skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does pointing out non-trivial shortcomings and flaws in implementation equate to being "who-can-act-more-jaded-and-know-it-all-ish?"

The app has issues. There are limits to its usability. There are methods that circumvent these issues that are worth pursuing. Mentioning these things is constructive and worthwhile.

I'm sick of people who refuse to acknowledge the value of criticism.
Why have speed limits at all then?

Technically speaking, some states don't, at least not hard limits. For example, in Massachusetts, on roadways under MassHighway (well, now known as the MassHighway division of MassDOT) jurisdiction, speeds are supposed to be "reasonable and proper" (MGL Chapter 90, Section 17). Exceedance of posted speed limits are "prima facie" evidence of speeding, but not conclusive evidence, so it's technically possible to exceed the posted speed limit but not break the law if you can demonstrate that your speed is "reasonable and proper" (of course if you're not a lawyer or someone willing to spend a lot of money, this argument is not likely to fly in front of a magistrate). The MassPike and MassDCR roads require strict adherence to posted limits.

There are several other states that use "reasonable and proper" similar to MA, but I'd have to look them up to give a list. For the other states, I suspect the absolute limits are in place for simplicity.
They let me activate it in the store. Just ask politely and they'll do it.
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That must be possible I guess
> professional drivers getting out of massive speeding tickets

That seems unlikely.

> Why have speed limits at all then?

To reduce the frequency and severity of crashes.

To give people a baseline for safe speed. If most people's usual driving speed is "10 mph over the limit," then the effective speed limit is simply N+10 mph, where N is the number on the signs.

> tailgating

It's easy to deal with this effectively on your own. If you're being tailgated, just take your foot off the gas until you're 10mph under the limit. The tailgater will pass you at the very first opportunity. It's magic!
(U.S.) Patent System: 100 % fucked.
If you criticize what I say, then please bring arguments against what I said, i.e. bring me an example of a more Expressive, Flexible, Real world ready, community supported programming language to code in... (except ruby derivatives) I'd love to learn it. Don't forget any points please, because this is what made ruby so popular and adopted... Oh and don't even start with "expressive is subjective" thing. We are talking about a language, not an abstract art painting.
David Gelernter predicted Dropbox in 1996
Genomic Analysis, the Office Edition
Everything has to be new some time.
Jack Ma stepping down as Alibaba CEO
By "discretion" to you mean officers revealing private/personal info or images (such as going to the bathroom)? In that case, you allow the officer to turn the system off for preset intervals (say, 5-10 minutes), with the understanding that if an arrest or alteration were to coincidentally happen during that shutdown period, the officer's account would be treated with extreme skepticism - and multiple occurrences of incidents happening during shutdown periods would be grounds for termination.

If by "discretion" you're talking about officers using their judgment in the field to let offenders go without citation, I don't see why video changes anything. Law enforement would still have the discretion to charge or not charge, and if anything, the video would be helpful to supporting that officer's discretion and for training purposes as examples of the right/wrong way to do things.
What is your recommended introduction to design patterns? I've been meaning to read the original but I do get that old-school clunky Java feel from it. I'd be very interested in an updated Design Patterns for OO languages with mild functional capabilities like C++11, C#, Python.
not the best choice of words i agree. They do at times bear some similarities with what I might call "freedom fighters" - but that is also usually true of people that the US labels terrorists.
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I notice the tweetdeck web (and therefore client) ssl cert has just been revoked...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCJ8yC_CcAAHZlJ.png:large
> "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids.""

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Of course availability is not guaranteed immediately; but on major routes it's effectively guaranteed due to volume.

As for costs, the government is heavily involved in managing fuel prices, and no doubt effectively controls airport landing and service fees, though I'm not sure about other factors. (They certainly aren't mandating any form of edible in-flight food!)

At a former employer, two of my executives (CEO/MD) were former British Airlines management. The CEO made me aware that, in fact, governments almost always subsidise air travel; even of the famed 'most profitable route' (London to New York). I haven't gone and done the research but my ex-CEO had no motivation to lie about it; AFAIK this is just another example of some of the 'peons pay for riche' realities of our world. As my mother puts it elegantly; "life isn't fair". Ain't that the truth.

At least in China you don't get charged extra for not having long-term plans. Leaving Australia recently, I was forced to buy an onward ticket (that I never used) from the destination country, despite the destination country's consulate (that I'd visited the day before) telling me this was not required. This sort of thing is a western air travel industry scam, and costs far more than some government inefficiencies.

I think US perspectives in particular tend to be very pro-capitalism/free market, whereas there are actually some good low-hanging fruit to be had from intelligent and light-touch regulation.

Much like code, business processes come in flavours and each offer their own benefits. Open source would be preferable; we're not there yet.
I've been working on something just like this! It is a mashup of Ghost<john.onolan.org/ghost/>, and a editor like this. If you was to see the uncompleted version its here: http://quaz3l.github.com/ghost/g-admin/posts.html
ERPNext (plug)
It would be cool if you updated the page title to reflect that of the page in the iframe. That way if the page title changes I can see it immediately in the browser tab.
Further more to this, how about an 'MVP' version of the book - write a chapter and see ifyou can get any interest in it and make a decision from there.
They aren't reliable.

If I was a suspect or witness testifying in a trial that could result in myself or someone I know getting the death penalty or going to jail for a long time, I'd be really nervous and maybe fail the lie detector even if my answers were completely truthful.

OTOH a police officer who's used to lying to suspects (it's the main tool police have in countries where torture or police brutality isn't allowed), or a hardened psychopath criminal who doesn't see anything wrong with lying to protect his own interests, may be so cool that he/she can easily pass the lie detector.
Thanks for the response with a bit of context from that perspective.

However, I would think that "material to the issue" and "miscarriage of justice" would both apply to the potential, or particularly actual, conviction of another person based on false testimony.

Perjuring oneself while under deposition can lead to prosecution without any "miscarriage of justice" having taken place in the form of a concluded trial and judgment based upon said testimony.

The courts might also consider context, where the fact of a member of law enforcement committing perjury might be considered particularly onerous, and worrisome in that it may reflect a repeated pattern across multiple cases and potentially across multiple law enforcement officers if it reflects de facto policy and/or improper training and supervision.

Finally, effective law enforcement in this country is meant to depend upon and engender public trust -- and participation, amongst other things in the direct form of the jury. Failure to investigate and prosecute frankly criminal behavior on the part of law enforcement undermines this foundation.

Witness areas such as those described in the OP, where law enforcement ends up in certain respects being "another gang".

P.S. I might add that, with respect to the incentives that the OP article describes, it appears that the perjuring law officer may stand, directly or through their organization, to gain materially as a result of their false testimony.

Not only are they bearing false witness, they are doing so for material benefit.

Which speaks to the nature of the incentives and metrics described.
About the prestige - Why do you think they're considered prestigious? Is it simply word of mouth, or is there something behind it? Not saying you can't find something on the top X list that provides a good learning experience without the prestige.

I never really felt that my classes at GT were at busy work. Definitely difficult, until you look back later and ask yourself why you ever struggled with that, it was so easy compared to what you're doing now.
Alas, the poll doesn't have a "GOD, I hope not!" choice.
Ah yes, you're right. Anytime someone accuses cops of lying, those cops usually go straight to jail, and judges rip them a new one. That is most definitely how the system is stacked up, especially in New York.

And a few years ago, when an officer secretly taped his bosses deliberately fudging statistics, that was just another case of biased recording devices...chronic issue, for sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft

I wonder why the author of that piece couldn't devote 30,000 exhaustive words for the article. Another conspiracy of course.
You know, that might actually be a good idea. Sounding more hip (without sounding stupid) could actually help. gnu.org could also use some serious redesign. Brand is important.

Also, fsf.org doesn't immediately scream at you what the FSF is and why you should care. They might want to work on that.
Creating your first SPDY app
I do a lot of web development along with other programming.

This list seems bunk outside of git and github.

What about jsFiddle, Rubular, Sequel pro, Balsalmiq, iTerm, [add your array of unmentioned apps here]?

Also, as someone who is quite overweight, is a list for me forthcoming? (joke).

Seriously, "Lean" Web Development, never heard of it.

Was this written by a web development professional or someone with literally no understanding of the job and its associated toolchain?
Have you looked into ting? (ting.com) They currently only have android, and they are just using Sprint's network but they are month to month and it is super easy to turn off data.
Do you have specific suggestions, aside from not grading on a curve (which is common but certainly not universal)?
Another part of that deal was that the phones were unsubsidized, and the data plan was a lot cheaper than AT&T's other data plans ($20 for unlimited, everything else was $30 at the time). I am pretty sure that Apple sacrificed all of the monthly revenue from AT&T when they moved to the more conventional US subsidy model with the iPhone 3G.
Well I just wanted to build a network of apps, and since I read HN everyday I thought I might as well start with HN.
I'm the guy who made this and I've appreciated every piece of feedback whether blunt, harsh, positive or not. I agree that the app does have issues, though I don't feel right calling it an app. Hootsuite is an app. Klout is an app. This is a 2 hour project that just happened to get some attention.
Sure, but my theory is that the legal cover they provide is also not worth as much as what they charge; so if the legal cover isn't good, and they aren't any good at picking people, then nobody would use them. But many companies use them, which means one (or both) of my assumptions are wrong.

One theory is that at some companies, the hiring managers/screening process they have is even worse than what most recruiters use. That would be consistent with my observation that standards seem to be lower when I get a job through a recruiter than through a contact.

But yeah, uh, I guess my continued shock is more a product of incorrect assumptions, then. But man.
> Can you provide a citation or point to some case law for my edification, please?

A reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury

Point 1 -- materiality: "Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding."

Point 2 -- resulting in a miscarriage of justice: "Perjury is considered a serious offense as it can be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice."

> a materially false statement (1) made with intent to deceive (2) while under oath or affirmation (3).

Necessary but not sufficient. One must still meet the materiality and miscarriage of justice tests.

And IANAL.
Well, as soon as the first commandment goes down the drain, all other commandments are quick to follow: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." Exodus 20:12. It is the general public who is to blame, because they are not willing to enforce this. Police officers caught using force on behalf of the politicians or their servants to transgress on Exodus 20:12 must be served a final extermination order without trial, procedure or ceremony, executable by whoever happens to available and/or willing, because such is the will of the supreme being.
In that case, we're talking about two different things. BTW I happen to agree that the film is meant as an entertainment, not a documentary.
Blindly trusting webgl is even more unwise than blindly trusting js, because most stacks are accelerated via passing third-party data to shoddy native code. If you're actually putting content on the world-wide web (not just a game that's useless without interactive behavior) js+webgl should never be the only rendering, but I fear that most authors don't care about this.
Github is maybe lacking for a semi-major free software project looking to create a web presence. It does have source hosting, projects pages, and a bug-tracking system, but it doesn't let you upload builds for downloading any more (without a bit of hackery). There are probably other features that would be useful too, like having some sort of forum for users. Github is also kind of cluttered with small projects and forks. It maybe has kind of a low signal-to-noise ratio.

And Sourceforge is . . . Sourceforge.

It might be useful for there to be a website that would fill in the gaps. It would provide semi-major free software projects with the tools and hosting to create real web presences. It wouldn't even necessarily have to provide source hosting.

(Edited twice.)
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> never the OS's package management

Non-OS installation is a huge barrier to new users of a Ruby application. I installed Gitlab recently. Take a look at the length of the installation guide [1]. There are seven numbered steps, some of which involve multiple commands.

Upgrading from 4.0 to 4.1 was about the same complexity.

Thanks to the thoroughness of its author, the guide largely worked as advertised. But being able to install and upgrade with apt-get would have saved me hours.

[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/stable/doc/install...
I'm not sure I can agree with this.
Back in 2001, before I discovered the California bay area start-up scene, I worked in a very large telecommunications company that everyone has heard of. SAP seemed pretty good; albeit hard to master.
As devil's advocate,

I doubt the intention is to record other people's conversations, in fact quite the opposite since everything is recorded.

The real question is, when an incriminating conversation is recorded, which would otherwise be inadmissible, would a court allow it? I suppose yes because the recording is accidental, not intentional.
| Is that so bad?

Please, I wasn't making a value judgement, but one of consistency. We all know that laws are inconsistent and applied inconsistently, but I was surprised that I'd never considered that particular inconsistency in the seat belt debate. Now I'm curious, do you have to wear a seat belt on an ATV? If the desire is maximum safety, then why a lap belt and not a 4-point harness? Why not a motorcycle helmet!

| The legality of motorcycles is a separate issue.

Motorcycles aren't that cleanly separated: the relevant definitions of a "motor vehicle" cover cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, farm vehicles, powered scooters, and, in some cases, Segways. Also see DUI laws and bicycles.

| Just because people are insane on motorcycles...

Although accidents are more brutal, it's not necessarily insane to ride a motorcycle considering their fuel economy. People do insane things in cars as well (eat, text, read, apply makeup).
What exactly is your complaint? Surely you could mute the device?
Culture is top down
Ah, so if by client you mean end-user devices ... yeah. I am not sure Chef or Puppet solves it. On the other hand, my world has been focused on web and mobile apps, so end-user apps tend to use browsers that are already on the end-user device.

I'm not sure what you mean by clients though and how that relates to VM sprawl.

It's true that some developers are convinced that sys admin is something they can do themselves. However, it goes the other way around too, that sys admins think they know what is best for the app. It's better all around if devs actually gain an understanding at the issues with sys admin, and sys admins get some development skills.

As far as the server-side goes, once nice thing about using something like Chef or Puppet is that you can create a miniature version of the production environment on the developer's laptop. You won't run into the same kind of issues when you are scaling out, but you can at least make sure that you are running everything rather than always developing things in isolation.
Hmmmmmmmm. I like where you're going with this. Thanks!
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See this:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60/helpdata/en/43/fcdf77fc651...

When I encountered SAP, it was still the SAPGUI client that you installed on Windows. As I exited my SAP-related job, I believe the change to Web/Netweaver was beginning to happen. I've written a few ABAP programs and 1 or 2 BSP pages. The way I'd describe SAP to someone who hasn't ever used it, is like a very complex & powerful database with many stored-procedures and triggers and functions and special forms(screens) to accept user-input for each of them.
Is it worth (up to) $10 to give FB my street address?

This is an uninformed question; I didn't check whether that data does or might work its way back to FB. But if they do or could, my answer -- for all that they may well already have it through other channels -- is no.

P.S. Which is a shame, as I'd like to see FB pay for this.

P.P.S. Ok, someone else here is saying that undisbursed funds will be contributed to "some good cause". Better, I guess, for me, than would be turning this into a data mining opportunity for FB.
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AT&T is a company providing a service for a price. They are not scum.

I've used AT&T for many years. I'm not always delighted with every policy - the now changed policy of refusing to unlock out of contract iPhones was a particular bone. However I have almost always been satisfied with the service and have had no problem contacting them to correct billing issues.

Why people feel entitled to services at the price they choose is beyond me. Telecom is a competitive market. Just because someone somewhere can get cheaper service doesn't mean you deserve the same.

In the last 15 years we've gone from Dewey decimal to better than Hitchhiker's Guide. Stop your bitching and appreciate what you have. Your ungratefulness is likely to bring a well deserved meteor strike leaving you with fewer telecom options.
And yet they missed obvious prior art. Thus shows the patent system is broken, nothing else.
Why not correct my interpretation, rather than make a snide insinuation?
> How do philosophers and scientists react to Godel's incompleteness theorem w.r.t. falsification?

I can't speak for philosophers, but as to scientists, the issue of falsification and irreducible uncertainty are separate in nearly all cases. Remember that the Incompleteness Theorems address true assertions that cannot be proven within reasonably complex axiomatic systems -- that's a fair remove from empirical science, just as mathematics is.

> To me, at least, it seems to suggest that falsification is a flashlight that for whatever reason fails to illuminate certain otherwise possible paths.

Not at all. Falsification is a very reliable test that can be used to eliminate theoretical assertions from any further consideration, as in the classic "black swan" example already given above. It's unambiguous.

> It's interesting that the emergent properties of the pursuit of falsification bring about a paradoxical system in the limit.

No, neither paradoxical nor ambiguous. A classic falsification has properties that eliminate theories from consideration, period, full stop. Examples abound -- the Ptolemaic system, the ether theory, phlogiston, and so forth.
use tor then

https://www.torproject.org/
To me the picture evokes Byron rather than Kant

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Byron was the absolute Elvis of 1818, when this was painted, and the image is as Byronic as can be.

I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture: I can see
Nothing to loathe in Nature, save to be
A link reluctant in a fleshly chain,
Classed among creatures, when the soul can flee,
And with the sky, the peak, the heaving plain
Of ocean, or the stars, mingle, and not in vain.

(This from a man who used to spend four hours on his toilette before breakfast at 1 pm.)

It's also as far from Kant as you can get. Kant never travelled more than 10 miles from Konigsberg in his life, for Pete's sake – where the housewives, as the saying goes, would set their clocks by his afternoon walk.
I second this. I'm very interested in any clarifications!
Doing this would be a mistake. You do not want to add web-aware code to a module that is concerned with doing math.
I'd hope that you would have higher expectations of Harvard students a bit more strictly than monkeys.
> Why people feel entitled to services at the price they choose is beyond me. Telecom is a competitive market.

Because it isn't a competitive market. Wireless telecoms have been granted licenses to spectrum by the FCC so they can run their businesses. There's a limited amount of spectrum and it's hard for new companies to get any of it. The wireless telecoms industry is anything but competitive.
So you value a 4-year at $600K? For twice that could retire and live on interest for eternity.
Yet another one....