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I know this is supposed to be fictional, but whenever someone writes a "fiction" like this, it's always intended as a "this is what can really happen if you aren't careful" kind of fiction. Which is why I have to take issue with the following premise of the entire article:

"central bankers around the world simultaneously increased their inflation targets from 2% to 4% and fully re-loaded their quantitative easing programs. To their embarrassment, consumer prices only continued to decline"

To quote an economist that I heard: In the history of civilization, there has never been a case of a central bank operating using fiat currency that has tried to create inflation and failed.

If the government of any country wanted to create inflation, it's extremely simple to do so. Just print $10,000 for every citizen in the country and hand it out to them as a christmas gift. If $10,000 isn't enough to do the trick, try a hundred grand. Or a million. At some point, the economy will be swimming in so much cheap money, and a roughly fixed amount of real goods, that the price of each good is bound to increase. Weimar Germany is a classic example of this. The entire premise of this "fiction" is so flawed, that it can only be described as fantasy.
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And what would be the incentives of such a prosecutor? They're appointed by, say, a mayor, or a governor - if they do a "good" job of prosecuting brutality, are they going to get a further appointment to a judgeship, or get enough support from the police union to pursue an elected office? How are they going to get good staff when they can't promise them any advancement inside that office, and doing too good of a job precludes them from being employed in a proper prosecutor's office?

Effectively all you've done is established an organization specifically dedicated to sweeping up messes.
Okay, that makes sense :)

I stand by my recommendation. Few people do more for open source than Sven. (Bonus: I don't think he's usually employed.)
The only work I've seen on breaking Spotify DRM encryption was this[1], back in 2014 and discussed on HN here[2].

[1]: http://moyix.blogspot.com/2014/07/breaking-spotify-drm-with-...
[2]:
This is news to me. In the UK the petrol pump nozzle has to be held, you can't just put it in there and expect it to fill up your tank - at all times the handle has to be held. Is this not the case in the USA? Can you put the nozzle in the tank, walk about, get in and out of the car and rely on the nozzle staying in the tank, filling up the tank until it magically knows the tank is full? If so then that is where your problem is. In the UK we don't have forecourt fireballs, it sounds to me that this is an American 'innovation', one that is probably needed given that Americans need to consume their own bodyweight in 'gasoline' to get to work and back in one of Detroit's finest 'cars'.
Related article [1] shows the absurdity of how cops "think". The officer in this article believes that he does have unlimited power and it should never be threatened by the citizenry.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/19/...
GitHub's reign over public open source programming is a bit terrifying. But, it's been mostly benevolent so far, but I do find it troubling to trust a private company to keep dev's in mind, and not profit.
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There is a UCLA academic who has 50+ police departments enrolled in his statistical effort to understand and correct policing inequities regarding race.

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/14/370792960/taking-on-racial-pro...
I remember seeing a gas station security video of this, pre-YouTube. A woman wearing what looked like a fuzzy (static-y) sweater accidentally sparked the gas at the filler door, igniting the gas in the line.

She had the presence of mind to close the filler cap before running from the car, which probably starved the fire sufficiently to prevent anything more interesting from showing up on the video. That said, I'm not entirely certain that a fuel filler fire would overtake the entire car. It may just burn out the remaining fuel via the fuel door, so long as the components of the fuel system are sufficiently fire-retardant (no guarantee).

When new Ferraris burn themselves down in seconds (happens a lot), I believe it tends to be because something has allowed the fuel pump to continue operating after the line has ruptured, and so the pump is pushing a constant stream on high-pressure flammable liquid onto a hot engine. As long as there's still electricity, the fire will get bigger and bigger.
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This article could be exactly the same except about your life partner/significant other. If they can see a better option to the life that you have together, i.e. being single or with someone else, then their shields will go down and it's pretty much over unless somehow you fix it.
I recommend Netflix's Making a Murderer to anyone interested in our criminal justice system.
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I always follow the style of using braces for if statements in C++ and C (unless it's just a simple one liner). I.e. never write

if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;

Write

if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0) {
goto fail;
}
Apparently they are pretty common.

> In 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 287,000 vehicle fires per year. These fires caused an average of 480 civilian deaths, 1,525 civilian injuries, and $1.3 billion in direct property damage annually.

http://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/vehicle-...

Fire is only one component of vehicle safety. My main personal concern with vehicle safety is how the vehicle performs in an accident and Tesla seems to have an excellent record when it comes to building vehicles that hold up very, very well in collisions.
“A majority of Americans say they support warrantless government surveillance of the Internet communications of U.S. citizens, according to a new poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.”

Where to start...
"I don't have to be afraid, I did nothing wrong"

I'm curious about the influence on this opinion after that dating portal hack. Do those events even have any influence? Because I don't know what else could cause a move towards more privacy awareness. Education has been tried. Most of them don't care (tl;nr).
The only shift in attitudes will come when "make it home safely" is correlated with good rather than bad behavior.
The good news is that it is straightforward to make a copy of much of the important public data on GH.
I'm not sure why it's a problem though. If they decide to go down that path, it's not that hard to move off. They don't have the lock-in that would scare me like having terabytes of data in an oracle database.
I think many in the older generation simply don't understand or are willfully ignoring the impacts of this.

My own parents are educated, informed and relatively tech-able. When we talk about this topic they pull out the "nothing to hide" defense. Eventually I'm able to prove that is not a valid defense. Then they pull the "doesn't matter, I'll be dead soon" card. Choosing to ignore a mammoth problem.
In the event of a destructive fire caused by a manufacturing defect, does Tesla replace the car or offer a full refund based on a replacement value of a Tesla without going through the owner's insurance even if it is outside the warranty period? Or must the owner file a claim with the insurance company?
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Is it really racist, or simply a psychological phenomenon? Conformity and group think.
There is another monthly wantstobehired thread. Post this there instead.
I see a whole lot of unsubstantiated opinion, without much sourcing to back it up.

Infrastructure is a huge issue, suburbs are not alone in this issue, but I'm not convinced the problem there is worse or more pressing than in the inner city (or anywhere else) I'd also point out in places like California, the infrastructure in the suburbs is upward of 20-30 years older then the 70's without substantial problems (save for the City of Los Angeles, and unprepared sidewalk backlog).
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He started his essay w/ the example of a gay person.

If you want to be outside of the herd in thought, it would aid you to be something alien to the majority.

edit: you're right.
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> Is this not the case in the USA?

Most of the time, no. Not every pump handle has a functioning hold-open mechanism, but the vast majority of them do.

> ...filling up the tank until it magically knows the tank is full?

It's not magic, it's simple application of physics. [0] I would be shocked if this wasn't a feature of every nozzle that was usable by members of the public... nozzles in the UK included. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dispenser#Automatic_cut-o...
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Ok, it's a more efficient way of burning coal. You're still CO2-emmision positive.
I'm pretty sure, in 1901, gay meant:

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His very own words in the same article contradict your claims.

I am aware that corrupt and bully cops exist. When it comes to police misconduct, I side with the ACLU: Having worked as an internal affairs investigator, I know that some officers engage in unprofessional and arrogant behavior; sometimes they behave like criminals themselves. I also believe every cop should use a body camera to record interactions with the community at all times. Every police car should have a video recorder.
Everyone is moving to GitHub these days. Why doesn't Gitlab.com get more love? Isn't their whole stack open source?
Elixir usually receives this much praise, so it's not unusual. Elixir (and Phoenix) are really great. Phoenix is probably my favorite backend framework I've ever used - and I've used a lot. And the community is wonderful.

Now, before I sound too much like Trump, there are some downsides, as always. It is a dynamic language, which can be a downside for some. (Type-checking is possible though.) It's not that fast with pure number-crunching, so it's best for distributed, networked applications. The syntax isn't always quite as nice as Ruby. And the language is relatively complex (more than Go, much less than Ruby/PHP/Scala).
It's generally a bad idea to assume that people whom you envy have no problems; it's just another form of dehumanization of the other.
Related to my other comment, I think we need individual police to submit to, and eventually desire, continued intensive training on the topic of justice. Perhaps it can start in one town: fire all the officers that don't happily attend classes on justice.
this is pretty significant; so far the only git presence of Python was a "semi-official readonly mirror" on github: https://github.com/python/cpython

now does this mean that Python will completely switch away from Mercurial? this was one of the major projects still using hg

what does this mean for mercurial's global adoption vs git?

also, i don't understand why the free software aspect of gitlab wasn't an important argument in the decision... that seems like a key element of the difference between the two platforms.
I have a feeling this will be an unpopular position, but ultimately, I don't think the solution will be to prosecute more of the bad actors (although I do think that should happen).

The author seems to think that the "system" either can't be changed or that any changes that could happen won't improve things. I disagree. Here are some things I think could improve things by changing the system:

1. Reduce the scope of what we consider "criminal" behavior.

2. Stop/reverse the escalating militarization of police forces

3. Involve police officers more in the community.

There are plenty of other things that can change the nature of the relationship between police officers and the citizens of their communities.
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Clojure is one of the most addictive languages I've ever worked in. I can see why so many people pick it up as something to build hobby projects with, it's just so damn fun to write.
Radical idea here: Appoint civilians to a once per lifetime tribunal post of maybe a year to oversee investigation of police misconduct allegations.

By making a once in a lifetime post you avoid the people becoming "part of the system" and you avoid unscrupulous people seeking long term benefit from the role.

As long as police are investigated and tried by people who are part of the same system they are, there will never be fairness.

If law enforcement truly do serve and protect civilians then they should be accountable to civilians.

In addition law enforcement should be treated exactly like civilians are if they are found guilty. No protective custody and no special treatment.
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In that time, gay did not mean homosexual, but happy. Twain was saying he was happy and impudent and satirical and delightful, characteristics you wouldn't necessarily expect a slave to have.
>In the UK the petrol pump nozzle has to be held, you can't just put it in there and expect it to fill up your tank - at all times the handle has to be held. Is this not the case in the USA?

It varies--based on state I believe. There's a little catch that can be used at some pumps to fill without holding onto the pump handle. It actually does shut off quite reliably when the gas reaches the nozzle. It uses a venturi mechanism. [1]

You're supposed to stay there and keep your eye on it but it's pretty reliable. Only once in my life have I seen this not work as it was supposed to.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=119483&page=1
Interesting analogy. I grew up using Commodore computers, but I'm not trying to race to the bottom of computing minima. I remember when (we) engineers got REAL WORK DONE on x86 PC's with 10 MB HDD's, running AutoCAD, Lotus 123, and Word Perfect. This was inarguably the beginning of the era of the useful, general-purpose computer. You could load a computer DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, several of these programs, and still have room leftover for Doom. The author references Apple's iPad page at 51 MB. The last time I rebuilt my gaming PC, the MOUSE DRIVER was 150 MB! It makes me weep for where we are. I don't see that things have really changed all that much in 25 years, as far as getting "real work" done. It's just... more for the sake of "more." (The games are cool, though.) In my opinion, all the bells and whistles really haven't added anything to the web browsing experience for about 15 years.
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> And hey, managers and leads reading this, you should always remember that every one of your people are volunteers.

That's, sadly, just the privilege of the growing industry like ours. Majority of population are not volunteers, they're little more than slaves and managers know that very well. The fact that you absolutely, positively need a job and that you won't find another one quickly is one of the strongest ways of keeping workers in line, and what lets many of the higher-ups be openly and freely abusive towards their employees.

I'm not complaining about IT here. We just need to remember that our industry is special right now, and that it won't last forever.
According to an Norwegian article so was the car brand new, only delivered to its owner two days ago: http://www.dagbladet.no/2016/01/01/nyheter/bil/fritid/brann/...

The car was connected to a public Tesla supercharger that can deliver 120 ampere and 500 volt.
The problem is with people's mindset that everything has to be on github. Large projects that dare to use self-hosted more fitting infrastructure like Phabricator tend to be punished socially.
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The submission went from top spot to 25th within the span of minutes.

It's a shame that HN readers don't want to read about and discuss the important social issues of our time, and flag everything that doesn't fit a narrow range of topics.
The headline isn't saying all police are violent and racist, it is saying that in his experience of being a cop he saw the degree to which police were. He more explicitly makes this distinction in the article.

I've never experienced the stuff he talks about directly but based on my interactions with the police and those of people I know I totally believe that there is a portion of the police that act inappropriately on a routine basis. Why the police force at large feels these people should be protected from the consequences of their behavior or even shielded from any public criticism is beyond me.
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I am reading "Rule for Radicals." It's the bible for social social. One of the core tenets is that people will only act on polarized issues.

I hate it when people misquote facts or sensationalize an opinion. But the book teaches these tactics are necessary and gives historical examples.

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I think java is a rather good learning language.

There is almost no magic, which is good when learning new stuff. The actual computer is sort of still there. The IDEs are free and good. The environment and APIs are really stable so 10 year old code compiles and runs, and the syntax is traditional. It's not a toy language so it's useful too.

The major drawbacks is that there are a lot of crappy "enterprisy" code out there.

I really liked learning Scheme though (in 1994 or so). I think every php- and javascript-damaged kid really needs a big dose of Scheme, just as we needed it to heal some of the damage that came from Basic and C. (COBOL seems to be very hard to cure)

Clojure does not strike me as anywhere near as "clean" as Scheme, but maybe it's an alternative.

Perhaps a good first year should include courses that uses Java, Scheme and Prolog?
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the original one is correct ...</year><year>..., its an succession of years with different content in them
> I fail to see how governmental organizations should fall outside the scope of the discussion.

I won't tell you what falls within the scope of this discussion or not, but I can tell you why they don't add a lot of value to it either.

It's already quite hard to somewhat objectively discuss whether a business company is dysfunctional, in part, or not at all, and what are the reasons for that.

It's almost entirely useless to attempt to have that discussion about government. Because politics. Because people root for their home team. Because people are inclined to dismiss the other team's ideas even when they're real good. If I told you the US Government is dysfunctional, someone would counter that I'm not American and I should see my own government. If we move past that and we got into the details of why things are not working properly, invariably Americans will start quoting bits of the constitution, bill of rights and foundling fathers at each other (and from there on it just becomes religion to me).

Discussing whether the function of Military organisation is working properly is even more difficult. In addition to the above problems, there's also hazing and indoctrination, which are incredibly strong psychological forces (without those, like said, people won't run into their deaths without question). And it pretty much divides the crowd in two slices, those "outside" that have no idea how it really works, and those that have been "inside" who are unable to disconnect the indoctrination bits from forming an objective judgement about how well the organisation functions and how that comes to be.

Certainly, discussing businesses has similar problems, but this just amps up the personal emotion factor to eleven. Also one of the reasons why the businesses were kept anonymous in the featured article.
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Without competition they don't really have much of an incentive to improve.
I suspect what you're seeing as social punishment is people preferring the UX GitHub offers. That's just user choice in action