skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is just the tiniest bit of spin here.

In New Zealand, like the UK, police don't regularly guns. Most officers aren't trained with firearms. You have a number of elite armed response units who are. In addition to the various piracy offences, Kim is also charged with possessing an unregistered firearm. Apparently he also had some legal, registered firearms. There seems to be some confusion there, but the bottom line is the guy had guns.

Now, I don't know about you, but if you're going to arrest someone who you know has a gun maybe - just maybe - you'll want to send some officers with guns as well. Because even if it's the smallest, tiniest chance things are going to kick off you don't really want to be at a disadvantage.

And since your regular officers don't carry guns you send along your specially trained officers.

So you can make a very good argument that the guy shouldn't have been arrested. But I'm not totally convinced you can have a go at the police for sending some armed officers along to arrest somebody who was known to have guns and was also known to be a flight risk.
Exactly. I've been saying this time and time again in the past: you cannot trust proprietary software for security, full stop.

As you point out, it's security through obscurity (which we all know isn't really security), but what's more, you can never know if there is a backdoor in proprietary software, or if it's actually doing what it's supposed to do (and not less, or more - like logging your activity or listening in on your traffic).
It can help Ruby developers to get going with Javascript because of its similar syntax, and it takes care of some of the bad parts in the language

I've been watching the coffeescript bandwagon pick up passengers for a while now, but I simply am not convinced that creating a 'language' to simplify or 'improve' another one is a smart thing to do. Maybe on a team that has all Ruby developers this could fly, but now you make it hard to add pure javascript developers to your team without them first getting caught up on your way of doing things.

And then to make things even more tedious, you make it compile to original javascript, an interpreted language. It just reminds me of how Rails initially tried to bake ajax into its way of doing things initially (and has since stopped ... but now we have to support that mess). If the top devs in our field are using it, then there's got to be some merit to it ... but I gotta say, it really doesn't seem all that clever to me.
In my view, Apple's image (to the extent that it is positive) has always depended more on product quality than the support of internet denizens. Unfortunately, I would also assert that overall product quality has been neglected as of late.

This month I had to return a high end Mac Pro (purchased due to a 'use it or loose it' budget dilemma) because the firmware does not fully support the current OS. There was a window of time when this sort of thing didn't happen to Apple, but my experience indicates that the party is officially over.

This is not to say that Apple won't make piles of cash making fashion pieces for well-heeled consumers, but I do expect influential Apple advocates will move on once (or if) a credible alternative surfaces. Whether the fans linger on or not is ultimately irrelevant.
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It took a lot of "think of the children" politics to get to the place where we send armies after white collar criminals... and then nobody thought of the children, bashing into the nursery and pointing assault rifles at them. I'm just glad they decided not to use the dogs.
When I looked around last summer, typical contract rates were between $50 and $65 and salaries seemed to hover between $65-$80K even for experienced people. This was for anything, Fortune 500, the Nerdery, random 10 guy consulting shop, TST Media, etc.
"She said an offending thing about that woman"

Did you read the whole article? The woman is the photo sad she wasn't offended and even made herself a Facebook fan page called "Saddest Boothbabe". You sort of seem to be jumping to the conclusions that the author says is the problem.
You're Anonymous if you say you're Anonymous, and anybody can do that. It's as simple as that.
Huh. I thought when Gruber pointed out the mistake he was criticizing the sexism (of incorrectly calling a woman on a Mac expo a “booth babe”).

That people apparently responded to this sexism with more sexism of their own is quite disgusting and should rightfully be pointed out. I don’t see it as specific to Apple, though.
I think another aspect to consider is that even as someone as controversial as Kim you don't expect to get raided by a helicopter flotilla. It even somewhat surprises me that he didn't had a more solid defense built up, e.g. at least a 24h guard staff.

The "terrorism" aspect is quite easy to construct. There are a bunch of pictures around with him holding a gun and some even having an (inflatable) tank in his garden ( http://imgs.sfgate.com/n/p/2012/01/31/c007af25-a097-4eda-839... ). In today's over-terrorism craze situations like these make a good case to finally make use of all the overstocked terrorism gear and demonstrate its usefulness.
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While police acting as goon squads for private interests is problematic, there is another larger problem here. Police departments everywhere are becoming more and more paramilitary.

In the United States, the Federal Government actually gives surplus military gear to local law enforcement. SWAT teams are prestigious to have and every municipality's police force wants one. Many universities even have SWAT teams now, using the Virginia Tech shootings as a rationale for why they are necessary.

The problem is that SWAT teams are so rarely needed. Spending all that money on training for something that is rarely used is hard to justify. All that cool gear can't go unused. Plus, police officers on these teams tend to want to play special forces soldier. We get mission creep. It starts with drug warrants. Officers, "based on training, knowledge and experience," state that "drug dealers tend to be armed." And anyone involved with drugs is a dealer for the purposes of drug warrants. So, using the surprising and overwhelming force of a SWAT team is necessary for "officer safety." Eventually, SWAT teams graduate to serving nearly all warrants. Some SWAT trainers recommend this for practice.

If you follow the news on this issue, wrong-door SWAT raids are a daily occurrence. Innocent people are terrorized. Innocent people die because of poor trigger discipline or mistakes in the heat of the moment. Sometimes, police are confused for home invaders and they are killed in self-defence. And the shooter is then facing capital murder charges.

SWAT raids create volatile situations. Unfortunately, the alternatives aren't as glamorous.
RockPaperShotgun story that led to Notch saying this:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/07/double-fine-schaf...

Followup:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/07/notch-says-to-sch...
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Has anyone on here even looked at the source code?
This looks like a great project; however, I really wish there were a more descriptive README.
I see that question as being useful because it assesses several different understandings at the same time; the key ones I see are the understanding of fractions (including the idea of improper fractions) and the ordering of the values represented.

A human instructor asks for the explanation to explore a bit if the answer was just a guess or if it was reasoned out, and whether the reasoning was correct. An automated evaluation system would have an easier time factoring in results from previous evaluations (it can perfectly remember an arbitrary number of tests across an arbitrary number of students...) and could check understanding by presenting several questions (it won't get sick of looking at the answers).

I guess if the proposition is that human instruction can be replaced by automated systems that is crazy. Really, I expect most people are looking to supplement it and to make it more effective.
It is offending and sexist, though.
So you're suggesting that airlines route baggage differently because the marginal increase in passengers' weight is pushing the airplane load past the factor of safety the FAA requires?

In some cases I'm sure that's been the case. In general planes are more limited on volume than lift, as most people don't travel with particularly heavy luggage.
Finally. If this can actually live up to the desktop experience, I hope we can finally bring an end to the app.

Only available for ICS
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.android.chrome
So some bloggers got mad she mislabeled an exhibitor a "booth babe" and now it is Apple's problem?
I believe Firefox + Chrome easily qualifies as "wide browser support." IE is really the only one left now.
Whoa! The cheapest Airbrake account costs $79! Are there alternatives to Airbrak & Exceptional?
Is this just a project with all the glue worked out between these projects?
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Surely you just need your webserver to support the protocol. I don't think most apps will directly speak SPDY.
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No, they are not unfortunately. From the FAQ:

"Is GPLv3 compatible with GPLv2? (#v2v3Compatibility)

No. Some of the requirements in GPLv3, such as the requirement to provide Installation Information, do not exist in GPLv2. As a result, the licenses are not compatible: if you tried to combine code released under both these licenses, you would violate section 6 of GPLv2.

However, if code is released under GPL “version 2 or later,” that is compatible with GPLv3 because GPLv3 is one of the options it permits."

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility
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> Personally, I would hesitate to implement them unless they had wide browser support.

When "implement them" means either "change one config option in your web server" or "install one package containing a SPDY implementation for your server", it seems worth doing just to provide a better experience for the browsers that support it so far.
I am actually surprised that there hasn't been more intelligence service activity in order to paint Anonymous in a bad light..

It would be pretty easy to just sabotage some infra structure element that people depend on, attribute it to Anonymous and create a massive public outcry for tougher legislation in the virtual environment.
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Douche move making it require Ice Cream Sandwich while they don't require telcos to ship any of us upgrades.
I wonder if it would be feasible for them to put Chrome on the iPhone. Technically, Apple wouldn't be against it since it's using WebKit.
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I think they could simplify it.

Everyone who pays for fare gets: 200lb‡ allotment (person + luggage)

If person only (no luggage) they are assumed to come under the 200lb limit, even if they don't -as this will average out with others weighing less.

People with luggage are weighed and any overage is paid for at the counter.

‡ 200 assumes that men might weigh on ave 180-ish, women 150-ish. Here's where women make back what they pay in haircuts.
A x-post by Google: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3562814
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This is a gender thing. It is, however, only a gender thing and has nothing to do specifically with Apple.

Women are treated markedly different than men. It’s quite disgusting, really.
So what have we been using up till now on Android? Is this just a re-branding and overhaul of the Android WebKit browser?
The example given in the article destroys any credibility this argument has. If you take a 500+ seat plane and increase every passengers weight by 20% it only costs an additional $472 for a trip from Sydney-Singapore-London. That's less than $1 per seat difference. What is the cost of tracking and weighing every passenger? Hard to see how there could be any gain from this.
Is there a reason to use any of these services given how trivial it is to set up an open source alternative? You can push errbit to heroku in 5 minutes and you're done.

Perhaps there is a level of service here and a business I don't see, and I'm a huge heroku and third party service user, but I don't see the need for a monthly service fee to aggregate and send exception notifications. It's either a self deploy or a feature of an overall monitoring service like NewRelic.
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I would love for task marketplaces like Zaarly and others to be super easy to use. So here's my take on what they can do better to make posting easier.

What do you all think about their posting process? Other ways we can suggest improvement?
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I would love to see one of these "complaining about Khan Academy" articles with an attached example of the author's Right Way to teach whatever subject.

I don't think there's really a route to improving education merely by complaining about the approach of others.
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Why submit or upvote a 3 sentence summary of http://www.publicknowledge.org/70-groups-ask-congress-halt-w...
You got me there. That does seem reasonable. I guess I need to do a bit more investigation. :-)
Very cool, but:

"We exploit three dimensions," he explains. "Time, frequency and space. No one has ever done this before."

That's simply not true: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-input_multiple-output
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Not being aware of Airbrake prior, I assumed it was a service for transcoding media (i.e. Handbrake in the 'cloud'). Upon learning its actual purpose, it seems like the project is yet-another-candidate for cloning in an open source project so people can it run on their own.

As a hobbyist looking to learn more, I have been making a list of services that I could clone the functionality of, in an open source project, to achieve that end. This looks like a good opportunity.
If he likes computer games like i do try with Game Maker like i did. 2d game engine with drag and drop actions + scripting.
How about simply setting your editor to convert spaces to tabs and save tabs as spaces? Problem fixed right there.

This post is brilliant exactly because it separates holy war from technical issue.
Your problem sounds like a technical issue.
I agree that it is an extortion and other crimes. But the motivation as you describe it implies that Symantec provides some useful services (protection from viruses, phishing) and it is not clear that it is the case.

Symantec might be the target for PR (its products are supposed to protect others but it can't protect itself) and 50000 other reasons.

It is not self-evident that an antivirus provides enough benefit to outweigh its disadvantages (resource-hog, false-positives (intentional?), can't detect all attacks). In short security theater is not security.

Of cause it doesn't make the crime any less.
Wow, if they include extensions. This could be huge.
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There were weapons on the property and Kim made sure everyone knows that and he had (armed?) bodyguards and was obviously prepared for whatever assault that might occur on his property, hence the "plan" where to take and hide him. Let's just say that those two facts are enough to put this case out of the regular patrol officers' yard into the hands of "some-sort-of special ops" unit. What would LAPD do if they have to deal with a suspect locked up in some place, with guns and bodyguards? They would sent SWAT and run a boat anchor through the wall, just like we saw in the movie we downl... saw in cinema.

Why is it so extraordinarily strange then that the New Zealand police sent their own special unit? Quote wikipedia: "...formerly known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad, is the full-time tactical and counter-terrorism group of the New Zealand Police." A police unit was sent, not the military. And they probably just have that one unit, so that unit has to counter actual terrorism AND measly secure private property with armed douche bags on it.

So, they sent a team of specialists to take control of an unknown situation with an armed suspect - sounds very rational and calculated, exactly what any efficient police would do. You do not endanger regular patrol officers in potential close-quarters gun fights.

And to claim now that Kim would have invited them in and talked to them is completely besides the point. An arrest warrant was out on him, the police had to deal with it and it is not for Kim to "negotiate" or comment on how he would have dealt with being arrested. His potential hospitality is irrelevant. He was a suspect, he was knowingly armed with bodyguards and they had to seize him - they obviously decided this arrest was more than an average patrol officer should handle. End of story.

Everything else is nothing but speculations and propaganda and feeds right into the natural suspicion that a lot of US Americans seem to have of the police. As a European, I am glad they are there and do their job. Was it a bit "too much"? Probably... but that unfortunately comes with the terrain.

And I am speaking as a former paramedic who has seen a similar situation and was glad we had the police special ops there to secure the apartment before we could do anything about the patients in there.
I think the real value is in the curation, which is something you don't get from google reader.

Essentially, if a list is curated well enough, you know you will be able to find things of value on there and I know for me, not having to rummage through my rss feeder has a lot of value.

Its the same reason why I read hacker news, better curation then my rss reader.
If BTRFS was included as GPL code in the FreeBSD kernel by default it would taint the entire kernel and it would become a GPL governed piece of work...

There is a reason why ext2 for example isn't enabled by default in FreeBSD and why it is mostly stagnant in the tree. Nobody wants to touch it with a 10 ft pole...

Use of an LGPL library would make my life easier, also in the past when I have done work with LGPL libraries (and BSD/MIT and other licenses as well) I have contributed back bugfixes, or new features that benefit said library. When companies shun the GPL and LGPL the same benefits are not available, there is no choice for the corporation to use it and or give back, it becomes a requirement, even if it means that part of our secret sauce now because not so secret.

Good luck getting that past management.

Forcing someones hand is not a good way to start a mutual beneficial relationship.
Well it's part ego stroking and part just a normal wondering of how one stacks up to others who do the same thing. For me it's also part learning experience. For example, I know Carmack is a much better programmer than I am, but having never seen him program or his process it's hard for me to put it into concrete terms other than he's better. But what does better mean? Faster, more creative, more X? Knowing the details of better is how I can build a plan to improve.

I also liken the fascination with ranking to when I thought I was pretty fast running a 5 second 40yd dash. Of course I had read about or seen sub 5s of other people, but until I finally ran next to a D1 track athlete it was a foreign concept just how much faster he was. Once again, putting something into concrete terms helps people understand where they rank.
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If Samsung didn't lock down the bootloader so fucking tight on my $500 phone I wouldn't have to care what the telco does.
After security, of course. As long as they earn money on you buying expensive unhealthy food...

But they don't like you bringing food through security, AFAIK. Drinks are completely forbidden, even plain water, except for infants.
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I don't believe the iOS sandboxing would allow for V8, though. Isn't this the same problem as "my third party app WebView is slow because it doesn't support Javascript JIT"?
Some fat people don't mind being called 'chubby'. It doesn't make calling them that acceptable. If I'm walking off the street and some random guy calling another random guy 'chubby' and they both laugh, I still get a bad feeling about it.

It's like swearing. It might be extremely funny sometimes (specially when Samuel L. Jackson says them!), but still, swearing is bad karma; makes the environment less friendly (my English is not well, and I can't express what I want to say very well).
Where do you find those people? I don’t know any of those.
Last I heard, it was in the works for NGinx:

https://twitter.com/#!/nginxorg/status/150112670966747137
I'm also British, and found YC invaluable setting up in the US. Kirsty Nathoo, one of the YC team, proved very helpful with her knowledge of both UK and US accounting norms.
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Thanks, great feedback.

What are some highly specialized niches that I could look into for consulting?

I actually don't care that much about money, in absolute terms. I care about maximizing my free time and maintaining a somewhat decent standard of life. Ideal scenario for me: a high hourly wage + the freedom to take on work in whatever chunks I prefer.
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A lot of the reason why the same movement exists in mobile is because the GPL v 3 could require manufacturers to release binary blobs that they are not allowed to release, for example for their boot loaders or for the GSM chips and all that sort of fun stuff...

The Tivozation clause that was added is dangerous to companies that use proprietary chips that are not open sourced and there are no open drivers available for it.
No. We have been using a webkit mobile browser. This appears to be a separate code base.
PoundPay is super interesting, because from what I can see, only Amazon has a solution that essentially handles escrow transactions (which is what KickStarter uses). You're right however, I haven't heard much from them lately (as opposed to Stripe, who seems to be killing it). There was also a limitation with PoundPay of being US only, which is not an option for many companies.
Which Samsung Android device has a locked bootloader?
Gruber does use his platform to call out the mob. See:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/23/kind-of-screwed

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/23/maisel-mansion

The real story turned out to be more nuanced. Maisel apparently bought his "mansion" back when SoHO was a dump, and has not exactly outfitted it Donald Trump style.

Calling someone a "dick" twice, and then linking to his house, on a forum like DF which gets so much traffic, some of it necessarily fools, is rude and irresponsible. It ended up this way:

http://www.photolicensingoptions.com/ViewArticle.aspx?code=J...

Some of this is plain old playground dynamics. You push around my friend, I call you a dick. Not fun to watch.

Note: I'm not saying Gruber is 100% wrong or Maisel is 100% right. Just that subtlety is often missing from Gruber's approach.
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