skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding this part:

"Doctors took X-rays of Eckert’s abdomen and performed a rectal examination. No drugs were found, so doctors performed a second rectal exam, again unavailing. Doctors then gave Eckert an enema and forced him to have a bowel movement in the presence of a nurse and policeman, according to a lawsuit that Eckert filed. When no narcotics were found, a second enema was administered. Then a third."

One of the many problems with allowing this sort of procedure is that it shapes who signs up to be a policeman, and who quits the police force. Consider the statistics regarding psychopathy:

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

"A 2008 study using the PCL:SV found that 1.2% of a US sample scored 13 or more out of 24, indicating "potential psychopathy"

There is also the somewhat controversial condition known as "sadism":

http://www.jaapl.org/content/34/1/61.full

"Sadistic individuals have poor behavioral controls, manifested by a short temper, irritability, low frustration tolerance, and a controlling nature. From an interpersonal standpoint, they are noted to be harsh, hostile, manipulative, lacking in empathy, cold-hearted, and abrasive to those they deem to be their inferiors. Their cognitive nature is considered rigid and prone to social intolerance, and they are fascinated by weapons, war, and infamous crimes or perpetrators of atrocities."

In a civil, decent society, most of these behaviors are driven underground, and treated as criminal. A civil and decent society strives to avoid situations in which criminals become society's leaders. The worst aspects of war and totalitarian regimes is that they empower psychopaths and sadists.

In her book "Prison we choose to live inside" Doris Lessing makes the point that many institutions are shaped by the self-selection of those who chose to work there. She mentions the idealistic, conscientious young man who joins the police thinking that he will be able to help the public, but if he finds the work brutal and inhumane, he quits and finds some other job where he feels he can do more to help the public. And yet he is exactly the kind of man that much of the public actually wants to have as a police officer: idealistic and conscientious and authentically wanting to help people.

When we allow police work to consist of repeated rectal exams of people who are not under arrest, then the good people will be driven out of the police force, and the police force will become a very attractive profession for those people whom are the most likely to abuse the power of being a police officer. The public would be wise to feel genuine terror at the thought of a police force that consists of the kinds of people who actually enjoy the kind torture described in this article.
Have you tried VaporSynth? It's kind of a spiritual successor to AviSynth in the form of a Python module. Can even load AviSynth plugins.
"Bill 'em all and let god sort it out" is pretty much the M.O. of every American medical institution.

It probably would not be legally enforceable. And it's probable the hospital never actually expected to get any of it.
That would make more sense if learning to program was easy, and learning a language, hard. But in practice it's exactly the other way around.
Yes, because he does not have an assembly factory. He is just a modder. And it is a trashcan. And parts he used are probably not built to be put inside a trashcan. It is cheaper and he has a compact computer. Maybe it is good enough for him, and he can carry it around easily?
Judging by his previous conviction he might have been on probation/parole which has a whole different set of rights than a truly "free" individual
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If anyone has old racing game controller pedals around, they are easy to connect to with PyGame to do anything you want. Here is an example: https://github.com/gourneau/webpedals/blob/master/drivedata....
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Isn't this overkill? You can get the exact same result with FFMPEG and a single shell command.

Seems like a solution in search of a problem.
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With Caltrain, you just step off the other side of the tracks so you're standing between the two sets of tracks. The only reason people are killed is either because they intended to be killed or because they are incapacitated.
It's part of the FireWire spec, they can't.
In the U.S., the percentage of women in tech and CS has been steadily going down since mid-80s, while the society has been getting less sexist since that time by most evidence I can think of: for example, think of the number of women in Congress, representation in the media, jokes that have become too crass, gender pay gap that's been shrinking... If you're right about the reason women don't go into tech, wouldn't you expect the numbers to go up and not down since the 80s?

Maybe tech has not been keeping up with the rest of society?
Well, in the perfect world I would not expect them to solve a driver issue, but something like an issue with say Safari, Finder, iMovie, etc. should not have much to do with the hardware I would think. In reality you cannot get support for anything that is not running on an Apple piece of hardware.
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Wondering this too. They basically raped him, it's just that there is no prosecution. Is there any way for concerned out-of-county or even out-of-state citizens to trigger prosecution at a federal level?
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Something that I realized is overlooked in this thread is the other-other victim: the Caltrain engineer.

Railroad crews that hit people and/or vehicles can get extremely bad PTSD and it can have a massive impact on them. My best wishes go to the crewmember who is likely dealing with a very trying time.
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Why do all these articles suppose that the upper and middle classes don't really have sympathy for the lower class who are generally subject to this sort of "crime" (at least I feel it was).

Most of us are not so out-of-touch that we can't also declare that what happened to this guy was WRONG. And we're also not so self-centered that we can't feel both sympathy and empathy. Or maybe they only teach that to journalists?
It was a pretty widely held belief at the time of the launch of intel macs that the choice to use an, at the time kind of moribund, EFI BIOS was a deliberate attempt to make hackintoshes difficult. And it really did keep it from happening for quite a while.

Of course, there are many other pretty good reasons to go with EFI. It's just that its fate seemed tied to that of Itanium back then.
We live in a country that per capita incarcerates more of its citizens than any other in the world. Our society is by and large very safe. Yet there is still a drive to lock up even more people, for longer terms, for silly offences, and further, to turn more and more tort laws into criminal laws. At some point this has to stop. These stories are far more often becoming the norm, and I find it disgusting. The Constitution and our system of laws do not guarantee your absolute safety... They guarantee your freedom, and that justice will be served if you are wronged. I read these stories with a heavy heart.
Yes, they became a "series." It started with (Eric Schmidt's) "car in office" and "office on grass." The final one being "water in car in office on grass." That's when we put Andy Bechtolsheim's car (911 Porsche) inside his office, carpeted with real grass, and a huge water tank with catfish inside the car. The car was a couple of inches longer than his office, so we had to move a wall.

It was epic fun.
For a man to risk his life -- and to lose his life -- for another, perhaps even a stranger, is something else.

I once was caught in the path of an oncoming train. I was on a school bus when the driver attempted to cross the tracks before the train. The bus stalled mid-way. My seat on the bus was directly over the tracks.

The train came around a bend and all the kids panicked. Half went to the front door, jamming it, and the other half went to the back door, jamming it. I was trapped. All I could do was watch the train coming and pray.

The engine suddenly started back up and the bus started to move as the train was getting closer. The train missed us by a couple of feet.

I know what this man saw coming toward him. You don't ever want to see one of those things coming at you!

To control that fear as you're trying to help another... this man was a hero.
That is an excellent question. What happened here is obviously criminal, so why did no prosecutor pick up the case? Are cops so much beyond the reach of the law that they even get away with this blatant crimes.
What really upsets me, despite all this law enforcement's abuse, that the victims were billed for those procedures. What?! Police is forcing someone, against their will, to take medical exams and then one has to pay for that?
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You can't argue that Europe has the same freedom of speed guarantees as China, that is absurd. Communist parties are only banned in some countries and it is at their discretion that they are enforced.

I had a Chinese exchange student live with me for a few days in 2008 and my dad asked him probing questions about the tiananmen square massacre. The guy had no idea at all, or at least was too scared to talk to foreigners about it. That's hardly on par with most of Europe
You are correct, it's about signaling. However, we have to think about whether one type of signaling should be privileged over another just by virtue of being particularly loud and obnoxious. (Note that this goes both ways).

The "right" of one type of signaling to suppress others is a privilege, after all.
The root cause seems to be that police are not prosecuted for crimes committed while on duty.
How do you break out of conventional thinking like this? Awesome.
It ran really well for me in Firefox 26 on Windows 8. I got great sound and no glitches while playing Major Stryker.
My school (University of Texas at Austin) is currently in the process of switching to Canvas (http://www.instructure.com/) and plans to completely drop Blackboard by next Fall.
Not sure if that's a good approach. Why do they need balls or guts to use your software? It's that risky? If your software is at the forefront, why is no one else using it?

I think most schools want to see something that's proven, low risk, and beneficial. If you can show them some of the top schools are using your software, and their faculty and students are raving about it, and how it's making their lives easier, reducing costs, and how the transition from BB was seamless.

The problem is obviously getting the first few schools. You need to eliminate as much risk as possible. You need a lot of credible sources backing you in this situation to make buyers more comfortable.
Being a Pythonista and working with Chef for the last year I think that this is makes some sense. We've been recently contemplating the same migration.

Of course, this case the number of servers being managed is low enough that there isn't really a going to be much of a performance difference between Chef or Salt so this is likely just the preference of the current maintainers.
I'd like to point out that YOU CAN BE LEGALLY RAPED if a cop suspects you have drugs and has probable cause (which can be anything really, from a dog barking to a previous history of drug use, to clenching your ass when being padded down).
Plays like something out of a Christopher Guest film!

People don't have clean water because of corruption... wow, this guy has no clue what he's talking about.
Okay, fair enough, neural nets (often called "connectionist AI") might have been the one kind of AI that involved enough number crunching that the CM was a favorable choice for running it.

But if you wanted to do, say, genetic evolution of your neural net topology -- not sure that had been thought of then, but people do it now -- the CM wouldn't have worked very well.

Anyway, if my rather faint recollection is accurate, the hot application I heard TMC people talking about the most back then was ray tracing.
Pretty severely broken on Firefox: can't type in a card number, and the "Fork me on GitHub" banner is missing. That second problem is particularly weird, I don't know what could be causing that. Also wondering if jQuery is really necessary for this.

Overall, it's a nice concept. I wish checkout forms were more intuitive.
Isn't there a practical distinction though between having your computer compromised when you turn your back on someone for 5 seconds and when you leave them alone with your computer for a few minutes?
That's not individual cop's problem. They were taught this way. They were taught if you get a permission from a dog that alone justifies subjecting a person to torture. They were taught if a criminal addicted to every known drug in existence says something in order to lower his sentence, it's ok to use this as sole basis to break into homes and shoot whoever is in there. And the others, like doctors were taught to willingly participate in these abuses, because drugs! think of the children!

Making an example of these fucks would do nothing, because every citizen of the US that supports war on drugs is creating these fucks. Until US citizens wake up and demand the government to stop the war on US citizens, that and worse is going to happen. In war, that's what happens. This war - longest and most harmful war in American history - has to be ended. And US citizens have the power to end it, if only they has the will and reason to stop believing in lies that WOD proponents feed them.
this is great but I like to use https://www.paymentiframe.com/

the form resembles a credit card.
PHP is not well done. Even its creator agrees.
This is neat; I want[1] something similar for Go types as well.

For example, say I'm looking at godoc for http://godoc.org/go/build#Package and I see all these descriptive comments for the fields:

type Package struct {
Dir string // directory containing package sources
Name string // package name
Doc string // documentation synopsis
ImportPath string // import path of package ("" if unknown)
Root string // root of Go tree where this package lives
SrcRoot string // package source root directory ("" if unknown)
PkgRoot string // package install root directory ("" if unknown)
BinDir string // command install directory ("" if unknown)
Goroot bool // package found in Go root
PkgObj string // installed .a file
AllTags []string // tags that can influence file selection in this directory
ConflictDir string // this directory shadows Dir in $GOPATH

// Source files
GoFiles []string // .go source files (excluding CgoFiles, TestGoFiles, XTestGoFiles)

I'd love to see a random sample data of that type, e.g.:

(*build.Package)(&build.Package{
Dir: (string)("/Users/Dmitri/Dropbox/Work/2013/GoLand/src/github.com/shurcooL/go/vcs"),
Name: (string)("vcs"),
Doc: (string)("Package for getting status of a repo under vcs."),
ImportPath: (string)("github.com/shurcooL/go/vcs"),
Root: (string)("/Users/Dmitri/Dropbox/Work/2013/GoLand"),
SrcRoot: (string)("/Users/Dmitri/Dropbox/Work/2013/GoLand/src"),
PkgRoot: (string)("/Users/Dmitri/Dropbox/Work/2013/GoLand/pkg"),
BinDir: (string)("/Users/Dmitri/Dropbox/Work/2013/GoLand/bin"),
Goroot: (bool)(false),
PkgObj: (string)(""),
AllTags: ([]string)([]string{}),
ConflictDir: (string)(""),
GoFiles: ([]string)([]string{
(string)("git.go"),
(string)("hg.go"),
(string)("vcs.go"),
}),

(A couple of them, putting the most commonly occurring samples on top, etc.)

Perhaps Sourcegraph will offer something like this in the future.

[1] Well, I'm slowly working on achieving this myself in my spare time.
Also, Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, is a TMC alumnus.
This sounds beyond outrageous to people not living in USA.

It's a good thing it didn't happen to some random European tourist.
I'm a woman in tech, and I don't give a shit if men feel like they have to walk on eggshells around me - but as far as I know it's never happened anyway, so I kind of suspect that the whole problem of 'but I'm so scared of saying something wrong to a woman!' is mostly just something people say on the internet.
I disagree, founders and products change, and can make the difference between lifestyle and $1B. Having had multiple rejections for years from different sources (then accepted with the same idea), I know this to be true. It's less about having a "great idea" and more about having the vision and ability to execute on it - that's what needs to be proven.
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It would need to be a full fork to work. Otherwise it's still deriving its identity from the default.
Thanks! I'll give the contrib modules and TODO types a look.
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This should be at the number 1 spot on HN.
Firefox 26.0 on Slackware 14 here.

Can't type in a card number either, although the "Fork me on GitHub" banner is there just fine.
Great points!

What many folks forget is that the version of PHP Facebook has in Production (HipHop) is not the same version most have when they deploy PHP. Legacy & inertia has retained PHP at FB but it is far better managed then what others are doing with it today.

I have a list of few points and poor excuses used by folks to justify PHP as language of choice in today's times: http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/technology/php-coding-...
I am sure if Facebook were starting up today they would not choose PHP as their primary language of choice.
> only to hear you mansplain to me that well

Nice, you just ruined any legitimacy your argument may have had by using the word 'mansplain'. You can't argue against potentially sexist or othering words by using a deliberately sexist, othering word.

Note that any attempts to explain why 'mansplaining' should be accepted despite its sexist, othering connotations will also apply to words such as 'bro'.
>an officer wrote that Eckert’s posture was “erect and he kept his legs together.”

I think maybe the cop in question needs a basic anatomy lesson. He seems to think that holding one's legs together is required if one is hiding something in one's rectum.

Butts do not work like that.
Honestly, if I were in a better mood today I'd probably put it differently, but this thread...
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You're going through quite a contorted thought process to somehow find fault in an act of selflessness. I have no idea what your motivation to defy logic would be, but I'll try to respond anyway:

> not everyone would want a stranger to try and help them in every situation

This isn't relevant to the ethics of the situation. When the desires of the man on the tracks can't be ascertained, his life should by default be considered worth saving, as a fellow human being.

> sometimes not helping a stranger in mortal danger really is the ethical choice.

I have no idea what the "sometimes" are to which you're referring. Barstool philosophers are prone to saying that "sometimes things are other things," which is awfully hard to refute since probability of all events is finite in some universe.
19th/20th Century Europe and America. Yes, I argue China has the same freedom of speech guarantees as 19th/20th Century Europe. At least. I think we can agree on that.

I also argue discussing democracy in China is like discussing racial and religious supremacy in Europe. You have to be very careful what you say, else you might find some investigators talking with your family and coworkers about your beliefs, or you might find it hard to do business (like your comedy routine) in certain cities. And only if a European government cannot ruin you financially and socially will they arrest you. Like China. Yes, it happens. Like the Chinese, Europeans rarely hear about it, but it happens. Repeat after me: "freedom of speech is not absolute."
Why isn't <input type="card"> a thing?
Can't read the article, behind a paywall.

However, it is not an embarrassment of riches IMO.

Look at what happened to RIM/Blackberry, Nokia, and so on. Tech titans can fall at any given moment, and they are going to need to rely on that "war chest" to get back up, to reinvent themselves.

Investors need to back off and let the companies handle things themselves. They are investors, not advisors or owners, they need to mind their business. They don't like what companies are doing, they can sell their shares and invest into something else.
It looks like a lot of people only know the word "bro" through the brogrammer thing.
You supported the idea that men are stigmatized as criminals by providing statistics that criminals are encountered among men. I am just asking if that applies to any criteria and any group.
It would be a difficult study... How many YC companies would have failed if they had not been accepted to YC? Certainly, a number of rejected companies who later failed may have thrived under YC.
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Maybe the correct solution would be to do more than just cringe? If you did indeed confront them, then I apologise for assuming otherwise, but it seems to be the case that there's an awful lot of posturing as a warrior for social justice on HN, yet very little actual, difficult, real-life work towards any social justice causes.
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But this also has a positive side:

Ensure that FireWire drivers are present and not removed from the system

In other words, if you don't have FireWire drivers installed, then this won't do anything; another plus for not installing the drivers for those who have a system with FireWire ports but never need to use them.

My laptop has both FireWire and USB controllers disabled, the former because I never use it and the latter because I almost never use it - and when I do, I find it's not too much hassle to go into the Device Manager and enable the one for the one port I intend to use. Another positive side-effect is that the USB drivers seem to take a rather long time to initialise, so booting is much faster without them.
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> it shapes who signs up to be a policeman, and who quits the police force.

I rather informally approach this with another question -- "What happens to the high school bullies when they graduate?".

My feeling is a significant number end up working as policemen or join the military for the thrills of it. I have known of few such cases. One was a corrupt policeman (now dead) that was known for beating his family when drunk. The other, not sure if corrupt in his day job, but was known for physical abuse inflicted on his wife and child.

I know, I know, there are good decent people working these jobs. It is just the ones I know about closer, that chose law enforcement as a profession, happen to not be very nice people to spend time with.

Maybe it just says something about my family and acquaintances as well, that is another way to look at it perhaps.
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This whole thread is silly.

The "Bro" has nothing to do with brogrammer or that misogynist culture. It's a pun on "man" pages.

And most people in tech who use the term bro are not referring to the brogrammer culture. They're using the bro slang popularized by MMORPGs/MOBAs/4chan/internet memes, since like World of Warcraft 2004.
I don't have MBA, but I have a bit similar degree - Msc Management, and nothing I was ever taught suggests such idea is anything but insane.
Shocking but not overly surprising. However, I can't really imagine something like this happening in any western democracy other than the US (and maybe the UK).
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