skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TWAD came about firstly to crush the chinese, then black people, then mexicans, and now finally the poor.

Your entire criminal justice system is a mockery of the concept of "justice". "Just"? Please.

Again, downvoted due to speaking the truth. I'm disappointed, HN.

The war on drugs started in California, to lock up Chinese immigrants who were taking "American jobs". They smoked opium. 1909.

Next came Cocaine. Used to be rich white folks, but then black folks started using it because it was getting mightily affordable, so you made that illegal too, so you could lock them up. Because they were taking "American jobs".

Next, the mexicans. Hemp. Useful crop. Nope, it's Marijuana, the devil's own drug. Lock them up too, keep them away from "American jobs".

Now, finally, there are no "American jobs", because you wanted everything cheap, and yesterday, so pure economics pushed your productive labour force overseas (nobody moved, but the centres of labour did). Cue mass unemployment and drug use, as the underground economy is pretty welcoming. Whoops, don't like them either, lock them up.

America was a nation built on immigration.

Now it's a nation built on incarceration.
> There was also no option of resizing a partition to make room for Windows.

Uhm... no? There's a re-partitioning step in W7 installer.
Evidence presupposes a mind capable of making a choice. All these attacks on free will are self-contradictory, free will is an axiom that you can't escape; you must use it even to deny it. Whatever the neuro-scientists are measuring it is not "proving" that free will does not exist or is an illusion. They are demonstrating that our understanding of the relation between the mind and the brain is inadequate and that we don't understand how the subconscious works and its relation to the conscious mind.
Is there a price matrix on different Australian payment systems? Here's what I was able to quickly glean:

Pin:
$50 p/month, 3% transaction + 30c transaction
Source http://createsend.com/t/j-BE42B41F1ADAD444

Braintree:
$55 p/month, 1.75% transaction + $0.25 transaction + Visa/Mastercard Intercharge rate (0.33 to 1.98%)
Source https://www.braintreepayments.com/pricing

PayPal:
$0 p/month, 2.4% transaction + $0.30 transaction
Source: https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiv...

Am I missing something here or is there more to why I'd use Pin? Would love to hear a compelling case and a reason for why paying more per transaction adds value.

I'd say that at the end of the day, most merchants want the payment to be secure + cheap, that's it. Analytics etc. are nice but can come out of free open-source tracking methods.

Lastly as a developer, the per month cost is a killer. It completely shuts down the idea of having a boutique site earning residual money.
I really don't see how he was arguing that inconsideration is a criminal act...
Chimpanzees have 'sense of fairness'
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They'll run more scientology crap in a few months time once you've all forgotten and nobody's looking, don't worry.
The word, yes, but the etymology is more related to the idea of alcohol being an 'essence' of something.
QE effects everything. The government needs to inflate away the debts left behind by the housing bust and the enormous amount of public debt created to offset the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008. Inflation goes up and the real value of those debts goes down. (I think the official inflation figures are selective. Have a look at http://www.shadowstats.com to see how the way to measure inflation changed over the years. The same thing with measuring unemployed people).
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While some things have indeed changed since 1979, it is not accurate that any crime for which a punishment of more than four years is expected is handled by professional judges only.

Aside from magistrate judges (Amtsrichter), the only case where a German court sits in a criminal case as a trial court without a lay judge are the OLGs (superior state courts). This happens only if the crime is a war of aggression, treason, or creation of a terrorist organization.

(Not that there's anything wrong with courts that do not have jurors or lay justices -- the Netherlands seem to be doing fine without either.)

Crimes where the expected punishment is more than four years are tried before the penal senates of the regional courts (Landgerichte). They are composed of either one professional judge and two lay judges (Kleine Strafkammer) or three professional judges and two lay judges (Große Strafkammer). The Große Strafkammer can also sit with two professional and two lay judges if the case isn't too complicated.

(Incidentally, the idea of lay judges originated in Sweden. Germany adopted the model in the 1920s as part of the so-called Emminger Reform [1]).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emminger_Reform
Yeah futile like applescript - who ever used that.
Or hypertalk, or wolfram alpha or even the google search engine - nobody can figure out how to use those. Visual basic was so unpopular because it tried to use more english keywords and less symbols. The best way for people to learn programming is with pure non-alphanumeric symbols, just like people speak on Twitter.
Why a guy choose PC over Mac and how it boosted his productivity
I downloaded it a while ago. And I had fun reading the questions and their best answer. The Best of Quora is a good source of knowledge ala "FYI".

Your life may not improve by reading them, but it is good that you know those things. The best one I read so far was about what the boys feel about girls effort in their appearance (makeups, etc). I like how he compared the effort in making a tuna sandwich!
Can somebody explain to me the 30 years in prison Aaron Swartz was facing?
I read everywhere, that Aaron was facing decades in prison. But no explanation how this was calculated.

Most articles say the main charge was gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer. But not everyone who circumvents some security system will spend half of his life in prison, right?

So was it because of the value of the data he copied? If so, what is the formulat that is used to turn "value of copied stuff" into "years in prison"?
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I love what the academic world did in response...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/13/academics-tweet-tri...
> it does not internally do equivalent of unix mounting, it just presents volumes in predetermined places of directory hierarchy

Why does it matter what it does internally (unless you are knee deep in WDK work)? SetVolumeMountPoint() pretty much acts like mount() as far as the userspace is concerned.
I've found Vundle to be an easier way of managing plugins compared to Pathogen:

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
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Google Books and the librarian backlash
I'm not sure how much the UK is a good counterexample; the author of this paper seems to treat is as more similar to the United States than to the civil law systems like Germany (he commonly refers to the "Anglo-American" practice of plea-bargaining). Indeed, he holds up the UK's high rates of plea bargaining as proof that the cause of the oddities of the American system is the adversarial trial procedure that characterizes common law systems.
WebGL through Three JS
Interaction Design Documentary
Watch Aaron Swartz Explain 'How We Stopped SOPA'
The Design of Everyday Things literally changed my life back when I read it in high school. To this day, I've never been able to look at doors the same way.

But seriously, everything I see nowadays that frustrates me in its design immediately harkens back to a principle in The Design of Everyday Things.

Truly transformative book - couldn't recommend it enough.
It's not, I'm afraid. Getting the exact same error message in the log. One difference is that now it requires only one Ctrl/- and a reload to start working.
Did George Lucas Read Vogue?
Extract Text from Images Using Saaspose.OCR REST Examples In Python
edw519 has posted exactly once on this discussion and made no attempt that I can discern to 'defend his rude comment'.
Definitely worth watching, not so much to understand, but to remind yourself on the state of interaction design and the bright future and the opportunities that will come with it.
Here's a pretty trivial example in Haskell - computing the factorial function using a mutable variable.

import Control.Monad.ST
import Data.STRef

fact :: Int -> Int
fact n = runST (fact' n)

fact' :: Int -> ST s Int
fact' n = do a <- newSTRef 1
mapM_ (\x -> modifySTRef a (*x)) [1..n]
readSTRef a

Here the function `fact'` uses mutable variables (encoded in the use of `ST` in its type -- `ST` stands for State Thread) but the function `fact` is pure -- the call to `runST` ensures that none of the side effects leak out of `fact'`.

As with most Haskell code, the types are optional - I included them for clarity.
Think about a hypothetical person who didn't graduate from high school, but taught herself to program, started a company, went through YC, went public, and made a ton of cool products, money, fame, prestige. Should she be offended when people say that a high school diploma is important to be successful in modern life? If she takes offense whenever someone suggests that we should be helping more kids graduate from high school or go to college, would you feel she is justified?
Freely licensed Minecraft server in C++
Well, I took it to mean that the system should grind to a halt with as much bullshit as there is clogging it up, thereby forcing us (as a society) to choose what is really important to prosecute.

E.g., not a guy with a little baggie of weed, or a guy downloading some academic papers he isn't allowed to.
It's not a penalty though. People who are severely mentally ill wouldn't just be allowed to wander about in society either. If someone poses a thread to them selves or others, then they would be kept under guard. But that is not to punish them.
> I've never seen selector performance used as an argument for OOCSS.

Harry Roberts is one of the most vociferous proponents of OOCSS, and he has written about it a few times, notably here: http://csswizardry.com/2011/09/writing-efficient-css-selecto...

> That's a pretty broad sweeping statement that I think you'd be very hard pressed to back up.

I'll admit it's an opinionated statement, but I don't think that in itself makes it invalid. Opinions are certainly divided when it comes to how to structure CSS selectors, and I am firmly in the camp that OOCSS is bad stuff.

I've had a half-baked article on the whys of an alternative structure to OOCSS drafted for about 18 months now, so I guess it might be time to dust it down and fully write it up.
Configure Database Sharding with Vagrant and Chef Cookbook under 2 minutes
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No, he's not. At least not in the case of Swarz or James.

What he is is a man who, among with others in the US Prosecutor's office, doesn't appear to have the necessary discretion to identify either appropriate targets for prosecution, nor appropriate measures of justice, which are required for his position.

Which I believe he should forfeit with extreme censure.
Surely, linking to the original content (i.e. the book) would be better, don't you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables
Here is a forum thread from last month where an employee confirms the switch to 25.0.0.0/8 (which is not IPv6, FYI). http://community.logmein.com/t5/Hamachi/New-25-0-0-0-8-Netwo...

You might want to have a look at 100.64.0.0/10, the IANA allocation for carrier NAT implementations. Explicitly allocated to be non-unique and used within networks of private networks.
I agree with you, see my facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MagicDressUK
They aren't in charge of it, per se, but the lobbying by them and the prison workers unions are definitely in large part responsible for how insane it is here, as opposed to literally any other modern democracy.

There are other factors too, of course. But the perverse societal incentives of the American "prison-industrial complex" are a powerful (and malignant, in my view) force.
Fix the machine, not the people? (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/nummi)
Where does it say "good" in that rule?

In my experience, people who want to lead for the sake of leading, that is to get status or rewards that often come with that role or because they simply enjoy power, are often by far the worst leaders.

However, those who reluctantly come to leadership because they want to achieve something often make the best leaders but that is quite different to people who regard leadership (power) as an end in itself.
HN is the big brother you worship, your hero, the coolest guy you know. Then one night you find him drunk and coked up sleeping in the backyard in a pool of piss and vomit.

This topic is the backyard.
There are many reasons why someone should choose Go, but "Hip, New, Unproven" aren't any of them. It isn't even unproven. Actually it has proven itself successful in production many times.
Wow, your system has super crappy font rendering IMHO.
Probably the most interesting sentence here to me (not the author's own words, but cited from another source):

"German legal ideology, moreover, is opposed to penalizing people for their own tactical mistakes."

From the news, I get the impression that the American system makes routine practice of increasing or decreasing people's punishment not for the severity of their crimes, but rather for their skill (or their lawyers') in navigating the legal system.
Its the same as if I worked for Verizon and routed all the phone numbers for San Francisco to my desk instead. Sure it works fine for everyone using AT&T, Sprint, etc. but it breaks the spirit of how the phone network should work (a central registry hands out blocks of phone numbers just like the Internet) and is in general a douchebag thing to do.
There are three very dangerous tools that US prosecutors have available to them that are uncommon in the rest of the world:

* the plea bargain

* RICO ('conspiracy' charges)

* FISA warrants + probable cause

combined you could almost charge anybody with anything to make them appear guilty and plead down to shorter sentences. Read the indictments of Swartz, FullTiltPoker, Gary McKinnon, Megaupload, Lakhani, etc.
Sigh I specifically looked that up because I was uncertain, but I still managed to get it wrong. Next time, I'll have the coffee first. Thanks for the detailled correction.
>I definitely like the idea of it and the execution is close.

This is the best way to describe it. They DO have something here and they are close but the vision just needs a bit more clarity.
I have to say that as someone from the UK I've been really impressed with the level headed approach taken by Norway to this case.

As any court lawyer will tell you "Hard cases make bad law" - what we suffer from in the UK is a very reactive approach to law making where individual exceptional cases often drive the creation of laws through a media driven frenzy to have the government be seen to "do something". More often or not, as Norway has demonstrated, the right thing to do is to simply apply the laws that already stand.
I do use vertical alignment, but that's not necessarily how I'd align the above lines. Assuming y and z are related, but x is not, I'd do them like this:

int x
int y
float z

I might add a blank line between x and y, too.

If you do vertical alignment such that it emphasises semantic relations, you avoid commits that change more than they should, and it also helps draw your eye to relationships between variables.
It just shows that the author is an intermediate-level programmer at best, if his main concern about the 'beauty' of code is in how it's formatted (spaces vs tabs! K&R vs Allman braces!) and whether it's const correct. Throw in a sprinkle of complaining about silly comments (because obviously there are armies of people out there defending documenting getter/setter functions...) and the obligatory 'templates are bad because I don't understand them', and you have yet another cookie cutter programmer link bait blog post polluting the general internets.
Actually, Universal Principles of Design is a somewhat misleading title. I was excepting a book deeply theory-driven, with few principles derived from even fewer concepts, but it turned out to be a compilation of 210 notions loosely categorized. It contains the topics you suggested, and many more. I think his purpose was pragmatic, but I'm not sure it suceeded.

Indeed, statements like "four rules cover 90% of design", as you said, are both theoretical and practical: they strive to simplify and unify a conceptual landscape, which in turns helps you in your work, because you don't have to remember and apply many vague heuristics.

Of course, whether a true and satisfying theory of design exists, is another matter.

EDIT: Awful spelling.
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In my experience it's quite doable (with a good IDE) to refactor the working but messy code into something maintainable. It might take the same amount of time as a rewrite but you'll still have all the features and corner cases covered. Usually refactoring will be much faster though.
The high street is dead and it's all your fault
I'm not against advertorials but a "religious" ad in a supposed secular magazine? Yuck.
Suspended sentence and community service for hacking in the UK
Memorial hackathons for Aaron Swartz
> Your Constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure is too inconvenient, so courts accept that your possessions can be sued, and since you're not being sued, you have no standing to protest as your possessions are seized by the government.

It's possible to sue inanimate objects? How des said objects defend themselves? A publicly appointed defense lawyer, or am I missing something?
More or less dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055808

edit: spelling
Understandable remark cynix but I am definitely @yes. You can ask any of my friends and followers. I do believe they keep the history of your user account, my biggest concern is recovering my account now that the hacker removed all my person info from it.
If you manage to raise real returns by 1 percentage point above a high-interest savings account or an index fund, you're doing quite well. You've also earned a grand total of $80/year - how much money is that per hour worked?

Assuming you have no debt (or only ridiculously cheap debt), invest in yourself or save it for a rainy day; the latter allows you to not borrow for or insure small consumer stuff like computers or washing machines, which will be far more lucrative than "investing".
Your verbose version is just the core of the function, not the type signature. I'm not really sure of what you want to demonstrate here. That short names are good ?
The way Pacman should have been developed from the start.
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I guess that main point of this post isn't about visual/graphical design - it's about ways of thinking and about design approaches to problem solving. It's good to find some new ideas (which could be useful in software development, like idea of Software Designs Patterns has been derived from Architecture formerly) to try think by different way.
> Your Constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure is too inconvenient, so courts accept that your possessions can be sued, and since you're not being sued, you have no standing to protest as your possessions are seized by the government

What?! Please explain.
I would also recommend "Designing with the Mind in mind" by Jeff Johnson.

Less generic that what has been listed in this article since it focuses more on user interfaces, it's a great overview of basic design principles, with clever illustrated examples.

http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Mind-Simple-Understanding-In...
> Statistically it's not in your interest to talk to the police

Maybe so. It seems slightly dubious on the face of it, though. Such a statistic would be highly influenced by the set of people who actually do talk to the police, and they may not have much in common with me.

Regardless of the validity of the statistic, it seems completely absurd to therefore conclude "If you are guilty, innocent, or even just someone who witnessed or reported a crime, talking to the police cannot help you" as the GP comment did. If I'm in a position to talk to the police, I have information about my specific situation that isn't reflected in averages.
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> As with most Haskell code, the types are optional - I included them for clarity.

I'd just like to make it clear to anyone else reading this. The types aren't optional, but because Haskell has type inference, specifying them is optional.
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I'm sorry to hear of your difficulties brother. Lets actively work to make life better. Maybe we won't have a very happy life but we can have a life of meaning.
I love this "every hacker" who evidently builds frontend systems.
This demonstrates that journalism's money problem is not linked to the rise of the Internet, but to credibility.
Pakistan Supreme Court orders arrest of prime minister.
It's also worth checking out Sanglard's code review at http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php
Langbein (the author) seems to think the answer lies in streamlining the American trial system. However, the root causes Langbein identifies (no requirement for juries to provide justification for their decisions, evidence presented by prosecution and defense rather than by the court) are so deeply rooted in the common law that they would require serious political will to change.
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As others said, thanks. It inspired me too!

I've never broke a system but all the knowledge and mindset I got on my own path is a lot more valuable than what I got from my CS degree.
That's social security, different from taxation. There is no fundamental reason the numbers used to calculate owed taxes from should be the same ones used whether one gets food stamps (this reply counts for both replies to the GP, no need in me making the point twice :) )
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You can check this answer here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14289347/stripe-vs-balanc...
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I think one of the most important differences is that german penalties are lower[1]. Here, defendants don't face 30 years in prison. The max sentence is life sentence and even that often means 15+ years in practice, except for harsh cases or dangerous criminals.

Another point is that the costs for the defendant are lower. Watching high profile cases in the USA I have a feeling that one common point is that the prosecution does everything to bankrupt the defendant so that he has to agree to a plea bargain. In germany, the defendants costs get paid by the state if the defendant is unable to pay his lawyers. Not all lawyers would take such an engagement, but it's not uncommon that even high-profile lawyers defend people who couldn't afford them at market rate.

[1] one might argue that they're more reasonable.