skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah. Just like sockets were a "okay we'll just use this hack until we come up with something better." I think sockets (or what became sockets) crystallized (or started that process) around MULTICS?
With the 1st amendment, the government can never censor (with a few exceptions)... however companies can censor whatever they want for whatever reason they want, perhaps ironically, as an expression of freedom of speech.
Yea, it's really seeks being horribly slow on out of cache linked lists being horribly slow, and then inserts and deletes being fast once you find the right node.
The ACLU has some app listings

https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
I don't get why "ops" needs to be a separate group from "devops". Surely if ops is running the environment, they know best about how to tweak it?
Don't think there's any one "why". Tribal behaviors spiraling out of control is the closest I can come up with. But they are out of control and getting worse in many places in the US.

We need a culture transplant, and I don't see how that happens. Cops should not be soldiers or gang members, but they act like a combination of both.

Actually, more like gang members with a 900-lb-gorrila for a sugar daddy - they get military weapons, but in many cases are incompetent to use them properly, let alone having disciplined teamwork.

I keep trying to think of tactics to encourage peeling the good cops away from the bad ones, and can't think of a way that works. And how we have the Feds throwing out consent decrees and basically telling the worst of them "have fun".
It is a depressing situation.
It's a lot longer lasting and even better than caffeine (IMO) - quite different.
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Seems incredibly ill-advised to be publicly discussing what is sure to result in legal action. Even as one-sided as this is, the best he can do is incriminate himself. The other side will wait until due process requires them to disclose their case. At best he's trying to rally opinion (why?), at worst he's just seeking attention, and either way he's just making things worse on himself.

As a CEO he just associated his company with poor decision making.

If this guy has a lawyer, he should consider listening to them.

But IANAL, so who knows.
It's not about the app developers one way or the other. It's about the end users. What is best for them decides the course of action no matter how it effects app developers of any size.

That's the one rule. For everyone.
> I don't want to defend the police

Why not? Is it now politically incorrect to give the benefit of the doubt to people who literally put their lives on the line to serve the community and keep people safe?
>These are all just fancy words for being a more complete Developer - and enabling Developers to deliver faster.

So would I get paid more for being good at all of these areas? Or is this a move to open up a bunch of positions for mediocre people? (no offense, I am mediocre at code)

Because DevOps fans seem to be advocating for more responsibility for similar/less pay (and you're outright fucking yourselves if you take on-call often without compensation).

If DevOps moves anything like software does, there will be industry leaders which cause a lot of followers (90%) to hamfist the 10%'s methods onto their weird deployment/lifecycle processes and it will be an ongoing mutant until some other new thing promises to bring the light.
Several factors at play:

- fear: probably because of the high likelyhood of gun ownership, the assumption is that they may get shot at anytime so they go out of their way to establish control of the situation in an overbearing way.

- poor training regarding conflict de-escalation. This is probaly due to the previous point.

- poor checks and balances. If accused of anything, there must be irrefutable proof of wrongdoing on their end or judges will always side with them. There's not much of an independent agency to ensure police compliance with the law.
When you put it like that, yep, pretty costly! But a large chunk of this project has been building up the frameworks, infrastructure, tooling, and processes that enable us to migrate from our legacy PHP 5.3 apps running in 2 physical data centres to ~the cloud~.

Also, did you read the part about we have collaborated with over 60 other developers and testers from all around the BBC to build this page? That's actually the best part — News websites are pretty simple; you just display headlines, summaries, and images in various formats. So part of this project was building the lego blocks that we're going to use to rebuild not just the rest of the BBC News site, but also parts of BBC Sport and potentially other BBC products too! So yeah, costly for one page. Hopefully very cost-efficient in the long-term.
I found it a bit of an odd article. I alternate between Mr Happy, Mr Grumpy, Mr Angry, Mr Sad. (Fortunately, I'm never Mr Tickle.)

While it was interesting, I'd hate for people reading this article to think it was genuinely a good idea as a hiring practice. People are complicated, and cannot and should not be pigeonholed into such simple categories.
Wow. So hateful. Please stay out of our country.
Well, it's concerning that in the US, wealthier people live longer. Generally, when you hear someone trying to justify the extreme wealth inequality of the US (compared to most of the developed world), the response is along the lines of, "well, there's huge inequality in relative terms, but that's not important, because in absolute terms, the poor in the US are pretty well off". But if being poor in the US means you die young, then wealth inequality is pretty important in terms of quality of life!
Yeah, what they are doing seems the logical way to combat the abuse that they were seeing. I don't really understand how them being able to tell I am using the same device affects the majority of users at all
The ACLU maintains a list of such applications:

https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
Growth hormones?
Speculation should lead to google searches, not guessing.

I don't know what your point of comparison is, so I don't know how to respond directly. How about that being a cop is less dangerous than being a fisherman, truck driver or garbage collector[1]?

[1] http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-c...
Not excusing the incident but the fuller story is a little more complicated than the police shot someone just because:

"The incident happened Thursday when Sanchez's next-door neighbor, Ben Ledford, was allegedly "firing up to 100 machine gun rounds at a home across the street, killing a dog inside the house," CBS Sacramento reported. Ledford surrendered to police, but officers fired at Sanchez after they saw him stand at the edge of his open garage and extend his hand out with an object—which turned out to be his cell phone, local NBC affiliate KCRA reported."
That is still largely an attention bias thing.

Lots of cops go a career without using their firearm (while on duty).

Like https://www.quora.com/On-average-how-many-times-does-a-firea...
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The responses felt very defensive.
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Increasingly, if you're a police officer who interferes with a citizen who understands their Constitutionally-protected rights to film you (even if you disagree with those rights), you can expect some trouble.

Video recording of encounters with authority is the single-best hope we have to resolve the political turmoil caused by the perception (not necessarily the reality) of widespread abuse. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said: "sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants".[1]

[1] http://3197d6d14b5f19f2f440-5e13d29c4c016cf96cbbfd197c579b45...
I had heard that at the time the race was under the auspices of the AAU. But I'm not sure if that's exactly correct. Switzer writes that Semple was upset about having been duped:

Runner No. 261 had violated the sacred code of the institution that was his baby. She deserved to be punished – and if Cloney couldn’t do the job, then Jock Semple would. “This wasn’t just about me being a girl,” Switzer said. “Jock probably would have left me alone if I was just running along like Bobbi. It was the number that got him. I had made him look like a fool.”

These days U.S. road races are run under the rules of U.S.A Track and Field (USATF) which is an affiliate of the IAAF. The rules only really matter though if the course is to be record eligible. Many of your local 5K/10K charity runs may not be certified.

Regarding Boston, to run it one first has to complete a marathon in a qualifying time on a course that is certified by the USATF/IAAF. This basically means the course is correclty measured for distance, has a certification number, and follows the USATF/IAAF rules. Here's the certification procedure:

http://www.usatf.org/Products-/-Services/Course-Certificatio...

Interstingly, the Boston Marathon is not eligible for setting world records since its net downhill is greater than the allowable amount.
It's all relative. The point Dan was trying to make was that you shouldn't be using Redux until you need it. You shouldn't be using React Router until you need it.

The React team can't be held responsible for the amount of crappy advice on the Internet. And cognitive overhead is the nature of the beast with all frameworks. Nobody is going to launch an Angular/Ember app without a significant amount of research. Hell, Rails barely requires any knowledge of Ruby at all, since it's effectively its own ecosystem.
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They live longer, are more likely to be married, get a lot more per month, and have a capped tax.
This comes down to a value judgement.

To some people (like you), online privacy is of immense value -- seemingly almost an inalienable right alongside, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

To others, online privacy has little to no value.

I'm somewhere in the middle.

Don't you think services like this should be freely available for people who don't value online privacy like you do? It doesn't seem right to project your value system onto others when both can peacefully co-exist...

A logical solution that would protect both parties would regulate the transparency by which businesses must communicate these data sharing practices. I just don't see the logic around why any company who shares user data is automatically evil and worthy of assassination.
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What a huge strawman. Most people do not, as the author claims, believe that North Koreans in general are irrational, stupid, warlike, etc. They believe that the North Korean leadership has most of those qualities, which is pretty well proven. Unable to counter that, the author chooses to "disprove" that which is never claimed. As jrhurst has already pointed out, this supposed "orientalism" doesn't seem to exist for Viet Nam, China, or even South Korea. I'm not going to say there's no such thing as anti-Asian discrimination or even outright racism in the US, but we don't fear nations that aren't led by provably-insane coddled children of past dictators,.
This is super cool, but I know how badly this type of technology could be abused.
Let's dispel with this fiction that the companies collecting all this personal data don't know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing.
"LSD makes me smile and I feel like a better person. On it, I find myself preferring good life choices and productivity."

This reminds me of the effect of low doses of marijuana.
The ACLU has apps that will send video to their servers/cloud. It doesn't appear that the video is streamed or uploaded until the users stops recording.
https://www.aclu.org/feature/aclu-apps-record-police-conduct
For 32bit micro controllers, you can buy the highfive1 today.

Some companies are designing RISC V into their products (nVidia, Samsung) but not for user facing applications yet. There are designs in process to bring about something like the raspberry pi, which will bring it to the masses (not the consumer masses). There is a ton of corporate and academic support behind the effort.

But let me offer simple slightly plausible scenarios: What if Google ported Android to it? What if Apple brought iOS to it? What if some other new thing that takes off is based on it?
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Did they sell it that way?

Or did they simply sell something like "of our 100000 users, 30% bought Lyft rides."?

I mean, I still think it's wrong, but selling who bought what is a bit different than selling how much of a group bought how much of an item.
I see Amazon as a company that wants to give a great service to humans but their humans in Warehouses aren't up to the task. I predict in a decade a large part of their warehouse will be automated for the labor heavy skills.

There is an inherent desire to enslave to leverage work off automation. Robots would be perfect slaves for corporations.

Whoever makes electric muscles and sells it at scale is going to be the next billionaire.
I'm not commenting about whether these people are right or wrong, that's not my point.

I'm saying that HN has a vocal population who are so very sure of themselves and their own opinions that they'll rapidly post messages here declaring that innards of a large, complicated piece of software are so obviously wrong and that they know what the right way is. They seem to live in a world of utter certainty, never a doubt that they might not know all the considerations that could weigh in on the design of some inner working of a complex system.

HN would be a better place if these people could entertain some humility, perhaps a little bit of self-doubt, perhaps an inkling that other people may know something they don't, and that the world is not always the black/white, yes/no certainty that they seem to experience. Or we can just drown in the continual "This is stupid! they should do X" style comments.
I would assume that since a Lyft receipt has a predefined format, it isn't too difficult to script the scrubbing of particular lines of data, assuming Lyft doesn't change their format.

Of course, if they do change their email format, your script is probably letting data leak until you notice and fix it, but obviously privacy wasn't the top priority on Unroll.me's minds in the first place.
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Check out "crash course astronomy" on youtube. Quite entertaining.
OT: When I tried Inferno as a drop-in replacement for React few months ago everything kept working fine. Inferno's author was hired by Facebook and some of his work might have been reused. Inferno was insanely fast and for me super compatible though missing some of the API.

I like Dan's answer and it shows that many are not really familiar with React and its trivial concept (like me before I tried). React is good and manageable even after a rewrite because it has a tiny API (compared to other frameworks/libs in this space).
This. The right to bear arms has consequences for everyone, even those people who do not exercise this right. If police didn't have a good statistical basis to assume a random person might be armed, they'd behave differently. That explains the main difference with Europe.
It's called IoT... @InternetOfShit ;)
What's the cap?
It's interesting that you say that "filming the police" is either harassment or interfering with them.

The post gives very little information about what actually happened, so I'm interested in why you made that leap.

> On the other hand, their job is to keep the community safe, and save for the very worst cops (which are in the minority), they take the job seriously. There is (and should be) a pretty high bar to harassing or interfering with the police.

US police shoot and kill very many more citizens that other police forces. Why is that?

It's not just because citizens are armed: unarmed US citizens are also far more likely to be killed than EU citizens.
> save for the very worst cops (which are in the minority)

This is debatable at best.
Bummer, thankfully I don't work in a place like that...luck of the draw.
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Also, a lot of cops themselves are ex-military, a consequence of maintaining decade-long wars.
Oh one other thing. Currently working on a simplified Bath map focused on Travel Time comparing bicycle to eBike. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ZH9cEOlb9BcYADH3SSf6X2lo...

Going to be released as part of an article I am writing for the local paper on the impact buying an eBike has had on my life. TL;DR Was able to go from a two car family to one, no longer use buses or taxis.
> it has the same public API

means basically that it is working like previous versions and if not then there is simply a bug
I can concur with this article. Non-hallucinogenic doses of hallucinogens does give one a feeling of clarity and purpose. This works with mushrooms as well although obviously it's harder to get the dosage correct.
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So you're saying the choices are postmodern dystopia, or being beaten by your coworkers. Methinks there's some ground between.
Try talking to some. You'll be surprised that most are actually pretty good people trying to make a difference in a very difficult job. They see nothing but the worst of humanity day in and day out.
To be fair, it probably looked like a gun from a distance.

The police were in the neighborhood confronting somebody with a machine gun - not smart to take an action that looks like pointing a gun in a type of situation where one side has decided they need machine guns.

It's not to excuse the behavior of the police..., but if you're pointing something at the police from across the street, it's hard to see the profile of said object...
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> If we don't believe discussion is constructive then this whole site is pointless.

This is a false dichotomy. Some discussion can be constructive while some is not.
That sounds better for sure, but not the way it came across. I put the emphasis "Right" not "A Lot"...maybe next time.
It has a 5.15" screen.
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^ The title did spoil the contents for a while, it has been fixed.
In an LMXB the companion object is a neutron star or black hole. This isn't necessarily what people would call a star, so it may be more confusing to call it a binary star.
Citing Snowden's documents would involve actually giving me a link.

I did not say PRISM was mass wiretapping but it is indeed part of the surveillance suite of NSA programs. I did not adequately explain myself in my original post, but I cleared things up afterwards and you are ignoring that completely. You have consistently been framing my arguments in a specific way so that you can attack them in a specific way.

I also don't understand why you think that the NSA was not mass wiretapping both of those telco's major junctions. It's a known thing. It's not some fringe conspiracy theory. The Fed has been tapping phone lines since the very beginning. Not all of them sure, but certainly in a dragnet fashion. This has continued with the explosive growth of information networks into the 21st century. I provided links. I do not need to provide any more on that topic.

I've honestly never encountered someone before who so earnestly believes as you do that these programs are not widespread or dangerous or grossly overstepping their bounds. It's like denying climate change or something.
Somehow all 25 million books need to be freed. It seems like it would be a great thing for society if this somehow just ended up online.

It's the orphan works that need to be freed the most. Many good books have been orphaned and will never be reprinted or digitized because the initial publisher is gone, author is hard to track down, etc.
These globular clusters have always seemed peculiar to me. One would surmise that such a structure would result in a massive black hole without the rotational effects of say a galaxy.
> if being poor in the US means you die young

That's not what the article is saying. According to the table it gives, the life expectancy of the bottom 20% is still 76.1 years. That's not "young". It is significantly younger than the top 20%.

> wealth inequality is pretty important in terms of quality of life

I think it's hard to make this case just based on life expectancy; what we really need is some way of quantifying how healthy the bottom 20% are from, say, age 60 on (or even earlier), compared to the top 20%. I suspect that this would show a much larger disparity than just the life expectancy data.
There are teams at Amazon and Google that use React. Honestly, the original patent license had some issues, but the new license seems to have alleviated concern for 2 of the remaining big 4. I don't know if MS uses it, but honestly 2/3 of the major tech firms are, and I can't imagine a world in which a concerning patent license is going to get passed the corporate lawyers at Google/Amazon.
One bad apple (spoils the bunch).
It is amazing how often the first part, but not the last, is applied to police officers.
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Indeed. I'd like to flay Unroll.me for this, but really, I have a hard time sympathizing with it's users. People should realize by now that all "free services" make money. And if you aren't paying them, someone else is. You should probably understand a company's business model before you sign up with them, and especially before you grant them access to your email account.
"But this sun that feels “now” to you is the sun that shone eight minutes ago. The moon is closer, but it’s still more than a second away from the effect it produces in your body. If this were a starry night, the stars composing the Ursa Major would be scattered between 80 and 128 years away."

Right.. Because the photons hit you 8 minutes ago and you feel them now? or They traveled for 8 minutes and are actually hitting you now?

Stopped reading there.
I knew a group of people 20 years ago who would take tiny doses of LSD in order to maintain decisionmaking skills before going out for a night of drinking. Most of these were people who didn't even like LSD, they just liked drinking.
Has anyone worked on building an open source version/mirror of all this data? Not sure of the size/scope of this but seems like an opportunity.
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Same for me with my S3 compact. Battery can last 48 hours, sometimes more.

I kept Wifi and NFC on, but I disabled useless notifications and email sync (When I want to check my email, I go into the app + I get a text from my provider when selected contacts send an email).

I also disabled useless crapware
I've remembered someone who said it now. http://www.jimseven.com/2015/05/21/an-analysis-of-nespresso-...
I did. I definitely wouldn't use the word "good". More like improperly trained, unprofessional, aggressive, ignorant and trigger happy.
30k+ is the number of total components we have. Almost all of them worked without changes; most of the dozen or so components that needed changes were relying on unsupported, undocumented behaviors. About 99.9% of our components (literally) worked out of the box.
Or maybe he thinks the issue is important and the imperative to discuss it outweighs personal legal risk and association of his company with "poor" decision making. (Given the content at ThinkPenguin's site, I'm not sure that the target market agrees with you about "poor", btw).

I don't know anything about this issue, to be clear. But the fact that you personally don't like to see stories about police misconduct doesn't seem like a very good reason for finger-wagging at those who experience it.
US Police don't have a good statistical basis to assume that a given encounter will require deadly force.