skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you're right on that point.

I suspect we would find that they are both large factors, though. Keep in mind that the statistics I showed actually undersell the prevalence since I compared the prison population to exonerations. Exonerations typically require DNA evidence and there are any number of crimes that can land you in prison where DNA evidence is a non-factor. Even the appeals process isn't immune from racial bias.
> What's the black market price for Kinder Surprise eggs, an item that's illegal in the US.

Kinder eggs are not a good analogy. The market demand is not really for "Kinder eggs" it is for "kid's chocolate." The segment has many alternatives. If all chocolate was banned (or difficult to source as it was in the Soviet Union) we would indeed see a thriving black market (as it was in SU).
> 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.

Sure. But that's basically the heart of every non-autocratic (and even some autocratic!) system of government in the history of the world, though. Having the people with the levers of power lie to the populace goes back to Greece.

> Strict liability if a piece of electronics fails in a way that the officer can't prove was a technical malfunction?

This is the one thing that gives me pause about that approach, to be fair. And I'd be willing to flex on the details, but any unrecorded police interaction with the populace that must trust them must be strictly proscribed. There must be eyes on the police at all times, and they must be impartial. How we get there, we can discuss, but that's the goal.

> 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.

That's a fair way to feel. I wouldn't want to be a police officer under any circumstances, because I understand that I could be tempted by that power. To that end, I feel that we need to remove the attraction of policing from the bullies and power-trippers of the world. Policing should not be a glamorous job (and I don't really feel it should be well-respected, except insofar as any profession should be), but in turn it should be well-compensated.
San Diego is pretty much 68 to 72 year round. In the summer it might get a little warmer and in the winter a little colder on select days, but it's a pretty tight range.
>There are much, _much_ better and easier ways to make money than what you are suggesting.

So? By that logic FP complete would not exist. Yet they clearly do. Try emailing them, they are in fact real. Whether you think haskell is too small or not, the fact is they exist to make money on haskell.

>The idea that they would produce and give away these tools that fix real problems

The tool does not fix real problems. It avoids a real problem, which the authors of the tool created in the first place. The problem does not exist if packages use upper version bounds. They refuse to, and then release a tool to move people to a curated subset of packages and versions instead, bypassing the problem they've imposed on everyone in the first place.

>just to somehow down the line subvert the Haskell community to financially benefit is just _absurd_

It is not down the line, or somehow. It is right now, exactly as described.

>If this were a larger programming community I could possibly believe it, but Haskell?

Again, that logic makes no sense.

>Have they ever refused to merge a PR because they want you to pay for it?

What does that have to do with anything? How is taking control of haskell related to refusing to merge PRs without payment?

>What evidence do you have for this _at all_?

I explained it quite clearly. Your response is to say nothing that has happened counts because "it is haskell".
Looks heavenly to me.
In total I had a little less than one month to prepare for the interview.

I can't help but to wonder if it was really worth it. Surely, his prep helped him get the job, but the entire prep stage he describes seems like a very high up-front cost.

I've always felt that if I can't get through an interview with a little prep and my existing skills, I don't belong.

You should know exactly why you want to work for Amazon.

It would be interesting to know more about his desire to work for Amazon that badly.
And to carry forward your good point -- black people are committing more murders, but also being killed by murderers more often, as well as growing up in neighborhoods where murders happen and losing family members -- etc. Communities with more criminals have more victims as well. To pretend like it's not the case is to turn your back on the large number of victims, who deserve better regardless of the race of the perpetrator.
> it all depends on if it's structured in a reasonable fashion

And the ability to structure reasonable debt is contingent on perceived risk to outside investors.

If Venezuela defaults and becomes very high risk, it's unlikely future debts will be favorable towards Venezuela, impacting Venezuela's ability to climb out of the hole, so-to-speak.
Eclipse isn't a java app, it's a native app that happens to start a JVM that drives native widgets. If you ship a new platform tomorrow, and someone ports a JVM to it, java apps will Just Work, but eclipse still won't run until SWT and the launcher get ported.
Winter surfing in January/February in -20C (-4F) is a thing in my region.
> Why is it that poaching skyrockets whenever the restrictions are relaxed?

Because restriction on consumption alone are not effective. One must address the production side of the equation (through farming, artificial ivory, forced dehorning).
It probably should have read in the past-tense "shutdown because too many people came" which would have been an extremely obvious pun (intended).

VR porn is going to be such a lucrative market but won't get past the app store gatekeepers.
Given that rooting an Android phone frequently involves turning off security features (for example, rooting a Nexus device entails unlocking the bootloader to accept an unsigned boot image), you're probably better off running a stock, unrooted firmware to make it easier to tell if things have been modified.

That's in addition to the added attack surface that the root itself provides once the phone's up and running. Yes, the SU app on the phone (whatever that is nowadays) is supposed to prompt for permission before granting an app root access, but are you sure that code's bug free? Or free of intentional backdoors?
The main issue with this is that this would be a vendor specific solution that would lock everybody.

We build a product that you can host yourself. If we only solve the scaling issue by pushing it down to a specific vendor, then there is no actual solution.

The way we are facing the problem is first by enabling a really easy and simple form of sharding (that would solve most of the issues that a lot of big customers may face), and then by using an open source underlaying filesystem that can scale reasonably well.
New Censorship and Copyright Restrictions in UK Digital Economy Bill
Why we put an app in the Android Play Store using Swift
You mean, if the connection fails before completing? I don't think so (I believe that's a feature).

For automated transfers ("retry until done"), I use the lsyncd wrapper (which also watches the source files, so you don't need to poll for changes: it wakes up by inotify).
I'm using newLISP for command-line tools and scripting. I love that it's capable of doing bayes calculation, parallel and distributed processing support is built-in and it runs on embedded systems too.
I would like two passwords. One that unlocks the phone, and one that wipes the entire device immediately.
Even if Apple added that, it's trivially easy to pop the SIM. A phone without a network connection won't ping, so that won't help.

You have to think about it from the attacker's point of view. Anyone they sell it to is going to power it on to test it. Once it's powered on, it'll ping back.

Any black-market buyer knows to pop the SIM anyway before powering it on, and turn on the phone without any publicly-accessible Wifi access points available. But then they still have to restore it in order to see if it's iCloud locked, and the restore pings, too (it requires an Internet connection to Apple's servers to download a signed OS.)

What it comes down to is that stolen iPhones just aren't worth that much, since there's no easy way to remove an iCloud lock and the parts themselves aren't worth a lot. The good news is that far fewer iPhones are stolen these days (source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-thefts-down-thanks-to-app... ), and thieves are pretty quickly learning that.
VanMoof's Electrified S could be the Tesla of electric-assist bikes
People from Idaho would tell you, "It sucks here! Don't come! You'll hate it."

The reality is that this track takes you through one of the most beautiful parts of the US. Oregon and Idaho have an amazing array of climates and landscapes. You could be wakeboarding along an almost tropical Snake River in Hells Canyon in the morning and then hiking in the high alpine of the Wallowa Range later that day.

Truly my favorite part of the country and I'm glad that it's not overrun with tourists.
> the trip to Alaska seems unnecessary.

Staying in one easy 70°F place did not satisfy the project goal. From the meteorologist behind it (emphasis mine): "Imagine that you really like days where the high temperature is 70°F AND YOU WANTED TO PLAN A ROAD TRIP where the temperature always hovers around 70°F"

A 13,000 mile road trip is probably always unnecessary. Yet awesome! :-)

I think it's impressive he fit the Alaskan diversion into the problem constraints. (Also, I love road trips to Alaska.)
We considered rsync but were wondering if there were more specialized tools available. We figured that those who work in the scientific community would have a way to transfer their large data sets between institutions.
TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel.

Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These photographs are evidence that can be used to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes. In order to use these photos, however, investigators must be able to determine where the photos were taken.

The purpose of TraffickCam is to create a database of hotel room images that an investigator can efficiently search, in order to find other images that were taken in the same location as an image that is part of an investigation.

TraffickCam was created in 2015 by the Exchange Initiative. The Exchange Initiative is committed to combating commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Their mission is to provide resources, information and networking solutions to combat sex trafficking in the United States.

The Exchange Initiative was created by Nix Conference & Meeting Management to empower individuals and organizations with real resources to help end sex trafficking. Nix Conference & Meeting Management is one of just 13 U.S. companies and 43 worldwide honored as a 2014 Top Member by the internationally recognized Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct (TheCode.org) for their exceptional work to integrate child protection practices into their business.

figured it would be good to link exactly how this system works and the purpose since I was a little confused when I got to the home page
"but it's almost worse when you feel like you did well and then really have no clue" true, true Had that experience at a certain CIA backed entity in the west village. Really wished I could have gotten a post mortem.

Sometimes it is purely economic - I had an offer withdrawn back in 2009 and later had it reoffered when the company was in better times.

It sucks to have something go sour when the interview process has positive momentum
Everything is signed and most likely the parts that do the checking will stay encrypted.
Yeah, but when you show me a video of a man getting shot by the police and you want me to show some sympathy, he better not be obviously resisting arrest. It's the "clean hands" principle. I feel bad, but I feel bad that nobody's there teaching these guys how to deal with cops in a civil manner that keeps you alive. Instead, we're just stirring the pot.
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> Given a program written 99.9% in safe Rust, and a minimum set of unsafe stubs (trivial enough to prove) to access outside world (syscalls), you can assume you're safe against RCE. The holes are more likely in the supporting logic outside your program - kernel, dynamic loaders, network stacks, debug/trace interfaces, row hammer, etc.

Right - and, if the description for the project had put it in those terms, I'd have felt the project deserved more of my trust. My problem was precisely with the dismissive tone in which it says "It's written in Rust so I'm immune to all these things", while not actually backing that statement with a half-decent justification for why Rust would help.
You can come to Mexico City, with a min. 14ºC Daily mean temperature in winter and a max. 20ºC in summer. It's basically Spring all year long.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City#Climate
Go on and try harder, and please post a Show HN when you have something to show.
Psychopaths actually have reduced activity in the orbital cortex of the brain, which can be objectively measured. Not sure if it's a feature of all true psychopaths, but it's apparently quite common.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-a-psychopath-brain-looks...
"gun deaths" is clever semantics, but I'm not sure suicides are relevant here
hm, but it isn't built on those principles and not practiced in any consistency throughout the myriad of jurisdictions in the united states

the district attorneys and prosecutors have discretion on what facts [of the case] are relevant, have discretion on what crime to levy which influences the burden of proof, have discretion on what recommended sentence to pursue, and the judges have discretion on pursuing that sentence or not
You could also go the Huxley route and get injected with LSD on your deathbed.
It is a cultural thing. In some countries the horn is ground up and used for (pseudo)medical purposes.
You're the one who is claiming there are "official" Haskell tools, so back up your claim. What makes them "official"?
Facebook Auto-Censors Mark Twain Quote, Even in Private Messages (try it!)
Here is one of the busier regions of Malmö Centrum[1].

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/eTfDuMRVDP52
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I would see this institutionalizing problems we already have were high dollar lawyering from wealthy citizens results in less convictions.

This just adds financial disincentive for pursuing highly paid individuals. (Doctors, lawyers, CEOs...) Whereas the state could afford the risk to go after lesser paid citizens.

Now the wealthy citizens wouldn't even need to lawyer up.
Does any of this avoid the pitfall of a stingray device[1]? Is there any way to prevent 2G?

[1] https://epic.org/foia/fbi/stingray/
Don't people travel? I have lived all over the country and currently love living in San Diego because I can visit areas of the country enjoying the seasons for a week at a time. A week of raking leaves, a week of shoveling and scraping windows. And even in LA, the mountains are less than an hour dive away. They can experience all 4 seasons in less than an hour drive.
I know two guys who surf on Lake Michigan and Superior. They mostly go in the late Fall/early Winter because the waves are bigger, but the water is absolutely freezing.
Your neighbour from the Maritimes here it was 10C (50F) here yesterday it's 17C (63F) right now. I don't mind cool but I don't like it with rain.

I agree 21C (70F), dry, summer sun strength, no wind that's perfect.
Wow, thanks for the script. Surprising in its simplicity. I would have thought this use-case was popular enough to warrant specialized tools etc. Especially in the scientific community where they transfer large files.
one question.

i'm a total noob in my 3rd year CS undergrad.

I've just started prep to crack companies like Amazon.

Any pointers or tips to get started?
Favorite part about this is June, July, August and September in Colorado. Summertime in the Rockies! Any startups needing an excuse to get away, come visit us :)
> African Americans are significantly more likely to be involved in all crimes - according to arrest and conviction data.

And according to studies in criminal behavior, African Americans are not any more likely to be committing crimes than other races. They're just more likely to be arrested by police and convicted for behavior than other races. If you don't believe me, you can look into marijuana use and possession arrests between the different races.
A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in San Fransisco, and it was a warm, sunny day (to my friend's surprise). We were hanging out at a beach when we see a guy in a speedo walk by, towards the water. Before anyone could warn him, he jumped in the water, immediately jumped out, then ran back to the parking lot.

My guess is he was European - people from the West coast would know not to go in the water, and American men rarely wear speedos. I imagine the concept of being at the beach on a warm sunny day, but the water is too cold to enter, was completely unknown to him.
Summary: Crowdsourced pictures of interiors of hotel rooms, geolocated. When traffickers post pictures from hotels, similar interiors can be detected and reverse-geolocated to narrow down investigations.
Thanks for the conversion. Whoah, that's cold.
We transfer large files containing raw radar data, and moderate sized files contains databases of target movements and track information.

We use rsync.

When I worked for the local university we had to transfer data between machines to run experimental parallel programs on so-called "big data."

We used rsync.
Didn't some creditor hold-out hedge-funds fare better than those who initially settled for pennies on the dollar?

What was the resolution to that?
Did you miss the part where he said San Diego?
right, and lets stop saying "gun deaths" and trick people into thinking we mean "murders." There are twice as many suicides as homicides in this country, but we're only about average in per-capita suicide compared to the world.

We do have more murders than other rich countries, including more murders with guns. But we also have more per capita murders with just about any weapon, as well as more per capita violence of all kinds.

We have a violence problem, sure. We kind of always have had a violence problem, we've always been a violent people. I'm not shrugging it off, it's just a fact.

It's worth remembering, though, that the murder rate is at a historic low. A 40 year low.
I wonder if people will think this one came first because of the '2'.
Ironically though the name rust is from the species of fungi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(fungus)
How we put an app in the Android Play Store using Swift
Whereas ivory doesn't have alternatives?
Farming isn't really possible.
It's simple enough that it's the sort of thing I type out in 30 seconds and there it is. No need for specialist tools - finding the tool, remembering how to use it, working out the right parameters ...

Easier, faster, and more flexible just to write the script. It's what I do.
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They would have timed out if they lost connection, my best bet is that someone viewed the game via their cellphone and then didn't close the tab. Not sure, but they're alive :/
Facebook 'hack' victim exposes passport scam
It's also impossible for us to trust them given NSL's means they can't honest tell us the trusth if "we just go talk to them".
> I'm sorry if this analysis is unpleasant and welcome criticism of why it could be wrong.

Not so much wrong as irrelevant to the main issue of concern. The issue isn't so much whether black people are more likely to be killed by cops, but whether they are more likely to be wrongfully killed by cops (and secondarily, whether absent activism by BLM, etc., there is less accountability for such wrongful killings. [0])

Unfortunately, actually analyzing this question is messy, because you can't grab quick-and-easy figures for it, and the fundamental base facts -- whether individual shootings are wrongful -- are often contested.

The easy to analyze questions are poor proxies for the question of interest.

[0] Actually, accountability is the primary reason for BLM existing, and its not limited to police-involved killings (in fact, the triggering incident was the Trayvon Martin killing, which was not a police-involved killings, its just that the first incidents BLM was noted for responding to after it got going were police-involved, which set the perception that BLM was primarily about police shootings.)
We use SolrCloud cluster where I work. The initial setup is rather daunting and involves reading up on Zookeeper, and Solr terminology on Collections, Cores, Shards and Nodes. But once the reading is done, clustering is effortless to execute. Solr 5 and 6 have a robust REST API for managing Collections.

The new SQL / Parallel Streaming has also made querying multiple collections a cinch.
Get the book, "Cracking The Coding Interview." It was the most valuable resource for me in preparing for technical interviews near the end of my time in undergrad.
I disagree with you on both counts. Cathedral development is not about source availability (Wall uses emacs and GCC as an example of Cathedralism for heavens sakes), it's about source modibility. Theoretically two different projects under the same license could have different approaches. Very few high level architectural decisions are made by the Linux maintainers (unless they are coding it), they're there to say, "yes" or "no". Some of the most important features in Linux, cgroups, namespaces, etc, came from outside the maintainer team. By comparison, NetBSD has a highly top-down approach. The source might be readily available, but good luck landing a big patch.
> nobody's there teaching these guys how to deal with cops in a civil manner that keeps you alive

Blaming the victim? Really?

That's what the protest in Dallas was about. That Philando Castile, an African american, was politely complying with police and was still shot and killed in his car with his fiance and her daughter.
Kinda wanted them to be that way, so the other tanks can avoid them a bit easier, the fun part is running around with no ammo :D
Ahh ok thats good to hear. Have you considered using multipath transport protocols with something like rsync? I am curious if it could benefit this situation. MPTCP sounds like an interesting protocol if you control both hosts. https://www.multipath-tcp.org/
Or stay in Santa Barbara pretty much year-round.
How can we improve retention?
This. Also, despite the general hatred of Oracle, something else that is hard to admit is they've managed Java a lot better than Sun has done. The people building Java now are long-term team members who clearly weren't recognised and elevated by Sun, but who have been by Oracle.

Love 'em or hate 'em, Oracle didn't turn into a factory farm of cash cows by being entirely incompetent.
You know, since lotteries are run by states, could they not somehow require as a stipulation of taking the prize winners must also simultaneously and compulsorily have to take financial planning education courses at an additional 25% penalty for not attending, for winnings over double median household income? Including lessons on rebuffing close and distant relatives.