skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We need to spend the remaining 20% of our budget on something. No, I don't care what it is. Justify it and figure it out, otherwise our budget will be reduced and we'll be fucked when something big comes up next year."
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I remember being perplexed by this govt thought process when I first learned about it .... 25 years ago. And I'm still perplexed by it. I don't know how we work our way out of this mentality, but it rewards the very definition of "waste, fraud and abuse". You'd think something more sane like "departments that were under budget this year get first priority in next year's budget" would be a no-brainer policy to adopt, but it's exactly the opposite. Reward thrift, not waste.
Instead of serving all fonts to all browsers, which would be slow, you can serve different styles based on the user-agent.
As a natural extension of a welfare state paradigm, children are property of the state and parents are merely temporarily assigned guardians.

In Germany and Norway, children are taken from their families on a decision of a social worker, no court is needed. All it takes is a teacher's report stating that a kid is "sad".

Google "Jugendamt" to read the horror stories. A classic scenario involves forbidding a divorced foreign parent to speak in their non-German language with their kid, ever.
NCS does not employ contractors for SOD (which I assume is what you meant by "mercenary", SAD includes non-tactical units too). Pay is relatively modest compared to other lines of work within the Agency.

Edit: I realized after I commented that I dropped alphabet soup all over the uninitiated. NCS is the National Clandestine Service, which is the division of the CIA responsible for covert operations. Most people assume the Special Activities Division (SAD) is only the Special Operations Group (SOG). There are no "mercenaries" within SOG, only Specialized Skills Officers, whom are recruited and transfered from other Special Forces branches.
And the really fun thing is that if our early-mid WWII torpedo experience is any guide, it's worse when the government does all the designing, testing and manufacturing.

Not so much that they screwed up, every major power had problems with their torpedoes when they entered the war. But in e.g. the case of the Germans they properly investigated and cashiered two officers responsible. It took the guys at the sharp end of the spear in Hawaii proving e.g. that the contact firing pin binded in its housing when hit square to get any corrective measures. (The torpedo also swum too deep and the magnetic fuze didn't work in that part of the world vs. the Atlantic near New England.)
- Their authority the problem. Increasingly authoritarian being the issue.
- As they should be underfunded. Keeps their power in check.
Using Spotlight from the OS X Commandline (2006)
How much of that page is in fact "fact"?

They call Germany's team that picked up the kids a "SWAT" team, even though Germany doesn't have a SWAT team, Germany has GSG9 which is solely used for anti-terror operations. I also wouldn't call a team that includes social workers a SWAT-team.

This sentence alone shows that this article was only written to rile up emotions:

>At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,”

Who has called it an act like that? The HSLDA itself, no-one else.

I also can't find anything on this in German news, so there are no secondary sources, so no way to verify their claims yet.

tl;dr: There are no facts yet.

Edit: Just remembered, there's also the SEK, the Spezialeinsatzkommando, which are the German state police's special police to handle barricaded suspects - may have been in use here, but again, I'd highly doubt they'd be accompanied by social workers.
Current HN policy seems to be that the title from the article itself should be used, no matter how generic and uninformative they are, and no matter how much more useful and descriptive the submitter's chosen title is. This used to not bug me, because I read via Google Reader, which kept the original title. Now I use Feedly, and it updates if the title changes, meaning I often see a title, make a mental note to read it later, and then when latter becomes now I don't see it anymore. Grrrr.

If I ever get around to blogging and write something that is likely to get submitted here, I'm going to give it a totally useless title like "As The Yaks Go, So Go The Wombats" [1] that the submitter will surely replace with something better, just to see if the HN mods would opt for the article title even when it is absolutely dreadful. :-)

[1] Does anyone know where the phrase "as the yaks go, so go the wombats" comes from? I used it exactly twice as a signature line on Usenet in the early or mid '80s, but do not remember where I got it. The only hits Google shows are a hit on my site and me asking a few years ago if anyone knew where it came from.
I'm not sure you just read my post; my point is not about marriage, my point only included reference to a specific objection that is often raised in discussions about marriage. The merits of the objection are not what I am referencing, only the obtuseness of its presentation. In this discussion/context, I am not concerned with the relative merits of gay marriage. I hope I have just made that clear.

Just forget I said it. I regret saying it and causing this OT tangent.
I already know from the title that the article is going to be horseshit.
>Are gangs, bullying, racism pervasive?

Being German, there are no gangs like American gangs, there is some bullying (nothing rampant) and racism depends on the area you're in - my school had some problems with Turkish and Armenian kids hating each other, but no fights ever.

Edit: There are a few "problem"-schools which have huge problems with kids from all kinds of backgrounds - the Rütli-school, for example. But I highly doubt the kids of OP's link went ot that school, they're white.
The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S
That sign alone is pretty neat. I could put build health and statistics on it. Hmm..
Basically none. Numenta has yet to do anything that has impressed any researchers I know. Perhaps someday they will, but I am not counting on it.
I'd like to try your product but I'd rather you send me an email after two days saying my subscription will expire in 24 hours than pre-paying by credit card. Make it easy for people to try and not buy and you'll get customers. Trick them and you'll lose the best ones. Fix it and I'll give it a try.
Or a title that changes per visitor... which could eventually even show optimized titles to the moderators' IPs or HN referrer-URLs?
We are already giving humanitarian & medical aid and have been for some time. The use of chemical weapons has been considered a particularly heinous war crime since before WW2. Destroying chemical stockpiles is about as limited an engagement as possible. We're not sending any marines in, or supplying rebels with arms - at least not yet, and I hope not ever.
This is his side of the story. Some of it does seem shady on the side of CPSC, but my perspective is, Craig Zucker was making tons of money. Am I supposed to believe that the money he was making didn't override his better judgement at all?

Sounds like what happened at the end after his campaign failed was that instead of complying and executing the full recall, he terminated the company; taking all of the profits with him, and leaving the CPSC to clean up the mess while he laid on a beach somewhere. Now he's complaining that didn't pan out and he might have to give the money back.
What if they were the state's children? What I'm saying here is that often one encounters the opinion that children are their parents' property, that they can do with them as they well please, and that isn't true either.

There are such things as abusive parents, and there are such things as crazy cults. One notices that there was that other German couple, whose name eludes me, who cited religious motives for homeschooling. That is never a good sign. I'm a practicing Catholic, and if a German gives that reason for homeschooling they are using the Lord's name in vain.

Public opinion in Germany (and in France) is that society has a duty to provide some oversight, and that that is provided by schools. By the way, public education in Germany is generally decent.

All these arguments aside, there is also the child's right to a decent education, and the parents have no right at all to deprive the child of that.
Sure, but if the fonts are licensed for being downloaded from your website (which isn't the case with typekit) it should not matter. I think the crux of the biscuit here is does the license allow you to host and serve the fonts, or must they reside on another server (which is the case with typekit and most -- perhaps all -- of the font subscription services). How the browser downloads the font file from your server is not really the issue.
That was my main question. How does this compare (either experimentally or theoretically) to already well established approaches.

No references in their paper.

The smells like Wolfram's "New Kind of Science" type work. And they are welcome to prove me wrong, I like AI topics. But it is isolated from other peer work, when AI field is not new. So kind of suspicious.
I think this is a case where the OP's link left out information -

I'd wager the kids' parents have said before this happened that they'd take the kids to another country like the US. Taking their passports prevents this kind of fleeing.
I strongly disagree with your argument but I highly dislike the fact that you are getting a drive-by downvoting. I countered by upvoting.
Sometimes, it takes a while.
User agent sniffing is unreliable and evil.
You know, that's one of the scariest thing I have read in a long while. I can't imagine how it would be to have all communication cut.

It's crazy. We live in a crazy world these days.
U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show
You need to stop putting words in my mouth.

The context of my statement is in regards to self identification vs community identification. I write code, I release apps and I get paid. Why do I need a community to call me a coder before I can be considered one? What other people think of me, what image I put forth, etc is all marketing and politics. The only real evidence of me as the coder is what I ship. Does it scale? Does it have bugs? Does it work? That's the reality check, not whether Steve from SuperFrog Backup Solutions saw my code on github and thinks I write an elegant monad.

If you can achieve something by talking to someone instead of writing code to work around it, both are equally valid.

Nothing I wrote disputes that.

So yeah. You can cocoon yourself saying lalalalala, but you don't want to be the thread that spawned, did something to its local variables and exited. Whats the point of such a life anyways?

Consider this: a man spends a lifetime writing novels. He thinks of himself as a writer, he identifies himself as a writer and he introduces himself as a writer. He never publishes, but he's always producing. One day, his house burns down, killing him and destroying everything he's ever written. Do you think his life was wasted? Do you think he thought his life was wasted?
He's (arguably) infringing, what's stopping him asking for a license? They're not being dicks at all, IMHO; if this is anything like other C&D letters I've seen it's probably very polite and explains in detail why they're asking him not to infringe on the mark.

Also, all the people downvoting jfarmer for providing an accurate and comprehensive explanation of trademark law - get over yourselves.
The SPDY server could hint the usage of the font before the browser actually requests it.
Why can't some people understand that authors want claim over their creations? Is this really a bad thing? Not everyone writes code for the "good of mankind", and we shouldn't be forcing people to. The quality of software will just go down then.

Besides, JavaScript code is open source. The reason I push for open source is so that others can get a learning experience by looking at ideas in existing code. This campaign is being really picky. Especially since it goes into detail about "where" the code is ran. I'm sure a campaign about "freeing" servers because they generate HTML would sound a lot more ridiculous.
Then they would be closer to the fastest horse in there race than any of the horses in the 6th race. Think of it as a calibration step so you can find the positions of every horse by comparing how close they where to the finish line with how close the winner was to the finish line in the final race. (adjusting for a fractionally shorter race as in you don't know it took an minute or an hour but with 98% of the time they got to x so if they had been in the 6th race they would have ended up at y.)

PS: I am treating this as a real world trick question, if your talking about a virtual world where the only information is a horses rank then yea you would need a 7th race with 5 horses assuming no ties.
It depends on who you want to hire.

1. Do you want a team member who can plan, investigate and research unforeseen problems, brainstorm and contribute to the code? Then the one on whiteboards is bullshit UNLESS it is a brainstorming question - with a laptop next to it - and you are both working on the problem together - and ideally neither of you know the answer.

2. Or does you company have a clear knowledge of what lines of code are needed to be written for the next 5 years. Then sure, go ahead and do the whiteboard interview. Or just train a monkey, at least they are cute and cheap.

A whiteboard interview typically just tests memory recall under a stressed situation. It might be what you need if you require a hacker for a Die Hard sequel where there is only 90seconds to figure out how to line up the encrypted polycube nano-algorithm before nuclear meltdown is initiated. Or if you require a monkey.
Except the US is not supporting the revolution or to bring peace and democracy. There are no indications to support that. You have to look at US interests here. Those interests are in the chemical weapons that Syria possesses. Those CWs are more devastating than any conventional weapon by an order of magnitude. If they were used as reported, then something must be done to hinder the usage.
In 'Academia', researchers may not actually own the intellectual property resulting from their research.
It should be noted that this is a discussion from 2003. I doubt things have changed much, but it is something of which to be aware.
Well, it escalated for a long time. The law in Germany is, that children have to go to some school public or private. In this case, the family refused to send the children to any school, and it escalated to a point where the government appointed a guardian for the children. Then the family left Germany and apparently returned now. So as far as I understand the legal argument: the parents have no longer the right to take the children out of Germany and therefore the passports were taken to prevent this.
The author said that the ipads they gave students are restricted to a few apps approved by administrators.

EDIT: Another thing he mentioned was teachers seeing kids playing games or messing around with their calculators as a bad thing. So I doubt they would support white-listing apps that let them run their own code.

However they probably come with an web browser, so it defeats the purpose as they can still play games and stuff (unless I'm wrong and they don't.) They could also code with it if they wanted, in javascript or something. I don't think the safari app allows that, but you could find a website that executes user inputted code. I've played with some of those before.
And would not everything you've said be true of, say, this bit of legislation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933 with the Reichsrat (which I'll admit I first heard of today) substituting for the Bundesverfassungsgericht?

Really, now, I think you don't understand our concepts of e.g. natural law (e.g. the right to effective self-defense), and that some things, no matter how consecrated by much beloved process, can nonetheless be utterly illegitimate.
alt.non.sequitur much?
other democratic souvereign countries have the right to give themselves laws that conform with the opinions or the majority of its citizens

Who has denied that? Nobody. That doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't criticize what we find wrong.
Umm, how do you take advantage of stale quotes with RegNMS; you can't hit a stale bid or offer and then go to another exchange and take the other side of the trade and pocket the spread. RegNMS forces the worse-priced exchange to redirect their order to the exchange with a best offer.

However, best price is determined by the consolidated tape. Are you saying that the consolidated tape could lag and people take advantage of it?
It's not wrong to read something someone posted inside a window.
Honestly, this seems like a parody to me, but they are serious. Sure, some sites are open-source. But I wouldn't expect every site to be open source.
You mean "my pronunciation."

It's not the most natural thing to say but it can still fly:

"Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, [...]"

in a way that 'softwares' and 'advices' would not.

I would add 'codes' to that use as it is often misused

To make this even more confusing, in some contexts, 'codes' is used as a plural in ways you never would for general purpose programming, even though it refers to the same thing. Physics (nuclear, in particular) simulations are a case in point:

http://nuclear.llnl.gov/simulation/
Google Buys Smart-Watch Maker WIMM to Challenge Rivals
I'm a native American English speaker who is also into startups (and has lived in a lot of places, communicating with non-native speakers in English, as well as my really horrible Kurdish, Pashto, Dari, French, Arabic, etc. phrases...). Observations:

1) You should fully Americanize all the spellings. It is American English people want.

2) This would be far too boring for me to stick with if it is things like "I went to the cinema yesterday". A coherent story, or even better, a domain-specific lesson, would be a much more engaging way to teach a language. I was able to learn when it was "talk to my driver about the security situation and drive plan", but never cared enough for casual conversation. I am usually happy to talk to people who speak horrible English about things I care about, which presumably for the hn audience is tech, startups, etc., but not about sports (cricket!?). If you could do a vertical-specific sayafter.me it would be awesome.
He said "look". There's nothing criminal or morally wrong about looking through someone's open door, regardless of extent.
Is the product publicly available?
That was a sad day for American politics. Not only would ratification have had no impact on US education, including homeschooling, it would have had basically no impact on anything domestically. Everything the treaty required we already do.

Where it would have affected Americans is when they travel to other countries that also ratified the treaty. Since the US did not ratify, those countries do not have to extend to visiting Americans with disabilities the same rights they have to extent to visitors from countries that did ratify the treaty.
I think there's a very simple rule anyone can and should follow to not fuck up interviews: Don't ask people to do things in the interview you wouldn't expect them to do in the job.

Examples:

(1) Do people in this job regularly write code on the whiteboard? Lack access to a search engine? No. Then don't do it in the interview.

(2) Do people in the job design spice racks for blind people? No. Then don't ask them to do this in the interview.

(3) Do people in the job regularly find themselves coding something on the level of fizz buzz? Yes? Go ahead and ask!

(4) Do people in the job regularly find themselves writing code to traverse linked lists? Find loops in graphs? Yes? Go ahead and ask.

Verify people have the skills they need to do the job you're hiring for. It really really is as simple as that.
[rust-dev] changing roles
...or, read The Trial by Franz Kafka for a more apt summary
I'm surprised to see HN jumping to support the right of parents to raise children in ideologically-driven information vacuums.

Censorship by parents is censorship, too. Learning to think critically and being presented with information which may challenge your parents' religious beliefs are basic freedom of speech and freedom of information principles. I would call them human rights.

Let human beings decide for themselves whether to disregard science, believe in God, believe the Bible is literally true, etc. I'd rather have a little state overreach than fundamentalists whose beliefs have solidified before they were ever even exposed to ideas that didn't fit their parents' version of reality. That's bad for politics, bad for science, and unfair to the children.

Everyone has a right to at least be presented with the scientific view of the world. They don't have to believe it, and their parents can certainly offer alternative views at home. But in my mind a child is a person with at least some rights which supersede those of her parents. Education has got to be one of them.
The nice theory is that "All Germans are entitled to live and work throughout the EEA (EU plus Switzerland, Norway and Lichtenstein)", which fails hard when your passports are seized.

Sounds like we're violently agreeing; still, I wonder why they haven't taken this step prior to now.
No, they aren't great at everything, but being the best at everything isn't what they're designed for. What they are designed for is to be functional tools, and like all good functional tools, they are designed to be durable and reliable, relatively maintenance-free, and to do most of what people need them to do. I know a guy who's been using his TI-83 for a decade, and it still works fine. I bought mine from a pawn shop for $40 three years ago, I use it nearly every day, and it works fine. The batteries in mine last... months. Actually, I think mine might be going on a year now. They're not pretty, and they aren't going to be able to do vector calculations in 3D, but as a tool, they're actually pretty goddamn awesome. And once you learn the UI, it's not that bad at all.
> There's no reason to take it personally. Lord knows the other side isn't!

That people abdicate their humanity whenever the word "business" is attached to what they're doing is pretty well the root of the problem.
In the sick mind of the German socialist, abuse is homeschooling, where children can't be indoctrinated by the state. Good to know that Hitler started that nice tradition.
You're probably lucky you didn't get the chance to dial 911. Because after you did there was probably a 50/50 chance of the perpetrator injuring you further or running away.
I downvoted him (and you, as well as everyone else in this thread) for continuing to post off-topic comments. The article is about the no-fly list, and people are insisting on posting paragraphs of text about gay marriage. Please stop upvoting them.
We have nothing that would survive a quantum computer. RSA is even better than ECC, because it uses longer keys.

But we are very far from a usable quantum computer. I doubt we'll get it in 15 years, and I doubt we'll get it before everything changes because of AI, nanotech, some other disruptive tech, or some kind of doom.

Yes, there is nothing stopping you from using ECC with a 2k bits key. Except that you aren't.