skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you are saying is troubling because it shows that many people really don't understand what it is that we call racist -- and it's not studies like these. I am a radical leftist (and a radical feminist) and I do not consider a statistical assertion such as "black people in the US are significantly overrepresented among those who commit violent crimes" at all as racist. What is racist (not just "labeled" racist; we usually "label" as racist things that are actually racist[1]) are various conclusions -- often hinted and sometimes explicitly stated -- that simply do not follow from the data according to any reasonable scientific standard and make claims about certain causes of such an effect.

[1]: Though not necessarily xenophobic; the difference between the two confuses many people, as does the difference between sexist and misogynistic. Xenophobia and misogyny imply a certain intent, a certain feeling of resentment towards other races, cultures and genders, while racism and sexism are merely actions or inactions -- usually unintentional and sometimes even well-meaning -- that serve to increase or maintain the current disparity in power among different groups. While I don't like applying the terms sexist and racist to people, as they're best applied to actions, laws, rules, institutions etc., we can apply them to those who do racist/sexist things. I know I'm racist and sexist, and I can assume you are, too. If you spend some time learning about those concepts, you know it is very much expected for people in racist/sexist societies to be racist and sexist, and it takes active effort to fight them. People should not be offended that they're racist and sexist, just as they should not be offended to learn that they may be carrying and spreading germs that cause infectious diseases, although I'm sure many were insulted to be "labeled" as disease-spreading when microbes were first discovered. Once you understand those "labels" aren't insults but well-researched observations, you know you shouldn't be offended by them, but you should learn to identify racist/sexist behaviors and prevent them, just as you learned to wash your hands.
Article says a year.
I've got a friend who, over the years, has consistently forwarded e-mails to me: many were funny and a majority were politically biased toward the conservative end of the spectrum. Last election his forwarding of articles that were factually incorrect increased severely to the point that I would read the subject and a few sentences and then discard them.

I was surprised that he didn't check out his sources or information before forwarding information: snopes.com and other sites are so readily available and easy to use. I even suggested casually one day how he could check internet rumors with snopes, and he listened, but only muted his forwarding awhile.

So I set up a rule routing his e-mail to a separate folder that I check occasionally. I keep the good jokes and flush the fake news. Nonetheless I find it useful for keeping a finger on him and others who are seriously misled or subject to rumors. That way, I know something of what they think and I can still talk to them w/o being shocked.

I don't want to refuse someone as a person b/c they're not particularly bright or b/c they are unable to navigate the internet sufficiently to check what is true/false. This way I know a little of what they're thinking on current events and can approach them w/o offending them. And I get to hear the good jokes, which I cannot resist!
Too harsh a penalty I'd say.
An Elasticsearch plugin to control the data that is getting updated
If you keep your wealth as cash, it will get wiped out over time by inflation.

Now let’s imagine that you have enough money to buy 4 houses in a city/location you want to live in for the long term. I would say that’s pretty low risk because your cost of living is going to be roughly the same as what you can earn by renting out your 4 houses. I.e. you’ll be able to live off your rental income forever.

Therefore there are investment strategies that aren’t equivalent to gambling.
AI won't make coders unemployed. It will simply create a new type of job, like tensor flow programmers. This is same as C++ programmers who some way generate assembly code by using a tool called compiler.
You mean Amazon as the Amazon river..?
Your note is good in general, but for this particular case, note this is an immediate mode GUI library. I.e. the kind of stuff that's primarily used in videogames. A typical game (or supporting tool) where this is included would already be not accessible (imagine playing e.g. an RTS with a screen reader).
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As mentioned in the article, the relationship between most of the social goods and resource use is complicated. Education requires a certain percentage of the workforce to be teachers, the management of a sufficiently large organization, a bunch of buildings and moving of students around, etc, each of which in turn requires a set of other things. It would be incredibly difficult- and the authors don't try- to trace all of these all the way back and get a final accounting of the natural resources being used. But if you don't do that, neither can you say that they don't require a certain amount of natural resources. Education might turn out to be as resource-intensive as the airline industry, somehow.

Tl;dr I guess, "no direct ties to environmental resources" != "no significant environmental resource requirements."

On the other hand, of course, the whole article is observational based on existing societies with present-day technology; change society or the available technology, and resource requirements would presumably also change (also in ways we don't know.)
On reddit there is some kind of consensus that the series is great up until around episode 7, when it gets from bad to worse.

I personally did read about half the book until I lost interest. So I guess the series and the book have that in common. Anyway, from what I've read the series is more or less true to the book, except from episode 7 when even I could notice some major differences (mainly the nature and motivations of the envoys).
Resizing tmux panes
Bar brawls between consenting adults.
There's the what and the why. I think gp comment was suggesting that the what is often mixed up with the why.

We shouldn't be afraid of getting statistics, but you're indeed correct that you must consider other factors when it comes to interpretation.
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
-Socrates
You hope that’s not what the commenter is saying, but what is your proposal instead?

We can put significant effort into understanding criminals, for the purposes of both preemptive treatment and reactive rehabilitation, but this is not likely to eradicate crime. What do you suppose we should do with criminals who continue to commit violent or disruptive crimes in perpetuity?

To clarify, I think the system could improve: extremely long sentences may not need to be issued for first time offenders, even if they are very serious. But I don’t think the system can remove permanent sentences if criminals exhibit a clear predilection that is resistent to all known forms of treatment.
Pi-hole is absolutely the way to go. Not only for the ad-blocking, but for checking to see where your devices 'phone home' to (and optionally blocking that, too).

I've got it running in a Linux container on a Turris Omnia and it blocks over 90% of requests, with nothing to install on the devices.
Well, I was thinking of all these people who are getting away with their crimes. I mean, "smart" criminals don't get caught, right? Specifically, I was thinking about the very rich who are offshoring their money to tax havens (see Panama Papers) but of course, they are not criminals. After all, they're not convicted, and innocent until proven guilty, and hey its tax avoidance not tax evasion.

Which is a double standard; if I'd steal an iPhone from the tax avoiding Apple then that's theft. Heck they even mention that the price includes all kind of levies such as environmental and taxes. Yet when they steal from my government (who represent me) then that's totally fine? Or, if someone would operate a client computer from a country where piracy is illegal, but the server would be hosted in a country where piracy is legal, then suddenly the whole act is illegal even though the computer who executes the commands is allowed to.

I don't have the numbers, so I'm very curious what's more damaging: tax avoidance or piracy. I've even seen criminal acts like mass selling pirated DVDs being also tax evasion. Yet all the crap within the Panama Papers is not? How that does rhyme?

Furthermore it doesn't appear like anyone in power cares enough about tax avoidance in order for it to be solved (we, as in civilians of governments from all over the world, are missing out on a massive amount of tax dollars).
Thank you. I think I’ll remain with Jekyll and middleman for now as I am quite familiar with both.
Thanks for your feedback. I do try to control the tone of my comments on this subject, because I get emotional about it, but I know a vitriolic comment isn't helpful. Still, I find it hard to moderate the scope of my advice. Several years ago, a blind acquaintance of mine briefly lost his job because some developer didn't pay enough attention to accessibility in an application that he was required to use. His employer re-hired him shortly afterward, because they found another role for him. But in the interim, he went through all the feelings associated with losing one's job, and he was lucky to regain employment so soon. I don't ever want anyone to go through that again because some developer used an inaccessible GUI toolkit, even if that toolkit was meant only for games. That's why I'm as vocal as I am here.
Not a career / repeat criminal. You can still very much be a criminal, embezzler, murderer and so on -- e.g. a cheated spouse "on the heat of passion".
Nothing is being created. You're right, it is completely a gamble, unless you have some form of (not necessarily illegal) insider knowledge. But capitalists love the art of stock gambling because it gives the feeling that is related to something productive (a business). And they also perfected the art of extracting money from society (pension funds, retirements, sovereign funds) to fuel these stock-trading activities. So it is very lucrative for a small group, a little over inflation for many people, and a big loss for a lot of less fortunate investors. It also help concentrate business in the hand of a few, because if you have lots of money you can buy the advice of the best money managers and let the small investors bear the losses.
> Studies like this are hard, because they're usually labeled 'racist', or it turns into an ad hominem attack on the authors, or struck down in the media for singling out some minority group.

I think you’re confusing studies with conclusions. What you’re describing doesn’t happen but what is common are studies finding a correlation which leads to someone claiming causation and then complaining when they’re criticized.

As an example, in the US it’s uncontested that some populations have worse academic performance. That doesn’t get criticized seriously. What does get criticism is when a right-wing commenter tries to say that this must be because of genetic causes or the popular euphemism “culture” – and that criticism is well deserved since that ignores all of the other explanations and checks which actual science would require and goes straight to the same conclusion which avowed racists have been pushing for centuries.
Wow, a lot of this (especially when she gets to dropping many brand names at once) reads almost uncannily like a George Saunders story
Insurance as an API
in other words, 99% of people are mostly peaceful.
Well if you harbour cyber criminals and refuse to extradite they made their bed they have to lay on it
Yep, I noticed it too. Clever.

Specifically, we do have evidence that Russia successfully penetrated some US state voter rolls:

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/372816-russia-succes...
>What you are saying is troubling because it shows that many people really don't understand what it is that we call racist -- and it's not studies like these. I am a radical leftist (and a radical feminist) and I do not consider a statistical assertion such as "black people in the US are significantly overrepresented among those who commit violent crimes" at all as racist.

You might not, but lots of people do -- and publicly say so.
I've only read the book, haven't seen the series. I wonder if I'm alone in my opinion - the book has a great storyline, great setting, ideas and concepts, but all the interactions seem to be heavy-handed sarcasm, and that gets old. It's almost like someone put a sarcasm Instagram filter, or applied style transfer to pretty much every interaction. I mean I get it, it's supposed to be gritty and noire - however, "edgy" (just like spicy) can't be the only flavor in a dish.
In the long term crime is falling even in Baltimore and Chicago. The short term trends are probably the result of police learning to cope with abrupt, significantly increased scrutiny in those cities.
As a relative newcomer, the most frustrating thing for me about settling into the Java ecosystem is the frequent breaking changes and inevitable dependency conflicts that result.

Breaking changes are sometimes a necessary evil. But they don't belong on minor releases. There should really be a stronger community standard that package maintainers sit on their hands and simply deprecate calls they want to get rid of until they can sweep them up in the next major release. It's also not cute to abuse semantic versioning by incrementing the major version number several times a year. (I'm looking at you, Guava.) That sort of stuff might be fine if a packages were relatively isolated affairs, but then the rest of the ecosystem doesn't really do anyone any favors by pulling in deep hierarchies of transitive dependencies that make it very difficult to limit one's exposure to the bad players. And then the build tools get to pile on and (as Maven does, at least) default to unpredictable dependency conflict resolution rules that obfuscate any latent problems.

I suppose it's no wonder that Java's the only place I've ever seen something like package relocation. But, at the same time, that practice has got to be the most distressing code smell I've encountered in my career to date.

Hopefully Java 9 makes some of this better (we're not ready to upgrade to it, yet), but I can't shake the feeling that this stuff really shouldn't have to have been such a hassle in the first place.
Beautifully parsed and simplified.
Funny, I say my cheap, 2 year old, $60 huawei phone die a couple of months ago. At the end it was emitting weird sounds from its speaker. It would not boot properly anymore.
Are you talking about this place?

http://www.heidelberg-village.de/

I’m not totally up on my passive house knowledge but it seems to me that the passive house community might have some complaints about this block of pretty conventional looking apartments calling themselves passive houses. I see no effort at all in controlling summer thermal gain [except for some extremely narrow solar awnings]. Are they using special window coatings?

Edit: and my god, all of the floor to ceiling windows in their publicity shots are on a street that faces southwest. Of course it’s gonna be hot in the summer. And those trees won’t solve the problem for thirty years.
They only have a vague sense, but they don't understand the direct consequences of specific actions.

There's also a belief in the false idea that, "they already have all of my data, so there is nothing I can do about it."

It's arguable that one needs a mobile phone to participate in modern life (and the situation with mobile phones requires fixing as well). It is not arguable that people need to be able to talk to a box that makes them a coffee or turns on a light. I think that most people would not choose the IoT device if they really understood how it works.
Pretty normal in Norway, just reversed. But I’ve never seen the window version. Usually the a/c unit is mounted on the outside wall and a hole is drilled in the wall to bring in the hose to the unit inside.
lots of propaganda is completely faked, especially in controlled populations when you don't have to worry about following real events, you can just make them up to get the reaction you want.
Did you read the abstract? Race isn't one of the characteristic they took into account.
If it is shallow than maybe it should not be called deep? :)
> insulation and air tightness afford the house the property of staying the same temperature on the inside regardless of the temperature on the outside, more or less.

But how is that initial temperature determined? If the house is built in a area during a time of year where the average air temperature is about 85F, then will the house always be too hot? How does it get cool (or hot) in first place?
Hitting or smacking? Smacks are a very limited subset of hits.
ALICE – Can your application recover from a power loss event?
Stocks are an entitlement to a future income stream, created by a the real business of the company being invested in. It's just that there's a lot of levels of indirection.
Wow! This is the first time I'm seeing a project having two licenses. MIT and unlicense. You can choose whichever you want.
I don't think it is that far out that an ex soldier that literally had their personality deconstructed is a bit jaded.
'...so if you get past your teens without criminality you seem to not become a criminal'

'Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man'

There is a lot of truth in this. When I think back to my childhood there were always a few kids who were just bad.

They came from the same background, had the same advantages, and so on but there was still something evil about them.

Typical behaviours included stuff like sadistic cruelty to animals, bullying , random violence and vandalism with no real logic or reason to why they would act in such a manner?

It could be explained away by saying something would be going on behind the scenes at home but (in these few cases) I really don't believe it.

Of course, from as far as I can remember, all these people went on to be criminals of one sort or another in adulthood.
That’s the opposite: Stephen Pinker’s opinions are not scientific just because he’s a scientist, and nobody’s opinions are free from criticism – especially criticism for being presented as science-y but not measuring up to the standards of actual science.
I certainly disagree the nature of human experience precludes ideal understanding.

My point is the comment suggests almost an egocentric process, i.e. modeling a system in our own image, when actually it’s explained by simple ignorance.
> "Xenophobia and misogyny imply a certain intent, a certain feeling of resentment towards other races, cultures and genders"

Xenophobia means "fear of outsiders" and misogyny means "hatred or contempt of women". There's nothing implied or indirect about either.
Hey everyone, author of the library here.

There's a live JS demo of this you can try for yourself at https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js which demonstrates the audible and ultrasonic modes.

The JS version is compatible with the Android version. There's also iOS ( https://github.com/quiet/QuietModemKit ) and C ( https://github.com/quiet/quiet ) which interop as well.

The throughput you can get changes depending on conditions. Across a cable, you can achieve about 64kbps. Across a short air gap, about 3-4 kbps. Across a room, you can maintain 5 bps or so. There's no capacity negotiation/detection, instead you preconfigure using a modem profile.

A good demonstration of Quiet's flexibility can be seen here https://quiet.github.io/quiet-profile-lab
Also the minor ethical quandary of incarcerating 3.5 billion innocent people. :)
I vaguely recall that experts consider artificial neural networks to be a very gross approximation of biological ones. They often state that one reason we don't have AI today is that we don't really know how the brain and the neurons it is made of work.

Then I wonder : how does openworm deal with that lack of knowledge? Is there any chance progress in modeling C. Elegans could be used to improve machine learning?
Vim. And I say to the grandparent, what makes you say emacs is past its prime? And if it is, why should that mean you shouldn't use it? If it's powerful enough for you to do what you want to do and do it effeciently then what does it matter even if there are 5 other people using it (and there are a lot more than that!).
>I am not being uncharitable. I am asking whether the poster has analyzed the number of studies in the USA, structured as carefully as this one, and found that they are in fact labelled racist more than 50% of the time. And if so, by whom.

What you're asking is not just uncharitable, it doesn't even make sense (even if it was possible).

It's also irrelevant to what the parent said, which is not a quantified claim that such studies are "labelled racist more than 50% of the time", but a casual "usually labelled racist".

In casual conversation "usually" doesn't mean some hard 50% + c, any more so than "often" and "a lot of times".
“We must stop glorifying intelligence and treating our society as a playground for the smart minority. We should instead begin shaping our economy, our schools, even our culture with an eye to the abilities and needs of the majority, and to the full range of human capacity.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/485618/
It's worth reading if you like the cyberpunk genre for sure.
Living in Austria we have very strict building regulations and a lot of insulation and despite of this there are more and more air conditioners because it’s so hot outside in summers now that even nights are too hot. No insulation in the world can fix that, especially if heat is also created inside.
But you don't want people who currently aren't committing crimes to begin doing so. Who's to say that the current deterred subset of the population won't begin to commit crimes if our style of punishment is changed?
Cell phones have only existed since the 80's... "smart phones" have existed since the 90s - back in a day when Palm, Nokia, Windows and Blackberry ruled...

http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2015/6/28/some-...

10 years ago? As far as cell phones go? Most definitely the "Dark Ages"... Considering we are moving into a time frame when watches are starting to have cell connectivity:

https://www.lifewire.com/smartwatches-with-cellular-connecti...

Where are we going to be 5 years from now? 10? 20? Compare the Treo and BlackBerry to the current iPhone X, Note 8, etc...
The Cranky Developer Manifesto
Most residential windows lift bottom up but we also have the other kind. Makes cleaning much easier.
It is unrealistic now - but that will change. Also 'unrealistic' is quite different from 'not going at the heart of the problem'.
It's really a godsend. include it and you're done.
What is the concrete benefit of simplicity in this context, and how do you quantify whatever that benefit is?

Becaue the cost is both clear and intensive: Depriving a human being of liberty for additional years or decades. This should be done only when absolutely neccessary, should it not? We disapprove of imprisonable offenses intensely, but these are still human beings, with rights. It seems to me a humane system does not inflict thousands of cumulative additional incarceration years merely to keep the implementation of justice “simple.”
Scientific instrument device drivers and software with network and data reduction libraries to coordinate their activities and data collection in different locations on the planet.
SureFly tries to reinvent the helicopter