skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US we separate attorneys fees from other “court costs”. Typically a winning party in my county would win their costs (in a hypothetical case like mine that would be the initial filing and maybe the cost to serve the court filing on the Bank).

Attorneys fees are more complicated and the general rule is actually that each party bears it’s own attorneys fees, but there are many execrations from statutes authorizing them in certain types of cases and situations or if a contract includes a provision providing for them. It’s possible one or more contracts I have with the bank includes such a provision, I’d have to look at my credit card agreement (it may even require mediation, but that’s part of the small claims process in my jurisdiction anyway). Also It’s typically not allowed that a lawyer representing themselves can be awarded fees.
> Not very readable? How so? I'd rather read a concise mathematical definition rather than three pages of prose and diagrams. It is most definitely readable although it does require some training to understand the mathematics if you're not used to reading it. Just as reading a blueprint requires a bit of training.

You glibly toss off "a bit of training" as if it's an afternoon's work over a cup of coffee. Understanding, intuitively, the systems that mathematical models like TLA describe is _extraordinarily_ difficult. Reading that 1-page model description for comprehension could be the work of days. Reading a 10-page prose and illustration description of the same system is likely to be the work of 10 minutes, and result in a much more thorough practical understanding of the system.
The Times seems to be on an anti-Facebook crusade of sorts.
Which is fine with me, but morality is usually the weakest & least important argument for doing anything. That's why so many people - the clergy - have to make a full-time career out of declaring it to be the most important.

Quitting Facebook benefits you, selfishly and immediately; end of story.
It’s a tricky claim to make for Apple.

But it’s easy to make across the full ecosystem of digital app stores which are near universally 30 percent rakes. I’m including games in that list; Xbox, PlayStation, Steam, etc.

That said, even if mobile apps are cheaper than they used to be many could be even cheaper if Apple took a 10% cut.

I don’t like living in a world where almost every major distribution platform has complete vertical integration. The 30% cut is a farce. But I’m not sure this is the best argument to end it.
Hah, fair enough!

For some reason I'm imagining the worst-case scenario of a pedestrian completely oblivious to what's going on around them and just crossing without looking on a busy street, which I realize is pretty unlikely.
When are accelerators worth it?
For a profitable, growing SaaS, with an experienced founder - are accelerators ever worth it? Looks like angel-funding and mediocre info for VC-level terms. Read: what most ask for is not equal to the value they provide. Am I wrong?
Interesting. Thanks for the response!
There are reasonable circumstances when you'd want these. For example, I might have a daemon where a call modifies some state, makes an async outcall, then modifies more state, and then returns an answer. This function might not be re-entrant. If so, you'll want a lock.

This is a fairly common issue in concurrent programming.
Fixed percentage equalizes the disincentive.

The goal of fine is discourage. The same fine for all relative to income provides more equal discouragement.
I wouldn't call Interactive Brokers a "similar service" but it's one of the few brokers that offers accounts pretty much worldwide [0] and also one of the few that offers access to pretty much any market [1].

That said, they either cost $10/month (commission or inactivity fee) unless you have a $100k balance with them.

[0]: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=7021

[1]: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1562
SeqAcademy: an easy-to-use tutorial for bioinformatics analyses
You can cross if you are not within 30 meters of a zebra crossing. Crossing on a red traffic light is still considered jaywalking.
So the simplest way to think about it is:

Take a picture. Put a light behind it and place a black mask on top of it so you can only see a vertical slit. Point a camera at it off-center. Open the shutter and pull the camera backwards, then close the shutter. You will get a long horizontal smear with the slit stretched out into a long foreshortened rectangle (it will be skinnier towards the center of the picture and fatten out towards the edge).

Now do the same thing, but as you pull the camera, move the picture past the slit horizontally. Now, instead of one 1d line being stretched out into a foreshortened rectangle, you are stretching a flat rectangle into a foreshortened one. To make a zoom effect, you do this several times (one for each frame) but with the background starting at different positions, so it appears to scroll towards the camera.

With a different shaped slit (a square or a circle for instance) you can make a tunnel sort of effect, like the Doctor Who sequence above. You can see the slit scan happening best at the top and bottom of the circular tunnel: notice that the texture is less detailed there and a bit smooshed. That happens because the circle is being dragged horizontally and at the top, the right semicircle and left semicircle are being dragged over the same parts of the background soon after each other. If you had a part of the slit that was totally horizontal, that part would come out without any 2d texture effect at all and would just look like a smeared out 1d line. So the circle is most detailed at the left and right side.

The whole tunnel has a sort of horizontally tilted feel, and that comes from the left-to-right (or vice versa?) dragging of the background.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524434
i wouldn’t pin that all on anti competitive behaviour though... the end to end control of the platform is kind of Apples MO, and is a fairly distinguishing feature between the Android ecosystem and the Apple ecosystem. it’d be nice to have another distribution option, but not at the expense of a simple UX, security, or any other very valid reason to only allow a tightly controlled experience
I'm not misunderstanding it. I'm saying there is no good solution here.

Feel free to propose a punishment that isn't disproportionate to somebody. I don't think such a punishment exists, aside from crazy edge cases like "do not enforce the law".

Go ahead. Try to make a suggestion that won't punish some people more than others.

In case it makes you feel any better about the system of fines, we can say that the disproportionate impact is itself a punishment for the lifestyle choices that lead to being poor. OK, that is awful, but it's some sort of justification.
If you wanted to pay your Ohio taxes using MtG cards, you would first have to find someone to exchange those cards for USD. After you did that, you'd have to go and file your taxes with the Ohio Department of Taxation.

These would be two completely independent transactions, involving agreements between you and two entities (whoever you exchange your MtG cards with and the Ohio Department of Revenue). There would be no connection whatsoever between the site where you arrange to sell your MtG cards and the site where your pay your taxes.

OhioCrypto.com is operated by the state of Ohio. When you register, the TOS says it is a contract between you and the Ohio Treasurer of State. To pay your taxes in Bitcoin through OhioCrypto.com, you do not first change them to USD via some third party. You present the Bitcoin payment information and your tax information, much the same way you would present your credit card information on a site that accepts credit cards.

OhioCrypto.com then uses BitPay to process the Bitcoin payment information, much the same way a credit card accepting site might use Authorize.Net or Braintree to process the credit card information, receiving eventually USD deposited to their account.

In your MtG hypothetical, in no sense would Ohio be accepting MtG cards. By the time they are involved, you are giving them USD. It would not make headlines because Ohio has no involvement.

With OhioCrypto.com, you are giving Ohio your Bitcoin payment information, and Ohio is dealing with having that payment information used to exchange your Bitcoins for USD. This makes headlines because Ohio is directly accepting Bitcoin payment information at a state run website.

Edit: updated to not imply Ohio holds Bitcoin, in response to tptacek's observation below.
So charge the developers for that underwriting service.
For anyone who still doesn't know this: publishers do not pay paper authors, in any field. I am also not aware of a publisher paying peer reviewers.

(Lowly soon-to-be-postdoc here; a professor would be able to say more.)
Yeah, that's not how it goes. If it does go that way (some people for example might have mental issues and go into the street, or be disoriented etc), it's not usually held up to the driver if they are hit, except if it's shown that they could have realistically prevented it.
As you are on British Facebook, that would be Friends Reunited. Not created by British peasants either.
All premium rate numbers in the UK begin 09.

(0870 is "national rate", which can be more expensive than it ought to be, but not to the level available on 09 numbers.)
Good thing they didn't fine her for speeding at the same time.

I find it more than a little bit implausible that facial recognition accuracy is good enough to pluck a face out of a billion people and accurately identify a single individual to the point that a fine would be automatically issued, especially without corroborating evidence that the person fined was even there.
The stock market(s) will have crashed. And recovered nicely.

20 year olds will be extremely socially liberal. Today's 20 year olds (30-something then) will begin criticizing them and will be trending more conservative.

American Democrats will hold some extremely progressive planks, but will also have returned to center to broaden the base. Republicans will have less religious planks and will have made significant inroads with minority communities.

We'll have a mix of autonomous and traditional automobiles, but they will be owned only by those outside of big cities. The rural poor will have some nice rides (ICE machines), the rich will have self-driving luxury mobiles. Gasoline will be silly expensive.

There will be fewer wars and more international companies. Capitalism will become infused (in one form or other) into every economy. European-style socialism will also be omni-present.

Young folks will be engrossed in ever-more outrageous ultimate sports. Old folks will take great interest in geneology and the weather. Everyone will claim they know what's best to deal with the global climate.
Yes, because poor (or not-well-off) people have this enormous respect of money, and of people who have accumulated lots of it. They don’t want to waste this investor‘s time, and they are scared of asking customers for money.

Well-off people don’t have these problems. That random investor is just like their dad, plus or minus the Rolex, and they know their language („Have you been to Martha’s this year?“). Asking for money is not a problem either because they never experienced the process of spending money as painful - their worldview is that you have a certain budget to spend, and when it’s gone you either wait a bit or get some more.
In addition to the argument others are suggesting, that their market share isn't high enough to qualify, I believe they have also made legal arguments in the past about the sandboxed nature of their platform. I imagine they could also make a convincing argument that it's a feature they sell their customer- one that is at the core of why this requirement exists. They could probably also point to macOS, where they do not have the requirements and the technical environment is different, as support that it's platform-specific related to the sandbox.
This was true a few years ago but in 2018, it's not a curated place to get software. It's the only marketplace to get software for your device. 30% is disproportionate to what's being offered today.
The Spartacus TV series is over the top and stylized, but nobody can accuse it for lack of vulgar language and too little sex.
So the Howard Families from Time Enough for Love might not be that far-fetched.
I'm willing to bet GH is being mirrored internally as you suggest otherwise you'd be exposing the only current digital copy to hackers. That just seems a reasonable expectation to me.

So the activity is likely happening on the larger and more exposed GH service, while internally there is a daily copy bring backed up that isn't (as) exposed to hackers.

Something life that would be a great way to displace risk.
"...an exclusive and default way to purchase and load apps on iOS"

If the court allows the definition of 'trust' to include "a company gatekeeping developer access to their own operating system" when that operating system represents a much smaller share of the market than the next biggest competitor.
That should have been:

At some point you get tried of trying to find an underutilized box to launch a new docker container.

At this point any service should just be a docker container but you still have to find a home with enough memory, cpu, and temp space to run the container.
One has to love those little parasite riding a parasite schemes. Like a fleas flea.

I provide a tool, cutting you off from revenue- now you can ride the service rodeo all you want- but if you pay well, i shall cease to update, i might even reactivate the telemetry by accident.
The Failure: Midwife assisted births outside the hospital more dangerous
If you use infrastructure-as-code like Terraform or Cloudformation you will find it harder to lose track, because the design, and hopefully some comments, are checked into source control.

Cloudcraft is good too, but not the whole answer.
UML Sequence diagrams are useful, if they are kept up to date and reflect reality. I find they are great for the initial "what the hell is this doing?" stage of coming to something new.
very similar to the great famine in USSR in 1932-33

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93...

One can only wonder why ... Or just look at Venezuela and North Korea today.

From that time we have an expression "like a hunger-stricken from the Volga region" ("golodayuschiy s Povolzh'ya", the region among the most affected by the famine) meaning like a completely debilitated by prolonged hunger and by overall extremely bad conditions person.
Maybe the NY primaries were different, but I don't know that turnout numbers bear out any real material impact from efforts to turn out non-traditional voters.
People like Cortez will only hurt the Democrats by moving them further left and moving voters from the middle to alternatives other than democrats
The interesting comparison is the epidemiological one. Fascism as a deadly infectious idea has terrible and terrifying outcomes, resulting in swift response to it, and a good understanding of what it looks like: we'll all recognize fascism upon hearing race-based rallying cries. Communism as a deadly infectious idea is probably deadlier yet; unfortunately, it is less immediately terrifying, so it doesn't get as rapid a response. And, unlike with fascism, we have a feeble understanding of when radical left-wing thought reaches malignancy, which is a problem we don't have quite so badly with fascism.

As to the morality comparison, denying agency to your entire country's farmers on the belief that you can just control everything from afar and keep it running isn't that different from claiming that your country would be running well if you could just get rid of all the Jews. They're both reprehensible actions undertaken based on nonsensical beliefs; one of those beliefs just takes a bit longer to think about.
Startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses
the important part against that line of reasoning though is at the very bottom of the article:

“The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year revived the lawsuit, deciding that Apple was a distributor that sold iPhone apps directly to consumers.”

if they decide that apple sells apps directly (after all, you go through apples distribution, payment, and “editorial” channels and have only a tenuous link to the developer i question) rather than the developers selling apps, then that could be an issue for them
Are College Admissions Officers Reading Your Tweets?
A proof that mother nature hates us:

https://naturespoisons.com/2014/05/27/the-manchineel-tree-pr...
But a Dockerfile is imperative. It just lists, in order, the steps needed to build an image.
Thank you.

I've added the news links to my article for reference as well.
Would machine learning be preferred?
The current, modern, and typical grain if you will

There is no "modern grain". Our brains haven't changed in any fundamental way over the past 10,000 years of civilization. Humans have been learning language as children the same way, for the entirety of history. The modern method of teaching language goes against the way humans naturally learn languages.

Look, talk to anyone who learned a language in school. None of them are anywhere near as good as a native speaker.

He said "that wuks heavy!"

I wonder how often children who make mistakes like this either have a hearing impairment or have parents who think it's "funny" to imitate their children's mispronunciations. Baby talk is a widespread thing and I think it's harmful to children.

When I talk to kids I treat them like an adult. I try really hard to speak the same way to everyone. If someone doesn't understand, I generally pick it up from their body language and go over what I'm saying in more detail. I ask questions to test their understanding.
mentioned and expanded on in a parent comment, but the important part of the article related to that is right at the bottom:

“The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year revived the lawsuit, deciding that Apple was a distributor that sold iPhone apps directly to consumers.”

the question is whether apple sells the apps, or the developer sells the apps.
Now that it's Sunday evening here in Europe I took the time to listen to your pair programming rap (again) and some other songs and wanna say, this is really gold. Keep it up!
Indeed - I bought some early Bluetooth headphones that have a 'shazam' button, and pressing it would Dail their 4 it 5 digit UK number at the time. I think it was something like 2580 (the numbers straight down the centre of the dial pad.) Calls were capped at 50p I think and you got an sms response with the song title and artist fairly swiftly.

Strange how fast things change hey! Old news article about shazam and aqa https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/shazam-aqa-the-answer-is-on-you...
What famines were there where not either the government caused or ignored the problem, a colonial power ignored or caused the problem or a war was going on?
This looks very cool. Speaking as someone who is not in to winter sports or mountaineering, what is this useful for? Identifying areas with high avalanche risk?
It's true that in theory a NULL pointer could be 0xffffffff or such, and that would prevent some of the problems the article mentions. However, that would only help when you assign NULL to a pointer explicitly. The problem is that in practice NULL pointers are often caused by other things, like thinking that zero-initialized memory contains a pointer - in fact, this is even more common in wasm than natively, since wasm guarantees memory and stack are initialized to zero.

This is serious enough an issue that for debugging purposes emscripten has a SAFE_HEAP mode which will check for NULL pointers on every access. We'd still need that to look for 0 even if the compiler considered NULL to be something other than 0.
This would be incredible. No reason zooming out can't also show you stuff like load-balancers, message queues, firewalls, and their config/infrastructure code.
Has sound, but not autoplaying and it does warn you.

home birth vs hospital birth has been discussed a bit on HN before. I'm submitting this US report (which contains graphic distressting description of birth) because it taught me a lot about the US context.

In the UK midwives are degree educated, trained, and professionally registered with the NMC.

It's genuinely shocking to me to see the different standards used in the US.
Unfortunately, you are very very wrong, and World war 2 is a great example why:

Some countries had census data containing the religion of every family. People proudly declared themselves Jewish. When the Nazis invaded the countries, they grabbed the available data and instantly knew who to send to the camps. One reason why so many Jews died was the speed with which the situation evolved. Sometimes there were 2 weeks between 'nothing to wory' and the deportation.

The same principle holds for every big list of intrusive data. Yes, you are grabbing all the data you can only to target ads. Today. But that same data in other hands can block people's access to loan, deny them healthcare or make them look like terrorists.

The US democracy is eroding, fast. It is not that far fetched to see the data ending up with the government: 1) How many data has ended up in a FOIA request? You don't know, as you don't see them. 2) Snowden proved that Google already leaked data to the government without even realizing it 3) An executive order from the US president will give him any access to the data.

And that's just the US government. Businesses sell data to each other whenever they want. Today Google seems not to do it, but one CxO change or bad financial quarter can change a lot here, fast.

Basically, Google is playing with fire, in a political situation equivalent to a big gas leak. Be very carefull.
Note that this is not the case everyone in Europe necessarily. But you can cross outside zebra crossing in the UK, Netherlands, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway.

In some countries like Italy or France it is legal as long as there's no explicit zebra crossing nearby (e.g. without 50 or 100 meters).

In most of the countries, crossing the equivalent of highways or interstates is illegal (except in designated overpasses and such).

Regarding the question about what happens to drivers, here's an example for what's the case in Belgium "any physical damage to a pedestrian caused by a traffic accident shall be compensated by the insurance of the drivers involved, regardless of the responsibility of the pedestrian, except if that pedestrian is over 14 and wanted the accident and its consequences to occur."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking
I once read that companies can clearly claim increased costs and thus increased fines. Alternative is that government loses the provider.
You're just using bad banks. I have a great private bank in San Francisco (First Republic), where I get personalized service via email, phone, or in person any time I need it. I can use any ATM in the world free of charge, and any time I want to do anything it's a quick email away. (Including opening new business accounts, complicated requests, ordering cash in $2 notes, whatever you could think of).
Oh, your comment makes me think that this might be a regional thing. Here in Illinois we have a special vehicle licensing program where non-commercial drivers (i.e. coaches, parents, teachers) may bus students (up to the 15-passenger limit) in these vans if the van is inspected at special safety inspection facilities every 6 months and displays that sticker on the windshield, so they're extremely popular with churches and small schools.
GDPR data protection rules apply to natural persons, aka data subjects.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/