skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think that has contributed to it as well. In retrospect I should have started lining up interviews when I saw the company might fold, but I had never had any issue finding employment in the past so I didn't prioritize it over trying to right the ship.
_At the most_. How many of those 42 officer deaths occurred _during_ traffic stops?
> "We don't want to disrupt people's current experience."

You don't say? (not you, Facebook) How about the dozens of times Facebook disrupted the user experience of the service for its own benefit? How about the dozen+ times it changed people's settings from private to public, after people previously manually enabled a certain setting to be private, or after having a setting by default as private initially and letting people believe that such action is private? Wasn't THAT disrupting to users' experience?

Of course it was. But it benefited Facebook, and that's the difference here. They just don't want to "disrupt" the experience in a way that also hurts the company's bottom line, even if it's better for users.

In other words, it's just a weak excuse for not doing it by default, or at least allowing people to always set it as default (although knowing Facebook, I'd probably worry that they'd revert it back to non-E2E without even making it obvious that it did that. Announcing a new privacy policy change doesn't really count).
In the early 90s I was using VB1 to write Windows apps, while a colleague was writing in C. He said my app would be a lot slower than his. I countered that my app would be a lot faster than his. Probably 12-18 weeks faster.
Italy also uses live and neutral to the ceiling, with the switch joining the live.
It's a linter.
I guess you're right, maybe he didn't feel what he thought he felt. :-P
These are not hidden facts. You can find them quite easily with simple queries...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/African-Americans-cite...

"African Americans in San Francisco are cited for resisting arrest at a rate eight times greater than whites even when serious crimes are not involved, according to statistics drawn from court records."

Here is also a good overall source (but the author has a label on him).

http://www.colorofcrime.com/2016/03/the-color-of-crime-2016-...
Are you suggesting that there is a correlation between legal firearm ownership rates and a more aggressive police reaponse? I would think that the probability of an individual having an illegal firearm would be more of a driver of an aggressive response but that's hard to measure.
Remember that the other thing about Python is that it's got good support for other types of programming -- for example, I work at a company which settled on Python (in part) because it allows a single language end-to-end. Our data ingestion, analytics/processing/number crunching, and end-user applications based on the data can all be built in Python, and even if you're not a domain expert in one of those areas you can at least read code to see what's going on and not be totally lost.
Four Corner Layout Concept
It's ML, not magic: simple questions you should ask that help reduce AI hype
I'm trying to tread carefully to avoid insulting you. You are very likely more talented than I am, so please take my input as just one data point.

An outsider perspective: 12 in-person interviews is a high amount of interviews without receiving an offer. I've failed my fair share of interviews but never that many in such a short amount of time.

If I were in your position I would try to get as much information as possible why you weren't accepted. Anecdotally, Austin should be a promising location for tech hiring. It may be a personality clash or a lack of preparation. I have bombed several interviews because I didn't take the time to practice Google-style interview questions. It took me 2 months of practice before I was ready to interview successfully in SF, coming from the East Coast.

Fancy CS degrees and golden pedigrees get your foot in the door. The technical interview is up to the applicant to pass or fail. It looks like you get your foot in the door pretty well. Now it's time to focus on what you can do to convince these businesses that you will help make them money.
There are many factors.

What is the total population, what is the violent crime rate, what is the prevailing attitude of civilians towards police, how many police encounters are there, how well does the government record these statistics, etc...

You can't be shot by a police officer if you don't encounter one. In the US, most police officers know if you have a criminal record, a warrant, or LTC before they even approach your car. If your culture thinks arguing with cops is a good idea, your culture also might be more prone to violent clashes with police.

All those things factor into the individual situation, thus I would expect these would be represented in aggregate figures as well.

The problem is that none of these risk factors are considered and thus produce meaningless statistics.

As a surfer I see this same BS with shark attack stats. Most of them go like this: There were 150 shark attacks the the US last year and there's 300M people in the US, so your chances of getting attacked are 150/300,000,000.

I hope you see the obvious flaw in that. Some one in Arkansas isn't at risk. So a better number would be everyone who visits the ocean. But now you're counting people who probably only dipped a toe in the water or stood in waist deep water for 15 minutes.

The real people at risk are swimmers and surfers and to get real numbers you don't just need to know how many people are in the water, but also how much time they spend there. And more than that, you need to know what time of the day it is.

When you're done, the final numbers will be a table, not one neat number. Each number in the table will represent the time of day and be expressed as a probability per unit of time spent in the water.
>The "Shortage Of Developers" myth just can't seem to die. Software development labor is a market. If there was really a shortage of developers, you'd see compensation rising to adjust, looser restrictions on remote work, role/responsibility incentives, etc, but is this happening?

Yes...? All of this has happened. Twitter has become remote friendly. My employer is 100% no remote but continues to make exceptions and we have 6 or so remote employees now.

Salaries have skyrocket in the last five years. So I'd say...yes, there is a shortage of talented developers.
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Its been found before that police are more likely to stop African Americans, so this may still be racial bias.
Next thing you know they will be self administering their own 0-day exploits.
This jives with my experience last year: I applied to over 100 jobs (kept track in a spreadsheet), about 10 of them replied, interviewed with 2 of them, passed both, got an offer from one of them, rejected/renegotiated it and ultimate accepted it.
Or Ceylon! It looks a lot like Java in some ways, but with a really novel type system.

Kotlin is nice too though.
Calligra uses this approach to parse most of the binary Microsoft Office files. The grammar for this is quite daunting.
This approach has the advantage that there is clear separation between the content description and the parser generator. The parser generator can be improved separately. In Calligra this made it possible to work on speed and memory usage separately from the work of figuring out the actual file format.

https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=binschema.git&a=blob&f=src%2Fmso...
Perhaps it has something to do with them being stopped more and thus arrested more.
> Whether suspect is unarmed is only known for certain after the incident.

Not even then, really; this can be manipulated in either direction after the incident, and there are enough incidents where its become known that it has been that one should not assume that this is even certainly known after the fact in general.
Over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes found spying on Dark Web sites
Hang in there! It took me closer to 25+ in persons during my last search. Of course once you get the social proof ignore offer everyone else gets in line. :-)
I've seen this in action in Amsterdam and was amazed. Rather than charging into the situation guns drawn and yelling police in Amsterdam, seeing that the situation was not dire, first simply made their presence known. They slowly and calmly moved in talking to the perps the whole time. In the end, the situation was peaceably defused.

In America, we are so used to violent interaction with authority that most cannot imagine it working any other way.

One of the first steps we should adopt in the US is the mandatory changing of police uniform color. Green or light blue uniforms are less menacing than the typical US all black uniform. I believe this simple change would reduce police violence.
There could be, but why do you assume this is do to racial bias as opposed to the unfortunate fact that black people are more likely to commit violent crime? I assume that arrest rates should be a good proxy for police interaction, this is a logical assumption - if you disagree then you should give a reason of why your assumption is better, not just say that the assumption "could" be wrong. The unfortunate truth is that black people are more likely to commit violent crime in the US. To show racial bias you have to show that police are disproportionately targeting blacks relative to the rate of crime, if you make the false assumption that the rate of crime is equal between black people and white people then your conclusions will be wrong.

http://www.amren.com/news/2015/07/new-doj-statistics-on-race...

Even for something like traffic stops, you need to study whether or not black people are more likely to get pulled over because they are black or because they are more likely to be young and therefore more likely to speed. It isn't enough to just say that black people are disproportionately stopped, you have to show that the rate of speeding is the same to show bias.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/nyregion/study-suggests-ra...
I wish to die in VR. But not in the landing.
I believe this is symptomatic of an industry moving away from job board based recruiting. There has been a significant change in the recruiting sphere and many talent teams are starting to focus more on sourcing and pursuing passive candidates.
> there was really a shortage of developers, you'd see compensation rising to adjust

Software development wages have risen faster than general wages for decades, haven't they?
I hadn't realised that Pijul is written in Rust! I had only read about the theoretical side of Pijul.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/31/judge-rules-suspect-c...

Court decision from 2014.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/iphone...

First known application since then.
You're making it sound like the EU is just deciding what's best for Africa, and the Africans in support are just yes men.

In your worldview is it ever possible for a governing body to pass laws that have benefits in places outside its jurisdiction, without it being a unilateral decision imposed on them?
Started with OCaml plus a Scala prototype but moved to Rust.
Very true. The number of companies that can hoard talent without high leverage projects is small. I can only think of Google. And even there, they are retrenching in some of their moonshots.
My finger hovered over the reply button for a second as I weighed up the possibility that HN was part of an elaborate long-game attack vector!
There are medical risks. I assume, like with anything clinical, you'll need a doctor's prescription for VR.
But Venezuela has already seized and nationalized foreign-owned assets. Surely that burnt plenty of bridges?

I'm more likely to believe that influential Venezuelans are exposed to the current bond market and are seeking to delay the reckoning.
>The question we should be concerned with should be: 'How is policing/governance structured in a way that enables or encourages people to act upon their biases to detrimental results?'

That begs the question, though, of whether the structure is actually set up in such a way. Blacks in the US commit murder at a rate eight times that of whites. Wouldn't you expect them to be shot comparatively more often by police?

I don't think it's reasonable to take a handful of incidents where police were clearly in the wrong and then try to extrapolate that based on statistics relating to incidents in which we have no reason to believe that's the case.
Thanks, I had overlooked that explanation.

My -general- point still stands, appaently Haskell is very good at this and the people undertaking these projects choose to value this over ease of contribution :) (says someone who just doesn't come to terms with Haskell)
Can someone explain how this is valuable for security or what this means for the justice department?
The OP's claim was January, and they also have seen a June bounce-back.
this smacks of a revenge killing. A SWAT sniper shooting an active shooter has the same result (death), but for some reason this rubs me the wrong way. Was the suspect given a chance to surrender? Did he know the robot approaching was intended to kill him?
No offense taken. I fully admit to underperforming on some of the whiteboard sessions I was subjected to. I also don't think I performed so poorly on all of them to get nothing but rejections. I am not a rockstar, but I am competent at what I do - but what I do is not whiteboard code toy problems.

I always ask for reasons for the rejections, but I rarely get a response. Some will give insight (as I stated in my original comment) but the vast majority will not tell you any reason.

I am just offering a piece of data to refute the "negative unemployment" claim and its ilk.
Or even worse, government officials like the false positives because more people can then be funneled into the prison system. The fact that the test is cheap is just a bonus.
They could normalize for reported crime rates and compare --but take into account tendency to overreport as well as underreport crime by some groups (ie undocumented/illegal status).
That's cool, I hadn't seen RhodeCode before, I like that it's python (preferred over ruby, although I'd treat both as black boxes anyway). I'm not a huge fan of the interface though.... although if I had known it existed at the time I probably would have picked it over GitLab. Shame.

I'd probably still pick Gogs though... we're not a big team and many of the features provided by GitLab and RhodeCode are above and beyond what we require. Basically, our implementation is me finding a way to force version control onto a team that, for some reason, wasn't using any form of VCS at all.
> 3. It's not always clear if you're entering into a long-term relationship with the client.

I've also found that clients will often be acquired, go through management changes, etc that make having these things built in become unstable. One of my clients was acquired by Merck, then Merck sent a letter saying they were terminating all contracts. 18 months later, I get a frantic e-mail from some low-level people asking why I was no longer updating things for them.

The median life of many companies makes building in release->release upgrade support difficult in practice.
That's really cool! Do you have any visualization of it?
I leave it enabled, then power the phone off before interacting with The Man, like when going through customs. Touch ID is disabled on a fresh boot until you enter your passcode, so that basically turns it off temporarily. This is briefly mentioned in the article.

Another thing you could do is set it up with an unusual finger, like the middle-finger of your non-dominant hand. After five failed tries, Touch ID is disabled until you enter your passcode, so you can use the wrong finger five times when they ask you, and disable it that way. Say you're sweating too much or something (a common cause for real Touch ID failures for me).

It all depends on just how paranoid you are and what you want to defend against.
Can you ELI5 this sentence. I don't understand it despite staring at it for a while.
Being in prison with nothing better to do, that makes sense. I'd guess the rate at which people appeal is significantly lower for very short sentences that will still ruin their lives. Once they get out, they would be too busy trying to get their lives back together to spend time seeking justice.
I don't know why you seem to be getting downvoted - this seems to me to be the most important question. Perhaps one of the downvoters can provide some explanation. In particular, why is it wrong (and, I assume, perceived as racist) to ask whether the problem can be described as "those in power are abusing that power"?
so they killed a potentially innocent person?
I guess it does not surprise anymore anybody.

hard to believe it is happening for real, this is some form of horror surrealism
The PDF (http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2016/EN/1-2016...) says:

"Oppose the transfer to Appendix I of the populations of BW, NA, ZA, ZW. These four national populations have an increasing population trend (tbc for Zimbabwe) and do not meet the criteria for transfer to Appendix I. Recognizing the efforts made by Southern African countries to sustainably manage their elephant population and combat poaching, those countries should better be encouraged to pursue their efforts"

The PDF also says, for Namibia and Zimbabwe:

"Given the continuous high levels of elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade, it is premature to agree on a resumption of trade. The efforts by Namibia for wildlife conservation and to combat poaching and illegal trade should nonetheless be recognised and further encouraged."

So, as is often the case, a nuanced statement by the EU that gets misrepresented in the press.

Moving elephants to appendix I would make it harder or even prohibit South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, countries where the elephant population grows, to shoot down elephants to keep their total number under control.

What the EU says basically is that those countries should be allowed to shoot elephants (in theory, that would give them the freedom to kill all 'their' elephants, but they aren't that stupid, as it would kill tourism, too.) but that Botswana and Namibia shouldn't be allowed to sell the ivory to (partly) make up for the costs they make for protecting their wildlife. South Africa and Botswana apparently are deemed to have poaching under control.

I guess this means there are ways to determine where an elephant lived from its teeth. That's not surprising, given that we can do that for humans, too.
If you've ever had proper mayonnaise, you've eaten raw egg.
I doubt it can but if you did a large number of blood tests with finger stick and a large number at the same time with a regular blood draw you could put that data into some machine learning and see if you could figure out an algorithm to correct the results. You'd probably need more data than just the final counts. Maybe some kind of imaging data? Maybe ions? It's tough to speculate. Machine learning learning is all about finding patterns. Maybe some pattern could be used to do the correction?
Fast at what?

There are 2 levels in Red. Red is the high level language (think scripting level) while Red/System is the low level dialect (think C). In general, because the compiler is new and non-optimizing, Red/System will probably be half the speed of C from an optimizing compiler right now. As always, algorithms are the big win.
I wouldn't say it's Java EE based, acutally. It's a superset of Java EE. It's wraps the APIs people still actually care about like JPA, Servlet, and works with JAX-RS. The rest of the Java EE APIs are pretty much irrelevant these days, as evidenced by the constant introduction of new "profiles".
Strong disagree, for three big reasons (and several more small ones I'll try not to bore anyone with).

1. There is huge public support for firearms ownership in the US (it's important not to confuse support for gun control with gun prohibition). Further, significant changes in gun ownership rights would require radical political change. We're governed by an ideologically sorted 50/50 split legislature, and gun ownership is a valence issue for one of those halves. Radical changes to gun ownership rules in the US is unlikely.

2. Changing the composition of police forces from 90% assault to 20% assault requires no nationwide political consensus, and minimal local consensus. As I noted, it tracks well with other municipal priorities: funding the retirements of the assault officers we have now is already untenable. Using attrition instead of direct change mitigates the impact of public sector unions.

3. "Disarming" the American public doesn't address the officer safety concerns that lead to armed confrontation. Even if handguns were outlawed nationwide, handguns would continue to be universally owned by criminals.

Disarming most police officers will make everybody, including the police, more safe.

I strongly support gun control. I'm pretty close to "in a well regulated militia" only, in my gun views. But gun control is not the answer to this problem.
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing that the economic unit versions of these families would move to a place with a better salary/cost-of-living ratio. Moving takes time; the advent of eye-popping living costs in SF is less than 4 years old. Moving a family is a big deal. There is data that suggests that moving children in their teens more than doubles their risk of mental illness and criminal behavior. Certainly the U.S. has the lowest barriers to relocation, but it's not a trivial undertaking.
In late 2015 there was a lot of fear about a dot com like bubble burst. I read and hear little about it these days. Might be a good sign.
Year-long road trip where it's 70°F every day in North America
Yes, that would be really good to know. I think it's safe to say that they're using reasonable criteria here, but I can totally understand why others would not be so trusting.
Argentina had a record-setting default in 2001, and was able to reach a settlement to issue new bonds this year. There is no such thing as "permanent" in the international debt markets. Someone will eventually be willing to lend you money, at the right price.
Why do you assume that the rate of actual innocence is constant across race/ethnicity of prisoners?
It could also reflect that job boards are becoming less and less useful for employers or job seekers. I recently went through a job hunt and enabling my resume on boards like Dice just resulted in a flood of irrelevant recruiter spam. I'm not being overly harsh here either.

When I landed a job (a good one) it was through a posting on the Who's Hiring thread here on HN, and subsequent email/phone conversations and co-working time.
How do you outprice poachers when raising a rhino costs more than zero but poaching them costs effectively zero?
I would put extra emphasis on don't use wifi. Preferably ever.
Me, if I was working at Facebook, I'd have called it "Private Conversations." But hey, what's in a name?
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"It would take me 6 months to start contributing to a Python codebase even though I have significant experience in the language" - Python, specifically, suffers from its own "ease of use" when it comes to hiring and "years of experience" listed on resumés. A hacker who happens to use Python to automate some tedious task but has no clue about how to actually write idiomatic, well tested and maintainable code can claim "4 years of Python experience", for example. To sum, it's very easy to write and maintain truly shitty Python, and "years of experience" mean especially little.