skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even close, not even close. People, which constitutes the police force in the US until robot overlords take over, make up the police.

People can sense bullshit and/or malice. I've bullshitted my way out of situations due to my obvious non-malicious intent. But have been 'boned' by trying to bullshit my way out of malicious acts.
"I believe I was traveling two miles per hour under the legal speed limit, officer."

No need to make things complicated.
There's a conflicting opinion from a cop on Reddit. Basically he agrees that you should shut your mouth, not let them search your car just for the heck of it, etc ..., but when it comes to the question "Do you know why I stopped you?", playing dumb won't do you any favors. There's a lot of other useful info he says that are relevant to the thread.

http://www.reddit.com/r/everymanshouldknow/comments/1rsizj/e...
Problem: author is pining for Go, and doesn't know it.

Solution: author should abandon the JVM ecosystem and use Go.

- Fast compiles.

- Ultra simple, non extensible syntax, yet not verbose in practise.

- The code you see is 100% of the code.

- A culture of implementing the simple algorithm.

- Stable, with version compatibility guarantees.

- Nobody is trying to make the types jump through hoops, so the type inference works.
Don't forget Greyhound Therapy either! (Over which SF is currently suing the State of Nevada)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/23/nevada-sued...

The history in this article is very interesting, but I always figured that the answer was more simple: (1) generous social programs compared to the country's norm, and (2) mild climate.
Yes = admission of guilt

No = admission of negligence

The only right answer is a non-answer: "Hold on, lemme get my license and registration."
Seems kind of weird to imagine lots of drones flying over urban areas and not hitting each other falling out of the sky and hurting people.
I thought the sarcasm was fairly obvious.
XFS? Come again?
>> He brute forced two encrypted containers? Who does that for an SD card you find?

I would _totally_ do that for any encrypted files that came into my possession via an apparently discarded device. My curiosity would be through the roof. Of course, if I found illegal stuff... I'd burn the medium, throw the medium into the ocean, throw the ocean into the sun, and throw the sun into the moon.
So the ultimate goal of doing something like this would be to make same delivery normative? I wonder if there are patents filings that somehow try to protect this "intellectual property"?
I'm just not a fan of drones. In any context. They are 4th amendment eradicators for people like me who live very tall buildings with tall glass windows. It won't be snooping when I'm walking around naked at night, it'll be "why haven't you installed anti-drone screens, you should know better".

First they came for my ability to hang out with my thang out...
I wasn't holding up Paul Graham's essays as a paragon of essay virtue, just as a readily available example that people in the community will be familiar with. The difference between Paul Graham writing from personal experience, and the Salon author writing down some personal experiences, is real. Conflating the two ignores the distinction between expertise and mere rhetoric.

I never stated that there is some minimum level of evidential firmness below which evidence can't be considered, but I am absolutely establishing a continuum in which statistical evidence, properly interpreted, is higher than random collections of stories drawn from the author's life by convenience to prove his conclusion once the bottom line has already been decided.

I'm not a "hard discipline fetishist" if such a thing even exists, but anything which defies empiricism almost by definition can't have any impact on the material world. There are many areas wherein I agree that statistics is not currently applicable, and I implicitly acknowledged them in my post, although perhaps without sufficient emphasis.

As for postmodernism, ye shall know them by their fruits. The hard sciences have borne iPhones, cancer treatments, space flight, psychiatric treatment, and cetera.
The Recline and Fall of Western Civilization (Airlines)
I'd have to disagree. It's not easy to out a prosecutor, considering that they could be the one to tell their buddies (other prosecutors) to fix you good.
Xtend: CoffeeScript for Java - a better alternative than Scala?
Was thinking about this yesterday. If you link up a drone to a mobile, you don't have to wait anywhere for a parcel delivery.

Of course the risk due to shenanigans would be pretty high, so you would have to have some way of only revealing location information to trusted sending parties, rather than it being used for general mail.

edit - is inspired slightly by Bill Hicks' idea of 'smart-fruit' in his Iraq war rant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CQ_1GWn4w
Why are we so quick to believe OP's story at face value? There could be factors which led the police to investigate; factors which OP chose not to disclose.

There is, generally, no way to "brute force" an encrypted container containing child pornography for the simple reason that no one who respects the gravity of the situation would dare choose a password less than 8 characters. Even 8 a-z characters requires (26^8)/2==104.4 billion attempts to bruteforce on average, which is high. Real passwords are likely longer.

I realize how flimsy this argument is. They could've chosen a dictionary word as their password, which could indeed be brute forced. All I'm encouraging is for people to think. Turning in evidence of child pornography is the only way that child pornographers will be caught. Having the reaction of "don't go to authorities" will yield a worse society. Is our attitude really to be "fuck society, I'm looking out for myself"?
Yup. I have a friend who trains horses for a living and another that really wants to get into that business. But her customers aren't average workaday people: they're people who are willing and capable of and interested in investing time and effort and money and space into cultivating their relationships with horses, who want to learn more about them and use them for very specific ends.

Already today a lot of people have no idea how the internals of cars really work, do not properly care for their vehicles, and ultimately couldn't care less if someone set up a teleporter instead. The vehicle isn't the point for most people. For the people for which it is the point, they're the ones who obsessively follow Top Gear, wish they could buy Ferraris even if they have to rebuild the engine constantly, happily tinker away under the hood on the weekend: they already do that to the extent that their finances allow.

Driverless cars take nothing away from them except traffic jams during commute.
Lots of places have a "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE" sign.
No. Good passwords are paramount.
Can't help but wonder how many tech savy career drug dealers have just decided to become day traders after watching their btc soar in value.
Several years ago I picked up Odersky's book. I got a few hundred pages in, considered the types of problems I had encountered in my career so far, and decided life is too short to be spending my time learning some hyper-complex programming language that seemed, like C++, to seem unable to say "no" to introducing complexity where it would provide minimal upside in Getting Shit Done.

Instead, I learned Clojure. I use Ruby, the epitome of comfortable languages, for most things, and when the hard problems come up, I use clojure. My next major scientific computing problem, rare as they are, will be in Julia instead of Matlab for prototyping and java for production. Scala seems to be the hard language for easy problems. No thanks.
One answer that I had heard was that it's been standard practice for various municipalities to buy vagrants one-way tickets to SF. (Don't know if it's true or apocryphal.)

(edit: TIL it is called "greyhound therapy" as described in brandur's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830558)

That, combined with the mostly hospitable climate for homelessness, and the municipal tolerance for ... unconventional ... lifestyles, would explain at least part of it.

Also, it's where the 60s "happened", so at least some of the head cases can be attributed to taking too many strange drugs.
Amazon PrimeAir Will Deliver Your Stuff On Drones
Nice link to the official Amazon video about this as well - http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011
Obviously it's possible to write code that compiles while still not meeting requirements. My point is that the by leveraging the type system he was able to offload a lot of those checks to compile time rather than runtime.
I'm somewhat sure that these restauranteurs instituted this policy so they could milk the inevitable media coverage they would get for their restaurants. The stated privacy reasons are flimsy at best.
Amazon Drones - 60 Minutes [video]
I find that eating a corn chip between two regular salted potato chips (or I really should say, crisps) is also strangely delicious...
You are describing a construction checklist. Things to be done, like run unit tests before deploying, implement feature 12345, or weld a brace plate over the bolted supports.

Construction checklists are objective and empirical.

Whereas a submittal checklist contains communication tasks. For example, "Obtain signoff on requirements changes." In a narrow sense, there's a measurable outcome: Did the customer sign? But the real purpose of such an activity is to avoid a major misunderstanding. It's about communication and synchronizing knowledge, not measuring the progress of the project towards "done-ness."

To that extent, a stand-up serves the same purpose. Not that you have a checklist saying "hold standup on Monday, December 2nd," but rather that they are different paths to the same objective.

If your checklist exists to codify things you know at the time you compose the checklist, it's a construction checklist. Unit tests are another way to accomplish the same thing.

But if the purpose of your checklist is to make sure that Alice talks to Bob about the idea that Carol wants to pitch to Dave, that's a submittal checklist.

If that still isn't making sense to you, read the book before dismissing the idea just because I'm not explaining it persuasively.
The Monoprice 27" (using the same panel as the Apple Thunderbolt display) is under $400 this weekend: http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=109&cp_id=10909&cs_id=...

I have one beside the same size thunderbolt display and I like the monoprice one better (it seems to have a more effective anti-reflective coating).
That's a completely different argument. tobiasu's point was that driverless cars take away opportunities for pleasure from mechanical aficionados.
why do we believe that commercialization of scientific product requires patents? Let's take the extreme case of pharmaceuticals, which is hard "like hardware" and requires a ton and half of R&D... Salk and Sabin released their polio vaccines without patent, and it was commericalized just fine, even a product which was from the get go intended to self-expire as a result of eradication. Neither of them died in penury.
Because it is essentially redhat without the license fee. If you are in enterprise space and all that vendors certify for their software is RHEL, chances are very high it will work well on CentOS.
Last I had heard they were going to try and provide both M:N and 1:1 implementations and using whichever was more appropriate for the platform. I could be wrong about that, though, it's a hazy memory from a lengthy mailing list discussion.
Until recently, I have never seen such extraordinary bias in written work in my life. Almost every time you see someone writing about Bitcoin, they are one-sided to the point of absurdity.

The relentlessly negative articles (like this Aaron Greenspan piece) gives me the impression that the author has a spiteful resentment of those who bought early, and wants to see it crash to $0 so he can be right in the end and tell everyone "I told you so".

On the other hand, many unquestioningly positive writings (which we also see plenty of) are hugely influenced by the fact that the authors invested in Bitcoin and want to see it rise.
This is big. This is an excellent use of drones, and I'm actually morally okay with this. I'd love to see how this goes 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 definitely agree with that.

> A patron is having a bad day, or is a little touchy, and something minor escalates beyond comprehension.

Indeed, such is life with customers.
Gospel Singer Twerk
Everyone is going to Google and YouTube and searching, Evon Latrail. Who is Evon Latrail? She is a gospel artist and the author of a children's book who recently got caught Twerking and posing nude! Lol! She also has a sex tape with an A-list Actor! This is currently trending!
Will these be gas powered? I hope not, but I don't see any way to get the required energy density. Flying lawnmowers here we come.
More info directly from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1jZz62w

Amazon believes it could be operational as early as 2015. I assume it's only going to be in certain municipalities and even then only in a certain area. It might not actually be as crazy as it sounds- the drone will probably pay for itself when you consider that Amazon will no longer be dependent on FedEx. The $7 (or whatever) they pay FedEx to deliver Prime stuff now goes to paying for the drones, amortized over a whole geographic area, maybe they'll even end up saving money.
If taking a life is savage, how much more savage is it to systematically, wrongly deny people their freedom for the sake of promotions?

Is that any less barbaric than denying people their freedom because some people needed their labor in order to enjoy comfortable lives? When that used to happen it was called slavery and from what I can tell it's been abolished worldwide (or nearly so) because we've mostly agreed it's savage and barbaric and the opposite of civilized.

Denying people their freedom through a fair court system is also kind-of barbaric since violence or the threat thereof is what holds the system together. But it's supposed to be "justice" in that there's a fair trial and the hope is that guilty people are properly denied their freedom and innocent ones are not. Obviously there are false positives and false negatives but everyone is supposed to act in good faith to ensure that there aren't systematic biases.

This person introduced a systematic bias which has wrongly denied people their freedom. If she had kidnapped ~600 Americans for 1.5 years she'd be called a terrorist. That's precisely what some Iranian folks who did that to American embassy workers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

How is this so vastly different?
electric. youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU
I choose to be on the "dark side" which the majority of the comments here disagree with me.

If a police pull you over, don't look for verbal fight. Yes, you should ask "wassup, officer, what's the matter?". But don't start saying "I want a lawyer" if this is some speeding ticket or some ID check. Doing so is stupid - you are wasting police force patrolling. We got a lot of knockout game assault lately. I want more police patrolling. More.

Be clever. Just turn on video recorder on your cell phone and walk to the police. If you feel uncomfortable and you feel harassed, sure, use your right and tell the police you want a lawyer.

People have always distrust the authority, but ironically they always want more protections. I have dealt with quite a few police officers in my life and I find all of them friendly and reasonable. Just remain clam. Guys have pressures too - getting yell at and middle finger at every single fucking day on the street, worrying the next big time crime comes up at their face and die while enforcing law.

Yes, there are some assholes among the polices, but the majority are just everyone else's friend and family. We have assholes in IT, in fire fighters, in the army, in the government, in schools, in everywhere.

Whatever reason is behind this "unreasonable searches", let the story reveal on the news then. Let a general attorney get involved. On the other hands, I think it is reasonable for a police to actually ask to check if the contents have been wiped out or not. If you were told X person has decrypted the card and played the videos, you as the state probably want to ensure this content has not been saved in any more device. Yes, sounds stupid, but I think that's reasonable. Think about this - a child was raped and a cracker hacked into X's computer and distributed this file - is that bad? I am not saying the whole questioning family and friend is reasonable, I am not a law enforcer, but the other parts still seem reasonable.

-- EDIT --

I actually was a whistleblower myself once. I did the same thing the OP did. I turned in a child pornography evidence. Well, a bunch of people did because this was distributed online. At the time I was just a high school kid and I was managing a popular discussion forum. It was reported by some members on our forum and as a manager I decided to turn this over to the Taiwanese police by pointing them where this source was discovered. I submitted anonymously, however. I still encourage people to be a whistleblower / be a good citizen / good person at some point. We need to arrest these horrible assholes.
Ask HN: Should I leave my full time job for personal project?
Looking for some suggestions from the experts here. I have been thinking about a project which I believe have a lot of potential. It will probably take me around 6mo - 1year to make it live(beta). I have a decent job and I have an infant, so even though my job is not so much stressful, because of the baby I can't put extra hours after work for my personal project. So I am thinking of leaving my job(a very good, comfortable one). Actually planning to target for 5 months to see if I can progress and then if I see I am failing I plan to start looking for full time job again.

However, this decision will put me in a tight position financially, my family can survive but will have to spend extremely carefully.

I believe in my idea, my project, and I want to give it a shot, will it be a big risk? Any suggestion/personal experiences are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
More California Parents Opting Out of Vaccines; Look Up Your School Online
So...do they contribute back upstream? Or are you telling me the benefit is that they're a free rider?
Amazing Innovation Underground Bike Storage System - Must See Video
Question, kind of relevant to the topic of talking to police: I heard that a cop can only search your car if there is a crime being committed. Say you admit to speeding. Then you admitted to police that you committed a crime. Does that mean that the cop can search your car now?
Just last week I was having what I thought was a fanciful conversation with a friend about exactly this. I'm amazed to see this materialise and very interested to see how the regulation process is handled.
This Business Insider article has over 100 scripts: https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Quick-tour-%...

For a barely six-paragraph article...
What makes the new version of this cool (for starters):

> The decision for a new processor was expedited by the possibility to implement it, that is, to make it concrete and available. This is due to the advent of programmable gate arrays (FPGA), allowing to turn a design into a real, functioning processor on a single chip. As a result, the described system can be realized using a low-cost development board. This board, Xilinx Spartan-3 by Digilent,
features a 1-MByte static memory, which easily accommodates the entire Oberon System, incuding its compiler. It is shown, together with a display, a keyboard and a mouse in the photo below.
I can't tell, would the delivery drones be Autonomous or human piloted? This definitely sounds too sci-fi to be true. Hard to imagine the cost associated here too..
The White Album Problem
You might be better off using a pre-release snapshot of Java 8 as a better Java. You'll get closures, functional collections, and better type inference. I bet Eclipse and Intellij support it better too.
> There is, generally, no way to "brute force" an encrypted container containing child pornography for the simple reason that no one who respects the gravity of the situation would dare choose a password less than 8 characters. Even 8 a-z characters requires (26^8)/2 attempts to bruteforce on average, which is absurdly high.

That's just not true. People viewing images of child sexual abuse used to buy access using their credit card - Pete Townsend for one. (Obviously we need to be careful here; lots of crooks were using stolen credit cards).

Many people viewing images of child sexual abuse just aren't very good at encryption or anonymity.

See "DeAnonymizing alt.anonymous.messages" http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html

> The slides cover the information-theoretic differences between SSL, Onion Routing, Mix Networks, and Shared Mailboxes. It talks about the size of the dataset I analyzed, and some broad percentages of the types of messages in it (PGP vs Non-PGP, Remailed vs Non-Remailed). Then I go into a large analysis of the types of PGP-encrypted messages there are. Messages encrypted to public keys, to passwords and passphrases, and PGP messages not encrypted at all!

I strongly agree that turning in the card is the only sensible choice. It's a scary option though.
Because of Clojure's dynamic typing and idiomatic use of lots of nested expressions it turns out to be a read-only language for me.

Scala seems to have a huge image problem. I think part of the problem is that Odersky and crew have never written the treatise on how to use Scala's OO and FP effectively. I'm surprised that Typesafe didn't come up with their own web framework instead of using Play.

One lesson to be learned is that these days you need good IDE integration and fast compiles (incremental) for rapid development. But Scala IDE support has come a long ways in the past year or so. The Eclipse Scala worksheets is awesome. I like it better than a standard REPL. Intellij support is still going strong too.
The way I look at type systems is they are an automatic proof system for programs. So you must ask yourself what are you proving with your type system? I looked at your write up on the github issue and from what I see you are moving some checking into compile time. However, when it comes to "parsing problems" (like: HTTP, XML, command line args, etc...) there isn't much to move. This is because the data doesn't yet exist that the proof operates on. So it really can only check the plumbing after the parsing - which often isn't that much.

In the past when I have used such libraries they have been a pain - especially for loose formats like HTTP headers. Type system come with a cost, you need to carefully consider the burden you are placing on the programmer to see if the benefits out way the cost.
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