skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 90% is about right if the number of false convictions is acceptably low. 90% is a terrible number if it should contain a large number of false convictions.

Sure. But you implied above that a 90% conviction rate warrants more scrutiny than a 75% conviction rate. To the contrary, a 90% conviction rate may be indicative of a fair process. A 75% conviction rate is definitely indicative of an unfair process.

Obviously you still need to scrutinize the rate of false convictions. But that's true regardless of the conviction rate. Indeed, a low conviction rate suggests that the government is bringing marginal cases and trying to make things "stick" which increases the risk of false convictions.

> Some will claim this is efficiency but I don't really feel comfortable with an 'efficient' process that places large numbers of people in lock-up.

The U.S. has a large number of people in prison because it imposes long prison sentences for some very common and easy-to-prove things: drug sales, auto theft, assault, firearms. If you take a random sampling of federal convictions, you'll see that almost always there is a laundry list of physical evidence of guilt. The government doesn't bring marginal cases.

The solution to the prison problem is not to force all these clear-cut cases to go to trial. It's to stop imposing 20-year prison sentences for people selling a few pills of Oxycontin, or stop putting felons back in prison for 10 years just for having a gun.
Concise summary of the benefits: the signatory states will reduce tariffs on most trade toward zero over a period of several years.

This key point seems to get lost in the debate.
>If it had to do with HRC, they could wait
(Emphasis mine.)

But they won't, because they're doubling down.
Oh I agree in general that it is unsustainable, and it has all these problems. But will I sell my home and move to a city? Probably not.
The announcement starts by patronizing the reader ("most of us imagine container ships ..."), then proceeds to use a "for the children"-type argument ("small business"), directly followed by "for freedom!" argument with little to no substance.

Trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are beginning to recognize the Internet’s transformative impact on trade.

Sure, in the sense that the TPP is designed by and for corporations, like Google, who don't want stuff like, say, the EU, getting in their way when trying to defend the users' rights (e.g. right to be forgotten). The paranoid in me also thinks this is in fact an agreement between organizations like Google and the US government to "legally" syphon foreign data directly from US soil, but there is of course absolutely not enough transparency to substantiate this either way.

I clearly don't support TPP in the first place, but I find this announcement from Google borderline insulting, TPP or not. The condescending tone alone makes me cringe, but the whole "we're fighting for freedom" cover story is just disgusting.
Interesting that "criminal" and "indictment" is "offensive or disparaging when displayed in conjunction with a person’s name" but "racist" is not.
> > legitimate targets.

> You realize that's against the Geneva convention and is the definition of a war crime in the US Military. You literally can be court martialled if you did something like that.

Fwiw, I meant 'legitimate collateral targets'. As in, we don't abort a mission if it'll blow up the family of the terrorist.

We'd have dropped a bomb on an enemy government office building despite it having a nursery attached.

> When the Navy Seals stormed Bin Laden's home, [...]

When done by bomb the standards are much lower. Also, that was a mission they knew would be examined by everyone.

> Methinks you've been reading a bit too many articles and don't have enough experience on your own to create an opinion.

For what it's worth, being on the ground somewhere is not one of the best ways to see the big picture. People fighting in Vietnam were often the least informed and didn't know what went on a few miles away.

> What's your military background where you can say this sort of stuff with confidence?

Are you saying that all the torturers at Guantanamo have been found guilty? Because otherwise I'm using the same news you have access to.
Julian Assange: Google Is in Bed with Hillary’s Campaign
Note that finally, with 16.04, you can block the (ridiculous) auto start behavior of daemons installed via apt using systemd features: https://major.io/2016/05/05/preventing-ubuntu-16-04-starting...

It's always angered me that packages start running before I have a chance to configure them... With some, like MySQL, it means if I want to change certain settings, I also have to clean up some other files before restarting the service or the package will not start. On CentOS/RHEL, this is never an issue.
Which sounds like you're admitting that the treaty only benefits profits of large corporations and stops as soon as they'd have to give up a little bit to actualy help consumers across the world?
Surprised no one mentioned Ford hiring Alan Mulally from Boeing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Mulally
And if Apple is using Intel other manufacturers will probably do the same.
There was a discussion on HN about a week ago on a16z and its performance[0]. Does anyone know how a16z's funds' IRRs compare to those of other top-tier VC firms (Accel, Benchmark, Greylock, Sequoia)? And are these "top-tier" firms actually providing the best returns for their LPs, or have they just created that perception?

With so few IPOs or acquisitions, how are the LPs actually getting their cash back? And how much of that money is eaten up by the "services" that a16z provides to its portfolio companies, not to mention the insane amount of content marketing they've done over the last few years (blogs, podcasts, books, etc.)?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836341
This comment seems very holier-than-thou to me. Did you intend it that way? If not, it still seems a bit inconsiderate to ask someone to summarize a video a mere 8 minutes in length, which they were kind enough to link.
This reminded me of back 30 years ago or more when I first was messing around with Arpanet and it was just turning into the Internet, I remember how all of my friends and I were so stoked about how it was going to change the world because everyone would have access to all the knowledge in the world and how exciting that was, the democratization of knowledge. We speculated on how everyone in the future would be so much smarter because they would have access to so much information and knowledge. Some of that is true, but sadly, not entirely. Much of the greatest knowledge is locked away. And even sadder still, so many people do not really cherish what we have and instead use it for a lot of ridiculous nonsense, which, I guess is me being Judgmental about what the internet should be used for. I guess what it really shows, is that the future often does not turn out the way you thought it would . I think this is a case like that, we thought knowledge would flow freely like from a fountain or oracle of wisdom, but instead it is filled with 140 character snotty comments and pictures of cats with fruit on their heads. Sorry for the rant.
Star Wars Marketing Awakens
The categorization could go either way. Leave it up to the copyright office to decide.

However given the context of an allegory in a larger work of nonfiction, or it's publication in a nonfiction scientific journal, I would lean towards saying it should be nonfiction.
Where exactly did I say anything about my preferences? Nor did I say anything about subsidies. Of course cities subsidize suburbs, so what, not in the least bit relevant to any point being made. Subsidies or not, land/house outside a city will always be cheaper than land/house inside the city, that's the cheaper being referred to and that applies with or without subsidies and with or without mortgage deductions.

Beyond that, we live in an age of remote work, don't assume suburban living requires commuting to the city, it doesn't.

I'm not assuming it's inherently cheaper, it is inherently cheaper and always has been. City living always costs more than living more remotely and that's unlikely to change.
1/6?
It's both player count and "weakest link" syndrome. Games more like TF2, where weak or out-of-position players don't necessarily break a team, don't grow as toxic over the long haul, even if you're playing them competitively. But all the MOBA-style games have feedback loops that require everyone to play at a minimum standard or the game is definitely lost, and that just isn't conducive to a good experience in online/pub games.
I wish everyone would do this. Like a code of honor akin to a copyleft license: if you use open access references, your article should be open access too.

When reproducing findings of an openly accessible paper it's extremely frustrating when some of the references are unreachable.

I'm not in academia so for one I don't have university access to papers and for two I often need to trickle down the references to fill knowledge gaps.
Its also always funny when people forget that in 7 of the 9 TPP countries a majority of the ordinary citizens are in favor of it, and in the two where it does not have majority support those in favor handily outnumber those opposed (US 49% in favor, 29% opposed and Malaysia 38% in favor, 18% opposed) [1], and so think that this is some megacorp thing being forced on an unwilling populace.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/23/americans-fa...
Personally I'd love to split the difference and live in a European-style suburb. Something not in the main city, medium-density, lots of open areas nearby, good walking/biking, good transit connection to the city. Something like this, basically, except in the US: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Olching,+Germany/@48.20927...

Unfortunately, due to a variety of bad transportation and land use policies, this kind of town doesn't really exist in the US.
To my knowledge, that's almost exclusively a San Franciscism.
I had a 2000 Acura Integra that I bought used (the model is essentially a gussied up Civic) that I loved and drove for 10 years. Loved that car. Comfy reliable etc.

I bought a 2007 Honda Civic Ex because we needed 2 cars. Its a nice car, but Honda reliability has definitely fallen (though it is still miles ahead of European and US cars).

The new Honda Civic looks really good and seems reliable so my next car might be a Honda Civic (the 2007 is going strong and we drive so little I hope it lasts another 10 - 15 years). But there was a point between 2009 and 2014 when I felt Honda had lost its way with the god awful cheap iteration of the Honda Civic. It was essentially a money grab based on their reputation.

The worst car I ever owned was a 1993 Mitsubishi Eclipse. I used to joke that friends don't let friends by Mitsubishi
SeleniumBase (on GitHub) makes it easy to automate all your tedious web tasks
To expound on this, "by the time the documents are finalized, it will be signed before the ink of the text is dry" is typical FUD from anti-TPP people who've never bothered reading anything on the subject except other anti-TPP FUD.

Negotiating treaties in private is normal, to prevent parties from manipulating public opinion to gain a stronger negotiating position and to prevent kneejerk outcries from the anti-trade crowd for every random provision any party proposes regardless of its likelihood to actually be in the final text. It is not about evil corporatists secretly conspiring to undermine democracy.
Hillary reads the same to me, I must say. I have no idea what she genuinely believes.

But, honestly, why would anyone run for president unless they were an insane egoist or craved power? It's not a job a sane person would volunteer to do.

There are a few rare individuals that do it out of desire to do good, but they seem rarer by the day.
Startups for third world countries
What are some tech startup ideas for a third world country?
I'm speculating here but there might actually be a lot of knowledge out there created by the internet that you don't really see - like little details about mundane aspects of life that people previously had no concept of, but aren't controversial.
https://robigalia.org/
Is the performance/simplicity that much better than setting up Cloudflare yourself?
My relatives have no problems with Toyota cars since ~2009, unlike previous Big 3 vehicles with a continual trickle of issues, even in brand-new vehicles. Plus they're just nicer on the inside and hold up longer.
Reminds me of a comic I saw here once about a guy who grew up on utopian 70s Scifi magazines and grew up to find the 90s would actually become... well... see for yourself.

http://electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
>> Remember on HN where a lot of people constantly say the benchmark game is really crappy. This is why.

Because the benchmarks game shows some programs to be faster, and you agree those programs actually would be faster? :-)

>> All 5 of these tests boil down to raw FLOPS.

Where exactly are the floating-point operations in fannkuch-redux Rust #2 program ?

Where exactly are the floating-point operations in reverse-complement ?

("Seriously read the source code" ?)
Yes, the situation is horrible. I'm reluctant to believe that the "cutting edge shops" are doing very well.

For good "tools", I have a good paper on the subject, but from all I can see there is essentially no interest. People would prefer not to be bothered. The attitude seems to be, if there is a problem, then we will detect it, eventually if not soon, and then we will fix it.
I had that same issue. But then I just mirrored them in the src directory and it was fine.
Trump wants corporations to stay in the US. TPP allows corporations to sue the US for loss of profits in other countries IIRC, so that would mean TPP is indeed against Trump's interests.
im not getting that. 'hillary clinton ' on Google:

twitter
facebook
email
age

on yahoo:

email scandal
indictment
for president
criminal charges

http://imgur.com/oxaQLOX
If you're going to include 2 OSes for iOS because it includes iOS 8 at <8%, then you have to include Jelly Bean at 7-8% as well, which means its 4 Android verions vs. 2 iOS versions.

If you exclude Jelly Bean, then excluding iOS 8, it's just 3 Android vs. 1 iOS.

I'm basing this on their charts on their pages for both Android and iOS.
I think in general scientific discoveries (pharmaceuticals, algorithms etc) should not be granted monopolistic production rights, but rather monopolistic royalty rights.

So, for example, if you invented Viagara, and every pharma company in the world figured out how to make it cheaper in their own way, they're free to make it but they have to pay the creator (individual or corporation) a royalty fee to do so.

I think royalties are a better way to incentivize innovation while not allowing patent protections to stifle the market as a whole.
I'm assuming you know him well personally, otherwise how could you make such a statement earnestly.
Being unable to create accounts to even submit resumes doesn't help either.
It's not Apple Pay but all of NFC. Before CurrentC CVS accepted all types of NFC payments (Apple Pay, Google Wallet, NFS credit cards), but none of those works anymore.
Does anyone here have a raw download to this data set? I'm a student at a university interested in doing some statistical analysis of passwords for a small project.

If anyone is able to help me, I'd appreciate them emailing me. You can find my email under my account.

It would be a huge help!
Please don't point people to u64 -- it's no longer updated. (Note the rustc version.)
Your comment here is fine. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you meant about celebrating the death of police officers. One reason heated rhetoric is out of bounds here is that it makes such misunderstandings more likely—and also more damaging when they occur (because then people get outraged in return, and once that feedback loop gets going, nothing interrupts it).

Stories like the OP upset all of us. When people come to the thread to ratchet that upsetness up even further, that succeeds, but at the wrong thing: it ignites a mob reaction. It might be good for a political rally, but it's devastating to the reflective—as opposed to reflexive—discussion that we strive for here.

The motto of the Canadian senate is "sober second thought". When you consider that the opposite of sober second thought is "intemperate initial reaction", I think Hacker News could aspire worse than to be the Canadian senate of the Internet.
"Facebook’s internal network where employees turn those gears so you can scroll past that “10 Things You Love About Potatoes” BuzzFeed article one more time."
Misleading title, this article does not describe a "crisis" but is rather a list of best practices in management.
I wish Elizabeth Warren had run. She is a prime example of a sane down to earth person turning down the position everyone else lusts after.
> all the missed years of stargazing

Thanks! I stargazed nevertheless with a pair of binoculars. It's tough (but sadly possible) to prevent people from doing things they really want.
This is generally true for all law enforcement agencies. However, since the hoi polloi have bought into their false legitimacy, getting rid of them cannot be achieved just like that.

The very same people complaining about their abuses on this site would be the first ones to utterly condemn you if you actually did anything even remotely effective to solve the problem.

This constituency fully deserves what they are getting. Seriously, the problem should NOT be solved whatsoever. If you do not like the problem, you must join another constituency instead.

When I live in Europe -- not right now actually -- I make sure to live in the middle of a muslim no-go zone. The police do not go there, because they cannot possibly guarantee that they would come back alive. Since I am publicly known to subscribe to the one-god theorem, I am not a target whatsoever for the locals. I am exceedingly safe from both the police and the criminals that often live there but do not dare to operate there.
It's not just the bands. The 6 is capable of VoLTE, but VoLTE isn't available everywhere on every carrier. So it still has to be able to drop down to 1x, which means CDMA for Verizon, Sprint, and US Cellular, while AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM.

You'd think Apple could put out just one model when the 1x networks go away.
WikiLeaks founder Assange claims Google involved in Clinton campaign
I don't think he's saying cars are bad, he's pointing out lots of flaws in the design of roads and living areas. He's bringing up the inefficiencies that lifestyle has, suburbia he argues brings a lot of inefficiencies.

I LOVE driving. But Los Angeles is complete shit due to the suburban sprawl, lack of a well designed connectors and ramps, lack of well designed roadways for the throughput, etc. Los Angeles is a prime example of why Suburbia sucks. This article hits all the right points.

There's a lot of artificial inefficiencies we've imposed on ourselves due to lack of forethought, stubbornness, resistance to change, or many other reasons. Sadly, it's impossible to fix anything in a quick manner.
Perfection for What
Just bought the book, and I didn't even realize it was James Turnbull, that guy is extremely advanced in monitoring. I've seen many of his talks online, and no one speaks about monitoring in a more rational way that I've seen.

This is Hacker News at it's best in my view.
I agree. I live in a small suburban development abutting several larger ones. There are miles of safe walking/jogging sidewalks and roadsides, I can enter the local mountain biking trails that go for miles just at the end of my street, and I can walk down to the small local lake to go fishing with my kid. Plus, the community is especially friendly and there are always neighbors outside chatting, having impromptu get-togethers, or planning the next community coffee or book club. A walk down to the mailbox on a Friday afternoon is as likely as not to have a neighbor hand you a beer or glass of wine while you have a chat and watch the kids practice riding their bikes where there's plenty of room for them to learn. There are downsides to be sure, like anything else, but I didn't grow up in the suburbs and I enjoy it.
At some point all voice calls will go over LTE and Verizon's CDMA voice network will be retired, but they're not going to adopt another 1x technology.
Migrating an ESB to a Cloud Native Platform
I couldn't tell you if I was irrational or not without knowing the number of tech bosses conservative enough to listen to Limbaugh at their desk and strike up pro Tea Party/anti liberal discussions as a way of making casual conversation, and then the number of those that would fire a developer over their sexual orientation. I don't know what that percentage looks like, so I can't say whether or not I justified in my concern. I know I was wrong in this specific instance thankfully, but I don't know what the real probability looks like given my boss' behavior. I had gone through some negative prior experiences that could have made me jumpy, admittedly.

Maybe the methodology was incorrect or the sample unrepresentative, my only personal experience with it is the one friend.
"Suburbs are easy to get around (assuming you have a car) "

So, not really, then.

"I don't really know what people mean when they say suburbs are dull."

There's very little going on in them. Most of the culture options are in the cities. Most of the live music is going to be in the cities. Suburbs tend not to attract the new, experimental restaurants, preferring instead the safe predictable chain restaurants. Suburbs tend not to attract museums or traveling Broadway productions.

"There always seemed to be plenty of options everywhere I lived, conveniently accessible by car"

And where are they? Usually in the city. And you have to have a car.

"Are the people who complain about this stuff real oddballs who need weird stuff you can only find in the biggest of cities, or are they congenitally hostile to driving?"

They like new things. They like experimental things. And they don't always want to deal with the pain of driving (traffic and parking).
See my comment above replying to someone else. There might be some fuzziness, but in context it's easy to classify. And for the weird outliers, the copyright office can make the call on how to classify them. Almost all of these seem pretty straightforward to classify. Just ask yourself what category you would find the work in a library?

>popular scientific books

Certainly nonfiction.

>popular scientific books that embed the science into a nice story

Not sure what you mean, but that sounds like fiction even if it has some science in it.

>hard" science fiction books, which are strongly oriented on physical theories

Same thing.

>Novels that are strongly based on historical facts and even interviews with contemporary witnesses, that nevertheless use some little literary license (for example The Gulag Archipelago

Well your own wikipedia link classifies it as fiction at the bottom. In fact all the examples of novels that are loosely based on truth are fiction.

But no one is ever going to claim a scientific paper is a work of fiction, and should be protected for 100+ years.

>A scientific description of some ethical thought experiment

This seems like the only fuzzy example. But such a thought experiment will almost always be in the context of a larger nonfiction work. And it will be published in a place like a scientific journal with other nonfiction, and be placed in the nonfiction section of a library. So that seems like the most practical and natural classification, legally.
They will. Certainly the two current presumptive nominees will.
I wasn't aware years later another company ported the original Halo.
A 328i costs $15,600 to maintain over ten years? My seven year old xDrive 328i hasn't had a single cost besides oil and tires. I don't know any friends that have paid an additional 15k to maintain theirs either. That's just nonsense.
Yeah, Apple appears to me as a tipping factor.