skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment about being uncharitable was more part of the wider context of my comments, not directed at you in particular. (There were some common threads to complaints about my posts; I wanted to address them one place so I could reference it. The medium gives a certain incentive to "speak to the crowd" so your posts read as a consistent voice, rather than several conversations.)

> I think that "small percentage" that is attributable to the color of their skin is significant and not to be dismissed

It's not nothing, that's true. However, it's a smaller effect this decade than it was last decade, and the one before that. So it's going away if we just stay the course. We've got that problem not solved, but solving. (Well, as far as I can tell from the data, anyway.)

The issue of how the police respond to class is a much bigger issue (at present), which isn't getting better over time (and might be getting worse).

I can only deal with so much, so I think we should focus on the ongoing, growing problem that impacts everyone rather than the smaller, already improving problem that impacts just some people. I think the focus on "racism" in the policing is distracting from that -- it's treating the last 5% as the main 95% of the problem -- and worse, splits the two biggest demographics on a topic they really should align on.

It's not that the racist component is unimportant -- it's that it's just considerably less important than the underlying problem, so while they're right about there being racism, they're wrong about racism being the problem with the police. There'd still be a problem with the police killing blacks even if it were at the same per capita rate as whites! (And arguably, it already is under the "equal" rate, and police should kill more blacks to be "fair" or "not racist".)

> So how do you propose to magically solve their poverty if that is "the real issue"? Because from where I sit as a homeless person, that comes across as an excuse to not deal with racism, which is real and does have an impact.

I don't propose to magically solve their poverty. I expect to incrementally chip at the causes and traps while hundreds of thousands or millions suffer and die needlessly, because economic and social shift is hard. But there are economic policies we know of that can address poverty, and we are making in-roads at that problem, even if it's been hard.

My argument is that telling police who are already responding to economic and cultural incentives, not racial ones "don't shoot them because of their skin" does absolutely nothing, and worse than nothing if it discharges our emotional energy we might have used to tackle the real issues with class instead. In that way, correctly identifying the cause helps us even if we can't do anything about it directly -- at least we're still mad about it, instead of thinking it's all good when really, things will continue to deteriorate.
It's ridiculously bad mustache-twirling dialogue that compares poorly to the grunts of an orc.
NSLs are likely not the case here with Yahoo (and in fact are not the most significant privacy threat, IMHO). An NSL is a demand from the FBI, not a court order. NSLs also have unique First Amendment vulnerabilities that would help a company choosing to publicize receiving one.

A FISA court order, which can force you to do much more than NSLs, is the more significant operational threat to Internet companies. These court orders typically have "do not disclose" provisions. Willfully violating that court order will almost certainly result in contempt charges.
I've seen plenty of EOS 7Ds and 5D Mk II/IIIs with Canon kit lenses on them (of the ~$200 3.5-6.3 variety). I've personally had to tell people who came to me for purchase advise to buy either the 'enthusiast' or 'pro' tier lenses and completely ignore the bottom end.

Too many people "blow their wad" on the body and then find themselves only able to afford a couple of hundred more for a lens, rather than investing in the glass and upgrading the body (which will get upgrades every few years).

So unfortunately, I can absolutely believe that.
Just out of curiosity, you studied Latin in the US? And have you read Cicero?

Since we are quoting Wikipedia:

"The concepts and vocabulary from which vulgare latinum descend were known in the classical period and are to be found amply represented in the unabridged Latin dictionary, starting in the late Roman republic. Marcus Tullius Cicero, a prolific writer, whose works have survived in large quantity, and who serves as a standard of Latin, and his contemporaries in addition to recognizing the lingua Latina also knew varieties of "speech" under the name sermo. Latin could be sermo Latinus, but in addition was a variety known as sermo vulgaris, sermo vulgi, sermo plebeius and sermo quotidianus. These modifiers inform post-classical readers that a conversational Latin existed, which was used by the masses (vulgus) in daily speaking (quotidianus) and was perceived as lower-class (plebeius)."

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

Wiki:

"Philological analysis of Archaic Latin works, such as those of Plautus, which contain snippets of everyday speech, indicates that a spoken language, Vulgar Latin (sermo vulgi ("the speech of the masses") by Cicero), existed at the same time as the literate Classical Latin. The informal language was rarely written, so philologists have been left with only individual words and phrases cited by classical authors and those found as graffiti."

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

Wiki:

"The written Latin of today, as used for Church purposes, does not differ radically from classical Latin. Study of the language of Cicero and Virgil suffices adequately for understanding Church Latin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin#Compariso...

And finally, to quote what I quoted another user in this thread:

"But you are right, Cicero is Classical Latin. However, we were taught a mix of Latin that is kind of like what this Wiki says:

'The Latin of the panegyrics is that of a Golden Age Latin base, derived from an education heavy on Cicero, mixed with a large number of Silver Age usages and a small number of Late and Vulgar terms.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panegyrici_Latini#Language_and...

'Silver Age' is what I probably should have said instead of strictly Late and Vulgar, which are both technically different terms, but which were also taught in my Latin courses."
Mesh-based Device Triangulation
When I finally ended on the IDE page, I realized how the vast majority of these "5-10"+ year veterans were very primitive developers. If you're using Sublime or Atom for Javascript development, I would say that you've spent too long working in and around these ever-changing tools without a useful IDE.
The presence of buses inherently makes other forms of transportation worse. Buses will often kill cyclists. Buses intrude on crosswalks and honk their horns at people who dare cross the light.

The presence of pedestrians inherently makes other forms of transportation worse. Pedestrians commit most murders. Pedestrian intrude on spaces for motor and bicycle traffic. They cross the street without thought for other traffic.

I could go on.
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Certainly: http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/02/zonings-racist-roots-s...

I don't think that's the whole story though.
Gross also recommended that folks tune in to Glenn Beck for even more savvy financial advice.
If you are not modeling causality, then why do you have an "Impact on Installs" metric next to each asset size?
Sure, people who don't like cities shouldn't live in cities, but why restrict density within cities?
Translated a book [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_metallica
Well, if you're Google in 2010, the answer was "stop putting any servers in China, and accept getting blocked by China."
https://www.save4chan.org/
It's been a while since I've seen this talk. Hasn't this talk been accused of being bullshit or am I remembering it wrong?
Add mid block cross walks too, or just allow pedestrians everywhere unless there's an emergency vehicle.
Yeah, like not wanting to walk five fucking miles into the city everyday when there's a perfectly usable road.
I always thought it was "in tents and porpoises".
> Right, but how do you tell (not speculate) that this is the case here, and not - for example - the Panama Papers?

From a single data point? You don't.

You need to be able to gain the same information from other sources to corroborate it, and weighted based upon trust criteria. A known good trustworthy source in your web of trust outweighs neutral sources. A series of confirmations from other, disparate, seemingly-trustworthy sources that do not have a likely bias toward the information also count positively.

At the end of the day some part of it is subjective, yes, but you can gain confidence in the accuracy of a source with third-party corroboration.
They might not know how big an app is but if an app takes too long to install they might cancel and try another one.
> I have a lot more trust that taxi laws can be reformed than that a large amoral corporation [...]

Taxi companies are large amoral corporations too. And if we were going to reform Taxi law (not to build higher walls, but to help drivers) we'd have done it a century ago, so I question that trust.

> the fact is that your views on which is better for drivers are not shared by drivers.

> Even if you think Uber is better for drivers

Which drivers? The Uber drivers I've talked to have liked the easy hours and no-hassle shift selection - including the ability to wait for surge pricing. They love the risk-free factor in that they get a percentage of every dollar earned, without having to hit a minimum like a cabbie. (Not to mention the concept of going in the hole.) None of them considered themselves a career driver, they all have a reason for being between other jobs.

I've spoken to two groups of cabbies, those who rent a medallion, and those who own (a share of) a medallion. The owners dislike Uber in the same way they'd dislike a new competitor coming in and doubling the number of cabs in the city. The renters see Uber/Lyft/etc as just another boss.

I've never talked to an employee driver who was upset by ridesharing companies.
The whole Buran spacecraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) was designed using Drakon
hello, I'm trying to build a tool for fetching Whatsapp profile picture from number can you try it?

(feedbacks with your whatsapp privacy settings are appreciated)
> > Maximizing shareholder value is like a death grip that squeezes any public corporation into not making financial gambles on ethical grounds.

> Will this meme never die on HN? There is an obvious counter-example: Apple, a public corporation who publicly fought a similar request.

This is a poor example to use to disprove the claim; Apple used the FBI encounter to prove to customers that they were tough on security, a component of their value proposition to a segment of the customer base.
I don't see why squad didn't sell KSP before it came out of beta. They are probably not going to give it the attention it needs, leading to bad publicity. Meanwhile, I'd venture game companies'd be willing to pay a pretty nice sum for it.
BBC: Are killer bots about to do away with smartphone apps?
I'm wondering which telecom wound up winning the contracts and complied. They obviously went somewhere else instead.
Yahoo is a public company, it has to follow SOX which requires a security policy to be followed.
Seems the answer is pretty obvious. Strap a thing to your face style VR is never going to be mainstream.
Does the Go standard library document that on any function like you are expecting?

The code for both functions make it pretty clear that an error will only be returned if the input is invalid, which is not something that will occur with the known constants being fed into them.
It was the same hardware, with a different headline feature. This _is_ part of the onhub ecosystem, and onhubs will be able to be a part of this mesh.
>of sound-mind

How do we determine this? What's a sound mind? One may argue that if one wants to die they, by definition, aren't in a sound mind and need mental health services instead.
Sad and unfortunate, but I expect KSP has left an influential mark on space related games for years to come. For example, see the orbital mechanics segment of Children of a Dead Earth [1].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiIh4Xw2bnQ
So we could conclude that, on the basis of the non-faked information out of Guccifer 2.0 that likely this information hasn't been forged either.

But we should look to corroborate that information in addition to corroborate information from the Panama Papers, given the importance and implications of the information and the incentives for the sources to alter and selectively leak information.
That's basically just legalizing the current behavior!
iPhone or Android.
I don't know; I wondered about that too. But this proviso hardly seems to come up at all in what I read, and that's interesting -- I wonder how often unusual wills get carried out to the letter.
The argument about culdesacs is that they don't allow traffic to flow. They create tiered street systems with feeder roads. "Hip" urbanists are always on about how that's a bad thing. These superblocks do the exact same thing.
> No, it can't.

I think some supporting evidence would be good in your post. Is there some kind of market failure at work here? Absent regulations preventing it, I see no reason people couldn't build a parking garage or something. Here's a parking garage in the oldest, densest part of Padova, where I used to live: https://goo.gl/maps/sS3dds2h3yt - it's not cheap (they use an elevator system!) but someone built it and operates it at a profit.
That seems to be fixed, thanks mods.
There is no God. But there is the life FAQ. https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/confessions-of-a-necromancer/co...
This is not a (legal) option where we live. He was also taken by the state and is under the full control of the nursing home where he is in palliative care.
So the main team that made KSP is now all available on the job market?

Who dose not immediately hire that team en masse has missed a huge opportunity.
User has device at 95% capacity. User tries to download app. If the app is under lets say 40mb, it installs. If app is over 40mb, user gets "please make room for app" alert. User loses interest, app is not installed. I know I have done this before, has anyone else?
Get names and types of a Python module's attributes
This is part of Onhub, which can be a part of the mesh, and they both use the same app.
Advocate for reality: they don't mean shit in bigger scheme of things since virtually nobody uses them. So secret groups put less effort into them. Yahoo, Gmail, Lavabit, various IM's... all were in the Snowden leaks as SIGINT-enabled through taps, black bags, or "FBI coercion." If Whisper got that important, I think we'd see bad stuff happen to the company or Moxie.

So, enjoy the added protection from nation states of low uptake if you're using it. :)
Vector representation of symbols, concepts, terms, image chunks, thoughts or words along with the unique ways to construct the feature attributes for these vectors and calculations for similarity between them. Essentially, new ways of mimicking human cognition without built-in rules. See also Computational Theory of the Mind (CTM)
I'd like to see that for desktop apps too. Particularly browsers and productivity ones.
Why the boss wants you to build that Software in-house?
See, the thing is, if the company had a way to encrypt all communications so that they couldn't read it, they wouldn't be in this position :\
True, but unlike other commodities it's easy to take a long position on gold with ETFs like GLD which actually store the physical gold. For other commodities (like oil with ticker USO) it's not so simple to take a long position. The best you can do is trade options, with the added risk of a contango market.
it's not that terrible in languages with abstraction
OpenBSD 6.0 Signed CD set sold for $4,200
I wonder if there's specific hardware needed to make a phone Daydream enabled or if it's just to draw people to the Pixel/future Android phones.
Could you make the title more informative? And can someone give the background on Kerbal and why this is significant?
Some were US based developers who could have gotten more money as dish washers. I don't get this.
Please look up redlining.
Are there any instructions? It took me a long while to figure out how to drop pins (the placeholder text says you have to press Enter, but you actually need to use the mouse), and now I have no idea how to display the route.
I don't know if what you said is right, but I have been basically relaying what my Latin professors have taught me and what I, as an A-student in Latin, have learnt, yet I am being downvoted. A similar thing happened to me when I started talking about Latin American literature and history.

I'm assuming most people here have gotten their information off the Web and have a very one-sided view of whatever they have decided they have attained "knowledge" on.
I knew I'd read this somewhere before!
I'm not sure what about the iPhone needs to be killed? As far as I know it's not got the majority market share? If they're talking about the ecosystem where iPhone is definitely making a killing, then they need to work on their software more than their hardware.
Yes, it does, where the guarantee exists: e.g. https://golang.org/pkg/bytes/#Buffer.Write

Looking at the implementation is no guarantee that the implementation won't be changed in future.
Wouldn't your #2 help your #1. By making sprawl, we sell more cars, and build more roads.
He meant well....
Why Venture Capitalists are hesitant to invest in solo founders
Randy Pausch's Time Management lecture is also great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tim1sjY7q8
> > Mayer was probably too new and too scared to deal with this, especially when she had to think about her new baby.

> OK, I normally think misogyny claims are over-blown and people are way too sensitive. But your comment positively reeks of misogyny. Rather than go for a down-vote, because you're able to edit your comment, I think you should reconsider the phrasing and delete the misogyny.

Having newborn twins at home could certainly be a factor in any CEO's willingness to make an ideological stand in the face of jail time, regardless of the CEO's gender. Plus there's a wealth of feminist writing about the potential for gender disagreement when it comes to this very question, going back to Kohlberg, Gilligan, and an imaginary guy named Heinz.[1]

FWIW, I do agree that any privileged group should be conscientious when discussing others who might sometimes feel like or be seen as outsiders, and that this applies to guys in tech. But your comment seems a bit over the top and risks shutting down discussion about an important topic... whether the government took advantage of the fact that Mayer had newborns at home when they pressured her to comply.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages...
Another reason for users and enterprises alike to avoid US companies and services. And another reason for entrepreneurs to start companies outside the US - escape the stigma, escape the potential clash with secret courts.
I'm no gold-bug.

It's value is relatively stable.

The fact that it is a commodity, or that it is not a currency, has nothing to do with its value.

It is special, in the sense that is is both a precious metal and an industrial metal, and it is also a common store of value, i.e. gold reserves.

Many incredible, valuable things are "dug from the ground."

Gold is not a bad investment as part of diversified portfolio.

To justinlardinois's point, the stability and risk duaneb refers to, are reasons fearmongers encourage divesting other holdings in to gold in times of instability.
Impact can exist regardless of the underlying cause for impact. It may be because someone's device is full, or does not want to download over cellular, or any other myriad of factors. But you'll still lose an install statistically speaking.
It's not hard. Just figure out what your costs would be on dedicated or colocated hardware. Then multiply by 10.
OpenTTD is a re-implementation of TTD, though. OpenKSP would be the equivalent (which doesn't exist).

Quake 3 Arena is a better example, which has open source code but proprietary graphics. OpenArena is the open variant.

Or HoverRace, where the developer released the source code but extremely late. The game was abandoned around 2000, community dead by 2004ish, and code released a few years after that. Too late to really save it, but it was still nice to play now and then.
I have not specifically studied the policies stated in this piece to be 80 years old and credited to Herbert Hoover's administration, but those policies should date to the 1930's and the Great Depression. I know that one of the things they did during The Great Depression was just tried stuff, often crazy sounding stuff, and hoped something worked because things were so desperate. A lot of counterintuitive things did help, thus they stuck around. No one has really studied if some of those things were a good idea in that specific time and place versus were a good idea generally.

I have studied housing history in th US dating to about WW2. I have written a number of long comments in various places on the internet and injected a bit of that into some blog posts. I get tired of repeating myself (and being mostly ignored), but the nutshell version is that poor people went to war, savings rates during the war were as high as 50% for some parts of the war, and the soldiers came home with money in the bank and military benefits that helped them buy houses and go to college. So there was enormous and unprecedented housing demand and the nation as a whole rose up to meet it at impressive speed. The demand was for family detached homes and it gave birth to the modern suburb. Since then, our demographic has differentiated while our housing policies, ideals, and financing mechanisms have converged on this one standard that served the nuclear family well but does not serve our current population well.
I've witnessed several family members die of terminal cancer. All received adequate palliative care and did not suffer.

But thanks for your concern.
It's a complex emotion, and we don't have good tests to measure any but the most basic emotions in infants. But we do have good indicators that 12 month old babies show empathy.

As well as dogs. Dogs have empathy, even for humans.

So yeah, the idea that an 18 year old is struggling with an emotion that babies and dogs don't have much trouble with is a silly proclamation IMO.
Just for everyone focusing on gimmicky features, this is an OnHub, which are intended to just work.

Under the hood, they run ChromiumOS, including things like trusted boot (yes, this home router has a tpm), and the A/B partitions so when you get an automatic update, (which happens during a time of low bandwidth usage), it reboots into the new version in about 6 seconds. The security team is awesome: they pushed an update to all onhubs within 48 hours of public disclosure of a critical RCE earlier this year.

There has been some slowness to expected features, like ipv6, but the PMs have been clear about their goal: they won't include a feature that's buggy. It's exactly what you want in a piece of infrastructure.
I agree teaching people how to memorize better is extremely useful. When I was a kid my SAT score jumped a couple hundred points after someone taught me how to use mnemonics (e.g., "mundane" is boring just like "mondays"). But it didn't change the fact that I was still just memorizing a list of vocab rather than learning them naturally in context by reading more.
The government has clearly pushed sprawl by discouraging or in some cases outlawing mixed-use urban development. People have clearly always had (and should have) the choice to migrate out of cities, but they should also have the choice to live in small town or urban style developments too.