skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the camera policy to work, we need cameras that are always on, for the entire shift. Officers should not even be able to turn them off. They should be issued at the beginning of the shift already turned on, and passed in to an independent controller at the end of a shift who downloads the video to an archive that is accessible by citizen petition. If footage of a reported abuse is missing, that should be an automatic guilty.
Fair enough. At least you acknowledge that Google no longer stands for these things.
> Find some proof besides your own mind

Proof of what? Referral tracking?
And without Woz there would be no Apple to hear of.
This exchange tells me that John is very immature while Jeff is doing his best to try to work with him.
The article covers that:

> His hedge fund did get clobbered. Thiel’s peak-oil thesis did well by Clarium until mid-2008, as the price of oil soared from about $40 a barrel in 2002 to nearly $140. During that stretch the fund swelled in value from about $10 million to more than $6 billion as stock valuations skyrocketed and new investors flocked to his door.

> But by February 2009 oil prices had temporarily fallen back to almost $40 again. And though Thiel had foreseen the real estate bubble, he still underestimated it. “We didn’t fully believe our own theories about how bad things were,” he admits.

> Worse, he overreacted and missed the rebound, causing Clarium to badly underperform in 2009 and 2010. Most institutional investors fled. Today Clarium—with about $200 million under management—handles just the money of Thiel, friends and family, and a few select investors.
> NounVerberFactoryInterfaceAbstractInsanityTurtleTurlteTurtleRussianNestedDollSet

Ya, how often do you see that in OO programming?
>then the deal is a net positive for everyone, job-seekers, Nevada, and Tesla.

No, it's a net gain for Tesla and maybe Nevada, but that's about it. Tax abatements reduce the corporate tax burden and shift it towards individuals.
In the UK, for the last 10 years, you have been recorded almost all the time in urban centres by CCTV. The end of the world (or even mild abuse of the system) hasn't yet materialised.
WIthout Woz there is no Jobs or Apple to know of. He is (arguably) the more important founder in regards to Apple.
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Article sez Carmack's first big fight was convincing Samsung that a two frame delay was too long. WAY too long. And it was important enough that he wrote an "obscene workaround" to avoid that "pretty short" latency.

I've been casually following Carmack & Occulus for a while; recurring theme is "X ms delay is too long". IIRC (corrections please?), wasn't until latency got down to 20ms that the nausea etc subsided. That doesn't leave much room to both render a high-res complex image and display it by anything more than the shortest transmission time conceivable.
Well done and congrats on launching. But I hate that it's all about promoting cheap consumer goods that were made in a Chinese sweatshop and are half way to their final destination in an American landfill.

I'm not trying to sound elitist, but Old Navy? That stuff is garbage and will fall apart. And before somebody points out that not everybody is as fortunate as I must be: Clothes and other textiles once made up a much larger percentage of our incomes. Clothes are relatively cheap and if there's any issues it's because of a choice to emphasize quantity over quality.

Our consumer more-is-better culture is certainly not your fault. I just lament doing anything to fuel it.

Edit: if I had to suggest a place to buy affordable clothing, I'd say http://everlane.com
You could think this is real simple, but I would like to say do something about Online Education! Courseware system, book sharing, student social media with profiles integrated with classes and courses. That is perfect fit for both Web and Mobile app I think.
I could use the same arguments for me or other businesses not paying income tax.

>or raise the value of its securities that citizens of this country own

Right, it's the citizens subsidizing the shareholders. This is not a good thing.
The Gear VR is currently advertising 20ms motion-to-photon latency [1], so 1ms wouldn't be a big deal - if you can actually make it 1ms.

[1] http://www.roadtovr.com/samsung-gear-vr-official-specificati...
s/Tesla/Any large company/g
> Americans are relatively more rational ie. not so celeb-crazy

....Said nobody ever :)
Spot on. Even as a techie who lived in the Bay Area for a decade, I've never thought of Thiel as a public intellectual.
Wait. No...the taxpayers of Nevada lose. Because the taxpayers, at large, are subsidizing benefits that will be accrued by specific individuals (the new employees, Tesla consumers and investors). Even if the economy grows as a result of this subsidy (which would really be impossible to prove), such gains wouldn't take into account the equivalent loss to the tune of $1.25B that comes out in little pieces from millions of individual taxpayers and taxpaying businesses--that's money that isn't being spent in the economy.

I suspect the poorest taxpayers of Nevada will pay the most, because they are the least likely to be able to afford a Tesla, least likely to have the skills and training to take what jobs are created (and even so, not enough jobs to go around), and also the most hurt by the higher taxes that inevitably result from such a subsidy.
What about a data race? Theoretically, the function that memset_ptr points to could be changed between when it is checked and when it would be run.
In my humble opinion, Weavi (weavi.com) would be the best choice for him.
When I ported Markdown to mod_perl and a CMS I was working with about 9 or so years ago, I emailed John, and he indicated " just don't use the 'Markdown' name", so I choose "Makeup" (it makes things pretty). You're welcome to reuse that name @codinghorror. It seems clear to me avoiding "Markdown", whether you precede it with Vanilla, Humble, Common, Friendly, or whatever is really just a waste of time and likely to cause unnecessary tension. Makeup, man. Makeup. The name could also be your public deferential gesture to John, so you can all - Makeup.
http://everlane.com
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The downsides are hypotheticals about the police potentially nabbing you based on an extreme ability to find out what you did, while the upsides involve current, actual, real stories about the police nabbing you by simply making up violations and then getting them to stick.

I'm not a big fan of surveillance, but it seems to me that being able to retroactively follow individuals throughout the city could be a good tradeoff if it means the police can never again send an innocent person to prison by planting drugs on him after arresting him for something he didn't even do.
Disgraced unknown founder says: He who act like asshole get chased out of company.
OP said he wanted an open source solution. Other than that, I can find no faults in using Evernote for this purpose. I use it for my personal stuff.

Where Evernote falls down, and this is by design according to CEO Phil Libin, is in sharing across many people. Libin says Evernote is not social, it's anti-social. As such, it doesn't work when you need to collaborate on notes. But see Evernote Business which seems to contradict this assertion.

OP was talking about a personal solution so the social aspect doesn't apply.
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If they're not a force of racist assholes, why do they carry out the racist asshole policy of stop and frisk? Are they just spineless dweebs "just following orders"?
GOOD. There is literally no downside to this, it's a win-win! Here's to more polite police officers and less violence.
AFAIK, Uniqlo only hems, and the jeans probably don't fit in other ways (e.g. thighs, calves).

I would, however, love to be wrong.
WordPress doesn't do minor and major versions; they just add 0.1 to the last release. In general it has worked very well for them and the WordPress community.
I've wanted this for years... I even own the website http://www.styleaday.com
The more troubling aspect of this story that no one seems to be talking about is that these cameras are being introduced because somewhere the presumption of innocence on the part of citizens is being abridged. We shouldn't have to require police to wear cameras to prove our innocence. The courts should be more stringent in their requirements for evidence in proving our guilt instead. Police testimony counts too much and too little evidence is required to have unconstitutional stop-and-frisks hold up in court.
Competition between the states is one of my favorite aspects of the US structure of Government. It goes a long way towards encouraging efficiency. True democracy is being able to "vote with your feet" and move around based on personal preferences and values.
"This was not the biggest incentive package", says Elon Musk at the announcement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7XTyJJmlyo
The WHATWG didn't publish any spec entitled "HTML5" (or anything including "HTML") until after the W3C (new) HTML WG was chartered and underway, with a document based on the WHATWG one. It was, for years, entitled "Web Applications 1.0".
Suggestions from Mrs Browl - great, but do the same for celebrities of different ethnicities and sizes. There are plenty of guys who are shaped like Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, John Goodman - all of whom are well dressed.
23% at this point.
Equally, his "specification" or Markdown is something he holds copyright of. But the new work is entirely separate to that.
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Personally, I think the money is better spent in Tesla's hands than in the state government's hands.
Is there a reason why a site that looks like it is from 1998 requires Javascript? Sigh.

Nevermind. I'm tilting at windmills.
As a pragmatic developer, I love WordPress. it's the most productive programming platform I've found, and with PhpStorm to develop with it, I'm come to find it rather elegant, albeit not what most PHP non-WP programmers want or expect.

Why do I like it? It's the most productive PHP development platform that exists, hands down. With it I only have to code the unique functionality I need and not everything else.

P.S. Before anyone preaches OOP at me, realize I started teaching OOP back in 1989, and n 1991 I even wrote a book that had several chapters covering OOP.
Looks like a cool idea, I'm not sure how accurate the products you link to are to whats pictured though. I would work on making that more accurate.
> Germany, Sweden, Holland, Britain, Italy etc would even think to shot you for getting out of your car to check why you were stopped.

Neither would most cops in the U.S. The cops in my town (Wilmington, DE) might, but then again the murder rate here is 30-40 times higher than in Munich and above that of such safe places as Kingston, Jamaica.
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Coolspotters, the site I run, does the exact same thing! We have a big library of celebrities and the clothing they're wearing. http://coolspotters.com
You're right that the police need to stop being so insular and start treating the public with some respect.

"Violent pushback" is not going to help though, it would almost certainly make things worse by making the police's hardline tactics look justified ("look at what we're fighting against!"). It would cause the general population to side (even more) with the police, and would probably result in the police doubling down rather than backing off.

As a start, the politicians need to actually hold the police department accountable, and stop deferring to them by default. [I rather liked Bloomberg as a mayor, but the way he seemed to always defer to Ray Kelly and let the latter get away with anything he wanted (which was inevitably horrid) was downright disgusting.]
simplification helps only in the way you start looking at things later. But then when you communicate to another person, he still needs all the data to come to the same level of simplification you achieved. Being able to organize the way your brain looks at it at some point in time and later reconfiguring as things evolve is what may be needed.
Seriously, your answer is right here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA

Go contact a proper lawyer for more information on what to do legally.
We haven't heard back after replying last night [...] we're immediately renaming the project [...] The project name change is already in progress

Sounds like those are fighting words.
Surely he doesn't need to be an idol or hero to someone for his accomplishments and skills to be acknowledged.
In Italy (I bet more generally in EU) I see more the use case of knowing what a celebrity wears, but have a couple of alternatives to do a good match, without looking exactly the same... food for thoughts :) Great work btw!
People who cannot afford a Tesla are likely to disagree with you.
Was Coursera contacted before this was published?
1. "I reported this issue to Coursera last Thursday; to the company’s credit, in less than a day ..."

2. "I reported the issue to Coursera on Sunday, and I have not yet received a response."

3. "I notified Coursera of this issue last Thursday."

Kind of, but not very responsibly.
Just so you know how different the other side of the coin is, I go to a top research university similar to the Ivies, and of around 50 STEM students I know, every single one did some form of summer research or STEM internship. An additional 2 semesters of research are required for most STEM majors.
Does GCC include any flags to prevent this sort of detrimental optimization?
That's the theory, yes. But there have been a number of times when that has not worked out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/how-local-taxpayers-ban...

“Even where officials do track incentives, they acknowledge that it is impossible to know whether the jobs would have been created without the aid.”
Perhaps in this specific case, but what if it was for a company you don't think has a good chance to succeed? Or how about a company you don't agree with ideologically?

Like I said in another comment these types of deals are turning governments into quasi-investors. They put money up front with the intention that decades later it will pay off. What if some of these projects fail before the pay off?

Up to this point these deals have largely paid off. But if this starts becoming the norm, and government leaders start coming under pressure to outbid each other, I fear for what might start transpiring. Elected officials that are looking to score points for the next election are not someone I'd trust making these long-term decisions.
Not eating hamburgers (plus not consuming the other parts of cows, namely leather) would destroy cows as well.
Yup, quite new here. My experience haven't been that negative. But still its a bit frustrating.
>They thought they wanted to get away from HFT. But once they were away from HFT they realized

THEY WERE PAYING TO BE IN A DARK POOL IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE AWAY FROM HFT. There was no "they realized".

Once they got away, Barclays tried to figure out if there was any BARCLAYS could extract more profits from these dark pools than the fees they were already paid. There was: allow HFT sharks to take advantage of their customers and collect fees for letting them do so.

If what you said were true (and frankly I cannot possibly see how you could believe it) they would have ZERO reason to commit fraud and lie about selling privileged access to HFT traders.
> 20ms motion-to-photon latency

> so 1ms wouldn't be a big deal

Even if it's 1ms, that means that you only have 19ms left for all of the processing / rendering, including to the I/O delay of getting motion data from the input.
Oh my goodness. We can't know what causes of a phenomenon are simply by observing it? Stop the presses.
Friend in high school got pulled over with me in the car for speeding. The officer said he was doing 79km/hr in a 50 zone. (He was going a little fast but not that fast). My friend, having been pulled over before, asked to see the radar gun reading and the cop told him "I deleted it."

Fortunately, my friend contested it in court and won because the police are supposed to show you the evidence if you ask for it.
Wow! In Gujarati it's also called "old lady's hair".
Given the build date of the kernel on my phone and the publicly disclosed security bugs in the kernel fixed in later releases, I'd be amazed if any Android version (yes, including current ones!) is free of known security holes.
Here in Oregon, notable tax breaks have been granted to Nike, Intel and others. The issue comes up periodically, especially in election years. Concerns about companies paying a "fair share" of taxes is very common, but doesn't go anywhere.

As I see it, giving the tax break is a gamble. The state or local government wagers that the tax relief will bring in more revenue (through increased jobs, stimulating local business, etc.) than lost in the incentive package.

With really large companies the bet usually pays off, but of course it sometimes doesn't. But that's what gambling is all about.
I have also gone through resumes looking for developer and I have to agree, that lot of people don't know where they are applying. But I feel like this is what companies should figure out them selves. I should just send my CV to them, to let them know I am interested.
Yeah, I saw plenty of stuff that didn't match the photo at all.
I agree with the sentiment of this post. More generally, I think that any social web infrastructure that's run by a company (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc.) will end up being pure crap because companies will always favor short term profits over thoughtful long term decisions.

I have a dream that one day we'll have an open source system that functions in a distributed/federated way and overlaps in functionality with:

- Twitter, for the "stream of consciousness", instant aspect and/or

- Facebook, for the photo sharing/keeping up with old friends, etc. and/or

- Blogs, for the ability to quickly publish any prose and/or

- IRC, for the ability to instantly chat about any topic with complete strangers and/or

- Geocities, for the ability to easily publish static websites and/or

- Forums, for the ability to have long, deep, asynchronous conversations with a small or large group of other interesting parties.

Theses are the services that I've enjoyed using on the web, but most of them are dying/dead now because the companies that own them add cruft and bullshit to keep their investors happy and their users clicking on ads (HN has been surprisingly resilient to that, for very straightforward reasons).

Ideally such a system would be fairly straightforward for any nerd to setup on their server (just like phpBB and friends who just require copying/pasting a folder on a server with mod_php, that is pretty much any server), and then their friends/family could sign up and join there. There have been attempts at this (eg. Diaspora), but nothing really ever made anything compelling.

I think there's something nice about relative stability. For example, some phpBB forums out there have had active members for more than a decade, with very little functionality added. Similarly, I like that IRC is the same now than it was 20 years ago.

There's something to be done here, and it probably won't come out of silicon valley.
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> Markdown is the hardest thing he's ever worked on

If that's even remotely true, I hope he never touches any piece of code in his life again.

For god's sake, just look at his implementation: "Hacked together after a night of binge drinking" would be the perfect description of it.
I suspected I shouldn't have copy and pasted that quote because everyone would react to it and not, say, the comprehensive report on the subject we're talking about that I linked to.

The point is that governments are throwing money at companies without really having any idea if it is a good idea. The data is - at best - unclear.
I would call the thing CommonMark and leave the "down" out of it.

Given the improvements, it's worth a little initial ambiguity, and given those are solid, that ambiguity won't endure very long.

Everybody has high happy potential, and it's up to them individually to actualize it.
And that's exactly what I'm talking about, this kind of bullshit would stop if they had body cameras. Plainclothes detectives in NYC are even worse than regular cops, they're arrogant dickheads that think they're above the law.
How would you define responsibly in this case? Isn't a week enough time?
It would be a much better customer experience if you could buy the entire outfit in one action -- add outfit to cart, checkout, done -- instead of going to each product's ecommerce site individually, which would take quite a long time. I realize these are all different stores operating on disparate platforms -- Hybris, Magento, Oracle ATG, Elastic Path, etc. -- but aggregating it somehow via a middle platform would be much more seamless to the end user. And the site operators could take a small cut.
It shouldn't be this way, but sadly it is. At least in NYC, a cops word is bond basically. Body cameras will help curb this bullshit.
The workflow proposed in the first link looks quite interesting: Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dUkyn_fZA

And here are some more reviews, opinions, advices and experiences I just stumbled upon:

http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1273

http://orgmode.org/talks.html
It was talked about when it was said how it was embarrassing for patients to have to find their own donors.
How do you handle search? I think that's one of my gripe with static websites.
First, make sure you have a product with traction and uses cases of it being used. Make a nice slide deck.

Make a list of investors you want to target. Look them up on LinkedIn & Angelist. See if you have any shared connections and try to get some introductions. I have found that cold emailing never really leads to anything.

Next up, join a lot of meetup groups to do with your field, startups, entrepreneurship etc... and go to as many as you can. Meet other founders. Don't just talk about yourself. Find out what they do, ask them questions, take them out for a beer etc...find out who their investors are and try and get them to do intros.

It's all about networking. Get yourself out there, meet founders and get introductions to investors.
Not when you factor in benefits, which should be done. Not sure if it was done in this case, or if the benefits are that good.
It was undercover plainclothes detectives, so no dashcam. It would have been his word against mine, and the worst that would have happened if I pursued it would have been a notice stashed away somewhere that would have accomplished nothing.