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Unfortunately there are some careers that are sought after by sadists.

Those people who deeply enjoy inflicting pain on others. They seek out avenues and careers where they can best get their fill of other people's suffering.

In some sort of order I would rank them as ISIS henchman, dictator special guard, military police prison guard, military police, civilian prison guard and last is the civilian police. I am not talking that all police are sadists, far from it. Just a small fraction are. But many more than other careers ( outside dentistry lol )

Many western militaries put a lot of effort into screening out sadists, so I don't mention them, but if the screening did not occur then they would warrant a place.

So unfortunately to some extent the police will always be a prime target for very unpleasant people. Sadists also identify with other sadists and form secret groups within organisations, much like other deviants like paedophile rings.

Military style pre screening techniques should be implemented along with the additional oversight mentioned in the article.
He is not talking about today's Saint Louis PD. If he joined the force in 1994 and was there for 5 years, he's recounting events that happened 17 or more years ago. A lot can change in (almost) two decades -- or not change, of course.
2 through 3 are very popular opinions. 1 is somewhat popular.
Thank you for doing this! I find this kind of stuff very entertaining. I also hope to try writing my own kernel some day, and this blog series will be a huge help when doing so
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I did my best engineering work when I was working all by myself, far out. However the calibration of the sense of where to direct my efforts went completely out of whack in about 7 month. I have coded two beatific systems in the next 6 months after that, but none of my users cared enough, or even had the opportunity to appreciate it.
>> It's a heavy accusation to say that "police are racist and violent".

Unless you're or have been at the receiving end of police brutality and racist policing, you'll never understand why they're generally considered racist and violent. They are truly a legal criminal gang.

Not that every cop is a criminal, but if a cop is decent and refuses to play by their "code", he/she will not survive for too long.

The culture does not tolerate "rats".
From my experience the positivity is not unwarranted, Elixir is a great, young language with an awesome community (as most new languages have). The creator, Jose Valim, comes across as a very nice person and I feel that a lot of the positive attitude in the community stems from this. As to the language itself, it feels well designed and fun to use (the pipe operator is really cool). Plus it runs on the Erlang VM which is an incredible piece of engineering. Overall a great next language to pick up and experiment with, plus it has reached a good level of maturity so you won't see your code break from one release to another.
For which use cases are you using the other favourite language (in this case, C++)?
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ICE car fires are so amazingly common, that it's not even news (unless the car is powered by lithium batteries).

U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 152,300 automobile fires per year in 2006-2010. These fires caused an average of 209 civilian deaths, 764 civilian injuries, and $536 million in direct property damage.

Facts and Figures
Automobile fires were involved in 10% of reported U.S. fires, 6% of U.S. fire deaths.
On average, 17 automobile fires were reported per hour. These fires killed an average of four people every week.

http://www.nfpa.org/safety-information/for-consumers/vehicle...

That being said, there are a lot less EVs on the road than ICE, and the number of Teslas on the road is only a fraction of that. In 2014 there were 30k Teslas sold and 4 of them were involved in a fire, which is .013%. From what I read, all investigating authorities cleared Tesla of any fault. In most cases, it was the result of some road debris puncturing a battery.

I'm not saying this fire isn't a result of a defect in a Tesla component or design. But so far Tesla has a good track record on safety and also seems dedicated to keeping it that way.
This is significantly more interesting than writing a PHP game server. Haskell is different enough from C like languages that you can't borrow patterns from existing implementations. There's a lot of unexplored territory in Haskell. The fact that there are very few comments tells me that people are interested in Haskell but may not have taken the dive yet.
Ask HN: What weather-related API do you recommend?
I'd like to be able to compare and contrast today's weather conditions with the conditions recorded on the date one year ago. Long range forecast would be cool too.
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Thanks :) Second post is in the works, will probably be out next week when I have time around college :)
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Article should be titled "Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent a lot of the police in St. Louis were". This article is relying on the author's personal experiences in the force and fails to bring any hard statistics.

While there is certainly a problem with racism in Police Departments this article fails to find the ultimate source of that racism, and without truly understanding where Police racism is coming from the authors solution of "We need harsher punishments and better oversights" doesn't guarantee it will fix the problem.

Like with the public in general, only a small (but very loud) percentage of the Police are bad people. Bringing harsher punishments down on the Police is not the answer. By their very nature the Police need to do things that put dangerous people in harms way for the safety of others. If they are not allowed to do that without thinking that they're going to get punished for it, they will not be able to do their jobs effectively.

There are definitely cases where bad Police do bad things, and they DO get punished for it, but just like every other person in America they are innocent until proven guilty, and it can take a long time before a case can be put together. By that time the media (and the Public's attention) have been pointed to the next "Police tragedy".
The 3 subsequent sentences after your cherry-picked quote are:

> And you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to search your car or home if there’s no warrant (though a pat-down is still allowed if there is cause for suspicion).

> Always ask the officer whether you are under detention or are free to leave.

> But if you believe (or know) that the cop stopping you is violating your rights or is acting like a bully, I guarantee that the situation will not become easier if you show your anger and resentment.

So this officer "agrees" with the ACLU's recommendations to LE agencies. Great. That doesn't mean anything in the real world. If you stand up for your rights, you will be beaten mercilessly.

He's basically saying "don't submit to illegal police activity, but if you resist us in any way, legal or not, you will be beat.
Not just that. As GP wrote: "They do it because they are told so to do. Therefore it is a mark of some basic discipline.". Discipline is paramount for managing an army in combat.
Wavelet image compression is itself interesting and quite intuitively simple (if looked at in the right way):

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/wavelet/wavelet.htm
Racism is at the root of it. The rest are just secondary.

Understand that law enforcement is what society used to maintain law and order during slavery and all through the Jim Crow days.

The mindset has not changed.
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Disclaimer: I've never been a cop, but I have several close friends who are.

Generally speaking, this means disciplinary action (e.g., time off without pay) and accompanying documentation. While that may not sound that bad, there are a few things that add teeth:

1. Cops make OK money compared to an average citizen, but not GREAT money. Their retirement is often tied to employment with a particular city, county, etc. Too many disciplinary actions, or one really big one, will result in being fired, meaning you've also lost your retirement investment.

2. If you want a better/higher-paying job within the department (detective, SWAT, aviation, etc.), you have to get internally hired for it. If your record is tainted by documented misconduct, you're probably never going to get promoted.

3. The law enforcement community is small and paperwork follows you everywhere. Getting fired or being un-promotable will probably be known to other departments if you try to get a job somewhere else. This is why e.g., Darren Wilson had to change careers even though a grand jury cleared him of criminal wrongdoing [1].

References:

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/04/darren-...
Gitlab is really nice, but the user experience isn't quite as slick as Github's. Understandable, since Github has a lot more engineers behind their infrastructure.

I think Gitlab's current user base is for developers/startups who want VC backups for their private codebases. I'd probably use Gitlab if I were developing a private project that I didn't plan on releasing.

Github, by design, is friendly towards people who want their code to be open to the world and encourage exploration of interesting projects. It's a great for sharing research code, and many big companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Disney, Pixar) already put their stuff there. It's highly unlikely these big fishes will move to Gitlab anytime soon.
Is there any way to, or rather, is it even worth fighting centralization?

Has anything similar to this happened?
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The "breakthrough" boiled down to something we all do in desperation: Google it.

At a loss for other ideas, I started going through all the Google results for “erzbir”. Imagine my surprise when, a few pages in, I came across the following page:
http://easyciphers.com/remove
As it turns out, “erzbir” is “remove” encrypted with a simple Caesar cipher.

Every once in a while you get a happy ending instead of the dead end like the XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/979/
I didn't flag it, but given the way these threads tend to degenerate, can you blame people for being tired of it?

Hacker News hasn't exactly proven capable of reasonable discussion of certain topics, and the police seem to be one such topic. The discussion itself isn't what HN wants to avoid, but the emotion and bile that often surrounds the subject.
If you read the short book / media project (http://www.strongtowns.org/) referred to in the post, you'd see that the author (not the blogger) covers this issue amply.

It's not a ra-ra-cities-good-burbs-bad book. It explains why the infrastructure in suburbs is not financially sustainable without reference to speculations of higher energy prices (like a Kunstler would) and how political leadership often goes awry in how it pursues development.

The tl;dr which I'll do in three paragraphs is that suburbs tend to overestimate how much tax revenue they're going to get from the development pattern that involves a lot of corporate brand name stores popping up off of main roads. The taxes don't pay for the roads so the towns have to lean on the Federal government for funding.

The suggestion is that towns and businesses need to redevelop downtown areas which have more efficient infrastructure costs because they will no longer be able to externalize those infrastructure costs onto large state governments or the federal government.

Also, across the board, politicians and developers tend to emphasize the benefits of new developments while minimizing the presentations of the costs of maintenance. The book also kills some new-urbanist sacred cows like bike lanes because they are usually both insane from a financial perspective and extremely dangerous for both cyclists and drivers.

So the thrust of it is that if you thought the cities were bad, the suburbs are often worse. It will also make you rethink a lot of the media hoopla over urban development in countries like China which make supersized versions of these kinds of errors. A $100 million infrastructure project sounds awesome until you realize that it will cost $500 million without generating that much in taxes to prevent it from collapsing into a blighted ruin in less than a decade.
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Pretty sure they're just sort-of-latin for 113-ium, 115-ium etc.
Sure, but it's more a long-term benefit than an immediate exercise. Had you read it right now, what would you do make sure to get the most out of it? Would you sit down and write an essay about a related topic?

This question keeps bugging me. I know what to do about a programming or a self-development book, but humanities are much harder in that regard.
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Mark Twain had no trouble thinking for himself. Paul Graham does the same kind of thing in his essays. Every great standup comedian in the world does it.

It's a skill that few practice, but thinking for yourself is not actually difficult. Most people have the basic reasoning skills required, they just never care enough to "rock the boat". And that's the real cause of conformity: apathy.
In my opinion, that's the type of thing that a news director would say to justify the expense of a new truck. I am not trying to be snarky, that's my take based on previous work experience for a morning newscast and a long-time interest in the business of news.

I would add that modern broadcast news has always relied on other types of imagery to break up the anchor shot, chiefly prerecorded reports from the field (which do not require a truck -- at my station the photographers and reporters used ordinary cars) and weather screens. The SNG trucks are nice to have when something big does break, but most of the time they are simply not needed ... hence the contrived uses and excuses.

I think the sharp decline in costs for competing technologies are forcing a rethink of newsgathering costs. In recent years, helicopters have been replaced by in-studio CGI based on traffic maps and (on occasion) drones. This trend will accelerate, although I think one of the main expenses -- "talent" -- won't go away. Viewers do like personalities and on-screen charisma.
Cool to see a job post from KI here, that was a bit unexpected. Best of luck with the hiring!
Training isn't the issue, lack of punishment is. They know what they're doing is wrong.
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Http://rphlo.github.com/ there is a go pro repo
This is exactly the kind of thinking we need. Intense, local citizen involvement should be a great start (and should be default, anyway).
Is it on github? Maybe someone takes up the torch, or at least reads your sources for guidance.
Not really, the inconvenience of having to register another account (which often means another set of password) is quite a big deal for entry.
Clojure is not really an option when you do systems programming, such as writing native apps, command line tools, working on small devices like a Pi, etc. There are many things I'm exploring in C++ for which Clojure is just not a good tool for the job.

But also, there are some really great C++ libraries in the areas of physics and graphics, and there is no equivalent of the in Java I could use.
CMUs's Open Learning Initiative might we worth looking at - http://oli.cmu.edu/
For these CCC videos, please link to media.ccc.de. They built a media distribution platform for us that gives higher quality, allows downloads, and uses no tracking. Why not use it?

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Why can't you use the car park? The noise prevents you from parking your car there?
As I mentioned above, we are some weeks out from having an MVP. Our current sprint is actually building a frontend for the search engine. If you are still interested, please send me an email (in profile) and I will ping you back in about 2 weeks when we have something for you to interact with.
Pilloxa sounds interesting! Would it be possible for you to share any more details about your product?
It may be a property of democracies scaling, the pattern is indeed common.
There are so many complex issues swirling around this subject that I fear 140 Character Consciousness will simply tune out the noise. In this light, I would think that current / contemporary culture is more at risk of quietly letting things happen.

One of the most worrying concepts personally is the idea of an acceptance of “law” as being beyond culture; outside of politics, the social, the human, and moored in some late Rationalist “hard science.”

At risk of being trite, one might wonder, would Rosa Parks be permitted on that bus in an age where she was surveilled and profiled? What role would her peers and associates have played in that surveilling, perhaps unbeknownst to them? What downward pressures can't we see?

Scares the life out of me.
But hyperlinks aren’t just the skeleton of the web: they are its eyes, a path to its soul. And a blind webpage, one without hyperlinks, can’t look or gaze at another webpage – and this has serious consequences for the dynamics of power on the web.

More or less all theorists have thought of gaze in relation to power, and mostly in a negative sense: the gazer strips the gazed and turns her into a powerless object, devoid of intelligence or agency. But in the world of webpages, gaze functions differently: it is more empowering. When a powerful website – say Google or Facebook – gazes at, or links to, another webpage, it doesn’t just connect it , it brings it into existence; gives it life. Without this empowering gaze, your web page doesn’t breathe. No matter how many links you have placed in a webpage, unless somebody is looking at it, it is actually both dead and blind, and therefore incapable of transferring power to any outside web page.

Apps like Instagram are blind, or almost blind. Their gaze goes inwards, reluctant to transfer any of their vast powers to others, leading them into quiet deaths. The consequence is that web pages outside social media are dying.

Best part of the piece, imo.
I'm not so sure about the quality of the recent Packt books. They seem to be concentrating more on quantity rather than quality. I was approached by them to write a book on a topic that I wasn't good at!

Also incidents[0] like this don't really make a good impression about them.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1rj2jq/book_haskel...
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What works for me is playing the vids at 1.75x speed when I feel like there isn't a high density of concepts being explained. Sometimes I just watch them at 1.25x the whole time because the lecturer is slow paced. Try experiment with this stuff and see if it's just the video format that you don't like or the speed in which it's served.
I will cut the BS and give you my thought: simply because few people are interested in maintaining GitLab. If I were in the dev's position, I would have more time to focus on improving build pipeline, like adding some cool bot.
> 1. Cops make OK money compared to an average citizen, but not GREAT money. Their retirement is often tied to employment with a particular city, county, etc. Too many disciplinary actions, or one really big one, will result in being fired, meaning you've also lost your retirement investment.

Well, you just have to look at SF's salary database to see that cops don't make "OK money", but "pretty good" money.

http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2014/san-francisco...

Or, if you just want all employees with "police" in the name or title: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=san-fran...
>> Appoint civilians to a once per lifetime tribunal post of maybe a year to oversee investigation of police misconduct allegations.

But cops are violently against civilian review boards. They'd rather police themselves. I wonder why...
Hard statistics are plentiful. Do a web search.
Some parts of companies can be corporate and still have some other very good parts.

All being said, if at that stage of a job offer, you don't want to be looking like the most important thing to you are your options. If you get a decent salary and like the work, you are not being exploited.
Most of this is just a guy complaining becuse he can't adapt to the new world.
Also the racism topic.
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