skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call quality on any device I've owned with T-Mobile for the past two years since I switched from AT&T has been great, more carriers need to get off their butts and upgrade to HD Voice.
Can you elaborate on "manually generating paths"?
> And they notoriously over-roast their beans, giving it that distinctive burnt taste.

They've offered multiple kinds of roasts for years now. If you don't like their dark roast, you have lighter ones to choose from.
It's an interesting exercise to take 'black male' out of the mix and consider just how few potential suspects the whole description eliminates.

Regardless, operating solely on evidence as broad and vague as appearances should warrant some skepticism on the part of the investigating officer, and therefore seems ripe for abuse.
There are often stark contrasts between the idealistic academic approach and the practicalities of the 'real-world' career!
Subways can't always be build, depending on the terrain type. Streetcars with their own lanes can be pretty efficient.
"I don't know any black people who have never had a negative, frightening interaction with police."

Anecdotal evidence is generally frowned upon when discussing statistics or topics in general terms.
Eyewitness identification is known to be extraordinarily weak, yet in this case police officers were letting that decide if this man should be taken in. Even worse, we know that cross-racial identifications are often more inaccurate than the already poor identifications of people we don't know.[0]

No, I do not believe that the police are picking everyone "close to the given description of a criminal complaint". Perhaps they were trying to pick up everyone close to the description in _this_ criminal complaint.

IMHO, this is simply an excuse to pursue racial profiling. In this story, the police readily admitted that he didn't match the description (he was heavier) but they didn't really notice until after the fact and this didn't prompt them to let him go. Then what was the point of detaining him? Clearly for show, everyone in the area was reminded of how active the police were. Again, in my opinion, I suspect that the way people felt about said activity would likely break along racial lines.

[0]: http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/a...
(VoLTE is branded as HD Voice for many phones.)
Because most people I know keep their data switched off most of the time, which will always be the case as long as apps are abusive about phoning home.
You're throwing a baseball, but at the last moment you spot a kid running into its path. You tried to stop your arm but it was already in motion. You decided half a second too late.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will#Over...
Turkish lacks a explicit free morpheme (i.e., a separate word) for "to be", but it most definitely has translational equivalents, most notably the "zero copula" used for predicate adjectives and nouns in the simple present tense, declarative mood. All other situations involve an explicit inflectional marker (either a suffix or a clitic) that translates "is/are/were".

This is not unusual; lots of languages work that way. And in my experience, it does reduce the use of copula constructions compared to English, but not by much.

Incidentally, the "extra verb tense" you refer to is formally called "evidentiality", and is not considered the same thing as a" tense" by linguists. That's also fairly common in many languages, though it may seem exotic to English speakers.
dc.js is one of those libraries that completely blows client's minds. The hard thing to do as a developer is not to try and filter the data too much. dc.js lets the end-user filter the data interactively and create their own stories, you just have to work out the questions each chart lets the user ask. http://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

As it sits on top of crossfilter (http://square.github.io/crossfilter/) you can also do unusual things behind the scenes to the data sets. As an example, I used google maps to restrict datasets to the current map view. Worked surprisingly well. http://www.bathhacked.org/projects/hacked21-food-standards/
+1 from me. Excellent library
About a year ago, the same thing happened to me. That night, my girlfriend had suddenly gotten sick and was walking home from a friends place a few miles away, and I wanted to make sure she got home ok, so I ran out to meet her.

I was dressed in a long wool jacket with a nice shirt on, and got stop by the police. Apparently, it was suspicious that someone would be jogging in that type of attire, and there had been a hit-and-run a bit away from there, and I fit the description of the person that ran.

It was a bit surreal -- an officer started immediately asking me questions, including identification, what was in my pockets, etc. After telling him just a glove was in my jacket pocket, he came up to me and quickly felt himself. Satisfied that I had answered honestly, he asked me to wait as a second police car drove up.

The first officer looked back to the second police car and asked if this was the guy -- the second police officer took one look at me, looked back at the guy angrily, and shook his head slowly no in one of the largest looks of contempt I had seen. After that, I was back on my way.

This story brings me back to that moment, but to be honest I have not thought about it since, and now I wonder if I should have done something differently. Should I have resisted? Should I have proclaimed my rights and had them try to arrest me? Was I too meek in allowing them to frisk me briefly? Was there some sort of prejudicial motivation for what happened? Was I wrong to simply forget that moment afterwards, and not attribute to malice?

I have no doubt police target people, due to prejudice of some kind, in many different cities. And I also do not want to in any way dismiss or diminish someone's fear, someones worries, or someone's feeling like they were targeted directly because of their race or ethnicity, their gender, or their beliefs.

But is there a lesson to be learned from this story? Is it a story of a man who felt enormous fear when approached by the police, and how that still reflects the worry many minorities feel in society with regards to the police? Is it a story about how a man was targeted unfairly due to his race, due to prejudice still present in law enforcement? I'm not sure the takeaway from this -- only that a man was stopped on the street, and that he felt pain from that experience. Do I share this pain having gone through something similar? Do I rewrite my own experience and feel pain? Or do I continue as I have -- not attributing to malice until proven otherwise? It's not clear, and I'm not sure how to take this and use it for the better.
Naturally this has already been extensively covered by tvtropes, I present the "Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness" [0]

The author makes some good points about particular types of errors. I would not, however, call them shibboleths, that word generally refers to something quite specific and seemingly arbitrary that an in-group uses to identify itself to others in the know. Also, the idea that sci-fi is not actually sci-fi unless it's hard sci-fi reeks of No True Scotsman. Some of the author's examples were far more egregious than others; I would argue that violating conservation of energy and/or momentum is fundamentally and entirely different to a particular choice of society or political system such as a Megacorporation or Empire, In Space!

[0]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienc...
Project page is here: https://github.com/jnordberg/wsq
Here's the thing: the guy is stopped because he's black, average size and wears a knitted hat during the winter. It's like being stopped because you are white, average size and wear a baseball cap.

Would that ever happen? Very rarely. Would the officer stopping a white guy who fitted a 1/5 description grab for his gun? Of course not.
The saddest part is that this is not a unique story.

Some number of weeks ago, I "fit the description" of a latino male exiting Safeway after having caused some kind of spat in Mountain View. They "identified" the male as having on black shorts and wearing sandals, and some kind of sleeve tattoo if my memory serves.

I am a fairer-skinned black male, I did have on black shorts and Birkinstocks, so close enough I guess. I was over a block away from Safeway, but the cop still felt the need to creep up on me, then bleep his siren, turn around, get out of his SUV and question me.

The cop felt the need to know if - simple Silicon Valley yuppie me, carrying a Starbucks cup from earlier in the day and a fresh bag of Thai food with a receipt dated no more than nine minutes prior - I had gang tattoos and/or affiliations, asked me to roll up my sleeves. He needed to know why my out-of-state drivers license didn't have my current California address (no, I'm dead serious, I guess he couldn't figure it out.)

Of course, I grew up in the deep south so I'm more than used to this, and know how to keep my head on when dealing with a police officer who is holier than thou and is packing the hardware to prove it to you at a twitch's notice. My upbringing taught me that, as a black person, this is what we have to expect from officials, be it police, school officials, any petty tyrant's office job. This is why you don't talk to the cops and you keep your head down when walking - your skin still says enough about you.

However, even after climbing the broken ladder, fighting my way out of abject poverty through stacks of student loans, it was truly disheartening to see it's still true, even here in the land of million dollar homes and self driving cars.

I've felt this man's fear.
Why People Need to Stop Scaring Their Cat with Cucumber – Infossible
How recent was this ? First time I hear that, I wish the medias weren't bubbling so hard in their bubble.
I learned about it reading a long article about the Boston Marathon Bombing in the New Yorker a couple of months after the incident occurred. It shocked me, but when the reporter asked the INS/ICE offices about it they said it was "standard procedure".
> DDOT, citing confidentiality rules in working with construction contractor Dean-
Facchina, declined a public-records request to provide an item-by-item breakdown.

Well, there you have it. The money was stolen by shady construction contractors. The construction industry in the United States - and seemingly only in the United States - is incredibly corrupt.
The Death of Surplus
If You is an illusion, who is perceiving it?
There are at least a couple of comments in this thread accusing the author of lying.
I think it has nothing to do with political side anymore. Just irrational reaction to fear from the public, and over-exploitation of that fear to gain more power from the government.

It's not pretty to watch.

[edit] Fear is irrational by definition, I'm not judging on that, and understand why people are afraid.
I am interested in your question as well, so I did some digging! According to wikipedia's article on Saturn's rings [1], the "main rings" are composed mostly of particles ranging from ~1cm to 10m in size.

Apparently observations of the "F ring" are consistent with particles ranging from microns to centimeters [2]:

"Comparison of optical depth profiles across the F Ring... indicates that centimeter-sized particles are the dominant source of opacity in a core ∼ 1km wide, while the micrometer-sized dust dominates in a much wider “envelope” that extends inward from the core."

The "E ring" seems to be composed predominantly of micron-sized grains, and is presumed to be fed by dust coming from Enceladus [3] [4].

I am not an astroplatentary scientist so I had to look up a map of Saturn's rings [5], apparently the E ring is very diffuse, and F is on the outside of the visible bands.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#C_Ring

[2] - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00191035929...

[3] - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00191035929...

[4] - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/311/5766/1416.short

[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#/media/File:Sa...
> it's difficult to comprehend any of them when taken literally.

"The same crime has a higher price to pay, The judge and jury swear it's not in the face."

"Every February washed away"

"The bell curve blames the baby's DNA, But test scores are how much the parents made"

Not exactly metaphorical. I have no doubt there are people who don't get it. But there are also a million explanations, not only all around the web but also in the comments section itself. But people keep covering up the explanations by asking what the song is about, which I'm sure occasionally happens purely innocently, but in aggregate it's hard to see as anything but a deliberate attempt to silence black people.

Especially once you compare the comments on this song to the comments on, say, Stairway to Heaven, whose lyrics are 10x as 'metaphorical'.

I would say that he perhaps predicts your comment in the song itself:

"Only in the past is what they say [...] Say it publicly, and you're insane"
This would never happen in mainland Europe.
The same thing that stops people driving around with GPS and cell-phone jammers. That is, nothing, apart from the threat of prosecution if caught.

This seems to be a common complaint about new technologies; people claim that somehow anti-social, violent or abnormal behaviour will be a problem merely because it is _possible_.
The problem is that there is no cross-carrier HD voice or VoLTE. If you call someone on another carrier your call quality will be flushed down the toilet.

These idiots refuse to inter-operate. This is why data calling (Facetime audio, Google Hangouts(?), Skype, Whatsapp, etc) is going to crush the cellular industry. It's going to be fragmented and ugly, but at least the call quality won't suck.
Terrorists are terrorists regardless of affiliation. ISIS doesn't have organized operations in the west it just takes credit for lone acts.

By and large its not clear ISIS actually wants people to commit terror attacks in the west since it gets potentially useful recruits killed not fighting for territory in the middle East (note they are big on how you should definitely move to the ISIS territories).
We have AT&T HD Voice here, it's very impressive if you manage to have two people on new iPhones (6 or better).
Hopefully HTML custom elements is the future here, where you can just define new SVG tags like you can HTML tags, and then build up a graphics from reusable components.

There are still a few kinks to work out, like making sure <template> is supported in SVG documents, but once that's working something like SVG + Polymer data binding will be better than D3.
I feel that this is a pretty important part of the story. Here's someone that clearly has real anxiety around exactly this situation and this very agressive move is made almost immediately.

In my opinion, not only is it made to intimidate, but also puts his life in danger. What if he reached for his wallet without warning the police (something I could easily see myself doing)? He may very well catch a bullet before the officer realizes what he's really trying to do.
Why It’s Too Soon to Sour on the Zuckerberg Charity Plan
Wifigen enabling world's first 'Smart Country'
As a DC resident, this project is really ridiculous for a few reasons. First of all, it is no faster than a bus because it still does not have a dedicated right-of-way. It also follows the side of the street instead of the center, so it constantly smashes mirrors of parked cars. Sometimes, people parallel park poorly and completely block the tracks, delaying service until the car can be towed. Buses don't have that problem, obviously.

Finally, it is forecast to make $450,000 in revenue per year on $5.1 million in operating expenses. I realize most transit systems don't make a profit, but that is crazy. You could literally buy every single streetcar rider rides on UberPool for less money.
No. That is wrong.

People are much happier and get along much better with everyone else when they expect tomorrow to be better than yesterday.
Also you can configure your verizon phone to use voLTE and then google voice supports it, so you can get some voLTE benefits (like using data while on the phone) and voLTE to carriers verizon doesn't yet partner with for voLTE
This falls under the category of "how I won the lottery" vs. "how to buy tickets". The former isn't useful, the latter is. You can see an excellent talk about the difference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw
I guess that depends on how you define debate. I'm referring to that the proposal is made and some people show their distaste for part of what is proposed. Those that made the proposal, or support it, respond. This is shown in the article. I see no resistance to the feature being introduced in that, just disagreement on a part of the proposal.
Ask HN: What would you do if money didn't exist?
Hello. Call me Ishmael.
I realize this is a fully appropriate legal response but there's the not-too-subtle component of "who has the power in this particular conversation".

If I am approached by a person, any person, who has a holstered gun and an official looking outfit (or hell, just a holstered gun), the position I'm in is not one of "what am I legally allowed to do", it is one of "a person with a gun wants me to answer a question". A gun is danger signal to most people and the result is compliance regardless of rights. And if you have some place to be, most people figure it's going to take less time to sort out proving their non-involvement in whatever they're being questioned on than getting taken to the station for proper questioning with legal counsel.

On your "I'm a white person and have been stopped by the police several times", I didn't read that the author was particularly angry that the police stopped him because he was black. He was angry because they simply didn't believe him despite his collection of circumstantial evidence that he was not involved.

It was logical that he police questioned him -- he was in proximity and matched the description. Obviously the police weren't similarly grabbing white people off the street in this situation -- that would be idiotic -- the witness said the person was black. I don't think they (the cops) behaved particularly badly in this situation but I don't blame the guy for being completely shaken up.

Being accused, even mildly, by the police is an extremely stressful situation. When I was a kid (yes, I'm a white guy), I was in a parking lot of a strip mall in front of a large chain store that had closed 30 minutes prior to my arrival. My girlfriend and I had just gotten into an argument and were finishing it up in the car before heading to a restaurant next-door and I chose to park in front of the store because I was driving my new car (my first, paid for with my own savings) and didn't want to get a ding from a carelessly handled door on a neighboring vehicle. Twenty minutes into the conclusion of our argument, flashing lights appeared behind my vehicle.

I was questioned, my word was completely disregarded and my girlfriend was put in the awkward situation of having to prove she wasn't a prostitute I had paid for (they took our IDs and asked her what my street address was). Evidently she was too far out of my league for the police officer to believe she was actually my girlfriend! The experience was awful. My anxiety went through the roof (further giving the appearance of guilt) and it was about as embarrassing a situation as I could have found myself in.
No of course not. In fact, him doing so only serves to alienate readers.
Ask HN : Which job has the brightest futur? CRM consultant or BI consultant
Hi guys, I have to chose between a CRM consultant job or a BI consultant job.

Seems like the CRM consultant job offers a better salary than the BI consultant job for a first job, but on the long run, is it better to go for the BI consultant job ?

What do you think is the best choice ? (I just graduated).

I don't know what to do, please bring me some light <3
On the awesomeness of ocaml-bitstring
It's in our nature to simplify things. Even using 2 axes like Political Compass is a simplification.
If you play one of those modern games with he AI assist, like Final Fantasy Sims or StarCraft , are you really playing the game?
"Bearing all these things in mind, why would they investigate him?"

They all look alike?
I'd say you need to distinguish between "laptop" and "laptop with docking station" (or just lots of cables).

I mostly work on my laptop wherever I am -- in office, at a client, at home, on the commute, at user groups, etc. I'm comfortable with using my laptop's keyboard although I do enjoy having additional external screens when they are available.

But I know plenty of people (including non-developers at non-tech companies) who do most of their work at their desk with the laptop plugged into a docking station with external peripherals -- keyboard, mouse and screens -- and only use the laptop on its own for meetings or as part of a BYOD policy.

Desktops are non-portable. Laptops are portable. Tablets are ultra-portable but 1) not powerful enough on their own (good luck relying on a remote desktop with a dodgy Internet connection) and 2) not as comfortable to use for many professions (due to size constraints, even if you have a physical keyboard -- less so if you just need a dumb device to click through PowerPoint presentations).

Laptops are a compromise between a desktop and a tablet. Laptops with docking stations can replace most desktops (except for high performance scenarios -- but for reference my 15.4" laptop has 4 cores, 32 gigs of RAM and an nVidia graphics card; good enough for most things other than bleeding edge AAA gaming).

The benefit of a laptop with docking station over a desktop is portability. Desktops are only really required if you need levels of performance you absolutely can not gain with a laptop or that would make the laptop insufficiently portable (e.g. due to battery life -- I can generally get away with a meagre three hours away from wall outlets but many would prefer a longer battery life over the raw performance).
This. I don't buy the hype that this or that trendy SF coffee roaster has significantly more skills than the next one (although Ritual Roasters and Sightglass are consistently good :-), but in my experience the principal factor driving taste in home brewed coffee is how recently the beans were roasted. With local roasters, you can usually buy something roasted within a couple of days. Anything industrial and it's in the order of weeks, which saps the aromas tremendously, even in the best storage conditions. Unless Starbucks starts roasting locally, they can't compete with that.
Politics, murdered by the Internet
Donald Knuth's 21st Annual Christmas Lecture: Universal Commafree Codes [video]
6 Reasons Why Video Messages Is the New Hot Form of Communication
The OP you're replying to doesn't even go to Starbucks because they offer size choices. Your facts won't change his/her mind.