skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you're analyzing a Monday night game?
> One thing to remember about officers; they see the worst of US day in and day out, every single day.

US police kill very many more people than other first world police forces. It's not surprising that gets a lot of press coverage.

The US police forces seem to do a poor job of getting rid of the bad officers. Someone who is sacked from one force for being emotionally unstable should not be able to get a job with a gun on another force without jumping through considerable hoops. There are very many examples of this - officers with more than normal numbers of complaints for aggressive behaviour, with disciplinary action for aggressive behaviour, who then go on to murder the public.
Generalizations about which technique beats the other technique reflect a lack of technical maturity. Both have advantages, and you're doing a disservice by advocating the use of one or the other exclusively ignoring differences in environment, circumstances, and workload.
+1 for using hook.io for the hosted API. I just love this service and think this is a great use case for it. Will support it on kickstarter.
The big question here, as with any statistic or analysis, is why the data is what it is.

Do police officers see more age in black children because of some facial feature, because of general assumptions, because they're justifying bias? Do they assume that african american children come frome lower incomes, and thus aren't as well-fed as their white peers, leading to the assumption of being older than they look? Or perhaps they're misclassifying children as adults because they're afraid the next Tamir's gun won't be a toy?

Above all else, we should not merely assume that it's "just racism" and condemn the cops for their vague crime. If we are to fix the problem, we must understand it thoroughly.
The same way I validate scary merge commits: Do it myself, and compare what I get to what they got.
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>Really? Are you sure this isn't just because the bad ones are reported often and hardly any good ones?

There shouldn't be that many "bad ones" to report, period. It's supposed to be a professional police force, not amateur hour of bigots, wannabe Rambos and trigger-happy Harry Callahans.

And since the casualty statistics across the board are awful, and a true shame compared to any other western country, it's not a matter of "reporting" bias either.

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>One thing to remember about officers; they see the worst of US day in and day out, every single day.

They also represent some of what is worst about the US, day in and day out, every single day. Along with the prison system, the gun laws, and the often joke of a justice system, they help perpetuate and increase the criminals rather than reduce them (even if there are year over year decreases in crime rates, that are touted as big successes, the numbers are still ludicrous compared to any western european country).
> ultimately just a 40 second inconvenience

Unless you're offering a large value proposition that the consumer finds it difficult to say no to, you just elaborated one of the biggest challenges companies face.

Whether one regards it as absurd or not, that 40 seconds makes a big difference (not to mention people don't like change very much once they're comfortable with a thing they use). It's in that 40 seconds that the consumer shrugs and says to their self: meh, I don't feel like it, I don't want to deal with this new app that I don't understand, my phone is already cluttered with apps I don't use.

Shopping cart abandonment due to second thoughts on purchases. Drawn out check-out processes. Long sign-up forms. Slightly slow web page load times. Waiting in lines. Every study comes back with the same conclusion on consumer behavior: those seconds matter a lot.
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So why would I pick Crystal over Scala or F#? Crystal used to be targeted very specifically at Ruby fans; if it's diverging further from Ruby and becoming just another modern typed language, what's its USP compared to the established languages in that space?
Because the only other cure is a liver transplant, and the market will pay anything up to that price.
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This seems like a terrible excuse, especially for CEO positions. Who else should you hire, but someone who knows the field inside and out?
>An electric guitar is a slab of wood, some pickups, some controls, some outputs, some strings, a neck, some frets, a head, some tuning pegs, and a couple of pegs for the strap.

I think that's his point. The things you listed are the interface, and the differences lie in Gibson's and Fender's implementations of that specific interface.
"It's crazy that once personal video recorders became ubiquitous UFOs stopped visiting Earth and cops started brutalizing people all the time"
-@stephenjudkins
> Many other languages have efficient native code compilers, too. I don't know why people assume this is only a C thing.

I think it's just become very common to show C as the reference to show how fast are other programming languages, and everyone keeps it this way.

> Ruby's syntax is one of the worst parts of Ruby. [0]

For people who write the language, yes, it's incredibly hard to parse (and that blog post doesn't mention the new ambiguous things like keywords vs. hashes)

Yet, for people who use Ruby, it's very convenient and easy to read.
I'm an American expat living in the UK, so I am interested in judging things on comparative rather than absolute terms.

In the UK, the police are on track to have killed 3 people in 2015[1]. In the US, the police are on track to have killed 1,200 people[2]. Adjusted for population, the US has a police homicide rate that is 79 times higher than in the UK. In some places, police violence is now the no. 1 form of homicide, ahead of gang violence, petty crime, domestic violence, child abuse, and any other category of violence.[3]

Actual homicide is just the tip of the iceberg, of course, but if this doesn't qualify as "significantly and often" then I'm not sure what does.

This is not just a civilian attitude. There are plenty of (ex-) police who feel this way too.[4]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

2: http://killedbypolice.net/

3: http://www.sltrib.com/news/1842489-155/killings-by-utah-poli...

4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/06/...
Nice review! I tried using the K-S test once for some of the old Matasano crypto challenges, to determine if the letter frequency of the text after running it through some deciphering algorithm was from the same distribution as the letter frequency of a sample of the English language. Couldn't ever get it to work, though... maybe that's an inappropriate use of the test, or maybe my sample (Pride and Prejudice, IIRC) was unrepresentative. In the end, simply computing the distance of the two letter frequency vectors (sum of squares) worked.

I did it all in ruby at the time, but it looks like rust may have some stats libraries now? Should give it a whirl again this time using rust, or maybe do tpatcek's new Stockfighter game instead.
>>We love Ruby's efficiency for writing code.

>Ruby's syntax is one of the worst parts of Ruby. [0]

Your reference is about parsing the syntax, I am certain the authors mean they want Ruby syntax from the coders perspective not from the parsers perspective.
Hook.io is still a thing? I didn't hear anything about it after the drama back in the days.
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> What's the root cause

The development of police forces as paramilitaries which went into overdrive after Iraq 1.0.
Their 3rd or 4th outage just in the last few days.

"Website, Manager, and API Connectivity Issues
Investigating - We are currently investigating a connectivity issue affecting Linode.com and the Linode Manager.
Dec 29, 13:39 UTC"
I use Mendeley, and have found to be quite good for my needs.

Previously I used ReadCube, which was also quite good - unfortunately it doesn't run on Linux, so I had to ditch it. I would love to try out Citavi, it sounds even better than Mendeley, but again it doesn't do Linux. (Note: Citavi carries a fairly hefty price tag, but if you're affiliated with some university, chances are you can get it for free. The other two are freeware with the option to upgrade to premium plans.)

All of these are closed-source, so if you're an FSF-fan, steer well clear. Otherwise: well worth the use of!
I'm surprised the '415 patent stands. That's the one for an in-window help pane. `C-h m` (describe-mode) in emacs looks very similar to what they describe and was certainly there in 1995 and earlier. I know there's lots of caveats reading patents, but it appears that the independent claims are 1, 11 and 28 and they all look like at least XEmacs would have beat them to the punch.
You have my apologies. We often joke that anything northern than Bangalore is North India!
Searching by video file never worked for me.

So I made these to solve this problem. Now I spend less than a minute to get the perfect subtitle, instead of upto 30 minutes without these.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hastily (Haskell)

[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Titley/1.7 (Python3)
Up to the point I am thinking on moving away from them:

http://status.linode.com/
The mission of this project is absolutely laudable and the effort you are putting into it is impressive. However, I don't see how this database is particularly "open" if one cannot download any dump and the only access is a rate-limited API - where signing up for a key needs detailed statements on how the data is supposed to be used.
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You have answered how it is possible, not why it happened: that is like someone pointing out that this "mysterious" commit is actually quite easy to explain, as a commit is an object in a git database, and we have all the metadata to see who made this one: I am extremely well aware of how it works (I give lectures at UCSB about git where I start by explaining the internal file formats and work my way up to the various command line tools), but I still found the question here of "why was this authored in February but only landed in November" fascinating, given the speculation about Oracle.
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You can also express markup as a tree of objects.

https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero/blob/master/0-obje...
Is it none of your company's business if you're regularly engaging in illegal behavior? Does it not speak to character? We talk about cultural fit a lot here - what if the culture of a company is such that they want employees who obey the law, even laws that make little sense and they may not agree with? Or somewhat more realistic, they don't actually care if you use drugs they just want to make sure you're smart enough not to do it immediately before applying for a job with a new company?

They're not asking for sexual history, they're not asking for a full medical workup, or anything else unrelated. You're being paid to perform an intellectual task, and unless you're suggesting that drug use has no effect on one's mental state, I think it's relevant.
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My girlfriend and I just went "3 2 1 play" on Skype.

Hardest part is picking the same movie.

Back when hulu had 1 15 second commercial, we would always pause after the commercials so we could do another countdown (another reason Netflix wins out). I paused and waited and waited and waited. And my girlfriend is being very serious, after I was laughing during a very funny scene. Turns out we started talking about one movie, then another, and one of us started the first and the other started the 2nd, and their first commercials were several minutes apart. We both had a good laugh over it!
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There's a lot of stuff in that article that I don't quite believe, such as:
"When the Roman Empire fell apart, there were no coins in circulation, just gold. But you didn’t pay taxes with gold. What the Frisians did was reinvent cash. Not just coins, but cash—money you carried with you in order to do business. They were trading between different kingdoms and territories, so they had to have something that made sense to everybody. Outside Friesland, there’s very little evidence of the minting of silver coins until much later. "

A little bit of googling turns up evidence that lots of people were minting silver, here's some 6th century Goths doing it: http://www.romancoins.info/Ostrogoths.html and Charlemagne too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_penny_of_Charlemagne
It's why I'm so puzzled that people jump on MS specifically for this, Google have been doing all the same stuff for years and no-one seems to care.

Probably because until recently, Microsoft software is what you used if you didn't want to use those cloud-everything services from organisations like Google.
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Until I googled it just now, I actually didn't know about this whole drama. I've been using it for the last year and had a really good experience.

(Drama: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/Rl3drk9YQ_Q)
Actually I've had 1 unpleasant experience out of 3 so far. I wanted to buy an item at a lower cost(because it was a lot cheaper on other sites) and asked an exec about the same. He could've said something like "Just monitor the prices, they might come down" and I would've done it, instead he said "I'll personally keep a tab on the prices for you and will intimate you in case the price falls to your expectations". While it definitely looked like a false promise, I assumed from all the online reviews that he actually would follow up. But what alerted me was a BuyHatke monitor when the prices fell down. The prices stayed low for two days and I waited to see if the customer exec would really follow-through, but he didn't.

There was no real loss to me, but it was just an unpleasant experience. I am pretty sure that wouldn't happen if it was a refund/return.
> A complainant, who understood that the standard back-up option could back-up one user account only, challenged whether the claim "Backup your whole PC or Mac" was misleading and could be substantiated.

This was ruled to be misleading because they don't back up all user accounts if the user doesn't have permissions to access to files.
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> The trick is to share one VM instance between multiple apps. So when the OS starts you start the VM process and then fork with a lot of the JITted code already in place so you get almost instant startup and reasonable process isolation.

Android does this, unless it changed recently. The common parent process is called "Zygote".

See eg http://www.elinux.org/Android_Zygote_Startup
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First, read my response to the other person who provided a technical answer to this question.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10806642

You have gone a little further and provided some general reasons as to "why this might happen", but you still seem to have missed the essence of the question, which was almost certainly more "can someone come up with some guess why, in this particular circumstance, given the theories about this commit being influenced by a settlement of the Oracle lawsuit, this commit was authored in February but only landed in November?".
Naturally, this articles’ photo of the mud-slaked Rubenesque woman was the image on my screen when my new co-worker dropped in on me… calling this piece NSFW feels a bit prudish but let my experience be your warning
I've skimmed this before and have to say I read it as the BoE absolving itself of responsibility. The popular stance is "blame the banks" and some people even believe that (commercial) bankers just print money (for themselves) whenever they feel like getting a nicer car.

Several places the paper state that the ultimate control of money creation is monetary policy i.e. not the banks. This is what I'd always thought before this idea of commercial banks having complete freedom became popular. It also states that the interest rate set by the central bank decides the rate of the loans, and thus the demand for them, and thus the amount of creation. Interestingly the link between the central bank rate and the commercial rate is not stated (I did not read it end-to-end). I always thought that ultimately they had to borrow from the central bank to remain solvent/meet reserve ratios. And that goes down as a debt to the central bank, whereas the central bank can genuinely create that loan from nowhere and is doing the creation.
Microcomputer BASIC is what inspired Glass Table for Gambit Scheme: https://github.com/bitwize/glasstable

It's basically a development environment you operate from the REPL. Every time you define something, GT memorizes your definition; you can then save this "workspace" of definitions to a program file or load prior work into the workspace.

It's a shame that there are almost no programming environments that work the way BASIC did, where the command language for the development toolset is the same as the programming language itself.
Jack and Jill are two arbitrary names here. With 100% reserves, a bank cannot lend Jill's deposits to Jack.

Note the dropped 's' in Varoufakis's comment.
My favourite quote:

"The caveat is that it is technology that should be a tool making lives better in the real world, and in line with the American spirit of getting better and better at something, whether it’s curing cancer or creating a better taxi service. I am less impressed with the market values assigned to technology that enhances distraction."
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This is my thought, too. Video, unless thoroughly chopped up (which tends to be obvious), doesn't lie. I've had an idea for a "RateMyCop" app for a bit, but it looks like these kids have basically created it already. The only problem with such an app is the natural human bias to be motivated to report negative interactions over positive, as someone else mentioned in these comments. Straight-up video recordings don't have this issue.
I'm not going to pull it up on my work computer, but the Wikipedia "Cannabis drug testing" article states that for non-habitual users, THC only stays in your system for 3-10 days. Long-term, habitual use will obviously build up in your system and be detectable for much longer.

So yes, I think "well, what does it say about you that you couldn't lay off the stuff long enough to pass a drug test?" is still relevant for non-habitual users, and habitual users are exactly the ones these types of policies are designed to detect.
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A close family member of mine was diagnosed with Alzheimer's last year. He's still doing well, he remembers who everyone is, but it's hard discussing even simple strings of logic with him. He just gets lost and we have to double-back to review the thing we discussed 30 seconds ago. My mom related a story about having lunch with him, where he had both a bun and a brat on his plate, but just sat staring at them trying to figure out what the proper thing to do with them was. I'm afraid to see what happens as it advances.

Articles like these are nice to read. I don't find it a comfortable subject to talk about with my relatives, and especially with him. But hearing it from the perspective of a sufferer helps me understand what's happening and how to act around him.
Texas Tech is hundreds of miles away from that train line tho.
Even if just 10% of US officers "overstep their bounds", whereas in the UK or Germany only 1% do, it's still a huge problem.

That it's not the "general case" it's hardly any consolation.
>The notion that it is 100% okay that things that happen in public view may be subject to notice and recording at any time is very important to preserve.

Yes, but the problem here isn't that this number was recorded, it's that it was recorded at a garden supply shop with no real reason to believe that anyone at the shop was growing marijuana.

The key bit is that it puts innocent people under suspicion and leads to wasted effort on the police side, along with pointless legal bullshit on the innocent's side. Not everyone who goes to that stpre is gonna be a marijuana dealer, or even a user; garden supply stores are kind of a key place to get supplies for any garden. The chance of that garden being laced with pot is a lot smaller than 100% of the time.
This is a very important point, because the original intent of copyrights and patents was not for corporations or people to get rich, but, "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The entire purpose of copyright and patent is to promote progress. It has transformed into a capitalistic weapon that corporations use to muscle competition and slow progress.
Why would I want to use this? Is this for test data or for obfuscation?
the problem is more similar to the knapsack problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem There are some articles if you look for "create playlist of specific length" that suggest to use the "smart playlist" function of iTunes.
The problem with MMT is that it extrapolates far too much from accounting identities and treats both the financial system and the state as a closed vacuum divorced from all issues of public choice and expectations. This is what leads to Mosler's "Seven Deadly Innocent Frauds" and his policy proposals. That they're frauds is technically correct from a national accounting POV, but taking them literally as the MMTers do can be disastrous. In fact, it's not taking them literally that separates MMTers and other people. It's not that mainstream economists aren't aware of the logical implications of ex nihilo fiat money creation.

Also, MMT is nothing new or groundbreaking, contrary to their claims. There have been chartalist and endogenous money creation theories for ages, and most mainstream economists are quite aware of them, contrary to the assertions of many MMTers. What separates MMT from the rest is its fusion with more dubious Post-Keynesian theories.
As a sibling comment pointed out, Android already does this. To learn (an insane amount of) more detail about how this works, read this article I wrote a while back on how Process Loading on various systems is optimized.

http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/id/727f62ed-69d3-4956-86b2-bc0...
I expect that, in time, that is exactly what will happen. Realistically, some of these features will probably evolve into something that is more useful for more people.

Unfortunately, for the immediate future there is a lot of momentum behind these features, because so many corporate heavyweights have spent a fortune on promoting them. It would be borderline career suicide for any senior executive in a relevant position to hold their hands up and say they made a mistake on this one so soon.
I remember typing in games on the TI-99/4A without understanding how to edit a program in TI Basic. If I mistyped I couldn't go back and edit the line so was screwed. With some guidance back in the day I would have had a lot more fun.