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One solution for police misconduct that I heard recently is to require officers to purchase malpractice insurance[1]. The idea is to incentivize good behavior, as bad actors would pay higher premiums because they're a higher risk (or simply leave law enforcement altogether).

That makes a lot of sense to me. The police do things like this because they rarely, if ever, are held accountable for their actions.

I expect the people who have a strong personal interest in that idea never happening would counter the proposal with warnings of frightful, dire consequences.

[1] https://twitter.com/ClarkHat/status/420254393444093952
> Can't read the article, behind a paywall.

Like the WSJ and the NYT, just open an incognito window and do a google search for the title. In order to have their content indexed by Google they have to allow that to work. With the NYT you don't even have to Google, just right click the link to open an incognito window.
What was the typical deal for the core engineers?
I like how it has more I/O options than the real thing.

I'd probably not use an Apple logo though... maybe a pear? :)
+1 for Salt. I really like it. I came to it not as a replacement of puppet or chef or other mature solutions but as a better "log in with ssh, run commands and dump some some config scripts" system. Ansible was another contender but Windows support in Salt won over (and Salt now also has ssh-only mode I hear).
I was told that Japanese Doctors don't discuss mortality
rates with their patients. I was told they don't even
mention the word Cancer. If a patient has stomach cancer,
the patient is given the best currently available treatment,
and is told they have a bad case of heart burn--and told they will get better! The reasoning is they want to get every once of magic The Placebo Effect has to offer. I don't know if it's better to quote stats to a patient, or lie(hopeing the Placebo Effect will take over?).

Personally, I don't use the Internet for any health related concerns--It has always just made me feel worse, and is loaded with hysteria, and just horrid advice.

And yes, I know U.S. Doctors can't lie to their patients.
I'm just relaying what I was told twenty years ago.

When I get sick--I'm not sure if I would want to the statistics of survival. I would live every day as my last.
I would take any drugs the Pallitive care Physician offered though. My father benefitted greatly from the opiates
the doctors prescribed before he died.

I hope the doctor makes a full recovery, and commend him on
his honesty and openness. Sometimes I forget doctors will
someday be patients.

Oh yea, to the Marin General counter person who asked me
if I wanted to sign a Advanced Procedure Directive, before
even saying hello--if you happen to read this--one day
you will be on the other side of the counter.

Good night! I hope you all stay well and are happy!
I would agree, finding and connecting with real decision makers on a personal level to show them how you bring value and have that personal connection is one of the best sales strategies around.

I am not talking someone who is high in the food chain, I mean the one who is the final say and can move the entire organization. Sometimes there is no one at a specific org that can do that, and if so, don't even attempt it.
I'm starting to think "Ask PG" are linkbait titles disguised as "Ask HN".
Same, Firefox 26.0 on Windows 8, I can't enter anything into the input fields aside from name on card.
Thanks for the feedback. Sorry about that, I'm working to get a fix - hopefully later tonight.
Emergency stops are a big deal for trains, especially loaded freight trains. False alarms (from animals, or people jaywalking across the tracks) would create a whole 'nother set of problems.
Should that matter? Doctors have a hippocratic oath to uphold.
Our righteous indignation seems a little shrill here.

The fact that he was awarded $1.6M is being glossed over -- clearly this was not, in hindsight, a reasonable procedure, and everyone recognizes it.
"Human" is also gendered, and presumes that the default status is male. Perhaps "humyn."
You can't use Software Update to install OS updates (you can update everything else through there though). It's fairly easy to install the updates via USB as long as you have your configuration and drivers backed up though.
As Patent Suits Increase, Firms Fight Back
I use refcontrol (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/) on Firefox to set the referrer for www.ft.com to always be https://encrypted.google.com/search, works great.
This article reminds me of an experience I had 3 years ago in Dublin, CA.

I was driving home to San Jose at about 3am, after spending the evening playing live music at a bar in Dublin.
I was pulled over as I was driving from the bar to I-680.

The cops made me get out of my car. They took my pulse and examined my eyelids with their flashlights repeatedly. I was shivering a bit as it was cold and I was wearing a t-shirt. They accused me of being under the influence of drugs based on my quickened pulse and eyelids. They searched my car, of course finding nothing. I was handcuffed and taken to jail, where I had to spend ~12 hours until the next day when my wife picked me up. My car was towed (which I had to pay to get out of the impound yard).

I was completely sober that night. In fact, I've been straight edge my whole life.

It was a humiliating experience -- I had to give urine test in front of the cops once I was taken to jail. I had to get mugshots (which I assume are searchable online somewhere). That said, it's nothing compared to the humiliation the guy in the article experienced.

I definitely lost all faith in police that night. As a fairly well-off software engineer, I could deal with the costs of getting my car out of the impound yard and missing work to show up in court (no charges were pressed). For someone less fortunate, it could have really screwed up their life.
The fact that police can mess with people like this is unfair and unjust.
It isn't a software issue - it's a hardware issue. FireWire and these other specifications require direct memory access. If you plug in a device and it emulates something that requests DMA from the hardware, your machine can be owned.

The solution is an IO memory management unit with virtualized access to physical memory. I am not sure how you can actually enforce this to devices on the bus though.
I don't think that blame is a conserved quantity. Yes, the whole war on drugs complex is a problem, but that doesn't absolve the individual cops of responsibility.

More pragmatically, a lack of serious consequences is part of why cops have learned to behave this way. Get rid of the war on drugs, and you haven't fully solved the problem. Nothing about this situation would be any more acceptable if instead of drugs, they had been searching for child pornography, a bomb, or an abused animal.
I disagree entirely. "Brogrammer" is not a well known phenomenon outside of Silicon Valley.
and if his legs are apart, that can be interpreted as aggression. no win situation - they were looking for an excuse to go to town on this guy...
> . A big downside to Blackboard was that every professor had their own way of using the tool, but it was worse with professors who made their own sites.

In my view, this is the differentiating factor between MySpace and Facebook. On MySpace you have a lot of control over the webspace -- and it's horrible and atrocious for the visitor to the page 99% of the time.

Facebook makes the layout standard, and this benefits visitors to pages because people can find the information they're looking for.

(I am not a UI/UX guy, take my thoughts with a grain of salt).
Men shouldn’t wait too long to have kids, either
What Increases Trust in Driverless Cars?
"They are investors, not advisors or owners"

Actually, the shareholders of a public corporation are its owners. If a wealthy investor like Carl Icahn bought up 51% of Apple's shares, he could make it do pretty much anything he wanted: appoint his friends to the board, fire the CEO, etc. Big institutional investors like state retirement funds have lots of influence over companies, sometimes even seats on the board. And if I bought just one share of Apple's stock, I could attend the annual shareholders' meeting and vote on the issues presented there (or I could vote by proxy).

Also, the management of a company has a fiduciary obligation to its shareholders (owners). The shareholders can sue the management for breach of this obligation, and if they can prove that holding billions of dollars in cash is not in the best interest of the shareholders, they can force the company to distribute it as dividends.
I pay taxes. I'm blown away by your assertion that I'm to any extent at blame for this crime. Some people abuse a man and I'm at fault because I don't write to my senator?
1. I disagree, but ok. Comment rankings may or may not be very interesting, and if there are many comments in a 24h period it is totally unhelpful (want to find latest comments with [x] keyword)

2. cool :)

3. I had checked [All], but the results look much better now (and this discussion shows up).
Seriously? That is what you get from "bro"? Somehow I have a feeling the issue lies in you, not the word there :/
Some card schemes support PANs longer than 16 digits.
Nice, that's cool, too bad I don't trust browser extensions to not steal my personal banking information or whatever else I go to online and I can't be bothered to audit every single extension I use. Third party audits are pointless in a world where these things autoupdate.

You think that may be paranoid, but I visit seriously important sites in my browser and I'm not going to always do that in an incognito window.
unable to type card number and cvc in firefox 26.0
My frustration with the auto industry
This is much nicer than my normal method of getting the frames with mplayer -vo png and then using ImageMagick to assemble the frames into an animated GIF.
I don't think this kind of attack is limited to FireWire; that was just the easiest version to build. Thunderbolt can attach arbitrary PCI devices, like an FPGA that pretends to be an AHCI controller...
>Making an example of these fucks would do nothing

It might. Making an example of these fucks might make the next group of fucks think twice.
We are our own worst enemy sometimes.
For me that moment of realization came about three years ago, on an entirely different forum.

I came into a discussion (on a topic similar to this) between a female friend of mine and another guy a few hours after it started. Every post of his had me nodding: I probably would have said just the same thing if he hadn't beaten me to it. So it was frustrating and confusing to see my friend getting increasingly hurt and angry as they went: why couldn't she see how much this guy was making sense?

I was pretty intensely annoyed with her by that point. I decided that if I was going to be able to get through to her about why she was being unreasonable and this other guy was right, I'd have to dig through some of the links that she'd shared so I could make a convincing case that her position was unfair.

I read the articles she'd linked to, and I still couldn't figure out why she'd been so upset. Confused, I read them again. Then I read some of their links, and theirs, and began hunting for more. What had begun as a determined mission to convince my friend that she was blowing things way out of proportion gradually turned into a dawning horrified realization that I had been solidly and unthinkingly on the wrong side of this whole range of issues for years (despite thinking that I was very committed to gender equality).

Only those few hours of delay before I'd seen the original conversation had saved me from being the one saying totally insensitive and hurtful things to my friend, and I can still think of times in years past when I did say things that make me cringe today. Ever since, I've taken it as a sort of penance to try and share what little of this stuff I've started to understand whenever I see people talking about these issues the way I used to. I hope that it occasionally plants a seed of understanding for someone, even if it doesn't take hold right away.
Google the title and click through from the Google SERP to read without registering: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mounting+cash+piles+an+embar...
Interestingly, you both are right. That's the thing about human behaviour. It's very complex.
Only shows the first paragraph. Flagged (the post, not this comment).
Which is why they awarded him $1.6 million and this is written up in the NYT.
I asked about this just the other day because I use full-disk encryption, but rarely shut the machine down (just sleep with screen lock). The responder was fairly confident that this was not a concern, but Inception does not require an implausible level of expertise to use, yet it would render my encryption useless (assuming the driver is present).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7113788

A couple years ago, I chased down and tackled a guy who snatched my laptop on the Blue Line in Chicago. The threat of laptop theft is real and I'd like to mitigate the damage that would result without compromising my ability to work.
The man he tried to rescue had a family too. Sometimes you double down when you think the odds are in your favor. It's sad that turned out not to be the case this time.
That fact seemed to be the common thread between the case, and I wondered if being billed with no ability to pay is what brought their cases to the public eye.

If the state had picked up the tab, would they have got away with it? How many similar cases exist where the victim has gone away quietly, too humiliated to complain?
I absolutely agree that these cops are the product of American public insatiable need to feel as "safe" as possible, because, as you mention, think of the damn children! But the kind of search that they preformed, if successful, would be still useless, because any evidence derived as a result of it would be suppressed. So, I don't think any one trained these idiots to do this.

Many police unions have clause that make the cops be personally liable of criminal acts. They should be criminally tried, convicted, dismissed, jailed, and then have this 1.6 million collected against their future earning till its paid back, with interest. Unless the doctors who preformed the procedures were somehow threatened by the cops, they should pay as well. This is just inexcusable.

I do agree, the war on drugs is at the core of this problem. It's no longer the war on drugs, it's the war on drug users, the people.
Piazza, a class discussion app, seems to have good adoption even at schools that use Blackboard. I'm hoping to do similar for homework collection with Classhand.

I expect a switch to a basic platform with apps like Piazza that offer tailored features/user experiences. Not unlike the Salesforce ecosystem. That may be Blackboard's future role.

http://classhand.com for those interested.
You should be able to type "2/16" in the expiration, but instead when you try, you end up with "21 / 6".

I'm still amazed at how sites that can't handle spaces or dashes in the card number or want it formatted in 4 different text boxes. The actual card number worked very well on your form.
I just read the entire article by clicking through from the Google SERP, no problem.
> unlike your privileged life wherein people don't fundamentally deny you basic human respect

Nerds are not afforded basic human respect unless their rare obsession happens to become valuable to somebody. We're merely being tolerated for the time being. And I don't believe anyone has ever gained a shred of respect by complaining about the lack of it. That just reinforces one's image as weak and unpleasant to interact with.

> I’m probably already wasting my time trying to get you to open your mind slightly

Rather than wasting time casting aspersions on one commenter (which just looks petty), I suggest supporting your arguments for the many other readers will have greater overall effect.
It's 2014. Why don't tracks have sensors communicating with trains over radio waves?
I noticed its been updated so here are a few concerns still:

-I prefer the old date search compare to the new options that mimic how Google does it. I prefer the ability to sort by relevance vs date (in descending from most recent) the way HN search does it. Simply restricting to most recent by a certain timeframe doesn't let me expand beyond the period specified and currently it doesn't sort the date in order (at least not when choosing forever)

-Negative keyword parameter no longer available

-Title search parameter is also gone

-Not sure how the relevancy algorithm is calculated but for tests I've ran, it is showing some really old posts (2 years ago) at the top which makes no sense
I was really hoping for an Oscar the Grouch style trashcan.
As a tax-paying citizen, it is your duty to yourself, your family and the society you live in (and leave for the next generation), that you exercise your right to write to your congress-critter/mayor/block-rep, as and when you feel an injustice is happening, especially something that is a gross abuse of authority.
This really speaks to me. My father in law was police officer for 8 or 9 years before he quit because he was tired of working with "dumb bullies".
It seems like the root problem here, as in lots of security problems, is an assumption made early on is no longer valid (e.g. "this application only runs on our LAN, so no need to protect against malicious actors"). In this case, PCI was originally an internal technology -- adding a new PCI device involved opening the case and plugging in a new card. Pluggable PCIe devices changed that assumption, so things that were previously pretty safe (trusting a new piece of hardware physically installed into the box) became unsafe (trusting a random device plugged into the box).
The downvotes are for your assumption that (1) people don't care about addressing underlying causes of suicide, and (2) people only want to fix the problem because it is inconvenient to them, and not for the sake of the people killing themselves.

It seems that you have extrapolated both these things from the fact that someone has proposed a technical solution to suicide, which is completely illogical. There is strong evidence that removing popular, easy methods of suicide actually reduce suicide rates.
Why don't the powers that be make a new image animated image format that is bandwidth conservative? I don't get why Google/Apple/Microsoft/Adobe haven't jumped on this. Or maybe I do, they don't use animated GIFs. Fuck. If only Reddit/imgur/Internet forums had any lobbying power.
you created your profile 666 days ago you demon
Very intriguing laptop. What bugs me is that I cannot find a screenshot of their keyboard layout on their website. I had to look for a review with a screenshot of the keyboard to see the layout. As someone who types primarily with the right shift key, I cannot use a laptop if the right shift key is cut short which is the majority of them (including this System76 model).
Captain's Log - A single player RPG with a Twitter account as the GM
No, you aren't. Nearly every commenter on the WSJ site was offended by Mr Perkins (who we hope is senile, not at evil as his words betray) and by the WSJ for printing it. It is hard to imagine that the article was printed as anything but an opportunitistic fanning of backlash against Perkins and his company, but, there is always Poe's law.
Mine that I am typing on right now can be updated through the app store. Sound breaks but that is a two minute fix.

Z68MA-D2H-B3
2500K OD'ed to 4.5GHZ
650TI Boost 2Gig

It is actually easier to install OS X on this then it is Windows.

Major updates 10.8 -> 10.9 do require booting from a USB stick made with Unibeast. But 10.9 -> 10.9.1 works just fine.
I disagree. It's not as nice as the real Mac Pro, but what this modder made, even inside, is really impressive and quite cool looking. I'm impressed, anyway.
Most high school bullies don't live up to this myth of perpeutating their bullihood through legitimate work. They have a hard time keeping jobs, struggle with substance abuse, personal relationships, etc. The stuff that leads to bullying (low self-esteem, broken home life, antisocial tendencies) is far more likely to manifest itself in being the one arrested, than in a successful career in a chain of command.
Before all you youngsters and your urban dictionary came along, it meant brother or friend. Thanks for ruining another word.
I am so glad this case is getting wide spread attention.

There is no reason hospitals should be doing rectal exams or X-rays for the benefit of the local police department as a favor. Now that there has been a massive settlement, I am sure every hospital administrator and lawyer has been advising the ER to not do this shit.

Frankly, it was the doctors and nurses that did wrong here. As dumb as it is, the misguided law and policy suggests police should aggressively pursue drug crimes. I am quite sure the settlement is largely being paid by the hospital/doctors.
I don't think anyone is accusing you personally. Just that collectively, the taxpayers as a class, elect such people. That's why there's still a war on drugs. If most of the voting population was remotely rational, things would be fixed.

So yes, the taxpayers should pay. They, as a group, are responsible. (The individual LEOs involved in this case should be harshly penalized, too.)
Counterpoint: I own a fairly recent book that contains the specifications of the Starship Enterprise (with probably more detail that those on that tablet).
Ah good catch - thanks for pointing it out. I'll fix this later tonight.
Wait wait wait.

You mean by "owning" a company, I might get some of the "profits"?

But how does this help the board of directors and the c-suite?
How about making the placeholder text lighten up a bit on focus.
Something like this for webkit should work

:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder { color: #eee;}
"I am busy with other projects right now, but keep me in the loop as you make progress. Maybe write up a business plan and hire an oDesk freelancer to make a mockup/demo, and you can pitch someone for a seed investment"
Yes it's outrageous, but why compare this to Europe? Hidalgo County is right on the border, and if this would've happened just a few miles south (in Mexico) it wouldn't be too far out of the ordinary. Some parts of the US seem to operate a lot more like our neighbor to the south than like the ones across the pond.
I don't think you're actually reading what I'm writing.

I don't think it was a selfish action, and I do think the guy on the track was worth saving. But all the same, what we do know is that two people died because one person tried to save him, when doing nothing would've only had one die.

We don't have enough information to know if it was reasonable to try and save him or not, or the ability of the guy to know those facts at the time - the information is too sparse.

I was just pointing out that it's quite possible that it was inevitable that the guy on the tracks was going to die, and the guy trying to save him simply made it worse.

There are also numerous stories of drowning victims drowning their would-be saviors.

I don't think any and every attempt to save someone should be lauded as something good, and think those times we can ascertain that there's a good chance both people will die (versus the chance both will live), we should simply leave the victim to die, painful as it is to sit there impotently watching it happen.

Doing otherwise gives is a net negative expectation of the number of people alive, and I can't say that's an ethical choice.

I think people (including you) are very emotional about these kinds of situations, and aren't approaching them from a "try to maximize the number of people who live" perspective.