skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A prison sentence isn't meant to be only punishment for the offender

Well it does punish them. It punishes them with what many would consider torture, and again, my point is that most of these sentences are for non-violent crimes.

> it's also (theoretically) a deterrent to other potential criminals

Yes. Because people will stop smoking pot, stop being dumb drunks, and stop making non-violent mistakes, because of mandatory minimums, 3 strike laws, and horrific legal processes that threaten defendants with maximum sentences for confessions and settlements.

> a chance to rehabilitate the prisoner

Yes, sticking non-violent prisoners in with entrenched gang societies helps rehabilitate people. Also, we rehabilitate them with punishment. Great job state.

If you believe we should lock people up for non-violent crime, my statements stand.

It's a criminal punishment system that punishes not only non-violent and trivial crimes, but also meaningful dissent/experimentation that doesn't hurt anyone, with cruel and unproductive punishment. If we want to continue to "punish" people, and yet talk about "rehabilitation", then I believe there's a little bit of cognitive dissonance happening if you agree these things can coexist.
If the services which use CL become popular, they may become a threat to CL.
Plus, in the US, even if your paying the cost of your plan wouldn't it be dumb not to be a phone on a family plan? Splitting the family plan bill seems to be a lot cheaper than an individual plan.
> He wasted valuable city resources

He should have been booked immediately, followed by being given the standard fare for the crime. Potentially upgraded due to having being pompous initially.

He can't be blamed for the fact that they turned it into a full trial (they only offered him jail time for a non-violent crime), nor for the parole time (the duration was way above what is normal), nor for the polices' time (he literally walked into the precinct and then they decided to drive him around town).

> someone else was getting away with a purse snatching, or beating up an ex-girlfriend, or playing the knock-out game, or emptying a cash register

He walked into a precinct, who inside of a precinct is out stopping these things? They could have offered him a year parole and 10 days community service and he would have taken it, being orders worse than the usual penalty.

> Enjoy sleeping in the bed you made

He didn't actually complain about his situation, he complained about those around him. The guy wanting sugar pills, the guys being cramped with another cell available, the beating up suspects. He did a minor complaint about being driven around town to make it seem like they did their job, but that was more related to the absurdity than his time.

> If they bend the rules, they are severely punished.

Protect the Blue doesn't exist in your world? I will not claim that officer's aren't held to a higher standard, but there is plenty of evidence that police standards could be higher given their position of power.

> At the end of the day, not catching the bad guys is the biggest sin in law enforcement

This needs to change. 100% coverage is not obtainable nor a lofty goal. Coverage as good as reasonable standards for everyone involved is what we want.

> Yet, to walk a mile in their shoes, both the police and the criminal justice system as a whole, is to see the world a little differently from the average Atlantic Monthly reader or Hacker News reader.

Isn't that the entire point of this article? Whether you agree with him or not, that is what he is achieving here.
WTF? But she never got a job after being rejected! She managed to get a failed college application reversed with her song and dance act, and that's it. When she tries that on a real job, it fails, and she goes on and rationalises that as being for the best. Huh?

This post has no point at all. And as someone who does his fair share of hiring, it is terrible advice anyway. If you really, really want another chance, just ask. I'll usually give someone a second shot if they seem to really want it, and give them an opportunity to explain why I was wrong the first time.
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Microcenter is selling a $39.99 tablet with a 1.2Ghz CPU, pretty similar specs: http://www.microcenter.com/product/423567/A700_Tablet_-_Grey

EDIT: comparing the specs, they seem 99% identical
The sudden release of Energy isn't what would cause extinction from nuclear weapons, it's the persistent fallout which would make the entire surface of the planet uninhabitable for many years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

"Based on new work published in 2007 and 2008 by some of the authors of the original studies, several new hypotheses have been put forth.[16][17]
A minor nuclear war with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas could produce climate change unprecedented in recorded human history. A nuclear war between the United States and Russia today could produce nuclear winter, with temperatures plunging below freezing in the summer in major agricultural regions, threatening the food supply for most of the planet. The climatic effects of the smoke from burning cities and industrial areas would last for several years, much longer than previously thought. New climate model simulations, which are said to have the capability of including the entire atmosphere and oceans, show that the smoke would be lofted by solar heating to the upper stratosphere, where it would remain for years.
Compared to climate change for the past millennium, even the smallest exchange modeled would plunge the planet into temperatures colder than the Little Ice Age (the period of history between approximately A.D. 1600 and A.D. 1850). This would take effect instantly, and agriculture would be severely threatened. Larger amounts of smoke would produce larger climate changes, and for the 150 teragrams (Tg) case produce a true nuclear winter (1 Tg is 1012 grams), making agriculture impossible for years. In both cases, new climate model simulations show that the effects would last for more than a decade."
Why not just deposit that money into a preferably interest-earning account that you control? At the end of a year, you will have the cash you need for a vacation, plus some extra from interest.
For switching subway cars? How's that a crime? He paid for the ride didn't he? Or do the people of color are still only allowed to ride in the back on the subway?
They were a competitor to Parse. A backend-as-a-service. Instead of writing your own web api (for, say, a mobile app or a web app), you could just create an API with their service.
A bicycle can work like an intermittent drive, though. The coast capability of the cassette, combined with your mass as a form of kinetic energy storage, means that you can alternate between pedaling and not pedaling while continuing to move.
What's wrong with Vegas? There's plenty of room here, Project 100 and other interesting tech companies starting up, and close enough to fly in or drive to and from the Valley if needed every so often.
Also, the city is trying to diversify from just Casino culture as it is, so you can get a decent amount of support for pie-in-the sky projects, not to mention the business-friendly tax laws.
Student Science Experiment Finds Plants won’t Grow near Wi-Fi Router
Fair enough. I think the "tightly coupled to ember" part is what left a bad taste with me. Obviously the ember community is free to use whatever they want. But if the build tool is only useful for ember (and the "ember" name in the example cli indicates that will be the case) it seems like it might struggle longterm to keep up with grunt or other more broadly applicable build system.
I appreciate the fact that the companies are focusing on this. However, its unclear to me why they didn't try any of this before Snowden leaked all this information? So if no one knew about it, these tech companies were OK sharing with the government?
The article's comment in context is that in his previous experience as a prosecutor, urban blacks were doing the same thing he was as a youth, yet the outcomes were different.

We don't have to invent scenarios to explain away the different results - they are his experience as a prosecutor and he has identified them as being identical. It's not an account from a newspaper where we don't know the details; it's cases he has personally worked on, and hence knows the intimate details we never hear of.
Let me guess, Penn Station or Grand Central?

Places like those are not "the subway," they're massive junctions that literally millions of people pass through 24 hours a day.

Same goes for Times Square. You'll see cops on horses with assault rifles in Times Square.

Oh yeah, and don't forget the Staten Island Ferry. Transit cops and the coast guard float around down there (literally).
Has something changed? The last time I went to use hiphopvm it didn't even have proper support for php 5.4 (broken namespacing and traits, too I believe). That said, it was basically unusable.
Year-long hackathon launches to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS
Pretty bad for a product aimed at front-end guys.
If you hadn't told me what this app does in the subject here, I wouldn't have been able to figure it out from your landing page.
"Because Marissa Said So": Yahoos Bristle at Mayer’s Ranking System and Layoffs
Nothing surprising in this. Media is congress' bitch.
Java and Javascript were invented in industry (Python came from academia). I don't see how you can deny the GPU computing and mapreduce were invented by industry, since GPU computing evolved out of the game industry, and mapreduce was invented by Google.

That leaves "commodity clusters" or "mobile computing".

Are these things to vague to be classified as inventions, as you imply? I think they are not. The founders of Google came up with the idea of using a large cluster of relatively unreliable servers, which was optimized to deal with machine failure. Other people then followed suit. Similarly there were several big steps (e.g. the iPhone) in putting a much larger amount of computational power into mobile devices than had previously been done.

In fact, your idea that innovation must come in discrete inventions, is a limitation that is typical of academia. In academia, you are asked to show how your work is qualitatively novel and interesting. In industry, objective improvements are adopted no matter how mundane or incremental the change is.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're white. (Or at least, you're not black or Hispanic.) How'd I do?

How is that relevant to his point?
The main "better" I care about is "fewer gotchas and special cases to memorize"; that's not the only thing that matters about programming languages, but it's a big factor. I don't have time to watch a 40-minute video; arguments I remember hearing from something similar are the very fast coding feedback cycle (easy with modern-day rails/django/etc.), "it's better than it used to be" (not really an argument), availability of frameworks (but I've never seen an actual example of the advantages that you don't get in other languages/frameworks), large standard library (again, present in other languages), dependency management (which seems more like php catching up with other languages than overtaking them), deployment (may have been a good argument in the pre-wsgi days and when Apache was the only webserver around, but not true any more IMO). What is it you see PHP as better than ruby/python at?
FTA: "and alcohol (and acetic acid) lengthen [telomeres]."

funny, these findings seem to contradict this study:

"Shortened telomeres in individuals with abuse in alcohol consumption"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21351086
While an eye for an eye will leave everyone blind, most people believe that the justice system should react to the crime based on the magnitude of the crime.

In this case the value of his life and liberty given his lack of background is probably worth more than the protection the state gains by being able to search his house at will. Which is the entire purpose of the 4th amendment.
Expecting Angular to support IE8 is highly unrealistic. Angular is innovative and different, IMO. To expect Angular to maintain support for IE8 is to expect Angular to sacrifice speed of development / innovation. Support of IE8 constrains the feature set that is possible in Angular. There's a reason Angular seems to be winning more independent/general developer mindshare than Ember, and this is the reason.

Anecdotally, I've noticed more established/larger tech companies (other than Google) using Ember, and more startups using Angular (with some exceptions like Amazon, which uses Angular). I think this is also a reason.
Right because no government agency should ever be audited by anyone and we should just accept as an article of faith that everything big brother does is in our interest, ESPECIALLY if it is the NSA etc
Q contains some helper functions for creating generators, tying them to a promise, and automatically starting the generator, eg Q.async(). I've found that I'd rather continue using Q and use Q.async()/Q.spawn() rather than dealing directly with the generators and managing them.
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Mentioning Healthcare.gov seems bizarre. In what possible way does Yahoo, Netflix, or AT&T have anything useful to discuss about a large integration product with the head of state?
Protesters Arrested for Glitter-Covered Banner in "Bioterror Hoax"
>10 hours a day, what the actual fuck

I'm confused at your balking. Perhaps because I work in finance and shit hours are the norm, but 10 hours a day is not ridiculous. I work that almost everyday unless it's a busy week.
I think the point is that it is a contrived and arbitrary circus. No rhyme or reason. Filled with prejudice, brutality, and inhumanity.
Isn't the entire purpose of the justice department to give out fair unbiased rulings?

The cops being pricks is understandable, if a waste of everyones time, the judge being a prick is not. It is his only job to consider only the crime and the motives, and while his motives did warrant a stiffer penalty, they probably did not warrant that harsh of one.
Long enough to get to a 3rd planet.
The writer is interested in pushing a narrative (one that I happen to support, just so that we are clear here). The dirt bike thing is slipped in with some other clearly unreasonable stuff, but I fear he is either stretching with the dirt bike example to pad out that section, or is aware of the problem but is giving those kids the benefit of the doubt an assuming that they had nothing to do with the dirt bike gangs.

Even if those kids had nothing to do with those gangs, riding dirt-bikes in a city is clearly anti-social behavior that needs to end. If there is a racial bias in the enforcement of those laws, that needs to end too, and the white kids need the book thrown at them too for it, but I really don't believe that the author use to get away with riding dirt bikes around in cities. That isn't standard teenager shenanigans.
Sensible command line UIs? You've made a believer out of me.

How does this affect something like a remote syslog? Could I send the syslog output of my router to journalctl?
This comment is essentially the same as another, this reply applies equally here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6924774

TL;DR: I think the writer is either somehow unaware of the issues with dirtbikes in cities (unlikely), or is banking on his audience being unaware of the problem. Either way, I think he is being disingenuous. I do not believe he actually got away with that sort of thing as a teenager.
Not that I like the design of these laws of course.
Sure. That works for some people. But some people lack "commitment" and make compromises when making decision like - Should i take vacation or finish project X on time? Should I take vacation or use that money for fixing something in the house?
wtf, I pay my mom's phone bill.
Has it ever been different? As long as science depends on funding, and funding always has (and always will) come from people who know and understand little of science, so persuading them to part with their money, and to give it to your particular project, is quite an essential requirement -- although of course scientists are usually better off delegating that persuading to professionals.
Ask HN: Non profit/Pro bono opportunities for Data Science people
I would like to help out in my spare time at either a non profit/do pro bono work in Machine Learning/data type work either online or at a physical place (in NYC). Anyone know where I should start looking? Thanks!
Fast-food employees are pretty much the canonical beneficiaries of a minimum wage law.

Fast-food outlets can afford to spend more on salary (in that, they will still be profitable and it doesn't affect their viability as a business) but have no inclination to, and therefore must be forced by law. As an additional bonus, they can't outsource their work to another, cheaper state. Great - the minimum wage law works exactly as intended, in this particular case.

It's less obvious that this applies to other industries. Will average households employ a domestic cleaner at minimum wage? Small, near-viable businesses where salary is the largest expense: what happens to them when the minimum wage increases? What happens to people who are thinking about starting businesses with that as a risk?
Thanks, I didn't know about these.
I don't have a problem with the concept if the fact that I have to scroll is obvious. I opened that page, read the title and "What am I doing here again?" I'm on a Mac so there's no scrollbars. Do you just want me to guess that there's something down there? The least you can do is hint at the content below.
I do not see why these who inherit it should pay anything on it - income tax on this money was already paid.
Here you go, for free http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-cluster-replica...
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"Paid vacation days" is easy to demonize, but 1) we don't want to take away people's livelihood before making sure there is a problem, and 2) we don't want potentially corrupt officers with their hands on policework.

Not saying it's ideal, but it's a response to two real pressures.
> actual new insights (for those outside of his/her field)

The added value of TED was that I got introduced to all kinds of thought leaders that I never heard of before.
>It helps low-wage workers to raise their family above the poverty line.

Wouldn't someone earning minimum wage define the poverty line?
Mobile carriers in the US offer substantial price cuts for bundled phone services and very high average subscription prices. There's not enough information here to be useful.
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What was intended to be affordable computing for the poor will probably become disposable computing for the middle class.
That clarifies it for me. I was imagining a bicycle.
This very good intro to SASS makes it really obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPAf8dN4G4w
the President of France had said to someone after meeting
President Obama for the first time. "He's a show horse,
not a workhorse."

Source? It seems like that would've made a bit of press.
I wish they would be implementing more of the runtime support in PHP itself. Why not make the FastCGI[1] code in pure PHP (like others have[2])? I understand if they don't feel PHP is the best language for daemons, but it would allow so many other developers to use, modify, and comprehend the implementation. I think HHVM suffers from a serious lack of dogfooding.

1 - https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/tree/master/hphp/runtime/se...
2 - https://github.com/kakserpom/phpdaemon/tree/master/PHPDaemon...
To me, it seems common sense that the fast-food will simply increase wage and keep the same amount of people. The fast-food is profitable up to a wage of X, but it prefers to pay the lowest it can to attract workers instead, which happens to be (by law) the minimum wage.

And I'm convinced fast-foods can afford to pay employees more.
> This is pretty irrelevant as we agree they're dodging now

I would strongly disagree. Conservative estimates say the wealthy pay an 18% tax rate. Less conservative estimates put it at around 10-11%. It does matter. It's a lot easier to lobby for new loopholes when everything is less transparent. What FairTax does is make things more transparent than they were before.

> Not sure what you're driving at with this question. The obvious answer is "everyone pays more".

Yes... including the extremely wealthy. It's very difficult to lobby for new loopholes against something is that is really easy to understand.

> If you don't think those on high incomes should pay the same or higher percentage of their income as those on lower earnings,

I agree with you. They should pay more. However I strongly disagree just going down the same path of closing loop holes. It doesn't work. The middle class isn't smart enough as a whole to organize and hire lobbyists. I'm just being realistic with what's possible before I get ancient.
Blippar: Augmented Reality App.
In this simplified case probably not you're right. But it guards against the more complicated ones, for example our form has two labels (one called a legend goes underneath the control):

<fieldset class="TextField">
<label class="TextField-label"></label>
<input class="TextField-control">
<label class="TextField-legend"></label>
</fieldset>

Just makes it future-proof for when you want to add other elements that might collide since the number of element types is small.

Generally I try to never select on non-class selectors in component-level CSS. Component-level styles should occupy the middle range of class selectors. And then the user should have control over the element selectors (base styles) and id selectors (page-specific styles) so that they can both cascade and override when they need to.
That's a great point, the Tokaido Shinkansen (the first bullet train line in Japan) was created in the 60's but the Tokaido Main line is still going strong. The Tokaido Shinkansen is also very profitable. It'll be interesting to see how things change when the even faster Linear Motor car comes into service.

The competition for the High Speed Rail in Japan is really domestic air flights.
Surely you guys know that the single largest barrier to using Ember is Ember-data right?

I thoroughly tested all the available frameworks this summer and I was leaning heavily towards Ember until I tried actually using it with Ember-data and it was very ugly. I looked online and there was near universal condemnation of it from what I could find. Even Discourse didn't use it! I saw this link and thought "I bet they are announcing a completely new and working ember-data" and was surprised to see it wasn't even a topic in there.

Ember-data drove me directly into the arms of Angular and I haven't looked back. I am completely stunned it wasn't your number one priority a long time ago.
Or by the big red 'x' on the TED logo.
T-Mobile is moving this way. I grab a T-Mobile SIM when I'm in the US and it's cheaper to discard and get a new one when I need it rather than top-up. I wait for the day of multi-use SIMs.