skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A justice system is broken when people break the rules and subvert the intent of the system. But most of what you're pointing to is, instead, conscious policy choices.

E.g. a society is generally entitled to criminalize activities it does not want people to engage in. That some other people may perceive the crimes as "victimless" is neither here nor there. I'd imagine that very few people convicted of drug crimes are not in fact guilty of those crimes, because the evidence in those cases is usually overwhelming (e.g. caught with physical product in hand).

Similarly, the U.S. has had about 5-10x the murder rate of, say, the U.K., going back probably a century or more, long before the recent rise in incarceration rate. So the fact that the U.S. has a high incarceration rate does not by itself mean that innocent people are being put in prison.
The company paid the interns, even the ones that did nothing all that useful.
What are you observing? If you are talking about rock instruments, you are probably correct.

My son is highly involved in his high school band (concert and marching), and the gender breakdown is very instrument specific. A lot more girls play flute and clarinet while a lot more boys play sousaphone, trombone, and percussion.

Part of it is physical - not that many girls can march around with a heavy sousaphone. But I do think there is a bias that pushes girls and boys at a young age when starting out towards certain instruments.
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Have a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_families

Seriously read through the other countries and then go to the US. You will laugh, I promise...

Limiting it to presidents is kinda silly.
Which is really interesting -- if you are a top tier Hilton member (Gold/Diamond), the front desk folks are not even allowed to ask for your ID or credit card (as long as you have a CC stored in your Hilton HHonors profile).

What do you do if your profile is compromised?
Users who don't like Safari's privacy defaults can just change them, though. If you like understanding and choice, why not let users understand and choose turning third party cookies on, instead of turning them off?
Thank you very much! insightful comments!
Refactoring is often done in order to implement a new feature, but that doesn't mean they need to be done in the same commit. A common workflow is to be implementing something, realize a refactor is needed, "git stash", refactor, commit, "git stash pop", continue feature work.
That's totally disgusting.
I think in this thread you're conflating taking credit with mentioning, which are two very, very different concepts. I would not expect you to give credit, but I would expect you to mention relevant competing technologies for a compare and contrast. :)
Ironically, it is. (I live in Uruguay). So is gay marriage, etc.
I highly recommend gorhill's umatrix, it's perfect. Alternatively you could give this a try: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/site-specific...

AFAIK Firefox also has site specific settings hidden somewhere but I am not sure.

RIP Opera 12... I wish they'd just freely release the sources.
Why is it that programmers invariably state their opinions as if they were facts.
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The low cost of oil out of Saudi Arabia may be partially due to the US involvement in airstrikes against entities in Syria and Iraq.
That's pretty much it. It's a modest marketing investment which probably makes them look better than if they'd just done the right thing in the first place. I doubt it was calculated like that from the start, but that must be how it looks to them now.
> I make it a firm policy to not talk about other new languages when I blog about Ceylon, because whenever I have mentioned Scala in the past, even just in passing, I have found myself the subject of quite vicious personal attacks.

I'm sorry to hear that. That's certainly not a productive way to have a conversation, though, and it's rather confusing you'd try to argue for the benefits of your hard work without making them in terms of languages people actually use.
1. Apple explicitly responded directly to Taylor Swift.

2. App devs get a decent deal, but restrictions like taking a cut of all purchases done through an app are very distasteful.
It looks professional.
I've found the opposite to be true. My beard hair is so thick it gets stuck in the space between blades on multi-blade razors and I spend twice as long making the cartridge usable again. By the time I'm done shaving I'm irritated and the blades are not in great shape (if only my beard hair were my head hair, hah!). The thing with safety razors is you need to find the right blade/razor combo. The big reason why you get cut by a safety razor is a mismatch between blade gap and your technique. Adjustable safety razors are simply awesome for dialing that in.
Funny you mention that - I used that structure in my simple virtual machine (which includes a compiler, a decompiler, support for conditionals, and also an example of embedding):

https://github.com/skx/simple.vm

Rather than having an enum of opcodes I have a array of pointers to functions - one for each opcode I implement. It is a logical/clean way of implementing things, but i think it is not necessarily better.

(In my case I lose due to inline strings, and variable length opcodes which make complications.)
The owners of America don't want people with a lot of time on their hands and extra money in their pockets. That leads to cultural upheaval, which must have been horrifying to certain people in the 1960's.
Related: http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/05/inside-war-on-c...
Compulsion is not cooperation.
Locking in? You can pause your subscription at any time. You can adjust the amount of blades you get in a month based on your shaving frequency.

Agreed. I very easily cancelled my subscription a few weeks ago (and have since subscribed again, realizing that I could adjust my shipments).
This is actually why I use the 4x dollar shave club razor instead of the 6x. There are gaps between the blades so you can actually rinse it.
Agreed. One other thing to note—Apple doesn't prohibit timed trials of content. In fact, Apple supports it and builds in free subscriptions. What they prohibit is apps that completely stop working after a trial period. But they allow apps to have some functionality cease after an introductory period.
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It's not LaTeX, but a historian recently posted on HN his work flow for using plaintext and Pandoc for writing papers [1]. I've been using markdown+pandoc [2] for a book of stories for my family. TeX/LateX exerts nearly absolute (albeit, gorgeous) control over layout, whereas e-book readers often provide the reader with many configurable layout options. Thus, e-book formats tend towards a content-with-minimal-layout-hints way of handling layout. I'm finding markdown plus pandoc a good fit for the latter.

[1] http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html

[2] https://puppetlabs.com/blog/automated-ebook-generation-conve...
I don't think it's a nuisance - it tells me they are trying to run analytics on their site.
>> Out of curiosity, what would you have recommended, had you been on the web steering committee at the time?

Cookies should have been at most a GUID for a single session on a single server.

With a little dynamic content you can put a session GUID in every link on a site and not have anything stored locally on the users machine. Back in the day this was a more significant problem than it would be today. Note that this would also preserve the user ID in bookmarks. Also, it really begs for HTTPS.

There are probably other ways to do these things, but people will either claim they are inefficient or just keep their blinders on and make excuses in favor of the status quo. Of course many of the alternatives could probably be abused as well, it's just harder.
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I'd be curious to see those numbers. I'd imagine the U.S. justice system is far more widely studied than that of other countries.
It's all about perspective. If you personally lean to the left, you won't see the left-leanings of CNN/MSNBC/most media. If you lean to the right, you will (and won't see Fox news as being as biased as it is).
It is very much technologically illiterate not to foresee this exact effect.
If there are no cars in the street (and therefore safe), have you considered just plain walking across the road like a sentient human?
Ask HN: Feedback request for virtual pre-accelerator splashpage
I'm about to launch a virtual mentorship project with a local startup incubator. This project is based on the standard pre-accelerator approach, but it is hosted online through my startup's business model collaboration tool.

(https://www.startupsoap.co/) *Stripe disabled and ads not running yet.

I'm a new developer and this is my first splash page (my technical co-founder is fully focused on our product).

I'd appreciate technical feedback, but I also want to make sure my message is clear, complete, compelling, and concise. Does the price seem fair and the offering strong?

Our startup needs this to work out because our cash flow has been suffering from a long sales cycle. If we can make this model work, we would start partnering with more startup accelerators and incubators so that they can monetize extra mentorship hours.
Who the fk geo-restricts an ad?
From wikipedia:

In functional programming, fold – also known variously as reduce, accumulate, aggregate, compress, or inject – refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive data structure and through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a return value. Typically, a fold is presented with a combining function, a top node of a data structure, and possibly some default values to be used under certain conditions. The fold then proceeds to combine elements of the data structure's hierarchy, using the function in a systematic way.
>What is a girl band and what is a male band?

A band with girls in it is a girl band, and a band with males in it is a male band. The Bangles vs the Led Zeppelin.

Mixed bands are quite fewer -- which obliterates the whole mixed counterexamples thing.
Tracking users is internet infrastructure? For one, I'm sorely disappointed that Firefox never went trough with changing the default.
I have configuration files for each environment, so `dev.config`, `staging.config`, etc...
Is this an unbiased argument for binary formats in general, or is it a sales pitch for Protobufs and Cap'n Proto?

If a fairly recent tool is the only way to get binary formats right, then it's entirely understandable that they've fallen out of use.
EU revokes definition of net neutrality [pdf]
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There is also https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamja/Prebake/master/obtr... which I use to great effect in uBlock Origin.
The article was so optimistic, right up until the sixth section: "The Climate Is Still Screwed".
"but a two-party system is practically guaranteed to not represent minority opinions,"

It's designed this way. Many minority opinions are minority because they are bad and should never be implemented.
It's still a great read today. This HN post led me to hand my copy to one of summer hires. I've certainly passed that copy around.
How are a few obscure examples a counter-argument? We're not talking about existance or not but trends.

E.g. one could also give 20,000 all-male metal bands...
This is highly subjective...
Funny, I find the shave quality of a safety razor to be far superior to any of the cartridge blades (Like the Gilette Fusion). My shaves are super smooth and close.

However, I still use a my Fusion daily, since it's so fast and efficient. With a safety razor it takes time to lather up and get a proper shave.
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

Shocking news.
I think if the world had listened the software engineering business process would be different. Security would be a primary concern. Instead of management focusing on cost and time to delivery, ignoring technical concerns and treating IT like things like a black box cost center. Security is often a reactive concern, Target/Home Depo take it seriously AFTER they have lost their customers data once. If the world had listened, boards of companies wouldnt brush off concerns, or wouldnt be in these situations. If the world had listened people would be willing to spend more on the up front cost of development to do things right the first time. If the world had listened, upgrading decaying infrastructures would be preemptive.

The people this message should have been directed at were non-technical executives and managers.
Is this a neophyte? http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/matrix/images/8/83/Burly...
It is easy, you're just doing it the wrong way.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/ghostery/
>Mechanical failures account for about 60% of all drive failures.[2] While the eventual failure may be catastrophic, most mechanical failures result from gradual wear and there are usually certain indications that failure is imminent. These may include increased heat output, increased noise level, problems with reading and writing of data, or an increase in the number of damaged disk sectors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Background
Well, some can rock. Memphis Minie. Jannis Joplin. Kim Deal.

Most don't.

Are we making observations from the majority or from abstract principles?
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In five years we'll all wonder how we relied on stock photos to sell products
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It's nonsensical to compare to brick-and-mortar stores. We didn't go from brick-and-mortar to the App Store. We went from direct internet sales, where we got to build whatever we wanted, ship updates instantaneously, and keep 98% of the revenue, to the App Store.
He writes well. Check out the guarantees section (http://www.kleinbottle.com/guarantee.htm):

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We guarantee safe arrival. If your Klein Bottle arrives broken, call or send email and we will immediately send a replacement.
We slightly guarantee your Klein Bottle for THREE MONTHS against any cracks or breakage, whether due to earthquakes, clumsy undergrads, or greasy fingers. Just mail us a fragment and $10, and we will send a replacement.
We warrant each Acme Klein Bottle for a period of FIVE YEARS to be absolutely free of any magnetic monopoles. If you discover one, contact us immediately and we will refund your purchase price right after you receive the Nobel Prize.
Furthermore, we guarantee for TEN YEARS that any polyhedron spanning your unbroken Acme Klein Bottle will have about as many edges as the sum of its vertices plus faces.
We further warrant for ONE MILLION YEARS that within a Euclidean plane, the square of a right triangle's hypotenuse will equal the sum of the squares of the two remaining legs.
Is the low representation based on that publishers of said magazines not liking women's money [1], or that there aren't enough women players buying those magazines?

[1] Especially considering that women are the most sought after group by advertisers/marketeers, even more so than men.
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your parent's experiences just what PG pondered in 2008.

http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html

"2. Simplified browsing. There are a lot of cases where you'd trade some of the power of a web browser for greater simplicity. Grandparents and small children don't want the full web; they want to communicate and share pictures and look things up. What viable ideas lie undiscovered in the space between a digital photo frame and a computer running Firefox? If you built one now, who else would use it besides grandparents and small children? "

After 7 years, we know clearly now tablets/phones and mobile apps are the answers for that question for the present.
Great - an always-on microphone in my home that sends all of my conversations and interactions directly to Amazon for analysis
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Great - you are really fixating on my outdated understanding of that particular statement, in lieu of actually addressing the substance of the argument which is that some speech is not legal. Specifically this kind of speech:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
The decision in this case was eventually narrowed to just any speech that incites immediate lawbreaking - which the 'fire statement' did not do. In which case what we're taking about here still applies because we are examining a case where it was suspected by some well-placed individuals that individuals were inciting each other to imminent lawless action. Whether they actually did or not is clearly disputed, but let's at least focus on the substance of this issue instead of going after a red herring.
That's not a really fair assumption - I recall the stated reason for this change (and the removal of another few checkboxes, like ones that disable javascript and images globally) is that idiot users would turn it off for some reason, and then complain that sites don't work right.

As much as I hate the idea of protecting people from themselves, there's some merit to this.
I buy no music today, because I know I can stream it at any time. Even my parents use Pandora and Spotify instead of buying new stuff.
Heres the punchline: you don't have a fatal misunderstanding. The policy makers do.
Apple is processing those purchases and providing access to its vast collection of payment information. That has a lot of value. The amount purchased through Apps if each one had to ask for and process credit cards would be _far_ lower. I would never provide my card to some random app dev, but I'll happily drop $1 or $2 in a decent app/game that I'm enjoying.
Well, it looks to me like people rarely vote for a candidate. More often, they're voting against a candidate because they believe that the other team is evil and must be stopped.

And it should be obvious that we're already in the end game for this strategy: if you vote against the other guy because he's evil, then your guy doesn't need to be good, he just needs to be perceived as slightly less evil. So it becomes a race to the bottom.

The cause of this seems to me to be the forced gerrymandering of voting districts so we don't get a meaningful voice in politics (other than as implied by the color of our skin, which is what the voting rights act requires).

But I think that, while getting rid of gerrymandering is a necessary part of any solution, the ultimate fix is to do away with the institutionalized two-party system. If today's problem is that the decision is binary (if I hate A then I must choose B), then offering three or more choices forces some thought and decision (at the very least: I know I hate A, but is B or C a better alternative?).
The author seems excessively concerned with the language people use to interact with Apple. It would seem to me that a simple application of "you will catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" is all that's at play here, and that the author is tilting at windmills.

Apple's a big, powerful company, it's hard for one hand to know what the other hand is doing sometimes. All such companies have to rely on their customer base to guide them. If you think about it, Apple is far more responsive than most other companies their size or in their segment. Jobs used to answer emails ferchrissakes.
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Unless it was all a PR stunt, then it all makes some sense. Let's see if Apple responds to the next music indie the same way.
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The docking point is just made interchangable -- not commoditised at all.

What they offer is the whole "value added" services they provide.

What kind of container runs on them wasn't ever their enticing quality.
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> Basically you've returned to before configuration management and that is somehow good?

I would argue I accomplish most configuration management via the Dockerfile. In Docker 1.7, even if I want to use a different filesystem like ZFS, I can.

I agree with you that I probably have missed many important features in my architecture. However, it's simple and works for what I got. It sounds like in the future, I'll need a combination of Puppet / Chef & Docker rather than relying purely on ECS. For now though, it's quick & easy. Thanks for the thoughts, they all make me think.
How about ~17 minutes (including wikipedia data download and extraction time)! Using json-wikipedia and lbzip2

[1] https://github.com/diegoceccarelli/json-wikipedia
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the user could accidentally buy what they did not intend to

This is absolutely the wrong way to write front end code.

What the browser renders should only ever be a representation of the state of an internal model (eg the basket in this case). You should update the state of that model and then render what it's changed to if that change is successful. In the case of an eCommerce app that change should involve a round trip to the server to update the session. Querying the HTML to find out the state is bad enough (it's slow) but relying on a CSS animation to complete in order to remove something from a user's cart is just about the most stupid thing I've seen in 20 years of web development.
That's a very misleading title. Look at the data: 28% of time is spent in "other" and 24% in "category leading app" (do they mean popular games?). So 85% is spent in five apps but but 52% of the time is spent in some app they can't name.

Phones are like PCs in that there are handful of apps everybody uses and then there are apps that not everybody uses (Facebook) but still get a lot of traction: Yahtzee, Waze, Clash of Clans, etc.
Even if you use cookies legally without the cookie warning, there would still be the risk of getting a cease&desist or even a lawsuit from someone who does not understand the distinction and/or uses automated tools to find violating sites.

At least in Germany, sending such cease&desists is a lucrative business for many lawyers and organizations.
Your comment reminded me of the story recently about Harry's and how they bought a razor blade company in Germany because of the difficulty of reliably sourcing quality razors. I wonder if the 1DS folks have had supply chain issues?
With regard to the law, at least the UK interpretation, 'essential cookies' aren't ones that are essential for the website-operator's business purposes. The term is restricted to cookies that are essential for what the visitor has requested.

source: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
Yahoo has a little news app I love.
The best deal I have found in store is at Costco where for $49 you get a 24 pack of Mach 3 razors.

http://www.costco.com/Gillette-MACH3-Turbo-Cartridges-24-Cou...
> You should first check if the compiler doesn't do it for you.

It probably doesn't, because otherwise Intel wouldn't have submitted this patch that adds computed goto support to CPython: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/153401
#2 is true, but what the article points out that it's mainly an app store reform that the indie devs have been asking for for seven years now - to no avail, app discovery is still pretty much non-existent in the app store outside of the top listings and the 'featured apps'.
A great intro to fourier transforms with same type of animations: http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...