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Some of these posts here are a joke. Chicago is like any other major US city, probably better than the mid-tier cities I've spent time living in in terms of police and crime. It's simply very much two cities and you only hear news stories about one.

Just like anywhere else, don't act like an idiot or seek out trouble in rough areas and 99% of your interactions with police will be fine.

You're on HackerNews so presumably you make money and won't be living on the South Side or somewhere like it. If you're living in Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, Streeterville, etc. you will likely never witness a bad police interaction the entire time you live there - unless you go looking for it. Live in some of the more marginal neighborhoods and those you fear will almost assuredly not be the police.

It's like anywhere else - dressed like a young professional, out with other similar friends, not being confrontational and get caught doing a minor infraction? You'll be warned and maybe yelled at. Do the same acting like fools and giving attitude back? Yeah, you might be taught a lesson and spend the night in jail.

I've had plenty of interactions with CPD between myself and my drunk friends in my earlier days. The cops acted just like you would expect and desire them to in all but one situation. That situation was a friend jumping a security gate on the El to photograph some train stuff. He went to jail for the night.

As with everything like this the hyperbole is just nuts. If you're a poor minority living on the South Side my answer may be different, but for the typical Hackernews frequenter Chicago is no different than NYC or LA, and honestly in terms of "living in the city" you are likely to find far safer and wealthy neighborhoods than you will in the "inner city" of any other mid-tier NFL town in the US.

That said it's a big city. If you're used to living in a big city, Chicago is just another one with better than normal public transit. Same problems and concerns as anywhere else. You can find neighborhoods that have similar crime rates to the most wealthy suburbs there are, and neighborhoods with a higher homicide rate than Iraq. The latter gets you the police department in those areas you would expect.
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Sure, and I can apologize for my wording in advance too! But I do stand by my opinion that he doesn't have to drop that in every single time Nim is mentioned. Evidently Go-people feel the same I noticed.
> I'd be violently allergic to the case sensitivity in a dynamically typed language where you could declare a variable with something like "foo = 1" but I'm fine with it in Nim.

Do you mean "case insensivity"? AFAIK dynamic languages where you can do that are very much case-sensitive, Python and Ruby certainly are.
PropType checking is compiled out of the production version of React.
> Are there certain neighborhoods that should be avoided on the basis of corrupt police activity?

No. It's largely a very safe city and a great place to live in. I've lived here for 16 years (2 in Lakeview, 1 in Uptown, 3 in the West Loop and 10 in Lincoln Square). If I can help answer any questions about the various neighborhoods, you can reach me via jeff@judge.io.
>Life, uh, finds a way.

But what is the failure scenario? Mosquitos in the wild? There are already mosquitos in the wild, and they are infected with zika and dengue.

Worst case scenario is better than the status quo.
An increase in income is generally tied to having less children, not more. I read a study (which I can't find right now) that studied the effect of policies that gave income based on the amount of children, and there is no increase on the amount of children people have. Argentina, for instance, has a program called Asignación Universal Por Hijo that (roughly) pays you for each child you have, provided he goes to school.
I envision asset forfeiture of houses and cars increasing as police budgets decrease.
HN is not the right medium for this complaint.
this is closer to varnish or squid
Yeah, I'm absolutely sure this could never happen anywhere else besides Texas.
If you are an engineer, it would be good to try to learn from this and similar accidents. I.e., noting your lack of emotional connection is beside the point, the question is, what can you take away from what happened?
If you don't stop the CO2 emission, the result would be a catastrophe.

Lets see how it will turn out now.

Edit: And yes, it is sarcasm, nothing changed or is going to change.
The world is beautiful so she might enjoy playing it, but you would be doing the actual puzzle solving. It gets very challenging.
Kind of like installing gentoo https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/
Seems good!

One small note, since I know that this book is getting started: Rust does have some amount of CTFE available in nightly (const fn), and it and/or compiler plugins may very well be stable by the time this book is released. So you might want to make a note to double-check the state of that when you're closer to a final draft.

Congrats and good luck! Writing a book is so rewarding, but so draining.
As a person with a family member who suffers from this disorder, this makes me really happy. It is truly an awful disorder that has very unexpected and terrible effects on the whole family. I was thrilled to hear Ted Stanley donated $650M to the Broad institute in 2014. It looks like that donation could be paying off.

Edit: I'm glad to hear that he learned of this discovery before his death this month [0].

[0] - http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bioflash/2016/01/broa...
I'm just speculating but I'd say that with the recent death of Ian Murdock and how that situation played out, tensions are high between the HN community and the police in America.
Can you summarize one or two of Boisjoly's main points?

Tufte's pictures of the (superfluous) rocket graphics showing the temperature vs. his redrawing, placing temperature on the x-axis are very convincing.
"if you want to be popular you just need to put out more content instead of trying to improve the quality."

Not quite. What he said was: to be popular, improve quality until it stops making a difference (flatten the slope). Then make sure you put out enough content.
David's the best :-)
I would much rather spend my time creating cool shit to share on GitHub and my site rather than maintain and pay bandwidth, CPU usage, etc bills just so I have a very basic blog and portfolio. Any web developer can write their own blog and website so who cares about that?
Good point! I might look into doing just that.
This memo was not sent to the administration, it was sent to the management of Morton Thiokol, who could reasonably be expected to understand basic engineering phrases like "loss of human life."

It's a real PITA to engineer safe systems (see e.g. IEC 61508 and ISO 13849 in industrial automation), but it saves lives, and if you're in a position where Sales, Production, etc. is trying to get you to rush the Engineering work so they can make deadline, you've got to find the backbone to say "no," even if it hurts you professionally.
> I doubt anyone in the reagan admin could even understand this note

Right... and maybe this is a problem with the authors of the note rather than the recipients? Know how to communicate to your target audience.
Firefox refuses to let me look at this page because of a certificate problem.

Not to go off on a rant, but this is what the "everyone must use https because we said so" edict is going to cause - it's not enough you use https, it has to be the right kind of https that involves a third party issuer of certs.

Can anyone fix that issue or link to a different page please?
They deserved all the wrong times they probably got.
Not sure on the viability of it, but couldn't there be something in place that states that fines can only be levied at a maximum 10%/month of the UBI?

So if you get a parking ticket (presumably <1% UBI), you can just pay it, but if you get a large fine (20% UBI), you'd pay it off in two monthly payments of 10% each.

You'd probably need something in place to intervene if someone's constantly paying 10% every month due to multiple fines to prevent people racking up daft amounts of fines and just 'living on 90%'
It was not sent to anyone in the political administration. It was sent to the VP of Engineering at the company that manufactured the solid rocket boosters.
I saw the Challenger explosion live. I was a sophmore in High School in Florida and standing outside at lunch. Shuttle launches were a fairly regular thing and I'd seem many. But this time I could see the trails as parts fell away to earth. It wasn't like the fuel tanks the fell away usually. I was talking with a guy named Wes. He said "that doesn't look right". It didn't. After lunch there was announcement that the shuttle had exploded.

It doesn't seem that long ago really. The weird thing is.. in that same amount of time in the future I'm going to be a 75 year old man:)
You can't proceed past the certificate warning?
I did a Masters in Computer Science online from DePaul[1] and the teaching quality exceeded that of my undergrad time at UCLA where most Professors just read from the book to a hall of a few hundred people.

There are really two problems with the online programs. One, many low quality ones exists. As this article depicts, the government perpetuates this problems by treating a degree like a check box—doesn’t matter where the degree is from or what it is in, just that you have it, check! Two, peoples' perception of online degrees is damaged by the first point even though good programs exist.

Personally, I find the reliance on a piece of paper with words on it way over done by the civilian world. Certainly the government using them like a checkbox is too far in the other direction, but the inherent bias people give to big names schools in the States is pure snobbery. I've found the difference between good candidates from any school to be minimal, but go to some Silicon Valley companies and all you find is prestigious schools. Lazy hiring and self-selecting cultural fit.

[1]http://www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/Pages/MSInComputerScienc...
After seeing some of the earlier screenshots and videos I was afraid of this. Lots of the reviews on Steam report the same thing.
How did you like the JHU program? I'm genuinely curious about the rigor and experience with the school.
Related fun fact: AVG tries to install Chrome as bundleware by tricking the user using dark patterns as part of upgrades and is paid by Google to do so.

Addendum: In checking, I confirmed AntiVir and Avast both trick users into installing Chrome as I have screenshots of it (as well as Java, Adobe Flash, etc). I recall AVG doing it as well but don't have the associated screenshots.
Watching Captain Phillips one of the things that impressed me the most was how much money and effort was put into rescuing Captain Phillips and his crew. Of course much of the pressure was political with Obama just starting out his presidency but still, it was a clear indication that it pays to be American.
That's why he sent it to the VP of Engineering, who I'm sure understood everything in the letter.
Working fine for me on Firefox/Linux. Is your system clock set right?
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You don't need a dissertation. At many universities, you can choose to publish a number of articles or write a dissertation, some do both.
> I'm not sure what tools you're referring to in the ENT office.

I don't know the exact terminology, but it's essentially a vacuum with a thick needle point. They use it to suck out and clean the debris from inside the ear. All the pus and other liquid in there. You regain your hearing and the pain subsides. They can then put the medicine in after.

I've only had fungal infections, so I can't speak to viral or bacterial. For fungal, they essentially treat it with vinegar and steroids. The vinegar kills the fungus and the steroid is for inflammation. I had to pay $100 bucks at the pharmacy for the otic solution for what is essentially vinegar. Not a doctor, just what I was told.
Indie Game: The Movie is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. The cinematography is amazing, and they tell a great story about each of the dev teams they follow. Definitely worth a watch.
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Of course, it's extremely important. I'm currently listening to the Freakonomics podcast on the Challenger explosion[0]. I was only noting the difference being born a few years apart can make when it comes to significant shared cultural memories.

[0]http://freakonomics.com/2015/05/20/failure-is-your-friend-a-...
Working code is worth a lot. No amount of unit tests will make up for the real user testing done in the wild. I have had some horrendous pieces of code that I kept because I knew they worked.
You're right, thank you. The aliases are completely useless. It's just strange to introduce such a change in a "stable" release.
Exactly right. The smallest unit of logical division in code is the function. It's not meaningless whitespace. Some programmers seem to like whitespace, but it's a purely aesthetic preference. No more or less.
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why doesn't a citizen sacrifice their life for the greater good and show corruption how it can be effectively dealt with?

you're all cowards.
Okay, so this question is one I'd never ask in 'real life' without knowing you very well first, but I suppose it's different here because you're anonymous and free not to answer. But apologies anyways if it seems rude.

Why do you do this work? You clearly know what you're doing; perhaps you're very good. And I won't presume to know your reasons or the underlying belief system that may or may not support it.

But from my personal perspective, it sounds like hell to spend my productive days essentially just selling stuff. Is it that you believe in what you're selling? Is it that in your moral framework being good at this job trumps what seems like a bad way to spend your time?

I'm truly asking out of curiosity, by the way. I'm a front-end developer and a significant portion of my work, when I work, is essentially dressing up ads with websites that don't add up to much of value (within the parameters of my own perspective on life). So judging you would be hypocrisy.

But I'm actively unhappy about it, and any excitement I show involves the craft, and I'm looking into ways to apply my craft in ways meaningful to me. And I'm curious to know how this works for you.
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I would think that when someone writes a document like this that the context is really important for the record and that they're not so concerned with making an "impact".

Edit: Grammar
Just waiting for the hilarious/terrible moment when someone hooks this up to a script scanning the internet for weak SSH passwords and singlehandedly skyrockets the install base for Arch.
only for lawyers... its obvious the concept is to protect citizens from govt dragnets... to anyone who isnt attempting to pervert the spirit of the law
Tor Browser 5.5 introduces protection against fingerprinting but due to an oversight it is not enabled in Tails 2.0. However, this is not so bad for Tails users since each Tails system has the same fonts installed, and hence will look identical, so this only means that it's easy to distinguish whether a user of Tor Browser 5.5 uses Tails or not. That is already easy given that Tails has the AdBlock Plus extension enabled, unlike the normal Tor Browser.

I wonder why they opted to preload it with AdBlock Plus instead of uBlock Origin. I'm sure gorhill would certainly give his blessing, and by all measurements it is just as effective with way less overhead.

Heck, they could go one step further and preload it with a uBlock Origin profile on a paranoid mode that proactively disables all JavaScript (last I remember using Tor I had to manually disable Javascript in the Firefox config).
Wow, great idea. Probably even better than mine. The only problem I can point out is that over time budget increases (for they always increase) could be partially set aside to bury the insurance cost and effectively shield the department from the damage of higher premiums.
How do you know that? That seems like an unfounded conclusion. For example, a lot of people here on Hacker News don't have a "job", but they're building startups and working on products. I wouldn't call that a job, in the sense that they're not performing work in exchange for money. It probably does have some effect on their self-worth, but I don't think it has anything to do with the lack of an employer. And to follow on from that point, someone can be retired and spend 8 hours on art, music, writing, or any other creative endeavor. I don't think those are the kinds of people who live shorter lives after retiring.
I think just about anywhere in the US would do. I've lived all over California in the last decade, and while the police out here aren't perfect, they are saints compared to the description of the Chicago PD in this thread.
Heh, the elected officials are exactly the problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_Chicago#C...

I grew up in Chicago, my family is still there, and most of my colleagues are based there. There is weird pseudo-Stockholm syndrome phenomenon where people just accept that the corruption is widespread and unavoidable.
Last time I checked you couldn't use contexts yet.
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Link current shows a 404. Correct link is http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/28/state-of-clojure-20...
If one of the comments at the end of the article is to be believed, the author left out a ton of possibly relevant information. The information includes the type of school it is (a school for kids with disciplinary issues) and the girl involved having a history of faking asthma attacks.

Regardless though of the information brought up, there's no reason to suspend a student for this, so hopefully this wasn't the case.
Possibly don't post to HN.
I think this is the only approach. As much as we hate the CFAA generally (and the abuses of it against Aaron Swartz specifically), I'm quite sure references to felonies will at least make him think twice about doing damage.
I certainly see why the idea of putting the whole tax burden on land and raw materials could be appealing to people who are making software. It's difficult to make a compelling argument for change when one is so clearly on the winning side of it (which I dare to assume, given the HN demographic).
> Can you devise a filter that's as rigorous as all the tests and projects that a student would have successfully completed over the X years it took to earn the degree?

Eventually I don't see why not but I don't think it's an easy thing to do nor do I know how to do it for a physics R&D type of position. Obviously education isn't the only criteria people use today anyway (I can't tell you how many CS grads I've interviewed who really struggled or flat out didn't know a lot about CS).

It's an age-old problem: how do tell if someone can do what you need them to do without wasting your time and money? As the skill and knowledge requirements go up this becomes harder and harder to do, with or without the degree shortcut.
Corrected link:
http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/1/28/state-of-clojure-20...
I'm sorry you've had this impression. It's not just violence, most of the time people are involuntarily committed if they are suicidal. I obviously have limited information, but perhaps those doctors who gave your friend anti-psychotics thought he/she was bipolar, or was not responding to anti-depressants? The atypical anti-psychotics are often the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, and are also used in cases of depression if SSRIs do not work.

Again, I'm sorry you have gotten this impression. Both my parents are clinical psychologists; I can assure you that these cases are taken very seriously, and committing a patient is always a measure of last resort.
What is `nim pretty`? I tried it, but it does not exist in current devel
Ok, I was going based on the information shams93 contributed, which now seems to be incorrect. No need for the brutal down-voting.
But the only public protests I hear about these things are from #BlackLivesMatter people. And when pursuing it from their perspective, it gets treated as a racism problem rather than a problem of institutional power being out of balance. We can't look at how the police routinely abuse power when we've got the lens focusing on how the police abuse black people.

(Lest I be accused of racism and/or insensitivity: yes, racism adds another dimension to the problem. But I think that a proper solution to the broader problem would also serve to curtail race-related abuses. Yet it seems impossible to suggest this in public discourse without being attacked by SJWs.)
Oh another JavaScript framework. Of course the world needs that.

If I was recommending a development path to a young developer I would have to say choose the "dark side" and become an app developer and let Apple / Google feed you your framework. Don't waste your time on the web - you'll waste your life learning this weeks flavor of the month framework while lacking core understanding of the underlying technology ( https://wdrl.info/archive/121 ) and never seeing your code amount to anything but a series of band aid and kludges.
> * Remove dead links

I use Bookmark Checker New for this from time to time : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-checker-n...
I'm currently developing a side project that stores medical data, a big chunk of the design work I've done so far is how to work on systems where you never see production data (things like accurate faking of data, seeding correctly etc).

Just yanking a copy of production to a local machine is ridiculously and horrifically common at pretty much everywhere I've worked.
Apache TS is a caching proxy server.
It's more similar to varnish than nginx (you can use nginx as a caching proxy if you want, of course).

I never use it, but from what I heard, it performs & scale really well too.
Amazon's virtualized scale is the counterpoint to bare metal being the only "state of the art".

Virtualization is not going anywhere, and I don't think most companies will be adopting bare metal en masse as you suggest especially as virtualized extensions to containers like rancherVM become commonplace.

Also, many in the financial sector prefer the security benefits of hypervisor and VT-x isolation to reduce exposure to kernel/hw-level exploits.
Ha, the company doesn't even have to be major or global. Non-growth is sufficient.
Would be great to have snow coverage by slope.
This assumes he doesn't backup his laptop. Beware that there may be other copies of the data.

Also (assuming your soon-to-be-ex employee is smart) I doubt the threat of criminal proceedings will have much effect. If multiple people have access to the data you'd have difficulty proving which one of them leaked it.
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Yes, IGN message boards are hardly a place to cite as evidence of anything.
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It didn't come off as an insult to me. Anyone saying C++ or Nim tends to result in a counter from pcwalton. He usually says similar things as he has a consistent stance. Countering such a stance before they speak is OK given you already know what it is. In in a moral sense anyway.

However, that he stopped in his own comment to bring it up and drop a counter says more about him than pcwalton. Shows a strong bias for and protectiveness of Nim while also disregarding the entire reliability or security aspects of the language. That's really something for a C++ alternative given its safety focus. ;)