skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) The analysis here is conducted by a pretty biased source: a former cop
2) his data is fed by news reports which may not evenly cover actual incidents
3) 25% of the data lacks racial info at all
4) The likelihood of biased policing being a factor in higher reported African American crime rates completely undercuts the conclusion he reaches

Put another way: there are at least 2 layers of biases that occured before Mr. Moskos even touched the data.
Adobe lost the trust of it's community when Adobe killed Flash. THE END.
Do you disagree that religion in any form can be used as a force against corruption?

If you work to exclude religion as a whole because some religions or those practicing them have certain beliefs you may find reprehensible, you also exclude other moral and ethical beliefs, peer pressure, and community support that would combat corruption.
Vintage Pay Phone Rescued from the Slag Heap of Obsolete Technologies
Young white people are losing their faith in American Dream
You are moving the goal posts now.

Fabrication of complaints and testimony is, of course, possible, but it's not the same thing, nor is it in the same category of ease for a corrupt state official, as merely planting evidence.

The main benefit of prohibition, from the standpoint of the state, is that planting evidence against anybody is suddenly possible, and in fact in many communities the evidence is already planted.

In this particular case, we happen to have evidence of the former, but it is not evidence that fabrication of complaints and testimony, which require a far more elaborate corruption superstructure, are possible in this community.
Is there any evidence that Amazon's original programming is anything more than a loss leader to sell Prime subs and increase the amount of stuff people buy through Amazon? Loss leaders only work when you have some sort of gain follower to go with it.

(And they DID try this, with Community and Other Space.)
Well, uh, thank you for absorbing my bimonthly spate of jackassery with grace.
Why is Yahoo Japan worth so much?
The most stupid decision was to stop their own search engine based on Hadoop (Yahoo run the largest Hadoop cluster ~ 2009). Nowadays Yahoo could run their own cloud hosting platform, etc.
If that sounds onerous to you, then don't become a publicly traded company.
As a child of the 80s, when the switch from tape to CD did arrive, I remember finding a pregap easter egg on accident. I didn't know what it was at the time or how it got there, but it blew my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregap

"Such hidden tracks can be played by playing the first song and "rewinding" (more accurately, seeking in reverse) until the actual start of the whole CD audio track."
Roseville City School District Embraces Chromebooks, but at What Cost?
Non-anonymous philanthropy is important because it establishes a culture that encourages others to donate as well.
Amazon | AmazonUI (AUI) | Seattle; San Francisco | Onsite | Full-Time

AUI is the Front-end platform being adopted on Amazon.com. We are modernizing the company's front end code base, while diving deep on latency, performance, API design, user experience, and cross browser/device compatibility. Basically, we need people who can build libraries, not just use them.

Our team is incredibly customer-centric. For any given situation, we have to make the right choice on behalf of the folks using our platform -- and we have to do it at scale. That may sound cliche, but within the next hour AUI will be used to generate tens of millions of page views. And that's just in the US. Worldwide, we're used on more than 90% of requests across all device categories.

It's a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of opportunity. For example, we can run experiments that change almost every page on Amazon.com. We can also impact the page load time for the entire site. Have you ever tried to figure out why your site is 6ms slower? We have.
We use these tools (but don't expect you to know all of them): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Perl, Git And to give you an idea of who you will be working with, the folks responsible for this articles are on our team: http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...

If you're interested in senior engineering or technical program manager roles, drop us an email: aui-hn (@) amazon (.) com
Yahoo Finance is the only reason I ever go to Yahoo. I feel like they could beef up their finance news and products and do something with that.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington DC and remote

I'm a software engineer specializing in designing and building stable, scalable consumer-facing websites and refactoring large codebases. Currently, I'm helping clients with dev ops problems like setting up web apps to scale for 10x more traffic, or building analytics pipelines with AWS.

Before that, I was a principal engineer at Vox Media, and worked on some notable projects:

- Simultaneously upgraded their 81k LOC monolith to Ruby 2.1 and Rails 3.2 with no downtime http://product.voxmedia.com/2014/5/29/5759244/vox-media-ruby...

- Built a live blog for The Verge that handles 1.2 million uniques during iPhone events http://product.voxmedia.com/2012/6/15/5426782/introducing-sy...

- Converted all image processing to Thumbor (https://github.com/thumbor), and scaled it to resize 1.3 million images a day

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Golang, Python, AWS, Redis, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Chef, StatsD, Varnish, ElasticSearch, WebPageTest

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Location: Delhi, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Django, Flask, PostgreSQL, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, NLP, ReactJS, AngularJS, MongoDB.

Blog: blog.apcelent.com

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We in our previous avatars have built, payment processing gateways(acquired), ERPs, CRMs, hyperlocal apps, RESTful APIs for banking systems, and much more.

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It is disturbing to know how many web applications simply forgo any sort of strong type enforcement on arguments and variables supplied directly to SQL as raw strings, simply because developers "don't like" or rather can be bothered with the wrestling matches needed, when explaining to non-technical people, the reason why it will take so long to add new features to an already expensive investment of development effort.

Many people out there just simply don't feel like writing prepared statements, entity classes for domain specific problems, or pushing past SQL query strings, and treating a data access layer as more than a scriptable text-based input vector to a glorified command line tool.

For as long as there are SQL databases, so too, there shall be successful SQL injection attacks.
The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing
scroll to the top and click 'web'
It's not decentralized. The directory authorities, which hold the current state of the network, are hard-coded into the client software and trusted by all. They are a central point of failure - if a denial of service attack brought them all down for a suitably long period of time, the Tor network would cease to function.
"Full support for six SQL injection techniques: boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query-based, stacked queries and out-of-band."

Prevented with prepared statements - correct?
Hotspot Shield Elite VPN and Proxy and Patch for Windows, Mac
Do you dismiss that much of the moral and ethics we have today in our society evolved in parallel with religious teachings?

I feel strongly that it is foolish to remove the freedom to practice religion if it promotes moral and ethical behavior. Freedom to believe and have faith in something that helps society shouldn't be dissolved.

That said, I'm all for having additional secular classes in ethics and morality for those that don't want to practice a religion. Freedom goes both ways as long as it doesn't promote values that hurt others.

We need to work together to solve corruption and other problems. Religion is not the enemy of morality, and neither is secular education of morality.
you got me :)
Coders' Rights and Free Speech at Risk in South Africa
Good article. Couldn't find who wrote it since it doesn't have a byline. I'm guessing it was Leland McInnes?
This looks very cool, my only concern is that luajit is lagging behind LUA and is in need of a new maintainer, how bound to luajit is terra for JIT compilation features? Is it something the terra developers are going to help with?
The second lives of Billboards
If you haven't noticed already, you are now aware that the two intertwined wires in the second and third section of that illustration is topologically impossible.

It's a pretty darn good technique though, useful when your wire harness is going through some minor tension. Extensively used during our underwater robot build :)
It's an interesting idea but as someone who owns dozens of their products, I'd love to see them take this a step further: I want to be able to order (for only the cost of shipping) repair parts and fabric for my repairs. For example, my Patagonia roll-aboard luggage is a decade old now and the veteran of hundreds of flights and trips around the world. The burly ripstop nylon is wearing through in spots and you can reach your fingers into the bag through the holes. I can't repair it because of the material thickness--you need a commercial sewing machine. I could take it to one of the local military gear repair places but they don't have matching fabric. What if Patagonia could sell me the long-since-discontinued fabric and replacement parts that I need to do the repairs correctly?
The TPP State of Play: How We Defeat the Largest Trade Deal in History
Agreed. But the Flash community needs to learn that hard lesson that any proprietary tech is bad in the long run, Macromedia may have been a different breed but Adobe just wanted to cash in on Flash and ultimately destroyed it.

And by the way thanks Elop /s Macromedia, Nokia, what a track record...

Ironically projects like Haxe will survive all that Fiasco, unfortunately, there was never a push for an Opensource flash authoring tool that could have replaced Adobe's.
A quick check of Wikipedia says that it's still produced in Thailand and Malaysia and exported to other countries in Asia.

It's just that since most of the Gros Michel plantations in South America and Africa got wiped out, exports to North America and Europe basically shut down.

I too wouldn't mind trying one, for the same reasons... guess it's a solid reason I should visit Southeast Asia at least once before I die.
My dad put in a FOIA request for my grandfather's FBI file back in April and has gotten nothing but a form letter with a case number so far.

The FOIA law requires agencies to ordinarily respond with twenty business days, thirty business days in "unusual circumstances" and longer than that only in "exceptional circumstances".

However, as bad as the FBI's disrespect for the law is, it doesn't hold a candle to the State Department which has been sitting on a FOIA request of mine since July of 2013. Their attitude seems to be that they don't have to comply with duly enacted laws until and unless compelled to do so by a federal judge.
AKA the BLL or Business Logic Layer? I guess the only reason you would re-write business logic in the presentation layer is because you can't afford the extra round-trips, and it's cheaper than writing an aggregation layer on your backend.

But generally wouldn't you just add the APIs into the core microservice to return the requested dataset (at the various necessary "levels" of cardinality) for the various different consumers? Keeps everything in one place.

Then you use nginx lua script to allow a single HTTP request from the client to be dispatched to the various microservices and packaged together in the reply in a singel round-trip. This can be just a few lines of code serving any combination of possible sub-requests. I don't like the idea at all of building another service layer on the backend to do the aggregation and expose a different API... I think you can do something similar in the development branch of HAProxy.
Right - if you're not familiar with either language, then have a look. For me, at least, I could never really wrap my head around some Rubyisms. Python on the other hand, just "made sense" to the way my brain works. I can parse Ruby mentally, it just takes more effort.

If you're familiar with both, and have no clear preference, the question becomes a lot less clear-cut.
Office Papermaking System That Turns Waste Paper into New Paper
My problem is him collecting data on people who aren't even using the service. They collect data on any site with a Facebook button. I don't even use the service and he has my data. I'm not getting any value from his product, so what right does he have to my data?
> 1) The analysis here is conducted by a pretty biased source: a former cop

OK

> 2) his data is fed by news reports which may not evenly cover actual incidents

OK, although I doubt white deaths are reported LESS than black deaths (nothing to support it)

> 3) 25% of the data lacks racial info at all

OK, but this won't affect conclusion that much. Even if all those incidents involve black subject, it won't affect the conclusion.

> 4) the likelihood of biased policing being a factor in higher reported African American crime rates completely undercuts the conclusion he reaches

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...

Of the 12,664 murders 4,077 were cases where offender's race was unknown leaving 8,587. Males were responsible for about 90%. 90% of 8,587= 7,728 US murders we know to be committed by males. White males committed 45.2% of 7,728 murders which = 3,143 murders. Black males committed 52.4% of 7,728 murders which = 4,049 murders. Black males make up 7% of this nation's population with about 19m individuals. White males make up about 28% of this nation's population with about 112m individuals.

Odds of a white man being a murderer: 1 in 35,634.
Odds of a black man being a murderer: 1 in 4,693.

African American male is 9 times more likely to commit homicide. It's very unlikely that biased policing is the cause of 9x homicide conviction rate.
My university has about 60/40 split between women and men, so yea women are the majority by a lot. In our CS department though it is something like 70/30 men to women. I kid you not that I get emails every week discussing the next fundraiser/meeting on promoting women in tech. We even have a "focus on women in technology" committee. And no there is not a single peep about promoting men in any of the other faculties.

For some reason the gender gap in technology is way more important then any other gender gap but no one ever gives a reason as to why.
Wire gigabit cable to all these houses. I wonder what would happen next.
Microsoft has probably burned in that neighborhood to get Bing to where it is now, they probably would have been better off if they had been able to close that $45b deal.
Yeah, some offshoots of social justice have metastized into fascism. Who gets to decide what censorship will take place in the name of this justice?
Bizarre Illuminati Cards Predict Paris Massacre? All-Seeing Eye on Eiffel Tower
> You are moving the goal posts now.

I absolutely am not.

Officials shut down a police IA investigation into the years-long scheme. The folks who were complicit in this scheme SHUT DOWN an active investigation into the scheme.

Why on earth do you think that fabrication of (or paid production of) testimony wouldn't be possible?

An internal investigation was shut down by those involved in the conspiracy!
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what Boom 2 does.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boom-2-best-audio-enhancemen...

Note their reference in the description to an 'optional component' that enables system-wide effects.
Because Yahoo Japan is pretty popular in Japan, and they offer a lot of relatively successful services.

Not that it's ginormous, but for example, eBay never really happened in Japan because Yahoo Auctions was already a thing.

Yahoo Japan also runs an ISP
Jwt auth, RESTful api server starter
SD Card Reader not working in Windows 10
Mindfullness
Revenue for the fiscal year ending 3/31/2015 was ~$3.5 billion; EBIDTA $1.8 billion. 70% attributable to advertising. Like most large Japanese Internet companies they have a bit of an empire building complex going on, and do everything from running the local equivalent of eBay to selling ISP service.
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the
treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister
in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any
public duty to pay more than the law demands."

-- Judge Learned Hand
(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
Not clear why I'm getting the downvote here. Is it because I didn't cite a source for the line around hiring practices?

[1] http://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-police-departments-re...
So your quote is incredibly depressing then. At least that's cleared up. You do know that there are still artists in the world right? And some of them have even heard of Silicon Valley and startups?
Care to actually list that? I find that incredibly hard to believe. While there may be a list of 5-10 features that meet the criteria, seems like most OS releases have hundreds of improvements here & there.

All of Apple is just sitting around waiting for jail breakers to innovate for them, no one has any ideas about what to do with their time.

Don't even get me started on hardware! Incorporating all that stuff Samsung & Dell or whoever is doing.
> Deliberately not having trigger warnings is deliberately deceptive.

facepalm
I get the "negative image" of Flash thing. But it's a dumb decision from a marketing stand point. Customers want stable tools , not EOL'ed tools like Flash IDE (soon) or Adobe Edge Animate which has just been discontinued. The trust is broken and selling is about trust.

It means that Adobe doesn't really believe in all these products. I took part in a new Director Beta 2/3 years ago but the product was never released.

Adobe just don't know what the hell they are doing, people should be really careful about using any web authoring tool from them.

At the same time it creates a good market opportunity for small vendors, I hope some cease this opportunity.
> others just want to have whatever is in fashion that year or more modern that year

Sounds like a problem with people and not with the apparel companies, no?

I understand what you're saying about quality, durable clothing, it's the main thing I consider when occasionally buying new clothes (easy to check by tugging at the seams, looking for loose threads/inconsistent stitching). But ultimately it's up to people to choose that. Then, in theory, apparel companies would follow the market demand.

Unfortunately, shirts like H&M's are so cheap that it's just as easy to buy new ones every year when they fall apart.
great;)
Right, that's why I said the only thing I use is the Netflix app. Substitute with Hulu, iTunes, Amazon Prime (err, well, not that one), etc. for the service that you use.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659979
In the end, the only thing anyone has to give is their time.

How many billions of hours are spent daily on Facebook? His fortune is won on the backs of those poor fools.

It ain't gonna happen, but shutting down Facebook now would be a greater philanthropic act. (Yea and obviously OtherFacebook would come online.)
Is it not trivial to simply change the process name, one or two lines at most in code? I'm trying to think about the logistics of running something like this and unless the process name is something like ./sshbruteforce 293849 ..
Perhaps billionaires will spend their money more efficiently.

But they'll spend less of it on the public good.

The government may be less efficient (also, citation needed there, as I don't buy that at face value), but even if it is it has access to WAY more funds.

Sure, we have some nice billionaires like Zuckerberg and Gates who give their money away, but if you required all the billionaires to give up some money, you'd have a much larger pool to work with. So efficiency isn't the only part of this argument. There is also volume.
I don't even think of this as hindsight. At the time of the offer, everyone I knew at Yahoo was incredulous, because the org seemed so dysfunctional.

It felt like there were a few years lost, spent just injecting and removing tiers of middle managers.
> Are you an American? Well sir, your butt is full and you're keeping it all to yourself.

Quite a few Americans live payday to payday. Some work many part time jobs to make ends meet. Do they in absolute dollar terms make more than someone in Africa? Yeah they do. Does it help them if they still can't pay rent? Is that supposed to make them feel better that they make more dollars per month than someone in Burkina Faso?

What do you suggest that they somehow go live in Africa, and commute to US, then share the extra wealth for the betterment of mankind.

> "How hard is it?" You tell me.

Pretty darn hard.

Here is some sauce, because someone will ask for it anyway:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/census-data-half-of-us-poor-or-l...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21636723
How Dave Chappelle Is Creating a “No-Phone Zone” for His Chicago Shows
> and not welcome near me

Are you saying you believe that another person can only be near you because you give them implicit permission to? And that at any time, and for any reason, you could remove that permission?

Where did you get that idea?
Why isn't Haskell, or any other functional language, popular for this sort of thing? Turning A into B is what FP excels at, and you shouldn't have to reason about side effects, besides writing the graph images somewhere.

From what I've heard from a friend of using other people's code in one particular scientific field (stringly type some of the things, probably accidentally, don't document this), an at-least-passable type system would be a huge improvement.
GP wasn't determining where someone donates their money. GP was pointing out that putting the Koch brothers in that comparison is ridiculous given their net worth.
It's interesting that they are talking about the Board directly and not Marissa Mayer. Is it common for the press to do so ? Isn't the CEO like the spoke-person of the board of investors ? Why would the board side step the CEO that way in the media ?
It is unfortunate that we cannot accept the kindness and generosity from those who have been blessed with wealth and whom wishes to share it with others. Rather we ridicule them and surmise that they have some hidden agenda behind their desire to share.
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Here are the documents referred to as evidence in case the site goes down:

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144475/dothan-police-depar...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144476/dothan-police-depar...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144477/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144479/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144480/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144481/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144482/dothan-police-chief...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144490/dothan-police-offic...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144478/dothan-police-dept-...

https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/144483/dothan-police-chief...
That quote is annoying to spam in general, more so when it isn't even relevant.
If your eminence would please bless us with the knowledge of the correct and appropriate percentage of net worth to donate to charity, we would be eternally grateful.