skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few thoughts.

Drug testing is a great way for an employer to get rid of someone when they have no cause to fire them. For example, a friend of mine had a job throwing luggage at the airport. They had a policy that allowed them to arbitrarily drug test people, but they never did, so my friend figured smoking a little weed now and then would be OK. Then one day, he hurts his back. He goes in to fill out the forms for workman's comp, and guess what the first thing they ask him to do is? You can't fire someone for getting hurt, but you can for flunking a drug test!

Drug testing is not an effective way to determine whether someone is using drugs. I live in a self-run sober living house, specifically an Oxford House. We do random drug tests now and then, but it's really just to deter "I bet I can get away with..." thinking, and we rarely catch anyone using like that. The reason we never catch people with randoms is twofold - drug tests are stupid easy to beat (and most addicts know how), and we catch people relapsing because when addicts relapse, it's really an all or nothing thing. People will think they can smoke a joint at a concert (because their problem is booze, not weed!), but invariably they come staggering in drunk out of their mind within a week.

I believe employer drug testing is harmful and invasive[1]. What employees do on their own time is their business. If someone has a problem with drugs or alcohol that effects their work, that will become obvious and HR can either fire them or, and this is what's been done with me in the past, force them to go to treatment. This means that even though I get drug tested regularly where I live, I will straight up refuse to work for a company that drug tests any of it's employees (again [1]).

[1] There are some jobs where a person being intoxicated on the job would put lives or property at risk. In this case, drug and alcohol testing seems acceptable. Of course, with alcohol testing, one wonders why employers don't use the readily available UA's and mouth swabs to test for alcohol use in the past few days...social acceptability is a big deal.
These type of police power abuse stories are depressing to read. It seems the whole legal system is designed to protect and perpetuate itself, with justice itself being a mere side-effect. It's hard not to be pessimistic, especially after having read Balko's (the article author's) book _Rise of the Warrior Cop_.

Much of the problem stems from our hysterical over-reaction to the crime spikes of the 60's and 70's, where the citizenry clamored for and were provided with draconian laws and tactics. Combine this with an almost blind deference to police authority (both as a matter of law and public opinion) and the environment is ripe for abuses of power.

That being said, this particular case did result in some small legislation to help correct the problems of police overreach. Which is small nudge in the right direction, away from the fear-driven policies of the past. But I'm still afraid - that the situation will get much worse, and the abuses even more egregious, before any substantial reform is enacted.
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No, I don't misunderstand. It doesn't matter what you are calling idiocracy. I have moderating experience. I also raised two sons in an environment where no question was off limits. I have firsthand experience with how important it is to hold to that standard if you genuinely want to have serious intellectual inquiry, something incredibly challenging to achieve on the Internet.

I thought your original remark was funny. I resisted the temptation to reply to it in a similar vein. But dang is the moderator and he is right to uphold the standard here as best he can.
So if you go to a collision specialist with a flat tire, it should cost $26,000 right? Because they were prepared to bend your chassis into a straight line again, even though you didn't actually need that?

My wife was in a bed for 3 of the 4 hours, seen by two nurses for maybe 1 of those hours total, and the doctor for barely 30 minutes while she took a large dose of her standard drug that we get over the counter for $20 a month. I'm not saying people shouldn't get paid, but two thousand dollars? And that's AFTER insurance, by the way.
Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for, thanks so much!
Apple recently opened a new R&D center in Taiwan. Which shows that not only production but also research and development can move / will eventually move to other countries.

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/16/apple-taiwan-factory-ole...
You're totally right, and the variability was in the 1600s – foot in mouth! Thanks for pointing this out to me.
I more and more fail to understand why people from the USA tolerate their police / justice and assimilated services. From all the articles I see here they seem to do far more harm than good and to be populated with lots of insane people (how else would you define randomly spying on gardeners, then trashing them, then raiding them based on lousy evidences)? Do they ever do something good and not stupid? Are they ever accountable for they misbehavior and absurd investigations?
Isn't there an inspection service that can investigate on police actions and actually recognize that they are insane when they are?

Not that this is so much better in France. They recently administratively home arrested ecologist activists using extra power given by the state of emergency that was activated by the islamist terror attacks. That's beyond fucked-up, but given demonstrations were forbidden at the same time they could get away with that totalitarianism move without much trouble... :/
How much money does the App Store make for Apple? And how much would web based apps make?

It's not a technical problem, it's a business model.
Yeah, the debugger one I don't get at all. I don't see the same problems in lldb on the command-line. In the past (when it was using gdb) I was told it was due to the data formatters. I would turn them off and the problem would go away, but I no longer see a way to turn them off.
Also, why are the two timestamps so far off? Authored in February 2015 (almost a year ago!), but committed only in Nov 2015.
Yes, personal projects (but also many other things as well.)
Actually, opening a bunch of connections in parallel can and will improve your download speed on some sites, if there's per-connection rate limiting.

http://www.downthemall.net/howto/faq/#faq7
The comments about the cameras are the most striking.

If you are giving the monopoly on killing and beating people within the confines of the law of course your actions should be very transparent.
Without that transparency you end up with a police system that is not accountable to the people.
No provided source code? Is this 1990?
Indeed it does, https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell/blob/master/setup.py#L1...

Python Prompt Toolkit is pretty stellar, enough so to motivated writing a command line interface in Python instead of another language in my opinion.
A friend of mine has a startup in China. He told me a year ago that the law already required his company to talk with government officials every month. They also needed to create a backdoor API according to a well-written specification for the government to access all the information in the database.
Did the lender contest? Was the bankruptcy actually adjudicated? Your client may well have just gotten lucky. The Brunner test is a tough one to pass.
Thanks! It's also illuminating in regards to water bears; I never figured their ability to dry out would be an evolutionary advantage when living in concert with Moss. (~24 minutes in)
Yeah, I've seen that, too. My experience has been that it takes several seconds to open the file or to switch back to it from another file, but once it's opened, I don't find editing it to be slow.
We are not going to have a thread to gawk at a human being saying he might kill himself.

All: I'm going to close this discussion now. Please do not repost it and please flag it if someone else does.

Ian, should you see this: I'm sorry that this happened to you. Please get well and come and tell us your story then. And please email hn@ycombinator.com if there is something we can do.
Great write up, and neat ideas. One of my biggest hurdles on learning Javascript so far is that because definitions are so flexible, its very difficult to pick up a code base with an unfamiliar structure. Mixins in particular spread code between files, and the mixin itself is often hidden, or not obvious. At least in Java, I know I can look at extends, and trace it from there.

The decorator pattern seems like it would be pretty obvious. But its yet another non standard way to create objects. If I saw without explanation, I would be at a loss on how it works, or even what it does. At least method overriding is consistent when it is baked into a language. But having to learn a new mixin/inheritance/definition pattern for each codebase has given me serious troubles recently.
"Copyright law is the application of government violence to apply the will of the author to those who wish to copy, modify or use a (GPL'd work without releasing their soure code)"

No difference.
That is hurtful to say. While the two products are in a similar space, neither can claim to have a monopoly on internet-based tech education. Project-based learning like this is a goldmine for anyone looking to get into web dev. It makes sense to have a wide range of providers of such training.
it's not evident there's a lot of user intent here; almost certainly the user doesn't intend to break web security.
Agreed, but I'll take property damage over having a loaded gun pointed at me any day of the week; doesn't matter who's pointing it.
> words fail me

Why?

As you state, this was a motion for summary judgement, not a trial. The burden of proof for summary judgement is higher than for a civil suit trial. [1][2]

While the information presented in this article raised disturbing questions and the family involved appears to have been subjected to unreasonable search based on faulty testing, the article is light on details for why the judge rejected the request for summary judgement.

Has anyone found a link to the judgement?

I hope the family continue to push their case - it appears the were a victim of 'war on drugs theatre'.

[1] Burden of proof for summary judgement:

The court shall grant summary judgment if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. The court should state on the record the reasons for granting or denying the motion.
In civil cases, the plaintiff has the burden of proving his case by a preponderance of the evidence.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_56

[2] Burden of proof for civil cases:
In civil cases, the plaintiff has the burden of proving his case by a preponderance of the evidence.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/burden_of_proof
Anybody who have a problem with this should better read Aaron Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:

> https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto
> https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt
> https://archive.org/download/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008.pdf
Software is the fastest growing field, but when you factor in 1.5% and 1.6% inflation in 2013 and 2014 (and use the salary numbers discussed in this thread), you get a real decrease of 1% between 2013 and 2015. So you're getting a salary decrease for the fastest growing profession in the US - a terrible sign. Why shouldn't salary be allowed to increase, especially when rents rose 27% in San Francisco?
How I bought an IPhone 5 for $90 using Python (2013)
If I had to guess: because at this point it's obvious that they have no idea what they're doing and will struggle to not just fix it, but maintain the level of quality needed to keep it that way.
Sounds like he may have suffered some kind of head injury in the police attack, I'm betting the suicidal impulse is related to a head injury, the change of tone of his tweets is striking, going from upbeat docker related stuff to a sudden, frantic situation with the police describing two beatings, then his suicide announcement, I hope he is able to get medical help.
> Copyright law is the application of government violence to apply the will of the author to those who wish to copy, modify or use a copyrighted work.

No more than all property rights laws are the application of government violence to apply the will of the person in whom the law vests rights against others.
>this sound a lot like a stasi operation.

the Stasi/KGB would be salivating at the scale and the capabilities that has already been deployed. They could only dream about automatic recording of every sound around any connected electronic device and automatic transription of it into a searchable database already containing all the un- and weakly-encrypted electronic communications of all your populace and all the movements of that populace. Add to that constant video recording from security, police and backdoored consumer cameras with automatic image recognition. Stasi/KGB was a kiddie game compare to that.
> Why shouldn't salary be allowed to naturally increase

Because cost of labor (including salaries) compete with returns on capital, and, well, people who favor "capitalism" rather than, say, "laborism" tend to hold political (as a consequence of economic) power.
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It seems he may have backed away a little bit from suicide:

https://twitter.com/imurdock/status/681618588113866752
https://twitter.com/imurdock/status/681619052242993152
I'm guessing the next big breakthrough in physics will come from VR simulations like this.
Which isn't at all the case for most people.

This is a statement of privilege. That doesn't prove that it's wrong, but it does make it quite unconvincing. It amounts to simply ignoring the experience of those who are regularly subject to such a state of living.

...using terms like that loses you credibility and distracts from the real discussions that should be happening.

Who are we trying to convince, of what? USA residents who don't fear the excess and caprice of police vote that ignorance; they are part of the problem. The only way to help them is to end their ignorance. Since they only think what they're told to think by the news media, and the news media ignored this issue until forced by mass protests to address it, "hyperbole" is one of the few techniques that has accomplished anything.
Hopefully it was just a kneejerk reaction at first: 1h ago: "i'm committing suicide tonight", some time after "I'm not committing suicide today. I'll write this all up first", 9m ago: "The rest of my life will be devoted to fighting against police abuse".

Hopefully he'll make more impact with an actual active fight.
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> this sound a lot like a stasi operation.

No.

Assuming that the parking lot is exposed to the street, there is absolutely nothing wrong with posting an officer in or near the lot and recording the plates of vehicles that travel near the area. The notion that it is 100% okay that things that happen in public view may be subject to notice and recording at any time is very important to preserve.

Where this goes oh so wrong is when the PD posts a robot policeman [0] at the location, or a network of them throughout the district that record things (like license plates).

There are only so many officers in a district, each of them can only be doing one thing at a time, and every one of them requires OT pay for extended work hours. This means that a district has to decide if plate collection at a location is the best thing that they can be doing with a particular officer.

If a district can suddenly -for the price of one meatbag officer- dedicate ten new robot "officers" [1] to the task of car movement surveillance, then their powers have been greatly expanded.

It's very important that we protect the right to notice and record things that happen in public. I feel that it's equally important that we work to limit the damage that an entity can do when they have the resources available to record such things on a large scale.

[0] AKA: a camera

[1] who can work 24/7 and never require OT pay
Heck yes. I'm supposed to be on holiday at the beach with my fiance but she likes to sleep in so I'm getting some programming in!
I have 10 clear days in which I can dedicate myself to programming.

Also seeing Star Wars and watching a few videos and a little computer gaming, but mostly programming.
I'm learning Blender, drawing,and Ableton Live
Sure, but by that token, you can smoke cannabis nightly, show up for work on time, and never touch the wheel of a car either. You'd still fail the piss test.

The other thing not touched on too much is how cannabis (despite being one of the least harmful recreational drugs/drugs of abuse, and most commonly used) is one that can be detected the longest. I can go out on a bender drinking liquor and blowing lines of coke this weekend, get called in for a drug test on Thursday, and still piss clean.

...but if I went camping a few weeks ago and spent my evenings passing joints around the fire with friends, I could easily throw a flag for cannabinoids on a urinalysis weeks later.

It's really kinda messed up in that way because the logic of "well, what does it say about you that you couldn't lay off the stuff long enough to pass a drug test?" goes out the window with pot. If you like to take a few tokes in the evening after work, that can show up on a test weeks or months later, even if you quit while applying for jobs.
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While I agree with the sentiment people were looking up game walkthroughs long before he games you're referring to
> I replied to this comment "Ironically, much of the personnel involved in the U.S. drone program lives and works stateside, among the civilian population."

I think that comment was meant to convey that drone operators are hard to reach for your average terrorist. Why is it important to state that 'Muslim' terrorists have only attacked civilians so far? (A claim that is not true as I've pointed out before.)

> Somehow their religion turned them into murderous psychopaths

'Somehow' some people get turned into murderous psychopaths by religion and some others do not. Is that the depth of your analysis?
> do you pick that community college route which is affordable, or that six figure out of state school?

In case anyone is seriously in this dilemma, take up to two years of CC for prelims etc, then transfer to university. $UNIVERSITY will be where you graduate from, not CC. You'll also have smaller class sizes and will probably get more out of your classes and teachers.
Red 5 employee without a paycheck here. AMA: firefall
Async/await doesnt lead to a long chain of thens with a trailing catch. It gives you proper synchronous semantics like any other synchronous code, while allowing you to specify concurrent logic. Its syntax is very understanable. You're missing out! I think you don't actually have a clear idea if you think async/await is a step backwards. You're arguing for the sake of arguin, right? Else, give me some examples in code. Thanks.
Sorry, I didn't notice. Don't think I can edit the link now. Maybe one of the moderators can.
Interesting, there's a suite of WiGig-networked thin clients for the wristwatch Android LTE hub, https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/neptune-suite-one-hub-inf... & http://getneptune.com & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9062482.
Yes I still fly because I need to and yes I am of course aware of the risk of flying. That doesn't mean I should do more than I need to.
Maybe because this has been ready for a long time just in case and they just decided to actually switch to that strategy right now?
At a place I used to work they did random drug testing, and the only time I saw it happen was right at the beginning of a new year, my boss had one guy tested: the 100% straight-laced Asian Christian teetotaler. Maybe it was actually totally random (I highly doubt any of us used any kind of drugs), but I always figured his boss said, "you have to randomly drug test someone", and he didn't want to lose any of us so he picked the sure thing.
Yes. I'm getting my personal site together and trying to get a head start on a game project (more or less a clone of the classic Berzerk[0]) since I kind of sort of want to do the game a month challenge but given how slow I tend to be, seriously doubt I'll make it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berzerk_%28video_game%29
I think the national obsession with higher education will reach a breaking point eventually. It's just too expensive, the benefits are uncertain for lower-strata matriculants, and expecting students to pay the costs themselves is unreasonable. We're going to have to learn to live with a tiered system where the less well-off go to trade schools and well-to-do parents can pay for their kid's general education. The demand is there, the trades have been hemorrhaging talent for years, universities have been monopolizing the "what to do with kids after they graduate high school" market for way too long, and for-profit colleges are a bust.

The answer is pay-as-you-go trade school, but it's going to take the nation awhile to warm to the idea. As one of my favorite sayings puts it, America is a nation of temporarily-embarrassed millionaires. We need to change our collective belief that a university education is every American's right. It's simply unmanageable. Perhaps in a few hundred years we'll have amassed enough national wealth to be able to afford the institutional and social investment, right now it's a pipe dream.

I did not graduate college. I looked at the cost-benefit structure and decided I'd be better off making my own future as an autodidact. It worked for me, but I do not expect my children to follow in my footsteps, I am prepared to bear the entire cost of my children's education.
You're saying public recording is fine when it's "expensive" -- costing a human salary, but not when it's a robot? I'm not following you.

If police are going to record citizens, citizens should feel comfortable recording police. What their routes are, favorite stops, conversations, etc.
I read the whole page, and nowhere is mitigation for the xss mentioned, nor is permission given to publish. Given that, I don't see why they didn't stick to the 90-day release deadline.
Except for universities which have transfer agreements with the particular CCs (which are common for state-run universities and same-state-run CCs, less so otherwise), it can be more difficult to transfer from a CC to university than for a student out of high school to get into that university as a freshman -- many universities are less geared to transfer admission, and many CCs don't provide opportunities to stand out (especially when competing transfers at the same level may be from other universities, as well as CCs.)

So, that strategy can work -- but it has limits.
There is a rumored 4" iPhone for 2016, http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/03/kuo-4-inch-iphone-2016-i...
> A theater major

Sigh

I'm all for increasing access to education, but these types of majors with 0.02% chance of job placement in their field are a major disservice. Especially so for first-generation college students, and even more so when non-dischargeable debt is involved.
In a similar vein but open source is ssmtp. It's a simple MTA that hands off the dirty work of sending e-mail to a real mailserver, and can be configured to use your existing SMTP server as a bounce point, or if you're running a personal server, your gmail account.
Then tell AVG that. I've seen plenty of bugs where the original fix didn't fix everything, and the reporter explains why, and then they wait for another response. Here they didn't even keep the 90-day deadline.
I loved Berzerk - I remember playing the arcade version. Not much to it by todays standards but imagination filled in the rest.
If you check the linked page, you'll see that it has been fixed and only then the bug was opened to the public
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