skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using, say, four more trick plays per season could mean the difference between making the playoffs and not making the playoffs, and probably would not change the way defenses behave much. There’s a sweet spot here of using trick plays and being unpredictable that not many coaches play with. It’s also difficult for a defense to change their play style in order to counter trick plays without sacrificing defensive efficiency on standard plays. There are obviously lots of points to be made here.
This is almost exactly the project I have started:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/world-politics/wiki/Interests%...

Feel free to contribute your ideas to the wiki.
$1MM is not a fantastical figure. Not every lawyer can mount an adequate defense in a federal criminal case and the ones that can cost a lot of money.

As for sentencing, it doesn't matter. He shouldn't have been charged in the first place and it shouldn't be policy to throw an absurd amount of charges at someone knowing that only a few will stick.

As for his socioeconomic status, I am also a white middle class kid who likes computers and so I identify with him. That's why I care more about this issue. That seems to be your point, but it's just a basic reality of human psychology and it's not revelatory or significant. It doesn't change the fact that what happened to him is wrong.
You need more of the probability distribution for the plays to make that decision. Most trick plays involve a handoff deep in the backfield which can result in large losses, which can kill drives. One reason why football teams run the ball even though the yards per play is lower than passing is that the lower variability of yardage gain helps to sustain drives resulting in points.

On 4th down you need to figure in the opportunity cost of the punt (~35 net yards). There was a paper ~12 years ago that covered this in detail using a dynamic programming approach to calculate the value of a first down at each yard line for a team, to calculate the value of say punting. It concluded NFL teams punt too much. Nowadays you see a lot more 4th down attempts than 10 years ago. I duplicated this approach for Division 3 college games and came up with an even more aggressive result.

But good read, it gave me an idea for some analysis myself.
So in a way despite its age, Java is still like the pioneer with all the arrows sticking out of its back.
I doubt that $10,000 is anywhere close to the cost of designing the system. $10,000 is not even enough to hire one senior developer for a month. And the designers would have to have domain knowledge of the legal system, which very few web developers have; you'd probably need to hire lawyers as consultants. Plus, the article mentions that different courts and judges have differing requirements, so just figuring out what the system needs to do seems non-trivial.

Also, even if the system could be designed for $10,000, the yearly cost of operating it (hardware costs and personnel) would be significant, since all the data from the various courts would need to be entered daily, and someone would need to verify that the data in the system was complete and accurate. Plus, the system would need to be backed up and have redundancy and disaster recovery plans. You can't afford to shut down the legal system across the entire country because one data center loses power. We're not talking about Twitter here; we're talking about critical national infrastructure.
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Haven't they always had more people than most other countries?
Its a beginning - you have people forking and possibly contributing. Imagine you have a decent project with a few contributors - you want to boost the 'status' of project - this is a good hack then
Hi,

From what I've seen, research is done at all levels, though the higher the level, the more likely the citation. For example, district judges like to cite other district decisions in their same courts for routine boilerplate, such as the conditions when a 12(b)(6) motion is appropriate.

I have conducted legal research with PACER multiple times in the course of handling litigation. One key time was when I had to look up ALA v. Pataki--a district decision--which has key implications in the FaceCash case because it deals with the right of states to regulate the internet. It never got to the appellate level, but it's the law of the land now. So I would disagree with your statement that "district court cases are not precedential," because they sometimes are. Many other times I wanted to see how particular motions were drafted in other cases (having never written them before), which is something that you can really only do if you have access to the PDFs of the motions themselves.

Google Scholar does not contain district case dockets or documents at this time, though it is a great resource. LexisNexis is barely usable for novices, expensive, and simply not a realistic option for many people involved in litigation who aren't lawyers.

Even though appellate courts obviously track cases with numbers, those cases are not directly linked from PACER such that you can follow a case backwards or forwards with one click. I've used these systems pretty extensively. I stand by what I wrote.

Aaron
What do those speculators say about the former Chief Technologist at the US FTC [1] leading the team behind RECAP [2]?

1. http://techventures.columbia.edu/news/professor-bellovin-nam...
2. https://www.recapthelaw.org/about/
I use PACER all the time and I really appreciate the fact that it's really simple, even if it looks like I am browsing in Netscape Navigator.

The point of PACER is to get to documents quickly, which it does very well.
Why do people move there?
Yes, but it can also use several channels. This plus the AC standard becoming more popular will lead to overcrowding in 5 GHz also.

2.4 GHz has 3 non-overlapping 20 MHz channels.

5 GHz has about 23 non-overlapping 20 MHz channels.

Both go through walls, so you will get interference from neighbouring apartments no matter what technology you implement. The only solutions are to use a much higher frequency, or shield your apartment walls.
I believe it is indicative of media exposure to incidents, kind of like seeing how many people are aware of a situation IRL to assess its cultural impact, if only in proportion. But that's just my opinion.
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From previous coverage I recall, and a current search (from the USA) just confirmed, that above the first search result is a phone number for a suicide-prevention hotline.

Beyond that, do you have any evidence that "these links are enough to push people over the edge"?

It's possible the opposite is true: that receiving instant, accurate, agenda-free information about suicide actually reduces completed suicides, for example by exercising the imagination harmlessly, or making the details more salient and revulsive, or other mechanisms. You'd have to study the effects to be sure -- not just make guesses from intuition, which can be especially misleading when dealing with mood-disturbed masses.
Remember, Lessig's point was that Aaron SHOULD have been punished but that the sentence was disproportionate.

And we can rise above our prejudices and instinctive "identifications." I don't accept that we have to follow our instinctive "psychology" (which is quite more nuanced than you are suggesting) instead of something more logical.
Putting on tinfoil hat and thinking why DHS will have interest in doing this. Also don't we have already crypto-js that seems to be doing just file.
One thing that isn't really highlighted as much as it should be is that you can directly grab or source your opted-in aliases, eg.

wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/[userid]/alias >> ~/.bash_aliases

or, if you like to live dangerously:

source <(wget -q -O - "$@" https://alias.sh/user/[userid]/alias)
To some extent, they are though. Most peer reviewers are not paid for their time; instead, they are largely federally-funded academics. The journals have an incredible racket: they don't pay for their raw inputs, and they get a lot of their value-added for free as well. Since there's been a large shift away from the dead-tree versions being critical for researchers, the cost of transporting bits is a lot lower than stacks of paper.
http://cogen.mit.edu/ was also hacked, and this is a MIT official page.
I agree that the system is the problem. Never said it wasn't. Seeing Ortiz punished is not mutually exclusive with fixing the system. I was simply attempting to offer an explanation as to why people are calling for punishment given that it will not fix the system or prevent future Aaron's (as you've been so enthusiastically pointing out for the past two days). That's why Nietzsche is relevant - clearly deterrence is not the motive here, so what is? Do you have a better explanation?

As for your last paragraph, I'm happy to let my fellow technerds judge who is the sociopath here. I do believe that Ortiz has egregiously failed if her intent were to do good. I do not believe in the prima facie legitimacy of duly enacted laws in a representative democracy - especially one made up of such morally degraded citizens as our current United States.
Agreed, I demo'd Dr. Perlin's Quikwriting for the Palm which back in the day of capacitive touch, one had to put a plastic film template overlay of the glyphs. While novel and innovative, it was unfortunately overshadowed by other keyboarding methods, fitaly et al. That said, 8open efforts while admirable need to be tested against stock 4.2 swipe with autocorrection which i found most satisfactory above all other methods. ymmv
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Walter, I'm with you, but I think what's going on is preparation for a sea change toward 4K Ultra High-Definition TV and 8K UHDTV. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_televisio... for the news.) These TVs are all multiples of the 1920x1080 areal unit and anything large that isn't will have bad economies of scale.

Okay, fine, give me a retina eInk touch screen tablet like the lid of my RetinaMBP for reading PDFs, and give me a comfy chair and small desk facing a wall-sized, wall-embedded 8K UHDTV monitor (7680 × 4320 = 33.2 megapixels) for software dev.

And maybe by then I'll be writing all my software in D. ;-) (I've been a fan of D for years, but that's a topic for a different thread.)
I agree with many parts of Buddhism but sorry pal, reincarnation (and heaven/hell) is totally BS. You have been cheated and ask yourself a question? Do you remember what happened before your present life? No? Then how come what you do now effects your "future" life that doesn't even care about your present life. Reincarnation is unfalsifiable(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability), which means it is as believable as the Flying Spaghetti Monster(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_monster) And you could also ask how you are even reincarnated to a human when the probability of being a virus/bacteria is several magnitudes larger? Accept life does not have a purpose, and all that exists are patterns, consciousness itself is only a complicated pattern.
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Because you get to live and do whatever you want afterwards and still meet your life objectives?

This guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mujica) has spent 14 years in prison including two in a solitary pit, with a rat he domesticated as his only companion. He is the country's president now.
I thought Swype and Gesture swiping were more or less the same. What's the difference?
I don't know if it is my browser, but to me I get the feeling the site is disabled, with the very darkend colors. It's almost as if a modal is showing, and the rest of the page is faded out - but I can't see no modal. Just my first impressions. But other than that: Really cool - going straight to the bookmarks!
Just a note, but it's possible what Aaron did actually was legal. There was an article [1] by an expert witness in the case posted earlier today. So I think the trial would have been revealing. Admittedly the article doesn't prove anything, but I think everyone has so far been assuming Aaron's guilt. And while there is no denying the acts that he committed, they may have been legal.

1. http://io9.com/5975592/aaron-swartz-died-innocent-++-here-is...
At least OpenJDK doesn't include 0-day exploits featured in Oracle's JVM. You don't need the update this instant.
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He downloaded 4 million articles and physically hard-wired his machine on the network.
Huh? I see Google report 31.8K results for ["Java security exploit"] and only 4 for ["Python security exploit"]. So in addition to any other problems with this as a rough estimator, removing some of the fuzziness of you unquoted queries gives a wildly different indication.

Separately, some of the worst Java bugs have been problematic and widely-exploitable not because of Java as a language, but Java as an applet/web-browser extension platform, which tries (and too often has failed) in running untrusted code in a safe manner.

Few other languages have even tried to fill that niche -- really only Javascript does, and it achieves what safety it provides by an even stricter lockdown of platform-capabilities.
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The novelty of Graffiti is that it emulates what we write, how we write it in analog form. The motions and shapes made while using this app don't have that sort of relationship. Is gesture typing, or Swype, or Swiftkey rip offs of Graffiti because one traces their finger in a path abstracted from the alphabet?
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Swype only lets some users via a "beta program" use the app. It has a cumbersome installer that never works on the first try. I like the style of the stock keyboard as well as a few of the layout nags. Finally, the Google keyboard also includes fast access to the text-to-voice app. That and I think the algorithm is flatly better than swype. (Swype was always more of a gimmick, especially after Gingerbread when the stock keyboard got a big upgrade. Gesture with the Google keyboard is something I use 75% of the time I'm typing)
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A google search like that could also include security exploits using python etc. And even google has started putting less importance to the count. It basically means nothing.
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I think the last point is the key: "Stop letting boulders fall on you while you chase the gleam." The world seemingly expects us to respond to it, but we don't have to, if we don't want to. It's quite simple, actually.
This is the arXiv (arxiv.org). Science only, though.
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Had the exact same reaction when I first opened the site, thought my eyes had gone funny.
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For once I find myself agreeing with Aaron Greenspan, except AaronSW's latest legal troubles were with JSTOR, not PACER. The article should have at least pointed that out.
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Every time I'm asked to update Java, I can't wait for the day it goes away. Then I remember awesome stuff like clojure runs on top of the JVM.

Hopefully more browsers will stop blocking Java applets by default, as only they seem to be the cause of troubles at this point.
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>Particularly, this case of a prosecutor prosecuting someone under a lawfully passed rule bears scarcely more relation to the Nazis than to unicorns.

There is a distinctly "just following orders" vibe to the argument that a prosecutor is right to prosecute someone completely regardless of any proportionality of the penalties to the alleged acts of the accused, just because the law allows it.
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I also hope hat young people also realize hat the depiction of sex in Hollywood movies or romantic novels is just as much an abstraction.
and then how do you escape when Kim Jong-un decides that it's better for you to be in a labor camp?
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Somewhat related: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212910/How-Britain-...
My understanding is that for China the number one priority is more power, ASAP. So they opt for cheaper power plant designs because they want as much immediate generating capacity as they can get for their limited funds (a lot of capital yes, but spread across a very large population.) unfortunately this means skimping on investments like more efficient and lower-emitting technologies, which might save money in the long run, but cost more up front.

There may be an incompetence factor but it sounds on paper rational. Between freezing and coughing what would you pick?
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Did you even watch the video, you missed the point completely.
Smog != C02
People keep treating the two as if they're the same. They point at Beijing and think global warming.

Having more efficient power-plants, catalytic converters on cars, filtration, less use of coal, and more advanced engines in general leads to more complete combustion and less smog (less CO too).

I'm sure Beijing has lots of cars and people, but so does for instance NYC , and they don't have the same smog problems.
They're not spending their own money, they're (ostensibly) allocating state funds like any other bureaucrats.
Indeed I did not use quotes. The fact remains that the proportion remains higher for Python.

In a way it's sad that Javascript isn't implemented on top of an accessible bytecode interpreter (VM) that someone could write another translator for. I'd love it if browsers could be extended in Lua.
Ah...

> I am addicted to porn. ... I would look about once per week...

Might as well have said:

> I am addicted to heroin. ... I would shoot up about once per week...

I guess the point is simply that you did something that harmed your life, but you couldn't stop, eh?

It's strange that the word "addict" conjured up so many images of drugs and alcohol that I unconsciously threw the proper definition of the term right out the window.
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Because it's better than the place they left?
TL;DR, summary, critical précis, abstract, thesis statement, inverted pyramid and similar rapid summation styles are both useful and have a long tradition.

TL;DR is an inherent criticism of writing that lacks sufficient discernable coherent structure to rapidly assimilate meaning, whether by want of language, typography, or simply cogent thought. There's a lot of sloppy writing on the Internet (and off).

TL;DR is a recognizable convention that serves a purpose. It can be tagged on by others (the way I first saw it used), or be added by the original author, usually in self-deprecating jest, with the meaning of "do you find this too long to read, here's my summary" . Better if people would write clearly in the first place. Surely that's a simple technical problem, no?

TL;DR: Essay misses origins, benefits, and use-conventions of this hack.

TL;DR is, however, remarkably ineffective when it happens to begin every paragraph of an essay. Please avoid this use case.
In 99% of cases I would wager you don't want your stubs to perform much logic at all. You want their returns to be a static as possible. The more logic your stubs perform the greater chance your test may fail due to an error in your test logic.

This is purposeful. The point of passing the original mime object in two-fold. It is first that it allows you to manipulate the object further when and only when the method is called. This is extremely useful for mocking/stubbing very dynamic objects whose behavior may change based on a method call. Secondly, it allows you to return the mimicked object.

Think of a method, for example that might expect two arguments, set a number of properties, and then return itself. Now imagine it has a second method, which may also alter one of those properties and return something else completely. This is pretty straightforward to do with parody:

Mime::create('Vendor\Project\Class')
->onCall('method1')->expect('arg1', 2)->give(function($mime) {
$mime->onGet('property1')->give('totally');
$mime->onGet('property2')->give('possible');

return $mime;
})
->onCall('method2')->give(function($mime) {
$mime->onGet('property1')->give('new value');

return TRUE;
});

I am not readily familiar with the syntax of other frameworks... but this seems a lot more flexible than passing arguments to the callback and forcing untested logic into the callbacks.

As I mentioned in another comment -- this is designed for very strict and context sensitive test cases. In principle, everything you should ever expect when calling a method is to give something and get something back, and maybe that it modifies a property. All of this is possible here, the logic of how it transforms what you get to what it gives is irrelevant, you should know the answer to both as a developer. And by removing that logic from the code, you "fake" only the very explicit expectations of the code you're pretending to be.
If you say it's a matter of funding, where do the extra revenues PACER takes in beyond cost go? Are they appropriated back into the general fund and thus not usable for upgrades?
The language he uses to talk about his experiences sounds extremely judgmental and puritan. It seems to me that his problem is not pornography but guilt tripping himself.
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> Some people seemingly handle these situations well (Julian Assange?)

Julian Assange knew that he'd be pursued to the point of death, both legally and illegally (assassination) by various governments around the world. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he started Wikileaks.

And so he did so fully aware of the potential consequences, which so far haven't actually been as bad as one would have expected. (By now, one would have expected him to have been "finished off" by one of the many governments he's pissed off.)
I feel like your point was already covered in his essay though I could be missing something.

> Others say that sure, most of the stuff in the news isn’t of use, but occasionally you’ll come across some story that will lead you to actually change what you’ve been working on. But really, how plausible is this? Most people’s major life changes don’t come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.

Most people I know who I would class as common, though I do not mean this in a demeaning or derogatory way, watch the unfiltered mass news daily or at least weekly—like Aaron described. They'll get home from work and turn on the 5PM news or have the radio going. Yet these people are common in that they work a 9-5 job they often complain about, they seek to buy a bigger TV and have a family holiday once a year or two.

They know a hell of a lot more than others about current events but effect little change, it seems, in their own lives or those around them. If the majority of people watch the news regularly, why isn't there more change? If the TV was off, perhaps people would be outside a little bit more? Maybe us Westerners would know more about our local area than we do about popular topic x in foreign country y.

Others who have agreed with you also seemed to have had their own comments already answered by Aaron and here have had others quote those parts back to them.