skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the flaw is in thinking of the justice system as some kind of factory where "expensive" needs to be taken into account because we're working on volume.

We need to stop charging so many people with crimes. Widespread criminality can only have two causes: The first is that we've criminalized too much, and the solution is obvious, repeal the unnecessary laws. The second is that society is suffering from a systemic failure of societal institutions to make a normal life superior to a life of crime, but the solution in that case should never be to increase the rate of incarceration, the solution should be to repair the social fabric -- which is where the money we currently spend on mass incarceration should be going instead.

Once you stop having so many accused, you stop needing to worry about cost, and you can just prohibit plea bargains and afford to give everyone who is accused their day in court. In fact, making prosecutions more expensive is actually a feature, because it impedes the ability to create just the sort of mass imprisonment we have today.
That argument was settled pretty decisively in 1864.
I am the fabled :)

I haven't tried it but you can sync the calendar with nokias data suite which is actually pretty damn good. I think it supports ical as well but again I haven't tried it as I don't use a calendar (other than the one in my head)
My wife is a nurse and they have a saying about anyone in the mental health field.

"You can't tell the players from the fans"
Thanks for all of your contributions on this issue, btw -- I disagree with very little of it on matters of fact, just in "should be y nor x".
Just because you made yourself vulnerable doesn't mean it's OK to state incorrect/wrong things. The response to OP's posts are more valid and his tone is appropriate in expressing how wrong some of the original points were (IMHO).
Smaller particles are much more damaging to your health.
You're different though to the majority of people. It seems as if Aaron was making a case more so for the bland, mass news spewed out through the TV about wild stories and dirty things.
Disclaimer: This is not really related to futures and akka. I love them. But I just have some comments on the code and on Scala in general.

While I like the concepts in Scala and Akka very much, I have to say that there are some big disadvantages of Scala.

For example, in this code some magic is happening that is not explicitly coded. For example if I look at this val:

implicit val system = ActorSystem("future")

To me it looks like it is not used within the code block, since it is not referenced. However because its an "implicit" it is applied whereever possible. For me this is very unclear. And in fact a lot of Scala-ers say implicits are dangerous creatures.

I also see the "val future" and a callback "future onSuccess". But i would expect that the "onSuccess" would be bound to the future, however I dont see this coupling. Where is this happening? Magic?

While Scala has some very good things, it also has a lot of complexity. And while it might be the "cool new language" out there. It doesnt mean that it simplifies your program. Less code != Better code.

Note: I love scala, but only a subset of it :-). I hate the stacktraces.... Huge!

I bet my money on Kotlin.
There's a scale between 100% direct democracy and 100% dictatorship/plutocracy. I think most of the current republics are significantly closer to the latter than the first, as besides voting once every 4 years in most countries, there isn't much the population can do to help shape political decisions (other than protests and media scandals, but those don't really have much to do with direct democracy).

So the specifics can be discussed, but I think in principle we need to get a lot closer to the direct democracy spectrum (while still preserving representatives and allowing them to have the final word, legally, to maintain the idea of the republic - but have a much more democratic republic).

I also think that campaign donations are basically an alternative "voting system", and it's currently extremely skewed towards the people with a lot of money. We have the "equal vote" system, but the "money voting" system is not equal at all, and I think it should be, to equalize the influence one person can have on a certain politician. Therefore donations should be limited to say $100 per person, and only people can donate. Companies can not.

I don't buy the idea that a company needs free speech. When a company uses its wealth to buy elections, it's not really the idea of all the people working in that company - only of its bosses. But besides, only people should vote - not entities. This should be a fundamental principle in any democracy. If most people in the company would actually agree with their boss - then they should just donate their $100, and vote for that politician. There's no reason to have people as a group or as an entity vote directly, or vote indirectly through money.
The "proportion" of what remains "higher", exactly?

Google only shows the first ~900 results; the 'about' count of results beyond that are very rough estimates.

To the extent such counts are indicative of anything at all, the exact-phrases will have stronger implications than the counts for fuzzier non-phrase queries. For example, your queries will also return pages that include the comment, "there are very few security exploits in Python".
http://hackety.com/

An all-in-one package to fiddle with the very basics, get a visual result (children LOVE visual stuff way more than CLI), and has some kind of IDE for kids built-in.
I don't see how anybody could look at the social changes of the last 50 years and see all good or all bad. I don't. Certainly at some point the human population needs to stop growing or we will have to begin colonizing other planets. So a lower birthrate is in some ways good, even if it causes other problems.

On the other hand, when couples decide that their marriage "is no longer serving ... their childrens' needs", they are most likely wrong. Children grow up with fewer problems if their parents stay together, on average. Easier divorce in cases of abuse is good. But how common is that out of the 50% of first marriages that break up? Divorce in cases of boredom have a high cost on children with little social benefit.

In many ways we are better off than our parents and grandparents. But I don't think cheap sex and disposable relationships represent an advance.
District courts are not precedential. Not even appellate cases from another circuit are binding. Judges do not routinely cite other district judges when there is circuit law available.
There is nothing wrong with using Pacer to learn about how motions are drafted and to take advantage of someone else's legal research. You can also examine case files for free at the courthouse or even the Federal Archives. Copies are expensive, but that's another story.
You can stand by what you wrote but you have made a layman's mistake which is easily corrected. You should do so.
The NY Times confidently reported today that Swartz's death triggered a widespread debate, when the political debate really is just among...

I live in far away India. I know friends (not from a software background) who have read about it and were wondering why the US justice system would try to harm one of its brightest young minds over copying some scientific journals. Trust me, the charges are unthinkable in pretty much the entire rest of the world.

He belonged to the whole world really.
Hmm, but is not being cool to the kids really of much import? They aren't really Apple's core market.

Of course, those kids will eventually become 20-somethings, which are much more important to Apple, but then it's not uncommon for peoples' tastes to change as they get older...
Let's make a list of niche community sites to find customers/startup ideas.
One way to find a good startup idea is to interact with potential customers of different industries/niche, understand the problems they face in their day-to-day tasks, and look how technology can provide a solution in a feasible and profitable way.

While, one can try and meet people in real, it is often not possible for everyone. In such cases, it would be really nice if we had a list of online forums, communities, QA sites for niche/industries where we can interact with potential customers. There many such sites for technology and business (Like HN) but not many for other niches(or I don't know about them if they exist).

Why not make a list/directory of such websites? Submit such websites you know about. I will start with these :

- http://www.t-shirtforums.com/

- http://beta.threadless.com/play/forum/

- http://recordingquestions.com/

- http://www.bodybuilding.com/

- http://lawyrs.net/

- http://www.lawlink.com/

- http://news.knotist.com/

- http://www.meetpips.com/

- http://www.freshpips.com/

- http://ozmosis.com/

- http://www.parentsconnect.com/

- http://www.minti.com/

- http://www.myshutterspace.com/

- http://activerain.com/

- http://www.fohboh.com/

- http://doc2doc.bmj.com/

- http://www.doctorshangout.com/forum

- http://www.accountantforums.com/

- http://forums.foodservice.com/

- http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/

- http://www.restaurant-community.com/

Some general purpose websites where one can find potential customers :

- Quora

- Reddit/Sub-Reddits

- Facebook Groups
Results of good marketing and products on Samsung's behalf and rehashing of the same old products by Apple.
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Outstripping the Marquis? I've only read a few pages of his work, and I dare say a lot of porn doesn't come close.
No need for an article : he died innocent since he wasn't proven (yet?) guilty.
If you regularly write in multiple languages, Swiftkey3 is the way to go.
"the government" is something else entirely from one politician or prosecutor.
Well, to state the obvious, it's because recap is a system that is competition to the author's plainsite project. Petty squabbling much like the article itself.
Are you kidding me? It's awful. I used it every week. Finding documents is a nightmare. There's no subscribe function. Trying to download a PDF is a ridiculous chore and even seeing a court docket costs money.
http://www.uscourts.gov/EducationalResources/ConstitutionRes...

"Courts within a given District and Circuit are bound by precedents within their own Districts and Circuits, respectively."

Also:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?about=101740948891558...

I'm pretty sure I didn't make a mistake here.
Looking forward to another 4 more years of this "hope and change".

For the record DOJ is directly under the President's control. You can't blame Republicans for this one. If we can't trust Obama to take rational positions on such clear cut issues, who can we trust?
I dream of the day when I can read the HN comments on a Scala post without the anti-Scala trolls posting.

future onSuccess { foo } == future.onSuccess(foo)

This is Scala 101. How can you not know this?

As for implicits -- that's an old argument I'm not interested in revisiting.
> but if the report is whitewashed, it's war

I agree, now let's wait and see.
I went to AA meetings for a while with someone whose mother was an alcoholic (I don't really remember what this was supposed to accomplish, but...) and the atmosphere was kinda weird... the people there, at least, really did invoke god/jesus/etc a lot, and there was a funny sense they were looking for something to replace the alcohol, and jesus (etc) was a popular candidate... and there was a palpable sense of peer pressure to say similar things.

I suppose all this stuff varies from group to group, and no doubt the "official" stance is more neutral and well-considered. Still, after that experience, I'd feel a bit leery about recommending AA to someone who was vulnerable.
Actually, PlainSite depends upon RECAP, and I think it's a great product, which is why I mentioned the Princeton team. The essay was about PACER's pricing scheme, not about RECAP, but I fully encourage everyone to use it.

http://www.recapthelaw.org

Not only that, but I've pledged $5,000 to anyone who can extend RECAP to Chrome:

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=83
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Tom,

A lot has been written by many people about JSTOR, so I wanted to focus on PACER and its pricing, but I do mention JSTOR here: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=82

Aaron
This is such a load of self-serving bureaucratic nonsense. Pacer is an awful site that rips off the American people. Even if it is a cash cow, there's NO justification from keeping copyright free documents that are essential to democracy behind a paywall.

Increase the fees that Lexis-Nexis pays. Or charge more to submit documents. There's lots of solutions that could work to create a site that's usable and free to the American people.

This blame Congress crap has gone on long enough. When will the U.S. court system take its responsibility to the American people seriously? The answer: when people like you stop parroting its rationale.
I'm pretty sure employment wouldn't be an issue for him.

Anyway, if you want to protest the law, you can let yourself be found guilty at trial, then challenge the law on appeal.
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This is a little dumb

alias process='ps -ax'

:)
One of the core things about schizophrenia is a loss in touch with reality, as if the suffering is literally in a world of their own. It might be that this world for SparrowOS doesn't do him well in everyday life but may be very helpful with endeavours which require a leap in thinking.

The OP does have an interesting question because a characteristic symptom of schizophrenia is a loss in train of thought. This seems apparent in his posts because they seem, in a lot if ways, to diverge away from the actual topic (such as meeting God, which also demonstrates delusional thinking).

It's interesting because such losses would make it hard to sit down and focus on writing something coherent, which seems like it'd apply to programming just as much as writing and speech. Though, if he becomes very lucid when discussing CS stuff, perhaps programming as an activity itself provides that lucidity.

Programming may be his therapy. Occupational therapy is often pushed in mental hospitals (I speak from experience).

Either way, it's not even a good idea to try and approach, even it with the best intentions, for you don't know of the damage you may be causing. It's hard to believe but you have to be very, very careful of what you say or you risk furthering his mental health problems. It sounds cruel but the best thing would be to let them be, or at most focus 100% on CS.

I speak from my experiences as a mental health patient and becoming very close friends with a schizophrenic.
> I bet my money on Kotlin.

Two weeks ago you were betting your money on Clojure:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981587
it's a puzzle for 10yr olds
Shitty when your language doesn't have integers then, eh?
I've been using Swiftkey Flow Beta, and it's fantastic! You're right, Swiftkey's killer feature is the way it handles multiple languages without hassle. It is the difference between people hating touch screen keyboards and loving them. If I were an Android handset provider in a multi-language country I would install it by default on all phones. Android would blow all other platforms out of the water in no time then.
The same idea is proposed here: http://www.jadeleaf.co.uk/voting-is-bad
> I don't buy the idea that a company needs free speech. When a company uses its wealth to buy elections, it's not really the idea of all the people working in that company - only of its bosses. But besides, only people should vote - not entities. This should be a fundamental principle in any democracy. If most people in the company would actually agree with their boss - then they should just donate their $100, and vote for that politician. There's no reason to have people as a group or as an entity vote directly, or vote indirectly through money.

This is a really broken argument. These companies (more often unions, or public interest groups, or advocacy groups) are not buying the election by speaking. They are participating in public debate. They are trying to change people's minds, which is a hard thing to do. Ultimately, people choose in their best interest, so the last thing you want is for the government to pick and choose what ideas or speakers can make their points. In no other area of law is this permitted.

The First Amendment prevents the government from abridging speech at all. It doesn't matter whether it's a person or a group of people (or even a state, which also has free speech), or a faceless organization, or a union. "Campaign finance" laws only accomplishing providing politicians (the official campaigns) with a monopoly on advocacy for a candidate before an election, at the expense of preventing, say, the ACLU from running their own advertisements.

Companies tend to avoid marginalizing the public (their customers) by attaching themselves to a political cause. Unions and advocacy groups have a greater amount of freedom in spending member's money on changing people's minds. Turns out, it's not as easy as advertising on TV more than your opponent anyway.

Try to extend that logic toward books and blogs and you'll see the problem.
> Even if he lost, and spent a year or a few years in jail (potentially out on appeal), he wouldn't have been dead, and could have continued the fight.

How optimistic of you. The chargest totaled over 50+ years in prison[0][1].

[0] http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bull...
[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-gov...
Petition for President Obama to read 3 Felonies a Day
I am petitioning President Obama to pick up the book "3 Felonies a Day". It is a chronicle of people who have been targeted by federal prosecutors for felonious crimes that they had no idea they were committing and who had zero reason to believe that they were committing a crime.

These people were shown no mercy in court despite their situation being more than understandable.

Prosecutorial overreach is a serious issue facing this country and if the Obama Administration is interested in true justice, the President will pick this book up and start making some changes.

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Scenarios where you too could be the target of a felony court case:

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How to avoid relying on github: mirror your repository
You knew the fix was in when he failed to clean out the US Atty's - as most presidents do on inauguration, and put a slate of good, competent replacements in place.

So you have Bushite US Attys, and an AG (and President) who have been hostile to State sanctioned MJ.
This again. It's a bad idea. It will always be a bad idea.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936365

The reason we have representative democracy is not because of scaling factors.

It's because direct, voluntary democracy usually leads to utter failure. Our ancestors, who studied a tedious problem-domain subject called "History", could examine the case studies and draw this conclusion with some confidence.

There are better places to direct your attention if you don't like the outcome of the current system.

For example, should the power to create the laws and the power to appropriate funds be vested in the same body? Hayek wrote an interesting hypothetical Constitution based on this simple question.

My pet peeves are all around voting systems. For instance, voting in most countries is voluntary. That has well-understood failure modes.

And the UK and the USA have first-past-the-post voting. Which is ... just dreadful, actually. Arrow's Theorem shows that there is no "perfect" voting system possible, but some are definitely better than others. FPTP is not high on such lists.

Special footnote for the UK and other Parliamentary democracies -- winner-takes-all electorates are a feature, not a bug, because of the fused executive. Somebody has to govern, in Westminster systems, that somebody is the majority party in Parliament. Proportional Representation is terrible at forming stable governments that can get any time to focus on the purely administrative side. Ask the Kiwis.
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London fogs continued into the 1950s, notably the "Great Smog" of 1952, which was ultimately thought to have killed some 12,000, and sickened 100,000 more. Visibility was a poor as 1 meter, or worse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog
It's about the tone, not the critique.

What VigUi7vv8G2 is saying about dopamine might be correct but his tone is anti-social.

He could have left "Oh dear god." and "What the fuck? This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while." out of it and it would have been a perfect helpful response.
Enjoyed the article. Are the any other cottage industries similar to the psd to html that are good alternatives for getting started?
What I do not understand, is how a wireless connection to the public MIT network is so different from a wired one.

It feels like MIT should change their policy and specifically state, that wired connections to their network are Ok.
How about onFailure?
The Ouija Toggle
While I agree that pot should be legal, I don't think this is a clear-cut issue.

The President is head of the Executive branch. It's his duty to enforce Congress's laws.

Pot is illegal at the federal level (aka Congressional law). It's against the law to possess, sell, etc. So unfortunately the President is legally required to prosecute this.

Now, given that, I am a bit disappointed this is happening. There are plenty of other more important things to prosecute more zealously. Especially given Obama's "bigger fish to fry" comment.
Yep, Wickard was where it really went off the rails. And then it got even sillier when the court decided in Raich that if you grow a pot plant in your closet purely for personal consumption Congress has the power to regulate it as interstate commerce. They didn't even have the flimsy fig leaf they had in Wickard.