skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an American who's had very mixed experiences with the police.

I've had police give me arbitrary orders. I've had police in a state of ever-escalating anger while I'm being completely cooperative and saying not much more than "Yes sir, no sir!" I've had police rant and rave at me outside my car window. I've had police bury incidents of threats and physical intimidation against me as a favor to their friends. I've had police tell me bald-faced lies about the District Attorney's office that the District Attorney told me were complete fabrications.

I've also had very good interactions with the police.

I'm an Ivy League graduate and have often been a highly paid professional -- which was my status for most of the above interactions with the police. I have no police record of any kind. I am rather small in stature and have a meek personal demeanor and a clean cut appearance. I am, however, not "white." My interactions with the police have been astonishingly varied.
Atlassian was founded in 2002. An experienced developer, with a salary of A$140000 per year in 2015 dollars, who've worked there since 2005 for 10 years, will have received A$1.4m in 2015 dollars in salary. Add the $200k payout and it adds up to A$1.6m.

Atlassian is valued at A$8b, that is roughly $8m per employee.

Collecting only A$1.6m out of A$8m total value per employee isn't spectacular, but it isn't as bad as the nominal $200k payout makes it out to be. If you were working on a full time basis, you never had to fund the business on your credit card, and even if Atlassian went bankrupt the day before the IPO and plunged to $0 in value, you still got to keep A$1.4m of the A$1.6m.

You got to become a millionaire if you saved and invested well, while minting a billionaire. Sure, it's not a good a deal as being a founder of a IPO'ed billion dollar startup, it's not exactly a bad deal either.
I tried to do some digging to find easy to access (both through the web, but also not terribly complicated) references on error bounds for kernels interpolation. I don't think there is one ... although the internet will surely correct me if I'm wrong.

The original source that I often return to (even before I look in my book) is Wendland's 2005 book "Scattered Data Approximation". But that book is really tough to read, even for me. Lots of tough math. Fasshauer's 2007 book "Meshfree Approximation Methods in Matlab" is much easier to read, but references Wendland's book for most of the heavy lifting.

There is a newer branch of study on convergence dealing with what are called "sampling inequalities". In many ways, the math behind these is even worse as it usually requires a bunch of polynomial theory, but the results are more easily accessible. In particular, Christian Rieger and Barbara Wolmuth have outstanding content on this which is readily available on the web. In particular, I was able to find Christian's PhD thesis (https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/binary/JOWXLCGSV...) which provides a good journey from the start to actual results.

Sorry I can't provide a cleaner statement about this. Maybe the most basic point I can make about convergence here would be to reference the early part of Christian's thesis where he alludes to the theorem that says the quality of an interpolant sort of looks like:

error of interpolant = O(h^{k-d})

That is a gross simplification, but gives the gist of the result. h is the "fill distance" (or grid width for structured data) k is the smoothness of the kernel and d is the dimension of the data. This indicates why smooth kernels (large k) are needed to get the convergence for high d.
The great challenge is proving something is notable. If contested it can be an uphill struggle, because journalists don't talk about obscure things much.
I don't understand why you were enraged. The editor who spoke with you made it very clear what was needed to prove notability (reliable secondary sources) and politely explained things to you while linking to official policy. I'd hardly call them privileged. It'd be another story if they said something like "I don't want this article on my encyclopedia"; he even recommended using the IBM DeveloperWorks link. The tag that was on the article is merely a signal to editors that the article needs better sourcing. To be deleted, it'd need to be nominated, where it would need to be proven that the topic is non-notable, so the system actually works in favor of keeping articles that are actually notable. It might seem like the rules are arbitrary or wielded by wikilawyers but if you read them they're not that bad. I don't agree with all of them, but "when in Rome..."
I'm a fan of this video that tears down lousy police training during a tough encounter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4VeHOkt_o8

I believe they have others, too. Our cops are simply not trained for de-escalation and disarming like they should be.
I Play Random Games: CS GO Comp, Call of Duty: Advance Warfare and Minecraft
No, completely different ;-)

Episode that impressed my wife basically showed a women stop having diabetes 2 a few weeks after being put on a no-carb (well, no sugar and no high-glycemic carbs, but meat, fruit and veg) diet.
> ...the top cities excluding Nara are all in greater Tokyo.

Oh. You meant "The Tokyo Metropolitan Area", rather than Tokyo. Gotcha. :)

> Your calculations are median / max / average of averages.

Mmhmm. Given that that's the only data we have to work with, I don't see the problem with it (other than the violence it should have done to the phrasing in my previous comment). I'd rather have the more detailed data, but alas.

> ...and we know 3% is > 2 hours (for all of Japan, not Tokyo).

How do we know that? The data that my 3% came from was -apparently- from Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, or Saitama respondents.

> There's near the same percentage of LGBT adults in the US (~4%).

1) If that's L, G, B, and T adults in the US, I don't believe that number for a second. That stat has to suffer from under-reporting.

2) I would absolutely say that a property shared by only 4% of a population is not common.

> All we're arguing over is the use of the word normal. Would you be happier with "uncommon but not an extreme outlier"?

Based on the data, a 120+ minute commute appears to be rather uncommon. I'm uncomfortable about speaking about the nature of the outliers without knowing more about the individual points in the data set. That last bucket is potentially a very large one; who knows what its contents look like? [0]

"Normal" is... not the best term to use when trying to speak precisely.

If I have a system that only fails in a particular way 3% of the time, I could reasonably say "That failure mode is not normal.". On the other hand, if I know that it fails in that particular way 3% of the time, I can reasonably say, "Oh, that's infrequent, but normal behavior of the system.".

See the problem?

[0] I mean, obviously, we could have a few reasonably good guesses at its highest possible upper bound, but other than that...
If our founding team includes an Army vet AND an international founder.. which one should we apply for?
What's wrong with the Almond? Mine works fine.
Are there any standalone tools that can be used to capture the meta-information about cell towers?

It seems like it would be really useful to crowdsource known towers, their identities and strengths, so that simulators can be singled out.
Humans take note: Artificial intelligence just got a lot smarter
It's true. In both advanced individual training (the job specific one that follows the famous "basic training") and before deploying to Afghanistan, I underwent a good amount of tactical and combat training. In both situations we were not only taught proper protocols for "escalation of force" and "rules of engagement" but also threatened with doom if we didn't follow them.

It varies on many factors, but generally before pulling the trigger you have to visually identify a threat, yell a verbal warning, show your weapon as a warning, fire a warning shot, aim at the threat and repeat the verbal warning, then fire if necessary.

Obviously this doesn't apply to full-combat situations, but for instances of the type that our domestic police force encounter, it most certainly would. It's so ingrained that I always wonder how we have so many occurrences of police shootings.

Sad situation, especially because (imho) the vast majority of police are amazing, selfless, community minded heroes, whose profession is besmirched by these brutal thugs who share their uniform.
I'm tired of being lectured on guns by people who have concealed carry permits and armed security. Sulzberger from the NY Times is another - he has the paper in full-throated support for gun control while at the same time he has a concealed carry permit hardly anyone in NYC can get.
Speaking as a hardware engineer, I can't see it being more expensive to pay a breakup fee than to ship a product. Shippings products of that scale takes many people across many different organizations working together. There is a lot of pressure involved and many late nights. Hardware projects gets canceled all the time. People on the team would rather it get canceled than do all the extra work to see it ship and not sell. No one wants to work on a dud.
I hope that Bernie wins, and that will help at least as a first step toward change.
> to make a similar 32-in-64 kind of mode worthwhile

Yeah, I kinda doubt AARCH64 is that much better.
I can send you one if you email me (my email is in my profile).
You don't select a Raspberry Pi for it's speed. This is like advertising a bigger Mini.
Are you white? There's your answer. Not even joking.
If the problem reported is real and affects many users, then I don't see how refusing to fix it because the person who actually reported it is an ass is reasonable. You are essentially suggesting that all users who experience the problem be punished because the one who reported it is a jerk.
>>> FBI director James Comey has called on tech companies to stop "by defaut" end-to-end encryption -- so that the FBI can monitor communications again.

Note the "by default". That suggests the FBI isn't interested in spying on smart people. They only want to go after the dolts who cannot be bothered to enable encryption. Mr Comey obviously doesn't think much of his adversaries if he assumes they won't bother trying to hide.

Either that, or they want to spy on the population generally for purposes other than the prevention of crime. Which is it? Does be believe terrorists are not tech savvy, or does he not care about clever terrorists and instead wants to monitor the plebs? I doubt he has any coherent answer beyond beyond 'More data = good'.
Wrote a script to help manage linkrot on my blog:
https://github.com/kaihendry/linkrot

Number of issues: People who squat pages & accounting for temporary failures.
Nope. TouchID doesn't work with a dead finger. Has to be alive.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/why-a-disembodied-finger-...
Apple blocks 3rd party apps from using NFC. It's literally only usable in Apple Pay. Walmart can't implement it in an iOS app even if they wanted to.
A good measure of any of the techniques are the results. We see record object recognition and speech recognition results. How many of these results are from Numenta or IBM neomorphic chips? Most successes have been on deep learning architectures over GPUs (and large datasets). While these fancy architectures may have their applications, they have nothing to do with recent advancements in last 3 years.
Of course they're not worthless when you're submitting them in good faith with due diligence in troubleshooting/replicating steps. I <3 users, whether they write code or not that submit good bug reports and are willing to work with me to replicate/fix the issue. One does not need to be a developer to write a good bug report.

I volunteer a few days every month to triage bug reports at my developer job just to keep up my troubleshooting skills. I could probably not do this as a technical/team lead, but everyone on my team does, so I wouldn't make them do anything I wouldn't do. I like problem solving as well, so it can be fun trying to hunt down some obscure bug buried in a service that only manifests itself when the moons align in the customer environment.

Seeing some of the difficult customers our support staff have to pull information out of I have a ton of respect for those that organize bug reports in a coherent manner that shows they really care. Those that do, I go out of my way to help make their jobs easier (building them tools, simple scripting training, etc) and they pay it back by helping my development team.
That looks fantastic! I love what you've done with the UI. We do use Pygments, yep, same as you, looks like :)

I don't think I'd have started Pastery if I'd seen Ghostbin, as I was looking for a pastebin that wasn't ugly, and I hadn't found any that qualified.

Have you had any abuse problems at all?
Drone Giant DJI Teaming With FLIR On Aerial Thermal Imaging Camera
Of note, Roxelana was originally a sex slave, of the sort ISIL is noted for today: born a Christian, she was captured by Crimean Tatars and added to the sultan's harem. It was only when he fell in love with her that he freed and married her.
I have never seen the emdash overused this badly.
You're absolutely correct that they original complaint was just "we won't negotiate."

The real problem here is that the Republican Party is now infested with people like you, people who casually frame non-Republicans as "the enemy" and think that it's perfectly reasonable to "never let your enemy score a point".

That's disgusting and immoral. Exactly what I'd expect from the sort of person who says the federal government should be small... but that the government should also enforce the laws of your religion and should make life miserable for homosexuals.

You're a lousy human being, and you belong to a lousy party. A party that has done everything it can to make the US a lousy country.

Congratulations on supporting the downfall of America.
See https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications...

But Android only, it seems.

> iOS neither exposes high-level nor low-level baseband information (e.g. cell info) to applications through the official and public API.
Online Dockerfile lint
> It's not 5/7ths...

I know. That's why I said:

"Don't give up half of 5/7ths of your leisure time..."

> Also, define richly.

For the purposes of that analysis, I can only define it for myself.

My "richly" is probably not going to be the same as someone else's "richly". What's more, as we age its definition is very much likely to change.

One thing's for certain: a "lost wage" analysis is probably going to grossly underestimate the value of the lost time for a lot of people.
Nationalism doesn't lead to wars, massacres and other oppression and brutality. That's tribalism leading to that. Tribalism is one of those built in human behaviors we have that we can't get rid of. People have tried with globalism, with cultural marxism, with communism. The pendulum always swings back toward tribalism because genetics is a powerful force. Nations are the people, not the dirt, as is pretty obvious to see after 3 decades of mass immigration.

If you want real danger, you should want to curb and reverse the mass immigration we're still seeing. History is very clear on this point; if immigration continues unabated, eventually the immigrants will become targets. Hopefully it's just expulsion that they're targeted for, but genocide isn't unheard of in these situations.
In 1924, William Faulkner quit his job as a postal worker, saying "I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp". With regards to FLOSS, people don't even have to invest the two cents. Which highlights the rudeness of some people - they rudely demand that people who donate their free time to help people, donate even more of their time to fix a problem.

While this is unfortunate, as Faulkner noted, it's not unique to FLOSS. Anyone who is in a position where they regularly interact with the public is going to run into rude people and crazies now and again.
I lived in London. Across the street lived a guy dealing drugs from his window. Like a drive through. This was in a nice area in Zone 1.

Due to the noise created two or three times a week by junkies who sat down there and got high, I called the police. About once a week around 2 or 3 AM for a few months. I took pictures documenting all the action and gave them to the police. When the police arrived in time to find the screaming drug addicts outside my window, they were just as you describe: incredibly polite, and ineffective. They would ask some questions then leave.

Please think about it from the perspective of the people whose sleep is disrupted night after night after night by substance abusers screaming and drunk people carousing, before we celebrate the kind and gentle bobby.
If so, I guess this would be a fantastic machine for running Linux ARM.
Interestingly, this also goes toward explaining the attitude of many south-eastern European countries toward the current immigration waves.

Most countries in the Balkans (not just Slovenia) have fought the Turks for extended periods of time. For example, in Romania, Stephen the Great had a habit of celebrating victories over the Ottomans by building new churches and monasteries [1]. These still form the country's landmarks and pilgrimage points today, and Stephen is a celebrated hero.

Basically many nations have linked their national identities to resisting waves of the "Musulman". It's hard to rewrite peoples' roots and archetypes at the strike of a politician's pen now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_churches_established_b...
Been looking for something like this for a while, thanks!
Hastily designed for version 0.0.1, this is simply not the case if you are using modern EMCAScript
> Perhaps we have good cops over here in Washington?

My first year in college (in WA), campus police (actual po-lice with a campus jurisdiction) conducted a coordinated raid on pot dealers in the dorms which they treated like a raid on a meth lab : guns drawn, doors kicked in, loud noises, innocent bystanders thrown to the ground, etc.

Obviously, this isn't analogous to a party - and cops do in fact have a SOP they follow when it comes to drug raids - but I still feel like it was handled in an unnecessarily heavy handed and tone-deaf way that's somewhat symptomatic of a larger problem.
> We've already gotten a few dozen upgrades today, which is really exciting and lets me confidently say things like "we will never sell your data".

This wording makes it seem like that data sale starts as soon as your revenue stops making you happy
For the user, the benefit is privacy and MITM protection. Hopefully, eventually browser chrome will explicitly mark non https sites as unsafe (like a red bar at the url).
Probably the book by Nakahara is most people's first stop.
ISRO will launch its own version of GPS
Yes, it is an issue. And worse, the web has become something so important that you can't just outright deny all access to it. Yet it is still akin to dropping your child off on the wrong side of town unattended and simply "hoping for the best".

The old saying used to just be "have the family computer in a public room (living room,ect) and don't allow private access". But with every phone, tv, game console, alarm clock, whatever, all having their own web browsers, the only way to truly filter is from the single source of the ISP connection.

7 years ago I had an idea to make web filtering routers and ethernet bridges. But even then it was becoming too hard to reliably do. And I didn't want to market something for family protection that I couldn't 100% reliably guarantee works.

And most recently, a somewhat home constrained neighbor that lived by me wanted me to secure his internet "the way mine is". He was tired of fighting porn addictions. I set him up the best I could, but within a year I had gotten word that he had convinced another friend/relative to buy him a smart phone with unlimited internet access...
We have too many murderers and abettors of murderers, and too few virtuous people in the ranks of the guards... the major concept suppressed is the idea that the guards are servants of the people rather than oppressors.
I wasn't really being serious. But in practice such liveness sensors are incredibly easy to defeat.
Data is the oil of the 21st century.

This one seems like the sleeping giant of the top venture-backed companies. I suppose the media can't as easily describe and talk about it and understand it as much as Uber or AirBnb, so they just move on to the more fun companies.
Does it matter when only a fraction of levelized cost is the cell?
The same backdoor will be exploited by other countries and hackers. There's no such thing as a safe backdoor.
Views obviously differ. Both the authors (1) have very senior positions at the Sonnenburg Lab in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University, so I'd be quite surprised if the book is as bad as you claim.

Also, Amazon reviewers have given it 4.7 stars out of 5, which suggests quite a few people found it useful.

(1) Justin L. Sonnenburg. Principal Investigator, and Erica D. Sonnenburg. Senior Research Scientist.
Interface{} (not interfaces as a whole) and subtyping would make compiling slower. I think sum types and pattern matching would compile faster and be more sensible.
Bayesian Program Learning model for one-shot learning
Friends who like Trump (redirects to Facebook)
I'm pretty sure that police are in most first world countries too.

The US confuses me a lot. Is it the presence of guns that makes them train like that, or just bad policy?
I was watching a video, where the YouTuber, who is a cop, was trying out a video-wall computerized training tool for police. One thing that disturbed me was that the simulator was supposed to help police know when to deploy their firearm. However, every single scenario required the use of lethal force. The only question was when to use lethal force.
It exists: http://opencellid.org
Amazon Prime Now Offers One-Hour Delivery of Beer, Wine and Spirits in Manhattan
Welcome to customer support at every organization everywhere. Many people who are have problems with your project (whether it be a paid or free product) are jerks about it. Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong, but it's going to have no effect on their attitude.
Wipe android phone via outlook
I was stupid wiped my phone via outlook, I still have the phone, everytime i install outlook again it wipes it again, how can I turn the "wipe" off

thank you for your help
It's more than 20 minutes including preparation and travel time.
Awesome!

Noisy environments are exactly when seeing the lips is a huge deal for me. I have a friend who has a tendency to absent-mindedly place his hand in front of his mouth. In a quiet office or home, no issue. In a bar? He pressed mute, as far as I'm concerned.
It's even worse than you think. The last wars we had about Christian vs. Muslim were in the 90's and led to NATO bombing the hell out of the Balkans.

People are still sore about that. I have friends who remember hiding from NATO bombs.
Differential geometry starts getting important once you hit General Relativity, and any good GR text will cover it thoroughly.
Rwanda's 'most wanted man' arrested by Interpol over 1994 genocide
As much as I like the idea behind Timber, I'd not recommend using it for a production site. It has some current security issues that the devs seem to both not understand AND to not be much concerned with (a frightening combination). Don't want to get too specific, but searching their github issues for reports on the usual suspects (SQL injection, etc) should show you all you need you know.

With the coming of WordPress REST, I'm hopeful that a group more secure minded starts working on WP templates.