skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweden is as diverse as the US, or more so.
More likely people uploading themselves into a virtual world, securing the planetary data center and dialating time to feel like everyone lives forever in the manner of their choosing.
Power law is everywhere in the world. It's gonna be 1% of scientists producing vast majority of worthwhile discoveries, 1% of founders building the biggest companies, and 1% of those companies owning most of their markets...

We may like equality but Nature likes the power law.
Well, it has had a massive influx of Middle Easterners in recent years but this study dates from 2004.
Employees/vendors/contractors are usually under surveillance for their work activities. That's accountability.
Could you reach out to me? I'm in the market and would be able to beta test.
We are FUBAR'd, why deal with mics and smart speakers when you can sell privacy-invading Wi-Fi routers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LTr02cJkiA
> The old word of "fake news" is propaganda.

No, they are different by a matter of degree. Propaganda is all about spin, context, and stretching the truth. Stuff that actually happened but is presented in a mis-represented and misleading fashion. Fake news is completely fabricated and entirely fictional.
Existe um corta-mato para acabar com a pobreza em Moçambique antes de 2030?
How a snake mysteriously swallowed N36M from vault in Makurdi's JAMB office
1.) Violent crime is a rare event (in post-WW2 European societies), so the proportion of offenders is rather small. 2.) One time offenders have a hard time getting their feet on the ground after being released from prison. Without appropriate support & back in their old networks, they often have few alternatives than going down that road again. IMHO that's not exactly news. I personally find it slightly surprising that only about one quarter of people committing violent crimes become repeat offenders. This rate is actually lower than what I would have estimated. I thought the number would be about one half. Maybe we should reconsider the effectiveness of our penal system and think of other ways to deal with violent crime that helps offenders not to become repeat offenders.
Interesting how similar the distribution of criminality is to the distribution of wealth, in which the top 1% own a bit over half.

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-ri...
Studies that don’t take into account socio-economics are, in fact, racist.

When you control for income and wealth, particularly intergeneraltional, racial differences disappear.
Definitely agree :)

By large sums, I was mostly thinking 100k+
That's because it's half of the population. Also, the stronger and more aggressive half which presents a very serious practical obstacle: who would lock them up?
venting appliances that create heat is not done anywhere as far as i know. the refrigerator is the main appliance that needs this because it is essentially a heat pump that runs all the time. insulating it well and venting its hot side is very simple conceptually and is completely doable.

not venting heat generating appliances inside the house is a design flaw and does not follow passive house principles. because nobody addresses this problem, i do consider almost all passive houses to be incorrectly designed and implemented.

the reason why this problem is not addressed is because some degree of cooling capacity is usually present and can keep the house cool despite this flaw. the heat load from the appliances is relatively small and so it is overlooked -- small compared the loads encountered in old-style houses. also, heat generating appliances are a benefit during the winter, so the problem only exists half of the time.

in an ideal system, all heat generated by all systems in and around the house would be channeled and utilized correctly. we are coming closer to that goal.
That’s patently false.
We're already at or very close to "peak child". There are about two billion children in the world, a figure we don't expect to ever significantly increase. We expect the population to grow to between 9 and 11 billion

Who's "we" in this context? Because every time someone makes one of these predictions the human race blows through it and keeps going. I wouldn't be surprised if we reach 20Bn. I expect it only to be curtailed by environmental catastrophe.

Unless you're willing to volunteer yourself or your child as a sacrifice

I'm child-free, so I can look at this objectively.
Prison is a deterrent, certainly, but it also exists to keep violent folks away from the rest of society so they can't do more harm.
I was thinking about people who went to college circa early 2000s, which is the population which graduated into the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Despite the fact that you couldn't avoid hearing the truth about your financial prospects, you also couldn't avoid hearing outright falsehoods from well-intentioned friends and family members. I know plenty of baby boomers who were basically kicked out of the house at 18, paid for college + rent + food + books with a part-time job, and thought that the best way for their children to have the same chance at life was to take on student loans.
Thanks for the link.

Why not two files, one a header and one an implementation? The difference between 10 files and 9 files is not a big deal, but the difference between 2 files and 1 file is a big deal. You don't need to zip or tar the files up, you don't have to remember to attach two files, etc.

I'm still not convinced. I am convinced about a .c and .h -- that's how sqlite does it. Going to just a .h seems to provide negligible benefit and confuses the implementation and interface. It probably confuses a lot of tools too, e.g. source navigation tools, code coverage, code instrumentation, etc.
"Studies like this are hard, because they're usually labeled 'racist',"

Please provide some factual, quantified basis for this statement.
Yea, I bought a smart Sony LED TV in 2011 with inbuilt Youtube. TV still works excellent, but Sony/Google had to retire the youtube app.

Guess it was because it couldn't support Ads?
> exceedingly effective at dissuading the sort of people who designed and operate the system from committing crime

More like the people who designed and operate the system consider everything they do legal and only criminalize the activity of people not like them.
The author may praise efficiency, but seems not to understand it, for the reasons pointed above.
Indeed there are some quirks in VS 2015 even in C#, like writing a function as a generator isn't as pleasant as it could be. Haven't tried VS 2017 yet. I think we're a little spoiled on .NET though, we've forgotten how bad debugging is in other languages!
> I remember reverse engineering the protocol and error correction mechanisms (it was a varient of the Reed-Solomon algorithm iirc)

Wow! Do you have a write up, or code? I tried to do the same [1], but got stuck on the error correction [2]. I'd love to get closure.

1. https://github.com/moreati/chirppy
2. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/663643/discover-par...
That's not accountability to the people at risk. Trust me, you do not want to have to go to the courts for damages, especially if they were completely nonmonetary...
Existe um corta-mato para acabar com a pobreza em Moçambique antes de 2030?
Existe um corta-mato para acabar com a pobreza em Moçambique antes de 2030?
http://www.vamobita.com/existe-um-corta-mato-para-acabar-com-a-pobreza-em-mocambique-antes-de-2030/
Indeed, rust is amazing. Much thx to the likes of you for putting in those hours.
> Are there techniques that can be applied to help folks who lack high cognitive abilities to see and understand that they’re being manipulated?

Or to help ourselves see that? I think it would be a mistake if everyone who read this assumed it was simply a problem with the other side (“See, I told you they were all idiots”). Nate Silver has made a good case that the media's focus on the Comey letter non-story was one of the main factors for Clinton's loss, and it's hard to not see a connection between their refusal to look at their own reporting and their sudden focus on "fake news." Just this week I ran into an NPR fact checker claiming "It’s true that an immigrant can sponsor extended family members for visas"[1] (in context, talking about immigration visas), when that seems to not be the case at all[2].

It's true that shoddy journalism is different from intentional manipulation, but the line between the two is often blurred. You also have the same issue with both - even when people are presented by the facts, they won't reconsider their positions. I've run into this issue in the past - when you present the original source and show how it contradicts a news report, it's not uncommon to get the reply "that can't be true, or else the media would have said so."

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/580378279/trumps-state-of-the...
[2] https://www.uscis.gov/family/family-us-citizens
Maybe in Europe? Not in the USA it isn’t. We’ve seen drops in homicides and the like in some cities (NYC), but disturbing trends in homicides places like Baltimore and Chicago.
what is impressive? the technical result? nah.. the sheer will to support things like the Treo? yep
Pareto principle?
If it's proper, right, and just for society to provide higher education, is it also right and just for them to subsidize tuitions for expensive private schools rather than local state schools?
Coming soon.

Well the end it's only email. You decide whom to trust with.

Personally, I feel better with Protonmail. It's not better nor cheaper than gsuite it just has a totally different proposition as a product.
This is exactly what the article is talking about. A lingering sense of truthiness.
> Retail investors don't move markets. Pension funds, hedge Funds, large investors do

I used to make equity derivative markets. About thirty minutes after CNBC commented on something, a tsunami of stupid Charles Schwab order flow would hit our systems. It moved prices. Coördinated uninformed flows can dramatically move markets because markets are priced at the margin, not the bulk.

TL; DR If both institutions and retail are active in a name, the institutions will set the terms. But if institutions are inactive while retail is active, the latter can move markers surprisingly far.
For Albert Clarke, the Rise of 'Goodnight Moon' Is No Storybook Romance (2000)
Google-scale Image Classification: 100K-categories [n=400m] in 1 CNN
23andMe has sold more than 6M genetic tests
Alternatively: is it possible to choose to believe that one does not have free will?

If you find that question intriguing you might enjoy this:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2018/01/a-multilogue-on-free-will...
By that (shitty) logic, women are equally to blame. It currently takes bits from both to make another human that might commit a "horror."
One quarter gets caught (again) the other I assume gets away with it. But it's our very unscientific assumptions.
Dumb meters integrate (sum) power over the entire time between manual readings. Smart readers can report far more granular data.
It's regressive no matter how it's funded, because the benefits are structurally determined to impact primarily families of means. The wealthy attend expensive colleges. If college tuition were free, that would remain the case.
Yes, and everyone should be given free pizza for life and a new Corvette also.

People need to make responsible decisions, that's all.
People think the government is their fairy godmother.
Excellent post. I totally agree.
"One time offenders have a hard time getting their feet on the ground after being released from prison. Without appropriate support, they often have few alternatives than going down that road again."
I would suspect that is the case too. Given the high OR for "personality disorder" I would imagine that changing that person to make them capable of sustained, beneficial interaction with society would be difficult. And that is completely ignoring the fact that they have a criminal record, a probable lack of training/skills which could have been acquired when younger etc.
Any story behind why it's not open-source ? I mean Ruby, Js, R seem to have been for a long time.

Any splashy announcements expected?

p.s. sorry to be pushy. I have a long standing python-and-reactjs-on-java-in-2018 bet !
Is there a good reason for having logic in an H file?
I had this same experience the other day with Google Maps for PocketPC. Still works. Smart API cross-compatibility is something we should strive for, within reason.
To play devil's advocate, maybe the system is very, very good as evidenced by all of the people who aren't running around committing crimes. In other words, survivorship bias.
There is a difference between trading and investing. Trading is short term gambling, investing isn't. You invest for the long term.

> Without insider knowledge I don't understand how I could beat the market short term.

Short term, you can't. You'll have to bank on luck. Hence why it is gambling. Especially if you go the options route. That's pure gambling as options are a zero sum game.
Yeah people timing the corrrection is as foolish as people trying to time a bottom. The short game is won by people with way more information than you. You beat them by going long as it is harder to predict for them. The game is more even at that distance
> And kids, this is why security by obscurity is such an awful, awful idea.

This is probably the most misunderstood security concept on the net. What it is supposed to mean is that security should not depend on obscurity. For some reason people seem to take at as meaning obscurity should not be part of your defense at all.

In real life, obscurity is useful in many cases because it slows down attackers. For example, lets say you want to get to my credit card database. What you need to do is:

1. Break into one of my public facing servers.

2. From that server, find a way through the firewall that separates the network the credit card handling system is on from the rest of my company's networks.

3. One through the firewall, find an exploitable flaw in the design or implementation of the credit card storage system.

If you can get a copy of the source code and configuration of everything except for passwords (i.e., there is no obscurity in my system), then you can set up a clone of my system in your lab and work on finding all the holes you need at your leisure and without drawing my attention.

Once you've got exploits for a public facing server, the firewall, and the credit card storage system, you might be able to do a quick attack and get in and get the credit cards before I can do anything.

If I've included obscurity it is much less likely that you can do a quick raid like that. You'll have to plod through the layers of my system step by step, working ON my systems, giving me a much better chance of noticing your attack and stopping it before you get to and find a hole in the final layer where the credit cards are stored.
I think you completely missed the point of what you're replying to.

You can put those reimplentations in a different file. You don't have to expose the consumer of the library to them by jamming the whole thing, both interface and implementation, in a single header.

This is like library design by the folks who mistakenly say that what they do with '#include <stdio.h>' is they are "including a library". Eg. Compile and link are the same thing in a lot of people's minds, I think increasingly these days as C expertise is diminishing.
>although you never hear the group blamed for anything

Just curious, where do you get your news from?
"Studies like these that take place in the USA are labeled racist because they disproportionately include minorities."

Please provide some factual support for this. Specifically studies that are _like_ this in their construction. Is it possible that there are studies which are, in fact, racist?
At least among the Swedish population, but Id guess likely to similar in other places:

>The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characterized by early onset of violent criminality, substance abuse, personality disorders, and nonviolent criminality.

Very interesting, so if you get past your teens without criminality you seem to not become a criminal.
It is now more locked down (at least "pg_catalog, public, information_schema" are no longer available). Thanks.
Not even close. The vast majority of Sweden is ethnic Swedes. The big minority group is ethnic Finns. 87% of the country is Lutheran (as of 2012). In the US, probably no ethnic group (e.g. Irish or English) has more than 20%.
> More like the people who designed and operate the system consider everything they do legal

This is true by definition. Anyway, what sort of violent crime do you propose to legalize?
I think we're having parallel discussions here. It's painfully obvious that simply forgiving $1.3 trillion in debt without figuring out where the money should come from is not a good solution. So I guess what I'm saying is I don't think I hold the viewpoint you're arguing against.

I guess I misinterpreted your argument for taxing the "teachers, parents, and professors who lied to you".
The robots.
I think a the title, while absolutely true, is written in a way to highlight a distribution that seems abnormal, but is pretty much what you would expect in any similar distribution.

A very low number of people are ever convicted of a violent crime (they could have also written "3.9% of population accountable for 100% of violent crime convictions"). I think a better way of saying the same thing as the title is "26% of violent criminals commit 63% of violent crimes."
Not C per se, but FreePascal's LCL library has native accessibility support [1], and there are plenty of examples showing how to mix Pascal and C [2].

[1]: http://wiki.freepascal.org/LCL_Accessibility
[2]: https://github.com/williamhunter/pascal-bindings-for-c
Numbers please.
Most people I talk to have a sense that all of these big companies (and the government) are violating them, but they feel completely helpless and so ignore the issue. It's extremely similar to people in a third world country that know their foods are being adulterated but can't afford imports and still have to shop.
My first C project was on a microcontroller (ATMega architecture/AVR-GCC) 12 years ago. I think a lot of people get in contact with C with Arduino these days.

My first real C project on x86 was a graphical user interface with Gtk+. However, I soon switched to C++ using Gtkmm, then using Qt.
Tautology - People who are effectively deterred from committing crimes do not commit crimes.

The system may be very effective at deterring many would-be criminals. Any system will be ineffective against some subset and so this statement would still apply.

Under any system, most crime will be committed by those whom that system does not effectively deter.
Amazing. This deserves serious political discussion, it seems to hold potential for massive increases in quality of life.
> he justifies it by pointing at difficulties with deploying libraries on Windows. Which is a fair point, but by going straight to header-only he skips the step where you can also just distribute a bunch of headers and .C files

That part was justified by deploying libraries for Windows. Going for one file only was justified by this:

"You don't need to zip or tar the files up, you don't have to remember to attach two files, etc."

--

Unrelated, and probably colored by the fact I first learned to program on Windows, but I don't get the problem. Windows applications usually bundle DLLs with them and keep them locally, unlike Linux applications which typically install dependencies globally through a package manager. I don't think I've ever had a big DLL problem developing on Windows, whereas on Linux I've been occasionally bit by the "oh this software requires X <= v2.1 but you can't have that since something else is already using X v2.3 and that would be downgrade".
can you tell me more about mgo formwork? where can i learn more about this and more about foam concrete?
Be more charitable in your reading of that comment. If you’d prefer, interpret it this way:

“These studies can be socially controversial, and so authors must be especially careful in the way they conduct their research and present their conclusions.”

At a certain point, demanding empirical evidence for a clearly observable societal zeitgeist becomes disingenuous or obtuse, regardless of how well-intentioned the request is. It stifles discussion that can otherwise proceed.
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This study indicates that incarceration, at least as it is currently implemented, is emphatically not a deterrent for repeat violent offenders.

As for the public safety element, yes, but these people mostly weren’t locked up for life. What this shows, at least, in my opinion, is that much more intensive psychological and therapeutic interventions are needed, because if anything, incarceration as it currently exists would seem to exacerbate the problem.
First went through the K&R text book then made small nginx modules and python extensions as well as random little Unix tools to replace built in tools that were slow
Me too, I tend to decide whether to read an article based on the comments. I find I hardly ever read an article.
Maybe we should stop seeing people who are violent as people that we need to punish and start seeing them as people who need help.

I'm not a specialist, but I'd think that giving someone a job, a place to live, and a weekly therapy session would do a lot more to prevent future crime than locking him up with a bunch of other violent offenders that have nothing to do all day long.

Sometimes restricting someones freedom is necessary to protect others. But right now we are doing it backward: we lock people up after they committed a crime, but there's very little that we can do to protect potential victims before it is too late.
In the minds of many people the purpose of the system is not entirely to deter crime; some criminals will not be deterred and the secondary purpose of the system is to segregate such people from society by placing them into little boxes until the system decides they are no longer a danger to the rest of us.
Ofc smarter criminals don't primarily do violent crime, yet sometimes do the greater damage to society.
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.

I don't think the poster needs charity. Clarity is more like it.
Autoweek, Motor Trend, Automobile. I had Car and Driver, but dropped it because they seemed to be picking up a political aspect and I only care about the cars.

I guess these aren't 'men's magazines' in the psuedo-glamour sense, but it's what I find interesting. (And I suspect they have a largely male audience.)
Netherlands, housing market so screwed up that it'll cause braindrain...
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Yes, true.

So, in order to improve the system and reduce crime, you need to understand those who are currently not effectively deterred.

More of the same is not going to work if you hope to improve outcomes.
While often convenient, adding “extra credit” to an otherwise focused commit can create a lot of confusion later on. It also makes the commit harder to understand (what does that line have to do with this fix?).
The JS api is more of an SDK so it doesn't expose urls or anything and doesn't have all the features of the site. There are url endpoints but they are pretty limited and I'd highly doubt it's dog fooded.