skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often plants will take up the toxin through their roots and sequester it in their aerial tissues. In this case the tissue could be harvested (and then perhaps incinerated) and the pollution will be removed from the canal. If aquatic plants were used and they didn't fully degrade the pollutants, then the waterway would be still contaminated.
The habitual offender sentencing laws generally only apply when at least 1 of the crimes is a violent felony.

Which isn't to say I think they are a good idea, but they don't really target minor crimes.
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Interesting, thanks.
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Not true in Nevada and a handful of other states. Any third felony can mean a sentence of up to 20 years, and any fourth felony can mean life without the possibility of parole [1]. What's worse is that many cases contain multiple counts. Under Nevada law, these are considered separate felony convictions if they occurred on different days. For example, someone that pleads guilty to three counts of car theft that occurred over the course of a few months, serves their time, and is released, is now eligible for a life-without-parole sentence if they are convicted of any felony in the future - despite having only been arrested and convicted once before.

As you might expect with such a draconian law, approximately 1 in 5 prisoners in Nevada are serving a life sentence.

[1] http://law.justia.com/codes/nevada/2010/title15/chapter207/n...
> people prefer adorned surfaces to huge flat stark unadorned ones

Look through the images in the article and show me one huge, flat, unadorned surface. Building materials all go in and out of fashion - this is not about concrete.

What I love about brutalism is that the forms of the buildings are totally different to anything that came before them. Concrete freed architects - allowing them to build 'floating' buildings on thin stilts, huge overhangs and flying walkways and bridges. Now of course, more freedom is not always a good thing. I am not an advocate for every brutalist building - many are terrible, but there are some (like the ones in the article) that are gems, and should be preserved for the wonderful things they are.
"bad" by itself doesn't mean much; the important thing is the relative goodness.

What were open source projects going to us instead? RequestTracker? Scarab? Bugzilla?

All of those were much worse than JIRA for development.

RT is fine for helpdesks but ugly as hell and no integration with SCMs.

Scarab never got to a satisfactory level of maturity.

Bugzilla? Just say no.

I've been a JIRA admin for 5 years now, and we seriously considered Fogbugz as well. I've never regretted our decision even though we've had plenty of issues() with JIRA.

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Excellent! Really nice demo .. me and the kids are sitting down to watch it together later today and see what we come up with after watching your tutorial. Thanks for that!
Probably also absurdly spoiled, never had to have an actual 9-5 job

Also accustomed to being rude and being pampered all around the place
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Most of it is the pinnacle of bad taste, but surely impressive in its own way, and it can serve as valuable historic evidence of what was once considered to be "modern".
I use ctrl+shift+eject and I'm pretty happy with it too.
PICO-8 has been intentionally designed to be able to run on PI level hardware. A few people have made or are working on consoles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRHtbOdxbc

https://twitter.com/gustav_olsson/status/627833548700053504
Are there any (cheap) devices like this that allow for custom firmware/binaries and BTLE?
Huh, this article has nothing to do with how prisons are run as a for-profit business. The prison boom began in the 1980s when Reagan and Bush privatised them:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-unit...

Isn't that our smoking gun? People are being sent to prison because someone is making a pretty penny?
"What is the point?"

Good question. I look at it this way, low cost & programmable. It's not open but for the cost and utility this outweighs doubt. I also look at small hardware, stuff that's cheap and hackable. So for the price of a card + usb power source you could have a portable web server. Think about that.
I'd do the same. I think this book is still relevant: http://www.amazon.com/SQL-Antipatterns-Programming-Pragmatic...
TBH, if you can accept a lower standard of living, few people really need to work that much - at least in developed nations.

Most people work for social pride and connection to the community. Which is a good reason.

I just wish we could remake how to generate this social pride. Buying a nice car or nice house shouldn't be a reason to feel proud. Teaching, doing or learning something new and useful for your community - should be.
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Fines? It would do more damage than good(if there's any good that is). One of the best things about the information age is the ability for anyone to take part in it. You could be selling glow sticks to a guy a thousand miles away from you.

If there were fines, it would scare away people with less technical skills who would want to start something new.

What we must do is introduce certifications, this would help make companies more security aware, but wont make it mandatory.
You can play user submitted cartridges here no install required. Pico-8 can export to HTML5

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Author here. My thought around this is not that Apple will win, it is that there are other platforms now (hosted on Apple and Android platforms) that sit at the same level as the web sites and they have large audiences interacting with them daily. Facebook and WeChat in China are examples of this.
What are your thoughts on the humans prospering and blossoming in the London Barbican?
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I just didn't want to get into the weeds about why his blog post is wrong here. In any case, his arguments against try...catch are silly. Syntax errors are not an argument against them, because you can easily detect them with other tools (and should be doing so). In practice, the only errors that will bubble up to your try...catch are ones about the async operation, not "typos".
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Do you have a gist that implements this approach?
Storing the data isn't an issue. It's fairly trivial to come up with a number of very good solutions to describing a graph.

The issue is querying the data, specifically when that involves walking the graph.

The real question then, is how do you want to query the data? If you are willing to make an assumption now that adds a tight constraint on your future work... i.e. "We will only ever perform queries that are at most 1 or 2 hops from the nodes/edges being queried" then perhaps PostgreSQL will work for you.
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>massive fines so they actually "take security very seriously"

The bad publicity around such a hack can very much turn a company belly up. Massive fines will not alter the incentive structure significantly, they already know a hack is a bad thing.

On the other hand, there are plenty of interventions that would change the security incentives. For example, decriminalize white hat hacking to allow access to any internet connected system, as long as the vulnerability is reported within 7 days to the relevant bodies and no data is duplicated/altered. Heck, award prizes for it.
What advantage does this have over just grabbing the file from https://github.com/github/gitignore directly?
And anything involving Shadowborn Apostle:

444 Shadowborn Apostle

1 Reaper from the Abyss

1 Sire of Insanity

2 Griselbrand

4 Cavern of Souls

214 Swamp

There are probably better lists but I like the simplicity of this one and the 666-card deck.

Source: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/frank-analysis-is-pl...
Any specific reason not to allow mouse wheel as fly forward/back?
If science was taught like this, learning it would have been much easier
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Interesting thoughts. I wonder if Content Blockers or user-agent interventions can enforce requirements https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

Also, Google Search did it for mobileness (pushing a down rank) on none mobile friendly site (for mobile users). Developers and businesses tend to see these as sticks and not carrots
I can confirm this. I just wish I had known about it before I accepted my current contract...
What's the answer? Is it just wait it out?
Wow, that's a depressing read.

> The building of new sewer connections only compounded the problem by discharging raw sewage from neighborhoods even farther away into the Canal. By the turn of the century, the combination of industrial pollutants and runoff from storm water, fortified with the products of the new sewage system, rendered the waterway a repository of rank odors, euphemistically called by wise-cracking locals "Lavender Lake".

Such a shitty place, but so aptly named gowANUS cANAL.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/13/these_photos_of_gow...
In a recent Ted Talk[0], they detail that their goal does not align with that of their competing manufacturers. Manufacturers go for a quick-to-market, good-enough autopilot that requires human supervision.

Google's driverless car won't have a wheel, and therefore has a significantly smaller margin of error. Their reasoning is that rebuilding trust is a lot harder than building trust; catastrophes will make the news, unless avoided altogether. In light of recent events (the VW scandal), it is far from absurd.

[0]: http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_s...
Your SQL is going to be "stored" one way or another, whether it's implicitly in the internal workings of an ORM, explicitly in code or mybatis style config, or explicitly in the DB. I think isolating it into data workers, and making them feed off a high throughput message queue (hiding restarts), minimizes the amount of redeploying needed.
> Since you define the data API yourself, you can tailor it tightly to only the exact operations you need. This makes it more difficult to flat-out drain everything (or even query everything, depending on your app).

Considering that the database was designed specifically to support the website (so it's not supposed to have unrelated data), and that the frontend intermediates all access to the data, wouldn't the sum of the operations require access to all data? Why would you have data that was not needed by the website?

> If I'm an attacker, I'll probably have a harder time figuring out how the custom data layer works

This is just security by obscurity, except if the attacker has access to the client code, it's not even very obscure. Finding all calls to the backend API is a trivial task nowadays.

> Because you know what the legitimate access patterns of your app look like, you can raise flags programmatically.

Why can't you do that from the database logs? A query is just like an API call - you can raise flags if the frontend makes queries outside of a known pattern (ie, non-recognized queries or in an unexpected order).
There are plenty of adult content artists that some people might rather not have others know they're supporting. Especially if that adult content is out of the ordinary.
Not only bankers.

Anyone that is doing R&D on some enterprise is always on the minus column.

I have been in a few enterprises where R&D costs where cutted down, because we were loosing money.

It was of course a recipe for failure, as the money losing department (R&D) could no longer fulfill the requests from the money earning departs (sales and marketing).
Seriously, this. HP used to have such a sterling reputation of innovative engineering and high quality products. It's really sad what she did to it, and pathetic how defensive and delusional Republicans are about any criticism of her, no matter how valid and well substantiated by the facts.

But when a political party has systematically driven away so many qualified women and minorities, they have to make do with the bottom-of-the-barrel dregs of token candidates that they have left, and pretend their naked emperors wear beautiful clothes.

Republicans should spend their energy cleaning up their own act, rather than attacking people for criticizing it.
You're letting Mercurial die, though.

And for all that investing, you are not fixing the bugs that annoy people the most. You let them languish for years:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/11813/allow-annotat...

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/5008

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/11864/ignore-whites...
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The information that they didn't store CC cards was available in FAQs previously: https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203913779-Do-y...

The password hashing algorithm wasn't, but then again an informed consumer uses unique passwords for each site, so that's less relevant.
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Further down in the article, some interesting points about the motivations behind philanthropy.

"philanthropy is about more than just social responsibility—it’s about social stability."

So other than a genuine desire to do good or vanity seeking that can motivate philanthropy, you have a third element in China - preventing a revolt by the poor on the rich. If you give just enough, you'll keep the poor subdued.

I wonder if there are similar motivations for super rich American philanthropists. My guess is they're less worried about revolt and more motivated by vanity.
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Yeah the idea is for every day quick questions like outfit reviews etc. Things that you just need an immediate "yes or no" answer to. The concept is to keep conversation short, sweet and to the point.
It's mainly targeted at millennials. I know it's a bit buggy but it you got some time, I'd really appreciate it if you could play around with the app and possibly give it a review! Thanks again! :)
Unfortunately, the most rushed-to-market self-driving car can ruin trust in them for everyone, which would cost many lives. This is where regulation is critically important to make sure that any self-driving cars allowed to be commercially sold are thoroughly validated.
same story yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309249

study relies on SELF REPORTING, need I say more?
Is this from Unhinged?
Wasn't this by design. They always wanted the ipod to be cross platform. The ipod then became advertisement for Apple's laptops and pc's. I'd argue ipod/itunes drove mac sells and by the time the iphone came around Apple was respected by consumers as a legitimate consumer electronics company.

I know I read or heard this from an apple source but I can't remember where.
Gamblers as a whole lose money, but casinos still exist.
It always struck me (as a Brit) that the plea bargaining system in the US seemed to encourage prison time. There seems to be a lot of incentive for the DA's to 'get their conviction' and a lot of pressure on those accused to accept a bargain that might see them do 2 years instead of 20 or some arbitrary high number.

Is this an accurate view? Do these plea bargain happen regularly?

I also understand that the prison system was privatised in the US. The combination of aggressive DA's, plea bargains and financial incentives to incarcerate seem, from the outside at least, to have created a perfect storm that's sort of feeding itself.

I'd love to hear from anyone with thought on this!
Makes sense. Enterprise shit is, indeed, terrible. However, I didn't mean there is any reason to support every JavaCard out there and existing (enterprise) software - and I suppose this is where it all really starts to smell. On the other hand, they have designed a whole new standard, protocol and devices.

I've edited this for quite long time and finally figured out what I really had in my mind. I'm not disappointed it's a new standard or anything like this. I'm disappointed by the fact that this stuff isn't extensible and nothing new can be build upon this.

Not in a sense that no new software can be added to a token, but when you use U2F you just have a means to prove you know some PSK. And that's it. Would the token hold a keypair and use digital signatures instead, it could bring much more possibilities in the long run. Like sending encrypted emails to the token owners, or building a global identity system where identities are something user possesses, not leases from the "identity providers".
If you want different implementations to be compatible, they have to be in the spec, especially for something like this! Loops have clearly defined semantics that can be expressed with plain old code, so aren't going to cause compatibility problems.
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most people i know do need to work if they dont want to sleep in the streets. i program others wait tables or clean out the garbage. you think somebody does that for 'pride'? it does not matter if the country is developed or not you still have to work because real estate is expensive even if food is not. if you dont well congrats but then you (and your buddies) are one of these second generation dandies.
Isn't the atomic part of that sentence referring to that they are changing bits separately, which is a bit inefficient since most architectures simply doesn't allow that. To set a single bit the writer must read the whole byte, modify it and then write the whole byte back. This is slower than simply writing the whole byte.

That is, I don't think they are referring to the same concept of atomicity as you are.
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Oh wow, that is fascinating and depressing reading. It really does seem that such a system would lead to invested parties pushing for more incarceration so they retain their financial gains.

Wouldn't any business try to maximise it's profits and push for conditions where making those profits becomes easier? That's the nature of a business isn't it, one run solely for profit anyway?
No, it is referring to the fact that the least unit that can be written to memory isn't a bit but a byte. To write a bit the whole byte must be read, modified and then written back.
That sort of thinking trickles down. Falls through the cracks in the money.
These buildings are beautiful in a sci-fi utiopia/dystopia sort of way.

The problem I have with them is they are profoundly not human scaled. They are enormous monuments, not livable community. They are the antithesis of the medieval urban center of Paris and other European cities, where everything is walkable.
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In the news right now:
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"creator of app for collecting unsolicited feedback can't handle unsolicited feedback" etc.

Some nice spoonfuls if irony, right there.
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Yes, the article says nothing, because some things are just "politically incorrect": prison is a continuation of slavery. The drug war attacks certain cultures. Some make money off cheap labor and government prison funding. A country that ravages people outside the country in war, will ravage people inside the country too. Prison is a tool to maintain a status quo by reducing many people's freedom to resist.

If the article talked about China or Russia, it wouldn't talk about regulating lawyers. It'd talk about the systematic incentives that make everyone (not just lawyers) act so zealously to imprison their populace.
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