skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He very clearly expressed it as an opinion. HN as a community seems more aware and mindful of mental health and illness issues (which is good!), but we need to be careful to not let over-sensitivity prevent rational discourse.

Is using the sociopath label premature or unsubstantiated? Possibly, I know I'm not qualified to assess that, but he does support his reasoning, even if it's wrong. If he had said, "Based on my understanding of what a sociopath is, and the facts as I understand them from Harry Markopolos' book, "No One Would Listen", I think Madoff is a borderline sociopath at least, and possibly an outright sociopath." would you have taken as much offense? Does that sentence not express a useful point of view with respect to the argument that Madoff is different than Holmes?

It's tricky, because our good-intentioned attempts to improve discourse can actually have the effect of stifling discourse when this tendency progresses farther. There are many topics that fall under race and sex that it's hard to rationally discuss because people view the asking of the question itself as insensitive. For example, try posing a question about advantages of a population (race, sex, insular group) based on genetics in a submission here that's related in some way, and you might find you've been down voted and possibly called racist or sexist (likely in more words but to the same effect) prior to anyone actually paying attention to the question you're really trying to ask, and whether it has merit. It's hard for people to stay rational when someone questions the foundations upon which we build a lot of our beliefs (such as people are born equal).

I find a good rule-of-thumb for me in situations where I feel the need to call out the method in which someone raised a point, but not necessarily the point itself, is to pose it as a question and ask whether the method they chose really helped or hindered their point, and to try to do so in a way that's not condescending (which I hope you don't take this comment as, it's surely not intended that way). For example:

"Is the label sociopath really appropriate, and do you think it was needed to make your point?"

In this case, I think scott_s does think it's appropriate (that was made clear), and because of that is was his point. Now, if the original comment was something like "You can't compare Madoff to Holmes, he's in a different category because he's a sociopath." then I would think differently, as there's little useful substance to that comment and it's not really substantiated.

Okay, got that off my chest. Feel free to ignore as you see fit... :)
It's also one hell of a loaded term with things like Heavens Gate and Jim Jones having existed. To my knowledge, Facebook has yet to cause a mass suicide by people worshiping Zuckerberg.
Unarmed doesn't even really help here. Cops in certain areas have serious problems with ham sandwiching suspects.
I applaud that. For myself as a white man, I became much more personally interested in statistics like this when my family became multi-colored.
Pleaserun generates startup scripts
First, it's free.
One general maxim I've heard is that for every 50+ cold applications (ie - non-recruiter or internal contact) you send off... you'll get one interview out of it.

Not a job. Just an interview.

Seems pretty accurate in my experience - which is why I almost always aim to use recruiters.
Additional interesting thoughts on sulfer and health in this Weston Price Foundation article:

http://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/...
Except that farming ivory is no where near to being economically or environmentally viable. It's not even within the realm of possibility.

If you've got evidence to the contrary I'd love to see it.
I looked for (but did not find) the researcher's definition of "armed." E.g. is that any weapon, such as a knife, club, tire iron, etc? Or just a firearm?

One thing to understand is that police are trained to take defensive action against an aggressive individual who is within a certain distance. Within that circle, an unarmed individual can reach and overpower an officer before he can draw his weapon. So even if you are unarmed, if are acting aggressively and you approach an officer you are likely to get shot or at least tased/pepper sprayed. If you ignore an order to stop where you are and put your hands up, and you continue to approach you are likely to get shot.

Now, at least on the surface this does not appear to be exactly the situation in the recent Minnesota case. But we only know what's in the media, and the media likes to sensationalize and report half the story.

That said, if a cop has his weapon drawn on you, do not move. Do not twitch. Keep both hands in view. Do not do anything that you are not explicitly asked to do.
Kevin Loria and the Business Insider folks were on it before WSJ and deserve a shout-out (not to take away from WSJ who busted it wide open)

http://www.businessinsider.com/science-of-elizabeth-holmes-t...

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/scientist-skeptical-thrano...
Some of the comments here are pointing out the questions about data quality etc. that affect a study like this. And those are real concerns, and obviously analytical studies could only be improved if they had better data to work with.

But let's not make the mistake of looking at this study only in isolation. It is a recent addition to a large collection of observations and evidence that support a theory that personal racial bias affects American policing.

The evidence includes other studies, criminal investigations, criminal cases, federal investigations and reform agreements with police departments like Cleveland and Seattle, videos and photos of violent police encounters, and of course decades of stories and statements from minority communities about how the police treats them.

The last one is important because it gets at trust, which is the heart of the issue. Minority communities, many of them, do not trust the police to protect them in the same way they protect whiter/richer communities, and they have stories that explain why not.

If you are depending solely on data-driven studies to inform your opinion on racial bias in policing, then you're implicitly saying that you distrust or reject what minority people and communities say. Why is that? It's worth thinking about IMO.

Which brings us back to the data. Why is it so lacking? You can't answer that question without coming back around to bias, because until recently, it was the police forces themselves who supplied the data, or not, or only part of the data. So discounting the bias reported in this study because of data problems is getting toward begging the question, logically speaking.

The essential question, when it comes to whether you agree that racial bias affects policing, is: what level of evidence will convince you?
Show HN: I was in a Qualcomm commercial about the future
Really excited to share this with my fellow HNers.

I was asked to talk about what I see as the future, speaking specifically about ambient intelligence, cybernetics, and adaptive systems.

Unscripted, unrehearsed, and that mountain was cold as heck. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Evn4phoM00
Britain’s Completely Batshit Week Since Brexit, Explained for Americans
40% drop in GDP is huge, you're right. 40% drop in open job listings isn't huge, because it's not the same as overall employment. I'm quite sure we've had drops like that before, although I don't have any references at the moment to back it up.

Edit: if the author has only been in the business a couple of years, he may not be aware of the historical boom/bust nature of it - yet.
Putin Is Literally Breaking the Internet
Exactly, _Corrode_ makes C code _rusty_!
I was actually the author of this article, and am about to update it to address some of the criticisms. We have two machines locked down to only certain functions, down to only certain IP addresses even being allowed to communicate with the machines, and still managed to execute this - it did prompt Allow/Deny windows, but I find that intellectually different than a lack of password prompt.

I have dug through security preferences extensively and can't see what setting could be changed or updated to disallow this function.

I've updated the article to address and respond to some of the criticisms and feedback.
Haskell is very good at writing correct parsers easily—that's one thing. This is part of the reason it was chosen as an early perl6 test bed via pugs. Rust is getting there (I'm a big fan of the lalrpop library) but the ecosystem is no where near as mature as Haskell's for feature-complete libraries. The pace of development of the rust ecosystem is mind-boggling, though—I never guessed that rust would have taken off in popularity as much as it has.
Breaking up with JavaScript frameworks
Have you been to the Carousel of Progress in Walt Disney World? Anyone who has knows that the Elderly and Virtual Reality don't mix.
Alex Gibney on Stuxnet Film Zero Days: 'We Need Laws for Cyberweapons'
Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping “To Be”
Agree, which is why it's relatively straightforward to look at this link http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Best I can tell, all software related sectors still hiring
i just bought it. only four bucks for the kindle edition. here's a link, for anybody else who might be interested.

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-1955-2011-Bloomberg-Busine...
No actually phasing out of Python 2 has already begun.

Several libs today are Python 3 only. Many, many more are not going to pay the cost of supporting Python2 and drop it in next few years.

Unless you are retiring next couple years or live with head in sand, any new code you write should either by python2-3 compatible (it's not hard at all, do it all day every day) or Python 3 only.
That's what is happening no with poaching in any case.

Rhinoceros horns actually grow back though, if the animal isn't killed of course. Apparently wild ones have to be de-horned every year or every other year so it must take a few years for them to grow a reasonable horn.

Also rhinoceros meat is edible, so that's always something that can be done if it's more profitable than waiting for a new horn to grow.
It's become politically unacceptable for any African-American men to be killed by police. Given that the US is a violent country with a lot of guns and aggressive police, and African-Americans are a marginalized, systemically disadvantaged underclass, this is a recipe to bring a racially divided nation to the brink of civil conflict.

The Dallas attack on police, carried out by a trained soldier, looks right out of a textbook on guerilla war. I think it would be quite easy for organized paramilitary groups to make many US cities ungovernable, particularly with so many veterans around.

The Black Lives Matter movement makes more sense through the lens of other ethnic separatist movements, such as Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland. It might sound shocking, but if they regard any white law enforcement or government as illegitimate, their demands seem to imply separatism and African-American nationalism, in the vein of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X.
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AKA lowest hanging fruit first.

Never a bad idea
I imagine yours is not an uncommon belief, that the main problem is that young black men are insufficiently compliant. However, I find it almost unfathomable that 'once you cut through everything else' that that is the root of the problem. Really it even resembles a baiting sort of comment.
I guess I'm thinking about Lockheed Martin and EMC2. They're both taking taxpayer money for discredited approaches (mirror and cusp confinement, respectively).
We've been using WiFi lightbulbs. Even easier. Of course, I don't trust them on my real WiFi network (they are from China) so I set up a separate network just for them. The advantage is they're easy to talk to and have a great range.
For every plus there is a minus:

A review of methionine dependency and the role of methionine restriction in cancer growth control and life-span extension

http://www.cancertreatmentreviews.com/article/S0305-7372(12)...

Methionine is an essential amino acid with many key roles in mammalian metabolism such as protein synthesis, methylation of DNA and polyamine synthesis. Restriction of methionine may be an important strategy in cancer growth control particularly in cancers that exhibit dependence on methionine for survival and proliferation. Methionine dependence in cancer may be due to one or a combination of deletions, polymorphisms or alterations in expression of genes in the methionine de novo and salvage pathways. Cancer cells with these defects are unable to regenerate methionine via these pathways. Defects in the metabolism of folate may also contribute to the methionine dependence phenotype in cancer. Selective killing of methionine dependent cancer cells in co-culture with normal cells has been demonstrated using culture media deficient in methionine. Several animal studies utilizing a methionine restricted diet have reported inhibition of cancer growth and extension of a healthy life-span. In humans, vegan diets, which can be low in methionine, may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy in cancer growth control. The development of methioninase which depletes circulating levels of methionine may be another useful strategy in limiting cancer growth. The application of nutritional methionine restriction and methioninase in combination with chemotherapeutic regimens is the current focus of clinical studies.
is this bad because the police is becoming more like the military? since the military/cia robot bomb suspects on the daily.
Wonder if it got bumped on accident on a recent update. My system has been modified to allow system access, so its less surprising (although still a flaw). But we did it on machines by people that are probably TOTALLY unaware of those 10.11 changes and wouldn't have the know how to modify something like that, and it still worked on their machines.
"Perhaps a group of men working for years in a women dominated profession might explore a men’s leadership program."

Do such groups actually exist? I could see that maybe in the medical field, or in the media industry. But are there such initiatives?
Sometimes you can just tell that a project still stay fringe just by how hard it is to get to the sourceocde :(
Why doesn't that happen when suspects confront parking enforcement? Because it's pointless: parking enforcers aren't armed. If stopped by clearly marked traffic compliance officers who aren't armed, how likely is it that a suspect will fire a weapon at them?

Even when faced with self-preservation concern, suspects are already extremely unlikely to fire on police.
There are a lot of stopped tanks. I wonder if they lost their connection or if they are still reading the instructions. (I shot them anyway...)
Reminds me of this movie:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(2004_film)
Does it automatically truncate elephantine links?

Murit is beautifully truncated!
Facebook will start testing offline videos in India
"Shame on him who thinks ill of it." It's almost as if the authors anticipated the need to administer percussive therapy, Buzz Aldrin style, to trolls of the far-distant future.
It's on my ToDo list to write a blog post about the technical problem itself :) Not only the replacement of the assets pipeline but also what we did before.
Up next, domestic metadata drone strikes. Empire's largess abroad is bound to find new outlets at home, preferably through more programs like 1033.
XMPP has the jingle extension for audio and video calls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_(protocol)

I have successfully used this for voice calls between the chat clients Gajim/Pidgin (I do not remember which) and Google Talk (the now-discontinued XMPP client by Google). I have also done video calls between two Nokia N900 phones, to see if it works. Voice and video via XMPP has worked since approximately 2009 and is just neglected by the companies for business reasons.
It was an unsubstantive and distracting comment that could only lead to yet another argument about Terry, as indeed it did.
Try networking more. Go to meetups and tech events, tell them you're in the market, build relationships and all that will surely be more effective than blasting out resumes and cover letters.
there's a country founded on black separatism: liberia. how's that going for them?
See also Aeron[1] which is basically a networked superset of the Disruptor, featuring (IIRC) a just-as-fast machine-local implementation. Made by some of the same people as the LMAX Disruptor. It's not quite ready for general use AFAICT, but it's quickly getting there...

There's also a really informative presentation[2] by Martin Thompson on some of the ideas that they're using to get really low latency and high throughput.

[1] https://github.com/real-logic/Aeron

[2] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/aeron-messaging
It's not that bad to read. The documentation alone makes it easy to work on. This was dropped in the /r/rust thread:
http://jamey.thesharps.us/2016/07/translating-c-to-rust-and-...

He lays it out fairly well for people to help out.
Neural Variational Inference: Classical Theory
For me it's very simple as I only use them for Git repos. We use Jira and other tools for other needs.

Github - I use it for public projects because, it's the most popular site so larger pool of people.

Gitlab - It's free to put your private repos here so, this is where I store all my infrastructure code.
Disclaimer - This is all gut feeling and anecdotal evidence so feel free to ignore.

I suspect that jobs being posted to smaller niche job boards (such as Authentic Jobs, which I hadn't heard of until this post) is down overall, but this doesn't reflect the state of job availability.

I believe larger job sites are having enough of a network effect that these boards are becoming less relevant. Most tech job seekers I talk to are going one of four routes.

1) LinkedIn (Facebook for job seekers)

2) Indeed (since it aggregates)

3) Direct application (when you know a specific company you want to work for)

4) Recruiters (Let them do the work for you...)

On the anecdotal front (within the past year) I have been contacted twice by recruiters that took me out and bought me lunch to try and woo me to another job and once contacted directly by the CEO of a company who did the same thing. I want to make this point clear; I'm no one special just a regular software dev with 15+ years working experience.

During one of these lunches the recruiter said to me, "It is so difficult to hire qualified developers that I would say there is a NEGATIVE unemployment rate currently."

I have spoke with multiple company owners, CEOs, and others who are in the hiring position and the general consensus is they can't find qualified help.

This is just my experience.
Facebook reveals open-source wireless platform, OpenCellular
You're missing my point, maybe because I veered off into musing on how an egg sac detection trait could be a gene.

I'm trying to say that the development of what almost looks like a learned behavior but is possibly a geographically isolated gene is more surprising than the modification of a gene so that it is expressed past childhood.

We see the latter all the time in other forms if you look at domesticated animals as we have selected for the cute and cuddly traits for adult animals that are normally present in infant forms.
The Disruptor is an example of solid engineering - the fact that there's nothing "new" is a point in its favor. Its creators acknowledge that similar approaches are common in network switches, etc. I would say these techniques aren't well known among Java programmers. Not new != widely known.
Not to pile on, but Mail.app has seemed the most predictable and consistently performing (with search and basic usage) of all of the clients I have used, including most of those mentioned in the article.

I realize this is just one data point, but as unpopular as your perspective is, stephenr, I share it.
But he doesn't hear all the arguments.
The Wall Street Journal, and in particular, reporter John Carreyrou, deserve a special callout for launching an investigation while the rest of the press was idle. I was struck by this ProPublica podcast with Carreyrou in which the interviewer, a Pulitzer Prize winner himself, said he and other health reporters had heard grumblings and rumors but don't enough to pursue a closer look. Carreyrou, on the other hand, said he acted on a New Yorker profile (which, IMHO, was fairly well balanced) in which he was curious how the company could keep its technology so obscured.

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/how-a-reporter-pierc...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/blood-simpler
Extracting Multiple Bits per Request from Full-Blind SQL Injection Vulns
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12044797
Facebook still keeps the messages, and uses the App to track you. Unless the Signal protocol is against FB itself, I don't see how this is news.
Both are used. It is named after William of Ockham (though he did not invent it, nor name it).
Indeed. I hope this changes when we have more and more people with ten or fifteen or twenty years of experience.
Do you find that you are able to get sufficient information when limiting your material to the candidate's domain?
I'm at a Denver based HFT firm, we are all Java. We do options market making, triangles on currency futures, calendar spreads, etc.
> Bad guys often panic and shoot, or drive off dangerously, etc.

The problem is, what is you're definition of often? And how effective is a (likely holstered handgun) in these situations?

Is an armed officer more or less likely to be shot at? Does the presence of an armed officer in all routine traffic stop increase safety overall (not just for the officer, but for non-violent civilians as well).

If you look at it from a cost benefit analysis, giving all traffic cops firearms may result in a small decrease in total deaths of officers during traffic stops [1], but a small increase in the total number of deaths of civilians (both innocent bystanders, and belligerent civilians who had no intention to seriously harm anyone).

That's probably not enough to justify arming all traffic cops. However if you
add in the benefit of a firearm as a tool of compliance to aid in traffic cop's abilities to confiscate drugs and cash, you tip the balance towards arming them.

1. Even this is a big assumption, because we don't know if criminals are more or less likely to fire at armed vs. unarmed traffic cops.
Can it do this for arbitrary programs running on your command line?
Yeah, there's no great answer here other than its an area that requires innovation. Apple is usually pretty good in this area, and I'd love to see them bring something to the table. My hope in writing the article was to spur enough debate and attention around the subject that it might foster that innovation conversation.

I think by digging through the comments on the multiple portals this was posted since I went to bed last night that at the least, people have strong opinions on both sides. It's either security or convenience, but it's certainly presented on the surface that its both. The point of the article was it is not.
Very true, I am not claiming otherwise. Precisely the reason to argue for body cams or other means to enforce honesty and transparency about reports. Just making the point that the 41:1000 ratio does not take into account the fact that many of the 1000 are indeed armed and aggressive, and it is the officers' jobs to subdue them even if deadly force is necessary. More training or non-lethal weapons will only go so far to change this, it seems.
Only for ILP64 ABIs, which aren't common.
Cab service is bad inside Vancouver and utterly miserable outside Vancouver proper. If you are in the North shore, Burnaby, Tri-cities or further, you pretty much have to book a cab well in advance and then call in to remind them, and even then you may be better off just taking transit. Good luck getting anywhere in a reasonable amount of time with out a car.
Ha, I had the same response.