skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have to look at this from a certain perspective. Think about it, this is a country of 1.3 billion people. How often does this actually happen?

Secondly, think about incentives. Maybe I am hopelessly naive, but I believe that the majority of human beings have something built into them that stops them from hurting others. For the majority of humanity, you don't need laws against murder, internal morality and social pressure is sufficient. However, this is a small subset of humanity that would make RATIONAL rather than MORAL choices about murder if forced to make a choice about it. This is the reason that murder has such high penalties, for those people.

tldr; China needs to raise the expected penalty for engaging in this sort of behavior to the point that it is not rational. This isn't necessary for the great majority of Chinese (any more than it is anywhere else in the world) but it is necessary for some.
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The way that's described seems like a society/culture of sociopaths..
Meanwhile also in China they execute people for what seems like every other crime yet running over someone to kill them is brushed off as nothing.
it's the same in many states in the US... for example, if you are going to shoot someone, make sure that you kill them, if you don't want to go to jail...
How does the intentional murder of innocents not cause public/societal shame though? The article mentions such murders have caused outrage, so while some may get off lightly in court it would surely bring shame to the person who committed the act.
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Thank you for posting this. I wish more people were aware that Gladwell needs to be read with skepticism.
Absence of community, scarcity of resources, and a life of fear might have a significant influence on aggressive behavior in those circumstances.
What is that page?
> People throughout history have killed, seemingly casually. It's human nature.

Putting aside the statement's low plausibility of truth, it is certainly the worst thing I've read in quite some time.
It might depend on the circumstances. Even if the driver is fully at fault, though, it doesn't have to financially devastate the individual. This situation is tailor-made for insurance.
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I'm quite happy to see this story on Hacker News. Yes, it has shock value but also leads to some deep questions about human nature, cultural relativism, morality, criminal justice, etc. For example, it has made me wonder whether an every-man-for-himself culture necessarily leads to a poor outcome for all involved, a bit like the prisoner's dilemma on a large scale. Can China become a first-world country without changing this aspect of their culture?
You also need to get the probability of getting caught higher, in fact that's probably more important than the size of the punishment itself. Many governments cannot realistically commit to increasing the chances. Edit: Besides, isn't the penalty for murder in most places either the death penalty or life in prison, barring degrees of how much of an accident it was?
I don't have a strong belief about this hypothesis

"It fits my preconceived bias so I will embrace it." FTFY.

That "we" shouldn't allow women to be founders is not just an uncharitable interpretation of PG's words, it's a downright implausible one.

Except that PG sees himself as a tech gatekeeper, and his sycophants see themselves as gatekeepers, and since it's literally his own words, it's entirely plausible.
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Here's something I'm pondering: is this product unethical?
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Why would you want to make friends with people from work?
Humans are basically good: http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_dunlap_talks_about_a_passionate...
This is spot on. There's a reason that people's last name comes before their first over there. It's a low trust society where the only thing that matters is your clan.
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Very relatable post. Isn't NLTK primarily a teaching / demonstration tool though?

I just checked their website and the claim of "NLTK is a leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data... a suite of libraries for classification, tokenization, stemming, tagging, parsing, and semantic reasoning" does sound a little odd. But I think everyone in the industry knows NLTK's place and purpose -- you practically cannot avoid finding out quickly. NLTK's scope is clearly too broad to be meaningfully cutting edge at any one thing.

New libraries and implementations will always have an advantage. It's easier to tout "simplicity and leanness" when you don't have to carry over all the baggage and backward compatibility accumulated over the years.

For that reason, an occasional "complexity reset" is expected, and if a library would not or can not do it, another library will. Will SpaCy's fate be different, 10 years down the road?
Been living in Vietnam for the last five years. It's the same way here. Maybe it's the Chinese influence?
Not trying to be edgy, and this is a throwaway, you saying you couldn't just casually kill someone if you'd been programmed to?
That's not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

That's just one example and it isn't exclusive to primates.
Is it, in itself, unethical? No.

Will it be used in so many unethical ways to harass people for any coincidental info, that'll overshadow whatever benefit it was suppose to provide? You bet.[1]

Will someone find an exploit to disable and/or abuse it? Yup

Will the car companies then go file DMCAs, lawsuits or whatever at the hacker who tries to present her PoC code at DEFCON? Yes

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/08/04/...
> Time and again I'm reminded that most people are really only "good" because it benefits them personally in some way.

I don't know if that's the general nature of people though - I think when people have enough, but not too much, they're generally good. But if you're below or above that middle bound, things start to go bad. If you're below, natural hunger and base instincts for survival drive your behavior. But if you're above that "safe" level, it seems like a lot of people go a little wonky - lots of people who get to a significantly higher level, it's almost like it sets off a switch in their brain and it turns into a game, where they can't resist seeing how much they can get, damn the consequences.
Is there really a situation in which the punishment for killing is lighter than for wounding, especially with a weapon/vehicle?? Or are you speaking less formally: that you might never get caught for the kill if there's nobody to turn you in?
Pumping costs would not be higher due to depth. There is a whole lot of pressure at greater depths. That by itself can bring the water up. There might be a slight difference in density of warmer water over cooler water that could add to pumping costs.

But I agree with the first point: water warms up along the way unless they were to use insulated pipes like heat exchangers.
>during World War II

What about the previous quarter million years of modern humans killing other humans?
Why should I trust an article like this?

Outrageous claims. No sources. pageviews.exe
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I'd like to hear the Chinese perspective.

Also, what penalties do people pay in the US if they accidentally cripple someone?
Time to buy that physical lock for your OBDII port on your car.

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1. The analogy in the link is very poor.
2. Cultural differences are real. Offense is no refutation.
I'm seriously ill after reading this
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I was about to make a snarky reply about your complaint, but first I wanted to remind myself what HN was like when it first started and I had my original account. So I headed to the archives and realized I'd forgotten how great HN was in 07/08. So thanks for the nostalgic moment.
Man, I really would have expected scientific american to do a better job with their units. Power (watts) is a rate, so a 100 kW facility will power 120 homes, not "120 homes for a year."
> Old link was for announcing the original pilot and they've built that one,

You seem confused about something, that link is announcing a 5-10 MW system they didn't build. Or rather what they built is the system that you're calling useless.

> they are already scaling it in China and other places why not scale it in the US?

That question is answered in the comment you replied to. China doesn't care about things like marine life and runs on giant government capital investments.
I was thinking the same thing. It seems people are more forgiving of a woman's transgressions. For example, the bar manager who put her in a cab after four Manhattans. I'm trying to imagine a bar manager walking a drunk man out and putting him in a cab... unless this type of thing is common in New York?
Watch this and see if you change your mind on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPM-gJA62Rs
Caution, couple of drinks every day could be problematic.

What happens if they can't get the drinks one day? Do they get agitated? Does it impair their lives in any way?
You don't need a research paper to see the similarities. Both are low trust societies with a strong focus on a clan mentality needed for protection from the aforementioned low trust society i.e. bribing officials high and low, using family connections to get access to jobs, real food and real medicine; and so on

When I think about it, I feel that it's one of the reasons that Asian family ties tend to weaken when they migrate to the West. Societal trust is a lot higher here so there's less need to rely on your family.

关系 is important everywhere, but it's way more important in low trust societies.
Look into Neovim if you haven't yet. They did a great deal of performance work.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim
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Get creative with domain name as much as you're creative with your product.

You need .com
> as an attacker can't simply load an executable payload (typically, shellcode) in the address space of the exploited program and jump to it...

Very interesting read on how this works in practice:
https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2010/06/16/exploit-writing-...
Arthur C. Clarke wrote about an ocean temperature power generator like this in a short story back in the ~1950s. Reading this article, I now understand why systems like this haven't been more common. :)
Did you mean "general disregard of the law" by "culture"? Because the cultures are light years apart.
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> modern society

Did I restrict my statement in some way when I said "vast majority"?

I know citing Wikipedia is lazy, but it mentions high murder rates of 35 in 100,000 during medieval times. I know there are other forms of homicide, but I haven't spent the time to find stats. Assuming on average one murderer per victim, %0.00035 is vansishingly small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter
It certainly seems to be accelerating. I think we'll reach a tipping point where everyone's personal information will have been stolen so many times that things like two factor authentication and biometrics will become a necessity.
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> Righties (well, go far right enough)

Milton Friedman is now "far right"?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to... has a bunch of examples (though does not link to sources).

Quote from this article: '“We do not know of a single case of a cyclist fatality in which the driver was prosecuted, except for D.U.I. or hit-and-run,” Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, told me.'

Big ones off the top of my head:
- Amelie de Moullac: police found driver at fault, DA refused to prosecute
- Charles Vinson: driver ran a red light. Vinson also technically ran a red, but had the walk signal. Vinson was found at fault; driver not even 50% fault.

These are pretty SF-specific examples, but I don't think it's an SF-specific phenomenon.
China is apparently a bigger hell hole than I could have ever imagined.
LeArn SOA, SOA Governance and read up on microservices, which are really just fine grained SOA. It'll help you along.
In the 1980s it was advocated by those on the Right for that reason, albeit with a different name, a negative income tax.

It was one of the reasons advocate by Milton Friedman.
I live in India. The rest of the country ratio is similar here. We have hit and run cases too, very high profile ones. Not the worst ones come back to ensure they've killed a 3 yr old!
To get rid of it entirely you have to declare that there is some point beyond which provides zero additional value no matter how much more money you add.

No, you merely have to declare that there is some amount of utility which can never be obtained no matter how much money you have. (Or as the Simpsons put it: There's one thing you can't buy: A dinosaur.)

In mathematical terms, if your utility function is f(x) = 1 - 1/x, every marginal dollar adds utility; but the added utility is never enough to make the gamble profitable.
MVC became the thing a very long time ago in the 70's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller
Not sure why you are making that distinction. The implication is there. You just don't go on "vacation" with anybody.
It shows an interest in refining your craft in your personal time, but as other posters have said, don't oversell it.
That's why having insurance is a requirement for driving in most countries.
> essentially collapsed

What were the symptoms when this happened?
The same way we eat a dead cow because hey, cheap $1 protein with ketchup. It's habit and no reason to stop and think it through, plus everyone does it so it must be ok.
NLTK is expansive, which seems to be the real, primary complaint. But it's also not $5,000 a year. I applaud the effort, and the product looks very good, but I don't think there was enough here to say, definitively, "don't use NLTK."
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There's a book called "on killing" that you should read.
From what little I know about this, which is listening to locals and some foreigners, this comes from the perverse incentive where maiming costs more than the manslaughter payout. It's from advice of prior extortion victims, accounts from the news, hearsay from friends, etc. The incentive is that trying to help a maimed person can cost you dearly. This same thing is why you don't see "good Samaritans". Good Samaritans get taken advantage of. Poole take a sign of help as a sign of guilt.

Interpreting help as a sign of guilt is very strong and has become a strong reason people look the other way instead of helping someone in a bad position, sadly.
I would hope this kind of search would require a warrant? Although crossing a border all bets are off.
Are you shitting me? This is the worst and most worthless type of post HN has to offer. It serves no purpose other than for the commenter to try and make themselves sound smart. Given the context here that's delightfully ironic.

These dungeons are indeed built by people for a reason. Those people are game developers and the reason is video games. Diablo, Dungeon Keeper, and TinyDungeon all have dungeons crafted quite meticulously for very specific gameplay purposes. Those purposes do not involve eating or socializing. Just like the castle in Mario or Quake doesn't have eating, socializing, or farming areas.

So no. No good algorithmic design should not take those factors into account. Because they're not making a city builder or world sim.

Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh ugh.
I think he is saying the dead don't seek prosecutory action in court.
I learned she had a cat named Puff.
Do car manufacturers provide a privacy policy, or a means to opt-out of data storage? Seems like we're heading in the direction that they should, if they don't already.

(Or maybe it's buried in some document you sign when buying the car.)
Two words: Stanley Milgram.

Our morals aren't nearly as absolute as we like to think. 20% of the entire population of Rwanda were hacked to death with farm implements by ordinary people. 25% of the Cambodian population were butchered, starved or worked to death by a poorly-organised militia.

Any of us have the capacity to kill if we have a sufficiently compelling justification. Ask any mother if she would kill to save her children. The difference between murder and self defence is mere context - the Nazis believed that they were defending themselves from a Jewish conspiracy, the Interahamwe believed they were liberating themselves from Tutsi oppression.

Consider the fact that the rate of domestic homicide in the US is drastically higher in households that own a gun. A great number of Americans have killed their partner simply because the means to do so easily was readily available. Evil or insanity is not a prerequisite for murder, only means, motive and opportunity.
Don't forget that that time when Laura Bush ran a stop sign and killed someone t-boning them at 50MPH and she was never even fined.
I have been living in china for over 10 years and I came to the conclusion that what you assume here as being "basic human instincts" is really the result of the culture and the education that shaped us. Let a human being grow with no rules and awareness of good or bad, where the only law is "what is good for you well is good", then you end up with this kind of behaviour.
You can find people with that mentality in any American city. Sociopaths are pretty evenly distributed across the human population. It's just that here the incentives are different. And there, money and connections are an absolute get out of jail free card.

That said, I'm surprised there isn't a greater culture of vengeance killings over issues like this.
Could you kindly reveal your position? or at least your occupation?
Everything is about money when the amount is huge, anything else, including killing, comes to the second.

I don't believe anyone enjoys killing there, however when it's tied with huge chunks of money, many of them will choose to kill instead of leaving a disabled human being on wheelchair keeping asking for lifelong financial support. It's indeed similar to the gun-shoot case in USA, either you don't pull the trigger, or you make sure the target is absolutely dead, that explains some victims have lots of gunshots on their body.

The law must be adapted to deal with this.
IIRC the solution was to speak English. The reason being that speaking English (when that is not your native tongue) put the cockpit crew in professional mode, where it was okay to question superiors.

It's a cute mental trick if you ask me.
600 people killed in 30 years in battle between the featured tribes. Population of New Guinea: 11.3 million.

Some of the battles are agreed upon ahead of time. Killing in battle is not usually considered murder under law, but even so, the vast majority of people do not murder.

The armed militia was also high on drugs when they confronted the motorists, so their very minds (nature) were changed during the encounter.
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Mao didn't invent the term...
People's actions are the reflection of the real laws/rules in their group. And people tend to take advantage of it. Thinking about killing someone would make you lose way less, is it still a normal world? Why didn't those "killers" take equivalent responsibilities? That's the real why.
If you missed it, SpaCy is AGPLv3 as well. $5,000 a year doesn't seem so bad if you are doing something that can't work with the AGPLv3.
Robot turtles is a cool take on this approach for kids.

http://www.robotturtles.com
It's pretty clear that the incentives are all wrong. People doing these things are making the judgment that it's less expensive and less risky to kill than to injure. This is terrible, and a necessary but not sufficient part of the solution is making sure the incentives are right via insurance and liability limits.
> Several such craft exist at the bigger end of the regional jet market.

In fact, there is about to be a veritable boom in that particular market. In addition to the Sukhoi Superjet 100, you have:

* The Bombardier CSeries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_CSeries)

* The Comac ARJ21 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21)

* The Irkut MC-21 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkut_MC-21)

* The Mitsubishi MRJ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Regional_Jet)

This is in addition to established offerings from Embraer and Bombardier (and some Airbus and Boeing at the very high end of the regional jet market with the A-318 and the smaller 737s). Each of these is more or less a clean-sheet design. The CSeries is already in flight testing.

Dornier was also trying to enter this market with a new design in the late 90s/early 2000s with the 728 series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Dornier_728_family), but they ran out of money.
As someone who did contribute to NLTK quite a bit, it was quite useful back in the day especially when I had to teach NLP/CL to linguistics (non-CS) graduate students. I agree with Radim that NLTK has a purpose - and it's not to implement the latest and the greatest NLP algorithms. I'm glad NLTK exists and although it is not what I use today, I'm pretty sure whatever I do use today (CoreNLP, gensim, etc.) will all be superseded by the next best thing a decade from now.
>Minimum wage also means, net expenses to produce things also goes up. Transferring the burden of paying the minimum wages to consumers

Nope. Shareholders. Minimum wage hikes eat into profits before affecting prices or employment. This is why businesses hate them with such a seething passion.

To look at a more concrete example, compare the minimum wage in Australia vs. the US and the cost of big mac in both countries.
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The second paragraph links to security camera footage.
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For some proprietary formats (such as Microsoft Word, PDFs, or photoshop PSD files), this is absolutely the case. However, when it comes to code, the format is _unicode text_. There's very little danger of losing your code to the sands of time because a company whose product you used to write that _unicode text_ went out of business.

Of course, businesses are realizing danger and are publishing specs to their proprietary file formats as well, so even in 50 years someone can re-create a document which would have previously been lost. For example, https://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml...
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Are they? Which culture do you feel is more ahead in terms of trust?
People who drive cars. There's a long standing history in the US where once you put somebody behind the wheel of a car, there's an increased disdain for people not in cars, and risks are commonly taken that threaten pedestrians and cyclists and other drivers.

This just seems like a logical progression of cars in the US to cars in China.
< since so much of Hawaii's electricity production feeds air conditioners

I'd question how accurate this premise is. There's a comment above that makes this claim but without citation and it certainly isn't my experience and isn't supported in sources I see.

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/states/residential.cfm/state=HI

https://www.pointclickswitch.com/household-energy-consumptio...

There is a company doing what you are suggesting though, looks like ebay founder Pierre Omidyar is now owner:

http://honoluluswac.com/
No, I saw that ... my point is that there's a profit motive that would make utilization of NLTK a non starter regardless of either platform's merits.