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> It's highly doubtful that the longer sentence length(is the US's longer on average?) is somehow contributing to a higher murder rate.

More men in prison -> more broken homes -> more people with more damage in their upbringing -> more crime

^^ that's just one potential mechanism for having demographic-sized populations of people locked up. About half a decade ago, it was estimated that one in nine black men in the US were either imprisoned or on parole. That's a lot of families missing an important member (even if not a father, a missing husband/son/brother is also an issue).

One of the problems with discussing crime (particularly in the US) is that people tend to focus on the criminal as a single individual, and not about the demographic-scale effects.

> What did you think about how I described sentence length as being a function of cost-benefit analysis?

Extremely long sentences haven't been shown to be an effective deterrent, and if anything, they mean that the prisoner is more likely to cause problems inside (if you're jailed for life, you can basically kill with impunity in the jail, for example). Long sentences mean more prisoners inside costing the taxpayer, less workers outside generating tax dollars, fewer families with present parents, and a broader 'criminal class' (and higher recidivism - if the only thing you know how to do is crime, because your skills have rotted...).

The justice system as a whole is meant to keep society running smoothly, and the penal system is part of that - it doesn't stand alone, separate unto itself. If rehabilitation and shorter sentences means that society runs better, then that should be targeted. The equation isn't as simple as "crime X costs Y dollars damage, incarceration costs Z dollars per diem, calculate for recidivism". Imprisonment has a lot of social knock-on effects.
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I'm not sure but I think the 99.5% figure here is for breeding modified mosquitoes with ordinary mosquitoes. That's the idea of the gene drive method. The spread of the gene has to be better than normal mendelian inheritance, otherwise it would never spread throughout the population in the first place...
Only before Firefox optimized its JS engine to bring it to par.
Yep, that new iface is not the greatest nor intuitive. It's not madefor efficiency but iPhone handling. I wonder if they ever checked how manyactually administrate a website from a phone...
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A quality product simply wouldn't have that problem. Quality means it can take some abuse, and you see it all the time in tools for many professions.
To some people, that may be.

Either way, there's no denying that Google literally spammed Chrome everywhere, and often with misleading or dishonest text.

"Your browser is outdated. Upgrade it now (to Chrome) for a better experience", "Make youtube faster with Chrome" etc etc.

It was literally impossible to go anywhere on the web, without the top of every second screen you visited saying "Upgrade to Chrome". It was massive and it was dishonest.

Ofcourse moms and dads everywhere jumped on this, like they jump on the "free scans" and "you have a virus" messages without ever considering if Chrome was a different browser or there being any technical merit to the claims about being better. Google used the exact same strategy as malware authors.

They even bundled it as a drive-by install with other popular software (like Flash). Update flash and suddenly your default browser is Chrome, which conveniently imported all your Firefox data and now reports all of that to Google, one keystroke at a time.

It's hard not to call this spyware.

Plain and simple: Chrome's marketshare is based on being evil and nothing else.

These days Chrome may feel like a better product, because Google keeps making their pages for Chrome and nothing else, using proprietary Google only extensions.

And that reminds me of a story I've heard before... Something about there E's..?
We have electric/trolley buses here for most routes, and a computer run train system without any operators, and some buses have their own lanes on busy routes but it still sucks.

Largely this is due to the buffoons who are consistently appointed to transit boards who tender everything to fellow political cronies that drain the budget and accomplish nothing. Transit like traffic is a political problem but running it is considered a patronage position where the CEO and board make over $300k/yr for never showing up to work and get a car allowance so they never have to experience the terrible service they run.
Actually, teaching people how to avoid inefficiencies might transform "slow code" to "slow and unmaintainable code".

It's more strategic to teach people to write readable code (exactly like the OP does), and then ... to teach them how to use a profiler.
When its not default, the default is good (since 4.2 its been Chrome), and there isn't a grassroots movement of enthusiasts to replace all installs of the default, adoption will be awful, every time.

What could get Firefox Android marketshare are webapps that depend on it being listed in Google Play. But thats also the problem - I'm not sure what webapp tech Mozilla is pushing today that Google is not pushing an equivalent of.

As it is, average fat finger users are not shopping for new web browsers on Android. They probably would on iOS since Safari is turning into another IE disaster, but Apple won't let them.
I don't disagree with your thesis, but: understanding a solution to a problem, and coming up with the solution are two vastly different things.
Is it just me, or is CNET breaking the back button?
> The person who already has a criminal record has very little to lose at least from a reputational perspective.

Imprisonment isn't just a loss of reputation, not by a long shot. The loss of reputation is one of the lesser reasons to avoid prison.
StartCom does allow their free (Class 1) certificates to be used for commercial purposes. They just reserve certain features that many businesses would appreciate (like having your business name on the certificate) for paid certificates (Class 2 or higher).

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However Jet is only cheaper because it's VC subsidized. Walmart was cheap because of their efficiency and vendor contracts (and abysmal employee conditions that followed). They were profitable from the beginning.

Jet will eventually have to IPO for the investors to liquidate. I feel as a pure ecommerce store, they're going to have to be profitable or wall street will tear them up.
Probably because its recently been linked here with the address.

I still don't understand the business though. Why focus on subscription websites when all you seem to be doing is design and hosting? Does it come with a subscription e-commerce platform built in?
Freeman Dyson, Donald Knuth, and Larry Wall might all disagree.
I'm not sure where you think Firefox is getting new adoption. Enthusiasts will try both it and Chrome and go with whichever they prefer, but the muggles are now being smothered in Chrome on a lot of Windows notebooks and all Android devices since 4.2, and Chrome is absolutely good enough to keep them from going through the mental gymnastics to realize what a web browser is, research alternatives, install Firefox, and know the difference between the word "Internet", the swirly icon, and the Fox globe one while realizing they mean different things.

Unless Firefox can get distributor deals with Dell / HP / etc the way Google has to get Chrome preloaded (between that and its default-on-Android status is what is rapidly pushing its market share) nobody has the pressing need to go out of their way going borderline door to door replacing IE6 with Firefox on everyones computer like they did in 2005-2008.
He's talking about reification versus specialization. The .NET runtime is specializing generics for value types and that's how you avoid boxing. For normal classes though, specialization would not have any benefit and the boxing argument goes away.

Interestingly, specialization can be done at compile-time and doesn't necessarily have to be a runtime feature. Here's a Scala compiler plugin doing that: http://scala-miniboxing.org/
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I'm curious what about their tech stack you like? I don't know much about it, other than pages are incredibly slow to load on both desktop and mobile, their checkout process is slow and buggy, and their customer service tools are wholly lacking.
Engineers are also a necessity for terrorist groupings. It may very well be that engineers aren't any more likely to become terrorists, it's that the ones that do are much more likely to find a terror cell that will take them, which then leads to actual terror. As opposed to, you know, dreaming about it.
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Is that an automatic repost?

"6 hours ago" I was sound asleep, definitely not submitting things.
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Yes, you'd need 6 arrays of 2147483648 longs (max int), plus one array of 536870912 longs, so a total of 7 arrays. Not that bad really.
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Thank you for the feedback, that helps the author and the community to grow, also is insightful, showing your respect towards other people.
Exactly. So suppose at some generation, the fraction of mosquitoes with the modified trait is p (and the unmodified fraction is 1 - p), and suppose that all mosquitoes are equally fit.

A random child in the next generation will have the modified trait if:
(a) both its parents are modified. This happens with probability p^2
(b) with probability .995 if one of its parents are modified. This happens with probability 2p(1-p), for a total probability of 1.99p(1-p).

Overall, the fraction of modified mosquitoes in the next generation will have p^2 + 1.99p(1-p).

Plotting this versus the identity function (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7Bp%2C+p%5E2+%2B+0.995...), we see that this will increase monotonically to p = 1 (all mosquitoes have the modified trait).
He got a reduced sentence for saving two kids from a burning house.
This ought not to be in past tense. There is still only one ad on www.google.com: "A better way to browse the web..."
That is impressive power consumption.

I'll admit I'm not especially familiar with the field, but that sounds quite exceptional to me.

Is there anything out there offering this sort of price/performance ratio that's easily accessible, ideally programmable using open-source hobbyist tools?
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These authors have published papers along the same lines of the book, if you have access to academic resources.

journal title: "Why are there so many Engineers among Islamic Radicals?"

Hertog, Steffen has written a few articles along these lines.
Everything you say is correct, but so lacking in complexity and detail that none of it bears repeating. Do you have any particular insights into how to overcome any of the challenges specific to San Francisco? "It's simple supply and demand" is so often repeated as the catch-all solution it's practically achieved meme status.
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Do we have transaction (ACID) support? If not, have you thought about it? Is is feasible with the IOT constraints?
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This opinion is (I believe) largely a function of one's worldview: if you grew up and live in a place designed for cars, you will probably find public transit systems inefficient. Why shouldn't I be able to get in a thing at my door and out of a thing at my destination door, without all this walking and standing nonsense?

If you grew up in e.g. Hong Kong, though, you'd likely see public transit as an arterial system designed to get you from one walkable neighborhood to another. I want to be able to walk around my neighborhood without dodging cars, even pedestrian-aware self-driving ones.

The failure of public transit in many contexts is really in foundational civil planning, not the nature of transit itself.
They only got 2 modified mosquitoes out of 25,000 then bred the rest from those. I doubt normal Mendelian inheritance is applying here.
>I think this effect is just as relevant and predictable with online communities as it is with college campuses.

Nope. Totally different. In your example, the poster on HackerNews would only get down-voted and thus, censored. Okay. No big deal.

What's happening at the universities right now is different. It is not censership. At these, universities, a person who says, "Edward Snowden is a traitor" would get fired, because students would force the administrators to fired the person they disagree with, because it's "offensive" to call Edward Snowden a traitor.

So totally different. On HackerNews, it's just a down-vote, a simple censorship. At the universities, the person loses his job/education/livelihood, all because he has a different opinion about Edward Snowden. That's not censorship. That's "ruinning-people's-lives-for-having-a-different-opinion" but trying to pass it off as just a simple censorship.
Isn't the fascinating thing here that "metro" has become the universal moniker for urban mass transit? Even in places that speak a language unrelated to Latin.

Germany has the U-bahn and S-bahn, Sweden the T-bana. And of course the one that started it all, the London Underground.
For historical reasons, UNIX and Linux handle the line discipline and echoing in the kernel. But really, that should be done in a user-space program. Something like xterm, but without X. The kernel should just handle the serial port hardware.

Is serial port login even enabled by default any more on Linux?
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Really? I remember Netscape being hands down better than IE, but that might have been after Netscape went out of business and before Mozilla formed, so maybe around when IE4 came out in other words.
There's so many fields out there, so why should ALL women goes into tech?

You may say, "But why doesn't more women goes into tech?"

Well, let me ask this then, "So 80% of women goes into nursing. Why don't MORE women goes into nursing? Why not 90%? Why not 97.2% Or heck, why NOT less women? Why not some other arbitrary number?"

There are many fields out there. Each fields has it's own arbitrary number of men and women working in it. Why must a specific field have a specific quota of women?

You would say, "Because there's not enough women in tech."

And I would say, "Why is that not enough? What would be consider enough for women in tech? For women in other fields? For women in each and every fields? Why must there be 50% women and 50% men in tech? Why must there be 50% women and 50% men in any field? In every fields? How can there even possible be 50% men and 50% women in all fields?"

So you see, when you really start thinking about it, all these quotas just become nonsensical. In fact, I remember in history, a form of government where the government enforced quotas. And it's call Communism.
that doesn't mean its not being bundled by default
I am in India, and whenever I open jets.com it says NOT FOUND
If you're feeling nerdy and missed it you should check out Linus Åkessons other stuff, like his organ and his sendmail turtle.
Those are called patent lawyers.
Wow, I tried opening jets.com from Indian IP it doesn't open, using a US IP the site opens :D
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I don't mean anything, the chevron means it's a direct quote from TFA (most likely just a typo which nobody else caught because everybody read it at "CVS" in context, I sure did)
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The author of the article seems to be essentially looking for Kotlin (except for the structural typing part, which is a terrible idea and which Kotin thankfully ignored).
Do people code in Pascal still?! I remember it from years ago in high school and it seemed like it was already ancient then.

Nothing against the language itself, it was straightforward and easy to learn on. Just surprised to see a new compiler for it coming out.
While I disagree with "free scans" and "evil", I think you're hitting pretty close to the mark.

Back then, Google's Chrome was still an exciting new thing being discovered by many non-techies, fast and simple. Google seemed like a company dead set on being the good guys.

Things have muddled since, IMHO.
Pattern background. Is this page from 1998?

I used to love Pascal, but as it has no decent hash tables, regexes and dynamic size vectors, I can't take it seriously any more.
But then they remove great features like Tab Groups because it's "too expensive to maintain them". I would actually pay them to maintain this feature indefinitely, I'm sure others will as well.
I agree it should be done in user space, but how? Surely requiring every program to use something like GNU readline is a bad idea? I vaguely remember reading somewhere that Plan 9 does this well. Does anyone know how, or know another OS that does it well? I also vaguely remember one of my textbooks mentioning something called STREAMS from System V. Anyone know anything about it?
> "just attendees " No. More than just attendees. Selecting panel members

> e.g.
http://media.salon.com/2015/11/GMU-email-2.png

That's an email from "James Cooper, a former FTC staffer and director of research and policy at the LEC", not someone from Google?

Asking someone who works at a sponsor of a conference for suggestions of who to put on a panel at that conference isn't really in the realm of that sponsor "setting the agenda"
No. It's shit. It's always been shit. And it will always be shit.

New York City has the longest commute times in the entire country. I've had friends who grew up ther and upon leaving literally said, "oh so this is what it's like to be alive. I thought all people did was work, commute, and sleep."

Walking to a bus stop sucks. Waiting for the next train sucks. Inevitably missing your transport or connection sucks. Listening to podcasts is cool so it's not the end of the world though.

People who live off public transportation live in tiny bubbles. A square mile here and a square mile there. Like you said, moving from one all walkneighborhood to another. God help you if you want more than one of ~five neighborhoods. And if you want to go see nature? Hah. sure you could rent a car or use a zip car but that's a huge hassle and people rarely do. Assuming you even have a drivers license which, much to my surprise, many folks are starting to skip.

You aren't wrong that it's a function of worldview. Perhaps one view is right or perhaps both are.
> Is serial port login even enabled by default any more on Linux?

That's a distribution choice, but often not. Last I checked on a Debian system, it was just a matter of uncommenting the getty on /dev/ttyS0 in /etc/inittab. Dunno how it's done with systemd nowadays.
>I think the reality is when he was caught, that Pastebin page didn't have anywhere near the PageRank it does today.

That may be so, but you would think one of the first things an investigator of cybercrimes would do is Google search. Searches of "[username] real name" or "[username] dox" could provide instant leads for tons of cases.

>the detective that did the bulk of the legwork wasn't tremendously savvy in regards to how online communities (and all the activity) work

Indeed, this is the real issue. It's unfortunate that cybercrime investigators did not even bother looking into this. I suppose they may have their hands caught up with admittedly worse crimes, like child pornography and theft.
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It's open source by any means but it works against their backend. They say that it also works with Google Calendar but I didn't understand if it completely bypasses Timekit in that case.

Did anybody implemented a server API compatible with Calendar?
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Yes, but it's definitely not the same thing. The vice of trying to please everyone means giving various people the features they ask for instead of weighing against the common good of the user base.
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Tailgating on the autobahn is also a potential 375Euro fine and 3 month license suspension if you get caught.
Here is a later post from him on producing the graphite: http://gse-compliance.blogspot.se/2013/05/finding-graphite.h... Also quite fascinating.
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In South Africa, Pascal and Delphi are still taught in schools... In fact, the University of South Africa actually has about 2 Delphi semester modules also, along with C++.

Some schools have switched over to Java, and most other universities have jumped onto the Java/.NET bandwagon.

So in a nutshell, I think it's still pretty prevalent in 3rd world countries. It's not a bad starting language to introduce students to programming concepts, although I would prefer Python for a first language.
> fairly religious, as well as notably conservative and libertarian leaning

These are words I would use to describe North America ;)

So you'd want to remove regional bias by comparing engineers to people from the same demographic and region, i.e. not comparing liberal arts graduates in California against the petroleum engineering graduates from Texas.
A focus on moving more people to public transportation is the first step in getting people to let go of their cars to allow for self-driving cars. When you mix self-driving cars and regular person-driven cars, the danger becomes the drivers. A major cultural change within Western countries with heavy reliance on cars is going to have to happen before self-driving cars can be part of the majority. The overall rejection of public transit is an aspect of this.
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