skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's always painful to watch HN discuss race.

The majority of us will consider crossing the street to avoid an oncoming $category_of_person. Maybe it's black men, maybe it's police, maybe it's beggars, maybe it's missionaries, maybe it is visibly agitated men of any color, etc.

Maybe you feel like you've failed a bit every time it happens. Maybe your personality changes over time and at some point you taught yourself to abstain from such behavior. But, feelings are harder to change than behavior...

When I pass my own problematic $category_of_person on the street (on the same side, now!), I spend a few seconds with no other topic on my mind than that person.

It is because deep down, some part of me still sees that person as a threat, like a cliff or a fire or a bear.

This is terrible, I know. Look, I'm trying to explain racism. Gimmie a minute...

My mother taught me, before I was old enough to know better, to avoid some categories of people. To fear them, for my safety.

I can, do, and will continue to overcome those crappy cards I was dealt.

But don't put a badge on my chest and a gun on my hip and tell me to go talk to various categories of people in inherently heated situations and expect that evil that has been a part of me since before I can remember to never manifest itself in a statistically significant fashion. That's stupid. Police officer is not the job for me. Duh! See above!

What I'm getting at is that my own combination of upbringing and later enlightenment is not uncommon. (Said differently: it's not uncommon for a person to be less racist than their parents were, right?) And therefor some meaningful percentage of good cops who don't consider themselves racist are, in fact, racist in a statistically significant way. Stress = gunfire.

...So... can we be done resisting the Black Lives Matter meme? Please? Y'all look ignorant when you do that. :)

p.s. the fear when walking thing dissipates immediately if a conversation happens, etc. It's not that big of a deal, right? We'll all have a good laugh about it one day when I am caught off guard and mugged by a white girl... Anyway, I'm sorry. I try.
It wasn't transmitting a proper cell signal, it was transmitting something that they could detect.

I would assume that you would profile phones (of a certain make and model) and based on the return signal identify them.
This was used in the early days of in places where there wasn't high cellphone density to begin with.
The copy/paste function was already there in the Beeb and the Electron.
Meh, I never prepared for any interviews and I'm gainfully employed. Granted, I don't apply to companies who are known to give whiteboard challenges I have to prep for.
If you have a working implementation and have yielded moderate results, then you have earned "success".

In this case I get the feeling you want to use a different set of technologies to either improve performance or ease extensibility.

How much did you screw up? 7/10. You have found that node.js and mongodb are not the most mature technologies and would likely find python + sql (mssql, sqlite, postgresql, whatever) ... nicer.
What's daunting about running Zookeeper?

Most of the problems that I have had are with the ZK clients and not the server. As long as you follow the operational documentation (there are a few basic rules) it hums along nicely. We have a few clusters with Kafka and have a decent process in Chef:

https://github.com/bloomberg/zookeeper-cookbook
I think the bigger bias at play is the just-world fallacy. Employers assume that everyone who is unemployed must be unemployed justly because something is wrong with them (e.g. they're incompetent, slackers, toxic, etc.). That's the problem my friend had: the company that eventually hired him admitted they spent a long time trying to figure out what was wrong with him, even though they liked him.
Fascinating. It shows the importance of having a consistent blood sugar level, especially when we are around expensive food choices. At the same time, it seems that we could use fasting (resulting in a low blood glucose level) as a motivation to work hard if we know that work will get us more food.
I wonder if there is a similar world database.
On Big Island, Hawaii you can probably find 70-degree weather somewhere anytime of year.
If you outlaw drone bombs, then only outlaws will have drone bombs.
> Me, I kinda wish we wrote URLs as http://com.example.host.invalid/path/to/resource.

The UK's predecessor to the DNS worked this way (a "big endian" hierarchy). Sorry I can't remember the network name; if I remember it was rooted in gb.
Have you looked into Ansible?
Driving this far the temperature might become 71.
Thanks to global warming you can soon drive anywhere you want in 90 degrees.
Had a similar argument about forgetting the null terminator.
So police killing a higher proportion of unarmed blacks vs unarmed whites is okay because, um, reasons.
Although incredibly off topic (the Cats = upvotes meme isn't even true on Reddit), a submission title's phrasing is not the primary cause of a HN story's success/failure. (and the proposed Show HN would make me raise an eyebrow in thinking the post is linkbait and cause me to flag it)
Not all officer-on-officer shootings are accidental (the non-accidental ones are often, as is sometimes the case for officer-on-civilian shootings, based on mistaken perceptions of the officer doing the shooting, but still deliberate shootings.)

See, e.g., https://www.hks.harvard.edu/criminaljustice-backup/publicati...
Here's how startups are outsmarting Siri and Alexa
It's really different for everyone. So I'll put this out as a word of caution: my response to that one accidental cigarette has been (twice) that cravings increase over the next couple of weeks, then I was having one random shitty night, and feeling all "fuck everything", bought a pack at the night store, and was back at square zero.

I'm glad it works like this for you, though :)
The first question to ask here is if the use of Lethal Force was justified?

> "In the United States, the use of deadly force is often granted to law enforcement officers when the person or people in question are believed to be an immediate danger to people around them. For example, an armed man flaunting a firearm in a shopping mall without regard to the safety of those around him, and refusing or being unwilling to negotiate, would warrant usage of deadly force, as a means to protect others." [1]

At face value of the reading above, I believe the decision to use Lethal Force was justified.

Once agreeing on the above (and not everyone may, just forwarding my own logic), then the fact that in this instance a Robot/Bomb/Robot Bomb is an unimportant implementation detail.

Some people want to argue that "Bomb Bots" make applying lethal force "easier" but I haven't seen convincing evidence to support that claim. As far as I can tell, applying an explosive to a robot and remotely detonating has a niche application but in general is not easier than applying a marksman and a sniper rifle.

But again, if we agree that the why applied to the decision is acceptable, then I am not terribly interested in the how so long as there is no collateral damage (as there wasn't in this case).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_force
Here's the bug request:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=602985

Interestingly, HLS works fine on Chrome for Android.
what do i do if im a terrible person to work with? its something i really struggle with.
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By "white-list" I mean to include code-signing, which has been shown not to impede much of anything, honestly.

OS X's half-white-list mode of refusing to run unsigned code unless you invoke it from the right-click menu seems to be incredibly effective.

Between code-signing and sand-boxing, I see virus scanners as failed legacies of the past. They have stopped little, and cost everyone greatly.
97% != unanimous

100% = unanimous

I do wish people would learn what words actually mean, before using them.
Cultural/Male honor is huge in LatAm
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Then most anything is not necessary.

In theory, we could replace restaurants and kitchens with Soylent. I wouldn't want to do that, because food tastes good and I like having that option.

On the list of things that are useful, Uber is very high.
A Seedstars Special and Afrika's Supercomputer
Google to experiment with quantum-computing resistant cryptography
How much empathy do you have for the hundreds of people dying in car crashes each day? Not much, or you'd be crippled. It is ridiculous to look at low empathy for strangers and declare no empathy for anyone. So you don't even reach the prerequisite that would let you start to talk about the manifestations of sociopathy.
Thank you for your last comment :)

I'm not sure about how much time is lost for preparation to the interview in the general case (however I saw people recommending whole books in other comments) but the real issue is that even one day lost to preparing for something that you shouldn't prepare for is way too much!

I don't agree in comparing the interview preparation with the work for the Master's degree because, although both will lead somewhere if successful (to a Job offer or to a Master), for the Master you will learn something that is useful or you will advance as a human being (education) while, the preparation for the interview is just that: Preparing for an interview! Why should anybody waste his time like that?

I'm not really sure that people that are good at interviews are also good at producing work - this depends on various factors (i.e the interview process - I remember to my horror some legendary interview questions of the type "why is a manhole round"). I believe that such big companies could invent various other, much better methods to hire their stuff. For example after the candidate successfully passes a quick interview with some technical questions (but without any needed preparation) hire them temporarily for some months and evaluate them at the end.
Should have read White Fang by Jack London instead.
Why a former olympic athlete wants to kill your password
Has anyone tried it on some real-world codebases? How about kernel code? It would be very exciting to improve real-world crash safety and security by e.g. converting popular drivers quickly and automatically, followed by a manual pass applying safer Rust semantics.
If you re-read the comment, you'll see that I didn't choose anyone, and only referred to current issues. You know, these "facts" that you're eluding to that are absent from the conversation.

What is interesting is that you're choosing to deflect by accusing me of not knowing the "facts", even after you admitted to not knowing them (which qualifies as psychological projection). Perhaps you'd like to share these "facts" that justify your racially-based victim blaming instead?
This is gold
I grew up in Edmonton and you have to be honest, -35C is an extreme temperature that is only rarely reached. Almost every winter gets to -20C or -25C but -35C can happen but isn't an every winter let alone every day occurrence.

And anyways... it's a dry cold :-) Winters here in southern Ontario are fairly mild but they feel worse to me than where I grew up. A damp -10C is just awful, so hard to get rid of the cold feeling everywhere.
That's a shame. When someone sails through something I gave them, I usually kick myself for giving them a crappy or cliched problem and assume they've probably solved it previously. In that situation I absolutely am trying to figure out if they at least understand the answer so I'm looking for them to talk through, etc.

Coding on the board is a broken process anyway (just one I rarely have the influence to redefine wholly) but coding on the board as a "closed" interview question is downright stupid. You learn absolutely nothing relevant about the candidate, and they learn absolutely nothing about you. I'm sorry to find out that was the bulk of your experience.

FWIW, once you get enough experience to pick and choose, that would be a bad smell for me interviewing at a company. If I feel like there's no rapport and I'm just getting grilled in an interview past the initial tech screen, I will and have stopped the process myself. Life's too short to be a cog.
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what i was looking for
Because the topic doesn't belong in a news aggregator about technology, science and business. My heart is near the victims and you can show them respect in other meaningful ways.
Banned books. The Streisand effect. Prohibition (alcohol consumption went down after the 21st Amendment). Private collections of stolen/conflict artwork (we know they exist mostly because of estate sales). Exotic pets, esp. illegal exotic pets (see Zanesville, Ohio). Adam & Eve.
"any study based on american society at large that DOESN'T find a bias...must be so off you'd be more likely to disregard the evidence collected rather than believe the study/conclusion"

sounds like bias.
I loved my CPC6128 so much. By age 7 I'd hacked my sister's ghetto blaster so we could feed it in to the Amstrad as a tape drive.

I've actually been considering getting one for my kids to play with - the simplicity of having basic right there and having physical disks gives a great way to explore what's really going on.
No parents (Offensive) reaction
I was once mugged for a crappy Nokia feature phone. I had a prepaid sim for a long time. Very hard to replace (in Hungary) without loosing the phone number. I managed to convince my muggers to let me take the SIM.

Ironically they got caught and I got the phone back.
SAP R/3 ships with 20.000 tables. http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/aix/tipstechniques/systemsmanag...
Contract or start your own business.
I personally find California weather unbearably arid. When I travel for work etc. I miss the lush leafy vegetation and throbbing humid summer of my great lakes basin home...
> What about using the proportion of black assailants as reported by the victims? Would that be relatively free of bias?

No. There is considerable history of victims not only misidentifying the perpetrator, but even inventing the offense to smear someone because of racial bias, personal animus, or other reasons. To the extent that there is a systematic racial bias throughout society, you'd expect it to be reflected in such reports.
Thanks, we updated the link to the newer version.
My understanding has always been that elastic search is tremendously more consistent with streaming data while Solr has long pauses for the indexes to keep up. That was based on a detailed post by Loggly some years ago though.
Deanonymizing Bitcoin Part 2: CoinJoins and the Silk Road
Not sure if you're serious? The fitness band doesn't store your SSH keys, but with a heartbeat sensor, GPS and an accelerometer it allows unprecedented insights in your daily life (your heartbeat accelerated inside the maternity ward? Just imagine the datamining possibilities). We are dealing with extremely private data here, and a consumer device should be protected accordingly.
The Most Beautiful Death
https://xkcd.com/538/

Well, at least it prevents the thieves from doing more damage if it's stolen.
Needs to be a loop so you can just keep driving the route till you die.
You could take the Bromium approach and just sandbox applications entirely in virtual containers that self destruct.

https://www.bromium.com

Totally poor sales program but great way to boost security and I'd wager more effective than antivirus.
"Finding your tribe and organizing does"

Sounds racist. Unless you're not white.
Why does this guy hates cats so much?
>>I found none of them cared whether I am thinking on my feet for a solution or not.

There are section of people among programmers who give away tens of hours of time per week on sites of the likes you mentioned, these people have no other hobbies, hardly do any other productive or creative work, have no real social circle and generally spend all the time of their life in 'karma hunger' kind of a pursuit for points in solving some thousand people like themselves already solved.

Now they have to justify all mega massive wastage of time by at least making it look some kind of an intellectually superior activity which other people are incapable of. They might as well fail a few people in the interviews to get some consolation for that kind of wastage of time.

Everytime I see people spending scores of time on these leetcode kind of sites, I'm reminded of exams in India, where students just sit down and mind numbingly practice several years of question papers in hopes of finding similar questions or sometimes the same questions with minor modifications in exams. Finally you get students who barely know anything at all but pass the exams with high marks.
> The state of Venezuela could not in any way be justly called representative of the people of Venezuela. [snip] At the very least, no solution that involves negotiation between Maduro's dictatorship and their international creditors is a just representation of the interests of the people.

Very, very true.

Unfortunately, there's this group of thugs with guns who run Venezuela, and who aren't going to go away even though the people of Venezuela would like them to. Given that the Maduro "government" de facto exists, and refuses to quit, what should be done?

> Democratic economic self-determination is alternative possibility.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean letting the people of Venezuela vote on what should be done to rescue their economy? If so, you aren't going to get that, because step one of what needs done is getting the country out of the hands of Maduro and his crew, and Maduro isn't going to let anyone vote on whether that happens (or anything else about the management of the economy).

So far as I can see, any path forward is going to have to coerce Maduro into doing something that is anathema to his ideology. If you've got an alternative that works with the existence of Maduro, I'd love to hear it.
Assuming you're serious, there are a number of books out there about working with people with unfortunate personalities. I've generally found those kinds of books more instructive towards my own behavior than books that claim to fix your own personality. Sometimes you need perspective more than instructions.

My experience (both first and third-hand) is that being terrible to work/play/exist around often comes from not realizing what being around you feels like from the other side. Working with an asshole will go some ways towards fixing that. In the meantime, learning how to deal with them will make you recognize your own habits and maybe find ways to mitigate or fix them.

You can also find personality or career coaches, etc. They're just a bit pricy.
Ok, fair enough, the range is more than 68-72, but still pretty tight as far as places on earth go:

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/California/Places/san...
The shooter was holed-up and claimed to have explosives elsewhere that he would remotely detonate.[1] The robot was controlled by a human. There was no autonomous decision-making involved. Morally, what the Dallas PD did is no different than sniping the guy or tossing a grenade at him. In short, this article is almost all FUD.

1. http://www.ktxs.com/news/national/dallas-pd-shooting-suspect...
When a nation defaults it becomes the IMF/World Bank's bitch. "Austerity" is imposed, well-connected foreign interests get to run roughshod, and that nation is systematically (oh I mean coincidentally) looted. If you ever needed proof that these loans were designed to accomplish precisely that (a way for lenders to extract wealth from those nations), look no further than the fact that here you have an article that seems to be COMPLAINING about how Venezuela is NOT defaulting.
Interesting and valid points. I have some things to add.

Disclaimer first: I'm a technical interview coach. We run http://InterviewKickstart.com, which provides structured and intense group programs for early and mid-career software engineers, with the sole purpose of preparing for technical interviews.

In an ideal world, brushing up is all what it should take before going into interviews. Practicing Software Engineers shouldn't need to spend months working through books and courses. Interviewers should be thoughtful enough to interview for the thought process and experience, more than DS and Algos.

Trouble is:

* Many interviewers are not that thoughtful. Even for the most well-meaning ones, it takes a few interviews to truly be good at judging someone in those 30 to 60 minutes. If a candidate is caught into the cross-hairs of an interviewer's learning curve, that candidate is not going to get a fair evaluation. Preparation helps in that situation.

* With the plethora of prep material available for past several years, the bar for interviewing has just moved higher and higher at good companies. If you look at G and F (and some others), there is no way you can get away with just knowing the basics of trees and binary searches. It just takes time.

e.g. If they ask you to merge sorted arrays and you don't know that Heap sort is the best way to do it, you've lost the interview no matter how clear your thought process is. Not because the interviewer is not watchful. But because your competition has solved it with Heap Sort. So even if both of you demonstrated a clear thought process, the other person gets the job, because s/he is more prepared.

* It takes a certain level of life-confidence to just go to an interview with what you know and take the rest head-on. Many people don't have that kind of confidence. Many many engineers are introverts, and to borrow an analogy from sales, they are artists, not hunters. They are equally ambitious as hunters, but their confidence comes from systematic, extensive, honest preparation, and not from experience thinking on the feet. That prep easily takes months, especially when they are doing it part-time.

* Most CS colleges do not actually prepare their students for interviews. Some top ones do, but a large majority of them are not calibrated to churning out students capable of handling interviews at top tech companies. If you went to one of those colleges, and want to try for better companies, you have to prepare explicitly and separately. You have to re-learn CS with a level of specificity, intensity and extensiveness that your school never provided. Yes, you only have to do it once, but that one time, it may take many months.