skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd appreciate if you'll find a flaw in the following:

1. Officer wants to return home no matter what.
2. He/she decides to use as much firepower as possible to achieve that - 50 cal guns, military grade armor, armored cards, explosives, grenades, rockets, whatever.
3. I have a risk of getting caught in the situation like this. I live in bad neighborhood, my brother sells weed, I had police encounters in the past, whatever.
4. I want to stay home alive.
5. What should I do to achieve #4 if police decided on the escalation of firepower? Logically I can conclude anything besides having thicker armor and higher caliber weaponry?

If someone declares war on you and not poised to take prisoners and determined to kill, what should you do?
My grandfather took me to K-mart when I was 10, and they had a VIC-20 on display. I sat down and read the manual that described BASIC. That's right, I learned to program at a K-mart.
Why I left Pivotal
Just let us know when you have writen some tutorials - Im waiting :)
Only made worse by the fact that they gave a few of what is for most people the most productive years of their lives to defend it.
First, I don't think we'd see a surge of new addiction like you expect. Second, we are already footing the bill for drug addiction, plus the violence it causes, plus the extra policing, plus legal costs, plus incarceration costs. Even with a surge in addiction, we'd still come out far ahead of the current situation.
> That Cadillac ad is awesome. I'd never seen it before.

Watching that commercial filled me with rage and made me want to punch that rich asshole in the face.
They'll get him eventually even if it takes another fifty armed assaults.
I have a friend with alopecia. This would be awesome if gives her an option for reversing it.
People guilty of crimes should be tried and prosecuted. Judges should impose the sentence, and for serious crimes that probably includes a jail sentence which is the ultimate restriction of movement. If that also includes restricting their international movements as part of their sentence, fine. But simply having been at one time convicted of a crime should not automatically banned from air travel.
Yeah, my swappiness is set to default (60) I still never use my swap space :/
Children don't have to accept legal responsibility, parents do that for them in most instances. So your point is nullified.
> might choose a different four but the idea is solid

The goal is to personalize these parts so they're your own. By all means I encourage people to pick their own but boil them down to succinct things you can describe in an elevator pitch.

They're very powerful when you talk to a manager or a potential employer about what makes you happy as an employee. It can be hard for a manager when you ramble on about what you want but I can blast these out along with a short example of each and use them as the basis of a productive dialog with the person I'm talking to.

In short, yes, pick your own, but know them cold and know how you measure them and how you can communicate to others when your not at a 5 in every area! :-)
That happened in the 1970s:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/413/266/case.htm...

Then the ability to simply stop vehicles near the border was curtailed (the ruling still allows a stop given specific information):

http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/422/873/
Yup. It started with the campaign touting the positive effects on the NYC economy, now it's the "let's pull some heartstrings" video.

For those who missed it, I've outlined my experience with AirBnB (as a non-host in a building with hosts) last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7923849 (top comment)

For anyone defending AirBnB here's a nice list of things to read before you do so:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/item/airbnb-san-francisc...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/1230/Berlin-squee...

http://tomslee.net/2014/05/the-shape-of-airbnbs-business.htm...

http://tomslee.net/2014/06/the-shape-of-airbnbs-business-ii....
Absence of undefined behavior in the C implementation is of course one of the things covered by the seL4 proof.
using the DRY principal and such

Repeating yourself is actually very important in court opinions. It shows that the court has considered all the case materials, claims, and legal precedent to clearly spell out what all of that means and how they factor into the findings of law.

They're very readable to people trained in the art, or the moderately-engaged passersby. Additionally, courts typically write with narrow margins and/or heavy line spacing.
An ignorant question -- why do people prefer to render graphics to SVG/DOM, when that's such a noticeable performance bottleneck?
I don't expect that since the version field is optional.
Indeed, I wish this post had his rationale behind the changes and descriptions of what each change does.
Curious as to why I was downvoted ~
You should call and ask.

http://medicine.yale.edu/dermatology/people/brett_king-2.pro...
"I'm betting most of the laity were exposed to philosophy through low-level survey courses where notions such as substrata and monads were thrown about."

But at least it was a good grounding for becoming a functional programmer!
Hurting people is already illegal.
Lacking knowledge . And Looser people they believe as if they know everything.Eod he is a zero person . GO AND DIE SOMEWHERE.
Which University Has Better Entrepreneurs?
Dear Google, it's not me. It's definitely you.
I agree with the "who picks on you seems to have to do with what vibe you give off" sentiment. Perhaps I over interpreted from Nikki's description, but I have seen and experienced smart, young(ish), accomplished women sometimes get sabotaged by older women in bureaucratic or middle management type roles. I could imagine that whatever that thing is might have been what motivated the "tinpot dictator who likes making up rules on the spot" to choose Nikki to power trip on and feel helpless. I don't know whether they are jealous, they feel helpless and therefore like watching others feel that way, think they are protecting young women from roles they aren't ready for, are just having a bad day or they met that kind of resistance and now think it builds character. It doesn't really matter. But it certainly hurt 99dresses and that makes me sad.
Sure, but elected positions do not work that way. ;)

Sometimes you make a bad choice based on circumstances that were partially outside of your control. An elected judge being overthrown for that reason may make their successor either more willing to question or less willing to take the police's evidence as sufficient.
A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes
The part I've been thinking about and don't have a good answer to is, where would the drones fly? The best answer I've come up with is directly overhead non-highway surface streets. Or put another way, where is it OK for drones to crash?

I do think the FAA is too risk adverse, and they ought to allow less-limited market trials in large metropolitan areas. The current UAS plan is good but too conservative.
What should people use?

C99shell is easy to use and common.

Why is it nuts?? You're using it for quick and easy defacements and compromises.

This is a numbers game often from people with low skill levels. I see no issues here at all. If your defacements were getting quickly taken back by another crew it might be an issue, but I've seen no evidence of this happening.

Just because there's a security issue it's not the end of the world. Risk management still comes into it.

Easy to use = more defacements. Might have a hole, well is there evidence we are losing enough defacements to justify the retraining of the crew and added costs?

And more importantly, be agile. Defacements getting retaken over at unacceptable levels, just move to a different product.
The real problem is innovation. Don't forget Apple iPad and Android-pads are also evolving too. Until that's changed, Sadly, MS will always be playing me-too.
Which claim? That he sued everyone in order to acquire control of Mathematica?

Like I said, it's hard to give evidence of that because he sued everyone into silence, but here's some vague allusions about it:

Wolfram quit Illinois, took the program private, and entered into
complicated lawsuits with both his former employee and his
co-authors (all since settled).

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfra...

I suppose your next move is to discredit this source, but this isn't the first time I hear about it. I remember other vague allusions to this incident, and it fits with Wolfram's overall litigious nature, which is well-documented. I'll try emailing the parties that were probably involved (I think it included at least partially the SMP crowd).

In the meantime, you can keep defending Wolfram, but I don't think you really need to. He's got no shortage of shills.
As I read Dr. Carroll's blog post, I was reminded encouragingly of how a famous philosopher and Parisian professor[1] – the student of a great medieval experimentalist[2] – in 1265 began his opus magnum with a critique aimed at those who argued that philosophy was the pinnacle of human intellectual pursuit, encompassing all else. See Article One, Question One of the First Part[3] in the Summa Theologica[4]:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_the_Great

[3] http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1001.htm

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Theologica
I'm not so sure. Doesn't this stage allow the market to dictate which features are important to (albeit early-adopter) consumers?
If your constituents are racists, you have to find policies that support those views by proxy -- the war on drugs, immigration control, abortion rights, and so on. Over time, people end up remembering the propaganda and forget the real reasons these ideas gained so much support in the beginning.

Meth didn't exist when the war on drugs started, it is an after the fact explanation. You've been taught that the war on drugs is equal opportunity. Propaganda is built on lies and dis-information. The individuals crafting policies who actually believe that propaganda eventually craft disaster and failure, like a geneticist who doesn't believe in evolution.
Isn't it pretty straight forward as to what it means? I wasn't attacking you; why do you seem defensive?

I'm saying:

1. Just because someone finishes a degree program doesn't mean that they have tenacity or natural ability. (The conventional wisdom, which you invoked, is that they do.)

2. If the goal is to filter people for tenacity or natural ability, there are probably better ways to do that.

3. Hiring people who view education as a game (i.e. I scored better than you!) may be a good strategy for corporations but not necessarily for entrepreneurship, science, or society, in general.

Also, I'm not trying to 'win' at internet discussion - just bring up different perspectives, which I think are interesting. And, perhaps other people have other interesting perspectives.
The case is being appealed, but isn't the most recent decision the one with legal power, until another decision is made upon appeal?

But even more generally, I should have said the FAA has no clear legal authority to regulate small unmanned aircraft. The FAA obviously claims that it does have certain legal abilities, and points to certain laws to argue their case [0].

[0] http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2014-06-23/faa-claims...
Can you defeat the monster?
I'm using it, but if you're using it, you're likely to monitor more than x machines and you may have to compile it yourself (to include THE plugin you need), and deploy it yourself...
Example: Ubuntu 14.04LTS' collectd has the right plugins for me, but 12.04 doesn't...
Device bypasses spinal cord function
Pick something and get good at it.

If you aren't familiar with something that you see, look it up. If it looks useful to you, build something with it.

A group of people will always look smarter, more knowledgeable and more accomplished because you will see the acomplishments collectively, and compare them to your own, individual work.

tl;dr - Don't let it get to you, carve out your own niche.
That article seems entirely based on the comments on the OP. The only major quote in there is from a comment by the publisher of the post.

And it's wrong about its two major points, as other commenters pointed out: the contract doesn't limit "windowing", and the "covenant not to sue" just covers suing over copyright infringement for exactly what's covered in the contract itself.
Another key point is that large parts of this contract are simply illegal in many parts of Europe.
Youtube has got some great videos of people enforcing their rights at these stops.
I was thinking to moving to the US and start my company

now i'm gonna stay home. At least no one is gonna fire a flash nade at me
Moment wraparound smartwatch on Kickstarter
You can't ipo when one of your popular products is questionable legally.

That said it's cheaper for me to stay in a Sheraton in Times Square than use Airbnb (which I usually use when traveling).
The ruling does seem to imply that, however, on appeal, that will almost certainly be clarified. No judge would actually argue for a right to travel so broadly defined that it would essentially remove all regulatory power over who can and cannot fly. The ruling will likely be clarified for precedent to mean that the right to due process includes a right to quickly and effectively contest designations by government agencies in the absence of formal charges of violating a law.

The right to travel, in the broad sense of "you have the right to move wherever you want to move so long as no laws are violated," is likely covered by an umbrella of the 1st Amendment right to free speech and expression, as well as the 9th Amendment, as a negative right: you are free from being prevented from travel by means not permissible by law or Constitutionally.
Very welcome news. I hope it will have a positive impact on cases like http://www.papersplease.org/wp/category/freedom-to-travel/
> f.ex. where did the fixed width files come from?

Encrypted and signed files sent over the wire from a company we do business with. Additionally I was just pairing the values up with local names that I chose (the fixed width file had no column names itself, they sent us a word doc (ugh)). And the function that called extract had exactly one local, the array I built representing a row from the file (unused after the initial call to extract).

Extract also lets you prefix the extracted vars, avoid overwriting name collisions, etc. http://php.net/extract

The code from this article is unsafe because it directly operates on user input, was not explicit about what values were required (you can filter an array by key easily enough...) and doesn't isolate the environment it's extracting in. That's the unsafe behavior.
FWIW, I'm 40 and have been programming professionally for 15 years, and programming as a hobby for probably 8 years before that.

I still run across stuff I don't understand, all the time.

And I'm not one of those people who have "1 year of experience 15 times" instead of "15 years of experience". I'm pretty aggressive about learning new stuff and expanding my horizons. And yet the pace of change is so fast, there's always new stuff coming out, or areas of tech I'm discovering for the first time.

The moral of this little diatribe? Don't sweat it. Be curious, explore, learn, hack, and don't worry too much about comparing yourself to others. And don't assume everybody on HN is some uber-genius, super-brilliant "10x" programmer. I mean, sure, there probably are people like that here, but I'm pretty sure they are a small minority.

For another take, you might find esr's "How to become a hacker" essay useful:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Other than that, my only advice would be to start a project (open-source or not, whatever you think) that gives you a venue to challenge yourself. That is, start a project that you don't believe you're really competent to complete, and then go do it.

Also, "read a lot".
The different economic buckets exist largely because of regulations. The apartment might not fetch a full $800 per month in short term lets if property owners across Manhattan could charge the highest rent they wanted for the most profitable letting period, but it certainly wouldn't be possible for tenants to make a living off the difference between an artificially high price for [illegal] subletting and the artificially low price of renting long term for established tenants.
Yes in most cases it applies to all US residents. But many don't apply to non-residents who still live in the US. For Eg: international students.
But you should also consider where it is OK for delivery trucks to crash, and whether a drone crash or truck crash is more likely to cause damage or injury.
Establishment resists potentially disruptive technology. News at 11.

While agencies of government have never hesitated to step in and order people about, I am somewhat concerned that they are saying "Stop that at once!" far less often, in favor of "Don't even think about it."

Rather than allowing people to test the limits of their ingenuity, and intervene only when there is a demonstrable externality to be addressed, they are now issuing orders based upon an unrealized potential for harm. I think the latter demands a higher standard. You would have to be worrying about buildings burning down and people dying before I would want anyone to ban something that hasn't even been done yet. Let's ban people from building nuclear reactors in their toolsheds, yes. Maybe don't allow people to set off high-powered fireworks in the middle of a bunch of flammable homes. And let's not drive cars at high speed through suburban avenues where children, joggers, and pets may be present.

How, exactly, would software-piloted package-delivery aircraft present such a severe threat to life and property that we have to conclude that they cannot possibly be operated safely?

The public wants to use its airspace in a manner that benefits them. That includes noncommercial hobbyists, people such as journalists and surveyors profiting incidental to their usual work, and people earning money directly. The FAA does not get to pick the winners and losers here. That job, unfortunately, belongs to the legislature, not the executive (unfortunate in the sense that they have opted not to do their jobs, of course).

FAA is either exceeding its authority, or its authority is ambiguous at a result of legal refactoring proceeding more slowly than societal development. Either way, it stops Amazon from even trying, while black marketeers will blithely use drones to make drops of contraband, and cops and soldiers will use them for illegal surveillance and ethically dubious methods of crowd control.

As with so many other things, the real barrier here is how much it costs for Average Joe to buy and operate his own software-piloted drone. If you can get one cheaply enough, drones will eventually be resupplying beers from the camper to the bass boat, and the FAA will be stuck trying to enforce an extremely unpopular decision that is routinely ignored by people who have never even heard of it.
Well, in many cases there is no crime. Given the ridiculous amount of people on the list and the way the form is designed, a large number will be on there due to a "mistake" in filling out the form.

Theres an excerpt of the form here:

http://papersplease.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/vgtof-...

Notice how you have to check the box to indicate someone is not to be added to the list. It is completely counter-intuitive. I'd say it is just badly designed, but we're far beyond innocent mistakes here, at this point there needs to be judicial and personal responsibility for the people involved in its creation and ongoing maintenance.
Ask HN: What would it take for you to do surveys?
Does anyone have any features that they would like to see a survey based application provide?

I have the base of a site, but ironically I realized that I didn't survey people to see what features they would like.

http://doblun.com is the site. From the landing it might seem like I am just getting started. Reason for that is I don't like landing pages. I want to just have the application ready to go with a quick signup when I start to upload the application files.
No nest here. I've installed a couple thermostats in my house and family homes. Its fairly trivial work. Looking at the pix of the nest "wiring diagram" and backplate wiring thingy, it appears to be beyond easy. (edited to add, I'm complimenting its graphical arts design or whatever, in the olden days I've actually installed thermostats that consider written docs that "the 3rd screw terminal is the W" no diagrams or writing on the device, to be adequate, the nest is much better documented and designed) The biggest "fun" you'll have is if you require lines that don't exist and have to rewire at the furnace (most commonly not having power at the thermostat)

The most exciting part of thermostat installation is standards are so handy that there must be dozens of them.

My advice is take a pix of the wiring before you start. No pondering what connected to what if you get confused later. This is also handy with advanced car work.

In addition to the pix, draw a map of how each wire connects to what old terminal and all that. Not necessarily useful as an end product but it does kind of force the issue of studying the wiring.

Also pull the wire out of the wall a little, and tape a clothes hanger or something like that to the wire. That way it can't fall into the wall, which can be quite a puzzle to solve even with the gear to fix it.

Thermostat wiring is much like the old RS-232 standard in that every pin is supposed to be indestructible and can't be damaged by shorting to any other pin at any time, and of course Chinese value engineering means thats not always the case. Shutting the furnace off would probably be wise, even if in theory its impossible to damage anything by a momentary short ckt.

WRT "or called a professional" note that the profit margin on sales will motivate them to not be interested in installing your thermostat, rather than installing their thermostat, and they might not sell a nest. Also a pro HVAC guy makes money installing major machinery, so unless they're hurting for work, getting a guy out there might not be easy/cheap.

(edited to add I wrote from a EE perspective WRT wiring and protocols and pinouts, and one thing I overlooked is the decorative aspect of if you're changing from a giant rectangular to small round thermostat you'll have some painting, maybe even screw hole filling, maybe even hold patching to do, and frankly I donno if HVAC guys will do that kind of thing. Every job an adventure...)
I'm surprised by the huge difference between those articles. Somehow i do find your article more believable. News outlets prefer to spin the story the other way because that kind of story is much more popular. It sheds light on a whole other side of what happened and i'm shocked to see how the posted article just lies about half of it.

Of course this is a sad story, no one should ever get hurt by drug violence, let alone a defenseless baby. But i think we should not rush our opinions on these things.

It's easy to get all emotional and be all upset when we read these things.

But we are supposed to be intellectuals right? We should not make judgements based on one sensationalist article. We can do better than that.

I think we should all just act a bit more rational. Don't make snap judgements. Read more about a subject before you condemn people.

In the end, i don't care what YOU think is the truth. Just make sure you know what you're talking about before you shout out your opinions.

PS: iambateman, this is not really meant for you of course ;)

People will probably misinterpret my post. In no way i mean to say that police and government don't share any blame. I'm definitely against the militarization of police. But i won't be sending money to that family either.