skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, stop to speak about 'war' on insert-bad-thing-here.

With that terminology comes the behavior. And this behavior is 'self-improving'. The Police already has access to that gear of the military, which is left over from the real wars. That gear is more likely being used along with war tactics. Self protection and the appliance of gear and tactics became more important than to protect the civilians and even to protect the criminals from them self.
Quite as usual, you should expect them back away from this deal and soften it a lot in case it gets massive public attention and criticism. They have competitors, and those will not fail to use this moment.
I would like to second this response.

All extremely valuable to limit long term risk. Over time someone(s) will have to leave the group and having this ironed out up front saves a lot of time, effort, and money down the road.

One thing to consider is cash contributions (if any) that might alter the allotted equity. Other than that, equal partners with vesting is a good way to go.
Has someone OCR'd this or made it searchable
Ask HN: How can I transition from a developer to a product designer?
I have a degree in Computer Science and have been a developer for 4 years now. I am thinking about switching to a more product designer role where I can spend time learning about user experiences and build products that solve problems. Going back to school is not really an option. How should I learn about design and eventually become a product designer?
You mean lockpicks, or were you thinking of a sledgehammer?
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> Isn't that at least partly because they arm themselves as if they were enemy combatants and treat the police as such.

That certainly happens. According to http://www.odmp.org/search/year, 30 American police officers were killed by gunfire (not-accidental) in 2013. However, like most things, what's more important is how often it occurs. It turns out that there's somewhere between 750,000-800,000 police officers in the USA, so on the high end, that's 4 gunfire-related deaths per 100,000 officers.

Compare that to jobs like fishing (127 per 100,000), roofing (34 per 100,000), and farming (26 per 100,000) (source: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/10-most-dan...), being shot to death as a police officer doesn't seem especially likely. (Admittedly, gunfire-related deaths don't represent a majority of officer deaths in a given year, it seems, but gunfire is the main justification behind police militarization)

Edit: To put it another way, being a police officer is 2.5 times safer (gunfire-wise, at least), than driving a car.
I always assumed the right was implicit. (Potentially ignorant US citizen here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unite...
Today i was refactoring some js code that rendered a graph to svg. It was taking several seconds in some cases, and the developer had done a bunch of micro-optimizations, inlining functions, building caches to avoid nested loops, and so on.

I ran a profile. The code ran for 2.5 seconds, 4 ms of which in the micro-optimized js code, the rest updating the dom, five times all over again. Needless to say that i threw out all the micro-optimizations, halving the number of lines, and fixed it so the dom was updated once.

Anyway, the point i'm making is this: you should micro-optimize for readability and robustness, not performance, unless profiling shows it's worth it. I haven't known a case where pure (non-dom, non-xhr) js code needed micro-optimization for performance in half a decade.
Ad designer – that's what we've been trying to build at http://tweenui.com/animator, and I'd love to hear how GWD users think we stack up.
collegedata.com (what ever that is) says that the total cost to attend BU is $61k, and the average need based gift was $26k plus another $7k in "self help" for freshmen which I assume is a combination of loans and work for the school. 83% of freshmen got aid, but less than half of students over all got financial aid. Some of this is skewed by the fact that BU has a large number of foreign students who typically do not get any financial aid.

$30k per year is still a lot, but its a private university in the middle of Boston. Half of that $30k is for room and board.

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl...
You don't need to go all the way to physics for free will - you need look no farther than psychology to determine whether free will exists or not. Actually, you don't need to look any farther than a serious philosophical treatment of what you mean by "free will" to see that the question itself is a confused one based on untenable (or even more confused) assumptions.

Nevertheless the belief in free will is very important for human happiness; or at least, happy and/or successful people tend to believe in free will, or just that their will is free and they're the master of their fates and the captain of their souls.

That is often the motive behind free will arguments, which generally have a very powerful smell of rationalization about them, but a thing is not necessarily true because human happiness (or even life) requires believing it is true or leads to the feeling it must be true.
The Onion + TechCrunch = TrapCrunch
If it was an extension we would lose stability because our devtools have unit tests that test against every Firefox change.
Google now giving out $150 rebate.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/mobilewireless/24060/google-c...
Something I think Philosophers should also stop saying silly things about Physics.
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I have never smoked in my life, and I don't plan to, but did you just put people that are high in the same bucket as drunks and insane people? They are very different types of people.
Exactly, what's wrong with a double clawed hammer?

Use it or not, if you don't like it you can smash stuff with the triblade screw driver. Or the 7 point socket wrench.

PHP provides a wealth of very useful tools that you can choose to use or not. I don't know why people think my 7 point socket wrench is dumb, it works quite well to round the edges of 6 sided bolts and saves a lot of money on buying those special bolts that can't be removed once tightened.
>can these companies really not get productive work of a slightly broader group?

Relative to the 1/100 resumes-- if your friend took the time to dig deeper, he'd likely spot 2-3 diamonds in the rough, a moneyball misfit.

If your friend is like most senior managers, he'll scoff at the idea-- 'I'm too busy to read 100 resumes' he'll likely say, or 'that's HRs job!'

Finding & attracting talent is a mission critical competency that senior leadership must drive. Too often it's delegated to mid-tier management that don't share the same sense of urgency.

It takes an exceptionally rare manager who can assess and train-up mediocre talent into A-Player status. Fewer still, who have the guts to make a trial hire. A bad hire can be costly on a variety of levels.

But most guys would rather play it safe-- blame HR, lack of bandwidth, or the market. Meanwhile, the guys who figure it out manage to scale.
For anyone wondering what's all this about - check out the comments at the bottom of that page.
The risk of some evidence being destroyed versus potentially killing a kid (and in this case 'luckily' only wounding that kid) seems to be an easy choice. To protect and serve and all that.
It is important to remember the separation. What is true at the national scale is rarely the case in a municipality. The legislative branch of my State for instance is clearly the powerhouse, and I feel like my fellow citizens didn't realize the obvious Gerrymandering that just destroyed the only Republican district of the state. (It came up for referendum but... no one seemed to notice the importance of the vote).

For the case of Georga / Cornelia... I really don't know. And unfortunately, its simply "their State, their problem".

On the national scale, I'd assume that the FBI can be pulled in to prosecute Georgia / Cornelia.

http://www.fbi.gov/minneapolis/press-releases/2014/former-po...

Remember: the FBI is the "watchers who watch the watchers". They can sue, prosecute, and arrest local police officers, and their national judicial system is entirely independent of a local municipality's judicial system. (Its unlikely that a local cop can play buddy-buddy with a national judge)

I would bet that there's a good case for "excessive force" here.
You can never get the time you spent being miserable back, but you can prevent spending more in the future. And quitting will allow you to make that change for the better.

No knowing how you left the first job, it might be worth while to contact them and see your old job back assuming you liked it and are willing to move closer.
I actually did an internship on a grape farm in the early 90's. Getting a degree in agonomy I was all hyped on modern technology and exited about tensiometers. The 20 year old me wanted to install them, but was shut down by the old Hispanic foreman during the meeting. He had been growing grapes for 30+ years. When I asked him how he decided when to water he said... simple. See these weeds growing under the grapes? (it was a type of pigweed I believe) When they start to droop it's time to water. Turns out, the grapes roots are deeper and the vines much larger than the weed, so this was in fact a free (and pretty accurate) tensiometer.

I love tech. And not to be a cynic, but I kind of doubt many serious "farmers" read this magazine. The old foreman maybe converted me to a degree of traditionalism. There doesn't need to be a tech solution for everything. Sometimes simple time tested solutions are better.

EDIT: One more point. Suppose one was able to figure out an individual plant's water needs. I don't know of any irrigation system that would let you meet it. The block, patch, field, whatever gets watered all together. Unless you send people to adjust individual emitters or something. And, if you are doing that you have undoubtedly spent far more money than you will ever make back in increased yields or water savings. This "modern farmer" magazine kind of drives me nuts and I see it posted here on HN frequently.

EDIT2: I guess I'm at my commenting limit so I'll leave the reply here. I agree with poster who says tech is necessary to feed more in the future. But this chip, in a production setting, is a non-solution looking for a problem. And there is way too much stuff like this that people think are "breakthroughs".

People have trouble comprehending scale when it comes to agriculture. A tray in a hydroponic gardens, even a roof full of hydroponic gardens... cool, but it isn't going to ever provide a significant portion of the worlds food. And it is way too expensive to set up and maintain for what it provides. Now... for specialty applications and a few off-season vegetables it's fine. But many thousands of acres and lots of water are required to produce the real bulk of our food... i.e. grains. The aquaponics systems pictured in the links below wouldn't even sufficiently feed the two guys in the picture. And... examining the moisture usage of individual plants per watering cycle... great for research or hobbyist or specialist crops, not practical day to day production agriculture. That's my point.
From the article it seems like the judge has said that the right to freedom includes the ability to travel out of the country or across country. It's just not reasonable to require some segment of the population (500-20,000 people) to take a boat to go to Europe, with no trial or ability to appeal. Movement is restricted.

It doesn't seem like a right on it's own, so much as included in the existing right to "liberty". My 2 cents.
High valuations and founders
I said safest, not safe. I'm not trying to defend no-knock raids; I believe them to be immoral, dangerous, and unconstitutional. I was merely trying to explain why these tactics are used.
Proximity 5 Launches Next Generation iBeacon platform for the Internet of things
> Years of campaigning means nothing if society hasn't notably changed as a result

It may mean that what the campaign thinks is right is not what people want. It doesn't help that social sciences research on the subject is kind of taboo.
I created this with a new service I released (Machete). Machete is built on top of dc.js (which in turn is built on d3.js and crossfilter). dc and d3 both have decent learning curves, Machete is aimed at non-programmers or as a prototyping tool for developers.

The visualization works best in chrome or any edge browser. In the off chance you're a huge Luddite and surfing HN with IE8, here are a couple extracted stats across the 2,040 rounds:

YC dwarfs other accelerators with $2.8B in funding, next largest is AngelPad with $185M.

Average A Round - $4.3M, B - $17M, C - $58M, D - $98M

Airbnb and Dropbox so skewed stats, that I created a filterable attribute for them called "Freakish_Outlier".

I should be on for a couple hours, please feel free to comment or ask questions.
Could someone with better legal knowledge and familiarity with licensing help me make sense of how I should react to this?
Ask HN: Is anyone using Nest Thermostat in their home?
I have a really old thermostat in my house and it is time to upgrade. Nest is hot right now and just wanted to ask if any fellow HN'ers have them installed in their homes. Did you install it yourself or called a professional ? What do you think about its "Learning ability" ? How well does it work with WiFi ?
That reminds me SOAR[1] (from 1984): Smalltalk on a RISC

Smalltalk on a RISC (SOAR) is a simple, Von Neumann computer that is designed to execute the Smalltalk-80 system much faster than existing VLSI microcomputers. The Smalltalk-80 system is a highly productive programming environment but poses tough challenges for implementors: dynamic data typing, a high level instruction set, frequent and expensive procedure calls, and object-oriented storage management. SOAR compiles programs to a low level, efficient instruction set. Parallel tag checks permit high performance for the simple common cases and cause traps to software routines for the complex cases. Parallel register initialization and multiple on-chip register windows speed procedure calls. Sophisticated software techniques relieve the hardware of the burden of managing objects. We have initial evaluations of the effectiveness of the SOAR architecture by compiling and simulating benchmarks, and will prove SOAR's feasibility by fabricating a 35,000-transistor SOAR chip. These early results suggest that a Reduced Instruction Set Computer can provide high performance in an exploratory programming environment.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=808182
A Jetliner For A Fuel-Starved Future
A kid with a dead father is no worse of (financially) than a kid with a father who just left the mother, really.
This contract is probably behind an NDA and releasing it may also break other confidentiality agreements already in existence.

The summary is that these terms are very unfavorable according to the indie artists and the companies they are affiliated with. They feel they are being strong-armed by Google and that Google is showing a strong preference toward large media companies and making it very difficult for future indie artists to become successful with this agreement.
Here is the author on contemporary accounting issues

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/04/first_we_kill_all_the_accoun...
Marijuana isn't the only drug that gets you high. He was using "high" in the sense of other, more harmful drugs that completely distort your reality and can cause you to become violent. Remember the bath salt incidents a while back?
This seems like a potential win for JS performance in real-world applications -- an optimization hint to indicate whether an array is "overwhelmingly full of holes" or something less sparse where more optimized versions of the functions can be used.
Can I participate as a female volunteer for this study?? Me and my "eyebrows" are up for the challenge!
Maybe, I'm not that well versed on the mathematics side (and only moderately well read on the philosophy side) It is also my understanding that most of the work on logic occurs on the philosophy side. See Frege, Kripke, Hintikka, and others. My particular interest (never finished the degree) was Bayesian Epistemology--basically looking at knowledge as uncertain, and trying to model degrees of certainty using Bayesian methods.
I think your statement requires a slight modification: There's no human being on Earth who is not guilty of any crime that is so dangerous that they cannot be safely put on an airplane.

By all means, keep the convicted Son of Sam's of this world off my airplane. But somebody that the state finds themselves unable to convict of anything? Give me a break. Either the state can prove that they are dangerous and need to prosecute them, or they need to leave them alone.
Rather than storming new ideas, I find it particularly hard to stick on a single idea.

So many people have lots of "open" ideas that never just get executed properly
Hope for George Dawes!
The FAA has no physical ability, and currently no legal authority, to allow or disallow the use of drones to deliver packages. This document is a set of rules that the FAA would like to carry legal weight, but which currently do not.
Like in the the other European countries, too.

If someone pulls a knife or even a pistol in Germany, the police will try its best to save even the offenders life - even if it takes hours.
The comments explain nothing.
Seems optimistic to me. If you flush in rapid succession the reservoir has to fill again. I guess that a good flush requires, depending on circumstances, 20s of refilling. That would lower the throughput significantly. Also, the suspect has to move the cocaine from hiding to the toilet. Sure, $20K is a lot of money but were not talking Pablo Escobar-like quantities here.

Edit: also clogging, not sure when this happens and not really willing to experiment.
"high" doesn't imply only marijuana. I would prefer to not be on the same airplane as someone who's just consumed a large amount of methamphetamines, or LSD, or cocaine.
If we can't do an experiment to settle the issue, then maybe the two are equivalent, and Occam's Razor says don't get all theoretical about many universes without good reason?

On the other hand, sooner or later, someone may figure out how to do an experiment that can tell the difference (unless it's provable that the two interpretations always give the same physical results).
Check out Chalk.com - a "Google Apps for teachers". Has tens of thousands of teachers using it. Its free for a teacher to use. Schools can pay to enable collaboration features. Superficially it looks like a LMS, but usually exists alongside them.

(i'm not affiliated, but have been impressed by the founder. They are bootstrapped)
That solves nothing whatsoever. People aren't selling drugs because they believe everyone should have access to them.

They sell drugs because it makes money. Legalize drugs and they'll make money some other illegal and dangerous way.
Not so, say those in the know: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/24/notice_and_shakedown...
Up until now, yes, in that it concerns something not yet released. YT is working on releasing a streaming media service, on terms that are still emerging/being defined. From the looks of this document, the terms will not be pretty for non-major labels. YT gets a lot of reproduction rights and the ability to manipulate prices, which has a very high potential for exploitation of artists.
Is it made from cat sweat?
Multirotors are not particularly loud. Have you been around them much?
COULD A PILL CURE BALDNESS?
This reminds me of the Sizzle selector engine which is used by most JS frameworks out there including jQuery. There was a time all the frameworks were competing on selector performance and I believe it was Prototype.JS that decided not to implement Sizzle because they wanted to keep the competition alive and didn't want homogeneity. Sizzle approached most major frameworks out there. The competition in selector performance ultimately benefited everyone.

Even if end-developers don't take this up it may end up benefiting framework developers like Sizzle, jQuery and others who have a strong test suite and can use this to benchmark their performance ceilings and push them further.
"Brown wrote in her 65-page ruling." 65 pages! They need some good programmers to help them refactor that to be shorter, more expressive, more readable, and changeable using the DRY principal and such.
It's not really implied by this. It's one of the rights guaranteed by the constitution.
Thank you for sharing this very important perspective. A lot of EdTech initiatives seem to neglect the variation in individual teaching.

It seems like if you build a school around these tools, it could work a lot better than bolting on to existing schools. In that sense, charter schools may be good for experimenting with technology.

The other observation - teachers are very busy. Each technology initiative takes time and attention. Reminds me of this Onion article. http://www.theonion.com/articles/magical-office-worker-able-...
The Constitution applies to anyone within the US, citizen or not.
Magic Office Worker Turns Everything He Touches Into More Work For Colleagues
Our devtools have unit tests that run for every tiny change that is made to Firefox. Building the tools in gives much more stability. We are also using and exposing a lot of low level Firefox stuff and fixing bugs as a result.

So in short you get a better, more extensible browser, more stability and the chance to take a look at how something you use every day works.

It's a win-win in my opinion.
I do not believe a judge currently has to authorize someone's placement on the No Fly List, which right away raises red flags. So the No Fly List is definitely unconstitutional as it is currently implemented, but I wonder if it would be replaced a constitutional implementation. For instance, if FBI, CIA, or NSA had to clear a probable cause legal hurdle in order to place someone on the list, and if a judge, rather than the TSA, had to approve their placement, then the program might be constitutional. The proceedings might have to be secret, so the no fly list would function like some NSA programs that I know folks here are so fond of (note: sarcasm) - but at least it would involve the judiciary rather than giving the executive branch carte blanche to prohibit anyone it deems suspect from travelling.
Getting high isn't just limited to smoking marijuana... There are a huge array of substances that could cause safety concerns for passengers on an airplane.
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