skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest scandals are fingerprint analysis and eyewitness testimony. The New Yorker had a big article on fingerprint analysis years ago and little has improved.

In essence, FBI and other "experts" have frequently attested to partial matches being reliable when they're pretty much subjective. Similarly, the FBI would claim matches based on far fewer points than other countries deem acceptable.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/27/do-fingerprints...

Meanwhile, the unreliability of eyewitness testimony is legion, and it falsely convicts more people than anything else.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-i...
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There is a nice patchset for Chromium that turns off or strips (almost?) all of the controversial features.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=198763
I don't buy that (outside of copyright licensing). Especially for anything cloud based. As a Canadian, we don't have a choice but to expand to include the US early on (since it's a market 10x bigger) and I've not really seen that become a stumbling block.
That's fine by me. Nation states should be spying on each other. Its within my interests to spy on the French, regardless of whatever bullshit political relationship we have. France is busy building carriers for Putin to oppresses Eastern Europe with, for example. We're not all buddy-buddy in the real world. The only reason those carriers aren't being used to shoot at Ukrainian civilians is because of US pressure to temporarily hold them.

>and it's midnight meetings at the Elysée and general outrage all round.

Except this is political theater and face-saving nonsense, just like Merkel's cellphone or the million other things before it. We're still spying on them as we should as its within our interests. They're spying on us, except we don't have a German or French Snowden, or at least not yet. The Five Eyes share intel and spy on each other as well. Being at an information disadvantage is stupid. France, Germany, etc are an election away from assaulting US interests. We have every right to spy on them.

Looks like millennials are starting to learn what Realpolitik means, or are going to once they start to learn how the real world works.
Extinction is unlikely, given the vast amount of energy we have at our disposal (even if that energy's consumption is making it hard to be a biological construct on this earth).

No, the likely scenario is in some ways even sadder: the 1% will survive in carefully-cultivated bunkers by the thousands or tens of thousands, and the vast majority (along with an awful lot of the other life on the planet) will die.

Extinction by this effect is a possibility, but a remote one; humans react faster than the climate, and we're very good at problem solving over time when faced with existential threats. We're just bad at predicting them and solving them when they're on the horizon and a gentle nudge could have desired cumulative effect.
“I Emailed 97,931 Users Their Passwords”
TL;DR: We still don't understand black holes, and String Theory complicates the possibility space.
This is true, but I see no difference here in private or state prison - in both cases agent problem exists, and in both cases there's no choice for the "user". The only difference is that if there are two prison companies, and one of them is really bad, citizens can fire it (through pressure on their elected representatives) and hire another with relative ease. If all prisons are owned by the state, you can't fire the state and the status quo is protected by the powerful and concentrated effort of the public worker's unions, which has clout that is hard to match or overcome. So I don't see how private companies make things worse, even taking into account the agency problem. To consider if private companies are worse or not, it is not enough to find a problem in private company, it is also necessary to show that the same (or worse) problem is not present in the alternative, which I don't see happening here.
I don't agree that employers, especially government employers, are entitled to treat job candidates unfairly.
I love how hypermedia enables these kinds of API explorers.
Haha, totally, I hear you.

Part of our decision to prioritize integration with other technologies/frameworks is so that more mature tools like Angular or React can do the heavy lifting on application logic while Famous focuses on animation and layout. We learned a lot about this balance from our time building Famo.us/Angular.

In other words, we're not trying to be 'everything for everyone' out of the gate, but we'd love to be 'something for everyone,' and the 'something' we're focusing on is what what Famous is good at: user interfaces, interactions, and animations.
Java is fine. It did lag a little behind there for a few years, but the last two Java releases have really pulled things together.

I will say C# is still my preferred language just for quality of life reasons, and I also feel like Java has been largely relegated to either web-backend or enterprise desktops. There is no practical way to deliver a Java application to an consumer now, Java Applets are "dead" and running Java on the desktop is a pain. Minecraft is likely the only reason any non-business user has Java still installed.

But saying Java is "only" good for web-backend stuff is kind of like saying a car is "only" good for driving. That's where the majority of new development currently happens and it has a very bright future. Java on Tomcat delivers that experience just fine (although C# w/MVC is still my poison, again for quality of life stuff).
Ok. Thanks ! I re-submitted mine (since there was a new update) and it went through.
Meizu Launches the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe
Yes. For example, the hotspot VM can make use of AVX and AVX2 instructions if supported by the CPU.

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/file/87ee5ee275...
Are you guys willing to coach job seekers from other countries (if they have the right skills, of course)? Or is this US exclusive?
Are you really going to suggest that data suggesting causation that has been contributed by hundreds and reviewed by literally thousands of scientists shares equal validity as an obviously facetious graph created to make a point about not suggesting causal relationships lightly?
It's not really fishing. They had forensic evidence for a specific crime, used it to find him (the suspect), conducted their investigation, cleared him of that crime, and let him go.

Fishing is where you pick someone first, then go looking for evidence of any crime.
No matter how hard they try, tech is making it harder to meet new people
You're wrong, old systems have such limitations that solving the problem demands cleverness and maks you feel good. Ask the guys from demo scene making new developments (!) for PC XT and CGA, posted recently here.
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In an ideal world. But on the other hand, who would agree that we should make NO attempt to exclude certain personalities from being police officers? Sometimes the cost of wrong hiring is much, much larger than the cost of unfairness.
As a user that probably contributes a lot to the trends observed in the article, I think I can explain my user-behavior pretty well.

I really need about ~5 apps on my phone (browser, mail, alarm, somehow whatsapp managed to become one of those, and maybe few others I don't recall now).

All other apps I download for a very specific use case:

- Rent a bike a foreign city that I'll leave again pretty soon

- Navigate during that one trip where I don't expect to be connected to the internet

- Play a game during the single train ride where my Kindle has no more battery

- Check scores during that one playday of soccer where I have no access to my usual channels (TV, Friends, Browser)

- etc

At the moment of downloading I often know for how long I will be using that app. Most of the time it is only on that single day, otherwise for the duration of a trip.
I'm not sure there's too much App makers could do to keep me as a user (aside from sending me a brand-new phone). I don't really like my phone and I really prefer using my laptop or even desktop, whenever possible.
How to run Debian GNU/Linux on your Android [not chrooted]
That didn't just happen overnight. Do a google search for "uber banned". They fought for it and still are.
And the Swiss guy who according to the story served 4 years for poppy seeds on his clothes. My conclusion from this is that I never wish to go to Dubai.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7234786.stm
> I also question how we know the difference between nature/cycles and man-made pollution.

It's a great question, one which has occupied many scientists. It has been addressed in detail in the scientific research. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772353

> The problem is that it's too political now.

Remember that's a well-documented, established technique often used by people who want to obstruct things; create so much noise (as in signal-to-noise) and FUD (Fear, uncertainty, and doubt) as to confuse the public about the facts. In every field, you always can find someone to say anything on TV; heck, you can find tax attorneys who will say you don't have to pay income tax (good luck with that!).

> When claimed scientists are coming out and saying the science is "settled", I know we have a problem. Science is never really settled.

'Settled science' is jargon; it distinguishes theories that are still up in the air (string theory) from theories that have proven themselves as very reliable (gravity). Nothing in the world is ever "settled", but the evidence is pretty certain about climate change:

IIRC, 97% of climate scientists believe it's happening and caused by humans; the US National Academies of Science agree, as does the Royal Society in the UK; the US defense and intelligence communities are planning on it, as is the insurance and other industries. Sure, they all could be wrong, but so could the deniers. Who seems like a better bet, the 3%, or the 97%?
IntelliJ.

The bash shell and the Unix command-line tools.

As others have said, pencil and paper.
The gist of this argument is that the IPCC's members, the schools that employ them, the governments of their constituent nations, the FAO, the UN, the mainstream news media, and all administrative and custodial staff of all of these organizations are perpetrating a conspiracy to push carbon taxes on the world. Presuming the absurd scale implied herein doesn't beggar belief, the fact that the combined power of all these people has proved insufficient in bringing 'the plan' to reality ought to.
>>> My last job hunt took almost 6 months

This has been my experience as well. Once I get the itch, I'll start looking, doing interviews and being pretty selective in where and who I want to work for.

I think if you're not in a good place to begin with, you'll take something sooner and inevitably find yourself somewhere you don't want to be.
I find it incredibly suspicious that one of the most powerful institutions in the world, one which controls congressmen, are trusted to regulate their own industry, and has a vital interest in secure communications, is not raising a stink about this.

I'm talking, of course, about Wall Street. Why wouldn't they care that their communications are being intercepted and analyzed by a government agency?
Another element is that anything above the kernel is subject to change at whim of some primadonna developer.

MS has in the past bent over backward to maintain binary compatibility.

Some of the same attitude is present in the kernel mantra of not breaking userspace, but userspace devs seems all to happy to break stuff at the drop of a hat.
Deniers get mocked for bringing up cold winters ("weather is not climate, you MORON!"), but warmists have no problem blaming every hurricane and tornado on global warming.
Deforestation? They reject this because we replace forest with light reflecting materials which they claim causes slight cooling. Last time I checked, it's way cooler in a forest than standing in a parking lot. Nature uses the energy from sunlight to create biomass. Anything else either reflects it or turns it to heat.
Lobbyists take the facts and portray their clients in the best light possible. Other lobbyists can take other facts and undermine those narratives. It's a combative process that is pretty good at ferretting out conflicting evidence because the parties involved have strong incentives to elicit that evidence.

The alternative is "neutral" fact-finding by unelected technocrats. I'd rather have a system where the environmentalist lobby and the coal lobby fight it out than rely on some bureaucrat to come up with his version of the facts with no input from anyone else.
How Palantir built a $15B growth engine
Why your mindset might be setting your software for failure
Moldovan (from Cahul) here. Many of my friends emigrated in Canada. Good friends, which I miss. While I appreciate your good impression of us, I don't share your wish for more of us going there. Although I'm somewhat content for those finding a better life than it could have been here, I'm not content with loosing our best and brightest among us, and thus not so content about Canada facilitating this brain drain in any way. In the end, although I'm fully aware what the subject of general discussion is (i.e. decrying the immigration hurdles), I have to say that for us who chose not to emigrate the changes in Canada's immigration policies comes as a good thing.
Why that crazy-high $24B Airbnb valuation might be fair
Architect of the Modern DNS David Holtzman Joins Ascribe.io as Technical Advisor
Um, no it's not. It's a physical model. Read the PDF they link to.
NASA Wants Help Training Valkyrie Robots to Go to Mars
No, it can only use your microphone on New Tab pages and Google Search pages, and only after the user explicitly opts-in to it (the module is disabled by default).
> You insist that F-1 OPT "doesn't work", but you the fail to give the slightest explanation as to why.

Other folks in this thread have pointed out it doesn't work

> Ask them why.

Because they need a sponsor to switch - that is not freely - and as you say it "costs a company at most $4000" which is not free.
Notably absent is con-trails. The jury is still out, but there is strong evidence that they can have a significant effect. The rise of jet travel has also coincided with hydrocarbon use. Water vapor is also a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
"City-level battles can be costly, too. Last year, Uber put more than $600,000 into a voter referendum in Seattle and spent $314,000 lobbying in Washington, D.C."

That is not costly. Uber has raised $6 billion in capital, and is presently working on a $2 billion line of credit. Half a million dollars per major metro, would be trivial - but it won't be necessary, for every Portland, there are a dozen smaller cities that will just fall in line.
Thats one of those chicken and egg things, in particular when MS software has been the big dog of the market for so long.
Water splitter produces clean-burning hydrogen fuel 24/7
Indeed. "Ah ha! How could you know the burglar was wearing gloves if you weren't at the scene of the crime?" No winning there.

Never talk to police without a lawyer is good advice, but that advice literally translates to "Never talk to police without paying someone $300 per hour to do it." Meanwhile, police, at no additional cost to themselves, can essentially compel you to talk to them any time they want. So it's pretty easy to push people around with that dynamic, yet most people I talk to seem to bury their head in the sand on the issue.

I'm reminded of:

George Aaronow: When I talk to the police I get nervous.

Ricky Roma: Yes. You know who doesn't?

George Aaronow: Who?

Ricky Roma: Thieves.
Sorry, I can't click through to that article -- when I dismiss the pop-up, the tantalizing "Climate Shock" headline disappears.

I do say that all humans require energy to survive, and more efficient forms of energy require capital in the hands of innovators.

I'll be happy to read the article if you can give me a link that functions better for me.
The intelligence of individual officers is not the issue even though smart candidates are actively discriminated against in some locations (see: http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...). Prosecutors control the entire process and have largely negated trial by jury through the use of multiple charges and plea bargains (see: http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/plea-bargain-...). Many prosecutors are not directly elected, so the ballot box does not provide a direct path to a solution. Furthermore, I doubt many voters vote for candidates based on who they will appoint as a prosecutor.
> But of course nothing beats compiling from source.

Did you assemble a bootstrap compiler yourself? Your binary compiler could be backdoored! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Compiler_...
I agree, I'm just not sure that having to give up existing tax incentives to other industries to fund a $1.3B subsidy to one company is the way to go about generating new industry in the area.

There is a small group of start-ups in the area that seem to be doing well for themselves and every so often there is talk of Reno becoming the next Silicon Valley, so I think the SAAS sector is covered.

Reno also has Sierra Nevada Corp, which was in competition with SpaceX and Boeing on some space related ventures for whatever that is worth.
Well, sometimes the country can't just put its trust into private investors to really accomplish something in innovation. There is already a lot of money sleeping, sometimes off shore, so I don't think it's really relevant to judge this aspect.

It's the nature of current capitalism and how big players just won't even try going towards the electric car because it's a risk for their business model. If you want to go forward, sometimes you have to force your hand, and it involves using government money. You could also argue that putting a flag on the moon is worthless too. Sometimes the answer is not in accounting. Markets and money are just that, tools. You can't always think in a logic that revolves around capitalism, you have to look further than that.
Easy String Interning
For every Dick Cheney there are probably a thousand parents who will ostracize or disown their gay children. And probably as many who will accept their children but don't change their views on homosexuality.

I'm not sure if the left means to praise Dick Cheney for changing his mind on homosexuality, or mock him for changing his mind because he's a right winger.
Well, it makes sense for tutorials to use what they can to simplify the bits they're not focusing on, but certainly implementing a construct by mapping it into an identical construct is not going to be terribly informative as to the workings of that construct. That may be totally appropriate if the focus of the tutorial is on the parsing or such, but it sounds like that sort of tutorial (of which there are many, and which are perfectly useful to other purposes) are not what you are looking for.
> We have multiple women in our expert network. I should have highlighted them... doh. We'd love more! https://jobstart.co/experts

Getting a good candidate:expert match sounds integral to your model, so it may be useful to have a process for leveraging your expert network to review the pairings (including the advice they produce and candidate feedback) to identify places where the coaches may need coaching, or the fitting process may be able to improve.
Or it's idiomatic for that language.
Corpus-free auto tagging
Would love to know how this performs compared with analogous PostGIS operations on a similar sized set of geos.
There are many small dams that really are obsolete or of little benefit, but Sierra Club also opposes some that have clearer benefits.
http://tagr.deepreader.io/
Tagr: find key phrases in the document as tags. Corpus-free auto tagging for text in any length. Based on http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227988510_Automatic_.... Enjoy!
Borne out? Compared to what? The RSS and UAH 6.0 lower troposphere predictions? What other measurements do we have that don't have uncertainty bands as large as the measurements?

And the zero trend from May 2015 extends back to 1996 for RSS and UAH 6.0.
Pardon the pun but Europe and Mars are worlds apart.

The difference between all previous human colonization and Mars is that in the past colonies were at least theoretically self sufficient. Your willingness to write off the cooperation of the rest of the human species seems shortsighted. Especially since it's the people of Earth that will be funding this lifeboat. What happens when the "Old World" find themselves embroiled in World War III thirty years into the colonization of Mars and a fungus kills all your monoculture rice? My guess is that if it comes down to winning a war or shipping 5 million tons of corn to Mars, well, you guys are going to be eating a whole lot of Soylent.

The other issue is that human colonization has always been driven by "real" pressures like limited resources, war, or economic expansion. Mars solves none of those. At best you can risk a high likelihood of dying from freezing, starving, depression, and/or cancer in order to avoid: asteroid impact, global pandemic, or killer robots. Scratch that - the killer robots will definitely find you on Mars.
Anyone have any strategies for running online CAs (relatively) securely without an HSM?
Without subsidies, civilian nuclear would not exist and we'd have a lot less oil and gas supplies. Exploration subsidies for oil and gas have doubled in the last five years in the US.

edit - energy production is always subsidised in wealthy countries, as energy security is key to national security, so it would be stupid not to.
Nothing like the red in Ireland! Although that is largely mitigating previous outflows.
Two passages stood out.

At first, we considered selling the whole company, enabling the Hagoromo brand to survive and helping overall chalk sales. But we could not find the right deal for the company.

I'm sad that I have been forced to close down my company. But I am pleased I have been able to contribute to education by providing high-quality chalk over the last 50 years.

Commendable passion to a bigger cause, but sometimes that isn't enough. Very touching note.
Isn't a lot of it due to greater urbanization? While the rural areas lose people, not only does Berlin grow but also Leipzig, Dresden, Magdeburg and Rostock.

I think the map show no major city in eastern Germany actually losing population.
I'm not against long-shots that take time to mature, as long as those are part of a diversified investment portfolio.

The legislators gave up or severely decreased tax incentives to other industries to make up the gap. Could Tesla be worth all of that in the long run? Possibly, still, I think it would be wise to continue to invest some of the money in other ventures rather than putting it all in on Tesla.
This is a really interesting study. But I wouldn't assume correlation implies causation here.
Just because there are more male or female applicants to job postings that contain specific words does not mean the words themselves are attracting certain types of applicants.
Many of the masculine words are words associated with higher-level management and higher pay jobs. There are less women who make it to this level so naturally there are less women applicants to these types of jobs.

Jobs associated with the feminine words such as "caring" and "serves" tend to be lower-level service-oriented jobs. Women don't apply to these because they are attracted to the words. They apply to them because more women are in the economic position to apply to these jobs over high-status high-skilled jobs because of historical and societal issues.
I'm not sure categorizing these words as masculine and feminine is doing anything more than reflecting the existing gender-imbalance in labor although it is interesting to think about how this knowledge could be used constructively.
This is so appropriate for Hagoromo's story.