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Why using face recognition on witnesses to get them to tell what they know?
If they do want to help the police, they will, if they don't want, how can that help?

And what else than "potential witness" will you identify? None of these pictures could be used as evidence.
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My understanding is that in loser-pays as it is actually practiced in Europe, the courts limit the fees paid by the loser to reasonable and customary levels, and don't look kindly on parties that inflate their legal costs.

Still, I think you're right, if one is not fairly confident of winning, loser-pays provides additional incentive to settle. I don't see this as a bad thing, personally.
I got to the part where I needed my drivers license and my wife's and I bailed.

1) You should state up front what materials I should gather before I begin the process

2) The back button doesn't work during the data-entry process. I fucked up putting in one of my cars data and I couldn't go back

3) The name "leaky" and requiring PII?

4) If you require so much PII, you need some really good disclosure as to your data retention, opt-out, etc during the process.
Not left over smudges from the former inhabitants of planet Krypton? Ah shucks :-).

The interesting point here was the nuceobases (vs the amino acids). Mars water should be interesting to look at.

And of course a sample return mission to Ceres would be interesting as long as we didn't open the capsule in an uncontrolled environment :-).
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Or to borrow it from a bank. See "The Mystery of Banking".
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The thing about trying to move the market by betting is that if someone calls your bs, you're ruined; and all it takes is one knowledgeable person with moderate resources (since you're putting out big odds and lots of money if you really want to influence things). Prediction markets have historically been extremely resilient against manipulation attempts.
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He's not talking about you, then.

<quote>Economists who expect people to be rational won’t believe in usury. Surely, people borrow money to be better off. Yet the average credit card debt per household is over $15,000 in the USA (and it grows all the time, of course). Does anyone believe that these $15,000 are invested in highly profitable ventures? (They would need to be highly profitable since credit cards often charge over 15% for loans.)</quote>
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Yeah but if you've been building websites using MySQL for ten years and can't tell me what InnoDB is then all the domain knowledge in the world won't help you in an interview with me. My standards aren't really that high but I expect some depth.
He's out of luck with the squirrels. They love to chew cables of all sorts, and death doesn't seem to bother them.
It's available, but you might not be aware of how unintuitive PHP's array functions are. With inconcistencies and gotchas abound they are a chore to use. A wrapper such as this one can greatly enhance your productivity.
The overhead of learning curve of a new person is significantly higher than benefits they would save.

Most likely reason for firing is that they did not benefit enough from your friend work (for example because the work is a mismatch between what they need and her passion).
I'm talking about something different.

There are many people for whom a lifetime of hard work will not result in a 5 minute mile, and there are many people for whom a lifetime of hard work will not result in being a great programmer.

I know this is an unpopular viewpoint, but it's what I believe. And I have spent many years both running and programming. I am really good at both those things, but neither Ryan Hall good at running, nor John Carmack good at programming.
How come loser pays works well in the rest of the world? Because that's not how loser pays works :) You don't pay a million dollars a day, you pay a reasonable price instead; they pay the rest. Also, loser pays is not decided on the whole case, but on specific subcases. So the suing party is less likely to use the shotgun approach where they throw every claim and the kitchen sink in, in the hope that they at least win something. Also, if you claim $1M damages, and the judge awards you $1k, that counts as a (partial) loss. So it also ends ridiculously high claims.

> Nearly every Western democracy, other than the United States, follows the "English rule," which requires the loser of a civil suit to compensate the winner for his or her attorney's fees. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule

There is much much more suing going on in the US than in Europe and the prime reason is that Europe has a loser pays system.
If you sue someone, you pay your court fees and lawyer fees no matter what, and if you lose, you pay the defendants court fees and lawyer fees in addition. But the defendant doesn't pay the plaintiff's legal fees. It's not perfect, but I think it's better, and this (however incorrectly) is how I usually imagine "loser-pays".

Secondly, there would probably need to be (in either version) a basic rate set for lawyer fees. I can have an expensive lawyer if I want, but I can only be "reimbursed" by the loser at the "basic rate". Maybe if I represent myself, I could even get my time reimbursed in the same way.
I downvoted you because you weren't asking an honest question and that adds nothing to the thread.

Posting an inflammatory response in tandem with a question already loaded with rhetoric ("fad", "serious tool") isn't going to spur interesting or valuable debate because you've shown you're already cemented into your position before you even started.
Why Linux
You could use it as a prototyping tool, then run JS on a server for "serious" crunching, maybe.
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One major problem with any JS-based language for number crunching is JS' lack of any numeric types other than a double.

I don't know how well the string-based workarounds really work, for arbitrary precision math ... but I'd imagine that they wouldn't be terribly fast or convenient. It's a real shame.
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You call yourself a blogger?
#3 is not true for the type of person he is talking about.

If everyone used credit cards like you do, the credit card companies would not be in business.
Ask HN:  Anyone have comments on Microsoft's BizSpark?
I'm looking at developing an application using Microsoft tools (Xbox and Kinect) as it will save time and came across the BizSpark program. Has anyone else looked at this?

edit:
forgot to add the url: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
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This got 10 points? Seriously? Its a puff piece for gods sakes.

(Not that it isn't good for Supreme Court justices to write well and express their opinions strongly but that's sort of their job so I don't see the point of 3 pages of praise)
I think this author confuses good writing with wit. In opinions clarity is extremely important. The author says, "The Court’s best writers tend to do their most striking work in dissent, unconstrained by the need to pacify their colleagues." Completely untrue. It's just in the dissent when justices tend to focus a lot less on legal clarity and more on emotional prose.

With that said, the author is correct that Kagan's prose is quite good. Not for which he front-loads this piece with (like that horrible Scalia quote), but because of what is on the next page -- legal and logical clarity.

Although its disappointing to hear no mention of law clerks and writing style. While the amount of actual opinion writing done by law clerks varies from one justice to the next, it's almost certainly the case that they do a good portion of the draft writing for the majority of justices.

Not sure of the relevance to HN though.
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It was only a matter of time, not a bad idea to name and shame people, if they get turned in even better. But at the same time people need to be aware that any vigilante action will surely not improve the situation.
People can post their views at a very rudimentary site I whipped up today: http://www.peaceful.me.uk
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Why not using namespaced functions instead of static methods all in the same class ? This would have allowed to add new functions. This would even have allowed to use the _ namespace.

With namespaces:

namespace _;
function each() {
}

// chaining can be achieved with this:

class Wrapper {
private $coll;
function __construct($coll) {
$this->coll = $coll;
}
function __call($name, $args) {
array_unshift($this->coll,$args);
return new self(call_user_func_array('_\\'.$name, $args));
}
}

function __($coll) {
return new Wrapper($coll);
}

use _;
_\each(...);

// or

__($coll)->each(...);

// I can add new functions

namespace _;
function something(){}

With static methods:

class __ {
function each() {
}
}

// throws strict errors

__::each(...);

// can't add functions

Also it seems that the normal way to use the library is to call isntance methods statically, which triggers many warnings with E_STRICT :(

https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php also brings some functional stuff to php.
I would recommend checking out the resources your college has to offer. See if there is an ACM or a similar organization. If your school has a place to help students start businesses, talk to them because they can probably help you meet the right people.

P.S. I am in the same predicament as you. I am about to go back to school and am worried about how limited my time will be to focus on becoming a better programmer. If you want to exchange ideas or talk about stuff, my email is in my profile.
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I know these concepts, I program in FP languages when appropriate but use PHP too.

I can earn a living with PHP in my tool-kit that Scheme/Haskell/Clojure alone will not provide.
Move on.

What are her alternatives?

Even if they were legally required to keep her on longer, would she want to work for them?

Even if she could sue, does she want to be involved in a legal battle while trying to find a new job?
With that many cases, it's remarkable that they haven't accidentally threatened someone who either happens to be of means or is a shark of an attorney. If I had the money/ability, I would love to take one of these things to court.
The purpose is call-to-action buttons is to visually guide the visitor into doing the main what you want him/her to do (the action).

By giving the visior multiple prominent call-to-actions, you're essensially destroying the effect of the CTA buttons, which is to guide the visitor into doing the one thing you want him to do. He won't know what you really want him to do and may not do anything at all since he's confused over what button he should click on. With too many call-to-action buttons they're essensially degraded to just being big buttons.
This isn't a problem with Apple (although it reflects on them) this is a problem with a specific store manager.

I'm not an Apple fanboy, in fact my background is very similar to the author's - but overall the Apple store service is superior to any other retail experience I've had.
Those look nice. As far as CTA buttons are concerned, I think this Smashing Magazine article is a good resource:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/13/call-to-action-bu...
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If you have a locked wi-fi and are sharing files via torrent, in civil proceedings (which these are), the companies have plenty of evidence saying that you are probably the one sharing the files. Remember, it's civil: "beyond a reasonable doubt" isn't required.
Thanks for your comment. Let me try to give you a few examples of things we do better than Scholar:

a) Navigation over the results
When you search in Scholar you get a list of papers but you cannot navigate through the details of a paper, for example, click on an author to see his/her papers. On the other hand, using Odysci, the search results have all the data linked and right there, so you can click on authors, click on the conference, click on the conference series (to see papers for a all years of a given conference).
Along the same lines, we can filter and sort the search results by relevance, date, citations, and publication type (e.g, journal, conference). Scholar does not do that.

b) Advanced Search
We have some interesting new ways to search using our operator '@'. For example, you can search for papers by a given author while he/she worked at a given place. Say, you want to search for papers published by Leslie Lamport while working at SRI: you would use as search string 'lamport@SRI'. Or search for papers published at the DAC Conference (Design Automation Conference) when it was held in San Francisco, you would search for 'venue:DAC venue@"San Francisco"'. In Scholar, the advanced search facilities are less powerful.

c) Best Papers
We collected the information related to Best Paper Awards at hundreds of conferences and we make that available through advanced search. For example, to find all the Best Papers published at DAC conferences, you would search for 'venue:DAC bp:true'. This is something unique to Odysci.

d) BibTex Generation
In Scholar you can generate Bibtex, one paper at a time. This can get very boring if you need to collect multiple references. In Odysci, you can select multiple papers, even through multiple searches, and generate BibTex for all of them in one shot.

e) Handling of accents in non-English words
Try searching for an author name with accents in Scholar. You'll see that their handling of accents during search is limited. In Odysci we handle accents seamlessly.

There are other things which we think we have an edge over Scholar but I'll stop here. Your comments are welcome.

Thanks (and I'll follow your advice and add some of these advantages to our home page).
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Ask HN: Is HNSearch down?
I'm trying to find some stuff via HNSearch and it's simply hanging. Any news?

Is it just me?
We can attribute about 7% of our annual outages to people using our fiber cable for gun practice.

Sigh. Prison terms please. Even just a month will do.
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I manually sort my photos by Date Pictures Taken into their own folders. I don't see a big deal about this as a separate service.
Social news voting reflects the opinions of the masses. A specialist's authoritative, reasoned opinion is unlikely to be recognized as such, unless it happens to go along with the momentum of public opinion. It's hardly a problem unique to social news -- see Wikipedia, general elections, cable news commentary, prediction market failures, etc.

When everyone's vote counts the same, the most popular opinion wins.
I agree with you.

Ultimately, I am pessimistic about automated “gamification” of forums. Human moderation seems to be the only thing that works reliably. The moment you introduce rules and scores and incentives, poeple start to play the game for its own sake. This is obviously a larger human phenomenon.

As for clichés, I’m not against them, and I think making your point and then ending on a social signal—as you did--adds a personal touch that makes a post enjoyable to read.

That line really tied the room together.
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Show HN: talkasaur.us
Twilio announced a new in-browser softphone product and a contest to go with it. I figured:
- I'd like a Macbook Air
- I hate putting on clothes to do a video chat (call me a chatroutette kind of guy) <-- kidding!
- Most of the people I talk to are developers, and thus fairly ugly (myself included)

I also love using http://join.me/ for screensharing - it just works. The model of "share a code/URL to join" is a breath of fresh air in the face of "Login with FACEBOOK/TWITTER/G+/OMGWTFBBQ--"

So I created http://talkasaur.us/ - braindead simple conferencing that just works

Because Twilio charges a fee per minute, I'm not opening this up to everybody in the world yet, so you can see more info/screenshots here:
http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2011/08/08/talkasaur-us-dirt-simple-conference-calling/

I'd love any feedback, ideas for improvement, and especially ideas to monetize the site - if it could even just pay for itself I'd love to leave it out there for general use.

Thanks!
Thanks. Currently we do focus on computer science, electrical engineering and math areas. There is a lot of overlap between these fields, so it makes sense to group them.
As for other domains, we do plan to add them later, and as you point out, having portals or a good way to separate them is a good idea.
a) That behavior is grossly unprofessional.

b) Treat it like a firing, in all respects. I'd start looking for new employment immediately.

(Even if they came back with an offer, you should not work for a company that has that attitude with regards to FTEs. There is nothing wrong with "OK, now we're going to subject you to four months of unpaid downtime while we evaluate another guy for your job" - it is routine if you're a consultant billing several hundred an hour. If you're not, no, just no.)

c) On the plus side, she dodged a bullet there.
Yet the average credit card debt per household is over $15,000 in the USA (and it grows all the time, of course). Does anyone believe that these $15,000 are invested in highly profitable ventures?

Who is the author to ignore the values and priorities of the rest of the public? It seems that he wants everyone to live by his own standards.

If the people borrowing this money believe that they're getting greater value than they are costing themselves, then they are in fact making themselves better off.

The author doesn't see that they're better off, either because he doesn't understand their values, or he's simply not looking at them as individual people but a monolothic heap of people. But either way, he's ignoring the evidence of their own actions.
I think you’re missing the most basic separation.

Engineering has a long history of building things that can kill people. In that context significant caution is required which is still at the heart of any of the true engineering disciplines. Some software fits into that context but the failure of most pieces of software tend to have less dramatic outcomes with most critical systems designed to operate even if it's software does the worst possible things at the worst time.
I disagree. Before stating an unpopular opinion, it is sometimes helpful to make it clear that you understand that the opinion is unpopular and that you (probably) have a reason for bringing it up. Doing so tells people that maybe you have something novel to say on the issue and that they should give you fair hearing before assuming you are simply echoing an opinion that they decided they disliked long ago.

Now, I see HNers using that phrase to elicit sympathy for opinions that aren't actually unpopular from time to time and that should stop, but sometimes you have to say "now hear me out," so you don't get shouted down.
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which tells about undercover to investigate smuggling cases. that is, when Neal went undercover with a beautiful Egyptologist (Eliza Dushku) in an attempt to catch Matthew Keller, the smuggling of Egyptian artifacts. But during the confrontation with Keller, Neal learned the real motive for returning to New York. very stressful with a disguise to see cases of smuggling artifacts.
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Peter actually emailed me directly, though I was already very familiar with his work on this and similar problems. But yes, I make it very clear in the post (and to candidates) that they should not assume an English -- or even a natural language -- dictionary.
I see it as making little difference in practical matters

It changes everything. It is like being 30 years old and finding you were adopted. You want to know where you come from.

Edit: But besides what you and I think, what will it mean to the world if religion was "proven" to be man-made, as well as the idea of a Higher Power.
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Couldn't agree more. Most of the crap I've seen in the various codebases I've worked on has nothing to do with poorly implemented or understood algorithms, and everything to do with bad designs and ill-conceived architecture. Lack of abstraction, unnecessary coupling, etc. But those skills are not only harder to measure but harder to teach -- you often don't see the problems with a particular design until you've seen it fail in production.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/07/nation/na-black-wire...

Unfortunately for excavators not all buried lines are on the map.
Clickable links:

http://talkasaur.us/
http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2011/08/08/talkasaur-us-dirt-...
>Why Has BlackBerry Been Blamed for the London Riots?

Cause it`s black?
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thank you very much, I really appreciate it. That is the question is if people do want to connect with these types of "strangers"
I think you'd have to be crazy to upload on bittorrent. IANAL but I think you can only get sued for redistribution of copyrighted material, so downloading is safe.
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It's hanging here too. Too bad, as I find HN search useful for finding duplicate submissions that slip past the automated duplicate detector.
What I'm saying is that we should not have let society descent into this chaos by our own ignorance and greed and now we are suffering for it. It's a kind of apathetic karma. And now we're jumping up in the air calling for justice. It's just hypocrisy.

Read this thoroughly, then register as a data controller:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_...

You will be recording and maintaining a database of individual details. You need to provide access to this under DPA SAR regulations to individuals. If you misrepresent the individual, you can and probably will be sued.

Sometimes, doing nothing is better than doing something bad or dangerous.

Oh and if I find out this is going ahead, I'll be ethically required to report you to the ICO.
Actually, I'd like to see a documentary on the 1000s of people who took risks and failed. It's easy to "ooh and ahh" at success. How about all the ones that didn't make it and still get up each morning and try again. Many people have good ideas and try hard, they just didn't get lucky at the right time.
Excel truly masters being the full triangle. A simple list at first, a multi-linear optimizer later.

So does Ruby.

puts "hello world"

# and later

homing_missile.target_pos = some_monster.public_method(:pos)
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I think the author is unfairly extrapolating from accounts that there was no looting after the huge earthquakes in Japan.
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There's a good reason for that: when AWS has problems, we are under very heavy load because many of our customers are on AWS. The last thing we want to do at that point is an emergency flip to a secondary provider.