skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cute, but the reality is that if you impose a severe tax on people who behave in a certain way, those people are going to expect something in return to justify the discrimination. Using tax as a weapon for implementing social policy is always a dangerous path, and it will remain so until politicians don't always have to answer to their electorates sooner or later.
How clever of them to "bury" all the privacy settings in a Settings menu called "Privacy".
Plus it gives me local public transport bus/underground trains/ferries/... in most major city areas. There are reserved spaces in trains and I can use the DB lounges where available. Also you can take your children with you for free in trains.

Another plus, which I haven't used: you can send you luggage (max 30kg) for free on workdays home to home.
Another cool piece of mechanics this reminded me of: the Master Lock Speed Dial (https://toool.nl/images/e/e5/The_New_Master_Lock_Combination...). I think there's an animation of the internals somewhere out there, too.
Nest Learning Thermostat and the peril of automatic software updates
Mega Millions and Powerball odds: Can you ever expect a ticket to be profitable?
Yes, that could be a problem. In an efficient market the total mining costs for the network (and thus the cost to achieve 51% of mining power) will tend to be slightly less than the value received from block rewards and fees. It's also the main reason I don't foresee alt-coins proliferating. People will prefer the most secure network.

There are other ways to "fund" the network security: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Funding_network_security https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157141.msg1665332#ms... I don't know if these schemes would work if the value drops too low though.
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but does that mean we should treat gang-related graffiti intended to intimidate the same way we treat some dumb suburban kids playing a prank?

Same property damage, same punishment, IMO. "Justice is blind" and all that jazz...

On the other hand, this shit isn't all theoretical and academic, and life isn't all about idealism.

What is life "about" then? Do you have any principles, or is it just "let me get mine and f%#@ everybody else"?

I have a wife and a kid and we live here and sometimes walk home from work late at night, and I'm not going to complain if the police crack some heads in the process of keeping the gang violence to a low simmer.

Easy to say when it's not your head being cracked.

I think this makes me less morally culpable than the other middle/upper class people ...

I'd tell you what I think it makes you, but it would probably get me banned from HN.
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then how do you apply that law to everyone? only white people can ride dirt bikes? only people not in gangs can? the arrest should be for riding dirt bikes in a gang then, because part of the burden of the law is making it clear what it stands for
This was a great read, especially as our startup gets closer to launch and we need to keep in mind both the value of rejection, and the philosophy of always trying as hard as we possibly can. The 100 hours specifically can be debated for job applications and etc., but the idea behind it is hard to argue against.
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I'm going to state an uncomfortable truth. As somebody who has seen more than a few horrible interview failures - how about you put in a 100 hours of work before you come to the interview?

Not for the company, but for yourself. And not doing fancy resumes with songs and pictures, but learning the basics of what you're actually doing? Because I'm fairly certain that most interview rejections are due to the fact that your qualifications are insufficient, not because your resume wasn't fun enough.
Is there anything wrong with LESS + Autoprefixer? I'm using Sass + Autoprefixer on a project currently and it works just fine.
I think you're misreading the symptom as the cause. What's claimed is that black people are arrested more, even if they don't commit more crimes. Thus, the statistics will not necessarily reflect reality, but rather the alleged bias in arrest and prosecution.

I agree with your final paragraph, though. We as a society have an obligation to try to correct all forms of injustice, whether it's biased enforcement and prosecution, cultural isolation, or financial immobility.
At least according to author Matthew B. Crawford, Henry Ford did not raise wages out of the goodness of his heart, so his workers could afford to buy cars themselves.

From his original Shop Class as Soulcraft essay:
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-sou...
"Given their likely acquaintance with such a cognitively rich world of work, it is hardly surprising that when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line in 1913, workers simply walked out. One of Ford’s biographers wrote, “So great was labor’s distaste for the new machine system that toward the close of 1913 every time the company wanted to add 100 men to its factory personnel, it was necessary to hire 963.”

This would seem to be a crucial moment in the history of political economy. Evidently, the new system provoked natural revulsion. Yet, at some point, workers became habituated to it. How did this happen? One might be tempted to inquire in a typological mode: What sort of men were these first, the 100 out of 963 who stuck it out on the new assembly line? Perhaps it was the men who felt less revulsion because they had less pride in their own powers, and were therefore more tractable. Less republican, we might say. But if there was initially such a self-selection process, it quickly gave way to something less deliberate, more systemic.

In a temporary suspension of the Taylorist logic, Ford was forced to double the daily wage of his workers to keep the line staffed. As Braverman writes, this “opened up new possibilities for the intensification of labor within the plants, where workers were now anxious to keep their jobs.” These anxious workers were more productive. Indeed, Ford himself later recognized his wage increase as “one of the finest cost-cutting moves we ever made,” as he was able to double, and then triple, the rate at which cars were assembled by simply speeding up the conveyors. By doing so he destroyed his competitors, and thereby destroyed the possibility of an alternative way of working. (It also removed the wage pressure that comes from the existence of more enjoyable jobs.) At the Columbian World Expo held in Chicago in 1893, no fewer than seven large-scale carriage builders from Cincinnati alone presented their wares. Adopting Ford’s methods, the industry would soon be reduced to the Big Three. So workers eventually became habituated to the abstraction of the assembly line. Evidently, it inspires revulsion only if one is acquainted with more satisfying modes of work."

I think every worker in America should read Crawford's superb book, btw.
i can't say i understood what he was talking about after the "What is TED?" part but I understand that he thinks you can't take deep, complex analysis into these subjects and easily break it down into simple solutions and explain it to the world. But.. I don't see anything wrong with that. TED is just spreading more insightful ideas out there. If it's not helping the audience, then yeah, maybe there needs to be a better mechanism for organizing their talks or something, I don't know.

The only thing that scared me about TED is Eddie Huang's experience in this video about how enforcing they are in spreading their ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwLMBdnbXk . Which does kind of make me see, oh obviously there's something manipulative about their schemes in some way.

But anyways, I haven't looked into TED that much other than watching a few of their videos and reading their about page.
"piss people off who have the power to screw with your life"

Silly me, I thought the whole point of a formal professional justice system was to fix that, not make it worse.
I've started a similar thing, but much more bare bones and meant for really digging through things. There's almost no presentation layer done other than just setting up Bootstrap defaults. It's meant to be something you go fully custom on the design, and hopefully it is as much of a "reset" as it can be.

The theme is here: http://shoelace-theme.helloerik.com/
the repo: https://github.com/erikflowers/shoelace-theme

It's built on the hybrid-base pre starter theme: http://themehybrid.com/themes/hybrid-base

It's not a theme you use as is, its just a starter that is meant to be hacked apart as needed, but it has the bootstrap Less and your own less already started, and the html/php stuff is stubbed out for a lot easier manipulation.

I made it with the intent that you should have to do as little "undoing" of a theme as possible, which is why there are almost no custom layouts or designs.

It's 0.0.0, as I am just getting started. Definitely not worth a HN submission, but I would be really interested in seeing what people think of this approach in comparison to the OP's, which is great and I commend and admire the efforts.
I seem to make that mistake often when explaining where something is. Perhaps its due to iOS's counterpart, OS X, having 'System Preferences'.
It's interesting to compare what the code looks like.

CPPSP (C++ Server Pages) which is putting up ridiculous numbers... here is the Single Query test:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

It's quite different from the more typical implementations, where they all sort of look the same...

(Go) https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

(NodeJS) https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

(Gemini) https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Also interesting to compare it to C# / HttpListener... which would benefit from moving all the framework code out into a separate library;

(C#/HTTP.sys) https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
I had to look this up after a previous comment I saw [0] mention it. Anything to try to improve my CSS skills.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6909959
Here’s my favorite operating systems war story, what’s yours?
I bet the police dispatch described the suspect as a young black man wearing jeans and a black hoodie.
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One can write an O(n^2) that should be an O(n) algorithm in Java just as easily as Python.

Bad code is bad code. On the scale of encouraging good practices and discouraging bad ones, Python does pretty well given the very low overhead to get started-- something Java does not have.
Would be interested to hear the outcome. The letter to the client is snarky:
"I’ve only been running companies for 3 years now so I don’t have nearly the experience as <redacted>, but it’s been my experience that when spending money generates more than the spend, it’s always a good idea to continue and even increase that action."

I would have briefly summarized the return on the client's money in bulleted form and omitted nearly everything else. Have you actually measured or estimated the ROI based on the improvements you stated?
I don't think that developers hated Python 3. They hated to having to rewrite/fix a ton of 3. party modules. For a long time the improvements in Python 3 simply wasn't worth the hassle of dealing with incompatibilities.
(Not defending the specific magnitude, just the principle.)

It's a stupid principle. It totally fucking distorts the most basic idea behind a system of equal "justice".
Entire post comparing php, a language, against rails standards and bias about what a framework should be. How about you compare php against ruby or python for web development, there it is obvious how php got where it and why it is here to stay. Or how about we compare rails to symfony or fuel or even zend, then we're getting to where the real contention points are.

In any case, can we stop using php4 in comparisons against frameworks still in their diapers.
The point is that as with dating, there's a penalty (in some cases fatal) that comes with trying too hard -- you just come off as cloying and desperate. The OP clearly exceeded that threshold, by leaps and bounds.
It's pretty mind-blowing that in 2012 there were more girls given the name Yaretzi or Teagan than Erica or Tiffany.
(now, if the government were willing to buy user information at market prices, Google and Facebook at least seem totally cool with that based on their ever-expanding directed marketing businesses :P).

Huh?
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Yes, I didn't know about it :). I'll probably go with autoprefixer, but with Myth I could also use some of the other features and perhaps aim for a slow transition from LESS to CSS over the coming years.
You are also in Silicon Valley, from what I remember Treehouse was in Orlando and Portland, I imagine Orlando especially is way cheaper on both a salary and overhead cost
I like the benchmark and I appreciate the work that was put into, but Erlang is missing again.

If you don't even consider Erlang you won't miss it. But if you know it has some strengths for this kind of job and you don't mind the syntax, you'd like to see it compared to other solutions.
No, you're not alone. When they offer data, a lot of us think, "Oh, goodie, some interesting data!" We hustle over there to learn something new and learn it quickly.

If instead we are treated to a demonstration of javascript media virtuosity that buries the actual data too deeply to be worth extracting, we get annoyed and complain: "Where's the beef?" (But I don't think there's anybody back there[1].)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug75diEyiA0
Same here on Windows 7:

http://i.imgur.com/i5GwqIN.png?1

"Variablcs"?
I'm fascinated, borderline in love with gears, cams and engines, such as rotary http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/howroundcom/roundness/... or others (I found fun ones on youtube but lost the urls).

If anyone knows reference or current research about their mathematical side I'd be glad to read it.
But all of these figures are funny money, and usually subject to variation by at least a factor of 2 if you ask the critics, at least some of whom have valid points to make. The reality is that we don't know what a project like this is really going to cost, economically or otherwise, until we're at least a significant part of the way through implementing it.

Whether that actually matters is a different question, because the realistic alternative isn't that nothing will happen instead and taxpayers will suddenly get a £1,000+ windfall, it's that a broadly similar amount of government funding will be used for other purposes. Many of the interesting questions in this debate are qualitative ones about which general areas should be funding priorities and what the overall national infrastructure strategy should be. And many of the interesting questions that are quantitative are about opportunity costs as much as what will/would be spent on one massive project.
It's only an issue on Windows because Chrome uses GDI to render text there, instead of DirectWrite like Firefox/IE use.
I wonder how many are merely 'consulting' or not even that, just on a 3 month tourist?
> Only if we're punishing them under the same circumstances, which I don't agree is necessarily the case. I think we should punish someone who marks graffiti in order to mark gang territory or intimidate others more harshly than someone who does it as a prank.

This feels like it should make sense, but I think misses the forest for the trees. It's an example what I'd refer to as first-order thinking, or looking only at the immediate situation.

We need to be striving for higher order thinking. That is, we need to be looking at follow-on effects, which I'll analogize to looking at the second and later derivatives of a function, or looking at other elements in an interconnected feedback system (in the control theory sense).
Fantasia, An interactive theorem prover with an embedded extraction engine.
>They just killed their print edition for good last year.

Minor nit - only because it's so recent. They just killed their print edition for good last week. Thursday, to be exact. I know they dropped a bunch of cities last year though so maybe you're thinking of that.
I was once watching tv, it was 01:00 in the morning and I was about to go to sleep. Then I changed the channel and there was this old movie of samurais in japanese, in black and white, just for curiosity I gave it 2 min. Then I couldn't stop watchin till the end, it was that good. I learned at the end that it was Kurosawa' seven samurais. An amazing film, really.
DataKind (which looks very interesting!) doesn't explicitly ask for NYC-based volunteers, but most of their events seem to have been there or in DC. Do you know of anything similar that is more online, or perhaps Seattle based?
A lot of the text looks bad in Firefox on XP.
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He wasted valuable city resources on an experiment the
outcome of which he should have predicted, being a
criminal attorney in Roxbury.

See, I think the opposite - how can upstanding members of society like me claim to hold an informed opinion about the justice system when the closest I've ever come is watching the TV show 'Prison Break'?

You don't learn to program by watching a movie - you learn by trying it, getting hands-on experience. You don't learn to dance or do sports by reading a book - you learn by getting up and moving, getting hands-on experience. You don't become a judge without seeing the inside of a courtroom. You don't become a poet or a film maker or a musician without trying it. You don't qualify as surgeon without hands on experience or qualify as a pilot without hands on experience or train as a mechanic by watching 'the fast and the furious'.

In all these areas, we acknowledge that fiction and second hand reports aren't a substitute for first-hand experience.

So how can you and I claim to know anything about the justice system if we have no first hand experience?

Don't all of us who care about law and order have a responsibility to inform ourselves about how the system works, as the author of this article has done?
All custom fonts look like a disaster on Chrome in Windows. It's the only browser that uses GDI to render text in Windows where Firefox/IE use DirectDraw. All fonts end up being rendered very thin, and if they're thin to start with, that causes discontinuities in the glyphs. It also affects the color; the rendered color may be significantly different than the text color specified in CSS.

It's been an open bug on Chromium/Chrome for several years.
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They trot an African kid out on stage who built something out of recycled parts, and everybody instantly connects to him, understands the plights of his existence, and shares in the celebration of his achievement.

That was the one that turned me off to TED for good. It just felt awful to watch. Like watching Shamu chase the ball at SeaWorld. I could almost hear a "majestic and magnificent creature" VoiceOver. I couldn't even watch it all the way through.
> "According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, in the year 2008 black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58.5% of youth arrests for homicide and 67% for robbery."

Arrests. Not convictions, and certainly not "crimes perpetrated."
Of course the letter is snarky. They cancelled a long standing contract with very little notice, no explanation and made it quite clear the decision was final. I avoid feet kissing is such situations ;-)
Do you mind expanding how that >$30k splits between office and medical? Seems insanely high to me, but of course in the UK we don't have to cover medical insurance.
Go also suffers heavily when resource constrained - eg, run on EC2 or digital ocean which most people here are going to be running on. The large amount of garbage generated by Go paired with stop the world GC is the reason there. If you're running directly on high processor machines without much disk access then Go is a good bet, otherwise you'd nearly always be better off with Java - especially when you consider how many well tested OSS libraries are available for everything.
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What a fantastic video!
Obviously everybody should be busted for riding dirt bikes in cities, particularly in gangs (riding in gangs inherently means that several other traffic laws are being broken as well, and when they scatter when police try to stop them you throw in all sorts of additional crimes...)

In unpopulated areas? I'm sure the local police have methlabs to worry about, but sure, arrest them too if they ride on the street or trespass.

I am not saying that a racial discrepancy in enforcement is acceptable. I am just saying that the police taking issue with somebody riding around the city on a dirt bike is not necessarily the police making a mountain out of a molehill. If they are arresting only black people that do this, then the problem is that they are not also arresting white people that do it.
The reasoning is that if you can't nail them for the thing you can't prove, you wing them with the thing you can.
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And the problem with that reasoning is that it conveniently ignores the point that once you start down that path, you start catching a lot of people who aren't Al Capone in your net.
And it still fucking breaks scroll.