skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's simply not true. See the comment I linked to. A black person with a 600 FICO has a 40% chance of default, compared to an Asian person with a 600 FICO who has only a 20% chance of default. With identical financial indicators the black person is less likely to repay. Race discrimination is directly profitable, given the available data [1].

Now it's true that in this example it's just a predictor. The very nature of lending is stochastic. Then again, airplane crashes as a function of weight distribution are also stochastic.

[1] It's theoretically possible - likely even - that some hidden data may reduce the influence of race. For example, lenders are required (more or less) to ignore location data since that could be "redlining".
> Imagine having to constantly fight similar urges all the time

I don't have to imagine, I have a child who survived a TBI that included damage to the hypothalamus. He's never satiated, always wants food. Even with strict diet controls and a locked pantry and a refrigerator with a lock and chain around it... he still manages to get food.

It's a living nightmare.
I don't think it's so important that the Stack Exchange websites are included in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. What really matters to me is that, like Wikimedia websites (http://download.wikimedia.org/), they offer downloadable dumps under a free license (https://archive.org/details/stackexchange). This way, anyone who wants can mirror their contents.
I dont think the driver would like to have a whiplash...
It takes me several days to set up permissions so I can transfer money from my account at Chase to my account at a local credit union. Except that Chase gave me an error saying that my credit union account was already associated with another account at Chase (probably the old bank account I used to have with them, closed years ago) and so it didn't work and I will have to write myself a check instead.
Should check out the documentation for my Rust implementation of Parallel. Same syntax applies.

https://github.com/mmstick/parallel
Unfortunately that's not working right now... Guessing it does something else hacky to check that it truly is running on MSDOS and Win 3.1.

But it is on my list to investigate when I'm back to work.
>It's plenty fast

Unless you need guarantees that can't be offered by garbage collection.
I think we're deviating from the point I was trying to address. The length of the shift isn't relevant, what's relevant is that different patients need different amount of times, and can arrive at any time during a doctor's shift. Based on both of those variables, a single patient can easily require care beyond a single doctor's shift, so saying "getting done with your current patient and then leaving should never lead to a 12-hour shift" doesn't really make sense, since that "current patient" could have arrived during hour 6 of your shift and then required a 6 hours of attention before being discharged. If you believe that doctor-patient continuity is more important than a doctor's rest, then you can easily justify any shift length up to the point where the doctor falls over.
All of your other examples concern damage that extends beyond loss of the product, like death, injury, and illness. Those are covered by public health/safety laws and civil liability.

My TV not working does not have any of those effects. There is a clear difference between a TV electrocuting and killing me (damages well beyond my initial investment) and it simply ceasing to function (maximum loss = initial investment).

More analogous examples would be: a restaurant serves me an overcooked steak that tastes like a shoe, my car's entertainment system stops working.
Using WebRTC for communicating game state seems like a hack. WebRTC is too complexed with many parts. I try to get into it every year or so but I don't even get the demos to work. Then compare to Websockets that are well supported and very easy to use, with fall-back libraries such as sockjs.

If possible I think it would be a good idea to break up the different parts of WebRTC so that they can work independently of each other. The abstractions are also a bit leaky, as you need to know about the underlaying layer to use it. Another approach would be having a low level API witch might be easier to implement in the browser, and then count on libraries to make good abstractions.
> software update enabled Teslas to “see” through vehicles traveling immediately in front of them. In this case, however, the Autopilot seems less like X-ray vision and more like straight-up clairvoyance

I don't believe the car is clairvoyant, but my guess is radar bouncing off the asphalt under the cars.
And maybe a glimpse of the brakelights?
I've always heard "vertically challenged" as a short-person euphemism, it's funny to hear it refer to tall people in this context
Christmas Day 2015 I decided to go freelance, 4th January I handed in my notice, 25th March I set up my own company.

Haven't looked back since; I'm happier, less stressed, earning more and I've had more holidays this past year than I ever have done in a single year.
Our environment is dying and we celebrate luxury that accelerates it. :(
As should Uber et al.! Cars, like airplanes, use more gas if they have to transport more weight.
My guess would be that it has to do with the speed of the ball at impact with the target. The faster the ball is moving, the greater the chance of it ricocheting off the rim as opposed to being slowed by the impact with the rim and falling in. Maybe the ball would have only a 50/50 chance of falling in rather than out, but that's still better than if the ball hits the same spot at high speed and ricochets.

In other words, by slowing the impact speed with the target you make the target more forgiving.

Btw I'm not an expert in ballistics, so this explanation is probably complete bs but it's interesting to think about.
I've been using this plugin but it doesn't seem to do auto-import. Does it definitely support that? Apart from that, as you say, type detection isn't always particularly useful. Apart from those two features, it's pretty much there, definitely usable.
Rust uses RAII for memory-safety, not just language constructions to raise some limitations.
I'm learning Rust. I considered Go but feature wise compared to Rust it seems really boring and plain. IMHO modern language has to have functional flavor.
Can I ask - freelance what?
And what does your company offer?
Only one kid, but in a rural area, and public transport is fine, better even. You don't need to fold up the pushchair to get it on the bus/train. The kid gets a good view out the windows, which he loves. Factor in the time to find a parking space, and door-to-door journey time is similar, even quicker. The one downside is frequency: our trains and buses only run once an hour, and when baby wants to go home, he wants to go home NOW.
The common trend in educational videos is very interesting. The videos that are made approximately from 2-10 minute long with animation and pictures are very easy to follow than to watch hour long stanford or mit live class room recordings.
This cartoon is often used to illustrate the difference http://interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/I...
> Self-organizing has a very clear definition.

Not true. The "definition" in Wikipedia is essentially saying that a complex system exhibits self-organization if there is order observed at various scales. I didn't read the paper -- but based on the abstract, it looks like there is some sort of structural phase transition at T_c = 253K (please correct me if this is wrong) which allows these molecules to energetically favor reassembly. This would classify, according to Wikipedia, as self-organization at a microscopic scale. Self-organization can be evident at some scales (but not others) in systems which are not self-similar, but you already know this, since you read the Wikipedia article.

> From biological to robotic swarms, very simple instructions can achieve amazingly complex results.

No one is denying the beauty of complex systems. That said, the versatility of the word "swarm" word is precisely what makes it trivial! One can only beg for more words. What kind of swarm? At what scale? A physicist will find behavior that can be poetically described as "swarm" in one place, and a chemist will find it in another place, and a biologist will find it in still another place, and at a different scale!

> I have a high confidence that when we actually do have a real self-healing technology, swarm will be an apt description of its nano tech.

This is meaningless! It's trivially true. Let me try it: "I have high confidence that when we actually do have a real self-healing technology, sinusoidal will be an apt description of its nano tech." You can't use those terms to describe what self-healing "should look like" since those terms are vague and non-mathematical (self-organization could be defined more mathematically).

In reality, I think you have an idea or imagination or intuition of what you think "real" self-healing technology should be, and you just aren't satisfied with what we're at right now. This -- I can accept, and I might even agree with you. But don't go around hand-waving buzzwords about what technology should look like, because there's no content there.
Large numbers of lightweight people = a class of children, or a couple of large families.

The only time I've ever been upgraded was when 80% of economy class was children on various school trips, and I was put in premium economy when I checked in.
I will very much appreciate feedback (especially about if it is intuitive and understandable).
Don't recyclers have to sort submissions anyway? It's expected that citizens will fail to completely adhere to recycling instructions and submissions must be sorted anyway.
I hear it's going to be a very stern lecture.
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How exactly does it sense something like eating unhealthy food? Or, not eating enough calories in a day?
GC is not about safety at all, sorry.
I'm not going to start flamewar, but just to answer your question:
https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&q=null+pointer+exception
>I'm particularly happy with the Kubernetes team.

I find it pretty terrible that Kubernetes develops on Slack/Github/Videochats. For being an Open Source project, it rejects open source tooling and makes it difficult for people with poor english skills to participate (text-based meetings are much better for inclusiveness). Even if you do listen in on the video meetings, they give you a feeling as an outsider that many of the decisions have already been made elsewhere (some obscure github issue conversation, a google doc comment on a 1 year old doc, etc). It seems the only way to meaningfully participate in the k8s community is to be a known insider... :(
Well, in many respects Basic, PHP, Javascript, Java all had various forms of "anti-intellectualism" baked. They lost some of them along the way.

Still, the fact that all those languages are in the top 10 of programming languages kind of says that people don't really care.
Thinks about this for a moment. The US cant be obvious about where their hacks originate from, which means the US will be hacking other peoples computers, non-Russian if you like, in order to attack Russian targets whilst covering their trail. So in a way, if you support this game of rhetoric even though the tech companies like Google & Facebook actually help fuel your bias which in turn manipulates your actions, then go ahead and put your hand up to be hacked by the US. I'm sure they will oblige.
The opposite, you should release the brakes to reduce the effect of the impact so you actually acted correctly.
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+1 Spill the beans!
Doesn't Tesla record the video of the traffic via its array of cameras?
As long as there are people driving we do need such systems.
It may be even worse calling Go from C since you are bring the whole Go runtime with GC and all when you call into Go.
Not a hypothetical at all; the article mentions Samoa Air does charge based on weight.
Rails for my backend and react/redux SPA for my frontend.

I was using Rails for both but I love the freedom, ease, and capability that comes with React.

I could move to using something "lighter" than Rails on the backend but I really do like the 'batteries included' stuff that means I don't have to think about much to get up and running.
Although highly applicable you have to remember evolution is a thing. Proteins where there are no selective pressure to operate at high temperature are likely optimal in the ranges in that state of water. Hyperthermophiles live at 80degC and above only, they're still made of proteins. Their protein structures are highly similar to other organisms found at lower temperatures, but with modifications such as additional disulphide bonds that increases stability at high temperature. Most of these thermophilic enzymes operate very inefficiently at cooler temperatures or not at all. We already have that sort of broad insight from just looking over evolution and ecological niche.

The more interesting thing this finding has to offer is just understanding at a finer detail how proteins interact with water at all, and if there are any properties specific to each state. There might even be cool things like proteins that switch function given the water phase transition. You might find this sort of thing in chaperones related to heat shock for example.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Don't understand the downvote. It was a simple question from someone who is concerned about (online) privacy.
I'm getting a little sick of hearing the "X Driven Y" construct. What made Test Driven Development so powerful was how it creates a workflow that allows a developer to reduce cognitive load by moving across layers of abstraction intelligibly.

Tests drive your development. At any point, you can simply run the tests and get an accurate picture of where the project is at. If it's all green, write more tests, if you have failing tests, fix the tests.

It's something that every single other X Driven Y idea I've seen has completely lacked. Yes it's nice for an organization to have purpose beyond profit. But how do you actually do it? How do you solve the infinitely-many hard problems business throws at you and still retain your vaunted purpose? Is there a way to iterate from a normal enterprise in the direction of purpose, or does the paradigm force you to just start a new startup?

TDD wrapped answers to all the problems it solved into a neat little workflow. This does nothing of the sort. I'm going to start thinking of these the same way I think about mall Cajun food.
More like, you didn't try to use Linux Mint. It works out of the box.
You only cite one source of propaganda. Perhaps you have not realised that propaganda works both ways, a bit like being forced to play for the school sports team because you cant go to another school to play for them instead.

Why do Russian oligarchs move their money outside of Russia?

Have you considered all sides of the argument?
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Celsius is based on freezing point of water at sea level. That's about as arbitrary as the circumference of the earth.

The multiples of ten, divide by ten is a very nice feature. But if you think about it, base 10 is still arbitrary and human centric. It's based on the fact that we have 10 fingers. Not some universal constant.
But all of those are statistical discriminations, which are largely blind to sex and race, it is the application which wanders into that dreaded racial/sexual discrimination zone, but those are social constructs anyway.
Make sure prices are quoted in the same currency when comparing websites.
I think this is a good concept for startups. If you can get people to trade their time for a purpose instead of money, you will spend less and get dedicated workers making you rich.
This is actually pretty interesting -- Makes me think one could actually move the problem of sharding/replicating a database completely out of the database layer itself, and instead just run the database through the add on?

Has anyone done this or know about any tools that take this approach? I mean like, instead of worrying about distributing, sharding, or replicating postgres/mysql/any-other-sql-compliant-db , why not just write mysql-dependent but a implementation agnostic layer that sits on top and does the coordination/sync bit? Sprinkle a little etcd and call it a day?
A shitty TV can short. It can fail catastrophically.

A TV of less quality can skip on standards, and that can mean safety.

A phone can be a firebomb. So can a washing machine.

Electronics should be held to a standard because they can fail dangerously.

Now, all that being said:

My phone cost $80.

My TV cost $100.

My washing machine cost $80.

My car cost $30,000.

I make around $45,000 a year.

Its been 5 years, and all of these products were covered by Consumer Law, and every company obeyed the rules if faults appeared.

Electronics don't have to be crap.
I was discussing this the other day with my friends who are consultants and they jump through nowhere near the level of interview hoops we have to go through. As developers we have a far more structured approach with checks and balances - a compile, build and test process. On the contrary a consultant alone on client site is a far riskier proposition.
Lots of mainstream cars (Nissan, Ford erc) can already do this.
Anyone know if the problem has already been solved?

Thank you!
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> It ONLY is about properly distributing weight. It's not a fat tax.

Bogus. At best, "... yet."

Entire sports teams of children board planes filled with adults, without redistribution. They need to weigh every passenger now, just in case they might need to move that 1 larger person? If you buy that then I've got some oil you'd be interested in.

As far as I can tell, 1 commercial plane in history has had an accident due to balance and only because of tragically bad maintenance at the same time.

This looks like one of the more obvious cases of groundwork being laid for future fees veiled in safety concerns.

The bottom line for me personally is that it's just one more bullshit thing to endure when traveling via plane, and I'm biased against them at this point. Airlines are the skeeziest companies in their attempts to capture market surplus.
I somehow went through life not knowing the + trick. Thanks, and commenting to hopefully highlight this for anyone else who didn't know.
Rural needn't mean car-dependent. We're fortunate enough to (/chose deliberately to) live in a rural town, population 3000, with an excellent rail service (Charlbury, UK). The Scottish government recently reopened the rural Borders line and it's been a massive success. Heavy rail may not be practical or affordable everywhere, but buses should be - it just requires political will.
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Windows, FWIU in the majority of cases (and at least every time I did it) still does not support being moved to a new motherboard. Every time I upgrade a Windows PC's motherboard, the windows install becomes unbootable. Linux doesn't care.
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We are in agreement that your phone should not blow up, and that you should have legal recourse in such an event.

But that's totally irrelevant. We're talking about mandatory warranties for products, not civil liability for damages caused by them.

You're drawing a false equivalence between the two. My phone no longer working is a totally different situation, covered by different laws, than my phone blowing up and hurting someone or burning down my house.
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>A black person with a 600 FICO has a 40% chance of default, compared to an Asian person with a 600 FICO who has only a 20% chance of default.

There's your answer. You have it all backwards and think that creditors are oppressing certain races, when in reality the creditors are merely quantifying hard evidence about each race. To be absolutely clear, I'm not saying being black definitively means you will default. But it's absolutely ridiculous to ignore hard evidence. Blacks default 40% of the time in that scenario and Asians default 20% of the time. That's not racist. Blacks are not inferior. Yet, it is untenably true. It is fact.

If that upsets you, so be it. It is not the duty of creditors to ignore facts and appropriate costs.
Would you feel better if the word was "retaliate" instead?

It sounds like your main complaint is that "punish" has... an ownership or parental connotation?
Man, for 6 people, you could just look at them and seat them evenly in about two seconds flat.
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Because Tesla brakes faster than a human in this situation, it doesn't have to brake as much, it can slow down in a timely manner.
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If you are after the raw price you should sign up for bare metal and install/manage your own tools. When you sign up for a service such AWS you pay mostly for the tools/ecosystem and management. I think AWS is still the undisputed leader in that regard, closely followed by Azure. GCP is something I would not recommend due some personal experiences namely the appengine platform and early cloud sdk releases.
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Still not a problem: weigh the person together with her carry-on luggage.
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Stewart Airport is surprisingly awesome, it has a decent terminal, and some of the most impressive runways ever, as it is a training Air Force base for C-17's and was an alternate landing option for the space shuttle back in the day.

With that said it is a place that historically interesting airline ideas have gone to die. It's not really accessible via transit, and despite being sort of kind of close to NYC, it's in the direction that has the least population density and lowest income. Every time interesting service has been announced there it seems to be quietly discontinued not too long thereafter. Maybe this time will be different but I am skeptical of their ability to break the curse.
If you live in a smaller city, you'd know that this happens all the time. Nearly half the time when I fly on a tiny CRJ to and from my local airport, after everyone boards, the pilot will ask if three or four people could shift around (for weight reasons) before takeoff.
I think you've missed the point.

One is less likely because of the other.

Higher base standards protect against products that are less likely to fail safe.

The insurance firm I worked with would lower premiums for products from companies that acknowledged Consumer Law, as they were both less likely to fail, and fail catastrophically.