skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an age where such places have surveillance video you would think we don't need hypothetical scenarios. We'd have video of someone taking a solid hit from a Tazer and continuing an attack. But let's try this hypothetical: Imagine you are in a country without armed private security and only a subset of police are armed. Where are all the people who've been killed by 300 lbs crazed people?
Slightly off topic, but I wish there were a mailgun for SMS service. 10,000 (or whatever number) free messages per month, a simple API, key, and secret, and boom. You're ready for sending out monitoring alerts for your side project that won't cost you anything until you're big enough to need to pay for it.
CIA-backed rebels are now fighting Pentagon-backed militants in Syria
I liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it. It could have easily been half the size.

Many of the characters are caricatures, which, given the length of the book, I'll concede is more annoying than it is humorous. I did think Hank was solid.

Almost all of the antagonists are, as you say, ridiculously shallow, which goes to your point about her agenda. She did a shockingly better job with The Fountainhead (which I liked less) - but still far from perfect.

Finally, about the plot being obvious. That's true of most stories. It's a big book, and there were plenty of small plots and paths that I wasn't sure how they'd turn out.

Reductio ad absurdum could have been entertaining in a ~300 page package (I'm thinking Animal Farm).
I have multiple clients on magneto 1 asking me to upgrade them to the next version . My answer so far is: no! Wait few months. The switch is painful and most of the extensions are not Magento 2 ready. I have also new clients coming and wanting a site on Magento 2, unfortunately many bugs in this version and very little extensions and themes available for M2 make me delaying those developments and simply choosing the older M1 even for new projects. I would love to hear how other web agencies are dealing with it.
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I know I'm not the normal, but this doesn't bother me. I believe that in the marketplace of ideas, the best ideas tend to win out, and if hiring "non-white males" is the best idea, then more power to them. Fighting discrimination with discrimination might or might not prove to be an effective tactic, but it certainly doesn't paint a pretty picture.

On the flip side, in America this violates EEOC laws, and is pretty clearly illegal. Someone in a position to hire ought to be aware of this.
I saw a piece on WalMart when they were new. Customer service was their mantra. Showed a manager from a WalMart visiting a K-Mart with the journalist. Pointing out the dirt, the broken racks, the tiny number of checkout stations, the idle listless employees. Said something like "Its not hard to do better".
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Everything is "terrorism" today, and the notion of having a subject matter exemption in an encryption system is utter nonsense anyway.
As a student of philosophy and, it seems, having a slightly autistic mentality, she had strong emphasis on the underlying principles - philosophic, economical and social around which she has invented her characters and the plot.

The characters and the settings could be criticized (usually by idiots who couldn't see the whole) for being too idealized and artificial but there is not a single major flaw with principles of free market economy (as a self-sustained and self-healing ecosystem), democracy (as an evolved "immune system" of a civilized society against social parasites and cancer-like corruption of authoritarian regimes) the operating selection on the basis of best performance, which is one of the principles behind evolution itself, etc, etc.

Ask any decent evolutionary biologist, and he would tell you that diversity, specialization, cooperation, selection on the best performance, fairness (as in a coin toss) and law of big numbers (averages) is what is behind life itself.

Verbosity, perhaps, is the only major flaw, but as a work of art it should be placed next to 1984 and Brave New World.
Some might say if you need 100+ regex groups you have other problems...
Implementing Hadoop isn't going to fix their position in the market. http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/why-sears-is-go...?
That's really nice of you to say. I appreciate it.

I do actually whine a lot, I just try real hard to keep it off my blog. Complaining is fun, but it's not helpful.
I love how people keep going back to him being a defender of state's rights, but conveniently forget about cases such as the Bush vs Gore recount, where he specifically took away the state's right to recount, with some disastrous consequences

And there are other examples as well.

People want/like to think of him as a defender of the Constitution. Great. But consistent, he never was.
Its not evil to recruit, trying to level your employee demographic. Labelling everything 'discrimination' is lazy. Intent colors the issue.
What? Her persondescriptions are less than one-dimensional. The entrepreneurs are all the most perfect and beautiful people there are. They have no fault and they don't even have to struggle.

The only people that can identify with any of the main characters are people that completely lack any kind of self distance.
... A monoid in the category of endofunctors
Nurses generally get treated terribly compared to doctors and others in the profession, despite the fact they are often the ones who are actually taking care of you (doctors diagnose, nurses treat). I guess it's because they're considered lower in the hierarchy simply because doctors went to school longer.
Completely agree. I have tried to use tumblr on so many occassions, but have poked around for a while, become overwhelmed and gone back to reddit or similar..
Google is experimenting with article recommendations in Chrome
This article doesn't address the fact that Sears was once a standard. However they didn't change as the younger generations came on. I don't know as their customers are switching to a competitor as much as they are just dying.
You know it's a funny thing, there were Maxim Gorky statues all over the Soviet Union - so of course post-perestroika most young people avoid him like the plague. But Gorky at his worst is a far more honest and talented writer than Ayn Rand ever was - just pick up a collection of his short stories.

It's strange that a similar thing actually hasn't happened here and instead there is a Journal of Ayn Rand Studies and really at best a mediocre writer in terms of literary merit and talent has been well-preserved for posterity; which is not to say that she didn't have historical significance, she did of course, as did Lenin's writing I'm sure - but no one is praising the high literary merits of Lenin's 30+ tomes of writing today. I guess that's the difference between a defeated ideological system and one whose existence has continued to this day.
The assessment takes more than just the last sale of the property into account. It is supposed to reflect the market price of the house, so you'd only get a silly $1 assessment if that was in fact the typical price of similar homes.

(The main point of my first reply was that the sale of the home automatically triggers the change in taxable value, the buyer doesn't have to do anything)
The accused is conveniently dead in this case. In the next case, a defendant's lawyer would surely want to inspect the instruments used to gather evidence.
Finishing up René's journal now, great read: http://www.amazon.com/Ren%C3%A9-Redzepi-A-Work-Progress/dp/0...
There's none, it's a bad science fiction book.
Scaachi Koul: "You owe these pale demons nothing".

Intent certainly does color the issue.
I'm a big fan of Hayek who would be described today as the libertarian counterpart to Keynes, although they agreed on almost everything.

If you follow individual liberties to their extreme end, you have cannot have a society as nobody makes sacrifices in personal belief systems, pleasures etc. for one another. You have small warring tribes. If you follow government control to its extreme end, you have perfect communism where nobody has an incentive to work hard and corruption/cronyism cripples the entire system. There always has been, and always will be a balance that swings back and forth along the two extremes.

We allowed capitalism to get out of control through deregulation since Reagan and now people are angry because they thought the government was supposed to protect them from corporations (FTC, FDA, SEC) but it did not. So now the pendulum is swinging back in the opposite direction. It's a never ending cycle.
They are in the imagination of armed officers, which is all the the law requires :-(
I do all of my app development in Borland Delphi 2.0.

No, just kidding. I just sometimes fantasize about being able to.
These are people who are being employed by companies in SF and yet who are not paid enough to live in SF. It's a disgrace. You can get people to fill these jobs because a lot of people are desperate right now, but that doesn't make it ok. If the author hadn't taken this job, someone else would have, and that person would be in exactly the same dire financial straights.
The problem with deregulation was that certain industries (e.g., finance) were deregulated much more than others (e.g., manufacturing), with predictable consequences.

Rand is pro-government where it's needed. She's even pro-environmental regulation - she says it's justified where there's an objective threat to human life (as with air pollution), or violation of property rights (as with noise pollution).
To be fair, that's because the stuff they hype is invariably humongous. From win32 onwards, all their solutions involved inordinate amounts of libraries and features, pandering to absolutely everyone and his dog. No wonder they also had tons of undocumented nooks and crannies...

All considered, MSDN has always had a huge amount of content, which was pruned only sporadically. It has long been the gold standard for technical docs; good luck finding that sort of detail for mainstream projects like KDE, Gnome, or even the Linux kernel.
Possible in Firefox? Some people won't use Chrome.
Apple: Gov had other ways to get the data but didn't use them
> 7. Implementation Issues

> Many current processors do not find 128 bit integer arithmetic, as required for this technique, a trivial operation. This is not considered a serious drawback in the representation, but a flaw of the processor designs.

Oh, IETF, please never change.
Currency and the Collapse of the Roman Empire (Infographic)
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In the case parent described, it's just because nurses actually interact with patients, but doctors don't.
Customer service is non existent in a majority of the WalMarts I have frequented. Tangentially, a social worker friend of mine says she supports and shops at WalMart because WalMart employs the otherwise unemployable.
If you aren't doing painting you should look into Nuke.
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/33455fe85760e0173ee...
Scientists use graphene-based inks to 3D print ultralight supercapacitors
For the first link, they are talking about working with the chip directly, which may or may not be possible.

For the second link, where they suggest turning off the phone after a passcode attempt, I believe that hole was patched with an iOS update at some point.
I'm happy that Buzzfeed is looking to diversify.

But this person's just being an asshole.
This is really handy! Although what I really need is a service that, given a URI to a GIT repo, will clone the repo, `npm install --production`, browserify (and maybe uglify) the main file specified in the package.json, and return the output.

At the very least I wish AWS would update the version of Node.js that Lambda uses and maybe provide the "request" NPM package by default (yes, I'd like my HTTP requests to follow redirects automatically thank you).
Any mention of the fall of Sears under Eddie Lampert should not omit Lampert's vision of running the company under Ayn Rand's Objectivist principles, and how that completely failed:

http://www.salon.com/2013/12/10/ayn_rand_loving_ceo_destroys...

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-edd...
How do you do this? Assassin's Creed I and II are very unstable on Windows 10 - this might be a solution. Hell, even Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory runs better under Wine than it does under Windows 10.
Anyone know if they're planning on charging for this? It's hard to beat gitlab.
Refusal to consider someone's application on matters of race is prima facie discrimination. Calling discrimination what it is might be lazy, but it's also very accurate.

Legally speaking, there are a variety of ways to promote diversity that are, for better or worse, legal. Internal memorandums insisting that diversity is a key company value, for example, is in fact anti-discriminatory, though it might sometimes end with a result that sacrifices the best potential candidate for someone who can add a unique perspective.

That said, suggesting that white people need not apply is not remotely the same thing as promoting diversity, and co-statements that highlight the ills of white people put too fine a point on it.

FWIW, I'm of the opinion that I think a given person should be able to hire whomever they want. If that means that BuzzFeed Canada hires zero white people, then so be it. But that doesn't change that the laws as they are do not generally allow for this (with certain exceptions -- like hiring Chinese people exclusively to staff an authentic Chinese restaurant).
Canonical is attempting to use copyright law to enforce its trademark policy, at least according to mjg59. If you only work with upstream sources, that isn't a problem, but redistributing binaries is an important use case, especially with Docker.

> Canonical assert that the act of compilation creates copyright over the binaries, and you may not redistribute those binaries unless (a) the license prevents Canonical from restricting redistribution (eg, the GPL), or (b) you follow the terms of their IP policy. This means that, no matter what Dustin's blogpost says, Canonical's position is that you must ask for permission before distributing any custom container images that contain Ubuntu binaries, even if you use no Ubuntu trademarks in the process. Doing so without their permission is an infringement of their copyright.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/37113.html
I have a feeling that someone may be getting a talking-to by their lawyers. That said, the full tweet was

"@BuzzFeedCanada would particularly like to hear from you
if you are not white and not male."

which has a subtly different meaning than it would without the word "particularly". It's quite common in Canada for job postings to include words like "we encourage applications from under-represented groups, including women, Aboriginals, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities", because encouraging applications from particular groups does not imply bias in the selection process itself.
I reckon it's more likely there'll be an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan which Wine will just be able to use.
Nice! I had the same pain point and worked something up a few weekends ago. [1] I may look into integrating some of my ideas into Claudia.js, although "I like CoffeeScript" may not be in line with where the author is headed.

Most of my efforts went into integrating Amazon's Key Management Service into the local development and S3 deployment process. (One of the first Lambda functions I wanted needed to talk with GitHub, Slack and some other APIs, so encryption of access tokens seemed a given.) I'd be curious if the author has run into this situation or already had thoughts about how to approach this.

[1] https://github.com/twobyfourio/cheese-grater
Depends on why I am selecting a typeface.
I have to be careful buying tools from Sears now (which is really the only reason I go in there), because they've started selling cheap knock-off stuff under the Craftsman label, that isn't up to the old quality standards and doesn't have the Craftsman lifetime warranty on it.

I think the worst was a socket set I picked up, where the chrome was literally coming off in flakes after a couple months.
The victim survived, but is now being persecuted by the government prosecution complex, including being charged with a crime for rushing himself to the hospital for treatment. I hope he finds a strong lawyer who can find justice and win a large settlement from the Rambo cops.
The time to have done that was 15 years ago. At this point it's too late. Really, Sears was the Amazon of the past century. They built an empire on selling "everything" to anyone they could reach with a package. They drove innovation in shipping and inventory management to the extent that virtually no one could even try to compete with them during their dominance.

And then they sat on their comfy chairs as this "Bezos" guy with nothing but some computers and investment cash walked through and did everything they were doing better.

At this point, what does Sears have that even counts as an asset in that competition? Amazon has bigger and more warehouses and a ten year lead in optimization of their supply chain.
Thanks for checking us out! We do plan to expand user profile data to include further demographic information. Combined with forthcoming grouping functionality, you'll be able to target users for messaging based on a range of different variables as well as A/B test messaging across a subgroup.
Why the down votes out of interest? Bad plot?
Four tires for the price of one... Should not be hard to find out why they went out of business.
It's going to be a brave ass FBI agent who says "well, we didn't bother to try to access this phone because he probably didn't use it".
It's intrinsic to existence that no two people start on equal footing. One will be smarter, another will be a harder worker. Your rule would mean no form of capitalism is permissible at any point. I think at some point parents must have stopped informing their children that life isn't fair and deal with it.
Calvino is one of the most well know Italian writer abroad. Not underrated at all.
Haskell typeclasses are a headache that many Haskell experts eschew.
Parsing that seems non trivial. If you really cared dates you could just do:

1.2016.2.20
> Nowadays, the lies would have to be pretty nuanced to have an effect.

Actually no. Most people are jaded or just don't care. Lots of things the govt says are easily demonstrable lies but not enough people that matter care so they lie with impunity. The quality of the lie doesn't matter as long as not enough people (or the people that matter) care.
Twilio, Nexmo and Plivo aspire to be that - no free messages from them though!
Oh the title sounds familiar, on the other hand no talk in mind .. great.

ps: his fire starting example reminded me of this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEl-Y1NvBVI (no supermarket involved though)
The Reagan-era "deregulation" was severely overrated. The highlight of the so-called "Golden Age of Capitalism" where supposedly full employment and Keynesian demand management prevailed had, for instance, a Federal Register that was a seventh the size of what it is today. Reagan did pay a lot of lip service to free markets and rugged individualism, but his fiscal record and foreign policy doctrine speak otherwise.

It seems to me like a lot of left-leaning commentators have a sort of vested interest in maintaining this pseudohistorical divide between "embedded liberalism" from around 1946-1974 and the "neoliberal" period since then. Many of them never lived through or remembered this period (neither have I), so it serves as a sort of utopian benchmark of hope that we should return to.

A more accurate picture to me would be a virtually constant period of state-merchant/corporate coalition since the mercantilist era after the dismantling of feudal relations, to the present.

(After all, it was the Golden Age of Capitalism when the Truman Doctrine was in full effect and the United States had some of its greatest foreign policy ventures, a true renaissance for the military-industrial complex.)
I think that the expectations of the work lead inherently to being traumatized or at least socially alienated from others after spending a good portion of your waking life scrutinizing their behavior for risks. This change in experience is culturally enclosed by pride and camaraderie around the story of the importance of the work. The security person then emotionally relies on this story to justify the traumatic experience and cover its raw emotional ramifications. It is quite a large leap to then ask them to feel a humane connection to others that could possibly interrupt their ability to carry out the work they've been tasked and for who's sake they have learned to find meaning in their own discomfort. I think that a true reimagination of the work itself will have to come to change the outcomes
There are only two rates, so you include which type in the SMS. Location is not needed; the parking officers just check cars using a tablet to see if they have the right to park there.

It's implemented in Abu Dhabi city proper. I believe Dubai has the traditional ticket-based system only.
It's decades too late. Sears owned "clicks and mortar" since before there were clicks. How do you fuck that up? It takes a perversely incompetent bordering on sociopathic management to turn such dominance into terminal decline.
Not in OCaml. It's a different concept.
Even if there's less likelihood of useful evidence on the suspect's work phone, it's still worth checking.

The FBI's request isn't too bad really. It's not like they are requesting Apple to build a new mass surveillance tool or anything similarly far-reaching. This is limited to the domain of digital forensics, and how best to extract data in a criminal investigation, against firmware that is hostile to cracking. Given that, by design, the phone has been locked down to only accept Apple-signed firmware, then Apple is really the most feasible choice to assist in bypassing this.
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> That works for Qwest's CEOs, but probably not Apple's.

For everyone else's sake, this appears to be a reference to Joseph Nacchio [1]. I hadn't heard of him before. It's a weird feeling to have sympathy for someone who has resources enough to bring their criminal case through appeals all the way to the Supreme Court. From the wikipedia article alone, I have no idea what to believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
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What's the better word?
> On the flip side, in America this violates EEOC laws, and is pretty clearly illegal. Someone in a position to hire ought to be aware of this.

This is for BuzzFeed Canada.
They are much more interested in selling you credit than in what they are in business for.
Seems like a variant of the "not invented here syndrome".
A college degree is worth less if you are raised poor
Diehl has a lot of good no-nonsense newbie-accessible writing on Haskell.
Actually Lenin's writings on imperialism are still considered relevant and influential to this day by historical commentators and left-wing movements alike.
I've come to think that the breadth of HackerNews is what makes HN "The HN for X" for most all X's.
I am sure that there's been a lot of research into that particular problem, but I would also challenge the basic assumption you seem to be making, that science would advance exactly as it did last time.

Take our plane, rocket and nuclear technology, would it be as advanced relative to other sciences if WW2/the cold war hadn't have happened? If a lot of money and manpower hadn't been ploughed into it relative to other sciences for 30 years?

Also this preservation technology is now available to us going forward, say a catastrophic collapse happened 200 years from now and 2000 years from now they get the technology to decode these things, they'd still leap forward 200 years in whatever they find.