skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andrew Godwin (the author of django migrations and south before that) is working on something he calls Django Channels http://channels.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ . The aim is to bring it into core (possibly for 1.10), which will allow real time features.

The traditional request/response cycle will then just become producers and consumers of a "request" channel.
When such corruption is completely normal and the assumption is that the state is always in the right somehow, you get opinions like the above.

Also you can't really convince people that hold these opinions otherwise, since when endemic corruption REALLY IS everywhere its quite foolish to assume the best of people, except somehow in this case, the grandparent commenter is assuming that despite all odds the police were doing the right thing, just through illegal means.
Manoj Bhargava is doing something similar:
https://imgur.com/gallery/teGsT
Keep the leaks coming world!

The joke is that anyone who is truly qualified to run for office doesn't want the job.

I hope that the more leaks like this that come out, more qualified people will realize they can't just stand by idly thinking the system will just fix itself.

I imagine Snowden leaks alone have gotten far more "qualified" people engaged in civic activities than we'll ever truly comprehend, and have taken a bit of the "fear of rebellion" out of those who might not have spoken up in the past.
1) Most of society doesn't care, isn't aware, or approves of what the police are doing (similar story to mass surveillance)

2) Nothing since no one cares etc. You can vote to express your opinion but have fun losing every time to the majority who make their voting decisions based mostly on TV ads.

3) A lot of things, but again nothing can really be done since most people don't hold those in power accountable

I don't think stuff like this is going to change any time soon. Society is too busy looking at their phone.
I'm very excited to start using it. It will be the thing that finally pushes me to Python 3.

>Few people are using it in any case

Probably true, but it's only been out for 2 months now, and most people who needed this feature are either using an ugly workaround (guilty) or have moved on to other languages that already had this feature. This time, I'm glad Python joined the crowd.
> About what issues are we making the same mistake right now?

Wasn't there an article on HN about the government trying to rebrand Islamic State as Da'esh just a couple weeks ago?
> Maybe I'm significantly jaded, but I hope I'm not the only one who finds such a letter a little bit narcissitic, brought to you by the originator of one of the most narcissitic platforms of the modern era, and hosted on that very platform, naturally.

This is the problem in expressing your thoughts and feelings with words. The readers would extrapolate the words over all sort of things, rather than the essence to which those words were spoken. Its as if the speaker and his rational is subordinate to the various interpretations of those words.

The essence here is that a family here feels obligated to provide a better world for their newborn child. They are using all the means at their disposal for this. And the best part is that instead of keeping it to themselves, they proclaim it the world so that others can even judge on their promises. That is an admiring, inspiring and a courageous thing to do.
I meant "second post" (besides the "Lists" one). This post seemed to list out every cliched, obviously wrong thing to do.
> Not racist like we're out in klan hoods on the weekend,

Don't worry, police have that covered too https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/09/01/police-chief-...
Time to short Facebook stock.

Given stock is the best way to motivate executives, when the guy on top is giving all of it away you know where the stock price is going.
Is there a better source for this story?
If police officers can be made corrupt just by doing their jobs, then we really need to change how that system works.
Unfortunately it looks like you hit a bit of a sore spot with regards to django auth. There isn't a good out of the box solution for email based usernames. There are patterns available, and the "swappable" user framework is there to allow email based usernames. But an email based model isn't available. I'm fairly sure there are tickets or ideas to make this happen, but we're not there yet.

Django really is quick and easy to get going though. If you can make your way past the email based usernames, I think you'd find a really capable and easy system waiting for you.
Do you think fedex doesn't run analytics capable of telling them, based on parameters of your packages, some pretty deep things about you?
Well, it's not exactly the black people's fault that the police decided to be corrupt. So now they've made their own bed and they'll have to lie in it: if they could have categorically said 'this does not happen' they would have had a strong position. Now everybody that gets in trouble with the police can muddy the waters by saying that the evidence was planted. And in some of those cases that will be the truth.

These officers have all but destroyed the reputation of their force and that's something that they're not going to recover easily - if at all.

So, let's have a productive public conversation: How will guarantees be provided that something like this can never happen again, how will the people affected by this be properly compensated for the crimes done to them, how will everybody involved in these affairs be charged, tried and punished, from high to low and how will the police force change it's inner culture so that if there is another instance of such a thing it will be immediately and swiftly dealt with before another culture like the current one can take root?

All that has nothing to do with the arrest rates of blacks, elevated black criminality and the black community at large, this is a police problem, and only a police problem, the people evidence was planted on are called victims and you don't get to blame those for any misconduct of the other party.

I'm assuming that if they plant evidence they plant evidence where-ever they feel like and if they want to arrest people for no good reason that they'll do that too to whoever they feel like. If they do that more often to blacks than to others then there are yet more problems but these are significant enough by themselves to be extremely damaging.

> While I of course condemn polite misconduct, I can understand how repeated interaction with a recalcitrant criminal element could harden and corrupt a police officer.

I can't. If you can't stand the heat stay the fuck out of the kitchen. Good police officers can not function if their not-so-good colleagues spoil the reputation of the whole department like this.

To those that downvoted this comment: feel free to explain your reasons.
JHU APL does tons, well primarily, highly sensitive defense contracting work. For instance, you can actually head on over right now to Linkedin and apply for their "Combat Systems Kill Chain Engineer" position. [1] Security is thus a big requirement.

From Wikipedia: "APL is primarily a defense contractor. It serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense, NASA, and other government agencies."

There is a very strained relationship with some parts of the JHU community due to this. At the offices where they control the Hubble Space Telescope for instance there is a deli with a tip jar for, tongue in cheek, COINTELPRO.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/70728662?trk=jobs_jserp_...
To play devil's advocate: if I were the most decent nicest cop in the world I could see why I wouldn't want my every word and action on camera. It'd severely limit things I could say in confidence to anyone, and if I were say speaking to a victim of a crime its difficult to comfort people with a camera in their face. I'd be worried to being reduced to essentially the role of a call-center employee with every interaction graded not only for not screwing up, but also adherence to rigid policy.

Its dehumanizing and eats away at the core of any intelligent person wanting to ever be a cop.
1) Societies (all around the world) tend to be more racially driven than we like to admit. It's really easy to ignore the suffering of a group of people if you are readily able to distance yourself from them. Race plays a significant role in this in many places.

2) Develop systems that are structurally uncorruptable and uninfluencable as best as they can be, by having significant separations of power by design. There must be no incentive for those with the power to audit to be influenced by those they're auditing.

3) Probably many, scarily enough. Corruption runs deep in many societies that tend not to be considered corrupt.

In this case, I like the idea that the officers should be sentenced to prison at some level proportionate to the amount of corruption they were responsible for. The wrongly imprisoned should be released, and the State responsible for implementing the auditing controls against these officers should be forced to provide the wrongly imprisoned the average (for a given value of average) wage, or a multiple thereof to account for additional damages, for the entirety of the time they were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for. That way, there's a personal incentive not to be corrupt in that if you get caught you are heavily personally punished for said corruption, and there's a strucutral incentive to implement effective anti-corruption controls as the state is then responsible for those that represent it.
There are many reasons. From technology standpoint, as the web changes, old technologies may no longer work in new browsers. One case in point: Java applets. A few of the old browsers on oldweb support Java applets, which most likely won't work in a modern browser.

Here's one example:
http://oldweb.today/nslinux/2015/http://archive.rhizome.org/...
I never said it was sufficient. (If this is what you understood, I'd like to better understand how I could better write my statement so as not to be misunderstood in the future.) I am only remarking that people in power are not safe from the press or from guilt.

Besides, what would you have them do? You speak of the failures we encounter in society, but not a way to solve them.

I am just happy to see democratic ideals in action. I do not make a claim to the sufficiency of the system in place, but to the ideals that the system stands for. I advocate for replacing the system. (and not the ideals.)
Signal's great.

I don't use it because it doesn't sync chats between devices or have a desktop client.

Full-on e2e is great, and I'd use Signal if it supported my use case, but it doesn't. So I use Telegram instead, as a fast, easy-to-use, grandparent-compatible chat client with sane picture and file-transfer support. The oddball encryption and the fact that it's not end-to-end by default is a downside, but it's better than plaintext and it's actually useful to me, so…

Don't get me wrong, Signal is absolutely the right choice for people who don't need or care about multi-device syncing and only need a mobile client, or people who want the best security they can get. I fully support the widespread adoption of top-tier cryptography, including by people who don't need to protect their communications from global powers. But right now Signal is not (yet?) a one-size-fits-all solution.
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I can't see the article when I click through - anybody got a mirror?
Except for the internet and computers and electricity and a few other things.

I hope you understand that your personal experience is anecdotal evidence at best and perception bias for you didn't take into account the downside for the rest of the population.

What about this stubborn family member who refuses to have a facebook account because he believes in privacy as a fundamental freedom, how exactly facebook is bringing you closer to him/her?
Your three-sentence story was about police battling the “explosion of mafia” using underhanded tactics, and makes no mention of innocent people.

The case under discussion is police planting drugs and guns on people who were wrongly arrested and who had no prior criminal record or connection to gangsters, because the police were hateful racists.

Since those two scenarios seem completely unrelated, my inference was that either (a) your comment is totally off topic, or else (b) you are trying to suggest that the situations are similar. Option (b) seems more likely considering your statement “basically if thugs play dirty, cops are playing dirty as well” is in a separate paragraph, and the obvious implication is that it applies to both your first paragraph and to the original article. Hence my question.
Given that this isn't an isolated incident, and we're seeing black people on the receiving end of a great deal of police misconduct over the past couple of years (Laquan McDonald and the subsequent cover up is the most recent example), perhaps it's time you consider that the reason arrest rates for black people are so high is because they are targeted unjustly. Not because they're actually committing crimes at higher rates.
> I imagine Snowden leaks alone have gotten far more "qualified" people engaged in civic activities than we'll ever truly comprehend, and have taken a bit of the "fear of rebellion" out of those who might not have spoken up in the past.

You wish. The reactions vary from 'oh, I knew that all along' to 'well, no matter what I do, the spying will continue' and a whole bunch of shades in between. Then there are those that see Snowden as the great evil (yes, let's shoot that messenger) and would like to see him suffer.

On the whole the effect of Snowden's revelation is a big disappointment, I thought far more would happen because of them but maybe I'm just too impatient.
One of the things that bugs me about JSFiddle is that I can't do console.log and have it show up somewhere other than my console. Would be nice if I could replace the HTML/CSS windows with a JS console for JS-only development.

I've just started to use Node interactive mode instead, which works fine but doesn't let me side load scripts easily.
I also get nothing. Was it taken down?
Don't think you 8 years experience is a bit steep for someone without a CS degree? It's not really in line with the rest of your requirements, which could be easily exceeded with half that experience. Do you really think 4 years of work experience is the equivalent of 4 years in a CS degree program?
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It is anti-monopolistic authorities only purpose to do just that. And it is an important role to keep the economy running healthy. But I agree to an extend as I think that we also need to choose more actively to get better products. Each kind of action happens at a different level and they aren't mutually exclusive.
I'd like to give this some thought actually. For now here's an observation.

Situations which produces large amounts of "externalities" seem to produce this strange scenario where we fight against potential nightmare scenarios. Externalities being defined as something that occurs as a result of the new process outside the expected system. Global warming from burning fossil fuels or secondhand smoke are prime examples although easier to think about because the outcomes are tangible.

This brings up the question, "How do we handle this thing that effects people on a large scale?" It's useful to ask, "What's the worst outcome of this we can imagine" which might be along the lines of 1984. Terrifying because the government is normally the vehicle that is used to regulate large amounts of externalities and data collection could provide it with a large amount of power, something that the government often desires. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the government started to abuse this power very quickly and in secret; although to a lesser extent than 1984. It's limited largely by technology (which is improving at a rapid rate). How we deal with this problem now may help us avoid this dystopian situation once the technology catches up.

On the other hand, we also have to look at what we get in exchange. Burning fossil fuels is so essential that maybe it's worth raising the temperature of the earth until we can develop something better. Or maybe it's just a large exercise in game theory. In the case of data collection we get a few extremely convenient services (search, automation, etc.) in exchange for lack of privacy in nearly all forms and the systems that are abstracted above us (businesses, government, economy, etc.) are shifted towards optimizing for their respective interests using the information they can glean from the collected data. These systems become arguably more efficient more powerful.

These conversations effectively shape how we handle the new thing and are overall good. Privacy (and the effects of privacy) isn't really an easily quantifiable thing, but it does appear to be something that people think is worth having. The end result is most likely to be somewhere in the middle of the road; we can burn fossil fuels, but there are certain standards on the emissions to limit the externalities.

So where exactly is the tradeoff "worth it"? It's different for everybody. For me, I think all my data that is seemingly private for me (I wouldn't let my friends read my email / texts; if it's a file in a password protected account) should be encrypted and impossible for anyone outside of that conversation to access; currently this is not the case. Facebook is a bit of a grey area because people seem to use it as if it was private and the friends feature implies that it is, but the reality is that it is not. All of this falls apart completely when everything we previously assumed was private is clearly not when it comes to organizations such as the NSA which is an organization that provides a very questionable amount of value.
I haven't tried Pushpin yet, but we're using the Nginx push stream module on https://botbot.me in a similar manner. It acts as a reverse proxy to the Django app and also handles the realtime connections.
Correct. My understanding is that trick was made possible by design -- one of their engineers specifically chose pins to bring out to the GPIO header to facilitate it.

I've seen some variants on the "Kippah" to directly drive VGA.
You can also just email FOIA requests to foiparequest@ic.fbi.gov

Emailing also doesn't require uploading a scan of your driver's license or limit you to one request a day, which the new system does.
Parenting style doesn't cause schizophrenia.
Context2D is slow and lacks a lot of features present in flash. It's not even really close.

If you're willing to put in the (large amount of) legwork, WebGL solves this, but it works on far fewer machines (even assuming up to date browsers) than flash -- well, if you discount mobile at least, not that WebGL on mobile works very well across the board.

Flash also was able to give you much better guarantees about things looking identical across browsers. This takes a lot more work when doing game UIs in HTML/CSS, to the point where my recommendation would be not to use HTML/CSS for games where this matters.

HTML5 audio element is very unreliable (it plays when it feels like) and limited. WebAudio theoretically should be better, but in practice you get pops and skips fairly frequently (depends on browser, etc).

There are other things too, but it's been a while since I did any work in flash/actionscript. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind.
Actually, I just compared your deal with Twitter:

12 months revenue ending 2013-12-31: $664.89M

Twitter IPO Valuation: $24 Billion (Nov. 07, 2013)

Price/Gross revenue ratio = $24B / $664.89M ~= 43x

That makes your 20x sale look like an underperformer.
At some point the limits of immunity have to be tested. Can a DA operate with such malintent and get away with it? The cops? At what point can they be stripped of immunity and pursued by their former employer for creating a huge liability?
You've been able to submit requests electronically (via email) for years. For releases that are of major popular interest, they post the results in their reading room: vault.fbi.gov

But yes, they typically respond via mail, although over the past five years usually with CDs if it's more than a few pages.
yes, yes they often are.
Just because you have a money making machine doesn't mean you'll necessarily want to keep it for yourself.

The businesses (technology providers vs the owner of a current mining machine) are a bit different. A technology provider might have the expertise to manufacture the rigs or run the datacenter. The "owner" (quotes because it might be on paper only) provides upfront capital, in exchange for future uncertain returns from mining (uncertain for a host of reasons including the uncertainties of mining success, uncertainties in the speed of depreciation, and uncertainties in the future price of Bitcoin). The technology provider may not want to take these risks - or be unable to provide the capital outlay.

This means there's potential value to both parties in making a trade.

(The question of whether the technology provider is reneging by running the machine for themselves is obviously a separate question)
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Doesn't have to have anything `on`, simply coming from is enough.
What makes you say the major ones are exploitative? And to who? the actors/actresses or the people watching their movies?
Yes, there are many other deals that are better. You forgot to ask the key question though :) But I'll let it rest, none of this is for public consumption and I shouldn't have written the first comment.