skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That problem isn't in-the-field law enforcement; it's how the state manages its compliance bureaucracy. I have the same problem; I get pulled over rarely, but any time I do, I worry that I might be suspended. I drove on a suspended license so long once that they gave up and reinstated me.

At least in Illinois, the big problem is that it's a nightmare to (a) find out what you owe and (b) pay it. I had to call 3 different places, waiting on hold 15+ minutes each time, to eventually find someone to whom I could give a credit card number to. I got lucky that time; the last time I had this problem, I had to drive 3 hours into Indiana to find the courthouse that managed the speeding ticket I got.

I don't blame the police for any of this. I blame the state administration.
Think larger, with ~IoT networks you can express richer abstractions. "ensure all rooms lights are off", "all rooms facings south don't need the heater on", "are my doors locked ?". For one off tasks I agree.
Large department stores would frequently pitch a loyalty card that's then tied up to your profile, for a which a phone number is frequently a must.
It also assume that the hacker won't just go after company A and company B
How exactly does eliminating grand juries help with out-of-control law enforcement? Grand juries are a safeguard for the accused. Do they work in practice? No. But eliminating them concedes the problem to the prosecution entirely.

You're not the first person I've seen suggest this, and I'm baffled by the logic.
When police fixate on the criminal thing, what's often going on is an implicit assumption that once someone has an interaction with a suspect, it's just inevitable that the suspect will attack.

See how that works?

As for the rest, go look up Warren vs. District of Columbia. The police are not there to serve and protect.
IANAL, but:

If they're operating, they have a common-law trademark even if not a formally-registered one. A same-named service of the same general functionality would certainly cause consumer confusion, and possibly damage to their business, putting you at risk of a legitimate lawsuit. Legally and morally, they won the race to that name, so for trade purposes in that field of business, it's theirs.

If you love the idea, there's surely another good name. Perhaps after studying them, and noticing another area of differentiation, that can inspire another name.

You might be able to sell them your holdings, but don't expect much and the offer would have to be delivered very delicately so you don't seem like you're ransoming off properties they already have a strong claim to (and that in their mind, you might have acquired just to shake them down).
When you take out gang violence, the murder rate really isn't that bad. (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/vc_majorthefts/gangs)

> According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report, gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90 percent in others.
The real question is how rule based natural language systems can evolve. Otherwise they are subject to becoming moribund.

Of course that's not simply learning the latest usages on the cutting edge of human language evolution. Rather, natural language AI evolves concurrently with the technology people use to communicate, which technology (heavily?) influences their language use.

I'd go so far as to suggest the influence of technology on language is more important than historical rules of verbiage and exceptions.
I don't think anyone has trademarked the name. I don't have it registered and it doesn't show up if I search for it either.
As more and more DB OSX App we development & release ，some user hope use all－in－one database platform app instead of a single APP.
if we submit dbappx to appstore by iosxtools apple account，apple may reject it because app section repeat.so we use other account release it temporary.

thanks your eye!
The Microsoft Sync system in my current Ford (2015) and last Ford (2013) were the worst onboard computers I've used. They crash when restarting your iPhone if connected by usb. They loose connection with my phones. They require you use buttons on the steering wheel to select usb input and can not do it via the touch screen display when all other input sources are available. There are countless reasons why consumers should rejoice for the fact that a superior solution was picked here.

Ford committed to the hacker community that their systems could be open and maybe a standard connector will be made... but anything is better than Ford Sync.
That does not appear to be true of Hacker School.
Why do you use an explicit throwaway account to post crappy comments? You clearly know it's a crappy comment. Why post it?
I've been looking over the past couple years for a different dev job. I'm currently in a giant corporate setting with all the horrible paperwork and useless red tape that goes with it. I get to develop maybe 20% of the time, the rest is trying to figure out how to fill out paperwork about what I'm developing. I really don't like it.

My pay has dropped over the past few years when you factor in health care premiums and cost of living. I'm living paycheck to paycheck, but in my area developer pays are only now just slowly creeping up from 2008 levels. I don't want to move with kids in school.

I really, really keep hoping the pay in the area goes up soon, as I'm disliking my days more and more.
QNX is still run as an entirely separate company, its one of the only remaining jewels in Blackberry/RIM's treasure chest. While they are developed with somewhat common and aligned goals, development is still fairly separate. Additionally QNX has been slow (partly due to funding) to take up the QT BB10 side of things as it is not generally part of their core business.
Incidentally, I think this in part explains why the Hacker School community is so much more positive than the world at large: People come here firstly to learn new things, not to dispute them. This suggests an interesting question: Could you build a site like Hacker News with a community focused on learning above all else?

Sigh.

I have no idea how big this Hacker School community is, but I imagine it is a good bit smaller than the traffic one sees on Hacker News. It is much, much, much easier to have a "positive" atmosphere when you have a community of under roughly 150 active members. I have seen stats that suggest that Internet forums typically have about 10% of the community very active and another 10% intermittently active and the rest lurkers. So, my experience has been that at around 700 members or so, you hit that roughly 150 mark of active members, above which you start seeing spin off communities, sub-communities and so on as some of the ways the community copes with having exceeded normal human bandwidth for community-making (based on the size of some brain part, etc).

This post strikes me as being written by someone who has zero appreciation for the sheer scale of Hacker News. It felt a LOT more like a real community when I initially joined it several years ago. In recent months, it seems to me it is a bit more female-friendly, and I suspect there are multiple reasons why it is evolving in that direction. So there are some good points and bad points, but it seems it has not managed to return to that same sense of community it once had.

The fact of the matter is that in all of human history, being able to bring together so very many people from such diverse backgrounds in real time is unprecedented. It should hardly shock people that this involves a high degree of friction and a fundamental need to invent new ways to interact, new cultural paradigms that have some hope of keeping things in that zone of warm sense of community. I think Hacker News is a victim of it's own success. It's sheer scale and level of traffic make this challenging. That doesn't mean it cannot be done. But that does mean it is kind of crappy to thump your own chest and brag about your pet theory as to why your undoubtedly much smaller community is running more smoothly at this time than Hacker News.
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I know you guys are heavy on cliches, which are like clutches for your disabled speech.
Congress Quietly Bolsters NSA Spying in Intelligence Bill
You could defend any company with this reasoning, no matter what atrocity they commit.

Company that jails people for profit? No we can't let them out because all those poor guards and their families will be left without a paycheck.

Drone strikes? We need that! Where would drone operators get their paychecks? And all thise poor engineers and tech crews!

Having empathy is one thing. Saying that people need jobs no matter what is another.
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Because in this case the company isn't failing because it made some critical error, but because a group of criminals essentially broke in and vandalized the place? Is it a bad thing when a company that's shot up and robbed by thieves disbands? Clearly they should've had better protections in place.

I don't really like Sony, but the employees don't deserve to be out of a job just because their employer got breached.
Store memberships for points and rebates on products are really common here in the US. When you sign up for them, they ask for your email, phone number, address, etc.

Safeway, a big supermarket chain, does this to an extreme. Many of their products are "50% off" when you enter your phone number of your membership on checkout. (It really just brings it down to a normal price).

Nothing prevents you from using a fake number, but as far as I can tell, most people give a real number.

It's certainly a different culture in Germany. Media and people are a lot more concerned collection of data.
> I don't think I understand the two. Grand juries can tell prosecutors "no", but if you remove them it gives prosecutors less power?

In general, criminal trials require establishing probable cause to proceed to a full trial. There are two methods of doing this: indictment by a grand jury, or preliminary hearing before a judge.

In the former, the prosecutor presents evidence with no opposition. In the latter, the defendant is entitled to representation, to cross-examine witnesses, and to present their own evidence.
That sounds like the infosec version of "You don't need to outrun the bear, only outrun another person."

Might be a valid strategy if hackers only had the skills, motivations, and attention span of a grizzly bear.
I honestly don't think that is the point of the article. It goes deeper than that. I think most people who are worth their salt like honest critique.

The problem in my mind is that a whole generation of primarily academics have learned critical thinking but not how to create but they treat critical thinking as if it's creating.

This goes way beyond comments on hacker news, this goes all the way into corporate culture where there is often a race to be the one who point out the flaw in some proposal which is counterproductive to then creating.

If you have the time spend some time reading Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmul from Pixar. He goes to great length to show the difference between having an environment where proposing is regarded higher than shooting down what's proposed.
Parking spot 2 blocks from the highway? After all, it was the CHP that gave you the ticket....

In my experience, CHP is the EASIEST law enforcement agency to live with. 12 years here and not so much as a traffic stop. It's paradise compared to anywhere else I've been.
This is my only account! Anyway I'm not even trying to make crappy comments. I'm trying to point out the absurdity of the parent's self-entitled windshield perspective. His entire complaint can be condensed to "I don't like the police because after I repeatedly broke the law and ignored the process of justice, they had the temerity to tow my car." That's ridiculous. People need to take responsibility for their own actions behind the wheel, then they can learn to be better citizens. People who complain that traffic laws are enforced against them have an infantile sense of morality and cannot meaningfully participate in our society until they grow up.
I love Ruby and I love Matz. With that being said there are some things that Ruby struggles with. I know that there have been some conversations among the core on bringing in more functional concepts to Ruby....at least since April. To me this says that Matz is coming to the conclusion that we may need a new language to get functional right.

While I am sad to see that Ruby may be superseded by a new language I'm really happy to see Matz leading the way with one of the solutions. In the Ruby community we have a expression "Matz is nice and therefore we are nice". That has set the tone for the community in ways that have never been the same in some of the others.

As someone who has had the opportunity to talk with Matz on multiple occasions and work with the Ruby community it would be great to see this as a natural evolution of Ruby and the people who love it... As I have started to move on to working with more functional languages etc. I have started to move away from doing Ruby, but if the community can continue on and evolve with a new language that would be awesome!
I'm the author of seagull. Thanks for all your attention.

Seagull is kind of for developers now and it's insecure at all. We're glad to know more about libtrust and try to add authentication for all kinds of users.

The issue is open and anyone who is interested in it could help to improve it.
...have you seen how well armed the State is? You'd be a fool not to own a cannon or two.
May I differ with my opinion? That's the point of my comment. Thanks for the downvotes proving my point.

Edit: clarifying, I got very, very angry replies and dozens of downvotes at the time. Monoculture leads to fixed mindset and drives smart people away.

Edit 2: I didn't downvote you (I prefer words in this case). My comment was in the negative when you replied, but surprisingly it's risen to positive. Thank you, whoever you are. This gives me hope on HN community.
As Steven Pinker points out in this very interesting article, the category of irregular verbs in English will surely shrink over time, as old, little used verbs become regularized over time, but new verbs formed in English are never formed as irregular verbs. For all that, though, "many of the irregulars can sleep securely, for they have two things on their side. One is their sheer frequency in the language. The ten commonest verbs in English (be, have, do, say, make, go, take, come, see, and get) are all irregular, and about 70% of the time we use a verb, it is an irregular verb. And children have a wondrous capacity for memorizing words; they pick up a new one every two hours, accumulating 60,000 by high school. Eighty irregulars are common enough that children use them before they learn to read, and I predict they will stay in the language indefinitely." Cool.
Ask HN: How transparent should your startup be?
I recently watched a Jason Cohen talk called Naked Business - How Honesty Makes Money[1]. I'm the founder of the Bike Index, and I think we had bought into all the quasi-marketspeak that makes the Bike Index sound like a big company, when being transparent about our size and limitations seems like a better strategy.

I opened a github issue[2] and revised our about page. I asked everyone I could about whether this was a good thing and the general response was yes.

So Hacker News - is this honesty a good thing? Should we be even more transparent, for instance by publicizing our burn rate? If we start to look for investment, is being up-front about being excited to run the Bike Index regardless of whether it makes money a good thing?

[1]: http://vimeo.com/96685927
[2]: https://github.com/bikeindex/bike_index/issues/80
> Not only is the irregular class losing members by emigration, it is not gaining new ones by immigration. When new verbs enter English via onomatopoeia (to ding, to ping), borrowings from other languages (deride and succumb from Latin), and conversions from nouns (fly out), the regular rule has first dibs on them. The language ends up with dinged, pinged, derided, succumbed, and flied out, not dang, pang, derode, succame, or flew out.

I'd love a quick straw poll. Who says flied out?

I've only ever heard flew out - I've never heard anyone say "I flied out yesterday."
> shoot to disable

Proponents of this usually have no experience firing a weapon, let alone while in distress. It's nearly impossible to disable-but-not-kill a person by shooting them.

> even when confronted by someone armed with a knife

Again, usually someone who is not aware of how deadly a knife really is.
Lean meat and vegetables seems like a pretty good diet to me! When I'm actually following that, I do need to add some fat, otherwise I'm feeling hungry all the time. Add a bit of fat (olive oil or butter, generally for me) and things are golden. Eggs work too!
I wouldn't say "vanishingly low." In the wealthy suburban county where I grew up, the homicide rate was roughly comparable to London. Four U.S. states have a murder rate lower than the U.K.: http://libertarianhome.co.uk/2012/12/uk-murder-rate-higher-t.... Aside from Hawaii, those states have almost no major urban centers to speak of, in comparison to the U.K. which is dense and urban.

Alabama, Mississippi, North Dakota, and South Carolina are heavily rural with few major urban centers to speak of, yet have 3-5x the murder rate of the U.K.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1....
These people are trained to take on murders, yet we expect them to nab every bit of weed they can find in a culture where it's weird if you don't own a gun. What do you expect them to do?

If you want a better society pass better laws. That means funding rational candidates for office.
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> I know that there have been some conversations among the core on bringing in more functional concepts to Ruby....at least since April.

Only since April? Has there been a non-bugfix release of Ruby that didn't bring in more functional concepts to Ruby since, well, ever? AFAICT, bringing more support for ideas that come from the FP world has been one of the perennial drivers of progress in Ruby, not a new issue that emerged this spring.

> To me this says that Matz is coming to the conclusion that we may need a new language to get functional right.

I think that's reading a lot into it. Matz experimenting with something doesn't mean that the intent is to replace Ruby with it.
Cisco’s Networks Will Analyze Us
Film Executives Apologize for Racially Tinged Emails
> Each user can share just 1 link a day.

Sounds great, if you're an Ent.
G.E. Teams Up with SoftBank in Big Data Business
Winter Planning for the Spring Garden (2013)
I think their plan was to see how far they could get twisting the Play Store guidelines using the extra leverage they got from the long-awaited Instant Video app release. From their perspective, the worst case was returning to the previous status quo, so what did they have to lose?
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>executive director of information security at Sony Pictures
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>So basically their thinking was that getting hacked was just the cost of doing business

This isnt their thinking. Industry wide belief is that CIOs role is minimizing financial liability, NOT maximizing security.

something like this:
http://www.washington.edu/research/centers/126
http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/information-security-risk...

Where professors are >50 year old bumbling fools proudly proclaiming they know f'all about technology, and whole thing revolves around staying compliant (on paper) with federal law (SOX etc) and industry standards (PCI).

I wasted time taking online versions of those courses. Wrote about it previously here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353205

"CIOs are actively discouraged from possessing any IT background.
Just look at the retardation UW is teaching:

https://www.coursera.org/course/inforiskman

https://www.coursera.org/course/inforisk

https://www.coursera.org/course/infosec

Those "people", they call themselves teachers/professionals in the field, will tell you that Information Security is ALL about covering your ass and shifting blame to a third party. All three courses are about getting a slip of paper that says you delegated responsibility clearing your company from any lawful obligations in case of a breach. Not a single peep about technical aspects or real security of data/infrastructure. Its all about getting that "we paid company X to do it for us" waiver.

There was (deleted now) a huge thread on Coursera forum titled Disappointment covering this topic and demonstrating total lack of professionalism or any real world knowledge. Whole UW program is a government funds skimming scheme. Just look at this garbage:

"Center of Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the University of Washington, designated by the NSA/DHS as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research"

I highly encourage you to check out those courses (I think there is preview available for old lectures) if you are in need of a laugh, or reality check concerning state of CIO education."
Thanks to donw for suggesting the Jason Cohen talk. It's a really good video.
While this is Google's App Store and they can do pretty much anything they want, having such rules is simply anti-competitive. It is as good as saying that on Google Chrome, they will not allow people to visit Firefox.

Google has a 90+% of smartphone marketshare in many parts of the world, and this is abusing their power. Amazon is not installing malware or breaking copyright. Everything else should be allowed.
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Can we see a photo of your setup? sounds pretty good.
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"London has far more gun crime than much of the US does"

Can we get a figure to back that up please? The MET places gun crime figures in greater London at 1570 (http://www.met.police.uk/crimefigures/) with a population of approx 8 million. Which American populations would you compare this to and what are their figures?

I've spent a significant amount of time in London and have never once run into any firearms incidents. It would be interesting to me to see the data behind this.
We won't be limiting the look to iOS 8, we just started there because it's the platform we're developing some commercial apps for using TouchstoneJS at the moment. At least two of them will end up on Android as well, so we'll get to that.

Down the track it will including a theme capability and a more Android-friendly UI style, I'll add something to the roadmap to make this clearer.
Well, tell this to the folks who hold Bitcoin. They love when big merchants start "accepting" Bitcoin, but secretly pray that they won't have much sales as the selling pressure will drag the price down. So, there's a difference as this isn't a highly liquid market. If you pay Microsoft USD via your European credit card, EUR is sold for dollars on the Forex, but given that this is the most liquid market in existence, you're not gonna affect it. On the contrary, we often see on Bitstamp how 100 BTC can drop the price by 5-10% with a weak orderbook. I hope you get my point why there's a practical difference.