skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Well, theres a problem here, no? Even if we assume these are legitimate accidents, then there still has to be a reaction, or they will just happen again.

I don't think a "reaction" will have any effect at all. People genuinely don't want to run over cyclists already.

>The buck has to stop with someone, the person who planned the street in the first place, the project manager at Toyota responsible for the software that caused the unstoppable acceleration, and so on.

I disagree. Sometimes things happen that are simply nobody's fault. There's no "buck". And seriously? Street design? Good luck going after the guy who laid out the streets in 1801.

>Can't just ignore the problem. If you pour your wine all over your shirt, thats an accident, if someone is critically injured or killed, that warrants an investigation.

... And it's still usually an accident. Where I live (and can you really name a place where this isn't true?) when someone is injured seriously or dies there's always an investigation. But what you're looking for isn't an investigation. You're looking for criminal charges and jail time.
Oh, nice! I setup XCompose to support rfc1345, so I have fast unicode input everywhere. I'm definitely going to experiment with that Haskell extension. I've done that manually before in ML with a preprocessor, but it was a nasty hack. A proper extension is much nicer!

EDIT: How many people still have trouble with Unicode input? Should I publish my XCompose solution?
A Contrary Indicator on M.B.A.’s and Stocks
I note that Bubble 1.0 was full of fresh young business school grads. At the time, I thought of them as "the locusts". It was worth a lean year or two to get rid of all of them (and all of the other people) who came here looking for the big payout. The people who stayed were the ones who were serious about the field.

It's a little sad that I wouldn't mind another tech downturn, but that's where I am.
what I would like to see is a Rails type framework specifically geared towards building APIs. I like asset pipeline, give me that, I like gems, I like ActiveRecord, but take views, helpers and all that jazz. I will do that on the frontend thankyouverymuch
> For example, I studied econometrics, and one regression that is often run is regressing CRIME (a dummy variable for whether someone has committed a crime) on a number of right hand side variables, include BLACK, a dummy variable for being Black. Now it is a well known fact that no matter how many right hand side variables you include, the coefficient on BLACK will always be significant and positive. That is, even after accounting for income, education, etc., Black people commit more crime.

You can't directly measure how much crime is committed by people of different races, so any purported measure of this uses some other proxy, most likely convictions of crime.

Of course, relative rates of conviction for crime may not reflect relative rates of commission of crime. Particularly, they may be distorted by biases in (among other things):

* Crime reporting,

* Prosecution,

* Courts and juries
Because of Unity, for example. With exception of some annoyances (like poor work with workspaces, not enough customizability, poor notifications), it's not so far to my personal definition of perfect DE, and miles ahead of other Linux DEs.
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First, keep in mind that as others have said, there is no "magic" involved here.

`list(seq)` will return a list of elements. `list(dct)` will return a list of keys. A for-loop will always loop over the abstract "list representation" of the object (the list result itself is just an accumulation of values from a for-loop).

So your first suggestion would make no sense whatsoever. As for the second...one could maybe argue for that. Many people end up using `dct.keys()` anyway when they want the keys, and `.items()` is so common that it could maybe be made the default. Ruby actually does this by default. However, it would break a ton of current code where people expect to be looping over the keys.
"write a Python compiler for iOS or Android to make it compelling, which means adding type checking"

No

PyPy is a (JIT) compiler for Python, no type checking addition needed.
OK everyone kiss each other. lets get this over
Is not the proper form to apologize for being an insensitive person yourself, not for the "victim" misunderstanding you?

Anyways, I'd be fine with this if not for the arbitrary exclusions. I.e. it's okay to mock people, who believe the world is 5000 y.o for the reason that they are likely intolerant bigots (because such a belief automatically implies not following PC?) but on the other hand, mocking people who believe that a man can become a woman by claiming to be one is an extreme bigotry comparable only to enslavement of blacks (because everybody who believes this, apparently, is automatically PC?).

Obviously you need to do these exclusions because, without the witch hunts and angry mobs, PC would not be any fun and the participant would quickly become tired of apologizing to everybody. But, since you have divided people into "good" and "bad" you are now not fighting for respect, you are just another "us against them" angry group. And I am fine with that (i.e. I don't want a crusade against all the angry people to make the world a happy place). The hypocrisy though is funny.
Cars have the obvious advantage of being on the ground, so if something goes wrong there would presumably be fail safes to pull the car over to the side of the road instead of plummeting to the ground.
It depends. Internal tools that are specialized for the industry or a specific business process at that company are probably fine and necessary. But I've seen many instances where a developer or manager gunning for a promotion writes yet another build server, deployment system, content management system or what have you just to have a "trademark" project that they can take credit for. It's that sort of internal tool which one should be very wary of, since they tend to get deprioritized but not abandoned. That is to say, once the person who championed that tool has received their reward, their continuing priority is to ensure that the tool sticks around (so that they're not blamed later for writing a tool that was later abandoned) but not necessarily to improve the tool on an ongoing basis. You want to stay away from situations like that, because you'll be assigned with fixing issues and putting out fires as they arise, but you won't be given the resources to properly refactor the tool to ensure that issues never arise in the first place.
I love to hear Schiller speak, even though I don't subscribe to his particular behaviorist ideas (they are quite outside the mainstream of academic research). He is very measured in his criticism of the mainstream, and his article is a very fair summary (in my opinion) of how scientific mainstream economics is. Schiller is a moderate dissenter in that he thinks the current ration-agent-model approach is flawed, bout doesn't advocate abandoning mathematical models.

Like Schiller, I believe that it is possible to test and validate theories, but at the same time we cannot have the same certainty as in physics, and the "irreducibly human element" will also prevent the same deep mathematical theories that we see in physics, ever being developed for economics.
On Designing A Luxurious Balloon Ride Into Space
half a pound of sticky?
That is an unimportant nitpick, precisely the kind of objection that people are taught to raise in the face of "racist" facts.

I assure you that the academics involved, all certified non-racists (and mostly non-economists if you don't trust them), are aware of this and either consider the bias to be small (in comparison with the effect being measured) or have corrected for it.
Ask HN: How to safely switch to programming?
I'm a third year undergrad majoring in business, engineering, and math at a top public school. I have worked extremely hard to get a perfect GPA, and I thought that would have positioned me well for an investment banking internship this upcoming summer.

Unfortunately, I'm getting "out-networked." I understand GPA isn't everything, but it's disappointing to hear that I have a slim chance at banking just because I'm not emailing/cold-calling 3 investment bankers a day. I'm working my ass off so I can get an internship where I work 100+ hours a week doing stuff I don't even know if I'll enjoy. Note: neither the 3 emails / cold-calls per day nor the 100+ hours a week is an exaggeration.

I've never looked into a software development internship. I'm consistently one of the top students in my EE programming classes, but I'm definitely not as good as the kids that have been programming since middle school. But at this point, I'm sick of recruiting for business internships and seriously considering switching.

I came into the business school thinking it would give me a broad array of choices, but it's funneled me to either investment banking or management consulting. I feel like I'm better suited for software development or a startup, but I'm afraid of risking a safe / prestigious job at an investment bank after I graduate.

I know it's "never too late," but I feel like my software dev prospects are nowhere near my banking prospects with about 1.5 years to graduation. What should I do?
Don't forget Mitsubishi.
Truer words have never been spoken. I wish those who send the "Tommies" of today, realize what war is like. They do not call it the Ultimate sacrifice for nothing. Let us make sure that sacrifice was not for trivial and hollow matters.

But whilst we remember, let us not forget our returning veterans need help, both financial, medical and with integrating back into the norms of civilian life after two brutal conflicts.

I believe Wilfred Owen summed it up best, with his poem Dulce et Decorum http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
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It's cold in hell tonight.
> Would you use these crystals in your kitchen if they were called “super delicious umami crystals?”

I use those crystals in my kitchen and they are labelled "monosodium glutamate" (Ajinomoto). A pound of that easily lasts me 2 years. You only need a dash here and there (and only if it isn't umami on its own).

I also eat/use Parmesan, Dashi, tomatoes, and so forth.
I think it's a matter of recency.

If FDR (the US president when Saudi Arabia was named) renamed the US, "The United States of Roosevelt" it would have raised some eyebrows.

The only contemporary item on your list is Jordan.
Of course it is a science, but most critics of it should remember that it is a social science, and comes with all of the difficulty of proof that all social sciences suffer from. There are some common principles of the field that have strong theoretical and empirical foundations, and the rest of them are trying to make do with the constraints forced upon them by virtue of working with humans.

The principle of Supply and Demand is one that has so much historical empirical evidence that it might as well be called a physical law...but we can't call it that because the principle relies on human cognition, culture, and other non-deterministic influences. Trade theory also has an extremely strong empirical evidence. A lot of microeconomics is also very emprical, and even has a lot of experimental control mechanisms for which macroeconomics does not. Still, we can accept these ideas as true beyond any reasonable doubt. However, we have an extremely long way to go before the rest of the field catches up to the same standards.
Couldn't a language-bridge library use Java reflection to accomplish a lot of what's needed?
Oh I think it it was for the return value of cond.
Try searching for "wax". The pictures alternate between what I expected and pictures of random buildings.

Hmm, don't try searching for wax on second thoughts. I scrolled a bit further and there's a tonne of man-on-man bondage (unless that's what you'd like to see).
No, this is just silliness. It would be very dangerous (as they claim our whole structure of the society is racist, which means to combat racism we need to destroy it and rebuild anew, along the lines prescribed by these guys - and every attempt I know to do this in history ended in disaster) if anybody would take them seriously, but I don't think anybody does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MnY59V0exw
Being resident in China, I learned by some means that I was legally expected to have my passport on me at all times. Do I actually carry it around with me? Of course not; that would be a good way to lose it (which, unlike just not having it with you, will severely aggravate the government).

Just the fact that you're officially supposed to carry papers with you doesn't indicate much.
There's a huge difference between "we don't have tests and we don't see the value in automated testing", and "we don't have tests right now, but automated testing and process improvements are something we're working on". I suspect you're talking about the latter, whereas OP is talking about the former.

Culture is a lot harder to change than code. If the people already there don't see the value in process improvement, then attempting to introduce any sort of process improvement will be a Sisyphean task. You'll make progress only to see it get rolled back time and again by teammates who just don't believe in what you're doing.

Take automated tests as an example. I have worked at a place where I committed automated tests and configured them to run before build. Then, I got a bug report for a module I had worked on and wrote a test suite for. The test suite should have caught the bug... had it not been disabled by another developer who'd committed the breaking change and, instead of investigating why the test failed, just dropped @ignore annotations until the tests passed again. That's the sort of thing that OP is warning against. Life isn't long enough to spend time bashing your head into walls like that.
The dots in your basic 300dpi monochrome laser printer's output are black or white, but on a 300ppi screen you could antialias with grey pixels (or even subpixels as you note), which can boost perceived smoothness/quality a lot. Figure here conveys a difference between PPI and DPI pretty well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch#DPI_or_PPI_in_dig...
If "moving" includes "rotating": We can tell the Earth is rotating because its shape approximates an oblate spheroid, not a sphere.
It's because the word evolved during the 20th century into a mild pejorative. Similar to the word "gypsy." Occidental isn't disliked because nobody ever called anyone an Occidental in a sneering way.
The reason this was posted by Tesla is so that they control the message. The mainstream media would love to take an incident like this and completely turn in it around to make a news story out of it. But because Tesla has already written about the incident, it makes trying to spin it in a negative light much harder, as Tesla will not need to take a defensive position.
I can understand it. In these days of constant public and private surveillance, some people want a haven and want it to be consistently safe. One of the great selling points of Linux is that it was such a haven. Linux was supposed to be one of the few things left which wasn't trying to make a buck by watching you.

Ubuntu's little Amazon search wasn't very much compared to what Google, Facebook, or the NSA have been up to, but it was still a violation of the spirit of Linux and the unspoken rules and customs many people expect from OSS. For many people, this is a betrayal.
You can measure some crime without convictions. I.e. by ones being reported by crime's victims, or, in the case of homicide, by finding the victims murdered. Some crime like infamous "victimless" crimes can't be found this way, but my opinion is those probably shouldn't exist anyway as crimes.
With all respect towards your implied bitter experiences that led to your leaving academia, it's not the mediocre who stay (though I've met mediocre researchers). Mostly, it's the people who have a very good chance at a permanent job, which is a combination of the following factors:

* The incredibly workaholic

* The incredibly specialized into a well-funded field

* The incredibly skilled

* The incredibly good at the scientific method

* The incredibly savvy at the academic game

* The lucky bastards

* The even more incredible scientific polymaths

I'd say that any combination of two of the above factors will suffice to keep someone on the academic track for a while longer. Note how rare those factors actually are.
I applaud Wallmart. They have been allowing this for awhile.
Yeah. This is one place where startups have a distinct advantage over established firms. Established firms tend to have home-grown build and deployment systems, either because they started writing code before open source versions of those systems became available or because of straight up NIH. Startups, on the other hand, aren't big enough to tolerate that kind of wastefulness. They use as much open-source and standardized software as possible, simply because they don't have the time or manpower to write non-business code.
No, the fact that the supposed fact cannot actually be supported except by assuming the non-demonstrable non-existence (or irrelevance) of several other kinds of bias is not an "unimportant nitpick", as it means that the "fact" is nothing of the sort, but a conclusion based in non-falsifiable conjecture.

(Note that I haven't said anything about whether or not its "racist" -- that's your deal -- I'm just saying that characterizing it as a fact is unjustifiable.)
Have you ever the MobStub Facebook ads? They choose one item a day people really like/need (iPhone chargers for cheap) and feature it daily. Do something similar for your biz. Love the concept btw - saying this as a person experienced in the hashtag space (check my profile).
I have been pretty pissed at Canonical lately for a number of missteps they have made but a few of them do seem like legitimate mistakes. Mark is not really a PR guy and you can tell - a lot of what he has done has just kind of fanned the flames. I don't think I need to remind you, but even in a sarcastic tone, "open source tea party" and "we have root" are inflammatory things to say. I think he addresses some of these problems pretty well in this post, and I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt here. Think about all that he has accomplished and the amount that Ubuntu has helped the Linux community grow.

So kudos to him for having the balls to apologize. I accept that apology, and I think that a lot of people (including myself) have had some venomous things to say about him as well as Canonical which probably weren't fair. So we could probably all back off here and focus on the real issues.

...but...

He's still not talking about the two elephants in the room.

The Unity lens is fundamentally fucked up. It should be opt-in. Period. It's clearly an infringement on users' privacy and totally not in the spirit of libre software or Linux. I can't really trust Canonical - even though they've given us all so much - because of this issue. So long as they don't back down from this I'm going to look at everything they do with a critical and possibly cynical eye... it just clearly looks like they're selling out their users. It is really just sad to see them selling out to Amazon like this, and I wish it didn't have to be this way. I can't really fathom the amount of money Mark has spent on Ubuntu. I don't really know how he can make it work as a business. But the Amazon search in the lens just seems like a morally wrong and short-sighted way to go.

The second issue which we all need to address is Mir. The technical arguments are completely over my head, but I feel like Canonical hasn't fully made the case for why they've decided to fragment the community and do their own thing. This could just be me not understanding what's going on, but pretty much everyone who's developing this stuff seems to be on Wayland's side... why is that (and is that)? It's worth considering, but I feel like Canonical should be engaging the community, although with all the flaming that goes on I can see why they don't. We all want the best free software we can get, but some serious thought needs to be devoted to the ramifications and rationale for having two display servers.

So that's the end of this long rant - let me know what you think.
As a dev that hasn't been able to move to Py3 yet (but will soon), I'm wishing they'd fix the rest of the issues, bundle PyPy, and ship Python 4 instead! Make it a compelling upgrade.

Then Py3 could be nicknamed "Vista," I suppose.
Scaling Scala vs Java
Have you tried any of the freelance sites (oDesk, Elance, Guru, etc.)?

My two concerns would be the rate and the amount of time it takes to become somewhat established on these sites, but I believe some flexibility on the rate--which wouldn't seem unreasonable given the situation you describe--could help there (and my understanding is that some developers can raise their rates there to something approaching professional levels, with experience).
Where did any statement like "our whole structure of the society is racist" appear? What attempts are you referring to? Noel Ignatiev is still stationed as a professor at a university, as are many of his colleagues in the same vein of thought like David R. Roediger.
I don't really like this phrasing:

"1.85 million CCTV cameras in the UK, of which 1.7M were privately owned, 0.03M"

And the later argument about proportions:

"That's 92% of them under private ownership. They exist, by and large, to deter criminals from breaking into and stealing from stores and commercial..."

I'm curious about the distribution of the 0.03M (30,000) cameras apparently "fixed" and publicly owned. If they are concentrated in certain regions, which is more like what I think I've read about before, then you really do have surveillance centers.
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I think this is pretty interesting and it even makes intuitive sense, but I'm curious if it has been validated in any way through historical analysis?
Assertions that 'economics is not a science' are almost certain to be followed by some confident conclusion specifically related to economics that sounds like common sense, but contradicts anything that makes sense after applying any rigor.
"Meanwhile, left-wing students steeped in Political Correctness regularly attempt to shut down and silence speakers that offend them"

Really? I've seen much more of this from Zionist organizations, even on my own campus. Do you denounce the phenomenon of Zionist PC, where every criticism of Irsaeli government policy is offensive and anti-Semitic? Where professors lose their jobs for supporting BDS campaigns? That sure sounds like a load of PC "lynch-mobbing" to me. I wonder why I never hear anyone call it that.
Sure, it's not hard, but there are some things that are challenging, like controlling customer expectations without upsetting them, making deadlines, or moving deadlines.
I don't think it's the people living out of their car who're delusional.
Please think a little bit about (a) not being condescending and (b) that the scenario you painted is ONE in a range of scenarios for a 400 VDC system with enough energy to propel a 4,000 pound vehicle a few hundred miles. I am not going to get into hypotheticals. All I am saying is that elecric cars have inherent dangers not found in gasoline cars. You can stand in a puddle of gasoline and you'll be OK.
Why would you want to sign up for the "Catastrophic Plan"? From my calculations here in Ohio, you could have actual coverage for not much more?