skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solders for the most part get much more time and training using firearms than police who tend to have a much wider range of duties to perform.

Most NATO militaries have increased the amount of training in urban environments. I'm pretty sure(or overly optimistic) they have decent training/drilling experience as the political backlash from having soldiers get way to aggressive in terms of resorting to military tactics vs police tactics.
Scaling A/B Testing on Netflix.com with Node.js [video]
Right. Free market alternative should be able to beat government, so in cases where the free market isn't producing acceptable results, rather than forcing them to change through legislation, government can just compete with them until they beat the government.
> Fits in nicely with Paul Graham's story not to talk to corp dev at all

That's not what he said though.

He said not to talk to them till you are ready to sell. That's quite different from what you said.
This post, while very interesting, attempts to draw a completely unwarranted parallel between deep nets and the human brain, as if layers of artificial neurons running on a GPU and the cortical layers of your brain were two interchangeable things.

So far, there has been no evidence that the brain works anything like an artificial neural network. Maybe it does, and there are several theories in that direction, but at the moment we have no solid reason to think so.
StackExchange's Performance Dashboard
Yeah, the similar English sentiment would be "it could be better" or "leaves a lot to be desired"
Big Cable, Obama spar over government-run broadband networks
As far as I understand, most libertarians who believe in abolishing taxes also believe that these types of services should be provided by the free market. You pay some kind of subscription fee to a fire company, security company, etc, and you call them up when trouble hits. If you don't subscribe to such a service, your house burns down or get shot, too bad.
The Internet is a necessity.
That doesn't make actions like these less creepy.
Just think how convenient it'll be when Facebook CorpDev wants to approach your company. They won't even need to ask any questions!
Did you even read what you typed or just copy paste a bunch of random crashes? Not a single one of those was the result of a software bug.
This spec involves getting the shelters to update availability. That can be a tough deal; going on some web site is the last thing on a shelter manager's mind, esp. when they're full. But, maybe if this app gets popular enough the availability data could be crowdsourced (by shelter clients).
Even eat vegetables is meaningless. Chips are vegetables and so are potatoes which I also don't think are very healthy.

Potatoes would fall under the starch food group, rather than vegetables. Vegetables, in the food pyramid/food group sense, are fairly well defined based on nutritional value.
Really cool, instead of polling for changes, RethinkDB will push. The best part, you simply add .changes() to your query and it just magically works. Curious though how the clients work? Do they just block waiting for data?
I don't understand why people are using monopoly to describe ISPs. Looking at http://www.broadbandmap.gov, can anyone find one city without multiple broadband providers?
> Google currently claims that anything that can be done in 0.1 of a second by a human, they can do as well.

Okay, on a moonless night, overcast, with no lights,
a lot of fog, 200 yards away is .... Bingo, a
pretty girl, 5' 4", 34, 19, 34, blond, really sweet,
wants to be great as a wife and mommy,
about 18! Yup, been doing that for years! Try
that Google! My advantage: I have a dedicated,
autonomous, peripheral processor just for that
task!
.1 - 1% equity for your pre-launch company seems a tad low, no?
Discussion for the original researcher's post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889224

http://webpolicy.org/2015/01/14/turn-verizon-zombie-cookie/
"Keep your head out of the past?" What a rediculous rebuttal. Parent poster is well within his or her rights to feel that way. All the evidence we've been presented with in the past few years should lead everyone to the same conclusion. You are being tracked and your data sold to the highest bidder. How is that not cause for concern? Just because it occurred in the past?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-PC_era

This has a good summary of what was actually said.
No noise from neighbors? No neighbors at all!
Which ISPs have monopolies exactly and in what city? Go to broadbandmap.gov and find me one.
"From an economist’s point of view, this paragraph is very hard to understand. Real GDP and productivity statistics are calculated after adjusting for price changes – so they are unaffected by inflation or deflation."
it was the perfect word choice to illustrate translation difficulty
How do you handle disconnects and missed messages? What's required to make this a robust sync solution, including syncing the first query and then changes, akin to Firebase? Are there plans to support direct access from web clients and optimistic writes on the client?
Hinton published a much more efficient training algoritm in the last couple decades. They've also shown extremely impressive performance in vision and speech.
you guys whinge alot, it does what is says, that is, letting you call nodejs modules from the dom. if you dont get what it does by reading that, maybe you should give up on becoming a dev.
From a non-economist point of view, the bit about deflationary technological advancement doesn't seem hard to understand at all.

Summers claims it makes no sense because price changes are accounted for in GDP. I'm willing to bet that GDP is not adjusted for Moore's Law, or we would have had much higher official growth numbers than we've had. Every iPhone is a more powerful computer than an early-90s supercomputer. Each iPhone sale does not add as much to GDP as each supercomputer did, even after adjusting for our modest inflation.

And yet that computational power is improving people's lives in all sorts of ways.
Twix – Great WiFi for Small Businesses
I was confused that a micro-service (architecture) is just renaming SOA / Rest API / what-so-ever and connecting different components with a scalable message bus. And, now, you point out some great distinctions from those :) ty.

'''does not access common data repositories and stores its own data isolated'''

&

'''does its job and then pushes a new message on the queue with the results, it never talks via the network layer to anyone else for coordination or status'''
eh, my fault, cannot edit the post... The question is here ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8885965
Along with using Tmux as your login shell [1], this would be a nice equivalent to something like Conky [2].

Or, replacing `top` with sparklines, say.

[1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=935588#p935588
[2]: http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Secure messaging and file sharing made easy
I am shocked people aren't talking about QNX.
Why does everyone seem to derive the usage of flashbangs from something like Counter Strike. Knowing the room layout/size as well as what kind stuff is in the room is never a sure thing. I'm going to assure you that the most common place you are going to find an open area is closer to the entry point due to the need for people to enter and exit through a door.

I guess its a moot point to try and explain the concepts that are common to almost every CQCish type training out there.

The point is you don't throw a flash-bang and grenade at full power. Knowing where the center of the room is and even if that's the best place for it to land is not the easiest thing in the world.

Nearside corners people, most people that are under a threat will be closer to the corners than the middle of the room and the corners that will give you the most problems to due the amount of time it takes to clear and how quickly they can ruining your day is throwing stun grenades to get effects on the nearside corners.
How to stop forgetting your bookmarks
Rejecting this kind of bad practices isn't the same as rejecting internet.
Those for-profit companies have been at it for a while, and it's clear they don't provide acceptable services. Maybe they should have thought about this situation a little earlier? Then none of this would be necessary, nor even considered.

Regardless, this issue is a municipal government's decision-making. If a municipal government doesn't like how their ISPs are acting, they should be able to do something about it. There's no reason for it to be _illegal_, even if it is a bad idea in some places: the local government should be able to do what they think is best for them.

Also, if ISP's have so little trouble making obscene profits, there should be little risk of the government failing to do the same.
With FreeBSD, in order to be able to have automatic backups work, we were required to disable journaling on the disk. This will cause the disk speed to be much slower than our Linux distributions.

If you wish to have higher disk speeds, but not use backups, we recommend for you to remount your disk with journaling.
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/gjournal-desktop/con...
This is Amazing. Very helpful here in Japan. I'll be glad when the word lens feature supports Japanese.
True but dash and bash are mostly interchangeable. I should have clarified that what was strange to me was the choice of shells with incompatible syntax.
I understand the reasoning behind the action, but it's still not justifiable. Following that same reasoning we can argue that police should approach car windows with their weapons drawn and aimed. After all, if an officer approaches a car window and sees the occupant has a gun aimed at them they won't have time to defend themselves if their sidearm is holstered. Officers have certainly been killed by vehicle occupants, so this is not some invented scenario, either.

> If the US police were so gun happy I would expect way more people to be shot per year/day.

There are, though.

A couple of articles on the subject:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-many-americans-the-p...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-much-higher-count...

But if we use the FBI's number of ~400/year[0]it's still ridiculous. In the two decades between 1989-90 and 2010-11, Australian police fatally shot a total of 105 people.[1]

Looking at those figures, Australia has ~0.25 fatal police shootings per million people per year. The US has ~1.25 fatal police shootings per million people per year. Five times more. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't believe that's solely due to gun control policy in the two countries.

[0] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/c...

[1] http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/rip/21-4...
US Dollars have no intrinsic value either, this does not stop anybody from using them.

Talking about rice is silly, we are talking about currency. No major economies currencies are based on anything with intrinsic value.
I think that kind of structural split you mention first could be a nice low-regulation/high effectiveness solution, at least compare to other alternatives. However, I haven't seen any kind of willingness to impose that kind of regulation by agencies for at least the past two or three decades. As a matter of fact past structural regulatory market walls have been getting consistently removed in other industries.
"Irregardless is one of those words that is becoming OK to say just because so many people use it."

...literally describes our ENTIRE language. It's kinda what language is... I know "kinda" isn't officially a word yet but I like it and I'm guessing you know my intended meaning.
O.T. Genasis – CoCo – coco parody (#iamlenovo) im in love with lenovo
The Ruby and Python clients will block if you try to fetch the next change and there isn't one available. You can prevent this by using a separate thread for the blocking request. The node.js client uses a callback.

We're currently considering alternatives. See <https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3298>.
Piata – a quite hard math game
I knew someone would catch me with the exceptions right after pressing reply. There's also the TNG episode with The Traveler, where the Enterprise is pushed 2.7 million lightyears out of the galaxy.
Most rational people will choose life over a paycheck if it's only their own life, and their own paycheck, on the balance.

Rational people, however, may choose to die for a paycheck if said paycheck would help feed their children, parents, friends, and/or significant other. Assuming, of course, that the employer has a reputation for honoring their contract even after you're dead.

Needless to say, people who live in societies with a robust social safety net will be less motivated to fight for a paycheck. In most parts of Africa, on the other hand...
OCR is really fast and accurate. Impressive.
I think it's just an evolution. Not every experiment is successful.
And any support planned for the red-headed stepchild php?
Some of this discussion might have to be revised if the startup is active in a health or scientific field. For example, people entering the Chemistry field with a PhD tend to be 30+, particularly if they post-doc. I would imagine if fully-trained (i.e., post resident) MD's are required, you might see people approaching 35+. So, while they're on the wrong end of the power curve, they're what you have to deal with.

Fortunately, for the startup incubators, there are few scientific endeavors that lead to a useful exit strategy. Unless, of course, you're trying to start a biotech or pharma startup. And at that point, you're 1-2 orders of magnitude more expensive as physical plant and even regulatory approval start to enter the picture. Medical endeavors are probably information based (deal with privacy and patient access issues, hence MD's) which is easier to handle. If they're medical devices, you'll face approval processes, I think, similar to pharma. Possibly faster in that there aren't so many steps in the clinical trial process - devices tend not to have a tox problem, for example.
I'm pretty sure this is made using ImpactJS for anyone that is interested.
> If I told my wife she wouldn't see me for an hour a day, she wouldn't bat an eye. But if I told her I had to leave her for a week, she'd miss the hell out of me.

I suppose as an unmarried young man I don't really understand that. It does seem like not being able to be apart for a week is a bit of a dependency issue.

Funnily enough, I'm also a hiring manager at a small startup—so I guess I do have more control over my coworkers than most people.
Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe settle in employee-poaching lawsuit
No problem was ever solved by trying to solve all other problems at the same time.
Could you open up a support ticket so our support team could help you out? Both of those should work without issue.
> If you can't find an employee at the market rate, it's no longer the market rate and you need to pay more, or get creative.

We actually pay slightly above market. Not dramatically, because that would be untenable for VCs and business stakeholders, but incrementally—over time, that's how prices should increase.
http://theeconomicmachine.tumblr.com/

good blog that uses Ray Dalio's thinking to examine various economies around the world.
Great projects & comments.

Am I correct in assuming that the end users need Node Webkit (or NWjs) installed before this runs? That means Node as well?

Instead of doing proof of projects in C# or Obj-C or C++, this could be a great time saver.

I've seen the build instructions but it seems they all need Node installed and the node-webkit path referenced.
> In fact, Turn has told EFF that they do not believe that either Do Not Track or a user deleting their cookies is a signal that the user wishes to opt out from tracking.

What the fuck, Turn? You got a different explanation for what the fuck "Do Not Track" means?

Are they for fucking real right now? I mean, I've seen my share of grade-A corporate double-speak, but this takes the goddamn cake. Holy fucking shit. Thank God I'm not a Verizon customer in any capacity (that I know of). With this kind of bullshit, I don't plan on that changing any-the-fuck-time soon.
Airbnb Guerilla Usability Test
Try do your own startup, prove the business model, scale it and gain millions in revenue.

I will hire you then, guaranteed.
I ran a guerilla usability test on Airbnb's web rental booking process, uncovered some pain points, and provided design suggestions.
I'm glad someone gets it haha! Most people and therefore police officers don't want to get shot. I'm going to assume that the group with more guns and people are the side you don't want to resort to shooting if there is not a need.

If all that can happen is the armor getting dented up your not going to feel compelled to shot back so quickly. You will have much more flexibility in responding too. Your initiative is going to get taken away if you don't need to immediately react to a threat.

I do however thing that the carriers should get painted blue or white that someone resemble police colors. The all black and super tactical looking equipment is even too much for me as former military.
Spiral arms would be dispersed too quickly by the orbital speeds' varying with radial distance. Some process needs to be maintaining them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy#Origin_of_the_spi...
I have only one problem: freelance is not a business.
> they are unaffected by inflation or deflation

In other words someone picks a basket of goods and those price changes are measured.

Economists have every incentive to get this right. I think they probably do, but if you see the world progressing in a "singulatarian" way toward exponential growth in many areas, it's unlikely that the basket of goods chosen accurately tracks the broader trend.

Also, if such a singulatarian world is happening, economists, by virtue of not believing that to be the case, would correct for those goods when formulating the basket used to track price changes.

One final point: There are enough seemingly price-stable goods where the prices are actually the result of factors other than pure supply and demand (such as unknown risk premiums, etc.) which if they end up in the basket of goods could cause systemic bias, since those risk premiums may not be structurally stable in either direction.

From a policy perspective, we must recall that interest rates are a blunt instrument and it has been a major goal/concern of the Fed to come up with other, smaller knobs to turn. One of these is QE policy, others are regulation and enforcement mechanisms that impact capital flows in a broad way (but less broadly than interest rates).
Yup, http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35546.pdf
Well, it seems that Verizon is the only one doing it. The article mentioned that AT&T ran a pilot program and decided not to do it.

So presumably any other US provider would be better than Verizon.
Tried this title:
"Google Facebook Amazon Yahoo"

Your Headline's EMV Score: 75.00%

This score indicates that your headline has a total of 75.00% Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) Words. To put that in perspective, the English language contains approximately 20% EMV words.

And for comparison, most professional copywriters' headlines will have 30%-40% EMV Words in their headlines, while the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in headlines.

A perfect score would be 100%, but that is rare unless your headline is less than five words.

While the overall EMV score for your headline is 75.00%, your headline also has the following predominant emotion classification:
Empathetic

Your headline words have a predominantly Empathetic appeal. While not as common as words with Intellectual impact, words which resonate in with Empathetic impact often bring out profound and strong positive emotional reactions in people.

Copy containing empathetic impact words are best used to attune with people and businesses involved with care-giving. For example, nurses, doctors, and counselors all tend to respond easily and favorably to Empathetic words. Women, and especially mothers, are very strong in their use of Empathetic impact words in the language. While use of Empathetic impact words does not have to be limited to these groups, we've found that by selecting m ore words with Empathetic impact delivers desirable conversion responses from those types of market segments.
Aren't we trading one monopoly for another? Not sure that is any better. Especially considering the track record of the post office or public education. There would need to be some way to allow competition so there is incentive to provide quality service.
Have you tried http://php-rql.dnsalias.net/ ? It's pretty much equivalent to the official drivers, and well maintained (usually gets updated within a week after new RethinkDB releases).
I'd actually love something like this, but flipped. A user could go somewhere and spend a buck a month for a 1gb httphub-type account, then feed that info(via qr code or whatever) into various apps. Boom, instant cloud storage, but you have control over all your own data, and you could possibly even host the httphub on your own vps or your own hardware.
Just because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean you get to project those values on the rest of us. Spying on your customers doesn't magically become moral simply because technology has made it easy. It most certainly is not necessary.

Really, the only reasons surveillance as a business model has worked is most people don't realize the extent that it is going on and by the time they do a monopoly or oligopoly has already established itself. Taking advantage of ignorance is at best rude and offensive, and at worst it should be criminal.

Unfortunately, the laws have yet to catch up to abuses like Verizon's MitM rewriting of HTTP headers. Worse, fixing laws and enforcing them against these modern abuses is going to be very hard: regulatory capture's a 'helluva drug.
Original tweet storm can be found here:
http://www.yvoschaap.com/pmarca/
Has anyone been able to combine this with python? I have some python ML code that would be difficult to port to js and it would be nice to be able to pack everything together.
All you did was reverse the calculation that was done in the comment you are replying to. He already stated that warp 9 is 1000 times the speed of light:

"the velocity of warp 9 must be 1,000 light-years per year"
> What the fuck, Turn? You got a different explanation for what the fuck "Do Not Track" means?

Easy there.

IE10 defaults to Do Not Track enabled. So sending the header is not explicitly representative of the user's wishes.

Convenient, isn't it?
OP here, I'd be OK with swapping in Mayer's blog post. Will let the mods decide.

If you haven't seen it before, this guy's stuff is absurdly good. Encyclopedic knowledge of privacy tech and law.
Why did journaling interfere with automatic backups?
Gloriously filthy composition, but that's probably due to the expected increase in blood pressure from having your civil liberties stripped from you.

I am in unconditional agreement with you here.
Right now you have to start over if your changefeed gets disconnected. But we're discussing better options; see <https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/3471>.

We don't have any plans to support direct access from web clients. The main problem is security. RethinkDB doesn't have any notion of users or access privileges, so any client can e.g. drop a table. We might add this eventually, but it's low on the priority list. See <https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/266> for more discussion.
Warp 9 is 834 times the speed of light

Source: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Warp_factor
Absolutely. If I were younger and didn't have a family, I'd be tempted to do this.

I sometimes feel like I missed my era. Not so good at going in to the office, but might have been a decent warlord. Then I wake up and realize I'd probably just be hung from a tree in any era except this one.
The square patches and mysterious dirt roads are for oil wells.