skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All the individual police agencies that are members of nemlec would still fall under whatever open records laws apply in that state.

You do realize that the article highlights the fact that regardless of the employment of the officers involved, the argument is being made that "an operation" was conducted as NEMLEC, a private corporation not beholden to open information requests.

Off duty officers shoot people. Some times they are just acting as private citizens. Sometimes they are uniformed private security. Other times they are just plain old moon-lighted security. The legal protection carried by the civil police force to the officer varies under each of these scenarios. The actual police force that the officer is on the payroll of is "usually" not obligated to defend the officer under any of these considering the scenario of a lawsuit, wrongful death, civil liberties, or misconduct. Further, there is usually some Union (non-government entity) involved with similar obligations/exceptions for defending the officer.
Running something nice on Linux is still challenging today, in 2014. It was no picnic in the 90's.

Credentials: I was running Linux before Linux was cool, it was called Minix.
Lol. Computer brains can't handle truth. Get some black and native american friends if you want to remember what being a human is.
You seem to have more clue about web development than I do (my only experience with web are Perl/CGI scripts of early 2000s).

Can you describe in more detail how google could detect that the GA identifier has been swapped and how to prevent detection?
Siri’s new cousin is going fishing where the rich fish are
A murder or felony is never spent under rehabilitation acts and thus the status of it never changes or expires. The judgement addressed the relevancy of information according to time, and time doesn't make murder less relevant. Of course Google would be fine to continue to return this in their results. Did you read the judgement?
If the goal is to make people drive slowly in general, FUD might be more effective.

If the goal is to make people slow down in places where they really do need to slow down (e.g. before curves), visible warnings might be more effective.

Outside of large cities, most of Korea has a mountainous terrain. A highway with an official speed limit of 110km/h can be perfectly safe to drive at 130km/h in one stretch but dangerous to drive at 90km/h in another stretch just a few km away. So I think it makes sense for the Korean police to focus on making people drive more slowly in some places than in others. Maybe the priorities should be different in a large flat country like Australia.
I stopped reading at the tilde argument for readability. I find the tilde token far more readable and easier to spot, and there's no confusion as to what the indexOf is checking for, the existence of an element in an array, where with the equality comparison tokens I need to stop and read what the heck it is comparing to. These should be reserved for when it's checking for a specific index or range.

Those extra seconds add up and in my opinion readability is more about optimizing reading speed by using common shapes and patterns conventionally, not making something dumb proof.

It even suggests using a dependency like underscore for something that is already in the language. So if I don't use underscore, I need to stop my reading completely because my mind doesn't recognize this _(array).contains('foo') pattern and I need to actively read the entire line and in cases lookup the documentation of some random method in a random obscure _ library that I also need to lookup in the code to find the actual dependency name. Because even if I were to check the implementation of that underscore method using the IDE, it's even more obscure and magic. Good luck following the advice in this book.
If you're making it free, any chance of seeing some of the code? I'm looking to make a UI with the same row layouts.
You may also be interested in this teardown: http://www.arcfn.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-app...

The subsequent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706753
> We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple code and it solves many common problems in developing clientside applications.

What does Backbone solve exactly?
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oh for sure, i agree with your sentiments (since there are no intrinsic language features nor primitives to make any of this easy in js. even ramda is just a better crutch really). i am actually in the same situation :P but you did say it was unpleasant to read (which i still think it isnt, but not as good as other languages that have better support).

haha man i dont know how many time ive written a reverse/flip function in our codebase and then erased it an hour later cause i know i would be called out on it lol
So it should only be a very short time before someone makes a "diffing" search engine that queries both the european versions and other versions and shows you the difference, thus revealing all the most controversial content about any individual you happen to be interested in, not least, the very fact they have tried to suppress the information. (I suggest it be called streisand.com). I am curious what the next step will be after that - ever more draconian laws? Canada style laws that try for world wide censorship? How far will it go?
There's a book "The Newtonian Casino" which describes doing something similar with roulette wheels .. in the 1980s.
On the whim of national governments and rich individuals, Google has already been censoring the search results that appear to everyone. The only thing this law does is give the little man a chance - which is good.
I wonder how they did their market research to arrive at a position where it avoids being detected breaching a limit but doesn't avoid breaching the limit when there is no camera around. It seems a fairly cynical position to adopt to appeal to a specific segment of the market. Seem very similar to a DUI insurance policy that was briefly offered in Australia (you pay premiums, caught out DUI, no problem, insurance pays).

I'd much prefer to have three options:

1 Turned off - I'll take responsibility for the vehicle myself and bear the consequences myself

2 Their proposal - I'll let the machine avoid the tickets and when nobody is looking do what I please

3 No speeding - The vehicle will never speed, I'll never get a speeding ticket under any circumstances, camera there or not, in fact Hyundai will pay the fine as it will be simply impossible to incur one and they'll put their money on the line to make sure the damn thing works.
I obviously cannot speak to your comments re baseband process and firmware/OS. That is basically the unsolvable problem in all of this without social/legislative change in the US. I cannot see the FCC or the rest of the government piggybacking on these advantages ever changing.

As for mobile browsers, this is specifically why I use NoScript, even in beta on Android (ironically called NSA-NoScript Anywhere).

http://noscript.net/nsa/

It might not be perfect, but most of the time, like my laptop, I do not need JS or Flash unless there is a very specific reason, and I will not help these a-holes trace me.

And I am also, like others here, who got a new phone and now exclusively use FDroid. No Google Apps. It is a lower power cheaper phone with shoddier processor, and I can run minimally 2+ days without Google Play and shitty proprietary apps. So at least I recommend it.
1. Make a SHA1 hash of your document

2. Convert the hash to a BTC address

3. Send 0.0001 BTC to the address you made

4. There you saved yourself $9.99
Only Europe - since the court ruling was by the EU and applicable only to EU residents I believe.
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That would depend on how quickly the brakes are applied. Hyundai ain't stupid. They'll probably try to make it as smooth as possible so that the car behind you has enough time to react. The occupants of the Genesis probably won't appreciate a sudden jerk, either.
Hey, look at this website http://www.thielfellowship.org/home/

You might find some under-20s that could be in the same category as Elizabeth Holmes.
> [...] copy all the APIs and create an independent alternative that lets you build apps that use features from Play Services, without tying your app to Google.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_(operating_system) :

> Replicant is a free and open source operating system based on the Android mobile platform, which aims to replace all proprietary Android components with their free software counterparts.

So I think that at some point maybe the Replicant guys might get to a point where they do what you are looking for, if they haven't already.
It's important to keep in mind that the phone holds more than location, call logs, and text messages though. It holds our photos, email, apps, the apps' storage, browsing history, and everything we do on the mobile internet. Putting that off limits is definitely a victory.
I think what I would miss is quality navigation. This, due to my absolutely non-existent sense of direction, is a major reason for why I purchased a cell phone in the first place. I tried a few non-Google navigation systems but didn't really find anything compelling.
Precisely what I was thinking by the end of the post.
Reflecting on halfway mark of 2014? Read these 2 links
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Something along the lines of http://www.monzy.org/unsafesearch/, but for "forgotten" Euro-junk would be just the thing to send up these crazy "rights".
Doesn't "sensitive dependance on initial conditions" place severe limitations on what we can predict?
Even better, it wasn't a satellite dish. It was a pizza dish.

Source: http://youtu.be/F3Hoz7_s6pQ (about 2:40)
You do not get to decide whether your past acts are relevant to me, or aren't. It's that simple.
In reality sleep sort is not actually doing the sorting, it's just asking the OS to do it using a traditional sorting algorithm, because the OS will have to sort all the sleep timers to determine the order in which to wake up the threads.
No need to link out to personal site (no way to remove link from original topic). I've just copied and pasted the blurb below:

With summer officially here and July around the corner, we’re at the half way point of 2014. A great time to reflect and determine if on track. Coincidentally, my friend Max shared a thoughtful and entertaining blog post around reflection.

Link 1 - http://www.geekwire.com/2012/day-rest-life/

Buster explains his process and what he’s uncovered over the last 5 years.

Fascinated by the story I stumbled across his personal website. For such a simple 1 page website, it rocked, and continues to rock my foundation.

Link 2 - http://busterbenson.com/
Sorry, I just accidentally down voted you. I was trying to upvote.
Surely not all daemons start automatically. Some of them source files from /etc/default, with an "off" setting per default. And there are plenty of daemons for which it makes sense to start automatically (eg, installing pulseaudio and expecting it to work without having to figure out how to configure it is not an unreasonable expectation). So maybe:

- more daemons (eg, puppet) ought to be "off" per default when it doesn't make sense

- apt-get should provide a switch to prevent newly-added daemons from starting, which could be used by provisioning systems

But saying that "daemons should never start at install" is silly.
I think the author misunderstands. The spec is for a mutex, and it's written in an informal language, where the implementation fulfills a more formally expressed spec.
Doubt it. She's since met someone and they're really happy together. While I don't know about the inner workings of their relationship, I do know that both of them, individually tend not to sweat the small stuff.
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> Patents still play a very key role is spurring innovation and allowing innovative players to profit off of their development and creation of new products.

What is your evidence for this statement?
I got an error page inside the Instagram mobile app a few days ago and was surprised to see Facebook server chrome around the error message.

I'm impressed out how fast they got this migration done, considering how massive the scale they operate at is.
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Ask HN: Do you think jQuery library should come with a cookie fuction?
I think jQuery should include a "$.cookie()" like function in the main/core file. It's the only extra javascript that I include all the time in basically every project/website besides the jQuery library itself.

Cookies are so weird in javascript. W3schools even says you need to create your own function for get/setCookies. The built in functionality of cookies is not even "syntax" consistent in javascript.

- Set two different cookies
document.cookie = "name=John Smith; expires=...";
document.cookie = "user=JSmith; expires=...";

- Should "at least (minimum)" be the following
document.cookie("name=John Smith; expires=...");
document.cookie("user=JSmith; expires=...");

Anybody have an opinion on adding a cookie function to the jQuery library?
Or maybe seeing an update in a new javscript version that's cleaner or more structured?
Or is there a valid reason behind all this?

(PS I know there are Great jquery plugins and script in the world, I use them, I'm focusing on adding to the new library).
That is a problem, but doesn't C++ have the same problem?

The situation was better before 64-bit became popular, when int == long == 32 bits on any system that mattered (when 16-bit gave way to 32-bits, you couldn't be sorry about that, it was a relief). Somehow the transition to 64 bits got screwed up, and you can hardly trust the basic integer types anymore. I have started using the new stdint.h types wherever size is likely to be an issue.
Marcell is correct - we use the ProofOfExistence.com API

Bitstamped.io is not aimed at technical users - that's why payment is in USD and not BTC.
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No worries, it seems such a divisive topic it's almost entertaining watching the upvotes and downvotes aggressively cancel out each other.

I didn't realise just how extreme the opinion on this is. Shame HN doesn't show this in how the votes are displayed... I get that they're not displayed... but black text vs shaded implies only positive or negative, and hovering around 1 vote with lots of up and down votes is interesting in itself.
We're still working on a pricing structure - it will likely be an annual or quarterly subscription, with a small fee to get each document Bitstamped.
ART and Dalvik
Agreed, it looks flawed to me. The assumption being that the transmission rate is constant this will obviously lead to longer sentences = more transmission.

If a %age of your time is spent on each person you know then there will obviously be a maximum point for the likelihood of infection.

Then the modellers have to choose an infection rate, this they took from the data.

The whole model is begging the question.
Sadly recovery was mostly manual guess work. There was some talk of modelling distortions, but manual process was too advanced at that point.

Most of this could of been avoided if SpaceX used SDR to receive that video signal. Its vastly easier to recover when you have original distorted I/Q than trying to guess what went wrong in hardware black box receiver. Original Video transport stream is encapsulated, encoded and modulated using one of the DVB-something schemes. Those provide robust FEC (error correction).

SpaceX provided file was a result of radio stream badly interpreted inside some black box receiver, there was no FEC any more to help automated recovery.

Lets hope SpaceX learned a lesson and will use SDR in the future (and bump up FEC rate to 1/2 in bad weather)
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I think that's only true in a single threaded system
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Point taken.

"Showing results for Bitstamp" is irritating, but we only launched yesterday, hopefully Google will figure out that Bitstamped is a thing!
The odd thing is that once the automated/autonomous vehicles reach above the 10% level the consensus is (cant find a stellar ref but http://www.usfav.com/publications/TAVI_8-CapacityPinjari.pdf will do for a start) that we'll see marked improvements beyond 10% expected in

- less traffic congestion and increased roadway capacity beyond what can be obtained with human drivers

- 28% reduction in fuel usage on the whole fleet

- marked reduction in crashes beyond a 10% reduction expected
Thanks for the link, very cool.
The latter is precisely what the /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d business that this post is talking about is for.
My father is a retired South Wales steelworker - he worked in the Hot Mill, which is where you put slabs of steel in, and take huge coils of hot rolled steel out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_%28metalworking%29). The building is half a mile long, and the thickness of the steel slab is gradually reduced as it passes through dozens of rolling stations - pairs of rollers (or rolls as they're called).

To get the best product quality, it's important to monitor the shape of the rolling surface of each roll. If they distort out of tolerance, they have to be taken offline and machined to a new finish - something that would stop production for hours.

My father told me of the time when they bought an expensive new computerised lathe to reduce the time it takes to fix up the rolls - this was in the 1980s when a PC on a production line was still a thing of wonder. For a while, everything worked as planned. Then, for some reason, the quality of the reconditioned rolls dropped drastically. Despite the fact that the PC dump showed that the rolls had perfect surfaces and profiles, production defects skyrocketed and it was discovered that the reconditioned rolls were to blame.

To cut an even longer story short - they eventually discovered that the lathe operator had taught himself how to edit the PC logs (in hex!) to make the results look good, without having to get down and actually do the work.
Are you suggesting that engaging with the market is purely voluntary? I'm not sure you can call something "voluntary" when not doing it inevitably results in destitution and homelessness.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/4wd-drivers-really-as-bad-w...

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

Safest car ever should have a sharp spike mounted in the center of a steering wheel and no safety belts.
Posted elsewhere in the thread:

https://www.google.com/patents/WO2005025413A3?cl=en&dq=ininv...
The new bower.io
I'm also eager to drop ownCloud ('pwnCloud', I keep hearing), but I think I'll replace it with Seafile + Fastmail's CardDav/CalDav. CardDav is not yet available but promised soon.

I wish there were a trustworthy source of prebuilt pure AOSP ROMS, like the source images Google release. Compiling them is no small feat and I'm worried I'll brick my device.

With a stock AOSP ROM + Fastmail contacts & calendaring, I think I'll finally have the minimalist install I am looking for.
No. Its more like me writing an app that lets anyone bid on having sex with your wife. Im not selling anything, I dont own anything, Im just providing this useful disruptive tool bro.
My silly random number generator:

strace -Tiv -ttt nice -n 19 curl -Lv --raw https://google.com/news 2>&1 | shasum -a 512 | dd bs=1 count=2 2>/dev/null

This assumes Google News serves frequently changing content. The noncanonical Google News URL generates extra entropy from an HTTP 302 Moved Temporarily to an HTTP 301 Moved Permanently to an HTTP 200 OK with the final news page. strace and nice and curl add entropy from OS syscall timings and HTTP headers.

(OS X doesn't have strace, so you can just skip it.)
> If there's no vi

How often are you in a situation where there's no vi!?
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Is anyone working on this?
>Its prisons are already corporatized

If you're talking about private prisons only something like 2% of inmates are in private prisons.
Faulty USB phone charger blamed for Sheryl Aldeguer's death
I hope one day it will be released, either by me or by someone else. :-)

> There are many tools if you're working solely with plain text.

…which means, people choose plain-text due to time preferences: a certain gain in short-term is preferred to uncertainity of the outcome when they build tools for themselves. String-oriented environment is thus preferred not because notebooks' functionality is somehow bounded ultimately.
> Dolphin/Kwin/Konsole/Kate/Okular are really great tools, through and I enjoy using them more than the Gnome tools..

+1. This is why KDE has been my favourite desktop for 10 years. I don't do fancy stuff on my computer. I code. KDE gets the basic, essential tools right. Dolphin is better than Mac's Finder, Windows Explorer and Gnome's equivalent. And so is Konsole.

I hope KDE keeps going strong.
Pretty much the exact same idea I had about three weeks ago. Even wrote it in my 'idea pad' with some other detail.
This has convinced me to get my ideas out sooner. Well played and good job! - (I am also very new to programming and the amount of ideas I have are unreal, so chances of me ever doing this were slim) - But it's nice to confirm my ideas were on the right track :)
This appears to me to be correct. Found a file /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz on my system where it says:

> POLICY-RC.D Policy layer (/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d) interface:

> Most Debian systems will not have this script as the need for a policy layer is not very common. Most people using chroot jails just need an one-line script which returns an exit status of 101 as the jailed /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d script.

I think, however, that the point that the parent comment was trying to make was that it'd be convenient if this was a switch to apt-get. After all, if you are just looking to install one additional daemon on a running system, it'd be a whole lot easier if you could:

# apt-get install --no-start-daemon example

than to have to activate a policy script which you might forget to remove or deactivate.

However, in the file I mentioned above, the next line says:

> The /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d file must be managed through the alternatives system (/usr/sbin/update-alternatives) by any packages providing it.

So maybe one solution is to create your own script to manage it.

In fact, your script could even be a wrapper for apt-get. To be totally transparent in day-to-day use, you could then make apt-get be an alias for your wrapper script.

Your wrapper then:

1. Activates the policy.

2. Calls the real apt-get.

3. Deactivates the policy.
The verbs aren't choosen at random. They are almost all a write-word (write, set, create, put, save, update, dump, clear, reset, print, append, ...) or a read-word (read, get, ensure, load, check, ...). But the verbs you list doesn't fall into either category. Think of what it would mean to command someone to "believe!" it doesn't make sense (to a non-sentient entity anyways!). "print!" otoh, is perfectly understandable.
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Well, the comic made me laugh.

I'm with chuckup though, I tend to quickly forget all the sites with names like this (regarding bitcoin specifically). Thank goodness for bookmarks.
I do not get to decide the boundaries of my own privacy? Is that right? So who decides that for me? You?
Here is an article from 2013 that describes the concept: http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/05/bitcoin-is-public-ledger.h...