skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making bail/tickets linear still places a disproportionate burden on the poor. If a poor person looses a week of income, it could mean struggling to put put food on the table until the next paycheck. If a middle class person looses a week of income, they are much more likely to have liquid savings they could dip into.
There's also minit: http://www.fefe.de/minit/
Very good choice.I have read "Introduction to Probability" for a course on my EE school.Gives pretty solid intuition for the fundamental concepts and going through the exercises gives you a more than working knowledge on the subject.They range from simple applications to stimulating puzzles.Definitely give it a try!
Every time an event like this happens, or kidnapped victims are revealed being hidden in a house for the past 15 years, or a previously unknown serial-killer is finally caught, it makes me wonder how many of these events are still carrying on unnoticed.
You're kind of mixing up a few things. 3D NAND (aka V-NAND) has many (48) layers per die, and then they also stack those dies. But they made each cell much larger, so going from 1 layer to 48 layers is only a net density increase of 2x.
Or how about, get this, we use a simple program that generates a password that would take 500 years to be cracked? The only hassle is couple more clicks to insert that password...
What I don't get is he had a very successful cocktail cherry business. So he didn't need to run a million dollar illegal business which was a tiny fraction of the legal business.
Out of interest - are you talking about the use of symbolic operators? Or something else (like the prevalence of the Typeclass pattern)?
Yeah, this is like this study commissioned by IBM that says how the "IBM Cloud" (which used to be known as Softlayer) is better than all the others.
One nice daemontools-encore feature not mentioned here: support for multiprocess services. By default, services run in their own process group, and `svc -t` and friends will cleanly signal the entire process group. Classic daemontools and all the derivatives I'm aware of will spin off orphans when you send TERM to a multiprocess service (eg, anything that involves a shell pipeline) like

#!/bin/sh
while true; do
tar czf - data | ssh backup tar xzf -
sleep 60
done

If you've ever admin'ed a multiprocess service, you know how annoying the orphan problem can be.

> Attempts to package this for Debian Linux have not got off the ground...

I've got a PPA for daemontools-encore here [1], if you're interested. Be aware that the package itself is named daemontools so that it functions as a drop-in replacement for classic daemontools, and plays nicely with the daemontools-run package.

> and it is not in the BSD ports/packages trees...

This info is out of date, daemontools-encore 1.10 is in the FreeBSD ports tree [2].

[1] https://launchpad.net/~alangrow/+archive/ubuntu/daemontools-...

[2] http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/daemontools-encore/
Probably plenty of ntlworld customers who haven't changed providers (and are now Virgin Media customers). I think I still had a working email address with them.
Well of course. You do not need any degree for the majority of tech jobs..
I know, it was disabled almost as soon as it was discovered, which would not happen with proprietary software. But, we learned again that it can happen, even when you use FOSS.
How a 17 Year Old Russian Kid Stole My Minecraft Account
Yeah, my calculation only takes into account the actual cargo space in a station wagon. If you can fit 5 people in the station wagon too and a human is about 66 liters in volume...
This seems like a more error-prone 2FA. Yeah, you don't need to type in a few numbers; instead, you take your phone out and hope that the ambient noise is "close-enough."

Of course, if you're in a particularly erratic environment -- such as songs switching, or sitting in a crowded area -- I'm sure the security mechanism would fail.

Seems frustrating and gimmicky, but maybe that's just me.
You should read through the linked section, as it specifically discusses an example mens rea requirement for manslaughter.
To be fair a contract does not guarantee the security framework of the company you are contracting, which means your code is only as safe as their weakest link.
Feels as good as "discovering" *#06# on old Nokias!
terminator/iTerm
vagrant
travis
tmux
Twisted
ELK
It's not always intuitive! Another incredible one- the silicon industry absolutely bends over backwards to keep using silicon and UV, instead of GaAs, E-UV, and other exotic processes. As much as silicon & UV can be a colossal billion-dollar pain in the butt, it's still easier & cheaper than E-UV.

Or automotive engines. We have all sorts of technology tacked on around the basic ICE gasoline engine to make them better- the combustion chamber is just a tiny piece of the machine, which is tended by countless devices managing temperature, airflow, fuel flow, air velocity, etc. Tremendously complex compared to electric motors- but in the end, they are still more popular than electric motors because of the fundamental problem of batteries.
In Finland, fines DO correspond to income. See: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-...

From the article:

"Finland’s system for calculating fines is relatively simple: It starts with an estimate of the amount of spending money a Finn has for one day, and then divides that by two—the resulting number is considered a reasonable amount of spending money to deprive the offender of. Then, based on the severity of the crime, the system has rules for how many days the offender must go without that money. "

That's so sensible it almost feels insane to read...

Completely agree with you that it's the right thing to do, for exactly the reasons you state.
>Back-testing is also incredibly valuable: We have repositories of every conversation or transaction we've ever exchanged with the banking networks, and when making changes to parsers or interpreters, we can compare their output against the old version on all of that historical data.

Are you referring to test data or actual live transaction data? The latter would seem like a huge liability and target for hackers.
Nvidia  and IBM Cloud Support ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
So, have you looked into how Sandstorm packages files, and whether one of your JSON manifests could be easily added next to a Sandstorm package in order to run it? Or, oppositely, could your platform install an app based on a provided SPK file (and it's own built-in manifest)?

The biggest difference is that it looks like you have people include a script to install the app, and Sandstorm packages the app and all it's dependencies 'pre-installed', and is mostly independent of Linux flavor.

Since Sandstorm packages have all the dependencies and app data in read-only, and all of the user's app data in /var, I would think it'd be relatively possible to figure out how to get the two formats to play nice.
Video shows visualization of 30,000 US flights - like timelapse from space!
Show HN: Chanmap – The reinvention of the YouTube channel page
GitHub is free to keep their implementation to themselves. We wanted to prevent a duplication of effort and wanted some context about what to expect. Good thing is this was resolved in https://github.com/github/git-lfs/issues/584
My wife can't even find movies on netflix!
It is freely licensed for personal, OSS and small teams. You do not get the free license grant for other uses. It's like using GPL code in closed source software. GPL is free but has conditions about that free license that gets granted to you.

> I didn't read the license

Oh boy... Keep that up and you're going to have interesting times ahead of you. Always read licenses, or at the very least (if you can't be asked to deal with legalese) find a summary somewhere.
>With format and % functions, you will be able to spot the variable in the argument list, which is part of the code itself.

That is not always true, e.g.:

>>> x = 2
>>> print("x = {x}".format(**vars()))
x = 2
... Nothing in their study says Azure is better. You can not deny it is a definitive market leader, both by market share and functionality.
I wrote a rubygem called cloudspeq (http://github.com/meesterdude/cloudspeq) that distributes rails rspec spec's across a bunch of digital ocean machines to reduce test execution time for slow test suits in dev.

one of the things I did that may be of interest is to break up spec files themselves to help reduce hotspots (or dedicate a machine to it specifically)

Not as complex or as robust as what they did, but it works!
I think this is caused by a couple of things.

Artificially low interest rates (insofar as the fed rates are artifical)

Banks less willing to loan money to anyone that doesn't fit a narrow financial profile.

Individuals and business with access to existing capital can get money extremely cheaply (see points 1 and 2 above)

This creates a stratification that makes it difficult for one group of people to enter the real estate market and easy for another group to enter and speculate in it.

The group without access to loans obviously must rent even if they would like to buy. This inflates the demand for rentals thus raising their price.

The group with capital/access to loans can buy real estate with the express purpose of renting it taking homes off the market (decreasing supply, raising prices and further pushing up the bar for home ownership). This is even more attractive because of the increased demand and price for rental units. Of course by increasing the supply of rental units this should counteract rental prices but under the current circumstances I think there's a feedback loop that favors rising rental prices and entering/expanding the landlord business.
It's better than what we currently have which is just a flat fee.

On the other hand, you don't want to make it free for the unemployed --like students, etc.
Besides, last time I checked "open-source hardware" meant VHDL, Verilog and FPGA. The word has been hijacked I guess.

Arduino, as a piece of hardware btw is a nice development kit on its own.
How Google bought Waze
More or less; just requesting that if you add S3 support, you use a compatible subset of the API that Swift supports.
How close to being legalized is pot in New York?
We dont actually believe they removed it, do we?
Compiling a changed file and linking takes about 5s.
I don't understand your opening para. Either way, I don't think defective software has anything to do with it. Microsoft keeps writing new versions for all sorts of reasons that have nothing to do with defects. Some are to add useful functionality, or ease of use, or to keep up with a changing world. Some are essentially changes in fashion.

A quick google....

Windows 10 review: Why the new Start menu, Edge browser, new apps and Cortana make Windows 10 the best Windows yet
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/operating-systems-software...

Windows 10 review: The OS upgrade we've all been waiting for
http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/134797-windows-10-review-t...

Windows 10 review
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-s...

Microsoft Windows 10 review
5 stars
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/operating-systems/14...

Are you a Windows 8 user? Still using Windows 7? Either way, you'll love Windows 10.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/22/technology/windows-10-review...
> New features and upgrades ("Foo 1.3.1 is out") generally don't make good Show HNs.
You are absolutely correct. Thanks.
The quote:

"A customer is almost certainly violating the license agreement by using a tool that does static analysis (which operates against source code)"

It's a stretch to interpret this as an admission that it's only a license violation when decompilation to source is involved. I read it as "all static analysis operates against source code".

It's hardly embarrassing to point out that important detail, and I don't think it's fair to assume that the motivation for correcting the error is "to feel smarter than" the one who made it.
At scale, tape still has the lowest cost per byte of any storage medium.
if you want to keep the numerical signal strength, just press the sleep wake button until the "slide to power off" appears then press and hold the home button to force quit the application and it will remain on the screen.
Start a new thread, this one is about the US criminal justice system.
Sorry for how long this turned out to be.
I believe the massive number of vets returning from places like Afghanistan and Iraq has had quite a bit to do with the increased tensions between civilians and police as well, and has also contributed to the militarization of police across the country (at least in attitude, if not in equipment).

Couple a newly returned squad of soldiers who are more than qualified for civilian law-enforcement with a new incoming supply of armored transport and military equipment, you can't avoid the militarization of the police force.

As anecdotal evidence; in my small area of the mid-west, our local county police force (I'm ignoring the state and city cops for now) is comprised of roughly 50 officers. Without the jail and office-dwellers, it's about 35 who are on the street daily.

After looking it up, of those 35, 32 have less than 10 years' experience. Of those 32, all were hired within 3 months of returning from Afghanistan or Iraq.

I never put two and two together. I just noticed that the attitude in the county has changed.

Whereas people used to talk to the police they met, and used to interact with them at community events, they don't anymore (and the cops don't come to church socials, community gatherings or celebrations anymore - they only stick with each other). In the past, I have actually invited officers to the house for lemonade, or even delivered it to them, when I saw them sitting at the nearest speed trap spot on hot days. I've jumped their cars when they die. I've even invited them to (illegal) fireworks displays - with no worries, because they understood that we weren't idiots.

I haven't done any of that for over five years.

Why?

Because all the police now treat their police work like an extension of their time in the military. All of them. Every one. Legitimately, they stick together like it's still the military, and always have their fingers on the trigger of whatever gun they're carrying when speaking to anyone who isn't in a county officer uniform.

They're driving around with multiple firearms in rural areas where the crime rate is non-existent. Honestly, I don't know where my house keys are because I have never locked the doors.

In 8 years.

But, they've become, essentially, a little military. They practice swat tactics, they practice distance shooting, they practice how to take down dangerous criminals that don't exist in our area.

Why? What does that help? They should be practicing how to talk to children without needing to touch a gun, and how to interact with adults without treating them like criminals.

tl;dr: returning vets who refuse to lose the military attitude, increased military supplies to civilian law enforcement agencies, and the shit-tons of money to be made in corrections have all contributed to this problem of hyper-vigilance.
>The solution is for comfortable, safe, middle class white Americans to stop ignoring and start caring.

This is pretty laughable. Not only will the wider class of people benefiting from racial and class privilege never actually care, but they'll be shocked out of caring as soon as it impacts their bottom line.

Remember also that the FBI and other police organizations explicitly rely on entrapment to make examples as to why people shouldn't be involved in activism, so people from privileged backgrounds will be afraid to even get involved in social change.
The first presidential debate is behind a paywall on Fox. Now Sesame Street is behind a paywall on HBO. I mean, Sesame Street!!!! Is nothing sacred?
it's a good reminder how low the US government has sunken and how little dignity it's protagonist seem to have and seem to recognize
I agree that when, in the process of learning Scala, you get beyond the "better Java" stage the interop can feel frustrating. On the other hand Scala gains so much from it. Its a huge net-positive IMHO.

As long as you are only bringing things in from Java-land, rather than going the other way though, the wrapping can be fairly minimal.
Adobe Is Expanding Its Child / Parent Leave Policy
Hey ffk - you're not far off. Many of the folks at LucasArts moved on to Lucasfilm's Advanced Development Group after Disney shut it down, and they're a big part of the real-time computer graphics effort that's making all the xLab stuff possible. (Andrew Grant, who's in the video demoing the iPad experience, is one, and had been working on 1313 before things came to an end.)
I like the general thrust of PEP 498 (`f""` is explicit, unlike Ruby or Bash's magic `"` vs. `'`).

That said, I think it would be much improved if it went the way of Scala and JavaScript (2015+) and made `r`, `u`, `b`, and `f` all interpolation providers. That way libraries could provide interpolators without having to extend the language to create a new one.

For example, in Scala or JavaScript, you can create a string context / template tag for composing JSON strings, resulting in a nice syntax like this (scala-like):

json"""{
"my": $data,
"anArray": $someArray
}"""

The `data` and `someArray` values serialized to JSON by the `json` interpolation provider.

At that point, internationalization is just creating your own interpolation provider and importing it as `i`, which is far less machinery than this PEP requires.
I would say it's extremely unlikely, software is a complimentary product to their hardware, it's in their interest to keep the price as low as possible.
The child is already there. Neither of them can un-have the child. Having a child is both the parents accepting a responsibility to provide for the child in the future, regardless of whether they stay together.

Obviously, the child support should be formed in such a way that as long as the children lives with both parents (either because they are together or because the child lives 50/50 in separate locations), there is no need for transfer of funds. If one parent wants to (or is forced to, e.g. after abuse) give up caring for the children (so the child lives e.g. 100% with the mother and 0% with the father) only then should that parent have to pay for child support.

I'm not sure whether that is the way child support works in the US but it's pretty much the only reasonable way I can imagine.
Based on what is in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act), i don't see any provisions mandating everyone having a government ID from the RealID program. Rather, "sets requirements for state driver's licenses and ID cards to be accepted by the federal government for 'official purposes'". Also the mandated IDs for 'voter fraud' were largely a political ploy to prevent certain people from voting, not to collect information.

Maybe take off the tinfoil once in awhile.
>How about this: Just get rid of bail entirely for low level offenses. When a minor crime is expected to be charged, bring the suspect in, fingerprint and identify them, give a court date, then... let them go home.

That's called a PR bond "Personal Recognizance" Ken Paxton the AG of Texas was recently released on a PR bond after being charged with a felony in Colin County, Tx.

PR bonds are an option in most states (I think), but rarely used for, reasons. After the Sandra Bland death, there are noises being made here about making PR bonds the mandated default in Texas for most petty (petit?) crimes & misdemeanors.
Is it open source?
Monday Hearing in Lawsuit Over DEA Spying on Phone Records
Is Mailcloud a killer app to beat Dropbox and Box?
Certainly. This is far from the biggest problem though.

There are entire classes of applications that you can't find in the Mac App Store even when they're free (like web browsers!) so it's not just money that is keeping them away. Worse, apps that "add on" to popular products do make it in, creating this weird situation where you search for $POPULAR_THING and you don't find $POPULAR_THING but you do find all kinds of "99 cent plug-in for $POPULAR_THING" products. It really serves to clutter up and lower the perceived value of the entire store.

Apple should be treating this as the way to find and install Mac software, and lower every single wall if necessary until the likes of Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Adobe are all on board with that.

If price is the issue, remind big developers that there are costs to running an app store but negotiate with them until they are willing. For the good of the platform.

If the sandbox is the sticking point (as it is perhaps for Firefox and Chrome), one option is to add an "Advanced Install" button so that all software can still be available on the App Store even if there is an extra hurdle. Apple could still set strict sandbox requirements for default installs. [The sandbox is one reason I didn't submit my terminal app because I cannot find any reasonable default sandbox that wouldn't utterly cripple shells and other common sub-processes.]

Licensing should certainly not be an issue. The fact is, there is a ton of really important free software on the Mac and some of it is GPL. Apple may not like this but they cannot deny that the value of their entire platform has grown because of such software. They should add an option to bundle or link source code with App Store entries. And if they really can't bring themselves to do that, the very least they should allow is an official entry for every piece of software, even if that entry is only allowed to link to an external web site for licensing reasons.
I would love something similar for reST or ascii doc
SciCast Annual Report 2015: Prediction markets for aggregating expertise [pdf]
$20 million cherry business, $XX million cannabis business according to the article.
Yes, you're right, I was agreeing with you.
The first one was the Asian bank I wrote about. I made an influential friend and that helped.

After doing some good work with them, I was able to ask for referrals to some other people. I showed them the case study of the work we did and that worked. Referrals are key in the beginning :)
The US prison/jail vendor ecosystem is a trap as well.

The phone system is a good example. Inmates have some scheduled time where they can make phone calls, provided someone on the outside has funded an account.

You, of course, expect it to be a little more expensive than normal phone service.

However, here's the reality.

You deposit $25, then:
- $7 service fee for the credit card processing
- $4.50 for the first minute of every call
- then $2.50 a minute for any subsequent minute

So, yes, a 2 minute phone call, within the same state, costs the family $14.

These are real numbers, from one of the big vendors in the space...Global Tel Link. Source: Have relative that was in jail...this is what I had to pay.

Here's an older article on the subject:
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/pleasedeposit.html
It doesn't exactly help your cause that many people also believe the cost of diamonds is artificially inflated as well.
NDC sounds awesome, and so do simplified fare rules. Are there any seriously misaligned incentives that would prevent it from happening, or is it more just general bureaucratic slowness?
Facial Recognition Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Biometrics