skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree, but Ur/Web gets more difficult when you consider that it's extremely CRUD focused due to the way page handling and 'memory regions' in the implementation work, and how deeply ingrained this is with its transactional view of the world. It doesn't even have a garbage collector. Shoehorning anything 'non-transactional' into the `transaction` monad (like sending email, writing to disk or firing the nukes) can range from achievable to very difficult to "fuck it, just use the database for everything" or whatever.

To be fair, "fuck it, just use the database" is a totally fine solution in many cases.

And yes, I agree Ur/Web is amazing given what it does. The edges are very rough (I don't know if it's the nicest tool by every metric, but definitely several of them). But it's worth considering if you have a mature level of FP experience.
>Are you sure about that? That's a pretty outlandish thing to say.

I'm positive, see the picture of Alton Sterling posing with guns with his kids, this is black culture in a nutshell (not ALL black culture, but a very real part of it)

>How would sensational news be distinguished from highly engaging/interesting news?

News shouldn't be interesting, it should be informative and that's it. CNN/FOX/MSNBC have turned into real life action/crime dramas. I'm convinced that five officers might not be dead if these networks had restrictions on what they could report. You could enforce this by only allowing networks to report for one hour per news story, per media day. Anything over that would result in a fine that would eat into advertising revenue. You could also enforce a rule that would fine media outlets for stating the name/showing the picture of mass shooters so you don't glorify them. Media outlets have too much power in this and there needs to be regulations on them just like any other industry in this country.
Right now we have about a half dozen open developer positions that we are so far unable to fill. The problem is the vicious intersection of relatively dull work and relatively low pay. We've had to increasingly go the route of hiring contractors since we can pay them basically anything, whereas actual employee pay is set by the legislature who don't win points with voters when they spend more on state employee salaries...

So, if there was a legitimate tech job shortage, it would be trickling down to more applicants coming to us (which has happened in the past). Right now, I'm not seeing it.
They don't matter equally. Should they matter equally? Yes. Saying all lives matter obfuscates that they don't matter equally.
The same way tasers were initially promoted as a "safe alternative to shooting the target" and then the cops ended up abusing it and killing old men with it, or doing it in scenarios where their use was completely unnecessary.

Just because it didn't kill anyone else now, doesn't mean it won't in the future, when cops use it as more of a routine to take out targets, and even less intelligent cops get to do it. Will those cops be punished? Of course not (in the current system of mostly unaccountable cops). It will probably be called "collateral damage", so they get to borrow even more from the military.
Just out of curiosity, what are those reason that you mention? Even a link explaining is enough :)
If you are happy using CPython, you can't be terribly concerned with performance. The point is, pypy will run on more platforms than its JIT targets.
(that's not how that one works)
I tried to find this on GitHub and ended up on the pijul/pijul repo, noticed a default.nix file there, and got a little excited - thinking this was developed in part using Nix.
lpolovets - shouldn't the follow up one-on-one meetings be only 40 minutes?
> I would say at the very least, the construction of the Model S and the supercharger network are hugely innovative.

Sure, but not something that critics said was technically impossible (not likely to be viable as a business model, sure, but that's a different class of complaint.)
We eat raw egg all the time in our house. Over rice with shoyu and its awesome.
I would love to see the court system get more money. In particular, I think every defendant found not guilty should have their legal bill payed by the prosecutor's office. The money for the defense should be put into escrow at the time charges are filed. It would encourage prosecutors not to draw things out.
Well none of the examples for latter aren't technically impossible. Impossibility is ie. Perpetual machine.
Do you mean you work for the government somehow?
I agree with you. I think I am saying that I don't mind if discussions about "is tech hiring down 40%" also include discussions about "tech hiring sure feels like it's down because here's my experience ...".

They are "relevant" in the sense that it provides a logical repository for information about how the job market feels, both factually and emotionally. I don't see much benefit in asserting such a need to keep the topics separate that even a comment thread on Hacker News cannot mix the two kinds of assessments together.
But without the war on drugs, the number of bad guys goes way down, doesn't it?
I wouldn't worry about this too much. There'll be lots of time for sulfur later where we're all going.
With a bomb robot? Doubtful. I've also heard reports that the explosive device was of the type that'd be used to trigger a bomb which couldn't be safely defused in place, rather than a hand grenade. I'm not sure that changes the complexion of the matter substantially, but a hand grenade would likely be somewhat harder for a police force to lay hands upon.

> People should just stop killing people.

I mean, sure, that'd be nice. Unfortunately, the entire history of our species, to say nothing of every other on the planet, militates strongly against it.
It happens that I collect similar data as well. My data range doesn't go as far as years. Although I've just run few quires for past months. Doesn't look like it Stack Overflow would have a reason to complain. But yes AuthenticJobs doesn't look good.

The chart suggests that he compares AuthenticJobs to similar job boards ~200 job post per month. Stack Overflow Careers is a different league. Numbers averages there 1800 posts per month.

Also, I wrote a counting script for Hacker News' "Who is Hiring" and the results suggesting opposite as well. Plese check this chart https://blog.whoishiring.io/hacker-news-who-is-hiring-thread...

Disclaimer: I run https://whoishiring.io I scrape them all.

Private opinion. Statements like his are trying to produce shitstorm in an obvious way. There is no bubble where I stand.
Check out Clippy online! Go do http://play.integer32.com/, paste in your code, click "Clippy".
"Signal Protocol already supports multi-device"

This is what I thought. If one were starting a new messaging platform, how would you implement the Signal protocol from scratch I wonder? I'm assuming for people who don't have strong security backgrounds, this means dissecting the Signal source code from Github.
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" [0]

This could not be less true in today's America. I encourage everyone here to read The New Jim Crow (and books like it). Then you'll see how deep the mass incarceration problem is.

0 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
The on-demand gig economy is taking over... aka the "Uber for Web Professionals".

Many companies, SMBs in particular, are discovering they don't need to "own the cow to drink the milk".

It's simpler to post tasks to sites like Fiverr than it is to post a "job description" and hire an employee/contractor.
A Gold-Stealing Script Is Rapidly Spreading Across 'World of Warcraft'
Why does it have to be explained at "county-level"?
In what country would it be good advice to move aggressively towards a police officer with his weapon drawn?
If police are not allowed to use deadly force, except to protect their own lives/lives of other people in the immediate area - how do we confront the question of "deadly threat" when using a machine capable of applying deadly force?

Do we merely need the "potential" for deadly threat on the police to justify the use of a machine capable of applying deadly force? If this machine can deliver a bomb, it seems likely that it could deliver less-than-lethal alternatives, as well (?).

In this instance, those less-than-lethal options may not have been available; however, it feels really problematic to say "our only option was to kill this man because attempting to subdue/apprehend him in any other way would have - definitely - led to a deadly threat on our officers".

That could be true - but it also seems very different than a police officer reacting to an imminent threat with deadly force. To that point, the presence of a knife in a suspect's hand is not inherently a lethal threat. They are given the opportunity to drop the knife as officers approach to apprehend them. If they raise that knife, or begin approaching the officer rapidly, then this becomes a lethal threat.

In this mechanized situation, are they still offered that same opportunity to self-disarm before lethal force is applied?

Does this lower the bar for 'lethal threat' so that police can send a small machine to kill a suspect because they have the potential to apply deadly force on the police (but haven't imminently demonstrated that ability)?
It seems to me there are all kinds of ways to make these encounters much safer. Maybe I am missing something, but why can't the police, at a distance, ask the driver to come out of the car with his hands in the air?

To me the crux of the matters with these confrontations, which few seem to recognize, is that it is all about power and the perception of power relations between the police supposed "criminals" elements, such that these quake in fear whenever they interact with police. The police imagine "criminals (especially of the minority type) taunting them and mocking them, and cannot stand the thought; the larger society must see police to be more powerful than criminals. So their idea of effective law enforcement is of an overwhelming force that subdues all opposition, ostensibly for the larger good of society.

Whether this perspective is good or bad is up for debate, but I it explains a lot of what has been happening.
Facebook has convinced millions of people to give up vast amounts of private information to an apparatus that would make the Stasi or KGB drool.

Part of cult indoctrination is giving up personal and private information, documents, secrets and property to participate and become part of the whole. Meanwhile, leaders profit from the property and information given up and use secrets to blackmail or breakdown an individual's identity so they become dependent on the group.
What's interesting about the spammer link is that the YC narrative and everyone thinks about Obama O's and Brian Chesky's hustle making this business. Whereas its clear that mass emailing in the spirit of all publicity is good publicity is what created huge awareness amongst potential customers.
Take a look at this discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896389
I liked Trevor Noah's take on this: "This isn't a black problem, this is a US police problem. Why is the US police shooting people who are already subdued? Why are people getting shot in the back?"

To support his claim, he shows both a video of police killing black people and a video of police killing white people. Each time the perp was already on the ground and immobilized. Then shot.

At this point I'm terrified of ever interacting with the US police in any way for any reason.Starting to think it's time to vote with my feet and move to a different country again.
Your quote sounds like a derivative version of this quote by Frank Westheimer.

> A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
Microsoft’s Project Malmo (‘Minecraft’ for AI Research) Is Now on GitHub
I've been wondering about this for a while.

Now both whatsapp and Facebook have this, but surely they have the encryption keys too, or how else would they seamlessly fetch your messages and decrypt them when you get a new phone?

If they do, then what's the point?
You guys are absolutely crushing it. Would have never thought to use the response time from a server to be able to extract extra bits of information.

Keep up the awesome work and I look forward to seeing more research.
Use of Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in US History
While the title matches the article, it really isn't descriptive of the content of the article (which is all about modifying and flashing the ROM, there's no 'jailbreak' yet).
It's not? What does it mean, then?
Yes, you could, although it's not a perfect fit right now as the only data structures you get in matrix are a timeline of arbitrary objects (events) for a room, and a key-value map of arbitrary "state" events. This is flexible enough for many purposes (and you could probably use them for issue tracking and PR management), but we can't efficiently store arbitrary object graphs or trees yet. It'd be great to get there though; meanwhile there are other projects like IPFS and IPDB which are active in that space too.
What is the relation between thrussh and pijul?
Thanks for the downvotes with no explanation. Did you know that blacks and hispanics make up about 59% of the prison population compared to 32% for non-hispanic whites (a ratio of 1.84), but yet the Innocence Project has exonerated (as of 2010) 172 black and hispanic persons compared to 82 whites (a ratio of 2.1)? Unless my math is wrong, that is about a 14% discrepancy.
> Your insistence in making 'young black men' the problem here paints you as racist, whether or not you think you are.

I agree. But at the same time, doesn't the insistence to frame the problem as one of violence specifically against blacks - as opposed to one of those in power misusing force against anyone they're supposed to be "serving and protecting" - make the whole discussion racist?
The methodology they used seems very good and the fact that they share the code is excellent.

However, in a study like this, data quality is likely going to be a problem. Collecting good data about the shootings themselves is incredibly difficult considering we have 18,000+ police jurisdictions in the United States and even mundane things like reporting can very between them. Furthermore, the chaos of the situation may make data quality suffer.

Unfortunately, the best we can do is announce the limitations of the studies, as the authors did.
Bomb robots are not fast, and while I haven't been following the news all that closely, I strongly doubt that the remaining sniper was given no opportunity to disarm himself and surrender before he was killed.
Feel free to email me if you need some help. I may be able to provide some guidance.
People's opinions about their own countries "are just being used" to support foreign agendas?
In many European countries officers don't draw guns in the first place. They're trained to de-escalate situations, not make them more dangerous.
People don't often decorate their homes and make other items out of leaded gasoline or kinder surprise eggs. Luxury items are created from ivory.
It was probably one of the explosive charges that a bomb disposal officer would use to blow up backpacks or other suspect packages.
I don't know about either anything factual, but I believe it was said that WhatsApp crux in the e2e is the iCloud backup. I believe that's where your old message get restored from.

I believe you can also disable that iCloud backup and thus the ability to retrieve those messages with a new phone.

End-to-End means encrypted in transport and not saved (in any form that is decryptable) on their servers. To that, I believe whatsapp fulfills their end of the bargain.
> Disarm most police.

It's easier, politically, to disarm America than disarm police. Disarming everyone can be widely viewed as making everyone safer, but disarming only those who protect the public against violent crime will be widely viewed as making everyone less safe.
That's an excellent point. Some percentage of the criminals who shoot at cops during traffic stops are doing so because they don't want to get caught with the drugs they are carrying.
Not sure if dev is different but in ops you rarely get to a 'senior' position until you apply for one and get the job.

That said, applying to jobs without meeting someone there first is not the best way to go about it.
Yeah I don't really mind the spam so much, but I really hate when people pollute others' senses of reality with misinformation. If the AirBnB story is all about cereal and photographers walking around NYC, then you teach others to have a less accurate view of reality and you destroy their ability to make good decisions. They will start companies with an unearned sense of optimism, etc.

Go ahead and spam if you're a spammer, but be honest about it.
And for the lazy, here is Disruptor:

http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
Ah, Frank, I still listen to his works as often as I get the chance. Being a novice guitar player myself I can't seem to get tired of hearing all the great (often live) variations and improvisation he was able to apply to his music. Whether it's the humorous, satirical stuff or the serious jamming he and his various bands could pull off I find it all enjoyable.

And outside of the music, as the article does a good job of articulating, he had a wonderful way of sizing up the world around him and pointing out, bluntly and succinctly, what he found lacking. Certainly a man ahead of his time both musically and intellectually.

Anyone looking for more good stories about Frank can check out "The Real Frank Zappa" which was basically written by him and then cleaned up and edited by his friend Peter Occhiogrosso. A thoroughly entertaining read...

Edit: Here's the "Zappa plays a bicycle on Steve Allen" clip mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P2V0_p6vE
Shoutout to Dstillery for their hiring process. I had applied for an internship and was sent a mini project with 2 problems to finish but no time limit. About a day or two after submitting it, I was rejected but got feedback on where my solutions lacked. Appreciate that.
Just to clarify... GP = GrandParent (comment) = akud's comment ?
Doesn't ring true after how they ripped all messaging functions out of the main Facebook app and forced me to download Messenger.
My example in the first paragraph has no random variation to explain how a test of 5 people could provide the same information as a test of 10000.

The second example includes bias as a lead-in to the actual problems that tests of capillary blood need to handle.
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Corrode: Translating C to Rust (and how you can help)
I thought I once read that, since Touch ID relies on fingerprints, a US court order can compel you to provide those, thus forcing you to unlock an iPhone in question.

This, as opposed to a passcode-only configuration, which a court order cannot compel you to give (I believe since this would fall in the category of 'forcing you to testify against yourself').

If that is indeed the case, I imagine it would make better sense to leave Touch ID disabled, unlike what this article suggests.
Is your hypothesis that the prevalence of guns increases the likelihood that police will treat a situation as a possible armed conflict? They are comparing the ratios of armed suspects to unarmed suspects being shot by police, so perhaps they thought that was sufficient in factoring in the prevalence of guns.
Of course all lives matter. But if racial identities were homes, there are a few on fire in the United States and it doesn't make much sense to call the fire department for every house when a few urgently need the attention more. Is that fair?
While I agree that we cannot simply take anyone at their word, your example of how the alternative could be pulled off is nothing short of Reynold's wrapped goodness.
But what do you do when you have two cops with weapons drawn and one wants you to hold still and the other wants you to drop to the ground?
Are hippos not nearly as endangered as elephants and rhinos? I heard they poach them too for their teeth or something.
It must be time to begin building open source countermeasures against murderous robots. Perhaps something like a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse generator.
This is a brilliant analysis. Someone I know visiting from Germany freaked out because a Maryland highway patrol officer pulled a gun on her during a routine traffic stop. That's unthinkable in Germany. It's gotta stop.
Should be fixed shortly, thanks!
I consider that to be at least partially cooked. Enough to destroy the anti-nutrients? I dunno.
It's big in Korea
Speech Intellegibility in Naval Aircraft Radios (1972)
A few weeks ago I went to a family gathering and brought along my Gear VR to demonstrate to my family. My mother, who is in her late 60's loved it immensely. I set her up with a street view app and dropped her in the little village she grew up in as a child. Someplace she hasn't been in years but talks about every day.

Watching her swirl around and comment on her surroundings was really amusing. She overheated the Galaxy phone several times and couldn't get enough of it.

My father is 84 years old and now living in a nursing home, where mom sits with him every day. He suffers from advanced Parkinson's, with increasingly bad dementia - lots of trouble parsing reality from fantasy, often mixing up TV shows with events in the real world. His life consists of nurses, wheelchairs, broadcast TV and a lot of sleep. He's miserable.

Mom pleaded with me to let him use the VR headset. Even though I wanted to, I just couldn't take the risk of it having some negative effect. He barely understood digital technology when he was still sharp, so the jarring effects of seeing an error message, getting a broken visual or something would be highly alarming in his current frame of mind. Plus I couldn't guarantee he wouldn't get some sort of psychosis or motion sickness from using it with his illness.

I really hope more research comes out about how VR affects the elderly, and people with dementia or other neurological disorders. Being bedridden in a hospital is the worst possible scenario for anyone and VR could be a godsend to people in this situation.
A lot of Wordpress stuff out there is premium and rather expensive, so to see quality Wordpress tools that are free is indeed an important feature. Most free Wordpress stuff is ugly and useless (except for Wordpress itself, of course).
Modular media – A radical communication and cultural policy for Canada
Yes, sorry if I was cryptic.
Another point is how do you factor out the possibility that blacks are significantly more likely to resist arrest and fight with the police officer in a manner that would justify a shooting such as grabbing at the officers' weapons, beating the cop with his own equipment, etc?

From the last time I checked into it, blacks where on the order of 10 times more likely to resist arrest than whites, and 4 times more likely to kill a cop.
You're right, there are a number of white rhino farms. It's the black rhino that's more farm-resistant. I hadn't realized the distinction, thanks.

With enough money, anything can be farmed... But can that supply enough horn to solve poaching? (honest question, I can't find an authoritative answer)
We won't reach peak HN until somebody writes an ARC to Node.js transpiler in Haskell.