skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Policies towards crime in America are pretty strict and have been so for a long time, yet the problem continues to fester and the homicide rate itself is still much higher than in most Western nations with comparatively less severe punishments for criminals.

It's not just about the feel-good narrative but the actual idea of whether rehabilitation is more effective at getting the low crime rate you want than focusing on protestant-type punishment, even if it seems that a lot of unpleasant people are then treated better than the public would want them to be.

As for terrorism, the principle is similar. The "tough guy" response can actually be security theater: short of policing every interaction, it's difficult to prevent every attack, although of course more can be done. If you start changing everything about the way your country functions after one attack, it also incentivizes more attacks. It doesn't help that the aggressive and nationalistic reaction is exactly what ISIS is hoping to trigger in the West. Not to mention the absurdity of having a strong policy towards terrorism while at the same time giving close support to nations such as SA.

To summarize, there's a lot more to consider other than people simply being too nice to survive.
I'm confused as to who he's writing for as it seems very obvious that many people get "motivated" for work they don't enjoy because they have to support their family.

Actually, what I find interesting about this is the post goes on to note that:

It wasn’t only parents who experienced family motivation. It also applied to unmarried and childless workers who defined their family as brothers, sisters, parents, and other relatives.

I'd love to dig into this more, but the paper is, of course, behind a paywall. I'm very curious if the people indicated, above, had to financially support their extended family, or if it was simply the need to be dependable and responsible, that created the motivation.
> but I cannot think of a worse occupation to get into right now, with self-driving trucks on the horizon

I don't think this is necessarily true. Fully self-driving trucks are at least a generation out. I wouldn't seek a huge multi-decade capital investment into trucking for sure, but individual drivers aren't terribly exposed to such long-term risks.

And even if SDF gets here sooner than expected, if you work for a company it's kinda whatever. Getting a CDL is a pretty small up-front investment compared to most jobs that both pay well and are in demand. As long as you're not an independent operator (=capital investment), you're not really making a huge investment aside from your time (for which you're well-compensated after the first year or so).

> (Also, I have a trucker in the family, and the financials are harder than they look.)

Certainly for OTR and especially for independent operators. And like I mentioned, injury/accident/economic downturn are huge threats. Trucking with a second family income remains a viable path to a middle class lifestyle, but you're right -- there's a good reason a lot of people choose other paths.
Isn't it "people an NSA analyst believes are Russian hackers"? I read the Intercept story but didn't see where it showed convincing evidence of that. It just says they showed no doubt.
It was private from the university. The only reason Harvard administration found out about the offensive stuff was because some student in that private chat screenshotted and sent it to them.
I am trying real hard here and I really can not remember when I last bought a book for myself in a store. Last year in Berlin when I bought some Banks novels for a friend, that was an impulse buy because he did not know any of them yet was the last time I bought books in a store in general, but they were not for my own use.

Other than that books arrive in the mail.
The Stargate Replicators ran on code from a Canadian bank
To balance out the negativity here's my anecdotal input - the iPad Pro has had more impact on my creativity than any device I can remember, and it's almost entirely due to the pencil and how it's brought drawing back into my life.

That's not even counting it's usefulness for music making, etc.

I've never seen it as a replacement for desktop software - it's a different class with different user behaviors. I'm generally bullish on the form factor over the long term, and see no reason why it needs to be a zero sum game between tablet and desktop.
Oh that is awesome, and I'll have to check the paper out! That's actually something I've been wondering -- about combining the power of deep learning with the domain expertise of old style expert systems, whether for bootstrapping the neural net, or as a rule base it can consult.

It seems like it would be very powerful to be able to harness Neural Nets for dealing with fuzzy inputs (images, natural language, spoken words), but adding a propositional rule-base they can consult for whatever the actual task is once you have dealt with that input.

On that, if it was learning a rule base, it might also be really helpful with getting insight into what your model is doing, if you could somehow introspect on / view the rules that it learned on a higher level than "when these neurons fire, we do this to the output"

(I woouldn't be surprised of course, to find one day that the DeepMind guys are already on top of it, and come up with a "Neural Warren Abstract Machine" at some point)
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Your phone has a secondary processor with access to main memory. That secondary processor runs often incredibly jank code, and that code can often be changed at will by your mobile carrier.
The asymmetry in storytelling between math and the other sciences
ah great find.
It's worth noting that today New Jersey votes for its next governor (primary). Phil Murphy took the time during his campaign to acknowledge the NJ Tech Meetup community (at Stevens Inst. in Hoboken) and has expressed an interest in supporting entrepreneurs. We'll see how the elections go this year and what the next administration does.

I'm a NJ native (NYC metro area), active contributor to open source tech communities, and tech-preneur.
interesting but i was thinking more of a Khan-style mindmap: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ChwlFfoI4TE/TtEl5UA1AkI/AAAAAAAAAe...
> You are blaming unethical people for profiting from a flawed system. I would say fixing the system is a easier problem, then fixing humanity as a whole.

Find me a system that isnt flawed...
The dog argument was cute. But the dog also doesn't make a searchable, indexable list of all your personal information.

Someone will inevitably make this though, and it will inevitably be abused.

Plus what if I start switching search parameters from say, 'planning a terrorist attack' to, likely to to vote one way, believe on thing, or be of a certain religion.

We will trade all our privacy and the nefarious people will switch to a new method of comms...like they always do.
Well, speaking from a secular point of view, studying the Talmud in and of itself makes you religious regardless of the education you are getting from it.

You are funny. You are basically orthodox for whats considered Jewish around me and yet you don't even think of yourself as ,"very religious".
Or, this "third motivation" is the desire to succeed so the family can thrive as a consequence of that success.

Sort of a half-full/half-empty kind of thing, really. I suspect the perspective you cleave to is a product of your personal outlook.
I'm working on critical thinking with my 2 year old. If he can't think critically by college then I've failed.

I spend time each day practicing discussing things with him and he has already come to assume if he wants anything in life he will need to talk about it as throwing a fit or whining ensures he does not get anything.

People assume because kids haven't been trained, they can't be trained. So they wait until they are older (or even at college level) to begin training. Really bad idea.
If the boots taste like candy, you're really licking a lollipop!

If locking people up and forcing them to work is making people billions, it's slavery. Period.
I've attended some top schools and some mediocre schools. The better schools stood out for:

1) more academically demanding (e.g. better organized course syllabi, sharper profs, harder homework, bolder more relevant projects, exposure to research-level problems, use of up-to-date tools & methods, fewer profs on autopilot).

2) smarter students who were more engaged, asked questions, had more complex side interests and hobbies, and thought outside the box. The social dynamics at top schools (esp. among techies) is simply a different world.

And usually, at the best schools, both the students and the school put little emphasis on intercollegiate sports.
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My bet is on HEIF. It's far superior. Full subsampling support, >24bit colours, etc, etc
So part of what makes this work is that it's not an index. As opposed to doing general storage of people's data, this restricts a surveillance operation to only be able to identify specific concepts.
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Profiting from uncompensated coerced labor walks and talks like the slavery duck. The 13th amendment talked about it because it was and still is slavery.
How come nobody's mentioned pharma in Jersey's tech history?

I can't help but think like Yogi Berra when I look at my own trajectory. Tech overpaid me and tech displaced me. The winds blew west? Will they blow west again for the west coast departure and leave the USA entirely?
The issue with WSJ articles has come up many times before. There used to be work arounds (googling the url, going through a FB link etc) but most seemed to be closed now. I agree, WSJ articles should be discouraged, however, it's an open submission process. The problem is that people upvote the submission based upon the headline (and comments/discussion) and don't access the article. This is fine, however we then end up in situations like this.
> innocent human beings

Why the word "innocent"? Its irrelevant if they committed a crime or not, or if they were convicted of a crime or not.
>HFS+ was the only file system I know of that was doing Unicode normalisation

I've seen something in a couple comments now to this effect, does nobody here do anything with ZFS at all? It's a pretty great filesystem on not just illumos but FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS, and it has full native normalization support (and for all 4 forms too). Normalizing is optional, but it's definitely there and with Macs I have been using NFD for compatibility purposes for 5 years now with no discernible performance problems in day-to-day use. I know ZFS isn't remotely a majority but I don't think it's that obscure either.
Interesting. I have not tried SKiDL. All my designs are in Cadence or Eagle. Thanks! I will try itout
This channel is really getting interesting. I hope there's enough material out there to keep it going.
Well then why are we talking about "religious doctrine"?
DEA Deploying Spyware Without Required Privacy Impact Assessments
Do you happen to have a source on that?
Thanks to all who replied!

I found the solution to this bug in a post on the Google Chrome Help Forum from way back; 11/28/10 to be precise.

Solution for anyone else who happened on this bug:

https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/sq-RT8-eIm8/ZM...
They seem to be headed towards being an "AWS light". Would be nice to be have an alternative with reasonable egress costs. Still a long way to go though. At a minimum, they would need a more configurable load balancer and some S3 type function.
America does not have one single brand of Christianity but countless sects with views and member demographics that differ significantly.
I have a 1&1/2 year old, and I'm curious about your approach. What kind of things do you discuss with your son? Is it on the level of "if you want a cookie, you have to ask" or more like "why do you think so-and-so did that?"
DEA Used Malware Without Laying Out Privacy Risks
Ah yes you're right, that part is luckily covered by LLVM.
FIRST Robotics Competitions Attract Students to STEM Education
I live in an area where evaporative coolers are effective. I hate setting it up every year, and was looking into central air. When researching I learned about how efficient evaporative coolers are, and it gave me more appreciation for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler:

* Estimated cost of operation is 1/8 that of refrigerated air conditioning

It's really interesting to think about the advantages/disadvantages of geography in regards to power generation/consumption. It didn't really occur to me until going through the above experience.

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The design of these systems is really interesting. Most of them have a lot of wearable parts (belt and bearings), which means more maintenance. There are some new designs (http://www.bonaire-usa.com/products.html#window) that do away with the "squirrel cage" fan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_fan), and a lot of the maintenance. I wonder if the efficiency of the new design is lower than the traditional centrifugal fan design?

I know this can be found - I just don't want to go too deep researching. If anyone knows off hand I'd appreciate an answer!
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According to the article, a big increase in California's state prison system is for salary and medical of the guards. I'm not sure if they're union guards over there, but the prison guard union is pretty powerful in the federal system and many states.

As far as other costs go, I'm not sure where they're getting up to 75k/year/offender. My experience has been mostly in the federal and midwest, where average cost of housing an offender for a year in a low/medium security facility is around 20k-25k.

It would be interesting to look at their books!
cool! I wonder if the HN API can help there also?

I'll take a look as this could help me, but there'll also be manual work into this, such as sifting through all posts on the homepage, reading comments and submissions from certain power users, etc
The text format has been finalized, you can see examples of it here:

http://webassembly.org/docs/text-format/
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The portable version was also posted yesterday: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portabl...

It's handy for trying it out without installing the full app and update service on Windows. Or for running Stable, Dev, Beta on the same machine with separate profiles without needing command line switches.
Thanks. Definitely. I also love the idea of OSS-ing a product. At least people will be able to contribute, or read the code and see that I have no plans in doing nasty stuff with their data at all.
Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
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I have tons of material. Just a question of time to produce videos. At two per week (my planned cadence) I have months and months of material and people keep making TV and films and I'm sure there are tons of undiscovered code snippets.
Or perhaps worse: think critically the same way the test writer does: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/standardized-tests-are-s...
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Building Erlang Docker Images with Multi-Stage Builds
INTERNIST-I was a computer-assisted diagnostic tool from the 1970s
> NTFS, by comparison, does the "bag of wchar_t"

I threw up a little.
Primary, not general
Ask HN: Mac OS X High Sierra Problem
I am getting the following error while installing

http://imgur.com/a/n0VoX

"MacOS could not be installed on your computer"

An error occurred while verifying firmware..."

is anything having the same problem?
In the times past the command line was pushed onto the user stack of the new process, this was before the process was of course started. This means you were limited to the default available stack plus or minus whatever else needed to be pushed onto the stack for a starting process. In older kernels sbrk() (to grow the user stack of a process) could only be called on a process that already exists, not one that is being crated. This means your argument list could indeed be too long.
I'm not entitled to their labour, I can't afford higher price labour (well I can). Also, middle class salaries can barely afford current rates (in this forum we're mostly upper middle class or higher. A lot looks cheap to us. Do the math for the cost to salary for a child care facility. Costs a fortune even for us, yet the employees are getting paid peanuts. )

Which, if there is a real labour shortage, is fine with me. I'll just forgo the project I wanted to build, build less. Whatever.

But there isn't a labour shortage. At least not when you look at particulars segments, locations, past-histories, ect.

I'm not trying to push any ideology here. I'm just saying that the economy, actually, sucks despite what point estimates that grossly overgeneralize are saying. It sucked under Bush. It sucked more under Obama. And it getting suckier under Trump.

Why? I don't know. In the meantime hire a local contractor and pay them double their rate (or give the employees a tip == to the cost of the service < this is what I do to my monthly cleaners)
Well, the British slang for cigarette is "fag", which is derogatory in the US, so call it even?
Feels like a losing battle. AWS codestar is essentially the DO/Heroku killer.
Conditions applied: 100% zoom and average viewing distance.

The real challenge is consistency. Mozjpeg quality is manually tuned here to match the filesize of the rest.
So the study is about Mexicans in Mexico working in maquiladoras. Multigenerational/extended households/families are rather common in Mexico. Mexican culture is certainly more family oriented than in the US - "familism." Plus since maquiladoras pay very little (Google what the houses of maquiladora workers looks like) pooling resources is probably extremely beneficial just from a practical standpoint.
Specifics of Russian activities, methods, and US intelligence awareness of same, all of which are relevant.

The fact of the arrest strongly suggests the documents themselves are accurate. If they don't reflect actual Russian activity, they appear to reflect US intelligence of such activity.

If accurate, the documents corroborate a general pattern of activity of election manipulation carried on from at least June of 2016 through November, which would be highly significant.

There is circumstantial evidence of vote tampering in at least North Carolina, based on unexpected vote-tally convergence differences based on precinct size (I'm not entirely sold on the story, though it seems to have some legs): http://www.votesleuth.org/north-carolina-2016-overview/

At a larger scale, this highlights weakensses in multiple elements of liberal democratic institutions, mechanisms, communications, and media, as well as, quite possibly, political bodies and individuals. Arguments which have been in large part theoretical of risks of voting machines, email, and end-to-end encryption are now looking to be substantial, actual, and potentially existential threats.

That's some prime meat in my register.
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I get sociopaths who have no remorse and don't really have a problem with them per se.

People who do this and try to rationalize their behavior with some flimsy excuse about putting food on the table or keeping America safe are, I'll say it, deplorables.

It's a socially acceptable form of mental torture whose aim is to break you down, not build you back up. In particular, the dehumanization you face from the guards makes one more anti-social.
Whether sexism is acceptable in the workplace is not up for discussion. So the parent is totally right to educate the grandparent about this. You may not like the tone, but substantively wpietri is right on the mark.
Did the Intercept bungle the NSA leak?
>That doesn't refute or otherwise respond meaningfully to parent's points.

It shows that Greenwald's association with the Intercept cannot be used to imply that it practices good security.
Shipt raises $40M to challenge dominant grocery delivery startups
Here's the rub: people who actually buy Xeon CPUs and high-end GPUs want those parts to be replaceable and upgradeable. It's why the G5 MacPro lasted as long as it did, and why the 2013 MacPro was comparatively a straightjacket!

If Apple are targeting the same demographic then they're in for another public backlash. Sticking all this high-end gear into a sealed $5k device is baffling. Make no mistake, this iMac Pro will be another 'Pro' product that's put out into the market and forgotten about for a few years.

It also did not take Apple 'years' to come up with this - while it probably existed as a concept for a while I am convinced they started focussing on it after the grumbling about lack of MacPro updates. Otherwise why wait until December to release it.
When I was doing renovation at my place, I think I could go for much cheaper labor. Deadlines will likely slip, tho, as quality of work. I would perhaps end up paying more for worse result.

Try to pay as much as feasible for the actual work, as few as possible for overhead.

You end up paying extra for 'cheap' labor anyway, in the form of higher taxes for those who have to pay them, that includes you. Less transparent economy leads to what is discussed in parent article. All what 'cheap' labor does is lining the pockets of middle men selling this snake oil. With your money.
Don't most use something things like SPICE and Verilog? The reason a schematic comes into play with because there are physical and spacial constraints in hardware implementation. However, that's not at the logical level. Pretty sure you don't use any visual language for FPGAs.
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This is a narrow, proper, and specific application of the term.

Must they have to work on a cotton plantation for you to make it count?

Oh wait, we call these prison farms and there are dozens of them...
Well, I'm glad you find me amusing. Using your logic, studying Physics makes me a Physicist. Studying Mathematics makes me a Mathematician.

Also, I think that the Koreans who study Talmud might not think that they are religious.

Honestly, anyone with intellectual curiosity I feel would find the Talmud interesting, regardless of being non-religious or of an ethnicity other than Judaism.
or where the income level makes buying Macs prohibitively expensive