skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US justice systems != all jury systems. I've experienced the justice system in both England and Scotland (they're different!), from the Scottish perspective as a police officer and the English one as a member of a jury on two cases.

In both instances the lawyers who practice, especially in more serious cases, need "a right of audience" - that is they are either an English barrister/Scottish advocate or a solicitor who has undergone additional training. For a case like a murder trial both sides will have solicitors who appoint experienced counsel to actually make the argument in court. This is the key that the American system doesn't have - those counsel almost always act for both defence and prosecution - they are not professional prosecutors or defenders. Some specialise in one direction or the other, but they avoid the tribalism and chasing of conviction rates. There is the equivalent of the DA, that is the senior state lawyers who rarely actually appear in court, but they come up through the tradition of the independent bar.

What that leads to is a prosecution and defence that both tend towards the interest of justice. Given that you end up with the professionals all striving to test the burden of proof, not grandstanding - which leads to a more harmonious jury experience. Many of my friends from university became lawyers, some of the brightest minds in the country practice at the criminal bar and conduct "legal aid" defences - i.e. act as public defenders. It is the equivalent of the defence attorney in the article's case being a Harvard Law graduate.

No legal system is perfect, many are starved of funds, every one has had prominent scandals over the years. I would submit that the jury system is still a valuable check and balance and works remarkable well when combined with an independent, professional, bar which avoids perverse incentives.
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The emergency call was apparently triggered by the airbag deployment[1]. For some cars, when the airbag deploys, a representative comes on the speakerphone to ask if everyone is ok, and whether they should call the police or an ambulance. It appears that the Ford system places the call automatically.

[1] http://corporate.ford.com/microsites/sustainability-report-2...
Well the day I let my car make decisions for me is the day I walk, or have a self driving car:)
I think they might be more likely to have a smartphone than a desktop or laptop computer.
PouchDB uses indexedDB under the hood, falling back to webSQL when needed and its possible to plug in localStorage / memory / other adapters.

As for limits, desktop browsers are generally 'unlimited' mobile browsers can be stricter and often people use wrapper projects (like cordova etc) to get round that and have unlimited storage.

http://pouchdb.com/faq.html#data_limits
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/quota-researc...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's DSGE Model Meets Julia
With over 50 responses so far, we've made an infographic to share it with you guys (http://i.imgur.com/RvoiVuj.png). I'd love to dig deeper and produce a more detailed infographic as we get more responses to our survey.

If you'd like to help, here's the link to the survey - https://paperio.typeform.com/to/SkJrVN
Still sounds like it's not working right, unless it was a read-only test. Transaction commits force synchronous disk writes, meaning the transaction operation will not finish and return before the spinning disk has physically done one or more disk writes. (Unless you have an expensive storage system with non-volatile cache memory)
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> I doubt it is any more environmentally friendly than new or traditional recycled paper.

Traditional recycled paper requires fully loaded trucks travelling for kilometers to the recycling factories and other trucks moving the produced paper around until it its the stores again. Machine like this eliminates all that back and forth.
Convert your still image into 3D model
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10670138
>calling him Zoltan Istvan is a lot like someone having the name Robert Steven

Actually there are lots of persons with names like "Robert Steven" and similar ("first names" as surnames).
What was he charged with?
Abstract of the abstract:
Emerging findings from studies of animal models and human subjects suggest that intermittent energy restriction periods of as little as 16 h can improve health indicators and counteract disease processes.
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Pareidolia: Artificial face made from morphing inanimate objects
Anyone outside the simulation for starters. If you run a simulation and zoom to a certain area, you want to see it properly "rendered".

And people inside the simulation too, I guess. If they make measurements at some specific area and zoom level, you want them to get results for that level consistent with their model of the world -- not to have them see the "seams" of the simulation engine so to speak.
Um you mean the Inquisitorial system - not sure I would be happy with a system that came out of revolutionly tribunals and the terror.
Nice! Immutability islands are the future.
"I was greeted by my CEO who just dashed in from the hospital as someone in his family had passed away a few hours earlier."

Whoa, is this how CEOs are in China? Priorities are misaligned here...I skipping this article.
That's it, but I'm out of ideas how to do it. Charities are not good enough; you need to disconnect the incentives for writing the stories from how readers like them. News, after all, is about observable reality so it shouldn't be affected by the moods of the society.

Yeah, BBC may be a step in the right direction. The grant-funding organization idea is interesting. Or maybe the reverse? Let's make news just like a public agency - collecting data (stories) and releasing it as a public service, just like NOAA does with weather? But then again, we'd need a way to incentivize the reporters to dig into government/whoever-funds-this problems and make sure that such reports get published as well.

It's a hard problem, and alternative solutions won't be perfect either, but the current situation of constant outrage-fueled brainwashing is taking a heavy toll on the ability of our society to reason, so IMO it's worth considering a change.

BTW. I think that a regular change of such systems may not be a bad idea. The problem with media, or with justice, or democracy, or even with markets start when they're getting too optimized, and thus start to deviate from the original purpose. So i.e. if you look at the arguments about why democracy is awesome and all, they all seem to make sense... if applied to the system from 100 years ago, back when it wasn't so thoroughly gamed. We want our systems efficient, but not too efficient, because they're not perfectly aligned with our shared values.
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Ford Sync uses the inbuilt GPS antenna and your phone (connected via Bluetooth). Ford Sync calls the local emergency number and speak via an offline text-to-speech (Nuance software). The feature can be turned on/off in the on-board computer.

It's definitely better than the new EU regulation where every new car is required to "phone home" the car position every few minutes, so that in the case of an emergency they can locate you. Typical inversion of control for no benefit (for the consumer).
Looks like it's called Juninin no yasashii nihonjin: http://imdb.com/title/tt0104330/
Yeah, drunks in public transportation never cause any problems. There are of course no drunk train drivers ever, either.

Excuse my sarcasm. It's caused by how I think you're ignoring the actual problem: alcohol. You're suggesting a workaround that doesn't even make sense. Alcohol abuse causes behavioural problems that go much further than public transportation can ever solve. We should address the core of the issue ranher than fighting its symptoms. I'm not for a ban on alcohol, I am however for ending the taboo around talking about it.
That statement you quote does not imply that the author is black. All it says is that he's not white and not Latino. That leaves at least Asian, Indian (either definition), and Pacific Islander open.
Why sum and product types?
People are working on bringing ChaCha20-Poly1305 to TLS for this.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-chacha20-pol...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/do-the-chacha-better-mobile-perf...
Home Monitoring on Raspberry Pi
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I wonder what HN's devops people think about this wrt the current trend of containers and immutable infrastructure. Hot code reloading seems to be directly at odds with the idea of immutable architecture, because essentially the application code becomes state. So your container becomes stateful, instead of swapping out your old appserver container by a new one.

What's your opinion? Ditch Docker and put the Erlang VM on the host OS? Ditch hot code loading and swap containers the usual way? Some middle ground?
Thank you for the real substance and redressing the balance! I'm glad to give people reason to reexamine Ballmer.

I didn't expect more than a few people to read the story. I hope He wouldn't be pissed if he read it.
The Dutch already had this, but there were too much issues, legal and technical, to sustain it. If the Danes are thinking about implementing, hopefully they can do it in a better way than the Dutch.
So your saying it might take more than just sticking my tongue out and saluting in the next conversation I have?
A while ago, I wanted to annotate martial arts movements so I asked to a professional dancer friend of mine. She didn't know any way to do it. That surprised me.

Seeing this, I can't avoid to think in formal languages.
Maybe, even it's possible to define, formally, a particular dancing style as a grammar that doesn't admit movements from other styles.
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I have a number of data science projects, personal and business, where I would need a helping hand. Typically I do them myself (full stack) but recently I find myself doing more acquisition and results presentations, so help somewhere along these lines is appreciated.

I would start with a small project, via upwork if you prefer, and go from there.

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I don't understand the point of "not specifying output files". First: I just used your client and it worked, it is great work, thanks for that! But the one thing I did not understand was the -f options. Why don't you implement an (in my eyes much easier and common) interface of --output-key path and --output-cert path?

Having to script that with symlinks is nothing I can't do, but something that sucks a bit. Otherwise the crontab would not even need to call a bash-skript wrapping that stuff, it would be just your client with proper parameters. I'd much prefer that.
Those figures don't sound right to me, the US spends about 8% of it's GDP on food, that isn't likely to add up to 50-60% of emissions.

A carbon tax doesn't have to harm the poor either, it can be neutral if it's offset with tax decreases in other areas. There is even an argument that the developing world doesn't raise enough tax, without taxes you can't provide good health care to the poor.
In Italy, for example, it is socially unacceptable to be drunk.

Social stigma will change people's habits? How do we make lack of control with alcohol a social no-no?
Thanks Colin.
I think the only hope for Windows universal apps is to backport them to Windows 7 and 8. It seems Microsoft's plan was to use the free switch to Windows 10 from these to get enough market share that developers wouldn't mind moving to universal, but that hasn't happened; unless you want to target only ~10% of Windows desktops you're going to need to choose a different platform.
possibly this has changed recently but I don't think medical records software is subject to the same standards as medical device software (in Europe, at least).

It's important to remember that EMRs are there to support healthcare professionals who are used to working with incomplete / incorrect information all the time. For example, a patient isn't going to have a drug dispensed to them without a pharmacist checking it (and, frequently, asking the prescribing doctor to clarify/amend questionable doses or instructions).
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This is an amazing dataset. I did some work with it in 2012 at a hackathon, in particular linking it to wiki entities. I used the redirects as drug synonyms and automatically extracted and linked drug names to their Wikipedia pages, which then offered more structured info on the drugs (eg side effects etc). From that, I then did some basic NLP to identify diseases that mentioned those drugs, thereby linking the diseases each drugs can be used to treat for further analysis. The next step we didn't do much with was linking it to the British national formulary - the uk clinical guidelines on drug use (a digital version wasn't readily available then). You can see some of those wiki datasets on my website (http://www.stewh.com - I'm on a train so can't get the exact url, but you should find it in the menu). I had more datasets and the MapReduce code for working with the dataset and wiki dumps if anyone could use it.
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I don't think that economy growth vs energy consumption is a very useful metric for a country like Germany. We outsource a lot of our pollution to China where all the stuff we sell is actually made.
Non-American, don't know how the system works - how come they can eliminate people from the jury pool? I would have expected the jury selection to be completely random? There is no way the system can be fair if they get to select the jury.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_health_sof...

Please avoid too much diversification by reinventing wheels, instead please contribute to one of these projects.

Mobile first is a basic requirement in developing countries.
Businesses always drag their feet over upgrades, I had a customer ask for Windows 2000 support a couple of weeks ago.
As always, observer-dependent effects are actually information-dependent effects.

In this case, the Universe is simulated as a single entity. Since the behaviour of the Universe depends on its contents (i.e. we can gain information about the contents by observing the overall entity), this coarse-grained simulation is forced to sub-divide into smaller regions. The simulation keeps subdividing (some regions more than others) until it reaches a level where some hard-coded criterion is reached that further subdivision will have no effect on the outcome. For example, if an entire planet is getting swallowed by a star, it is not useful to simulate each atom of the planet; just treat the whole thing as one entity.

Unfortunately, the simulation has to spend a lot of resources simulating part of the Milky Way galaxy, because it contains a chaotic mechanism of "life", which may cause an observable effect on the Universe as a whole, e.g. by seeding galaxies with star-engulfing, self-replicating megastructures. In the region around Earth, the simulation was forced to sub-divide to a level we might call "classical mechanics", in order to calculate outcomes with enough precision.

Unfortunately, during the 20th Century, more subdivision has become necessary, as "life" has begun performing "experiments" with a precision beyond that of the "classical mechanics" level. These experiments act as amplifiers, turning very small effects (such as the discrete nature of space) into large ones (such as the publication of scientific papers, development of technology, colonisation of intergalactic space, etc.).

It turns out that the Universe is written in Haskell, and a "print" statement caused a thunk to be forced ;)
You seem not to understand what open source means. Code released to the public under common free open source licenses mean someone can fork the code and put it on Github any time. If the company chooses to close source further development, then it's their unfortunate choice, nevertheless already released older open sourced code will stay open source.
You should be aware that there's a significant risk you'll have to turn every single human who ever lived into its own class, and even then you'll run into the Halting problem while trying to identify each case of each classification.

You won't end up with any single seed values you can match any given instance against, but with multidimensional matrices that represents multidimensional scales.
> That is not always true, it really does depend on the crime. Jury Nullification does still exist and is becoming more popular especially for things like Drug Laws.

How is that a counter-example to the guideline "if you're guilty you want a jury trial"? It sounds like you're saying if I'm guilty of drug possession I want a jury trial.
No, if you have a HW supported crc32 builtin nothing will be faster than this.
You can safely skip the PCLMULQDQ optimization, which only works on newer CPU's, but crc32 should be almost everywhere nowadays.
So, intermittent fasting (16/8) [1] basically is healthy.

[1] http://antranik.org/intermittent-fasting/
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Victorian Magistrate Orders Child Horse Thieves to Be “Well Birched”
Uber has made a big impact already.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/08/20/drunk-driving-is-down-in-c...
I can see why you might want to share some libraries between a phone and desktop app but running the same app on both platforms makes no sense at all to me.

Then you have the problem that universal apps have to be sold through the app store which has all the problems of the Mac app store except worse in every respect.
Random quote from the article:

> I will eat a week's pay if OOP is still in vogue in 2015.

So, is it time to make the OP eat a week's pay or not? I'd say no.
The assignment aspect of __iadd__ is done like any other assignment in python. The one to one equivalent of eliteraspberrie's would be:

class Vector2D:
def __iadd__(self, other)
return self + other

No "self mutation" as you suggest. a += b is equivalent to a = a.__iadd__(b)
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If anyone else wants a bit of history on pipelining wrt Netscape/Firefox etc:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining

And in particular (from links in the above):

"Bug 264354 - Enable HTTP pipelining by default
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX" - in particular one of the last comments in the thread:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264354#c65

And:

"Bug 395838 - Remove HTTP pipelining pref from release builds
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX":
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395838

My general impression is that there were a few issues on Windows, in particular with "anti-virus software", and some problems with broken proxies -- as well as a handful of issues with hopelessly broken servers.

Additionally, it appears SSL/TLS latency was never really considered (not explicitly stated, but there appear to be implications that on "fast networks" http is "fast enough" that pipelining makes little difference) -- in other words it does indeed appear that just enabling piplining as the web moved from plain http to TLS, would've sidestepped most of the need for HTTP/2...
What social media strategy for an online travel agency?
I produce a lot of content but engagement is really low and people are not subscribing enough though we have a large selection and good prices. I don't know from where to start? We're on all social networks but we don't seem to get noticed yet. What are the effective ways to get real engaged followers ?
Can somebody point me at some introductionary material (or approachable code base) to writing an optimizing compiler?

There seem to be a lot of very good tutorials on writing a simple compiler, like
http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

There are also readable code bases like tinyc or this one.

However these always use a simple template based approach to code generation and stop there.

Of course there are real world compiler (lvm, gcc, ...). However because of their size and complexity it's hard to learn from them.

What I am interested in would be going from:
"I have an AST and for this node type I output this assembly."
to
"I translate the AST to an IR. Transform an the IR in multiple passes and finally output decent asm."

That is, something that talks about CFG analysis, register scheduling or maybe SSA form? I have read papers on SSA and Sea-of-Nodes IRs, but these of course always assume that you know how and why to use them. A more approachable text/github-repo that shows how to take the step from template base code gen to more advanced techniques would be great.

(I hope it is ok to ask this here. Did not want to hijack the thread.)
How does this compare to OpenMRS? Hospitals because they have to obey a lot of goverment regulations needs to customize a lot of things, records and reporting so we did a lot of work around the plugin architecture in OpenMRS, does this have similar extension mechanisms too?
"With a price of drug per year being twice the average income in the richest country in the world - that creates impossible situation by definition for half of its populace."

Even worse. There are a few gigantic outliers at the upper end of the scale. That means that the number of people below average income will be >50%. What you want to check against in such cases is the median (50:50 split by definition).

"Also value provided is not always correlated with value extracted"

That is exactly one of the main problems society is struggling with. How do we even measure value provided? It's a subjective measure to begin with. In the case of the hedge funds manager, it's probably net-negative for most people (but I'm sure her friends would disagree).
Great suggestion, i will look over this. Thanks :)
The biggest thing I took away from this was reading the slides and seeing the FBI's suicide letter to Martin Luther King.

I didn't know about that, and reading that right after seeing the jury dury article on the front page today is chilling to say the least.
Great!

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Here in Sweden, I don't know of any legislation but alochol locks are not unheard of. They are fitted to a lot of company work vehicles, and are increasingly popular in the cars of normal people who could never imagine themeselves drink driving because insurers will give discount.

It was in my local paper that the local district nurses were having trouble with them because they had to wash their hands in alcohol after each visit, and this was enough to make the car lock up sometimes, leaving them stranded waiting 30 minutes until they could try again and start the car and proceed to their next house call.
Didn't the Russians make some early inroads there?