skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notice I said "for similar, non-violent crimes" and "disproportionate"

The article you linked said blacks were being disproportionately arrested because they were selling outdoors, whereas whites were selling indoors. Assuming it is true though, are we really going to pretend that it's simply the difference in skin color and has nothing to do with a culture that glorifies criminal behavior, disregards the rule of law and preys on larger society. If these antisocial subcultures were distributed evenly between the races then we wouldn't even be having this conversation. The unfortunate and uncomfortable fact is that they are more prevalent in specific minorities. But the fact that we can't even talk about this in a straight forward and rational way exacerbates the problem.

I'll give you that historical prejudice has played a huge role though. Historical being the key word. I am completely with you on ending the War on Drugs. If we spent a fraction of our energy on that as opposed to promoting these toxic identity politics, then maybe we would have actually made some progress by now. Despite all of our best intentions, race relations are getting worse and nobody seems to know why. Hmm.
O'RLY? In a fit of masochism, I watched this:

http://www.spike.com/shows/life-or-debt/episode-guide
"Til Debt Do Us Part" - Season 1, Ep 7.
You may be roughly in the ballpark with what you are saying but you are in my opinion misconstruing the biggest part of this, and where my opinion stems from:

The damage caused per life affected is so unbelievably massive. Alcohol affects millions of lives to some small degree. Heroin affects a small number of lives to an unimaginable degree.

The WHO has a statistic on DALYs lost to etoh vs opiates and no doubt etoh causes a lot of early death and disability. However it is also the only restricted substance on the list that has a positive contribution to DALYs as well (through the beneficial effects of alcohol).

Apologies for not bringing up the source as I am on mobile and I last saw this slide in Med school
As a Boulder, CO resident I'm extremely proud that our representative co-authored this bill. Polis is one of the few representatives that seem to always be on the side of privacy.
http://polis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3...
You don't need to know the history to be frustrated with Californian infrastructure.

Been living in southern California for most of my life and have hated most of it. I can't go anywhere without a car. The public transportation is terrible and I have to travel 3 miles for a fucking grocery store. This isn't just southern California and the LA area, but most of California from what I experienced. I'm excited for the day that I can leave, but I have no idea when that will be...
I'm really wondering to which package manager you are comparing, because except cargo, all the other language package managers are either worse, or just straight crap.

Linux distro package managers are usually decent, but most of them are binary package managers and don't offer the same set of feature, so it's a bit different (and they are a fair bit older too).
Sure, but most bakeries don't even have that goal. I purposefully said about providing for workers - especially owners - by means of getting money in exchange of bread. When we're talking about networks of baker shops, the owners usually couldn't care less about what they're selling, as long as people are willing to buy that.

And as I said, it's fine. But the most important way in which SpaceX is different than most is that for Elon and his company, Mars and space are terminal goals, while profit is only means to get there. It's exactly the opposite to how most companies operate.
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another recent example of "never trust the client" is the amazon kindle unlimited debacle.

in case you missed it: the client syncs the last page read. so you can buy a book, jump to the last side and amazon marks it as read, without checking for intermediate states.

the problem is: amazon pays authors by "pages read". so people publish fake books with 3000 pages, let sweat shops try the book for free and just jump from the first to the last page, sync and it registers with "this customer read all 3k pages".

now create 20 fake author accounts and 30 fake reader accounts, publish 20 fake 3k books (one for each fake author account and they're practically filled with 3k pages of randomly scraped web content) and you got 20303000 = 1.800.000 pages read.

if you are an aspiring author and publish a novella with, say, 50 pages and 10.000 readers devour every single page of it, you've got 500.000 pages read.

the faker can do this in a week and take about 4 times more than, even though it took you 2 months to write it. payouts are out of a pot shared between all authors. thus, authors lose in the short run (less money now), cheaters win big time (a lot money now), amazon doesn't lose money (now) because the payout is the same.

in the long run it's still problematic because small authors are unhappy once they realize what's afoot (and earn 1k instead of 10k). big name authors don't care as much if they earn 1m or 1.1m. customers aren't likely to buy the fake books anyway (cheaters take them offline before the free trial period ends) so they're not really affected.
Note that multicore includes two separate "features": the algebraic effects abstractions, and the multi-core runtime (domain heaps). From what I understand, OCaml's multi-core effort will include both of these as well as some improvements to garbage collection.
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So why do you think most games use p2p?
> I'll echo the GP post - I'm a bit surprised at the amount of surprise. Maybe we need to be doing a better job of educating people about these things (or conversely, maybe we need to do a better job of sticking our heads outside our respective bubbles).

I get everything you're saying and as I said I am not in the same industry but I've taken cursory looks and 2,000 still seems high to me. But I'm not saying they're doing it wrong and I have to be right, etc; I would just love a breakdown to get an idea for how they manage / use so many employees.

For instance Nabisco has a large factory that has 1,200 employees that handles the making, packaging and shipping out of about 320 million pounds of snack food a year. Granted they're a crazy huge company so not comparable but it shows what 1,200 people can do to some degree in food manufacturing but obviously there are huge differences there. It's hard to find a company of similar market size that I actually know of to compare employee counts.

Do you have any references for employee utilization / counts at various food manufacturers / distributors?
No notification needed (just like you wouldn't tell someone you were tapping their phone) - though the HR669 writers wanted to include a clause that would make that required too. It got stripped out in committee.

Self-hosted stuff is an interesting question. You might be able to plead the fifth, but I really have no idea.
That's quite a list! I can't really compete at all, apart from to say that I too was rejected by Deloitte, in somewhat amusing circumstances - having negotiated the necessary hoops to get to a final interview, the very nice lady interviewing me asked what should, really, have been a very simple question: "Why do you want to become an accountant?" Sadly some sort of terrible realisation hit me at this point and I froze, looked at her in horror, paused for an eternity before finally answering, "Well, I've always liked numbers!" She looked baffled. I started laughing. She started laughing too (probably, in retrospect, nervously). That was the end of my fledgling career as an accountant.
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But held cash assets belonging to the estate and passed onto children/spouse are not taxed.
do they not need a warrant for emails not 180 days old?

Edit: Do they need a warrant for emails less than 180 days old?
The thing is, driving is actually a human right.
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"But reading farther, the "red flag" seems more like a "blazing conflagration". In the abstract, they explain that the reason that 1504 to 1515 is considered unreliable is because the written record says that lake didn't freeze for those that 8 consecutive winters. They argue in the abstract that since this is so statistically unlikely, it must be wrong. So this paper is eliminating data as unreliable because of non-freezes, and then concluding that the current string of non-freezes is unprecedented!" That's hilarious. How on earth is that justifiable?
No, are you trolling? I was hardly the only one on this post who didn't get ads for that search. You are the first person to mention the mobile version of any browser so I did the same search with Chrome on Android using DDG and... Gee, the Google Chrome website is still the first result. The only time I got an ad was with the Canadian version of Bing. Note, I am using the DDG website NOT the app or extension.
He has voting control of the company. Literally everyone but him can vote against it and it will still pass.
> OpenAI is not a charity.

https://backchannel.com/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinator-plan-... includes quote from Musk:

> And as a result of a number of conversations, we came to the conclusion that having a 501c3, a non-profit, with no obligation to maximize profitability, would probably be a good thing to do.

A 501c3 is a charity. Is "not a charity" inaccurate, or did OpenAI decide on some other organizational form, perhaps a trade association?
As I noted in my own mention http://highlandsun.com/hyc/#Make I originally wrote that patch back in 1991. There was no such thing as threads back then. Even in 1999 the POSIX threads spec was only up to Draft 6 or so, not yet finalized. Nobody sane would write production code for such a moving target (oh, except maybe Microsoft, using Draft4 to create the Windows NT threads API).
Qt is also free to use in commercial projects. I believe fftw had the sort of dual license you have in mind.
>This is not a publicly traded company, Musk has no need to satisfy shareholders.

You don't have to be a public company to be beholden to shareholders.
That would be stupid. Double the amount of work for no increment in functionality.
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I disagree about people being able to manage opiates responsibly.

Yes I have read the rolling stone or NYT articles describing people who hold down regular jobs and hit heroin once a day, and have done that for years. But what a fucked up life. You think they're doing that for fun?

Read my above comment regarding the methadone program. Look into the root of the problem. Opiates cannot be responsibly managed by the masses (OK, there's a reasonable argument to be made that either can alcohol).

I personally know 2 people who got sucked down the drain with opiates, and i am a white upper middle class Australian - these two guys were as well; one was a medical school buddy who has recently blown his license because of it despite being one of the most intelligent guys in my grade, the other was a guy I went to school with, the same thing, a pure genius, and he is dead.

Now every drug you take has a certain chance of causing addiction. Some people taste alcohol once and loose control. Some people get addicted to smoking. and some people will try heroin once and decide it's not for them, and get on with their lives. But do you know who are the ones who won't be able to stop? And when the consequences of getting addicted are literally flushing your entire life down the toilet, how can we as a society condone a section of ourselves to play this lottery?
It's not just quality control on the part of the transformer manufacturer. It was a cheap design. They could've completely isolated the two transformer windings, either with heavy tape, or wound them on two separate bobbins. That way, if the enamel on the wire wears off, the two sides are still completely isolated. I still agree with your conclusion, though.
IKEA is a good example of this in Europe.
I don't want to be pedantic, but I'm going to be pedantic (sorry!)

You can get Erlang style concurrency out of ... JVM languages (scala/akka; quasar)

This is a little misleading. Yea, akka gives you actors, and on the surface they look similar to erlang processes (they have a receive block, and a ! function call), but I think the more subtle differences are what make erlang interesting, and ultimately really pleasant to work with
1) akka is not preemptive multitasking. actors are multiplexed across a thread pool, so it's possible to do blocking IO and screw a bunch of other actors up inadvertently
2) the whole gc thing that applies across the vm.

all sorts of wonderful things fall out of the two properties above, things which you need to work really hard to get in an akka world.

as far as foreign interfaces to python, it's certainly possible with something like jinterface, but I'm not really sure what the point would be. generally you leave erlang behind for similar reasons you might leave python behind (things that are cpu bound). jinterface exists because java does a whole bunch of stuff well that erlang falls down at, so they can complement each other nicely. I'm not sure there are as many of those cases with python.
If you host your own private server, from what I recall reading (and looks consistent with a cursory Google search), a warrant is required to review your emails.

Edit: looks like it only applies to in-home servers, not hosted ones.
>> his stated goal is to keep 1% of his money in the family for the next generation. Right now that 1% is 357 million

1% likely won't be anywhere near 357 million after another 10 years, let alone in 50+ years. Evaluations of wealth based on assets and stocks almost never wind up trading for that amount of cash. You are worth what you can liquidate today, not what market "experts" think your portfolio could be worth in some theoretical perfect scenario.
The problem with low density housing is you then need to drive a long way to get to someplace that isn't just more tract-housing.

I saw this a few years ago, what's interesting is the high variation in density, from 4 units per acre to over 300. A density variation of 75 to 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUvR9QNAzvc
There is nothing surprising about this. All government regulations are like this at one point people simply stop giving fucks to these rules.

I am pretty sure everyone company out there violating some kind of regulation. Do you know that it is illegal to throw a dry cell in your usual waste basket ?

In such systems people who have complete disregard for law, who are exploitative who are willing to bribe or threaten government official tend to succeed at faster rate than usual law abiding citizens leading to India or China like situations.
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Yup. There are also organizations who meet and research about contacting aliens. Doing research is not evidence of validity or progress.

One thing to note though is these efforts are often put forth by some hard working folks and the product can be something great.

For example, "Thinking Machines" [1] [2], founded in 1983 in Cambridge and defunct in 1994. The folks who spent effort there would later take their knowledge of parallel programming and built a tool called An Initio as a successor company. The tool was way ahead of its time. It'd maximize resource usage on a machine in parallel without much technical knowledge needed by the developer. They made a boat load off of deploying this tool on internal datasets at many major companies for what was then called "data warehousing".

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/406781/thinking-machines/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation
But note that a married couple gets twice that, so a married couple can give nearly $11 million to their children completely tax free (PLUS children get a step up in basis on any capital assets that are inherited). Only a teeny, teeny percentage of estates meet that threshold.
What is that fallacy where you draw a dichotomy where none exists? Of course we can do both.
They have had full natural language AI in every Star Trek franchise - except maybe the Scott Bakula one ( Enterprise? ) which I didn't watch . So I'd think updates would be largely a solved problem. Heck, the computer might patch itself.
It's pathetic but I wouldn't put it past our elected officials to do this.
So, if I understand correctly, the FBI doesn't really know how the phone was hacked? Wouldn't that also mean that they don't really know if the data their contractors retrieved from the phone is really from the phone?
We agree about the whiteboard thing. I'm only pushing back on the argument that these things aren't relevant to front-end.
No, of course not. You don't need to know the history of anything at all to be frustrated with it or hate it. But being frustrated with it doesn't make inaccurate blanket statements about the history of the place more accurate. I was not arguing with your right to be frustrated. I was just pointing out that some of your blanket statements were not accurate. Even if it doesn't benefit you personally, I hope it benefits someone.

Good luck getting out.
Good point. Though I suspect others will go along as well.
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To be fair, lets compare a colony on Mars with, say, a colony on top of Mt Everest. Little or no oxygen; massively inhospitable environment; staggeringly difficult to get there or get cargo there; radiation hazard due to thin atmosphere; negligible resources once you arrive.

Except, of course, that Mt Everest would be childs play compared to Mars.
Is this the first release of this app? I thought that previously the standard google calendar app was just AOSP Calendar, but I prefer the AOSP apps anyway so maybe I didn't notice the shift earlier?

Anyway, in case I'm right, it's probably useful to point out that this is another non-free app that's being marketed as a replacement for an existing free app that works perfectly fine. Not condemning Google for it (although I do wish they'd stop), just pointing out that if you don't find the new headline feature or visual redesign interesting, and you care about free software, you can go ahead and use the old app. Maybe fork it too, since it won't be getting any feature upgrades any time soon...
While not about radiation hardening or redundant hardware, this article shows how StarCraft's developers discovered and handled random hardware failure: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway

The bug webpage mentioned in the article is dead, and clicking the link subtly redirects you. Here's the archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20140824005145/http://www.guildwa...
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nostrademons, love your name and comments but disagree with a few points.

>>> That's not the Silicon Valley mindset

Having grown up in the heart of the valley, Palo Alto, traveled the country and the world in the military, and now back working in tech, my observation is that this mindset is more SV than people give it credit for. It’s better packaged as meritocracy and innovation but the results are fairly apparent in the disparity of economic outcomes. I like a lot of aspects of the SV mindset (engineer focused, innovation focused, risk and failure tolerant) and know a lot of good people in SV, but I wouldn’t imbue it a purity above Wall Street, or Hollywood, or D.C. or any other power center. All are fairly dismissive of flyover country and self-assured in their wealth, power, and status.

>>> skeptical of any politician… They’re using you;

I got used by the military for a decade and assume everyone is using me. Haven’t seen much change in SV. But I’m also a sucker for trusting people. Life ain’t easy.

>>> Economically frustrated masses are a very good way to gain power.

Yes, but they are also the primary internal way to change power structures. And democracy allows us to do this in a controlled fashion through law.

>>> thinking locally… opting out of the national conversation

While I agree with the ethos of thinking locally, to the extreme it can also be taken as, "Don’t worry about the big things, leave that too other people. Don’t worry about what the hirer-ups are doing, just do your job. Don’t worry about the country, you can’t change anything” As a Veteran, I disagree with the attitude of total disengagement. I got sent to war by politicians. Only two presidential candidates are saying the Iraq war was stupid. That gets my vote. These decisions are life and death for people.
As a Vermont resident, I'm happy Senator Batman (Leahy) co-authored the Senate version.
Same here, and I was very confused at first. I thought maybe it could also be some kind of desirable state for a VR horror game dev?
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Can you give any more insight into this product? Curious what kind of product would have that be ok from a business perspective...
If you can establish self-sustaining societies on multiple planets you eliminate humanity's greatest threat - the fact that Earth is a single point of failure.
A couple reasons:

1. Legally, Zuckerberg still bears fiduciary responsibility for all shareholders. If he decided to pay himself all the profits as CEO, he would get sued, and lose.
2. Almost all of Zuckerberg's wealth is tied up in his FB shares. If he starts acting in a way such that other investors don't believe he will support their interests, the value of those shares will go down. It would hurt Zuckerberg a lot more than anyone else.
> they can tell it to a judge and get a search warrant

This is clearly an attempt to ignore Riley v. California. As Justice Roberts said at the end of the unanimous opinion[1]:

Our answer to the question of what police must do before
searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is
accordingly simple—get a warrant.

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/573/13-132/opini...
No, overfitting is a real thing. Overfitted learning algorithms are generally worse at generalizing their ability to broader examples and new situations.

The types of candidates who spend the time necessary to memorize algorithm trivia for the sake of passing these exams are exactly like overfitted learning algorithms. What they happen to know is unlikely to generalize well. Of course you could get lucky and hire someone like that who can generalize, but that's rare. More often, since hiring is political, you pat yourself on the back for how "good" the candidate is (based on some trivia) and make excuses when their on-the-job performance isn't what you'd hoped, and find ways to deflect attention from that so that you, as an inefficient hirer, won't be called out on it.

Willingness to waste time overfitting yourself to algorithm trivia absolutely predicts worse later-on performance than candidates with demonstrated experience and pragmatism (e.g. I'm not wasting my time memorizing how to solve tricky things that rarely matter. I will look them up / derive them / figure them out when/if I need them).

If given the choice between hiring a math/programming olympiad winner vs. a Macgyver/Edison-like tinkerer who may not be able to explain how to convert between Thevenin and Norton circuit forms, but who took their family radio apart and put it back together, Macgyver/Edison wins every time (unless you're hiring for bullshit on-paper prestige, and of course many places are while proclaiming loudly that they aren't).
Perhaps I'm interpreting it wrong? Possibly one of the other references I didn't find online gives a more charitable interpretation. Or maybe this reference clarifies in the body of the paper. But on the surface, it does seem hilarious.