skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is yet another story of why you should always do everything in your power to avoid calling the police in order to "help" with a mental health incident unless you're dealing with a situation where an imminent danger forces your hand.

It's not a question of the police being good or bad. Every aspect of their training is about getting the bad guy off the street; far too often the effects of that training translate poorly towards actually helping the mentally ill in crisis. Some officers receive specialized training for handling the mentally ill, but even though the training is becoming more common, they're still a small minority of LE. But generally speaking, the same stereotypes that lead the general public to errantly assume mental illness means violent can affect how police officers respond. There are way too many stories of officers allowing those mistaken assumptions to lead to sometimes deadly confrontations.

The mental health system in this country is woefully flawed, as is how the justice system handles the mentally ill. When the situation gets to what starts to look like the tipping point, it's no wonder that so many people think that the police are the best option for taking drastic measures to help save a loved one.

Most emergency hospitalizations are for acute emergency incidents. They're not permanent, and the person isn't incorrigible. Emergency treatment works to get them through the initial crisis, stabilized, and in a position where they can engage in their continued treatment by their own choice. In other cases, involuntary commitment might be called for in the short-term.

When that's the only choice available, the door you entered the system through can make all the difference in the world. Assuming commitment was justified in this situation (a big assumption on my part, given lack of details), had the request come from an emergency MH facility it's entirely possible that Blaec Lammers would be receiving proper psychiatric treatment right now. Instead, he's in the criminal justice system and the book is being thrown at him given the charges (assault in the first is incredibly uncommon in a case like this).

The police aren't the only ones empowered to initiate civil commitment proceedings. Regrettably, we don't know what could have happened had things gone differently. Per the story, Lammer's mother is already blaming herself for calling the police. In the future, stories such as this might keep others in similar situations from helping their loved ones seek emergency treatment out of the fear that, instead of being treated, they'll be incarcerated.

In a situation like that, from the mentally ill, to their families, to society in general, nobody benefits.
I had a long reply to your deleted comment. In its absence I'll note that another cost of the BPPE's discretionary regulatory power here is a chilling of speech by knowledgeable operators, who now can't risk angering the regulators or sharing information that could increase later compliance burdens.
Oh, and, if it's diagnosed as nerve related pain, accept now that it might hurt for a year or more. Don't rush it, don't give into it, and don't ignore it.

Depending on the severity of your injury, you could have significant pain. I couldn't walk for months, and part of the recovery was being able to walk from bedroom to bedroom, because I ignored it. I hope yours isn't that bad, but, definitely get it treated.
Sounds like you guys should be friends.
Which speaks nothing of policy changes today, and what effect it will have on the future. Nor what disruption will come about to ensure that that trend continues (we are given no data points in that post other than those two, and we had both the PC revolution and the internet in between 1982 and 2011 to massively shake up entire industries).

More to the point, it speaks nothing on how conditions for those not among the elite have changed in that time, and how they will change over time.
This isn't production, but I found dart:js to be pretty reasonable for interop with CodeMirror and a Chrome extension API. (I did find it better to send a batch to a wrapper function rather than making JavaScript calls in a tight loop, though.)
> The PLA, unlike the armed forces of the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other regional heavyweights, is by definition not a professional fighting force. Rather, it is a party army, the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Indeed, all career officers in the PLA are members of the CCP and all units at the company level and above have political officers assigned to enforce party control...Chinas military is intentionally organized to bureaucratically enforce risk-averse behavior, because an army that spends too much time training is an army that is not engaging in enough political indoctrination. Beijings worst nightmare is that the PLA could one day forget that its number one mission is protecting the Communist Partys civilian leaders against all its enemies especially when the CCPs enemies are domestic student or religious groups campaigning for democratic rights, as happened in 1989 and 1999, respectively.

And in 1992, US marines marched into Los Angeles because domestic groups wanted democratic rights, like not being beaten by police officers once down on the ground.

As far as political loyalty in the army for communist countries - Stalin purged his army of generals whose loyalty was suspect prior to World War II. Hitler did not. Stalin won the war, and Hitler's high command tried to kill him.
Might also be that some people will try to enter an amex or discover card number if you don't do this. Even if you state that only visa or mc can be used, people don't always read it. Having to select an option is how you can be sure that they are aware of it. Kind of like having to check off the "I agree to the terms" checkbox.
One of my favorite stories came from one of the linked articles that he wrote while still on the job.

http://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/confession-x...

I recall one time I did a bag check on a man from Detroit, once the auto-making capital of the world. Having been informed by the x-ray operator that there was a bottle of water in the bag, I pulled it out and quickly sensed that something was slightly off. Then, I realized what it was: there was an enormous dildo rubber-banded to it. I then had an epiphany, spreading over me like a sunrise, beautiful and exhilarating: he wanted me to have to deal with the dildo. He did it on purpose. In rubber-banding that dildo to the water bottle he knew we would target, he seemed to say:

“Yes, I have a dildo, federal officer. Even after the horrors of 9/11, I am still alive; full of vitality, love, sex and, later tonight, that large dildo rubber-banded to the water you are about to confiscate from me. That bottle of water, bought with hard-earned American dollars to relinquish my bodily fluids, so as to make me strong and keep the wheels of commerce of this great nation turning. In taking my water, I want you, federal officer, to know that the terrorists have won, and that you are complicit. I want you to see my dildo. To hold it in your hand; to know that I, as well as my fellow passengers and countrymen, are strong and resilient.

That we, the people of this great nation, can, and will, snap back, like that rubber band.”
Smalltalk also is rather famous for giving developers enough freedom to more or less destroy the environment with the terrifying looking command "Smalltalk := nil"
ok, last one here.

Check your mattress as well. It's something people overlook sometimes. They wear out, sometimes you don't know until your back starts to hurt.
I had the same thought, but a different conclusion. In my opinion, it's Chrome vs other browsers instead of Chrome 32 vs Chrome xx.

A lot of cutting edge apps rely on interesting features of Chrome... features that other browsers may or may not implement. Sometimes it's not even browser features, it's the Javascript engine speed (although the last couple versions of Firefox have hugely improved in that regard).
What's the logic of this one:

1 + - + + + - + 1

One plus (negative of ( negative one))? (and the successive pluses don't matter?)
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything...
Damn Vulnerable IOS Application
This is not true. For example, take a look at DSC Communications Corp. v. Evan Brown, or DDB Tech v. MLB Advanced Media or Medsphere v. Shreeve.

In DSC, the court ruled that Alcatel owned the employee's thoughts that had not yet been committed to writing. (See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/08/12/alcatel_owns_us_empl...).

In DDB, the court found that Schlumberger (the oilfield services company) owned a baseball simulator written by an employee. (See http://www.finnegan.com/Publications/federalcircuit/FCCDetai...)

In Medsphere, the CTO of the company was sued for releasing the source code to their application as open source on Sourceforge. (See http://www.informationweek.com/medsphere-settles-lawsuit-wit...)

It may be only "corporate lawyers" who agree with the policies, but those lawyers tend to be very persuasive in front of judges.
This is the most interesting part, for me:

> The PLA, unlike the armed forces of the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other regional heavyweights, is by definition not a professional fighting force. Rather, it is a “party army,” the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Indeed, all career officers in the PLA are members of the CCP and all units at the company level and above have political officers assigned to enforce party control. Likewise, all important decisions in the PLA are made by Communist Party committees that are dominated by political officers, not by operators. This system ensures that the interests of the party’s civilian and military leaders are merged, and for this reason new Chinese soldiers entering into the PLA swear their allegiance to the CCP, not to the PRC constitution or the people of China.

> For that reason, the PLA has to engage in constant “political work” at the expense of training for combat. This means that 30 to 40 percent of an officer’s career (or roughly 15 hours per 40-hour work week) is wasted studying CCP propaganda, singing patriotic songs, and conducting small group discussions on Marxist-Leninist theory.
Spam Email Leads to Ad-hoc CEO Group
Neither do I, but without his statistic this story probably wouldn't exist :)
Refresh, refresh, refresh… Twitter is monetizing your compulsiveness
From a purely semantic level, I'm not sure that your group B is any different to what the OP is suggesting is their problem:

"If someone wanted a meeting, I’d suggest a time and instead of saying, “Let me know if this works for you.” I’d switch that out for, “If not, than X time/day also works or I’m free at X time/day.”

Instead of your response, the aligned with this article statement is to state a next step as a statement and forgo the question "Let's discus this further tomorrow, otherwise I'm available on Monday at midday". It's a matter of suggestion compared to questioning, These trigger different cognitions on the part of the receiver.
Or something like "numeric" that allows both int and float, as well as any string that would pass the test of is_numeric(). It would be just like class inheritance: int and float would be treated as subtypes of "numeric".
85% of American millionaires are self-made. Source: "The Millionaire Next Door"
we use java to render our templates on the server side.
https://developers.google.com/closure/templates/
And yes response times, it makes a massive massive difference in perceived responses.
Our stack is the same stack which gmail uses (we use the full closure suite so compiler, templates, stylesheets, linter and library)
Will sort by points functionality be added? Please... pretty please.
"It was as if an occult hand had taken Chuck Klosterman's radio, tuned away from the Top 40 ear candy of Duran Duran and the Stray Cats, and tuned into the satanic debauchery of Motley Crue."

You had me at Motley Crue.

It's as if an occult hand reached down from the heavens and typed those words on my keyboard. Weird...
> releasing something that griefs developers

The belief that a programming language is persecuting you...this should be taken as a sign.

So, one thing that I should ask: have you ever designed and implemented a serialization format for an object-oriented language? There is a reason why JavaScript works so well with JSON.

Working with Smalltalk, Obj-C, Clojure, and many other languages besides, it's a fairly simple matter to use a library to do conversion. A few fun reflection tricks are usually enough to get you objects pretty quickly. Why this should be seen as a language issue is beyond me. It's a tool and library issue.
Groking Haskell Type Classes
Understand Haskell type classes by how they get desugared
Are you serious? The U.S. has successfully fought wars in the recent past. High ranking officers are routinely sacked when they lose touch of soldiering and their mission fails. The U.S. version of party political indoctrination is just a little silliness like lesbian sensitivity training.
Somewhere I read that such a call triggers a fraud red alert.
I find it amazing 25-year old code still exists at all in a franchise like Madden. I played the original Madden. It bears little resemblance to the current generation. There's really not been a total rewrite in 25 years? Amazing.
I worked at Rackspace from 2007-2013 and have been acquainted with them for even longer. The notion of a "soulless company" bankrupting a former employee is ridiculous in the context of the Rackspace way of doing business. It goes against the Rackspace Core Values. Many Rackers have left the company to found companies of their own and I've never heard of any legal fight with any of these folks.

There aren't many 5,000+ employee companies with OSS policies this friendly.
> Did you miss the part where you can't avoid paying the fee? If you hate your provider that much, you can always cancel, which is not the case here.

Is not having internet service really a viable choice in modern America?
This seriously should be the default behavior.

To anyone who is wondering what the heck the above is about, PDO/MySQL doesn't actually prepare and execute a statement when you use the prepare & execute methods. Instead, it automatically escapes all the parameters, interpolates them into the querystring, and sends the query to the database server.

This behavior is the default because, well, somebody might use an old version of MySQL (3.23 or 4.0) that doesn't support prepared statements. Never mind the vast majority of MySQL 4.1+ users who are sacrificing performance because of this outdated default.
Big Data, Big Problems for Job Seekers?
Hmm. The Sino-Indian war dismissed as a minor border skirmish? It only went for a month, but it was in the Himalayas. Also, it only took the Chinese a month to get what they wanted[2].

Not to be outdone by the conventional army, China’s powerful strategic rocket troops, the Second Artillery Force, still uses cavalry units to patrol its sprawling missile bases deep within China’s vast interior.

Is there any evidence apart from some staged pictures of some event that this is actually true?

the Air Force continues to use a 1950s Soviet designed airframe, the Tupolev Tu-16, as a bomber (its original intended mission), a battlefield reconnaissance aircraft, an electronic warfare aircraft, a target spotting aircraft, and an aerial refueling tanker. Likewise, the PLA uses the Soviet designed Antonov An-12 military cargo aircraft for ELINT (electronic intelligence) missions, ASW (anti-submarine warfare) missions, geological survey missions, and airborne early warning missions. It also has an An-12 variant specially modified for transporting livestock, allowing sheep and goats access to remote seasonal pastures.

Interestingly, the C-130 is still in use by US forces for most of the uses listed above. It first flew in 1954[3]. The B-52 remains the primary US bomber. It first flew in 1952[4].

Take the PLA’s lack of combat experience, for example. A few minor border scraps aside, the PLA hasn’t seen real combat since the Korean War. This appears to be a major factor leading it to act so brazenly in the East and South China Seas.

The more aggressive Chinese position in the South China Sea is possibly the most important strategic development in the last 5 years (and of course it has pretty much been ignored by most media). Saying it is caused by PLA leadership while ignoring the HUGE OIL AND GAS RESERVES the area has is a pretty major oversight (One of the Chinese leadership's biggest concerns is how dependant it is on overseas sources of energy, and how easily those sources could be cut off. A source of oil and gas in Chinese controlled waters is something they see as a major goal, and they may well be willing to fight for it).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War#Ceasefire

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress
If we value competition so much, why do we award so many monopolies?
How does your day look like?
Do you mind sharing what you do from monday to sunday?
This is a reasonable overview.

http://www.nutritionbynature.com.au/1/post/2012/09/polyunsat...
It might be an unpopular opinion, but frankly I find the protesters to be the ones with an entitled attitude, more than the techies working their asses off 40-90 hours a week.

If there is an injustice going on regarding tech buses, sure, bring it to city hall and demand that they fix it. But everything else is entitled bullshit by protesters.

They have zero rights to interfere with how much money, say, Google pays employees or complain about how much these employees pay for fancy lattes. And it's especially repulsive how they showed up at the house of that engineer terrorizing him and his family.

Seriously. All these techies are guilty of is being successful and choosing a very rewarding industry-location combination.

Should we go harass NFL and NHL players because they do even better than us economically?
Err, more like 128^10 iterations, unless you have the unicode snowman in there.
To those who suspect old code or premature optimization, if you read the comments all EA sports games apparent cap out at 255 points. It's an intentional throwback. When he did it in one quarter he triggered an Easter egg, a "false start".
Using External Templates with Knockout.js
Is there any reason that concept is so rarely used in the web?
Well, there's usually an undo functionality in desktop-like web apps but most CRUD lack that kind of feature.
1st 10 Facebook users?
Angular's $watch, $digest and $apply explained
>"Elite" pilots of the USAF, many of whom are in fact in the ANG, also fly 10 hours per month, or even less[1].

Often ANG pilots are even better than the full-timers because they tend to be commercial pilots that joined the Air Force part-time because flying an F22 is the pilot equivalent of driving a Ferrari. These commercial pilots get thousands of hours per year of flying, which is often much more than a full-time Airman would get.

That being said, I agree that some of the author's arguments were very weak. For example, the suggestion that hosting morale boosting activities in the middle of a training exercise is somehow a sign of mission-failure. With the possible exception of North Korea, everyone does that. Hell, there was even a group of terrorists that played soccer daily inside a hostage-filled building surrounded by teams of special forces and law enforcement that wanted to kill them.
Android apps: how did you launch in Chinese market?
Android has gained a significant presence in China, but all major app stores there are in Chinese.

For all Android app developers: how did you enter the Chinese Android market?
Wikipedia:There is a deadline
Do you think Heroku requires its employees to get permission before hacking on OSS on the weekend? Facebook? Twitter? Even Amazon, which contributes relatively little, only asks that its employees use their private email addresses.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that you've decided to hold yourself above the lowest common denominator of tech companies. I just don't think you should be congratulating yourself publicly on HN for it.

In this industry, having a solid background in open source contributions is serious mark of credibility for any engineer. The rest of us are falling over ourselves to work with and encourage people that hack in their free time.

Are there any Rackspace engineers in the thread? Please tell me this is all legalese and nobody actually asks you to get your weekend pull requests approved by a legal department.
>Subcarriers are how they added [...] stereo to FM radio...

Set your time machine for 1958, or follow this link [0] to see how RCA did both FM stereo (throughout the article they call it "multiplex") and 67 KHz "SCA" subcarriers. Admire the awesome 5KW FM transmitter cabinetry and transformer shielding.

[0] http://fmamradios.com/BTE-10B.html
I need to learn HW.

Could someone detail more information about the tools she used?
You are misinformed about the nature of public office. Legislators act on the will of the voters, unless their is influence from lobbying groups. Without the emails and phone calls, an elected official has no idea about the numbers on either side of a debate. Ralph Nader has a quote along the lines of, "if you aren't speaking for your interests, then who will?" Lobbying just became a backdoor access because with money, you could pay for the influence of insiders. But believe me, no amount of lobbying will overcome organized American voters. Just look at SOPA as an example. This is how a democracy works and you probably just aren't used to seeing media do what they are supposed to do--facilitate democracy.
This.

I am actually waiting for a "video chat" application that allows me to choose between "having crappy video frames every second" or "having very high quality picture frames every 10~30 seconds".

It would be very useful if you could fix the picture quality at say, 640x480 and then the framerate dropped to get that quality. That way video conference could be very useful to share stuff like whiteboard drawings, among other things.
He can speak, but he also has to be prepared to take the consequences of speaking.

Perhaps, though given that the employer in this case is the government, we could debate whether or not the employment should be jeopardized in a whistle-blowing case.

Either way, I'm not sure that's what we were talking about. The GGP post suggested that the TSA should be able to stop him from even mentioning their name when expressing his opinion, not just that they should be able to fire him for expressing an opinion incompatible with remaining a TSA employee.
There's nothing wrong with being proud about promoting something that is beneficial to all of us. I'm not sure why you are trying to put your own feelings in this and be negative about it, but whatever. I'm glad they are continuing to push on transparency and trust. It's going to be critical in the coming years. I, for one, am glad they are making it a priority.

And to answer your question, VanL is both an engineer and an attorney. I'm not sure he'd label himself as an executive either, but I'll let him speak for himself on that topic - as he should be allowed.