skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If harsher penalties were the solution to preventing serious crimes, you'd think the death penalty would have fixed that, right?

Turns out the only thing harsher penalties do (beyond a certain threshold) is make it more likely for crimes to escalate because there's no point restraining yourself (if it means leaving witnesses) if you're already going away for life / going to be murdered by the state anyway.

As a matter of fact, the best way to prevent crimes is actually preventing crimes. Figure out why people commit crimes, then try to fix that. E.g. if you stop treating addicts as criminals you can solve their underlying psychological/social problems and they don't end up robbing people to pay for drugs.
99% sure this is not a coincidence, here's my theory: people's IRL conversations can be pretty reliably predicted by their Facebook conversations, so targeted ads based on messages tend to be surprisingly relevant to the next thing they talk about IRL.

Example: my girlfriend was given a box of Flonase by her parents and immediately got a Facebook ad for it. She had not mentioned Flonase anywhere on Facebook ever. Spoopy eavesdropping? No --- she did talk on Facebook about her ENT appointment that morning. And what products might be relevant for someone going to an ENT doctor? Allergy medication.

And in cases like that, it's very likely that your two recommendations from different sources will happen to match --- what brand of medication are your parents likely to recommend? A popular one that spends a lot of $ on advertising. What brand is likely to buy ads? A popular one that spends a lot of $ on advertising.
Did you mean to reply to my post?
Awesome! I'm a big fan of design languages and systems. Mobile & web designers have had too much freedom during the past years. Some streamlining and standards will only do good for the scene.
> The ultimate goal of prison is to reintegrate people in the society.

I don't understand that. If we're worried about criminals' integration with society then we shouldn't put them in prison. Prisons exist to separate people from society.
This is simply amazing stuff :)
> Facebook are spying on you and how their apps have all these permissions to use your camera and phone audio.

And it's not just the Facebook apps. The Facebook SDK is widely embedded into many other apps Facebook SDK (it's the most popular SDK on iOS for example, according to data published from Cocoapods - https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce ). It's so popular because Facebook is basically the most effective network to run so called "App Install Ads" and embedding their SDK providers marketers essential data for tuning their targeting and ad spend.

The SDK gives Facebook access to a ton of additional usage data which they can link together with anything they already have on your from their apps. It also _potentially_ gives them the ability to exploit any permissions given to the host app which embedded the SDK. Now they publish the source of the SDK openly ( https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk ) but it certainly would harm anyone if there was more independent scrutiny given to analysing the source and whether there's anything else we're not seeing that go into the final SDK downloads.
I would like to hear more about that. Our Server Team swears on using CentOS Packages with Backports for everything for security purposes. This slows us a bit down, but so far we haven't had any security or audit related issues. How do you deal with CVEs and these staying audited and secure?
Indeed. Compared with many European countries US infrastructure and everything that is in the public domain looks like shit.
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Hopefully this will make your dream come through. I hope for an e-reader that has lots more CPU power, which will process PDF fast and properly.
Funny you mention that:

http://bgr.com/2016/02/01/facebook-android-app-battery-life-...

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/improve-iphone-battery-life-delet...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/facebook-iphone-battery-...

Now is that because of voice? Very unlikely.
the point is that the "european" view is that you prevent crime by trying to help people who committed a crime rather than by punishing them.

Too harsh a punishment often only succeeds in putting someone in a position where they are even more likely to break the law.

E.g. you catch someone for smoking pot, and they get civil service and have to visit social support/psychologist/whatever.
This might not do any good but it might do some.

If you send them to jail for 5 years, they it's basically guaranteed that they will get out being in a much worse position than they were before, and more likely do commit crimes.
For defense, not offense.

"Defense" of your property claims, not self-defense. Again, Matt Bruenig has been over this. What if we both claim something as property, are we both acting "defensively" in trying to kill each other over it? One man's defensive claim is an offensive claim to another man, and there's no objective standard by which you can decide who's right.

Sure, one may have the backing of a state, but surely that's just more effective violence. You're not in favour of might makes right, do you? And tradition is no good, because claims have to start somewhere.
I think it's because many people confuse deductions with credits, to confused a deduction for a credit makes it seem like a huge amount than the fraction amount the deduction translates to with taxes due.
In many common law jurisdictions (not including my part of Australia any more, but still in many other parts of the Commonwealth), murder is a crime defined by the common law - these days, statutes set what the maximum sentence of a murder conviction can be, but the definition of the crime itself is a common law definition.
This will be huge in adverts on the streets, if UV does not degrade the display. Electricity costs cut thousandfold.
I'm trying to imagine a system whereby as much power is removed from a corruptible entity as possible. Could the king in your scenario be a set of algorithms?

Someone on HN previously pointed me towards this: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html

"Elected representatives would formally define and manage an after-the-fact measurement of national welfare, while market speculators would say which policies they expect to raise national welfare."
What does this function do? Was the person who wrote it atleast given an Oscar?

https://github.com/CRYTEK-CRYENGINE/CRYENGINE/blob/release/C...
In most cases it will be serviced by a locally cached file.
Yes. Capital moves freely. Labor often cannot.
I find docker increasingly complex and frustrating, at least for the pretty common use case of isolating dependencies for development. See vagga for an example of simplicity. There you have no daemon, no file permission conflicts, a simple way to run commands in containers and more
You might enjoy watching:
"The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592527/

It provide an interesting view on the late 60s to mid 70s in the US.
Bankenunion+-+Europäische+Kommission
Actually that absolutely is one of the stated purposed of state justice. This also has the benefit of preventing private vendettas, if the victims feel the criminal has been punished enough.
Just as it seems it corrupts public opinion. Have you read the facts behind the documentary that were very skewed in one direction?
I gave it a google, and per Math StackOverflow:

> One can make statements about π or any other explicitly defined real number, as theorems about a specific sequence of rational approximations

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/501/if-all-sets-wer...
To add to this, in the past it may have been worthwhile to uproot your family and move across the world to "the land of opportunity." That doesn't imply in any way that today it is worthwhile to uproot your family and move across the world to "the land of less job opportunities but lower rent" on a whim.

The only people that can really exploit this are tech workers that can telecommute and pocket the difference between western salaries and expat cost of living, and that's not really "finding a new life" so much as it is maximizing an already disproportionally good life situation.
You understand Gawker outed Peter Thiel as gay about 9 years ago, right?

What comes around, goes around.
> "by what principle can the dead bind the living?"

To achieve higher aggregate utility, by redistributing some of the money to those who would get higher marginal utility from it. Objecting to it based on freedom is backwards, because freedom is just one component of utility.
There are plenty of alternatives to Whatsapp. I don't even have it installed on my phone.
As one of the people said below, there is an easy way to test the validity of that statement – take 30+ participants with randomly selected backgrounds and friend networks and break them into 2 groups for different ‘trigger word’ and then study their newsfeeds.

It seems that there is a subgenre of geek-oriented clickbaiting, which has a strong claim about something tech-related like AMAZGOOGBOOK with little proof or scientific study. We, as a community, can be better at identifying and pointing out deficiencies in the scientific method, instead of saying ‘I’m not sure they do it, but it would be scary, if they did’.

The story about uber tracking your battery status is legit and has been proven and I don’t remember it climbing as high as no 2 on the front page, so IMO we can readjust our BS-meters.
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Serious question: what the fuck is wrong with you? This Puritan "let's murder and torture people for their sins" approach is not working. Criminals are humans.

Yes, it's not about the dead person. They're dead.

It's also not about the family of the dead person. They've already been harmed.

It's not about you, it's about preventing future crimes. If you've been turned into a productive member of society, great -- everyone's off better now. If you haven't, the system has failed society (not just you).

Heck, there's a good chance prison isn't even the best solution for you personally. Most likely you need actual counselling or you're facing social problems. Containment is the last resort.

You don't fix bugs by hiding them -- you fix them by figuring out why they happened in the first place and determining how to decrease the likelihood of them happening again.

EDIT: In response to the killed throwaway: if you kill someone "in the heat of the moment" and it's not self-defence or anything else we consider acceptable, of course there's still a problem in need of fixing: self control. If you kill a man because he sleeps with your wife, no matter how betrayed you might feel, it's still a problem with how you act on those feelings. But this is only visible if you stop thinking "what is an appropriate punishment" and start thinking "why did this happen" and "what could have prevented it".
Problem is, there always will be murderers, abusers and thieves. Preventing crime is the right thing to do, but I don't think it is the answer for determining right degree of punishment if a crime is committed.
> but they aim to do the same basic thing: let you write cross platform desktop apps more easily.

No, that's not correct. React Native is mobile platforms only (iOS and Android now, perhaps Windows and Tizen later), while libui is desktop only.
The Kindle display can do latencies of <100ms if they're set to plain black and white --- the really slow refreshes are due to hacking it to make it do greyscale. I think that's comparable to the old greenscreen monitors, but I can't find any hard figures. Would certainly be worth a try.

What I would really like, however, is a monitor-sized Sharp Memory LCD display, as made famous by the Pebble. The colour displays are things of beauty. The colour gamut's not brilliant, but they refresh instantly, consume practically no power, and look great. With the backlight turned off, you get an interesting metallic sheen that looks like no other display on earth.

Even the monochrome ones are really cool. I have a development kit where the display can show white and silver --- like, metallic, reflective silver, which you can (just about) see your face in.

Alas, they don't make them much bigger than watch sized.
Say goodbye to apps and hello to VUIs
Translation: Companies idea of "Market Rate" is not, in fact "Market Rate".
This is correct: given a computation, you're allowed to execute it as far as you like. You're just not allowed to consider it "after executing infinitely many steps". So you're allowed to consider a real number expanded to n decimal places, for any n.
Well -- apart from the fact that you probably wouldn't () -- one can always come up with something which is against "rules". Be it social rules, rules you made up in your head, law and so on. Rules are what it takes apparently to uphold a coherent society.

The question is what happens if you break the rules. Are there rules on how to handle individuals who break rules? Do the ones who have the power also have to follow the same rules? What about those wo make the rules? Do they have to follow the rules? How is the process of rule-making, rule-checking and punishing separated?

I'm pretty sure that in most european countries this is pretty OK -- yes there are gaps, holes, and sometimes just plain unjust or unfair processes.

I'm also pretty damn sure that for some countries this is way off. China is IMNSHO one of them.

() There are still people wandering about who say this and similar things who are not in jail. You much more likely would get in trouble if you call someone a "goat-fucker" (google erdogan and jan böhmermann).
So if I got it straight the message is: "Don't fall for the sirens of hype but instead make sure that your choice of technologies suits your needs"?
I was just listening to some Thomas Sowell on Uncommon Knowledge earlier who commented on the artificially inflated prices for these select areas: https://youtu.be/5GoAGuTIbVY?t=146
Here is a little anecdote: I met Ludovic Patey at the École normale supérieure that we both entered in 2009. Among our classmates, Ludovic was easily the best programmer and mastered a lot of different technologies (from advanced web stuff down to assembly languages), so we were all quite surprised when he chose to turn to pure mathematics… But then during his PhD he has been immensely successful (invited as keynote speaker to conferences, praised by peers, and an impressive list of journal publications). A few weeks ago, he has been ranked first in the CNRS 2016 recruitment competition, which is internationally competitive. When that competition started he hadn't even graduated from his PhD yet! Which means he (deservedly) bypassed the cumbersome post-doc phase by which virtually all young researchers must go through these days. This time, none of us were surprised :) !
The i5-6685R is $288. Several of the mobile versions are more.

Regardless, you get the point. It matters much more that they have something competitive with the Intel processors that constitute the bulk of market volume than that they can beat the crazy expensive one that doesn't.
CEOs have been replacing workers with machines since the start of the industrial revolution. Calling the machines "robots" is just a different label for the same-old-same-old.

P.S. they have also been crying about the minimum wage as a "job destroyer" since it was introduced a century ago.
I am happy user of Syncthing[1] myself. I currently sync 1.5 TB of data with it. And on windows the SyncTrayzor[2] is excellent. I also use android client[3] as a one-way backup of my whole SD card from phone to my other computers.

1: https://syncthing.net/

2: https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor

3: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.sy...
> from where I live, the world has drifted away. We aren’t precarious, we’re unnecessary

You're not unnecessary.

Have you read your local candidates' views? Have you identified the ones with whom you agree? Have you ever run a voter registration drive to help elect them? Or suggested to friends who share your views that they run for local office?

You're capable of making change. Putting so much energy into saying you're unnecessary shows you have the time.
Any competition to push Intel to roll out cheaper and better chips are welcome. :-)
Correct me if I am wrong, but it is not so much "reconstruction" as "compression". (Or I got it wrong. Or the description is utterly unclear: reconstruct what from what.)

If it is the compression case, I am curious for the size of the compressed movie.
It's worth thinking about the reasons Unix beat Smalltalk. Interoperability is important. Being able to use the same tools on everything is important.
A few common misconceptions that I'd like to correct,

Ether is not in the currency business. It was emphasized multiple times by the devs themselves. It so happens that Bitcoin is so slow and full that users are flocking to use Ether as a currency even when Ether's inflation is uncertain. This is an open network, we cant stop people from using it the way they want it to.

Ethereum is not being built for financial apps only. It provides a VM that can run code and store data. This can be used for any purpose that requires code to be executed and data fields to be changed atomically in a secure way, the users need to pay a fraction of a cent worth of Ether to run this code. That means they dont have to be invested in Ether to be able to derive value from the Ethereum network. You have to be invested heavily in Bitcoin to get value from the Bitcoin network, especially after Bitcoin payments are such a dud. Please dont rush to type that Steam started accepting Bitcoin recently.

Ether is not competition to Bitcoin. Bitcoin killer will be a new token on the Ethereum network. There could also be a AirBnb killer and a Uber killer built on the network too. These are companies that pride on being leaders in sectors by writing only code. What if this code and data can exist as commons in the Ethereum network that is global and has 100% uptime. Users pay a fraction of cent worth of Ether to run transactions instead of a percentage cut. And these users will transfer money between themselves for these transactions with the token that killed Bitcoin, not Ether. It will take a while to kickstart a reputation layer on Ethereum network but these usecases are a real possibility.

There is a very good chance that these new tokens created on the Ethereum network will surpass the total market cap of Ether very soon :O
>> premeditated murder

If it isn't premeditated, it isn't murder. Perhaps the more accurate term is "premeditated killing" in which the outcome is premeditated. But in murder only the act must be premeditated, not the consequence. Punching someone and thereby causing their death is murder, you don't need to be trying to kill someone in order to murder them, but it isn't a premeditated killing.
Same thing I think, though I don't think anyone would have tried to write a serious program in JavaScript 20 years ago.
getting all your friends/colleagues to switch is the hard part
absolutely, just commented on something along these lines a few comments up. https://youtu.be/5GoAGuTIbVY?t=146 and another good commentary on a comparison of what percentage of income was spent on housing early in the 20th century vs later https://youtu.be/bbPYedkDU8Y?t=152
I had the impression he said it more times, but you know, it's a videogame hack, not landing on the moon
If 8 years changed nothing, 15 years likely won't change much. Then you can say "but we can put him for life !", so just kill him then, same result except he won't suffer. (also French)
My dream screen would have an OLED display behind an e-ink screen or something similar. So you can choose whether you want each pixel to be reflexive or lit-up. This would make for amazing experience. Of course both would have to be able to run at at least 60Hz.
It's not about the program. It's about the network... you cannot switch a network when all your friends and colleagues use WhatsApp and their groups. But I'm happy WhatsApp is more secure than most of the alternatives with good E2E encryption support.
You can do this with youtube way better and the barrier for entry is lower. For artist and consumers.

A greater observation about apple. From the outside it interesting to see it transition from a company that did computers differently to more of a luxury good brand. A bit sad really. Apple used to lead with expert implementation of innovation. Now its just meh.

Microsoft is really leading the pack with its outreach to the tech world of tomorrow with so much of its stack opensourced. Apple just seems to be making the black box even more inaccesible
Hmm, the press release mentions that only " a single layer of electrophoretic fluid" (and also only a single backplane) is employed. Therefore, the mechanism must be a little bit different than the one described in the patent.
If I could recommend an interesting film to watch, go see Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next. You don't have to watch the whole thing, but try to find the part where they talk about the Norwegian prison system. And then look for the part where a father who lost his son during a massacre of about 60 children explains his thoughts. It's absolutely heartbreaking to watch. He explains that he doesn't want the criminal to suffer and rot in prison. Instead, he want's the rehabilitation center to help the man so that he can ultimately become a benefit to society. I can't even begin to understand how difficult it would be to say that after such a loss, but I think he was correct in doing so.

My belief is that the society failed to correctly educate the man who eventually became a criminal. I don't think people are born with such desires.
I think the days of giving corporations benefit of doubt are long gone. Now if outrageous claim is made by any sort of reasonably credible source, you can be sure there is an ounce of truth to it. So yes FB probably does do this, and people claiming conspiracy to discredit this are the crazy ones.
For the record, that feature was added in Marshmallow, not N.
The ARM C compiler I used over 20 years ago had unsigned chars. I don't know if that is still true for modern ARM.
Greenwich Peninsula WebGL experience
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Probably, uphill battle though IMO, it's not like Ubuntu has a good reputation of sane defaults or quality packing or timely security updates.
With version 5 we have an FBX importer that we are working a lot on. It should allow you to import from Blender or any other modelling packages
We use CentOS but PostgreSQL's official packages from their repo, just like we did when we were Debian based. http://yum.postgresql.org/
Try a pen and paper. Worked for so many for so long. This pen with broad italic Masuyama nibs, some fine ink. Watch out, fountain pens are like cats. You cannot stop at one.

http://www.franklin-christoph.com/model-20-marietta.html
To be fair, while Nazi Germany wasn't exactly democratic and there was a lot of politics in how laws were applied, being a communist activist was illegal both under Nazi German law as well as under West German law (in the 50s and 60s anyway).

The reasoning was less that someone had been convicted "earlier in this country" but that they had been convicted before at all, indicating they've literally done the same thing before and gotten punished for it.

If you buy into the logic that repeat offences constitute a more severe crime, it's sensible to take prior offences into account even if they were persecuted under a different jurisdiction.

Of course the idea that "resistance against the state" under the Nazi regime could serve as a prior offence seems ludicrous but let's not pretend the persecution of communists during the Cold War was fairer than the persecution of political undesirables before (though the punishment was obviously different).
You and me both. Luckily my Kindle DX still has some fight left in it, but I will miss it when it finally kicks.