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This isn't very interesting though; one relatively minor state is closing a prison few of us have ever heard of because one bad actor screwed up. It's not even a useful political story, because such a minor detail is hardly even evidence of anything, let alone proof. The same story as a statistical analysis of nationwide trends would at least be somewhat interesting, this is just an invitation to vent political opinions.

For those excitedly piling on about how this proves how awful private prisons are, well, doesn't Abu Ghraib prove even moreso how awful government imprisonment can be? No, no it doesn't.
Yep, if we are going to have private prisons, they really need to pay on the basis of capacity and not actual inmate counts. That provides a direct incentive to keep inmate count down.

The second part of this is that public prisons suffer from the same problem as private prisons. Look at the prison worker's union and what money it spends on politics in California. It basically backs every legislation that will increase prisoner counts.

Its not a public or private issue, it is, as you pointed out, an incentive issue. Sadly, the public sector incentives are just as bad.
> It would be ok, if started from the beggining with this.. maybe people would use it.. and then when ios and android happen, its would be adapted to work on them.. but now?

I'll grant a graphics library seems a tad silly at this point, I'd much rather see more containers, or working modules. I'm more concerned by the aversion to standard library "bloat" than a specific aversion to a 2D graphics library.
Exactly, it was a sad day when he had lost a friend at the hands of a driver under the influence.
Maybe, but do you feel proud to live in a city where those unfortunates who have drug or "psychological" issues lie in the streets? It's shameful that you feel that those stricken by bad fortune should be left to rot out there.
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They invested 258 million into Uber[1]. I doubt Google . Google's mission is to "organize the world's information." Given that's their MO, once they've figured out the textual information of the web, they're moving to mapping the world & taking typically "offline" data - online.

With a bunch of driverless cars roaming the streets - they could be collecting all sorts of contextual data on people / locations / businesses that I imagine many, many people would be willing to pay for. They might not be ads in the same way you think about typical "search" ads, but they're still ads nonetheless.

Google doesn't tend to like to build actual "paid" services. Rather they create free services that draw in people / eyeballs & use that information to push their index of information even further.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-i...
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Wouldn't everyone want to get in?

I'm having trouble thinking of a downside to this.
Well I didn't vote for anybody because I'm English. But I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, anyway.

I'm not arguing that Obama is good or shouldn't be blamed for NSA, I'm just saying that I believe had he not become president, it wouldn't have changed the NSA situation. Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows, maybe a republican president right now would abolish the NSA, or maybe they would drop nukes all over Europe, I (and you) can't know exactly what would have happened. But if you disagree with my assumption that Obama losing wouldn't have lead to any different reaction to the NSA, then feel free to make that point. But apart from that, whether Obama is murdering kids with his bare hands or making the world an incredible place with his love, is irrelevant.

As to my own views, had I had US voting rights I would have voted for Obama, and by now would be (and am despite not voting) extremely upset by his actions in office. But I'm not sure my politics are relevant. My point was that I think that were the roles reversed, it would be a democrat wanting to fight the NSA, and a republican president keeping the status quo. And my point was that politicians on both sides consider both moral and political points before deciding to do something like this. I'd make that point whether I loved Rand Paul or hated him, whether I love the NSA or hate them.
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Why?

If Facebook acquired this then the technology would be accessible to a far greater audience than just the users of Apple products.

Seems to me that we should want advances in technology (software or hardware) to benefit the greatest number of users possible, and with Apple owning this it now restricts this method to only those who use Apple products.

Oh, just noticed your username.

Edit: Being downvoted? Do I have to do the defensive thing of pointing out I own Apple products too?
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It's been reliably reported you are correct, shots were being called from the White House, on down through HHS to CMS, which was officially the general contractor/system integrator before they got "fired" in the 3rd week of October.

Whereas it's been reported that Kentuky's prime contractor, Deloitte, was absolutely ruthless about that sort of thing to achieve the goal of having something of value working by the deadline.

Oregon is also an even worse example of Healthcare.gov style mismanagement, with two dueling state government organizations, one of which did the usual trick of telling the contractor's employees to stop talking to the other unit....
Well, hopefully in that administration the Democrats would be galvanized enough to be the ones leading the charge against Big Surveillance.

The very fact that this issue would have to be ping-ponged around between both parties (like so many other issues) shows that we need more political parties in the U.S. to represent different views.
I remain convinced that C++ warps peoples minds into things like this :-). I'll go out on a limb and say that pretty much ALL of those things are horrible.
My point was that for the person saying it is interesting, they are literally stating why it belongs on HN (based on the official guidelines).

Whether or not it actually is interesting is another question, and a subjective one. Personally I see your points about this story specifically, but the flip side is that it creates debate on HN about the concept of private prisons, which at least has the potential to be of interest.
Insofar as C interfaces go, look at cffi.
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Sorry for the comment. My Dad had just lost a good friend, he was sad, he was angry, he was sharing his pain of losing someone he cared about due to an entirely preventable cause. I feel the same way when ever someone I care about takes their own life, either explicitly like Aaron did, or implicitly like Barnaby Jack did. It hurts.
And will the average person want wear glasses all the time?

The another point is people might not want to advertise the fact they work for Google in case they are subject to rants from weirdos in bars etc.

This is the one of the main main reasons that British Telecoms' staff where told don't post in the uk.telecom usenet groups.
Doesn't feel like a real problem.

It is and it isn't. I have a private server on the Inter-tubes, and keep files in sync via version control software on multiple devices.

However, having a nice, slick system, with support for multiple platforms (especially for phones) is not a trivial amount of work.

I'd like to use Evernote, but I don't trust them with this kind of data.
I very much doubt Rap Genius' delisting hurt Google.

RG is in a commodity industry. Lyrics are lyrics are lyrics no matter where you get them.

Yes, RG is better than most other providers. However, I suspect that the number of Google users that actually care about their differentiation (like annotations) is vanishingly small.
You think I didn't try that?

IIRC opening up Excel again from the start menu didn't create a new instance, it just gave focus to the document/instance I had open. My jaw kinda dropped cause it wasn't like I had an extremely uncommon use case. There was no File > Open new window. I tried dragging the document to outside, like you can do in Firefox with a tab, nope. Opening a new document simply opened it in the current instance I had running. I needed to do a compare side by side of the documents. Switching between them didn't cut it.

Btw this is a different problem with Excel and Office all together - I was using Excel 2007 because the files I was using were created in 2007 and used a customer (who had only 2007) and would mess up if you saved them in a later version. The files had some complicated macros in them. Compatibility Mode (I think that's what they called it) WAS NOT actually compatible!! 2010 was out, and I had that installed as well, but 2007 had to be the one I used for this task.

I was just doing some simple maintenance operations on them. I had nothing to do with their evil creation.

There was some way to eventually get Excel 2007 to run two instances of itself, but like I said, it was a hack that I found online after a bunch of searching.
Did you make the "purchase" from your device or from iTunes on your computer? It's never worked when I've tried from a device.
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[A note from the peanut gallery]

Miguel loves C and that's perfectly fine - it's a great language, easy to read and write, powerful, but does suffer from some of the same fundamental problems as C++... Both languages are tightly bound to today's base machine architecture - they are called "systems programming languages" for this very reason.

I find it odd that we have this continual debate about older (and widely used) systems programming languages (the ones that are actually used and form the basis of modern computing....), but neglect the arguably more interesting - and obvious - problem: the lack of a viable, consumer class, non-Von Neumann machine architecture. What would it mean for the advent and design of new high level programming languages that are safe, performant, productive, portable, and that directly map to this new machine model?

The future will always be built on the past, but this doesn't mean we have to keep re-inventing the same problems to solve... Here's to a future of new machine models and the languages used to program them efficiently, effectively, safely, and easily.
A market I have found very interesting is pen & paper role playing games. There has been an explosion of self-published content in the past three to five years. A good portion of it quite high quality, often coming from authors who previously had written titles for "big" publishers (Even in its glory days TSR was hardly a titan.)

The channels users are both finding out about these self published RPGs and purchasing them is not Amazon. Instead it starts with blogs, forums, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo, and is sold directly on the author's website, through Lulu, and Drivethrustuff (RPGNow etc.)

I was pleasantly surprised to see Wizards offering old Dungeons and Dragons books on RPGNow. Other "big" publishers have been doing the same.

As an unknown underdog, you want scale and recognition over paltry margins. Amazon does this for unknown authors by providing mass market distribution. The author still needs to get some initial traction, but the author never loses sales because the consumer couldn't find the book, or didn't have time to travel to the store while he or she was ready to turn over money in exchange for an unknown book.

Bookstores and publishers are the losers here. They are middlemen who do distribution and scaling using methods from the pre-Internet era.

As more content becomes digital only it is hard to see retail stores faring well. That may be an understatement, considering that this trend has been well underway for a decade. For now I'm positive on the prospects for retail clothing stores.
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Good remark. I was thinking the costs would rise quickly.
No it isn't. It it still possible to quickly add an address to the spam pile by putting it on a web page. And I've done that to provide honeypot addresses which let me dump all email from senders to any address that also goes to the honeypot address.
Another factor in Denmark is that Amazon's convenience and prices are not as good as in the US. There's no amazon.dk, so you have to order from .co.uk or .de, which makes the order take 3-4 days. And it costs ~$10 to ship one book! (No free shipping on international orders.) The only case in which I consider it worth it is when I can find a book used on Amazon Marketplace for >$20 below list price. But since the Amazon UK/DE marketplaces have worse used selection than Amazon US Marketplace, that's also not that frequent.
Nice! I've been wanting to play around with this particular combination (Rust, Capn' Proto, and ZeroMQ) myself. Glad to see others are doing it.
As it is now, it seems like every left-of-center friend I know comes to one of two conclusions: they don't want to talk about Obama or the NSA, or they say that they trust Obama with these powers (he'd never abuse them etc).

The upside to having a Republican in the White House, is that vast majority of liberals will finally stop being hypocrites about 'speaking truth to power' and pretending to care about human rights, and they'll instantly get upset about the NSA story (while claiming of course that it was solely the fault of Republicans all along). The Republican President would act as as lightning rod, the perfect excuse to rediscover their fair-weather beliefs. The liberal wing would then apply pressure to the rest of the party to restrict the spying.

There would finally be broad based opposition to the NSA's program from one of the parties.

Unfortunately, Hillary is going to win the next election by a wide margin. And absolutely nothing will change; rather, most of the programs will be permanently codified into accepted US Government practices.
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The NSA is part of the executive branch and must obey directives from the President that do not violate the law. Otherwise, the President couldn't execute his/her duty as defined in the US Constitution.

"the buck stops here"
Moonshots? Google throws shit on the wall and sees if it sticks. The users who end up with something that doesn't stick get the shaft. The users who got some of the shit early on before it stopped being shit get the shaft (like early Android users).

Apple doesn't do that. They try to make a great product when they release it. It's better that way for consumer products. For SaaS it's different. You make something fast, and then iterate on it, but that's not how you do it for products that cost hundreds of dollars where you end up with shitty hardware that can't be replaced by downloading an update.
All of these are interesting, but ultimately fall down on the same point: spam "bots" harvesting emails aren't always programs anymore. One could write a pretty straightforward program that grabs all the bits of webpages that look email-like (techniques like these would make them EASIER to ID) and then gets them read by people with a Mechanical Turk-style process.
I don't think you have anything to worry about. It's common to do internships in grad school & it's common for people to do grad school in their 30s. Also be assured the expectations will be different & you will have a much greater opportunity to do meaningful work than a younger intern. The best thing you can do is not obsess over the title intern & figure out who you can do some interesting work with that will count toward your school requirement.
Not games for me, its books. I donated a metric tonne of dead tree to Oxfam just before xmas and I'm now not buying any titles until my 'pile of shame' has reduced.
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Huh? I installed dropbox without doing anything special. Gmail may not be installable from the internet, but gapps can be added without flashing the whole phone.
It was made "with these samples, in this order, from this song". Not made "with this specific software".
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I was amazed the first several times I saw things i thought where old as dirt have amazing improvements made. One of the first was about 10 years ago, when a friend made improvements on lighting ballasts in conjunction with solar work. Now I try to keep my eyes open for these opportunities.
"to give more prominent placement to books which aren't available at Amazon"

Ask any "old timer" about how "stereos" used to be sold.

At the start there were specialized shops (and of course there still are but "back then" that was the channel) where you went to get a stereo and got knowledgeable advice and good service. Then mass retail came about and all those good brands (that could) just went mass retail and forgot about all those small fokesy sales channels. Once again, because they could and someone dangled the opportunity. This happened with Apple as well which (as all computers were) was originally offered through small computer stores.

My point is giving prominent placement is great but don't assume that if something becomes popular it won't automatically go where the money and opportunity is and quickly forget the people who first gave it an opportunity (mainly because new sales people get hired that aren't rewarded for the past loyalty).
I agree that the goal shouldn't be making the life too easy for the homeless - instead I believe that we should focus on helping them re-integrate back to the society, at least for the ones that would like to.

Homelessness is the main concern for resident of San Francisco according to recent polls, and it would be a shame if this stayed like this for another 10 years.

With this campaign, we can start creating campaigns that are funded and lead by the citizens who are most passionate about solving this. Then, the idea that something like this could work would ideally propagate to other people that are more skeptic.

We need to also note that we are already paying around $20 per month each on fixing homelessness in San Francisco through the government. The main difference is that with a crowdfunding platform, we would be the ones that are choosing which campaigns make sense and which activists we would like to support.
Where in Rand Paul's heavily libertarian-leaning history do you see evidence that he's in favor of a police state (or policies that make such possible), such that a massive issue like this is one on which he's likely to pivot away from his fundamental beliefs?
In many discussions like this I see the argument that some/most/all homeless people are drug addicts or mentally ill or otherwise not deserving of help.

I have always been of the opinion that I don't care why someone is homeless, I would like to help them. There is nobody that deserves to live on the street in a nation with as much wealth as America, even if they've made bad decisions (drugs, alcohol, crime, etc.). I think it's our job as a society to put a roof over everyone's head to the best of our abilities, it's inhuman to pick and dodge among homeless people and go about our lives like it is normal.

If I could solve any problem in my lifetime, it would be homelessness in America. I wish I had any idea where to start. I know it's not as noble of a cause as curing cancer or helping the needy who live in true poverty around the world, but it's something that's in my face every day and I think it's a failure of our modern society.
This is one of those stories that makes me so happy. It's nice to see someone's hard work pay off.
Glasshole here -- and I think Gruber's comments are fair. It's a product that is intended to be used all the time. So if people don't, "is it bad?" is a valid question. I can't wear it all the time, because the battery life is ridiculously short, and I won't, because they're so ostentatious and dorky looking (and I'm vain enough) that I often don't want to be seen wearing them. By Gruber's standards, all those reasons + the price = a failed consumer product.

But I doubt Google's grading it as a typical consumer product. It works for Google for it to be expensive and obvious, because the wearers become visible motivated evangelists for the technology. It just doesn't work for me, personally, and clearly doesn't work for Gruber.

All that said... aside from the decent-sized UI problems it has... once you spend some time with it, the "omnipresent screen" is as addictive as the original iPhone was. Blackberry is a better analogy; I look forward to Google's improvements as well as what I hope is serious competition from the A players and not just Kickstarters.

(Plus, I'm really enjoying coding for it. It feels new and exciting, like there's huge unclaimed areas waiting to be conquered. Lots of limitations to work around, too.)
> It's shameful that you feel that those stricken by bad fortune should be left to rot out there.

Where are you getting this from? I didn't imply it at all.
You know that everything can be reverse engineered, right? It only depends on the time you're prepared to spend on the problem.
Absolutely. You can't do much with messed-up feet and body from dirty/wet/nonexistent socks and underwear. These discomforts strike to the core of basic human functioning.
So I'm just going to say: I don't like Glass. For this reason: as far as I can tell, its only particularly useful function is as an eye mounted camera.

Having a camera on you totally changes the context of any interaction. Even if the other person says it's just for their private use; you don't really know. Maybe they upload it to facebook. Maybe they catch you in a bad picture, and you end up becoming some reddit meme like scumbag steve or bad luck brian or the "stop!" girl. Point being: if someone is wearing a camera on their face it's impossible to act normal around them. Glassholes don't seem to get that. I suspect it's that they're ok with being constantly on film, and don't seem to recognize why other people aren't.

If you're wearing a camera on your face, you're only going to see my "public", "don't say anything to offend people" persona, not the person I normally am, and I'm going to avoid you. So frankly I hope Glass fails, hard, because it's one of the most antisocial products ever developed.
You're forgetting something.

As a search engine user, I don't care whether the search engine firm is "fair", whether their rules apply equally to everyone or not. It's not a country, it's a search engine.

You can say what you want about Rap Genius, but they're just about the only lyrics site that doesn't suck. As a searcher, I want to get to sites that don't suck. In the case of lyrics, that's Rap Genius.

Google has an interest to show me the best results. How they determine those results, and how much of that process is manual, is up to them. It's nice that they decided that penalties and virtual spankings are a good thing in the long run, and it's lovely that you think that they're too inconsistent and unfair about it, but I'm a user. I don't care. I just want the best results.
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Really there are two things in this article: First that the folks trying to scare people about radiation lie alot and use misleading graphics to create fear, and two the ocean is a really big place and the source of radiation (primarily Cesium-137 and Cesium-134) are not harmful in the quantities detected.

She missed pointing out the hundreds of nuclear bombs that were detonated in the sea water around bikini Atoll in the 50's and 60's which didn't kill the west coast.

But none of that really matters. It is an emotional fear not a rational fear that the exploiters play on. No amount of reasoning will get through that.