skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have any sources for this?

"A new report by In the Public Interest finds that private prison contracts that include “occupancy requirements” — effectively inmate quotas — are alarmingly common. Among the 62 contracts that they were able to obtain, 65 percent contained occupancy provisions that required prisons to remain between 80 and 100 percent full, and can last for as long as 20 years. If beds sit empty, states still have to pay, which the report dubbed a “no-crime tax.” And even when the abuses and violations for which these private firms are notorious cause the state to remove prisoners, contractual deals compel the state to keep paying."

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/20/2658701/private-...
yes, those were the days when Russia could at least hope they would win a war with us
I know several engineers on my team would love that.
API server and a static front end – the future?
I think this is a really good point. However, I think that the point is: If given other non-pain inducing, positive "self-realization" opportunities how many of these people would choose to wrestle instead of pursuing other opportunities? Perhaps some would still choose to wrestle, but certainly many others would choose other outlets if they existed.
That's how i meant it.
heh. And here I am feeling guilty when I will occasionally send a single follow up now and then.
For example, this should link to the project itself: https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colma,_California might be interesting to you. When San Francisco ran out of space in the early 20th century, at first they banned any new cemeteries from being built, and then they moved all the existing ones just south of the city limit.
Unless nobody finds out...
awesome idea. I accumulated biomasss for several decades, i don't want to waste it by just getting incierated.
Except that they started allowing ads a while back and companies can pay ABP to have their ads allowed.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements
I think blaming this on cheap construction and poor maintenance (true as it may be) is missing the mark.

Blaming it on brutalism is also, IMO, missing the mark.

The core blame here lies in the fact that these complexes are built in the style of the Radiant City, which encouraged monolithic buildings surrounded by "parkland" and public spaces. It was imagined as a utopian balance between urban and rural - everyone living in a tower would have ready access to ample public space.

In reality of course these projects are largely defined by their emptiness, and these public spaces unused (and consequently, unsafe). The shoddy construction and maintenance surely didn't help, but IMO was not the root of the problem - we have seen more traditionally built communities fall into disrepair but never reach the level of isolation and segregation we see in these buildings.

It's just coincidence that brutalism reached its popular height along with Radiant City urban planning.

More importantly, even though brutalism has fallen out of vogue, Radiant Cities have not - most new American urban cores (particularly in the Midwest/West) are built around this philosophy still, and the net result has been the gutting of once tight-knit neighborhoods and replacing them with soaring towers and empty sidewalks (see: Belltown in Seattle). Brutalism may be gone, but 50 years from now someone will write another article about this exact phenomenon, with glass-clad apartment buildings in their place.
To pick the most offensive analogy possible:

You are free to start up your own competing government if you don't like how one is run.

I'm not sure how creating (more) rights that govern how governments are run will somehow result in more freedom?
> How would you do it without find? (Serious question. I know it can be done with other tools but since I can do it in one line with find I've never bothered to look for another solution.)

With python you can do something like

[os.unlink(file) for file in [os.path.join(*path_parts) for l in [list(zip(repeat(root),files)) for root,dirname,files in os.walk('/tmp') if len(files) != 0] for path_parts in l] if datetime.fromtimestamp(os.stat(file).st_mtime) < datetime.now() - timedelta(days=7)]

...I suspect there might be bit more elegant solutions too
My point, exactly. :)
Yes, you can. You can either paste the code in the Javascript tab, or add the hosted .js file in the Settings.
Just got this email:

Hi sep332!

I made a new product, Zube https://zube.io . It's a
simple project management tool for GitHub issues.
I've been working on it with my cofounder for 6 months.

I'm super excited to announce that we're launching
Zube today on Hacker News. You can read more about why
we made it here - https://zube.io/blog .

Hope you check it out and let me know what you think!

Cheers,
Jen

You know this kind of spam is literally illegal, right?
Does this help? https://scott.arciszewski.me/blog/2014/08/technology-recruit...
Sure, it is all pretty confusing to be honest.
I said nothing about diseased thinking. The fact that old people are like young people, only in failing bodies is why aging should be cured. There is nothing positive about aging, contrary to what some people like to insist.
Experian Breach Affects 15M Consumers
Would love to hear about any other features you think your team might find useful.
Basically the Silicon Valley/Software Engineering flavor of "Don't Even Reply" (http://dontevenreply.com/), which I highly enjoyed reading.
You forgot "N years of experience in something that's only existed for N - 2 years"
Someone did. It was called Lulu.
I thought it was ironic that they called out Boston.com. Until a few years ago, The New York Times owned Boston.com (online domain for The Boston Globe). Back to New York/Boston rivalry as usual?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boston_Globe: "The company was acquired in 1993 by The New York Times Company; two years later Boston.com was established as the newspaper's online edition. In 2011, a BostonGlobe.com subscription site was launched. In 2013, the newspaper and websites were purchased by John W. Henry, a businessman whose other holdings include the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C."
More, please. :-)
Yes, you can load any JS library to call. Check out this example with moment.js: http://dtab.io/sheets/560e138927b2d2da2c44fbce
Hmm... so is nytimes conspicuously missing from that list or did I miss it?

The guardian gets more and more of my respect every day, not just for the lack of ads, but for the depth and choice of their articles - that's one publication I would not mind paying for.
Interesting, just last week I had a use for lowsrc for the first time in years and tried to use it, only to find out it had been removed from all browsers a while back.
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sonofbelial; my proof: https://keybase.io/sonofbelial/sigs/mCO_opbow2nE7UYPNP15v6_XESXv5O8Yo3Xk9sS4_9Y ]
The difference is that the lawyers for some companies will not sign off on employees even looking at GPLv3 sources. Rightly or wrongly, this really does make a clean-room implementation impossible.

One can reasonably argue that this is stupid and not the fault of the GPL. However, it's also reality, and a real block to adoption of technologies like image formats.
I personally respond to every recruiter email i get with the following:

Hi,

I am currently only available for consulting. My bill rate is $1000/hour, with a minimum commitment of 20 hours.

I rarely get a response email.
> Instead of parody, I'd like to seem someone write something that they think would be appropriate. What type of approach might get you to reply to a recruiter? What would get your attention?

It's simple really, just put yourself in the recipients' shoes when writing emails, would you respond to the email you're sending them?
Yeah, the electronics slipped my mind. I was chatting with a sensor guy the other day, and he said by far and away the best stuff for a particular application he had was Bosch. Nothing from out east or the US could touch it.
You could program 5 hours a month remotely and make more than a university graduate working full-time in Vietnam.

So yeah, the vast, vast majority of U.S. programmers are ultimately doing it out of reasons other than survival, whether they realize it or not.
+1 ctrl-p, my favorite vim plugin
You might also enjoy Octo[1] which is based on a real 8-bit system called CHIP-8. There's even a month-long game jam going on right now![2]

[1] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
[2] http://octojam.com
Is it ok if I "ping" you later?

On second thought, I'm calling you now
wifi connected toothbrush... wtf.. wow.
It is an issue on the GitHub Project:

https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/issues/3

The title incorrectly suggests Creative Commons (which is inappropriate for code), but the discussion does suggest better alternatives.
Yeah, the title made me think there would be an overview and comparison of existing ad-blocking options now that iOS can be included with Apple-sanctioned software.

Instead it was just an overview of some iOS ad blocking apps. I was actually interested in how the new iOS stuff compared to the usual adblock/ublock/etc. for mobile Firefox (even if they ignored more system-wide options that require superuser on Android or running unsigned code on jailbroken iOS).
I usually contact the company directly to let them know when this happens. In all cases a hiring manager has thanked me because they were unaware of these tactics and were happy to get rid of this contract.
You can diversify risk which is almost the same thing. The whole point of insurance is that each person has x% probability of dying, so they pay x% * the sum assured, and, as the pool of insured gets large enough, there is enough cheese in the fridge.

Yes, the pool is not always large enough, so you can throw it into a reinsurer from the insurance company. Yes, the reinsurance pool isn't always large enough, so you can retrocede to a few other reinsurers for diversification.

That pool isn't aways large enough, so you can securitise away the tail risks and aggregate loss risks into a cat bond, or a pandemic bond, or a longevity swap, or something fun.

These will then in turn be bought up by pension companies, in order to diversify against their market risks, and the needle returns to the start of the song, and we all sing along like before.
Looked at the text to be used,
Durrett. There's more and with
higher quality in any of
M. Loeve, J. Neveu, K. Chung,
and L. Breiman.

For what Tao wrote on his page
about determinism or whatever
on that page -- just f'get about that.

And what he wrote, confusing a
sample space and a probability space,
just say that he had a bad day that day.
Green fuel made from people.

Soylent green...S-oil-ent Green. Green (s)Oil(ent.

Someone funnier than me should do something witty with this.
MS Office 2010 Product Key Generator for Windows
For the interested, parent is probably referring to Calvary Cemetery [1]. I don't think it's the largest cemetery in the US by acreage, but it's the largest by number of burials. I've always thought it must drive economists and real estate developers nuts that there's all this land in New York City which is probably permanently off-limits to development.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary_Cemetery_(Queens,_New_...
This is like a telemarketer asking what's the best way to sell their life insurance policy when interrupting someone's dinner. The problem is that there is a general lack of empathy in almost all of these 'introductions'. I already know there's a lot of developer jobs out there. So what are you accomplishing by emailing me, other than spamming me that the companies you represent are also hiring? How it is going to help my career to leave my current position and join yours? Are you going to give me new experience in an interesting field? Let me lead a critical project? Pay me more money?

Telling me what VCs have invested, how 'fast-paced' the company is, how 'work-hard-play-hard' you are is pretty much irrelevant to me, other than I guess the somewhat desperate sounding angle that your equity will be worth a lot. Usually the reason you can't answer the questions I asked above is because you don't have a good answer to them - you are just trying to spam me by 'selling' a mediocre product with no differentiating advantages. So you're just spamming me, so don't send the email. If you can't answer the question of why it will be great for my career, past OMG WE'RE DEFINITELY THE NEXT FACEBOOK or WE HAVE MICROBREWS AND UNDEFINED VACATION POLICY, then you're just a telemarketer/spammer and there's no sane advice to give you other then don't click send. Keep it on the job board and out of people's inboxes.
Soylent?
I'd love to see Jupyter (IPython Notebooks) capable of this kind of thing. It'd be awesome to be able to select a column of a Pandas DataFrame and apply a function to it.
Western air forces have been conducting airstrikes on ISIS for 5 years now, and didn't do jack. A map where informers can paint ISIS locations will only get them killed, every major player in the middle east has intelligence from satellites where they can see where troop movements originate from, and where they're going. The problem is the will to really fight them in a total war, going straight for the money - bombing the oil wells instead of makeshift refineries that take a day to set up. Its the same problem where US isn't willing to destroy opium poppy fields for fear of angrying the locals (and since I got my tinfoil hat on - there were probably other geopolitical considerations there as well). Lack of data isn't the issue, Putin will clean out ISIS from Syria within half a year.
Ready-Made Java Containers, Part Two
The Language Strangeness Budget
Thanks. I occasionally follow news from complexity theory and there are many exciting findings. But there are so many hidden gems I could not find out till I learn some key words to make my search meaningful to the search engines.
True, but having a feature isn't necessarily the same as having it front-and-center as part of the experience. Also, that JS API you have linked looks pretty verbose and clunky compared to OPs.
The collateral cost from civil wars, revolution movements, or other massive uprisings in China is immense. Like absolutely staggering. The "collateral costs" have previously been in the >1,000,000 death range, and this has happened multiple times in the last few centuries.

E.g. taiping rebellion (>10 million), Dungan revolt, Du Wenxiu, etc...

The most recent large one only killed like 8 million people though, so we've got that going for us I guess.
usually invites are given based on your searches. Here's a previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080
Sorry, sp332. I only sent this email out to people who I thought would be interested in a new project of mine because they were interested in my other projects (180 Websites in 180 Days and YumHacker).

I don't mean to spam anyone and I'll remove you from my list.

Edit: To be clear, I only sent emails to people who have given me their emails previously. I didn't scrape them from the internet.

Sorry again!
Arch Linux has not switched to libreSSL I suspect this might have been a tounge slip of alpine linux, which has.
The Benefits of Slower Traffic, Measured in Money and Lives
I think you'd be surprised at how low of an overhead some shipping companies run. I've visited the US headquarters of a publicly traded Greek dry bulk shipping company with a market cap in the hundreds of millions of dollars...it was in a strip mall in Richmond CA, and it looked like a small local accounting office with a staff of maybe 10 people.
Slide Presentation about Basic Income from the World Summit on Tech Unemployment
FlexBox Based Grid System in Ionic
Show HN: Fancy visual effect for iOS apps
Postfix isn't a marketing email tool. It's a general-purpose MTA. Thunderbird isn't a marketing email tool. It's a desktop email client. These are not at all analogous.

And you're continuing to ignore the distinction between a tool that is commonly used to send spam even though that's not its purpose, and a tool whose purpose is to send spam. MailChimp is the former, but you're treating it like the latter.
Why does it matter what Apple wants? Oh yeah, it's Apple's phone, I'm just temporarily using it.
You Should Probably Care about Kids Too
I'm not even that angry about it - I mean it's friendly enough. I just thought it was a big legal risk for you to be taking at the start of a project!

Edit: Well if I signed up for your emails before, it's not so bad. But without a one-click unsubscribe link, I think it's still in violation of the CAN-SPAM act.
I might be wrong but I think you can use JS in LibreOffice already?

Either way calling it a "new kind" seems a stretch unless it's not as well described as it appears to be.
​$5B worth of open-source code and counting
Not to miss:

Less code http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00004.html

What's wrong with the OpenSSL API http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00007.html

TLS small set of functions http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00009.html

read() and write() semantics http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00011.html

No need for handling errno EAGAIN/EINTR yay! http://www.openbsd.org/papers/libtls-fsec-2015/mgp00016.html

There's more stuff like event/poll, but I don't want to link more. The presentation is very interesting.
I give you Beam. http://www.beam.dental/

My understanding of the idea, which may be rubbish, runs as follows.

1. Find a way to identify good risks - in this case regular teeth brushers, or occupants of a crack-house that share a toothbrush.

2. Hence, offer lower premiums to low-risk customers than those companies that charge an average premium to average-risk customers.

3. Get a few customers together and make sure the shareholders of the polyopoly dental insurance mammoths get wind that you are thieving their customers. Panic sets in among the incumbents. Innovation!! Drat!!

4. Get bought out for a Unicorn bill before you even pay a dental claim or cover your costs.
>"You would work with our high-octane, driven, talented engineering team very closely - literally. They all share a single folding table."

This one is a bit painful since it's so hard to escape this mentality.
If you find it uncomfortable that lending institutions and insurance companies might act in the most rational, efficient manner, consider whether you're really comfortable with capitalism.

The trouble is that the situation you describe is idealised and probably unachievable. In the real world, it seems more likely that a different, more complicated set of strict automated rules will be created, and it will simply create different loopholes through which some innocent people fall and get treated unfairly as a result. There will just be a lot more loopholes with fewer people falling through each one, making the system as a whole less accountable.

I learned a useful lesson just after I graduated from university. I had a decent job offer, I wanted to consolidate my modest amount of student debt into a sensible place as the student banking perks were expiring, and I wanted a small loan to buy a car to commute to that new job (which was far cheaper than either moving or taking public transport). I went to the bank I'd been with for years as a student, with all the paperwork including the signed contract for the new job, and explained what I was looking for. The guy I was speaking to looked a little sheepish, said that he thought what I was asking to do seemed perfectly reasonable... and then off the record suggested I didn't formally apply for it, because he already knew the computer would say no. My new job didn't start until the following week, and apparently that would mean the computer would have considered me to have no income at that time and so all the application would have done was get an automatic refusal and a mark as such on my credit record.

I think the moral of the story is that more data is only as useful as the analysis you make of it, and trying to codify and automate matters as complex as a typical adult's financial affairs is unlikely to lead to a reliably good analysis. In fact, I think it's even the law in my country these days that any such automated decision has to be reviewed by a real human on request, which might or might not be worth much in practice but does give some idea of the scale of the problem.
I trusted bsder's claim that they aren't identifying themselves, and made assumptions that it was because it was too high of a spam indicator. If they are identifying themselves, then apparently it's not high enough of a spam indicator, which just means that MailChimp doesn't send as much spam as people are assuming.

> What's worse than being wrong? Being super arrogant and insulting while wrong. That was unnecessary

No, what's unnecessary was that. You're being deliberately offensive here. I took bsder's claim in good faith, and you're calling me "super arrogant and insulting" for doing that. That was completely uncalled-for.
Capital One Fraud Detection Shutting Down Cards on Weak Data
And what he wrote, confusing a sample space and a probability space, just say that he had a bad day that day.

Could you expand on this? I'm reading his post now, but from the outside, it seems unlikely that Terry got the concepts completely wrong, and more likely that he's using slightly different definitions for the concepts than you are expecting.
You might enjoy Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation if you haven't read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book...
What makes a convicted murderer doesn't always implies killing anyone, as in the case of the burglars charged and condemned for murder after the death of their accomplice, killed by a homeowner...

Numbers on "murderers" who didn't kill anyone would be interresting.
Not sure how the Pythagorean Theorem gif is explaining the concept, isn't it just showing a^2 + b^2 = c^2, maybe it should be "21 GIFs that demonstrate Math concepts
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You can effortlessly transform mockups into working HTML/JS. You have UX sensibility and taste. Although we primarily need help on the frontend, if you have python skills that’s a massive plus.

Our tech stack:

- Bootstrap 3 (and I’m excited for 4)

- React/Fluxxor (eying a move to Redux when there’s a chance)

- webpack/babel ES6

- Python/Django/django-rest-framework

- Postgres

- We’re always evaluating new things, Flow and Typescript look real cool. If you have technology that you love, we’re open to it.

Developer niceties:

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This looks really awesome, and I can't wait to check it out. However—when authorizing with Github, do I read this correctly as granting auth to all of my organizations? I can't do that. Is this configurable? praying
> The only thing I hope for is that change will come slowly, if it comes at all.

That's worse than a bloody revolution. If change comes so slowly that you don't get to experience it in your lifetime you might as well have died anyways.