skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "because I want the person to suffer" is not a valid reason to lock someone up.

It's one of the established reasons: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution. The following are all from Wikipedia:

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Deterrence is the use of punishment as a threat to deter people from offending.

Incapacitation in the context of sentencing philosophy refers to the effect of a sentence in terms of positively preventing (rather than merely deterring) future offending.

Rehabilitation is the re-integration into society of a convicted person and the main objective of modern penal policy.

Retributive justice is a theory of justice that considers punishment, if proportionate, to be the best response to crime. When an offender breaks the law, justice requires that they forfeit something in return.

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The U.S. certainly puts more weight to retribution - in my opinion, too much weight - while European justice systems are more interested in rehabilitation, sometimes being ridiculously naive.
where did you see that ?
People seem think that the government/police will track their movements. Yes, that will happen but there are upsides to license plate readers as well.
A few years back my car was stolen from in front of my residence. The local police were able to find the car in a nearby city through license plate scanning and I got the car back. Allowing license plate data to be kept for a reasonable amount of time is absolutely okay. You're driving on US soil in public so it's not outrageous for the government to monitor their territory.
How do you detect what color hat someone is wearing?
"MPI, the Message Passing Interface, began as a needed standardization above a dizzying array of..."

The capitalization and apposition makes it pretty explicit.
That's a great question. I'll ask my lawyer and report back.
It's also hugely successful economically compared to most other US industries. Maybe correlated?
Slashdot went down the drain, in part because of "humor". All posts would be commented with stupid permutations on the "In Soviet Russia" joke. 99.9% of all those comments where dead boring. Just go to /. today and look at the "funny" comments, it's just spam.

I'm a big believer in that you should do what you do best. Hackers are often smart, informative, insightful and knowledgable about lots of stuff, but rarely are they funny. There are way better sites to visit if you want funny.
The legal system is supposed to make punishments fit the crime, not heap arbitrarily much punishment on anyone who ever breaks any law ever.

If you only never made any mistakes filling out your taxes, your moonshine business may still be thriving. If you only weren't selling loose cigarettes, you may still be alive...

As someone who was once an illegal immigrant (though not in the U.S.), I say this completely unironically: I'm grateful to be alive.
If it makes you feel better, I started with PVM 2.
I definitely agree with your observation that empathy is important, and an interviewer has responsibility for creating an environment in which the interviewee is comfortable.

I also agree with the commentor that interviewers can be very arbitrary, and that is not good.

I only took issue with "That means you didn't get along because the interviewer brought their own baggage or narrow mindedness into the interview. This is very common and shows the interview process was incompetent."

Commentor doesn't know what went on in that room, and doesn't know that this is what happened in this case.
"... Two clerks were in the store, not just one. Lima-Marin and Clifton brought them both into a back room, forcing one onto the floor and the other to open the safe. “They put a gun to the back of my head and said, ‘This is where you’re going to die,’” one of the employees, Shane Ashurst, later recalled."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/07/unfreed

A bit more than simply asking them to move to another room.
I don't mean they should present the message to all users. Currently, even if you go into the certificate details without being prompted, there is nothing there saying anything to the effect of "SHA-1 is insecure; if you are the webmaster, get this certificate issued with SHA-2"
Using drones to herd sheep
This is closely related to the "Raw Technology Persona"[1]

A developer who can talk you through an entire stack and why specific tradeoffs were made on specific pieces of the architecture... yet hoards code on their box without committing, works on stuff without telling other people, and claims that things are progressed much further than they actually are. It's an ego and accountability problem.

Someone like this might prefer to refactor your entire stack multiple times, partly due to shiny-new-framework, and partly due to the lack of understanding that from a business perspective you often have to work with what you've got. I think it's less about perfectionism and more about inexperience with balancing business tradeoffs with technology.

There's a great series in Forbes specific to CTOs undergoing this "meltdown" [2]. In it, they mention a few warning signs including: never saying no, missing deadlines, low morale, and poor estimation of timelines.

[1] http://www.citoresearch.com/it-management/why-cios-and-ctos-...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2013/08/26/avoiding-a-c...
How is including arbitrary html not as dangerous, when arbitrary html also means <script> tags?
Then your Haskell expert leaves and then you learn why I hate Haskell(or insert any fringe programming language here).
You're comparing violent crime (robbing a bank) with non-violent crime (illegal immigration).
The benefit to founders of progressive equity is that at a smaller exit they still get a big return. It's only when the numbers get huge, as they often seem to be doing these days, that progressive equity kick in. Like a progressive tax system.
It's funny. I'm the CEO of a professional services company and I'm much more interested in coding nowadays than I'm nearing 50 than I was in my youth.
and the prison-industrial complex who stand to profit off of taxpayer dollars by locking as many people up for as minor infractions as they can get away with as possible...
+1 to Megadonk as the currency of choice for my next job.
Can you help me understand the issue you see here?
NORAD Chief:N. Korea Has Ability to Reach US with Nuclear Warhead on Mobile ICBM
https://windawesome.codeplex.com

Written in C# and can be configured via Ruby or Python. Have been using it for more than a year after previously using bug.n.
Google advice for keeping employees happy
Thanks for the feedback, evolve. I think you're right about the current banner which is also what James mentioned. I will definitely keep that in mind for my next ad!

As for the conversion funnel, that is a good point and something I probably should have put in the article. Based on what I was seeing in GA, the drop off from my landing page to Eventbrite's registration page was 62%. Yet once they left my site I could not track them any more or see why they weren't signing up. GA just told me the number of times the registration page was shown.

And incidentally, that page had the exact same copy as my landing page (since people could also view the event in Eventbrite's network, I wanted to communicate the same message).

Drives me crazy that I cannot figure out what the issue was! Any recommendations on other ticketing/purchasing services for events like this are welcome :)
Absolutely agreed - comments are so important! Seemingly when I was working on jQuery alone and without much feedback I was totally fine just having no comments. I noticed that in the subsequent releases of the code that the number of comments quickly rose - likely as people started to use the library I felt bad that the code was so poorly explained!
"“[All] that said — should one get airborne and come at us — I’m confident we’ll be able to knock it down,” he said."

I'm really curious about that quote. What part of SDI got deployed?
Its unlikely the speakers can be used as microphones, as they will be wired up to D/A converters and not D/A converters.
Now when a cop shoots you while you are trying to rob a bank, it's suicide? This seems like a perfect example of felony murder.
""You would be surprised how many employers are afraid to boost female/minority hiring because they are afraid of opening themselves up to lawsuits if the need to let that person go in the future.
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This is made up hogwash. LMAO. I'd bet every dime to my name on it.
Sure, it might be a selection bias, I was a student in all three cases and, by definition, students tend to be more educated.

What I mean by external factor is the laws, the way the criminal system is setup, the lack or not of reinsertion opportunities for ex-cons and so on. You might say that in a democracy all of this is decided by the people, but there's a certain inertia that sets in that mean that people have very little influence in changing things and there are powerful forces that try to keep things as they are (for profit or different reasons).
Off the top of my head, I could imagine it being useful to prevent accidental selection of text in, say, a paint app or something. *I may be misinterpreting the purpose, however.
Counterfeiting, IMO and apparently the opinion of the Government (we rarely agree, for the record), is basically on par with treason.
I had heard horror stories of Google hiring practice: long timelines, brainteasers, GPA, top schools etc. Hence I had never really considered Google as an option. Then a recruiter got in touch and scheduled the interviews. I wasn't sure if I even wanted to go in. But I did. And it turned out to be the best interview experience I ever had. By far. I didn't make the offer and despite that I felt great about the process and myself. I called up all my talented friends and encouraged them to apply at Google. They have definitely gotten this right.
> Does the law allow you to act as a Good Samaritan in the course of committing a felony?

As long as the decision is up to prosecutors, no.
Don't hate yourself, interviewing is a skill that can be improved with practice. I'm not hiring right now but if you're in SF, I'd be more than willing to give you a mock interview and all the honest feedback you want. Email is in my profile.
Is that true? So you can use the JIT compiler in a non GPL project?
Thanks! Renames make archeology difficult in git. I've become reluctant to change {file,directory} names, even when it's clearer...

BTW: What are the benefits of versioning changesets themselves? Isn't it rare to only change the changeset?

Chained conversions are elegant, but slower code is unsatisfying... I guess such hobbling is the essence of open-source-as-freemium. :(

I meant they "happily pay" for full over free versions. (For them, it's also paying for "new" features!)
You're an extremely patient person tptacek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_Puzzle

Sadly not AI detecting hats and then finding colours based on lighting of faces and rest of scene.
I would also like to know about actual Aurora experiences as well. But I haven't heard of anybody using it.

However, I'm also interested in your negative experiences with AWS RDS. What kind of engine are you running on? Did you investigate the outages or contact AWS support regarding these issues?
I thought that too until the article implied later that they were looking for other clerical errors as a result of a really bad mixup.
Philosophical masturbation.
What's the standard the Genius uses to perform annotations? Anybody know?
As far as I know, those are configurable features; I'd expect any FOSS project mailing list to turn them off.

One of the goals of mailman is that the same software should be able to handle either a mailing list or a forum, so that people who want the UI of a forum can collaborate with people who want to live in mutt.
This is encouraging. I switched from Awesome to Qtile just because I liked python more than lua, although Qtile lacks much in features (specifically, Awesome's better layouts, in my opinion). However, I've been wanting to learn Haskell and I was hoping using Xmonad would be a good excuse to learn it. It sounds like I'd get what I want.
Perhaps "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger" applies here. The mechanisms that kill some small percentage of people might increase the survivability of the vast majority of people.
I will invite people to lobste.rs. Because of their rules (you misbehave, I have to bear the consequences) I will not just invite anyone, but only people I can find on the net and can be reasonable sure are not assholes.

So write me a mail with some information about yourself (have a look at my profile for the address) and if you don't look like a total dick I'll send you an invite.

I do have three keybase.io invites as well.
Appreciate an invite if you still have one available. Thanks!
You might want to check this out: https://srclib.org/plugins/sublimetext/

srclib is the open-source library that powers Sourcegraph, a code search engine.
Von Bertalanffy talks about difference in time perceptions in species (insects, small mammals, primates). It was really interesting.

http://panarchy.org/vonbertalanffy/systems.1968.html
Figure 1 – Instagram for doctors
To me the huge step here is the RESTful API, assuming it is indeed RESTful. Having access to data that's structured naturally and less like a full-on layout document (HTML) means that any developer can trivially grab the underlying data and do whatever they want with it.
> This sort of makes sense but now we're supposing that the individual, subconsciously, puts it's species ahead of itself.

Not at all. The individuals (and the genes) don't need to have any goals or any notion of autonomy. It could just be that genes come about randomly, and the ones that are most successful at existing in the future will be the ones that cause a small portion of individuals to die when doing so increases the odds of survival of the rest of the individuals.
If you want to reduce the "golden handcuff" effect, then you can keep an account of each employees 'kicker shares', but continue to issue shares on an x every time period basis. This causes inflation in the currency of 'kicker shares'. If you stay on continuously, then you keep your percentage of the kicker. If you leave, then those shares you earned slowly deflate in value.

You could even recognize higher risk of earlier employees by issuing special shares which have some mechanism by which if they leave, those shares may still deflate, but at a slower rate than later ones. e.g. for every time-period distribution of shares, these shares receive some fraction of the new distribution.
>It's also hugely successful economically compared to most other US industries.

Just keep telling yourself that and everything will be okay.

For what it's worth, everybody working in the US health care, defense, energy, finance, and aerospace industries are doing just fine, thank you.
Oh, gotcha. Well, barter exists in nature, and gold as well, so from what you're saying I gather that you would not be opposed to:

- instead of a Corporation or an LLC, I just be myself

- instead of an employee, I choose to barter some natural gold for some natural manual or intellectual labor from someone else

if I don't care to oblige to the labor laws du jour?

Because right now that's illegal. I agree with you, if you benefit from creation of government then you should pay in, awesome. We agree 100% (I'd still prefer to see an itemized bill, though). But why should I go to jail if I have an ongoing promise to give someone a shiny "worthless" rock (not created by government) so long as they keep laying bricks at my backyard the way I tell them to?
> He shoots my buddy, but I don't know he's dead so I pull him into the car and drive away.

What if his friend wasn't dead, but in fact died in the car as he was driving away from the scene? What if his friend's life could've been saved by treatment at the scene? Moreover, did he have a plan for saving his friends life or was he simply trying to get them both away from the police? Furthermore, being charged with something is not the same as being found guilty of it. The quote begins, "They originally charged me," so I'm guessing some of the charges were dropped? Even then, it comes down to a jury to decide guilt.

I binge-watched a bunch of prison documentaries recently (in particular, Into the Abyss and the series by Louis Theroux are very good). They shed a lot of light on the terrible aspects of the U.S. prison system. Interviews with inmates, though, also make it clear that a lot of these people:

a) Know next to nothing about the legal system outside of their own interpretation of whatever their lawyer/judge has told them. Think of explaining programming to someone who doesn't regularly use technology, and then they go and explain it to someone else.

b) Maintain their innocence even in the face of extremely damning physical and forensic evidence to the contrary. Into the Abyss has a great example of this.

I have fundamental problems with the adversarial justice system, but it's nonetheless important to be critical of what convicts say about their own situations. They're obviously going to be biased - even if they are innocent.
This is nothing more or less than cruel and unusual punishment.
Imagine you had a large application, and wanted to add this library to it. To comply with the GPL, your application would have to be under a GPL compatible license. Such applications are a smaller subset of all applications hence the question.

The LGPL does allow for the library portion to be GPL while the rest of the app doesn't have to be, but that isn't the license used in this case. Typically the LGPL favours more widespread adoption, while the GPL favours freedom at the cost of some adoption.

LLVM also has a JIT and a far more permissive license, making it more attractive to those not using a GPL compatible license.
Super cool wrapper. I noticed node-edit-google offers auth with tokens as well. https://github.com/jpillora/node-edit-google-spreadsheet#bas... - you would probably get more use and feedback if you include those options.
Ageism isn't even on the radar, my friend. And it's ironic too, because as you mention, it affects every one of us.

But the current hot topics are diversity and gender discrimination. No problem there, but I have noticed that even people who take those two issues very seriously implicitly blow off the ageism thing. I think people just do not want to acknowledge that they're going to get older too, I think they put it out of their minds.

I've literally had a conversation with someone who said he wanted to make sure we don't just hire a bunch of people like him (i.e., white males who went to the same college he did). Then a few minutes later he made a snide remark about "some old guy" (the old guy was an engineer he was unfamiliar with).

So, I am very pessimistic about the prospect of this issue getting any real attention.
Because people won't generally buy high risk low return investments.
Can someone write a short overview or post a few links about the best methods for non-invasive brain stimulation?
Uh… Is it really idiomatic approach for Haskell?

Edit: oh, I've read and referred to the latest blog-entry on site, not to the editor itself. Nevermind.
Thanks.

I was mostly interested for pedagogical reasons, not actual reuse. I'll probably just try to simulate a session with it myself if I can still signup, and record a screencast. Be my own test user for a UX experiment.
Yeah, it is still a big deal in a lot of environments (including home, making your signification other want to kill you is never good).

Years ago I switched from Cherry to Topre when that was a fancy import-only thing. Now, you can get Topre all over the place. I use the Novatouch TKL currently with dampeners (which come right in the box) -- which is office friendly, has MX compatible stems and is just an all around awesome keyboard.
> I'm guessing you've already made up your mind that you don't agree with me. But I've learned that it's important to defer belief and judgement until after having made a confirmation. So I'll answer as if you might be interested in a sincere discussion.

I don't agree with the specific claims you've articulated as they are articulated, but that's not an immutable fact, merely a contingent one. But I think the discussion has value, even if we disagree. And I think we might agree on the substance more than is apparent through the disagreement on the particular expression.

> What you're missing is the fact that only an enlightened being knows how to make others be enlightened

Taking, for the sake of argument, this is true (I don't think that it has been justified, however), it doesn't follow that a teaching from another source might not be useful in the course of enlightenment, only that the source couldn't know that the teaching was useful.

> and only an enlightened being can give a teaching which can be practiced in order to obtain enlightenment.

Assuming that enlightenment comes from practicing something that can be reduced to a teaching, if any being achieves enlightenment, they must do so on the basis of a practice they engaged in prior to achieving enlightenment, which they could also have provided to others as a teaching at that time. Even if they could not have known, for whatever definition of knowledge you are using, that it was a practice that would lead to enlightenment.

So, the specific argument you make here is unconvincing.

In general, and in wider scope, your broader argument seems to conflate the essential truth of enlightenment with practices which are useful along the path from where people are to enlightenment, and to conflate the inability to fully and accurately relate the former with an inability to relate anything about the latter. I do not disagree with the claim that no religion can communicate what enlightenment essentially is. I do disagree with the claim that no religion can communicate practices which are useful to those seeking enlightenment on that path. (I would also disagree with the claim that such useful information is the exclusive domain of any one religion.)

And I'd also say that many of the observations you make are things that many religions already teach, and which are among the teachings that they teach which are useful to enlightenment. (Its also true that while they are in the body of teachings of many religions, they are also teachings that are also often de-emphasized by religious authorities, and that that is a real problem. But that fact, too, is often among the teachings of the same religions.)
This study supports what you are mentioning: http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/children-eat-peanuts-earl...

However, I'm not sure it would be called a cleanliness theory..
Similar experience but with wmii. I wanted a tiling WM for a tiny hdd, tried wmii, MOD-Enter for term, MOD-<n> for workspace, a few ones to cycle through. Deal. It has some glitches, like MOD being swallowed somehow, maybe i3 doesn't have that. But so far I don't really miss XMonad. I do miss it because it's rock solid, it's Haskell, but wmii/i3 get you going in less than 1MB.
As the person who posted the Gradberry thread, I don't think it was buried or otherwise penalized by HN moderators. I wouldn't be surprised if a few people flagged it, but shrug, stuff happens.

See http://hnrankings.info/9332418/ ; there's only one big drop there, and it occurred in the morning when people would start posting a lot of other stories that would push it down. And even then, it stayed on the front page for many hours; a flagged or moderated story would drop off much faster.

Not everything is a conspiracy; assume good faith.

On the other hand, I'm curious why someone edited the title of the thread. When I originally posted it, I wrote "Gradberry (YC W15)" in the title, but someone edited that out. Since this wasn't a link to an article, there was no original title to match there. What gives?
Because it's the only way to incentivize people to take that risk?
This is how rich people watched Furious 7 last weekend