skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the 'federated' part of your comment is being far overlooked.

In the US, police forces are local and independent in much the same way that DAs are. Hence, there's not really a way at a federal or even state level to correct the prosecutorial/enforcement dynamic that's driving a lot of the problems.

Outside of merging precincts to create larger areas of oversight, training, and policy parity, it's a really hard sell to make to all of the thousands of police organizations independently and pretty difficult to monitor and enforce.

I don't even think police unions, as effective as they are at organizing internal activities, would be successful in getting blanket reforms to stick. The changes, as currently structured, have got to be from within.
I am not aware of research on how much gravity is needed to maintain a healthy environment. For example, it is possible that an body as light as Pluto (with only .06 Gs) would offset the majority of the effects of low gravity. If this is the case, then permantant bases on Moons/Planets would face little issues from micro-gravity concerns. If humans require closer to 1G to remain healthy, then these bases become more difficult.

We have already demonstrated that humans can stay in space for over a year while remaining relativly healthy. Further, we can achieve artificial "gravity" with centrifugal force if we needed to.

Additionally, we could also attempt to solve the problem through medical science, and treat the effects of micro-gravity instead of outright preventing it.
Thank you! Looking forward to trying it out and hopefully will get a chance to contribute back to both projects!
This is a fantastic talk, thanks so much for posting it. The thesis was both novel and interesting to me as a heavy Ruby user. I'll buy you a drink if you're ever in SF.
I'm generally not a fan of recruiters simply because the vast majority of them are sales people first, and tech people second (or often no technical experience at all). Compounded by the fact some people interview very badly but are good engineers and visa-vera.

Even if you have experienced engineers doing the screening process (separate from the company being applied for) I still think it would be challenging because theres no "correct" way for a team to work and companies are so vastly different.

It definitely is something to think about. If you do some up with something, let me know :)
What about collapsing/expanding elements interactively?
Rethinking GHC's approach to managing proposals
The problem is this is self evident and doesn't explain anything. Saying that consciousness is the only thing that exists is like saying God created the universe. Well then who created God? We have to try to explain what all this is through our conscious experience, and if it happens to be that it's impossible for us to do so, we'll have to re-evaluate our options then. I personally don't believe this to be the case - I think everything exists and consciousness is only one way too perceive that everything, but that's another debate I guess
Yes this is definitely something we need to do. Unfortunately it's not something I'm very familiar with, but contributions welcome! ;)
> Maybe I can convince someone to write something about it.

You should come chat in #webextensions, if we can identify where messaging is falling down and fix it this would be great!

I think one thing missing right now is having good "release criteria" for WebExtensions (like we did for e10s) - I don't think implementing every single API that's available to old-style extensions right now is a tractable problem (since it's "every internal API", all the way up to executing arbitrary commands).
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's
Spot on in my opinion ;)
Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python
ASIC is expensive at low volume, but cheaper than an FPGA at high volume, so it depends on the application.
Yep! The main thing that's holding me back personally is that we'd have to convert our .csprojs to project.json... And then convert them back in a few months/a year when core moves back to .csproj. So seems like wasted effort to me right now...
I think the solution is smarter document editors. Auto correct / suggest with context awareness, database integrations, machine learning / basic AI, and so on.

Even simple stuff like asking the writer to clarify which piece of a text that a written date applies to would be helpful, and to define what parts of long sentences with many commas belong together (which subsentences are interjections, for example?).
jq looks promising but I still need to view the JSON file first. I want to be able to somehow get the general understanding of the structure very quickly and interactively. The tree control works very well for that. JSON Viewer is almost perfect but it doesn't work with local files.
Thank you for explaining your philosophy of science.
White Ribbon. Started by men.

Women's refuge movement (and the Refuge organisation), started by a woman who is appalled at what feminists have done with it, because most of the women sheltered turn out to be violent themselves (and often more so than the men).
The Python REPL and the JSON lib. Probably not the most efficient if you're starting out but if you're familiar with Python it can be quite effective.
I don't think it's blackmail. I wonder if brands like Wüsthof got exclusive agreements as part of selling on Amazon so that nobody else is allowed to list their product, therefore eliminating the knockoffs. But without an official listing then Amazon would have to sort through every reseller to see if they are selling legitimate products or not, and what incentive would Amazon have to do that?
> make the usual assumptions

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean or imply in this context, but it seems to be a classic HN response asking people to judge a book by it's cover instead of its contents/arguments, which is even less helpful.
> the burrito tunnel project

For anyone unfamiliar with one of the most important engineering/infrastructure projects ever built:

http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
My favorite definition: Philosophy is the practice of looking into questions without clear-cut answers.
I really don't understand why NASA has never done experiments for creating gravity in space. We know how we could make it work.
The fact that there are racial biases in what prosecutors offer between black and white is misleading at best. It simply follows from the facts that we already have: blacks are convicted more often. If blacks are convicted more often, they have longer rap sheets on average. You are unlikely to get a better plea deal if you have a history of committing crime.

Now, if they had gone and showed that first time offenders, for example, had shown a racial bias between blacks and whites, you'd have me impressed.

In effect, you are going back to the original argument, that it's just systemic racism. Unfortunately, you have not provided any falsifiable evidence that this is true.
It is necessarily true because sending signals cannot block and queueing an unbounded number of signals would require unbounded amounts of memory.
I wouldn't call WR 'one data point' when it's by FAR the most recognised product brand name in DV.
It's weird that people don't consider the East Bay when it's often faster to get to downtown SF from Berkeley or Oakland than it is from e.g. the Sunset. Great place to be and the weather is nicer.
The word "empirical" implies that there's some evidence to back up the claims in the work on string theory and the multiverse. A more apt summary may be "Physicist and Philosopher point out lack of empirical underpinnings for esoteric branches of physics"
On Windows I use Notepad++, which handles large local JSON files just fine, and has a collapsible tree structure.
Large data centers are doing compression and encryption at the application layer on ordinary Intel CPUs.
Here's an interesting theory. https://astronomynow.com/2016/06/16/did-gravitational-wave-d...

The gravitational waves we're detecting come from black holes, but the readings we have from LIGO suggest that they most likely come from 'primordial' black holes formed at the birth of the universe.

If many of these black holes were formed they would be distributed much as MACHO theory predicts. 'Normal' black holes have very specific mass profiles so were generally ruled out as MACHOs, although obviously 'dark matter = black holes' has had a lot of consideration.
"The most likely explanation for dark matter is just undiscovered particles" <--- all valid points but I'd argue that dark matter may actually be strictly the result of yet-to-be-understood underlying fields. e.g. dark matter may not have any particles itself but could be the gravitational of spacetime in a sense

Just a nit.
> Is this bullshit for you?

Honestly? Yes.

I have no idea how many dollars of "revenue generated" or "cost saved" are attributable to me as individual. Or anyone else.

Using lines of code as a performance metric? Get ready to see a multi-line Javadoc on every local variable, or get ready to see some insane Perl-style one-liners, depending on how you're using the LOC number.

"Time needed to deliver work"? Again, what is "work"? If your data consists of JIRA tickets, then get ready for a culture of writing JIRA tickets at a contrived (and inefficient) micro level of granularity.

There's no good way to objectively measure your "value" at your CURRENT company. And what do I do when interviewing you to come here for your next job... just take your word for your measurements at the previous gig?

Out of curiosity, are you a programmer? Because subjectively making stuff up, while under the honest delusion that you're guided by objective numbers, is the single most "MBA" trait there is.
Only for short distances and in fair weather though. And as soon as you need to carry enough to let them sleep where you're going (eg. an umbrella bed), there's really no serious alternative.
Git Deploying a Basic PHP App to Azure
> I don't suspect frontier physics is ever really studied with an eye to application.

Previously they did have experimental results they were trying to understand. There might be follow up experiments to confirm, but there were already experimental tensions.

> I don't think it's crazy to pursue a model to encompass QM and GR, even if it can't be called "Science".

I'm not so concerned about whether something is science, it just seems like vanity to pursue unification that provides no insight into the complex world around us.
I have many feels for Marathon. Such an amazing series of games. And then the vidmaster community... I still remember when I completed the first level of Matathon 2 that way. So awesome.

http://marathon.bungie.org/vidmaster/vidchallenge.html
For very large files, like 1M rows and 100's of MB's, of JSON arrays try http://www.jsondata.ninja
Are there people/groups actively working on a way to test string theory? If so, are they getting close?
You can actually calculate the moving average in constant time with a ring buffer, such that you don't have to iterate over the whole buffer to compute it each time a new element is added. Just store the sum & size with the buffer. As an element is overwritten, subtract it from the sum and add its replacement. The average is just the sum / size.

It's a handy trick in financial software, where you often need to calculate relatively small sliding windows over enormously large data streams and latency is critical. The same technique generalizes to any computation that can be expressed as a fold function where the operation is invertible.
So Kant would have you believe. But there are lots of others who say the physical world would exist just fine without human consciousness.
> I switched to Pinboard few months ago when Delicious committed seppuku and made their site completely unusable.

Funny to see people saying this in 2016.

I switched to Pinboard in early 2011, after rumors of Yahoo "sunsetting" Delicious. A few months later, Delicious was sold off, and it wasn't long before they made the site "completely unusable" for the first time. I didn't realize it was still around, TBH.
But macroscopic decoherence (and therefore many worlds) is straightforwardly predicted by the Schrodinger equation. How is this philosophy?
I do not entirely disagree. I don't hate winter but icy sidewalks are scary:) I also agree with your assessment that "...most people are living in generic developments and driving to generic office parks..."

But that begets another questions - is it more about finding a passion that keeps you high spirited 24x7 anywhere or finding a place that is stimulating everytime?
I've been using Eto for a few years. It's amazing toolkit.

If anyone is working on cross-platform desktop app in C# which is meant to look "native" on each platform, then Eto is the best toolkit there is.
> "savoir faire"

I don't understand this phrase. All the definitions i found seem to be about personal behavior. Is there an alternate definition? What are you trying to convey?
Actually not if the item is in commingled inventory. When the item is commingled, the seller does not place any identifying markings, such as their unique asin bar code, on the product. Nor does Amazon place seller identifying information on commingled items. They rely on the UPC at that point for automation.
Yep, I agree - Eto is great for native controls! I consider Eto and Avalonia to complement each other rather than as competitors.
Crystal binding for LevelDB
Better than using a bouncer, huh ? Ahh old days.
Cheers, great article. Left my own comment ;)
Ask HN: What is the Unique Selling Point of each programming language?
I am looking for examples of programming languages and their most distinctive feature. Which languages have a principle which guides development of the language and sets it apart from others?

Some examples:

- C++: Zero-cost abstractions

- Lua: Ease of embedding

- Rust: Memory safety without garbage collection

Other possibilities:

- Go: CSP-style concurrency?

- Julia: Multiple dispatch?

- Python: Executable pseudocode (or, in its early years, "Perl, but readable")?
And NO you can't use it as a springboard by socially engineering misandry and prejudice. You only springboard MORE violence by (1) complerely ignoring that women are starting the vast majority of it (2) telling those women to keep going because it's only DV when a man retaliates and too late.
> The idiot savant thing like with Rain Man is pretty much a myth.

https://www.autism.com/understanding_savants

I don't want to go point-by-point, but you seem to have a very poor grip on...anything to do with autism, really. Do you also think it's caused by vaccines?
The article is a rebuttal to NFV hype that proposes to run all firewalls, NAT, IDS, IPS, DPI, VPN, SD-WAN, etc. in software.
Whoa whoa whoa. It's experimentally confirmed that the discrepancy between what GR predicts the cosmological structure of the universe should look like and what our measurements can glean fits a uniform energy field with a specific density that accelerates expansion. It's never been observed in any other capacity, and dark energy is generally just taken as a way of saying "whatever makes this particular term necessary in GR at certain scales".

There's not even a consensus on how to fit it into GR; the simplest and original solution is the cosmological constant, but there's also the approach of treating it as a field that is dynamic (can vary in space and time) in principle but just happens to be too uniform for us to tell. That doesn't even take into account the fact that this could be a sign that GR is simply missing something when it comes to the large scale structure of the cosmos. We've ruled out some proposed alternate theories experimentally but not all, and that's just the proposed ones.
Networking seems to be moving towards Programable ASICs with companies like Barefoot Networks, Netronome, Cavium, and other developing programable network card, switches, and routers. So yes, its Application Specific to networking, but what the chip actually does with the packets is up the whoever buys it.

If Xilinx / Altera can get P4 to compile to their FPGAs (Xilinx has a basic version of this), I suspect the use of FPGAs in networking will become more widespread. FPGAs seem to get higher throughput SerDes before ASICs. Current FPGAs have up to 144x 30Gbps SerDes.
I haven't experienced a hype more warranted.

Yes, the underlying "magic" is decades old algorithms, often relatively simple concepts like LMS or nearest neighbors. The ML isn't the exciting part, it's the application. The pieces are finally in place: simple acquisition of training/test data (big data), powerful computing for the masses, larger crossover of ML into the computing/robotics fields. There is much hype but also much on the cusp of changing huge parts of human life.
Website: https://thelounge.github.io

Demo (seems broken): https://avatar.playat.ch:1000
Also, generally commingled is a bad option. We've never sent in commingled inventory and alot of products commingled is not allowed.
All our manipulation of particle trajectories use electromagnetic forces.

If we were to be able to come up with the technology to manipulate the strong force, would that open up possibilities for alternative colliders?

One problem that I can see is that the strong force might be stronger (strength of 1 vs 1/137 of the electromagnetic force) but the acting range of the force is much smaller (diameter of a medium sized nucleus). The electromagnetic force has a far superior range (technically infinite, but the power drops off depending on the distance)

Arm chair physicist here... I would love your knowledge on the general idea.
I don't think the term Ponzi Scheme is correct but I'm not sure a name for this has been invented yet. Calling it a 'hustle' might be better but still doesn't express what is happening.

VC's want to make money, pure and simple. The only thing that matters is the liquidity event that allows them to recoup their investment. It can be argued that in the end all these people actually create is personal wealth for themselves since the product and it's long term success (and the success of the founder and company) really don't matter. I think that's a pretty bleak outlook considering they could be making money doing a lot of other things and there is great value in what they do.

VC is a game, and to play it right, they need to distill their decision making into core principles. This whole thing about dysfunctional families that the article discusses, well, I do think you need a certain temperament to be successful in the VC game and maybe the dysfunction helps to build that kind of mindset (non-sentimentalism and drive).
I think Sublime Text should be able to handle fairly large json files without a problem.

If not, I think I would just split data into multiple smaller files. Something like the python code below should work, assuming the file can fit in memory. If not, I assume you can find some json lib that can work in streaming mode and then do the same thing.

import json, os

json_input = '''{
"foo": 1,
"bar": 2,
"baz": 3,
"bug": 4,
"thing": 5
}'''

entries_per_group = 2

if not os.path.exists('sub_files'):
os.mkdir('sub_files')

main_d = json.loads(json_input)
iter = main_d.iteritems()
for group_count in range(10 ** 6):
sub_d = {}
try:
for _ in range(entries_per_group):
k, v = iter.next()
sub_d[k] = v
except StopIteration:
break
finally:
json_output = json.dumps(sub_d, indent=2)
with open(os.path.join('sub_files', '{}.json'.format(group_count)), 'w') as f:
f.write(json_output)
In my field we call this "overfitting." String theory and multiverse work are adherent to all experimental evidence by design and offer no predictive capabilities (correct me if I'm wrong, please).

You can design arbitrary systems to fit observations without identifying the underlying mechanisms, especially if said arbitrary systems are complex (which symmetry arguments are).

If these models are only predictive after the fact, then what good are they? The vindication for Einstein is that his various predictions are still being proven out a century later. Hawking found evidence that ran contrary to our theoretical understanding and has spent his life trying to explain the divergence.

String theories aren't in contention outside of the fringes, they're interesting mathematical models but they are on a par with our study of the ether in the late 19th century, something that will be looked back upon as a diversion away from the truth of our universe.
If you're familiar with vim, you can do this

cat unformatted.json | python -mjson.tool | vim -

And then use vim's folding methods to navigate the file (http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding)
You ordered a cheap jacket and the quality of the jacket you received was commensurate with the price and met your expectations. What is the irony?
Standardization would be a useful outcome, having multiple implementations shipping is a prerequisite as I understand it - it's something Mozilla could participate in, along with other interested browser vendors.

There's a community group: https://www.w3.org/community/browserext/ but no WG yet as far as I can tell.
Oh man you should buy a Hamilton ticket though. It lives up to the hype.
No identifying labels does not mean Amazon doesn't know whose it is.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

>Although products sent to Amazon as commingled inventory may be virtually pooled with those of other sellers, we track which seller shipped the units to our fulfillment centers from the time they enter our warehouse until they are shipped to the customer. This allows us to know who sourced the item that the customer received.
The conservative value on the amount of resources provided to minorities through affirmative action, welfare, charity, government programs and hiring quotas, and other forms of restitution is 20 trillion USD minimum.

Also the costs associated with absorbing the negative factors related to minorities (such as crime related costs, various social costs, etc) likely geometrically multiplies the above amount in various ways.
Objectivism is basically built on a bunch of strange axioms, and to a large part completely denies that they're arbitrarily chosen axioms instead of hard facts. They treat logic built on other axioms as inherently wrong.
If you look at the more recent EM drive stuff, I think it looks like the evidence it turning against it somewhat more clearly now?
The funniest part about the video in this article is that nobody gives a shit. I mean, look at pedestrian crossers.
How long was alchemy a serious field of study? Thousands of years, right? String theory is 75 years old.
You realize that's all dwarfed by the welfare state that we now have for everyone, right?

It's also not the root of the Cuban-American community's success. The earliest waves of migrants were almost all from the middle and upper class. They did correspondingly well in their new home. Wealth is not really a number in your bank account, it's the knowledge and virtues that guide of the process of producing value.

If you took everyone in America's money away and started over, the resulting classes would look a lot like today's. Culture is almost everything.
It really depends on what items you're selling and how many.