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The worst thing about CoffeeScript
Before recording a police officer, make sure you don't live in a "two - party consent" state, in which recording someone without his or her knowledge can be a crime.

One of my good friends, who is a civil rights attorney in Boston, represented a client who secretly used his phone to record himself getting pulled over for a speeding ticket.

He was subsequently charged with a felony for the recording.
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I haven't commented on a Hacker News item for a long time. As a programmer who's constantly looking to expand his team with someone I can trust to do good work, we can't hire them fast enough. The tech scene here is rapidly growing and it's not hard for a good programmer to land a spot in a tech company here.
All of it will be paid by taxpayers. The sad thing is the veil is far too hard to pierce for personal responsibility to be a factor in the day to day lives of public servants.
Do you mean it would be better if not open source and solely a proprietary product?
AGPL exists and many startups (mine included) choose it because they see a simple (as in: good) business model while releasing the (whole) source code.
Is there any way the large client would prepay to get the product built? If this is something they want and they're willing to wait until Apr/May to see anything, they're probably not wanting to build it themselves so maybe they'd be open to something like that?
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Car what?
Gmail is just a front end for my domain name and web hosting provider's mail services. I can usually use SquirrelMail to read/respond if for some reason gmail is unreachable.

I also like that I have the option to easily switch to another front end if gmail gets too annoying or NSA-snoopy.
Cant access any of those sites either, they just time out. Virgin Media UK. Trace for THC: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=qmv3cYse
> they are all made in China with the same cheap parts that everyone else uses

Yeah… no. Unless you think the parts of a laptop are the CPU and GPU.

> I haven't seen anything you could do on a Mac that you couldn't do on the PC

Thus missing the point entirely.

> and there are very decent PC laptops out there, way, way cheaper than the Mac alternatives.

Care to enlighten everybody in this thread about them? There are definitely decent non-Apple laptops out there, but they're not "way, way cheaper" than the Apple version (usually the opposite).
Don't do it secretly. The Website Pinac.com documents a great deal of this. It tends to infuriate the cop, but is legal.
ZOMG YES.

so little collab, such fiefdoms. Some faculty in math and cs there were pretty cool though.

That said, theres definitely a lot of subfields in computer science that just have toxic research cultures period.

One time in grad school (at another such uni), a professor or two chewed for sharing a research problem I was working on and stumped by! I wanted to collab with folks to come up with a solution sooner, thusly advancing science faster and moving on to new research, but NOOOO, apparently the moment you share problems, in some research communities its kosher to just wander off with this newly learned problem and scoop your potential collaborator?! (Of course the solution is to accept that risk and if they do scoop rather than collab after you disclose the problem, never collab with them again!)
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I'm sorry, who is shutting down? Never heard of them
To add to what others have said, there's no real point in posting copyrighted content. No ad revenue, it's hard to search for, and the free tier has limited storage space to do so.

The people who pay for SoundCloud pay for it because it makes them money, and the only way to make money like that is to have something worth selling (your own stuff).
100% agree! Santa Monica/West LA is so much better in terms of price/value, weather, quality of life, food, things to do. Just traffic sucks
A large number of IT folks in SF aren't from California or even America for that matter.
Nope. But you can run Windows (or Linux, if you're a masochist) on a Macbook Pro.
Sorry, Dr. Seuss.
Hm, $60 a year... that would buy you a 500 gig or 1 Tb external drive every year. Google now provides a backup feature so you could download your gmail/contacts/etc as one giant zip, then rsync it off to a couple of external drives and you have one less middleman to worry about leaking your data or going out of business and losing your backups.
Thus we see the inevitable result of a culture which encourages internet filters: full on censorship of divergent, but legal, views.
Not an issue with a store owner, there is no need for consent as it is a public location and where recording is expected.
Yeah otherwise all CCTV cameras in shops/banks/etc would be illegal.
Ask HN: How to relieve psychosomatic back tension?
For the past two years I've been regularly feeling a kind of deep tension in a very specific part of my back, namely on the left side of my upper back, very close to the spine, around the height of the middle of the shoulder blade.

I know precisely when and how it started, and it seems to come back without any physical strain or bad sleeping, and then it dissipates just as easily a few days later, at times a few weeks. So I'm convinced this tension is psychosomatic. Not exactly sure what activates it, but it often happens in periods of stress and anxiety. And sometimes it disappears when I travel to another city/country.

Any tips from the HN community on how to remove that tension? I'm thinking special stretching, breathing, joint cracking, or other exercises/techniques...
Alternative medicine is the only solution.
In retrospect, this comment does sound kind of rude, although I meant no harm. I shouldn't have posted it at 3am, but I can't delete it now. So all I can do is say "I'm sorry".
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> I actually quit playing SpaceChem because the difficulty of the puzzles progressed to the point where I felt I should be getting paid to solve them.

I have (or had, I guess) the same sort of response to the score screens at the end of a Firefight game in Halo ODST. It would show you charts and tables for your progress through waves, your weapon usage and kills per enemy, a graph of your deaths, etc. Every game should provide stats like that.
Well that would be pretty serious.

He should run that 45 min internet scan through his home network and diff with his work network, get a list of all the sites that have this behavior. Alternatively he could write a script to ping his bookmarks or browser history, that would probably take less time.
Would be interesting to know if you can get to https://conference.hitb.org/check-status/

Partly because it is HTTPS and partly because hack only appears in a url on the page.

This might answer if it is the result of the site, or the site content. Like for some reason LionLink is filtering based on the content on the page.
I might disagree with you. that's more towards developers less towards consumers.
Youtube has become very commercialized, true, but you can still use it exactly like SoundCloud, can you not? Just ignore the ads and recommendations and it's basically the same experience.

Although, it does seem like SC is a cleaner, more targeted audio platform.
Lest you think that they are the source of the problems, but prison officer unions are also in favour of more crimes & longer sentences for similar selfish reasons.
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I hate the Blogger AJAX-loading. They made something so simple (displaying a blogpost) so complicated and slow. Overengineering at its best.

Related comic: http://okcancel.com/strips/okcancel20050916.gif
I probably missed the whole point, but where does the sexism aspect occur in all of this? This is an argument where by chance a man and a woman are involved. This time a man is in a "theoretically" higher position(working as editor for nature) than the woman. Does this fact alone determine him to be sexist?

I realize he "outed" her and I see by her post that she is not handling that herself too well. In my eyes both of these people can learn a lot about professionalism.
the long standing problem of such new media companies such as soundcloud is a revenue model. What is their revenue model? ads? sale of music (ala itunes style)? Mix of both? sponsorship from artists trying to promoting themselves?
Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt
Your comment about TN makes no sense to me. TN is not an immigration-intent visa - if you apply for a green card while on a TN, you have to maintain an address in Canada and prove that you plan to return there. This is very difficult to do, and your green card will almost certainly be rejected and you might be allowed back into the US on the TN. So of course they make you switch to H1B before they'll sponsor your green card.
I'm interested in your objections.
Originally from/more discussion at http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w2c58/a_few_an...
How to cope with “idea overflow”?
Playing devil's advocate here: A similar article drifted around for a while about a girl going to RISD. She talked about how she was abused, abandoned by her friends, etc.
After talking to a few friends who actually go to the school, apparently nothing could be farther from the truth.

Remember, take what you read with a grain of salt. You have no way of verifying any of the facts in the article.
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When such a group crops up it will inevitably also have its website blocked
Gee has written what can best be described as a "notpology" here: http://occamstypewriter.org/cromercrox/2014/01/23/reflection...

He seems particularly thin-skinned, to me.
Considering that Everpix didn't "think of that" [1], I wouldn't assume that it's "common sense".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7040332
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How do you "experiment" with atheism? Just saying to yourself "I'm now an atheist" and seeing how that feels? It doesn't sound like you ever had solid rational and empirical reasons for choosing atheism, and indeed that is the only kind of atheist that I've ever heard of turning to the supernatural.

Atheists like me are atheists not because the quality of life it provides, but because there's no empirical evidence that there's any truth to any of the supernatural claims ever made. We understand that faith is a choice of last resort when no other evidence is available, and that faith is a really bad way to come to conclusions. Atheists like me understand our inherent biases, we seek to ask questions in a way that there can be a negative answer. There is no such negating answer to "what would convince me there is no god" and that alone, in the absence of any kind of empirical evidence for the existence of a supernatural entity, should be enough to not be a believer.

The truth is whatever the truth is, and I want to believe reality no matter how it makes me feel. If it feels good to believe in magical things that care about us but those magical things aren't real then I don't want to believe in them.

The litany of Tarski is useful:

If the box contains a diamond,

I desire to believe that the box contains a diamond;

If the box does not contain a diamond,

I desire to believe that the box does not contain a diamond;

Let me not become attached to beliefs I may not want.
The LGPL is explicitly designed to allow non-free software to be created that uses the code under that licence, and it was created by RMS.

He supported BSD licences for Xiph codecs because he recognised the impact of network effects,

You claim that both these thing are considered "evil", "unconscionable" and "categorically wrong" by him regardless of whatever benefits they create. Clearly RMS disagrees, and is happy to use them as tools to achieve his long term goals in specific circumstances.
I bought a lenovo w520 because if its performance. It has become hell to run linux comfortably on this laptop. I have set it to "discreet" mode in the BIOS and that seems to ease some of the problems...but yeah, if you want performance and a good working laptop, especially linux, stay away from these dual-card video laptops.
It's really not complicated at all. RMS is simply a social-democrat. He is the shining example of what social-democracy is really in practice. His position is not utopian at all, it's a very limited and specific, socially liberal, demand: it's unjust to have people be unable to do whatever they want with the things they own, not to mention having the things they own controlling them. Proprietary software does tend to limit and control its users, therefore we need to abolish proprietary software. It has nothing to do with hindering capitalism or anything like that.

I can see people in the USA having problems to properly frame his position due to the ideological burden of equating any kind of a demand for sharing and cooperation with communism or socialism, regardless if the demand actually has anything to do with left wing political motivations.
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Embarrassing to read? Nope, I still don't get it.

Did I err in my original comment? Yup, fact is he tweeted the out - and the ad hominem diss - and did not use his employer's publication as his platform.

That was quite wrong of me.

And really not quite relevant either.

The relevant thread is this: A senior editor with considerable power to influence if not actually establish or derail reputations and careers by a) selecting or rejecting their articles for publication, b) commenting for or against those articles, and, most importantly in this context, c) enlarging his domain beyond its rightful bounds, the work, to focus instead on the personalities and characteristics of the people behind the work, has in fact gone directly to personally directed insult and invective.

I don't give a rat's ass and neither does anyone else if a scientist is a complete dick, provided that he or she confines their being a dick to mere social dickwaddedness whilst doing good work and promoting the careers and training of their students and peers. I've met a few like that, arrogant as fuck, not really nice people, but really, really good at nurturing and developing their students. Odd mix, really.

But a journal editor being a dick and attacking people, setting his or her own agenda that has nothing to do with competence and everything to do with personal politics and one's personal view of the rightness or wrongness of social psychology, that's going over the line.

His tweet may not have been widely read, but the fact of its existence must be, because his influence over his audience and customers is significant, and if his influence is or even appears to be significantly moderated by his opinions of personality and politics and psychology, then he has NO place in his current role and everyone affected by his being in that role deserves to know it.
go doctor.
A code golfing site with an automatic grader (40 programming languages allowed).
Tried. Three different doctors. No one had any clue.
Because he's fundamentally a nice guy?
Policemen claiming something is evidence. If only one evidence is needed then it will be as in US. And that's scary.
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> the message [...] you won't be wanted here

You're taking a very specific, dangerous situation (an active psychiatric illness) and making a large extrapolation to "any deviation from the norm".

People will active psychiatric illnesses are supposed to go to psych wards for immediate medication, and then are supposed to have months of follow up while they heal, adjust to meds, and learn to cope.

This official had an extremely bad choice of words, but what everyone is missing is that the right thing happened. She's healing. She's back. She's not dead.

Yes, she harbors a lot of resentment about what happened, but a lot of times people in these situations don't realize what really is for their own good. Unfortunately. Hopefully she can come to realize this eventually.

> wasn't a direct threat to anyone else

Have you read the other comments in this thread about suicidal (only self-harm) people, once in the hospital, slashing staff with a razor blade?

I assert people with psychiatric illnesses are not as predictable as you seem to think. Especially when they're going to be going through a med change, which is often a crap shoot about which meds help and which can actually make it worse.

Do you have training/experience to the contrary? I am admittedly not an expert on "cutters". Maybe we need a "IANAP" (I Am Not A Psychiatrist) disclaimer.
You also get access to more stats. To get access to the referers of your listeners, you must pay for the top account. This is the key IMO.
Thank you for the response. Your comment and other ones indeed explain the matter - some colleges are basically their own cities, located near a small town.

My own conclusions from this appalling story are:

1. If you're at a U.S. university and are experiencing mental difficulties - just pay the 25$ copay and see someone outside the university. Had the OP done that, Yale would have probably had no clue what was going on. Maybe someone would notice she's missing classes, maybe not even that.

2. Don't get committed. If you need to, see a therapist on your time and on your own dime. They likely won't order you to take off your underwear, spread your legs, then hop up and down to make sure nothing was hidden “up there".
I use a really simple spreadsheet to handle this backlog for my small dev team, it allows us to select the really critical things to work on for a sprint as we can sort the backlog depending on what is happening that month by weighting different attributes, such as:

* How much does the feature align with our vision

* How much joy will this bring our customers

* How long have customers been asking for this feature

* How equipped are we to tackle this feature

* Will this feature help bring us more revenue now or later

With all these scored we can dynamically weight each attribute and sort and select the top features to attack each sprint based on the needs to address revenue or customer satisfaction at any point in time.
> what's the deal with schools doing this stuff

The school didn't. They sent her to Yale-New Haven, which is a real hospital, with a real psych ward.

That's where she went through the standard "dangerous person" admission procedure that everyone is reacting to.
This doesn't strike me as an effective demographic to "full on censor" in this way. Generally speaking, people interested in hacker conferences know how to proxy around a net nanny.

Could this be a botched poor-mans wiretap?: i.e. traffic sent to black-listed domain get's transparently routed to an adversarial middle host, who is intended to eventually forwarded it on to the original destination, but in this case someone misconfigured the wiretap, causing traffic to get lost. (/tinfoil hat)

I'd like to see the tracert for other hosts near the same destination.
Quick search yielded numerous copyright infringements. Not even remixes, plain pirate material. So I am wondering how does it work on business side, how do you defend from it? Same question would be appropriate for imgur too. How can you shield yourself from it if you're a small startup with no cash? You wait for legal papers to flow your general direction and hope for a deal?
I never got why illegally collected evidence is not permitted. As long as it's not fabricated.

It should be allowed but the person who collected the evidence illegally should have separate trial and punishment for that.
BeWifi lets you steal your neighbor’s bandwidth when they’re not using it
Sending the secret in plaintext over HTTP. Yikes.
> I might add that this is an objection based on economic argumentation, which, while not invalid, is not the one given by doctors

If you think doctors don't have time for you for economic reasons, and not the fact that there are other patients out there, you really have no idea what doctors do all day.

> They argue like the author of the article did: That they know better than you how you will react to this kind of information, and that they can manage your morale by taking certain freedoms with the truth.

They have far more experience with people receiving this information than the person receiving it.
actually, i feel like a taking a little time to read non-technical stuff (like fiction or history) and exercise makes the time i spend coding more productive. of course, it's possible to overdo it and go on a reading jag that eats up a lot of time or (i would imagine, anyway) exercise for a substantial portion of your day.

tv clearly sucks, tho, and the main point here is that i'm surprised to hear someone equate time spent watching tv with time spent reading or exercising.
Raganwald shows an interesting point of view on Coffeescript scoping in relation to javascript https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2012/09/...
Looks like I forgot a "not"... I'm not responsible for the mess.
Interesting point. I've recently read about a case in my university where the student, who was disaffected with the university's response to a sexual harassment complaint, filed a complaint with the police, then was told the police can't do anything while the university hasn't issued a final ruling.

That is opposite to what the law here says, but if the law simply said that criminal offenses are police matters, period, the police's response would likely have been very different.
I'd say more than 99.9% of them are 'using' GCC or clang, rather than 'developing' it, even if they are 'developers' using it to develop other software. So they're probably quite happy to have their rights as users privileged over their rights as developers in this particular case, particularly if it stops other developers from ruining things for them as users.
i love how minecraft has this redstone system. the latest update also added a cloning command, so you no longer need to repeatedly make the same circuts again and again - you can carry a command block, and click a button to clone a circut/place it, leading to better abstraction.
API is http instead of https and doesn't require signing the request body or parameters :(
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This is a problem with the string domain, not with SQL. You'd have it no matter what data persistence method you use. The answer is to put logic between that function and your form data puller.
Your Fridge is Full of SPAM: Proof of An Internet of Things-driven Attack
The IP that you're trying to reach belongs to a US hosting company, so routing to the US should not be a surprise.
By "experiment" I mean I started questioning whether or not it was true, debating with my peers about it (either for or against).

I ultimately settled on agnosticism because absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If there was a God who chose to never reveal (or even hint at) his existence to humanity, it would be incorrect for a person to be an atheist. Since that's a legitimate possibility, it makes more sense to be agnostic than atheist.
+1 nice idea!
The episode is available here http://www.svtplay.se/video/1753565/del-3-av-12 but you need to understand Norwegian (speech) or Swedish (subtitles).

Edit: The preamble to the chess game starts at 53:00 and is in English.
i have a friend who's crazy about that game - it's more a spatial reasoning puzzle than logic based (ala, building a circuit).
We know that routing sometimes takes strange hops - it doesn't always mean malicious intent. He says he also can't acccess the site of the hosting provider - so my take is, that it might be just a fucked up route somewhere. Happens all the time.