skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> a Nissan Skyline, is much more likely to be modified with non-permitted
modifications than the station wagon taking the kids to school. (a)

>> We know these cars are often modified, (b)

Note that those are not the same: (a) means "of all cars modified, more are
Nissan Skylines than station-wagons"; (b) means "of all Nissan Skylines many
are modified".

Police officers will want to know whether (b) is true, so that they can decide
whether stopping Nissan Skylines disproportionally often is justified.

Unfortunately, (b) really does not follow from (a). For instance, (a) is true
even if there are 0 modified station-wagons and a single modified Nissan
Skyline. If only a small fraction of Nissan Sklyines is modified, cops are
going to have to stop many, many Skylines before they hit one of the few
modified ones.

Even worse, the only way to know how many Skylines are modified is to check
each and every one of them (or stop "enough" of them and extrapolate).

On the other hand, cops will want to catch any illegally modified car. So
they have to wonder how many other modified cars they let slip by if they're
going after Nissan Skylines more than other cars.

If the cops wanted (or were able) to do proper data-driven policing or
whatsitcalled, they should make a list of all the types of car they found
modified in a particular time period, count how many times each type was
modified, divide by the total and go after the ones with the highest ratio,
and that only if the ratio is "high enough"- which again depends on exactly
how many cars were modified in that time period.

But of course, all this is hard to do and costly, so cops will go by instinct
and probably apply unwarranted prejudice- and get very sub-optimal results.
How it is a balance if expressiveness suffers?
> It is pretty readable, but really non-functional too

There are projects starting to fix that: https://github.com/asteris-llc/gofpher
He said that he used the avg view length on FB as a reason to choose that channel. If he had know that they didn't factor in <3 sec views he would perhaps not used that channel.
People are actually drilling holes into their iPhone 7 to make a headphone jack
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy [1] is a fascinating book and a short read.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Whatever-Happened-Explanation-Economi...
some legacy Windows server stuff - part of this could be rewritten to Linux/Go/whatever_server_lang just team mates are not willing to leave their comfortable VS env. if not provided with decent IDE/debugger
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The point is that an IP address is not part of a physical person in the same way that their race is.

Anyone can use my laptop and "have" the same IP as myself.

In truth, nobody "has" an IP address. A computer has an IP address. Who can tell who is using a particular computer at a given time just by looking at an IP address?

In that sense an IP address is a way, way more tenuous connection to a physical person than a description of (apparent) race and gender.
Great to make it look like someone took the time to do a bio about you because you're important, while it's just you writing. Lack of self-confidence if you ask me.
My main iusses:

-) A proper package manager. (no, go get is not enough. They have realized this and have a team coming up with a draft for an official one)

-) Well written, well maintained libraries that do proper releases. There are very few of those out there. Might get better with an offical package manager and ideally package repository a la npm/crates.io

-) Generics. This will help the previous point also. Often it's hard to write proper reusable libraries due to the lack of generics. And no, they didn't keep generics out because they are to complicated for the language users. They just (quote) "didn't find a good way to implement them", and big language changes like that are out of scope before 2.0.

-) Macros probably won't ever come, but if not, please at least give us a language construct that reduces error handling boilerplate. (Rust has some nice macros for that).
Riddle me this Morpheus...in your dystopian cypherpunk future, how are the employees of Foxconn or the miners of rare earth minerals in Africa going to compute their way out of their conditions?

Naïve apologist? I'm telling you that your efforts on "protecting freedom" are a way for you to feel superior about yourself while still participating in the same system as the rest of us. You put nothing on the line, and arguing with people who disagree isn't a sacrifice. (It's a privilege.) Believing this woo-woo is a trick that you play ON YOUR SELF to feel like you have some measure of influence on things that you know...and you do know, deep down...that you don't and this is all bullshit. VIM or EMACS don't make anyone actually more free. It's so fucking insulting that you think by being a shrill know-it-all on a message board that you are personally involved in the struggle for human freedom...AND I'M NAIVE?
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> 60 pound suitcase falling out of an airliner flying at 45,000 feet. Same amount of energy as that battery pack

You did not account for the terminal velocity of the suitcase. It cannot accelerate indefinitely because of the air resistance.

If I assume that the suitcase will not break the sonic barrier (which seems reasonable), I get an upper bound on its kinetic energy of

0.5 * 60 pounds * (1 mach)^2 = 0.41528548 kilowatt hours

according to units(1).
Show HN: CuriositY
Not really. It's very verbose compared to Python, almost like Java.
>routinely think of themselves as mere monkeys...nerd hazing

This phenomenon is also there. But I think, more prominent is the derogatory usage by others, especially when coining terms like <xyz> monkey. For that matter, I am Okay with critiques of tech/practices e.g. Javascript. But definitely don't like derogatory usages like calling the practitioners JS monkeys. Which was the case here. Difference between attacking techs/practices and people.
Ouch!

10x latency and 3x endurance might normally satisfy the "must be 10x better" criteria to break into an existing market, but with the maturity of flash, and how memory hierarchies can ameliorate useful sets of latency requirements, this could end up being a damp squib instead of the revolution promised. 1000x endurance would have been great, 3x, who will notice?

Not the first time Intel has grossly mismanaged its technology....
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>> If the same police are repeatedly exposed to a disproportionate amount of crimes being performed-by(or accused) by a specific group, then it would only be logical for them to naturally stop/search that specific group more often.

The "accused" part is the whole point. If police accuse a particular group disproportionally on the basis that they accused them disproportionally in the past, then we have a problem.

And that seems to be the case with racial profiling- that it builds upon the misconceptions of the past and therefore perpetuates them into the future.

It's really a case of GIGO, "garbage" in this case being historically prejudiced, and therefore bad, data on who should be suspected.

Of course, as others said, if you suspect and so search a particular group disproportionally often you may reasonably expect to also charge that group disproportionally often, even if that group has the same amount of perps as every othe group (which you leave well enough alone).
Police Use of Social Media Surveillance Software is Escalating
The map is interesting. I never knew the Aleutian Islands marked a former continental coastline.
No, they're not, and if you look at what pictures are actually being link you can start to understand it a bit more.

What the first result is returning is keyworded based on art discussions about European works. Relevant articles discussing the uniqueness of portraits of black people in rennaissance paintings are the results you're seeing. Likely it's the inclusion of "people" which is throwing the results, as you see a much "whiter" result set if you search "portraits of european" (plural or not doesn't matter). In fact, for the original search if you scroll down you begin to see the paintings and portraits you are expecting to see.

Basically, it's just keywording providing results you weren't expecting. The word that throws it is "people".

Edit: and in regards to why Yandex isn't showing it, it's because the top hits are from a russian artist's site, so they're just weighting russian sites higher. For whatever reason, people clicked to these images when they searched it on Yandex.

This is a non-story.
Let's say I'm running a site. It gets DDoSed. Almost all of the booters are behind Cloudflare. How do I proceed here? Call the local police? Email abuse@fbi.gov?

Most people just panic and start paying Cloudflare for protection. Pretty much for the same reason that most people pay into protection rackets instead of reporting them to law enforcement, because they're afraid and their livelihood is at risk.

Cloudflare also has this wonderful policy of forwarding abuse reports (with information on who reported) to the booter site in question. You can imagine the consequences of that from what just happened to Krebs for doing reporting on them.
Well, it could be done on the device, but doesn't iTunes need unencrypted access to the device to function normally?

(Though perhaps it ought not to.)
I mean, much of Graham's "investment philosophy" has been thoroughly invalidated by the Modigliani-Miller theorem published in the 1960s. But like Deepak Chopra, he's still around!
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Fair point, though there might an argument about content "curators" (clickbait websites for example), leeching off the production of amateurs who don't care about monetization.

Continuing on this line of thought:

I might be interested in some amateur production, genuine efforts borne from passion and dedication. I think actually that any effort to become a professional on this segment will make the creator distort their creative process. That's the cancer I'm talking about. It's not simply from the end-user point of view, but about the approaches that are made possible for people to reach out.

I don't want to condone this monetization scheme. I think advertisement is a bubble waiting to collapse (with rigged analytics and big players monopolizing revenues).

Using an ad-blocker prevent me from ever generating revenue streams toward this industry. I already pay for using the pipes on the Internet. My only concern is communities being able to strive, be it on obscure BBS, IRC channels, subreddits or specialized fora. Others, I wish they would disappear.
I need a link to an instance of this before i will believe it
Actually, that would be a good way to take all those insecure devices off the internet, or at least prompt someone to do something about it (even if temporarily, like hitting the
"factory reset" button) before reconnecting them.

Most countries don't allow cars on the road that are unsafe due to lack of maintenance. Perhaps it's time to do something similar for internet-enabled devices that cause serious harm to others. Hold the user, manufacturer, or network operator responsible for harm caused by their lack of maintenance.
It's a good question

If it's only related to iTunes then why does it only apply to iOS10?
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It doesn't seem all that unreasonable, yeah. If a user scrolls right past a video, should that really count towards the average?
Noo that's an overstatement.

Of course it's not as clean as Python, it's statically typed.

But type inference makes code way cleaner than your typical Java code (Javas type inference is improving, though).
Is this the creepiest use of facial recognition tech yet?
Lack of self-confidence if you ask me.

How do you figure? Every time I've been asked for a bio for a conference or similar, they've asked for it in third person. Reading bios in conference proceeding in first person would just come across as weird to me.
ROI from FB ads can only be calculated from tracking conversions on the advertiser's site or in their app. View count alone can never be attributed a ROI as there is no measurable return.

If you pay solely for video views on Facebook or Youtube without any tracking, you're not being a smart advertiser and it doesn't really matter if view counts are more or less correct - you're blindly throwing your money away.

If you do however track your ROI correctly it doesn't really matter how many true view counts you get.
None, really. It's mostly filters against common types of attacks at L3/L4, then OODA. Variations from normal get looked at and custom filters applied as appropriate.

And of course, there's lots of NOC to NOC back channel comms around this stuff constantly to stay relatively on top of things.
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You could say that it's not as common a problem and could be missed. But what do you say when the push notification is not working well with the new hotness and there is no fix. You need to uninstall, restart, install until the next update of your app is released and then you have to repeat that.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/49512
Thank you, I've actually been interested in the answer to this question for many years! Never was able to solve it via googling.
The successive editions of his books show a steady backing off of how wonderful their economy was as more and more facts about it couldn't be ignored.

At the very least he believed their BS statistics; it's been so long since I looked at this in detail (like the '80s), I'd have to re-do the research, but you should be able to find something on the net about it. But it was utterly disqualifying, at least if you have a policy of avoiding Gell Mann Amnesia: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...

Especially given how horribly difficult the topic of macroeconomics is, if you want to have a chance of getting it right there's no room at all for fundamental mistakes like his.
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I never said write no tests.

But static typing catches a lot of things otherwise only caught by tests.

Also, try Haskell. Haskell code that compiles works correctly sursprisingly often. ^^
That's a fallacious comparison. Blind people still have all the "hardware" for visual processing. It does add to their brainpower. They just use the same "circuits" for different purposes - case in point, only recently I think I saw this article on HN, http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/19/49459360...
Or, also pessimistically, that they know more about Intel's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno...

and its potential.
As a UI designer, I have a question for any Tesla owners out there.

Are the UI text and interface elements large enough?

They appear pretty small for their intended use in a busy and distracting car environment. I notice that with each revision they bump up in size and simplicity just a little, so maybe they're narrowing in on a more optimal size, but I probably would have started much larger and simpler. I've always been curious how it is to actually use in day to day driving.
Yes. All the stories I ear about software developed by traditional car makers confirm your point. Traditional car makers produce very bad software and have very bad organisation for software development.
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes from Peter Schiff:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes/dp/0470...

Very short read - economics basics from libertarian view.
You realize that what you're suggesting would make it impossible to prosecute most computer crime, right?
Note that the name of the unit is 'degrees Fahrenheit', but I agree - this could be something that started the tradition, which became stronger with new discoveries in physics and chemistry in 1800s.
It only has to be stronger than us in the field of building AIs (which isn't an area evolution shaped us to excel in). Same as chess engines beat us as chess while being dumb as doorknobs. Obviously chess heuristics is much simpler than building a high-level AI. But it's a matter of orders of magnitude - at the end of the day, it's still some sort of a narrow, technical task.
Traditionally, journalists and celebrities getting freebies get /better/ service than regular paying customers.

I don't see why being pro bono would matter in an established company?
I'm curious, what value do you gain from something like the Austin American Statesman? I assume the main goal here of the PR is really to get links back to your site, so a higher value site like Tech Crunch would get you a higher value link back. Or, am I wrong, and the real point here is that something just needs to come up when someone Google's your startup.
iOS 10 promises better video handling in Safari, but doesn’t deliver
i always think this kind of sites are there just to get email address that are supposedly "important" or "active"...
Geez... Thanks
Running campaigns on Facebook's advertising platform does seem to attract bots. It's not 80 % though and it's obviously not Facebook doing it. Why would they sabotage their own business?
Sounds like this one: https://jakearchibald.com/2014/dont-use-flexbox-for-page-lay...
Because one would think that it would be in CloudFlare's interest not to harbour criminals on their network. This logic seems to work almost everywhere else on the internet, including privacy friendly hosters in iceland. It's mostly just CloudFlare who replies to every abuse report with the same "WE R A REVERSE PROXY", no matter what the actual issue that was raised with them was.

If they were any smaller, their IP ranges would just go into the rogue-isp-blocklist, and that would be the end of that. But because they're mixing in the criminals with their normal customers, that's not really possible.

And since I am unlikely to be in any jurisdiction that CloudFlare is in, nor do I have any chance of finding out who these criminals are because CloudFlare is protecting them, going to the police here wouldn't really achieve much.
It's totally possible. Which isn't to say that it's easy. If you go down that road, be prepared to sacrifice your social life for several years.

The most frustrating thing will be going through basics that don't seem connected to your eventual goal of ML; this is potentially a long phase.

I'd recommend Khan Academy for the math basics. Schaum's Outlines series for lots of worked problems. I'd recommend Strang's MIT OCW videos and books for Linear Algebra. I first learned calculus from an economics book, probably best not repeated ;). Bishop's PRML book is a good source on probability, Bayesian stats and machine learning.

I did a part time MSc in applied stats while working full time. Even in the MOOC era, there's nothing like real exams to focus your efforts.
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Why would it be silly? If I have an ad that has double the average view time than other wouldn't it make sense to invest more in it and less in the second one?
> There are some indications that this attack was launched with the help of a botnet that has enslaved a large number of hacked so-called “Internet of Things,” (IoT) devices — routers, IP cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs) that are exposed to the Internet and protected with weak or hard-coded passwords.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Are there any examples of the FBI creating or enabling predators so they are able to hunt them?

If so, is this illegal, and if not, why?
It's funny how my mom after reading "record cyberattack" would be wondering how many poor people died but what it means is that somebody was downloading images from website many times.
If you're looking for the nuts and bolts on how capital markets around the world work this book is hands down the best there is.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Quantitative-Professionals-M...

Equities, Futures, Rate Swaps, Options, Credit, Treasury, Corporate, Municipal, Mortgage and Agency Bonds. Then the technology that supports it all.

It is not only a fantastic high level view, but it get granular enough to explain things like how US Treasuries prices quoted in 32nds of a dollar or how fixed income securities are identified by something called a CUSIP or what a strike price is for an option. Granular enough to explain practical day to day concepts that would help you at your first job in a financial firm.
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The problem is a lot of traffic is spiky if you look at it from the view of any given network provider to a site that isn't always getting traffic.

So distribute the DOS traffic enough and it will be very risky for providers to throttle it without appearing to be overall slow for a lot of legitimate traffic.

The other problem is determining what an "authorised request" involves. As it stands it is already a problem that people can - and now and again do - manage to mess up routing tables by sending broken route announcement, re-routing large address ranges to the wrong location.

Too much of internet routing still relies on a large amount of trust. We unfortunately need less of that, not more.

Eventually that might lead us to a situation where we could properly authenticate and authorise requests like what you suggest, but today it is high risk.
It is not excellent.
All other editors I used autoformat Go code after save.
There are two types of format provided by IDEA - IDE Format & go fmt. Both not ideal. IDE Format does not format code according go guidelines. It can delete unused imports if you go through options.
go fmt does not delete unused imports, and as result code is not compileble.

Refactorings are missing in IDEA.
It is not excellent, it is something you can work with.
You can bruteforce unsalted hashes by using rainbow tables.
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Because 665 is a bigger number than 10 and 40

:-)
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I think YC wants everyone to apply to get the complete picture/data about the startup market around the world which nobody currently has and has a lot of value. Like Google seeing what is happenning around the world with search and ads, you can leverage the startups you fund with better global information.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
He won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for his work in Behavioral Economics. I truly believe understanding human behavior and decision making is a key foundation to anything else you read in Economics.

This book changed my life, I highly recommend it.
>> As long as the police don't falsify reports that exaggerate those numbers, and behave in a civil manner towards complying citizens, then it should be "okay".

Another objection: there's no good reasons for police to be un-civil, even if someone is not complying. If the citizen is being a bit difficult and the police office responds in kind you can bet the situation is going to get out of hand - and who knows where it will stop? And because it's the officer that has the clear upper hand in an aggression situation (they can call backups, and their backups can call backups -with armored cars) it's the officer that has to remember to put their personal feelings aside and be professional.

Also, cops aren't the only ones who have to deal with rude and unprofessional behaviour at work. Everyone learns to deal with that sort of thing and the best way is always to set your ego aside and avoid escalation.

It takes two to tango and all that jazz.
Beautiful use of TikZ there! Thanks for sharing!
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Why do you have to bring gender norms into this.
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