skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Miami PD is one of the most corrupt departments in FL. My wife was harassed and ticketed by a fat cop who got out of the car smoking a cigar and stunk of alcohol with gold chains around his neck.

Earlier she had pulled into a parking garage that was mislabeled and scrapped the roof of the truck. The attendant called their boss who called their insurance, who said to get a police report and they would cover it. She got a ticket for reckless driving. Thankfully the attendant stayed on the scene the whole time, because my wife got the sense that the cop was alluding to her negotiating her way out of such a hefty ticket.

Fortunately my wife's friend (who we where visiting) is very good friends with the chief of the Hollywood PD and made a call, who then made a call to Miami PD, long story short a supervisor came out, ripped up the ticket apologized to my wife, wrote the police report about the garage and left, but before he did he told her it would be best if this where the end of the incident. Nothing was ever said or done about the other officer.
I'm no classical web developer, so I'm not be the best reference, but I used both a little bit for some realtime (mainly websocket driven) webapp for state visualization of remote embedded devices. I started with React, and I'm now on ng2 and happy with it (apart from some hopefully soon fixed bugs).

Imho both are ok. What I did not like that much with React was that the virtual DOM did not play nice all the time (strange effects can happen if you place non VDOM aware widgets inside it) and if you not take special care (keys) then reconcilation can produce a messed up representation. These things seem less problematic in ng2.

An unexpected very pleasant surprise for me was using the dependency injection mechanism in ng2 - I did not expect it do be useful because I never used something like this before. But now if any sub-sub-subcomponent in my view needs access to a status I don't need to pass it all the way down through unrelated components via props (like in React) but can directly inject it only in the using component. I also had good experiences with MVVM architecture from other projects with other frameworks, so I am happily using this approach also in ng2. For the model component I'm using service objects which are encapsulating the current state, exposing it through observables and are injected into the component (viewmodel) through DI. What I like here is that I can bind the view directly to the observables from the model with the help of async pipes and thereby get an auto-updating behavior with zero boilerplate code.

Apart from that there are obviously the major differences - angular has an inbuilt router, React not. But still I wouldn't think of Angular2 as something highly opinionated, you still have lots of flexibility.

As I am a big fan of typescript a factor for me was also that ng2 is typescript-first and I don't have to rely on possibly incomplete or 3rd party type definitions. But that might be more of a political factor, the basic typescript support for react is also good (it can even check the types of props in JSX - which currently not possible for ng2 templates) but many 3rd party libraries don't seem to provide type definitions.
Pavlovian conditioning -

When you are on hacker news and think side effects means IO operations performed by your function.
I sort of agree, but a 'proper' idea needs a little fleshing out to show its value. A description isn't enough.

If I cam e up with "Twitter for cats", but with nothing dwscribing why this was a good idea, or what form it might take (mockups? detail on how it would differ from twitter, or how it would be the same as twitter in a way relevant to cats). those details are the value, and that's what's needed. One line descriptions are far from 'part implemented' - they're not even fully thought-out. A paragraph at least would be better...

then they'd be fit to steal ;-)

Also, if an idea implies considerable implementation (twitter impl is known, but still a large task) it has a higher bar to realise (obv.).

If the impl is somewhat unknown or novel, it also has to be fleshed out more e.g. a POC if it is uncertain if it is possible, or if there are significant barriers that might have prevented it existing already.
The average Swiss citizen will earn more than your average american - overall swiss citizens will pay a smaller % on taxes than americans.
Scott Meyers is a world-renowned expert on C++, but he's not a coder.

> Weird question, don't see why the management have to be coders.

Would Apple have been as successful if Jobs wasn't deep into technology and design? What about Gates? When your organization provides code, shouldn't the strategic leadership have a rich and up-to-date understanding of code in general and your organization's code in particular?

All that being said, I don't know the above at all. As far as I know, they're all world class developers, but I haven't seen any evidence toward that end yet.
As an angel investor, I can anecdotally confirm that I've become more cautious recently (in the last year, really). However, I'm not at all concerned about the stock market. That has never influenced my decision to fund a company. My belief is that a strong company can weather a bear market.

I'm concerned with the current state of valuations - I enjoy giving investments to companies on the order of five figures or so each with the hope that they make something meaningfully impactful. I don't necessarily look for them to become moonshot successful; a win can be much smaller than that. Developing incrementally impressive technology that effects change is also a win.

But valuations are so frothy right now that it's difficult to tell the strong companies from the ones that won't survive "when the tide goes out." It all seems very clear in hindsight, but it's hard to know right now, even moreso than usual. This is always very difficult, but the market for ideas has become somewhat "congested."

There has been a flood of folks entering the "startup game" who seem to be planning for their IPO before they've even gotten a product off the ground. Again, anecdotally, I'm observing a noticeable increase in fraud among founders who are trying to raise money unscrupulously, especially with novice investors.

I don't like to use the word bubble because I think it's lazy analysis, but I do strongly believe valuations are in the beginning of a market correction. At the very least, I think there will be a higher bar for invested money to indicate a legitimate valuation instead of a loan.

I do think that there will still be plenty of capital ready to be given to companies, investors are just going to be more selective (read: cautious) about it, which may very well change the growth and success potential of certain more dubious business models in the valley.
The cascade tunnel, longest rail tunnel in the US with 12.5km isn't electrified and has only diesel trains running through it:
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[he] sported a beard that is a sign he is well along in working on his next-generation Epiphany processor.

Thats where I'm going wrong..
Valuations are fake, so who cares? I don't mean to be flip, but valuations are only important to other VCs. No surprise they created their own bubble. Valuations for the Uber-of-this or the AirBnB-for-that have been absurd. I'm not saying there aren't business opportunities there, but sometimes those opportunities are in the tens of millions of dollars, not billions, and hey, tens of millions is fantastic by the way.

Edit: I'd like to say I think this is a good thing. I've seen a couple instances where growth was on the back of VCs and didn't have a foothold in reality, and friends ended up losing their businesses. I'm a fan of bootstrapping but I totally get where VC money can help - a lot, in fact. That said, keeping an eye on revenues and reality instead of funding slide decks and pie-in-the-sky "potential" revenues can only be good.
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There's another way to request the refund out of the refund window without messaging the developer [1]. Although I'm sure you can't do it indefinitely. The main gist is that Google covers the refunds after 48 hours :

"After 48 hours, Google bears the cost of the refund, which protects developers from retroactive negative earnings. In this case, the apps remain available in the user's library indefinitely. Lest you should think this is a loophole to get free paid apps forever, Google tells us it has mechanisms in place to prevent abuse. The company declined to elaborate on what those mechanisms were, but it likely has something to do with the amount and frequency of refund requests."

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/05/16/google-quietly-imple...
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That "in-depth argument" is absolutely loaded with hyperbole and newspeak:

being a public figure can be a *VERY DANGEROUS* role.

Karen Sandler has been under *VIGOROUS ATTACKS*—hate mail, public slandering, and more

the *HATE* has not died down

You still see *WRETCHED HIVES OF SCUM AND VILLAINY* like this blog post on a regular basis (warning: the comments over there are depressing)

And let's rewrite history while we're at it:

The whole point of an outreach program is to help restore a balance to this messed up I.T. industry of ours.

Hmm, that's curious. I don't recall it ever being "balanced," but I guess if we bombard everyone with a lie for long enough it will eventually become a Truth.

Then the author follows up:

[...] if you are going to comment on my blog on this particular blog post, stay civil and think thrice about what you’re going to say. And don’t be so quick to pejoratively label me a “SJW” just because I’m personally standing up for someone here

Let's call a spade a spade. The author is a SJW. Linux people are legitimately concerned about this Karen Sandler character, and they have every right to raise those concerns. But let's censor them and shame everyone into compliance because, well, that tactic actually works! We all fall for it.
Interesting! The article is paywalled; I don't suppose you could summarize what negative learning effects they found, and the explanations they gave?
Page 5 - Microchip plans to cut Atmel R&D from 20% to 15%.
> The foundations pay plenty of the kernel developers.

Do you mean directly? How many do they pay?
"The town itself played a part in Donald's excellent outcome - the roughly 3,000 people of Forest, Mississippi, who made a probably unconscious but clear decision in how they were going to treat this strange boy, then man, who lived among them. They decided, in short, to accept him - to count him as "one of their own" and to protect him."

People ask, "What am I missing living on the east, or west coasts?"

I might be stereotyping, but you are missing people who care, or just don't act like they care. There's a sense of morality that is just not here.

(I don't want to argue with anyone. This is just my opinion.)
I can see the use of killing someone with a painful, elongated death by polonium poisoning, it's obvious, and makes a statement.
I don't feel the same can be said for making the body of someone appear in a locked bag though - people's reactions are closer to "WTF?" rather than shock.
One option is to migrate to FreeBSD.
Dry earwax is a recessive trait. Here's a nice source I found when fact [double] checking my answer if you'd like to read more:

http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythearwax.html
I don't think I know what the "linux foundation" is . . and I've used linux for 7 years.
Depends on the volume of course, and of the quality of image that is expected. This board, plus transducer (necessary to get the image) in small volumes, should be around 200$. Maybe less in higher quantities, and with streamlined components. Far lower than the usual portable ultrasound scanners (costing ~5k$). But that's a work in progress so let's see!

We were following the Newcastle project, but I guess the tech was finally bought by NDT -> image quality and framerate were not as good as expected. At least, haven't seen progress on medical imaging use from this end.
Agreed. We're always more interested when people speak up against "their own" than when criticism comes from outsiders.

Football players speaking up about their head injuries? That's a better story than some tenured professor writing from his lab. Employees blowing the whistle on their employer's bad practices, teachers arguing against tenure policies, police calling out police abuse or racism – these are all compelling narratives.

Of course, ideally, we'd look to the quality of the argument and the strength of the evidence, but an insider account gives us the mental shortcut to think "this one knows what they're talking about, and they don't have a clear motivation to disparage their own."
I don't think the issue is that they don't want to pay, but that they don't realize they can. Often, when a open source solution lacks some required feature, a proprietary one is chosen. Paying the developer to implement that feature is just not something that comes to mind.
If the mucous is preventing you from breathing properly, yes. Otherwise, no.
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It happened right around the same time that every citizen was issued a portable audio/video recording device of high quality and the means to share the results.

A phenomenon that coincided with a sudden drought of UFO and Bigfoot sightings, coincidentally.
They're a 501(c)(6) trade association if you want to be technically correct. Which is different from 501(c)(3)'s which are what you normally think of as "non-profits" but it's still an exempt organization like a chamber of commerce.

Fun fact: The NFL was a 501(c)(6) organization at one point because "professional football leagues" were specifically named in the IRS code but they voluntarily dropped their status.
Oh good god! "set disassembly-flavor intel", please.
> don't see why the management have to be coders

I used to perceive LF to be the equivalent of centralized funding for linux kernel developers. I recognize now that is not correct. The reason I asked is because, if I perceived it that way, there's others who would have perceived it that way and donated to the cause for that reason or supported it for that reason (eg: paying for attending LF organized conferences). If say 10% of the foundation's budget goes towards management costs, and 90% goes to developers, then Yay!. If it is 90% management, 10% developers, then that's why I asked.
On AngelList, a crowdfunding site aimed at such investors, the average valuation for a company receiving funding reached $4.9 million for two quarters last year, its highest level in five years. But valuations dropped to $4.2 million in the fourth quarter, the lowest level since early 2012. Dow Jones VentureSource data shows that deals involving angel investors fell by 16% last year.

It seems like a big deal until you realize there is a huge variance in prices and that 2012 isn't very long ago. The biggest and most successful ones seem to be doing just fine.
We're making a baby who's just like me, only better.

It's legal in the states where it's not banned.
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There's a division forming in embedded where "real embedded" like my dishwasher uses an 8-bit microcontroller to turn pumps and valves on and off in sequence which may never have a USB and for price reasons will never support above USB1. It has very little stored state to talk about, and the more state and sensors the less reliable and productive it'll be, so that's unlikely to change any time soon.

The other division of embedded is best described as duct taping a tablet computer permanently to a refrigerator, and those will have USB-C like next year. In the '80s we put TVs and VCRs into the same case and called it innovation... This is the '10s version.

One type of embedded is like industrial control, the other type is like product tying.

One segment is extremely price conscious because China sells the USA 10 million value engineered dishwashers per year, and using a microcontroller that costs $1 more to do something the market is completely uninterested in is a $10M loss which the market will not tolerate. The other segment is luxury gadgets for rich people where price is no object and sales never exceed the thousands, although the web pages are extremely elaborate and expensively designed.
> Sorry but what BBC does is nothing exemplary for someone in its shoes.

I didn't suggest they were exemplary at all. On the contrary, I criticised them for not doing a proper job because they're worried about coming across as biased.

They've chosen to deal with criticism of bias by essentially trying their utmost to never say or do anything controversial, but the nature of the real world is that a lot of the most important journalism necessarily steps hard on someones toes.
Indeed, I clicked on the link because I thought, "That's interesting, I wonder what a Q-tip is". Then I found it was just another name for a cotton bud, and was disappointed: I'm sure there are more bizarre items than that!
> you can add some backing instruments to what you've already laid down. Adding drums or bass requires just a tap

Ok, I seriously have to try this.

I'm a church organist.
My last statement was rather a opinion yes. Mostly based on the fact that i barely notice a difference since my dual core nexus for me 3 generations ago. My current phone has a 2k screen what barely makes sense on that size, a 14MP camera which is grainy as fuck, 4 cores with about 2.something Ghz each, 2 of which are off nearly all the time because who needs 4 cores?. I use it for browsing and SMS ...

You are right that by price sign barely any phones are as expensive as the iPhone (if any). But some Sony Xperia, Nokia Lumina and Samsung S6 play in the same range.

What makes the price point invalid in my POV is that you buy it with a contract usually. AFAIK the majority does. All the above mentioned phones will be $100, all the others (including the 32GB versions of the iPhone 6) are $0.

Also clearly you cant compare the sale figures. Apple makes 1 phone every other year. While the others mass produce models and usually create new ones per series at least yearly. Fact is that the majority of the world population is using Android again, also the Majority in most western countries has changed back to Android (at least those i care about)
Most rail lines in the US are used for freight. Is electric a good option in that case?
"How do you arrive at the claim that my link is state-sponsored propaganda and yours are not?"

Sure, there's no such things as objective mass media, all of them shine a light from slightly different angles to support their agenda and please investors, but I'm not aware of such straightforward, blatant lies that Russian TV (e.g. RT) shows daily on western counterparts. Publicly crucified boy, pictures from Syria, beyond funny photoshop of Ukrainian fighter jet downing MH17 etc. All these" stories" were really shown on official Russian TV. Now please provide such obvious propaganda statements from reputable western sources. "We lie, because they lie" is the exact statement Russia propaganda wants you to believe.
Oh you're right you can pack them more discreet, but that should have a worse performance than the one I showed. That's because the coherence length of wireless is fundamentally related to the wavelength -- so to get independent signals you need a certain physical separation, no matter how clever you are with their placing.
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Full disclosure, I've never asked LF to pay me for my contributions, nor have they offered. None of the people I know who are lk contributors who I've just asked have gotten anything from LF. They have been solicited to pay to attend LF organized conferences.
Note who is the current employer of this obscure hacker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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DISCLOSURE: I actively contribute to the MIT source licensed Rocket.Chat project.

Just chime in to say thank you for all the support! And that we are actively improving this live-chat feature, taking advantage of the fact that we have 100% control on the server-side. This is what we have planned for the near future - please feel free to add your wish list:

https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/1842
> I would be more interested in an universal real-time translator.

We both know this is impossible and won't fix a thing.
It is on the roadmap
> I mean, just try it in Java.

For ages JodaTime actually nailed it, and the Java 8 date API was based off this.

> Not an add on type as in R or Python or Java.

Again, let's talk about the modern version of the language and not act like prior screw ups are the end all for a language.

Also

> 2012.01.01 + 1m1d

How is that more clean than:

> new DateTime(2012, 1, 1).plusMonths(1).plusDays(1)
Can you give a couple of examples of companies/sites that these folks have cloned?
Why are we not using unix timestamps (seconds since the epoch) for timestamps on everything that doesn't require sub-second precision?
It's easy to separate the potential winners from the losers though. Start-ups that deal with hardware and other physical stuff tend to fare much worse than apps and software.
Same thing happening to me.
So, there is no single proof of the assertion.

Is like God, you have to believe
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Mithril succeeded in catching my attention because creating a good mobile web experience is important to me. This does not necessarily explain why it has failed to catch the attention of others, but might be a clue.
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This is just an aside, and not a knock on the article, but Java does have a built-in Timestamp type, [1] and has had it for some time.

Maybe it's not "first-class" (not sure what this means in context?), but it's definitely there and not in a third-party JAR or anything.

However, it's bad for other reasons, the first being that it extends java.util.Date (the Javadoc seems to admit this) and combined with the related java.sql.Date (which also extends java.util.Date) makes for a very confusing API.

For this reason, Oracle recommends just using the new Date APIs, [2] and mapping a SQL TIMESTAMP to LocalDateTime.

1. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/sql/Timestamp...

2. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jf14-date-ti...
Nice. I've been wanting something like this. I can imagine using this as a starting point to hack something up with as it appears to have examples for all of the bits I was thinking was going to be hardest :)

Hopefully it'll mean I can forget about doxygen.
You still need to record the timezone somewhere and you might as well just stick to ISO8601/RFC3339 format then.
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>With all seriousness, there is no real difference between those.

With all seriousness did Putin ever suggest forcibly retaking Alaska?

>Given that Snowden isn't some small fry, it's reasonable to assume that such things are at least acknowledged by the higher-ups the chain of command.

Because Snowden isn't small fry you'd presume that his killing wasn't the work of a fringe right wing extremist group working independently?

I would look for where the evidence points, personally.