skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The national crime victimization survey largely agreed with the FBI's Unified Crime Report (on matters of race and violent crimes, anyway). The latter is data collected by policing agencies and the former comes from victims. If law enforcement discriminated against Blacks, we would expect a discrepancy between these reports (it's possible that the victims are simply "equally racist", but given that the victims of black offenders are themselves overwhelmingly black, this is unlikely). Also, there have been a few other studies like this one[1] which don't find anti-black bias in sentencing, conviction, etc. This doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just that the conclusion of a racist criminal justice system is not entirely supported by the evidence.

One anecdote about the weed thing, since that comes up so often--I live in Chicago and apart from festivals, I never see white people strolling around downtown smoking weed, but I do see this probably once a month, and the user is consistently black. The white people I know who use marijuana do so at home and out of public view. This is just an anecdote, but cultural differences in usage could better explain the arrest discrepancy than police racism. At least I would like to discontinue the trend of assuming that every gap is necessarily and automatically attributable to discrimination.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256079484_No_eviden...
Placed joining Snap Inc
That's easy. Better and cheaper please.
>That argument might have worked in back in the day when the iPhone was only available on AT&T but not in a world where the iPhone is available to more people than it ever has been before.

The iPhone is incredibly expensive. While you and your rich software developer friends might have iPhones, the vast majority of phones sold are not iPhones. They're Android phones. You can get an Android phone for $50 or less. You cannot get an iPhone for much under $1000 in NZ.
Not very much related, but you can also go wrong with IR. Something like 20 years ago Sony shipped night vision mode on camcorders. Turned out the functionality also allowed to see through clothes [1] which created a controversy.

[1] https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=faf_1385072214
I'm not familiar with research on relational reasoning, and the subset they're working with seems pretty well defined, but even so this seems like a pretty meaningful step forward. Can anyone involved in the research comment further on how confident they are that RR is generalizable across dissimilar domains to the one tested?
A few things to keep in mind if you read cancer-related news in the next days
It's serverless.com
Well, feel free to come up with a better solution. 3rd party trust roots are way worse.
On the contrary, usaphp is making a valid point, which is that the Surface has two modes, and that many things that work well in one mode don't work well in the other. In tablet mode, you're generally using lighter weight apps, so you don't need the full power of the device. Or, if you're using pro apps like IDEs, they're generally not touch-optimised. You can't have both at once. You can in theory, but not in practice, as every review points out.
One could say "high risk, high need" also applies to:
-People otherwise neglected by society, like minorities.
-The impoverished
-Children/young adults

Maybe if society actually prepared its people for...itself (society) we'd have fewer problems?

I'm willing to bet $1 of room, board, and education alleviate $100 (or more) of incarceration.

Current US budget for prisons: 74 billion
Current US budget for education: 68 billion
So you looked for evidence to support your a priori beliefs, didn't find it and still made insinuations. Good on you.
Obviously density isn't sufficient to create value on its own, but in the context of neighbourhoods of a city, more dense areas tend to become more valuable than less dense ones, because density supports better services. So if one suburb lets developers build high rises and another of similar value doesn't, the former is likely to end up more valuable in the future.
Correction: contractors are fleecing tax payers.
ido was talking about outside temperature.

I live in one of the hottest cities in Germany (Karlsruhe) and I agree with ido. There's around 2-3 weeks where home air conditioning would really be useful. The rest of the time, temperature is controlled easily enough by opening windows at night and closing the shutters during the daytime while at the office.

Air conditioning for offices is a different story.
Isn't an inordinately large percentage of US prison population due to fairly minor drug offences?

I would think the argument is that fewer people need to be imprisoned for crimes that don't really negatively affect society as much as sending them to prison does.
No dedicated hardware required. Bridges can be placed on virtual interfaces. You often see this happen with things like VMs and containers but you don't even need that specifically.
Why cap it? Removing caps allows the market to properly price property with regard to taxes and will give the market stability. Caps are a distortion and will hurt some and benefit others.
Maybe you're hitting the same slow path in Firefox than this benchmark (see [1]).

I used to work on an app that was 5 to 10 times slower in v8 than in SpiderMonkey, was it a proof that v8 was slower than SpiderMonkey ? No, we were actually falling in a v8 slow path (using exceptions in a hot section of the code because babel was transpilling `for of` loops to something that used exceptions), after some profiling we found the culprit and fixed it.

When you hit a 5x differences in JavaScript speed, it's almost never a browser performance difference, it's a bug in this specific browser : you're probably hitting a slow paths in this engine and you can probably work around it (or report a bug and wait until they fix it).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14495275
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It's not so easy to protect e.g. your wrists from the cold desk.
> (...) and be rehabilitated.

-Never having experienced the US penal system first hand, I cannot be too bombastic - but from the outside, it sure looks as if rehabilitation has taken a back seat to punishment.

If one were of a sufficiently cynical disposition, it would be tempting to assume that all involved parties (except the inmates) has more to gain from keeping people locked up than rehabilitating them.
@ 30 I assume you have a wife & kids.

I think its kind of irresponsible to make risky bets at that age.

You should invest more is "safe bets" like bonds.
MBAs destabilise the market? By taking a six sigma approach to introduce cryptocurrencies into the prison system, I don't see how it couldn't be a success.
My office in 2015 was in an Altbau with very high ceilings and thick walls & it was nice and cool. I would still argue in favour of better insulation/construction.

EDIT: oh but transit here should definitely be better air-conditioned: I don't think there's much you can otherwise do to make subways/trains/busses pleasant once it starts getting hot.
Any reason netlink would be preferable if you're only making these calls <10 per minute?
Apple has every reason to do so, as their revenue doesn't come from ads. But I guess Google also has the motivation to enable this in Chrome, to make other ad networks less effective (and Google ads more effective).
If it happens, what does this mean for the internet advertising business?
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I strongly agree.

A good VC is in the look out for a good business potential, not impressive decks. You can always hunt down some "stupid-money" VCs instead. I would advise against it.
I don't think indoor temperature ever reached 30c inside my apartment (or if it did it was definitely not for long).
If this was their one true message all along, they were very clever about disguising it among all the other noise they generated (which is my point about them thoroughly discrediting themselves). It is convenient that each time their latest message is disproven, proponents say "that was never their true message, it was really about X!" And then X gets disproven and we move onto Y.
looks nice, thanks for sharing! Any plan on adding support to more boards?
+1
Korea is experimenting with delivery-box-in-convenient-stores and automated-delivery-box-attached-to-front-door/apartment-complex.

this is easily automatable.
Have you heard about this PHP Slack Channel?
The article does mention the Romans, though:

> The eccentric Roman emperor Elagabulus sent slaves to bring snow down from the mountains and pile it in his garden, where breezes would carry the cooler air inside.
dum de dum won't you take me to dum de dum a func-i-ton
Well, box in slang means vagina. Should Dropbox (or any other company that has box in its name) reconsider its name too?
Apparently you can be so correct that it overflows, resulting in downvotes.
Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, the others mentioned have a monthly fee and then lower transaction fees. So Stripe isn't remarkably cheap.
Cloud data transfer is very overpriced, no doubt about it.

I'm currently paying 0,017 USD for high quality transfer, with a managed network. I could get even lower pricing by switching to 95th-percentile. Maintenance on server hardware is damn cheap with remote hands and hardware warranty.

It would cost me over five times as much to use GCP with 50 TB traffic/month, all things considered.

Cloud providers are cool, but bandwidth is still very overpriced.

Also, your transit prices are way higher that reality, at least for Europe.
Strangely, I was just reading about the costs of prison in California because I read an article about "the grave injustice of mandatory sentencing" [1] and was curious about the associated costs to taxpayers.

I don't feel personally affected by this issue, but I get the sense we are sentencing too many people for too long for non-violent drug offenses.

Anyway, the cost of the prison system in California is about $7.9 billion according to:

https://www.vera.org/publications/the-price-of-prisons-what-...

or (given 39 million people in California) about $200 per taxpayer (no, that's not the best metric).

If the cost per prisoner is going up because we're releasing people from prisons this year, that's probably a good thing.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/politics/mandatory-minimum-sen...
It's not available on Windows Home, for one.
Tests are the anti-cheat device though. Or at least it's easier to keep tests honest than coursework.
just outsource this to a low cost area. i'm sure a poor state would love to make some money housing california prisoners.
I've been using Laravel Spark [1] for recurring payments built on top of Stripe, and at a 100$ one-time fee for Spark and a small server setup (that I needed for the service in the first place) I think it's a cheap option for recurring payments, too.

[1] https://spark.laravel.com/
I guess you missed the part where it was explained several times in this thread that Chrome promotes things that are slow everywhere else.
>There is the world of difference between the interests of Russian people and the interests of Russian government.

Sure. But not much larger than with the interests of the people of most other countries and their government, and not that much as most western media present it.

They blow any opposition parties, activists etc., out of all proportion, and favor western-educated and pro-western spokepersons as if they represent the country at large. Of course they have their own interests in mind when doing that -- plus the usual racist "the western way is the only way, and we know better".

From what I can gather (my country is a neutral third zone with historically good ties with both EU and Russia), the majority of the people in Russia very much like Putin, and if one checks the numbers (economy) from when we was first elected and afterwards, one can easily see why. If an American president did a similar change in the economy he would have been worshipped as a god.

The majority are also conservative and quite devout than the western media darlings, so they are with him on such issues too (just like lots of us citizens liked conservative politicians like Reagan or Bush Jr. -- or Trump for that matter).
I really think you hit the nail on the head. The critics of college and the proponents of college are both right - to a certain extent.

But therein lies the true problem - no one is really sure about what college truly is, at least we can't agree on it anymore at any level from the student level all the way to the business level. The system has evolved and devolved to a point where it has strayed far beyond it's original intents.

However even despite this uncertainty, we continue participation in the system blindly without asking questions and taking into account modern context.

I think systematic educational progress is closer to the pace of social progress than the pace of technological progress. It's incredibly complicated with tons of actors that keep the current system rolling and not enough inertia yet to push it in a different direction.
If I understand this correctly, the obvious counter-measure is for all links on example-recipes.com to go through example-tracker.com, which then immediately redirects to the original website with the linked-to content. Sort of like the weird link URLs in Google's SERPs.
> California sent them to Arizona so that they could go to a trade school. All their needs were covered, they just needed to complete the program. Instead the failed out and then went on a crime spree in their new home state. I'm sure it was a very cost effective solution for CA but I'm not sure about society as a whole.

The problem is identification; we can't identify which people will end up being "good guys" or "bad guys" after any form of prison or community work. There are some extreme cases where you can make the determination(although beware the slippery slope of discrimination that seeps in..), but for the rest, what do you do? This is a genuine question. Jailing people is both costly and doesn't seem to have a positive effect on their life prospects. Many people that go into jail for a minor offense end up incapable of finding a job(felon status) or a place in society(everyone left them and moved on) and they turn to crime and re-offend.

I agree that this doesn't contain "the" solution, but it's a good way to shine the light that our current solution isn't working either. Prison serves as a "out of sight, out of mind" choice and few people concern themselves with what happens to inmates once they try to reintegrate into society. If we're going to continue jailing people, then we should also look to mitigate the adverse effects - look for ways to integrate people after they serve their time, look into reducing the number of offenses you can be jailed for, etc.
That sounds totally fine in my eyes. I live outside the US and a relatively cheap lifestyle, so a lot cheaper than the average US citizen. And I say if you add the security requirements of a prison on top of my life I could easily be at $70k-$80k.

What the article probably doesn't consider is the costs of daily life. I can't imagine Harvard+eating+sleeping+takingShowers+heating+clothing really just costs $75k/year, then everybody would go to Harvard, even those who already have a PHD.
> do LPs always get cash as returns

Unless a special deal is arranged it is cash in, cash out.
>I'm always torn when I see visual programming languages (e.g. DRAKON, LabView, Simulink...). Obviously, they don't represent the way a computer works very well.

Citation needed. A graphical language can "obviously" represent anything a text-based language can.
Ask your future employer to let you walk through their office and talk to future colleagues. Then talk to some women already working there. Trust your gut feeling.
Does this strike anyone else as suspicious?

What is suspicious about it?

This isn't 4chan. Present some evidence but don't just make up random speculation that "could have happened".

I mean it's possible to come up with elaborate theories, but the most likely explanation is that she was just spectacularly stupid.

or she intended to become a martyr

I'm not sure being this dumb is going to get much sympathy from anyone.
Consider the conditional probabilities (with made up values suggesting the relative orders of magnitude):

P(box=vagina|box uttered) = 0.0001
vs
P(bender=slur|bender uttered) = 0.8
> Leave me alone, apple. This is my iPad, not yours.

That's where you're wrong.
Never lived in a place that didn't need doctors or CEOs, either. "Become a tradesperson" is useful advice for an individual, and completely useless as a solution to the economic problems of non-coastal towns.
That's not realistic. It can take many years before there is a return even for a successful fund and during that time you somehow have to rent some space, keep the lights on, pay the secretary, pay the associates and pay for the DD costs for deals that went very far but eventually did not go through.

This really adds up.
To be fair, C also has drawbacks

C:

- error prone

- Lack of modern typing (generics vs void pointer)

- Lack of dependency management

- no high level constructs

- unintuitive semantics (undefined behaviors)
Banking and Wealth Management PG Program
Sounds to me like they basically transferred chip-and-pin online.

Maybe it is magical in the American sense, but i can't say i get the big whoop from the European side of the Atlantic...
A similar thing happens with comics; The New York Times's review of Art Spiegelman's WWII memoir "Maus" started with the line "Maus is not a comic".

This was meant as praise, because "obviously", if it's any good, it can't be called a comic book. (Then, of course, the term "graphic novel" got traction, and immediately got misused so often that it's now completely meaningless.)
Does the number include the housing and living costs for the students?

edit: sorry, that was not a polemic post. But if the number for the students excludes stuff like food, rent or other living costs (e.g. medical checkups) that are "included" with prisoners, the gap might be smaller.

I just checked the numbers for Germany, on the average, a prisoner costs 3281,40 Euro per month, so about 40k Euro or 45k USD per year. So, yeah, it seems like California is getting shafted, somehow.
"Have you got a 'heef' file of that photo please?"

Could have been branded better if I'm honest. I know engineers generally don't care about stuff like this but some of us will have to say this term many times a day if takes off.
APFS is not safe to use with names which have Unicode normalisation issues
There are multiple alternatives to running your own DB service, and again, all pay-per-use.

In the original article the author suggested on a successful subscription a write to the MailChimp API (because that's the product). In that example, MailChimp is the DB. You don't have to run a copy of a DB locally if you architect things like that. Obviously if the call fails, you need to think about what you fall back to, which is why error handling is such a critical piece of the the Lambda ecosystem - as it should be for every ecosystem, really.
we are asked to believe a HS grad is a triple linguist, named Reality Winner, and within first few months on job ever with NSA was allowed to print and email a TS doc. and that she was arrested on same day within hours

so yes, there is at least circumstantial evidence this was not a "real" thing that happened. either a plant or make believe
"Without firing a shot" - I'm sure people in Ukraine would disagree.
Out of interest how do you use your iMac as an external monitor? I have a slightly older one, so it doesn't support target display mode (only available on 2009 macs and newer).
> The problem with 2% is that the fund managers often taken home %1 type wages without actually performing.

Right, and fund managers will work for free instead. I know quite a few of them and I would not want to trade with them. Spend half your life in transit lounges of airports and the other half in hotel rooms, maybe if you're lucky you get to see your kids on the weekends. I know divorced couples that get more family time than some of the VCs I work with, they're the hardest working people that I know, much harder than most founders.

I suspect that your viewpoint is not illuminated with actual experience of the VC world.

Note that people that made enough money to start a VC fund usually value their time well and if you want to get them to pull your cart for you (as an LP you have to do absolutely nothing) they expect to be compensated for their time.
Google doesn't need backdoors into Chrome, in the same way that it's technically not cheating if you adjust the rules to fit your demands better than others (see f.i. AMP).
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Can't this be solved by a library? It seems like you could easily build a facade in front of requests that queried local storage...you would just need to figure out whether the device/server is online or not.
Remember when a small team built a better healthcare.gov? Why not open up well-regulated competitive markets for these kinds of problems? Let some bright people solve them by going at them with their ingenuity. The fastest way towards progress is fair and honest competition.

Government can regulate the market by setting the goals: low violence inside, low costs, low re-offences of released, high security, high educational opportunities
I read often WSJ articles for free on internet. This gives me a good opinion of their articles. When I travel in train or plane, I often buy a physical newspaper. I may favour WSJ because of this good opinion.

IMHO, blocking "free" readers will not increase paying customers on the long run and may arm also their physical newspaper.

Reputation is something that takes long to earn and that can be lost very quickly. RIP WSJ
The point of being agile and have continues feedback is exactly pleasing the sales department. Focus on the features they need to close a sale, then everything else.
Well, lack of ServiceWorker support by itself was a complaint, that's for sure: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
Documents is awesome. They introduced drag and drop functionality between their apps just a few weeks ago too:

https://blog.readdle.com/drag-drop-between-readdle-apps-fd07...
Not OP, but here in Austria I wear t-shirts for most of the year. I even used to go out in just a shirt on warmer winter days with only light snowfall, but nowadays I really notice the cold when I do that. Everything above 10°C is very comfortable to me.
Among my friends and relatives I am the exception of course. Most of them dress in more layers, some even in summer.
Rehabilitation must exist but it must also take the back seat to punishment. In Europe there is this strange concept that developed that crime is a sort of disease and that prisons are kind of hospital. So there is some expectation that a criminal will be "cured" when leaving jail. And many judges got to the thinking that crime is caused by poverty and since jail will not cure poverty we should not send criminals to prison. And you end up with guys with a 10 pages long criminal record and who haven't spent a night in jail.
You can use Atlas cant you?
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Having recently finished playing MHRD I think there are contexts where the graphical representation is a lot more clear. Granted, that game's language is at a very low level where you write your wires kinda DOT-esque, but I basically had to draw everything from the ALU onwards on paper first.
Wow, nobody? Well, I didn't download it yet, but I am certainly looking forward to not seeing this anymore: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmm75ycej20h0d2/Screenshot%202017-...

But I came here to hear all about how buggy it is and why I shouldn't download it yet... where my complainers at??