skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possession of marijuana while in a correctional institution. My case got dragged out and I was in solitary until it was resolved.

EDIT: I'll add to this that marijuana was one of the things that helped me in prison. It really did function as a medicine at times, letting me drift away from the craziness of my situation and think about myself and what I wanted to become and the person I wanted to be. I think that helped me to internally rehabilitate myself and become the person I am today.
Stay tuned on non-HTTP. Or if you want to try it early: https://goo.gl/forms/KtzfKYnWhK4SwQP03
Nintendo bringing their creative design energy to the DIY, STEM, IoT arenas directed toward kids could have an amazing effect.

Looking forward to seeing this evolve!
This is a diversion tactic.

They're grabbing 252.3B and spending less than a fifth of it. Let's imagine a different world. 200B, divided by 50k + 1.5x overhead (75k) could create about 2.6M decent jobs for one year (or 1.3M for two years etc).

2.6M jobs is equal to 0.8% of the total US population. The total labor force size is about 160M (~1/2 the total population) and the U6 measure of unemployment is about 8%. A healthy U6 is probably closer to 6% (from around 2000). That 2% of 160M is 3.2M jobs. Thus, in one fell swoop without even affecting operations overly much, Apple could reduce the magnitude of the economic crisis by a little over 2/3.

These are astonishing numbers that would have real impacts on people's lives. Imagine what we could do with the profits of the other large conglomerates.

Instead, they're spending a tiny amount on PR and reduced taxes that they lobbied heavily for to do what? Probably stock buy backs. The adulation of the rich and powerful continues at the expense of the working class.

EDIT: added some comparison numbers

EDIT: You guys are too much! So many questions, keep on asking, but I'll have to let others answer. I have other things to do today. Keep thinking critically about the political economy of the system. :)
#4 is the only one that applies to me. I personally use a track pad with sensitivity jacked to the max, which covers the other bases.

The ThinkPad pointer stick also has its acolytes.
I create jobs all the time. Companies employ people based on Demand not simply whimsy.
Along with getting there early enough to be sure that your flight isn't overbooked.
Yes, it's almost exactly the same mechanism.

I think the big difference is that people, intending wholeheartedly to do good and help these countries, instead cause significant damage.

Things like this are one of the reasons I find the Gates Foundation's way of working so interesting. They spend a lot of time and effort, supported by a lot of money, to help entire societies to improve. Things like enabling women to take control of their own reproduction, which has a huge stabilising effect on an economy. Moving the needle on that issue takes a significant amount of work, and is much harder than simply sending aid.

The problem with this is of course, that it is expensive and takes time.

Often countries really do need aid, and fast. If people remain willing to send aid, it's a hard sell to say "actually, we don't want that free food, thanks", not least of all because they might need more aid in the future!
Don't underestimate the power of farming subsidies and lobbying.
I thought about this for a minute, and my theory is that it wouldn't, because the hypervisor wasn't based on an RTOS. If it was RTOS-based, and the hypervisor's needed to use a known constant amount of time for its own housekeeping, you might be able to find a frequently multiple that worked.

But as things are, I don't THINK so, due to indeterminate scheduling. The likelihood is very low. (Translation: I really do want this to work because it would be cool :P - but the VM world has already been turned upside down this year....)

If you have a spare machine lying around you could maybe spin up the same VM software on that and see if anything interesting happens. After establishing very very good radio transmissions off the bare metal (and finding all potential frequencies etc), of course.

The other good question is what sort of transmission frequency would be used by the hardware your VPS is running on. That would be fun to find out about...
>> I am cis-gendered female and exhibit a lot of conversational traits typically
identified as male-patterned. Does that mean I shouldn't be allowed?

I concede I haven't considered women with atypical behaviours so I'll be
honest and say I don't know how to answer your question. My guess is that
cis women being a bit confrontational (if I intepret that right) is going to
be much less disruptive, or divisive, than trans women doing the same.

>> Personally I love the idea of allowing trans-women into a woman focused
community. Your perspective is going to be unique (and likely uniquely
insightful.) You also experience the same discrimination as cis-gendered women
if you aren't explicitly identifying as transgendered and may have the same
needs for support and understanding related to that discrimination.

Thank you for your empowering words, I appreciate them. I hope you're right
and that the trans women who join Leap will contribute positively to it.

Personally, I'm not out to my coworkers so yes, I'd benefit from a community
like Leap, absolutely. But that can't be just about me (or others like me). If
you look at complaints cis women have against trans women, it's all about us
thinking only of ourselves and our need to be perceived as women, taking the
place of cis women in employment, enjoying resources and structures meant to
help cis women etc. The majority of the people who say those things typically
turn out to be vicious trolls who don't really care so much about cis women
as about hurting trans women. But I have to consider the possibility that in
their hatred they have managed to latch on to a nugget of truth: that just by
being perceived as any other woman, I end up taking the place of one. And that
just shocks me to my core. I transitioned to find myself, not to usurp someone
else's place in the world.

So I've decided to be very careful to avoid doing that, if at all possible.
And one part of that is staying well away from spaces meant "for women", even
if they're explicitly trans-friendly.

And I do think that other trans women should also be just as careful.
Expressing your identity can't be done at the cost of others' lives. Well,
unless you're Vlad the Impaler.
Used clothing stores are very common in the US, especially for the baby and toddler category (which has its own dedicated stores). For baby clothes, a rough fit will do and they're generally only good for a couple months anyways. That said, a lot of baby clothes is given as gifts, and there's a minor social taboo against giving used gifts.

I doubt the US is very different from most Western European countries in this regard.
I appreciate your time to give me your advice. You may not think it matters much but I benefit greatly from hearing it from another human. If you have anything else to add I will check back
Cursory posts -- whether they're posted by trolls or cynics or anyone else -- that are quickly read and just as quickly upvoted, but don't receive a thoughtful reply, tend to persuade the uninitiated.
The US has a different federal state distribution of authority than Canada, but most US states (and some localities) have some time off to vote rule.

https://aflcio.org/2016/11/5/know-your-rights-state-laws-emp...
> Rail is a lot cleaner in that regard if you can get an electrified rail (not sure if this works with high speed).

Jeez! You know Tesla batteries and you don't know that high speed trains are electric?? WTH
5 Questions with Slack's Rodney Urquhart
Whether or not Apple/whatever was being shifty or not is a matter of opinion. The fact is, though, that nearly every other country already had a territorial tax system.
The evidence seems to indicate that harsher sentences have barely any effect on crime deterrence: https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/03/crimina...
i already received 1,000$, to which I spent on a new energy efficient door, to which I paid a handyman to install it. there is a lot more winners than your dogma suggests.

I am interested in seeing where this goes. if we do see wage growth from it, it provides evidence to a lot of questions about how the cost of healthcare was squeezing out our wages. if it doesnt, then a lot of complaints about corporations will have a lot more evidence.

putting all that aside, this news about apple bringing over the cash is a huge win for everyone. having that money sit and do nothing was pretty much bad for everyone.
The switch to C++ is incredibly poorly justified. I don't care how much safer you think it is (and it really isn't), the language is way more complicated and error-prone and rewriting the code is ALWAYS going to introduce many, many bugs than would be found by simply maintaining the code. This guy also switched on -fpermissive as part of the process, which disables warnings which are there for a reason! This guy has also done a lot of lovely things like committing half-assed changes to master (the build breaks more often than it passes!) which have clearly undergone no review.

Anyone this person convinces to use and contribute his fork are going to take time and money (yes, money - the guy put up a Patreon campaign and BountySource page) away from GnuPG, which sorely needs it, as we all hopefully remember. Please do not use this, and I hope the authors give it up.
Since you've made a throwaway for this, I figured I'd ask more intimate details: How much money did you make off of that sale that you consider it good enough to take a few years off but not retire completely? $1 mil, $2 mil, more, less?

I ask since amount of money needed to live without work for a few years in silicon valley/bay area (assuming you're in it) is typically enough money to retire forever in a place like Thailand/Chiang Mai, and so would follow up and ask why won't you do that :)
Sigh... let's have this thread again. Needs to be effectively sandboxed. Modern JS as a compiler target is just as opaque. JIT compilation is a win on energy relative to the energy spent in a slow interpreter. JITing WASM will take less energy than JITing emscripten-js (nevermind the energy to send over the wire)
I was seeing this as directly in line with Google’s cardboard initiatives.

I also think the main point is not to sell kits but to show the way to the very few people who’ll get a spark of genius and build something original.

They also organize camps for parents to come wih their kids to build something, so I really think te goal is to stimulate creativity.

For the ‘why cardboard’ part, I also think it’s to avoid that their labo stuff are seen as long term appliances or officially sanctionned peripherals.
Alternate headline: "Apple dodges $49B in taxes by waiting for a tax holiday". They reduced their rate on $250B of earnings from 35% to 15.5% by waiting for a new tax policy. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/apple-plans-to-p...
I was just about to start an every other day programming course for my 9 and 11yo kids. Could anyone help me compare this curriculum with code.org (which they've used through school)?
That's ~100MPH which is basically highway speeds in many areas. http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/us/new-york-los-angeles-cannon... While illegal they averaged 98 MPH coast to coast.

Granted this rail project does not really allow for high speed either, but it's still going to be reasonable.
> I get your point. Only caveat is corporations also create jobs and pay their workers, but you and I as individuals do not.

That's like saying the wheat creates work for the mill to make flour.

You can't have one without the other. Can we just get rid of the ridiculous notion that corporations provide more than the workers doing the actual work?
There is a toggle between blocks and javascript in MakeCode. You can write code in blocks and switch to javascript or vice versa. This dual modality hopefully helps students to make the jump from blocks to javascript on a long term.

Blocks editor is based on the fork of google blockly(https://developers.google.com/blockly/).
For those who care, the report also shows Uber as being far behind - second-to-last in execution, and also lagging behind in strategy.
> as long as they pay those workers at least the minimum wage

Do US employeers not have to pay workers the minimum wage?
Comp. Sci PHD for JD?
Considering applying to Computer Science PhD programs and would like input. Am currently a practicing public interest attorney. Non-Stem/CS undergrad. Think humanities.

I would like to transition into AI work and think PhD provides a good route to do so. I have considered Masters programs, but don't want to take on debt (I get sense that Masters programs are generally unfunded) and I would like the opportunity to do a real niche deep dive/research.

Long term goal would be interesting industry gig w/ decent pay, but could see myself in academia as well.

Please share any advice, thoughts, ideas, suggestions, anecdotes, or warnings.

Thanks!
Are news hype topics based on demand, or chance? (expert opinion plz)
Good but not nearly enough. I'm just glad they're paying something.
Downloading a bigger executable wouldn't necessarily be faster actually, it depends on the size difference and the client bandwidth.[1]

Additionnally, it wouldn't be portable (executable compiled for desktop wouldn't run on mobile).

[1] See this comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16171133
Well, even if you say that capital expenses are irrelevant considering the very long time frame, you still have to make the argument that operating expenses of the rail are smaller. What are they, and are they smaller than air travel (~$0.10/passenger-mile)? The only estimate of that I could find with two minutes of googling is ~$0.39/passenger-mile (via http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=88 supposedly using the National Transit Database). That means that a rail line is even _worse_ in the long run.
The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights were written when land was one virtually unlimited resource in the US. Because it was sparsely populated (even more sparsely than a few centuries before that), and most of its inhabitants simply didn't matter.

Let's stop pretending that the 18th century understanding of society transcends time just because this nation happened to be founded at that particular era.
"DOL has masked the fact that this rule would be a windfall to restaurant owners and other employers—out of the pockets of tipped workers—by making it sound as if this rule is about tip pooling."

Sounds like this one must've been written by lobbyists? Assuming this article is accurate, why would this seem like a good rule to get rid of?
What is their fair tax rate? How much do they owe the working class?
As a ISP, you don't want to do this. You're not responsible to what goes inside your pipes.

Let the majors/govs do the work of spying and detecting piracy / illegal websites, and just answer to subpoenas, that will be enough.
modern tractors run on diesel (although I have two that run on gas) for the low end torque curve and slight increase in fuel-to-energy conversion efficiency. Although my person preference is gas tractors, commercial farmers all use diesel for these reasons. For me, gas tractors so much easier to rebuild a carburetor then a diesel injection pump. My diesel tractor has been down for almost a half year due to an injection pump rebuild (Case 530CK Roosamaster pump)
I don't mind the rest of it so much but I have to agree about the sexual joking around with his female cohosts. They are clearly uncomfortable, it's palpable. And he KEEPS DOING IT. I would give him a break once, maybe twice, but it is persistent in some cases to the point where it's borderline harrasment - and that's what we can hear on air. Who knows what happens when we are not listening.

It's a good reminder to those of us who assume otherwise that otherwise perfectly intelligent, rational and seemingly polite and reasonable people can be completely blind to this sort of thing.
I'm really excited about this project! It seems like it's Google Blockly with a lot more bells and whistles. I'll have to dig into the code more to tell.

At BlockSchool, my online coding school for kids 6-13, we've had a pretty good experience using Blockly. We've managed to hook it up to our own Minecraft-esque world.

If you're interested in what we're doing with kids you can learn more here: https://block.school
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> Once the land is purchased, levelled, and conditioned you now have a space that can have trains running on it for the next fifty...or more years

Look at the route California's HSR takes [1]. That's a map drawn for short-term political gains, not long-term utility.

Unless we develop technology that cancels out inertia, that track is speed limited for much of its route. Comparing non-American infrastructure costs and benefits to American infrastructure is misguided because American infrastructure costs unreasonably more [2].

[1] http://www.ushsr.com/images/632_CA_HSR_Phasing_632.jpg

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Hell, let's just redirect that money toward better local (SF, SJ, LA, OC, SD) and regional transit (stuff like Modesto/Fresno/Monterey/Napa/Sonoma/Sacramento<->SJ/SF and Bakersfield/SB/SLO/SD<->LA/OC). Local traffic congestion and poor transit options are where we're hurting the most.

This doesn't improve the situation for travel between NorCal and SoCal, but I think this is already pretty well-served by air travel, as you point out.

This also doesn't help people who live in, say, Modesto or Fresno get to SoCal (they'd have to train up to SJ and fly down to LA or SD, or drive), but is fixing that really a high priority need when compared to the rest?
Would you enumerate the libraries/frameworks/engines in your toolkit? I'm always interested in alternative approaches. Is it https://github.com/jondubois/nombo ?
Tipped employees make less:
"According to a common labor law provision referred to as a “tip credit”, the employee must earn at least the state’s minimum wage when tips and wages are combined or the employer is required to increase the wage to fulfill that threshold."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
But you are giving up their fingerprints to the government. That's one thing that really bugs me about those programs. I want to remind everyone of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Mayfield. They arrested him because some of his fingerprints slightly matched. The FBI claimed they exactly matched. Quoting from the wikipedia article

"His prints were ... taken ... when he joined the military. He became the prime suspect because of his conversion to Islam and because he had represented one of the Portland Seven...

The FBI described the fingerprint match as "100% verified". According to the court documents in judge Ann Aiken's decision, this information was largely "fabricated and concocted by the FBI and DOJ".

This is why I'm reluctant to give the govt. my fingerprints, but my friends think I'm overreacting.
Not tipped workers. In many states, they get a separate minimum wage in the $3/h range.
There is no diversion about it. Remember that people, voting individuals in the US, have decidedly different stances on what "appropriate" amount of taxes should be. Business, particularly public ones, have a responsibility to their share holders to handle money as fiscally responsibly as they can.

From my perspective, Apple isn't "grabbing" anything. They are moving their money from Bank A to Bank B and paying a 20% fee on their balance simply for doing so. You may say this is a PR piece and a continued way to screw workers, but i see it differently. Apple had no need to repatriate this money. This is part of a conscious shift in their fiscal policy moving forward. It stands to benefit US workers a great deal more than them keeping these funds overseas.
When I read comments like yours, I really wonder if you realize how much of an exaggeration you're making or if hyperbole has become so ingrained in how you express yourself that you genuinely believe such extreme statements as "
In the US, criminal justice is almost exclusively about inflicting maximum pain and suffering..." Like, have you SEEN prisons in Mexico? Cuba? Russia?

Here, I'll finish the rest of this exchange for us:

You: "I can't BELIEVE you are comparing the U.S. to less prosperous countries and Russia, run by a criminal. This goes to show you how terrible America is! Don't you care about pain and suffering? Don't you want criminals to be able to reform?!"

Me: "Yeah that's not what I was talking about. My point is that you are exaggerating to an absurd degree about how bad US prisons are."

You: <continues to not respond to my point, accuse me of character flaws, shoehorns in more tangential political points>

There, saved us both the time.
> The $6 billion price tag was ridiculous.

I looked up construction costs for European high speed rail lines earlier. The best estimate I could find state costs between 12 - 40 million euros per kilometer.

For the 119 miles of this train, that lands you between 2.3 to 5.7 billion euros. So the $6 billion doesn't sound that unreasonable.
Good point. At least it's fewer flights per airport.

But most people seem not to mind:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities/comments/2an5f1/redditor...
> I think a voter should have to make the effort to go to the polls on Election Day. If you can’t or don’t want to do that then you can’t vote.

Government of, by, and for the people—excluding those with serious physical health problems, thise with necessary short-term or long-term (business trip, witness in court, deployed on a diplomatic or military tour overseas) travel away from their home around election day. That sounds, well, completely arbitrary.
Read this paragraph:

"Finally, I suggested that if we reached the final round of hiring without any viable women or minorities in the selection pool, we should take this as an indication that we had not done a good job at outreach. We would start the recruiting process over, and try harder to attract diverse candidates."

What she is saying is, if she didn't get the results she wanted, she'd toss aside ALL applicants (even if they were highly qualified) and start over until she found her version of the "acceptable" candidate.

That's just wrong.
Do you think the people running it really didn’t know how much it would cost? Everyone involved lied about the cost because they knew it would never have been funded if they had been honest about it. Pretty much everyone involved from the voters to the contractors to the lawmakers that passed the budget knew that the numbers were a fantasy.
Most people haven't given the real reason this is happening.

https://www.ft.com/content/789e69f6-e1ea-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52...

If it's behind a paywall the interesting part is:

> Senate and House leaders unveiled the final version of their tax reform legislation on Friday, putting the Republicans on the cusp of delivering tax cuts of close to $1.5tn. As part of the package they will impose a 15.5 per cent one-off tax on offshore cash, coupled with an 8 per cent levy on less liquid assets, a Republican aide said.

So the tax plan didn't convince Apple to repatriate it's money because the tax rates were amazing. The tax plan is causing Apple to pay 15.5% taxes anyways, so since it's being forced to pay taxes on it they might as well use that opportunity to move a lot of that cash to the US where it's more usable for them.

Chances are after this Apple (and all other megacorps) will go right back to storing cash off seas waiting for their next chance for another free chance to move money to the US.
What's that you say? You're in Manchester but need to pop down to London (2 hours 10 mins, 209 miles) tomorrow for a meeting? That'll be £338/$467.