skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something informally called "trial tax" in the American justice system wherein if you decide to go for trial the punishment on guilty verdict is much higher than on plea bargain.

A famous case was that of Vincent Bogan in late 80s who was given a sentence of 75 years in maximum security for three counts of armed robbery (which is quite high for the crime charged) because he refused plea bargain and went for jury trial.
Isn't that a huge non-sequitur? What do the Miranda Rights have to do with the first half of your sentence?
But maybe the ''Ahemmmms'' had the meaning of ''The naked king'' story...and nobody called him out.Otherwise great speach,enjoyed reading it
Excellent, the hill is a great area. I'm sure you'd be able to find someone looking for another developer at one of the BYOB meetups.
Radio controlled clocks are subject to numerous sources of error. However two seconds is pretty bad, according to NIST the RCC "should always be accurate to within one second of UTC, assuming that they synchronize at least every other day and that their quartz oscillator is of reasonable quality." How far do you live from Fort Collins, CO? I have included some WWVB references at the end...

My GPS + Pulse Per Second fed ntp server is remarkably better than a radio controlled clock. The Sure GPS evaluation board probably costs less than your radio controlled clock:)

dfc@ronin:~$ ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
oGPS_NMEA(0) .GPS. 0 l 12 16 377 0.000 0.001 0.001
bonehed.lcs.mit .CDMA. 1 u 32 64 377 51.365 0.670 0.364
rooster.stonybr .CDMA. 1 u 14 64 377 49.019 6.141 0.445
navobs1.oar.net .USNO. 1 u 1 64 377 57.310 9.494 0.456
meg.ee.lbl.gov .PPS. 1 u 1 64 377 88.639 -2.204 0.270
dfc@ronin:~$ ntptime
ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK)
time d3076554.79d48450 Sun, Mar 11 2012 13:54:28.475, (.475899416),
maximum error 234 us, estimated error 0 us, TAI offset 34
ntp_adjtime() returns code 0 (OK)
modes 0x0 (),
offset 0.856 us, frequency -32.941 ppm, interval 1 s,
maximum error 234 us, estimated error 0 us,
status 0x2001 (PLL,NANO),
time constant 4, precision 0.001 us, tolerance 500 ppm,

Radio clock reference material:

NIST Page on Radio clocks: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/radioclocks.cfm

"How accurate is a radio controlled clock" http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2429.pdf

"WWVB Radio Controlled Clocks: Recommended Practices for Manufacturers and Consumers": http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/pdf/2422.pdf.
This sounds like a similar article from Design Festival:

Attributes of Effective Landing Pages: 10 Landing Page Reviews
(http://designfestival.com/10-landing-page-reviews/)
I absolutely love this idea and new styling. Ive forked it to provide bigger font sizes for people like me who are kinda blind. https://github.com/xpose2000/Cleaner-Hacker-News/commit/2cce...
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The author of this article (Venkatesh Rao) also is the person behind the highly entertaining "gervais principle" series: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Stop worrying about "over-use" of Bootstrap
Add ads, remove ads. All is fair in love and Readability.
Idea #3:

http://theymakeapps.com

http://scoutzie.com
Looks good, but the textured background definitely doesn't help readability. The lighter grey on the visited text is fairly difficult to read against it.
Siri as Gatekeeper - The Next Wave of Features
Sounds like one of the scheduled maintenances. You might find these links helpful:

1. Tips on graceful degradation for your app (Java specific): http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/howto/maintenance...

2. Scheduled Maintenance Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/embed?src=4chlpo92ci2f54...

3. Downtime Notification Group / Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/google-ap...
Remote Control your Computer using Android,iOS SmartPhone
It is a good idea to start with, but needs a lot of work on top of it to make it usable. Pick a relatively lesser dense industry to start with.
Sun was huge on thin clients around the turn of the century, the last great battle between thin and thick clients. In the first dotcom bubble, Sun sold a zillion Enterprise-series (E400/E4000/etc. big boxes) servers and wanted to keep that flow going. The market evidently did not agree with their plans.

The perspective that is lost to time is that back then Sun was kind of like AWS nowadays WRT mindshare, with the addition of hardware business, which is key to my point: likely when McNealy said that they underestimated 32bit he was eliding the problematic future they saw in the UltraSparc 3, that it was an engineering dead-end (which begat the T series), and, well...capitalists profit from externalizing their liabilities. "We're still awesome, it was 32bit's fault."
right now several are down... here's a better link: http://www.namecheap.com/status.aspx
Sure, it's prisoner's dilemma, but one in which a small number of defectors doesn't affect the outcome, while in classic prisoner's dilemma there's a competition to be the single defector.

In this case, there's no necessary advantage to being an early defector. In fact, the best strategy is to hold out rejecting the plea until the very last minute, forcing the prosecutors to compete in offering better and better deals to handle the disruption. And even late defections serve the purpose of disrupting the system.

So you don't need the complete cooperation that classic prisoner's dilemma requires, but you do need some threshold of cooperation. If you had some high profile support along with significant community pressure, something along the lines of the "stop snitching" campaign, it could probably be done.
For me it's connecting and conversing with abundance of smart like minded people. There's ton of time to strike up a conversation and quite a social life in the evenings. Also Starcraft II tournaments, so cash.
But that "inventory" is you, in prison, awaiting trial.

There's a pressure point. But that pushing that pressure point requires many thousands of people to spend many years, each, in prison, losing everything - their career, their home, their children.

Which is why the pressure point has not been pushed. And will not be pushed.
I am also from Montreal and will be happy to chat with you. Find my email on my profile.
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The guys that toggled the machine code in the console, or soldered commands into the boards sneered at the assembler programmers.

The assembler folks once sneered at those using higher-level languages.

The higher-level language folks sneered at the 3GLs and the interpreted language folks.

The HTML folks sneered at the folks using Dreamweaver.

The folks using editors sneered at the folks using IDEs.

Understanding the stack is good.

But assuming folks should re-live the foibles of the whole stack, and particularly the painful parts of the stack? Not so much.
Find|xargs like a boss (Real Example)
Interesting idea. But the browser is the universal interface that lets us organize and deliver content. Anything replacing it would have to do that at the very least.... And what more?

This isn't about protocols or technologies like browsers to me a it is about the expressive. The browser is ubiquitous and still growing it's reach. Like protocolS and clients, the browser should eventually get long in the tooth.

But we are kind of evolving how we see things in the browser, be it html 5 or mobile.

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This isn't a religion.

People use these things to get shit done. I use them to get shit done and I've been doing this for 15+ years now.

"Craft wanking" might soothe your arrogance, but it won't help you ship anything.
VEVO forces you to signup with Facebook
What you can gain is a central point of deployment, delivery and updates reachable by all platforms.
Know the Exact Time in your Location
ديكورات غرف نوم 2012 فى منتهى الروعة والجمال
Georgify is great. It was actually released on the same day when I released a similar extension, Readable HN, which is available for Chrome (source in in GitHub) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jpnbjaechgbbpokepg...
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Company mobile phones are as dead as the company car
Stay connected with no Internet connection
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What does that have to do with anything? You don't get a jury trial if you confess. I mean, you do, but anybody who trods the path you suggest will likely just take whatever sentence is offered. The story hinges on people being accused, indicted.
Ask HN: How iTether like applications be built using HTML5? 
This news http://mashable.com/2012/03/11/iphone-ipad-tetherin/ mentions that iTether is an HTML5 app that helps you tether internet to your PC. I dont have an iPhone neither I have used this app. But is HTML5 capable of doing things such as ad hoc wifi hub setup ? I thought these kind of superpowers were available only for native apps.
Looks great, nice work.

I'm curious whether subtlepatterns.com minds people hotlinking their images from custom CSS files?

http://subtlepatterns.com/?page_id=890#faqbox-left
Bridgewater Hedge Fund Management Principles [pdf]
Herald Sun launches paywall on Monday
For those alarmed at the offset...

# yum install ntpdate

# ntpdate -u ntp-1.vt.edu

# hwclock -w

"Your time is exact!"
That would be the ACLU taking the case on her behalf, not her parents doing the suing.
I'm new to Clojure as well, so I don't know if there's a native way to perform normal I/O. The cleverly named article at http://copperthoughts.com/p/clojure-io-p1 is over a year old, so I don't know if things have changed, but it suggests that besides the slurp function (which appears as impractical from a memory standpoint as the Perl equivalent), you really do need to dip into Java for I/O.

Assuming it's just a matter of time before I/O and all other common tasks in Clojure are done in native Clojure, it really seems like a contender for the pg "hundred year language." It has lots of default macro shortcuts for common tasks and really seems to prefer abstracting away redundancy to following tradition. It even uses the Arc-style let macro instead of the paren-happy one found in Scheme and CL. It also makes concurrency almost as simple as pg's "Bring Back Moore's Law" startup idea. And it's also well suited to web applications. The more I think about, the more it really does seem to be the Arc that's already here.
This reminds me that they should bring back Monty Python & The Quest for the Holy Grail the videogame for iPad: http://www.giantbomb.com/monty-python-the-quest-for-the-holy....

EDIT: A kind word of warning: the app is ~1GB. Make sure you have the space for it.
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Idea #4:

http://www.tadcast.com/
https://mashable.com/2009/01/12/tadcast/

(Also http://www.brandfame.com/ and http://videosponsorhouse.com/)

There are some other startups that focus on placing background music in online videos.
Agree completely. I've made a few posts saying exactly this, but they haven't picked up enough upvotes to hit the front page : (

http://blog.jenius.me/post/18909693841/to-bootstrap-or-not-t...

http://blog.jenius.me/post/17162410587/stop-using-bootstrap-...
The Danger of Falling in Love with Your Hot-Idea
Cool. I'll give it a try.
This completely misses the point. The justice system is already crashing, from being underfunded.

""" “cuts already imposed on the Los Angeles Superior Court, if unabated, will force the closure of over 180 courtrooms and layoffs of more than 1800 employees in the coming years. This is a dramatic reduction in work force and courtrooms. There are approximately 605 courtrooms operating throughout 50 locations in Los Angeles County. The closure of 180 courtrooms includes the closure of nine courthouses. The loss of 1800 employees constitutes a 34 percent reduction in the court’s workforce. The cuts in staff and courtrooms/courthouses (along with the priority given to criminal cases) will result in an increase to the already existing backlog of cases, which, in turn, will slow the movement of virtually all civil cases to a snail’s pace." """ http://www.plljlaw.com/CM/Articles/Court-Budget-Cuts.asp

If you want to crash the justice system, then continue to do what we have been doing: underfund judges, court employees, public defenders, and prosecutors.
I like it a lot. Easy to remember URL. However the services offered are not so good.

At least there is no RFC 867 and RFC 868 date on port 37 and port 13.

This is deprecated, I know, but rdate is still the easiest way to fix the date on a system which do not require precision. I did run my own minimal daemon on my DSL modem for the various gizmos I have that include busybox (thus rdate) and where recompiling to get a ntp would be overkill. (the right day and the right hour are more than enough)

time.nist.gov removed RFC 867 (port 13) and 868 (port 27) support. time-nw.nist.gov kept it a bit longer, then I used by DSL modem, which went in RMA and so guylhem.org is also down.

I'll try to email the author and offer to give a hand.
This is just one of the many reasons I use either FreeDNS or CloudFlare. I never rely on registrar provided DNS servers.
I'm making one right now. But it's not a standard framework, it's a sass framework, so the 'utility classes' are pushed back to css mixins and they take parameters so they are all super flexible. I'm really excited to put it out and it's getting there, but there's a lot of polish left to go.

If anyone is interested in helping out or testing, look me up (my name is jeff escalante) and send me an email.
I just want bigger buttons on mobile devices. I do most of my reading on a tablet and almost never vote because the effort of zooming in to make the buttons targetable is just too much. Even dealing with typing in this tiny entry box is highly obnoxious.
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I've implemented a few different versions of getting traces from processes in python. At my last job I eventually settled on one which wrote out the thread states every few seconds to RabbitMQ. Whenever something was up you could just attach a listener and figure out what's going on.
This site would be great as a Pinterest account, too. It's more difficult to monetize, though.
That code also serves as a good example of how assumptions about a theoretical "optimizing compiler" can lead people into trouble.

Something like:

y[i] = y[i] + 0;

"Should" not take more time than:

y[i] = y[i] + 0.1;

because "any decent optimizing compiler obviously would NOP the entire statement out".

I seldom see it is the case though where compilers optimize things that coders assume it is obvious the compiler will optimize.
I've seen a few of those and I think you've done a fantastic job in making a style that's better looking and more readable without taking away from the functionality. Most of the others I've seen tend to make type HUGE, and tend to lose the clear sense of hierarchy and the scanability of the home page.

Props. That's what real design is, not just making it pretty.
Well, I guess that's the price we pay for having such a productive, fast-growing city.
Perhaps it is merely a web server on their backend and another on your machine to be tethered. Then you just need a small page using HTML5's postMessage to throw things back and forth.

Once you have a channel between their backend and your tethered machine, actually making it useful for doing "real" communications is academic.
No, everybody doesn't know. Why do you think the conventional wisdom doesn't reflect that it's a buddy game rather than a meritocracy? Why is the word "meritocracy" ever even mentioned? Is it just a red herring thrown out by successful people to keep the masses suffering?
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Yes.

The Wal-Mart T-Mobile 5GB data / Unlimited Text pay-as-you-go plan (with a couple of voice minutes thrown in) is $30/mo. However, the contract does not technically allow tethering.

T-Mobile were the last major US carrier to institute a pay-extra-for-tethering policy (in late 2010), but it's definitely in effect now and they do use some cursory heuristics (data usage, basic traffic inspection) to detect tethering (and unauthorized "high-end" Android phones, as well).
PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing
Idea #1:

http://www.academicworks.com/

I interviewed with them last winter. Nice guys.
So it's a collective action problem, but not exactly prisoners' dilemma. Collective action problems can sometimes be solved. And there's another factor: everything is local. You don't need collective action across the entire U.S., just within a particular jurisdiction. That starts to make it look more feasible.

You'd start with the most vulnerable jurisdictions...those where the author states it would disrupt the system if only two or three times as many people insisted on a jury trial. From that group, select the places with the populations most annoyed at the system.

Focus there and start heavy promotion. Build a community effort. The very act of doing that will help build community ties, a nice side effect.

Once you succeed in the most vulnerable district, move on to the next. Each success will improve your odds of further success, since it will change people's perceptions of risk.
> - It's really hard to access academic journal articles online.

That's because of the business model around funded research. Academic research funding is driven by a limited number of funding agencies being bombarded by huge numbers of proposals. One of the key metrics they use is how many peer reviewed journals has the author been accepted by. Those journals make money by charging access fees and by being semi-trusted gate keepers. Journals WANT it to be hard to access them online since they view the Internet publishing paradigm as a threat.

People have been trying to disrupt that business model since the mid 90s.
The example was 10,000 sites, so changing all of your passwords being the only option is no option at all.
Apple iPhone 4S begins showing 4G icon
>"physical atomic clock"

Are you trolling or did you really miss the whole phrase "physical atomic clock synced clocks?"
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The problem with this article is that Rao keeps his key criteria, "technical" and "financial," pretty loosely defined and conveniently flexible. Steve Jobs, for instance, gets a pass as "technical" under Rao's framework. While there's no question that Jobs had a profound understanding of technology, he couldn't have built Apple's first products by himself. Or, arguably, with the help of any old technical co-founder. In Steve Wozniak, he had no less than a once-in-a-generation technical genius at his side. Jobs had unparalleled technical vision, but he was not "technical" in the way that, say, Bill Gates was "technical." And yet, jobs was a tremendously effective CEO.

Furthermore, Rao's assertion that Jobs lacked "people skills" is demonstrably false. It's true that Jobs was an unrelenting perfectionist, an introvert, at times a genuine asshole, and probably narcissistic. But to say he lacked "people skills" is to ignore his profound understanding of how to communicate with people. How to inspire people, be they co-founders, employees, or customers. How to move people. These skills had to be quite strong, indeed, in order to overcome the barriers his difficult personality erected around him. When we speak of "people skills," we really need to define what we're talking about. If we're simply talking about being an affable guy, then no, most CEOs probably don't pass the test. But if we're talking about the ability to understand, speak to, lead, organize, and often downright manipulate people, then yes, "people skills" are pretty crucial.
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But the English language is mostly a germanic language, and the British people have mostly germanic DNA. Contrasting Austria and Britain is not that big of a divide. A better contrast would be between Britian/Germany/Austria and one of the latin countries, or a slavic country, etc.

When the US was founded, there were essentially two separate civilizations within the countries borders. This was true until one annihilated the other during the US civil war, but it was never assimilated until the last few decades. This means there is a major cultural divide that still exists.

I would say that the North took more of the Anglo-Saxon protestant values than the South. Hard-working, industrious, religious but-not-overtly-so.
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I understand that. But my point is more along the lines of "crashing the system" by simply having millions of people going to jail just by having their sentence executed, as the law demands.
But it would cost a lot to scale it, so voters would have to accept a lot more taxes and/or debt. Most states are in financial difficulty already.
Your clock is 0.2 seconds slow.
Accuracy of synchronization was ±0.625 seconds

If the result is within the margin of error, wouldn't it be better to just not tell me at all?
> The classic "you can't yell fire in a crowded movie theater" example.

That classic example is very often misunderstood to describe a limitation on free speech. It doesn't. The government can not forbid you from shouting fire in a crowded theatre - but free speech does not come with indemnity: You are responsible for the consequences of your actions, including your speech. If other people in good faith reacts to your (in bad faith) shouting and get hurt, you are liable. If the theatre owner looses revenue from your shouting, you are liable. But you have every right to shout it.
NTP does a lot more than what you theorized about and none of it is trivial.

FYI: Ping is a remarkably bad tool to gauge the accuracy of remote time source. What is the delay value from "ntpq -p"

I highly doubt that Apple's time servers are your best bet for time synch. Use the pool.ntp.org servers, preferabbly with your country code: e.g. us.pool.ntp.org, ca.pool.ntp.org.
Ouch, font rendering on Windows/Linux is quite bad. I think that might be also why your headers looks unbalanced. Here's what it looks like on my computer; a lot better.

http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Hacker_News-20120311-110315.png

You can tweak it for yourself by changing the padding in

body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td > table
You Can Sign-up, But You Can Never Leave Readability
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I have a soft spot for sales after spending nearly 5 years in commercial real estate brokerage.

Sales is tough, very valuable and absolutely crucial to almost every organization.

But...

If a CEO doesn't present a technical advantage or cannot model their own company financially, they can probably only grow it so big.

That being said, some sales CEOs are great for maintaining a business:

Intel's CEO, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otellini Otellini is one of the few CEO's in America that came from a sales background. I would argue that he is also very strong in finance and strong technically in the sense that he understands how the pieces go together.

My point is that it is always dangerous to generalize, but I don't see how someone can grow a business successfully and not have a deep understanding of finance. Understanding how decisions impact profitability and balance sheets is crucial to making good decisions.

Not having that background is like trying to win a game without knowing the rules.
I apologize. I will edit my post. I did not see the synched the originally and/or his post was edited.
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That's not the reason I stopped using Suns. They annoyed me by switching to an aesthetically ugly unix. They priced their machines for their finance industry customers, then Intel + open source unix boxes caught up in performance for 1/4 the price.