skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Pittsburgh, about a mile from the University of Pittsburgh. I have an enormous amount of anger towards the police and the university administration. The danger was created by the police and the university administration bears responsibility for the failure to close the university and adequately warn students about the dangerous police action. There's a reason they call them less-lethal munitions.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=847898 is a note about a girl arrested for holding the door to her dorm open. Really. Please read it; it's a good one.

However, I have no anger with regards to the use of the LRAD device. It's obviously a slippery slope (a greased volume control?), but it was used with the volume all of the way down. The LRAD is safer and more effective than OC gas, police batons, and rubber bullets. Unfortunately, on Thursday and Friday nights, they stuck to the OC gas, batons, bullets, and lots of flex-cuffs.

I would be happy to answer specific questions about the G20 police action in Pittsburgh. You can also see my comments on New Mogul. Also see my comments on New Mogul. http://www.newmogul.com/threads?id=rms

The Post-Gazette has balanced coverage from the perspective of the students/protesters/journalists. One of their journalists was arrested, along with two from the Pitt News. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09270/1001203-53.stm?cmpid=MO... The Tribune Review covers the broader security picture from the perspective of security organizers. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsbur... In the scheme of these things, let's be glad no one died.
I use a sony z-series (z590) laptop. It's a 13.3" display, 1600x900 resolution, core2 duo@2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM, and it gets 7.5+ hours of battery life (with wifi enabled; ~9 without). If your eyes don't like tiny fonts it's not for you, and I had to do some unholy stuff to enable the virtualization because sony are bastards, but other than that, I love the thing. It's a carbon-fiber frame, and it weighs almost nothing.

EDIT: also, I'm running Gentoo on the thing. Everything works well except for the nVidia chip (which I don't like anyhow), the integrated camera (which sort of makes me sad), and as far as I know, the Sprint 3G network adaptor. I don't actually know that the 3G adaptor doesn't work, and I've seen claims that it does, but I've never tested it myself.
but news.yc also doesn't allow political articles, for the most part, because they tend to attract unproductive arguments. i'm going to guess that's the real reason that guy's app was rejected, rather than 'censorship'.
As an Oklahoman high-schooler, I think the "they made the whole thing up" hypothesis is way more likely. Either that or they got a really unrepresentative sample. I know that at least half of my 2000 student school could have made at least a 6 on that quiz. Not too many people here actively try to buck the system, sadly.
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I get the same result in firefox 3.5.2 / ubuntu jaunty 64 bit.

Word and list of options -> click on one option -> correct answer is displayed -> click on next word -> blank screen

I can refresh the page and get a new word.
In this specific case, the action in Oakland, on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, on Thursday and then repeated almost exactly on Friday night, unfolded because Schenley Plaza officially closes at 11PM. I have never heard of this before and the Plaza certainly sees use after 11PM on a weekend night.

The protestors/students/bystanders were forced away from Schenley Plaza at 11PM, pushed deeper on campus. This led to an actual assault on the dorms of the University of Pittsburgh. See this note about a poor, brave student arrested for trying to keep her comrades safe from the police. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=847898
Nothing seems to be happening to me. Do you have to be logged in to be affected by the attack?
Good points here.

Programmers and Designers should be one in the same.
No, that's actually what he said

"oftentimes i don't tell people where i went to school because i don't want to automatically be viewed as a snob on first impressions."
Yes, details can matter.

Note to all of you working regular jobs that you will eventually leave: Pay attention now to the value you are adding, and keep notes. It's very hard to recall these sorts of details when you are depositing your final paycheck.

It really does look better when you have some actual numbers, and better yet when you know they are true.

Even if you can only say, "Was part of a team that ...", the fact that you pay attention value added, and not simply count the years spent sitting in a cube, speaks volumes.
Good suggestion. Updated the app. Check it out now :)
Yea you could put a pile of shit on the road and 1 million people will pass it before someone eats it.
Please don't post links which require account-creation in order to read.
While sharing the sibling poster's preference for desktops, I have been extremely happy with my brand new Sony/Vaio VGN-NS328J. 3 GB of RAM, 250 GB SATA HD, Pentium Dual-Core T4200 (~2 GHz, 64-bit).

The 3D chip is a little lacking in oomph for a machine of these specs, but perfectly adequate for Compiz and other casual encounters with 3D in the course of development; it just doesn't run high-resolution BZflag very well. :)

No Linux compatibility issues. Works phenomenally well, and the build is relatively sturdy while remaining light. The keyboard also features big keys, good for people with big hands.

It was about $700 at full-blown retail.

EDIT: Battery life won't surpass 2 hours by much, though. Maybe you'll get a little more if you really dig into CPUFreq and backlight-dimming power management.
Does anybody have any idea why sites like this one and youtube don't make the video stream available as a .avi, .mpeg, or something else that's actually usable? It seems really strange to wrap something as simple as video in a closed wrapper like that, especially when the site hosting the content doesn't appear to have any concern about the copyright status of the video. I can understand it for hulu, comedycentral, etc, but why youtube and viddler?
That's an obvious lie, you suffer permanent hearing damage every time you go to a rock concert without earplugs. I would strongly recommend fans of live music invest in a pair of these. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er20.aspx
IMO, the inability to read facial expressions etc. from mere text does a good deal of ground-leveling between the real-world socially adept and socially awkward, which is at least an interesting, if ambiguously desirable, feature of online interaction.
I totally get that you're trying to be super cautious about every letter. But I'd still put something like "choose an answer:"
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UFC stands for Ultimate Fighting Championship. It is an organization which is based on mixed martial arts, MMA. It is presently acknowledged as the largest MMA promotion in the world.The headquarters of the UFC is in Las Vagas, Nevada, and it is owned and run by Zuffa, LLC.
thanks for the comments ... you have a good point regarding some of the passages, i'll take them down soon or try to re-work them.

i'm glad that you understood the main purpose of that article, which is to highlight what i've observed about top-tier schools and the hiring practices of certain big corporations.

however, i really don't mean to sound like i'm an advertising brochure for those schools, because i'm definitely not. again, i'm just trying to share the experiences i've heard from my friends (who went to all different types of schools) with regards to their job hunting process.

in part, i'm trying to express some of the frustrations that people have relayed to me because they were definitely worthy of certain positions but got passed up due to their lack of so-called name-brand credentials. but i see that i've done a bad job at doing that, since i drew such negative criticism due to my tone ;)

please email me personally if you'd like to give me more feedback on how i could emphasize the more objective points of that article without sounding condescending. thanks.
Yup I see the problem. Just trying to fix it.
It did get me to change my behavior from voting to get a comment to the right score to voting +1, 0, -1 solely on the basis of the comment. If this is the intended behavior, maybe you should put it in the guidelines.
Two extra things you could consider:

1. Think of what you'd like to be doing and accentuate those achievements that reinforce your past success in the areas that will allow you to do more of what you want.

2. In my experience, generalist experience often helps you in tricky situations once you have the job. But, it doesn't win you jobs. Recruiters will gloss over that stuff or even simply reject your CV. Accentuate your strongest skills and achievements that clearly demonstrate them.

In the current job market, you want to position yourself as someone who consistently delivers above average results that can't be off-shored. So all those learning experiences (failed startups) are best papered over.
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I'm unclear if this does spaced repetition like SuperMemo and Anki. If it does, you should make it clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
The companion student manual is fun and actually a large part of what make H+H such a great book.
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Just saw this at C4, good preso! I haven't learned ObjC yet, but I can grok Ruby.
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I went there, and the first thing I didn't see was any code.

In fact, after clicking around, I failed to find anything that excited me as a programmer. The closest I got to a look at the actual product/language were a couple partial screenshots of some IDE, and the opportunity to download some tutorials in zip files (which I declined).

I did, however, see a whole lot of marketingspeak telling me how awesome it all was. Pages and pages of text and bullet points, slick graphics, and not much else.

Consider my bullshit meter pegged.
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You are correct. The Arizona three strikes law only applies to aggravated or violent felonies, not all felonies. The law lists 24 kinds of felony that are considered aggravated or violent (they are things like murder, assault resulting in injury, sexual assault, kidnapping, terrorism, arson). Drug crimes are not among them.

Here's the statute: http://law.justia.com/arizona/codes/title13/00713.html
I've setup similar solutions in the past. Nowadays I don't agree with having an entire stack basically sitting idle. I prefer to get those resource involved intelligently. Looking forward to more details and possible reasons for choosing the technology (DRDB, LB software, etc )
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Oh no, my bad. Was using console.log -- therefore it wasn't working.

Funny, when I had Firebug opened, it worked. Now removed console.log and it should work without refreshing.
Anything that has the potential to make desktop software better on Linux is good with me. In case anyone hasn't noticed it's in an abysmal state. There are many examples of Linux being a decade or more behind comparable commercial solutions on other platforms. If Mono happens to interest some Windows developers or promote interoperability it would improve the situation greatly in my opinion. As far as patent concerns go with Microsoft -- I say force their hand. Let them litigate if they want to. I think the US DOJ and EU would take a special interest in the case. OSS can't cower in the shadows afraid of big bad Microsoft forever.
ok, this is your most convincing post yet. i concede defeat, on two main points ...

1.) i can now understand why my intro regarding high school grades led people to make certain assumptions about what i was trying to say; again, horrible choice of intro

2.) i don't think my definition of elitism or elitist behavior matches up with the commonly-accepted definition, so that is where lots of conflicts seem to be arising

could you please email me at the address i posted on my webpage? (i haven't figured out if you can private message on HN yet, sorry) i want to ask you something personally ... don't worry, it's nothing scary or bad :)
Yes, it does use my own (hacked) version of spaced repetition. Mainly there are stages for learning words. Words get repeated often if you get them wrong and they get repeated less often as you get them right.
The average American high-school student is dumb, but not that dumb.
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> If this guy was convicted of wiretapping, he could go to prison for longer than someone who ran someone else over with their car.

Which I'd say can be justified. Very private information that can be revealed by a wiretap and then "leaked" can destroy a life almost as bad as death can. If the former is done with the intent of really messing up somebody's life and the latter is caused by stupidity, I can see how someone would want to punish the wiretapping harder than the car incident.

The specifics here don't matter as much as the fact that two reasonable people can disagree over which crime should be given the higher punishment. There isn't really a concept of absolute wrongness in it, only disagreement.

(On another note, are fines always lighter sentences than prison? Even using some reasonable conversion key. What if you're a poor, unemployed person with no hope of finding a job for quite some time? Being indebted for a long time or serving some prison time?)

Anyway, why are we discussing politics on HN?
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1) I like the full screen format of the application. It really lends to memorizing words without distraction.

2) I like the way you've implemented multiple choice rather that a "flash card" approach.

that being said, i've seen several apps like this. the most prominent in my memory is http://quizlet.com which has more than one way of memorizing list, classrooms groups, and the ability to create your own lists. and it's free. that's tough to compete with.
Why all of the knee-jerk reactions to the word 'censorship'?

Rejecting an app on the basis that it is political is censorship. It is also censorship to reject an app based on the fact that it is porn or has 'dirty' words.

A "politically charged" app is considered inconvenient to have on the iphone store, as such, it is censored.

Apple may very well claim the right to reject any app that they see fit. This doesn't magically invalidate the fact that they censor certain apps. In fact, censorship is exactly the right that Apple claims here.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
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Out of interest: for a short while, there where comments with black dots. What did those mean?
thanks tjr!
Speaking as someone who's been meaning to read up on Scala for a while, I found it worthwhile (though I could have read a transcript faster...)

Here's the breakdown for those who might want to skip around:
0m-15m Introduction and Twitter's language desiderata;
15m-26m Scala features (high-level descriptions);
26m30-33m Actual code examples;
33m-44m Links: first books and blogs, with a rundown of which ones are most useful to different constituencies, then tools and libraries, again with descriptions of who might use them;
44m-48m Problems and weaknesses;
48m-end Q&A.

I would say that the segment from 15m-33m or so and 44m-48m are most useful for someone trying to answer the question "should I spend time to go learn Scala?" and 33m-44m are more useful for people who have already decided to learn it and are now looking for pointers on where to start.
A plug for Software Engineering Radio http://se-radio.net/podcast/2009-07/second-life-and-mono-jim...

I've personally never used Mono, but if people are putting their time and sweat into the project then it obviously has value for them. Nobody is forcing anyone to use it. Free as in beer.

I wrote five paragraphs after this, but then realized that nothing else really matters. So what we are witnessing here is a circle jerk. Moving on.
I like how everything is clean and polished, though the only gripe I have is that the formatting for the results page is a big awkward. Having four different elements in the corners of the screen was distracting and my eyes had to travel a lot to read everything. It would be a good idea to either make everything compact, or on the same side. At least in my opinion.
We run 12GB of memcache on each slave file server. Hardly idle!
I grew up around RunRev. Tuviah Snyder, the former developer of MetaCard and former CTO of RunRev is my older brother. RunRev made a deal with Scott Raney, the creator of MetaCard to basically take it over, redistribute it and make future modifications. Kevin Miller, the CEO is a pretty decent fellow. They have a very loyal following, and are trying to branch out with new marketing and significant upgrades to their products.

Personally, I found developing in RunRev very frustrating. I use to joke that I would have to start a function with please and end it with thank you. However, some find the english like syntax pleasing, I find it very frustrating. I prefer to say x = 3, instead of put 3 into x, or some variant of that.
yeah but those are full out riots. Here we have a few people acting out and the police using that as a justification to crack down on peaceful bystanders.
please make it more difficult! the words are commonly used.
Thanks.

Yep I understand that there are a lot of similar websites. But it was my attempt to make an app that I would have wished had existed when I was preparing for my GRE exam.
Actually, I think you're saying the same thing I at least meant to begin with: Xanadu's requirements are fairly simple to state but extremely complex to implement.

My further point is this show a world where things are a bit muddier than Spolsky's simple/complex division.
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What type of question is this exactly?
'Should I be ethical under such and such a circumstance?'

Either you are ethical or you are not ethical, if you are even asking yourself the above question, you are teetering on the precipice of unethicality.

Clearly you /should/ always be ethical, because ethics are the study of what you /should/ do.

(Which is weird, because that makes the above question a nonsensical meta-ethical question).

I find this whole article disconcerting because it seems to imply that your ethics are allowed to shift because of external economic forces, and that you can still be ethical if you have shifting ethics. -- I think that it is fairly clear that being an ethical fair-weather-fan means that you never really were ethical to begin with.
Depends on what you're going to do with it.

I've had good luck with Samsung-made screens. Nice colors and reasonable prices. Even for gaming(back in the day), they were still ok.

I read somewhere that DELL monitors are re-branded Samsung monitors. Not sure if that's still true or not.
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Sorry, I thought it was an open note but I guess it's restricted by network. I'm posting it in a comment.
What I have been reading recently is "Game Theory Evolving" by Herbert Gintis. The Wikipedia articles on signaling theory and evolutionary game theory are useful too.
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I could be wrong, but I once heard a complaint against 3-strike that (in CA) a lot of crimes that are misdemeanors can become felony charges if you've been convicted of a felony in the past, so people with a previous felony were getting life for tagging buildings and other relatively minor crimes..
I immediately thought of this book "The Manga Guide to Electricity by Kazuhiro Fujitaki, Matsuda, and Trend-pro Co, Ltd." published by No Starch Press (http://tinyurl.com/mwsw7k)- it's squarely in the "fun" category but it's a little more basic and not really hands on with electronics.
Forrest Mims classic:

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-
Mims/dp/0945053282/

It's written in a very friendly notebook style.
> If I were feeling frisky, I absolutely would have taken a swing.

One problem with hitting people for what they say is that each instance of it contributes to a social norm of hitting people for what they say. Maybe you only hit people justifiably, but those who see you do it, and who are hit by you, might have worse judgment than you.

This is also a problem with incivility. Maybe you are a sufficiently good judge of character and intelligence that you single out idiots with perfect accuracy. But others who see your words, and especially those whom you call idiots, might have worse judgment than you, and they'll replicate your actions. This leads to a world where people are rude to each other rather than having level-headed arguments. So I don't think you should call someone an idiot, even when you're confident that they're an idiot. It has indirect harmful effects.
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Not really. The point of the experiment was to increase the quality of the votes. It doesn't really help if the votes are only disabled by people who don't like to see it.
You want to look for a few things, mostly the technology that the screen actually uses. S-IPS is one of the better systems, although apparently there are a few others today that are equally good when correctly implemented.

Basically, you will pay for contrast, color reproduction (both number of colors and overall gamut), and viewing angle.

The Apple Cinema Displays and some Dell displays both had a reputation for being good, but in any given year they can go from great to crap in no time at all, so YMMV. I have a 2005 Dell 20" SIPS and it's a very nice display...but I had to purchase it as a refurb because the 2006 were not rated nearly as well.

The biggest point I wanted to make to you, though, was more general: do not be afraid to spend money on a good monitor. It pains me when I see people spending a lot of money on a computer and then cheap out on the interface devices. Unless you're building a cluster (or something else you'll rarely work with directly), that's a mistake. Aside from the power switch and maybe a few indicator lights, all of your interaction with your computer is done via the keyboard, mouse, and monitor. And of those links, the monitor is the highest-bandwidth medium of interaction. It makes sense to spend money there; if you don't, your whole experience of using your fancy new computer is going to suck.

Also, interface devices have a very long lifespan if you purchase good ones. Last year, I upgraded (to the Dell) from a high-end CRT that I bought in late 2000. My keyboard is from 1996 (having long outlived the computer it came with), and my mouse isn't exactly a spring chicken either. I'm sure I'm not that atypical. (I know guys using IBM Model M keyboards that are way older than mine. Hell, they're older than some young people I work with.)

You only get a few years to recoup in productivity what you spend on a computer itself. All the expensive stuff inside that chassis will be so much e-waste within far too few years. But you have a lot longer to wring the value out of your input devices. Buy quality, and you'll be enjoying it 4 or 5 computers down the road in all likelihood.

Same goes for office chairs.
I wonder if people in regions where craigslist is unsuccessful have the inverse reaction...

The line between awkward promotion and acknowledging reality when mentioning orthogonal services is a tough one, and there are few universalities.
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