skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can't be said enough.

I used to have faith in the fundamental goodness and rightness of the police. I knew, in the abstract, there were some bad apples, but doesn't every organization?

Then several years ago I learned from experience that it doesn't matter. The concrete reality of what happens when a bad cop singles you out outweighs all the good cops in the world.

I was out about 15k - which I really needed at the time - but that's not what sticks with me. What sticks with me is the fear and humiliation. I have had some bad times, but my arrest was the absolute bottom.

Other than the immediate experience, I think part of it was the knowledge that it didn't matter that I was innocent, the full force of the law and the state had come down and declared me a scumbag among all the dregs of society. It's something that has to happen to you to understand, I think. Maybe it's just because I always regarded myself as a good, law-abiding (and not very humble) citizen, who did things the Right Way. I don't know.

What I do know is to this day, I get anxious when someone even mentions the police, let alone when they show up.

For the love of God don't ever, ever ever ever ever talk to the police. If the police want to arrest you they will arrest you. Talking can only make it worse. I thought I was being polite and helpful. It doesn't matter.

The former sheriff of a nearby county (now a felon) said he had the job because he loved arresting bad guys. They will see bad guys everywhere they can.
Exactly. I did design work a few years ago on a very well known airline in the U.S. and it wasn't much of an issue to re-design the checkout flow.
Gathering up your thegns and taking to the hronraede to deal out vengeance with fire and sword isn't exactly my idea of modern justice, but since you're citing the von Mises institute, you're probably not exactly modern.

EDIT: sorry for the Latinate words, but the meodsetla calls.
I wouldn't write off mockery as unproductive. It's been an element of perfectly productive political discourse since the beginning of recorded political discourse. If done well and in an informed fashion, it ends up dispelling the illusion that any ignorant bit of pseudo-theory someone can conjure up is worthy of the public sphere.
Hi eknuth. There's a brief mention of this elsewhere in the thread: "[Wagtail does support multiple languages] but it doesn't (yet) do anything clever like link different language versions of the same article. On a related subject, we're starting on i18n next week, with the first localisation - Greek - following shortly."
I've never seen anyone put down on StackOverflow because of language mistakes. Quite the contrary, people helpfully edit poorly worded questions to make them more comprehensible - insofar as it's possible at all
>edit: I noticed I just wrote "de" instead of "the". Stupidest mistake I often make. Again, just because in my mind they sound exactly the same - and "de" is a word (of) in portuguese. Gosh, I make this mistake for so long, I should have learned already.

Thanks for explaining this! I work with a few people in South America and they write "de" all the time in e-mails. I kind of figured that's why it happens.
Assuming you have a basic education in economics and statistics I would dive into the academic research. Just keep in mind that like everyone else, academics have biases of various kinds (e.g. Thomas Piketty is pretty far left) and inequality is a very controversial and political issue. It is best to look to the data and get multiple interpretations. Unfortunately you can't rely on reporters who are even less informed and just as biased.

Lastly keep in mind nobody may know the answer to these important questions as the system is very complex and dynamic and the data we have is not very good.

Here's a variety of links to get started but you should dig into the references:

http://economics-exposed.com/how-arec/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/

http://ntj.tax.org/wwtax/ntjrec.nsf/009a9a91c225e83d852567ed...
Meetup.com would probably do what you're looking for
Thanks! Going to be working on this in the near future. We're currently overhauling all of our docs, etc!
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you last idea is gamefly.com. not that you have to be first but you wold probably need more than just netflix for games.
As a recovered misean this is literally the only thing that "anarcho-capitalists" can point to; a tiny period of poorly documented and singularly referenced history.

One data point, in a homogenous and relatively isolated region does not a grand idea make.
If I may repeat an old comment of mine, lightly edited for freshness (I dont mean to hijack this thread. It is not often that I get an opportunity to interact with people on HN who are fond of OCaML or are likely to have an interest in it. This is the exact demographics who might appreciate Felix)

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For the early adopters and experimenters amongst you, you might like Felix http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/tut/tutorial.fdoc

The site is undergoing a major reorganization right now, so some links will break.

It is a whole program optimized, strongly typed, polymorphic, ML like language that can interact effortlessly with C and C++ and has coroutines baked in. It has type-classes as well as modules. Functions written in it may be exported as a CPython module. This might be useful if one wants to gradually transition from a Python based src tree.

Its own demo webserver is based on coroutines, this is the same webserver that serves the language tutorials. It uses a mix of lazy and eager evaluation for performance and compiles down to C++. Execution speed is comparable to hand written C++, mostly better. Its grammar is programmable in the sense that it is loaded as a library. So in the same way that languages may acquire libraries, Felix may acquire domain specific syntax.

With inaccuracies in analogies assumed, Felix is to C++ what F# is to C# or to some extent Scala is to Java.

It is also mostly a one man effort but with a feverish pace of development so it comes with its associated advantages and disadvantages.

Tooling info is here http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/ref/tools.fdoc

The author likes to call it a scripting language but it really is a fullfledged statically compiled language with a single push button build-and-execute command. http://felix-lang.org/ The "fastest" claim is a bit playful and tongue in cheek, but it is indeed quite fast and not hard to beat or meet C with.

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Removing comment and putting it here to conserve real estate.

@zem
I think you just blew your cover :)
As I said its been mostly a one man effort, so there are areas that need work. Its an exciting language, welcome aboard.

@jnbiche Oh no! I am by no means the creator, just someone who finds it exciting.
lol hello! Let me 'redesign' your site without a brief, knowledge of the business, or any idea about the demographics/market/technology involved. I'm a designer with photoshop woohooo! /end snarky attitude

All that aside, a photoshop comp 'redesign' (re-skin may be more accurate) without a brief or objectives besides 'make it easier to use/prettier' is not design. At best it's speculation, at a glance it's just a different layout, at worst it's a grab for traffic to your blog so you can sell more of books.

A design is a solution to a problem, if you don't start with a well defined problem you're not designing...
You're spouting nonsense that you've heard and not reality. The errors people run into are largely just bugs in the apps not being written to deal with the different cases that exist, because developers are lazy and tend to write just for whatever device they have in front of them. Cases with RAM usage, storage assumptions, and so on. That and GL driver issues used to be a headache (less so these days), but Chrome OS is hardly going to help there. Since Android 4.0.3 the stability of the framework itself has been exemplary with very few exceptions.

You happen to be missing our rather epic point that apps which are 100% dependent on GPS and cannot be moved from them are in practice rather thin on the ground.
You can take your pick of places to live without functioning governments. Most of them are probably uninhabited islands or starving regions in Africa, but it's up to you.
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you might not know this yet.. but most US states that bought into the Federal ID on top of the state ID have some slight traffic law that basically states no ID on traffic stop can and will get you arrested..
A bit more clarification still: Anything you say to them while in custody cannot be used unless you have been Mirandized.
Timely post for me. I removed the "ShareThis" plugin from my blog last week due to the sleaziness and have been thinking of putting together a replacement. I guess in this case I just won't bother.
I had a large reply written out for you, but then I realized it was just a long-winded way of writing "Risk Reward"

Yes, of course it is Risk/Reward. That's why people get into new things. Ocean travel wasn't ready for primetime, but if you came back with a ship full of gold and spices...
Wasn't trying to put words in your mouth, I know you're not in favor of tribes and warlords. My point is more that it is the effect you'd get.

As far as checks and balances I think it would be fair to say they are not working exactly as originally constructed. But that doesn't mean they're not working well, and it doesn't even mean that the original Framers would necessarily disapprove.

The government wasn't even 20 years old before the Supreme Court went off in a fairly original direction with Marbury v. Madison after all. Jefferson wasn't really sure he had the authority to complete the Lousiana Purchase (but did it anyways, small-government sympathies and all).

And it should go without saying that a strict interpretation of things like the Fourth Amendment would be hopelessly, hopelessly outdated in 2014 if it hadn't been for the principle of the Constitution itself being a "living document" with weasel words strewn everywhere just waiting to be reinterpreted at some point down the line.
Stalinists don't like Trotskyists either.
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You don't have to. But those features might allow someone else to mash it up into something better. Like the three examples in my comment.
And to immediately fire the chief of the SFFD who actually killed the helmet cam program because it showed how grossly negligent the SFFD responders were in the death of one of the three victims of the Asiana crash at SFO.
As I pointed out, Blink devs are now code-bombing. Yes they tell you about it in advance, but you're damned if you want any input on what's in it if you don't agree with them. I fail to see how this is any better.
But what you lose seems to be readability if going by this code sample

let menu = GMenu.menu () in
let explain = GMenu.menu_item ~packing:menu#add ~label:"Explain this decision" () in
explain#connect#activate ~callback:(fun () -> show_explanation impl) |> ignore;
menu#popup ~button:(B.button bev) ~time:(B.time bev);
But the existence of the cameras can solve this problem (assuming that the footage is made available for subpoena). For instance, if this particular officer has a history of having their camera malfunction right before arrests and do so at rates far higher than other officers then this fact could be brought up in court.
Black on white for me... ...and I often run into problems by my not accepting cookies and use of AdBlock - but this site displays just fine.
As nice as this might be, it looks approximately nothing like the rest of the site, which is pretty jarring. That shade of purple isn't even in United's color scheme.
Where to even begin. First of all, plan 9 is already under a BSD style license, it always has been. They just also let people have it with extra restrictions now (the GPL) because RMS is a lunatic and insists that some licenses are not GPL compatible because they contain a clause he thinks would make it a contract. Despite the obvious fact that the GPL is legally a contract whether he likes it or not.

>Every time I look at Android phone or TV or a router I regret that BSD/MIT/Apache is so popular

Android is built on the linux kernel, which is GPL. You are proving yourself wrong with that example.

> And users can't do anything about that.

Of course they can. If they do not want that, they can choose not to purchase it. It isn't rocket science. You are simply upset because actual users are proving you wrong, and showing that they don't give a shit about things being GPL. Your "but think of the users" histrionics are so transparently fake it is insulting everyone's intelligence to continue repeating it.

Proprietary software would still exist without free software. People who write software can do whatever they like with it, and it is incredibly self-absorbed and arrogant to suggest that giving away something they made is a problem because it violates your arbitrary belief system.
Well I know it's hard to pin a single definition but I will say I've encountered "libertarians" who were really essentially an/caps and actually did envision a nearly lawless society running on some sort of free market (oh, and strong property rights, always strong property rights).

It's getting to the point that when one says they're a libertarian I'm not even sure what that means at first. :-/
Excellent. I was born in Kingston. Grew up in the States though.
Assuming rich ~= definitely not poor http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/payyourselffirst.asp
If someone offers you money, take it. Smart salespeople shut up the instant the prospective says,"yes."
The problem with most libertarian beliefs is that they are very high-level and most attempts to apply and create a coherent system fail miserably. At their most useful, they can influence the current system to prevent certain undesirable excesses, but as an ideology, it's long on corrections and short on workable alternatives.

It's also the case that those fews well-informed and articulate libertarians who are engaged in politics never seem to be the ones who actually run for anything. Look at the Libertarian candidates for public office in the US over the years. Would you want a "ferret activist" as Lt. Governor of California? You could have had, complete with ferret in hand in his official election photo in the ballot handbook.

Libertarianism is an orientation and an armchair pursuit.
OCaml is not strictly pure, but it is definitely more strongly functional than Python or Perl. What matters is not that a language completely disallows mutation so much as that it helps you write in a functional style. The functional path is usually the happy path in OCaml, whereas in Ruby mutation and statefulness just come naturally.

The basis of OCaml is functions that transform one thing into another. The basis of Ruby is objects that encapsulate some state and send messages to other objects to get them to change their state.
> I know there's Camomile

Camomille is great, but it exhaustively covers the whole UTF standard, which you might not need for more casual uses. There are other libraries bringing lighter support for UTF strings (ocamlnet for instance I believe). Nevertheless, Camomille does a pretty good job if you're concerned by compliance.

> There's also this: http://www.podval.org/~sds/ocaml-sucks.html which I mostly agree with.

It's a pretty old page. I'm not sure its content is still accurate. I'll have to look into that.
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Unfortunately, not too many buyers read things long pieces of text.

Usually things like SSL (the lock in the browser from a user's perspective), trusted seals from well known companies and logos from trusted brands (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) makes users feel a lot more secure than the description or details about the security.

Amazon's Sign In button has text "Sign in using our secure server." You might want to look at some of the leading companies for best practices to create a secure environment for the buyers.
I guess you have about the same income then? Or do you "tax" each other an equal percentage?
Correct. Just like unix. If something crashes, there is a serious problem. Restarting it blindly is typically going to do more harm than good (allowing the attacker who crashed it infinite chances to keep trying to exploit the bug rather than just crash the process). When something crashes, you fix it, you don't just restart it and pretend that is supposed to happen.
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I recently had an encounter that was a little surreal. At the art studio a forlorn man walked upstairs into the lunch room. Someone asked him how he was doing, he just looked like he was having a bad day, not super shitty, but bad. Lots of people come in and out of that studio space, it is common to see people you don't recognize. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I just want to die." The art studio is mostly women, and his response put them all on edge. I could tell someone wanted to call the cops, the guy was definitely mentally ill. But the first thing that flashed in my mind was there was a high likelyhood this guy would be dead pretty shortly after calling them. Either by choice, suicide by cop or because that is just how the cops do things. Somehow it is ok for cops to shoot the mentally ill and get away with it. We eventually talked things out and he left before I could track him down again. I wish I handled that part better. I don't even want to call the cops when I am in danger for fear they will mistake me for someone else. Never been on the wrong side of the law, but I'd like to keep my cop exposure to zero. They never, ever, make a situation better.
A lot of Microsofts growth in recent years has been in enterprise tools, not operating systems

That's exactly the point (?!)

I think you are looking at Redhat, and seeing them as a successful operating system vendor.

Levine is looking at them as an enterprise software company who haven't grown revenues and/or profits at anything like the rate that other enterprise software companies have.

He then sees that there are no other large software companies which have a business model similar to Redhat.

He uses those two pieces of evidence to argue that there are better business models for Open Source than what Redhat does.

You appear to be picking at things like if Redhar competes with AWS. That isn't his point at all - he's showing that AWS is an alternate business model which appears to have grown revenues much more successfully than Redhat.
The event handling was something I also thought I didn't want at first. It is actually important though because it allows you to register event handlers before the component is mounted in the DOM, which comes up all the time because of the stateless abstraction React provides.

React's event handlers also serve as a unit under which state updates are batched. In a normal DOM event state updates are performed synchronously. (It seems like rAF should allow batching by default, but this hasn't been enabled because of some edge-case related to unit testing that I don't quite understand.)
The problem of dad not wanting to put the kids to bed (in the case of your example) is still there, whether or not the parents are open and honest about it.

So what you're really asking is "How do you balance honesty and protecting childrens' feelings?" Which is not a flaw of a bidding system, at least not more so than any other system where you actually talk about what you want.
If you haven't, also check out Jane Street's Core/Async, which is an almost-complete replacement (and extension) of the standard library. (Info here: http://janestreet.github.io/.) I work for JS so I'm biased, but I think it's quite a nice set of libraries. Because it's been developed mostly internally, we've had a lot of freedom to fix bad decisions, so it hasn't built up as much cruft as might be expected. (Although it is still obviously far from perfect.)
Not ashamed, they may not have had the resources or opportunity to learn English. But as flawed as the language is, it has won.

It's not hard to speak at least two languages and one of them should be English.

There is no solution as good as the whole world being bilingual.
I actually see a silver lining in this story. The worst thing an officer of the was able to do was inconvenience you for a day. Compare that to pretty much another other time in recorded history, and indeed still many places today, and you could have been locked up for far longer for pissing off someone in an authority position.

Now obviously this is a ridiculous situation and the officer was on a powertrip, but you did break the law and technically she was within her privileges to bring you down to holding. Still, the fact that you encountered pretty much the worst scenario possible and were only held up for a few hours from start to finish is, to me, a sign that the system is working pretty damn well.
Was there an impound charge for the bike, or other processing fees? If so, that might explain some motivation too.
I think a lot of it depends what currency you are using to buy the btc. For AUD I've heard positive things about https://www.coinjar.com/, for USD I've heard that https://www.bitstamp.net/ is alright. I am not making any claims about either - just heard from others that they have been decent to use (quick, alright customer service).

This market list might help - http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/list/
Typically, it follows the wealthy class saying "what seems like a lot of money to them" out loud.
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My interest there is focused more on recommendations than on obtaining the actual games. I really just want to click on star-ratings and get recommendations based on those ratings.