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"Commit" should be clarified.

We don't know who actually committed a crime. That should probably be either "arrested for" or "convicted of".

"Suspected of" probably means "arrested for", but there too, the author has chosen a word that's unclear.
>> According to the most recent study, people from foreign backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to be suspected of crimes than people born in Sweden to Swedish-born parents.

What do you imply exactly? So Swedish police are more likely to suspect you if you are a foreigner, how unexpected.
Am I missing something?

If I asked that question in a job interview, I'd expect the following mistakes:

0. Missing high-school-level math skills.

1. Double-counting numbers with double sixes (e.g. counting 666 three times)

2. Either failing to count the number 60,000 or mistakenly counting numbers 60,000-69,999

3. Failing to invert the result (i.e. counting the probability it /does/ have a six, instead of the probability it /doesn't/ )

4. Getting a result that was off by several orders of magnitude, and not noticing it.

5. Messing up the mental arithmetic (this is the reason I wouldn't use this question in an interview)

In other words it's a test of diligence and being able to get the right answer to simple problems. Which is a valuable quality in an industry with so many off-by-one errors!

$ seq 1 60000 | grep 6 | wc -l
20635

1-(20635/60000) = 0.656 => 65.6%
I assume they monitor (in)successful auth attempts and noticed a spike aside from noticing issues internally.
He wrote his rant a few months ago, which was well after every major library switched to Python 3.

Dunno if you mean his previous book or the rant where he said, among other things, that Python 3 wasn't turing complete.
Isn't that just the case if they take too much insulin for their glycemic load? Persumably if they fast they would adjust their insulin levels (which they do for other reasons as well).
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The linked article admits that the two-year doubling ended, which is what Moore's Law has been for most of its history. Moore's Law ending doesn't mean we won't ever have another die shrink, it means that the notion that we just have to wait two years to get twice the transistors for the same cost (or die area, depending on who you ask) is no longer true (and therefore, projections based on the notion of such a cadence should be considered even more silly than they already were). I don't understand why people continue to claim that Moore's Law's death "has been predicted many times" or whatever when it already ended; what happened in 2005 was that raw clock cycles stopped improving, and guess what: they still haven't improved that much for twelve years.
You're pretty far off man. Assuming we're uniformly sampling the whole space, I thought of it as five independent games of choosing each digit, then "winning" each time by not getting a six. So the probability of 5 wins i.e. A number without a six is (9/10)^4 * (5/6). But that counts from 0 to 69,999. If we count up to one less in the tens of thousands place (5/5) we get 0 to 59,999. Which is off by one in both directions. So we can "slide" the window up but 0 was number without a 6 but 60,000 isn't so we have to discount another choice. Leaving us with (9/10)^4 * (5/5) * (59999/60000) = 0.656089065 or 39365 out of 60000.
Looks like cherry-picking to me.
Swedish source confirms Swedish political narrative, very trust worthy. /s

Let's go and convince all the victims of crimes in recent years that they're just imaginging things and they're safer then ever. And hand out more "don't grope me" bracelets for extra protection[1].

[1] http://www.thelocal.se/20160629/swedish-police-to-hand-out-a...

[edit] Classic HN, don't forget to upvote the guy who says physically assaulting people with different opinions is OK.[2] Sounds tolerant and progressive.

Ban my account, but the comments can stay for exposing your collective hypocrisy for the future. Goodbye.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723296
> In order to be a terrorist I think you need a political purpose, an ideology and a plan of some kind.

Not in the US, where this cowardly, racist attack took place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism#Unite...
When the Swedish government doesn't actually prosecute the crimes, it's easy to skew the statistics in the Islamic rapists' favor.
Amount of reported rapes =/= amount of rape convictions.
Incidentally, recovering a google account password from a phone, when you have access to said phone but haven't given them the phone number, doesn't work. I kept being told that google will send a token to the phone, and got a dialog saying 'do you want to log in?', i pressed yes, and nothing good happened.

Fortunately it was a test phone with a throwaway google account - otherwise i'd have known the password.
Not entirely. For text fields and buttons, clicking them will usually work even if their window is in the background. But clicking them will also focus the background window.

If you don't want to focus the background window -- or you want to use an element that can't be used if the window is backgrounded -- then holding 'cmd' will pass the click through.
It isn't risky. It's a liability thing.

Disclaimer: Not a doctor.
Frankly, compared to internal Russian and Ukrainian news they were the epitome of unbiased journalism. The Ukrainian coverage was and is very subjective, but they did not resort to outright lies much more than media usually does.

Malaysian plane is a very good example of this - they were floating a lot of mad theories absolving Moscow of any guilt but in the end they were still reported just as "versions". It's very hard to catch a media company on outright lies because of such evasive tactics.
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It's not whether Windows is aesthetically pleasing. It's that it's 2016 and some first-party windows apps still upscale fonts rendered at half resolution. It's that there are two control panels. That kind of messiness is endemic to the platform.
The difference is that he isn't very likely to get killed in Madras because of his skin color.
Atropine is commonly used to treat other medical conditions. I would expect any modern emergency medical service to have it on hand (though perhaps not in the quantities necessary... we would need to use all the Atropine on multiple ambulances to treat one patient in this condition).
This isn't a perfect analogy but if my mechanic said he only drove brand Y because it was reliable and then I heard anecdotally from Uber drivers they drove brand Y for similar reasons it would be an input for my next car purchase.

If I may so humbly suggest it: people on Hacker News and the like are (please excuse the corporate speak) thought leaders and trend setters for similar reasons. Developers are well ahead of the public on what's actually useful as their jobs require much more out of a system than a casual user. It's obvious there is some amount of the HN community that are unhappy with Apple's offerings and are switching to other vendors.

Sure Apple is printing money now: the general public are ready buyers of Apple product. No doubt Apple's incredible marketing is largely responsible, but there's an undercurrent of opinion based on what people like HN members use and some small percent is shifting away from Apple. I don't think anyone can really predict the long term trend here: we'll only really know in retrospect, but it is possible if that trend grows then public sentiment will eventually follow suit.
The kids near me do that. They even set fire to abandoned buildings in order to ensure the fire-fighters show up.

They're not migrants, refugees or any kind of ethnic minority though. Just poor and bored.
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It's great if (A) those planning to MAKE A BUCK by selling ad-blocking software or lists are failing and (B) if sites stop creating ever more hostile javascript to target the minority of ad blocking users.
Pro rata is just ROFR with a 1x multiple, yes, so it seems it was the particular multiple (anything greater than strictly proportional) that was onerous.
It's worse than that. People from foreign backgrounds are probably committing far more crimes than this suggests - but because the police are so politically correct, they UNDERREPORT crimes by foreigners.
Freak incidents are heart-breaking, particularly when we don't really know what one could have done to prevent them. As an outsider to a typical U.S lifestyle, one thing that puzzles me is why do people need a gun even when they are in a social place like a bar. This is not a first of its kind shooting happening in U.S. As far as I can remember, all the freak incidents in U.S some way or other involve shooting, out of the mind gunmen etc.

I'm thankful that at least in my country I will not get killed by a random person with whom I'm having conversation with.

P.S: I'm from India.
I think one of the problems when talking about these issues is the frame of reference.
I have lived in the most dangerous part of our town (Linköping) for several years. I come from Latvia where a 'dangerous' part of a town meant that you do not go there because you will be robbed / knifed / shot in broad daylight. It was absolutely not the case with the most dangerous part of Linköping, even though people who had not had a direct experience with the place kept talking about it in the same way as I would talk about a true 'no-go' zone in Latvia. The worst thing that happened to me there was that my bicycle got stolen because I had forgotten to lock it overnight. My kid was playing outside unsupervised every day, I was coming home alone in the middle of night etc. Never had a single unpleasant experience.

The same is true about rape. In Sweden, the definition of rape and sexual abuse is incredibly broad. I know a person who got accused of sexual abuse by his wife because she said he had slipped up a finger in her vagina while asleep without her consent. Once. Several years ago. Can you imagine any other country where a case like this would ever be looked at even remotely seriously? Moreover, incidents involving sexual abuse are reported a lot more often, because everyone is a lot more informed about what consent means and what their rights are. It is highly unusual in the global context. So rape in Sweden is nothing like rape pretty much anywhere else in the world.

I could talk a lot more about these issues, but these two points are the most important to keep in mind when discussing crime in Sweden relative to crime everywhere else in the world.
I think you made just the leap the authors intended you to.

I wish the authors had included a link to that study so we could see what "suspected of" means exactly.
Not sure what stats back up this claim. I've heard people say this movement is anti-globalization, about the economy, anti-PC, anti-establishment - yadda yadda yadda. Everyone has a theory, and it seems like people just choose the one they like best.

Trump at the moment has a very low approval rating - maybe not everyone got what they read into him?
3 People were shot, it should be noted.
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I agree. I've been water-only fasting five consecutive days every two weeks for over a year now (largely but not entirely as a result of Longo's work).

I assume that telling people they need medical guidance before doing so is a means of avoiding liability should someone do something stupid.

The only plausible risk I've seen mentioned, by Longo himself, is in women where the risk of gallstones might be increased. To quote him "Water-only fasting should only be done in a specialized clinic. Also, certain types of very low calorie diets, and particularly those with high protein content, can increase the incidence of gallstones in women at risk." [0]

The idea that water-only fasting should only be done "in a specialized clinic" seems daft to me, but in a litigious society I can understand why he says that.

Other researchers worth following in this area are Mark Mattson and Luigi Fontana.

[0] https://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-...
I probably would have before I read it here. A strange question to ask.
That would work — until someone decaps a few of these chips.

They're already doing something similar, after all.
"They admit they do not have enough information to determine the cause"
No, they didn't.

It did not say "we have no idea, but it's probably not security related".
It said "we are still investigating, but it's probably not security related".

Those are very different statements.
The first, yeah, reasonable complaint.
The second could mean a lot of things. Usually, in these situations, people want to be able to put numbers on things, etc.

So it could reasonably mean "A something like "a bunch of machines are falling over in a datacenter with out of memory, we've determined why, it was an internal bug, fixed it, but are still gathering data about how much was affected, etc, before we say more"

Or whatever. IE saying "we are investigating" doesn't necessarily mean they are investigating the root cause, they could be investigating how long it will take to fix it, ....
Rofl. Just like the shooter picked on the indians thinking they're arabs. If you're trying to prove that americans have no idea there is a world outside their borders, you're succeeding wonderfully.
Better source:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-india-idUSKBN1630LZ
I think that's exactly what the commenter was getting at. "Live" data would be deficient in this instance, historical data would be better.
Well, the new microsoft is actually one of the biggest open source contributors.

I'm a UNIX developer (mainly Go), and I use a surface pro 4 with win 10 for development. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows already runs great, and I have the ability to sketch diagrams whenever I want to. Additionally I have docker running flawlessly and a system that just works 99.9% of the time. (as opposed to Linux where I have to hack my way through most of the things)
Straight from the issue tracker:

They then told me Wednesday, but in a later reply started saying Thursday
[...] If the date keeps extending, they'll reach our "7-day" policy for actively exploited attacks.

https://security.googleblog.com/2013/05/disclosure-timeline-for-vulnerabilities.html
> Let's go and convince all the victims of crimes in recent years that they're just imaginging things and they're safer then ever.

No one has said crimes haven't happened. Your post is a giant straw man.
Because politics, really.
Please - Microsoft antitrust was nothing like this.

Microsoft was basically extremely successful - and then became a monopoly provider. In general, I wouldn't call this an 'immoral act' or whatever.

Also - I'd suggest that Google is just as much a Monopoly provider as MS ever was, they could face the same type of case in EU soon.

Stealing IP, lying, corruption - this is in a whole different league from being so successful that you become a monopoly.
Long story short: "Islamic rape is no problem" is fake news.
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In most countries yes. In the US does it really make any significant difference?
By _protesters_ against other _protesters_. There's surely a difference between someone at a political rally being punched by someone with a different political opinion (especially by someone from the "black block", which largely serves to make these crimes harder to attach to a single individual), and LEOs or EMTs being attacked during routine circumstances.
The theory that Cloudflare only enforces against sites they receive court orders for is yet another argument that is not backed by evidence. They actively take down phishing attacks, without warrants or court orders. Presumably because if they didn't, Google would shitlist them in pagerank. They behave responsibly and morally when it benefits them financially, and tell everyone they need court orders when it doesn't, even if that decision hurts the web.

It is everyone's responsibility to be responsible members of the internet community. Just because they've found a temporary legal loophole does not give them a moral blank check to be complicit in the murder of the Internet's ability to function.
Quite true - and the level of Orwellian thought-control that bureaucrats are engaging in, in order to hide facts because it might "justify hate" - is much more terrifying than the hate itself.
Precisely, there are no statistics from 2016, they published the old information.

And if the statistics are done like in France, they aren't even allowed to note which religion the suspect has, so some simple statistics that would give such a relation are by definition not possible to make.

On one side, it's true, the free society is not supposed to look in the people's heads. On another side, if the perpetrators explicitly tell you why they do what they do, it's really, really wrong discarding that information.

The policies that disallow the access to the non-biased facts are serious limitation in more than one land. As an example in the US, there's this 2001 "Guideline" for the "professional journalists":

http://www.spj.org/divguidelines.asp
Related: I love this book's teaching style, and found it very much resonated with me - starting from zero, step by step, iteratively learning and building on previous lessons.

Can anyone suggest something similar for learning Scala?
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Fair remark, so let's clarify what I understand:

commit: Convicted of

suspected of: Not convicted

These are as far as I (and the law) are concerned the only two things that matter. If you've been convicted you are guilty, if not you are not. If you're guilty we can say you've committed a crime, if not not.
If they're really interested, they'll probably just Google you. Or use something they purchased for tens of millions of dollars, that simply performs a Google search. If you're an older person, and have no online footprint, they probably wouldn't have stopped you in the first place. If you're young, and have no online footprint, that would be pretty suspicious.
It's reasonable for people in the US to know it. I do but then I've been there. But I'm not sure it's that much more basic knowledge than the capital of California, Texas, or New York if you don't live in those states.
While I knew about Canberra, I always thought Sydney would be the most obvious choice.

Brazil is another surprising one.
I got into a argument with my German girlfriend last night that involved calling her a racist. We were discussing where to travel for our next holiday -- and it came to light that she would not go to France because she was afraid and said she would be uncomfortable there. She also told me that she is uncomfortable on the train when there are young muslim males on board.

I tried to argue the statistics of risk with her and said that we should've also avoiding traveling to the US based on her risk assessment given the risk of being killed by mentally ill people with guns or white supremacist terrorists.

Ultimately, in my opinion, she is just more comfortable with risk if it comes from white people than from brown -- I choose to call her a racist to try and demonstrate just how wrong I perceive her thinking to be. Its very depressing to watch the reasonableness and kindness of Germans that I used to perceive to be common and widespread so in decline... Racists really do seem like they are everywhere these days ...
You've been bombarding this discussion with your alternate reality. Do you have any references?
"There's something very wrong in the world when the people who invent things aren't the main beneficiary of their own inventions"

Anyone can be the primary beneficiary of their own invention, it they want to pay their own salary, build their own products, hire their own layers, sell their wares etc..

If you want to collect $150K/year while you do R&D for Google, which may produce not that much, while you leverage all of their knowledge, investment, user-base tools etc - well, then you fork over the rights to Google.

'Inventing' something is not just some guy coming up with an idea, and then making that 'invention' worth something is usually harder than inventing it in the first place.
A news piece by NRK (Norwegian equivalent of the BBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24PCOMi3QAQ&feature=youtu.be...

Straight from the horse's mouth (cops in this case). tl;dw they wear bulletproof vests and helmes in Malmö (BP vests are really rare on nordic police officers compared to the US)
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I run Ubuntu 14.04 as my daily driver on a custom-built PC. I agree with you that Linux is not necessarily rock solid, but I would instead suggest that the compelling difference these days is that it can be if you put in the work. In years past, that wasn't even the case.

Unless you buy something from System76 or do very meticulous research on hardware support and build your own, Linux is not going to be seamless out of the box. But the real highlight is that it can be seamless at all these days.

My PC has four GPUs, 128GB of RAM and a deca-core CPU. I have four monitors, a bluetooth mouse, and I almost never turn it off. Instead, it automatically suspends. When I'm away from home I can ssh into my computer if needed. I have daily backups that are essentially seamless.

Now, it was difficult to get to this place. I would say that Linux is, and has for a long time been, rock solid if you're not using a GUI. In my opinion, the single greatest impediment to "Linux on the desktop" is xorg, which is terrible (to put it mildly). Nouveau is absolutely crap, especially since Nvidia puts out its own drivers. But my point here is that after a few days of careful installation and setup work, I have had a seamless desktop experience for something like eight months.

What needs to happen for Linux is a software company that takes something like Debian, fork it and dramatically bring it up to wider compatibility with modern hardware across the market. In some sense that's Ubuntu, and it shows in how easy my daily experience has been.
If "never loose data" isn't a great selling point then I don't really know what is.
>Trump at the moment has a very low approval rating - maybe not everyone got what they read into him?

Polls also predicted him to have less than a 10% chance of winning the election. Not all data is good data.
On the contrary, I am saying that there are no credible news to be found. Sure, RT is a mouthpiece, but it's unwise to lock yourself in a bubble where all media you consume follows the same party line.
Most of the crimes in Sweden is done by immigrants. Sweden is the rape capital of Europe. It's creepy to see this kind of behaviour condoned and labeled as nothing.

Sweden: Rape Capital of the West
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape

Everything is factual in that statement but seems to burst some peoples bubble.
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I personally agree with him, I can't see the problem.
Leif GW Persson, who the above commenter is talking about clarified this on TV just a couple of days ago. The segment starts 18 minutes in and is in Swedish: http://www.svtplay.se/video/12505960/veckans-brott/veckans-b... (hoping there is no region blocking...)
>>"Less than 1 percent of the total crimes committed by refugees are sex crimes"

That seems to mean something different than "less than 1 percent of total sex crimes are committed by refugees".
That's an interesting idea.

Where did you get the testing equipment? I tend to get very cold if I haven't eaten recently, if I'm not active -- always have -- and it would be fascinating to see if there's a connection.
Good to know though is what GW is famous for. Being an infamous alcoholic.