skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of being boorish about the subject...

I was recently released from Las Vegas County Jail (CCDC) where all sentenced inmates, myself included, are forced, by state law, to "work" in some manner in the jail.

In this case, work consisted of 11-hour shifts, 6 days a week, of ultra back-breaking kitchen work. We were not even allowed to have water cups anywhere outside the break room.

They actually yelled faster! faster! as we ran "the line"...I never could get over that one. All that was missing were the whips and the guards with shotguns spitting tobacco.

We processed approx. 10 thousand trays per day, and were constantly harassed and threatened big time by the corporate kitchen staff in charge. It wasn't enough that we were clocking 60-70 hours a week for the grand total of 1 extra tray per meal (not every meal grant you, just the ones we were working during), but you could actually get thrown in the box and lose gain time (more days in jail) for eating a cookie or some trivial such thing.

If you refused to work, you were put in the box and 5 days were added to your sentence.

I did the math...2 shifts of 28 workers 365 days a year...with overtime and all that, approx $50k per week($2.6mil/year) of free basically coerced slave labor for the Aero-mark Corporation that ran the kitchen.

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> Existing residents don't deserve to live in SF more than new ones just because theyve been there longer

Yes, of course they do. It's people's _homes_ we're talking about. And it's absolutely in every society's interest to safe guard a mix of people everywhere.

Rampant gentrification where the moneyed upper and middle classes squeeze out the lower class, is clearly the number one reason for an increasing segregated society, disenfranchisement and alienation. Perfect growing grounds for radicalisation and what follows...
Have you done any formal ROI on the move to Chargebee?

I moved from Chargify to Stripe about a year ago (to save on cost) and the biggest challenge was getting customers to re-enter their card details for Stripe.

I offered a coupon for 50% off a month's subscription to entice them to do so but still resulted in a couple of months of paying both Chargify and Stripe while I chased the errant customers.
There is an expectation that a landlord will maintain and support the properties they rent out.
My understanding is that contactless cards have limit of £30 per transaction in the UK. Apple Pay (perhaps it's the same with Android Pay?) has a significantly higher limit.
I imagine a lot of people would be tempted to commit a crime for $75k then. A better alternative would be to spend at least some of these money on prevention programs to create alternatives for young offenders with the poor background.
Because SVM is fast and more than good enough for most problems.
Legionnaire's disease thrives in air conditioners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease
id rather use XRP
Out of curiosity: what kind of automation? Signing artifacts?
Who, other than students forced to do so, uses Minitab?
maybe i'm turning into my parents but i think we stopped calling them spiced meatballs in the 90s
Normalization is very expensive and does not belong at the FS level. This kills performance for some classes of applications.

The comparison with other filesystems does not hold since applications for other OSs have always been developed with no normalization at FS level, and hence it was done by the applications, or through the use of high-level OS APIs. Mac applications, on the other hand, expect it to be the responsibility of the filesystem. This is explained pretty clearly in the article.

On a side note, I wish Apple would have taken this opportunity to switch normalization from NFD to NFC, which basically everything else uses. The distinction causes complexity and often issues in software which share data between Apple platforms and other platforms, such as version control systems for instance.

EDIT: according to pilif's comment, they did, which is awesome!
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Realclearpolitics does a good job of sourcing articles from each side next to each other.
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Also low corporation tax rate and a land border with the UK (I'm surprised it's so low down on the page)
Well sure, but can you play Granny's Garden in Chrome?
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Yet WebRTC works for Chrome for the same device on the same network connection?
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Not British, but Irish, where it's got the same meaning (It would be seen as the inverse of "straight", but always derogatory)

> to what degree?

Less and less.

a) homophobic slurs have become generally less acceptable

b) US cultural influence makes people more aware of multiple meanings

c) Futurama is also a thing that people here are aware exists / fans of
I'm not sure what we'd call a thing that bends (I suppose it would depend on what is being bent and how), but bender is pretty much exclusively used to mean a gay person or a very drunken night.

I agree that it doesn't inhibit its use as a product name though. Git seems to be doing just fine.
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Has there been any research on whether Material Design has superior UX for desktop use?

I've just tried the new settings screen on Chrome 59, and personally I find it far, far worse than what it was previously. I hate this trend of hiding essential top-level navigation behind a hamburger menu, especially on desktop.
Oh how the bar for "great web design" has fallen.
"without warning"? Not really. This has been discussed to death on ATP last year.

Also, in regards to the headline, there are tens or maybe over a hundred million non-english speakers using iOS already running APFS...
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I understand the need to fund things, but could someone illuminate for a end consumer of the software what requires 15k euros a month development for GnuPG? Yes new cyphers/PRNGs/hashes come online, but it doesn't seem to be moving as quickly as other internet infrastructure (GnuTLS, X.org, SSL, NTPD) products.

It seems like things that were sponsored by major organizations because they saw the good in having their name associated with a product or service in favor of getting the "internet at large" to pay for things that have become ingrained as "But it's free so why should we pay for it?"
I maintain a small open source library for managing payments websites that uses this architecture [1]. My Lambda costs have been about $0.04 per transaction.

Also you can provision AWS from the browser using a CloudFormation template and a Launch Stack URL [2].

[1]: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket.
[2]: https://github.com/christophercliff/flatmarket#automated-dep...
Deep lake cooling is used in Toronto, Canada, though not widespread, and is offered by a private company. http://enwavetoronto.com/district_cooling_system.html
Thanks for the link, I would probably have tried this had I stumbled on it before! I did an ask HN prior to writing this article but did not get that much answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483383
If you hate JavaScript, look again. No callbacks, no .then().
Compressed liquid refrigerant is very expensive compared to cheap water for heating. Long pipes full of liquid would be very expensive to initially fill not to mention after leaks. And there would be leaks...

Historically most refrigerants have had "issues" when leaked either environmental or being toxic or otherwise it minimizes danger to keep as little as possible. Even if we could afford to use 1000x as much refrigerant with a central compressor station, it would be bad for the environment to use it that way.

You can move a huge amount of heat with water pressurized to merely 14 psi or so, but I have a puron aka R-410A conditioner at home and that dude runs near 400 psi on a hot day and its difficult to run miles of high pressure pipe.

I'm not sure bigger compressors are that much more efficient than smaller compressors, taking into account the environmental and economic expense of the pipes.

From an engineering standpoint its cheaper safer and less environmentally destructive to push kilowatts thru copper wire than push high pressure expensive refrigerant thru long high pressure pipes if all other things were equal which they mostly are.
"Yes, this code the government forces into our printers is a violation of our 3rd Amendment rights"

FYI: The 3rd Amendment reads as follows:

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

I don't see the connection. Why does this violate our 3rd amendment rights?
This version of Chrome has support for running headless (without the need for a graphical environment at all). Awesome for automation and testing.
I'm not really "down with the kids", but I would think most people in their twenties and thirties and older would definitely understand "bender" to mean a homosexual, and "on a bender" to mean "out getting drunk" (though this isn't a derogatory term in any particular sense). I don't think I've ever used the word "bender" to mean "thing that bends", but perhaps that's just because of the other meaning of the term here.

I don't think "box" is understood at all in the UK to mean what it does in US slang, though we do use the word in the context of cricket to mean something quite specific!
Chargebee had a one-time free customer database import process from Stripe, does Chargify/Stripe not support any kind of customer import/transfer?

I can't give numbers for our ROI, but we spend far less time providing payment/subscription support, and pay a flat extra cost to Chargebee for the added abstraction layer they provide so it's easy to evaluate -- worth roughly 100 subscribers/month, and since shifting to Chargebee we gained more than that number within the first month beyond our regular month/month growth.
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Really depends on your scale. If you just run half a rack of equipment a lot of these costs are factored in by your housing company. But you come to a certain point where you need to invest in a RIPE membership, where you need a router that costs 100k€. Plus a spare one. Where you need someone to watch the monitoring 24h sitting in the DC - just in case. Even if a lot of this stuff is free, it needs to be setup up and managed all the time.

Let alone the cost for DDoS mitigation. Thats an easy 300k€ worth of equipment plus lets say 2x40 GBit/s links for lets say 40k€ each per link and month. Over the course of two years thats easy 1 million euros, just to handle DDoS. Even if you just need 10 GBit/s capacity, you might need 10x that capacity in a DDoS situtation.
Someone hacked together something very similar with Haskell arrows.

http://scrambledeggsontoast.github.io/2014/09/28/needle-anno...
Ahh. thanks. I googled for Atlas, but as you can imagine, lots of things came up..
See, a monad is like a soldier...
Regardless of any of this, the person didn't attack anything.

I'm not saying my position on whether the fork was right or wrong, but I think folks on either side should not characterize that incident as an attack.
That's about as much as people in EU get per year :)
"Why do you think it attracts so many a-hole-ish educated white male types?"

Those damn white males again!
"Should all people be thankful to Jesus and roll over for the church?"

What does this phrase even mean? How is it even logically related with the previous paragraphs?
Do you have to set it up manually? How is this better than downloading one of the privacy-protecting extensions available for most desktop browsers?
The printer dots include the serial number of the printer. So we don't know if they are definitely from a printer at the NSA, surely the NSA does.
Maybe resubmit with a URL rather than a self post? https://www.deekit.com/braintree-to-stripe/
This is not a zero-sum game and you exemplify the very problem of demonizing people based on color. Young white men deserve protected status in the same way that young black men deserve protected status. The commonality here is the social economical status, the problem which you earlier claimed to care about and now clearly stating your intention: that a low social economical status do not mean that they deserve protection.

> And if white men want to punish the upper white class for neglecting them, maybe they should stop pushing rich non-working-class men forward as their proxies.

An eye for an eye only leads to a blind world. How common isn't it to hear that if immigrants want help, maybe they should stop committing crime? The answer by the state and by research is the same: that the negative behavior cause by low social economical group is caused by the low social economical status. The solution is not an eye for an eye (more prison, harsher punishment, deportation, blaming them for their own situation), but rather helping them out of the low social economical status they are in.
Thanks, any other references you would recommend?
Not stupid, it is just hard to not get caught. Once you see how someone is caught you can say "oh of course I'd never do that", but you'd probably make some other mistake.

Could she and should she have taken better precautions, without a doubt. Would the average intelligence analyst who is not being coached by a foreign power do a better job, I doubt it. In fact many foreign spies have done a far worst job and not been caught immediately. This is because the intelligence they stole was not published. Being a source of a journalist is much harder than being a source for a foreign power.
Reminds me of the article about million dollar blocks.

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/02/162149431/million-dollar-block...
I'll concede that I did not spend any time optimizing the C code, the focus was mainly on getting a working wasm module that integrated correctly with th js code. I'll probably have a look on this after work.
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I've never heard that Edge sends absolutely all POST requests to any website to Microsoft as well. Could you share an article or something proving this?
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I get it.

However, if criminal punishment actually scared people away from committing crimes, why are our incarceration rates are so high?

You'd think a country with mandatory minimum sentences and capital punishment to deter a lot of crime, but it appears it simply doesn't work. One theory I read (I can't find the source ATM) posited deterrence tends not work against people who tend to go to prison because people who go to prison statistically have a poorer sense of risk/reward.

So what do you do?

Personally, I think it depends on the type of crime. First, we need to recognize that some of our policies incentivize crime, especially the illicit drug market. People with a poor sense of risk/reward will naturally gravitate to this line of work because they probably respond a lot more to the reward than the risk.

There may be a population that is deterred by criminal punishments and one could argue it makes sense to keep criminal punishments to simply deter that population. I don't disagree with that, but I do think we really need to reassess whether criminal punishment is the universal deterrence some people make it out to be. Our best crime prevention policy may simply be removing or poisoning incentive.
This looks great.

I tried to make animated SVGs once and I haven't found any reasonable way other than editing the source by hand. It was pretty painful, since Inkscape adds a lot of junk to the SVG.

This would probably help a lot.
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Yeah, imagine what they could do if they had dell monitors. I bet spacex wouldn't stand a chance.
yeah, that would be cheap.

they can have pizza delivered and call hookers lol
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Except it's a horrible deterrent and many of our laws a just a waste(ie. drug laws) of taxpayers money.
So other than the progeny part, how is prison labor not exactly what you said? People are literally captured, and based on overturned convictions at least some percentage are innocent. These people are then forced to work and can have their sentence extended arbitrarily by bureaucrats and not the court system. Based on the California example the system even tries to keep people working when given a court order to release people. The only thing preventing the in perpetuity part is basically the good graces of the bureacracy.

I do agree about the overuse of the term in other situations however
Exactly my thoughts. Also, many people have given up signing emails with pgp as most recipients use cloud based service like Gmail making it almost useless. This leaves a small niche community where both ends are outside the cloud based email network like journalist usecase maybe.
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If you're doing less than a hundred thousand a year in revenue, you will likely save in development costs what you would pay in fees (3% x $100,000 = $3,000 = ~week of development costs).

Depending on which Stripe features you make use of and would have to re-implement yourself it may even make Stripe more affordable up to a couple of hundred thousand in revenue.

That makes it very attractive for side projects or bootstrapped companies, and side projects and bootstrapped companies often grow in to larger things, and at that point, changing out the payment processing is low on the list of priorities.
Hey HN, author here. A comment I wrote re: await (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14447682) jumped to the top of the node 8 announcement last week so I thought I'd expand on what it's actually like using await in production.

We're not proactively removing cbs everywhere, but doing them on a per-module basis. Additionally if we're doing some other work, we'll remove callbacks and .then() where we see them.

Additonally, we're keeping express for now - Express 5 is supposed to have some new stuff to make await easier and we'll gladly wait rather than jumping onto Koa etc.
how can you get rid of it? I can always increase the price.
Well.. so had the US less than 10 years ago?
This is interesting. I'd like to learn more.

Are their studies that demonstrate that consuming more calories (with different composition such as HFLC) leads to weight loss compared to lesser calories (regardless of composition)?
I agree it's hard not to get caught. But this was just giving it away.
As others have mentioned, the most exciting thing about Chrome 59 is that it is the first release with headless support. I wrote a guide a while back on running headless Chrome with Selenium that someone might find interesting if they're interested in trying out Chrome in headless mode [1]. It's quite a bit easier now that the stable channel is on version 59 and I just updated the guide to specify which steps are no longer necessary.

[1] - https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-chrom...
Nice! APNG is finally supported.
Yeah, my point was this example shouldn't be used to judge webasm performance.

No point to benchmark "Hello, World!"s.
You can play my favorite arcade game ever in a wasm gameboy emulator (credit goes to Ben Smith of Google: https://github.com/binji/binjgb) in a web-based OS I've been working on for 5 years. This is known to work in current Chrome and Firefox. Keyboard game controls: 'w'=up 'a'=left 's'=down 'd'=right '.'=A ','=B space=start enter=select. Also, standard (17 button, 4 axis) USB gamepads should "just work" via plug'n'play.

Go to this link to test it out:

https://linuxontheweb.org/desk?desk_init=bHMgL3B1YjtvcGVuIEF...

The argument in the URL is the base64 encoding of an initialization script that is being passed to the desktop environment. Going to the link in current Edge should just open the "Arcade" app, with nothing else happening.

You should be able to drag-n-drop ".gb" or ".nes" ROM game files from your native desktop right onto the Arcade app window, and it should just start playing. You can also just drop them onto the web desktop to save them there, then just double-click them when you want to play. That way, the file is kept in the site's local storage.

Learn more about how to use the web-based OS here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZkhPP7327fXcSsjD_lt67w

If anybody has wasm-capable Edge or Safari, let me know if you can play the game.
I must say that I'm genuinely surprised by this phenomenon.

One would think that it is a business' business to figure out how much to charge a customer. A willing customer will pay, an unwilling one won't. How is it a question of legality?
I can't stand that about Youtube and FB, which is one of the reason I gave up on FB. The algorithms create a self-imposed echo chamber. My workaround has been opening Youtube in a private window in the browser so I can see all the stuff I'm missing.
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I actually agree with both points. I wasn't clear but I was referring to experiential learning, not the explicit curriculum. I agree about actual experience - nothing could replace it but I do think there are things that could accelerate the learning process.
I used to be there too, and still am so I can observe how it's evolving. I'm not necessarily even disagreeing with you, but what I am arguing for is not normalizing the bigotry, it's to go back to not even considering their views. The issues arise when we give the alt-right names like "alt-right". It makes them sound powerful and organized.

They're not "literal fascists". Literal fascists were in Italy overthrowing the government 70 years ago. All these people have is the ability to create chaos. When we give them coverage and attention, we feed them. What you're advocating for is what we're doing right now - trying to shut off these toxic wells. But what it's simply doing is adding fuel to the fire.
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In this case you should really just dump the subscription on a queue (SQS) and process the payment to mailchimp on a different thread that can deal with errors.
See: the last election cycle

Also: As someone who does have critical-thinking skills (perhaps taught by my Cornell Psych major), it's extremely disheartening to see bad thinking pretty much everywhere
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Just a thought, that's also tax free income (if we're assuming not counting prison jobs program.)
Not really to explore, the intention is nothing but to be esoteric. Suggesting things to make this lang easier to use (i.e. less esoteric) is akin to suggesting adding names to brainfuck commands to make it more readable.

Timwi does have some other useful projects though (take a look at his github), all of which are basically centered around parsing. (an IL debugger, a C# parser, generic regular expressions...)
On iOS the user doesn't get much direct access to the file system.
This person is the perfect example of why women hate it when men try to give them advice.
agree 100%. How do you know you're really right unless you read opposing viewpoints?

I've noticed that there's a herd mentality going on as well... People would rather "belong" than "be right", as it were