skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But Venezuela has already seized and nationalized foreign-owned assets. Surely that burnt plenty of bridges?

They seized/nationalized Exxon's assets, which certainly burnt that bridge (Exxon promptly filed for arbitration). But Exxon is only one foreign company.

Perhaps Venezuela sees a future of no foreign petroleum companies, but rather use foreign investments/loans to build their own internal petroleum operations. This seems likely after nationalizing the existing plants.
Can you give some examples of where a country defaulted and was worse off? I think most recently Iceland defaulted and they seem to be doing alright - but maybe given it's size it doesn't really count.
> Burning those bridges now could cripple Venezuela permanently.

There's not a lot of evidence for this. It's not like no country has ever defaulted before, it happens all the time, and they were able to borrow again once they got themselves functional. Defaulting is bad but certainly not a death sentence.

It's especially weird when, as the article points out, bondholders are practically expecting default - and charging interest to match! At a time when it has very little cash, Venezuela is paying extra to avoid a situation that bondholders have already resigned themselves to.

> Simply put, the trade-off is not worth it.

That's not a sure thing. It could be worth it, depending on how they use the newfound money. It doesn't just have to be buying food, as important as that is. What if they use it to get some functional power plants? The massive brownouts right now are hobbling the economy; there would be much better growth prospects if people had reliable power.
It would also condone use of ivory. It would also out the ivory back on the market.
Not so (if I understand your point). They were using the competitor systems on a few drops of blood. I read they were diluting the blood and then correcting the results. This is doing the same thing without the tech in the hopes that they would eventually make their tech work
The Intel 750 SSD definitely doesn't get 440k IOPS with a queue depth of 1. It's more like 10k IOPS at that queue depth.

This basic assumption mistake really changes a lot of the numbers in the article.
Probably not. Contrary to popular perception, the drug war is not a major factor in incarceration in the US. We do incarcerate thousands of people for drug crimes, and we do need to radically reform drug prohibition, but "ending the drug war" will have only a marginal impact.
I assume this doesn't include stuff like technical reference books? They may get pulled only once every couple of years, but when you need them you need them.
> Surprisingly, when compared to British officers who (for the most part) are not armed, providing officers with guns seems to decrease both their own survival AND the survival of civilians, percent-to-total.

The question becomes, does the arming of officers cause the lower survival rates, or does the violence level cause both the arming of officers and the lower survival rate. (I suspect that arming officers is a big contributor, but the correlation alone doesn't tell you the causal relationship.)
Like in England?
The source is not merely messy. It's a tiny sample of a fluid which is not absolutely consistent throughout.

This is a fundamental problem. You might luck into roughly correct results most of the time, but the basic nature of statistics is against you.
I appreciate your contribution to the discussion. Different opinions make HN special. I empathize with your situation; getting hired while unemployed is much more difficult than under better circumstances.
It wasn't quite a developer kit, but the Band was expressly "experimental" to begin with, so I'm not surprised! I roughly their marketing pitch was roughly "we're going to put lots of sensors on you and see what happens"
When it comes to connotations, the one's associated with Rust are beyond negligible...
Ultimately, it can be traced back to the war on drugs, as can many of our societal ills.
I wanted my compiler to be able to compile a hello world. Something which would be trivial in any language, though of course not C. In C the first line of hello world is "#include<stdio.h>". No doubt known to you, that file is a veritable quagmire of incomprehensible C constructions, specific to each operating system. So I spent a few too many nights getting my compiler to get any possible C declaration known to mankind into its symboltables, just so I could get it to the code generator phase and emit all of three or so instructions.

I forgot what the change was, and I can't find the commit that fixed it, as it seems active development on the library has resumed.
You should be able to turn it off then, much like how you can change the wall pattern on the chaperone and turn it off completely if you desired right now.
World faces deflation shock as China devalues yuan at accelerating pace
Right. There isn't that big of a market for luxury items.
http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm

'"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," says English jurist William Blackstone. The ratio 10:1 has become known as the "Blackstone ratio.'
Have you tried mercurial?

I haven't, but isn't it supposedly more friendly?
So you could chain Corrode with one of those to get a C-to-idiomatic-Rust converter?

FWIW, I googled those; Clippy and rustfix just seemed to be linters that can't detect things like "you're not mutating this so drop `mut`", and I couldn't find wololo.
That's great! Since they're thinking of rolling out a (relatively) standard protocol, maybe we could have the ability to message our friends on facebook from other services again?

Ya know, now that it won't be such a pain to support another protocol and all, since they're doing it anyway.
Oh, it gets worse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3lax6y/discussion_...
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It means Apple is bowing to the demands made by the DOJ.
Not the first time, way back in 2000 in Los Angeles it seemed a robot killed a suspect when the force of the door it blew open hit him and killed him http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/21/local/me-55085
I agree, which is why I always make a point to go into specifics about what I did in Python, what the product does, and that it is still used at the company I created it for.
Having got sick of damp fingers blocking Touch ID I added my nose as one of the options.
No more lockout during dish washing.
Great initiative, thanks. Your aim to keep the db open forever is commendable. I'd like to know how you might address two of the problems that [AIUI, paging @attritionorg] osvdb struggled with:

1. BigCo pillages (resells) your data and/or puts compute (search) pressure on your db.

2. Data entry, triage. Is the plan (for plex) to source data solely from origins with an API?

Good luck, gute Reise :)
You're assuming that they don't matter equally. That may be true, but it's dangerous to start off by simply assuming the validity of your thesis.

Moreover, it assumes that the way in which they don't matter equally is based only on racial lines. I'm far from convinced that's completely true. It appears that's some of it, but the fact is that police kill lots of innocent whites, hispanics, and asians as well. That being the case, wouldn't it make more sense to look more broadly at where the disparities are, rather than simply assuming that it's all racial while refusing to entertain any other possibility?
'Senior Developer' Is a useless title.

If you want a title that reflects your expertise, use 'Subject Matter Expert : <TOPIC>' somewhere on resume. This makes very clear to future employers where your strongest skills lie.
This is interesting: what defines 'entry level', 'junior' and 'senior'?
When I mentioned the problem to one of the state HR folks working on the compensation thing for IT, she said, "Ask not what your state can do for you, but what you can do for your state." Which is a fine sentiment, but doesn't help me actually fill positions with people who won't be a net negative to the team.
> Vancouver Is Silicon Valley North

What?

Since when?

Are they going to have big tech companies paying big tech company?

Is this just based on the outrageous housing prices?

> With spotty public transportation and a dearth of taxis, Canada's third-largest city seemed built for ride-sharing

Never had a problem with transit in vancouver. Taxis are stupidly expensive, but skytrain + a bus is usually not too bad.
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In the WordPress world, it seems that "free" carries a lot more weight than "open source". While there are many who care, there's also a ton of folks making a living (or just running their own website) by connecting together plugins. I'd make "open source" a bullet point, not a title-level feature.
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> What if they use it to get some functional power plants? The massive brownouts right now are hobbling the economy; there would be much better growth prospects if people had reliable power.

Very good point. However, it's likely in order to build and maintain such infrastructure, Venezuela would need foreign investment and expertise...

If they burn all the bridges, this may not be possible to accomplish. Perhaps they could find someone willing to take on the risk, but it may cost them even more than just continuing to pay the debts and ride-out the petroleum slump.
You have no reason to. We're talking about a hypothetical future where PyPy has become the reference implementation.
This is true, but a very, very small sub-set of people being shot. IIRC, greater than 80% of people shot by police have a weapon and are actively resisting.
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correct, but inaccurate results are never actionable.
Well, Servo is a bit different, given that it's not a rust compiler, so there's no 'bootstrapping' component.

Until Servo stops using nightly features (which may not be ever, given that they are part of how we test new features!), they'll need to stick with a nightly build. We made an exception for the compiler when compiling itself, but won't make any more.
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In solr vs elasticsearch, my understanding is that solr is more correct and has faster & better algorithms for certain edge cases. Though I'd be interested in hearing the details of any differences of opinion.

Therefore Stratio's Cassandra Lucene Index is worth an equal mention. https://github.com/Stratio/cassandra-lucene-index
I wonder how this compares to BurlapCraft[1], which is a mod of Minecraft integrated with BURLAP- a reinforcement learning and planning library.

[1] http://h2r.cs.brown.edu/announcing-burlapcraft/
They're just bringing attention to the fact that whether or not the parent comment had any affiliation with a person of african decent shouldn't matter in the case of being concerned with, and interested in, data regarding this bias.
You can be arrested for resisting arrest, without being charged with any other crime. If the entire crux of this debate is a systemic racial bias on the part of law enforcement, it stands to reason that you shouldn't use statistics from law enforcement to argue against law enforcement's bias, doesn't it?
"Get rid of all police" is the sort of reductio ad absurdum silliness that brings this discussion down. Don't do that.

But, for an example of how we can counteract the likelihood of those in power lying to the people they serve? In urban and suburban areas at least (rural policing is a little bit of a different thing), consider a twofold approach:

1) Provide body cameras that cannot be turned off while in uniform under any circumstances (sew them into the uniform top?), with draconian penalties in any case where they're disabled or obscured in the field. Multiple battery slots to allow hot-swapping, a low-battery warning informs dispatch, all of that. Allowing your camera to go offline is a strict-liability federal offense; the only disproof is another officer's video evidence that an assailant removed the camera from the officer. (This is not a cheap tool, and it does imply that officers should be dispatched in pairs or more. I am OK with that. We should be willing to spend money for better policing.)

2) Remove all weapons that are not less-lethal from beat police. Batons, tasers, OC spray. You can kill someone with these weapons, but it takes a hell of a lot more work (and it's harder to obfuscate when a suspect has surrendered and is complying than when you can shoot them to death at range). If you need someone with a gun, you should be calling in backup dispatched directly from a station.
This works? Genius!
Hold your arms still, drop to your knees, and hope someone is filming.
Still waiting for the perp walk...
Are noses sufficiently different from one another that someone else's nose won't be able to unlock your device?
Sounds to me like the simplest solution and biggest failure (aside from the whole concept of criminalization of possession in the first place) is in our public defender system, which seems to be a much wider-reaching problem. The fact seems to be that people who can't afford a proper attorney just aren't getting even marginally acceptable representation in many cases. We need public defenders with the time, resources, and incentives to actually provide a reasonable defense and legal advice to people who can't afford a lawyer.

In this case, it seems like a decent lawyer would be able to hear out the woman's story, and say something like "Hey, the lab will confirm the substance, so if you're really innocent, you should hold on, because a felony charge will ruin your life a lot longer than sitting in jail awaiting trial would." Instead, I'm guessing the lawyer had ten minutes to spend on this case before he had to move on to the next one, so he can't really do more than push the plea deal and move along, and there's no significant incentive for him to do more anyway. In fact, he'd probably get canned if he stopped to take appropriate time with each client, because then he wouldn't have time to even get to all of them.
User data is still encrypted.
I thought this was an awesome article, the OP is obviously deep in the rabbit hole and his code is well written. Top job. Keep on hacking.
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Going to need some sources for this fact.
While I disagree with the idea that Uber should have to charge $75/ride as a limousine service, it's honestly refreshing to see a place that doesn't let them flout regulation.
Haven't installed it, but like similar plugins, it functions at the editor level for pages, posts, etc. So it should be compatible with most themes and WooCommerce.
> Contrary to popular perception, the drug war is not a major factor in incarceration in the US.

46.3% of federal prisoners (nearly 85,000) are imprisoned for drug offenses -- not quite an absolute majority, but nearly triple the next highest category (Weapons, Explosives, and Arson.) [0]

Fairly recently, it was only 17% for state prisons [1], which is still quite significant -- about 1 in 6.

But both of those understate the degree to which the drug war drives imprisonment, because drug crimes (which tend to have a shorter sentence than violent crimes) account for nearly 1/3 of prison admissions, despite accounting for a lower share of total prison population. [1]

[0] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...

[1] http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2...
Except if you dig deeper into those stats, you'll see that something like 5% of the same cops account for over 40% of "resisting arrest" charges, and 15% account for ~75% of those cases [1]. So most of it seems to come down to the police and how they approach making arrests.

[1] http://project.wnyc.org/resisting/
I was once stopped by a cop in San Francisco for accidentally running a red light on my bicycle. I don't know if he was intentionally intimidating, but I nearly shat my pants.
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The entire point of my statistics is to show that there is judicial injustice based on race. I show the opposite of your assertion by comparing prison demographics to exoneration demographics. So either the Innocence Project is racially biased (DNA evidence) or our judicial system is racially biased.
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Blacks commit higher rates of murder, rape, and other violent crime. These are crimes that you're caught for afterword and don't have to do with a single interaction with police. FBI crime statistics show many types of crime broken down by race. Despite being a minority, blacks commit the majority of murders, and black-on-white crime is higher than white-on-black, for example.

One resource is: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...

This table shows that blacks are responsible for more than 50% of all murders in 2015, and a greater absolute number than white-committed murders. Blacks make up around 10-12% of the population, so the rate at which they commit this crime is far higher than whites.

It's likely that there are also biases in how police interact with blacks and whites. However it's hard to say with certainty what magnitude of effect there is. I find it hard to believe that the entirety of the difference in these statistics is due to bias.
Black people are not actively being targeted by anyone but other black people. Is that fair?
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> Argentina had a record-setting default in 2001, and was able to reach a settlement to issue new bonds this year

15 years later (and arguably not in a much better condition than before). We shouldn't pretend a nation-state default has few/zero negative ramifications.

> Someone will eventually be willing to lend you money, at the right price.

You are right... but money gets a lot more expensive. It could very well be more expensive than riding out the temporary slump (which is largely tied to the petroleum markets from my understanding).
> (and, I assume, perceived as racist)

Funnily Trevor Noah is both black and recently immigrated from South Africa. Doesn't get more african-american than that.
> 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.

> 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://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/janfeb-2014/driving-wh...

> The key influence on who is stopped in traffic safety stops is how you drive; in investigatory stops it is who you are, and being black is the leading influence. In traffic safety stops, being black has no influence: African Americans are not significantly more likely than whites to be stopped for clear traffic safety law violations. But in investigatory stops, a black man age twenty-five or younger has a 28 percent chance of being stopped for an investigatory reason over the course of a year; a similar young white man has a 12.5 percent chance, and a similar young white woman has only a 7 percent chance. And this is after taking into account other possible influences on being stopped, like how you drive. Police focus investigatory stops on younger people, and so as people grow older they are less likely to be stopped in this way. But a black man must reach fifty—well into the graying years—before his risk of an investigatory stop drops below that of a white man under age twenty-five. Overall, black drivers are nearly three times more likely than whites to be subjected to investigatory stops.

> Being black is also the leading influence on how far police officers pursue their inquisition in investigatory stops. In these stops, full-blown vehicle searches are relatively common. After taking into account other possible influences, black drivers in our survey were five times more likely than whites to be subjected to searches in investigatory stops. Searches are remarkably rare in traffic safety stops, and the driver’s race has no influence on whether the driver is searched in these stops.

Fyi, investigatory stops means the cop pulls you over for reasons that don't involve a traffic violation.
I'm looking for a junior dev position. Does the state hire many junior people?
The odds that a police officer will be attacked in a traffic stop are spectacularly low. Further, it's important to remember that traffic stops are the primary way that police officers confront strangers in their day to day work. Assaults at traffic stops are probably a reasonable proxy for all police encounters. From that perspective, the dangers of these stops seems mythologized.

Equally important: armed confrontations at parking stops occur in large part because subjects are cornered. Reactions to the situation on both sides are fueled by cortisol and adrenaline. An armed subject confronted by unarmed traffic enforcement officers (specially marked, and with different uniforms) isn't cornered, and can in fact just drive away --- or, for that matter, brandish a firearm.

My public policy suggestion is not that we do away with assault officers altogether! There are currently 13,000 assault officers in the Chicago Police Department. A force constituted of 20% assault officers would still have ~2,500 assault officers available to handle escalations.
This sounds like a great cover letter and exactly what I'd like to receive. I've been looking for an employee for some time now, and I wish I'd receive applications like this.

I wonder what companies you are applying to? For example, I know that pretty much every tech company in my city is looking for developers. I think a problem is that developers mostly apply to the larger tech companies in the area (50+ employees). Smaller companies (like my own, and others I have talked to) are having trouble finding people even for entry level positions.
Yeah, that's just the thing... there are lots of anti-reddits out there, they're just not very popular. If reddit stopped acting as an echo chamber, all of its users would just leave and find a different echo chamber.
I think it's acceptable to trust the cryptography used in a well-used VPN, such as OpenVPN.
>* I don't think even the most hardcore gun control zealots are advocating for the American police to give up their guns*

Why not? This works great in other countries...
Well, see, there are deep, deep problems with massive software projects. They don't have to be OOP.

But if you don't use OOP, what are you going to use that makes things significantly better? "There is no silver bullet", as Fred Brooks said.
How so? For me, "rust" conjures images of a rusty nail, rust getting in your tap water, a machine in disrepair from rust, and becoming "rusty" at some skill.

And I don't think I'm alone.
I've seen people saying this for years, yet I don't know anyone that has actually switched over. The people I do who have tried came right back to Python, often within a few days or weeks.
If I understand what you saying (apologies if not, it has been a while since I did modelling), that would only give a better fit if the level of segregation/crime was consistent between counties and not already taken into account by their other variables (like inequality). Or the paradox segments were at a county level instead of locally.

If be happier if they just got the police records for all 721 cases, and did a more local analysis.

Let me know if I'm missing something (I probably am).
> I assume you're referring to the bit about Darcs.

Not just darcs, but also the lack of ability to look at the sources online.
I'm more interested in what kind of bombs they have and what's the policy on use.