jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The actions of the police bear explaining, however, regardless of how suspicious they though the actions of the traveler were. IANAL, but as I understand it, if police handcuff him, he was being arrested, which means the police failed to read him his Miranda Rights and to charge him with any crime. If this is so, isn't that either a crime on the part of the police themselves or at the very least a serious administrative violation? The alternative is that he was being detained for questioning, but is it really usual or accepted to detain someone for a long a period of time and handcuff them for questioning? (seems 20 minutes is considered already fairly long for this sort of detention: http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/arrests_and_... , though I can't verify the source ). The question here is under which law or authority can someone be hand-cuffed and deprived of their freedom - however briefly - just for having a bunch of cards with words and a book.

I mean, I am not kidding myself, the "threat of terrorism" has been used to justify far worse abuses, up to and including torture and extra-judicial prisons. But expected or not, this should be morally and legally indefensible.

Also, at a personal level, it makes me think that, should I decide to travel any time soon, my reference papers for work in computer systems' security, the book I am reading on the NSA/Snowden material and my textbook on introductory Chinese should all stay back home. Because "that sure looks like some suspicious literature right there, doesn't it?"
Good to hear. Can you share a link to your project?
I experienced this at a network ad agency office I worked for in 2010. Financial crisis of 2008, massive cuts, layoffs, etc. Everybody who was a go getter with qualifications took off, leaving the bottom barrel people at their posts. Since the agency had some guaranteed work from network wide contracts, it never closed up shop, but by the time I was hired on, it was the blind leading the blind.
There's another, shorter one, answering the "why are manhole covers round" question: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/posts/details/12395
Polish cuisine really is amazing. My favorite cold summer soup is Chłodnik, a bright pink creamy beet soup with farm-fresh hard boiled eggs and young potatoes on the side. Borowikowa is a hot mushroom soup made from wild Porcini mushrooms gathered in the fall mushroom-hunting season with an incredibly rich taste.

The Poles take ingredient quality very seriously and have so many awesome food traditions, plus are getting much better at reproducing other culture's cuisines, I think mainly due to open EU borders giving a lot of restaurateurs working experience outside the country.
Paying someone $0 to work for you would be illegal too.
The problem with this line of argument often is that you are transposing solutions that work elsewhere piecemeal vs. looking at things holistically. For example, public schools in cities such as SF could be quite far away from people's homes. And public transport in SF sucks. Likely very few people in Munich travel to suburbs for work (since many companies in the bay area are headquartered far away from SF) and there are parents who have no option but to make that travel happen.

As such, this line of reasoning that if it works in Netherlands will work here seems vacuous. You need to consider the realities on the ground vs. making one off statements.
Unemployment numbers aren't relevant when you're saying that people can ignore an entire class of jobs though. What percentage of those employed people are driving for Uber or equivalent and would love to get another job themselves? That's your employee competition pool.
I've used Haskell before, my understanding is that anything outside of the ML family is needlessly shooting yourself in the foot.

Why you'd try to write a compiler in a language that deliberately cripples sum types (Go) is beyond me.
Sorry, but they're not extremely broken. I worked at OkCupid 8 years ago, saw the issues they faced then and have seen the evolution of the apps since then, and right now they really are as good as anyone's been able to come up with that attracts enough active users to generate promising dates.

If there were a drastically better solution, then it would take over the market. The last major innovation was when Tinder invented swiping and went mobile-first, a genius move which drastically cut down the spam women deal with and made it actually feel like a fun game instead of a chore.

The fact is, despite all the work of psychologists and technologists, nobody's come up with a better, more efficient way of matching people. Personality profiles and questionnaires are a poor predictor of chemistry -- they can help with filtering compatibility in basic ways, but they're not going to find you your soul mate.

Photos reveal potential likely chemistry more than anything else. Swiping works. Messaging works. The apps can't perform magic, though. If you're looking to find more success on them than you would with the same group of people at a bar or meetup or wherever, that's not gonna happen. They're not changing whether people are attracted to each other or not.

What they do do is give you a pool of users far larger than you'd ever encounter in a single night out, and you know they're mostly all single, also different from when you go out. And they're honestly pretty good at that.
Yes, it is similar to STEM folks. STEM folks aren't immune to disease, depression and drugs either.

And that site only lists the dead porn actors, not the ones who are still alive.
I agree with you on all points - I think we're just speaking past each other. I'm speaking about the platform, and you're speaking about applications. The applications written for the web today are exactly as you say; the browser platform itself, however, is quite extraordinary and I remain deeply impressed with it.
> The Western world decided...

It's not so simple[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
I have not seen any real engineers too overwhelmed with his apparent knowledge. Things like claiming that the new Roadster will have pressurized air thrusters that will allow it to hover a few feet off the ground for a few seconds comes to mind.
If there weren't protectionist regulations that create massive barriers to entry in the hotel industry, neither of those things would be an issue, because any hotel that implemented them would get eaten alive by competitors.
It's so over the top ("No way! You too??") that I don't think it can be taken at face value!
I knew Steve was on some real shit when he pulled out his electronic microscope to analyze some preserved jam for botulism.

The fact that he's now got a freeze dryer is also genuinely fascinating. Never has one man done so much for the positive exposure of the MRE community.
Property/territoriality is not an instinct to treat people as things.

Your desire to override my baser instincts is misplaced. Concentrate on overriding your own base instincts, then you will be less inclined to expropriate from people and redistribute the wealth of others according to your subjective preferences.

I’m glad you’ve conceded that coercion is not a necessary component of laws.

It is true that private property also predates the government.

I’m glad you’ve conceded your earlier point about the right of exit.

You’ve yet to establish the necessity of taxation.

Rent is not unilaterally determined by the rentier. Its negotiated between the rentier and the renter.

How do you describe a government in a way that the government isn’t an instance of “might makes right”?

Homesteading is not established by force.

Voluntary exchange cuts across relations that are violently enforced by society.

Hobbes was mistaken about a state of nature.

Your fixation on Proudhon is detracting from your efforts to reply to my arguments.

Finally, property doesn’t require the state because property can exist in the absence of a state. The fact that states can expropriate people is the basis for this entire argument. Essentially you’re saying if I didn’t have a state expropriating me, I’d have a state expropriating me. Well, who is expropriating the state? Why not?
Then why do the T&C contain such garbage, and why do people "accept" them (the answer to the last question being that most probably don't read them... well that strategy has its limits, for both parties apparently...)
You want to look at the Framingham studies. Not what you're describing, but it's far far above the 20 grad student model https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?...
Not just that, but often researchers care more about building their CV than working on any specific company. A job is temporary, but the papers you write are forever. As a result, part of the reason why Google could even convince these people to work for them, is because Google cultivated this culture of allowing researchers to publish their research in most cases.

I think if Google didn't do that, it's possible these employee simply wouldn't have even decided to join the company.
That's not correct, if you want a rifled barrel, you do need to electro-machine it, and you might want some airsoft parts, but everything else is bolts and printed parts.
From what I've seen S4TF is not widely used inside Google - don't think there's support for tfx here.
Love the comic! Sorry about all the people replying without visiting your comic.

For me, it is definitely schedule anxiety. If I have meetings throughout the day (I do), forget it.

Why aren't I coding? Because it's the middle of the day. I'll get going at 7-ish. Or tomorrow, when everyone else is taking their kids to the park.

Why aren't I coding? I have perf reviews that need to be completed by Wednesday. I HATE PERF REVIEWS! Unable to function.

Why aren't I coding? I have to do a presentation next week. I HATE PRESENTATIONS! Running on zero sleep. Unable to function.

Why aren't I coding? Because we are hiring. Always. Damn. Hiring. Non. Stop. Interviews. Please make it stop.

Why aren't I coding? I already have 4 changes out for review. My git skills aren't good enough to keep stacking these things and keep them straight in my head. I'll rewatch The Expanse while I wait.
I'm sure they want their cut but I think some of the reason for this might be more pathetic:

"“It’s unfortunate because they are a major player in this area, and we are going to continue to have a long, in-depth conversation,” on these topics, said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)"

My first thought was that this is a man whose biggest fear is irrelevancy. Wich fits well with my assumption that politics is full of narcissists.
This is good. And it's true.

There's one dude in sales where I work who consistently (at least once a week) sends us his latest specification as a spreadsheet embedded in a Powerpoint slide. I called him once and tried to explain what he was doing wrong, and I realized I pretty much didn't know how to communicate the level of wrong that is to his mind.

You're not supposed to... well, you know there's a separate program for that, right?

"Yeah, of course. I just stick it in Microsoft Office and send it to you. That's what I've always done."

Yes, but Office has different parts, and you're using the part that's for presentations, and...

"Look, I just click the button to open Microsoft Office, and then I stick the stuff in those columns. Is that really so hard for you guys?"

... at which point I just gave up, because it's not worth the headache to explain this.
"some of my customers look much happier if they get (2)"

It's about feeling in control.
I find it very interesting that user interfaces work the same way. If I click on something and it doesn't do anything, it is much more frustrating than if it immediately presents me with an hourglass or beachball for a few seconds.
I'm pretty surprised no one has mentioned Google Spreadsheets. They are all over this problem - it already has pretty close to perfect interoperability with Excel, but also includes really nice web-friendly features (eg, forms for entry, an Atom interface etc etc)
Yes, I probably am a genius—but the issue is meaningless.

So a humble genius then. Got it.
The Economist is sort of "on a crusade", but they have a very established and stable crusade, so you can control for it and get a lot of signal.
Congress might get sued for attempting to violate First Amendment.
> It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself.

This might be because there is very, very little scientific thinking in the general population. People like doctors who, due to their education, should have scientific thinking, no longer can be trusted to have this scientific thinking. Instead of approaching issues with a scientific attitude, the resort to "trust me, I'm a doctor".

Scientific thinking, at its core, is just "things might not be how you think they are". It is a type of skepticism about your own thinking and a reliance, or trust, on a set of processes that have been proven to produce useful epistemic truths. A good example of this is the Monty Hall problem where loss aversion would make most people pick the suboptimal solution. The Cognitive Bias Codex [1] documents a lot of these cognitive biases.

So, the way to move forward is to fix the education process so that this kind of thinking is inculcated into most children by age 12.

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitiv...
If anyone has a site similar to Reddit or HN in German I would be interested. Anything with interesting discussion really.
> As a European I think American expectations of a reasonable home size are completely ridiculous.

I would agree if it weren’t for the fact that this is still a completely reasonable expectation in most of the rest of the country.
I stand corrected. you are right.
Yup, I'm moving toward "retiring" from my employer and doing without a lab for a bit as I decide to get back into more action than the employer can muster.

I'll be able to maintain a good relationship with them and if I do go back into private practice nearby they will be able to handle the few liters a month I would expect to generate single-handedly.

Which is a drop in the bucket of their few drums, which are a drop in the bucket of the EPA waste hauler's truckloads.

Unknowns-R-Us.

OTOH the only time I went without a lab I built, was 2013 and I was tempted to try and operate in some vacant small-university space in my late father's retirement location, but I did not have the resources to _branch out_ while I still had my main lab in mothballs.

Things were also very uncertain plus one of the surplus spaces had already been unfavorably occupied by a not-very-well liked commercial EPA testing lab that I think failed just a year or two earlier and left everyone involved with a bad impression.

Now after recovering a bit from natural disaster, I'm going to check out UH where they took over the old Schlumberger facility as part of their energy effort a number of years ago. It still seems not fully occupied but I'll find out for sure eventually. Before the internet I sure spent a lot of time in the UH library.

When it comes to an actual university operation though, about half the time when I check out a chem department's equipment it looks like they sure could use some help from someone with more than just a few years on the gear, and often so underequipped I could bring in & restore the surplus electonics to double their capabilities within a year not much differently than at a commercial lab. Also without a PhD there are actually some long-term employment or career positions already funded which could be conformed creatively to this effort. If I did this I would want to hit successive universities since I am very fast, but I am mainly retiring from employment more so than my present employer's facility which I expect to routinely continue to visit as long as I am in their areas, to our mutual advantage.

I started out as a teenage businessman anyway so I'm not worried about going forward with only a briefcase again.
> Modern Olympic archers are all about accuracy, with no points for speed other than an overall time limit.

I'm pretty sure his point is that "Modern Olympic" archery isn't as useful for hunting or fighting, given that it's been heavily optimized for stationary shooting.

The acrobatic/silly/etc. things he's doing in the video while using a bow aren't the technique he's learned; it's the actual bow-work itself (the binocular sighting, tweaking which side of the bow the arrow is on, being able to move quickly from unarmed to shooting, using a thumb-release technique, moving the bow itself to add arrow velocity, etc.) that - from what I gather - allows him to maintain that sort of demonstrated accuracy despite the non-archery things he's doing in the meantime.
Exactly. The same kind of money laundering happens on Steam as well. Buying and selling CS:GO skins and trading cards or whatever for hundreds or thousands of dollars through a trading platform not designed to care about shady transaction patterns.
Seen someone recreate a Sound Blaster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029727
They could allow you to login without a smartphone using a SMS confirmation code, as many other services do. But I guess they consider dumbphone users with computers too much of a niche.
The author of Frink takes particular pride in doing unit maths correctly.

For example, if the conversion between two units is defined by statute to be some weird ratio, Frink will use that, and not merely the best f64 approximation of that ratio.

As indicated by a sibling comment, Frink also handles interval maths, and in general it just has a remarkable amount of features, being a fully-fledged programming language.

It's a pity it isn't open-source, the author says he doesn't want the aggravation of having to deal with pull requests and so on, and just wants to work on his software project on his own. Which, ok, that's fair: but at least Lua and SQLite don't accept contributions from outside the team, so there's a model for releasing open-source software without having to collaborate with the general public.

No question that it would increase the size of his inbox though, so I get it.
I was just having a get-off-my-lawn moment yesterday with a coworker who was struggling with pasting into a bulleted list in google docs. They had never heard the term "WYSIWYG".
I never stated that I felt "insulted". You're just projecting that, maybe based on bad experiences you have had.

There's an old saying: a job interview is a two-way street. You are interviewing them (or should be) every bit as much as they are you. If the applicant asks a basic question about the position, the interviewer has a duty to either answer the question or say "I'm not sure what role this is for; I've just been asked to check your technical knowledge, and then we'll get you to the actual manager who can give you a better answer. Okay?"

If the interviewer is immature, arrogant, rigid, etc., and regards the interviewer-applicant relationship as an antagonistic one, and views the applicant as incompetent and dishonest until proven otherwise, the interview will have that flavor. To me, that is a red flag about the organization. Indeed, I've heard from many sources that Amazon is a toxic environment; I have yet to hear anyone say "Amazon is a terrific place to work! [for engineers/programmers]" I suspect that if you're a high level product person who comes up with a clever idea like an AWS feature, and are able to pitch it to the top management, then you're a star, you're well paid, and life is good. But for the people in the trenches... not so great.
Does it have to be working to be reverse engineered?

Typically folks will go looking for these services after the device has failed :(
> President Trump's order says "by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, <I removed a word> connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.
>our naive random-memory model

Doesn't everyone use the (I believe) still valid concepts of latency and bandwidth?
Cool! I've place a sell order for 0.94495180 at $300 ... lets see if it fills... A few things I noticed that could be improved.... 1) an easier way to enter orders for qty and price (like a way to copy my BTC balance to the sell box or a dial) ... 2) I didn't like the price indicator on the right of the chart, how it jumps around when you mouseover the chart its confusing... the price should follow the cursor and the rightmost price should show the current price
Thank you. Seriously, it'd be so much better (and easier) for people to master Excel than Python. Excel is interactive, undo-able, documented, shareable, graphical, etc. It's a much better tool for modeling. We don't need people to master mechanical engineering to drive a car.
In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the author talks about the importance of being able to carve up ideas in different ways to understand it more thoroughly. I'd say knowing how to code, as in going through the process of understand how to think through a logical sequence of steps, is a highly effective means of handing someone a proverbial scalpel.

In my experience, most people cannot break things down logically nor do they appreciate what it takes to provide clear instructions. There is an emphasis in the world on communication which is a fine start, but being able to convey an idea clearly really only becomes helpful once you understand the idea clearly.

Besides programmers and mathematicians, the only people I've met with the faculties to properly break things down are lawyers*. Law school trains you in the ability to approach an idea from different angles in order to identify attack vectors. As such, lawyers tend to be highly capable of feats of logic but are equipped in such a way that they are almost entirely adversarial and deconstructive.

So while I completely agree with Chris's point and understanding that this is a banner he raises constantly, I'm a little disappointed to see him attack this initiative to get more people into coding. I'm all for better modeling tools and better teaching practices but I think teaching people to code is a wonderful solution in the interim. Framing an argument like this will only stir controversy in an otherwise worthy cause.

edit: I've met plenty of people who aren't programmers, mathematicians, or lawyers that are logically capable. But as a general rule of thumb, those are the only three professions I've interacted with personally that have consistently shown that aptitude. Either way, please don't let this personal anecdote distract from the overall message, I only left that comment in there because I wanted to emphasize how rare the ability is across most disciplines.
Auto captions are plenty good enough to understand material nowadays. And they'll only get better with time.

Considering that, we should remove overzealous captioning laws and simply require auto-captions and focus our accessibility efforts elsewhere in society (like making more new build houses step free - it's ridiculous that 90% of my friends houses I can't visit).
Put simply: yes. I know a lot of people who enjoy socialization provided at the office, and I know a lot of people who get a productivity boost due to the dynamics of from-office work. Heck, there at even people who like SF and city life on its own merits.

There are also lots of people working from 1br apartments who can't wait to work from a space that isn't also their bedroom.