skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call it overblown. It has been applied very successfully in a few places; for example, voice recognition.

Right now we're at the stage of the "seven blind men and the elephant". Over time, our eyes will open and things will start making sense.
We, as a nation, elected "tough on crime" politicians. As you already pointed out, the private prisons lobby. They lobby the politicians we as a nation elected. We have a democracy, we vote for tough on crime politicians. As a result, we imprison lots of people.
Are you being serious, or just trying to sound super philosophical about why "less is more"? I assume it's the latter, because it shouldn't take very much thought to see why HTTP servers are fairly complex pieces of software, given the purpose they serve - a class of software that is ruthlessly optimized in today's world - nor should it take very much thought to see this HTTP server is actually ridiculously inefficient compared to any modern one. You know, wasting all those precious CPU cycles you opine so much about?

(Now, if you want to talk about the actual efficacy of HTTP vs other stateless protocols, that's a different story... But I doubt we're going to go there in a thread about an assembly HTTP server where people are ooh'ing over the achivement. Not that it isn't cool, TBQF.)

Programmers at large really need to stop being pretend philosophers clutching at straws about "why things are so darn bad today!!!" (among other psuedo philosophical positions). They're mostly terrible at it, and it's almost always just so damn hamfisted and full of itself.
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. The OP asked whether there was a way to determine what is in the public consciousness.

There are many ways. Among the most popular these days are web and mobile analytics.

I did some consulting on a data visualization tool that was employed by one of the world's largest corporations to determine what the public had to say about its products. In that individual, specific case while I felt uncomfortable accepting the work I don't regard it as outright evil.

However I do regard it as evil for a political party to do the exact same thing.

What I learned about the way analytics are used led to my ardent effort to convince others to blackhole analytics servers. It's also the reason I don't list any of my favorite books or movies in my Facebook profile.
You don't have to something super bad to be labelled a felon. Simple drug possession, not selling but being caught with certain drugs or a certain amount, will result in felony charges. In fact, a majority of felons in Federal prisons are drug related, though that percentage is much lower in State prisons, where there are more violent offenders.

http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...
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As an Argentine citizen, I can vouch for everything said above.

Indeed, some political parties give buses and free food to people as "motivation" to vote (even though voting is mandatory).

Since being a child I've known that on a long distance bus, or airplane, you never put anything remotely valuable in our luggage, and carry those things with you. Otherwise they'll be stolen. It's not "they might be stolen", it's very much a hard rule.
Hey all, we sent a Pull Request 2 days ago to the author of the Benchmark, as they used OrientDB incorrectly. Now OrientDB is the fastest in all the benchmarks, except for "singleRead" and "neighbors2", but we know why we're slower there.

We are still waiting for the Arango team to update the results...

However, who is interested in running the tests themselves, just clone this repository:

https://github.com/maggiolo00/nosql-tests
Well, Norway, a country with a population of the size of Colorado, also has more money than half of the world. Does the fact that their society is more equal in itself actually help with the problem you're describe regard worldwide inequality? I don't see the mechanism.
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Ask HN: Thoughts on wonderlic test for interviews
I had a company reach out to me about a job and they mentioned part of their hiring process involves taking a wonderlic test. I've never heard of them(the tests or the company) before this. Does anyone have any experience taking one for a software dev job?
What should a good score be for someone taking this test? I see numbers all over the place online. The first try at it on a practice test I got a 20/50 and didn't finish all the questions in the allotted time.
Here's one example where partisanship in the US media does the country a gross disservice. Unless we venture into Nazi level abuses, it's hard to top the Cash for Kids scandal mentioned in the article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal). One judge arranged for a private juvenile prison to replace a state one (he claims the company bribed him, the official story goes with their claim he shook them down), another judge sent a lot of kids there, for "crimes" as trivial as saying bad things about a teacher (yeah, protected or at least not criminal speech), there was at least one suicide implicated, etc. There aren't many contemporary US injustices I've read about that made me this angry.

Then a Federal judge said to the prosecutors that, no, I'm not going to accept nothingburger tax evasion as I recall 7 years in prison plea bargain, eventually judge sending the children to the prison was convicted and sentenced to 28 years (Federal, so no parole), the other plea bargained for a more just 17.5 years.

Now, see that above Wikipedia link? You won't find out from it what political party these judges belonged to. Which tells you which one, if they'd been Republicans this would have been reported in screaming worldwide headlines, used in the 2010 and on elections, etc. But very few know about it, it's not much more than a local story.

ADDED: just really looked at the linked Washington Post article and it's clear this is part of the current effort to trash Rubio, who competes for the same local political campaign donor pool as Jeb Bush, whom you'll not be surprised is not well regarded by a large fraction of the Republican party.
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Maybe I missed it, but what benefit does it have to squeeze that into JSON structures, except making it harder to write for humans? Only to save part of the parser-building?

That said, an easy but powerful tool to digest and display APIs sounds very useful.
Does the business you work for produce the goods and services you consume, or at least the goods and services you need to survive? Does the business you work for have a recipe for turning unskilled labor into the goods & services required for those people to lead a similarly comfortable life?

If so, that's good news, because it means that your business is in a position to alleviate the economic nightmare scenario we are all worrying about.

FWIW I agree that the "communes of the future" will be businesses, but I disagree that the businesses of the present are the same as the proposed communes of the future. Current businesses are specialized and have customers different from their employees. "Commune" businesses would be relatively generalized and have employees as their primary customers. It's a substantially different structure and, I believe, one that provides considerably fewer opportunities to reliably deleverage large chunks of the human population.
If it's corruption, its Constitutionally protected, in the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law [respecting/or abridging] the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
> Rust’s strengths are Clojure’s weaknesses, and vice-versa. Rust isn’t as expressive or interoperable, and its concurrency story isn’t as complete. That said, it’s much better for performance or safety critical needs, and it can be embedded inside other programs or on very limited hardware.

I find this hard to believe. Is anyone actually using Rust for a safety-critical application?
Cops making 100k? That's like saying programmers make 200k. Average for cops is 56k.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/06/news/economy/police-pay/
I would absolutely love access to this, but it's showing as locked.
Compared to the cost of a human doing the same job, it's a lot closer to free than the cost of the human:

Human wages for a clerical role: ~$60,000 a year.

EC2 m4-10xl instance for a year: ~$13,000

The lack of a need for breaks, management, HR, bathrooms, kitchens, break rooms, lighting, HVAC, 60+ sq feet per employee... The costs for maintenance, energy and R&D are suddenly small peanuts; you can do a lot of R&D for the difference between the cost of a human and a machine.
14.10+ checking in here, it's very much installable.
I am now confused about what year it is, what has recently launched and who has just died. Good job!
When I saw this photo[1] in the article I thought:
"What would happen if the customer kicked the robot really hard making it topple over?"

Sorry, i get these random thoughts in my head sometimes! :P

[1] http://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictu...
This is merely anecdotal, and the results are really quite random.

You might get it two weeks later at home, or you might have to pick it up at the customs at Ezeiza (about 3 hours trips from where I lived last time in happened) six months later with a 50% tax. Other packages simply never arrived.

Between the randomness, and the huge taxes added, average people don't even consider things like buying in Amazon. And definitely not even close to a scale of how it's done in the US.
It's an old article. Doesn't appear to be ported over to Wired's new, responsive layout.
> They operate completely differently (a regular automation vs. a stack based pattern matcher).

It's more exciting than this actually! An implementation of formal regexes doesn't have to simulate an automaton explicitly. In fact, it can also use backtracking and keep its linear running time. Such an implementation would use an explicit stack and also keeps track of each state that has been visited for a particular position in the search text. If a state has already been visited, then it doesn't repeat itself.

A backtracking implementation can be faster than a full NFA simulation if: 1) you need to track submatch boundaries, 2) you have a small regex and 3) you have small input. (2) and (3) are necessary because of the memory required to keep track of the states you've visited (proportional to len(regex) * len(search text)). (1) is necessary because you could otherwise use a DFA, which AFAIK, does not typically track submatch boundaries. Tracking submatch boundaries in a backtracking implementation is faster than simulating an NFA automaton because you only need to keep one copy of the capture locations around at any point in time. The NFA simulation has to copy them around a lot.

(Of the regex implementations that guarantee linear running time, C++'s RE2, Go's `regexp` and now Rust's `regex` all implement a bounded backtracking algorithm... among others!)
The two conditions are not equialent - the first is true if GEngine is null or does not use sound, and the second is true if GEngine is not null and is undefined otherwise due to dereferencing a null pointer. I assume the original author intended to write "(!GEngine || !GEngine->UseSound())".
Voice recognition has gotten a lot better. I'm almost impressed by my Amazon Echo. That said, for an arbitrary recording of say a conference presentation, you need to either use a human transcriber or expect to spend a LOT of time cleaning things up.

(A lot probably has to do with switching to more data-based approaches.)
The blood bags doesn't show the donor's phone number, it has a bar code on it with a serial number. My guess is that when they remove the bag from stock, they scan the bag and a text message gets sent from some server. The recipient have no way of knowing where the blood came from unless they have access to the database, which of course they don't. The blood donor doesn't know who got the blood, only that it's been used.
That's quite right, but those bookstores aren't there just for the locals. The huge economical difference makes buying books here stupidly cheap for europeans, so a lot of sales are actually done by tourists.

That's not to say us locals don't read though, plenty of buyers are Argentines too.
While I was at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington I puzzled over why so many of my fellow patients acted so childlike. For example when we waited in line for our meals, it was just like schoolchildren waiting in line, asking each other to hold their places while they stepped out, or saying "No cuts!"

This was even the case among aged grandmothers.

I very quickly realized that it was largely due to the way we were treated by the staff. For example if one refused to take one's medicine in the morning, one would not be permitted to smoke cigarettes in the exercise yard that day. If one refused in the evening, one would not be permitted a root beer float.

At no point did any of the hospital staff explain to any of use WHY we were taking that medicine.

It is far, far more important for the mentally ill to know why we take medicine, than it is for us to actually take it at all.

If you treat someone like a child they will act like a child.
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If a prisoner is raped, the prison should incur liability, civil and criminal for allowing it to happen. When guards initiate violence against prisoners they should be liable as well. This should be the case for both private and "public" prisons.

If you have a legal system that actually enforces the law everywhere, rather than giving violent criminals running prisons free reign to brutalize their charges, you would find that private prisons are more efficient at operating successful prisons than government ones-- just as private entities are more efficient (and humane) everywhere else in the economy.

The problem is that we don't have the rule of law in this country. Cops are not indicted let alone prosecuted when they murder people or steal their life's savings. Politicians are held even less accountable.

Until this is resolved, fighting over lobbying and who runs the prisons is like debating who left the barn doors open after the cattle have left.

Prisons should be punishment, humanely, and rehabilitation. So long as they aren't they are corrupt. And they will continue to drive corruption-- whether it's a private entity or the warden of prisons building his own fiefdom, the incentive is to keep more people imprisoned longer for personal profit.

Hence the drug war and all the other corruption that brings.

Frankly, this alone proves that government cannot be trusted with the business of distributing justice. Which is why I'm an anarchist.

but all you government lovers-- where is the reform? why do you support the violent brutalization via anal rape and regular beatings that 22 year old kids whose only "Crime" was being caught with a dime bag of weed are getting?
I partially agree that we do elect "tough on crime politicians" and we get what we elect. But part of the problem is that we also live in a reactive society instead of a proactive one. We react to incidents with tough laws that sound good when emotions are high and in the moment. Yet we fail to consider the long-term consequences of those laws, so 5-10 years down the road we face the real results of the law. We also live in a society where it is easy to be lazy with laws and take a zero-tolerance approach. I would characterize it more as we have "tough on crime politicians" who don't start that way, but over time become that way because of lobbying efforts and reelection campaigns.
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In general, the Supreme Court regards commercial speech as far, far less protected than those of the press or of individuals.
Notably absent is a comparison showing how large for-profit prison lobbying actually is. Glancing at Opensecret's top 20 lists doesn't actually suggest it's very large:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYe...

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYe...

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=u&showYe...

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indus.php?id=W&year=2015

For the last one (by industry), note that the breakdown of subcategories is weird. The "Other" category includes "Education", "Civil Servants" and "Non-Profit", all of which would be large enough independently to show up in the top category.
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My point was more we should look to re-allocate resources, financial and human, to discovery producing activities in the future, i.e. R&D, thus employing, educating, and empowering people, regardless of the actual rate of discovery per person/dollar invested in R&D.
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You seem to be using a definition of equality that you haven't fully explained. Do you mean more equal in terms of ownership? If so, how is that valuable?
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I don't see that as being at all relevant, since free speech is in the earlier part of the whole amendment, and "petitioning" people in your Government, while obviously a form of speech, is specifically and additionally protected here.
For [2] and [3] it sounds like Trace3 is a technology consultancy, integrator, and services provider. So the business is more like "specialized IT for hire" than a new product or innovative technology.

As a result, I'd guess that the $400MM is gross revenue over the life of the company (not annual), and a large portion went to vendors like Avaya and Rackspace that he set-up for the clients.

Then again, this is just reading between the lines, I have no direct experience with Trace3.
I realize that you're joking, but RF penetrates many materials. Unless you have a lead desk then you should be checking underneath before sending state secrets. :-)
They sound like fairly normal American names to me.

What am I missing?
It's actually worse than that. Most states and the federal system impose periods of supervision after release - often lasting for years. During this time, they aren't just expected to not break the law. They must find a job that their probation officer approves of, with an employer that is willing to give reports to the PO, and must disclose their conviction to all potential employers. They often cannot travel outside the county in which they reside, even for work. They cannot drink alcohol (even socially) in most cases. Their constitutional rights against illegal search and seizure are null and void, and must submit to searches any time and at any place they are. Those that were accused of financial crimes often are not allowed to possess checking accounts or credit/debit cards. They often must attend expensive classes & counseling sessions, and pay supervision fees, along with making any applicable restitution or payments on fines. These are just the basics that apply to everyone....there is an infinite list of conditions that can be imposed based upon the specific crime(s) they committed.

If they violate any of these conditions, they are subject to immediate arrest and imprisonment, usually without any judicial review. This is one reason reincarceration rates are so high - it's incredibly easy for these people to be sent back to jail without even thinking of committing a new crime.
So your logic is: if you say something negative about group X, then you must want to throw them out of your country, therefore you want to hunt them down, therefore you are are anti-democratic. Therefore there cannot be anything negative to say about group X.
Among the reasons that I get arrested a lot, is that I learned in High School American History that the Supreme Court does not write "advisory opinions" as do the high courts of some other nations.

That is, one cannot simply request that a law be struck down as unconstitutional. Loosely speaking one must actually violate the law then face all the consequences in hopes that one's appeal will be heard in the Supreme Court.

It happens all the time that one loses over really petty things, such as that one's case could have been settled by a state court. While SCOTUS regards its job as deciding Constitutional issues it is also reluctant to make any decision that it does not really have to make.
This is really interesting... My security team would use something like this... though would be nice to suggest a pattern a la "inurl" that shows all sites where /about/carousel.php" shows up, for example.

Edit: I see you guys are a security company... makes sense. :-)
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We should recognize that the constitution still allows slavery as a punishment for crime. This is as much about slave labor, as it is about the prison industry receiving money from the public purse.

13th amendment
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Good general overview of prison labor:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor...

More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction.
http://vltp.net/casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows/

The slave market:
http://www.unicor.gov/

You can even get slave labor to operate your call center:
http://www.unicor.gov/services/contact_helpdesk/
I agree that there are more and less efficient ways to do good, but not everyone can make it finance, and nobody should feel bad about not putting in 80-hour weeks in soul-crushing work. Many people would feel miserable in that type of environment.

Here's a good essay by someone that stopped earning to give, on a site that broadly encourages it as a strategy: https://80000hours.org/2015/06/why-i-stopped-earning-to-give...
Yep. It's gotten bad enough that people will actually take a longer period of incarceration if it doesn't involve probation afterward. And good luck finding an employer who will hire a felon. Hell, good luck finding a landlord who will rent to you.
https://www.imageidentify.com/ correctly identified the images as "a small sofa". I think rotating the image is questionable, since there could be an algorithm for first orienting the image correctly based on light and shadow and then the image recognition could be run.

https://www.imageidentify.com/result/1ixb9603m9ix1
I would guess that these companies never had actual "goodwill" towards GPL software and the Free Software community. Instead their motivation was simple profit and they weren't interested in anything that might interfere with that, such as freedom for their users, which GPLv3 enhances (specifically via the anti-Tivoisation provisions).
> we expect an ex-offender to get out of jail, get a job, have a stable housing environment, pay taxes, and not break any more laws

We expect an ex offender to be reformed, but that is not the role of prisons.

'Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves. For 200 years everybody has been saying, "Prisons are failing; all they do is produce new criminals." I would say on the other hand, "They are a success, since that is what has been asked of them." '

https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/foucault-pri...
I think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.