skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on whether you view prison as a way of getting revenge on criminals or as a way of trying to reform them.

If you view prison as an agency of revenge on wrongdoers then, of course, life without parole for murderers makes perfect sense.

If, on the other hand, you view prison as a way of trying to reform wrongdoers and turn them into productive members of society then life without parole makes no sense at all.
My cat knows when my alarm is supposed to go off. If I miss it or turn if off without getting up, he's usually stomping on my throat and batting at my face to get me up.

In the spring he get a bit thrown off by the increasingly earlier sunrise and usually starts his intervention 10 minutes before the alarm.

He also knows to get inside of my firing arc if he seem me pointing the squirt bottle in his direction.
I find it hard to believe that it took until 1996 to figure out that dogs can follow gaze and points.

That's the basis of how bird hunting dogs work. They follow the end of the firearm like a finger, see the fowl, see the fowl fall, then go retrieve it.
There used to be a time in the distant past when growth companies were financed with ordinary people’s retirement savings for just this reason.
Just curious: these... people, who made open-source not for money but for something else, what was typically their means for livelihood? They were software engineers in their day jobs?

Man, some discipline these guys had, to juggle it all so well.
I've been wondering for a while what the purpose of all the NB band LTE stuff is even for. The going rate is often around 40c/MB in most countries (lower on Twilio by the looks of it, but the same order of magnitude), which seems like there's some very specific high value-per-byte application intended. Some of the technologies people are touting for very long battery life have transmission latencies of 10+ seconds as a trade off, which makes the applications for it even more restricted.

It feels like the result is going to be that literally every device you can purchase will have a always connected LTE lojack attached. Imagine trying to firewall or restrict the network in your business when literally everything has its own backbone, it'll be a complete nightmare.
It means somebody is feeling so insecure about their masculinity they can read about a new stock exchange doing about a hundred things differently than the status quo, and hone in on what strikes me as the single most benign initiative to complain about.
The privacy game is about power, not about who is doing what right now. People shun Google's data collection because of what Google can do with the data, not what it has done or is doing; it only takes a single case of data misuse to reveal the power dynamics even if nothing has happened to them personally.

You don't have to play the privacy game -- there is a lot of space between really respecting user's privacy and breaking privacy laws. But if you do, you should put the power back in the user's hand.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google.)
https://hbr.org/2018/02/study-when-ceos-equity-is-about-to-v...
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And the bot that tracks prices in online stores - https://t.me/MyPrice_bot

I would like to receive feedback about my site and the telegram channels

I'am search for discounts and sales in the most popular online stores, and I would like to create similar ones for an English-speaking audience.

What do you think? Will the project be successful in your country?

And how would you recommend calling it?
Will it be possible for listed companies to prohibit short-selling of their stocks?

Edit: If so, I'm pretty sure Tesla Inc. would be happy to participate in your beta program.
Previous discussion about an earlier revision of this article, from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691669 (111 comments)
Suppose I'm going to add simple Windows gui for an app today, what should I use out of > 5 year old technologies? WinAPI in classic way, using Petzold's "Programming Windows, 4th edition" as a guidebook? WinAPI wouldn't be enough, I suppose, so can I use at least Comctl32 or is it deprecated? Should I use MFC? ATL? COM? Or should I use WinForms with .NET? Even if my app is written in native code? Isn't it for "business apps" only? Can I use it to write another Winamp?

I'd probably choose Qt.
Always make multiple hard copies of encryption keys, it's the one thing your mirrored incremental offsite backup will not help you with.
Mobile phone numbers aren't unique and secure identification of users, stop treating it as such.
Oh how I miss Urchin! It was the best, by far, for this type of work.
Yes. (Technically “delisting” is not the right verb to describe this, but you’re on the right track.) The rules also will allow companies to dual list across LTSE and other exchanges.
From a product perspective, this is really confusing.

Twilio make business-facing APIs, is this supposed to be a consumer product? Why would I want API access to my own usage data? This feels like a far cry from their strategic strengths, except for that it’s phone-related.
Looking at the announcement it seems they're basically folding all of the Windows-specific stuff back into .net core. Isn't that just going back to a compatibility minefield?
Indian anti trust mechanisms are weak and ineffective, many government owned companies are themselves indulging in activities which should invite anti trust measures, so I hardly see anything significant coming out of this move.
Oh sweetie, oh no...

The landlord IS the owner.

They are inseparable. You cannot be pro-landlord and anti-owner, or pro-owner and anti-landlord.

"I'm pro-developers but against programmers!"

"I'm anti-programming, but pro-coding!"

Come on now.
In fairness to Asimov's laws of robotics, he invented them as a device to illustrate how fundamentally flawed those sorts of rules can be. His robot stories are about how unforeseen situations create unexpected behaviour, despite apparently simple and rigid rules. He wasn't really trying to promote those laws as a practical solution to future robotics problems. He wanted a source of conflict as fuel for stories.
> that sounds like another urban legend

Another? Didn't we clear this one already above when your link showed courts upheld the "legend"? Are you contradicting me or the courts? Feels like you're no longer looking for any evidence, just grasping at straws.

Plenty of resources that tell you that it's perfectly possible to get no payout (depends on your contract of course)[0][1]. Or they will pay out but capped to a low figure [3]. Again, read your contract and decide what applies to you, pray there's no fineprint to screw you over.

[0] https://www.boss.info/us/consumer_warning/

> unauthorized modification of electrical wiring may void your homeowners fire insurance policy

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-illegal-to-do-electrical-tasks-w...

> Most jurisdictions require a permit to be pulled for most electrical work

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeImprovement/comments/7vwe23/doe...

P.S. No, I do not know any cases where the owner was sued but I do know many cases where the insurance company payed out and then sued the company that did the faulty repairs to recover the entire payout. I also know one case where a faulty repair done by the owner caused a fire that injured the tenant - the owner was found guilty of recklessness/gross negligence (no idea about the insurance in that case).
No

Some of the standards we hope to file in the future could affect the volume of shares available for short activity, but that would be an indirect consequence of encouraging longer holding periods.

Edit: indeed. But we don’t do anything to help with CEO tweeting :)
There are probably more Android devices in India than in the US.
Again, the claim was since 2008 there hasn't been a major IPO to close below its IPO price.

And you site an IPO form the 90's? sigh...
Production companies say they won't film in Georgia after abortion law signed
It could be a medium-sized waste of resources.

The central thesis is somewhere between "controversial" and "improbable".

To wit: current markets being too focussed on the short term does not align too well with Uber, a company bound to lose money for at least another three to five years under the best assumptions, being valued as it is.
And this is why customer service representatives and retail sales associates are totally worthless.

Any store front, for any cellular service, is basically populated with the most useless people on earth. You could drone strike every single store that sells smart phones, killing everyone inside of all of them, and the world would be a better place.

When Douglas Adams wrote about launching the most useless members of society into outer space, on Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B, he was talking about these people.
If I were your landlord and you refused, I would sue for violating a no-pets clause in the lease to get a court order to allow the inspection. Or perhaps just initiate eviction proceedings for the lease violation.

It is what it is.
The threat of life in prison can also be viewed as a deterrent. How long should a murderer get to be reformed? What is long enough so a person will not think that that amount of time is a good trade off to kill someone?

Someone can agree with both of your views depending on the crime. Physically harming another person, particularly irreparably is different than stealing something for example.
This is for Internet of Thing usage, the customer is a company who is making Internet Widgets with some need to be able to communicate no matter where their Internet Widget is operating, without necessarily having to configure or prepare for the destination.
I'm not familiar with maven, is there an equivalent of npm's scope feature?

As for account hijacking... I guess GH needs to track account deletions and append incrementing suffixes to usernames under the repository.
This is still B2B. It's aimed at IoT devices
Clearly something Oracle-side fucked up here too, so it's also an Oracle failure. Although the "support talked us through..." bits seem like a sign of "should probably have gone for something hosted", but depending on the contract could also spin to "so clearly Oracle must have told us something wrong".
Can this do voice calls? I'm in Canada where every cell plan is more expensive than any other in the world. I have friends who purchase plans from Europe and then use the SIM locally with roaming - turns out it be 10x cheaper, the only drawback being that they have a foreign number
Saying it has not happened in 10 years is not the same as saying it’s uncommon. 1+ billion dollars IPO’s is a tiny sample set and completely arbitrary cutoff points. Go back another 8 years and you can find 18.
Yes, I wouldn't use Haskell for scripting and I wouldn't use javascript for a 3D game engine.
Probably this is not a popular opinion but I'd go for Jira. Atlassian offers it for a very low price (10 USD / year I think) for small teams with up to 10 users. You can also self-host it if you do not want to store your data in the cloud, which for me is a large plus. It offers a lot of functionality but doesn't force you to use all of it, and it provides burndown charts and estimation features out of the box (https://www.atlassian.com/agile/tutorials/burndown-charts).

That said you could also use Gitlab, which keeps adding more functionality to their issue management. Trello might be a choice as well as there are plugins / third-party services available that can provide estimates, personally I'd not use it for software development though as I think it's not the right tool for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
The key phrase in the posting are "Oracle is stumped".

This is way more than enough to turn this over to lawyers and let the court decide who is to blame.

Yes, the company could have checked their recovery strategy but if Oracle claims the key gets written to disk and it wasn't, there is a good chance for at least some compensation from Oracle.
> Super SIM allows IoT devices to connect to multiple operators.

It’s for people who deploy IoT devices.
Humans are tragically limited in some literal and obvious ways. For example, most information comes in through 2 very local light senors and a pair of ears, and is then processed by a gooey grey lump that is very, very biased towards the present.

Compare that to the problems that require leadership, which often span large areas of both time and space. Obviously, no human is up to the challenge of comprehending the actual challenge.

A leader who actually believes they understand what is happening is delusional. Not necessarily in a bad way, they just aren't engaging with the reality of the situation. They will hopefully still get buoyed up by their other skills and the work of the people around them, and with a little luck and skill might have a grasp on a couple of the key drivers of a given situation. The true state of things isn't going to stop leaders pretending they have an answer to everything, because leaders are chosen by the people and people prefer to be told that the situation is easy and under control than the messy reality that requires caution, risk management and contingency planning.

I've yet to see the public admit en-mass that they are bad at picking leaders, but they clearly have no idea how to. If we had a better system for choosing political leaders we'd certainly see it used.
There are at least two other possible reasons for prison: deterrence and ensuring that no further free persons are harmed.

The family might be interested in revenge. Society has an interest in all three other possible motivations, though probably not in revenge.
> which implies the NSA is incompetent at maths

No, it doesn't.

EDIT: To whoever downvoted - developing cryptography is hard. The idea that developing one broken cipher implies mathematical incompetence is laughable. You can't draw any conclusion from it except that it's hard to develop ciphers which aren't broken.
This isn't for personal use, so no calls. The data rate is probably around 2-5c/MB for Canada (though its not on the pricing list, that seems to be average), which puts it above even Rogers consumer plans. Google Fi is intended for consumer use and is 1c/MB in Canada (up to a cap, and then unlimited).
This is very cool tech, but it seems like a niche use-case. It's not made for consumers, and the vast majority of IoT devices barely move, let alone between countries.

But, if I were working for a haulage company and was interested in tracking, say, truck location, speed etc across the whole of Europe I could see this being a great way to do it.
There is in Gradle 5.1+ but not in Maven, afaik. They are using Maven in their examples, however.
From personal experience, HMA absolutely does not care about actual user privacy. They log events tied to your actual IP address, keep the logs indefinitely, and are perfectly happy to hand those logs over to other parties. This is pretty much the exact opposite of what a consumer VPN should do and I recommend everyone stay away from them. I’m now using PIA and have had mostly good experiences aside from the occasional server slowdown require a reconnect elsewhere.
Uber's IPO caps an era of mediocrity and small thinking in Silicon Valley
Your feet were probably extremely warm from all of the blood and lymphatic fluid pumping through them to heal the damage.

Unfortunately, the cynic in me says your cat was most likely being a mooch.
Somebody needs to make a MetaHail app that shows the fare and wait time for every service available and then you pick the one you want.
To reinvent the processor
How much did those buttons move after every software update?
The diagnostic words that start with "schizo-" are a train wreck.

Schizophrenia is characterized by hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, catatonia, etc. You don't hear much about catatonia these days because it is cleared up by benzodiazepines reliably.

Schizoid people have reduced emotional reactions compared to other people but they are in touch with reality.

Schizoaffective disorder seems to pick a few symptoms from schizophrenia and bipolar but doesn't fit the criteria for either. You might think that sounds less severe but it can be devastating.

The romanticization of schizophrenia of r.d. Liang, "one flew over the cuckoo's nest", szasz and others strikes me as particularly cruel when I see how it keeps people who are suffering from getting help.
Even if your IoT devices don't move, do you want to deal with 1-3 companies per country you deploy in and follow market changes there, or is that something you're willing to pay someone else to worry about?
I fear I may not have explained myself properly as you appear to have misunderstood. I was not proposing that these groups be able to decide what does and does not get shown on YouTube. I was proposing that they have the facility to allow selected people to view content that has been flagged so those people can review that content for evidence of war crimes, etc... The content would still be unavailable to the general public.

The idea is that the platform providers can comply with their legal obligation to remove such content from the general public but it can still be made available to lawmakers and armchair detectives.
I don't blame our OP for wanting more information. Certainly anything trumpeting the zeitgeist or offering a suspiciously tuned Worry De Jour should be evaluated carefully. (That is, it's obvious that "we want to fix short term ism in the stock market" will be a popular and marketable idea, whether that is the intention/actual end result or not.)

Even in the parts you've quoted, the language seems very careful.

They'll "ask" businesses not to give huge executive bonuses, but asking is free and non-binding. A large portion of the American public has been "asking" for this for a long time. Is the problem really that no one has asked?

They'll require "more information" about key milestones and plans for investors, which sure, that's nice for investors, or will be if it's more information than is usually given by CEOs to a board, which I doubt. (Investors already demand to know what the plan is, and even startups usually have plans for several years out even if they're goals more than plans.)

But is that actually the problem that causes short term ism? Are we insinuating that investors love long term investments and the only reason they don't make them is because CEOs don't tell them enough?

Etc. Now, maybe these worries are invalid, and the actual charter does actually prescribe effective regulations to solicit the desired behavior.

But to confirm that, we will need more information than the vague assertions provided in the article. Which is why our OP was trying to investigate the source documents.

(Also, doesn't it seem odd that a medium length article about an exchange's sole reason for existence contains almost no information about how that exchange intends to achieve the reasons for which if exists? Just assertions that it will do so with all language carefully qualified?)
view prison as a way of getting revenge on criminals or as a way of trying to reform them

This is the crux of the whole issue. The US is split between the two notions of justice: retribution and rehabilitation. The split seems to largely fall along political lines, which means the argument isn't likely to be settled any time soon.

I tend to fall in the rehabilitation camp but I can see some of the logic behind the other side. At the very least, I recognize that it's better for the state to apply measured retribution than for families to pronounce blood feuds upon one another. Beyond that, I'm at a loss for what to do about cold, psychopathic individuals who seem utterly incapable of reform.
If lottery tickets were intended to be investments instead of a tax on poor people who can’t do math, yes.
All Slack wanted was to C&D was trademark infringement.

> UPDATE Sept 14th 2018: After talks with folks from Slack and a rename… Refined (fka Taut) (fka BetterSlack) is now live back
> Personal thought. It may be tough for employee's to not see this pop to say $65-$70 but in the long run its almost certainly better to open flat than to pull a "lyft" and get a first day pop that you price your options at in your head and to then have to cut that price by 40% before you get a chance to sell.

The reality is Uber isn't worth $65-70 today given long term risk. As many others have pointed out opex is well over 150% of revenue. Now that could be fine if the long strategy can reel that in over the next decade. I don't see any of that other than a smattering of "bets" (Uber Eats, scooters, etc). I could very well be wrong but I intentionally didn't buy given what all tech IPOs have done lately. As a consumer who doesn't have the option to get in early I'm at the mercy of the large firms who can take profit off large positions which snowball bringing the valuation back to reality. I think we see more of these "backfires" as people are sick of propping up large financials and more caution around waiting for stocks to settle. If Uber employees expected it to pop north of $50 they're going to be waiting a while. There's no reason to buy now, risk is high that a few large trades sinks the stock into mid $30s or lower territory.

Business Insider had a nice graph that put the valuation into context: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/uber-technol...
It's like every time anyone writes anything about CockroachDB, the top comment has to be "yeah but the name tho..."
QEMU runs a full-blown firmware (SeaBIOS or UEFI) so it does not need this. You can, if you want, pass the kernel on a command line but it's not the default.

However, Firecracker can only boot from a manually-provided kernel so you need this in order to boot from a partition. It is still not a complete replacement for e.g. Grub, which supports boot from various filesystems and from LVM, including encrypted logical volumes.
The context Bernstein is talking about is very meaningful here. The mathematics of public-key cryptography provides a rich tapestry for covering up hidden backdoors. ARX ciphers are very simple compared to elliptic curves, and the complexity of round constants isn't really comparable to that of curves.
Blazor Build client web apps with C#
Pokemon: HeartGold/SoulSilver have an infrared comms port to communicate with the pokewalker, and to mystery gift - because the Game Boy Color had one!
I was thinking the opposite. It'd be nice not having to purchase a new SIM in each country you visit (if the rates are decent, anyway).
What are the key differences between a LTSE and a regular one?
Loud restaurants do that intentionally to scare off old unsexy people and to make customers leave sooner for faster turnaround.

Netflix does captioning very well.
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how does this work? does it actually compile/embed there python interpreter or does it make calls to the system interpreter somehow?
GraalVM 19.0
It is a not a blog. Its not one thought, it discreet thoughts on the same topic.
It's hard to tell if this is similar to their programmable SIM offering or not...

I have programmable SIM deployed in my iOS test phones and use it to place calls and texts from the phones (no contract is nice). I also pay about 12.5$/GB because I have the higher commit turned off
If you read the original C&D they clearly did not just want to stop use of the trademark (or if they did, they certainly claimed otherwise, and got the extension should down vs renamed). It's nice that they could be convinced otherwise, but they clearly complained about the nature of the extension, not just the name.
US prisons always sound like hell.

In Germany, prison time is like being in the hospital without being sick. Mostly boring.