charge at all) in close cases when the crime is seen as less serious. A marginal murder case, for example, might be pursued even though a just as marginal shoplifting case would not be.
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Maybe someone should write an app that does this automatically.
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” — George Orwell

Billions of dollars of yearly agency budgets are justified with terrorist scare narratives. Saying that we shouldn't be scared of terrorists is a good beginning. I just wonder if anybody will listen.
Quick question: is there an equivalent of ABP's CTRL_SHIFT_V shortcut in UBlock origin that opens the list of all the HTTP requests done by the page so I can block them manually one by one? Last time I checked I could not find it.
> I found out later their recruiter had given me and many other candidates the wrong time.
Those are all subscription or donation (wikipedia) based examples. A lot of sites could never survive on those models or obtain the resources to manage them.

I'm all for blocking sites that abuse their users.
My (future ex-)wife is the same. She says she loves her 3 children more than anything, and she misses them when she's abroad for work, but still, she chooses not to be with them.

People are different. Lots of people get lengthy deployments on oil rigs, in the armed forces, or even high pressure international sales gigs - I don't think these folks love their kids any less than me.

I love my wife and kids loads, but I also love being away from them for brief periods of time (only up to a week in my job). It makes it so much better when I return. We are all wired up differently emotionally - absence truly does make the heart grow fonder in my case.
That's just good economics. Fasten clearly understands economics and incentives far better than Uber does.

Uber is the classic case of aggressive government style intervention in a market causing it to collapse - no riders or drivers in high demand areas during surge pricing. This is a total failure of market policy because no price discrimination is allowed.

Fasten is akin to setting minimum wage. They set a low base price but if you want to get somewhere faster or get preference during a busy period then YOU can raise your price by what it's worth to you.

This is a big stumbling block for Uber to which Fasten has a rather decent solution.
Incidentally, 45% of 50 is not an integer. This makes me wonder how many books were actually tested. Or were they just rounding up from 44%?
>Some tried giving Arab countries democracy and it turned out they never really wanted it and most of the dictators were much better alternative (still bad, just better - to clarify).

A mistake was made. It was not understood that people in war-torn countries want peace and stability above all else, and are willing to hand in their liberties for it. It was also not understood that among people who don't trust news or words of any kind (justified in this case) it is rational to support the candidate that's closest to yourself genetically.

The link between democracy and wealth, stability and trust flow both ways, and it's easier to start with wealth, stability and trust than with democracy.
It solved the problem so well that the human race is actually likely to go extinct over the long run. Just need to get Africa and India on board with the program.
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How is it that we're on a technology forum and people continually insist that we've achieved the maximum rate of advancement? Also we most certainly do not spend all of our resources advancing areas of technology that would sustain more people, for instance I think there could easily be more research put into food growth/production/sustainability and perhaps things like housing development than are currently being done, but since there is no impending doom from overpopulation we tend to spread our interests around as the free-ish market allows. Everything we produce isn't going to make it easier for more people to survive, but I'm sure much could be done if it became a priority.
> You elect district leaders

...from a list of candidates approved by the Communist Party.