skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parallels are downright freaky. Think about it:

* Sense that they will rule the world

* Incredibly bubbly real estate market

* Exporting this bubble to North America west coast

* Huge bets on AI

* Zombie companies (SOEs)

* Rapidly aging worforce

Yes, there are some difference, China is much larger than Japan but it is also much poorer than Japan (on a per capita basis). The country as a whole isn't that well educated (compulsory education only goes to 9th grade, extremely uneven resources applied to rural areas and different cities).

Who knows how this will play off, I'm guessing a China crash will be much worse in scale than Japan coming down in the late 80s/early 90s, but China will also be able to recover much more quickly after it happens given there is still room for development.
> that's when the doorway to the inner world opens

Sorry the metaphor is lost on me. What does that mean in layman terms?
> There is such a thing as for profit for good.

Their association with Y Combinator doesn't help with that impression. How many other venture funded start ups exist to provide a societal benefit while making only a modest return? Isn't the goal a big exit?

They might not be venture funded yet, but they aren't at Y Combinator for the coffee, right? I know this sounds super cynical, so please tell me why I'm wrong. Why is this a good thing?
The reason prison exists and has existed for all of human society and history is that it works. How arrogant of you to think you have some revolutionary new way to punish societal defectors.

The main issue with these types of programs. Once someone is on the "jail track" they have already failed and been failed by society. The real solution is to keep as many people on the right path as possible before they go wrong.

This feel good crap also doesn't account for the fact that a huge percent of people are opportunistic pieces of garbage that will break the law for a small personal benefit when the penalty is low. Many people already out there will at the prospect of lesser penalties start to defect from the social contract they are currently adhering to.
I'll take one of these, please
And that shit needs to stop now.

If I want to bloody recompile the LK on my phone to install a proper linux, that or other GPL tools shouldn't be blockers.
With regards to point #1, based on reading the description of Promise and glancing at their website, it does not sound like technology plays a meaningful role in deciding who is released from jail.

> Here's how Promise works: We work in partnership with governments who release people from jail on condition that they work with Promise as an alternative to being in custody. We also provide support to people under community supervision. We use an intake assessment to create an individualized plan that is based on the risks and needs of each participant."

I took that to mean that someone from the government and someone from Promise look together at the record of someone in jail (and obviously the government would have the final say), decide if they are a candidate for release.

And, my first thought about the "intake asseessment" step to ascertain the level of risk of individuals in the Promise program was that it would be like any other social science/psychology-based interview and questionnaire process.

#2 is a good point, and a concern I had as well. At the same time, if some progress could be made (as Promise intends) on decreasing our prison population, that would be really good for society.

#3 seems like an assumption. Maybe, maybe not - it's hard to say without input from those who have experience w/the criminal justice system.

I definitely agree there are a lot of ethics issues here. That said, on a scale of 1 - 10, for tech companies/ideas with potential ethics issues, this is way below the Google/Facebook/Palantir/etc level - i.e., this is not the slipperiest slope we have to slide.
>These types of businesses are not impossible to create.

This is amazingly uninformed. Let’s stop pretending private businesses were born yesterday and just consult history. Privatization of human rights is despicable and this is not a lesson that needs to be learned again. Do you know why we never had private prisons before? They incentivize corruption of the most vulnerable fabric of our society. No excuse.
I've had the same experience. For some reason Google thinks I want bi-daily reports on Trump's bathroom schedule, or what utensil he ate with. Which I can almost understand why I get that because so many people apparently want that, but that is literally ALL I get from them. And believe me, that is not figured out by skillful mining of my data.
Bankruptcies in 2018 – how many more to drown in red ink?
A Short Guide to a Super Productive Docker Development Environment
They don't do free software. FSF and Conservancy are trying to keep the moral high ground.
You do know that entire speech is in the context of illegal immigration, right?
That's the law, no reason to think otherwise without evidence. I assume the story would be very different if there was any indication this was used on US citizens.
> Part of the reason I left the games industry is that once you work at studio with an internal engine it is extremely frustrating to work on AAA games without the freedom to walk over to the engine programmer and get them to move the engine closer to what you need.

Internal engines also on average are less cross platform. Simply because big publishers and shareholders don't want these very expenses that creep into development because of lock-in. That's why many Linux releases for such games use source or binary wrappers, rather than proper native rendering to begin with. This highlights my point above.
A miner who knows where in the chain these files are could zero out the bytes, retaining just the hash of that area. Normal operation on the blockchain could continue, except that the miner wouldn't be able to validate any new transaction trying to spend the output that contains the illegal content. This doesn't feel like a loss anyone is going to worry about. The only affected parties would be the parties who put the data there, and presumably they aren't going to reveal themselves.

In other words, Bitcoin operation can continue with pretty much a non-controversial software change that allows miners to choose to ignore particular outputs.

If a miner genuinely doesn't know where in the chain these files are, then I'm not sure it can be claimed that the miner is in "possession" of it and the legal principle of mens rea will mean that the miner won't be criminally culpable in most jurisdictions.
My assumption is that Promise isn't intended for every case. Some people will still go to jail.

Also, there are other ways to break a cycle of addiction. Prison isn't the only way, nor even a particularly recommended way.

I'm glad you got free of your addiction. Religious types might chalk this up to "the good lord moves in mysterious ways."

But I don't see any reason why your story should be viewed as an argument against their work.
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that MUMPS/M seems more analogous to a Database with a built-in language than a language with a built-in database, although having said that, the distinction seems pretty fine to me. Is Company X SQL, which can have sprocs and such, also a language with a database baked in?

As an aside: Does anyone (other than Epic Health Systems or whoever) use Mumps/M at any kind of scale? I hear that the issues with global namespacing can become really burdensome above even small thresholds.
> one American and five Chinese

How many Chinese are meaningfully in the present? As I understood it, there was still a non-trivial population living in a less-than-modern way.
I would applaud that choice.

I had a retinal tear 4 weeks ago and then then retina detached and started sagging in front of my lens, blocking half of my field of view. Seriously scary, especially since my mother has lost most of her vision after a similar problem.

I got a pneumatic retinopexy a couple of days later. Amazingly, it only took about 30 minutes in a (nice) back-room of the retina clinic with local anesthesia, and the retina re-attached itself in the course of the next few days. Now I am just waiting for the gas bubble to dissolve while my vision is getting better each day.
What's the latest on optic nerve regeneration with stem cells?
the article talks about treatment with Vivitrol which is similar to suboxone, except it can't be abused (and therefore has no street value) and is a monthly injection instead of a daily.

Naloxone/Narcan is for immediate treatment of an overdose
I agree! Anecdotally, I prefer `x >>= y` over `x .then y`, and `f <$> xs` over `map f xs` because the symbols "read quieter" to my mind, which helps me maintain focus.
I'm pretty sure the government would be the final arbiter of who would be let out. Which does raise the perennial issue of, no politician wants to be the person to let that one guy out who commits another crime, even if the other 9,999 did great.
For anyone wondering, this is definitely sarcasm.
Thank you for your support! We agree that a big part of the solution is changing mindsets.
Am I crazy for not buying that 2 billion number? Is it really possible that over 25% of the world's population uses Facebook?
> Or the judge that permitted them to bail out?

Yes, absolutely. It's part of the judge's job to make some initial assessment of risk and set bail accordingly (or deny it entirely). For example, if the charge is murder, bail is automatically denied.
The wife worked on a similar So. Cal government program for approx. 4-years in the late 90’s. Designed primarily for helping people with mental illnesses who had been arrested (a large % of jail population). My observation was that the program was very effective, but limited in scope due to funding. If interested, can put you in touch with her to discuss.
People! please be careful with these casual references to breathing exercises and other mind-body techniques. Breathing changes can hurt you. Please seek an experienced teacher.. for example, another post mentioned a cessation of breathing rhythm as a gateway.. BS, and dangerous too. Blood pressure, cardiac rhythm, mental balance, are all deeply effected. thanks and take care
What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump
You're still parsing it incorrectly even if this speech wasn't about the wall and illegal immigration.

"their rapists" only means that some subset are rapists because it's a category included with others. There is no hint that all of the bad ones he is referring to are rapists.
Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S. Colleges
Can you pls email me (in my profile)... have some questions that I’d like to ask privately
Good catch! The PaddlePaddle logo is faded which means we don't yet have support for it but would love to add it in the near future.
Major frustration i personally experience!

My dog isn't a service dog, he's just a friend, but sometimes I take the street car in to the office and my dog (Elvis) joins me. If it rains, or if i'm leaving in rush hour (when dogs are not allowed on transit here in Toronto), i take an uber or taxi home. Often Ubers reject me due to the dog, but i have no way of letting them know in advance other than by calling as soon as they accept (which i always do, but even when they say "yeah no worries" they often still reject after the call).

I just want to be able to mark that I have a dog with me, and for the uber drivers to know this when they accept. Surprising them with an animal is to no ones advantage.

We're talking about a Beagle, completely silent, normally just sleeps in cars, 22lbs, sits on my lap.
You have to share the attempt:
https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=http%3A%2F%2Fww...
Wow, these comments are so closed-minded, pessimistic, and discouraging. Ignore them!
Subsidy-free renewable energy projects set to soar in UK, analysts say
Case management! Got it.
no - not like that .. intoxication is not the same as extraordinary function .. complex topic, not amenable to HN posts
I wonder what Chris Granger will almost-build next.
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I have a handheld walkie-talkie radio from REI that can transmit 10-20 miles from the top of a hill in not-perfect conditions (and about 1-2 miles in forested terrain), so I think your range estimates are off by an order of magnitude for high-powered transmissions.
So basically, your app

1) Is a calendar with reminders

2) Can integrate with a wearable GPS monitor

3) Has a survey that decides how much freedom each user loses

4) Provides "referrals and support"

5) Gives reports to a court

Doesn't sound all that innovative to me. And that's not even considering the perverse ethics and incentive structures here.
You didn't really address the incentive, just simply stated your goals. I think clearly there is a financial incentive for a for-profit company to keep people in the system.

If you have ideological views that people > profit (which I suspect you do, and I completely agree with), then that can be an incentive. But I think it is important to recognize that people and the systems they build can be corrupted over time. What happens when people that don't have the same ideology take control? The profit incentive won't change, but the ideological one may.

I wasn't the one that asked the question initially, but it's possible that's what he/she was getting at.
Would be interesting to use this as a training algorithm -- have multiple self-replicating networks that mate and copy portions of their weights in random patterns... eerie.
This is really cool.

Are there existing protocols/precedents within the judicial for deciding who would be eligible, and not be a risk to the public?

My first thought was that politicians/judges/etc will be afraid to be seen as "soft on crime", or, "releasing murderers and rapists," etc. In other words, that the social and political aspects of Promise would be the most challenging part.
> Our constitution says that people have the right to a speedy trial.

Indeed; that's part of the Eighth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Also the Tenth Amendment states:

> Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

And boy, is this Amendment violated good and hard constantly. Let's not even talk about the First and Second.

Our governments are very good at ignoring their own laws.
Show HN: Nugget 3.0 – Browse 3450+ SaaS product ideas
This is not the same product I released 2 years ago which was only an email list. Nugget 3.0 is an idea search engine, research tool and community.

Also, the 3.0 release meets the technical requirements of a Show HN since any HN user can instantly login via oauth using a Twitter, Facebook or Google and start playing :)

https://nugget.one

As soon as you are in you can start searching through 3450+ startup ideas and bookmark the ones you like.

I hope you enjoy and I'm interested to hear your feedback!

Thanks,
Justin
If you had been given the choice between 2-years of government enforced rehab or 1 year of jail, what would the old you have chosen?
I don't have much experience with Vim, so I don't really have the whole picture here, but I never understood why the examples of Vim's usefulness was appealing. They all seem to be examples of how you can edit text very efficiently, but that never seemed to be a problem for me. When I program, typing speed is never the bottleneck - I spend most of my time thinking about how to implement something, testing it, and debugging it. The actual typing part is a fairly small portion of it. Letting me input the text with like 25% increased speed doesn't seem worth the overhead of internalizing such a complex system. I'd rather work in an environment with good debugging tools and autocomplete system (but maybe those aren't incompatible with Vim; again, I'm not too experienced with using it).

Perhaps it depends on the type of work. I imagine some types of programming require more typing than others. I could see typing efficiency being really beneficial for front end web stuff. I mostly work on game engine things, and rarely does my speed-of-thinking-of-things-to-type exceed my typing speed.
Guess how we know you've never designed or used a military-grade radio.
I think the Stellar Foundation distributed 20% of the tokens so far (from the dashboard[1]), and holds back 5% of available token supply for their operating costs.

Your point still stands though: like Ripple, Stellar's token supply is still in early stages of distribution which gives the respective foundations immense influence over the nascent networks.

[1] https://dashboard.stellar.org/
The last male northern white rhino has died, spelling probable extinction
Slightly related, the Startup Podcast has two great episodes on Justin.tv: https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup/almost-famous-season-3-e...
How Sift Science Trains Thousands of Models Using Apache Airflow
Why is computing so specialized towards Deep Learning these days, when it absolutely doesn't need to be? Optimized "kernels" are useful for other kinds of applications as well, such as scientific computing (linear algebra), and image and signal processing.

I can see it coming already: a fast matrix multiplication library, running on a deep learning solution, running on a graphics card. It's kind of ridiculous, isn't it?
Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities
This is a big problem that needs creative solutions.

However, I'm nervous about a for-profit, investor-backed company getting into rehabilitation and criminal justice. When criminality becomes a profit center, these supporting companies are disincentivized to reduce crime or penalties for crime.

I can imagine companies like this will participate in lobbying efforts to keep recreational drugs criminalized as that's a huge population of offenders who will needs exactly these services.

I'd have a much better feeling if it was setup as a non-profit.
Can handle fiat currencies; supports regulatory compliance (KYC, AML). Compared to Bitcoin: lower transaction fees, faster, lower energy costs.

(Stellar without Lightning is magnitudes faster and cheaper than Bitcoin without Lightning. Stellar with Lightning should be faster and cheaper than Bitcoin with Lightning — assuming the Stellar network is equally well-connected, which it might not be.)
Would you consider becoming a certified B Corporation, or something along those lines?

https://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps/certified-b-co...
Why Famous Psychological Experiments Failed When Re-Tested
> It means that everyone defines strong and weak in their own way, which has happened in every type system debate I've seen over the past 15 years.

Okay, that's fair. Part of the reason I gave examples and defined the spectrum I was talking about was to address this problem, because I know people don't necessarily know what I'm talking about.
The read I have is that they are aiming downstream of the detention decision, providing services related to probation and parole.

I wouldn't be real surprised if their initial targets are places that have large, established probation systems, offering the tech as an aid to government employed probation officers. Easier than taking on legal responsibility for the probationers.
if the government is collecting data that another department can use you bet they are sharing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
What a nice thing to say.
Also, a new article from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
Note from the about page: "We are not a registered charity, in the sense that we do not issue tax deductible receipts. " Seems still worthwhile to raise awareness.
Quine, the descriptor in the actual article, is both more accurate, and more appropriate for a forum made of programmers.

The fact that they made it into a quine with non-trivial, useful side effects is actually really interesting, regardless of the language/paradigm.
It's interesting that Software Engineers here would discuss about the ethics of building mass surveillance software [1] but have no problem with people fighting in foreign lands to advance the interests of capitalism. Why blame Software Engineers for their role in enforcing the interests of the State when veterans get a free pass? Have we really become that hypocritic?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14219384
> I wish there was a name for this fallacy because it comes up so often. When you have a systemic problem, you do not have a viable solution if your solution requires the conscientious choices of every affected individual.

I think that's true of the general problem of data privacy, but I don't think it's exactly true of the particular "Facebook" instance of that problem.

Social networks have withered and died before, and there's no reason to think that Facebook can't be nudged in that direction, one user at a time, until the snowball starts. This seems like a pretty opportune time to get that ball rolling.
" and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, LibreSSL, and mandoc. "
Maybe they meant more likely than the average of India and Pakistan.
I will concede that point for one class of violators.

There's from what I see, 2 groups of GPL (and related) license violators. The first are unintentional ones. They didn't realize, for one reason or another, the ramifications of the GPL. Or, they just don't have a license but it's on Git(Hub/Lab). These people, if it is mentioned to, will fix it.

You have the second group, that sells corporate, closed source hardware, with closed source linux kernel and associated GPL'ed tools. These care not for licenses, and would violate anything and everything for a nickel. They are bad actors, willing to do anything to disadvantage any suckers. Look no further than pretty much every Android phone vendor, Orange Pi, Banana Pi, and lots others.

Intent is 90% of the law. I'm certainly willing to let the 10% drop (the action), but its clear whom is and isn't well meaning and who is a bad actor. Making a pile of money and intentionally breaking the license and copyright is usually a pretty strong indicator.
Trump may have won on a slim margin, but he was supposed to lose on a huge one, by most predictions. If CA merely granted a net positive, then it likely paled in comparison to whatever else substantially affected results.
I never had much to do with them, but stuff like dbase III and FoxPro and the like were integrated DB/language environments, and they were quite popular back in the day.
Uber becomes first company to deal with driverless-car death
Notice they only answer lighthearted/positive inquiries that aren’t too inquisitive.

The issue with privatization is that a public relations person can tell you one thing today, they can do another thing tomorrow, and all that matters is turning a profit.

These are not stupid questions but you’re still wasting your time asking them. If you want trustworthy answers, your only option is to deprivatize and elect officials based on honesty and merit.