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I live in Melbourne Australia and I have got to say, this is the first reaction I had as well. The imagery used on their website was frankly shocking. My first response was "WTF! Is this really how Americans see their police? Is their job to charge round shooting people?"

Compare and contrast the pictures used on the 'about' page of the Victoria police website:

http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=3

With the images on the same section of the Milwaukee police website:

http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/#menu=about-page

What do the two different pictures say about how the police view themselves and their job? Looking at the images how do you think the two police departments relate to the community they serve? What type of potential recruits would be attracted to the Victoria police VS Milwaukee police?
> This. http://i.imm.io/E9zF.png Seems like a lot of privileges for an userscript managing extension.

Well, no shit. How is TamperMonkey supposed to install extensions that require more privileges than itself? It needs full permissions because it allows scripts you install full access.
Clearly it is intended for those use cases, because, as grandparent said, the links to find the answers are there, it's just not that easily available.

I'm not sure exactly what issue you're taking up here, because grandparent clearly states some very straightforward and common user scenarios that any police website should be expecting to handle, and handle efficiently.

This site loads like a dog on my machine. Or perhaps that's a shout out to the K9 unit.
good info, but tangentially...since when are cop's having PR websites?!
Seems to me none of you guys have the correct understanding of what Spitznagel does at his Universa. He actually uses these out of the money options payoffs not to bet on random black swans, but rather to exploit really big moves that he is actually counting on (apparently based on bs understanding of Austrian economics). All this black swan talk was BS afterall. He says...
"black swan events have been largely insignificant in at least the last century of capital investment in the U.S., including the current crisis. Investors have indeed encountered surprising and pernicious events, but the fact is those who were surprised have essentially been those (in the extreme majority) with a brazen disregard for the central concepts of Austrian capital theory and monetary credit expansions."
in his paper "The Austrians and the Swan: Birds of a Different Feather" here
http://www.universa.net/UniversaSpitznagel_research_201205.p...
Usually you can quit when the funding runs out. Founders sometimes voluntarily keep a startup alive past the end of the proverbial runway, e.g. by taking on consulting projects, but no investor is entitled to demand that.
It's the same principle and you're using it to suppport your subjective claims as fact.
Congrats to Art and the team! Well deserved.

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My favorite part BY FAR was when Tim Cook introduced the Foo Fighters like they were an Apple product.

Skip to the end if you haven't seen it. Definitely worth it. I couldn't stop laughing.
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Exactly. That's the main reason I want to get accepted into YC. The contacts and people you meet are going to be way more valuable to you and your startup than the money itself. If you had a good paying job, you could probably save up and fund the $11k yourself.
YC is just a good way to fast track your startup and get it moving right from the beginning.
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"evil Muslims on the other side of the world"

If only they were the only fundamentalists we had to worry about...
Except it's not the police web site. It's an auxiliary site intended for news. Go search for "Milwaukee police" and see what the #1 hit is and what the official web site is. It's not this one.
The division is segregation, not conservatism. That being said, I find Milwaukee to be more conservative than some Wisconsin cities, especially Madison (where I live now).
The problem with Apple's approach is that all innovations in iOS software and hardware have to come from Apple and Apple alone. So it's not enough to just keep releasing incremental and obvious improvements.

In order for Apple to maintain its unprecedented brand recognition and profit margins it's not good enough to match the competition. They have to be unambiguously better than the Android alternatives and they just aren't right now.
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Youre not factoring inflation in, or outright default.
I've applied to YC before. I'm not sure If I'll apply this cycle, especially since I don't have a co-founder for my startup team.
I would rather light my hair on fire than sit around a bunch of PM's trying to figure out what features to include/exclude.

Me too. Good thing neither activity has anything to do with sprint planning.
are you implying they should be on vacation instead? :)
Probably Fort Ord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ord)
What's the point of sharing experiences/tips/code if you don't have a developer license?
I'm also more comfortable with it as a ARG site for a fictional dystopian movie rather than a site for a real police department, which means it's obviously clearly a propaganda site, which I find disturbing and unsettling.
This is the philosophy we need. Thank you.
thx, dunno why HN doesn't linkifiy primary topic text.
Hmm, I had no idea that pressure differences between altitudes were that great. Fair enough.
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I don't believe for a second this has been a plan in the making for over 8 years and if it was, it was just to keep control of his company, nothing more, not an overly elaborate plan specially designed to keep stockholders at bay when facebook would IPO 8 years later and the stock would inevitably flop and he would need to "rebuild" the companies strategies, what the hell is that?

What a far fetched story!
If your wife is anything like me—and her symptoms are identical to ones I had during an earlier stage of my depression—then they are real and should be examined. Even if they never worsen, they are needless anxieties to carry around.

There are no external problems. Everything is as it is; we choose to interpret the stream of input as problematic, or not. Sometimes we inject falsehoods into the stream ("nobody likes me") to nurse our fear.

It isn't necessary for your wife to live every day peering over her shoulder. Nor convincing herself that her friends and coworkers dislike her. Nor experiencing any of the other anxieties she no doubt simply takes for granted. As someone who carted so many around for not less than a decade, believe me: they're not worth the luggage fees.
Cool...would you mind letting me know if you did get an interview or not-thanks!
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California conservatism goes way back. Despite its liberal image, there are parts of that state that are legendarily, ferociously conservative; the most famous one has been Orange County (see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/us/politics/30orange.html), which was a seedbed of conservative activism for fifty years. The campaign to pass Proposition 13 in 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819...) became a model for 1980s anti-tax conservatism. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan both came out of California. Etc.
I'm more worried about how the hell I got in this windowless and doorless room.
You could still probably get more than a bit per request along those lines with some experimentation.
I work for a company that develops iOS games and interactive experiences for children. When we develop a website for a product, my ask of the developer is always "IE 6 support would be great, but I'm willing to trade that for a wow factor in all other browsers. You need to convince me that the trade off is worth it though."
If you are experiencing slowness while loading the site also, perhaps this link will help:

http://wilwheaton.net.nyud.net/2012/09/depression-lies/
If you find this sort of thing interesting, you might investigate Witkacy[1] if you haven't already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Ignacy_Witkiewi...
Very nice! I've been toying with a similar idea for a while too, here's some feedback and ideas from my own project:

- Bug: Don't let me create empty list items.

- Definitely let people make private link-only anonymous lists without being logged in, then let them claim (ie. fork into an account) when they make an account.

- Have an embed code, so that you can make a list and embed it in a blog post or whatnot. Then you can maintain the list on forkbin without worrying about updating your blog post every time something changes.

- If you let people include media in the content (top music videos? best photos of X? etc), then they can use it for much more than you originally planned.

Also, think about what kinds of lists you want to optimize for. I've been trying to break down all types of lists into a small set of orthogonal categories, this is what I've come up with: https://gist.github.com/2467329 (feedback welcome--note that maintaining this list and accepting feedback is a pain itself).

Best of luck!
Mattt is seriously a boss, and this is pretty sweet. Thanks for the example!

*edit: typo.
We should all go talk about it on Shaker.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2012/09/techcrunch-disrupt...
Quantum Teleportation.
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While I like NGE very much, the all psychology aspect of it is mostly just nonsense, though. I have never seen anyone being able to explain it from beginning to end without contradicting themselves. That's part of the magic why people find it superb : they don't get it because there's nothing much to get :)
Thank you for explaining, I think I get it now. The ML course on Coursera is a little light on the Maths. As in the professor only explains as much is needed to perform the techniques. So I think I'll be watching Strangs Linear Algebra lectures on OCW soon. :)
I once worked with a png decoder which crashes with some input format. Later on found out it is an alignment issue, which requires some basic knowledge about Computer architecture and assembly of course.
Yes, you could definitely do that. A good example would be an offline app.. Having said that, in a recent turn of events, iOS 5.x+ decided to make localStorage non-persistent... Ugh.
Please do not assume the movie is equivalent to the graphic novel. The movie's not bad, but you cannot compare it to the contents of the original work.
Any downloadable slick slides that can cause "so much hype that they get valuations"? For someone who don't know how to make one, it'll be blessing.
At the moment, I don't have the cycles to join the group and follow up on getting it resolved. But FWIW:

The installation appeared to proceed successfully, but when I started emacs, I got errors about "ignore-errors" being void, and there was also an error in one of the various buffers about not being able to find "el4r-setup". I'm running OS X Lion, I created a new rvm gemset with 1.9.2-p290 to do the gem installation, and I didn't have to "sudo" anything for any of the installation steps.

Also, your install documentation could do with more hints on what to do once it's installed to figure out whether it's working or not. I started emacs, typed "ls" and double-clicked it, but I had (and have) no idea whether nothing happened because I was doing something wrong, or because it was broken.
what about people like me who can't or wont pay the 5$ webstore fee?

I suppose the only option left for me (and people like me) is to do what mrng suggested and instruct users to download the unpacked version and install it manually via dev. mode.

edit: it seems like there there is another way on http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=e... (click on "Steps on adding extensions from other websites"). it makes things better, but it still complicates things for the user. way to go, google.
It's extremely important in the financial industry.
I read this post with interest but, honestly speaking, if you consider that all the characters have mental disorders, then 100% of the population have mental disorders as well. I am not sure where you can draw a line between a mental disorder and a personality trait !
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Dark corners at present: compiling 64 bit C++ code into it. Otherwise; it's my favorite thing.
Everything we do rewires our brain. That's how we learn. And note that she say "counterproductive in excess".
Cat catenates, it doesn't nearly always concatenate :-)
I've been on the other end of the enterprise purchasing process for tech products and services many times and given my experiences as oftentimes the only technical person involved a fundamentally broken process, I would not recommend that anyone go into producing enterprise technology solutions with the exception of those products that solve problems impervious to bikeshedding.

You want to solve problems that business people are capable of understanding are problems that are worth solving, but which are sufficiently complex enough that the business side of things has no other option than to defer the decision to purchase or not to those within the enterprise that are technologically competent. If bikeshedding can occur in the purchasing process and that is not a pleasant process to deal with.

If you're willing to put up with bullshit, then there is money to be made, but then again many entrepreneurs left a career in entreprise because they were sick of dealing with those problems.
But it's obnoxiously not set by default.
awesome. I've used them, and the service was great.
Seconded. Having a demo that you can immediately start playing with is absolutely vital for gaining traction with a novel app.
Yes, and if a significantly large portion of the market was clamoring for a waterproof smartphone, Apple probably would make one.
It's not sharing it with "outsiders" that's the issue. The problem is that the NDA limits you to being able to discuss these things with other developers on Apple's forums, and that is the only venue. And honestly Apple's forum isn't terribly helpful - the search sucks and the forum is full of noise.

Suppose a change in a new iOS version broke your app, and you wrestled with it for a weekend trying to fix it. How many other developers' weekends could you have saved, if only you were permitted to blog about the issue?

You can't write up examples of stuff using the new APIs, and post it on Github, or share at a local developer group meeting. So inexperienced developers can't learn from others.

It's not like the NDA is protecting things that would be truly damaging if disclosed, considering all it takes for them to pull aside the velvet rope is $100, and they've let both Google and Samsung in. The real secret stuff clearly goes to the blessed developers who get advance notice of things like the taller screen or GPU capabilities.
You seriously feel in danger of getting blown up by Muslims? You're way more likely to get hit by a bus or get shot by the police.
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Why is it safe to include a subset of the SHA1 digest instead of the whole digest? What's the reasoning behind this? Would it make sense to use a shorter hash (e.g. CRC32) instead if your filenames have to be that short?
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I've been benchmarking various methods recently and also figured out that optimizations basically make it impossible (or very hard) to benchmark correctly. Are there any resources about these optimizations?
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David, I used Paypal in the past. but last year, I said goodbye with PAYPAL. Paypal still hold my money about $20000 dollar and never released to me more than 365days. it is legal for PAYPAL, when not even your bank is legally allowed do that?
Share please. This sounds interesting. =D
Thanks, that helps a lot.

I apologize if I got a bit crass in my earlier comment. I think the Wil Wheaton's Guide To Depression post has me a bit sensitive today. I probably took the worst view of your comments and got annoyed over my own warped perception.

I probably should just use a library for this, but I've been in a pretty "reinvent the wheel to learn about wheels" mode with the thing that I'm building (the latest in a series of projects which continue to elude actual completion). I even started writing a framework a while back, before switching to CodeIgniter since it's widely used and easy (before switching back to writing a framework after getting annoyed fighting CI... kidding).

Since there's likely only ever going to be a single user for this thing, I doubt the password implementation actually matters much, but it's certainly going to be a debate for a day or two.

Thanks again.
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This was shown by Professor Andrew in the Coursera ML class that's happening right now.

Given n features x1 to xn we introduce x0 feature which is always set to 1. During the Regularization lectures the professor said that we don't need to control (or regularize) the theta0 (the parameter for x0) because it doesn't make a difference. I believe this is the reason W(0,0) is set to 0.

The lectures are a little light on the maths, i.e the professor explains only enough maths to explain the techniques so I'm not aware of more details. I'm planning on watching some Linear Algebra lectures to fill in the gaps. :)

Re: Invertability, according to the professor, if lambda is > 0 then the matrix will be invertable. Again I'm not 100% sure if this is true or not.
Android gets a simple mobile site with boring self-congratulatory text reports of the great job cops are doing. Apparently 20th century computers get all the fun on this one.
hehe, has gone in 6 months after going through YC? those solo founders must be really priceless then:)
PayPal's had for years a policy of not holding funds of well-established accounts with a good history. Either this is a broadening of that policy to more accounts, or a PR move to get more people to know about it.

This text has appeared in my chargeback notices back to at least mid-2010:

> Usually, when a buyer files a chargeback and the card issuer reverses the charge, we temporarily hold the funds until the issue is resolved. However, because of your low dispute rate and consistent sales volume, we're allowing you access to the funds while we investigate the chargeback. We want to extend this courtesy to our valued customers, because we know how inconvenient it can be to have your funds held.

http://i.imgur.com/a35fP.png
This is very true. Using jQMobile on phonegap can make your app slow down to a crawl. I would suggest CSS3 animations and Zepto.js as an alternative. See the discussion on HN of how tumblr built their iOS app http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496150
Can you please explain why this is? Or maybe point to an explanation somewhere? Thanks.
C isn't the kind of thing you dabble in.
I did too. The book was On Lisp, by Paul Graham.
Dilbert reference:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
'Won't hold their funds' is a reward? That should be the standard.
Great post! Thanks for this.
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terrorism is a "systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal" (dictionary.com). Zynga 'games' are acts of terrorism that attack the human mind to achieve their goals.

What a bunch of fluff
Congrats!

I just put in an order to have my AC fixed tomorrow. Hopefully it works out, I hate going to mechanics, but my high mileage car demands that I do so often.
BTW, the hang seems to be caused by the block of the dynamic css.
Thanks! I know YC doesn't care how you spend the money granted, but I imagine that angel/seed funding of larger amounts probably comes with expectations (either implied or explicit) regarding the founders' salary which would inversely correlate with remaining runway. I'll have to read up more on salary expectations for seed/angel funded startups.
I'll plead ignorance if it was up last year although just shifts the thinking above. So let's say Apple Maps was planned for 2011 but by wwdc they realized releasing in 2011 would be a huge disaster so they had to go back to google for another year.

As far as Google I'd guess they would have been fine to continue powering the default Maps app. Google's price might have gone up from 2007 but the quality increased by a similar amount.
Ok, that clears it up:

He doesn't need to set W(0,0) to 1 specifically because he sets x0 to 0 (which guarantees a non-zero value in the covariance matrix).

But the standard way to do L2 regularization (also known as "ridge regression") is to add a scaled identity matrix (the entire diagonal set to be nonzero)
Keyboard navigation appears to be completely borked: try page up, page down, ctrl+home, or ctrl+end none of them appear to work! ARGH!

Just for fun, I tried searching for rescue in the page. The scroll magic they are using causes the found word in chrome to be off the screen.
Congratulations to Art. Great job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dopu3ZtdCsg is a good intro.
This is a fair point. The only note here is that the "enforced stop" as you put it is a function of the wheel diamter. If you think about making a wheel "non-round", its a function of the surface hardness of the wheel (ability to deofrm) and the relative size. so a 1/2 inch rock is just so much more likely to hurt a 2inch or whatever wheel than a 17/21/26 or whatever (would be like hitting a 6-8inch piece of concrete).

The frequency of this hazaard is more the problem. I skated in college to work all the time, but had the benefit of clean/smooth/concrete. It was a great mode of transit, for that. Who knows maybe someday the will have such lanes for these things?

& Obviously, the enforced stop scenario sucks on bike. Think, NYC taxi-cab doors, and etc. So thats fair.
Getting a startup off the ground is not a one man job. Sooner you get another pair of hands and a brain to help you out with this task the better. Why wait until accepted or not accepted? It's irrelevant, you just need at least one more person besides yourself
For certain people in certain circumstances, they won't do the gobsmacking, business-killing thing they've been doing. It's not so much a step in the right direction as just tilting their head toward it.
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Yes but I can't believe that this is the phone J. spent the last months of his life co-designing. This product has a "more of the same" feel to me, I would call it iPhone4SS actually.

ps.if you prefer android just read the name in a l33t way.
awesome interface.....easy to subscribe to rss feed sources and share it with friends .....first social feed sharing service.
> WARNING: We have detected that you currently have Javascript disabled.

> This website requires the use of Javascript, for the best possible viewing experience we highly recommend that you enable Javascript via your browser's options.

Do I really need to elaborate here? For the record, the site works (to some extent) in Lynx.

But in Firefox without Javascript, they actually took the time to make it completely useless and they have that little block of text on top. Why did they waste their time doing that?

If they don't support non-Javascript browsers, fine. I actually don't care about that. But to... anti-support them. To actively work to make the page useless to them. That is what I don't get. I would appreciate some insight into their thoughts here.