skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sentence is a little tough to unpack but it's saying that emphasizing procedure (rules) with a focus on race rather than improving criminal justice more broadly could yield a more punitive system. It's describing a difference of opinion, and this opinion seems reasonable.

I assume a "race liberal" is someone who is liberal with respect to race just as a "social conservative" might be pro union and pro welfare but anti gay and anti abortion.
Douane Firewall
My choice:

Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1. Perfect Linux support, great battery, well built solid chassis, thin.

Negatives:
Costs a fortune, and some people simply don't like Thinkpads.
Obama's Parting Gift to Trump: Expanded Surveillance Powers
IANAL (obviously), but how would the government levy a fine? This is a settlement, so there's no legal wrongdoing, correct? I assume all the charges were dropped?

Settlements often frustrate me. They seem like a "get out of jail free" card (I know no one is literally going to jail). Especially in Class Action suits. I'm afraid that most large companies just see it as a cost of doing business and prepare accordingly.
Exactly.

I have yet to meet a good salesperson who didn't research, listen, and react. That's part of the sales process.. to understood who you're selling to and why.

This is Sales 101 and has nothing to do with being a intro/extro-vert.
As an introvert, I'm skeptical of the conclusions of this article. Sales will always include a huge amount of customer interaction, and someone who gains energy from these interactions will always have an advantage over someone who finds these interactions tiring.

If anything, I've seen a greater separation of responsibilities, where sales people are supported by technical presales folks who can do a lot of the behind the scenes work.
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Today there exists a multitude of different genome sequencing techniques, and distinct complexities are associated with each method. However, the number of pairs is today seldomly the main complexity.

Sanger sequencing was one of the first methods of sequencing, and employs linear sequencing: the synthesis of strands with increasing length. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, Celera instead came up with the idea of fragmenting the genome, amplifying the fragments, sequence the fragments, and match them together using bioinformatics. The complexity here lies in that much of the DNA is repeated (such as microsatellites) or no, which makes it hard to 'phase' the genome. As such, a short 20 nucleotide sequence may be present in may parts of the genome which makes it hard to generate a 100% complete connected genome.

Today, Illumina sequencing is the major sequencing platform (~85% of market share). It relies of the fragmentation of DNA into ~300 bp fragments. By synthesising the complementary strand of each fragment with fluorescent nucleotides, we may employ lasers to detect (sequence) the nucleotides of the fragments. Here we have the same problem as with shotgun sequencing: that we have many repeats in the DNA sequence.

To remedy this, error-prone sequencing methods with long read lengths such as IonTorrent/PacBio/etc. may be employed to. These long reads may then act as a map for stiching together the more precise short reads. This is called 'hybrid' sequencing.

Other sequencing methods, such as Pyrosequencing, has the inherent problem of not being able to discern too many (5) of the same nucleotide in a row. Other methods are primer based (i.e. need to know a short subsequence of the DNA beforehand). This is problematic if we want to perform a de-novo whole genome sequence. Note: Illumina does not rely on primers, and may be deployed directly on unknown sequences, unlike Pyrosequencing/Sanger sequencing.
However Northern California could see a Mag 9.0+ quake from the cascadia fault.
It's a great thing that we have all these brilliant minds who just sit at home theorizing about life. How else would I know how stupid I am and how I'm doing X wrong and why Y is better than Z.
The vibration API is available for anyone to use:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...
>ufw goes in that direction

Which direction? Does it have [plans for] learning mode or even process-based rules?
How's the build quality, comparing to other ultra books like ZenBook or MacBook.

I don't have a chance to play with one yet.
I don't really mind the static overhead as long as it stays fast and if it could deal with 'larger than memory' files sensibly. Alas, it does neither.

I'm very hesitant to standardize on a non-OSS editor, though, so I think Sublime is out for me.
There's lots of HOTAS setups for this chair around on Imgur and the r/hotas subreddit. Here's one I used:

https://imgur.com/a/CsKoY
Ownership is used for more than just memory management though, concurrent memory access for example.
And we currently aren't doing enough. Last year's Paris agreement is not sufficient:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/23/ratifiyi...
Take a look at the vibration API:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...
Baking Video Cards in an Oven
It is not true in my case.

When we go on a road trip often my 14 yr old son is sitting in the passenger seat with a laptop w/ Microsoft Streets and Trips and we also have an atlas of the state we are in, county maps, city maps, etc.

My dad warned me about bushwhacking because he got lost close to the treeline the treeline (spending an unplanned night in the woods) in Franconia Notch the summer before he shipped off to Vietnam.

It is hard for me to motivate my son to walk on trails but he loves bushwhacking -- I find it a lot more fun if I have a GPS because like Theseus, I can always follow my track back. In my area there is also the risk of running into a canyon you didn't know was there and having topo maps also helps with that.
1) All fonts look like ass on windows.

2) What exactly do you mean by this?

3) This is true, the scheme is great, but themes aren't really there yet. The default is nice enough, though.

4) Also true, perhaps a plugin could work? I have no idea where I'd use macros though. What do you use macros for?

5) Also true, I use vim for those but it's a rare case.

The CPU issue seems weird, I certainly don't get 100% CPU.
Seasonal stuff needs to be in an area of the store they can close off for a few weeks everytime the season changes while they redecorate. During those times they want the seasonable stuff to be out of the way so the construction efforts do not get in the way of customers.

I don't know if this is their logic, but it makes sense.
Climate change is not the end of the world. The climate has been warmer in the past and CO2 levels higher. The transition period until the climate stabilizes at a higher temperature will be uncomfortable because of problems with agriculture, sea level rise and so on, but I don't think it will wipe out modern civilization.
There is a convert-Rust-to-Lean-for-verification project. The not-aliasing guarantees did help tremendously there.

https://kha.github.io/2016/07/22/formally-verifying-rusts-bi...
Orbit isn't about getting 160km over the surface of the Earth, it's about accelerating to 7.8km/s so you don't fall back down to Earth. Your anti-gravity pump won't help you in that regard.

Getting to orbit isn't hard because you have to go so high, it's hard because you have to go so fast.
What defines being "good at sales"? Is it selling more things, or is it making your customers happy? It seems that in today's corporate world being good at sales means you sell lots of things, regardless of whether your customers are happy or not.
Even if they did manage to block 3G, 4G, and WiFi - it's almost impossible to block Bluetooth. Hey-presto, P2P communication which is impossible to effectively monitor.

Oh, and trust the The Telegraph go with the archaic term "headmistress" - the term preferred by most people in education is "headteacher". Take a look at the school's own website - http://www.wensleydale.n-yorks.sch.uk/Our-School/The-Governi...
FATCA Drama Continues in Trinidad and Tobago
10 Farming Simulation Games Like Stardew Valley
My laptop has 16GB of RAM, I don't really give a fuck about a few hundred MB of RAM in all fairness.
Some introverts, maybe. I couldn't sell an extinguisher to a man on fire. Actually, I could, but it would likely be at cost, rounded up to the nearest whole dollar.

Because come on, the guy was on fire.

What if he tried entering my personal space like that?~
Well stop being so fussy and grow up. Also, update your dumb policies to something more useful that actually facilitates discussion, not just sheep baa-ing.
I'm not sure about the person you replied to, but it's the presumption that the reader is a straight male implicit in that question that bugs me. Unless the author is known for his bi/lesbian audience...
I'm not sure what you mean, precisely. The grand goal IS complete autonomous function, but it's wise to approach this with caution. Legal and moral grey area abound, new technology brings new technophobia, definite "completeness" would require rigorous proof and we're JUST getting autonomous vehicles into the wild.
But the kicker is that if you actually care about the safety of the public, then you have to care about whether or not the public will adopt the new technology that makes them safer-- and to do that you have to introduce it slowly and respond to criticism.

Other companies are being even more cautious; Ford isn't putting autonomy on the road until 2021.
In the meanwhile Tesla can sell products as Level 2, and perhaps should do so until roads are as safe as commercial aircraft.
This is the exact laptop that my employer provides me. While it is not thin or light, it is a pleasant machine to use. I have no problems using it on my lap on the couch or at a coffee shop. My machine is configured as an i5-3340 with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD (I also added a second SSD in place of the CD/DVD drive). I frequently have 3 or more VMs running under VMware, an instance or two of Visual Studio, Chrome, Outlook, and half a dozen other small utilities (text editors, skype for business, etc). I have no complaints whatsoever about performance. The touchpad isn't the greatest (I prefer my T420 in this department), but the keyboard is fine, and the screen as well.

As someone else mentioned, the T4x0 series are also very good. I have a personal T420 that I have upgraded to 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and Blu Ray that has held up very well over the years. To be honest, aside from the screen resolution, there is nothing pushing me to upgrade to a newer machine, and this thing was released in early 2011.

When I am looking for something thin and light, I use an Acer C720 Chromebook which has been reloaded with a full Linux install. It is perfect for SSHing into a more powerful machine if I'm just going to be in vim / bash all day. I get 8-10 hours of battery life in this mode. I picked this machine up for $130 a year or so ago (refurbished).
ElementaryOS looks awesome.

I was going to put it on my Chromebook as my main OS, but theres a silly bug with the legacy BIOS for specifically my chromebook (Toshiba Chromebook 2 2015) that makes installing any Ubuntu flavor, or ElementaryOS, just not work.

I ended up putting Mint on it, since the OS installer would actually render.

Still want to try ElementaryOS someday.
Does it have the caste system?

To be honest I'm happy just figuring out my own beliefs.
>Most instances of tech debt are things you don't have to deal with. Usually, it is the term pulled out for things people don't like. Or generally deprecated methods that have better replacements, but still work.

I'm not so sure about this. To me, "debt" is something that has to be paid eventually. Otherwise, why use the term "debt" at all?

So if something works fine, why waste your time and energy replacing it with something newer?

Usually, the reason for this is the assumption that sticking with something deprecated will eventually bite you in the ass: something you're depending on won't be supported, will have security holes that won't get fixed, etc., and you're going to wish you had fixed it earlier. So this is a valid use of the term "tech debt" IMO.

But if something is just something someone doesn't like, that isn't "tech debt" at all. I don't like .NET, but it's invalid for me to call all software written in .NET "tech debt". I don't like Apple's ecosystem, but it would be pretty ridiculous for me to call all iOS software and apps "tech debt" when many millions of people use and enjoy that software every day.

So, for your LaTeX example, I don't consider that tech debt at all; instead, it's just like iOS and .NET software to me. If someone doesn't like it, that's their problem; the fact that it isn't brand new isn't a problem for me and all the people who still happily use it.

So personally, I think anyone using the term "tech debt" to just refer to things they don't like is using it incorrectly and in a totally invalid way.
> Then at the end students got a bonus for their participation experiment and they were told that they could donate some or all, any fraction of their bonus, to one of three charities, their pick, just by saying so to the experimenter. What she found was that people who had listed external causes of the good thing happening donated about 25 percent more of their bonus to a charity than the people who had listed things they had done to cause the good things to happen. The control group was somewhere roughly in the middle of those two.

> There have been many experiments that have shown if you prime people to feel the emotion of gratitude, they become much more generous toward others, much more willing to pay forward to the common good.

> If you want people to think about the fact that they’ve been lucky, don’t tell them that they’ve been lucky. Ask them if they can think of any examples of times when they might have been lucky along their path to the top.

That's the gist of the article. People get defensive when you say "you're lucky", because they interpret this as "you don't deserve your success". By reframing the message and asking people questions about times where they were lucky, then this can make them feel more generous.

Very practical advice for anyone who is delivering a speech at a fundraiser.
Would be nice to list the approximate number of genes, too.
This has been one of the main reasons why I have not adopted Docker yet.

I develop on a Macbook and push things to Linux Servers.
another option that I found to be similar in experience was Gnome3.
Ideally I'd like to use OSS for everything I can (and sometimes you can, see Transmission), but at times the non-OSS variant is simply the lesser of two evils. I'd rather use native Atom + native Gitkraken, but alas, that'd cost me nearly a gig of ram simply for idling. I won't stand by that kind of inefficiency.
I used to like Lenovo, but after all the Spyware controversies, I don't feel right supporting them. Can you recommend an equivalent to the T series?
UI testing with an automated QA tool: avoiding duplicate steps
Ask HN: Data Scientists, what real-life issues weren't covered in tutorials?
I've been going through a ton of data science educational material (e.g. dataquest), but I'm curious to hear about what real-world issues data scientists face.
War doesn't have a lot of returns.

Let's say we spend $100 mil blowing up a neighborhood in Iraq vs $100 building a building in St Louis. Both employ people during the act. But the building in St Louis will be worth something at the end of it. And it will most likely facilitate more commerce. Same with building a highway.
Neural Net Plays Atari “Freeway”
And windows and Mac? For people who are just illiterate?
The only reason for this better experience is because you're riding in a car that Uber doesn't have to maintain. There's a lot of Uber drivers who go out of their way to create a pleasant ride, which is what makes it great. If the drivers aren't getting compensated appropriately for this, then that's a huge problem in my opinion.
>most are unwilling to make any changes unless confronted with overwhelming evidence.

That's probably the second most common problem. I'd say 80% of my job is just fighting confirmation bias. So if someone thinks something needs to be changed, they'll take any sign that it should be changed. If someone thinks something should stay the same way, they'd argue with god about it.

I probably propose changes more often than I propose keeping things the same way, if only because testing an idea and gathering information requires making a change somewhere. I have a lot of conversations with people who are pressuring me to make a conclusion that the current way is best as soon as possible, so they can throw a lot of money at their pet project.

I'd say that most of the claims I'm being asked to make with limited evidence would be supporting the status quo, which is in line with your assessment.
XFCE, a theme, an icon scheme, and Vim, and I feel almost as pretty and almost as productive as any riced-out Linux desktop, and it took me one tenth of the time.
I’ve been using this happily for a long time. For those taken back by the endless prompts on the first run: that’s only for the start. Select “forever” for connections you trust and you’ll soon have much less prompts.

On a side note: the developers also have Micro Snitch, an app that warns when the camera or the microphone on your mac is in use.
Opinion seems split pretty evenly between: "You should make it funnier" and "This is irresponsible and wrong because you don't explain XYZ nuance of each service"

I don't feel like litigating that through PRs.
I have been using a Herman Miller Aeron since 2005. Its the only chair I can sit in all day and not have any back problems.
The Perfect Integration-Ready API
Personal Anecdote:
I've been on a planned break since June '16 to build stuff, among other things.
I get approached by top Indian startups once a week on average and nobody seems to lose interest when I tell them I'm on a break.

I have come to love a language called Elixir while working with it during the break and potential employers take it as a positive when I mention this fact.

Before I quit, I was a Tech Lead at an early stage startup(now Series B funded) for 6 months and I'll be looking for employment soon. I do not see this being a problem in my case.
There are other means for a child to make contact aside from personal mobile devices. Conventional phones, for example. At our local school, all mobile devices are put in lockers and are not allowed in class.
There are still some taxis in my city that don't take a card. (Of course, they wait until after the ride to tell you that.) Uber or Lyft wins for me on convenience of booking and payment.
It also nicely ignores that you're not blocking it at school. You're causing interference for an entire area.

The article is weird though; "think of the children", "red tape", etc. Too much intended to trigger a response.
Yes, I also thought that a list for each language shows exactly what's wrong with that language. For some it's self/this, Java is import and return, etc. for C++ there's no clear winner, because it is minimalistic by nature (mostly due to C heritage of course).
What do you use instead of "docker build" and "docker pull"?
That's anecdotal evidence. What's to say your experience reflects the experience of all children in school today?
The biggest hurdle so far for me to make WSL useful is the file watching. A lot of my CLI tools won't work because of it. They fixed a TON of stuff in the next update preview though, so maybe then it will be a better contender.
I still use a yoga 2 pro. It's a decent machine, with 8gb ram. If you can find it at a low price definitely go for it.
Very sorry about that, something wasn't working right. I just removed it.
It's a symptom of a larger problem though- inefficiency. It's why everything is nearly instantaneous in Sublime but always has that tiny delay in Atom - plus it chokes on large files. Hell, the Sublime dude even wrote a custom Regex engine just for highly performant searching.
When you get the little popup, your options appear to be: "ok, update now" and "ok, update at 3am". That stops a mid-day reboot, but it's useless if you want to leave your computer overnight so that it's where you left it the next day. Just because I'm not active, that doesn't mean I want my computer to restart, losing me my place! But MS doesn't seem to have realised this, doesn't let you set 24 active hours in a day, and doesn't let you defer the reboot past the next set of inactive hours.

You can try putting it into sleep mode when you leave, but... surprise! Windows seems to be able to reboot your PC in sleep mode too (don't ask me how - every Windows 10 owner I've spoken to has had this happen to them at least once though).

The only solution I've found is to hibernate at the end of each day, and then restart. Windows can't do its 3am reboot if the PC is off. (You don't need to physically unplug it.)

This has worked for me on most projects, because all I want is to get back in the next day with all my windows where I left them - but I've worked on some projects where you want to leave the computer running overnight, because you need to run a long job, or you want to soak test something, or whatever.

What then? There appears to be no way to disable this stuff without some good degree of Windows IT Person skill. There appear to be multiple recommended methods, all of which seem not to work for at least some people, and all of which get undone for at least some people by at least some future updates. So this is all fine if you work a company that has a Windows IT person to look after this stuff for you, while you do your actual job - but not so much fun if you're trying to do it yourself. (And it's a total shit to test, because upgrades that need reboots don't happen every week.)

My "most hated Windows 10 features" isn't a very long list, but the enforced reboots is definitely #1.
> touch screen, webcam, sound drivers and power management

Not that big problem. I own Chuvi HI12 & Teclast X98 AIR and it's almost impossible to make WiFi work on these.

But there is a custom ubuntu distro with all fixes

http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/first-2017-1704...
The chance that he would accomplish anything is vanishingly small. But I found this story on Google: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/18-year-old-...
This analogy doesn't work because you don't do manual heart surgery on yourself. Whether or not a robot does the surgery, the hospital's butt is on the line.

The biggest difference between an autopilot accident and a traditional accident is fault. Most accidents are driver error. Even if it drives accidents, overall, down (which it will), changing the responsibility for safe travel from mostly the individual to mostly the manufacturer has huge legal repercussions. Not to mention many people's discomfort with no longer being in control of their own safety, even if study after study shows that they shouldn't be.
kind of. You should offer something in return of the people who are buying it in advance. Like for example 50% discount or whatever. Then you should deliver something in less than a couple of months, otherwise it is hard to justify the pre-sell.

What I would do is set a landing page like the product is almost finished and collect emails or some personal information to contact the people when the product is done. This helps to validate your product before even start building it. Once you know your MVP (very minimum) will be ready in less than a month you can start doing the pre-sell and take the money. It also depends on the product, it is not the same if your customer are the gyms or the people who go to the gym. You can make some gyms sing a contract to use your product for a good offer before you have your product done and without getting any money yet. But once you deliver they have to pay you by contract.