skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were opportunities for discretion at every step of this process.

A bunch of kids running around in the backyard naked happens all the freakin time. Used to be more often. The technicians could have exercised common sense. The police could have exercised common sense. The police could have refrained from writing up a description of the photos that appears to have no correlation with the actual photos.

Ultimately, the problem is with metrics, police want easy cases to bump the stats, and that's what they're incentivized for. That's the problem at the root of most excesses in the drug war as well.
How to Destroy Motivation in IT
Not long ago I watched an interesting TEDTalk that explained a behavioral science experiment. The conclusion was that when people see their work has no value, they lose motivation to put their best foot forward.

The presenter then described how a group of engineers expressed feeling this way after a major project was cancelled by their CEO with no rationale.

This inspired me to write an article surrounding motivation for technical professionals, but it would be interesting to see how this idea has materialized in your own lives?

For any engineers, DBAs, developers, admins, architects or otherwise, does a lack of impact hurt your motivation even if the money is right?
Businesspeople love 'networking' and social networks have conquered 'The Network.' So why can't we geeks get it together and network among ourselves! Any tool that makes this happen - and specifically, in the area of jobs - is a good thing.
Good thing no life forms are exposed to radiation such as UV, cosmic rays, or naturally-occuring radioactive elements such as Carbon-14, Potassium-40, or Uranium then, we'd be screwed after only a few generations! Oh, wait...
I'm not even going to attempt to read this article. What I will say is I can remember in the late 80's early 90's management declaring that programming would be dead within 10 years and you would only have to describe what you wanted done to a computer.
In Finland (or maybe Sweden), fines for crimes scale to match the offender's ability to pay. I recall reading that some rich guy had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a speeding ticket.
> Then I pointed that their prophet had a 9 year old wife (that by the way this girl also wrote good part of their holy book) and then she said that this does not count...

Tell a Christian that Jesus' mother, Mary, was probably 13 years old when she became pregnant, and they freak out as well.

Background:

* "In biblical times, people were married in early youth…" [1]
* "Until late in the Middle Ages, marriage consisted of two ceremonies which were marked by celebrations at two separate times, with an interval between. First came the betrothal [erusin]; and later, the wedding [nissuin]. At the betrothal the woman was legally married, although she still remained in her father's house." [1]
* "During the first century, however, it appears to have been the general rule that young people who were "of age" could arrange their own marriages. A girl was considered of age at twelve years and one day." [2]
* "The betrothal period was fixed by law. For a maiden, it was from ten months to a year; for a widow, three months." [2]

Sources:

[1] http://www.myjewishlearning.com/life/Relationships/Spouses_a...
[2] http://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2005/may/page20.htm
The great novelists and artists of today exist, the audience is just overwhelmed by noise and that makes it difficult to find them. But there are people writing great novels and people doing great art. It just requires more work to find them now. Cormac McCarthy comes to mind.
I am now downvoting you because of your edit.
A common feeling: Front End Dev Reactions
Mozilla's design overhaul of Firefox 25
Why patent trolls will laugh at US gov’s weak attempts to fight them
Any small/medium business should SaaS out as many traditional IT functions as possible. But still you will always need someone technical to connect the dots between all of the different services you rely on.
Font-Awesome also has a really nice 'Animated Spinner' icon as well on that example page, which works nicely with Bootstrap buttons.
For baseload power? There effectively isn't. Renewable energy generation requires a substantial investment in energy storage systems if you don't have thermal power generation (such as nuclear or fossil-fueled plants), as having rolling blackouts just because the wind unexpectedly isn't blowing as hard is not good for business.
Miniature Quadruped Robot Is Blazingly Fast
What does "Web" mean? I would expect it to mean I can access it with a web browser, but that does not seem to be the case (feedly, reeder are applications to install). It does not mean hosted either as tt-rss and stringer need to be self-hosted.

Concerning FeedHQ, it has now a paid service (free for one month, 12$ a year)
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The job market is messed up. Why can't hackers do something about it, at least for the jobs that WE want???
Daft. Even if any company could just get its workers to manage their own IT needs it doesn't mean its cost efficient. The average hourly wage of IT support is often going to be less than the people they are supporting (i.e. programmers managers). They are also a hell of a lot faster at doing things since they do it every day
In 2004, a District Attorney in the Netherlands was targeted by a crime reporter. Near the DA’s home, this reporter had found a computer that the DA had discarded, and which upon examination was found to contain sensitive information and ‘child porn’. He was never arrested, and two years later, the State decided not to bring charges, they concluded that all the material had been downloaded from mainstream websites. The affair did damage this person’s reputation, and he quit in 2004.

http://goo.gl/4it6e
This also applies to many other things, several of my opinions are controversial, I know...

But where I live at least, you cannot talk about blacks, muslims, jews, gays (both for, or against), and on, and on, and on...

Slandering asians is fine though (I dunno why... but everyone is cool with that here).
If you don't like that you may also stop liking organized religions.

I think it's them who propagate such efforts because they'll never miss a chance to claim people sinners over sex, especially if it's women or minors.
Far darker, but a great piece on "innocent until proven guilty".
That makes sense. Considering that the "deposit" on the modem was $99 and the BOM is probably 50% of that, the device itself probably paid for the first 3-4 years of service.

Ironically, I also have Clearwire data service at home and I'm paying $24/mo for the exact same data (except it's uncapped and I'm using about 30GB/month).
The Psychology of Free Music
It would be really nice if truecrypt implemented a feature whereby you could have a special password to use to render the secret partition un-usable, perhaps by rendering your existing password/key worthless.
I think in this case Islam is simply used as an example.
As a full-time Mac user for 8 years, and a Linux user for much of the decade before that, I am acutely aware of how common many filesystems, including HFS+, actually are.

If OS X ever breaks 10% (and still uses HFS+ at that time), I'll reconsider my judgement of its commonality.
Not in GTK2 which Firefox uses. It doesn't use GTK3 yet. Qt port of Firefox already exists anyway, but Mozilla didn't find much interest to support it.
Honest question, how can you have a 10MHz channel at 5GHz?
"Child pornography is a sex crime that targets and direclty injures children."

Unless you live in America; then it does not necessarily target anyone (at least anyone real):

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/obscene-us-manga-co...
Just one caution - when I was helping to set up a local user group, a lot or companies wanted a guarantee that no poaching would occur, and tried to make that a condition of their participation.

Of course, we couldn't do that, but at the same time, we wouldn't make it a prominent part of the user group's mission either.

So, great initiative, but if you're gonna bring this into your community, just consider the effects (if any) on corporate sponsorship.
Napster relaunching in France, a market pretty much locked up by Deezer
Processing 2.0 is released
Interesting about the north and south discrepancies where they say that property is more valuable on the north side of town. I was just thinking about this in terms of how cities are laid out. The two cities I know are Milwaukee and Chicago and it is pretty obvious that the north sides of each of them are way more affluant than the south. Any other examples of this or am I off base?
Hostgator began overselling their shared and reseller accounts.
If you have anything but dedicated server at hostgator - you'll find your sites sluggishly slow.
I used to recommend it myself but starting this year I notice gross degradation in speed across all sites hosted on hostgator accounts, including my clients account who are using business hosting plan.

I ended up renting dedicated server, securing and essentially launching my own hosting company for myself and most clients.
Difference in speed: 3x-10x
Content Marketing Goes Hollywood, The Google Ad (Movie)
If I find myself having to constantly restrain myself from making bad comments about something, it may be also because that something is of inferior quality.
I do mean web browser by "Web". I thought Feedly used to work directly in the browser, but looks like now they require you to install it via the Chrome Web Store. I've updated the other details you mentioned. Thanks!
Well, then I'll just expand on my previous comment to add racial groups to the cultural/religious groups that you should probably re-examine your views on if everybody finds them offensive.
I'm nowhere near to be techno-apocalyptic, but I just thought that from a "1984" point of view it could be a tool to monitor activities without no permission at all.
Probably a typo: the large plan on the pricing page shows "10,00,000", was it supposed to be "1,000,000" or "10,000,000"
Almost all aircraft have a "slow flight mode" (google for it) like that at a high angle of attack. I'd say all, but its probably only 99.9% and someone would bring up the X-3 perhaps confusing its pitch-roll coupling with slow flight or something weird like that.

The stall angle of attack usually is not coincident with peak lift to drag ratio. In fact I'm not even sure you can FAA certify an airframe where peak L/D AoA is ever at stall AoA at any airspeed, they'd probably totally freak out about spin susceptibility, or at least I certainly would. So you have an engine failure and automatically by training go into best AoA flight mode, with that design any turning or even a little wind gust or whatever would probably mean a possibly unrecoverable spin, which would kinda suck. I mean I think you could theoretically design a wing airfoil that way, and physically build it, but you'd get flamed pretty severely about it. I think this would also make takeoffs and landings overly unstable/exciting. Airframes traditionally have pretty cruddy maneuverability/performance at stall AoAs although you could probably fix that (lots of exotic jet fighters do pretty well under those flight conditions, then again they aren't "most planes"...)

Also you're going to get pilots and CFIs all wound up, by trying to talk about using throttle to control speed, at least theoretically to reduce pilot induced oscillations you'll formally be told that AoA should be used to control airspeed and throttle should be used to control rate of climb (aka altitude, in the calculus integrated sense). A smooth experienced pilot makes it very hard visually to tell exactly which control input at which time is having what effect, but at least in theory this is what you'll be trained at least for major flight maneuvers, in practice very small scale triming / autopilot is usually the other way around as you describe, or so it seems. And those "in between" adjustments make a formal definition kinda complicated, or meaningless.

Piloting is a very hands on experience, so its like trying to teach someone gymnastics by writing articles.
I know...

Most Christians that I know refuse to read the bible properly, then I take the bible and teach them the stuff in there, several freak out, to the point I do not do it anymore to stop freaking people out...

I am a Christian myself, and the bible asks you do not be a "stumbling block" (or something like that the english term), so I guessed that is good idea to stop freaking people out pointing those things.

Not that I won't talk about them, to those that come to me and ask I cheerfully explain everything I know about the Bible, even the taboo (for example, why the Bible regulamentates slavery)
I had to look this up because my surname begins with those letters. Thanks for the lead!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonaestheme
Your assessment that I'm an idiot hurts my feelings especially when I'm arguing in facts and you are in personal attacks, misdirections, and fallacies.

At least I'm not the one organizing mass threats to Norway's government to create an Islamic State inside norway or face more 9/11 events at the hands of Allah.

I share nothing with the terrorists. I crave only peace. Unlike you, sticking up for the Jihad and Terrorism, minimizing the Extremist threats and painting a picture of Terrorists as misunderstood and how the countries need to bend to their will to make them happy.
The short version (for anyone who is unwilling to view the link from work): Guy brings his computer in for repairs, techs discover pictures, he's arrested. In court he's finally presented with the evidence (apparently innocuous photos of naked children running around in the yard, playing) and announces that these are his grandkids.
This is useful. Feel free to put your list on http://getgini.com. I want to make it collaborative, so you could have contributed to my original list itself, or forked it to make whatever changes you want. But, I haven't got around to adding collaboration yet!
> What more could there be?

A full height title bar with the title of the current tab in it that I can use to drag the window around. Having to precisely aim my mouse pointer in order to drag my window is extremely annoying.
Social Enterprise: Existing laws and a not-so-modest proposal
The feature I'm most interested in is not mentioned in this chart at all: whether my feeds will render correctly! I read a bunch of math blogs, many of which are on WordPress and use some LaTeX plugin for formulas. Many RSS readers do not render the formulas at all (I'm not sure why). Google Reader does it right, as does the RSS to email service blogtrottr.com (which is what I'm using now). Last time I tried Feedly, to give just one example, the formulas didn't show up.

I asked on /r/math for RSS feed readers that don't use Google Reader as a backend and render formulas correctly and didn't get a single answer, so I'm not optimistic. Maybe reading math blogs is too small a niche for RSS readers to bother with it?
"The Perfect Parable for Silicon Valley Excess"

I disagree. To me, this is the story of a single a-hole. I don't see a larger story. I live in Silicon Valley, and with some exceptions, nearly every person I've dealt with over the years, rich or poor, have been super cool.

Many journalists present outliers as representative of the normal situation, then put up link-bait titles to generate controversy and clicks. It is a dishonest practice.
I'm pretty sure this isn't true. You cannot prove the hidden volume exists. In fact hidden volumes are completely useless without plausible deniability. The file system of the outer volume will happily overwrite your hidden volume if you tell it to. The point is that you know its there so you intentionally don't write more than 16G on your 20G volume. But the "unused" space looks just like random data so you can't prove there is anything meaningful there.
I have a much simpler theory. Everytime an "event" occurs, nuclear scientists tell us, everything is ok, it is all handled, and then shortly thereafter, leaks are discovered to be worse than reported, handling of waste is done very poorly, or things just implode, as they did in Fukishama.

http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/Hanford-no-ENRAF-nuc...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/world/asia/tepco-says-wate...

Stop looking for elaborate answers. As a "lay" person, my impression is that their credibility is completely shot.
Yeah, as far as that old rivalry goes, I think our grandparents were around the last ones to really feel it (what with the wars going on). Like you said, during recent earthquakes, the two countries were among the first to send each other aid.

On a personal level, I think that someone's place of birth is a poor predictor of how much I'll like them.
> But wait, maybe this was manipulation on the photographer's part (know to happen) and the policeman did it by accident?

As always you can not now if this exact photo, in its context, had a reasonable explanation. The thing is that the OP shows tens of photos of people highly injured and it cannot be "just coincidence" or bad faith from the photographer.

This photos remembered me the demonstrations here in Spain. Police brutality looks exactly the same. What a shame.
I'll agree that lacking models or in-game content, it's pretty unlikely they've made any headway at all into this thing, but isn't that the point of the Kickstarter?

Take a look at the Creative Team and check out their pedigree. In my opinion, it looks like they might just have the talent they need to get this thing off the ground.
Right and Cobol vanished years ago.
I'd say quite a bit more has changed. Aside from the huge growth of cloud services (Google Apps, Office 365, Amazon EC2 private clouds, etc), the explosion of bring-your-own-device policies, and the enormous advances in connectivity (10 years ago a mid-sized office often had a T1. Now we have dual-500mps connections), consider that most software stacks are completely virtualized now (and anything that isn't is on the short track to being so).

That changes everything. Suddenly an external vendor can provide your entire hardware platform, whether by dropping in their own managed hardware solution, or by hooking you into their cloud via a dedicated connection, and that's just for the few outliers that aren't provide as SaaS.

The world has completely changed, from a networking, platform, and device perspective. I am perplexed by some of the comments to this article, and have to believe it is a bit of a head-in-the-sand approach.

Do I think IT will be gone in 5 years? Hardly. But change is coming at a ferocious pace, and those who ignore it do so at their own peril.
What are the most useful chrome extensions?
What is your idea of the ultimate frictionless development environment.
This is a really neat idea, one thing that I've always disliked about gloves and other input devices is how intrusive they are, this is very well packaged and un-obtrusive.

Can't wait to play with one.
Bye bye Kinect. Guess we won't be needing you now.
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More like Kafka and a bad batch of Crank.
Great, we can redeploy all the techs to help us achieve the paperless office.
See, none of the plants that were shut down so far has been shut down due to the plan to phase out nuclear power. End 2011 all of germanys nuclear plant were switched off - either due to scheduled maintenance or due to (minor) accidents. The plan is so slowly fade out nuclear power over the next decade - so any short term fluke has to be regarded as what it is - a short term and pretty normal fluctuation in local power production, something that the european grid was built to handle.
Pft. Religion can be safely criticized because it's made up.
Atlanta and Boston would be two more examples.
Wisee uses wi-fi signals to recognise body gestures
Another git branching model
I'd like the ability to pay per view. I don't have a lot of TV channels but like watching sports, why can't I pay for the NBA or NHL finals on a pay per view basis? It is probably something to do with licensing, but if that could be cracked I would be a customer.
Here is a source - http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so...

Note that nuclear is significantly safer than even hydro and solar.

I think your fear of uranium mines is overblown, as these numbers are included in the calculations. Many more people die in coalmines.

Did you know that a coal plant emits significantly more radiation than a nuclear plant because coal is radioactive and isn't shielded like nuclear power plants?
Fukushima (1971) predated Chernobyl (1977).
Perhaps because you have an excessive amount open?
The classic homeostatic fallacy. People routinely forget that history is not linear. When new capabilities comes along, they just assume it will make the current world continues on its path. They fail to consider the new niches and industries that a change will create/destroy and the increasing complexity it will result in.

For example: micro computers and office software suites were going to make us more productive and thus result in the "4 day work week" since we'd have so much free time. The reality is people were laid off (don't need as many) and those that remained were doing multiple times the work.

As the "cloud" gains more traction businesses will find it easier to consume IT, but it will result in ever greater consumption of IT services and more elaborate use of them in business. Figure out exactly how and you'll be a millionaire.
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This is the Redwood Wedding.
You're probably right, FB prices went up for Zynga more so than others because they saturated their market (which just took longer cause it was bigger). However, anecdotally, I've seen FB prices rise 25 - 35% over the last 18 months.
Love the idea. But I prefer to implement it myself to tailor it myself using some implemented functionalities.

But thank you!
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Please add a html attribute to the submitted links so the articles displayed in HN open an actual new tab instead of going back and forth between just one page!
I make broad sweeping generalizations about Muslim Extremists. Yes. By definition they are the ones that refuse to integrate and have on average 8 children per slave female and make it illegal to educate women.

Oh you're going for the "Islamic Takeovers of the world are OK because the Catholics did it too"? What the catholics did were wrong, and what the Extremist Muslims are doing is wrong too. Stop trying to apologize for the Extremist Muslims.

Blowing up children at Marathons to illustrate your hate of western values in the name of Allah is a BAD thing. Even if evil things were committed in the past, it was not OK then, and it's not OK now either. Can you at least acknowledge this much? Or should I expect another misdirection and fallacy?
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Companies still have internal IT departments??
They can't. In the UK you are usually asked by the desk sergeant if you want a solicitor before they will question you.

Of course, you can be questioned while not being under arrest but again, you can ask for a lawyer before they question you.

I can't think a police officer could say in court: "He refused to be questioned before we arrested him" because you're not under any obligation to talk to the police in day-to-day life.