skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am kind of confused by your stance on capital punishment. You seem to accept that it is not a deterrent and accept that it is more or less just a "punishment". You also seem to accept that innocent people will get executed.

So what is the purpose? "Punishment" seems an overtly emotional basis for such a stance, and "the dead got unlucky" seems rather callous. In my opinion, this is an awful lot of power that you are trusting to the state for weak reasons. Historically, the death penalty has been wielded by some people in power not just for crimes like murder, but also for more awful reasons like, say, people who had different opinions or were "other" ethnic groups etc. Were they unlucky too?

Even in America, where our criminal justice system for all its lumps and flaws is still better than many, we have probably killed a couple of innocent people (the Cameron Todd Willingham case being the strongest evidence of an innocent person being killed so far). We probably would have killed a lot more innocent people had our bar for actually performing the execution not been relatively high (149 exonerated from death row since 1973 according to this CBS News article in 2015 -- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/30-years-on-death-row-exoneratio...).
The GOP has a lot of work to do for pro-conservative stories to exist again.
"I trust Hillary to be able to put aside her ego and do what's right for the country."

s/the country/herself/g
The manufacturer, obviously, just like any other defective product. Devices don't need to be perfect, but if companies are going to say "we're going to sell a potentially imperfect thing," they need to either have a mechanism to update it to address defects, or they need to prepare to issue recalls. As for the password: reputable companies now set a random password and print it on a sticker on the device or a slip of paper inside the box. Having a global default is broken by design; we know users won't change it.
As a moderator of a medium-sized (~170k subscribers, cyclically reaching 1M pageviews/day because of the topic matter) subreddit, I wish all the people who frequent the meta/drama subreddits would have a big meetup that gets hit by a meteor while they're all there.

It's impossible to know what will trigger one of them to come invading, but when one does they all do. If KiA decides they don't like something, Ghazi will inevitably follow to counter them, then SRD will link it up and send their users charging in, SRS will start cherry-picking the worst of the invaders screaming at each other and then...

Oh, and there's no good (as in, works consistently) tool I'm aware of to mass-nuke entire threads of comments as a moderator, so I've had plenty of exercises in deleting a couple hundred posts one by one.
The part abou collective code ownership hits way too close to home. I've probably spent more time fixing existing functionality broken by others recklessly implementing new functionality than implementing anything new myself. Guess what looks better to management though?
Isn't that the whole point of Alphabet? Google can play empire defense while Larry & Sergey make bets by creating subsidiaries and funding them with Google's free cash flow. I think Google's board recognized this phenomenon of large companies becoming risk averse and restructured in this way to try to avoid it.
A Short History of E-Commerce
This image http://core0.staticworld.net/images/article/2015/10/slide-06..., to me, simbolizes the recent Apple.
No jobs mean you can stuff all your productivity gained in big companies into a trash bin because there wont be demand
It's worth noting that 4chan is knee-deep in marketing shills and state-sponsored trolls these days. Any open community that attracts enough of a following becomes an object of interest to for those who want to accumulate money and power.

Ever been on /pol/ these days? It's so much an echo chamber of sponsored trolls and shills I'm surprised any genuine conversation can happen there at all.
Sounds a little paranoid to me. These insecure devices are just being pushed out into the wild. It doesn't matter if they are imported into the US. They can be used to attack Chinese infrastructure just as easily.
Aliexpress and Ebay don't ship the products, the sellers do know who the buyers are, at least their name and address.
Yeah, these stories always make me remember that reddit really is a whole heaving mess not just the pretty niche subreddits I frequent (I unsubbed from the defaults years ago).
Multi-armed Bayesian Bandits
Yet plenty of successful companies do the equivalent with SMS codes during registration or account verification. It's not unreasonable that during a password reset you have to put in a few characters of extra work. If you're too lazy to type a few extra characters the account clearly isn't all that valuable to you.
Sure, that I can actually agree with. But I might argue that it actually plays to my point. Getting to use that smoothing means that you actually upscale the text from "traditional" pixel size, meaning you don't actually fit anything more on the screen, but the content you do fit just looks better. The parent I responded to argued that there was too little real estate, which I disagreed with.
No, not really. It didn't prevent the murder. It just is an absolute way of knowing they will never murder again.

The thing is that many don't ever re-murder. With the proper systems in place, the majority of folks don't even wind up back in prison. IE, Norway's recidivism rate is around 20-25% :: The US hosts something like 52% at least with more than that being re-arrested for things.

Heck, the death penalty hasn't even been shown to prevent other folks from murdering folks. Neither have absurdly long prison sentences, including life in prison.
Reptilians.

You're welcome.

http://www.alternet.org/story/147967/inside_the_great_reptil...
The level of discourse on HN is a trove if intellectual splendor compared to reddit. I spend time on both, but I try not to comment on reddit because all you tend to get in response is know it all 20 year olds calling you an idiot. Here, even if/when I get into a disagreement, it's mostly fact based and not personal.
it's assuming that the success rate will be so high that it can support a sizable portion of the us economy.

a bunch of destined to fail startups employing a handful of people (paid via owernship and future options) hardly contributes to the economy.
I used to love it, but I do feel that the quality of the questions has dropped significantly since it started. There are now many people trying to find a justification for their pet plot idea, or trying to have the community fix the gaping hole in their universe.

That said, there are some amazing answers, well thought out and well researched, and I love some of the questions about cultural impacts of technological or biological speculation.
You still need to rent something for you and your family. It's almost a fixed cost in your life. In any case, it's better to turn that fixed cost into an investment.
It's hard to believe you'll ever get your equation right. Even more when you weight investment risks and actual average ROI over 25-30 years in stocks.
" Comments are more like what goes on with coffee after the research presentation. They're about saying what you think, asking questions, correcting other comments, correcting the article, pointing to other articles. "

I would like that to be the default approach to how comments are handled. It's pretty much what we're doing here. On a lot of social media especially, it's done differently where they're spreading what they believe is the truth to get others to believe it. It's often reposted by many of those others. Further, I've seen polls showing most people on left and right are getting their news from social media and websites these days. These comments and shares reinforce the echo chambers they're in where they hit them before the corporate media does.

"It's true that misinformation and conspiracy theories spread rapidly but, crucially, so does the correction of error, especially older and more parochial errors, which may even need to spread a bit before this can happen."

Facebook's studies found the opposite: misinformation spreads far and wide while retractions happened for under half of it. I think it was in 30-40% range. Misinformation outperforms corrections on the Internet. That wasn't as much a problem in the early days but not people are trusting misinformation more because it often looks legit and comes from friends. Instead of lies, it's often just selective presentation of the truth where other information is filtered out. That's why it's more effective.
> By an argument with exactly the same structure, every State is totally illegitimate.

I'd be fine with that. A state can confer value to some extent and still be illegitimate and immoral.

> To be consistent, you would have to argue that taxation is equivalent to armed robbery,

No, because taxation do not require the use of arrest as an enforcement mechanism. I am perfectly happy to consider the use of prison for failing to pay tax to be abusive.

I would, one the other hand, also consider it perfectly reasonable to place restrictions on most societal benefits from someone failing to abide by tax law, and to resist someones attempts to make use of them. Including denying them access to shared resources such as public roads.

If someone is able and willing to put themselves entirely outside of society, on the other hand, and so don't want to pay taxes as a result, I'd support that.

> law enforcement arresting someone is equivalent to kidnapping, and so on.

I do believe all countries massively overuse arrest and incarceration, yes.

I would tend to find it immoral except where failure to do so puts innocent people at substantially higher risk. Even then I believe we have a strong moral duty to seek the least invasive intervention, which would e.g. imply that if/when we are forced to use prisons they should restrict peoples freedoms as little as possible.

Even more so because the evidence is that strict prison systems produces more reclivism than more lenient system. As such, a lot of our "justice" systems not only harm those imprisoned but also inflicts further harm on society by doing a poor job at reducing reoffending, despite the fact that we know better methods.

We will not avoid inconsistencies, but we can seek to minimise them to only those circumstances where we have no other recourse. We have a recourse other than murder. For starters, we have prison. Most murderers that are released from prison never kill again, so the risk is minimal. Arguably low enough that capital punishment quite possibly kills more innocents than releasing murderers from prison would.
4chan was glorious. But it adopted a very different policy regarding Gamergate, and actually ended up following a very similar trajectory to reddit (with 8chan as the equivalent of voat).
In Germany:

- Rent increase limits

- Larger changes need landlord's approval (changing walls and stuff). A lot of smaller stuff can be done on your own and doesn't require asking the landlords. (Many landlords are happy if you want to paint the walls etc., though.)

- Only smaller apartments (often intended for students) come usually with furniture

- The deposit has to be put on a special, locked bank account. The money can only been withdrawn if both sides tell the bank in writing that the rent contract is over

- Depends on the size of the pet
Really? Sundar Pichai is a product guy and all he is trying to do now is push their AI research and apply existing innovations to all consumer product lines(search,maps,photos,assistant,home,pixel etc) which i think is the need of hour.

Search will be the key thing Google does, but they are strategically building product lines(conversation UI) so that they don't miss out on how people search for stuff.
TV Tropes.

Just don't go there.
Ah sorry, I should have mentioned I was tracking GBP against PLN (much much less known currency ;-) )
Education, prosperity and equality can solve that.

TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_...
Bit of a fallacy there don't you think? I imagine it touches on a great deal of topics that can be googled for more accurate information, right? I just glanced over it and noticed the attention to detail, so while given the source it's probably not a great idea to follow the conclusions it draws blindly, it's likely still a great resource for keywords, no?
Well now, yes. But /r/politics has almost always been this way, even when GOP had fairly good candidates (Romney)
But I am talking about a different thing.

In any place where the big parties are old and "respectable", there will be a lot of similarities between them. But even if they are identical, they still compete with each other for power.

In a PR system, they compete less intensely. Indeed in Germany, with Merkel so firmly on top, the SPD leadership seems to be evolving to maximise its power as #2 rather than trying to win outright.
Tesla banned customers from using its self-driving tech for “revenue purposes”
I personally do this for some combination of privacy, security, and ad blocking.
/r/politics has always been left leaning. It's not "in the pocket of Hillary Clinton." It was full of Bernie Sanders supporters who hated Clinton before they realized they had no alternative but to vote for her. There's no suppression of anti-Clinton discussion. It just so happens that most of the pro-Trump sources are not only mind-blowingly stupid but easily proven as falsifiable. Provide bad content, get downvoted.
Funny that the article fails to mention Jony Ive as the obvious successor to Cook. Doesn't it look like Apple has its next "creative CEO" all prepped up?
Agreed. There are also legitimate reasons that a snowball becomes an avalanche.
Is there any good cost estimate, what the final electricity price produced by the Olkiluoto reactor is going to be, with its construction cost ballooning from 3 to 8 billion pounds?
Leh (in Ladakh) is at 10000 ft.
Ah, that's unfortunate.

Because of the order in which side effects occur, or is there something else as well? (I haven't Javaed in anger since before Optional).
Little environmental risks attached?

6000 birds are killed each year at one solar facility:

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-solar-bird-dea...

Nuclear can be done correctly as France has proven. How many major nuclear disasters have their been? Japan is the most recent, but are nuclear disasters really a major threat compared to covering large swatches of land with solar panels or worse, windmills?

I pose that as an honest question: what's the cost benefit of nuclear vs. highly inefficient solar or wind?

What's the environmental cost of producing massive batteries to store solar or wind energy?

There are huge unintended consequences that ought to be explored.
I never visit /pol/. Ever.

Or /b/.

Or most of 4chan in general.

/tg/ is fun sometimes, though.
Toyota's Code Didn't Meet Standards and Might Have Led to Death
Hopefully it will lead to some regulation of these devices. That's a dirty word to many, but the fact is that Internet-connected devices are part of a global community, and need to behave safely, and being open to hijacking by criminals is not safe.

The proposal I like best is that the industry should get out in front of this, and build a self-regulator organization now which issues recommendations and certifications of Internet-connected products. Then governments could simply require compliance with the industry norms, established and vetted by the industry, and we can keep political institutions out of micromanaging the electronics industry.

The model to follow here is Underwriters Laboratory, which sets standards and grants certifications for electrical and industrial supplies and equipment. Then, for example, city governments can just specify that everyone installing, say, outdoor lighting at their home must purchase lights and outlets rated for wet outdoor usage by the UL.
A non-disastrous IoT ecosystem would be real innovation. I'm still waiting for it!
AI is, like it was the first time around, a really speculative bet that will probably disappoint.

IMO, Apple's approach is more honest and has a clear path to profitability. Everyone else is promising the world and not delivering much at all.
> it has to be an expensive way for the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai to learn that having the same password on all devices is a security bad idea

Yes, god forbid that any customer be kept to a minuscule amount of due diligence. People at the age of 11 or 12 are able to change a router password. Is it really, really too much to expect from a gun slinging, SUV driving 200 pound US-American to take 5 minutes to set up a device?
Because Reddit makes very little money so devs get to joy of moderation as well as development would be my guess. I'm sure that worked back when reddit was a much smaller tech orientated site, not the beast it is today.
Will you move to an alternative? If so, what?
Ecosystems are "greening." The increased amount of CO2 has led to rapid vegetation growth. CO2 is essentially plant fuel.

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fert...
Let me ask the relatively cruel question though for the purposes of prompting further discussion:

At what point does subsidizing other people's outlier events become unacceptable? I will never have kids (biological issues). I will likely die from a one off critical heart failure (also genetic in my family) rather than anything that will cost me significant amounts of money. I do not drive, leave the house much, or do any risky activities, yet as the parent said, I pay _hilarious_ amounts of money each year for insurance.

And the real kicker for me, I've developed some conditions related to stress-side effects, sedentary behavior, and joint issues because of my work. So the insurance money would be BETTER SERVED being reinvested so I could stop working in such a way that damages my body.

Now, you can say this is selfish, but as I said, I'm taking an intentionally selfish point of view for this argument. At what point do we draw the line of "I need this money for me now" or "someone else needs the net effect of re-balancing costs across a society?"

I will openly admit that as I've gone through a decent chunk of my career without incurring any major events, but while incurring major costs, where I sit on being OK with the current arrangement has shifted.
They're certainly in a worse state right now, but there's plenty of ammo to use against either side. /r/politics is very much a biased, liberal operation. Forget pro conservative; you'll never see anything on there which suggests any level of impropriety against a democrat (well, aside from the Hillary bashing when Bernie was still in contention.)
How is the first one a smoking gun? She was quoting someone else. Lincoln, I think.

Her ties to Wallstreet are hardly a surprise. It sucks, but we already knew that she's probably not going to do what needs to be done to Wallstreet. But there's no reason to believe that Trump is going to do any better, and on almost everything else, Clinton is still a lot better, or at worst less bad.
4chan is far more liberal about free speech than reddit, though. It comes under the category of, "free enough that most people won't notice that there are limitations," which is really all you can ask for.
Generally speaking a product company can't thrive off supply chain innovations. The market will move to commodification at some point.
It is like blaming knife manufacturer for murder. In case of cameras, default password was not a defect and anyone with common sense could change it. Obviously a lot of people didn't do that, so that is their fault. Maybe manufacturers should put a red sticker warning about potential consequences of not changing the password, just like knife maker could put a red sticker that you should be careful cause you can cut yourself...
Lots of unused land are shrubs, grass and hillsides. The mediterranean coast used to be all trees a little more than two millenia ago[0]. Some semi-arid zones around deserts could also support reforestation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman...
I agree. But that doesn't require showing that separation to users. Varnish could internally separate TLS from the rest while still behaving as a single service.
People at the age of 11 or 12 are generally not intimidated by things they don't understand, because they have not learned that behaviour.
Hired experts support claims St. Jude heart devices can be hacked
Vauxhall manufactured a “Stolen” car. Thoughts?
My friend took her Vauxhall Corsa for an MOT at the weekend.
Upon inspection, two of the VIN numbers on the vehicle match the log book, the third does not. This is an instant MOT failure.

The garage are confident it has not been tampered with or been in an accident.
The garage believe that while they've never seen this before, the incorrect VIN number was installed at the Factory.

Because of this, the garage say the vehicle's tax and insurance are also likely to be invalid and the car should not be driven. She was also told to inform the police. The police say if she drives the car and gets pulled over there will be questions as to why the cars VIN numbers don't match as that is illegal.

After numerous phone calls where Vaxhaull wouldn't even entertain that this could happen, they eventually agreed to acknowledge the problem and say it will take 6 weeks to correct.

My friend is a community nurse and uses the car every day to visit sick people. She now can't use the car for six weeks until it is fixed.

On asking Vauxhall to arrange a courtesy car, as her livelihood is being affected by their mistake, they were very dismissive saying that the car is out of warranty (it is). My argument is that it's not a warranty problem. It's not like a part has failed and she doesn't want to pay for it. She can't pay to have anyone fix this problem any faster.

I have a friend at BMW who said if this happened with one of their customers, they wouldn't be able to do enough to help them, it's embarrassing and completely their mess.

Vauxhall don't seem to care that this has happened, and my friend is left with the only option of hiring a car for six weeks at her expense.

What does anyone think about the situation?

TL;DR
Vauxhall made a car with 2 VIN numbers and refuse to sort out a courtesy car while they sort out the illegal, undrivable car. Am I wrong to think they should be more bothered about this?
The point still stands. Coders shouldn't have to deal with that.
IBM offering gene sequencing and Watson diagnostic analysis, as a cloud service
28 people were executed in the US in 2015.

Thousands of organs are transplanted every year.

The only way death penalty would make a dent would be to dramatically increase it.

But it wouldn't need to dramatically increase it to cause a massive percentage-wise increase in innocent people convicted.
Promises and callbacks have fundamentally different behavior. Promises are much more reliable (only executed a single time, always executed asynchronously vs possibly synchronously, etc.) and also have slightly different execution behavior in the event loop. People emphasize the syntax differences, but that's not the most useful thing about Promises imo. You Don't Know JS's async book has an excellent in-depth writeup on it.
And? What's your point?