skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have suggestions on how I might find information about the _total_ numbers of traffic related fatalities in LA during similar times? (I'm interesting in knowing what fraction of car-related deaths are due to street racing.)

For example, 2016 had 260 deaths from car accidents from one source [0], and only 11 of those were from street racing, less than 5%. (It's possible that the article I linked counted deaths differently than the data you were working with, though, so it's hard to compare the two.) Street racing related deaths are tragic (especially as half of them are _not the drivers_), but I wonder if we are spending proportionally similar amounts to prevent the larger pie-slice of automotive deaths.

Good grief, I feel so callous even asking this kind of question. :-/

0: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-2016-traffic-dea...
* have enjoyed it for countless weekends since.

Fixed that for you :).
Black Mirror Nosedive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive) social-status-like castes, only than in a real bluntly open dictatorship. Bad times.
Sounds like a problem that should be solved on the ci/cd level and not the underlying container registry. People use containers in different ways.
Bitcoin's ‘Death Cross’ Looms as Strategist Eyes $2,800 Level
(edit: oy, this is a controversial comment? karma score is swinging wildly. I don't mean to suggest that China's social credit system is a good idea or that it has an equivalent in the USA. It's just worth pointing out that China's own characterization of the system is pretty similar to how things work in the US...)

From the article:

> People who would be put on the restricted lists included those found to have committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism and causing trouble on flights, as well as those who used expired tickets or smoked on trains, according to two statements issued on the National Development and Reform Commission’s website on Friday.

The US may ban you from flying if you are politically controversial [1]+, get kicked off a flight [2, edit: 4], or sneak onto planes without a ticket [3].

Likewise, people who trespass on public transit are often barred from its use. And of course people who break traffic laws are (eventually) kicked off the roads.

I won't comment on whether the Chinese government's characterization of its laws is accurate or not (I don't speak any relevant language and don't know much about the culture, so all I have to go off of is western media). But at least according to the Chinese government, these rules are mostly in-line with how things often work in the US.

[1] https://theintercept.com/document/2014/07/23/march-2013-watc...
(edit: changed from http://mentalfloss.com/article/68073/8-ways-you-can-end-no-f...)

[2] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/07/getting-banned-from-an-airl...

[3] e.g., http://wqad.com/2018/02/21/illinois-stowaway-woman-pleads-no...

[4] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39919229/ns/travel-news/t/can-bad-...

+ The "predictive assessments" (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-li...) used for putting people on the no-fly list are not very transparent and, IMO, reminiscent of a social credit system. It's extremely hard to imagine such a system that doesn't harshly penalize certain constitutionally protected speech (e.g., about Islam and US foreign policy in the ME).
I think speed reduction is the biggest. Yes, zero does sound almost impossible. US commercial air travel had zero deaths in 2017, so that should give some confidence.
I remain interested in tamper evident logging, to better enable end-to-end auditing. In all systems, including election administration.

I worked as a poll inspector. Documenting and proving the physical chain of custody is an important function.

I have yet to see a compelling use case for using blockchains in issuing ballots or counting votes. That's a different beast entirely.
New programmers usually don't have any exposition on what's an acceptable amount to ask and adding snark just deters them from sticking with it.
Bitcoin Mining Banned for First Time in Upstate New York Town
It's also worth remembering that Civ games are mostly judged in hindsight.

By the time Civ 5 came out in 2010, most series fans would have been playing fully-expanded Civ 4, with all the rebalancing and new content that entails. Anyone who liked vassal states, Great Persons, corporations, or the complex space and culture victories was going off expansion content.

First-release Civ 5 made some interesting alterations to the series, but had a lot of implementation issues. Unbalanced wonders, AI bugginess, and a late-game slog often made it feel bad regardless of the design choices. BNW-era Civ 5 brought a lot more logic to the tech tree, smoothed out broken features like "one free technology", and made the late game vastly more interesting.

Honestly, I suspect we've only recently gotten to a 'fair' comparison of 4 and 5, with both of them feeling like classics in light of BE and 6.
Why does Indeed.com have a dark web site? Is there an advantage to that?

I'm also surprised at the number of pun-sites/joke-sites on here. It's like the early internet.
Mapping is important application for LiDAR technology. There's going to be a lot of growth in that space https://semiengineering.com/lidar-goes-back-to-the-future/
Even if we safeguards worked 100% perfectly do they matter if we craft laws that convict a certain group of people?

I can't remember the quote exactly, but there's one about the law, in all it's equality, prevents the poor and rich alike from sleeping outside or begging for food.

I don't really see a practical difference between the two systems
JumpFM – minimalistic dual panel file manager for Linux
>[Talking about the early strategy game Empire:] But the most relevant version for our purposes was created by Walter Bright, a 20-year-old student at the California Institute of Technology, in 1977. Bright himself later ported it to microcomputers, efforts which culminated in him selling the game to a small publisher called Interstel

Bright would later be known for earning over 18000 karma on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WalterBright

Among other things :)
Powder Mountain – a utopian club for the millennial elite
I imagine that both image and sound recognition could be used.
This article is a perfect example of why that doesn't work. All the journalists are working from the same source, and copying from eachother, so they all make the same fundamental mistakes.

It helps filtering for intentional spin, but not much with reporters just being flat out wrong.
I was commenting on their business model. I don’t know if the person you described would have anything to worry about, apart from their own moral feeling about the company in general. I won’t use them, because I dislike the entire premise.
Nothing seems to have been revealed so far.

- https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/secret-government-repo...

> Regarding the hundreds of thousands of Iraq-related military documents and State Department cables provided by the Army private Chelsea Manning, the report assessed “with high confidence that disclosure of the Iraq data set will have no direct personal impact on current and former U.S. leadership in Iraq.”

- http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/...

> In the several years since WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of government documents leaked by Manning, the government has not publicly identified a single example of the Taliban killing someone because that person was named in the leaks. If someone had died as a result, it seems logical that the incident would have become public knowledge, either through Manning's trial or in media reports.
so it's the same then.
Not saying it’s a ‘clear winner’ by any means, still plenty of work to do, but I use a tool I built for just this purpose. https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes
In Virginia, felony larceny starts at $200, easily within coat range. I once had jury duty and was faced with the prospect of sentencing the defendant to up to 20 years in prison for the crime of receiving stolen goods valued at least $200. I got rejected from the jury, probably because I said I couldn’t possibly consider 20 years in prison for that.
US spies hope to geotag every pic on social media–no GPS data needed
> This sounds horrible, but the "Real Name" movement for online services (such as Facebook) is an equally insidious American version.

Add to that Facebook’s blocking you from access to your account unless you upload a photo that clearly shows your whole face, which has been reported in recent months. Real name + financial services + facial recognition + is even worse.
BJC HealthCare Notifies Patients of Data Storage Server Access
man, why you building power plants you gotta replace every 50 years? Hydro or nothing.

Colonization was great too...
by generating C++ code you automatically gain C++ baggage. By generating machine code you are tied directly to how the machine works. If you don't want to deal with something like RAII you'd have to find ways to generate code that doesn't do that, where as machine code you just tell it how to exactly move memory around etc.
> Did you manage to try HHKB Topre ?

I used a colleague's for part of a day. I didn't like it-- key feel or layout-- which saved me a few hundred dollars. As a bit of a collector, I'll probably get a Realforce eventually.
100% agreed - it even seems to happen to me if the text is older or takes a little more time to process. I listened to an audio copy of Candide while commuting by car and when I reached the end I remember being struck by the fact that I had no idea what had happened!
Sympathy for habitual criminals?
You will notice that the police, on the one hand say that street racing is incredibly dangerous and puts innocent lives at risk (not just the racers), and at the same time, justify high speed chases, risking pedestrians lives for the sake of catching petty criminals.

Young people don't make the best decisions. But televised high speed chases (fictional and real) sure look cool and exciting to me.

Finally, San Diego has reduced street racing by providing a cheap, legal outlet for it. [1] But we used to have more drag strips and tracks. They get closed down as real-estate needs expand. If I want to road race, the nearest tracks require driving through LA.

To be clear, I'm not making excuses for kids. I'm not saying "well they should be allowed to race because they can't elsewhere" or "we should be lenient on them". I'm absolutely against street racing.

So, in conclusion, give racers more legal opportunities on the one hand, and stop glorifying/titilating/excusing car chases on the other.

[1] https://www.sandiego.gov/stadium/event/tenants/racelegal
For me the reader makes a huge difference. I have listened to some audiobooks where I really liked the reader and retention was very good. But for a lot of them I agree that reading is better. Even more so for technical stuff where you often stop or even go back.
because if black people get accused of a crime, most people believe they actually committed it.

If an upper-middle class blonde hair, blue eyed woman gets accused of a crime, a higher degree of people would at least give her the benefit of the doubt
The death toll from aviation is high, just not the death toll when you only look at major passenger lines. Add in GA, and the numbers stop looking so sweet.

https://www.aopa.org/about/general-aviation-statistics/gener...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/12/lies-c...
This story [1] from Anthony Breznican stuck with me after he shared it on twitter. I firmly believe that the actions Mister Rodgers took would come across as insincere and self-serving if it were basically any other “celebrity”. However, that was the power of Mister Rodgers. He could connect with anyone and made everyone feel like they genuinely mattered to him.

I grew up in Pittsburgh and was in a Catholic Grade School when he died. We held a special memorial mass for him because of the impact he had on both our city and kids generally. I can’t think of anyone else that would be done for, not even Dan Rooney or Mario Lemieux. Mister Rodgers was one of a kind.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/23/mr...
Discovering Pattern of Life Activity Using Machine Learning
Accurately predicting when a bus will be at the stop in a window 2 hours into the future is effectively impossible, but being able to say "this stop won't be needed in the next 5 minutes" is almost certainly feasible. So the UPS software would need to dynamically decide the routes based on parking availability that is constantly changing throughout the day. Not an easy problem, but one that seems solveable.

The city only needs to publish the ETA for the next bus on each stop, information that bus riders would also find extremely useful.

Busses get slowed down for any number of reasons. Bus schedules are basically fantasies, as any big city resident can tell you. There are too many things that can slow a bus down. Stop lights, accidents, securing wheelchairs, delivery vehicles blocking your lane, construction, police activity, congestion, the guy who gets on and discovers he doesn't have bus fare and wants to argue about it, and on and on and on.
Are you suggesting that it is OK to put numerous third parties in danger (the people whose names being exposed would make them Taliban targets were generally Afghan civilians, not Americans) if the circumstances are such that no one will ever be able to prove that any specific one of them actually comes to harm from that danger? Even when releasing those names does nothing whatsoever to help expose any abuses?
Just as a reference, I found this statement in a thesis [1]:

> In the event of a collision, neither drivers nor passengers are willing to admit to engaging in street racing. This can partially explain the low incidence of casualties due to street racing reported in the literature. For example, the Office of Traffic Safety in California, in one of its recent publications, acknowledged that fatalities and injuries due to illegal street racing are significantly underreported due to the issues with reporting and suggested a need for a reporting system reform.

Basically, in some of the crashes, the participants are unlikely to call 911. And it's possible that some of the normal (non-street racing) crashes/fatalities are actually street racing-related.

[1] https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3107&conte...
These problems also exist with debt and I think similar solutions are also possible. Muslim law banned interest. Jewish custom create Jubilee where debt was forgiven every seven years. America has a fairly forgiving bankruptcy system. I think the world of personal data scores is coming whether we like it or not, the only question is how is society going to codify it into law. Privacy laws may also apply to this where you are only allowed to keep these kinds of records for a few years and then they have to be expunged. At the government level, maybe your childhood mistakes phase out over time by law.
The country you're countering about, China, executes people in stadiums before cheering crowds instead of going the felony route when it comes to drug policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/thousands-chin...

Meanwhile, back in the US, we've actually begun to recognize our mistake as a culture. Thus eight states have legalized marijuana, and another dozen will go that way soon. Decriminalization of drug offenses is a common point of discussion in every state. Nearly every state that puts pot legalization on the ballot sees it go through. We've begun recognizing the mistake of how we fail to treat addicts.

Over a decade ago the US recognized the huge mistake of mass incarceration, as such the US prison population has peaked and has begun to decline, with both sides of the political aisle now openly discussing how to correct that broken system.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/grover-norquist/republicans-a...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/12/prison...

http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/354288-we-must-p...

And there's China, going the other direction full speed.
Indeed, it's on par with Shakespeare, being from the same era. Modern editions of Shakespeare usually have had their spelling adjusted to modern taste, and this hasn't.

Here's a sample:

> I lighted off my horse, and wiping the sweat from every part of his body, I unbrideled him, and walked him softly in my hand, to the end he might pisse, and ease himself of his weariness and travell: and while he went grazing freshly in the field (casting his head sometimes aside, as a token of rejoycing and gladnesse) I perceived a little before me two companions riding, and so I overtaking them made a third.

It's pretty easy going. (Unlike, say, Chaucer, which is definitely a struggle.)
I love it. Any chance for a HN discount? ;)
Thanks! Seems very doable...
I understand your point. But I think the problem actually arises long before strike number three. In most cases, it's ONE strike and you're out as far as "bad social credit score" goes. It's just going to be VERY difficult for you to secure employment, or even decent housing, with that conviction on your record.

Just one of the hard realities of the legal system.
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Happens on the west coast too, particularly in the Bay Area cities.
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I watched the show every day after Sesame Street and before Reading Rainbow. Good times.

I take issue with what you say here:

a> It was by no means ignoring the other-side of this

No racist ideas ever appeared on the show. That is the definition of "ignoring the [racist] side of this."
Assuming 1 spot = 1 vehicle, 10 vehicles won't fit into 8 spots anyway.
Interesting. I had the same experience (doctor->collections; trivial amount of money) and it didn't impact my score at all. In fact, I laughed at the collections agent and told her they would never see a penny from me, as it hasn't impacted my score. That was several months ago and still no change in my score and I certainly haven't paid them.
There are a lot of reasons to release hundreds of thousands of documents at random that have nothing to do with rectifying problems. Hurting an organization that doesn't support you, for example.
I disagree that investors' abilities to understand stocks and create portfolios should be judged by someone's willingness to find which individual brokerages offer free buy/sell of their own ETFs.
I am not sure I follow your question as it is very open ended. Are you asking if I am in favor of incarcerating criminals who continually commit violent felonies?
If the author of this article has read the original announcement from either Chinese government or various sources from China, they'll know the so called "people with bad social credit" that'll get these restrictions is defined very clearly, and yet it mentioned only a tiny bit of it in very misleading way. Many of the actions described in the definition would put you in jail in US. Whether they're intentionally misleading people is anybody's guess.

There are many paragraphs clarifying the definition either here: http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/gzdt/201803/t20180316_879653.html

Or here: http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/201803/16/t20180316_28505546...

There is also clearly defined way to lift the restrictions as defined in the NDRC announcement. Most of the restrictions are removed automatically in one year. Certainly not "once untrustworthy, always restricted"
Y'all rendered assistance to Swiss law enforcement prior to actually receiving the order?
I started working in electronics in the late 1970's and as a "drug criminal" at the time, it became obvious to me that I was working on building my own handcuffs. I guess I really lacked vision because I didn't see this coming.
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man
So this is really just like communal imprisonment vs jail in other societies
> If an upper-middle class blonde hair, blue eyed woman gets accused of a crime, a higher degree of people would at least give her the benefit of the doubt

Which would make sense, no? They're playing the odds. It's exceedingly rare for any upper-middle class woman to commit a crime. So to be surprised by that is understandable. Take color and class out of it, you need only compare "man accused of crime" vs "woman accused of crime". More will give the woman benefit of the doubt, and they're more likely to be correct than giving the man the benefit of the doubt.

But to be clear, of course anyone accused of a crime should go through the exact same legal process as anyone else. Justice should be blind and operate on the facts of the case. You can't just make assumptions or play the odds in court, obviously.
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It depends on complexity, but I think it's more of a situation akin to refactoring or rewriting a complex code base. A total rewrite is always an attractive thought, but a real focus on continuous refactoring in smaller portion at a time is often lower risk, lower cost, and faster in the end - and I suspect it's the same with large bureaucratic processes too. It's also a way to sharpen the skills of the organization in small steps with lower risks for failure (and improving future project steps...).
I think we are assuming that once you have a low score it becomes impossible to raise the score back to an acceptable level. Caste does not work like that. If you are born into the wrong caste you can't be promoted to a higher one.
Some chosen quotes...

> help them buy an entire mountain in Utah,

> [who exactly might colonise Mars] “Unfortunately ... The people with power and money.”

> casually refer to a segment of their clientele as “the billionaire set”

> cheaper tickets for women to improve the gender ratio
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My experience: If you come with a question and the steps you've already taken, the research you've already done, you will rarely if ever get a poor response from developers (or at least those who are decent human beings).

So, don't start with Slack. Start with the docs, then google, and then end with Slack (even as just a confirmation of your researched solution).
More decentralization leads to more abuses, yes -- but they tend to be of lower magnitude per event. Positions of power tend to attract abusers. Human nature seems to favor consolidation of hierarchies. China is just on a different part of the power cycle than the US.

We're at the egalitarian everyone-is-the-same period of the cycle, and people abuse this state of affairs via a variety of ways.

China is at the we-must-stymie-abusers stage, and abusers use that to abuse and stymie innocent people.

Notice how both systems fail to stop abuse, they just move the dial between magnitude and frequency? What allows abuse is bad actors cloaking their activities behind the information asynchrony of a system. Transparency and holding leadership to account seems to be the best way to slow down the corruption of any system.

That's why it should be easier for Americans indict police officers, and harder for a Chinese PM term limits. Those aren't the only issues in either country, but they should be pretty obviously problems to most people.

It's interesting how every wedge issue seems to follow the same pattern. Take a binary choice that society should probably make -- and draw your trench diagonally from top left to bottom right so that both sides make both decisions just in different magnitudes. Leaves people angry, ideologically confused and nothing is ever resolved.
Seriously? How about Google?

https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OpenIDConne...