skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're missing some corroborative evidence though: several other countries removed lead in different years, and in almost all of them crime dropped around 20 years later.

> in the 1990s, even people who had been exposed to lead as children started committing fewer crimes

Maybe people also just commit less crime as they age?
Why did it go up to begin with?
This is from 2012: is it still relevant?

Question for @dang and @nick: for links to SO questions, is it possible to automatically date them if they aren't the current year?
It would be nice if you also provide hints to solve the problems as that might help candidates, and also somewhat would resemble phone screen. You might also want to emphasize more on writing code comments over getting the solution 100% correct. I literally hate platforms like codilty where getting solution 100% correct in the defined time is the main motive, rather than understanding the candidates thought process.
There is nothing about being a doctor that requires one to be a particular race or gender.
Sometimes you don't use the field everywhere. Instead you add a new field to extend a functionality, with a proper new method/function. So if you use tag literals your existing code will still compile safely, and the tests will pass too (assuming you didn't change the functions where the struct were used).

In a very large code base, not using tagged literals will just break anything. Not sure you want it (for the case of extending). Removing will already break it so no problems there.

(Disclaimer: I wrote the blog post)
Depends if you have been 'selected' or not. For example, Greenwald, Applebaum and Poitras have been 'selected'. If you haven't been selected, you will have no problems. If you have, you will have many problems.

All the people posting "I've never been stopped" are just saying "I have not been selected".

Perhaps ask yourself the better question, "is it likely I have been selected?"
Did everyone just finish watching the latest season of "Orange is the new black" or something?

(context: this freakonomics topic of the crime drop was referenced in the recently released season of the show, specifically relating to the increase in abortions idea)
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I use a Happy Hacker keyboard in a customized emacs environment, but I'm pretty much Linux only, so no issues with transition between laptop and desktop, although I do have an older Thinkpad and the layout is slightly different, but not enough to screw me up. I cut my teeth on Sun Sparcs, and haven't found a layout that I like better. In fact, I actually have two keyboards; one for home and one for work, and the latter has a lot of "mileage" on it because it regularly travelled with me from New York to Hong Kong.
The best thing about this article is that it didn't try to push one reason over an other so it kind of gave you a run down of all the commonly cited factors which contribute to one degree or other to the reduction in crime. On the other hand it was pretty light.

What I'd like to see is each of those factors studied in other countries and their impact or non factor there to see if there is some commonality. Now, I understand that some factors are irrelevant in some places, but they're all relevant somewhere else too.
I'll say it: Parallel Construction.

Take out the really bad apples at the bottom of the barrel that law enforcement normally can't reach because they are isolated by many layers or are hard to get warrants for and it has to have a magnified effect on crime in general.

edit: to the 3 downvotes in 3 minutes, just because you don't like it doesn't make it not so. Since CompStat has a measurable effect you can be sure that something with way more targeted information will also have even more effect.
Because you don't agree with this: http://golang.org/doc/go1compat ? And there is even an example of how a new field called `Zone` was introduced and not using tagged literals would break the existing code. I don't understand why you said I stopped reading despite these both two facts just written there.
Because everyone, even the potential criminals, are spending all their time peering into smartphones.
“What Is Rust?” talk by Yehuda Katz
Esperanto is not dead: Can the universal language make a comeback?
If you're interested in defeating stylometry, you should check out Sadia Afroz's PhD thesis as well:

https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sa499/thesis.pdf
Machines learn to understand how we speak
I still have a bunch somewhere. I got quite excited at the 'going for an outrageous sum on ebay' quote, but sadly they're only ~£5 each.

The NE2000's were the bane of our lanparties. Super cheap, and about as reliable as a politicians promise. They wouldn't just stop working, they'd stop everything else working.

Now that I think about it, I can probably still claim to have an SLI gaming rig (12MB Voodoo II's), if I could find something to put them in.
I think it's mostly your annoying attitude.
I don't think there's any one big reason for decrease in crime. I think it's all of those factors in the article working up to a perfect storm.

I do think young kids being inside home playing video games (hence less time out in the street, lowering chance of running into trouble) is another reason. Basically all those video games trapped potential criminals inside their home and they eventually 'matured' enough not to get into a life of crimes.
Sourceforge sold their commercial offerings (SFEE) to CollabNet in 2007...and they haven't directly competed in that space since.
Cars not noticing cyclists in their mirrors before they change lanes is the fault of the driver, not the cyclist.

Motorists should always check their mirrors before changing lanes. There could also be other cars there.

The onus is on the two ton shielded metal vehicle, not the bicycle.
> Contrary to the author's claim, I would expect both to fail to compile.

I wouldn't - the first example is undefined (is 123 Bar or Qux? I guess technically it should be Bar as without quotes it's an int... but it's not unusual for int's to be cast into strings on assignment) and I would expect it to fail. The second example explicitly states which variable is being assigned.

edit: Thinking more about it, I guess it could go either way, but it's just one of those things that once you do it once you know it.
Where and how are you eating that you are able to sample and differentiate:

- corn fed
- grass fed
- grass fed, corn finished
- other permutations ?

Genuinely interested ... I mean, I know where I can go to get either corn or grass fed, but I wouldn't assume that other variables are controlled for. And then the grass fed, corn finished ... no idea who I would submit that request to ...
They do one the website and the iBook store.
If your rent depends on it, I agree. Otherwise, without the exploration, it will bring stagnation. Sometimes it's okay to choose the latest framework.
Travel and the increase in travel does add environmental pressures. One must get somewhere one way or another (and increased travel means more train or plane passengers). You're also buying things to adapt to the destination's weather, etc. It all adds up.

Also, at the destination, more people puts pressure on the ecology there. Imagine everyone being able to afford going to Antarctica, or let's say, the Grand Canyon or Mt Fuji. It's be environmentally disastrous. We'd eventually have to regulate access as is currently done for places like Antelope canyon.
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/949
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669818
Its available on the iBook store too.
The link wasn't changed to evade the paywall.
Maybe in the valley. On average, US Python developers make between $35-$50/hr.
In San Francisco that was mostly fixed by Sacramento with Costa-Hawkins. It would require changes to state law to rent control post-Costa-Hawkins properties.
I use Firefox, because it's the only browser which fits my requirements. I hate this piece of shit, and wish all the developers to drown in a vat of acid.
Although Crime plummets... the interesting thing is, our perception of danger and our general sense of fear has increased by significant margin. We're more scared of things that have have an even less chance of affecting us than ever before.
I used to be a moderator on Kongregate and had a decent amount on interaction with multiple of the administrators. I also was somewhat involved in the flash game market (just casually as a hobby). When I found out how Kongregate specifically worked with developers to help make games that target the 'whale' spenders, I was pretty shocked. Making games that are not enjoyable, just addictive, in order to take in thousands of dollars from single individuals just seemed so unethical.

I just glanced over that link of Emily's ethical rationale for this, and it didn't convince me. But I'll have to go back through it more carefully before I can decide for sure.
"Just so people don't think there's no third way to think about your work:"

What follows don't really resemble "thoughts." Maybe the word does not mean what you think it means.
Some potential reasons not mentioned in the article:

Electronics have become cheaper. Cars are harder to steal. Criminals can commit crimes online instead. We possess less objects as more things become digitized. Improved welfare programs. Improved forensic investigations.
I agree, but the card 17 doesn't cite exposure to other harmful and poisonous elements (mercury, aluminum, among others) and we have strong scientific evidence that these elements trigger psychiatric disorders.

There are lots of studies on how environmental and chemicals causes these illness that criminals seems to share and they are related to undeveloped/malfunctioning control centres on the brain.

Government policies to avoiding population exposure to poison and at the same time psychiatric/neurologic advances on treatment and drugs makes a stronger case for that theory.

Update: missing 'c' in centres
So is there anyone not working for a multi-billion multinational that has any interest in OpenCompute?

I work for an integrator / VAR that offered OpenCompute hardware - one of the first thanks to some connections - but never managed to sell any. We gave up trying after about a year. The maintenance burden of keeping a product line alive that nobody wanted to purchase was too much for us to justify.
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Take a look at http://reddit.com/r/wickededge

Many believe that shaving technology reached its peak quite some time ago.
I understand that in the latter case, what fields are being assigned is clearer (albeit the former case can also adopt a similar order-based strategy).

What I disagree is the "zeroing out" part. I don't want 0 or empty string to be more "special" than ordinary values. Letting the compiler decide what values are suitable if I omit them can be a cause of potential bug.
How YouTube's messed up views bother people
Harry's right now has their biggest advertising push of the year, leading up to Father's Day. I admit some suspicion of this being an advertorial--as I write this, most comments here are discussing Harry's from a consumption PoV--especially since we are one week from Father's Day. The content doesn't look atypical for the author Maya Kosoff--does anyone know Business Insider's advertorial policy?
"Images that are not @2x will appear blurry"

That's quite an exaggeration.

"Blurry" is not what most people would perceive. They won't perceive a problem with the site at all and in most cases will never notice or care.

Sure it's nice to use hi-res images, but I prefer using just one image that is slightly higher resolution than normal... maybe 1.5x and then increase compression. The result is noticeably better, satisfying the perception of "sharp" but still uses just one image and often only a very small increase in file size.

Delivering two versions of the image for all your regularly produced content is an inefficient practice relative to the benefits IMHO.
Obviously if the driver hits the cyclist, the driver is legally at fault. I am suggesting that the law anticipate the inevitable carelessness of drivers, and build in at least a small safeguard. I see no good reason not to make the cylists abide by a safe distance passing rule.
Good to know! I followed the tutorial and they were using it there, and didn't see the docs after that. I see that the Matt's blog handles the problem with request-binding himself, by doing ensuring encoding conversions, and gets over the file uploading problem. So I would replace my code with the way he does.

For your boilerplate, you may want to add bunch of options to serve/servlet such static files path, stateless? (to not use continuations) etc...
Besides Notepad++, I have in this box Pidgin, KeePass, DjVuLibre/WinDjView, DOSBox, Freeplane, TeXnicCenter, NAPS2, WikidPad, WinMerge, REDUCE (great CAS), JaxoDraw, MinGW/MSYS, NumPy/SciPy (Windows binaries are there...) and quite a few more.

I don't think REDUCE and JaxoDraw are going anywhere soon. Same for the WP 31S/34S calculator projects. Maxima and matplotlib are there as well.

I really need some of these, so for me blocking SourceForge is not an option even at this moment. It just isn't as easy as the vibe here makes it. I'm just as careful as you should when downloading Windows installers. Block most of the JS there, scan the files, always go for custom setups and when in doubt use sandboxing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/wicked_edge Fixed it for you.
Recently about Esperanto: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9625048.
(This is not technically a reply to you, but just some context in case anyone else is interested.)

For my own benefit, I have attempted to interpret the statistics in this relatively authoritative source: http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/EE/Navigation/DE/Service/...

As far as I can tell, for the year of 2014, Germany's primary energy consumption breaks down approximately 15/35/20/30 for electricity generation, heating, transportation, and other [p.10]. Approximately 30% of the electricity generation is from renewable sources [p.5], which is split approximately 35/25/20/20 between wind, biofuels, solar, and other (including hydro) [p.6]. Nearly all of the contribution of renewable sources to heating and transportation is from biofuels [p.8--9].

tl;dr: Renewable energy accounts for approximately 30% of electricity generation in Germany. Overall, renewable energy accounts for approximately 11% of primary energy consumption.
Definitely. The titles seems related to the image above them, not below as intended.
Nice juxtaposition. Compare the text of the Australian Capital Territory's (ACT) law in the parent's link:

"No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold, liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or in any other wise destroyed; nor will We pass upon him nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

With today's speech by the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, to the ACT's Supreme Court [1].

"Examples of [Federal] government overreach, she said, included powers to indefinitely detain - without rights to judicial review - refugees, asylum seekers, the mentally ill, and those suffering from infectious diseases."

The actions of the Australian Federal and ACT governments are diametrically opposite. The ACT government is the local government that looks after Australia's capital city, where the Australian Federal government sits and makes national laws.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/austra...
"When it comes to reactionary beliefs"

The term "reactionary" being a label you've created, in order to demonize, not understand.

"there is a significant contingent on this site that believes one ought to be able to hold them publically with no consequences in any other space. "

Also known as "intelligent, rational individuals."

"This happened with that Mozilla CEO that resigned, "

Under pressure from the faggots, of course.

"the scientist who wore the shirt with scantily clad women on it,"

Another victim of your type's idiocy.

"and a number of other situations where the privileged paid nominal costs for their mistakes."

Your use of the word "privileged" is a dead giveaway that you're a fucking asshole.

"It is very upsetting to a subset of our fellow hners that you can't express antisocial ideas consequence-free."

Actually, what's upsetting is that dumb fucks such as you label people as "anti-social", and think there should be "consequences" for expressing ideas you disagree with.

OK then, that's the world you want to live in? Two can play you game. I hope somebody shoots you in the fucking face for expressing your ideas.
Why not DNA testing?
I think Plover works on any keyboard that supports n-key rollover.

http://lifehacker.com/n-key-rollover-anti-ghosting-and-other...
"A way that you can find all over his writings is talk about how people and businesses should be free to refuse dealing with people for any reason whatsoever. "

That's called freedom of association, dumb fuck, not racism.
> Of course, in proper English it's "the Magna Carta."

Nope. You don't say, "the Paris" now do you? There's no particular rule of when you use "the" before a name.

As that notable academic, Tony Hancock, once asked, "Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?"
This was indirectly discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705832

... and included a link that discusses the WSJ article about half way down under the heading "Revenue":
http://mattermark.com/important-financial-indicators-for-sta...
You're not contributing anything and at the time Magna Carta was signed people had known the earth was round for over 1,000 years.

Have you ever been on a boat? Look at the horizon. They'd been on boats too.

Also see: http://www.windows2universe.org/citizen_science/myw/w2u_erat...
"The goal of banning him is probably not to "suppress his ideas""

Wrong, moron. That is exactly what the goal is. It is of course not something that a moron like you would ever admit to....because it sounds bad. But we can argue and argue and eventually it will come out. And then you'll make some other excuse why it's still OK. Because you're a hypocritical piece of shit asshole.
We're working on a project to use open compute racks and servers in a 20' shipping container on one end and a swamp cooler using evaporative media instead of a mister on the other end. It's similar to SGI's discontinued 16' ICE CUBE, but it will be a modular system (computer racks are only one type of module) and an it's an open design which will be donated to open compute (if they're open to the idea).

The idea is to be able to quickly and cheaply deploy infrastructure in developing SE Asian countries (we're in Phnom Penh).

The problem we keep running into is that when we contact venders selling open compute servers, they don't take us seriously because we aren't building out data centers with hundreds or thousands of racks....
I don't think the offensive part is necessarily the "scrubbing", but the lack of transparency. The post just disappeared with no notification or explanation. If I made a post and then subsequently received an email from Facebook or whoever saying "We have deemed your post inappropriate because ...; it has been removed," I would have a lot less of a problem with it than if it just disappeared without a trace.
It seems they moved to github for development a while back (May), but have moved binary downloads away from SF now.
Yeah, it's become so pervasive that it's not out of the ordinary for American reporters to say 'Mehiko" instead of Mexico while speaking an otherwise English sentence. Or they try to pronounce the surname Velazquez in Spanish, but when it comes to Van Gogh or 習近平, there is no attempt at native pronunciation. This kind of inconsistency is baffling --moreover their Spanish pronunciation is not Castillian even when the person is Spanish. So they are all over the map.

I've been down to Mexico and I'm quite sure people don't try to pronounce 'Nueva York' as 'New York'.

On the other hand, these same reporters mangle Chinese city names with abandon, so it's not as if they're just trying to say the names in a native fashion --which I guess at least would make some consistent sense.
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Are there any other countries/cultures around the world that are as fearful as modern U.S.?
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I wondered this too - none of the resolutions mentioned fostering a better company culture that involved properly valuing their employees, as I would imagine doing so would lead to better quality games.
The razor industry is a primarily marketing driven market... And it's a tremendous one. One of my favorite acquisition headlines: "P&G to buy Gilette for $57B" [0]. I think Harry's strategy plays well into both what you're describing, though targeting the profitable, high-end sector of the market (as opposed to the ultra-cheap commodity razor market).

They recognized that the existing players on the high end were reaping above-average profits from their brand + distribution, but without strong product differentiation. If they could (and it seems they are) launch a strong brand with good quality products at substantially lower prices, they could earn a sizable chunk of the market. Cutting out retail margins and owning their factory should let them keep pretty strong margins even on the reduced price. Pretty epic.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/28/news/fortune500/pg_gillette/
Ask HN: Failing to get a date or into relationship. What can I do to improve?
I am from India. I came to US for my masters when I was 25. After switching jobs two times I have finally landed in SF bay area.

I will be 30 in 6 months. I used to work long hours ( 12 - 14 hrs ) per day. Hectic schedule, interview preparations, job hunt , study , certifications did hurt my social circle a lot. Lot of my friends broke contacts with me. No surprise, I have never been in a relationship.

I have been trying to find a girl to date in SF ( or bay area ) but so far I have had no luck. I am not very blessed in terms of looks. Due to premature baldness I now shave my head. I go to gym regularly, take care of personal hygiene, smell good.

I have very low social confidence though. In a group I am someone who stays back or doesn't speak too much going overboard.

I have heard that Bay area is one of the difficult area to find women for dating ( arguably , every other person is millionaire but I am not yet )

So I have two fold question -

1. What can I do to improve my social circle. I want to meet as many people as possible and improve my social presence. I am planning Salsa class, joining tennis club.

2. A few times I have had experience that in SF people judge immediately based on looks. What can I do counter such effect ?
My accent also has not changed and one can find out in 2 sec. that I am from India.

What can I do so that I can meet many women and a potential date ? Any suggestions ?
Indeed 'one big reasons' seem very pathological for me in popular science and even some serious science. I believe we are attracted to a single fact explaining a lot: it gives some weird satisfaction, like seeing a puzzle come together; while this can work for creating a mathematical theory or explain some basic physical phenomena, it doesn't bode well when applied to complex systems or people. I get impression it happens all the time with cancer; I think the bee collapse saw some of this effect too.

All this motivation for finding 'the explanation' does lead to discovering mechanisms though -- but I suppose we still need some more lucid 'integrators' to combine many effects into a strong enough causal system.
Except that the spec states that the 0 value is "more special".

https://golang.org/ref/spec#The_zero_value

I personally like it this way, and it's better, imho, to have a "set everything not specified to 0" step rather then "leave whatever garbage was there"