skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh well I'm happy that you chose this example, because I happen to have a Dutch law degree, and if you're saying this to support the GP who said that "Many civilised countries explicitly forbid this" (cumulative sentencing / consecutive time), then you're wrong (as is the GP).

First, to be clear, there are two cases of committing crimes at the same time: one is when a certain act by necessity implies committing another, lesser offense (the textbook example here is raping somebody on the town square - this almost certainly qualifies as public indecency too, but you'll only be sentenced for the rape). This is called 'eendaadse samenloop' (roughly translated, 'single-act concurrency'). This is not what we are talking about.

What we are talking about is 'meerdaadse samenloop' ('multiple act concurrency'), the rules for which are set in art 58 Sr. (the Dutch criminal code) and basically say this (if lawyers weren't numerically illiterate - sometimes I get the feeling admission to the bar requires a selective lobotomy of those parts of the brain that work with numbers, but I digress -):

Let s be the final sentence, t1 and t2 the effective sentences for each of the individual criminal acts, and t1' and t2' the maximum sentences for those respective criminal acts:

s = min(t1 + t2, max(t1', t2') * 4/3)

In plain words: the prosecutor will charge the suspect with the separate crimes, and ask for separate penalties. The judge will sentence each criminal act separately, and then give the perpetrator a combined jail time for all the criminal acts which is maximized at 30% over the theoretical maximum for the punishment with the longest jail time.

So, in your hypothetical example, the maximum sentence for manslaughter is 15 years (art 287 Sr), for robbery resulting in death also 15 years (art 321(3) Sr). The typical sentence for manslaughter for a first-time offender would be something like 8-10 years; for the other the same. The maximum is 15 * 4 / 3 = 20 years; if the judge sentences the robber to 10 years for each, he will serve 20 years. Note that these are not two separate sentences that are served consecutively, but one sentence that takes into account both acts; but that's merely a semantic difference.

If you still don't believe me, let me quote from 'Een inleiding in het strafrecht in 13 hoofdstukken', Stolwijk (2009) p243, the relevant page of which is also available via Google Books:

"In de praktijk is het matigende effect van de samenloopregeling gering. In de strafzaak zelf wordt een werkelijk plafond in de straftoemeting niet bereikt omdat de rechter ook bij samenloop nimmer aan dat maximum toekomt. De vraag naar meerdaadse of eendaadse samenloop is daarom louter een kwestie van een juiste kwalificatie.'. (summary translation: the effect of the ceiling on combining sentences is very small because that ceiling is seldomly reached anyway).
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Lastpass can access your decrypted password vault if they are compelled to. All they have to do is send you some modified JavaScript which steals your password/key.

They're certainly worried about persistant XSS attacks being used to gain access to peoples vaults. There's nothing stopping them performing one of these attacks themselves, targetted to a specific user.

If you think this is unlikely, look up Hushmail being compelled to send modified java applets to their users to steal their keys. It has been done before.

So yeah, if the US government wants access to a list of all of your accounts, when you logged in to them, what IPs you logged in with and your usernames and passwords, they'd probably be quite pleased to find out you're using Lastpass
Slightly less annoying than HBO Go, which complains in the latest version of Chrome that the sandbox is too restrictive.

The sandbox was put there for a reason HBO, stop trying to do whatever it is you're trying to do!
And even then the price I'd be willing to pay is less than 10 € (usually, thanks to steam)
Does your 9 € app delivers 9 € of value to me? I honestly doubt that.
Oh yes. My CPU-Meter jumped from 3-7% to 35 - 55% while the page was open and dropped back to the previous-level on closing the tab.

Too bad, as it really is a cool effect, done with relatively simple assets...
As it says in the article that the people that get into computer science in IIT are the best of the best in this test. I wonder how the quality of graduate compares with those coming out of mid/top US universities.
You cannot really justify streaming without DRM and the studios will never agree too it. The problem is having DRM as part of the HTML specification because it will harm the web as a whole.

I much prefer it to stay the way it is with silverlight.
Varnish - Why no SSL?
Considering that a face transplant currently requires a lifetime regimine of immunosuppressives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_transplant#Ethics.2C_Surge...) in order to have post-op acceptance of the transplant by the host, I would expect nothing less in this more extreme form of surgery.

I would hate to be the recipient of this procedure; then fin my body (their body?) rejecting the transplant!
Yes that's true - in fact there are multiple strategies that can be employed when monetising an app, neatly summarised in this TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/26/how-free-apps-can-make-more...

The author seems bothered by the multitude of negative reviews and support requests generated by a cheap app. Not all of these are bad - in fact they are real-world user tests and are useful for debugging and improving the app.

I propose having a free version for those who want to try out the app, with a caveat that users who need better support and more frequent upgrades should try out the paid app instead.
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Apparently games with demos sell worse — seeing half the sales of their non-demo counterparts.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-02-11-games-without-d...

(Though it only looks at xbox 360 games)
It would be cool if the author made the dataset available it would be fun to try other things with it - population weighing (as WildUtah mentions), grouping them by language families and calculating intra and inter-group weirdness (and distances), clustering the languages into new groups, calculating weirdness as mean distance in the 21 dimensional space to all other languages, projecting the space itself on a plane so that we can see it better,...
Governments can still gather the metadata of encrypted emails. Both PGP and S/MIME do not encrypt the subject line, sender or recipient addresses.

To use encrypted email and hide the subject line, you need to not use it (just say "Encrypted email") or something. This cannot be made automatic without impacting UX.

The To: header fundamentally cannot be removed. The sender can be inferred from the account within the email provider supplying the Government's feed.

I like the idea for MUAs to automatically encrypt after a mutual automatic key exchange though. I think PGP would be more suitable for this (no CAs required). Is there a standard email header that advertises "you can reply back to me with a PGP encrypted email encrypted to key ID X and I'll be able to read it automatically"? If not, somebody should propose one. Public keyservers exist so I see no reason a simple header like this wouldn't suffice. The rest is MUA implementation.
Whilst I understand that you can have good reasons for want to integrate to the libraries he mentions, I can't help feeling that Hibernate is a library that solves a problem caused by the type system, so just using a dynamic language and forgetting Hibernate strikes me as a good approach. Indeed, all the libraries listed look avoidable.
Awful in what way? I use LastPass every day and love it. (The Firefox and Chrome extensions, LastPass for Applications on Windows, and the Android app and keyboard replacement, and the Dolphin Browser plugin.) The Equivalent Domains settings are a bit clunky and would be better implemented with the ability to enter regular expressions directly in the URL fields of sites IMO, but it works. The keyboard replacement is no substitute for a real keyboard like SwiftKey, but combined with the app it makes for relatively convenient password entry in apps, and the Dolphin plugin is seamless. Otherwise, everything else about it product has worked perfectly for my use case.
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The games on iOS are interchangeable because they're awful and barely register as 'games'.
I wouldn't - the news of the Google Reader shutdown made great opportunity for many nice RSS/news readers to be born; so I would just switch, there are plenty of good alternatives now.

I actually use Feedly now - its perfect for me.
"In short, after 5 years, the game makes more money through ads when it is free, in contrast to selling the game directly."

I suppose that's the secret hope of anybody making an app free, or very low cost. They suppose it's going to be better for everyone in the end, including them.
Hey look, it's another submission where the title conveys the exact same amount of information as the URL.

Which is a shame, because it's actually a pretty neat-looking HTML5/css/jquery reference.
No, you just seem ignorant about the real problem.
Well he is right, there is nothing wrong with having DRM on streamed content which you don't actually buy. The only problem is pushing for DRM becoming a part of the HTML specification.
Netflix is far from a monopoly on either users or content.
To me it's somewhat disappointing to see how quickly HN jumps on an article like this. With all due respect to the obviously enormous hard work these people put into getting in to an IIT, and their obvious intelligence, isn't this kind of discussion about some test to determine whether or not you're 'smarter' than other people something of a pissing match?

No doubt intelligence to a certain degree is a pre-requisite, but beyond that privilege and wealth contribute a huge amount (emphasised in the article when discussing tutors.)

When I attended university I saw how important it was to strategise in exams, the actual technique of exam taking itself is clearly something you can work on, regardless of intelligence. Any test like this can be, and inevitable is, gamed by its candidates; the exams become more a matter of how good you are at guessing what will come up and being good at the art of answering exam questions rather than what the exams ostensibly examine.

I raise this because I find the whole 'elite universities, passed difficult tests = wonderfully smart people who should be given every opportunity in the world to shine' as suspect, biased towards the privileged, and false beyond a a certain base level which is probably not the 'cream of the crop' levels of intelligence people ascribe to those attending this institutions. It smacks of pomposity and self-serving arrogance.

I say this as somebody who went to an 'elite' or at least well regarded university here in the UK (Imperial College.)

Full Disclaimer: I myself may be somewhat biased as I under-performed at university because of quite horrific family issues which inevitably results in an emotional reaction to this kind of thing, however I don't think that invalidates what I'm saying.
Which market's destruction he's talking about?

Overall software market? Mobile app market? Game market? Indie game market? From a consumer point of view, I fail to see any signs of destruction on any of them. It's exactly the opposite, they seem to me as growing and constantly expanding.
If you're on a mac you might want to check out Dash http://kapeli.com/dash

Very simliar goal, but offline and instant. After using it for a while it's hard to imagine going back to reading documentation in a web-browser.
I like the end result, but i'm not sure why they decided to use 14 canvas tags when 1 would have worked just as well.

It seems wasteful, canvas was designed specifically to allow drawing and manipulating multiple images on a single surface, these guys are using canvas as if it were a div with a background image.
A flat bootstrap, no corners, no gradients with font awesome and metro buttons
Brackets: From Design Comp (PSD) to Code
This questions turns up about every months - Ruby vs. Python.
Well, my advice is that you should use which you like better. Ruby on Rails had some critical security problems but that can happen any time for new Django releases as well (let's be honest). The community is great behind both language so you can find plenty of information on the Internet regarding them. I think there are also many jobs on both as well but well, this varies from country to country - in Hungary there are not so many Rails jobs - but there are not so many Django/Flask places as well.

Note: Scala is my love-language, why should you switch? Did you try the Play framework?
Wasn't that ruling overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio in order to protect members of the KKK from arrest? (US history is really pretty awful sometimes.)
There are a few potential problems which limit the significance of this:

1. There is not a universal definition of what defines a language and what is simply a dialect or a regional variation; this applies especially on large continents where there can be greater variation in language features between geographically remote locations, but no clean boundary at which you can say people speak one or the other language.

2. Languages evolve, diverge and sometimes borrow, and so a group of related languages can share the same potentially idiosyncratic feature because of common evolutionary roots rather than because the feature makes sense. This could explain the result for Hindi - it is a standard language that 'averages' a large number of other Indian languages.
Here's a counterpoint, as I vastly prefer the work put on the new version to every iteration.

04-09 versions feel too layered, the fox really floats atop the globe, giving a disjointed feel. While the 3D tail on the third iteration aims to remedy this, it was still too popping (due to brightness, gloss and drop shadows) and increasingly so as one moves farther away from the tail. In the new version, the subtler earth ('dull') combats this. The fox actually feels less menacing.

A lighter blue makes the earth feel milky/foggy. Adding contrast to the continents just makes more details come up front and feels messy. Even with the toned down land masses, the sphericality of the new continents is actually much better felt in the new version.

The brightness and the details of the thinner tail makes it weight evenly with the wider and more uniform head and body. Ironically you argue for more details in the body while asking to remove the subtle hairs. Anyway I feel there's enough details in the form of volume lines and self-shadows.
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Yea. That would be nice, I am missing it too.
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DocHub already exists that does the same thing but with more docs.

http://dochub.io/
IIRC Google Translate doesn't work as a straight "word swap" like other tarnslation tools perhaps do. Google Translate works in a similar way to their search engine in that common phrases and works on popular sites are compared and probable meaning are. This is why names celebrities sometimes get translated by the names of their peers[1] and why the pseudo-Latin in Lorem Ipsum translates.

[1] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100905144430AA... (I know it's a terrible source, but it's the only link I could find)
Nobody is claiming all news is objective. I also think that the constant claims about 'msm' 'ignoring' important stories is annoying, incorrect and in fact distracting from the proper discussion to be had.

There is in fact a very distinct difference between opinion articles and 'proper' news articles. You see, journalism is not a claim to objective truth, but a procedure aimed at achieving a minimum level of validity where it comes to events. When you read a news article, you should (to some extent) be able to trust its contents on the merits of the journalistic method. Whereas with an opinion piece, it's not bound by this procedure. Note - nobody is arguing 'absolute objectivity' here. It's a matter of trust in a procedure.
Of course, it's fine to distrust the journalistic method, to not see it as absolute truth, but to deny or entirely dismiss the distinction is annoyingly daft.

Also, afaik, this story is still everywhere. If you want it to remain that way, start working for change - newspapers report on events, not 'the truth'. Make events happen, and it stays in the cycle.
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Bingo Card Creator is 95% #1, Appointment Reminder is #2. Client sites depend on what I can convince them to work with, largely tending to follow whomever "owns" the marketing site internally (engineers prefer #1, non-technical folks prefer #2).
Really nice! It would be usable if it was free software so I could add docs for the different libs&langs I'm using. When it's closed, it's sadly not usable (although a very nice show).
his interface is faster.
…which makes me wonder if CSS animation on stacked divs would be more efficient too?
If you are going to work with concurrency ... I think you definitely want to be using Clojure.

Is it widely accepted that Clojure is better for concurrency? [1] I haven't used Clojure much, so I can't comment on their relative merits. But, I've played with actors in Scala some, and done a bit with STM, and they make concurrency relatively straightforward. It's plausible that Clojure has a better concurrency story (and this blog post has inspired me to try it out) but, concurrency is easy enough in Scala that I don't think of it as a weakness of the language, the way I would with something like C.

[1] This is not a rhetorical question.
This was launched 36 years ago, and still sending data! How did they make it that sturdy back then? Do they still make them like that today?

Is there actually any mission at all with the intention to have a new spacecraft leave the solar system, or is it just a coincidence with the voyagers and now all missions are only for planets?
Seems like they are just counting the weird features of languages. It is correct that language like Turkish (probably Hungarian as well) is least weird because it does not have any of the weird features like word gender, irregular verbs, prefixes etc. But two main features of language, extreme inflection and vowel harmony makes learning it difficult.
You can download it yourself at http://wals.info/export . And given enough effort, you can quite quickly reverse engineer which 21 features were used.
Not to mention you can import and make your own DocSets, can integrate it with Xcode and much more. If you're developing anything on a Mac, you should probably have this installed (and pay to support it of course).

It's also a snippet manager, though I don't think many people use it for that purpose.
Does anyone know which of the new replacement readers, feebly etc. support pubsubhubbub?
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Right, you should have reason to use all these JPA, Hibernate, EJB in Scala, in most cases you can just go with Scala's modern alternatives (Play, Slick etc.) and build robust apps. Dynamic languages aren't often a pill for everything, especially with larger codebase and when performance is considered.
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Hibernate is limited by the language it finds itself in. Enhance it with a few macros and you get something truly wonderful - type-safe handling of data from outside your application.

(as for spring, I'm working on a type-level alternative as we speak)
This somehow reminds me of the notorious "Open Letter to Hobbyists" by Bill Gates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
...this may be true, but there's also a huge market for games that run on iOS and Android. And since iOS doesn't support Java, but Android does support C/C++ through the NDK, it makes complete sense to go down that road.
I think 'weirdness' in this context should not be conflated with 'norm'. Instead, as I read it, I think about it the same way you would think about the regularity of a language (to put it into compsci terms)

I speak both mandarin and cantonese. I think a lot of the 'weirdness' factor comes from actually saying the words. Also there are some words in cantonese that are not in mandarin. For example, in Cantonese, there is 'mou' (the negation of having), while in Mandarin, it'd be pronounced as two words ('mei2 you3). Spoken cantonese in some regards, is easier to pick up than spoken mandarin (definitely easier to cuss in)
The difference is that the volunteers get more money and is composed of a war hungry brainwashed culture that cant point the countries its at war with on the map. Unless there is an actual invasion there is little moral justification for murder, violence, threats. The road to wealth is peace, the road to peace is compassion and the strength of every individual in our society.
I used NDK yesterday, but just playing around and having fun: used mocl Common Lisp example. Compiled Common Lisp to C and then compiled with NDK. Imported project into Android Studio. The process was smooth, but not quite agile since kicking off a build using mocl and NDK might take 30 seconds.
...or an animated GIF
Hey man! My startup will be in the bay area in August / Sept if you're still around to meet up. We're Aussie as well!
I would say yes, the web is large imagined as being an open, free, compatible, interoperable etc.

App stores etc have never been put forwards as open, free, sharing, compatible etc.

By shoe-horning black-box, most likely ill supported (in terms of os compability) proprietary DRM packages into the "open" web they are trying to have their cake and eat it too. "We use simple web browsers etc! (small print: xyz plugins required)"

If you want that kind of DRM infested, proprietary stuff then by all means get a desktop / mobile app. Stop trying to infest the "Free and open web".
flash was bad enough but at the time there was a good reason for it. There is not now.
Very cool - but when I'm on an iPad you keep bring up the keypad because you focus on search. Can you fix that?
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There's nothing forcing W3C to follow Netflix' ideas?

Shouldn't we take this up with W3C instead?
For me, DevDocs is nicer at the moment:

- It's faster

- I don't have to select a programming language before I can start searching

- It handles keyboard input a lot better. As soon as the page loads, I can start typing, move down with the arrow keys and activate a selection with the enter key.
Mozilla doesn't have to license anything. All mozilla has to do is implement the relevant part of the standard.
The DRM software itself is provided by a third party, the browser simply provides a mechanism for communication.

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
Couldn't agree more. I'd hate to be the guy stuck with the buggy beta.
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Seriously, why is software so hard for non-software companies?
When it comes to more or less large and real world systems - I really can't imagine how one can work with dynamically typed languages.
Those kind of statistics are useless. They lack any kind of control whatsoever. For example, it's very easy to imagine that a company that knows its game is not telling a compelling story might be tempted to make a demo to try to get people into it, whereas a company with confidence in its brand might not. Who knows, the demo might be doubling sales in those otherwise no-hoper games.

You could just as easily rewrite the conclusion to be "companies who knows their game is crap often choose to make a demo". Without a more sophisticated statistical analysis, it's every bit as valid.
Yes, it is probably a regexp bug, like

/^ $/

Someone pressed the space key once at the wrong place...
3rd party rev share idea