skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an account on lonestar.sdf.org, but then I let it lapse and there was a change to the server name/login. I'm not sure I could reclaim lonestar, but I remember trying to make that my permanent account for a while. Between that and Riseup, the early 00's were a great time for staking your place with an email address that signaled your values.
Around 50 per year die due to shootings, according to data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (www.nleomf.org) for 2003-2014.

About as many as die per year from auto crashes/getting run over.

Contrast that with around 400 deaths per year caused by police officers (2003-2009 http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ard0309st.pdf , that study seems to have stopped then).

Edit: the ~130 numbers from some of the other posts are closer to the total number of police officers dying in the line of duty, rather than shootings specifically.
Those numbers are total police officer deaths across all causes, not just shootings, which was what the parent was talking about.
Lincoln? Let's jump another 75 years ahead and look at the pop culture of the 1930s. One of the most popular comedy duos of the day, Laurel & Hardy, are, film after film, depicted sharing a bed (seriously, do a Google image search for it). It's presented no differently from how two men sharing an apartment would be today.
America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot
Problem is many view the entire popularity of black culture as a double edged sword. Black culture is becoming popular but not the people associated with the culture or more to the point. America wants the culture but not the black.

Racism will always be an issue for the simple fact, we've rarely addressed it as a country but instead choose to ignore it thinking it'll go away (the amount that is uttered by people baffles me as if ignoring a problem makes it go away. Absolute madness).
Best line of the article.

"I think part of the reason [Steve Jobs] smelled bad was 'cause he wouldn't necessarily go home every day."
It'll be a while, sadly. IE8-10 are still up to 25% of the browsers[0] (caniuse puts them much lower, which isn't surprising for sampling dev oriented sites). IE10 (5% of that) needs a different syntax, and 8-9 don't support it. All three support table layout[1], which is why it is still the best solution if you care about compatibility.

[0] https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-table
I retired at 55, nine years ago broadly using the well known principles and agree that "Creation of new ideas, new enterprises, or new things is the biggest joy of being alive".
Reading further, it's actually 50 officers who were killed by firearm in 2014, and it's not clear whether that number includes suicides.

This number is trending downwards since in the mid-seventies.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/u-s-police-officer-...
If the "Lloyd Irvin rape scandal" is fascinating, let me tell you, at the time it was the scariest thing in my life. I have a 13 year old daughter, and as soon as I was clued in on the allegations, I mentally ran through every single event we'd attended, and tried to remember whether or not my daughter had spent any time with anyone unattended.

The answer I came back with was 'No', thankfully. As she was only doing children's classes (obviously), I would gleefully watch her every practice and give her tips / practice with her afterward.

After that, we left the gym, but in addition to whatever other allegations against him, Lloyd Irvin takes his gym contracts very, very seriously, and I ended up owing them the remainder of the contract after they sued me (and won) which was only extra painful because we had just renewed the contract, so despite only having been a month or so in, they ended up getting a judgement in their favor somewhere in the $2800 range.
The recurrence is a real key to something like this. Without that, I think laziness steps in and no one organises or attends.
CEO who set $70,000 minimum wage facing hardships
Good to hear. Great resource either way. I use the site all the time.
I've said the exact same thing many times! There are some things where profit motive works against the best outcomes.
How much does a good reed cost? They aren't very big, are they? If quality depends on skilled handwork, why can't they be ordered cheaply from e.g. the Philippines?
But statistically they appear to be involved in a high number of homicides. I don't know the details of the shootings. How many people were armed/unarmed for example. Where did the shootings take place? Traffic stops on highways, for example.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/02/...
She could have fought her last five fights within a single 5-minute round.
Based on the pay alone and the location I would say this is NOT a good deal for you unless your getting housing thrown in for 70k... after taxes and rent, your going to have very little money for the experience. Even if you were living at home, 70k would not be such a great offer.

The reality is your going to get a year of experience but I don't think that is going to do a lot for your resume, and your putting off graduating a year.

As for getting the experience, well theres a ton of need in the open source world. If I were looking at two resumes where they were fresh out of school I'm going to look longer at your github account than the year you do at this job.
Tech industry's persistent claim of worker shortage may be phony
I believe you have reached a conclusion that is not justified by what I actually wrote. Nowhere did I imply that the only defense against against her moves is to have more muscle strength.

The point of commenting on muscle strength is that if one is strong enough to muscle out of a person's move then they don't have to be as talented to defend against said moves. Hence the belief that many people have that Ronda would not stand a chance against even a low level pro male fighter.
Really, an armbar is just a contest of strength and being 50%-100% stronger lets you brute force out of it?
Follow-up: Does anyone know how to best host this site?
a) with less than 50 users all-time
b) easily updated daily (blog-style) by a 7 year old
c) is approximately free

Wordpress with her custom theme seems to fail C.
Github pages / Jekyll is failing B
It's so bizarre how offended people get (the Facebook commenters in this instance) when scrutinizing the person used in an ad. One in particular argues that the author isn't what female engineers are supposed to look like.

That reminded me of a pair of talented, male twins I've worked with who are attractive and quite slender (compared to the average American).

They get odd comments like "you're too slender, you don't look like a normal person", "you're too attractive/well-dressed to be tech" and other odd observations that sound like compliment, but aren't.

Either way, these are the people that you stay away from, and instead spend time working with people like those described in the author's ad.
I don't think his kid needs to worry about supporting old IE.
I doubt the author's daughter cares about legacy browser support.
> end lobbying

The problem here is the first amendment. It explicitly protects the right to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Thanks! BTW, I love the idea behind your extension -- because Chrome's history search is almost always a frustrating let-down. Provided you can solve the privacy issue, I'd use it in a heartbeat. I'd also be very curious to see your final implementation
Disclaimer: I'm the author of this article

You are correct. As explained in the article, containers are running on a Linux VM, from Mac OS X, not natively on Mac OS X.

A few differences between Hyper for Mac and boot2docker though:

1- Docker commands are run inside the boot2docker VM and not directly on the host  . Hyper daemon directly runs on your Mac.

2- When using boot2docker, each time you restart the VM, you have to manually mount the drives (and reinstall Fig if you're using it)

3- While boot2docker is a "wrapper" around Docker and VirtualBox, Hyper for Mac is part of the whole Hyper ecosystem, providing a similar environment on Linux, or Mac OS X.
The article is off base though. You can't call a school with a 9% graduation rate a diploma mill. Online school is hard. It takes a lot more self discipline and motivation than traditional classes. I tended to avoid them in school. I took Computer Organization II online and it was waaaay harder than it would have been in person.

UoP is obviously ripping people off but it seems unfair to the people who worked hard to get through the program to call the school a diploma mill when the facts plainly do not support that. This is coming from a FSU alum so I have no allegiance to UoP.
It should be possible to make many musical instruments more cheaply. The pBone and pTrumpet prove that quality, affordable brass instruments can be made from plastic. Bassoon should be even easier (except for the reed).
He's justifying shooting by the speed with which an assailant can shoot, but with zero data on the accuracy of the assailant when moving that fast. I'd want to know what is the estimated time to pull and shoot a gun with at least a roughly 10% chance of the officer being hit, not to mention being killed.
I'd be interested in an game-theory, microeconomic treatment of decision making differences between people in different economic situations. If they study went one step further and showed how those micro decisions aggregated into macro inequality, that would be interesting to me as well.

Please, if someone knows of some research along these lines I'd love to dive in. I've done a bit of searching and it seems that most economists focus on the already somewhat wealthy individuals or entities when it comes to real life somewhat messy decision making or the poor only in aggregate.
I didn't suggest that that is the only defense against her moves, but you seem to be saying that no matter what move / hold someone puts on you, you'd be able to get out of it with mere brute force if only you were 50% stronger. Is that really true?
Really? You don't think his kid's peers might not have the latest IE at home? Lot's of them will be on mobile, true (though some of them will be on Android's pre 4.4 browser, which also doesn't support it fully), but if they want to check from school, then school machines are neither likely to be the latest, nor the most diligently updated.

I wasn't trying to be a smartarse, I wish flexbox was usable. But IE < 11 is still a very large player.
Can't login though.
I also find it amusing that my favorite multiplayer PC FPS ever was released using the next iteration of that engine... (AvP 2, btw).
Okay, I've cooled down a bit and I'll say this: You're free to believe whatever you want to believe. Can I just request that, in the future, you don't come in guns blazing and saying that all people need is Jesus? It's great if Christianity is working for you. Try and understand that it doesn't work for everyone.
>"How many companies have you started by the time you're 18? If the answer's zero, I wouldn't invest in you," he says of their entrepreneurial verve.

Jesus christ, really? That sounds like a hideous childhood to me. Is this what we're becoming, a race of people obsessed with capital and business and work?

Go play in the dirt and ride your bike, kid. Work when you're old.
Oh that's wonderful. Thanks for the tip. I was trying to figure out how to do something similar.
Not free, but relatively cheap: https://www.site44.com
I was signed to a major label at one point and would do so again in a heartbeat.

What you're getting in exchange for surrendering publishing and the masters is the huge network majors are tapped into. Syncs, marketing spend, publicity, festival circuits, key relationships with tastemakers, etc - I found the music industry incredibly nepotistic and benefitted over equally or more talented unsigned artists. There's a Hollywood Accouting hustle to what the majors say they are spending on you, but I believe you're building a better fanbase with a major, which generally means a greater touring revenue.

Another point missed: it's hard to speak globally about "musicians". Artists have very different outcomes and objectives, so it's very easy to project a mainstream mentality on to the indie, as so with the converse.
I should have redacted the "nonsensical" part, but I did find the comment very insulting. It was quite insulting to say that my work is unfairly yielding some other group profit, thereby implying that I'm some naive dunce. (To be clear, this is the line I object to: "people like me making money off of things that people like you made.")
Swatch’s new affordable mechanical watch
A dismissive dev's 'legacy' browser, is 25% of actual web users. You can dismiss them as legacy if you like, but there isn't a minimum age before you get told your site sucks because a quarter of people get crap when they load it.

I pretty sure my kid would care if that happened.
Geomagnetic reversal
Ah, I hadn't seen another site similar to this, but I'm not surprised they exist. Thanks for the feedback, that's definitely the number one piece of criticism I keep hearing.
This is all such false modesty. She sought out the modeling job and loves the attention.
I see your point with the example of the DICE advert, and not that I think it's a tasteful ad, but it's obviously riffing on the stereotypical Calvin Klein fashion model photo spread (which one could argue is a clever joke in context).

Of course "Alex" would never receive such attention for being attractive (hence the joke) nor would he be harassed for merely appearing on such a dumb advert. It of course illustrates the idiotic double standard between men and women in tech (or even fashion for that matter) which is your whole thesis here.

The first thing that popped into my head when I saw the advert you're featured in was "this is a really poor advertisement" either done with the explicit expectation of eliciting eyeballs (like most ads) or whipped up in last minute fashion with no real thought put into it (I didn't even realize it was a recruitment ad until I read your post).

There's a lot to break down regarding the micro issues (a terribly done ad) and the macro issues (sexism, male gaze, internet rage, etc) but I would be particularly upset with the people who devised this concept. I'd hazard a guess that the other people who were in the running to be placed on this ad were just as photogenic (which if true is completely maddening and upsetting).

It's equally disgusting to me that there's been human toll taken because some schmucks in the marketing department decided to whip this up in one day with clearly little forethought.
One quote from the article:

"People die because of this stuff,” said John Burton, a California lawyer who specializes in police misconduct cases. “When they give these cops a pass, it just ripples through the system.”

I'm curious what people think of this ... does defending the police even under pretty damning situations really equate to being responsible for future death?
>If we set it too low, people lose family homes/farms, if we set it too high the rabble-rousers bitch. There's no value that works.

People losing their family homes and farms is what should happen in a meritocratic society. Intergenerational wealth transfer is by its very nature antithetical to meritocracy.

The irony is that for many people laboring under a very unmeritocratic society, its the one sliver of wealth which keeps them afloat. Ergo they can be relied upon to support it.
Nice work. How about a whitelist mode? Basically, the research mode + the ability to add sites (e.g., news sites, blogs, etc.) to the whitelist.
A quick look through wordpress' offerings shows some nice plans for hosting that shouldn't be too expensive [0]

[0] https://wordpress.org/hosting/
I'm Quitting Social Media to Learn What I Actually Like
I'm not a member but one thing that's kind of interesting is having a rootless, shell-based community. We have this at work on our jumphosts and it's generally a Good Thing. Sharing datasets and scripts is just a filesystem namespace operation. It's up to the system operators to keep the machine running well and influencing how it is used by i.e. setting up certain packages and services. It's incredibly productive to be in a tmux session with vim, mutt, tin, man pages, ssh, etc as your interface and minimal distraction.
As much as I am defending the notion that Rousey could beat a man with which she had a good matchup, the assertion that she could beat a top male champion is indeed far-fetched.

As has been mentioned all over this thread, sexual dimorphism is a real thing, and not just something men made up to repress the lowly women.

A strong, fierce, dominant fighter can absolutely be female. A strong, fierce, dominant fighter that is female and that could beat someone larger is exceedingly unlikely, and has absolutely nothing to do with sexism whatsoever.
True Story:
Once I was with a friend inside the elevator of my apartment building wearing a GitHub shirt. A foreign man asks "Do you work for GitHub?" I replied "No, but I use their product every day." "What do you do?" "I'm a developer" "What?! You're too hot to be an engineer!"

facepalm
I misread the article, where it says at the moment ship owners are getting $3.6M less than they used to. I thought it said that that was what they were getting.
... "may be phony"

Oh LOL, isn't this well known? Are people really just now figuring out NOW that this is, and always has been, about lowering expenses for these big companies? I mean, they aren't really even trying to hide this!

"our immigration system has failed to keep pace." The nation's outdated limits and "convoluted green-card process," she said, had left firms like hers "hampered in hiring the talent that they need."" ... "Only a few weeks after her June 2 talk, the San Diego company announced that it would cut its workforce, of whom two-thirds are engineers, by 15%, or nearly 5,000 people"
I do see how one can say it's arbitrary. There is a set of rules that we didn't make, that a god imposes on us. We may know why for some rules. We might not know others. The system could be called arbitrary.

My reason is entirely based on experience. I have not felt the spirit of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, nor his noodlely appendage. I have felt the Spirit. This makes it not arbitrary. It's rooted in God. It's rooted in the absolute.

That's why if I ever stopped believing in the Trinity, I would be a nihilist. It's a good starting point. It admits that everything is arbitrary. As such, I think we could build on it to a Utilitarian system. We all agree that core set of values is arbitrary, but that it's build on avoiding pain. Avoiding pain is an arbitrary metric, but well, the majority doesn't want to be kicked, so let's agree that we shouldn't do that to each other.
> What Tornquist didn't mention was that Qualcomm may then have had more engineers than it needed: Only a few weeks after her June 2 talk, the San Diego company announced that it would cut its workforce, of whom two-thirds are engineers, by 15%, or nearly 5,000 people.

How do we know that 15% isn't mostly coming out of the non-engineering 33%? And they may well still be hiring engineers massively.
Most of these settings are probably related to Cortana (the new Siri/Google Now like feature in Windows 10). These kind of tools that suggest information to you only really work if they have your search and location information. If you turn those options off, I guess the only thing that will be affected will be Cortana.

Also, the thing where apps may share a common advertising ID? Sounds invasive, but is actually a tiny step towards more privacy: before, apps (i.e. desktop programs) could access basically any information on your PC: Your name, your address if you entered it anywhere, your contact list, possibly your position. Nowadays, "Modern" apps can only identify you via an pseudonymous ID (if you allow it), unless they have the proper permissions.

What does annoy me is that they still obscure these settings, and fail to explain what exactly they are for. At least they made it a bit more obvious in Windows 10 that you can use it without creating a Microsoft account (using a local account).

There is a saying in Germany: Nothing is eaten as hot as it is cooked.
The very real issue is the use of H1-B visas to drive down the cost of labor across the board. Its not a coincidence that real wages in the US have declined since 1970 while the percentage of population immigrants represent have tripled from 4.7 to over 14%
Tattoo “flexbox” on your hand :P
I think people are already working on the solar lamp thing[1][2][3]. I guess Oola is looking to move beyond that? It sounds like they are hoping to combine it with their mobile payment solution, so maybe the payment platform is actually the play?

[1] https://www.lightingafrica.org/

[2] http://www.solar-aid.org/

[3] http://www.dlight.com/
I used to pay $20 for a reed that my tutor made (about the same price as a box of nice clarinet reeds). It's possible they could be produced more cheaply in another part of the world, but you need a bassoon to test on (again, not cheap) and the manufacturer should themselves be a skilled bassoonist to capably test the reed across the instrument's significant range. A reed's musical qualities are influenced by local conditions (humidity, etc.) so a reed that works well in one place may sound terrible in another. The current model, where accomplished bassoonists and teachers make reeds to meet the small, local demand, seems to at least be workable.

I pointed out reeds as only a secondary issue because there seem to be more oboists than bassoonists. Oboists have the same challenge of finding a good reed-maker, or acquiring reed-making tools and canes, and learning the craft themselves. Oboes are much cheaper than bassoons and sometimes can even be rented (good luck finding a place willing to rent a bassoon -- the vast majority of bassoonists get their instrument from their school system).
Rotary has the lesser known Rotaract program for 18-30s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotaract Here in the Cayman Islands the Rotaract club is pretty active. (My father is a Rotarian, but I haven't felt like joining Rotaract, yet.)
So, I can't speak specifically to Qualcomm's case, however there's a weird paradox in Silicon Valley.

There's both an excess of jobs and excess of employees. This is probably true in every industry (every Starbucks is hiring, yet everyone complains how hard it is to find a job), but it's especially true in tech.

The problem is there's a shortage in qualified candidates. Salaries have gotten so high that even the most mediocre developers are demanding six figures. There's been a huge inflation of salaries in tech, and a decrease in craftsmanship and quality. So, companies are getting less done for more money. It's a gold rush, and we're getting to the point where "3 months experience [1]" is the norm.

I've been trying to hire. I'm not worried about high salaries for someone good. However my inbox is full of people who know half a language and want a starting salary of $130k. That's crazy.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/technology/code-academy-as...