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Many people don't, check out Generalizing From One Example

http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/

key passage:

"The debate was resolved by Francis Galton, a fascinating man who among other achievements invented eugenics, the "wisdom of crowds", and standard deviation. Galton gave people some very detailed surveys, and found that some people did have mental imagery and others didn't. The ones who did had simply assumed everyone did, and the ones who didn't had simply assumed everyone didn't, to the point of coming up with absurd justifications for why they were lying or misunderstanding the question. There was a wide spectrum of imaging ability, from about five percent of people with perfect eidetic imagery to three percent of people completely unable to form mental images."

I don't have strong mental imagery, and it's actually a problem for me when reading some fiction... Some authors love putting in long, detailed, descriptions of characters.

That's incredibly boring to me, and I just skip those pages.

I've found that people with very strong visual imagery love anagrams, because they can actually visualize and rotate the letters. And to me, that's basically a super power.
There's very well an argument to be made that this level of subversion of the United States's legal system should really be considered to rise to treason.

If you want to kill a nation, shake people's faith in the function of its legal institutions.
A map version of this (with contour lines for percentage awoken) would be nice. This would also eliminate the small differences in the time people in different areas seem to go to sleep and rise.
I still don't get it. I get that Google's unofficial motto is "don't be evil". It's the "let it be" part that is confusing me. It's almost like you're admitting that you released a thing containing exploitable defects and are asking people to refrain from exploiting them out of... politeness.
That doesn't work, though. The only time anyone really cares about your opinion is when you're in the voting booth and any concern directed at you at any other time is solely with respect to the voting booth. And in the voting booth you can only choose between two parties. You either make the best out of it or you don't.
Thoughts:

1. The theory behind this thing is really exciting. Having visibility into the messy world of software configuration & deployment is incredibly useful for ops and dev.

2. It's too bad this isn't open-source so it could be adopted by everyone and become a defacto standard. Why would I pay for something if I don't even know if it works for anyone else, much less can open it up and see how the gears work? I mean, give me some screenshots at least, or like, any example of why I should invest my time in this product [other than quotes from a few customers]. They seem to be losing out on a really simple business strategy.

3. 'deb https://packagecloud.io/opsmatic/public/any/ any main' ?? I don't know who opsmatic and packagecloud are, so i'm damn sure not going to add their repo into my list of approved sources! What if they 'accidentally' push an update to glibc and brick my whole cluster? I might be able to use pinning to keep updates to only specific packages, but in theory their opsmatic packages could depend on a new glibc and it then bypasses the pinning. (With Yum I can do simpler includes/excludes so i'm not as worried)

4. I'm not running a new, closed-source executable by an unknown company as root on all my production boxes, or even my dev boxes. Maybe if I knew it was a standalone [non-networked] product. And really, it shouldn't need to be root if I wanted to run it inside containers, for example; just have it index whatever software it can read with the privileges it has.

5. That link map at the bottom of the page? Would be more useful to me if you put it as the header, as that's the first thing I want to click on for more information. Maybe i'm crazy, but my first interest in seeing a new service like this is not signing up for a trial [read: spam] without knowing anything about the product.
As someone who's fundamentally opposed to prison for white collar crimes like this, I could suggest:

* The felony record he's going to have for the rest of his life

* Massive monetary fine, to be automatically garnished from (and only payable by) any wages earned, leaving him with the equivalent of the local minimum wage until the fine is paid.

* Permanent banishment from any kind of justice system work, even as far as being a janitor in an administration building.

* Community service, on the order of weeks/months of time for each person who was unjustly sentenced.
Well, if you show the heatmap right away, it might skew your results. Perhaps if you had a third option "skip voting and view results".
Should Scotland be an independent country?
You should include the total respective votes with the key so the accuracy of the data can be compared to other polls. Maybe even a break down of the UK/ Ireland/ Europe/ Rest of World.
http://prestonbyrne.com/2014/08/24/what-goes-up/
Ignoring your obnoxious and ill-placed reply, I (and others) responded specifically to what you said, which was that the "debate" in your household was about "you need to be the best at a narrow skill and you do that by working really hard at what you are already naturally good at from as early as possible"

This seems tragically naive, and in all likelihood terribly destructive of future success, rather than supporting it.
or "their" can refer to democrats.
Which we could shorten to:

"The single biggest predictor of achievement is achievement"
What really bugs me is that we're all focusing on the judge, not about the fact that there are for-profit prisons. Is that not going to lead other judges to the same corruption over time?

To me, the idea of a for-profit prison is just backwards, there should never be an incentive for them to incarcerate innocent people, and if it is that is a symptom that the system is broken.
From direct observation, that appears to be a playbook straight out of the Republican camp.
I'm from the area that was under Ciavarella. I remember being in middle school and having him say in an assembly "If you get in a fight, you're coming to me and you're going away. Miss too much school, you're coming to see me and you're going away."
Thanks for the link. I've read a lot of research papers along these lines. The results vary a lot.
While it's reasonable to ask whether the death penalty is appropriate even in cases such as treason, there's a fair case to be made that this level of subversion of the legal system is treason.
I don't see the issue. Armin went completely insane IMHO.

This problem is usually solved by expressing the type "Foo or Null" as Foo? in such a gradually typed language.
Maybe the critics should lookup the basic type literature first.

Such posts will kill python. And this type of type critic already did kill python for Google. (And kept perl 10 years behind)
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According to another report, he can be released earlier with good behavior - assuming he lives to be 85 years old.
Can a mod please add "2013" to the end of this? It's pretty old news.
I remember this guy. I'll never forget this short video that came out during the case. It does a really good job of portraying just how despicable this man's actions were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8JRMGP2hg8
The real scandal here is the privatization of the prison system. Had the prison not been a for-profit corporation this kind of thing would not have happened.

This story shows that some things should not be privatized. Some people (Rand Paul) believe the Iraq war would not have happened had the US government not relied on for-profit corporations (Halliburton) for war-related contracts. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/04...
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That would diminish the usefulness of the map quite a bit. People will be interested in this on a ward-by-ward basis - I'm pretty sure. A small random 'shuggle' should be enough to help.
Are you saying that the sleep data is more personal than calling 911? I have to question that, because you could call 911 for all sorts of private situations that you wouldn't want publicly known. So no, it's not really different.
In this modern context, a terrorism prosecution seems appropriate.
There is no parole in the federal prison system but there is "Good conduct time." Unless he has a successful appeal or he dies first, he will serve at least 24 years and 4 months.
I was planning to give it a day (give the server a rest), but somebody beat me to it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/2ej5kk/scottish_in...
That's 68,000 people. A lot of people.
The actual article's title is "Turn Node Applications into Executables". This tool doesn't turn the JS code into native code, it just packages it up along with a JS run-time.
Ah cool! Starting to see some colours over here now.

Belfast voting Yes and Dublin voting No.. Now there's a turnup for the books.
Three years ago, actually.
Off topic, but I found those photos to be very nice. Is it just an app and an iPhone? I would love to be able to take photos like those. Are there any blogs or anything which have guides on this sort of photography?
I use Catch over UnitTest++ because I found it first and it was dead simple to get started with.

We don't do unit-testing as part of our official development process where I work, so I was looking for something that I could quickly try out and get started with in my spare moments. I read about several frameworks and Catch seemed to fit the bill best.

Looking over the UnitTest++ web site just now it appears to be nearly as easy as Catch, so if I had found it first I probably would have given it a try.

For those not currently doing any unit testing who want to get a feel for what it is all about, I highly recommend Catch as a "my first unit testing framework."
Doesn't matter to me if they have an R or D after their name, if they're doing this, it's wrong.
by working really hard at what you are already naturally good at from as early as possible.

That's more than just tailored instruction. Also, being the best in your field is practically worthless, my sister is in the top 1,000, probably even top 100 in her field in her mid 20's. So she is well paid and making movies. But, she could easily swap to doing something else.
* Felony record? He's an older, privileged white male. The only substantive effect on him will be loss of voting privileges.

* Only payable by wages earned? He's already earned a lifetime's worth of money. Why are you opposed to taking the money from his bank accounts, his house, and his net worth? Seems to me you're trying hard to put up a shield for the wealthy.

* Cynical to suggest permanent "banishment" from the justice system. I doubt there was much danger of him being appointed a judge again.

So. Why are you opposed to prison for white-collar crimes?
Oh, absolutely. But this case is against a judge, someone normally beyond suspicion. If a judge says 'a' and you say 'b' it's 'a'. For a person in a position like that abuse trust at this scale is absolutely incredible (well, no longer incredible I guess, it happened).

The US prison system is rotten to the core, there is no doubt about it but this is one is beyond what I ever considered possible, even in the US system as it is today.

I'm trying to imagine how the approach would have gone. Hey Judge, how about I give you some money if you send more inmates (children maybe?) my way?

The expected answer is "How about you end up in jail yourself", not a discussion of terms.
Check out the discussion in the comments here. The article you linked has effectively only one argument: that BitUSD will not maintain the peg in the event of a flash crash in BTSX value. The author and the lead developer of BTSX have a back-and-forth which clarifies the whole situation.

http://prestonbyrne.com/2014/08/24/what-goes-up/
Maybe more interesting is that Santa Cruz/Modesto people are early to bed/early to rise.
In response to antr and others talking about how this is "private" data, a few things:

1) Jawbone is a data company. You get what you want from them by giving them your data. Giving them your data is your choice, so if you are uncomfortable with it then you should not have a Jawbone.
2) What's interesting about this article is that it's in aggregate, across a statistically significant (so they say) number of people in these areas. They're not looking at individual stats, and I would bet would have a hard time tracing it back to a single person/name/etc, if they're even allowed to store it that way (not sure, but it would surprise me if they did).

If you don't like your data being stored somewhere, why are you even on HackerNews? You know your data is being stored here and being learned from.
It's apparently common for CCA (and other private prison operators) to attempt to get this clause in contracts. In some cases, they do:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/19/ar...
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I can only suggest you to watch the PrisonValley documentary (2009) about the prison industry.

http://prisonvalley.arte.tv/?lang=en
Apparently it got added to the Oxford English Dictionary[1], so now I guess it's fair use for everyone.

[1] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
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There are murderers I would release sooner than this piece of social cancer.
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I feel like you do your kid a real diservice by worrying about what they 'need' to know, and then dictating that their time is spent learning that

time is finite, time wasted on learning what all the other 4 year olds know is time that can't be spent learning what they actually want to be learning that will make them a unique member of society

any competitive advantage they'll have in the future will come from them knowing something all the other kids don't know, they'll get almost no advantage from learning the same things every other kid had drilled into them as well

(and that's not even accounting for how much more quickly they'll learn what they're naturally curious about)
28 years is a life sentence effectively, especially for a man that age. Giving him a 10,000 year sentence just so we can pretend we're sufficiently harsh is absurd.
28 years is a long time, more or less a life sentence; given his age, he's quite likely to die in jail. It's a very heavy sentence indeed.
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For one generation; from the second onwards it becomes: "The single biggest predictor of achievement is lineage"
Except in your shortened version, you've completely eliminated what you're using to measure "achievement".

Plenty of people don't define academic success as achievement. A lot of blue collar communities consider other things as being successful.
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One advantage of Catch is that you can use native C++ expressions in your assertions, so instead of

AssertThat(guitar->sound(), Equals(sounds::clean));

you can write

CHECK(guitar->sound() == sounds::clean);

And you'll still get sensible output when it fails, showing the expression and the result of guitar->sound().
What is barbaric is putting people in cages without any reason to do so. Elected officials should be held to a higher standard and when they do wrong the consequences of those actions should be much higher. IE: Death.
Isn't it also clear that the legal system is pretty broken in this case?

Edit: I could be wrong, only judging from 2 articles about this case.
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He still deservers a fair trial, due process, and a fair sentence.
These are exactly the things he denied the children he sentenced, we should be better and not do the same.
> If the person can be proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, be quick to punish, not let it drag on.

This is the part that takes a long time, and even then we often get it wrong. See the Innocence Project for examples. http://www.innocenceproject.org/
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Ah this sucks, sorry about that. I think I've found the source of this and it should be sorted now.

Thanks for taking a look!
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It isn't untrue but they are mischaracterizing it.

The current agreements state that a certain % of the prison will be occupied and the state will pay $x/prisoner/day.

Now what you have to consider is two things; first "what happens if the % isn't met?" simply put the state pays for "virtual prisoners" between the actual % and the agreed upon % (e.g. 100 non-existent prisoners will be paid for as if they existed).

So it isn't like the state is going to go roaming the streets and picking up random people for littering just to meet the % just because the contract says to. It still ultimately saves the state money to be below capacity as they can sit right at the agreed upon lower % indefinitely (plus other costs for prisoners are still met by the state: like transportation, medical, and so on).

Do I think private prisons try to promote laws which lock more people up? Yes, absolutely I do. But I don't think the % minimums within private prison contracts are a massive problem, and are only there to give both the state and the private prison more consistent financial obligations. It actually /looks/ worse than it is in this specific case.

However the private prison industry is a blight on the US and the US legal system is pretty well broken at this stage (e.g. innocent people pleading guilty because they cannot get real representation and it would bankrupt them, plea deals which are immoral, prisoners testifying against each other for reduced sentences (which incentivise lying, politics playing too large a role, money playing too large a role, mass corruption at every stage, etc).
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According to the author, they were taken using an iphone 5s and edited with vsco. It's a great app that gives this analog feel. You can check their site: http://vsco.co/vscocam.
I love this idea. Will probably start with the global breakdown first.

Thanks for taking a look for us!
At 4-5 I could read two languages fluently (at the rate of a typical 7-8 year-old), having been taught phonetics for both languages. There were a lot of words I didn't know, but I could at least look them up in the dictionary.

> Reading (prolific) to a child teaches how to read ...

So even though I wasn't read at a lot as a child, I was taught how to do it myself. Inquisitiveness goes a long way with a child. I started doing crosswords at 6-7, and that taught me other skills etc.

TL;DR, I agree that you can't be a high academic achiever if you can't read well.
Speaking of games and forth, the Jupiter Ace is a pretty interesting example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace

In a time where basic was alpha and omega in consumer micros, a british company decided to ship their cheap micro with a forth implementation. Needless to say it wasn't very successful, but I wish I had one.
How doesn't it work? As far as I know, it's never been tried.
That sentence was fine.

The relevant concepts here are preposition stranding and pied-piping. These are not "mechanical transformations" in the sense you mean -- there are certain constraints on when a preposition can be pied-piped and when it can't.
If it was selection bias like that, the same would apply to people in other cities, so it wouldn't explain the difference in the graph. My guess is people in Santa Cruz on average have a longer commute.
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Do you really need any more an argument than that?
We get the governments we elect. If we pick our candidates poorly, it's our own fault (including if we don't exercise our right to vote).
> That the single biggest predictor of high academic achievement and high ACT scores is reading to children. Not flash cards, not workbooks, not fancy preschools, not blinking toys or computers, but mom or dad taking the time every day or night (or both!) to sit and read them wonderful books.

This startup - Versame - is building a wearable device for children and parents to measure this. Check it out: http://versame.com/
I'm not sure I'd say there are "many places" to do space launches. Launch Vehicles are large, and transport can be expensive. Also, eastward launches let you drop stages in the water, whereas west-coast launches have a harder time (if I recall right).
@MadManE: Somalia has tried it for the last few years. No pesky government interference there.
No, it's a horrible article.
And no, they cannot. I implemented such a type inferencer for perl (B::CC), which has the exact same problem.

With a highly dynamic run-time which changes the types at will, the compiler will never be able to do proper optimizations without explicitly forbidding certain coercions. The inferencer has to give up in 90% of all cases.

Only with optional explicit types, esp. for loop counters and array members, those operations can be efficiently optimized. Up to 2000% for the typical array or loop benchmarks.

And no, a v8-style tracing jit also does not help in all cases. This kind of run-time type caching has a huge overhead, and will always need an explicit run-time check, and does not catch the typical type errors writing programs. It helps with simple scripts, but not with programs.

You don't have to worry. If you don't like to use types, don't use it. Nothing will change. It will only compile-time optimize and check the cases where someone added the types.

Of course the standard library is free to add type-optimized versions later, as e.g some Common Lisp's did with their arrays and vectors. But this was done mostly in the compiler, not in the library itself.
Author here. Thank you! The iPhone 5s is quite superior when it comes to photography and the rest of it I do through VSCO CAM ( http://vsco.co/vscocam ).
Pretty sure you can't with ITAR.
If such an audit happened and it turned up widespread abuses, do you think it would ever be released? Which is why such an audit hasn't been ordered and probably never will be; at least not publicly. Even if this is going on, it unfortunately probably needs to be cleaned up quietly (i.e. some judges resign, some executives of prison companies sent to jail over accounting irregularities, etc.)

I'm willing to bet this is more widespread than we imagine. It's pretty well documented that the justice system targets young black males who receive longer sentences and are more likely to be sent to prison for minor offenses than white offenders of a similar background. And why not? They're less likely to complain, and less likely to be taken seriously when they do because of the stereotype that black men go to prison. As a result, many in poor black communities trust the gang members selling drugs on the corner more than the police (see the whole anti-snitching movement).

I know this thread wasn't originally about race, but it's impossible to talk about prisons without talking about race because the justice system is so inherently racist. Just ask yourself if this judge would have gotten caught if he had only sent young black kids to jail. Then ask yourself how many white, well-educated judges are smart enough to realize that. I'm sure the vast majority of judges take their job seriously and would be appalled at this kind of behavior, but it doesn't take many to seriously undermine confidence in the system.
So from an engineer's viewpoint, going quickly has no downside (same error rate) and lots of upside (most cases get resolved quickly and cheaply)?
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