skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, of course: the relative volume of events is somewhat tapered by space-like interactions. Me not paying rent this weekend would mean a lot more to my present state in life - insofar as I am able to perceive it - than a hypothetical supernova event occurring on the far end of Andromeda.

I am under no illusion that the tediums of my life are more significant that the potential destruction of an entire anonymous solar system, but when conditioned on my own experience it seems a bit more pertinent. I'd posit that it's the recognition of this conditioning operation that let's us get a wider/better perspective on things.
And you are five times more likely to be killed at a railroad crossing then by a police officer.[1]

Headlines like these are obviously created for sensationalism , and while you will be hard pressed to find someone with a bigger animus towards the current USCJS then I, I think we should all be on the lookout for hyperbole, no matter what underlying meme it may be promoting.

[1] http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a3...

[EDIT] The original stats used for this analysis have been changed and edited as different versions of the OP have been posted.
i rarely watch sports but this strikes me as one of the obscure facts that cross the screen:

Oklahoma prison officials 1-0 against known smuggling attempts when they are playing at home versus incompetent criminal pilots.
More like non-existent than bad.
I've definitely been there. Their receptionist told the CEO the wrong time. I showed up on time, and all the C-levels I was supposed to meet were gone. They gave me over to some other manager for a courtesy interview, but I already knew it was over. I immediately confirmed the time after with proof, and they admitted their error, but at that point, it didn't matter. I imagine they were too embarrassed to give an apology, and, after seeing how it was handled, I was no longer interested.
Why not name the company? I'm going to be honest..I don't think this actually happened.
They don't see it that way. Obviously our efforts have been so fruitful that terrorism has been wiped out.
>This tool does not make that any worse.

If the false positive rate is too high and the prior probability a given person being interviewed actually lied, then the test is actively harmful.

I.e., if a positive result is more likely a false positive, then you end up wasting investigation resources. In this case you'd have been better off just flipping a coin to decide if someone warranted more investigation.

>There will be truth-tellers who fail this test, but you find nothing conviction worthy. They'll be fine.

Tell that to all the people who lost jobs, or spent months of their life under investigation because of failed polygraph tests.
>"So if you get a traffic ticket or points on your driving license - your run out of town"

That's not what I said.

>"does this also include smiling at white women"

If people choose to be racist and prevent people from going onto their private property, that's their business as long as they're not physically hurting anyone.
> 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?

You'd be subjecting individual prosecutors to a deluge of frivolous lawsuits, each carrying the risk of criminal prosecution. The issue isn't whether the system has the capacity to process those lawsuits, it's whether prosecutors could still do their jobs while dealing with them.
Has the contact form produced any results? I did the same.
I feel it is important to point out that police-related deaths are voluntarily reported by each department.

The true number of deaths is very likely much higher.
I don't really fear police (white 30 year old with no accent) because I know it's fairly rare that some thing bad will happen to me with them.

I also don't fear terrorists who are even less likely to harm me, or the monsters under my bed.
For personal reasons he doesn't have a personal internet connection at all.

He has some sort of bot that he emails links to and it sends the source (or plaintext?) back to him for reading.

(At least it was like that a couple of years ago)

I believe he also has issues with non-free JavaScript which I suppose precludes him from using websites that use JavaScript (or I guess he could block it).
I like numbers, but this one might work better if they put some context:

"You're 50% more likely to be killed by lightning than by a terrorist."
or
"You're six times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a bumblebee."

Or the somber "You're 150 times more likely to be killed by a motor vehicle than a terrorist."
(The War on Vehicles should apparently be funded to the tune of $150T a year, if I understand the value of American lives properly.)
Conversely, in some minority groups it can be a great source of pride to be the first one in the family to go to college and get a bachelor's degree.

I don't think it's likely for the writer of the article to know that Jennifer McLoud was the first in her family to graduate college without McLoud revealing it herself. Automatically assuming it's racist seems like a stretch and unnecessary.
That's not true at all: you need interest and expertise. The security requirements of voting systems are well-understood and go way back. Many people's first experience was probably reading Schneier's Applied Cryptography where it spelled them out along with example attempts. Many papers and projects since then. The cryptographers designing voting schemes usually model them to show through mathematical or manual analysis that they possess the security properties.

Your proposal is that people without knowledge of secure voting systems or cryptography throw something together with a lot of press. That approach hasn't produced a secure anything, much less voting scheme. Further, experience with tools such as OpenSSL shows the "many eyes" hypothesis it relies on will also be of limited use. Best to learn what pro's know about something, figure out what's worked to varying degrees, build on those, or build something better with similarly good properties.

Good thing is that this is a side project for author's enjoyment and learning.
It is unlikely that anyone has won the lottery while being struck by lightning. Keep your examples sensible.
Well perhaps from quantum mechanics there's also a chance that the moon is made out of cheese, but it's not really worth thinking about. The chance that police will kill 10 million people from routine activity is like that. It's not realistic.
I always liked 2k as well, and it was a good halfway point if you wanted to play games on Windows but not be stuck with a completely crap OS. It was relatively stable, as anyone who also admin'd Unix/Linux boxes at the time could tell you. It crashed just infrequently enough to be forgivable, which was a new thing for MS in my experience (Win 95c was a not-so-close second).
Just a small minor comment, it's not possible anymore to leak browser history with CSS visited links like before because you can only change the color of the links now and not read it with the code. You can still make a page saying "click on the red squares" but that's about it.
This was a lot more common in many rural areas than your post is suggesting.
> Those are all subscription or donation (wikipedia) based examples.

That was precisely my point: there are other viable models than ad-supported.

> A lot of sites could never survive on those models or obtain the resources to manage them.

Tough shit.
No, just no.

A candidate is taking time from their busy schedule and are considering making a contribution to your company/team/project. You should appreciate that more.

In the real world, shit happens. There are an inordinate amount of things that can go wrong and delay someone. In this case it's all the worse, since the problem was the interviewers own organization. The interviewer should be apologizing on behalf of his organization instead of being an asshole.

Nothing justifies the interviewers' reaction.
> No amount of explanation will change the bad mood, I'm not going to suddenly get bright eyed and cheery because it turned out to be a scheduling error.

It won't & can't change your past frustration - sure. But do you have to take it forward to the new few hours as you are judging another person trying to find his means of livelihood?
Oh wow good point, that's never happened before... /sarcasm To your point, longevity does not equal success. Twelve would make it 2003.. Before Facebook. Before the huge boom. Twelve years is a long time to be a "startup".
>So should you be scared of going to the hospital?

Ludicrous. Hospitals are where the sick and dying go for treatment. Police are there to Protect and Serve. Terrorists try to kill you. Why do the former do more damage than the latter?

I agree that the headline is sensationalist, but if you don't think we've got a real police problem, your head is in the sand. Fortunately, the solution isn't that difficult (body cams), and is essentially around the corner.
Indeed, cops here don't even have guns, he'd have to beat me to death
It's extremely easy to achieve. It just costs money and takes effort.
Another popular-meme way is knocking out the power grid. Take out enough of it and rapid recovery becomes very difficult, soon disrupting & stopping commerce, water, food, gas, etc distribution which some 99% of the US population critically relies on. That often postulated as prompting mass looting & starvation, which one could reasonably assume terminates 3% of the population.
But the latter does far more damage to the state.
Most people would agree that mentally ill people should not have children.

Huh? They would? Are you sure about that?
of course. and we can't stop now- it's working! how convenient for them.
They all abuse their users in one way or another. Tracking me across the web? How about no?

What about distraction? Is time free now?

And that's before we get into the malware vector problems. The few tenths of a penny you got for me seeing your ad is much less than my hourly rate for cleaning up a network infected with the latest 0day du jour.

Is your (the collective your) company going to compensate me when one of your ads destroys my machine? No? Then I'm forced to conclude that you want the benefit with none of the responsibility.

The blockers stay on.

*ed I realize this comment sounds mighty dickish but I'm quite tired of advertising apologists demanding that I sacrifice my privacy, security, and time to access their all-important text. I decide if and how my computer renders a given piece of markup - if your business can't survive that, welp, not my problem. Fix your broken business model.
It's interesting, the generalized idea you have about "Catholics" and "Muslims" comes from a point of view where they're a minority. I'm from Mexico where almost 90% of the population is Catholic and something interesting happens here:

Protestants are the minority and they're viewed as the "fanatically religious people", people would say they're always talking about their religion, they don't party a lot, they don't drink alcohol and usually they have a lot of children, Mexico is a Catholic country and the average family has 2.2 children, but protestant minorities usually have more than 4-5 children.

I've noticed Americans apply some stereotypes to Catholics that would fit pretty well to the stereotypes protestants have in Mexico.

Maybe there's a correlation between minorities and the attachment to their ideas (not only religious ideas) and that could be interpreted by the majority as "radical" or "fanatic" positions.
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But it's far, far higher chance that terrorists would kill 10 million tomorrow than police. All it takes is for a terrorist group to get their hands on nukes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menez...
No, there isn't. It is incredibly difficult to make effective chem/bioweapons. Aum tried sarin gas and they would have killed more people with a $10 bomb.

Wars are caused by over-estimating the terrorist threat.
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I submitted that form as well. We shall see.
I don't think that this is true. The worst terrorist attacks look to be about an order of magnitude worse than the worst riots.
Or you could, you know, email them like the email says to do.
I can understand that, I certainly would have been stoked about a bug report being fixed on the same day; I hadn't reported the bug though. I was working on providing a bug report with a patch alongside it and (perhaps foolishly) mentioned the bug informally as context as to why I was doing this.
The context you likely have is that of the more urbanized parts of China - not the rural towns and villages where most of the more extreme ("brutal and cruel") practices take place.
> He says small and medium-sized hotels have been hit hard and over the summer they had to drop their prices

The horror.

Creative destruction is a bitch when you're the one getting destroyed.
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Traces are an artifact produced by some JITs.

Basically you observe loops and loops that satisfy certain criteria are traced, that is all operations performed within one iteration are stored. Such a trace is then optimized, compiled to machine code and then executed for every iteration when the loop is encountered again.
To be fair, I use Debian at work and gentoo on both my personal boxes. So not all of us are on OS X (though my work laptop is a macbook since I didn't get a choice).
a UK conservative magasine against an EU action, so surprising. To them, even if EU cured cancer it would still be wrong. Why do we see so many links of this website here actually? Like most UK people they hate the EU, and they are only part of it for subversion.
I mostly agree with this for a pure beginner, however learning rails makes you pretty hireable, which is OP's goal.

Still, there's so much magic happening that it'll be hard to get a grasp on things.
It should be a matter of formality that they do pursue every item of required compensation from the lawyer/judge. If it became more of a fear to withhold or manipulate the evidence or the charges/plea to prevent prosecutors gaming the system (which is exactly what this is), then prosecutors would be reasonably held to higher moral standards - for fear of not only losing their jobs/licence, but also having done to them what they're unfairly threatening those that are being charged.
"A population willingly adopting the new testament Biblical principles will spread freedom willingly."

I think you need to specify which principles exactly one wants to adopt in a society. All the european states were devoutly christian for 2000 years and I would not call e.g. 15th century Spain the epitome of human rights and freedom.

"America has been slowly transitioning from a Bible believing nation to a humanist world view. The result is predictable, the loss of individual freedom and the increase in the use of force to preserve the lack of these freedoms."

At what point in time would you say america was more respectful of individual rights? It's not long ago it practiced genocidal policies towards the indigenous people of the continent - nor is it that long while ago it abolished slavery. If you go much back the colonies will not have been even established.
or maybe some of the effort we put into fighting terrorism is effective.
That last phrase is really quotable! Agreed.
Yes, because it happened exactly as written, and totally wasn't embellished at all.
But not all totalitarian governments are communist. Can China actually be called a communist country?
Personally I really find it quite amusing, when people exactly do the same thing they accuse others for (but without any proof at all).
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Really? Sure, there's been IMO unwarranted hostility toward food trucks in some cities. But I wouldn't generally put health/safety inspections and other regulations concerning restaurants in the over-regulation "by a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy bucket." I'm sure that if one is a restaurant owner, there are regulatory things one finds annoying but, given the many insider stories one can see or read, it doesn't strike me as an industry that cries out for laxer standards.
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I could be wrong but I thought that was the point parent comment was making?

> Most people would agree that mentally ill people should not have children.

Turns out the definition of mental illness covers far more than the most extreme/visible cases so it will be unclear where to draw the line since "mental illness" is too broad a set
Let's not insult junior high D&D clubs.
As long as you do it constructively, it's fine. Picking up your things and showing them the door isn't very constructive.
What I mean is that I see PyPy very positive, as a way to stay in Python instead of jumping into C, Go or whatever language.

In terms of performance naysayers only get convinced when someone proves them wrong, not because of what we think might be possible.

So it is important that we have research in GC systems, JIT compilers for dynamic languages, optimizers for FP and LP languages and so on.

Otherwise we might as well keep on using just Assembly.
When is it not preferable to specify your types first?
if a line of blocks are all close to the same color, should erase the divisions (draw 1*X blocks)

like this it just seems like a simple imagemagick script
This presentation is bullshit. You have no evidence,
nothing valuable to show, just spurious subjective
opinions. You've put up a straw man and now are trying
to knock it down assuming we are idiots. I've seen
enough.

Whoever said this is a dev I'd refuse to ever put into an interview again. Hell, I'd be reluctant to put this dev into any meetings requiring communication skills.
Ah yes brushed metal everywhere was bad. As you say, it made sense in iTunes as it looked like a hifi.

It really does do too much these days. It handles backups for your phone, your iPad, plays videos, plays music, handles playlists, acts as a shop etc. etc. etc.

Combined with the fact that buttons on iOS no longer look like buttons and text and hints are being replaced by cryptic symbols, and everything is flat so you don't know what is text and what responds to behaviour, I think user interaction has suffered and things aren't as discoverable as they once were, in general. Not just iTunes.
It's dubious because he didn't respond as you would? I never thought I'd be reminded of victim blaming here, yet here I am. Unless you personally know the OP, you have no idea what the OP's personality is like. Sure, I personally would tear them a new one (civilly) if they treated me like that, but I have non-confrontational friends that would be terrified to escalate the situation like that.
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I don't see that on the title.
An effect like that is to be expected, but it is interesting to see some real data.
In addition to the variety of suggestions so far:

You can mend things with it.
>Why not name the company?

Perhaps fear? Maybe they don't want to become an object of ridicule
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Last time I encountered a 4x surge pricing, I downloaded Lyft ... the minute I ordered it, surge pricing ended (really annoyed me and I went with Lyft anyways). If it wasn't for surge pricing, I'd be cheerleading for Uber. Surge pricing adds a level of uncertainty ... and 4x on a 50 dollar ride is insane if it ends in a few minutes.
The update is accepted as well now. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/880#issuecomment-15...
>China's success is not necessarily because of the policies in place by the government.

Please enlight us then; Knowing that in china government is present in EVERY aspect of a life (religion, state, education, internet) I cannot see how their success is not because of the policies of the government. Any place that has an exploding growth is in deep shit just look at the whole africa. better off countries with exploding growth, turkey or maghreb countries are also in deep shit with big parts of the population immigrating to europe to survive this.
>That's just good economics. Fasten clearly understands economics and incentives far better than Uber does.

It sounds like an auction. It's a clever system, but I don't think it represents a more fundamental understanding of economics than Uber's system, which is to raise prices to induce supply to match demand.
You can also significantly adjust your odds of being killed by police by choosing behavior unlikely to attract lethal force.

The core issue with terrorism is you have no such choice, the terrorist making the decision to kill people doing absolutely nothing to warrant lethal force.

ETA: I didn't say "make your odds 0%", I said "significantly adjust". Sure you could be shot for no reason, and a few are, but nearly all killings by police occur precisely because the decedent was knowingly perpetrating a crime for which lethal force was a not-unreasonable response. If you choose to not do something which police would reasonably kill you for, you will significantly reduce the odds of being killed by police.

The lead statistic would be more useful if we divide the odds between, say, those with vs without criminal records.
And a reply from my ex (and good friend) whose account got flagged "dead" (dnoller13) to you:

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.
155? This article has another problem then.

Although the FBI tracks police shootings, reporting is voluntary.. so they're grossly underreported. The washingtonpost did an analysis earlier this year attempting to get a more complete number...

we're on track to surpass 1000 police shootings this year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fatal-police-shootin...
I assumed the hacksaw blades were also trade goods to be used for making weapons. I imagine if you were really determined to escape you may need more materials than that.
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We need to sacrifice some of our freedoms to increase our security from the cops.
Looks like the story some time ago. Especially with emotionally charged stories like this, people always tend to misremember or warp the details and not realize they're doing so. I'm sure the general gist is right, but I always get a little suspect when someone describes eye-rolls or how someone sounded sarcastic. Those are exactly the sorts of things that we remember differently as time goes on.
Not exactly. Years ago I used an app called LBE Privacy Guard with success, but it's closed-source and cannot be trusted with such a privileged level of access to my phone.

Now I use a combination of blocking with the built-in app, running a custom ROM with root (which allows you to use many of the known privacy apps at their full potential), regularly changing my DeviceID with the help of yet another app and routing some of my device traffic through Tor via Orbot. It's definitely not perfect, but I feel like I'm at least partially thwarting the rampant collection/trade of my personal and private data.

So, sorry I can't be of more help, but you really have to just dig in and read the fine print with this sort of thing. Many of the apps only work with specific versions of Android, require root, might require ROM patching, ect. YMMV, unfortunately. Good luck.