skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appeals process for a traffic ticket already is incredibly easy and efficient. You show up at the court on the date and time printed on your ticket (or in some areas, given to you by calling the number on the ticket). You and the cop or meter maid then make your arguments; you have about 5 minutes each. Within a minute after that, you get a ruling. The judges handle appeals at the very beginning of the day, so you're out of the courtoom by 9:30a or 10a.

The process can't get any easier or cheaper without inviting significant amounts of abuse. It also can't get any easier without denying people their constitutional right to a hearing before a judge/judicial officer.

Suddenly you would have a ton more tickets invalidated, which would cause police department revenues to plummet.

Ticket fines do not go into police department budgets, nor are they used as a revenue source for police departments. Ticket fines go into the local city/county general fund, and only go into police department budgets if allocated to the police department by the appropriate legislative body.
The C versions (mostly reference implementations) in NaCl are constant time. The assembly code is there for performance.
A friend of mine mentioned this video to me last week and I finally got to see it.

On the one hand, Eddie Huang didn't follow the rules set in place by TED. It seems like now he is just complaining that he didn't get the exposure he was expecting and he doesn't have anything to lose so he goes public about how "cult-like" TED is. He knew what he was getting into and he knew that he wasn't going to get paid for it, and then goes and complains about how much money they are supposedly making.

On the other hand, the rules set in place by TED are a bit ridiculous. Maybe they have justifications for those rules, I don't know.

There are usually two sides to a story and seeing as how Huang feels like he got screwed by TED, he may just be venting his anger at the organization. If anyone has anymore info on this event or has any idea why TED imposes those rules on it's guests, I'd love to know more.
Ask HN: Who are the best angel investors in SF?
I'm really humbled to see the architecture that we came up with at reddit with help from Heroku and JustinTV, which I then taught to Amazon and AWS, is still the one AWS is highlighting today (and presumably teaching their customers). It's an amazing feeling to see your work live on beyond your involvement.

* They flew me up to Seattle to teach Amazon retail how to move to AWS back when retail had just started that process. Amusingly, the guy mainly responsible for that move now works for Pinterest (a company that "does cloud right").
Yep, we are exactly on the same wavelength! We have big plans :)
That's not even the worst pseudoscientific TEDx talk, by far. I give you Vortex Math: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iw1WNixvds
Are you kidding me dude? At 1"40:

"[I] take the ten dogmas or assumptions of science, and turn them into questions, seeing how well they stand up if you look at them scientifically. None of them stand up very well."

So "telepathy doesn't exist" does not stand up to scientific questioning? Come on man, you're better than this.
Yes, I too agree EmberJS always a confusing library, Following are my resaons.

1)They say it follows MVC. Its actually MVC but MVP, if you look closely at the implementation.

2)Controller job is not precisely defined.
Example: Even the data validations are done at controller level not a model level

So i switched to Backbone.js, which is very flexible library with tons of plugins that can be used when needed.

Since implementation of UI is different from requirement to another requirement. I feel EmberJS doesn't satisfy this, which leads to people using Backbone.js.

Regarding AngularJS, please use it only if you are new javascript and prefer learning Angular Javascript (which is not javascript by the way) :)
It looks like George Hotz [1] is attending! Judging by his work with the PlayStation 3, I expect him to do pretty well at cracking Adobe Reader.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
Well, maybe they are constant time today. But it is difficult to make wagers about the future of C compilers.
Global Google+ Sign-In Bootcamps
How about asking the adult black male whether it is legal for the army to fire on enemy soldiers during a war, the question which is the subject of this discussion. Let's stay on topic.
If you can do it with Open Street maps, that's probably the best (but do be prepared for the licensing terms), for buildings it seems like the building tag would be helpful http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building

EG http://preview.tinyurl.com/bfc65yl

If that looks about right, I'd get the Michigan extract http://downloads.cloudmade.com/americas/northern_america/uni... and use Osmfilter to pull out only the ways with a building tag.

If that doesn't look promising, you probably want to talk to Navteq (now part of nokia); they're a major source of the data that everyone else uses, it looks like there's some sample data here http://sampledata.navteq.com/site/global/developer_resources... and probably you can find contact info from there somehow
MSFT buys Netscape’s patents
Sometimes I wonder if I should hire a token guy to act as a firewall for bargaining purposes. Then when it came time to bid for a project, I'd bid X, and he would bid X+Y as himself, but secretly he'd be working for me. If his (obviously higher) bids were accepted over mine, it would suck, but at least I'd get the business. His only job would be to be the figurehead. I'd be doing all of the magic behind the scenes.

It might be a sobering experiment.
The original legal memo justifying the case for killing Americans pursuant to the war on terror was written by John Yoo while working for the Bush Administration. John Yoo is also famous for writing the torture memo. He is currently, to the great shame of all alumni, employed as a professor at the UC Berkeley, in the law school.
From their help page:

"The 2013 conference will be held from May 15-17 at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco."

https://developers.google.com/events/io/help#reg_tips
The Hebrew Hammer
Logan’s fabricated back story hinges on a seed accelerator known as Y Combinator, which has helped produce such companies as Reddit, Dropbox and Airbnb. “I tell them I had some bar mitzvah money that I decided to invest, and that’s how it got started,” Logan tells me. “So I invested $10,000, and it doubled, doubled again, doubled again. I don’t give figures, but I say I was kind of able to retire from that life and start medical school.”
And Crongress has the (enumerated) power of declaring war, issuing letters of reprisal and so forth (A1,s8.11), and has lawfully granted the President broad powers to wage war under the AUMF. The fact that the President is constitutionally named as the Commander in Chief of the armed forces means that when a state of war obtains he has the privilege of commanding which military activity is to take place.

Would you please try discussing this in its proper context instead of pretending that the Executive pulled its military powers out of thin air?
Thank you, I appreciate your advice!
>"[I] take the ten dogmas or assumptions of science, and turn them into questions, seeing how well they stand up if you look at them scientifically. None of them stand up very well."

He's saying that the evidence for the 'ten dogmas' being true is weak, not that there is strong evidence for them being false.

>So "telepathy doesn't exist" does not stand up to scientific questioning?

He's not saying that telepathy exists, he's saying there isn't good reason to believe that it's impossible.
> Every major idea?

Ok, maybe not even almost every major idea (I did use the word "almost"), but pretty much by definition every major conceptual shift, from a round earth, to relativity, to microorganisms.

> Scientific ideas tend to me testable. A lot of what this guys suggests is entirely unfalsifiable. He may as well be discussing Pastafarianism.

Scientific ideas do tend to be testable. This doesn't mean we can't have ideas that are not testable or not yet testable. Hopefully, every idea will some day be falsifiable, but we can't rely on that. We may need to speculate in untestable territory before we find a plausible and reasonable theory that is testable. And as you know, science does not tell us that anything is true, only that some things can't be proven false.

There is more to life than testable scientific understandings. I could love my mother or I could not love my mother. Can you test that? Because you can not test it, does it mean it should not be mentioned and is not important?

Human love, creativity, and consciousness are perhaps the most interesting and important parts of existence, yet they are not currently testable from an experiential viewpoint, and they may never be.

There are qualities of the consciousness, which by definition are qualities of existence - love, color, taste, beauty, suffering, pain, joy - which can only be explained scientifically in their mechanical reflections in brain matter. Science can not tell us anything about the qualitative conscious experience of these qualities are, yet those qualities may be the most important part of the universe. What would the universe be without the conscious experience of its wonder and beauty?
Ruby or Java. Why?
imho, your example is not very good, because VCs don't give funding preferably to those with male names. According to the article VCs just "can’t see the world from a woman's perspective". Then the question is why VCs don't hire more female experts if they "can’t see the world from a woman's perspective".
Faster installation of RubyGems with rubygems-proxy
I've used EGS for this sort of thing before. Not sure if they cover that area.

http://www.egstech.com/geodata/buildingheights.html
Hi Krap,

Thanks for the feedback, you recon logging in to post a snippet should be optional? It's just once you post a snippet we like to add it to your profile, so you can find it again.

4 characters is easy to remember :)
There's been an article about music
I read an article about a really, if not the longest, symphony done in a concert.

The guy who wrote it was telling how after sometimes the music started to feel like a snake trapping yourself.

It was wroten sometimes ago but post here like 2 weeks ago.

Can you point me to this article please?

Edit : the title was like : It's too good or too perfect to ..
Two axioms you seem to put forward:

1) You have a right to have unusual, heretical, controversial or just plain dumb opinions.

2) The scientific community is required to respect, and seriously debate your conclusions, regardless of their foundations.

Point (1) is valid. Calling for book-burning is silly. Some correct ideas do, indeed, seem wacky to begin with.

Point (2) is not. "Lucid" theories are worth almost nothing until backed by scientific rigor, peer review and the weight of evidence. Cf. "intelligent design" - a theory invented out of nowhere as a backstop against evolution. You're more than welcome to believe it (1), but real scientists shouldn't be wasting their time with it (2).

-- EDIT: I felt the need to add...

It's quite one thing to have an idea that you believe passionately, that you spend your life defending, that is ultimately proved true in the fullness of time.

It's quite another to dabble in a wide range of quackery, pushing unfounded positions in everything from constants of physics to animal telepathy and the conciousness of inanimate objects.

That's not perseverance in the face of scientific obstructionism, it's throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.
Sure, that'd be fine - if they paid everyone $1k, I'm sure tons would jump for the opportunity.

Remember, the real equation is: 1 weekend of work = (small probability of) $10k. A whole lot less of a deal.
2013 Top 15 Tech Billionaires are from computer/software/internet industries
Raising the minimum wage does not "just" impact low-income workers, at the margins.

It actually affects the entire economy because many contracts are tied to __multiples of__ the minimum wage.

So it's not just about marginal workers either (a) getting a raise, or (b) losing (or not getting) a job. It's far more about union workers and other collective bargaining agreements with pay and benefits tied to minimum wage. Those are the people the legislation is designed to benefit. If anything, low-income workers are a distraction.

And that's why it's a core Democrat issue, not because it helps the poor or the young. Government already has programs that effect the poor and young far more than any minor adjustment in the minimum wage, but those programs do nothing for those under collective bargaining agreements, which is the actual purpose of increasing the minimum wage.
Directly below "Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 ($60,000)"
Here's one possible answer, for one specific use case: http://engineering.pinterest.com/posts/2012/memcache-games/
> Any designer would look at Flat UI and immediately realize that they drew inspiration from LayerVault. The similarities aren't minor, in either style, tone, or techniques.

What it boils down to is that there was no actual copyright infringement. If you look at the side-by-sides of the alleged infringement, it's kind of silly.

Even laying aside the heart of the issue, did they "rip off" the gear icon, the newspaper icon, or the chat icon? Did they "rip off" the general color scheme or look-and-feel? Or are those merely representative of a minimalist flat school of design which is currently in vogue?

How many freelance designers would you have to contract to make a "settings" icon, or an "interlocking gears" icon before you got back a (clean-room) design which looked even more like LV's than the one in question? Same goes for the newspaper and the chat icon. And is there any direct inspiration going on there (designer laying eyeballs on LV's design and then drawing ours a day or a month later) - probably not. And we could make the designs all clustered a lot tighter if we specifically asked for one that used very few high-contrast colors or a "flat" style.

If you then presented 10 of these farmed-out icon designs to a panel of designers, and told them that some of them had been ripped off of others, they would probably have some pretty strong opinions on which those were. And they would be wrong.
I have hacked Haskell just to be able to see what goes on inside a particular method chain.
I'm all in favor of what you suggest. But legislators have typically preferred expanding the scope and severity of criminal liability to lessening it, because they don't wish to be labeled as 'soft on crime.' There are certainly attempts (mostly at the state level) to downgrade victimless or harmless crimes, and to divert petty or juvenile criminals into non-penal programs or extrajudicial fora.

However, this is slow going; there are conflicting theories on the role of criminal law (consequentialist, deontological and so on) and no clear answer on the purpose of sanctions (deterrent, penal, and rehabilitative) that don't yield to simple analysis. Changing this will take a generation, or two.
The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
This is actually pretty cheap considering the event. NAB, not strictly a "tech" event, but still geeky, is $1200+ and O'Reilly's Fluent conference (JavaScript) is $1200-2000, depending on when you register.
Using (alpha, beta, delta, etc...) brainwaves & Neural Impulse Actuation (NIA/EEG) technology, it is possible to interact with other networked entities...

If biology hasn't gotten there yet, use tech.
Here's the thing though, and this will be the last comment from me on this thread as it gets tiring; people of your sort are great when it comes to playing "he said/she said" games, finding something to "tutut" about at every sentence– but when it comes to actually producing results, actually bringing something to the table other than an ego, there is nothing. Not a single man standing.
More importantly, your voicemails are being used to process speech-text (Google's transcription service), and train Google's speech recognition algorithm.
No. The issue isn't that the end use couldn't install a browser, the issue was that Microsoft forbade OEMs with the threat of removing their distribution license from pre-installing other browsers, thus preventing competition at point of sale. This is anti-trust. It's not a 'stupid' law, it extremely sound. Microsoft, in all reality, should have been broken up as a result, but because the judge mouthed-off (and some heavy lobbying), they were treated more leaniently.
70 mobile gaming stats to impress your friends
"Can I ask that same adult black male whether they'd want to be alive in America in 1963, 1943, 1893, and 1863?"

Do you honestly think this is valid reasoning? "You might be in prison for a victimless crime, but at least you're not a slave"?
CloudFlare doesn't do sessions, they're just* a proxy cache to their customers' origins. * A nice proxy cache; and they do have some features to muck about with the content on the way through if you desire, but I don't see any application aware routing options.

What you're asking about isn't really an anycast problem either, you can have the same situation with any load balancing situation; if you need the client to come back to the same server, you need the client to bring you back something that says which server to route to, for example a cookie or a hostname, and you need something in your stack that handles that and routes it (could be DNS entries, a hardware or software load balancer, application logic, etc). Avoiding sessions is better, of course, if you can (or if you can have the client keep the state information; possibly encrypted and signed).
Do you take part-time as well?
Or allow you to forward your number to an international number when you are out of the country.

But I checked, this doesn't do that either.
Just generated an export from Posterous. It's not just namespaces. XML files contain unescaped html entities (&nbsp; for example). What a mess.
C, D, R, Io, ...

Most single letters are taken for programming languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages
Court says Kim Dotcom can sue New Zealand spy agency
Excerpt from the linked article:
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At one point, the founder was introduced via email to the head of a VC firm and got a reply from one of his associates. “We were given explicit advice that if we were introduced to a venture partner in a certain way and they passed us off to an associate, we were supposed to respond with, ‘Thanks so much. I’d love to talk, but I’m heads down on a product right now and I’m only able to talk to people with decision-making ability,’” she says. She composed a reply saying as much. Before sending, she showed it to five different male friends who were also founders and they thought the tone was fine. But the response she got from the associate at the firm was shocking. “I got a massive slap on the wrist,” she says. “The tone of the response I received was, ‘Don’t get too big for your britches, little girl.’ And it happened a second time as well.” When she showed the reply to the male founders, they were amazed by the brazenness of the email. They had never received anything similar in tone and couldn’t understand why the response was so cold and angry.
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Another excerpt:
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Money men look for people who are a younger, better, smarter version of themselves. It's human nature. The typical funder is an old, straight, white male, hence the typical fund-receiver is a young, straight, white, male.
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There's a hierarchy of (generally unintentional) discrimination. In practice, there's a lot more discrimination when meeting face-to-face than when just confronted with names - but even in controlled conditions like the above math example, there tends to be a massive amount of bias against women in technical fields. And it's not a matter of perspectives.
Persistence means storing it in a file or database. Not a job for library of primitives.
FontAwesome with Meteorjs
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/03/06/fontawesome-with-meteorjs/
Ask HN: What are some inspirational biographies/memoirs?
They really should have released the chat portion as a standalone app. It's not consistent with their digital journal concept. Now the app feels heavy, crammed, and confusing.

That being said, they did a beautiful job implementing chat and in my opinion it blows every other messaging app (ex. groupme) out of the water. I just wish they had released it as it's own app.
s/elliptical/elliptic/
Thanks for using libsodium!
Authorea is a great project. I love the idea of helping academics write their papers natively for the web. Good luck Nate and Alberto!
During a supply shock, the fed should allow inflation to increase because prices are rising for a real reason. But equilibrium wages should remain steady because workers aren't becoming more productive. Basically this is just a way of saying everyone needs to take a hit to consumption, something which is readily facilitated by inflation. If minimum wages rise but equilibrium low-skilled wages don't rise or even fall, it will lead to layoffs and turn the supply shock into a high-unemployment recession. If the Fed tries to react by reducing inflation, equilibrium wages will fall further making the situation worse, and giving rise to a lot of inefficiencies where some people are shielded from the supply shock and others face the full brunt.
We call this trading one hell (direct mutability) for another worse hell (Indirect mutability).
Why would you not entertain the idea that rats can learn telepathically?

As an open minded scientist, would you not want to test for evidence of such a phenomenon instead of following in the footsteps of flat-earthers, who tune out at the first sign of an idea that seems to question their beliefs?

There is so much about the universe we don't even begin to understand, from why anything exists at all to the nature and quality of consciousness. What baffles me is that all these supposedly open-minded rational people can presume to know so much to be "nonsense" about which science does not even claim to know anything at all.
correction: they look after refugee kids some of them had their parents killed and live in shelters on their own. the project aims to reestablish their self-confidence and possibly find a job
Small typo: "insitutional" [1]

[1] https://www.authorea.com/user_plans
Latest Steam numbers show Linux, Mac gamers almost equal
This is monumentally difficult to answer when the question is presented so generally.

• What are you trying to accomplish?
• Which language has superior/more libraries for your task?
• Which language is more amenable to creating further libraries if needed?
• Which operating system are you working on?
• Are you doing server-side or client-side work? Web applications or desktop software?
• If server, does yours have a particular tie with one or the other language? (example: specializing in RoR)
• Are you working with a team? Which do they know better?
• Which do you know better?
• Are you going to iterate your code a lot or do a one-off project that doesn't need updating?
• Do you know other tools/languages that stack well with one or the other? Which language complements your coding habits more adequately?
• Do you need to have a high-performance application or can you sacrifice that for versatility and readability?

etc. etc. etc...and you could double that list easily.
http://ask.metafilter.com/192158/Ruby-vs-Java-which-wins
Cut the Facebook umbilical cord
In fairness to Sheldrake, he writes about these ideas, and then goes off to test them. See Seven Experiments that Could Change the World, and his later books which tested the effects.

A meta-analysis has supported the sense of being stared at. I will find the link later and included it. I believe it was in the British Journal of Social Pyschology around 2005.
Agreed but that is a Bad Thing™.