skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Parent of a 6yo and a 1yo). I feel the same, I was orders of magnitude freer as a kid as my children are now. One day the nanny of my 1yo found my 6yo outside of our school (which is across the street) almost ready to cross the street on the pedestrian crossing. We wrote to the teacher, who told us she couldn't sleep that night. It's very likely that if we had reported the incident to the principal she would have been fired. At end of the day, the main function of the schools nowadays is to keep our children safe, not to educate them.

But here's the thing, I feel the same as you. Part of it could be the PG observation of asymmetry of benefit vs risk for kids and parents ([1], paragraph before "Discipline"). But part of it is that the whole "world is tough, so toughen up" is a big misconception. I'm struggling to articulate a good argument, but I think it's worth shielding our children from danger for as long as possible, so they can focus on learning. Life will come at them, that's for sure. And then they'll have the motivation to learn how to deal with all the bad stuff. But until them they'll learn more of the good stuff if we remove the distraction of having to look out for themselves.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
Ok, I get where we are crossing wires now. Your "ourworldindata" citations show a decreasing crime rate through basically every period of data except the 1960s and 70s. The period between 1940-1950 show a lower period than now in that it is around 4 p100k then and around 6 p100k now.

You are then comparing that to certain city numbers in the USA that are ~50 p100k now. That makes more sense as a thesis and I think I now understand what you are saying.

That said, I think it is an entirely incorrect way to interpret the data, as the aggregate numbers that have sub 4 p100k in the historical record do not break out p100k numbers per city. So you have no idea if St. Louis (for instance) is worse now than it was in the "ourworldindata" data set as it isn't broken out that way.
From their website (homepage):

> Gigster is a smart software development service, combining top developers and designers with artificial intelligence.

Am I the only one who does not understand what that even means?

Do they bring together matching developers and designers using their artificial intelligent algorithms or the developers and designers they hire have artificial intelligence?
There's always that risk: they'll do some sort of jail like they do with iOS.
That's a bummer.

One of my favorite things is to walk down the middle of the street in my Grandma's town on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Small town, shops are closed, quiet except for a few bars and people's homes. Also a good break from family, and a walk on a day where I eat a lot.
The one who erred (and recovered) once is more valuable than the one who never made mistakes.
In my experience employment contracts are negotiable if and only if the negotiations are carried out BEFORE accepting the job.

Before responding to an offer, I've found it important to ask, "Please also send me a copy of the employee handbook and any employment agreements or other documents that I will be expected to sign on the first day of work."

I've done this ever since the time I quit one job, started another and then on the first day was presented with an HR packet full of "standard" forms to be signed.
A ridiculous portion of GDP is wasted on this type of hostility. Just look at how much marketing is completely unnecessary, but billions are spent on it. Look at how many companies are spending money to reinvent the wheel constantly instead of sharing code, designs, etc. Patent lawsuits. We're just scratching the surface here. It's a depressingly wasteful and hostile world.
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> Well, one reason is that touch screens for desktop OSes suck

They work perfectly well on desktops like the Surface Studio, where you can bring the screen down to a drawing board angle. They also work well with a "desktop OS" on convertible laptops and 2-in-1s with multiple use modes including "tent" and "tablet".

They're actually not too bad on real desktops with vertical screens, especially if you're standing up. (Try putting an all-in-one in your kitchen.)

It would be foolish to assume that just because you have a touch screen that you have to touch it all the time. You don't. You can still use a mouse, a pen, an air-mouse, a games controller, and several other things. Having a touch screen doesn't make you do anything you don't want to do, it just gives you an extra option.

It's a bit like claiming that if you use a mouse you can't use keyboard shortcuts. Really, that's not how it works....
Not related to this org.

> seemed disrespectful of others time

I had similar experience with unknown startup, after spending few hours on task, the founder didn't even bother to respond. After that I decided not to take-up interviews which has similar requirement (ex: ask to finish small task).
Upon reflection, Hoffman et al. (2017) itself may arguably be clickbait. To the extent that I understand it, they're looking at inhomogeneity in cosmic expansion. It seems equivalent to turbulence in fluid dynamics. That is, non-uniform flow.

And in considering airflow, for example, one doesn't say that underdensities repel air, or that overdensities attract air. Rather, it's the non-uniform flows that create the underdensities and overdensities.

Anyway, it seems to me that Hoffman and coauthors should have stuck to describing correlations, because that's all they have. Using the language of causality is confusing. They don't mention it, but maybe they have an agenda to promote varieties of dark matter with positive and negative gravity.
Why do people care so much about terminal emulators and their supposed "bloat" and "complexity"?
But your explanation of the problem here is that nobody recognized the other relevant correlations well enough to rule them out.
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Saying "he won the election because he got more votes" doesn't explain anything. The question is who voted for him, and why.

And that's not about Trump specifically, it gets asked after every election.
This is simply not true. Valve had precisely ZERO VR research up until 2012. Thats when they finally decided to pursue hardware and hired Jeri Ellsworth to build hardware division.
This was my experience in the suburban south in the 90s. I think the south tends to be more hands off in many ways.
I used st for a good year and it worked really well! I've switched recently for features like the ability to change the font size without recompiling, etc. Despite its spartan feature set, st is quite usable.
Same in the US. The real estate industry lobbied for an exemption from AML/KYC reporting requirements.

If you don't need a mortgage, then you show up with a cashier's check or briefcase full of cash, sign papers in the name of an LLC or Limited Company and now you have a house in the anonymous shell companies' name and clean money.
> The killer feature is stupid easy forking and sending pull requests with the one interface.

That's the part that wasn't really possible before git though. But you could always do an anonymous checkout and make your changes there,you could even do a pull request (via a patch). There was no need to signup for that, even though most of us had a source forge account (I still do) anyway.
First, you are factually wrong: most countries are signatires of international refugee programs.

Second, in your wicked world, who helps the refugees? Who helps you when you become a refugee?

Bear in mind that most refugees are displaced because of geopolitical developments, of which rich countriss, specially US and UK, are in big part responsible.
I have tried -- really tried -- to replace a laptop with an iPad Pro. The big one, with a keyboard and pencil.

Failure. I am one of three people I have seen this happen to. A MBP is vastly more capable.

When I see iPad sales continue to slide, I don't wonder why. It is not all that useful.

I'm a tax lawyer so my needs are modest. I'm no power user. But spreadsheets, omnigraffle, Scrivener, etc are all better on a Mac. Multiple windows are a necessity.

The people I have seen who evangelize the iPad Pro as a primary device (macstories.net, brooksreview.net) seem to put far more effort into bending their lives to the tool. I'd rather get shit done.
I use Colemak and vim and never bothered with remapping the keys. It didn't seem to affect my workflow.
Well, a candle isn't enough to be a concern. But state of the art air tight passive houses include ventilator units that exchange air while retaining (or rejecting) as much heat as possible.
There have been many times when vim starts glitching out or something because of the terminal emulator I'm using. Even well tested ones like X-term and gnome-terminal. I never had that problem using st.

We hack so much into a text interface it's really easy to accumulate bugs.
There was pent-up demand from people who had been holding off buying the old model....
John was able to do the demo at E3 due to his employment at Zenimax, Carmack used company resources to work on the product, and Carmack was able to source talent from zenimax due to his employment at the company.

None of this has anything to do with Zenimax owning his "mind" or "time." It's about Carmack using company resources to enable Oculus. This becomes even more concerning when you consider that Carmack was one of their most senior, if not THE most senior engineer at the company. He's compensated handsomely under the assumption that any great ideas he has will end up with the company. This is similar to executive compensation strategies and carries with it very similar assumptions. The situation is a little more than some ordinary employee exploring their hobby and getting lucky.

This is like a CEO getting hired, being awarded a multi-hundred million dollar contract, not doing a single thing for the company that hired him, advertising for a competitor, leaving once his contract is up and also convincing numerous other executives to leave with him at the same time. That's extremely unethical in my opinion.

How much all that is worth is debatable, but the court seems to think it was worth $500M.
I believe the Touch Bar on new MacBook Pros is a modularized component running a version of iOS on ARM.
Indeed if the security of control of your government is fragile enough that a fancy telemarketer can acquire significant power perhaps a bit of governmental re-architecture is in order.
Hmm.. they still paid 100m to get carmack's previous company partly for his and others talent .. they had explicit NDA signed with oculus. carmack was working on their resources and IP(doom) on company time. Carmack was critical to success of occulus. The suit also predates Fb acquisition It is not their problem that Fb didn't do due diligence.
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Yeah, ironically, they could lead to the emulator developers more accurately emulating the original hardware. Then other games may actually emulate better!

It's not be practical to actually make one, but theoretically, there's nothing you could do to stop your game being on a 100% accurate emulator. And some good emulators are amazingly close.
We've banned this account for trolling. It's an abuse of HN to use the site primarily for political or ideological battle.

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I lived in San Francisco's Western Addition in the late 80's, and the old man who lived in the modest Victorian across the street from me passed away. The estate settled and the house cleaners showed up. Two huge bins of hoarder nonsense were hauled away before the tow truck showed up. I watched from my window as they pulled a Pierce-Arrow Touring car from this garage that couldn't possibly have fit it. It had been sitting on it's tires, but it was all there, from hood ornament to leather trunk on the back. Amazing!
AMD's license for the parts of x64 owned by Intel is conditioned on AMD not getting sold. The license wouldn't be transferrable to the buyer.

(So, yeah, AMD could do their own slightly-different chip, using just the bits and bobs that are strictly theirs.)
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Well... only if you ignore the advantages of immunity to length extension.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13533276
Me too.

Cop said, "are you English?"

"Yep"

"Though so"
There is no basis for that assertion.
its under NDA
I refuse to believe that John Carmack would ever need to Google how to wipe a hard drive. Quite a payday for ZeniMax here, $500 million seems quite steep, but it's the price for a mishandled transition to Oculus.
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You may be a lawyer, sir, but I am two lawyers, stacked together in a trenchcoat in deference to one of the classic japes, and I can tell you that the things you are saying sound vaguely wrong to bottom lawyer.
I'm highly skeptical of all the claims made by this blog, as the author isn't exactly making a well reasoned argument for unleashing children on the wilderness again (although I do find all the discussion here about child roaming positively riveting); citing a Daily Mail puff piece is one thing, but the crime stats (and interpretation) are pretty awful.

The "Stranger Danger?" subsection in particular seems insane. 3% of children under 5 being murdered by strangers absolutely does not mean your child is safer with strangers.
Did you read the link? The first paragraph says:

> Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to about 11 million
I hate the "it doesn't really matter, so do it our way argument."

If anyone says it doesn't matter, we'll be doing it my way. Scratch it out, sign the changes and submit it back to them. Remind them they don't care about enforcing it anyway.
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There was a content bubble before Netflix existed, it was called cable. Exclusive content only for cable subscribers and choice has been the norm for years. If anything, Netflix has changed the game.
Do Rs actually tell you to be more white and Christian? Calling BS. I've lived in Massachusetts, that was not my experience at all.
No, they're saying the causal relation does not add much more (quantitatively speaking) to an existing correlative relation. They're suggesting we throw out the part that distinguishes causal from correlative, not correlative reasoning altogether.
> It would come down to whether there's money to be made in the area, and I suspect most serious gamers build their own systems.

Spot on. The ultra-performance professionals and the big-spending gamers often do their own builds and then keep upgrading them.

Apple has always seen itself more of a sealed-box consumer appliance supplier, basically de-skilling computing.
The same way you distinguish rational belief from rationalization.

Namely, in that a rational belief is justified on the basis of prior experiences, while a rationalization is justified on the basis of impracticality due to ignorance.
A bunch of white supremacists hunting to identify a man's assaulter. What could possibly go wrong?

After all, white supremacists have a long history of being fair and impartial fact finders, simply looking for the truth. /s
It's a mobile app.
Where do you live? I live in a small town in SC. We have little hoodlums ranging free all over the place. We all keep an eye out to make sure they're safe. No way in hell would anyone report their parents for negligence, and God help the social worker who tried to make that accusation.
Is x64 owned by Intel? How much of the x86 stuff would Apple need?
> “It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust. It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.”

> “Yet, we know that in the darkest hours of humanity, light shines the brightest.‎ As we remember those who died, we are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent,” he continued, again referring only to “the innocent.”

> “In the name of the perished, I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good,” he concluded. “Together, we will make love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world.”

Is this the statement? How on earth do you get holocaust denial out of this? This is what OP meant by hysteria.
He lost the popular vote by 3 million votes.

His disapproval rating has eclipsed 50% in record time for a modern president - 8 days. 42 vs 51, approve/disapprove
https://www.rt.com/usa/375715-trump-majority-disapproval-8-d...

President Obama had an approval rating twice as large following his inauguration. 84/14

Over 3 million people marched against him just two weeks ago and continue to mobilize.

I can't find any evidence that there is some silent majority supporting him. I'm more inclined to think it's a vocal minority.
Is a printing business allowed to refuse to print gay wedding announcements, because they do not support gay weddings? Maybe you're consistent, but I feel like this would often draw out contradictory positions. Is it morally different if one is a paying customer and the other is a non-paying user?
This is a cool service. I always struggled with GlassDoor because I felt it didn't provide great transparency into how my career would progress. Like, the biggest indicator at Amazon of how you would start and where you could go was what degree you got and the cohort you were in. I imagine this analysis being super impactful for more-specific degrees.

I'm curious to see how this translates for the BA/non-professional degree crowd though.
I know (because I use it and also host it at home, and like it). The point of my comment was HN's reaction.
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On first glance the dropwizard test app appears to be doomed to mediocrity via reliance on hibernate.

Call me crazy, but I like my dropwizard with Spring DI for (singleton) resource setup, a micro-ORM to get work done, and HikariCP datasources at runtime.
Are you saying that the causes can't be different from town to town or region to region, or that such actions couldn't be justified and rational in one region, while not justified and irrational in another region?
>Ironically this is the safest time in all of history to let kids do this.

Well what's the cause and effect here? Maybe it happens less often today just because there are less kids outside.
Right here in suburban San Jose too. Phil Cosentino (one of the Cosentino brothers of local grocery fame) and his family run J&P Farms on Carter Avenue near 85 and Camden. They sell organic fruit from their backyard orchard.

Sometimes you will run into one of them at the produce stand in front of their house, but usually when I've been there it's unattended. The baskets of fruit have prices on them and there's a slot in the counter to put your money in.

http://www.jandpfarms.com/
I prototyped a reader-macro for CL that does this, specifically because it gives you package-local nicknames:

https://github.com/jasom/spm-reader
> He quizzed me on what I was doing, asked to look in my backpack, and after 15 minutes, I was on my way

I don't know what the laws are where you live but I would guess he had no right to search your backpack without your consent. To me, what you're describing is police aggression and you must always push back against any such aggression. You should not have submitted to the search. The legal system is adversarial and you must protect yourself from the very first moment you are in any way involved with it.

To quote James Duane from his book You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: "Nobody of sound mind can dispute that there is something fundamentally wrong, and intrinsically corrupt, about a legal system that encourages police officers and prosecutors to do everything in their power to persuade you and your children (no matter how young or old) to 'do the right thing' and talk - when they tell their own children the exact opposite."

The book: https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Innocent/dp/150...
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>I've heard that there was a sharp increase from the early 20th century to the 70s-80s, then a small decline since then (maybe due to deleading gasoline among other things), and it seems to have happened in other countries too http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olym....

That's true. However there are estimates that historically, during periods in peace and without severe economic hardship, the murder rates had settled at very low numbers in America (lower than today). In the data I linked it is 1/100,000 in 1800 which is lower than around 4 today, and around 50 in several cities. However, there are problems with the datasets as you mentioned, but some of those problems would make the historical homicide rate even lower than higher (i.e. better survival rate from medical care).
Yes, they outcome of this "with us or against us" approach is two different parallel economies. I don't get why tech companies are being singled out either. Why is no one making grocery purchasing decisions based on their CEO's support for trump?