skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are entirely correct, but it does not diminish his core message in any way:

"Banks don’t do business like the rest of us do business. Banks don’t do lunch to resolve an issue. They send a lawyer. Banks don’t care about your rights. They care about their rights. (Read your bank’s provided explanation of your banking rights, if you don’t believe me.) Banks don’t care about your bank balance. They care about their bank balance. And what banks really don’t do is take responsibility for their mistakes. They enforce penalties for ours."
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Short answer: unions. In general public worker unions is a bad idea and police union is even worse. Union with guns is a very dangerous force and it is able to push the police agenda through local governments.
In other news, campaignlive.co.uk still has full-screen pop-up ads.

I think a good place for ads would be at the end of the video. I know many people will say that then many ads would never be seen. But I think you should consider the emotion associated with your product when your ad is at the beginning:

If I click on a funny 1-minute cat video, a front-loaded ad first of all makes Youtube act like it's broken. I clicked a link to play a certain video, and it didn't play. Instead something else played. For a brief moment, there is a feeling of brokenness. Then there is a feeling of frustration: you tried to accomplish something, and you were blocked (though temporarily).

The second reason it is so irritating is that it seldom has something to do with you: it's advertising something you don't want. It's like someone who strikes up a conversation with you about something that they find interesting, but they didn't bother to consider whether it interests you. (Google's AdSense doesn't seem to work well in Youtube.)

The third reason it is so irritating is a sense of proportion. An hour-long documentary could do with a 30-second commercial. A 30-second Youtube video seems overburdeded with even a 5-second ad.

If you put your ad at the end, I am in a good mood, because I just finished my cat video. Also, I'm thinking of what to watch next. So an ad playing in the background doesn't bother me as much. Maybe it's even subliminal, since I'm not really concentrating on it. That's just what the advertisers want! ;)

I think ads at the end would also be more in the same spirit as the text-only ads on Google Search, that it would be better to have an ad go unnoticed than have an ad that is interfering. Actually I think the genius is that text-only ads fit in better with text-only search results. The user is already in careful-reading mode. So in fact I think they are more likely to run across the text-only ad than some flashing image, which they would have quickly learned to ignore.

I finally signed up for Youtube Red, despite my pennypinchingness. I think I'll stick with it. It includes also all the free music I want, on Google Play. Through that I found a new album by an obscure band that I always liked. It's only $10 a month, and if you can buy a family plan for $15.
Aeropress and a kettle.
Diesel engines that pollute, dozens of dangerous grade crossings, doors with steep steps -- Caltrain is a 19th century style railroad in a region of California that desperately needs modern transportation services. The short-sighted decision by Santa Clara and San Mateo counties to turn their backs on BART, made 50 years ago, continues to play itself out.
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I am so thrilled to see they've finally listened on this!
> So the main thing that matters to humans as human beings?

Speak for yourself. I'd rather have convenience, good medical care, and the Internet than the power to let 100 peasants bow down before me.
I was surprised when the article mentioned Loom in the 80s, I remember playing it and it feeling more recent.

Then the article explains the sad story of how the game failed to become a massive hit, and its design lessons went on ignored for years...

I personally think Loom has one of the finest adventure game interfaces I have ever used. I also loved its tone, for some reason I am just not that interested in comedy.
I also bought a car from Beepi, and it was also a wonderful experience for me. I chose them because all of the local car dealers scoffed when I offered to pay them in Bitcoin. So I went online, pressed a few bottons and bought a car online from Beepi with Bitcoin, which completely eliminated one of the most painful parts of buying a car (dealing with the bank).

Of course at the time I thought it was incredible that in 2015 I could purchase AND PAY FOR a new car without leaving the comfort of my couch. But in retrospect if I would have paid in dollars and kept the Bitcoin, or waited until 2017, I could have bought a Lamborghini!
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There is also an interesting 99% invisible episode about this: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-fresno-drop/
I was surprised to discover that the course has a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55

> From 2007 onwards, the scope of the course was changed to more strictly cover the content of four existing semester-long courses in two semesters: Math 25a (linear algebra) and Math 122 (group theory) in Math 55a; and Math 25b (calculus, real analysis) and Math 113 (complex analysis) in Math 55b. The name was changed to "Honors Abstract Algebra" and "Honors Real and Complex Analysis" to reflect this.[citation needed]

Linear algebra, abstract algebra, calculus, and real and complex analysis in one course. Sounds like fun.
For a comparison, an optimized release build of Clang 5.0 trunk (from a few days ago, built with Clang 5.0 trunk from like a week ago) with assertions enabled is 87mb -- with the LLVM libraries linked in, but dynamically linked to system libraries, on my Fedora 25 machine.

A debug build of clang is normally hundreds of megabytes (~600mb IIRC, and normal linkers go bonkers dealing with it), so if LLD is actually only 2.5x slower than 'cp' at -O0, that's quite good I think.

The next question is how much memory LLD uses vs the competition in this test...
"Statistics assumes independence"

What exactly do you mean by this?
I have also used Google Spreadsheets to act as a frontend of a database that people can dynamically update. I use the onEdit() function in google apps script and have found that it is not always reliable if edits are made in quick succession. I would definitely be interested on how you created your bidirectional synced system.
Harvard SEAS maintains an internally hosted git-based code repository so that is a non-GitHub option. GitHub is increasingly important for job seekers to present a portfolio, which is why it is useful for students, besides being a commonly used commercial tool.
Counterpoint: I go through none of this trouble and rarely get sick.
I think you meant "the fifth circuit is a federal appeals court." Circuit court is synonymous with federal appeals court.

That doesn't automatically mean a ruling applies nationally. A judge has to specify it. Note that in the Seattle travel ban case, the district court's ruling said that the defendants (the US government) must not enforce the order. Naturally that applies nationally, since he didn't specify a state.

Since the party being sued here is not the US government, the extent of the ruling is less clear to me.

I too am not a lawyer, but I think this kind of applies nationally. It's not an injunction or TRO like in the Seattle case, where a straight-up order was issued: stop now, you are forbidden to do this. In this case they're saying "in future court cases, the law should be interpreted this way."

So they've provided a precedent for other courts when other police are sued on the same grounds. This won't stop police across the nation immediately the way the TRO stopped the travel ban immediately, but over time I imagine it will become less common to try to stop people from recording the police, as it becomes progressively more common knowledge that you're not going to win that if it goes to court.
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Snapchat will be the next biggest bust since Theranos and Magic Leap.
I understand the math that is going on there, but I think in the real world I would question the reliability of both of the doctors and begin to wonder if I didn't actually have Lupus. In other words, what mechanism is there for questioning the underlying sample space?
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From the article:
> A user’s wife wrote to OkCupid requesting we disable a “fake” account that was “posing” as her husband. Since using someone else’s photo is against site policy — the woman’s husband said the account wasn’t his — we banned it, choosing not to mention that all of the account’s network traffic was coming from their home.

Would this choice had been taken to avoid legal issues, to avoid further queries/dramas, or due to some, for lack of a better way to put it 'I got your back, bro' type of morality?
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Not a lawyer, but I work with some.

Each of these (except the last) is an abbreviated citation to a published court opinion cited earlier in the decision.

Am. Civil Liberties Union v. Alvarez, 679 F.3d 583, 595–602 (7th Cir. 2012)

Glik v. Cunniffe, 655 F.3d 78, 82 (1st Cir. 2011)

Smith v. City of Cumming, 212 F.3d 1332, 1333 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 978 (2000)

F.3d is an abbreviation for Federal Reporter, 3rd series (the current series of the Federal Reporter, which publishes Federal appeals court decisions ).

When you see a citation like x F.3d y, it means "Federal Reporter, 3rd series, volume x, page y". The form "x F.3d at z" means "volume x, page z, but that's the middle of a decision, not its start" (called a "pin cite"). The form "x. F.3d y, z" is another way of saying "the decision starts at page y of volume x, but here we are specifically referring to page z".

The part in parentheses indicates which particular court wrote the decision (a particular numbered circuit court of appeals) and in what year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reporter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeal...

You can often look up the texts of these decisions online in various places, although I don't see a convenient up-to-date free F.3d online anywhere. Originally the concept was going to a library, which would have huge long series of reporters (books that publish court decisions), and you could tell the librarian "I'd like volume 655 of the Federal Reporter 3rd series, please", and then turn to page 85 to see what the First Circuit said on the page in question of its Glik decision.

District court decisions (from the trial level) are cited in the same way but with "F.Supp." (a different reporter); Supreme Court decisions are also cited in the same way but the reporter is "U.S." and the court doesn't have to be mentioned in parentheses, because the Supreme Court is the only court whose decisions are published by United States Reports.

So you might see

Foo v. Bar, x F.Supp. y (D.Somewhere yyyy) ← district court

Foo v. Bar, x F.3d y (nth Cir. yyyy) ← circuit court of appeal

Foo v. Bar, x U.S. y (yyyy) ← Supreme Court

and each one could also cite to a specific page or range of pages within the opinion by using "at z" or "y, z".
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Like all megalomaniacs, Zuckerberg fancies himself as some kind of messiah. He won't stop believing that, not even after his machine explodes in all our faces.
> that wasn't clearly established at the time of the incident.

Silver lining: it is now (in the jurisdiction of the fifth circuit).
The experience described is no longer relevant. I've gotten (phone!) calls from Google within minutes of posting for help, and I live in a tiny nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In my experience Google provides amazing service for tools that you are paying for. If you're using Google Suite/Apps to access your sheets, you should be just fine.

> I want stuff I can rely on because my businesses depend on it.

Well we're talking about using Google spreadsheets as a backend for an app. It should go without saying that this wouldn't be a mission-critical use.
Maybe they will make the ads seekable, at least in the past. I saw some good ads and I wanted to go back but it's not possible.
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O please the old story of the big bad apartheid regime.

For a bit more perspective: During the difficult transition period 1990 - 1994, security forces (police) caused 518 deaths[1]. Compare that with 2013 US police caused 930 - 1240 deaths and South African police caused 409 deaths[2]. Keep in mind that during this transitional period there was basically a civil war of sorts going on, with 14000 political murders between ANC and other freedom factions during this time (1990 - 1994).

And even today under a free and democratic government it is reported that police behavior is a least just as bad as under apartheid[3]. Currently the police death rate, taking into account population differences is twice as bad as the USA police death rate and four times as bad as during the worst years of police brutality during apartheid.

Fact is South Africa is a deeply divided country and single sentence statements such as the one of the parent poster does no justice to the complexities that is the continually worsening South African situation.

[1]https://www.censorbugbear.org/genocide/how-many-people-died-...

[2]http://mg.co.za/article/2015-06-10-fdf

[3]http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/africainvestigates/2015/...
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> However, if this ruling carries any weight, the Constitutional right to record will theoretically trump the local restriction, rendering the order no longer lawful.

It certainly carries weight in the fifth district. If Grinalds/Dyess petition SCOTUS they'll likely hear the case in order to make sure their decision makes a consistent precedent wrt 1st amendment right to "videotape" the police.
Thankfully, the fine article offers a solution :D

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Musk has been working on increasing battery production for years. I don't see other car manufacturers outpacing Tesla for the simple reason of not having enough batteries.
Maybe I'm just out of the loop -- but isn't weev's big "hack" that he incremented numbers in a website URL?
> If he were more realistic, he'd spend more time looking at the alternatives

What alternatives? Accepting death as inevitable? Embracing it? Celebrating it?

The survival instinct is hard-wired. Given that, seeking immortality is the only rational choice.
Which is exactly why the law is the limiting factor rather than physics.

We have the ability to programmatically build radios that can adjust bandwidth channels on demand, in fairly broad ranges. But because spectrum is treated as a commodity to be owned by private entities, nobody can utilize the potential of load balancing across all possible radio spectrum (both immediately and in macroscopic economic trends).

If we are stuck with the ~800mhz combined spectrum openly available today, of course we will continue to see incredible bottlenecks in congested wireless environments. But in practice there is about ~10ghz of practically usable spectrum for wireless data transfer, and you can fit a lot more channels in the low end.
I also use that script but beware: please go carefully through it, and disable lines where necessary. For instance, it assumes you have a small SSD: it disables hibernation (lines 138-148) and disables local Time Machine backups (line 677 and 678). This is almost certainly not what you want.
Just to be more precise, _civil_ asset forfeiture is the abomination.

Asset forfeiture is a general term which also covers seizure of assets produced by a crime after there has been a conviction. For example, seizing Bernie Madoff's remaining money after he got convicted of fraud.

It's a bit pedantic but I've seen a lot of people confuse numbers between the two. Obviously CAF is horrible, but I've seen a lot of numbers out of context about billions of dollars being seized which are blatantly false, because of this mixup.
This was the standard way to draw lines on the 68000 (the Atari ST for me). It's very fast thanks to the SWAP instruction.

In fact, I've always thought that was what Bresenham was.
"That system has worked pretty well for 40 years." - Wait, so I'm saving for retirement (40 years from now) in a system that isn't even that old?

Somehow I don't trust it to still be around when I need to get money back.
Interesting read! I have a service that was in SAS, and we've been translating it to run in Spark, but one of the killer issues that we identified was latency, without understanding what held up the computation, the would be increasing pauses of a few seconds, sometimes reaching nearly a minute, in execution. This is on a single machine, and at that time we wouldn't notice any resource utilisation. No disk writes, CPU nearly at 0.00, etc.

I keep coming back with every new Spark version to see if the problem has gone away, (wrote it at 2.0.0, so I mean every minor and patch). I looked up what I could online about optimisation in Spark, and applied that.

The business people got tired of us wasting time trying to optimise, and forced us down the lines of SAP HANA and other proprietary marketing hoohah because we need a product that's real-time.

I hope the upcoming version of Spark at least helps reduce latency, perhaps through improvements in the whole-stage code-gen.
I had a professor in undergrad who worked on order entry research. He talked about one of the problems facing Vanderbilt as far as scanning costs.

CT scans and MRI are crazy expensive. Trauma patient comes in, doc orders a CT scan, it comes back and he says, "shit, this doesn't tell me what I need to. I knew I should have ordered an MRI instead."

They used a decision tree learning algorithm and trained it using attributes of incoming patients and which type of scan would have been the most useful. Then they did a trail where ER docs would enter in patient information and what they would have picked, but then defer to the algorithm's judgement instead.

I can't remember the number, but they significantly reduced the number of unnecessary scans.
Literally cool I assume?
> The only way to live peacefully with anti-abortion people is to simply give up and let them ban abortion. This obviously is unacceptable to pro-choice people. I can make similar arguments about many other moral positions, such as whether women should be allowed to drive or not.

Well, I agree with your general point that people with an absolutist view of abortion may not be able to live together. However, for most, I think the issue is somewhere in the middle, and may not be the highest priority:

- you may be anti-abortion but agree that in some cases abortion is useful/necessary, e.g. for medical reasons

- you may be pro-choice but agree to a limit on abortions in the final weeks of pregnancy(rights of the woman vs rights of the unborn get very blurry there)

Abortion may be an important issue to you but not the most important. An anti-abortion person may be able to compromise living with legal abortion, as long as they are given some small compromise, and as long as their other issues are resolved to their satisfaction(e.g. economy). A pro-choice person may be able to compromise living with illegal abortion if given some compromise for the most extreme exceptions(e.g. rape, medical), as long as their more important issues are settled to their satisfaction.

I believe most people do not hold an absolutist view in earnest, even if they express one publicly. There are plenty of reasons why that is - it's much easier to give a voice to the absolutist view, it's a simple soundbite("abortion is murder!"), it's easy to "recruit" people by othering the opposition - "it's only idiot conservatives that want to ban abortion, no smart reasonable person would stop women from having a choice".

I would like to believe that, given the opportunity of honest discussion, people would agree that finding a compromise is best for their community. I believe the underlying issue behind many such social rifts is that the community cohesion has eroded away, with people split into tribes and into an us vs them mentality. This means that even if they are amenable to compromise, it's likely to happen only through members of their own community, as they see the rest as "others" who are not worth their time(examples here are a plenty, hopefully I don't need to give any..)
CISG (Convention on Contracts for international sale of goods) Article 8/3 has a clause on the reasonable person in the same circumstances.

The article basically states if you can't establish what the other party thinks, and had no way of being aware, you can go on with your business.

In this case, the instruction is written to comp-sci students. I imagine most of them are technical and know how hard it is to try fixing computer-related problems of other people.
I do, and I've heard a bunch of my friends do it. On Android voice recognition is both fairly reliable and really easy, so why not?
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It's a bit different because a doctor's mistake can lead to an irreversible outcome.

That's true of some engineers (those who design bridges or the software that goes in a pacemaker or car ECU), but not others (the engineer that designs alarm clocks .. or the ones that design half the shit Big Clive buys from China).

Sure mistakes in other fields can lead to loss of work or infrastructure changes/mistakes that lead to millions being lost in revenue, but rarely something as irreversible as death.
yus! rest of the world, we are big damnit! BIG I tell you! we have our own whole continent, it's a bit wet...but, still :)
Note 5th Circuit, not district.
Note 5th circuit, not district. (In the Federal court system, a circuit is vastly larger than a district.)
The importance of handwashing can't be overstated, it is one of the keystones of sanitation and public health! Hospital transmitted infections would go way down if staff followed all checklists to a T.

It's a matter of defense-in-depth. When the traffic is heavy enough to have less than 5 minutes between contacts, how many more people would be infected after a week?

As for cost, it would be more expensive but less so than you might think. With how thin the plating layer is, even for heavy wear, the material cost is under $500 per square meter. For small objects like buttons, door knobs, and hand rails it's negligible compared to installation and other costs. By switching to a cheaper base material it could even be cheaper over all.
Was a 2016 15” MBP w/Touch Bar (max specs), and macOS. It's on the shelf now.

Now it's the new Dell XPS 15” (9560) (max specs), and Windows 10 - Fast Ring.
Loom was amazing, one of the first games I remember finishing and the ending was very intense. I still have it on 5.25" in the original box.
I think there's more factors than that. Air traffic controllers are very overworked and they don't often cause collisions[1].

I think this part of the article is what the big problem is:

“Eighty percent of doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

I've recently gone through 4 years of medical treatment, and it's still ongoing. Only to find out this week that I have Lyme disease. Given that the chances of getting Lyme where I live is relatively small, it was overlooked for many years. I even asked doctors to test for it, but they refused. Meaning I'm a direct example of doctors not considering non-regular cases. It cost me over $20,000 out of pocket. Not to mention the other things it cost me.

I don't know if its a form of arrogance or how they are trained or a combination of both. But can be life-destroying for patients to say the least. The leading cause of death in Lyme patients is suicide.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/air-traffic-controllers-are-d...
How is it worse than subscribing to Blackboard or some other educational software service?