skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the outright assertion that a black suspect would have been shot is unjustified, it seems counterintuitive to simultaneously make reference to one erroneous snap judgment (the cop assuming the white woman was not the shooter) without acknowledging the other side of that coin. Why is the cop an allowable surrogate of societal stereotypes when he assumes the white woman is not the shooter, but an "individual that makes his own decisions, and has his own opinions, views and predispositions" when an alternative hypothetical is presented?
Hi! Popper.js dev here.

There are several advantages:

- The size is half of Tether (3.5 vs 7);

- Popper.js doesn't need any additional CSS in your page;

- It works even with elements not placed as direct children of body;

- It's much much faster (compare both on mobile, you'll see Tether lagging a lot!);

- It automatically detects the size of the tooltip arrow;

- Inside Popper.js you already have a way to create tooltip elements automatically, with Tether you need an additional library;

- Popper.js supports particular "flip" behaviors, you can decide that if there's not space on the left, the tooltip must move on the bottom (for example);

- The whole code is fully documented with JSDoc!

I hope this answers your question
Donald Blankenship Sentenced to a Year in Prison in Mine Safety Case
Just a warning, this isn't a magic bullet to replace all A/B testing. This is great for code that has instant feedback and/or the user will only see once, but for things where the feedback loop is longer or the change is more obvious or longer lasting (like a totally different UI experience), it doesn't work so well.

For example, if your metric of success is that someone retains their monthly membership to your site, it will take a month before you start getting any data at all. At that point, in theory almost all of your users should already be allocated to a test because hopefully they visited (and used) their monthly subscription at least once. So it would be a really bad experience to suddenly reallocate them to another test each month.
Hardcore History: Wrath of the Khans – Genghis Khan
It seems the water and sewage system is 100% funded by water and sewage rates[1], whereas MTA's budget of course comes from entirely different sources (toll revenue, sales tax, petroleum business tax, NYC real estate transfer taxes, and payroll tax)[2].

The annual transit budget is immense compared to even the total cost of NYC Water Tunnel 3.

1. http://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwaterboard/html/home/home.shtml

2. http://www.tstc.org/101/mta.php
Class-Action Suit Targets System That Added a Baby to Terrorist Watchlist
And I know a lots of companies that host on cloud, and made a cost saving after moving away from managed hosting because they were charging so much to look after it.

Github, Stackoverflow, and Wikipedia probably have very good dedicated specialists who salaries only make sense when you operate on their scale.
I agree to that with respect to many AWS services more especially s3. However I find it hard to believe about RDS. I have spent thousands for dollars on AWS bills and never ever used RDS. Always setup my own db servers.
Well I got to be the instructor for that day's class :)

My favorite is short example:

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. Matt. 5:45 (NLT)

Rain in a semi-arid agriculture area was a good thing. People read it and think God sends bad things to also. So when something bad happens people will quote this verse.

I also like the Prodigal Son (It really is the Parable of the Older Brother). People miss the main point and think it is about bad children coming back to the Father (Its a side point) The main point is the Older Brother was mad that the Father was nice to the bad son.
I recently started using PHPStorm for some of my PHP coding. They have an interesting hybrid purchase model that I consider very fair.

The way it works is that there's a monthly subscription to start using it. While you're paying monthly, you get every update included. The twist is that, after 12 months of payments, you obtain a perpetual license. If you decide to stop the subscription at any time, you're able to continue using up to the most recent update before you canceled.
Android ImageGallery Library
My spooky moment was when some piece by Richard Wagner starts playing and the camera pans up to Fuhrman with his Nazi memorabilia. I thought that was very well done.

I agree with you on this being a guilty pleasure. I started watching expecting some kind of cheesy overproduced show that I'll stop watching after two episodes but I was hooked. I kept looking for all the 90's detail in there and they did a lot of that right.

I kept going to YouTube during the shows to revisit scenes and they did a remarkably good job of giving me 90's nostalgia. The courtroom artist has an interesting take on it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/04/0....
Or just ship a free Nest or $200 Nest/Google gift card to every Revolv customer still online as of Jan 1 2016.
Overwatch's latency compensation techniques
As a working software developer at age 55 I appreciate some of what the author is saying. Your salary peaks. Your upward mobility peaks. People who move into leadership positions quickly pass you in terms of material assets. All true. When has it ever not been true? There's something else that is true: not everyone is suited to be a leader, and there are relatively fewer positions for leaders compared to followers. Ultimately you have try to be happy doing something to put food on the table. Perhaps if the author was a leader he would not have passed up those opportunities. Something inside would have nudged him in that direction, rather than in the safe direction of practicing what he already knew how to do. Ultimately, the piece just reads like the regret of a mature person looking backward at the choices he's made. I've made some I regret as well, and if I can learn from them that's great. But pining after a re-do is not the path to a happy existence, at least for me.
Also gives weight to the idea that when presenting, authenticity is everything. Jobs, according to countless close acquaintances, was very much the person he was on stage.
De Blasio didn't reduce the price of water. So, to whatever extent that's a regressive tax, it didn't go away. He diverted the money elsewhere.

This isn't really a story about taxes. It's a story about risk tolerance.
Can we get the same thing for the EU referendum?
To clarify: commenter above states that the pretty rainbow "drops the perceptual uniformity that often makes HCL useful." My point is that you shouldn't claim one is more useful than the other without specifying the problem domain you're optimizing for. Also the language itself isn't helpful: "perception" is fuzzy by definition and we have two distinct positions on what "uniformity" means. You've now added the magic word "model" to the mix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

If any of this were obvious, Adobe wouldn't have stupid color pickers and I wouldn't have three wildly diverging ways for adjusting audio volume and light levels in my home.
It is, but isn't it also the case that secret court filings are as old as the US courts? How else would espionage prosecutions work? Similarly, how would complicated organized crime investigations work without secrecy? Isn't the alternative that prosecutors get exactly one bite at the apple, and if they're wrong, the target of the investigation is tipped off?

The case that ultimately appears before the court, of course, needs to be transparent. And the evidence collected by the prosecution must be made available to the defendant. But this isn't that.
How Should Your Online Business Respond When It Gets a Negative Review
I implemented my own that I'll be making available for others soon at improve.ai (the site isn't up yet)
The OnHub is a quite polished product.
Can I ask you to elaborate on how and why? I instinctively agree with you, I think, but I don't know how to explain it.
They can just substitute a whole fake disk. It's not like actual evidence bothers them. There is absolutely no down-side to the government lying; at the end of the day, they get to go home no matter what.
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Great point and I totally agree with you. Treating everything like a black box that just shove money into isn't going to take you far either :)
Thank you for this post. We have a really bad habit of chasing "cutting edge" fads as an industry. It must come from the tendency of programmers to burn out and bow out, which exacerbates the tendency of young bucks to lack any respect for their elders. Software dev is still a very immature industry.

I respect Brendan Eich a great deal and I truly appreciate what he did for NetScape in 1995 by introducing JavaScript. What I don't appreciate is that we decided to extrapolate that madly-rushed, designed-and-implemented-in-less-than-a-week-of-all-nighters language not only into the default client side language for the web for the last 2 decades, but we have also allowed very badly informed people to start using it for server-side applications.

There has to be a way to bring order to this chaos. Any ideas?
Add quizzes to your apps
A number of Chicago skyscrapers are cooled with ice made during off-peak hours. The OP's article mentions ice as some new technique. It's been done in production for a long time now.

http://enwavechicago.com/
I am in my early 40s, and I thought 40s would be different as I will have less home pressures, and more time to myself. Also, I will be mature to take on challenges.

Doesn't work that way. Please start today.. don't hope for a things changing in 40s as it will come to your very very fast.
There has always been, and always will be, class in a society of people. Even among "progressive" societies like coastal North American cities, classism exists. It may be seperating people based on what level of educational attainment you have, or even how politically correct you act around peers (the more the better...?), but it will exist no matter what.

Status was once (and perhaps still is) a useful metric for the level of contribution someone offered a community - doctors, lawyers and others like them get status because status is what a community could use in lieu of payment as a means of expressing gratitude for the useful service the person provides. We attribute status to athletes, musicians, companies and others for the same reason - they give us something we want.

In order to feel like one belongs you must have acceptance from your community, be it a street gang or a country club. One of the most critical dimensions of the character of a person is how you treat someone that you do not have to treat well.

So we should use our progressive monocultural aspirations for good (treat people fairly and as they want to be treated) instead of just talking about how much you want to save the world while you reject people who have a lesser degree than you.
> And I know a lots of companies that host on cloud, and made a cost saving after moving away from managed hosting.

Can you provide a citation? Because AWS tools _are managed hosting_. They're just managed hosting without support (unless you're paying AWS for it on top of the service cost).
Is this just running the SF SoQL statement for you and storing the aggregated result in a Segment table?

Or does Segment provide a way to completely clone entire SF tables such as Opportunities & Cases and then create the aggregate queries later in segment?
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That's actually a good explanation of your point. Thanks.
The 'everything you build as a developer is extremely temporary' was something I had to learn over the years. I used to make video games, and I grew up being able to play my old games no problem, but now nothing is physical, everything is sandboxed in an app store (or intrinsically glued into a website) and disappears the instant the company disappears, or moves on to a new project, unless you work on a major title.

And even if that weren't the problem, there's such a firehose of games getting released constantly that people no longer value them, and move on to the next game after barely spending any time with the existing one, unless you intentionally manipulate their psychology with some free to play garbage.

That's part of the reason why I now feel so drawn to board games, as they at least still have physical boxes that can last for decades.
The BI space is absurd. BI viz is the photo apps of the b2b world. Everyone and their grandma thinks they can make one. Lots of VC money gonna get burned.
Oh thats really interesting. I've never read CONAME before so I'll check it out. It sounds like its definitely worth evaluating more.

I've wonder if things like multi-device support or deriving a private key from a passphrase (mini-lock style) will eventually make user identity far less likely to change. Then it might be safer to complain louder when your in the situation that someone's identity has changed.
When you reject a big company, is when you become big
Are there any open source text expanders? I guess even a blog on how to build one would be helpful.
Ways to paginate in Postgres: From the basic to the exotic
Captains of the era were known for keeping meticulous navigational and meteorological records. Did this hold true even for those indulging in secret activities?
Maybe in the US.
As yet, this isn't the world's reaction, merely Iceland's. From what I can tell, most of the outrage seems to be from governments wanting to know where their tax money is - popular outrage seems to be minimal.

Although to be fair, the momentum would probably take more time to build in larger countries with more diverse and complex societies.
NY generates a tax surplus because every retirement fund in America flows through Wall Street. Don't over glorify it.
Show HN: Property Inspection and Insurance for Home-Sharing
Panasonic says it has developed the world’s best weather model
More like, it has become like that. Because of complete disregard/disrespect for the US constitution. The constitution had numerous safeguards to restrict abuse of power, but the Federal Government is completely sitting on it.
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Was any evidence withheld here? Or is it instead the case that the original FISA warrant was withheld (being part of a complicated counterespionage case), and the defense feels that given the full warrant, they might be able to defeat the search and have the CP evidence excluded?
Japanese researchers developed Graphene superconductivity – Graphene Uses
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> I hadn't even considered anybody but Labour/Conservative

See this: https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/how-vote

And note that "You have 2 choices for Mayor" so you don't have to confine your vote to the usual two big parties for tactical reasons. If you vote for a "small" party with little chance it's not wasted, you have a second choice as backup.

Preferential voting: It's a good thing!
Creative block? Here’s the neuroscience of how to fix that
They don't say anything about how to determine the value. In general, it seems to me that this decision will create a lot of uncertainty about what is copyrighted and what is free.

They do say that the test is whether someone _could_ sell it for money, so the fact that in this case Wikimedia is a non-profit and does it for free does not affect the outcome.
It sounds like we're in similar positions. Programming is indeed a very cushy job. I almost got sucked in and became lazy and dependent on it (and maybe will yet, but hopefully not). It's a dangerous game.

I don't want to end up like my older professional peers in 10, 20, or 30 years. Most of them are very smart people, but in a way pathetic at the same time.

On the positive side, we should be able to leverage the cushiness for our own benefit. I'm planning to travel and work part time this summer while continuing to work my regular job remotely. I've enjoyed the little farm and construction work I've done in the past and would like to do more. Not only do I feel healthier when I spend more time away from technology, but it's much more enriching.
Not everyone southerner has "southern" values. The south also has urban areas where people lean more to the left than their rural counterparts. There are just fewer of them. They (unfairly) get stuck with the same stereotypes.
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A few points:

1. It's the author's personal blog.

2. The author didn't submit it here, they just put it up on their personal blog. They didn't pretend to be unbiased and then publish a story on a tech news site. They have no responsibility to you just because you found it via a news aggregation site.

3. The author could have easily done this on their own time without any employer involvement at all.

4. Just because the author works for Canonical does not necessarily mean they have any connection to the phone project.

5. The author's employer may have a policy against identifying as a part of the company on personal websites (but no similar policy for social media).
In English a quiz generally has a right answer and is used to test knowledge.

>You can add a set of questions and the final answer is based on the most checked options.

This describes a poll.
Hi HN!

We put together a product to help bring safety and transparency to home-sharing. We offer free property inspections and give hosts a property profile with a score (x/100) that they can share on their listings. This way guests can get an objective view before booking vs. relying on traditional ratings.

We also offer home-sharing liability insurance that is platform agnostic! We calculate insurance premiums based on traditional risk modeling combined with our own inspections. Our prices have come out 20-30% cheaper than legacy insurance providers.

Let us know if you have any thoughts/questions!
Author here... SSLPing was born as a side project. I'll be glad to read any critics/questions/whatever
Hey pkrein, I am a Segment fan and startup-scale user of your warehouse service. The warehouse service is super convenient, but its main shortfall for us is that you don't offer historical backfilling of data more than 60 days before the warehouse was enabled. That is the data we need in our warehouse most.

There are other ways to load in Salesforce, Zendesk, or Stripe data. It is certainly nice to be able to do that all with Segment -- but it is not necessary. Sources is nice to have, but the core warehouse service is not really complete (for us, and I suspect others too) until you can seamlessly support data backfill at all price tiers. A one-time fee for backfill fee would be okay, but saying "no we don't support that" makes me sad.
I think anything approximating segmentation of the population into "cops" , "criminals" and "us" (or "other") is a category error.
I exclusively ride Uber because there's no tipping. More honest pricing is great.
This is really what I wanted to use the Google Image API to do.

But it's way too expensive.

All I wanted was keywords for alt-text, dimensions for placeholder, and the dominant colour for placeholder background.

https://cloud.google.com/vision/

The price for that would be $7.50 per 1,000 images for the first million images.

I have some 60,000 images on the site I run and don't happen to have $450 in loose change laying around (the whole site costs less than that to run each month).

I guess I don't care about alt tags that much.
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"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -jwz

Thanks to Wikipedia, I found that this may have been an earlier one-liner by Greg Kuperberg:

Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.humor.funny/browse_thread...
And at least it seems like Canonical is dogfooding. These wasn't an in-depth review that struck me as masquerading as an objective write up from a non-bias source.
I always find Facebook's example feed to be funny since it's a completely unrealistic depiction of what their site actually is for most users.

Just quickly looking at the top few posts in my feed, I see someone celebrating their two year friendship with someone I don't know, one person sharing a link to a new airplane, four people sharing videos, one person liking a sponsored video, and finally one person updating their profile picture.

I wish I could see actual updates from people instead of being kept abreast as to what piece of third party content they've liked at some point in time, what third party content they're sharing, etc.
Tell me again why well-off American programmers continue living in that country without the most basic of human rights?

It's time to go. You can still access us-east-1 from the civilized bits of Europe, you know.

It has now been between 2 and 10 years since the time where it became totally unreasonable to continue living there while other options are available to you.

Don't wait until the trumped-up federal charges. Move now.
Will def check it out, thanks!
I never said "demanding a premium for their time" was hype. I said having to call yourself a "Software Engineer" or "Architect" instead of a programmer was hype, and I still think it is.

I'd personally rather have someone show me the real work they've done to convince me that they knew what they were doing, rather than giving themselves a meaningless title to convince me how good they are.

There are plenty of "Software Engineers" and "Architects" out there that couldn't program their way out of a wet paper sack.

Fundamentally our disagreement is on the importance of the title. Yes, I will concede that there are some people who will be impressed by it, and maybe even be a bit more likely to hire you because of it.

I just don't think that's a good thing.

I know too many people who have been burned by others who used such language, who actually didn't know what they were doing, and as a consequence others who did know what they were doing lost their jobs, and the company spent millions to try to recover, or just plain went out of business.
Would a valid alternative interpretation be that capacity to perform installations is lagging behind capacity to manufacture panels?
You still have to tune the configuration of RDS instances, and they can make some administrative tasks more difficult because they don't grant SUPER and/or don't allow system-level access. For example, you can't use innobackupex/xtrabackup on an RDS instance.

I appreciate that it is often worthwhile to just pay someone else to handle things for your company, but I think people are too quick to flip the switch one way or the other; they either run everything "in the cloud" or nothing there. The truth is that as with most things, there is a happy medium tailored to each company's specific circumstances.

AWS is very expensive. People underestimate how expensive it is. When we switched to AWS, our monthly bill was about 70% the total cost to buy (not rent, buy) all the machines in our old bare-metal datacenter, which were still perfectly performant (we switched because the execs wanted to be super-duper cool cloud users, not because of any real technical limitation, though there are pros and cons to it).

I have to think this is fairly common. I hear a popular trick to net a big savings in your first year as CFO is to just force the tech guys to cut out Amazon and replace it with a cheaper cloud provider or colocated bare-metal.