skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not terribly relevant these days, though.

For the same reasons you mention it makes 2pm in the afternoon the worst time to be on break and out of your air conditioned office or workplace.
I don't think it correlates much with cost. I interned at one of the major BT companies for 6 months. I did a bunch of testing and characterization of the connection process to troubleshoot issues for our customers. What I found was that small changes to settings that consumers don't even realize exist would cause connection times to vary tremendously.

There are dozens of parameters that control the interaction between two bluetooth devices. Virtually none of them are configurable, and they all have to line up just right on both ends of the connection for things to work efficiently. It's somewhat amazing to me that the protocol works at all.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Prof Nguyen.

There is plenty of blame to go around for the cascade of errors that led to Ray Jennings spending 11 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit. But most of the institutions responsible for the tragedy — from the D.A.'s office to the judiciary — have owned up to their mistakes.

Not so for Mark Safarik. Despite retracting his opinion in court, he is now publicly insinuating that Ray may actually have been guilty, repeating the very falsities that my father and I debunked in order to overturn the false conviction.

Everything that Safarik says in the article — from the supposed evidence of sexual assault, to the fact that Ray should have been able to see the killer — is addressed and refuted in our initial 34-page letter to the Conviction Review Unit. The truth is available for anyone who cares to read it: http://www.ehrlichfirm.com/jennings/Ray-Jennings-Letter-to-C...

I note that, before we even hired a profiling expert, I was able to point out gross errors in Safarik's work merely by contrasting his testimony to the standards listed in the behavioral-profiling "bible" that he contributed to at the FBI. (See Letter, pp. 20-22.) This is supposed to be the profiling equivalent of the DSM, but Safarik blew off the numerous criteria that contravened his thesis.

Safarik's attempt to shift all the blame to the local detectives is unpersuasive. Their failure to interview everyone at the crime scene was obvious from the investigative materials that Safarik was provided by the Sheriff's Department's. Indeed, Safarik was specifically cross-examined about that failure when he took the stand, yet he clung to his opinion, and thereby allowed an innocent man to be convicted of murder.

Only Safarik himself is responsible for basing his analysis on the false premise that Ray was the only person present who could have committed the crime. When he presented his "expert" opinion, Safarik acknowledged the presence of other individuals in the parking lot around the time of the murder, but inexplicably brushed that fact aside because it did not fit his desired conclusion.

If Safarik is the best that the "science" of profiling can offer, it has no place in our courts.
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>What remained is a highly distinctive national timetable not found in any other European country, where it has often been read as a peculiarly exotic form of madness

First, of all, there's nothing "mad" about it. As if the 9-5 (or 9-8) schedule religiously held everywhere, and first created for factory workers, is "rational".

>After starting work between 8 and 9 a.m., hungry workers hold out for a lunch break scheduled as late as 1:30 or 2:30. As if in compensation for this long wait

Nothing particularly strange about this either. In lots of counties people eat lunch later, or much later, than 12:00, and dinner much later than 7-8. Usually it has to do with hotter climates (which Spain, Greece, Mexico, Argentina, Middle Eastern countries, etc qualify for) and longer, sunnier, days.

>Most stores and many businesses close down until the late afternoon, before a final burst of office hours between 5:30 and 8 (or sometimes 4 to 7). Spaniards then head home at an hour when most people in other countries are cleaning up their dinner dishes, rarely getting food on the table any earlier than 10 p.m. This pushes bedtime past midnight for many.*

And that's a problem because?
The upcoming Android O update introduces standard limits on background tasks very much like these manufacturer "optimizations":

https://developer.android.com/preview/features/background.ht...

The difference is that these limits have defined guarantees for developers: cloud push notifications can still wake up an app, apps can schedule periodic jobs to be batch executed and background services can stay alive using an ongoing notification when necessary. Right now, some distributions like MIUI will cripple your app entirely unless the user disables "battery optimization" for it, no matter what you do.
I cry a little when someone says something is wrong, without explaining how to do it right. What's insecure with this, and how should it be done instead?
That's true. But the idea that distributions related non-linearly cannot both be normal holds.
It seems the jury was basing their faith in the profiler on another famous crime drama, namely Sherlock Holmes.

>The driver’s-side window of the victim’s car had been lowered several inches, suggesting to the profiler that the teen had rolled it down when someone who looked trustworthy approached. And her tube top was askew — a sign, the profiler said, of a botched sexual assault.

In Sherlock Holmes stories, that is a fairly reasonable inference. Here, for example, is an exert from the story "The Hound of the Baskervilles":

>The address, you observe is printed in rough characters. But the Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated. We may take it, therefore, that the letter was composed by an educated man who wished to pose as an uneducated one, and his effort to conceal his own writing suggests that that writing might be known, or come to be known, by you.

The issue is in real life, this sort of inference is absolutely absurd. There are a dozen other possible explanations that fit the evidence, and to make such wild speculations gets you nowhere except chasing dead ends and accusing innocent men. It works in Holmes' stories because, and this is very important, they are fictitious. Doyle can have Sherlock spout any kind of insane gibberish, and still have him be right in the end.

Though I can't fault lay persons for not understanding why this technique is faulty, both because pop culture treats it as valid and because it's a classic instance of sampling bias: Say 100 profilers failed spectacularly, and 10 succeed and produce perfect profiles. The 100 failures aren't interesting or worth talking about, some stranger not being correct one time is not a good story. The 10 successes get talked about endlessly at conferences, at the local bar, when people give advice to each other. Old veteran cops 20 years later still talk about that one time a profiler solved a cold case in a snap. So, over years, a mythology is built up and the objective abysmal quality of profiling is hidden by the fact everyone everywhere has heard of the 10 successes while the 100 failures are lost to the dustbin of history. Rather, appropriately, like Doyle's own real life attempts to play detective - the dozens of times he was humiliated are (mostly) forgotten, while the handful of successes are the stuff of (nerdy) legend.
Android O redesigned the way notifications are presented to users and should do a good job addressing notification overload. The interface prioritizes ongoing notifications (like driving directions) and user-user messages, and throws a lot of the low quality ones in an 'FYI' section that's almost hidden. There's a lot more configurability as well, so you can turn off certain types of messages from apps, but get other more important ones.
Miners will be paid with transaction fees. Already if you don't include a fee in your transaction you can expect much longer transaction confirmation times or to never receive confirmation because miners already try to pack the most fees into each single block to maximize their payout.
Really sad. The hackers behind this should be ashamed of trying to get money out of a group which gets a good chunk of their budget from donations.
>Literally nobody here takes 3 hour lunch breaks. A lot of offices have 2 hours, yeah, but this is becoming less and less common regardless.

Is that because nobody likes to, or because pressures for employers and economic conformity forces them? That this is "becoming less and less common" (implying it was indeed common) speaks to the latter.
Are you all looking into allowing the use of the editor offline and then syncing the changes when the user gets online?
Not to mention that the distributions from three different sky surveys (in your first link) look dramatically different. Which means the histograms are saying at least as much about the measurement process as they are about what's actually out there in the universe.
There's still plenty of conservative people who believe the being gay is a personal choice, or perhaps something caused by your upbringing/environment, not something you're born with.

Of course, this has as much veracity as the idea that the Earth is flat or that the Sun and planets revolve around it, but there's a lot of people who believe it.
I think you're being downvoted a bit unfairly. What most non-statisticians don't realize is that some of the most "unnormal" distributions actually look pretty normally distributed, and some of the most ugly looking distributions actually behave like a normal distribution. When you look at a distribution's pdf, you're only looking at the "center" of the distribution. But what statisticians (usually) care about are the tails of a distribution.

Consider the following example: The [Cauchy distribution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution) is a pathological example of a distribution with very heavy tails. Heavier than the power law distributions meantioned in the GP. So heavy, the distribution doesn't even have a mean value. But if you just look at the pdf, it looks almost exactly like a gaussian.
> An acceptable compromise would be to enable notifications by default but put a permanent disable option on each and every message so that users could punish apps on the first abuse.

This is exactly how recent android works (at least, it does on my Nexus 5X). On any notification, you can slide it sideways to access a settings menu where you can immediately block all notifications from that app forever.
This is my pet theory. A seller was busted and the emails were siezed. Seems like the most likely possibility.
9 out of 10 times it's the carrier and not the manufacturer. I always ran "worldwide" roms and the difference is stark.
Not sure if I agree with your assessment, but the author certainly loves the word - it appears in the article 5 times. Maybe it's a technical term with a precise, widely used definition in the ethnography field?
fair enough. I was thinking more on the side of "this rewrite should be correct and indeed it is" by asking the tool to come up with a proof rather than doing extensive testing.
Ponzi pumping
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You just described my life with uncanny accuracy.

I have suspected for some time that my problems were due to social isolation, but I have been too apathetic to make an effort to do anything. You've just given me the motivation to change that. Thank you!
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Automagically install missing types/ with TypeSync
>Small shops manage to operate in, say, Arizona during those hours.

With full on blaring air-conditioning and everybody driving around gus-guzzlers to go 1km further down.

That's not how Spanish cities are built, or the culture they enjoy.
If phone apps followed a proper runtime lifecycle -- start, use, terminate -- and phones had proper task management this would be visible front-and-center and wouldn't be an issue.

And I don't share this author's view on notifications... most of the messaging delivered to me via notifications is neither urgent nor time-sensitive. Notifications are a nuisance
Technically true, but the smaller the standard deviation of the radius (relative to the mean), the more closely the distribution of masses will approximate a normal distribution.
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I also tech everybody how to disable notifications.

It's not even that I don't want interruptions. I don't want notifications from app X, so that I can be interrupted by relevant ones.
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T-mobile one - they had a promotion for 3 lines for $100 with free iPhone transfer in. Paid off my phones with the gift cards they sent.

I don't burn more than 2gb of data per device as I am mostly on wifi, so I get $10 as kickback. So, it works out to $80/month.
"we must ask ourselves how to monetize truth" WTF does that even mean? "Monetize" "truth"? This just screams BS. Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew
It literally IS having a root component manage state. That's what the Provider class does (enables connect() to populate via a Redux store in context).
There's data in there about educational attainment. It makes a clear distinction between bachelors-or-higher and anything below that. Associate's degrees or just a few courses without completing a program fall into the latter grouping.

But yes, you're right. It's not clear exactly what data is being graphed.
Or selling avocados. People with guns who are used to power are not just going to go home because the lucrative product du-jour is legal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bloody-struggle-erupts-over-avo...
The high cost of SMS in some countries is a big factor, but there are other reasons that many publishers have largely moved off of SMS to push whenever possible:

1. SMS Aggregator+Carrier integrations can be buggy, especially when optimizing for low cost aggregators.

2. Carriers often have filters in place that can block content without the publisher being notified. Unsurprisingly, SMSs that contain URLs frequently get blocked by these filters.

3. Carriers have inconsistent standards when it comes to content, encoding, and even length of SMS messages.

4. It's easy for publishers to track the deliverability and CTR of notifications.
the point is that you've got choices in the private sector. if you don't want the private sector version of donald trump managing your money, then choose someone else.
For an example of this, check out Portugal that legalized and had great success.

I wonder if anyone can point to place where drugs are legalized and violence increased? Where addiction increased?

Seems absurd, yet people don't think the drug war is absurd-- they don't immediately see this takeover of Hanza as the government illegally operating a black market for weeks and thus committing massive crime, and they don't see the shutdown of the market as a further crime violating the rights of the sellers to sell something that morally and practically their buyers should be able to buy (when it comes to drugs anyway)
I feel like what you say is sensible, but that your tone is needlessly derogatory.
Anti-reflective coatings can reduce these reflections.
http://www.falstad.com/ripple/
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In fact, this has been a thing since Android 4.1, released in 2012. Newer versions have more granular controls than just all or nothing.
"We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce" - doesn't anyone have a functioning cliche detector anymore? Maybe my ears are oversensitive but I find this kind of bilge insincere and off-putting. Is it a UK vs US thing? Or am I just getting cranky in old age?
That distribution still has the same median, with half the samples on one side and the other half on the other side.

That looks a lot like a normal distribution even if it's not one.
The EVM is Turing-complete, so this will be a risk with any language that compiles into a smart contract.

Solidity doesn't appeal to me because its goal seems to be on-boarding JavaScript programmers. But new languages that compile to EVM can be easier to use "safely" and you will see several of these in the next few years.

I'm really excited that a project to embed Turing-complete behavior in a blockchain has actually taken off. It's completely insane from one perspective, but completely awesome from another.
These opsec failures that you're talking about are very easy to find in the process of parallel construction.

So that these are the stated reasons is no indication that they are the real reasons.

They are, in fact, so very, very convenient the they smell like parallel construction to me.

Might not be, but they certainly aren't good evidence that parallel construction isn't going on.
Last time I checked this it would store metadata about the passwords in plain text (file and directory names). Did that get fixed yet?
No, it doesn't work that way. One of the other criteria for qualifying as a coffeeshop, is that you obtain a permit from the municipality. Some municipalities simply don't allow any coffeeshops. Coffeeshops also have to be physical stores, and may not advertise.

Also, it's also pretty much at the whim of the public prosecutor whether to close coffeeshops for not upholding the unrealistic 500 gram limit (for the amount of shops in densely populated areas other than Amsterdam).
Or parallel construction. Easy to find after the fact.
The CSS Hunley used this design, to no avail. It's not clear what went wrong but I think the larger point to draw is that such a system requires positive action, with more things to go wrong; it is "fail-deadly". Positive buoyancy and dive planes are "fail-safe" - you stop, you float.
Something was going through their head. For comparison, how many people who are poor enter terms to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of property without having any mortgage or ability to pay or any expectation other than "wheeeeee - that was fun."

I'd wager approximately zero. There is more to the above story. As described, these VC's wasted tons of their own time. How did they even have offices?
That approach has no defense against people who want to declare something true for ideological reasons.
Cosette can prove equivalency but not correctness. Unit testing can't prove correctness either but it can demonstrate that specific conditions are satisfied.

If you have a query 1 that satisfies case a and b but then identify a bug and add case c you can write a query 2 which satisfies a, b and c and indeed Cosette may identify that case as the difference (or not!) but you still have no guarantee that you will not then discover case d which is not satisfied by 1 or 2 or a future 3.
So, let me further qualify this by saying I'm allergic to identity politics, and am waaaaay over on the Objectivist/Libertarian end of the political spectrum.

But I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater here.

Let's take a concrete example: at several large tech. companies, female engineering grads were being paid less than males with equivalent qualifications and skills. Yes, the numbers were aggregated across hundreds (maybe thousands?) of hires and there were most definitely individual exceptions in both directions.

But the overall trend highlighted a problem, which boiled down to a gender difference (again, w/ the 'aggregate statistics' caveat) between negotiating styles when it came to salary. Correcting the approach taken by HR smoothed out the difference over the course of years.

How would that have been noticed, investigated, and addressed w/o having metrics in the first place?

Edited: "It seems like a much better idea to me to evaluate applicants/employees blindly as much as humanly possible and to have a zero-tolerance policy to do otherwise." ... and I agree entirely. The purpose of the metrics is to learn whether you're doing an adequate job of that, _not_ to enable you to treat candidates differently based on their identity.
>I don't try to improve my family as a first-order activity. I will offer help if they ask, but not everybody wants every dinner or vacation to be a discussion of the shortcomings and how to mitigate them or of their strengths and how they need to find more opportunities to use them.

Then again, and I'm just being pedantic here, that's also the case with most companies. It's not the job of most employees to "improve" the company or talk about how its "shortcomings and how to mitigate them" etc. Usually they just have some specific tasks to do, and the other things are more for management.

>I don't try to change the goals of my family. If my daughter wants to go backpack through the wilderness, or my mom wants to move to Vietnam, that's cool.

On the other hand, most people try to influence the goals of their family, e.g. if somebody's kid is a slacker that fails at school and plays videogames all day, they try to get them to shape, etc.

>At work, it's important that we all want (e.g.) the company to grow by 75%+ this year and we need to set goals on how to get there. If my coworkers want to get to profitability instead, it's not an incorrect course of action, but I will debate with them until we're all shooting for the same goal.

I don't think this applies to most employees. It's not at all important that all are agreeing "for the same goal", as management decides those goals.
It's even worse than that. Recent studies have been able to reproduce the text you type by analyzing the sounds emitted by the keyboard[1] and even the ripples produced in the local wifi signal.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis
[2] https://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2015/papers/p90-aliA.pdf
Apparently promising discussions with White House officials rather than any actual talks at the state/city level.

There were some positive comments amongst the reactions:

Anthony McCarthy, the spokesman for the Baltimore mayor, Catherine Pugh, said: “Mr Musk’s announcement on Twitter was the first that the city heard of the Hyperloop project. ” However, Pugh said in a statement that she was “excited” to hear about the idea, which could “create new opportunities for Baltimore and transform the way we link to neighboring cities” – if it becomes a reality.

Similarly, LaToya Foster, the spokeswoman for Washington DC mayor Muriel Bowser, said: “This is the first we heard of it . We can’t wait to hear more.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/20/elon-musk...
Redux is too complex and too many line of code. Most of activity why need redux are async fetch and eventEmitter notification. My advice is try eventEmitter first. If u need more, than jump to redux or mobx. The main reason use redux is if u need time travel
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From what I've heard of the Jobs/PARC visit I don't think I'd characterize it that way. In Walter Isaacson's "The Innovators" he says that Xerox had taken an ownership stake in Apple and some higher-ups decided to give them valuable tech.

Also, Alan Kay had a Quora answer on this:

https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-to-be-at-Xerox-PARC-w...
LOL!

Within 2 years you will be running smart contracts (literal ethereum style solidity) on the bitcoin blockchain, via RSK or other side chains.

Oh, and Ethereum is really poorly engineered... they are just moving fast and breaking things so whenever you point out a problem its planned to be fixed in a few months (which become years)

This is fine for Facebook and google, not fine for a blockchain.