skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a college instructor. Even though my courses have nothing to do with law, I show Duane's videos to every freshmen class. I got tired of seeing good students lose their fin-aid after the local cops go around and do their annual drug task-force roundup.

For years I've been skeptical of the efficacy of police tactics and strategy. I'd say that skepticism has evolved to a default of suspicion of any police activity.

I find myself contemplating installation of bars on my doors and windows, security fencing, etc; not for fear of "normal" crime, but of errant police activity. I wish I had some statistics upon which to base that notion. I'm a fairly normal, caucasian, middle-class guy with a wife and two kids, no criminal record; and I am more fearful that I will be harmed by police criminality or ineptitude than by non-police criminals.
Yup, if you're starting to suffer from the onset of scurvy, don't bother with vitamin C - no way it's strong enough to cure.
Ahhh yes, the "these problems are worse in other places" Okay, you're right, so lets never try to fix them. Because Russian police are abusive we should count ourselves lucky that our own police force isn't AT LEAST that bad. Sure, they go out of their way to murder people for no reason, but we can't be man about that, we should simply be thankful that there are worse police agencies that exist.

And yeah, your point that the govt won't abuse the shit out of its power if you are a whistleblower makes me wonder if you've been living under a rock recently. I imagine you don't think it was any big deal that the US coerced other countries into not allowing the Bolivian President use their airspace because the US was upset with Bolivia offering Snowden asylum? But yeah, you're right man, no abuses whatsoever will occur if you are a whistleblower...

The type of self awareness one would have to lack to get to the point where they are making the point you just made is staggering.
I install 13.04 server, lay xorg over it, then install fluxbox.

With chrome running about 40 tabs, pgadmin open, and the WM up I'm using about 2gb ram.

Chrome closes and I drop to about 300M. This is a single core althon 64, 3gb ddr1 ram, 70gb ATA HD, AGP Radeon 9600 that I built around 8 years ago.
It's definitely not fat, when people with horrible diets eat less sodium they lose a surprising amount of water weight. I've seen estimates an extra 400mg of sodium being retained leading to an extra kilogram of water.
You have to convince a sheriff to deputize you first. For some reason this is easier for celebrities. Go figure. What does that say about the judgement of the sheriff that approve that sort of thing? Not sure what a sheriff's responsibilities are in the US system, but if that's the same person responsible for deciding that a SWAT team is necessary to investigate a poker game going on in someone's house, it's not surprising to see poor decisions being made in that area too.
Oh yeah it's all much worse in other places. We're still "better" than all the dictatorships and authoritarian governments in the world, and that makes it all just fine and dandy. The only people losing sight of reality are the ones deluded into thinking that America/ns is/are immune to what appears to be a fundamental feature of power: corruption.

By point 3 he meant actions by USG whistle blowers with access to classified information, not a civilian's facebook account.
> Neither the verification nor ip address is admissible

I suggest you research ACH, banks can and have reversed chargebacks in such cases.

Your bank account will be flagged onto the bank (and government) watch-list anyway for making high-value money transfers without clear cause. People try to do far more sophisticated fraud than you're imagining and banks do a reasonably good job at spotting it.
6. Don't have $20 buy-in poker games

and Steven Seagal driving a tank into that guys living room for fighting chickens...wow.
Some of the money, in some areas, certainly. Any idea how much?
Here's an API of UK property rental (and sales) prices as well as actual properties

http://www.nestoria.co.uk/help/api

enjoy
> But the good part is that only successful projects are copied

Or products that are so brilliant that it's immediately apparent they'll be successful
Americans vote for those who are tough on crime. I think CATO estimated (on the high end) about 40,000 SWAT/paramilitary raids a year and the public perception is that the targets are all criminals. To them this is just "acceptable collateral damage."
In production code, using & for string concat is pretty atypical, since you can use string interpolation: "$(alpha)$(bravo)"
Slightly tangential, but Ted Dziuba makes a good case for gun control for these over-armed local police forces in this post http://teddziuba.com/post/37961127287/i-am-a-gun-owner-lets-...

Police forces seem to be totally exempt from, say, the ban on assault weapons or such in some of the States. Possibly a law that limits the weaponry that police forces can carry along with a reduction in civilian-owned guns might help curb some of these incidents involving trigger-happy cops.
Is there a service to record live streams online (easily, cheap/free) from phones? The key is to send the live stream out for storage. Common "we'll sync after the video is recorded" services are no good if you get your phone destroyed half way through trying to record.
Yeah, I stepped away from the Lua world to work on JavaScript-related stuff.
Philip Greenspun: My visual approach, and Asiana’s
Congress created this FISA court.

Created by Congress in 1978 as a check against wiretapping
abuses by the government, the court meets in a secure,
nondescript room in the federal courthouse in
Washington. All of the current 11 judges, who serve
seven-year terms, were appointed to the special court by
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and 10 of them were
nominated to the bench by Republican presidents.

Why can't they change it to be effective? This seems to be the key point:

Geoffrey R. Stone, a professor of constitutional law at
the University of Chicago, said he was troubled by the idea
that the court is creating a significant body of law
without hearing from anyone outside the government,
forgoing the adversarial system that is a staple of the
American justice system. “That whole notion is missing in
this process,” he said.
Plus there's a degree of polish and stability that takes a few months to hit.
Shoreditch Triangle is in Hackney, not Tower Hamlets. The divide is midway down Redchurch Street, I know as I used to live there and Tower Hamlets would manage to send us our council tax bill but then provide no services. Fun times.
The problem here is that mainstream nutrition "science" is also a fad. It is also a dramatic example on how the Internet + an incentive can produce better Science than the traditional grant (and lobby system). Many of the traditional dogmas of nutrition have recently come intro question: the idea that eating cholesterol is what increases cholesterol in your arteries, the idea that salt is bad for you, the idea that fiber is good for you and many others.

Regarding ketogenic diets, there are so many results and it seems to work so much better than what "they" have been telling us that the idea that this is a "fad" starts to sound a bit silly. Actually, some proponents of ketogenic diets are backing their claims with explanatory models, instead of simple epidemiological studies (which are, in my opinion, the lowest form of Science).

Check out this talk if you want to know more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4

edit: this talk provides some convincing arguments against your assumption #1.
Starfish have eyes at the tips of their arms
There is a problem with broad statements like the grandparent comment. College students buy water everyday without trouble, people own guns without being harassed daily, people makes bets daily without any trouble, people make joking threats daily without incident. There is plenty bad going on without the need for exaggerations and outright lies.

If you want reality to change, you have to accept reality. Skewing it to the most sensationalistic interpretation only makes it easier to dismiss.
I'm not a business person, what does "inside sales" mean, the "inside" part?

But I can say as someone with some decision-making input into purchases for an 'enterprise', I _love_ it when I get to talk to an actual dev/engineer. The less I have to talk to a non-engineer salesperson, and the more I get to talk to an engineer, in fact the more likely you are to make a sale to me (assuming your product is actually good).
I do the same on my netbook, but use urxvt for a tabbed terminal.
That lets me use shift + left/right to move between tabs, ctrl+left/right to shift tab ordering, and ctlr+d to close one.

So that's one desktop pane, then one for chrome, one for emacs, and one for pgadmin. I also make very liberal use of fluxbox's 'sticky' button for dragging a terminal between desktop switches.
Embarrassment
Orrin Kerr: Hints and Questions About the Secret Rulings of the FISA Court
> 1. You lose weight by eating less calories than your body uses. (As a corollary, you almost definitely consume more calories than you think you do. Get a calorie-counting app.)

True. For those who find it a pain to use one, I recommend sticking with it for a few months at least initially. After a while, your mind gets attuned to the idea of how much food is enough for you to be satiated. So don't obsess about getting every calorie in, it is easy especially if you are reading online communities to see people freaking.

2. Being active isn't necessarily crucial to losing weight, but it is crucial to being more healthy. In particular, lifting weights will help your overall physique even if you're eating at a caloric deficit -- but the most important activity is the one that you like enough to make a habit. (Mine is biking, and occasionally soccer.)

I don't like the go weight lift or run recommendation for a person who has never run or hates the gym. Most are there because of systemic lifestyle issues. The best way to do that is to start at the core, hang out more with active people, doing entertaining things that also get out outdoors. After a while of doing that, I feel like you will naturally gravitate towards taking care of your body.

> There are a lot of huge fads right now -- in particular, intermittent fasting (eat once per day), ketogenic diet (eat lots of fat, eat no carbs), and liquid diets (drink lots of things) seem to be the rage. The reason fads can be successful usually have less to do with the specific mechanics and minutiae of their gospel and more to do with the fact that you're conscientious about what you're putting into your body and diligent about treating it well.

It's funny. I spent a while doing lean gains. A couple of months were rather painful in terms of having to spend most of my time eating cottage cheese and tuna, finding it difficult to have dinner with friends. I was hitting all the marks though, then I got bored of it. A few months ago, I did something simple by being more mindful when I ate. I didn't particularly try to avoid any food group but I focused more on savoring it than as something to keep my mouth occupied while I listened to a friend or something. That got me way down on the scale than anything.
Well, have you met these people? It's common in work/life too. "You're smart and do good work, but stop being so pedantic and socially inept!"

You can't break out deep thinking from the surface layer aspie absent-social-mindedness. Just smile, accept them for what they are without pitying them, and keep making the world a better place together.
As I read the article, I became pleasantly surprised at how it evolved into a story about a guy learning to live a more holistic life vs just one of losing weight.

I think that evolution was the author's journey, and it was what he was trying to communicate by recounting it for us.
I don't know why the article didn't really discuss this, but if you know that there are armed gamblers inside and are worried that they will be a danger to you, why not just announce that you are outside, have the people come out and just wait? Storming through the door with weapons drawn SPECIFICALLY because you believe that they are armed is probably the worst piece of logic possible. You are basically causing deaths with negligence at this point. But there isn't really much of an incentive to change this process when you get to murder whatever civilian you want and take their stuff and know that even if they fight back, they will go to prison for a very very long time. I don't get why this is the way things work.
Basically, (human) individuals who sell by phone and normally do not leave the office..
This is great. love the concept.
Wow that was some article. If these kind of things happened in my country, I would get the fuck out of my country.
Actually, I didn't like the way the UK was going, so when the opportunity came about, I moved.
The fact USPS receives training but our Police don't was astounding to me. "To serve and protect and kill you chihuahua if it barks at us wrong."
Police in the U.S. carry high capacity semi-automatic pistols as a matter of course. I think they also frequently wear bullet proof vests on normal duty. Swat teams wear more armor and typically carry submachine guns that are capable of fully automatic fire.

Part of protecting people that do not have a history of violence is giving them the benefit of the doubt. Sure, there need to be lines drawn that allow the police to protect themselves, but anyone choosing to be a cop is going to be aware of the fact that they will occasionally be placed in dangerous situations.
"The United States Courts of Appeals are considered among the most powerful and influential courts in the United States. Because of their ability to set legal precedent in regions that cover millions of people, the United States Courts of Appeals have strong policy influence on U.S. law; however, this political recognition is controversial. Moreover, because the U.S. Supreme Court chooses to hear fewer than 100 of the more than 10,000 cases filed with it annually, the United States Courts of Appeals serve as the final arbiter on most federal cases."

"Appellate jurisdiction has been conferred upon the Supreme Court by various statutes, under the authority given Congress by the Constitution. The basic statute effective at this time in conferring and controlling jurisdiction of the Supreme Court may be found in 28 U. S. C. section 1251 et seq., and various special statutes. -
Very cool.

Small critique: Wish the song transitions were smoother.

Regardless, I sat here watching it for 7 minutes, and I already feel healthier.
When it comes to exercise I'm always concerned by how many people, when making changes like this, omit strength training. Don't do that-

1. Without strength training (and adequate protein consumption) during negative calorie periods, you will loose muscle. Without strength training your body will happily shed muscle and fat, most of use really just want to loose the fat.

2. Muscle increases your base resting calorie use, and is a multiplier of any other exercise you do.

3. Muscle is important for maintaining bone health and general health as we age.

I have even had health professionals tell me that when it comes to daily routines, diet + 30-60 min walking + 30 min weight training is better for your body then regular intense cardio. Thats not to say you should shy away from a tennis match or soccer game, or fencing a couple times a week, but if we are talking about what we do every day-
Freenet has been around for a long time. I wonder about it having been compromised though.
> Epf is essentially an ORM for the web and gives you all the tools necessary to define models and synchronize with your backend.

That line should be on the front page of that website. I've spent too much time trying to decipher the bizarre diagram and trying to figure out whether it was an inside joke I wasn't getting or an actual thing.
The HN demographic overlaps with a huge demographic who have spent quite a bit of time reading through and analyzing different health based lifestyle choices. It gets annoying to hear the same damn story repeated again, except under a pretty link bait title.
This applies if you are building a product which is so groundbreakingly new that nobody has any expectations for quality level yet.

These products are very rare compared to those which are an evolution of an existing concept. Even with other differentiating factors you are going to struggle to sell a product which has a perception of being below par in terms of quality.
That make sense -- negotiating a higher wholesale price with Amazon, sometimes by raising your retail price cause of Amazon's fixed discount -- but is not what the publisher quoted appears to be talking about.

Again, "so that the price will then appear closer to what you need it to be?"" -- he's saying he cares what the retail price shown to customers is. That because Amazon is going to sell at less than his marked retail price, he's going to raise the marked retail price, to raise the price that appears to customers.

There might be a reason that matters to his business, but it's definitely not obvious, I wish he'd tell us what it was. He just doesn't want his product to look like it's a cheap bargain product?
You lose weight by eating less calories than your body uses.

Not entirely. Try eating 2,000 calories of pasta versus 2,000 calories of chicken. It'll do immensely different things to your body.

IF and keto are valid. Liquid diet is nutty. keto isn't exactly "eat lots of fat" -- it's avoiding > 30-60g carbs per day (and honestly, mostly sugars. carbs with fiber delivery (e.g. vegetables and limited fruits) are okay) while seeking out, but not adding "lots," of complementary fat (like avoiding fat free things because fat free just means "we added more sugar to compensate for removing fat").

If you have a limited memory capacity, just remember: fat doesn't make you fat. Your body turns sugar and things that metabolize into sugar (carbs, breads, pastas, rice) into fat. Your body doesn't take what you eat and just glue it inside of you. Food is like the input of a program generating very specific outputs. You can't feed the function "Add two numbers" 1 and 1 and end up with anything but 2. You (probably[1]) can't feed yourself carbs and carbs and carbs and end up with anything but lardass.

[1]: Though, people are different. We have basic guidelines, but a lot is still genetics. I know people who basically live off pasta, chocolate, and smoothies and still weigh 130 pounds without workout out significantly.
You lose weight by eating less calories than your body uses

Yeah, and if you want to reduce your chance of auto accidents, limit the amount of gasoline you put in your car.

I'm a bit sorry to come across as rude, but this advice and then your later dismissal of ketogenic diets reflects the extraordinary ignorance that inflicted us with the food pyramid and war on fat 40 years ago.

Understanding and controlling the insulin cycle is key to understanding nutrition and its role in weight control. I tried "eating less" for years before I gave a low carb diet a try and permanently changed the way I ate and thought about food.

If you had actually read the article about which you added a comment, then you would have read a process of discovery paralleled by myself and an extraordinary number of others.

Atkins and even others before him explained the problems with carbohydrates, especially simple ones, decades ago. Calling low carb eating (you can't eliminate all carbs) a fad at this point is either ignorant or just mocking.
For me personally, it's simply that I love the process of building software and I get a lot of satisfaction from it. As long as it's a challenge, I'm not too worried about whether anyone uses it, or whether I make money.

Increasingly, I have found that it would be nice to earn some money back from side projects I work on, so that might play some role in how I go about choosing projects in the future.
And by any reasonable measure, the amount of govt. documents that are now automatically classified has increased exponentially in the last decade.
The site is running on Foundation 4, I'm on the mobile first camp. Thanks for the share to wrapboostrap though, didn't hear about them before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
I am sorry that you think I tried not to mention "Paleo". I agree that many of the changes were Paleo, but I also don't know how much of the other things affected change. Over time I have also morphed the Paleo items of the diet. I don't think everyone needs to label things.

I also enjoyed: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Debunking-the-Paleo-Diet-Chri...
> 1. You lose weight by eating less calories than your body uses. (As a corollary, you almost definitely consume more calories than you think you do. Get a calorie-counting app.)

If this is true, why don't we become incredibly fat or skinny over time? It would require incredible precision to maintain weight. But a lot of people seem to be able to do it with no effort...

The reason why this is not true is simple: our organism is not a closed system, so this thermodynamics truism does not apply. We are able, for example, to excrete nutrients without digesting them. Our organism is way too complex for this bromide to have any merit.
Actually there seems to be a fad right now in killing ab fat with cold:
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/CoolSculpting

And the medical version:
http://www.drnicklowe.com/article/zeltiq-one-year-on-is-the-...

There seems to be science behind it. Fat cells die at a higher temperature than skin is damaged.

Recent vitamin research are also in line with his comments. There have been studies showing taking more than the 100% recommended daily value can increase cancer rates. So if you are getting decent nutrition from your food, lots of vitamin pills are actually bad.
Here's a nice article with lots of examples why your fear is not misplaced:

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_m...
Using D3, backbone and tornado to visualize histograms of a csv file
Grunt tweet git commit
> It really pisses people off because there's no diet industry personalities to make money, no guilt inducing neo-puritanism, no weird expensive foods to buy.

Grains and legumes are a lot less expensive than grass-fed beef.
Is there a single example of a service which failed to scale? Once you have user growth, you can get investors to fund scaling regardless of the technology choices made the beginning.
I might be a bad example, but when I see a "not supported in IE" mention and there's no pollyfill, the feature goes to the same bucket as the cool Dart features and the fun things you can do in the next version of ecmascript. Good to hear they exist, but I'll properly learn them when I'll be able to use them.
unless they see the camera and kill you for "espionage"
> The part that is potentially interesting is the NSA establishing a new "Consolidated Intelligence Center" in Wiesbaden (to replace a similar center in Darmstadt).

"potentially interesting"...?

If I were German, I would burn that thing to the ground, right now.

I call such a thing the worst type of tax-payer funded cancers. How is such a thing allowed to exist?

EDIT: To me that's kind of like the start of bringing the Nazi past back to Germany/Europe. You know, that thing a good chunk of US citizens had to fight and die because of it, a few years back.
Summary: "I might want to make money out of this, so... nope."
"Well, what happens if someone comes along with a 6 minute abs workout?"
Yes, but now there is new proof, spelled out in clear German, and in a major newspaper on top of that.

The fact that a new NSA facility is being built near Wiesbaden, considering how unpopular the one in Griesheim is, looks like it has enough to it to be its own little scandal.
GorillaScript has full support for Source Maps, as any good compile-to-JS language should.