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> The law is blind.

A) thats not true, what are you 4 years old?

> Especially in the eyes of our children.

B) oh you are trying to impress 4 year olds.

Police officers have wide discretion, district attorneys have wide discretion, prosecutors have wide discretion, juries have wide discretion, judges have wide discretion. The laws they operate on and around can be dumb. We don't have a way for 4 year olds to understand that.

A holistic approach is to address all of these simultaneously.
If I were an athlete I'd push for a contract like this, being young with a ton of money can be a recipe for disaster.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/ I would use this
That rich guy will just buy the latest luxury car every 4 years.
fwiw tslint is soon to be deprecated https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/4534
Is this an actual choice one gets to make, though?

Most mental health programs were funded (and then defunded) at the federal level with some state money. The prosecutor in question is local. And the problem is that even if the locality were to somehow raise all that money to launch comprehensive mental healthcare on its own, it would basically be a clarion call across the land for all the other cities to buy a one-way bus ticket for their homeless there, because now that one place has solved it why do they have to?

Busing the homeless out to other places is a common occurrence: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
I think Julia has a cleaner focus on scientific and mathematical computing than either R or Python (both for performance and understanding). i.e. the language is designed in such a way that corresponds more directly to mathematical notation and ways of thinking. If you’ve been in a graduate program that’s heavily mathematical, where you spend equal time doing pen and paper proofs and hacking together simulations and such (and frantically trying to learn a language like R/MATLAB/Python while staying afloat in your courses), you’ll appreciate the advantage of this. To my eyes, Python is too verbose and “computer science-y” and R is too quirky to fulfill this niche (I say this as someone that bleeds RStudio blue, and enjoys using Python+SciPy). I don’t think Julia is aimed at garden-variety / enterprise data science workflows. Caveat—I’m not a Julia user currently, so this is sort of a hot take.

The “Ju” in Jupyter is for Julia, so it’s designed to be used as an interactive notebook language also. The Juno IDE is modeled after RStudio.
The criminal justice system should not handle these cases. I don't consider acts done by mentally ill people criminal. I have personal experience with this.

My sister is bipolar and schizophrenic. For 30 years she was a little quirky, but mostly normal. She worked at a private equity firm in New York, got married, had a great life. Something changed around age 30. She started acting strange. We initially thought it was just her normal quirkyness, but then things started to escalate. She wouldn't stop talking about Prince Harry. She said she wanted to marry him. We laughed it off.

Then she started talking about secret messages she was receiving from Prince Harry. She believed she had been chosen as the princess and that ISIS was trying to kill her to prevent Prince Harry from marrying her. She had all this proof (hidden messages in the news, Instagram posts of bananas, crazy stuff). She was convince that the government had put chips in our brains and were controlling us. We realized that she needed help, but she refused to believe she had a mental illness. There was absolutely nothing we could do BEFORE she committed a crime. We knew it would happen, we knew it was only a matter of time, but the criminal justice system would not do anything.

Finally, on Christmas day, she went on a rampage at my grandmas house and destroyed a bunch of property. (We found a journal entry later where she said she was sad because Santa Clause didn't come and pick her up and take her to the North Pole like he was supposed to so she lost it.) We got lucky that it was only property. She was put in jail for 24 hours and then let out on the street at midnight without us knowing. She assaulted a police officer the next day. She thought he was ISIS trying to kill her.

FINALLY, the criminal justice system did something. We had to hire lawyers to plead with the judge to force her on to medication. We had stacks of tweets, facebook messages, emails, etc that showed she was clearly delusional. They finally agreed.

She is on meds now and has regular checkins with her parole officer to ensure she stays on them. She is back to being a little quirky, but has no more delusions. She has a job again and is happy.

We are lucky. It could have ended up a lot worse. The current system for helping the mentally ill is totally broken.
And yet, Linux Desktop still is not dominant, even only counting desktop computers. Hmm...
The results are awful even in a tiny thumbnail image.
I think of them a lot like bumper stickers on cars. If someone stuck a bumper sticker on my car, I'd be pissed.
You can take the Brooklyn out of the boy...
> it also seemed like something big brother would say to get me to give up freedoms

Or to keep up morale at the agency.

The one indisputable fact is that actual attacks are very rare. So there are only two possibilities:

1. Law enforcement is exceptionally effective at stopping them, or

2. There are very few attempted attacks to begin with.

Here's a data point to help you decide which of these is more likely:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-...
I don't think the issue is so much that cities are too lenient on these people. It's more that the resources available to them are both inappropriate and inadequate.

My wife works at in-patient psych unit in my town.

Granted, we experience nothing near the scale of problems in cities like Seattle. But even here, our city can't cope with the sheer number of folks with these mental health / substance abuse problems.

Many of my wife's patients are dangerous to themselves or to other people. They can only stay on an in-patient unit for so long. After that, the stopwatch starts ticking. How long until the next violent offense?

If there were more institutions for these people, somewhere between Hospital and Jail, at least the stopwatch would STOP more often.
TIL that a "Streisand effect" is a real thing. For everyone who wonders as I did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
It's supposed to be faster
I have no idea how much they had to do with Github’s recent developments, but:

- Github Sponsors with donation matching for some limited time period

- Github Pro which based on browsing user profiles a surprising amount of folks have bought into

- Github Package Repositories.

- Github Pipelines.

Generally I have been waiting for Github to start sucking but it has only gotten better imo.

I have been a pretty big Gitlab fanboy for a while so it’s weird to harp on Github’s progress but they’ve done a good job flipping the script.
Those "Designed for Microsoft Windows" stickers are best placed on trash cans.
They are hoping its 2 years away from clinical trials.

I wonder if that's mostly about red tape, regulations and funding, or are there actually two years of actual work to do to synthesize the treatment based on this finding?

Like if a scientist working on the project had terminal cancer and only had a few months to live, would she be able to test this on herself right now?
The amount of water distilled sounds quite good too. I think 1.5 litres/m2/hr. I guess you could have separate solar and water things but maybe it's cheaper to put them together.
As someone who doesn’t practice any religion but grew up around them I’m confused about the role church seems to play for many folks. Instead of being about spiritual advancement it seems like a lot of the people are just interested in a very accepting social club with some fantasy elements. I saw very little of people sitting around talking about eg humility and how to mortify their desires rather than hanging out or reading an epistle and then interpreting it with (frankly) self-help ideology
About Gadfly. If you were plotting it in a notebook then the default is to make it an interactive figure. In that case a lot of overhead comes from the browser trying to render it. You can explicitly invoke e.g., draw(SVG(10cm,10cm), plot(...)) to make it much faster.
I hadn't thought of it in exactly those terms but this really strikes a chord. I'll definitely be using more specific language from now on.
That's a good point; the use cases for this are rare and specialized. If you have written software in C with a database backend which is to be distributed to third parties you'll need to provide a setup program which not only installs the software but also creates the database. You might wish to do this in C as well, although a scripting language like Python might be a better choice.

Another possible scenario is if you need to create some sort of DBA GUI along the lines of pgAdmin, either because you have specialist requirements, just as a programming exercise, or because you think you can do better!

However, the main purpose of this article is as a lead-in to further articles on CRUD which has obvious and widespread uses.

The article provides a simple introduction to the subject, as well as creating the database schema which I'll use for future articles.

To answer your question "Would it be as an alternative to using SQLite as a library?", PostgreSQL is an industrial strength RDBMS which can hold its own against SQL Server and Oracle in a client/server environment so you wouldn't use it for standalone applications.
That roadmap is 6 years old at this point. I’d imagine plans have changed a little since then.
I'm not sure how that allennlp site is doing it, but source is here: https://github.com/allenai/allennlp/blob/b0ea7ab6be2787495fa...
PDP8/PDP5 Emulator in Bash
Remember that in Nuremberg trials a prevailing opinion was that merely obeying illegal orders can be criminal.

Similarly if the technology being built can be reasonably used for great harms - and one building it is supposed to differentiate between 'knife' and 'Death Star'-level of potential threat - building the technology by itself may become the responsibility.
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What a fun way to play the game
Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
>The problem is most people that want undocumented immigrants deported don't actually want them deported. They just want them to be an underclass available for cheap labor

Do you have source backing this up?
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You can use SES's SMTP interface with listmonk. With some added effort, you can self-host an SMTP server and achieve better throughput, and depending on the volume, cost reduction. We've been running our own Postal SMTP instances successfully.
Several of our offices are around the 3rd and Pike area downtown and it’s pretty common to overhear colleagues saying they feel unsafe walking on sideways around the office.

There is rampant and open usage of hard drugs, lots of people hawking used bus tickets or items stolen from Ross Dress for Less or Target, at least a couple instances a day of walkers being interrupted by visibly agitated homeless either shouting nonsense or aggressively begging.

Once a month or so there’s an arrest due to a stabbing or shooting within 1-2 blocks of this area.

Whatever they’re doing in policy terms at the moment isn’t working.
Think how many more attacks could be prevented if everyone had to wear an ankle monitor at all times.
Or would you say "as much as I am saddened, I cannot approve such massive invasion of privacy".

Yes, I would take that stance every time, and twice on Sunday.
The other comments here don't quite tell the whole story; "I never had any problems" is anecdotal - there are plenty of legitimate senders who do run into deliverability issues.

Using an ESP will generally simplify the amount of work necessary to achieve good delivery, but due to the complexities of domain reputation and fingerprinting, very occasionally they can also be the cause of delivery problems.

General guidelines:

- It's a bit harder to predict how deliverability will turn out at smaller ESPs, vs. well-established ones like Sendgrid, SES, Mailgun, and perhaps Mailchimp.

- DKIM, SPF, DMARC (p=none is fine to start; gmail has a guide for deploying dmarc https://support.google.com/a/answer/2466563)

- Use the same root domain everywhere within your email: From, Return-Path, DKIM signature headers; URLs for links and images in the message body. (Separate subdomains are fine, e.g., img.example.com, bounce.example.com)

- Having your sending domain show up in third party email can cause problems. Try to avoid it if possible; use a separate domain as a last resort.

- Send consistently. Some variation in sending patterns will be tolerated, but you'll probably have trouble if you send 500 messages a day most of the time, then once a month you send 100,000 messages.

- Consider a dedicated IP if you're sending over 50,000-ish messages a month.

- You may want to split up transactional email from marketing, sending these from separate IPs and/or subdomains.

- Finally, make sure you're sending email your recipients find valuable and are interested in receiving. Too much disinterest/disengagement can cause delivery issues.
Oracle didn't challenge another huge company, they challenged the federal govt.
They're well within their rights to do so, or the case wouldn't have moved forward at all.
The hate for Oracle is that exactly nobody but Oracle thinks they ever stood a tiny chance, and nobody likes a company who's primary customer acquisition model is lawsuits.
I improved my page performance by 3x just using CSS
I don't think that we can compare cybersecurity to government intelligence agencies. Cybersecurity is a field that can only grow by making people fear for their computer security, which is why you often hear such exaggerated numbers for "attacks".

You could argue the same thing about the CIA, but there's no direct financial incentive like there is for growing your cybersecurity business.

I believe the real crux of the problem is intellectuals won't trust intel agencies because there's no evidence that they're being used exclusively for good, and the intel agencies can't provide that evidence without burning their methodology.

There's absolutely no way for us as outsiders to evaluate whether mass intelligence collection tools like PRISM are being used for good or bad, or whether they're even necessary. So instead we have to judge them based on what we know
But how is a machine supposed to be able to tell the difference? It's hard enough for humans to tell the difference between industry-specific jargon and nonsense.
It doesn't seem to pass the smell test, does it? Presumably these attacks would be thwarted by raiding and arresting the conspirators... the feds might be able to snuff out a story that so-and-so was plotting to assassinate the president, but I don't think they'd be able to hide it if they were kicking in that many doors on a daily basis. That would get out eventually if only through rumor and word of mouth. Maybe they plant bags of coke and call it a drug bust?
I've thought about this a good bit independently, and I want to be able to do a few things:

- Add line-change/diff-specific commentary. This needs to be within the context of a larger commentary/set of changes, as usually the changes are not independent, and in fact relate to simultaneous constraints which inform your chosen solution.

- Add some structure to a list of commits in a branch. I'd like a hierarchy, in fact. I've thought about trying to emulate this by making sub branches and then merging them into a parent branch, but it seemed like it would be a big pain.

Anyway, I've love to see some software that could help with this!
If someone made a desktop version of relive, will the situation be different? Like, I am running the software on my computer, downloading my data and making videos (or whatever else) with it - instead of relive's servers.
Beamr 5 would be one. [1] But my x265 experience is with pre 2.8. Not sure how much improvement there is in 3.0 and 3.1.

My point is not that x265 isn't "good" in absolute terms, it just isn't x264 level insanely good. In AVC era, x264 was absolutely amazing in the details. And just to point out, comparing encoder is hard and depends a lot on materials and target bitrate.

[1] https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Post/Blog/HEVC-IP-Ow...
Briefly glancing through the slides, this appears to be based on the work in "The Art of the Propagator" by Alexey Radul and Gerald Jay Sussman.

[PDF] https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/44215/MIT-CSA...

See also the recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405183
I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the default behavior on system boot, who knows. After the update they decide to send you to their website - but they fuck up the API call and so IE just shows the default homepage.
> If it's legitimate e-mail, I don't think it's much of an issue.

starting to sound hopelessly naive

you deliver email updates to fund LPs that aren't unilaterally marking you as spam for no reason
It's actually quite useful for "hey, did you see my dog?" or "do you know what happened at ... last night?" things. But being a social network (so basically, evil by definition) you do get a worrying amount of "these people look weird here" , political fights and other BS that comes weith the social network territory.
I haven't seen anyone contesting Oracle's right to challenge this in court, we're just saying it was a waste of time motivated solely by sour grapes. Absolutely everyone-- at Oracle, at the other cloud providers, and in the Pentagon-- knows that Oracle's cloud is a joke compared to AWS/Azure and that they didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning this case. We're making fun of them for frivolous litigation.
Thanks for the response. I'll send you an email.

I'd like to see AgileBits continue supporting the old 1P extension (i.e. fix the crashing problem) or bring that functionality (Desktop link, only sign in once across multiple Chrome profiles, etc) into the 1PX extension.
Are you sure the Chevrolet Bolt is not available where you live? Here in The Netherlands they're everywhere as Opel Ampera's. The latest one has 420km range I think.
Another submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20411154
Does it have a type checker like mypy? Python's protocols (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0544/) are "structured enough for large programs".
> I’m guessing because pharmas want to milk their golden cow

It’s a wired definition of milking a product to lower your take home year after year. The PBMs have rebates close to 70% they are literally making more on the drugs than both the companies producing them and the companies providing them through insurance. List prices are high because the people who own the consumer side of the market don’t care how high the prices go as long as they can set up rebates that increase their own profits.
I agree that the lack of hardware choice (or different "opinions" like a matte screen or smaller phones) is probably Apple's biggest flaw. But they're on a different level. One is an inconvenience, the other is utter disrespect of your privacy.
Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.
Had my Linux machine up and running somewhere since the day Linus announced it on minix-list.

Still though, also have my stack of MacBooks.

Apple becoming a Unix vendor lured me to their hardware, which functions as a terminal server in most regards, for my needs. For everything else, there's a fat Linux machine.

Windows: just, no. Only use it if I get paid to use it.
VAT is a tax on consumption, corporate taxes are on profits (revenues in this case). If Amazon does not have to pay as high corporate taxes due to transfer pricing, then it can offer a lower net (pre-VAT) price so their products end up being cheaper to consumers driving away sales from other retailers. While competition, you may say it is 'unfair' competition.

And yes, this makes it very hard for new businesses to enter the market as they do not have the resources necessary to do tax optimization.
They didn't try very hard to sell them in the USA is what I meant
I'm not sure if this comment is serious or sarcasm. Today, for those rich enough to own estates, it is very easy to move between countries, as it always has. Today, it is also much easier than in the past for those not as fortunate to move between countries. How can this be so, given the often onerous immigration requirements between countries? Well, a Polish (or any other European) peasant would have been considered part of the land (the way a house or a well is a fixture on the land it occupies), and would have had to have the permission of his local landowner to even leave the plot of land he/she is fixed to. Moreover, try finding a country who wanted more peasants. There has always been anti-migration sentiment when it came to the poor; the highly regulated, but still slow, systems we have today are a clear improvement over the past impossibility.
Somewhat humorous, as someone [1] (congrats /u/fossuser!) mentioned this failure scenario in the thread about Twitter being down yesterday.

"Pushing bad regex to production, chaos monkey code causing cascading network failure, etc.", in response to a comment from someone who previously worked at Cloudflare.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415608
Thanks, I'll copy this to my tablet so I can carry it around with me.

Looking forward to being impressed (hopefully) that it is still relevant today.
Police officers have wide discretion, district attorneys have wide discretion, prosecutors have wide discretion, juries have wide discretion, judges have wide discretion. The laws they operate on and around can be dumb. We don't have a way for children to understand that.

A holistic approach is to address all of these simultaneously.
>What kind of super old Windows version were these people running?

Build-servers.
This sounds pretty bizarre. I wonder exactly what version of Windows they were using? Sounds like maybe not a server version? I've run a bunch of Windows computers, and while they have some annoying habits, I've never had one spontaneously open a IE window on me. Maybe he got malware on it somehow? Though getting malware on a server would be very disturbing.

Most of my most-annoying OS features are around updates these days. Windows Update loves to just spontaneously force-reboot whenever it feels like it, too bad if you had some unsaved files or some process you intended to leave running. OS X is nicer about its OS updates, but the Mac App Store seems to like to silently download and install updates whenever it feels like it. Pretty annoying when you're trying to do something on your last few % of battery, and it decides to burn up the CPU updating XCode or iTunes or something, with no indication what it's doing or how to make it stop.
I will add to this.

If you look at us biologically speaking, we are herding creatures.

That means the majority will go along with what the leaders want.

While the Milgram experiment was skewed, the reality is most people will shock you to death just because an authority told them so. And if you ask them at the end if what they did was right, they will say yes, or they wouldn't have done it.

Being a decent of German Jews, I normally think: "Who of the people that I know wouldn't turn me in."

The sad reality: very few. It's by design. Herds don't work when everyone is trying to go their own way. There will always be individuals who eschew herd. Biologically, they generally die, but a few find new environments or start their own new herds. Of course the herd problem then starts over.