skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally, the focus on murder rates is flawed for a few reasons:

1) Murders are not evenly distributed in most (all?) cities. In Chicago, for example, violence is heavily concentrated in certain areas. That means it's not a generalized problem yet this app doesn't address that clustering in a meaningful way.

2) Murders are not the crime that most people will feel comfortable intervening in – and, arguably, not one that is most high-value to report in the moment – unless you're focusing on armed, trained responders – who are likely going to be Police (unless we're getting into militia here and that's a whole different discussion). Instead, less violent offenses seem more manageable as a starting point. What if a purse snatching was reported?

To be honest, I'm still not sure what value the app provides – generally speaking, this looks to encourage mob justice which is fraught with risk of mistaken identity and violations of individual rights.

For the creators – what, specifically, are you looking for members of the public to do?

This strikes me as another one of the AWARENESS!! "solutions" – assuming that awareness is the problem – honestly, especially in crime solving, I don't think that's the issue. Awareness of identifiable precursors to crime? That'd be really useful (what they are, I have no clue). Awareness of active shooter situations? Also useful – but much more rare and less about fixing an more about avoiding for the general user...
It's what I kept telling the OpenBSD and grsecurity people. These tactical defenses that ignore root causes usually get bypassed over time. Maybe a pile of them will stop attackers. Maybe attackers just don't care due to market share. In any case, it's best to either address the root causes or make mechanisms so strong you can almost guarantee they'll contain problems.
If you don't discriminate when it comes to languages, I can recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way". It's an excellent book that gets you writing code right from the start.

Here's the free book in HTML form:

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

You can also buy a PDF version that comes with several hours of Zed doing the exercises. I bought that just because I liked the content as I prefer text, but you might have different tastes so here's the link:

https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
This news comes out one week after Comcast informed me they'd be enabling an arbitrary 1 TB data cap. I have to get out of Florida, I guess.
With under 600 training examples I doubt it would be able to generalize well on unseen data.
Anybody who claims to be going for an executive position through front-door recruiting is a rando. Look at the SVPs at Google and look at how they got that job. Either they have been at Google since the dawn of man, or they came in through major acquisitions, or they were personally recruited by Larry Page.
This was posted earlier today and got a few upvotes before being removed for likely being too political, or perhaps someone is right about the media being rigged.
China are also in the situation where their depedence on coal and their poor current record in cleaning up industrial output makes the negative effects of the status quo much more noticeable.

When the West reached that stage, renewable power was less of a consideration and option, and so we opted for emissions standards and similar than brought the noticeable effects down to tolerable levels, and we are paying for it now in weaker support for putting in place a proper fix.
After seeing the Surface Studio, it's hard to imagine what Apple can produce that will compete on the "wow" factor tomorrow, even if the Studio ends up not quite delivering for its price. It definitely set a bar for what we might expect with an innovative brand. I say this as a long time Apple customer who would actually just be fine if they released a new external monitor. I haven't been able to find a decent non-Apple monitor that doesn't exhibit wonky behavior when connected to my MBP (this includes the small things, such as responding to the Brightness function key)
Apple release iPhone 7, which is then eclipsed somewhat by Google Pixel.

MS announce this immediately before the MacBook announcement.

Conclusions are that (a) Apple are leaky and (b) rather than _avoid_ Apple announcements, their competitors are now happy to compete with them. A bad sign for Apple.
From reading daily summaries of the Podesta emails, the email server is just one of many felonies this enterprise has been committing.

The corruption of the political machine laid bare. I'm sure the emails of every party in the world would reveal similar shenanigans; which really makes a mockery of the rule of law.
That doesn't make any sense. If the US were split into the 50 states, you would have to get 50 governments separately to agree to carbon regulations, instead of one. Same with China or with any other large country.

Also, a large country is likely to have regions that will lose big in case of global warming, while other regions are indifferent or even stand to gain. The large country's single government has reason to oppose global warming in that case, which means that it can put all of its diplomatic weight on the side of global warming countermeasures. And once countermeasures were agreed to, they can be enforced across the entire country. If it were split up into smaller countries, the ones that will be less affected by global warming have an incentive to avoid countermeasures so they can exploit their competitive advantage there.
.NET Core is the equivalent to mono. However the .NET Core libraries were a bit painful to port to since they were limited. So they are expanding this with .NET Standard - which is an API specification - which you can use and work across all .NET platforms (.NET Framework, .NET Core, or Xamarin).

Keep in mind it sounds like .NET Standard basically is between the full .NET Framework and .NET Core. So if you have an existing .NET Framework app it's very possible it would just work on .NET Standard.
I like the book. However, I wonder how effective it is in the long run. Is it legitimate or is it just selling a dream?

A while ago I posted a question on all the top reviews of the book on Amazon: After 6 months/1 year, is their house still tidy, or was it not really sustainable? Very few responses, but I think one person said it was sustainable, and no one said it wasn't.
it is an improvement but when i am in these situations i usually grab the first library out there.
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The problem with Reddit is its bigger than the Dunbar number so its possible to predict there's going to be severe problems with politics and censorship (and hey, golly, it turns out there is!).

Meanwhile in the Slashdot 90s a weblog discussion type site took a lot of money and an entire corporation to kinda run, but in the 10s a splinter group like Soylent News takes like three part time dudes, if that much, to serve up more than Slashdot ever did in the 90s.

So anything big automatically leads to political problems and 20 years ago, or even today, people just have to tolerate it, but as technology advanced eventually you'll be able to do more than reddit does with a simple $30 model 2025 raspberry pi and a sd card, so people will just move there instead.

Or rephrased the primary network effect of sharing Reddit is the joy of being a victim of raids from SRS, so people will be quite happy to leave.

Also I'd say we have very few TV shows because of expense and the resulting risk aversion. We have many nearly identical shows none worth watching. If the cost of TV shows scaled downward with technology we'd have some pretty interesting diversity of TV shows, but we don't.
What compiler does is equivalent to what a contractor does - building. The machine code emitted from the compiler is the building.
Switzerland uses a similar model, where any provider can sell services on the FTTH network that many communities are building out.

See e.g. https://www.fiber7.ch/ for a very attractive provider :).
> Or that that whole thing was just a ploy by leftists to seize power.

Well that's a particularly ridiculous theory.
That's a good question, and the mobile market is cutthroat when even companies like HTC/Samsung/Lenovo etc is struggling to survive.

However I think Microsoft has a lot of synergy good both on the gaming side with Xbox and on the business side with Office/Sharepoint/Outlook etc, not to mention that Windows still is the most popular OS.

Now I tend to agree with Nadella's "be everywhere"-strategy but that doesn't mean they can put everything into Microsoft services and software being the best on their own devices. I think the fact they're doing xbox games that are free to use on PC's is a good example of such synergy.

In the end selling hardware is never going to be what they earn money on, but rather they need to be a hardware actor so that they profit off their app store/software/services.
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Poor Peter Thiel, he just wanted to get in the game of bribing politicians.
You didn't try the Surface Pro long enough. I have Pro 4 i5 and it's been quite buggy (while it's awesome enough when it works so I don't mind since it seems to work most of the time).

The biggest issue for me is the battery. After filling it with juice it's down to bare minimum in couple of hours.

The second biggest issue for me is the windows update policy - I put the machine to hibernation, and when I come back the windows update has rebooted the machine and shut down my development environment.
Is your only complaint that the recruiter went silent? Or is that only one part of the problem? Because it wasn't clear to me from your description what else went wrong during the process for you to conclude that they have bad recruitment practices.
I think non-competes should only be legal if the controlling entity pays the affected person's full salary for the period of the non-compete. As far as I'm concerned, if you want to control what a worker does you need to pay the worker for the privilege. And prepared to bet if such a thing was the law there would be significantly fewer non-competes in place.

And yes, am aware that once you get far enough into the management structure this can be negotiated. I just want it to be the default arrangement for everyone.
"The mentality of "if your opinions don't align with mine, you should be silenced and banned" is the exact reason that I began moving away from the Left, despite still considering myself socially liberal."

Being banned on social media or not invited to a conference isn't illegal since your free to speak and associate with whom you wish. If Twitter/Facebook or some private organization doesn't want to associate with you doesn't mean you're forced to not speak. You just can't speak with or through them.

As for the rest of your comment it just smacks of naivety of someone who's not studied political history. First, classical liberalism use to be the left but ceased to be the left the moment it shifted rightward toward sympathizing with fascists as what happened in countries like Germany under the Weimer Republic. Second, left-wing groups that you deem extreme in the United States are fairly moderate in terms of global left-right politics. Asking for LGBT people to be added to the protected classes under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 isn't extreme. If such legal extensions are extreme to you then you need to ask yourself if you're actually a liberal and not some Burkean libertarian conservative.
> If you could go from bridge design in CAD to actual working bridge in meatspace in ~30 seconds and for $0.01 then yeah, there'd be millions of horrible, horrible bridges EVERYWHERE.

That's a fantastic and well made point. It's akin to the cost of communications dropping over time. When moving words around the world was expensive people tended to stick to the important stuff, but now that the cost has essentially dropped to 0 we are drowning in irrelevant information.

> If it were possible to make software better, faster, cheaper by just imposing some discipline, why haven't dozens of companies done so and taken over the world?

Because the it likely is more than just 'some discipline' and because the market forces are working against you, after all nobody even expects software to be reliable so your competitor going to market with unreliable junk will eat your lunch if you slow down long enough to get it right, assuming you know what to build in the first place.
There are a number of legal constructions -- non-competes, mandatory binding arbitration, civil asset forfeiture, and even plea bargains -- that simply should never have been allowed to exist because they are obviously fraud/theft/abuse/coercion and it's mind boggling that the nearly all of the "esteemed" "scholarly" attorneys and judges who represent the elite of the elite in our society have worked themselves through the mental contortions required to simply accept that the status quo is essentially criminal from a moral perspective and that's okay because that's just how it is.
Because a lot of stuff gets written several times. Doesent matter wether its agile or waterfall, and i dont care who started it - customers or software-engineering, wether the rewrite happened before roll out, or while the thing was already in the wild. Software development takes so long, because we tear down what we build and redo it, alot of times over.
if you get the job make sure it doesn't happen to the next person.
Care to elaborate? Does he go into this?
Like with any BigCo, there are always bad apples (recruiters) and things slip through cracks. But compared to other similar sized companies, Google is quite focused on improving their interview processes. You can find lots of resources online from Google employees explaining it. The one I found very enlightening is from Moishe Lettvin given at Etsy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RxkpUvxK0

My own personal experience couple of years ago was good. I failed the interview though.
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>Non-competes allow employees to get training they otherwise would not get.

Yeah, because employers refuse to train employees unless they sign a non-compete. It's not that they are unable to provide training, it is that they are unwilling. If Non-competes are banned, then they can start providing better training to more workers because there's no more needless red tape...

>A non-compete allows a company to make an investment in you (in the form of training) with some assurance that you will not immediately turn around post-training and go work for a direct competitor.

Then why to most non-competes extend 2 years after you leave a company, and why do they get applied to workers who have been with a company for years? You, like many others in this thread, seem to be confusing "experience", a thing the employee owns, with "training" and "know-how", things the employer owns.
Google called me back and let me know that they position they were hiring for was filled and that they would keep my information on file.

Have been getting their recruiters calling every 6 months since, and that was almost 8 years ago now.
Eventually, they will be able to transfer music and song style from one artist to others too.

I wonder what is the point to have artists in the future and how the artists can survive?

Will artist become template markers?
How to boost productivity?
Suggest me some books.
I'm kind of sad that the top comment on HN is about a part of Microsoft that has nothing to do with this new and frankly exciting piece of technology =(

As for the "how can they", the answer is remarkably simple: it's hurting their bottom line and there's no indication that a better strategy exists in the markets they're active in. If you don't understand why they don't just pour resources into mobile: resources are finite, and Microsoft is not the powerhouse it once was. Budget is allocated based on return of investment, why invest in a segment that you can see failing year over year. The best call is to wind it down and make new and exciting things that people didn't even know they wanted instead.

This new Surface Studio is a remarkably good step in that direction.
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What are they choosing for?
Music plays when I open the app for the first time, despite my ringer being off.

It certainly looks like a cool idea, although it says my area isn't covered yet.
There's nothing wrong with inexpensive food. You should try the bagel and schmear in nyc, and if you haven't had pork belly buns, tacos de lengua, or pupusas con curtido you should drop what you're doing and fix that. All of those are amazing. Pupusas, in particular, are pork and cheese in a pancake.

Cabot cheese is the best cheddar though? That's fighting words if you grew up near Wisconsin. If you're ever near there go to Bobby Nelson Cheese Shop. The aged cheddar is amazing and they make their sausage.
"With sufficient code bloat, all bugs are deep."

That's an interesting statement. Might have to think on it. While we're on secure kernels, did you ever have any experience with the ASOS system or hear about it from someone who did? It was the only Ada OS aim for A1 class that actually got delivered far as I can tell from papers. Then info disappears into a black hole. Be interesting to find out how well it worked or didn't as putting a modern version of that in a container or on top of seL4 might be worth trying.

Note: MaRTE OS is an Ada-based, open-source RTOS still in development and use. Not security-focused, though. Muen is just a separation kernel. A secure one could draw on them a bit.
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In your video: "This is a real app, and these are real users."

What does that even mean?

"Real users" in this case means you downloaded a copy of the app onto their phone, before you started directing the actors?
Yeah, I have noticed this as well. In fact, I don't have OSX on my 2010 MBP pro at all. It only has Windows 7 on it.
Sorry but unless this is a glorified exec office decoration, professionals care about the specs very much, especially at that resolution and price tag
I think it's the other way around: being unhappy makes you unhealthy.
In general, democracies have corruption problems, the US doesn't seem any worse than the median.
For instance, a recent article in The Advocate stated he was no longer a part of the LGBTQ community for supporting Trump: http://archive.is/kTlTL

Also, Facebook endured alot of external backlash for continuing to have him on the Board, so much that Facebook had to release a statement to address it: http://s13.postimg.org/ohe1sci6f/mmexport1476831885441.jpg
It can be problematic. Many leaders of companies think programming is a matter of typing. We've had a monumental fundamental shift in the workplace from repetitive physical labor (manufacturing) to mental labor, and the workplace has not caught up at all. They're still using the same structures and practices honed to perform well in manufacturing contexts. Human beings have very different needs and capabilities when it comes to mental work. But we still drop people in a big noisy open floor plan office, expect 8+ hours a day of continuous exertion, and load daily schedules up with distraction.
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I'm being audited since I took both (according to the IRS letter and the agent I've met with); I'm not the only one at my job. Maybe that's anecdotal but it's happening.
That was so on the money. This happens to me too. My financial advisor and his friend want me to build them an iphone app. Please save me.
> This is why a prudent developer/team would attempt to leverage frameworks/plugins/existing API's and libraries vs reinventing the wheel.

The problem here is that those frameworks/plugins/existing API's are all moving targets, their life-span is very likely substantially shorter than the life-span of your project.

Well vetted and popular unfortunately does not equal 'will have staying power'.
Can you please share the comparison? It will be interesting to read and compare the experiences.
You're right, my version is unoptimized because I was trying to keep the code neat as in the article. I think that optimizing the code for hypothetical future reuse is a bit premature. You could make a performance argument, but this optimization is going to prevent just 2 memory accesses, which aren't going to matter much compared to all the rest. If I was chasing performance I would start by memset'ing the top and bottom edges since they're contiguous in memory.
NYC is not 13,318 sq mi which is what your talking about aka an area ~200 miles wide and bigger than the state of Maryland. By comparison DC is 61 square miles total your figure is like lumping DC, Baltimore, and Richmond VA into one metro area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area
Great, what I've always wanted, more Monet. Now only if I could have less problems...
> I'm big on keyboard shortcuts but MS is very much mouse based.

I think the key you're looking for is the 'Alt' key. You'll find a lot of doors open up for you on Windows when you use it.

edit: just to clarify. If you see a menu or anything with a letter that is underlined, Alt + Letter will choose that target. In addition, pushing down Alt will sometimes show which menus have keyboard options.
There's no reason why they can auto-generate a "We have decided not to proceed with your application" email when they move your status to rejected at the very least. It costs marginally nothing.
For an analysis of warfare, progression of technology and its influence on warfare, and war's influence on society, I recommend reading A History of Warfare by John Keegan. It does explore war as an extension of politics and can lead to nice thought exercises about how war does influence the creation and destruction of civilization.

1. Wiki About: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Warfare
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According to the alt-right you have to listen to their side or else you're censoring them. Also, if you ban them from your own web forums, mailing lists, or private venues that too is evil evil censorship (aka no freedom of association for you).
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>I don't understand why there's so many people in the comments defending non-competes

They are the large number of libertarians who believe all regulation is bad under all circumstances. Mental contortions follow to justify it in this case.
> think long about the question whether 64 bits always is enough for storing a string length, etc.), etc.

I'm struggling to think of any realistic scenario where this isn't true!
I am not defending Google here but plenty of reasons I would guess:

- Lot of people want to work for Google. Plenty of supply

- Cost/Benefit. The cost of contacting everyone is not worth the benefit. Probably too many applicants to respond to

- Because they can. They are Google.

- They are big. Perhaps a certain division/HR team is worse than others. So it could come down to specific HR team who is the culprit.

I bet if the supply of candidates go down and they need to find people, they will respond a lot more.
I agree with some of this, but be reasonable.

It's silly to describe what happened to Google Video as "just giving up". They abandoned that specific product because it was getting no traction. Instead, they won the entire category for at least a generation by buying YouTube, working out all of its licensing issues, and integrating the best elements of Google Video's features and design. You'd be hard-pressed to argue they made was the wrong choice for anybody.

Meebo was practically an acqui-hire, never really a Google product.
So is this the early warning that Prisma's market ownership of this effect will soon come to an end?
The Ergo 4000 and Sculpt both slope down and it's great. I agree; I can't use any Apple/Mac input tech without being uncomfortable.