skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The police seems to be profiling and directing excessive force towards non-Caucasians

Law enforcement has always directed this kind of treatment towards non-whites in the US. What has changed is that there are now cameras everywhere so the officer's word isn't enough anymore and they have begun to subject middle and upper middle income white people to the same kind of treatment that used to be reserved for black and brown people.

For the outsider, the US looks a very unpleasant place to be if you're not white.

Racism isn't a US-only problem. There are incidents of European soccer fans making monkey noises when black players come onto the field. In some parts of Africa, there are issues with the government seizing land owned by whites.

It's not even always about race. Every Irishman with whom I have ever spoken has told me stories about how they and/or their (grand)parents were treated by other Europeans.

I don't know if it's possible to fix the underlying cause of these problems. Whenever people think in terms of "Us vs Them", they find justifications for doing all manner of terrible things to each other. It's just that police are the ones tasked with enforcing the laws of a society so when the laws reflect this conflict, so does the behavior of the police.
Update: it's now fixed. Cheers
I kind of like my answer better: http://qr.ae/7NEnT9

The whole post is just a stream of consciousness brain dump that a layman would never understand. I believe it's possible to explain these things without circular reasoning.
A grunt plugin for gather build metrics
* The 72% increase in throughput was achieved with diverse asymmetric traffic.*

Does that mean "If you have most of the cars going one way it's more efficient to use more of the road for traffic moving in that direction"? It sounds like it does. And, well, duh.
Not just the right-brained. I want that as a professional software developer. I want a computer that will do what I thought, instead of what I foolishly typed.

Basically, I want a computer as smart as a good junior dev so I can just yell my brilliant ideas at it, and it will do the dirty work for me.
You should write to the FTC.

Unless the KS was for a performance art project about gullibility on the Internet.
In layman's terms, what are programming languages
Do you know that the arrow function was the main reason that I made the switch from Chrome to FF Dev as my primary web browser and I never looked back?

You don't know how much you're missing here. I wish that ECMAScript* considers adding support for "indented syntax" like in Sass to make it even more easier to read and go through the codebase without seeing all these ugly braces around.

*: or a white knight programmer volunteering to offer this functionality for us all :)
A simple exercise on searching algorithms
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I was right there with you until your last sentence veered off into racist territory.
Also, I think he's picturing two almost-equal files. In that case the average running time should be way lower, no? (I believe the quadratic time is worst case)
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You can't force it on businesses that way. It's a voluntary currency. If you make it hostile to businesses, they simply won't accept it.

If you tried this, and somehow got businesses onboard, you might get some extra local economic activity. But mostly you'd just get unofficial currency exchanges popping up that buy Bristol Pounds for, e.g. 90 pence, and resell them to locals for 95 pence.
OPM Hack Far Deeper Than Acknowledged, Went Undetected for More Than a Year
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It's neither. What Kickstarter really is is a donations platform. It's like when PBS holds a fundraiser and you get a bag for donating $X to support your local PBS station. (This isn't quite right either, as PBS just buys the bags, if Masterpiece Theater doesn't finish shooting an episode on time it doesn't imperil bag delivery, but it's a lot closer than either of Kickstarter The Store or Kickstarter The Investment Platform.)
The ZPM Espresso project was a great example of both of these. Founders were woefully inexperienced and underestimated the difficulties of manufacturing at every turn. Plus, the fact that they wildly overshot their initial goal meant they were in the worst "middle ground" of manufacturing. They had to worry about much more than just delivering a small number of prototype units, but they also didn't have so much volume that they were getting much discount from manufacturers.
*Larry Page said: “By improving urban technology, it’s possible to significantly improve the lives of billions of people around the world. With Sidewalk, we want to supercharge existing efforts in areas such as housing, energy, transportation and government to solve real problems that city-dwellers face every day. Every time I talk with Dan I feel an amazing sense of opportunity because of his passion for all the ways technology can help transform cities to be more livable, flexible and vibrant. And when you combine that with his experience as an investor, in NYC government, and as CEO of the large information company Bloomberg LP, I can’t imagine a better person to lead these efforts.”

Let's get serious. This initiative is not about toilets, smart flushing and homeless.

I'm fine with it as long as I don't have to have anything always connected to internet, sync data in the cloud and be forced to agree/manage/monitor gazillions of privacy changes, terms and conditions where companies decide to update and change their data protection acts, the ways the share, store and manipulate my data.

Maybe we should firmly keep big technology companies, already in tune with the NSA friends, get closer to our families and private lives. The last thing I'd want is Google, Bloomberg, IBM, Facebook and Cisco circulating all my activities (toilet flushes including) for the sake of my children, future nephews and my neighbours to NSA, have my own cars or my own house lock me out because Palantir discovered about my passion for Moroccan tea or my kid flies a Chinese quadcopter in the backyard.
And on mobile it's also very nice - footnote icons that expand blockquote-style text when clicked and turn into "close" buttons to collapse it.
Real-estate markets are markets. They seek equilibrium. When a building is delivered, supply increases, demand goes down and a new equilibrium is established. Groups of people who would build apartments have the option of moving in to existing apartments without the impedance of land entitlement, large project financing, or construction timelines. Speed to market presents less risk to developers except when everyone else can get to market just as fast. Then the risk that someone else delivers and the market becomes over-supplied comes back.
People aren't going to like me for saying it but this article is right more than it's wrong. I was a provider of paid, private alternatives to ad-driven services. There were tons of us in late 90's and many in early 2000's. Almost all that didn't switch to ads went bankrupt. Customers seemed to universally want more content/service/everything... for free (or near-free)... while being OK with being spied on & sold out. They also got what they asked for: more articles, games, search, socializing, videos, and so on than have existed in all of history. Huge benefits willingly obtained by giving up privacy and control to anonymous, greedy organizations at a cost they didn't [and mostly still don't] care to think about.

Apple, on the other hand, was fine with lying to customers about security ("immune to malware!"), building leaky clouds, suing those that put Mac OS on cheaper hardware, locking in users with software toolchain choices, keeping low income users out due to high prices, discriminating against competitors in App Store, and even charging for updates. On top of that, despite tens of billions in profit, they also sold customers out to advertisers. They are one of the least trustworthy companies in existence for privacy-conscious individuals.

So, Tim Cook is full of shit. Apple has enough profit to build inherently private/secure OS's, toolchains, and services. This is obvious given that small to midsized firms with a tiny fraction of the money have outdone Apple in many areas of privacy and security by simply putting in effort. Most likely, Tim Cook is merely doing P.R. work to position Apple's image (not reality) as more trustworthy compared to ad-driven services. Those services can't do this because they'd go bankrupt by not invading privacy.

So, let's rehash. Users have more cool and useful stuff than ever before due to ad-driven model. Users got there by repeatedly choosing to be spied on instead of paying or investing time in a private alternative. Apple's past and current track record on privacy/security are terrible. They also do advertising, although not dependent like competition. Apple's CEO says they believe in privacy/security despite them hardly practicing it. Conclusion: our situation is the from users' demand, their massive use of such services maintains our situation, a niche want private alternatives, and Apple is doing PR to make money off those people (while still selling them out).

Capitalism in action! ;)
I saw that too. That's what made me check if I was shadowbanned. I'm not nearly as active as he was, but it made me realize I wasn't always just late to the discussion or something.
It's a good way to position yourself for the kind of work you'll get, no matter how it's interpreted. If you write that you're a beginner Ruby programmer, and then after getting hired you're asked to write an entire application in Ruby by yourself, you can say in a defensible way, "That's fine, but I'll need constant help and code reviews and it's going to take a long time as I get up to speed."

If you got any pushback at that point you could ask them why they tasked the beginner with this project, when you clearly claimed you were not an expert.

The other levels can be played similarly. An intermediate person could be assigned to some project and be expected to perform mostly independently, but if there were any non-idiomatic code or poor optimizations, they could just shrug it off as a learning opportunity. "I'm no expert" you can say.
I'm not sure it's purely a matter of taste and fashion.

Let's say I make a new language called javascript++.

Instead of having `function` be a keyword, I chose `functioooooooooooooooooooooooooooon`. Based on their syntaxes, do you find one fundamentally better?
I'm sceptical; I've heard this before but never managed to track down a source; I also don't know if you need some specific wording for this or if it's so vague as to be useful. Case in point: when I've failed my google interviews in London, I asked for the feedback, and got a reply saying something like "Sorry, we don't do detailed feedback. We weren't happy with your performance on the interviews". Which, duh, I got that from the being rejected part :P
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Whoa, hold on, since when is 'is' preferred over '=='? What kind of python are you writing over there? Those are for totally different purposes. One tests equality while the other tests identity.
Spoken – Where the world finds a voice
After reading some of the comments here I can hear vestiges of the song a bit more now. The rhythms are pretty similar to the rhythms in the song. And it does run through the chorus changes (starting in m11) in the relative minor key which is interesting.

I would like to see this done with just a melody line, or a melody and a bass line, or melody and chord changes- as doing it based on a full piano score is probably quite a bit trickier for a neural network to handle intelligibly.
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We've had a similar capability as this, lacking the normal map generation, for nearly 2 years at the 3D Avatar Store. (www.3D-Avatar-Store.com) However, we've been unable to raise the financing to build a commercial, scaled infrastructure for video as input. So we built our current infrastructure for single and multiple photo input. It's available now, as a web app and webAPI.

Our solution differs from this effort, as we use a neural net pipeline for multiple stages of the pipeline: a face finder, a facial feature finder, a 3D reconstruction 'net, and then conventional C/C++ utilities to generate a rigged and ready for immediate use geometry and texture. A nice aspect of using neural nets is the ability to retrain our output 'net to generate any geometry one wants. We currently generate 5 different types of avatars, with our most popular being a Fuse 1.3 compatible character that plugs right into the Mixamo auto-rigging pipeline.

Our system is trained on a data set of 300,000 laser scans of real people, plus dozens of photos taken at the time of scanning with each photo capturing a different angle, lighting condition, and type of camera lens.

A single photo does a remarkably good job. A single photo only take 0.5 seconds to reconstruct the initial geometry; for an online user the process is 3 to 8 minutes, depending upon prior experience, to create a fairly realistic full body Fuse 1.3 compatible character. We provide multiple editing interfaces, as users tend to provide a "selfie" (with bad perspective distortion) or a poorly lit mobile phone / web cam photo (with splotchy pixels). The multiple editing interfaces provide means of correcting the facial feature locations, and 3D deformations to correct for perspective distortion and difficult to recover features from a passport style image, such as the curve of one's profile.

We've love to find a financial partner interested in developing our video input capabilities. The video-as-input 'net has higher CPU requirements than the photo-as-input 'net. It's results are remarkable: it tracks 36 faces simultaneously per video feed, and can accept up to 4 HD video feeds. Each tracked face is reconstructed in real time, 25 ms per face, holding whatever facial expression the subject had at that moment.

No doubt, this paper is a great step forward. 3D Avatars are also a very tough market to crack, as people submit remarkable poor quality images, and you are messing with people's visual identity. With actual photos people will say "that does not look like me", and that self identification issue is compounded with 3D Avatars. Plus, people want them for free, and they are one of the most expensive digital objects to create.
KS also claims to not be a store. It is disingenuous to try to have it both ways. If KS weren't fraudulent, they would remove the ability to promise rewards that don't exist.
What's the advantage of using text messages - the most primitive user interface available - for job hunting when so many better alternatives exist (web pages, apps, etc.)?
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My finance buddies have been waiting for the bomb to blow up for a decade. It's really a game of musical chairs.

The less pessimistic view of this (which my aged father holds) is that the saving grace of the US is while we have problems, China + Japan + Europe have awful demographics and we're stealing many of their best youngsters. And our popular culture is amazing- nobody else is even close. Unfortunately, this means we probably won't address our problems in a timely manner. A Chinese meltdown makes the US a more attractive place to put money.
Same day as Ornette Coleman. Amazing.
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Please tell me you are kidding! A search engine is easier than an encrypted messaging system? Seriously?
I've always felt that Kevin Rose was the Damien Lindelof of Silicon Valley. Not that I know what it's like to be either, but I feel like everything they do ends up getting finished by someone else.
Can't squeeze blood out of a stone...
Worked with Orient back in 2012, had some issues regarding performance and switched. Following the news about them, I thought they had made great progress. This benchmark kind of shows the exact opposite.
It's not super automatic but CloudBerry Explorer for Azure [1] is free and has a pretty good folder sync feature. I basically just keep all my photos and videos in single a folder on my desktop. Whenever I copy my families phones or tablets to my PC I just run the saved sync, it's usually pretty quick. I have over 90 GB of stuff so it actually took a long time for CloudBerry to analyse the folder for the first time, after that it figures out what's new and needs to sync pretty fast.

[1] http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free-microsoft-azure-explorer.a...
Call it however you like, agnostic protocal etc, the fact still remains your going to have ALOT of work to do differentiating yourself from SR and the stigma that comes along with using bitcoin as a currency, especially when media are already using phrases like "police-free" and "sell ANYTHING"...

Maybe brainstorm around:

-"We are like Amazon (or maybe craigslist?), but for bitcoins!"
-Require social login. If you truly arent an anonymous marketplace using an untrackable cryptocurrency as method of payment, then requiring social login will be a good way to show the government that you mean it.

Point im making, OpenBazaar definitely has its work cut out for them. Exciting nonetheless, keep us posted!!!

-Jami Frazier
You're right. Since CY/MM was unknown to the organizers, it was not that the organizers believed he was beyond the limits of civilized discourse.

Rather, the "hecklers" who advised the organizers to drop CY/MM were the ones who held this belief.
a) Do you really have flying bathroom defacement squads? Most of the places I've seen, even once a day would be fine.

b) In the few locations with particularly bad problems, isn't that really telling us that e.g. the problem is not something which can be solved by technology as opposed to, say, funding mental health programs?
I had a pretty similar experience, in fact. I lost months of work to Neo4J back in 2011 or so.

The purpose was to be the storage backend for ConceptNet, a semantic network that is largish but is far from "big data". The write speed was awful, the stability was awful, the mechanisms for loading in non-toy amounts of data were nearly nonexistent, and I learned what it means to "run out of PermGen".

I hastily aborted the Neo4J plan. I was also burned by RDF triple-stores (they can't cope with small data either) and MongoDB (which seemed to work at first and eventually fell over, for obvious reasons in retrospect).

The graph is now in SQLite plus flat files, which works great. I've concluded by now that the step on the scale beyond "lies" and "damn lies" is "claims about next-generation databases".
Right, and the difference between PBS and KS is that PBS is actually capable of delivering the promised reward, not perpetuating a fraud.

KS used to be a preorder system to fund bulk orders of pre-production invented hardware. Then it became a scam platform.
Microsoft Research paper considers serving web-ads from localhost
My dad used to work on 1 day houses. Essentially the whole house would arrive from the factory and just had to be assembled. In the morning, there was nothing, in the evening, you had a complete house, with windows and doors which could be locked. Still, the foundations took a month to settle properly before the construction could start,but it didn't change the fact that the whole house was actually assembled in a day. You could leave for work in the morning, and arrive in the afternoon to see that your neighbor now has a house where 12 hours before there was just concrete.
This is nice. Finally it seems like we are going somewhere. The call for proposals had not yielded anything groundbreaking so far. Tools like gb are nice but as Russ says it's not gogettable. This seems like a good compromise.
The difference starts to show when you want to partially apply some values.

// process1 :: (Item -> Bool) -> [Item] -> [OtherType]
// process2 :: [Item] -> [OtherType]
process1(isOk, items); //=> [otherType1, otherType2, ...]
process2(items); //=> [otherType1, otherType2, ...]

var processR1 = seq(filter, map(toOtherType), flatten);
var processR2 = processR1(isOk);

var processT1 = (isOk, items) => items.filter(isOk).map(toOtherType).flatten()
var processT2 = items => processT1(isOk, items)

That's why I'm wondering if there's some easier way to do this.
> Neo4J is a solid product

Do you really believe this, in your expert opinion, or are you just trying not to step on toes?
I agree, after reading all these comments and links it has to be viewed as charity donations. They need to sever ANY expectation of outcome and can't offer any inducements or incentives or promises to buy, etc. In essence a Kickstarter project says "Here is my project, please give me money" as long as that is clear then the govt may leave it alone but perhaps there are different regs on charities. Also, the IRS might have something to say about the tax status of gifts over $10K, so recipient will have to pay income tax upfront.
These are the versions on 10.10.3:

OpenSSL 0.9.8zd 8 Jan 2015

OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
When I saw the headline I wondered whether it was about the Goblins comic game where the game developer basically took the money and disappeared. The web comic artist is trying to make sure that backers get at least the game (edit: maybe?), but he's been hampered by Kickstarter's refusal to let him have the list of backers since he wasn't part of the Kickstarter itself.

I know it pissed him off no end when Kickstarter decided to send his name out to the backers saying "[he's going to get you your stuff]" while still refusing to tell him who the backers were. Not a fine moment there.

The comic: http://www.goblinscomic.org/

I believe this is the latest update: http://www.goblinscomic.org/kickstarter-making-the-mafia-loo... in which Kickstarter sent out that promise while linking all those unknown-to-Tarol backers to a page with Tarol's home address.

Updates: added detail link, plus a bit more detail on it.
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edit: to be clear, I'm talking about the video specifically, not the parent comment's general perspective.

Watching the video, while has was telling the girl to get on her face, several teens were encroaching and yelling. The one he chased with gun out came up behind him and made a motion that looked like he was feinting pulling out a gun. I think the events in Ferguson and otherwise and causing some to become a bit more cavalier, as if they've "earned" the right to act that way during a police action due to what has happened elsewhere.
> Apple has enough profit to build inherently private/secure OS's, toolchains, and services.

That does rather imply that such a thing is possible and the entire history of computer science would indicate that it isn't (yet.)
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I love 'proofs' which rely on an unproven component.