skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demographically, Detroit is currently over 80% black, perhaps only coincidentally similar to the proportion of untested rape kits. Perhaps.

However, Detroit was ~30% white in 1980, 3x what it is today, and untested rape kits surely fed a perception of intractable crime over the intervening years as white flight killed the city.
The comment was unsubstantive and arguably a bit snarky. Those are downvoteable qualities on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm curious about the point of running your own blog instead of hosting on Medium et al. I get that you want to avoid being locked in to a platform that could belly up, but isn't there a big benefit in network effect? Is he just counting on external channels like Twitter to promote his site?
Finally  a cure for fat fingered coding
I think perhaps the biggest problem is the lack of a flat dependency system. So not only does your project depend on isArray, it may depend on 5 different versions of it. The sheer number of deps a seemingly normal React app has is crazy. Especially with webpack, babel, etc.
Because I have a shitty knowledge of Unix :)

Best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong one.
> So really, these instructions are for indexing any mbox-formatted mailbox.

It may not be what you expected, but this is wrong.

The instructions tell you how to download your Gmail emails to mbox format, so they are instructions on how to index your Gmail emails.
Good performance matters if you have decent networking infrastructure or your server has limited resources.

Bandwidth and IP limits are the most common bottle necks, but these can be solved using multiple proxies and ssh tunnels. Colly has built in support for switching proxies [1].

[1] http://go-colly.org/docs/best_practices/distributed/
Update on the Root KSK Rollover Project
> Hm interesting -- what parts of it are tied to Windows?

If I had to guess... I'd say... almost all of it? :-)

I like systems programming in C on NT these days far more than Linux systems programming. Once you've gotten used to how NT does I/O and threading, it's tough to look back. Sure is lonely going against the grain, though.

(Just added a README, in that I copy and pasted some notes I wrote a month or so ago into a text file. I'll add more stuff (you know, like, instructions) soon.)
> Be that as it may why should the poster be downvoted for this?

Because the snide one-liner post wasn't a productive contribution to the discussion. And that would be true whether or not the blogger was prominent.
Maybe the Corporatocracy is inevitable, only with stupid names instead of Weyland-Yutani or OmniCorp.
Not all crypto becomes easy to crack with a quantum computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography

With its use, the scarcity of numbers remain, that is, finding a clash that would allow to forge a transaction stays infeasible, and mining stays hard.

BTW while mining is so important with Bitcoin and Etherium, it's not a necessary part of a cryptocurrency. Mining is an incentive to keep doing blockchain validation. Some currencies exist without it (e.g. NXT).
That's true, but the author has solid reasons for doing so:

> I want my application to work on OS X and Linux, so I’m targeting PF_KEYv2 instead of OS-specific APIs.
Ab-initio quantum chemistry calculations certainly could scale much better on quantum computers -- I skimmed a paper once, which made it sound not easy but definitely worth working on -- and that's bound to help with bioscience once they're big enough. I'm surprised at protein folding or fluid dynamics, though -- what's the general idea on how it'd help with those?

Added: that is, I thought protein conformation energy was pretty well approximated with classical molecular-mechanics models, except during actual chemical reactions, and the difficulty was the sheer amount of time it takes this huge molecule to settle down to an energy minimum that's only a little below that of many alternative conformations. Is the biggest problem rather that we can't efficiently compute a consistent-enough approximation to the energy of a given conformation, so we can't distinguish the best conformation of the ones we simulated?
I guess you're wanting both a more specific and more infectious (or virulent?) word, but: equivocation.
Yes but in some cases, astronomy uses slightly different definitions of key scientific terms: "metal", for example, means anything other than hydrogen or helium.
That's been my experience overseas as well. In fact, I feel that the service in the U.S. is generally worse than the service I get overseas. For instance, it's not uncommon for it to take half an hour between deciding to get the check and finishing the transaction (I've taken to asking for a check mid-meal now). You also get waiters who are unhappy if you don't order enough or don't order alcohol, as well as a territorial nature when it comes to tables that can lead to inefficiencies.

So in addition to worse service, you get stick with the unnecessary burden of having to calculate a tip at the end instead of simply getting a bill and paying for it. If you're paying cash it can be difficult to end up with the exact change you need to pay the tip you want, and if you're splitting the bill it can lead to frustrations when different people want to tip different amounts (or some people calculate the tip wrong).
Homestead is truly excellent!
"Titles are 80% of the work" That's called click-bait.

If you want good advice, follow Jeff Atwood's post on the subject: https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-achieve-ultimate-blog-s...
I wrote this in pure bash as a learning exercise some years ago:

https://github.com/ianmiell/cheapci

it was surprisingly effective, but I capitulated to Jenkins eventually.
In Java land the JDBC driver is supposed to do that. If it doesn't then that's a bug in the driver. If it's a bug in the JDBC driver then the fix needs to go into the JDBC driver, especially if the driver is on GitHub.

The presence of an ORM relying on these bugs should not prevent a bug in the driver from being fixed.
Just today there was this essay/blog on leading German newspaper FAZ showing where censorship-by-law of "hate speech" will lead to.

[1]: http://blogs.faz.net/deus/2017/12/18/erdogans-mob-und-gruene... (in German)

[2]: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
With respect to biological simulations, researchers at IBM were able to implement artificial life algorithms on a quantum computer [0]

Genetic algorithms are similar in some regards to simulated annealing. Apparently, D-Wave's approach is kind of like quantum simulated annealing.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/explaining-the-upsid...
You said "unconstrained", but that's not what this is about. I agree that Twitter has just entered a completely unwinnable situation, and they made a mistake because nothing they do will be balanced by everyone's definition. I'm saying the "it's not violence if it's consensual" point is ridiculous and wrong. Additionally, and perhaps obviously, I was talking about a duel, not a sport [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel
"Marketing"
Any specific projects you are planning to make? Also, what resources are you using to learn?
I think the downvotes are for the lack of contribution from his comment. It was unnecessary and not on topic.
I wrote a reference implementation of OpenEMR, the "OpenEMR Full Stack", that's taking aim at facility-grade loads. It's deployed from Amazon CloudFormation, and the highlights include multi-AZ redundancy, an Elastic Beanstalk deployment fronted with a load balancer running parallel OpenEMR instances in multiple AZs, an internal Route53 domain protected with SSL between nodes, redundant document stores for patient records, and enterprise-grade backup and recovery structures all wrapped up CloudTrail and Amazon's Key Management System.

https://github.com/openemr/openemr-devops/tree/master/packag...
I have. That's why I said "modern".
I think you're misinterpreting the content of that page.

the same source says $1000-$1500 per kit

http://www.endthebacklog.org/backlog/why-backlog-exists

I'm not exactly sure what the meaning of the $8000 savings statistic on the page you linked refers to.
We've known for quite awhile that WPAD/PAC is a problem and supporting it by default is even worse. Exploiting browsers via JavaScript:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vegxj5a1Rw

Rendering JavaScript and other bad things that are apparently still embargoed in the context of an HTTP 407 with WPAD/PAC being one vector to get in the middle:

http://www.falseconnect.com/
I think you misunderstood the $8893, which is how much was saved by testing the kits in Cleveland.
Control of your content matters. If your platform of choice becomes 'sourceforged' you will have no choice but to move losing all links to your content. It also helps to know for sure that nothing underhanded is happening with respect to malware or tracking with your visitors.
The things that clicked last for me were the nitty-gritty of the transaction structure and scripting system.

It also took some time to understand the cypherpunk roots of Bitcoin.
We (Pixie Labs) have been using Dependabot for a month or two now. Here four reasons why, as a small team with a bunch of codebases to look after, we <3 them:

1. Their pre-sales support was great and they went out of their way to accommodate our requirements.
2. You can get ongoing support from them by @ing the bot in a PR (and they reply inline!).
3. It drip-feeds you updates (5 a day), so a really old project is still manageable.
4. The PR message contains links to release notes, changelog, and actual commits, for the library in question. This is such a time save (and reveals how many OSS projects don't have decent changelogs).
And it gets worse: Apple discontinued all of their iPods except the one that looks like an iPhone because they want everyone to buy their expensive watch instead. And phones still seem to get bigger every year. We're approaching a point where options here don't even exist. (There are other options, not as pretty and small but fairly good. But Apple tends to set the trend so we're basically doomed :b). I'm hoping we'll see more products like the Mighty, or maybe some Android Wear devices that aren't wristwatches (I already have a wristwatch, thank you). But seems like a faint hope.

I lost my iPod Shuffle through a boardwalk last month, decided I didn't feel like crawling through a puddle full of discarded needles in 5°C to get it back, and almost regretted the decision when I discovered they are selling used on Amazon for about $170.
I think the most disturbing thing about this is that there are even 800 serial rapists in one single county, even if it's over a 30-35 year period. That's around 25 serial rapists a year in that one county, which is kind of extraordinary when you think about it. Serial rapists are supposedly incredibly rare. They say that in nearly every case it's someone that the victim knows. This makes me think twice about that. And these are just the ones they identified! And in just one county! I have a young daughter and information like this kind of terrifies me.
Not every unused rape kit implies that the case wasn't solved. You can solve rape cases without rape kits.
This is a good case of how two important ideas are being conflated to the detriment of the larger lesson to be learned, I think. As far as I can tell, Prosecutor Worthy is making two arguments: (1) Black (assume PoC approx. equals black in this context) rape victims are treated differently than white ones. She bases this on the fact that 86% of unsolved victim cases are from black people (compared to ~40% of the population being black, I don't have the exact figure, took this from danielvf's comment above). (2) That economic class also plays a role in the discrepancy, although this point seems to be less important to her.

The "not going to find too many blond-haired, blue eyed white women" comment is unfortunate, not only because this uses a stereotype but also because it seems she doesn't have the data for this.

The 40% vs 86% discrepancy is staggering, but it would be interesting to verify analytically how class plays a role. I would be extremely surprised if a wealthy black person's rape kit were treated differently than a similar white person in this county. And compare that with other poor, mostly white counties across the nation.

They key, I think, here is class, rather than race. NOT that race is not important, but that can't be the 99% of teh story, as implied here. Cornel West makes this point more bluntly in his recent criticism of Ta-Nehisi Coates (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/17/ta-neh...).
I want to condemn this as too broad reaching, and as hard-to-justify censorship.

Then again, I also don't want to keep seeing things like death threats, bullying, and general hate-laden vitriol. Seriously, look up some of the tweets aimed at August Ames and tell me that's OK in any forum.

Ultimately, I have to fall on the side of moderation in this case. A free-for-all forum has been tried, and it has failed us.
> How we end up in situation when huge portion of hacker community turned out to be die hard socialists?

It must be all those years of reducing marginal costs of production to tiny fractions of their previous values and then seeing absolutely no benefit from it going to our friends and family.

Not that I'm a socialist. I used to be right-libertarian. Now I'm more of an anarchist, but pragmatic about it. I simply don't believe that the problems caused by concentrated power can be adequately solved by believing in concentrated power. I also don't believe that anything I say or do can have any noticeable impact on global politics. That frees me to do the best I can do in my local arena, without the rest of the world somehow being my problem to solve.

As I see it, the onus is on the wealthy to distribute the fruits of the economy that they have taken, far in excess of what they can use themselves. If they don't, the rest of us will eventually murder them. Maybe not you or me, but someone. We can suggest fixes like UBI, debate their merits, and provide detailed, foolproof plans that might avert that bloody and grisly demise, but the cycle repeats until someone that has the power elects to diffuse it permanently. Otherwise, the challenger just claims the one ring and becomes the new tyrant. From my perspective, either some key elements of socialism happen, or I may have to join a torches-and-pitchforks mob, storm the castle, and maybe kill someone. Maybe the survivors get what they want immediately, or maybe they have to wait for the pigs to start walking around on two legs, and then try again.

I don't really want to kill rich people, but I'm sure there are a few of them out there that could be vastly improved by a good murderin', and I could probably live with the guilt of it, so long as they're enough of an asshat. I can rationalize a whole lot against someone who thinks people earning $7.50/hr shouldn't have access to affordable health care. Or even houses or food.
That's an interesting accusation but without anything to back it up it's hard to assign much value to it do you have a sample of such a case?
Angel or Devil: Who’s Really Investing in Your Startup?
"Organic" as chiefly of biological origin? Yeah.

"Organic" as occurs in nature and beneficial for plants? Sure.

"Organic" as compound containing carbon? Yes.

"Organic" as compound with at least one carbon-hydrogen bond? Nope.

"Organic" as a compound with a significant number of carbon atoms? Nope.
Nah, there's only one person who pushes that theory and he is known to use sockpuppets.
To this point I talked with my Republican parents about this they were not very informed about what Net Neutrality was but they liked the idea of less regulations. I explained how it would allow the "Washington Post" to strike a deal with Comcast to be the exclusive low tier news site for so you would only be able to access "fox news" and "drugg report" if you paid for a higher tier plan. They did not like the idea anymore.
What can be improved on this site?
why does it support $1000? if I launder 1 dollar, I buy a bitcoin and sell a bitcoin, so why does it support any particular stable value?
I haven't either, but saying that apparently counts as snarky and snide here.
Run the code snippet below to prove to yourself that a Ruby process can get its memory usage.

print File.readlines('/proc/self/status').select {|line| line =~ /VmRSS/}[0]

This is not what people mean when they talk about memory profiling, but it looked like what you were talking about, so I thought I'd share it.
Read the whitepaper.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It's not a pro or con article, but it's the most cogent description of Bitcoin you'll find.
KeepassXC is the active fork of KeepassX. KeepassX/C are cross-platform Qt apps that use the same vault format as Keepass, a Windows app that apparently will run under Mono as well.
I used to use a Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox installed as my main music device. I would highly suggest one of those if they weren't discontinued and now kinda pricey for what they are.

I would say if you really need FLAC support, go for one and put Rockbox on there. Otherwise, I'd be interested to know how good the new Sansa Clip models are.
Create a feature branch, revert the revert, and then fix the problem. It sounds a little weird but it works fine.
I think you're underestimating the transfer of wealth caused by colonialism.
Everything inside me is screaming "for the love of god, stop drinking diet coke". No need to even think of alternatives.
You could also use an alternative CLI for git. My preferred one is hg-git.

I'm sort of kidding, but not really. By using it, I can operate on a git repo using the mercurial CLI, which I am more comfortable with and have built tooling around.

Once you have the extension installed, it's a matter of prepending 'git+' to the beginning of eg a github url to clone it, and then you can use native mercurial commands.

Obviously, this is an extra layer with all of the problems that involves (eg you're going to be managing git branches through an hg interface. Which works surprisingly well most of the time.) So this makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER unless (1) you are comfortable with the hg interface, (2) you aren't that comfortable with the git interface, and (3) you don't need to do complex operations that would require thinking through the layers of what is happening.

Honestly, though, if I want to contribute to a github repo, this gives me everything I need 95% of the time. So far, the only time I ran into trouble was when the active branch was renamed in the github repo. Things got very tangled up, and I had to re-clone and import my patch stack. Judging by the number of people talking about making "backups" of git repos in this comment section, it doesn't sound like that's an unexpected operation in git-land. With mercurial's immutable and append-only nature, I very very rarely need to do this, so it felt kind of awful.

(Admittedly, my main hg repo that I work on is 6GB and I'm normally near the limit of my disk space, so my habits don't really match your typical megabyte-sized github repo in some noncompiled language.)
Shor's algorithm for integer factorization predates any quantum computers capable enough to do integer factorization faster than classical computers. I'm wondering if there are quantum-computer algorithms for improved biological/climate simulations that, likewise, just await large scale practical quantum computers before they become useful.
Does paramilitary count as military? Do revolutionary movements count as government entities?
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It's only click-bait if the headline is a lie. A great headline for great content is a win-win.
Imagine a Ferengi/HAL9000 hybrid: "I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in this quarter's projections."
> But to enable this "revert-first" culture, you have to design your commits to basically be super easy to revert. That means no merges in the master branch, you want to keep your revision history as clean as possible.

How are these concepts related to each other? Merges don't make reverting any harder.
Don't know why this is downvoted. If the title is the hardest part of professional blogging, then the content must be relatively vapid.
It's $1.15b[1] and most likely to be the result of incoming USD wires. The Tether USD in circulation accounts for 0.36%[2] of the Bitcoin (BTC) market cap.

- [1] http://omniexplorer.info/ask.aspx?api=getpropertytotaltokens...

- [2] https://coinmarketcap.com/
>Joel Test step 12 is more or less

That's brilliant!

"grab random people in your hallway and see if they approve of the new developer you hired" - HR

"grab random people in your hallway and see if they approve of the fan choice for the new cafeteria's HVAC system " - Building Management

"grab random people in your hallway and see if they approve of the calculations in the spreadsheets that the company CFO produced". - Finance department.

Hey, I think you're on to something here. We could eliminate entire departments here ! :)
I don’t understand this opinion. We know it’s trajectory.
Nice distraction. When so many other frightening issues are all around us.
No it isn't. It's responding to the claim that China is a terrible protectionist place and the US has to make them stop, which implies that the US has the moral high ground here.
Or just DIY with this:

http://www.leevalley.com/us/wood/page.aspx?cat=1,42936,42452...
There's also nothing to keep you from cross-posting to Medium for at least some posts. I find I get some incremental traffic off Medium (and it's sometimes a better place to publish for various reasons), but generally having your own personalized blog is better IMO assuming you write with any frequency.
What does that even mean
>people in the world who wants more government, more authority, more religion

Strange characterization of an author pointing out a form of authoritarianism.
The network effect is pretty hit-and-miss, just like promoting your own stuff on social media.
>These concepts are far from unheard of.

Sure, and not doing any of that isn't a "terrible sign" as the OP claimed. Which is the point I'm countering.
The price on the web site is for the pencil, not the book.
They make claims that Tether are 1:1 redeemable with USD.
It's not any old county. Wayne County is the most populous county in the state. It includes the city of Detroit and much of the surrounding metro area.
> As another commenter noted, the 86% of victims being people of color roughly matches the demographics of the city.

Not at the time the kits were collected, it doesn't.
Your comment was also trolling: I would have avoided the leading question and just commented on the probable negative interpretation the some CLI users might make of the comment.
Yeah, basically Twitter's version of the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. You are only allowed to murder people if you agree with our politics.
> Titles are 80% of the work

If you writing fluff sure, but if your writing great content the title is less important. Good work sells itself. 90% content 10% title just my 0.02.
Governments can only limit exchanges, maybe fine or prosecute miners but they can't control the exchange market in other countries, they can't ban transactions between two peers, they can't takeover your funds and more importantly they can't issue more currency to paid their loans.

Sounds like a libertarian paradise but these also comes with double edge since it leaves his citizens without consumer protections, makes value speculative to trading volume therefore subject to foreign control and limits the government enforcing power.

The market is free, exchanges aren't.
+1 VSTS. You also get 240 minutes of build agent time free per month. Their hosted Mac agents are in preview right now.
Not every exchange has perfect withdrawal to fiat methods. Wex.nz doesn't have the facility to move fiat to a bank account. Bitfinex you cannot withdraw USD others only allow EUR withdrawals etc.