skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By my reading of this article, it is also attacking the statistic by its definition.

The implied definition is that recidivism means "repeated the crime for which they were convicted" or "relapsed into criminal behavior". When it clarifies that the highest rate of recidivism is related to merely parole violations, like going to a bar, or visiting a friend who is also an ex-con, it is attempting to clarify the definition of recidivism, or at least our perception of it.

Side note: On this matter, I'm actually somewhat torn. I think that parole can be onerous and unjust, and some parole officers can tenaciously seek out any and all infractions, while on the other hand, parole is the alternative to a longer prison term, and the parolee has agreed to abide by those extra-stringent rules in exchange for an earlier, supervised release.
I don't know if it's the same graves, but the book The Cradle of the Republic[1] from 1906 mentions an excavation that found

> several graves and tombstones, as well as mortuary tablets,
> were discovered in the old foundations. In the chancel, lying
> with its head to the north, was an iron tablet, probably
> formerly a cenotaph, once embossed with inlaid brasses,
> now missing.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=4R4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126#v=on...
Pulled the data from the PitchBook platform on all companies that at one point (not necessarily their current status) saw a round letter between "H" and "J"- sorted by most recent deal.

64 total companies have seen this middle of the alphabet (there are certainly a few that have gone higher not included in this list). Honestly, I expect more companies to start pushing the round name higher and higher as private market preference is certainly trending in a big way.

Here's a screen grab:

http://i.imgur.com/V9gvpFs.jpg
"Also, no illegal files are allowed."

Is this a "(our lawyers made us put this in)" sentence?

It's not like there is a .ilgl file type, and with 1 time downloads DCMA takedowns are unlikely.
Sure, using drones instead of trucks could be a net win in safety if it means less drivers on the road, but this seems unlikely -- one driver in a UPS truck can deliver hundreds of packages on his route, but since the drone has such limited payload capacity, it might need to make a round trip per package so it would take hundreds of drone trips to replace one driver with a truck. And, since heavy packages aren't realistic for a drone, the truck is still going to drive much of his delivery route to deliver the heavy packages.
"Data-driven" as in "we looked at some data and made a decision." Whether that was good data or bad data, lots of data or just a couple points, is out of scope. :p
There's a term in German organization psychology of "Innere Kündigung", internal termination, that fits the phenomenon rather well. Unlike formal terminating your job, you're still around, but from a psychological point of view you might as well leave.

Wikipedia didn't link to an English term - I wonder if there is any established term of similar effect.
His reports are falsifiable. That's the essence of Popperian scientific claims.
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Takes up more UI space, scrolling is slower than paging, takes more system resources. Harder to visually scan though and find things.

In terms of empirical evidence, I watch people spend a lot more time using search with tiles so they are flat out slower.
how/why?

To the person who only knows SQL from feeding and care of servers, this seems like complaining about the color of a car that gets 1000 miles per gallon.
I would love to have a mobile browser that opens everything in Reader mode by default, and gives me the option to switch out of it.
Thanks for this.

Now i feel the OP's usage justified
http://pmem.io/nvml/ with DAX
Thank you for providing this link. Even though the rug story happened last year (somehow I missed it), it is relevant to this thread (and a scary read).

Taken together (the attempt at censorship and the rug story) indicates to me that Github seems to be overly preoccupied with political correctness and not keeping their eyes on the ball. If this continues, watch for decreased quality/innovation coming from them as we go.
I wonder how many senior developers worry about being fired?
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They didn't ask, they said do it or else. Extortion.

If someone was upset enough to complain, why not file a PR or start a discussion instead?
> And the frequent charitable donations Samsung makes to causes in Marshall, TX, home of many of the the court's jurors.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall when an East Texas jury convenes: They all know what their verdict will be going in so I imagine they just hold out for one last free lunch and chit chat to fill up the time while they "deliberate".
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Good. Let us have genocide, then, for people with learning disabilities, starting with you.

This is not an isolated incident - A large portion of the population legitimately believes that allowing people with learning disabilities to live and breed will lead to negative outcomes for all involved, including the disabled.

I do not want to kill, or even order mistreatment. I want everyone, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, to live long, healthy, productive and fulfilling lives. I'm not going to pretend that we're anywhere near that point, nor that I think we can achieve that if we declare ourselves there too soon. We need to, as a society, be working towards accomplishment and achievement, and there are classes of people who are a net drain. We are human, and we can do our best to make life comfortable for them, and to attempt to reduce that drain, but we cannot allow such time and money sinks to grow unbounded.

And yes, part of that is flat our eugenics - Making certain that Downs Syndrome and other serious developmental disabilities are caught in the womb and aborted early. The pain of an early abortion and the possibility of everything working out alright (as it has for a small percentage of persons with downs syndrome) are not, on balance, worse than seeing my cousin figure out that she will never learn how to drive, that she'll never have a job, and of her mother, who is afraid she will die before her daughter and leave her to a world that cannot care for her (and already doesn't, and never will).

Call me hitler, but I'd rather put down a wounded animal than watch it suffer in pain that it will never escape - and while the calculus is different, humans are animals, too.
Yeah, but what's more important: Accuracy or the amount of attention this listicle gets?

Women > Men = more clicks. All kinds of places that wouldn't give this post the time of day will talk about it. People promoting feminism/diversity/what have you will cite it for years.
UPS-type drivers are very safe. There are lots of trucks, resulting in many accidents nationwide, but they are far safer than the average driver. (Remember that many/most road deaths occur at night and have some relationship to alcohol.) So taking some of them off the road won't contribute much compared to the slight but undeniable risk of a drone-aircraft collision killing many.
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I definitely agree there is such a thing as censorship by non-government actors, but Facebook plays a very different role from Github. There's also a lot of uproar about Facebook and Twitter doing too little to weed out objectionable things.

But it's still qualitatively different from government censorship, which is imposed on third party media.
I don't know how much of it is truth but I've definitely had problems with Celery and memory leaks in the past myself. We can add this up to the hearsay pile though.
Looks like it would save a lot of headaches. Any plans to integrate with other options for authentication outside of Google Apps?
It's totally reasonable that there's someone/something you ABSOLUTELY DO NOT want to hit very close to your intended target.

If that's true, you don't take the shot, with rare exceptions like hostage shield situations and war, which these guns are not suitable for.

The rules exist for many reasons, including that we don't entirely trust the gun or ourselves. These guns provide additional failure modes, but the existing ones are bad enough.
The similarly named book "The Idea Factory" by Jon Gertner is a great read on the history of Bell Labs if you're interested in learning more.
I think you're misunderstanding the concept of "conflict of interest". In this case, the news story was written by the same company that the news story is about. They have a direct financial stake in the public's perception of them, and are writing the story that helps shape that same perception. That's the conflict.

If the story was about American Airlines' employee compensation practices, and it was published by the Air Line Pilots Association, then the same conflict would arise. But if the story is about aviation in general, then the conflict goes away and the pilot is a good source of expert knowledge.
Though you may have read the title as "game written in webgl" I'm pretty sure it's meant to be read as "game using webgl". My guess is you and frik read it using the former interpretation while others used the latter.
Machine learning proper encompasses a swath of applied statistical techniques, of which deep learning is only one. Machine learning could refer to linear regression, SVM, hidden markov models, dimensionality reduction, neural nets, or any number of other loosely related methods. Intro ML classes often don't even get to deep learning because theres so much more fundamental stuff to cover.
No, they really don't. Retard has historically been used to classify the mentally disabled, it literally was a definition. Using it to call someone mentally disabled as an insult is more offensive to the mentally disabled than calling someone stupid. That's the issue.

You're free to use retard in your code as much as you want, apparently not on Github though. They, as a private company, are allowed to pick and choose what they want on their site.
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This kind of thinking will retard the development of web communities.

Did that sentence above offend anyone because it contained the word retard? certainly the appearance of a word could offend someone. So what. doesn't mean the word doesn't work, doesn't mean the word was even directed at them, doesn't mean the word was used with the same vibrancy or harshness as another time in their past that same word was used by someone else in some other context.

Frankly with words and being human you have to just deal with them. You have to develop muscles, use some fresh mental gymnastics to get on with your life. If this personal ritual of being offended is hurting you, look at where that comes from internally the core mechanism. Get some counseling, don't force thousands of other people to try to relate or modify just because of your narrow experience.

People who get offended need to grow up and engage with a society with a personal strength. Focusing on real problems not imaginary ones helps a lot. Lately you see more coddling over supposed hurtful words than any victim of a real aggression gets from the public. "Oh a word hurt you?" let's put it on national TV. "Oh you were assaulted and blugeoned and put in the hospital?" well sorry we can't fit you in on the local news unless there's a real story here.

don't let society continue to turn this direction. Solve real problems and ignore imaginary subjective ones.
I think you need to sit down next to those "bozos" for a day or two and see their actual workflow. I've seen and worked closely with people using Excel instead of databases; hell, myself I used it as a map editor for a 2D game (for page layout I prefer PowerPoint).

The reason Excel is so popular is not because non-coders are dumb. It's because "tools" provided by IT department are usually piece of crap that makes work more difficult for people using them. Take using Excel instead of databases - why spreadsheet is better? Because it has easier data entry, and it's free-form. When you need to modify your workflow to include some additional notes, you don't have to write to the manager of the manager of the internal procedures to maybe consider updating the schema somewhen before next decade. You just add a new column and you're done.

I'm sure when someone creates a program that actually solves the problems those people encounter every day, they'll gladly switch to using it. But it's easier to say that users are stupid instead of actually caring about what their needs are.
I think if they're only flying at 300ft, this is within the Supreme Court established zone above property in which things like drones would be considering trepassing. In some states like hopefully my own, this may also be grounds to shoot the drone down.
Well certainly it's in the back of a lot of people's minds. Performance reviews, stack ranking, layoffs to maximize corporate profit, and such. Tenure would be a huge incentive for people to work and stay employed there. I suppose it's too radical for any company to actually make it a policy.
Currently work in healthcare, with bedside experience on an oncology/stem cell transplant unit. Many thoughts on this article:

I think this is going to have a big impact on radiotheraphy once it becomes commercially available, and hopefully, the end outcome for patients is that it will allow them to enjoy a higher quality of life for a longer period of time. In general, radiation is not used in the treatment of all types of cancer, and when it is used, it this is a very high level commentary) is generally used to shrink the size of the tumor. Frequently, it is used after other parts of the treatment protocol have stopped working. Having said that, the mechanism of action and features from this accelerator make it seem as though patients will be able to recieve smaller doses of radiation therapy and therefore, will avoid the issues that come with the treatment, allowing that higher quality of life.

I'd be interested to see the biomedical work CERN has done around disrupting the hedgehog pathways. I think that's where we're going to make a lot of progress in developing actual cures for a number of cancers.

One thing I firmly believe, and wish many more people understood, is that cancer, and cancer treatment, all comes down to chemistry. And, as we know, a whole hell of a lot of chemistry, especially biochemistry, is related to those lovely subatomic particles the folks at CERN are the experts on.

Cheers to this group for their new accelerator. Well done.
When I was last on iOS, I actually preferred Opera Mini. This was before Chrome, etc. were options and I have barely used iOS since then, but it was much faster, and had saner zooming.
I've seen dozens of these discussions over the years, and it never ceases to amaze me when I see that the tax angle is being left out. At a prior company, the CFO flat-out told me that tax concerns were the driving factor. To put it simply, in many places the "open" space is subject to lower real estate taxes, and depreciation on the partitions etc. within that space can lower tax bills even further (out of all proportion to their actual cost). It's totally FUBAR, like most tax-related stuff, but it looks good on a balance sheet. When the benefits are in black and white but the drawbacks are nebulous - even if they're practically certain to be greater - it's pretty predictable which way execs and investors will go.
Beyond safety: Is robotic surgery sustainable?
The 25% less on seed valuation is actually a good news for solo founders. The seed round is just a bet on the team, so if a team of 2, 3 or 4 people are worth "only" 25% more than one guy/girl, then this one guy/girl is doing something very right (as well as optimizing his/her financials, because they have 25% less than people who diluted themselves at least 50% more).
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Tangeant: while very simple to memorize the solution to, I find that Fibonacci is a very fun problem to discuss with CS candidates.

This example of TCO adds to that.
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I really like Xignite [1], but they require year-long contracts. Is there an alternative quality data provider with bars and quotes that charges monthly?

[1]: http://www.xignite.com/products
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similar is https://instant.io/ which is bit torrent but in the browser
There are plenty of documented examples of Facebook leaking data due to code changes, bugs, poor QA, or simply not thinking through the details. Good UX also should not fall back on, "We had your permission" when a company has such a historically poor (
Yeah, they have tremendous safety records. I should have focused on the other "opportunity cost" of fewer deaths dues to fewer car trips made by consumers.

Also, we have no idea what the drone-aircraft collision risk is. That seems like something that could be easily solved by strict control over who flies where in the sky. I'd guess that more people will die from these things falling on their head.
> "were it not for the fact that his mouth is situated much below his muzzle, almost, indeed, in the middle of the belly,
not a fish would be able to escape his pursuit."

Does this make any sense?
I think a better idea would be an easier way for those people who built a spreadsheet (that was supposed to be temporary but then became permanent, and then became critical) to transition to a database (that lives on your own machine) would be a better idea. More data lives on spreadsheets than databases in a typical office environment, and part of the reason why is data entry speed, but another part of the reason why is that it's hard to get people to transition to the database.
Yep! Foxpass already integrates with SSO providers like Okta and OneLogin, and soon we'll add support for Office 365.
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Towards everyday spatial computing
Roads surround most city buildings.
It doesn't add anything to the discussion. This isn't Reddit.
Why not make it illegal to fire everyone? That would certainly be even more humane.

Saying a statement like that "probably doesn't make business sense" is a bit of an understatement.
There is an interesting image[1] at the bottom of the article, about how to extract the DNA from a strawberry, surprised (and partially sceptical) that it's really that simple.

[1] http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iBaJbMBMgtrI/v1/-1x-1.jpg
Why not open it? Archaeologists examine grave goods and open tombs all the time. Is there something special about this one? Is its curse somehow more powerful than all the others?

I really wonder about the ethics of opening up graves. What is the rule that separates a cemetery from an archaeological site?
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Well, they shared their conclusions but I don't see any actual data?
It is actually for the earlier list. The best-case scenario in existing Redis is that you can force the script to exit early with partial errors, unless you are explicitly keeping your own operational log (because Redis doesn't).

The purpose of the patch (and the functionality going forward) is that you can get "all or nothing" semantics.
Brocade?
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So when you have a request to the remove the word "retard" from a repo, and that request is complied with, feminism is to blame.

Got it!
I should have left UPS out of my comment. You're right about that.

But if drones are replacing car trips to the store, then there's a good opportunity there to offset automobile fatalities
Well making it illegal is less humane to business owners and goes against the concept of property rights. Who owns your business and sets policy, you or the government?

Tenure might make business sense because it would give employees a great incentive to not leave for positions at other companies.
First, its no different then an aircraft. You know what happens if a piece of an aircraft lands on your house? The airline's insurance company pays for it. You know how much say you have over airspace above your home? Zero.

> If they're going to have a non-zero number of these drop from the sky, they better know they're not getting that drone back, for starters.

While you may think property rights don't exist solely because of the word "drone", you'd be mistaken.

I have serious doubts you're going to see significant drone traffic in the area where you live (based on your profile info).
> It is, to its very roots, a bad word.

Even if every single human being using it was meant to be insulting, it still wouldn't make it a bad word.

Because there are no bad words. Just like there are no bad numbers or bad colors or bad images. Information can't be good or bad. It has no such property.

A message becomes offensive only when its sender said it with the intention to be offensive. And the same message could be offensive in one case and not be offensive in others. Context matters.

> They are not trying to get people to say "r-word" instead of the r-word. They want people to be more thoughtful and stop using the term altogether.

It doesn't work like that. There will always be a word for mentally ill people. And there always will be some asshole who will try to use it against anybody who he doesn't like. Then it becomes derogatory. And it starts all over again.

They ("r-word campaign") will just change one word with another word (and burn a bunch of books containing the old word in the process). They will never change how people think.

Well, actually... you can remove all negative words from the language like it was suggested by George Orwell in 1984 novel [1]. Then "bad people" will have no words to express what they're thinking. But I really hope you aren't intending to go that way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
This seems cool, I could see making the necessary savings to enable the $10 price point by cooking in large batches. Isn't the delivery a killer though?
The study about lane-splitting safety, cited by the comment I responded to, was looking at highway riding (hence commuters).
Here's a short video about Google Translate just released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zKU7jDA2nc&index=1&list=PLe...
uBlock Origin (on Chrome and Firefox) can do this too:

In your uBlock options, there's a setting labelled "Prevent WebRTC from leaking local IP address" (its unchecked by default since it can break some WebRTC-powered sites).
The release last week of the study on adverse events in robotic surgery led to much discussion on the safety and effectiveness of robotic surgical procedures. MIT Sloane's Matt Beane argues that while the hope is that this dialogue will mean safer and more effective robotic procedures in the future, the intense focus on safety and effectiveness has compromised training opportunities for new robotic surgeons, who require many hours of “live” surgical practice time to develop their skills. Beane says that robotic surgery will likely continue to expand in proportion to other methods, given that it allows fewer surgeons to perform surgery with less trauma to the patient, but no matter how safe we make robotic surgical procedures, they will become a luxury available to a very few if we fail to address the sustainability of the practice.
Can other companies do this or just Amazon?