skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> let's fight criminals tomorrow

Given that Ian's twitter pointed the finger at law enforcement for inciting this, what you are really saying is let's give the police time to cover up the details of what happened, obscure or destroy evidence, recruit prosecutors to their defense, and wait for months or years while an alleged internal investigation occurs.

A close relative of mine committed suicide. It was a difficult time and I empathize with the family's situation. However, assuming Ian's twitter posts bear some relation to reality and are not pure hallucinations, then the family is wrong to ask for privacy and space. To do so is to sacrifice justice for an imagined peace and to grant an undeserved mercy to those responsible.
I just bought one - I planned to get a non-smart TV, but found a Smart TV on sale for the same price. I expected to use my Chromecast for everything, but instead I'm using all the built-in Smart apps and the Chromecast very rarely. The usability of controlling everything from one remote (and even having a remote) is better, and means everyone can watch Netflix etc regardless of whether they brought a phone with a Netflix account or not.
Can you clarify this statement? It's not clear to me that this business model necessarily violates patents. It seems like they're just taking already well-established products and tweaking them. Then they're applying marketing techniques to get to the top of Amazon and Ebay searches...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
It seems to me that for some the problem isn't just that other people are blunt/assholes/etc.

It's that many people lack the skills necessary to deal with assholes.

I don't think trying to create conflict-free workplaces (as opposed to personal environments) is a good answer.
> Recruiters that end up contacting me usually start off with that; upon clarifying that I didn't actually graduate, things go downhill from there...

Avoid recruiters, if you have low-hit ratio with them.

Focus instead on talking with actual hiring managers. You'll have better luck connecting with small, local companies, less than 100 people. Start building your portfolio and CV from there.
iperf -P did the trick! thanks.
Again, corrupt officials, selective enforcement, etc are the problems, not lack privacy. There are a number of ways to make the nature of law better (free markets for law, direct democracy, actual representative democracy, etc), which would all render the need for as much privacy as people are advocating moot.

The minute you declare privacy enforcement a greater problem than fair law-making and fair law enforcement, you've started a losing game for which the oppressors (the ones you're using privacy as a defense against) have already won.
Is this really true? This is almost stranger than fiction. I mean, anyone can post something on pastebin. Can anyone else vouch for the truth of this (Having seen it on twitter).
Git Branches are your friends, use them more
>Given that Google can't remotely remove the extension from Chrome browsers if it has been installed, what would you do? Refuse to permit AVG to update the extension in the Web Store until they fix all of the XSS issues on those two domains? If so, why?

I'm not sure that's a given. They can update it, so why can't they update to a dummy version? (It looks like extensions in the store are signed by Google, not the developer, so they can update themselves if needed. Or at least that's what https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/packaging#upload seems to imply).

But even if we accept the premise, they can allow AVG to update the extension without revealing that there are existing XSS vulns that expose 9 million users.

Even the knowledge that "if you find an XSS in insecure-sites A and B, you can pwn 9 million users) seems highly sensitive, and should not be publicized according to Google's policies as far as I can tell.

>If they did, he would no longer be working for Google.

That's not really an answer. Does it make sense to you that it doesn't violate Google's policy, and if so, how?
Can you read?

>I'd prefer to stay publicly anonymous; I can send over some samples of work via email and we can jump on a call/Skype/hangout/whatever.
Oops. I tried to search for any previous submissions, but I apparently failed. Oh well, at least this one has some more comments than the other ones.
Curious why you made this. Just checked it out. Why the phone number?
I read the title and immediately thought of circumcision. The article was not about that, and I enjoyed the insight. Same concept though. Normalization of deviance.
Direct democracy, free markets for law, representative democracy, voluntarism, etc. There are innumerable solutions to the emergent failure states of our legal system and as I stated elsewhere in this thread, if you declare privacy a greater need than better law, law-making and law-enforcement, you've already lost.
I don't know... maybe there could be another big competitor to Spotify. I can imagine the record labels would want one. The threat of there eventually being such a replacement probably puts a cap on how much leverage Spotify has. I don't think the data Spotify owns (my playlists? listening preferences?) is particularly valuable, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

Another factor is that selling physical products often results in a market for lemons, where the buyers can't figure out which product will last longest and so purchase based on other more visible factors. Buyers can try to trust brands, but many brands will cash in on their brand by switching to greatly reduced quality at the same cost.

Replacing a product with a service can better align the incentives. If, instead of a refrigerator, you purchased a service contract for refrigeration for X years, then the supplier will want to provide a refrigerator that doesn't break.
QNX is making a comeback, via robotics and automatic driving. All the Boston Dynamics robots ran QNX; all the hydraulic valves were coordinated by one CPU. The valve servoloop ran at 1KHz and the balance loop at 100Hz.

QNX is behind some automotive dashboards, and they're moving into automatic driving. They have some big announcement coming at CES in January.

But nobody runs QNX on the desktop any more. This year, they finally stopped supporting the self-hosted development environment. Ten years ago, you could run Firebird (pre-Firefox) and Thunderbird on a QNX desktop. But when QNX stopped offering a free version, free software development for it stopped.
I can't wait to read these complete, unambiguous, and mutually consistent religious writings. Links, please.
How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone
React Router 2.0.0
Here is the reddit discussion from yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3yktcg/ian_murdock_d...
Speculation in reddit thread yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3ytbmi/in_memoriam_i...
Yes, it was on twitter yesterday.

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:le7oSCj...

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umvcoAj...
Seems to be true, per google's webcache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:le7oSCj...
I'd like to mention two projects that have helped me with my embedded toolchain adventures.

crosstool-ng [0]: I've used this to cross compile the Linux kernel for my PPC PlayStation 3. Believe me, it was easily 20x faster to cross-compile than to wait on the PS3's slow PPU. It has lots of options though and I was never quite sure which ones would lead to a "broken" toolchain.

ellcc [1]: My go-to resource if I want to get a LLVM/Clang toolchain that supports most any target (every host build supports every target) from most any host. My favorite compiler (LLVM/Clang), libc (musl), and STL (libc++), what is there not to like? :)

[0]: http://crosstool-ng.org

[1]: http://ellcc.org
Debian Social Contract
Of course people can. The question is whether they will.

The idea that people will use trend de jure to justify whatever bad behaviors they already exhibit while not putting any actual effort into self-improvement is, I feel, fairly uncontroversial.
The Irresistible Psychology of Fairy Tales
Yes, the cops will give themselves a complete and impartial investigation like they always do in US. /s
> I would start some sort of embargo, countries that enforce these kind of rules, simply ban all traffic from the country.

I wonder how it would work the opposite way: Start redirecting google.co.uk to uk.google.com, hosted and operated by a non-UK corporate entity outside of UK jurisdiction. Make them block you. China would do it; would Britain?
El Nino weather 'could be as bad as 1998', says Nasa
Keep making stuff
For a little on the history of Linux and unix in Mr. Murdock's life, I found this piece by him a very nice read.

http://ianmurdock.com/post/how-i-came-to-find-linux/
The other tl;dr is that managers need to know and buy into concepts of group psychology.
To imply that the family is wrong for not wanting to discuss this publicly ~36 hours after it happened is disgusting.
> Spotify or a pile of CDs?

The audio quality of streams are often sub par.

What about Youtube and then buying MP3 files from Amazon/etc? And Audio-CDs are still the best for lossless audio.
Strict literalism and textual primacy, in Christianity at least, is a fairly recent reaction against the traditional approach to the religion, in which Scripture was important, but neither necessarily viewed as literal nor viewed as the sole (or even preeminent) foundation of the religion.
Apps like Duolingo definitely do work, but language learning takes a multi-pronged approach. Duolingo is just one tool among many. It's basically flash cards with progress tracking. You can get very advanced in Duolingo with a pretty big vocabulary and knowledge of grammar, but still not be conversational. It builds a solid foundation that must be supplemented with actual practice talking and using it day-to-day.
Of course they are. But it's interesting that you and I care about who phones back home - why do we trust Roku more than Vizio? Is it that it feels "unnatural" for an existing object like a TV to change the relationship?

And of course, most people actually don't care about this.
Jesus, I thought his account was hacked. But apparently it was for real... poor guy
I've had good success with gigster.com
I have a barebones re-implementation of QnX for the 32 bit x86, I don't have time enough to clean it up or port it to the 64 bit model. It blew the doors off the competition back in the day (about 2 decades ago), 200K context switches per second on a 33 MHz 486. Fast enough for real time control of all kinds of hardware and with a seamless path from a self hosting desktop environment to embedded hardware. I never got around to porting 'X' to it, but I did build a rudimentary window manager and some apps (terminal, calculator, some graphic demos to test the blitting software). Best demo was 250 tasks running independent graphics demos in windows without any noticeable lag or stutter. I really liked that project, some of the best code I ever wrote.
It's convoluted and "hard to read" for a reason. The author wants to make a point by writing all sentences using the same style. If you don't see it...
It's true, I saw it with my own eyes before the account got deleted.
I've quite unfortunately been arrested more time then I care to admit...its always a brutal, scary, and shocking event.

I've seen things that I shouldn't even describe as I feel like people would just think I'm making the shit up.

Nothing in civil society even come close to what happens to you during the first 6 hours in most US county jails.

From reading his tweets, it sounds like he was simply going thru the typical steps that all people who get arrested go thru. The process is as brutal as it is uncaring.

I am heartbroken that they guy chose to end his life, but I can hardly believe that this was the only issue he was battling when he chose that path.

I am not speculating BTW...I'm relating his actions to my own life and my own feelings and thoughts related to being alone during this time of year.

[edits]
Progress depends on the unreasonable man.
This was very recent, and the facts are not yet in. The best evidence we have to go on is his most recent tweets, captured on Pastebin (http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM). His Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imurdock) seems to have been deleted, which is extremely strange.

Main notes:

* He was repeatedly beaten by the police. He alludes to having taken photos of the injuries, and having been hospitalized, so this will be easily proven.

* His last tweet is "abcolucity i'll tweet it or twitch it or whenever the rufk can i have 30 minutes toe wtie my suittyes ?" This to me strongly suggests a head injury.

* "The rest of my life is to fight against the police.. they are NOT friends, so don't ever ever believe otherwise."

* "watch my blog later http://ianmurdock.com" "I'm not committing suicide today. I'll write this all up first, so the police brutality ENDEMIC in this so call free country will be known." There are no posts about this on his blog.

I believe this was murder: he died from a head injury sustained at the hands of the police. I also believe that the police will rule that it was a suicide; but he made clear future plans which weren't executed, so this will be a lie.

(EDIT: At some point in this saga, Ian's Twitter account got hacked. The deleted account, and the strange last tweet, were probably a result of that.)
The bail was $25,000 - I don't have that in cash. I had to get a bond, and pay out of pocket $2,500.

Also, they keep bail, assuming I had paid it in cash in full, for "a year and a day"

The cops retain the "right" to charge you for 1 year.
Nobody is trying to sweep anything under the rug but Christ, the man has been dead for less than 48 hours. I don't think giving people a few days or a week to process it and grieve is an unreasonable proposition.
Update on Christmas Issues
Ah, even cooler! What I liked about it was how transparent the whole thing was for me. I didn't have to do anything, it just sort of worked.
Postgres is also a good in-memory NoSQL solution. Actually you can use anything really as an in-memory NoSQL solution such as ArangoDB, MySQL, MongoDB, RethinkDB or whatever.
hackhands.com is good at fast payouts for what you are describing.
1971genocide thinks you are British!
Well, sounds like you're doing your part, it's just the legal system screwing you up.

I wanted to tack on that while the "change jobs for de facto promotion" technique is solid and time tested, doing the sort of stuff I mentioned can help you climb faster. If you're planning on that career path, that's great skill development. You may still advance if you just clock time in before moving on, but you'll find you don't advance as far and that you seem to be getting the same job over and over. (At least, statistically.)

Best of luck with the visa issues. If nothing else, keep an eye on the long term. Development today may still pay off later.

(I mean, don't go crazy. I'm not big into unpaid work. But not all "eight hours" are created equal.)
This link has ads that are trying to execute malicious code (I'm on mobile).
Of course, there's the flip side to this; you can offer constructive criticism to someone without being a dick and they can still take it personally. Some people just can't take any criticism.
In theory trigger warnings are used rarely, to protect people currently suffering from PTSD. The aim is not to let those people avoid unpleasant situations, but to give them time to prepare and to get support for afterward.

In practice they're used far too often and at unsuitable times, and are used to avoid all discussion of difficult topics, so yes, they've now become a bit daft.

That's a shame, because it means that people who need them don't get them (and are mocked for asking for them); people who don't need them ask for them all the time on anything; and a bunch of vile hateful idiots spew their ignorant bile any time trigger warnings are mentioned.
Well, to be fair, he could have been really drunk or high as a cope with his angst... Only the autopsy can reveal head injury/substance presence.

EDIT: Have you never attempted to type anything on a keyboard/phone when really drunk? Its fucking HARD.

So to immediately conclude that he suffered from head trauma (as opposed to deep emotional trauma) is short sighted, and like I said can only be revealed (hopefully) in an autopsy.
This is fairly anecdotal, but I've read some people's experiences with free products for reviews. They received products while they were giving good reviews. The products stopped once a bad review was posted.

Amazon also gives free products for review (Amazon Vine) but these are made very clear with a banner above the review, and will remain part of the program so long as they continue to receive a high number of 'helpful' votes on their reviews.
If I recall from reading the original, it was just someone who showed up and (I think sincerely helpfully) told him that if he wants retribution against the police, any lawyer would tell him to stop discussing the specifics of the case on social media.
Are you blaming the writer because this page is delivered through regular http?
Because people have been conditioned to think in terms of their monthly pay they like to allocate it by the month rather than to save and then spend one time. Saving requires long term thinking and planning, monthly allocation requires a horizon not much longer than a month. Also: instant gratification.

Of course they get burned but that won't stop them from repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
> Games aren't supposed to be anything.

I personally find this to be a very narrow minded take on the issue. While a game may be great without having any pretensions to being "immersive" there is no harm in analyzing and trying to abstract away what we might consider to be an essential element of a "great" game.

Of course you will be taken more seriously if your argument is on firmer footing than the article's writer. I urge you to read Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga if you haven't. It will change the way you look at video games and any sort of sport physical or otherwise.
> Imagine you live in a hypothetical world where all things you consider moral, just and socially acceptable were legal and societally acceptable and where everything else was illegal and societally reprehensible. What role would privacy play in such a society? What benefits would it provide?

Sure, that hypothetical would be great for _you_ (you being the decider of morality) - but what about everyone else living in the world? It is fundamentally impossible for a world to exist where your hypothetical can be true for everyone.

Consider this - the hypothetical you describe is currently true for some set of people. And yet it ruins lives and causes misery for millions of others.
Los Angeles gas leak is a global disaster
He also literally said he was going to commit suicide, so perhaps we should stop speculating and wait for someone who actually has real information to share it.

Seriously, if ever comment on this page containing the phrase "I believe" or "I think" was deleted right now, we would not lose any objective facts.
Permission systems should not be a stand-in for good parenting. Monitor you children's electronics, educate them on what the important things are and what they mean.
Is it possible to limit zooming out and panning with Google maps? It strikes me that it would make for a better UX if you could limit that behavior to avoid shifting the map out of the relevant area for some of the less savvy users.
> I wonder why many consumers act like that.

Because in the short term all these things are convenient and attractive.
We had that competitor, it was called Napster and that sort of entity scares the crap out of anybody with a rental model.
And yet 98% of the world decided that the benefits were worth the expense. Standardization is so prevalent in many aspects of our world for good reason - suggesting that the metric system is somehow immune to these benefits is ridiculous.
Wow have I ever been there, done that at a startup you've heard of. Line level employees hated the endless firefighting; the ceo/cto didn't give a shit and stymied any change. My solution was to forfeit any ops duty at all. I told my boss she had two choices: I didn't work on ops or I didn't work there at all.
I am saddened by this loss. Everyone should know that even if you think you are being wronged that you must listen to and obey every instruction a police officer gives you. If they did something wrong you can bring it up to your lawyer afterward. Resisting will pretty much always make the situation worse.

Police use force. This can be surprising. Sometimes they use it when you may not think it's warranted. You might have thought you presented no threat. When police start to raise their voice and use force the last thing you should do is get upset. You just need to do whatever you can to listen to their instructions and do what they tell you. They may continue to use physical force like pushing, punching, twisting and causing you pain even if you are listening to everything they are saying and trying your best.

The hard truth is you just have to deal with it. Resisting will only make it worse, and even puts your life at risk.

If you can, it's best to avoid police whenever possible. If police show up just leave. If they stop you on the road stay calm, don't argue, do what they say and try to share as little information as possible.
You're right, but only as long as mutual candor between employees and management is actively encouraged and, at least to some degree, protected.
Edit: http://pastebin.com/raw/UnjYhUbT
Indeed - this one has got some traction, whereas the previous ones haven't - good to see.
Christianity is quite definitely based on the New Testament being taken literally: water literally turning to wine, Christ literally walking on water, healing the sick, coming back from the dead, and so on. Adam, Eve, serpent and apple might not be taken literally, but J. C. is: being born of a virgin, being the Son of God, all of it.
You would have said the exact same thing about schematic capture and layout not that long ago, about compilers and operating systems a while longer ago than that.
Correct. http://imgur.com/h8ArTx4
I think OP means the values of classical liberalism, i.e. freedom from oppression of the state, and everything that goes with. When you empower the state to the degree that it will be empowered once they can keep tabs on everyone at all times, we will have oppression.
Einstein proved that everything is truly relative, and depending on your particular velocity and place in the universe, fundamental things you perceive, and that others perceive about you, are totally and completely different.

Perhaps I was being a bit too abstract, but I stand by my assertion.
> This to me strongly suggests a head injury.

Or, more likely in my mind, that if his chosen suicide method was overdose, the overdose had already begun at the time of this tweet.

(When I say "more likely" I'm not trying to suggest that I actually know what happened; merely that I can find explanations that are at least as convincing as your chosen one, so I don't think anyone should be claiming they have good ideas on what happened from reading the tweets.)
I recall reading somewhere that while military organizations are very much synonymous with hierarchy, they have historically experienced a lot of pressure to flatten and decentralize, at least as far as field command goes. Napoleon's success was attributed to smaller units that responded to feedback more quickly. Unfortunately I can't find that article.

However, this is not to say that in regular administration there isn't still a lot of de facto trust in the hierarchy. I think unbounded hierarchy is generally one of those memes that people grow up taking for granted as something that just works with any layer count. In some ways, it's a self-reinforcing thing - if you climbed ranks for 10 years, you don't want to see the system change and your "sunk cost" go away.

[edit: clarified sentence]