skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That has not happened. Every place in the Bay Area has sufficient numbers of police and firemen. There is no place that has run out of them. Trouble hiring is not the same as no hiring.
"

[citation needed]

This is literally not true.

See, e.g, san jose, which is drastically understaffed:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Recruiting-a-Priority-f...

San jose is not only at something like half force, they know it will drop even further before they can make it better. You can google the numbers exactly if you want them, but they are really bad.

It's been getting bad for years:
http://abc7news.com/politics/sjpd-facing-tough-time-recruiti...
"
The city has some serious catch-up to do with officers already working overtime to handle patrol needs.

The challenge for San Jose police is that more officers are leaving than being recruited, as other cities continue to offer higher pay and better benefits. That makes it difficult to keep the ranks at full authorized strength of 1109 officers.

When you factor in disabilities and military leave, the department is roughly 200 officers below that. And it's expecting to lose well over 100 sworn officers this year from resignations and retirements. "

(Note: Can't handle patrol needs, expected to be down 300. IIRC, they are actually down significantly more than that down. They literally can't handle patrol needs right now at all, even with overtime)

...

"
The outlook of catching up is not looking good. A new police academy class starting Tuesday has a capacity of 60. The city made 29 job offers. But five took jobs elsewhere and one was a no-show. That will mean the class will have 23 recruits plus one who was previously hired. "

(note the timing of these articles has shown that what they are doing is not helping)

Let's go with another place:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Understaff...

"O'Connor points the finger at chronic understaffing - caused by the department's failure to fill 400 vacant positions - for requiring some firefighters to put in hundreds of hours of OT a year.
"

400 vacant positions does not sound like "sufficient numbers" to me.

etc

You keep making handwaving assertions to support your point, while i am providing actual data.

Please provide actual data. I have shown they often have 30-40% under what they are supposed to. This has gotten worse as housing prices have increased. That is not "sufficient". You cannot handwave this away as simply saying "it's trouble hiring".

As far as i know, plenty of places in the bay area that are expensive do not have sufficient numbers of police, firemen, or paramedics. They are having significant trouble recruiting precisely due to cost to live vs pay. The places that are not expensive are not having these problems.

If you want to argue this is simply not true, please provide any evidence instead of just saying "no, you are wrong".
1) the X developers thinks that an X server is too hard to maintain, so they're deprecating X, so eventually it will be a problem for you.
2) X cannot provide a secure environment, this is a problem for users.

Wayland is at lower lever than X and it's 'security by default' creates problem so replicating the use case you get from X will take time and many synchronisation/interoperability efforts.
> a de novo solution will necessarily need similar levels of work to get to a similar point

That work does not need to be directly in the second system. If the hard lessoned were learned in X by making mistakes much effort can be prevented by not making those mistakes and use something closer to the finished design of the first system... which is exactly what Wayland is.
So not a new product from the makers of League of Legends, then
Again, it only applies to iPhone 5 and below. No one has yet proved to being able to clone the secure enclave and attempt this on a newer iPhone.
The thing that really a noticeable difference in my immune system was working in a bar. You come into contact with so many people, many of whom don't take good care of themselves, and end up collecting / washing the glasses they have been drinking out of, shaking their hands, handling their IDs, wrestling them out of the building. I was sick constantly for like six months, but after that, I almost never got sick again.

Sadly, it appears to be wearing off. I was sick for a fair bit last winter, and it'll probably be the same again this year.
Another important question is whether or not the NSA should be pardoned for their illegal activity: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-nsa-idUSKBN0N...

Or whether James Clapper deserves a pardon for committing perjury during a testimony to Congress: http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com

Edit: /s
Right if this is a dupe I can't seem to find it's partner anywhere. So why was it marked dupe?

UPDATE: As far as I can tell the linked article was published between 9 and 10 this morning, although I am not sure of the time zone. So I went back 5 hours from this HN post and news.ycombinator/newest and read every single headline posted to HN. By my math, this should have turned up the "dupe" if there were one. There is not.

So there are 3 possibilities here, right? Either I've made a logical mistake above, or someone marked this thread as a dupe by mistake -- which seems like a very strange mistake to make -- or the thread was intentionally mislabeled as a dupe.

Since the issue has been raised, I would suggest that HN mods demonstrate there is no dishonesty going on here by either correcting the [dupe] tag, or producing a link to the duplicated post, or otherwise explaining a mistake on my part.
There already is an X server that runs under Wayland, called XWayland, and most Wayland compositors integrate well with it.
To the policemen who beat me for checking the health of a sick man
"Pervasive" is within the context of high-profile topics. One academic study was "Grassroots for Hire", https://www.amazon.com/Grassroots-Hire-Consultants-American-...

For DIY quantification, create a spreadsheet of userids, threads and manually tagged perspectives from your favorite social network or discussion forum. Then apply open-source tools for social network graph analysis of node interactions. With this data, apply exclusion filters to targeted clusters of userids, then re-read the "mass opinion". Palantir has proprietary software for network influence analysis, but many algorithms and OSS tools are available from academia.
And not related to Riot.js
Isn't the library simply a big .xml file? I wonder if you could parse it yourself to get rid of the duplicate.

I would try but I have a 20k+ songs itunes library and it takes hours to reindex whenever I move anything...
Show HN: Create simulated datasets in Python with Simulacrum
Awesome Raspberry Pi: A curated list of RPi tools, projects, images and resources
Apart from the fact that sips likely generate more pollution than cars [1], it's seems very plausible that he would generate more of it being stuck in a traffic jam while getting to work than he did during these holidays.

He also didn't probably use as much electricity as you do at the moment which is likely generated mostly in non environmentally friendly way. Ignoring the fact that many parts of your equipment came on ships from China. From factories which generate a lot of pollution.

Also, if you want to be perfect better-world-optimizer, it is really hard. Even if the earth would get ever slightly more polluted by this single car, the impact of thousands of people reading the story could still be positive. It makes them think about nature, probably slightly increases their well being, and so on.

1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...
The iPhone was not the first in the market. Smartphones had been around for years at that point. It's just that no one really bought them. The iPhone effectively created it's own market by expanding it so much, but it wasn't first by a long shot.

I'm sure the original iPhone had issues, but it was still better than the stuff it replaced. Especially a year or two later when the 3G and then 3GS landed. The 3GS was not buggy or slow. It made good phone calls and had an app store. Meanwhile Android was still trash and none of the original competitors were catching up.

Android did catch up on paper quickly. It took a much longer time before it caught up in reality. Android for a long time was very slow, the UI felt amateur, and all the hardware felt cheap. I remember several generations in, finding that Angry Birds still lagged and froze on brand new Android hardware.
Of course it does (give shallow depth of field). You just have to be vert close to the subject.

I'm being a bit pedantic, but these conversations are mostly missing the third important variable. You need to know aperature, sensor/film size, and distance.
In my experience it's recruiters who get the salary and level wrong. I have a lot of experience, but I still get tons of spam that read "mid-level Java programmer 2+ years of experience, must have J2EE." They don't even look at my profile. I ask for a range and I am usually not going to be in it. I am not hiding anything on my resume.
Don't use strawman arguments? That would silence 90% of the arguments on the internet!

(Honestly, I am seeing a general trend toward better arguing and less fallacious logic as time goes on, but you are absolutely right, the argument should not be based on a basic logical fallacy)
Substitute blivet-gui for gparted. It groks pretty much all Linux storage: MBR, GPT, mdadm and LVM raid, Btrfs, LUKS.

https://github.com/rhinstaller/blivet-gui

http://www-rhstorage.rhcloud.com/blog/vtrefny/blivet-gui-20

Not just for servers, but quite useful on them is Cockpit which leverages storaged and libblockdev, providing a good chunk of storage configuration via web UI, among other things.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit
> "I'm perfectly ok paying for software, at least if I get the source."

Unusual position - source access is quite rare for commercial software, isn't it?
If he comes home we need to have a parade for him.
Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
Indie Photography of the Philippines
How exactly are these "SNES Style"?

Just looks like particle effects. I was hoping to see effects that were actually specific to the SNES.
> Once gerrymandering is removed from our system, then maybe the Senate itself is redundant in any form, and it can be removed completely.

The Senate is only redundant because it is popularly-elected, just like the House.

What it ought to be is the voice of the states. The state legislatures and governors should select senators (I'd like to leave the exact mechanism up to each state, but the key is that the senators should represent the state; honestly, I'd like to make them responsible to the legislature & governor as well).

Our federal system was gravely damaged by the 17th Amendment; the states have become not much more than glorified local governments, rather than the sovereign states they ought to be (and, legally, still are).
I am on the other side than you - I am betting on the NLP in my current interface.

The biggest reason for me is logging. I can see what are yet-unfulfilled needs of my customers and prioritise building new features. In responsive website you hardcore your assumptions about needs of your customers. What's more, you can fall-back to real customer support.

One of reasons why bots exploded recently are advances in NLP including deep learning, other new methods, cheaper hardware, etc.
Yes, yes indeed. Changed my life in 1998 when I no longer had to be in the office when on Pager Duty. Just velcroed a ricochet modem to my laptop and I was good to go from anywhere. We kind of take that convenience for granted these days.
Google has had extremely impressive _software_ capabilities for this for awhile [0], and the results in person are extremely impressive. The field can even be chosen by the user. Given the camera quality, I doubt much (any?) of a difference could be detected.

[0] https://research.googleblog.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-goo...
I think the first article falls for the easiest of traps: it's a movie, not a documentary.

Every single movie "based on real events" is pretty much made up. Pointing to the differences between the movie and real life is (IMHO) a pointless exercise. More so when it's used then to justify a political position.

Put another way: as good as JFK is, I wouldn't put anyone in jail because of it.
The main problem I can see with that sort of system is that it probably would get quite unwieldy for decently complex chord patterns (try scoring a chord pattern up the keyboard, say, like what's at the beginning of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto 1 for a start -- http://imslp.org/wiki/File:PMLP02744-Tchaikovsky-Op23v1FSmuz...).

For other styles I think it would be pretty good; although the score won't be as compact, it might be easier to understand a "fake book" scored piece (ala what's used a lot in jazz) written this way, let alone pop (which often can be represented with a melody line and Roman numeral chords).
...you will be billed for your food and accomodation while inside

That's a bill that probably won't get paid. What are they going to do, throw me in prison?
I agree that Intel margins are pretty high. But at 50% margins, when there is a shift, they can move the price point down some.

I just re-read your article and it appears to be mostly about the mid->low power market (ie, Atoms from Intel) as an example.

The Server article posted is about the high end Intel chips, the $4500 ones you find in servers.

Your post is spot on about Intel in general, I think at the low ends we will start to see more shifts away from x86 at the desktop / laptop levels as other chipsets become faster / highly available. But I think in the server space, Intel has lots of running room left in the x86 space.

Morgan is a very smart guy, but I think his reliance on Gartner may have pulled him off the mark.
Apple buys generic Intel kit for their datacentres, and did this even when making their own server product.

Consuming your own output isn't good for margins, and like many large-scale providers, you must acknowledge vanity hardware isn't any faster than bare motherboards in a rack. The more bare-bones the better.

The XServe and friends were intended for small-scale deployments. They did a few partnerships to build clusters of them for HPC but that was largely a demonstration, not a target customer base.
It is definitely NOT the first smartphone that can simulate artificial shallow depth of field. I had an app that could do that in 2009 (using burst mode and changing the focal point).

And it doesn't work like a DSLR (since a DSLR doesn't simulate DoF, it accomplishes it optically). Apple is just using its two cameras to focus on two different points then using software to intersplice those two pictures into one, that isn't real shallow DoF, that is just a software trick (least of all because bokeh will have to be simulated, since it doesn't exist optically).

I'd also like to add that the samples Apple have released to the press look REALLY bad.
Thimble is also extensively localized for users and learners who speak other languages. https://github.com/mozilla/thimble.mozilla.org/tree/master/l...
I am also surprised considering that most of the TLDs are already taken,

including http://riot.com/ - http://riot.io/ - http://riot.org/
Still - that's enough to make it interesting that the FBI rejected this approach and then paid for an outsider's solution to accessing the phone.
Like it or not, that fee affects ability to negotiate compensation. Given a pool of equivalently skilled people, the one that doesn't come with a fee is going to be able to negotiate and get the job.
We are reposting this? It was blocked correctly last week.
Well, hopefully an SSG is saving you time compared to just writing a quick crawler that saves each route of your local Express app into a deployable static folder.

If you find yourself credentializing in the source of an SSG because it turns out you're doing something it doesn't support, then there's a point where it might've been faster to build as a dynamic site (more general tooling) with a static site build step.

It's an easy place to find yourself since so many SSGs generalize around blogging.
Postmortem of the Firefox (and Tor Browser) Certificate Pinning Vulnerability
When I read a textbook, a specification or an article or something technical that I consider important parts I use the Feynman Technique[0].

As from what the linked article says,

The technique is simple:

1. Get a piece of paper
2. Write at the top the idea or process you want to understand
3. Explain the idea, as if you were teaching it to someone else

What’s crucial is that the third step will likely repeat some areas of the idea you already understand. However, eventually you’ll reach a stopping point where you can’t explain. That’s the precise gap in your understanding that you need to fill.

I used to repeatedly explain the idea to myself. At first I find it hard to recall though I don't feel discourage when I'm unable to hold it on my mind at first and just think that there are a few that can but once I train myself I'll eventually improve.

When reading blogs, HN comments, novels etc., I usually read it once just like I'm watching television or a movie.

I don't worry that I read slow since when I've found out that Donald Knuth also reads novels very slowly[1].

If you want a more systematic reading, there is a book[2] which has been mentioned often here in HN.

> Is there an app that you use?

I use org-mode for everything

[0] - http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/10/26/mastering-linear-algeb...

[1] - http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/retd.html

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/...
Is there any real evidence of this that's not from conservative talk radio?

It's amazing how workers, who got fired by the hundreds of thousands, voluntarily gave up pensions only to lose their jobs, dealt with numerous health issues and cancers working in horrible conditions, even in modern times, and still get blamed.
I condemn Snowden. Prove that I'm intellectually lazy.
It's not about trusting Apple. It's about recognizing that if Apple can push ARM performance to that level then other companies will eventually catch up as well, and if commodity ARM is actually competitive with commodity Intel then they have a problem.

Intel has a huge competitive advantage here in the bulk of the market, but ARM will find an opening as well. They'll probably coexist for some time.
Primarily advertising based. I'd say that it resembles a magazine most.
That's counting the GPU processing power, which is not so easy to use. No way the CPU FLOPS have become 30x cheaper since 2011 (its increase really slowed down since then).
The Alchemy of IoT
Thanks to Snowden, the US intelligence services are now able to do more bulk surveillance, and they do so on a sounder legal footing and with full political backing but minimal oversight.

None of this would have been possible without Snowden.

So, thanks, I guess.
Civilization is mostly access to hot water, order and sanitation. And internet. Nothing precludes even torturous execution (or even mass ones) from being civilized. Human life is not that valuable no matter what we believe currently. We have 7000000000 - you could cull the herd with a billion or two and we will recoup in less than a generation.

I am not a supporter of death penalty too, but labeling everything outside of the current zeitgeist as inconceivable really hurts the cause.
I'm also curious about keyboard layouts. I type stuff in both English and Bengali, and it looks like wayland.ini uses similar semantics to xorg.conf (layout=us,in variant=,ben or something like that). I'm curious how they'll do per-window layouts like windowmaker does. I find those very useful, and I'd assume they depend on some level of message promiscuity that they find distasteful -- I could imagine libevent being "smart" enough to multiplex that like my window manager does, but that in itself gets worrisome for largely the same reasons that people are talking about with X, particularly if it's meant to be extensible (it is, right?)
In 2007-08 I did a three week trip in a banger (£155 Skoda Felicia), taking in some of the areas covered here - Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and finally The Gambia. Cars were donated to raise money for Gambian causes, and it was an incredible experience. We got to Senegal just when the route recce crews came through for the (eventually cancelled) 2008 Dakar Rally - cancelled because of the murder of french tourists [1], which we were unaware of as we'd set off before it happened. It was part of the rise of Al Qaeda in Africa, and indeed I wouldn't do the same trip again today because of the security problems that are far worse now than they were then. Drove for days in the Sahara, did 100km along the beach in Mauritania, 4400 miles in total in a tired old thing that never said die. I can totally believe it about the roads in places - some of the 'proper' roads we drove on were unbelievably hard going (and I say that as someone whose hobby was gravel rallying in the UK) - one was a 100km stretch of washboarded road to the Senegalese border that put paid to many of the rear dampers in the group due to overheating and eventual expiry.

Africa is a magical place - I've been fortunate enough to go for a reasonable period twice - also worked in Tanzania for three weeks in 2004 - but it's certainly not for the faint hearted; I'd not want to go there without serious mechanical skills as there isn't the level of support that you get in Europe, and the fuel supply is hugely variable; indeed some stations have a reputation for deliberately supplying poor fuel to travellers to allow them to try to buy the vehicle for a low price (this actually happened - dodgy diesel from a barrel, and then 5 minutes later the vendor was saying he'd buy the car off the guys we were with. Needless to say we fixed it). Anyway, the memories will last a lifetime, and perhaps more importantly the lessons learnt there (such as how fortunate I am to have been born by chance into a wealth, stable democracy) have shaped my life ever since.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_killing_of_French_tourist...
He already has a medal, very likely.

He revealed what everyone interested was already suspecting. The reason Russia shelters him is that he was working for them. It's a reward, and one they have to give out, otherwise no on smart would cooperate with them.

If he wasn't a former Russian agent, it'd be better for them letting America make an example of him, because what would make US look worse than jailing for life someone who is widely considered a hero by a good fraction of population.
Number one on my wish list for Go 2 is the ability to go from A to B:

A
=

if xw, err = Mul(x,w); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}

if xwpb, err = Add(xw, b); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}

if prob, err = Sigmoid(xwpb); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}

B
=

probs := Sigmoid(Add(Mul(x,w), b))
Funny you'd mention that. We're putting the final touches to an Open Source Jekyll CMS we've built for ourselves (called Jekyll+) that does just that; give a nicer interface for marketing folks and provide multilingual support out of the box.

Preview of my local copy we're prepping up for a release end of the week: http://i.imgur.com/1VyxGzqr.png

Happy to have you testing it out and give me feedback.
Changelog on this chart indicates it was last updated in 2014.
Press again fails to understand the topic, how this applies only to 5c and how phone vendors (Apple) defeat this with safe hardware data storage and keys (see previous HN discussion).
No, it's not. Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12510586.
Looks like this is a rebranding of the existing Vector app.
Here's the blog post from the creators: https://medium.com/@RiotChat/lets-riot-f5b0aa99dc8e#.3toozs7...
Gavel: An Expo Judging System
Microsoft Lumia is officially dead