skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But there could be a racial bias that causes police to be more likely to stop black Americans."

Even if this is true (and it's probably true to some extent), by focusing on 'interactions only' we can isolate the degree to which cops may be racially biased in at least those incidents wherein there is interaction.

This would yield much more valuable results than the paper in the link.

The linked paper is almost useless because there is a very large divide in who cops interact with. So many factors there including police density, income, poverty, education etc..
> rather than the official ones

What makes them "official"?
Any chance you could deploy a Celsius version for the rest of the world?
We need ways to run "antivirus" software with fewer privileges. One way to do this is what some DoD high-security systems call "guards" and "sanitizers". When files come in from the outside, they're diverted to a jail, where something has to examine them and decide whether they can get through, and what changes have to be made to them. The guard and sanitization software runs jailed or on a separate machine - it has few privileges. All it can do is look at files and say yes or no, or remove something from the file.

There's a need for a division of labor here. The downloading function in a browser shouldn't be allowed to look at the contents. The guard/sanitizer function shouldn't be allowed to do anything other than say yes or no, or modify the downloaded file. After processing each file, the guard/sanitizer function is flushed and reloaded, so that if it was corrupted, it can't affect other files.
Indeed, whereas function arguments in R are lazily evaluated in Python they're not.
I'm not sure the writer understands the project. The route is constructed so that the daily high temperature is 70, so most of the time is spent in sub-70 degree weather. If "69 degrees and below makes you shiver like a soaked kitten", you're SOL.
https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/geoportal/catalog/search/resource/...

The dataset used, for anyone curious.
Thank god we have a system that it's really hard to convict innocent people. You know, a unanimous vote of a jury of your peers is required to convict and all.
The real question is, as usual, what's the counterfactual in the case of Argentina? If they hadn't defaulted, would they actually be better off today? It's possible that, had they tried to avoid default at all cost, the lacking fundamentals would have locked them into a downward spiral. Sometimes, a default can be a liberating blow.

(I'm not saying that default was right for Argentina back then. The point is that you haven't presented any evidence that it was wrong, either.)
I actually did a similar kind of back of the napkin + Google exercise the other night, here is what I wrote down:

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Recent MN incident is definitely horrible and seems unequivocally wrong, no questions about it. It's very sad. It's worse than Garner and totally different scale than other high-profile cases of late. It's the sort of incident that definitely supports claims made by BLM (as previous ones have not, at least to me).

The clear racial implications prompted me to look at the overall country-wide figures to see if the actual stats for last few years reflect the narrative promulgated in the news (black people are disproportionately killed by the police).

1. "... roughly 49 percent of those killed by officers from May 2013 to April 2015 were white, while 30 percent were black. He also found that 19 percent were Hispanic." (http://www.washingtontimes.com/…/police-kill-more-whites-t…/)

2. "There were 511 officers killed in felonious incidents and 540 offenders from 2004 to 2013, according to FBI reports. Among the total offenders, 52 percent were white, and 43 percent were black."

The ratio of african-americans among cop killers (43% of all incidents) to those who are killed by cops (30% of all incidents) is 1.43 - which does not bear out the claim that they are unfairly targeted as a group (of course this doesn't absolve the individual cops who wrongfully kill innocent people).

The one obvious problem with this analysis is that the set of people who kill cops vs are killed by them are non-overlapping - but when country-wide stats over a few years are considered the numbers would sort themselves out (ie random white guy killed by mistake simply doesn't make the national news).

I'm sorry if this analysis is unpleasant and welcome criticism of why it could be wrong.
> If that is indeed the case, I imagine it would make better sense to leave Touch ID disabled, unlike what this article suggests.

It entirely depends on your threat model. If you are at hacker or tech conferences, TouchID is far better as it can't be shoulder surfed. If your threat model is nation-states, then you would take a different approach. As TFA says:

> Turn the phone off before entering any situation that might lead to you being coerced to use your fingerprint to unlock the phone.
But you're moving the goalposts on this discussion. The question wasn't the impact on the global economy; it was the impact on the national one. So the Iceland example is directly relevant.
> It is FP Complete, a corporation attempting to subvert the haskell community for their financial benefit.

There are much, _much_ better and easier ways to make money than what you are suggesting.

The idea that they would produce and give away these tools that fix real problems (whether you want to believe it or not) just to somehow down the line subvert the Haskell community to financially benefit is just _absurd_. If this were a larger programming community I could possibly believe it, but Haskell? Which is mostly used by hobbyist? Come on.

Have they ever refused to merge a PR because they want you to pay for it? What evidence do you have for this _at all_?
Fair points, but I'd counter by pointing out how the VR/AR landscape seems to be shaking out. Google, Microsoft, Apple, HTC, Sony, Facebook, Samsung, and Snapchat are all investing heavily in VR. Magic Leap is really the only independent company pursuing the tech. Now maybe there will be a startup to come out of left field, but I doubt it. The incumbents just have too much leverage. Like the pharma companies that discovered the "low-hanging fruit" software companies have done the same. Facebook is the default address book. Amazon's multi-level logistics advantage will be hard to beat. It's not to say that they won't face competition, but they'll be able to buy them out—or clone the products.

Lets assume VR/AR isn't the next meaningful battlefield and it's self-driving cars. Who is going to win? Google and Apple are both clearly investing here. Tesla and Uber could make a case, though Apple could buy either rather comfortably. GM acquiring Cruise is a great example of the theory in operation.

I'm not saying the theory is airtight, and I don't think it means we won't see new companies emerge, but rather, that the pillars of ecosystem are set.
See my reply below to krapp.
And removing the SIM card.
I walked by their office the other day and I think the venice snapchat office has moved. Ran out of space maybe?
No, it's really not. First off, it's not unique: there's a bunch of places where they're outright banned or prevented from operating, such as Austin. Second, forcing them to price rides at $75 a ride is just a tactic to drive them out of business altogether, without the government doing anything to actually make the situation better for its citizens.

What enlightened local governments would do is figure out how to enact some sensible regulations on these new Uber-like services, and then let them set their own prices and compete fairly. Sensible regulations would have to do with employee treatment, such as the whole controversy about employees being "contractors" (which is a hard problem: many of them like working part-time, and even work for multiple services simultaneously, taking calls from one service or the other), and the controversy about how to deal with the auto insurance (this one's easier: they could simply require Uber to self-insure while a driver is on a call, but there's still an issue about when drivers are between calls). But I don't see any attempts by cities to do anything like this; they only want to prop up the existing taxi cartels, and do a terrible job with public transit.
I haven't seen it being broken, but it breaking things all the time definitely. There are more non-backwards compatible api changes between versions than I have seen with other infrastructure software.

When you spend lots of time fine-tuning the exact combination of filters, ranking algorithms, weighting of fields and so on, the api just completely switching certain methods kind of hurts.
Very nice. Can you make it take a temperature range?
"Wait, what do you mean black people are more likely to be pulled over, not because they're black, but because they're more likely to be young and hence more likely to speed?"

Speeding or not speeding - African Americans are significantly more likely to be involved in all crimes - according to arrest and conviction data.

I think there is probably some bias, for sure, but bias can't quite explain it all away. Neither can income or education. Even normalizing for those, there is still more violence within African American communities.

It's obviously a complex problem, god forbid I don't have the answer, but the more politically fearless research we can do the better.

A study of the likelihood of being shot while interacting with police, as opposed to a study of just the likelihood of being shot given race - is really not very helpful in this situation.
There's another possibility which wasn't mentioned in the article: Maybe the government is quite happy with the food shortages. They have used control of the food supply to reward their supporters and to punish their opponents; this gives them tremendous power, and why should they give up that power just for the sake of a few million starving citizens?
The OP has responded to questions on Twitter, including TouchID criticism, https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/750273921568485377
The problem is that there has to be a way to forcefully power off the phone in case it freezes. If the OS depends on software to power off and the software is not reponsive, there's no way to shut it down without exhausting/removing the battery.
Can't find anything else on this other than the video -- no blog post, no downloads.

I watched the video, but do you have a small writeup that's longer than a tweet and explains what's going on?
why do you assume this is do to racial bias

Because this is America and there is a continuous history of racial bias since the country was founded. Or did you think that all went away with the 13th amendment? Or the 14th? Or maybe the 15th?

The Department of Justice has reports detailing racist enforcement in Ferguson http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/justice-department-find... and Newark http://time.com/3020180/newark-police/ and the New York Bar Association had a report on stop-and-frisk being a racist policy in NYC http://www2.nycbar.org/pdf/report/uploads/20072495-StopFrisk... [PDF] and a St. Louis police union is calling out racism in the department http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-black-union-st...
Early in our relationship, I was a little surprised when my wife held a pair of old socks up to her face, within pressed palms, and whispered 「ありがとうございます」before throwing them in the trash.

This is YEARS before KonMari.

So, I think you might have something to your observations. ;-)
I'm not sure that addresses the point.
This might sound offensive, but please don't take it that way, I just don't know how else to phrase it:

I have no reason to trust you, or them. Just because you think people have good motives, doesn't mean it's true. I'm sure there are great people working there, but I'm also sure there are shady people working there. Just like at any big org. "Even though you don't know me, trust me, these guys are cool" arguments don't really help anything.
Do you mean incron?
(http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en)
The first question you should ask in evaluating any encryption or privacy-based software is, 'do I trust the provider?'

What sane person would ever trust Facebook to keep something private? If anything, the addition of "secret conversations" will be more intrusive, because this service delivers more nodes to the social graph: how many secret conversations, with whom, where, at what times, etc. Facebook and the global spy regimes it provides content for care more about building a network of associations than actual content. Who cares about the needle when you can control the haystack?
I feel a little embarrassed how long I spent clicking on the temperature curve before finally noticing the little dragbar underneath which is how you change the target temperature on that. The lack of geographical or movement constraints make the results less interesting than OP, though.
Sorry, I'm not interested in this discussion. If you disagree with anything I've said about disarming police officers, I'd be very interested in hearing about that.
But is laziness that important for a graphing library where presumably you'd be graphing the function anyway? I guess there are some cases where one of the other options would disable the y-axis or something, but this seems pretty rare. Is there another reason?
Sure, I got that. I misspoke a bit when I saw "that was his point". You used the sociopath statement not as the main point, but to drive that point. Not knowing (even possibly), is much different than definitely knowing and not caring. It's a double edged sword, in that the label quickly illustrates the difference you are pointing out, but then you have to deal with people focusing on the word and not the point. That makes it appropriate to use IMO, though sometimes self-defeating. :/
The idea is, there's a space between "performance doesn't matter" and "so fast it can't use malloc" in the trade-offs of software development. It turns out that space is very large.

"Performance-critical code" can even go in that space in an environment where developer cycles and program safety are things that matter, which is definitely the case in HFT.
> A few days later, it was fixed: https://twitter.com/grorgwork/status/740356645981585408

However, no iOS users will see this change until iOS 10 is released. (Hopefully this makes it into 10, instead of waiting for iOS 11).
Indeed. I've been trying all sorts of weird stuff, but this takes the cake. Ubiquitous, rock-solid, sane. Plus, no worrying "is it done yet? Do I have the latest version?" Just let it run (again) - this makes it rather foolproof.
Yep, that's exactly what I was saying. But it's ok, a good downvote every once in awhile is good for the soul.
Madoff was quite unusual because he was very actively involved in the upperclass Jewish philanthropic community. It's also where most of his victims came from.

That's one of the reasons he was able to get away with it for so long. People assumed that he wouldn't steal from members of his own community like that. So most observers assumed he found a way to front run trades on his other funds without getting caught, and were looking for evidence of that.
You nailed it. I often think either I am lowly paid or people exaggerate here about compensation. People I know in non-online world seems to be making about same as I make and I do not make that much for 10+ years of experience.
It doesn't actually matter: in a world which used that sort of addressing, one could imagine saying to com 'give me HTTP info for your example/foo/bar/baz,' to com/example 'give me HTTP info for your foo/bar/baz' and so forth; in that case, com would just say, 'hey, go talk to 266.328.0.1 (that's what I call example)' and 266.328.0.1 would cheerfully return the information stored at the filesystem path /foo/bar/baz, or it could say, 'hey, I call foo 463.622.42.17' and your browser would keep resolving.

Me, I kinda wish we wrote URLs as http://com.example.host.invalid/path/to/resource.
Or a noose. Debt is a double-edged sword - it all depends on if it's structured in a reasonable fashion, and if it used in a productive manner that can pay down promised future payments.
Facebook adds end to end encryption in messenger So what?
"It doesn't make much sense to cite the proportion of black people convicted of a crime by US law enforcement as evidence refuting the claim that the US law enforcement's interaction with people changes according to their race. "

It actually does.

The rate of violent crime among African Americans is massively disproportionate. There's no way any kind of racial bias on the part of police could account for it.

A major study done in the late 2000's actually showed that while African Americans did receive more punishment for similar crimes - once 'criminal history' was taken into consideration, the difference evaporated.

Given that there is a massive difference in 'recorded convictions' (which is arguably biased because of 'racist cops') and numerous attempts to study the prevalence of racism in the system - it's pretty safe to assume that there's no way on earth that 'racist cops' are why there is why African Americans are about 700% more likely to commit violent crimes than others.

It's a sad situation, surely, but it's important to keep the facts in check.

About 50% of violent crime in America is committed by African American men, though they are only about 7% of the population (about 13% including women). This is quite radically high and it's not even explained by poverty.

The sheer size of the discrepancy between ethnic groups is unsettling.

I wish I had answers.
http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/HOWTO_move_data.html
I apologize. Just irks me to see the article complaining about a guy with guns in the middle of nowhere.
Or you could just live in the SF Bay Area, and do a mild east/west traverse that doesn't range more than 50 miles. Problem solved.
I've seen some stats for racial breakdown of perpetrators firing on police - for example, for NYC 2011, it was 72% black, 67% hispanic - No white.
If he signed an NDA, I probably wouldn't write a blog post about the interview process, that's a good way of getting fired for cause, since the late 1990s.
Two infants were just shot in a mini van not far from where the shooting in Minnesota occurred. There were also multiple shootings overnight in Minneapolis that resulted in at least one fatality. The Police aren't armed just for traffic enforcement.
If, for some reason, you are averse to rsync (there are plenty of Windows clients), then bittorrent is second-best: it works just as well for transferring private data, just turn off all the metadata broadcast options and make sure that encryption is required. (Not so easy for incremental transfers, though)
If the phone is locked, they can't do anything but part it out anyway. They might as well remove the battery.
Because they are carrying 9mm when they should be carrying .45
I assume you're transferring between two hosts you both control. Some sane options are:

- rsync

- SFTP-over-SSH, or SFTP over a dedicated VPN

- private, encrypted torrents
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Compensation in that case could be extremely difficult to calculate. Cutting a check for 3 days lost wages is one thing but figuring out the cost of a month or two long stay is likely impossible. Not only are there lost wages for your time in jail you will likely also lose your job so does the state now pay you $XX/year * avg life expectancy? Even if proven innocent your future prospects could be shot not to mention intangibles like lost relationships, losing pets.

Not that I don't think people who are wrongly incarcerated shouldn't be compensated but it's not so cut and dry.
I was gonna say... the trip to Alaska seems unnecessary. Average highs never surpass 70°F in San Francisco: http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/san-francisco/californi...
Nifty. You could probably turn this into a useful planning tool for RV camper types if you turned it into a constraint-solver or integer programming problem by using RV or camping locations and adding costs for relocation, to get a cost-effective set of trips up the coasts and back down over the year.
"Get rid of all police" is the sort of reductio ad absurdum silliness that brings this discussion down. Don't do that.

Fair enough. I felt that I was responding to something that was absurd on the face of it, but I appreciate that you offered suggestions to try to keep it from being absurd. That said, if we assume that all people in authority are lying to us, we have a really poor system of governance that relies on putting people into authority positions who we assume are all lying.

For your suggestions:
1) Strict liability if a piece of electronics fails in a way that the officer can't prove was a technical malfunction? I would never ever accept that kind of liability for myself without a great deal of compensation and some form of insurance to protect myself from the inevitable glitch. While I expect LEO to be held to a strict standard, it has to be reasonable.

2) I've seen that suggestion. I don't know how well it would work given the prevalence of guns in the USA, but I'd be interested in some form of experiment being conducted in a metropolitan area to see what kind of statistics could be drawn from it. Personally, you couldn't pay me enough to be police officer in the USA. If you'd want to send me out there unarmed, you'd need to triple my salary.
I have no doubt this is true, but I suggest the story is much more complicated than that.
You can go to the beach whenever you want, but even in July the water is friggin freezing.
I'd argue that the vast majority of users have no idea what you're talking about.
aka: eyewitness testimony is unreliable because our memory rewrites our memory every time we access it again, our current biases affect how we remember it next time.
I've used Solr in production for about five years. All of the pain with Solr is up-front. Once you get it running, set up your schemas and you have your indexes built, it just hums along, doing its job and being obscenely fast.

Trying out Elasticsearch, my experience was that it really wants to be run in a cluster, but it also loses data pretty easily. I had more issues with it crashing and it's generally a lot hungrier for memory.

Both have non-obvious shortcomings. Solr's schema will make you believe that it likes deeply nested JSON documents. False! It actually wants pretty flat "documents" without nesting (you /can/ nest, but it usually doesn't do what you want without some extra legwork). ES will have you believe that it supports lots of query types and they'll all perform great on semi-structured data. My experience was that it was difficult to predict performance, but that generally the fancier the query the worse it would be.

Solr's querying functionality is not extremely powerful (though they "helpfully" made it offensively complex with different query parsers and stuff) but performance has always been excellent for me.

IMO, if you don't need clustering, Solr is definitely better. A cranky but robust piece of engineering from before scaling was everything. ES has better documentation, a better "getting started" story, and is generally a lot more user-friendly. Aphyr's posts about it have made me wary of using it without a re-indexing story.

I haven't tried Solr's scaling stuff because I haven't needed it, but I would expect it to be in pretty rough shape compared to ES because it's not a primary use case for Solr and it is for ES.
That reputation was developed in the early days of git, back before git added many of the usability features it now has. Today, mercurial isn't any more or less friendly; it's just a different model, which might or might not fit better with anyone's particular preferences about DVCS behavior.