skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only about 8% of prisoners are held in for-profit prisons: http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-g.... Moreover, the prison population started exploding long before for-profit prisons arose. The U.S. prison population started exploding in the mid-1970's, as states passed tough-on-crime measures like three strikes' laws in response to dramatic increases in crime rates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta.... But even by 1990, only a negligible percentage of U.S. prisoners were in for-profit prisons: https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bankingonbondage_20111102.....

I strongly oppose for-profit prisons, but the whole "prisons are big business!" trope the NYT likes to trot out is bullshit. For-profit prison companies are opportunists, taking advantage of the trend of growing prison populations combined with the heavy emphasis in the 1990's on trimming the number of public employees.

But CCA didn't create the massive U.S. prison population. Voters did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law#Enactment_by_.... Frightened suburbanite baby boomers watching the news, shrieking "Just Say No!" at school events, voting for Three Strikes' laws and aggressive drug enforcement. I.e. NYT's core readership.
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Re: 1. Have you considered something like an isomorphic approach to optionally preprocess the HTML on the server side?
Why the opinion that it shouldn't be free? Technology has made it defacto free.
Your answer appears to be for another post; here the post is about Swift being closed-source and tight to the Apple ecosystem, not about being compared to another language.
Much of the music available of on youtube was not released by the artists.

If the statement were "we want to make access to freely available music easier" (and we cannot police how it got to our sources) - sure. Go with it!
"an open conversation about knowledge that can easily kill people"

This phrase and the article contain the same fallacy ( ("disclosing 0days when they can kill people"). I may be accused of semantic quibbling here, but I think it is important to state the issues clearly and accurately.

Information cannot kill anyone, nor exert any effects at all, ever. It is not causal. Actions using the information may be enabled by knowledge of the information, but they are human choices and not automatic.

This is not merely a matter of careless expression that does not affect the argument. In fact the fallacy is not only, or not exactly supposing that knowledge is causal, but rather in eliding the whole articulation of what happens between the revealing or acquisition of knowledge and the action that may or may not use it in some way.

The situation has a common element with the gun control issue: if someone has a gun, violence is easier, and this may be considered bad, but it does not excuse conflating the shooter's action with someone else's conduct of merely allowing that person to have a gun. It does not shift any responsibility from a competent adult actor to someone who merely allows a gun to be available.

Note also that the gun-possessor, or the person newly armed with knowledge, need not act on it at all, and those who confuse things by missing these distinctions manage to avoid the fallacy in those cases.
Everyone dies having failed at many things in many ways. I don't see what's sad about that.
8 is quite an understatement here.
You can write the core of the program in C/C++ and just use Obj-C to interface with it. I imagine you will be able to do the same with Swift.
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"Q. How did you find this bug?

A. This bug was discovered by Masashi Kikuchi of Lepidum. He found this bug while studying safe TLS implementations using a proof assistant system Coq."

So they are starting to find actual bugs with Coq? I'm impressed, and would love to know if anybody has more details (lepidum's blog seems down at the moment).
And a 320x240 pixels camera. That's over 70,000 pixels! Imagine how many photos you could fit on a 32gb memory card!
You may be working with outdated information. The separate publicly-traded "AT&T Wireless" company disappeared in 2004, and its successor has been wholly-owned by AT&T Inc. since late 2006.

Meanwhile, Verizon Communications has always been the majority shareholder in Verizon Wireless, and sole owner since February.

Whatever separation there may still be between these operations in the corporate structure (e.g. AT&T Inc. vs its subsidiary AT&T Mobility LLC) is only that - corporate structure. It does not ultimately change what each parent company owns / does.
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Interesting idea, but wasn't able to find much literature on this on the internet. Are all the proper nouns used in your post hypothetical? Apologize if I missed a clear hypothetical...
I assume they mean "bear a cost", unless this is some UK/US spelling disagreement.
maybe i am to stupid, but where can i compile and run packages and configure my own commands, per project, like ST2/3?
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Ha. Its not even a car - it's a tricycle[1] ! The distinctin may sound pedantic but legally speaking they are quite distinct: It’s lack of a four wheel, and low production volume, exempt the Morgan from most safety and emissions regulations. At least in the US...Quite Ironic.

[1] see, eg> http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/morgan-three-wheeler-is-it...
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>there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening.

Sadly most of these are only available in the US – and there are ~500 million people in the EU without access to most of these services.

Luckily it gets better nowadays, Spotify exists in most countries here, iTunes in contrast to Google Play actually sells everywhere (GPlay only in some countries here) and with Netflix coming to Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France and some other countries from 2015 on movie piracy will also go down.
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I don't know about the gaming industry, but most authors make the bulk of their income off of speaking gigs, book signings, readings, etc.

Actually, most are unsuccessful and make their entire income off of a second job, but most successful authors make their income from the above.
While I agree in general, there was serious lobbying for the Three Strikes Law by people who stood to gain financially. It may have happened even without their support, but they thought it was worth the payoff to put in millions of dollars.

http://www.npr.org/2009/08/13/111843426/folsom-embodies-cali...
Indeed, source code availability of the compiler implementation and accompanying infrastructure doesn't really matter. It takes time but it could be re-implemented from specs.

The problem with C# and .NET is (was) that they are patent-encumbered and that's the real game stopper. It took quite a long time and a lot of debate on .NET suitability for a Free Software movement to settle that matters somehow (recent releases under Apache license seem to fix many issues, though, although that still needs a statement from FSF's lawyers).

I'm unaware about Swift relationship to software patents. Does anyone know?
>I'll be cynical here: can this be done if the language ends up being restricted to apple devices?

Sure it can. Students and school-children have been taught (and inspired) with proprietary systems and languages for ages.

Sure, it might not get to Windows or Linux users, but it still can reach tens of millions of kids and even universities (e.g Stanford already offers a well known iOS course with Objective-C).
Actually, they apparently didn't even consider whether an argument in applicable.

The whole point of the gatekeeper and waiting list systems is to ration healthcare. People can only get a free car if the salesman can see they have a valid need. And they have to arrange an appointment to see said salesman.

This is not a story of incorruptible science, perfectly applied. It's a story of naively applying a one fits all model and being confused when people think you're an idiot.
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Interested to see if LibreSSL has knocked these ones on the head.
Seriously Oracle? Who employs you guys?
Source Code Pro is getting an italic variant
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True, although a decent number of the web startups also thought Microsoft was the walking dead, because it had missed the web (which was sort of true, but ended up not killing MS).
Flash dominated the Web more than Internet Explorer (even at IE's pinnacle). Somewhere in the mid 90% of visitors had Flash installed at it's peak.

Open standards did not beat Flash. A bigger proprietary platform bully sent Flash to it's doom - Apple's iOS. Adobe's Flash was vulnerable because it had to seek Apple's blessing to be part of Apple's platform, and they were spurned.

This is the lesson of being a sharecropper - even a massive proprietary-source company, Adobe, are powerless when the platform owner enforces it's control.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl...

Yes, open standards win in the long run, after Apple have profited significantly from the closed approach they are taking now. At which point it's a meaningless victory.

The point of the article is, be aware you are just a sharecropper, and working on Apple's lands for as long as it's in Apple's interest. And Apple owes you nothing for all your hard efforts, it will change the environment for it's own corporate interests. And you, the developer, are mere insignificant collateral damage. Remember that Steve Jobs killed Flash. And there was nothing Adobe could do to avoid or mitigate it.

Current iOS developers have already accepted this, willingly or unknowingly. It's the new folk who are attracted by the new shiny thing, need to be aware of the consequences of working on an Apple controlled platform.
As I said below, if this is backended on YouTube artists will collect royalties provided they are collecting them.
Mandatum,

That's true, that's why there's the file timeouts for anonymous files. Distributing pirated content in 10MB chunks that last only 15 minutes is not practical.
ActionScript 3 was open source.

- It was based upon ECMAScript 4.

- The ActionScript code was open source, and the actual reference code for ECMAScript 4.

- The JIT runtime of ActionScript 3 was open sourced (Tamarin) and "donated" to Mozilla to use as the basis for a faster JS runtime.

Also, your comparison of Flash with Apple's Cocoa/OS platform frankly makes no sense. The situation is vastly different. Swift is in exactly the same position as Objective-C. It's under no greater threat to disappear than Objective-C is.
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That's all well and good. Just don't complain about "just making coffee for you guys" and that kind of shit!
The G+ link on the top right goes to a bad url:
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Seriously, does his extent of looking at the language end at the "var" keyword?!?
Graphic designer here. I used to run SETI@Home and I would love to contribute by running a Tor relay from my laptop but I have no idea how. The setup process is all but "easy", the project documentation website lists at least 4 download options and if I get it right there is no GUI for OSx. I have downloaded and installed the Browser Bundle but I have no idea where to go from here. If you want more laypersons like me support this good cause you need to make it easier.
I think many more people would run these if they didn't think their nodes would be used for child pornography and potentially get them into legal trouble as a result.
> quality indeed is my main concern too ... I haven't started using any of the cloud services simply because none (that I know) provides lossless music.

Have you tried performing an A/B test to see if you can tell the difference between lossless CD audio and 192 kbit AAC (the format used for 720p video on YouTube)?
Thank you. Great comment. I was blown away that all my comments on this thread got down voted because I defended the presenter. Even ones where I was thanking someone for posting a reference link. This is a witch-hunt. This is a forum for people to find a fire and add fuel to it. There was nothing wrong with the guys presentation.

Up voted.
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A very long time ago, I got the Xanadu design document from Ted Nelson. Interesting stuff. I regret discarding it when we moved to a small house in the mountains 15 years ago. I wish I still had it.

I like how they admit to having screwed up by not delivering on linked documents before the web.
Was the person who commited ChangeCipherSpec the same person who commited HeartBleed?
>Yeah? Interesting. Because all popular languages that I've used, up until Go, fail at concurrency at such a basic level, that it's almost as if their authors don't understand what concurrency is. Except Erlang. But then again, I said popular.

You added "popular" now, to deflect from what he said: that those features already existed outside of Go. If a feature exists for 20+ years, having it in your language is not a sign that you "copied it" from a 5 year old language.

Not to mention that he also said "almost all" features, and was replying in the context that Swift copied Go. In that context Go's concurrency is irrelevant, since Swift doesn't have the same mechanisms.
I have to click a button to scroll the text on your site.
Depends. If you have to build a new car to do it, the answer is almost certainly no.
"we're going to have to rise up against our evil government!"

This stance, and your criticism of it, miss the mark. In my view, legitimizing private gun ownership should not be based on whose are bigger, or "who would win in a fight" arguments. Instead, private gun ownership is a simple question of property rights. I see private gun ownership having much more to do with the right for you to defend your private property. In this context, I'm in favor of private gun rights, even if taken as a symbolic gesture to the importance of private property.
They can send a cease and desist, but they're not required to.

Think like Apple - why on Earth would you kill a site with resources for their new language they're pushing? You wouldn't.

At most Apple might request that the lack of affiliation of the site with Apple be made more clear. After all who knows who this guy is? Tomorrow he might decide to post nazi jokes in there, you never know.
Wow you weren't kidding.

"That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it? Yes, it is!"
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I think it's not about the programmers but about the code. Swift code is much less portable than ObjC one.

On the other hand, I've never heard of anyone using their ObjC code from iOS app for Android one (by transpiling to Java or building ObjC code as a native library) or vice versa, so I guess this point is probably mostly moot. Except for the rant comes from a GNUstep developer, where ObjC is a language of choice, too (and Swift is supposedly unavailable, at least it's the case at the moment).
ActionScript 3 was released in 2006, long after developers had already started departing the Flash ecosystem in droves and Flash fell out of favor as delivery technique for web applications. "Ajax", as we were calling it then, started to be used as the primary delivery technique for rich applications; the original Ajax essay came out in 2005 (http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-appl...) and that's when we started reverse-engineering applications like Google Maps to build interactivity without proprietary plugins and languages.
Does this one have a logo? I'm not going to take it seriously unless it has a logo.
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I agree, they seem to be trying to compare unlimited healthcare to unlimited travel. I don't know about them, but I don't tend to go into hospital and ask "Can I have 3 broken leg repairs and some chemotherapy please", "But you only have two legs and no cancer", "but it's free!". It just doesn't happen like that, they've applied the wrong model.

I'm not surprised that if that's the argument they presented to Cameron, he showed them the door. He may not be my cup of tea, but he's not an idiot.
As mentioned in the blog post's comments, Nate paid ~ 28 USD for this.
Another comment links to Alibaba Express, in case you want to buy a similar one:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Luxury-Mobile-Phone-X900-Flas...
There are more than ten contestants who beat 1000 km/l. That's a lot of contestants ignored by an article about a research contest.

Without getting into a long argument about how science and collaboration works, narrow sighted articles that cover events like this do a lot of damage.
Ah, you are correct, thank you. Apparently I wasn't thinking clearly when I normalized the axes to have the same absolute ranges.
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> Would it be possible to re-cast all of the wikipedia content into a xanadoc?

Currently, no, because Wikipedia is multimedia and Xanadu, while it has aspirations in that direction, can only handle text (and, it seems, only linear, unstructured text, and that limitation against structure seems fundamental and deliberate, unlike the absence of multimedia support.)
What is a good use case for this? Interesting project otherwise! :)
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Oh, and importantly, the Flash Plugin, the runtime, is not even open source today. Making the tooling open source is important and good, but also tends not to be enough.
Heh. This is far better than the explanation I could think of. Thanks.
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Oo this is great everyone! I really like that sexy Stribe documentation.
Thank you
With Gregg shorthand, isn't the base layer syllabic? So even if there isn't a standard contraction, isn't the representation for an unknown or nonsense word pretty straight forward?
On the human side of things, I recall reading in a history of the code talkers how several of them were unable to get a job for their skillset of operating and working on radios directly as a result of the classified nature of their work. Whereas your run-of-the-mill white GI, or in some cases non-code-talker Najavo, could point out his work in the service your Navajo code-talker could not.
er no that's a common way to clone cards which is why restaurants in the UK have hand held readers they bring to the table.

Though I normally pay cash in restaurants I don't trust absolutely.
Nux,

This service is very different from Dropr.in. We're not trying to be "Bittorrent in a browser". Our goals are simplicity and convenience. Looks like a nice site if P2P is your need, though.
Not always ... the emissions of a push mower are dramatically higher than automobile emissions (on a per horsepower basis).
How did the whole Apple Records v Apple thing work out...
Go's core philosophy for concurrency is: Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating [1]. I have not tried to share memory (ex: a pointer-to-struct) between two different go threads before, so I can't really comment on what happens when one tries to break out of the language's philosophy. However, I've found that following the philosophy is incredibly liberating as it encourages a certain kind of reasoning that gives me the confidence I can accurately statically analyze the code without having to debug it at run time. Like any other philosophy though, it isn't for everyone.

EDIT: I now realize I never addressed your concern of primitives. Go really only has one: the channel. It can send anything (even other channels). The two types are buffered or unbuffered, and deciding which to use can alter the behavior of a program.

There are a few language keywords to support the use of channels, such as `for-select-case` loops and `go` to spawn new goroutines. The former is used to help respond to numerous channels, the latter to spawn more goroutines. Nothing in the language prevents listening to a runtime-determined arbitrary number of channels, either.

[1] http://blog.golang.org/share-memory-by-communicating
One could probably bring the weight back down by strictly limiting substitution. Until the late 1950s a lot of players played on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
Simply write the timings in such a way as where before they would have been paroled at time t, their move to low security and reintroduction occurs at t. Therefore they don't get to escape "easily" any sooner than they would have under a previous systm?
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It does: http://ccsinjection.lepidum.co.jp/
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Respectfully disagree. I think it's easy for people who have by now built an intuitive grasp of code to appreciate how challenging tools like Processing can be for a beginner.

I have a design background and learned front end code (and eventually ruby on rails) by getting progressively more interested in how the things I was designing were built. I feel like I achieved a pretty respectable level of knowledge in what I had been exposed to.

And yet, many aspects of Processing were a huge leap for me. I spent days looking at code examples just to try and grok how 3D works in processing. I get it now (mostly), but it still feels unintuitive. I can certainly imagine a language that would describe 3D behavior, and a whole host of other things, in a way that a visual artist would describe them.

I definitely believe that there is value in artists learning to think with the rigor that code encourages. It's a fascinating cross-pollination. Creativity often springs from encountering the limits of a medium (and one's mastery of the medium).

But look at the excitement this week among people like me about Swift. It's not about whether it was possible before for me to learn Objective C and build a game. It was. But goddamnit, it's such a pain, and I would certainly understand that someone who is starting from zero in terms of CS knowledge would find it impossibly intimidating.

Design is remarkably accessible. If you can pick up a pen and paper, you can do it. Code is getting way closer to that, but let's not have collective Stockholm syndrome. Our tools are a long way away from where they could be.

Honestly, I wish I had the skills to write a language or build the tools like the ones I can imagine myself. But I have confidence that someone will. It's going to be an exciting time for art, and I think it's coming very soon.