skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation is not causation. Of course, there is a correlation between pollution and "depression" (as in "depressive regions") or "desperation", but it is not a direct cause of seemed decline in crime.

My bet is that the decline (or at least shift to less dramatic "technological/financial" crimes) is a cultural phenomena, influenced heavily by cheap and easy credit and media (especially so-called "social media"). It is just not cool or fashionable to be a dumb looter or a "primitive" gangster anymore.

Nowadays one has to be "a clever guy" - a cheater instead of a criminal, an internet tycoon, overcharging credit cards of idiots who had ordered a colon cleanser form a stupid website, instead of simple armed robber of a drugstore on the corner.

This works even for Russia, which, putting aside some African extremes, is the most criminalized society in the world. Even for them it is more fashionable to run a porn studio to sell pictures in the net than robbing trucks or brutally killing each other for a used BMW car.

Nowadays one has to be "clever" to steal from the government, to gamble the corrupted [banking] system , cheat on idiots in internet, and even with their own credits and mortgages.

The shift from stupid brutality to technological/financial/social "cleverness" (as they think of it) is what others call "decline in crime".)
Any reason KVM is not included in the analysis? I suppose it'd be also open to this attack?
Especially this. Even worse: they might hear that functional programming is the new trendy thing, and for loops are passe. That you should always bury your control flow in a lot of small callback functions without the appropriate amounts of equational reasoning that must go with it, killing your ability to really debug your programmer. Or they might hear about TDD, and apply it in a very wrong way because they really don't get development very well. Actually, the only thing worse than a non-coding manager is a manager who tries to "keep up" without really being in the game.

A good dev manager is able to see the good over the fad.
Syringe, a service for testing client-side Heartbleed.
>>As a college student, a lot of engineers tell me how much they learnt while working at a startup etc, but is it even worth it if legitimate problem-solving startups are failing like this? Is this model of being funded millions of dollars and then failing worth it? Is this a bubble thats going to burst some day and people will realize the we've just been illogical all the way along?

I can't say one way or another what Square's future is, but I know the the knowledge gained from working in start-ups is _priceless_ in this engineering tech field. Assuming you don't have people depending[1] on you, the earlier you have this experience the better off you'll be. After earning my BSCS I wasted[2] nearly 6 years in a ridiculous situation with a big corp.

Next, is Square really solving a real problem? This[3] is a real problem being solved, imho. The credit card swiping with smartphone/tablet thing I think is just a extremely handy convenience, but still a convenience. Also, as other comments have pointed out, in the next year or 2 there will probably be a huge shift to cards with embedded chips thus magstripe readers will be of limited usefulness.

1. Spouse/children/aging-parents. That's a personal decision; but even then I'd still argue that if you can find anyway to go for it while minimizing the worse-case scenario of things-not-working-out... do it.

2. No experience is truly a waste. If nothing else, I learned to identify when I'm getting played a fool in a dead-end, high-politics job of low career value. It won't take me 6 years to figure it out if it happens again.

3. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gravitylight-lighting-for...
> At the same time, it's kept one controversial feature: Built-in search scopes for such commercial sites as Amazon and eBay

Wow, they really did it.

I searched for "web browser" and am presented with two web browsers "Firefox Web Browser" and "Browser" (?), followed by nine pictures of mens' shoes. A search for "Terminal" suggested Arnold Schwarzenegger holding a gun, and a goth metal singer dressed in a Nazi uniform sticking his tongue out at me.

What a ghastly misfeature. Is a cryptic terminal command really the only way to disable this noise? The linked article couldn't even get it right (it's gsettings, not settings).
A $12B plunging market still has some value to it.
Define "attach peripheral". Is wireless display over DLNA ok?

Smart TVs actually have many nice features many people don't know about, dlna being the most prominent. Universal remote being another of them, with my TV I just say I have device x on hdmi2 and the TV remote will then be able to do almost anything I need to control on that device.

The built in apps are usually crap but I do see the value in having the ability to install them, why should I have to buy yet another device if I just want to watch Netflix, the TV already has the processing power to do so. Although arguably a chromecast is practically free compared to the price of a TV.
I see that you like to post and then once questioned you like to edit the post to address the concerns as if you had written that way all along.

This is HN, not Reddit. When you criticise something you are expected to give a credible reason for that criticism.

You failed in that respect and retrospective attempts are simply not going to cut it.

His business seems to be generating cold hard cash right now. In what world can you say that is not a startup?
The class war part of the interview is interesting because it really highlights the main part where Stalin (and most Leninists) diverged from marxism. You see it clearly in Stalins later statement:

"You, Mr Wells, evidently start out with the assumption that all men are good. I, however, do not forget that there are many wicked men. I do not believe in the goodness of the bourgeoisie."

Where Marx saw capitalists (and workers) as forced by circumstance into playing an inevitable role in society - neither inherently good or bad -, Stalin saw capitalists as "wicked men".

In general, a lot of the worst flaws of the Bolsheviks boils down to the near unwavering belief that they were on the side of good in a battle between good and evil, and an idea of a "working class" that they fetishised as near super-human.

While Marx would agitate against specific people, he would not categorise groups of people in moral terms. He attacked ideas and behaviour, and expected people would change with circumstance: The capitalist behaves like a capitalist because that is what he needs to do to protect his own interests, and if he don't act as a capitalist, he won't remain one - he will eventually face financial ruin and become part of the working class, where he will act as a worker.

In fact, in part I of the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote:

"Altogether collisions between the classes of the old society further, in many ways, the course of development of the proletariat. The bourgeoisie finds itself involved in a constant battle. At first with the aristocracy; later on, with those portions of the bourgeoisie itself, whose interests have become antagonistic to the progress of industry; at all time with the bourgeoisie of foreign countries. In all these battles, it sees itself compelled to appeal to the proletariat, to ask for help, and thus, to drag it into the political arena. The bourgeoisie itself, therefore, supplies the proletariat with its own elements of political and general education, in other words, it furnishes the proletariat with weapons for fighting the bourgeoisie.

Further, as we have already seen, entire sections of the ruling class are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress."

This treatment of a persons class as a matter of circumstance was essential to Marx: Large parts of Marxist theory was based on the foundation that politics in the large is defined by people acting broadly in their self-interest, moderated by their understanding of that interest (e.g. the extent to which a class "buys" the justifications the ruling class gives; consider for example Marx' Critique of the Gotha program, where he points out that the proposed program is meaningless when it writes about "fairness" in part because the current system of distribution is "fair" according to bourgeois standards - without being explicit, the word says nothing)

But the world becomes so much easier to deal with when one can write off ones opponents as "wicked men".
> Still not seeing how "this kind of study can never ascend to the level of discipline (née science)" is something that can be stated without any supporting argument.

If you understood the basics of science, you would know what's missing from an opinion article that picks a quantity at random and discovers a correlation with something else, but without a testable theory about how they might have something to do with each other.

Science requires something, that something can be expressed in s single word, and once that word is uttered, all who hear it will realize why this kind of article cannot represent science. And I am astonished by how few people know this requirement of scientific practice.

Science isn't the answer to the world's problems, but for certain problems, it has no meaningful substitute.
Well considering the "culture" needs to be laid down in a document

The illiad was a tour de force promulgation of culture that pre-dated its written (and many times translated) forms by hundreds of years. This list of empirical examples would be mind-boggling and need not be elaborated here. Whether or not the company in question is one of the exemplars is almost beside the point.
Paris Hilton earned her money as an entertainer. You may not like her, but she didn't flop into a career. She took some seed money (just like Bill Gates) and used it to build her bizarre but profitable little industry.
Another similar company to keep an eye out for is ShopKeep POS. http://www.shopkeep.com/shopkeep-vs-square Found it at the Temple Coffee shops.

I actually enjoy using their interface a lot more than Square, and it seems to be more feature rich on the merchant end too. The main thing I have fun with is the ability to print your signature onto the receipt!

It would be interesting to look into all the developers of these POS swipe machines. What companies fund them? Credit card companies? Grocery store corporations? Just pure profit from sales of the devices? I know I see a lot of innovation on grocery store registers, and a lot of the visa swipe devices have been upgrading their interfaces consistently every few years.
Operating systems: BeOS was written in C++. Genode[0] appears to be written in C++ too. (I'm pretty sure there are quite a few more, but that'll do as an existence proof.)

[0] Granted, that's an "operating system framework", but it's definitely at the same "level" as implementing an OS.
Have you thought about a database to target? I know there are 3rd party tools for SQL Server version control, but haven't been exposed to any for PostgreSQL, which is becoming my database of choice.
I like the approach! I feel that search could use an improvement. I'm using k-means++ at the moment for something and searched for "k-means" which yield no results [1]. I clicked on the link to look at the full-list and found k-means mentioned 3 times, to my surprise.

[1] http://www.metacademy.org/search?q=k-means
At a valuation of a few billion? Tell me what Square could do and Apple cant with those few billions?

Apple, as with its iPhone user base is large enough to offer its own Payment Network to complete with Visa and Mastercard. Although i dont see Apple wanting to do that either.
In C a difference still exists between a lvalue and a rvalue. Even if you can unify something at one level, you have to generate completely different code. C++ is even harder. So I can imagine something can be done when there would be an intention, probably something would have to be a bit more unified. But I guess nobody even tried.

BTW, I really like the basic goals of Rust, namely making something directly linkable with C but having as much as possible safety and more modern features. And I appreciate the work of the developers of Rust. Even introductory materials would benefit by promoting what we can do that wasn't as safe to be done in C.
Hi, I'm Jordan a member of the React core team.

React is only 32kb(gzipped) in the production build (which also has performance optimizations that the development build does not).

We've also found that React helps make the rest of your application code much smaller, which may end up being even more important - but 32kb is certainly reasonable. We're extremely conscientious of page load speed and performance at Facebook which is why we place so much emphasis on React performance - second only to correctness and proper abstraction.
Gates and Zuck were born rich, FYI.
Was it the two of you who added all the content? Did you do it all manually? How long did it take?
To distil - the new employer and their whole team must accommodate you as an individual so you do not piss off your old employer?

Doesn't sound like the interview will go too well if the whole team is expected to work on a Saturday just for you.

Some team members have children, family commitments or simply adhere to the idea that free time is beneficial for employees.

Personally, I would accommodate one candidate interview on a Saturday if they asked for a specific reason; if it was suggested as a regular occurrence I would question his/her judgement.
I enjoyed the blog post mostly because 'misery loves company' and I've been through this same nonsense before.

Bottom line is that when a support system like Panasonic's isn't working for you, quickly to abandon it and resort to a proper business letter sent through the mail. Format it properly, keep it very short and clearly state what you want, and include at least one complement as this works wonders. It takes less time than all the bullshit on the phone, plus I have seen a 100% success rate after resorting to this myself. I do 3-4 a year, easy.

Look up the company's address and CEO, or head of that particular product division. Spend a tiny bit more than normal postage and get signature proof of delivery, it really is worth it.

Include your email address on the printed letter and you will hear back from someone at the company who can actually help you. And be quicker to abandon the traditional support channels when they frustrate you. I'll set a hard limit of 10 minutes to get a human on the phone who sounds competent before I hang up and send a letter. I'll hang up right in the middle of their script, I just don't care anymore. The letters work.
So, keeping in context of my original comment, do you have statistics for how many 60-year-old women are engaged in teenage delinquency?

Keep in mind that the period you're talking about in the US (1993+) is around the start of hysterical anti-crime politicking, with a soaring incarceration rate, and heavily increased funding for policing.

Or for something more relevant to 60-year-old women in the 90s, how about it being more socially acceptable to leave an abusive husband? Or better social support services than previously?

There's a lot of different things that affect crime - I'm not saying in the slightest that any one thing is responsible for crime or lack thereof.
I hope they go on strike, not just contemplate it. They have one of the most dangerous jobs in existence, and this tragedy is only one of many similar incidents over the years. They should be paid a salary consistent with the dangers of their work.
Does microwave boiling remove the gasses trapped in the water? It's what makes water taste flat.
Perhaps if the wealthiest among us suffered more equally the pain of fighting wars and of medical care insecurity, they would invest more heavily in world peace and healthcare, and less on Angry Birds and luxury taxi services. This is why equality of quality of life matters -- to keep us focused on each others' wellbeing.
it would damage their position of everyone developing first for IOS. which is sadly the current state. as soon as those users stop briging money to the publishers, apple will have a phone incompatible with most sites...
Why would any square footage need to be destroyed? Have we run out of rooftops or deserts?

What on earth makes you think you are entitled to deface a desert landscape? Go take a look at the 395 corridor and look at what happened to owens valley. What do you think allows people to live in LA? Who the hell is polluting CA and driving 2-3 hours a day in their cars? Same people who destroyed the eastern escarpment. It's amusing listening to so-called "environmentalists" spew out such ignorance.
Que? I don't feel disempowered by the manifestation of human intellectual achievement. I would dial back your hyperbole. Culture (customs and norms) is an intrinsic aspect of a lot of institutions and organisations and works very well.

Without culture there would be no medical profession, legal profession, military, law enforcement or Silicon Valley.

culture
ˈkʌltʃə/Submit
noun

1.
the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
"20th century popular culture"
synonyms:	the arts, the humanities; More
a refined understanding or appreciation of culture.
"men of culture"
synonyms:	intellectual/artistic awareness, education, cultivation, enlightenment, discernment, discrimination, good taste, taste, refinement, polish; More

2.
the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.
"Afro-Caribbean culture"
synonyms:	civilization, society, way of life, lifestyle; More
the attitudes and behaviour characteristic of a particular social group.
"the emerging drug culture"

3.
BIOLOGY
the cultivation of bacteria, tissue cells, etc. in an artificial medium containing nutrients.
"the cells proliferate readily in culture"
a preparation of cells obtained by culture.
"the bacterium was isolated in two blood cultures"

4.
the cultivation of plants.
"this variety of lettuce is popular for its ease of culture"
synonyms:	cultivation, growing, farming; More

verb
BIOLOGY
verb: culture; 3rd person present: cultures; past tense: cultured; past participle: cultured; gerund or present participle: culturing
1.
maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth.
"several investigators have attempted to culture biliary cells"
Part of me wishes Steve Jobs was still alive so he could see how this particular action was very much wrong. I admire a lot of his accomplishments, but this action seems very illegal.
If we had these progressive taxes and this global wealth tax - would we still have capitalism? And if yes - would that mean that 'r > g' is not inherent to capitalism but rather to some special kind of capitalism?
Ask HN: How many startups have you started?
Quick question, how many startups have you been a founding member of? How many of those have failed? Feel free to add URLs.
Dekke: an iPad stand
Pakistan plans huge desert solar park to fight energy crisis
I didn't know about their high fees. But I know they have a good international money transfer support. I used them for personal financial transactions for 4 years and found them very good.
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I think you've reversed r and g vs ops notation, but yes, agreed. R can exceed g with no trouble, right up to the point where all economic growth is directly absorbed by capital accumulation (or whatever terminology you want to use for piping an annual measure into a cumulative one) at which time g must equal r... a fact of small comfort to the millions of people who, empirically, are getting a tiny slice of pie to live off. At this point volatility may well rear up and change the returns to owners of capital in the form of a revolution (as has happened again and again and again), but that's hardly an ideal form of society. You'd think if we know the mechanism and the result we could implement a fix. On the other hand, if you'd been paying any attention at all to climate change mitigation actions you'd probably be unsurprised that we haven't.
Stalin was talking about ideas here, yes, but note that what he is doing in this interview is pretty much only regurgitating Leninist talking points the Bolsheviks had been repeating pretty much unchanged for a couple of decades.
Find the Integer Bug
That is not an explanation. It's a supposition.

Francis Collins, as the Head of the Genome Project, is the poster boy for those questioning atheism (maybe rightfully so shrug)

However, it does not change the fact your blog post is a supposition not an explanation.
Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?
Project Ara: our best look yet at Google's new modular smartphone
This won't make Square obsolite but would require them to provide new and most likely more expensive reader solutions for POS clients. Europe switched to Chip&PIN but most POS devices are really expensive and in some countries mostly rented to merchants (at least in Finland it's common). iZettle [1] is really similar to Square, but with chip&pin, in Europe and they have faced some scrutiny from Visa [2].

[1] https://www.izettle.com/

[2] http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/02/20/izettle-solves-the-v...
You misunderstand, i am not supporting the claim that "culture needs to be written down", I am just saying that IF we assume that side of the argument, then the author of the memo is not doing it and thus his effort to preserve culture is futile.

Personally i feel that culture is preserved by practice and not directive. So writing down culture is a rather weird exercise, though i suppose it works as a corrective mechanism. But this memo feels like a half measure. If you want to preserve your culture, best way is to keep following it and lead by example, and you employees will keep following it, and the new ones will automatically conform to it. But if you are explicitly telling them to adhere to it, shouldn't you highlight exactly WHAT do you expect them to adhere to? If not, then what's the point of telling them to keep conforming to it?

He doesn't have to write a formal document on it, but perhaps hint with a few examples so that that reinforces what behaviour is valued.
Formal verification and testing are not mutually exclusive and should ideally both be used. If you read this article and conclude that formal verification is the way to go and writing tests is unnecessary, then you are failing to appreciate the concessions Metzger makes. Take e.g.

but Quark's formal verification doesn't try to show that
the entire Web browser is correct, and doesn't need to --
it shows that some insecure behaviors are simply
impossible. *Those* are much simpler to describe.

Let's assume this is true: we can write interesting programs of relevant size and complexity and prove they are secure. Then we still need a whole bunch of tests to show the program actually does what its users want it to do, because formally specifying that behavior is hard.
You overestimate the ability, dedication, vision, and internal political will of top tech companies to enter and dominate fields that are not their core focus.

Remember MobileMe?
Thanks factorialboy! I really appreciate the vote of confidence.
Where are you seeing 4 seconds? The only benchmark is 1.3 seconds for 1500 rows (very large/rare) vs .3 seconds for React. I was saying that making all users download the additional file may not be worth it if only %.01 of your pages are going to see a noticeable benefit.