skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of trials are absolutely fair and this "what if?" argument is thrown up too often as an emotional argument, even in the cases of truly cruel and heinous crimes. I've been on a murder jury, and if anything the system is biased towards not convicting (as it should be).
Common misconception, const only disallows reassignment.
For instance,

const number = 1337;

number = 10; // fails

But objects/arrays are not immutable in js, so you can do this:

const person = { name: 'Dude' };

person.name = 'Dudette';

Which is perfectly valid. If you want full immutability, i recommend you check out https://facebook.github.io/immutable-js/, been running it in production, a real pleasure to work with.
In my home city (Rostock) a large portion of flats are owned by a single, large-ish company. A stark difference to now (Tübingen) where most flats are owned by individuals. Personally it's much easier to handle contractual stuff (which renting always entails) with a company instead of a person. At least landlords here tend to have trouble distinguishing contractual interactions (reducing rent resulting from unfixed issues, complaints about things to be fixed, etc.) and dealing with them as a person. With the landlord living just two streets away they're sometimes inclined to take things personal and show up on your doorstep.
Very interesting application of the rowhammer. Funny that it comes at the same time http://dirtycow.ninja allows us to write very reliable and portable exploits (which should be applicable to Android).
In 2014, 27% of all car purchases in Germany were financed.
I know. :-) all those people downvoting... and not one of them typed in the following Google search:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=discovering+internal+web+...

Leading to gems like this:

https://www.verisgroup.com/2014/07/15/internal-web-applicati...

And this:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lXr0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA429&l...

Or even this:

http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/Intelligence_Gathe...
Maybe it's because the US used to have such a stellar reputation. It used to be the leader of the free world, was founded on important liberal principles that have inspired the world. Around international conflicts, the US used to insist on lofty principles that they now trample at every opportunity. The world got used to holding the US to a higher standard than Russia or some petty dictatorship.

The US itself definitely helped to paint this image of being better and more noble than other countries, even other freedom-loving western countries. And now they're falling so far short of that ideal, that it is really embarrassing to everybody who can see what's been happening.

I'm not even American, and I'm ashamed of the US.
So are you recommending to invest savings on stocks and bonds rather than a house? I mean, I wont argue / refute you reasoning, I just simply dont have the knowledge to do a proper analysis. Ill just say that my 78 years old parents, that not even finished high school, always told me to first buy a house, then think about the rest. Being an owner feels like the best decision Ive ever made. If something happens to me, I have the safety that my family have a place to live in.
destructing is very useful and encourage good coding styles

Is it? Personally I'd say that was bad code. What so wrong with using the original objects?

Putting aside the need to variable swap once a year or so, all the other examples look really confusing to me and unclear what they're doing. The `Deep Matching` especially.
Weed on-demand startup Eaze raises $13M in funding
On the web browser side, I don't recommend using ES6 yet, without any kind of fallback. Internet Explorer 11 is still used, as are devices on older iOS versions.
(without counting people using the default browser on pre-Lollipop Android)
A big reason why I don't want to share a room with anyone anymore is because they don't clean. Every roommate I've ever had (so far ~11 different people), has never actually cleaned. No matter how many times I'm getting upset or having a talk. It just ends up with them washing the dishes/taking out the trash once and I'm stuck cleaning 75% of the apartment. I'm not a clean freak I just hate when the trash is overflowing and there's no clean dishes.

Also, 1 almost never paid rent. Thanks to him knowing the laws better than me, there was effectively nothing I could do. We couldn't afford this at the time so we forced him out of his room and at least got another person in there for a while. Money is a huge concern for me thanks to student debt. So, when your roommate is screwing around and on the verge of getting fired it stresses me out. Right now I have another roommate who was fired and doesn't seem to care much about finding another job. They're paying rent but the landlord is pretty upset about them being chronically late and only paying $10 here and there.

Every year, "due to market forces" they try to raise my rent by $100 per month, $1,200 a year. So I've been forced to move basically every year because why should I pay more when, magically, getting the exact same (but different) apartment in the same building is cheaper...

Thank god this is my last roommate. I'm buying a house and I can finally sit in one spot for more than 365 days.
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According to Priceonomics,

> the deduction began as an unplanned technicality. When the federal government first levied income taxes in 1913, Congress allowed Americans to deduct from their taxes the cost of all interest payments. This is standard policy for corporations: the government only wants to tax profits—not money spent on loans for tractors or a new office. In 1913, the government allowed deductions on all interest—probably because all interest payments were business-related. No one took out car loans in 1913 or paid interest on credit card debt, and the majority of mortgages were for farms.

https://priceonomics.com/the-case-against-everyones-favorite...
Well actually there are many sub services in a bank that can go down without major impacts. The two major banks I use have weekly planned outages of features like old statement retrieval, person to person payments, ACH transfers, etc. Basically everything in the web interface could experience outages without any major crisis.

As long as ATM requests always work, nobody really seems to care.
The vast majority of murderers never kill again if released either. Murder is one of the crimes with the lowest chance of reoffending [1], as most murders are crimes of passion occurring under extreme circumstances that rarely reoccur.

The cold, calculating murderer that is happy to plan another murder is an extreme outlier.

As such capital punishment has exceedingly little effect on murder rates - most murderers don't believe they'll ever kill until they do, and are not in a state of mind to consider outcomes when they do. And once they have, the vast majority will never go on to kill again.

[1] EDIT: As in, extremely few will commit another murder.
> Because even though the if-block is not executed, the line 4 still redefines var x as undefined.

This is because of hoisting. Not quite right as described.
React-Table, and the problems it has solved for Nozzle
The 7 Epiphanies Needed to Intuitively Grasp Statistical Significance
LuaJIT is a very good tracing JIT compiler and DynASM Lua mode lets us embed assembly in Lua where necessary.
People are constantly misusing the term "passive" when they mean "residual."
Probably add pointers to where the images were taken from.

Ex:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
I realize that Berlin is nothing like the rest of Germany but I noticed that the rental housing stock there seems to be pretty tight. There's a fair amount of construction going on but it looked like a premium housing stock that was going up. I assumed these were probably for sale but maybe they are high end rentals?
All of this affects you less if you are in a shared flat compared to renting it alone. The flat can be vastly more expensive as you are pooling the money and flexibility is higher as you have less furniture per person and tend to be able to join/leave shared flats on less rigid schedules. (You can find many in the middle of the month, depending on the holidays etc.)

I lived in a shared flat in Germany which got a rent increase and other than all the young families in the building we really barely noticed it.
Interesting.

In France major cities outside Paris, I'd expect a 150-250k flat to be 600-800 euros/month in rent.

If you pay only 380€ per month for rent, it's really not worth buying.
About two years ago or so, when I bought a 13" MBP, they had an intermediate resolution setting. But the OS started to lag und stutter when I switched between virtual desktops (I think it's called workspace). I believe this is because they render at double the effective resolution and then scale down. Therefore, the intermediate settings are the most taxing for the GPU.

I couldn't find a way to disable the animations and since I use virtual desktops a lot and the usual effective 720p resolution is almost comically large, it all added up to be a dealbreaker for me and I returned it.
RMS broadly (and I'm paraphrasing ridiculously here) thinks that you should be paid for the hours you work, the software should be Free, you don't earn a right to keep it closed and sell access to it through licenses, etc.

Fine, but that would pretty much shut down the programming economy.

I don't think it would. The "programming economy" could instead flourish on bespoke software solutions instead of the monoculture we have now. Perhaps even governments (gasp!) would pick up the maintenance of a general OS, since it is in their interest to keep their citizens safe online.
Download Anaconda:

https://www.continuum.io

Take an icy plunge right into the "Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster" dataset ;)

https://www.kaggle.com/c/titanic
My Internship Experiences at Pixar, Google, and Two Sigma (2015)
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Seems like a good fit for reddit.
Would I be correct in assuming that you're taking inspiration and direction from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History here?

For those who don't know, Dan does a fantastic history podcast [0], and a pet fascination of his is exploring these what-if scenarios. The podcast comes with my highest recommendation.

[0] http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
But that one murderer is extremely unlikely to kill again even if released.
What worked for me is, this fall I canceled my smartphone service and bought a flip phone from Walmart. Saves a ton of money, but more importantly, I hardly even look at the Internet on weekends and evenings now.

Failing that, have you considered getting a cabin in the woods? Or maybe a boat? Get as far as you can from an internet connection, as often as you can.
> this "what if?" argument is thrown up too often as an emotional argument

The reason it is thrown up is because it does happen.
Pee problem eroding world's tallest church
Polling in California's Proposition 62, which would end the death penalty, is, perhaps unsurprisingly, uncertain, though offering some hope for its abolition:

http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/polls-voters-favor-leg...

"Proposition 62, which would replace the death penalty with lifetime imprisonment without parole, has a tougher road to passage, according to the Field Poll, done in conjunction with UC Berkeley’s Institute of Government Studies.

The measure, which faces a competing state initiative, has the support of 48 percent of likely voters, while 37 percent oppose it and 15 percent are undecided. The pollsters cautioned, however, that a nearly identical proposition four years ago enjoyed a similar lead before being defeated by an electorate that wasn’t ready to soften sentences for some of the state’s most violent criminals."
One thing to remember when talking about criminal punishment. It's not for the criminal and its not for the victim. It's society acting for its own sake.

What matters is that crime is not profitable in any situation. Punishment is there to reap away any profitability, but nothing more.

Murder gets you life in prison and I think that is justified. But it opens a problem here. Once you do one murder, second, third and fourth only increase your risk of getting caught. The punishment stays the same. There is specific case where death penalty would make some sense. If you are caught on the act. Killing witnesses should get you worse punishment than the original murder. But this gets tricky very quickly on many occasions.
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As an aside, as a Monzo beta tester I can't say enough good things. Currently travelling around Asia and the card works almost everywhere and I pay 0 fees and get the exact Master Card rate. Twice now I've landed with 0 cash in the airport and been fine. I've used the card in over 10 countries outside UK with <1% issues, and often this is better than my Barclays or Amex.

This is just a small benefit but when you put the whole product/experience together from the app + in-app customer service + the card + etc, it just works so well and really comes into a category of it's own. A lot of people say "yeah buy my bank does X too" and while true, they way I look at this is Monzo is like the iPod - other MP3 players had same functionality but this one just works and works damn well.
Thank you for the correction!
I read a paper somewhere from dennis ritchie, where he explained the development of C language, the pros and cons; and in there he mentioned that reading complex declarations is a problem in C, he said that if we had placed the * operator to the left of the type it was qualifying then it would have been easier to write and understand more complex declarations.

(PS. Golang has the right idea, since its developed by the guys who contributed to C)...
I'm also a nerd (and proudly so, to this day) and I was bullied for it in school.

But I don't see the parent calling people nerds in a negative light. It can be read that they think programming is no longer being thought of as something you can only do with kids who are especially interested in that kind of thing, but instead can be taught to all kids. "Nerd" was just their shorthand for kids who are interested in logic and knowledge more than other kids.
I don't know many people who use credit cards in France. Practically everybody use the so-called CB which is a debit card (either immediate or deferred, usually deferred), not a credit card. It doesn't allow you to accrue debt: the balance is always re-paid in full, and the linked bank account (usually a checking account) will go red in case of overspending.

That said there are definitely credit cards, usually linked to big retailers (Auchan, etc.), but are they that popular?
Really? I don't see much in the docs about this except https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/users-guide/vcl-inlin...

They seem (at first glance) to have no concept of security in the sense of restricting people's access to certain content like in the case of all social networks.
If you want to leverage Rowhammer to get ECC everywhere, don't root phones; figure out how to crack into a media stream you shouldn't have access to, like a Netflix stream or a Bluray rip. Which may very well incorporate rooting phones. But that'll get the industry forces screaming for ECC everywhere (and per other threads, whatever else it takes to make hardware proof against Rowhammer) far more than merely rooting, and they'll scream for it for all hardware. No point in protecting Blurays if the cheapest hardware is what rips the most easily.

Proofing hardware against Rowhammer is still necessary even if it does happen to help DRM. It is not possible to write secure code of any kind in an environment where Rowhammer can be performed. The casual dismissiveness the industry seems to have about this problem really surprises me... per the article we all just read, this at least threatens to become a Heartbleed-class problem at some point, but will make Heartbleed remediation look like a walk in the park by comparison. Hardware diversity generally protects us, but there are places where there isn't as much diversity, such as phones, where this could become a massive problem.
You could have savings and investment you could use to cover a lower rent the rainy days.

House prices are only high because everyone is over-bidding to buy them. And that's driving rents up.

Now this is different to the question of whether you should individually follow the crowd in a country where everyone over-bids on property. If you don't, you still pay a high rent to repay the massive mortgage of the guy who bought the property. And in a country like the UK, there is a massive moral hazard: because so many voters are all-in into property, politicians will do anything it takes to ensure prices never go down, even if that means printing massive amounts of money, robbing savers from their investments, having negative interest rates, etc. In that world, it probably doesn't make sense to bet against the central bank.

But as a society I think it is a bad allocation of resources.
We are using J2V8, found Nashorn to be a bit lacking in performance.
What you're saying is absolutely correct but it has nothing to do with the issue being discussed in the linked article.

You can fly in a real aircraft for hours doing nothing but twisting autopilot knobs. OTOH you can practice basic airmanship skills in a sim.

EDIT: sorry, I realized that you were basically saying the same thing.
Good point. In this case I think he's confident that he'll get a job somewhere, and therefore he's willing to do this as a way of eliminating potential employers from contention based on whether they do or don't value the kinds of contributions he's making. It's a good strategy unless he's wrong about how desirable he is.
For property you still have ongoing maintenance to pay for, and real estate agents, and the title company, etc. so there are jobs created due to the buying, selling, and ownership of property. If I by 100 shares of IBM in my self-directed account at Charles Schwab there likely isn't a single human being involved in that transaction after I click the buy button. Granted, somebody wrote the code that drives all of that.
The only language I've found / used so far that has these (expected) mechanics is Swift, which, when using a `let` for e.g. a list, will make the list itself immutable (in addition to the reference). It's really something that is confusing in every language that has some form of 'final', be it Java (which added immutable list implementations or wrappers to their existing collections), C++, JS, or what-have-you.
Locked up my Macbook in the same manner, quite impressive
Owning a house might be good for you (risk free), but bad for society (low productivity). That's how I read it.
1440 minutes in a day :)
> We live in a small to medium size flat for 380€/month, including some running costs. Buying it would cost roughly 250k.

Wow that's a pretty insane rent to purchase price ratio, seems not that dissimilar to Vancouver which is a gong show.
> The vast majority of trials

You skirt the question. It said "those killed because trial went wrong and an innocent man was sentenced". So it asked exactly about those that you exclude.
Daemon by Daniel Suarez contains the idea that people have reputation. Everyone can rate everyone and know everyone's reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)
This is a great chrome extension to solve that problem:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/referer-control/hn...
If we think well, we need to have loops, we might be feeling despair right now, however array languages don't need loops! I can write:

min test each args

and I can do the same in JavaScript, it's just uglier:

args.map(test).reduce(function(x,y){return Math.min(x,y)})

Writing in a functional style makes this kind of programming slightly less onerous, but it still feels strange in languages that are a bad fit.
Maria Pallante Removed as U.S. Register of Copyrights
Disagree might not be the right word, "force" is probably more accurate. In many countries, it would be effectively impossible for most regular people to get basic living needs (like housing and transportation) if they couldn't buy them using some amount of credit.

Obviously it shouldn't be this way, it should be possible to save and buy these things outright. But since it effectively isn't (for many people, in many places) I wouldn't fault people for taking on debt to do things like put a roof over their head or get to work on time reliably.
TD Ameritrade, Toronto-Dominion Buy Scottrade for $4B
Spending 70% of your income on rent is far from inevitable in Germany.
Try going through Google. Seems to work for me:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sputtering+Startups+Weigh+on...

Many news sites give special favours to search traffic.
Indeed. Are there any 'good' strategies for this (loading ES6 for supported browsers)? I imagine you'd have to do UA sniffing on the server side, and I suppose it's kind of a moot point if you're using React/JSX.
For anyone who wants to use ES6 in production, https://babeljs.io/ is amazing.
"2) Your future mobility to pursue jobs in other cities, becoming significantly constrained"

Not necessarily. I can always rent out my flat for about the same monthly fee I pay for mortgage and rent a flat myself in other city/country in case of a good job opportunity. Sure, being in a debt for few decades has many drawbacks, but restricted mobility is not one of them.
Well, that is fair. I'm mainly talking about "normal" adoption though.

Eg, for a long time BitTorrent was being branded as a pirate haven. The only major players i saw adopt BitTorrent were open source projects needing to distribute large ISOs. IPFS is something that they're trying to get into standards, into browsers, into operating systems, etc. If it's known for distributing kiddy porn on the dark net it will be much more difficult.

I know piracy spreads like wildfire, but it's not really the target audience for what IPFS is trying to do. In short, they want YouTube, not PirateBay. Or so i gather, at least.

Do you disagree?
Like McDonalds killing cows is OK, but killing a human is murder?

Like adopting a stray god and putting them on a leash is OK, but putting some bum on a leash is bad?

What kind of silly question is this? Not everything applies to humans and/or all species the same.
I'm always impressed how the magic of interpreters and compilers can be explained so succinctly.

Inspired by Jonesforth, I wrote a complete Lisp interpreter in a single ARM assembly file: https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp
You kid, but - it can be a great setup. Especially if you have complex JS code on the client you want to run on the server and your company uses a lot of standard Java libraries/services you want to interact with.
Go on your state's Obamacare exchange. Hypothetically you are a mid 30s individual with a spouse and two young children. Look up 2017 numbers. You are looking at $12,000 - $24,000 per year in premiums alone and then massive deductibles and coinsurance of 30% to actually access services.

Who can bootstrap a business like this? So people are staying with their powerful big corporations if they can't get millions in funding for a startup (and outside of tech this is simply not even a consideration).

Edit: and if at some point you hire an employee, you will need / want to provide them with health insurance, and it will cost just as much. Large corporations have an advantage in that they negotiate lower premiums in bulk. Add this as yet another barrier to entry, along with their lobbying for protectionism, tax loopholes, their ability to hire huge teams of tax lawyers and accountants, and if you really start to get their attention, they can sue you baselessly by throwing lawyers at you to keep you in court. Merely defending yourself and getting to the point of dismissal is unaffordable for a budding small business.

Take a look at S&P500's profit margins. They are at record highs and not coming down as economics teaches us, meaning new entrants are not coming into the market.