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Hi dang,

We (huntbnb) apologize for the confusion. This is some genuine work we did and have been getting some great attention from the media folks (http://pando.com/2014/08/13/thanks-to-huntbnb-people-who-sec...) and several users across the country. Our only motive behind getting on HN is to get more visibility and take this to more users. This is our (at least mine) first time posting something on HN and obviously we didn't do it right. We initially posted it but couldn't view it and re-did it again twice. We had no intentions behind scamming the voting process nor we tried to up vote. It's just that we didn't do it right. And we apologize for one of our members accusing you guys for censoring our post, because we genuinely were frustrated for not letting us post something. Again, that was uncalled for and we apologize.

The recent post by "taitems" was by someone who read one of the articles about us online; it wasn't any of our members. We were so excited about a) someone thinking that our feature is a HN material, and b) getting good attention from a lot of HN users. Unfortunately, it didn't last longer since we were mistaken for astroturf'ing HN. Again, we sincerely respect your decision and this is a good learning lesson for us to be careful from hereon. The only reason I'm writing back is we strongly believe in the value HN brings to any new and upcoming ideas by giving them the right visibility and want you guys to realize that we aren't any sock puppets trying to move up HN for fun. That'd be the last thing we do.

Thank you for your time!!
If you're looking for a live stream of activity you can find it here:
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Anonymous has claimed that they will be releasing the name of the cop who shot Mike Brown if they recover it: http://www.salon.com/2014/08/13/anonymous_released_alleged_a...
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AdSense isn't always the right solution for monetization. I was about to suggest AdMob as they had a mobile web component, but looking at it now, it is all native.

There are other ads providers out there that have very good fill rates, I would look at them.

I am still trying to balance how much we talk about other providers on our site vs general themes which are common for all platforms.
Vice did a good bit on Swatting which covers this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ziLjOPCQwg
and the amazing discordant 'reaction' by the police, armed with a variety of fringe all provided no doubt by the US military which probably had an excess.
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He has them on video, they will be identified as long as it wasnt deleted.
There is a definitive lack of P2P SDKs, and those that exist, address a very narrow set of problems. The advent of digital currencies may provide incentives for users to prefer P2P apps. Getting paid to put your computer to work will appeal to many people.

Maidsafe is a good example, but developing for that SDK is a major undertaking. I am working on peercentrum (https://github.com/pmarches/peercentrum-core) which may appeal to a more general developer crowd.
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I have a database of 500k+ tweets for a specific hashtag. Besides tweet count over time, tweet location, or tweet language, what are some other useful ways I can analyze this data? Do common software packages or analysis methods exist for this? I would love to be able to generate a graph of trending topics over time or something similar, but I don't have much experience in this area and would appreciate some suggestions. I'm using Python. Thanks in advance!
I wonder how long it's going to take for people to take up arms (unless they already have), as this is exactly the kind of event some people use to justify gun ownership (huge emphasis on the some, I personally believe you don't need justification for gun ownership and that it's a human right and I know I'm not alone in this, but I also know some people have used it as justification and I wonder if they'd ever put their money where their mouth is). It's a miracle some nut hasn't snapped and engaged in all-out warfare already.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? Honest question, how much more are people willing to take?
> white people don't riot

Middle to upper class people (many white) rioted when the SF Giants won the World Series [1]. I don't recall any police officers in military gear.

I believe it's because middle or white crowds don't pose any perceived threat even though they're burning cars and otherwise breaking the law. There were arrests, though.

If you're community is poor and black then you're SOL.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/san-francisco-riots...
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basically vaporware. In the sense that almost nobody will see/touch it. Huge chip - 10B transistors - using new process node - 3D 16nm - will have such low yield that its obviously high price will be even higher. Thus only a handful of systems will be delivered. Thus practical non-existence equivalence.

SPARC CPU division brought down Sun, and i see it still puts a good fight inside Oracle despite Rock cancelation :)

Edit: even if the CPU become realistically (in the High Enterprise sense) available just imagine what [ram-to-cpu] bus should the CPU to sit on for it to be able to feed the beast, especially considering that it will be DB application, not HPC for example
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I definitely agree with the sentiment, but I have to nitpick - neither of the vehicles in that picture is a tank. They are both large, light-to-medium armored, wheeled vehicles, and the rightmost one has some kind of gear mounted on top. Not everything that is big and painted green is a tank.

On the other hand, this points to a (to me, more disturbing) aspect of all this - the adoption of military imagery and styling. Why does an urban police force, even if deals with rioting, need to wear camouflage patterns? Why do their trucks need to be painted green instead of the more traditional blue/white or black?

This is indicative of a police force that sees itself as a military force, and its mission as a military mission.
I can't drive. Not for lack of trying.

I seemingly can't develop the the muscle memory of unintuitive (to me) concepts like "clockwise is right" and "counter-clockwise is left", nor can I get used to the way a gas pedal actuates non-linearly. These are just two examples of a long list of problems that I have with the controls.

Then there is the utterly confusing signage.

I just can't do any of it, not without sweating like a pig. And I definitely can't be doing all of it at the same time. That's just nuts.

Every time I pick up a PS3 controller I have to learn to use it again, which depending on my withdrawal period can take anywhere from a couple of minutes to like half an hour. The only reason I can touch-type is because I'm doing it every day.

Please don't make the assumption that other's experience of the man-made world around us is in any way similar to yours, that's just not true.

Oh, and I have had absolutely no problem figuring out PGP encryption usage.
If you want foo to be interpreted as a form just wrap it in a progn.

(Personally, I think it's very bad practice to use a symbol macro that expands to anything other than a place, and it's certainly bad practice to define a symbol macro that expands to a form with side-effects. So this would never happen in my code. YMMV of course.)
The al-Jazeera crew was shot at? Can you point to a source for this?
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, given that you're absolutely right. There are a number of people on this thread engaging in 2nd amendment rights fantasies without stopping to consider what would happen in this situation if a bunch of black people started openly carrying weapons while being confronted by a bunch of hostile, heavily armed SWAT team members. We need more MLK, and less NRA.
No, I don't have the numbers, just company talks at IoT conferences.
Drone will become mainstream soon.
> [retracted]white people don't riot and[/retracted]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:White_American_riots_i...

"The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total."

edit: and also this, of course: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Summer#Violence
> Really? That's what you think the whole difference between the distros is, the fucking init system?

Systemd isn't (just) an init system. According to Poettering himself, in a recent talk[1], noted how systemd has already taken over:

"init system, journal logging, login management, device management, temporary and volatile file management, binary format registration, backlight save/restore, rfkill save/restore, bootchart, readahead, encrypted storage setup, EFI/GPT partition discovery, virtual machine/container registration, minimal container management, hostname management, locale management, time management, random seed management, sysctl variable management, and console managment."

His roadmap for the next features to annex includes:

- DNS/DNSSEC, mDNS responder
- IPC (kernel code! (kdbus, etc))
- NTP
- More container integration, w/ new OS image format
- mandating layout of /usr /etc and /var
- "Verifiable OS images"
"All the way to the firmware"
"Boot Loading"
(good luck using custom kernels once
PoetteringOS starts requiring UEFI SecureBoot)
- (etc)

Do you call that "the fucking init system"? There isn't much left after that, and if past and current behavior is any judge, Poettering will probably expand that list over time.

> Or that it's unique directory layout and symlink farm

That's exactly the kind of thing that the systemd crowd is trying to prevent. See the part above where the current goal is to mandate the filesystem layout. Remember, it was Poettering himself that said that the goal of systemd was to "...get rid of many of the more pointless differences of the various distributions..."

> Obviously, you aren't aware of the debian-devel thread on the matter.

Obviously, the author has read that threat (as have I). It was quite the experience, and is one of the most revealing threads I've seen regarding the abusive, manipulative, our-way-or-nothing methods used by the systemd camp. Debian has indeed made a dangerous choice, which was further discussed in the replies to this LKML post.

> And Debian too? All of these groups don't believe in freedom? They're just one huge cabal...

No such claim was made. Debian has put itself in a situation where the freedom currently enjoyed will not be possible in the future. Systemd is forcing incompatibilities with the traditional Linux/Unix ways - on purpose - and they already have limited manpower. Siding with systemd will require either more manpower than they have, or dropping the "old ways".

> ...the author is a long way from finding any answers...

Ahh, attacking the author. This type of tactic is pretty common from the systemd shills, as a method of shutting down the discussion. Instead of using this kind of rhetoric, I suggest actually reading up on the history of the current init situation.

Unless you actually want Linux to become a windows-style monoculture, incompatible with most traditional unix software - because removing "old" features and backwards compatibility is the stated goal of the larger "CoreOS"/systemd project.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTczNDk
Um, not to be that guy, but much like the other guy who replied to you said, that's not a tank.

Also, in every picture I've seen of the militarized police they've had badges as well as tags that read 'POLICE'.
Police militarization is largely driven by grants from the DHS. The way American municipal police forces have been turned into a (poorly controlled) internal military is the blunt end of the same force that drives NSA mass surveillance.
This is bad but it definitely isn't proof that we've turned in to some sort of Stalinist police state. This sort of heavy handed bravado has popped up in local police enforcement countless times in American history. This is quite tame compared to the lynch mobs of our not so distant past.

It certainly doesn't help to spread fear. Don't let these frustrations fuel and justify the juvenile and irresponsible reaction we've seen from groups like Anonymous.

These are scary times for everyone involved and polarizing the issue is a path that quite clearly and logically leads people away from resolving their conflicts.

Perhaps you're just wanting to see things burn?
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It's what you get charged with when there's nothing else to charge you with.
Thanks for the info.

About the Military service, you make it sound like it's Israel mandatory... It's more like you only have to show up there and sign a paper.

Today almost only the ones that really want get to do the military service.
Can you elaborate on why Haskell is not appropriate for the browser? Just for clarification, it is a general purpose language whereas CSS is not.
It's not even hypothetical. The Black Panthers were trying to do a lot of good stuff for the community (despite their flaws) by using their legal right to carry arms for their protection and the result was that the government cracked down on their freedoms because they were so uncomfortable about being unable to oppress them with shows of force and police harassment.
> I wonder how long it's going to take for people to take up arms

When it starts being white people targeted. Killing an unarmed man, cordoning off the city with millitarized police, and shutting down the press sure sounds like the scenario that 2nd amendment fundamentalists like the Oathkeepers claim they need their AR-15s to deal with, but they're conspicuous by their absence.
Thanks for letting us know. We'll get that fixed.
Cane toads were introduced to Australia [1] with devastating consequences to the local fauna. I suspect that's one of the species it'd be most happy to be rid of.

Then there's the feral rabbits, camels, horses (brumbies), pigs etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia
Unfortunately, they won't identify themselves when they're in riot gear.
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Here's a video, http://www.vox.com/2014/8/13/6001193/al-jazeera-journalists-...
There have been a lot of Twitter photos of US veterans contrasting pictures of their time in theatres of war (Iraq etc) with press pictures of the police. The police usually appear more heavily armed.
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Maybe depending on your ethnicity you are finally getting a glimpse, but for many Americans the tyranny is already here, it has been for a while, they've gotten a good deal more than just a "glimpse", and far from "creeping up", it has smashed through their front door in force and shot their dog and kid in the face.

IMO the more photogenic white people getting jackbooted in the face, the better. It's good for solidarity.
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This is just the tip of the iceberg.

The US has such poor police training that this problem will not go away. There are also way to many people in the force that are mentally not fit for the job.

Sadly the the Police appears to reflect the conscience of the country. Where force rules over diplomacy. Shoot first ask questions later and revenge over forgiveness.
>Perhaps you're just wanting to see things burn?

A few police stations would be a good start.

You can clear everybody out first (optional operation).
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It's a big recruiting tool these days. You can be a beat cop and play commando on the weekends. The marketing for this stuff is absolutely sick. Here's one from St. Louis (surprise!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot5_UPeZIUw

If they really wanted camouflage they would wear jeans. They just want to play commando and find some "action".
I bet the cop on the second left is such an asshole he is punished with the camera on the helmet.
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Loaded fine for me. Rest of site looks good.

Will definitely try this out. May sound strange to others but I could use a project management software, even though I'm a one man project operation...
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If you've spent any time with Oracle sales staff you'll know their pitch these days is that their on-chip acceleration is the only way to break IO barriers, and that you'll get a shit experience with Oracle DBs unless you deploy on Oracle hardware. It's an old-school full stack play straight from the mainframe era.

SSD, by way of contrast, is relatively commodity stuff that Oracle can't get a lock-in with.
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Depends which country's reasonable you are talking about. In my country, broadband is anything more than 256 kbps! So, to call their services broadband, almost all providers drop speed after FUP limit (anywhere from 8-200 GB) to 256kbps.

And average speed is something like 2-3 Mbps.
Yeah, works until the next automatic update... ;)
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You're referring to the process of internationalization, which is usually treated as a separate process from localization.

Internationalization is making it possible to swap out language-specific assets at runtime (which is what Lars points to as the difficult part of this which can be carried over to other projects); localization is the process of actually making those language-specific assets. Internationalization is done by spending (usually in-house) programmer time; localization is about throwing money at (usually outsourced) translators.
why would you ever want to do this?
I don't think this document was created by a faceless organization.
The Economist recently touched on the militarization of US police forces. It's worth a read:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-america...

> But it is hard to see why Fargo, North Dakota—a city that averages fewer than two murders a year—needs an armoured personnel-carrier with a rotating turret. Keene, a small town in New Hampshire which had three homicides between 1999 and 2012, spent nearly $286,000 on an armoured personnel-carrier known as a BearCat. The local police chief said it would be used to patrol Keene’s “Pumpkin Festival and other dangerous situations”.

And worse:

> Householders, on hearing the door being smashed down, sometimes reach for their own guns. In 2006 Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman in Atlanta, mistook the police for robbers and fired a shot from an old pistol. Police shot her five times, killing her. After the shooting they planted marijuana in her home. It later emerged that they had falsified the information used to obtain their no-knock warrant.
I'd love that as well. But the killer feature that Basecamp has for me is that you can reply to their emails. Half of my clients have created initial accounts and haven't logged back after that. Yet, they can communicate. If this can do that, I'm switching now!
None of this is new as anybody involved in protest (most recently and notably - Occupy) could attest to. This was the single most radicalizing event that we witnessed. Peaceful protestors that had once struck down any radical protestors suddenly turned radical themselves upon watching family and friends get beaten for filming and arrested for not obeying conflicting demands. A close friend of mine was only able to save the SD card in his sock and switch it out with a new one before the cops took it, pocketed the (unused) SD card and then spiked his digital camera on the asphalt.

This situation is going to keep escalating. If you visit Ferguson, you'll see the business-district smashed up but the residential areas nice, calm, well-kept - with families literally everywhere walking around. The community is united and organizing. I can only hope that the period of chaotic rage settles down into something strong, long-lasting, and effective. This would be a true tribute to Michael Brown.

Last - I want to mention that a St. Louis City Alderman/Protestor was also arrested tonight. He remains peaceful as his respected reputation depends on it, so one can only gather that it was to silence his filming.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5677157

An account of STL police two years ago:http://antistatestl.noblogs.org/post/2012/03/19/a-personal-a...

And some resistance:
http://antistatestl.noblogs.org/post/2012/04/22/welcome-to-c...
Oracle are increasingly moving to hugely punative licensing schemes for running their DB on non-Oracle platforms, up and down the stack; run a single vCPU guest on a VMware farm? Fuck you, license all your hypervisors. Unless you want to buy SPARC, the you can do sub-capacity licensing.

Time will tell whether customers will prefer to get reamed for Oracle hardware to avoid some Oracle software costs, or simply switch to DBs with less tied pricing models.
I used to think that Alex Jones was a complete Looney tune, bit slowly I'm starting to realise that he's been warning Americans about this exact scenario for years.
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Except that 1. so many are afraid of losing what little they have, and 2. I am not sure about others, but if I am not caught up in it personally, it just comes out as more statistics, happening somewhere else, not my back/frontyard.

I just read the Wired article on Snowden on HN this evening, and in it he referred to the process of becoming numb/accepting of something that you get repeatedly shown, regardless of how sad/miserable/bad it is, the frog in the slowly heating pot of water.

I have come to the realization that the country (USA) I was taught about in school that was so great and cherished its Constitution and Bill of Rights is mostly just a fantasy, a hopeful work in progress that does not seem to be making much progress, and the best thing I can do is teach the people around me what I think is right/ethical and keep working to make my small section of the world a better place.

There is a better and better chance that more shit is going to hit the fan financially (http://vimeo.com/user20236372/review/101487179/54bf993e5d), wars seem to now be a constant state of human social equilibrium, and rather than give in to depression, I will teach those around me how to care for what we have, and maybe survive any larger disaster that doesn't just wipe my area off a map.

Sad, but about the only positive thing I can currently think of doing.
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