skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1986, Robert Barbour applied for a personalized plate. The DMV gives you three choices: he picked SAILING, BOATING. If he couldn't get those, he didn't want a personalized plate, so he put NO PLATE. Of course, he ended up with NO PLATE. Since that's what the police put as the license if a car doesn't have a plate, he ended up with 2500 tickets. Eventually the DMV told the police to write "NONE" instead of "NO PLATE" and said "We're just hoping that no one will come up with plates that say NONE." (Which would be ironic if the parent comment is accurate.)

The article is pretty entertaining - it talks about him becoming semi-famous and getting pulled over because cops wanted their picture taken with him:
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-23/news/vw-20054_1_licen...

The comp.risks article (where I originally read about this) is also amusing: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.45.html
plot twist, my friend's anglicized name is Nan, but in Vietnamese I think it is a number. (nth birth)
I'm sorry, but I disagree. As it stands, it is currently more important to display code as it appears in the file. One day, everyone may have their style for all languages and every tool supports it etc. That's not today.
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Can you tell me more about the author's credibility?

(She could be the US National Security Advisor and I still would not buy the idea that the FBI is simultaneously (a) dragnetting Google search teams and (b) noisily following up on suspicious ones; if the FBI is watching Google, they sure as fuck don't want you to know that.)
If "letting the terrorists win" means getting out of mideast hellholes, ceasing to assassinate civilians with drones, and stopping the continual interference in various places they consider holy, then yes, I'm absolutely suggesting that.

We need to let go of the idea that it's us or them, and that either we win and they lose, or they win and we lose.

Wouldn't an outcome analogous to the modern-day UK and Ireland be great? People getting along well, no violence, reasonably stable governments? I don't see why you paint this as a bad outcome.
Alrighty. Where will you be implementing it first?
Hmm. Working for me in Chrome. OS X & Chrome Version 28.0.1500.71
Code is meant to be consumed by machines

I hope you're joking...
I'm not a lawyer, however I've been told by lawyers that the only thing that should come out of my mouth when a cop asks me a question is either "No" or "I'd like to speak with my lawyer".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
First thing that popped into my mind: "let's just fuzz the poor thing over BT and see if we can get it to fail"; the device inside doesn't seem particularly robust, as far as electronics are concerned. Oh, and I wonder what a directed EMP (which is as low-tech as it gets) would do to the lock - fail-open? fail-safe? fail-closed? Who knows...and never mind the circuit breaker box located conveniently outside. No juice - now what happens?
Living in America will drive you insane
I don't know if they gave The Troubles proportional attention, but it was at least a lot more proportional than the American response to 9/11, and turned out way better.
The JTTF isn't an agency, it's a task force lead by the FBI in a local region with membership of local and state law enforcement. First one was in NYC, there are now task forces in most major metro areas. Most states and major cities have anti-terrorism/homeland security departments of their police forces. The agents could have been any mix of FBI, ATF, State Police, Local Police etc.
Good thing he's not gay.
So if tomorrow the herd decided it is acceptable to send you to uranium mines to work for free for the rest of your life because it is better for the society, you'd have no objections to it? And, mind you, it is exactly what the herd had been doing for thousands of years, staying willfully ignorant of the horrors of slavery, religious wars and inquisition.
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My situation is actually even easier: I did not have 8th grade civics class as I'm German and live in Germany. While the government/police (to keep in power) wants us to believe that there are terrorists, I actually feel very safe living in a district with a very high muslim population. [0]

We just don't have that much police and secret services poking around in our private lives (yet), so let's see what I'll do when I actually come into the situation. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_population_statistics#P...
> I have no idea where you got this "turn in police some people, but not your friends and family" from.

From your tweet:

@oleganza 1) No, I wouldn't turn them in, but I believe such enforcement is necessary and overall good. 2) No.

https://twitter.com/mikeash/status/362955640370503681

So lets say we have different ideas on how to maximize "overall human pleasure" (I also don't see how'd you measure it). Who should give up his idea? Should I force you to follow my recipe? Or should you force me to follow yours? Or could we just agree peacefully on some line in the sand and we try our ideas separately without insulting or threatening each other?

Example: if we develop a software and have different ideas on how to do it, should we fight till one of us gives up, or we can simply walk away to our computers and work with some other people, if we cannot work together?
What You Give Away
> Calling it property is considered a misnomer by many

Yes, and those people don't understand property.(The problem isn't their understanding of IP -- most of what they say about the nature of IP is correct; the problem is that they don't understand real property, tangible personal property, and intangible personal property other than IP, because if they did, they would understand that the contrasts they attempt to draw are specious.)
Wow, even the "1000 limited edition poster prints". Crazy. I remember it when it came out. It was a success because of media attention. It sparkled a "gold rush" to buy these pixels while they lasted.
Sometimes people do crazy things. :)
Indeed, if searching for pressure cookers and backpacks really get law enforcement to your door (assuming this article is factual) then you definitely don't want them to look into your garage/toolshed where you may have some fertilizer, gasoline, metal canisters, bolts, nails, etc...
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"We spend $0 a year on defense against meteor strike. Should I, as a citizen, be content with meteor strike happening every few years?"

"We spend $0 a year on defense against flesh-eating bacteria. Should I, as a citizen, be content with flesh-eating bacteria happening every few years?"

"We spend $0 a year on defense against maniacs going postal. Should I, as a citizen, be content with maniacs going postal happening every few years?"
It seems clear that most of what needs to be done (to "save Yahoo") involves ceasing to do certain things so that core competencies can rise. That she's gearing it toward the mobile age is astute, but not necessarily out of step with what competitors have been doing for some time.
Preventing tab-close data loss in JS Web Apps
This is one thing I don't understand about HN sometimes. I always get replies that seen to angrily "disagree". But I've already made your point in my parenthetical remark.

There are of course other times where the function pointer overhead doesn't matter as much and the modularity of not having things as templates is desirable. Sorting is just a bad example.
License plate was X and it had to do with parking tickets.
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Of course. You enjoy the protections of the 4th amendment at home, under normal circumstances the only way the police can search your apartment is with a warrant.
I would say the terrorist is likely to have the highest body count in the end.

Do some rough math on 9/11. 9 terrorists and 2977 deaths (331/terrorist).

The most prolific mass murders have "alleged" death tolls in the hundreds, but most are only multiples of ten.
My name fail to register surprisingly often, even here in Brazil.

It is Hélder Maurício Gomes Ferreira Filho

Common reasons for failure is being too long and having non ASCII characters, but sometimes it fails for other reasons, for example do not allow me to register without a middle name ( I don't haven't one actually... ), me confused and not knowing how to register Filho ( it is not a family name, neither a surname or a last name, but it is still part of my name. It means Son, my father has the same name as me, without the Filho part), or breaking when it cross check with somewhere ( for several reasons I ended registering my name in several different ways, usually omitting Hélder, that I did not even knew was on my name until I got to school and got forced to use because of stupid rules that assume your first name is your typical name )
We had a customer with the last name "Echo" who couldn't make a credit card payment. Turns out that the card processor was looking for strings which were common Unix commands and not allowing them.
Perhaps the people who click with Go will just be different in their natures than people who click with other systems and frameworks. Programmers are not a uniform population, and tools which map well with subsets have real value.
Can we stop posting articles from businessweek? Please?
Why do you think this is something new in Europe (or at any place on Earth)?
Only 3 years late to the game.
I think it all depends on what you're using Twitter for...

If it's just your personal account, just check the most recent Tweets, and ignore the rest when you get bored of scrolling down. Weed out any people you follow that do not post interesting things.

If this is for business, the more followers the better. It's best to break followers into lists so that you can see the conversations you want to participate in.
That time Mickey Mouse was a Drug Dealer
GCHQ: inside the top secret world of Britain's biggest spy agency
Brilliant stuff.

THIS is something we need in my dear country Nigeria. Internet commerce has refused to take off because of the fear (sadly not misplaced). I am thinking if this service is not better positioned towards the Banks than the individuals themselves.

There would be default permitted websites and locations from where transactions are permitted. If a new website wants to be "registered" they apply to the bank to be put on a whitelist.

Presently, it is a blanket over securing that is taking place that makes it almost impossible to perform online transactions with Nigerian companies.

Great job.
SOAP: the gift that keeps on giving. I built two SOAP APIs for Google (Search and AdWords) and spent way, way too much time on this kind of data interop nonsense. I wrote up a quick summary of why SOAP sucks, it's still my most popular blog post. http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/whySoapSucks.html

XML is a terrible encoding for data. Fortunately JSON does pretty well and has mostly replaced it for new stuff.
I worked alongside industrial engineers at a Kodak manufacturing plant that applied the Toyota Production System to their operation over the course of several years (once you start you're never done, thus continuous improvement, etc) and the results were dramatic (in a good way). I liken it to "industrial UX" as a lot of the observational techniques and ways of getting to the true root cause of issues are not too different than what a UX person would do for a website. Personally, I still use what I learned whether it's laying out my kitchen or my desk at work to maximize my own efficiency.
> I'm not interested in arguing how far the response to 9/11 was from some policy ideal. I'm trying to dispel the notion that as long as "only" a few thousand people are dying annually, then the rational response is to treat terrorism with no more seriousness than anything else that kills a few thousand people each year, such as ladders.

My point is that treating it as any other spree or serial killing is rational - we already have mechanisms to deal with these kinds of events, including laws about the use of "weapons of mass destruction", etc.

The whole point of terrorism is to provoke a reaction outside of that normal process and get people to react to the terror... causing an allergy-style overreaction from the populace, much like we saw from 9/11 in the US.

So the rational response IS to simply go "ho-hum" and treat it as just another criminal act. Taking the cowardly path of "something scared me, spite it with full power phasers!" is what the terrorists wants, and is ultimately self-defeating.

Comparing it to more dangerous things - things that are statistically more likely to kill you - is a way to fight against our animalistic panic to smash! kill! destroy! the thing causing fear, and demonstrate that it is just fear we're responding to, rather than a rational danger.

tl;dr: Spending the privacy and civil rights we have on stopping the fear caused by terrorism is the height of cowardice and irrationality.
http://news.yahoo.com/google-pressure-cookers-backpacks-visi... also an article from yahoo. the problem is that we have to wonder if this is real. it shouldn't be. it should be found in a book written about a horrible distopia in the future... but it's not.
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It is really too far-fetched to provide a meaningful answer or discussion. Does it includes prison guards ? Are the inmates left to starve, or running freely ? Does it includes fire-fighters ? FDA, can I sell you my cure for cancer ? ...

It is probably due to my education, and the time I was born, but I can't imagine a society working without "safeguards". Maybe it is because of lack of imagination, but I would like to see a working example, before making the jump. Which is a kind of chicken egg problem, because if no one tries, you can't know it works. Maybe it will seem obvious retrospectively in 500 or 1000 years, but currently it is not.
GForth uses 0 for 'false' but -1 for 'true'... that confuses me a lot.
How is "keep your customer returning by showing some vulnerability" at all related to mutual aid / co-operation? In spirit it's still an aggressive strategy and relies on your customers being dumb enough not to notice.
Are we only concerned with page 6? the treemap?

For those who would like to start from the beginning http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/aug/01...
I don't know, if you read between the lines it's got useful info, e.g. Yahoo has been historically very hostile to mobile, and they can't recruit mobile talent without "[buying] talent, spending close to $200 million to acquire at least 18 startups, in addition to blogging network Tumblr for $1.1 billion. In each instance, Yahoo has locked up engineers with two- to four-year contracts...."

Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for success....
This is an example of making a bad system more efficiently bad. So it's great that the process can be made more efficient, but that doesn't address the cause of why people are having to rely upon food banks in the first place or why food banks have been expanding their activities in the last few years. If food banks exist then something is wrong at a more fundamental level and it would be better to direct efforts towards trying to fix that problem.
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Yes. You lack perspective.

If the state can't prevent every murder, why would you expect that it could prevent every terrorist attack? Why does it make any actual difference whether deaths are simultaneous or distributed? Horrible things, intentional and accidental, happen every day, and they can't all be prevented, but you don't waste your time worrying about drunk drivers or lightning strikes, because they're spread out and you don't notice.

You make a reasonable and proportionate effort to protect yourself to the extent that you can, and roll the dice and pray to the extent that you can't. What makes terrorism any different than plain old murder?
I agree with you and I am saying this from personal experience.
What is with The Guardian and their NSFW article pictures on the sidebar?
I'm not sure that falls to Toyota to do, though. I would commend them for what they have done, that's a large and direct improvement to the lives of the needy. Just throwing money at the problem rarely results in the same.
There's a relevant XKCD for every situation.
How do you get from that tweet to the words I quoted? They are not even remotely the same thing.

If you can't hold an honest discussion then why are we here?
Although the only way to become that funny is to write satire - a lot.

So if you want to be a satirist - and bear in mind that there are easier ways to make a living - starting a satire website is a pretty good approach. Just make sure you stick to it.
My fantasy vision, predating go, was publisher/project/version with /src and /bin below all that (separate bins and srcs). I am open to re-balancing that tree ;-), but somewhat surprised that version wasn't in from the beginning. Perhaps there were more worms in that can that I expected. (version should be constrained to x.y.z numeric form)
And these officers are located where? Are they flying all over the country every day to investigate these 100's of incidents? Or, are they based out of the nearest city and following up on 100's of incidents local to that city's population?

Even if said agent was exaggerating his/her workload, this story sounds fishy.
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