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> Nobody should be in prison longer than their rehabilitation takes and the focus of their stay should 100% be rehabilitation.

1. "Rehabilitation" -- the actual implementation, not the abstract idea -- is insidious. How can anyone ever know for sure whether someone is truly rehabilitated? Especially given that prisons don't typically attract that best and brightest of the medical profession.

If you've ever talked to someone who spent time in prison, you'll realize that "rehabilitation" in US prisons mostly means "parrot what they tell you to say and don't be stupid enough to seriously engage. Just. Repeat. Your. Lines."

E.g., claiming you have no spiritual belief can result in denied parole [1]. Too often, "rehabilitation" is just short-hand for "brainwashing". In those cases, bodily punishment without the pretense of "rehabilitation" is actually a far kinder and just system.

Far from truly fixing the underlying problem, modern rehabilitation often amounts to an exercise in honing one's inner psychopath: lie without remorse or guilt, and lie well enough that you don't get caught, or be denied parole on the basis of your lack of religious faith.

2. What do we do with people who cannot be rehabilitated, but whose crimes do not justify a lifetime prison sentence?

3. what do we do about criminals who are very unlikely to re-offend but are not rehabilitated? I.e., what is the purpose of rehabilitation? A common answer is "limiting future damage to society". But this justification fails to explain why we should jail a bank robber who managed to hide $1 billion on a remote island and who we honestly believe will be happy living off of that $1 billion on some remote island in peace for the rest of his life.

4. What about people who commit heinous crimes but are easy to rehabilitate (e.g., due to a treatable mental illness)? How do we deal with vindictive families of victims who might want to take justice into their own hands?

Prison sentences serve many purposes: rehabilitation, protection of society, punishment, and a disincentive for criminal activity.

Rehabilitation is certainly the most in-line with enlightenment values (but can become draconian in the case where the crime is relatively small but rehabilitation proves impossible, or in the case where rehabilitation means "learn how to lie about your inner self").

And I will certainly agree that the US prison system does not come even remotely close to striking a good balance between these multiple purposes. But the other roles are also important, and "rehabilitation" isn't always all it's cracked up to be.

[1] http://www.kcur.org/post/court-says-atheist-inmate-s-religio...
Im willing to wager this may have been known for quite a while in certain national security circles,... but to prevent a cold war in space (no pun intended) imperiling humanity perhaps everything was kept quiet.
I know this will sound pretty simplistic, but a prisoner is either a threat to society or they are not.

If they are a threat to society, why are they given access to computers, the internet and programming tools? (The security implications should be obvious there.) Even better, why are they let outside the prison at all?

If they are not a threat to society, why am I paying any amount of tax money to keep them in prison? We should pay zero dollars for any offender who is so little of a threat that we can let him/her outside of the prison. (Or, indeed, give him/her hacking tools.)

Any prisoner qualifying for these work release programs, should probably be released. And the money paid incarcerating them can be saved, or at least put to better uses.
I'm not sure having only $1.3 billion in available cash, when you've been burning $700 million a quarter, and with $10 billion in debt is ever what someone would judge a company as "doing fantastic" on.
Here's a graph with the prevalence of AC by region. It could also be related to the affordability of heat (my grandparents kept the house very cool). I have no idea if there's something to this, but interesting to poke at.

https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/reports/images/a...
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Just read it yesterday. Can recommend his other stuff too.
> I'm not sure why LYAH wasn't good for me, when it's touted as being a great starting place

It's not. It's a terrible starting resource. Majority of people I anecdotally hear gave up on Haskell seem to mention LYAH. Yes the material is there, but it's not presented in a way that generally sticks and fits pieces together. I guarantee someone will reply to this thread and say it worked for them, but in general people seem to be unsuccessful with it.

There are better options out there.
Indonesia woman irked by mosque noise convicted of blasphemy
Usually they compare found samples with samples used in other attacks. So they can assume that they were made by the same group.
> And hopefully it would cost the same to use 1000w of electricity to power your home server hosting a website that criticizes the local electricity company.

Yea, I think this is the most important thing.
Let’s compare this to a recent experience I had with a recruiter from Square. Among other things, I was told that in a 1 hour phone screen, I was to write code as if it were production code, and not “just interview hacking.” She also suggested I read Cracking the Coding Interview ! For a phone screen!

I think this is frankly ridiculous. What do you think the rest of the interview process is like? At best, it’s cargo culting. At worst, it’s abuse.

Edit: I should add that no guidance was given as to what the standards for “production code” in this phone screen were.
That's missing a tangential point, but not THE ostensible point (topical)?
Why 'Little Women' Endures
Make sure you copy and paste the jwz link, just clicking it redirects to an imgur picture.
Uber Harassment Settlement: 56 Workers to Split $1.9M
Here's a statement of the research: places where the Facebook usage was one standard deviation higher than median had a 50% higher than average rate of anti-refugee violence. Based on studying all 3,335 attacks over 2 years. See cstross's tweet: https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1031873629489963008
Yes, unfortunately prison isn't about rehabilitation. It's about punishing people, it's about vengeance. And a lot of crimes are manufactured, laws created to hurt people we don't like.

And for a lot of people when someone does something pretty awful or scummy, we kind of want them to be punished severely for their crimes and are outraged when they're not, because we've been conditioned to feel that way.

We want some people to be punished and spend years or decades in prison. Maybe not you specifically, or maybe there isn't always agreement about who, but for a lot of people that's the deep seeded idea of justice.

It's a tough row to hoe to change that at every level. People need to agree with more sensible ideas and vote that way. But it's clear that a lot of folks prefer the most draconian approaches because that's what makes them feel better.
IANAL but a naive reading of that could justify community service may be. These prisoners were not convicted and sentenced to be firemen.
Depends on the assignment. I don't regularly program these days but for work I often do (preparing/giving presentations, writing of various types) I could trivially come up with an assignment that would take a person skilled in the topic the better part of a week to do--especially given that they'd want to make their "homework" particularly impressive.
Generally there are default themes and they can be built with SEO in mind, or not. Seems like a reasonable question.

Also if there are mods available to easily add features that are missing -- maybe, eg, arbitrary HTML header elements -- then that can make the system SEO friendly.
In other words, you're intenionally limiting your horizon because of convenience?
It's actually eastern Pennsylvania, the helicopter has a Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL) logo on it. If you look carefully in the background you can see the Delaware Water Gap in the mountains.

Nevertheless, it's the same for the weather, Fall/Winter is gonna be windy enough you can't wait around for it.
No, this is nothing like foodstamps. Foodstamps can only be used for approved products in the food category. This encourages certain industries, such as farmers, to lobby for increased welfare dollars to flow to foodstamps. It also requires an enormous bureaucracy to manage the foodstamp program and creates a political agenda and interest groups around it.

We should eliminate existing welfare programs, of which there are many, and turn it into a simple cash transfer to the recipient's bank account. If society wants to give $X in welfare to person Y, then let's give $X to person Y and not have all of the other drama and waste around it.
I loved Octopress and wanted to use that. It seems like development stopped around 2016. Do know if someone forked it and there's a more updated version out there?
>It is okay for a new company to take time to re-learn what has gone on before. I jokingly imagine Tesla to be actually catching up to 1970's British Leyland quality control 'circles' with the next step being a relearning of the 'Toyota Way'.

This would be okay if we actually were living in the 70s right now. The problem is of course that Tesla consumes money (like basically nobody else) and the real Toyota is still around and produces as many cars on a weekend as Tesla does in an entire year.

It's not like people are going to stop buying Toyota cars out of goodwill for Tesla.

> who just want electric rather than dinosaur power.

this too seems to be part of the reality distortion field around Tesla. All big manufacturers already produce hybrid and electric cars, and their research budgets dwarf Tesla, they will be ready in a few years as the market grows.
I know people who still think there is value there and it will go back up.
Still recall the advice form a classmate asking if I should learn Haskell -- he said "Just learn it because it'll change how you think about programming".

I think people should learn it for this exact reason -- it really does change how you program as well as thinking about programming even if on a daily basis you're not writing pure Haskell or Clean or Scheme or whatnot.

Common programming concepts like "iteration", "state", "formal methods", "parrallellism" are concepts that functional programming makes you reconsider from a new perspective.
I'd prefer to see it as an investment in yourself, so not really for "free". Also it's (probably) not like the company will make any money of the home assignment they give you.
The biggest crime is if they come back into society without the ability to add to the workforce (due to their being former prisoners) or resources to exercise their entrepreneurship (ie, no connections or learning).

Then they are targets for recidivism and society loses out. Otherwise, I'm perfectly fine with less prisons.
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If you want to build it out into a business, WP might be better because of all the addons for small businesses. It's basically a small business framework.
I enthusiastically encourage everyone to run for office at least once. Politics makes a lot more sense once you’ve tried to play the game.

There are really good candidate boot camps. I can recommend IDF, Fuse Washington, Camp Wellstone.

Better yet would be to volunteer on one or more campaigns. See the game first hand, learn on someone’s dime.

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That said, you may want to go the policy & lobbying route. Way over simplified: find (or draft) model legislation and then shop it around. Stop by each legislative district party and get them to pass a resolution in support. Face time with your reps, ask them to intro bill. Find your allies.

Both Nick Licata’s How to be Citizen Activist and Camp Wellstone’s activism track are fantastic resources.

Again, to learn the ropes, volunteer for another issue based org. See what works, emulate people who get things done.

Good luck!
Given the sheer number of people in jail due to drug possession, including a drug that is now legal in CA, it's clear a good number of those people shouldn't be in jail in the first place.

BTW, I'm not talking legally, I'm talking morally, they should have never gone to jail or prison in the first place for mere possession.
That's assuming the cost of labor is the only operating factor here. There are assumedly parts, factory operation, other opportunity costs at play here.

Also, since Tesla has all of these cars under warranty themselves, if they do have issues after delivery, which quality control problems like this usually indicate it can really blow through their margins quickly.
Ooh, microformats, does anyone use those nowadays? (I have them on my sites, fwiw).
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But if they did the opposite, and just not posted any add that they flagged as inappropriate, then the ones posting the add could keep testing and figure out what sort of add gets past, and thus Backpage would be blamed for helping the traffickers posting the add figure out how to avoid detection.
Makes sense for Airbnb.

They have homes and free time during the busiest travel times of the year.

Probably open to new people more than average.

Same for Uber.
That's basically what I'm thinking. Ghost is more inline with some skills I'd like to round out but it's undeniable that WordPress is the standard and there are so many plugins and extensions for it.
Check out these Mud Wasps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber

In SoCal, at least, they'll hunt down a bunch of black/brown widows and stick them in a mud nest for their wasp offspring to eat. They almost never sting people and clear up poisonous spiders from your yard!
^This. It feels like some cheap ML recreating a fund-of-funds with some shorts that limit exposure.
Your cholesterol can balance out over time, might be worth trying for a longer time and seeing if it goes back down. It's also worth trying to reduce your dairy consumption to see if that makes a difference.
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Nobody had a gun to the buyers/sellers head. Everyone knows what they are getting into, and markets are a zero-sum game. I have no ethical issues with making profit from trading. I'm sorry that you were not able to take the win. Maybe you should not play games?
It's still executing code right from the internet without any checking. What it does fix is one of the ways in which a server can tell that a script is being executed and not just downloaded for reading: when piping, the download stalls while the shell is slugging through the script, but when it's done in a shell escape as here, it's downloaded in one go. So theoretically, you have less chance of reading something different (when inspecting the source) than what the shell is going to execute.

However, the script can't be overly long this way, since there is a limit to the command line length on Linux.

Safe, however, this is clearly still not.
A non-incarcerated person has agency. They have a choice of what work to do, where that work takes place, when to work, the ability to negotiate wages, etc.
I recommend reading the filing I linked (https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/nn_govt_petitioners_br...) for their arguments, but I'll summarize them here.

The alleged APA violation isn't a matter of not filling out the right forms, it's that their whole ruling was based on faulty logic. Basically the APA specifies that agencies have to make their rulings based on existing evidence and provide evidence-based reasoning for their decisions. The agency gets a decent amount of leeway on that reasoning, as long as it is not "arbitrary and capricious," which is a legal standard. The filing claims they did act arbitrarily and capriciously. For example, part of the FCC's change was made on the grounds that BIAS providers have voluntarily committed to not throttling customers and there is little evidence that they have ever done so, which completely ignores the fact that the reason they historically have not throttled people is because it was illegal, and thus was not voluntary. Again, you can read the filing for more information about their argument, it starts on page 35 in the PDF.

The argument that the rule exceeds the FCC's authority is based on the fact that the FCC recently disavowed have Title II authority over broadband. Title II authority gave the FCC the ability to preempt state and local laws. The new ruling is based on Title I authority, which can only allow the FCC to preempt state and local laws if the authority is rooted in some other statutorily mandated responsibility, which the FCC does not have. The actual argument is pretty technical, but that's the gist of it.
I've bounced off LYAH more than once because it spends so much time in the REPL. I'm not interested in the REPL as an end in itself, only insofar as it can help me develop an actual program. Outside of image-based environments, what you do in the interactive shell doesn't reflect how actual code gets written. It feels trivial, and it doesn't help you build up a library of examples to refer back to later.
>What Robinhood did to democratize buying individual stocks, Titan wants to do for investing in a managed portfolio.

huh? RH's success comes from letting people play wall street hot shot trader for free. "OMG did you hear what Musk just said?".

If they think they're capturing the same kind of audience attention with a managed portfolio then they legit don't know which way is up.

>Titan picks the top 20 stocks based on data mined from the most prestigious hedge funds

That's index ETF thinking. The real hedge funds invest in opportunities that aren't even listed. You don't make hedge fund type return without hardcore research & hardcore risk taking on the basis of that research.

The whole "hedge fund" thing might make for decent initial PR but I predict this will backfire when people don't get the immediate visceral return they expected. Acorn's "Invest & grow" type PR slogans are better if you are going for managed because it'll align with the return.
The actual title of the post is “Find images on chrome cache files (or any other file!)”.

Also, referring to these images as “JPG” is incorrect. The actual name for the compression scheme is “JPEG”. “JPG” is merely a common file extension.
> Again, anecdotal, but I've never heard of a farmer who had land to work and the ability to work it commit suicide.

Farmer suicide has been in the news down here (New Zealand) lately. Just to pick one article - https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/farm-suicides-spur-despe...
I'm not involved in agriculture, but the impression I get is that the main stressors have been weather and disease. Both of those have led to major animal culling operations, which must be terrible to have to follow through.
I've made a couple decisions, both before and after the housing bust, that make me feel a lot more comfortable with my mortgages. First was only ever doing a fixed rate loan. Second was limiting my business to a local bank which basically guaranteed they would hold the mortgage themselves until the end. The only exception to this is my very first mortgage, which is how I learned (thankfully with no real pain) to do it right.
With a dedicated server, you can have fantasic results. I'm hosting a Ghost server with docker-compose and Traefik + Let's Encrypt, and the thing is snappy beyon belief.

The server is a 14€/month with 16G/Corei5 2,8Ghz/2To HDD/1GB bandwidth. When you take in account the 15€ annually for the domain name, it comes twice cheaper that ghost.
You can also host other things on that, since Ghost takes up maybe 500M of ram.
I think the point is that it wasn't enough. In which case it makes sense to gamble, especially if the odds seem to be in your favor.
Benchmark Capital Stays Lean, Even After $14B Bonanza
How do you know which “death” records are accurate? Or if such records are complete?
Tesla was always accused of some chicanery when they claimed to hit a 5000/week of "factory gated" cars -- a term they had never used before. Also, last quarter, they had more than 10,000 cars "in transit" between the factory and delivery, which they didn't fully explain how much re-work might be needed on before a customer can accept delivery. It's part of a pattern of a company being misleading with its metrics.
yeap. I'm lucky enough to have options in Berkeley, but where I lived in the past, there was only ATT and Comcast...
Ask HN: What are you addicted to?
Let's be honest, what's your addiction?
>Because you never asked

I don't have to. I can clearly see that you are just a right-wing whiner. I am pretty sure you enjoyed the frivolous bashing of democratic president, but now complain about the same thing when it is dished out to the republican president. Your comment history is self evident.
That's true the state is not a neutral party, the prosecution's aim is to win once the file the indictment.
Right. All my best code (and worst, of course) is owned by my employer and former employers, and is usually exclusively licensed to their customers.

I tend not to code in my off hours any more, because I have different interests now, that require the expenditure of leisure time to enjoy. If I do, it is to solve an immediate need or as a side-project to make money directly, rather than to maybe get another job in the future.

If you want my portfolio, I want to browse your defects database and code repository before we interview.
It certainly is that.
No one minds comparing some products as guesses/estimates/extrapolations with some products as being real performance figures. So long as it's clear which products have which type of figure.
If I didn’t have to, I wouldn’t be working in the sense that I do now. I’d be pursuing interests that may or may not make money, but would bring me personal fulfillment.
The Build Out Line in US Youth Soccer: An Idea Full of Unintended Consequences
As well as being significant predators they're also important pollinators.
Are you implying one could be convicted and sentenced to be a slave ?
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> System fonts won't be sufficient you think?

They are great and battle tested of course, but a good font is something that makes a good design stand out. I feel it's a 'hidden' component that many people can't articulate that they like it in a design. It totally depends on the project though :)

more on this: https://practicaltypography.com/system-fonts.html

The Typewolf blog is great:

https://www.typewolf.com/google-fonts

https://www.typewolf.com/blog/google-fonts-combinations

https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html
I have had a similar experience but I don't blame the internet. I blame my age and a growth of my own critical thinking. It used to be that anything an authority told me was "great writing" was great writing. This of course included a wide array of 18th and 19th century writing. But as I've read more I've come to the conclusion that while writing of that era is full of many woderful plots, observations, philosophies, etc, it mostly is not great writing. And a good portion of the ideas illuminated in that writing have been better presented in later writing. So I have a develop an extreme intolerance for 1) naval gazing in writing and 2) complexity. Your thoughts can be complex. Your use of the comma however should not be.

This is not an intolerance for complex ideas or difficult subjects. It is the same reaction I have to a set of bad instructions. That is to thrust them away and try for myself or find another source.

Edit: A little more succinctly, I trust authors less. I have less faith that because you've published a book you have something worth saying. I believe less that wrangling with your abstruse language will yield a reward worth struggling for. So when I encounter difficulty, I discard the coconut and seek an orange.
You're not wrong. The graphs (figures 7 and 8) don't match the numbers. I think the graphs are mislabeled.