skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ultimate goal is not to collect $100, it's for the offender to not reoffend.

If that is the ultimate goal, then fine equitable punishment would include fines targeting versus ability to pay.

However, if the system is simply seeking recompense for an action then it is unfair to place a higher fine on someone simply because they have more money.

For traffic offenses such as speeding, perhaps stopping re-offending is the goal since speeding always carries a higher risk accidentally harming someone else.

For a parking meter offense, I think the goal is simple recompense as if you had put in more money at the outset, you would not have been fined.
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Qualcomms overdue smartwatch chip may finally come on September 10th – The Verge
Discord seems like a very strange choice considering how strongly anti-privacy they are.

Encryption? Not allowed. Deleting your own conversation history? Not allowed.

It’ll be really funny when some famous discord user gets hacked and has years of private chat logs dumped publicly.
Of course it didn’t; there used to be less traffic! And the only solution is to reverse the trend of traffic growth—specifically, to reduce the average footprint of an individual traveler.
I've seen a fair few people and communities move to Slack, Discord and other such chat systems. Perhaps the 'public' side of social media is getting to them, so they're moving more in moderated communities rather than free for alls.
The best and most practical introduction to spaced repetition is Michael Nielsen's Augmenting Long-term Memory (http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html), already discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17460513.
By cutting exams short, we are losing information about the student's knowledge in return for information about how well students work under pressure.

As an employer, "working under pressure" is not very high on my list of
considerations. I would much rather have a complete picture of the candidate's ability to learn and retain information. Well-designed systems take months and months to build, I would prefer information about the candidate's general aptitude than their ability to work in crunch time.

If I was looking for employees for a job in which "working under pressure" was a central component, I would rather test for that in the interview process and have their university scores be uncompromised by pressure.
Which Odoo company is best suited for the hospitality industry in India?
>I paid for my college education in the late 90s in cash I earned.

If you went to a public school, taxpayers paid for a large portion of it.
Thanks for sharing your workflow.

When importing articles, does SuperMemo store the original URL? How about the layout of the original article, e.g. photos or diagrams in addition to the text? Is it IE-only or can it work with Firefox to import multiple tabs?
Building a distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally
Have used Ergodox for 2 years, quite satisfied with it, but I can't get used to not having labels. I received my Ultimate Hacker Keyboard (unfortunate name...) last week but haven't had a chance yet to plug it in - I imagine there will be some switching cost that I don't have time for. But it looks very well build, and it has proper labels printed on all keys, yay.
> Problem is: they are badly documented and the API is awkward.

That's my main problem with asyncio right now, bumping into problems and trying to find how to fix them by looking into the documentation is rather difficult. The documentation right now feels more like a documentation for an unsupported old library.

Also it's awkward that you cannot resolve kwargs on the functions that you pass to asyncio, like the callback in run_in_executor. You have to wrap the function in a partial resolving all kwargs and then send it to the executor.
> Or birds that get sucked into jet engines because they apparently don't consider a jumbo jet to be an obstacle worth avoiding, hence this conversation.

The problem there is that the bird has no time to react. Planes are way faster and actually suck air.
I’m not an expert on this but it seems like they just didn’t want to find a way to give you green threads without GIL. This had already been done in another Python implementation:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackless_Python

Stackless has a proven model. Basically the same model as goroutines and channels. It’s the reason EVE Online is able to run its primary game server in Python with such a large number of users.
How to Implement Single Sign on (SSO) with Tyk and Okta
Quakecon 2018 Schedule: Doom Eternal, Fallout 76, and More
I don't get easily excited so if I were to set the bar there I would struggle a lot with finding jobs.
The discussion is about bails which are given back if you show up to court.
I realize what the article means, but "a roadmap for taking aim at pedestrian deaths" certainly is curious phrasing.
How is MyDef not another language?
Overall I think it looks great! Not too much going on and it’s easy to read. I’d suggest you experiment with adding more whitespace between different sections and especially between different projects. I’m on mobile, btw.

I saw this post yesterday and learned a lot from it, you might find it helpful as well: http://blog-en.tilda.cc/articles-website-design-mistakes
People say "governments favour local companies" to defend the EU's ridiculous anti-trust claims against US tech, and to attack America for not breaking up American tech monopolies.

Apparently America is propping up all its tech companies and it's not allowing European companies to compete, thus is similar to CCP's support of Chinese tech companies; which is of course ridiculous for all the things you just mentioned.

The constant drum beat of "America is morally wrong for not using anti-trust on its tech companies" is just ridiculous. Especially when trying to compare the US government's approach to the free market to China's.
That's because compiling non-C++/Rust-like language to WASM is unpleasant and associated with completely unneccessary overheads.
The Importance of Psychological Safety
It shows in both app stores on either platform. The play store gives me lots of suggestions on apps to download based on activity, and the iOS store has these write ups to promote apps. Both get them money.

Does Android have something like Siri suggestions with P? Because that seems intended to do the exact opposite of what you’re saying. It is the feature that suggests your notes app if you often use your notes app in the grocery store location. It would be a good use for Android instead of the constant asking to review the store.
All that happened is that Instagram won the competition. I'm not sure what are the teens doing, but a lot of older, less invested, users moved on (or were on Instagram in the first place and just stuck to it).
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This white against minorities narrative breaks down once you understand that ~80% of minorities are DNC voters[1] and Bill Clinton was the number one guy who f*ed them over the most with the infamous Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994[2].

1. http://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-aff...

2. In a speech at an NAACP convention in Philadelphia in July, Clinton acknowledged that tougher incarceration provisions in the bill were a mistake. “I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” Clinton said. “And I want to admit it.”

I think this issue has many different angles than just the usual whites vs. minorities.
Show HN: Obtrusive Livetest Chrome Extension
It applies to liquids as well.
Usually long form content in specific fields is entertaining for me but when it comes to news articles, I'd much rather read summarized content with a only few exceptions.
Buy yourself a key switch tester before you decide, it really helped me out (mostly to know the difference in sound between white/brown and green/blue). I forgot where I bought mine from, but I see you can get them off Banggood for $15 now.
How?

One of the key criteria for performance today is "grit", which is an evolution over the previous performance indicators such as education/SAT scores (which had poor long term correlation).

The assumption that they will underperform is unsubstantiated.

Especially considering - all/most Asian American/SE Asian kids go through the ringer to prepare them from the word go, to get into a prestigious school. (Do note - that if they dont get into their first choice college, they will get into their equally good backup schools.)

As the dean of Harvard said - he could fill his class with Valedictorians (and probably have many more to spare).

Academic achievement is not the main criteria for admissions - and at least in an american system it shouldn't be.

----

Living in a world where Academics decide everything, you can easily see the kind of damage it does to daily life.

Societal worth, marriage prospects depend on what is said on that Degree - even if you are terrible at solving real world problems or have 0 motivation to actually work in your field.
Moving beyond REST vs. GraphQL to platform thinking
>"If you mean to say that they succeed because of their willingness to ask for (and make use of) help, then sure."

Yes, this is exactly what I mean. Success often requires asking for help.

Countless times I tried to help students that really didn't seem to care too much, they just wanted to get through the class. (it was required for the degree)

But I regretted splitting my time equally with people that just wanted to eek their way through, when they didn't even care, and didn't really need my help to pass, just to get a better grade.

Where as I wish I had devoted more effort/time towards students that really wanted to excel, even if their skills weren't great, or their talent was near non-existant.

The students that had a drive and need to learn, but still needed help, were the ones that succeeded.

Half the students were there for unknown reasons and would play games in class. Try and tell me how much I should care that they have run out of time to get their projects done at the last minute?

It's better for them to fail than to get shoe-horned into the next class because I helped them maintain their last minute freakout sessions. This did not help them succeed at school or life.
That's pretty much why I never read the articles on reddit/hn and always jump straight in the comment section. I suspect that it's the reason most people do this as well.
Apple is growing faster than Spotify (https://bgr.com/2018/07/06/apple-music-vs-spotify-subscriber...)
and Apple doesn’t live or die by Apple Music like Spotify does.

You should always be afraid when your entire reason for living is a feature of a larger company.
NPM has not been working for hours
The incentives for prosecutors though are off. They use high bail to leverage plea bargains & are judged on how well they accomplish that. Objective, non cash based determination of pretrial risk makes way more sense when judged through that lens.
The author's position is that the only reason to go to college is to learn academic subjects and obtain a job when graduating. If the same logic were applied to automobiles, there'd be no reason to choose a Lexus over a Nissan. College is about the whole experience: friends, contacts, travel, opportunities, and yeah, for some, it just comes down to wanting to to go to a place that "doesn't suck." As for innate ability - well, students were selected based on the college wanting specific types of students, largely because they want to create an unsuckish experience for the students. (There are unmotivated, immature, and/or improperly-backgrounded people in every class, but is it just a couple, or a majority?)

As for the focused universities, the ones that bill themselves solely as get-smart-get-job/promotion/whatever, and that fail to deliver, those must be held accountable. If I bought a "Cheaperson S Hatchback" and it consistently failed to take me to work, and a significant portion of other Cheaperson owners reported the same thing, then the problem is in the car, not me, and Cheaperson should be held accountable.
Active discussion on same topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17711717
Hence "i-z" (in Germany the notes of the chromatic scale go up to H; the German H = English B, Germany B = English B-flat).
>I really liked MagSafe though.

The Surface line by Microsoft has a very similar magnetic power+docking connector. The only issue I have with it is that the LED doesn't change color when the device is fully charged.

The line includes:

- Laptop,

- Pro (tablet + typecover)

- Book (tablet + keyboard + GPU + battery)
Introduction to Microcontrollers
Ok, I stand corrected!

> Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.
Which is awesome, congratulations.

Some of my students were inspired in my classes and have good jobs in the industry. They were looking for something, and I had something to offer. I suspect your experience wasn't too different.

Unfortunately, most students don't find what you found...
the f19n Obtrusive Livetest Chrome Extension collects the whole lifecycle of a pageload (HTTP-headers, server send HTML, document-idle DOM, ...) and executes pre-defined and custom tests against the collected data.

It's designed as an obtrusice, in your face real world testing framework, you can easily write your own tests. Hope you like it.
Most profitable ideas are something that solves a problem you or one of your founders and who's customers would be businesses or individuals who could save/make money using your service in their own business.

For Inspiration Checkout the businesses on indiehackers. Listen to their podcast too.
https://www.indiehackers.com/products

Good Advice - DHH Startup School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Listen to the archive starting at episode 1 Rob goes from drop shipping beach towels and jobs websites through a couple successful software products to founding and exiting with Drip.
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/archives
This was, very likely, an article in actual-printed-paper wired magazine. They blat them up after a short delay.

I used to cover-to-cover it pretty regularly, and these long form articles/headline combinations are great in that situation.

Sure, it's not great for the internet. But I don't think it's a feature of "internet journalism"
> super easy C/C++ FFI

There's a HUGE difference between a C FFI and a C++ FFI. I doubt that Nim makes the latter easy (name mangling, exceptions, STL, ...).
> Not saying this is right, but the opposite is also more common than you'd think.

You don't know how common the reader thinks this is occurring, but you're implying its common. Given your sources are both debunked by another reader I'd appreciate a plethora of other sources.
> "In a CS exam, you either know the answer or you do not."

This is simply not true. Consider an algorithm proof, with enough time you might be able to derive a proof that you should have known cold.

The real world does have deadlines & performance matters, and the women who spent the time studying should get the better grade
Yes. I think even the direct relationship between Google and the US government is fairly well documented. But more generally:

1. Companies in the US have large influence over policy through lobbying. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

2. Laws are enacted or kept that favor these companies. Like the the tax loophole that, combined with intellectual property laws, effectively gives these companies huge tax discounts globally.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-checkthebox-insig...

3. The US uses it power to force countries to sign agreements on or enforce e.g. intellectual property that favors US companies.
https://www.thelocal.se/20060621/4128
Where can I find them? Interested in mining the data
> My very argument is that they are not competing at the moment.

And my argument is that that's by choice rather than by inability.

Also there is a large amount of overlap between mass producing electric cars and mass producing combustion cars.

Finally, there is no question that Tesla has the potential to be a competitive car manufacturer. Let's say they are super successful and gain a market-share comparable to BMW. I'd say that's a top end scenario for Tesla. It has a good Brand but so do its competitors.

But Tesla is valued at the same level as BMW _right now_. I just don't see that. There certainly is downside risk, but I just really fail to see the upside potential. What should enable Tesla to grab a larger market share than BMW? Or Audi? Or Toyota? Nevermind the Chinese battery manufacturers that might want to push into the low end of the EV market.
Especially those profiting from
their fellow humans.
Sweden actually has a similar problem even without the bail system. Most people get released awaiting trial, depending on severity of the crime, risk of influencing the case, etc. The ones who don't end up incarcerated with way worse conditions than regular prisons while waiting for the trial. You might end up with a sentence of 1 year after already spending most of it in an insitution with limited visitation rights, none of the rehabilitation, education and leisure available in regular prisons.
There are situations where the only safe way to fly a plane is to ignore everything but the instruments...

Though I suppose in this stretched analogy those are not great positions to be in.
Is it possible to get compensation for wrongful imprisonment in the US? I know it is in Denmark. The logic being that it shouldn't be 'free' for the state to imprison someone wrongfully.

In Denmark, you seek compensation after the fact. The exact compensation will depend on several variables, so I cannot give an exact figure. But I did find a case where a man was wrongfully imprisoned for five months, and got 141,000 DKK (~22,000 USD) in compensation. Although, the case noted he had sought 500,000 DKK in compensation.
>I'm pretty certain in the UK we have charities that help people out in such situations

We rarely use financial bail conditions except in the most serious cases. Financial conditions are mainly used where a) there are grounds to believe that the defendant has substantial funds at their disposal and b) there are grounds to believe that the defendant has a significant risk of absconding. It's a likely option if you're accused of robbing a bank or running a major drug dealing operation, but it's far from the default option.

If you're bailed, there will be conditions attached to mitigate the particular risks in your case. You might be required to report to a police station every week or every day to confirm that you're complying with your bail requirements. You might be placed under curfew with an electronic tag. You might be forbidden from going to certain places or speaking to certain people. You might have to surrender your passport. You might be required to live in a bail hostel. The court has to demonstrate that those conditions are proportionate and necessary, and you have the right to appeal their decision.
Completely agree, the article makes a nice coherent argument for why it's actually created a horrific situation for those near the poverty line.
> existing apps won't be able to update to new APKs using older SDKs starting in November

So, some developers will probably defer handling the changes until November, and then if there is some critical bug (security or otherwise) they won't be able to just fix the bug without also building the rest of the app with the new SDK as is, broken/untested even if it compiles?
That's the first time I read something like that, no sources on google seems to pop-up, nothing on "mobs china foreign countries". It's obvious that China's biggest companies are tied to government, but I would be surprised if this didn't make to the news.
You talk about a bias and judgment, that may apply to a job interview but how would it apply to written school admission exams?

Judging fairness by maximizing opportunity sounds a lot like the hypothetical counter-utilitarianism argument about harvesting YOU for organs thus saving more lives. Maximizing fairness to society instead of the individual is the basis of ideologies like communism and fascism.
> What doctor would you go to, a white man, a black man, or a woman, if you knew that there's affirmative action for blacks/women, and you wanted (and could afford) the best doctor?

What is it with this obsession that every requires the best doctor? I don't want the best doctor, I want a good enough doctor who is close to my house location or I will stick to my current doctor because I had good experience with them. Once I stumble upon problems with that doctor I might reevaluate. Sometimes good is good enough, you don't always need the best of the best. My dentist is a woman, and not white. She's great. My doctor is a white male, he is also great. Skin or gender mean nothing to me in this context.
Theres tools for this:

https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43018752/version-control...
I would adapt to my new environment, likely building a concrete home under ground, which I have always wanted to do regardless. I would have a carbon neutral home that requires little or no air conditioning.

Some people won't be able to do this due to the soil conditions and engineering resources. Those that can, should. It also makes for more usable land for a garden or crops and keeps your valuables out of sight.

Engineered correctly, I can weather any rain or fire storm. The real challenge will be building my underground garden. It has been done, just not easy at all. There are many other challenges that are not cheap to solve.

I know you wanted to solve climate change and this method would require mass participation. I just know humans well enough to know that anything bigger will take decades to implement. I can do this tiny step now.
I remember reading about this years ago. It's sad that this problem hasn't been resolved in all that time.

We already have a legal system that advantages the wealthy ( more money for better lawyers, experts, etc ) over everyone else. But this bail problem is egregious and cruel.

But it isn't the poor who created legal system. It isn't he poor who write laws.
Implying crashing with a current fuel system does not carry the same risk and you cannot make the tank safe. None of these implications are true. Any energy source carries risks and most of the risks can be mitigated.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/25/asia/deadly-oil-tank-expl...

https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9607/Alvarado-9607.htm...
Once your game world size crosses a specific threshold, you need to move the world instead of the player because numerical accuracy starts to become troublesome (most engine code runs with floats, which gives about 6 decimal digits of precision). The first engine that I am aware of that did that was that of Dungeon Siege. There's an excellent post mortem around about the challenges of this approach.
Good point, and a hot topic over the years in the DotA community. The developer introduced some UI changes over the years that do exactly that: show every bit of information that an expert human or AI could realistically figure out and exploit. For some, it's dumbing down the game for a new audience, nullifying their hard work. I think the community consensus now is in favor: the game is complex enough that it does not need arbitrary skill-differentiation mechanics.
For instance, high-level players used to memorize and practice the duration of some abilities (stuns), because you have an advantage if you can chain these perfectly. Valve introduced a visual progress bar that showed how much the disabled effect on a hero lasts, making it much easier to chain disables. They now also show how far 'towers' can shoot, but also which entity it is currently targeting (tower 'aggro' mechanics has its own special logic). They go so far as to show spawn boxes for neutral monsters.