skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can go on the court's website or use an open-access tracker like this one: http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/u2yv5yz8/california-central...

But this one doesn't have all the documents. There's a free system called PACER which allows you to download the filings for any federal court case, but it costs about 10c/page (although you can get a certain # free every quarter). As you can see form the link above, litigation generates a lot of paperwork so if you're interested in a case you can easily run up a large bill on PACER. Usually people who are interested in litigation share key documents from a case because court filings are by definition in the public domain. But this is slow and unreliable and if you're a law nerd the minor procedural filings are often as interesting as the important documents like the complaint or key motions.

The reason for the 10c/page PACER fee is to support the digital infrastructure required to provide it; Congress controls the budget for the federal courts an is notoriously stingy - perhaps because many members of Congress are unenthusiastic about funding another branch of government that has the power to strike down legislation - see for an overview of the funding picture http://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/governmental_legislative...

State courts are a whole different ball of wax. Some have everything online, others don't.

One other thing to be aware of is that if you're interested in a particular case and you want to know what happened at trial - with all the exciting (?) cross-examination and 'Objection! overruled,' moments the court transcript is not an official court document. The court reporters who produce them are hired by the attorneys and they charge a small fortune for copies. Now, because the trial is public domain the transcripts are almost certainly in the public domain too (this is law in the 10th circuit and I don't think it has been contested elsewhere). So if you can find a copy of the transcript on PACER* or one of the parties' websites, you're likely free to use it. The court doesn't hire reporters because they charge a lot - it's a very skilled job that's not so easy to automate as you might think - and the transcript only has legal value in the event of an appeal, whose benefit would accrue to one or other of the parties rather than the court itself.

Some courts have audio recordings of the trial available for free or relatively cheap, and many appeals courts, including the US Supreme Court, have recordings of oral arguments that are available for free. As data storage becomes increasingly cheap then full audio copies of trial proceedings will probably become the norm, but if you are listening to one then you'll quickly realize why court reporters charge so much.

* You probably won't find it on PACER because appellate courts generally don't want or need to see the entire trial record, but sometimes you can. Be careful if you do, transcripts often run for hundreds of pages and you'll be billed accordingly.
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My suspicion is that Victoria was terminated for entirely legitimate reasons unrelated to the operation of /r/IAmA. She was a valuable employee and community member, and I don't believe the Reddit administration is foolish enough to remove her just because they wanted to modify (and possibly monetize) the format of AmAs. Much of the Reddit community frequently forgets that Reddit is a business (owned by a multinational media conglomerate, no less) that sometimes needs to make business decisions.
Ironically, this seems like a very hard condition to empathize with.
> Also ActiveX was the MS answer to Java, not the other way round.

Except ActiveX goes back to Windows 3.1 and OLE 2.0.
More Kool-Aid.

Reform is the answer. They have three days.
Some installations I've seen have crapware pre-selected. I haven't looked at it lately, maybe they changed this.
... this article seemed to be talking about a potential future earthquake. And it's a very long article.
OverTheWire has some really fun wargames. I made it through Bandit and Leviathan not too long ago, and I only have one more challenge in Natas. They do a good job on the difficulty overall, not too difficult to start, but it ramps up pretty steadily, giving you a chance to learn. I'll have to get back on this over the weekend.
Ohanian himself said he was responsible for the firing! There's no "if" here.
Earthquakes are, for now, impossible to predict so there is little forewarning (and not for the lack of people trying). However, there is a huge interest in the geological/hazards community in earthquake early warning systems in the US, especially focused on California[1][2]. The Napa earthquake last summer was the first real test of the more modern components and was successful. But again, you're dependent on warning the populace after the earthquake has begun, which isn't useful for people near the epicenter.

Tsunami warning systems have been in place for many places for decades; whether people respond is a different story.

In terms of people preparedness, again, California is the leader in the US but there are drills in many places[3], though they're generally voluntary and totally ignored by most.

[1]: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/earlywarning/
[2]: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lanow-ln-earthquake...
[3]
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UIKit is a very OO framework. React is not. I'd recommend thinking about UI in a new way when moving to React.
I had a lot of fun on this site. IIRC this is where I first learnt to exploit a buffer overflow.
That is /highly/ misleading.

I disagree, I think it's highly improper that he even suggested money be given to an institution in which he has influence (currently Chairman of the Board), and which disburses money to German companies (Germany being one of Greece's creditors so not a neutral third party). Particularly given his history of fraud and corruption.

If money/assets are to be held in escrow, they should be held at a completely neutral third party.
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This essay clearly explains the appeal of arcades:
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

"Unfair" arcade games are very rare. I'm nowhere near as skilled as the Chinese gamers in the article, but I have a few 1CCs and I've enjoyed competing for local high scores. Arcade games strongly reward skill, and the arcade setting has a competitive atmosphere you can't replicate at home. I'll certainly miss arcades if they die out completely.
I don't think the community forgot Reddit is a business, I think it's the other way. Reddit's management forgot that the community is a huge part of what makes Reddit successful and if you go against them, you're not going to have a fun time.

That's why they kept bringing up the situations with mod tools, lack of communication, and so on.
Yes, ok. Some lines are more of a liability than others.
Ask HN: How to have innovation culture at large companies?
I'm part of a team trying to propose ways to institutionalize a better culture of innovation. In particular, we are a group of 50ish people in an engineering-like group at a larger company of >1000.

Does HN have suggestions or examples of what (not) to do? It would be nice to be able to point to stories from other organizations.

A couple of ideas that we had:
- A policy to let people propose pet projects and then give them 10% time for it.
- 'Mini' hackathons (one day or a few hrs/week for a couple of months.
freudian typo, is there such a thing?
"owned by a multinational media conglomerate" What?
Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong Says Ellen Pao Was Framed
I've talked to a few agencies over the years but it's never panned out, they'd have jobs for different technologies than I knew or they wanted 10 years experience for what I did know.

Can you point me to a blog post or some source of information on how to find recruiters and what to expect? I'm great at finding information about technical problems but with this I don't know where to start. Should I be sending out 10 resumes a day to anybody that comes up in a google search? Do recruiters list themselves somewhere so they're easy to find?
But immutability is something I'd expect from a functional language/shell.
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Important excerpt (to de-sensetionalize the title):

[..] But to be clear, Salinas cannot read minds. He doesn’t know whether Josh felt the impact of the reflex hammer, and the tingling in his kneecap says more about his own extraordinary nervous system than it does about that of his patient.
I'd offer a different take. SICP is pretty intense stuff in parts. Don't feel obligated to understand it all or to finish it as a full-read. Rather, when it gets tough, continue reading, but give yourself permission to not fully understand it. Skim it, whatever, the exposure will leave something. You can always come back for a second round. But, more importantly, also explore many different programming paradigms, don't just focus on OOP. Learn a lot about FP, FRP, Declarative. Whatever paradigm you use, it will make you think more openly about problems.
I'm split on the matter, but I think it would be better if Reddit would admit they need to double down on moderating users. The whole laissez-faire approach isn't going to garner any long term sustainability of their business. This is especially true in regards to /u/spez's statements regarding his dislike for deleted comments. He may think it's bad, but I've encountered in various sub-reddits all sorts of harassment and intentionally hateful commentary (especially towards people like myself [transgender]). And at this point in my life, if I don't want that sort of nonsense in real life then it's clear I don't want it in my time on Reddit. So, I may have to make the same choice as the article's author has and stop going to Reddit. Or at very least not interact at all with the users of Reddit.
Just because the laid-off employees were your lowest performers does not mean they suck. No matter how good a group of people is, someone has to be at the bottom.
I also came from a XAML background to React and had the same feeling.

This is a long shot, since most people have a love/hate relationship with the VisualStateManager, but I have been trying to build a declarative visual state thing over at https://github.com/jgable/react-vsm. It's not done, only messed around over a couple weekends, but the gist is there.
Does anyone know why is this product "Show HN" while the other product currently on the front page, Soloshot, only has a product name and slogan?
You can totally do pure UIViewControllers with Swift. Just initialize them with all the data they need and give them callbacks (or "handlers" if you want to call them that) for every UI control. Keep a reference to your UINavigationController somewhere outside (in AppDelegate? Hopefully not, but you could :p) any of the UIViewControllers, and use pushViewController(screenYouWantToShow(dataToPassToScreen, callback1, callback2)) to move between views.

If you want to "edit" the previous screen in the stack you just build a new version of the screen you want to "edit" then remove old one from the UINavigationView.viewControllers array and insert the new one. Then popViewControllerAnimated() back to it. It works very well.

Making iOS apps this way has been a dream come true for me.
As examples, look at Kong Qingdong in China and Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Russia. Two of the better known people who like to make these sorts of arguments.
Odd article ... this scheme is definitely not targeted at Americans, it's for Chinese, and they use it a lot.
I must say i'm constantly surprised by the negativity towards changes in technology by the technology oriented crowd. More specifically, the pure negativity. So many (here included) constantly shout negativity towards these technology concepts (SPA, in this case), and thankfully also citing what they're negative specifically about.

What i'm surprised to see though, is that so few focus on improving the tech concept (SPA). I see so many complaints, but so few fixes. I don't think SPA is inherently bad, not by a long shot. It's just that, like any young idea it is far from perfect. But, that's technology! It's how advancement goes.

As technology goes, we tend to take two steps forward one step back. But it's often for the sake of _progress_. I have a Moto 360 on my wrist as i type this, but do i consider it amazing? God no, it has some nifty features sure, but it's massive and i can't even see what the time is without turning it on.

Take that in for a second - i have a watch and i have to turn my wrist and bring it up to my face to see the damn time. But do i think that it shouldn't exist? God no. When i got my first "smart" phone it was also awful. If i followed the (seeming) mantra of these negative people, i'd have been shouting for no smartphones phones and no smart watches for years before they had a really solid UX.

I understand a MPA currently offers a more reliable and overall better UX than SPAs tend to. However, can we please focus on improving this technology concept rather than screaming for them to not exist anymore? The HTML5 History API attempts to solve many of the complaints here. It also sounds like we should use data caching (in our SPAs) so that when a user hits back, they get a back-like experience. And as far as scroll position goes, that might be something the History API should provider (if it doesn't already).

Like it or not, JavaScript is here to stay. Usage of it will only increase. Rather than saying how terrible of a UX it has, please try to think in the reverse. Even if you aren't going to work on the solutions, this is the exact type of crowd that will. Cite your concerns and UX improvements - These are the sort of people you should be helping, to help you :)

/rant
One thing that might help would be to narrow down what you may be looking for, especially as psychotherapy as a field is somewhat broad - counselors, psychiatrists (MD), and psychologists (PhD) just off the top of my head - and psychiatrists are the only ones who can prescribe medication.

Aside from that, I'd have to agree with phren0logy - therapy is by its very nature a close relationship between provider and patient. It's like dating in that respect, you can have all the pictures and profile information in the world but nothing beats having an actual face to face.

If you have a PCP/Family Doc you see regularly, ask them if they have any recommendations.
The hardware sounds dead simple, not to mention cheap. The service is the actual product here.
C isn't portable.

You cannot write it once and run it everywhere, each platform needs a bunch of macros and flags. Plus you'll now either be delivering it in binary form (which may or may not work due to bitness, OS incompatibilities, and so on) or you'll be delivering it as code (which may or may not work due to compiler incompatibilities, build system components available, and missing libraries).

C is only portable in the sense that "every platform ever made has a C compiler." But if you've ever written a C application which is just meant to run on Windows, OS X, and Linux you'll know that it is a painful experience (double that if they're meant to compile it themselves).
SMS is much more global and accessible to countries lower on the digital divide.
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Yes, but the Euro wasn't created in the last 4 years: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16761087

"In 2003, France and Germany had both overspent, and their budget deficits had exceeded the 3% of GDP limit to which they were legally bound."

Both countries basically spent their way out of their economic downturns, then told everyone else not to do that.
Yishan is almost terminally stupid.

If this isn't a joke, he and a ton of other people are going to be sued into the ground for this. If it is a joke, then he and a ton of other people are going to be investigated and possibly sued anyway.
Notice the AskReddit question this is in reference to:

Whats the best long con you ever pulled?
quite the contrary:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/in-hedge-fund-argenti...
So cheeky. It really does make you wonder.
Then how are the situations comparable?

Iceland had a bank crisis triggered by a speculative bubble produced by poorly managed deregulation. It imposed capital controls, was bailed out by the IMF, and took on a crapload of debt in the process, which it is paying off. All this was managed by Iceland's central bank, which controls Iceland's own currency.

Greece has multiple structural flaws and an economy that does not appear compatible with the Eurozone, while being locked into the monetary policy of Germany and France, who effectively control the ECB.

The only thing these events seem to have in common is that they were economic crises. Iceland's problems were acute; Greece's chronic. Iceland's had a single cause, Greece many. Iceland controls its monetary policy, Greece signed that over to the Eurozone. Iceland got assistance from the IMF, Greece requires ongoing assistance from the ECB. Iceland is paying off its debts, Greece is (it seems apparent) never going to do that.
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This is in the new york times?

> The protest was the latest episode in nine months of tumult for Reddit, a highly popular internet message board which has more than 160 million monthly visitors. Under Ms. Pao’s leadership, many users of the site have been upset with what they have perceived as major challenges to free speech and a lack of censorship. In May, Reddit users revolted when the company instituted stricter guidelines against prohibiting harassment on the site.
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> My suspicion is that Victoria was terminated for entirely legitimate reasons unrelated to the operation of /r/IAmA.

If so, I really don't understand why there hasn't been an official justification yet. So much of the rage could have been defused by a prompt and earnest explanation of why she was fired. The fact that that hasn't happened seems to imply that the real reason would only make people angrier.
I see it (screenshot)

http://i.imgur.com/h3V9WFJ.png
Alexis has kind of always been unpopular on the site.
I did the Show HN. The original title was "Density Platform" because we just revealed our new sensors and the public facing API. Not sure why a mod changed it.
No, it's on a blog hosted on the NYT website
It was known, but oddly not widely known. During the r/jailbait shutdown, Reddit was more successful in getting the word out about exactly where the line was drawn.

This time around many users claimed that it was the beginning of a clean-up campaign instigated by Pao. I don't know if the administrators failed to get their message across or if they were simply out-shouted by the mob.
Moral hazard. If you don't cause the quake that was promised, no one will ever believe you again.
FYI, the two-hundred year figure that this article mentions appears to be in dispute. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone#Earth...) includes much more specific, cited information which puts the frequency at 300-600 years between significant quakes with the earthquake of 1700 having occurred after a 780 year lull.
Not only would there be significant downtime of major internet services, but lots of people would die as well!
On the Richter scale, the difference a full step (7.0 to 8.0) is about a factor of 32. So if we're trying to mitigate an 8.0 earthquake every 100 years, you're talking about a magnitude 7.0 every 3 years to release the same amount of energy.

Most engineering structures on the west coastare built to withstand a 6-7. When a magnitude 8 comes (and it will come, and in some sense we're coming out of the stress shadow from the 1906 quake just now) the devastation will be horrendous.

*Editting to add:
The structures on the west coast are engineered to withstand a SINGLE 6-7 magnitude event. Not one every 3 years.
I think you're right, but it's more nuanced. Nontechnical people can be very helpful early in the recruiting funnel though, and that's a critical time suck/skillset that the technical folks don't have to invest in and can instead focus on their core role.
Marmoset's articles are a great intro. Probably the most accessible I've found.

If anyone wants to read a lot more, here's a collection of possibly a majority of the non-academic material to be found online: https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/readings-o...
Ask HN: Would you pay $10/month for this service?
I have an idea for a service to help app developers, and I would love to hear your input.

It's a service that let you manage all of your app's strings in a nice and friendly interface. It allows you to change text easily without deploying code, and lets non-coders enter and edit text. It will have an html wysiwyg editor to let people without html knowledge do some basic markup. Also, it let's you manage localization and easily assign translations to translators.

From 2-3 people I talked to about this idea, two concerns were spoken of:

1. it introduced another point of failure for an app. My answer: all the strings are shipped in a json file that you can put in your s3 account, and cache in CDNs as you like.

2. it's relatively easy to create your own string manager/decoupler for your app. My answer: Yeah, but it's also really cheap and easy to pay $10 for an existing solution, no?
I don't think Iceland's government defaulted. AFAIK, they simply let their own banks fail and made no move to support them. UK was pretty pissed off because their citizens lost cash in those banks, and they expected Iceland's citizens to cover for them.

Greece is in a completely different pot of hot water. Their incomes (taxes) keep being lower than expenditures, aka salaries, pensions etc. Not getting any more EU help means they will start paying their doctors and firefighters with monopoly money.
Yes, you can return a Promise in resolve(). I believe it's mentioned in the first half of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY48GW87Feo
The data could be lost. Part of DiRT is ensuring that the result of losing N data centers is not "oops we lost 20% of GMail users data permanently".

On the scale of devastation this article is describing, none of Google's servicing being obliterated really matters but I'm personally pretty glad Google is prepared for multiple, massive scale disasters to happen at once.
Similar story here. I don't miss the mental context switching. I also always hated how many template languages/frameworks stuff DSLs into strings.
No. I'm saying that suffering appears to be an integral part of the human experience, so if anything we do matters, then suffering (and joy, and all the rest) must also matter.
I very much doubt it. Using Twitter is such a way would be absolutely awful these days, and few people (outside of the tech bubble) hit their data plan limits.
>By far most open source software, when built without changes, will produce a fully working binary that does not grab and run binary blobs at runtime. All that software would meet my criteria for acceptance.

Huh? We're not talking about whether the main part of firefox is open source. We're talking about whether the H264 plugin is open source.

Look at firefox as your apt-get and the H264 plugin as something that you can either download a compiled binary of or compile yourself.

Is the only objection that it does it at 'runtime'? If you consider first boot part of the install process then that problem solves itself.

I really don't understand what the problem is.