skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine his parents $100, expel him from regular class for a week and have him do homework in a separate room by himself. Parents will scold him, he has to pay a price that actually registers. (at 14 I'm more concerned with losing 2 weeks of Xbox than a felony legal status I don't fully appreciate). He'll probably not do it again, or maybe he will, who cares, unless he escalates it's fine. That's just kids being dumb, and at age 17 it's not even interesting anymore.

I mean jeez, a felony? Give me a break. Kid changed a freaking wall paper. If he had done that 50 times in a row, you still don't give a felony, that's ridiculous and carries extremely heavy consequences.

I mean, for god's sake, there is a professional apartheid system. You have a felony? You get discriminated, for a job, for access to uni, for access to housing etc etc. It's discrimination, period. Why do we relegate 14 year old's to that position for changing a wallpaper in a prank, even if he did it 10 times?

The only reason this discrimination of people with a felony makes sense, is if we put the label of felony only on people who ought to be discriminated against. i.e. similarly to how if you molest a child, you're labelled a child molester and get discriminated against if you want to work at a school, with few exceptions this is usually a very sensible thing to do. But when we give a label (including the burden of the discrimination affecting people with a felony) to a 14 year old prankster, we can't justify it.

History is full of people who have lived wonderful, moral, lives, who made great contributions to society and went on to be upstanding citizens, who pranked way worse. You really think these people ought to have been given felonies, too?

There's a ton of iterative steps both in punishment and prevention. It usually starts with targeting parents, with council from people a kid looks up to (i.e. not the principal), with luxuries like games being taken away etc. Really I don't get it, changing a wallpaper on a computer is like pulling your kid brothers' hair, it's not something the police has to get involved in. It's a parenting/school type issue, not a criminal one.

If sensitive info was on the computer, sorry but it's not very relevant. 1) Someone do your job, you get paid for security or have security responsibilities that get wasted by a 14 year old. 2) How should the kid know, he didn't even touch or target it. If we start punishing people for what they 'might' have done, oh boy... talk about Orwellian thought crimes, it's beyond ridiculous. We can convict anyone of anything the moment the show the slightest intention to pull a prank.
We're have been using this in production for a few months now. We never tried kue but used the rsmq-worker module extensively.

Currently we're processing about 30 million messages per day on a single redis server with two worker instances.
I believe messages pass through the servers, but once a message makes it to your device, its online copy gets deleted.
I was thinking more like an commercially nonviable PARC equivalent. Google does lots of things but hasn't actually spun any of them into viable businesses yet. That was sort of PARC's thing in the 80's let the engineers/scientists build amazing stuff, don't worry about if it was manufacturable or not.
PPAs are a thing of the past, I think. A much better way forward would be to implement a truly transactional and functional packaging system (a la nix/guix), where updates could be rolled back seamlessly. This would allow many interesting features, including aggressive update cycles and multiple versions of the same package installed in the same system.

It'd help Debian, which thanks to its social contract is a very nice distribution but has become somewhat stagnant due to overly bureaucratic procedures.
FWIW, I've recently been implementing the MongoDB query language as well:

https://github.com/zumero/Elmo

In F#. Not even remotely close to usable or production-ready.

The approach here is somewhat different, as this implementation is built on SQLite, which it treats as a simple key-value storage layer.
> they really need to keep optimizing their supply chain and manufacturing

And work on more charging stations and battery life. Here at the office the guy with the Tesla is constantly mocked cause he couldn't even make it to the team building event, less than a 3 hr drive away (mainly by the guy who had to borrow his mom's Clio to buy some loudspeakers that didn't fit in his own sports car, but that's a different story ...)

Why on earth you'd spend a hundred grand on a car that can't drive more than a couple hours is beyond me, even if it has a big-ass iPad inside.
Be lucky.
Yes, a big problem with predicting what effects large building projects will have on a specific area within a metropolitan area is that they impact both supply and demand, not only supply. At the level of a whole metro area, demand is impacted more by the general economy, but whether people choose to live in Manhattan vs. Brooklyn vs. New Jersey (or SF vs. Oakland vs. San Jose) is intertwined with type of housing available, perceived neighborhood features, etc. You can model the net effects of an intervention, but the models are somewhat sensitive to assumptions.
and look where that has led... the lack of notable consequences for ones actions tend to lead you down the path of "I'll do whatever I please because the only real consequences are a slap on the wrist," or rather "I know my rights and with a competent lawyer, I'll get off anyway, I don't really care how that affects you or anyone else." There appears to be little empathy for how one's actions affect everyone around you, with everyone looking out for themselves and feeling like the country somehow owes them something.

Fair enough this was a prank, and sure, we all used to do a lot more... and these days you can't let your kids run free without the police picking them up on their way to or at the park and attempting to charge the parents with criminal neglect. There is little that makes sense about any of this.
I am curious to know how you kill time in the back when taking an Uber. How do you entertain yourself?
I don't understand the distinction that you're making here...a lack of intergenerational transmission? Isn't all language at heart a personalized colloquial parlance? The contemporary world of highly codified standard international languages is novel and weird.

If the dolphins, in their signature whistles, invent arbitrary symbols that are assigned meanings in a social context, that's ultimately linguistic behavior that outmatches even the most precocious sign-language-using ape.
"He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said."

They aren't planning to put the felony on his record. They're gonna drop it pre-trial.
Note also that the Meteor project has "minimongo", which is yet another implementation of the MongoDB query language.
Help Desk/First Line support
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The title of the article has been heavily editorialized.

The correct title is: Travel Update: A Tale Of Two Latino Areas In Miami And San Francisco.
I feel we're on the same wavelength here -- the article seems to claim that there is a singular force behind this trend and that the trend is new. I think there are a multitude of forces at work here and I think you're right to suggest the state of the economy has a big part to do with it. I'm sure in previous recessions, there was a lot more borrowing, sharing and renting going on too. It's happening online now because the internet exists and it's in everyone's pocket.

I'd also make the assertion that the article fails to account for people like my co-workers, who are not millennials and use Car2Go more often than anyone else I know. Parking is absurdly expensive where I work, so people use Car2Go to avoid that. I used it to get to school until I was able to purchase a car of my own, at which point the costs shot down dramatically and I now have a secure asset -- as you pointed out. It made way more sense to own -- and still does. Perhaps as these businesses grow, they will be able to rival the prices of ownership and offset the downsides of not having a secure asset. If that happens, I will certainly reconsider owning.

That being said, I do feel that a lot more people in my generation are less inclined to desire a thing because of the status it assigns you. Perhaps I'm just an out of touch dreamer though.
Thank goodness that didn't happen. Tesla is doing amazing things and is on track to seriously shake up the automotive industry. I can't imagine that would be true under Google.
Welcome to the USA.

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."

~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The French lost every major European War they entered between 1757 and 1914 (ok, we'll call the Crimean War a draw), and only survived 1914 and 1940 because of it's allies.

And the real blow to French reputation was 1870, when French arrogance was at its height and efficiency at its lowest.
A Fervent Defense of Front-Running HFTs
"they're not talking about the fact that he committed this crime previously,"

You've got to wonder if he used the same password both times. If he did then it strikes me that the teachers and school that should be raked over the coals for not putting even the most basic safegards in place to protect all that confidential data on the laptop -especially after already being shown up about it.

"The teacher’s computer reportedly had sensitive encrypted information related to the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)." -The other thing jumping to mind is that if the sensitive data was all properly encrypted, then even with intent, the student wouldn't have been able to view or tamper with it.

Edit: grammar; as->that
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The Man Who Hacks Your Employees
> He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said.

I hate to repeat myself... but people don't seem to have the basic facts about this case.

The Police ARE NOT PLANNING TO PUT THE FELONY ON HIS OFFICIAL RECOROD. Its part of the scare tactic. They are going to let him go pretrial.
You have to specialize in something that is both boring enough to discourage excessive competition and important to companies with a large enough budget to support that kind of engineer.
Thanks for sharing the link the site is up and running now
Mostly yes, Adwords is still the elephant in the room. Android is modestly profitable and now Youtube is finally eeking out profit for them, but all of these cash flow sources are firmly rooted in showing ads to captive eyeballs.
It was created before Amazon, right? And I'd imagine for many people, directly importing is not a daily purchasing habit. That way they can keep their "release windows" and other things to make them feel like they're getting every last drop off profit. Or maybe they think consumers want localized covers. It might even be true - someone must be demanding terrible dubbed products, so who knows.
This graph feels a bit fishy and / or more interesting than the presented result: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372555/bin/pone...

GE = w/ ADHD
GE-EF = w/ ADHD and exercise

GC = w/o ADHD
GC-EF = w/o ADHD and exercise

Look how poorly GC-EF performed relative to the other groups in absolute terms. There's visually a much larger difference in concentration for those without ADHD, but who exercised than those that didn't exercise.

If we were to focus on the largest difference of effect shouldn't our conclusion be, 'Intense exercise can make the attention of people without ADHD worse than those with ADHD'?

This is what the authors say, "The results of this study also show that the GC group has a performance that is 42% better than the GC-EF group. These data seem indicate that after an intense physical exercise, people without ADHD show impairment in attention performance. However, this hypothesis requires further studies, which include the assessment of the duration of this effect."

Hmmm ..., color me a skeptical statistician.
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It's been going on since well before 2005. In the 1980's Miami Beach was a cheap place to live.
Just your typical New Mexico deep-learning startup spun off from a national lab
The site is live now, we had lots of visits :)
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Until the core AdWords business fails, and then the whole thing falls apart.
The parent company is based out of HK, but the operating company is based in Philippines.

My co-founder threatened to sue me in the US as I am a US citizen.

Funny enough, if I recall correctly, my home state California has one of the weakest non-compete law.
The founder met me when he was doing some freelance job in a startup where I was working. We are a perfect fit, he is the guy doing Design + Marketing and I am doing everything related to coding.

We founded: nusii.com (Web proposal software)
I like to call this the House Method.

Because it's been established that Dr. House can only work if he has someone to bounce ideas off of, even if that person is the janitor.
Kinda. I used to agree with you for the longest time, but I can relatively easily make a CSS bootstrap page responsive, because I can override the bootstrap CSS, but there is no way to override the behaviour of <table>.
Can't this student just text the prosecutors naked pictures of themselves and get them charged as sex offenders?

Honestly I say if you're going to go down for some stupid law, might as well abuse the stupid laws in your favor.
Wasn't the EFF's entire press release about pointing out the fallacy of the phrase you just uttered?

"Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done..."

"Even though some might say this is just a Police disciplinary scare tactic... who knows what this Police Officer could have done..."
Thanks for the interesting read. This just depressingly explained the company I work for in a way I've struggled to for years.
IMHO, the strongest points:

6, 9, 18-22
Python 3.5.0a4 released
What does an adult look like in an open source community?
What does this do that I can't get from plain Redis Pub Sub?
A blueprint for clearing the skies of space debris
They are withholding my investment into the company, and my equity. They are also threatening to sue me in the US even though this is a non-US company.

I think they are bluffing, but I just want to double check.
But that's the thing; the character of the city is going to change no matter what because people with money are going to come in and buy out existing residents anyway. So it's already going to be a bunch of rich yuppies and there's nothing anyone can do about that -- but what's happening is the lack of housing in SF causes prices to rise in surrounding areas as well, which prices lower-income folks out of the market and forces them to move further and further from the city.

If you want to preserve the character of the neighborhoods, you need dense residential areas that allow high-rise condos - it prevents the rich techies from going out and buying a row home for $1.3 million because they can get a sweet, brand-new condo for the same price in a better area. This keeps long-time residents in their homes, thus helping to preserve the culture of the neighborhoods.

The entire NIMBY movement can be boiled down to "Yes, we all agree these things need to be built. But I don't want them being built near me because they would cause my property value to decrease." It's a textbook case of the tragedy of the commons.
The article points out that Miami and San Francisco both have Latino populations, as if it were some reason why they should remain similar cities. But in fact, Miami's Latinos are not similar at all to San Francisco's. San Francisco is made up of about 15% Mexicans, where Miami has a majority of Cubans along with other Central Americans, and about half of the population is Hispanic. All of Miami is Hispanic, and really only the Mission is in San Francisco. Miami is also missing the large Asian population.

Don't forget that San Francisco is 550 miles away from the USA/Mexico border. Miami is on the coast and is a much easier destination for new immigrants.

SF's population is also about double that of Miami.
They post about what an incredible journey it has been with you, their beloved user, in their unlimited-service-for-ever and that you will have 7 days to grab your data from their 10 MBit/s funnel before it is deleted forever.

See http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ for some inspiration.

The cloud/butt is not a place to store your data without having everything backed up locally. Look at a random ToS, they all(?) can terminate your service in an instant for zero reasons.
We can certainly agree to disagree. But to answer your question, the issue here is that police, and the law, are being pulled in to a situation as punishment in a way that they are not meant to be used. A felony may, in this case (and I do mean may, since one this goes into a trial phase, the police have little control over how prosecutors and judges handle the charge) be a slap on the wrist and then go away. However, a felony should not be used to slap someone on the wrist. This is a slippery legal slope.

For example, I recently began a contract at a large and well known company. In the first week I stepped away from my personal laptop and while away my coworker got onto the machine and changed my background to a large picture from "My Little Ponys" which said "Love ya Brony". By the Florida law outlined in this case, my coworker had committed a felony. Evidently he does this regularly. He is a repeat offender. Should he be prosecuted? This is, quite literally the same scenario. What is the right legal course of action?

I personally believe he should not be. If people were to be upset his situation would be handled as an hr violation. If he continued to not listen to hr he would be fired. There is no need for law enforcement in this situation.
I expect wrapper libraries such as SFML will implement very easy-to-use init APIs for you.
Far-term horizon. Despite big claims about driverless car tech, it's not reliable enough for production.
Victim Blaming fallacy. Do I need to go further?
...if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD...

The thing is, MP3 _isn't_ “just as good”. A rendering in lossless compression from a CD still sounds different than a 320 kBPS MP3. Which is why I just can't get over the iTunesStore selling sound in 256 kBPS. Much too bad. Amazon does 320 kBPS, but it's still not good enough.
A .NET library with the name "Massive" already exists with similar functionality: https://github.com/FransBouma/Massive

Is there any inspiration/connection between the two?
I would be apt to think that if there was a fair meeting of the minds, and not a Uber based over the barrel "agreement", then this is a non-issue.

I don't know about the US, but the fixed hours/degree of client control is definitely an issue for employee vs. independent status in some places, and something you need to check in your local rules if you're in this position. Different places have very different rules about when to consider someone a disguised employee and probably tax either or both parties accordingly, and in some places the rules seem to be quite black and white.
At least oil and gas has a massively better return on the energy invested. A gallon of ethanol barely contains more energy than it takes to produce it. Oil is so much better that, for example, tar sands production is criticized because it only returns something like 4x the energy required for production. Questions of finances and subsidies are secondary to this.

I'm no fan of oil either, but ethanol is clearly not the answer.
I don't think you can provide exactly once even with that constraint. What if the defined period of time was 100 years?
The app navigation bar at the botttom of the screen is very clunky on Android. It is easy to tap the system navigation bar by mistake (which is why the design guidelines recommand to put the navigation at the top of the screen).
I often use this as an interview question for CSS people: "How would you vertically center a box inside another box." I like it because there's like four correct answers, each with drawbacks. The general answers, from worst to best, are usually:

1. margin: auto (wrong)
2. top: 50% (mostly wrong)
3. negative margin-top (correct if you know the size)
4. table-cell or translateY (correct)
5. a correct answer plus a discussion about why it has to be a hack

FWIW, when you set everything to "Unknown", this site tells you to use display: table-cell. If you don't have to support IE8, I generally prefer "top: 50%; translate-Y: -50%"

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Pro survival tip: eat insects with less than 6 legs in the wild to prevent being poisoned. Cook them first to prevent bacterial diseases.
Excellent. Thanks for posting source code!
> Can't this student just text the prosecutors naked pictures of themselves and get them charged as sex offenders?

No. Criminal charges aren't things that happen automatically based on external facts (even if the proposed action includes facts which in some cases might be parallel to those that have supported charges against the recipients), they are things that human beings -- specifically, prosecutors -- initiate.

Doing the suggested act might result in criminal charges, but almost certainly those would be additional charges for the student, not charges against the prosecutors.

> Honestly I say if you're going to go down for some stupid law, might as well abuse the stupid laws in your favor.

The nature of criminal law is that there are a narrow category of people whose active participation is required for any use/abuse of it, stupid or not.
It's not the risk of NASA suing you but the risk of the original creator suing you. As copyright can't be transferred under German law, it was never transferred to NASA in the first place from Germany's point of view. Unlikely, but might happen.