skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is a death with the possibility of legal recourse any better than one without?

As far as I see, the point of legal recourse is to deter it from happening in the first place, I.e. it is purely consequentialist. If you reject such consequentialist thinking, what's the point of having someone to blame?
Django project to select areas of image along with zoom functionality
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096735
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Please do audio/podcast of this if possible
Post in the appropriate "Hometown forum" on AR15.com. As he is a veteran, I'm confident that someone there will be able to help - I've watched the members of that site have come through in a big way innumerable times in the past.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/b/8_Hometown.html
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> It seems unlikely that the connection between fines and large African American populations—a connection that cannot be explained by poverty—is the result of African Americans across the United States committing more finable offenses.

I'm not sure why that seems unlikely. African Americans commit a disproportionately large amount of violent crimes. It seems reasonable to expect that they also commit a larger amount of misdemeanors and minor infractions. It would be far more surprising if they had a higher propensity to break the law, but only when the violation is serious and the penalty heavy.
Greenpeace on what GMOs are:

>"Genetic engineering enables scientists to create plants, animals and micro-organisms by manipulating genes in a way that does not occur naturally."

The article:

> "Virtually all crops and livestock have been genetically engineered in the broadest sense; there are no wild cows, and the cornfields of the United States reflect many centuries of plant modification through traditional breeding."

Conclusion: 'GMO' should stand for "Generally Modified Organism"
http://electrek.co/2015/12/22/man-dies-tesla-model-s-crash-d...

Interesting, says model s was rated the safest of any car tested.
Sounds like you're putting the blame on black people.

I recommend you read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisis Coates.
I like this example [1], about fish tomato. Now, you can't call THAT natural.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_tomato
And then the vendor uses the same disclaimer to wash their hands of responsibility.

You can't have it both ways.
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Pretty much all data plans in Japan since last year are data capped. Of course you get unlimited but the speed is capped to Excruciatingly Slow after 7GB (on the higher end plans).

EDIT: you can get unlimited WiMax boxes (capped at 3 GB/3 days), but that doesn't work in a lot of areas (Tokyo subways...). Some MVNOs seem to offer unlimited data but it's speed capped from the outset.
Python lacks a native array too but its list type seems to do just fine. What is it you want to do that you that requires an array?
Reading the VAD section of the wikipedia article on golden rice [0] always makes me angry. I would go so far as to call Greenpeace's continued political activity evil, since averaged out over time it has contributed to the preventable deaths of millions of children.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice#Vitamin_A_deficien...
It very much counts as management and many companies give preferential hiring to people with military experience. Even low ranking people have to qualify for a security clearance and pass a physical and there is a long list of things that can exclude you from fitness to serve your country.

If he had not been in prison for 11 years, his past military experience would absolutely open a great many doors for him. Successfully serving and being honorably discharged says a great many positive things about a person, something many businesses are very aware of and actively look for.
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Why do you want an array? You mean you want a memory area with adjacent cells layed out, to talk to C perhaps? Perhaps might want a list, a binary, or a sorted set, a tuple, a map and so on. You have to tell a bit more about your use case.

I used Erlang for many years, and in the last one full time. Not one time have I needed an "array". It seems you picked one odd feature no-one uses and are upset about it, I thik it is just a small misunderstand, if you share a bit more about what you are trying to do, you'll get more help.

> I just find this disappointing

Did you explain your use case to them. If you just said "I need an array" I see their response as perfectly rational. And from what I've seen, that is probably the friendliest and most approachable community, especially for newcomers.
I suppose if your goal is to keep as many human beings alive as possible, then the noble laureates are right.

However if your goal is to keep the earth alive for as long as possible then it seems Greenpeace is right.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned ObjectiveFS? When EFS was in preview just a month or so ago it was absolutely abysmal with performance for basic smaller web stuff.

OFS feels nearly like an attached disk, and uses S3. You only pay per mount. Their support has been awesome and very personal.

It provides a fuse-based full POSIX filesystem backed by S3 and can be mounted from multiple places in multiple regions. Some basic things like snapshotting they said are coming soon too.

I gave up on EFS and even though it's finally out of preview, I think I still am going to prefer OFS based on what I've seen so far...
Great analysis! I'd be interested to see an analysis of the demographics of the police departments in cities with a high percentage of revenue coming from fines. It might also be interesting to look at the historical demographics of that city. I wonder if a city "in transition" (either becoming more or less diverse) is more fine happy as the dominant population loses or gains power.
I took a look at the etcdv3 raft.go code, it is indeed pretty nicely written! Definitely better than any other one i've seen.

(though i'm pretty excited about the raft impl my summer intern and I are hacking on currently :) )
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Nothing we as humans will ever do will destroy life on Earth.

We might level a devastating blow to the diversity that exists today (and thus also to ourselves), but life will persist here until the Sun eats the planet.
I have to admit that the science side of this is very compelling: zero documented negative health outcomes is pretty compelling evidence for its safety. And it's a much easier solution than trying to scale up global food production naturally with our exponentially growing population.

But I am also sympathetic to the concerns over GMOs. These things spread in the wild, and we are basically playing god with the building blocks of (plant) life itself, which we definitely do not fully understand. If we fail to acknowledge some detail after meddling with something that could not have happened in nature, we might not find out until it's reaped devastating effects on global agriculture or even long-term human health. Even if GMOs can do a lot of good in the short-term, it would be terrifying to find out in the long-term that we've caused horrific damage due to our arrogance.

We're rightfully weary about human genetic engineering, but plant life is just as important to our survival.

I'm perfectly fine with there being opposing sides double-checking each other's work here.
"My guess is that whatever gives black people a 'black accent' or voice is also what's responsible for the fining and bad subculture. That is, a black person who cannot be easily distinguished over the telephone would be statistically similar to the population as a whole. In particular, they wouldn't be fined as much."

What?
Yes, Tesla system is a fancy lane following dressed in powerful PR.

Btw I dont feel Imagenet results are relevant, it only tests static 2d images. Car system can have multiple cameras providing 3d reconstruction in near realtime. Mobileye (what tesla repackaged) probably has only one front facing camera and is too stupid beyond 'hey this uniformly colored blob is in my lane'
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If it's GMO put a label in it. What's the big deal? The way companies try to skirt that law is pretty mind blowing. Companies number 1 priority is shareholder value, consumer safety is a distant 2nd place.

Take it slow, what's the rush? 40% of food now goes to wast. People seem to forget that farmers that don't use GMO crops are probably far more conscience about other aspects of the food chain than Monsanto, that's just common sense.
The criticism is about the emergent incentives due to the interplay of capitalism and technology.

The question is whether the industry can be trusted to self-regulate or if there are externalities and endogenous variables which may spur a generalized irresponsible utility.

In the same way that environmentalists criticize coal for its abuses in the context of capital markets, there's a concern that not every for-profit biotech firm will value multi-generational probabilistic long-term effects on an ecosystem as much as the company's business interests.
They give some data to back up that statement.

> Although African Americans and Whites report smoking marijuana at the same rates, African Americans are 3.7 times more likely get arrested for marijuana possession.

> An analysis of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 6.6% of White people between the ages of 12 and 25 have sold drugs compared to 5.0% of Blacks. Yet Black people are 3.6 times more likely get arrested for selling drugs.
Actually no. I hope this will be the only criminal case I'm ever involved in.

I'm about to spend a year as a Visiting Researcher at the Moscow Institute of International Relations, where I'll be writing my dissertation on nuclear game theory and international law.
While the common GMO crops on the market have been shown to be completely safe for human consumption time after time again, I think it's important to get across that being "anti-GMO" is inherently an unscientific position, regardless of the safety profile of any specific food products. Why?

From a biologist's perspective, the phrase "anti-GMO" is meaningless - what are you really against if you're anti-GMO? It means you're completely against the use of a wide range of specific biotechnologies, protocols, and experiments that modify the genome of an organism. To dismiss the safety profile of all of these biotechnologies by themselves is irrational, not only because there is no proven mechanism for how they can cause harm, or because they've been shown to create perfectly safe crops, but because they use very different mechanisms (from Agrobacterium to gene guns to RNA-i to the new CRISPR/Cas) from each other.

To be skeptical of the safety profile of the concept of gene editing in principle is also irrational, unless one is willing to also be skeptical of the safety profile of induced mutagenesis methods that humans have used for a century, and cross-breeding methods that humans have used for thousands of years. Why? Because both of these conventional methods "edit genes", but there is an inherent risk that is significantly higher: randomness. When scientists apply modern biotechnological methods to edit genomes, they utilize and target known and characterized genes and pathways, which can have any associated risks or consequences profiled and understood. Broad mutagenesis and cross-breeding create organisms (especially in polyploidy plants) with rearranged and mutated genes at random, which creates a scenario which makes it even currently impossible to truly understand and predict the safety or nutritional profile of the resulting organism. Of course, even these "oh-so-risky" methods are responsible for creating the entire repertoire of fruits and vegetables we eat today.

Therefore, the anti-GMO movement truly does seem anti-scientific - by definition it isn't making specific claims about specific crops, or even specific technologies, but rather the broad generalization that an entire range of very different technologies are unsafe. It is also applying that generalization unfairly to modern technologies (which sound scarier and riskier) as opposed to the ones that have successfully created all modern crops (which have a similarly very low but distinctly higher risk involved). With a bit of context, it seems impossible to interpret the movement as anything besides having a problem with the existence of the field of biotechnology itself.
I actually don't like rails' convention over configuration school of thoughts. It makes everything implicit. For any large rails app it's difficult to reason about how things are working, unless you learn all the conventions by heart (by the way, these conventions don't seem to be documented well)
Could you please explain your statement "keep the earth alive"? I don't understand what this means.
Worth pointing out that this crash happened on May 7:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/self-driving-tesl...

It's a little bit odd that the press release's sole specific reference to time -- "We learned yesterday" -- is in its 3rd word...which, for me, made me think the accident happened yesterday, or shortly before...Not two months before.
+1 to this. I plan to retire, or at least semi-retire at some point. To me, that means I'll have more time to do things I want to do that don't necessarily generate income.
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Thank you for the cogent framing of the issues. It's so easy to bash GMO skeptics for being "anti science" or stubborn vegan hippies. There are legitimate concerns to discuss.
And that doesn't work for the web site, which is, after all, the only thing taken down. No mention of The Yes Men, it really tries to look legit and claims an NRA copyright etc. Even the whois info for the domain dead ends at the Whois Privacy Corp.
I prefer to talk about real utilitarian tradeoffs instead of putting I imaginary, arbitrarily virtuous angels against computers. Every day you delay automation of automobile traffic is another batch of lives lost.

Are you more interested in saving lives or in expressing the short sighted and sanctimonious outrage of a Luddite?
Is there any legitmacy left to the argument that we need technology to solve malnutrition?

According to some sources, the world has recently crossed a threshold where there are more overweight people in the world than there are malnourished people. [1]

If one excludes considerations around national security, labour markets, land use, etc., is there a good case to be made that increased food production is even necessary?

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/31/obese-humans-now-outnumber-th...
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I wrote this on a comment thread 260 days ago when the autopilot features were introduced.

>A common phrase in aircraft cockpits nowadays is "What the heck is it doing now?" as pilots have migrated from actually flying the plane to simply being glorified systems managers.
While planes have become so, so, so much safer because of all this automation, pilots uncertainty regarding autopilot functioning is a major concern nowadays, and the reason for several accidents.
There are very interesting HCI challenges around properly communicating to the pilot/driver "what the heck it is doing" and clearly communicating just how much control the human has or doesn't have at any given point.
This "announcement" certainly doesn't inspire any confidence that they have really thought this through deeply enough (I think they probably have, but it should be communicated like it). As a huge Tesla fan, I can't help but feel like I need to hold my breath now and make sure something terrible doesn't happen because of this, and it ends up leading to even more regs setting us back on the path to full car automation.

I really hate having been right. But from the ensuing discussion here about the rightness or wrongness about labeling features "beta" in the car, to the disconnect of how the technology was "meant" to be used versus how it was portrayed by the company itself, it is pretty clear they really fucked up.

The huge discrepancy between the cautionary tone of this press release and everything that came before it is a great reminder that while some of us may be really worried about preventing AI from having unintended consequences in our society, there are at the same time many more pressing issues that we must address that are very much caused by very human motivations and actions.
I view retirement mostly as financial freedom. I have every intention of working after retirement as I get personal enjoyment out of doing what I do. I just haven't decided what "work" will look like.
Let's put warnings on vaccines then?
There's just as much (or lack there of) "evidence" that vaccines cause autism as GMO's being harmful.
Tangent query regarding iOS.
Were there any updates/announcements about native development or C++/Swift interoperability in recent WWDC16 talks.
The OP mentions OpenBiome which is the worlds first independent stool bank and supplies feces for transplants. They have a 3% acceptance rate for donors and select only the healthiest individuals.

It would interesting to see how their screening process evolves given the plausibility of all the health affects beyond the GI system of fecal transplants. For example, it may be that mental health wasn't screened beyond a cursory exam but later it could be a significant part of screening.

But if they are already reject 97% of donors and the demand is increasing, the economics encourages lowering the screening bar, not raising it.
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Elixir has no native array syntax nor any array functions in the stlib so arrays are basically second class citizens rather than completely absent. Ask not why I need them but why anyone might need them if the Elixir is supposed to be a general purpose language. Why does Clojure need them or Ruby or Python (lists)? If I want to process data as a large indexed array Elixir isn't going to help me and some Elixir devs have conceded that it may not be suitable for large scale data processing. We all know Elixir/Erlang excels at distributed concurrency but the question here is whether it is deficient in other areas, making it too much of a niche language.
Does absence of arrays look a problem for you, while general immutability of most everything and message-based approach look totally normal and easy to grasp?

I suspect that to use Elixir, you need to study a new way of doing things first. Then you'll see arrays in a different light.
That's a Time article...the scientific consensus says otherwise. Also notice how he says "likely". I think that is perhaps being over optimistic.
yet all the PR material talks about autonomous driving, car drives itself wink wink
> That saving of $150 is equivalent to one hour of pro dev work time.

Fair point, unless you have more customers. Then it can start to add up quickly. And by customers it means requests as well. Being able to handle large traffic spikes and continous connections is a game change from what I found.

Moreover. A huge benefit is using the BEAM VM, I use Erlang (but same VM) and I have seen major advantages being able to trace, debug, hotpatch a running system. Some parts of the cluster would be crashing and restarting for a while, and there would be no need to wake everyone up. It can be fixed in the morning kinda deal.

An interesting observation to think about -- importance of fault tollerance grows as quickly or quicker than concurrency. What I mean is if you have a service that handles more concurrent requests, it now becomes are lot more important to have solid fault tollerance, because a single failed request, maybe causing a segfault, can kill all of them for example.

That is a bit hard to understand unless you see it practice. You can think of it this way -- it doesn't matter if the system can handle 100K requests / second. If it is not fault tollerant, when it crashes it handles 0 requests / second. Depending how crappy the uptime is, you can average those number and get something that's pretty low.
Why is it good to listen to a show you dislike just to say you finished it?
Absolutely.

There being overweight people does not mean there aren't still malnourished.

Technology can help not only to increase overall food production, but also to enable greater production in the localized areas where there is still insufficient supply.
Kind of.

48 contributors total (Yes, Andrew is doing most) - https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels/graphs/contributors

It sounds like it wasn't decided to keep 3rd party as much as decided not to not combine yet:

> The feedback I got during the proposal process for putting Channels into Django 1.10 (it did not get in before the deadline, but will still be developed as an external app with 1.10) was valuable; some of the more recent changes and work, such as backpressure and the local-and-remote Redis backend, are based on feedback from that process, and I imagine more tweaks will emerge as more things get deployed on Channels.

https://www.aeracode.org/2016/6/16/philosophy-channels/

You can still use Channels today in 1.8–1.10.

https://blog.heroku.com/in_deep_with_django_channels_the_fut...

This project is very much in the spotlight, was heavily discussed at PyCon, etc. I don't think it's going anywhere.
Find a problem to solve in your local community and do what it takes to fix it, no matter how small. You'll learn, do good and get involved with your community more.

I recently took six months off to try and solve some local problems. There hasn't been a dull moment. :)
It's a case of a new(ish) publishing medium having effects beyond just entertainment.
Nope. I bought that takeout food and brought it home. I'm not using my iPhone in an Apple store. I'm using it in my apartment. If we're making a clumsy (and inaccurate) analogy to the physical world, this is how far you take it to demonstrate the absurdity of it.
> Stereotypes have basis in reality.

Why else would they exist?
This brings to mind "Project Steve" (https://ncse.com/project-steve) which lists scientists named Steve/Stephen/Stefan/Stephanie/etc. who agree with a statement endorsing evolution.

On the other hand, maybe a list of 110 Nobel Laureates (100 of whom are Nobel prize-winning scientists) isn't enough, and we need a "Project John": There are six Nobel prize-winning scientists named John (or Johann, or Jean-Marie) who endorse GMO foods.
Why would GMOs intrinsically hurt the environment?

You could in fact engineer crops which require substantially less resources and are better for the environment than traditional crops.
Although I started as a developer, my programming these days is mostly personal/hobby, and some automation coding at work. So my needs, pace and focus are probably not the same as yours.

From memory, and running:

$ history |sort -r |less

Anaconda Python
pip
pydoc
ipython
jupyter (ipython-notebook)
ipdb
pudb
unittest
setuptools
(Starting to use sphinx)
git
github
tig
pypi.python.org
pandas
Vim
restructuredtext
rst2html
Linux
bash scripts
urxvt
tmux
ssh (If I'm making something "up there.")
cygwin at work
conemu with clink at work
virtualbox
vagrant
Glad to see they included the Goldfield Hotel, just down the road a ways. It gets bought every 15 years or so by a different out-of-town property magnate, who announces that it will be fully restored.

The Goldfield's new owner never makes much headway, but the hotel does get opened up briefly for visitors. It is a very freaky experience to walk its corridors. I did so in 2004, and wrote this piece about it: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110238920487392930
Python's lists are lists in name only when compared with lists in functional languages. Whilst Python may offer additional array/vector implementations its lists are equivalent to arrays or vectors in other languages such as Ruby.