skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everything you say is entirely logical, but omits the reality that as a black person in america you are vastly more likely to be arrested for drug crimes. Not more likely to DO drug crimes, just more likely to get caught.

It is true that black people are more likely to be arrested than white people for drug crimes. 57% of arrestees are white, 37% black. That's about 3x the percentage that you'd expect if you just go by the racial distribution of drug users.

However, that's not actually really relevant here because most drug users, white or black, do not get caught at all. There are about 1.2 million drug arrests per year, so roughly 680k whites and 444k blacks.

We've got about 320 million people. Let's be generous and knock out people 0-14 (20%) because they are probably too young to have gotten into drugs, and also knock out 55+ (26%) because older people don't seem to get arrested much for casual drug use (perhaps if you are old and a regular drug user you've figured out how to not get caught...). So that leaves us 173 million people who are similar demographically to the people getting arrested for drugs.

That would be about 22 million blacks, 109 million whites.

So...we've got about 680k whites arrested for drugs per year out of 109 million, which means 108.6 million out of 109 million whites are NOT arrested. In percentages, 99.4% of whites are not arrested for drugs in any given year.

For blacks, we've got 444k arrested for drugs out of 22 million, which means 21.6 million out of 22 million blacks are NOT arrested. In percentages, 98.0% of blacks are not arrested for drugs in any given year.

98.0% is lower than 99.4%, and that is something that should be investigated--I'm not trying to argue that there is no bias. I'm just saying that by focusing on those arrested rather than those not arrested, you get a misleading picture.

This kind of mistake is common when people assess risks, and so people tend to overreact when something increases a very low probability risk. For instance, we read that some particular food might increase our chances of getting some particular disease from 1/10^6 over our lifetime to 3/10^6, and we think we need to immediately cut that food even if we like it and it does plenty of good things for us, because it increases our risk 3x and that sounds huge.

Oddly, we don't seem to do this with transportation. Someone trying to decide whether to drive or fly from Los Angeles to San Francisco will probably decide based on cost, time, convenience, things on the driving route they might want to visit, whether they want their car with them in San Francisco, and similar factors. For most people I don't think that the fact that flying (at least on a major airline) is safer than driving would be a factor. They recognize that the chances of dying in an automobile accident on a drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco are so low as to not be worth considering, and so that some other mode of transportation would have even lower chances is not relevant.
That may be to your advantage. Talk to a lawyer.
How did you learn to read body language? Can you point us to books, websites or courses?

I also would like to know if you notice different body language based on culture, race, gender or not. If so, can you describe how?

I am also quite bad at reading body language, and learning some basic acting skills helped me to read body language a bit better, but I would love to have more information about this subject.

Thanks!
I don't work at Amazon, but I have caught on to what, to me, seems to be an unsettling concept. This may or may not be new, but the concept I am getting it is often referred to as "internal equity" - considering what salaries are already in place for similar positions.

This appears to be one of many variables HR uses for salary negotiations and I recognize that. I don't see why this necessarily matters for most work places. Shouldn't you just pay for what the candidate brings to the table (skills, experience, etc.) and not consider what, even someone with a similar background is currently making in the company. I suppose salary negotiations/the labor market isn't an efficient market where a price can be assigned given x, y, & z.
Even once or twice a week. Once you've prepped the ingredients, stir fry usually only takes a few minutes to cook. I find it super-handy to prep my stir fry and turn on the rice cooker. When I'm ready to eat, the rice is ready and making the rest is 5-10 minutes work. Making rice isn't hard but it does require at least a modicum of supervision.

I'm admittedly something of a kitchen gadget person, but my rice cooker is something that I genuinely use a lot.
I imagine it'll be kinda like car2go or ZipCar where if you get in a car and it's messy or damaged you're supposed to report it. Presumably the person before you did the damage. If you don't report it you risk the next person reporting it and you get the blame.
It isn't. I remember it being sort of an interesting way to describe linear relationships.
No offence, but you really should avoid "diagnosing" people on the internet. It's incredibly stupid and disrespectful at best, and can lead to actual harm at worst.

That goes for anyone who isn't a trained professional. But it goes triple for you, given your rudimentary understanding of aspergers, intellect, or how people learn to recognize emotions.
It is easier to test some program designs than others. Sometimes, the best design is one that’s hard to test...

Sometimes, but in my experience this is rare. Much more often, the easiest to code solution is both the hardest to test and to maintain, which is why having some TDD discipline more often results in better design, not worse.
Microsoft Declares War on Win8.1 – Windows Help “content is no longer available”
> Okay, now tell your SO or a friend or roommate to make the day's rice.

Erm, all of those people know how to cook rice on the hob (and would probably be taken aback when asked to use a rice cooker) And I'm not even Asian. We must live in very different worlds.
By the same token, why do I need a car? I can simply walk wherever I would like to go.
The original post may have been intended for a select audience that would be familiar with the context, so that author may be forgiven, but the person that submitted the post should have kept in mind the much wider audience here.

As a hardware engineer, ETL is a NRTL that competes with UL and CSA. Oh, excuse me, Thomas Edison's Electrical Testing Labs is a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory that competes with Underwriters Laboratories and the Canadian Standards Association.
Related article: Don't be a UN Intern

First thing’s first. You should understand the objectives of the organization you’re trying to join. There are three primary objectives of the UN system today. The first one is to pay the salaries and the perks of its employees. The second is to give them a microcosm in which they can walk around in suits, look important, use buzzwords, and basically find some, however contrived, meaning. The third one is to make it seem like there is an international political system out there, a framework of rules that everyone respects. This last one is increasingly optional in the post-Cold War geopolitical climate.

...

Your globetrotting, world-saving dream job doesn’t exist. It hasn’t existed for a while. The world has been explored – it no longer needs explorers, and especially doesn’t need faceless bureaucrats. It needs people who do things. Even if, through blackmail, magic rituals or blind luck, you land a UN job somehow, you will not be part of the world elite – far, far from it. You will push paper watching your years go by; your sole obsession will be sucking up to your neurotic supervisor in the hope of seeing your grade increase by a small notch five years down the road; you will wake up at 55 wondering where your professional life has gone. And that’s even discounting the remote possibility that the funding countries come along and say “Ok guys, the show’s been great, now pack it up and go home, you’re not needed anymore.”

https://desertqueensarah.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/dont-be-a-...
Ah, true. I think I may have missed your point entirely, but I'm not sure the blame rests entirely with me, FWIW. I think being more explicit about your point up-front ("the tease") and then elaborating ("the payoff") might have served your purposes better.

I must say, I'm also not a fan of the almost-always-fake "balance" thing we see so much in journalism and television, FWIW.

(Just as a trivial example there can be no "balance" between a Homeopath who claims to cure toothaches and a dentist. One is supported by massive amounts of a-priori plausible evidence and the other... isn't. Sorry about that mini-rant :).)
Former neuroscientist here. Emotions are not confined to the right frontotemporal area. There's multiple regions involved. It appears the TMS here was targeted on dorsolateral PFC, but keep in mind that there will be spreading effects, and presumably post-treatment effects, too, that can be quite widespread.
Imagine what would happen if a hostile government, organized crime, someone who hated you, or a bored teenager controlled your car. And also your oven, your air conditioner, and your garage door. Welcome to the Internet of Things, folks!
> I imagined a real steeple, but not a specific one that I have seen before. What does that make me?

I have no idea why you're being downvoted. The notion of 'abstract' here is vague.

I thought of a red-brick steeple attached to a church surrounded by trees and a gravel parking lot (yes, this was all split second). This steeple wasn't a specific one I've seen, but it wasn't as abstract as thinking of the metaphor or a sparse geometric object.
Linux, I've been burned before using Linux as host OS on a laptop (suspend not working).
There are even negatively tall buildings... :)
Primary batteries have higher energy densities than rechargeable batteries. The military uses high-energy-density primary battery technologies for one-shot items like torpedoes. This might be worthwhile if you were building robots to help decontaminate Fukushima. Commercial applications, no.
Indeed. Whenever I give a talk about "big data" I make sure to include the phrase, "I'm pretty sure most of the big data market exists on the hubris that developers want to desperately believe their problems are bigger than they really are."
Oh yeah, depends totally on company policy for sure. I was just responding to the "anymore" part and adding in another reason why some companies claim "shortage."
Easy way to use gps in android device
Lexus is nowhere near Mercedes
Interesting. From "Work Rules" by Google's head of People Analytics. "I think they [exploding offers] put a lot of unfair pressure on the candidate, who should be free to make the best decision for herself without duress. After all, companies have lots of employees, but each person holds only one job. It should be one they are sure of."
Some models ( 520 , 620) didn't qualify for upgrade to W10 because their smaller memory (520 mb) , clearly it's not the case of Lumia 1020. I can speculate that they don't wrote yet some firmware or software module needed to address the particular capabilities of 1020's camera , just guessing...
A small tweak to the tax code could make student loan repayment the new 401(k)
Well I personally don't think it's bad to benefit from harms. I think it's bad to cause harms and good to mitigate them; benefiting from them or not is irrelevant.

A surgeon who reattaches limbs is a pretty ok guy, even if he's benefiting from horrible accidental amputations. So is an Uber driver who drives into a surging area.

I've even personally benefited from the holocaust, the Kosovo wars and the Rwandan genocide; I've met interesting people who would probably never have crossed my path under better circumstances. Is it really reasonable for me to feel guilt over that?
I made a tool that does a form of that:

http://latin.milesokeefe.com/?s=disce+quasi+semper+victurus+...
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle is superior to everything that came after it, on average for most people.

Evidence shows that hunter-gatherer people were much taller (a full foot) than their ancestors who turned to agriculture. It's only been in recent years that we've finally caught up with the heights hunter-gatherers reached: that's around 10,000 years that we've been deficient.

The reason we didn't stick with the hunter-gatherer lifestyle is because we humans became overpopulated and ran out of resources. Agriculture was the only way to survive, because growing crops on a farm and herding domesticized prey animals is much more efficient than hunting and gathering in the wild. But it's also a lot more work and has a lot of problems with disease and malnutrition (potatoes and rice have terrible nutritional value by themselves). Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had generally superior and happier lifestyles, but they were living in an age when they didn't have a lot of competition for resources; it was like a "garden of Eden". The natives of Hawaii (before European contact) are probably one of the closest cultures in modern times to this.
Excuse me, but I didn't diagnose anyone, nor do you know anything about me or my understanding of anything, so take your incredibly inaccurate and rude advice and go shove it somewhere it's wanted. Saying "no offence" isn't an excuse to be offensive, which you intentionally were, so perhaps try learning how to be social as well, you're bad at it.
I've been cooking rice like this for the last 15 years. I recently bought a Zojirushi rice cooker and I now regret not getting one sooner. The Zojirushi makes far superior rice than I ever managed and it makes it perfect every time. Not to mention it also cooks mixed/brown/sushi/grits/steel cut oats perfectly as well. Throw in the fact that I can use the timer to have steel cut oats ready when I wake up in the morning make it worth every penny.
I'm guessing it was on his own as there's not many any courses on emotions worth a damn.

That said, coursera did an amazing course on emotions recently by an Italian AI researcher, Jordi Vallverdú. I think it's been taken offline now, unfortunately.
Secure, user-controlled data
Ask HN: Any startups using quantum logic to make business decisions?
Just gaging, gouging and gauging in an engaged way
While the ridges and 5/10m cook/stand time sounds perfect, we are often using the microwave for reheating takeout or leftovers (or bringing milk up to room temps for the kiddos). And we have rice (or quinoa) almost every day.

Any other gadget should aim to be as useful, fault-tolerant and straightforward as a rice cooker (microwave is close 2nd).
Hasn't the arsenic in rice news been a big thing in the US? Here in Sweden the FDA equivalent discourages people to eat rice too often (the recommendations are a bit vague).
Why would you buy a $50,000 BMW when a $20,000 Toyota will take you everywhere you want to go just as well?
"Ideas" alone are almost never worth anything. You have to do the work to back it up. Everyone I know has about a dozen ideas (you hear them all the time as someone who makes ideas real).

What matters is the technical skill to make the idea go from a fantasy to a reality semi-reminiscent of the idealized fantastic version, whether that skill is in business, accounting, programming, marketing, or whatever.
I think this explains why they need Mercedes. It is a nice car that can have a lot of mileage easily.
If all the member states would live up to the charter it would do a lot better than it does. Another big problem is veto power abuse in the security council.
The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data and the New Management of Capital
Location might be useful information. I'm assuming most of the folks responding here are in Seattle. If so, all the salaries listed in this thread seem shockingly low to me.
If you nest a whole lot of them deep enough, the logic becomes fuzzy and hard to figure out.

http://teaching.idallen.com/dat2330/04f/notes/deep_nesting.t...
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I just dig that they play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when you fire them up. It's just such an oddball thing, that I get a kick out of it every time I use it.
If I'm an employee at [HIGHLY VALUED PRIVATE COMPANY] - this looks REALLY appealing to me, to dump my shares for at least a nice guaranteed cash out now.

So many VC rounds protected with liquidation preferences at a valuation that the market probably ends up shredding if there's an IPO or a buyer comes along to acquire the company. These latest devaluations certainly wouldn't help with morale and I'd get nervous thinking about my shares eventually being worthless if the company just sort of tinkers in the private market much longer.

I also tend to be relatively risk averse though, so I'm curious what others here would do.
I think you mean "not reproduced", not "not reproducible". Presumably they are studying it now, and it will be reproduced, if possible.
Every time I see an article which talks about "Watson" as an individual solution to a problem I find myself wondering what the people paying for it all think that "Watson" is?

Realistically its like 10+ racks filled with POWER systems loaded up with terabytes of RAM running SUSE Linux using Apache Hadoop for distributed computing, then some IBM Proprietary software solutions + a few other open bits and pieces (ie Apache UIMA) cobbled together to get something which behaves as though it understands natural language.

Honestly if you put most data-centric systems on a platform with dozens, if not hundreds, of POWER CPUs with 8-16 cores a piece and 4 threads/core and then put the entire data store into RAM so you could get at it quickly, I suspect that you could fool most people into thinking there was intelligence behind it, not just raw computing power.
Exactly.

But that stuff isn't free - you still need money to exchange for groceries because you've spent generations specializing in factory work and forgot how to hunt. A lot of people are going to need hand outs so they can maintain access to these "rubber bumpers" that they're unable to provide for themselves.
The Year of the Angry Economists
Ex amazonian here, but in Ireland, I left (thankfully) at the end of 2015.

I was a systems engineer in Dublin and the only significant payraise I got was after I left the company for 4 months to then rejoin, my salary was bumped up 12k euros, for a total of 62k/yr, with 150 shares over 4 years (sorry I do not remember the vesting scheme).

The HR department in AMZN has the tendency to screw internal employees upon promotion.
The way it was unofficially explained to me by a low-level buddy in HR is that there are salary ranges for each corporate level, and during a promotion you get just over the lower bound of the salary range for your new corp level, that's the policy, that's what happens.

New hires instead have negotiation margin and, while the hiring manager can't offer a salary higher than the approved salary range, more often than not the offer will end up in the upper bound of the range, to lure the candidate in.

Furthermore, there are huge differences between salary ranges in job roles, a Systems Engineer will always be paid 15 to 30% less than a Software Development Engineer at the same level, despite the fact that the skills and duties are not that much different, why? Again unofficially "because Amazon values more people that write software". Except the fact that in my ex-team, we all wrote software and the expectations were all the same regardless the job title (there was however a difference between levels).

So yeah, as internal promotion you have absolutely NO leverage regarding salary, if you want a salary increase and your organization is hungry for people but is having trouble in hiring (like it happens frequently in Dublin where the job market is quite competitive), I'd suggest you start looking around for a new job, accept the offer and then come back to your same team 4 months later. If you leave the company for less than 6 months and your position hasn't been filled in the meantime, the hiring manager is able to extend an offer without sending you through an interview loop, you'll get your old job back but with a nice pile of money on top.
Hacking the Worcester Wave Thermostat in Python
> It is you; neuro-typical people don't have to "learn" how to read people, it's innate.

I'm pretty sure I'm neuro-typical. At least I'm not atypical to the point that it was ever a problem.

And I too had to learn how to read people. I could always read them innately, but after some conscious effort, it became like a superpower. People always say how great I am at knowing how they feel.

The real hard part, though, is learning how to emote back. Especially after moving to a different continent. It's really really hard to display appropriate emotions because, for the most part, knowing and understanding other people's emotions, just doesn't really trigger an emotional response. It's all on an intellectual level.

I've always wondered whether that was normal or not.
"It is you; neuro-typical people don't have to "learn" how to read people, it's innate."

"I didn't diagnose anyone"

Wow, do you even LISTEN to yourself when you say things?

"nor do you know anything about me or my understanding of anything"

Yes I do. I can infer sufficient from what you've just wrote.
A difference of 250m, rather than 250k, which again, I guess still isn't that much for a 60 billion dollar company. Total depreciation on these is going to eat up up a billion in value a year, or only about 2% of market cap, assuming they keep or grow their valuation.
Using Slackware and expecting modern frills is a bit like buying an old hot rod or turbo import from the old Soviet Union and then complaining it doesn't have a factory warranty or a customer support line. You don't buy it because it's going to be easy to drive and maintain.

There is an owner's manual and a community of other enthusiasts. If you want more convenience, your best bet is to try a different make and model.
You gave enough information that they could find you without using any links in your profile or your online handle.

Another thing that could be interesting is your accent. My eyes were recently opened about the discrimination that happens based on that.
Isn't one of the obvious factors that different people are making these decisions?

There's an awful lot of people in Washington that are unhappy with the softer approach to Cuba.
Hi! Author in question here, if anybody would like to know more about this particular feature I'll be happy to answer any questions. The changes discussed in this article are currently available on GitLab.com, 8.6 will be released on the 22nd as usual.
Chatfuel (YC W16) lets publishers and anyone build bots for messaging apps
I don't know, why would someone prefer a 2 stage process (put rice and water in cooker, take rice out of cooker) to a 4 stage process.
You proposed

> write() is atomic, but may not write the number of bytes asked to write.

as an alternative formulation, but I'm not sure what that's even supposed to mean, semantically. "Atomic" literally means "indivisible" (well, "cannot cut" or "un-cuttable"). So either "all of it" or "none of it".

Can you expound?
All I see is you need a dictionary or you don't know what diagnose means. Your inference abilities are terrible then.