skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to ask you for a hypothetical. Say you are a police officer and one of your coworkers shouts "GUN" and you don't directly see one. You see your coworker freaking out, you see them drawing, and you see the other suspect moving.

What do you do? Do you draw your gun/taser? I'd do that just going off of what my coworker has said. It's entirely reasonable to suspect there to be a gun.

Now I'd like to run through two things that can happen from this point. The suspect either has a gun or does not. If I draw my gun, point it at the suspect, and wait till I see a gun (what the officers of the law are trained to do) is that not a reasonable reaction?

What happens if I say "Oh I don't see it so I'm going to stand here and watch"? My partner and some innocent by-standards might very well get hurt because now I have to wait for my senses to catch up with what's going on before I react.

I don't think it's unreasonable for cops to be allowed to go off what other cops are saying. If it can be proved that a cop has lied then that's another story. They should be punished to the full extent of the law for lying. Sadly though it's not illegal for them to lie to or about us, it's only illegal for us to lie to them.
> "Good" police officers should fear losing their livelihoods for helping cover up the abuses of "bad" ones.

Good police officers do fear losing their lives and their livelihoods for not looking the other way.

I'm a strong advocate for hotlines specifically for police officers to report other officers, backed by civilian investigative authorities with no loyalties or connections to the police force, but with the ability to investigate and a primary mandate to protect the reporting officer. Plenty of police officers are disgusted by a lot of the people they work with. I've met them.

I also think that policemen involved in cover-ups of police shootings should generally be punished more than the shooters. For the shooter, this was a usually spontaneous act spurred by fear and rage, and happened in an instant. The same cannot be said for the cover-up. The cover-ups create an environment of impunity that make future shootings more likely.
I'm guessing here, but it's probably because dodecahedra have icosahedral symmetry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedral_symmetry) and dodecahedrons are the dual of icosahedrons (see the row equating them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsid#Triangulation_number)

Realistically it's most likely that Baker is using the terminology from crystallography and virus studies, consistent with his background.
Characterizing all data collection as 'snooping' fits in well with the 'existential threat' narrative, but I don't believe data _collection_ to be the threat you describe. Data misuse certainly is, but there's a distinction that needs to be made there, as I'm not fully convinced that the slippery slope of "collection must lead to misuse" needs to be a universal truth.

Rather, I consider the _collection_ of broad data, carefully used, to be almost pre-requisite to the advancement of our species. Whenever I imagine future technologies they're all based on better use of data. "That car over there has a broken taillight - send them a message." "Pick me a movie I'll be interested in in this moment." Or data mining my personal history to make note of conversation topics I wanted to follow up on; promises I made in the moment.

To some degree, society will (and already has) reset our privacy expectations; not everything we've held as protected need always be, at least in general. What we haven't done yet though is figure out how to enable useful collection and some level of relaxed privacy constraints without opening the door to potential abuse. Which is the risk I think you're worried about - it's not that Google is abusing the data they have _right now_, but that they eventually could, and that you find that risk more compelling than all the value they're delivering now. (Which, to be fair, I cannot say is incorrect). But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater - I want the promises of the future, and it's just a question of how we can safely get to them :).
From talking to a few people that do SR it's also considerably easier to do when you know the hardware.

They can cancel out reverb and create very fine tuned waveform profiles for speech.

I think one of the reasons that Siri is slightly better at SR than google is because of the control that Apple has over the hardware.

While Cortana turns sourpuss on me every time I switch headsets.
That's an interesting one. Not only for intent, but for getting the WER down. For example, my mother often mumbles but if I'm in front of her seeing her face I understand her perfectly, but if she's out of my sight where I can't read her lips I have trouble understanding her.
Big fan of Anker products, almost every cable and charger I ever buy nowadays is from them.
Are PhD candidates more self-selecting? I've met some very clueless people who tried to startup, and they contributed to that 90%. Sometimes it wasn't because it was hard, but because it was a really bad idea, or the founder(s) really lacked talent. PhD candidates on the other hand to even be eligible had to succeed already, whereas anyone can startup. I'd argue that a 50% PhD failure rate is comparable or more significant than a 90% startup failure rate. (unless we can qualify those startups by industry experience, previous businesses run, etc)
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experiences. /Arthur Schopenhauer/

People change their rulers willingly, hoping to better themselves [...] are deceiving themselves, because they afterwards find by experience they have gone from bad to worse. /Machiavelli/

Every shitty product finds its shitty consumer. /my dad/
> ...which allows selecting different distributions, including Arch Linux?

Sorry to rain on your parade, but there is _no_ official Arch Linux image on Docker[1], as you can easily verify[2].
Use at your own risk whatever Arch Linux image you happen to find on Docker Hub, such as this one[3]. It might work or it might break, but it ain't official.

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=214973

[2]: https://hub.docker.com/explore/

[3]: https://hub.docker.com/r/base/archlinux/
Oh, I hear you! (Pun intended.) There can definitely be a tradeoff between convenience and quality.

In fact, right now I don't have any really good speakers at home. If I want good sound quality I have to use my Yuin earbuds or maybe the old Sony E888's if I can find them.

Totally off topic, but since the earbuds came to mind I have a great hack for them. One problem with earbuds like the Yuins with a symmetric cord is that it's hard to tell the right from the left without looking closely. So I bought two of those bags of foamy covers that they have on Amazon for like $3-4 for a hundred of them - one bag of white covers and one of black. I put a black foamy on the left earbud and a white one on the right. Now I never get them mixed up!

Back to Echo, I think my disappointment with the sound quality had a bit to do with how they marketed it, claiming excellent sound and showing the cutaway drawings of how they achieved that, or claimed to. And then the actual sound wasn't nearly as good as what I'd expected from the marketing. A case of over-promising and under-delivering.
Winters in Chicago can be positively arid, to the point where the cold, dry air will wake me up in coughing fits. I bought a humidifier last year to combat this and it's been much, much more livable.
That Cute Whale You Clicked On? It’s Doomed
Forgot to say that they also took away my driver license for a whole month. I wish I knew how I can get the tow fee reimbursed.
anecdotal, but about 2/3 of the games in my steam library had linux versions available when i switched to desktop linux a couple of years ago. granted, i'm not exactly a aaa title kind of guy
Leaked Apple emails reveal employees' complaints about toxic work environment
There is no such limit, in most jurisdictions, as far as I know...and, if you happen to be carrying a lot of cash, it is viewed as evidence of wrongdoing.

Hell, Oklahoma has begun using a device that allows them to take money from debit cards, as well.

My position on police has evolved over the years to the point where I don't even really believe in "good cops", anymore. The entire system seems built to excise honest cops and reward bullies; I can't name a single whistle-blower cop who has kept their job, while the crimes they documented have generally gone entirely unpunished and the perpetrators often remain on the police force.

The only reasonable path forward I see is tearing the whole damned system down and starting over, with a focus on prevention, rehabilitation over punishment, restitution when plausible, de-escalation rather than military style raids, and overall a lot better training in psychology and community policing and less training in how to kill and maim people.
Didn't there used to be a way to flag misleading headlines?
"Interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile warned in a statement against downloading the data because it could contain "malware,"

... and don't go looking at the data yourself to see what's really in there.
I've answered this totally bogus argument so many times, I'm going to take a different tack this time and put you on the spot.

Tell me: what's the TLD you'd choose for your new site if protection from governments was your goal? We already know: it's not .IO, which is is controlled by GCHQ. Which one is it? Are we all getting .IS names in your bright DNSSEC future?
> I stopped watching at "With the new release of telephoto lens, what is the best location to test it? Africa". That makes zero sense to me.

That was likely an opinion rather than an authoritative statement.
You seem to hold conflicting viewpoints. You agree that loans create money but you don't agree that repaying a loan destroys that same money?

Indeed, if a bank makes a loan on its own book then there's a credit in the deposits account and a debit in the loans account. This has created commercial bank money. It's part of the M1 monetary aggregate.

If I hold $100k of a student's debt, and that debt is 'extinguished' then it doesn't change the money stock in the economy. If a debt between 2 individuals is "wiped off the books" then a dollar doesn't "leave the economy".

I'm not sure if we're talking past each other or what.

> If the bank creates a $100k loan "out of thin air" how can you withdraw it or roll around the floor in it? Do they print it out on notes which have the bank's name and logo on them?

I'm not sure why you're pretending to have trouble understanding this concept. This is you being disingenuous.

The rest of this seems to be us definitely talking past each other. I'm not super interested in how Chase's assets and liabilities break out. I engaged in the conversation specifically because you seemed to be asserting that loan repayment doesn't destroy money. I'm not sure what you're asserting anymore, and the rest is tangential anyway.

There's also the discussion around fractional reserve lending, but I don't think we actually disagree much about the mechanics except that you think banks are essentially obliged to loan every deposited dollar and I don't, but I don't know this this is an interesting point to continue.
The headline sounds like an onion article
While I basically agree with the argument of this article -- that it's not okay for officers to be so aggressive, abusive, and dishonest -- I don't find the tone to be very helpful for a couple of reasons.

1) The word "white" appeared in a sequence of insults toward the end of the article. It's hard to deny that, while this kind of talk might be broadly accepted, it's still basically racism. Fundamentally, the ethnicity of the officers is irrelevant. The account of what happened didn't even mention the officers calling out the author's race.

2) It's understandable that a person would feel extremely angry after an experience like this. Even so, it seems the author hasn't let much of his anger die down since the time of the event. The tone of the article is not only angry, but quite frankly, a bit juvenile e.g. the talk about hiring a "badass" lawyer.

Either way, I don't feel like much good will come as a result of this incident. I'd feel differently if Mr. Afshar spent his time calmly talking about how he took the officers to court, what kinds of evidence he cited against them, and how others could do the same.
I guess I'm not that sophisticated then. :)

It seems unavoidable that how much nonfood I get per dollar affects the burden incurred by a dollar spent on food.

One could consider how spending on different areas has changed over time. In nominal terms, while we make about 48 times what we did in 1955, we now spend about 17 times what we did on food and on clothing, 56 times what we did on housing, and well over 200 times on healthcare. [1]

Considering that we spend about 70 times what we did on large entertainment goods such as televisions and sailboats, does that mean we are able to spend less on other areas? Does it mean that even though we used to have to spend a lot more of our income to own a TV we need to buy more stuff to be entertained?

Anyway, I don't really understand what the crowd in the article really wanted. Are they ultimately arguing that he should vote to raise rates, because there is inflation that he's missing by using the wrong indicators? I'm guessing that they're populists since an explanation made them angry, but googling doesn't tell me that populists have a consensus opinion about raising or lowering rates.

If they want another indicator to be used as a basis for official cost of living calculations for things like federal wages and social security payment increases, they're getting worked up at the wrong person.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=792u
I had no idea how recent a phenomena this was, just part of life that gets taken for granted. I had no idea my parents grew up in a world without charts.
I agree that putting projects under repositories looks counterintuitive. In BitBucket you have multiple repositories under one project https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/projects-79249795...

We at GitLab are trying to keep it simple by having only one repository, one wiki, one issue tracker, one CD pipeline, and one set of milestones per project. Projects always below to a group. We aggregate on the group level, for example issues https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/issues, merge requests https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/merge_requests and milestones https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/milestones.html#groups-a...

There are several things we're still considering to solve this problem better, comments are very welcome:

1. Multi project pipelines https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17069

2. Group level issue boards https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/928

3. Nested groups https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2772
OP's probably never been to a region so dry that people actually appreciate a bit of humidity. Living in a relatively humid region, it's easy to see humidity as a nuisance that no-one would actually desire.

I didn't get it until I first visited Las Vegas. Nosebleeds, and static electric shocks every time I touched a door handle.
Quit with the outrage; colored has not been the term for a half-century. If you're 80 and you don't have a television, I totally get it.

How exactly can you justify being so angry that someone was gently corrected?
I don't like the show - it's devolved into lazy one-sided caricaturing of 'progressive' causes - but the Make Love Not Warcraft episode still holds up as one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
OpenStack embraces Kubernetes
How much of this could have been solved by simply using compression? That is, instead of making up a new delta language, just store the full files, and let compression tools do their job.

I thought this was the definitive reason why git tracks full files, and not diffs. Turns out, that is just a better way to do things in most cases.
Take any racial media story...

From the Duke-lacrosse rape case, to the shooting of Michael Brown, the "clock boy", the black woman killed in jail, and everything in-between and beyond.

All proved to be false narratives.

The list is so large that I'm constantly surprised by the opinion that such a thing does not exist.
The ethnicity is relevant in that these 4 white officers give a bad reputation for other white officers.

Even Jesus acted out of anger, and it was righteous.
same. is this a selective process? i mean, can I allow access to my video card and but still not to the rest of the CPU/memory/storage?
I haven't seen it running yet, but just from reading the features page, I'm already a fan

https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/
I really hope Microsoft continues development on WSL until it's production-ready. Right now both piping and filesystem interop need a lot of work.
Why would a honest researcher mention downsides of his work in a paper. No, it was on twitter https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/51sr9t/dee...
So..."can't keep up" isn't a very good excuse for a term that has been considered offensive since before most of us here were born (at least 40 years).

We can be civil about calling attention to terms that are offensive, and hopefully people can accept that advice politely and without taking offense themselves.

"Can we all just relax a bit."

I think that's a great idea. Why don't we all just read the advice not to use "colored" to refer to people, sit with that knowledge (seemingly new for some folks), internalize it, and then move on with our day, with a sincere goal to not use that term in the future? Seems like a pretty relaxed approach to the problem, to me.

After all, that's all anyone usually wants when they call out something like this. When a black person says, "Hey, don't say nigger." They aren't demanding you be arrested on the spot. They're calling out behavior that's problematic, and relying on there being good faith effort on your part to be more polite in the future.
> Do you think this reflects more on this particular employer or unlimited time off policy?

Hmm not entirely sure. I've seen unlimited not work out very well for some of my friends as well so I feel like it's more of a reflection on the policy but it's all anecdotal. I think it can work out really well but only if there is a base amount of PTO (so you can get paid out when you quit / end of year) and if they require you to take a certain amount off.
It works, but you need to cherry-pick the hardware. I've seen GTA V running smoothly IN A VM with this configuration. The CPU must support VT-d, which my i7-4770k sadly doesn't. You also need a second GPU to use with the host operating system (nVidia Optimus for laptop users doesn't cut it).
Google voice search will make several guesses as to what I said. It will sometimes enter a nonsensical, but similar sounding phrase to what I intended into the text box, but will then figure out that it's first guess is nonsense and return the correct search result.

So just based on observation I would say it works pretty good. On mobile I almost always use voice search, and unless I'm searching for an italian name or something weird it almost always hears me correctly. Even in a noisy pub.
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To add to Eric's point - the goal over the long term is to flesh this stuff out and have both flexibility and multi-tenancy in Kube. OpenShift could be opinionated about security (no compromise) while for Kube we wanted to make sure we built first a system that was flexible enough to be used in many ways.

I think that was the correct choice, because most Kube deployments are still single ops team focused, and it was possible for CoreOS to build and integrate Dex without having to face a high bar.

It'll get more opinionated eventually :)
We really need to develop a parallel prosecutorial system which is only directed towards the police. So the only way to advance within it is to find and punish bad cops. The current incentives are all out of whack.
Yeah, I didn't read the part where he identified himself as a physician to the officers.

On the other hand ...

>It does appear the cops overreacted, but how could he expect anything but a negative reaction from the way he approached it?

"Stop resisting!" is goes beyond overreaction, it's conspiracy.
Cool! Here is the source code: https://github.com/elendirx/web2web
But my app doesn't wait on module dependencies - the code is bundled. It does wait on code parsing time (which no, I don't consider ideal) but that's a far cry from waiting on an async data download operation.

As far as I'm concerned, an explicit call to `ModuleB.loadData()` is far better than having it happen as part of module loading, without me necessarily being aware of it. Right now, module loading is assured to be synchronous, and losing that certainty seems like a bad idea to me.
I took it as basically nobody else used METAFONT.

I hate the conservative, everything is old and has been done view; however, it is easy to look at some of the original large projects that people chose to ignore and be amazed at what they were already doing. It isn't in XML, but METAPOST/METAFONT are two really really cool projects.
I think they could iterate on this to a place where projects are repository-specific, but still useful for high-level organization and planning.

For example, if they allowed repo projects to reference issues in other repos, that would you get you 99% of the way there. You could start a single meta-repository that referenced as many repo-specific issues as you cared to consider.
GiveCampus is looking for great Ruby engineers in DC, SF
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You can read more about what we do, and how we do it, in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...).

Our backend is Ruby on Rails, and we're looking people with the ability to jump right in.

Please email careers@givecampus.com with your resume, any past projects you're proud to show us, and a note about yourself to apply.

We are based in Washington, DC, and are looking for people here, in the SF Bay Area, or someone who wants to to move to DC.
Id love to do this, since I pretty much just need league of legends support. Only problem is, its a vm. How would windows 10 licensing thing work?
US cities are an order of magnitude more violent than cities in other countries, and there is major racial conflict (until fairly recently, police forces in majority black cities like DC were mostly white).
But so does a VPN when you use a VPN the VPN provider can see what you are doing, they are even in a better position to launch MItM attacks against you than many adversaries.
Ah, thanks for the info. I had no idea.

My first year of college was the first year my school shifted most departments' document recommendations to MS Word from TeX, so I never really used it for authoring. Spending a day playing trying to make something useful with it has been on my someday-list for... a depressingly long time.
It does, yes. Using a slow, external CDN is a bad idea for exactly that reason.
Does using speech multimodally with other input methods (touch, gesture, pen, clicker, game controller, even keyboard - may seem silly but speech is potentially faster at some tasks) still count as "primary" if the other input method is used supplementarily to help disambiguate?
What... the... hell..!? That's basically what they show on movies where the action stars have superhuman movement. Except, it's zergling's perfectly coordinating the demolition of siege tanks. Awesome demo of AI micro.