skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In informal language, the market chooses winners and losers by "voting with their dollars." Obviously, no single individual has absolute control over any aspect of society in either system.
> it just seems easier to write uglier/wrong code

It's a strange myth that correct code is pretty and wrong code is ugly.
No...more like "leave when the cops show up". What is some drunk yahoo gonna do to help after the call has been made?

I'm sure the cops have all kinds of anecdotes about how helpful the drunks loitering around a scene at 1AM are!
The redhat model is really an outgrowth of the open source consulting model. If you look at smaller companies there are hundreds of projects that have spawned companies doing consulting, custom development and professional services.

Red Hat is unique mostly because they have been able to grow to this massive size. Part of this was initial capitalisation, part of it was right time, right place and mostly the fact that they have been able to add value to end customers more then their competitors.

XenSource had the problem of many other providers taking their output and repackaging it into a better product for customers (Amazon takes Xen, makes AWS. Other companies build their own virt products around it. If Xensource was the best virtualization platform and people had flocked for it, they would have been able to build a solid revenue from enterprise customers who required the guarantee of support for their mission critical workloads. Unfortunately there are lots of virtualization platforms around and I never found anything compelling in XenSource's Offering. VMware & HyperV have all the 3rd party support, oVirt / RHEV / OpenStack fill the cheap end.

I accept that with what the market wants Open Source companies of the size of Red Hat are rare, mostly because investors want larger returns, however this doesn't mean a open source company can't be profitable and grow to this size, it will just be significantly slower. Companies in the space typically will have a slow but solid growth pattern when firing on all cylinders, Not the 'hockey stick' growth curve many investors are looking for.
I don't think it will make identifying performance bottlenecks easier, but I can't see why it would make it harder, either. Modern software systems are complicated; they're built on complicated middleware on top of complicated OS, on top of complicated hardware. There are tools to help you find your bottlenecks, but handicapping your application just so you'll understand it as we used to understand performance in the 80s and 90s seems like the wrong choice. If you want to have a simple mental model of your application's performance, just run it on a 386. With instruction-level parallelism, multiple cores with MESI coherence protocols, optimizing JITs, automatic memory management and more, the days of running the code in our head to find problems are long gone. You have to measure with the new tools and learn to trust them.
You call the cops/ambulance. This one experience, even if 100% true, is not necessarily indicative of the entire system.
that's correct as far as I understand the capabilities in VPC.
recording of police is illegal in many cities - and i mean the voice recording. unless there's an app that lets u record without sound i'd say do not record.
> they 'good ones' will still protect and aid the 'bad ones'.

Those aren't good cops.
Flushing Ave, on my way to the Manhattan Bridge. The specific light, hilariously, has only a lefthand turn when going towards Manhattan.
LOL you win the thread. "Unfair to regular expressions", that's comedy gold.
So good to hear testimonials like that; thank you! As for supporting non-USD currencies, I see Stripe just made that super easy, so we'll probably do it at some point. Thanks for the feedback; nitpickery very much solicited!
Applying economic game theory to a relationship seems like a good way to take all the fun and passion out of it
Ever met?
Oculus Rift, a Steam Engine for the modern age
> "Thanks for inquiring about pricing options! Why don't you sign up for a trial and give the product a go? If you find out that it's a great fit I'll take care of you and make sure you get a price that makes you happy. Sound fair enough?"

Me: "Yeah, so we did the trial and we really like what you're trying to do. It's not a perfect fit for us, yet -- we'd really need to see X and Y someday. Also our budget is tight -- like, ramen tight. So I was hoping you could cut us a break, to start, and that way we can be part of this while your grow the product? We really love your vision for this."

Your move. :)
It is in the same thought process as telling a cops you have Miranda rights or don't have to answer their questions. From their perspective, you are acting like you are smarter than they are, and they will actively try to be vindictive towards you for it.

You can espouse the abuse of police power from a safe distance, but when you are in their faces you need to shut up because in the near future and moment they have the capacity to make your life hell with no recourse.
Again, that is terrible advice.

Literally all professional literature on the subject suggests the following:

Remain calm, be aware of your surroundings, and closely evaluate the scene to protect yourself and others from further injury.

Do not move a critically injured person unless instructed by emergency medical professionals.

Do not try to drive someone who is critically ill or injured to a hospital unless there is no way to summon emergency help.

Call 911 or ask someone else to call:
- If you think there is a medical emergency,
- If the crisis could get worse left untreated or not treated properly.

Listen carefully to the 911 dispatcher's questions. Answer them calmly and quickly.

Remain on the line until the dispatcher tells you it's okay to hang up.

Ask someone to wait outside to meet emergency personnel if it is safe to do so.

Paramedics may want to know a brief summary of the circumstances that caused the emergency. Remain calm and cooperative as they gather information.
Maybe not, but in this case both partners are working. In fact, the wife could very well be working more and still earning less.
On 1/31, a SR Forum user warned, "SR2 massive scam about to hit very soon"

>no Auto Finalize/no resolution center coins are pilling up massively
whitout anyone even realising what s coming .
>there is propably couple millions $$ just in escrow alone and
no one is fucking complaining.
>You guys really think it takes more than a month to implement
a resolution center?how dumb are you
>This is about to be the biggest scam in the history of the darkmarkets.
>Defcon postponing dates again and again,then annoucing that a fix
has been done when clearly it hasn t done shit ?(captcha)in this case.
>Can t you fucking see throught their bullshit and blatant lies that
the ship is about to go down the drain very soon??wake the fuck up .

Follow-up from today:

>well,I ve done what I could to warn you at least,next time you
call me a troll rethink maybe.
>my posts weren t really convincing because of the bad grammar
(not english) but the message was there for everyone willing to hear it.
>If you believe all this bullshit again from defcon ,then I am affraid
you d get scammed over and over again.SR isn t what it once was,
it is run by a greedy cunt.
>This was just so predictable,it doesn t take 2 fucking month to
implement a resolution center ,not having it was the main tool
of their scamming operation.
>The funniest thing in that story is that SR would still be up ,
means this scams could go on forever because people are
licking blindly these greedy mofo.
>don t be fooled by the green camel next time rant over/

http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/1xu8wc/sr_fo...
>Well, for the most part they're like lawyers: you only need them around for shitty situations, so that's what they're remembered for.

And because of this they get a lot of irrational hate, but it's often still irrational.

>I'm not saying all cops are bad people (though almost all police forces are bad institutions), but why would you just hang out and have a good time with a cop, in his cop role? I'm sure they have friends, but they're not being cops when they're watching the game with their friends.

Is this a question for me, or the general public? If the latter then I'll defer to someone else. If the former, then I'll clarify that I never said that I "hang out" with cops.

>My comment was more about the fact that police don't walk the beat and help old ladies with their groceries anymore. When cops are around, shit's going down. So even if they are doing their job professionally, it isn't a pleasant experience. And if they're doing their job poorly, it's a nightmare.

The cop I had a pleasant experience with was doing his job professionally. You seem to assume that my "pleasant experience with a cop" involved hanging out at a bar together watching the big game, or something like that. I had a pleasant experience with a cop doing his police duties, and it wasn't the first time.
LOL yeah there where always jokes about that. But apparently he just threw the plants into his compost heap.

Someone else said they had seen the cop doing that. From memory it was another officer that said that (I didn't attend the hearings).

So who knows :) I think the plants where pre harvest though, my dad noticed the moment they arrived and acted immediately.
Thanks for your opinion! I sort of agree. I'm trying to understand the DTLS RFC, and it sounds like DTLS (and maybe anything else that avoids replay attacks) requires you to set up a "conversation" initially, which sort of reduces the appeal of UDP. So lifting that work out of the protocol into an outside context, which the user could set up or not, might be best.
Generally => Normally in most situations. With exceptions.

It does not mean never or always.
Libertarianism isn't Anarchism (although there is a faction for that). It is by their own blurbs "Maximum Freedom, Minimal Government". Which, in principle, is pretty easy to believe in. Robbing data/currency is against a fair law of theft, which I am sure most libertarians agree is a necessary minimal law. Live and let live, and don't take another person's stuff, even anarchists probably believe that.
Then again, a lot of people here (and elsewhere) aren't speaking english natively and might notice a mistake, but can relate to it because they're in the same boat.

Writing a longer text like you just did can take quite a bit of time and attention, and I think everyone who is in the same situation will acknowledge that as long as the text isn't an unreadable mess.

I hope that's a bit of a motivation!
Arrested. NYC. Turnstile ducking. No Miranda rights. Zero crim history. Mugshot. Prints. Solitary 5 hours.

I recommend you listen to this if you're wondering why (apart from bullshit police state) people like us are getting arrested for petty offences:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/r...
I believe I can make the gloating rant a bit more precise.

ANARCHO CAPITALISTS say that we don't need government for anything and the private market will provide it. True, with smart contracts the theft is infeasible, but it was not always so. These exchanges didn't use smart contracts. And there are other crimes than theft of bitcoins.

When crimes occur the question is, who considers them crimes? Appealing to the person to PUT THE COMMUNTY AHEAD OF THEIR SELF INTEREST kind of admits that the system failed a whole community which got screwed by an individual.

As for MINARCHISTS, they always have a copout that they want SOME government. But it's not clear how much or what it should do. Everyone has a different idea or no idea. And even minarchists and Objectivists tout the self reliance and the individual over the community. So why should this individual give stuff back? It was their fault for not securing their site properly. The individual can only be punished BY someone, and then it becomes communities hunting individuals.
Perhaps citing a television show is not the most credible evidence one can bring to a discussion?

Edit (since I cannot reply directly, apparently): why is it not credible?

Can I start citing the X-Files or Star Trek? How about a broadcast of the Nancy Grace show?
> Extensions don't break standard compliance so I didn't bring them up.

Sure they do, by definition code that uses the extensions is not standards compliant. Plan 9 C code makes heavy use of Plan 9 extensions. The Go runtime also makes use of those extensions, that's why gcc recently (2009) implemented -fplan9-extensions in order for gccgo to compile the Go standard library.

> Note that both C++ and GNU C have similar extensions but under different semantics which don't make them any less ANSI compliant.

I think what you mean is that GNU C is a strict superset of ANSI C and you assume that Plan 9 C is the same. This assumption is wrong. Plan 9 C is not a superset of ANSI C, some ANSI C things are missing; e.g. const. That being said it's not that hard to compile C89 code with the Plan 9 C compilers.

> be careful around those documents. The assembler, compiler, parser and linker have seen over two decades worth of work since those were put ink to paper.

I should know since I use Plan 9 every day and I recently ported the Go toolchain to Solaris and gave a talk on these tools. The compiler document is very accurate, the only glaring anachronism is that the extern register storage class doesn't necessarily use a register in the Go toolchain, but depends on the target operating system. It's still true on Plan 9 though. The assembly guide is more inaccurate, but the C papers are accurate, at least for now.
"Danny paid Bethany about $30,000 in various costs to have their first child while he worked a full-time tech job"

I wonder what her bid was for him to have the baby.
Coinkite proposal evaulation
Coinkite has an outstanding offer to a group of alternative currencies. Raise 25 BTC and they will add them to their service. 75% of money raised going to development, 25% to charity of their choice.

The Dogecoin community offered to raise the money, but only if 100% of money raised goes to charity.

This offer was denied by Coinkite.

https://twitter.com/Coinkite/statuses/434074964057407488

I would be very interested in the thoughts of hackernews on this.
Was this something picked up independently by NBC, or was this planned as a subtle PR piece for Beeminder? If the latter, are there any tips you can share on how you went about arranging it?
Coinkite has an outstanding offer to a group of alternative currencies. Raise 25 BTC and they will add them to their service. 75% of money raised going to development, 25% to charity of their choice.

(source: https://coinkite.com/faq/alts)

The Dogecoin community offered to raise the money, but only if 100% of money raised goes to charity.

This offer was denied by Coinkite.

https://twitter.com/Coinkite/statuses/434074964057407488

I would be very interested in the thoughts of hackernews on this.
TPB indexes content and gives a link to access the content, same as Google. TPB does not actually host any of the copyright infringing content they link to, same as Google.

There is a minor difference in that people upload to TPB and Google spiders out for content but that doesn't seem relevant here.
I know him, and he's moved from one corrupt third-world shithole (Detroit) to an almost civilized city in a civilized country (Berlin) for this reason.
> you have the right to remain silent in any interaction with authorities

Is it true that in some states you have to identify yourself, as in at least state your name?
He wasn't arrested simply for calling 911, though. It's an undeniably shitty situation, but based on his own account, if he and his friend simply got the cellphone back, said "thanks", or even just shut up and went home, we most likely wouldn't be arguing about this right now.

I have no idea what it would take to curb a significant portion of this sort of overreach, but it is worth being stripped naked and thrown in solitary confinement? You tell me.
You should really use ng-cloak so that things that havent been bound dont show up until they are ready

Here in particular: http://selmanh.github.io/angularjs-form-builder/#/forms/1/vi...
I found the reasons not to be a web page very bad. There are perfect good web API's to store data on the device:
http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html
I gained a perspective that is a bit more in depth than the typical white guy. I went to university in a town in Canada where the police seemed to be very interested in guys with long hair. I had long hair. As a result, I got stopped, intimidated and threatened by the police. I was never arrested. No doubt I would have had it worse if I was black.

A few years later I moved to Toronto. I still had long hair, but the police seemed to ignore me. I was really curious and paid extra attention to the police. It took a while, but it finally hit me: "they're only interested in the black guys!" The black guys were being watched with the same sort of intensity that I had experienced. I didn't observe the same sort of interactions I had, but I could imagine.

Canada is a bit different from the USA and I didn't get the full "black treatment", but I think I got to see the curtain pulled aside just a crack. One thing that really struck me was how incredulous non-blacks were when I related my story years later.
I only meant to pick on the "RHEL and Windows" remark. The OS is only a small part of the datacenter.

I can't quite speak for HP-UX, but Solaris and AIX are definitely not dead platforms. My main claim is that "Big Iron" is going to outlive RedHat in the application platform category. Oracle the DB is one thing, but the sprawling ecosystem of non-database applications that Oracle has accumulated over the years aren't going to keep needing heavier distros. A lot of that stuff is moving to VM image instances anyway.

What a platform like CoreOS (or other ways of combining LXC with your hardware infrastructure) offers is separation of two major categories of concern. Driver interfaces and kernel versions are hardware sensitive. Application dependencies on specific library versions far less so.

Your vantage point makes sense, though. Databases are really the only application left in the enterprise that haven't seen this decoupling from hardware. But that doesn't bode well for the total number of Red Hat Linux installations.
Oh I agree, context matters and courts would certainly take it into account. Police however might not.
HTTPS Attacks and XMPP 1: BEAST
And people still seriously think that taking anonymity away from the internet is a good thing.

I don't know what sickens me more, the american legal system or modern internet filled with people that have absolutely no understand of privacy because of their sheltered lives.
"Mostly" speaks to probability.
I can think of four experiences I've personally had with cops and all four range between pleasant and even better than pleasant.
ESRI sends your password when you guess wrong
Not only did ESRI email a password but they did so because I entered it in wrong on their site.

You attempted to logon with an invalid password on [timestamp].
Your password is [xxxxxxxx]
That is so weird. Where I live, Israel, they actually have different phone numbers (police - 100, medics - 101, fire dept. - 102), and they come only if you call them specifically (if at all). Of course if something really bad happens you call the police first and they call everyone else, but police arriving for someone who fell of their bike? Really? What a weird place.
And fiat currency starts looking better all the time. The fact that the most powerful security mechanisms aren't even applicable to digital currency should be a huge red flag.

Short the exchange rate + significant DDOS attack on the exchanges = millions in free money. That's just a for example. It doesn't even require explicit crime on the bitcoins themselves, and can be done at a safe remove through multiple cutouts. (Historical point of comparison - shell companies were used to short airline stock just before 9/11, resulting in tremendous windfall profits for presumably close allies of the perpetrators)
My apologies, I think we're on the same page then.
But it's ok because plan 9 services don't crash?
TheFunded for Peace Officers.
Cool, I'll meet you by the third tree in the old field by the path.

Bring biscuits and wear a green hat.
I've never explicitly studied Spanish, but apparently I've been exposed to it enough in the US that I was able to get through a recent trip to Ecuador without too much trouble. It was easier to read than to try to speak, as I could generally figure out the context of sentences based on key words and shared Latin influences with English. I actually found billboards to be the hardest to understand, which I guess makes sense. Billboards tend to use incomplete sentences and made up words to try to get their point across quickly.

It was just a lot of fun. Several months ago, I started learning Russian. Once I got over the hurdle of the alphabet (again, I had actually once studied it in grade school), I realized that I could figure a lot of things out as I went.

It feels like being Sherlock Holmes or something.
It depends on the person of course, but trying to learn english while learning programming can create a kind of virtuous circle of learning (learning programming helps getting familiar with english words which helps reading docs which helps programming etc).

It's more difficult to try to learn one ignoring the other IMO. I had collegues that didn't care much for english, but it was surprising how good they were at parsing other people's code and understand how libraries and APIs worked with very few hints.
Why did she selectively describe the race and skin color of only some of the police-people? I'd like to know the race and skin color of all of them.
Note that the first link is written by the guy who started Upworthy. Those social media buttons are probably pretty awesome if all you're doing is repackaging other people's content with linkbaity/one-weird-trick titles.

But if you're actually in the content game? hmm..
I think it's valuable as a method for resolving disputes.

But I think you'll probably have to permanently redistribute wealth within your relationship or else I can imagine it breeding resentment. Cashflow is going to make a bigger difference in all the little disputes that will grow into bigger disputes.

Or you could apply an inflation multiplier on your respective bets adjusted to the ratio of your respective incomes - but then the exercise may become moot as it renders it as less simple dispute settling mechanism.

At the end of the day, you still have to apply some psychology above and beyond your auction market - the article concludes with

>Recently Danny and Bethany haggled to see if he would drive her home after a long day of work or if she would have to ride her bike. She bet $15, and he intentionally "lost," so that he could do her the favor.

:P
Well, it's not very rational to tell your objections to the same people that you want to take power away.

Yes, the police must treat every innocent person with respect and even reserve some dose of respect to criminals. Yes, it's our duty to try to fix the situation when that do not help. But no, it's not advisable to try to fix that in the exact instant the problem is happening.
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