skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about applying DUI to marijuana or people sleeping in cars, which is why I'm saying drunk driving and not DUI. I'm talking about why drunk driving is legitimately criminal even when it doesn't result in harm. And that's because it's voluntarily reckless conduct that creates risk to the public.

Law is absolutely logical, you just have to be willing to look at the premises. And it is absolutely a structured expression of what people think is just.

The premise of criminal law is that it's an action taken with malicious intent that makes someone a criminal, not just causing a bad outcome. The law follows that logic to its conclusions. For example under the Model Penal Code, an attempt at murder is punished the same as a completed murder. Someone who, with intent to kill, points a gun and shoots at someone is no less criminal if he misses than if he hits. Criminal law is about punishing culpable conduct. It's illogical to punish two people differently who engage in the same culpable conduct because circumstances outside their control lead to one result versus another.

Now, you can disagree with the basic premise and apply a different logical framework. Just because the premise of the law is that intent is the most important thing does not mean you can't believe something different, such as actual harm being the most important thing. But you gotta wrestle with the implications of that. If harm is the most important thing, killing someone should always be murder. Shouldn't matter whether you hit a jogger wearing all black at night or whether you ran over your boss in broad daylight on purpose.

In my experience, the people who complain about the law being illogical and not the same as justice are the ones abandoning logic. They know what resuls they want, based on what "justice" means to them, (X should not be illegal) and get upset that's not the law. They don't take the time to look at the premises underlying the law to see if the rules logically follow from those premises. If you do that, you'd be surprised how often you conclude "well I think that premise is incorrect, but I can see how the rule follows logically from that."

Ps: also, reckless is a precisely definable concept: when conduct causes a measurable rise in the risk of some negative outcome. Where the line between acceptable and unacceptable rise in risk can't be precisely defined and must be established by social concnsus, but that doesn't make it an illogical concept as you imply by calling it an "opinion."
> Could it instead be because when selecting candidates to vote for (for the minority that do vote, which is a separate problem), Americans have prioritized other issues?

Sure, so you basically admitted to his first point being right. That Americans don't care so much when it comes to their privacy.

> How about the fact that private companies are responding by changing their platforms to be more resistant to such data collection even under warrant, and publicizing the fact? Why do you think they are doing that, if not to appease the public?

Those are PR stunts. From companies like FB that are on record founded by CIA, and having same investors as companies such Palantir, I'm sure bunch of data exchange is happening behind the curtains.

> By who? You? And whether or not the government is authoritarian, how does that imply the people like it?

Unless you are really this dumb, or you just plain trolling, how about the last 20 years of America's political history, for a start?
Yikes, what a horrible example.
No. You have to jailbreak and "crack" the app to get at the code segment, which makes this more of an effort than you make it out to be. Unless you know something I don't?
I think you conflating law enforcement/evidence-gathering surveillance (which the NSA does not give a rat's ass about) with national security/intelligence community spying. On all accounts the story is less dire for the former.

It is way more likely that your data is protected from the local police than from NSA/CIA.
I provided the Pew result because my anecdotal evidence is nearly as suspect as the one given in the post (the only difference is that I actually live in the US now). Do you think there is something wrong with the survey?
Not at all before iOS 9.0 general release.
Regexes can't do recursive things

Basic regular expressions cannot, but regexes actually can. PCRE pioneered the technique AFAIK, and it later spread to Perl, Python, Ruby and other runtimes. Perl has this feature called lazy regular subexpressions which can be used to evaluate Perl expressions upon matching a subexpression, thus giving you the ability to recurse.
Some of the messages on the mailing list started to feel a little personal
Told? Invited!

The original URL is probably more interesting, though, so we've changed it back from http://yhnmjuik.com/sols. Interested readers can look at both.
> Apps are an issue, but that brings us to the chicken-egg problem of customers and apps.

Apps are not a issue. There are under 1000 must have apps. Pay each company $1M to port it and support it on the platform and you have competitive ecosystem for less than the rounding error of MS revenue.
> The college model has a forced failure system.

Only at the upper tiers of elite universities.

Most large universities also have their intro courses taught in huge lecture halls with 100+ students. Yeah that system fails, so don't do it.

But take the good parts. Small focused targeted quarterly classes that students can retake if they fail.

Having classes that last an entire school year (or even half a school year) is overkill.

I also like that with the quarter system in college, students typically take three 5-credit classes. That is 3 hours of instructional time per day, which at a good pace in class, is about the max an average person can learn.

With 6 hours of class instructional time, teachers have to "burn" some of that time so students don't burn out. I could not imagine sitting through 6 hours of college lectures per day, it'd be insane, because every minute spent in class is productive.

Compare that to High School, where students spend a LOT of time on busy work, or watching films, or reading entire chapters of a book out loud.

Want a recipe for success? Make a class schedule that is the equivalent of 15 college credits per quarter. 3 hours of lecture per day, intersperse lectures with dedicated study time, let students immediately apply what they just learned to solve problems.

Students will get to learn more per class, and have better adherence to homework policies.
"news": The "Alphabet" companies help one another.
Well, Guy Steele suggested [0] that

> A closure is an object that supports exactly one method: "apply".

In which understanding, what objects add is the ability to have multiple methods associated with one bit of closed-over state.

Now, you can do that without objects by creating several closures in one context and putting them all in a record to give them names. But at that point, you've just implemented objects. Hence the famous aphorism quoted in Steele's email: objects are a poor man's closures; closures are a poor man's objects.

[0] http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...
Why Facebook videos don't work and we keep up with it?
It's more than once that I see a video hit play and nothing happens. I have to refresh and try again and again until it works.
Facebook are you out of bandwidth or QAs to test this so that it works ?

P.S: I already checked my Internet speed and it's at 20 mbps download, 2 mbps upload.

:/
This is still a thing?
Now I'm curious; what did it cost Nokia to build the Lumia 520 (or 521) that I paid $35 for new from ATT about a year ago (no plan/no strings, since unlocked for free) and just read this article on.

And just to inform HN readers who may have no realistic concept of what kind of personal financial decisions are made by people that these phones specifically target...

Dual SIM phones are big sellers in developing countries, so add another $1 for that or whatever (note that it's mentioned in the "Display: $8" photo of the Android One but not in the article). Dual SIMs aren't for the globe trotters out there, although very useful in my experience, but many if not most of these people will be on prepaid plans and without phone credits at times. The dual SIMs let users leverage different promotional calling/texting structures to reduce costs. As well, data for prepaid users is purchased in blocks of data size or time, so being able to switch off the connection to one SIM or the other offers another cost management tool.
Well, how about the French government passing a law to make legal the very SIGINT practices French intelligence had been doing for years with no legal supervision?

Or the German intelligence collaborating with the NSA? I won't even mention the British GCHQ, because they almost make the NSA look good.

And that's just Western Europe. Let's not talk about the way Chinese citizens can enjoy frank exchanges of views on the Internet without fear of repercussions.
Everything works but the webcam.

Unfortunately I had to do some unsavory things like disabling NCQ and write barriers to prevent errors and extreme slowness with disk operations. This was a couple months ago so maybe the issues have since been fixed.

I was using CentOS 7 and whole installation process is described here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GlMtdLLYgoTFs1ZNWsYU4SBf...
> I wonder how long it takes for an iPhone to even load that thing into memory before it starts executing any code..

I takes my iPhone 4s about 5-10 seconds to start it.
There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066746, but it's hard to know whether that one is factual. Since the two threads are closely related, this seems like the one to go with. (This is not based on any opinion about the story itself.)
Another way would be to have the people elect polititians to force the conversion of 'C' corporations to 'B' corporations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation.
Because that many students can't all be assigned to the same teacher? Because it pushes people towards making choices based on internal details vs outcomes?
Los Angeles could actually do the Olympics I without loosing money, or building all new venues, as they've hosted twice before, 1932 and 1984.
If they haven't already, Soylent will do their own testing and release the results. If it turns out to be true, they will fix it and take their lumps. If it is false, they can counter-sue, should they choose.
People using OpenBSD expect the changes you speak of. It's a price to pay for superior security.
If the IOC died, the worldwide championships of each sport would gain importance. Such championships are held in different cities every year, which makes me think that the IOC is just inheriting the behavior of moving cities. Probably 70% of the people just want to watch sports and, being a democracy, it's difficult to outweight their choice of spending public money on Olympics.
Either way its here. Thank you for fixing up the link :)
Not \x08 tabs, but tabs like recent firefox and chrome use (as if you had several terminal windows with separate ptys and screen contents, but all in one window-manager window).
The Lagrangian on the last page associated with computing the maximal eigenpair should probably have the term lamba (x^T x - 1), not lamba x^T x. The latter gets the gradient with respect to x right, but not the gradient with respect to lambda, and it would provide the wrong dual problem.
That video doesn't work for me, it has audio at first, and then it keeps playing a clip that is apparently the end of the talk but various slides appear which are in the middle of the talk. (Linux Firefox 39) very odd.
Yeah, I saw that Feynman video too when it was posted to HN a few days ago.

But despite the claims to the contrary, he did explain magnetism to a layman, at a high level. Feynman's issue, seemingly a pet peeve of his by his tone, was the answering of a physics question asked by a layman that starts with 'Why'.

His long response actually covered just fine all the major points you'd expect in the answer, namely electromagnetic fields, alignments of the electron spins in the materials, etc.

His problem is that 'why' questions by non-experts are hard to answer because he doesn't know how deep to go before knowing he's satisfactorily answered with sufficient clarity and minimal hand-waving. And he did well in starting high and going a few levels deeper. Clearly he stopped before getting to a level requiring deep knowledge of physics.
The actually-doing-tech-work GS levels (GS-10 to GS-13), by comparison, are 50-60k. That is where government pay is still the big impediment.

$116k/yr for your entire mid/late career would also suck (compared to 200-400k in industry), but for <2 years, I can't see that alone being a huge issue, unless you have kids in college, are paying for a mortgage elsewhere, etc.
'Scheming against employees' is a generalization that you have made up and is not part of the accusation. Generalizing in this way is a fallacy.

To show how absurd this fallacy is, let me apply your logic to Google:

"Some Googler's have been injured at work. Therefore Google is a place that injures employees. Do you really want to work at a place that has a culture that includes injuring employees?"
you're fucked, sell your BTC, sell your house
I dare say, by they time they, "... analyze all of our competitors in excruciating detail — so we can learn what they are doing and develop our own strategies accordingly ..." these startups will collectively have moved the ball downfield even further. So 'strategies' most likely just means 'acquisitions'.
It depends where you're at with the PHP stuff. If you're using a LAMP stack (as you mention) but using something like MAMP/XAMPP and keeping it simple, staying away from the terminal or PHP frameworks like Laravel, etc then most of this other stuff will be hard for a bit. Ruby on Rails is always talked about as being "easy" but it's really not at first if you're lacking knowledge of things like package managers, command-line tools, deployment that involves application servers and deployment scripts, MVC patterns, etc.

I'll say this: if you've been sticking to PHP to avoid all these things I mentioned then you'll do yourself a favor by picking almost anything (I'd say Rails or a Node stack) and getting into it. Once you get the concepts of these stacks you can use that knowledge to jump to other stacks a lot easier as well. Eventually it all feels kind of similar. You'd even be fine to stick to PHP but would be a much better PHP developer after nailing some of those concepts.
Ha ha! I know who you are.

Tomorrow, after your meds, read what you wrote and you will see that you are arguing against yourself. I'm only responding to you so that others here can see how insane you are.

Tomorrow if you wish to continue this debate we can do so in person with Roberts rules of debate, the loser with their head between their knees.
It seems to only let me enable either ad blocking or privacy blocking. How can I do both?
I disagree completely with the idea that they have to treat people this way.

They choose to because it's easier and more profitable. It's scummy as hell.
Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)
Google, HTC vets prep 'friggin' awesome' smartphone for Sept. 1 launch
This is all very true.
From the article: "In a new paper, "What Doesn't Work In Education: The Politics Of Distraction," published by Pearson Education"

So the NPR piece is based on a publication from Pearson, who has a huge financial stake in the US education market.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/pearson-education-1150...

How curious.
It might have to do with the difficulty of changing from a large country with somewhat varied standards of living, into a small relatively uniformly rich country.

And I suppose that trying to impose uniform policies on a not-culturally-uniform group doesn't help either, especially when you add in hypersensitivity and the polarization that comes from everyone not knowing everyone else.
>r/bitcoin is being censored right now (quite ironic)

As in, actual censorship about all blocksize discussion, or just about XT?
In my experience, when some backward compatibility is broken for security reasons, then you should stop using broken feature (or using feature in a way that is broken) even if you don't upgrade to the newer version of the product.
A smart protocol that could share with unlicensed devices would seem to relieve your concerns. It should be possible.
I develop on Android for a local business company. In my experience, I have worked with a wide range of devices and most of them have specific problems or bugs documented on internet. Most company use low-cost hardware (it is not well supported or it is not accurate) or customize Android system in strange ways: the result are bugs. So I am glad to reduce price, but I don't want to reduce the quality.
Netflix to Pull Plug on Final Data Center
Currently #4 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243
I find the argument "I like food" against Soylent confusing. Most people who eat Soylent like food IMO. I eat Soylent and LOVE food. I don't like having to spend so much of every day sourcing, cooking, eating, and cleaning up after food. I've removed all of the rushed, low quality, and/or boring meals from my life while saving money and getting better nutrition(except perhaps my lead intake!) Now I only eat the delicious, interesting, and slow-paced meals. Not attempting to change your mind, just informing it's not just food hating people. Haha!
Do you know of any distribution warehouses that have air conditioning?
> Sure, so you basically admitted to his first point being right. That Americans don't care so much when it comes to their privacy.

It means that they either don't care, or that they care about other issues more (foreign policy, economy, etc.). Even sticking to issues with technology, I am far more concerned about banning end-to-end encryption without key escrow than with legislation to ban wiretapping. The US government has a long history of doing illegal wiretapping anyway, so I think the better solution is for private companies and citizens to make it more difficult practically, not legally. Does that mean I don't care about privacy?

> Those are PR stunts.

Which is exactly my point. Why would they perform such stunts if the public at large didn't care about wiretapping, or if they mostly supported it?

> Unless you are really this dumb, or you just plain trolling

Thanks. That was a great rebuke to the way I personally insulted you and everyone else who has been a part of this conversation.

> how about the last 20 years of America's political history, for a start?

That is definitely evidence that America's government was and is authoritarian in many aspects, which I wholeheartedly agree is the case. It is also evidence that the voting segments of the population for the past 20 years (and further) have a similar bent. However, my issue with the original post is that he made a blanket statement about Americans in general. I don't think it's a great thing that the majority of Americans don't vote, but as a result this can only possible suggest the attitudes of a minority of Americans. That is why I prefer to judge what the public thinks about an issue by a poll, not by elected officials, or by anecdotal evidence (mine or anyone else's).
I'm mainly speaking from a personal perspective as someone who was knocked against a tree and thrown to the ground by an ex-stepfather for trying to refuse to go to church on the Sabbath.

There's also the history of Blue Laws in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law
paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3388
I think you underestimate how many thousands of people work on AWS
> Pure Number Theory is motivated by applications in cryptography,

> Pure Calculus is motivated by applications in ballistics and weather forecasting,

> Pure Combinatorics is motivated by analysis of computer networks and data processing,

> Pure Statistics is motivated by life assurance, insurance and gambling,

> Pure Linear Algebra is motivated by optimization problems and Google's Page Rank algorithm.

Math is really sweet, math allows you to make so much, just look around you. I see it as the most powerful, low level, oldest (probably) API in the world. And it's mostly free and open source ! Math gives you tools and tells you in what context they work and don't work. Then it's up to you using it to make or understand something cool. Actually, math purposely tries to abstract itself as much as possible from reality in order to give you a robust framework to work with.

I think this quote of David Hilbert's response upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry made me understand why pure math and applied math were two distinct fields:
"Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician" [1]

Like honestly, who cares about whether or not all simply connected closed 3-manifold are homeomorphic to a 3-sphere. But the understanding it brings us about the behavior of manifolds in particular contexts is very real. Whether it's useful or not isn't a pure mathematician's problem though :D (but the truth is that it probably is, just that somebody else will make use of that)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Universal-Book-Mathematics-Abracad... pp. 151 (according to wikipedia, I haven't read the book)
Yep, I work there and I absolutely have seen coworkers upset and crying.
One at a time, sure, ask the companies. But are you going to write an algorithm to ask every single company in the US about every single possible crime? What would you then do with that information? It would be a ridiculous amount of false positives and innocent people getting privacy and rights thrown by the wayside. I think that's what he's getting at...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
> it seems like the budget batteries are about 1000mAh less than the flagships

But the flagships I'm aware of have non-removable batteries which is not a fair comparison as swap-ability has pay offs that make up for all the plastic and more robust circuit designs.
Awesome! At the end of the document there is a very interesting link with a lots of security resources: https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec
what the...well why would this get downvoted. im just saying money is totally relative.
> As those threads say, many Unity games run well in other browsers, but since Chrome is dominant in the market (over 50%), poor Chrome performance makes Unity look bad. But this isn't Unity's fault.

If your product runs poorly on the dominant market platform, then that _is_ your fault. Especially as Chrome provides source, a reasonable community centered around that source, and strong developer tools to allow third parties to achieve superior performance on their browser.

It's understandable, but the Unity developers made a guess as to the future state of the market and that guess was wrong.
That may be an early bug, my apologies. You should be able to enable both. Please message me at the email listed in my HN profile and we can troubleshoot.
Why should anyone not operating heavy machinery have to be subject to such a test? I'm with the other poster in that I will never take a job that requires such a test purely on principle. If a job requires such a poor heuristic for gaining employment, how is it going to be actually working for them? My guess would be a steaming pile of incompetence raining from above. I have much better prospects as a technologist elsewhere.
Cool looks like virtus: https://github.com/solnic/virtus, have you looked at how virtus, axiom: https://github.com/dkubb/axiom and the query optimizer are implemented?