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Check out http://supportops.co - Chase and the folks there publish some good stuff.
What we could do is hold police accountable for the violent crimes they commit, shocking I know.
That's what I'd like to know too? I'm reminded of the old line I hear of "well, that escalated quickly".

Shouldn't there be maybe a simple check from a non-armed individual (I'm thinking a nice gentleman or lady in business attire - an investigator). Seems like most people will gladly help the police if they are kind and courteous. Then if that doesn't work out, bring in standard officers (no SWAT), to discuss matters but without breaking into a house. There still seems like there should be many levels of escalation before a SWAT is called.

Only if some sort of armed conflict occurs then a SWAT team is probably necessary and called in with proper escalation procedures. Why jump straight to armed conflict mode by bringing in a SWAT? Heck, I would even wager to say that RIGHT before a SWAT is called if you warn the individuals that if they don't comply, a SWAT will be called, then just the warning will be enough. Still I can't stress enough, that there should be escalation procedures. Long escalation procedures.
How about we just eliminate them altogether? There was a time when they didn't exist and life was fine (or arguably better).
What I'm really waiting to see is the day that Unity and other engines actually support the editor on Linux as well.

The engine is nice, but until I no longer have any need to boot into Windows, I'm only mildly impressed.
I don't know what kind of tags you're talking about, but in my experience they tend to create tighter groupings than "neighborhoods" like Geocities. You'll get a "whovian" tag instead of a general sci-fi group, most likely (and even "sci-fi" seems a bit limited/boring).

Speaking of ages gone by, I wonder whether you could do something new with the good old webring format...
This is a controversial position, and I recognize that it isn't perfect.

I don't think that regular cops should have weapons. They should be primarily involved in conflict resolution only. If somebody wants to overpower a cop because they own a gun and the cop doesn't, then that person should be charged with a crime, but the cop should ALWAYS be the weaker party.

And I mean no weapons. No pepper spray, no tasers. Nothing. Police departments should also take an active role in making sure that their uniforms, as well as their vehicles, are as non-aggressive looking as possible. Cops should be the people that stop to help you change a tire when you have a flat, help you get home if you're drunk, or mediate between you and the scary homeless dude that won't get off your porch.

Police work should be a dangerous job, and the only people who should even be capable of doing it are people who are experts at conflict resolution, not escalation.

I recognize that weapons are sometimes necessary, but I think that a cop showing up with a gun should be an extremely rare thing to see.

I know there is the argument that cops are there to protect us...but from who? Unless it is a hostage scenario, when is a time that a cop is going to directly intervene in a bad guy doing something bad to me, and a is going to need their gun to do so?

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Police are protected by something called "qualified immunity", which is to say that, while in the pursuit of their job as a police officer, are not subject to the same laws with regards to assault as most civilians.

I think that this should go away. If a cop assaults somebody, it should go to court, and the cop should have to prove that it was self defense. If they shoot somebody, they better be able to prove that they had a direct threat to their own life.

Cops should be burdened with additional responsibilities but offered no additional rights.
I looked at this article expecting something that was related to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Carousel.

So I clicked on the link, didn't see a Kodak Carousel to my surprise, and started reading the text. I got annoyed very quickly ("why is this moving so fast? Did I click on anything?"). And just when I was ready to say "screw this" I got that my very behavior had just exactly proven what Jared's point was.

Touché!
Not only BOPE, BOPE is the military one (they are party of the army officially)

There is also GOE (the one I cited earlier), ROTA, and several others.

Also, before the world cup things were already quite violent, the movies you cited for example are based on a book that has stories about BOPE in 1980

After the world cup, then we had our police use this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qru7bQsz04M/TU8aavSCMAI/AAAAAAAAB7... (this vehicle belongs to the Navy, it was borrowed to the police occupy a area near where stuff will be built for the olympics)

Also São Paulo (where I am from) we have "ROTA" that criminals here nicknamed "wheels of death" because few of them survived after seeing one of their cars (this was the car that specifically got that nickname, the fact the same vehicle model was used by funeral companies also did not help: http://anjosguardioes.com/uploadfotos/Galeria/Policia-Milita... )
The act of doing the splitting would increase latency.
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Dino-killing asteroid also triggered mind-blowing submarine landslides
You should try Dota2. Out of all the games in that genre (HoN, LoL, original Dota), Dota2 seems to have the best community out there. There is match making, so you will be paired with people that are at least somewhat close to you in skill.

To deal with trolls/toxic people, they have a reporting system. If someone gets reported by a number of people they will be muted and/or put into the low priority queue. Muting lasts X duration (depending on repeat offences) and prevents that person from talking at all in game (they can still use the chat wheel I believe).

The low-priority queue is a separate match-making queue, where only people in this queue will play against one another. It is for people that regularly abandon games (or are toxic players). It tends to be filled with the trouble-making players.
I played DOTA back in highschool and HoN for the first year or so. The toxic nature of the DOTA community has nothing to do with matchmaking. You can certainly filter people in your own games, but that only identifies the people who are so socially inept that they can't make it to the start-game-countdown without being a jerk. In the WC3 era, people left during the 5 second countdown (i.e. after attempting to ensure they were not jerks) so often that the various hosting assistance programs would watch for it specifically.

The real hazard in DOTA / AOS / MOBA games are the people who slowly (or quickly) transform from quiet or reasonable people into insanely angry trash talking monsters. After all, the DOTA community got its reputation for being awful back in WC3, totally independent of any matchmaking.
Their motto is they don't track your history at all, so even if the government asked for information or it became part of prism they would have nothing to give.
I was a professional photographer for a couple of years (as in, paid most of my rent with it until web dev became a more lucrative venture) and assisted some VERY big and experienced photographers.

Everyone I know backed up on-site, using manual methods as and when they remembered. I did actually set up a good automated backup solution for one of them, but there's definitely a limit to their interest. Remember they're making pretty much all their money off commissions, and are only keeping backups out of some sense of pride/responsibility.

Another blow is that, at least here in the UK, we're only starting to get the kind of upstream bandwidth necessary to make this level of data transfer feasible.

So, it's a brilliant idea and, as long as confidence in cloud storage grows, as time goes on the market will grow and grow. I'm just not sure it's quite there yet.
That is such a fantastic idea! I enjoy browsing science papers on the internet, especially physics, so it is very cool concept to have a site where they are boiled down into non-specialist terms. Awesome.
> There's a standard format, OVF, that the relevant players seem to support

I'll just point to the elephant in the room: EC2 doesn't support it. Neither do the majority of IAAS players. Even those that are OVF-based under the hood often don't have a facility for loading your own OVFs, let alone sharing them, etc. And when they do, the first thing they implement is some proprietary extension.

> The number of deployment targets that support some kind of virtualization software will always be higher than the number that support docker.

I don't believe that is correct. But of course the burden is on me to prove you wrong :)

Keep in mind that:

1) Docker is 3 months old and artificially narrows its support window to keep moving fast. For example it doesn't yet support 32-bit architectures, or arm, or install on red hat - but it will.

2) When it does expand its support window, docker will run on 2.6 kernels. Dotcloud has been deploying lxc containers at large scale since 2010, all on 2.6.

3) In the future docker will support non-lxc backends such as openvz, bsd jails, solaris zones and plain old chroot. At the end of the day a docker container is just a tarball with metadata describing what the developer expects to happen when it's run.

4) Also keep in mind that on many systems, virtualization is supported but not available to the relevant party. A typical example is an IT shop with a shiny new openstack deployment which still requires developers to fill triplicate forms to provision machines.

Again, this is in addition to machines which are not configured to support virtualization - often because the overhead is too high.

So I stand by my statement. In the future docker containers will be deployable on more machines than any given VM. And VMs will be used primarily for flexible hardware and kernel allocation, which is what they are good at.

> What's appropriate is properly packaged software that lends itself to automated configuration.

That's just it: for a large and growing number of developers, there is no tool available to "properly package" their software, because they combine multiple languages and frameworks, and don't wish to be stuck with a single OS distribution. I won't list the alternatives here, but will gladly do so if you request it. Docker has the ambition to be that tool, and I believe it is qualified for the job:

* Automated build with 'docker build'
* Built-in versioning
* Facilities for sharing, discovery and distribution
* Incremental transfer for efficient distribution of upgrades
* Dependency management which puts the developer in control
* No out-of-band dependencies except for docker (a 5MB static binary) and the kernel
* Distro-agnostic: the developer and sysadmin are both free to choose their distro and system packager (if any).
* Config management-agnostic: the developer and sysadmin are both free to choose their config management (if any)

As you suggest, a docker container can be used for installs on bare metal, generating images for other platforms via tools like packer, etc.
Awesome. I've just started playing dota2 in a semi-serious way and it's incredibly frustrating not having 5 to play with. I don't mind being called a noob and getting critical feedback, but it's exceptionally difficult to learn how to play effectively with others when the pub community is so bad. Unfortunately, to play with good people, you have to learn how to play, and that's very hard if you can't play with good people. Your little community sounds like it'll be my gateway out of MM noob hell. I'll be on TS to try it out tonight :)
No it wasn't down to tariffs. Keep in mind Commodore did immensely well in Europe despite being a US company (though in name from some point in time it was a Bahamas corporation for tax reasons)

It was many factors I think.

Apple indeed was not set up to handle international sales well, while Commodore had a huge international channel owing to a much longer history (the progenitor of Commodore Business Machines was founded in 1954).

But all indications are that Commodore (and probably Tandy) outsold Apple substantially in the late 70's in the US too. At that point Apple got the "hacker" market, Commodore focused on the business market.

It wasn't until the VIC 20 that Commodore started aggressively going after the consumer market, but the VIC 20 was a low end product, and it was probably first with the C64 that Commodore had a product going after some of the same market as the Apple II.

At this point Apple increasingly was the expensive choice, and the European market was apparently a lot more price sensitive. On top of that Apple had much more aggressively pursued schools in the US, and so I guess US parents might have seen the Apple II as a more "serious" choice at a time when Commodore was increasingly getting associated with games.

Commodore thoroughly trounced Apple in worldwide sales of 8-bit machines and probably for quite some time in 16 bit models from soon after the introduction of the Amiga, but more and more of their output went to Europe for these reasons (eventually quite a lot of Commodores machines were also manufactured in Germany) but also because Tramiel quickly realized that the European markets were higher margins, and so any if supply couldn't be ramped up quick enough for certain models, Europe got priority.

Commodore also burned itself in the US, and its US dealer network, through extreme price war with Texas Instruments and Tandy (pushing things so far that TI pulled out of the market and posted massive losses, but also massively hurting Commodore's profitability - likely a major factor when Jack Tramiel was ousted) and the damage it did to its good will with its US dealer network probably shouldn't be under estimated.

(If you're interested in the Commodore/non-Apple view of the early home computer market, "Commodore: A company on the edge" by Brian Bagnall is a fascinating read)
I'm no expert but this will probably produce extra latency?
> The initial file upload interface is.. not so great. I'm going to be working to improve it. First with things like drag-and-drop file uploading, and then with an API to allow developers to write tools to upload files

Regarding this API, do you intend re-inventing the wheel, or are you going to use something like ssh that people already have written tools around (e.g. rsync)?
Yippee! Only 3 in my town! (1 - Raid on an Innocent Suspect, 2 - Death of an innocent) :-/
I don't think a simple binary protocol for HTTP would be bad at all. HTTP servers are still going to support text-based connections forever, so it only matters if you're snooping on existing traffic; but the ability to use Wireshark or tcpdump to grab the text out of packets directly is already disappearing because of encryption (SSL), which is such a good thing in general that it far outweighs that drawback. Therefore more specialized tools are required, and those may as well parse such a protocol - it wouldn't be that hard. The compression is a significant benefit, and can't be done well below the level of HTTP.

What I don't understand is why we need both SPDY and QUIC.

SPDY provides fast multiplexing, compression, and guaranteed SSL. QUIC provides fast multiplexing and guaranteed SSL at the transport(-ish) layer. QUIC does at least one thing that can't be done at the application layer - faster opens - and seems nice to have as a generic base for multiple protocols, so I call it a good thing (and I'd like to see it in the kernel). But the plan seems to be to run SPDY over QUIC - I can't actually find enough information on the Internet (and am too lazy to look through the source) to find out whether packets are going to be double encrypted for the time being, but even if/when that is avoided, the multiplexing and optional encryption seem to be wasteful complexity. I would prefer if HTTP/2.0 were a simple and easy-to-parse protocol providing compression only, expected to be used over QUIC.
I have tried teaching in the past, but it isn't my strong suit. I enjoy manual labor, but I'm not sure I could do it full-time and know myself well-enough that I couldn't manage various teams, etc. to work my salary closer to what I have now. I'm not very outgoing. Plumbing would be interesting, and I've done some in the past, but doubt it would make enough, I'm not that handy, and managing the team and business would be tough. I like the idea of being a writer, but I don't write much before giving up for months and then starting on something new months later.
Good grief, it sounds like surfing. (the original kind, in the water)
It sounds like the problem here is not militarization of police, but the incompetence of these particular police and the huge amount of drug-related activity going on. If people react to the end of drug prohibition the same way they reacted to the end of alcohol prohibition, the whole country will be strung out in weeks if we legalize the stuff. That's the only thing that keeps me from jumping on the legalization bandwagon. I'd support the cops in the Calvo case standing trial for total incompetence however.
+1 for doing something genuinely pleasant for online gaming. This is something that would have been nice when I was into online gaming; hopefully it becomes more common for people to run their own vent/teamspeak servers not just for personal friends but based on attitude and level of commitment.
How much is "some"? There should be a reason why they never say anything about proportions of their secret sauce :)
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> The US actually tried to impeach a president for lying about a sexual encounter with a White House intern yet does not seem to care much about a president who despite teaching Constitutional Law (G.W. Bush was not even a lawyer) does not appear to know his primary responsibility as president - to protect and defend the Constitution - and proceeds to violate the sworn oath of allegiance he took (twice) after being elected and reelected.

I believe that this is actually literally true: people do care more about the former than the latter. And I think the reasoning is the same psychological flaw that leads to bikeshed[1] arguments.

The executive branch manipulating the interpretation of laws to undermine the checks and balances of the Constitution is too huge, complex, and nebulous of an issue for the average voter to understand or know how to feel on. So many of us just sort of assume that other, smarter people will figure out how to fix the problem for us.

Meanwhile, we can all relate to and easily come to a moral judgement when it comes to infidelity in a marriage and lying about it in court. We can imagine ourselves in that situation and have a clear picture of what the right thing to do is.

With this whole privacy issue, it isn't even clear who the actors are in the story. We all know something bad is going down, but who is doing bad things and why, who is doing good to combat it, and what as citizens should we do to improve the situation? It's huge and overwhelming.

[1]: http://bikeshed.com/
My take: In 2 months of using DDG I've only had to go back to Google twice, and there were quite a few queries where it was even better than Google (mainly because of the meta information it showed at the top https://duckduckgo.com/?q=4+largest+countries+in+the+Caribbe... surprised me)
My thoughts exactly. I had assumed that tpateck would have magnified a figure of speech (e.g. full control -> judge can only appoint not remove), ranted about some obtuse point (e.g. which foreign government does not spy), and enjoyed the thread on violation of first/fourth amendment right derail from the issue. And all of his posts are moved to the top by HNers who recognize the name.
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I personally find DuckDuckGo more intriguing because it appears that they have actually developed their own search engine technology, whereas StartPage/Ixquick just submits your query to Google anonymously.
I think you can justify preventing people from gambling whilst thinking they're investing even whilst permitting regulated gambling marketed as gambling. Similarly, the government permits the sale of alcohol, but not marketed as medicine.

Vegas seduces with glamour rather than prospectuses filled with seductive, irrelevant statistics and passionate, sincere bullshit about how the team of MIT-educated croupiers, striking design and ambient temperature make the ball more likely to land on 27 than at any other venue.

I think only one of the below needs to be true to suggest investment restrictions might be advisable even in the presence of legal gambling.

(i) "unsophisticated" investors are significantly more likely to put their life savings into RandomStartupX than they are to put them on a roulette wheel
(ii) RandomStartupX is more likely to return zero than a roulette wheel
(even if market returns are positive there's a power law distribution and it's probability of returning zero that's more important to those without a well-constructed portfolio)
(iii) Retail investors' realistic early stage "investment" options' expected value may well actually be lower than that of a spin of a roulette wheel assuming the top startups prefer the experience of top-tier investors, which doesn't seem unreasonable even when comparing between different tiers of VC funds
Spot on. In a few years, cloud storage will be more acceptable, working photographers will be ever more tech literate and bandwidth will increase.

I think you're totally right about Adobe too. Those Smart Previews they added for LR5 - those are not just for space-starved SSD drives...
I would not dare to run Eclipse under Dalvik. Just the other day, when someone compared it to Emacs here, I wondered whether it should be called "Egacs" rather than Eclipse.
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I don't think you understood aphyr's post. You might want to try reading it again.
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Good questions. So today, the way the math works out is we can maybe fit 25 weddings on a 1TB we pick up for 80 bucks.. so that's about three bucks, six to do it twice. We think of it as a part of the cost of a particular wedding. You could charge me 10 or 20 bucks to archive before I'd even do the math. We likely spend more in gas for most weddings. Hell, I think each wedding costs us four dollars in business cards.

If you could get me to _really_ trust your service, I'd consider up-selling permanent archives to our clients. Lots of our clients would pay 50-200 bucks for the re-assurance, I'm sure. I don't know that I'd want the ever-growing liability though (right now we contract for 1yr of backup/online-gallery, but keep everything permanently without committing to doing so).

One time or yearly fee doesn't make a ton of difference to me, but with other services we've definitely been tempted into fixed "Unlimited" pricing so that we don't have to think hard about math, or end up tempted into picking and choosing what we backup. Simpler is better.. Managing a store of assets where some are backed up and some aren't sounds like a really bad accident waiting to happen.
This is a wonderful article - too often we get caught up in our bubble of expertise -- most people don't understand basic software/internet architecture. As the Woz said, it's our job as tech workers to make things as intuitive as possible.
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Good luck getting the DA to actually press charges. If the DA says it's not a crime, you don't have any standing to go to a judge for criminal proceedings. You can only sue for civil.

With how corrupt things seem to be in some places, that's a definite loophole.