skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"won at an international contest for justice-related initiatives, organised by a think-tank in the Netherlands."

I hope the think-tank is aware that the Dutch police currently employs Stasi methods that are worse than anything that happens in the U.S.:

http://vorige.nrc.nl/opinie/article1838531.ece

Be aware that the NRC is a conservative newspaper and most definitely not a tabloid.

And this isn't happening to "suspected terrorists" only ...
the flag link should have turned to "unflag"
I think it's within the realm of possibility to tally or at least estimate the number of interactions (or perhaps just arrests) per jurisdiction. That gives you an easy way to see how widespread the problem is. It'll probably become clear that there are certain problem officers and patterns will emerge.

In the end it will be about trust. Previously the cops were given the benefit of the doubt; now that perception is changing. Police will have to do a better job of customer service to change that.
It makes no sense to talk about the economic value of goods that are not on sale, like the air you breathe. You remember, the item you claimed it's worthless?
Credit cards aren't the only way to pay on the internet, and also not the best way, as long as you have a working banking system.

In Germany for instance credit card ownership rates are fairly low, still Amazon is doing really well using direct debit.
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I bought the model with Ubuntu preinstalled to ensure it would "just work". It does.
fooled by randomness is his finest. black swan's a rehash for money.
I don't recommend pursuing this unless you have many years to study diligently. My email is in my profile if you have any specific questions: I can recommend a path to take depending on what your goals are and give you a realistic timeline.
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Nice to know.

I used it for a project before the drama and switched to vert.x after it.
Nice!

Maybe I am missing something, but I am not seeing a way to dig into a given database's structure without cumbersomely querying the pg_catalog. Noticeably absent are \dt and such vs running stuff like

SELECT n.nspname as "Schema",
c.relname as "Name",
CASE c.relkind WHEN 'r' THEN 'table' WHEN 'v' THEN 'view' WHEN 'i' THEN 'index' WHEN 'S' THEN 'sequence' WHEN 's' THEN 'special' WHEN 'f' THEN 'foreign table' END as "Type",
pg_catalog.pg_get_userbyid(c.relowner) as "Owner"
FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
WHERE c.relkind IN ('r','')
AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'
AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
AND pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)
ORDER BY 1,2;

Database Info from the menu seems to be similar to \d and a few others, but it's for the whole database and not a specific schema.

Still, I will keep playing with this and see how it goes.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5467865
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If you really do mean "flag" then it should have turned to "unflag" and you can just click it again.

If you mean the down-arrow, there is no undo.
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I assure you that in my example the problem is totally random - it is my example after all :). In the US it's probably less so. Institutional issues one can deal with, but what to do about "personal biases of the individuals involved (conscious or subconscious)"? We can try to minimize it, but one has to accept that it'll hit diminishing returns after some time.

But my point was about 'rrmm wrote - that "Getting everyone to admit a problem exists and getting our heads around how frequently it occurs is the first step towards resolving it.". It's true, but you have to be 100% totally damn sure that there is a problem in a first place and that you're not inventing it - because in both cases there will be a problem after media get involved.
WW3+USA+2+BRING+PEACE+2+SYRIA+?AFTER+STARTING+CIVIL+WAR+WITH+UK+-+YouTube
Don't you think you should also include crime rate in this analysis?

And split it by areas. I don't think anyone would find if suspicious that cops kill more people in crime-infested poor neighborhood with constant gang violence than in a high-middle class London suburb.
Then wouldn't capturing it and feeding it back into the same reservoir solve the problem? At least temporarily?
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Dallas's startup community has grown so much in the last year. The amount of investments that come from Dallas Investors and outside has grown much. I do believe that Dallas is not that far behind Austin in that respect.

One thing that Dallas has been known for is large corporations. We have some of the giants here. (AT&T, TI, American Airlines, HP, Exxon, etc.). In regards to the talent here, we have a lot, however much of it, at this time, is skill sets that corporations look for mostly(Java, .Net, etc.), not necessarily startups. As an employer here I can tell you after trying to hire some front end devs a year ago and then recently, a year ago, it was hard to find many good devs that knew much about creating single page apps (specifically React), however as a few months ago, we were flooded with people who had worked with it. So, I see that as positive. We have many smart people here, and combined with the fastest growing economy and business environment in the US, Dallas is a super attractive place to start a company.

Note: I consider a startup a small-business, or any company that can attract customers from larger/older companies with new/better/improved/simplified products/services. I know many people only consider the "unicorns". But I'll take our vast number of small businesses and "start-ups" over a couple of unicorns any day.

Also to note: I've seen many people moving here from Austin, including their small business/start-up, recently. This is not statistical or any evidence of anything, just an observation.
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It's intellectually dishonest and detracts enormously from the quality of the article. You can see the author taking her unique experience and awkwardly shoving it into some familiar narrative.

I'm also skeptical that her thoughts and emotions while eye-gazing (with a man she has a crush on) were entirely about how round eyeballs generally are, based on the other reports of eye-gazing I've heard (including one firsthand from an acquaintance). I'm guessing the author is either out of touch with her emotions or is applying the same politically-correct white-washing here as she did to her conclusion.
And no sense of humor either.
I think it's great articles like that get posted here - it's a window to employment conditions that techies would never accept. It's a good reminder of privilege.
Disagree. It is hard to maintain codebase and consistent infrastructure setup for multiple providers. Amazon's m3.medium != some vendor's m3.medium. Network setup and configuration are also nightmare. Speaking from experience dealing with four cloud vendors at once. It sounds great from a textbook perspective, but unless you are ready to spend millions every year to fight fire, please don't do that. If you were to use AWS, please build on multiple regions.
> [If] you have to decide on a degree, would you go to do factory-related work, knowing that companies are moving oversees as soon as they can

This is a case of which came first: the chicken or the egg? One industry that seems to have rebounded significantly is computer science. In 2003, after the bubble burst, few were pursuing CS. A huge insatiable demand followed afterwards mostly from the emergence of Google, and people started pursuing CS in hordes once again. And today, companies still have an insatiable appetite, and pursuit of employees has encouraged companies to go abroad once more.

In your argument of subsidization, cheap labor, laxed regulation being the culprits of job loss, you are ignoring the friction of traveling abroad and the loss of legal power that comes with outsourcing. There are many advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing. The end result once it all sums up is you get a different product, and a different business. These are not easy things to accept, no matter how much money you save.

And as for your suggestion of a solution, current events have thought me that you swing your strengths in ways where the enemy longs for what you and ignores the advantages they have. Industrial China makes us feel we are weak because our costs are high. And China feels weak because we have the knowledge and technicality to achieve more than what they have. Let's stick to what makes us unique and swing that strength in ways that others feel weak.
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It can be spelt both ways. You can even spell it Agnieszka or Agniezka :)
I use Papers too. I've set it up so that all my loaded papers are automatically re-saved in a structured library as plain PDFs /Category/Year-Author-Title.pdf. That library folder is on my Dropbox. So I can access it anywhere else without Papers installed.
Considering I work for the biggest hospital chain in the world, I just had to seek new employment because they closed our 'division' down without notice. Security is an illusion, or temporary at best.

Risk is real. And it resides in all places of employment. You have to hedge your bets.
"Oh, that's fine, nobody cares about your name here anyway; we just need your barcode – that's all."
I am not sure there is a magic way to mitigate these attacks permanently other than playing cat and mouse until the attacker gets tired. Linode has in fact mitigated the attacks, only to find them pointing to a different part of their infra or DCs. At this point, it is probably a good sign that they haven't gone completely down (for long). Current tooling and botnets make DDoS-ing fairly easy today, despite countermeasures.
The size off this endeavour is starting to consume more effort than is sustainable, not only for most peoples wallets, but also for the planet generally.

This is a common misconception, and only really is a "problem" in the initial distribution phase of the currency. Economically, all other things being equal, the cost of electricity spent on mining will approximately equal the mining reward.

The mining reward is approximately equal to (Fees + 50/(2^(floor(Years/4)))), where Years is the number of years since the network's inception. As time passes and the block reward drops off, the security of the network (equivalently, the amount of energy spent on mining) will approach the transaction fees paid for the use of the network.
I closed my paypal account after reading this. The gist is that the author had his account compromised and after warning paypal about this, had it compromised immediately again. It turned out you don't even need a password to get into accounts.

There's no excuse for a multi billion $ company to be this lax on security today.
If the DoS is large enough there is little they can do if their downstream is 100% saturated. They would either need more capacity or for their upstream providers to filter the attack for them.
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Thank you for the coherent and quantitative analysis. The original article is an example of the rampant & incoherent innumeracy that dominates reporting on quantitative issues.
Yeah, there are a lot of VRML replacements coming out right now. X3D[0] is the official VRML 2.0, but I believe it requires a plugin (well, there is a THREE.js importer, but at that point you really should be using glTF[1] or THREE.js's own JSON format). There is GLAM by Tony Parisi[2], who actually did a lot of work on the original VRML. And very recently, Mozilla released A-Frame[3], which is trying to also build an ecosystem of reusable Web Components. All interesting in their own right. I think A-Frame has the best chance of succeeding, in that it has the most high-profile backing right now.

That said, they're all pretty low level. I specifically do not want users doing wholesale scene design in a hand-written script format. For the work I want to do, that's what a 3D modeling package like Blender is for, and as hard was Blender is to use, it's a lot easier to get a non-trivial scene working with it than hand-writing XML code. My Live-Editable 3D Environment demo is more of a stop-gap for a much more drag-and-drop experience I'm planning for the future.

The goal (and I'm certainly not there yet, but I've been making pretty fast progress) is to make something more akin to a Window Manager for VR. In the same way that DWM on Windows or X on Unix provide a higher level of abstraction for GUI elements beyond raw graphics primitives, I want to be able to provide a set of GUI elements that are useful for adapting HTML forms in VR. With Primrose, you shouldn't have to model a button that a user can click unless you have a specific need to completely redesign a button. There should be a button already that you can place on your scene/form with the same ease you would an HTML button in the DOM.

Long-story short, I'm trying to make the VB6 of WebVR.

[0] http://www.web3d.org/

[1] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

[2] http://tparisi.github.io/glam/

[3] https://aframe.io/
Agreed with most comments in this article except for the ecological comment. A good perspective where the author is just pointing out need for improvement in certain areas.
> most of the time they are spending someone else's money, also. you should see some of the deals that have come across my desk. the 'big names' can literally charge 2-5x more than a competitive quote and get away with it, oftentimes with worse deliverables (i.e. long stretches of downtime that somehow get a pass from their customers).

Even AWS can charge you big time. As I am getting more and more familiar with AWS every day, the #1 thing on my list going forward is to to sit down with your TAM and organize architecture review. There are services on AWS lacking completeness and can bite you in the end if you go straight with it without knowing what you are getting into.

Disclaimer: I like AWS pretty well.
Also note that the article is written by a guy in the UK who is hired for seasonal warehouse work. Not a middle manager/higher salaried employee as was the case in the NYT article that sparked the outrage.
I used this to generate test data for application benchmarking. That is, when I wanted real-ish data to test scalability.
Search for "crystal language" instead.
The only reason to switch from flipkart to Amazon was that flipkart is pushing the app in users throat. I dont know what the use of the pushing a user witj "Open in App" Ad when i am on desktop and shopping experience is bad on mobile device. I want to read reviews on internet on side while I shop. Also most offers are on App . I dont know if the flipkart wants sell app or goods. But recently amazon is also starting to push that path as well here is what i started doing. Read reviews and note the the price on PC and go to local reatiler ask him to give at that price or 50 bugs extra as it is immediate delivery it is ok to add 50 bugs and take it. But till now i amazon did not disappoint but shopping in app, no way.....Because apart from small screen ad unable to see product pic clearly. Every app in mobile is able to intercept communication and keystroke etc... an no way of know if bank transaction is secure like gold padlock on PC. And i dont if there is a issue like cross site scripting on mobile as cross app because after i finish banking transaction that session statys and flipkart comes on top.
The inaccuracy was that people believed that the patents were on the concept of "rounded corners". Just like people here seem to believe that it is a patent on a generic slider.

Regarding the invalidated patents, if you read the blog and the Office Action within (
http://www.scribd.com/doc/274897046/15-08-05-Non-final-Rejec...), this was due to the priority date being moved forward due to a technicality in claiming priority to their own previously filed patent. As a result, previously excluded prior art came into play, including Apple's own previously issued iPhone design patents, which was actually on simply different aspects of the exact same design. As such, although the patent was invalid, it is inaccurate to say the design itself was "obvious" per se (although I really don't understand how obviousness works in the world of design patents).
It is within realm of possibility, but my worry is that it simply won't happen. It doesn't happen with all the other widely discussed issues. People tend not to verify facts for themselves, and level-headed headlines generally don't sell.

> In the end it will be about trust. Previously the cops were given the benefit of the doubt; now that perception is changing. Police will have to do a better job of customer service to change that.

I agree with that.
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Here's a couple of links:

http://www.wakehealth.edu/News-Releases/2013/Emotional_Stres...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/18190880/

The process of stress leading to disease is fairly well-established and uncontroversial:

1) Any stress puts the body into fight or flight mode

2) When the body is in fight/flight, energy/nutrients are devoted to short-term survival, not long-term needs like immunity, cell-repair, digestion

3) After long enough in this state (chronic fight/flight) infections take over, cells break down, tumors form, etc.
That's how it's done. We use colo and have a DC outside Seattle with 5 uplinks to Tier 1 providers. We suffered a 20 Gbps (which is relatively small) on a 1 Gbps port that completely saturated our uplink. Our data center worked with their upstreams to route the traffic through a layer 7 DDoS mitigation service. It was amazingly effective. So I'm curious about what they're going through - I want details. How big is the attack? Is it targeting a client or Linode itself? And if they're working with their upstream providers, what are they doing?

Edit: In the mean time, I am (sadly) moving docs.wordfence.com back into our data center. I have access to the Dallas server again and so am starting the transfer now. If I can get some clarity on who did this, why and how it got fixed and why it won't happen in future I'm sure me and a bunch of other frustrated ops folks will consider sticking with them or moving back.
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I get the purpose of having someone who understands basic coding in the marketing realm, but this is just about a single problem that was solved. By the title, I thought it would have more substance about overall efficiencies achieved and such. It was a good article, however, don't get me wrong.

Having worked in marketing firms, this type of thing was a daily hack we all did quite often for dozens, if not hundreds, of clients. It does definitely pay to have coders, competent ones, on staff but they also need a certain problem solving personality to overcome many challenges - a programmer's mind so to speak. Coding can be taught, but problem solving skill and a penchant for curiosity is much harder to ingrain in someone.
I wish.

My family is consuming my time and/or my hardware currently.

I have gotten to the point of buying a new laptop today. Just so I get my macbook back.

On the plus side my family seem happier. We're all well fed and I've socialised more this month than I have all year.
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I'd agree the '415 is not a good patent for other reasons too. It claims the result rather than the method in very broad terms.
Not startup but warmup (i.e. the time until the application is fully optimized). There are other problems with a JIT on small devices, such as increased memory and energy consumption (each may be significant or not, depending on how the JIT works). I am a big fan of JITs, but as with everything in software, it is a tradeoff.
> or are intrinsic to the human aging process

Exactly. You can still get your cancer without BP.
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The K-S test assumes the data comes from a continuous distribution, so count data would mess up the test's false positive rate. You could avoid that by doing a permutation test, or one of the variations of the K-S test designed to account for data with ties.
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> Furthermore, are 11-hour shifts really by the book?

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Time_Directive is the relevant set of rules. The key one is "there must daily rest of 11 consecutive hours per 24-hour period", which an 11-hour shift complies with.

> Does the book say three of those hours have to be paid overtime?

No. They're just paid time like any other shift.

(Before somebody jumps up to wave their hands about opting out of the working time directive: as noted on that page, there is only one rule that you can opt out of, and that's the rule about a 48-hour maximum working week. There is no opt out for any of the other rules.)
The very fact that Oracle has started to address the slow startup times of JVM applications by finally working on AOT compilation is an admission of the technical immaturity of the JVM. Also, the only relevant environment here is mobile and startup times are paramount in this environment.
Would you prefer a nice dictatorship instead?

Participatory democracy is the lesser evil from what we know so far, and it's not absurd that only the people interested in the subject at hand go to the voting booth.
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the problem is minor and mostly random in nature

1 defect in 10,000 is not arbitrarily 'good'. Picture a bridge that randomly drops 1 in every 50,000 cars.

Further, cops are not a single entity if state and local cops have different issues and different training then that might be a way to improve the system. But, we don't collect statistics nationally. So, how do we improve?
When Swarm first came out it didn't have the most important features that Foursquare had, mayorship and badges. Those features were what made people check in and without them, what's the point, to collect useless coins? *I know coins have a use now.
You buy servers from multiple different companies, you install software on them.
It would be nice if this site could use an original source for once.
Two things that make me feel design patents seem stupid in general.

1. What if the design is trivial itself? So trivial that there are no trivial changes to make?

2. If trivial changes is all that's require to avoid the patent, such as change a solid line to dotted line, then why have the stupid design patents in the first place?

I could maybe understand such a thing for the entire application, but just a small insignificant part of the overall design? It's stupid.
It's silly to blame Amazon for what we think is immoral behavior, as if we were going to shame Amazon into decency. Amazon is following the law here. It is the law which is indecent. We must think not about why Amazon is indecent, but rather how Amazon is lawful.

In sum, Amazon should be mechanistically compelled into socially harmonious behavior, not shamed into it.
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> we can calculate the CO2 equivalent by multiplying with 3.6

3.6x is how much CO2 is produced by burning methane (i.e. converting CH4 + 2 O2 => CO2 + 2 H2O).

Methane released into the atmosphere is 25x more potent as a greenhouse gas compared to CO2. See Global Warming Potential of methane in your [1] link.

So 50 metric tons of methane per hour is equivalent to to 1,250 tons of CO2e.
The fact that so many people on their IRC channel will react to the attacks.