skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to both is quite possibly, but we don't know. History has seen many mathematical curiosities gaining important practical applications, sometimes hundreds of years later. Indeed, much of computer science is based upon mathematics which was at one time impractical. A good example is strong encryption, the foundations for which were built long before we had machines that were able to implement it.
+1 for Qbserve. Works very well and produces lots of useful data for your perusal.
Yes, it works fairly well. You need to have a high ceiling for it to be effective though. I don't know why that is so, however.
No reason Windows 10 "Pro" shouldn't have had this all along, or Enterprise Edition at the very least. This is a marketing decision to upsell an expensive SKU to Enterprises.
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It would probably be good for society if those prisoners who wanted would be sent to a school instead. I can't imagine a better punishment!
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Now I'm not american, but "non-violent offenders are a small fraction of those incarcerated" didn't sound right to me.

According to "Table 1.1. Estimated number of felony convictions in state courts, 2006" [0] it seems that only 18% of convictions are because of violent crimes, leading to 82% being non-violent, that doesn't feel like "a small fraction" to me. It's not the latest number, but feels you're trying to give a different view than reality.

- [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Felony_S...
It's interesting that the reaction by many here isn't "gee, this was an unfortunate mistake, but the work the Intercept does is valuable, so let's hope they​ do a better job going forward."

Instead, it's more along the lines of "The Intercept should never be trusted, they need to shut down!" without any discussion of how or who or what to use to disseminate national security leaks going forward. Sounds an awful lot like cheap opportunism from people who didn't even like the Intercept to begin with.
Keyservers are hosted by volunteers as part of a distributed pool of hosts:

https://sks-keyservers.net/

And the pool's automated management infrastructure prunes misbehaving hosts pretty quickly (e.g. not responding, out of sync, etc). See "servers in the pool" and "servers currently not in the pool" here:

https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
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In UK you can claim cost of travel, meals, loss of earnings and childcare:

https://www.gov.uk/going-to-court-victim-witness/expenses-fo...

Where I'm originally from(Poland) it was the same - I was summoned to court, after the trial I went to the clerk, said where I drove from and was paid cash for fuel. Had I taken the train it would have been refunded fully.
It does help when you go out to lunch etc, even the 5 mins from building to building can be pretty sweaty
What is Atlas in this context?
> I think the best answer to these problems we face is competition.

I'm sorry, but that is the worst answer. Perverse incentives and moral hazard problems not withstanding, incarceration as a market, profit from human misery and suffering is absolutely morally repugnant.

> Remember when a small team built a better healthcare.gov?

You're comparing apples to naked mole rats. Running a website (that does exactly what you tell it) is a wee bit different than caring for violent, mentally disabled, borderline personalities, sexually, mentally abusive and abused, etc. individuals. (I'm including a lot of the guards in this description too)

> Businesses that get high marks automatically get more prisoners, ones that get low marks get none.

> That's a lot worse than gov run facilities, but gov facilities are probably not as good as properly regulated market.

Incarceration, and security in general, is the very definition of a market failure and one of the few things that a government needs to provide in the most liberal, laissez-faire economy

Think about how this will play out in reality, considering that prison guard unions and companies wield a large amount of political capital and no one really cares about the welfare of prisoners, if they're being mistreated/abused, etc. Companies can cook their books and no one will care.

We also live in the era where speech=money. Prison corporations spend large amounts of money lobbying. And they lobby for the sickest things possible: increases in sentences, increases in mandatory minimums, fighting against medical marijuana legalization just so they can imprison and profit off of "scary, criminal mastermind potheads"

Our economics is so backwards that we include spending on prisons in our GDP. Growth in the prison sector should not be added as growth in the overall economy

The market solution will not magically erase the culture of the prison economy or change its major players
So the goal is to make the poor go away, in a place that will have less economic opportunities ?
>I hope Apple isn't about to miss the plot again.

To me this machine is a sign that they had. It has the exact same problems as the Mac Pro design with even less modularity (Pro could swap out drives and ram).

Although I also think this was supposed to replace the Mac Pro line entirely and only in about jan/feb they decided that they still needed a stand alone Pro. So I guess time will tell if they finally release the "xMac" people have been asking for the past 10 years.
Remember when "university" meant "for anyone"? Why should Harvard tuition fees cost anywhere near what it costs to incarcerate someone 24/7?
Or just ship em off to Norway!

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/this-norwegian-prison...
> What we see as intelligence in insects most likely originates from an entirely different process.

That is pure speculation.

As far as I can tell, what you're suggesting is that it might possibly be easier to figure out how human intelligence works than it would be to figure out how an insect performs a few calculations, in cases where we know almost exactly which calculations are being performed (see e.g. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5782/1965).

I don't see any reason to think that this is true other than wild optimism.
Can't you just not use them if you don't want to, rather than wishing all other people wouldn't be able to use them either?
Every approach has pros and cons. And wouldn't "straight textbook-based instruction also omit lab work?" I'm a little bit confused by this language.

Anyways it doesn't seem like an insurmountable obstacle: If it's deemed necessary one physically demonstrate certain skills before med school admittance then perhaps admissions could be contingent on passing a summer course in lab skills could be
From what's publically known, the email to The Intercept related to their podcast, of which we supposedly was a listener and not to the matter at hand.
I'll happily fund however much it will take to get them to religiously follow SemVer. Because there are soooo many breaking changes in patch releases that it's nearly impossible to keep our automation pipeline around gpg2 working consistently.
>so why not a new mechanical keyboard design for the iMac and Mac Pro

https://input.club/whitefox/ + http://pimpmykeyboard.com/dsa-think-different-keycap-set/

Why even bother begging Apple for this sort of thing when you can support independent creators happy to serve these niches.
This seems really interesting! For someone without too much knowledge about blockchain and digital currencies: How does this compare to Bitcoin and Ethereum?
HHKB is popular enough that metal replacement closures exist.
The problem with insisting on roundness, which has been a focus of the education system for years, is that it generates tons of generic shapeless people who specialise in nothing and find themselves unable to obtain the best, high paying jobs.

In my family, myself and my brother have been successful by focusing on one or two skills and honing them. That was made much harder by the education system, which fought us the whole way, because it sees specialisation as some sort of problem when it is in fact the solution. In my brother's case the school tried to insist he went to university. He didn't, as he knew full well what he wanted to do and reckoned, correctly, he would do better without being a student. In my case the university insisted that I take non-CS classes despite that I was paying them for a CS course. The classes were interesting, but marked arbitrarily (i.e. one essay at the end and who knows how it's evaluated?). I nearly got kicked out of CS because of a single essay written on archaeology!

As I go through life, I constantly encounter people who thought they were "learning how to learn" or "learning how to think" when they went to university, only to discover after graduation that they had no particular skills and were seem as essentially worthless by the job market. It's tremendously depressing for them and creates constant, lifelong insecurity.

Critical thinking abilities are something you want on top but are not a substitute for actual, hard skills. And they are certainly not something a university can teach - please. All the stats and studies show that universities are incredibly ideologically homogenous and rapidly stamp out any political thought that deviates from their left wing consensus. Universities teach people that thinking and disagreement are dangerous, that opinions are "triggering", and speaking out loud leads to exclusion. They're the last place on earth I'd expect critical thinking skills to emerge unscathed.
We researched this and it seems like the 'optimal' temperature for office workers in warmer climates is 23-24 C or 73-75 F. In the winter your office temp should go down slightly to compensate for people wearing thicker clothes.
Obligatory self-deprecating criticism:

https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4366081&cid=45208069
I loved Station Eleven, but I was conscious of how incredibly suffused with privilege it was; somehow in this post-apocalyptic world our viewpoint characters can live as a travelling theatre/symphony and a museum curator and, aside from an offhand mention of a few hours' hunting, never have to worry where their next meal is coming from. I guess actual hardship is genuinely unimaginable for the literary audience.
The unix section is missing a case: when invoked from login, arg[0] has a '-' prepended.

I understand not many people write a program suitable as a top level shell (for use in /etc/passwd) but for completeness...
It seems nobody has mentioned a near-epidemic of respiratory system infections caused by air-conditioning. And I do not mean the cases where A/C is infected with some rare bacteria (e.g. Legionella) often causing death. Usually it is just common cold or sinusitis caused by overly chilled and dry air. I wonder what are the health-related costs of overusing A/C in moderate climate.
You are indeed not supposed to say 'penal system' and 'market' in the same sentence. That's kind of amoral and ends up costing everyone - that is what all for-profit prisons successfully show.
If the tax could add up to more than the value of the property, doesn't that mean the tax is way too high and should be capped?
Dublin, Ireland. Same exact problem.

Knowing both sides of the social divide I absolutely blame the landlord-centric culture - which includes a lot of very nice people that I know. But those nice people just should not be given such an easy ride. They're earning far too much from what is a very non-innovative activity. The cultural bias in their favour is overwhelming, however, since everybody who finally manages to buy a property silently joins their consensus.
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> Think of HEIF as a versatile, extensible, standardized container format. The media coding scheme is separable. This is a big deal for the future of image/media coding because we're no-longer locked into "yet another format" that's tied to the codec.

There were similar approaches in the past and they failed. Electronic Art's IFF, or later TIFF, were also designed as extensible containers. The vast majority of the software handling these formats handles only the most popular codecs, the fringe one pushing it forward will get ignored.
Per my sibling comment, laypeople often assume the UCR cannot be trustworthy because it is collected, compiled, and analyzed by policing agencies; however, it's data are supported by the national crime victimization survey, whose data comes from victims and is collected and compiled by the justice department. So your point is even stronger than you made it out to appear. :)
Not me. Every time I think "Cortana", I can't help but think video game (Halo) since that's the point of reference making it seem less serious and by extension less helpful. Whether that's rational or not is neither here nor there as part of what makes this stuff a success is perception. My perception of Alexa and Google Assistant is that's it's more serious, i.e., a legitimate tool.
> That leaves me to wonder who exactly this iMac Pro is targeted at.

People who would have bought the Mac Pro. I think it's obvious that this was supposed to replace it in the lineup.

With the announcement that a Mac Pro is back on the cards I think this becomes a confused product. Locking $5Ks worth of computing power into a disposable shell boggles my mind a bit.
Correction : Union.

The California Correctional Peace Officers Association is very powerful in state and local elections and through association with other providers who are also union pretty much have the state on the ropes.

Contractors might be part of the problem but they only are as much as CCPOA allows for. As in, you play by their rules or you don't get to play.

Same reason we spend so much on education and don't see improvement. Nothing is about the prisoner or the student, it is all about political control
May I have some at 3E170D763D985E557D9A07CCAB9BF99CBC3D8C47 ? Just started mining.
I agree with you - the whole idea of people owning houses they didn't build AND don't live in and somehow getting to make a profit off it is absurd. It's just a way of creating a class system and funnelling money from working people to the lazy. Why should someone get to sit back and collect a profit just because they were born into a rich family and had the privilege to bootstrap free income for life thru property ownership?

It has to stop eventually. I say this as a young Melbournian who will probably never own a house unless the bubble bursts in a very, very big way. Median house price is nearing a million dollars (currently $843,674 [1] i.e. twenty years pay without including any mortgage interest), and those responsible tell us it's our fault because we eat too much avocado.

What work are landlords doing exactly? What value are they creating for the world? What is better about it for them being there? Nothing, nothing, and nothing.

I could say the same about banks and mortgage lenders. Creating absolutely nothing for the world, simply holding housing hostage and collecting a big paycheque for it.

The entire way we think about home ownership has to change.

[1] https://www.domain.com.au/news/melbournes-median-house-price...
https://www.paydoo.com/pricing is one example,

> starting at 0.59% + £0.20 adapted to industry type and risk level
I have a yubikey 4 and a nitrokey and I use the former on a daily basis (and the nitrokey as a backup). The yubikey is faster and feels sturdier without needing a cap.

That being said I think the main objection to the yubikey is that they're using closed source software on the key. I'm not sure I really get the objection to be honest, in the end even if the soft is open source you have to trust them to actually flash that software on the key and not inserting hardware backdoors in the first place.

I highly recommend to every power user out there to get a GnuPG smartcard. It's convenient, secure, you can use it to sign and/or encrypt anything (email, files, passwords, git commits...), you can use it as an SSH key through GPG agent etc... It's well worth the ~50 euros it costs for the peace of mind it provides.

Hopefully it'll make PGP more popular and make it possible to actually send encrypted emails. I can't remember the last time I've received one myself...
if you were wrongly convicted of a crime, would the costs of your defense be somehow be re-imbursed or compensated?
For web apps running in normal browsers, Service Workers ARE that facade.
> Someone editing 4K+ video on Final Cut professionally

As someone who works in this industry these individuals are becoming few and far between. Think it's time to stop pretending Apple is a major player in this area, they pushed and shoved FCP users right to the edge and many just made the jump to better supported software and high end hardware.
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both have "facilities", both have lots of administrators, and lease lots of ground/buildings to rent....
It's the same with the NSA's excuse.. "Yes we gather Americans' communications, but there are rules against agents listening to that!".

Or Facebook apps, "Yes apps can see your name, dob, email and your friends list, but they are not allowed to abuse this information"... Thanks, I feel secure now.
Both. Moderately low risk, moderate volume.

I'm not saying everybody will get those rates, just that I'm surprised that people settle for 3% without a fight. At scale, that's a huge amount of money for a little convenience.
It's not a desperately common term though in the UK any more.

... when you say faggot - are you talking about the delicious spiced meatballs, or the piece of fire-wood?
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In the UK that question can't be asked or it opens the employer to liabilities.
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It's worth reading, even if just to understand why others are recommending it. Sometimes they're not really recommending the book, but just "this book was the first to get me thinking about people skills".

The section on names is Chapter 3, ending with the principle "Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language."

The chapter itself rambles on a bit and claims the success of US presidents & Andrew Carnegie is their ability to memorize thousands of first names... I think that's an exaggeration. But there's an element of truth to it, if you keep it in the back of your mind and try it yourself, memorizing people's names & using their name when you next meet them. (Especially at nightclubs, which is where I probably learned/used it most.)

Think of it as the difference between a letter addressed "Dear Ozovehe" vs "To Whom It May Concern". The latter shows they haven't even tried to get to know you personally. And now you'll notice when email / internet marketers try to use your name for just that reason....
> If so, it's implausible on its face: why are people trying to circumvent the paywall if they didn't want the WSJ's article specifically? Why can't they just go somewhere else? Why do they load HN discussion with complaints about a paywall rather than "here's the free, independent version that's just as good"?

Social objects. The actual value of a particular article isn't the article itself, but the fact that you and other people in the tread have read the same article. In HN discussions, people will go around paywalls not because they can't find another source, but because they want to read the same source as everyone else.
Have edited. Even if the rates you find aren't as good locally, still shop around and play them off each other to get a better rate.
I don't know of a text off-hand, but this infographic is helpful:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster

There's more to critical reasoning than understanding logical fallacies of course. But knowing how to avoid and recognise them is a basic part of it.
Can somebody please ELI5. Assuming I have iOS 11 on my iPhone and I take a bunch of pictures. Will I have to convert the pictures to JPG/JPEG/etc. myself when I decide to import them to my Mac/Windows machine?
I think we focus on non-violent offenders too much. There are many "violent" offenders in prison who aren't social deviants, but are a product of their environment. It is a bit sad, but violence is often employed to solve problems especially in low-income neighborhoods.

I think just as much attention needs to be paid to younger first or second offenders who haven't been swallowed up by criminality or prisons, including more wiping of their records as an incentive for good behavior.

If you're labeled a felon, there isn't much incentive to play it straight since the only jobs you can get pay very little. It just makes crime that much more profitable and attractive
Fetch is supported in 10.1 (only 2 years after Firefox and Chromium!)

They also already have Custom Elements v1 support, which is still in progress in Firefox.

Timing and SRI they announced in this release (11).

Service Workers is THE big gap, at this point it feels like they're actually very afraid of progressive web apps.
Any given word has a chance for slang in the UK for penis, vagina, homosexuality, or being drunk.
Apple Pay is a generation ahead of chip and pin. It obviates the need to enter a PIN which is more convenient and invulnerable to attacks on PIN terminals, which have defeated chip and pin in the past.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
Gonna throw some weird idea about prison, what about:

- Smaller but individual cells. (have to think about how to keep them very clean)

- No outside yard for crowd.

- No plural bathroom.

Everything you do is for the benefit of society 90% and the rest for you.

- Clean something outside, plant trees I don't know, so you get walk, sun and forest time.

- You can read books, or some journals.

- You can talk to old wise persons.

- You don't have TV, video games.

- You can work (producing parts, fixing things) again for the benefit of society.

- You can do exercice: biking, rowing. Qi gong or Yoga too. (bonus, plug bikes to generate electricity)

- You get simple healthy food: raw veggies, some meat, some fruits. No sauce, no dessert.

Basically a cheap mindful retreat with optional work. Lowering costs as much as possible and prisonner suffering at the same time. You can improve your mind and your body while paying your mistake by being cut from the group. Nothing more.
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Phwoar!

Edit: Weird that they don't appear to service bricks and mortar retail. They can be much more secure (cardholder present, PIN entered, telephone verified) and therefore lower risk.
at that cost they should send prisoners to an island and send them $50,000 of care packages.
The App Store has been opened up for developer-tools that download and run code