skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of practicality "shut up and don't ask questions" is certainly going to be minimum hassle. But when the police threatened additional punishments for not having his ID he was perfectly justified in questioning them on the legitimacy of that claim. Acting within your rights shouldn't be punished because it's inconvenient.
Verizon spent an average of $817 per household to deploy FIOS. Though that may not be the stat your asking for! :) Source: http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/...
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The single best advice I got when I went remote
was from Matt Waite, >who said, “Put on pants,”
by which I’m pretty sure he meant, “Act like
you’re going to work.”

Remote worker here, for about 2 years running. Yes, this is great advice and probably the single biggest factor that will help you stick to work.

Some days I roll out of bed and work in my pajamas, and without a doubt those are the days I'm least productive in contrast with the days I go balls out with shower, shave, breakfast, fully clothed ZZ-Top-sharp-dressed-man style.
>I suspect that's really just an emotional lashing-out at a pervasive problem.

It's not. It's my personal experience and was stated that way. I, unambiguously, have never once seen the police improve a situation. I've never even really heard about it happening.

It's good that it's happened to you - it probably makes you feel more secure in the place where you live.
That's pretty bad. I'll look into it.
A Walkthru Explaining Facebook's "Millions" Of Fake Users
There is one thing MongoDB does spectacularly well - you can feed in arbitrary JSON and get the same JSON back out. (No need to define schemas or play any kind of system/db administrator.) Even the queries have the same "shape" as JSON, so no need for another arbitrary query language.

It will eventually bite you, and bite you hard. But you'll be well into the millions of records before that happens. Developers and products below that number will have very smooth sailing. And some live there permanently. One project I worked on years ago involved a music catalogue. Did you know there are only about 20 million songs?

The main problem is things get very painful as you get bigger, especially for writes. A doubling of write activity can lead to calamitous drops in performance. This is especially bizarre as the data model means they can easily have multiple concurrent writers. Heck having a lock per 2GB data file would quickly help with concurrency.

They have this same "single" approach in other places. For example building an index is single threaded. I did a restore the other day and then had to wait 8 days while it rebuilt indexes. One cpu was pegged but everything else was idle!

It also consumes huge amounts of space - at least double as the same data in JSON. There are known fixes https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-164 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863 (note how popular they are and how many years they have been open!)

I wish they would focus on making better use of the resources available - it should be possible to max out cpu, RAM and I/O.

We've ended up in the same situation as the article, figuring out where to migrate to with Cassandra being the front runner.
At what point can you distinguish between a county-run infrastructure and a subscriber-owned coop? I assume the latter would be ok with you?
Again... they look nice, but:

up to 14" @ 1600x900
2000 - 2900 MHz
4 G - 8 G RAM
180 - 500 GB Hard Drive
DVDRW Drive
3 pounds

That in all honesty is not what I'm looking for. For comparison, Apple specs, for the same money (or less):

15-inch: 2.0GHz with Retina display
Specifications
2.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
8GB 1600MHz memory
256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
Intel Iris Pro Graphics
—

Built-in battery (8 hours)
You don't see the hypocrisy of the "they broke the law and stole our money" outcry?

I guess it's just people stealing money then, so they should get over that. Not everyone agrees with allowing people to keep their stuff.
Hi addisonj - sorry about this. The site is clearer about this limitation. If you request access via the site now (just click join on there) and remind me this happened to you in the comment field, I'll move you forward in the queue. Sound good?
The higher levels of the Android stack are Apache 2 licensed. Even with the GPL, many Android devices ship with closed kernel modules.
I agree with you. However, in my personal experience, pride seems to be shot down somewhat in our wider programming community--if you're outwardly seen as "boasting", that's considered bad form, so I understand why others would default to "humility".
It was perhaps an unnecessarily polarizing example, but it was the first and only thing that came to mind regarding "move" as pertaining to a lawful order without digging up the name of the rather obscure case that recently got a verdict (wherein it was determined that the officer had no authority to tell the citizen to move, that it was indeed an abuse of authority, and paired with 120+ other abuse of power complaints against that officer, resulted in his termination).
How'd you like to run Windows apps on Android?
Viber, one of the largest over the top messaging apps, recently shared their conversion from Mongo to Couchbase. They ended up requiring less than half of the original servers, and better performance.

If you want to see a video of their engineer telling the story, it's available here: http://www.couchbase.com/presentations/couchbase-tlv-2014-co...
Police solidarity, and labor unions, for the win!
The UK seemed like a strange example.
I left a sample of very silly comments up but got bored of telling people to read the post before commenting, and deleting trolls.

I'm comparing the dominant computing platform of the last 30 years with the niche player in mobile. As the blog post says.
Is there a way to remove an associated account?
This is indeed a perfect example of what is typically called "victim blaming". Where I disagree with you is that I do not read Gorbzel as suggesting that the perpetrator is not at fault: by my reading Gorbzel says nothing one way or the other on that subject.

If you read the comment with the preconception that every interaction has one side which is Right and one side which is Wrong, then you will see the cops portrayed as "Just". If you read the comment without that preconception, you will not.

I am very afraid of people with that preconception, because they pick sides and then try to stick to them by confirmation bias. Like the cops.

(Just in case it wasn't absolutely clear: my position is that the victim here was careless-in-a-way-that-would-have-no-negative-consequences-in-a-perfect-world, like I was careless the time I left my flat unlocked and a guy tried to steal my laptop. Whereas the cop's actions were criminal, like the guy who tried to steal it. Both sides are "at fault" in some sense, but hardly equally.)
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I don't believe the police have any right to give a lawful order to compel a citizen from leaving a public area unless there is a public disturbance or danger. The samaritan, according to her own story, was not creating a problem. 3 drinks in 3 hours makes few people intoxicated. The people have a right, nay, an obligation, to resist unlawful orders. If her story is true and accurate, that law enforcement officer and the jailors with poor behaviors need to be fired, arrested, and prosecuted. I don't care what bad examples "cop logic" can use to justify their immoral and prejudicial thoughts. This story is a travesty and LE's actions reprehensible.
I'm a big fan of F# as well. I haven't tried it outside of windows, on mono. I've always wondered how well supported mono was and what the library ecosystem was like (I could just google that, and probably will)

Any personal experience with it?

Right now I'm diving into haskell, partly because I want a static, type-inferred, functional language on linux (my home platform of choice) and partly because I like the idea of using a language that has really pure (functionally and generally) ideas it's trying to implement. Digging it a lot so far as well.
> See Sawzall quote -- http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus....

Agreed – my point was simply that over a couple decades I've only seen a handful of cases where a performance issue which was due to the language rather than the algorithm or simple data volume. Such problems exist but not for the majority of working programmers.
Yes, but who tells you "you can't do that because we want to keep open the possibility of making money later"? The lawyers.

AT&T gave away Unix during Unix's formative years, because AT&T's government-granted monopoly disallowed it from making money on computers. They didn't make any money on Unix then. They tried later, and made some, but what a sense of loss about what might have been if only they'd been charging from the beginning! Of course, if they'd been charging from the beginning, it's hard to say Unix would have been so popular.
Might be a good time to backup your drive before logs are rotated... At the time of your writting, you only have kernel.log as a boot time clue, and it will self erase.
They generally do ask for a login on your system when you give them the machine for service. You don't need to provide it.
If you'd read the post, you'd know that it includes iPod Touches only. And neither Xboxes nor servers are personal computing devices.
The police in Detroit (where I grew up) are saints compared to the cops in NYC (where I lived when I moved to Berlin).

The NYPD is the largest terrorist organization in the United States. They are a blight on this nation.
Looks like I can get closer with the medium builds, but they still don't have a metal chassis (unless I'm missing something). I didn't see a way to ditch the optical drive either.

Edit - This is very compelling however:

> nice portable empkernel RPM (or DEB) ... Yes, it's still open, and you get all the sources.

- http://www.emperorlinux.com/quality/value/kernel/
How much is the loss? Who is going to cover it? don't think there is an insurance policy for bitcoin hacking.
In every discussion like this I've ever read on HN, the implicit assumption is: all the companies who take advantage of the new regulatory system will be like Uber.

Why is that a valid assumption? The Internet is full of sleazy companies utterly undeserving of anyone's trust.
I do have to say that i love the leopard on the Yoga 2 also. For me the 13" screen isn't a problem for my 40+ year old eyes, but I do understand why someone wants a larger form factor. For me the portability and tablet<->laptop convertibility are way more important.
Sorry I don't believe this. If it is true that we are close to maximum employment, there would be more pressure for wage inflation and more overall inflation. In places other than the bay area (which is its own world) inflation is really low nowadays. If you take into account various promotions, many prices are actually lower than last year.

And other than in the STEM fields, there is pretty much no wage inflation. If job growth increases and wages increase, I guarantee you we will see many people entering the work force. No-one likes poverty.
Haskell has a very similar core type but adorns it with type classes instead of modules.
What was the "disturbance"?
Thanks!

I'm sure Google gets like a million of these a day. I'm probably in some queue somewhere.... and I've never dated a white girl. ;-)
My bad. Should've picked that up, all fixed now
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/faq.html?search=foo
NSA employee implicated in Snowden probe resigned, memo says
inaccurate. Attempted suicide
> Restricting such language features and thereby speeding up the interpreter would have been an ideal selling point for Python 3, in my opinion, but of course it's too late now.

This could trivially be implemented in a point-release as an opt-in feature – the scientific community has paved the way for this with Cython and Python 3's function annotations[1] would be an excellent way to do something like that where a function could e.g. promise not to change things dynamically, guarantee that you only accept certain data types and thus a particular list operation can be run without checking for dynamic dispatch / duck typings, etc.

1. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/
No citation is needed for an unactionable assertion. Do you really believe in the entire history of every web page ever, this is untrue? The statement was more or less tantamount to use metrics to make decisions.
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Yet throwing in an instrumental version of the song seems to generally work out fine (or an alternative version that is a duet with Rihanna); you seem to be stuck on "there are bad things that can be added to something that make it worse" when you are simply plucking examples chosen to be uniquely the most bad, even when there are obvious examples that no one has a problem with for the exact same cases that no one has a problem with (and are even semi-expected these days).

I mean, a movie release on DVD with just be movie and nothing more is simply not done and many people would consider it cheap and disappointing. The reaction most people who have to a movie that is only 20 minutes long is or a song that was only 30 seconds long is going to be similar: I doubt many movie theaters, radio stations, or content distributors, would consider the "short" sufficient.

In this case, we know the developers have "notes left to play", and could spend the time to do those now. Clearly, I would be the first to point at Apple and say "this is not a legitimate selection criteria" (sufficiently so that even bothering to say it explicitly is kind if redundant ;P), but if I were those developers... this is just a really self-defeating reaction that is not likely to sway either Apple or the people who actually like Apple not wanting to sell things that don't feel "complete enough".
I know this is probably going to get buried, but I believe that this is part of a larger scam. I believe that the Police receive kick backs from the bail bonds men, in the form of institutional charitable contributions at the very least, if not outright cash kick backs. With this in mind, the police are inclined to make what they call 'Money Arrests', which are essentially an arrest to scare people into getting bailed out, since that the money paid to bail bonds men is non refundable even if the charges are dismissed. I have no evidence of this money trail. But based upon my personal experience, and the language that I've heard used during an arrest, such as the 'Oh you must be one of those tech billionaires', I believe that this is the case.
Asserting your rights.
Why C/C++ Is My One True Love
Western Europe has its own problems.

The U.K. has "superinjunctions" and aggressively punitive libel laws and press restrictions.

In some places in Switzerland, relationships with non-Swiss residents are so strained that local authorities have sometimes sought to ban "asylum-seekers" from public places because they are seen as dangerous criminals ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/swiss-segregati... ).

In Ireland, police seized a baby girl from her family because she was blonde and did not look like her parents, who are from Romania; they returned her after performing a DNA test ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/blonde-girl-rom... ).
Even though there is a disclaimer, I think the "encrypt in your browser" feature (https://keybase.io/encrypt) undermines Keybase's security credibility.

This form has essentially the same level of security as Hushmail. Anybody using it should consider the content exposed to Keybase or anyone compromising Keybase.
Good point. I already saved a copy of system logs.
Awesome! Unix `finger` is back! I loved that tool!
The post has absolutely nothing to do with cyclists being above the law.

Neither do your personal anecdotes about cyclists. Try not make generalisations about groups of people based on your narrow experience.
Like I said, I have no bone in the fight, but your response pretty much illustrates my point.

Not to get too into the weeds, but it sounds like you would fall onto the side of the spectrum where Ron Paul is also seen as an "apologist" of sorts. I know several libertarians who also fall into this camp, and would view Ron Paul as "better-than-Rand-but-no-Rothbard" type.

For what it's worth I respect the libertarian point of view and find it fascinating, despite disagreeing with some of the basic premises (but that's where the fun debates are).
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Also take a look at this:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802268

It seems like you should be able to just delete the comment and block that asshole. If you've tried that and it doesn't work, I'll escalate.
I really, really want crypto, specifically, safe and secure-by-default crypto, to become much more usable.

Despite this hope, I can't seem to help the fact that the first thing that popped into my head when I read their webpage is "oh, they're wrapping and abstracting important key authentication and critical key trust configuration to make it more user-friendly, and implementing it all in javascript. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?"

Even if I got whacked on the head one day and suddenly loved javascript, I would not use it for certain projects when I wanted to be taken seriously by, say, cryptographers.

Then again, look at all the success cryptocat has had!
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It depends. The Global Entry program for instance cares about arrests, not convictions. Work background checks will turn up arrests as well.
It's usually "convicted of a felony or alcohol related offense". Being arrested usually has no negative impact on your job prospects unless you are also charged and convicted (of a felony).

Arrest records do come up in the system when a background check is run as I can vouch for personally. They also come up (in Colorado) with the initially charged crime whether or not the charge was changed or dismissed. This has never hampered my ability to obtain employment, loan, or a lease.
This is one of the more exciting machines on the market. It's about the only thing that tempts me...
You aren't using the term "civil disobedience" correctly. You're not really using the term "rational" right either.
I think if a type of animal killed people on a regular basis but was fairly useful otherwise, it would be more rational to assume and plan for the animal attacking me and so minimize my encounters with it. To that end, if I'm going to paint that animal species with any wide brush, it's going to be the one that makes me more likely to survive.
Actually they are not saying that they need the government. What they are saying is that for any social enterprise to work, there needs to be honor and trust. And that this person broke that honor and trust. And yes, that is in the interest of the community.
It's just a pop-culture reference to Arlo Guthrie's song. Look it up if you like humorous 12 minute long folk-monologues.
Total returns versus the benchmark is not the only important measure. For instance, the minimum variance strategy visibly underperforms its benchmark but it has way lower volatility and fewer drawdowns. These are more important in the real world where you are likely to be heavily levered.
> But in reference to the article in question: would this system work for you? If not, isn't there a chance it really won't work for these people, for the same reason?

Sheesh. We all have a few things in common, but beyond that different people really can be different. Especially when it comes to how to manage family relationships. In my experience, anyway. Be careful of generalizing from yourself to folks you've never met.
I wish all distros will start compiling all its packages with a consistent policy to enable at least some level of stack protection (like Ubuntu and unlike Debian).
Talking about unemployment numbers without talking about how they are routinely massaged, and the calculations changed, is either stupid (for the journalist not knowing about it) or evil (if the journalist does and is merely trying to toe a line).

See shadowstats.com for instance - they (the BLS) have changed the way unemployment (and many other stats such as CPI) are calculated over the years, and are no longer very accurate.
On iPhone, I only see a graphic and login/registration links; can someone describe/summarize the service?
Say Hello to Organizations
You are welcome. :-)
> Note that OP is the guy who started Upworthy
Relationship dynamics transacted in dollars - wow. The next logical step would be to bring this system to the sexual realm.
inform the FBI that you have reason to believe an apple employee at that location is laundering money. And possibly using it to buy drugs.
Typeclasses don't interfere with type inference.

> :t (+ 5)
(+ 5) :: Num a => a -> a
This distinction is entirely a matter of context. Which is the point — it is not the words themselves that are outlawed, but the act of threatening.
If this talks to keybase's API over https and any large groups come to rely on this, we've then effectively replaced the decentralized safety of the Web of Trust used for authenticating PGP keys with the PKI that's used in browsers, which is completely and totally fucked.

I cannot support a project that doesn't build and strengthen the underlying WoT. Getting https involved for authenticating unknown keys is a huge step backwards. Madness.
Remember your world history. The East India Company was a publicly held stock by merchants and aristocrats. They were completely unrelated to the crown. That didn't change the fact that they were the de facto rulers of India (complete with a standing army and navy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company

Companies can become Governments rather quickly. The difference between Companies and Governments is that there is none. The US Government is simply one of the largest companies created on this land.

The US Government has also claimed monopoly privileges on armies and police force. Within the lands that the US Government owns, no other groups of people can organize an army. Basically, Companies and Governments are all the same thing. They are a collection of people, attempting to work together for some abstract purpose.

Besides, the US Government has adopted anarcho-capitalism before. Calvin Coolidge's quote: "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."

I'd say, Calvin Coolidge probably did more for the Anarcho-capitalist cause than any thought experiment revolving around an Anarcho-capitalist utopia. A heavy pusher of deregulation and a "Hands Off" approach to governing.

Certainly, Calvin Coolidge was less oppresive to the American population than the East India Trading Company was to the Indians.
I think that's hugely dependent on the country. For languages with relatively few speakers translating (technical) texts into English is relatively more expensive, so people have to read more English to read e.g. books on programming. That makes them more proficient in reading English, thus decreasing the market for more expensive translations, leading to fewer translations, etc.

Learning programming from English texts will affect choice of variable names, function names, etc.

Dijkstra is a counterexample (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)#Functio...), but that was in 1965, when there weren't hours of subtitled English-language television each day, or thousands of programming texts that were only available in English.