skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. What kind of schmuck wants to look like some kind of business professional? What are you trying to do, give the impression that you put some thought into your appearance and have respect for the interviewer's time?

A suit? Get with the programme; we have a strict uniform in this game and you'd better not have the self-confidence or the sense of style to step outside the uniform. We hire people who are just like us, and don't you forget it. Monoculture and groupthink? Damn right. That's what we want.
It won't be anywhere near a billion.

China already has an average of ~1.7 children per family [0] if you factor into account that the policy is enforced at a provincial level, and depending on that province, it may be the case that (0) people of certain backgrounds (e.g. farmers, minorities, parents with disabilities or medical conditions) can be exempt in some areas, (1) affluent people sometimes just pay the fine and have a second child, (2) in the most recent version of the law, if one parent is an only child, they were permitted have 2 children, (3) Chinese citizens who have resided overseas for some period of time may be permitted to have 2 children.

A lot of people may go from 1 to 2 children. Not that many people will go from 2 to 3 children. Children are very expensive for most families.

[0] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
A friend and (and client) produces a podcast about medial issues for general audiences and covered Nelly Bly with a personal twist in a recent episode: http://www.wonthurtabit.com/episodes/2015/10/19/3-voices-and...
> So instead of updating Java, we now have an ecosystem where everyone and their dog are shipping their own bundled Chrom(e|ium) instead, which surely is not going to cause even more upgrade-related problems in the future.

And each install wastes an impressive amount of space.
This extensively documented site (http://www.killedbypolice.net/kbp2013.html) suggests that 768 people were killed by police in 2013, compared to the 784 people murdered by trains. If my math is correct, 784/768 is not five. Additionally, that site's statistics are only for may-december, so the actual number is probably around 50% higher.
Back then the (usual) hardware didn't support anything; the Xserver just wrote into some 100KByte of video memory, one bit per pixel. The X server had to deal with overlapping, and could.
This isn't the same thing - in the cases of terrorist caused and police caused deaths, there were human beings who acted to intentionally kill someone else. In the case of railroad crossings, there isn't such intentionality.
If this account of things were correct, then we would expect to find that less-religious (or specifically less-Christian) nations have less freedom. It doesn't look to me as if this is true; for instance, the nations of Scandinavia are distinctly less Christian than the US (they often have established churches, but the rate of actual religious belief and commitment in the population is low) and they seem no less free than the US; and some notoriously un-free societies have been explicitly Christian (e.g., Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile, Mussolini's Italy).

We would also expect to see correlations between freedom and Christian belief and affiliation within nations on longer timescales. For instance, in Europe the Middle Ages are generally thought of as particularly religious; was that a specially free period of history? It doesn't seem so.
Tell this to the mentally ill, whose first encounter with anyone trying to get them help usually involves police with guns who have a tendency to shoot them.
We still are using FORTRAN for Business Applications and I fail to see the need to switch them to a slower language to modernize them. Unless the switch is solving a program leave them alone. This is why in R there is still plenty of FORTRAN code.

Personally I LOVE Python but I always feel it is the 2nd best choice. I do use Python but it rarely is the best tool to use for the problem you are solving. Maybe Pypy will turn this around, and I hope so.
Ask HN: Anyone building apps for AppleTV?
We ported our Unity game, Phil The Pill. Overall the process was pretty straightforward and we gained approval on our first submission within about 2-3 days. It will be interesting to see how the launch goes and what the uptake on the device is.
The Diamond Problem (Multiple Inheritance)
This sounds highly improbable, especially the "Oh, wow, Linux, what is this, 2003? I'd hoped I'd never have to see....." comment, I honestly can't believe there are any developers would make such a comment.

The OP should name the company if this interview was this terrible.
> 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.

The article claims this is the first time a prosecutor has been incarcerated.
> So this is the problem with statistics

That's not a problem with statistics, it's a problem with using particular statistics to talk about a non-particular group. If you'd adjusted for people who don't break the law, people like you, who get shot on accident by a police officer, the statistics would be perfectly fine to compare to the threat of you dying at the hands of police vs terrorists. There's no problem with statistics in the way you describe them, just with bad statistics just like there's a problem with bad anything (math, engineering, policy etc)
"Block robocalls, telemarketers and other spammers automatically with our Community Blacklist feature."

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexaspect...
Nice link, but I'm doing stuff a little different and attempting to tackle a different problem along with it.
I think that's an over simplification of the issue. And I strongly disagree that I'm more likely to be killed by a black man unless that black man is wearing a badge.
oops, yeah. something weird happened with the tabs I guess. thanks for pointing that out!
> Couldn't the argument be made that the parents, in effect, did it to their own child

No, it couldn't. The person responsible for killing the child is the person that enforces the law and the person that created the law.
Yeah, but you have no power to make sure that bad actors get fired and charged.

They can fuck with you. You can beat the charge, but not the ride. They will not get comeuppance for sending people on rides.
What my predecessor said plus it comes with userbase. I made some extensions, never told anyone, one year later, poof, 700 users.
Introducing Microphone – Microservices with Service Discovery for .NET
Police are there to Protect and Serve.

Only the state: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-278.ZS.html
I found the featured video carousel to be quite effective, they show one big livestream video with the carousel dots being a preview of the other choices. It's different from the shouldiuseacarousel.com example.
I do this every year when I go to DEFCON! It's always a good idea to keep an old laptop around for this purpose.

Some of their security-by-obscurity tips I don't think would help much against an FBI or CIA though.
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>He failed to disclose exculpatory evidence

His failure notwithstanding, is there some reason why the defense didn't call the son to testify as a witness in court? Not trying to defend Anderson, but genuinely curious.

Also, I think this thread seems to be overly focused on eye-for-an-eye justice and laying the blame solely on the prosecutor (e.g. comments that he should be personally liable for compensation), but it seems to me that the entire justice system failed Morton, not just this one transgression. Morton received a lump sum for every year served, a lifetime annuity of $80k, job training, and educational aid.

Nothing in the world is going to give him those 25 years back, including bankrupting or imprisoning the prosecutor, but at least he was compensated in some way.

However, I will admit I was fairly disgusted by Anderson's plea bargain, not just because he deserved a harsher punishment but because it's not exactly a strong deterrent to prevent this sort of thing in the future (though perhaps the Michael Morton Act may help in that regard).
Eight times epsilon being...

I don't think this headline means what Cato wants it to mean; as it stands, what it's saying is that you simply aren't going to be killed by a police officer.

It doesn't make more sense as a resource allocation argument either, since Cato opposes the "war on terror".
All apps get rejected for seemingly random technical reasons a lot.

Apps that do controversial things end up on the front page of Hacker News/Reddit, so you actually hear about them. The other apps just... die.
I agree. It looks like most interviews are aimed at finding "defects" in people - why they would not be a fit, than looking for reasons what the candidate can bring to the company/team if they were to join.
Twitch already has support for artists livestreaming, it's great to see official support for it. Will give it a try next time I do some digital painting.
Yeah. If your hypothesis is that it might be lower when the payer and provider are effectively the same entity you could also look closely at the VA or Kaiser in the US for comparison. Both have historically had reputations in the past for doing better-than-average with regard to patient safety but I'm not sure whether there are apples-to-apples numbers that bear that out.

In one sense you'd think having responsibility for both sides of the equation would drive quality up by attaching responsibility for care with responsibility for cost... but in another sense it the lack of tension from going from two-actors to one can make things worse. To fix a problem like this you've got to surface it first, and surfacing it leads to lots of legal exposure while you figure out how to fix it.

See the VA scandal of the past year or two for instance. It seems unlikely those kinds of lapses in care would have been as prevalent if an outside party was taking on risk and picking up the bill for services rendered (or the consequences of not rendering them, in this case)... That's just me speculating though.
What's the appropriate response as the interviewee in that sort of situation? They've completely turned you off to the idea of working for the company, should you just excuse yourself and end the interview?
I don't know. Isn't that backwards? "If its easy, its not real" is too simple.

Art may be defined by the artists' effort, or by the effect is has. Plenty of folks are impressed/astounded by 'street art'. Why is it not real, just because the artist had the chops to make it look easy?
Hi, we've cultivated a massive audience of angry young men, you sensitive arty types wanna come over? Bob Ross is still your king, right? /s

Snark aside, I do love the opportunity for artists to have a way to earn money along their entire workflow. I'd imagine that Twitch would be more lucrative than youtube live stuff, maybe? And Patreon is missing the boat by not diversifying the kind of things that be delivered to supporters. But I'd almost want to have tried it under a totally new brand. Some gamers can be caustic, and even the FAQ is defensive: "Creative on Twitch does not come at the expense of all the awesome gaming channels"

Overall I like it and think that it's a great use of their tech, I really hope the community side works out.
Fair points. The lack of affordances is bothersome indeed, but presumably the UX design fashion will swing back in the other direction at some point in the near-ish future.
Does Germany have an equivalent to South Chicago or North St. Louis? Because we've got one of those in just about every major U.S. city. It seems relevant.
> 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.

Both counterterrorism and dealing with public agency violations of rights (including fatal ones by police) are within the scope of concerns addressed by the Federal government generally (and the FBI specifically). Understanding the relative danger of those threats is a reasonable part of evaluating the proper allocation of resources, and evaluating actual and proposed government policy. They are not unrelated rare threats for which the relative risk is immaterial and pure sensationalism to report or discuss.
You can always setup an Asterix box and put Lenny on the case:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO...

"Lenny" is a hilarious set of recorded messages designed to waste telemarketers' time."

On a personal note, I have to say that there is something so satisfying about a robot answering these calls. A caller normally has the advantage that you can't see them, have no idea who they are, and they can do it at scale. Lenny turns those very advantages against them.
Yes. If you turn on "advanced user" in the settings, you can open uBlock origin from the toolbar and look at "+domains connected"
You can view the whole procedure on the EPs website:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?...
I work at a young startup (redmorph.com) building a similar privacy extension, and we've run into the exact same problem multiple times. While I understand that Google has a large volume of code to review, even an automated analysis tool could split out a line number and filename to reduce the guesswork :P

I have to add my shameless pitch to this thread, and I hope that fellow builders/entrepreneurs/startup-ers will emphasize with the fight to get attention/users:

uBlock is a great tool but it doesn't offer any network-level services, so you're still exposing IP/geo-location and potentially content sent over HTTP (as opposed to HTTPS). My company, RedMorph, will soon offer in-extension encrypted (AES-256) proxy at the first paid tier (we need to charge to cover infrastructure cost, it's still in beta) but you can download our free tracker blocking extension in the meantime. It's designed with usability in mind, so the average user can "plug-and-play". We're especially interested in empowering non-technical parents and children.

I'll be adding uBlock to this comparison soon:
https://redmorph.com/articles/proof-in-the-packet.html

Thanks for your time, I appreciate thoughts and feedback!
Thank you for your kindness. <3
> I think it's good not to obsess about limits around computing time, even if the kid just plays games. As you most definitely know from your own experience, programming and electronics - or any other creative disciplines - are not things you do 3 times a week for 1 hour after you've done your homework.

True, but consider the kid is only 6. At that age there is still a strong health/developmental reason not to allow a lot of screen time.
Stated in this exact way, word-for-word is quite extreme. Could the author be paraphrasing?

I'm probably nitpicking like a nerd. Even if he were paraphrasing it wouldn't take away from the overall message.
I don't want to say. Its been almost four years since then. A friend started working there for a different team, and he intimated the team I'd interviewed for was strongly anti-TDD, and very pro-Python. Even he laughed at me for not using a Mac. Recently they expanded too much and laid off 3/4 their development staff including my friend. In all, it sounds like it wasn't a great place. But I don't want to publicly call out a whole company of hundreds of developers because I got stuck with a few bad apples.

I do wish I know who my interviewers were, I want to meet them now and ask them what was up and what they thought of the whole thing. I do remember a few in the room seeming pretty embarrassed about it all, but I think the main three antagonists were their bosses or something.
Many railroad crossing deaths are presumably suicides. Some police deaths might be, but that is probably rare.
Agreed, but it should also be noted that in practice, families that want to have more than two children are quite rare in urban China today, as they are in most developed countries. Meanwhile, rural families in China have been allowed to have two or more children (depending on a few rules) for several years already.
Raw annual odds of being murdered in USA (presumably by another citizen): 0.0045%
Get baited hackernews, shitty to see this in the top feed. No way in hell this happened. If it did the OP wouldn't hesitate to name the company.
New Palmyra project
No, it's just that attorneys won't take such a risk if the penalties are too harsh. Also, the State and the electorate are just as complicit as the prosecutors what it comes to sending innocent people to prison, and they should be punished as well (Having to pay for restoring the person's life in the free world after 10's of years in prison.)

Americans are bloodthirsty: lock 'em up and throw away the key. When the elected district attorneys have pictures of handcuffs and leg irons on their election posters, what does that tell you? (Said election poster seen in Fresno County, California).
Why Fraudulent Ad Networks Continue to Thrive (hbr.org)
Web APIs: Powering the IoT
Of course, most people can't do this for reasons similar to why Johnny can't Encrypt.
TB Is Now the Top Infectious Killer
> Just to make it clear, these types of enforcement are not norms

Back up your statement with a citation please. Considering that they explicitly made forced abortions of these kinds illegal (although this is hardly enforced) implies that it was a big enough problem the government needed to step in.
China's 1 child policy (now 2 child, I guess) is a difficult to fully form an opinion on.

On one hand, "population crisis" is something a lot of people are concerned about^ and the policy was a direct and practical way of tackling it. On the other, it is unmistakably totalitarian.

Going to 2 is a strange choice. It's just as totalitarian, but probably has a fairly negligible effect on average fertility rate. I guess they don't see

^On a tangent, I don't totally buy population crisis and judging from how rarely I hear it mentioned these days I think I'm not alone. There is obviously some natural limit on human population, but I don't think we're near it.

The fact that we hear less concern about it is says something interesting about the zeitgeist. I think people believe in technological progress more in 2015 than they have since the space age and nuclear age of 50 years ago, maybe more than ever. At our current rate (ignoring the projected gradual reduction) we'll double every 65 years. I can certainly see us absorbing doubling population density in that time considering all the empty oceans, deserts, the potential for landless food productions, megacities and all that jazz. I mean, If the US & Australia went to the population densities of Germany and France (moderately dense with quite a lot of open spaces), we would be good for another 100 years.

Basically, I think we have the space.
More than half of the police shootings this year were of white males.
I had just switched back to Chrome from Firefox because I couldn't find a working mix of add-ons and settings that didn't freak Firefox out. Going to give this a shot. Thanks.
18F micro-purchase experiment bid down to $1
Why the Rails founder automatically rejects 80% of Software Engineer applicants
Looks like I was wrong: riots were worse. Quick google search:

http://www.sickchirpse.com/top-10-most-devastating-terrorist...

http://listverse.com/2014/02/07/10-deadliest-riots-in-histor...

According to those, worst terrorist attack was 9/11, with ~6k deaths in a single day. Most of the riots in the riot list had larger death tolls (ranging from anywhere between ~7k in a single day, to over 1M over a period of time).
Vinge's book scanning reminded me a lot of DNA shotgun sequencing(1). I wonder if that's what he modeled his method on?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_sequencing
Why do you need cameras for understanding how traffic flows? The start and end points of any particular driver's route are not required to map how traffic flows. You just need to count cars ('axles' technically) at strategic points - before and after key intersections.
> Obviously our efforts have been so fruitful that terrorism has been wiped out.

If that's the perception, maybe we need to direct the same effort to the now more serious problem of police shootings of citizens, so those can be wiped out to the same low level as the terrorism threat has been reduced to.
It doesn't matter if you're American or not, nor is it a matter of political correctness or scholarship. It is what it is, and you are doing it. You can try to red herring it and spout off about the American PC crap all you wish, but the bulk of your entire original comment is "This is dubious. This is what I would have said. Why are you mumbling." It doesn't even really need to be paraphrased. It's already so blatant verbatim:

>it is obviously a dubious story. Wouldn't the first thing you would say as soon as you enter the room is that you got an invitation to 9h30 and not 9h? Then what did op reply to their questions such as 'can't you afford a real machine'? he just mubbled? I would reply very harshly to such comments and show them who is the weakling.
While they were total assholes, you were not in a desperate enough situation that would justify you to say amen to whatever bullshit they say.

Thanks, quarterback.
We used to have one of these in our town that was run by the Situationist International and would move from house to house.
No, I think there is justification. In the real world, people aren't stoic and patient, especially executives who have their day planned out to the minute. The applicant did everything right here, and I'm not defending the interviewers, just trying to think about how that situation comes about. If the applicant was on time, would the interview have gone the same way? I don't think so.