skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In reality, the hacker may have a perfect understanding of the current law"

Maybe?
I find engineers, like a lot of intelligent people, read a lot and think this means they understand things. If they spend their time starting by reading and learning fundamentals, i'd agree with you.
Instead, a lot of the time, IMHO, they read and understand particular cases in particular jurisdictions, and then take that as a truth that applies elsewhere, when it doesn't.
Maybe someday i'll make a law for hackers course as a MOOC.

They also want the law to be logical, and present logical extensions of arguments (IE they want the law to be an entirely rule based system, where if all rules are memorized, all outcomes are clear) . It's certainly a necessity to be able to reason logically, but the problem is, at its core, the law is about people and situations, and not logic. Logic is just a method that is used to come up with some possible solutions to these problems, and to determine possible outcomes. It is not a god that must be followed at all costs.

IE Judges are not going to do things just because they are logical, because they are people, and not logical reasoning automatons. The law's goal is to serve a societal need, not to be theoretically sound in all cases.

This often grates on most engineers, who want bright lines and definite answers.

Anyway, this is my experience having been a "real" engineer for 15 years before/during/after becoming a lawyer, and talking to an ungodly number of engineers over the years about things.

It could be my view is skewed because of the career path i've taken :)

I do agree that there is tension between lawyers and engineers on HN, but IMHO, this is due in large part to most lawyers being able to objectively detach their feelings from their legal analysis of a situation (something one is trained to do in law school), and forgetting to mention they are doing this.
The motor isn't that big; there'll still be some frunk left.
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It's sort of sad people only recognize Tesla for Elon Musk and not say, for Franz von Holzhausen. Tesla's designs are largely the reason why my head turns when I get a glimpse of those beauties on the road.
To be certain, whether or not LINK is supported is not really the issue. The file is mishandling HTTP methods in general for the sake of "optimization". Had the parser been written correctly in the first place, it ought to have been trivial for someone to add support for new extension methods like LINK, but since the parser is broken, it becomes significantly more difficult.
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Bringing in business is only part of the story. If you don't think that the founder is concerned with the fact that customers are leaving, then you don't have a competent person at the helm and you should jump ship.

But give him another chance. Address the issues you noted, and see if he cares. If you think he's a good person, you probably can explain the importance of keeping good relations and making sure that customers are satisfied (and if he disagrees, you probably should leave)
What helps immensely in learning new programming languages quickly, but also in spotting tricky bugs and increasing general software engineering skills is studying programming languages as a discipline of CS: learning how languages are implemented, what are the core paradigms, what are the design choices invented so far for common issues etc. There is a fantastic book called "Programming Language Pragmatics" that is readable and very good in teaching the practical aspects of this:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Pragmatics-Third-...
But... ski racks! So important for some people, and there's nowhere for them to go except on top.
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If someone is on $15/hr and billed at $150/hr chances are they do not have the experience or portfolio of work to be able to go and work for themselves billing $150/hr
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Hopefully BeyondTrust will use the opportunity to also train him in responsible disclosure.

Regardless of the response you get from a vendor, you don't make use of an exploit against a vulnerable target. That is the line that separates the good guys from the bad. Period.

Facebook has invested heavily in sandbox environments and automated generation of test accounts with test data explicitly for researchers to help demonstrate vulnerabilities. It is even mentioned many times on the page where you go to find the address to report issues to and learn about the bounty program.
the reason for gull-wings on the X is easy third-row access. with minivan doors you are limited in how far back they open
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Here's the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Eriksson#Car_crash
>plus what are the chances you knock your 5-year old's chin on the way up?

Probably the same chances that you will knock over your child when you swing open a conventional door. That being said, they'll learn quickly to step back from opening doors.
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Ah, yes, very logical of you. I think I recognize the form of the proof; isn't this the same basic argument that Fermat used to prove his last theorem? :p

Anyway, your point isn't nearly as straightforward and uncontroversial as you've made it out to be. You're not just saying that people should discuss things using logic, you're saying that people should discuss things using logic exclusively. Or at least that's how I interpret your statement that we should be insulted when somebody uses rhetorical devices.

If you really have the philosophical or mathematical background it would take to make a proper argument grounded only in logic, that would be one thing (and I suppose I can't conclude that you don't, based solely on the lack of evidence so far). What you see entirely too often online, though, are people who claim to be making perfectly logical arguments, but are only able to do so because they're extremely cavalier with their axioms ("freedom trumps health", perhaps, or "it is only possible to have a rational discussion with somebody who explicitly rejects all other forms of reasoning".)

And, for the record, I am explicitly not claiming to be making a proper, logically sound argument here. I acknowledge and accept that I don't know how to do it properly, and I'd most likely just make a mess of things.
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This bit sums my experience with Twisted nicely: "...[the available docs] are either aimed at absolute beginners or at experienced Twisted users." I was highly frustrated trying to find any useful docs on Twisted.

This is where I dumped Twisted for Tornado (and I'm quite happy about it too ;). Looking back Twisted seems over-engineered too, but that is strictly my personal opinion and could be due to lack of understanding.
Who the hell is the other guy? (Why don't you elaborate)
Linkedin uses Scala for many different teams. My team does. Apply and tell the recruiter you want to work for a team working with Play with Scala.
So what? Half of number theory (I don't know enough of it to say whether that _is_ an exaggeration) does right that: "If the generalized Riemann hypothesis is true, ..."
All mine has is name / address, etc followed by course studied and the relevant topics studied during that course.

It's not a 300 word page filled with text.

Leaving space is also a good way for people to take notes on the CV (I've found that during my interviews the interviewer often used the CV like a checklist for asking their questions on my experience)
A more serious offender is the .to_s method: Why on earth is nil.to_is == "", but [nil].to_s == "[nil]"?
That is one good looking landing page. Fantastic job!
Thank you for your response. (Though amusingly enough I am satisfying clients enough to bring in over 3x my salary. Makes me wonder if I should just freelance, haha...)
A cellphone serves as a digital container into one's life. As it is a connected device, the cellphone has access to potentially limitless information about a person since the data is not necessarily stored on the phone itself but rather on servers elsewhere. Finally, one typically does not have complete control over the data that resides on their phone (installing the Facebook application, for example, allows others to stream their content directly to your device).

You're correct that this is unrelated to the NSA's surveillance programs. However, it does represent a threat to US citizens' constitutional protections.
Speaking of sloppy work, you link to an article on social psychology yet extrapolate the findings to the whole of psychology. You then throw the baby out with the bathwater by claiming the entire thing is useless when it's not.

The nature of psychology lends itself to more fuzzy or fraudulent work, but by saying that psychological research is itself useless, you're also throwing away things like A/B testing, UX testing (including Apple's much-vaunted usability stuff), research into grief management, team-building research, research into cognitive recovery therapy after acquired brain injury, work looking into ameliorating sexism and racism, perception research for HUDs in fighter aircraft (my honours research), some pain management research, research into dealing with PTSD, research into crowd control and management...

... all this (and more) is apparently useless, simply because you've got a chip on your shoulder. Fuck I'm tired of people just taking pot-shots at a soft target that they don't understand and never bother to.
Have you visited Japan? It has great civility and safety, applied to people of either gender and even to foreigners. At least to white ones like me. Japanese say the old order is breaking down in the cities, so I can only imagine how it once was. Yet it remains the most civil place I have seen.
That's a very good presentation. Thanks for sharing.

Yes it is possible to use deferToThread and I like run_in_reactor trick. Very nice. eventlet by the way was integrated with a Twisted reactor as well. So it could co-operate with it. But, it was never a question of "impossible" it more of a question of it being "annoying".
Remember that the people executing these commands (civil servants) are probably well aware of just how absurd and futile they are, and likely to make that clear with dark humour. On the destruction of the hard drives:

The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.

This bleak humour is typical of British public servants, and not at all unlikely, e.g. on leaving office after 10 years, a treasury secretary for the Labour government left a note for his successor:

'I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left.'

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/may/17/liam-byrne-n...

These off-hand comments don't materially change the story any in my view - the important points are that the government insisted on shutting down reporting as much as possible, and destroying any materials in the newspaper's possession.

They visited a newspaper office to destroy evidence - that's the important point here.
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This often grates on most engineers, who want bright lines and definite answers.

FWIW, the thing that bugs me the most is that sometimes the bright lines are more important than the soft stuff like intent and sometimes they are not and there is little rhyme or reason for why. I'm not just talking things like strict liability versus mens rea either, its just that I don't have a good example off the top of my head. Maybe AT&T vs Weev?
It confuses me too, I genuinely don't understand the motivation of the hangers on.
The goal of a crash test is not to keep the car intact, it is to keep the driver intact. On "keep the car intact", today's cars do way more badly than those of the 1950's.
> making the employees ineligible for unemployment benefits (that's why I try to get my employees to resign)

Am I the only one that finds this utterly and totally horrific? Why would you do that? What do you gain by someone who leaves being unable to collect unemployment benefits? Does it directly affect you? I thought that was something that all taxpayers put money into. It reads like "I take pleasure in ensuring that ex-employees are totally screwed" -- please tell me I'm wrong.
UK officials raid Guardian, destroy HDDs to stop Snowden stories
This is an important point, thank you. I actually received no followup from the founder. Despite these two senior employees heading the account I was working on, I was actually responsible for much of the work of the client's budget, yet despite this I was never approached regarding account performance. Thank you very much for reminding me about this fact.
The Mode View * client side frameworks help to separate concerns of storing the data relevant to your app (models), creating the abstractions responsible for displaying the models to the user interface (Views), and managing the routing of your app (* or sometimes called controllers) within your application. These separations help to make code in your application more reusable, easier to debug, and easier to modify.
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Blogger is insane with that loading bar. If it's a page of text, the blogger-spinning-logo probably takes more bytes than the content.
How is it substantively different on styling than a 2014 Focus 4 Door or Taurus.

The styling is bland an unoriginal, it looks like every other car for sale these days, whats worse, its bland an expensive, I can afford a focus, I cant even begin to hope to afford a Model X.
The cost of memory safety
Now on the Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2397527/Bank-America...

Not the most reputable source but it will soon be picked up by other news outlets.
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The site's back up!
Yep TextAdept never really got mush visibility, but it was (is?) a great approach to a having a editor fully scripted in lua, much more so than Scite which also has lua scripting and of course is uses the same scintilla text editor component as TextAdept.

These days Adobes Brackets is using pretty much the same approach in the JS side of things.
Lets not forget Mark himself was charged with breaching security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy by Harvard's disciplinary board for students - he turned out ok.
This is absolutely the right response; I think it's not a stretch that a security report might be provided by a "newcomer" or potentially even a complete layman.
It looks like they've added a PayPal donate button to the bottom right side of the page
In order of desirability, the methods of dealing with a discovered exploit are:

1. Report to vendor and do not publicly discuss until they've fixed it

2. Demonstrate the exploit in public to prove that it works

3. Sell on the black market to Mafia/NSA/etc

The guy attempted approach (1), and didn't do a very good job of it, but it seems this was at least in part due to inexperience. Should he have worked more carefully to pursue option (1) first? Sure. But Facebook should have asked him for more information, perhaps pointing him to the guidelines.

So next he went to option (2). Facebook found the bug, and fixed it. Option (2) is infinitely better than option (3). I think Facebook should be extremely grateful to this guy - he even apologised for having to take this option in his post on MZ's wall, after (1) failed. Regardless of his & facebook's mistakes, they still should be thankful for him reporting it.
Yes, that's true when you want to scale. What I'm looking for is something that can run efficiently in my cheap VPS, me being the only user. For that purpose, I'd guess, App engine would be an overkill.
Just the first difference that caught my eye: section 3.1 of the document you linked to says that once fulfilled or rejected, a Promise must not change to any other state, and its value may not change. In Guido's exposition of Deferreds, under the heading "Idea 2: Pass results from callback to callback", he says:

The most interesting bits are the last two lines: the result of each callback is passed to the next. This is different from how things work in concurrent.futures and Tulip, where the result (once set) is fixed as an attribute of the Future. Here the result can be modified by each callback.

This enables a new pattern when one function returning a Deferred calls another one and transforms its result, and this is what earns this idea three stars.
Reminds me of the many times I emailed spreadsheet files to marketing, saying, "I need that back when you're done"

Generally they got it, but it took some of them a while.
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Or at least they were looking at fixing it 8 months ago. https://github.com/joyent/http-parser/pull/145
on a mac! and remember editing has always been easier as you can work with proxies right up to delivery. Also Final cut was the first to have native support. In post land where we are mostly linux, and scaling up macs cost mega bucks, it was not so rosey.

From a post point of view, its much harder to deal with just proxies. I was in MCR, so It was my job to convert from RED to exr/dpx etc. Since it was post, artists had to deal with full res most of the time (can't paint and rotos proxies)

Your right it is an over simplification, but decent film stock and decent scanner can get "4k" out of 35mm+, however as you rightly point out you are reaching the limit of the actual res of the film stock (more than quite a few cases)

+I used to work with a northlight which overscanneds to 8k then down samples to give the final result.
Voted up, but I think (hope) he meant it in the sense of "And even that is not enough."
He designed the Tesla S: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Holzhausen

(I hate people who post LMGTFY links, but seriously.)
Most normal car doors aren't going to open well after a rollover, either.
The main problem is with the level of education and mannerism 90% of the indians posses. These people are always in fear of god and trapped by their religions. They are not enlightened enough to make all the logical decisions themselves which causes the main problem. They try to objectify anything and everything they see. It's like a hungry man stealing food from shop. Without education and knowledge every society is equal to animals.
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This game reminds me of another drawing game: "How To Host A Dungeon". More info and instructions are here:

http://planet-thirteen.com/Dungeon.aspx

"How to Host a Dungeon is a solo fantasy pen-and-paper dungeon-building game. The game follows the progress of an imaginary dungeon from the dawn of time through to an arch villain attempting to conquer the world.

The creation of the dungeon is driven by random tables and procedures as monsters, adventurers, civilizations, and arch villains interact in an underground environment. The player records these interactions, maintains the dungeon map, and makes some choices in how they play out.

The end product of the game is a complete unique dungeon map and history which stands as an interesting artifact on its own or can be used as the basis of a dungeon crawl role-playing game campaign."
It doesn't seem to tell me how much it is..

Generally if I have to ask the price, I probably can't afford it.

I want an electric car, I want one with a range of about 400 miles, with charging stations to support it. jAs soon as the electric car is as easy for me to use as a gasoline powered one, I'm ready to drive one.

For what it's worth, my line of work (making all those mobile devices work) requires an enormous amount of driving.
So this is actually part of Yahoo's YUI?
"women in the kitchen" was considered perfectly natural in Europe/america culture some time ago, but when women could choose, they mostly chose not to be in kitchen. That's a quite strong argument that women in other cultures will do the same, if they can.
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that includes storage and basic QA.

You have to remember that staff are needed to over see this, data has to be conformed into something sensible.

and that post production is expensive.
Oh, to be certain. The HTTP spec does have extension methods; any token is valid as a method name. (Implementing the spec in Rust has taught me a lot about HTTP.) I guess I should avoid the quibble of the particular example and focus on the bigger picture :-)
Hybrids do not store energy for the journey in the batteries, they store it in the fuel.

The storage capacity of the fuel is not affected (much) by temperature.

From a simple perspective, the batteries in a hybrid just serve to smooth out the energy demand and provide regenerative braking.
Fast draining those batteries would likely cause an enormous amount of heat.
> but using deferred leaks everywhere in your API

Exactly. To expand on it. Glyph and/or Guido, I have heard say how the fact that IO is happening is very important and one should an obvious explicit callback in the algorithm. (Those using yield based concurrency also agree but just say to stick a yield in there instead of a deferred+callback).

I disagree. If one particular API function happens to use Twisted shouldn't affect the user or caller of the functions. Using a particular IO library should be an implementation detail.
I'd was going to make the same point. Yes, I think that changes things completely -- if you are an owner than you are being loyal to yourself (premise holds).
You can't just "shut down" electric pathways. Not exactly. There is a manual cut that first responders need to make to sever the high voltage circuit before they can work on the car. However there's still capacitors, converters and the battery itself that remain dangerous especially if they've been compromised.

As for "fast draining" the battery, where would the power drain to? That's exactly the problem.. NOT giving the power a path to go when you're working on the car.

This is not much of an issue with most cars because the electrical systems are low voltage (12V car battery). With Tesla it's enough to cause major injury or death with one touch if you complete the circuit.

Watch the video, it explains all this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntK3rvVl2Qw
Unfortunately, I have to say that this is true for non-profits too. I have a similar experience with my previous employer (non-profit) who decided to change the direction of the IT department. In the end, I am grateful for the opportunity of doing good as an employee in the organization in the time I was there but I no longer wanted to be a part of where they were headed. I still believe in their values and mission but the leadership needs to do what it thinks is best for the organization.
This is absolutely fantastic, I wish I had kids to use it.

Beautifully designed and such an awesome product (seriously, props guys)