skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the 'black part of town' is always some rundown ghetto compared to the rest.

Yes, that is the case with redlining, disinvestment, and lets not even get started with them being treated as a nonentity. Interstates and highways were built over and through predominantly black/minority neighbourhoods. White neighbourhoods did not want them because property values, black neighbourhoods weren't even asked.

It's the only race that seems have its own unintegrated subculture

It's so unintegrated white America can't stop adopting it. Rock and Roll was black. Today, you wouldn't be able to tell.

If I were a police officer interested in fining people, I'd head to the rundown parts of the city where the "broken window theory" says more crimes will be committed. And there seems to be more black people there. So I'd probably end up fining more black people than not.

If all you do is look for black criminals, yes that is exactly what you will find.

whatever gives black people a 'black accent' or voice is also what's responsible for the fining and bad subculture.

¿Wait, what!?

black children adopted by middle-class white families don't have this problem.

Oh, they find out soon enough, when being pulled over for "XXXXing while black" the police aren't concerned with who raised you, just the colour of your skin.
I'm sure it's ignorance for most people, but I know it's laziness with some people I know.

I think the whole .app folder idea was a great idea that I'm surprised others (Windows/Linux) haven't copied. The /intention/ is that anything that would need to get installed/fixed happen when the app is first launched. This both removes the need for an installer and helps repair things (if the App was moved or preferences were deleted). Thankfully installers are pretty rare in my experience. Usually it's for pretty involved things (network monitor, VM environment) or lazy multi-platform devs (Microsoft Word, or Adobe).

I think the App Store is the most straightforward for the average user--I just wish they'd improve it so it was used more.
If I had to guess, because they don't own duck.com and developers have a better grip on unusual TLDs than most users.
Newsflash: a distinct accent and unassimilated culture is a pretty predictable result of government-enforced segregation, a policy which still has not ended. Voluntary segregation on top of that makes it worse.

Single-family zoning is explicit segregation, yet it's popular across America. You can only build the most expensive kind of home in those neighborhoods. A majority of white families live in that type of home. A minority of black families do. Surprise! Segregated neighborhoods!

We culturally define "good schools" not as schools that increase a child's chances of success relative to other schools, but as schools that rich white people attend. We buy homes in segregated neighborhoods so we can send our kids to segregated schools, and we fight against cheaper housing options like apartments because they will make our schools less segregated and reduce our property values as a result. Surprise! Segregation!

Wealthy selfish people use our governments as weapons against black families, yet it's their fault that there's an unintegrated subculture. God bless America, a nation that will never allow black families to thrive.
nobody knows how to fix it though, so we're all just sitting around waiting for the higher ed bubble to pop.
This was not self selected; we explicitly publicized the survey in non Rusty venues to get outside opinions.
Good things dont scale. Sergey Brin & Larry Page could have been the old Japanese man in the subway station sushi joint making the the best bites of a lifetime for a few hundred humans a day. They decided to go a different route.
You should be able to create Hacker News clone using Telescope

http://www.telescopeapp.org/
Interestingly, this problem of decadence and decay scales to countries, royal dynasties, empires, etc. We don't yet have any companies so large that their period of decline has been able to last for centuries, but it's theoretically possible.

I don't think Oracle and IBM will be around in 2050, but I wouldn't have thought they'd be around now in 2005, so my perception is probably off.
Ah! Good catch. I shall update that.
Would you mind telling me why cause I don't care if other people waste their money buying non GMO food?
Personally, I might prefer using the dialog to move the app just because I'm less likely to move it somewhere unintended (like Desktop or Documents) and don't need to context switch by trying to find Applications. Just download, click-to-launch, click yes to move to Applications.
I don't know, spend 30 minutes and read the frigging report, like I did. Maybe it will have the exact answer you are looking for.
Great! Missing date filtering was a major downside.
Etcd looks more promising?

Zookeeper has been around now for over 5 years with an extremely large install base.

Kafka, Hadoop, Solr, Mesos and Hbase projects that leverage Zookeeper distributed coordination.

Zookeeper has already delivered.
It really depends on how you view the problem. Yes, the latency of agreeing a proposal is similar, which is limited by physical (network latency + disk io). However, there are ways to put more stuff into one proposal (batching) and submitting proposals continuously (pipelining). These optimizations highly depend on the implementations.
I was mostly just being hyperbolic but I meant valid certs for domains that our hypothetical Hitler did not own.
Besides multi-document transactions, I've encountered these problematic use-cases (something I discovered after scope creep of projects):

2. When I needed "more exotic" data types (e.g. but not limited to Decimals) where you want query/analytics logic to happen on the database rather than the app.

3. OLAP types of use cases. I really wanted collation, sort order, query optimizers, ability to "explore" the data in relational ways, and so on.
AI Downs Fighter Pilot
Wait, what? I though the whole point of shares (per GP) is they're all (within the same class) treated equally, regardless of holder, specifically to prevent these kinds of shenanigans!

Imagine if the management of a company voted to void some arbitrary 10% of the shares -- the ones held by people they didn't like, merely to claim more of the company for themselves. That would absolutely not be kosher.

But then (assuming the grandparent's description of what happened is accurate), Zenefits is doing exactly the same thing by more roundabout means. Surely the laws on this aren't so easily circumvented? And even if not, isn't this as a big red flag to future investors?
Ok. I don't agree. The original argument described literally how every other store (specially big chains) in the world works.
Yes. That is precisely what is happening.
I'm not sure what point you're arguing.

It sounds like you're suggesting (between this post and an ancestor) that it's okay for the power of the state to be wielded against people whose accents are not in favor. But you can't actually be suggesting that, so what's the actual point you're trying to make?

As a bonus, could you connect this to the types of fines primarily covered in TFA (traffic tickets)? These fines are not assessed via telephone calls. How is any of your argument relevant to the practice of armed police officers driving to predominantly African-American areas to pull over moving vehicles for minor infractions, for the explicit purpose of generating revenue?
Despite all the turmoil around the company, I've been using them for payroll and looking into more HR stuff through them, and it works really well. Much better than Intuit, certainly (which has cost me a fortune in late filing fees and other stuff, because they don't automate tons of stuff that ought to be automated and invisible to the end user, and I suck at doing taxes).

I'm surprised they need 900 employees to do what they do, though. But, I guess a huge part of their business is interacting with decrepit old systems used by insurers and states, and often require humans and fax machines and other such nonsense.

This is a pretty astounding turn of events; it's not something I've ever even heard of happening. It's certainly better than exploding under the pressure of investor lawsuits, I guess. But, aren't their still regulatory issues being investigated and so catastrophe is still possible?
Linguistic relativity is quite controversial and nowhere near as clear cut as you are making it out to be - there are studies that don't support the claims around color naming, for example. When I last spoke to someone who studied linguistics (but wasn't a researcher), he said the consensus was there was only a weak effect.
A hierarchy of bosses is not the same thing as Dilbertesque management culture. An organization above a certain size requires managers of managers and meetings. There certainly are bad managers and bad meetings, but it is bad logic to jump from that to a dismissal of management and meetings in general.
District attorneys are supposed to work for justice, not to win cases. If there is compelling evidence that a guilty verdict is incorrect, then re-opening the case is the right thing to do.
How does an armed police officer evaluate the culture of a person moving past in a vehicle, so that they know who comes from a bad culture and thus is okay to target?
You don't generally need to see a judge unless you want to challenge the ticket. Most tickets in California can be paid online or by mail. It differs by county.
It's so bad on so many levels that it is actually difficult to respond. Literally don't know where to begin or end.

But, your parent summed it up nicely. It's not just name-calling. It's a concise description of the thinking and attitudes that would produce such a misguided comment: pure racism.
He's talking about labels, not warnings.
It's not mentioned in the blog post—is there a document that explains the migration plan for the etcd that ships on the host in CoreOS?

Edit: They haven't been published to the docs on the CoreOS website yet, but there are two documents listed under "upgrading and compatibility" at the bottom of https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/v3.0.0/Documentation/doc...
I'm glad Syed is getting another trial and certainly the prosecution did not put on a flawless case, but I think it's a bit of a retcon to suggest that this is an instance of a prosecution malfunctioning to an extreme extent (whether it's an instance of the defense doing that: different question).

The prosecution had:

* The confession of an accomplice which included non-public details about the crime

* Cell phone evidence both directly implicating Syed and damaging his alibi

* A series of incriminating misstatements from Syed himself

Remember, the prevailing online sentiment about Hans Reiser was that he'd been stereotyped and then railroaded into a conviction as well. Reiser's defense also hinged on the notion that no physical evidence directly connected him to the crime. But that's not how murder prosecutions work.
Understand, that make sense. Maybe there will be a huge work to do, because the mobile ui elements and the desktop ui elements are not matched mostly.
"The top of Joshua Brown’s 2015 Tesla Model S vehicle was torn off by the force of the collision. The truck driver, Frank Baressi, 62, Tampa was not injured in the crash.
The FHP said the tractor-trailer was traveling west on US 27A in the left turn lane toward 140th Court. Brown’s car was headed east in the outside lane of U.S. 27A.
When the truck made a left turn onto NE 140th Court in front of the car, the car’s roof struck the underside of the trailer as it passed under the trailer. The car continued to travel east on U.S. 27A until it left the roadway on the south shoulder and struck a fence. The car smashed through two fences and struck a power pole. The car rotated counter-clockwise while sliding to its final resting place about 100 feet south of the highway. Brown died at the scene.
Charges are pending."

source: https://www.levyjournalonline.com/police-beat.html

given the above, I suspect that even if the Model S' brakes kicked in, they still would not have saved him. Unless the driver was asleep at the wheel or otherwise distracted.
While compelling, the most frustrating thing about "Serial" was the narrative manipulation. Audience manipulation is the hallmark of any documentary, but in the type of chronological style that "Serial" and Netflix's "Making a Murderer" chose, it is much more deceptive. "Serial" didn't pay off--the central enlightenment is tepid observations that "memory is faulty" and/or "it's hard for journalists to ferret out truth". "Making a Murderer" at least sounded a ringing indictment against the criminal justice system as a whole, and corruption of petty incompetents holding power. "Serial" seemed like disjointed TAL thinkpieces strung together.
You submitted 7 post of pages of the same site in an hour.

From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
Peanut Butter Smell Test for Alzheimer’s
apparently, for some, many even, this puts them under some stress and pressure, socially and organisatoric.
They (reasonably) claim the joint model doesn't have to be as big, but, for example, it would be interesting the see an ensemble of 2 models: a wide model of the same size as the wide half of the joint model, and a hierarchical model of the same size as the hierarchical half of the joint model.
That's pretty much what speed limits are.
The capabilities and performance of graph databases do differ, and many aren't cheap, nor well known, so if you need one, you'll need to shop around.

Btw, Neo4J is definitely a graph database, although it might not be what you need.
strapdown.js is pretty cool... Just create a static file with your Markdown text within <xmp> tags... http://strapdownjs.com/
kamau is not calling anyone a name, they are correctly categorizing the parent post. The parent post is typical of the type of post that is written by racists. That is not name calling, that is the act of categorizing. If you give me a box full of cats and squid, and I pull out a creature that only has 4 legs, and I say "Typical cat" I'm not insulting the cat, I'm simply correctly separating it from the squid.
>> “This is a unique situation, we’ve never seen it before and we don’t expect to see it again,” said a spokesperson for Andreessen Horowitz.

This is the golden line in the article, with the "bend the rules" mantra VC's have for their founders I suspect we'll be seeing more of these come to light in the future. Thinking this to be an isolated incident could be very wishful thinking.

Even if AH expects every Unicorn to go through a similar event in the near future they wouldn't say as much to the press, there is no benefit for them as VC fund.
Man dies while driven by Tesla Autopilot
I've been astounded at how rare it is for a search API to offer date information. I talked to Gabriel about the problem many moons ago, and even with their significantly greater clout (than a random dude working on a tiny project that uses search engine APIs), and despite asking for it, they couldn't get that info from their partners. So, it's good to see they finally made it happen with Yahoo.

But, I thought the Yahoo BOSS search API was gone, and the only way to use Yahoo search was basically just a black box sort of deal (i.e., you pass them the query and they hand you results, which you display as yahoo sent them). I'm not sure I understand what DDG is doing, and when you'd hit those Yahoo results. It's especially convoluted since Yahoo gets its results from Bing, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11993366
Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement?
This thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008790) made me wonder. For those of you who have retired and have continued to stay busy, what are you doing in retirement?
Just tried to joke :)
Lots of the work is just me identifying problems that I see and trying to fix them. Most of it is just exploratory and can be stressful at times, but it's overall very rewarding. I just accepted an offer in the infosec field to get out of the stress and to, well, get out of a financial hole.

-Heck of a lot of FOIA requests to get the Chicago mayor's office's phone records.

-Went to a hackathon a couple months back and made a domestic violence shelter map which has since been taken over by a small team of volunteers.

-Got some wrongful parking tickets and started a project to map out Chicago's parking tickets using FOIA data.

-Started setting up a LAN party with some friends which we hope will have 160+ people.

-Freelance work here and there for some cash to help pay the bills.

-Found some security vulnerabilities that could have impacted comcast's network which I helped fix. Did the same with Northwestern, but they didn't fix it.

-Lots and lots of learning of random things.
An engineer should know nothing by instinct.

Adding redundancy was incorrect. Redundancy should be inherent to the design. If one must be added, the design is already a failure.

Redundancy does not mean adding a new component, but maintaining operation under component failure. For example, if the engines fail, it should still be possible to make a controlled landing.
So they data mine this traffic at the nameserver level, just to reasonably say that DDG doesn't share info? Making it technically your computer sharing the info, by way of their forced implementation? Seems like the ad blockers are making the right move here.
There are also human beings that are, due to genetic defect, blue-skinned--that said, hereditary methemoglobinemia is pretty rare (maybe 50 cases on record). Because of such low incidence rate, it would be silly to claim that it was worth considering when describing the human skin color spectrum.

Also, the Quigley scale is useful for describing intersex people--it is designed specifically to model characteristics of a subpopulation whose size might be be negligible. Without numbers or studies, I can claim with the same accuracy that the majority of people have either a functioning penis or vagina (though, in the interest of the anatomically minded, a many of the structures are of course related).

I'm merely suggesting that it'd be helpful in these discussions to have some studies backing up our assertions.
Albatross: dead simple async python3 web framework
I'm from Insight - our program is kept free for our Fellows because the companies that we partner with pay for the Fellowship. Rather than classes, we believe that the best way for advanced engineers to learn the detailed nuances of these tools is to use them, so the concept is to learn them by building a data platform. You're right that it's really difficult to understand distributed systems in a few weeks, but our Fellows already have several years of programming, so they have been able to pick up a general understanding quite quickly.
I don't think I follow. A good web search engine cannot be a niche product with a few users. The bigger the resources, the better the results. That's an impossible problem to overcome by merely being really good at something. DDG overcomes it, reasonably effectively, by getting results from a huge list of partners.

If there weren't huge companies offering search APIs, DDG simply couldn't compete with Google (without massive scale of their own). As it is, DDG still provides somewhat weaker results in some cases; it is still my primary search engine on all of my devices, and I like it, but when I'm frustrated by the results, I make use of !g and usually find what I'm looking for.
To quickly take on comparisons with the British Empire --

War: True, the US engages in war, and the British Empire engaged in war. But so have many countries that were no empires. When the US engages in war, it leaves and tries to set up a gov't as the new authority. This has worked well (Japan, Germany, etc.) and not so well (Iraq, South Korea initially).

Companies: Imperial British companies literally captured their markets -- they had their own armies! The British East India Company for example came to rule much of the subcontinent, with their own soldiers! Subjects of British imperial rule were told what to trade. They might have done well for themselves sometimes (or been devastated at other times), but in any case the relationship was clear.

Global leadership: The US took the mantle as global leader from the British. This wasn't desired. Indeed after WWI the US refused to play leader. Some historians believe that WWII could have been avoided if the US would have fulfilled its duty as most powerful to provide leadership.

After WWII the US became serious about being a leader, by which I mean taking the initiative on issues of global coordination, both security-wise and financial. This is another reason the US is so easily confused with an empire. The UN, IMF, World Bank, NATO, Bretton Woods, these were largely American initiatives, but they were not imperial dictats.

Again, the importance in my way of thinking is that countries with relationships with the US are not subjects of the US. That is the key distinction that must never be forgotten.

A question: In your way of thinking, is the EU an empire?
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I read this post earlier and then just read this City Journal article where the founder of the company America Works describes his history with the war on poverty and welfare to work programs. The focus is to get people entry level jobs and he apparently has a good track record of doing it.

Good luck!

http://www.city-journal.org/html/what-i-learned-poverty-war-...
Would we let a doctor murder a random healthy person to harvest organs to save ten lives? When we talk about weighing alternatives, it's like you say: It won't save lives in all cases, but it will decrease the loss of innocent lives overall.
I can't remember the last time I typed in a search engine URL. I type my queries into my browser URL field and let it do the right thing. When I want Google, I use "!g query" (because DDG is my default, and that's how you tell it to redirect the query to Google).

Under what circumstances do you type in the name of your preferred search engine?
Please read this before you go: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...

The desert is surprisingly unforgiving.
The thing that gets missed is that a ton of laws on the books are written with the expectation that they will not be applied evenly. Some examples:

- Nobody really expects the cops to sweep the dorms at NYU for marijuana, even though this would probably turn up a ton of arrests. Smoking a joint while looking like a minority and being in a minority part of town carries a much higher probability of being arrested.

- Crossing the street against the light at or around the front of MIT doesn't get you cited for jaywalking, ever.

- All of New York City has (had?) a prohibition on open containers of alcohol. This prohibition is generally unenforced in non-minority areas.

- Open carry laws in Georgia are not meant for dark-skinned Muslim men.
What if police were funded at the state level and all revenues from fines went to the central gov't?
Ration of officers per 1,000 people would be distributed where they are statistically needed more --that way you avoid wealthy areas with cops who sit around pulling over out of towners because they have little else to do and locales that need a police force to deal with the crime can have more officers to police the locale.

Bonus, one pension one authority to negotiate contracts, etc.
Expectedly, per Clojure documentation, "Vectors support access to items by index in log32N hops". This means that a Clojure vector is essentially a tree-based map; a "true" array (as in C or Java) would have O(1) time for access by index.

I suspect that Elixir's maps are not different in this regard, as are Erlang's arrays, or maps in Haskell or OCaml. This is the canonical way to make an immutable map (see picture here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/195718/functi...).