skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in some jurisdictions. I remember seeing articles about Uber getting in trouble for doing this in jurisdictions where it is not the correct behavior and for not doing it in jurisdictions where it is the correct behavior.
We really appreciate this question because we believe that the incentives in the criminal justice system are often wrong. Our goal is to get people out of jail and keep them out. Our program is set up for the purpose of getting them out of custody. We will also evaluate ourselves based on how we do at reducing recidivism.
It's not just the suffering of the offender, but the idea that justice to the offending party can only happen if the offender suffers like the offending party suffered. It's "An eye for an eye", just a few layers of abstraction over it.
I replace all line-endings with "Bee Movie" as binary in avi format.
Are you really so innocent as to believe that the NSA was _only_ targeting foreign Bitcoin holders, or that they made effort at least to avoid capturing info on Americans?
The headline should specify that Uber drivers denied service, not the company itself. The drivers violated Uber’s own policy regarding service animals.
I really want to echo the sentiment that I really hope you guys succeed. There has to be a better incarceration solution than what we have going on now.

I do have a couple questions and please forgive my ignorance in the US judicial system, but from the post it seems that Promise will provide an organized way for participants to be tracked and make/keep appointments.

* How would Promise and its government partners determine a person's eligibility?

* Is a Promise program intended to be available for everyone regardless of the offence? If so, how does Promise intend to convince the society at large that tracking and monitoring the participant is enough to deter repeated offences while on the program? Especially for more violent crimes

* Is the end goal that Promise is in mind when the sentencing is done? ie: the judge would sentence an offender to be on a Promise program for x months/years?

* While I personally think this is a great idea, especially for people convicted of non-violent offences, the fact remains that a mark on one's criminal record severely limits one's job prospects. Does Promise work with participants to better their chances on getting a job and getting back on their feet?

Again, best of luck on this!
Getting the discussion to "breach/not breach" is taking the discussion away from the actual point. Facebook is a cancer for privacy. The affiliates of Facebook are a cancer for privacy. Privacy is a human right. Facebook is cancer (imho).

That said, I believe FB would LOVE if we change the topic from PRIVACY to "anything-except-privacy".

And yes. Any/all dictators (of any shape or form) are trying to silence the media/journalists. Why would FB practice a different method?

This way they want to make sure that the next whistleblower won't have an outlet.
>You can easily choose not to play with Facebook.

If you have friends that upload your photos there, you would be wrong about that.
What the Founding Fathers’ Money Problems Can Teach Us About Bitcoin
Could you tell us a little about what you see as the potential customerbase for the data you collect on the participants?
They manufacture weapons. It's pretty much the most black and white fit for an evil company that can exist. That seems incredibly obvious to the point that I sincerely doubt you had to ask.
a new human life is formed, with its own ends and identity.

And completely dependent upon the mother whose body it is parasitically feeding off of and canabalizing.

The problem with pro lifers is that they completely dismiss the lives of adult women as being less valuable and less important than a single celled organism incapable of surviving on its own.

If you don't want to talk about souls or spirituality, you are saying the rights of a blob of cells supersedes that of a grown woman. I find this monstrous.
> We work for government agencies to monitor and support individuals who would otherwise be in jail or who are under some form of community supervision.

Examples of some of the crimes that people 'would otherwise be in jail' for?
What does the 2 represent? I assume the 4 is 4 weeks and the 6 is 6 months. The 35 must be the high end of 60 to 75 (instead of, say, the average), minus 40 hours. A normal non-crunch work week is more like 45 hours due to breaks and meals, not counting the commute.

30,000 / (22.5 * 4 * 6) = ~$55/hr = ~$110k/yr
I think anybody can run a Stellar validator node[1], somewhat akin to anybody being able to set up a full Bitcoin node.

Ripple is completely centralized in all meanings of the word, and a lot of people confuse the two since Jed McCaleb is a shared founder between the two projects[2]. Having said this, the Ripple Foundation has tried to dispel this notion and claims that they have a roadmap for the Ripple ledger to become more decentralized[3], so perhaps it's fairer to say that Ripple is centralized today but in the future plans to become less so as they try to onboard 3rd party validators.

IBM seems to have stood up a large proportion of verified Stellar validator nodes[4].

[1] https://www.stellar.org/developers/stellar-core/software/adm...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_McCaleb

[3] https://ripple.com/dev-blog/decentralization-strategy-update...

[4] https://dashboard.stellar.org/
What are some industries to look for work in if you’re tired of working on CRUD and you want to work on some kind of visual art? VFX, gaming, etc, seem to be the only things I can think of.
You could have clicked the link and found out for yourself in like 5 seconds.
Only 20-50 years away.
No, that’s only for a compulsory summons, which this is not.
Stellar is not centralized. Anyone can deploy a node.

https://www.stellar.org/how-it-works/stellar-basics/explaine...
Thoughts on why this project was dumped by investors:

I think the problem they really had from the beginning was they were pressuring themselves to innovate in an industry that is already decades old. You can't raise $2 mil and not feel the pressure to perform, and sadly this is not how innovation works. So instead they kept releasing prototypes that didn't really make sense or remotely scale:

- turning sql into graphs that made a 2 line statement take up the whole screen

- the database language that had no performance characteristics at all

- the bouncing ball demo that seems to only be made to create a bouncing ball, and yet doesn't add more understanding to the process anyway

- the imperative language written in 'english' (but of course only accepts the english words and specific grammar the software understands) and so on.

Not trying to be harsh, but this is probably a good thing. Once they take a break and move on to other things, a ton of ideas will no doubt come flooding in, just because they aren't under the same scrutiny and pressure anymore.
"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. "

Is "working with Promise instead of being in jail" only for people who are in jail pre-trial? Or will you be trying to do this for people who have been convicted of actual crimes?
Pixar didn't use ray tracing much until 2013 with Monster's University.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/21/4446606/how-pixar-changed...

Nowadays ray tracing is common, but as recently as five years ago it was rare. Not all high-quality animation is ray traced.
Amazon customer support helps you select items to buy?
They will not be performing any service or labor for Promise. They will work with our team. Our team with get them set up on the app, do an intake to refer them to appropriate support services, work with them to make sure they know about court dates and other obligations, etc.
Facebook Inc - is listed at Companies House (UK register of businesses) as a legal person with significant control (75%) of Facebook UK. Mark Zuckerberg is the senior officer of the significant person company that has a controlling interest in a UK company. Either an officer of the company (i,e, those listed as officers/ Directors of Facebook UK) or, as in this case, a person representing significant control(more than 50% ownership and therefore potentially a say in or responsibility for operations) of a UK company can be requested to explain a companies activities to either the UK parliament or a UK court.
So your Python scraper has a list of websites whose home pages it scrapes?
It would be pretty hilarious if SDVs never broke speed limits, accident after accident caused by irate human drivers attempting to pass.
> (1) I am always concerned about start ups with hugely impactful products that seem to lack rigor around their technology. This one will be part of determining who gets what care or who gets sent to jail. Where's the evidence that Promise will make this decision better?

I'm not with Promise, but let me tackle this one.

What currently decides which suspects stay in jail? Two things: a judge that sets (or denies) a bail price, and the ability of the suspect to pay that price, either directly or through a bond. What this means is that, as mentioned in the OP, the poor, who will be most strongly affected by being unable to work before their trial, are also those who will be most likely unable to pay their bond.

I would also like more information on how Promise will determine who will be eligible for their services, but whatever the process is, if it means that any number of people are able to continue working and helping their family as opposed to rotting away in a concrete box just because they can't pay to bail out, it's absolutely a net win.
Containers: Just Because Everyone Else Is Doing Them Wrong (2016)
nope, still no improvement for:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article720305...
I worked on the handheld JTRS radios some years ago, it was running Green Hills Integrity RTOS at the time.
> However, vim is just great fun.

This is such a fundamental disconnect from my idea of fun that I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this ;)

> It makes tricky and repetitive transformations of text intuitive and enjoyable.

Given the fact that the number one phrase involving vim is "how do I do X in vim" I think intuitive is something that shouldn't even be in the same zipcode as it.
Wait, what? Validators can be run by anyone.
> That "feature" of bitcoin has added more complications to the network than it is worth, IMO

As long as there is any option of storing anything user-derived in the blockchain, this problem will exist. And it is conceivable that the transaction amount can be used to encode binary data... and this doesn't just impact Bitcoin, but also normal banks. Assuming a bank with two accounts and no transfer fees, I could transfer money between the accounts and encode my data e.g. in the "cent" division, with every transaction encoding a single byte. So technically the bank is in possession of child porn (or, to choose something of lesser importance, the tiny libdvdcss code), but is simultaneously not allowed to erase it due to financial transparency laws...
This thread seems to think the technical implementation is at fault.

I'd offer an alternative: the fact that we're stuck "sharing" via centrally managed platforms is the real issue.

I don't care about Facebook auth mechanism. Regardless of how it shares data, FB still HAS all the data, and can find a different way to share that with whatever party they want.

There's no leverage in the information economy outside "Use the one or maybe 2 ISPs you have, and these handful of "top" providers online."

It's like having a meat space economy be controlled by a top-down authority, and you can only trade along it's finan... distribution network.

Oh wow, what a shock. We remade cyberspace society to be just as centrally controlled as meatspace society. While meatspace became more constrained in an authoritarian way yet again in human history.

Human society exists in a strange loop of "build walls that are used to oppress me."
Golang: Easy to get started, hard to master (worth it) - maturing and run by experienced if opinionated people.

Node: Easy to get started, can let you get shit done. Easy to dig your own grave, problems sometimes come from left field.

Honestly, writing golang makes me feel like I'm trying to revive Brutalism - it is blocky overbuilt and feels solid - it just doesn't feel "elegant", and you really don't want to cut corners. Node is more "fun" - but it just feels like I'm adding to a pile of hacks and checking that in -

Node: I have been bitten by more than once - situations totally out of my control left me dead in the water. Golang, not so much.

Lastly when I work in go, I can understand my dependencies and deal with them. Most of my node experience entails praying all the dependencies work and dealing with it if they don't or stop.

Really the choice is yours because both WORK, but for me personally I would not want to work in node again. Honestly set them both up and figure out what one you like more - it should not be hard to write a basic sign up and log in micro service.
I sense the same can be said about many medical devices.

Firemen came to my house they had a portable digital EKG with 2G data line to push the graph to a doctor remotely. The thing couldn't get cell reception, probably a weak modem/antenna. One of the guy hinted at 5000$ unit cost. In terms of screen + processing + com electronics, it's about 50$. Some MD told me there needs to be some precise analog probes and ADC but I doubt it's in the 1000$ range.

Then there are standard validation costs, which are necessary.

The rest comes from premiums due to the medical market IMO. The companies know very well they can get away with such prices so they do, even though it could be pushed down without altering quality or even decent profit for them.
I for one would not have a problem with Facebook getting fined two trillion dollars.
I'm a big fan of N26 too but I longer go around evangelizing it to my friends and family. I got literally hundreds of people to sign up last year.

I only discovered that support was no longer available in the app when I actually _needed_ support, it was frustrating wasting time trying to find something I was sure I had seen in the app before.

So, I still use my N26 account, and appreciate it in many ways but, if they are capable of making bad decisions like that, there will obviously be more cost-cutting once they have solidified their position in the market. I cannot, in good faith, evangelize a service that may end up being as bad as the traditional banks.
Would it be more ethical to only profit based on recidivism?

Eg, Promise is only paid if the prisoner doesn't go back to prison?
Most systems for military/aviation use (my experience is more the latter and some the former) get burned into ROM and changing the ROM requires physical access (usually). So most likely a virus or similar could be counteracted with a reboot unless physical access was achieved by the adversary. In which case, they could do anything else to it too.
Ah yes, expanding my world view that we should encourage school shootings. I would love to wake up tomorrow and be happy to see more kids murdered, but damn I guess I'm just not open minded enough.

If only we were all so enlightened as Americans, that our children cower in fear that they might die at school.
Does it really go that deep? I was under the impression that the app cool only grok that you are a "friend" of you aunt.
Police cyber-hunt reveals massive gap in legal protections
I would like them to review my numerous fake profile reports to Facebook, which they ignored... it was probably in the 100s during this last election. They failed to act and I am pretty sure that they promote, allow and encourage the use of bots and fake accounts on their social network as it helps inflate their user count.
Yes, that's how Level 2 systems (like Tesla Autopilot) work.
Suboxone is the one you are thinking of. Naloxone is used to reverse the effects of an OD. Unless they are functionally similar and I am misinformed.
You're right, it looks worse.
You're not wrong, but there are absolutely massive amounts of government intrusion and surveillance that I personally would accept as an alternative to rotting in jail.
Well, the difference would be that I actually built radios, and at least some of them worked. It's really that simple, even without SDR. You already have a microcontroller that reads rotary encoder attached to the tuning knob and changes voltage that goes to the VCO (or divisor in PLL). All you need is to control it from CSPRNG.

You will need to spend some effort on getting synchronization right, but it's a lot less complicated than, say, building a CRUD app.
It looks to me like they're designed to help the accused, not the criminal. Here's a great infographic about the problem: http://www.pretrial.org/the-problem/
74 percent of people in county jails are waiting for a trial. Of that a majority are bail eligible, but cannot afford it. They have not been convicted of the crime they were arrested for. We are focusing on the population that would otherwise be incarcerated because they cannot afford bail.
Our current plan is to do contracts with government agencies. There is no plan to charge the participants directly. Our plan was to start with pre-trial individuals but in speaking with potential clients, we do have interest in working with individuals who are on probation, parole and those who can serve their sentence in the community.
South Africa has launched a $3M biorefinery facility
how is this different from already established government funded programs like: drug court, day reporting and reentry, probation, community control?

i don't like it when private businesses get involved with public programs (look at private prisons for example). we already have enough corruption in the system.
Computers have better reaction times than humans. Forcibly braking is a simple maneuver.
I believe it's not clear whether or not it was speeding, From the article, it sounds like it may have been in the middle of transitioning from 35MPH to/from 40MPH.
Do Cellphones Really Cause Brain Cancer? We Have Answers
Makes perfect sense, but this project aims to profit.

The obvious centuries-old solution of government-managed prisons is useless for that.
Well I stand corrected! Thank you!
Monitor the quality of your email service provider's delivery
"Not sure why people are so hung up on the "breach" vs "not a breach" debate."

Wild guess (probably incorrect):

http://web.archive.org/web/20170205180142/https://www.foley....
I think most Americans comments in this thread is displaying bias.

To put in perspective, if Alibaba's partners was caught collecting massive amounts of customer data through Alibaba and using it to spy (in part for Chinese govt) and perform experiments/tactics on the American people, would they first summon the highest American branch leader of Alibaba in hush-hush manner or the most notable founder himself/herself with the most voting power on changing and directing the organization?

UK isn't USA, if they feel that the liberties of their own people is being tampered with, they would want to talk directly to the big man, the UK-based CEO would rather be just a horn through which Zuckerberg and his team talks through so it would be more direct to talk to him.

Moreover whole situation is like a Catch-22, if Zuckerberg doesn't go, it would betray him more.
I don't agree-- I don't think most people want to be power users nor do I think science and technology is supposed to produce more power users. People want hard and complex things to be done easier for them.
It's not really 5D chess. Republicans have been saying "starve the lion" (e.g. taking huge deficits and then proposing budget cuts) since Reagan. I wouldn't be surprised if Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" (which I never read, I just know the blurb) proposes this meta-strategy en passant somewhere.
The Knife Media is a news outlet that reports news and news bias
> Cars kill a lot more people than guns. Every year.

Globally, that may well still be the case. In the US, it recently ceased to be thanks to improvements in car safety.
Why don’t they just offer the option to turn off ads? If there’s no ads to show to you because you’re paying to opt out, there should be no reason to harvest your personal info. They have 2 billion active users and make around $50 billion a year. So they’d need to charge $2 per user per month to opt out of ads (and could probably charge more). The fact that this isn’t even an option just reeks of their holier than thou corporate attitude.
They pulled the whole friend graph and used it to generate emails pushing supporters to reach out to specific named friends who live in specific states.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
Poll: Do you think Facebook will have Zuckerberg give this account, or will they assign this task to some other Facebook employee? Feel free to explain your answer.

I'd guess it's more likely than not that Zuckerberg himself will appear.

The reason is simple: this is the nightmare scenario that privacy advocates have been talking about. It's a massive leak of personal data, which has been deliberately and seriously abused, and there is substantial evidence of profound implications going to the heart of our democratic processes.

It also happened just a few weeks before arguably the biggest shift in privacy law in the history of the EU comes into effect, and all of this is set against a backdrop of much increased public scepticism about both social networks specifically and big data hoarders in general, following a string of other worrying stories (some of which were about Facebook and some of which weren't, but that doesn't matter very much as far as public sentiment goes).

If this one is handled badly, it really could become an existential threat to Facebook's current very lucrative business model throughout the EU. And apparently it's already been mishandled on a previous occasion with the same parliamentary committee, so sending someone that isn't going to command the committee's confidence this time would be mishandling on a scale of pulling the pin and dropping the grenade at your feet.
> To my mind, types and tests are very much complimentary - ideally tests check that your solution gives correct answers at some points in your domain, while types help make that space more uniform (so if it's correct at some points it's more likely correct at others). There are some practical cases where the types sufficiently constrain things that checking any actual points is redundant, but that's not the common case.

Yeah, this is my ultimate point, and I worry that some people have misunderstood my intent. I'm not criticizing types: I think they're a very important tool. I'm saying that types don't handle every kind of possible error. And conveniently, tests often cover the kinds of errors that types don't (and vice versa).
According to your post, one fifth of prisoners are awaiting trial.

Our constitution says that people have the right to a speedy trial.

Shouldn't we be working to make the trial process faster? Assuming that these individuals don't go to jail, I find the "promise" approach unethical for someone who is innocent.
I agree, but they were out of the parts business well before Arduino and Raspberry Pi were a thing. The last Radio Shack in my area that stocked resistors closed in 2006. There's none near me now, but since ~2000 they'd been mostly phone stores that also carried the occasional batteries and cables.
Apparently there's leaked classified material in there too.

Well, that's a fiasco...