skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure which US you're referring to but it's not one I recognise.

I'm from an African country and with that perspective I stand by this phrase:

> There is extreme lack of poverty in the U.S. There is no reason for anyone to go without food.

Name one area in the U.S. where a homeless person cannot get a meal.

My claim is simple. The U.S. is the most prosperous place on the planet, the inequality doesn't touch at least a hundred other countries. Again, inequality isn't necessarily an indicator of poverty.
> Develop systems that are structurally uncorruptable and uninfluencable as best as they can be, by having significant separations of power by design

Oh kind of like The Constitution, for example? Obviously that hasn't worked out too well in the long term, what with the US being a burgeoning police state and all.

But if "we" write a new and more sternly worded piece of paper that says "rulers can't mistreat their subjects", that should work, right?
It's not "vaguely related" - drug laws are, simply put, the current form of jim crow.

Drug laws were made for this purpose, and openly so.

And it's ludicrous to say that "if it wasn't for drugs it'd be something else." So then abolish all criminal laws which prohibit common, consensual, adult behavior. But drug laws are the whale here, not anything else.
How does one debug an application in a web based IDE? That would seem to be a pretty stifling limitation.
The reason for that is that it turns out that paying for power and cooling is more expensive than not.
Systemic severe racism over the course of 20 years? A cover up by the police? Par for the course in the USA, and it's disgusting. The justice system in this town has been an injustice system for as long as some of the people who live there can remember.

There may be riots because of this. They will be justified.
Right. At one point in the complaint, they say the company had oversubscribed its mining capabilities but kept selling to 4x IIRC, which rather implies that there was mining capability there in the first place (just much much less than they were selling).
Was there already law someplace that addressed such things as not eligible for ownership? If not, why would this not fit under marine salvage laws?
As a counterexample, the FBI FOIA process is what allowed me to get the only surviving transcription of my grandfather's own words (He died before I was born). I'm incredibly grateful that we live in a system that lets people mine this information for their own reasons. It has been a treasure trove of information for me personally and the staff never hassled me. That goes as well for the NARA archive staff. If anyone on the FOIA team reads this, thank you.
> About what issues are we making the same mistake right now?

Military and Intelligence affairs.
Anyone downvoting the parent needs some serious perspective.
> Honest police may feel it's in their interest.

Yes. I choose to have a dashcam in my car; it has once proved me not at fault, but if I screw up, it could equally prove me at fault. I think it is in my interest because I think it is overwhelmingly likely that the truth will be in my favour.
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One really nice benefit is that you don't have to duplicate any type information. Once you define your model with the data types you expect, mapper infers those types and converts the JSON values accordingly. It seems like with SwiftyJSON (which I haven't used) you have to duplicate this by calling things like `.stringValue` etc.
They don't need to request the person's SSN... they could just choose not to release the data that is tied to a non-dead citizen since they already have their SSN, probably.
> If Fb goes the MySpace way, how much is that donation worth?

If Fb goes the Google way and its value continues to go up, the donation will be worth more. It's true that the donation is of unclear value. But calling it $45 billion is a way to communicate the scope of the pledge that they've committed to.

> Secondly there appears to be a duality between how the company operates and what this post tries to rally for.

It's important to distinguish between the behavior of a person and the behavior of Facebook, Inc. Every time the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation does something, we don't get dozens of people rising out of the woodwork harping on Microsoft's unethical business practices - but Bill Gates' mid-90s Microsoft was definitely on par with Facebook at its worst. It's okay to celebrate good things done, as long as we don't fully forget how we got there. We should continue to criticize Facebook as a company even as we recognize that the individual here is attempting something great.

> Finally, using the pretense of writing a letter to their newly born daughter rubs some the wrong way.

It's a pretty easy and effective rhetorical device. The letter is obviously targeted at the world, or he wouldn't have published it. But it's a good way to present some emotional framing - this is why he cares so much, why he's invested in a better world. Not all attempts to inspire pathos in the reader are rooted in evil, it's just a tool for effective writing.
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Yes, exactly. This is what I thought when I read about this study.
I can get my parents and others using Telegram. It's got lots of cute features, like short audio clips. "Self destruct", while not really true, at least provides a time based way to erase conversations. (Signal only does this by message count.)

Signal is getting way better, but Telegram is just a better messaging client at the moment.
I do this. I'm sorry I'm offending you. That's not my intention.

I use it not for some political purpose, but because I actually believe gender is irrelevant to the things I'm saying. I am almost never trying to say "I went with Dave in his essential maleness to his house" I'm just trying to say I went to Dave's house. I'm not trying to reference occupation or nationality or anything else. Referencing gender is noise.

It's also impractical to have to ask everyone their gender and keep that huge database in my head. Much easier just to use one word.
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I know I'm coming late here, I really hope I'm not too late for you to read this.

I have two children - a four month old and a 5 year old. I tried working around the time they were up and I always felt guilty. I also work full time, loose an hour a day commuting (or there abouts), etc. The point I'm making is that I'm lucky to find a few hours free each day as it is.

Here's what I'm doing now and it's working well. Mentally, I'm in a good space, not feeling burnt out, feel like I'm seeing the kids enough, etc.

* I get up early. I have found going to bed early gives much better sleep. I am naturally an evening person so this was hard but getting up early (around 6am) I've found makes the days feel longer. This negates an anxious behaviour of mine feeling "there isn't enough time to do anything". Sometimes when I get up early I'll do an hour or so of work, othertimes I'll head in to my day job early so I can get out early.

* Learn about the pomodoro technique; it's invaluable and you can get a lot done. Break your work into Pomodoro slots (I use 25 minutes) and plan before you start. This way when you have a spare block or so you can just do that.

* Try to find 2-3 hours a day uninterrupted to work.

* Never forget you need time to yourself to unwind and relax. Make this a priority.

* Don't neglect your family. You will be far happier and productive when they're happy, at least that's what I've found.

* Never, ever work on weekends. You need time to yourself and do things you want to do.

* Get a good nights sleep

* Eat healthy. Make sure you get your 5 / 2 a day.

* Exercise during lunch. I go for a walk every day and love it.

Good luck! You'll get there with perseverance.
I am not commenting on it either way. You seemed to be asking about why you were down-voted, I was merely proposing what I thought to be the most likely reason. I hope you can see how it doesn't imply anything about my own personal belief?
That's the thing. I understand that citations are good enough when you know what you're looking for (at least from my perspective), but imo there's no good solution to finding seemingly unrelated paper/research that could be 'the missing piece', hence the question about 'content discovery' :).
> Why did our society make this error?

> How do we prevent making the same mistake in the future, regarding other issues?

> About what issues are we making the same mistake right now?

- Drugs are a classic victimless crime; prosecutions tend not to be motivated by someone filing a complaint. Rather, it is the responsibility of the police to detect the crime and mete out punishment as they see fit.

- Society has reward processes in place for police who identify and punish drug offenders.

Those two are sufficient for a lot of abuse. There are some aggravating circumstances:

- It's easy for the cops to prey on low social classes, because they don't report to them. The higher social classes aren't really interested in what's going on elsewhere. A doctor's kid is unlikely to be the victim of planted drugs, and so is the doctor. That's not because doctors' kids aren't using so many drugs, it's because the police aren't really supposed to deal with the higher classes at all.

I see some other commenters saying that, e.g., society is always driven (at least in significant part) by racial tensions. While I don't actually disagree, I think this is at root an issue of social class rather than race directly. Police preying on a community of white-collar professionals will be reformed.

Since these communities don't have the political power to get rid of predatory police, the police are acting without supervision. It shouldn't be surprising that they do what they feel like.
Are you actually shorting their stock, or just blustering? You sound very confident.
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Here is an example of a movie review:
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The website is mobile friendly.
Their page specifically says if its not a first party request (you requesting information about you), you must submit a copy of the Social Security Death Index showing the person is deceased. Instead of the requestor needing to provide that page, they could simply verify the SSN you're providing, in combination with the person's name, against the Social Security Death Index file internally.

"If you are requesting information on a deceased individual, you will need to upload proof of death unless the deceased individual is more than 100 years old. Acceptable proof of death includes obituaries, death certificates, recognized sources that can be documented, written media, Who’s Who in America, an FBI file that indicates a person is deceased, or a Social Security Death Index page."

Emphasis mine.
If you are deploying a new django project, let me suggest hendrix (twisted + django) as your WSGI publisher.

hendrix makes concurrency simple, fun, and fast using Twisted, which is battle-tested and experiencing an amazing renaissance of young talent (as evidenced by the amazing vibes in the Twisted room at the PyCon sprints).

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Apple totally has the resources to make a great native app experience, even if it's much more tedious. I don't see why they don't go the extra mile, especially since the app store generates so much revenue...
The police also stole more from people via asset forfeiture than actual burglars did last year. They are criminals.
I don't think it's as easy as you think.

Having played around with apples layout and general UI related stuff myself quite a lot I can tell you that it's a lot harder than webviews. We are talking perhaps 50X for the kind of stuff like the App store.
Reminds me of Isaac Asimov's "Franchise", where multivac picks and legally requires a regular family man to run in in an "electronic election" for US president. Highly recommended short story!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
I wonder if these families and vessels had automated "self-destruct sequences" built right into them like the original ST Enterprise did?
Do you know how well cookiecutter-django [0] handles email logins? I've been meaning to play around with cookiecutter, but I haven't started a new project recently. Cookiecutter uses django-allauth [1], which seems to offer email login methods, from what I see in a cursory look at the docs [2].

[0] - https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django

[1] - https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth

[2] - http://django-allauth.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuratio...
On a somewhat related note, the relationship between CMU's campus and SEI / CERT (another FFRDC) was somewhat strained recently in light of the recent Tor allegations.

Traditional academia and government researchers will always make for strange bedfellows.
Well put, but I suspect large swaths of people will still be in denial since any criticism about the police (or military) is off limits. In any case, if this keeps on going the police force would be the first to be "roboticized". I even have a simple algorithm:

1. Investigate reported crime (race/gender/economic parameters are ignored) OR catch criminal red handed.

2. Create a police report and submit evidence.

3. Testify if required, go to step 1.
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I have been doing this for a couple years now. I am about to make some big changes, as a result of the side work taking off.

I work early/late, so that side work wouldn't conflict with my day job. I worked Saturdays.

I'm a systems guy, not a dev as much as I really want to be. I'm getting into automation stuff, and learning enough programming to help me be a better sysadmin (Ruby, for Chef).

I'm always reading, and working to improve my skills (technical, and otherwise)

I took every opportunity to do side work, for some extra money. It's paid off well, and now the scales are tipping to where I've easily replaced my day job income.

I have an email address listed in my profile. I'd be happy to talk more, if you're interested.
I have always been fascinated why fashion labels make equal numbers of each size (XS, S, M, L, XL) when this does not fit the distrubution of sizes of the population. It is even worse with pants where 36" & 38" sell out instantly, but there is always a 24" in the sale bin.
there's nothing wrong with Lua
LOVE the mantra. It rings so true.
I can't say I've used twisted at all, but Amber had a fairly good talk at Django Under the Hood this year on this topic: https://opbeat.com/events/duth/#twisted-and-django
I upvoted him because it's difficult to read what he wrote (and I routinely upvote grey comments). HN should decide whether a downvote means ‘I disagree’ or ‘this isn't worth reading’ — ‘I disagree therefore this isn't worth reading’ is incompatible with reasoned discussion.
> Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. While police conduct exists and is deplorable, my sense as an observer is that the majority of black anti-police activism is about somehow pinning the criminality of the black community on society at large.

> While I of course condemn polite misconduct, I can understand how repeated interaction with a recalcitrant criminal element could harden and corrupt a police officer.

This right here, this is what racism looks like. This is its kernel, its essence.

Racism is fundamentally a double standard between an in group and an out group. The in-group is judged compassionately. Wrong-doing is contextualized and labelled as a mistake, an outlier, the doing of a tiny subset, uncharacteristic. The out-group is judged harshly. Wrong-doing is claimed to be characteristic to the point of being universal, it is never contextualized and there is never an allowance for human imperfection.

Here you have a situation where millions of people (black americans) are being characterized by the actions of a tiny subset (criminals), and condemned for it while on the other hand the crimes and abuses of another group (police officers) are contextualized if not excused.

All racism is based on a seed of truth, but you can no more use the higher crime rate of blacks to condemn an entire race than you can use the higher crime rate of men to condemn an entire gender.
Step 1 there probably breaks down to several billion subtasks.
I think many people, me included, get reflexively annoyed by pathos and sanctimony, because so much of it is used to justify just about the most ridiculous actions and theories and ideas. I do, however, think, that in this case, it is possible to be utterly annoyed at the sanctimonious tone, while simultaneously celebrating the fact that so much money will be put to good use
I'm not refuting their claims that this isn't caused by humans, but I'm curious as to how they are able to prove that.
Saying something is Christian does not imply it is fine. The proper response to "I'm a jerk because I'm Christian" is "fine, be Christian, but you'll face the consequences of being a jerk, one of which is public shaming for being a jerk".

There was a valid point made that the student chose to go to a Christian college. But note that the logic that that implies is precisely the logic behind trigger warnings: that people can choose what to associate with. Clearly, the student did not anticipate the content of the sermon, despite knowing it was a Christian university. So in that case, a warning for that lecture would have let the student know whether to go, and, depending on how important it was to them, possibly drop out.

Deliberately not having trigger warnings is deliberately deceptive.