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Police are under constant pressure from the public. Everybody they arrest is indignant, angry and certain the policeman is just hassling them.

So the police develop a thick skin, and close ranks to protect one another. They couldn't exist otherwise. Its understandable. But it leads to problems when things like police hazing perps is tolerated. It leads to deaths in custody etc.

I blame the leadership, which tolerated hazing and mistreatment. That has to be squelched instantly, or it grows without bound until somebody is seriously injured or dies.
Interesting read, before I had never thought of clarity and precision as a trade off.
Might want to change the name, Radium is an internet streaming application that has been around for years. People might find it confusing, I did..: http://catpigstudios.com
1) Everything I hear about American police in the news and from people I meet. Ever since I got here I'm amazed how much I hear the "never talk to the police" advice. I don't know how accurate that is but because I hear it so much I'm afraid of even greeting them when I'm walking around.

2) The whole thing made us feel very uncomfortable. Sure, they could have been looking out for us... But if that was the case, why didn't they just pull over and tell us that? Our relaxing evening walk became tense with us wondering why the police was watching us.
"what else is a college going to do?"

Competitive bidding instead of fixed cost tuition. This is what they already select for anyway, this would just be more honest and fair about it.

Nobody seems offended that tuition cost seems to have no relationship with prof/TA salaries, facilities, future income... so removing the charade and opening for bidding seems the most fair.

I suspect the end result is freshie year at MIT will be like $5M to buy a spot, but sophomore year transfer students will probably only have to bid $5K once the less talented flunk out. I pity the instructors trying to teach the wash-out classes. The tests will still exist but for classroom placement, someone belonging in remedial algebra will not be allowed into calculus without passing algebra, geometry, trig, first.
Similarly, I grew up on a dairy farm and have absolutely no desire to ever raise animals again. However, I eventually found myself cash cropping and love every minute of it. Farming is a pretty vague term, really.
Nice, finally a way to play http://curvefever.com without the need for flash.
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Regardless it will be a failure...combining SFDC with Oracle or MS is pretty much the step before total organ failure from morbid corporate obesity. Every time these megamergers occur they rarely if ever succeed.

If its ORacle, the company that already has 3 poorly intehrated CRMs now has 4. If its MS, then 2. None have perfectly complimentary cultures (although SFDC and ORacle are close-ish) and the monolithic creatures borne of that M&A will just collapse under its own weight.

SFDC uses a Java like DSL, APex, which is lock in, whose life under either merger would be curious to see.
"Siri - make me a Dyson sphere."

The irony about these conversations is that humans are already far more of a threat to humanity now than an AI might be, possibly, at some undetermined time in the future.
Trying to read aerospike's front page to figure out what it is reminds me of this: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
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Disqualification of people with high IQs?
I am a founder at Coding House.

Wrong.

- Maybe the bottom 20% should go and that is natural selection.

- The is a huge shortage of devs.

- Most colleges are not doing a good job creating dev's (their are about 100 who do).

- You can learn everything we teach on your own for free (near free).

- btw Plursight is great if you are a JR Dev not if you don't know shit.

- Boot camps expedite the process by 4x to 12x the amount of time it would take.

- You will not become an expert or an intermediate dev at any boot camp. You will still be green.

- In a boot camp you will learn between 2-4% of what you need to know about coding.

- You will earn the rest over 20-30 years.

- Thus we focus on teaching people how to be self relent. So the can pick up a new language, framework, how to FIX bugs, TDD, merging, working in groups. The process that one can apply to most anything they need to do down the road.
Why not round it down to an even 3.14% and keep it at Pi?
If you're talking about the ability to write a novel, I agree with you. But you have to learn how to get your thoughts down on paper in a way that is intelligible by other humans, and that's a technical skill that must be learned through repetition and critique. There's a basic technical skill to writing long form content, and many kids don't get it because their teacher doesn't have time to grade 140 papers.
That's interesting. The opposite effect is quite common as well: there were numerous recent cases in the news where overweight people would consider themselves beautiful and normal. Some of them even coined the term "fat shaming" for the people who are trying to tell them the truth!
yeah. i saw a specialist at the university hospital who pretty much told me there are genetic factors (weaker ligaments on the inner side of my fingers) that pretty much mean i'm shit out of luck so long as i keep typing. he also suggested more cardiovascular exercise and working in warmer environments (as it is largely a blood flow issue)
Colleges aren't looking for successful authors. They look for people who communicate well in writing.

I think the top writers didn't need attention from their English teachers, but the fairly good ones probably did.
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Only reason I got into Stanford is, they make (made?) a point of offering admission to all the 99th percentile each year. I was one of them.

However there're only a few hundred of these nationwide, right? Not enough to fill several leading schools.
I like your distinction, and for the same reason think that there shouldn't be separate laws for the assault of a police officer -- there should just be laws for assault.
Its usually the plethora of shitty plugins that provide the back-doors, WordPress, albeit a clunky system, is actually quite secure. The same thing happened with Windows in the days, most blue screens of dead were caused by crappy 3rd party drivers, the OS just happened to be the messenger.
It might be. But then again, at least in the U.S., many of the languages we consider 'ugly' sounding are not spoken by people that we (presently) exhibit a lot of negative biases towards. (Obviously I'm thinking of German here.)

It seems perfectly plausible to me that, just as there are unpleasant non-linguistic sounds, there could be languages that produce a greater number of unpleasant sounds in typical speech, to a person from any cultural background. Think: nails on a chalkboard. (I'm tempted to call these "objectively ugly" sounds, but of course having a social cause does not make something subjective.)

Of course, this is not to say that racism, or xenophobia are never the causes of these judgments. And, more subtly, some of our views about what sounds are 'ugly' may also be socially constructed, at least in part. And these views could relate to longstanding racial biases, among other factors.

tl;dr: Probably some of these judgments are facially racist, and others are caused by genuine assessments of the ugliness of sounds, but those judgments themselves may have social causes that include racist and xenophobic dynamics. But others still may well relate to perceptions that are hardwired, and not socially constructed.

All this complexity makes me hesitate before signing on to your view, though I do sometimes lean in that direction.
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"I can't think of a conceivable scenario where a cop would want to assume the liability of disregarding my advice."

What [personal] liability does a cop take on by disregarding your advice? It seems that cops have strong immunity to liability. It also seems that when a cop is found liable that the state/municipality pays the price.

Perhaps if police [officers] had to be individually bonded and insured then at least "costly" police would lose their capacity to be officers through market means (insurance and bonding is no longer cost effective).
The features mention "Extension language support" that lets a user write programs to generate music / modify songs. Anyone care to elaborate on this or provide some examples of extension languages (maybe integration with ChucK or Max/MSP)?
NSA, not NASA.
i'm going to look into physiotherapy. hopefully i find some answers there.

vacation is not an option for financial reasons.
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Excellent. Those tractors were rockstars, and ran for years and years. I can still recall that popping sound in my head, many years later. Very distinctive.
Not true! AI's are thinking and acting at the speed of light. We put them in charge of our infrastructure all the time (internet, phone systems, stock trading, medical records and on and on). Already they have tremendous potential to do us harm, at a rate far outstripping any given humans. They only lack the will, so far.
Kind of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod

There's definitely a much older negative connotation than the Bugs Bunny usage.
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Yes. Sounds ridiculous, right?

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Yes, implement server-side rendering, tracked here in Meteor's tracker: https://trello.com/c/Lz07fBAm/7-server-side-rendering

Meteor is almost there. It's inherently isomorphic and its Blaze templating engine (a fork of Handlebars) can run both server and client side. They just need an easy way to render those templates from routes defined on the server side.
Friends and family are allowed to invest in a company without being an accredited investor. The rule about accredited investors involves soliciting investment from the general public. Rule 504 allows a company to raise upwards of 1 million dollars over a 12 month period from non-accredited investors so long as that money is raised from pre-existing contacts, that is no general solicitation is made.

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Requires an expert to configure? No shit! What enterprise CRM software doesn't require a vendor to install and integrate?
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`git` also carries negative connotations. But at least that was intentional.
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'nuff said?
A cop who disregards my advice to the detriment of the patient is, at the very least, going to have a bad time with his supervisor, and it will have an impact on his career.

Beyond that, it varies based on local and state laws. It's certainly possible that he could face civil liability (or his department could face that liability on his behalf... again, with pretty negative effects on his career).
It looks nice, but, serious question, is there a reason why the UI in all screenshots is so dark and completely lacks contrast? I really couldn't look at black text or dark blue text on a dark background all day :/

Examples of what I mean:

- http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/overview1.p...

- http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/pluginmenu....
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It seems to have been purposely designed to require multiple page loads and lots of scrolling to get the core information on an account (e.g. notes on last correspondence, contact details, value of current opportunity, next task) which you'd ideally want all visible on a single screen. Instead, you need multiple tabs. If a company you haven't met isn't already in the system, then adding their details, a brief note on your meeting and a record of the new business opportunity involves you remembering the correct order to complete a minimum of four web form submits and ten page loads, and you'll have to do a surprising amount of manual work to link those records together properly. It compounds this with slow page load speeds; back at my old company we nicknamed it Snailsforce.

These are basics you'd expect any CRM software to handle well, but it's also surprisingly bad at things you'd expect a darling of the enterprise world to do well at (representation of structure of corporate groups, representation of client decision making hierarchies, representation of individuals' roles at multiple clients, ability to find companies by geography etc.) And needless to say, the corporate versions that have been hacked to fit specific needs add all manner of monstrous new forms to fill in and weird bugs with price calculation.

If there's one thing that sums the service up it's this: if you're locked out of Salesforce[1] the screen which advises you of this provides an email address for their help team... which turns out to be autoresponder advising you that the mailbox is not being monitored so please log into Salesforce to lodge the response.
I hope it works out for you. I also found that hot water helped a lot. Try ice for pain and hot water or whatever for healing.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9456190
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This seems neat, but I'd like to see a study some sort on what sort of benefits (if any) it has over the long term.

It would be interesting to see if developers of these kinds of devices can eventually progress to one reliably driving a keyboard at anything approaching normal typing speed.
MakerBot is Stratasys's flagship product? The $3k Makerbot, not the $30,000+ Dimension or the $50,000+ Fortus? Really, the Makerbot? Someone seems a bit out of touch.
The topic is also covered pretty well in the book "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns. I think it helps to recognize or understand some of these behaviors when there's someone in your life that has these kind of thoughts.
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This is a misconception. Friends and family are allowed to invest in your company without being accredited investors.
Eh, not really. From what I hear, the core work is still in Redmond. It's just a shitty product with a shitty team.
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The way I learned was through books and BBS's but that may not be as applicable anymore. What type of environment do you work on? Languages, frameworks, and tools?

I would suggest if you have the option that you pair with one of the programmers at your company. One of the best ways to learn is to jump right in and do it with someone more senior than you are. If they are willing to take a few minutes or hours a day to allow you to really pair with them, you'll learn quickly!
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Way too cumbersome, sorry.

TXR Lisp:

@(do
(macro-time
(defun abc-proc (n)
^(defun ,n () (pprinl ',n))))

(defmacro abc-procs (. n)
^(progn ,*[mapcar abc-proc n]))

(abc-procs a b c)

(defun exec (order callbacks)
(each ((i order))
[[callbacks i]]))

(exec '(0 0 1 2 1 2) '(a b c)))

$ txr test.txr
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Variation on exec:

(defun exec (order callbacks)
(mapdo (op [callbacks @1]) order))
> That seems kind of non-responsive. The fact that there are technical limitations with Rust's mechanism doesn't invalidate the fact that the existing solutions work fine when implemented with a cross compiler and yours don't. It's sort of a special case of my point: maybe you did it wrong.

Two of your examples have been template metaprogramming and cpp, both of which are very limited programming environments (technically Turing complete, but both are Turing tarpits). When you actually want a full programming environment, you always hit the cross-compilation issue. It's just fundamental to the problem. But the advantages of a having a full programming environment available, when you need that power, outweigh the downsides of having to write in a separate module.

The other example you gave is writing a Python script, which has all the same problems of writing in a separate module, except now you're writing in a different language in addition to writing in a separate module.

Sometimes you don't need the power of a real programming environment, of course. That's why the macro system, which does not expose a full programming environment, exists in Rust. But C++ templates and (especially!) cpp weren't designed as programming environments either. They're pretty terrible programming environments. If you want that kind of thing, use the macro system. It's technically Turing complete too in just the same way as templates are. But we also expose a full programming environment, if you want it.

I'm mystified by how offering a feature that extends the existing state of the art in addition to offering a feature that reflects the state of the art—the macro system—could possibly be somehow "doing it wrong".
I'm assuming this is snark, and you know full well that body acceptance is not the same thing as body dysmorphic disorder. Not nice.
Just from reading the graph:

Figure 1 -- This one I'm not too sure about. It says "Cumulative percent growth in number of full-time sworn personnel."

Figure 2 -- It says "Full-time state and local law enforcement employees, 1992-2008". Each bar has "Civilians" "Sworn Officers" and "Total". I'm guessing that this is the break-down of "Sworn Officers" vs "Civilians" from the pool of "Full-time state and local law enforcement employees." Not all of those employees are sworn officers.

Figure 3 -- Just like Figure 2, but the numbers are "per 100,000 residents."
I'm a full stack Rails developer now, and attended an online bootcamp called Tealeaf Academy. I liked it a lot because the guys who run it understand development pretty well, and they were accessible to answer questions as I had them. They made no promises about my career prospects after attending the course, charged a fair price. In my mind, the 4 month program was closer to a supercharged college course, not an overhyped bootcamp.
I just saw a tweet of Notch

> Turns out unrolling tight inner loops really speeds them up! 38% speedup from that alone. Makes sense, it's doing one eight of the branching

https://twitter.com/notch/status/595509436040491008

Even billionaires may want to micro-optimize! Bonus point: he is developing for a "20 years old platform"
I would argue that Apple's cost of capital is 0%. They don't have a better way to invest the money, which is evidenced by their almost $200B sitting in the bank doing nothing for their company or shareholders (seriously, how about a Microsoft-style massive one-time dividend). I would guess they ship their phones by air to keep delivery times fast and consistent.
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I know a guy who double majored in EE and manufacturing engineering. He's very taciturn, or I guess you would say unfriendly and not prone to discuss the weather. The engineer who did the gossamer albatross was also described that way[0] as are many other engineers, but usually not the software kind. Why is this so?

[0] https://youtu.be/ketusOFabb4
These consumer-targeted devices are predominantly used to detect and act on changes in the relative power of certain frequency bands from rhythmic neural activity. These changes in activity are common across people, and don't require any specialized user-specific techniques to identify. For instance, alpha wave (8-12 Hz) power is correlated with arousal/attentiveness.
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The things that jump out at me there are "that I interpret as invalid" and "Have there been any court cases where a person scraping public information has been found in the wrong?"

Tackling the second one first, I'd like to rephrase that: "Have all the court cases where a person was scraping public information been found in their favor and they were awarded all attorney fees and expenses?"

As far as "that I interpret as invalid" the courts exist to decide between varying interpretations of rights and laws. I've never heard that "inexpensively" was expected to be part of that description. I'm not saying that you're wrong - I'm just saying that there's a significant difference between "I'm taking on a coding and data analysis project" and "I'm taking on a coding and data analysis project with a big helping of legal distractions."

I'm not fully up on the Craigslist vs padmapper/3taps case - was it ever actually fully decided? And how much did fighting that case cost 3taps? Looking at the statement on their website it doesn't sound all that victorious, and I can't help but suspect that even ignoring whatever financial impact there was the distraction and demands of the case must have had a serious effect on any projects 3taps was working on (or considering and back-burnering) during that time.

As a counterexample since you said you were going to be keeping and displaying thumbnails, I'll toss out the artwork from "Kind of Bloop" (see http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/) which was a highly-pixelated (and maybe only 8-color?) transformation of a photo of Miles Davis. TL;DR, Andy Baio ended up paying ~$32k to settle the case not because he thought he was wrong but because it was the least expensive option.

I'm not saying don't do it - I'm just saying that you should go into it with your eyes open and don't do things that will exacerbate any non-technical problems you may run into. That may be a chilling effect, but at least you can bring a coat.
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Keep in mind time travel, but maybe Dart. I realise they've discontinued it, but if you could travel back in time and provide Dart as a JavaScript alternative, it would no doubt win outright (since JS took so long even to get to where it is now).

Honestly, and this is going to sound crazy, even VBScript is a better language than JavaScript. I understand why it didn't take off, it was only supported by one vendor, and was proprietary (as opposed to JavaScript's "free"), but in terms of the core language it had features JavaScript won't have until ECMAScript 6 is released.
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FYI: I was replying to this part of the comment: "Nasa does this to some degree..."
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3.3 million high school graduates this year, so wouldn't the 99th percentile be the top 33k of them? Seems like that would be more than enough to fill Stanford and the Ivys' classes.
Sounds nice on paper, but do you think a meaningful punishment would get past the police union?

I'm not a cop but my impression is very much "no".