skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read here that there have been studies on Legal AIs:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380043

Some comments are quite disheartening:

"It seems that we want to think of a world that is logical and populated with verifiable facts. However, the world of the lawyer is fundamentally illogical (as are most humans most of the time) and facts only exist when either agreed to by the parties or determined by judge or jury.

This observation that "legal logic" is not quite the same as traditional rational-thought logic has led to an interesting "legal reasoning" subfield of AI over the past decade or so (with some precursors dating back further) that tries to formalize exactly what logic it is following, and how it differs from traditional rationality. That area develops alternative logics, reasoning procedures, etc., in order to do things like simulate case outcomes, suggest possible arguments to make, evaluate alternative strategies, etc. Until relatively recently many people did think that the right way to make a legal reasoning system was to treat the law as logical rules, and the legal reasoning problem as a problem of rational inference over rules+evidence... which turns out not to be that accurate an account of how law actually operates."
in play 2.0 (using computer-database java sample app):

$ play
[computer-database] $ test-only ModelTest

or from the command line:
$ play "test-only ModelTest"
This is patently false.

Most research dollars go into new therapies with completely new mechanisms of action.

Companies are often working in similar areas, that's true. The best example of this is the statins. Lipitor was the 5th statin to hit the market. Was it a me-too drug? I guess, but it was also superior to the other 4 that came out first (less incidence of muscle damage, more efficacious). Did Pfizer say "Gee, let's copy that other statin?" Obviously not since getting a new drug to market takes 10 years and they came out only a few years later.
Most software cannot cope with malloc failing. A little swapping is at least recoverable. A failed malloc almost guarantees that your application will crash--sometimes in a very unpleasant way.
I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook
Less Known Solaris Features: RBAC and Privileges (4 parts)
Corporate types are iPad crazy, survey finds
Android can already do this, with CyanogenMod at least. If I remember correctly there are choices like "long pulse", "three short pulses", etc.
I don't see how you can say that. We're currently headed towards comprehensive insurance whose holders pay very little out of pocket. Consumers will have no incentive to limit consumption or make cost / quality tradeoffs, and none to police providers for cost.

And "guaranteed issue" is never _insurance_, it's cost sharing. Because it takes the known costs of some individuals and spreads them to others. It is a mandated subsidy. Doing it through "insurance" introduces opacity into the system, which obscures from the electorate the costs of the choices they're making, and reduces accountability throughout the entire system.
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work
I never knew this existed...thanks for pointing this out.
I think he means install them for each house, store the non-peak surplus energy, and then use it during peak times.
83% is certainly a large majority, but it is not "virtually everyone".
Virtually no network except most universities. The campus Bat Light has just been illuminated.
A few more literals (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3672744):

arr[@1] === [arr objectAtIndex:1]
dict[@1] === [dict objectAtIndex:1]
dict[@"key"] === [dict objectForKey:@"key"]
To get to Python 3 support, you first have to drop support for Python 2 versions under 2.6, because 2.6 began introducing Python 3 compatibility features that make it possible to run the same code on 2.6/2.7 and on 3.x.

That's basically 90% of the time taken right there, since we had to do it one Python version at a time, giving people warnings that we'd be dropping support for 2.3, then 2.4, etc. so they'd be able to migrate up to a newer Python.
16 Linux Server Monitoring Commands You Really Need To Know
Cloudpaging the Holy Grail of Desktop Deployment
I think the authors idea is that you would ssh to a machine that someone else controls and is providing access to. E.G. For a dollar a month I'll give you shell access to a machine where I've set up ImageMagick, and I'll give you a set of scripts that make running ImageMagic commands on your machine transparently run them on mine instead.
Rubber Duck Problem Solving
Using this article

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/03/01/retina-display-macs-ipads-and...

and using iPhone 4 with an assumed viewing distance of 11 inches to define "Retina" I came up with this formula for the diagonal screen size

0.000275774245 * sqrt(1 + (aspect ratio)^-2) * horizonal resolution * viewing distance

Now, if we assume that the iPad mini will have the same resolution as iPad 2 and the same viewing distance of 16 inches then for it to be advertised as having a Retina display it would need to have a 5.6" screen. This probably means the iPad will be an entry device, lacking a Retina display.
When trying to improve public speaking skills this is a common thing to work on. It's certainly not easy at the start, but it is something that can improve a lot with practice, even for particularly nervous or fast-speaking individuals.
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Gives Kiva $1 Million To “Empower Everyone”
You're probably lucky the charger blew out the fuses and not your phone. After looking inside a cheap charger, I think their motto is "do the cheapest thing that could possibly work".
It is entirely possible for a person to rationally rule out future unbounded medical expenses if he or she has no desire to live in agony and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to prolong his or her life by weeks or months. Such people are forced to subsidize people who want to live in agony at high cost for small periods of time.

I don't think this is a significant problem, because the people who receive this subsidy vastly outnumber the people who provide it.

Edit: A liver transplant is a procedure with a very high expected value in terms of QALY/USD. Americans in aggregate spend a great deal of money and effort on procedures with very low expected QALY/USD. Some people, myself included, would prefer not to purchase a procedure with very low expected QALY/USD.

There was a good discussion on a similar subject earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313570
So, while I agree that it isn't right to "get on anyone's case for not having written this stuff", I do think it is reasonable to get on peoples' cases when they do release things if they didn't solve the "real problems": my message to people about to release a test framework would be "do you solve a real problem? if not, just keep it to yourself: please do not pollute the keyword space"; the corollary to this is that if you spent a weekend on it, it almost certainly does not solve a "real problem" ;P.
Imagine a Future Without Robots [video]
No need to guess. Here's a very complete and detailed article about precisely why and how this particular animation works the way it does:

http://awardwinningfjords.com/2012/03/08/image-sequences.htm...
Now make some other code use your "mock" without editing its source. Now assert on the calls made to "bar()," including arguments. Now make it raise an exception without writing a second class. And make it return something else without writing a third. Now patch a built-in. And a context manager. And a dictionary. When you're done with that, mock a class without writing a new class at all.

If you honestly think that sub-classing is equivalent to mocking/stubbing, you don't understand the purpose of the activity.
why is this a PDF?
Making it Virtually Easy to Deploy on Day One (at Etsy)
Universities give external IPs to internal hosts with all ports accessible? That seems unlikely, if only due to IPv4 address space crunches.
Right -- bring secondary market value to the primary seller. Similar to avoiding underpriced IPOs :)
electricity!
Depends on what kind of companies you want to work for.

I don't think that the infosys's of the world care very much.

However if you do something cool - most product companies will definitely treat that as a plus - the benefit that you'll get will vary from being preferentially interviewed to being hired outright for your project. However, this requires your project to be something significant and in the general line of business of the company.

That said, I would argue that you should do this project for your own benefit and not for the college's or your future employer's. Pick a reasonably difficult project and the amount that you'll learn would be way more than you've learnt in 4 years of engineering school.

I highly recommend contributing a module to an open-source project as an option
That's what grellas was saying — he doubts the timing is a coincidence.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699845
The best way to make developers go is to lower prices and not give away fancy, unique, unavailable elsewhere hardware.

You can also make passing a small programming test a requirement.
For the Love of Physics
Gah, sorry about that:

http://static.keithhennessey.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/...
Do 300M people really have to negotiate their own home purchases/rent? Or cable tv? Or car insurance? Or home/renters insurance?

Why do you single out health insurance?
The global watch industry is pushing $50 billion and very few people wear them anymore. With the mobile revolution this category is really ripe for a complete overhaul. This isn't it but it's one of several starts in that direction.

People talk about how phones are getting more powerful processors each year and extrapolate that out but what's also going to happen is that the current slab phone paradigm will be challenged strongly by a combination of lighter tablets at the high end and even more miniaturized devices -- glasses, watches, headsets, armbands, etc. on the low end.

Advances in LTE networks mean your mobile chip really only has to be good enough to decode audio and video at a low ping. Those chips are going to get tiny indeed and run extremely power light.

3D printing advances continue to astonish, check out this 330x130x100µm3 racecar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0j191H0kY

Voice and Kinect-style motion controls are rapidly maturing as alternatives to touch input. Eye movement and thought control perhaps not that far off.

Flexible screens, projection and very high density VR screens are also maturing and offer alternatives to the current slab phone screen.
>getting a new drug to market takes 10 years

is this intrinsic to drug manufacture? would regulatory/tort reform help?
Employees at many large companies today already have the option of high-deductible insurance; scaling the new, as-yet-unimplemented guaranteed issue system "back" to require a mandate only for high-deductible insurance (and thus guaranteed issue only for high-deductible insurance) would not be a major change.

You are articulating the "moral hazard" concern with universal health insurance. I am recognizing moral hazard, and saying that it can be addressed in a universal system simply by setting the threshold that the system pays out at a higher number.
Ask HN: 99designs for conversion rate optimization (CRO)?
Does anyone think there would be a market for crowdsourced conversion rate optimization, e.g. 99designs for CRO?
Al Gore, Sean Parker call for Online 'Occupy Democracy' Movement
MIT has, what, 1/5th of the global IPs? They have no crunch.
I'm not sure why people keep saying this. I'm not reinventing either of these things but I suspect, like the services they each replaced, they too will be replaced with things that look strikingly similar to themselves.

For an oversimplified example, FB replaced myspace with a service that looked a lot like myspace did originally. One of the biggest things they had going was the simplicity of use and the cookie-cutter look of everyone's profile. Myspace, at the time, was full of 'pimped' profiles that made their experience suck.

Facebook will continue to add more and more fluff (games, etc..) until it doesn't work well as a tool to stay connected with people. Once this happens someone will show up with something that looks a lot like facebook did when it started. But because they're so dissimilar at the time, people will continue this adage of, "what ever replaces X won't look much like X". But it probably just will if you correct for time.
I would not have a problem with that (or don't think it should be illegal at least). Get rid of the source, not the messenger. In my opinion something such as that should fall under free speech.
This argument basically says that people can avoid the expense of, say, a liver transplant by opting to die instead.

That's true, but it's not a winning argument.
After sleeping on it. I woke up feeling terrible about my overly aggressive tone in my comment. For that I'm sorry and also, in the midst of the debate I forgot to congratulate you on overcoming your own homelessness. It's good to hear there was a light at the end of your tunnel. After checking the replies I thought, "omg what have I caused".

I'm overly emotional and overly aggressive. It can be a big positive but here I think it was a negative.
If you want more pleasant test-writing in Python, nose is commonly used, high quality, and compatible with the standard library's unittest package:

http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/en/latest/
Not saying you're wrong, but says who? Can you point to evidence of this consensus?

I'm seriously asking, not trying to challenge you.
What @sciurus says. And virtualization for security.
Vista was not Microsoft's best OS, but it was (and is) nowhere near as unusable as people claim. A few big problems it suffered: its minimum requirements were not generally met by the hardware it was running on. This is partly Microsoft's fault (for authoring "Vista Capable" stickers to underpowered hardware) part the fault of the manufacturer (for making said hardware) and part the fault of the user or whoever was making the decision to purchase (for buying low quality hardware). Another issue was the sidebar, which hogged memory. Turning it off is enough to fix most systems which exceed the minimum spec. The last major issue was driver support (which was the downfall of ME as well). Manufacturers assumed that they could use the same (or very similar) drivers for Vista, which wasn't the case. Result: poor hardware performance.

Vista had development problems, but it was released in a working state. All they did was cut a few features (which still haven't surfaced) at no true cost to the performance of the OS. Word got out online that Vista had a few problems, and since the Microsoft hate was reaching a peak (mainly because of Apple's advertising), it was the new punching bag. People followed the hate without listening to reasonable explanations.

If you say W8 is the "new Vista", in your mind and in the minds of those who listen to you, this is already true no matter what Microsoft does. At this point, you're just spouting wild, speculative bullshit because it fits with what you want to think. Wait until the baby is born, don't condemn it to hell based on the ultrasound.
This post and all the comments seems a little rude. This isn't a 4h or toastmasters feedback forum. Letting someone know they need to work on their public speaking skills is something better done in private. Whatever they were trying to communicate they were doing their best to communicate it at the time, and it's rude to focus on speech difficulties instead of content. Believe it or not some individuals have neurological conditions that prevent super-clear communication, but it's not a nice thing to point out outside of a venue designed to improve public speaking.
> App Engine fees were raised. APIs that had been free for years were deprecated or provided for a fee.

From where I'm sitting Google has been pretty rough on independent developers recently.

I think their lack of caring (or understanding?) indy devs is best summed up by the Google+ API. Read-only is understandable as they get off their feet, but you can't even get a user's profile stream (you can only fetch profiles one by one).

Now that the Buzz API is shut down I have yet to find a way to "share" anything programmatically on Google. How can you be social without a share API?
Has any blogger found prior art yet?
Hi! Sorry, didn’t notice your reply, nor this post.

Generally, my goal is a graphic desgin studio/design agency, but I’m very intrigued by startups as well.
> In a copyright-free world, that merchandise could be made by anyone

Not if you keep trademarks and have trademarks on the relevant characters, objects, etc.
Seems a bit beside the point. I mean, when you go to a hackathon, do you spend all your time telling each other how you hack and coming up with new ways to hack, or do you actually hack?

If there hypothetically were regular sellathons like you describe, I'd probably rather skip most of them and spend the time getting real practice selling. There already are conferences that fill the niche you seem to be thinking of.
Pretty incredible that within a few months on being fired someone can write an app that makes them million of dollars, while other people struggle to get their businesses up and running even after years.
I'm impressed that he's managed to come up with a brand new solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist.
Lots of things that are free speech are not legal. The very concept of Free Speech only refers to government infringement of your rights.
Patents aren't like trademarks -- it's not "defend it or lose it".

It's quite reasonable to have a huge patent portfolio of crap patents, keep them around to use as defensive ammunition (to deter being sued, or as a threat when sued), and not to be a punk ass bitch like Yahoo is now by trying to enforce them against a company contributing an order of magnitude (or two, or three) times more value to the world.

Yes, if a patent fails to stand up in court, it is no longer real, but if never use a bogus-but-issued patent, no one really tests its validity.

This action was entirely voluntary on Yahoo's part, which is why they must suffer. Seriously, if anyone competent is left at Yahoo, quit and get a job at a real company. Being an H1B is really the only reason I can imagine staying there, and I'm sure a competent person can find a replacement employer in the current market.
Has anyone else noticed these posts can't be viewed on mobile devices without logging in to a Google account? I'm on latest Opera Mobile for Android.
The remainder in this statistic are covered by what? Medicare/medicaid? Private insurance? Co-op plans? Nothing at all?
Sorry, I was snarking: I don't doubt the timing at all. I also won't be surprised if other lawsuits materialize soon.

There's a lot of money in FB, and if they don't have good patent protection, then it's open season.
Here is a 15 min talk were the founder talks about the challenges of building a hardware startup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afH8KGv0W24
Ye olde BlackBerry would let you set custom vibration patterns per-app. It's technically possible on Android too, but most apps don't take advantage of it (including the built-in apps, negating the usefulness of such a thing)
Open Source vs. Free Software
that's post(^2)erous
I was aware of that, but it seems silly to have a separate installation of Scala just for the REPL when the stack includes most of the important stuff already.

I guess that I'd be better off just using the individual components instead, for now. With the new version it feels like they've switched from being a fairly plain "distribution" of Scala/Akka to more of an opinionated tool set based on giter8 and sbt. That's a pretty big jump, and I'm hoping that the lack of command-line support tools is something that's fixable once things are settled a bit.
According to Wikipedia, the largest solar facility generates 354MW of electricity (assuming ideal conditions). In contrast, the recently approved AP1000s at the Plant Vogtle Georgia site each generate 1100 megawatts, rain or shine.

So if the best solar facility, using 1600 acres of land can only provide 1/3 of one new reactor, your math just won't work.
Control Spotify With a Wave Of Your Hand [video]
The burden of proof is on the accuser. In this case, that would be you. I enjoy HN for the evidence-based approach that most posters take.

Claiming someone is guilty by association or virtue of their profession is bad form.
It seems to me that the manufacturing strength would be an very strong option for Intel in the future. Even in the event that ARM completely dominates the CPU market, Intel could still profitably function as a fab producing ARM processors.
Somehow for hydro electric damns it works perfectly fine to send 2.73 GW 500+ miles. Look at the WAC Bennett damn in Northern BC which supplies power to Washington, Oregon and California, or Churchill Falls which supplies 5.7 GW of power to Quebec and New York.
Generally this would not be done in production code. jMockit is pretty out there, syntax - wise, and the anonymous inner classes are generally discouraged in production code. In tests are generally fine though. which is why jMockit can get away with it.
*He is being rhetorical
Pinterest wants to Pin the blame on you
I understood it as "run a this command in an implementation that is parallelized and runs in 1000's of machines but has the same interface.
> I wonder if you have real control over the performance.

In general, the mapping between CoffeeScript and JS is so trivial that it's hard to think of places where there could be a lack of control. Of course, if that were ever an issue, CoffeeScript lets you directly embed JS by surrounding it in backticks.

I also had a bad gut reaction to CoffeeScript initially, and I won't pretend it doesn't have drawbacks; the powerful, in-browser debugger that it desperately craves still hasn't yet been written, after all. But it really gets right what so many compile-to-javascript languages have gotten wrong in the past. At the very least, it is hands down the easiest way to sketch an idea for JavaScript. I just never end up feeling like I would gain anything significant by porting that sketch to native JS.
Definitely highlights the benefits of going after Asian and European markets.
Media Studies 2.0
See also https://github.com/darius/tusdl/blob/master/evo.c inspired by Sims 10 years ago, some results at http://djb.deviantart.com/gallery/ and http://wry.me/~darius/gallery/index.html.
I don't want to make assumptions. What's your argument?
It's a win-win situation! The public hears lots of news stories about how stupid Yahoo's patents are, Facebook gets seriously motivated to use their warchest of money to help lobby for patent reform, and at worst, Facebook loses some cash (I'm NOT feeling sorry for them).

If I thought that Yahoo might come out of this with a new source of cash I'd be worried about the perverse incentives to misuse patents... but I don't see ANY way this works out for Yahoo.
Considering how unpopular wind energy is in some areas due to either killing a large number of raptors, or "despoiling" the view from Martha's Vineyard, I doubt the production will continue to double indefinitely.
I use Vim. Most of the fancy IDE features are one of a) already there if you know where to look, b) available in one or more plugins, or c) not actually as useful as you've been lead to believe. Seriously. My setup is something you can put on a thumb drive, or better yet put it in source control and sync whenever you like. Much or all of this applies to Emacs.

I realize that some people will never be happy with Vim or Emacs and really want a big GUI IDE. That's ok, too.