skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of really terrible cases where prosecutors assisted in manufacturing evidence to wrongfully convict people, and received no punishment: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_cour.... The system needs to be overhauled to hold those people accountable. But I'm not sure this case is the poster-child for ones where the prosecutors need to do long prison sentences. Brady violations should carry some punishments. But I don't think a strict liability "eye-for-eye regardless of the prosecutor's state of mind" approach like people are advocating here is the way to go.
Ugh! That smells just like the story of Rubin Carter - The Hurricane. Makes me sick that shit like this happens in this system of "justice."
Scientific paradigms rest on change not truth
Please don't use mercurial queues. histedit, rebase and the recent changeset evolution extension allow you to do everything while having first class history and merging support. Also far easier to understand than git. Useful links (first 2 slightly Mozilla specific):

http://ahal.ca/blog/2014/new-mercurial-workflow/
http://ahal.ca/blog/2015/new-mercurial-workflow-part-2/
http://evolution.experimentalworks.net/doc/
Isn't that the whole point of surge pricing? It's attempting to balance supply and demand. On the supply side it's trying to get more drivers where there's more demand. On the demand side, it's trying to see if you really need a ride, or if you can walk a couple blocks or if you can wait a few minutes.
I'd expect it would be. Not that much different from watching someone coding a game or spending a few hours in Excel working out game strategies.
The most annoying thing about shouldiuseacarousel.com is the fact that it slides too often - before I've had a chance to finish reading!
Over 1.8M Comcast subscribers would be hit with 300GB data cap overages
I know several people who worked for a company with an abusive culture, and they were definitely miserable. What's interesting is that these types of interviewers attract people who are themselves abusive, and eventually (without outside stimulus) the company becomes a homogeneous mix of assholes. It sounds bizarre, and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been told the story by trusted friends.
Old cases are valid so long as the laws haven't changed, there hasn't been a new ruling that overrides that, and the situation is similar. Judges aren't completely bound by precedent either if the situation means it shouldn't apply they're able to rule differently and explain why in their judgements. The concept of precedent is really important in law because of all the vagaries and rules surrounding laws and how their applied, it also supports the even application of the law so that laws and their effects are more predictable.

It also makes cases easier for to argue by mapping out the corner cases of the law and legal concepts and keeps every lawyer from having to be an absolute expert in every facet of every case they're litigating. The same applies to judges.

Precedents do have a limited lifetime but it's not measured in years, if someone is being tried under the same law as existed 100 years ago old rulings can be just as relevant as one made last year.
>9/11 was an extraordinary terrorist event: it killed more people than the previous decade of terrorist attacks worldwide

Obviously you mean their "terrorist" attacks on us. Clearly, more people have been killed by either sides "terrorist" attacks. When we drop bombs on 3rd world villages, or fund armies to do it for us, those villages consider it a "terrorist" attack, regardless of whether "we" refer to it differently in the press - protection of interests, operation freedom, operation democracy spreading.

Please don't be so closed minded that only "they" are terrorists and "we" are the good guys, everytime without fail. The use terror tactics has been a part and parcel of our militaries since the time the military was created.

We are all as bad as each other
Git is the most pervasive implementation of distributed snapshot version control. That model existed for a long time; Git was just the first version that was free (Monotone and tla beat it), fast (Monotone used to be comparable), and had a major reason to adopt it (GitHub finally allowed developers to sanely have a code portfolio) that it became popular.

Pijul stands to do the same thing for the patch-based model. Darcs has existed for a long time at this point, but it's not popular, because it's slow. Darcs had the free part from the beginning, but was slow; Pijul is aiming to finally be free and fast enough to allow adoption. If those things both happen, I'd expect a GitHub workalike to show up as well.

Being the first with an idea doesn't count for much if you can't execute on it in a way that others like. Darcs clearly has failed at that; Pijul is aiming to do better. We'll have to wait and see if it does.
Wait... so they started JustinTV which was for anything. Games took off so they spun that off to TwitchTV. JustinTV gets shut down, and now they start 'allowing' other types of things on TwitchTV. I have no idea what the marketing and 'brands' people over there are thinking really...
I remember some interest in watching Silvia Hartmann write a novel in a Google Doc a few years back:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/sep/12/novel...
You're conflating explanation with justification. Being a pissy asshole like described is explanable, but not justified: it betrays a deep lack of professionalism, and is a giant black mark on the interviewer.

Equivalent situation: If someone turns up 30 minutes late because they wanted to catch a couple extra zs, that's also understandable, but is just as unjustified and makes them just as much a jackass.

As professionals, we are called to treat everyone with dignity and respect, no matter what bug happened to crawl up our ass this morning.
10 days in jail? How about start with 25 years and then work your way up from there? That'd be justice, but in the US that won't happen. We can always hope he gets murdered in jail though, but they'll probably put him in solitary. I'm still hoping though ...
The Laravel documentation is an example of the worst documentation ever. It reminds me of the Fox News channel. I can't recommend using it on anything serious.
Obviously! I'm only pointing out that the police are operating in this environment, as it exists today, too.
but you can't rely on the phone number reported by caller id - they're very spoofable.
Is anyone considering if there are metadata issues that may be lost somehow through this process and that should be included through some sort of coding process? I don't have an answer, but I am wondering essentially if there is a deliberate effort to circle the question "Are we missing anything?"
Critical Xen bug in PV memory virtualization code
> The original post said that Andersen prosecuted someone "knowing his innocence." But was that really Andersen's intent?

The original comment in the HN thread said that. The article did not.
the narrative will change back to the red scare shortly as Russia grows. Then the "terrorists" will be our friends. Our war against the terrorists will be forgotten and so on and so on....
I can't see the war on heart disease winning an election though.
"Hospital Errors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S." Add strains of super-bacteria that thrive there and I'd say that's a yes.

http://www.hospitalsafetyscore.org/newsroom/display/hospital...
On a related note, Google still hasn't added TLS to blogspot.com...
The difference between then and now is that YouTube Streaming and Periscope are now potential threats.
"Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel?"

Yes. I also miss being able to do everything with a keyboard shortcut. This is a much-overlooked feature of the Windows UI that I think is not given enough credit.

I did it all in Windows - from 3.1 to NT3 to NT4 to XP - and I learned to hate hate the Windows OS and registries and so on ...

But I always liked the UI and given the choice between the Mac UI (not the OS) and ... say ... NT4 or XP ... I would choose Windows as the UI.

(FWIW, I do prefer a minimal ratpoison/ion UI over all of them)
Rather than sacrificing the volumes, they are sacrificing the bindings. The re-bound pages themselves will likely be much better preserved in archival storage than they would be in human-accessible, human-handled form on the shelves.
Wouldn't Linux or BSD have been available? These screenshots are from 2002, not 1992.
They are using the better-working brand for re-entering these markets after the first attempt failed years ago... seems logical to me? The name JustinTV IMHO has a lot of negative baggage attached because it wasn't very successful for so long.
Probably because the books are far less important than the information.

That being said, they are probably throwing away an opportunity to sell the books as novelty or decorative items. But who knows, maybe the cost-benefit is just not worth it.
I think Google sometimes is vague when it comes to bans and take downs. There are times they don't give clear reason which part exactly of their rules and regulation was being violated. It then becomes a puzzle to solve otherwise it's a sad story for content owners.
I think that might work, though there might be some nuanced missed, but here is the problem: how do you get that bill passed in the first place?!

One option is to vote out all incumbents. Here's the problem with that though: the media aren't doing a good job and the public are too apathetic.

We need a new movement to encourage participation in local/state/federal politics by the younger generation.

I've been asking younger people around me why they don't vote and how I could get them to vote, and almost universally I have gotten the same response. "I would have to feel like my vote would make a difference."
That's the word I was looking for.

What about if the penalty was in some way proportional to the wealth/income of the perpetrator?
Compare the US to the EU, not any of the countries within it.
I'd recommend checking out https://scripted.com/ and https://www.textbroker.com/ - I've heard good things about both. We're also launching a content delivery service over at http://www.camayak.com/, but it's new so you'd be an early customer for a beta service.
> Don't fight with a cop, don't resist arrest, you don't get shot. . Pretty simple solution.

Well, except for all those people who neither fought with cops nor resisted arrest and still got shot.

> I know far more victims of crime than I do victims of police brutality.

Since police brutality is crime, its impossible for the reverse to be true. But really, all that tells us (even assuming the characterization is accurate) is something about who you know, not what the relevant incidence of those things is in society.

> You're more likely to be shot by a gangbanger than a cop, thus shouldn't we be complaining about that?

I'm not sure law enforcement failing to do their job and thereby endangering innocents is a different problem than law enforcement failing to do their job and thereby endangering innocents.
Published in 2015: Amnesia by Peter Carey
Our founders did that hard work for us. The Bill of Rights and the constitution explain what freedoms we are granted and as well why we are granted them (inalienable rights from our Creator). Previously throughout history, rights were granted to people from their government, through laws.

These concepts were flipped upside down, and if you study why, you'll see the reason is Biblical principles. All you have to do is read many founding documents to see this.

John Adams wrote "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Why would he say this? Think about it.

I'm not experienced enough to describe or explain why America has done bad things throughout history. We all make mistakes, and we are all unique. I'm sure corruption existed throughout our history. My personal feeling is that between 1900 and say now, Americans are more willing to reject the reasoning that gave it freedom to accept the reasoning that will take it away.

This rejection starts not only at the bottom but at the top.
Many Ivy League colleges were founded to educate and raise missionaries. Why? Perhaps to spread the message of freedom and liberty. What are they doing now? The exact opposite. Think about that.

Many here will argue it's a good thing. So be it, but it doesn't make it anymore true than the message I'm sharing.
“Given a triangle with one obtuse angle, is it possible to cut the triangle into smaller triangles, all of them acute?”

Isn't the answer obviously 'yes'? Am I missing something?
I get robo calls that are supposedly from my own number. Caller ID is clearly not deception-proof.
I understand the 32-bit time not being a good idea, but why is SHA-1 bad for a non-cryptographic application?
Smolin lost all credibility with me after I read this blogpost by Jacques Distler

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/002645.ht... (this is a comment, scroll up for the post)
Damn. That is blindingly obvious.
the chance that a nation state would kill 10 million more tomorrow is several orders of magnitude more probable.

China, US, India, Pakistan, Russia.....
Cool idea, but how on earth do you decide what "1 issue" is?

For example, take a farm subsidy bill. Is it one issue? Or maybe there should be separate bills for corn farmers and wheat farmers? What about large farms and small farms?

I don't have an answer, I'm just playing devil's advocate :)
Since the context was missing, don't take it so personal. It wasn't clear that the kids originally grew up in that far away place. All I said is "it sounds xyz", it's not an eternal judgment.
They've realised TwitchTV is a much stronger brand that JustinTV ever was?

Also, iirc wasn't JustinTV polluted/tainted with a lot of dodgy re-streams of non-user-created content such as soccer?

It's a success story that they've managed to successfully cultivate twitch out of that and grown it up where they can now branch other user-streaming back from it.
This gets into the other billing problem with domestic solar.

In rough numbers, half of your electric bill is for energy, the other half is to pay for all the grid and capacity. Billing is purely on energy consumption. The effect of this is that low electric users get subsidized by high electric users.

When someone installs a domestic solar system they reduce their payments, but they still depend on the grid infrastructure. The system reaches its ultimate perversion when a grid tied domestic user achieves a negative bill. Not only have they been paid for their energy, they have been paid for the utility having a grid.

You can solve this economic distortion by a couple of ways:

• split billing into a grid-tie fee and an energy consumption charge: This accurately covers the solar houses, but it also raises the bills of the poor and cuts those of the wealthy (generally larger consumers).

• only pay domestic solar producers half what you charge for power: This works out asymptotically for a huge producer where the grid portion vanishes, but it doesn't work for people reducing their consumption but maintaining a grid tie or selling a little bit.

• put a surcharge on each watt of solar capacity: This works out accurately, but feels abusive. 1 watt of solar panel is going to make about 100 wHr of power a month. If grid-tie privilege includes a surcharge to cover the grid portion of 100wHr then this 1 watt solar panel user will end up paying the same for the grid as he did before. If a domestic solar installation is a net producer, it will end up getting paid for the energy and the grid fees will cancel.

Even before we get to a point where the power company may say "no thank you" to a domestic user that wants to sell power at 1pm on a sunny day, we still need to straighten out the billing. The current system ends up with the utilities (and by extension all grid users) subsidizing solar installations by forgiving their grid costs. I'm in favor of that now, but in a future where our carbon emissions are under control the distortions will need to be smoothed out.
lol there you go. Let's spend 1500T a year on that.
Do we know what the ratio is between persons actually engaged in criminal activity killed by police officers (in the US), and innocent citizens? I realise it would be hard to have much confidence in any such statistics, but the point is if I visit the US and I have no criminal intent, my personal risk of getting killed by an officer is certainly not zero, but I expect it would be low compared to the risk for persons who do have such intent. Conversely, my risk of being a victim of terrorism has no significant correlation to my intent.
We've definitely got the space and the resources. The demographic-economic paradox shows that solving the problem of overpopulation is simply a matter of distributing the renewable surplus we have of food water and shelter to the close to 50% of the world which struggles to obtain. This would create a positive feedback loop which would in turn pay for itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox

>There exists a realizable, evolutionary alternative to our being either atom-bombed into extinction or crowding ourselves off the planet. The alternative is the computer-persuadable veering of big business from its weaponry fixation to accommodation of all humanity at an aerospace level of technology, with the vastly larger, far more enduringly profitable for all, entirely new World Livingry Service Industry. It is statistically evident that the more advanced the living standard, the lower the birth rate.

-Buckminster Fuller, Foreword to Grunch of Giants

https://tripinsurancestore.com/4/grunch-of-giants.pdf
Speak for yourself, i use GNU/Linux everywhere, even on the PHB-supplied Apple notebook. You can pry my comforting illusion of freedom from my cold, dead hands!¹

:)

1. I refer to the multitude of binary blobs required to make anything work these days. Lamentable.
> responsible : having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone, as part of one's job or role.

The criminal is only responsible for breaking the law, the only thing he had control over before he was caught (assuming he was caught for the sake of argument). We as society are responsible for dealing out the punishment.

How could the criminal be responsible for the punishment when he is not the one inflicting it on him/herself.

edit: To make my argument slightly easier to understand I'm going to give an extreme example

Let's say it's illegal to be a certain religion. Is it the insert religion here person's responsibility that he is punished and sent to a death camp?
Nice! Does this work with scipy now?
Yeah that doesn't work at all, they just hang up and move on, they don't stop. No one doing these things is being paid to maintain the list or prune numbers. And for whatever it's worth, the FCC also recommends that if possible you don't pick up at all.
"Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why we were advised that we should save our work often because the whole thing was so damn unreliable."

This is all true, but those are problems with the OS, not the UI. The OS was terrible. The UI (NT4/XP/w2k) was pretty decent.
'Internet' and 'rules' in the same sentence is a contradiction in terms. The web was not designed for the kind of draconian oversight you see in the EU and elsewhere. Anything that resembles some form of rigidity will be made less rigid and force startups to 'think differently' and more fluid. It's a form of present shock (as Rushkoff has coined) which people are not used to that you see in bustling Shoreditch and other tech melting pots. You actually have people who look like The Internet in those places with USB flash drives as necklaces...
Doesn't need to be undetected, just fast enough that the escapee doesn't get shot and slow enough that the escapee doesn't die from the G-forces. There's a lot of room between those two extremes. You'd have to install drone guns to protect against the escape drones, but are invulnerable to attacking drone guns. This could get ugly.
I don't know what exactly you replied to, but the entire category of 'eugenics' should not be tainted forever.

Heritably curing the cystic fibrosis gene with an injection? That's eugenics.
On the contrary, it is the elimination of poverty which lowers the birth rate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic-economic_paradox
afaik this is no longer true.
At least for me (using Chrome) I no longer get the Flash viewer but the new HTML5 one.
Maybe this is the Amazon effect on the management?

I thought that they would spin off this Creative product in a new independent business venture so it won't clash with the established Twitch brand name or dilute it due to conflicting dynamics at play but this is Amazon after all and we're used to expect the unexpected from them.
Sounds like a job for software.
Electric cars look better all the time - and maybe even more electric mass transit.

I mean, this article talks a lot about "overproduction" - how the grid gets taxed by massive daytime spikes in production on sunny days. But it seems like if the problem really is going to be "too much electricity", then maybe green vehicle designers can find ways to put all that "clean" energy to good use.
These recordings are pretty amazing. I've recently experienced an uptick in spam-call volume (despite being very cagey about who/what gets access to my real phone number), and I think this video just tipped the scales on whether or not I'll be setting up my own Asterix box this weekend. Thank you for this!
Actually, the player controls on the video recently[1] switched to 100% HTML5. And the video portion is switching over next year[2].

[1] http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/07/video-player-controls-now-in-h...
[2] http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/25/twitch-html5-whisper-twit...
This girl handles situations extraordinarily well. Many people tried to troll, but her attitude simply does not allow it.
Just searched #writing and found someone writing poetry in MS word and taking a lot of suggestions from their one viewer.
The most shocking implication of this article is that Sam Nunn and Bill Frist are not aging.

Seriously though, how does moving several people from the board of directors to board of counselors help?
>Why not name the company?

I'm going to guess OP may be 'liable' for damaging the company's reputation.
Bank Strategy and an AIG Breakup
Well, they can call all they want but I don't think their opinion will override extradition treaties.
Intel employee wants to sack off work for the day. Causes a 6000 hour shutdown
I worked in the collections industry for a while. It was my first programming job.

I don't understand debtors that don't want to get calls letting them know what is happening. I get it in the sense that they didn't pay their bills and they've chosen denial as their plan for dealing with it but I don't get why anyone else would want to validate that kind of behavior.

But if that is the route they want to go the FCDPA clearly states that they can force the debt collector to cease communication for the most part and the avenues that remain open are via written mail.

I understand that sometimes an old number or something might be called in error but that has be a pretty rare thing and something easy to deal with on the receiving end.

I think the best way to avoid robocalls from debt collectors is to not let your debt go into collections.
Cancer-killing engineered Herpes virus approved by FDA