skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predictive policing is old, and has been done in consultation with universities before. There are papers on predicting crime vs criminals, predicting by time and address, predicting by age, etc., including discussion on whether this leads to uneven enforcement on minorities. It would be surprising to expect law enforcement to go towards less statistical and software usage.

What would be new would be formal preemptive detention by generic factors. Then again there was news covered by the Guardian on a police black site in Chicago that held thousands of largely black detainees without lawyers.
It's not hard to understand the high risk, high reward investment principle. There are plenty of safe index funds, blue chip stocks, and bonds available to retail investors/unsophisticated individuals. It's not difficult to understand that cryptocurrencies are highly speculative. I would never advise my parents to buy bitcoin, ethereum, or any other cryptocurrency without adding the caveat that they be prepared to lose everything in an exchange hack or some other shady behavior.

I can understand the need for the SEC to protect investors when it comes to investment into traditional companies - regular people can't read a 10k and don't sit in on analyst calls that are mandated for public companies registered with the SEC. But if you're investing in an unregulated, highly risky asset, where you don't understand any of the assets or technology the company owns...come on man.
Really? If I recall, HN was blowing up at all the surveillance and privacy concerns under Obama. Is it really worse under Trump?
Oh come on, neoliberals aren’t much better. They’re two feet to the left of the right wingers when it comes to surveillance, policing, funding the military & pro-military nationalistic rhetoric, with industry hands in their pocket, and their own hands in the media. The seeds for fascism, authoritarianism, and cults of personality are well rooted in the senior offices of congress on both sides. It has been ripe for abuse and we have seen only a small bit of this in 2016.

Pinning any change here on trump is like blaming the crash on a pilot who took charge after the engines already blew. There is little to no recognition of the abuses of federal government in the government itself, and not for a while.

If any authoritarian power rises, it will be because the democrats are too busy shoveling their shit out of view to put up any real fight. Just look at how blame for a mediocre-at-best platform was shifted to russian propaganda, as if it could have possibly moved the needle more than the hundreds of millions of “legit” propaganda spent by the democrats, as if Bernie Sander's continued popularity doesn't point to a way to strong support in the future that they continue to reject for more unpopular, centrist, neoliberals.
I think you've missed the point.

Even if this system works, people who have not committed a crime (yet) are innocent.

Taking an innocent person, and improsoning him against his will is a crime, pretty extreme one.

Even if this system works really well, it's hard to imagine that the crimes it prevents can be more extreme than the crimes it commits.
There is also a huge difference between $150k with no/manageable debt, and $150k with a lot of debt. Some people can't figure out how to budget even with a high income. "I deserve this, I make good money/work hard/whatever" is a dangerous statement.
Screen size - something the size of the iPhone SE or Xperia Compact would be about right. I could see paying ~$200 for something like this, depending on feature set (I don't imagine you need particularly high-end specs considering you aren't going to be driving FMV or 3D games).
Sounds like googlers should go manager shopping then. If your manager is too passive or doesn't care for what you're working on, you'll be in the same boat.
Google Play Music is the best deal out there - ad-free Youtube TV is bundled in the plan and allows you to upload your own music that you can stream from anywhere. That said, it's the absolute worst in terms of UI and cross platform support. I kept switching between subscriptions because Spotify still doesn't allow uploads (which I really need). But gave up on everyone and decided to just sync my personal music to my phone and use Spotify. The Discover Weekly and other playlists combined with a really solid cross-platform support I'm not moving to anything else. I have a windows computer, an xbox one, iPhone, Alexa, a Macbook and chromecast and Spotify works on every one of them. No one's ever going to beat that.

That said, I'd very skeptical of investing in Spotify. Apple Music has a real chance of becoming the default service everyone subscribes to on their iPhone without thinking twice. Apple Music just have to be good enough.
Things may have changed but when I did it I think ~2 years ago the projects and in person bit were much harder than the initial quiz, I'd expect the drop off to be higher.

Edit: I admit didn't pass the in person part and I have some issues with things I think were held against me when it was more confusion about what they were looking for, but overall I thought it was a great process and have recommended it to people.
I'm a younger developer and I had never heard of Lions' Commentary. It sounds amazing and I'll order a copy, but is there a more updated version or a similar book out there that may be more relevant?
The inimitable comp.risks discussed this in 1992:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13/35#subj1.1

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13/76#subj8.1

And in 1997:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18/79#subj9.1
I'm not going to lie to you, there is no way that could happen.

When you look at successful police operations that have prevented terrorism, a lot of it comes down to luck. Someone had an informant who heard someone say something about a bomb.

There just simply aren't enough police in the US to follow-up on every suspicious activity. Particularly now when even mundane activities can be regarded as suspicious.
> For me, the real killer app is using them as an alarm in the morning.

I use a window for that. If I didn't have access to sunlight I would consider using bright dimmable programmable leds in my bedroom. Very good point.
Pandora started "the algorithmic playlists" but sadly their management team could not capitalize on it.
I built a fully automated self-service Instagram publishing system, no private API hacks or such, but instead, by completely automating lots of Android phones (OCR, pattern recognition, etc.). Mainly offered this to small businesses and friends. Took off due to Instagram’s popularity and made six figures after a while. Now contemplating to shut down, as Instagram has opened up publishing access to hand-picked partners.

A second business focused solely on Twitter analytics. Was about to shut that down years ago when Twitter suddenly offered free analytics, but it barely changed sign-up rates, so I kept it going.

On good days, I answer one or two emails, that’s it. The occasional one-week-of-hell when things go sideways
mixed in every few months, of course.

Now looking for the next project.
I'm a young software developer and I recently got promoted to manager of my team. Honestly, I feel like I'm not good at politics. I never focused on it, and I'm not particularly social. Of course, you always need to be at the right place at the right time. I think the managers I've had at my current company are great, so that helps.

My advice would be to just try to keep people happy, primarily your manager and your manager's manager. Some people are saying to focus on metrics that make you look good, and that might work at some places, but it won't mean people enjoy working with you.

My advice? Be honest, don't be scared to admit when you're at fault, solve problems, help people when you can. Networking is great, but don't be the guy who only BSes and doesn't get things done. You need to be someone people like to work with. If someone needs to send someone else to you for whatever reason and they say "Go check with popcat, he's awesome and knows this really well", that person is going to see you in a positive light from the get-go. Reputation is more valuable than any metrics can be.

Also, communicate with your manager often. Suggest improvements, mention problems, and ask for advice. Put yourself in their shoes - What you you want them to tell you if you we're the boss? Listen to podcasts like Manager Tools if you want to gain knowledge of large companies operate. It will be a huge help when trying to land a big raise or promotion.
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We briefly went down to upgrade our server (happy problems!) which should've caused that error. Thanks for noticing!

BTW please choose a payout method to make your BMC page public. Waiting to buy your first coffee :)
I like this point but can you elaborate on it more? My knee jerk reaction is to say "why". I'm not very familiar with manufacturing as I'm sure a lot of people aren't, but it seems like most of the knowledge is in the design of the factory not in the skill of the workers. I know that might be an ignorant statement but that's why I'm asking for elaboration.
that's not a business... that's investing.
Those offers seem to be all over the place. They're common in the US as well.

The challenge for Spotify will be the next few years, seeing how they withstand the substantial onslaught coming from Apple's music subscription service (which is booming as well). I'm skeptical Spotify can stay in the fight financially over time. There's nothing they can do in music that will ever produce the kind of profit required to support a $25 billion market cap (critical given they're about to open themselves up to public shareholder scrutiny). If they can't, the public shareholders will eventually force a sale of the company.

They'd need 250-300 million paying subscribers, most likely, to get to ~$800m in net income (~5% net income margins), assuming they can ever actually make money to begin with. That'd be a generous ~31 PE. It's essentially impossible.

Apple, Google and Amazon on the other hand, never need to earn a penny of profit in music. It'll be perpetually in their interests to hold music service margins on the floor. The music industry won't be so stupid as to harm Spotify, given they'll want the leverage vs Apple & Co? Well they successfully killed off Pandora on margin squeezing, so sure they will. Their view is there's always another company to replace the last one, and that their music rights are the value that's core and eternal.
Ever hear of the Jehovah's Witnesses? Ever hear how people who managed to pull themselves out of that looney bin talk about the way they view the outside world and especially games like DnD?

It's more common than you think.

Nothing in that comment surprised me and made me wonder if that kid was raised in a JW household before finally getting out of the house and turning hard into the party life. It's way too common of a story, kids raised under the thumb of the Watchtower Bible and Tract society going off to college, not having the church on their backs constantly, and practically cannonball into the party lifestyle that they'd been sheltered and repressed from their entire teenage years.

I know because I was one of those kids.
> You might work for customers, or clients, or whatever, but not "yourself".

The difference is, you don't have one boss... So your risk(s) are well diversified (or, at least better than if you're an employee).
Good job Amanda & Mike, 'tis fair!
If you have any insight into this, would you mind sharing?
You can use a ​VPN to battle ISP net neutrality abuse
I'm referring to all forms of heritability.

Also, the Out of Africa conjecture Is Made Up: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-out-of-afr...
Same here. The bay area has now priced out professionals with families. I was looking at $40-$60k more per year for housing depending on where in the bay area I would live and I'm currently making over $120k...
maintain control

TO

achieve higher levels of greatness and prosperity

Atleast that is what the Chinese Communist Party is all about. They are significantly engineering and technical backgrounds, not politicians. They cannot weave and deceive through people issues.
How does this differ or compete with platforms such as patreon? Also I signed up and it defaulted to Artist, I feel like major category type should be chosen during onboarding. Also, sign in with Google should be a thing I think.
Anything that gets automated, and can also be shortcutted depending on how much of it has been cached already. That really is the beauty of Make to me - it's very easy to express what parts of a job need and need not be done, because the last run produced a state that was good enough to use again.

I once built a World of Warcraft addon downloader & manager (including patching) with Make. My friends thought I was insane. Personally, I wondered how else you'd do it :-)

(actually, looking back at it, I apparently built it on plan9's mk (https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/mk.html), but it's close enough)
there's a difference between getting people to say _right now i need you all to "buy me a coffee"_ and getting the same people to buy you a coffee on a repeated basis.

I need help now != support my ongoing work on x

my point being, that it's irrelevant that William got $2500 fast. the question is how many people on the platform have been able to earn anything more than just a random occasional tip on it? Is anyone getting even "poverty level" worth of donations (~12k in the US because our gov't has no concept of how much things cost).
You are correct about the tech industry here (low salaries relative to US) but developers working in finance in London make comparable money to Bay Area tech firms.

People routinely get paid £100k straight out of university to write code in London, just not in the tech scene. Total comp in the financial sector with 5 years experience is commonly £200k.

Which is not 'ludicrous' but more than you might imagine from seeing £40k job postings in the web dev sector.
The Patriot system was originally designed to operate in Europe against Soviet medium- to high-altitude aircraft and cruise missiles traveling at speeds up to about MACH 2 (1500 mph). To avoid detection it was designed to be mobile and operate for only a few hours at one location.

http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat6/145960.pdf

Page 2

dug into reference 48 from Wikipedia which referenced this article which I did a search on google.
Do you mind linking me to the React one? I was unable to find it, but maybe my Google-fu is just not good today.
Is there _any_ evidence on the attribution. Or are Germans also falling for the 'trust us we know best' secret service agency mantra?
Wouldn't that likely have been through https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/pglogical/ ? That's not an extension they allege to support in Aurora yet for sure.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_...
"At this point I’ve gone from wanting to praise these inventors as bold libertarian heroes to wanting to drag them in front of a blackboard and making them write a hundred times “I WILL NOT CALL UP THAT WHICH I CANNOT PUT DOWN”

National identity is indeed made-up. Would the Times prefer, say, racial identity? Religious identity? Corporate identity? Political faction identity?
Fair. I wasn't replying to you, your #1 sounds a lot like what I'm saying, though.

1. I remember hearing the system was only designed for
XX operational hours but was being run over the
operational spec.

This is very similar to my "at least" which is very different than "at most". In requirements we wouldn't bound ourselves like that. We wouldn't say our system should run for at most 8 hours. We'd say it should run for at least 8 hours. However, we won't say what happens after 8 hours because we don't test it (it's not a requirement). We may communicate to the operators that the system should be rebooted after some period of time if there's a known or anticipated issue, or we may include a soft boot to reset things. For many of our systems, their operating time is usually under 12 hours (they go on aircraft that don't fly for days at a time, mostly), so we never test anything past about 48 hours anyways. If there's an issue that arises around 96 hours, we'd never know from our testing and only know about if an operator pushed it to that limit and recorded the circumstances properly.
"...people believe that tribalism and its artifacts are essential parts of being human..."

Out of curiosity, can anyone find any examples of groups of humans which do not experience tribalism and its artifacts?
That's completely wrong. The Palantiri were created by the Noldor (one of the powerful old races of elves) and used without corruption, and then given to the Numenoreans as a gift; they were used for a long time without corruption. They were so powerful that even Sauron could not make arbitrary images appear. But the weak-minded were easily influenced by him through it; not through the nature of the stones.

The ring was created by Sauron and embedded most of his life-force, and nobody alive at the time of the LotR had enough strength to resist his will.
Yes, but the key difference is we have separation of gov't power and institutions to actually challenge some of these things. When the gov't oversteps it's bounds and they get their hand slapped by the courts, that's the system working. Our gov't is made up of fallible humans, thus we're never going to get to the point where our rights aren't under threat.

Compare that to China, where your best hope is you know someone in power who can try and put in a good word for you. I couldn't imagine living in a system like that where the juggernaut of gov't power is effectively unstoppable.
“You probably shouldn’t use it until you’ve clarified...” doesn’t work so well for a defensive system.
> No, the defining characteristic of a nation is a group of people united by a shared identity grounded in any or all of descent, culture, history, or language

Wrong.

> Anyone with a high school or better knowledge of language should know that etymology may suggest meaning, but is not a reliable guide to it.

Right.
+1. Ability to upload music on Google Play Music is also keeping me from switching to Spotify. I have a lot of tracks that simply aren't in the Spotify catalog. If they add that, I'd switch tomorrow.
Does Hangouts Chat support browsers other than Chrome? Given that Hangouts Meet doesn't support Firefox or Edge yet, so I kinda doubt Hangouts Chat would be any different.
True but trivial.

Everything is understood in a context. That doesn't mean that the context isn't useful. The human bran economizes everything also how it looks at the world.

It's a solid enough concept to understand ourselves in a bigger context and like most other things it has good and bad sides.

I think postmodernism has a lot of useful perspectives, but it always annoys me when it gets misused politically like this disguised as some great antrophological insight.
What kind of mindful stretching, if you don't mind me asking? I have a fallen arch and I'd love to get some resources to fix them.
What every coder should know about gamma (2016)
> I get your point, but BuyMeACoffee is more than just a tipping platform. Creators can reward their supporters, showcase supporter comments (which is often more rewarding than the money itself) and much more.

maybe you're right, but the home page certainly doesn't convey that. It's "A free, fast and friendly way to accept donations" ... doesn't mention anything about rewarding supporters, showcasing comments, or anything like that.
Most of the people I've discussed it with have been quite interested, actually. It's an easy technology to demo.

The price usually turns them off, however.
I agree with your overarching point but I think the acknowledgement that it's all made up is more of an argument in favor of tribalism than against it. What's good for America isn't necessarily good for the rest of the world. And yet, if America as a gestalt entity always persues the maximum benefit for its people in particular then the only reason this might be "bad" with scary quotes is because other countries aren't doing the same for their citizens for some reason.
I like your explanation about services.

One thing -

> I was a little shocked that they didn't release a Qt compatibility layer for Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7, which was current at the time of the switch, was managed-code only (i.e. .NET). There was no way to port Qt to it and no way to leverage any experience that developers for their existing platforms already had. That was one reason the switch was so dramatic.
Man, the more I read these comments, the luckier I feel about working for Atlassian!
waf continues to be the underappreciated gem in this space: high level build language supporting many languages and tools, cross platform, implemented and extensible in Python, nothing to install (except Python), and fast.
how about human identity?
I constantly listen to Discover Weekly on an almost daily basis and always find some great songs that I otherwise would never have found. Spotify is THE service I would never want to be without.
I've been an independent consultant / contractor for over 20 years. I don't esp. defend clients, they don't know what they want and tend to change their mind often, but they're a million times better than a bad boss. (A good boss, I don't know, I never had one.)

In the last 14 months I switched to making physical products sold to end users (b2c) and it's great, but having clients wasn't that bad.
>After 25 years of this

What has your career trajectory been like over the past 25 years?
Window and Linux shells have the same ideas about spaces in file names, which is that if they appear they need to be quoted or the space character needs to be escaped.

Outside of Make which has long and boring historical reasons for not supporting spaces well, just about every program is fine with spaces.
We need some investors to band up and recreate the hardware environment in Shenzhen. There would be a lot of money made that way too so not sure why there wouldn’t be one in Nevada or Arizona or something.
>Is this net income (after taxes, and possibly after 401k [or equivalent] savings)?

No, it's before tax income.

Income Variables. Participants were asked to report monthly household income rather than yearly income to facilitate responding. Respondents were asked the question, “What is your total monthly household income in [local currency], before taxes? Please include income from wages and salaries, remittances from family members living elsewhere, farming, and all other sources.” Households were defined as a person’s home that had its own cooking facilities, which could have been anything ranging from a one-room flat to a single house.

From the study's supplementary information: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
Rhino is getting rid of security deposits for rental apartments
As Horowitz writes in "The Hard Thing About Hard Things," if there even is a political game at your company, someone up top has fucked up.
One of the anecdotes I keep in my back pocket about how anything can be funded by the military was a compilers professor whose research on real-time Java was funded by the military. Apparently some drone control software was written in Java, and having your drone use stop-the-world garbage collection is bad in a number of ways.
Proof of Reputation for Blockchains