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To be clear, Brown v Board of Education school integration ended racial segregation, not economic segregation. Things are arguably different now, but back then race was a major component of the perceived "decline."
Exactly. A notification that new updates are available would be nice, but I don't think automatic updates should be the default, even if "semantic versioning" says the update should be backwards compatible.
Can you cite a piece of police training material that suggests police be sparing with bullets once they commence firing at a target?

Again, to be clear: I think the police should largely be disarmd. I do not think patrol officers should routinely be armed with handguns.

I think it is monstrously silly to suggest that the solution to police shooting problems could somehow involve police being more judicious with the number of shots they take. The problem is the guns, not the way that they're used.
> No idea why you are being downvoted.

Perhaps because the parent poster is wrong. Seattle rents did not decrease this year, or last year.

The rate at which rent is increasing has slowed (previously double-digit percentage increases have dropped to single-digit percentage increases). But actual rents have not fallen.

Seattle rents continue to grow each year, just at a slightly slower pace than before.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2015/11/bad-timingas...

(This is not an argument against building new housing, I also believe we need more of that. But the issue is far more complicated than simply "supply and demand, economics 101")
Because it's pretending to be a human, and humans follow music or the telly.
We have a backend position (primarily PHP) open at our company (am I allowed to pimp that outside the who's hiring thread?). It's been open for ~6 months or so now, and haven't had a single female applicant. Not, we haven't had any female interviews; we haven't had any female _applicants_.

Our company is almost 50/50 for male/female, with our engineering team being 100% male. At the last company I worked for in the Tampa area of FL, we had one female developer who was MTF, and we did get one female applicant to an open position, who wasn't hired because she was deemed too junior. This was for a junior position, and I think the CEO was just being unknowingly sexist.
Isn't this an example of a Scientist speaking outside their area of expertise? Not substantially different from a Physicist speaking on Literature or History.

Personally, I don't see a mission-critical application for robotics any time in the immediate future. Low-risk deployments will yield data, not rescue teams. Firemen have no time to fool with experimental gadgets.
But will Facebook support it?
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Hardly any of the problems they suggest robots can solve are problems Google faces though. Last 10 metres delivery, supply chain control and management, disaster relief work, oil and gas, home assistants - particularly for seniors. There are too many comments in there to address all of them but here's a few:

"If anyone could crack the indoor social robot market that is seeing such high interest right now in both the consumer and commercial spaces, it would be them"

Why on earth would Google care about the indoor social robot market?

"If I were a large company with deep pockets, ... it will take a decade or so to ramp up"

It's always easy to say how other people should spend their money, and just because a company is one of the few that can do a thing, it doesn't follow that they should do it. A lot of the speculation seems to be of the "if I had a billion dollars, I would..." wish fulfilment sort.

I can see the point of self driving cars. They were doing street view anyway and that's a pretty obvious application for autonomous vehicles. But they're not actually a manufacturing or supply chain company. Their foray into that with Motorola was an expensive mistake. I just don't see that a lot of the other robotics stuff they're doing is relevant to their business. That doesn't mean nobody should be investing in this. Sure there are applications down the line, but are they relevant to Google?

The only one I can think of is data centre build out and maintenance. But Google aren't near the scale to support an entire industrial robot development and manufacturing industry just for a handful of data centres.
It's not a thing.
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martin-adams solved this problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352113
>which will lead to a lot of single-family structures and townhouses being replaced by condominium towers.

This is what's happening in Chicago right now. Single family homes and two story apartment buildings, which dominated Chicago and made it a pleasant place to live (lowish density, lots of room, decent sized backyards, etc) have been replaced in gentrying areas with super dense condos that are 3 to 6 units large on the same tiny lot. No yard, no parking, no front yard, tiny bedrooms, etc.

It really changes the character of the neighborhood and the system really can't handle this kind of density. You would have 3-4 people in a SFH which is now a lot with 6 condos with 18-24 people. This means not only higher pricing but more traffic, no parking, higher load on utilities, local parks being overfilled, etc.

No one talks about density it seems, but something very real happens when we quadruple density like this.
Maybe the solution for highlevel languages is to just routinely add useful helper functions, either in separate name spaces or directly to global with a naming convention to avoid conflicts. If thousands of people are doing the same thing it really doesn't make any sense for them to all come up with their own version.
It wasn’t meant aggressively, just as a question. It’s quite possible that the author of the comment I answered to had not used Android for a few years, or had never cared – or had just missed the announcements of the official apps not being supported anymore.

Oh, wait, there were no announcements, they were dropped silently.
There are a lot of guns in Switzerland but the police doesn't come in shooting.

Most important training the police gets is how to diffuse a situation not how to shoot to kill.
Yes, but you're jumping in the middle of it.

A sane package repository won't disappear overnight, or ever. I can still install packages distributed with Debian Potato, the first ever Linux distro I used, which is now 15 years old. The code that I wrote against the libraries distributed with it will still compile, and had I only burnt stripped binaries to a CD back then, they would still runtime-link and run today on a brand-new install. And because it is all free software, the people and orgs who wrote those libraries, compiler, and standards, had given up their rights to force unpublication.

In a sane package management system, and with version pinning on the consumer's side, your hissy fit would have had exactly zero effect. Assuming your package were free software, people could fork it, and still make improvements.
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Interesting there seems to be a shift in the 0-2 year job length position. I wonder if this is because the common trend is to jump ship at 2 yrs, so folks are going out job hunting, and getting a competitive raise at their current position with the job offer in hand?
Moving an administration to "the Cloud" seems like an extrardinary bad idea to me. Administrations do not move quickly for a reason. Their processes are bound to the law and they have to respect things most offices have no idea about.

Them doing it "old school" is a good thing. Old school is not bad, it's stable and reliable. It's everything you want from an administration.

And among the open source alternatives, LibreOffice is order of magnitudes ahead of other suites (except OpenOffice, is there any one actually?).

Moreover, having public documents written and stored in an open format is simply going back to sanity.

Really, criticizing this move because it's not "hip" enough seems reckless to me.
I'm very happy that the process and procurement procedures exists in my government (I'm french too) to allow administration to switch if they want to.
Depends on the JS implementation in question. And I think node uses one that optimizes string concatenation, possibly making that the fastest way to do it.
then they probably need more training or they shouldn't be police.

As a civilian, we are expected to exercise restrain when using lethal force when defending ourselves. Multiple bullets and reloading would be used as evidence as intent to murder.
So you are refused to use react or babel, right?
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That's actually not my point. My preferred solution to this problem isn't utopian. We could do it tomorrow:

Step 1: Ensure every police patrol vehicle has a shotgun locked in the trunk.

Step 2: Take away handguns from all patrol officers.
I would suggest replacing the link with the full Indiegogo URL instead of the "igg.me" URL (many will not know that igg.me is an Indiegogo page). Or amending the title to indicate this is a crowdfunding campaign for the project and not the homepage.
I have recommended LibreOffice to several people but they all went back to MS Office due to compatibility and usability issues.

I really want LibreOffice to succeed but MS Office is a really tough competitor. Especially Excel is a very good piece of software.
Yeah. Would it still be click bait if the headline were "30% of the people in Vancouver are ethnically Chinese, and people often live in houses"?
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Ah someone did not read Plato?

It is the Gyges ring parable.

A man find a ring that makes him invisible (total privacy). And then he does steal, introduce himself in houses and watch women undress and rape them ... and then he becomes a bloody tyran.

The moral of the story is invisibility/privacy makes people bad because moral behaviour is a result of the look of the other on your actions.

Needless to say Plato was an asshole. So is conclusions was to create the Republic where the wise would be hidden from the masses, control the masses, censor them ...

Greek myths however said you could evade from the look of the other but not the one of your own conscience and that the chtonian gods (Eryhnies & al) would come and get you.

I think that people are mostly having a conscience, but that the lack of transparency favors the one having none (psychopaths) and that psychopaths are attracted to power like pedophile are attracted to teaching kids.

Thus, I am puzzled that knowing this we let the more powerful have the most privacy. Hence my fight for the transparency of the most powerful persons, the exact opposite of today's law. As a result, I think privacy is actually a bad thing.
>Donald Trumpist remarks

seriously though
The use of musl on the host, outside the container, has absolutely no impact on the choice of libc inside the container. The team chose alpine because it's lightweight, well-maintained and security-oriented. You are free to use any distro you want inside the container, and that will never change.
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saying 'a bot did it' doesn't make it right. Just as having an app doesn't make a company an 'internet company' automatically.

To put it into different perspective, imagine any number of things I could do to hurt you, and put it as:

>>It's amazing that asadlionpk getting offended/hurt by what a bot said/did to them.

And then add (as children posts have done): "Ahh but asadlionpk will find any reason to get hurt/offended".

This again goes to show how a large percentage of the Vulcan overlords of Hackernews have lost basic humanity and care for fellow humans.
Search Google, Twitter, or send me an email. I'm not going to link to hate speech here.
I think the Chromebook Pixel 2015 suffers from the same HDPI problem with Linux distros that I've got with the 2013 version. I've got GalliumOS (https://galliumos.org) working, but it's somewhat unusable.

Linux Mint supports HDPI out-of-the-box, so that's what I'm going to try next...
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Sorry I wasn't clear enough: once you make the decision to use the lethal force of a gun, you keep shooting, as quickly and accurately as you can, until the threat is over. The only "judiciousness" in this comes in making the decision to start, and to stop after the threat is over, and of course the latter is not always clear.
You're right, I mixed him up with Evan Snow:

"He grabbed the item in the holster, he removed it from the holster, and he pointed it directly at me,” Snow testified.

http://missionlocal.org/2016/03/witness-says-alex-nieto-poin...

It's perfectly fine to draw a weapon to protect yourself from such a dog. But when the police show up and tell you to drop it, it's incredibly dangerous to refuse.
> If you do have a bad package manager, there is a cost of adding a dependency, and you should consider it. That's what pdkl95's point was.

That's great, and my point was that with a good package manager, that cost is effectively zero.

> And the dependency cost I talk about is universal -- any package manager that allows for easy package updates is open to critical packages being broken.

Automatic updates are a terrible idea, even if the developer purports to use "semantic versioning" and the update is supposed to be backwards compatible. Specifying a version should be mandatory.

Your package manager could easily notify you that updates are available, but it should never update for you. That's as "easy" as updates should get, because anything else inevitably introduces silent breaking changes.
It's a year old but I'm still really happy with the ASUS Zenbook (UX305FA) I got:

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2015/07/linux-zenbook-ux3...
This is amazingly cool. We've been using docker at Reflect (shameless: https://reflect.io) since we started it and even if we didn't have all the cgroups features, it'd be super helpful just to be able to run the stack on my laptop directly instead of having the Vagrant indirection.
You ask of evidence in a thread about a man being killed by police emptying multiple magazines into and the area around him. That doesn't even sound like shoot-to-kill that sounds like they were afraid to death.

There's plenty of more stories of where that one came from. Were you unaware of that?

It ultimately comes down to the relationship that you want the populace to have with their police force. A policy of shoot-to-kill tells the populace, that ultimately the lives of police are more valuable than that of any other citizen, and you better be terrified to be caught in any situation with the police where stress-levels are elevated.

A policy of shoot-to-disable, where killing an offender is a possibility, but it's a policy of using this lethal force as as a last resort, sends a message that the police actually care about the people they are trying to protect.

I'm not protesting police using guns, clearly there are situations where it's necessary to match and up the force of a threat. And clearly there are situations where police are justified in killing a human being.

I take issue to the police being justified in using lethal force as a first resort.

Surely we can train them better than "just try to hit the general area of where the suspect is, it's fine if you hit them in the head".
I keep been tempted by these.
I was fortunate enough to grow up in a good school district, in an area without many private schools or much income inequality, so I never had a personal problem with public schools.

> Turns out, there isn't a whole lot a teacher can do in the face of an overwhelming emphasis on testing and meeting state standards...

Pretty much. A friend of mine is currently trying to figure out whether he values education enough to put up with hostile, indifferent students and a culture of bullshit testing and teacher evaluation in a bad (but not inner-city bad) school district. He's a smart guy who could make the same money doing something else with way less effort and frustration, but he's also more of an idealist than I. When teachers are more respected and better paid than mobile app developers, we will have a better education system. I'm not holding my breath.
I really want Pokemon GO to be better than a re-skin of Ingress. I found that after several weeks of playing Ingress, I became so frustrated that I uninstalled it.

What ends up happening is that people who have more free time to walk around benefit more from people who only have a few hours in the evening to move around, but time throughout the day to look at the app. I was able to generate enough energy during the day and with a bit of coordination, controlled a good portion of Birmingham, AL for a while, but I realized that there were players who had practically all day to drive around and hit portals.

I suspect that Pokemon GO will suffer from this as well, where people who have more free time will end up ruining the game for people playing casually. It sounds stupid, but consider the scenario:

A new player joins the game. He has a job and a life, and can only spend about 90 minutes a day walking around. Luckily there is a few portals near his work and home so he works those for a few days. Then he starts getting the long-range support items, and can help defend portals across town. Eventually, he's strong enough to start solo-ing portals and defend some of his own portals, only for him to walk a few blocks and get a push notification that somebody just nuked the whole area. One user singlehandedly attacked several dozen portals in fifteen minutes, all across town.

It's so annoying. I played through it for a while, but eventually had a great evening spoiled by drivers, and I remember being so frustrated that I just uninstalled the game right there on the spot, and walked home in a sullen mood for the next hour.

I really want Pokemon GO to be better than that.
The correct stock/equity analogy of renting is that you don't own shares of XYZ; you do volunteer work for XYZ. You pay XYZ regular dividends instead of the other way around, you maintain the equipment of XYZ and so on.
I am very excited about the new Mac app and I want to try it.

At the moment I use dlite. The thing I love about it is that it's transparent. I hope that the new Mac app has an option or mode to be like that too (start on system boot, doesn't create a new desktop window/gui, SSH from terminal would be enough for me).

Something analogous to MacVim's -v flag; by default "mvim" opens a new app with its own window, but "mvim -v" starts Vim inside current terminal. Not a great analogy, sorry about that.

Thanks.
That's true, but I don't think that sofits should be viewed as capital/not-capital letters: they're not semantically altering the meaning of the word in wider context, like capital letters do.
I'm running Arch + Cinnamon on a Pixel 2 and HiDPI is not a problem at all. The last problem application for me as the Arduino IDE, but that has recently been fixed.
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Please, for all our eyes' sake, change the color of the font to something darker! Light-grey on white is just terrible.
Is there a whitepaper about it somewhere? I'd really like to know how much AI really is in there. Most chatbots work with markov-chains wich is more or less a trick with highly improbable conditional dependent events, and no AI at all...
A training set of pure vitriol.
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I use MacBook Air and Vagrant to run Linux (Ubuntu). Everything I need from Linux is a shell :) For other things OSX is enough.
OneDrive automated scanning?
I've seen different answers to this, so I'm still not sure. I understand that MS uses some automated processes on every photo uploaded to OneDrive (like PhotoDNA), but is that it? Do they employ something like flesh tone detection to detect nudity of UNSHARED (private) content and then manually check that content? Or does flesh tone detection only run when content is shared, meaning they effectively leave your private content alone and unscanned (except for the PhotoDNA)? I've read the revised service agreement, which clearly says that nudity is only against the rules in SHARED content and I saw the AMA, but I've also seen the occasional report of someone getting their account banned because of nude photos (not sure if we're getting the whole story, though), etc. Just looking for some clarification.
Google's c++ guidelines are idiosyncratic at best.
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By itself, no. Were the jacket and pants oversized? How did he style his hair and facial hair? Lots of ways to signal "I am a thug", even if you aren't.
Informing your representatives of issues you care about definitely makes a difference. They have jobs because people vote for them. If a vocal group feels strongly about one issue, and they campaign for that, the representative needs to pay attention or they risk losing their job.

Don't assume that someone else will represent you via a petition. Calling or writing yourself is much more powerful.
As clearly displayed by overeducated engineers in this thread. "Ahh people find anything offensive these days. If I say a Large company putting out a bot saying a mass murder of peoples is funny, it's funny, and not offensive. People should just learn to take in jokes hahaha"
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1.1 Editing with Emacs

closes book
Small modules are also often the result of dealing with different javascript implementations over the years. I've recently seen a simpler version of the left pad that would not have worked on multiple Safari versions or <IE6

The derision is unwarranted, due to a failure in critical thinking from otherwise smart people.
Yeah, tried to access our site and it was down.
Really was expecting more out of Digital Ocean than to fuck up such an integral part of their infrastructure. In the future we'll be transitioning away from their DNS solution because this is unacceptable.
That's a good point that's not often considered. That sounds like it should be part of a package manager too, because all you need is a license compatibility matrix.
I think that's an entirely reasonable policy.
Maybe this bot could be used to determine the insanity of a given community. I for one would look forward to what she could learn from 4Chan
> If personal politics and beliefs are not apart of the talk, I don't care.

You can't separate the two. Spouses invited to a speakers dinner? What if my spouse is also a man? What if my spouse is a different race? Should we give priority to people of color and women in the speaker selection process? Are trans people allowed in whichever bathrooms they want? Giving a talk on preventing fraud and abuse, where part of your belief system is "women should be free to give opinions online without bullying, trolling and harassment?" How are you supposed to give that talk without communicating a value system?
The same is now happening in Toronto. It's truly awful. So many great communities being destroyed by greed. Especially if you're someone who loves city life and does not want to move away.

CBC did a great piece on it: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episodes/the-condo-game
the thinkpad t460s is amazing...and supports up to 20gb ram.
I saw that discussion years ago about the G++ String implementation. That was a big .o file.
Vancouver rental prices are actually not that bad, as rent prices are usually more closely aligned with incomes (which are comparatively low in Vancouver).

Prices to buy in Vancouver are completely insane and detached from local incomes.
Yes, I think this issue has been addressed for a while – it was solved in a release of Virtualbox. I'm sure that 5.0+ doesn't have the conflict with xhyve.
How many applicants (roughly) have you had total? That would be a useful piece of information to put this anecdote in context.
Oh wow, let's see how long this account lasts. Might as well named yourself fuck_pg.