skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how much I trust downloading files from the same area of the internet that sells drugs and has people offering to kill others for money.
Hortonworks Files Registration Statement with SEC for an Initial Public Offering
Police aren't actually required to protect anyone (see Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005)), but just to generally maintain social order.
Whatever you want. You don't have to answer him, and he can't search you unless he arrests you.

If he's going to arrest you it's probably best not to lie though. You can always say I'm not sure.

If you do have more than $1,000 in cash don't allow him to search your car.
> Who is more dangerous? The traffic moving at 70 mph (which is 5 mph over the legal limit) or the car that merges into that traffic at 40 mph?

All, one-up that one. How about someone merging into a 60 to 70 mph highway flow at 40 mph with three cars behind him that also need to merge and are now stuck behind someone creating an incredibly dangerous situation because they are (conjecture) afraid of the accelerator. I have see potentially horrific situations just like the one I described on the California 5 freeway. This is a major trucking route which is full of 18 wheelers. They, of course, keep to the right-most lanes. I saw a woman (sorry ladies, it was a woman) merge onto the freeway at what had to be 35 mph and get right in front of a semi doing at least 60. Right behind her two cars who were just stuck there desperately trying to figure out how not to get killed by this semi that had to lock all its breaks.

Nah, give me someone with years of experience (not a teenager) driving fast any time. They are generally much safer drivers than the fools who are afraid of going over the posted speed limit. I've never had a problem getting on the freeway behind someone who's got the pedal to the metal and knows how to match traffic speed and merge safely.
“The Computer Girls”
In the world of interconnectivity news travels fast. Take for example, ebola. Everyone was informed about it and hospitals took great measures because of an unprecedented disease awareness. Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Google make incredibly powerful distribution channels.

In the past, TV stations were incentivized to work with local police for a large percentage of their news stories, so they couldn't publish defamatory content. In today's world brains are connected more efficiently. One of the benefits is increase in transparency. For example, the ratio of security cameras to civilian cameras has flipped. Civilians have much better oversight over people they pay to protect them, increasing accountability. Similarly, the ratio of news publishers has flipped to civilians. Now the press has to follow reddit and twitter posts or risk loosing readership.
The first point makes sense for me given that all my static files are served gzipped out of cloudflare/cloudfront on another domain.
What? No. You could not be more wrong. core.async does not support the first point in the least.

Don't believe me? Make a go block in core.async and have it call another function, then have that function block. Do it 10,000 times. I'll wait. And wait. And wait. And wait...get the picture?

Clojure has this in Pulsar, which is a library...that happens to perform bytecode modification to support this (which I consider to be on the same level as special support from the underlying level). Pulsar is an absolutely amazing project and I'm not trying to take anything away from it with this comment, but merely trying to illustrate how far off you are.
Harry Connelly, the one discussing "little goodies" to be seized can be contacted at harryc@las-cruces.org

I've sent him an email expressing my displeasure at his use of Civil Asset Forfeiture.
As soon as you develop an honest and genuine belief that your moral system requires you to eat pancakes, I'll consider the notion that prisons should be required to serve you shitty, leathery pancakes.

The thing is, you're not going to do that, and neither is anyone else. Policy should not be guided by ridiculous hypotheticals.
Nope, it traverses up the DOM until it finds an element which has any non-transparent background. If the first thing it finds has a background-image, it aborts. If it’s a solid color, it returns that container. [1]

This absolutely still is prone to bugs when `position` or other properties are used to move elements visually outside of their parents, but it’s about as good as you can do without a true HTML-to-canvas implementation.

[1]: http://git.io/ChvO3Q
The Washington Post provided excellent coverage in September:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...

IIRC, it was this article that described police being trained on how to obtain valuable assets, and police collaborating on message boards:

One example was an officer posting on a message board a car's description and license plate, and telling officers in a neighboring jurisdiction that the car was coming their way, and that he was unable to justify seizure when he stopped the driver but that they might have better luck.

EDIT: And here is the ACLU's page on the issue: https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/civil-asset-forfeit...
Rust is avoiding the contrib problem by shipping a robust package manager from the beginning and pushing much of the Rust stdlib (and language features) into libraries.

http://crates.io/
Shouldn't the aclu be all over this?
> RAII, smart pointers and ARC aren't free lunches, which is why people had moved from them to GC in the first place.

Yet GC solves 10% of the problem that RAII solves. Tbh I would call them "similar". GC has the advantage of being much more tolerant of sloppy programming, but if you compare the complexity of GC with the complexity of RAII, I'd say RAII has a clear advantage.
> If your word starts or ends with a descending letter (e.g. "ghastly"), then the underline looks like it omits the first and last letters.

That's how I was taught to type underlines back in the 1980s on actual physical typewriters, so it's not a new idea.

I still do it today!

If one could apply a double-underline then the second, lower, line would be uninterrupted and make for a pleasing effect.
Reading this is like time travel.
I'm using LaTeX for Wordpress (https://wordpress.org/plugins/latex/) and it seems to do the job. However I agree that it's pain in a to find proper plugin and set it up and even more so if you ever want to change to some other plugin. For a platform that is a major writing instrument, it's a pity to be in this state.
Prediksi Stoke City U21 vs. Newcastle United
Bare metal doesn't mean what it used to.
Learning RoR
Just decided to go with RoR as my primary language+framework of choice and it has been fun 2 hours thus far. I come from the .NET land and reason I decided to learn RoR is because none of the "cool" startups I want to work for use the MS/.NET stack. I thought about choosing Python+Django, but then saw a heck lot of RoR positions open at many startups, so decided to go with it. I plan to spend around 12 hours everyday learning RoR.
So what happened to the votes here, BTW? Earlier today, this and quite a few other comments descended from it were downvoted to invisibility. A few hours later, I checked in and they're all back in black. Are the Million Moms Against Vegetarians running a sockpuppet campaign, or what exactly?
Go is too hard for pythonist.
Forgive them.
Thermoacoustic heat engine
> How do you know what programs you need to run? Why would we think all the good ones are low-RAM? I'd need to see a profile of apps and RAM to even begin to conclude anything.

Wisdom, aging, getting to know yourself. I sure love a $300 meal, but eating out 5 times a week isn't going to make me any happier than going to that place once a month and cooking on my own the rest of the time; maybe ordering a cheap dish at my favorite Chinese place.

If you enjoy looking good and your wardrobe already has everything you could reasonably wear on a day-to-day basis and some special events, the chances that an additional piece of clothing will make a marked difference on your happiness is extremely low.

If you have sex with your lover as much as you could possibly want, more sex will not increase your quality of life; most likely it will be a negative.

There's a point where we just saturate on the hedonistic aspects of life, even the ones with supposed higher purposes.
I thought he was going to make an argument for hand-coded assembly language.
I agree that junk in LEO could be problematic, but I think that we should base that assessment off correct information.
Looks like you were buried. I'm not sure why.

I read your basic point as, "Sure, we all like to use incentives to encourage good behavior, but there are some special cases where incentives completely backfire. In general, feedback systems arise in public services, especially where funding is correlated with or necessary for performance.

e.g., If a middle of the road school starts to falter, you don't strip away all its funding and expect it to start churning out well rounded prodigies. No, you have to roll up your sleeves and do the hard work of figuring out, "ok, what broke down? Is this a morale issue, something with leadership/management, is the cohort of students a bad outlier, did materials quality decline?" Recovery might take more funds, not less.

Other public services would see similar results. A struggling fire department shouldn't lose its trucks. A police department that can't effectively deter or arrest criminals needs a little more work than just being driven into bankruptcy.

To panic's point, maybe there are other ways to incentivize good behavior. The fruit of the poisonous tree and miranda both operate on the premise that when the cops misbehave, criminals go free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning

For civil asset forfeiture it's trickier, because there's not any criminal when police are doing their job poorly. You almost have to fine them, unless maybe you're willing to release some random offender from prison every time the police cross the line? :)

I'm with you, insofar as your point was just, "There aren't simple solutions here, it's a difficult issue."
Why you should give LayoutInflater a root in Android
You are 39?
When a Senator's home is seized, THEN something will be done about this.
What were you searching?
Wow, what is this can be used for anyway?

Besides "for creating radio waves in the sub-millimeter-wave terahertz range"
Of course it won't be easy.

"Easy" in politics is when you get something done, look back, and find less than ten thousand dead bodies behind you.
Sounds are pressure waves in air, and you can create varying densities of air by heating and cooling, but I never put the two facts together and realized that you could create an engine that way.
Yzzxy that is litterally and exactly what the group is about.

While there are some shortcuts they largely rely on having seen a problem before.

Many top tier interviewers can ask you problems you can't have seen before and then all you will have left is your though process.

The group is about exposing yourself to lots of problems to pick up tricks and shortcuts but also to learn about the underlying theories and thought processes that created them as well and sharing that knowledge with others on the journey as well.
Hard to imagine this could go well
Believe me, having durable goods is one of the few material things that have brought me lasting happiness (or at least made me avoid chronic unhappiness).

It really depends on the class of goods. I enjoy high-quality audio, so I made the effort to do some research and spent decent money on a good sound card and two high-end headphones. End of story; it's unlikely that I'll need a replacement for those things for a decade. Thankfully there are tons of good products in the area and it makes little sense to sweat it once you're found a dozen good choices.

As far as furniture goes; it really depends on how obsessive you are on design and interior decoration. There's a healthy compromise to strike between utility, cost, and aesthetics, and my experience is that once you have a solid idea for your interior decoration (which is not easy, mind you) you're probably good to go; minor blemished and defects should not detract from your satisfaction.

In kitchenware, solid and cheap is a good combination. Apart from knives, the most important thing is build quality, but a cheap cast-iron pan is good as long as you're not burning stuff.
1) Do not follow legal advice from IT message boards! But if you want some tips on JavaScript, this might be the place.

2) Do seek advice from experts, such as the ACLU:
https://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform-immigrants-rights-racia...

3) Do not lie to police officers; it's a crime. A defense lawyer in this video advised not to talk to police at all if you are being investigated; you could misspeak (esp. under stress), be misunderstood, be taken out of context, the officer could misremember, etc. I have no idea if he's a crank or if it's good advice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
No. Just no. Please don't take the comment above as valid legal advice.
> based on how well they're doing their actual job

Might that also lead to questionable practices to make sure they're perceived to be "doing a good job"? It already happens in the form of ticket quotas.
“Time Collapse” and My Broken Brain
Obama on net neutrality
Priority queues are an incredibly important concurrency primitive. This is very important work.

If you weren't expecting to find detailed technical articles, you might be on the wrong website.
Yunueng I myself am a person who has lots of front end experience.

The only background we look for is someone who has done some coding before.

This group is past the beginners level of not knowing how to code or use a command line and things of that nature and is focused on algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and efficiency.
I would really like to see go binaries that is not like a 1mb in size.

In practice is not like I don't have space for 1MB

But I still want proper linking to a shared "golib"
Though a lot of people seem to love Wired(I used to read their magazine, back when those were a thing, and they did have some really nice layouts), for a while now their articles have been shameless, overhyping, clickbait. Every single headline is THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD/BE THE NEXT BIG THING/MAKE X ESTABLISHED THING OBSOLETE, and it turns out to be a whole lot of nothing.
Huh? You mean meats, vegetables, milk, grains didn't exist 200 years ago?
iSelf
Curious whether Cap'n Proto or another zero-copy serialization format might've been a better choice than protobufs? Protobufs still need to parse the message, it's just that the code to do so is automatically generated for you. With Cap'n Proto you can just read them directly off the wire and save them, or mmap a file full and access them.

Most of the downsides of Cap'n Proto also don't apply here. Compressing with Snappy will elide all the zero-valued padding bytes. The format of an HTTP message is relatively stable, so you don't get a lot of churn in the message layout. HTTP doesn't have a lot of optional fields, so that's another potential source of Cap'n Proto bloat that doesn't apply to your use case.
Pair socks from a pile efficiently?
Personal Finance: How do you protect yourself against income eating doodads?
I haven't noticed that many "toxic comments" and it doesn't seem like a huge problem.

Automating removal of flagged content seems like bad practice. The majority of users treat it like a "super downvote button" and a way to censor controversial things.
It makes fixing it possible. It's unreasonable to expect that getting millions of people to agree to take specific actions to effect a very precise change in laws will be "easy".
OK, I'll be that guy.

Your tone, knowledge of the subject, and general skill at writing imply you're quite intelligent, so what did you do to get a felony conviction?
It sucks that so many servers are still vulnerable to the shellshock issue. I am impressed with OVH's openness in regards to reporting this issue. I am amused and impressed by their final comment/conclusion; "Obviously it is time to go to 2x100G on the private network between Europe and Canada."
Player of Games is really good, but his best Culture book is probably "The Use of Weapons".
I used Parse.com as my backend.
I was thinking the same thing. 60 reqs/sec is not very fast. I suppose it depends on what is being tested. "Hello World" is pretty useless to base a benchmark on as DB and other IO is not involved. Who knows what that number means without some source code it was benchmarking.
I assume this is carded?
I'm curious why libertarians around here and Tea Party followers elsewhere do not make more noise over this issue. It's an honest question; my hypothesis: It's because the intrusion is from the right and not from the left.
I am all for a faster ruby application server. If Raptop can stand behind its claims on November 25th, that will be the best birthday present I could get.
Subsidised, cheap laptops sell well in schools. Amazing.
I have started using NoScript by itself recently, it should remove all the annoying ads and let the good ones trough.
Republicans vs. Obama on net neutrality
I NEED to work Go into one of my projects, but dammit I love Python so much. it is a warm and safe and comfortable cocoon. :)
Bitnami Google Launchpad
How Jim Henson Turned His Art into a Business (2013)
That TechDirt article is really interesting.

For those who were put off by the other article, here's the TL;DR:

A person has discovered that by lodging multiple FOIA requests along with multiple privacy waivers he can get access to data that he wouldn't be able to normally get access to. The article doesn't go into the mechanics of it, but it sounds like each request is hitting a different censor, and each censor censors things slightly differently, and so information leaks out from the differences. These differences give clues as to where to lodge new FOIA requests.

Ironically, this approach is somewhat analogous to mass metadata collection: a single record doesn't do much, but in bulk a very comprehensive picture is built up that wouldn't be available otherwise.

It seems the FBI is arguing this in court, and trying to stop the approach. I can completely understand their concerns, and I'm not sure I have an opinion on which way the court should rule.

(As for the "CanadaFreePress" article: I think the FBI's refusal is completely legal, and even reasonable. Even if you don't agree, there is little legal doubt that the FBI is legally entitled to deny requests regarding ongoing investigations.)
I think "it's almost as if" is an unduly passive-aggressive way to begin a comment, but I agree that the thought you are expressing warrants discussion in this thread.
Curious, where was race mentioned?
Listen to a melody made by Wikipedia article changes
Sorry, what I posted was idiotic and said in haste. One million years is a couple orders of magnitude too long, but humans have of course had agriculture for 10k+ years. My point, though poorly phrased, was meant to be that modern crops are far different (largely more efficient) than the crops that were grown in distant human history. Also, corn, wheat, and rice dominate the worldwide diet in a way that wasn't always the case. Soylent is largely composed of these same crops anyways so the point I failed to make is silly on a couple levels.
La electricidad aumenta la toxicidad de los contaminantes
CS340 – Operating Systems Lecture Slides (PDFs)
Primarily because it's hacker news, not libertarian news.

Magazines like Reason have covered this for decades, here's an article from the 90s.

http://reason.com/assets/db/13062612839676.pdf
But Puppet and Docker are cool!

More seriously, we tend to have an issue of over engineering. I have to pull myself up all the times to just focus on getting the job done and not on building the perfect architecture.
The burden is actually still on the government, but it's a lower burden than criminal cases.
Rust is not "frantically trying to look more like Go". There are places where Rust's syntax deliberately differs from that of Go (for example, putting colons between values and types), and that will not change.
We are no where near ready to go to Mars.

What would the impact on the public's psyche be if this mission failed by means of a torturously slow death of the crew? I think it'd be a huge setback for any sort of space exploration to witness fellow humans triumphantly land on Mars and then watch it all fall apart and the crew perishes tragically (being optimistic enough to say they actually land safely).

I bet the Apollo program would have ended much sooner if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off of the Moon.

I have always thought as Cmd. Hadfield stated, that we have to go to the Moon and get it right there first. Go to the Moon, get this space colonization thing figured out and then the conversation on heading to Mars can begin.
I sold 40% of my company and I got insanely lucky to find a partner who fit all the holes that I have in my approach. He's now the CEO and I'm the President. I was losing hope for a long period of time even though my business was solidly in the black with large cashflows and zero debt, because it's such a niche business where no one is interested (sports science).

The guy dropped into my lap and made me a reasonable offer, which now "looks bad" because he's doubled revenue in six months. Not, obviously, that I'm complaining....

Luck is a huge part of the whole process. I went months and even almost 2 years resigned to the fact that I would be turning in 80 hour work weeks while having two kids and a wife to try and please, and that my personal health would be the sacrifice. I am not sure how I'd survive or if I could even continue to run the company under those conditions for much longer than I did.

I feel for the sole owner of a startup gaining traction and nearing an inflection point. I just wish I had more advice.
I would argue not developing xenophobic AI is more critical. If we hate the AI's their feeling will just be hurt, but if they hate us...
It's unfortunate how many people will fall for it.
> Yes and that was a carefully constructed example explicitly to show problems with loops

No, it was an example from my experience and a bug I have had to fix multiple times, as I mentioned. I didn't make it up.
No. The part that should bother you has nothing whatsoever to do with this directly. It is found in hundreds and thousands of speeches, press conferences, government meetings and laws. They are called "lies". And, because we keep tolerating them the governing class, itself mostly immune and isolated from the very decisions they make and laws they pass, is emboldened.

Every election is full of lies. Party divisions do not matter. They lie to get elected and then do as they please. They lie to pass laws, and then do as they please. Of course, Obamacare is a favorite punching back, and rightly so. The whole business of "an average savings of $2,500 per family", "if you like your plan you can keep it" and "if you like your doctor you can keep'em. Period" should be grounds for millions of people revolting. My family is going to have to pay $14,000 per year next year for health insurance. If we go to the cheapest crap plan we can find that number goes down to $12,000 per year. We were paying $5,000 per year before Obamacare and had fantastic health insurance with great providers. Un-fucking-believable.

Someone just sent me this today:

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Frare.us%2Fstory...

So, in a nutshell: Worry about what lies you are being told.
You do get due process. If the police take your property, you file a notice with them that it is your property. They either give it back or file a civil suit against the property. That civil suit will have a trial, which is the due process.