skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are (at least) three things to understand about those numbers:

1. The City of St. Louis occupies a very small portion of what any reasonable person would call "St. Louis." And those numbers include only the City portion. The rest of the area is much safer. St. Louis County, which surrounds St. Louis on three sides and contains three times as many people (over 1 million), had 15 homicides in 2014 for a homicide rate of 1.5 (lower than Toronto) [0]. Most people living in the St. Louis area are living in very safe places.

2. Not all cities occupy such a small portion of their region. Toronto, to keep your example, is 243.33 sq mi. St. Louis is 66 sq mi. If St. Louis's borders were extended to match Toronto's reach, then it would include a whole bunch of the safe areas in St. Louis County, which would considerably soften the numbers. (Note that nothing on the ground would actually change.) This is why reasonable regional comparisons should be done at the level of the MSA. Arbitrary borders are, well, arbitrary and produce misleading comparisons.

3. Even when looking only at the City of St. Louis, you have to understand that many neighborhoods have 1 or 2 or 0 homicides each year. [1] Most of the violence is concentrated on the city's Northside and in the Southeast. Extreme violence is not a part of the everyday lived experience for most citizens.

The way outsiders talk about crime in places like St. Louis very sloppy.

(Bonus #4: Crime and safety and law and order aren't the only metric by which to choose where to live.)

[0] This number is almost certainly too low, because of how crime is reported in the County. I got that number here:

http://www.kmov.com/story/29948033/homicides-on-the-rise-in-...

Some other sources suggest it may be around twice that for the entire County, meaning the rate is likely closer to 3.0 per 100,000 (which is still considerably lower than in the City).

[1] https://nextstl.com/2013/01/understanding-st-louis-homicides...
In the last 6 months or so I have found the battery life time indicator to be really inaccurate whereas I have found it to be as accurate as you could expect such a measurement to be. I'm not sure what the culprit is but in that time frame I have switched from a Macbook Air to a Macbook Pro, as well as upgraded to Sierra.

One thing I have noticed is that Finder seems to randomly begin running at 100% CPU for long periods of time as of late and I can't understand why.
I'm fairly sure I won't care.
Is black-body the only spectrum for which that's true, i.e. could you (in principle) define it that way?
1% of the US population are truck drivers[1]. 13% of an average american's income is spent on transport [2].

I'm going to assert that 100% of the income of that 1% of the population is less than 13% of the whole population's income.

[1]: http://www.alltrucking.com/faq/truck-drivers-in-the-usa/
[2]: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
At least in continental europe single drivers are the vast majority.
Excel for Mac can't process BOM correctly.
Shows you the latest news articles in a custom layout of columns when you open a new tab in Chrome
How One Founder Went Dark on Social Media and Found the Light
I signed this, and I didn't sign it either to signal virtue or to be a keyboard hero. I signed it to have something to stick to if something that would compromise my morals does arise.

Your cynicism is unfortunate and gross.
An empty string has a length. That length is zero. NULL does not have a length.
> I can't speak for the other guys above, but I must have missed something. I am baffled why this particular set of wireless headphones has received as much press as it has.

They're tiny, they pair to multiple devices trivially, and are well designed. They're one of the big reasons Apple is supposed to have removed the headphone jack off the iPhone 7. "You don't need it, let us show you why" kind of thing.

The other reason is that this is releasing MONTHS LATE. It was supposed to be released at the end of October, now it's coming out end of December. That's HUGE.

When was the last time Apple screwed up the launch of something big like this? The biggest one people can recall is the white iPhone 4 which basically released 9 months late. At that point most people just waited the extra 4-5 months for the iPhone 4s.

Ignoring that they're neat little headphones, this is big news today because APPLE SHIPPED LATE. That just doesn't happen. Maybe quantities are low (Apple watch), but not a flat out delay on a major product after announcing a release date.
Purchasing ATI didn't seem to help them much, either. Perhaps it was to offset the losses that they saw coming, but it also seemed to distract them a bit.
Google Cloud Bigtable will let you store empty strings as values. I'm not quite as sure about whether you can successfully set a 0-byte value and distinguish it from an empty string ['\0'] value; the answer may depend on the client library/language/API that you use to interact with the service.

[Source/Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Bigtable.]
Bringing human decision making into the loop makes things messier. If any of these human decisions need to be made quickly in the interest of safety, then the driver needs to be paying attention at all times. That won't happen. This is very dangerous. This is also complex in terms of liability. If the car hits something while driving partially autonomously, where does the responsibilty lie? The software, the driver, or somewhere else? We're far from the widespread use of autonomous cars. I'm not even going to mention the dangers of buggy software written by large companies that can't get iCloud notes syncing to work.
Why can't you just design organism / insert DNA to make X.

Grow organism in 1,000 little reactors, measure output of X, keep top y% and repeat?

Yield may drop over time, but this way evolution is somewhat on your side.

PS: I don't expect that to work, but I am not sure what the issues are.
I think you may be correct but got there the wrong way. From the lateral movement I think Iribe wanted to stay product focused instead of business focused and moved laterally within Facebook to do that. Whether it was from Zuckerberg or just the normal evolution curve of a startup CEO from productization to monetization can be debated - but the move to stay within Facebook seems to indicate it wasn't Zuckerberg's fingers (or handcuffs).
Warning - This page will make your eyes hurt. If you attempt to read it you will see words floating in front of you, everywhere you look, for the next 15 minutes.
I have zero tolerance for this. I just refuse to use glitchy products, or refuse to meet with people who want to use glitchy telecom software.
In a relational database there's a clear difference between "I did a join and there was no value on the other table" and, "this cell was intentionally left blank".

I haven't used DynamoDB enough to tell if that applies here or not.
You're oversimplifying it and being a little pessimistic. Why? Because there's an order of magnitude or more difference in the complexity of AI of cars and AI that a human uses to navigate
What is it about car hardware+software that gives people confidence that the operating system / some core process won't crash or reboot in the middle of a turn or brake? I'm not familiar with the architecture of "mission critical" systems which I assume would be similar to what they use in these cars.
I received 155 resumes for the last postion I posted it would be too time consuming to reply to every single one. However I always contact all candidates by phone that came in for an interview to let them know we have chosen not to pursue them for the position.
I had a pair of wired Sony's wayyyyy back in the day in this wrap around ear/neck band form factor that I really loved when I was a kid. Lately though, I find anything that covers my ear too warm and uncomfortable. This is why I'm excited about the AirPods. I wouldn't really classify these Motorola's as truly wireless because of the connecting band.
During the press event it was suggested the boost mode would operate primarily off of temperature, taking into account high-end cooling setups. Seemed interesting, if not innovative. As far as I'm aware, existing boost modes tend to be static ranges.

I'd really like to see Ryzen meet or exceed Intel i7-6700K/7700K single-core performance using boost mode clocks with a reasonable cooling setup. That would eliminate any reason whatsoever to choose Intel for gaming until their 10nm product arrives Q3 2017.
I think you may be experiencing recall bias.

How do you get to work every day? How often do you go to the grocery store? What about going out to dinner?

For myself, living in the Bay Area, anything related to driving or owning a car is a nightmare -- not that that has stopped me from owning a car. Driving from Mountain View to San Mateo takes about 45 minutes in the morning at 75 minutes in the evening. I went to SF to have breakfast with a friend this past weekend and finding parking took half an hour. I'd love a self-driving car that could just drop me at my door. Autonomous cars should also lead to drastic traffic improvements, assuming the cars will eventually be able to communicate with each other in a reliable way.

Maybe you live in a less densely-populated area? I have an aunt that lives in a rural area and I couldn't imagine a need or desire for autonomous cars there.

There is definitely a long way to go, but think of all the advantages! Parking can be automated and condensed, which means more land is available for buildings or parks or anything else. If you suffer from traffic problems now, your daily commute could be cut by 50% or more. Shared vehicles should cost less than what you pay for gas and insurance now. High availability is a real possibility if someone can figure out how to make the economics work. Ride sharing can be almost completely automated, leading to less pollution.
Introducing the WebVR API in Chrome for Android
Wireless headphones aren't new. Wireless headphones at that size/feature set/price point seem to be. The only comparable thing I know if is Samsung reportedly had some similar but they only had like 90m of battery life.
My first programming gig was Lotus Notes developer (v4.3). It was ahead of its time
So does my Macbook pro 2016 =) The touchbar-less model.

I bought this model for the extra battery life. But I'm also far from impressed. It's my main complaint tbh.

I find that my typical usage which is on the heavier side (chrome, + 1hr of facetime) I get about 3.5 hrs battery life.
another naive article, this time from Harvard, that fails to mention the term "ocean acidification". At some point krill cannot form their exoskeletons, bringing an abrupt end to whales and other sea creatures.
Yes, it may provide a good impetus to upgrade our mobile data infrastructure. It would have to be ultra fast, ultra reliable, ultra wide coverage. Because if you can't remote in, and the cars caused a huge traffic jam, it'll be very difficult to get the owner companies human in to help out the vehicle. I guess the recovery man can just use a bike :/
I get that not everyone will use or like this feature, but to complain about it existing?

If you don't want people to call you outside the office, why not just tell them not to call you outside the office? Or use the "do not disturb" setting. Or ask whoever runs your slack account to disable calling altogether...
You could represent a path through a grid as a string using U=up, R=right, D=down, L=left. Then a solution to a maze could be 'UUUURRRRLRUULLD'. An empty string indicates a solution to a maze in 0 zero steps. A null string indicates that there is no solution.
There are several examples of major 3PAR incidents in recent firmware:

http://3parug.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2309

http://3parug.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1975&p=9092

Let me put this to you: If a "firmware update" involves copy pasting a several KB bash script into a putty session, how surprised are you to see software bugs?
> inside an AWS deployment

That's the key, isn't it?

I've been trying to wrap my head around DynamoDB for something that wouldn't necessarily live inside AWS and it seems like an awful lot of trouble.

But I guess if you're in the same AWS Region and you're doing high-volume stuff then the cost savings probably get compelling real fast.
Why have the stupid white thing hanging down? You don't need it anymore. There used to be a wire coming out of it, but now there's not. They could have made it look like anything, but now it looks like I'm foaming at the ears.

Furthermore, why isn't there a better way of attaching these to your ear? I hate shoving a piece of dirty plastic into the innermost part of my ear. It'd be much nicer to have something with that shark-fin rubber piece[1] or the over-ear clip[2].

1 - http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/bose-soundsport-in-ear-headphone...

2 - http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pd/powerbeats3-wireless-beats...
This idea that politics or partisanship is something new to the modern world is fascinating.

I see it constantly among people that have little exposure to actual historical documents.

I suspect its origin is a bit of nostalgia for the "simpler times" of the past and the often horrendously bad methods many people learn history.

Often history is presented as a cleaned up and certain narrative - At simplest, a history of events that happen on dates. They often leave out the machinations, plotting, betrayals, and intrigue that was almost always present.

We strip the messy humanity from history as we build simplistic narratives.

Looking back it may seem to be obvious that Nazis should not have been appeased, but at the time there were many intelligent and informed people who thought otherwise. Same with the US getting involved in the War.

Politics have been a thing as far back as we have written records.
The day a human can distinguish between a plastic bag in the road and a child is the day I'd support them on the road.
So the alternatives you propose are (in reverse order):

> I don't think that you're being very realistic.

> you're somewhere outside the orthodoxy on climate change.

> the side effects of geoengineering probably aren't that bad

Hubris.
Sure, but if the average person really would be safer with a car that self-drives 90% of the time, wouldn't you recommend that everyone get a self driving car? You can't say "Only get a self-driving car if you're a below average driver" because then nobody would get one (and they'd be worse off for it)
That would be pretty great. How do you handle the movements of the car though? Bumps in the road and stuff like that?
"If you’re familiar with HTML, this won’t be a complete departure (though there are no closing tags). .TH is the tag for titles, while .SH is for section header. You can format text to be bold or italic with .B or .I, respectively."

I love this retrospective explanation of nroff in terms of HTML.
Humans generally look at it, make an informed guess and drive accordingly. The recent Tesla accident is a great example of how even the best optics can be blown out by environmental factors like sun, whereas a human would likely readjust their vantage point, lower the sunshade, put on sunglasses or even pull over if they are unable to cope.

Comparatively, the car did not attempt to do any of this and actually didn't even realize its cameras were in a state of failure.
Compared to good furniture, yeah, but things like a car or a microwave will have a depreciation curve closer to what the iphone has.
"Clippy's Revenge" sounds like a cool name, at least it's more memorable than Kakoune.
> So I'm genuinely curious as to what the magic sauce is that makes people so giddy for this future.

I think the magic sauce is utilization. A fully autonomous car's utilization rate can be close to 100%.

Higher utilization --> same demand for mobility hours/miles can be satisfied with fewer vehicles --> ceteris paribus, fewer vehicles sold every year.

Viewed through this lens, it seems inevitable that, in equilibrium (ie once the non-autonomous to autonomous fleet transition is complete) annual per-capita demand for vehicles will be lower with the advent of fully autonomous cars.
But that doesn't automatically transfer to all the other devices you own. After using them with your iPhone they would also work with your Mac, your Watch, and your iPad without having to do separate pairing.

That's what makes the pairing more than just NFC (you're right, that's been around for years).
[hypocrisy, double standards, orange revolutions, misdirection, blah blah blah]

None of which has any bearing whatsoever on the simple factual matter of how the attacks happened, and what parties where responsible.
Yeah, Apple has turned into shit.

Brand new mbp on 10.11.6. Opening new tabs in safari then cmd-L to put focus in the location bar would beachball safari for multiple seconds.

The solution after much debugging was to disable com.apple.imklaunchagent

These lazy engineers really should be ashamed of themselves. This was an out of box install on a brand new laptop on their browser with minimal 3rd party software installed (chrome, brew, intellij, but nothing that should interfere with the os.) I wasted 5 free hours trying to make the damn browser work.
NET Core Tooling improvements
I've had multiple rift owners tell me to get a vive because 'it does room scale'. Their website still doesn't mention anything about the touch enabling better tracking and room scale experiences! How could they screw up marketing this bad?

To be honest I'm still not even sure if I'm wrong about it supporting room scale, I've seen articles mention it but their website gives me doubts.
These statistics don't tell the whole truth, as it can often be members of a subgroup killing eachother while the general population remains relatively safe.
This is the point that I see everyone discounting. Whether autonomous cars turn out to be feasible or not, we know for a fact that humans are bad drivers. Don't we owe it to ourselves to try something different?
Has anyone on HN ever been notified by Google/Yahoo/other that they were the subject of an NSL? I wonder if the people most likely to care about that are unlikely to ever be targeted?
Are you agreeing that they should fix the issue or their documentation suggesting that "Maps are ideal for storing JSON documents in DynamoDB"? Or both?
excel supports empty strings
Some routertrojan, erecting a local, for mortals invisible, town-wide tor-net should be enough to end this madness.
Exactly i came to comment the same thing. Lynx sucks. Takes a hell lot of time to reconnect. Can't believe the product is maintained by top developers.
>investors aren't generally in the business of losing money and at the scale of investment we've taken we're far beyond "bet on the team" kind of diligence.

LOL. When an SV founder defends his business model by pointing to fundraising numbers, look out.
$160...for wireless earbuds + mic. I mean I have the money to throw away but...why. They look ok, kinda odd, but not like call center headsets at least.

You could buy a DS for that much right? That's about how much the ps2 slim costed back in the day.
> def: willfully causing pain or suffering to others, feeling no concern about it.
willfully: check; suffering: check (the shaming); no concern: check.
Actor: state/school as a whole. So I think it applies.
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/google-self-driving-car-waymo

> By early 2015, Fairfield thought they were getting close: The cars were clocking full days at Google’s testing grounds without needing human takeovers. They had driven 1.2 million miles on public roads and could pull over for emergency vehicles. They could detect and brake for squirrels, and read hand signals from cops and construction workers. They knew when to honk politely (Just making sure you see me here) and when to blare it (You’re about to slam into me!). Then the team spent the next year putting another 800,000 miles on the fleet’s collective odometer, to fine tune everything. And it gave 10,000 rides to employees and “guests.”
For what it's worth, that little bit of audio feedback is called "sidetone".
It only makes sense for Cisco, ultimately it is just a moneygrab.
About the security content of iOS 10.2
The AirBNB guys also described this "pyramid" concept in their old Mixergy interview (2010 I believe). I found it pretty helpful:

https://mixergy.com/interviews/airbnb-chesky-gebbia/
How Much Memory Is My Process Using?
You're assuming all the questions are being presented to the user at once. Imagine a UI that presents questions to a user one-by-one. If the user bails out of the survey early, the rest of the survey answers can be null.
Neural network for memory access huh? Interesting!
Do we?

"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

- Edsger Dijkstra
It still needs to work 99.99% of the time. I am more thinking extreme edge cases like: "Drove off the highway to avoid collision and stuck in a ditch. Bridge out now what? etc."

Basically, you don't need a perfect solution in every case, just a safe solution in every case. A self driving car that get's to a gas station is a good enough step 1 even if you have some human attendants there to fill up. Sure, it might add $2 bucks per fill up that's still cheaper than highway driving.

PS: Self driving car, only works in NYC is also useful.
> In many ways, the Chinese lifestyle is refreshing to someone who has spent their life in California.

Could you expand on that? I was born in China, but grew up in the US and currently live in California. I can't think of many ways in which China is better and plenty of ways in which it's worse. My mother (who obviously has a closer connection to the country) tells me she strongly prefers life in the US.
I own a CV1 and worry about the same things, actually. I unplug my cameras & rift when not in use, otherwise I'd literally have cameras pointing at my living room.

Many many people don't give a crap though, I have friends with Alexas and Xbox kinects in their living room. Kinect cameras can actually see you much more clearly[1] than the obfuscated Oculus ones which mainly see IR.

[1] some games have video replay on kinect, clear visualization of faces, etc
It's worth noting that the US gas tax is an absolute amount per gallon, not adjusted for inflation. In terms of real value, the gas tax is substantially lower now than it was in 1993.
Care to elaborate? MongoDB for app development on paper seems like a great solution.

The NOSQL model fits great with a Restful API layer. The process of getting and posting data over HTTP should be a lot simpler with Restful API/MongoDB when compared to relational database solution.

I know Restful APIs are not perfect either, so care to fill in the blanks of why its was the worst dev experience for you.
From my experience, Bluetooth audio's sound quality is abysmal. I figure that's why an alternative system is getting so much hype.
Would be interesting to focus on one particular event by first looking at the publicly available information at the time, then looking at the primary documents released later to see what was going on internally, then reading a general history book to see how all the complexities and inconsistencies are tidied up.
It has be better than the best human driver or they'll get sued out of existance. You can't sell a product that you know will hurt or kill a certain number of people.
>It is not that we are dummy. Our brain is just unable to hear (and produce) the exact sound.

This is only partially true. A speech therapist could train you to hear and make those sounds. The training is usually called accent reduction.