skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try googling "over-represented race in incarcerations", "over-represented race in police shootings"

Why did you leave off "over-represented race in violent crimes"?

> Michael Jackson tried to turn himself white

So that makes him not black? Are the people who idolize him confused and don't realize he's black? People loved him before his transformation. One funny anecdote is Michael Jackson, refusing that he "turned himself white", said that his grandmother told him that the reason they called them colored people is that they come in all different colors. :)

> MLK Jr was conveniently murdered

Conveniently? I'd say tragically. Abraham Lincoln was also assassinated. I don't know how this changes that both are among the most admired people in America today.

> Muhammad Ali was persecuted by the state

As were many white people who openly violated the draft or spoke out against the war (I'm not saying avoiding the draft is a bad thing or that Ali wasn't a legitimate conscientious objector).

> Barack Obama is routinely called racist slurs despite being the president.

Not routinely by any major national publications or widely popular figures. Also, being the current president doesn't mean people don't call you mean things, if anything it means you're called more mean things. People said plenty of mean things about Bush or Clinton while they were president.
Right, things damaged BY shockwaves, if we're being pedantic
Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12060716
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I think the concept is formally identical to database normalisation but applied to code.

If the code is duplicated and you know the different part will have to evolve the same way: factorize now. If the different part are just formally similar by accident wait a little before factorize.

Similarly in a database you create a table for users but you don't create a table for "family names" and "first names" even if you could factorize them : when Cassius Clay become Mohammed Ali you don't want to rename all Cassius to Mohammed and all Clay to Ali.
No. In 1933: 66% Protestant, 33% Catholic. Jews < 1%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany
Linux might be a small (but rising) percentage. But the bigger point is that Linux is a free operating system. If Linux can't run web content, that means

1. You need to pay someone for an OS in order to view the web.

2. The OS market isn't open, someone else can't just make an OS that people will use, because it can't view the web.
I recently moved to Amsterdam and find these cars everywhere https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5259/5389323025_ed108961c6_b.j...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canta_(vehicle)

They are designed for disabled people and you can drive them in the bike lane and park almost everywhere. I think an cheap electric version could be very useful on rainy days (99% of the days here) for short commutes.
I think it's not as close to zero as you think it is, but still, it's non-zero, and that's the entire point. Why stick around if there's any chance?
Redfin agents receive bonuses for completed transactions that typically account for more than half of their annual compensation.
Its a commission even when you don't call it that. See what happens to a sales person when she/he don't sell for a month.
It will not become "more and more difficult ensuring that the amount of money will continue to increase". The amount of money will not increase at all, period, past the designed-in limit of 21,000,000 total bitcoins. There is no ensuring anything, the rate of creation of new bitcoins was programmed in from the start and cannot be changed.

Most hardcore bitcoiners seem to subscribe to a macroeconomic theory that holds that allowing a Government entity to create more of a currency is a bad thing, and that the economy would be better off if the amount of currency in circulation was fixed by external factors.

I find more persuasive the theory that the total value of economies tends to naturally grow, and the total value of currency in circulation must increase at a controlled rate to create a small but positive inflation in order to have a stable economy. When there are artificial limits on the creation of currency, the value of goods created by the economy grows, but the total currency in circulation does not, so you get deflation, which slows spending and investment, and shrinks the economy again.
Shift+Escape made me realize HTTPS Everywhere[0] is by far my most resource intensive extension. Most extensions sit around the 20MB range (of memory usage). uBlock is in the 50MB range. HTTPS Everywhere is in the 100MB range and goes to 150MB sometimes. I love the extension but I do wonder how it manages to use so much memory...

[0] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated because he ended the slavery of African Americans.

Obama doesn't face slurs "routinely from widely popular figures"? The fucking GOP Presidential nominee was the head of the birther movement!
> "While they might like you, you’re just part of a liquidity Ponzi scheme,"

Completely incorrect use of the term "Ponzi scheme".

> "Their only goal is to make you liquid or go public. They will support you to do that, but that's about it."

I've never met a founder that didn't know that taking a VC money means liquidity is your overarching goal.
Roughly divided in protestant north and catholic south - same as today. Catholic southern Germany was and is culturally and religiously much closer to Austria (and maybe even Italy) than to northern Germany. Hitler was from Austria and raised catholic.
and the title of the page is "Archive Team: The Coursea Curse"

Coursea Curse :p
May i ask what country you are in?
In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile
I just went through this when deciding to finally work through The Little/Seasoned/Reasoned Schemer books. After spending way too much time stressing the implementation I settled on (Petite) Chez Scheme. It was super easy to install, has great docs/guide, and works quite fast.

My advice would be to just pick one and don't look back. I spent way too much time on it that should have been spent learning.
Just so we're on the same page, are you dismissing all relevance of PL names, or just the downsides of this particular one? That is, are you saying you wouldn't balk at naming a (enterprise-promoted) language something like Filth, Feces, Pubes, Jizz, or (Brain)fuck? Would those be "just names" too?

You're right that no language's name is perfect and immune from bikeshedding; however, the psychophysical mechanism of disgust works at a far deeper, extra-rational level than other negative traits. "Rust" evokes it, pythons don't.
Maybe it was a success. Maybe we didn't send a person back, we just created an explosion in the past for the purpose of verifying that it altered history. Success! Now we just have to find Nelson Mandela and the creator of the Berenstein Bears...

(Okay, I'm done being a crackpot now, it was fun though)
I'm interested in the promise that ebikes show. As the cost of batteries decline, they get cheaper and become a more interesting value proposition. I've submitted some HN articles on them:

* http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/vanmoofs-electrified-s-could...

* https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/23/xiaomi-mi-qicycle-smart-...

* http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/the-surprising-heal...

Or see: http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/10/24/240493422/in-m....

In the West, good ebikes around $1,000 haven't yet arrived. We'll see what happens if / when they do. I don't ride an ebike—I just got one of these: https://www.rei.com/product/888337/novara-gotham-bike-2016—b... I do see many more of them than I used to, and there are many ebike Kickstarter campaigns.
What makes this even better is that they didn't give it a way to deal with false positives - like friends visiting and getting a glass of water.

"It's a feature not a bug."
> Mr. Kelman argues that full-time employees allow him to offer better customer service. Redfin gives its agents salaries, health benefits, 401(k) contributions and, for the most productive ones, Redfin stock, none of which is standard for contractors. Redfin currently employs more than 1,000 agents. . . . Now with his company on a stronger footing, Mr. Kelman says he believes his approach has been vindicated.

I love Redfin. But it's sad that the market forces Kelman to justify his business model only on the basis of what doing right by employees does for his own bottom line.
Also when they take a 1-hour lecture and split it into 5-minute segments, makes it so tedious. I much prefer OCW's approach.
... Or someone who was understandably proud of having written a basic but serviceable filesystem on an airplane. Please at least consider the boring hypothesis.
It is great that someone decided to act on it.
Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked
Russia used an opium gas to disable terrorists in the 2002 theater raid.
Russia has the worst luck with asteroids.
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There absolutely is a loss of "savoir faire" in the west in every industry China has completely taken over. Furthermore we basically exchanged real growth for credit backed one AKA fake growth, because of all the real jobs moving to China. That's why we have all these housing market crisis. It is something the west will deeply regret 20 years down the road. Business is war, globalism won't change that fact.
and because the manufacturing happens right then and there.

the proximity to people in charge of manufacturing the products also increases innovation- they see problems firsthand and can contribute to solving them.
In addition to that, I've been disappointed that community building is based around courses and not forms of study. So if you go to a course after it's ended, the forum is dead. It would make sense to have forums/communities set up around specific fields of study, with specific course forums that stay up between sessions (so the forum for a Calc II class wouldn't keep being recreated every time the schedule flips over).
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According to the Ghostbusters, the Tunguska event was the biggest 'interdimensional cross-rip' of the 20th century, prior to the whole Zuul incursion.
That's a pretty big "if." There is currently a crisis over block size that has failed to reach any consensus. It's unlikely that any fundamental feature of Bitcoin will ever be allowed to change.
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Every time I see counterfeit power adapters/chargers on Amazon I wonder why the original maker–e.g. Apple–doesn’t lean on Amazon to stop the sale of those. Additionally, if someone dies or a house burns down[0], couldn’t that open Amazon to lawsuits?
[0] http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pr...
Well if we got arcologies or such, then maybe. I never understood the hype. If anything all we saw of it in my city were overweight city employees zipping around with them.

It you had a massive weather controlled area, a domed city, then yeah you could design around them but if you are going the domed city route I am quite sure part of the planning would involve good use of moving walkways and similar. Who would want to dodge a bunch of people of Segways?
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It's a complex question. For really advanced environments, advanced tools are in use (including ftrace, BPF, etc). If you mean more widespread usage, then there's the need for documentation, marketing, etc. Linux doesn't really have anyone focused on doing that (ie, marketing departments with large budgets).
Yeah, like his wives. Stupid wives.
How did you first discover the bug? Did your deploys just start failing in an obvious way, or did your instances disappear (from ECS's perspective)?

I'm wondering if Elastic Beanstalk is hiding this from us in some way. Or maybe just has a workaround built in?
this looks really great, are there any similar resources for people looking to unpack game networking protocols/optimization?
> The fucking GOP Presidential nominee was the head of the birther movement!

I wasn't aware that claiming someone wasn't born in the US is a "racist slur." Particularly since most African-Americans were born in the US, so it would be an odd slur to use against them.
> Regarding the diagnosis for Asperger's/Autism, the trait clinicians test for is literally "social ineptitude".

And yet, on the Wikipedia page for Asperger Syndrome[0], the phrase "social ineptitude" is nowhere to be found. Strange.

From Wikipedia:

> Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a developmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests.

Jobs did have "significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication". Everyone who worked with him thought he was an asshole, he pissed off even his friends (e.g. Woz), and had an extremely difficult time in normal roles with his first wife and child, etc. In person, Jobs was a hot mess. Of course, this—by itself—is insufficient. Lots of normals are assholes, too.

The real tell for Jobs is the second requirement: restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. Jobs had that like crazy, right down to wearing the same clothes for—literally—decades. The history of Pixar actually has better information on Jobs (oddly enough), including a lot of his extremely non-normal behaviors that fall into this second category.

People who are just sociopaths don't have "restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests". In fact, they appear normal (it's part of the game, in fact). Jobs couldn't even begin to fake "normal"—and didn't try.

People are confused about Jobs because he could manipulate groups, and was, generally, successful. The Aspie types you find in tech are usually of the variety you mention: won't look people in the eyes. Jobs was definitely not that.

FWIW It's easy to confuse a sociopath and a non-engineer Aspie, because both have less empathy for normal people than is typical. You can tell them apart easily though: sociopaths also have less empathy for archetypal people, whereas Aspies (like Jobs) have more empathy than is typical for people and situations matching archetypes. This can be extremely frustrating to those closest to them, who (legitimately) are upset that they care so deeply for archetypal things, but can seemingly ignore the very real hurting of, say, their daughter who is right in front of them.

Incidentally, the ability to strongly relate to archetypes, IMO, is why Jobs (and others like him in, say, film) are successful. It allowed him to focus on what is truly important to a huge swath of people and ignore small details that are only important to the few people near them. (This is Jobs legendary ability to "focus".) Normals, in my experience, have a very hard time doing that precisely because they can so easily empathize with anyone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
Nope - sadly that's not always sufficient. "Star Eyewear" and "Wow Facktor" are "Fulfilled by Amazon" so there's a good chance their stock is co-mingled with Amazon's own stock in the same bin. I'm not sure exactly how you can tell which products this happens for and which it doesn't.
Absolutely feel the same way. Everyone's also conveniently ignoring that Asbergers isn't even in the DSM anymore.
Their EC2 servers are pretty good quality.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945#12052732
I don't buy that America is a substantially racist country today. I especially don't buy that racism is even in the top-ten list of problems facing black people.

History sucks. It landed my grandparents in America, having fled Cuba, with the clothes on their backs. They had built lives for themselves and had it all pulled from under them. Somehow, the Cuban-American community has done phenomenally well for itself. Definitely not by blaming the past for their lot and demanding nebulous reparations.
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Not to mention that there are police departments in the Dallas area which have drones.
>I must admit, I don't understand this view

Yes you do. There some seriously bad areas in American cities. Places where you can get mugged, robbed, assulted or murdered by virtue of just being there.

Cops do die on the job.
I just watched 'Swimming to Cambodia' again earlier this month. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieMCKk_7Hs8) It's Spalding Gray's fantastic monologue on The Killing Fields; I highly recommend it. It draws you in fast and the next thing you know, you've just listened to an hour and a half of spoken word on the intertwining insanities of Cambodia and the west.
The guy who founded OwnCloud, who recently made headlines all the way to HN by leaving that company and founding NextCloud using the same open source software, seems to be one of those. I heard an interview a few days ago, in German (somewhere on Youtube, it's very recent), where he listed that as a major downside (of VC capital) and in the end something that lead to his move. I'm sure he if you ask him won't say he was surprised, and that he knew it - but him pointing this out as a major point shows that even if he was aware of it, he was not aware of what that means in reality.

> I've never met a founder that didn't know this.

"Being aware" of something has several layers. A lot of people are "aware" of things on a conscious level, but when you look at their actions you see that it doesn't seem to influence the behavior. Just "knowing" something doesn't mean all the parts of your brain responsible for your actions got the message.

For example, people now speeding or texting and driving may kill you, but I bet those who experienced it first hand will show much improved behavior in that respect compared to those who only "know about it".
Excuses, excuses

> your opportunities to practice are limited

I spent 1 weekend in Zurich. I had a lot of opportunities to practice, falling back to English only when needed.

Then I went to Germany for a bit and again had endless opportunities to practice.

You still have to deal with eating, shopping, renting a place, going to a doctor, etc.

If the first thing that comes out of your mouth is "English, bitte?", yeah, you're not learning anything.

And the other foreigners there? Some have better German than English. They also want to learn.
It’s not a university email app. I’m using K9 with that.

Others are using GMail, or AOSP mail, etc.

You can’t seriously expect every single Android app to add the feature back, do you?

And even then, I still get no benefit – I have to update my own fork of AOSP mail, too, I have to update a bunch of system apps, I can’t use eduroam properly anymore, and I can’t MitM the traffic of my own device anymore. The only thing this does is my life worse.

Every single Android update since KitKat has done that. Made my life worse. Removed features, killed AOSP stuff, moved code into proprietary apps, and prevent people from modifying their own device.
And there's more.

Whereas most professionals work on a flat rate by the job or by the hour, real estate agents work on a percentage, which is especially shady because it takes about the same work regardless of the value of the property. So it works out to be more of a "piece of the action" like extorting, or gate keeping, than a service.

There's other barriers to non-agents playing as well. For example, registering on the MLS has to be done by an agent. There are services that list for you, but they're agents. Bloody hell, it's just a database entry.

I'm not saying the agents don't perform a valuable service--it's nice to have sometimes--but the system should be more open and the pay scheme more fair.
Can I still modify the entire UI with an addon, for example, to add tab previews on hover?

Or are you guys going to implement every single incompatible addon yourself?
I think the main issue most devs struggle with is not the changing requirements but that the timelines are not adjusted accordingly and have to be swallowed by the dev with overtime. And in most cases when there is some adjustments it's not nearly enough to cover the actual costs. If that was somehow resolved I think the vast majority of devs would be fine with changing requirements. Problem is I don't think there is an easy way because most non-dev don't truly understand the costs involved.

Fr example can u imagine telling a plumber no the bathroom is now going to be 30 feet to the left. The plumber says ok but that will cost u a week of work. How many people would say no, u have 1 day to do it and u will be held accountable for my estimate and not ur estimate because I don't trust u when u say a week. Now assume the walls are closed and it's only after u open them u learn there are other issues. Doesn't matter, one day. This is what most de s deal with. I assume ur not like this but this is how most devs have to work. It's frustrating. If u would be given the week then u would be fine, but instead ur told the timeline and/or cost. U may even be told no u can't use those tools they r too expensive, but u need to complete the task in the faster then even people who can use the tools.

My whole point is it's often not the change requests that are the issue, it's what it entails, in that the schedule and costs are not adjusted fairly.
They're the largest country by area, so it makes sense they'd get hit the most.
Russia is also pretty big :)
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some real abuse of psychological terminology here. most clinically autistic people don't hold down jobs, certainly not professional roles, even if they have a high IQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12061192
It might also go the other way. Many police killings are due to jittery officers in dangerous situations. Take that out of the picture and you might get better policing and fewer suspect deaths.
Please stop what? Sharing a different opinion? Replying to replies to my comments? Correcting incorrect statements in the original story and replies to my comments?
You seem to be ignoring the fact that Chrome for Linux exists but even if it didn't, it seems liked you're trying to argue that other people should be compelled to support your operating system of choice, not to mention conflating a small percentage of content with “the web".

Was the OS market not open when Flash for Linux didn't exist? FreeBSD? TempleOS?

What percentage of content needs to use EME before you “can't view the web”? If everything else but Netflix works, is the web open or closed?

More to the point, what do you expect to accomplish here – is hyperbole going to convince people to use Linux, cancel their Netflix/Amazon/etc. subscription, etc? If not, I would again suggest finding an argument which will appeal to a non-trivial number of people. Why should they care enough to change their spending or contact their representatives?
Why is't Norway and the Swiss hurting?

This is the Euro all over. The amount of scaremongering that was put out for not joining the Euro yet the UK and Denmark managed just fine in fact more than fine.
Pretty damn far, look at Atlas that's about as good as you get....

There is really no lack of commercial motivation the US army would be your 1st customer...
Agreed, if something fairly small hit say Gran canaria then it's goodbye large parts of the UK and low-lying parts of Europe.
In the US, typically 6% goes to the two realtors, divided 3 and 3. Of that, their office will get roughly half and they get half, so their takehome is around 1.5.

I just sold without an agent and discovered that even these are negotiable, when you're talking as a peer with the buyer's agent. I ended up paying 2.5 to the BA and $1300 to an attorney (notably an hourly rate, not a percentage).
Police Shootings Won't Stop Unless We Also Stop Shaking Down People
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12061618