skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should remind us that life can be short and will end one day anyway. So we should try to enjoy every bit of it and don't waste time with bullshit.

R.I.P. Pieter Hintjens.
For more about Pieter Hintjens check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens
Here in Massachusetts, a lot of officers would consider recording with your phone intervening, and they would punish you for it. It took several cases of the state supreme court ruling that this was NOT OK before police finally curbed their behavior and stopped (or reduced greatly) their hassling of people recording. I think the court even got snarky about it at one point, saying something like "Despite our previous clarifications on this issue, police continue to violate citizens rights" or something similar.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/29/clinton-campaign-signal/
Actual stream from Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y0KOeXViI
I took this class in the early 1990s; Banchoff was quite an interesting fellow, and excellent at motivating undergraduates. One of the things he offered his honors class was a chance at getting hired to do research as a freshman/sophomore.

He was one of the best lecturers I've seen; he'd collect questions about the previous reading at the beginning of class, and realtime construct a lecture about the material by winding his way through answering all the questions.

The combination was pretty motivating; I spent many hours shading 3d graphs by hand. Mine weren't this nice, but I still wish I had them.
I'm afraid Snappy will not help, at least a lot. PostgreSQL already has a build-in compression (PGLZ). I tested various different algorithms before this shared-dictionary-idea - lz4, bzip and others. Some compress a bit better, other a bit faster, but in general result is almost the same.
Pieter, I always really appreciate the conversation here. It was a pleasure to have the back-and-forth with you on HN. Your username is one of the few that I routinely recognize and it will definitely be missed.
I actually did think about this after graduating high school and watching too much Law and Order. Then I heard someone say "anyone who becomes a cop is either naïve or a bully."

Obviously that's not always true, but as a generalization it definitely got me thinking. I wish we had more (any?) LEOs posting here, I would really appreciate their perspective on these issues.
There might be some screwy regulations that if you drug a person too much - no matter how terminally ill they are or how in pain - you are doing a criminal offense. Also, there is this strange worship of suffering in some circles - how just bearing ones load is somehow more noble than being blissfully stoned.

Not a medical professional, though.

I think parts of me died for both of my parents death. All the strength.

My mother spent her last month as psychiatric patient at an alcoholics ward, and only after she had died autopsy discovered she had pancreatic cancer. She was mostly incoherent, frightened and delusional. They said she screamed through the nights. Despite her history I cannot even after years stop wondering was that really the correct place to tend to her-and why did her mental condition lapse so thoroughly before the end. Death and lack of dignity sucks.
It's going to take strong political leadership to change things.

But any politician who takes up the task will be tagged with unfriendly to cops, putting the lives of cops in danger, or not tough on crime

And because cops tend to vote as a unit, there's very little incentive for any politician to take on the task.

So the solution is there, but who's going to take the lead?
Show HN: Quickest way to Java in the Browser
When there's VIDEO of the cop threatening to crush someone's skull and plant a kilo of cocaine on another, it shouldn't be hard to convict him for one thing, and it should be trivial to fire him.

You don't need to be proven guilty in a court of law to get fired.

If the police want the community to trust them, then they need to act like they deserve trust.
> even though I haven't perfected LAMP by a long shot yet..

I've been doing this for 25 years, and I've felt the same way over and over - by the time I feel even a little bit comfortable with an approach, everybody else has already seemed to dip their toe in it, pronounced it unusable, and moved on to the next shiny thing, and wondered why I'm still over here banging rocks together.
Yeah, I've been putting off e2e testing while I pray for a decent tool to come out before I really need it.

I think the benefits come when you're really making use of reusable components. I have about 20 views that all make use of the same Redux container component, and e2e tests would definitely help me sleep better at night.
Although even that Leaf article highlights some unfortunate Wikipedia tendencies such as the tendency to unnecessarily insert pseudo-academic jargon. Take the third sentence: "Foliage is a mass noun that refers to leaves collectively." With two footnotes even. This could easily have been worded as something along the lines of "Leaves are collectively referred to as foliage, as in "autumn foliage."
Given that police are allowed and encouraged to lie to suspects to get confessions; I imagine this is how it's going to be played:

Of course the officer knew the interrogation was going to be taped, he just had to speak in a language the suspect understands. The officer, of course, never had any intention of following through; it was just a completely legal method of getting a confession, especially since the subject hadn't exercised his Miranda rights.

I feel a bit sick for even writing that, honestly.
Or, if you have a lot longer, a Judge.
Please have them come to Boston and convince their fellow officers. The union here is fighting them tooth and nail, even after being given financial incentives to pilot them.
Half Life 3 will be made, in about the same way humanity will solve climate change. Which comes first remains to be seen.
Make it a proper sales pitch and submit it without "Ask HN" in the title.
The good news here is people are using Signal for important things.
I'm a geek, and a paramedic.

I entirely agree - prolonged suffering is not life, it's misery. That decision should belong to people going through this, and not anyone else (they can discuss with those they feel appropriate).

One of the most memorable transports I ever did was for a woman with terminal metastatic cancer, taking her home where her husband had set up a bed in the living room so she could watch the sunrise.

To understand the amount of pain she was in - the movement of the ambulance driving her home about 20 miles exacerbated her pain such that her morphine dose which was already at 450mg/day was pushed to 600mg/day.

For comparison, if you're a 200lb person with a broken bone, you will likely get 15mg.

I have seen the prolonged suffering patients, and their families. Whatever happens, it's not easy.
Simple+Healthy+Crockpot+Vanilla+Applesauce
ES/CQRS for audio editing.
This touchscreen office phone is called the ePhone7
Google and the US election? My bet is on someone leaked internal files of Eric Schmidt-backed startup The Groundwork [1]. Although it's now working under the name of Timshel [2], my previous link redirects to that website now. They were hiring here with that link here a year ago. [3]

[1] http://thegroundwork.com/jobs/
[2] https://timshel.com/
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=loomin-arty
That sounds so unfulfilling. I can be an expert at flavor-of-the-month technologies? No thanks. I'd rather create something.
Thank you for an interesting idea! I can't promise I will implement it myself any time soon, however. You know the saying - pull requests are welcome :)
You can ask about cases where companies use a smaller product or company (by building in-house or through acquisition) as an acquisition channel for the main product. Now that could be an interesting discussion with many examples.

Maybe you can add an aside to that discussion mentioning your offer. What you did here is write a sales pitch with the broader question as an aside.
I agree that there is a high risk of project abandonment and it is frustrating that we haven't yet found a consensus around javascript frameworks. But, I would argue that Rails became dominant because it was so much better than the alternatives, we're in the messy part of the cycle where we're not sure what the next great/common/standard library or framework is going to be, but on a long enough timeline I'm confident that the best abstractions/communities/frameworks/libraries will be the most popular, because they allow developers to produce the best things quickly. We're a part of the immune system that helps us to converge to that reality.
They do it to white people, and they do it without shame, just as they do to black people.
Splice.com is this, and it's great, I use it with Ableton all the time. Versioning is easy, merging is impossible. But it's better than what I did before.
I disagree. With anything technical, there's going to be many ways to explain it, and the best way depends on the audience. I don't think every article should be written for the same audience. Some pages will likely be visited by all sorts of people, and some only by experts. If you're writing for experts and don't assume they already know a bunch of things, it's going to be many times less concise and clear than it should be. You would have to repeat fundamental math and physics education on every page like this one if you wanted to explain to a general audience.

An article like "Kosterlitz–Thouless transition" is not even being seen by a general audience anyways, except for when some news-worthy event like this happens, so why write like it's being read by someone it's not? It's not like writing this stuff is easy.
Exactly.

The OS on my gateway only goes down on kernel updates, and I can crontab them (unlike with the ISP supplied box).

My son and his mates can put any old malware infested phone on his SSID, but they can't get to my LAN. I can run my gitlab etc without affecting him, apart from QoS - any the latter is something the ISP gateway doesn't even offer.

Anybody sufficiently experienced can segregate services on a single box without any worry.
A Russian Tragedy: How Deutsche Bank’s “Wiz” Kid Fell to Earth
Oh I'm sure that's not what they mean. 100% sure

While knowing how to use vanilla js is important, nobody uses getElementByID anymore, unless you're doing something very, very simple (or building a library yourself)
It can be flaky if used alone as a measure, but that's where the urine as well as Free PSA test comes in, which is used as a supplement. I just went through a PSA/Urine/Free PSA/12-needle core biopsy run. Not fun, but the doctors thought it necessary to rule out cancer.
> why are these organizations defending civil servants who are clearly in the wrong?

Likely because their members want it, some because they perceive the evidence to be stacked against them, so instinctively mistrust what their employers are presenting. Put another way, there are instances where the rank-and-file police become the scapegoats for officers higher in the hierarchy, or for mistakes made by the judicial branch, and their union is expected to protect them in these instances. Unfortunately, deciding when to defend an officer and when not to is often problematic because the information available may not be perfect, due to the nature of the agency and the power of those involved at all levels. Defaulting to defending the officer in question except in the more egregious cases is actually a sane policy in that case, even if it leads to the defense of the apparently indefensible.
The Poet and the Variable
I recall several netizens posting concern about the buyer of 4chan, how he ran some other Japanese sites into the ground. Now on /. there is someone claiming the new owner turned ads down and tried to promote 4chan passes, which now don't work.

Another person points out that even if you hate 4chan (or especially if you do), it'd be better left intact to contain the culture that foments there. Otherwise we might see /r/The_Donald style posts all over the internet.

In any case, when you avoid the dregs of the site, the other boards can have unique and even informative discussion.
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Anonymous 10-minute survey about compensation and career motivation. Results will be published in March in a free report. $1 will be donated to the Apache Foundation for every survey response.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GTtech17
JavaScript sort preempted in Chrome. Bug or not? (Tests included)
Thought Experiment in Mathematics: Gabriel's Horn
Carbon capture: We’d need one new facility every working day for next 70 years
> by people who want black people to be arrested at a higher rate than whites

You seem to know an awful lot about the motives of people who disagree with you.
Feel free to post the source for your statistic, because the studies I've seen showed that blacks are much, much more likely to be subject to police encounters a (probably due to a mixture of profiling and densely populated, high crime areas caused by a legacy of red lining and other discriminatory housing policies).

"But if you look at all the cases of police shootings in the FBI database and compare the cases of white dudes waving knives at cops vs the sample of black dudes waving knives at cops, the police are N times more likely to shoot and kill the the black dudes."

This study directly contradicts your statement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evid...

Another thing that drives me crazy about these "privilege" discussions is how insanely qualitative and emotion driven they are.

What's the outcome for a white kid born in a trailer park vs. a black kid born in a wealthy suburb? Is class privilege completely nullified by racial privilege, meaning the white kid is likely to earn more than the black kid as an adult? The data doesn't show this, and puts a much heavier weight on class and geography being the bigger barriers.

The result of these emotionally driven discussions is that once again, Americans are focused on race being a primary driver of inequality and distracted away from the much bigger issue of class. It's a very convenient tactic for the corporate elites who own our government and want to prevent real change. Racism is a convenient target, because it allows people to blame a problem whose solution doesn't involve massive overhauls of tax policy to better redistribute the wealth that is accumulating with the .01%.
Well, ignoring the situation is not a solution to this particular problem.
But isn't this server-side meta-data, not client-side meta-data? The service still routes through their system.
Good, but that's more modern

for in, on the other hand is wrong

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/500504/why-is-using-for-...
KDE Plasma 5.8 Is a Long Term Support Release
Thunderbolt is an encapsulation protocol. By default it carries displayport and PCIe, but it can also carry Ethernet frames. This is already implemented on OSX, just connect two macs together with a thunderbolt cable and you'll see a new interface appear with a link-local address. People have already used this for networking by using a mac with lots of thunderbolt ports as a router.
Hardest game ever
When I was informed of it, I responded with "they are wrong". We'll see how it goes.
They can just make it illegal to own a mathematically secure piece of software without a license.
I think you misread woah's comment. Signal has access to the metadata but chooses not to store it in order to be able to remain unresponsive to queries like this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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I suppose rounding is solvable too. Depending of how value is used at the end it would be possible to deduce how much precision is needed to guarantee no cumulative error.
What can we take away from this if we don't fit into the demographics of typical PSA test subjects (40-70 years old or family history of prostate cancer)?

Does it make sense to request one out of the blue, or is this one of those things that will make your doctor give you funny looks and assume you're a hypochondriac?
To me, the big question is what a trustworthy political solution would look like.

I see this desire raised a lot, in contexts from HN to Valley-mocking pieces on how encryption is no substitute for advocacy. I completely understand the instinct, but every incarnation of it seems to struggle with the same question. Namely: how do you know when you've won?

Restrictions against collecting data on US citizens didn't produce the expected results. Testimony to Congress didn't accurately depict what's collected, even in secret. In the early days, the existence of these agencies was classified to help go around restrictions on existing agencies. Years ago, back in the Puzzle Palace days, the DoJ cited systematic criminality but concluded that they were unable to prosecute it.

So... what does winning look like? What regulation, what testimony, what promise could possibly convince people that a solution had been reached, even for the moment?
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Sure -- in a database, or logfiles.

But it's not unreasonable to write the date the way it is spoken. I say "[Tuesday the] fourth of October, twenty-sixteen", so I write 4/10/2016.
You work with what you have. But, I would be curious if the state doesn't have different teams to cover different sections of the state to alleviate that problem. If they don't, then they're doing a bad job of it.

I would hope that if the local police force has decided to not budget in a response team of that nature then likely they don't need one. But, if they needed one and don't have the budget, then that's a different problem.
Assigning a value of zero to anyone in a car with sudden brake failure provides a relatively (although not completely) self-consistent morality in this sequence.
Yes. Fuck cancer.
Took my grandmother, and took my friend.
Took your grandfather.
Took your friend.
Fuck cancer.
راهکارهایی برای داشتن احساس خوب در زندگی – موفقیت
I have no idea why my comment is being modded down. Guys who disdain hearing good advice and the truth are beyond me...
> "I cant think of any excuse that justifies it short of arrogance and/or laziness."

You're not very nice, calling me arrogant and/or lazy.

It was simply a false assumption that the matching would be strict by default. And possibly a mistake that a lot of people are making, considering all the companies that are advertising for themselves.
People who enjoyed this article might also enjoy watching Daubechies' talk on using wavelets to, among other things, detect forgeries.

https://youtu.be/-SyeN1hCYyA
True story, same issue.

We were building on Unity 4 and kept getting awful looking details and figured 'game engine swap' and went Cryengine. Holy shit, what a bad one. Cryengine and Unreal Engine have well-thought pipelines for asset management and they work great with professional studios that use the complete professional Adobe pipeline. Remember that Unreal Engine is a professional product being shoe-horned for indies where as Unity is an indy product now being shoe-horned for professionals.
How bad would Clinton's actions have to be before you would prefer Trump? If you are willing to forgive any action by Clinton, you are condoning her behaviour.
> Another person points out that even if you hate 4chan (or especially if you do), it'd be better left intact to contain the culture that foments there. Otherwise we might see /r/The_Donald style posts all over the internet.

I can't help but to think this is pure fear mongering.
Design Your Life: Exit Strategy
Streaming Logs with Transducers and Ramda
I've used Ember.js in the past and must admit that it got in the way and the whole team was magnitudes slower than it should be, although I would also see the bad codebase we had to build upon was a big factor of this, so I can relate to that.

But I've never experienced this problem on projects where I'm able to choose my tools. I use Django and Vue.js with webpack and I can estimate the time constraints for each feature accurately using that stack which is most important for me.

Maybe you've used too opinionated frameworks in the past. If that is the case, loosely coupled frameworks like ampersand.js or very flexible solutions like Vue.js will be a pleasure for you.

In regards to the Pareto Principle: The 80/20 rule means that you need 80% of your time to finish those 20% outside the scope of your framework, not 20%, so your observation fits with this.
There's also an updated, more distributed and thus (maybe) more scalable project by some of the same authors:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/943
The quality and condition of various aspects of a person's body (particularly teeth) can sometimes be indicators as well.
The officer, of course, never had any intention of following through; ...

I feel a bit sick for even writing that, honestly.

You should be.

It's known that cops carry things around that they can plant as evidence. I recall the revelations that came from investigations of New Orleans police dept. after Katrina. They tended to carry guns around that they can plant, if need be. I believe their name for it was sandwich or something like that.
The frontend frameworks wars are pathological. It's useful, to me, to remember _why_ that's the case: because web sites/apps have to support every browser make and model out there. But how do we know that? Presumably from testing. So its funny that there's isn't any mention in the article about browser testing, or harnesses, or what-not. So now there needs to be another iteration of this series where we step through PhantomJS, Selenium, AWS Device Farm, etc. etc. (and shout-out to Quirksmode and Caniuse).
I went, for example, because I felt a second or two hesitancy when needing to urinate. See my below comments, which, sadly, have been modded down for whatever reason...
Selenium is ok for automating click-thru testing, but it's a pretty miserable unit testing platform.

Last front-end project I worked on we did unit testing with Jasmine
Actually, Rails 5 implements an API mode so you can spin up a new app with only API-level conventions that runs on less memory and just serves JSON. You can add on the standard Postgres DB and Boom! "You just made Rails great again"
If hacker news went down would you not use other discussion sites? Why would this not hold true for others who post things you don't like?
My understanding is that the current thought on the utility of a PSA test is mixed at best, because prostate cancer takes a long time to actually threaten your health, so above a certain age, even if you have prostate cancer you're likely to die of something else before the prostate cancer kills you. It's definitely not as simple as "seriously, just get it."
The real reasons why the company you want to work for won’t hire telecommuters
I think it's more likely that without 4chan, the general trolling and immaturity may leak onto the rest of the internet, and the really intense racism/misogyny/conspiratorial weirdness will go further underground and anonymous. Whether this would be a good thing is debatable; I liked that 4chan was open enough anyone could check on it and see which way the undercurrents of the internet were heading, but it probably was a bad thing that lots of generally bored slightly strange teens got linked to that level of racism.
"I need to display data on a page, not perform Sub Zero’s original MK fatality."

This sums up my opinion of the whole React+Redux+Webpack+SatansSeventhCircleOfHellLib combination.