skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with grandfather here. Do not cooperate with law enforcement when you have an option. This does not mean be rude to them or try to be difficult. It just means that you have to assert your rights. Any cop who does not respect a person's rights does not, in my eyes, deserve cooperation.

Of course, almost everyone would love to help the police with their investigation as much as they can but in a litigious climate with plea bargaining (and not to even talk about the illegal quotas that officers need to meet), I am simply not convinced that there is enough incentive for law enforcement to get the right person.

Life is not CSI. Cops are people too. They want to go home at the end of the day. I am not saying all police officers are corrupt all the time. I am simply saying most of them are overworked (and perhaps underpaid) a lot. If you think about it from this perspective, I hope you'll agree that not asserting your rights and helping law enforcement is a terrible idea. There is a video on YouTube that talks about the same thing. If they tell you the investigation is not directed towards you, have them give you something in writing (make sure your lawyer reads it) that grants you a full and unconditional pardon. Of course, they will not grant it.

In case of jaywalking, I'd say the law is flawed. If the people who allocate resources for law enforcement think that it is enough of a problem, they should allocate enough resources to cover for people's right to refuse to identify themselves unless presented with a warrant.

In the same vein, I really wish that the monies from fines and tickets not go to the police or to the general treasury at all. I wish we treated such money as bad money. I don't know what we'd do with it but doing any good with bad money taints the good efforts and will eventually rot the effort. (E.g., civil forfeiture in the incredibly stupid war on drugs)

IANAL.
I'm not convinced by the water argument as a large-scale issue, for two reasons. First, water transport is expensive, in a relative sense. This means that as long as you're not farming in direct competition with people that lack water, stopping the farming won't help them. Second, the price of meat is high enough, and the price of desalination low enough, that all else equal we could easily feed cows by using infinite salt water.
The thrust to weight ratio of a single engine firing is so high that they have no option but to fire at the last moment. Firing for longer would result in the rocket going back up, it can't hover.
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This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for taking the time to go into this level of detail.

So looks like if they can solve for modeling this latency (likely a software problem), there's a decent shot they'll nail it the next time around?
EDIT: I found better documentation on this.

Some US states require ID.

> The person approached is not required to identify himself or answer any other questions, and may leave at any time

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes#Stat...

http://www.quora.com/In-the-US-under-what-situations-are-you...
--old:

Depends. A quick google found this:
http://www.flexyourrights.org/faqs/when-can-police-ask-for-i...

> As of 2013, 24 states had stop-and-identify laws. Regardless of your state’s law, keep in mind that police can never compel you to identify yourself without reasonable suspicion to believe you’re involved in illegal activity
Another Take on Net Neutrality
Python is notable among its peers in that it has a well-defined spec that is not just a list of bugs in the reference interpreter. It is thus important to note that some of the non-reference interpreters do already have the properties requested in TFA, but for whatever reason they haven't supplanted the reference implementation. (I suspect that the ability to drop down into C/C++, link against preexisting libs, or use tools like Cython and taking advantage of the compiler's optimizer, is actually more important than, say, the average PyPy speed boost. Certainly it is for me.)
IMHO the nicest Scheme for UNIX scripting is scsh. Its APIs are really well thought out and represent a lot of design work that hasn't ever been replicated by another Scheme (at least that I've seen).

Some good examples of scsh scripting (some by the author, Olin Shivers) can be found at

http://scsh.net/resources/scripts.html

The manual is also very good:

http://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
Isn't Iceland pretty anti-surveillance still?
What does a median have to do with it?

The countdown allows me to choose to cross if there are 20 sec left (enough time for me to get across anything less than an 8-lane highway) or not to cross till the next light if there are only 3 sec left when I reach the curb.

With old-school flashing lights all I know is that the light will change soon, but gives me no idea HOW soon. In pedestrian friendly cities generally people will cross if it's flashing (esp. on a narrower street) because they have right of way. Heck, most of us will cross a one-way street AGAINST the light if the nearest oncoming car is a third of the way down the block. That's not the least bit dangerous and doesn't interrupt the flow of traffic.
What would really improve consumer bicycle technology is a standardized testing schedule like the EPA's "city test"[1]. You can standardize a course, but how to standardize the rider to be similar to an average person? Perhaps a special pedal that measures or constrains the rider's power output.

[1] http://epa.gov/nvfel/testing/dynamometer.htm
Yeah, doesn't compete with React. If React were being used client side only (not isomorphic) then one can roughly do stuff like https://gist.github.com/priyajeet/c2731789d3a688ee85a9 (5-min hack)
Because the primary job of the engine is to get as massive a payload as they can to orbit, not to land. That's just a bonus.
For one, developing reliable rocket engines takes a long time, you can't just whip up a new one. The current Merlin has a very large throttling range already when compared to existing engines. The size of the engines they use now is defined by the need to get payload's to space, the landing has to be secondary.
How about a Miele CVA6800? Only $3,399.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bDM79t42w
Downvoted. Sorry, but generalized racist comments like these don't belong here. This isn't Reddit.
This is like that one TED talk on longevity that found green zones where people lived much longer. One factor found in these people's lives was an ambulatory day, just generally walking a lot -- but, surprisingly, none of these groups went out of their way to exercise.
If this turns out to be the only problem then yes, they have a decent chance of doing a proper landing the next time around.
What was the old price?
An updated version by Roderic Morris can be installed as a library atop the latest version of Scheme 48. It's on github: https://github.com/scheme/scsh

I think it's 64-bit (?). Most of the time it hasn't mattered for me, at least when writing scripts.

You can also just build the "old" version (0.6.7) with the `-m32` GCC flag, and it works fine on 64-bit Linux and OS X. It's very stable in my experience, and works fine.
According to a (now deleted?) tweet from Elon, it was stiction in a control valve that caused a lag in response time, causing repeated over corrections.
Have you ever tried to deploy a native looking Python3 qt app on both Mac and Windows? I am not aware of anyone who lived to tell the tale.
If you can do without a native look (menus, dock icons, app packaging), i.e. you just want to have some academic lab tool, then qt is good enough, IMHO. But no comparison with native UI development on Win or Mac.
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They're incredible, absolutely incredible.

As an Ars forum member from back as early as 2001, I appreciate everything you did, John. Thanks!
Value reuse/positional parameter references could've been added easily to the old-style formatting in the same way POSIX added them to C's printf(), using the $ specifier (although printf() unusually indices from 1, not 0):

'%1$s %0$s' % ('one', 'two', )

Changing the padding character would probably not be too difficult either - just add the appropriate specifier to the formatting DSL; and I'm not so keen on supporting nested structures in the format string, as it seems to be going in the direction of allowing arbitrary expressions/Python code into a formatting DSL - one that I think shouldn't be more than a regular language.
I seem to have made some sort of mistake. On one of my computers the flagged comment doesn't appear and my comment appears to be the source of controversy.
Thanks for all the really detailed and well written reviews over the years, John. I especially remember printing out the OS X Tiger review and setting aside a long lunch at Chipotle while going through it in my college days.

I used to look forward to the Siracusa reviews as much as the OS releases themselves. This year there will be a void, but hopefully someone like iMore or MacStories will fill that void.
It looks like HttpListener doesn't support kernel caching at all which means it's not vulnerable to this attack.
Extensive discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372481
Beer and Data Science – Looking at topic modeling in multi-aspect reviews
This is awesome, I hope more do this!
Siracusa's OS X reviews, and Jon Stokes' excellent explanations of computer hardware, will both be tough to beat. Ars had some truly amazing stuff in the mid 2000s.
I wrote my first Turing machine software out on paper, took several sheets. Then decided to write a Turing machine emulator in C to interpret it to see how well I'd done. Definitely some bugs, but overall not bad.

Had I realized the PC lab next door had a Turing machine emulator, I would have saved some time but missed out on some fun. Wish I still had my emulator software around; this was many years pre-Github.
I just saw the first episode of a similar series, royal Cousins at War:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pw7nx

Very nice.
Hey just a note that there is an incorrect date mentioned on the page: 'OS X 10.10 Yosemite – October 16, 2015' should be 2014
I'm curious, what do you mean by "distributed trust"? A big reason why I find a brand trustworthy is exactly because my trust is consolidated in one entity that produces repeatable, desired results.

Taking Craigslist as an example, Craigslist isn't trustworthy to me precisely because its trust system is distributed. It doesn't police the interactions, moving trust into the realm of peer-to-peer, where definitions of trustworthiness tend to vary greatly. Craigslist in effect has built a well-known brand with overtones of "buyer beware!" because of this distribution of trust.
I find it surprising that you find it to be overly messy / too much of a hassle. Maybe I've just gotten used to it, but I find it much less of a hassle than my old drip coffee maker, and it takes about 10 seconds to clean when I'm finished.
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The name reminds me of Hooli from HBO's Silicon Valley.
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I'm not trying to be rude, but you're conflating developers with end-users, and didn't really answer my question.
I'm curious how developers specifically benefit from integrating with Hoomi, over other social identity providers.
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It never ceases to amaze me how positive that guy can be after what happened. He has accomplished so much since that fateful day. (shakes fist) "Damn you Italians and your lust for life!!!"
Kawa:

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/kawa/kawa-2.0.jar
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/kawa/kawa-2.0.jar.sig
gpg --recv-key D269E756
gpg --verify kawa-2.0.jar.sig

echo '(format #t "Hello, world!\n")' > hello.scm
# Not sure how to bundle up a scheme script with kawa
# to a stand-alone jar...
java -jar kawa-2.0.jar --main -C hello.scm
time java -cp kawa-2.0.jar:. hello
Hello, world!

real 0m0.284s
user 0m0.296s
sys 0m0.020s
In case you didn't notice, I also pasted the exact statement he gave as a screenshot. I only see an honest mistake (which was really just having the quotes around the thing -- I can't edit it otherwise I would have) instead of intellectual dishonesty. But thanks for the lesson.
I don't fully understand exactly what Oilpan is but it sounds like it's to combine the DOM and JavaScript engines garbage collector into one thing in order to, simplify the runtime, increase performance and remove some interface issues that browser developers have faced.
sadly doesn't seem like Mozilla Persona is a good go-forward project
http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-p...
A lot of dogs could absolutely kill you, but they don't. My cat could be 100 lbs and she'd still be more interested in kibble and pillows than mauling me. So, no not all animals are sociapathic (I'm not sure that's the right word in any case). Wild animals are wild and do wild animal things, they absolutely live and die by a different code.

But this whole argument, I think is spurious. Simply because they follow a different set of rules doesn't mean that they don't deserve our caring and protection.

Your argument sounds a lot like the one people make about other groups of people who find themselves morally superior versus another group. Replace "animals" with "muslims" or "jews" or "communists" or whatever and it may sound familiar.

That we recognize and respect that animals have needs and feelings even if they are not beneficial to us is exactly the point of this.
30 minutes ago? Suspicious account just a little...
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Have you seen this amazing puppet film clip?
The cops are not your friends. They are not there to protect you, your safety or your property. They are rapists, extortionists and killers, employed by the State to maintain its thuggish power through violence and intimidation and protect the status quo.

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution exists because the Founding Fathers understood that the State should be kept always at the point of a gun. The relationship between the People and the State be one of brevity and violence, otherwise tyranny is inevitable.

Never talk to them. Never cooperate with them. Never help them. Never see them as your fellow citizens. They are not.
I also note that this idea that people care about animals and not the other way around is hard to respect given which direction the killing typically goes.

For the most part animals ignore people. For the most part people kill animals.
John Siracusa has suffered with RSI for many years. He wrote most of these massive reviews with voice recognition software. He talks about his RSI in this podcast:

http://techdistortion.com/podcasts/pragmatic/episode-50-acci...
Perhaps. But even if it sucks: if it does at least one thing right, the other mature alternatives can learn another trick.
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Another solid purchase by the company that bought broadcast.com in April 1999 for... drumroll... $5.7 billion! Yes, I'm actually not making that up. It's why you know who Mark Cuban is.
And, for the record, with the same hello.scm, and guile (2.0.5 as found in Debian stable):

# First run:
time guile hello.scm
;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
(...)
Hello, world!

real 0m0.066s
user 0m0.044s
sys 0m0.020s

#Ed: with precompiled code under $HOME/.cache/guile (?)
time guile hello.scm
Hello, world!

real 0m0.040s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.004s
A fair number of `Open Data` municipal initiatives seem to end with a single SQL dump or two handed over to a commercial vendor (such as socrata) for display. Not much of substance, but just enough for an elected official to say "see look, I made us an open data city!"
Ask HN: Total karmic wealth of all HN?
If you add up the karma of all user accounts what value do you get?
That's amazing. I never get anywhere on a treadmill.
Those two were actually mixed up in my head and for the first however many episodes of Hypercritical I thought I was listening to the guy whose book on CPUs I was thinking of buying. Siracusa was entertaining enough that I didn't mind when I realised, and have listened to him since!
To note, I started this as a frustration to current VPS providers. I wanted a minimalist, straight to the point, fast deploying VPS service with no bullshit.

Myself and another developer ended up creating our own provider from scratch with our own equipment co-located at a reliable DC.

In all we used:
Back-end: libvirt + kvm virtualization + ruby + go
Front-end: siantra (control panel), WHCMS (billing), all integrated into one (sinatra is reversed proxied via lighttpd)
Background / workers: resque + goworkers + some ruby workers

We're the first to introduce Atomic Project images.

We're still developing and continuing to add features. One of them being hourly billing as well as scaling.
I think that once it falls over, it's scrap. There's so little margin that once you even suspect things are bent, you pretty much have to rebuild it anyway.
Makes sense. Realistically the last killer feature in an OS X release was probably spotlight in 10.4. Consumer hardware hasn't gotten much faster since then, and the last six OS X releases have all been pretty much just rearranging furniture.

I can't see much innovation happening in the OS space for a few years until we get widespread adoption of memristors, perhaps in 2020 when HP comes out with The Machine.
While I agree with most of that wonderfully-written article...

"But I was mystified about Carver. He seemed to have done stuff with peanuts... It's obvious now that he was on the list because he was black"

He was on the list because he was an accomplished botanist who sought to relieve the effects of a cotton-planting monoculture (namely, on the deprivation of soil nutrients resulting from said monoculture) by persuading farmers to plant peanuts (or other legumes) instead of or alongside cotton, and did so by developing a very large number of novel uses for peanuts, thus increasing demand for them and encouraging farmers to follow his advice.

I get what the author's trying to say - that a lot of folks only remember George Washington Carver because he was a black scientist - but it comes across as entirely ignorant of his actual accomplishments in botany and agricultural science.
In California water is a little bit fungible because of the California Aqueduct (and other aqueducts in the California water system), and because of some farmers' water rights claims over particular sources that might otherwise have been available to other users for other uses. But it's not completely fungible by any stretch of the imagination.

I don't know enough about the water system and the patterns of shortages to understand the prevalence of direct competition between sets of users. Of course a weird thing is that municipalities may have locked in particular sources, so there may not be anyone in competition with us at all (for example, we in San Francisco have near-exclusive access to Hetch Hetchy, so water demand from farmers elsewhere in the state isn't likely to threaten our municipal water supply, at least not very directly).

I guess I need to learn more about the extent to which different users actually compete with one another. Clearly livestock farmers in the Central Valley are in competition with crop farmers there for the same water resources, but their competition with city dwellers for sources of what might have been human drinking water is a thornier question.
I'm not sure you have taken this thought to its logical conclusion.
I didn't say that the US was "founded on freedom", but the idea of certain freedoms were very much a part of its inception. Regardless, I don't think you actually defended anything you said. My ability to own private property constrains your freedom in the same way that my mere physical existence constrains your freedom of occupying the same physical space as me. It's all a bunch of psuedo-intellectual, hypothetical nonsense.
I think we would all agree that persuasiveness is an axis upon which to judge arguments. "Strangeness" is far out there on the persuasive axis.

Maybe so far out there that Richard Dawkins and Neil Degrasse Tyson are arguing in the other room... but its on the axis somewhere.
New Samsung 840 Evo firmware will add ‘periodic refresh’ capability
"Even running a startup with just two people, we could get multiple emails a week from sales reps who just guessed the email based on my name and the company. "

Do you really find that getting multiple emails from sales reps (per week) to be a big problem?
"an extremely effective way to entice readers"

... you might even say they found one weird trick. Traditional news media hates them. You won't believe what they'll do next.

I don't directly hate Buzzfeed, but I do hate that due to being so successful much of the rest of the industry has emulated them to the point of near saturation. It is getting nearly impossible to consume web content without constantly being subjected to clickbaity garbage (I realize that Buzzfeed actually produces some decent content, but most of those who clumsily emulate them do not).

Of course at the end of the day this is all our fault for being so easily clickbaited by inane stuff.
Video Games, Songs on iTunes, Internet, Phone Services... The list goes on, pretty much everything is expensive over here, even digital products with zero shipping or handling costs are triple or more the price in the US. For example I pay $70/month for 200GB of 'broadband' that peaks at 500kb/s and is totally incapable of streaming video. My mobile phone costs $95/month and I get 5GB of data.
These are two different kind of clients here. One actually has an inkling what these technologies are, the other just wants a deliverable.
Fortunately this study seems to say you can have your cake and eat it too.

Whether running or weight training, high intensity exercise is much more fun that moderate intensity exercise. I started going to a personal trainer to build strength and pushing myself when running, and not only is it more effective, it's a lot more fun.

If you're walking 6 miles or biking 15 miles a day to commute, maybe that's not such a great idea. It isn't that much fun, isn't really much better for the environment, and it might actually shave a couple of years off your life. That sort of constant exercise isn't going to be very intense.
Developers want to convert as many users as possible into their apps. Social login turns off individuals that care about their privacy. Developers that adopt Hoomi don't have to implement an alternative to social login.
3% of white people in the U.S. are affected to varying degrees by a genetic disorder called a Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. I found out I had the moderate form(SZ) from 23andme.com. I've never been able to exercise as well as anyone else.

It is a genetic liver disease that causes harm to your lungs.
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In practice, a noticeable percentage of titles are edited either before or after posting...
Portishead made just $2,500 off 34M streams
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I was a little hasty jumping on your previous post. Thanks for the clarification.
As an advertiser, you desperately want the ability to get info like this. But once you have it, you quickly realize how almost useless it is.

What makes Google Adwords so powerful, is that a search query shows an intent to find a solution or service, so you are advertising to someone already looking for what you are offering.

Emailing someone just causes them to wonder 1) how you got their email, and 2) offers no context other than their bio so it just comes off as spammy and annoying.
Is LMDB running on any operating systems that do not offer mmap support?
Laugh much?