skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was glad to see that the recent article kindly submitted here gives the inmate count for Sweden, and Sweden's population.

"According to official data, the Swedish prison population has dropped by nearly a sixth since it peaked at 5,722 in 2004. In 2012, there were 4,852 people in prison in Sweden, out of a population of 9.5 million."

So I looked up my home state of Minnesota's inmate count and population for a rough comparison.

"State corrections officials are quick to point out that Minnesota’s incarceration rate is the second lowest in the nation and to note how favorably Minnesota compares with our neighbor to the east. As of July 1, Minnesota had a prison population of 9,772 and a prison budget of $457 million a year. In contrast, Wisconsin has a prison population of about 23,000 and a prison budget of $1.2 billion."[1] Minnesota has a population of 5.379 million. In general, the state prison population in the United States is declining,[2] with Maine currently being the state with the lowest rate of incarceration, and Minnesota's recently fluctuating rate being the second-lowest. Some states have much higher rates of incarceration, so the overall United States rate is high.

As the article submitted here suggests, and as the articles I'm linking here suggest too, all over the world it can reduce incarceration rates to not punish minor drug offenses
with incarceration. A determinate sentencing system that emphasizes severity of crimes like Minnesota's[3] keeps first-time, nonviolent offenders out of prison and reserves prison for repeat offenders with known history of violent offenses.

How does Minnesota's system work for me as a member of the public? I can walk all over my neighborhood feeling perfectly safe, and even my children can freely go out in public, walking for a radius of a mile or biking for a radius of four or five miles in any direction, without risk or fear.

[1] http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2013/08/how-minnesot...

[2] http://www.startribune.com/local/216949031.html

[3] http://mn.gov/sentencing-guidelines/images/2013%2520Guidelin...
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>How about a diskless laptop that boots from cloud storage?

While this is a cool idea, how much bandwidth would you need to boot at roughly the same speed you do today? Some SSDs have 500 MB/s (~4 Gbit) read. You'd need to have gigabit networking with almost zero latency for that to perform well.

I suppose a smaller OS like Chrome OS would be perfect for that. Even if this worked on fiber, how would you boot over a cellular network? Aside from costing you a ton of money, it would take forever to download.
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Continuing with my earlier point, I don't have specific examples to give, but I've built so many complex web applications using Drupal with beautiful interfaces/UIs that you wouldn't even be able to recognize what was powering it. The complete allure of Drupal to me is that you can be literally anything (for the most part), and you can do it incredibly fast.

This is a really poor article, in my opinion.
This is another problem with Haskell: comments like this. But in order to be helpful, let me explain why.

> technically Haskell is non-strict, not lazy.

Now, see, I don't care. Neither does anyone really other than PL researchers. I mean, I can care in my spare time if I like spending it on PL research, but when I write a 2 MLOC software for a large customer, I couldn't care less whether "technically" it's "non-strict" or "lazy". As far as I, the programmer, is concerned, it's lazy. If one must be this familiar with PL jargon in order to program Haskell, then this is a problem.

> but don't pretend its a feature of humanity. All runtimes come with assumptions.

Again, I'm not trying to make a provable statement (how does that joke go? you can tell if someone is a mathematician if everything they tell you is all true and all irrelevant). We're talking software engineering, right? So what percentage of production code anywhere in the world is written in an eager (strict, whatever) language? If you tell me it's less than 99.999%, then you're being dishonest. 99.999% is a "feature of humanity". If your point is that education can change people's habit and way of thinking, I say, you're absolutely right. Go for it, and we'll talk again in 15 years.

> All runtimes come with assumptions.

Again, true but irrelevant. Some assumptions are more familiar and therefore feel more "natural",and some are less so.

I wasn't dissing Haskell. It's a very impressive and elegant language. I was only pointing out that while it has some advantages from a software engineering perspective, it also has some disadvantage.
If GMail were built with Drupal, nobody would have ever heard of it, because it would suck and would have never gotten the kind of traction that GMail actually did.
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Also some combinations of devices can create problems. We had a RAID controller that randomly rebuild mirrored sets because the drive was 'dead'. After the rebuild the drive seemed fine. We concluded there was some firmware delay that caused the controller to time out some operation and call the drive 'failed'.

We replaced the drives with a different brand and the 'failures' went away.
Yup, Office, including Excel, allows up to about 5 users to collaboratively edit a document hosted on a local drive or SMB share. This has worked this way going way back -- as far as Office 1997 I believe.

I think it uses a lockfile to do this. It works, but it doesn't scale up well. IIRC, after about 3 people, the effectiveness drops substantially.
That's exactly what FinFisher police spyware does: pretends to shut off your phone but the mic is still recording
An ORM maps a relational database to objects. Given MongoDB is most definitely not relational, you can't have implemented an ORM :-)
If you want to make a business out of it, you can sell license but if you worked on it only as a hobby project, you can open source it, totally depends upon how you personally want to go ahead with it.
Do you find that you have to travel to SV regularly to visit your clients / find new prospects?
Except the parent is wrong, the federal government limits states in matters of commerce, the bulk of which would be conducted interstate, not intrastate.

States cannot limit the prosecution of commerce outside itself. It was an attempt to limit state rivalries, such as Texas telling Other states it had to pay a premium to use its ports.
Maybe if hacker news thought everything wrong with the technology industry is due to startups.

Hacker news is essentially the dailywtf for traders. Most of the people there have an ax to grind and/or no experience in real markets.
The restrictions are only for Excel. The other apps support many users.
That's an unfalsifiable claim that rationalizes going ahead and doing what you were going to do anyway. For example, I'm going to use it today to justify farting on the bus.
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OS news used to be full of Apple love and hate.
So, according to your viewpoint, there were no doctor's in the US until the late 1800's?
But there are Standards. 2 to be exact: one from OMTP and one from CITA. The OMTP one, is even used as national standard in china: http://www.cspress.com.cn/u/cms/www/201208/17092831ounz.pdf
Time is a fungible commodity. E.g. boot time may affect bottom line (rhyme!) in the EU; it can be different in Africa.
not Drupal fan but that error is not even Drupal related, seems like the database is running out of connections (HN spike)
It's not polite to mock (or get to the HN front page) a drupal site. We all know this boy is a little slow...
You could not believe the price they have to pay for computer. It is easily 3x, 4x the price we pay for the same hardware. And I they do need computer.

But, it is possible that the logistic/shipping is more expensive than the production of new hardware.

Also, cheaper more energy efficient hardware could be more cost effective.

source: A friend of mine worked for ong in Burkina Faso
> You could have a strict Haskell-like language that manages effects in the same way, indeed such languages exist.

I'm unaware of any strict purely functional language with monads. Could you give an example? Thanks!
That's what I came here to type. Well, actually...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU

/goddammitleroy
No problem. All the best!
I don't count myself among the enraged, but I understand why some people feel that way.

A tool that is pretty central to a lot of people's work lives was changed in a non-trivial way without warning, without their input, and with no way to go back. For people who are really busy and need email to be something that "just works", I could see how this would be really frustrating.
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It's great to see these type of offerings that are coming out in the geospatial arena. CartoDB free web mapping course + Mapbox redesign and webapp, these new companies are really doing cool things!
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The whole point is that these 'smarter strategies' are only smarter because they are exploiting arbitrary API conventions, not smarter because they improve the utility of markets to society in general. Which is a tragedy, because if all these geniuses were working in the fields they trained in - computer science, physics, or bioinformatics - they would be contributing to society on a more fundamental level.
Very much the opposite. In Sweden, even alcohol is a controlled substance and you may recall pressure being put on NL for allowing foreign people to consume cannabis in coffee shops (mainly in Amsterdam), well that pressure was from Sweden who saw the practise as a way for Swedes to get around their laws by flying to Amsterdam for a weekend (although just across the border in Copenhagen, a Swede can buy cannabis at Christiana, it isn't legalized or officially decriminalized, but the police only enforce a few arrests every few years as long as there is no violence or other drugs, no such pressure was placed on Denmark).

It is a throwback to notions from the 19th century, puritanical christian Sweden where the notion was that Swedes have an 'addict gene'.

You can legally have sex with animals though, it isn't even seen as cruel, the thinking back in 1945 when bestiality was legalized with sodomy was why should an otherwise good man be plagued because he has sex with animals (or homosexual sex). Obviously this thinking wouldn't fly in other western nations as the concept of cruelty and consent are very different. I think they are in the process of changing this now, so maybe in a few years they will fall in line with other aspects of international policy as well.
I have worked with DotNetNuke, and while I agree that it is horrible, I have to say that HP/Autonomy/Interwoven's Teamsite/Livesite CMS is hands-down the worst piece of software (note: 'piece of software', not just 'CMS') that I have ever used. When you consider that companies will spend 7 figures for that POS, it boggles the mind...
Idris is one example.
> The whole situation creates "sticky" jobs, where people end up stuck in 1 country, sometimes a very small country, and they can't really embrace the full power of a unionized economic area.

I understand your frustration, but the purpose of the policy is precisely to create 'sticky jobs', and this is really the only way things can work unless countries like Denmark and the Netherlands wish over time to lose their languages, and become more or less undifferentiated provinces of Europe. Labour market mobility is important, but it is not the sine qua non of modern Europe. Small countries accept immigration on the basis that the immigrants will over time learn the language and adjust to the culture, it's impossible for them to maintain the integrity of their state if a major percentage of the population are transitory.
Perhaps combine. Make it open source for personal / non-commercial use. License it for companies who will use it commercially. I don't know the details of the product (complexity for example) but might be worth it test if people are interested in workshops / training. Not sure if you're interested in offering that of course.

Edit: Also, think of what is more important now. Getting people to use the framework or make the perfect decision on how to make money with it.
That's really not what's going on here. I mean, yes, the US probably has better police officers than China. But the real reason we have higher per capita numbers than anyone else (with the possible exception of North Korea) is not that we (and possibly North Korea) have the world's best police officers. It's that we quadrupled our prison population over the last thirty years (partly by increasing incarceration for drug crimes by 1200%) while the rest of the world ... didn't.

I mean, look at the numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

- If you exclude some sub-100K-population countries that probably have weird statistics, the country with the next highest incarceration rate is Cuba, with only 75% the incarceration rate of the US. That's the _next highest_.

- Russia has 67% of our incarceration rate. That's the highest large country other than the US.

- There are only 21 countries that have even half of our incarceration rate, and let's say they're not the ones I think of as having the highest standard of living in the world.

- Looking at the western nations that the US traditionally compares itself to (depending who you think that is), the highest are probably Spain, England and Wales at 20% of our incarceration rate. Germany is at 11%. France is at 14%.

- In North America, Canada is at 16% of our incarceration rate. Mexico is at 29%.

In other words, we could let out _three out of four prisoners in the United States_, and we would still be locking up more people than any of the nations we consider our peers in terms of wealth, democracy, civil rights, etc.

Given the billions of dollars involved and the millions of lives destroyed and the decades this has been going on, we must by now have some pretty good evidence that our extraordinary, unprecedented strategy is better than the alternative, right? We're applying four times the average dose -- there must be a measurable effect by now.

Right?
In fact this post on HN is not only an interesting article but also a test of the author to see how drupal behaves in heavy load so that he can write another article ;-)
See this: http://tabbforum.com/opinions/the-secret-world-of-algos-a-hi...
Cryptophone GSMK has a 'baseband firewall' that will shut down the stack if its continuously active without the application cpu also being active, meaning shenanigans are afoot like being spammed with type0 SMS to track you silently. They test it by walking into airports which all have some kind of national security baseband attack going on
Sure, at least in the past. I went a week a month to wherever the customer was. That sucked a little, but I didn't complain (much) because some folks (salesmen) travel 3 weeks a month.

Now, I use collaboration tools. Actually I got a contract writing them for a Mt View startup, and we dogfood the product. Its great; I'm in constant contact with my team, we find bugs fast, and the product is gaining traction.

So last time I travelled it was to an offsite planning meeting (folks from 4 states met in a Chicago rental office). And that was more than a year ago.
Yes, but you can create the thing of type `IO a` strictly.
Does it cause you to reflect a bit that you're accusing Acquia of not understanding the potential of Drupal and of just trying to spread FUD to attack it?
I don't doubt you, but your experience also provides little evidence. Have you done profiling and performance analysis yet? Have you tried working in a large team on a large project?

Different languages have different strengths. Some excel at quick and dirty prototyping or small projects/small teams. Others make a 50+ developer team more manageable. Some have good runtime performance, some have a shorter development time, while others have better runtime monitoring and maintenance tools. No language excels in all of these.
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Are you considering using the Google Drive SDK and/or their real time collab? Or are you going to avoid any kind of RT in the interests of speed.

I only ask because the app alone sounds like a nice idea, but the key thing is what you integrate it with. Having yet another web app provider that is storing data is a no-no for a lot of people.
Sounds like you're describing The Thing[1]. It might work -- but then how could you tell cellphones apart?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28listening_device%29
I was wondering the same thing.

But people here are funny: "oh, it is giving max_user_connections errors, let me keep refreshing the page to see if it shows up"
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The hard disk drive quality has dropped over the last few years.

* Most consumer drives over 2TB have extremely poor reliability. Just check any Amazon or Newegg review (DOA and early mortality show up with more frequency). Yes, I know using reviews are not accurate but since there is no public information of drive failure rates there is not really much to go on.

* The reduction of manufacturer warranty since Thailand floods. Surprise, they never changed it back to the original 3 year warranty.

If you have a large array of disks, there is nothing to really to worry about. If you have a small set of drives, spend a little extra and get the "Black" or RE drives with 5 year warranty. Avoid any "Green" drive.
Yes, but when are they executed? When is the byte written to the file?
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Bodek ... is famous among traders for having broken the Street's omertà and complained to the Securities Exchange Commission in 2011 -- after his own HFT firm, Trading Machines, crashed and burned

More disgruntled trader than whistleblower?
Have you found a use case for needing DRM-free games? I haven't so I'm not sure why that would be a turn-off except for principle.
A good way to avoid articles on those big companies is to start reading "region specific" startup blogs or "topic specific" startup blogs.
Some of the blogs I follow:

by region

Arctic Startups (Scandinavia) http://www.arcticstartup.com/

Rude Baguette (France) http://www.rudebaguette.com/

Silicon Allee (Berlin) http://siliconallee.com/

by topic

Tnooz (Travel)http://www.tnooz.com/

Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/

3D Printing Industry http://3dprintingindustry.com/
You realize drives are made for specific markets, branded for specific markets, and warranty periods are specified on a per market basis?

Not everyone lives in the EU. In fact, the majority of people don't.

Outside your regulation happy haven, warranty periods aren't random and do indicate durability under normal use.
Doctrine / Eloquent.
It's more than likely Drupal related! Front end cache would have helped there.
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I've been getting that too on a number of sites. After reading the replies to this, I see it's ghostery being a bit too eager.

I'm going to give disconnect.me a try and see how that works out.
Thank you. I was wondering what the fuck the big deal was. The top comment at this time is someone apparently replying to another comment (but didn't actually 'reply' to another comment- just wrote his/her own comment).

Apparently some people are taking offense or something? I'll just leave this here: for whatever reason, the Brits (and Richard Branson is one) think dressing up as a woman is funny (in a harmless way) in and of itself and they have thought that ever since I've watched Benny Hill and Monty Python TV shows (ie, since the 1970s anyway). No big deal here.
Anybody knows how long floppy disks, diskettes and their respective drives last?

Odd question, but I've always been wondering. These things just seem to hast forever.
Maybe you can try looking for sites that cover your local region's tech scene, so long as your local region isn't Silicon Valley.
No, we won't use any of Google Drive but we will have real-time collaboration. Of course, we don't want to lock-in people's data, so we'll have 2-way data flow between Google docs and other formats.
Yes, in fact I have restored from my workstation to my mac mini and MBP in the past. Closing across two drives daily is probably not worth it. You'd be better off rsync / rdiff over your local network
I don't have experience with Drupal...but these problems couldn't be solved with CSS?
I use newsblur and filter out the names of the companies I do not care about from those feeds, it's still far from ideal but nobody has cracked personalized filtering yet (whoever does will have my money, if I don't end up doing it myself first).
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Thanks for the heads up on this. I thought I had read something about that in the past, but I couldn't remember what it was exactly.

Going to go have a look at disconnect.me now.
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Thanks for the pointer looking for ways to rollout devops mentality cross platform in a heterogenous environment.

Is there any advantage to using this with puppet or chef or does that add complexity?
Who uses the default admin theme?
Well ultimately it's the consumer/user who does the work. I've considered buying second-hand disks just to get around this problem. Although that usually comes with other issues...
I thought this was going to be one of those one-word websites that said "Nothing". There's nothing wrong with either OOP or FP, only something wrong when people misapply them.
Good test.

At some point, you'd expect these arbitrary this vs. that comparisons to die off. They haven't, and I'm guessing they won't.

Basically, it comes down to picking the tool that best supports your use case, or being okay with a compromise. Like the SQL/NoSQL discussions recently... Use it poorly and you get poor results.
No. First, I'm not accusing Acquia of anything. I'm simply saying that I don't agree with the article, understand the real point of it, and I think it was poorly written. I'm completely failing to see the connection or proper comparison of GMail's compose form to Drupal's not-so-pretty node forms. I think it does nothing but make Drupal look bad without giving any information at all.
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We really want to be able to do that but going cautiously lest we end up like DabbleDB.
Indeed, a metal cocktail shaker works as a faraday device as well.
I have to suspect its because bleeding-edge drives have to be over-rated to compete. They have better margins which should mean they could afford better quality. But they can barely make the drive at all; they want to ship before reliability is quite there; so top-end drives are sketchy.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what the savings would amount to if this company used something like SpinRite to fix / recover failed drives? Although I've never used it from what I hear its pretty good at saving drives...
For those in the Dallas area I'm doing a presentation on Map Visualizations using R this Sat. Nov. 16
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The OP's project sounds like it will be web-based. I look forward to the day when I don't need a specific operating system or device to use productive software. Fortunately, I'm 99% there with the things I use.
Extremely useful info here. Most of my HDs have been running for years and still work fine, but you go online, and all you read about is that HDs are horrendously unreliable and all fail after a year or two. (manufacturer propaganda, anyone?)

The optical drives I've had, on the other hand, are actually unreliable. They all seem to break down after about four years, and I don't use them all that often!
Thanks for this comment. For additional links I can suggest this other post I wrote: "Good old Excel as the ultimate data visualization tool" http://insights.qunb.com/good-ol-excel-is-the-ultimate-data-...