skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming for a given individual, but I'm confident in the aggregate based on other data.

Yes, some people are legitimately curious about the great tapestry of ethnic diversity. (I'm one of them.) I think there are reasonable, polite ways to handle that. Walking up to strangers and demanding that they say what they "are" is not one of them.

But note that in both of your forks, you're trying to place somebody in a box in your head. In the first, bewilderment, you are uncomfortable because somebody fails to conform to your existing boxes. You may have a much more interesting and nuanced set of boxes than the average person. You may be much more polite than the boneheads I'm describing. You also surely understand that those boxes are a pretty artificial construct, and that it's not the job of people on the street to help you improve your set of boxes. But if you think about what goes on for people for whom none of those is true, I think you'll find it pretty easy to imagine their side of an encounter like this.
You're reading too much into what I'm saying.
In my location in the US, all three come when you call.
This kind of crap is why I left law enforcement after 14 years in it. I was a jailer for a while, and ended up hating myself for witnessing but not being able to stop things like the article author went through. I went from jailer to dispatcher, then terminal operator. Even there, detached as I was from the violence and corruption, I still knew I was supporting it as well. I'm finally out of that career, working as the sole IT staff for a private company.

While I know that there are a lot more good cops than bad cops, there are also, among the good cops, way too many bullies who seemingly don't even realize what they are doing. They are generally good, family oriented, helpful people, but they are trained in the POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training) classes to never, ever trust the citizen. That mistrust bleeds over into their personality and they sometimes don't even realize they have become jerks and bullies. I'm not defending them; it's just been my observation that while the job does attract a certain bad element (low to average intelligence combined with laziness and a lust for authority), it also attracts those who want to do good but end up warped into becoming oppressors despite their good intentions.

And there are a few truly good cops who would prevent something like what we read escalating like it did. They do exist, but they generally don't last very long in that line of work, because they can't take the constant pressure to be part of the team and cover up the bullshit.
This doesn't seem like practical advice.
I would press charges. I have seen multiple times police being shady, including one time when I was pulled over and told I could either pay the officer $40, or go into the court house for an $80 ticket. Supposedly I was speeding the road back, but I didn't even drive on the road they were talking about...

Another time I turned in $2,000 I found in an envelope and asked when I could pick it up if no one claimed it. Called back a couple weeks later and they had no record of it.

Point being, police officers (in my opinion) are no better than anyone else, they could be good or bad, but you need to help keep them in check.
From http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/13/male-female-or-custom...

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I'm afraid your knowledge of history is almost completely inaccurate.

The "Goths" were just a few dozens Germanic tribes who moved West and conquered territory which was already occupied by Germanic tribes. Now, before the latter Germans started pushing West so hard, ca. 500 BCE, there were Celts in a lot of these regions, but 1) current Celtic populations don't show any evidence of "Aboriginal Bread"; 2) Celts are very closely related genetically, culturally, and linguistically to both the Italic and Germanic peoples; 3)the Baltic peoples are Indo-European too. They aren't "aborigines," and certainly not culturally distinct and exemplary of some multi-millenial cultural continuity distinct from the Germans or Celts or Italians or Greeks or Albanians or Iranian or Indo-Aryans...etc. The non-Indo-European and non-Finno-Ugric Neolithic peoples of Europe disappeared under waves of IE and Finno-Ugric immigration everywhere (except possibly for the Basque).

The only non-immigrants are people who stayed very near the North shore of the Black Sea, but it's nonsense to claim that because they didn't move much in 5.5K years, they remembered how to make their ancestral bread, while no one else did. That area itself saw waves of immigrants (both IE and non-IE) and was basically part of the East-West highway, so the opposite scenario is much more likely.

Moreover, while the Romans enslaved people from various conquered populations, they did not enslave whole regions or tribes or clans or what have you. Prisoners were taken here and there, but large populations and their cultures were not lost to slavery. In addition, all those Germanic tribes and other conquered peoples _were_ most of the Roman Empire eventually. They didn't get enslaved or absorbed, nor did they conform much. They just took over.

One might also point out that the Northern and Western European diets never conformed to the Mediterranean.
You could easily go to a bank and withdraw 90k in cash. There'd be paperwork involved, but even small bank vaults hold far more money than that.

This chart is old (1992) but gives an indication of the amount of money in a bank vault:

http://i.imgur.com/hVZWFR5.png
I admit that the rise of Coeliac Disease is pretty mysterious but my problem is this article title conveys the notion that the article is going to give some insight into the mystery which it does not at all.
Reinforcing stereotypes certainly isn't going to do you any favors if you do have to interact with police in the future.
DTLS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Transport_Layer_Secur...
Numerical: A Calculator Without Equal
The GPL is "governed" by the Geneva international copyright treaty. It's supposed to be "Universal" until, eventually, being disproved in court. Which has never happened AFAIK.
Chemical laced perhaps? Baking bread with chemical lasers sounds cool, if inefficient and potentially toxic.
Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee today, but: where does it say there that gox was re-issuing coins automatically?
Isn't that kinda an over-exaggerated response, if you only need one of them?
Once a project has become a large collaborative project, I don't believe the original author remains the sole arbiter of what's good for the project. Their opinion should be given some weight, but whatever their opinion is doesn't automatically decide what's right for the project.
Well comments like "the only good cop is a dead cop" come across as blisteringly stupid. I'm primarily responding to those sorts of comments because it seems as though some people really do think that no good cops exist.

I'm not speaking to the rational here.
Depends on service and how broad the competition is. I pretty much respond the same way as the author to discount requests. If I feel that the service I charge $250/mo for creates $250/mo value to you, I'm under no obligation to lower the price.
Well.. if they weren't stealing them bitcoins, then they wouldn't be thieves to uphold said honor...
> If police forces were organizations of justice, they would compensate victims of false imprisonment as a matter of course. Say you spend a night in jail for an errant arrest, you get an immediate $2k for time lost and distress incurred. This way, they wouldn't be able to shuffle the damages from their run-roughshod approach onto innocent people.

Oh yeah, this would not cause more problems than it solves.
This is seriously the most hilarious thing I have read in a long time. Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest who run an illegal website devoted to the pure greed of cashing in on contraband, and this is what they write:

"I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice." We need the government! Please, come find the guy who took all of our illegal drug money and give it back to us so we can continue to say you aren't necessary.

"Given the right flavor of influence from our community, we can only hope that he will decide to return the coins with integrity as opposed to hiding like a coward." Yes, you bad guy, you should do the right thing and think of the community not your self-interests by giving back your illegal gains back to the guy named Dead Pirate Roberts (that's totally his real name).

"Whoever you are, you still have a chance to act in the interest of helping this community." In the interest of the community?! Bwahahahaa!

"I will fight here by your side, even the greedy bastards amongst us." Like everyone on the site?!

"The only way to reverse a community’s greed is through generosity." Just like Ayn Rand said my brothers!

Then I come here and not a single person on here even notices the massive hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness. Amazing.
The syntax we're talking about above is probably more confusing and less intuitive than 99% of the Coffeescript out there. Don't be alarmed. If you know Javascript, it's pretty approachable. The syntax is small, but all makes sense. You do need to give it a chance (read about it) and actually try it to really like it-- but that's true of any language. What's so amazing about coffeescript is such a small investment of time can payoff so strongly in terms of shrinking your code down it its purest, clearest form.
> What is "AH"?

Probably "Albert Heijn", a supermarket chain in the Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Heijn
...good cops exist whether you know it or not.

So they're like leprechauns?
I fnid the fact that because you didn't learn how to use a washing machine you assume your entire gender is somehow lacking this skill. I learned how to wash closed using a washing machine when I was in middle school. I learned all the various settings on the machine as how they effect everything from stains setting in your clothes to how they effect the water and energy bills. It takes like two minutes to figure out what the settings are on your washing machine, and once you do it once you find the almost every washing machine in existance has the same interface.

As a final note if you presented me with your interface I would be unhappy because I ( like most adults ) change the settings on my washing machine based on whats going into it and you have now removed that common interface and replaced it with a non customizable and frankly stupid interface.
My Reaction to CoffeeScript over time:
CoffeeScript is Shit
CoffeeScript is OK
CoffeeScript is Awesome!
CoffeeScript is OK
CoffeeScript is Shit
Stupidity is rarely intentional. That fact doesn't negate the stupidity.
While I disagree with the sentiment I can easily see how this sort of thing reinforces it. If justice isn't justly applied; if the police get a pass for brutalising people; then The Law's not the law - it's just another way of keeping people down.

One of my friends, when I was younger, had the attitude pig until proven cop. And the more of this stuff that's floating around the less tenable the contrary position becomes.
"Movement"? "Comrades"? "Freedom fighters"? Excuse me, isn't this the online equivalent of an open-air drug market he's talking about here?
Comcast buys Time Warner Cable for 45bn
Sorry, I should have linked two comments higher: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7222457

You'll note that mtgox had funds taken from it. None of these other sites [did]. They're just being flooded with junk that screws up their transaction processing. It's not really the same thing at all.
One thousand good cops do not make up for one bad cop. Cops nearly ruined my life in 2006. I will write about it someday, but suffice it to say, I am out at least $30K (didn't bother doing the math because it's too depressing) and still paying for something I ABSOLUTELY HAD NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH. My only mistake was saying anything besides "I would like to speak with a lawyer" over and over.

Do not speak to cops, ever. They are not there to help you or find out the truth.
Why is the signature fed through a bitcoin script? Not using a (non-turing-complete-but-still) programming language to encode a signature seems like a good first step to avoiding malleability.

Bitcoin has good/interesting reasons for using scripts inside transactions, but AIUI these are separate from the signature script.
Please, don't start pushing SaaS into FOSS under the guise of profitability. Sure, I'll admit that the support model (RedHat) has it's issues and probably keeps profits lower than competing proprietary solutions, but lets not forget the third model: up front sales.

Here's a problem I run into frequently: I have a problem, but as a look for a software solution to that problem, I find 3 potential solutions. Of those solutions, one is a random sourceforge mish-mash that hasn't been maintained in years, and the other two are proprietary closed source solutions (which I try to avoid whenever possible. Why should I trust some random small company I've never dealt with to not be malicious or incompetent?)

What I really want is a good, up to date software that I can pay for, but is still open source. I think too many people have forgotten that open source doesn't mean that you have to release the code in public for all to see on github et al, it just simply means that you have to provide the source.

So unless you are a customer, you don't get access to the source (unless the customer then shares it... this is probably one of the few areas I think that needs more debate in the GPL vs MIT war.)

With all of the revelations of the NSA, I think any business that deals with sensitive information in any way has a responsibility to 1) move away from SaaS and cloud computing, and 2) move away from proprietary whenever it is possible to do so without negatively impacting business operations.

We need to reclaim control of our data, as users personally and in business, and the only way we reliably do that is with decentralized, locally controlled FOSS.
I exist whether you know it or not. I'm not a leprechaun.

What is your point?
And you can easily add custom filters using the "block an element on this page" option.
Yes, I hope Amazon come up with a good case for this as AWS is really designed for compute and web servers. So I don't need all of the server features like advanced NIO or support for clustered SQL servers. Just want a simple VM that I can dial down or up RAM and processing power if I want to do more complicated stuff.

Awesome if they can come up with MacOS VM for iOS development; or even a optimized VM for Android development.
Where are the good cops when things like this happen? Why don't they speak out? Why don't they throw their bad-cop colleagues under the bus?

Nope. The supposed good cops are bad too.
Third world countries have third world police for a reason: out of necessity.
Can somebody build this please?!
That attempt at logic could be applied to any number of otherwise harmeless situations. It doesn't really hold up imo.
Just do a simple experiment: always give the discount. They want for 4.99 - give them for 4.99. They want for 0.99 - give them for 0.99. You will see that is not going to improve your sales.
If it does, then you might need to tweak pricing but we hackers always price our product too cheap so that very rarely the case.
> whether a server chooses to declare all their cash tips is their choice

No, it's really not.
Police officers and prosecutors are immune from personal liability in a suit (the liability instead shifts onto the government). It is very often the case that gross misconduct that costs the government millions in damages will not result in any sort of punishment for the responsible official.
Odd that they waited two weeks to write this blog post. Should have been out on day 1, because obviously people are going to have questions about it. Instead they just had an explanation blog post in Portuguese:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/ola-mundo-announcing-s...
When police tell you to leave a scene it's very suspicious.
> At this point, I’m left no choice but to present this case to the investigative court of public opinion, be it brave or foolish.

Um, no, you can leave it to an actual court of law by finding a good attorney and filing a civil complaint. But until you find competent representation, here's a piece of advice: for the love of god and your own well-being, learn to STFU.

The story makes it clear OP has no idea when to stop talking and observe his surroundings, even to his own detriment. Instead, he acted (and wrote) in such a way where he's constantly assuming the role of a victim and then being shocked when people treat him as such.

Remember folks, you have the right to remain silent in any interaction with authorities (not just the police, pretty much only a judge can compel you to speak), and your failure to do so only ever leads to a world of hurt.
Would you pay $0.55/month to use Twitter?
So I'm one of those "websites coming out of nowhere" that teaches people to code web projects in Rails (baserails.com). I chose to use a video screencast format because it's the easiest way for people to watch what you're physically doing on the computer screen and then follow along, something that's difficult to convey with just written text and images.

Are you looking for more in-depth content on syntax/framework/theory? Or just more curated written tutorials that's mobile friendly?
See, when you spew crazy BS like that, not only you give bad cops like the ones in the post a basis but you lose most of the support of people that you will need to make the change.

In order to make these officers spends years in prison you will need law to apply. And that will take pressure and public shaming through posts like this. If you feel so hot headed about this issue you can sign up with organizations like ACLU and the like and help bring the change.

Or, you can play gansta, go at it vigilante fashion, and see how far that takes you.
Is it going to be Portuguese from Portugal or Brazil?
Depends on the situation. I've had operators ask if anyone was injured so they wouldn't have to send out an ambulance. Usually, the police are there anyway.
Moral of the story: don't have more money tied up in BTC than you can afford to lose.
how the hell do they get away with kind of heist? Wouldn't they be able to follow the blockchain addresses until arriving at the wallet they are using to cash out?
Twilio + Pusher + Little Dragon
This happened to me last January in Seal Beach, CA. Only I was not courageous enough to step forward and be heard - there is a certain shame in being put in jail, even if you didn't do anything wrong. The shame is really on the officers, and the system the enables them to abuse the citizens who might even be operating under the delusion that the police are there to protect and serve, rather than bully, escalate, and abuse.

And I hear the defensive tone in her voice. She feels, as I do, that many people in the public won't believe, or if they do believe, that they will rationalize the police behavior. Or even if they don't rationalize, they will keep quiet, feeling powerless and not strong enough to make a difference. But, what Peretz has shown me personally, is that there is a certain strength in numbers, and sharing your experience so that other people don't feel like they're the only one who got treated that way, that they are not the only one who got brutalized by American city police - and then were left with absolutely no options to keep them accountable.

The system is fucked and it needs to change. Police should be required to record all audio and video of their actions, and provide this footage to anyone they interact with, on request. And if that device doesn't work, they should be severely reprimanded. (Officer Sasenbach of the SBPD, the one who threw me in jail without arrest and without reason, had a recording device which "failed" the night of our interaction.)

Much of my experience was eerily familiar - the suddenness of the violence on the street, when Sasenbach decided I was trouble. The taunts from the jail keepers. The taking of clothing (jacket and shoes), and kept in a cell too cold to sleep in for 12 hours. Asking for a phone call, and being ignored. Asking if I was arrested, and being ignored. Asking what right they have to keep me, and having them smirk and say, "because I'm on this side, and you're on that side".

When I filed a complaint, the sargeant assigned to the case was sullen, bored. Sasenbach's personal recorder was broken; the video feed in the cell i was kept in was broken. I could file another complaint if I wanted.

I remember feeling so out-of-body, like the system I'd grown up to believe in, the system that was supposed to represent "the good guys" was completely upended. These were brutal, horrible people drunk on their power over me, and delighted to cause as much harm as they could get away with, for no other reason that they could. It was an important moment in my life, when my illusion about the state, the police, and the bare issue of who we trust with a monopoly of violence became starkly defined: none of us are safe. The police can invade our lives at will, and do what they want to us, and we are helpless to defend ourselves. The only thing preventing general rebellion is statistical: the number of people who "win" the shit lottery that is interacting with the cops is very low, and it's hard to convince others that they are indeed at risk of suffering the same treatment. Who knows, perhaps things will change.
> Don’t call 911. Obviously, there are exceptions, but the sad lesson is, there are fewer than you’d think.

Are you fucking kidding me? Do NOT listen to this advice. If you see someone injured, CALL 911!

Do NOT move the person if there is suspicion of spinal or head injury. Wait for the HIGHLY TRAINED emergency response team to show up.

> Call Lyft to take you to the hospital. (Worked well when I broke my elbow.)

Are you fucking kidding me? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

All of this is some sort of thinly veiled attack on our public servants and what seems to be public government infrastructure in general.
Who says that they don't? How many good cops do condemn this behavior? How many of them do you not hear about? What happens to cops who condemn other cops?

As typical of somebody posting a throwaway comment to an online forum, I'm not sure that you've taken everything into account when you make such a broad statement.