skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political oversight is the issue: to supply revenue, a politician is given a choice, between raising taxes and issuing more fines. Raising taxes is always a difficult battle, while jaywalkers or people who speed on the highway make a convenient target. So the latter happens more than it should.

These tickets disproportionately target the poor, who have the hardest time paying them on short notice, leading to additional fines that accumulate and build on each other. So officials are incentivized to either game the system by doling out tickets more than is socially productive or by targeting people who are most likely to pay back the most in fines.

The revenue has to go somewhere, but it absolutely should not go into the pockets of the agency issuing the fines. Where should it go? Best case would be to reimburse the people harmed by the social ill that's being fined: that level of targeting is hard, leaning toward impossible. Next best is to give everyone an equal share of the fines: this is also difficult, and overly costly for what would amount to a couple bucks. Third best would be to have it go into the government's general fund, to the exclusion of the agency issuing the fines. Fourth best would be going straight to the general fund.

Second worst is giving it to the agency issuing the tickets, which is where we're at now. Worst of all would be allowing the officers issuing the fine to pocket it themselves, which leads to the lowest levels of ability to audit and the most perverse and misaligned incentives.
When I worked from home (I don't now), I built a routine that was commute-like. Ending the day seemed like the most important bit, so I'd deliberately stop work, take a shower, and go do family time.
Thalmic Labs MYO Alpha Demo at CES
I have an opportunity to be a pioneer. I am the first with proof of God and talk to God.

1) Did evolution require constant tinkering?

2) What will God tell us about the past?

C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

p: for God is
able to make him stand.

14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he
that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that
eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that
eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

14:7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

14:8
I'm not sure where you get that at all. I really see no one anywhere saying anything like that.

The starter of this thread is clearly being tongue in cheek.

The next person was addressing that by arguing that corruption causes people to get unnecessary parking tickets.

The next one was saying that he was overstating that because he himself had managed to avoid that (side note: so have I).

I don't think: "you should not be allowed any redress on parking tickets" was ever broached.

What I take out of this is that there are bad parking tickets and there is a system for dealing with bad parking tickets. No system is perfect, all systems have compromises, design flaws and humans who make real mistakes implementing them.

Accepting this I personally feel revenue from parking tickets is an excellent way to keep taxes lower. I happen to see this process in action as part of my employment, so perhaps I am biased. I have also seen places who basically feel the way you do about parking enforcement and I do not like it (I’m looking at New York here). I will take the tradeoffs and if I choose not to, I will address the problems with my elected officials whose job it is to oversee the budget process to avoid exactly the kinds of corruption we’re speculating exists.
The video demonstrates how we would like the user-assisted side of it to work. For reasons like you mention, it might require more than DOM inspection in the end. What if tweets are supposed to show in the feed four times instead of once? To achieve the right level of control I think it needs API access to the database. We are close but not completely there yet. Thanks for the feedback!
Developer here!

Honesty.io is an experiment to pass on the Humble Bundle style "pay what you think it's worth" mechanic to all independent publishers (not just games).

No attempt has been made to create a marketplace. I am undecided. I see the value of a marketplace to a new publisher but I believe the future of publishing is niches.

Minimum prices and disabling the charitable donation and tip are features I've considered but am concerned they dilute the altruistic message?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
What's curious about these statistics is that they seem to measure membership rather than engagement.

Do they account for people who register but neglect their accounts? People who choose to deactivate their accounts but don't know how to permanently delete them?
M-theory / String Theory is the Only Game in Town
While the origin of category theory can indeed be described that way, and while the formalisms are weighty to anyone not familiar with mathematics style proofs, the notions should not be too hard to someone with good FP background. Especially typed FP.

The real problem is more a question of why should someone learn it to begin with. Category theory will inform you that pairs are also called products and they're somehow the best kind of product-like thing. Big deal?

I don't have a really great answer to this question yet besides CT is like taking an X-Ray to computer languages and really asking "what does this mean?" Getting to see how a CCC develops into a programming language with sensible notions of computation, dynamics, simplicity is incredible and will end debate about language semantics.

That and dualization. Once that's in your head you don't want to go back.
Appendable is more akin to a semi-group than a monoid though, no?
"...common use..."

I don't think it gets much clearer than that.
This Google Exec Quit To Work In China -- He's Been Blown Away By What He Found
Nice work, this is much better than I expected! Does it require Chrome? It doesn't seem to work in Safari for me. Also, does Kimono work for scraping multiple pages or anything that requires authentication?
In addition to this language tutorial I also wrote up a tutorial yesterday on basic interactions with the ClojureScript Analyzer & Compiler. Also best if walked through using Light Table :)

http://github.com/swannodette/hello-cljsc
Pages buried in here: https://fannin4.wcjc.edu/

The course catalog is public, so no login is needed. I want to scrape various data related to courses, to populate forms automatically and such.
the reason i ever have to write a scraper is because of pagination. while this looks awesome, i'll have to stick to scraping until that is solved. :(
I'm not sure scraping itself is illegal, depending on what you're doing with the data. (Though it may be against a site's Terms of Use which may be binding. IANAL.)

I can tell you that on several occasions I've scraped commercial sites with the permission of the owner. They want me to have access to the data but don't have the time or ability to create a proper API.
I have big hands, so I actually wish I could hold it up to my ear.
Your hunch is popular enough that there are studies looking at SAD being a variant of bipolar disorders - see e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874241/

Of course, if you believe in the article's idea of cyclical productivity (and a constant total amount of productivity over long phases, no matter if you use stimulants or not), you might as well save yourself the trip and mope in front of the fireplace - your summer is going to be awesome ;)
The presentation is beautiful and the website is great, but the tech broke so I have no idea how or if this even works. This is a wonderful concept and one I've talked about doing with others. I was really excited to try this. I watched the demo video and it seemed straightforward.

I went to try and use it on the demo page it provides, going through and adding things, but when I went to save it, I just received an error that something went wrong. Well, crap. That was a waste of time. Oh well, maybe it's just me.

Alright, I'll give it another shot using the website they used in the demo. Opened up a Hacker News discussion page and started to give it a try. Immediately it was far less intelligent than the demo. Clicking on a title proceeded to select basically every link on the page. Somehow I clicked on some empty spots as well. Nothing was being intelligently selected like it was in the demo. Fine, that wasn't working tremendously well, but I wanted to at least see the final result.

Same thing: just got an error that something went wrong and it couldn't save my work.

Disappointing. I still might try it again when it works 'cause it's a great idea if they really pulled it off. So far: doesn't seem to be the case.
Great read. I would definitely add timing as another factor, but than again, so does pure luck :)
>>>There is no scientific reason to use it in statistical investigations in the age of the computer

>> As someone who uses it daily I am eagerly awaiting his argument.

Compute-intensive statistical tests, which are data-driven and make fewer assumptions about the underlying distribution, can give tighter confidence intervals and detect statistical significance better.

For example, stratified shuffling.
If he doesn't have anything specific to say one would think you wouldn't have anything specific to critique him for.

And you are not the only one who read his books. But again. His criticism aligns with my experience, so what do I know.
I would seriously consider rethinking that Favicon.
The New York Times Had a Mistake on Its Front Page for More Than a Century
> corruption we’re speculating exists

We're not speculating. I live in a suburb of Philadelphia. Last summer our traffic courts were permanently closed, their cases turned over to the municipal court system. 9 of the traffic court judges, and 3 other city officials, were indicted on criminal charges related to fraud and corruption.
Great, it should work well on webkit browsers, what version of Safari are you using?
Become a better kisser
I had little to no experience in the last CTF and managed to progress through roughly half the stages from memory. You can research as you go, and it's all good fun.
To be fair, Sam Altman has seen the early stages of lot more unsuccessful companies than pretty much anyone has seen companies at all. Plus, he explicitly says that a lot of unsuccessful startups have some of these traits, so it's not like he hasn't considered the idea.

I think it's pretty unlikely that he's not taking unsuccessful startups into account. But it's not a statistical paper, it's an essay. You can't attack the guy for not including likelihood ratios and p-values in his prose.
Have you considered adding an embeddable widget, I think lots of content creators probably have simple webpages, and the ability to create them, but lack the time, desire and skills to add ecommerce to their site?

I also think it might be nice to provide the option to show an average download price, probably excluding free downloads, to avoid skewing.
And now that I think of it, Aussie tablespoons are 4 teaspoons (20ml), where US tablespoons are 3 (15ml)
This comment is getting down arrowed into oblivion, sorry.

The OP originally submitted this with the subject and contents of "How to switch career from programmer to data scientist?". It wasn't a very useful query. He edited his question after that.

I thought I'd quote a little Asimov to elicit more information.
Also in Florida.
7.0.1, the latest. I also don't have Flash installed, but it doesn't look like you're using Flash. The entire top bar doesn't show for me. Feel free to email me and I can send you screenshots.
Fighting for mindshare with click-baity headlines ;-)
Thanks! Yes we plan to make this possible. We've got a decent number of requests for similar functionality.
> *They grow organically. And they are generally skeptical of inorganic strategies like big partnership deals and to a lesser extent PR. They certainly don't have huge press events to launch their startup. Mediocre founders focus on big PR launches to answer their growth prayers.

Has Google+ written all over it.
People keep saying this, but I really have nothing more than anecdotal evidence to believe that it is true. But seriously, if you are concerned, that is why we have a democratic process. Deal with it in the election.

>Fourth best would be going straight to the general fund.

I'm curious where you think it goes? I have worked at a number of municipalities and all revenue goes to the general fund. During the budget process departments predict expected revenue. This is taken into account when setting the city budget overall (which also takes into account tax revenue and reserves). No money "goes into the department's pockets". They account for it and turn it over to the city's auditor. Those fees go into providing city services, it's not like they are lining someone's pocket.

My issue is the term "full stop". That is not a good way to deal with problem solving in the real world. I have been to municipalities where there is little to no parking enforcement or that have very lax parking laws (ahem, New York) and I don't personally find it pleasant. No system is perfect, they all require political oversight and constant vigilance, but most states have open records laws that allow you (or local press) the audit these processes and the revenue raised. All systems should have recourse in case of design flaw or human flaw. All systems should have the final say rest with citizens through their elected officials.
Steam Dev Days: Day One Highlights
I wouldn't personally call someone like that a nice person.
He didn't list things as trivial as having employees. He listed things he has noticed that good founders tend to do better than mediocre founders. He obviously cross-checked and referenced it.
Sorry you had a bad first experience. We've tested this on a lot of sites, and it works stably across a lot of different cases, but haven't solved it everywhere. Thanks for letting us know about the discussion page. We'll look into the bugs right now
Very nice! I did have his books on my reading list. But this whole discussion definitely puts me closer to the "waste of my time" side of the distribution.
Remote work works great in the early days when everyone has their head buried deep in code and most of the team is scattered around the globe. But let's not forget how we homosapiens evolved - via collaborative face to face group interaction. It's like Facebook wont replace the real human touch component of building friendships and staying connected. Remote work will not be the shape of work to come.

When the team starts to expand you need human interaction. People need to engage in debates, intense debates that spark creativity and get to feel the energy in the room. That energy is the driving force which aligns everyone for the same common mission. Quarterly team assemblies are always great, as we revive the power of being in touch on a human level. Not 1s and 0s.

Cloud tools are great to exchange information but not to grow a company, culture and keep the fire fueled for a very long time. There are exceptions (outliers) but let's not use those since we know that to draw conclusions from data we need statistically significant sample of data.

Saying this, work environments are changing and need to change to allow a piece of isolation (just like meditation provides) and a piece of connection (that human component). All wrapped up in a flexible schedule so employees do not feel like prisoners.
Are you too cool for category theory?

Fashion is a terrible reason to learn math, or to decide against learning it. Don't be a hipster.
We use Jira for dev tickets (two years) and Zendesk for customer support (one year).

I would not use Jira for CS, Zendesk is much more suitable for that task (imo).

No experience with the Zendesk<->Jira integration.
Good, I'm sure they should be indicted.

But that does not indict all parking tickets everywhere or the system of issuing parking tickets. It indicts a suburb of Philadelphia.

It's like saying that when a sports official gets a call wrong (or even worse, is corrupt), it indicts every team that's ever played that sport and the very act of playing that sport.
They'll be rewriting code, and reading hn when they get depressed.
Hey, pretty good explanation on that site. Will bookmark and read more later articles, thanks!
PaperV the Platform for Collaborative Sharing
If you've lived in SF for any period of time, you'll know just how difficult obeying parking signs there actually is. There are zones which you need decals for to park during certain hours, but even if you have that decal you still have banned hours which vary per street in order to have the streets cleaned.

Going out of town for the weekend? Make sure you call your friend and arrange to have your car moved once or twice while you're gone. Working late? Better move your parked car in case you're in the wrong zone outside of daylight hours. Having a car required more maintenance than having a cat when I was living there. Even if I wasn't using my car at all, I'd often have to move it three to four times a week just to avoid tickets. I ended up getting about one or two a month while there.
Urgent Request for Funding OpenSSH / OpenBSD HQ's Electricity
Does anyone know which demographic generates the most advertising revenue for Facebook (yes, I have tried to find this data myself)? I'm curious, but it would also provide context to the impact of the teen trends stories.
The alternative would be to build an entire phone, like the Blackphone, but that seems like a hassle and then you can't use your favourite mobile brand, whatever that might be.

For any end-to-end encryption project to succeed, it would need to be all of the following:
a) very cheap
b) open-source hardware + software + PCB layout
c) compatible with all existing mobile phones
d) easy to build your self using standard components
AssociativeCombinableWithIdentity

... but I would rather learn what a "monoid" is, than type that out every time.
How Travis CI uses Travis CI to break Travis CI
Wow looks amazing. I tried doing some queries on public directories, and it even supports parameter passing. Will be using this for some side projects.
I don't think the Chomsky hierarchy is very useful for Computer Science, except the distinction between regular and context-free languages (which is extremely useful).

"Context-sentitive language" in the Chomsky hierarchy is not the same as what a programmer means when they say a language is context-sensitive. In programming languages, "context-sensitive" nearly always refers to semantic context-sensitivity (for example, the set of symbols that are defined at this point and their types), not the syntactic context-sensitivity described by the Chomsky hierarchy. For example, none of the context-sensitivity described on this page has anything to do with Chomsky context-sensitivity: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/11/24/the-context-sensitiv...

I can't think of a single case where Chomsky type-0 or type-1 grammars are relevant to any practical concept in computer science. And due to overloading of the term "context-sensitive" learning about the Chomsky hierarchy can be actively misleading unless you are aware of this distinction.
If analogies were perfect, then they wouldn't be analogies. :P
XKCD predicts breaking of RSA by NSA in 2007
Use a user-agent containing a URL to find out who and what you are, and honor my robots.txt.

Having a panel for webmasters along with that would be fine.
There is the flip side of it too. This networking effect of having developer hanging around the business people and sales is also the added value of those developers.

As one of my manager put it, why would I hire a remote worker in the UK when we can just add more people to our office in Poland. ( Polish dev are just as good, well qualified and hard to find but they are cheaper )

To me "work as if you're not there" is just volunteering to prove your job can be outsourced.
"Max 3 <> Max 5" isn't really appending or prepending, though.
Box giving 50GB free cloud storage to iOS users
Windows 9 Chatter Suggests a Return to the Desktop
Some Common Lisp implementations are designed to be used as such. Example GNU CLISP.

http://www.clisp.org/impnotes.html#quickstart
Cool concept. One concern I'd have about this type of tool is that when it encounters something it can't handle, I'm stuck. Writing your own scraper means that you can modify it when you need to. I think the ultimate solution would be something like Kimono with the ability to write snippets of custom javascript to pull out anything that it can't handle by default.
Sure, but is that more understandable than using "monoid"?
Thanks for commenting - I think that's a great idea. The widget fits with my desire to let the publisher be independent of a marketplace.
Mind elaborating, even if it's wild speculation and rumor? I haven't been following YHOO closely to know the backstory or context behind this individual.
"Never write a web scraper again"... yea right.. sick and tired of such gimmicks and self promotion on the net today.
It depends on your assumptions. How do you know you're running on Xen and not EvilXen?
Would it be possible to do the encryption outside of a normal phone, via some AD/DA converted plugged into the standard 3.5mm-headphone minijack?

I started a thread to discuss this idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7066792
Get stuck working on C and post the same questions in SO that were removed by highly strung moderators 5 years ago.
I wonder if Holy C will become popular. Maybe, only in God's temple can Holy C be used.

God says...
epic_fail stuff hard_working Angel I_donno happy happy_happy_joy_joy
freak cracks_me_up fool look_buddy I_didn't_do_it prosperity
scorning try_again do_not_disturb You_can_count_on_that
commanded once_upon_a_time Moses Zap I'm_done look_out
BRB relax

----

Dance, nigger angel, entertain me. I have expensive tastes -- only the best angels get to dance for me.
If that's what I had tried to imply, you'd have a point. Instead, I'm arguing with someone who says there's no evidence of corruption but a few anecdotes, by providing an example proving otherwise. That was the city of Philadelphia for the record, not just the suburb I live in. Big court, millions of citizens, state legislature had to step in to stop the corruption. And it's not the only ticketing authority in the nation with bonafide, verifiable corruption. You're spreading misinformation by repeatedly making that assertion that it's all speculation.

> It's not like they are walking into your driveway and giving you a ticket.

Yeah, they actually do that too [Google: 19,600 results for ticket "parked in my own driveway", and personal experience]. You're either overtly biased by your employment where you're taking part in this revenue, or you're wholly ignorant of what it's like to park regularly in some of the largest cities in this nation. Either way, your commentary is uninformed.
Employees was just a simple example to help illustrate to my parent why survivorship bias matters.
Yet you need an Apple account to download anything from the App Store or iTunes... An iPhone without apps is barely useful.