skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Why did you leave off "over-represented race in violent crimes"?

> Because those crimes are (for anything above the baseline for people in general at the same poverty levels) are results of centuries of being abused, held down and denied opportunities.

Then it fits and should have been included. The other things on your list (over-represented in incarceration, police shootings, and poverty) were examples/evidence of the results of racism/oppression/abuse, and here and elsewhere you're saying that, if there is any over-representation in violent crimes controlling for poverty, unless one is a DNA-flavor racist, it's obviously the result of racism/oppression, so it seems like it fits in with the other evidences/examples on your list.

Except it's weaker rhetorically, because the reader will have a hard time not seeing people who commit violent crimes as actors instead of objects, responsible for their own actions. Also, it, on the surface at least, seems like it might explain some of the other examples (if African-Americans commit disproportionate amounts of violent crimes, it makes sense they'd be disproportionately incarcerated or shot by cops, even if there were no racism involved).

> If you believe in blacks being inherently more violent etc as a race outside of systemic causes (poverty, bad school districts, lack of opportunities, etc, caused by centuries of slavery, double standards and racism) then you might as well believe that they have inferior DNA.

I don't think blacks are inherently more violent. Racism/systemic oppression and DNA aren't the only two possibilities. African-American culture (actually more narrowly "black ghetto" culture) is another possibility, one that is espoused by African-American economist Thomas Sowell in "Black Rednecks and White Liberals."
Ah yes, you are right, the Atom had it too.
If there are no good providers, you can always set up your own¹², or hire an engineer to do this for you.

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¹) On a leased hardware, network and address, but with proper backup and failover strategies, hosting providers are interchangeable (or one can always host on their own hardware) and it's somewhat less likely ICANN or your local registrar would yank your domain name registration than Google would do so to your account.

²) There are (nearly) one-click solutions for this, like https://cozy.io/ or https://sandstorm.io/
It was ridiculed because it wasn't cool. Microsoft made lots of things that people wanted to use. Nobody wants to spend $100 on some software without some clear benefit from it, and almost nobody who knows what their software needs are needs a product like this.

That confines this product to the aisle of "things you would never buy for yourself."

It's a classic UI dilemma: how do you simplify an interface without removing the functionality that makes the product powerful? However you'd answer that, what you don't do is bury that functionality behind a bunch of obscure analogies that have nothing to do with how that functionality works. The presence of a couch on that screen does nothing to help the user do anything that they need a computer to do, for example.
Another event that took place in Russia and led to a variety of crackpot theories: the Dyatlov Pass incident. [0]

> The incident involved a group of nine experienced ski hikers from the Ural Polytechnical Institute who had set up camp for the night on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl. Investigators later determined that the skiers had torn their tents from the inside out. They fled the campsite inadequately dressed, some of them barefoot, under heavy snowfall and at temperatures below freezing. Six victims were determined to have died from hypothermia, while others showed signs of trauma. One victim had a fractured skull and another was found with brain damage without any sign of distress to the skull. Additionally, one woman's tongue was missing.

> Soviet authorities determined that an "unknown compelling force" had caused the deaths. Access to the region was consequently blocked for hikers and adventurers for three years after the incident. Due to the lack of survivors, the chronology of events remains uncertain.

> Several explanations have been put forward, including an avalanche, infrasound-induced panic, and a military accident. Sensationalist hypotheses include a hostile encounter with a yeti or other unknown creature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
This. In addition to card games that intentionally reward skilled counterfeiters, there should be MMO games designed to reward the best hackers and botmakers. Also, there should be an "unlimited" category in real-life events like the Olympics and Tour de France, where the team with the best drug lab wins.

I think we'll start to see more and more games like this emerge over the next few years/decades, as the possibilities of traditional sports and games (and the humans who play them) are exhausted.
Rickshaws are pretty awesome vehicles. In the US, most of the people who have a bicycle or motorcycle also have a car.

Micro cars are a good middle ground between them in terms of passenger or cargo capacity, but they're usually too expensive.

I think Rickshaw-style vehicles could meet that middle ground in the US while also being far more affordable. It's probably difficult to import rickshaws since most of them are manufactured in foreign locales to specs that don't meet import EPA requirements.

I wonder if there are any that would meet import requirements or that are manufactured in the US. An electric rickshaw is an interesting idea too.

Edit:
Maybe the answer is to just get a pedicab and get some battery packs and an electric assist motor.
How Do Police Handle Violence in Countries Where Officers Don't Carry Guns
That was the first thing I thought was "maybe I have uploaded some copyrighted material to Drive or triggered some filter".

I also suspect of a problem with my credit card.

But Google refuses to tell me what was wrong.
Any questions, we'd be happy to answer
You can work for Google and Facebook in Seattle too, and they keep expanding.
Thanks for this, I didn't know this existed. Bookmarked
Sounds like you're still in shell shock!
I've lived in both places (SLC, the Four Corners, SF, Menlo Park) and spent many weeks at a time in Delta, UT, in addition to places in New Mexico.

I'd love to live in Torrey and I'd move back to SLC if I could get a job in an industry that doesn't suck, but all things considered I'd take the bay area over anywhere in Utah.
Except that for tech workers, the bay is still insane expensive and it does not pay better. I am a senior dev. My last job in St Louis paid 220k. That means you can buy a 4 bedroom house EVERY YEAR.

Expenses are far more than double in the bay. Pay is barely any higher in Top employers... Plenty of senior devs in the bay work for 160k plus options that they might or might not be worth anything, and that they will not be able to afford to buy if they leave, and might not see a liquidity event in 5 years. So they get paid LESS and the job is only worth it if they chain themselves to an employer. Netflix offers a better deal... But then welcome to Netflix's culture.

The money argument just does not work at the top end. My current employer is based in the bay, but a large percentage of the senior talent is remote, precisely because the bay is a really shitty deal for what most tech companies pay.

Just look at mortgages: the difference is not 2x, it's 5x. California taxes are huge. I did the math. For me, it's not even close, and that's assuming Netflix compensation.
A quick reminder for those of you who read a lot of papers: if you have an archival account, Pinboard will index PDFs. This is way more useful than it sounds: as you bookmark papers, Pinboard gradually transforms into a mini search engine for the research you care about.

Someone asked me yesterday how it was I read so many crypto papers, after citing Bos and Costello in crypto dork Slack. I forgot to tell them my trick: I don't! I just follow citations and bookmark the hell out of things.
Yeah, real estate is great. However, it doesn't have a culture that someone from San Jose would find appealing. Even though it's only a 3 hour drive, Houston isn't Austin. (though there's pockets, like Montrose) The heat is miserable in the summer, and the job market is somewhat narrow (more .NET and a fewer industries to pick from than you'll find elsewhere)
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Vancouver, Canada. I am about an hour from skiing, sailing, canoing, hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing, et al; throughout most of the year.

The trick is to work for a Valley firm, making Valley wages, and telecommuting; SAP is the only local shop that pays a decent wage.
Your own domain, plus ABG, is really the way to go. I'm a very happy customer of Fastmail, my preferred ABG.
I'm thinking about move my domain to fastmail.
Fwiw in theory the selling agent getting the entire commission should be more willing to twist a seller to accept your offer, than if they are splitting with the buyers agent. Plus independent of ethics, they might be more willing to hold off another realtor asking about the property for their client (who they will have to pay a commission to) if your offer is in process. By hold off I mean not return a phone call immediately or try to stall in a way that wasn't obvious.

Otoh there is a disadvantage to not having a realtor as an agent in the sense that the selling agent should be able to more accurately read your intent because they hear your voice and what you are saying. Now if you are good at the game you can get beyond that but most people aren't up to that skill level for home buying.
Fair enough. My concern is whether the practitioners of NLP are aware of this perception - and it seems like they are.
You can be right about some things and wrong about others. Being in the wrong once doesn't make you a bad person. It just means you're one of us.
Yes, good point, and it was easy to verify. Disable plugin; search "what is my referer"; click on first result: Your HTTP referer is google.ca.

Enable plugin; repeat: Your HTTP referer is No referer / hidden.
Spacy's website looks good. Thanks for the heads up.
I've seen that style but never used them. I will say that a $200 AmScope is well worth the investment. Not as nice as a high quality microscope, but vastly superior to a magnifier.
I'm returning to my day job in Pittsburgh in a month. Spent the year on sabbatical. (And yes, it really has! I moved there a decade ago, and it just keeps improving. )
The section here on GGPO is good:

http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/GD_Mag_Archives/GDM_Sep...

It is the lock-step model but with state rewind, so that you get near zero apparent latency from your own actions (at the cost of animations from other player actions starting a few frames in). You occasionally see things like a successful hit from you on an opponent be rewound and applied to a block from him/her instead.

For co-op games where aren't you aren't closely interacting (like in riding along in a vehicle) it can be a near conflict free and zero latency experience.

You can use various levels of it, accepting a reducing a 100ms ping into a 50ms delay will get less conflicts than reducing it all the way to 0.
Any sane person that uses CircleCI thinks its good.
Can someone explain why my browser provides referer info at all? Why isn't this a permission I need to give away? What common features that the user needs on the web rely on it?
And then archive.org could archive it, and you would achieve inception.
Why a Killer Robot Was Likely the Only Option for Dallas Police
The survey findings have to be taken with a grain of salt - one year of data from one site, and no mention of trying to find a representative sample.
As a society we really need to start reducing light pollution. It doesn't take much to shield the tops of streetlights and advertisements to at least make the majority of their light point downward.
I lived in Utah for three years and also loved the national parks and outdoor activities, but the culture (i.e. heavy Mormon influence) was pretty unbearable.
The theory that the lake which is a distance from the proposed centre of the blast is an impact crater may be born out by accounts from the time which describe multiple hits at varying distances.
I think SF breaks down if younhave either children or you are coming from abroad and have no plans to settle in the states. I did the math more than once and it's not great. I can see the people by flying there too :)
Right, but 24 months isn't enough time for a brand new startup to become a 'blockbuster'. None of the current big tech cos like Google, Amazon, Facebook, were a 'blockbuster' within 24 months of being founded. If you want to see that kind of startup success, you HAVE to look more than a couple years back. Startups can grow very quickly, but not THAT quickly.
>The only con is that you can't use your own domain.
It looks like your problem is you discussed your account closure with people who don't work at Google and can't get any information about your account instead of using the official form (https://support.google.com/accounts/contact/disabled2). One of the people you talked to pointed you to the official form. Did you try it? Unless the official form also doesn't work, your conclusion appears invalid.
It's a good thing that GMail is not ad supported... oh wait

Being condescending with customers may backfire for them
when bait clicking grammar infiltrates regular english grammar....
Depends. The problem is not so much the overhead of the check itself as that it introduces a lot of control flow edges which interfere with optimizations. For example, on x86 you can kiss most uses of LEA goodbye...
No, it's not oil; it's related to shipping, and not tied to the region. (see my HN profile) I won't of course disclose my income, but I'm not picking extremes when I make that comparison. After all, I'm sure there's junior devs somewhere in Houston making $30k. I'm really just challenging the notion that success in software means accepting the reality of life in the Bay.
St. John's perspective is, to be blunt, idiotic. I work in the game industry, and being effective as a programmer involves a lot of people skills and a lot of communication with other disciplines. It doesn't matter how technically brilliant you are if you can't sell people on your ideas or communicate effectively. If you were to go out of your way to hire emotionally stunted young people like St. John suggests you'd just end up with a miserable place to work.
This is my preferred explanation.
Both Gmail (important and unread) and Google Inbox gives you a birds eye view of important emails. Can fastmail do this?
1/2 day is 4-5 hours. Try and list 8 parks.
Slides at https://archive.org/download/vmss16/seaton.pdf
Is it tough to move to Canada as a US resident w/ a US job?
Autism results from brain and metabolic damage. Autism is comorbid with a huge mess of other physiological problems and early death and is not at all associated with abstract reasoning ability. The idiot savant thing like with Rain Man is pretty much a myth.

Whatever happened to the eccentric "absent minded professor" stereotype? There has been a seemingly deliberate and strange conflation of eccentric introverts with sick people.

I do not believe "aspergers" exists and I do not think it has anything to do with autism. There's just a narrowing window of socially acceptable eccentricity in modern industrial societies. Behavior that would once attract a chuckle from the neighbors is now "see something, say something" type stuff.

I also think labels like schizophrenia and bipolar have expanded way beyond people who are measurably physically ill. Blood work can very strongly indicate these diseases. But mere eccentrics are being shoved under these labels. Welcome to Soviet America.
It's interesting that the article mentions the Ariane 5 bug, but doesn't mention that the Ariane 5 software (at least the component that caused the bug) was written in Ada, not C.

The real problem is that the Ariane 4 software was used without re-testing for the new rocket. The overflow could not occur on the Ariane 4. The higher acceleration of the Ariane 5 resulted in the overflow. The overflow was caught by the Ada runtime system, and generated an error message. The error message was then processed as data.
The only drawback is it's Microsoft, and extrapolating what is happening to
Windows, you can start expecting advertisements and "telemetry" soon.
hybrid vehicles: how can you change in a hybrid way? We have to get rid of fossil fuel
I think back in the early 90's I read something which said "your house doesn't matter, because you won't be spending much time in it with all of the outdoor things you can do and the nice weather".
Ask HN: I use and love Golang. Should I learn python?
Stop saying “Everyone is familiar with {xyz framework/library}”
Emacs or vi: neither (Rob Pike)
Mainly in the base of the freezers at work which don't seem to thrive on humidity.
"Your own domain, plus ABG, is really the way to go. I'm a very happy customer of Fastmail, my preferred ABG."

ABG?
My thought exactly.Silicon Valley is still top spots for tech hunter, but it is not irreplaceable.

As to the startup thing. The tech bubble hasn't burst, yet. But valuation of startups, big or small, are already taking hits, which means a large chuck of employees' potential salary have evaporated. I would predict that startups are going to have a hard time attracting the best talents out there, on the other hand, they might retreat their appetite for expansion since the growth is slowing.
A simpler alternative, for technical users, might be to store your bookmarks as a plaintext file under revision control.

You can then present them via javascript to allow filtering, searching, and tags.

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public
Out of curiosity, what did you find unbearable about the culture?
I find those features useless.
I think it's common for young men to attach their self image and overall worth to how much better they're doing vs. other young men their age. They're basically Pirsig's "ego climbers" and would certainly do well for themselves to get the hell out of the valley at least until such time as they could return as selfless climbers.

They could of course stick around and perhaps achieve a positive self image by out competing or out maneuvering their peers. Obviously a huge amount of them do.
So they have a platform that's going to shape the next generations social interactions for the worse [1], and can only barely monetize (and if they can monetize profitably, its for an audience with the least amount of purchasing power in several generations)?

Pyrrhic victory.

[1] http://nypost.com/2016/07/04/im-a-millennial-and-my-generati...
The new model is a lot more badass than the old one.
And what's the alternative?

I could use an ISP (or in my case university) email, but I'll lose access to that in the future when I change ISPs (or graduate).

I could use <other free email provider>, but they will probably have the same problem, and unless I'm using one of the other giant services (e.g. outlook) are probably more likely to disappear than Google is to randomly ban me.

I could use a paid provider, but they are probably still more likely to disappear in the future than google is likely to randomly ban me.

Instead I would prepare to mitigate the damage of losing access to your account. Have local copies of emails, don't use two factor authentication with one factor being email.
That's why it's not the job of law-enforcement to determine what reasons people have for breaking the law. They only must assume that they have some potentially valid, rational reason do so, and thus defer to a court system to determine what these reasons are and whether they are justifiable.
If someone emails you child porn, would that disable your account?
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Thanks, Pinboard.
Consider Colorado. A strong tech scene and world class in those activities.
So that's like a week of my year gone! No thanks.
Which stats are correct regarding police killings? Some stats say that this year alone police have killed over 500 people, 2015 was over 1000.

Your stats say an average of 372.

Who is wrong?

Source: the counted.http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0...
Or a war caused by fighting over shifting resources. I'm more worried about the second order effects.
Thanks, that's a good read also.
What's a recent blockbuster app that wasn't released by a Silicon Valley company?
We Vancouverites are spoiled. I just finished an 18 month stint in the Bay Area. One of the biggest inconveniences was the driving time (especially with traffic) to get to the mountains.

In Seattle now and it's a great compromise. Similar wages to the Bay Area but similar geography and outdoor access as Vancouver. And even with the exchange rate housing is cheaper than Vancouver.
"In order to provide aid to recently arrived Cuban immigrants, the United States Congress passed the Cuban Adjustment Act in 1966. The Cuban Refugee Program provided more than $1.3 billion of direct financial assistance. They also were eligible for public assistance, Medicare, free English courses, scholarships, and low-interest college loans." says wikipedia. Seems like they were lucky to be on the right side of a political battle to me.
Aren't most things in space, well most of the closer things like asteroids, spinning around the sun on the same plane as Earth?

If that's the case then the poles would have a smaller cross-sectional area than equatorial regions.

Maybe the poles would be a good place to build evacuation shelters. Getting there in a hurry could be an issue.
I have taken a couple of Coursera courses on R and Stats. They basically give you a brief outline of some topics you might want to pursue more in depth and they give you access to a discussion forum. I haven't found that this method of learning/teaching is very useful. There seems to me to be a huge opportunity waiting to be developed if someone can make a site like that but with more interactive elements AND where the learning/teaching is based on sound educational principles that can be demonstrated to effectively result in skills mastery. As it is now, Coursera is basically skimming cash off of the internet's insatiable google searching for information, like for example someone might google "Learn R" and then fall into the trap of paying $49 for a class that consists of nothing but videos really without having a clue about whether or not the videos really work to communicate knowledge or even whether the videos are touching on anything meaningful. If it hadn't been for the "Johns Hopkins Data Science Course" branding on the class I signed up for I wouldn't have fallen for it I am sure.
Ask HN: Famous Programmers' Editor Choices?
Dennis Ritchie used and Russ Cox and Rob Pike use acme.

Ken Thompson, Bjarne Stroustrup, Doug McIllroy, Tom Duff and Brian Kernighan use sam.

What editors do other famous programmers use? Do other famous programmers also use mouse-based editors like sam and acme? What other editors are used by famous programmers?

Why do so many Hacker News readers have such an aversion to using the mouse when editing if these luminaries of computing have all moved on to mouse-based editors?
Here is a link to valve's short but nice overview of networking on the source engine:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
I heard Vancouver is almost as expensive as SF - at least housing. Is that the case?
Pokémon GO has a purchasable in-game item called a “Lure Module” which attracts Pokémon to a particular PokeStop for 30 minutes.

This is really cool. Brick-and-mortar shops are paying to attract people, er, Pokémon, through the door. I wonder how long it will be before other mobile games offer similar in-person draws? Say, get some in-game reward in Candy Crush for buying actual candy from a candy store.

Unfortunately I can't play P:GO because it's not in the Canadian Google Play store. I am surrounded by people playing it here in the valley, though.