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All those things are true in other democratic countries as well, but most of them don't have anywhere near the incarceration of the United States.
There was a movement to get everyone to decline all plea bargains to try to swamp the system, but of course these are criminals who will likely lose their case in court and end up serving a longer sentence so it never went anywhere.
One avenue for improvement that I see is the elimination of mandatory minimums. Mandatory minimums are, in my ever so humble opinion, a blaten violation of the spirit of the United States Constitution re separation of powers, and the elimination of such sentencing requirements giving way, once again, to true judicial discretion would go a long way toward remedying things.
Not sure why the downvotes.
allow me to add some context: the woman is axelle lemaire[1] current Minister for Digital Affairs, the man is Benjamin Bayart[2] was president of the oldest french isp still active today, french data network, for 15 years, now president of ffdn the federation of non profit grass root french ISPs, member of la quadrature du net[3] and active defender of internet freedom who fought against the stupid laws. They're both invited to discuss the not yet passed at the time law "loi renseignement" that created the legal frame for this spying.

In the video the minister states that every other "significant democracies" are doing it (passing or discussing spying laws) and asks why is it happening now to which Benjamin Bayart offers an explanation: as the USofA is backpedaling on the patriot act and spying, the countries that profited from swapping info with the US got afraid they's risk losing their source of info and launched an effort to do it themselves (or more likely give a legal framing to a practice already in place).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axelle_Lemaire

[2]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bayart (sorry no english wikipedia on him at the moment)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quadrature_du_Net
>> The fact of the matter is in today’s state prisons, which hold about 90 percent of all of our prisoners, only 17 percent of the inmates are there primarily for drug charges. And about two-thirds are there for either property or violent crimes.

Hmmm. This is unsatisfying. How many are there for crimes that were committed to feed drug habits? How many for crimes related to but not directly involving drugs (turf wars, drug-money related offences etc)?

Sure, these are crimes and we should definitely still bring people committing these to justice, but I wonder how many just would not have happened without the WoD?

Clearly it's not the whole picture, but it might be a little more complex than the article makes out.
Because it is GPL3, it won't be supported by Google on Android, by Apple probably anywhere, or by Microsoft anywhere.

In other words, it's a lovely idea, but due to a poor choice of license, it won't get any adoption. C.f. Ogg Vorbis, where the license for the specification is public domain, and the license for the libraries are BSD-like.

To quote FSF:

Some libraries implement free standards that are competing against restricted standards, such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM (which competes against MPEG-4 video). For these projects, widespread use of the code is vital for advancing the cause of free software, and does more good than a copyleft on the project's code would do.[1]

I would suggest that this is a case where widespread use is more important than copyleft.

[1]　https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
I am a huge fan of the Tinkerpop Stack (http://tinkerpop.incubator.apache.org) -- they have written a common set of interfaces for graph databases. There is an implementation that can use Postgres as its storage engine (https://github.com/pietermartin/sqlg), there is one that can use ElasticSearch, I even seen one that uses MongoDB. Check it out
It just depends on the process you put around it. Our team wasn't huge - ~13 if you include QA - but effective use of labels and "task" state management made it great.
It's lossless. They look just like the originals.
What you say it's true for a wide scale usage. However, imagine a small company, startup, or a sole developer using this for their projects or as a internal format. I found it very interesting even if there is not a widespread use of it.
Well given that they're all lossless formats, the image should appear identical with any of the codecs, with only the file size (and encoding style) being different.

More practically, since browsers won't have an flif decoder there isn't an easy way to embed the images online without reencoding them in a different format, which would rather defeat the purpose of putting up sample images.
WatchGuard is a disease. They also listed Hackaday as banned for "Hacking". Ever try to get a site unlisted from them? It's nearly impossible, and may only last a month or so before it goes back on the blacklist.
You reminded me of something I heard the other day regarding minimum sentencing laws -- they (partly) don't work because people aren't law experts and don't know about them. It's like that joke "I bought a book on livestock breeding but the cows can't read it". Maybe better education of the consequences would help. Or not. I don't know.
Someone would have to do a survey but I would guess that 90% of Europeans buy into it. Of course they also believe that they will be carjacked if they come to the US so I don't think their opinions are useful.
The iphone could run for 10days on diesel
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Funny to think that China was reforged under communist ideals only 50 years ago, and that the hatred of the poor rural folk for the wealthy, corrupt royals and warlords was strong enough to unite allow the country to expel the Japanese, the British, and the KMT.

It's my view that the standard of living for the poor and lower classes has improved enough that there would not be enough hatred to fuel a revolution. Disgust and indignation, maybe, but it seems like a quaint notion that a leader could unite peasants and farmworkers, outfit them with weapons and train well enough to fight against the PLA and its allies.

Anyone from China/living in China travel to any rural areas and have any insights they're willing to share?
> A common refrain you hear from law enforcement is "ignorance of the law is no protection from breaking it."
>
> But what if it was?

It is for police and judges. See what happens if a policeman gives you a bogus ticket. Or a judge makes a decision counter to the law. The onus is on you to prove they're wrong. And there is no punishment or negative feedback on them for breaking the law.

If the police and judges aren't required to know the law, I don't see why anyone else needs to know it, either.
That's until you account for memory mappers... Dragon Warrior IV had 1024k of rom. One cartridge had a total of 3MB (110-in-1.)
Eugenics, Ready or Not
Summary: Philosopher believes philosophy is important.

Next we ask this expert on extraterrestrial life whether extraterrestrial life exists.
I came here just to confirm that someone would complain about the name.
And IIRC bsnes/higan is "only" cycle-accurate emulation, there's one further step of circuit-accurate emulation: http://boingboing.net/2014/02/25/dice-emulator-for-hardwired...
Wow! Higher compression than any other format, full transparency support, progressive/partial loading AND animations?! I can't wait for this to get widespread adoption!

Github repo here btw: https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF
The impression I get from American philanthropists is that, for many of them, it's another way to show off their wealth. It might not directly benefit them, but neither does buying diamonds or gold jewelry. With philanthropy you get big galas, get buildings named after you, demonstrate how wealthy you are to your peers, etc.
Have you used scannable? Works great, and you still can use plain old pencil and paper.
The 'only download as much of the file as you need' way of managing detail levels is brilliant.
Calories in calories out, hypothesis is proven wrong by many people.

In a Low Corb High Fat diet, excess dietary fat is burned out and excreted. On the other hand High Corb diet, corbs are stored as fat causing obesity.

I have personally seen many people who have transformed their heath with this basic understanding.
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Video+Tree+System
Many are willing to have the conversation, but the majority want to be tougher on crime.
Npm based front-end workflow
No, they're saying that since then, in the U.S., more people have been killed by our local breed of anti-minority crazy people than by the foreign anti-majority sort.

Blog spam points to http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks... which has a helpful table. 26 deaths by foreign (or foreign-motivated) crazies, 48 by homegrown crazies.

So the argument is that the greatest threat to U.S. citizens (minorities and govt employees) on U.S. soil is other, militant, U.S. citizens.

Which is fine as far as it goes. I don't know what agenda the New America people are pushing. But more interesting to me is that there have only been 26 killings by crazy foreign jihadists since 20010911. 26 too many, and many more injuries, but it puts things in perspective.
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>I also understand that the prison system was privatised in the US.

The prison system was not privatized in the US. Some places do have private prison but it is by no means the norm. As of 2012 less than 8% of the 2.2 million incarcerated persons in the US are in private prisons [1]. This is less than 1% of the population. Although 20% of federal prisoners are in private prisons as of last year [2].

The recidivism rate is even worse. In 2005 almost a half a million inmates were tracked after their release, more than 75% were rearrested within 5 years.[3]

>financial incentives to incarcerate...

Do you have any sources for this?

[1]http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g...

[2]http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/private-prisons-prof...

[3]http://www.nij.gov/topics/corrections/recidivism/pages/welco...
'Forced' is a loaded term, I think. Strongly 'incentivized' cooperation can have lots of merits in certain cases, eg. situations derived from prisoner's dilemma.

If a 'player' wants to break out of the cooperation, he can (so this is not 'forced' stricto sensus), but there would presumably be costs from the defection--the other cooperating players might refrain from doing business with the former.
Great, thanks. It seems there is no technical description available anywhere beyond what you quoted. They haven't written it up, and I couldn't even find comments in the source providing details. That's too bad, but he (I assume that's Jon Sneyers) does say he hopes to write it up later.

Also, comments in that thread on speed [1]:

In terms of encode/decode speed: both are slow and not very optimized
at the moment (no assembler code etc, just C++ code). A median file
took 3 seconds to encode (1 second for a p25 file, 6 seconds for a p75
file), which is slower than most other algorithms: WebP took slightly
less than a second for a median file (0.5s for p25, 2s for p75), PNG
and JPEG2000 took about half a second. It's not that bad though: BPG
took 9 seconds on a median file (2.5s for p25, 25s for p75), and
brute-force pngcrushing took something like 15 seconds on a median
file (6s for p25, over 30s for p75), so at least it's already better
than that.

Decode speed to restore the full lossless image and write it as a png
is not so good: about 0.75s for a median file, 0.25s for a p25 file,
1.5s for a p75 file. That's roughly 3 to 5 times slower than the other
algorithms. However, decoding a partial (lossy) file is much faster
than decoding everything, so in a progressive decoding scenario, the
difference would not be huge.

[1]: https://boards.openpandora.org/topic/18485-free-lossless-ima...
The problem runs deeper than UX in plugins for mail clients. Offline key exchange is inconvenient enough that it prevents GPG from being used as encrypted-by-default mail. Identity and key management is really the underlying issue, something in the spirit of CONIKS might be good enough to build a working system though. As OP points out even then you have issues with multi-device support.
Interactive map of the Sharing Economy
Fossils help to reveal the true colours of extinct mammals for the first time
I am not relating to this project, but I am actually in the middle of the development of a 3d image retrieval server and this very interesting to my work right now.

I will compare this using lodepng as a baseline and hope to report soon.
This is really interesting. One of the most interesting parts is the progressive decoding/responsive images. http://flif.info/example.php (go to the bottom of the page).

Basically, the last example shows that, if you want a scaled version of the image, you can simply stop decompressing. No need for multiple image files. Just create one with very high quality and decompress until you get the quality you want and scale it down with html.

edit: more info on the responsive side of FLIF: http://flif.info/responsive.php
Oh! Derp! I guess I am used to marketing-level abuses of language.

>More practically, since browsers won't have an flif decoder there isn't an easy way to embed the images online without reencoding them in a different format, which would rather defeat the purpose of putting up sample images.

Did you follow the link I posted? I think Bellard put together a pretty nifty demo. Note: Bellard credits xiph.org as the originator of the demo page. http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/update1-tool2b.s...
Agree – using GPL rather than LGPL or BSD in the reference implementation will prevent this from being widely adopted.

UPDATE: See lt's helpful comment above.
Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism
I agree, there should be some process to challenge that a law is too obscure, and if the judge agrees with the defendant, the defendant's charge is dropped and a process put into motion to dramatically increase public awareness of the law.

It seems we have a blanket policy to address ignorance of the law, which makes no sense because the whole point of trials is to make decisions case-by-case.

I don't think this process would be used often though.
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"new theory"
1. There is the Yahoo QA dataset that might be helpful. Also you can crawl specific websites for such questions

2. semi-manually come up with templates (a grammar for the questions). You have to analyse the dataset in a unsupervised way to find out the common patterns and sanatize the results.

3. maybe step 2 is enough.

4. markov networks are useful in this context but I can be wrong

> A template should be translatable to a bunch of queries (e.g.: GraphQL format). Not the hard part I believe.

Yes once you have the templates with typed variables (named entities, adjectives, etc...) like you describe you can write the code to search for the results. I doubt GraphQL is a good solution for that problem. You can't translate the templates into a search on the fly. It's a mapping that you need to build manually or automatically.

I think in your case SQL will be fine. Have a look at https://github.com/machinalis/quepy
I'd say the fourth image counts: https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

Grey floor, grey pillars, grey ceiling. Slight intrusion of toothpaste/fake verdigris green. There isn't so much as a poster.

I'll grant that the first two are pretty good: concrete castles. The first one in particular has a slight Art Deco sensibility to the windows. The third is horrendous; it's hard to tell whether the decor was meant to be like that or whether bits of it have fallen off. All the round windows are weeping black drip lines below them.

#6 Les Espaces d’Abraxas again has a bunch of features cribbed from other styles: classical columns. #18 at the same site has a triumphal arch!

Finally at "Cité du Parc et cité Maurice-Thorez" we're back to inhospitable pointy angles, but with foliage growing among them in a post-apocalyptic manner.
Thanks. I had a derp moment. I guess I wasn't prepared to believe that "lossless" really meant lossless.
Quite frankly, I think it's possible to find that in almost any group that is middle class or higher. Reducing it to a religious problem is pretty simplistic, especially since it's already pretty well understood to be a race problem and an economic/class problem.
Bankers are not short term oriented. Their shareholders are. VCs play with their own money.
If you keep scrolling down, you'll see some interesting simple mechanical hacks in "Hints from the Model Garage" on page "Sidan 181" (that page number is at the top right corner of the browser window).

My favorite hack there is a sartorial one: "Your best hat won't get sat on [in the car] if you stow it out of the way in a holder." The text and a diagram show how to make a hat holder with a coat hanger and metal screws. This of course was in the days when men and women wore hats. (I've read that John F. Kennedy single-handedly killed the hat industry: He didn't like to wear them, and when he became president he set a new fashion trend.)
That's only the implementation, not the image format itself. Unless I am mistaking, you can't apply a software license like GPL to an image format, just patent it.

Is that correct?
No? Ennis house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennis_House

In my opinion this is one of the most beautiful and influential architectural designs of the 20th century. I'm not saying it was constructed very well, but it is a thing of beauty!
What is Mesothelioma?
I'm guessing that they're not releasing the numbers on that yet until the format is finalized. It's likely not gone through any serious optimizations yet.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/

No but I'm excited, this is progress!
Totally. I really recommend watching the video under the "Progressive and lossless" heading. With just 20% of the file downloaded the image quality was already subjectively quite good. I didn't even know progressive loading within a single file was a thing, but it's a neat trick.
The US is by far the most violent western nation.
In the discussions here I keep seeing 8% mentioned as the proportion of prisoners held by private prisons. I wanted a little more context for that number so I found the absolute numbers.

Total US Prison Population[0]: 2,400,000

Private US Prison Population: 200,000

[0] As of 2008, if someone has more recent numbers please comment.
Firefox - Self destructing cookies and uBlock origin. Discovered SDC via google searches, uBlock origin was from some discussion on HN I think.
In the forum thread I linked elsewhere, the author wrote:

"In terms of licenses: GPL is all you get for now. I can always add more liberal licenses later. LGPL for a decoding library, or maybe even MIT? We'll see, I'm not in a hurry."

https://boards.openpandora.org/topic/18485-free-lossless-ima...
This sounds broadly sensible. It's basically a classic normalised relational design, which is as perfect as alligators or sewing needles, but with extracted supertables for nodes and edges.

I would challenge the idea that you need these supertables, though. What those allow you to do is to write graph queries which are generic (polymorphic?) over multiple kinds of node and edge. So as well as "find me all the people who are friends with my friends", you can write "find me all the people who are friends with my friends, or who have been to a place i've been, or who own a thing i own" without using a union. Do you actually need to write queries like that?

There are two downsides to the supertables. Firstly, more complexity, although it's a minor, or at least constant-factor, amount. Secondly, a loss of type safety. If your edges are defined in a supertable, then the columns which point to the ends of the edge have to be foreign keys to the node supertable. That means they can be any type of node; there's no way to constrain particular kinds of edge to connecting particular kinds of node. That seems like a considerable drawback to me.
a. Only 50 years ago? The Japanese surrender was 70 years ago, and the civil war between the PLA and the KMT was all over but the shouting 65 years ago.
b. The British? The corrupt royals? The royalty was gone except from the puppet state in Manchuria well before that.
c. The expulsion of the Japanese had a good deal to do with the Japanese losing a war to certain Western powers, not to mention, in at the end, the USSR.
d. It is not at all clear to me (I am no historian) that the revolution per se would have sufficed without the losses suffered from 1938-1945.