skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your general point -- that rehabilitation isn't determinable at sentencing -- I'd still make the argument that focusing on rehabilitation with no other change in the system would lead to more positive outcomes than our current system. Yes, keeping people in some rehab situation for as long as necessary but no longer would be ideal, simply allowing for some possibility of rehabilitation for the time that they are sentenced would still be a better situation than the one we have now. Having indeterminate sentencing would also be rife with possibilities of misconduct. For an historical (and I believe this still happens in some cases?) example of how things can go wrong, take a look at the old state-run mental health system the US had.
There is such a thing as a derivative of a context-free language, which turns out to be useful for writing parsers: http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/
A Comparison of Akka Persistence with Eventuate
If you continue clicking on play it will play it again over the previous one. Don't go crazy clicking, lest you crash your browser. I think the correct behaviour would be to stop the previous script run and start over. No, I don't know enough javascript to fix it myself and create a pull request, in case you're wondering. ;)
Once again, the same question arises. "why does not caring that Facebook collects that data make me less intelligent?"

I don't really care that the data can be collated. I don't really care about the conclusions drawn. It's not just a "oh I haven't done anything wrong, why should I care" argument, it's past that. I couldn't care less that Facebook, the US government, or some intruder knows I went to Whistler last weekend with my family, and that I took a few photos at Squamish. That data isn't really useful in any context. Similarly, I don't care if they know what events I attend, or who I'm friends with. It just doesn't bother me. Does that make me less intelligent? I would say of course not. If I was ignorant about this information, sure. But knowing the information and simply deciding it's not worth it to care about who sees these trivial bits of data about me shouldn't be called "less intelligent".

As someone else posted below, I value my social life and being able to quickly and easily interact with family and friends from around the world more than the privacy I could attain by not posting these random bits and bobs about my life.
Another win for lawyers.

Unfortunately now the USA is goign to try to push this ruling all over the world with TIPP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investm...).

It's not enough that the USA destroys their own entrepreneurial spirit but everybody else as well.
http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/papers/pldi... defines one for programs as something that "maps changes in the program’s input directly to changes in the program’s output, without reexecuting the original program."
I've always interpreted "power user" in this sense to be someone who occasionally wants to do something specific with their device that may require specific tools.

Like a "normal" user (of a phone) will make calls, texts, browse the web, check email, maybe watch a movie or play a game. A power user may just be someone who wants a custom keyboard for some reason or even just wants to be able to download a file via the browser, navigate to it in the file system, maybe unzip it, copy it elsewhere, open it with another app, etc.

Granted these are just my personal examples because they were things I found exceedingly difficult to do on my old iPad (although I guess the keyboard thing has been added). It wasn't something I had to do all the time but something as simple as browsing the folder structure and finding/moving the file I just downloaded was gonna require me to jailbreak the thing. On my Android phones and tablet, it's not something I often need to do but when I do, it's just a matter of using a file browser.

I think "power user" implies using more basic/powerful features outside of launching apps from a set of icons. Then again, some of the awesome projects I've seen controlled via an iPad prove that iOS users can also be power users as well.
This is an overly cynical view. The vast majority of laws are used positively. The are the foundation of this country. When they are abused it makes headlines (sometimes). When everyone gets to work and back safely and can afford to pay the mortgage and buy a big screen, it's just business as usual.
Dianne Feinstein to Reform the Section 215 Program by Making Everything Worse
>If the state has a slam dunk case against your client that justifies the maximum sentence

Having a slam dunk case in no way justifies the maximums. In many instances the Gov has a slam dunk case they still offer the minimums, because that is what the facts justify.

Whether or not the Prosecutor dangles the maximums to get you to plea to less, that has no bearing if the facts justify the offer, you can always open plea to the Court and cut the prosecutor out of the equation. There are other safe-guards.
Yeah, it's okay to do this as long as the developer explains in the app/extension overview that the permissions are for planned features.
It's a 730KB downloader installer as used by FileZilla, Angry IP Scanner, and other apps on SF that participate in the Dev Share program. You run it, it shows offers, then downloads the actual GIMP installer and runs that. I did a Virus Total scan of it earlier and the results are here: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/a63a337b0aa6b2686440802eb...

It seems they've disabled the ability for the GIMP downloader installer posted earlier today to be able to download GIMP now. Possibly so other sites don't distribute it further thinking it's the real GIMP installer?
I completely agree. And I think we should separate incapacitation from the idea of retribution.
Another interesting idea for population control is giving every person the right to 3/4 of a child. A couple then has the right to 1.5 children, so they can have one child and sell the right to the remaining half, or they can buy the half they need to get two from another couple. Or even sell/buy 1.5. (This idea is from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars")
Con: all the BSDs and Linux are now owned by whoever most recently picked up the POSIX APIs. ReactOS and WINE are now illegal. SQL is the private property of IBM.

Pro: I guess if you hate Google because you love Steve Jobs or something it looks like a win.
Nebraska Abolishes Death Penalty
I live less than a mile away from the golf course hosting the Ryder Cup next year. I am NOT looking forward to it. The Ryder Cup isn't as big as the World Cup, but it's considered bigger than the Super Bowl[1]. Thankfully they don't need to build any stadiums, but I'm sure we'll be stuck with all the incidental expenses.

[1] http://www.startribune.com/hartman-2016-ryder-cup-chairman-s...
I agree with everything you said, but the last sentence isn't as well thought out as the rest.

People who see dire consequences to reversing aging can't make a difference by suicide; it's only in the aggregate that there is disaster or averted disaster. It's like saying to someone who thinks carbon emissions will heat the planet and doom our species: "If you think that, sell your car and leave the rest of us alone".
Yes; it's not uncommon.
> I still can't believe that a field this dynamic and intellectually challenging is so devoid of... personality and wit?

The stereotypes, as usual, do seem to have some truth behind them.

I've lived with, worked with and hired engineers who behaved like machines, treated conversation and pleasantries as a waste of time, and some who existed in their own subculture. Perhaps they were full of personality and wit in their subculture, but in my experience... no.

This is Europe too.
put a couple of spaces in front of it

*like this*
I suspect a subset of that has, in fact, been tried (and the rest only hasn't been tried because of obvious prior art).
[T]hat would be like being able to copyright ... how books are organised on shelves in a Library

Probably not the best example to give, since the Dewey Decimal System is actually a copyrighted product(http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=11&ti=1,11...). Similar to how the AMA has copyrighted the ICD codes.

I do wonder if using identical function names, but different argument names, would be sufficient to escape infringement.
Lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ3zDzDnrw
فيلم شد اجزاء
Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine – witness
It requires a combination of a big enough investigation/court system to work with the Swiss and a political class who won't care if there's a risk of soccer being disrupted in the country, so the US would be one of the few nations that might fit the description.
From the functional form of the author's definition, it looks like yes. However, to connect the two definitions probably requires using Cauchy's integral formula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s_integral_formula) and/or the complex method of residues, along with some line integral tricks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_contour_integration).
Thank you for the links.
The last one, with its enormous frightening list, shows how rare the current occurrence actually is - there seem to be almost no other mammal deaths on such a large scale listed in it.
Yes, a US soldier was blinded by an Iraqi in Desert Strom [0]. The article doesn't cover it, but as I remember it, the laser was part of a tank laser range finding system - not a purpose build blinding device (the Chinese were openly producing such weapons at the time). Another class of weapon would be a dazzler [1], and those are used frequently.

[0] http://www.ipsnews.net/1995/09/disarmament-blinding-laser-we...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_(weapon)
The other hard thing is cache invalidation, and off by one errors.
"Is that called arrayReverse?"

"s/camel/_/"

"Cool thanks."

This is perfectly clear and obviously means replace the camel-case convention by underscore separation (probably all lower case) and you got the right function name.
Angular Directives Componentization and Composition
Step 1: solve the problem of AI
Step 2: use your AI to solve every other problem.
Why?

Is justice served by re-victimizing a rape victim on the stand when you can get a plea for a lesser felony? Why go through the expense and risk of acquittal for a murder when you can get a manslaughter plea?
So speaking of how books are organized on the shelves at many libraries... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
"What are your recommended reads that are available for free?"

Ask Professor Steve. [0]

I ran into Steve on HN back in 2010 and went for a walk with a mob of economists. [1][2] The key thing I got talking to Steve? Economics is fundamentally flawed. Read with caution.

Reference:

[0] https://twitter.com/ProfSteveKeen

[1] http://seldomlogical.com/kw.html

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126054
So today, with large efforts of tech standardization and large global markets, we shouldn't have this issue.
yea raft is basically a multi-paxos variant.
The derivative of a type is its "zipper", a datatype for representing a "hole" that moves around the data structure.
http://strictlypositive.org/diff.pdf
I'm asking that based on what I've heard from a friend who runs a VC backed company. He said he needed VC largely because an incumbent in his category decided to sue him rather than compete. The lawsuit was rather frivolous, but when you get a bunch of people with a dim view of computer programming involved, then you need lawyers. And lawyers are EXPENSIVE. They are much much much more expensive than computer programmers. And then it becomes not so fun to run a company. It was about writing great software. Now it's about defending yourself in court. Total nightmare.
Dynamically reprogramming matter
> It's gotten better. Standards are better now.

> learning to understand the customer's organization

I wish this was the case all around, clearly it happens at least occasionally or you would not have your personal experience, but I have yet to see it in mine. If I have seen it, it was so well executed I didn't even notice, but even then from my experience that is the minority of cases.
Having implemented raft a couple of times now, I'm convinced it's too high level and not powerful enough at the same time. I think I'm going back to two phase commit for the data and s.d.p for providing fault tolerance to the coordinator. Treode has a great implementation of something like that.
Probably not. gamma(N) is the single mostly-analytic function for which gamma(x+1) = x*gamma(x). This is a requirement.
Midnight Commander: the correct way to browse files in Linux
Yeah I'm disappointed in Forbes. Their new website interface is garbage, practically unusable.

Here is the website of the game itself: http://www.bossastudios.com/games/worlds-adrift/
>Being naive - in the sense of looking the world through the eyes of a child

This is not the sense that I meant. I meant naive in the sense that they're ignorant of many subtle but important behavioral practices in both corporations and people, and that they often haven't developed much personal discipline. It's not their fault, of course; they're just young. Youth is good for its zeal, but corporations should generally not be run by zealots, they should be run by mature, calculating, and sensitive persons (and very few young people qualify). Zealots belong in the marketing and sales departments.

By the age they become founders, I think most people have had most of the child-like wonder beat out of them, and in fact I think the early and mid 20s are a dark time for a lot of people, with the pressures of exiting the scholastic world and entering the professional world, frequently with a beast of debt on their backs, and the rejection and failure incumbent in trying to date and find a lifelong companion.
fractional derivatives have found some uses in signal processing and control systems. you can search that exact term in google scholar.
Actually, it will need a lot of well-coordinated brainpower. We don't really need to send a 1000-man chain gang to suffocate on mars. This is likely to come from the sort of societies that have low infant mortality rates and high levels of education.
GP is frustrated because it's not just the one blog post. Even if the author is willing to correct it, the original bad data will tend to get more exposure, because most people won't check in for corrections (unless they see a post like OP). Then, there'll be another crappy benchmark next month or next week. If I thought my product was being judged this way, it would drive me frothing mad.
A quick intro on creating good on-boarding emails
The issue I have is that I don't especially want this gig and don't need it. It's just nice to have for extra cash on the side and the work is easy so it's hard to justify turning it down. Is it really unreasonable to not want to be on call? Because if that's the case, I wouldn't really want to do it at all. I feel like 24 hour turn around on tasks seems reasonable but still being generally reachable and answering emails during business hours.
Los Angeles Plays Itself
It's more customary to use the word "Administration" or "Obama Administration" instead.
I think you are being far too pessimistic.

In the US we went from sexual orientation being something that was socially acceptable to ridicule or attack with violence, to widespread social acceptance and same sex marriage being law in most of the county in just 15 years - less than one than one generation.

This change wasn't brought about by killing off every over the age 30. I think as long there is some kind of reconciliation method in place for people to say "I was wrong and now I've changed" without being attacked (like Sen Matt Kirk was), then social change can be facilitated much quicker than waiting for an entire generation to die.
The ban is for a specific engine, the RD-180. It's a response to the action Russia took in Crimea, so it's political and they're not hiding that fact. It's related to the national security the same way that waving the flag is. Not at all. Or completely. Depending on your viewpoint.
Not sure what was going on in your case, but I have a relative who has worked there in a few tech capacities for many years and she loves it.

Like any gathering of people, there are always a few stinkers I suppose.
You gotta remember Obama hasn't written a line of code in his life and has someone literally tells him what his opinions and stances are on technology issues.
I think we are actually in agreement here... it seems as if you consider "API" to mean the documentation of the function, while I am considering it to be the actual compiled Java bytecode (which is not a description of the function, it actually is the "tangible" function)

If the copyrightable work is the description of the API... then I would argue that simply writing "int cupcake(int x)" is not expressive in a way that can be copyrighted, since it is really the only precise way of describing the bytecode. However any extra information (such as Javadoc comments or other documentation) could definitely be expression.
At the time of its announcement, Go was tremendously further along in its development than Rust was at its own public announcement. Knowing modern Go, you can go back and understand Go code from 2009. Knowing modern Rust, trying to read code from 2010 is essentially impossible.
As an outsider, what Ken White says [1] sounds reasonable to me.

"I think the federal guilty plea rate is in the 90-95% range, with the remainder being trials and the occasional dismissal or other resolution.

How many of those are actually guilty? I don't know. Many of them did something. But a not-insigificant [sic] percentage of them didn't do what the government says they did."

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1aokls/iama_federal_cr...
Try to at least study history. The US has a long history of staging coups and invading with special forces Latin American countries.

My point is they are both so bad that saying one is really really bad is like Dante discussing why the third circle of Hell isn't as bad as the fourth. Pointless academic nonsense, except the jingoistic RaRa America nonsense is killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
It's an amicus brief filed by DoJ with the Solicitor General's name of it - a man directly appointed by Obama in 2011. In more ways than even other DoJ briefs [1], there is a straight line from this to Obama, and surely if he wished to intervene to alter or prevent the submission of this brief he would have been able to.

To answer your question yes, in general, actions taken with direct authority or direction from high-level appointees of the President are described by the media as "White House" actions, with good reason.

[1] http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/app/briefs/fisher_appellee_...
Rick Santorum Launches White House Bid
Agreed! I loved his piece on Humphry Davy's early experiments with laughing gas for the Public Domain Review:

http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/08/06/o-excellent-air-bag...
Have you considered the possibility that these people don't exist (or exist in very small numbers), and you've decided there are a lot of them due to some kind of confirmation bias?
This article made me realize the one application where I'd actually want a smart-watch: Outdoor winter sports.

When I'm out skiing or boarding, I usually have a phone in my pocket for coordinating with other people. It sucks having to stop, take off gloves, dig it out of my pocket, and operate the thing while my digits freeze. The person at the other end has the same problem too, so you can expect a delay of half a minute or more before they answer. Texting with freezing fingers is often more practical than placing a call! In many ways I was happier in the days when, if I got separated from others, I could just shrug, go search for powder and perhaps meet up with them for lunch if we'd arranged a meeting time and place in advance.

A smart-watch or other wearable that would allow me to place and take calls without taking my gloves would be nice, but really, I can't imagine such a thing working very well. It would be better to have voice control and audio integrated into your helmet. There are already bluetooth helmet hookups... Maybe I should look into this and stop writing about the wrong tool for the job!
New Star Wars Wax Exhibit Captured with Periscope
The next generation carriers really needs to be underwater.

I'm wondering how large a submarine can be made, one with a runway and hanger for dozens of aircraft (or drones..)
It's called metonymy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
Whether I should have a say depends on what the costs are, who pays them and who benefits.

Given that there are so many causes of death, and each one is so hard to avoid, we could spend unlimited resources trying in vain to stamp out death for good, at the opportunity cost of much better returns on other things we could do to make life better for humans other than just the wealthiest people who have so few problems that mortality is their highest priority. Right now and in any plausible future scenario there is simply not a choice "whether or not to live." Everyone dies eventually, merely making modern healthcare available is too hard for us to do worldwide and people (poor brown people "somewhere else") are still being crippled by polio, for example.

Rather than telling people you disagree with to commit suicide, it would help if you understood that what you are asking for is a fantasy and that it is problematic to accept literally any cost to other humans in its pursuit.
>Every person accused of a crime should have the right to a trial if they want one, and they should never be subject to additional punishment for insisting that they get it

I explained this to Nitrogen in this thread. Everyone is looking at this in a vacuum and thinking, "if the Gov offered a lesser sentence with a plea, but sought higher sentencing after a conviction at trial, then they are being vindictive." But they are not being vindictive, because that's what they wanted and may have been appropriate all along. Alternatively, a plea would not exist if the Prosecutor said the plea is "x", but you can go to trial and get a free bite at the apple and if you lose I promise to only seek "x", because everyone would go to trial. The real negative of a system like that would be maximums across the board which would neither serve society or most defendants.
Relevant previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=raft%20consensus&sort=byPopula...
Pricing and details aren't negotiated yet - they offered a price that was 1.75x my wage, and I'm going to counter with slightly higher than that and whatever other stipulations I decide on. 2x for base rate for client meetings might be overly complicated, since it's going to be less than 5% of my time. You make a good point about business hours though, and I will tell them I will be reasonably available during business hours.
Theres already 7 new frameworks to learn by the time 1.0 is released.
Is there any similar programs like Hackerschool or recurse?
I always love to learn with great mentors, Is there any other programs like recurse to be better programmer? I would love to hear your thoughts about it.
thanks.
Have you considered that in a world without children, many people would likely suffer from serious depression and other mental disorders? There is a profound reason most humans choose to have children even though they're a lot of work and often a pain in the neck.
Do you mind linking to the thread where they helped you? Sounds like it'd be very useful to me too.
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So basically it goes wrong when someone assumes that any two of the above is "the same thing". It's often implicit.
Brad Smith Suggests Microsoft Might Obey Law That Limits Encryption
I was surprised the lookup takes just 3ms. Is Lua pooling the db connections?