skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to provide a data point: I know the OP personally. I can't be sure that there are no omissions, but him saying things like that is not surprising and it doesn't feel like there are holes. His particular demeanor and pattern of speech would likely make it seem not so much pompous as just eccentric. He's very obviously earnest, and not in the naive way often encountered in the Bay Area these days. Trying to show you are "an upstanding citizen" in some way is an expression of privilege: the expectation that you can demonstrate membership of a group that is not automatically assumed to be guilty. To me, one of the core points of this story is that you can never assume you won't be perceived as a member of a group not so advantaged.

Were I not very familiar with him, an interpretation such as yours would definitely be one of my high probability estimates, which is what compelled me to add my views. Take it as you will.
What kind of idealistic fantasyland do you live in where litigation is never the answer?
Agreed, writing posts/comments in English as a non-native speaker (with anxiety issues) is a real endeavour. Thankfully I've put so much time in it already that I can be reasonably certain that what I write is correct, and "flows" well, but I can definitely relate to your struggles.
The idea is that there is some useful speed for much of the application by using native compilers. Higher speed might be needed only in parts of the program. Then a type inferencer, etc. comes to use. If that's still not enough one calls C or assembler routines - but, say, 95% of the application can be written in Lisp.
Ah yes because Hacker News is the place for a thesis on modern history.

I was being polite: let me be clearer - you are wrong and your comment shows an ignorance of the facts and I suggest you actually read up on said conflicts before spouting nonsense. Better?
Don’t Repeat your Mistakes: Conducting Post-mortems
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/

Always film your interactions with the police, because they WILL lie to make themselves the hero and you the villain.

Also, know your rights, exercise them. Especially your 5th amendment.
Even attempting to directly bribe a police officer in the USA is going to get you thrown in jail fast. It's far less risky as a police officer to over-zealously write tickets for the smallest thing and commit bogus asset forfeiture left and right than to directly ask for bribes.
Get ready for even more outdated internet speeds, YouTube throttling, and underhanded deals for bandwidth.
> The resulting class, I believe to be more performant than using a dictionary - but I haven't actually measured this.

If you didn't measure it then how did you come to believe this?
Interesting. I knew it needed to be turned on but didn't realize that you needed to add users. So Rsync doesn't just use the default login info, the way SSH does?
I use disconnect too, after I found that Ghostery had some weird clashes with other plugins. CPU thrashing around at 100% for minutes kinda clashes :(
You are absolutely wrong. Almost the exact same thing happened to me, about 400 miles south, last January. Many of the details are even eerily similar. Your claims of omission are totally baseless, and I would guess driven by the same sort of illusions I used to have about the police, their role in our society, and the mechanisms that are in place to deal with bad apples.
I love the one that used AAPL in the backtest and then advertises another site.
I don't find the parent's attitude irrational at all. If police brutality was a rare unicorn-like event, then I could understand your point of view, but it's not. Not even remotely so.

I've been lucky in that my interactions with police have ranged from professionally neutral (mostly traffic cops) to indifferent and bored (cop at a police station clearly not giving two shits that I'd just been mugged). (Of course, me being a white male helps with this "luck".) But the stuff I hear about makes me wonder: if I need the police at any point in time, what are my chances of getting a cop that's helpful vs. one that's on a power trip and wants to fuck with me?

I seriously wonder about that, and I seriously will think twice about calling 911 in an emergency. And that's the problem. It doesn't matter one bit what the percentage is: maybe 0.00001% of cops are bad, and the rest are good. But the perception is that a significant portion of cops are just power-hungry assholes who love being able to strap on a gun and show that they have authority over you. Perception matters more than reality sometimes.
As has been pointed out on the LWN thread, buffer overflows even on the stack can also leave you vulnerable by overwriting other automatic variables, e.g. a variable that indicates whether a client is authenticated as an administrator.
No one is denying that good cops do exist.

The problem is that (especially for minorities in large cities) calling for the police is a gamble.

That many white, suburban kids are taught from a young age that "all police are your friends, you can always go to them if you need help" and that many minorities in cities are taught from a young age "cops are people near complete immunity, great authority and guns; they are to be feared; you would do best to avoid them at all costs and if you must interact with them, be as non-confrontational as possible and if you are arrested say nothing until you have a lawyer".

From the article ...

> I was standing 15 feet from the scene beside Officer Kaur, a stocky female of South Asian complexion. She turned to me and abruptly said that I was not needed as a witness and should leave immediately. I told her we were headed home, just across the way, when my friend and I encountered the accident; and that I’d recently broken my elbow in a similar bike accident here and deeply cared about the outcome.

The cop told the author to leave, the author indicated otherwise.

I guess the author got the "police are your friends" story growing up, not the "avoid at all costs and be non-confrontational if you cannot" story.

Every time the author got confrontational, the situation worsened. Want a doctor? Solitary.

From here, the next thing is "but what about the author's rights? even if the cops don't like you, you still have rights!". Sure, and exercising your rights is inconvenient, at times requiring things like going to jail until things are sorted out.

For a cop arresting you, it's just another day at work. For you, it's missing work unexpectedly, maybe some legal bills, worrying who is watching your kid in a few hours, etc. Your life goes upside for a bit even if charges are ultimately dropped or if the first time in front of a judge your lawyer convinces the judge to throw out the case. You have everything to lose and they/the system/etc. have nothing to lose (except for once in a while when it gets really bad and there's a huge lawsuit, like this recent local story[0], unless you've got some clout, in which case the mayor will call to see how you're doing[1]).

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/nyregion/man-51-dies-in-th...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/nyregion/de-blasio-defends...
Source?

I was under the impression MtGox was also processing withdrawals automatically and shut off withdrawals while they implemented a manual step (like all the other wallet sites already have.)

I don't mean to be unconstructive, just trying to understand what you're saying here, I don't really see how a customer support issue such as you outlined would require shutting off withdrawals for multiple days.
I know Peretz personally and he's one of the most rational people I've ever met. There's some question as to whether he should've left the scene or not and I think there's some discussion to be had there, but what happened afterwards is unquestionably wrong.

This is who the police stripped naked and put in jail: http://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2013/spring/featured-storie...

This is not a person we should fear. I understand that on some level putting Peretz in jail was a reasonable response to him not leaving the scene, but the abuse and brutality of what followed are just plain wrong.

I've heard other thoughts in this thread about not trusting police or that all cops should be killed and I find those to be childish nonsense. For us to have a free and effective society, the rule of law is important and should apply equally to all. I know this isn't always the case but it is the goal. Wishing harm onto authority figures simply muddies the waters.

What I want, and what I think all should want, is justice. The best outcome from Peretz's suffering would be reform and we should work towards that end.
I'll respond to this in the same way that I responded to another user posing the same questions.

Who says that they don't speak out about this sort of stuff? 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?
I had a similar experience, and honestly, I have been afraid to go to City Hall and speak to the elected officials I have personally met many times because I fear that my initial arrest for public intoxication while standing outside a bar which I planned to take a cab home from, smoking a cigarette, was retaliation for participating in protests, and that I will be retaliated against worst. I happened to be out celebrating a new job, so making me miss the last day of my old job was not much punishment, but I'd rather not go through that again. Fortunately I was out with the manager of the restaurant at my gym, who brought my bag to meet me the next morning, where I was able to take a shower before going to sign onboarding paperwork.

I don't feel safe in San Francisco anymore.
I get your point, but I think you are missing the glaring nuance here...

He is basically saying if you are reading this and you were affected its in your best interest to participate in catching this guy and 'persuading' him to give us the bitcoins...

he isnt appealing to government or some over arching entity or morality.
Installing Windows as an end user on hardware that doesn't already support Windows sounds very painful. Even if you get it to boot Windows, getting all the hardware working will probably be nigh-impossible.
How does this happen? I'd love to know the motivations and perspectives of people involved. Did they make a mistake? Were they confused? If so, what was their line of thought? Did they try to intentionally cause harm to innocent people? If so, what was the reason.

Also, is this a rare unusual occurrence, or does this happen 75%+ of the time you call 911?

It just seems like a situation that should not have happened the way it was described (which may or may not be accurate).
It seems you have been the victim of a similarly unjust arrest, but frankly I can't see how you "already knew where this was headed" after the first paragraph.

Given the photo at the top, at first glance I assumed that the woman at the lectern was the OP, only towards the end of the story did I get understand that the OP was a man. I cannot see any reference to the OP being black in the text (his About thumbnail is too small to see clearly).
I shouldn't have made my original claim without thinking about the fact that there really are crimes that are defined by what is in a person's mind, apart from their actions. One thought, acceptable. Another thought, crime. Thought crime.

So I was being naive and you are right. And George Orwell was right.
You can't get into fights at Disneyland either. The best bet is to not assault people.
An attitude of fuck the police on the side of the citizens makes the problem worse. Both sides have to meet.

Also, like hell morality is immaterial.
Um, have you actually filed a civil suit against a police department? Do you know how expensive and time-consuming it is? Those who choose this route have me total admiration, as it is grossly expensive, it takes years, and it extends the suffering caused by mistreatment at the hands of those supposed to protect you manifold.
Correctness is more important that expediency. If you start off trying to be good, you can learn to be fast. If you start off trying to be fast, you will never learn to be good.
In NYC even an affordable first date costs around $25-$50. (2-4 cocktails/drinks at a semi-nice place at $10-$18 each) Paying an extra $20 to make that experience less volatile in terms of quality is not that outrageous.

Whether this will be enough to sustain the company I have no idea...
I don't love libertarians and their ilk any more than you do, but in fairness I have to say this doesn't read to me like a request for government intervention, so much as a "Let's you and him fight" suggestion that the users who got ripped off go after the users he claims did the ripping. The idea, I think, is that if enough jilted users get together to make life miserable for the people who supposedly did the thieving, then it'll be in their self-interest to return the stolen bitcoins and make everything be OK again. Or something.

On the other hand, there's nothing that's not funny about seeing a hardcore libertarian find whiny refuge in the clichés of Communism:

> Being a part of this movement might be the most defining thing you do with your entire life. Don’t trade that for greed, comrades.

And, whatever you do, don't start thinking I'm to blame for this unbelievable fuckup that wouldn't have been possible in the first place if I hadn't done something stupid! No, it's all that guy's fault.
The number of strawmen in your argument is staggering.
The difference in @gavanwoolery's idea is that you don't bring any friends. The whole group is curated. Which is different from Grouper, but basically the same as the company OP linked to.
I imagine this is a rhetoric question.
It is difficult to sue the state and officers acting on behalf of the state. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite....
Poll: Do you encrypt your files?
I have a MacBook Air with a tiny SSD, an external drive for additional storage, and a second external drive to back up both of the other drives using Time Machine. I also use Amazon Glacier for offsite, cloud backups.

Is it worth the trouble to encrypt everything?

Should I continue to just encrypt certain files, e.g. client files?

If I get hit by a bus, how can I ensure that my writing and photographs will be accessible to my family?

What do all of you do?

Note: I'm not asking about email or other communications, just files on your drives.
I encrypt ALL of my files (full disk encryption, encrypted external drives, encrypted backups, etc).
I encrypt SOME of my files (e.g. the occasional TrueCrypt volume).
I DO NOT encrypt any files at all.
Your cynical friend was correct. If you have to call 911 for someone else, do it anonymously. As long as police (internal affairs) are the only ones to police police, there will never be any justice. Also, remember that suing police hardly ever works. Police have immunity by law and they use that to their advantage to cover up any cruel and sick acts they feel like. They are above the law. Ask any minority and they will confirm this is the case.
I posted this in another thread today but it's even more relevant here. We need a way to track when police officers have violent interactions with the public. We should be able to look up any officer and find their history of abuse of authority if it exists to make it easier to identify patterns. We can't trust these people with power if we can't hold them responsible. I would love to help work on this with someone.
It is difficult to sue the state and officers acting on behalf of the state. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_Unite...
Omg I’m a n00b and too afraid to start
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Thanks for providing a nice example of a rock bottom terrible comment. Yes, the problem with this person being beaten up, put in solitary and abused for no reason simply comes down to their inability to shut up. If only they had the wisdom to know that the police, who are paid by our tax dollars just HAVE to beat you up and abuse you if you say anything they dislike. I mean, its not as if they had a choice of whether they wanted to beat the person up or not, they basically HAD TO! Because, you know, that person was mouthy.

"he acted (and wrote) in such a way where he's constantly assuming the role of a victim"

What type of brain got you to the conclusion that this person was something other than the victim here?

Look, I get your point that shutting up is a good idea, but we can't blame the person for not shutting up, the police should be blamed for their actions. The fact that we have people like you standing up for the police here makes me think we probably have no chance as a society anymore.
Oh, don't be such a martyr. Sometimes the fault is your own. In this case, your description of the course of events displays a good understanding of what happened, and yet you present it in a way that is quite deceptive. If you want a better response, try being more even-handed.

> In any case, he confessed to what was stated, and despite the spin now that it was a false confession, in earlier versions of reports about this he freely admitted that he said what he said...but that he purportedly followed it up later by an lol that made it all okay.

This reminds me of a courtroom scene in My Cousin Vinny. Upon being told that he was being charged for the murder of the sheriff, one of the main characters exclaims in disbelief, "What?! I shot the sheriff?!" And then in trial, the prosecutor asks him, "Did you not tell police, 'I shot the sheriff'?" That movie was a comedy, but you're seriously trying to make this argument. You're acting like a silly parody of a prosecutor. Agreeing upon the words used does not mean this guy "confessed."

And yes, the fact that it wasn't actually a threat does make it OK. Why wouldn't it? What interest does the law have in punishing people who aren't actually issuing threats? Should Alan Rickman be afraid of punishment for all the villainous lines he's delivered on camera?
An example of a "big-money" part of the banking system, Fedwire, the money transfer between banks run by the Federal Reserve, cleared an average of 2.85 trillion dollars per day in Q3 2013.
>MtGox was re-issuing coins automatically

They worded that very strangely in their statement about it:

>This means that an individual could request bitcoins from an exchange or wallet service, alter the resulting transaction's hash before inclusion in the blockchain, then contact the issuing service while claiming the transaction did not proceed. If the alteration fails, the user can simply send the bitcoins back and try again until successful.

Emphasis mine.

The reference client certainly doesn't do this on spends. Why would gox have implemented it in this way? It doesn't make any sense at all.
My claims of omission are based on the sequence of events being nonsensical as presented. I can buy that the cops were bullies. That's not acceptable behavior for a cop, but I acknowledge it does happen. Cops often act punitively towards those they perceive as giving them lip, and while its not right it happens. You shouldn't mouth off to a cop but cops shouldn't use their office in retaliation. But this story where the cops spontaneously seem to react to nothing is difficult to believe.
not so much interacting, as harnessing computing resources. plan9, though not terribly popular in the mainstream sense, introduced very simple and effective methods of distributed computing. the engineers broke away from the TCP model and developed their own transport protocol for super-fast data transfer. i personally want to see more of this.
This article is making a misleading comparison. Yes, dynamically typed languages have overheads that statically typed languages don't. But the better question to ask is why Python implementations are factors slower than leading javascript implementations, which have the same theoretical overheads that Python does.

The V8 is is now about a factor of 4 or 5 off of the speed of C for general purpose code, while CPython is 30x to 100x.
Even then, he's saying that all the claims of the new DPR to be peaceful are bullshit, and again that everyone should band together and get him, contradicting the objectivist mindset. Either he's asking the government for help, or asking a pseudo-government lynch mob for justice, and either is hypocritical.
It's basically a bunch of assumptions and misapprehensions stacked up so he can hate on one of the tribes other than his own.

You know, what passes for politics these days.
What would be really ironic is if it was a Government agency which pulled off the heist.
Yeah, I love the attitude of "look, if you want to make a complaint about police beating you and falsely imprisoning you, you should quit your job and invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in a case against them, anything else is stupid." Super realistic and clearly enabling a better world to happen very soon.
Common Lisp implementations implement CLOS and structure objects as vectors. In high-performance implementations CLOS dynamism can be reduced so that slot-accessors can be compiled to inlined vector references.
> objectivist libertarians

There is no such thing as an objectivist libertarian. Maybe you should learn what you're talking about before hating. Objectivism and libertarianism are separate opposing things. The Objectivist position on libertarians is very negative.
I've noticed the same. Inflammatory comments being upvoted, unpopular discussion being downvoted.

When somebody finds the next Hacker News, please let me know.

(I expect this comment to be downvoted, and it probably should be. Just expressing my frustration.)
yes, perhaps i should have titled this rant "we need fewer programmers and more engineers" :)
Yeah, this is something we're concerned with as well. The reason we have it the way it is now is because we're concerned about having too many category-specific criteria. For instance, price would be nice to show on the front page, but we're hesitant to put a price input on the new post form, because it wouldn't be relevant to many posts (for instance posts about events or groups on campus).

For now, we're focused on keeping the posts as general as possible with only Title, Text, and Category options. In future I could see introducing different parameters for individual categories (price for selling something, location for events, etc.) but for now our priority is in making the new post process as frictionless as possible.

Thanks for the input though! I really appreciate another pair of eyes on a new product.
Yes he is! In fact he appeals to morality just about every other sentence. It's rather hilarious.
What I find actually amazing isn't your ignorance, your misunderstanding of Objectivism, Libertarianism, and Silk Road denizens. Nor do I find amazing your inability to separate the individual from the collective.

No, what I find actually amazing is that despite all that you still believed you could make a meaningful comment.
Mmmm tax dollars. So tasty.
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Public servants. That's a good one. The only public the police serve are their own sick and cruel interests. If they served the public, perhaps they'd actually stop real crime.