skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mocek's arrest, according to the audio recorded when he was arrested, was "for being stupid". The actions he was doing were trying to board a plane with a valid boarding pass but without ID, and taking photos.

An ID is not required for flying in the US. Taking photos is not illegal. The first is a bit surprising to some, and even the second, so I can understand how you may have thought those were a problem, but surely you knew that being stupid is not a crime?

His arrest was so unjustified that he didn't even present a defense at trial. After the prosecution called its witnesses and presented its arguments, and the defense was given its chance, the defense rested without calling any witnesses or presenting any evidence. All the defense did was in closing arguments point out all the holes in the prosecution's claims, and an hour later Mocek was acquitted on all charges.

Rachner was arrested for acts that were not criminal. That in itself is not abuse, since the police can make mistakes. However, they withheld evidence that would have shown they were wrong. That is not upholding the law. That is abuse.
Legacy. Empire. Providing for your children's children. Giving your loved ones the kind of life they've never even considered possible. Seeing the smile on your mother's face when you get to tell her she can stop working, that you've taken care of her and your father, and your brothers and sisters.

The 1% are living in a way that will last longer than they will, on a scale that the rest of us won't achieve in our lifetimes. That's okay, certainly, but to pretend like there's no reason to work towards the 1% is silly.
I've learned that wondering about OpenSSL internals is detrimental to my sanity.
There is a big difference between using gold and silver for currency--which people did for thousands of years--and a gold- or silver-backed paper currency, which only existed for a couple hundred years at most. I know gold standard fans like to equate them, but they are not the same thing at all.

Gold and silver used as money were actually a form of barter. They did not require people to trust a government, and in fact predated government as we know it today.

Gold- and silver-backed currency were actually paper, and thus required people to trust the government to redeem them. Well, if you're going to stipulate that people have to trust the government, then gold or silver is just an implementation detail. In operation, it works like government price fixing of gold and silver. Like any price fixing, it leaves the economy open to outside manipulation by anyone who controls enough of the price fixed item.

Fiat currency is resistant to such manipulation because no one can ever control enough of it to manipulate the economy. The government can create or destroy as much as it needs to.
I'm not claiming OWS was at all successful. I'm claiming that ignoring people complaining just because they fail to organize well is something of a warning sign.
Makes me think of those binary clocks which are made up of columns of leds. A friend of mine has had one of those for years.

Hard to tell the time at first but it's surprising how fast you can learn to read the time reasonably fast.
Not only is this a solid framework when it comes to choosing what one wants to do, in addition to being the reality of building a business, it is an increasingly important guardrail when the entire bay area buzzes with "rocketship" "unicorns" that get to $1B in ~2-3 years.

One way to counter this would be startup founders tweeting & sharing more but I know how little time you have for anything when you're building a business.
With all due respect, how would mobile devices replace/match the computing experience I have now with my 27" computer?

How would be that possible?

Good spirit and even better understanding of the Zeitgeist :)
Am I the only one who noticed "he was in 13th Floor Elevators"? Whoa! That's rad! And props on making music the priority, not worrying about age.
correction: the C to JS step would be done with Emscripten (asm.js is a subset of JS not a compiler)

Thank you for the answers
Ah, a true classic :)
What this scheme does is create equitable inflation. That is, I concur, not identical to BI. However, inflation does come with redistributive effects.

In most macroeconomic models, the question of "who makes the money" is abstracted into "the banks make it and lend it to everyone." That means that money has to start in the investment sphere - the expected impact on individuals is to experience cheaper debt and higher wages and prices - a sort of "regression to the mean" in their financial status.

But in a situation like the post-GFC markets, investment tends to slosh around in financial instruments without reaching Main Street in any meaningful way - the money isn't turned into capex or wages. This is the kind of thing that is smoothed out when the inflation is reformulated as a benefit. Individuals still experience the regression to the mean, but it happens instantaneously, on a predictable schedule.
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This was pretty much my thought as well. The results of this cost-benefit analysis make me raise my eyebrow, and, same as you, I can only assume that OS X permeates the infrastructure from top to bottom, to an extent that makes pulling it out too painful to even contemplate. Image processing shaders of this type aren't that hard to write.

If you're worried about them not matching some piece of client software exactly (Quartz Composer, Photoshop, etc.), you still have options. And those options - e.g., webapp for previewing/something else/etc. - you'll probably want anyway, for the benefit of designers that don't run OS X.

(The filtering aspect of the system I find a little surprising anyway - the idea of an image-focussed client-aware DPI-aware CDN makes sense to me (and I like it!), but something that does your Photoshop filters in the cloud sounds less compelling. I would have expected people to prefer to do that locally, and upload the result. But... while I've worked with many artists and designers, I'm not one myself. So maybe they'll go for that. And/or maybe a lot of their customers take advantage of the fact that the processing appears to be free. And I'm prepared to contemplate the possibility, however unlikely, that they might know their customer base better than I do.)
I live in a college town, so maybe I have a biased sample. But yes, I do believe so.

A suggestion: could you do what you need to do, if someone were looking over your shoulder at all times? There is a chilling effect on good cops too - if anything at all they say and do results in a personal lawsuit, they stop being effective at all.

A ride-along some Friday night has been known to change the opinion of many a critic. See what a cop has to deal with, no room for preconceived notions or idealistic predictions.

As for the public interest - we don't want to live in a world without policemen. There is a wide literature on that subject.
It doesn't sound like Uber is "writing their own regulations" in the above examples...
Many game developers seem to build their own UI libraries from scratch. Wouldn't it make sense to use Chromium Embedded Framework[0] or Awesomium[1] instead? I haven't used them myself (yet), but writing a UI in HTML+CSS sounds a lot easier than learning a new API.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
[1] http://www.awesomium.com
Ha! I'm still using a piece of Lisp library code that I wrote as an undergrad 35 years ago :-)
> To put it simply, if @monadic were receptive to @lclarkmichalek's ideas, why did he end the conversation?

It was actually @lclarkmichalek who ended the conversation.
There's no downside if the complaints come from real people. An individual filing a series of spurious and unsubstantiated claims can be charged with libel, or safely disregarded.

After all, problem cops tend to be systematic about their abuse. The red-flag pattern you want to watch out for is lots of otherwise unconnected individuals all registering similar complaints about the same person.

Also, an effective rating system doesn't need to contain every unsubstantiated mark against a cop. It can aggregate results and compare them against an acceptable baseline and / or a rolling average.

The real point of accountability rests with their superiors, who should be dismissed from their positions if they persist in putting cops with bad records out on the street. In essence, they're placing the public in harms way, which is diametrically opposed to their official role as senior public safety officers. If that's not a firing offense, I can't imagine what would be.
These guys don't even have a website! I instantly wanted to apply for a job. This is the kind of work I love to see. Using public records to improve the quality of life for people in their area, awesome.
The whole machine's custom built to fit inside the cylindrical case... the best you could do would be to take the outer case off, and then you've just got a slightly smaller cylinder.

Electrically, everything's built around a round "central" PCB using a custom interconnect. You're not going to be able to reassemble the thing into a rectangle and still get a functioning machine (not without tons of custom design work, at least).

See https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/2...
I think "queer" has been claimed. I haven't heard it used offensively in a long time. [EDIT: I'm not in that group, so perhaps my impressions are skewed, but twenty years ago I heard it all the time.]
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thanks for your suggestion, but let me clarify- I read books to wane off the fatigue caused by looking at the computer screen for long intervals; this purpose would be defeated if I were to use another lcd screen!

Also, my eyes are in perfect health as verified by a recent checkup, but I appreciate the advice. Thanks again.
That's a good point. If I do a follow-up, it will possibly be on my personal website.

For what it's worth, I'm responding to inquiries with my identity and more details. So far, I've received several really interesting projects.
Scientific computing requires a lot of memory, and a lot of computer time. I think it's fair to say that the underlying libraries (LAPACK,ScaLAPACK, Intel's MKL) are the most intensively optimised code in the world. Most of the non trivial algorithms are polynomial in both time and memory.

I suspect this Press Release is hinting at a next-generation (cheap, fast) DNA sequencing method. These are derived from Shotgun Sequencing methods, were hundreds of gigabytes of random base pair sequences are reassembled to a coherent genome. The next-generation methods realise cost savings by an even more lossy method of reading smaller fragments of the genome, with much greater computational demands to reassemble.
> The point about suicidal thoughts is that the urge to have the thoughts is a symptom of a disease,

This is wrong. Thinking of it as a "disease" is a misunderstanding, it makes it impossible to truly understand it.

Alcoholism might be a disease... excessive alcohol consumption probably doesn't have any benefits. Suicide though? It sort of does.

You see, biological organisms aren't programmed to survive... we're programmed to reproduce. And that means not just laying the eggs, but making sure that at least some of the offspring survive. So it became advantageous if a parent (or even uncle/aunt) was psychologically capable of killing themselves or letting themselves be killed.

And we're not necessarily talking about throwing yourself in front of a rabid grizzly either. There are all sorts of circumstances (killing yourself so there will be enough food for the other to survive a famine).

The psychological machinery is all there for killing yourself. Hard-wired into your brain through countless thousands of generations of people who only lived because a close relative voluntarily died.

But evolution isn't intelligent, and it goes with a "what works most of the time" method of keeping a trait or not. And this is probably cross-wired in with quite a few mental illnesses and other questionably-useful traits.

It's a malfunction of a (once in a great while) useful tool.
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Are you certain of this perspective or is this your best guess? I see people say this type of thing all the time, and I don't see any official statements corroborating them.
Let me try again. The underlying concern seems to be (correct me if I'm mistaken): "How can a group currency provide a basic income?"

By definition. For a cryptocurrency to qualify as a group currency, it must provide its members with a basic income. This basic income is backed by the value that the group creates (whatever it may be).

In other words, profits go to paying back members for their existence. To be accepted into a group it's assumed that you will be providing some kind of value, but the group understands you might face hard times and so it provides you with a basic income.

The wider community in turn, has faith in the group's future, and that results in an appropriate price for the group's currency, which is being minted by group members.

It's certainly possible that a group could fail to provide a basic income to its members, but the point is that it tries. Otherwise it doesn't fit the definition.
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It says in the article that each patient's data is 100GB. Definitely a PR piece, but you aren't going to do this work on a laptop.
Shouldn't the office releasing the SSNs (the police department) to a member of the general public (programmers in question) be held accountable for releasing sensitive information, not the person that bought it?
"why not make yourself useful instead of bitching out someone who's volunteered their free time to make your life easier"

Because as soon as you've found issues with more than, say, 3 things, you no longer have enough of your own free time to volunteer to solve the problem in a better way, let alone whatever you were already working on. Do you honestly believe that criticism has no value?
That is indeed a ridiculous statement. Many of us who stayed at one company for a long time (my case, 28 years) were in many positions over the years continually learning (and teaching) new things.
Startup Zenefits Raises $500M at $4.5B Valuation
So did I. Taking one or two courses is very different than taking it as a minor (which generally means you've taken a dozen or so courses up through 400 level).
Amazon's video streaming service coming to JetBlue for free
...threw him in a jail cell for lacking identification and causing a disturbance.

That has got to be the most fake-ass charge I've heard this week. More properly stated, "failing to respect mah authoritay".
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DWCAS is mentioned in the DCAS article.
Gold, diamonds, and feathers are not 'relatively useless'. Not sure about seashells.
> Your FAQ and reply still have not addressed where __REAL VALUE__ comes from.

Here's an excerpt:

In the future, the AcademicCoin is very valuable. It represents 1000+ respected researchers who accept it as payment for their time, early access to research results, papers, etc.

Some examples of value are clearly listed there, so I'm not sure what the confusion is.

I also wrote a followup reply to another comment that might clear things up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501494
That procedure starts with the pleadings, which aren't "pre-court." They are the first step in a court proceeding.
I'm not as sold on passion as a requirement as I was. Too often, it's just monomania or obsession in a fancy outfit. See also: Programmer Passion Considered Harmful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211214
How we act matters, but we are not as a rule inadvertently responsible for the serious medical conditions of others. Suicide isn't a disease of affection deficiency.

It should help to know that reaching the state of being one smile away from suicide implies a profoundly severe illness; the problem wasn't smiles, it was the way we route the ill to the mental health resources they need.
It's more than just series of numbers that need to be redacted. It's why those two guys themselves have not published this data publicly:

> COP considered dumping the raw data online for anyone to view, but decided against it because it would involve the publication of sensitive personal details—things like mental illness, drug addiction, or cases involving minors.
I'd be happy to discuss this with you at hn@ycombinator.com, but don't want to take the thread further off topic.
I just want to say this comment has 73 upvotes/points.
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So you break scrolling for a very large number of users because it looks marginally prettier? That's, like, the literal opposite of proper software design.

Reality check: not a single user gives a damn about the pretty scrollbar. They care about being able to use the site. Breaking the latter in order to achieve the former does the precise opposite of what you intend: it weakens your brand because users associate it with broken websites.

This isn't to mention that a user might very well have a system scrollbar set for usability reasons (perhaps with a more-visible - whether better contrasted or simply bigger - slider due to poor vision, or an oversized slider due to poor motor skills), which means that your prioritization of "brand" over function is effectively giving the middle finger to people with disabilities. Nice going.
I've been suicidally depressed.

It was never the balance of fears.

It was pure exhaustion.

As time goes on, the doorways in your life seem to close and the only one left is marked "stop". Everything else is just ... ugh ... so tiring.

This feeling is an illusion. It's not real. But depression is a disease that attacks the mechanism that enables you to understand the world.
Quoting: "even getting built-in library calls and macros right, on 1st attempt, becomes nearly effortless"...

Getting the syntax to parse != getting the correct syntax (meant for the job).

Even an off by one error in a library call can create memory corruption. Preprocessor macros? They can fuck everything if done wrongly.
57 here, programming since 1972. Yes, it is an incredibly exciting time. It's particularly great to see AI taking off after all these years.
Preferential treatment of seemingly busy employees is not limited to high-octane firms. I worked for an electric utility for a few years as an analyst, and it didn't matter that I finished my job in two hours per day. I can't leave early or work remotely because my peers might feel badly. I can't do the work of three people for a a modest pay increase of 50% because every manager wants their team to grow! How else will they show that they can manage just as many people as a VP? I can't use my extra time to automate tedious processes because "then what will everyone do?"

Every manager up the chain wants to look busy, important, and essential. The easiest way to do that is force everyone below them to run around like chickens with their heads cut off, lamenting how far behind they are on email. "If only we could hire more people," they cry. Even the investor interests don't align with efficiency, because the company is regulated and earns a fixed ROI.

It's an incredibly self-sustaining culture. If everyone believes you have to act like a maniac to demonstrate your import - and you have the gall not to spend all your energy pretending - it's reflected in both your reviews and particularly your upward mobility. Everyone in management has a vested interest in keeping up the charade, and you certainly don't want your peers and their department's laid-back productivity call that into question.
Almost 51 and I'm only a couple years away from my 40th programming anniversary. I can't imagine doing anything else ... I get paid but it's not work for me!
>Do not argue with or attempt to invalidate the reasoning of a suicidal person.

Merely saying this may not convince people. They need to know why this completely fails. While suicidal actions are largely impulsive (one reason why guns are a worse threat than other forms of suicide), the individual has spent a long time thinking about it. Nothing you can say will convince them that you have any understanding of their reasoning. To them, you are just like all the others who do not understand them (regardless if they are right or wrong in such an assessment).

By listening, you are likely doing something that no one else has done for them. It will often show them that you want to know their reasoning instead of just dismissing it. It may not be enough to stop them, but it often does delay them, hopefully long enough for a professional to get involved and take over.
Thanks for pointing this. A lot of educational companies are repeating the mantra "more jobs than developers in two years". It is just a lie to have more clients (students).
Actual practical thoughts: https://web.archive.org/web/20130721062525/http://suicidesca...
Depends on where you live. At least in Germany (and I think the whole EU), EULAs are meaningless.