skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They only make money if he skips bail - otherwise, the bail money is returned at the conclusion of the trial (even if he ultimately goes to prison).

Bail is just insurance against the accused fleeing (which is why it's set to high for someone that wealthy - if it was a few million, he could afford to just give it up).
I've been using DAVDroid since January to sync with my OwnCloud CalDAV/CardDAV server, and it's been working flawlessly for me. Every update in either direction has synced without a hiccup.

Most of the issues I've experienced have been relatively minor, and have been the result of issues with the Android platform itself, and not DAVDroid: there's no to-do/task list integrated with the default Android calendar app, so tasks stored in CalDAV don't show up without a separate app, and most of third-party to-do list apps for Android seem to either have significant flaws in their own right, or use their own proprietary sync protocols rather than CalDAV. Additional, Android's contact list doesn't have exactly the same layout of fields as the CardDAV standard, so there are a couple of situations in which certain data hasn't synced properly. But, again, these issues have nothing to do with the DAVDroid app itself, which is excellent.
Growl-style alerts and messages for your angular app
How I OCR hundreds of hours of video (2011)
Is anyone else seeing `[Math Processing Error]` in big red italics at random points?
You are taking the concept of luck to a place where it has no meaning. Everyone alive is lucky Earth exists, that it did not get wiped out by an asteroid, that the climate is habitable, etc. In a world where everything is determined by just luck, the countries with the most people would have the most successful people. We can clearly see that is not true, the world's richest list is not dominated by the Chinese and Indians even though they contain a vast amount of the world's population.
You will see that people in very high creativity fields adopting practices like this intuitively, which might seem crazy / lazy to those around them. Many mathematicians, musicians, novelists, auteurs come to mind. They work on a range of stuff, some positively irrelevant, and make sure to have 'off' time with a mildly distracting task/trip to let the subconscious work on the problem. Similarly, many creative writers can't write on a schedule (many can!), and need 'inspiration to strike them' - i.e. they recognize burnout and switch to subconscious mode.
i also thought this would be about mushrooms
Is arrogance required to succeed in Silicon Valley? [video]
Ask HN: In a funny situation (The Generalist Dillemma)
Hi HN, using one of my aliases to post here.

I'm a seasoned startup guy looking for a job. The issue is that most startup openings are too junior for me (from the mouth of founders) and I'm not the managerial type so leadership positions (CXO, VP) requiring people management are a far stretch for my natural abilities.

I am a true Generalist, and I have a strong background in Software Development, Sales, Support and Product, but I'm not a pure developer, sales guy or PM. I've worked with startups for 9 years, and could easily get a regular Sales/Support job outside the industry, but it's not the best use of my talents.

Do open-minded startup founders still exist? Judging from my past, I generate at least a 5X return on my salary, and am ready for something great for the long haul, primarily doing Product management.

Despite all of this, I have a hot resume, and have been interviewing non-stop with dozens of startups all over the US and Europe. I have a few random job offers and am also founder of my startup (which is on-hold) under my belt, and VCs are interested in investing, but I have already tried (and failed) to find a business co-founder.

What's next?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8145626
Ask HN: Mentor for a self taught JavaScript programmer
Hello HNers, It's been more than a month since I've started learning programming seriously. Before this I've been on and off from programming due to various reasons.

I actually work as a Marketer and Growth Hacker and absolutely love it but I have had equal curiosity for programming and hence on and off at it. Another reason why I started learning programming was because of my helplessness to not able to handle small technical things on my own.

This time I started learning Javascript. I always knew that the best way to learn is to make small things so I made a Chrome plugin in pure HTML,CSS,Javascript using Yahoo Query Language to fetch data. It can be found here - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/growthhackerscom/ahaagcmhajmifogflmbjcpoilnenkpeo

I then started learning node js with express and mongodb and now making a small job site using google maps API. The learning process up til now has been very random and I want to streamline it thus need someone who can just guide me on what to work upon so I can learn while building small stuff. I don't want to make the next Facebook but small little things which will help others in a meaningful way.

Consider it this way, if you were 23 and just starting to sink your teeth in programming how would you go about it so you waste minimum time while learning the most and that too by building stuff.

I'm ideally looking to interact with people who can guide me but any advice, experiences, suggestions, resources would be equally appreciated.
So you are calling for complete abolishment and criminalization transaction that can occur between consenting adults and you liken your position to that of the slavery abolitioners?

It's very easy to take a radical position and just appeal to "well these people thought the world was flat, but look how silly they are now" type observations but I don't think it strengthen to position. Slavery was the forcing people to work and leave their families against their, amongst other things.

When people argue against the criminalization of prostitution, they are not in support of traffickers. It's not radical to say people should not be forced to have sex, even if you think this makes you like Lincoln.
Or they could enable a smaller number of people to get an education and leave poverty.
One might argue that by paying more they could attract better employees and became more efficient at helping the people in need.
In the United States there are Protected Classes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

Race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, citizenship, family, disability, veteran, genetics.

Technically speaking discrimination is not illegal. Only discrimination along certain axes, such as those listed above, is. States may have additional protected groups on top of that list.
> brain-mind dualism, which (near as anyone can tell) is almost surely false.

Professional philosophers might disagree with the certainty of your statement. Certainly, a substantial fraction of them do not agree with pure physicalism (as of a 2009 survey [0]).

[0] http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
> I don't know how big the need for is DKIM (from an anti-spam view) -- how many receive gpg-encrypted and signed spam anyway?

Modern spam filters (at sites like Gmail) rely very heavily indeed on the notion of reputation. Without something like DKIM it's hard to calculate accurate reputations: you can do it but it relies on lots of hacks and heuristics. So reputation mechanisms of some form are pretty vital.
Publish 40 different parallel text versions of classic novels
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Spam filtering is not about blocking bulk mail.
Is there an alternative that you think is better? Also, is their "version" of feminism a problem since they're so clear about what it is? It doesn't seem like they're hiding their perspective at all, so readers can decide how to interpret based on that knowledge.
Lou Reed played a Web 2.0 conference in 2006. It didn't go so well.
Not to criticize this project specifically but I was task some weeks ago to implement a design with a unfoldable menu like that.

Clueless manager loved it (yeah animation !) but it's not great. In practice you never want to unfold it because it doesn't give you anything other than labels. So then you are asked to display labels on mouse hover when it's folded.

And then you must add submenu ...
I forgot I did this about a year ago. I just did it again now and terminal launches instantly. I'm not sure when in the process it gets hung up, but these are Apple System Logs. Mine didn't look too bad; less than a hundred files taking less than 20mb or so.

Here's an article where they got rather excessive (84GB):
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=641936

You can look at them if you want using: syslog -f <file.asl> | less

I should time the init and print a suggestion to delete the files if it goes over a threshold.
I am one of its users. I am not using all of its options but it's very useful for professional genealogical researchers. This means people who want to record every aspect of their ancestors life (photos, records, details, etc).
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Cool idea, shame it's US only
Software eats the world and data structures it
Yyyy.mm.dd(“1941.12.07”) Tiny ruby DSL for date parsing&formatting
Huh? Certainly illegal? Then how do you explain spouse and family health care benefits, the cost of which depends on the size of your family?
I really, really don't see how you can say that the Macs have the best UI when you can't change the desktop manager.
As someone in the computer graphics field, I do have to say that I am always continually surprised that some of our standard tools (of which perlin noise is one) are mostly unknown outside of the field.

Edit: I realized I didn't really say why you might want to use Perlin Noise. Here's the short list:

* Context free; you don't need ANY previous data points to determine the value (and possibly the derivatives!) at a point. This is huge, and is the source of 90% of the popularity.

* Gradient (Perlin) Noise has zeros at every integer lattice crossing (i,j,k,..) where i,j,k,... are integers. This means you can add it to an existing time or spatial dataset and you won't disturb the actual datapoints, only add noise to the interpolation between your data.

* Approximately frequency band-limited (Hard highpass at the
lattice spacing, soft roll-off lowpass above that)

* When used as a summation fractal, good approximation to a random walk/fractional brownian motion. This is useful everywhere..

The things above are useful in many models, some having nothing to do with graphics!
Yeah, search for "Example #1" and subsequently "Monte Carlo" on this page:

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/06/06/frequentism-and-bay...
I was going to say. I don't think a vacation is a particularly potent "reset switch".

There are quite a few articles around about the "resetting" behavior of certain classes of hallucinogenics. I've heard it described as (pardon the aggressive metaphor) the mind being shaken up so all the pieces fall together a bit differently, and minus any precarious arrangements of pieces.
A life expectancy of 80 or 90 where you are active until the last six months of your life is a win compared to keeling over at 55 from a stroke or heart attack. The fact that life expectancy is not 100 or 1,000 doesn't mean that it's not worth investing in improving quality of life and life expectancy.

What happens when we get good at treating dementia is that your children will be able to have intelligent conversations with their great great grandparents (or you will be able to have intelligent conversations with your great great grandchildren).
For most financial purposes (ACA, Bankruptcy, etc.), "Household size" doesn't mean your number of roommates, it means the number of people you claim on your taxes.
A typo is not a profound non understanding. When a C++ programmer misuses Java notation, it isn't a profound none understanding, it's a mistake.
Which groups qualify as "disadvantaged" is generally up to judges to decide, with the caveat that since Canada has a common law system (portions of Quebec law notwithstanding) these questions have pretty much all been resolved already.

I was thinking mainly of the various human rights acts, but the principle applies across a wide variety of contexts. The federal government is constitutionally barred from creating laws which discriminate against aboriginals, for example, but is allowed to create laws which discriminate in favour of aboriginals since they are considered to be a disadvantaged group.
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calculateDay = (year, month, day) ->
y = (year - 2000) % 28
m = [6,2,2,5,0,3,5,1,4,6,2,4][month]
m-- if month < 2 and y % 4 is 0
y += (y / 4) | 0
['Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat'][(y + m + day) % 7]
and the government gets to keep the interest earned on the same over the time i guess...
The most offensive part about this whole shenanigans is the sheer hypocrisy behind it.

Hollywood and its friend likes to claim that they need DRM to prevent piracy, to prevent freeloaders from getting use of something they shouldn't. Looking at the big picture though, they are the freeloaders and they are shameless about it too.

They are more than eager to freeload on all the good parts about digital media (zero cost distribution, zero cost storage, zero cost reproduction, etc) while they insist that the business around it should still be limited to the ones they had with tangible, physical media and goods.

Not only that, they want to freeload on all the open, accessible, cross-platform technology we have developed and built to sell their restricted content. And they have the balls to demand that these open standard (which has been successful because of their openness), should now be closed to accommodate their needs!

They are hypocrites from end to end. They want and want and want, but are not willing to give an inch. They demand that we give up our freedom and valuable standards. And for what? To be able to see their content on a restricted service while we pretend its not available in a superior DRM-free format illegally everywhere else on the internet.

It's just disgusting.

Why not just let the whole DRM thing go? Let us access the content in a superior, portable format and don't ruin the future of the web over the semantics of how it gets projected onto the customers screen of choice, on their platform of choice.
I checked out the LLVM source [0] and what they do is slightly different (their is a tagged union) since their HasError is not part of the union which makes more sense since it does not rely on memory alignment. It does not really matter since it seems that the values in the struct are aligned appropriately anyway but it'd still be pretty wonky if there was just the union.

[0] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/eee7a7a8362afddab3f...
Am I correct in thinking that it's illegal to discriminate against members of these classes, but not illegal to discriminate in favour of members of these classes?

If an employer wanted to pay veterans $1/hour more than non-veterans doing identical work, would that be allowed?
I can add that feature easily. probably as a default CHECK BOX single only?
From a first glance, Flock seems to do end-to-end encryption over CardDAV/CalDAV. DAVdroid is, as the name implies, just a sync client for CardDAV/CalDAV servers -- no end-to-end encryption.

If you value privacy that much, Flock seems interesting, while the lack of end-to-end encryption in DAVdroid has other advantages (e.g. ability to use server's web UI, compatibility with other clients)
> But consider another example where the underlying target was "all points with rational coordinates". All the probes in a grid sampling scheme would hit the target, but the target has measure zero.

And how exactly would the Monte Carlo version differ here? Every single random number generated is going to be rational isn't it?
From an European (Belgian, if you're interested) perspective, it's borderline shocking that these questions are so hotly debated.

When I contrast the image I get by consuming American media and what I witness here, the contrast is astonishing. Social mobility seems to be much more prevalent here than in the states. Of course, the gap between "poors" and "rich" is much smaller. But I can legitimately say that everyone here has a chance to make it. It might be harder for some, but it's rare to really have your head under the water, as I've heard happens often to poor people in the states (too many accounts, both from traditional and social media, too discount as pure fancy).

It's shocking that education is not a right. Here, it costs less than half a month salary to get tuition for a year; and the level is good besides (w.r.t. the states, not saying it couldn't be better).

And in the end? The quality of life is I believe the same here as in most well off places in the states. But the people at the bottom suffer less. That's a win in my book.
I have personally found this to be the case. Extremely positive experiences for the most part. I almost could not help but be incredibly introspective and deconstruct problems into their main components and causes. I could also see it introducing new such behaviors if taken without care or planning.
Copyright infringement is another kind of evil, which is important because the law explicitly says so;

But the intent of copyright law was that society as a whole should be enriched.

Given how the law has been corrupted into a prison for cultural content and a right for the rich to profit, while society as a whole gets poorer and poorer arts-wise, I find it morally just to encourage civil disobedience.
Fair enough!

You should check out #haskell-beginners on Freenode if you decide to pick up some Haskell.

Enjoy your day. :)
It's the logical conclusion of the "blank slate" theory of human development. Everyone is the same, therefore any heterogeneity of outcome is equivalent to discrimination. These laws can then be justified under this premise as correcting imbalances, rather than creating imbalances.
This is why i stay with CardDAV-Sync and CalDAV-Sync. The latter is compatible with a task app from the same author.
Well, the country with an alternative social order has been destroyed. No need to worry about the working class now.
https://www.google.com/search?q=ebola+vitamin+c

To date, no viral infection has been demonstrated to be resistant to the proper dosing of vitamin C as classically demonstrated by Klenner. However, not all viruses have been treated with Klenner-sized vitamin C doses, or at least the results have not been published. Ebola viral infection and the other acute viral hemorrhagic fevers appear to be diseases that fall into this category. Because of the seemingly exceptional ability of these viruses to rapidly deplete vitamin C stores, even larger doses of vitamin C would likely be required in order to effectively reverse and eventually cure infections caused by these viruses.
Oh and you can do less things with a DRM'd media than with a non-DRM'd. Even though you technically have the same rights.

None of the big streaming-services supports the HW I have in my home-stereo rig. All of them supports H264 video and HDMI.

Not offering me H264 content uncrippled is leaving me, as a potential customer, no reason to sign up.
I think you missed reading the linked to article. According to the article, IKEA is actually legally incorporated as a charity, though it's only "charitable" purpose is "innovation in the field of architectural and interior design," and the charitable foundation appears to only be a shell built to avoid taxes and funnel money to the founder (in order to maintain the facade, it donates minute amounts to the Lund Institute of Technology).

So IKEA, despite being from all outward appearances a privately held for-profit enterprise, it technically categorized as a charity, and despite all of this pays many of its employees below a living wage, though has now promised to start paying them a living wage, at least according to this calculator.
Some time ago, I had blogged a series of posts about various ways of doing pipe-like operations in Python, including one experimental project of mine (which is not like real Unix pipes, which are IPC, but is intra-process), and some others, including PyP. Below are links to some of those posts, which may be of interest. Note: some of the posts link to each other, so I've posted them below in reverse chronological order.

Swapping pipe components at runtime with pipe_controller:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/swapping-pipe-components-a...

Using PipeController to run a pipe incrementally:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/09/using-pipecontroller-to-ru...

PipeController v.01 released - simulating UNIX-style pipes in Python:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/08/pipecontroller-v01-release...

Some ways of doing UNIX-style pipes in Python:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2011/09/some-ways-of-doing-unix-st...
Open-source software can obviously never properly support DRM.

Which is why Mozilla/Firefox was so much against this whole HTML5 DRM bullshit in the first place, and so should you have been to.
Confidence is required. The two are often confused.
I haven't read this particular essay, but I've read those on wealth and income inequality from Hackers & Painters, and those seems rather similar from what I've skimmed.

PG makes a good point when he says that inequality is not intrinsically bad. It's not bad if the quality of life of both the poor and the rich increase. The fact is that it has been shown that the quality of life of the poor has in fact decreased. In this context, the rise of inequality doesn't seem agreeable.

Especially when you consider the source of this inequality: entrepreneurs are not out to eat the poor people's lunch; but if the crisis has shown anything, it's that greed at multiple strategic points in the system (esp. the banking system) had very bad consequences for the people ground by the wheels of said system.

I think it's useful to keep in mind the time at which those essays were written (first half of the 2000s), when such opinion may have been easier to form. I'm curious to know if PG would write the same today.
The issues you encounter installing Ubuntu on an MBA should be resolvable with Google and not a whole lot of effort.

However, hardware compatibility and installation issues are more or less what you're choosing when you choose Linux as a desktop OS. If that sounds like a fun project (and it really does to a lot of people) then you'll be fine with an MBA. If you want something that "just works" then, sadly, you want a proprietary OS.

If you get enough RAM on your MBA, running Ubuntu in a full-screen Virtualbox window all the time will get you a Linux machine without the driver/wifi/power issues.

System76 is also worth looking into, since they claim to provide a "just works" UX for Ubuntu directly on top of hardware.
I didn't write it, but I came across something that might be of interest to you:

http://pbrisbin.com/posts/writing_json_apis_with_yesod/
Please see my comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8160595
Having an EME spec allows for competition in the DRM market, it creates a business opportunity for a company (or potentially a solo dev) to develop a cross platform solution.

EME means you rely less on Adobe code than you did previously as they are no longer shipping an entire runtime, just the content protection module.
IANAL.

I believe that protected classes in the US aren't identifying things such as, "You can't discriminate against a woman". Rather, what they say is, "You can't discriminate based on anything related to gender". There may be some exceptions, like veterans as mentioned above, but they would be the exception.
Really? So if there was no minimum wage laws, a charity aimed at bringing people out of poverty should be paying their employees a cent an hour?
Then there's the Eigenharp.

http://www.eigenlabs.com/
> Isn't success in the United States better explained by hard work and intelligence?

That's the official party line, at least.
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