skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One provisional study that wasn't published in a journal (and hence wasn't peer reviewed) and furthermore was conducted by someone far afield of the issue does not make a conclusive case about any hypothesis. As an antidote for such loose rhetoric, here are some criticisms of the paper:

Rajiv Sethi, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, voicing skepticism of the strength of Fryer's conclusion:

http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2016/07/police-use-of-force-n...

Dan Hirschman, Associate Professor of Sociology at Brown University, strongly criticizing the methodology and data set Fryer used:

https://scatter.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/yes-there-is-racial...

A peer-reviewed article in a reputable journal using a different methodology whose results contradict Fryer's:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227943/

Abstract:

Objectives. To update previous examinations of racial/ethnic disparities in the use of lethal force by US police.

Methods. I examined online national vital statistics data for deaths assigned an underlying cause of “legal intervention” (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, external-cause-of-injury codes Y35.0–Y35.7, excluding Y35.5 [legal execution]) for the 5-year period 2010 to 2014.

Results. Death certificates identified 2285 legal intervention deaths (1.5 per million population per year) from 2010 to 2014. Among males aged 10 years or older, who represented 96% of these deaths, the mortality rate among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic individuals was 2.8 and 1.7 times higher, respectively, than that among White individuals.

Conclusions. Substantial racial/ethnic disparities in legal intervention deaths remain an ongoing problem in the United States.

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It's not hard to find more of the literature that is more credible and contradicts this paper.

To be honest, I don't think you're carrying this discussion in good faith. Who knows? Maybe you've even duped yourself. Maybe don't take the word of an economist doing sketchy and loose research outside of his field of expertise. Being able to wield statistics isn't a scientific superpower. Sociological research isn't a bayesian cookbook recipe.
You're applying the hierarchical standards of a corporation to a loose-knit network of activists united by a common vision. This would be as foolish as dismissing the open source movement because of Richard Stallman's unfortunate tendency to cut his toenails in public.
People in SF are doing something, and legislators in Sacramento are passing many different bills to help spur the supply of housing.

I would encourage you to sign up for the newsletter here: https://yimbyaction.org/mailinglist/ which will keep you updated on initiatives to help increase the supply of housing.

I've previously linked to steps we can take in California to help increase the supply of housing in CA and encourage you to contact your city officials about whichever of these you feel inclined to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14195301
Sorry, I don't see how your comment applies to what I said.
Isn't this one of the stated features of the Tor browser?
> Google Fiber for Business

Maybe worth renting an office in Provo just to get the deal.
You already have to pay capital gains tax when you sell. Adding on to the state's cut at sale with even more taxes would be exceedingly unpopular.
Haha. I work in a public Library and the few people that have a Surface are always coming up to us for tech support. No one can figure out Windows 10 on a tablet.

As usual Microsoft thinks it's Windows everywhere strategy makes sense - it doesn't. Tables are tables and computers are computers and they cross but they don't work the same and need considered and individual interfaces to make best use.
OVH has absurdly low prices on both. If you have a baseline load take a look. Their enterprise offerings are pretty rock solid and they have multiple data centers with direct fiber backplane interconnects.

IMHO the big cloud providers only make sense if you have a highly elastic load or if you are making extensive use of their as-a-service higher level offerings. If you're running baseline load bare metal destroys them.
Advertisers will finally move their tracking behind their CDN's, which was always the end goal for them and why they were free in the first place.

Then we have a problem where the industry is reliant enough on CDN's that browsers can't simply block access.
We currently support Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, but PuTTY/Cygwin support is further off.

A code execution exploit on your Android phone would result in being able to approve automatically, but without Kryptonite, a trojan in _any_ of the apps on your computer could steal your SSH key and use it unhindered, like what recently happened to Handbrake [https://threatpost.com/handbrake-for-mac-compromised-with-pr...]
I can prove you wrong. I want and like open floor plans, and have never had buyer's remorse. I'll rule out any cube farm for any future job; I hate the isolation.
Metal was released before Vulcan, IIRC.
“You are definitely being discriminated against as a paid news site.”
Jesus fucking christ, what a sentence. 'Google-bot can't index our pay-walled articles... DISCRIMINATION!!!' fuck wsj, seriously
normally a mobile operator would not know the 'GPS' location of a person. Just the tower IDs they were connected to. And that connection could be several kilometers away from the person.
Operator knows probably the strength of signal and may be other characteristics of the devices, that would help to reduce the possible radius. But I doubt it is anywhere near as precise as GPS.

GPS location, of course is much more precise, and is likely collected by say google maps or other installed apps, if maps is turned on.
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How is this is a surprise to anyone? The big players are all pushing their clouds because its a cash bonanza. It's the SaaS model for hardware, make money forever because your customers never own anything.

I've done the math many times and it's orders of magnitude cheaper to colocate as long as you can afford an IT guy and the upfront cost of hardware.
I think you get these notifications only if you are enrolled as a Google Local Guide. I may be wrong though.
I've had that problem before as well. My wife was going to Mexico and looking for a new swimsuit, and so I was hitting up the SwimCo website. Cue three months of women's swimwear ads from SwimCo – and nothing else. Almost every single ad on every single page was the same ad in different shapes, all of them for SwimCo.

Recently too I've noticed that Amazon is putting ads in my Instagram feed for specifically things that I've looked at on Amazon within the last day or two. I'll literally click a link to a book or do a search, and then four hours later it'll show up in an ad in the app.

Aside from being kind of pointless (I already know about these items, why are you showing them to me later that day?), it's also all kinds of creepy and unsettling to see Amazon advertising six things I've seen recently, and not even on the same device I was viewing them on.
Keep in mind that with cloud providers you're also paying for the SDN that makes dynamic provisioning of VMs and logical network segmentation possible. Scalable SDN is much harder / more expensive than traditional networking.
Thanks :)

If anyone is interested in the benchmarking aspect, there's a discussion over on lobste.rs with aphyr, the creator of Knossos: https://lobste.rs/s/pdy68r/testing_distributed_systems_for

Linearizability testing does help catch bugs, but in this implementation, it doesn't offer much guidance on how to go about finding bugs. That's something I'm currently thinking about, as this style of testing is something that I'm thinking of incorporating into MIT's 6.824 Distributed Systems class. We care about testing student's implementations for correctness, but giving good feedback that helps students find bugs is even more important than just telling students whether or not their implementations are buggy.
You can measure it now:

- http://www.gcping.com/

(From your browser to multiple Google zones)
Objective-C and fork() in macOS 10.13
The Data Network Effect of Transit Navigation Apps
After reading this news article, you may enjoy how Arthur C. Clarke was able to predict something like this happening in science fiction:

http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html
Oh come now, I never said anything about it being mandatory.
The race of the murderer has nothing to do with the shockingly low conviction rate for police offers that commit murder.

For a variety of reasons, the black community feels this pain disproportionately.

I wouldn't write off BLM as having such a simple message; you clearly did not grasp it. "Black lives matter" means just that; not "pigs are racist".
ES6 features are faster when natively supported and natively optimized like in JSC.
Theyve been saying "will" for a long while now. I'll believe it once they post the github link but expect there to be a long wait
Sure, but a whole team/office where no one has lunch together ever?
You mean to say that, whenever I load a CSV file into LibreOffice, anything that looks like code gets executed? Excuse me one moment while I patch that program with rm -rf.

Thank goodness that A. W. and K. got this right 35 years ago, interpreting data inputs as numbers and strings. Pity about the regression.
I have seen, first-hand, across multiple communities, the effects of attempting to include everyone, including those who hate others and make them feel unwelcome, versus the effects of creating a community that actually feels welcoming.

I'm all for that. But when people have gotten to the point of excluding those who are perfectly fine with "live and let live" and one starts harassing them, then things have gotten quite out of hand. Your desire to ostracize -- there is no hate here for you? Honestly? I don't expect an honest answer from you, but know in your heart, that if you have hate in it, then you should be included in those who hate others and make them feel unwelcome.

And I find that using those terms tends to get people who might otherwise dismiss labels like "offensive" as "political correctness" to actually think about what they're defending.

Look, just because I advocate for people being able to do what they want in their own bedrooms doesn't mean that I advocate [insert particular action here]. Defending speech doesn't automatically make you an advocate for what has been said. In fact, that very fallacy is used by authoritarian regimes to justify their censorship. For like the 6th time, get a clue. I'm not defending what you're reacting against. I'm saying that how you propose to react against it is a bad idea and if it spreads will itself foster more injustice.

The worst thing that could happen to this post is to have it be used as convenient feces to fling at the Blue Tribe whenever feces are necessary.

What is the Blue Tribe going to do to get the other parts of the Blue Tribe to stop being secretly hateful authoritarians?

I see no hypocrisy in treating groups whose actions hurt others

For one who decries both hypocrisy and false equivalence, this looks a lot like you're engaging in a bit of it yourself. Ostracizing people from organizations deemed important by society and important to people's lives and careers carries a lot more consequence than some college aged kid posting some memes. Is it because they're the children of privilege? Hereditary blame is one sure sign that your thinking has reached toxic levels of tribalism and othering.
One of the things that's always interesting to me about these kinds of issues is how the inappropriate behaviour is usually inappropriate regardless of the reasons the person targets someone. I see this kind of stuff all the time on teams and it is really frustrating. In a very strange sense, it's actually nice if the person is targeting only people of a particular gender or race because then you can easily fire them. It's much, much, much harder if these people mistreat others indiscriminately.

In my home country I'm part of the racial majority. In my adopted country, I'm a racial minority and I've worked in offices both places. I've experienced bullying in my home country and racism in my adopted country and it really doesn't feel any different to me. If someone is targeting you for abuse, it doesn't really matter what the reason is. I wish both were recognised as being inappropriate in the workplace.
That's actually really neat. If anyone else was interested in reading the details, here's the relevant statute: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/StatutesByDate.aspx?co...
How Bitcoin exchanges can screw up your withdrawals
100% agree. I've actually reported WSJ to Google several times for cloaking (that's what Google calls this bait-and-switch). The penalty for this is supposed to be deindexing of the entire site from all Google results, but apparently WSJ gets a pass on that. At least they're being punished to some degree.

For the record, if anybody needs a draggable WSJ paywall bypass bookmarklet, I put one up here:

http://salzeko.com/wsj/
Have you adjusted the crime rates for racial profiling?
SLC if your employees like the mountains but might want a beer or caffeinated beverage once in a while ;)
>the truth is some people (yes, mostly women) are absolutely bombarded with messages that are at best emotionally vacant

That's true, men are not bombarded with messages. They would love to be bombarded with any messages but they aren't. There is a huge disproportion between who makes the first step -- in 99% of cases it's the men. I understand that women would prefer to receive only well-written, thoughtful messages with a bit of personal touch. The problem is that when men write such messages, they end up in the waste bin with roughly at the same rate as "emotionally vacant" messages. No equally thoughtful, polite response, no any response at all. You might think that in theory the response rate should be higher but in reality it's pretty much the same. Therefore, switching to "emotionally vacant" messages is a logical behavior strategy, because it optimizes time and emotional investment per response. If making more effort produces the same poor result then why bother?

Online dating is a horrible experience not only for women, but also for men. In a different way, but hardly less embarrassing.
Ask HN: Favorite frameworks for web development?
I've done projects in both Rails and Django and now I'm currently working with Flask and I like it a lot more. Interested to see people's thoughts...
No. You're wrong, as it states in the article:

"The reason: Google search results are based on an algorithm that scans the internet for free content. After the Journal’s free articles went behind a paywall, Google’s bot only saw the first few paragraphs and started ranking them lower, limiting the Journal’s viewership."
Please get off your high horse? I'd honestly like to know if someone has a way to predict that.
> > “level-triggered” vs “edge-triggered” ... I’d never heard this terminology before (I think it comes from electrical engineering maybe?).

Yes, me neither, but my guess is comes from the level or edge of a square wave, respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_wave
This is only true with Google as far as I know. And I'm fairly sure that all cloud providers only have maybe 10 edge routers in the US so the utility is limited. You can't have too many edge routers because they rely on IP Anycast which is dangerous to do if your routes are too similar.
Everyone and their dog thinks they can design a better Surface than Microsoft. Luckily, Microsoft allows it. Have you looked into the new Eve V?
The papers lost classified ads. They were a large revenue source which did not dictate an agenda.
Binary dude here. My example of an awesome culture starts with founders who actually give a shit about people. I was hired and then the company was preemted on a series B. Rather than letting me start and telling me my options were going to be priced higher, the founders reached out with a checklist form the lawyers so they could give me work and get my start date _before_ the deal closed.

Another anecdote would be bring your kids to work day. Everyone went out of the way to make sure the few of us with kids brought them in and that we had a nice event. It's funny, I told the founders my wife was pregnant with twins while I was interviewing. I had kept this a secret from the job I was leaving because I didn't want them to have leverage over me.

We also have women on the leadership team, etc... but I don't really think that's the key (after all, 3 dudes founded the company and they hired women for key positions). I think it all boils down to not being jerks and really caring about the people you work with and the people your product helps (yeah, we've got an actual mission and not the usual silicon valley bs about trying to change the world).

And, our sales team has already hit their numbers ... for the year so we're hiring engineers to try to keep up with the growth. PM me if you're interested in learning more about the team :)
Come on now, I bet your ability to use search engines and public knowledge bases is actually great. It's a broad topic of frequent debate, and other posters aren't obligated to bring you up to speed on it. You can at least familiarize yourself with the popular concepts and then figure out your perspective in relation to those.

It's rude to demand that people drop what they're discussing in order to give you foundational knowledge you can so easily pick you for yourself.
You aren't outright wrong, the problem is that if you are a woman (or black or fill in the blank) and you have been consistently shit all over your entire life because of it, not only do you suffer from burn out on trying to keep your chin up and hope for the best and all that, but you may have zero skills for trying to effectively interact with people in a way that doesn't help recreate the same shitty experiences. And if you actually do have good skills for handling it effectively, actual sexism (racism, etc) can still rear its ugly head even if you are doing everything right.

The other problem with your parable is that it doesn't tell people how to make such outcomes happen, which aren't simply based on some kind of magical "thinking positive" BS. I actually know how to do stuff like that and it is damn hard work that has to happen on top of whatever other work you were actually trying to do or are being paid to do. Even if you do everything right all the time (which you probably won't because people have off days or whatever), it can be a long hard slog and some people will still just be sexist assholes no matter what you do or don't do.
it's not hypocrisy. it's force. we did it because we could and the only thing egregious about this is that we allowed the russians to do it. Obama placed some sanctions and trjmp is lifting them but even that isn't enough. we have the force to do much more and should have if we wanted to teach the world a lesson.
There isn't really any trickery here. If at some point they were to come at you with a needle and you said, "uh, I didn't agree to that," that's where it would end. Consent forms for treatment are only valid until you withdraw consent.
I'm kinda hoping for Thunderbolt PCIe cards that aren't tied to a specific brand or board. Would be nice to just throw an x4 or x8 card into an existing system to get one or two TB3 ports for stuff like external storage.
No pressure to socialise with coworkers? What kind of law firm is this? Lawyers are by a huge margin the most social people I know. I know a lot of lawyers, and not one of them doesn't go out for social drinks on a Friday at 430...
i hope you've looked into minimizing the property tax liabilities for when that house gets transferred to you.
Don't exactly remember but I think it was right before/around 2.X.
More information on the group hosting the hackathon:

https://yimbyaction.org/about/

It looks like its intended to work on anti-NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) solutions; So YIMBY stands for "Yes In My Backyard"
Wow, makes me think the problem is not your gadgets. PEBKAC.
Cannot agree more with title. I did a comparative model of AWS bills and colo bills in the context of companies of different sizes (https://blog.paxautoma.com/buy-or-rent-the-cost-model-hostin...). It turned out frequently overlooked costs for bandwidth and provisioned IOPS can be responsible of large chunk of the EC2 bill.
What's the major diff?
Frankly asking here about frontend is a bit pointless as it's too fashionable to bash it.

It'sof course not too late, actually situation is now pretty stabilized ... There are 4 major frameworks (React, Angular2/4, Ember, Vue) with lots of traction, the "mess" everyone is talking about is just pointless obsession over HN/reddit news, I never got what are these people talking about. Actual (you know, the ones that do it instead of "trying it" and then bashing it forever) frontend developers don't switch frameworks often. If they're skilled enough they can branch out, because concepts are very similar (ok React is a bit more ... different) and field is of course young so what was great 6 years ago isn't favored today. But situation from 3 years ago (Angular1, Ember, React were the biggest ones IIRC) was actually quite similar ...

Of course it depends on your priorities, and you haven't stated many of them. E.g. I like super quick prototyping and testing stuff on frontend, something hardly achievable with Java / C++. But maybe I'm just unaware of some tools, I just "tried" it, as many people here "tried" frontend :D
My point was that "magnifying issues" is desirable. Fixing issues can't happen unless they are raised. All the teams I work on have weekly retros specifically to magnify issues, and especially to identify issues that might seem too minor to be worth the effort of raising. That is how you can address problems that affect many people a little bit, or that would grow into major problems eventually. Additionally the process of being heard and having people care about your experience builds team camaraderie and cultivates the atmosphere of respect and collaboration I find most productive.

Improvement of culture and process only comes when we're willing to listen to people and take their concerns seriously. Being dismissive of things that bother people is a great way to lose engineers, and also design really shitty products.
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Cube-farm vs. open are not the extremes. My father had an office the size of a studio apartment with a door and a couch and a detergent bottle he peed in to avoid running into co-workers in the bathroom. I've seen an SF startup where people sit shoulder-to-shoulder on picnic benches, their only privacy, headphones and a single glass-walled conference room. That's extreme.
Yet they charge zero for the SDN and crazy high prices for Internet bandwidth.
Part of the point is to deliberately coincide with the timer.
LA isn't really crowded. It's pretty sparse as far as large cities go.
4 to 5 times more expensive?
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