skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So get on it. Find your local city/state reps, tell them you want this, and do it.

Places all over the US have already done so, but someone has to show there is local demand.
Yeah, I debated on whether to post the comment or not, but I felt it was an important point to make, and an opportunity to self-reflect on whether you're proud / happy of your work and how to move forward.

I'm also working on a 10+ year old code-base and while I can't always make things "perfect", I always aspire to make things better, and there is no excuse for not documenting (absolutely none, here!), or not writing (unit) tests.

In the future: Documentation is CHEAP! Document your functions at least, there is no excuse, and it is helpful to do "README.txt/DESIGN.txt" style documentation / notes and check it in.

Unit tests can be expensive, but even simply (1 == expected("input1", "input2") || print "FAIL";) is a 100% valid unit test framework in a pinch.

These are very valid techniques to internalize and much better than "but the CTO did it to me first" rationalization.
This is exactly why it wont get fixed until the structural incentives of the system is fixed, which is a top level policy issue. A very very difficult political issue.
I agree completely. If open source doesn't require as much up front investment, then you don't need as much sales or market cap to justify good returns for your investors.

That aside, I do like the point of the original article. Build a scalable service on top of something open source, rather than T&M services.
I'm not saying all cops are great, but on occasion some can be nice.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/police-officer...
Get a lawyer and sue. Make those fuckers pay, and make sure the fucks who arrested you are fired. But she for sure!
My bet: Shared folders with pictures in there
I'm in the completely opposite.

Here the police is afraid of taking action, they won't chase a robber for fear of being injured or crash the car (yes, they pay for the police car repair). They are totally useless and some of them are even illiterate.

Those are the "good" cops, we also have cops involved with the mafia, this guys are a worse problem than criminals, believe me.

So, honestly, I'd rather live in the US. Just follow cop's orders and you'll be fine, at least they won't break into your house to steal your TV.
The problem is that "We The People" want Snowden in jail, want the NSA to spy, so on and so forth.
I've quite thoroughly considered it. The police are a civil service given power and authority by the public. That power is turned around to abuse the public. Now, to whom does a private condemnation best serve? Hint: It's not the abused or oppressed.
this is seriously the most hilarious response to a hacker news thread i have seen in a long time. it's got it all;

> Here we have a group of objectivist libertarians

wild conjecture? you bet.

> who believe that there should be effectively no laws other than the law of economics and self-interest

please, tell me, what else do they think? perhaps next you can tell me what i think, i'd love to hear it.

> 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

that's funny, you've quoted one thing, and decided it means the opposite. if he wanted government, he'd have called the police FBI. no, he is calling the victims of the crime to exact justice. there is no centralised government or organisation being called upon. it's the self interest thing you mentioned earlier.

> In the interest of the community?! Bwahahahaa!

i don't get what's so funny about that - do you find the word community funny? silk road is a community. they buy and sell drugs, which is obviously illegal as hell, but it is still definitely a community.

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

whoa soldier! making a generalization or assumption about a one or two people is.. understandable. but calling thousands of people greedy because they trade illicit substances? i'm not sure my brain can cope with much more wild conjecture.

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

so.. this guy is a freedom fighter now? wat.

> notices the massive hypocrisy

what exactly would that be? drugs are illegal - yes, but are they morally wrong? does taking them somehow devalue a persons worth or their opinion? on the other hand, i think everyone will agree that taking something that does not belong to you is morally wrong. so, i'd love it if you could clarify what you mean here.

secondly, on hypocrites - if ted bundy told you not to kill someone, would you disregard his advice because "oh my god why should i listen to him, he kills people all the time". or perhaps if lance armstrong gave you cycling advice, you'd ignore it because he took performance enhancing drugs?

please.
This is very much less romantic:

function drawHeart(ctx, x, y) {
x += 100;
y += 100;

ctx.beginPath();
ctx.moveTo(x, y);
ctx.quadraticCurveTo(x + 30, y + 60, x + 80, y + 100);
ctx.quadraticCurveTo(x + 130, y + 60, x + 160, y);
ctx.bezierCurveTo (x + 200, y - 75, x + 100, y - 90, x + 80, y - 20);
ctx.bezierCurveTo (x + 60, y - 90, x - 40, y - 75, x, y);
ctx.fill();
ctx.closePath();
}

Good job by the way!
> I'd agree but for one fact. OEMs have entered into these agreements freely.

The OEMs aren't the (only?) victims of the anticompetitive behaviour. It reduces the market for services competing with the Google services (as they can't sell to anyone who is also a Google customer) and it affects their customers (end users and telcos) and the choices available to them.

By "independent OEM" do you mean one who doesn't sign the contract?
"they simply don't believe in a monopoly of laws and law enforcers"

Ahahahahaah! That's the same as not having laws! And even then, what you're saying is they believe someone should bring this guy to justice...and then do nothing to him. Then it's not justice. You're killing me my friends. Just killing me here.
Well,

My experience is in medium-sized-institutions rather than giant soft-centric firm like Facebook or Google or the single-web-app startup. I think this is where the majority of programmers still work.

Here, projects "always" last longer than you think and effects of shortcuts accumulate in an unfortunate fashion.

You can say technical here is a "good choice" when it happens to be an unavoidable choice. But when it is an avoidable choice, I see it as "always" a bad choice.

-- And my quoted "always", I mean "often and more often than it is your naive impulse to think so that it's better to say always than to just guesstimate that it might not happen in this case 'cause you'll be swayed by wishful thinking"
I can re read the points you made from a libertarian / anarchist tone as well. (I see very little difference in the two).

For example:

- "whatever means necessary" can mean using illegal (contra legal ?) means to intimidate the guy who stole the bitcoins.

- "Given the right flavor of influence from our community" Again without explicitly saying what the right flavor is, he is asking the community to do what they think is right.

The rest of your post does not go against libertarian or anarchist principles. But it does fall in line with a skewed version of those terms.

I am not defending the silk road here. It is contrary to many of my principles. But your post does feel like a straw man attack.
This will force you to become very intimate with the local prison guard population however.
In the same vein, starting a store is silly, Walmart is already selling everything one could ever want..
It is not impossible. Some guy grows weed in his spare room and sells to his friend. No victim there.
That's not exactly an unusual problem for dating sites.
I honestly don't get this. If there isn't a monopoly on laws and law enforcement, does that mean that victims of crimes should be able to shop around to get the law enforcement agency that they want? Should the accused?

Is there any historical precedent for anything like this actually working?
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The issue with the idea 'some good cops vs some bad cops' is that the good ones will still protect and aid the bad ones.
So if some group decided I was a criminal by their standards (say if I insulted them on the street, or something), they could come to my home in the night and summarily execute me?
Same in my location, a neighbor had a small fire in the wall due to plumbing soldering: police, firetrucks and ambulance. Then extra police kept stopping by (I guess they were bored, and the paramedic chick was cute and flirty).
An associate of mine takes this to a different extreme; he creates a different virtual machine for each client, and works only in that.
“I mean, there are a lot of young cops on the street, trying to make a name for themselves.” - oh, so it's OK then. Absolutely disgusted by this story, particularly after reading another story about a different fucked up justice system in America (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7229930).

I did and somewhat still want to live in America for a year+, but seeing this shit daily puts me right off. So glad to be European right now.
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Of the three groups (fire paramedics police) which is most likely to be bored with nothing to do? Of course the cops are going to light the lamps.

This nation would have much better policing if we had half as many cops. I had a single day of jury duty two weeks ago and was dumbfounded by how many sheriff's deputies there were wandering around the courthouse in a daze, loitering around the metal detector, setting off the metal detector, speaking at inappropriate volume, eating in unsettling fashion, etc.
They really should up the qualifications on becoming a cop.

Cops will take the best candidates they can get. They don't get a lot of people wanting to be a cop. It's a shitty job that most people would not do by choice.
What happens to cops who condemn other cops?

They get their concerns treated seriously by responsible professionals who's work tirelessly to keep everything at the department above board. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft
Don't call the paramedics either. Desperately try to find your own way (or help the injured person find a way) to the hospital if something is wrong. There is no shortage of stories where people call the police, even for relatively serious issues, only to have the police show up and promptly murder the injured person or another nearby innocent.
It seems like the less serious offenses should be video tapped as well. Why not? Nothing serious is going to happen, right?

Police themselves should wear cameras at all times, and that footage should be made freely available to the public.
Really well done. What's now painfully obvious to me that I hadn't realized before seeing your design is how much easier cognitively it is to place the destinations horizontally. Makes a ton of sense and you rarely see that.
>Consider wearing a video camera at all times. It has been shown that when police wear cameras and are aware of being filmed, it moderates their behavior.
>As self reports of the need to use force decrease, so do complaints.

What is a good wearable camera that wont broadcast all I do to the alphabet soup?
As a black programmer, I remember the cliche about problems and regular expressions in my head as "regular expressions are like calling the cops."

That's unfair to regular expressions, though, because I actually have seen them solve a problem before. Cops improving a situation? Never seen it.
I've been wondering for a while if a company can work on purely open-source software and profit from the software itself, rather than only from the stuff that happens around it. The idea that I've been thinking over is a subscription for voting on features. That is, a user of the software will pay some monthly amount and get some number of votes for directing what new features will be implemented. Making sure that votes work properly and oft-requested features by people with low voting power still get implemented timely is one problem. Another is for companies that just want one bug fixed or feature added and aren't interested in long-term contribution. They could be easily outvoted by long-term contributors.

Has something like this ever been tried and how did it work or fail?
This is the interview I was referring to: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/dread-pirate-robe...

A lot of talk for something that just started, and had a massive fail one week after publication.
Are you saying that if I have a firmware password on my MBA that my internal SSD is inaccessible via Thunderbolt externally (until I've entered my password)?
Oh, I don't know about that; I have never seen any philosophical incompatibility between libertarianism or Objectivism and lynch mobs, so long as said lynch mobs are true mobs and not organized by a state actor -- the SA, for example, wouldn't qualify, but some of the Black Hundreds probably would. The "self-interest" idea covers such matters quite handily: it is, after all, quite plainly in one's self-interest not to do things which move his neighbors to organize a lynching bee.

So, you know, an atrocious and unconscionable doctrine appealing only to people who have some serious problems with thinking of other people as people, yes, but hypocritical? Nah, not so much.
Relevant bit from the article:

Don’t call 911. Obviously, there are exceptions, but the sad lesson is, there are fewer than you’d think.

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

Take such incidents to trial, where justice isn’t veiled by the POBAR. It’s not a matter of litigious vindictiveness. It’s just the only available way. The SF Office of Citizen Complaints is not a valid alternative.

Consider wearing a video camera at all times. It has been shown that when police wear cameras and are aware of being filmed, it moderates their behavior. As self reports of the need to use force decrease, so do complaints.

Folks, that right there is a breakdown of the social contract and the fabric of our fucking society. These incidents (finally, one that happens to the wrong people, right?) are a sign that something is seriously fucking broken.

Stop working on ads and organic food sourcing and microfunding and start fixing the fucking system. Vote. Call. Protest. Write articles like this when your friends are abused. Praise politicians that are doing the right thing.
seems like a good thing for bitcoin that this happened. sure - it could be a flaw in the bitcoin protocol. but could just be "there's no honor among thieves".

at least when criminals exchange cash for illegal goods, there's always the possibility of in-person retribution since you know who you're dealing with.

in anonymous situations for illicit goods, you don't know who you are dealing with, who you can trust, and whose kneecaps to break if they cheat you. so hey - stick to cash for the illegal stuff.

let the rest of us have bitcoin for convenience.
Well, who has constructed the straw man now?

My argument is "good cops exist". This is in response to somebody in this comment section who quite literally (yes, the real literally) said "the only good cop is a dead cop".

What exactly am I making up here?
If you don't have money to burn for a lawyer, litigation is basically a fantasyland.
My general experience with people asking for discounts on our $30-50/mo product is:

1. Some people ask for a discount, saying they're going to be long-term customers, they're going to blog about us all the time, and it's going to be great. 95% of these end up not being long term customers, and do not end up blogging about us all the time.

2. Some ask for a discount, and say (or imply) they'll go elsewhere if they don't get it. My thought is if a few bucks a month is the deciding factor, it's going to be hard to retain them in any case.

3. Some are polite about it, and just ask if there are any discounts available. They're going to subscribe anyway, but wanted to make sure they're not passing up a good deal.

I almost never offer one-off discounts any more, and very rarely offer any kind of public discount offer (and it's always for a limited time when I do). When someone asks I point them to our referral program, and to out partners who may offer a bundle discount on our product if you subscribe to _their_ product.

The benefit to this approach, in my mind, is that no one ever feels like they got ripped off because they had to pay full price - there aren't any public discounts available, so pretty much everyone pays full price.
Haha, Ted Bundy? The ultimate strawman slippery slope argument!

Oh so good, all your defenses do nothing but point out the deeper contradictions in the statements. Seriously go back and read your replies to my replies. They're even funnier.
We all know what would happen. The government would side with the government.
This has been around for a while, and there are plenty of other solutions: Citrix and Ericom both have a similar product.

There is also the Google developed RDP client for Chrome[1].

Outside of enterprise (and development) it isn't a very interesting market - the fraction of people who need Windows apps, have a Windows machine and a Chromebook, and are bothered enough by having to physically access their own Windows machine is pretty small.

The "remote assistance" market is somewhat different, but that is served by quite a lot of applications.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
I would add that it's not only a piece of technology or a set of skills that goes unnoticed or unappreciated by the general public, but nowadays most services are taken for granted without really thinking how difficult it was to put it all together.

I worked as a debt collector for some time. It's the kind of profession you would not think as something really benefitting the society, but I've always liked to think about it in a very possitive way: a company that reclaims its money is able to invest in the product development, rising employment, lowering the impact the production has on the environment etc.
For what it's worth, I don't think there's any intentional support for older browsers with their current design, so much as a failure to care about any newer design.

United's current website is Continental's website pre-merger. It's the same design they've used for nearly eight years and it's really showing.

http://imgur.com/a/RZtRH

United's pre-merger site wasn't anything really spectacular, but it was still better than what they're putting up there now.
My 2 cents... When asked for a discount pre-trial, I am vague suggesting "We'll find a way to make it work for you. We can offer discounts for longer term contracts. Once you do the trial, we can narrow down the scope and figure out how to get it to make sense for you."

If they'll give a reasonable budget to hit, then we can find a way to make trade-offs to hit it. If it's discount requests without either a budget to hit, or an explicit competitor's price, then it's too early to make concessions. You need the specific competitor so that you can define value propositions. And if you ask for enough competitor pricing, then eventually you'll get a sense of what the real price away from you is, and if the prospect is giving you BS.

This is a tough topic, because on a business with 10% net margins, if you give everyone a 10% price cut, you've given away all of your profits.
Have you thought about trying to track the person down using their wallet address? The blockchain is only as anonymous as someone is careful.
Just follow cop's orders and you'll be fine,

Ahahahahahhahhaha no try again.
I'm Brandeis '01, I was a little surprised to see that link.

Along with justice for this individual event what about something bigger. Right now there is no way to track these violent interactions officers have with the public. This police officer can do the same thing over and over and get away with it because the precinct will protect her. What if we had a way to keep track of these incidents making it easy for us to review the history of officers each time an event like this happens. If this officer had a fear of a violent interaction with the public going on her 'permanent public record' that might influence her behavior.
Make the People's Republic of San Fransisco pay? They need the funds to run Paradise.
we are talking purely about visual presentation, which means that 'older browser' support isn't really an issue. everything could have been done with images (as bad of an idea as that is) and support IE 5, if you wanted to.
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Oooooh, I like how you think. Oh! Or, if SR2 was a government sting operation? I smell a movie script.
I've never understood why people always seem to immediately bring up segfaults as scary C behavior. Is it really that different than Python dying with "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'foo'", or a NullPointerException in Java? Sure, in the latter two you get a stack trace, but you can rig up C to give you that too if you want.

What's actually potentially scary in C is code that doesn't segfault, but just continues running along with silently-corrupted memory. (And that's something that doesn't have an analogous failure mode in most other languages, as far as I know.)
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So many shaky premises here that I barely know where to start.

1) Canonical. You could have made the exact same argument as this article 10 years ago and said that there wasn't room for another RedHat. Canonical arrived and proved that yes, there is room for another profitable Linux vendor. I know I use Ubuntu server and am considering support contracts, so there is definitely a market.

2a) So Redhat doesn't have the resources for development that Microsoft has and therefore will produce an inferior product? Have you seen Windows 8? Vista? Money does not guarantee success.

2b) Even without the same resources, the main Linux kernel has an enormous number of top-talent developers working for free. This is a serious economic advantage over traditional closed source companies.

3) Why on earth is the article comparing RedHat to Amazon? One is a Linux distribution vendor, the other is a global internet shopping mall.

I'm sure others can provide more reasons. Or even counterpoints; feel free to rebut ;)
Libertarians believe in a freedom of choice, but not at the expense of others. By your interpretation, murder would be justifiable if it were "serving [one's] own interests." You've missed the distinction.
Not quite. The namedtuple will not have a per-instance attribute dictionary, so there is a significant memery saving when creating loads of them.
Plone does the same thing.