skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I was reading this article I started to wonder how long they had been working on Pinterest. It turns out they registered the domain in November of 2009, so this is another example of an overnight success taking much more than just we all probably realize.
Then those people must not read the text closely. The author pointed out quite clearly that correctional supervision did not mean incarceration. Horrible readers.
Maybe he will convince a few Stanford students to focus on their startup before the end of their graduation and drop out!
What is for sure is the more you spend money on your education (with college, an MBA, etc...), the higher the opportunity cost of starting a Company (vs. getting a well paid job). When you drop out, you have nothing to lose, and so you are "all in", which allows you to take bigger risks.
From what I've read and heard, one of the biggest contributions to prison population growth has been the advent of the predicate felony ("three-strikes") laws in recent decades. These days, incarceration is like compounding interest. Get locked up once, and the next time you so much as look the wrong way at the wrong time, you're back in prison serving an even more severe sentence. In this way, someone with a string of nonviolent offenses does the same time as a violent criminal.

Prisons also serve to harden the imprisoned -- helping to ensure our country's record-high recidivism rates. Prison conditions are brutal. Gangs run daily life, and failure to join a gang can mean rape, severe injury, or even death. Of course, joining a prison gang means an indoctrination into the world of hard-core violence and reprisal. It's pretty hard to go to prison a relatively nonviolent person and emerge the same way.

Another big trend over the last 30-odd years has been a marked shift in society's -- and our justice system's -- philosophical view of the prison itself. Many years ago, prisons were seen as places to reform criminals -- not just to lock them away for a certain number of years, but to adapt them to a successful return to society upon completion of those years. These days, reform and adaptation aren't on the agenda. (Hell, good luck trying to find a stable job in post-release society with a conviction on your record). Modern prison is purely about locking people away and treating them as hopeless causes. More often than not, that hopelessness becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

To be fair, some people in our society really are lost causes. There are violent psychopaths rotting in prison who should probably stay there and rot. But today's criminal justice system paints all offenders with that brush. Perhaps I'm a softie, but I choose to believe that a significant fraction of the 6 million is not beyond redemption.
A backtrace would be different, for a start. If __mul__ raises an exception, it would not show as coming from g(). Makes debugging a little bit harder.
The point that seems to be missed here is that Google is eating their own dog food. Doing such they are hesitant to fix what "ain't broke." Were this merely code that was being thrown over the fence from time to time I'm sure you'd see a higher patch adoption rate.
You're right. We use image processing, computer vision & machine learning to detect Flutters. Our entire tech stack is custom written as we are solving some quite challenging & difficult AI problems.
That's what I like most about it too. Love not having to switch screens to stop the music when a call comes in. One thing: I didn't find the installation super intuitive. Probably some room to improve that experience

By the way I see great application in this for education, particularly with smaller kids
Just another one of the victories of the "Information wants to be free" movement!
I use a keyboard that has a similar layout to that in the images above (ctrl to left of A, tilde on home key at top right etc). It's called the Happy Hacking Keyboard and is made in Japan by a Fujitsu subsidiary: see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hacking_Keyboard. It's extremely expensive (~$300 or so) but has amazing key action and having gotten used to it I would never want to use anything else
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Yes, the feature set is through Sequayah(not correct spelling) which is part of the mobile java tools..
Other comments asked how incarceration rates could be reduced in the United States. One way would be for many of the forty-some other states to follow the example of the few states, including Minnesota, which have set up determinate sentencing based on severity of the offense of conviction and the criminal history of the convicted defendant.

http://www.northfieldnews.com/content/understanding-minnesot...

http://www.doc.state.mn.us/crimevictim/terms.htm

I toured a prison in Minnesota in the mid-1980s, as an interpreter for an official visitor from another country. The visitor was amazed to learn that Minnesota then (and now) spends LESS per taxpayer on putting convicted criminals into prison, while spending substantially MORE per prisoner. Only the most serious criminals with long histories of offenses are imprisoned. Most convicted criminals receive sentences that involve community corrections but not imprisonment. Minnesota's maximum-security prison, the one I toured, had a population of inmates 97 percent of whom had killed at least one other human being before being put in that prison. The foreign visitor was a human rights lawyer, and he was actually amazed at how humanely the prisoners were housed and treated in that prison. (He had visited many prisons in his own country, and none were as well funded as the prison in Minnesota.) A prison can be properly staffed and funded, and not too crowded, if a whole state's criminal justice system is geared toward imprisoning only persons who must be kept out of general society, responding to most forms of criminal behavior with sentences that don't include prison time.
What about 'all the things'? It's a frame pulled from a hyperbole and a half comic strip. Are you saying nobody owns that image, just because it's become popular?
Nice word - conflate. I had to look that up. I never said anything about piracy - you said that, not me.

If you're going to copy photos and paste funny text on them without considering whether you have legal rights to use the photo, then who am I to stop you? I like memes. But then if are going to cry "IP rights" when somebody else takes the same photo plus your funny text and uses it in some other way - then in my book you get filed under H for Hypocrite.

I think what that is, people showing their true colors about respect for other's work. If it's convenient to use something then it's fair-use and the IP owner can go screw himself. But if somebody takes OUR stuff, then bring the vengeance of the Internet upon thee with furious anger!
The sizeof is there so it returns a value so it can be used as an expression. See the comment above the code (reproduced in the original question).
I'd say it was more:

"Roboto is ungainly, homely, unharmonious and it looks exactly like Helvetica, which of course is gainly, beautiful and harmonious."
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So this is Mac only?
For which there is a massive amount of selection bias going on. I would want to see actual figures and a proper linear regression model before jumping to any conclusions here.
This command doesn't include the files in the parent directory.

An easier way to accomplish the original command uses globbing (like in bash):

tar czf backup1.tar */
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"Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble?
No, because that's where people buy their books."
- Tom Morello

Seems like Thiel is finally willing to work within the system to bring about change, rather than quixotically working outside of it.
I saw Samsung demoing some similar technology during SXSW (using a kinect that was hooked up to a mac mini and being displayed on one of their LED tv's), and it didn't work anywhere near as well. Congrats.
Gruber doesn't sum anything up. The post you linked to states that everyone claiming that the font isn't very bad or defending it is wrong. He doesn't say anything else.

It's very very clear that he doesn't care to give anything Android related a single positive thought. I don't care why, it's not something I choose to engage with, but you can't honestly suggest that (1) the linked article actually said anything other than, "I know you are, but what am I," or that (2) ANYTHING Gruber says about Android can ever be taken at face value after his very long and well documented tendency to go beyond the truth to disparage it.

I think that an argument can easily be made that the font doesn't look classically right on a large screen. On the devices I have seen it on (especially because the weight is usually so low that the terminators are essentially invisible) it looks just fine.

But guys, seriously, don't use this on a webpage.
In many places I know of, it is as simple as a parent writing a letter claiming to be opposed to vaccination on philosophical and/or religious grounds.
The first step is simple & straightforward. Fix education (or what is preventing them from getting an education) first

That is not simple and straightforward because powerful interest groups don't want education to be reformed along those lines. "The education system is a formalised, bureaucratic organisational structure and, like any bureaucratic organisational structure, it strives for maximum autonomy from external pressures as its cardinal principle of survival. While ostensibly devoted to the education of children, teachers, school administrators and local education officers must nevertheless regard parents acting on behalf of children as a force to be kept at bay because parental pressures in effect threaten the autonomy of the educational system. . . . I would hold that the stupefying conservatism of the educational system and its utter disdain of non-professional opinion is such that nothing less than a radical shake-up of the financing mechanism will do much to promote parental power." -- Mark Blaug, "Education Vouchers--It All Depends on What You Mean," in Economics of Privatization, J. Le Grand & R. Robinson, ed. (1985)

It would be a distinctly good idea, and would surely reduce crime rates, to reform education along the lines of ensuring that all pupils in schools in the United States learn fundamental literacy and numeracy. According to the PISA international education studies, some countries do much better than the United States in this regard.

http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/17/26/48165173.pdf

http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/9/49685503.pdf
Indeed, many policies work locally but not globally. Harassing criminals and putting them on busses leaving town appears to work, but only locally.

Anyway, the story seems to say that since there was a period of time in which NYC crime decreased while NYC incarcerations also decreased, the theory that incarceration reduces crime is refuted. Hardly.
tldr: It's more difficult to maintain a Java util library than it is to maintain the Linux kernel, so patches are not welcome. They'd love the community to do their bitch work though.
My friend and I looked into controlling those apps for a program we made to control media players with your voice called Shoevox - http://shoevox.org

The hard part was that we used sending keyboard shortcuts as our method of sending commands (which works for programs we support like WMP or VLC), but we couldn't do that reliably to Flash. We thought about switching to UI Automation but haven't done so yet.
If you're on a jury, are you going to listen when the judge tells you that you have to convict if you conclude that the person charged did in fact have drugs on them? Or are you going to judge the law (one purpose of the jury) as well as the facts, and stand proud and hang the jury if you're unable to convince them the drug war is immoral? Are you willing to lie on the jury questionnaire in order to get on the jury in the first place (since the questionnaire is designed to weed out people who will be immune to the jury tampering judges regularly engage in with their instructions.)

Or do you recognize this as immoral, but still think that the "justice" system itself IS moral because... its the government?

What does law have to do with morality? Laws are rules that we as citizens agree to follow (even if we disagree with them) in an effort to produce a cohesive society. We can seek to get laws we disagree with changed, but you cannot advocate a society in which we follow only the laws we like.

(Unless you are disobeying laws as a form of protest, in which case you accept the punishment. That's how civil disobedience works, you can't skip the punishment because you don't like the law.)
Comeon, who doesn't trust Sony?
Please note that this seems to be available for Mac users only right now.
Two years ago we were all handling our social network username + passwords to every service out there. You just did that with your Playstation, what's new? Just don't share things with services you don't trust. OAuth doesn't work in this setting.
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Corrections Corporation of America = http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/index.html?id=47162
Will this work in PyPy?
> It is particularly ironic that sony not so long ago lost all psn users' personal and financial data to crackers, and now they want to underhandedly grab more of it from our facebook accounts.

QFT. You would think that they'd show a little more sensitivity around privacy issues after their recent security fiasco, instead of looking for more ways to steal information that they might very well end up losing.
How to Generate Startup Ideas
This is so freakishly awesome !!!
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Imperfectly correlated is somewhat of a misnomer, IMO. Nearly every observed correlation is "imperfect". Hell, that's basically what "correlation" implies.
Got a really good shot last night playing outside with the kids:

http://yfrog.com/o03xqzsj

Not bad for a cellphone camera.
It is definitely possible - I've been in your shoes and done it. Transferred an H1 from an existing employer to a startup run by my biz partner (who also had a majority share). We hadn't raised any $$ when the transfer happened, though we closed an angel round a month after the transfer happened.

Things may have changed since 07 (funding requirements, etc). IANAL, though - you definitely want a good immigration lawyer who's familiar with this stuff.
I live in a city where people are said to commute in from the outer parts in order to commit crimes, but the assertion is only ever backed up by anecdata.
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I notice the writer doesn't actually quote any specific things Peter has said that would make this a hypocritical move.
I haven't followed everything he has said about college education, but I do believe he doesn't hate universities so much as their current value proposition.

The amount of debt students have to take on now to get a degree, in contrast to what a motivated person can learn and do on their own now with alternative educational sources and a cheap computer, means that most of that debt is paying for just the credential, whose value is being increasingly undermined while its cost continues increasing.

So he believes student loan debt is the next big financial bubble due to collapse, given that there is more of it than credit card debt [1], and that it's being loaned for any major regardless of its expected ROI, among other things.

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/student...
By “supply side criminology,” he means the conservative theory of crime that claimed that social circumstances produced a certain net amount of crime waiting to be expressed; if you stopped it here, it broke out there. The only way to stop crime was to lock up all the potential criminals.

Very odd to describe this as a "conservative" idea. Most conservatives I know object to this sort of sociological determinism, instead embracing the idea of individual responsibility. If anything, they believe in the power of (slowly) malleable culture and institutions to shape outcomes, rather than accepting bad outcomes as inevitable.
I'm a little confused as to why this is offered as "Computer Science 183". Is "Computer Science" used as a heading for anything computer-related at Stanford, or is this an exception?
It seems there is open source which is setup for community contribution and open source which isn't. We tend to only really think of open source, ideally at least, in terms of projects that allow community contribution.

From what I have read Android is pretty similar? Very hard for developers to actually get some of their code merged.

Wondering now what other Google projects are like for outside contributions, Chromium etc.
An off-topic question:
I've studied statistics in my course (engineering) but I haven't gone deep. I know the concepts superficially, like exponencial, polinomial and stuff.

In this situation: what book do you recommend to me? I want to able to reason a thought like that, more real-world stuff.
So, wait a minute.

People draw some crappy pictures or take a crappy photo and slap an average joke over the top spread it around the internet and then get annoyed that someone puts it in a game?

Why aren't they going after the people who endlessly re-post these things?
Yeah, it's all idle speculation based on personal life experiences. No hard science to back it up.
Reminded me of this (Daylight Savings Time explained): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4 Madness!
[In summer 2001] We talked constantly, speculated, made suggestions, argued about how Jedi should work; we were two years from ever even playing and we already had deep and powerful opinions about a game that didn’t exist yet. It was unprecedented.

It was at least a year late for being unprecedented :). I was doing exactly the same in mid-late 2000 with Eve Online.
Not sure if this answers your question, but the fundamental problem from which all economic activity is derived is scarcity.
This is why my vpn setup is done via Rackspace. I gave up fighting this backwards ass approach to the problem.
Speaking as someone who was recently a juror on a trial, I can firmly say that the premise of this article is correct. The courts in this country are far, far, far too slow to deal with a mass number of trials. The system would simply collapse if people starting exercising this right.
Totally possible. I've seen it done often. Even by double immigrant founders.
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Yes, at the moment. We will add support for other OS very soon.
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Very cool although with CPU usage at about 30% on my Air I won't be able to use it much. If you can figure out a way to drop average CPU usage down to reduce heat & power usage that would be a big deal.
The funny thing is even when people present the ambitious ideas they are laughed at. let me try again.

I have a big idea to take on the banking system, yes the banks.launched the MVP 2 weeks ago not wanting to be too ambitious at the beginning. Have two more features to add that will really challenge them. Plus we already know at this point that banks don't care about the disappearing middle class. http://www.cnbc.com/id/45899309/Why_Banks_Shun_30_Million_Am... http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-29/jpmorgan-sees-cl....

For now, it is a fun way to save money with friends http://sou-sous.com . If you are not laughing by now and want to join this challenge or any advice, please let me know.
Bustication Everywhere: A CanSecWest Retrospective
I would be interested in a more specific response to the parent. For example, given your expertise, can you diagnose his problem with jerky scrolling and offer a solution?
Yes. PyPy supports the CPython bytecode.
A missive on the catastrophic vulnerabilities of the modern electric grid
Good to see a native app, I think they are hosting them, my kid used to get distracted by ads on YouTube videos
Hi Hedgehog - thats a great point. We thought of it, and when you're not doing a gesture, CPU usage should drop to around 2-3%. Let us know if it doesn't. In our test, average CPU usage was around 5%.
The author would benefit from replacing his backticks with $(pwd) instead. You can nest this form arbitrarily deep as well as having it interpolate in strings or heredocs.
This guy asked for money for a project using 4chan memes and got abused for it. Not very surprising, they are a vindictive bunch and hate the popularization of their culture. Their wrath is even greater if it even appears that money is somehow involved.

A couple of years ago Hot Topic made a shirt using the "Rage Guy" face from 4chan. They responded by rebranding the "Rage Guy" as "Race Guy" making tons of racist comics featuring the image and then complaining to Hot Topic for supporting racism.[1]

1: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/race-guy

Unrelated Question:

What happens on kickstarter when you pledge a project, they get tons of money, and then they don't deliver? For example, what if this guy gets enough to begin but he sucks at coding and isn't able to deliver anything like what he promised? Or what if someone were to just pocket the kickstarter money and disappear?
Another option for users is to put

javascript:(function(){var st = document.createElement('link');st.type = "text/css";st.href = "https://raw.github.com/Primigenus/Cleaner-Hacker-News/master/cleaner-hn.css;st.rel = "stylesheet";document.body.appendChild(st)})()

in a bookmark (e.g. on the bookmark bar), then just click it when they want a "cleaner" HN.

Avoids having to install anything extra, but you will need to click it every time you want to use it.
Assuming a site that originally allows 5 login attempts and locks for 15 minutes after that, under normal conditions that's an average of 180 seconds per attempt.

Assume your site allows N 8-bit partial preimage hash checks before a 15 minute lockout. (I would suggest, with 8 char minimum passwords, that you only count passwords that are 8-16 or 8-24 characters long. Otherwise a cat might try to test a several hundred char long password and the user will be locked out. DoS by feline.)

Under your system, seconds per crack attempt is (900/N + 900/5 * N/256). The first term is the number of pseudo-successful attempts with the fast 8-bit check, and the second term is checking those 1/256 passwords using the slow 5-checks-per-15-minute full auth check.

If you allow 40 8-bit checks before a lockout (N=40), you get 50.625 seconds per check.

Allowing full checks at a faster rate of 40 per 15 minutes, the second term disappears and you get to check at 22.5 seconds/check.

Obviously these decrease security, but if you're concerned about one check per 22.5 seconds, or even 1 check per 10 seconds, why would you want to decrease the effective check rate at all, from the nominal 3 minutes per check that's closer to standard? I don't think that going from 50 seconds to 22 seconds is "looking at the sun in a telescope" :)

The 256 hash buckets are going to create collisions. Given 8 char minimums, 7 incomplete passwords will be checked per user. That's at least one collision for an incomplete password per 37 users (7 * 37 > 256).

At least 1 out of 256 users will have the most common mistype of their password also collide with the real hash to 8 bits. Their only option is to change their password.

An attempt to reduce collisions would further decrease the time per cracking attempt, and since rock bottom is 22.5 seconds/request in that example, I don't think that's so horrible a price for a boost in usability, if you're going to implement this sort of password correctness hinting at all.