skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is what made this guys case easy:

"faced a life term before pleading guilty just days before a trial, striking a deal"

I don't see a jury and it wasn't proven beyond a reasonable doubt either. He simply decided a plea deal was a more likely better outcome.

So how is it that prosecutors can't conjure up a single case against a top exec, slap together a long list of charges and get a plea deal out? This is pretty much their job description nowadays. Juries don't enter into it.
I had started a project with .Net Core about 8 months ago. I figured that I should start a new project using the latest goodies, and there'd not likely be THAT may breaking changes. Boy, was I wrong. I went back to .NET 4.5, and now will wait for the release before I begin using it. But I assume that projects like ServiceStack don't have that luxury, and just have to deal with all the breaking changes. Hopefully that aggravation has slowed down this year.
seems the fact he's alive puts that into question.
Good doesn't always mean high partying, though. It can just as easily mean 'not a soul crushing retail job.'

Likewise, my brother never got into cs because both of our parents worked in grey cubicle hells. People evaluate jobs on many factors other than pay.
Emulating CloudABI, part 2: syscalls and vDSO
The binary between female and male is kind of awkward to say, especially if you're using biological terms. I'm pretty sure that intersex is considered a very normal, if relatively rare,variation of human sex biology. Intersex isn't extremely rare either and isn't a defect so the idea of a biological binary confuses me.
Hm Im an American (and a Nerd) and that doesn't sound at all right to me. The N word is used to denigrate anyone who does well academically. Its used to shore up self-image for those that don't do well I imagine - "Sure Joe is great at this subject but that's Nerdy so Ha! I'm superior to him" There was never any need to brag, to be called a Nerd. Just score well, and the bullies would whisper (and yell in the hall) Nerd!
Of course. But you may also correctly presume that I'll question why this would cost US$100/m for a "dev" offering. Considering what I can get for that from the other incumbents.
You can't make money from open source, yeah, right
Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on AA flt
Holder also said putting bankers in prison would "hurt the economy", which is such a load of crap.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/eric-holder-backtr...
I'm pretty sure that big Pharma is scared to death that it's efficacy will prove to be very high.
It's ironic that the guy who says college isn't best for everyone finds it a useful probabilistic filter, and a useful way to sell brand to clients?
Actually...that might be changing on GCN. Check out Graham Wihlidal's presentation from this past GDC. Advocates some benefits of de-interleaved VBs

http://www.wihlidal.ca/Presentations/GDC_2016_Compute.pdf
I'm from the rust belt and went to college in Cleveland, hence my comment. I think it is a great place to live because the city was built before the car was invented and has a surplus of infrastructure.

I would definitely move back there instead of living in a van in SF. It would probably even be cheaper.
The problems derive from the prohibition, which takes several forms. The forms add up for big profits and bad incentives, for which the consumer pays.

FDA approval is the first layer of prohibition. Very expensive, this keeps a lot of competitors out. Lots of market (read: pricing) power is conferred to the winners. Great incentive is provided for regulatory capture.

The second layer is patent protection. Again, competition becomes illegal, with outcomes similar to above.

Third is scheduling it as a prescription drug. The incentives of the drug company are now to influence doctors, in ways that may be more or less overt. Docs get a cut of the outsize profits, de facto.

The fourth layer is opiates being illegal in general. Competitors out.

Of course there are legitimate reasons for prohibition, even if I don’t agree with them. One can make an argument for protecting people from harming themselves.

But these arguments are naive and static. By “dynamically scoring” the cost of prohibition – following the incentives and the outcomes – we might choose differently.
The Model X has 250 mile range. But you think it's "largely true" that electric cars have a range problem?

There are ~600 charging stations worldwide, and that's increasing to 1200 during 2016. But you think it's "largely true" that there's no charging infrastructure?
In lieu of GPA I ask what kind of classes they took and what were their favorites. That list is a much better indicator, I think. It also lets you gauge what kinds of questions you can reasonably ask and the types of solutions that you can expect. If someone didn't have to study graph theory, they likely won't see a graph theoretic answer and you shouldn't as a question that leads heavily to that type of solution, and if someone studied a lot of combinatorics, you might see them bijecting your problem to other problems they've seen.
A Working Day – Taxi Driver, Liberia
This seems both unjust and irrational.

Why? As a rule of thumb, humans start thinking about something when it doesn't work for them. And for gays in particular, the traditional structuring of gender roles has been deeply problematic, indeed even today there are many countries where gay sex is illegal. So it's no surprise that homosexuals have though more deeply about gender and its relationship with sexuality than those for whom it works.

Foucault is intersting. In contrast, Butler's work is weak. She really doesn't have a meaningful handle on the relationship between sex and gender.
It's remarkable that in the US the much more dangerous general anesthesia is used for routine things like wisdom teeth when anesthetic shots (lidocaine) are significantly safer and simpler. This leads to additional complications due to anesthesia itself, or worse. [1] [2]

If your dentist proposes things like this, please, switch to someone else.

(For those unfamiliar, after the shots you feel not much other than some tugging. And you can get up and walk immediately after.)

[1] http://www.medicaldaily.com/baby-girl-cavity-filling-dental-...

[2] http://wgntv.com/2016/02/23/dentists-license-suspended-after...
I was hoping to see some changes to the error handling. The extensive use of implicitly unwrapped properties always makes me nervous because basically we still have the null pointer dereference problem. Also, optional chaining seems really well geared to the use case where silent failures area OK, but things get ugly quickly when trying to handle individual errors. Maybe I've just been spoilt by Rust, which I've been learning at the same time, but their approach to error handling seems much more holistic and less tacked on than in Swift. I'd definitely like to see more done with this because that feels like the only complaint I have with the language.
Tesla, while an engineering wonder, is much less complex to produce than cumbustion engine vehicles. It's a wheeled computer.

I suspect their challenge will be more about getting enough resources for batteries and finishing the production plant.

Remember, right after apple launched the iphone and experts claimed smartphones were for the first world while growth would be in the third world?
> But I don't understand how people can be so pro marijuana on one hand, and so anti-opiates on the other.

It's probably the hundreds of thousands of dead people from opiate overdoses vs the 0 dead people from marijuana overdose.

> I would guess a majority of adults in the US have had Vicodin or similar and I don't know anyone personally who ever got addicted.

You almost certainly know someone who has been addicted, you just didn't know. It is shockingly common.
Imagine what they would have done if he was doing Calculus?!
I thought "so ... you have no curiosity about the world? about how stuff works?."

I don't know when you went to school, but now you can satisfy that curiosity with the Internet. The reason for school is to make connections, and have proof of experience for your resume.
A Working Day – Architect, Mongolia
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Beautiful area, quite cheap for the quality of the area in my opinion. 300-600k for a good home within a 10 minute walk of downtown.

City is young and hip while staying super family/small-town friendly.

Great little tech community as well with lots of meetups and events. Talent is actually affordable in both the form of the university student and the graybeard.

I recently moved to Denver from A2 and already planning on moving back within the next few years to buy a house/retire.

Shoot me an email if you want to learn more, it's really an underrated spot.
it's more subtle than that. it's more like, any differences between boys and girls either are completely uninteresting, or can't necessarily be attributed to any particular boy or girl.
How did the bullies know Joe did well if he didn't brag?
We all listen to what we want to hear, don't we.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM_(brand)

> TIM is an Italian brand owned by Telecom Italia. Originally founded as a mobile telephony company in 1995

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIM_Brasil

> Parent	Telecom Italia Mobile, Telecom Italia
I don't understand what you're saying. Nothing you've written justifies reporting him.
It's also very likely that the car makers of the future will be the ones that are best at software, not hardware, ironically enough.
"For anyone who firmly believes in Musk and his potential to turn massive initial investments into equally massive profits -- as Jeff Bezos did at Amazon -- the vision of Musk manning the production line is brilliant branding. But for anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the auto industry, it shows how badly Musk fails to understand what he's up against."
Who owns the private courts? What if they don't like you, your cause, or favor your opponents?
interesting; happen to have a link or a term that'll help me find it? thx
You're referring to the pricing on Gondor (https://gondor.io/) which is not the same as Kel linked in the OP.

It appears that Gondor is a managed PaaS, which can justify the additional cost for businesses with capital. It is likely not intended for hobbyists.
>> The antivirus was configured to scan for viruses every hour, and the scan started right in the middle of the procedure.

>> The company claims that they included proper instructions in their documentation, advising companies to whitelist Merge Hemo's folders in order to prevent crashes from happening, so it seems that the whole incident was nothing more than an oversight on the medical unit's side.

So "RTFM"? Not very helpful.
well, dominating the competition can be the result of avoiding it.
Donald Trump with no tan and no hair
We were driving east out of Montana when there were bad fires a number of years ago. The sky was lit up but looked black, and we were driving parallel to the mountain range. As the sun set behind the mountains, through the smoke the sun appeared blood red. And after it set behind the peaks, it got really dark.
Great article, could do with editing down about 50%
In FreeBSD the base system stuff goes into /bin /lib and /etc, and all the ports target /usr/local as the prefix. Even the config files of the ports go to /usr/local/etc.
The fentanyl mentioned in the GP (probably also what I had) is an anesthetic shot.
One thing I don't see in this list (though maybe I'm missing it) is the ability to expose a Swift function as a function compatible with the C ABI. Something like extern "C" in C++ or no_mangle in Rust.

You can pass @convention(c) blocks around as C function pointers, but you can't currently call directly into a Swift library from C code. That makes it difficult to do things like expose platform-specific functionality to a shared C library using Swift.

Right now you have to implement the C function inside an Objective-C file, and then have your Objective-C code call your Swift code, or you have to change all your interfaces to allow injection of function pointers for all external dependencies.

It's the kind of thing that makes staying with Objective-C attractive for that type of stuff, but Swift in general has been a solid improvement, and I'd like to not have to give that up.
I'm sorry that it's illegal for you (it's not here in Oregon). I'm hopeful that we are on the verge of widespread legalization and I'm hopeful that you will, one day soon, enjoy all the benefits of it's legalization. Hang in there...
What you don't see in the history are the hundreds of submissions that have been killed by flagging. The most common scenario I've seen is that this link is submitted as the first submission from a newly-created account. My guess is that it's used by some kind of automated spamming software to test whether account creation was successful.

This submission fits that pattern: newly-created user with no comments; this is their only submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=manojgajavelli
I'm surprised they removed x++ from the language. This is always a big frustration when I'm writing Python code.
Well, the theories were wrong. History has been kind to his viewpoints.
It's really easy to think that a set of life decisions are good because they worked well for you, but that's not how the world works: Across every road, there are a lot of events we cannot control, decisions made with imperfect information. We make mistakes, we fail, through no special fault of our own. Every path is great if you are talented AND lucky. But it makes no sense to evaluate a road by just looking at the top successes: If that were the case, I'd tell my son to go into acting, because it went great for Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt.

No matter how hard you work, or how talented you are, the very top is something we cannot guarantee to anyone. So it's pretty rational to look at a career path, a set of life decisions, by looking at average cases, not just the very top.

Going out there because you are curious about the world, and ending up doing something where only the very top percentiles do well is only a great story if you win. I know a girl that went with those lofty ideals into psychology, along with a high IQ. She now answers phones at a call center. Two PhDs in biology: One is teaching English in Japan, because she couldn't bear a 20+ year post doc path, getting paid less than half of what I made in my first job out of school. My brother, top of his class in biology too. Got a Phd with honors. But he was born in the wrong country, and his best job offer is for a position that asks him to do 10+ hour days, rotating into the night 1'3rd of the time, all for 850 euros a month. Welcome to a country with over 20% unemployment.

So it's really easy to think it's important to have curiosity as long as you also pick a profitable course of study too, or are quite lucky. Otherwise, it's the same mindset that can dig you into a hole.

Picking a career just because of the money, and not getting any love for it as you go is a road to failure too: Many people drop out of programming for those reasons, and few options are more profitable on average than programming. But I can't blame people for keeping an eye out of the available options. I know I did: There were many things I thought I would have enjoyed doing, and I picked one that also looked profitable. I can't say I regret it.
Cheers to that..
Agree, but what is true self-hosted these days anyway? You'd need an Internet connection? Power? Did you build your own computer? I can go on... :)

Compared to using an A/B testing service like VWO or Optimizely, I think this fits in the self-hosted category.

EDIT: the blog post actually mentions a few viable alternatives to AWS Lambda. It is developed primarily with AWS Lambda in mind, but porting it to another platform is actually trivial.
> Your second paragraph seems to be suggesting that Foucault and Butler's idea is wrong because of their sexual orientation.

That's not how I read it. I read it as, Foucault and Butler's idea is unproven because it's based off of their anecdotal experience rather than based off of any scientific evidence.
So best choice is to probably to invest in S&P while learning to program on your own.
If you look beyond the grading via weird reference letter language, these letters contain usually one important thing: what you actually did. Not what your job description said, but your actual daily doings and responsibilities.

That is the part I like about them, especially if you answer a job ad that requests prior experience with FOO.

And while it is true that you can sometimes get your grade bumped up as part of some deal (and everybody knows it); I have never heard of a company that signs off on this list containing stuff you did in fact not do.
Replication.
They show up in the womb, fwiw.
Yikes, I was only referring to lidocaine (i.e. more typical choice for dental work.)
A car that still costs 60.000EUR (and that's a really stripped down model) after incentives is nowhere near "affordable" for most of Europe, much less world.
Hah. I'm sure they'll do it just after they finally open up iMessage.
Rust did too. There's probably a pie chart somewhere of time lost to having to type out "foo += 1" vs number of hours lost to people screwing up operator precedence for foo++ or ++foo. (EDIT: as munificent points out this is actually a combination of operator precedence and sequence points)

The pie chart is probably severely lopsided.

EDIT: Since the main problem is the precedence of the post increment/decrement operator, I would have preferred to see them get rid of that one and keep ++foo but overall not much of a loss.

At least they didn't get rid of the ternary operator like Go did...
That is, quite literally, what this experiment showed. Boys did well when it was a non-competitive 'game'. Girls didn't do so well when it was an inconsequential 'game'.
My point, which mirrored the point of the post to which I responded, wasn't that Vicodin wasn't useful in some cases. It was that it was overprescribed relative to the amount of pain of the particular procedure.
>> It's not whether you have this equipment or that but what groups you are perceived to belong to and what groups you see yourself as belonging to.

The problem with that is that most of the time the group you're perceived to belong to and what groups you identify with do have everything to do with your "equipment".
The lede: "Starting with Harvard’s Class of 2021, undergraduate members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations will be banned from holding athletic team captaincies and leadership positions in all recognized student groups. They will also be ineligible for College endorsement for top fellowships like the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships."
Confession: as a kid I thought it came from 16. Because there are 16oz in a pound.
Six Ways to Separate Lies from Statistics
Then what should chronic pain sufferers take? Opiates may not be ideal, but it is one of the best options available.

Personally I do not believe that GP's should prescribe pain killers. They either under prescribe (fearing everyone will become an addict) or over prescribing (often the wrong drugs).

Pain is a very complex subject (people of different thresholds and biological responses), it should be left to specialists.
If anything it would be time lost to accidentally typing ++x instead of x++. I always found the precedence to be pretty intuitive in C (unary ops generally bind tightest). The only time you'd have to Google is if you were doing something weird like `-(x++)`.

I'm also willing to accept that I'm old, stubborn, and unhappy about changing my ways and that this is the future... :)
This is, arguably, good news.

Though I lament the rise of the people who centre their identity around their lack of religion and go on the offensive against believers. They're not much better than the religious. Religion is not the source of all evil.
According to the arguments in this thread, Palantir is not a startup, so it cannot be placed in that type.
> Agree, but what is true self-hosted these days anyway?

Software that can be installed and run on computers that I choose, without outside dependence.

If someone can't run the software on a private network without internet access, it isn't self-hostable.
Iπstant – Realtime Tweet Notifications
I am looking for users to try out my iOS app that provides a notification for every tweet.

One problem I've faced with Twitter is that because I follow a lot of users updates are missed from quite a few of them. Iπstant lets you create micro groups of upto three users and view all updates from these users. Additionally, you can enable notifications on a group and receive a notification for every tweet posted by the users in the group.

Notifications are timed and will automatically stop according to your selected preset interval.

A use case for this is following a live event on Twitter. You pick a few handles that are going to be tweeting about the event and enable notifications. Now, you don't have to be in front of your screen and can let the event updates come to you in the form of notifications. If you have an Apple Watch, you won't even need the iPhone.

There is TechCrunch Disrupt next week. You could use the app to follow along if you don't have time to be in front of a screen or are not attending.

If anyone would like to try the app, please email me at aashish AT pinary.io

Thanks,
Aashish

http://twitter.com/aashishpatil
Pretty sure some DSPs don't. (In most cases of "is there anything modern", the answer is some DSP.)
Right, I think I shouldn't pretend to define what the various words mean.

Still, I don't think the procedure used for wisdom teeth in the US has the same risks as the general anesthesia used in more involved surgeries. It's probably still reasonably described as sedation (in my story, I'm obviously still conscious, just not very aware. I didn't include it above, but I actually asked How much longer? and they just told me to go back to sleep).
Broken link, the correct link is here: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/american...
That brings back some memories. Thanks.
UX: Primary and Secondary Action Buttons in Dialogs
Facial recognition is really scary. This was recently demonstrated for Russia's Facebook, VKontakte, when a service appeared that let you look up people on that site by photo. So people started looking up the profiles of random subway passengers, outing sex workers to their families and friends, etc.
But it does have things like NSArray, right?
1. They have no say in the API so NV would just steer the API in ways to make sure it would be suboptimal on AMD hardware.

2. It's not just the API. It's the entire SDK that has NV specific hooks that AMD can't tap into
Condescension, smugness and contempt for the electorate are effective ways to lose otherwise sure elections.
Those people are just annoying. The most extreme religious people can be actively harmful to society/their children.
Duration of action for pain medication can differ extremely among individuals.

When my wife (chronic pain patient) wanted to switch from one pain med to another because of diminishing effect, I helped her neurologist review literature on the equianalgesia properties of various options.

For several meds, blood concentration vs. time varied by one order of magnitude among patients who were otherwise well-matched subjects. Some metabolized/eliminated a med to non- therapeutic levels in a day, others took nearly two weeks. Same dose, same route of administration. Probably different P450 enzyme activities [1] among other things.

I came away from the experience appreciating how incredibly difficult it is to construct a good pain management plan. It takes more time and info than many doctors can bring to bear on each patient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome_P450
Economist Removed from American Airlines Flight for Doing Math