skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A judge would have signed off on this raid and was probably reasonably aware of the tactics they were likely to employ.
I'm not so sure. Atlanta made tons of changes after the Kathryn Johnson incident and the Atlanta Eagle raid. They totally disbanded the red dog unit, and have been much more sensitive to public perception after those events. I think more importantly this shows that these small county (Habersham, ~40k total county pop) police forces have no business having "SWAT" teams, much less doing no-knock drug raids.
Up to 1m impressions, or $6000 per month.
It would be a non-violent crime, probably. Non-violent crimes shouldn't result in swat teams.
CPM = Cost per mille (thousand), not cost per million - in case anyone was wondering.
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>If we have to err between the safety of the public and the safety of police officers, that's an easy decision to make

You're right -it was appallingly easy for them to decide that they can do as they please.

Given the prison/police/military industrial complex fueling our massive, unprecedented in world history, Third Estate and the utter lack of any meaningful political opposition to it, things will get worse before they get better.
If you're talking about whether theories match the real world, then you're correct. It can never be conclusively verified due to the problem of measurement.

However, given a theory, you can prove whether or not something is correct in the model described by the theory. So while it can never be conclusively proven whether, say, the standard model matches the real world perfectly, you can most definitely prove that electrons behave in a specific way in a world that behaves like the standard model says it should.

That leaves open the question whether the real world matches the standard model or not, and while very compelling measurements and experiments can be produced, we don't really know. Well, we do know, actually. There's no gravity in the standard model, so it most definitely does not describe our world, which is why the whole string theory research is happening.

But climate science does not have that. It does not have tiny theories with constants that try to find the smallest possible unit and how it behaves. Climate science laws talk about volumes of air, say cubes of 10km on a side, and statistically it will behave like X. But nobody really knows why we got X, except that it "tends" to predict measurements fairly accurately. Why ? We have some idea, like "co2 keeps sunlight from reflecting out", but we don't know why the observed concentrations in the athmosphere don't match what you see in a gas experiment (basically in experiments greenhouse effects stop at ~250-280ppm depending on concentrations of other gases, doesn't happen in the athmosphere obviously). But climate science doesn't even try to explain this, or reduce it to first principles, they just try to model whatever they see.
If you're under 50 people, you're still too small for many processes. Read every book you can lay your hands on about people-management (not project management, not product management, not strategy) and remember to over-communicate. The best lever you have at this point is to become a great manager of people--you'll motivate them to do good work and help turn some of them into great managers as the company grows.
Still, it's not nearly as much as the reverse campaign. I have never received any messaging through media etc. about such a campaign. It exists, in theory.
I really don't see the need to get more blacks into the middle class. It's obvious from birth that they're just not interested in anything but subservient labor. Why, you can even look at the shape of their skull and see this plain as day.
No patent issue, just AT&T and money.

The patent issue is a DoD-connected company forcing Apple to abandon P2P and break the end-to-end encryption. Not unlike what happened with Skype, though quite a bit more hostile.
The other side of the drug culture. They're some very nasty, and well armed folks using public lands to grow pot.
This is a cover letter that would more likely be caught by a spam filter than a resume filter.
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"I can't really imagine how Americans manage to normally live their lives."

This is truly awful, but the vast majority of Americans will never be subject to a SWAT raid or anything like it (especially if they're not involved in illegal activity). Or terrorist attacks. Or mass shootings. Or etc etc.

People are notoriously bad at estimating the probability rare but extreme events will happen to them.

Of course, that doesn't make this ok. I personally believe SWAT team usage should be restricted to hostage, active shooter, and similar situations.
Maybe flashbang grenades are too dangerous to throw around without warning?!

There was a story I saw yesterday about police shooting a 95yr old WW2 veteran in his own home because he didn't want to leave and was brandishing a knife. They were bean bag rounds but they shot him 6 times from close range and he died.
Definitely this.

The Effective Executive (Drucker) has been by far the best book on management I've ever read. No fluff. http://www.amazon.com/The-Effective-Executive-Definitive-Har...
You do realize you're comparing the present day United States law enforcement with Rwandean tribes, Mexican narco-terrorists and the middle ages?
Mathematica 10 is being released shortly, that has plenty of new things (thanks to the Wolfram Language it shares with the Programming Cloud) to tempt you! GeoGraphics, Entity, computational geometry, machine learning, Association, Dataset, SemanticImport...
I'm really excited to be working on a platform for light and sound control in the home -- there are no other open-source options for home automation with this kind of audiovisual integration. I think the plan to support as many home automation systems as possible is a great integrative approach.
Thanks for that.

So looking at this in Firefox, the "fast" version underperforms the native one for forEach, bind, map, reduce, and concat. It outperforms native for indexOf/lastIndexOf.

In Chrome the "fast" version does better than the native one for indexOf, lastIndexOf, forEach, map, and reduce. It does worse on bind and concat.

It's interesting to compare the actual numbers across the browsers too. In Firefox, the numbers I see for forEach are:

"fast": 47,688
native: 123,187

and the Chrome ones are:

"fast": 71,070
native: 20,112

Similarly, for map in Firefox I see:

"fast": 17,532
native: 62,268

and in Chrome:

"fast": 38,286
native: 19,521

Interestingly, these two methods are actually implemented in self-hosted JS in both SpiderMonkey and V8, last I checked, so this is really comparing the performance of three different JS implementations.
The threadID used in the affinity wrapper maps to the address of a C++ object, so unfortunately no.

To be more clear, it operates directly on pthreads under the hood, so if you had some way of grabbing the pthread information from a Java thread (this would obviously only work on Linux) you could maybe finagle it, but we haven't been interested in doing that. Our thread API is very similar to the Java Thread API, though, so it shouldn't be too tough to find a way to do what you want.

EDIT: I may have been wrong about this, Jesper (the main author) says it should work out of the box, I think he's chiming in himself.
The book Understanding Michael Porter was a good introduction to strategy for me. I used it in my EMBA program when I was struggling to grasp business strategy. That gave me a solid grounding in how to think about it and some of the basic concepts. From there I was able to branch out to other books on strategy. But that one was a good starting point for me and some classmates.
Lack of proper military training is not the problem here. The problem is the militarization in the first place. In war, collateral damage is considered unavoidable and ultimately acceptable in pursuit of victory, which is why drug warriors accept that the occasional baby will be maimed by a flashbang. That sort of approach is unacceptable for domestic law-enforcement. The solution is to roll back the militarization, not double down by giving police more military training.
I've been through something similar. My job at one point was so stressful and depressing that it was starting to show visible effects: weight loss, dark circles, hair loss, etc. But I couldn't afford to quit.

I jumped ship as soon as I found another job. That horrible job made me realize how good I had it all along and after many years now I'm glad for that experience. Now, whenever I have a bad day at work, I just need to think of that job to make myself feel better.

Hang in there and find another job quickly. You'll be just fine. In life, it's helps to have some negative (within reason) experiences to keep things in perspective.

Good luck!
Is there any information about the actual incidence of this kind of thing? Best thing I can find is from the ACLU report, which suggests 5 non-suicide fatalities and 46 injuries -- but that's clearly from their limited subset.
We'll be writing a blog post shortly to link to, that's on the lap of the primary author/maintainer who hasn't gotten around to it.
It sounds crazy because it is.
They're not moving to Android. RT is still right where it was.
Non-violent crimes turn into violent standoffs when the police routinely respond to them with aggressive raids. This is completely a product of escalation between the illegal gangs and the 'legal' gang.
No, just whether or not you'd implement Alipay into your API in a manner that would allow for us to handle the frontend UI ourselves (letting our users chose between Alipay or credit card).
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If you are looking for an intellectual discussion around management (helpful for some people) I'd recommend checking out Henry Mintzberg.

He's been writing on Management for 4 decades and he's opened my eyes to what management is about. http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Henry-Mintzberg/dp/1605098744
Should we factor in the largest prison population per capita in the world and transfer of surplus military gear to police to nullify the 'big place' factor?
The page is 2021-ready.
For those of us who are not familiar with the Indian political and business background of this story and the characters, can someone summarize?

Some parts translate pretty clearly to a naive reader - high-growth startup accrues too much debt in acquisitions and expansion, some of the new ventures lose money, takes on a high-profile investor and restructures to stabilize, investor takes over the company and kicks out the founder. Others are less so - references to Reliance's place in the political sphere, something about gas prices(?) which I presume Reliance has something to do with, a new political movement that is apparently supported by some of the people in the story but not others.
Yes, but it also includes email support.

There are plenty I can get Live Chat and/or 15min email responses out of. That is all I really require to do business with an infrastructure provider.

SaaS, I'd be fine with business hour support. SaaS failures don't directly cost me money and/or reputation.
Maybe there needs to be more publicity about drug gangs and the slaves created by the drug cartels. They exist, and they are heinous.

But so too are these kinds of reactions from the police. Its really as if the public are caught in the middle of two horrific forces, being created on both ends of the playing field. The question is: who profits? The cold hard answer, which nobody wants to admit is this: the dealers of drugs, and the dealers of weapons. Oftentimes, the same damn groups.
I don't feel repressed in any way and I have the freedom of speech, by law, that repressed people do not. Comparing those two is an insult to those that lived in the Soviet era.
I'm not familiar with Verilog. I wonder if something like this[1] would be a useful tool in this developer's belt.

1: http://www.cs.colby.edu/djskrien/CPUSim/
I've been told I'm wrong, Mathematica 10 will have cloud integration, but with a product called Mathematica Online (see wolframcloud.com for the whole family of cloud products).
>those departments that are going to help people rather than hurt them

When you find a police department that fits this definition, please let us all know. I'm skeptical it's even a possibility.
Why would I care about this cover letter? It wouldn't influence my view of the person in any way .....

I had a mobile app developer position ... a candidate sent me a TestFlight invite to an app they built that was a pseudo resume in app that fit the general context of our business .... was really neat.

THAT was topical, innovative, and got my attention AND DEMONSTRATED THE SKILLS I WOULD ULTIMATELY NEED THEM TO USE DAY-TO-DAY.

I fear we are telling people do these "creative" things when all they are going to do is waste time/effort and get bitter.

END $0.02
It's a really stupid theory. Destroying evidence is just another charge to throw on and doesn't really suggest any risk of violence. Though sure, if they flush in time maybe the police lose out. But it hardly seems worth it. It ought to be possible to serve warrant without instigating a violent encounter. And it's not like the risk of destruction of evidence is anything new. You could easily destroy evidence well before the US was even founded. Might have been even easier, historically. Burn it, throw it in a river, etc. No-knock aggression should be reserved for situations where there's a very very strong expectation of violent resistance and that's it.
"...graduating from college is the first thing you can do where it's reasonably hard, takes a multi-year effort, and is completely optional...a signal that someone has decided to pursue something through to the end..."

I see this point-of-view a lot, and it is certainly the conventional wisdom. But, for a moment, let's abandon this belief and explore other perspectives.

What if college isn't a demonstration of tenacity or natural ability? Instead, what if education is just a game that everyone is forced to play at an early age, and what if advanced-degree seekers are those who have learned to enjoy playing the game? (Or, have been forced to play, because of economic reasons)

I certainly can buy that.

For instance, I know a lot of people with advanced degrees, and they generally fit into 3 buckets: 1) people who were expected to get an advanced degree because their parents had them, 2) people who enjoy playing games and winning external validation, 3) people who have an innate obsession with some aspect of knowledge. (BTW - I think the true scholars are category 3.)

What if people who win at education are just people who are naturally competitive, like being bounded by rules, are good at min-max game play, and who ultimately are driven by praise?

Certainly, those types of people would be excellent candidates for the corporation. But, are they also good candidates for being citizens or Humanity, in general?

And, what are other perspectives? I am just a curious person who happens to have a general dislike of conventional wisdom.
Seriously PayPal, get on this. I just asked for the same thing in the comments further down. We've got an international base of clients asking for PayPal support and we're using Stripe. Rather than force us into two flows on our end, work with Stripe so we can just utilize them and you collect $$.
Part of the problem is a double standard with regards to America. The other part of the problem, is that America bashers know a lot more about America, than the average person is likely to know about their country, so the basher feels free to attack and never fears their country will be put under a spotlight for its terrible qualities. It's a game of bash and hope for ignorance.

For example, if America doesn't have paid maternity leave, that's considered very backwards, and America frequently gets bashed for such things. If Spain has 34% real unemployment, somehow that isn't considered wildly backwards by comparison, because hey they have paid maternity leave and six weeks of vacation.

Or if Albania (or Nigeria or Congo or Vietnam) has a drastically better gini number than the US, somehow that's considered amazing. Except it's ignorant analysis.

I see this all the time in regards to Europeans bashing the US. They're counting on Americans not knowing enough about most of Europe to lodge a counter response.
I think focusing on children is the right way to tackle this issue. Per the author's point she works in an environment with an equal mix of male/female. Teaching kids from an early age that their gender doesn't limit the career they pursue will make this more the norm than not.
Oh, wow. This looks like a really easy way to get a "turn on lights slow then play music" alarm... and some dance party blinky lights... and whatever else I bother to program!
As I mentioned elsewhere, I like the map but it is worth noting the default view displays 30 years worth of incidents.
Any /reputable/ sources for that ? Or are you just trying to bait people ? How is your comment relevant to the situation in the US ?
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We have this discussion literally every time. Different languages have different conventions and build systems, and packaging a library for every operating system package manager is just not feasible.

A single package, for a single package manager that runs everywhere and is tightly integrated with the language, is the only reasonable solution.
Well, that's correcting the choice, only before its applied, what has little impact on how much attention the IDE grabs from you.

I've had both before and after application errors, on different IDEs and different codebases (some sets of names change the probability distribution). But Visual Studio seems to be the worst ofender, stealing not only the up and down arrows for navigation, but also open parentesis, space, enter, period, and colon, for application... and I'm sure I forgot some keys.
Not entirely. A huge percentage of iOS apps are written using Flash.

The iPad (and HTML5) did kill Silverlight and Flash (to some extent) as browser plugins, but not as platforms in general. Flash seems to be hanging in there outside of the browser plugin space, and Silverlight died because Microsoft thinks it's more fun to respond to market challenges by sweeping everything off the table and into the dustbin than it is to just pivot and keep moving forward.

Here's an alternative strategy that I strongly suspect would have been less expensive for Microsoft in terms of both development cost and social capital: Keep Silverlight as the mobile development API, and carry it forward as the platform for developing on both WP8 and Windows tablets. Pay Xamarin to incorporate support into their dev tools. Deal with performance considerations by expediting the AOT compiler for .NET, which clearly ended up needing to happen anyway. Deal with cross-language goals by . . . wait, you're still on .NET, cross-language is one of its core competencies. No need to sink resources into developing yet another iteration of COM, so that's a huge time saver. And as an free bonus, take advantage of the fact that Silverlight's already got an OS X implementation to let your developers use the technology to ship cross-platform desktop apps, similar to what Adobe's doing with Air.
>the security apparatus at every level of jurisdiction are utterly out of control

ftfy
IE7/8: http://imgur.com/dG45PK5 (posted by Uberhipster)

IE6: http://i.imgur.com/7qYY9Ie (posted by me)

From: r/programming: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/28ya9x/simpsons...
Tough to say. I know that Recurly has gone the approach of supporting any number of gateways (http://recurly.com/gateways/). Is there a technical limitation of Stripe that doesn't allow for this?
Are you blind?

Until recently America had child labor and would lynch black people. A FEDERAL judge in my hometown of New Orleans is famous for saying "We like to try our niggers before we hang them".

Human nature is human nature.

We live in a 'veneer' of civilization.

Underneath are still the same old animal instincts honed over millions of years of evolution.

Don't ever forget that. Or forget it at your peril.
It would separate him from all the other resumes. I'd talk to him!
I would even say "vast majority" is an understatement.
What far right violence? Is there anything happening on a significant scale? What do you mean by "recent EU parliament election success"?
Yes. The "we're big, these events are outliers" meme is patently false.
It's a good point. When I started doing JS full-time, I wanted to squeeze out ever ms, writing for loops over using $.each or _.each, for example. But in the end, it just adds more lines of code and makes code harder to read. Also, the fact that each browser has significantly different results means you may need to implement different methods for each. There are times to maximize performance, but 95% of the time, you don't need the small boost. You're better off writing legible/maintainable code and using more high-level optimizations, like deferring heavy processes in a timeout.
That's how probabilities work.
Maybe I live in a place where technology (and security practices, specifically) goes forward later than Silicon Valley?

(Answer: yes)
>SWAT teams in the US are utterly out of control.

America is dominated by cults of violence, cults of death. Its military-industrial groups do nothing but produce death and destruction at the press of a button, and yet Americans do nothing about it.

This problem won't go away until the real issue is address: the utter lack of humility in your average public, and dire amounts of arrogance in the ruling elite. It is pure and utter know-best that makes this irreversible. Until people accept the humility for change, it doesn't happen...
Which European countries do you consider first world?
The drug war is a race war. It has little to do with drugs. They're not going after white coke/pot users/dealers very much, are they?
God is perfectly just. Either you deserved it or they will be punished. I told the CIA that God was perfectly just. Wise-ass nigger Obama runs a news story on a black 3-year old killed in a ghetto. God did a story of a young black kid about 6, getting a fat angelic-looking white cop to tie his shoe. Search for "cop tying shoe" on google. The CIA has condescendinly pigeonholed me as a criminal hating law enforcement. No, I'm with God. You are evil, as you well know and news that the world is perfectly just will not sit well with you.

You think you are law and power and can condescendingly dismiss me in your mind as a criminal. No, I'm with God. Fear yourself and your sins, nigger.

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We don't need draconian measures; we need substantive and reliably enforced measures. People respond much more strongly to certainty of punishment than severity.
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This is an interesting point, and depending on the jurisdiction, some judges are elected officials.

It should come back on the judge that he or she authorized this abuse of power. Unfortunately, the feedback loop between the (hypothetical) judicial backstop on the system and the enforcers of the law tends to be left open by ignorance.

It would be good for local political activists in Atlanta to make sure that the judge who authorized this warrant has a significantly curtailed career.
Then why throw up your pitiful strawman in the first place?