skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the police unions fighting it every step of the way.

I think the effort is better spent making the equipment reliable and easy to use, and then making it widely available. Then when an officer chooses not to use it, you can ask them why they made that choice. People might believe lots of things the first few thousand times, but eventually it will make the officer look pretty bad if they walked into an adverse situation without their documentation device running.

I also sort of like that this preserves some discretion for the officer; if I can't trust them to have a reasonable amount of discretion, I don't think I can trust them at all, and I don't think technology is going to help me with that.
I took this course as well. Really interesting. And a really cool way to submit programming assignments and get instant feedback if you "passed" or not. Some years since I was in school, this might be the de-facto way of doing it now.
Unfortunately, the probability that someone is able to understand this logic is lowered considerably once you realize that they're working in a job where they're required to act on such threats. Most people who are capable of such calculations will not find such jobs fulfilling, and those who do will find themselves constantly second-guessed by bosses who don't have that skill. It's a profession that selects against Bayesian reasoning.

Humans are -really- bad at intuitively calculating risk, and I have yet to encounter any sort of formal education in the US that teaches us how to properly calculate it.
I find it very scary that huge portions of our economy are basically houses of cards built upon more houses of cards. We're so desperate to generate circulation for money that we've invented an intricate set of rules where it's OK to pretend that you have money, as long as you promise to actually have it at some point in the future. And then of course another set of rules has to be invented to manage the risk of that particular future not coming to fruition.

My mind bends, but cannot wrap around why this game is necessary.
the Telegarden was way more interesting. They were exploring the idea of mantaining life from an anonymous community.

I haven't understand the point of this, beyond the "it's fun to see the tate gallery at night".
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You can't think of anything?

* European history

* European nation-states and borders

* European language

* European physical geography (major rivers, mountain ranges)

* Famous Europeans and their hometowns

* European architecture
You apparently were flagged by a theoretical physicist.

A lot of "physicists" nowadays forget that we're supposed to be scientists, not dreamers. Dreams are nice, but experiment and observations valid theory.

I agree. Unless this has some modifications to the current model of the big bang which leads to _observable_effects_ , I don't know if this theory could even be validated as...well theory.
So, if we look at parts of space further away from us (so the light reaching us tells us about older times), we should see fewer kinds of gravitons than we see around us now?
The multi-armed bandit (Google FAQ)
Would investors be placated by a start-up from Chicago or Chattanooga committing to operating board meetings out of San Francisco indefinitely?
I was also perplex the first time I entered this project.
You would be surprise how this simple rules is already quite challenging.
This game is fully observable and also determinist, which give way to make much more complex AI I think. I see it a bit like Chess: Pretty simple rules but there is still a fight to have the best AI in chess.
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Thank you! Blot does support all of markdown. You can indeed use code blocks!

The title is generated from the first H1 tag if there is one.

Scaling the site is honestly something I'm going to have to learn more about. I'll set up a load balancer before it becomes necessary. Currently a single EC2 instance seems to be working OK.

As for pricing, the price will only go up in future and perhaps I'll move to a monthly fee. I just wanted to get something set up quickly.
That's actually a huge help. What I've also been looking for (and haven't been able to find) is a good guide on How to Tune your GC settings. Aman Gupta has gotten the closest so far* (I think), but I'd really love a step-by-step of "OK, open your console, run `GC.start`, take note of this property because it means X and indicates that Y would be a good setting for Z, etc. etc"

* http://tmm1.net/ruby21-rgengc/
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Father was a personal injury lawyer. Son was a debt collector. Solid family values over at the Seigels.
«It would not even be close to morally defensible to ask these people to forgo time to play with their kids or walk their dogs in order to develop and maintain the software that drives the profit in other people's companies. The right way to go—the moral way to go—and by far the most productive way to go is to pay the developers so they can make a living from the software they love.»

I'm... not really sure that "giving software away for free and then making impassioned posts on the Internet that people have a moral obligation to pay you to continue to work on it" is a strategy that has "success" written all over it.
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Has auto-complete and everything: http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/manager
So all we have to do is detect, over time, more polarization states of the 5-D graviton. Seems simple enough.
I think this is crazy that people are prohibited from giving away things that belong to them - and to avoid opening a can of worms, we're not even talking about drugs or something like that - because of bunch of government busybodies worrying about imaginary dangers that never happened like terrorists putting I don't even know what in the seeds.

I wonder what if they would one day discover that there are millions of people on internet giving away code which is then being used in most critical infrastructure projects. By their logic, they should ban all open-source projects until they undergo rigorous (and hugely expensive) compliance testing. And cyber-terrorism is a real threat too! So I hope they don't read HN, would not want to give them any ideas...
OpenStreetMap Studies (and Why VGI = OSM)
The cameras worn by the cops in my town are integrated with a base station in their patrol car. It activates when they are more than a few feet from the base station (inside this range, they are presumably in range of the dash cam, at least for audio), and automatically uploads the recording when they return.
It's funny, at this point in my career I'd value a person who said,

"This feels like a dynamic programming/max-flow-min-cut/linear programming problem. I'd formalize it, look it up in a textbook, like Chvatal, or on Wikipedia, and find the precise problem class. Then I'd look for an appropriate code. Or, maybe go back to the problem origin and see if the actual problem maps in to one of the more general classes I just looked up."

Perhaps much more realistic an answer than some poking around on the whiteboard by someone who may have studied this in school anyway. Having a feeling for problems that should already be well-studied/solved can be more valuable than bumbling on to the solution after a few minutes.
Link to his new company: http://www.n-o-r-t-h.com/
idk if it's a play on something -- but all of the things you mentioned above are still called a "shell", even if it's not the standard "sh" shell.

and, from parts of the source code, it appears it may work with ksh, zsh, etc. (i don't have a sample handy to try though).
Analogies are not meant to be perfect representations of an argument, but rather a facsimile that helps the reader compare and contrast. Your complaints are mostly irrelevant.
It's probably less of a house of cards than ever before. From kings mixing more nickel in with their currency, to giving loans based on reputation rather than earnings, that stuff is fading fast.
It supports most of the advanced features of PostgreSQL, including functions, triggers, composite types, JSON, and most anything one can throw at it. Not to mention it obviously has a great SQL Editor with auto-complete for when you want to do drafts by hand, as I usually do.

As far as it being windows only, I thought that was no longer an issue thanks to great tools like Parallels and VMWare Fusion. Can't you just open the app in that while still living in your OS?

I honestly don't see much of an issue.
This looks interesting. Congratulations on your product launch.

There is something similar out there called calepin (1). It uses the python based pelican static web site generator.
Not sure what extra features your solution offers.

(1) http://calepin.co/
The Channel Islands and Isle of Man are not in the EU... thats one of the strangenesses. They should be forced to join.
I think that this essay could use a good deal more thinking through. Having the upper hand and preferring to retain it is not lovable, but it is not the same as cowardice. Having a badge, a gun, and a bad attitude is quite orthogonal to cowardice. There are undoubtedly bad-ass racists who are as brave as you want them to be.
Let me know if I can help with infrastructure. I'm the founder of https://commando.io and can help you with server setup, management, and deployment. We also use nginx heavily and can assist optimizing it for serving your static content. Send me an e-mail, it is in my profile.
patio11's guide to doing exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833
Ah. That's why Germany manages to generate >30% of their energy via renewables. They are this immensely huge country with wide open spaces, flooded with sunlight.

Wait. They're not.

Turns out that you don't need a high-voltage DC grid, you need decentralized power. And you don't need huge contiguous chunks of land, either - you need everybody to be involved.

That doesn't rule out that we might need other energy sources, too - there are the issues of base load, and industrial consumption - but claiming that renewables are "not viable" is a tiny bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?
Are there any plans for a coffeescript/python implementation of Dart? Could that be done as a preprocessor?

As trivial as that sounds, that is part of what has hindered its adoption. I seem to remember reading about the Dart team learning that many early adopters were not c++/java people but Pythonista's. You'd think they would have adapted to that.
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In this case, the GP clearly points out why that facsimile is not helpful in understanding the issue.
"Tutorial D", a particular pedagogical instance of a defined class of languages, is defined here:
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/Tutorial%20D-2013-05-...

The requirements list for any "D" (that is, the definition of membership in the class of languages) is here in The Third Manifesto: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/TTM-2013-02-07.pdf
The fact that this is at all illegal is a testament to the shitty situation in the United States with regards to both intellectual property and food production. I'm ashamed of my country, and my state, because of this.
That should be clarified as an 8 year warranty on the battery and drive train.
You can use most any language you want for Postgres functions. SQL, plpgsql, Python, etc, etc.
I think that borrowers should have the right of first refusal when their debt is sold.

For example, if you're about to sell $1.00 worth of my debt to someone for $0.10, first you must offer it to me at the same cost: $0.10.
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nothing interesting. Wish ppl would give more coverage to apps that actually are useful, not just famous ppl sighs
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I fully agree with this. I used pgAdmin for a while but have recently switched to psql and it's much more useful.

In particular, learn the \ commands. It's extremely useful to be able to quickly look at the structure of a table, dump the source to a function and so on, from a command prompt rather than navigating trees with the mouse in pgAdmin.

It uses readline where available so you get history, completion etc.
Sure, but that's not what the petition is asking for. It's asking for federal legislation to require it.

Also, the police are going to fight cameras tooth and nail. Major demographics from both parties are going to be mobilized (unions & crime hawks).

The liquor laws were much more sympathetic and even they took a long time for full federal compliance.
> ...and maybe that's why most popular coding fonts are monospaced?

Yes, the desire to use alignment without something like elastic tabstops being widespread is the limitation which prevents wide adoption of otherwise-superior proportional fonts in coding.
Watch "The Century of the self".

It makes the point that it's necessary because the government wants to control people's subconscious behavior through consumerism, which necessitates (I guess?) this skew in currency that you pointed out.
Interesting if true, but not answering all questions.
I have seen credible estimates that there may only be about 80 years of uranium supply left for current usage, let alone massively expanded generation. Breeder reactors are a red herring. France is shutting theirs down because they are uneconomical.
I highly recommend all of CGP's videos. They are all fun and very informative. I just started listening to his podcast "Hello Internet" which is also enjoyable.
I admire this guy's talent at failing upwards.
A simple law mandating that all officers wear body cams is probably not going to be all that effective. As another commentor mentioned, it's not real clear how this could be handled at the federal level. The threat of these cams being turned off is real and there will need to be laws to mete out punishment if it happens (which will be incredibly difficult.) All that being said, this is probably a good step in raising awareness of the usefulness of body cams.

http://www.fox8live.com/story/26283883/officer-involved-in-m...
how to know if they work if no one has done them? is that a logical fallacy of some kind?
This doesn't surprise me. To me Kevin seems to have a drive to tackle the latest interesting trends in social and always with a new twist. Success or Failure. This is a good quality. Good Luck Kevin.
I don't understand why people freak out so much about their credit reports. I have no idea what my credit score is and don't care. I guess it's poor people who need credit to scrape by on a regular basis? If you have a lot of cash it seems like a completely empty threat. The bank is not going to care about your $400 unpaid comcast bill when writing you a mortgage. People who have declared bankruptcy twice are getting low rates. Tell the collectors to fuck off and go ahead and tell experian.

I got a $1200 medical bill, about half of which was BS. I sent a certified letter disputing the invalid charges. I never got a reply, so I never paid. I started getting calls from a collector. I blocked the numbers, end of story. I similarly never paid some bullshit charge from a landlord. These unpaid "debts" have never impacted me in the slightest.

If someone is trying to screw you, just don't pay. I don't understand why people are such cowards about it.
The more I think about it, the less I want it to be an internet I'm on.
It's my understanding that you cannot get tax-exempt non-profit status purely for developing and distributing software, regardless of license.

It's my understanding that software-oriented tax-exempt organizations, 501(c)(3)s, like the Apache Foundation categorize themselves as educational foundations in order to get tax-exempt status. It's hinted in the article that it's a pain to do FOSS despite altruistic intentions. I'm surprise that this shortcoming of the tax code wasn't underscored more.

If we are serious about getting more funding for open source, we should be lobbying to get FOSS (for some definition) categorized as providing scientific benefit or else add a new category of non-profits that provide free software (for some definition of free).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation
Noted! We're definitely excited to help solve this pain point. Nice to know that users would be willing to pay for it - I think that makes the "free" even more compelling.
Then why would anyone pay their bills if they can buy their debt back for 1/10th of what they owe?
I was at the Great Oaks (former IBM) facility in San Jose a few months ago. It's a massive place and now owned by HGST (a Western Digital Company), for whom I work. There is still a major amount of storage R&D going on there but, somewhat sadly, a number of the old IBM buildings with their distinctive block tile patterns, as seen in the film, are being demolished to make way for new facilities.

Edit: You can see a RAMAC unit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View - well worth a visit if you're into computer stuff.
What is project euler? The "about" page has lots of helpful information about submissions and scoring, but nothing ABOUT what it is!
ok, try.
I'd be pretty impressed if someone had programmed extensively for two decades and yet had never dealt with references of some kind. It doesn't have to explicitly be pointers in C.
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Kevin seems to be full of ideas. I look forward to seeing what they release.
Tristan (CEO) here. Article went out right before we had a few hours of meetings, but I'll be around for the afternoon replying to any feedback!
Well, at a bare minimum, credit scores.
Advice from someone who works on debt collection software for a living: never, ever let a check bounce. Returned checks operate in a legal loophole that circumvents most of the consumer protection afforded to regular debt. Collection agencies can begin pursuing it immediately, can begin reporting it to the credit bureaus immediately, and the interest rate they're allowed to charge on it is ridiculous.
Yes, and you can tell them to never contact you again in any way. Tell them that you refute all of the debt and will sue them if they file inaccurate information with a credit agency. I did that two years ago when a debt was incorrectly reported against me and I never heard from anyone again and it never showed up on my credit report. I'm not sure what would happen if they could prove the debt was accurate.
Well, lending is a very important function in an economy. Without lending, you could never invest more capital than you had on hand... If you had a handmade widget that you were producing for $10, and could only sell for $5, but a million-dollar factory would let you produce 100,000 widgets a day for $2 each, lending is the only way to get into business.

It's not the use of debt that's a problem, it's the misuse of debt.
The big bang theory explains a lot of stuff, like the cosmic microwave background, and the redshift of far-away galaxies.
All good points. (1) and (2) are easy fixes. (3) is on the way. And (4) is definitely coming soon - we won't just be for CA/NY.
ah but descent is such a luxury! Zen comes only from knowing when it is time to ascend the gradient, there to find new descending vistas that made the old valley look like a mountain!

would that all problems were so conveniently convex.
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None of this looks particularly new or shocking to me. Seems like automation of standard techniques, which I would be more surprised to find out they weren't using. And hacking foreign networks... isn't that exactly their job as signals intelligence?
There are tools that let you do bounds checking statically, with varying degrees of headache. That would have precisely addressed heartbleed.
I can also just wait out the debt period, until it passes the statute of limitations, and not pay anything at all - but I don't, because I prefer having a decent credit score and businesses who will do business with me.
This submission's title: "OpenStreetMap Studies (and Why VGI = OSM)"

The linked article's title "OpenStreetMap studies (and why VGI not equal OSM)"

To avoid errors like this, is there any way I could persuade you to simply copy the article's title?
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IE is faster in some areas because it uses some very controversial tricks, like caching all AJAX requests for the entire session. So yeah, it might be faster, but you might also get outdated data.
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> Problems, are to be ..exterminated.
> Imo, the (near) future, is either paradise, or total hell. Nothing in between. And history isn't offering reasons to be optimistic.

I doubt it is either of those. People can't go against billions, not without significant casualties, and not any time soon. I fear what the solution might be... If you are rich you might be more interested in culling number of those unneeded serfs by simply neutering them and providing them enough distractions unhealthy food and poor medicine that they just slowly keel over.

Otoh, intelligence isn't hereditary, so killing off those 'serfs' might also reduce the numbers of intelligent people.
Might have been bots. There seem to be people using hostile bots to downvote things on reddit, for example.
Not resting heart rate, no go.
It's really not that useful. They need to track down the bad actors, not put up weak communication barriers.
Positions of power are of little concern in a free market economy. The influence that comes with wealth is not the same as having political power, which is power at the barrel of a gun. The problem is, America is not a free market economy.

Hilariously I'm the exact opposite of what your false conclusion proclaims.

I'm neither liberal nor conservative - in fact I'm anti partisan - and I'm a laissez-faire Capitalist. I'd prefer the government be completely outlawed from creating economic regulations, and I believe in the separation of state and economy for the exact same reason state and church is separate: they infect each other. That instantly wipes out all lobbying for special treatment, special laws, and competition-by-government. The government returns to doing what it's only job should be: protection of individual rights.

The US is becoming a fascist oligarchy, dominated by a massive consolidation of select few winners that are then protected by the government from competition; this has occurred in nearly every segment of the economy.

The FDA rarely does anything that isn't shady. It is fully dominated by the mega-corps that can afford to buy political influence, from Pfizer to Merck to Gilead.
In addition to the credit issues the other commenters noted, there is the issue of taxes in the case of "chargeoffs." One will get an income statement from the credit issuer for the fraction of the debt they write off.

Odds are if one is in the position of having debt collectors come after them they'll be unlikely to afford the taxes on the "income."
Its the same people that want to cut benefits for "those people", etc.

The simple fact of the matter is, the people making these decisions are members of a privileged class of people that see any other class of people as "those people".

Building a better technical solution is only a partial solution. All technical solutions will have flaws that can be exploited given sufficient financial resources being expended at the task.

We need to replace our government.
Most people on HN exist in a very different world from the unbanked population. Credit scores mean nothing to these people. Many can't even get approved for a checking account and rely primarily on cash equivalents and prepaid products.