skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many police cars used to have "To protect and serve" painted on their sides. I certainly remember that, although I haven't seen it in years.

No one is saying they expect the police to carry your groceries inside. They are law enforcement officers whose job description is to enforce laws. If they can't/wont' do that because of external factors, then citizens should be told the truth about why that is. Vigilantism comes from a sense of injustice, that the system doesn't work for unknown reasons. Without that transparency, we are left to fill that void in understanding with our imaginations.
What would be really cool is to project an image that reconstructs to normal only when reflected in a chromed cylinder used as the base of the lamp.
It saddens me to see stop and frisk put in the same category of the rest of this stuff. Sure, let's just blatantly violate the constitution for some perceived measure of public safety....

You want to enforce smaller laws? Great. You want the police to randomly stop and search citizens? Get the fuck out of my country.
This might sound kind of dumb, but just rub it on your face. I'm pretty sure the "smoothing out" is just getting a nice thin coating of oil on it, like seasoning a cast iron pan.
Using a properly configured, Tor-enabled browser/OS is the first step to protecting your identity, not the last.

You still have to compartmentalize your illicit (or, in the case of research, simply suspicious) activity from your day-to-day computer activities, rigorously.
Hm hardly. The average linux user is something like 100 times more skilled, computer-wise, than your average windows/mac user. That's why IMHO it's highly unlikely that a Linux Desktop based malware will ever reach big numbers. Those linux people are mostly geeks, they can tell easily if something is going wrong...
WORLD WAR 3 IS ON,
Perhaps this is a also a growth opportunity for a private security firm. Call us, we will use our trained armed personnel to confront the suspects and return your stuff.

I would hope that it would not take too many incidents of private security 'resolving' issues to see that a police force doing its job is a far more preferred solution.
c.) the person you are buying from is an actual police agency.

The police use undercover drug dealers on the streets. Why wouldn't they use them online, where it is much cheaper and safer.
Are you suggesting that the police need to intervene if someone is howling at the top of their lungs and kicking seats? Did they do any damage?

Your attitude is the reason people with mental health issues often are reluctant to seek help. Because they are stigmatized, and mental health is quickly becoming criminalized.
I see... we'll see what's up with this. Thanks!
Poll: What do you think of Daylight Saving time?
I've heard a lot of people in favor of abolishing Daylight Saving time lately. If you could, would you get rid of it?
It should be changed
Open source mobile analytics & push notifications - http://count.ly - more than 2000+ servers running worldwide
I wonder how longjmp() interacts with ARC. My guess is poorly.
I should say that of course, there are police officers
who work hard, are incorruptible and are genuine
upstanding citizens who enforce laws and are just.

And those police officers that are incorruptible and genuine upstanding citizens don't last long or succeed in the police officer career because the system not only isn't set up to reward those officers, it is actively antagonistic against such officers [0].

TBH, the only thing that could possible change things is to apply competition in police work. I'd love to see municipalities maintain two police forces and fund them according to how effective they are. Make them compete and they will improve or go out of business.

[0] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/the-police-ar...
Several comments are in regards to the issues surrounding the service, but I have to say, the service itself fills the niche need for anyone out there who is looking for a quick custom email solution.

When Google App stopped providing their free custom email service (which is fair enough), I asked a question here to see if there were any alternatives and basically there wasn't (there were a few similar ones, but not as convenient as what Google offered) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5179478

Of course there are issues I think that pawnmail needs to consider, but it definitely feels like this might be that alternative.
Similar movies are pulled from TMDB API. We have nothing to do with it. But you are right, in some situations similar movies don't make much sense. We have to dig deeper into this and find a good solution.
I appreciate the time you took to write this. Of course I could figure out every single feature if I spent a T time on it. And of course sometimes I've just used the focus-on-content-only approach. But, my point is that when I look at it, it just seems too much over-engineered. Maybe UI-wise only? Maybe feature wise too? I don't know! And if I had to know, it meant that I had to go through it, which is exactly what I don't want to be required to when getting accustomed with an environment!

Ask yourself, if you were to implement a new Reddit, would you make it like it is now?
I would simplify it a lot.

Maybe it's not the perfect example but for a complexity-wise comparison, consider StackOverflow. It is complex and it covers a lot of tiny details. Sometimes I'm just really amazed at how well every little single feature is designed. But it never gets in your way. Every "hey-you-should-know-this" only comes up when really necessary, making a new user's familiarization process a very progressive experience.

If both those sites were Swiss Army knives, to me Reddit would present itself with all of its non-standard weird mini-tools opened up, to the point where while I'd be looking for the one I need, I would be asking myself "why I'm being told that I need this or that ?", while StackOverflow would show up with all tools closed, and would still impress me at letting me find exactly what I need when I need it, and sometimes would even surprise me, showing up a pleasantly and unexpected augmentated version of that...

I go for the second type :)
Add to winning situations. Cut your losses from losing ones. Don't drink or do drugs. Maintain your edge.
Call up your local news stations and see if they can put some pressure on the police department?
> Washington is a conceal carry friendly state, I wonder how reporting an attempt at a citizens arrest would have changed the situation.

I'm a big believer in the Second Amendment. It's not about duck hunting. And in an ideal world what you suggest would be OK.

HOWEVER, we don't live in an ideal world. So IMO concealed carry is now about personal protection and not about retrieving stolen iPhones.
Thanks for providing this, just set it up with my new domain!
> Some co-workers and I haven't had great experiences with webcams under Linux.

Really? Because all USB webcams should support UVC, and therefore should work under every modern OS (Windows, OSX, Linux, BSDs, etc) without any additional drivers.

In fact, you can't even get a Windows Compatibility logo on your packaging if you don't support it. So the webcams you were trying to use must either have been ancient, or appallingly bad hardware?
Tennessee, United States
And a somewhat related video

Nickel City Ruby 2014- Learning From Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTqO_ylhkOI
Yes, I believe that our republic is strengthened if, occasionally, "throw the bums out" occurs. Even if it results in "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, but Germany is still divided
> What am I supposed to do as a resident?

Vote to repeal Prop 13 when the opportunity arises, and tell others to do the same.

At some point, polling will indicate that it has a chance of happening, and then someone will put it on the ballot.
The bad stuff is irrelevant, but by the same argument, so is the good stuff. This isn't really about Bitcoin as a whole; it's about a specific assumption in the community (everyone wants to be tipped, people who are worried about taxes are misinformed and/or holding up an unjust system) that manifested in a specific use case.

It wouldn't be really accurate to TL;DR a Linux kernel CVE as "somebody introduced a bug in prctl - big deal. Linux can be used for a lot of good stuff." (Nor "bad stuff".)
Hardware support in the form of many, many drivers.
Irrespective of whether users use their own domain, email sent through the pawnmail service will be associated with the pawnmail domain via their MX records.
Unnecessary staw man, you're putting words in my mouth, I did not ask for a police intervention or criminalization. I'm happy for this situation to be resolved in whatever most humane and compassionate way possible. I'm in no position to propose solutions, as I don't have any expertise in this field.

I would however love to feel safe when being outside of my apartment, instead of wondering if one of these dozens of visibly infirm people I pass by on the way to anything is about to assault me or do something else completely unpredictable to me.
You do make excellent points on the more recreational side of things. To be honest I wasn't really thinking small amounts - I had an assumption that people were buying in wholesale amounts on Silk Road and the likes
If I didn't answer your question, feel free to ping me on email. There's a non trivial amount of tweaking I did to make this thing run the way I want.
The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling
Wow... my first exposure to a computer was a Supernova, set up with four ASR-33 Teletypes and running Data General BASIC, for about eight or nine evenings in the spring of 1971. Changed my life--the next year, without a computer to use, I wrote programs in a notebook which I wish I had kept. Thanks, Data General, NSF, and thanks to Dr. Richard V. Andree.
Sorry, but you're either deliberately or negligently misinterpreting my post.

The cops ordered the author to stop pursuing the thieves, for fear of a shootout. They were not themselves afraid of shooting the thieves. The author seems to be quite correct in all his actions, and his anger is appropriate. The cops should have pursued his case, and their failure to do so is wrong.

However, scan this thread for idiotic kneejerk reactions to the very existence of police. It may be fashionable to despise cops, but it's pretty damn stupid to hate the very thin blue line between you and truly awful people.

Villainizing the profession is seems to be an emotional outlet for white guilt and class resentment. All most cops want from their jobs is a peaceful world where criminals don't run riot through decent people.

Seattle PD failed to do their jobs in this case, and should step up enforcement of possible car break-ins -- but then the next HN story will be that cops are racist because they arrested felons for having car theft tools. Cops can't win.
New York can also manage to win a World Series without allowing the city to be taken over for the night by violent, destructive mobs. That's because they have a much better funded, and well-run, police force.
I don't think so. I think they're suggesting that there is a torrent of cash pouring into the city's coffers and negative progress to show for it. It's either systemic corruption, or incompetence on a galactic scale. Either way I agree. I want my money back.
I haven't seen Steve make any money on the Clippers yet.
It is indeed a crucial information. Thanks for pointing that out, I am sure that it will be added, if just to prove goodwill!
By comparison, have you ever had a really positive experience with the dentist?

Not the OP, but yes. All the time, in fact. Then there's also the crucial difference that going to a dentist is a voluntary exchange, whereas being stopped and frisked by police is an unsolicited act of aggression no matter how you put it.

...successful crime prevention means locking up our families and neighbors

Hardly. Locking up families and neighbors is the exact opposite of crime prevention. It's treating the aftermath. Crime prevention should be analogous to preventative medicine: minimizing the possibility of it occurring to begin with.

Police by definition are reactionary agents. They don't have the competence or the will to do anything other than handle aftermaths and create intimidation in a dubiously effective attempt to scare off bad guys.

This isn't to say there aren't bad cops, but they're a tiny minority of all cops and largely reflect their communities.

Pareto principle: 20% of people do 80% of the work, or in this case make most of the difference. It's also the reason why "Not all -ists are like that" arguments don't work: they fail to realize that minorities in an in-group can still be highly influential and destructive.

Isn't it weird how there are no bad Canadian or Swedish cops?

They aren't typically covered in international media. You don't see any bad Serbian cops too often, either. Do they not exist?
I noticed this aswell, it happens with audience score of some fresh movies (less than 1 month old). We pull this data from OMDB, so we can't really control it. We'll try to fix most of these cases manually.
This is what we have in Israel, and it works nicely IMO. We have a duopoly of "infrastructure" providers, where the wires go from homes to the local Internet eXchange Point, and from there it's a free market of ISPs. We don't pay a lot (and the bulk of what we pay is to the infrastructure providers), and user experience is mostly very good.
I don't have any use for tip4commit, personally, and couldn't care less if it succeeds either way. I did read the GitHub site, though, and your case 1) is incorrect. They return the money if it isn't claimed.
We're glad you like it! Thanks for the support ;)
Sony was the big elephant in the room when talking about digital music. Is it 3 or 4 years now since they cave in and started to distribute through iTunes as well ?

The same phenomenon is going on for ebooks, where it's still heavily balkanised but it's clear the eventually most of the stores will go down and ignoring the biggest players (Amazon I guess ?) won't make sense.

I think the bets are still off concerning DVD/BD distribution, as they are still used to balance the profits on TV series for instance. On this front it's funny to see a very small number of production companies tipping their toes in crowdfunding (and being pushed to use kickstarter for instance...) to see if it would work for them.
Seriously, enough. Javascript just isn't that bad, and we have a near-universal runtime on which to execute it. Enjoy.
looks so fake
Please stop using 0.11. It's a really old dialect or rust. Just work out of rust nightly, and use the docs on the http://rust-lang.org/ to learn.
People with a mental health problem are far more likely to be the victims, not perpetrators, of violence.

Most violent crime is not committed by people with a mental illness.

While I appreciate the concern you show for the piss-poor inhumane brutal lack of treatment your country provides to those with a mental illness (despite spending more per capita on health) it'd be nice if you could do it without stigmatising mental ill-health.
Maybe Just Nothing where error is human
Once you have studied Category Theory, Maths, Prolog, Lisp, Scala and the like, Haskell seems to be another tool to spand your mind, but this time the language should be for communicating and expressing something more tangible. I am learning with Haskell and I don't know if I will find that key moments in which the language is able to express ideas or concepts that no other language is able to suggest. But there is always the risk of losing your way, forgetting that developing a product is the real target and dreaming of doing with a language that expand your mind.
Knot Strength: Structures That Make a Natural-Fiber Knot Strong or Weak (2010)
Villainizing the profession is seems to be an emotional outlet for white guilt and class resentment.

How in the hell? A lot of arguments against police come from libertarian perspectives: ones that reject such ideas grounded in identity politics to begin with. Right-wing perspectives, in other words.

All most cops want from their jobs is a peaceful world where criminals don't run riot through decent people.

You certainly do live in a very charitable world.
I admire the philanthropic intent behind this, but last time I registered a domain with Gandi.net I got domain email included at no extra charge. It was way easier to set up than GA (or live.com before it went away).
> the fact is that it IS really obnoxious to insist on the title when you're not a medical doctor.

She's talking about the classroom. Informality between student and teacher in the college classroom is as nauseatingly fake as can be. If her honest acknowledgement of the power relationship between teacher and student errs a little on the side of formality, more power to her.

> I have a juris doctor, making me as much of a doctor as she is. Any lawyer who insisted on the title would be laughed out of the profession, and rightfully so.

It would be more apropos to compare how people outside the profession would feel toward you. Trust me, we'd all hate lawyers exactly as much as we currently do if they insisted on the "Dr." title. The jokes might be a little different...
What??? I thought that if marijuana was legalized in Washington, that the world would be a better place... Cops will be freed up to deal with "real crime" and people would magically be better citizens...

What could have gone wrong? Nearly all crime rates have gone up.
This is the kind of environment that leads to the creation of vigilante brigades and mafia-style syndicates.
I just saw a Moto 360 on display at Best Buy, and you're right. It's a lot smaller and lighter than I expected. Although it does look bad in that photo I linked to, honestly I was really impressed with how it looked on my wrists--and my wrists are pretty small.
Isn't the biggest hurdle for replacing JavaScript how ubiquitous it is? Getting all browsers to support a runtime for a different language would be a huge (and controversial) industry wide endeavor...I don't see how a KickStarter aimed at creating a new language would do anything to change that.
100% this.

I've worked at a web hosting company before - not a major operation at a time, but we did enough business to staff one floor of an office building with our support and management people.

Something like 25%-50% of our support volume was spammers and scammers trying to sneak under the radar and get us to restore their service after we'd blacklisted them. A significant portion of these were using stolen credit cards.
Just checked my phone and I have "do not track" turned on and x-acr is tracking. Who/what is it? Why? How do I stop it?
Just call Phoenix Jones!

Seriously, how much would you pay for private security to return your stolen iPhone?
I've converted back to physical CDs from buying digital music and love it for a few reasons:

* A lot of music I buy actually ends up being the same price for the CD.

* I can still rip it at any quality I like into any format I like (I use abcde to rip to ogg). I keep all my music on Dropbox and sync it between my phone, home machines and work machine.

* I'm a collector and I like displaying my music in my house, and guests sometimes like to have a browse and borrow them.
I find it quite amusing that the photo-models are the president and the vice president looking manly.
bookmarked. very intuitive & easy to use. looking fwd to updates. some movies are available for free on YT. perhaps they could be linked to. also whether streamable on netflix/amazon/... would be nice too.
Checked over data not WiFi
That's great. Very nice idea. How did you do that 3d animation?
We tried stretching content to 100% of 27" viewport but it looked too cluttered. Imagine if you were reading a book where page width was half meter long. I hope you understand what I mean.

We could left align it tho. Didn't really try yet. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands. No remote work – must be willing to work at our Amsterdam office.

Silk [1] is looking for a Haskell, TypeScript and Javascript Engineers: https://jobs.silk.co/

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to publish data online, in a way that makes their data easy to query, visualize and share.

On a deeper level, by creating a platform for users that has native support for structured data, we're bringing the semantic web (i.e. machine readable data) to the masses.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end [2]. Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.

For more info & open positions: https://jobs.silk.co/

[1] https://www.silk.co/

[2] See http://engineering.silk.co/ for examples.
"Help! A van with license plate XXX-123 just shot at a guy in the parking lot here...hold on, what did you say...[muffled sound]...there's a badge on his belt, I think he's a cop from (insert adjacent town). I can still see the van, it just parked down the road at..."

You get the idea. Call it in from the nearest pay phone and leave. Guaranteed response.

I'd only do this if I lived in an area with a bunch of deadbeat cops. In MA our cops do their job without having to be tricked into doing it...the courts on the other hand seem to let everyone off.
Years ago there was a local used record store in my town that offered a "trial" period on any album purchased. If you "didn't like" the album you could return it for a small "restocking" fee. Unsurprisingly this store also had a good business in the sale of blank cassette tapes.

What prevents someone from doing the same thing with Spotify? Play music on one device, record it on another using audio patch cables if needed. Or maybe it isn't even that hard, just record the audio signal right out of the audio card in your PC. Is this prevented somehow?
As I mentioned, the price difference is quite big.
Getting Surface Pro 1 to see, does the laptop-tablet style even works, seems reasonable. If it works, there is always possibilty to sell and invest more. 1000+ is not the money I have to spend without knowing does thing work for me, for example. Personally I didn't have a chance to see it before purchase, as it is not sold here.

As Penny Arcade said, the new technology wasn't as good(until now apparently) as old wacom.

Touch keyboard was mentioned, because I made a mistake and assumed it is usable, while it could have been avoided.

overall, I am happy how it performs and other people who draw daily, also love it.

sorry if I am confusing
Hubris.

I'll tell you why I like to use JavaScript over ruby. Because I know JavaScript. I don't know ruby, and to be honest I don't see ruby doing that much heavy lifting in the web at large. Is it really all that?
Sad that you're being down voted. Apparently The majority of HNers only care about drug legalization and stories demonizing underpaid civil servants doing a thankless and dangerous job.
Even at 99 cents I won't consider it. At&t is a non starter for me. In my eyes, they got the carrier wrong.
The fact that people throw away the obi makes my blood boil.
Yep, I feel bad for our server right now. We actually pulled all data (300k+ movies, 800k+ people) into our own database. If it had to retrieve from various sources in real time it would have crashed long time ago. Time to upgrade the servers and cache everything into oblivion I suppose :|
To me two-finger tap is a natural action for "right click" or context.

Three-finger drag (which isn't on by default) is one of the best things about using a Mac imo. I honestly don't know how people live without on any platform. It's a huge improvement over double-tap-lock-and-drag or whatever the old way is.
Pure CSS Infinite Loop
It would be great to have a way to integrate this with XBMC