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>No one gains anything from these 44 year long sentences.

He attempted to murder a police officer, so why should benefit anything from it?

>He's been incapacitated for his entire life, and because of that, is seemingly going to be it for the rest of his life.

Of course. That's the point. That's the whole point of what a punishment is. You can't punish if you don't punish.

I understand. You don't want to punish criminals. You want to teach them how to become good. The thing about criminals is that they have no respect for nice people. So when nice peoples try to teach criminals to become good, the criminal feels like, "Why is this weak ass person trying to lecture me? I would break his neck if I am not in these chains. Talking as if he's holier than me."

Okay. You might say, "Well, if a criminal won't listen to a nice person, let's just have someone not nice teach a criminal how to become good."

Asshole: "Hey criminal, you need to be a good person."
Criminal: "Fucking asshole, I'll break your neck."

Not gonna work either.

However, organized crime have found a way to do it (does not work guarantee to work 100% of the time).

The Boss: "Lowly criminal, I need you to be a good boy and not try to kill my family."

Lowly Criminal A: "No." The Boss's 30 henchmen kills him.
Lowly Criminal B: "Okay. Fine. I will not try to kill your family."

Only death can deter a criminal, and that's not even guarantee to work 100% of the time (criminals back stabs their boss).

Anyway, as you can see, the above is even worst than our prison system.

However, if you feel you have a method of installing goodness into criminals, please feel free to share.
Absolutely legal. Resolution depends on the satellite (system). It's digital data, so the resolution does not depend on your hardware.
A common ingredient in baked goods is an amino acid derived from human hair: http://www.naturalnews.com/032718_L-cysteine_commercial_brea...

Edit: Here's the wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine#Industrial_sources
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This is the total opposite of those futuristic meal pills, isn't it?
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> There are already noodles made just from konjac, also known as Devil’s Tongue or Voodoo Lily because of the plant’s striking flower. But it has been difficult to sell because of its bitter taste, according to Keiichi Ohi

Having tried konnyaku (skewered blocks though, not noodles), my issue was not so much taste (which is pretty much non-existent, all the flavor came from the sauce) as texture, superficially very slimy jelly with surprisingly firm internal consistency, it was somewhat gag-inducing.

I'd be interested in learning how the texture changes by introducing cellulose mix into konnyaku.
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I don't see the news here. Shirataki is quite popular and quite easily found. I think it became popular with the Dukan diet.
This also happens for me, UK, Bank of Scotland. Actually I find it to be a feature as I have my card number memorized and whenever I need a replacement I only need to remember 5 or maybe 6 new digits (including the three CV2 digits). I wouldn't really call it a vulnerability due to the CV2 being randomized and the fact we have chip and PIN over here.
I particularly like the keywordlessness of W's syntax. Virtually every other language divides identifiers into 2 arbitrarily defined classes: the somewhere from 20 to 100 special identifiers that mustn't be used, and all the others that can be used by the programmer. Because W's syntax uses punctuation and symbols for all its functionality, the programmer doesn't need to either remember which 50-ish identifiers not to ever use, or have a special IDE-like task running in the background to gives prompts whenever it detects an illegal identifier use. Very clean syntax!
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There's also a multitude of easy ways to host your own git repository and a bug tracker.

However, I prefer to use GitHub so that I have all of it in one place, including the website, and I don't have to spend time managing the infrastructure.
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Any advice on what type of antenna to use for this?

It says a "simple wire antenna" is good enough in most cases, but I'm sure you could get a much clearer signal with something specialized.
Opps downvoted and then realised I shouldn't have. Sorry.
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While anecdotal, I've noticed that WhatsApp use and use cases are steadily increasing in my surroundings.

At first it was just an sms replacement. Then people started using the group chats for (mostly) silly stuff or family groups. Then the group chat function started to be used more functionally for work and, say, flatmate-type stuff coordination and communication.

I wouldn't be surprised that if (or perhaps when) WhatsApp adds more functionality, it will quickly be picked up by everyone around me. I'm mostly surprised what WhatsApp hasn't done this already, especially considering that Facebook already offers a number of functions that I'd love to see integrated (to a limited degree) into whatsapp's paradigm (event creation/planning, more advanced photo sharing, 'blogging').

Does anyone have any idea why WhatsApp isn't becoming more like WeChat?
I remember controversy about recycling cardboard into noodles. I might see something wrong about that. Not sure if it was hoax or not though.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cardboard_bun_hoax
Really wish the guy delivering my takeaway last night used this API.
Actually when I wrote this my letterbox already contained a notice from FedEx. So I guess they did send it! (Still have to pick up the package but I assume it's the phone.)
I'm still hoping that Erogan (and, very similarly, Putin) has overstretched his luck. The HDP is still quite strong after the recent elections, NATO only hesitantly supports his adventures vs. Russia and based on some of my friends there, there's a large and energetic generation of young secular students who see their future in Europe. It's hard sustain an autocracy based only on the rural, old population and with no support from the intellectuals/business leaders/journalists etc.

Syria is now Putin vs. Erdogan vs. Al Quaida vs. ISIS vs. Assad vs. Hisbollah (+ EU, US). It'd be fantastic to watch them all lose if there weren't so many innocents involved.
Any platform that's not on enough programmers' desks, being actively used, becomes legacy. Once it becomes legacy, it dies. It can survive long periods as a niche product, but, then, it won't run new software, the compilers won't target it, new applications won't be written for it and, ultimately, the last machine of its kind will be turned off, replaced by the current incarnation of something that is actually used.
Agreed. An IBM POWER8 seems to be optimal for that. You may even end up mining a bitcoin if you set it to dark.
Seems like the authors do not consider how safe such a system would be. Yet it seems to me that a machine whose main goals would be to learn things about the world so that it can communicate with humans and answer their questions, is possibly very dangerous. While reading the first section I kept thinking about this blog entry from Paul Tyma, "How Artificial Intelligence Will Really Kill Us All":

http://paultyma.blogspot.fr/2015/10/how-artificial-intellige...
Sometimes you don't have as much control over a client (many non-HTTP TCP applications). A middle ground is to use anycast for authoritative DNS and return a set of records for unicast IPs local to that POP. You get the benefits of anycast and the stickiness of unicast. It's a short jump to overriding decisions to correct certain clients, or to shed traffic from servers or POPs.
My wife is vegan (and a Japanophile) and uses konnyaku as a meat substitute -- the issue is flavouring, and with various seafood flavours (often seaweed-derived) it makes an excellent fish/shellfish substitute. One thing to note is that it requires boiling before further cooking to get rid of the initial rather off-putting aroma.

I've lately begun seeing it show up as the base of various "gluten-free diet wonder-food" products in our local wholefood supermarket (in the UK), at about five times the price it is in your typical Chinese/Asian foods supermarket ...
I thought the easiest signals to pick up from weather sats are actually analog - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Picture_Transmission

It seems theres at least a Russian weather sat, which you can pick up which is transmitting digital data - http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-meteor-m-n...
The downlink is analog (thus the calibration scales in the margins), and with this kind of hardware your image quality is limited by analog signal quality effects. At the source, though, APT ([false]-color pictures from NOAA satellites, as opposed to weatherfax charts) is 980px wide.

The satellites are a public service and privately owned receivers are nothing new, the RTL-SDR just made it a whole lot cheaper. The first time I saw this done at an amateur radio meet, the hardware cost many thousands of dollars and occupied a card table. The RTL-SDR is a bit magical in what it's done for hobbyist receiving.
You have right, but also you can get into your influencer/business guru Twitter profile followers and then can use that script. It will help you to avoid spammers.
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Don't forget Rojava (YPG), the most successful fighters against ISIS. Right at Turkey's border — and as Putin made it impossible to ignore, Erdogan supports ISIS. (Apparently Erdogan has dreams of being Caliph.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/a-dream-of-utopia...

In my view, their society has ethically surpassed anything in "the West". Obama's in the absurd position of supporting Erdogan against them, despite YPG being the US's most effective ally against ISIS. ("Contradictions of empire", it's maybe called.)
Shirataki are pure konjac, the article talks about adding wood fibers to konjac to improve the texture and taste.
If you define it like that, you don't need separate boolean and bitwise AND and OR. 11111111 & 00000000 = 00000000, 11111111 | 00000000 = 11111111, ~11111111 = 00000000 etc.

QBASIC (and possibly other Microsoft BASIC dialects?) did the same thing. There's no &&, || or ! in QBASIC.

If you define "true" as just 00000001 then it works for & and |, but not for ~.
Has anyone tried something like this but with OS X running in a VM? As a distributed team we would prefer not to rely on one of us physically hosting a Mac Mini.

Thanks for writing this.
I paid $5 for shipping[1], i'm not sure where you are getting $10-20 from. (I was charged $14 total)

And i'd rather they try not to roll shipping price in with the actual component.

[1]http://i.imgur.com/x5rQ73y.jpg
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Yes, the article is already outdated. Most importantly, there have been elections again, and this time Erdogan's AKP did gain an absolute majority. Which will enable them to fulfill their plans for a strong presidential state with Erdogan himself as the president.

Summarizing: there is no 'fall of Erdogan's Turkey', Erdogan is now more powerful than ever. Whether that is good thing, time will tell ...
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It's your problem.

See it positive:

- The company is growing

- You guys do something right

- The CEO is doing something right

- Fast growth or just growth is never easy for an organization

- But if everybody is proactive and empathic then you make it easier for the organization and all folks involved

=> Go out, see new opportunities and be proactive—growth brings always new opportunities for everyone

It's you and your inner fear of change. You fear the loss of the good old times.

EDIT: Why do people downvote so fast on HN? I wrote a positive post and a get an instant downvote.
I've been wondering what is the analogue of syntax highlighting for natural languages

The Writer Pro app from iA has a "Syntax Control" feature: https://brooksreview.net/2014/02/does-syntax-highlighting-ac...
> A lot of people don't even know it exists

Good, it's fantastically broken and shouldn't be used.
so far its only been hobby/torrent/scam sites using free cert, nothing you would hesitate opening in a webproxy.

Ill switch browsers when I can open ~100 tabs without eating 8GB of ram (blink engine), Opera 12.17 does it at <2GB, not to mention being able to configure everything per domain (js,blockers,cookies etc).
There's also the 2010 article "An Immense Concentration of Orb-Weaving Spiders With Communal Webbing in a Man-Made Structural Habitat"[0] documenting a 4 acre web inside the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant housing an estimated (lowball) 107 million spiders.

[0] PDF http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/2010/Orb-weaving-spiders.pdf
The direction a language is written in has no bearing on how easy it is to understand. Postfix is a different matter altogether.
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This is stuff that gets left out a lot by hurried programmers (like me). A simple unceremonious <p>Loading...</p> at the top of the page is better than nothing.
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Or if you have bigger software that requires testers.

I work as software tester and my job is to come up with scenarios, find edge cases and write automated tests continuous integration. My main tools are Jenkins and Robot Framework.
I suspect that's a backronym, given that "gone belly up" is a thing too
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It was fixed as in the PRNG in v8 was awful, even for a non-CSPRNG, and was recently replaced with a much better one: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4566
Thank you for this, I will look into it :). I was actually going to tell these people to give me a github link or go away, haha. I don't need any kind of license page that looks like http://alchemy.cs.washington.edu/license.php?action=2, thank you very much!

By the way, you can talk to my AI guy if you have a recent Chrome/Chromium browser. It is actually an entire OS in a browser, and the AI guy is an app called Bertie. My current implementation of the OS is called "The Native Client Proving Ground", and can be found here: https://nacl-pg.appspot.com/desk. The OS should install in less than 2 seconds after clicking the link. Then you just open the Applications folder and click on Bertie's face. He will then introduce himself, and you can start talking to him.
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It is in my opinion no way OK to abuse your users resources like this. They trust you to perform only the task that your website claims to do, and not a whole lot of different stuff.

This is exactly like people deploying bitcoin miners in their products (i.e. the esea.net scandal).

Additionally there is already an array of different distributed computer networks one can join with a private computer, why not improve on this type of solutions, rather than forcing it down the users throat in a very immoral way?
I agree it's an interesting approach - but there is still a separation into two classes of lexical tokens: those made up of letters and numbers and those made from punctuation and other "special" characters.
Hosting the downloads themselves via HTTPS is completely useless if the link to that file is transferred over HTTP.
By murder, by torture, by imprisonment, by the terrorism of armed forces, they have subjected the intelligent and humane parts of the nation and seized power with the view of furthering the glory of the Fatherland.

^ The terrorism of armed forces part is particularly important. We tend to think that terrorism is something crazy non-state actors do in religious or delusional fervor, but it is really just the use of violence to achieve certain political ends. This is precisely what the American army started doing around the world after World War II. If you include psychological manipulation with it as well, as recently evidence by the disclosure that the DOD was paying NFL to propagandize during games, we get a very concerning picture of the role of the US military in today's world and in the US itself.

In this gloomy state of affairs, the brightest spot is America. In America democracy still appears well established, and the men in power deal with what is amiss by constructive measures, not by pogroms and wholesale imprisonment.

^ How dated that sounds. Wonder what Russell would say about the America of today, with the oligarchy entrenching itself to replace a democracy, a wide-scale militarization of the police, a pogrom against Muslims in some southern states, the wholesale imprisonment of African Americans, and the popularity of near-fascist leaders like Donald Trump.
Had a somewhat similar thought, stopped for a second wondering how they'd got the authorisation to launch rockets over the mediterranean sea as that seems somewhat unsafe.
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I did CRUD for some local shop as a solo developer.

I quickly got bored because of the lack of intellectual stimulation. Fourteen monad tutorials later the whole stack was written in Haskell.

I wish I had a job.
IIRC even virtualised the OSX license requires that OSX ultimately run on apple hardware and nowhere else. You could use a colocated host rather than having a member of the team physically owning a mini though.
Is there a way forward? A way to avoid the same mistakes and perhaps save humanity from the triumph of stupidity?
> Erdogan supports ISIS. (Apparently Erdogan has dreams of being Caliph.)

Please, do not succumb to this kind of statements. Erdoğan does not support ISIS, but he does not support YPG or PKK either. So when he did not take active action why is he portrayed as ISIS supporter? Did not Turkey do enough to host and feed people from Kobane and treated the wounded Kursdish fighhters? Turkey simply did not want to enter the mess deeper (But we are already in anyway..)

He knows that he cannot be a Caliph or such, maybe he had the melancholy of the Ottoman times, but that's past already.
But the residents apparently prefer the Isles of Scilly to the Scilly Isles.
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It says it stops transmitting the video to the cloud service. It doesn't say it turns of the camera part. In fact, from the power draw and the ABI article it seems the only things being turned of are the camera indicator led and the motion detection. Recording seems to continue at 1080p.
I guess the problem is association with war-time practices of cutting flour with sawdust and other measures to "cheat" on consumers – and generally the feeling of getting cheated. Sugar substitutes are demanded by the public (and usually advertised if present), while this is just yet another additive nobody knew about.
First thing off the top of my head is tracking engagement etc. Also search? Not many things are simple anymore, especially when you're selling advertising space.
From what I can gather this will have virtually no nutritional content whatsoever. I really do struggle to see how it could be considered a "health" food.

Although food like kale does have 10x the amount of calories, I have a sneaky suspicion you would be much better off eating that. The problem (in my view) that is the cause of obesity is the tendency to eat foods that are more processed rather than less..
Are there also similar communities for other "text-based-organization/documentation" tools, like asciidoc (http://asciidoctor.org/docs/what-is-asciidoc/)?

org-mode looks very good, but I am not sure, I want to switch to the emacs universe only for org-mode.

I discovered asciidoc a few weeks ago and so far I love it, I am just experimenting how to use it.

Currently I use asciidoc with:
- Atom
- Atom autosave
- Atom Asciidoc preview package
- My existing project folder hierarchy, where I just place the asciidoc text files.
Hey Klunger,

Dharmesh Shah (Founder of Hubspot) actually gave a decent talk at Business of Software on this: http://thebln.com/talk/lessons-from-the-trenches-in-scaling-...

I think he can say it far better than I could.

That being said, I think it's something alot of companies go through when growing. It's important though!
I had the same initial reaction, then checked it has about the same caloric intake than vegetable soup. So it can probably give you some sense of (short-term) satiety but it would be hard to base your diet on it.
Github provides an all in-one hosting solution for Open Source projects. You can host code, bug tracker, binaries, and the project website all on Github. I use it to host http://postgresapp.com, for example. It's extremely convenient.

But there is one big gaping security hole: If your project page is served over plain HTTP, and people click on the download link, they are vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. An attacker could change the link to point to a malicious binary instead.

The only way to prevent this is to make sure that your customers don't access your website over HTTP. And this is why HTTPS support for Github pages is important.
Vaguely related (due to the similar naming): https://github.com/catseye/Specs-on-Spec/blob/master/star-w/...
Ah sorry, I meant the kind of data, not the transmission method. No idea if this even makes sense. I meant that you get a image of pixels from them, the resolution does not depend on your receiver. The image pixel quality itself ("color") will be subject to analog effects though. Not a scientist, just a hobbyist with "dangerous semi-wisdom" typing this. ;)
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I recently built one with my raspberry pi and the camera module. It was stupidly easy, all the difficult parts (motion detection, saving short video recordings) are all done for you.

I upload everything to s3, and set notifications on the bucket to my phone. If motion is detected, I get an email within a few seconds.

If you're serious about not being spied on, the only reasonable thing to do is to build it yourself. Luckily, these days, that's very easy and cheap.
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This is so important. Many people create async requests and overlook the state indicators. This seems harmless until the user doesn't know they need to wait for something to load, messing up their whole understanding of the widget.

Related article on how working with React (UI from data) can help you consider all your states:

Pure UI http://rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui/
The issue is that there are plenty of people who rely on the food energy contained in those carbs.

This was an enormous problem during the American industrial revolution, where already food-insecure families were buying products covertly made from "Potato flour", the insoluble fiber left once all nutrition was dissolved from potatoes. "Potato flour" was added to everything from sausage to bread as a filler and substitue for more expensive ingredients. This resulted in the poor watching their children and families starve despite seeming to eat regular full meals.

In a perfect world, there would be a net benefit from the choice to eat a non-nutritive carb substitute if that choice was made clear by strict labeling standards.

However, in our imperfect world, infrastructure that can produce food based on non-nutritive fiber has historically been used to rip off the most needy. In a world with actual fake egg and "gutter oil" problems, creating industrial processes to shape cellulose into something that looks like food is going to have severe negative effects for a lot of people.