skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the procedures are negotiated between the unions and the employers. In the case of public-sector unions, the elected government is responsible for representing the public interest in the negotiations. The legislature can also pass laws directly mandating certain procedures, if they wish, since ultimately the whole union system operates within parameters specified by the labor laws.

Imo public opinion has to align against police misconduct for it to be dealt with. If the public is offended by misconduct not being punished, this provides both an incentive for elective officials to make sure that can be done, and to police unions to be pragmatic about which kinds of interests they wish to defend; it may not be in the members' collective interest to defend a few bad apples, especially if doing so greatly angers the public. Of course, it might be in their interest if the whole lot of them are bad apples...

My impression, though, is that the majority of Americans are hardly concerned about police misconduct, and generally support the police against complaints, which doesn't provide very fertile ground for anyone interested in pushing reforms. You can win an election by being tough on crime, but can you win an election by being tough on police misconduct?
NASA wrote back to me
Not for commercial/business use you can't. That's only for personal sites.
No, but it's likely more work, when you consider the hassle of setting it up and aligning it physically, vs simply using a camera that has a mirror function built in.
If you create a new wallet.. coins sent to that wallet, a person may know where the coins came from (because of other transactions to their wallet), they don't know for certain that the new wallet is you..

In the case of the article, the reason it's suspected, not even confirmed, is simply because the number of wallets coins were coming from were identified as the same source.

It's definitely more anonymous than wire transfers, or credit card transactions. The way to avoid detection would be to keep many, relatively small wallets... and disperse money from different sources fairly evently.
I think that a better way to hold homeowners responsible would be to charge them for damage rather than charge them for simply having it. It would probably convince more people to join in the first place.

This brings me to your second point -- the problem is precisely that there ISN'T a developed home heating/computation market, which is why it would be difficult to convince people to use it (considering they have no idea if it will work and what trouble it could cause them).
You're kidding, right?

(Just in case you aren't: no, it's emphatically not.)
I find it particularly telling that, however much this author rages against "the machine", he still is a willing participant; facebook, twitter, google and linkedin all have neat little javascript "links" at the bottom of his page which are tracking all the blog's readers.
What's Hot in Tech - Nov 23
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That future is already here. Reading the book "Pornland" by Gail Dines was both shocking and informative. You can be horrified right now at what kids are consuming.
I still don't understand. How can you be arrested in a public place unless said owner said you can't be there?
Incredibly well done. I was really surprised by the seamlessness of it all.
V. Korchnoi is (was) a great player. His matches with Karpov were always interesting.
Would depend on your working capital position/turnover.

At the end of the day, you want to be net-long BitCoin. Its hard to set up a systemic trade like that because its one-sided. The price of the underlying assets just becomes a distortion. That is if I am understanding you correctly.
Not saying this as an excuse, but you have to keep in mind the fact that its a closed beta for a reason. we are releasing a fix tomorrow, i would love if you give it a try.
The prototypal CSS zen garden: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/css/gallery/extract1.htm
I just bought a bunch of (physical) magic: the gathering cards from abugames.com
They can arrest you for murder, and then say it was a mistake. If there is no disciplinary action against them then they could do it to you everyday.
“What I’ve learned about creating meaningful work”
I don't think that entirely how the economics work.
If you transfer your EUR, USD, whatever to Bitcoin, it would make sense to delay any purchases to next week/month/year, because you would at this point get more value for your Bitcoins. This is bad for any retail that's not sell food or other essentials, where you can't delay the purchase.

When you see government and national bank attempt to pump out money, they are trying to do the opposite. This means that if you want to buy a new TV there's no point in waiting, you won't get a significantly better deal next month.

Bitcoins are still a bit weird, because you currently can't cash in large sums. You can't do your transactions in Bitcoin, you need a stable proxy currency for setting the value of your goods. We have maybe 8000 active products currently, all manually price in five difference currencies to maximize profit. This only works because these currencies are pretty stable and we can avoid adjusting the price for a product after a few month after initial release. It priced in Bitcoin, we would have to adjust the price of every single item multiple time a day. Of cause given the price fluctuation it would still be more profitable to simple buy Bitcoins, rather than physical goods and the later sell them... But that would be bad for employment.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Bitcoin, precisely for the reason other people like it. I believe that governments need to be able to control currencies. If you don't trust your government, then that's a different problem.
Why I'm moving my clients to static blogging engines
Dear Baby Boomers, Millennials Don't Suck
"and where they're defended by their unions."

It's worth pointing out that unions are legally compelled to defend all of their members regardless if that person is in the wrong or not.
Found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6784085
Just a nitpick, not arguing your point in general, but: car dealerships generally don't require cashier's checks. Regular checks do just fine. Not that taking ten minutes to pay for a car is a problem, but you can pay for one with a normal check in no time at all.
I believe it is needed for US contractors. Anyway, when the company asks you to spend substantial amount of time, they shouldn't hesitate to issue 1099 form as well.
Afaik Bitpay basically guarantee the what you get as a merchant. Your price your stuff in US$ and it's converted to Bitcoin at the checkout at a rate they are willing to sell them at (presumably on the open market)

e.g. I just tried to buy 36 months of reddit gold at $89.97, which came up as 0.10454514 BTC = $860/BTC... which is almost exactly the trading rate on Bitstamp.
why is there only one photo of him on the motorocycle?
One of the first sites I created with a friend in junior high for the ThinkQuest competition: http://library.thinkquest.org/12632/intromap1.html

Be prepared to be amazed by the animated gifs, HTML maps and statements like "this site is best viewed in Netscape 3.0"
I implemented BTC checkout with giftcardzen.com (We sell discounted gift cards to all major retailers) To be honest, working with coinbase was lackluster. One ridiculous thing that coinbase did, was delete the post back url if they didn't receive a 200 response. So, if the site happened to be down for 1 minute when it posted...the subsequent posts would just go into a void.

Other than that, make sure you have some BTC pre-purchased in the event you need to do an equivalent of a refund. The BTC that comes in through checkout, can not be used if the customer needs that BTC back.
I'm floored by Facebook's response to being notified that potentially illegal child exchanges were being conducted on the site.

FTA:

'A similar forum on Facebook, Way Stations of Love, remains active. A Facebook spokeswoman says the page shows "that the Internet is a reflection of society, and people are using it for all kinds of communications and to tackle all sorts of problems, including very complicated issues such as this one."'

While I agree there are limits to the culpability of a company like Facebook, and they will never fully police all the activities of their billion plus users, this strikes me as very blasé. Surely they don't believe that anything and everything that occurs on the Internet is also appropriate to occur on Facebook. Or do they now believe that Facebook is the internet?

edit: typo
Yeah, I know. Even though there were 3 people in the company, including me, and I managed myself... It was a brute force lesson in office politics, it seems. At least I've graduated from the Clueless level now.

This code of omerta in the business world allows the unscrupulous to thrive. The person who introduced me to the CEO finally told me some stories about when they had been a co-worker with them, that if I'd been told from the outset, I'd never have gone to work for the CEO or at least would have had a lawyer on speed dial. But my friend had the same "don't speak bad about people" theory.. Interviews require following a different script. But the Internet has different rules... See my forthcoming blog.

Gossip does play an important role in communities; it is a back channel for info that social niceties or conventions prevent from being disseminated. But it is an unreliable channel too, hence the connotations about "gossip". Bottom line, I did not do the due diligence I should have, and ignored the warning signs I was picking up about how unethical the people I was working for were. So I see my responsibility clearly. I only offer up my story for others to use as observational learning.
You sound frightfully bitter about Bitcoin in this and your other recent posts. Bitcoin really is a remarkable feat of technical engineering and design. We're living through the adoption and growth of the world's first significant cryptocurrency. We never got flying cars but this is what the future should feel like. Bitcoin might very well crash and burn but cryptocurrencies here to stay.

If you can't marvel or at the very least appreciate such impressive new technologies this might indeed not be the place for you.
In my opinion rather smart and despaired enough to actually do one.
Devastating response to the article.

I loved BNW when I went through my libertarian phase in college too.
I thought that was a fair question which crossed my mind as well. Do your tweets belong to Twitter (e.g. can they delete/modify your content once it's on their servers)? If you post a work on a public site, without explicit copyright, are you granted an implicit copyright? If I post a jsfiddle, are people allowed to use that in their code? I don't think the questions are that obvious, at least for me with zero background in copyright law.
wonderful idea, i cant wait to start using the service!
tim
-modelhuman guitar duo, new orleans
Yeah, it's as if apps were written in VBA, and you opened OUTLOOK.DOC in Word to read your email. Well that's exactly what Gmail is.... Crazy.
Using CSS For More Than Styling
The motivation and comparison to existing alternatives is discussed a bit in these sections:

http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=ext-maps-usage

http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=ext-maps-motivat...
I love the idea of these challenges, but as a recent SF transplant\new job seeker, I'm absolutely appalled at how awful the execution usually is:

1. Company A sends me an exercise with slapped together and near nonsensical instructions, no browser compatibility requirements, and a link to a data API that doesn't resolve. Keep in mind this is an established company offering big bucks. After getting them to send me a link to a working API, submit perfectly functioning implementation with squeaky-clean code (~2 hour exercise). Receive absolutely no fucking feedback whatsoever - I only know that I was explicitly rejected because the 3rd party recruiter eventually told me. Still would love to know what they took issue with (maybe they were offended when I asked for clarification on their washy challenge?).

2. Company B sends me a ~5 hour Ruby coding exercise for a JavaScript position.

In both cases, a complete lack of respect for my time has been demonstrated. How naive of me to think that the quality of companies out here would be better. I'm thinking of calling quits on getting a new and exciting job out here already. Don't get me started with the other pieces of interview "process" of encountered. Yeesh.
I like to think the Voyager bumped into it on its way out of the solar system, or perhaps the aliens in the Ooort cloud sending us a gift in exchange :-)

Cool comet though. So far I've only been able to see it once with my Mead ETX90 mostly because the damn Bay Area has a lot of clouds / fog in the morning. Hoping to have a setup for Thanksgiving morning the family can see it with. Lets keep our fingers cross for a clear night.
There's little use for me in popularity rankings. Much more useful are TPC-C rankings (http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results.asp?orderby=dbm...)
HTML5 Pong with 0 lines of javascript
Switching over to a static blog was a ton of fun. I was a bit intimidated, but once I started rolling it wasn't any harder to set up than Wordpress.

The hardest part when I got started was getting a good theme. I wanted to do some tinkering, or buy a theme from a good source. There wasn't anything I liked.

Super excited for statiq.io
And the write-up from the author:
http://www.sitepoint.com/css3-pong-insane-things-to-do-with-...
I seriously doubt it would work for the key(s) related to that $150,000,000 transfer.
Ask HN: Has anyone really lost weight using Kinect?
Has anyone tried to lost weight using Kinect games like Nike Training e.g ?

Especially I'm really curious about if anyone ever succeeded to achieve significant weight / fat loss following the exercise programs and routines in those games.
Exactly, if you want a more secure web, you need a system that is affordable to everyone.
You can do anything at Zombo.com
Would it be valuable to you to have a single base currency in which prices are set (i.e. with a rate derived from the composite of underlying currencies), which then automatically sets the prices in the other currencies? I ask you partially because we are developing something like that and I'm not super aware of how large e-commerce providers handle this problem.
After reading both your article and the OP, I'm very keen to see a video of mercury spilled on sapphire.
So, serious question, does this mean that users of Twitter/Facebook can sue CNN, Fox, and other news sites that lift pictures from their pages without permission?
I think also that a society like Brave New World will outcompete a society like 1984. You can get agricultural labor to perform at the point of a gun, but you can't really develop engineering talent the same way. Though maybe if one stratifies society the right way, it is possible somehow.

A lot of modern Foucault-ish social theory is around how we manufacture/ enculturate the desires of a populace and they basically oppressive themselves with little or no maintenance....
I haven't seen it on the new features of 2012, but I have seen it on some demos of 2014 Beta:
http://stevenormrod.com/2013/09/an-overview-of-sql-server-20...
This is a decent list.

Columns I'd like to see added:

1. Language the db is written in
2. Lines of code

Popularity tells me little about how capable the developer is and the quality of the software.
There's always free certificates like from StartSSL and CACert.
Wow, those themes are seriously gorgeous. I love the idea of static blogging, but haven't found a platform with good themes.
Indeed, there is a growing industry for manufacturing
industrial sapphires the size of a large bucket, suitable
for use in bullet-proof glass, aeroplane windows and soon
- unscratchable smartphone displays.

seriously - Transparent Aluminum :-)
It's not just purchasing a camera and pressing some buttons. It's having the knowledge of what equipment to purchase, how to compose the photo, how to capture a consistent set of photos, and so on. Experience takes time and money to gain, and no one has any right to that experience but you.

Now, you may chose to charge money for your photos, share them for free, or some mix of both, but the choice is ultimately yours. A news article may not appropriate your photo for their purposes without your permission and license unless it fits one of the fair use exceptions to copyright law.

I've been a professional photographer for close to the same amount of time you have. We own and regularly use approximately $50,000 worth of equipment, and the cost of that and our living has to be amortized over the amount we can realistically expect to sell in the lifespan of that equipment. I have absolutely no interest in someone else making money off my investment unless I get my cut. At no time has free work (e.g., magazines using photos with attribution) ever profited us either directly or indirectly. I'm not saying it couldn't ever, but in our experience, free or discounted begets more demands of the same.
> 5.4.3 When to use maps?
> Maps are a new type in the Prolog world

Sorry, I'll take SWI-Prolog developers' word over yours in this case.

Your argument is a bit like the "Well this old existing language is Turing complete, so why bother with anything".
Google Glass creeps me out with its privacy implications, but if it gains wide adoption this will be a significant upside.
I'm excited to start with static blogging. I hate how slow my WordPress has been. Can't wait to try out one of these themes.
Huxley's world can only function if you remove all capability of imagination from man. At which point it really doesn't matter which dystopia you're shooting for - each and every one would function just as well at governing machines. And given our advances with AI, I'm willing to bet we'll have reliable imaginationless smart robots long before anybody is able to reliably make imaginationless people.
I know some of the designers involved in this project, and they are really good.

I run my own Pelican site, and these guys are revving for Jekyll right now. Once they get Pelican up and rolling, I'll start moving clients over too.
Look, just read everything that was said above again until you understand it and then come back, there's no point in me repeating the same thing several times. You're literally talking nonsense - 'de facto law', 'public domain within that country', 'detour via the EU' - everything you say indicates you don't understand the points being made here.

Not to be an asshole about it, but between you and me, there is only one person with a law degree.
Sorry - what is "static blogging?"
Startup giving $50k of wine to Miley Cyrus for her 21st bday
My simplistic answer is that software needs to do to political problems what it did to economic and social problems, remove middle men. A more direct democracy would help distribute power and help diffuse the cash going into politics. For a first step having a binding instant referendum system might work. With an eventual eye to replacing the US House.

People will say that the ordinary person is to stupid or selfish for this to work. They may be right but I think we need to work through this problem at the same time. Pulling people up rather than separating them from the system is a far more enlightened way to improve society.
- Goldbach's conjecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture)

- Goldbach's weak conjecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_weak_conjecture) - Harald Helfgott claims that he proved it

- Is factoring in P? (it is known that prime testing is in P; thus the factoring is in NP ∪ coNP) - if it were true, RSA would be broken immediately (and some expert that I talked to told me, he believes that such a factoring algorithm could probably be extended to break ECC, too)

- Riemann hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis)

- Do for each even number n exist two prime numbers p > q such that n = p-q?
I've heard about Leo Strauss, and his influence on neoconservatism, but do nocturnal councils actually exist, or are they a hypothetical philosophical idea? A far-right equivalent to vanguard revolutionaries would be interesting.
Snopes provides no citation for the Whistler story. That prompted me to look it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#R...

I had no idea that this quote has such a delightful and well-documented origin. I'd only heard the story told about Picasso (and various mechanics and engineers). A great example of how these things morph over time.

The story is delightful because it pitted two great Victorian aesthetes against one another. Ruskin had said this about Whistler:

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now;
but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas
for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

So Whistler sued for defamation and was examined by Ruskin's lawyer:

Holker: Did it take you much time to paint the Nocturne in Black and Gold?
How soon did you knock it off?
Whistler: Oh, I 'knock one off' possibly in a couple of days – one day
to do the work and another to finish it.
Holker: The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?
Whistler: No, I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.

The insinuation in the lawyer's question ("how soon did you knock it off?") is hilarious!

Whistler, by the way, was a great wit and had a famous skirmish with Oscar Wilde:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/05/oscar-will/

... which inspired this Monty Python classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0
Not me. I gained weight actually but I think that was due to the proximity to the fridge full of snacks which gave a glucose boost. Untraining this took a couple of weeks. Much better to get outside and go for a run or ride.
Where did he do that?
Reject the idea of BIG DATA. It only infringes on your rights and freedoms which are being eroded daily on the internet.
Tumblr, Pinterest and Facebook are all based in the US so the DMCA applies to them. This exactly the situation that the law is designed for. See https://m.facebook.com/help/www/400287850027717?__user=20890... for more info.
ask the spam accounts. i'm sure they'll be happy to fill you in... [it's serving static - pre-rendered html - web pages. like blogging with github or bitbucket, for example.]

[at time of posting half of comments were new accounts with content-less "wow" comments. [or people who don't know how to edit posts. haha.] if that's cynical i'm a pink giraffe.]