skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at the data collection methodology. It looks like they are just web scraping news sites?

Right now, when a police officer kills someone, there's no national database to report the incident.

I was told the problem is every state, city, town, providence has their own protocol. They all have their own Police Squad, and ways of handling events. So basically, we have a bunch of Public Servants with high school diplomas, and not much training. Since there's no national standards/licensing who knows what they are trained to do?

Why isn't their a national registry that all law enforcement personnel should have to report to? I'm not just concerned about killings either.

I want a full account of what that officer/anyone with a gun and the authority to ruin someone's life does during their shift. I want details of every stop. Every call.

It seems like it wouldn't be much of a problem with our current technology?

We could fire the bad cops? We could promote the good cops? We could identify speed traps? We could cut down on the abuses I see daily? And we could get the money to the areas that actually need extra police presence?(federal grants, etc.).

The time has come for change, and strict accountability. I'm a white guy, live in a upper income area, but for as long as I can remember these cops are allowed to do pretty much whatever they like. I have lost track of the times I was pulled over for no reason. I can't imagine what minorites have to go through.
Are you aware that there are many quantum computers working in labs around the world, right?
>honestly I want something that's as bug free as possible and allows me to get on with coding instead of tinkering around fixing bullshit

Arch is the very definition of "tinkering around". That's the appeal, that you can (and have to) customize it to what you want. Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora are all "out of the box" experiences. The old Unix greybeards on the Internet hate them because they're one-size-fits-all, but that sounds like exactly what you're looking for.
I've got a Surface Book and it's glorious.
> I doubt the sun provides enough energy for us to fully simulate the sun.

That's an interesting way to put it! I tend to agree that simulating a human brain will need more than the computational resources to train a neural network with 1 billion neurons (if those resources will ever be available, which is questionable). That's not to say we won't find a way around that problem though. Of course, all the worry about a dangerous AGI hinges on this premise, and how we get there is at best unclear at the moment.
Exactly. ;)
The NY Times has been discussing gerrymandering for years. (Here's an opinion piece back from 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/opinion/12thu1.html) The topic has also been routinely discussed in all kinds of political rags for years as well.

The problem with the topic of gerrymandering is that it's always been a discussion relegated to the political rags, wonks and Sunday morning policy discussion shows. Your average voter flipping through the channels looking for sports and weather isn't going to stop and listen in on an in-depth conversation about gerrymandering. Even if they do, they most likely will say "well, what can I do about it?" and move on with their day.
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"Genuinely interested to know what is keeping a nimble new startup from stepping in and blowing this up."

I work at a nimble startup so I can tell you exactly why we haven't been able to secure a lot of Ticketmaster's clients.

They are part of a very large umbrella corporation that also owns booking agencies for popular international artists. So when a venue decides to ditch Ticketmaster, they will be instantly unable to book any big names that are almost guaranteed to get sold out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Nation_(events_promoter)

This is one of the most important reasons most of our clients are independent event organizers that will never book mega stars.

Nimble new startups will have to take the market from the bottom up.
I agree with you here.

However, Reddit and similar platforms usually can't operate under this logic. Why? Because they need to make money to stay online/keep operating. And unfortunately, that means content that alienates advertisers (like a lot of the more controversial subreddits) ends up actively hurting their revenue stream.

They could try and get round this by monetising in other ways (micropayments, subscriptions, purely donations, etc) or by looking for ad networks with real low standards, but those methods likely wouldn't pay enough to keep them afloat.

It's why in the long run, I suspect the answer to the problem isn't a centralised platform that hosts a lot of different communities, but a system that connects individually hosted communities into a 'network' of sorts with similar features to Reddit.

That way, you can have both controversial and non controversial 'subreddits', with the latter paying their own hosting bills and the former either doing the same thing or getting subsidised hosting by the network owner.

It also shuts down any future attempts at censorship by not giving the company running the service any way to edit what happens on any one community.
Quote: "Driving a new (untrained) section of the Royal Raceway:"

So the author did a proper test of the model by scoring it on an unseen track to make sure it generalizes! This is very awesome!
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They own the 95% of the data center market share:
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/google-challenges-int...

The margins on mobile chips are pretty cut throat. QCT operating margins have been between 4-17% last 4 Qs. Intels are usually closer to 30%. Data centers fuel the mobile revolution. If I was a investor would I want to throw money at some thing that gave me close 30% return or 17%?
I use Airflow[0] to cast local videos and it works extremely well.

[0] - http://airflowapp.com/
This is my first week back on Linux after using OSX for ~4 years. I switched because it's cheaper. I needed more power and building a Linux desktop is way cheaper than buying Mac hardware.

So far: KDE is incredibly nice. I'm pretty blown away. Aesthetically I actually like it more than Aqua. The file manager is nice, the terminal is fine, there is a spotlight style search, virtual desktops, pretty much everything I would miss moving from OSX.

I miss 1Password the most. Right now I'm using a CLI client (passcards) to access my 1Password vault. I haven't setup notes yet but it seems like there are decent Notational Velocity alternatives. Relearning muscle memory to use CTRL instead of CMD is painful. I'm wasting a lot of time tweaking keyboard shortcuts.
I've changed about 20 planes in the last 3 months in EU so got used to doing some things which may help you:

- Use Inbox, Google Now, Google Trips and Google maps with offline areas. Make tickets and hotels insanely easy.

- Automatize changing your MAC address with a script, since some airports offer you timed wifi and then you have to pay for it.

- Boarding pass always on you if you use the physical one.

- Don't get coffee, sodas or beer or champagne. Get water, juice or wine on the plane. That's my personal thing, because carbonated thinks make me bloated and coffee is terrible on planes. I prefer wine and a cup of water.

- Get seats next to the aisle or even better, emergency exit. More space for you.

- If you're not in an extreme hurry, get out last. Let people in your row get out if you want, but no need to squeeze with a bunch of people and cause stress to everyone because some noobs are rushing to be first out.

- Sneakers, basic shirt, sweatpants. Fuck being overdressed, this is about being comfortable and getting through security as fast as possible.

- All the things you won't need on the plane (except your wallet) don't belong in the carry on.

- Get a gym bag (I prefer simple black leather bag) or a light backpack, don't carry those tiny suitcases around.

- Put some food in your bag. Some slow carbs,quality protein and fat to eat on layovers or after you arrive. Removes the need to "find some place with good food fast" or pay a ton for airport food.

- Comfortable earphones and a movie or even better, a physical book for the flight so you don't carry your notebook on the plane.

- Get a card that works everywhere and doesn't make you pay huge fees for currency exchange. I like Revolut,it has low exchange rates and tap to pay.

- A traveler pillow is awesome.

- Keep it 300, like the romans. (calm, cool and collected)
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NYT's only concern is access to power. Which they just lost.
Oops, my bad. Then it was just the Cask installation point which was changed [1]. I ended up reinstalling everything (sounds worse than it was) because merely moving and symlinking broke some software.

Do you know if other package managers for macOS (or Mac OS X as it was called back then) did install in /opt?

[1] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/21913
> Sure, there's some hunger in India, but AFAICT most people are already getting most of the calories they need.

I'm pretty sure this is very wrong.

Quick search brought up the following:

http://www.worldhunger.org/2015-world-hunger-and-poverty-fac...

> Hunger continues to take its largest toll in Southern Asia, which includes the countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The estimate of 276 million chronically undernourished people in 2014–16 is only marginally lower than the number in 1990– 92.
Do you know what a panic is?

C will actually read arbitrary memory, Rust won't, that's the difference.

We're talking about a situation where the length of the array is not statically known and you access it out of bounds at runtime. Rust checks first if it's out of bounds, and if it is, DOES NOT blindly read the memory anyway (as C would) but exits.

I don't understand how you could think the two situations are at all equivalent.
That's true. The big if is whether we can ever have the resources to fully simulate the human brain. If we ever get close to that, then we can worry about the "intelligence explosion" and so on. It feels very possible that we'd work out how the human brain works at some point, though.
>if they were all like that, you'd see a police murder incident several times a day.

Funny you should say that, since with ~1100 murders last year [1], that's indeed one such incident "several times a day".

And of course you can be agressive, impolite, sexist and racist, as an officer without murdering anyone too.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/15/us-police-ki...
Not yet, but I'll be happy to get a wallet going to make this happen. Any recommendation for a good bitcoin wallet provider? I don't care about mobile app: web-only is good enough for me. Ideally fully offline.
I came to MacOS back in 2003 (PowerBook times) because

- it was Unix (I'm a vi/command line guy) and you
could run all the backend software (Apache, Oracle, WebLogic/JBoss and other Java stuff such as Ecplise)

- yet you also could use commercial desktop apps (Adobe, MS Office, other graphics apps, the occasional game)

- great out of the box experience with optimal hardware support and no time consuming tinkering required; practical innovations like Expose, Spotlight, later also TimeMachine

Basically "Linux with QA and taste". And because using MacOS put a smile on your face.

Now Mac OS and Apple's latest computers only serve to demonstrate a lack of vision for the platform. Apple seems focused to integrate/unify iOS and MacOS, which might make sense in a beancounter way of thinking (eg. seeing MacOS as a cost center), but sends out the message that Apple is willing to loose "Pro" users as collateral damage.

I certainly hate to loose the ability to buy Apple equipment for my work, but without Apple taking really bold measures, Apple is a lost cause in the Pro market as it stands.

Price itself isn't so much an issue as is the feeling that you're being ripped off for rigs that lack any "pro" features, yet are as expensive or even more expensive than the "pro" stuff Apple used to make.
I think we would number only the master branch. Using soft or hard tags is an option. I've created an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/issues/747
I didn't know that existed....
The NYT isn't nearly as biased as everyone makes it out to be.
Oh no they dont. CPU Performance is roughly the same, power usage is also roughly the same. What you do get is some hardware accelerated scenario like playing 4K High Bitrate HEVC which would make your Skylake machine literally stand still and drop to below 10% CPU usage on Kaby.
You can safely replace Americans with 'citizens of any non 3rd world country'.
> Based on everything else we know about the world now, we can "just" simulate a brain. "Just" may mean "after another 200 years of work", of course. The alternative is "the brain is magical somehow", which is not a strong argument on its own – we don't often end up finding magic to be the answer.

In order to accurately simulate a particular brain, we'd need the technology to (i) accurately read all the information encoded in a particular brain, which everything we know about the brain suggests depends on getting a snapshot of the state of 85 billion neurons - and chemical interactions of those neurons' constituent proteins - at a particular millisecond in time.
(ii) manipulate matter (or write matter-simulating code) such that we duplicate the state of that brain at that time, and probably the associated body too, with sufficient accuracy for the biochemical reactions (or digital emulation of the biochemical reactions) continue to produce a patterns resembles the thought processes of the emulated brain in their outputs.

I don't think we need to invoke "magic" or vitalism or quantum brains to suggest that replicators capable of reproducing a particular state of a mind-bogglingly complex set of biochemical processes without significant information loss may not be a practical possibility in future. If anything, that sounds harder than achieving AGI or something approaching it via other means.

As for the hype about general AI, we're responding to a thread musing on whether we'll get "close" to achieving it this year.
It's unfortunate that such a scheme exists, which pollutes the youth of the nation. I too received several calls from an "unknown" number trying to extort money by having me install some anti-virus software to fix a non-existent computer issue.
Cool! How do you deal with the issues raised in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310271 ?
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> Your metric for success seems to be "not enough people died relative to previous such moves, hence its a success", which is rather morbid.

Why is it "morbid"? Did you call out the OP for associating the death of a 100 people due to an economic move like demonetization morbid? If not, then why am I being singled out? Just because my opinion doesn't fit your narrative?

> Also your point about "major move that directly affected the entire country but did not end in large scale riots" is vague in its definition of "major move". During the partition, people were forced to leave their homes, belongings, ALL material wealth in the name of religion/politics/whatever and move to a different location in fear for their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
Does demonetization compare to this?

Yes it does. Because the OP was talking about "implementation" of the move and not about "intent". The displacement of people during the Partition was of a small percentage of the entire populace. Yet it was not managed properly at all. Did it not result in the death of close to 2 million people by some estimates? Or is the death of 2 million people due to Partition not as morbid as the death of 100 people due to demonetization?

According to me, demonetization should have resulted in large-scale riots. Even the Supreme Court of India concurred: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/demonetisation-sc-q.... In other countries where demonetization took place there were large scale riots and huge political instability. Read up on Myanmar demonetization which led to large-scale riots leaving thousands of people dead.

The very fact it did not end in large-scale riots leads me to believe that it was a success. Whether there are any long term benefits to the move economically remains to be seen.

> During demonetization, among other things, all the honest Indian had to do was wait in long queues to exchange cash (which is not convenient by all means - its very very harrowing), and the dishonest Indian figured out how to convert their cash to the new currency through the black market.

And most of those converting their cash were caught and the rest are still being caught. Did you fail to read the news?
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We use that engine in the OSS KoReader application.
"If they reached a person who was sufficiently terrified or gullible — this was known in the business as a “sale” — they would instruct that person to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of iTunes cards to avoid prosecution, they said…”

Fascinating story but how is it that people believe their government accepts payments in iTunes gift cards?

The money transfers also referenced in the article sound a little more legitimate (though still not sounding kosher) but is there some reason to believe that a US government agency would ever ask for payment in anything other than dollars?
Nice, reminds me of Asimov's "The Martian Way".
Now I'm sad about Pebble. Music remote always on my wrist, and I can play/pause/rewind/skip/volume while wearing mittens through two layers of coat sleeves and a long sleeved shirt. Because they put goddamn buttons on it.

Hopefully this thing keeps working until someone else makes a useful smartwatch.
That's easy enough to solve: you are only allowed to defend your SSID if you have taken reasonable steps to minimise the chance of a random name collision, and if this is really the most reasonable answer given your threat model.

For example you can't block all "Netgear WLAN" hotspots, but you can block all "Hotel Sunrise NY Guests" networks. And you can not block SSIDs similar to your private network simply because you are too lazy to specify the routers MAC in all your five devices.
Which they had years to already work on and leap ahead, but now they're playing catch up.

I came to this conclusion by wondering, who sold IG? I can't remember. I can't remember who created it to be honest. Because now they're a footnote. Everything they've done they could've easily done without Facebook and become a serious threat to FB and every other platform. But not now. Now they're on the bench. This is what competitors do. They buy you up and make sure you never work on anything that competes, and everything you do they take credit for.
Good, so you've seen one 10-episode Belgian series. We've seen hundred, thousands of of American series and movies (and books). After a while we begin to be able to pull out some constants that are represented, and more importantly and more interestingly, we become able to see the constants which are not purposely represented.

You don't realise the massive power of the American cultural imperialism. It is a steamroller: most European people have a better knowledge of the police and justice systems of the USA than of their own country!

(And that's not only about fiction but about the news: we also know better the political system and political life of the USA than the ones of our neighbouring countries. We still know our own better, luckily :-) )
I think most people would say that functional analysis is the key to working comfortably in quantum, rather than linear algebra.
Huh? You are still blocking the view and preventing the other side from turning left safely until the traffic clears and you can turn.
Indeed... it's likely that the board issued themselves new stock to prevent their dilution, but not yours.

As an extreme example, I watched a startup in a private sale issue new stock to those on the board such that all of the other early (0.1-0.5% stock ownership) employees were diluted to $0.01. The total valuation was in the $100M range. It was a good way to make a few enemies and retire at 30.

In the end the acquiring company ended up having to hire some of those employees back for consulting... I believe several of them received >$1k/hr. Most of those employees suspect that the acquiring company tacitly signed off on the issuance of new stock.
"don't actually have more than one candidate for each office"

Huh. You just now made me realize that I (we) have been using the wrong rhetoric (framing) about redistricting (gerrymandering).

For future, I'll talk about voter choice, instead of maximal fairness.

Thank you.
I have the first edition Artificial Intelligence: a modern approach. Each chapter ends with an Historical and Bibliographic Notes section and that's probably where I would start.

The book also fleshes out the concept of machine learning versus other approaches to 'classic' AI. There are other implementation types of machine learning in addition to neural network based approaches. Machine Learning happens at a level of abstraction just below the top level abstraction of a decision making agent.

It is only recently (around 2012) or so, that neural networks became so dominant as to be considered synonymous with 'machine learning'. Cheap GPU's played a big role. So did better tooling.
I'd use electrum
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I believe its record is 60-0, against mostly or entirely high level pros. It's impressive.
I may be the only developer on HN that doesn't have this issue or on the entire internet for that matter, but I have no issues with battery life on my tMBP 15". I do all day development in eclipse and have music playing in the background. I think the battery life issues are overblown based on the few other devs around me that also use the new tMBP but I haven't personally asked them how long theirs last, just see they keep theirs unplugged for long periods of time too.
why do we need to create an account to try it out?
It's the same people who participate in various "challenges" and play Pokemon Go claiming that it's good for your health. Many people just need some hoaxes to consume their free time.
>How else could a cop kill someone ? suffocating ?

That's also a not entirely uncommon occurence.

USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/08/cops-gagged...

Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semira_Adamu

South Africa
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/south-african-police-suff...

Sweden
http://filmingcops.com/witnesses-horrified-as-cop-beats-and-...
Fun in challenges should certainly be added.

I guess you could bend finishing a super mario level in to "achievements" but it's really more about the challenge.

Games could even be random generated without any level progression, it's just that random generated levels are not as good in creating interesting and non-repetitive challenges.
I don't see how they would afford this. Rough approximations show that even giving $20 a month to India's 900 million adult population would mean an annual expenditure of 216 billion dollars, more than 4 times the country's annual defence budget. Where does all this money come from? Increased taxes from the middle class (so that they pay $40 to get $20)?
For a deafblind person's take on consumer technology and some of the same problems described in that article, I recommend http://www.molly-watt-trust.org.