skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the latest Macbook Pro everything works under Linux except for the webcam and maybe the brightness sensor (it's hard to tell because it doesn't seem to do anything under OSX either).
work for more than 10 years on the same company and almost with the same technology. bad mistake.
I can't say if they considered other databases, but "MERN" is a play on "MEAN" (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) -- I imagine they were aiming for a React-centric version of the popular MEAN stack.
Yeah, I used the federal statistics because it's easier to find the data. Rayiner made a reasonable point about the difference in federal vs state inmates.

>where something like 17% of inmates are incarcerated for drug offenses.

I hope you don't mind if I use a single state, I know these thing will vary by state. The top drug crimes in Texas are different degrees of possession and manufacturing and distribution, and you're right, it's about 17%

>The majority of inmates are in fact incarcerated for violent crimes.

There are other crimes that aren't violent and aren't drug offenses, those appear to be about 43% (60% when you include drug offenses), and the violent ones about 40%, not a majority. Do you have a source for your "majority of inmates are in fact incarcerated for violent crimes" claim? The statistics I used are by offense, not by offender. I'm not sure how that will change if the statistics are broken down by offender.

https://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-prisons/crim...
Surely the easy way to have less heart disease is to have more other disease. Or to not diagnose heart disease at all.
I've been considering getting a Yubico for awhile now, but my concern is that it seems like every few months some new model comes out that supports new XYZ Standard. I'd really want the following before I bite:

1) The security community on the whole needs to come to a consensus on what is going to be used. If FIDO 2.0 is it, cool, but I'd like to be sure that they won't say "FIDO 2.0 in 2016, now and forever." then come back in 2017 and say "Actually FIDO sucks, we're all switching to ARGUS now."

2) The device should be future-proof, insofar as it would be able to support the agreed upon standard in Step 1 and/or any minor changes that might come along the way without having to dump the device. IF the device must be swapped for a newer version, there should be some way to migrate.

3) Compatibility with all of my devices--major browsers, major OS's, smartphone, etc.

Might be a tall order, but until it can be filled, LastPass + 2FA on my Android phone is good enough for me.
> It's undeniable that drugs, gambling, and prostitution have real social costs and harms

So does banking and the police. Or firearms and alcohol. Both are regulated, but not outlawed.
I appreciate the help, though isn't the point of `/etc//conf.d` directories generally that you have multiple config files? This is a common idiom that other packages handle correctly (differently?).

I have hopped on the logstash IRC at times to ask about some of this, though I guess not this exact item. In fact, there's a different (well-known issue) that the init script for logstash has the config path hard-coded:
https://botbot.me/freenode/logstash/2015-11-17/?msg=54338903...

There's also the problem that logstash (and forwarder) doesn't seem to let me do anything useful with the file names. I could work around that, sure, but it would be nice to have meaningful file names (not the "ls." thing that LS uses). Syslog-ng, for comparison, gives you a lot of control of that.
The point that gets lost here is that it's close to impossible for Apple to build a tool that will only allow them to look at any users data. Once the tool exists it's a simple hexedit away from working on anyones phone. While the court may be asking for something single use that same court may not understand the full implications of what they are asking. Thus the need for a public discourse on the topic.
Also, what on earth are the limits for a millennial? My late-20s self, a 9th grader and a man in his 30s should not all be classified the same...
Having read the letter, I can't help but think that this must be some kind of elaborate trolling: That after 2 weeks or so, he'll follow-up with "Thanks for all the attention everyone! My start-up's revenue took a 45% bump from all this publicity!!" This reads like a cartoon caricature of the stereotypical clueless tech bro. No real person could actually think this way.
Carry-on bag, right? Because having one in your checked luggage is - allowed. Not a crime. Just make sure its unloaded and have them tag it when you check your luggage. That's it.
Those old operating systems are quite a pain in VirtualBox. Qemu does a much better job, in this case. VirtualBox's emulated hardware is too new for some systems, and Win98/Win95 flood the CPU during idle time (because that's how things worked back then), causing the input processing from the VM to lag significantly.

Regardless though, this would legally require you to acquire a licensed copy of Windows 98, which will only become harder and harder down the road. Unless Microsoft decides to "free" all legacy software at some point.

ReactOS and WINE solve this problem in a different way, by providing open source solutions that everyone can use, copy and archive without cost or consequence.
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Holy shit.

I saw the quote in the headline and thought, that is some seriously unfortunate wording. I get what they mean, but putting it in the first person like that makes it sound like the problem is the seeing, not the pain, struggle, etc.

Then I read the actual letter. It's not unfortunate wording! They actually intend to say that the problem is the seeing! This person doesn't care in the least about these people, he just wants them out of sight!
Or the solution may be to accept that the city owes a duty to everyone in it's boarders and cannot deport human beings based on circumstance. The city could tax the rich heavily, to the point that a balance is struck that both shelters the poor and dissuades further gentrification.
Oh, well, interesting that I just notice your HN username is also that IRC username. I suppose you're the one that replied to me there! Thank you!
That's an optimistic view. Real people think all sorts of things. Entitled people especially.
IBMWatson is bullshit and far from ready to replace human reasoning/logic
Whenever anybody says "we don't know how to make software that learns", my bullshit detectors go off overtime. Various forms of machine learning (including unsupervised) with varying degrees of effectiveness have been around for a very long time, with the first successes dating back to shortly after the introduction of electronic computers. And, we should never forget that we dedicate nearly twenty years of careful, difficult, and expensive labor (with heavy government subsidy no less) to turning human beings from useless blobs of flesh that can't even walk into something approaching functional adults capable of making good decisions, with a relatively poor success rate.
(I've never gotten used to HN's non-Markdown markup.)
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No you can't take away a certification. You can make it certified every year. But a certification exists to certify that you tested OK in 2014, for example. You can't take that away because you can't say he did not pass the test.

You can outlaw certifications over a year old, but you cannot take the earned certification away. Besides, you cannot take them away mid-year for malpractice. Once you're certified to pass something, you have passed it. You can't go back in time and unpass it.
Don't touch the Rolex.
Asking for homeless people to be moved out is basically asking for regulations and enforcement which has to be funded from taxes, isn't it. Not all that different from a shelter, except much crueller.
I've not seen one like that in the US since the 80s. They all look like this:

http://tinyurl.com/uwaveimg
This is a complex issue... but in my experience, most of the homeless are not looking for help to find jobs and/or contribute to society in manner that will lead them out of "homelessness." A lot of them prefer this "lifestyle"... we try very hard to help the people that want help. Most don't.

Go talk to your local EMS/Fire department personnel and most of them will have similar stories. I know the homeless people in my area better than I know my extended family. I have memorized their birthday's, the medications they should be taking, the street drugs they prefer, the kind of beer they drink, where they stash their stuff, where they have their main camp, what their childhood, and adult life were like, their medical history, what shelters they've been kicked out of and are not allowed back to... and more.

We are forced to talk with them, sometimes 3 or 4 times a shift. I lost sympathy for most of them a long time ago, that doesn't mean we treat them like sub-humans... we just have less patience with the shit they are inevitably going to give us.

Edit: here is an article specific to San Fran about EMS & the homeless: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/san-francisco-firefight...
Same here. $1200
But isn't it reasonable to require studying materials for a certain time? I mean, the goal of s course isn't to pass the exam, it is to gain knowledge on a complex matter. Spending 50 hours studying something will definitely lead to better retention and understanding than 20 hours, even if 20 hours would be enough to pass the exam.
>You can't force them to use detox clinics, etc.

Maybe it is not possible yet legally, but why shouldn't we allow this? The courts can already force people to be commited for mental afflictions when they are a danger to themselves or others. Why not do the same for (heavy) drug addicts who start becoming a liability?
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It's not about who is right nor his right to express his opinion but what leads to better system.
You can be right yet be toxic at the same time.
Truth can kill. Lies can heal.
Timing and situation matters. Ignore and suffer.
What we're arguing about here is "prescriptive" versus "descriptive." Linguistics is the second of the two. Scientific data says nothing about right or wrong. It simply says what "people" do; it doesn't tell us what to do.

As to taste, or prescriptive rules of language, what we're talking about is the use of language by educated people who make a point of expressing themselves clearly and elegantly. These are not "unscientific" ideas about language but, instead, simply non-scientific. Science here has no place.

You may say "taste is taste," and that's true. You're free to speak and write anyway you choose. And if something is a'ight with you, have fun with it. Your peeps should have no trouble understanding you. My original point takes place in the context of criticizing someone who is writing in a public forum about writing.
They also made a post about it.
a friend of mine who interned in SF last summer has a (satirical, I pray) startup idea: 'uber for harassing homeless people' - just geolocate yourself and your walking route before leaving, and a team will clear the homeless and from your path

again, I hope he was joking but honestly probably wasn't - I fear this lackadaisical 'tech can solve all of MY problems' attitude is prevalent (we should also consider how we can solve the problems of others)
I went to SF (and to the US) for the first time last month and I too was baffled by the amount of homelessness I saw, which is more striking when contrasted to the wealth and beauty of the city (which I loved).

Also, I think we are judging this guy too harshly because of his privilege status. But I cant tell you that I live in Mexico, the third freaking world, and even people living on $4 don't want to see homeless people showing their genitals at them.
Maybe we should make everyone who buys insurance take a test to show basic competency beforehand.
The implicit danger is that someone will fly to another part of the world and start shooting there.
CockroachDB's time api is based on the Hybrid Logical Clocks paper. We credit it on our design doc (https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...) and in the source code.

This blog post doesn't mention HLC because the explanation didn't require it. HLC boils down to a mechanism for taking the maximum physical wall time across >= 2 nodes, while still being able to provide monotonically increasing time via incrementing the logical component of the hybrid logical timestamp. In the blog post, this is referred to as "taking the maximum timestamp across requests". A segue into HLC would have served only to further complicate the explanation.

The work done by Sandeep Kulkarni, Murat Demirbas, David Alves, Todd Lipcon, Vijay Garg, and others was instrumental to our early design efforts. I am dismayed to see there's a patent pending, though both our design and open source implementation predate the patent filing.
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Heck so does "pursuing happiness". Skiing accidents. Bankruptcy when your art studio goes under. Smoking. Pretty much anything fun.

As a country, the USA is actually constituted to allow these things. Because, individual freedoms. And inalienable rights. I hear somebody want to crack down on something, I think "There goes somebody who forgot what it means to be American"
> If you see only print, you are missing the point.

The top thing, sometimes the only thing, that makes my scripts written for 2 not work in 3 is the change to print. Adding a print function is fine, I'm all on board with that; removing the statement though seems like pain for no reason. Bringing that up is not missing the point, it's hitting the nail right on the head.
http://i.imgur.com/g91mZ7u.png
I think if he hadn't gone on his moral high-horse and ranted about "free market societies" and "revolutions" he would've avoided much of the controversy. I sympathized with his actual grievances, but not his armchair ranting in the second half of his article.
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I recently quit Facebook because I wanted avoid the state of permanent outrage that platform has come to feed off. Some random guy says something reprehensible and we're all suppose apply their comment to an entire group and get into a discussion about said generalized group. Rinse and repeat. It's old and pointless. HN is way better than this.
But the reason why people don't want to see them affects the outcome.

If it's (at least partly) from compassion for people reduced to such circumstances, hopefully the solution will go some way to improving their lot.

But if it's purely from indignation at the inconvenience suffered by the observers, then the "solution" may simply involve shifting the problem elsewhere: viz. Keller's approval of the way the "homeless and other riff raff" temporarily vanished during the Super Bowl.
> regulations are bad for you, the consumer, and good for a small group of rent-seekers (like taxi drivers)

FTFY
The difference between python an javascript wasn't in features, it was always about predictability. I can pick out errors and expected behavior in python much more easily then javascript, and unless it breaks compatibility at some point, I suspect it will stay that way.
When you say you can't debug, you mean you don't have have a debugger, right? People have been debugging software for decades without debuggers, for example.

For a side project, I've been using Go on the App Engine for the past year, writing with Sublime Text. Sublime has a Go plugin that does some syntax checking, and App Engine reloads automatically. It's not that bad. My site isn't large but I find it more enjoyable than writing Java. I started with Python but found Go is significantly faster:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

I also generate my iOS app localization files using a small Go program that I wrote.
Yes, this rep is wrong. They started doing this before the FCC issue became an issue.
FWIW no it wasn't. Everyone (everyone who javascripts anyways) already knows what "isomorphic javascript" means, and "Universal" is a fucking terrible name for what it is being applied to (it sounds like it is translated into all languages, or runs equally on Windows and Macs, or who knows, it's made for aliens or something).
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"Use salt to taste, most likely it won't kill you" - but salt has been used for centuries right. Has there been a change? As an Indian not adding salt is unthinkable.
Most UK supermarkets have large out-of-town retail parks for exactly this reason - although the public appetite for this is declining.
Any data to back this up? Can't really go on anecdotal stories or EMS accounts (who only see emergency situations by design).
Yes, he created a parallel assembly. But the "grassroots" and "power to the people" thing is fake. The true power is in the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (Supreme Court). They can now decide on whatever the National Assembly decides. It's already happened, they have removed opposition members elected to the NA , approved a law that the NA didn't approve and will repeal new laws coming out.

After losing the december elections, the old National Assembly (controlled by the govt back then), quickly elected new members to the Supreme Court that they control.

Just to give you an idea of how corrupt this is: one guy (from the govt party) in the NA was running for re-election as a member of the National Assembly. The guy lost the elections. So then he goes back to the old NA, still in session, runs to be a member of the new Supreme Court , VOTES for himself and is now the head of the Constitutional sector of the Supreme Court, which gets to decide on whether the things the new NA decides are legal or not.

Very democratic.
>To play devil's advocate, he's right. He shouldn't have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless - the city government should be providing affordable housing and shelters for the homeless.

Only if people agree, offer their solidarity, and approve the city government of doing so (with their taxes etc too).

Which is exactly what people like him don't allow.
Attendance policies and requiring 52 hours of "next" clicking also don't ensure that a person knows all the edge cases.

What exactly do you believe that clicking "next" repeatedly tells you about a person's behavior?

(Again, remember that the question is why 52 hours of clicking is a good law. If a person didn't click for 52 hours when the law didn't require it, that would not be evidence that they are willing to violate unjust laws.)
It's ironic that Keller will get so much shit dumped on him for making the same exact argument that people make against more permissive immigration. Compare:

A: Allowing people trapped in unproductive countries to move to US/Canada/Europe would significantly improve their quality of life.

B: But think of burden to the welfare state! We wouldn't be able to afford the flood of people moving here for benefits.

A: Simple, just don't allow them benefits. Many people would still move to US/Canada/Europe even if excluded completely from the social safety net (or voting, etc.).

B: The thought of so many destitute people being in my country and not receiving help makes me uncomfortable.

The predominant attitude people hold toward the poor/disadvantaged outside their country is no different than Keller's: I simply do not want to be confronted with this. I'd prefer to not see it and pretend it wasn't there.

(Please do not take this as an argument for open borders, it is just an attempt to highlight a hypocrisy.)
The parent comment's point is that the terrorists would be outnumbered. Incidentally, one of the planes involved in the 9/11 attack--the one meant to hit the White House, IIRC--was grounded by unarmed passengers who overwhelmed the terrorists who hijacked the plane.
Forced mental treatment has been the source of a great many atrocities by the state over the decades.
It means a non-"progressive" White male who works in technology.
TP-Link started doing this months ago, and as far as I can tell they did so before the FCC proposed regulation. Considering the time that it takes for a company like this to start acting, I would be very surprised if the FCC regulation has much to do with it at all.

It does make a good excuse for them, though, I guess.
I'm not sure what is announced here. Gluster FS is for few years already (version 3.6 now), while the article doesn't mention that there is started any managed service based on it. It is more like reminder that you can set up distributed file system on your cloud servers using Gluster. Not even any step-by-step tutorial how to do that.
Wow. That's an impressive demo.

My only comment would be that in the demos with trees give away the fact that it's computer rendered. not really sure what it is about them? (They don't sway? They're too similar? The algorithm is 'showning'?) Any one know what it is I'm noticing?
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It is a strange situation to see lavish tech offices with homeless people sleeping on sidewalks. One minute you'll be making your way through tents set up on sidewalks and the next you'll be inside a plush cafeteria with an endless supply of free food. It's a shocking contrast.
Very interesting. I wonder how one feasibly could test "quantum resistant algorithms" without having a quantum computer to test it against.
Honestly given that due to health reasons I have to stick to ~500mg of sodium a day, and have been for years with no adverse effects, I don't consider the 1,500mg Canadian guidelines that low. I do find it funny though that, for example, the Canadian guidelines are 1,500mg while the Italian ones are at 2,400 (and if you look at packaged foods sometimes the percentages seem to be based on 4,000mg)

The only way for me to do it is to be completely whole foods (the only "packaged" food I eat is canned crushed tomatoes, and only a very specific brand with absolutely no sodium added). It is obviously annoying not to be able to eat bread anymore, or to eat out, or to be able to do air travel without starving (unfortunately airlines nowadays seem to not serve full fruit meals, so I have to make do with just the little square box of salad and the one of fruit, which on an 8 hour flight is not fun) but what can you do.

This said having to severely limit your sodium makes you realize just how much of our industry relationships seem to be predicated on eating out, from interviews, to work get togethers and so on, this makes me think that likely any future job I will have will have to be fully remote because flying somewhere for an all day interview would be quite difficult to figure out food-wise.