skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're misunderstanding me. I am saying that the raw statistics indicate that dealing with crime in serious way requires imposing not-crime on the black population. That is just a point of fact, and Eric Holder's subordinates at least agree with me.

Mechanisms to do this run into exactly the sorts of problems you mention (all of the plausible solutions appear to be either "racist" or empirically ineffective).

There are discarded social technologies from <1970 that evidently succeeded in reducing both the black crime rate, and probably also the extent to which black crime affected whites & was thus basically ignorable. Examining those technologies in depth & figuring out what if anything is useful sort of exceeds the bounds of a tiny comment box.

But let's please get accurate diagnoses first of the decision calculus facing, say, Rahm Emanuel as he decides what policies to implement, and why he doesn't seem to be able to crack the problem.

Giuliani was able to mostly solve the problem in New York, but he was able to do things like eliminate freedom of movement for blacks, avoid effective criticism due to his protection of large swathes of the media community, import replacement populations to drive out his more troublesome constituents, finance it via a boom in his city's FIRE economy, etc. It's not clear that that would work in, say, Detroit, or that those policies were in retrospect conformal with contemporary ethics.
Some the examples given in the article are about creativity in relation to art forms intended for human consumption.

If I try to program a robot to create art that humans will appreciate, my robot has the disadvantage of not having immediate access to a human response to the art in question, because my robot isn't a human.

Whereas a human artist painting a picture can immediately and continuously judge the artistic quality of his or her efforts so far.
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On the contrary, 99.99% of the population is really dumb. (I'd like to think I'm part of the other 0.01%, but the low prior probability of that situation suggests that I don't have enough evidence to justify that conclusion.) Wolfram is not part of that 99.99%. He's part of the 0.01%. But he's squandered his talent on self-indulgent and self-destructive projects instead of contributing to the intellectual and cultural advancement of humanity.

It turns out that human nature is such that being really smart doesn't give you a high probability of being right about things, especially when the truth is not favorable to you, just a slightly better one.
1) Get credit card

2) Shred credit card

3) Now you have a credit history

(They'll probably close your account in a year of inactivity if you don't use it but you'll still have credit history until the account falls off your report-10 years)
FreeRTOS?
An English person speaking English in England? What a miracle!
Ultimately those systems will have to be run by people, and all the same perverse incentives will apply.

Corporations become corrupt too, but there is more than one and you can start new ones. In a command economy like you allude to there is only one corporation and if it becomes corrupt there is no recourse.
These kind of post helps us to remember our common humanity. The world isn't a simplistic us vs them.
A lot of power plants do, at least the ones I've worked at. I wouldn't be surprised if these substations don't. Inspection teams come in all the time and practically force companies to do things like obtaining a spare.
Basically cookie/session hijacking as a service - what could go wrong?
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You missed my point. If he is smart and yet not right as you say, doesn't that make him dumb?
I love the fact that you made this really slick interactive 3D data visualization, but the Facebook share button is "a little hard to grok"!

Again, very well made. Really pleasant to play with, though troubling to see. One thing I wonder is how are the temperature differentials normalized? In other words, how are "full red" and "full blue" defined? The max and min of the recorded ranges? Overall, or for that section/year? Etc.

Also, are those stars random?

Also, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476945
You don't get to say that the EV is close to zero in one case, but not in the other. 20k/year (dollars spent) * 1/100mm (odds of winning) * 100mm (jackpot) = 20k/year

If you get a 1% ownership stake for a 20% salary reduction (per year) and you have to stay there for say, 4-5 years in order to get that 100k payout then you're looking at numbers on very similar terms.

I understand why people need to be convinced that their odds are much better in startups than in the lottery. But wanting to believe something to be true and it being true aren't the same thing.
While I am optimistic about the human race being able to solve the global issues such as climate change, I feel we do not have the political will to do so without getting first to the brink of disaster.
Surely some part of this is from Shi'a rivalry with Sunni AQ?
Bush did more for Africa than any other world leader in history. There isn't a close second to that. The aid went far beyond just food as well:

"When the Bush administration inaugurated the program [PEPFAR] in 2003, fewer than 50,000 HIV-infected people on the African continent were receiving the antire­troviral drugs that keep the virus in check and halt the progression toward full-blown AIDS. By the time Bush left office, the number had increased to nearly 2 million. Today, the United States is directly supporting antiretroviral treatment for more than 4 million men, women and children worldwide, primarily in Africa."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/04/george-w-bushs-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-geor...
> It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is its impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. Its impossible.

> Dynamic memory allocation, in the context of realtime/embedded systems. :-)

Dynamic typing in the context of writing, maintaining, or refactoring large scale code bases.
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We updated the link from https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/07/10/1659250/hostess..., which points to this.
Glassdoor says that a letter carrier earns around $50K/year.

Interns still in college can earn that much in Silicon Valley startup, a decent (not stellar) engineer can easily be in the $120K-$180K range.

I don't see how I'm losing no matter what happens to my employer -- I'm getting paid a much higher salary than when I earned working for a more established, non-startup before I was laid off during a large reorganization and I'm doing much more interesting work than I was at the larger company.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/city-letter-carrier-salar...
How does this compare with pulling a silicon boule? Any chip people care to chime in?
Aren't we done flogging this guy yet?
Crushing poverty and starvation is the natural state of humanity. Without capital accumulation, investment, and technological progress, that's where we would be. Fostering those things requires private property protection and enforcement of contract.

Capitalism's "race to the bottom" has made us rich beyond the wildest imagination of the people of the past. Our children do not have to work. Most jobs are indoors, in climate-controlled buildings. The rich may drive nice cars, but many of the poor have cars too. In the past, the rich rode in carriages and the poor trudged through the muck with no shoes.

Automation is what allowed us to go from the vast majority of Americans working in the fields to agricultural employment being 2% of the labor force -- and we produce more food than ever.
If you're interested in this, you may want to read Red Plenty, which describes the invention of linear programming and the subsequent Soviet attempt at doing just this.
The thing is, dealerships have incentive to keep dealerships in general in business, and they likely all know each other, so they probably won't undercut each other by a large margin. Since they all know the actual cost of the thing you're wanting to buy, dealership A gives you a price maybe a few hundred below dealership B even though it's a few thousand above what their actual cost is.

Consider how much prime real estate dealerships sit on, how many employees they have, and how many units they sell per day which must pay for the aforementioned items with their mark-up, and still turn a profit at the end of the day. Now consider how much less expensive every car would be if they didn't have those additional costs, and consider if the benefits a dealer adds are worth those costs. IMO factory-direct sales can't come soon enough.
Which version? The latest 3.x version, that I use, almost stalls trying to load a file of relatively small size of 20 odd MBs.
Why did this get voted down? A $1M funded startup is very early stage, and statistically not likely to succeed.
Thank you. I make a pass over the data, find the min/max values for cooler and warmer and then use that to scale the color from full intensity (largest changes) to least intensity (smallest change). Visually at least, it seems mostly to agree with what the clever climate scientists have made in static images. The range is calculated for the whole period so that comparing year to year should be valid.

I didn't even consider blocked cookies - I set that flag in local storage since it seemed important to show some instructions the first time you see it but not thereafter. I'll experiment a bit and see if I can work around that.

Edit: stars are just a bitmap wrapper around a large sphere.

Cheers!
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9718472
Along with Iran supporting the killing of US troops in Iraq via proxy war during the occupation and the Khobar Towers bombing.
This list is incomplete without Carly Fiorina.
It cost a fortune to evict tenants who don't pay their rent.
Automation and IT in the US has little to do with free markets and a whole lot to do with enormous government expenditure, often war related. The internet is the obvious one. But if you go to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, you can see the first integrated circuit, which so happened to be built by Fairchild for the USAF, and the first computers, which were built in Silicon Valley for the Army. The same story is everywhere: About all the tech we take for granted owes its existence to state funding.
I like that it's not called caching because caching for me makes me think that there is some sort of eviction policy. I generally talk about "storing" data in "lookup tables" if I'm talking to someone not familiar with the jargon
As a Canadian expat, my experience was nearly identical to FireBeyond's upon moving to the US. As you suggest, I was able to get a store credit card, then it was over a year (during which I never used the store card at all) before I was even considered for a regular credit card. If that's not symptomatic of a broken process, I'm not sure what is...
Arrogance makes smart people idiots.
This is why you can save money not spend it all in rent to be in a cool part of town.
It seems like everyone forgot what happen after 2000. I hope you are saving your money.
Yes, Customer Success Manager (CSM) seem to be another way of saying Customer Upsell Manager in a lot of companies. Generally, I've not been impressed.
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Amelia Earhart made contact with radio operators days after her plane went down
F-16 pilot Heather 'Lucky' Penney was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
Yukon filmmaker wants PM to explain 9/11 Korean Air hijacking mystery
That's a bit glib; much like the USA there are a wide variety of opinions and what the conservative-leaning government chooses to do doesn't necessarily align with what the people want.

In Iran that is due to the Ayatollah Khomeini and his crew. (Nominally he isn't a dictator, in theory he is, in reality there are politics and practical considerations.)

In the USA, it is due to Republican gerrymandering (total votes cast for Senate and House slightly favor Democrats, but they don't hold majorities in either house. Same for state legislatures - half of the republican controlled states had majority votes for Democrats).
Musk doesn't have to call anyone a dumb fuck, he just points to some graphs. The log data clearly shows that the driver was an idiot.
I went through this entire lecture series and I can't recommend it enough. Osgood is one of the most engaging professors I've ever listened to. I would happily learn anything from this guy. My only disappointment was that he doesn't teach anything else!
Back in 2014-ish, when Eskom in South Africa was having particular problems with blackouts, they discussed this possibility. Some estimates on restart times were given at the time, but this is the only reference I could find now:
https://africacheck.org/reports/does-south-african-face-an-e...
https://e-estonia.com/component/electronic-id-card/
What a crock. The whole bankruptcy was just a union busting maneuver to escape the contracts they had signed. The company was deliberately run into the ground to restructure and now it's making the executives rich while all the workers have been tossed aside.

To hell with Hostess and all the people profiting off this upcoming "IPO".
This is coincidentally similar to the situation in Canada with Quebec on their own power grid
I made it into my 30s without ever having a credit card; the only thing in my credit history was a car loan (which paid off in the minimum time). Then various things caused me to be traveling a lot, and I ended up looking at airline and hotel cards, since I might as well earn miles/points for money I was going to be spending anyway.

My credit report (free from my bank) tells me my score is slightly lower than it would ordinarily be because of how short the card history is. I still get a couple "pre-approved" card offers every week and the occasional offer to raise a limit, but I just shred them.
Opportunities to learn and grow. Stagnation is the worst. If you've been there you know what I mean.
The exact FICO algorithm is proprietary. They do give some information about what it entails.

I am in no way affiliated with freecreditreport.com, it's just a site I find incredibly useful. It's now owned by Experian and it gives you your Experian FICO 8 credit score. They break down each part of your credit score and grade you on each. (A-F)

There's other sites like credit karma that do similar but they use vantage score which is also known as FAKO score and isn't used by lenders but is a good indication of what your FICO score may be.
Good point. Caching does usually refer to a temporary memory store.
The US didn't kill a million people in Iraq, nor 50,000 people in Afghanistan, nor 80,000 Pakistanis. You're talking about civil war, and your figures are wrong to begin with.

The US didn't force the numerous factions of Iraq to go to war with each other for a decade. In fact the US lost hundreds of billions of dollars, and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, trying to stop them from killing each other. The point should be made again: the most powerful military on the planet spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and suffered tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, directly trying to keep Iraqis from killing each other in civil war - to no avail. The US also wasn't responsible for carving up the region and compiling the nation of Iraq from factions that dislike each other - an inevitable time bomb sooner than later.

You might as well claim that the British killed a million Iraqis because of their very long history there and involvement in the Iraq war and occupation; that's just as incorrect and irrational of a statement.
Had about ~7k on the odo when we got the AP update, 37k now. Large majority of my miles are 300mi roundtrip weekly commute.
> why would anyone want to use their high-interest credit card to borrow even a few tens of thousands?

Here are a couple ideas: lawyer fees during a contested divorce and emergency spending from being out of work too long.
Aside from the handful of states that do not regulate concealed carry, every state has a permit process for concealed carry. There are none remaining now that prohibit it outright.
Your post ironically will probably draw more people to this activity. Their choice of course. It seems a bit nuts to me but then again I used to climb mountains every now and again. That might seem nuts to some people.
I hope to one day be able to code like the cat. :)
Ask HN: How do you get notifications if something doesn't happen?
I have searched high and low for a service and I could have sworn I saw a solution on HN but I cannot find it.

In particular I am looking for a solution that can notify me if my hourly backups were NOT completed.

What I have come up with is a script that checks the modified timestamp of my backup file and then checks if it is older than 1 hour. If it is, then the script returns 200 success headers. If it doesn't then it returns a 404.

I am then monitoring that page with an uptime monitoring service.

I'm curious what everyone else does and how well it works for you.
The article assumes that everybody has access to the same knowledge as to whether a startup will be successful or not. I do not believe this at all. Gambling on startups is much more riskier for outsiders than for insiders.
IMO:

caching : memoization :: program performance : algorithm performance
That's the exact point that applies to federal government programs vs state.
Implying someone with skills and a proactive attitude woulnd't be able to get a job or freelance?

The world is moving every day towards tech based solutions. If you can find a process to automate/improve and can sell yourself, you shouldn't have a problem.
When I lived in Arkansas, I took several deer with an AR-15. Now that I'm in Virginia I can't do that, because the cartridge isn't considered powerful enough to be humane. Here, I use a AKM in 7.62x39mm.
Yeah, I remember that -- every industry had a downturn and there was no safe haven for employment, so I'd rather have a higher salary at a startup today with no guarantee of long term employment versus a lower paid job at an established company with no guarantee of long term employment. And I'm not going to work at the USPS and earn a fraction of my salary.
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I just checked Koppel's book out of the library and finished it. Great book and it pisses me off that we spend so much money on corporate welfare, human welfare, and wars overseas, but we can't spend much less money to harden the power grid.

I read the the US government estimates a 80% civilian mortality if the power grid is down for a year.
Indeed. Differences in encoding or presence/lack of a BOM in UTF8 are a small set of issues. I've dealt with financial data from very large public banks and vendors that are horrible about vending proper CSV data. Either impromper or unescaped quotes (or delimiters). Takes weeks to get the data corrected, ao you manually correct the data or write a custom parser to try and navigate around it. One of my faves was a vendor that didn't escape the legal name of a company, so "Microsoft,Inc" would be 2 fields, rending most of that recors gibberish.

I generally agree with the idiom "If you write your own cav parser, you're doing it wrong", but sometimes you have no choice to work around the idiocy of others.
What's your argument in favor of claiming the people working there were perpetually entitled to their jobs?
We updated the link from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History, and the title from ‘The term “Dynamic Programming” was chosen as a bureaucratic hack’.
>In languages such as C++ or C#, this is an easily solved problem. You create an abstract class or a base class depending on language and inherit that in your actual class.

Oh cool an anti-pattern being described as an "easy solution".
Why is the entire vendor directory in github? I'm fairly certain some of those packages cannot be redistributed like that.
I'd offer it to them if they'd like, but why push them into it?

For what it's worth, there is also a non-trivial portion of the population that feels that confidence with weapons is an integral part of the American individualist spirit.
Tax is usually close to 30% of net income to start with and even those with the best accountants usually pay a few percent.

So dividing their tax bill by the 10, 100, 1000 or whatever workers that exceed some magic income level won't generate much income...
I think the point is that a single high altitude EMP burst would do so much physical damage that the grids would be offline for for a long time.
AI/learning startup idea: build an AI to do the role of middle-to-upper management or maybe just the c-suite?

Just think of the profits. sacking a thousand blue collar factory workers won't save much but fire the decision makers (or outsource them) and you'll save an absolute fortune.

I'm not even joking. It's unlikely to happen soon but if this were possible the savings would be amazing!
Renders great on an iPhone. The zooming is a bit weird. You should look into locking the viewport. Once you get to a zoom level it's really hard to get out of it.
Excel 2007. Prior it was impossible due to file format limits. Row limit was 64k, i think. Not sure what the Col limit was. Not sure what or if there limits are since the move to the xlsx format.

Despite doing Excel addin development in finance, i never hit a limit in post 2007 excel.
Holy straw man Batman. That's not at all what I said. What I said was the executives pulled shenanigans to get rich and the workers pay the price. That's the reality of the situation.

As to a better way to handle the situation; how about negotiate with the union in good faith instead of pulling shenanigans in order to invalidate the contract for starters? It may not have been possible to keep all the workers on staff, but given that the company came back and is making tremendous profits and expecting to be valued at $2 billion and looking towards an "IPO" that seems unlikely to me. It seems more likely they just saw a potential for greater profits and bonuses for themselves and decided to do whatever it takes no matter how reprehensible and how many lives were ruined.
Because some people enjoy being postal carriers?
Two Israeli teens arrested for running major DDoS service
I do know what a demo is. But the submission had no information. Is it a demo of the capabilities of the Rasberry pie? A demonstration of someone's ability to write electronica on a rasberry pie?
http://www.bricklink.com/catalog.asp

You can find almost anything.
I've actually seen people use types with JSON. JSON objects are clearly more than sufficient to represent the data you need, and you can enforce the schema in a library. It's just a much less efficient form of something like protobufs.
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B.S.

this is orders of magnitude less significant than big studios removing random youtube videos from the air, accusing them of copyright infringement, even ones that have no background music, just because it says bad things about something the studio worked on.
Simply because something was invented to satisfy a government contract does not mean that it would never have been invented otherwise. Government spending simply shifts the preferences of goods arbitrarily away from what would have arisen through market processes.

The government has been hiring the bulk of PhD-level researchers for the purposes of war (and surveillance). Imagine what those minds would have done with their ingenuity and initiative in the private sector the last 70 years.

One of the few things that probably would never have been created by the private sector is nuclear weapons, since there is no profitable use of such devices.
> has anyone you tried to recruit walk away because you mentioned the 40hr/week expectation?

Why would they? Are you imagining somebody who only wants to be part of a team that's overworked?