skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's understandable, but also a large reason why the U.S. prison system doesn't work well. People naturally want people to pay for their crimes, but what society actually needs is for those criminals to be rehabilitated. A very large number of the people incarcerated in the U.S. are repeat offenders, hinting that merely locking somebody in a cage and depriving them of their rights for a long time does little good after the prison term ends.

There are some cases where it's simply impossible to say with some measure of certainty that somebody is rehabilitated, but even the most lenient countries (Norway and the rest of Scandinavia) have measures to protect the rest of the population in those cases. Repeatedly determining that Anders Behring Breivik continues to be a threat to society is Norway's form of capital punishment.
Selecting Multiple Columns Fields in a MySQL Subquery
The 5th Ave. store is open 24/7, 365 days a year.

https://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/
Matching primitive strengths
Also useful:

git checkout -

to switch to the previous branch. Similarily,

git merge -

to merge the previous branch into the current branch.
Investor Talk on Uber’s Valuation Hits as High as $17 Billion
Airline companies don't want to buy aircraft because their highest-probability outcome is to declare bankruptcy (which happens about every 10 years for most major airlines in the US, it seems). Far simpler to tear up your lease than to dispose of large, expensive assets like aircraft as part of the bankruptcy.
Docker University at DockerCon
I thought mind reading and clarvoyance, I donno. It just works.

I use VMware. I wrote all 130,000 lines inside the operating system. It has all tools -- editor, profiler, grep, merge, compiler, assembler, unassembler, shitty partial debugger, graphic sprite creator. BMP-movie-maker. BMP support. Boot loader. ISO9660 ISO file creator.

My BMP movie creator is kinda banned. I want no multimedia, but I use it personally. I'm not serious on a ban -- orther prolly want to make movies, but it's a step down the road to hell.

I generate my website natively. I have a html creator. That's kinda just for me and doesn't belong. What if other want to do it?

I'm chagrinned -- I'm not thinking of any uses. Oh! I normally do hymns, but VMware killed music. Hymns are a legitimate thing I do. Video animations with music melodies and bouncy ball words.
Do browsers not render the blink tag anymore? I just tested it on Chrome and Firefox and it looks like it has been laid to rest.
Your mistake here is assuming you're paying for education. You are not. You are paying for a certificate, saying that you passed certain tests and achieved certain marks. Education has nothing to do with it.

And unfortunately, many jobs (not just doctors, but simple basic jobs) now require a degree. Sometimes they don't even care what degree.
I think something else worth pointing out is that even rehabilitation in the case that someone will never be let out of prison serves a purpose as it makes the prison more effective for those who will.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7797984
Here's a Mother Jones article discussing the correlation between the rise and fall of leaded gasoline usage and the rise and fall of violent crime during the 20th century.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
E.g. on iOS and Android you get access to the system's SQLite library and apparently can't even opt-out (because it is used by system APIs that you will use, if I understand correctly). See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7756332
Sure. We clarify that all the time, in lots of comments (including the one you just replied to) and also at [1] and [2]. I like your clarification too. It reminds me of [1]:

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.

The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.

What I don't want to do is try to come up with some pseudo-precise definition that everybody (including me) would immediately find fault with. That said, if you or anyone wants to suggest an addition to [1] and [2] that would add substantial clarity, we'd love to hear it at hn@ycombinator.com.

p.s. But I don't really think it's definitional underspecification that leads people to post political hit pieces and so on to HN. I think those things are going to get posted regardless of how perfect the guidelines are; and other people will upvote them regardless; and other people—hopefully enough other people—will flag them. And moderators will do the rest. This tug-of-war is characteristic of HN's front page and goes on all the time. Some fluff is always going to sneak through temporarily.

1. http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

2. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't say machines are more effective. I said they're safer, and that free weights are not magically more effective than machines.

I also didn't say the deadlift has no athletic benefit. I said it is fetishized and its usefulness is blown out of all proportion. It's seductive because a beginner can rapidly increase loads. But mostly it builds mass that is not very useful for real sports and impairs endurance. Always betting against the puffed up fighter has been a reliable betting strategy.

If you want to spend your training capacity building up to a 500# deadlift, go for it. Just don't kid yourself that it's particularly impressive or will help you do much else other than deadlift.
Original Russian source: http://habrahabr.ru/company/spbau/blog/218833/
The only "just" way of going about it is summary execution at the earliest opportunity, right?

Anything else is basically just society taking revenge.

As for deterrence, I'm not sure that you want to build a system on that as we have; people ought to follow the law and not murder because it is the right thing to do, not because they're afraid not to.

If you have a system motivated by fear, it means that any external fear (psychological defect, job-related, desperation-related, or just plain being too drunk to remember that injuring others carries a stiff penalty) has the opportunity to override your system.

Murder isn't right, but we should be trying to figure out why it occurred and how to prevent it in the future and rehabilitate the person (or dispose of them forthright)--torture and punishment doesn't benefit anyone.
I understand. Do you have any projects you want to do but need parts/hardware/etc? I liked the systematic analysis of power supply article, but doing that sort of thing seems pricey.

I brought your daughter's wells fundraiser to an even 100%.
Definitely plan on adding QR in. We initially had it but ran into some issues and so we took it out for the time being.
Some very well known cracking/warez groups will add whatever you want to their 0-day releases if you pay them enough.

However, I wonder why the perpetrators used "winlogin.exe" as the malware executable file name instead of "winlogon.exe". If I remember correctly, Windows prevents you from killing any file named "winlogon.exe" from the Task Manager. Maybe to help prevent detection by heuristic anti-malware engines?
> You still need to prove undue hardship, and that still involves a tough, three part test.

This understates the difficulty.

It is so nearly impossible to discharge student debt, that out of the many thousands who try it, only a handful manage the feat in any given year.

It makes the news when this happens, it's that rare.
I think you're being far, far too gung-ho about the demise of doctors. Their presence might be at risk over 50-100 years, but for the foreseeable future technology will act primarily as an aid, not as an independent decision maker, and time saved for medical staff will just be reallocated to other clinical tasks.
Good idea! There's definitely much to be deserved about the project page and demo, we wanted to get something out and then iteratively improve on it based on feedback.
Comment Thirteen[1] is an interesting concept. "Mine 2 Play". What if the new micropayments for stuff online is with bitcoin-mining? You can my music tracks for $1 of mining on your computer? Sure it's actually more expensive for 85% of people to mine $1 on your PC than just pay for it... but it _feels_ free. Especially for kids who can mine on home/school computers a lot easier than asking parents for money.

1. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113371411&postcou...
Well, I'm of the belief that certain crimes are beyond rehabilitation. No matter how "rehabilitated" Anders Breivik is, he still deserves to be locked up. He should never again interact with the society he so evidently despises.
<blink>Fascists!</blink>
On Explaining Monads
It's pretty funny, I saw DropConnect described in a stackoverflow answer that predated the paper you reference.
It was an incorrect answer on how to do dropout. I shall try to find it tomorrow.
That non-linearity applies to sentences for the same type of crime as well. Many of the HN crowd may remember the first chapter of Steven Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual. In a section about logarithms, it showed Federal Sentencing Guidelines for fraud. Stealing $350,000 got a 9 point increase in severity. To get up to 18 points, you needed to steal over $80,000,000! The paragraph ended with:

The moral of logarithmic growth is clear: "If you are gonna do the crime, make it worth the time!"

The reason for this is simple: Sentence length isn't just retribution for the crime. It can be for rehabilitation as well (at least, in other countries). Prison sentences also try to have a deterrent effect. Thieves aren't caught nearly as often as murderers. If the punishment for theft was repayment and a fine, we'd see a lot more theft. It's a similar story with drunk driving. Most of the time, people get away with driving drunk. Nobody gets hurt, nobody gets pulled over. But we want to discourage this behavior since it does kill people. So we make harsh punishments for even a first-time offense.

It's interesting that you bring up the example of Anders Breivik. How would your opinion of him change if, hypothetically, it were later shown that he had a brain tumor? For me, the justification for retribution evaporates. Sure, lock him up forever; he's still dangerous. But if we can trace someone's actions back to causes outside of their control, doesn't that obviate the need for punishment? Then, all we can do is try to rehabilitate them and/or keep them from harming others.

I think this argument applies to the vast majority of people in prison. We don't choose our genes. We don't choose our parents. We don't choose the household or culture we grow up in. We don't choose how much lithium is in our tap water.[1] The vast majority of our personalities and behaviors are shaped by forces completely outside our control, often without our knowledge. We're nowhere close to fully understanding the interactions between genes and environment necessary to diagnose each person's violent behavior, but that's no excuse for exacting retribution. Right now our society is effectively punishing people for having brain tumors. I think focusing on rehabilitation would be much more effective and fair, even for some of the most horrific crimes.

1. Yes, this actually matters: http://www.gwern.net/docs/nootropics/1990-schrauzer.pdf
I was always disappointed that users ended up in prison. It is an incredible waste of money and doesn't do any good. Smugglers and cookers can rot in prison for all the harm they have caused. Dealers are iffy depending on the circumstances and mandatory sentences for them is really unwarranted.

Free the room up for sex offenders that molest kids. Why we let them out given all the studies about repeat offenses, I will never know[1].

I often think "Law and Order" politicians are out of step with what their "Law and Order" voters really want.

1) Also, any prosecutor that tries to get some 18 year old on a list for going out with his 16 year old girlfriend needs to be disbarred. Consensual is a family matter not a court matter.
> As for deterrence, I'm not sure that you want to build a system on that as we have; people ought to follow the law and not murder because it is the right thing to do, not because they're afraid not to.

The problem is there are certain individuals constitutionally incapable of doing "the right thing". They have no respect for the lives of others, and can only be deterred by fear of punishment.

We call them psychopaths.
Beware the Myth of the Noble Researcher
Actually most individual sentences aren't all that bad, it's more that the overall tone of the article seeks to portray bitcoin as something bad, though it does funnily enough seem to be somewhat pro-dogecoin.

Thanks for letting me know about italics, it was meant as a list and not a quote. I'll make sure to remember for next time :)
Just be happy to live in the best country.
This post was mostly misleading and unnecessary.
Mass incarceration is big business. This is what happens you privatise something, its sole goal is to make money and guess what makes a private prison money? More inmates.

Then you have all of the other people/entities that benefit from a broken system; lawyers, police, judges, bail bonds. The justice system is inherently corrupt. And speaking of private prisons, most of them have occupancy guarantee clauses in their government contracts.

I think the problem is even bigger than the New York Times thinks it is. It'll take more than a NYT article to fix the problem.
> "sentences should be appropriate to the seriousness of what was done"

Sentences should be high enough to deter crime, and no higher. If one month of prison time doesn't reduce your petty theft rate significantly, then double it. Measure the new offense rate then double the penalty again. Eventually you'll reach that knee in the curve where any additional punishment you can mete out has little significant effect, and that's your magic number.

The idea of "lesser crimes" should not be used to influence punishment. You cannot linearly compare shoplifting against auto theft or battery - so it's not possible to assign commensurate sentences. Compile the offense rates and then go for the knees, dispassionately.
You should fear background checks even if you’ve done nothing wrong
The first sentence:

>>Your original point is that their actions are close to 60 years ago, right? If not, quote it again please

No, it was not. And I think you know that.

The first thing you commented on was:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7795134

It starts: "It seems that dictators generally need to make enemies out of the world's democracies."

My second comment starts with: "First -- that is not relevant to my point that authoritarian juntas seems to need to make external enemies out of the world's democracies."

(Similar in my third and fourth comment.)

I only read the first sentence you wrote. I lost hope of a serious answer a while back.
If we are talking TOS, then "A Private Little War" isn't very optimistic at all.
I know both and I enjoyed this one more: http://www.ir.uwaterloo.ca/book/
Even if it hadn't, I wouldn't consider it proof that it wouldn't for others.

One demographic I could see it working well on is younger offenders - whereas some forms of punishment could be considered "cool", being publicly forced to do something and wearing an outfit not of your choosing while doing it, I can't see how that would be considered cool. Also, it could avoid them meeting the wrong people while in the joint which might lead them further down the wrong path.

At the very least it would be cheaper than almost any other form of punishment, plus you'd get some garbage picked up.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=krebsonsecurity+mail#!/story/forev...
>early release for a guy who was importing heroin into chicago

Lots of money importing heroin, due to the huge black market created by the criminalization of supply and possession. You know for a fact the guy that got locked up for it got immediately replaced by the next schmuck whose opportunities in this supply chain dramatically eclipse anything he'd be able to attain in his economically devastated, capital-starved community.

We created the ghettos, we created the economic incentives that cause good people to make bad choices.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/13/how-we-buil...
Investments are not taxed.

You will most likely operate with a loss for the first year so your tax bill will be $0. And then you will be able to carry-over any losses to subsequent years which will reduce or eliminate your corporate tax bill in those years. Get a professional for the carry-over stuff. As patio11 said, there are often minimum state taxes. I believe California is ~$800 and Delaware is ~$200 or more.

You will of course have to pay income tax on wages individually. If you are considered employees then the company also has to pay a portion of the payroll tax. If consultants, then the company does not need to pay payroll tax. Talk to a lawyer about which is appropriate for the founders.

runway (number of months) = (total - one-time expenses) / monthly expenses
Today I learned . . . that God himself burned down the building that the blink tag was invented in.

Perhaps someone in Mountain View could stop by and salt the earth, just to be sure?

(Huh, looks like there are some business buildings there now. I can imagine next Tuesday morning: "Hey, what are all these boxes of salt doing in the parking lot?")
Why would anyone join a mob when you can have anything a mob could ever give you? Even a sadist could have far more fun for far longer on a holodeck than hurting real people.

Star Trek presents a utopian future where resources are limitless and every child grows up in a friendly and happy world with an education we can't even imagine.

They have healthcare that actually works. They can fix essentially any physical or mental ailment. A bit of a sadist? Oh, let me fix that right here, your levels were extremely high.

You have to imagine what happens to society when we can fix almost all the problems that divide us.
The screenshot you link seems to me indicative of a dark pattern:

User unsubscribes from all categories (one-by-one-by-one) = invent a new category and auto-subscribe the user.
The problem with psychopaths is that they don't fear anything, although they may rationalize (in their mind) that some consequence will prevent them from doing X, Y, Z thing they want to do, and thus avoid it.

Anyway, violent psychopaths belong in mental institutions (for life, if it is determined that they remain a threat to society.) I don't think many people disagree with that.

This has almost nothing to do with, for example, sentencing on crack being tougher than on cocaine, and rape being worse than murder. Also, most people convicted of crimes aren't psychopaths, although they often have (fixable) mental problems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6500689

The threshold for a new story not being a dupe is necessarily pretty high, and I'm not sure the current post clears it. What of substance is new here?
I don't think "lazy alter" is a particularly good idea in an RDBMS as it could lead to the operation failing after its transaction has been committed which is something that is generally avoided in relational databases.
Is there a justice in government torturing people because You think they might not be punished enough? Then what You would do to innocent people that ended in prison, untorture them?
Your justice is that kind of justice the Kolyma was know for.
The difference with soldiers is that they usually don't want to.
Ask HN: How to sell iOS app names and dev account?
The company I helped co-found in 2007, Mango LLC, made several apps that hit the AppStore the day it opened: Homework and iShopping. Both are horribly dated now (from high school days), and my partners and I have agreed to dissolve our LLC. Are the app names worth selling anymore? I know the AppStore search used to weigh the app name very heavily, but I've been out of the development loop for awhile. If we can sell them, what's the best way to do it?

Thanks!
Since it looks like the author is idling in this thread:

I'm a enthusiastic git user, and I've ranted about a few git topics here: http://gitdoctor.com/

I also use the @gitdoctor twitter handle for helping people out in those moments of "oh shit, what is happening?!" with git :-)
Great job!

Was this your wife's first app?

If so, will she be making more? Assuming that this closely resembles what you do for a living, does she have a different perspective on what you do now that she's been in the trenches?
Sales Mistakes That Will Keep Your Customers Running
I'm aware of the differences between "functional" muscle and otherwise, but you can't be an elite level bodybuilder without being strong. Ronnie Coleman (8x Mr Olympia) is stronger than more than 99% of the human race.
> The reason for this is simple: Sentence length isn't just retribution for the crime. It can be for rehabilitation as well (at least, in other countries). Prison sentences also try to have a deterrent effect. Thieves aren't caught nearly as often as murderers. If the punishment for theft was repayment and a fine, we'd see a lot more theft. It's a similar story with drunk driving. Most of the time, people get away with driving drunk. Nobody gets hurt, nobody gets pulled over. But we want to discourage this behavior since it does kill people. So we make harsh punishments for even a first-time offense.

One obscene result of this paradigm is that you sacrifice the actual lives of individuals for merely potential benefits for society. The literary example is Jean Val Jean, who of course ends up spending a lifetime in prison for stealing a loaf of bread.

This actually happens in American justice. Those harshly punished for minor offenses are not only not rehabilitated, they are turned into hardened criminals by association with the low-lifes who truly deserve to be in prison.

> It's interesting that you bring up the example of Anders Breivik. How would your opinion of him change if, hypothetically, it were later shown that he had a brain tumor? For me, the justification for retribution evaporates.

To extend your hypothetical, say we can conclusively prove that the universe is deterministic and there is no such thing as free will. Then is no one responsible for anything they do?

I contend, in the absence of contradicting evidence, we must live as if we have free will, because (ironically) we have no other choice. So if Breivik's lawyers/doctors demonstrate a brain tumor affecting his behavior, we treat him differently than we do the garden-variety psychopathic mass-murderer he appears to (and purports to) be.
There's also been a fall in other Western countries that don't have the same level of incarceration.
Cool, you established causation. Next step is to show that crime rates decreased because of mass incarceration and not a plethora of other factors.

(Good luck, you'll need it.)
First, he probably will be locked up forever, unless someone declares him sane (which, in my opinion, will never happen.) Second, I would agree if you said "certain criminals are beyond rehabilitation." There are people who have incurable mental problems, but they make up a very small minority of the people incarcerated in the United States.
Yahoo Answers is already scary enough.
Does anyone have insight into how this works in the UK? 9% of their prisoners are privately held, vs 3% in the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison)? As in, are there systems or incentives in place to prevent UK prison companies from lobbying for harsher jail sentences?
true, and in those settings you largely don't see situations that trip up naive parsers such as newlines or delimiters inside fields.