skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?" is a review of the book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment about New York state drug laws and their impact on the black community.

Are drugs laws the cause of "mass incarceration" of blacks in the United States?

The review article does not offer any statistics. Here are some from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (a federal agency belonging to the DOJ) about state prisoners with sentences over one year (state sentences of less than a year are general served in county jails).

Only 4% of black state prisoners are sentenced for cases where the most serious offense is drug possession.

Only a further 11.9% of black state prisoners are sentenced for cases where the most serious offense is other drug crimes including trafficking.

58.3% of black state prisoners are sentenced for cases where the most serious offense is violent crime (including 12% for murder)... 16% for property crimes... 9.5% for public order crimes.

States account for over 92% of prisoners. Though over 50% of federal prisoners are sentence for cases where the most serious offense is drug crimes.

If no one was sentenced for cases where drugs crimes were the most serious offense, then 85% of black state prisoners would still be imprisoned. So, that wouldn't solve the problem of black "mass incarceration" in US state prisons.

Source: Bureau of Justice Statics
http://imgur.com/sE1D137
http://felonvoting.procon.org/sourcefiles/USBJS%20-Prisoners...
How an Entrepreneur Can Build a Winning Culture
So I set up "toms safety certification" in libertopia and a company that sells children's toys that cause children die from choking on small parts bribe me to let them pass and I accept, this is not corruption?

Corruption by definition is not bribing government officials. Show me that definition? Corruption by definition is actually fraudulent activity by those in power, where government is one entity that has power. Removing government to remove corruption is quite frankly insane and only makes sense if you change the definition of corruption to mean "government corruption".
Gave me shivers to read this, especially how helpless one must feel in this situation.
About Antiquated Metaphors in Icons (2012)
Why don't they fire everybody involved with SportsCenter and just show sports instead?
Maybe the world does need wearable networked glasses. Press an "Alert" button to signal to your network that you want the m to watch.. feeds spread virally, the whole world watches..
Designing a landing page that sells
This isn't true for iPhones according to many, but iPads last longer. I wonder why Apple deciced to play it like this.
True, but you could make good money as well by having access to all IPO-s. I did the math a while back and selling the first day you could average around 10%, which is nothing to sneeze at.
Your flying miles come with a surprising hidden cost: Your Health
Run the adblockers are coming
Ad fontes!

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3796322?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
For some reason it reminds me of this
http://www.google.com/patents/US20060071122
Full body teleportation system
US 20060071122 A1
ABSTRACT
A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another.
I know, it's an application only, but still))
What Google and Facebook Know about You…
I used to get stopped, singled out and searched at the borders all the time, but the expansion of the Schengen zone put an end to that years ago. A young man, traveling on his own from Amsterdam (especially on a Dutch passport) is a red flag to these officious pricks.

It's disturbing that the Germans unilaterally decided to abolish the Schengen zone. Temporarily they say.

By now I guess I've aged out of the target group, so they leave me alone. And I don't look like the OP.
The Terrible Experience of Looking for an Apartment to Rent in NYC
Total volume of privately owned vehicles isn't going to dramatically decrease because of the new slightly more convenient option of private taxis.

The set of privately owned vehicles is going to decrease as a function of increase in population density and truly alternative transportation options.

It still takes a while to find an Uber driver in lower density areas, and in both the City and the Suburbs, alternative services like Curb and myTaxi have been leveling the competitive gap between Uber's microservice taxis and traditional taxis.

But an Uber-facilitated ride-for-hire is still a taxi ride, albeit one that's easier to schedule.

Cars will go away when people don't need them. Yes, some people wealthy enough to afford to take a taxi everywhere are going to get rid of their cars. And it does constitute further saturating a market with car hiring options.

But folks that don't live within walking distance to daily needs like their bank, grocery stores, barber, doctor... are going to rack up extra costs switching to hired cars.

If your town grows 2x or 4x and suddenly there's a grocery store two blocks down? Less need to get in the car. In those scenarios, eventually yes you're going to see the cars-per-person go down.

I'm rehashing I suppose, but fleets of subscription-service autonomous cars will be the next big disruptor. This is where Uber could make that big dent -- when you have a stable cadre of always-on, always-ready people movers, optimally distributed for service, picking up and dropping people off.

These could replace that second car, or the beater you keep limping along to get down the highway to work.
>Or use it to pay down debts.

Paying down debt is stabilizing, though, so it's not wasted.
By Marcin Wichary. That name brings back memories... I recognize his name from a site he ran called the GUIdebook [0], which documented a number of GUIs in screenshot form going back decades. Unfortunately, he stopped updating it in 2006, but the site is still up for anyone who wants to check it out.

[0] http://www.guidebookgallery.org/
Don't want to use up my very small quota of FT articles, but as for heavy water, thermonuclear bombs use lithium-6 deuteride, lithium-6 hydride where the hydrogen atoms are deuterium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydride#In_nuclear_che...), the best source of which is heavy water.

This compound is a compact and stable solid at the relevant temperatures; as the above says, when bombarded by neutrons the lithium-6 is converted into tritium in an exothermic (favorable) reaction, and then it fuses with the deuterium.
One can always use GPSD http://www.catb.org/gpsd/gpsd-time-service-howto.html
Cloud Foundry has a scheduler called Diego[1], which is now in public beta on PWS. Because it's built for Cloud Foundry, you get the whole PaaS as well. No need to roll your own service injection, staging, logging, authentication and so on: it's already built and integrated.

For me, the cleverest part about Diego is that it turns placement into a distributed problem through an auctions mechanism. Other attempts at this focus on algorithmic approaches that assume perfect information. Diego instead asks cells to bid on incoming tasks and processes. The auction closes after a fixed time and the task or process is sent to the best bidder. This greatly reduces the need to have perfect central consistency in order to perform bin-packing optimisation -- in a real environment, that turns out to matter a lot.

Cloud Foundry is large and very featuresome, so for those who want a more approachable way to play with Diego, try Lattice[2].

Disclaimer: I work in Pivotal Labs, a division of Pivotal. Pivotal is the major donor of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry. I worked on the Buildpacks team and I've deployed commercial apps to PWS, so I'm obviously a one-eyed fan.

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/diego-design-notes

[2] http://lattice.cf/
Windows still has well over 80% of the desktop market and IT WASN'T TESTED? How can that be? It's not like this is an obscure Windows issue. View any page on your site and it would have been glaringly obvious...

Thanks for the fun write-up though. Overboard rage aside, it's a good reminder that we all should double-check our QC processes.
You're getting downvoted but you're not far from the truth. I fail to see how ESPN couldn't just charge the consumer more than they charge the cable companies, but hand out their channels ala cart and show more sports.
It's merely an explanation that fits with my experience. By all means you are welcome to live your life in a way where you depend on company management to benevolently set aside the interests of the company in order to help you or anyone else out. Let me know how that works out for you.

I'm only saying that executives make decisions amorally with regard to what helps or hurts their company. I'm not suggesting they are all serial killers.
I'm not sure I understand how the box is supposed to magically open once it lands..
Software Eats Healthcare, for Dummies
To my knowledge, you are allowed to record the police. There was a sentence by the highest German court just a few weeks ago, stating that the police is not allowed to ask for ids of protesters recording them [0].

You generally have quite a few rights at police checks. For example, you are allowed to decline a breath test. The problem with these rights is, that you lose time if you exercise them, because they will take you to the station. So they are not that useful in cases like this.

It is highly unlikely that the German police will beat you up or something like that, but you will have wasted some hours. Just be friendly and do not confess anything. Especially at traffic stops, they will ask you why they stopped you. Just say you do not know, because you do not have to incriminate yourself.

[0]: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundesverfassungsgericht-ur...
And yet...Texas made their lesser criminals plant potatoes in the hot Texas sun in the middle of nowhere. Recidivism dropped to almost nothing, for those crimes (petty theft etc).

Cruel? No, some folks line up to do those jobs. If its ok for Joe Shmoe to get paid minimum wage to do it, then its ok for inmates. Just hot and miserable.

Anyway, I'm 'incarcerated' in my cubicle for 8 hours a day. It definitely matters what treatment is inside the prison.
What does this have to do with the article?

[Edit] I'll be less terse. Yes, I know computers are more expensive in some countries. Are you accusing the author of being, in some way, discriminatory towards people with lower incomes? Did he say they were only designing for Retina displays? (Or only for Apple hardware?) This response feels like an even larger straw man than the parent comment I responded to, and even less about the article itself.
These shorthands don't seem to do anything on Chrome/Ubuntu.
There is something that can be done about it: Incarceration.
Thanks for the link. There is another article in the New Scientist with more information
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28357-people-with-par...

I'm on the look out for stuff for my dad who seems to have it. The data in the New Scientist article looks promising - all 12 of the patients started to improve, some dramatically and as to side effects the "team saw no unwanted effects".
Yes, I should have mentioned in the article that Swarm is still heavily under development.

I'm still wondering if and how they're going to address the idea of co-scheduling groups of containers, like pods in Kubernetes. This is a common need, but Docker don't seem very keen: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8781
I tend to agree. But have you seen how horribly it renders on Windows 10? It's a travesty...at least until every screen gets to "retina" resolution.
Münchner cops are the best. I was hit by a police car on my way home from work earlier this year (not my fault).
Instead of calling the ambulance the guy spent 15min on police radio, he looked scared as shit. Eventually, an elderly lady that witnessed the whole thing called the ambulance and I was taken to the hospital. I'm just glad I wasn't seriously injured, still I had to wear crutches for a few weeks which was extremely annoying.

Made for a fun punchline when explaining the "bus factor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor at a talk I gave at a company conference later on.
True, except in the rare situation where the question really features a code sample containing some evil homographs.

Edit: Oh hey, I actually found one that fits the bill:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14925894/trouble-with-arg...
Thanks. Seems to be back now.
Suspended from parachute connected to cord holding the box shut. Once parachute no longer pulling on cord (on ground), box easily can be pushed open.
I think ESPN is destined to become the Netflix of second tier sports. MLB, NFL, NBA, and NASCAR will probably start being their own national contracts when the big [edit]four[/edit] stop being able to pay such high fees, and the little sports will be what ESPN has left.
F# Compiler Technical Overview
Could you compare Diego to Mesos? On the face of it, this sounds like a similar system.
And then it was discovered and fixed.
Groningen pledged a city wide network within 12h. You guys rock!
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APLz2bTprMA
Is there a similar list of books for Python ?
Microsoft recently folded their test engineers into the general population. I.e. everybody is supposed to test their own code. Which means, testing dropped to negligible levels. That's why our IT dept has to vet every update now; some of them break your machine.
No, I do understand the context. I am questioning the suggestion that somehow 'responsibility' prevents bullying.
I for one don't give a shit about Uber violating the law as long as they're providing a better service than those following the law.
Armchair psychiatrists are a menace to useful discourse.
>They'd never be able to introduce evidence from that in a court case, which is what their goal is.

This is often not true. Many cases have shown evidence of being put together through parallel construction. It's easy to find damning evidence if you know exactly where to look, the phone conversation that leads them to the evidence is not required.
This is abnormally stupid. There is absolutely no reason to do these searches. It helps no one. And it sucks really hard that you can't do anything about it. It's infuriating.
"Is Germany a racist country? That is what a new documentary, Black on White, is trying to find out. Its findings are shocking. But, as Damien McGuinness reports, the filmmaker himself has been criticized by black Germans for his methods."[1]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8347040.stm
Was the manuscript ever published? Can't find it.
Most people who currently pay for ESPN (as part of cable TV bundles) would not pay for ESPN by itself. The price for actual viewers would end up significantly higher than the current $15 rate.
Ask HN: Is it time to fork Unicode?
Mimic was as good of a prosecuting case as any, but this entire cabal driven race to fill in 2^32 code points (or more) has been an impending nova for some time.

My suggestions:
-black list emoji
-kill combining characters
-resolve that CNJ silliness (was that last year?)

*this is of course a troll
> blacklist pull requests from anyone who forks it

Why, if I may ask? If they introduce compile errors in your project, those should be caught by the CI build and test run, shouldn't they? In any case, accepting a code change just by looking at the diff and without even trying it out sounds like not the best course of action to me anyway.
Actually Bavaria has a big and growing Crystal problem, and weed is indeed a gateway drug.
Racial profiling, supposedly unlawful in Germany, but you can't really do anything about it when it happens -- except for being an impolite and passive-aggressive smartass (do know your limits, though) and making the officers feel bad about what they're doing.
> Perhaps, but fares would have to drop by about half.

But the opposite is going to happen when they stop subsidizing fares. At the moment, they are ripping off their drivers and still making a loss on each ride they sell. Their strategy is predatory pricing and that won't go on forever.

I'd be willing to share rides (with other passengers that is) as long as it gets me from where I want to my destination with a single hop and pay a reasonable price for that. At the moment I'm taking two buses to work and I can beat that with a bicycle (14 km or 8 miles in 40 minutes at best, 70 minutes at worst).

That time should be beatable using smart routing of small vechiles (I have 5-20 min of waiting for my connection typically), using "maximum flow" rather than "shortest path" algorithm. There is such a bus service available here but only in the urban areas so it won't take me to work from where I live.
In defense of the Munich police (which is not always friendly but mostly respectful), the current situation in Bavaria is quite unusual due to the refugee crisis and the arrival of thousands of unregistered people every day, which might cause some people in the police force to be a bit on the edge.

Being checked when entering Germany from the Netherlands isn't so unusual though, as there are lots of people trafficking drugs across the border (mostly on a small scale though). Friends of mine got checked several times as well even though they're "European looking", but I haven't heard from cases where people got taken to a police station for further inquiry.

As a German I'm sorry that this happened, because I actually think we got one of the most friendly and helpful police forces in Europe.

Concerning your dismissal at the police station: As far as I know you would have had the right to be driven back to your original location in Munich afterwards. My advice: Complain. In Germany, this is the best way to get what you want :D
Luddites were wrong because the rise in efficiency was matched by rise in consumption back than. Today the main problem is how to rise consumption even further. And there seems to be easy answer to that. There's definitely a limit to what ads can do.
I wonder if a pay per view model might work out.. For example to watch a certain game you pay 99c. If you want to watch live you pay a premium $1.99. Possibly special games (Superbowl, world series, nba playoffs) go to $2.99 a game.
So confused by the lack of hover text… :-)
JQuery Tips Everyone Should Know
"if the laptop ends up defective and I would have to setup a new laptop with all of my build environments and rewrite all the uncommitted code on my trusty old pal. I would end up losing days installing all of my tools"

Don't let yourself get into this situation, folks!
I don't know how related it is, but it does feel like the rich are getting richer.

In this case, because of the massive NBA TV-contract (9-year $24 billion with NBA-ESPN-TNT), the net losers out of this are not the millionaire players or executives, but the 4% workforce getting laid off.

So while it's all fun to say that Lebron James is getting underpaid, this new contract and the subsequent increase in salary cap means that you're not paying for the ESPN employees to do their job but giving it to the rich.
Ah. But to be fair, nor will font-family: -apple-system, San Francisco, droid sans, Segoe ui.
There aren't too many absolute monarchies with starving peasants in the west today.

However, it's easy to imagine domino instability at the edges of the "west". For example, if an agreement hadn't been reached on Greece. Or Catalan secession turning violent. Or something triggered by the millions of Syrian refugees.
I will agree that the decision making process for most executives is pretty amoral - but not completely, they are human beings with conscience, after all. Of course, as the company gets bigger and its management structures grow both in people and in layers of abstraction separating them from the bottom line, decisions become dominated by non-human forces (i.e. incentive structures).

But we're not talking about IBM or Oracle here. We're talking about (what was just recently) a taxi startup.

Choosing their business model to be throwing VC money at lawyers to shield them from consequences of breaking the law around the world wasn't a decision made on a shareholder meeting on the top floor of a skyscraper. The pattern of behaviour, both at the business model level and more personal one stretches years back and suggests it's not the market pressures, but the company DNA itself that makes Uber act in the way they do. Keep in mind that not even a year ago, the media story was "Uber the knight in white armour against the old, evil goblins of the Taxi Mafia". The industry may in fact be goblins, but Uber turned out to be Sauron himself.
That's because, when you get right down to it, Ubers are taxis which have always been primarily a middle/upper-class, urban-ish thing. It increases the pool of available drivers/cars and it simplifies the whole process, especially in areas that didn't have a well-established set of taxi services. But the economics are still basically the economics of hired cars (whether taxis, limos, or whatever).
Support The Things Network. They are not only supplying easy to activate hardware, they are hard at work at an excellent architecture (http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/t/request-for-comments-net...) and a clean, easy to use integration framework.
Who will pay the majors the billions of dollars then?
No, the terrorists win when they succeed in killing innocent civilians and bringing down the government they were targeting. Forcing us to go through very annoying security measures is a loss for us but does not count as a terrorist "win".
I don't believe my armchair psychiatry powers include enough ensured predictive capacity to definitively state the future. That doesn't directly answer your question but the answers is contained within the principle.
from the sound of it it is based off this[1] research about brain multitasking (where tasks require both hand eye coordination and higher reasoning functions)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlrOSbRzakE
I am quite surprised by this, especially since it comes from Toyota, the company that invented Lean. This is very relevant given that the debate over upgrading vehicle software is raging on and the Volkswagen scandal has not settled just yet. Too bad we can't crowd source the various automobile software development teams. I am curious to see if any of them are any good. In my travels over the last 10 years I have encountered very few skilled software development teams at the enterprise level. Given the current state of the industry I would not e surprised to find them all wanting.

Thanks for posting.
Most executives keep within confines of the law, even if they do their damnest to skirt it. Uber just throws VC money at lawyers, exploiting various local government's inability to coordinate itself in time to deal with the problem. They're a startup that behaves like an evil transnational corporation, only more blatantly.
Cristiano Ronalso vs. Leo Messi Battle on Social Media
So you have anecdotal evidence that the police once searched a white person. Cool. ;)

I'm afraid Racial Profiling is still real.
Not sure why you're being down voted. I've also grown to want both sides. We don't know what's going on at the time and I trust cops as much as I trust the accused.
Because effective corporate tax rates have anything to do with state legislators that cut higher education funding for easy votes (9/10 guy who cuts taxes beats guy who wants to raise them)? Or do you think that private universities somehow care about google's tax rate?
Virtual surgical simulator app
How does this compare to the SIGFOX network?