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There must be monentary incentives somewhere else too, otherwise the US wouldn't lead the world on the list of imprisoned population: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat... (juveniles not in the list)
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The lack of unconditional love is such a weird concept to me.

At least in my case, it's not revocable; I couldn't stop loving them even if I wanted to. And yes, that includes your hypothetical extreme example. My children will still be my beloved children regardless of their actions.
Can't wait to read physics papers about AbstractGravityFactoryFactory.
Right now a terrorist is a man between ages 18 and I think 45. If you have brown skin and are at that age and are killed in a drone strike in Pakistan, the US gov't announces you as a terrorist killed. :)
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Similar to jonathanwallace's point, I would argue that such self reflection, as a component of "executive function," isn't fully achievable or fully developed for most individuals until they're in their 20s [0].

Nevertheless, it's crucial that we support the development of cognitive skills related to self-reflection, inhibitory control, and so on even in children whose prefrontal cortexes may not be physically developed enough to consistently make appropriate judgements.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_function#Adulthood
The 10 second confirmation time seems to solve a major problem with Bitcoins for casual transactions - the need to wait 30 minutes before you are certain that you've actually been paid.

Another win is the emphasis on Transaction fees as the mechanism to incentivize people to ensure the integrity of the block chain, and note transactions.
If they're talking about a specific child, sure, but if they are talking about a single, unspecified child, they is becoming more popular[1].

"Bill is over there. He is playing with his toys."

"If your child is in the kitchen, make sure they don't touch the hot stove." vs "If your child is in the kitchen, make sure he/she doesn't touch the hot stove."

For many readers the he/she breaks all flow the sentence had.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

EDIT: s~he/she don't~he/she doesn't~
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His sentence should have been longer, but why are we giving this guy any more time of our day? This happened last year.
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The 1 million was what was proven in court. We do not know how much money him and his family got that could not be proven. E.g. his daughter could work as consultant in company X that is controlled by someone who owns the prisons. etc.
Git isn't a magical beast that can solve hardware failures, and it really isn't suited to storing anything but text content.

Just as git has "cloud hosting options as well as options to host locally." so do proper backup solutions - if you can store a git repo somewhere you can store a backup there, whether locally, on an external disk or on a remote sever somewhere
Another person had a similar notion. I think it is interesting. I do believe there could be some UI built to keep the quality at the top but longer "discussions" accessible. The fact that I posted this and completely forgot and now I come back a couple days later and there are tons of comments which I missed is my counter argument. :p
What do you think would be an appropriate sentence for a crime like this? Society's most vulnerable betrayed by society's most trusted.
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Yep, though not as illegally done.

The for-profit prison industrial complex spends millions of dollars lobbying for lengthier prison sentences.

Every bed they fill is money the state pays them.

Prisons pay politicians to get beds filled for lengthier times, so they can make more money from the states that convict and send them prisoners. It's a disgusting immoral racket.
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That's why some features have been postponed from ES6 to ES7
Take a look at how Discourse has done it. They thought long and hard about threaded v. non-threaded, etc.

http://try.discourse.org/
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Honest question: I often find I refer back to the rules of grammar when they prevent ambiguity or enhance clearly (often two sides of the same coin). With this phrase, what ambiguity is prevented or clarity enhanced?
True. That's a big part towards the move to proof of stake systems. Some people argue that the 'delegates' can collude to destroy the system, but this is more of a problem in Bitcoin, where just two major mining pools can collude to double-spend. In addition, since delegates are 'voted' by the people holding the currency, if anything funny is noticed people will immediately withdraw their votes (they have an economic incentive to do so), and thus the delegate ceases to be a delegate anymore and cannot extend the blockchain.
> - display the heatmap first - have a prominent link saying something like: add your vote to the map. When someone clicks that link, ask them to enter their location (city or town and country), then ask them the same question the Scots will vote for in the referendum: Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes/No.

One nitpick - don't show the heatmap first if you want correct poll results. This heavily biases the undecided people into "oh, everyone in Aberdeen says No...I guess I say No then too!"
It's not a traffic [bandwidth] problem, really. You have two basic kinds of wireless mesh networks: infrastructure mesh, and ad-hoc mesh. With the former, you can design the network so that each directly-connected node has a dedicated channel and you preserve full bandwidth across the spectrum. You also have only a few gateway nodes so your network updates are very few. With the latter you might be using one channel in half duplex to communicate with whatever nodes are closest to you and propagate joins/parts throughout the network. That will have less bandwidth and be slower to communicate as you add nodes, partly due to number of additional hops.

If the number of nodes who deal with routing increases, that's more nodes that need to be informed of each join/part, so technically it takes longer to update the network. But if the joins/parts are few and the signal is strong, this is a rare event. More nodes can make the whole system faster, or it can make the whole system slower. It depends on the implementation. But there's not a constant flow of mesh routing data that multiplies with nodes; that bandwidth used is tiny.
Thank you. I missed this. I'm surprised it wasn't flagged as a duplicate.
He's 61. It pretty much is.
I believe that this stems from Forth being imperative (which is hard to handle itself) and that main control is done using two global structures (data and return stack).

You have two very very global variables to arrange your control flow.

Nothing is pure and everything can affect anything. It is very hard to reason and to draw borders.
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I often wonder if kids need to go to school 5 or 6 days a week, and spend 8 -9 hours there. I like the idea of kids being with other kids, but do they really need to spend most of that time sitting on a bench, listening to classes?
A pretty common argument around the pro-gun community is that removing guns from a specific area (schools, movie theaters, airlines) makes those places a prime target for mass shootings/terrorism -- the attacker knows that the area is gun-free and that, if he can get his own weapons into the area, he can't be (easily) challenged.

I'm not entirely sure if this is true or not, but it seems accurate -- have there been mass shootings in areas before they declared "gun-free zones?" Anyways, my point wasn't to argue for or against this, just that it seemed relevant to your comment -- you say that there were no issues when we used to let people just walk on planes with their guns, but once we started banning them, we started having things like 9/11.
Proud moment: catching the kid up at midnight reading. I can verify it's actually impossible to tell a child off for something you both did and totally approve of.
That article is hardly informative. What did he do wrong? Sentence juveniles solely to a single contracted prison? So were his decisions actually compromised? Or was it just the kickbacks that are at issue.

There's a sad state of affairs on the internet, where a couple of paragraphs of slanted commentary are called an 'article'.
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In this radio piece about the Harlem Children's Zone, they reference a study that connects the sheer volume of words a child is exposed to with success later in life [0].

It may just be that reading is one way to increase the number of words in early childhood and that it correlates generally with more (nonviolent) language usage.

[0] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/364/g...
It's not that a human life was worth < $1000 to him but more that those who bribed him could spend at least that value per person as "acquisition" costs.
Nope, I understand your point, you're just still wrong for a pile of reasons that either I've been unable to express sufficiently clearly, you've been ignoring, or some combination thereof.

No one is suggesting that there's no thermodynamics involved. The objection is to using "thermodynamics, duh" as an argument. I generally encounter this in the stronger form of "the only thing that matters for weight loss is consuming fewer calories than you burn, because thermodynamics." That's obviously puerile. However, I think even in your more constrained (and better supported) usage here ("if you burn more energy than you eat, you will lose weight") it is still the case that you need to know other things about human biology; further, you need to know many more things to determine whether losing weight that way is advisable (even before incorporating the many physiological or psychological things that might mediate difficulty), which is the bit that actually matters.

These "many more things", we do have quite a bit of evidence regarding. But that evidence needs to be incorporated into the arguments to make the arguments meaningful.
I certainly don't have many conversations going at once but I posted this question, got busy at work, then got on a flight and totally forgot until today. I missed tons of interesting comments, I would have loved to reply to. If I had gotten some sort of notification, it would have been cool for me.

I think it can be done very minimally, like someone suggested, just adding a number next to the threads link "threads (12)". I feel like the website isn't bothering you too much in that case.
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Kids spending more time in a chair is a terrible, awful, no good very bad idea.
Plus telemetry, computers, interpretation people, maintenance people, etc.
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I wouldn't be surprised, if this judge is just the tip of a very large big and still floating iceberg.
For every Woods or Perlman, how many kids grew to absolutely hate an activity because instead of it being fun or developing, it became the hangup of a parent expecting their child to be an extreme exception? How many simply weren't standouts, so they spent much of their youth forced to do an activity that they ended up being merely average at?

Except that is exactly not what I am proposing and is the kneejerk reaction to the idea of cultivating talent. I find it extremely frustrating that people immediately turn the discussion into retroactive mirroring based on what bad parents have done to their kids, as though it is the natural outcome of this kind of cultivation.

Are we so mentally handicapped that it is impossible to see that while the tactic of forcing a child to do something will inevitably lead to failure, early specialization is a real indicator of future success in a field?

Here it is laid out all simple like:

1: Provide a variety of options and environments for children to demonstrate their abilities (physical, mathematical, grammatical etc...)

2: Identify what domains the child is gravitating for work/play

3: Identify where within those domains the child is showing a naturally proclivity

4: Narrowly tailor instruction and opportunity to cultivate proclivity within that domain

Very simple. No coercion (outside of the standard required for preschoolers) needed.
About fairness: I think the discussion is way out of scope of HN, and I think it's about what you expect from a law system in a country.

I don't understand your second question. You mean, what kind of sentences are life long sentences? Murder, high treason (?) (Hochverrat gegenüber dem Bund) can be given life long sentence, Sexual abuses against a child in which the child dies (and several other crimes where a person dies can be punished with life long sentence)
Ah yes, an obviously left leaning author accuses several of is local representatives of wrong-doing. Lets take it as cannon and use the opportunity to pile on an bash them Republicans. After all, it is the severity of the accusation that matters, right?
Great question. I was thinking about this myself and found it very difficult to answer so I thought about what they absolutely cannot do without learning instead.

My answer is to teach them english (reading, writing and speaking) and computers. If I can teach them these basic skills they can learn anything by themselves.

We live in Thailand where its very expensive to get a good education in english. So I took my kids out of school and hired a teacher to give a very strong foundation in english. I'm teaching them computers. After a while I'll teach them basic maths and then I'll let them choose what they want to learn themselves.

My goal is to give them a love of learning, to help them find out what they love to do and give them the time and tools to become an expert in that.
I was in an earthquake in Hiroshima a few months ago. When the shaking started I was really confused. If my phone was blaring "earthquake" it would have been helpful.

Also, the warning on my iPhone was in Japanese and it was impossible to copy and paste it into a translator it so it was useless.
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It's a rendering backend for blender's frontend (The user interface is the same across Windows, Linux and OS X despite each of those using their own ways to draw things to the screen, after all).
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I never took Bitshares seriously. I thought their licensing strategy was insane so I dismissed them. Then I read their delegated proof of stake paper. It's one or the more rational, practicable alternatives to POW I've seen proposed.
See my other comment - you are putting onto my words your own coercive bias.
My goal as a parent is to help my children discover who they are, follow their interests and talents, and grow up to be independent adults, with the emotional maturity to handle the ups and down of this society, the adaptability to deal with whatever may come their way, and the self-direction to make the changes needed in their own lives to build happiness for them and for their families.

If they are great at something, and develop talents that make them world famous, that would be cool. But so few people do that, I cannot realistically even consider that result in my parenting choices.
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It is interesting, I wonder if there could be some included UI updates to keep the current "quality" of comments at the same level but also allow for deeper back-and-forth discussions that don't dominate the page. It would seem only surfacing the top level or two of comments and having the rest expandable/collapsible might supply the best of both worlds.

My biggest counter argument to no-notifications is this post. I made it, and completely forgot about it until today. I would have loved to see all these comments and reply back closer to real time.
I really don't see the difference. He set the price they paid it, or they offered, he accepted. Same thing.
Fiction is not reality, this judge was almost certainly motivated primarily by money.
I don't know much about this device but I guess it doesn't do continuous synchronization. I believe the user need to initiate it which won't happen if he die.
I find it interesting that this is exactly what Perl6 tried to handle gracefully, both on the technical side (a type system that supports both static and dynamic typing) as well as on the practical side (a re-implementation from scratch with some measure of interoperability).

However, they did not set out to just design the next version of Perl, but the last version, reasoning that if you have proper extension mechanism in place, you won't have to do a reboot ever again.

This resulted in gradual typing (which sometimes needs to fall-back to runtime checks), a pluggable syntax with extensible grammar, a flexible meta-object protocol, default numeric types that are objects (rationals or bigints), lazy list, reified language construct (variables as container objects) and other stuff that makes a straight-forward implementation horribly slow.
The New York Times has more detailed coverage of this case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/28judges.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/books/review/kids-for-cash...
Ah, it is not possible https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543853
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Sounds like I've been beaten to it several times over from this discussion. :)
There's certainly more monetary incentives. Some private prisons have an agreement with a state where the state guarantees a certain numberof inmates. So even if crime were to stop, the state would be legally requires to fill up those prisons. So there's very little incentive to prevent crime, and a lot to lock people up for fairly minor offenses (like owning a small amount of pot).

Police departments are also often rewarded based on how many people they get locked up, rather than how much they reduce crime. So there's little incentive to pursue hard-to-prove crimes (like rape) and lots of incentive to lock people up for minor but easy to prove charges, or even charges for which it's easy to fake evidence.
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Is it just me or is that memo cut off after 1 page? Kinda hard to see what they're asking for.
It's not really what I think would be appropriate, it's just a comparison of the length of sentences, which is totally different across legislatures. I've seen a TV report about Indonesia, where possessing drugs (if I understand it correctly) has extremley high sentences, comparable to murder here in Germany.
You should post it on /r/Scotland on Reddit!
Sell 4000 pounds of weed, get life without parole. Sell 4000 lives, get 28 years, but really you will be out in 5 or 7.
That article seems to be sparse on details although it bring it to wider attention. Their Facebook page is similarly a bit light[1] and their own site is practically bare[2]

[1] https://www.facebook.com/undercovercolors/info?ref=page_inte...

[2] http://www.undercovercolors.com/
The location services on my phone are often off, or I may deny location permission until I see more what the site is. Bad assumption.

(Good luck with project tho!)
here's a reddit comment about possible patent violations. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2ei6qx/four_stud...
There is a fascinating TED talk about a surgeon who demos a 3D printer that uses living cells to "print" a kidney:

http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidn...
"a state where the state guarantees a certain numberof inmates."

Wow, I'm shocked. Any examples for this?
How are they not aware the data is sent to 3rd parties? Isn't that a key feature of the device?
I don't even see a down vote button, I guess that is something that surfaces at a higher reputation? I agree, it would be nice to know if people are down voting your comments. I see comments becoming lighter gray, I'm guessing they are down voted? Often, I think they are fine comments in my eyes. hah.
Here's a good analysis of the (highly-questionable) economics of BitShares: http://prestonbyrne.com/2014/08/17/dont-walk-away-run/
In case anyone else is as un-down-with-the-kidz as I am, as far as I can gather, 'to dox' is a verb meaning to reveal personal information.
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I remember seeing, maybe a couple of years ago, a web-based server activity monitoring tool that played a stream of sounds based on what was happening to servers or code. Commits, successful builds, I think server load as well...

The idea, IIRC, was to have this constant audio stream on the background, so one could easily detect anomalies without having to look at a dashboard all the time.

I can't seem to find this tool anywhere now, no matter how much googling I try. Maybe I'm trying the wrong terms, or something.

But, since it's been quite a while, I am also wondering if there are any other tools lately that target this space. All I could find was peep (http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html), but this seems to be legacy, and even then only for network monitoring.

Does anyone remember about the tool I described, or know about some related software?
This is interesting. Never understood why this was a dedicated hardware-dongle, rather than an app for any number of HDMI-out capable android devices.
Said simply: It is much easier to gain generalist capabilities than it is narrow domain capabilities as you age.

The idea here is to harness the extreme plasticity of the growing brain toward a narrow domain while still introducing some broad concepts around the edges.
What's your goal (knowledge, broader perspective, informed opinion)? I ask, because as someone who works in media, I tend to avoid reading about world affairs... It's just too general for my taste, and my brain ultimately ends up feeling mushy from the overdose of infotainment.

Don't get me wrong, I read constantly, but I imposed a strategy and hard limits, because I realized I wasn't retaining information in a meaningful way (a lot of the information I was absorbing was fluff). With a blog roll, the NYTimes, or even the Economist as your guide, you can spend hours skimming from a financial disaster in Argentina, an airline crash in Malaysia, military exercises near the Ukrainian border, and a populist Islamist uprising in Syria, and never come away with anything meaningful except the vaguest notion that those things are happening... somewhere. In point of fact, many of the people paid to write on those topics don't know what they're talking about, so you'd probably just be wasting your time.

I changed up my strategy and you might find it useful. Pick a region and do a combination of things to learn about it: read local online publications in the major cities, read some of the local literary figures, dabble with the language(s), pick up a broad history and follow that with exploration of specific topics (a coup, a revolution, a period of cultural revival), learn about the geography (and how that affects the history), then go there. Finding a local's blog is also a good way to get insights.
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I was thinking more just a number in the navbar. I definitely don't need any more email notifications.
I think this level of corruption, the combination of power abuse for profit and ruining lots of young people's lives, is worse than some kinds of murder.

Yeah, I'm also amazed at the length of some sentences in the US, but this is one of the few times that I totally agree.