skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so I did a quick bit of tapping over here and found this:

The criminal justice system of Japan has a conviction rate that exceeds 99% (Note that it includes guilty plea cases.[1]), which has been attributed to low prosecutorial budgets impelling understaffed prosecutors to present judges with only the most obviously guilty defendants.[1]

Now, I'm no expect on the matter, perhaps neither are you.

However,I would appreciate more context than your comment provides because the way you've framed it makes it seem like an obviously bad thing, which, on closer inspect, may not be the case.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
Are the HTTP report generation/assembly tools available/open-sourced too?

I'd love to be able to use this as a starting point. Thanks.
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That's a pretty serious abuse of correlation...
I work all day long in a terminal and use neither.
>“We are thinking of making an online database with all 'verified' twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships,” WikiLeaks tweeted Friday.

Not WikiLeaks, but "WikiLeaks Task Force" (@WLTaskForce). I'm not even sure it's widely known who exactly is behind that account, though it's interestingly a verified account itself.

UPD1 After some googling it seems the account is listed as official on wikileaks.org:

"Follow our official accounts @wikileaks, @wltaskforce, @communitywl and @wikileaksshop."

https://wikileaks.org/What-is-Wikileaks.html

But it was added recently (after 16 Nov 2016):

https://web.archive.org/web/20161116072950/https://wikileaks...

(via https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/comments/5h2qqp/can_...)

UPD2 Article about "Wikileaks Task Force":

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikileaks-is-making-a-twit... (4 Oct 2016)
"... generally infinite willingness to accept web apps..."

Interesting.

I stay in textmode. Hence I do not need an emulator.

If I need graphics I access the files over VLAN from another computer designed for mindless consumption of graphics, like the locked-down ones they sell today with touchscreens, etc.

My understanding is that emulators like xterm can redraw the screen faster than VGA. I remember this can make textual interfaces feel snappier.

But I doubt that jobs execute any faster in X11/Wayland/whatever than they do in textmode. I cannot see how the processes would be completing any sooner by virtue of using a graphics accelereted emulator.

But I could be wrong.

I sometimes use tmux for additional virtual consoles because on the computers I control (custom kernel, devices and userland) I do not use multiple ttys, just /dev/console.

I rarely ever work within tmux. I only use it to run detached jobs. I view screen output from my tty with something like

case $1 in -B|-E|-S|-t)
tmux capturep $@ --
exec tmux showb $@ --
esac

I'm not a seasoned tmux user. I was a very early adopter. tmux is useful high quality software IMHO.

Not sure why I would ever need these slow "web apps".

I guess the third parties controlling the endpoints might be able to utilise the data they gather about users. And I am sure some users appreciate the help. Thus it is a symbiotic relationship.

I am continually making my "tooling" faster by eliminating unecessary resource consumption. It is an obsession of sorts. Constant improvement.

But given that I am working with text, graphics processing is not something I need. I would not mind being able to run my non-graphical jobs on a fast GPU, but my understanding is that the companies making these processors are not very open.
For example, the GPU in the RasperryPi.

Always interesting to hear how others are meeting their computing needs.
Hello Sam,

With VR/AR on the rise in the last couple of years, how do you think it is going to impact the startup community and in your opinion, what industry is going to get impacted the most in the next 10-20 years?

Jamal
Tell Don't Ask (principle in programming)
Any idea on what is the state of the react-bootstrap project ?

I see that the project is active on github, but for a long time, its been marked as under "active development".
I use it for protein powder and hair stuff. That's it.
Apple needs to get their shit together. OSX has gone downhill fast, they don't seem to know who their target audience is, the new Macbook Pro's have crap battery, what else could they even do wrong at this point?

They need to completely turn things around if they are going to keep the developer community. I guess they just worry about the iPhone, but by ignoring everything else they're going to alienate their customers.
More from the same Wikipedia article:

For 2012, the US Department of Justice reported a 93% conviction rate.
It's not going to work out of the box on OS X, but hopefully porting it will not be more than a weekend project. I just need to find a weekend :)

In the meantime, if you, or anyone else wants to help with porting to OS X, please open an issue on github and I will follow up there.
I don't understand how the list of "partnerships" makes sense. None of the examples (third-party Amazon sellers, FBA, etc.) are what I would think of in terms of services I want from a home assistant, unless the goal is to order stuff from Amazon.

Neither do I understand the difficulty finding examples of Google working with other companies: Chromecast, Android, the Play Store, and Google APIs are all examples, and much more relevant to an AI assistant at that.
Not sure what you're referring too...?
I don't see the connection. Parsimony is important for induction by defining a universal prior. Solomonoff induction formalized this notion by ordering all programs that could generate a particular set of observations by increasing Kolmogorov complexity.
Well yes, but then if people own handguns, the police has automatic rifles. At least in the US they do abuse using the firearms, especially when the perpetrators are black.
Reasons not to use Skype (2012)
Software can be "shipped" to users in ways you may not anticipate. Even a lowly terminal emulator might find its way into a POS system, factory line, etc. (These interfaces are often shockingly primitive).

And even if not, developers might use internal code search, find what they want, and then copy and paste. The pushback on AGPL code (and GPL code even) comes from the difficulty of establishing internal policies to keep the code segregated. Much easier to have simple-to-undersatnd policies enforced at the boundaries, e.g. "no AGPL, period", instead of "AGPL code is OK for software that won't interface with our systems, as determined by either biased engineers or technically-shaky lawyers."
I've used it myself for dish soap and I know people for whom that's the entire reason they bought it.
Search for "Digital physics", you will bump into some info.
Those conviction rates are due to how they ignore the rights of defendants as you said and also how they browbeat suspects into confessing to doing something they didn't do.

Sounds a lot like how I hear it's done in the US, a la "plea bargains".
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5cgwau/has_wiki...
He said "autocert", which is https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert
I still teach in and prototype in Light Table, even though it is losing its "instarepl". Live evaluation visually matched up to an expression removes a lot of the cognitive load. Clojure stack traces are a big mental overhead.
Feature suggestion: multiple subtitles, and subtitle time shifting.

It's theoretically possible in VLC, but failing after half an hour of trying to get the settings to work led to the movie being shown without any subtitles. This was for a group discussion, with mixed English & Chinese native speakers. It's publicly embarrassing for everyone, and I'm planning to write my own app to just show subtitles so this might work next time.
The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi
>leading technologists agreeing that we're almost certainly in a simulated reality

Just to elaborate, this is really easy to show. Just take two pieces of paper, and scribble all over one of them for 10-15 minutes.

Then crumple them up and throw them to the ground.

The blank one will fall to the ground smoothly. But the one that has a lot of image information will tax the Universe's GPU, because it isn't able to compress it easily, so it'll fall slowly and in a jerky motion. it's really easy to see.

OH WAIT NO IT ISN'T. There's absolutely zero evidence of any kind whatsoever, not even a whisper of an indication, that we're living in a simulated reality, and the suggestion that leading technologists state we "almost certainly" in a simulated reality is absurd.

Who is saying that?
On mobile in a far away land, would you mind providing a summary and perhaps add your own voice.

I feel HN is greater when more substantially comments are provided.
The presidency has never been decided by popular vote in the ~225 years the office has existed
I'd rather change the entire persona. Alexa, siri, google, etc are all bland and boring. Not surprising given the creators. I want a sassy NeNe Leakes!
There are multiple goals on the featured Patreon page. The arrows on the goals box allow scrolling

> $8,000/month -- You paid one month's liability insurance!

> $30,000/month -- DNA Lounge is in the black!

> $50,000/month -- You paid one month's rent and utilities!

> $65,000/month -- If we hit this per month, then in 12 months, not only will we be in the black, but also you will have paid off all of our unpaid bills and debts so that jwz doesn't have to!

> $110,000/month -- You paid one month's payroll and payroll taxes!
> here's my basic argument in a nicely-animated video

OK, well, we may just have to agree to disagree on this. It is simply not true that without God there is no objective standard for morality. There is. In fact, it is the exact opposite: with God there is no objective standard for morality because we cannot know God except through faith. The 9/11 hijackers sincerely believed that they were doing the work of God. On what possible basis could you object?

> do you understand the context of the text?

Oh yes.

> the fine distinction between "They will" as opposed to "I will cause" is just silly unless you look at the original (Hebrew) text.

Oh, but I did. I am a native Hebrew speaker, so I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that the translation is accurate. Especially in context it is absolutely clear that God is not predicting, he is threatening. He even says why:

"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place... Because they have forsaken me... I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth... and I will make this city desolate..."

All of those passages are accurate translations. Everywhere that God says, "I will" the verb is unambiguously first-person. And the verb translated as "I will cause them to eat" is unambiguous too, especially in context. Go look at: http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/19-9.htm There are twenty-two different English translations there, and they all agree on this.

> You seem to be stuck on this "eating children" thing

Not at all. There are dozens of other examples I could have chosen, and I cited a few of them above. I only focused on that passage because of how clear cut it is. There are not a lot of people who will defend forced cannibalism as a moral act (though I have met some Christians who will. I must say I respect them for their intellectual honesty, though not for their moral judgement.)
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But, you must admit that context of the post replied to it was very well put.

Formula:

1. Outrageously bold claim

2. Obviously ridiculous and nonsense claim of correlation

3. Things are rarely as simple as some few-word slogan.
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That chart, I believe, does not take into account dividend reinvestment. I picked their worst datapoint on a twenty year horizon, '61-'81. I plugged January '61-January '81 into this calculator [1]. With CPI adjustment turned on, the annualized return with dividend reinvestment was 2.3%. That's the worst twenty year period in history.

Another difficulty with this analysis is that retirees do not withdraw lump sums twenty years after they retire. They withdraw smaller amounts each year. I have created a spreadsheet to simulate a retirement starting in 1961 [2]. You were probably feeling a bit nervous in '81, with your nest egg down to two thirds of its original size. But even in this terrible, terrible scenario, by following the 4% rule, you arrive at the same amount of real wealth you started with after thirty years. If you were lucky enough to live for forty years of retirement, you're two and a half times as wealthy as when you began.

Please let me know if you see any errors in my calculations. I've made notes on how I arrived at each number in the comments on the columns starting in year 1961.

The actual worst year for early retirement was '65, when a pure 4% rule portfolio would have failed after twenty five years. But, if you build some engineering tolerances into your spending plans, then even that was survivable [3]. Engineering tolerances in this case are meant to refer to leaving yourself room so that you can spend less if you must.

[1]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

[2]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VXYx12gBECG537mswqRM...

[3]: http://www.gocurrycracker.com/the-worst-retirement-ever/
Thanks. I'm pretty sure if they make it work, it won't be through Patreon, but I guess you never know...
The Soviet Union managed to produce their Soyuz-U rockets at a higher pace than that some four decades ago [1] while achieving a success rate of > 97%. Sure, it's a different rocket with different capabilities, but it was also a long time ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-U
I started up Alacritty on macOS and the improvement in responsiveness and speed is immediately obvious relative to Terminal.app. It's not like it's a huge deal, but why put up with compromised performance when you don't have to?
Not really. Even entanglement doesn't get you faster than light communications.
Well, Safa is somewhat opinionated. What should I do if I like 99.9% of the browser except one small thing that infuriates me a huge amount? It makes sense to offer preferences, especially to turn off certain things like gestures. In this case, the designer hasn't really gone far enough in determining that certain choices they have made can have seriously negative effects.
>"The response to violence is never violence, it's always to de-escalate it. Only six shots were fired by Japanese police nationwide [in 2015]," says journalist Anthony Berteaux. "What most Japanese police will do is get huge futons and essentially roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down."

How telling. Reminds me of the cop who quit the police force after witnessing drug crime escalation as a direct result of increased criminalisation[0][1]

There was another article on the FT that questioned why Japan has not fallen prey to far-right extreme populism[2]. The explanation is, of course, extremely nuanced but one thing that doesn't seem to be discussed much in mainstream media is the positives of having a highly homogeneous country.

Nations which are ethnically homogeneous are also typically culturally homogeneous and this is conducive for high levels of social trust. See nations like Sweden, Norway and Switzerland. The ideas of social trust are discussed in Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt[3] (a book recommendation I picked up on here). Of course, it is not immediately constructive to say multicultural countries like the USA or UK should instigate mass deportation and ethnic purging, but it bothers me that it seems like even discussing the issue of ethnic homogeneity (not purging!!!) straddles the border of being taboo.

For instance, would it not be productive to discuss how to achieve high levels of social trust in a culturally colourful society? Nations like Singapore seem to have made some steady progress in this dimension...

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/neil-woods-u...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12365667

[2]https://www.ft.com/content/987dddda-bbe2-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d...

[3]https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Fares-Land-Tony-Judt/dp/014311876...
That's messed up about Halley's Comet.
Yup, that's basically the plan. It's going to be a messy four years. Get ready to get some coffee and milk stains out of your clothes. If there's one thing we know about Nazis, it's that they're obsessed with wearing snappy uniforms.
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I love this. I can't tell how much is real versus a character you are creating, but I have to say, the Great American Novel has a lot more longevity than an app, and I think you could maybe pull it off, or at least a quippy book of essays that makes me LOL on the BART.
30 Rock has a great scene making fun of this very scenario. It doesn't seem to be readily available online, although it's on the episode ¡Qué Sorpresa! for those interested. Then Forbes wrote an article explaining why this can never happen.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/01/12/hed-wh...

Edit: It is worth mentioning that Alexa being outside the TV does make a difference, as it's unlikely to have a directional microphone as would likely be installed in the TV.
Entanglement is a use after free bug left in for backwards compatibility.
I'm curious to hear what experiences you had with Datomic that led you to the conclusion that it wasn't production ready.
The best Clojure book in my personal experience (and fwiw) is O'Reilly's "Clojure Programming" by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, and Christophe Grand.
Extremely clear writing, and very knowledgeable authors. I really enjoyed working through the book.

Due Disclosure:

1. I was an experienced Haskell and Java programmer, when I read the books, so I didn't have to go through any culture shocks wrt either Java or FP.

2. I have used Clojure only for toy projects. My 'daily use' tools are Haskell, C and Lua.

3. I am not in the audience targeted by 'cute cartoons and corny jokes' books. the _why style, nothing wrong with that, I just find most of this 'cute' style to be wasting my time. If it works for you that is awesome

4. I found the tooling around Clojure weird and unintuitive, especially Leiningen. Apparently there are better alternatives now

All that said, if I had to work on the JVM again, I'd use Clojure in a heartbeat. If I start a Clojure based company, Clojure Programming would be what I ask new employees who are unfamiliar with Clojure to work through.

I can't recommend the book enough. There was some talk of an updated edition, which I'd buy the instant it came out.
I live in Romania, which according to this list[1] is number 4 of gun related deaths per capita (Japan is number 2).

The long lasting communist regime ensured very few people had access to guns. Decades passed since its collapse but the strict law regulations remained in place to this day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
How about with the new Linux-in-Windows stuff? Could you make a terminal emulator that works with just that and ignores cmd/powershell?
Except relative to my echo I'm often close to the tv.

"Hey Siri" does a pretty decent job at having you quickly train your voice and only answer when it's you say the wake word.
I really think you are pulling an outsider looking in on this. PrestaShop HAD 9m in funding. It was wasted on deploying a cloud which is being shut down on Feb 1. It was wasted on a myriad of other things.

As someone that works in depth with PrestaShop, very in depth, I don't think they can do it. I talk to the founder regularly, I actually emailed him and let him know we were forking. I believe in that kind of courtesy still.

Let me ask you a simple question that might change your mind about things. How many developers do you think work on PrestaShop? Currently the company has about 120 employees. 4. There are 4 core developers. Out of 120 employees 4 developers. I know all of them. I respect them. I don't agree with them sometimes, but jesus I know they are regular guys in a shitty position.

I think the bug fixing approach will work. Maybe it won't. That is what I am betting on. Like I mentioned before, I am just one person in a machine being driven by other people. Sign up to our mailing list. When we release the code as OS we are going to have a gitter, we can all get in it and air our opinions and hash out a way forward. I am expressing my ideas not necessarily the ideas of the project. I will argue my case and if I lose I am going to do what I can to help the idea that wins. To me this is what being a community is about. We are working with a product that is under a totalitarian regime I feel. I am not leading people out of one into another. I am the first to say I don't have the best ideas. We want more collaboration. We want people from outside the Prestashop ecosphere to come in and give ideas. In the end these are things that will help us.
I had to use an optical cable between my TV and AVR to get audio. The only thin ARC did was allow me to control the AVR volume control using thr TV's remote. Not very useful when no audio is coming back.
I agree.

I think this book and a lot of others fall into the _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby which i still totally don't understand the appeal of if you already know how to program.

I mean, _why is an interesting dude, who did a lot of interesting things, but (1) the whole 'chunky bacon' thing just is not my cup of bacon smoothie and (2) it was not really a great book for people who already know a lot about programming.

More broadly, I feel like _why's Poignant Guide to Ruby is an example of what I call John Bonhamization. John Bonham plays drums in Led Zeppelin. His whole style is crazy: rope-a-dope with the beat, playing mostly with the singer, playing "lead drums" and it's awesome! It's so good! It really, really works in the context of Led Zeppelin because John Bonham was a freak of nature and it just went along with their band in a magical way.

But it works for almost no one else ever. It's exactly the wrong thing to copy. It's like when people in Silicon Valley are like "well, Steve Jobs was rude as shit, I'LL be rude as shit and then *I'LL invent the next iPod!!" And then you have generation after generation of people trying to copy someone else's magic and not hitting it, when they'd've been better served trying to do the normal thing and, maybe, if they were lucky, finding their own magic.

I also think there's a bigger problem with people not writing books for people who know about programming. Odds are, if you are reading a book about a programming language, you already know a fuck ton about programming languages, but most programming language books fall into one of two categories:
- Books that try to teach programming via the language in question.
- Books about advanced techniques or exhaustive library documentation, cookbooks, etc. for people who already know the language.

The overwhelmingly most common case of someone reading a PL book (for a language that's not one of the world's ten most popular) is "I know a dozen other programming languages but don't know this one." Only fairly advanced programmers even bother reading books about Clojure, or D, or Rust, or Dylan, or Self, or Racket, or Julia...

Personally, I really like the Joy of Clojure. If I had to compare it to another PL book tough it would be the Matz Ruby book, not Crockford. It's pretty good though.
I do often have guests over that use it. Having the option does sound good.

You can also already restrict purchases. Mine only adds to the shopping cart, for example.