skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
correlation != causation.

That conviction rates in some disadvantaged communities are so much higher has also been linked to disproportional levels of policing in those communities.

A potentially contributing factor does not invalidate legitimate civil rights concerns in another area.
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>Any place with crap culture is crap culture for almost everyone, no matter gender-identity or race.

Totally disagree. I've definitely worked at a tech-bro startup and they loved it there. I quit in a month.
I'd happily pay, but not a flat fee. I'd maintain an account with some third party, with ~$50 balance. Browsing ad-driven sites, the agent would bid whatever it took to get all ad slots, with a limit of $0.10 or whatever. Over that, I'd get a quote, and could accept or decline. Browsing paywalled sites, I'd just get the quote.
You implied that cartoonish violence like Contra will have substantially negative psychological effects on children. I've never seen any support for that and my own experiences tell me the opposite. A quick google search shows evidence going both ways, so lacking time for an exhaustive analysis I'm sticking with my experiences.

Take my anecdotes with as big a grain of salt as you like, but analytically the benefits didn't outweigh the cons in my case. Not having access to the same video games, movies and entertainment as my peers greatly damaged my ability to form relationships at a young age. The only upside was perhaps a marginal increase in analytical thinking skills, which was easily offset by the anxiety/insecurities and resultant academic underperformance I had as a result of underdeveloped social skills. Your kids' mileage may vary.

Sure I grew up and that's all long in the past now, but that doesn't mean it was useful, justified, or harmless. When the fiancée and I decide to have kids, I intend to give them every opportunity I can within reason, that includes the resources for a vibrant social life if they want. Obviously I won't be buying them Grand Theft Auto at age 6, but Star Wars? Absolutely.
And old person (over 30)
I can think of a few off the cuff.

You're likely not running a model just for yourself. You have collaborators at other institutions that need data to compare or combine with something else.

Your grant may require you distribute the output for use by other researchers. That could either entail being hosted by you or by an agency or other entity. But you still have to get the data to them.

A reviewer for your publications may request the data.

That brings up another point that the review process can be upwards of a year.

Oftentimes you have to go through an exploratory data analysis, where you don't even know what your final analysis will entail.
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No, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d... for many more examples (.amex, .bmw, .canon, ...)

Google is certainly making more public of use their TLD than many of those other brands, though.
I'm pretty sure this ship has sailed for ES6. It's been referred as such while it was in development for so long, it's here to stay.

The next one might be different. But they really need to come up with a better than than "2017" or whatever. There's no similar problem with C or C++, and that's likely because they use 2 digit years, not 4 digit - C++17 isn't super short, but it's not a mouthful.
I think it's fair. Put simply: don't be a racist and you won't find yourself on the outside looking in when it comes to things you care about. This isn't kids-being-kids; when I was 17/18 we certainly weren't passing around racist propaganda--and that's what it is, it isn't just "memes" and it shouldn't be minimized as "petty". Our brains weren't fully baked either, nobody's is at that age, but racist propaganda is a profoundly serious issue and Harvard, to their credit, understands that and refuses to minimize it the way you are doing.

And it's not a year, it's half a year; spring admissions are commonplace. That still super sucks for the people who got caught being racist turds; hopefully they learn from the seriousness of what they did (and they did it, and it was serious) and choose not to be racist turds going forward.
This is a nice way to look at the pricing model in the context of something we can all understand: Mexican food.
A relatively homogenous, high-value good with minimal security controls? I'm honestly surprised that theft wasn't a problem long before this.
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Because that's yet a third set of numbers referring to the versions, adding to the confusion, especially because it sounds kind of like the series of numbers it definitely isn't.

When you speak it, nobody can hear the apostrophe.
I'm thinking about giving 5.1 a shot. Haven't worked with Rails since 4.2.
Right but lets say I search for an old topic (not current news). It won't be on the home page of the WSJ, NYTimes, or WaPo. But I'd like Google to surface that for me since I'm a subscriber and pay to have access to journalism like that.
Limiting supply in the face of increasing demand causes prices to go up.

Increasing density is the effect of higher prices, not the cause.
Excellent customer service, too. I'm probably going to another provider soon, since I've been using my cell plan heavily enough for a while now to make Ting not wholly economical - but I'm probably going to keep the account active and the SIM in my satchel, just because it's worth $6 a month to have the option if I need it.
You can install fonts on iOS with MDM or configuration profiles.
I was probably ruined by reading a few hundred good science fiction novels before hitting that in a freshman lit class.

It's basically Newbury-level dreck. It reminded me far too much of The Giver - wildly implausible dystopian societies bent on the authors childish ideological sympathies.
Yeah I suppose my argument is a bit moot given Amazon probably makes plenty of money in the private sector without having to worry about academia. But if they could get the cost down to be on the level of buying and running your own hardware, they could see an emergent market.

In fact, the federal government in its current business-oriented mindset may even lean towards a contractor handled machine to replace ones like Yellowstone at NCAR or those at NOAA NCEP if the price was right.
This is a common political position in San Francisco.
Heh, I'm a Christian, and that still fits my prejudices. That's why I'm massively in favour of secular government.
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If every cloud service arguably overprices one essential part of delivery, bandwidth usage in this case, my instinct (no more, no less and no pretension to analysis) is that there's a design intent to ensure a difficult to price component of the service provision is paid for.

I'm merely speculating, but if you have a idea what is the possible difficult to price component, can anyone help with any suggestions?

Edit to suggest a similitude: my job is to help people understand the price of (print) advertising. This is often intractable. To a certain extent, a good deal of people involved just throw costs into commission rates and other factors that make understanding the price models difficult and sometimes completely opaque. Is it impossible to imagine that the cost of cloud bandwidth is nothing less innocent than "put our non itemized expenses here'?
Donald Trump has been a notorious peddler of BS for over _40 years_... why anyone would believe _anything_ that comes out of his mouth about anything is beyond me; he obviously doesn't believe anything he says, why would you?

Do you actually have any evidence that he is doing any of this, or are we still at the wishful thinking stage?
Another one:

After taking photos of a whiteboard at work, Google collected them and asked me if I wanted to archive my photos of notes (it knew they were notes!) so I could declutter my gallery.

I feel like there's not enough hype around Google Photos. It's such a good photo platform. I could throw my phone out the window right now and be completely confident I'm not losing any photos of my family.
Screwing their customers? What kind of entitled attitude is this? This is a highly competitive market and the customers are voting with their own dollars. Don't like it? Don't eat it.
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Netscape Navigator certainly did this. IE did too, I recall.
The Trump's new hotel chain seems like it's aimed at Trump supporters?
My impression was that they were aimed at passing certification tests. But that may just be the couple I looked at.
And the capital gains tax exemption on the first half million dollars of profit from home sales.
I wonder how broken our astrophysical models will prove to be once we are more and more effectively able to peer outside our home system. There is a universe of examples out there, and I would find it slightly depressing if all of that complexity could be described by the theories of a swiss patent clerk.
I mentioned this in the price reductions of S3 announcement

People fail to realize the true cost of operating on S3, specifically when hundreds of TB of usable data is in play

"By putting the "tax" on bandwidth, a lot of these business cases are solved. I see why Amazon does that.
AWS is great, but as you get into high scale (specifically in storage - 2PB+), it becomes extremely cost prohibitive."
I don't really get the reference to ping pong tables and free beer...?

Is it a metaphor, or is the commenter literally referring to those things?

I've worked in a range of places
* Investment bank - German, very formal, very little perks
* Options Trading Company - Dutch, laid-back, casual dress, free alcohol, free food, lots of games, lots of perks
* Database Company - Tech startup, fairly well funded, casual dress, alcohol and some games (e.g pool). - medium perks
* Search Engine Company (Current) - Tech, well funded, casual dress, free food, games and consoles everywhere - lots of perks

I don't drink alcohol - and I don't really play ping pong or pool. And I don't play console games.

But if I interview at a place and saw those things around, I'm not really sure I'd hold it against the place.

I mean, sure, other people can enjoy them, and I won't. As long as they provide some things I want, that's cool with me.

It sounds like a lot of what the commenter wants/desires are personal preferences, as opposed to gender things.

What's to say a girl can't enjoy beer? Or ping pong? (I studied engineering in uni - and there were girls there who could drink most guys under the table.)

I mean, I don't want/enjoy some of those things - but I'm not a woman. Sure, you get the occasional stupid comment from some guy when you order a cranberry juice at a work function instead of drinking beer like the "bros" - but that's happened what, once in 7 years? And I suspect (and took it) as more an off-key joke than anything malicious.
If your fish was commercially frozen, you don't need to cook it at all, much less to that high a degree. And if you thaw, prepare and serve it properly, potentially harmful bacterial growth is minimal and safe. The FDA even has guidelines to follow in the preparation of sushi which results in a fairly safe dish.

In one study it was shown that refrigerated or frozen sushi had less aerobic mesophilic bacteria than freshly prepared sushi, and that the preparation varies between restaurants/chefs. But more people get bacterial infections from produce and rice than from fish.

On the culinary side of things, it can be easy to overcook certain fish, and other fish are much more lenient. Some of the most delicious tasting fish should be served raw or in-between raw and fully cooked. This way both delicate flavors and firm tissues don't break down completely.

For a typical salmon steak, 145C for 20 minutes is about right. The idea is to get it up to temperature, then remove it and cover it and let the residual heat keep cooking the fish for 10 minutes, allowing juices to settle back in (much like other meats). Alternately you can cook at a higher temperature for shorter time and apply a sear after. But in general, once the meat turns opaque all the way through, it's at the perfect state just a couple minutes later.
FeliCa is only supported in iPhone 7 sold in Japan AFAIK (the one with 総務省指定 marking on the back)
> Why didn't they control for the other intervention treatments? One where they reduce BLL + other treatments, and one where they didn't reduce BLL but still gave the other treatments?

This is a good question, but keep in mind it's not a randomized control trial, they are using some clever techniques to look backwards on data from an existing program.

They could expand the study and compare to other children who had health workers in the home for unrelated reasons. But those unrelated reasons could themselves affect 'antisocial behavior and cognitive outcomes'
Yeah, code-morphing/hardware JIT is extra weird (and probably why Nvidia's Project Denver kinda tanked—turns out, that doesn't work too great for smartphone apps).

One thing I've thought about is having a code-morphing CPU as a sort of accelerator that a single process could be offloaded to (of course, this would require an OS that can marshal processes). Think a database server, a JVM, NodeJS—long-running processes that would benefit from JIT.

Might even be viable with upcoming cache-coherent interconnects like CCIX and GenZ. A more ambitious implementation could offload groups of functions.
I second the freelance approach.

I've been working on my own, for myself for the past 10+ years, and the point where I finally had a large enough client base that I could afford to fire all my obnoxious clients, and only work with people I have a genuine rapport with, was as satisfying as anything else I've ever done for my career.

Now, I do IT for small businesses, which simply by its nature has its share of SHTF moments of stress. But when you know for a fact that the people you work with will actually work with you, together, to solve a problem instead of blaming/yelling/harassing... I'd happily deal with a hundred CryptoLocker hits with them than one with a client who treats you like dirt.

I also think it is important to note that this advice is 100% agnostic. It applies to anyone who might enjoy working on their own, regardless of dangly bits, need for supplemental vitamin D, or orientation. Just remember that it is people that make the job, and focus on working with ones you genuinely like.
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There are software jobs that require physical access to expensive and/or impractically huge pieces of hardware.

For example, my job is to write software for 40' display walls and immersion rooms that are controlled by input devices connected to (very) pricey room-sized spatial tracking systems. Sometimes I'm able to do my work for the day remotely or otherwise without access to these systems, but quite often an engineer or designer has to be sitting in the space to properly develop, test, or debug an application written for it.
I agree, this is a good thing.

I use Twitter a lot (at least 40 minutes a week) and sometimes use Facebook (perhaps about 20 minutes a week) and I get value from both. However on iOS I don't like to use the apps, preferring to just open their sites in Safari. I am not sure if there are any privacy/tracking advantages to this (I log off Facebook after visiting the web site) but I got in the habit of doing this.
Yes, with myself and also with clients.

The biggest game changer is when you realize that success is not the possession of any characteristic or accomplishment but rather the ability to feel authentically.

When you know on a deep somatic level that all of your emotions are valid and sacred and aren't afraid to feel them it brings with it a deep confidence and connection.
Sure, it was written in the '70s. It talks about punched cards and 24-hour turn around for program listings. On paper.

But programmers haven't changed much since then. You'll recognize all the weirdness in software work.
They're a member of the group, not its owner. We don't know what they're doing but they can't control it.
Can't agree more. I balked at the cost (still sort of do as a GCP user) until I joined Google and was able to peek behind the curtain. The network quality is absurd. GCP customers pay a premium for having the same network reach as Google. Their network works extremely hard to get user traffic onto the internal network as early as possible.

Not only that, but Google's datacenters have 24/7 attention, lots of redundant providers, etc.. A bargain basement colo won't be nearly as reliable.
What's accomplished is that productive workers can live close to work instead of the double whammy of having a long commute and paying extra to subsidize rich people that don't work.

The fact that some people have been there longer than others shouldn't absolve them of their duty to pay their fair share of taxes based on the value of their property.
I haven't played with the latest beta, but I'd like to talk about this particular guideline that has been irking me more and more with recent iOS iterations:

https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/i...

iOS:

- Randomly asks me to verify my iCloud password without me initiating anything. It is neither subtle or informs me why it is asking.

- 3D Touch is still inconsistently implemented with varying degrees of feedback. A quick example is that you can "peek" into a music album, but not a photo album. 3D Touch in MacOS uses haptic feedback for a hard press irrespective of an underlying action, but not iOS.

Apple Music:

- No feedback whatsoever when music pauses for various reasons like low signal, bluetooth disconnect, or general playback error.

- With a low cell signal, many times it will just outright refuse to play a song already in my library. How do I know this? If I activate airplane mode, it will play music without a problem. No feedback, just a poor experience.

Sometimes I really wish Apple would heed their own advice. I'm hoping this is fixed in iOS 11
According to me... Are you arguing that it's not? It stands to reason that dynamic network architectures (SDNs) would be harder and more expensive to design and build than static architectures... it's the difference between managing shared mutable state and managing shared immutable state. On the hardware side, a simple commodity hub or switch is cheaper than a CPU, an FPGA, or burning your own ASIC to do fast SDN.
With everything realistically heading towards lower level API's like DirectX 12, Vulkan and Metal I doubt many people are going to be rolling their own engines anymore. OpenGL and D3D11 made it fairly doable, but these new API's are more than most people will want to deal with.
Using your example, of 1000%, you're looking at a house purchased for $100K going to $1000K.

Assume at 1.5% property tax rate and it's $15K per year. With a $900K capital gain, you could pay the property taxes for 60 years.

And if the value of the home drops, then the gov't eats the difference.

I just don't think it's fair that the people who received most of the gains in property value are the ones that get the most generous tax break.
… or the excellent food, or the friendly and outgoing people, or the art and music scenes, or you work in the film/TV or aerospace industries, or …
No shit. If you've ever gone deep sea fishing on the New England coast, and taken home some cod or pollock or haddock or hake filets, then when you skin them, you've doubtless noticed some litle round reddish worms under the flesh. You just pick them out with your filet knife when you clean the filet up.
Aren't you essentially making the argument that you are most comfortable working with people similar to yourself?

Which is not a criticism. It's completely understandable. But how, then, do we get all of us (you, me, etc...) to feel comfortable working together, despite any particular differences?

(I don't have any easy answers, and I may not even be someone whose opinion means much on this subject. I honestly got so tired of workplace politics of any flavor that I left and started working for myself about 10 years ago.)
Awesome, hadn't heard of this. Very responsive customer service. Thanks for the reference. Just placed an order for a SIM card. Hope it works with Linux! :)
Please file a bug whenever you see this. If you're using betas there's an app called Feedback Assistant to do this, otherwise it can be a lot of work to actually get the sysdiagnose logs.
https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2012/03/clean-coder.html
That's a bizarre argument; the post is about writing an abstraction over another interface, and it's clearly meant to be extended. The abstraction can be written in a safer language than C. Seems like there's an obvious upside.
Alternatively, wsj could sponsor those results, and jump to the top with their paywalled content.
And I thought it was some neural pathway...
You know, you just can't win sometimes. Before Mac OS X introduced full-screen mode, people complained that the "maximize button" didn't seem to work correctly.

If you actually follow that link, the first part of how apps should behave in full screen mode is:

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Enable full-screen windows only when it makes sense. Full-screen mode is useful when a user wants to be immersed in a task. Not all apps require this level of immersion, however. For example, some utility apps like Calculator work better with smaller windows that reside onscreen alongside other apps. When porting an iOS app to macOS, don’t assume the app should support full-screen mode in macOS.
No it's not. Features that are limited to new phones that don't need some dedicated hardware are typically done for performance reasons, which is still a hardware reason.
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The article sites a 1 bedroom, 900 sqft aprt with stacked washer/dryer and new appliances for $2100.

Is that expensive? I live in a 988 sqft, 1bedroom apt with washer/dryer with 2 roommates. We pay around that amount.

I consider myself very well off. I work 1-2 hours a day for myself online. I just chill/play games/eat out/lounge around Starbucks most of the day. I sleep ~10 hours a day.

Sounds like the people in the article are just lazy. No one has a God given right to a detached house in LA... Just move. Your $1000 social security check makes you a God in the Philippines, Thailand, Macedonia, etc.
This camera tracking is already being used for the ARKit object placement and plane detection announced today.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit
425 days ago you wrote that you were highly suspicious the event ever happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11439565 (I was also active in that thread because I have researched the story.) The same happened 324 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108514 but then you updated one day later that you checked with one of the authors of the book! And here you relate the information again. I'm excited to learn more about this history.

Which author did you contact? Can you relate any details about the class? Where was it (which university)? When was it? Who was the instructor?

Thanks!
> It's basically Newbury-level dreck.

That's a...really weird condemnation. I certainly haven't read all of them, but every Newbery Medal nominee I have read has been excellent.
More on the method: http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-realit...
Not exactly. It's cause for concern, not wholesale reason to discard three results of our election. I don't think anyone is claiming that either.

If there is suspicion that there has been influence from another nation, it should not be ignored. That would also be an end to democracy. Our nation should attempt to reach the truth, and that truth (barring collusion) should not invalidate a vote.
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