skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To massively simplify a complex debate, there are 2 main schools of thought with respect to how to decrease future crime once a criminal has been apprehended [1]. The first is to make the punishment disincentivize future transgressions, and the second is to rehabilitate the criminal so that they won't make the decision to break the law again. Recently, society has been coming to terms with the fact that strict sentencing laws don't work in many situations (and often have unforeseen consequences, like the Revolving Door effect in American prisons [2]). In this situation, as much as we wish we could have directed the poor man to the nearest homeless shelter serving hot soup, it doesn't seem likely that taking away the threat of a 6 month prison stay would make him less likely to do that. The various hardships that are overindexed in the homeless population, from drug addiction to mental illness [3] (to perhaps a language barrier in this case) not only make them less likely to be able to find food consistently, but also make them less likely to respond to criminal disincentives.

It is a more enlightened philosophy of justice to acknowledge that saying 'you should have known better' won't make people know better. As the concept of morality progresses from a simple Hammurabian ear-for-an-ear justice game to a nuanced empirically-founded optimization problem, it will be interesting to see whether or not people continue to take pleasure in exerting it. That the latter problem tends to be incredibly engrossing to the technically literate means many of us will respond to this quite positively.

Postscript: If morality were a solved problem, would there be as many Effective Altruists?

[1] http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug03/rehab.aspx
[2] http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/00...
[3] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adriana_Foster/publicat... | relevant quote : estimation of mood disorders at "12% to 30% in various homeless samples".
Thanks for the helpful link. From what I can see they're undertaking to ensure that not a single disabled person would be worse off under their scheme with many better off, plan on keeping housing benefits in their entirety, intend a revised form of child benefit to similarly not leave families worse off and propose a pension scheme which is higher than BI and current basic state pensions in addition to retaining existing earnings related state pensions.

In short: they're proposing to abolish ~£37bn of targeted subsidies for working age adults but retaining ~£67bn of them. Pensions and child benefits get totally replaced, but by new subsidies that cost more than what they replace. I think this is a much better approach than eliminating all or nearly all the existing benefits as is often favoured by right wing BI proponents, but it leaves untouched or simply renames more than it eliminates, and ultimately they're proposing to balance their books far more from offsetting tax increases than by eliminating traditional targeted welfare subsidies.
Can you completely strip Chrome OS from these Chromebooks? Including BIOS-specific stuff like automatic rewriting of modified base system? So that you could boot straight into Linux without worrying your OS will be gone if you forget to press some key upon boot?

BTW, flash-based storage (likely eMMC) for >$1k is just eek.
Entropy and information theory in general as discovered was Shannon has been generalized to the quantum case and a lot of the mathematical tools Shannon created are used in quantum information theory (QIT is a big part of QM). QIT is even often called quantum shannon theory, but I'm not sure Shannon dealt with anything quantum per se.
You may be right. I'm just thinking that everything( has an O/S and it's probably written largely in 'C'. So much will depend on how you measure it.

I tend to ignore the web as much as possible.
"18 developments that just changed solar power forever. You won't believe number 6"
Moving compensation away from value-added-to-company and towards likability seems misguided. Pay seems like it's been correlated to how much value a person adds to a company at a given time. I don't really see how this is a positive thing at all. If I'm a developer, I don't want to have to make decisions on how much my peers should get paid. Jamie just had a baby, but Jerry's wife just lost her job, and such-and-such had a medical emergency, sounds like a hassle to have to think about with respect to how much a person should be paid.

At the end of the day, salary is a distraction. At least personally I prefer just to have one person to deal with about it and not a room full, and once it's settled, it's not something that I think about. I also don't want the responsibility of having to listen to coworkers present their cases for more money. I want my relationship with my peers to be purely based on work, not decisions about their compensation.
I've reported that as a bug ticket. Well spotted.
I think you're missing parent's point. The benefits of staring at text all day with >30yo eyes also applies to Linux. I use Arch and Fedora on high-dpi displays and I'd sooner give up programming than ever return to ~72dpi.

Parent isn't talking about most apps, they are referring to terminals and IDEs, for which use case high-dpi is absolutely critical, and outweighs the occasional inconvenience of poor scaling outside those apps.
This articulates my fears around switching to node very clearly. I've played with it in the past and felt like it would become too difficult to manage with a large project and lots of contributors.
In practice, that's basically what AWS is. They offer things at prices much lower than other B2B software, but don't have the niceties and sales efforts around each individual line item.
Judiasm has the concept of ”Pikuach nefesh” which essentially commands that saving a life overrides almost all other considerations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach_nefesh

According to one source:

...The dominant view in Jewish law ... allows a person to steal or damage property of another to save his own life. Thus, one may break in to the house of another, or steal insulin if that was necessary to save his life. However, such a person must compensate the owner of the property.

http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/ch_stealsavelife.html

This source also says about American law:

The issue is not whether a person can steal or destroy property to save his life or the life of others since it is accepted in American law that such an action is permissible. The issue is whether such a person must compensate the owner if he did not create the danger. There are few cases directly on point but the weight of such cases conflict with the position taken by sections 197 and 263 of the Restatements. These cases and the doctrines of admiralty law support the contention that when neither the actor nor those whose lives are saved are legally at fault for placing themselves in the perilous position from which they can only be saved by destroying the property of another, they bear no legal liability for destroying that property.
I equated them because you said:

> they love the fact that they can raise taxes here now... they openly talk about it and very few people I know bat an eyelid!

which looked to me (and still does) as if you were expressing surprise that people openly talk about raising taxes and that others aren't surprised they're doing so.

> Who honestly wants to pay more tax?

Me. More precisely: all else being equal I prefer to pay less tax, but all else is not equal and I think increasing the taxes paid by people like me and using the resulting revenue to increase funding for (e.g.) the national health service or benefits for disabled people would, overall, make the country I live in a better place.

> no Government has decreased taxes in the UK

Well, according to the graph here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_Uni... tax revenue in the UK was a smaller fraction of GDP in 2005 than in 2000. It's a little under 40% (which already makes it quite implausible that 60% of your income gets taken in tax).

Finer-grained comparison is really difficult because the tax system is complicated (income tax, National Insurance, VAT, capital gains, ...); over the last few decades income tax has decreased substantially for most people but other taxes have increased.

> over 60% of my money is taxed now

This is not something you should be believing or disbelieving on the basis of something you read from an anti-tax campaigning organization. You should have all the information you need to work it out.

I don't know whether I'm paid better or worse than you are (I would guess fairly similarly) but I do not pay anywhere near 60% of my earnings in tax. Adding up all the taxes I can think of, I reckon I pay either about 30% or about 40% in tax; the lower figure is if I count capital gains (largely untaxed because most of my assets are in tax-efficient things like ISAs and pension funds) as "income" and the higher figure is if I look only at salary.

(Maybe the numbers look worse for contractors than for salaried employees? I am not counting, e.g., corporation tax paid by my employer; neither do I see any reason why I should.)
Preo Mobile Ordering | New York, NY | ONSITE | Full-Time | Multiple Roles | $50-150k (role- and experience-dependent) + bonus/benefits.

Preo has built the most advanced mobile ordering app and venue integration in the world: Order and pay for food and drinks from your phone, get an alert when it's ready, and never deal with a tab again. You never have to flag down the bartender at the club, waitress at the pub. We're rolling out in international markets with some very exciting new technologies and extremely powerful partnerships.

We're hiring to fill several roles, detailed in the postings on our AngelList page https://angel.co/preo/jobs. The salaries listed are base, on top of which we also offer an annual bonus based on personal targets, in addition to a longer term company target bonus pool. And benefits, of course.

We have several native Android products on both the customer and staff/operations side of things. We also have a fully native iPhone customer app in Swift, and mobile web app using React/React Router/Flux. Although we're willing to hire specialists, senior engineers who can contribute in multiple ways are always a plus. Specifically, if you're an Android or iOS developer who also has mobile web experience, you should apply.

Our backend is built out on AWS with Linux, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, and other things. We're exploring some JVM-based technologies, Haskell, JavaScript, Haxe, etc. Someone with a combination of backend development/devops experience would be a great fit.

We're also looking for a more junior, full stack support role. Someone who would benefit from experience and exposure to a wide variety of things, and can help pick off the smaller-but-valuable engineering tasks that pop up. Small bug-fixes, intermediate feature work, and operations support. A little experience is helpful to show that you can learn, orient, and execute quickly, but this is expected to be more of a train-up role.

Finally, we're looking for a great project manager: someone who can help coordinate and track engineering, design, and operations scheduling. Previous experience, especially in software engineering, is required.

* Android Engineer $80-150k: https://angel.co/preo/jobs/136209-senior-mobile-android-engineer
* iOS Engineer $80-150k: https://angel.co/preo/jobs/136202-senior-mobile-ios-engineer
* Mobile Web Developer $80-110k: https://angel.co/preo/jobs/136254-mobile-web-developer
* Senior Backend and Infrastructure Engineer 100-150k: https://angel.co/preo/jobs/136248-senior-backend-infrastructure-engineer
* Full Stack Support Engineer $70-110k: https://angel.co/preo/jobs/136268-full-stack-support-engineer
* Project Manager $50-100k: https://angel.co/preo/jobs/136444-software-project-manager

To apply, contact me directly at robert+hn@getpreo.com or through AngelList.
Show HN: Spam, a D3 library to create maps with Canvas
Another bait-word is "quietly":

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=quietly&sort=byPopularity&pref...

Really gives you the impression that Facebook deprecated their API's official Python bindings in order to be evil. Otherwise, they would have formally alerted the press.

"X just quietly did Y" is a thing, even:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=just%20quietly&sort=byPopulari...
Is it impossible to deliver ads natively ie serve ads directly from the publisher's platform instead of 3rd party?

How do you skirts ad blocking applications without triggering an inconvenience on your readers?
Well for one Eclipse!!! doesn't scale and is unusable on 4K displays. Tons of other applications don't... things get goofy and it makes the whole system seem kinda amateurish...
And I don't really see the difference with text... maybe you have very small fonts?
The last premium Chromebook, the Pixel, yes you could install Linux and just boot into it.

Problem was, Linux... Debian was not ready for this device, especially the high res screen, which made the UI in Linux super duper tiny. Debian saw the screen as a giant regular resolution screen...

Lots of edge cases like this, especially with touch screens.
I wonder if Tesla is considering a potential regulatory advantage as well, which though by nature more iffy (since it's down to the whims of leadership) could still be a very potent marketing point. One technique for pollution reduction that China at least as implemented is to simply brute force reduce the number of allowed cars on the road (though even for them it's hard to enforce), for example by having odd/even license plate days. However, an electric car obviously contributes nothing, and it seems like a number of genuine interests would exist to exempt them from any road restrictions. To a lot of people a guaranteed license to legitimately drive when a traditional vehicle would be banned could be worth a major premium. It could make a lot of sense for Tesla to go very, very hard on a full package environmental protection (both internal and external) offering, because a lot of favorables line up for them. The most polluted places simultaneously make their advantages far more important and also contain higher percentages of people with the money to pay for a Tesla, even in countries that are lower on the average nationwide GDP/capita or HDI scales.
Horses were self-driving long before your silly fiat cars.
Yes, you tax it back. Typically proposals include a flat tax (or flat tax increase) to pay for it. In that case, you net extra money from the system if you make more than the mean, and you net pay into the system if you make more than the mean, but there are no hard cliffs and your next dollar earned still means more money in your pocket at any point.
I feel like the bioweapon filter is going to go down as one of those features Engineers were like "Why not, haha?!" about that ends up being ubiquitous. Akin to 20% time projects that end up growing into actual projects
That's a great way to get a gut check on the validity of the result. Put it in real terms.
Linux Mint with HiDPI on looks awesome at 3200x1800, IMO way better than on 1920x10. YMMV

Also, even Windows 7 looks way better than Windows 10 when you enable 200% scaling in Intel drivers.
And so the next, inevitable step after benefacting loyal citizens with their stipend would be price controls so that greedy kulaks - sorry, property owners, can't profiteer like that. Cast your vote for the next General Secretary!
No business should play along with their BS or hand over customer data.

I never thought I'd say this, but: Good on Facebook for not complying.
Oh boo hoo.

In my state, we are not allowed to tie into the grid at all.
Essential staff skills for SDI implementation: Connections, not tech
The data collection has to start somewhere! Why not in Europe?
The bash command line given by Wright had a bug (or an intentional error, e.g. to slow down the verification attempts, or confuse o whatever) (& instead of &&). Kaminsky missed to recognize that.
Stop blaming and start learning
> Maybe it'll be better on linux

Nope. Scaling is supported by Gtk3 (but you can only scale by integer - 2x, 3x) and Qt5. A lot of apps are still using Gtk2 and Qt4. It is a mess. I wish I had an FHD display instead of WQHD.
The large dark blue segment in the top left, labeled "17.5%", is "other countries". The slices of that pie chart are labeled in clockwise order; Korea is one of the tiny unlabeled slices in the lower left.
Noooo, please don't do that. That is not the intention of that API at all!

The API was built so that the cost of compilation by the driver would only be done once (likely at install, or at driver update time). So the idea is that when you are installing your PC game, it is compiling all the shaders against the current driver rev and hardware in your machine. Then when you play the game, it just loads the locally compiled binaries so your game doesn't hitch at random times when the driver compiler decides to kick off a compilation pass.

However, the binary is very sensitive to the driver version (as it owns the compiler), and the hardware itself. The binaries will differ across vendors, vendor architectures, and even sub-revisions inside of a single architecture.

Bonus: This API was provided as part of the GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility extension, in order to ease porting from OpenGL ES 2 to (big) OpenGL. OpenGL has a different API/extension, glProgramBinary, that is preferred for OpenGL. glShaderBinary might not even really work on any desktop implementation.

Probably the best source for this, though this information is relatively...obfuscated: https://community.amd.com/thread/160440
Exactly. As a driver, your personal self-interest aligns exactly with that observation.
Good thing Tesla is making huge battery packs for our homes so we can ditch the grid entirely.
And Schwab. The password restrictions on Schwab are a complete and utter disgrace to best practices in security.
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>> Why in god's name would they just lower their prices? To be nicer to people?

Um, yes? Most businesses actually work that way in an attempt to maintain customer loyalty. I'm not saying every business works that way, but that doesn't mean there are none at all.

>> Do you understand how capitalism works?

Yes.

>> They already dominate their market at the current prices.

That does not mean they wouldn't want to offer the best value to their customers. Just because a business dominates a market doesn't mean a competitor couldn't move in to undercut their artificially high prices to gain market share. Unless they have a monopoly provided to them by law, a business is at its best offering the best value to their customer while maintaining a decent profit. As free market capitalism suggests.

>> Keeping them artificially high is part of how you have sales anyway, which drive consumer interest.

I think you misunderstand the point of sales for many stores. Some unethical places may keep their prices artificially high so they can have "sales" to bring in customers. These types of businesses are run by stupid people. The traditional and proper use of sales is to have loss leader items that bring people into the store in hopes they will purchase something else at regular prices while they happen to be in the store to get the sales items they came for. Loss leader items in terms of items sold at near cost or even maybe below costs. Wal-Mart and many other grocery stores do this very well, as an example. Black Friday in the US as another.

>> were you looking for that as a kind of admission of compassion?

I honestly don't understand the point of this comment.

>> But the ability to lower prices does not at all imply that they would.

This is totally true, I never claimed anything different. They are free to set their prices at anything they want and their customers are free to react to it in any way they want. That is the whole point behind the usage of the word "could" that was used by both of us.
No jurisdiction on earth enforce property rights as absolute and inviolable. There are tons of exceptions everywhere, because every society on earth recognizes that there are situations where the needs of individuals or society as a whole are more important than individual property rights. This is just one more exception.

Further, it is an exception based on a principle that has historical roots that pre-dates every modern legal system. It is totally unsurprising that some of them have codified principles that can be used in this manner. Especially given that e.g. the principle of necessity in many jurisdictions can be used to justify far worse abrogations of property right than petty theft.
Could someone clarify what PPL they're using? Certainly something based on Python obviously, but beyond that? I wasn't aware of PPL and had hoped to learn something from the blog post, but there wasn't much information. Some experience sharing with PPL would be really awesome!
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Likely eMMC :-( Otherwise they would have stated SSD/M.2
Secure and Concise PHP Image Uploading Library
Now make one for my house. :-)
uBlock and it's ilk let you flag pieces of the DOM to block. I use it to block clutter on webpages as well as ad slots.

Compare [0] (with DOM-based blocking) to [1] (without).

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/5hlPhqx.jpg
[1]: http://i.imgur.com/TrxMlkz.jpg
The aggressiveness of the price drops on solar is pretty amazing. I just lost one of the inverters on my grid-tie system after it had run trouble free for 13 years. So we're looking at the first "major" repair to the system I installed in 2003. And in 2003 my 5.2kW of panels on my roof cost $38,000 before subsidies and $19,000 after. 28 panels, two 2.5kW inverters, net about 4.2kW of generation.

I priced out replacing all the panels (now I can do in 10 panels what used to take 28) and the inverters with a single 5kW inverter, $7,000. My price, no subsidies. That is over 80% reduction in cost, over 13 years, of the list price of $40K.

And that is why it is a huge problem for the power companies, it makes less sense now to not have panels on your roof.
I would respond with a question, why do you think it's appropriate to compare a vocational training program such as an MD/JD/etc to an academic research program? They have very different goals.
Yeah, this pretty much lost me at the point that it asked for the size of the flat. a) very few flats in my area list a size in m^2 b) there are other factors that mean far more to me, or to other people looking for flats in my price range in London.
Trying to force your morals on other people (by claiming they are absolute) makes the world a worse place.
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It's nothing but a path-dependent accident of history.
Oh wow. I am an idiot. Thanks for pointing that out. I withdraw my previous criticism, but I'll leave it there so people can rightfully downvote it.
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