skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "free will" as it is used by those who insist on it existing is something that is based on the needs of religious thought. It's a concept invented to explain the problem of (paraphrasing) "if good is all-powerful and good, why is there evil," to which the magical answer is "the people have free will" to mean, the God doesn't decide what people will decide. And this is just nonsense invented to explain the starting nonsense problem in the "demon haunted world"(1) of those who believe in a "good God."(2)

Our decisions are simply the function of the "stored state" in our body and outside influences in the moment up to the decision. Animals function the same. Of course, there are so many influences and the process of thinking(3) is dependent on so many variables that we can actually make different decisions based on, for example, our same experiences up to the moment of the decision but depending on if it's 9 AM or 9 PM, or if we drunk the coffee one or two hours before etc. So it appears to be a "free" decision but is still just a function of the state(4) and the input.

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1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

2) No every religion has a "good for everybody" god, so for these religions it's not even a problem. If the god is there just to favor your group when he is not distracted by something else (yes, there are religions where the god has a limited attention span), he can smite everybody else and he doesn't have to be absolutely "good." For those who believe in a "good God" the shock is, of course, when something like this happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake#Effect_...

3) which we surely believe to posses, in some aspects more complex than what we understand the animals do, simply because we don't know their language and they can't write

4) not just of our neurons but also of the exact amount of the traces of different chemicals
Or decides to turn off themselves[1]

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guideline...
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Without a formal declaration of war, drone strikes are pretty much just summary executions of human beings without recourse to a fair trial.

...and I take it by your comment that it is perfectly fine if another country sends drones into the US to take out 'suspected operatives'?
Not all music files are MP3s.

When people mean duplicates, they normally mean duplicate songs, not duplicate files (audio + metadata + headers).
o.O why so? And what on earth do you propose?
On a purely moral level, I think capital punishment for murderers and traitors is absolutely justified. You, who have stolen a man's most precious possession, his life, shall not enjoy the rest of your own. You, who have betrayed our nation and our security, will never again enjoy our protection.

But in its practicalities, the chance for wrongful conviction, the cost to society, the anguish it causes the executioners, and the potential for abuse, I see many good reasons for abolition.
>The accumulation of debt stopped already in 2000.

Because Germany ran massive trade surpluses, while other Euro states took on debt to buy German goods. I don't see a cultural shift, either.
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ReactOS is an effort to rebuild NT from the ground up, definitely not Windows 3.x

An entirely different beast.
What about the rest of the drone strikes?
>We kill less than 100 people per year via execution.

And that's OK because?

Not to mention the absolute horror that is Death Row, even without execution.

Not to mention that having 5 times more prisoners per capita than any other country (or 99% of other countries) is already a bad thing. Or the horrific prison conditions for a developed western country, including private prisons and forced labour.

Or the absolutely astounding (compared to any developed Western country) numbers of police shootings...
While that's true, the vast majority of people who are released on new evidence BECAUSE of the many appeals you get before execution.

If those people hadn't been on death row, they'd still be rotting in prison.

If you give people the option of throwing someone in prison and forgetting about them, or forcing them to actually decide on their guilt, they will always choose the former.

If I was wrongly convicted, I would much, much, much rather be on death row than in for life-without-parole.
But the average citizen might find himself looking at the death row prisoner in the eye when the said prisoner is doing the killing.
Probably because what we're taught as programming is imperative programming, then moving on to OO, etc. If we were taught FP from the start (we, broadly speaking), then people would probably be fans of FP.

It's funny how SQL is a declarative set-language, very different from imperative and other paradigms, yet nobody seems to bat an eye about it having its proper place and role.
Unfortunately that's not what happens. You can removed it from the Home screen [1], the app keeps using space on your phone.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204221
eff.org was another one.
Working time regulations is about preventing companies from using their excessive bargaining power on a tense job market in order to get the most desperate workers accept anything. You can be against it (I'm not), but it's another topic from part-timers vs full-timers.

Regarding wages, it's normal that you make more (ceteris paribus) if you work more. As for promotions, I guess it depends on the kind of role involved; many managerial roles are known for requiring pretty long hours, so this might not be compatible with 32-hour week for a start. But you should be able to move up from, say, junior to senior dev if you got the skills, whatever your working hours. Everything is not possible obviously, but when it is, mere working hours is a pretty lacking metric for merits and promotion--as the article points out.
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Yeah, and screw due process, rules of war, international treaties or even collateral victims.
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Not disagreeing - can you explain a scenario where this helped so we can all understand how it is better than dealing with nulls in C#?
Even in the case that the target of drone strikes were threats, often times these attacks lead to a number of civilian casualties that, I think, could be in no way justified.
Exactly how I use it (var) as well, only I haven't taken the time to tell ReSharper that's how I do it :)

Basically if I know what the type is by looking at that line of code, I will use var. If I don't, I won't.
I think the Archimedes did have 4 or 8 'native' channels for audio.

From memory the MOD files included with Lemmings on the Archimedes were 3-channel, possibly leaving one free for sound effects.

I wonder if it was disk space. Lemmings for Archimedes fitted on an 800K floppy; did the Amiga version span to two 720K floppies? Losing a load of samples would certainly be a way to drop the space requirements.
Tiny spaces.
The Taliban keep women and children at their militant camps. We cannot stop fighting a war, cannot cripple our effectiveness, simply because the enemy has decided to put the innocent in harms way. The US military goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualties, but at some point you must do what must be done.
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Yes I was wondering why they didn't either cycle the extra day, or have 100% Tue-Wed-Thurs then 50% Mon&Fri - using hot desking so that much of the office space can be shut down.

Other advantages are that 2 working parents who each had an opposing day 'off' would only need child care for 3 days instead of 5, resulting in lower costs and more family team. I know that would be great for me!
At least 160 children through 2011. It's been a lot more time since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_dr...
>Look at silicon valley, where empoyee perks, extra PTO and such have not been fought for but are provided.

Because those things have long been fought for and accepted. Silicon Valley, being in California, is far from "pure capitalism.
How would you compare sitting in death row for any amount of time, with a drone strike, which is instant?
"Keep calm and...."

Ugh, when will this trend die
I am assuming they hash the RAW file. Since JPEGs contain less information than RAW I don't think it is possible to get from JPEG to RAW to hash value matching the one from the original RAW.
Some was done by hackers. Remember that to topple a gov you need air and ground support, he just covers the tech part :)
> terraria

Have you tried to introduce him/her to Openclonk[0]?

[0]: http://www.openclonk.org/
Facebook Purity does the job you want

http://www.fbpurity.com/
Mistakes happen, killing people for killing just sends the message that killing is a solution.

There is a long list of "murders" that were found not guilty after being executed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

Beyond that, some confessed murders go on to contribute to society, for example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs

Feel free to respond with your reasonings, though think in the end they'll fail to be reasonable.
Apple do a lot of editorial on the App Store.
Are you implying that foreign civilian lives are not worth of the same consideration given to american citizens? Because drone strikes often have civilian casualties, and civilians in the interested zones live in fear of being killed by american strikes, to the point that they see the strikes a more likely cause of death that the nearby armed conflict.
Yes - many 'services' might still be 7 day, just cycling additional time off amongst the workers. That relies on owners happily sharing their profits, which is unlikely to happen outside of co-ops.
you could wipe out that species with a focused effort on your part in a couple of years. does that mean you are more important than spiders?
bringing unrealistic philosophical considerations into tangible concerns is a pet peeve of mine
The cost wouldn't be substantially more than it is today if only because capital murder trials are rare occurrences these days, and its even rarer when the death penalty is given. Death row inmates stay on death row for a long time, so while its not effectively a life sentence, the state still has to keep them alive.
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Anything that supports .docx documents?
Linux is not Unix by the classic definition and never has been - see www.opengroup.org
I would totally learn F# if I got hired for a job using F#. C# not so much. I wouldn't even apply to a job if it was a Java development job.
The issue is that imperative algorithms and data structures are easier to optimize for hardware regarding cache sizes, memory access patterns and memory reuse.

Whereas this is also possible in FP languages, but since they tend to abstract the hardware, it requires support from "clever" compilers.

I don't fully agree with him, given the previous experience with the Connection Machine and *Lisp, but as usual in computing, unless one doesn't implement something and prove it with benchmarks, it doesn't happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
As compared to the Blitz on Coventry or the Fire storms at Dresden?

Or for example my fathers house being bombed in ww2 - they lived close to the biggest spitfire plant in the UK.
That's a critique of the current state of our legal system, not whether the death penalty is just in the case of a wrongly convicted innocent person.
By default the next note is half as long as the previous. But sometimes that's inconvenient. For example 9/8 is usually 3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2... A bar is devided into 3 dotted quarters and a dotted quarter into 3 8ths, and anything further down is split in half as is normal.
It is open source. If Mozilla wants to discontinue it you always can host it yourself.
If you start to look at the "different ways" claims, they fall apart pretty quickly with basic logic.

One of the most common claims I hear is that someone is a "visual" learner.

If that were true, wouldn't it also mean that we're leaving kids behind that learn through taste? What if I'm an olfactory genius and I should be learning maths through scent?
Formingo looks good. But one thing I'd like is the ability to hide my email address so it doesn't get picked up by spammers. The current setup shows the address plainly in the page source. Could the action field take some sort of identifier number or hash, as in:

/submit/12345

Then your system looks up 12345 and sees it means john@example.com.
What why?
> I would like to say that Haskell's concurrency support is more diverse and at least as easy as Go's.

More diverse is easy, Go is opinionated about its concurrency.

"At least as easy" is a flaming lie. The diversity alone makes it impossible but beyond that:

* when you look for concurrent go you're introduced to 3 constructs (`go`, channels and `select`) and you're off to the race having barely learned the language

* when you look for concurrent haskell you're directed towards the corresponding paper, "tackling the awkward squad" and a world of Async, MVar, ThreadId, STM and various types of Chan, and at that point you still can't write a line of concurrent haskell

Like the_duke I don't enjoy Go, but with respect to dead-easy concurrency the only language that's in the same ballpark is Erlang (and it's similarly boiled down to a complete lack of diversity — though a different model than Go's — and three basic constructs: `spawn`, `receive` and `!`).
Until you need to submit your taxes using the retarded features.
That is one of the ways I usually use it, also auto in C++.
One is push, the other is pull. I can choose never to go to a URL again, but I can't choose to never receive spam from the same person from a different address and server.

Also, I think many people do that with AdBlock, so it's not unheard of to block styling on webpages of dubious origin.
Yes, I changed the title to broaden the topic to figure out the best alternative in European Union. Finland was so far my favorite variant.
Thanks for your sharing!
Correct, it's called wrongful execution, and is a very real problem:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution
I thought that there there was consensus amomg statitians that the death penalty has a deterrent effect and each execution saves between 3 and 18 lives:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/us/18deter.html

While there was still people who were challenging the studies the statisticians had moved on because it was considered a settled question.
To the American government, yes of course they are.

The American government isn't supposed to be some even-handed dispenser of global justice; its job is to protect American citizens and their interests.
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He is writing that statement from a perspective of engineer of high performance / low latency systems. If one uses that argument while developing N-tier "enterprise" application with huge ORM, DI and web framework on top of it... that's missing a point.
Disappointing to find a "no true Scotsman" fallacy as the top comment.
Perhaps if you asked the FBI nicely.
I have those electronic materials. They come in two varieties. There's something called iRealB, which contains thousands of tunes, but is just chord changes due to a quirk of copyright law -- the melody and lyrics are copyrighted but not the harmony. That's the one where you can transpose tunes. But you don't get the melody.

Then there are large PDFs where somebody ran the old paper fake books through a scanner, but they are just images and are not in an actual computer readable format, so they can't be transposed.

So the computer has not solved the notation problem, yet.

Myself, I've memorized most of the standard jazz repertoire.

In fact I suspect that most of the written music repertoire that exists today will never be translated into computer readable form, because it's just too much work. And not enough new music is being composed to form a critical mass around some new notation system or computer format. When somebody composes a tune (I play in one band that does original jazz compositions), they send out a PDF.

Maybe software will eventually automate the process reliably enough to be useful.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/20/us-dro...

http://www.newsweek.com/wedding-became-funeral-us-still-sile...

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terro...
Multiple countries have abolished the life-without-parole as well - my country did so in 1884, after having abolished the death penalty in 1867.
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Life without parole was found to breach human rights in the EU and other places:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment#Reform_or_ab...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/europe/10iht-britain...
Thanks, that's an explanation I haven't heard that way before, but that makes sense to me.

Follow-up question: how are phase of the scale and the piece of music synchronized? When I think in terms of a wave, I could Fourier-Transform it into sines or in cosines, or any other phase-shifted variant (a * sin(nx + const.))?

Is it always the first note of the piece of music that "anchors" the piece in its scale?

Does that question even make sense? :-)
I'm not saying it is. Just putting it into context. If we want to save the most lives, perhaps we should focus on the political choices which are killing the most.
> there's a large majority of people in this country who A) Do not like being told we should be more like Europe and B) Don't mind the 5 day work week and have just as much joy and happiness as anyone.

Citation needed. From what I've seen the US underperforms on e.g. happiness surveys (certainly in an overall statistical sense - it's possible there are individual exceptions).

> While they were taking their siesta, the USA was busy being the largest economy in the world.

And what do you have to show for it? Has that large economy "trickled down" to the people in the street?
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Revolution amoung subsets of a population is no revolution.

What is need is a mainstream movement to embrace crypto as a fundamental human right.

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Sidebar: The article is part of "Passcode" - a field guide to security and privacy from The Christian Science Monitor:
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The problem is those experienced police officers can earn more in the private sector and police forces tend to have difficulty keeping staff - also as the FBI has found recruiting cyber spooks is difficult
It's going to be very tough for you or anybody else to convince most Americans that drone strikes are a bad idea. They've been so brainwashed by the govt that they know no better.
I was under the impression that this was common knowledge? I knew it as the 3-second rule.
I was about to add a reference to the win32s thunking, and then chanced upon this [0] MSDN article that talks about supporting 32 bit I/O in 64 bit drivers.
[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...
> We may be looking at a future of client-side computing dominated by Apple

I don't know about that. I recently switched from Apple hardware to chromebook hardware because the chromebook was under $200. I just couldn't justify the extra cost.
I fully agree. Why render it in every client when you can do it only once on the server? This feels like a waste of CPU resources.
For Gorgonia it's the other way around. You build the graph by manually unrolling it. It'll be a big goddamn graph, which is why you subgraph it and run it.

source: actually have various LSTMs running. Some with attention, some with ADHD
By your earlier comment, it sounds like you know more about this situation than the avg HN user. Please dispense with the Socratic method, it's not great for async forums.

Can you answer these questions for us? Do we strike targets without high enough precision, or wrongfully? Who exactly are we fighting? Can you link us to some sources we might not have already seen?

Yes, there have been lives snuffed out with drones, and yes, there might have been collateral damage. I think it's safe to assume in most cases it's a "them or us" situation.

"War is hell." - Sherman, and yes it's an ironic quote because like the earlier context it contains, I've never experienced war.
Whilst I agree that many self-help books are poor, I think it's unfair to dismiss someone as a coach simply because they never achieved greatness. There are many examples of successful sports people who's coaching achievements far exceed their achievements as a player (Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho or Arsene Wenger are all good examples). This is because the skills required to coach are different (although overlapping) with the skills necessary to be an elite athlete.
Not necessarily instant.
At least two according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing#United_S...
The progress of civilization towards an increasingly better society requires cost and effort.

Either you consider human life a fundamental value, or you do not. There are no final answers in this mysterious, apparently indifferent universe, but there is a lot of empirical data. Over and over, cultures that place a high value on human life lead to the societies where the most people prefer to live.

Another issue is that an old religious superstition survives even among atheists/agnostics, because it is disguised as a philosophical concept. This superstition is called "free will". Some people are born with problematic brains, others are raised in environments where they never have the chance to develop a healthy mind. Does society have to protect itself from these people? Absolutely. Do we want to live in a society that decides to kill them because it is more economically effective? I don't.

Yet another issue is that of certainty. It is never possible to be 100% certain that someone is guilty. Even if they confess, even if there is video evidence. There is always a tiny probability that there is something fundamental that we are missing. A culture that place a very high value on human life will not be willing to take this chance.

Consider also that, in the EU, not only is there no death penalty but not even life sentences. Typically, the harshest sentence you can get is 20-something years, no matter how terrible your crime. And yet, there is less violent crime in the EU than in the US. EU countries spend much less resources in keeping people incarcerated than the US. Why do you think that is?
>The irony of that statement is that Mr Graeber probably did many managerial types of jobs in his life

What's ironic about it? Where does he argue the merits of managing grad students?

>He was a prof of Antropology at Yale before leaving. He is most famous for being a Wobblie, anarchist activist, and one of the heads of the Occupy Wallstreet group

What are you "most famous for" so we can determine if we can dismiss your opinions on the basis of those achievements.

>had no problem having a slice while watching the entertainment

You sound like a real empathetic gem.
I meant call them and ask about how they handle cyber crimes. It's part of their job to answer questions about public security.
Presumably if you are sitting in death row, you have already been through a trial before judge and jury and had a lawyer appointed to represent you and ensure you had a (reasonably) fair trial and got to state your facts.

Drone strikes just come out of nowhere and with no warning when you are having a nap or sitting down to a cup of tea or attending your cousins wedding because someone with a dossier on the other side of the world decided you had to be killed without any of the above recourses to argue your case.