skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop and Frisk is based on so called Terry stops. There doesn't have to be suspicion of a weapon to stop a person, just to frisk them. However, such stops (even before a search) must be based on specific and articulable facts... basically if a cop stops a person, they have to be able to say why, exactly, they stopped them. Further, those facts have to be enough to make a reasonable person believe a crime has been, is being, or will be committed by the individual.

That's just to stop a person. The pat down is if they believe the individual has a weapon. If they can plainly tell that the item found by feeling it is contraband (by feel), then that's legit.

Now in practice, this isn't what seems to be happening in NY. The stops and the searches don't meet the requirements that courts have set. However, young poor people don't generally get their day in court. Instead, they get plea agreements, which are substantially lighter then what they would get if they went to court. Public defenders and pro bono lawyers for the urban poor often don't have enough resources to do much else but advise their client to take the plea.

There is good news however, in that class action status has been granted to a law suit (or at least one) against the NYPD. Class actions can mean that the NYPD can be forced to change their policy.

Anyway, if you are stopped while driving, that is also an extension of the Terry stop doctrine, save that police have the power to make people exit their vehicle in most cases.
In before:

This would never have happened if Steve Jobs were still with us.

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But yeah, I'll wait to see it but the videos made it look ugly. And they dropped optical drives and (probably) easy RAM upgrades to make it work. Now you'll need an external drive and also some big suction cups if you don't want to pay Apple's crazy RAM prices.
This is great that PG is talking Hardware Startups - I seem to remember him being less than enthusiastic before, but either way I'm glad that he's seeing a lot of the same things we on the ground are seeing.

A few months back I announced on HN that I started a http://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups, so I wanted to mention that we're growing a pretty good community over there as well.
I agree. And I don't think it poses a real problem if a very small percentage do this. The problem is when instead of paying Southwest $10 for Early Bird a large group uses this guy. I find it wonderful that I don't need to pay a premium for an exit row or aisle seat, unlike other airlines. I'm openly biased toward Southwest, but only because they've earned it.
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The best GUI is the one that works best for you, not me. That is the only true answear upon anying with even a hint of artistic creativity ( colours, shapes, movement of those shapes ) as there is no one answear. Some people like to use window layout and features in different ways for different tasks. For some Metro may be perfect and for others it is an offence to the pixels upon there monitors. Those are mostly going to be the ones that as long as they can pull up Terminal windows, or just plays open source games, or many other variations of how we use the tool we call a computer.

So in short for him he is not kidding, for you he is and your both right, lets not go down this path.
I liked Marc's "Structured Procrastination" a lot better.

http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-pers...
The iPod mini was also widely mocked by the tech crowd - it was $249 to the iPod's $299, with much smaller (like 1/10th, IIRC) storage space.

Turns out it became the best selling iPod of all time.
Looks cool. I think I would find it more useful if I could see a demo (not of the authoring, but of the result).
This is an important point and needs to be addressed. $20k doesn't go very far at all in the hardware startup world.

That said, it is possible to be frugal--to a point. My team and I try to use inexpensive solutions where we can. We're using Rhino instead of SolidWorks (OK until we need the hardcore simulation functionality), KiCAD instead of Altium (same, until we need the simulation), MikroElektronika's C compiler for ARM rather than Keil, MeshCAM rather than Mastercam, a cobbled together kit CNC mill rather than "real" mill, a Chinese-made laser cutter rather than an Epilog, and a wide array of machine shop equipment sourced from Craigslist.

Our product also touches biotech, so we have outrageous reagent costs too. We still have shell out for antibodies, fluorescent probes, proper biosafety lab space, etc.

I'd love to see YCombinator comment on accepting biotech/healthcare companies.
Thanks! If you create some tooltips on the page and refresh the page, you kind of get a feel of what it would be like for a visitor (though "Hide" won't permanently hide the tooltips in that state).
competitive latin ballroom dancing :-)
I am arguing that (beyond their legal right). I can overlook someone circumventing a company who treats their customers poorly, but I believe a company who excels at customer service deserves a higher level of support in return from their customers. "Do unto others," if you will.
That's awesome, haven't seen that before. Funny because I was just at Brooklyn Beta and Ben spoke at length about how he didn't know what he was doing and attributed some of Svpply's "failure" to his run as CEO.
* EDIT: Didn't see the article had more pages. Please disregard my silly comment. I feel a bit dumb, but the control to go to the next page is non-standard and confusing if you ask me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5owebbhai6oxazt/Screen%20Shot%2020...

This review doesn't say a thing about the device. He doesn't say anything negative, he doesn't say anything positive. He just says it's worth considering, and heavily quotes a random Microsoft exec. He says he "gets it" but doesn't say what that means.

I have no idea what the point of the article is, or what information it's supposed to convey. He could have simply said "Microsoft has a tablet."

I'd say it was a PR piece if it didn't sound so darn blase on the whole thing, but I guess that echoes the exec he quoted. Is Microsoft's communications strategy simply to convince people not to talk about the features or functions of the Surface?
I may be missing your point, but today is Tuesday.
> Definition of a game per Google:
> A form of play or sport, esp. a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.

Resorting to a dictionary definition to argue a point is nearly always a sign you've got a weak argument. But in this case, I want to point out the "esp." just after the first comma in the definition you cite.

It means especially. In context, that means that games need not adhere to the conditions specified in the subordinate clause.

Also, I swear Wittgenstein had something to say on this topic.
Thank you! If we can get traction, we definitely want to let the community build guides of their own, while leveraging the topics covered in existing guides. I'm hoping this becomes a low-overhead format for experienced engineers to share their accumulated knowledge to students.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619059
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His point was that even though the event was shadowed by Apple, there's still three days left of mainstream news coverage. There's a reason bad news is announced on a Friday, after all, and arguably this story could receive more coverage than one broken on that day.
Evaluating text pipelines with one-boxing and Git at Wavii
Good point! I guess I was looking at it as an advantage and other cities would start their own program to compete just like employers do today. I just figured people tend to not move geographically as much as they change jobs.
>Resorting to a dictionary definition to argue a point is nearly always a sign you've got a weak argument.

Or a sign that your opponent is redefining words to fit their argument instead of using the commonly accepted one. Are you telling me it's unfair to refer to an authoritative source as to the meaning of a word?

In any case, there has to be some kind of definition or else the word becomes meaningless. By defining Farmville as a "game", you could just as easily define twiddling numbers on an Excel sheet as a "game". Where do you stop? Is Farmville a game just because it has a pretty skin?
No, some people are just trying to make a living. And maybe make the world a better place outside their job. So fuck you too!
Snippets from the last page:

"As a device, Surface is incredibly well executed.

Surface is the most flexible tablet I've ever used.

Multitasking, task switching and the ability to have multiple applications active on the screen at once are all big advantages that Microsoft enjoys. For productivity workloads, Surface is without equal in the tablet space.

Content consumption is also great on the device. Surface's display isn't industry leading but it's still good. Reading emails, browsing the web flipping through photos and watching videos are all good fits for the platform - just as good as competing solutions from Apple or Google.

I would have liked to have seen faster hardware inside, and there are some rough edges that could use smoothing out (e.g. the power connector and HDMI output come to mind) but overall the device is easily in recommendable territory.

If you're ok being an early adopter, and ok dealing with the fact that mobile devices are still being significantly revved every year, Surface is worth your consideration. If you've wanted a tablet that could really bridge the content consumption and prodcutivity device, Surface is it."
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This would certainly be useful for a lot of the other Show HN's. Can't wait to see this in production.
In Cyberattack on Saudi Firm, U.S. Sees Iran Firing Back
Inbound.org is the correct place to dump links to low-quality SEO-related articles.
This from the company that patented the 8-day outage.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/01/21/joyen...
Microsoft Surface with Windows RT review by Engadget
This is not true. Topaz is a scanned, PDF like format that Amazon uses for older books where for whatever reason they can't get a digital copy. While it's true that Topaz books can't have the DRM easily removed, only around 5% of Amazon's books are in this format.
A PC that can't run any PC app? You can like Surface RT if you want but let's not be ridiculous, it's not a PC.
Developer Reading List: C++11, Parallel Programming, CoffeeScript, Requirements
It's not working for me. It just says [object Object]
Firefox 16.0.1 on MAC OS X
Ask HN: Is anyone using machine learning for A/B tests?
I am starting to apply machine learning in different ways, and I would like to know if someone is using machine learning for A/B tests.

For example, is is saving data and then showing A or B based on that data and improving it with each new case. I am not just talking about if A or B converted (that would be only success %), but more data like date, time, gender. For example:

I just came with the next idea: Maybe on the night, your visitors are tired for the day, so if you put something like "Register now. Only takes 2 minutes", has more conversions because has a better effect on tired people.

I am sorry if I am just divagating (and sorry for my English)
Cool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a month. At that price point you'd need 1,000 customers just to be ramen profitable!
Is that true? My experience is that you're both wrong. You retain what you spent on the flight as credit w/ Southwest for future travel.
I think the product is pretty cool.
I also really like the design of the site.
Good observation. On top of that, it may be nice to find a solution where you can easily monitor data flowing out of electronic devices in real time. Certainly a lot of software products you can build on top of the coming hardware era.
The People app: the complete, cloud-powered address book for Windows 8
Ah shoot. Haven't heavily tested outside of Chrome. I'll check it out, thanks!

Edit: Fixed the issue. Looks like just a small problem with the bookmarklet. Pushing it up now. :)
It's a bit of both. The original Galaxy S (which was only a year and a half old at the time, and was a top-of-the-line phone) struggled really hard with stock android ICS for me.
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i farted

(in case it's not obvious, that's directly from the site)

seriously?
Is it possible you didn’t see that this review has multiple pages? You seem to have only read the introduction and setup (where the tone you encountered isn’t something special: at the start most reviews paint a picture of the environment a product is in and what the company that is selling the product says it wants the product to be).
I don't get why you think the article did not say anything about the tablet. It did review and compare various aspects of it such as the performance, display, battery life with other tablets on the market.

It did not cover the software in details but I think that is the part of the review. Windows 8 by itself has been covered in detail elsewhere.
I agree, this is unusual for Anandtech. It seems you could summarise the 12 page review as 'meh'. Maybe they didn't have enough time with it to get into any more detailed analysis.

Also, I get the impression that Microsoft has been set a lower bar -- almost encouraged for just having a go in this space rather than comparing it to existing products. E.g. how does the Type Cover compare to the range of 3rd party products available for the iPad for < $129? How much better is the Touch Cover to onscreen when taking into account predictive text & auto correct? Not much to go on in this review. Maybe MS haven't given a lot of time for people to spend with the product.
Actually AMD owns the x86-64 instruction set and licenses it to Intel in return for the x86 license.

Also doesn't Intel also make GPUs?
Since you're using Github pages, just use Markdown fenced code blocks, e.g.

```javascript
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```
Glad you found our anti-scraping stuff to be neat! I work on the team that builds a lot of that technology at Facebook. Any interest in interning here sometime and helping us improve our systems even more?
Welcome to the real world, kid. Mommy's not going to check you in anymore, and if you've got a clever way to take advantage of a big company's systems in spite of their policies, keep it on the down low.
Well all the speculation can be put to rest, the keyboard cover works and fantastically.
Zynga lays off 5 percent of workforce, closes 3 offices (updated)
What I meant by "100% credit" is 100% credited back into your SWA account - not cash back - but that's still amazing by industry standards.
>> Maybe MS haven't given a lot of time for people to spend with the product.

I remember to have read that he was playing with the device for almost 3 weeks. That's seems long enough.
Our recent projects through the FCC were about $5-6k for a single product, and around 1-2 week turnaround time.

Granted, we have intentional radiators (like wifi radios, cellular modems) in our products so it may be more expensive. YMMV of course.

Edit: with the comment by thomaslangston, I should clarify that the included radios already had their own FCC certifications; this was just Part 15 for the whole device.
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AnandTech does a great job with in-depth technical dives, but for general product reviews sites like the Verge seem to do a much better job.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3540550/microsoft-surface...

The promise of the Surface was that it could deliver a best-in-class tablet experience, but then transform into the PC you needed when heavier lifting was required. Instead of putting down my tablet and picking up my laptop, I would just snap on my keyboard and get my work done. But that's not what the Surface offers, at least not in my experience. It does the job of a tablet and the job of a laptop half as well as other devices on the market, and it often makes that job harder, not easier. Instead of being a no-compromise device, it often feels like a more-compromise one.
You could friend people, get to know them, get their email, go to a party to meet their friends, friend them.... and eventually scrape the whole network, if you had a team working in parallel.
Thanks!

The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.
$9/month at the cheapest.
Opposite behaviors? Arctic sea ice shrinks, Antarctic grows
I can't wait to try one myself. I only wish it was cheaper, mostly because I'm not sure how much value I would get out of it. (I own a laptop and a Nexus 7)
Is it a 'dick move' that Apple releases their products at a time calculated to get maximum media exposure? Or that every other smart company in the World also times bad news?

There are many things one might accurately criticize Zynga for, but this is not one of them. If they hadn't done it this way investors would have yet another reason to sell the stock, it would be evidence the company is run by idiots.
Nine out of the ten winning teams wrote their JavaScript in CoffeeScript? Wow, that's pretty incredible -- I would never have expected it.
Power grid upgrades may cause blackouts, warns Braess's paradox
22 paragraphs before getting into what the thing actually does.

22 paragraphs dominated by nobody noticing it, the kickstand is pretty good, and at first coerced glance people prefer iPads.

Then it gets into what the tablet isn't: Windows as you know it.
Not allowed by Facebook developer TOS (which they never enforce).
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From the review: "this isn't an iPad competitor"

And yet, Microsoft lifts the embargo on reviews about 6hrs after the release of the new ipad. Fun timing.
Cheapest? Or most?

Edit: Based on what everyone else is saying, I've assumed you indeed meant to say cheapest.
I see lots of comments talking about FEC. That's not how the article reads to me. Granted the author (or I?) may be completely out in left field, but here's my take on what it says:

Let's suppose you have a mathematical process that outputs a stream of [useful] data. The description of the process is much, much smaller than the output. You can "compress" the data by sending the process (or equation) instead. Think π. Do you transmit a million digits of π or do you transmit the instruction "π to a million digits"? The latter is shorter.

Now, reverse the process: given an arbitrary set of data, find an equation (or process) that represents it. Not easy for sure. Perhaps not possible. I recall as a teenager reading an article about fractals and compression that called on the reader to imagine a fractal equation that could re-output your specific arbitrary data.

If I've totally missed the article's point, please correct me, but explain why it also talks about algebra.

EDIT: I re-read and noticed this: "If part of the message is lost, the receiver can solve the equation to derive the missing data." I can see the FEC nod here.

Guh. I guess I'm blind tonight. "Wireless networks are in desperate need for forward error correction (FEC), and that’s exactly what coded TCP provides." I cannot for the life of me understand why they'd need to keep this a secret.
I hate to say it, but I'm becoming a but of a Windows FanBoi.

After using Win 8 for a few weeks now, this article confirmed some of the things I was seeing, but not sure if it was just me seeing a new shiny toy or it really was happening.

The two things I've already noticed are it starts up a lot faster, and comes back from sleep a lot faster as well. It's also a lot more stable. Almost no crashes when I was running several Adobe apps at the same time. I'm running with 4GB RAM and was impressed with the performance. I can only imagine how well it would run under a much faster processor and even more RAM. The real winners will be desktop users for sure.

Losing the Start button was not a huge issue. I use an app launcher and just hitting the WIN button takes you to the main metro screen with all your apps. It's not hardly as confusing as everybody is crying about.
For simple board design projects, I recommend starting with a microcontroller, such as AVR (as used by the Arduino). The chip manufacturer usually provides reference boards as a starting point / cheat-sheet for your design.
If you'd like to go deep into embedded system design, I've also accumulated all of notes at: http://bringuplabs.com/guide/smartphone/
I'm actually looking for students to give feedback on this curriculum format, so feel free to message me if you have any questions!
Breaking ARC Retain Cycle in Objective-C Blocks
I bet the variation in the size of people's fingers is greater than the difference in the size of touch targets between original and mini iPads... :)
Really? My wifi RTT to the metropolitan core is 15 ms, and over LTE it is 47 ms. Not a worthwhile tradeoff at 40 ms unconditional additional RTT delay.

I imagine the higher latency was used to offset lower bandwidth due to FEC encoding loss, by amortizing it over more bits.
Hackers Release PlayStation 3 LV0 Decryption Keys
I see the admin panel now. I'll keep playing with it.
JavaOne Video: Introduction to Play Framework
I used Verilog a little bit in college, while studying for my EE degree. It didn't seem like a bad language. It was a weird blend of register transfer-level stuff and C-like pseudocode stuff.

It sounds like Verilog fell prey to the C++ philosophy of language design-- just keep adding anything that sounds remotely like a good idea to the core language. If it interacts poorly with what's already there, that's just too bad.

Unfortunately, new programming languages are NOT a good startup idea, in any field. Also, if people are paying 5 and 6 figures for tools in SystemVerilog, change is going to be slow.
Aren't encoding and distribution fees both licensing fees faced by content providers? Your overall argument here isn't very strong.
I like Make magazine, the official Arduino book, and hackaday. I know this is not a list of books, but its good reading material for those looking to expand into hardware. From hackaday you get a bunch of little known links to smaller projects where the authors just pour their brains out into simple webpages. Awesome stuff really. Check it out.
> Yes, you can use it as your only computer. I would never have made that claim about an iPad or Android tablet. But if you only need to live in Microsoft Office and the web and e-mail, and use your computer for media consumption, you’ll do great with this.

So an "only computer" requires Microsoft Office, everything else is negotiable.