skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blind hatred for police seems to stem from experience. My father said once (after I had a particularly horrible, and unfair besting, by the police) that I had no respect for the police because I had never been in a situation where I had seen heroism, or been helped. The police have never stopped a robber from burgling my house, or stopped a violent crime from happening to me or anyone I know.

The point is, that anecdotally, the police have never appeared to be a positive force around me, except intangibly. They only seem to focus on things I myself, and many of my peers, consider acceptable victimless crimes. They focus on padding revenue by stopping speeding violations, and petty drug offenses.

Largely, police appear to regularly abuse their authority, ignore relevant data, and serve an agenda I am diametrically opposed to. Obviously, this isn't a scientific study, but I think it encapsulates the hatred for police.

Also, there are many instances on youtube and the news, of them either covering for fellow officers, or ignoring basic laws, like speeding, cell-phone use ore petty drugs. They need to wear cameras for objective scrutiny rather than be allowed to BE the law.

EDIT: 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. The simple fact is that a percentage of bad actors can disrupt the flow enough to severely damage an institution if given significant power. See the banking industry for an analogy of this. I do not mean to discount all police, and many do positive things in society.
Thanks for explaining. It's crazy, but on some level I have to admire it. They found a way to extract the hidden value of the long tail of super-fans. It's like the "whales" in gaming that spend huge amounts to buy various extras.
There is no connection between being in space and being in orbit. You can be really far out in space without being in orbit (or rather, you are in an orbit that intersects the Earth's surface.) You are no less "in space" than the ISS crew just because you are only there for a few minutes.
I did some research on indeed.com and the results were depressing, but there were a few:

AirFacts

Alien Skin Software

Answers

Stack Exchange (no surprise, I could add Fog Creek as well)

Granted, those are limited to companies currently hiring.
"You have to actively prevent money getting from those with it to the politicians they want to bribe. Simply having other funding sources won't stop the cartels from installing their own puppets."

Exactly wrong. The solution to lies is not censorship, it is more truth. If censorship -- or prohibition of campaign money -- is the law, only the interested liars will control the machinery of censorship and they're not going to use it to promote truth.

If all personal campaign donations were illegal, the telecom monopolies would be even more powerful and unaccountable. They have armies of employees, ex-employees, influential executives, relationships with regulators, no-show jobs for pols' shiftless cousins, charitable foundations for networking paid for with your fees, and everything it takes to exercise influence without campaign cash. Only the existence of public spirited and ideologically motivated and unrelated agenda private donations can empower the leaders that do question the insider power of the telecoms.
Private offices are usually for managers or people who see clients (for private conversation). Developers shouldn't need to have too many closed door conversations to warrant offices. If there isn't open face to face communication going on then why not just have a remote team instead?
Sounds great. Stupid question, but is it possible to use a soft keyboard while in text mode?
Take care of the small stuff and the big stuff will take care of itself.

The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm-setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior. The theory states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments in a well-ordered condition may stop further vandalism and escalation into more serious crime[1].

From the article: There also was no proof who did the smash-and-grab, so even if [the police] had come, it would have been tricky to charge them with anything.

That's hogwash. Possession of stolen property is a criminal offence in Washington State[2].

The crime and disorder in downtown Seattle is shocking, even to people from other big cities[3]. In 2013, Seattle had 2,356 property crimes per 100,000 population[4]. By comparison, New York City had a property crime rate of just 795 per 100,000[5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

[2] http://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/possession-stolen-prope...

[3] http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021696782_westneat28...

[4] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/p...

[5] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/p...
>microbiome hackers

I really wish this wasn't a thing. I'm getting tired of all the "startups" in my field (microbio) who are pushing microbiome-based treatments. They're not currently regulated by the FDA and they are downright dangerous. The healthy gut is primarily made up of (~90%) Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, and Clostridium of which the majority are uncultured, unsequenced and completely unstudied. Shifting the balance a little too much one way or another can potentially cause symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There are at least two startups in stealthmode that I know of that are pushing microbiome matching between "healthy" donors and "unhealthy" recipients -- very much like snake oil salesmen. One person's healthy is another's unhealthy but these groups and their VCs apparently don't give a shit (VC funding in science is a while other can of worms).

If you want to be a microbiome hacker, go contribute YOUR microbiome to publicly funded by you research. I suggest the American Gut Project[1][2] for people in the US and British Gut[3] for those in the UK and EU. For $99 you can learn about your microbiome and contribute to largest, most successful crowdfunded research in the world. This project is entirely supported by people like you and me, directly.

[1] http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/

[2] https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4Tqx5

[3] https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/4sSf3/ab/5qJ7f
Just put Linux on it. Seriously.

My sister and I have the same Zenbook, and while my trackpad runs like a dream in Elementary OS, her trackpad is among the worst I've ever had the displeasure of using on a laptop -- and this is solely due to the shitty Windows drivers.

She's been nagging me to put Linux on her computer as well, and once Freyja is released, I will.
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Since someone else was also thinking that the story seems too unbelievable, I looked up the "Canned beets and sunflower seeds" recall to see if it existed (and just because I was curious of what happened). Google search doesn't return anything meaningful for me. Does anyone know what incident that was?
>Congrats goes out to everyone who voted in the current representatives.

Perhaps there are more fundamental issues than "people voted for the wrong person". For example, there may be problems with the governmental structure itself, not just who populates the structure.
Wouldn't reducing petty crime lead to a reduction in overall crime? This is a serious question because I really don't know the answer. It could go both ways:

(a) You catch small crooks, and they lead you to bigger fish.
(b) You catch small crooks, and they can't do the job, so bigger fish recruits new small fish and the cycle begins again.
(c) You catch small crooks, the big fish gets angry and starts to cause real serious damage, leading to move and move violent crimes.

There must be some statistic from the past history that would shine a light on this. Thoughts?
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I have back/forward keys on my keyboard and tend to use them instead of the mouse.
Cool thanks Geoff, will do, I'm very intrigued now.
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Could you explain why accepting tips is so complicated? What specific law means you cannot do it?

Let me put this another way. If your friends give you money for your birthday, do you give it back to them and tell them you can't accept their gift because of tax and regulation? I doubt it! You may well declare the gifts on your tax return if it's big enough to bother with, but if Austria makes it hard to accept cash gifts of small amounts then something is seriously wrong with Austrian law and this is not something to be defended.
I actually just finish reading that and it's what lead me to this!
Yes, then its no longer json...
This may have changed in the last 24 hours, but last I checked tip4commit's opt-out model is "get stuffed". The original controversy was over their refusal to remove projects from the site on request.

I agree that Bitcoin is more or less irrelevant to the controversy, but like the OP says, the tip4commit defenders seem to have intentionally made it a pro/anti-Bitcoin conflict. Bitcoin advocates were mobilized to support the site.
This actually does remind me of classic Oglivy work.
Actually, since the NSA disclosures showed that they often photograph postal envelopes, I'm pretty sure that there are databases of names and addresses somewhere...

But you make a good point - if you are going to invent a name, you should probably choose one of the previous occupants.
Potentially related- Vunify is a service for discovering and following streaming content across multiple providers.

http://www.vunify.com/
Wow, after playing with it for 60 seconds my wife and I found a Humphrey Bogart movie we had never heard of that we are now going to watch. You should work on adding Amazon video links to it with a referral code, could be a good way to capitalize on this!
Do you really believe that voting in team A instead of team B would have helped ordinary citizens?
It's not fiction, as far as I'm aware. No need to be passive-aggressive about it. It was an interesting piece of writing, and that's enough.
Amazon charged more for running HVM than for PV images

The issue was that older instance types (now known as "Previous Generation instances") didn't support HVM for "unix" images, so FreeBSD had to pretend to be Windows -- which meant that you had to pay for a Windows license you weren't using.

All of the instance types introduced since 2010 have supported HVM "unix" instances, and as of a few months ago all of the older instance types have been officially deprecated.
The story sound like fiction to me, and it was posted just a couple of days before Halloween.

I don't know, causing a miscarriage at that stage of the pregnancy too is not that simple.

EDIT: The story was first published October 6 on the American edition of Vice and there is a metafilter thread about it http://www.metafilter.com/143959/What-do-you-do-when-you-thi...
If I were going to make such a purchase, I'd just have it shipped to a made-up name 'c/o' another address, e.g. a friend's apartment. With my friend's permission, of course.
This article is beyond stupid. The author spends a thousand words or more whining without once mentioning either budgets or civilian oversight of the police force. It's like the policy was created from thin fucking air, for no reason at all! A cursory googling found this:

In the weeks before Monday's formal unveiling, McGinn released several
details of his 2012 proposal, which will now be scrutinized by the City
Council. Councilmembers, who will pass a final plan in November, have
already indicated they're leery of the mayor's idea to reduce the Seattle
Police Budget by $2.4 million by keeping 26 sworn officer positions vacant. [1]

Wow, is there a possibility that could be related? I actually don't know; I don't live in seattle and I don't really care. But a minimal amount of effort for his readers would be asking the police chief or PR person why this policy was created.

[1] http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/McGinn-budget-cuts-11...
What would be the typical use of a machine like this? I'd assume basic roll-up accounting, with programs written on a custom basis per client.

Anyone with practical experience?
> I grew bored with their aluminum fascism

Oh, THAT'S what happened to the titanium Powerbook; another victim of Metal Eugenics.
Sorry to hear about this, please feel free to contact me directly.

If you have ever contacted Tableau regarding employment and didn't hear back, please let me know (even if you are no longer interested in us). We are growing fast but that's no excuse. I'm a developer, not a recruiter, but I will take personal responsibility to follow through on issues like this.

The best way to apply for a job at Tableau is via the careers web page (mentioned above), rather than calling or emailing. If you want to make a connection with someone inside the company, you can mail me (the email address in my profile is "spam-protected" but it should get through).
I tutored in university and Online Python Tutor came in handy many times, thanks!
> The author seems to believe he cannot accept tips, because of tax and regulation, but he doesn't point out what specifically would cause problems here.

I'm in the US, not Austria, but from what little I've seen of even the US's legal and tax system, doing something with money that you don't fully understand is a risk. I am glad that there are people who are willing to take that risk in the name of improving society, and pioneer the use of Bitcoin and other alternative currencies.

But nobody should be obligated to take that risk if they don't want to. I would be completely unsurprised if some emergent behavior between the US tax code and other laws meant that if you were merely aware of people accepting tips on your behalf using your name, even if you didn't ask them to, there are tax or legal obligations. I would be completely unsurprised if the law says, if you ask them to stop and they don't, you're _obligated_ to initiate legal process to make them stop. I don't think the law says that, but it's certainly way less crazy than lots of funny corners of US tax and commerce law.

I would also be completely unsurprised if US tax code got complicated when you're accepting Bitcoin as payment. I'm dimly aware that the IRS or FinCEN or someone issued guidance recently that Bitcoin doesn't count as a currency but instead counts as a something-else... and not being a cryptocurrency user, I haven't bothered to learn what that something-else is and how you're supposed to report taxes on it.

If someone is willing to figure out how the law works, or pay their lawyer to, more power to them. But nobody should be _obligated_ to.
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Seattle has half the cops that some big cities have (20 per 10,000 residents). New York and Chicago have around 40, Boston 33.

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/police-offi...
Here's a picture of the Eclipse MV/8000 "Eagle", the machine they were building in the book:

http://www.foxdata.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Data-...

"The Soul of a New Machine" is a great book, by the way, even if the technology in it is a bit old at this point. Hackers of hardware and/or software should definitely read it.

Another interesting book about the creation of a large system is "Show-stopper", by G. P. Zachary, which describes the building of Windows NT.
Amazons business is all about having razor thin margins, and as such they survive well. Ballmer it seems, as usual, is saying complete bs. IMO Bezos understands his business brilliantly, and is doing very well. (we shan't speak of fire phone)
sf is the same -- the city is a dump, and people there tolerate a level of misbehavior from the street trash that is stunning. One of them attempted to kill my so by chasing her around a parked car with a screwdriver trying to stab her while a bunch of sf asshole pedestrians crossed the street to avoid getting involved. In the middle of the afternoon. We came from nyc and stuff like this -- and it's far from the only incident -- wasn't tolerated.
Thanks for providing this great service. Pardon me if this sounds ignorant, but won't other email providers like google, yahoo flag an email coming from @pawnmail.com as junk because of the word "pawn" (synonymous with pawn shops etc) in the domain name?
I'm not posting this as OP, but as a very active HN user who has been on the site for a few years now: 99% of the time, comments that say "this doesn't belong on HN" on front page stories are more out of place than the story itself.
This seems very valuable. Would you be willing to share your hiring process, exactly what you asked of your assistants, ect?
I've been looking for a Doodle replacement. This looks promising.
Although not stated in the OP here, they're apparently considering REMOTE for the right candidate (according to the Bamboo posting).
I think it is connected since it is all the same network traffic... they do false advertising on bandwidth, which is like the first hidden charge (using small prints, maybe) & and then try to do a second hidden charge for every bit by charging clients first and servers later (Netflix for example)...
By comparison, have you ever had a really positive experience with the dentist? Like cops, they're there to solve painful problems that cause very unhappy memories. Anything that compels you to visit the dentist (or the police to visit you) is not going to be associated with positive forces.

It's a tough job to recruit for, since so many people hate you:

1) Minorities hate you, since an overwhelming proportion of criminals emerge from our ranks and successful crime prevention means locking up our families and neighbors.

2) Liberals hate you because rappers do, and also everyone knows cops love to frame black people for crimes nobody committed, and if they were committed it was probably by a cis-male white patriarchy.

3) Conservatives hate you, because you're a public employee and an agent of the gubmint that wants to seize everyone's guns and force gay sex on God-fearing Americans.

Unsurprisingly, it's tough to recruit for the job. Plus, a huge number of cops need to go undercover and are thereby recruiting from cultures that don't share wealthier standards of etiquette. And even cops that don't come from rough backgrounds are forced to constantly interact with awful people who understand nothing but violence and rage. Mother Teresa would adopt thuggish behavior after five minutes on the force.

This isn't to say there aren't bad cops, but they're a tiny minority of all cops and largely reflect their communities. Isn't it weird how there are no bad Canadian or Swedish cops? When you aren't faced with hatred and violence all day, it's easier to be chill at traffic stops.
Sorry about the late reply.

As someone mentioned Google took over, however that is for organic search traffic. DDG is still one of the highest referring domains, however it has been overtaken by slashdot, cnet, lifehacker etc...
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A cashless store - no, but that wasn't the point. The notion of an entire country going cashless is worth contemplation and certainly affects this community.
I don't want to be the party pooper, but without knowing too many details I can tell you that you're in for a bad time. You're essentially asking for abuse, as spammers will use your service to forward their junk, and whoever is hosting your service is going to receive abuse reports and act on them.

There are mean people on the internet :(
I agree with your point that that's the way things go in the city. I've lived in 4 major US cities in my life, and the cops respond to some things and don't respond to others. It's generally a numbers game. I also agree that in the suburbs and rural areas, the numbers work in the favor of the local police.

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean in regards to the the ethnic / gang type way of fixing things in poor neighborhoods.

Also, I'm not sure if you've been to Seattle. I lived there for two years, recently. I wouldn't really call Seattle ethnic, gang-type, or poor.
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Either that or there was a genuine gap in the market.. again any sort of taxi company with OK service would have succeeded.

This is how I see it. Uber is not particularly revolutionary, but the existing taxi system in many areas was so regressive and unpleasant to use that it didn't take much more than a decent app to upstage them.
Even supposing something was seriously wrong with Austrian law, it's a little presumptuous to expect everyone affected to try to fight that. Maybe they're already under careful watch by the national tax agency after getting audited because of some honest mistake the past year. Maybe they're under probation under a law you and I would call unjust, but triggering further law-enforcement attention lands them in jail regardless of whether they were justified. (This scenario happens a lot in America, incidentally.)

If someone says "I want to stay out of this", that should be their right.
The story also has some whoppers about scuba diving, and the replica of James Randi's blood of St Januarius deal (the red oil in a glass vial in a fancy container). And methane sprayed on an arm and set afire.

It reads very realistic fictionally. I don't believe a word of it other than an impressionistic setting of mood and scene. That aspect of it is pretty good.

There is a genre of lit where you put in technical errors so you can attack the people who notice them for not getting the point, that he loved his grandma although she was obsolete and toxic in the modern world although still physically barely living in it. Yeah author, I get it, you don't have to put intentional errors in it so your little english lit buddies can feel all superior when the unwashed masses of "nerds" find it full of mistakes. Much like hollywood intentionally screwing up everything involving computers because it'll only offend nerds.
http://www.gistboxapp.com - lets you add metadata to your GitHub gists (e.g. labels) and the search is much better
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Why would anybody bother figuring out the specifics to collect $50?

You are saying "take it and don't worry about it", but it's also not enough to take on any risk of hassle, let alone fines or whatever.
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It's for "custom domains", pawnmail is just an example and the name of the project. Check it out at : https://pawnmail.com/register
> Could you explain why accepting tips is so complicated? What specific law means you cannot do it?

I can't speak for the OP and the GP, but I can shed some light on this for which problems I could run into in germany:

* I own a company (GmbH, limited liability). Bookkeeping rules are fairly strict, I can't accept random money from random people without having an entry in a ledger. It's possible, but if it's single digits then it's probably more work than it's worth. I'd also have to figure out how to legally accept money from the US or whatever country this money comes from.

* I could accept the money as private person. Then I'd still have to keep books and add that to my private income. That probably would also be more work than the attached payoff.

* Not keeping books or declaring the donations may draw the scrutiny of the tax authorities. If you're accepting a lot of small cash gifts you might also run afoul of money laundering regulations.

> Let me put this another way. If your friends give you money for your birthday, do you give it back to them and tell them you can't accept their gift because of tax and regulation?

Gifts from friends and family are specifically exempt from income tax regulations, so you're attacking a strawman here.