skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was as discussion with John Muratore (SpaceX director of vehicle certification) posted on HN a while back with some interesting notes on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6125834
Having been to that particular theatre many times (AMC Easton), there are usually Columbus Police around, especially on the weekends. They also have a fair amount of security there (Once they helped me get into my car after I locked myself out). That's who I would guess would be there. Sometimes there are even Columbus Police hanging out at the entrance of the theatre by the escalators.
"Broadband-shaming 300Mbps"? Speak for yourself, as that happens to be my current broadband speed over plain copper cable. Sure, I'm living a few years ahead of most people, but it is a lot easier to roll out LTE than other forms of Internet. I just wish that, like Wi-fi, your service didn't degrade as quickly the more people connected to it. I remember back in the day, when no one had LTE up here in Canada, it was routine to see speeds of 60-150mbps. Now, less so. Depends on where you are, what device you have, a whole host of factors. Of course, more spectrum is always nicer, not so much for marketing purposes as here but to ensure there's enough space for everyone to get more of the shared pool of bandwidth available. I'm sure if I ran LTE speed tests under a tower at 2 AM I'd get some amazing results too. :)
Israel to unveil laser-based defense system
Based on the urban layout and population distribution within the city, yes, those are two distinct regions.
How to pitch investors on a connected device
While server's is under maintenance, read a cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.inf...
For folks who really think it through, the OP's account is a perfect example of why people shouldn't talk to police.

The investigators work to make a confession before they even attempt to look at evidence; evidence that is already in their possession. Whether that means collecting/interpreting evidence is harder or if it means that investigators don't consider evidence to be important is an exercise I'll leave to the reader.

Make these people do their jobs so that when they actually do have to collect evidence to "catch a bad guy", they know how to. They clearly aren't used to doing so because if they did they'd know that evidence can make getting a confession easier or at least let them know they're wasting their time.

Lawyer up. Immediately.
Great. ...if only people wouldn't have made such a fuss about a meagre $100.000 (yeah, it's a lot of money for me too, but these amazing guys are developing an OS, for god's sake, not crafting another "ubercool" webframework-of-the-month) and posted so many "i'd like to see the exact way the money is spent" comments everywhere (transparency is a lot of times the opposite of freedom, you know - once people have proved you they can deliver something great, as they have done in the past, stop incumbering them with extremely annoying requests for transparency!).
I'm actually trying to prototype a language that gets you the best of both:

* Clojure style dynamic development
* A Lisp (with proper macros, homoiconicity etc.)
* Runs on JVM
* Can use Clojure libraries unmodified
* Static type system (similar to Typed Clojure, but as part of the compiler and driving real optimisations, not just as a separate static analysis tool)

Still an early stage experiment right now, but I think it is the right idea:
https://github.com/mikera/kiss
I want to work at spotify, do you happen to have a contact?
That's an excellent list. The health and commute parts I can definitely agree with, the rest I may have just gotten lucky with in general.

One additional trick I like to use: when the work itself is getting repetitive and boring (similar requirements, etc), vary the way you do it, or parts of it. This can be anything from experimenting with the way you do your estimates, planning and bookkeeping, changing up the tooling (try a different source control tool, code analysis, whatever). Try different frameworks or languages (although preferably only for non-essential projects, in case it goes badly). Read up in-depth about exception handling policies and frameworks, and make use of one in your next project (if you don't already). And so on, the list is nearly endless.

By varying these topics gently (preferably one at a time), you can keep risk to your clients at a minimum, while keeping things interesting for yourself, and broadening your skill set. This might seem obvious, but I see far too many people lose skills and motivation because they're stuck doing the same boring thing for years.
> Isn't this equivalent to covert paid reviews

No, because we aren't paying anyone to review products, we are paying people to use products.

The ASA's logic is that if we haven't asked people to be positive, or asked them not to be negative, then we aren't using them to "promote" the product, all we're doing is getting them to use the product.

Regarding other elements which are more obviously advertisements (e.g. the 5 second clip I mentioned, or the tracked link) these are considered standard and obvious advertising, treated the same way banner adverts are.

> how do you control the content of the company sponsored statements

I don't pay them to make statements, other than that they are using a certain product. They could say in the video "I'm using product X and it's incredibly shit" without breaching any contract with me. The only sponsored statements we ever work with are on content websites, where we require (and most publishers would insist even if we didn't) that such content be marked as an "advertorial".

> or for example being direct advertising to children (also unlawful)

I'm no expert in this area as I've never represented a brand that was purposefully targeting children. My target audience is usually 18-35yo men. That said, I believe you are incorrect in saying it would be unlawful - apart from anything, you've surely seen adverts directly aimed at children (toys, etc.), these clearly couldn't be shown if they were illegal.

In the UK there are lots of regulations on how you an advertise to children, mostly around ensuring their safety but also making sure advertisers don't take advantage of their under-developed minds. You can read the CAP (Committee of Advertising Practice - sister organisation to the ASA) rules at http://www.cap.org.uk/Advertising-Codes/Non-broadcast-HTML/S...

There are also products that have stricter rules, for example alcohol - you cannot in the UK advertise on a medium where 25% of more of the audience is under 18 (for example teen magazines, children's TV). I remember once having a client who was advertising spirits across gaming websites, and the solution here was to only show adverts after a self-imposed watershed of 9pm, as this ensured that during the times at which the adverts were shown, the sites had a low percentage of under-18 visitors.
You mean government programs like NASA? Yeah, these people should definitely work on robot vacuums and yet another tablet.
Please cite references if you're suggesting that people in the U.S. are routinely killed or jailed for life without trial for requesting legal council.
Why Outsource? Why to MustWin?
What if you are a witness to a crime? Do you still only communicate to the police through an attorney?
Windows 2000 was certainly not only a server system. Windows 2000 was very popular outside the consumer segment. Like Windows XP organisations used it well beyond the intended lifetime. E.g. see this article from 2005:

"Just as Microsoft prepares to end mainstream support for Windows 2000 next week, a report surfaces from AssetMetrix, an asset management software provider, that indicates Windows 2000 is still installed on nearly half of corporate desktops."

Source: http://www.itjungle.com/two/two062205-story01.html

In other words, four years after the introduction of Windows XP, half of the corporate desktops was still using Windows 2000. The success of 2000 was only eclipsed by that of Windows XP.
Which normal user needs to? I could easily use Chrome alone for any 'normal' tasks. The only native apps I use are Vim, some specialised content creation apps, and command line tools. Don't tell me the average user needs these.

Chrome OS' popularity is proof that for many, it is enough. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see OEMs shipping Ubuntu or Suse, but Chrome OS is more capable than it gets credit for.
The update waiting to be processed on the App Store lets you get the recorded video without publish.

As it's completely free we used CC to make sure no uploaded video causes us any issues - but with future updates and plans we will add more options
There was no Windows 97.
Just a reminder, this /is/ HN. "[using IE8 or earlier] ... incredibly safe and a good idea" -- them's fightin' words. Now, I'm not going to say that diversity isn't a bad thing, but I will say that diversification using older browsers and ActiveX controls where everyone is forced to use the same browser and so is not actually diverse at all ... well, that's where things go south. If most people set their default browser to non-IE and as a consequence are forced to type in their bank's URL directly rather than click a link to get there, fine. If most people choose, unwisely, not to do so, then they're more vulnerable to phishing attacks that additionally might add malware. If most people are required to use Windows, and therefore cannot use Mac or Linux under the current implementations, then again that restriction on diversity is bad for the self-defence of the system as a whole.

Finally, what you're really getting at is "use Incognito tabs for banking," as those by default don't load plugins that can sniff or execute on pages nor retain cookies for later CSRF. Sadly, safety is a moving target and browsers and OSes have moved on since late 1990s.
You think that is bad? There is a whole class of small company that all they do is apply for government development grants and contracts which amount to funding to develop IP which otherwise wouldn't exist. The company then gets to keep all the IP they developed on the governments dime and if they made anything worthwhile sell it to the government at exorbitant prices.
Internet insanity
That is a hell of a lot of green on her answers list. Very cool.

I know the article was a bit fluffy- as human interest stuff often is - but I'm impressed. Anyone know her Github?
http://www.cato.org/raidmap

Here's one.

Edit: Hell, it's not even a joke anymore that cops routinely kill the physically and mentally ill.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/justice/north-carolina-teen-ki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas

http://raniakhalek.com/2013/10/08/georgia-police-kill-diabet...

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sick-elderly-black-ma...

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019235236_duffy23m.h...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/cops-killed-ha...

http://gothamist.com/2008/09/25/after_cop_tasers_him_naked_m...

and even things like http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/mentally-ill-man-froz...
It's not that lawyers think you should never talk to police, it's that you should wait until you have legal counsel to do so.
This is a terrible advice! NEVER talk to the police. I have seen a lot of innocent people talk themselves into an arrest. Sure, none of them got convicted, but they spent a lot of time in the court system and thousands of dollars on attorney fees. This is my professional advise, and if you need more proof, here is a Detective giving the same advice on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1t3vtr0kxk
In Windows 7, you simply hit the Windows button (or click the start button) and start typing. It works the same way, but takes up much less screen real estate and exposes you to the menus to wade through if you so desire.

I prefer the Windows 7 desktop paradigm. Which is why I install Classic Shell on Windows 8 machines. It basically converts Windows 8 to Windows 7 with a flat UI and some extra snappy-ness. A win-win in my book.
Rewriting history aren't we?

First, Windows 2000 is missing (as discussed in other comments), which was stellar and widely used in corporations. Second, Windows 95 was very popular and received very positive reviews at the time. It wasn't an ME or Vista. Windows 95 basically turned Microsoft's DOS monopoly into Microsoft's Windows monopoly (effectively killing OS/2 et al.).
You don't say! Especially given all his experiments on radios, chemistry and other gadgets. I have little doubts that he would have been a prankster computer hacker if he were in school today.
In the past the argument against putting things like this in the standard library was always that it is non-portable. C and C++ are meant to run on systems which do not even have a monitor, much less a GPU (think embedded). The logic was that standard library functions should work on all systems. That is also the reason why the "file system" API of ISO C/C++ is so severely limited. It is designed for the lowest common denominator. There are no functions for handling directories because of the assumption that some platforms do not even have directories. In fact the file system API does not even assume a hard disk but can be implemented by returning handles to RAM.

Now that this principle seems to be abandoned why not go all the way and give us a full GUI toolkit? That would be so much more versatile than just a 2D drawing API.

I do not see much use for this except maybe making ISO C++ tutorials more exciting because your programs can show something else than console output.

And I mean Cairo is not a simple framebuffer, it is quite complex so why not make another step and give us a full GUI?

I read that the C++ guys want a standard library comparable to those of modern languages like Java, C#, Python etc. and they all come with GUI support.

Oh, and before they even think about adding graphics they should beef up the file system API. That is an actual issue. Right now every piece of crossplatform C/C++ includes a wrapper around platform specific APIs just to handle something as basic as getting a list of all files in a directory. They want to give us vector graphics rendering before that?
I use a mix of things after 20+ years of fulltime code:

Exercise: I don't sit during coding for the last 3-4 years and I will never go back; I walk behind a standing table, I set up a small gym in the garage I use 30 min / day and I take walks with the dogs for 1-2 hours/day.

Do new things: these might be considered risks but I don't really care; I need new tech to keep learning; I know my company would benefit most from doing the same Java enterprise web stuff forever, so I sold my shares and went on to something else. I probably would've been depressed and bored by now if I hadn't done that.

Lot's of hobbies: even if they are computer related, they will feel like something completely different. I restore/upgrade old (end 70s/80s/begin 90s) hardware and program software for it; it feels like working on an old relic and getting it to life.

I happily walk behind my computer and write code after 20 years, still in amazement how we can create so much something out of nothing.
"How about a grandfather marrying a granddaughter? That’s prevented here in Massachusetts by MGL Ch. 207" and it goes on to list details.
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Ask HN: How are you sharing passwords between colleagues for projects?
We have various machines that a few of us need full access too, however these machines are only accessible by TeamViewer and have a few programs running that also have their own set of login login details.<p>Originally, one person kept all information in Excel as a passworded file and shared it with others, but now we really need to move to something more secure that can be accessed and updated by multiple people at the same time.
> Never talk to cops

Everyone says this, but how certain are you that it's the best plan in every circumstance?

Can requesting for a lawyer reduce the amount of time you're detained? The guy was held for about 3.5 hours. If he required access to a lawyer, how long would they have detained him?

And then how much would the lawyer charge? Are you sure it would have been worth it?
I remember this story when it came out, but a single citation involving Cisco networking equipment is in no way relevant when comparing an already culturally wired country smaller than the state of Kentucky, and trying to extrapolate that should somehow be a viable option next month for Comcast to start laying down multimode fibre across 3.7 million square miles of land.

Yes Google Fiber has been a great success where it has been deployed so far, but that has relied on local government cooperation, incentives, right of ways, also neighborhood signup rates > $X for the rollout to even begin to happen. So just because South Korea can do this doesn't mean you should think somehow Comcast can roll 300 Megabit lines to the whole country.

Or you can believe they can roll that out to your local densely populated metro block, where 99% of your neighbors will then laugh at the price, and you can subsidize their non-payment with your $500/month bill.
Having lived in Korea, it really doesn't matter if they make it 1000mbps. Porn is blocked (thanks to the hardworking volunteer force of Korean moms and grandmas keeping children and husbands safe from the filth that would make Confucius nosebleed), freedom of speech has consequences (since your social security number is required), much of the Korean web space is still stuck in early 2000s with an odd hint of George Orwellian theme to it.

I think that I would have the same level of joy if I heard that North Korea decided to make 1000Mbps line for their dedicated network of Juche websites focusing on every aspect of Dear Leader.

I'm guessing they require you to enter your korean social security number in hopes that it would not be possible for a North Korean spy to infiltrate the landscape of online shopping and girly music videos. Ironic, because ActiveX vulnerabilities give North Korean spies far more data and with far more ease.
In Defense of the Microsoft Surface
A couple of resources for you:

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com
http://www.brettsteenbarger.com
The biggest lesson at YC for AnyPerk　(YC W12) : “Build something you want”
I was under the impression that the first service pack was usually made by the main engineering team, and subsequent SPs were done by sustained engineering.

Why would you insist that "8.1 is 9", after admitting 8.1 isn't much of an upgrade?

Windows 8.1. "start button" thing isn't "giving back the start button". No one was asking for that, they were asking for the start menu, instead of the annoying new full-screen launcher.
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This is just a classic example of not knowing your rights. Of course they will make you think it will be worse if you don't cooperate. The opposite is always true - the only thing that will happen by talking is that you will make things worse.

If you did nothing wrong, then you absolutely no reason to talk or say anything except "am I under arrest and am I free to go?"
Add another flag to the compiler to produce code optimized code for any CPU with the warning that it's only been verified to work with Intel CPUs. With todays CPU I do not buy the "safest path" argument - perhaps I could accept that "we only default enable it for implementations we have verified in-house", which makes a lot of sense.

This sounds a lot more like Intel know they make the best compiler, and knowingly put non Intel CPUs at a disadvantage because it would seem that they have a faster CPU.
>> Oh, and before they even think about adding graphics they should beef up the file system API.

It's being worked on.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n333...
and I think that it should be part of C++14 or C++17 http://isocpp.org/std/status.
Editing is a huge mental strain. I think it's why most people don't write more.

Twitter lets you dash out thoughts and expand them as necessary though conversation. Much more lightweight.

It's an interesting experimental medium for drafting an essay though. I would love Marc to expand these into longer posts, but like nearly all successful people, I doubt he has the time.
Somehow I would hope that there would be a better security team at a car company started by the founder of a worldwide online payment processor and a space exploration company trying to mount a mission to Mars, than at your average home appliance company, where odds are most of the management don't even know what Linux is, let alone that their products are running it.

That said, it's a valid concern, and one I hope that's at the forefront of their minds as they design this.
Startups are never supposed to be easy, otherwise everyone would have chose the Start up path, regardless of any passions.
Marc used to blog beautifully, many of his posts are available at http://www.pmarchive.com. Right now I'm guessing he posts tweets because it's most convenient for him, and he has more important things to do with his time. So he lets others do the boring, tedious work of formatting his thoughts for him.

It all works out, ultimately. If it saves Marc a few minutes, it's probably worth it for him.

I've been meaning to do something similar for all of Elon Musk's interviews, but... I don't have the time, either. I have all the data sitting pretty in my Evernote but it needs some real brainwork-led-formatting.
Most illegal things are always available / possible (drugs, weapons, theft..), the fact that they happen isn't a reason not to prevent them happening when possible. You can argue things shouldn't be illegal, but not that illegal things shouldn't be pursued based on the fact that they happen anyway.
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I'm not sure I understand. I told you that I personally do productive things in Metro, but you're telling me I'm wrong. I told you that I personally do even more productive things by focusing on the desktop when Metro isn't enough, but that apparently doesn't count. What else can we talk about at this point? I don't really understand what your purpose was when you replied to my original comment?
Here is what you need to do if you are ever in this situation:

1. Ask "Am I under arrest?"
2. If the answer is anything other than "Yes" ask "Can I leave now?"
3. If the answer is anything other than "No," get up and leave! Don't ask for permission, don't say another word. Just leave. If anyone tries to stop you, say "Unless I am under arrest, I am going to leave NOW. If you prevent me from leaving than I am assuming I am under arrest. If so, please read me my miranda rights right now."

If they read you your rights, ask for a lawyer. Specifically say "I want to speak to a lawyer and I chose to remain silent and not answer any questions until I speak to a lawyer." If the cop tells you that your lawyer is on his/her way and then continues to talk to you, you should say "I see you continue to talk to me, I am going to assume that you are trying to elicit statements from me after I invoked my rights. I am going to relay this information to my lawyer."

If you are innocent, you have NOTHING to gain from talking to a cop. If you are guilty, you WILL hurt your case every time.

UPDATE: Spelling
Upvoted rspeer to counteract all the SEO creeping out of the woodwork on this thread.
Believe it or not, Betamax is still relevant to our lives
No, the police don't have to arrest you to question you for hours. They have a time limit where they have to let you go or charge you, but a) it varies by state and b) it ranges from 48 to 72 hours.
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They've probably just changed focus for a while.

Remember when Google was run by Eric Schmidt? Different vibe, but the company needed it at that stage.

I don't think Twitter has necessarily closed any of the doors of earlier opportunities. If you think about them on the scale of IBM/HP/Apple, it's still early.