skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why else would the plea bargain stay on the table.

> So why don't prosecutors want to go to trial? Because the have extremely large case loads, ...

These two items can both be true in the eyes of the prosecutor yes?
There is also unspoken benefit of this - training yourself that IT IS OK to leave code in broken state. An feel good about it. Too many developers kill themselves by trying to end the day in a perfect code state.
And it has nothing to do with happiness :)
I like the references to "Cy Yombinator."
I know the part about interest. You can't collect interest on money that's not actually your own, which is the same case with any payments company.

Out of curiosity, why don't you release the money faster?
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> just whiny children crying but it's not faaaaaaair!! without bothering to think anything through

This is shockingly dismissive, IMHO. It's easy to be judgmental when it's not your job or your existence that is being threatened, but if you're the one who is being made obsolete by the ruthless march of innovation / technology, would you not be the protestor?

Do you think your superior intellectual realization that "There are countless other examples industry-and-job-destroying innovations, and from a long-term historical standpoint they've always been a huge net win for humanity" (quoting from an earlier comment by you) would be enough to prevent emotional strife as you accept your new minimum-hourly-rate job?
It'd help to include at least basic support for some older browsers -- there are still a decent number of users on IE8, for example, but you seem to support only 9+.
ACLU Weddings - Contest: My big gay illegal wedding
The beneficial owner(s) can show up in court and assert a legitimate claim on the goods if so inclined. Often they are not so inclined, as the cash in question was found in proximity to bricks of cocaine or suchlike and staking a claim to the cash tends to suggest an incriminating connection to the contraband.

In this case there's abundant evidence of a criminal enterprise involving the sale of drugs, attempts to purchase the services of hitmen etc. etc. So 'Dread Pirate Roberts' only likely defense is to claim something along the lines of 3v1l H4x0rs taking over his computer for the last several years while he played minesweeper or suchlike, and disavow any awareness of of or custody over the money; otherwise he'd have to explain just how he came to be in possession of several $m of BTC that was sent to Silk Road.

This is interesting as an example of BTC's strength being a vulnerability. Suppose you were arrested in a warehouse with a pile of cash and numerous bricks of cocaine, AK-47s, etc. Of course the government would claim you're a drug dealer, but you could attempt to convince the court that you had won the money in Vagas/sold a great deal of pizza/whatever and been kidnapped by evil drug dealers on your way to the bank, only to wake up alone and confused next to your cash in the warehouse just before the cops arrived. An unlikely story to be sure, but there are many legal means through which you might come to possess a large stack of currency (and which might also provide you with a much-needed alibi, eg video of you winning big and leaving the casino only to be waylaid on the strip by masked bandits). Where BTC is concerned, though, the blockchain itself is proof that the money was sent to the receiving address given out by Silk Road in exchange for contraband, so the government has a prima facie case that it consists of revenue from a criminal enterprise.
California woman who drove with Google Glass beats traffic ticket
Why not let him speak for himself?

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568...

"Hi all, let me try to clear up a few things.

Why I rejected the pull request. Us maintainers tend to reject tiny doc changes because they're often more trouble than they're worth. You have to collect and check the CLA, it makes git blame less effective, etc.

That's why the usual approach to such pull requests is 'no, unless' - in this case the 'unless' should probably have applied. To me as a non-native speaker, the difference between 'him' and 'them' seems academic but hey, if it gets us scores of female contributors, who am I to object?

Why I reverted the commit. In hindsight, I should have given Isaac the benefit of the doubt because I don't doubt that he acted with the best of intentions. On the other hand, if another committer jumped the line like that, I would have done the same thing. We have procedures in place and no one is exempt from them.

To the people that felt it necessary to call me a misogynist: I volunteer in a mentorship program that gets young people - especially young women - involved in technology. How many of you go out and actively try to increase the number of women in the field?

I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development. I do it more out a sense of duty than anything else. If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else. Hope that clears things up. Thanks."
I think it should be rephrased "Ideas are nothing without execution".
The buses are not the problem, just a convenient thing to attack. Each bus ride keeps a great number of cars off the roads for that day.

This is good for the environment and reduces the number of vehicles on the road. This seems obvious, but from reading the comments in this thread it seems like this whole kerfuffle is about the buses themselves.
The Harsh, Logical World of Cryptocurrencies
Black ski masks? Curly wired-earpieces? Jotting notes on yellow stick-it pad? Jerky answers? That doesn't sound like google at all, more like yet another fake. Remember this one?:
http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown
My University released a web based timetable system that was absolutely shocking - it was an ASP.net based site with the kind of unfriendly interface you expect from a 1990's era intranet site (hint: utterly utterly horrible, it produced one timetable PER MODULE rather than a single combined timetable and every time you selected a module it would refresh the page). I was hungover the day before term started and rather than use that system I hacked together an easier to use alternative from my bed using python + flask in literally 60 minutes and released it[1].

The administration went crazy when hundreds of students started using it and asked me to take it down. While its not as impressive as something made at Yale it seems to be a common theme, I wonder if other universities suffer the same issues. Could be a market opportunity.

[1] http://timetables.tomforb.es/
It sounds like you're agreeing with him. Microsoft was complacent, that's why it didn't try to get into those new markets until it was too late
US Attorney seizes $28 million in Bitcoin from the Silk Road server
Well, the question was about optical zoom inside a cellphone-size device ("thin"). The device you mentioned, I would call that a camera with GSM module.
Not sure if best second heading though, sort of took away from the valuable lesson you communicated.
A New Reckoning for Brain Death
Nice updates! Alas, the service seems to broke: whatever I try to create a new note, I get “Bad Request”. Care to have a look? Much appreciated, and thanks a lot!

https://github.com/chmllr/NoteHub/issues/8
It's completely unclear if that is actually against "the" law.

I'm in Australia, where a parliamentary report encourages users to use technological means to bypass geographic restrictions[1].

If I use a service it is true I must agree to their terms of service. However, if I'm not in the jurisdiction those terms apply to it is unclear if they can be legally enforced.

Additionally, it is also unclear if those ToS are broken at all by using an unblocking service. Typically the aim is to restrict serving music to any client outside the area the music license applies to, and music licensing companies understand completely that geographic restrictions can be bypassed.

It is actually in the interest of the licensing company that you do bypass the block. Then they get paid for the stream.

It isn't in the interest of the license holder in your jurisdiction that you bypass it, but in most jurisdictions they don't have grounds for a complaint: they can't actually make you use their service (especially if it doesn't exist).

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-29/geo-blocking-mps-commi...
The Dark Side of Our Love Affair With the Modern News Cycle & Why I Broke It Off
You must be a hoot at parties.
Or any inept or incompetent administrator who feels his or her position is threatened by this demonstration of a superior solution to what seems to be a widely faced problem.
(ceo of balanced)

We don't have any plans to offer interchange+ pricing. We found that would create more work for our customers. The predicability in pricing is part of the value that Balanced provides.
I believe it just opens up a "web version" within the desktop app, but I could be wrong.

Still love the service, I don't have much use for "Offline" capability on my laptop/desktop - the mobile/tablet apps serve that need just fine.
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The most important check on prosecutorial power is the grand jury, where they decide whether or not a prosecutor can even bring charges against someone. But in the last 100 years the power of the grand jury has been dissolved entirely and now merely exists as a tool of the prosecutor.
I can't stress enough how damaging the drug war has been to our justice system. It's not only unfair to the (mostly poor minorities) that get caught up in the war, but is unfair to everyone else that receives slower service from the federal court system as a result of dockets clogged with drug cases.

That said, the lede of the article is dumb. The article complains about the drug war and plea bargaining, but Ronald Thompson's plight is not the result of those things, but rather of an overzealous gun control law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-20-Life. Under this Florida law, the fact that Thompson fired a gun during what was otherwise a felony assault resulted in a mandatory 20 year sentence.

Indeed, the fact that many people who would otherwise oppose the drug war support gun control laws like this shows a deeper problem with American society than just the drug war. Whether we're calling for longer prison sentences for bankers or people convicted of gun crimes, we just love putting people in prison.
I gather that in some legal systems, the German system for example, mandatory prosecution of every crime is required because of this problem.

It seems worthwhile to ask what a good incentive for prosecutors would look like. For example, an incentive that rewards winning a trial more strongly than excepting a plea.
It's not just the content, it's the metadata. Instant and total awareness of implied content thru comprehensive data mining goes far beyond what the Founding Fathers could imagine.
I just had a play myself and I like somewhere between 0.8 and 0.85. I'm not a designer though and lean a lot more towards clarity vs style.

When using it I wouldn't want to have to manually pick a theme based on the pic, as it would probably be a database gallery - but a choice of themes is great to have.
I'm more in this latter camp. I'll perhaps leave it completely compilable, but with logic incomplete, e.g. a stub function that always returns true. My task the next day is easy, then; it starts as finishing the stub, and as I do that, the rest starts flowing.

I've had days where I start by just running the code end to end and seeing what's egregiously broken, but I find this puts me in whack-a-mole mode the entire day and it's extremely tiring. Though, I do feel like Sherlock doing it.
I wasn't trying to imply any causality. Merely somewhat surprised that it isn't better designed. We get into a fair number of arguments over "clean design" at work. I have grown weary of all of the "cleanly designed partial solutions" I have seen. Just as I've grown weary of complaints on how crappy a system is and how it should all be done from scratch.

It isn't even that I disagree. Just that "everything is terrible" is not a recipe for a happy day for me. For the most part, everything is bloody awesome. The details just aren't as clean as some would have hoped.
Actually I meant audio books, not ebooks. ebooks are cheap enough but getting a portable device with a display into that situation is well nigh impossible.

Specialized versions of devices comparable to Google Glass might could be designed to be acceptable though. Now there's something to think constructively about.

(Sorry about the "might could be" but I just don't know any economical way to say that which actually exists within the language.)
Yeah, I think that question should have three options for answers:

[] Yes
[] No
[] I had to look shellcode up on Wikipedia

(I'm with you in that last category.)
This year I've challenged myself to use all of google's services and see if they actually improve my life.

Google+, honestly, is awesome. The auto-awesome feature is the coolest thing ever.
Holy shit, what a ridiculous comment and company.
> If everything is a command, then "#" must also be a command

In my mind, that's an argument that at least something shouldn't be a command. But perhaps it simplifies implementation enough to be worth it.

> To say that tcl does not allow one to know what a complicated line of code means is absurd.

Fully agree with you there. And for what it's worth, in the Tcl I encounter, there's rarely a line of code that complicated. Perl is often accused of being a write-only language. I think Tcl, if anything, is the opposite. It always seems readable.
2 planes (130,000) of private-use codepoints aren't enough, and because the top 2 planes of Unicode are designated private use, UTF-16 gives developers the option of extending them to 2.1 billion if they need it. I've wanted extra private-use space for generating Unihan characters by formula in the same way the 10,000 Korean Hangul ones are generated from 24 Jamo. I'm sure many other developers come across other scenarios where 130,000 isn't enough for private use.

I'm simply saying that UTF-8 shouldn't be crippled in the Unicode/ISO spec to 21 bits, but be extended to 31 bits as originally designed because the technical reason given (i.e. because UTF-16 is only 21 bits) isn't actually true. The extra space should be assigned as more private use characters. (Except of course the last two codepoints in each extra plane would be nonchars as at present, and probably also the entire last 2 planes if the 2nd-tier "high surrogates" finish at the end of a plane.)
>type I diabetics with the best control are actually more likely to die from severe low blood sugars.

I'm very much in this crowd. Type 1, AIC of 6.3, LDL cholesterol around 100, BP of 110/72-75. This is with completely manual testing and subcutaneous insulin injections.

The problem of keeping your blood sugar towards an A1C of 6 is you have insulin reactions. Quite often, as you're being rather aggressive in keeping on top of your blood sugar. Worse, is I don't show or feel any real physiological symptoms until I'm at 60 mg/dL or below, which is getting fairly dangerous. I can be as low as 25-30 mg/dL and still be conscious and functioning. My tipoff is realizing that I either feel tired or that I can't think straight. It's hard to realize you're not thinking straight when you can't think straight, and have the cognizance to then test and get some carbs in you.

I've had a few close calls. One where I was driving a supercar north on Route 24 in Boston rush-hour traffic. I subconsciously took an exit and drove 5 miles into a suburb, and managed to not hit anything and the police officer told me I mostly obeyed traffic laws, aside from weaving about (but was completely incoherent) -- I was at 21 mg/dL when the EMTs tested me.

I once didn't compensate for alcohol, passed out on my couch, and when I finally came to in a pool of my own sweat, it took me 3 hours to traverse 30 feet to the kitchen to attempt to drink (and wear at least half) of a half-gallon of orange juice. When I finally tested 30 minutes after consuming an entire carton of OJ, I was barely in the 40s -- I have no idea how low I was, and I was lucky I ever regained consciousness.
I had the thought, but not the hangover and subsequent willpower. Made a half-hearted attempt with Semantic MediaWiki.
I'm more critical. The quality of the apps has been going down lately.

The UX of the desktop and mobile apps turned into a mess after they introduced a bunch of sliding panes, and the iOS app crashes so much I don't bother with it anymore.

I'm still a subscriber because it's one of the few streaming services available outside US, otherwise I would be looking at alternatives.
Creating value is how many people you effect and how strongly you effect them (positively).

Getting money is multiplying value by business.
Sympathize with you!

How would reduced accuracy really help you? I'm imagining that it could be worse since it could introduce anxiety...
Looks like ratemyprofessors.com is still kicking after ten (?) years.
As the Kelly Thomas case illustrates, it's also possible that some prosecutors are not good at winning jury trials.

Additionally, if a prosecutor does all the extra work required with going to trial (win or lose) they do not get paid for all the extra work.

So much for civic duty. :/
I know that it's not just the content.

Originalists don't require that the 'Founding Fathers' have known the future: Originalists allow assault rifles to be protected under the 2nd. They allow, presumably, emails and internet newspapers to have full 1st protections.

Thus my question is... have any originalists weighed in on this particular subject?
I'd also expect walkable areas where people spend less money on cars to have higher rents compared to median incomes.
That kind of price-gouging is ubiquitous in the prison industry. Phone call pricing is particularly egregious and the service is awful and onerous. Nobody really gives a damn, which is why it continues.

One day, a buddy of mine that was in prison called me out of the blue. No automated voice line telling me to give up my credit card number for $3.00 a minute calls, just his voice on the other end of the line. I was amazed, until he told me he was calling from a contraband cell phone.
This looks cool!

> I've never understood why awesome CTF events are so eager to shut down.

We actually were planning to leave the first Stripe CTF up indefinitely. We'd mostly just built it as a side project, and hadn't really expected anyone to take notice. But we were swarmed by thousands of users, and suddenly keeping everything running was a full-time job — Andy wrote a script to alert us to forkbombs, and every hour or two we'd have to go in and clear out the forkbombs from a machine. The runner for level5 would get wedged due to an exploit that hung it, and would require kicking. One of the machines would be overloaded with level6 password bruteforcers, and we'd have to spin up another or kill off runaway ones.

For the second CTF, we at least knew what we were in for and built a much more resilient architecture. It was successful in that it was much less work to maintain, but there still was a lot of maintenance, ranging from working around an EC2 security groups bug that would blackhole traffic from certain client IP addresses to spinning up more level2 boxes (since everyone was overloading them in their attempts to bruteforce the level8 passworddb).

Anyway, my tl;dr is that running any production system is hard, and we couldn't have kept them running without significant time investment.
The penalties are just too large and so very few are risking going to trial. Also, if prosecutors were actually forced to prosecute every case in court, it would either block the criminal justice system, or force politicians to drastically reduce penalties (and look "soft on crime").
Impossible. Anything with "blood glucose" on the labelling or even a hint of it will need FDA approval.
You're right, they do have a claimed reason for protesting that I didn't mention (rising rents), but I think it's a very poorly thought out one, based on emotion rather than rational thought.

If I was renting out a spare bedroom in my house to a college student for $500 a month, and then another guy shows up and says "I'll pay you $5,000 a month for that bedroom," what do you think my reaction would be? What do you think most people would do in that situation? I claim that nearly every one of the protesters, if they were in the position of the spare-bedroom landlord, would happily kick the first guy out and move in the $5,000 a month guy.

I can hardly imagine a way to satisfy the protesters' demands for cheaper rent without taking away that landlord's fundamental right to charge what he wants for use of his own property.

And by the way, tons of poor-ish and middle-class San Francisco home owners have made life-changing amounts of money from having their cheap homes increase in value when the tech industry moved in next door. But you never hear about them because they don't fit the narrative of the haves oppressing the have-nots.
This is so common even among mid managers in almost every big company I've known.

Ensure you kill innovation with any and every means you can, else the programmers will look smarter than you.
No, like typewriter stuff. Most prisoners are not given any access to computers.
Not at all surprised. "Big campus" is another entrenched "big industry", and disruption is hard. I'm in touch with students every so often that have essentially the same ideas - "let's make it easier for students to do XYZ", where XYZ always involves campus data and/or integrating with campus system. It's damned near impossible, and the reasons are many. Some are valid, some are invalid (obviously, these are my own personal views, nothing more), but the main takeaway is as with most problems, the core issue is not technology, it's politics.

Students who have these "we could change the world!" ideas rarely understand that they're not the first person to think of idea X, and that the issue is who you know who can pull the right strings.
Hanging is less reliable than one might imagine; at the time, the electric chair was touted as a humane method of execution. Really it comes down to whether you buy into the idea of the death penalty or not. by the standards of American law, the DP itself can't be considered inherently cruel and unusual (because the Constitution contemplates the possibility of the death penalty being lawfully applied in the language of the 5th amendment). So all Constitutional arguments about the DP where culpability is not in question rest upon the justice or injustice of who it can be applied to (eg not minors, because they are below the age of criminal responsibility) or how it is applied - probably the easiest line to argue, because for any given method of execution it;s relatively easy to find examples of it going gruesomely wrong and you can then argue that it would be wrong to employ a method of execution where you knew in advance of such a possibility.

Obviously I am drastically over-simplifying the legal issues here.