skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opinion is here (should be up on the CA3 website later today): http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=310762278918844.... The relevant discussion starts at 12-13.

The gist of the suit is this: Ordinarily, you cannot sue the federal government (sovereign immunity). The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), broadly waives sovereign immunity for tort claims. An exception to that waiver of immunity is where the agent of the government commits an intentional tort (e.g. federal employee punches you, as opposed to accidentally running over your dog, which would be a negligent tort). However, that exception does not apply to law enforcement officers--under the FTCA, the federal government takes responsibility for the intentional torts of law enforcement.

Ordinarily, even if you cannot sue the government, you can sue the individual officer in his personal capacity. Under the Westfall Act, however, the FTCA is the exclusive remedy for torts of federal agents acting within the scope of their employment.

That leaves a loophole: you can sue federal law enforcement officers under the FTCA for both intentional and negligent torts. But if the federal agent is not a law enforcement officer, you can only sue her for negligent torts. The issue in this case is whether TSA agents are law enforcement officers such that you can sue the federal government for their intentional torts.

The majority holding is probably correct as a matter of statutory interpretation. Still, it puts TSA in a weird loophole, where they act like law enforcement officers (including all of the power-tripping that can result in commission of intentional torts), but can't be held liable under the FTCA like law enforcement officers. The dissent makes a good point:

> Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro dissented from Wednesday’s decision.

> “By analogizing TSA searches to routine administrative inspections, my colleagues preclude victims of TSA abuses from obtaining any meaningful remedy for a variety of intentional tort claims,” he wrote.
They're not speaking for everyone. They're speaking for themselves. Of being discriminated.
- a lesson from outside of the software industry.

Not really, just a forgotten one. Fred Brooks described his ideal development team in The Mythical Man Month and it included a toolmaker.
why js/ didn't get a cool nickname?
Concise Ideas are One-Dimensional
Valimail makes it harder for hackers to impersonate your boss over email
I suppose that depends on us.
https://www.arm-basics.com was created in response.
> I used C11's anonymous structs and unions so that I could access individual registers, or grouped registers straight from the root structure: registers.a or registers.af for example.

That's excellent, when I wrote mine I wasn't aware of this feature and used a kludge of macros to handle it instead.
Absolutely agreed, and I think they well-deserve their fame. It's hard to do well in this competitive space.
>Lol, of course you need a general understanding of how your database works on the inside. There are a million different ways you can store your data and I would argue that choosing your data storage is the most important and tricky decision we have to make as software engineers.

You aren't responding to my argument, everything you said is something I already know. So lol to you. You're making a remark and extending the conversation without addressing my main point. I'm saying that the fact that you need "a general understanding of how a database works on the inside" is a design flaw. It's a leaky abstraction.

A C++ for loop has virtually the same performance across all systems/implementations; if I learn C++ I generally don't need to understand implementation details to know about performance metrics. Complexity theory applies here.

For "SELECT * FROM TABLE", I have to understand implementation. This is a highly different design decision from C++. My argument is that this high level language is a bad design choice to be placed over the most critical bottleneck of the web: the database.

The entire reason why we can use slow ass languages like php or python on the web is because the database is 10x slower. Database is the bottleneck. It would be smart to have a language api for the database to be highly optimize-able. The problem with SQL is that it is a high level leaky abstraction so optimizing SQL doesn't involve using complexity theory to write a tighter algorithm. It involves memorizing SQL hacks and gotchas and understanding implementation details. This is why SQL is a bad design choice. Please address this reasoning directly rather than regurgitating common database knowledge.
Americans seem to take a lot of pride in their fire brigades - their fire engines are still shiny and polished with more traditional signage and the fire fighters still wear helmets with their traditional shape.

In the United Kingdom they wear more simple uniforms and the engines are just a box shape with no bells any more - seems a shame.

Usually it's UK the has more ceremony in these kind of things.
Wow, it is interesting to see that some language actually have different words for this situation.
> It seems like a right to a speedy trial should apply to civil cases too.

It doesn't apply to civil cases, and it doesn't apply to the suing party in any case: it applies to the defense (only) in criminal cases. Read the Sixth Amendment.

If you’d like to change that, there is a process for Constitutional Amendments. There are good reasons attached to the impacts of pending criminal charges (which can include pre-trial detention or restrictive bail terms) why speed is prioritized over other factors as a right of criminal defendants and not litigants generally, though.
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Moreover, "... of returns to capital, in comparison to doing other things with the money."

Still, I would suspect tariffs to generally hurt that.
Think about "Why text files won for programming source code."

Rich formats like Smalltalk's images are vastly superior as long as you stay within the ecosystem. But plain text is "worse is better" at scale. You get more tools, more interoperability, more of everything.

Markdown is the plain text file winner for uncomplicated words. It's somewhat portable between a myriad of tools. When you drop into a "Better" tool like OneNote, you get all sorts of amazing wins... Provided you stay within the walled garden it provides.

Speaking as an author, I blog in markdown, I take notes in markdown, and I publish my books from markdown source for this very reason.

Heck, being able to put my books in GitHub and do pull requests is enough reason all by itself!

---

If you meant, "Why a tab instead of a separate app that works with Markdown," none of what I wrote above applies. I was speaking strictly to why Markdown instead of some proprietary-format notes app.
You could absolutely write an Autoconf script that runs those tests by default, but has overrideable behavior. You can make custom Autoconf macros to detect whatever arbitrary thing you want. At the core, an Autoconf macro is just a chunk of shell script that sets some environment variables with the result.
>* The best interaction I ever had with the TSA was when I came upon a pair openly wearing their uniforms around a grocery store, so I was able to call them fascist child molesters right to their faces.*

I'm no fan of the TSA, but do you think that was productive?

Maybe direct your ire at the people at the top who make these policies instead.

There's been progress on that front with several Trump administration officials confronted while dining for example.
Fiberglass is a terrible choice for these ladders. Most places use Aluminum or steel but that has conductivity issues with the amount of overhead powerlines in SF. They can be coated to reduce conductivity but that has other issues.

http://lacountyfirefighters.org/items/Ground_Ladders_by_John...

3. May chip and crack with impact forces.
4. May suddenly crack and fail when overloaded.
5. Can burn when exposed to flame.
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Indianapolis Police Have Been “Blinded Lately Because They Shut Backpage Down”
Reasonable, but not as effective IMO.
Additional fun when you are debugging something timing dependent like a livelock or a race condition.
It makes sense for a job where 95% of the time is spent waiting for an emergency to react to.
This is an unreasonably effective tactic. It even works if you don't have any source code; it's usually possible to get the disassembler to tell you where the start address of a string is being loaded into a register, so just breakpoint that and you've got your reverse engineering starting point. Or just overwrite it with another string. "Thank you for playing Wing Commander".

Wielding the low-level binary debugger well is also a good way to unnerve your coworkers and survive weird situations, like when you've got no tools because you've broken your tools with your tools ( https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf ; content warning for hilarious hyperbolic rant)
We have a website that has the ARM logo and professional graphics. We have the main graphic of the site that was hosted on arm.com. We have paid ads. We have an article that claims that ARM apologizes for website which coincides with the website being taken down.

How much circumstantial evidence do you need?
I'm surprised they don't use an ablative coating
> Debugging is an extraordinarily first-class, up-front, frequent activity in Common Lisp

A bit of nitpicking: It is anything but "extraordinarily", it is a completely ordinary activity.
It's not an either-or ;-)
Can it import Keepass DBs? I dread retyping all my passwords.
History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes. Microsoft used similar tactics to derail its OSS competition. Look what happened.
But, are these approved by the American Ladder Institute? https://www.americanladderinstitute.org
All you're describing sounds way more expensive than a couple carpenters...simply being able to fix a ladder than toss it is a huge saving

Its the little details:
-- For example, a 3" Fiberglass Ibeam 10 feet long is ~$200, and only rated to 140 degrees. I can't readily find a more comparable product.

-- your aluminum ladder with high temp rubber, also needs to be electrically insulated; so now you have to toss the whole ladder if the shell is breached in any little way, and probably needs to be re-certified yearly.

edit: i guess you edited while i was replying
I suspect Enpass doesn't get much mention on HN threads because it is not (or at least, does not obviously appear to be) open source, which I've observed is of paramount interest to a large number of HN readers -- full disclosure: including me.

Because it is not open source [0], we must take statements like the following purely on faith in their PR department, rather than being able to independently verify:

https://www.enpass.io/kb/if-enpass-is-an-offline-password-ma...

"Indeed Enpass is an offline password manager and saves your data locally on your device and in any case, we do not (and we can not) access any of your data. But yes, Enpass does connect to the internet with the sole purpose to give best user experience."

I'm sure they're really nice people, and do their best, etc, etc, but passwords are the linchpin crown jewels. Enpass could secretly and instantaneously become bad actors or incompetent stewards of said crown jewels, and we wouldn't know, since we cannot see what they are doing. One of many risks I would not take.

[0] Please correct me if my search-engine-fu is weak today, but I can find no official Enpass open source repos or code anywhere.
Prostitution needs decriminalized as long as both parties are willing participants anyway and I doubt just IMPD have had issues, Backpages wasn't limited to here in Indy.
Hey! I'll try to work on building a Firefox extension too, but until then why not make this: https://mdnt.surge.sh the default page? Thanks a lot!
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I don’t get the down votes here. My point is that it is sad they should be happy he tried or say nothing.
Sure! I'll do this as soon as i get time. Thanks!
It used to have monthly releases.

The last release was from more than two years ago.

If it isn't dead yet, it certainly is feeling its age.

If someone were willing, they are more than welcome to start a fresh Parrot port of Rakudo.
Yes, thanks. A moderator updated the title from “React is a huge mistake. Gently explained” a while ago.
Judge a law not by its intent, but by its outcome.
The civil suit was filed in 2009, and took 5 years to go to trial. It looks like nobody was in a hurry--the plaintiff filed a ton of motions to extend various filing deadlines. Then the appeal was slowed down because the plaintiff was proceeding pro se. After briefing was complete, the court, apparently not wanting to leave these issues to the pro se briefs, ordered appointment of amicus curiae counsel on behalf of the plaintiff, along with further briefing.
That was also written before there were many commercially available tools. (Still a great book!) Perhaps tool specialist is more important today?
Heh point taken.

I'm no slave to civility by any means, but I am mindful that screaming at a couple off duty agents trying to shop, who I've had no prior interaction with, probably does not help my cause ;-)
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> This is such egoistic bullshit

Of course I can be wrong and write bullshit. But why egoistic?
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That's a very misguided view of things. Aggression will help you fight for higher wages for yourself more often than if you weren't as aggressive. Anxiety will drive you towards actions that will decrease your anxiety, and those actions will generally be useful for you and sometimes the people employing you.

I think you're not really in touch and being honest with yourself if you don't think both aggression and anxiety play a crucial role in your life. Or maybe you just have different definitions of those words than I do.
Adobe Sensei Machine learning and AI is being used by ICE
The Deb file format was designed even earlier, yet it doesn't contain a matryoshka of metadata.
Similarly, there's no letter for the voiced palato-alveolar fricative in English (and as I recall it's actually one of the newest sounds that is part of English). It's the voiced version of the "sh" sound -- an example is the "si" part of "vision".
I'm a big Moo.do[0] fan - I use it for notes, my todo list, and agenda, so at the moment I've got it set up as my new tab with some custom CSS to hide the stuff I don't need to see in that context.

This seems to distill the concept down very nicely - quicker to load and straight to the point. Sadly I'd miss the structure of Moo.do but I can definitely see a world in which I'd use it - nice work.

[0] https://www.moo.do
all of the things you mentioned goes against
everything I was taught in terms of being
rigorous with your research.

There are certain areas where "the system" asks people to do things right - but provides vast rewards for doing things wrong, if you can avoid detection.

If you're a pro cyclist who isn't doping, good for you! But there's no medal for finishing fourth; you'll be rewarded with medals and sponsorship cash for doping undetectably.

Academics whose rigorous papers aren't quite getting into top-tier journals are in a similar situation.
Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide
If I made $100K in NYC I would have likely had the same $75k .... which would have left me with $0 after housing and child raising costs. If I made $10k, I would have had the entire $10k. You are comparing big apples to oranges.
Space: Elite dangerous is great, and is not alone. That genre is especially popular with mid-level indie groups

Realistic team based FPS: There's ARMA 3 for your heavy duty liking, and Squad is incredible. I believe insurgency is also slightly realistic
I was born and raised in Hawaii. Not trying to come off rude but I don't need a Wikipedia article to tell me what something I grew up with actually is.

Hawaiian shirt is a crude marketing term that's only used outside of the original audience of the item.
> There's been progress on that front with several Trump administration officials confronted while dining for example.

What is the progress / outcome? Have there been any changes in policy resulting from public confrontations?
Replace Developer with maid in your post and read it again.

I don't have a maid, instead I clean my own house, and drive my own car. My understanding is in India people with half my income would have maids to do those tasks. However in my country the value a maid produces isn't as much as their value and so I don't pay one. I know what a maid would cost (some advertise in my local newspaper), and they are not worth it.

Same with developers. If the wages go too high some things we could automate will no longer be automated.
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Yes, Aloha shirt. Sorry for not being clear earlier, was looking at the article title when posting.
First, and more clearcut, I don't think ire should be limited. Those who voluntarily participate in enforcing the current system are not exempt from the fallout of their choices any more than much of HN would suggest engineers be exempt from the ethical decisions of our employment. Look recently, people are saying Microsoft employees should quit because MS sells office products to ICE. If that's the line in the sand we're drawing, "working directly for the TSA" seems pretty well and truly over it. (Full disclosure, I'm actually not sold on this "hard" stance, but TSA seems more of a slam dunk than office products in terms of complicity, and if I regardless put myself in the eyes of someone who DOES believe this stance...)

There's a fair discussion about "was the way you confronted them that of a professional adult" but at the end of the day, I'm finding it hard to honestly be too upset at the language used outside of a very token "tsk tsk". TSA has not had a history of treating my wife and I respectfully so it's difficult to reciprocate, and can even see the argument that by adding social friction to working there you erode their ability to push policies like this if workers go "wait this may be a bad idea that may make people really angry at us." ESPECIALLY now that there's no real legal recourse outside of petitioning congress.

(An anecdote: I was very sick going through security recently, extremely sleep deprived and falling over without support, they pulled us over to secondary screening and refused to let me sit down while they were checking my bags, ended up vomiting into a trashcan while the agent gave me lip. Turns out all this was over a pair of nail clippers the wife forgot she had packed... and on the RETURN trip.)
Who cares why you do it? Maybe you're just curious. How does that invalidate the analysis?
> There's a city-specific reason why San Francisco has stuck with wood rather than swap over to metals, and the answer lies in looking up. The high-voltage cables and wires that guide the city's (oft-maligned) public transport system Muni, and trolley cars crisscross above nearly every street, mean that ladders made of conductive elements are generally just too dangerous to use.

I wonder how it's done in European cities with their trams (the ones which don't use APS).
To be fair, the decision makers, i.e. asic architects,designers from top cop firms, most likely aren't having out at HN, it banking on public opinion here. ARM can bloody well do as it pleases with little impact on business

Where RISC-V does have a chance is in getting adopted by a company with a long term Outlook and huge shipments. Ideal customer is Samsung, who use arm in everything from DRAM/NAND to smartphones. If they can prove it commercially on one product line, maybe SD cards, they can shake it to others over there next decade.
Emma's Diary faces fine for selling new mums' data to Labour Party
Btw. if its just about replying to an SMS manually, tools like kdeconnect [1] can be handy which allow you to write SMS messages on your desktop and send them via your smartphone.

[1]: https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/kde-connect-1-0-...
What I really like about Bitwarden is, that you can define several URLs for one entry, I have some services which can be accessed from several addresses (same account) though.

It is also possible to define how a URL is matched which is a nice feature too.
Great article, ruined by Gizmodo's disrespect for its readers by including animated junk on the page.
It's interesting, and I wonder to what extent sticking to tradition like this also helps them stick to tradition with regards to values. I mean, obviously, not all values from 200 years ago are worth hanging on to, but I see the firehouse as a place of mutual respect and trust and understanding. I wonder how much of that culture would fade if they just threw everything away and replaced it, had a purchasing department, etc. (for example).
> one can't help but suspect that sheer tradition is a somewhat significant factor

Only if you didn't read the article.

"There's a city-specific reason why San Francisco has stuck with wood rather than swap over to metals, and the answer lies in looking up. The high-voltage cables and wires that guide the city's (oft-maligned) public transport system Muni, and trolley cars crisscross above nearly every street, mean that ladders made of conductive elements are generally just too dangerous to use."
A demo with TensorFlow.js to make AmazonEcho respond to sign language
I have always wondered why there is a transition between violet and red, if they are on opposite ends of the frequency spectrum. Despite that, they don't act like two extremes, just two positions on a "wheel". Why is color so wheel-like when the physics is just linear? What are we "seeing" when we see a violet-red? Why do we feel like violet is between blue & red?
Would be interested to see the results on a benchmark dataset for online anomaly detection, comparing to those approaches used in practice: https://github.com/numenta/NAB#the-numenta-anomaly-benchmark...
I don't understand, shouldn't them not functioning as “investigative or law enforcement officers” expose them to more liability, not less??
MoarVM has recently gotten the ability to write optimization plugins in higher level code. This should make it easier to create certain optimizations as they will have access to the syntax tree.

So it may be that the rate at which it gets faster has gotten faster.
Financial rewards? Like $2 Million for a house that costs 200k in the rest of the country? What savings!

SV is fine if you never want to buy a home, start a family, live without roomates etc..
I just set everything to level SERIAL and have never seen data corruption because of it. I guess that makes me old school, lol.
I believe a toolmaker on a team is still critically important. I have yet to see a team or organization that doesn't have a suite of (often poorly maintained) custom tooling that automates things together or provides functionality critical to the business.
> a job where 95% of the time is spent waiting for an emergency to react to.

this describes quite accurately the work of many people maintaining computer systems
Ideally, documentation would be written so that there is no need to reverse engineer every project you wade into. Otherwise why share the source code in the first place?