skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the stop & frisk policy the author is writing about is legal in NYC & ex-Mayor Bloomberg was a big proponent, going as far as saying New York police stop whites too often and nonwhites not often enough[0].

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyregion/bloomberg-says-ma...
Like you, I hardly ever maximize windows. I have Win8.1 on my work laptop and the only reason I didn't reformat it is because of StartIsBack. With StartIsBack, I basically get all the benefits of Win8 with very few of the drawbacks.
I think Windows 8.1 is a lot closer to the classic Windows experience than Windows 8 for e.g. If you select the option to boot directly in the Desktop mode.

My mother (55) recently switched from XP to Windows 8.1. Except for 1 - 2 days of initial hurdle she didn't needed my help at all. She is by no means a computer person ...
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Tony Stevenson, on the Apache infrastructure team, seems to think it is:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?page=com.at...
Some interesting discussion going on in this ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524
As a student with the summer semester on the horizon, being able to pick new classes and things to learn about makes me happy and gives me something to look forward to... But its snowing out right now.

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Bravo. If everyone here thought like you, HN would be the place we want it to be.
It seems to flash the tiles upon movement instead of sliding them. Which is kind of annoying when I try to play it fast.
No, it's real: https://status.github.com/messages
We have a lot of shortages in this world, but human beings aren't one of them. Any incentive for procreating is, at best, antiquated and, at worst, contributing to the overpopulation of the planet.
What if I told you that your skin color is not the same as race?
I would have loved to get that in there, but I finished the win/die screens just minutes before midnight at the end of the 48 hour limit, it almost wasn't winnable at all.. Putting Ganon in would be fun, but I need to call this project finished or I'll just keep adding stuff forever. :)
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Are volatile reads really free?
I wonder if her or her husband ever accessed any of their accounts using their cell phones. I've seen tons of stories lately about Samsung Galaxy phones being compromised so at this point I just assume that if top of the line phones are pwned, then all cell phones are.

I'm kind of shocked that there have been no class action lawsuits on phone manufacturers. Especially from banks.. just imagine the liability of millions of customers getting keylogged no matter what the bank uses to secure its site (even two factor authentication). It's almost unfathomable.

Someone really should make a one time pad login that doesn't work a second time even if you look over the user's shoulder. For example their password could be their favorite song and the site would ask them to enter the 2nd, 3rd and 4th letters of the 5th, 6th and 7th word respectively or something. Or how about a custom grid of letters printed on the back of the phone they’d look up positions on so it would have to at least be in someone's physical possession. Or how about a dongle in the headphone jack that's hardcoded and can't be hacked, that the user would type rolling codes through. There has to be a better way of doing this!
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The author's observation is that racial profiling is at the heart of why we have problems with police corruption.

The end of the article argues that racial profiling allows a majority of citizens to ignore problems with policing because abuses are highly concentrated on "other people". This makes police corruption "not my problem".

The problem isn't complacency with the abuses; the problem is that abuses are concentrated on minorities of the population so that the majority of voters/stakeholders don't have enough skin in the game to care.
I looked at the example graphs and thought, what the heck was he trying to prove plotting income and job. Thanks for clarifying.
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> just get in contact with a human or email a few people

I don't know about android development, but when it comes to adsense, I haven't found a way to do that. I even know more than one person who works at google. They told me it's just an algorithm, not a person who decides.
This reminds me of my favorite Java project, designed to make work-in-progress programs look exactly that to non-technical stakeholders who otherwise assume 90% complete UI means 90% complete application.

http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net
So, the overhead I'm referring to isn't so much stuff like function dispatch (which is almost immeasurable with the heavy lifting happening in C), but idiomatic overhead. Creating an anonymous function to map across a lazy sequence wrapping a persistent data structure doesn't have a chance in hell against a native for loop on a native vim list. I actually did quite a bit of optimization in this area (that's where chunked seqs came from), and it's quite usable for many tasks, but it's still potentially bottlenecking so I never really found myself "trusting" it for anything significant.

Of course, I am in a rather unique position of being able to bang out well optimized VimL in my sleep, so paradoxically that biases me against my own creation.
I remember a comment I heard along similar lines about Obama when he was running for president. Some people were saying that he's not actually black, etc...

The simple rebuttal is: In 1950s America, which water fountain would he be made to use? Which school would he be put in? Where on the bus would he sit?

Mixed race individuals get treated every bit as badly. So making the distinction is not helpful when talking about racial abuse, it only serves to distract from the core issue at hand.
>Typical Americans.

Must you begin your comment on an article about discrimination by using a stereotype?
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A long time ago (by internet standards), Joel talked about that too in the context of software development, how appearance convey some degree of completion to people who can't see inside the source code. This led to this: http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/
Riding on the back of the bus gets you to the same bus stops, clearly. Yet we rejected Jim Crow laws decades ago as unsuitable in our modern society.

Letting some citizens ride on the 'civil union' bus, and others on the 'marriage' bus is what's at issue. Its still wrong to discriminate in this way, especially if the majority vote to give themselves the better seats.

I imagine its hard to feel the humiliation of sitting in the back of the bus, if you never have to do it yourself. It took Rosa Parks to make it plain to all of us, that the institution was racist, intentionally belittling and wrong.
Although the discussion is still ongoing. Either it's real or they've really put some serious effort into this one and I will be quite impressed!
As a black NYC resident I'm actually surprised by this. Stop and frisk is a major violation of the rights of those stopped without cause but I have generally viewed it as more of a class issue than a race issue. I have never been stopped by the police in this manner. I was once stopped by the police on the iffy charge that I was in the park after dark while walking home late and I told the officer I was cutting through the park because I had work in the morning and I heard about muggings in the neighborhood and the park seemed the fastest and safest way home. The cop seemed to be caught off guard and quickly ended the confrontation. Furthermore, none of my (very middle to upper middle class) black friends have complained about being victims of stop and frisk.

My studiomate who is a filmmaker actually spoke with some local teens who were frequently harassed by the stop & frisk policy and I felt guilty that a few meager class signifiers seem to get me off the hook so easily [0].

That said the author's other accounts of having to be cautious of unintentionally provoking police do ring true my experience and stories from my family and friends.

0. https://vimeo.com/87532909
This is exactly what they wrote in the conclusions IMO. What don't you like about their version of expressing it?
Awesome.. Id like to try is but it doesn't do compass?
Yeah slavery was ok, as long as you didn't have to be one.
A neat write-up of the algorithm used can be found here: http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/The%20Quake3%20Networking%2...
Obsolete player position data is worse than no player position data.
Really? You might have been lucky there, because I always maximize my windows on a 14-inch screen.

What Windows 8 doesn't give you while full screen is the task bar, which used to show the user what is behind the active program.

Users don't like not knowing what's going on.
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"30% of the planet's GDP" more like 20% actually, 25% tops
I'm not sure that's the right approach either. They're not reevaluating their policies. They believe they did nothing wrong. Clearly some amateur hacker is the one exposing emails, probably from another source.
How about the mission to Mars? What repository of data should they take with them and what should they pull across space at analogue modem speed?
I read their Jira thread, and I was convinced it was a joke, too. The project manager mentioned some poll that no one else had heard of, and then other people kept coming up with reasons as to why it made sense to have had a short poll for such a major issue. I just assumed they were stringing everyone else along. :P

Honestly, if this isn't a joke, I think it doesn't really make SVN look bad (or dead). SVN's remaining proponents keep arguing that it works well in a corporate environment, while they agree that git is better for large, open-source projects. Well, SVN is a large, open-source project.

I'm still betting it's a joke, though.
I don't know why you were downvoted; it's the same thing in CS. Why else would we reduce all sorts of algorithms to simpler big-O notation other than to convey the more important concepts of complexity tradeoffs in algorithms? Also, Fermi estimation (always relevant: http://what-if.xkcd.com/84/)
While I don't agree with the stop & frisk policy, let's all be honest: racial stereotypes exist for a reason, fair or not.

This is a treatment of a symptom, not of the cause.
Yeah the children thing is a red herring. Couples may get married in every state who are past the child-bearing age, or even infertile.
It works great in IE11 on my Surface 2, for what it's worth.
Great idea.

SEEKING for gems in the jungle:
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To be honest, I'm not sure if there's actually a path forward here. But I'd love to team up with a marketer if there's any that sees potential in the idea.
I run Debian + Xfce and it's extremely good, stable, and modern; if there was a Wine that would work with all apps, we would be there.
I would be an interesting challenge to automatically generate XKCD graphs from real data (simplify, exaggerate, render as hand-drawn etc) in the same spirit as non-photorealistic rendering.
Neat software hack? Yes.

Neat hardware hack? Yes.

Use a meme image in a non-annoying way? Yes.

Help a person in need to create their own hacks? Yes.

Awesome submission.
Even switching off the touch capability would be worthwhile, so you could only use voice. (hands-free)
Yeah race is almost meaningless as a distinction. We're not pedigreed horses or dogs. Skin color is a trivial genetic trait as well.
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the stop & frisk policy the author is writing about is legal

There is a law which supports it. But that law might well be unconstitutional, in which case the policy it supports is not necessarily legal.
Have you requested accommodation?
Uh… what?

Maybe you accidentally hit reply before elaborating on “racial stereotypes exist for a reason”.
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You're absolutely right. ASICs can include ram internally or use external ram modules just like a computer. General purpose processors are generally cheaper and more effective for memory intensive applications.
AngularJS isn't MVC, it's SDC
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What about something for the server market? I know some companies have been switching to ARM chips as a low-power alternative in large server farms. It seems a 64-bit chip might be a good fit in that market.
I work for a reasonably large company that is now in the middle of transitioning all its Windows XP PCs to Windows 7. I imagine that it's the same for many businesses that support a large population. Windows 8 represents a larger retraining burden and hasn't been around long enough for the IT support to be comfortable with it. This report doesn't surprise me at all.
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The top answer about HyperLogLog on stackoverflow links to this awesome visualization: http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/science/blog/hll.html

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But why would you want apps running fullscreen? Why would you want that at the exclusion of every other option??

Sure, we're often fullscreen, but for many tasks being able to have multiple windows (hint!) on the screen is really helpful.

W8 takes this away and doesn't give anything in return.
And it has an immense selection of music and video. I mean, positively incredible. Before Spotify swept up just about every single artist ever known to man, VK was the place to find recordings of even that obscure 80s band you saw down the New Cross tavern on a Tuesday night with seven other people and a dog. Better selection than Oink in its heyday. And if you're Russian, there's no reason to ever go anywhere else for film or television.
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"Let's be honest"? Don't involve the rest of us in your disgusting statements.
The regularity of the wobbles makes me think there's something wrong with my monitor. Very unsettling.
Sounds sort of like OmniOutliner with plugins.
I came here to say exactly this - the purposeful imprecision in plots doesn't come from squiggly lines (which I consider unprofessional in many contexts), it comes from the lack of axes numbers. That first xkcd plot is the worst possible combination of communicating false precision while looking silly.

Context is also important. Sometimes, your audience will want to know exact numbers and imprecise plots will look bad. Imprecise plots should only be used to explicitly show a trend, which your audience should be expecting. If this is the context, they'll understand and squiggly lines are unnecessary.
Honestly, I think that stable, modern operating system is Windows 7. I was at Best Buy looking at computers recently. I asked if I could get one with Windows 7. The sales associate was practically grinding his teeth telling me that no, I could not. "So what if I want a computer that works well as a laptop rather than an extra-bulky tablet?" "Well if you're interested in Macs, we have a lot of nice options over here that fit that bill..." Ouch.
Correct, it may be unconstitutional but I believe the case is still in court and for now it is still policy in NYC. Since it is current NYC city policy and has not yet been definitively ruled unconstitutional I think it's fair to call the practice "legal in NYC."
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What, besides phone records, does the NSA collect in bulk?
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You maximize because your screen real estate is limited. Try doing the same in an 27-inch screen and it will look quite inconvenient.

Which brings me to one of my everlasting questions, although somehow unrelated to the topic. Why aren't screens square?
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Not to mention that you get special consideration / tax treatment from the federal government if you have kids regardless of marital status. For example you don't have to be married to claim children as dependents. The marriage [benefits are for children]/children angle is wrong therefore wrong in two respects.
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Did you read the article? These guys are leasing MBPs, not Dell Inspirons. Your MBP depreciation numbers ($2000->$500 in 5 years) are also wrong.
This service has been existing in Europe for a while. It’s not nearly as polished, though.

Yes, it requires a initial investment, but with a big insurance (fraud is rampant and breakage astounding) a bank would be happy to pay against easily re-sold inventory.

The key differentiating factor is the minimum rental time: you can offer any period, but One-day rentals require a different logistic than a year.

I would personally love to see a meaningful One-week option because my MBAir needs new batteries, and I can’t imagine stepping away from it more than a day. If Apple could afford that through its Official Repair Partner, I’d be a happy man.
Packet loss is usually due to upstream router congestion - you can send packets to your router much faster than it can forward them over a much-slower link to your ISP. SO loss depends upon your burst size/interval and your router buffer size.

Wireless still has interesting(?) packet-loss behaviors. It can lose single packets, bursts of packets or even too-large packets (MTU exceeded). It depends on the AP and your local radio noise characteristics.