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Except we know that people in other countries who use similar weapons in similar ways (brandishing a small knife, refusing to drop it, etc) are not shot and killed by police nearly as often as they are in the US.

A guy weilding a machete and charging police in, say, London is much less likely to be shot and killed by police. (And you can see this on youtube).
> Personally, the idea of putting a device with a camera and microphone behind a two-way mirror just feels a bit too much like a telescreen for me.

Tape over the camera, break microphone? But yeah.
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The big problem with psychology, specially earlier, is that sometimes it seems just a species of "religion of manipulation" based in non scientific methods and not reproductible studies that did not probe anything (or even can be contradictory).

It was a big success because the "Lets flip this coin and let god decide if you go to jail or not" was still a huge 50% of 'free', so is changed by "If you please us and do something that we expect you to do, you could be free". There are not clear rules to play now, so you can bassically manipulate the percentage that pass the game at will.
He does have a good point though. According to the video, the problem is we are building more roads to fix our existing traffic problem but they too get filled up, but int he video it shows skyTran works by being hooked to a overhead infrastructure. So you will still need to build overhead infrastructure to use ST. In theory this doesn't seem any better than adding more layers of highway.

The video also suggest it as a replacement of our existing transportation system as opposed to complementing our existing system (removes all the highways and just shows the ST).

So just by watching the video, I too don't see the obvious benefit.
> It's well known that much of his 'advice' is useless. The number of bullshit posts by him is a bignum.

I wanted to check this. How easy would it be to find something trolling-like, written by Xah? Turns out it took only 3 tries when searching for "Xah Lee" on googlegroups comp.lang.lisp. The third post I clicked revealed this gem:

there's a good solution to lisp's non-functional ways.

BAN lispers from using list or cons. Everything should be vector/array
instead.

everytime a cons is involved, lispers should get a electric shock.

that will immediately fix majority of lisp's non-functional programing
in practice.

though, i'll have to say, the more i read about Clojure, the better it
seems. It is very functional, the savior of the lisp name.

...I wasted a bit of time on this and I'm not sure it was worth it, but I'm pasting this here to strengthen lispm argument by replacing "it's well known" with a concrete example.
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If that was the less nasty version, I shudder to think how nasty the original was.
How about you add a leader board? Top 10 fastest sites.
I've heard this opinion repeated often on HN, but personally I never had any problems getting around SF using the Muni bus system when I was there. It isn't even very expensive compared to fare prices here in Europe. What's the problem with it?
"People often favor mobile apps because they are faster, cleanly formatted and are constantly updated to take advantage of the evolving features of new smartphones."

That's all conjecture. The truth is that the reasons people will use an App over a website is subjective. Whatever reasons people have should be gathered from research and studies and not just theories based off of a narrative from site owners.

I still use the YouTube app but not the Twitter app. I prefer to use Google's site over the widget/app but will sometimes on the spur of the moment.
Those good people who want to change the system in a big way seem to get assassinated or wait until the end of their term to voice the concerns they've had to the public - though couldn't touch the policy for. Alternatively they don't get into power because the for-profit systems can pay much more to lobbies and then the better way people don't have the same marketing power.
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Part of the problem is that there are just too many games. I often come across potentially interesting games that have one or two reviews from third-tier sites, or even no reviews at all, because reviewers simply cannot test all the games coming out. Unless you have connections or a good hook to bait sites in with, I guess you're not getting reviewed - and of course, the things that make a game interesting to the press don't necessarily make for a good game.
You did not consider using a simple Open source system to do this or are you unlucky and work for a corporate where its Oracle everywhere?
> Is the US population psychotic?

Frustrating that you chose to use word psychotic there.

Psychosis isn't linked to violence. Previous episode of violence are; a drug or alcohol addiction are; and if you combine any (or all) of these you get a stronger predictor. But a person with psychosis is far more likely to be the victim not perpetrator of violent crime, are more likely to hurt themselves than anyone else.

Maybe psychopathic fits, but that's still pretty stigmatising.
A lot of damage comes from society's tendency to make the following synonymous: "accused of" = "guilty", "being investigated for" = "guilty", "was arrested" = "guilty", "currently on trial for" = "guilty", and so on. It infuriates me how this is done over and over again with the media's help.

For starters it should NOT be public knowledge that someone has been arrested. Sweep that under the rug, let the trial happen, make it illegal to announce anything but guilty VERDICTS.
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How feasible does this seem: when a client does not want to pay up, go to fypayme as a service, upload your data, get accepted or not, and they buy your debt (at 60% or so) and go after the client to pay up.

Just a thought from recent threads :)
So true. Why build dedicated infrastructure when electric cars and bikes are so much cheaper and flexible?
I have the same feeling. Would love to use same language for everything from backend to front end .
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I am a new grad student in third world country, i studied Electrical Engineering and have a bachelor degree in it, i have experience developing REST APIs with rails, and have done some embedded programming in C/C++,I am a regular linux user and somewhat have good understanding of it , I have strong background in Algorithms and data structures that i studied alone, using various resources, and i want to quit my country, the problem is that being junior developer, nobody wants to hire me from outside my country because it needs visa sponsorship and they can't invest all of that in me, and the job market in my country is dead, (average developer salary is ~200$ per month) which is almost the minimum wage, and i can't do much with it, i want to have an opportunity to add some significant experience to my resume that can get me hired and get me a better future ,Beside my EE degree i have studied most of computer science subject online through MIT OCW and MOOC providers ,in exchange for this i am ready to sign a year contract to work for food and place to stay.
Even if Information is considered the 5th dimension of war, I think the actions he refers to are more like "Psy Ops" because they can influence opinions but not physical stuff. It's a different story for some Chinese tanks which have been sold at a very discounted price because they actually were remote jammers, that is true information war, not information leaking (anyhow, lol at the tank buyers).
Ask HN: Have you converted to software engineering from another profession?
I'm a 26 year old living in Aberdeen, Scotland. I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree (masters) in 2012 and having been working in the oil industry as a subsea installation analyst since then.

While my work can be interesting, I've had a fascination with writing software since midway through my degree. I started out building websites for family friends. This progressed to writing optimisation software for my degree projects. The work I did at university got me a more technical role in the oil industry where I was promised I could occasionally write software to solve specific problems and automate 3rd party software used for subsea installation. I ended up writing a program that the whole department is reliant on for their work. Unfortunately, the boss that originally hired me has left, he was the only one that had an appreciation for engineers who could also code.

In addition to all this I have built a variety of web apps in my spare time. Most of these have had very little attention, but a couple (https://flutter.social, https://leanlab.io) have been featured on Product Hunt (not that featuring on PH is any measure of success).

So, I'm currently at a crossroads in my career. I either continue as an engineering analyst in the oil industry or convert to software engineering. The conversion to software engineering is the basis of my question.

Has anyone reading this converted from another engineering discipline to software engineering? If so, how has that played out for you?

I am somewhat stuck in the north of Scotland so I think remote work or freelancing is my only real option. What is the best way to go about getting into this? And is it possible to ease into contract/freelance work from salaried work.

For those of you in the UK, is it worth getting some sort of accreditation? If so, what?

I'd really appreciate any guidance on this and would most of all like to hear from anyone who has gone through a similar transition.
That's the high quality NYT for you… I hope we see more high quality investigative journalism like this on HN!

/sarc

I think the only good thing about these type of whitewash pieces on HN (of which I don't even bother to click on) are the comments here that do the work of the journalists… but NYT history is pretty suspect when it comes to things surrounding corporate and government reporting so that's not surprising.
This seems more like a problem with GDI and/or DirectWrite(as well as how each browser is making use of them), less to do with chrome vs. firefox vs. IE vs. VS.

Chrome on Chrome OS (using FreeType 2) properly aligns the text in that <pre>, as does firefox on GNU/Linux (also using FreeType 2, in addition to graphite). On FreeType with Chrome or Graphite, the full-width latin characters are also rendered with the correct weight and face. Something that Chrome and IE on Windows seem to get wrong in your screenshots.
The discussion between these two students is youthful and stupid. That said, it's good that things are out in the open and discussed. It's too bad that it's now a permanent record tied to their identities. Her words are clearly racist though. Racism, when not physically threatening, always strikes me as being foppish. Maybe anything exclusion-oriented is this way.
To repeat the tale:

We're discovering that literally everything is better with Postgres. Mostly because instead of a single expensive point of failure, every app gets its own clustered PG pair. Because we can, because we don't have to think about licensing ever again.

Just everything not having to play nicely with anything else makes a huge difference.

The other nice thing is that PG is administerable by clear-thinking (and understand relational databases) non-specialists who can read a manual. You don't actually need big-ticket support unless you do.

And, guess what? Our Oracle support was most keen to offer Postgres support, because they too can tell which way the wind is blowing.

WHAT WE DO: PG 9.3 out of Ubuntu 14.04 repos. Failover pair with a primary and standby. Primary streams write-ahead log records to standby as they’re generated. Some script gaffer-tape to watch for primary failure and fail over (I think we haven’t ever yet actually had to invoke this). Conversions done by hand with ora2pg then faff and twiddling and unit tests. Gotchas: malformed sql that Oracle accepts but PG chokes on. All cobbled together just following the docs, almost certainly better ways to do all this.

Postgres is in fact the 99% solution.
I was most interested to see how the fork syscall works:

sys fork
br new process code
/ old process code continues here
/ r0 contains new process pid
/ c flag set if fork failed

so the if(fork() == 0) { child code } else { parent code } of modern fork is magic right inside the fork syscall (which just has to increment the return address by the size of one br instruction before returning to the parent)

I guessed some of this from the source, but confirmed more details in https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_attunixUNIedJun72_77658... -- syscalls were already in section II of the manual at that time, fwiw.
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Oracle is a very good database indeed. You give it data, it gives it back utterly reliably and very fast. You send it crappy queries, it optimises the hell out of them. It's clunky and laborious to program and administer, but it works superlatively.

The problem is literally everything else about dealing with Oracle in any manner.

There used to be no real alternative. Fortunately, almost everyone with Oracle doesn't need something that ridiculously powerful, and Postgres is in fact the 99% solution.
Bullies always rationalize their bullying by arguing their victim deserved it. Their flunkies are recognized by their chorus of "Yeah he deserved it" noises.
Love the idea - and would certainly use one. :)
> to improve Googles online mapping

then

> nothing to do with improving the world

seems contradictory to me.
I'm sure Xi had nothing to hide.
> They are improving your life in exchange for information about you and the places you visit

So they are improving the world and for free. I'm glad we all agree
Thanks for that. Sounds like many media companies are just ignorant of where their money really comes from (content).

By the way, what's your company called?
Sure, but the people who work for the US Attorneys, where do they come from? And what is the pool of people from which the president chooses US Attorneys? This is an organizational/cultural thing.
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Your numbers for PhD stipends are a bit high. I wouldn't be surprised if SCS students were paid that much, but the typical stipend for the rest of us is more like 24k/year.

Even so, there's a PhD student in my program who bought a house last year, and I thought seriously about it myself in my second year. Housing truly is cheap in Pittsburgh.
So by your logic, unless you're giving something absolutely for free you're not improving the world?
Gee, sounds like maintains these sites is hell. It also sounds like a huge opportunity if a startup could convince sites they need the fastest ads.
> My concern is, do heads roll at the FBI and U.S. Attorney's office after a failure like that? Is there accountability?

Never worked in the FBI, but just based on how rabid the US govt appears to be over prosecuting and winning, threatening people with ruin so that they can get any win ...

No, not a single head will roll. At most, relevant supervisors will console the investigators and prosecutors. "Well, bad break kid, the guy was innocent."

I really don't think it's about enforcing the law, or protecting the public or the Constitution, it's about annual reviews and advancement.

We are resources for law enforcement.
is this done to boost the called site's search rank?
If the employees at media companies can't look beyond w3schools then they have some severe hiring problems.
That in no way excuses being mean.
It's not futile to un-Google. Every little bit helps. It's not too difficult to use another search engine, to choose a smaller email provider, to set-up Thunderbird with Enigmail, to set-up Owncloud on a server and/or your own NAS.
And I voted for None of the Above, i.e. third party.
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I switched from gmail to Fastmail (http://www.fastmail.com) two years ago mostly because I don't want to feed the monster. Surprisingly, in many ways, the move was a step up in usability, I was prepared to scarify some comfort, but it turned out that I didn't had to.

Fastmail offers everything I need, great mail client, calander, contacts, notes, great app for both Android and iOS

I also got my family accounts on Fastmail, we ended up creating a family account so we can share folders, calenders, contacts etc.

yes, it costs money, but I think its worth it.

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Would a well designed campaign about GPG and how to use it help ? Has anyone ever tried that ?

The more the likes of lavaboom, whiteout or proton mail sprout up from the ground, the more I feel it'd be simpler to teach K9 and GPG to `people' than having them switch over a new service that might or might not survive the next 6 months. At least for E-mail.
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Are you sure it was a partisan comment? Which party was he talking about? Maybe he was talking about the party, the Republican/Democrat establishment? (I don't know, but that's possible)
Yeah, I got to the following line and stopped reading:

> First, this code assumes that (if (null list1)) in Common Lisp will be equivalent to (if (nil? list1)) in Clojure, but Clojure doesn't consider an empty list to have a nil value.

That sentence makes it very clear the writer either hasn't been arsed to read through even one Clojure tutorial or is being intentionally dense. If they have an educated opinion, great, but I have no patience for this level of ignorance, especially if it's feigned ignorance.
> That said, symbolism generally is constructed deliberately.

That reads as a truism to me. Something in the work that isn't constructed deliberately is not symbolism; if it is interpreted as symbols, it's miscommunication with the author.

But assuming that you mean that "things we believe are symbolism" in an authors work are generally constructed deliberately, I would be very interested in seeing any kind of attempt to quantify how often literature critics gets it right, by e.g. having them analyse works where authors have confirmed their intent.

> When I write fiction it's almost impossible for me to start at the beginning and proceed to the end - I start out with fragmentary ideas of momentary images, snatches of conversation and so on, and traverse them in sort of random fashion until the outline of a sequence emerges which suggests a plot. Various symbols will suggest themselves along the way, and one or two may 'click' by encapsulating or paralleling the story structure particularly well. Once I've identified one of those then it acts like structural reinforcement, so I'll go back and add it or emphasize it in various parts of the story where it seemed to fit well.

And when I write, I don't think about symbols at all, generally. If I do see something that stands out as likely to be interpreted as symbolism, I'd generally remove it, as I find it trite and annoying. Your anecdote is interesting enough, but you can't extrapolate from that to tell us anything about how often people intentionally adds symbols vs. simply intend to e.g. convey images without thinking about how people might try to analyse it to death.

> But that she sells books rather than vegetables or equine accessories suggests she's primarily contemplative and maybe sensual, as opposed to nurturing or dynamic, that she's a collector/curator rather than a consumer or maker, and so on and so on.

Or it was what the author knew how to describe. Or the author likes book stores. Or the author wanted to add in a point about the death of small book stores (personally I'm far more partial to the idea that script writer was being literal and straight forward than what you suggest, but I have no specific basis for this interpretation either). Or (and I have no idea, so I'm just throwing out possibilities here) Meg Ryan was tied to the project from early on and the script writer just happened to think she'd fit well as a book store owner. The options were already limited if wanting to stay realistic once the premise of "owner of small local business falls for big chain guy" was set (e.g. equine accessories was never an option; produce could have been).

To me, absent additional knowledge of what the script writer intended, your suggestion is already well into over-interpretation.
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Secret trials ensure no protests. The proper solution to this is to not have these misadventures (as unlikely as that solution is). Personal damage notwithstanding, society has an intense interest in following justice from start to finish.
Your site is a blatant ripoff of https://foundationdb.com/.
What went awry is what's described in the article -- the rights holders killed the possibility of fulfilling the goals of the grand idea with lawsuits. I wouldn't be eager to continue on with a project after getting that reception either.
> other OSes where limited to semi-type strings

Nope, it can be used for general data. On OS X (since that's what I'm most familiar with) you can put any data you want on the clipboard, and even list the types that you can provide it in, so when it gets pasted, the target can specify which format they want it in.

For instance, copying and pasting files to duplicate them is a common operation on many operating systems.
What matters is what a sitting president will do. Unfortunately that doesn't correlate very well with what presidential candidates say.
Way way more than a corpus of a few million published books, that's for sure. Hell, there are individual message boards that have higher word count than millions of books. Wikipedia arbitration cases (these aren't articles, but rather, an esoteric back channel for handling disputes between users) frequently reach novel-length.

The average quality is going to be lower, of course.
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Well, if we are comparing licenses, Postgres has an unbeatable licensing, and a much better Oracle compatibility tools.
It would have likely gone the same way with any other administration.

My CEO doesn't watch what I do on a daily or ever basis. I have my assignments and my evaluation criteria, and that criteria does not change when the CEO changes.

Personnel at the working level don't change much with new administrations, and the personnel rules and evaluation criteria likely don't change at all. Agents have to investigate and arrest, prosecutors have to prosecute and win.

I'm sure the President and AG had no hand in deciding whether to start and continue this investigation.
Do you have some kind of maximum number of test for a website in an hour? If not, this can be used to do a DDOS. One possibility is that if one site has been tested less than ten minutes ago, just show the old results.
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