skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are still falling into the same trap.

cost of preventing low probability events in the future >> cost of preventing events in hindsight

The problem is that you do not know which events will occur, so you will inevitably spend not only on implementing that $300000 upgrade on one plant which will need it, but on many $500000 upgrades on many plants (most of which will never be necessary or related to tsunamis). The cost/benefit ratio of preventing low probability events in the future should be studied, and only after looking at such studies can we decide whether any one change should be made. For example, the US government rejects any highway improvement which costs more than $3MM per life saved, as there are many lower-cost measures that save lives, and spending on less cost-effective measures is "statistical murder".
I read it more as you need all knowing agents to make capitalism work which is the same requirement for a command economy.
The groups have nothing to do with "ranking", they're based on the amount of evidence that we have for the link. From the IARC's FAQ:

> The classification indicates the weight of the evidence as to whether an agent is capable of causing cancer (technically called “hazard”), but it does not measure the likelihood that cancer will occur (technically called “risk”) as a result of exposure to the agent.

(Emphasis theirs)

http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/News/Q&A_ENG.pdf
So, how do we explain Japan? It's been deflationary for decades and the economy hasn't improved in real or relative terms.

Is their deflation different, to borrow a phrase, or is CH's deflation a bit unique?

I'd love to see a contrast btwn CH and JP in this regard. Or, how could Japan stop worrying and love deflation, Swiss style.
I disagree. eSports provides a low price entry point into the platform and greatly expands the PC base.

The hardware sales come with the culture of PC gaming along with what you said, but the people become PC gamers first and hardware buyers second.
I didn't answer your question because it was not germane to the discussion. Whether or not there is are innate differences in tendency, behavior is quite malleable via the proper culture, institutions, and law enforcement. But if you really want an answer I will try to humor you.

"I am asking a different question. To be blunt, which contributes more to the current lack of "civilizing influences" in inner-cities: that the actors involved are black, or that the actors involved were born into the same lack of "civilizing influences" 20 years earlier?"

To be even more blunt, I take it you asking whether black genes matter more or whether the environmental conditions matter more? It is not really possible to answer that question along a comparative axis of "more or less." With most human traits, genes determine both the slope of the improvement curve and where the improvement curve plateaus. Environment determines where one is along that curve. I cannot throw a javelin 80 meters. Which matters more, genes or the fact that I have never trained to throw the javelin? That's not really a well put question. I'm sure with training I could throw it 40 meters, I highly doubt I have the genes to ever be able to throw it a world-class 80 meters.

Similarly with African-American neighborhoods -- I think they have the genes to have peaceful, orderly neighborhoods because such neighborhoods have existed in the African-American population before. I am pessimistic that there will ever be an African or African-American Pudong or Silicon Valley, because I don't think the concentration of genes are there. I would love to be proven wrong, but I think more evidence backs that view than not ( https://jaymans.wordpress.com/jaymans-race-inheritance-and-i... https://liberalbiorealism.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/the-likel... )

Most likely, there are statistical differences in gene frequency that make average behavioral traits differ between the races, all things being equal. I say that, because the world looks exactly like you would expect, were that hypothesis to be true. When you compare races, such as the Han Chinese, the Irish, and Africans, the Chinese tend to be the most orderly, regardless of where they live (China, Singapore, Taiwan, the American Chinatowns, etc) whereas those of African descent tend to have higher rates of crime and disorder, no matter whether it be Johannesburg, Belize, Rio, Liberia, Jamaica, Haiti, or Madison, Wisconsin. Worldwide, race predicts crime better than anything else.

But given the right conditions, Chinese can be quite disorderly. And we have proven cases in the past of black communities being quite disorderly. So regardless of the genetic tendencies, the outcomes are malleable.
We don't tell girls not to, either. Quite the opposite in fact. The only people who tell women not to enter tech are feminists.

And I am honestly torn about recommending it to my son. I will (try to) teach him programming for sure and even hope to encourage him to earn money on the side while at school. But for real professions, there might be better options to consider. Oh, and I will also do the same for my daughter, of course, it's just that your claim was about what we recommend to boys. I will also teach my daughter not to listen to the feminists.

I will teach them because that is something I have knowledge about, and I think kids should benefit from their parent's specialties if possible. If I were a designer I would teach them design, if I were a musician I would teach them music, and so on...
It takes about 3 seconds to Google the article title, far less than it takes to write incessant complaints about people charging for content.
I agree with this. Steam has hundreds of titles that are worth the $5 or $7 they charge. You could never bring a title like that to a console without jacking up the price.

Lately people in my social circle have been getting together on a weekend afternoon and playing a cheap game. Usually they don't have much depth, but if I get four or five hours of play out of a game that cost $4 I'm happy.
There were no actual spider bites involved. It was a socially accepted way to externalize one's pain through hysterics and be healed through a form of exorcism. People who saw benefits from the ritual tended to repeat it the next year.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.
I agree that is a better level of service. But it may be reasonable if that's the agreement we already entered into.

Here is the relevant clause from the Handy TOS:

"Handy cannot guarantee that the same Professional will be scheduled for each Recurrent Service appointment"
A part of me thinks they shouldn't have cancelled the panels and get extra security because I want to challenge these idiots. They are terrorists.
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> most of my one-offs are unashamedly terrible.

I never intended this to see the light of day, but since the topic warrants it, here is a python one-liner I'm using to put the indices of combinations of subsets into one list:

combos = map(list,reduce(lambda x,y: x+y,[[c for c in itertools.combinations(range(8),i)] for i in range(1,9)]))

yuck. These things usually end up as a result of testing and tweaking in an interactive shell.
At least for movies and TV, it's all about the unwritten rule that you can't punch down, but it's okay to punch up. Big Bang Theory is a good example: it makes fun of the stereotypical nerdy white, brown, and jewish guys. That is socially acceptable, because these are the same demographics ruling the country from Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Of course not every asian guy is a 1%-er working at Google. But lots of old white guys (always an acceptable target for comedy) also struggle to make ends-meet. Regardless, that's where the media has chosen to draw the line. I'm not defending the practice, but I'm pretty sure that's what explains your observations.
Uh...have you read Marx or my comment? You're really off base with the ad homs. Also, (Han) Chinese descendants control the majority of the Indonesian and Malaysian economies. This can't be a serious comment.

You're blind to what that tweet means: want ME leads? watch middle eastern movies, at this specialized movie exhibition. don't go to the movie theaters though!

I very clearly meant Hollywood, our arbiter of American taste.
Elvis is actually the name in Groovy for the ?: syntax (C# uses ??), not for the ?. syntax.

The name "elvis" was promoted by the then-project manager of Groovy in an attempt to change the origin meaning of "G-Strings", the name for interpolated strings in Groovy. It originally alluded to the item of clothing, but in an attempt to sanitize Groovy's image for marketing, he wanted it to have meant the string on Elvis's guitar, so he created an accompanying fun-name for the null coalescing operator.
DX12 Explicit Multi-Adapter
Same, which is why I was inclined to be skeptical of their "obvious" presumption.
It don't think it's a major issue. Just something I heard a couple of my friends complain about.
Don Bluth Is Crowdfunding a Dragon’s Lair Movie
I'm quite happy to see this, although I can't speak to the quality of the resources (it's not my area at all). What makes me happy is that this is a reasonable amount of resources that are up to date mixed with some well known names (Ng and Hinton). I wish my research area had something like this!
I checked the TOS and they do not guarantee the same individual.
Does it excuse the mods who let it through?

If you allow politically contentious articles, you're going to get politically charged discussion. Articles representing a left-wing worldview are let through and right-wingers are blamed for "starting flame wars" when they interject something that shows their own worldview.

HN should either commit to open discussion or declare itself officially a no-dissent-allowed Safe Space.
Side topic: don't miss the Notte della Taranta music festival: https://youtu.be/PgFOf73Z088
But that statute has also never been used to shield vendors from lawsuit or prosecution for vulnerabilities!
Meet RankBrain: The AI That's Now Processing Google Search Results
New Service for Affordable Mobile Prototypes
Just to be clear: CISA is bad. I oppose it.
Hey, I'm trying to throw some actual numbers into the discussion in response to the assertion that trains are more efficient. Perhaps those who want to make that claim can start supporting their own? Give me something to work with here.

Rolling resistance is the big issue that usually favours trains. On the other hand, could we design cars with an extra set of wheels or something?
I, like I suspect most Americans, do not see Arabs, Sikhs or Indians as "Asian". Isn't this more of a Britishism?
> It’s currently disputed whether this combinator should exist.

Also, it breaks about every existing userstyle, ever.

And there should be a more general solution that also handles the shadow DOM of browser-internal elements like the <input type="file">
Do you have a link for that? It sounds interesting.
It seems like a very odd situation, given that the Norse who settled Greenland surely knew about fishing before they packed up from Norway, the Orkneys and Iceland.
Ask HN: I got a copyright infringement notice, what should I do?
I received this mail today. I download this file few days back on a digital ocean server and then deleted it. Today I got this infringement notice. Is it serious? How screwed I am? I am currently in Trinidad and Tobago. Please help guys.
What I am unable to understand is how they know whats on my server? Is digital ocean allowed to scan content of my VPS?

The email I received: http://pastebin.com/X8Nx6X3A
If someone is threatening violence to suppress speech it is even more important that speech be heard. Huge failure on sxsw part.
Are people like Jet Li and Jackie Chan to stereotypical to count?
In your latex equation, you are missing where the data goes. The idea for html/css/js is that data goes into the html, layout and styling into CDs and interactivity is defined in JavaScript.

That makes sense. The problem is that we never got anything close to that.
I disagree. You can make a Google without VC money if you start in 1994.
Well in theory you should be able to keep it at that pressure without spending any additional energy. Not sure if that is practically feasible though.
Google Frightgeist: See which costumes are trending nationally
Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City (2014)
If they hadn't they wouldn't have been getting in touch to say that the particular individual wasn't going to make it. If anything, the OP should send Handy an invoice for a cancellation fee, not the other way around.
It's so sad... We all lose today, while the violents and the machists just got their legitimation...
Although LaTeX needs much better error messages.
I (frontend/javascript developer by trade) wholeheartedly recommend learning the standard unix tools - bash, sed, grep, awk, xargs - for these tasks.

While the syntax is daunting at first, and escaping will be an eternal problem, eventually it starts making sense and you'll be able to do anything in seconds. The work in the post becomes trivial:

mv app/views/foo/**/* app/views/
sed -i 's/\([a-z]*\)foo_\([a-z]*\)path/\1\2path/' app/views/**/*

or in a more imperative (and probably less efficient) style:

for file in app/views/foo/**/*; do
sed -i 's/\([a-z]*\)foo_\([a-z]*\)path/\1\2path/' $file
new_path=$(sed 's,foo/,,' <<< $file)
mkdir -p $(dirname $new_path)
mv $file $new_path
done
From what I remember when trying to understand what was going on, it was a really convoluted, pre-computed array where the parameter to each ctype function was used as an index.

My guess to why they did it this way was that it was an optimization and/or possible support for different locales.

Even though it's undefined behavior, considering that other libc implementations don't have this issue, making a simple function like isblank so complicated that it may crash, makes you wonder what other abominations lurk in that code.
Have a bit of imagination, there's got to be plenty of ways for a driver to exploit you being in their car for criminal profit too. Provide wifi and slurp data; kidnap you; notify an accomplice that you've left the house empty and it's ripe for burglary; clone a payment card (and/or steal a pin) when you pay; take your DNA to plant at a crime scene for blackmail purposes ... erm, what else, clearly I'm not nefarious enough ...
How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design
The comment here suggests why: http://osxr.org/glibc/source/ctype/ctype.h

I'd considered a table-driven approach - I mean, perhaps it's a bit daft for isblank, but OK for some of the more random categories - but assumed they'd index on c&0xFF or something, rather than just using the int input verbatim!

It's not immediately obvious to me why that wasn't done (maybe glibc has to support one's complement?), since none of the high-bit ASCII chars appear to have a defined value. Then you can decide EOF is -1 - no reason not to - and it would capture that as well. (The functions don't appear to have a defined output for EOF, even though it's a defined input, so it could just shared the same output as (signed char)-1, and that would be OK. At least it's not a crash.)
You don't think that a fleet of networked, semi-autonomous vehicles will be at least several hundred percent more efficient at using existing road space than human drivers?
interesting how a strong necessity (like life and death necessity) overrules the gender inequality, even the one well embedded in the dominating religion in a pretty religious country - i mean females serving in Israel army.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452408

In Rust you'd rarely write a library that panics on unexpected nulls.

(Also, panic != abort, yada yada)
Agreed! I've been trying to put a list like this together for Big Data use cases (hadoop, storm... ??) and have had trouble finding up to date resources as the space moves so quickly. Now what we need is a list of these lists.
I thought it was already widely known that this was a myth – it's not like it was ever backed by a substantial amount of research, or even a particularly convincing argument.

It also has the typical characteristics of demagoguery.
But they make a point to allow you to book the same individual (or Professional in Handy parlance).

https://www.handy.com/help#/315d90/a4db36/19c48c

If they let you book a Pro and that Pro cannot make it on late notice, it is absurd to charge a late notice cancellation fee.

At least Amex is great about not giving a shit about awful TOS. If you screw your customers over and accept Amex you'll soon find out that you won't be getting paid.
Could Russian submarines cut off the internet?
what zillow lacks is the information about the neighbors.

my friend purchased an apartment and turned out the neighbor one floor below his has some kind of mental disorder. he has this hysteria that all his neighbors are making loud noises, but everything is just his imagination. he would call the police in midnight to complain, and even the police officers felt sorry for my friend.
Because the government has NEVER demonstrated any behavior in deliberate (expanded) interpretation of the law to further their interests.

The lengths taken to interpret "torture" for instance. It used to be that we have a fairly logical, common sense interpretation of things but I think those days are gone. I mean, unlimited data should really mean unlimited data not subject to some arbritary cap or throttling .
I too have noticed the same. While the part of Europe I come from is completely white for various reasons, nobody really cares about race. If anything we'll make jokes about ethnicity. But they're only jokes, no systemic segregation happening.

Then you come to the US and it's all about race race race and more race. Even in what is supposed to be their most progressive city - SF - it's just about race race race. Even street comedians/entertainers will play the race card every two minutes.

Honestly, it's boring. I understand that US likes to codify class issues as race issues, but ... stop. Call them class issues, and address them. Turning class warfare into race warfare doesn't help anyone. You are born with your race and you can't change it. You are born with your class, but you can change it.

Focus on that part.
You seem to be certain that the people targeted are actually "officers in an insurgency". After reading "The Drone Papers." stories I don't think we can take that as a given.
It's worse than that, IMO: Homejoy was effectively a leadgen middle-man. Homejoy was itself relying on other lead generators, namely Groupon. I think if they had been doing better lead generation themselves they might have had a better chance of getting more rounds of investment. When you aren't doing good lead generation and aren't providing good value to your customers/contractors, what is really left to invest in?

This doesn't change what you said; they may still have had a viable business if they had been structured for a one-time transaction.
REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside
Yes as a result of the empire if a British person and British Asians says Asian they mean for the Indian sub continent or those Asians ethnically cleansed from Africa in the 60's and 70's
Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81GUaYp-uYL._SL1500_.j...

It's discontinued and seels for up to $200 on eBay. I was lucky enough to find one on Kijiji (canadian Craigslist) for 25$.

I got used to it in no time, and it's just as accurate as a regular mouse. I've been using it for a month, and I can't tell whether I prefer this to a regular mouse yet.
Ask HN: How did you get your first customers?
I am currently starting some new "projects" myself and was wondering how others managed to get their first paying customers when launching their product or service. I would really love to hear others' approaches. What is your type of product or service and what has worked for you? Thanks
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453803
Empower+Network+14+Day+Trial+Sales+Page
Jakie Chan? I guess he almost always plays a buffoon in his English speaking roles so that doesn't really help. Jet Li is usually pretty competent and the Filipino action star is usually looked up to. I haven't seen any middle aged Asian stars who are just respectable and or successful.
I can't recommend this enough. I was afraid of the shell even having used it quite a lot, preferring to do my changes (like these) with an IDE, and later Perl.
Surface Book review: the ultimate laptop, even if it isn't perfect
Anyone know if there is a place where whites are a discriminated against minority? Zimbabwe?
Surprising there is no mention of any CNN based methods for NLP. A different approach that seems to provide results on par with the state of the art in some NLP tasks [1].

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5882
I don't know that I could have asked for a better explanation as to why my preferred environment is C#, Visual Studio and Resharper.
Grass is thirsty, so Californians are replacing it
I'd chip in several thousand dollars to have a study commissioned to answer these questions. I've believed all of the above for years (RE Japen), but would be interested if my beliefs intersect with data and facts.
> I understand that US likes to codify class issues as race issues, but ... stop. Call them class issues, and address them. Turning class warfare into race warfare doesn't help anyone. You are born with your race and you can't change it. You are born with your class, but you can change it.

This is a very European attitude, to the point where four European countries have gone so far as to remove the word "race" from their lawbooks[0]. The problem is that removing actual racism isn't as easy as simply erasing the word, and by removing the word, we remove the ability to take effective action to combat racism.

This isn't turning 'class warfare into race warfare'. Masking racism in this way makes it impossible to address, and thereby perpetuates racism.

[0] e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/12/francoi...
>And if you require a carrot that takes you from, say, $2M to $2.5M salary, maybe re-consider what motivates you and try to find something more intrinsic to the work & company itself.

Who are you to tell someone their motivations are wrong? I agree with you for myself wholeheartedly but I'm not about to go dictate to people what they should be motivated by. How incredibly arrogant.
Ergonomic keyboard: Kinesis Advantage

Ergonomic keyboard layout: Dvorak

Powerful IDE: Visual Studio 2015

Efficient communication: Slack
Most biology labs have a -70C or -80C freezer (or several) in their lab. As far as I know, they work the same way as the freezer in your kitchen. Since they're so widespread, I'm assuming this is probably the most economical way to achieve temperatures of -70C. But that might change depending on what volume needs to be cooled to that temperature.
-70C is above the dry-ice sublimation point, though just barely, so perhaps not enough to be useful; another 10C and it really could be.