skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've made this post in multiple places but it's not applicable in this situation - see a reported image of police officers performing chest compressions on Mr. Castile in the article below [1].

More broadly, EMTs are not the only individuals capable of providing support after a shooting. Indeed, some state governments (e.g., VT and MN) have a statutory "duty to rescue" those exposed to grave physical harm for all individuals.

One would hope that police officers would be the most likely to do this, especially after a grievous injury - even if the wounds proved not to be survivable, this is hard to assess from feet away, with a gun drawn.

As an aside to counter a point you make elsewhere, there are multiple other police on the scene in the video, though it's not clear at what point they arrive.

1. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-shot-dead-minn-...

EDIT:

For posterity's sake, here's a press-release description of medical training that many Minneapolis/St. Paul are police officers receive:

https://hcmcnews.org/2013/01/09/hcmc-network-feature-real-li...
Re: 3, you can just hide the menubar and the dock. They only show up on mouseover and it's actually quite pleasant as well as frees up some screen real estate on laptops.
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Orrrr what about selfcontrol? The only notifications I get on my smartphone are system notifications, SMS, and Telegram (and that's only when I intentionally go online, otherwise I leave the device off-line).
Any road will support a horse-drawn carriage. Unless you take extraordinary measures and start building vehicles using wheels with special profiles for which custom-designed roads will be necessary where those wheels will be held on track like with trains.

Naturally horses will stumble on those, and people like you will say the others don't understand the nature of transportation and should get rid of their old horses and conventional cars.

But perhaps the problem is just with you and you newly designed fancy wheels.
For all its magic, even file is fallible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956
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The point is more along the lines of: the MBTI really can't tell you much. It has very bad psychometric properties (people regular test differently on different days, or show as a mix of two supposed opposing factors). As a theoretical framework, there is little in the way of peer reviewed work to even support anything other than introversion - extroversion as a measure. MBTI is pretty much pseudoscience that we keep using because it Feels Correct.

Psychics and astrologers do the same thing - make broad and generic claims to make you think they're talking to you because you fill the gaps in the story.

So, it's an aggressive claim I make yes. Partly (perhaps largely) driven by the fact that too many otherwise reasonable people do not treat the MBTI with the skepticism it deserves (again, hiring decisions are made and justified based on this pseudoscience). But partly because I've been through both the long form MBTI test and explanation (with subfactors, where I was thoroughly mixed with stuff that wasn't supposed to correlate) and the explanation phase felt precisely like a psychic reading.
So, worse than LZ4 for what Apple seems to be using it for. Why didn't they just use LZ4? Confusing company, they are.
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Im interested in chatting on versioning in this data ( and possibly by extension, compression ) . Happen to have a method to contact you ?
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Try wearing progressive bifocals. I think you will find that the experience is very similar. You have this little window where you can see stuff, but it has very small angle of visibility. In the top half you can focus out to infinity. In the bottom half you can focus up close. If you look in the wrong place, there is absolutely no way to bring what you are looking at into focus. For the vast majority of things, that means you have a single focal length (infinity) and you bring the thing into the visible part of your gaze by moving your head.

The thing that is really strange is that within a few weeks of wearing progressive bifocals, everything just looks normal. Your brain compensates. Or to put it in a different way, your brain is always compensating so that while you think you have great vision, the reality is that your brain is paving over all of the badness. It really does an amazing job even with something as unbelievably bad as progressive bifocals.

VR does not need to provide the same experience as reality (without glasses). It just needs to provide something good enough that the brain can be trained to pave over all the badness. I've only ever played with VR headsets at a store, but I can tell you that they are already better than my bifocals ;-)
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> ability to use lower level and faster primitives than Go offers

Like what? Go's unsafe code is free from doing almost anything (except things like array bound checks that are always enforced).
"The name is partly based on the (first) names of the first two R authors (Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka), and partly a play on the name of the Bell Labs language ‘S’." - R FAQ

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-named...
Publishers make the majority of their online ad and subscription revenue from desktop devices so in an effort to reduce cannibalisation, our content licenses are restricted to mobile use only. We want to help the industry as a whole, not cannibalise it.
It's quite interesting to see a Persian comment on HN. And somewhat inspirational - maybe HN can become multi-lingual down the line through the equivalent of 'subreddits' or simply threads being marked as another language, with translate buttons available for those who don't speak the language. One question though - how do you effectively type both latin letters and farsi letters on a single keyboard?
Kind of weak licence, what are you actually allowed to do with this code? Change it? Distribute your changes?

https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse/blob/master/LICENSE
Or the complete opposite: some people can read bash/chef code faster than a long, wordy post.
It really is. The new EU laws prohibit bail-outs with tax money. First the bond holders and savers have to pay. But in Italy that's the Italian public. You know, the people doing the voting. No change the Italian government will accept that. The Italians will want to hand out support-loans and guarantees. and that brings us to yet another EU law (the 2006 banking rules) that will be ignored because if the Italian banks fail, so will Deutsche Bank from Germany. The other important rule, the one regarding the Stability & Growth Pact(1), is ignored by almost all EU countries.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact
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Maybe it's a bit too early to judge but IMO Go has not introduced any new language complexity since its public launch.
about compensation bands - how does one correlate this with experience ? Because in an early stage startup, this may fluctuate drastically based on what the startup really needs.

For example for a fintech startup, a 5 year devops guy may be making market salary... but a 2 year, talented data science guy may be offered market++ salary. So how do you really structure bands ? And does bands really solve the problem of not pissing people off in this case ?
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I want to backup atleast 8 gb of content and need a service, possibly free that supports resumable uploads.
I think it is a Scandinavian mountain.
Even companies worth billions that have their own fab simulate the chip first before fabbing it to test it and benchmark it.
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wow, that's pretty fucked up. i could understand having a negative reaction to someone lying or being disingenuous, but to react that way to people that are charismatic and assertive suggests more that there is a problem with you, not them?
And even earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11922453#11925386
There is BSD revision control history going back to the early 1980s, e.g. http://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/sys/sys/errno.h?view=log
Currently I have 6 messaging apps and no hope that I can reduce their number, because I text with different groups of people. The only way to manage this is through self-discipline - I don't check phone too often.
But situation is bad, since these 6 apps doing exactly the same job and there's no interoperability between them.
That is the BSD 3-Clause License?
Waiting for first guy who take this implementation and run it through emscripten so we can actually use it in client -> server communication, eg sending compressed json payloads to the server.
> The fact that these restrictions still exist which make Russia an defacto land locked country is one of the reasons why there is so much tension with Russia.

Since its founding by Vikings almost 1300 years ago Russia has been a pretty aggressively expanding empire through all its history (it was slowed down only for a couple centuries by the more aggressive Mongol empire), so i'd say the tension have pretty good foundation :)
Your guess?she was handcuffed and is still in jail after watching her husband's murder. I'm sure that as she watched the life bleed out of him and she prayed for him not to die she thought of selling this, and not of her daughter who was in the back of the car at the time. What is wrong with you?
Is the customer always right?
After this email exchange I couldn’t really sleep last night. I am posting this here for advice from people more experienced than me, on how to deal with customers who just don’t seem to be ok with whatever you do. Maybe I was in the wrong and it is me who doesn’t get it. Please share suggestions, opinions, whatever.

In no way is this an attack/vendetta thing on the person/company and I have anonymised it to the best extent possible.

I have also not posted previous email exchanges with the said person because they are long and have him calling me “pissy” our design opinions “stupid” and the like. They are also not about this particular bug (more below) but other features in the app.

This particular bug is in the iOS version of our app, Tabata Stopwatch Pro (a Tabata and HIIT Timer) https://itunes.apple.com/app/id664563975 and affects just 1 thing. The voice announcements get reset if you swipe up to force close the app. Till date 4 people have complained about it and it is not a priority at all. In all cases I tell people to not swipe up to force close the app.

This is not an us versus them thing. I am genuinely not sure how to best accommodate our growing needs of users who just ask for feature after feature, and want their bugs fixed right now. Saying no just really makes some people un-happy.

The emails yesterday (edited slightly to make them more readable) are in a text file on this link (they are above the HN character limit to be posted directly and not sure if posting them in parts in comments would be right) https://1drv.ms/t/s!FpBqmKEOgVTliBxLajRtRVpuVlpxZyQM
I'd like to see some PSAs for this stuff in school, as an extension of trying to teach kids good habits. Something like trying to do tasks dictated from a stream of notifications, mixed with noise, exploring the stream's effect on attention.
Dobrze grał, sir.
Ask HN: What is a 'real vacation'?
Sam published on The Macro yesterday on how to run a late stage startup (~2 years in). Great advice for anyone interested: http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/later-stage-advice-for-startups/

At some point in the post he mentions:

> "And remember to take vacation yourself. We often see founders that go three or four years without ever taking a real vacation. That may work for a year or two, but you will burn out."

What does that mean? I go camping every year for 2-3 days, doesn't change me at all..and I chill with my non-startup friends every week anyways not like I'm on that 24/7 grind 80-hours week hustle that everyone brags to be on. Am I missing something out that I'm not going to Honolulu for 2 weeks?
I've found that part of the solution is to give it more to work with, and in a 'dumber' way. Remember, Google search isn't really a query language any more, it's more of an NLP find-what-I-mean interface. So sometimes instead of giving it keywords and logical operations ('beer +fridge -root -sassafras'), you can get better results by just asking a question ('get one of my beers from the fridge').
tracking the scope of vars is a simple compiler job (yes, also across functions, when used as byval or byref args or return values) and not a uncomputable problem. please stop spreading fud.

you only need a GC to recycle cyclic data structures, with links back to previous nodes. since Carp does not create such data structures in the generated C code the reclamation scheme can be kept simple.

heap vars to be kept global (such as closed-over upvals you are complaining about to be leaking) are kept global and released at the end.
every dynamic language does keep it functions and closed over values global.

however, lexical closures are released at the end of scope, and remaining tracked heap vars are copied.
It's the BSD 3-Clause :

https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
do you people genuinely believe that 'all politicians are liars' or some variant thereof? that's pretty sad, and suggests falling victim to certain cognitive biases, particularly confirmation bias and some kind of negative reinforcement effect. in the real world, most politicians are honestly trying to make things better for their constituents, with minor exceptions to that rule as always.
Demethylating agents, HDAC inhibitors, and their like can induce powerful effects on malignancies via (purportedly) primarily epigenetic mechanisms. I've seen patients with astronomically high leukemic counts return to normal blood counts on a few weeks of romidepsin, for instance.

But when groups use epigenetics to study poverty related stress, risk of depression, etc, there is a very different political structure than when comparing drugs to see what kills cancer cells in a dish. The trend seems to be to publish borderline findings with a nature vs nurture argument to explain differences as environmental, not genetic, and call for action as well as more funding to expand the research and find ways to environmentally or behaviorally prevent the problem. Optimistically, it's trying to solve problems. The issue is that important findings will be mixed in with a lot of questionable results that sound appealing to liberal academic journal editors and get a free pass at publication in top journals, a process which feeds back into the SJW gravy train of getting more academic grants to do more of the same. And with sciency techniques and big data approaches, what could be more fashionable? It really does a disservice to the subset of epigenetic research which is well conducted and reproducible. If the epigenetics bubble pops a bit, good. Other fields could use the attention.
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Dead or Alive bounces to mind.
> LZFSE is only present in iOS and OS X, so it can’t be used when the compressed payload has to be shared to other platforms (Linux, Windows).

So now it will be cross platform?
My main point is that any officer would not likely provide that treatment without backup after a shooting like this.

Also officers are not usually covered under the good samaritan laws, so their actions can lead to lawsuits if they cause more damage and don't have training. So a lot of times they do just wait for the EMTs.
Go for it, man!!

[opens a beer can]
I made a response to a similar comment in another location (see ref 1).

I only want to respond to the following claims:

> he is not a trained EMT with access to a trauma kit that would stop 4 GSWs [gunshot wound, clarification added]

There are other cases where Minnesota police officers are documented to have responded to gunshot wounds (ref. 2) Indeed, certain MN police departments provide additional training, beyond basic first aid, for trauma situations - see the edit to ref. 1.

Further, you're implying that highly-specialized training ('EMT'), specific medical supplies ('trauma kit'), and injury severity ('4 GSWs') are important in considering rendering aid. My contention would be that, those factors absent, having a gun drawn and yelling at a victim are not appropriate responses to an event of this type.

> he is also alone and has to secure the scene until backup arrives

Backup is clearly present by the time the video is rolling and multiple officers appear on the video when Mr. Castile's girlfriend is removed from the car.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=12047969

[2] http://www.startribune.com/documents-detail-accidental-eden-...
In Finnish "akka" is derogatory term for a woman. Closes translation would be "bitch".
They are very much into NIH, seemingly out of paranoid fear of patent attacks (though not sure how it can protect them).
Is running (not to mention downloading/parsing/compiling) emscriptened decompression code really that much faster than just transferring the data?

I think a better strategy would be to add support for LZFSE to the browsers themselves.
politics, business and law are pretty much all about truth and honesty, as well as persuasion.
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Why are distributed protocols necessary in the first place? I know nothing about this space.
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I am only adding these posts for posterity's sake - in MN, there is an obligation to aid individuals who have been harmed and MN officers are trained to do this. Indeed, reports exist of MN officers responding to gun shot wounds (GSWs).

See my earlier posts:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=12047969

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048024
For a third group, such inputs are rich if provided by an algorithm running locally, on your own personal data, whilst preserving your privacy.

They're scary when they're the carrot used to persuade you to allow a full invasion of your personal life by an outside entity, which as a matter of course requires permission to store, search, aggregate, and use commercially all of the data that it finds.
if more people did that then maybe they'd stop.
The very first paragraph answers the question:

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted[...]
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> I'm 100% convinced VR is the new medium going forward.

Maybe we should stop chasing that elusive high of extensive growth and just come to terms with the fact that computing is now a mature industry. There will be no more double-digit growth rates.
this is heartbreaking

i am so saddened by the loss of life and i am so amazed by lavish and her girl

they are both affectingly strong

my best attempt at keeping my composure as well as them:

are officers trained to withhold giving medical aide?

i've seen this a lot in police videos, especially where a death is involved

why is this officer continuing to point a gun at a dying person?

was the officer preparing to shoot either the person bravely live broadcasting the situation in defiance of the gun, or the child in the backseat, if one tried to apply pressure to the wound or offer water to the victim?
Mice is obviously just the first step. When mitochondrial wrangling is perfected I'd like my (yet unborn) grandchildren to get some bat mitochondria.

Bats must had their mitochondria selected for amazing performance and reliability. Using those could eliminate all those pesky old age diseases caused by "leaking" mitochondria.
yep. and of course, all the time saddam was playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship, pretending he had WMD in order to maintain iraq's position locally and globally, by refusing to allow inspections by the UN, and delaying and obfuscating facts when forced to comply. so it's no wonder the WMD line seemed plausible at the time.
I can't fully address your comment as I don't have access to the relevant data (regarding black community violence and its correlation with "heavy handed" police).

What I will suggest is that overall violence does not seem to be correlated with the rate of police killings - see the third image in ref. 1.

[1] http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015

EDIT:

I can't reply to you due to the HN rate limit. Please see my response below:

I appreciate your response but I take issue with the data source behind that post (ref 1). I don't intend to take it apart fully, but it appeared to included factors (e.g., average commute time) that:

1. Systematically disfavor urban areas

2. Have little bearing to the question at hand, whether violence is correlated with police killings

Additionally, my claim above (2) is that violence and police killings, across the municipalities with the highest rates of police killings, are not correlated (ref. 3).

[1] http://places.findthehome.com/#guide

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048043

[3] http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54ecf211e4b0ed744420c5...
I am working with some epigenetics data right now (chip-seq on histone modifications). The main problem I see is that there doesn't seem to be any mature framework for analyzing the data. There are a bunch of disparate methods for different aspect of the data analysis that all seem to give different results.

From the data generation perspective, there are so many possible sources of biases from preparing the biological sample to sequencing of the sample, it can be difficult to control for all these variables in the down-stream analysis.
600,000 neurons seems small enough to simulate - and microscopes are easily good enough to discern cells (neurons) and their connections. Though the weightings between them probably can't be detected.

At least, that's my layman's view... what specific aspects of tools are actually deficient?

It could be a useful starting point for eventually understanding ourselves. I expect we'll need to develop hierarchical models for how neurons operate, to cope with the complexity... perhaps even new pure mathematics.
Blows my mind that people can come up with this stuff.

I'm assuming they came up with the mathematical proofs first and translated that into code, so that has something to do with it, correct?

It looks a lot like some crypto algorithms which are a nearly direct translation of the mathematical formulas.

It's not that it's incredibly difficult to follow, but it's just very "math like".
I've made these statements elsewhere; I simply want to be thorough in responding to your comments.

In Minnesota, there is an obligation to aid individuals who have been harmed and MN officers are trained to do this. Indeed, reports exist of MN officers responding to gun shot wounds (GSWs).

Referenced posts:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=12047969

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048024
i think he means that you actually shut down for a few days and not only take "vacation" and proceed to work. A bit more vacation would not hurt you i guess.
It's 2016. How can you launch a reasonably high profile open source project with code that looks like this? This fulfills all the TODO list for unreadable code. One character variable names, one character parameter names, full of magic numbers...

Yes. This is very performance critical code and I completely see the need to write very optimized code. That's fine. But optimizing code for speed shouldn't imply also optimizing it to use as few characters as possible.

Compression code is code that often runs at boundaries to the external world and thus is a very significant attack surface. To release compression code in a non-safe language is risky enough but then using what amounts to practically write-only code is, IMHO, irresponsible.