skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that you're happy to take the DEA informant at his word when he says "Pull over suspect X on Tuesday at location Y and get probable cause for a search for drugs" But obviously, there is no check on the power of the NSA/DEA/etc. here; and that makes the scheme as unconstitutional as anything that ever was, and ripe for abuse. One need not even don their tinfoil hat and allege made-up conspiracies[1], just consider the effect that selective enforcement with a racial bias would have, and then remember that minorities can't even get equitable treatment for the terms of their mortgages, and that most DEA/NSA types are socially conservative Whitey Whiterson types. Decades of this would give you feedback effects that might make people feel justified in their racial bias, and indeed there are people who argue in favor of racial profiling on the basis of the ratio of black:white &etc. prison inmates.

[1] Like John DeLorean, Angela Garmley, or those few moron terrorist/pizza deliverymen.
That's poor, I'm sorry.

The quota request was denied, but we (Google) failed to communicate the decision properly / at all. Sorry about that.
Those sources of 'probable cause' are trivial to credibly fake without consequences when you've got the strong tip (and already lying about the true reason for your suspicion).

The car "drifted" or "failed to signal a lane change" or "failed to maintain a safe following distance" or "moved suspiciously as the patrol-car neared".

The officer "smelled something". The driver was "acting weird", or had "bleary eyes" or "droopy eyelids". A drug dog smelled something (which could just be (a) the dog didn't but the officer says it did; (b) the dog follows a subverbal cue from the officer; (c) the dog reacts to traces planted by the officer.)

Once the actual search succeeds, the flimsiest fabricated "probable cause" that was "parallel-constructed" will pass muster. So the defense that such searches "must still be based" on something legitimate isn't very convincing. Once you've already been coached to cover-up the true source of information, what's one more "white lie" to catch a "really bad guy"?
The result they are showing is clearly on a 64bit machine, my 32bit windows php overflows into a signed integer.

I posted initially with casting (int) $i but I tested it without and it worked too.

In fact on my 64bit centos machine PHP 5.4 doesn't need the cast at all and the original code gives the correct result the first time as is.
It is the responsibility of the judge to throw out this evidence, not the jury.
That's $200 on contract, an important distinction for some of us.

But the battery life is definitely one of the killer features of this phone. If you want good specs, without paying a lot, there is the very nice Nexus 4 (likely due for a refresh soon), but that phone in its current incarnation certainly can't boast great battery life.
Probably what annoys me most about this is that HTTPS was already there (I've been using it for a good month or two). This would imply that the costs were already spent, the infrastructure was in place and it was working just fine.
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Can they really get away with it? Will people actually put up with this kind of treatment?
> A commonly cited statistic is that cows produce more greenhouse gases than all the world’s transportation combined, or 18% of all greenhouse gases. ... [snip] ... A more accurate analysis of the data resulted in a much more respectable estimate: that cattle contribute less than 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

http://chriskresser.com/the-real-environmental-impact-of-red...
Can you link the bugs/stackoverflow you are having trouble with, please? We should be doing a better job of fixing them - especially if they are gating you from releasing a serious app. That is bad, sorry.
How does momentum keep you safer?
Regarding flat design, I think the criticisms raised in this article are criticisms of poorly executed flat design, not flat design in general.

With that said, I think a lot of underskilled designers are mistaking flat design for ambiguous/overminimalist design[1]. A lot of flat design is horrible, but it's not because it's flat (per se), it's because the designer took an existing visual asset and "simplified" it rather than taking the time to redesign it without skeuomorphic or 3d elements.

[1] https://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/85100/128/apple_finde...
Don't take this the wrong way, but your entire rationale for having co-founders seems to be based on fear and negativity. Your comment implies that you're most interested in providing yourself with the comfort that somebody else is taking risk too and will be there to drown with you when the ship sinks.

Per my other comment, this is simply the wrong reason to bring on a co-founder. If you truly aren't confident in the opportunity you've identified and don't feel comfortable owning your pursuit of it, convincing two or three other people to come along for the ride isn't going to prevent failure. In fact, it's probably only going to make the process of failing even more stressful.
FWIW the details, such as they are, came earlier:

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Fukushima converted me away from being a supporter of nuclear, or at least conventional nuclear. Maybe something like LFTR or WAMSR could re-open the debate in my mind, but the debate for conventional solid-phase reactor cores is pretty much closed.

Not because I buy into all the fear mongering about radiation, but for a much simpler reason: it showed that conventional nuclear is not cost-effective vs. the alternatives and is not scalable.

In any system, accidents will happen. Worst case accidents will happen. The frequency may be low, but Fukushima shows that one singular bad accident can completely obliterate the economic rationale for nuclear power in a given country. Fukushima is going to be a billions-a-year money pit for Japan for at least the next decade and a half.

Given those costs plus the fact that nuclear without accidents is not substantially cheaper than alternatives, it just seems more rational to invest the money and R&D effort required to solve the energy storage and distribution problems associated with solar and wind energy.

In the end, provided we can back them up and distribute the power efficiently, there is actually more energy available from the sun and the wind than there is from any actionable real-world plan for scaling nuclear that I've ever seen. Renewables also have many other benefits including:

- Very low risk... basically no more dangerous than any other construction or manufacturing.

- No fuel, so little to no real sustainability concerns. This means that once we make them work they will work forever and we won't have to worry about energy anymore.

- Small incremental investment cost. Wind and solar can be deployed in small increments, and it's exponentially easier to raise small increments of money than large ones.

- Less politically centralized. Nuclear demands centralized regulation and huge centralized financial control, and nuke plants are central points of failure for the entire industrial system built around them. Were we to rely on them exclusively they would become easy "off switches." Renewables by contrast open up the potential for a "PC revolution" in energy.

It just seems like a no brainer for me. Nuclear is a boondoggle, at least for most uses.
In many countries you cannot plea out. Everything has to reach court, and I as living in one of these countries think is a good think. This prevents extortion and bullying by prosecutors. Your sentence should not depend on your skills at negotiation and knowledge of judicial processes.
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Congrats bro.. You could learn a lot from how AirBnb utilized Craigslist to get some initial traction.

http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...

and

http://andrewchen.co/2012/04/27/how-to-be-a-growth-hacker-an...
It now appears possible to hack a (fancy, Japanese) toilet
We love Macaw, and the early preview looks amazing! Can't wait to play with the final version. That said, it looks like it is much more similar to Adobe Edge Reflow, but with a more intuitive interface.

With Webflow, we're looking to build a more comprehensive hosted platform that allows designers to create production websites and actually deploy them live. Down the line, this means that content management, functional web forms, eCommerce integration, and a variety of other things are possible out of the box, without the need to export code and change it manually. Even simple things for programmers like script compression/concatenation and CDN acceleration (all of which happen after the design phase) are hard for many designers to set up, so we want to take as many headaches away as possible so designers can get back to work.
But the point you keep missing is that you're placing trust in an entity which is accountable to no one.
What sensors does it have? There doesn't seem to be a list anywhere on the spec sheets from Motorola. I'm especially curious if it has a barometer - does anyone know?
`Tepco's "sense of crisis is weak"`, ultimately the problem.
It's both, really. Knowing the correct data type won't get you anywhere if you use a language like PHP and assume that it will always correctly guess the required data type for a given problem.

I find that when it comes to programmers who reach a certain level of proficiency, it doesn't matter whether they learned these things through a CS degree, or through hard knocks.

I started out with VBScript and ASP 1.0. I didn't get a CS degree, but I ended up learning about floating point errors rather quickly. This lead me to learn more about data types. Similar result, different path. I ended up paying for my error, much like someone would pay for an education.

There are certainly bad programmers without CS degrees who make these mistakes, but I know plenty of programmers who hold a CS degree and will consistently misuse float unless reminded to use something more appropriate.
All Objective-C programmers I know are really iOS programmers trying to make a quick buck. Most of these people either aren't aware of GNUstep, or wouldn't care since they have OS X.

GNUstep is old. It predates the revival of Apple and the return of Steve Jobs. In the late '90s the Linux community declared war on Microsoft and decided the best way to destroy them would be to make a clone of Windows. Hence the focus on KDE and GNOME. Meanwhile, less attention was given to projects like Window Maker and GNUstep. IMO, the Linux community bet on the wrong horse. But then again, who the hell was using ObjC other than NeXT? No one, that's who. We may as well be talking about Tcl/Tk or Motif at that point. NeXT/GNUstep/ObjC were all seen as an obsolete curiosity. Kinda like Amiga was. So unfortunately, GNUstep never really gained momentum.

I must say, Window Maker was my preferred desktop up until 2006 or so. Before that, it was AfterStep. So yeah, I might be a bit bitter over the whole situation.
What are you talking about? No I'm not.
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Immortality, I say half-seriously, since you can't spend time faster than anyone else.

You can't add more people to a project without slowing everything down. What else would you spend your money on, esp if you have enough that investing it may actually give you a higher ROI? You'd be well-advised to play the long game.
Firefox (19.0.2) shows this error on the demo page

"This browser does not have native cryptography support :("
I remember either Asana, Stripe, or Quora suggesting to build a similar program to help your application when applying. I always thought it was a super cool idea, but never got around to building one.

I'll try and find a link later today.
I've always so defer the exact same thing. I always thought it would make an interesting blog; someone who just goes through the "breakthroughs" of five years ago and actually contacts the researchers and writes up what went wrong.

Who's with me?
Fair enough, but translating your experience into such absolutist advice is sort of like saying "I wouldn't be able to drive without an automatic transmission therefore I recommend that everyone avoid manual transmissions."
Possibly. The focus of the story was that (at least at the time) many of the owners/leasers of these machines had no idea they contained drives that retained the scanned documents.
You could also leverage Meetup.com's plethora of camera groups for supply side demand.
No, I haven't done that at all.
You took that sentence out of context. This is the full paragraph:

> To be sure, using data to argue about contentious policy issues should always prompt skepticism. It's too easy to focus on particular aspects of any data analysis to prove one's point and overlook those items that may raise more questions.

... which is a very valid point.
We have spent decades and hundreds of billions chasing a particularly poor form of nuclear because of the US and Russian military industrial complexes. Dismissing nuclear because of horrible past decisions seems unwise.
Yeah, for hobbyists with no credentials, the CPS/similar programs are a no-go.
I posted this in response to a comment the last time this came up. That article was killed, so I'm reposting:

Whereas the reason there are open positions for programmers at high tech companies is that these companies want star programmers

Maybe they should try paying like stars. What percentage of engineers that aren't founders or within the first five employees make over $300,000 a year? The money is in Silicon Valley, Google's 2011 net income was $299,874/employee [1], but the vast majority of engineers aren't going to be the ones to get it.
How about paying a market wage, instead of offering a "free lunch" to people that cannot negotiate. I am not interested in playing video games at work, I have a house for that. Last I looked at it, the difference in pay between finance and stem jobs is enough to hire a personal chef to deliver lunch to you at work every day, and cook for you at home, and buy all the games you want, with a bunch of money left over. Apple and Google are both posting ~25% net profits because engineers are willing to work for peanuts, and a free lunch. On top of that, cost of living in the bay area is outrageous, we're talking $35,000/year for housing, unless you want to live like a college student.

An average (median) engineer should be making $200,000 a year, and the "rockstar" (>80th percentile) engineers that everybody is trying to hire for $85,000 and 0.5% of equity, should be making $350,000+. These are hard jobs that few people can do at all, and fewer can do well. Great engineers can create millions of dollars of value a year.

It seems that the industry has shifted focus, now that the collusion agreements have been squashed, toward importing cheap labor. This problem has been solved in other industries through partnerships and professional societies (e.g. in the legal industry, with large partnership firms and bar associations). In the interim, it seems like the best way to capture value is to build companies to flip in talent acquisitions, while planning to leave to do it again as soon as you're vested.

[1] Goldman Sachs 2011 net income was $162,913 per employee. Average pay was $367,057. It's harder to get data on Google, but it looks like the mid-career median salary is $141,000.

Google's Gross Profit (Total Revenue less Cost of Revenue) was $24.7B in 2011, and GS's was $24.5B. At the same time, Google had 32,467 employees to GS's 35,700. Yet, the Google net income was $9.7B compared to $4.4B on the GS side. The difference seems to be made up entirely by the difference in employee compensation.
If that was true, then we'd all be searched at every traffic stop, and there would be no point to the (excellent) ACLU videos on what to do if you're stopped by a police officer.

But in reality, the sources of PC sufficient to search a car aren't all that easy to credibly fake. Can they be faked? Certainly. Trivially? With the possible exception of drug dogs (which bother me a lot more than this program does), no.
I had often said the same thing. Not everyone wants to live in the Valley and it is VERY costly to live there.
I'm not a tin foil kind of guy.... I think it's pretty safe to say the freedom hosting takedown and tor targeted exploit is a masterstroke of saber rattling and psyops dick waving.

Target and capture somebody (possible evil douchebag) who is hidden behind seven proxies, Gain access to highly secure 'hidden .onion' servers used by people who want to stay hidden, scare the TOR user base by proving they can identify you in easily while also not giving a fuck about burning one of the many exploits in their bag - in a single move!
Nice and clean, but your color palette needs another round of iteration – I like the overall tonal feel, but using red vs. green as opposite signifiers leaves a majority of the color blind out.

Red/Green is the most common range of color blindness. Azure is a common substitute for green, or try some other combinations that move away from the Stop Light feel which is a bit overplayed anyway.
There is a lock-in. We invest a lot of time in learning an ecosystem with a very specific programming language, quirks, rules, practices, problems - oh, and the AppStore approval process. On top of that, one day we suddenly discover we also depend on the availability of Apple's cert server.

Customers/consumers are not locked in in this regard, and generally they don't care whether or to what extent developers are.
What are some of those countries? Let's be specific and see if we can generate an apples-apples comparison.
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Just did a password reset and got back my original password... it appears they don't read the papers they publish.
Hmm, perhaps I was wrong and it hasn't yet. Rakudo's latest release was in May 2013, but it looks like they aren't actually passing all of the tests yet.
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Hey hey, what the author suggests is not that solo founder is better. It's that temporarily solo founder is better than getting fucked by adding the wrong co-founders.
So the lightbulb has appeared and you've acknowledged that "African Americans", like most Americans, are descended from both Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans, and that there is no demographic group satisfying your initial description.

I think that data about crime rates related to different demographic groups is quite important. My purpose is not to be pedantic, although I do enjoy that, but to help clarify the thinking of those who might confuse this demographic data with outmoded and superstitious ideas about "race". I'm sure you're much too knowledgeable to fall into this trap, but there could be others, not as sophisticated as you, who might suffer from common misconceptions about genetics, race, and related issues.
The link on top - http://pebbleroad.github.io/jquery-taxonomy-browser/dist/
Why should I have to state the obvious? Factory farms are terrible for the environment both in the short-term immediate vicinity, and in the long-term globally. They are massively increasing our exposure to antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. They expose workers to serious health risks. They treat their animals inhumanely. If you are not troubled by at least a subset of those things, you are either irrational, or your base values are so profoundly opposed to my own that I consider you an obstruction.
I think so… of course not for every instrument (eg. windinstruments).
What I think could be the problem is that musicians really "love" their instruments. I am a drummer and I don't even like it if someone I know plays a gig with my drumkit. But that's only my opinion.
I build desktop apps for the Mac but want to build cross-platform software going forward. A native look'n'feel is a bonus, as well as easy deployment. I also don't want to be tied down to proprietary APIs like I am on the Mac with Cocoa, Core(Whatever), etc.

From a language perspective I prefer Objective-C, C#, Vala over C++. Personal taste. Sadly those languages don't have bindings to the toolkit which seems to have the most momentum, QT. There are third-party C# bindings to QT, Qyoto, but that requires using Mono which for some Linux users is a no no no.
Handling (bad) Startup advice on blogs.
Some 40.000 results with the eval() function: https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aphp+eval+%24_GET&typ...
Perhaps the tiny HR detective pictured should try searching for qualified workers around newer computers, ones without floppy drives perhaps? Or maybe just search online?
Yup, that quote striked me as ludicrous too. If using data to argue should always prompt skepticism, what do they recommend instead? Hearsay?

See also "Nate Silver didn't fit in at the New York Times because he believed in the real world": http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/24/nate-silver-didnt-fit-in...
> In the case of the commenter below, 100% of his comments are short, and of them most are valueless or negatively valuable.

I agree this might have been a poor choice re: this particular user.

> maybe [pg] could append the reason they were hellbanned to their posts. (Obviously visible only to onlookers.) As it stands the process is opaque.

Agree.
I would say that the battery life is the killer feature. Everything else is sort of "nice, but on <X> they have ..."

For me that was refreshing to hear because when the first Android Phone came out (the G1), battery life was so poor that it made the phone seem unusable (well you were afraid if you used it at all you wouldn't have charge in an hour or so).
Perhaps so, but at this point I'm starting to wonder if the point is moot. Solar is experience Moore's Law type effects in terms of cost per kW of installed capacity, and there is now immense R&D muscle behind energy storage due in part to the electronics industry.

The awesome power of exponential tipping points is not to be underestimated. When the cost/kWh curves intersect, it could happen fast. Look at the adoption of the Internet and smart phones for examples. Solar could go from <1% of our energy to >25% in 5-10 years. That might be conservative.

I'm seeing nuclear as a niche technology. In a post-fossil world I can see it for radionucleotide production (e.g. for nuclear medicine and space probes), maybe for a few really heavy industrial needs, and for some locations with very poor local renewable energy availability. But for the most part I see it as obsolescent.

I do think it might find its killer app somewhere else though: Mars. There are many reasons it would make more sense there.
I've always wondered about this. Is the standard deviation of Google's salaries less than that of GS's? Does GS have more of a long-tail?
Go's Rising popularity is false assumption. Comparing to popularity of only modern languages; Go barely registers on the graph & you will have to very careful to note Golang is actually present. so practically, Go is still a niche language.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#q=golang%2C%20...
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> I believe in 3.x range has been replaced with xrange.

Correct.
I think wrong question is being asked. I think there are enough engineers, it is the quality of product people that is suffering. That often leads to balooning of engineering teams to crush the code run and make the product. So lack of engineers is a symptom not a problem. Speaking from my varied experience , YMMV.

2c.
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