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> It seems rather legitimate to request to see an official policy.

Why? If a patron is in a private establishment and the person controlling that establishment asks a patron to leave, why not simply leave? Complain on Facebook, post a negative Yelp review, go to the media, refuse to return, and tell your friends. I don't understand the logic in trying to negotiate staying in a place that no longer wants to serve you, especially since the ill will is now likely on both sides. In a private business, "because I said so" is a valid, if curt and dismissive and not conducive to continued business, reply.
I was a little floored by the Seiki price drop. When it happened, I Tweeted at Seiki to ask if this is a precursor to a replacement unit that functions more as a monitor (60Hz, HDMI 2, no splash screen, DPMI on, no speakers, matte surface). That's wishful thinking, of course. The tweet was mostly just to put the demand in front of them. :)

Incidentally, my review of my wife's Seiki: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/seiki-4k

4K at 24" is really interesting, however. Not necessarily because I want to use a small monitor again, but rather because it's a sign that we are slowly inching toward high-DPI large form-factor displays. And I've been waiting for that to happen for a decade.

Next would be extending that pixel density to 30" (~6K) and larger (~8K). Then I will celebrate a bit.
I think you are missing the point. Which is that there is risk involved in a situation where not only should there be no risk, but this guy should be praised for his honesty.

The justice system, and the police bureaucracy is working against it's citizens. Something it was designed against from it's inception, so the only fucking reason things are the way they are is corruption and greed. Maybe a privatized prison industry isn't a good idea. Maybe, the bureaucracy is the problem, and that is the issue you should be concerned with.
Definitely legitimate to request an official policy, but it's not like he was being ejected on religious or race though. Maybe the policy is so new they've yet to print it out for patrons to read, especially more difficult if it requires printing out new menus on particular stock material.

It's like going over a friends house and they ask you to leave without an explanation. It's private property at the end of the day and as long as you're not literally picking someone up and throwing them out, there are no civil rights being violated here. The owner and management staff at the time reserve the right to eject patrons for whatever reason they seem fitting, obviously ejecting a patron means lost revenue, so they wouldn't just go ejecting people for no good reason.

I get it sucks for the patron kicked out, but lets be honest here, the situation is being blown way out of proportion. You're kicked out of a restaurant because you refuse to comply with the requests of the restaurant to remove your device from your head? How hard is it to remove your glasses? Would the person in question have responded the same if he was wearing a hat and was asked to remove it as well?

Calling for the employee who felt as though they were doing the right thing to be fired is just horrible and waters down the argument of the patron in question if you ask me.

It reminds me of the time I was at a restaurant and someone started an argument with 3 of the restaurant staff because they were charged for two bottles of sparkling water at $10 a pop. They claimed they weren't told of the cost even though the menu had the cost, they were yelling to the point the manager just said they would remove the water from the bill and leave it at that. Restaurant staff have to put up with a lot of crap for a minimum wage. The patron involved needs to have some compassion, especially if the employee was only just briefed on the new policy themselves.

I swear some people deliberately try and test the boundaries in these situations. The patron in question acted very decently, but should have just removed the glasses and there wouldn't have been a problem.
Have you ever heard of a Wish sandwich?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE&t=0m35s
"and does not diminish quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment."

This is a very strange meaning of "ethics". I understand ethics are relating to what that profession does, i.e. a lawyer or priest cannot ethically divulge certain communications. By pulling in this abstract public interest, the software engineer is supposed to conform to some specific balance of environmental damage and privacy against other good things. Does this make every Facebook engineer and mining software developer unethical?
More to the point, if I'm asking you in an interview how to build a DOM parser, take it as given that, if you get the job, and we need a DOM parser, you will be actively encouraged to go use a library rather than build from scratch.
Many ARGs intentionally attempt to seem as real as possible, which is part of the appeal. There have been examples in the past where this has caused problems for people (the ill-fated game Majestic being one example). Contrived cryptography/hacking puzzles also show up as hiring screens, etc.

My point is that his mindset is essentially the same: He ran across an intriguing puzzle and tried to solve it.
Their own research, he called the police three times to see the response he would get, and the third time they came to his house and found nothing amiss, they arrested him. jokes
(A) Horrible is a vast overstatement. Unless you need calibrated color, it is fine.

(2) Being too large is relative, my 30" 2560x1600 quickly became normal sized. For the additional pixels the additional inches of a 39" seems about right.

(iii) HDMI at 30Hz is just fine for anything but gaming. I used to have an IBM T221 that also ran at 30Hz and it was no problem at all for text and video. Some people expect there will be mouse lag, there wasn't.
> where crimes can happen in broad daylight and people get in trouble while passersby do nothing

There are plenty of places in the U.S. where this has been the case for decades.
A similar type of mouth-texture is achieved when you wrap a crunchy taco with a soft taco shell.
I was a full-time Rails developer until a crescendo of disillusionment finally cajoled me to learn Clojure.

I don't really know that I miss anything. The things I might've thought I'd miss are the things that ended up souring the taste of Rails.

Having to come up with my own abstractions or recreate familiar conventions or set up a database were areas where I had to cut my teeth, but I also had to cut my teeth on Rails when I was learning it.

Rather than missing anything from Rails, I find myself using Rails' conventions as a loose model and then simplifying it. For example, my "templates" are now just functions that render html. My "layouts" are just functions that get applied to templates. I don't need to read Rails' template rendering guide to come up with a hack. Instead, modifying my templating system is trivial and obvious.
Great comment.

I think it's interesting that the word "trustworthy" doesn't appear in the article.

And it only appears in these HN comments once. (well, twice now :)
whitehouse.gov minifies, obfuscates, and shards their scripts, giving them anonymizing "filenames." Yes, obviously "files are myths."

I'd rather sites explicitly set scripts so that I can cherry-pick what to block.
Let me tell you a similar story:

So this one time there was this one guy who was just, like, totally minding his own business and the police just arrested him. Therefore the United States is a police state and you should never ever talk with cops for any reason whatsoever.
Let's say you get pulled over and the cop asks you how fast you were going. Do you just not say anything?
I'm confused, what if the videos contain information about Obama murdering Americans with drones? Would that be illegal for import?
Agreed

Separate work and leisure.
Do not hold company meetings in a strip club.
Do not link 4chan on hackernews.
HTML5 is the product of WHATWG, which was specifically created to work around the fact that the W3C was trying its hardest to be utterly irrelevant.

> The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors.
a) Not really. Obviously, Seiki isn't setting a benchmark for build quality. But it's also not "horrible." My wife's Seiki has zero dead pixels and is crisp and clear. Brightness isn't even around the edges, but "horrible" is going too far. It's far less horrible than a TN panel, for instance.

2) 39" is not way too large. I want 50" on my desktop.

iii) Yeah, HDMI 1.4 is limiting, but 30Hz makes it still usable for non-gaming. DisplayPort? I guess I won't balk at it, but just give me HDMI 2.

I am critical of the monitor for other reasons: a) it doesn't power up on DPMI on and has a splash screen, 2) it has a semi-glossy screen and professional monitors should be matte, and iii) it's HDMI 1.4.
>What if the wetware system kills 100 times as many people, should you still be able arbitrarily override the automated driver?

Yes.

Because human beings are the result of a million-odd years of evolution and perfectly capable of making their own decisions, negotiating obstacles, pattern recognition, adaptive reasoning and reflexive response. To decide that people are too stupid and clumsy to be allowed the luxury of driving so let's just have car companies, insurance companies and Google decide what's in their best interests, is essentially a well meaning but potentially pernicious form of autocracy.

Pun intended.

People die in housefires all the time too, maybe they shouldn't be allowed to cook their own food? People die from accidental gunshots and police misconduct, so clearly automated weapons systems should be the only ones allowed to enforce the law? Yes, sometimes there are auto accidents. But also, millions of drivers make it to and from their destination without incident every day. Proponents of self-driving cars make it seem as if it's bloodsport to let humans drive their own cars. Yet they seem to implicitly trust the result of those same humans building the network and infrastructure to do the driving for them.
Holograms and personal flying machines required huge technological breakthroughs to make them possible. Those breakthroughs still haven't occurred. Teleporting - questionable it's even possible.

Self-driving cars are already on the streets in certain cities. Did you see the recent S-class test in Germany?[1] They're here right now, maybe not quite production-ready, but certainly in beta. There's no comparison at all.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKqJccK_EkM
Really, really enjoyed reading this. I've not looked at rust in around a year, and that was before I got into erlang. Knowing how it deals with heap and "tasks" makes me super happy. Probably my next language?
I like the emphasis that the duty to the nebulous public interest is about actual safety and potential disasters.

"and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations"

That's similar to "Engineers shall perform services only in the areas of their competence" from http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/index.html. If software engineering is to become a profession, engineering is the right model, but with recognition that the vast majority of software does not have deadly failure modes like a bridge or airplane.
Where Are Facebook's Teens Going?
> "It's unsettling and maddening, because you're now going to have a lot of people get released to the street prematurely," says Middlesex County District attorney Gerry Leone, one of many hoping the state supreme court will curb the releases.

That's a pretty bad way of looking at this, because it assumes that those people deserved to be behind bars to begin with, and ignores those that didn't.

How about, "It's unsettling and maddening, because we now realize we have a lot of people behind bars without the [proper] due process they deserved"?
Are you under the impression that this does not happen?
The notion that a compiler makes your code more correct is absurd. Also your emphasis on "correct" makes me wonder what your trying to say...all compiled programs are correct whether they work or not.
Check out "software collections", the "scl" command

Edit: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2013-1238.html
Hackaday Links: December 1, 2013
DIY Thermal Imaging Camera
Sometimes, free can be very expensive.
Maybe check out http://pedestal.io/

"Clojurists looking for a standard way to build internet applications will love Pedestal. Rather than composing art out of found objects, they will now be able to mold a single, consistent form to match their vision.

Pedestal may also appeal to developers who have been nervously approaching a functional language but who haven't yet mustered the courage to ask it out on a date. It provides a sterling example of how to use the Clojure ecosystem to its best advantage, reducing the friction usually associated with a language switch."
You say "Am I being detained? Am I free to go?"
A Shell For The Stellaris & Tiva
At $3,500 for the 32", the 24" will probably be $2,500-3,000. So, whether or not you will be getting 2-4 I guess depends on whether you'd rather have these monitors, or a car.
Yeah. When they say "do you know why I pulled you over?" they're looking for an admission of guilt.
Pretty much my initial thought on this. As with pretty much any other declaration.
Expensive for whom, how exactly do you quantify that? Today we pay fee's to institutions which have massive infrastructure costs (along with their necessary profits). If anything, decentralization offers an incentive for the technically inclined to reap some potential rewards which is far more feasible than today's systems.
You Need To Go After The Things You Want
Rust doesnt really offer GC, the @pointers are more like ARC with cycle detection, and are behind a featre flag now.

Rust is talking about getting read of N:M threading and returning to 1:1, I'm not 100% sure that's landed or was fully decided yet.

That said, this is a great description.
Actually, 3-5 years sounds pretty reasonable. If you think about it, you should be glad that she didn't get a crazy "send a message" punishment of 20 years or life in prison. She'll never work in that capacity again, so it's not like there's a need to separate her from society for the protection of society.

A better question to address is how a single rogue person could do so much damage. This is institutional failure. Just going after this woman misses the big problem.
Alright, I guess I'll give it a go since there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest.

I'm looking for a Designer/UI/UX guy:
- Must have a good sense of design
- Must be able to mock up web pages & user interfaces
- Must be able to do image editing - including stuff like logos, sketches, demo images

Bonus for HTML/CSS/JS/Bootstrap, but I can do that myself (I just lack design skills)

This is just for a side-project I'm working on (very niche SAAS analytics web app). Looking to launch an MVP sometime early next year (Jan-Feb). Time commitment shouldn't be anything significant, a few weekends/evenings over the next couple of months (varying depending on if you want to do front-end stuff or just design). Compensation is not-insignificant (I'm not greedy) percentage of whatever this thing makes (if anything). For more details, shoot me an e-mail (check profile)
Amazon Is Experimenting With Autonomous Flying Delivery Drones
The police are not just my friends, they are my neighbors, my family. While much of my life is illicit I do not falter in my resolution of trying to work things out proper with the police.

Even if the overall result is a detriment to myself.
Also trucks are used in adverse environments. In the mining industry remote driven and more autonomous vehicles are already being rolled out:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/296907,rio-tinto-prepares-mine...

The US military is also pushing remotely driven supply vehicles.

Then the next market is trucks on highways.

It's a bit like rail. People are obsessed with passenger rail but tend to ignore freight rail. For instance, how many people know that the US freight rail system is excellent?
It happened to me: http://gothamist.com/2011/08/08/video_hikers_arrested_for_no...
The fact that you are putting words in my mouth ("gold's market value is mostly caused by demand from art and manufacturing processes") is an indication that you are not debating in good faith. Good day. I shall waste no further time or effort on you.
1) You don't have to do that, Scala doesn't enforce the folder/package hierarchy that Java does. Moreover, you can use any folder hierarchy you want.

2) Compiling Scala is slower than Java (sometimes much slower) but that's not the frameworks' fault. scalac is just slow, though getting better.

3) This does exist. In fact, it's built into the language. You can also use "sbt console" to load a REPL with your entire project in the classpath.

4) As the other reply said, type annotations aren't required. In that light, Scala's syntax for type annotations makes sense.
Great to see that someone took the time to create a well thought-out, positive response to this situation.

https://gist.github.com/creationix/5fb9e94fd8d80268c047
What leads you to believe the owners of those properties or law enforcement will allow self-driving cars to park themselves just anywhere?
What does your library do if someone sends invalid data? For example what if the date header is not a valid HTTP-formatted date?
@-pointers, right now, are retain-counted. But that's just a temporary implementation detail. The current direction is to remove @-pointers entirely and implement both retain-counting and true garbage collection in the standard libraries.

And getting rid of N:M threading and returning to 1:1 seems rather unlikely to happen. More likely is simply work to ensure that Rust can run well under both N:M and 1:1 threading models.
* "Am I free to go? Am I being detained?"

* "I do not consent to any searches."

* "I wish to remain silent."

* "I want a lawyer."

Stay safe broes!
Number 4 because...Pascal. This was actually a huge innovation over Algo's syntax back in...the late 1960s. I think Martin Odersky studied under Niklaus Wirth, so the lineage makes sense; I also think its better than the old early 60s Algo way of defining variables.
True, if there was an unambiguous sign on the window "No Google Glass," I doubt any of this would've happened.

However, with regards to the religion or race part, it's very likely that someone ejecting on this basis will pick some other arbitrary reason rather than saying "we don't serve x people here."

I agree with you that it's likely that neither party was completely clean, especially considering the guy knew the policy at a different but related establishment.
I'm working with these libraries for a web project now, and I'd say the main problem is lack of comprehensive documentation. If you're doing something slightly off the beaten path and get stuck, it's quite likely that you'll have to resort to the source code to solve your problem.

There's nothing so terrible about that per se--it's a great way to learn--but it can feel like a high friction workflow compared to Rails, especially getting started. I think it's primarily a function of community size and library maturity, but there's a cultural element as well. Rails has more of a beginner-friendliness-is-good mindset (even when library internals are fugly), while in Clojure the focus is more on the strength of the functionality and less on easily grokkable apis (though there are notable exceptions).
FWIW, linked failure was recently removed from Rust. I believe the current plan is to reintroduce it only on channel boundaries (so failure propagates across channels).
Okay, I didn't use "correct" in its CS theory definition. My point is it worked, correctly. As in satisfied our requirements.
I think the core team have decided to attempt to offer first class M:N and 1:1 support, so that one has a choice.
I need to follow up this comment of mine saying this tactic of being brutally straight-forward does not and will not work for most people.
Why Litecoin is here to stay
I'm under the impression that this 4chan anecdote is lacking a ton of detail that would be needed to understand the story. Including, perhaps, the police perspective about why he was arrested.

"I was arrested for no reason. Fuck the police!" is a non-story.
It's not about news, it's about a discussion. 4chan isn't a news bulletin. It's a discussion board.
Given your username, I have to ask: Are you joking? ;)
At present, in rust-http, invalid values will be dropped; that will be changing so that you can retrieve a bad header value (https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http/issues/27). Writing invalid HTTP, on the other hand, is something that I'm in two minds about. You shouldn't be allowed to do it, but it may be necessary somewhere along the way. At present, you can write invalid headers through the use of the extension headers—`response.headers.extension.set(~"Date", ~"invalid")`, for example. I certainly don't want to advertise it broadly, but I'm thinking guaranteeing that that will always work is perhaps the best plan.
Engage the police, they are your neighbors.
Please. Then they charge you with uncooperative. You guys are assume all police officers are bad. I have seen officers asked and let people go after giving warning.

Let's be clever here, don't be dumb. The right thing to do is to turn on your cellphone's camera and start recording.
Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos previews half-hour shipping from Amazon
What is worth more, 50 years of a single person's life or 10,000 years of many people's lives? If it's really hard to comprehend 50 years of a single person's life how impossible is it to truly understand what 10,000 years of human life is?

If you have 40,000 cases and only say 1/4 of them get falsified and that results in on average one year of wrongful imprisonment you're at 10,000 years.
They're actually talking about pursuing a "N:1" concurrency model (i.e. userland-managed coroutines in the kernel). See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
Amazon Unveils Delivery By Drone
The US is historically a mind-your-own-business country. See pre-WWII isolationism and the time before the Truman doctrine.
It's always OK to ask. The story says that the employees had had a briefing on exactly this policy not long before the incident, so it's not surprising that the restaurant asked him to stop, and didn't capitulate because it wasn't written down.

You have to admit that publicly calling for termination of an employee over a minor incident like this is, (a) asshole behavior (i.e., completely out of proportion), and (b) not the proper role of a patron (i.e., they are NOT the restaurant manager).

I used to work at a restaurant, and this whole incident seemed familiar. A patron is having a bad day, or is a little touchy, and something minor escalates beyond comprehension. It's quite common to have irate patrons asking to speak to the general manager, or even the owner (who in my case lived out-of-state, leading to snickers), over petty misunderstandings.

I had one of these get out of control once, and the GM mentioned to me that probably the guy had a bad day and chose to take it out on someone who had to take it. A young adult at the time, with no real life pressures, I didn't get it, but I do now.
Whitewater kayaking, lots of it. Learn to surf. Cook nice stuff every day.

There are many things I enjoy more than coding, but coding is sometimes fun, and does pay the bills.
Scanning thermal camera
My point exactly: Here's a story with some actual detail.
Can someone help me out with centos? When it comes to linux I'm usually running ubuntu. Why would I look to centos over fedora?