skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a consultant for a while now and I have this conversation every week or so. What you said goes both ways, nobody has your company's best interest over their personal interest. So you better have my best interest in mind if you want me to have your best interest in mind. It's only fair :)

The employer doesn't have to figure out what's best for you. What's best for them is also best for you. Like almost everybody else, I am driven by respect. If the company measures performance based on profit, so do I. If it's a non-profit, so am I. If you give me what you value most I will do the same. Can't go wrong with that.
If you tilt your head 90 degrees it actually says V IZ going from top to bottom. I have no idea what this means though. I also thought maybe it was something like "better than snakes and ladders", but that would be more like "> NH". Still confused.
Perhaps a compromise like being about to search your address book or other basic phone features but not files or programs which happen to be on the device? It seems that the latter, at least, should be included under 'papers and effects'.
Types are not proofs, but typing derivations are.

This is definitely true, thanks for the correction.

I have never heard anyone say that types cannot feature blame. I would argue that, for example, Haskell's type checker is quite good at blaming the correct party for a type violation.

I agree this is dependent on how you construct blame. In the sense I was talking about, it would be difficult to construct a type system which blamed in the same way -- the type system would essentially require a runtime checker for independent pieces of the program crossing the contract boundary, which I have seen constructions of, but is generally not seen as standard.

For background, my contract work was in Racket, so I am of the Scheme school :)
A Chevy 383 can make about 400hp+ in about 620 pounds. If we choose all our numbers for comparable cars that are highly in favor of the Tesla, we're still only likely going to match the weight of the Tesla's battery pack alone.

The Model S curb weight is 4,647 pounds. A Cadillac STS, which is 5" narrower but very nearly the same in every other dimension as the Model S is only 3,922 pounds. That leaves the Model S 725 pounds heavier, still quite a bit of difference.
The original arguments for "search incident to arrest" are for the arresting officers' safety (it's quite reasonable to check if a suspect has a weapon) and to prevent the destruction of evidence.

I was surprised to read in the article that previous cases have "given the police broad discretion to search possessions on the person of an arrested suspect, including notebooks, calendars and pagers." Those decisions represented a significant loss of due process.

I dislike the administration stance, but they have a fair point. A cell phone isn't substantially different than a paper notebook. Trying to draw an arbitrary distinction between physical and digital media is missing the point. We shouldn't be arguing for stronger protections of digital data. We should be arguing for stronger protections of all data, regardless of how or where it's stored.
You may have stopped reading my comment a little early, as it echoes your sentiments exactly after the portion you quote.
But you still have some expectation of privacy.

Search is supposed to be limited to the area within their immediate control for purpose of seizing any weapons or "obvious evidence related to or separate from the crime incident to the arrest".

I guess it comes down to how we define obvious. Is the file system on my phone obvious?

EDIT: Tom Bihn? You need to get a CountyComm EOD Utility Bag. Nothing says "hello" to TSA like a bag with pockets designed for M4 clips.
Attorney here.

The search incident to lawful arrest doctrine is rooted in officer safety. Specifically, the Court says officers should have the ability to look for guns and contraband when someone is pulled over and it's likely they are armed or their immediate person or vicinity poses a threat and/or has evidence of a crime. The courts have decided that any drug suspicion means they are likely to have a weapon, which is unfortunate, but at least based in some reality.

To my knowledge, the only court (and courts are split) that has allowed electronics to be searched is when a drug dealer was pulled over in California and incident to lawful arrest, the officer downloaded the call history to help them find others involved in the drug trade.

There is NO COURT to my knowledge that would authorize warrantless search or confiscation of someone's cell data, computer data, jump drives, etc. without an arrest taking place. That is a fishing expedition and it's exactly what the Court has ruled unconstitutional under the 4th amendment.

This is where I get very frustrated with the NSAs ability to collect the call information in the first place. The only reason to collect it is to fish later—that's not how the law is supposed to work.

These are complex problems that very few judges or lawmakers have enough understanding of technologically to make informed judgement, IMHO, however.

EDIT - My best guess is that the Court will allow basic access to a cell phone taken in a lawful arrest. I.E., like the article linked above, an officer would be able to look at the call history, but not necessarily download the content of the phone. I think the offender's brief will likely ARGUE that the phone not be accessed at all, with the true hope being the Court merely limits what officers can do.

I have a hard time believing they won't let officers look at any of the electronics with them. I also hope they don't just let officers download everything carte blanche.
> Recommendation 1: NSA could provide open source reference implementations of cryptographic and other security-sensitive code.

This would negatively impact the market of folks who sell cryptographic implementations. I'm not sure the government should be doing that kind of thing. The government, through NIST, already certifies implementations of cryptographic algorithms and allows the marketplace to decide which product is superior.

> Recommendation 3: NSA could provide a training program for American software and IT professionals on security best practices. For bonus points, the cost of this program could be tax-deductible.

There are plenty of training programs that talk about security, some of which may already be tax deductible. (I am not an accountant, but I believe job related training is tax deductible.) CERT's Secure C Coding class and several SANS courses come to mind. Again, why should the government compete in these markets?
I thought that the phenomenon of risk aversion and evidence from the investment markets (stocks having higher returns than bonds) showed that people, on the whole, did not take enough risk in their investments.
The Kids' Guide to the Internet [1997]
wow. fta:

Before New York regulators cut the businesses off from the automated
clearing house system in early August, the payday conglomerate made
short-term loans over the Internet that typically became due — with interest
— on the customer’s next payday. Different U.S. states have widely divergent
laws governing the interest rates that lenders are allowed to charge, and
Brown often ran afoul of these regulations.

He has been sued in several states for making loans with interest rates well
above the legal limit, was the subject of a class-action lawsuit for sending
thousands of spam text messages and was investigated by federal authorities.

Brown was forced to stop making loans in Tennessee following a series of
Times Free Press articles in 2011 and 2012 that showed he was making loans
with an interest rate in excess of what the state allowed, and was doing so
without a license.

I kind of just want to point and laugh; apparently karma does (slowly) come around.
I was only in India for a month and I am not joking or exaggerating that the constant threat of sexual violence also gave me what people could call PTSD.

Even making eye contact with men was perceived as an invitation. I could do nothing right. I tried adopting local garb, covering, being a shadow basically. I wasnt even alone; I was with my boyfriend the whole time!

I dont know how to talk to people about my experiences there without sounding like a complete grump. I would never have been able to imagine how brutal India was for everyone, including women, without going. Thank goodness I could leave!
I was about to write a response about how my cell phone isn't a bag. But, then I realized I feel almost as dirty knowing they could go through the bag as I do thinking they might be able to go through my phone.

If I've already been arrested for something, why do they need to be in my bag? Clearly they already had what they needed to arrest me in the first place, why poke around for more?

(sometimes your posts make me paranoid)

*edit: I understand officer safety, but thinking of already being arrested I assume I'm in custody, and effectively neutralized. And, if I never made any motion or gesture towards my bag it seems safe to assume I am not armed or if I am it's not to hurt the police. Maybe I just am not thinking criminal enough ;)
May I please add a comment from outside the bubble? It does not have to be this way. My current employer is a low cost travel company, we are celebrating our 43rd anniversary as a company. In these 43 years not a single person has been laid off. Not one janitor, not one programmer, not one reservations agent.

We do not have a planetarium.
We do not have a movie theater.
We do not offer free food to our employees every day.
We do not as a policy, pay for our employees' day care.
We do not implement the latest and greatest technologies on a whim because we think they are cool.

We do offer one of the best, IMO, health care plans in the industry.
We do respect our employees, vendors and co-workers.
We do offer generous retirements benefits.
We do work very hard to use technology to solve problems that are as or more difficult than your favorite silicon valley startup.
We do take into account the ability to sustain every single employee for the next 20 years into every decision we make.
We do treat every employee like they are a member of our family and will continue to for the next 43 years.

Consider all of the above when you are looking for a new job or starting a new company.
They seized these $2.9M months ago, but this re-hashing of the news is causing a run on the money: people are frantically buying bitcoins on MtGox to transfer them out of MtGox (since dollars withdrawals have been somewhat delayed and generally very slow to execute). This is pushing the exchange rate to 120 USD at MtGox, instead of ~100 USD as seen on other exchanges.

http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/
"If your suggestion is voting for an independent, is there a realistic scenario where an independent candidate could get elected in the United States?"

How about a scenario in which all the people who claim to be voting for the lesser of two evils reevaluate their own defeatist attitude? If the only thing stopping a significant enough percentage of people from voting for a 3rd party is the perceived inability to win, then it's just a coordination problem.

It would be interesting to see a poll asking "If you knew the candidate you voted for could win, who would you vote for?"

Another argument for voting according to your principles is that based on the electoral college system, only people living in a few states actually contribute to the outcome of the election with their votes, so if you don't live in one of those states, you might as well show your support for someone you don't consider to be evil.
The wall at left in that video is, at most, four dump trucks in volume and perhaps constructed of reinforced concrete (density ~2,500 kg/m^3)?

A single solid tungsten dump truck would have almost twice the mass of the wall. Even with a completely inelastic collision, the wall's going to shatter and move. For a 35 mph collision, I think you're right, that wall would ultimately bring the truck to a halt from friction with the ground. At higher speeds, I think the truck might make it through.

Tungsten is quite dense (19,300 kg/m^3). Such a truck would have a mass of >400 metric tons (2 x 3 x 4 m x 19 tons/m^3), or >247 Toyota Tacomas (2013 extended cab, curb weight 3560 lb --> 1618 kg).

The truck would be terrifying to drive, once you got it going. I don't know how you'd turn.

Alas, Youtube is short on tungsten dumptrucks, but this may suffice. In a demonstration, a truck uses its brakes to stop after obliterating a few cars. The truck is driven by a real person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6TRqjjnO58
BizSpark is a great program and we were excited to take advantage of free Azure hosting included with it. However we learned from our customers that there is just too much latency between the web server and SQL Azure. We found much improved performance by moving to a Storm SSD server with the web server on the same box as the database server. Very happy with that decision.
>>Why not vote for a third party?

Because it does nothing.
Fellow Canadian HNers: this is already allowed in Canada, if your cell phone does not have a passcode. If you haven't already put one on, even a trivial code, do it now.

The recent court ruling that made it possible: http://canlii.ca/en/on/onca/doc/2013/2013onca106/2013onca106...

> [75] If the cell phone had been password protected or otherwise “locked” to users other than the appellant, it would not have been appropriate to take steps to open the cell phone and examine its contents without first obtaining a search warrant.
One of those degrees is definitely "sure, that sounds like a turnon." There is certainly legitimate exploitation, but it's not like Paris Hilton did it to make rent.
Warren Buffet's Letter to Katherine Graham That Saved WaPo's Pension Fund
But the Boy Scouts as an organization has a demonstrated history of being shitty people. They are actually quite proud of the fact that they are shitty people and go to great lengths to make sure everyone knows that they don't intend to stop being shitty people. They view their bigotry and ignorance as a badge of honor, and until they stop, I for one am not interested in anything they have to say.

There can't be a logical explanation for trying to harm an organization that helps children unless they are intentionally trying to impersonate the BSA.
I grew up in a poor part of Easter Europe. Alcoholism, poverty, despair was around. It wasn't Africa, and there are lots, lots worse places in the world. We might not have always had enough food to eat, but we were lucky to have what we had.

It is important to recognize when you are not safe and to know how to diffuse the situation and escape. In some of those places it could go from staring to stabbing quickly. Let's just say I had to act "crazy" a couple of times in order to be deemed not worth to bother with (this is a good strategy btw if you are by yourself in a bind)

I can't judge of course for you, I wasn't there. But you perhaps underestimate the danger because you were with her. You are also not a woman. It is different for a single woman.
For job interviews--and only job interviews--I tend to dress up to something between a button-up silk dress shirt with pressed slacks and no tie to a full suit. I've mostly done the latter in a previous career (academia) where it was expected for interviews.
Ruby is awesome, so yes that would be wrong. But is it wrong that I was secretly hoping the answer was to abandon the project?

Contracts are not needed and it obfuscates the error raising. Just use plain Ruby if you need to raise an exception. I'm will seriously quit using Ruby if someone makes me use contracts.

But it looks like a fun project to write. Nothing wrong with that.
Startup hacks to boost your audience numbers and conversions
More than the article itself, it's amazing how much prejudice people have, especially related to skin color.
The guy can say "faggot" but if he says "nigger" you have a bunch of people saying how bad it is to use the "n" word.
Oh come on.
What he meant is as clear as water.

People should grow up and realize that by doing that they're just stigmatizing the object of prejudice even more.
My favorite was "While this is statistically unlikely to remain the case long term, Tesla is unaware of any Model S or Roadster occupant fatalities in any car ever."
> Elon Musk clearly writes these things himself.

What the fuck? Get a grip, PR is _an_ industry.
Seems pretty clear that it's time for the next generation (cyber-citizen party?) to start running for office.

/me writes in tptacek / cperciva
I did not know about this! I assume you mean this:
http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/pubfund.shtml

Interesting, but it comes with a bunch of conditions (these are for 2008):

- General election spending limited to $84.1 million

- Primary spending limited to $42.05 million

Quick google search revealed that in 2008, the dem/con candidate spent almost $1B each:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aerix...

I'm not sure the public funding will help! Certainly it might get your foot in the door for one election cycle, but it won't win an election without a lot of grassroots support.
Lesson: Just do not leave your
home, where the Fourth Amendment
still applies, with anything you
don't want the police to have.

For digital data, make sure any
mobile device you have outside
your home has all its data
on your home server and that
the digital device can be wiped
clean of any cached data quickly.
Chrome, 10.6, 1280x800.
CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
What infuriates me is that not enough people care for them to demand change.

This is a common theme on Hacker News, and an understandable one: You see a situation that seems unjust, and you want other people to be upset about it. But they're not, because people don't work that way.

People will become upset when they have social proof that they ought to be upset. This takes a long time, which means that politics, metaphorically speaking, has massive momentum and takes a long to change direction.

At this stage, watch the decision makers, the influencers, and the people who pride themselves on being "middle of the road" above all else. When they start to flip, it means a larger political shift has started. And sure enough, obsessively middle-of-the-road writers like Andrew Sullivan are starting to doubt the government's arguments.

If the government keeps raiding newspapers, detaining spouses, and otherwise getting caught, public opinion will continue to shift. But it will do so slowly.
I tell people that I consider oathbreakers as worse than murderers. This generally happens early in the business relationship, and has considerably cut down on the number of brawls I have found myself in.
The article currently says "drugs, cash, and guns". Was that changed, or are you making a joke?
Cowboy is roughly verb-agnostic (though REST verbs have special support: http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/HEAD/guide/rest_handlers)
Or maximize the async parts of your app as much as possible if you are wanting to build a scalable, distributed system and don't want any blocking calls :)
But this strategy is especially awful if you know you
don’t plan to ever actually learn the language, but you
turn out to be wrong. It ends up that you find yourself
using it on a regular basis, and hilariously, you don’t
even notice this for years and years.

This is especially true of my relationship with Javascript. First I held it at arm's length, then I learned a bit when jQuery and other frameworks were first released...at least enough to get by. Then, about 3 years later, CoffeeScript came out and I embraced that. Now I find myself, thanks to AngularJS, back at Javascript, and truly embracing the language for the first time.

Javascript will never be my favorite language, but after 10 years of finding every way to avoid using it directly, and 2 repentant years of truly mastering it, I can at least finally say that I know it well.
That is, by definition, describing the meeting. Paraphrasing is when you say in other words, generally shorter ones, what somebody else said.

What's your evidence that it's not a direct quote? Aside, of course, from your personal disbelief that a government official would say something ridiculous.
Get ready to be arrested for something _every time_ police notice you filming police activity.
Examples: While Indian culture is patriarchal, its society can be quite misogynistic. While American culture deeply frowns upon racism, racism is a very real and ubiquitous social issue. In the first example the societal behaviors arise from the culture, in the second I show that they can be totally contradictory.

Society is about the way people act among each other, culture is what is passed on and shared among a group of people.

I really hate to cite wikianswers because it's one of my least favorite sites, but this description is exactly what I am getting at: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_soc...

>"Society" is more about, "How do all these people interact?" "Culture" is more about, "What do they believe, and what do they value?"
>One thing that always surprises me though is how people rightly are disgusted by callbacks but think promises/deferreds/futures/etc are nice. They are nicer but doing a lot of async stuff stills sucks big time even using these tools. You will write way more code and it will be way tricker than an otherwise comparable synchronous app.

Well, nicer is all that matters...
That's a Prius C, the new super-small one based on the Yaris chassis. Given its ultra-low-budget roots, four stars is actually really impressive. Yeah, the Tesla is better, but it's a newer, heavier, and far more expensive design. It should be better.
Terrorists are people who instill public fear [of themselves and their present and future actions] as a political tool. Yes, they are "freedom fighters" if you find their reasons noble and "terrorists" if you find them ignoble.

But people who aren't in the public fear business at all are objectively not terrorists, and if the government calls them that then they are arbitrarily redefining words, or as we like to say, "lying".
"Stock is growing" & revenue numbers are different than actual profit of a company.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/groupons-growth-problem-sal...
I'm not sure the Alexa and F35 were panicked responses to the Red... the Arri D20 and Panavision Genesis predated the Red, and are very clearly the ancestors of the Alexa and F35 respectively - they use the same resolutions, sensor layouts and colourspaces, if not the exact same chips and recording formats. Not to mention the Dalsa Origin, a 4k camera out well before the Reds.
Let's be clear about the future: in the very near future, every person will carry access to every piece of digital information they have ever interacted with, on their person, at all times.

This is already pretty much true today; it will certainly be absolutely true tomorrow.

Allowing warrantless searches of this pile of data eliminates any idea of needing search warrants at all.
Show HN: You Should Probably nags you whenever you waste time on the Internet
by gaming the fucking test?
Exactly. It is an incredibly refreshing departure from how things are normally done in Corporate America.