skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions are part of the problem to the extent that they nurture the culture that tolerates and promotes behaviors like the ones discussed in the article, e.g., "trickling" documents in a manner that is legal (but against the spirit of public access laws), intentionally maintaining antiquated systems that keep the wheels of public access nice and sticky, and flat-out denying the existence of records (mighty convenient that that camera was broken, right?).

The point of the article that you seem to be overlooking is the fact that "talking to any cop working right now" is exactly how we end up in situations where police are abusing their power. Yes, I see that you are specifically referring to "excessive force" complaints, but I am also extending it to "cops watching cops" as a method of fair and proper oversight. When only 6.4% of complaints (284/4407) are sustained and no officers are fired for misconduct over the span of 3 years, seems to me that there's a problem with the oversight in place. What employer that has over a thousand employees doesn't have to terminate an employee over the span of 3 years?
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Add an adult to the story then. Hell, add a teacher, knock yourself out.

I don't know a better example. If I had one, I wouldn't have asked. In my experience people defend themselves by saying they were told to do it or that there are laws forcing them.

For making the point of not merely doing as instructed though
and having personal responsibility, this need for official
confirmation in the metaphor seems awfully weird.

There are lot of things we might think that should be, but many are not officially recognized. Having my point officially recognized is essential for its substance.

It is not a metaphor.

However, I think we were just misunderstanding each other. My question was serious and genuine.
> The thing is, there is a huge correlation between race and destination in nearly all major cities.

Exactly. You're at a bar in SF near closing time (2AM) and need a ride to Hunters Point or Bayview? Suddenly, "surge pricing" is in effect! However, if you need a ride to Pac Heights or the Marina? No problem! This may not seem like discrimination based on economic class/race, but it sure is.
I've seen a following approach working really well:

Go to the non-IT related training/workshop aimed at managers from SMEs (ideal topics would be related to marketing, sales, creativity, design thinking etc. - areas were people seek inspiration, new solutions etc.) It should be a genuine, practical training (not some kind of psuedo-seminar which in fact is 8 hours long sales pitch by the organizer) which will give you opportunity to do something with other participants, socialize and learn about them.

During the exercises, discussions and breaks use the advice already provided here: show interest in other people and their challenges, ask a lot of questions, provide them with some feedback/inspiration/ideas/knowledge (but without selling your services directly). You'll learn about them and their market and present yourself as a competent, helpful person. As a bonus you can also learn something from the workshop itself. I've seen many relationships build this way on my trainings. Several of them even transformed into new businesses.
I didn't down-vote, but I expect the comment comes across as antagonistic. Objectively, he isn't whispering. Whispering means sounds are not voiced, which is not the case here. So at best this is an exaggeration. Bluntly stated as it is, it likely seems unnecessarily negative in tone to some.
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You wrote "No" but did not disagree with anything parent wrote.
EU unveils digital strategy, aims to break US web firms' market grip
This is a perfect example of setting up a small community open source project that helps.

Dump a lot of the info on github/etc (since it is public info)

Ask people's help with OCR & Digitization (as needed)

Get the community involved to find instances of Abuse etc

Hold the buggers accountable - A large portion of Cops are power tripping bullies who think they are above the law
I don't see why you're hiding your identity.

For that price, you shouldn't be afraid to put out a bit.

Remember that as a consultant for hire (independently) you are the business.

Plus you make it easier for people to verify your skills with your real ID.

I know you may feel uncomfortable with it, but it's worth a shot, especially as a way to "advertise", although referrals will still be your biggest money-draw.

Good luck!
Sure you can, all reading is interpretation. :D Or perhaps reject the principle of charity?

But with a handle like "cops are bastards" I'd be for charitable interpretations. SOME cops are bastards, which anyone can agree to. Not All ;)
...this is just like $IRRELEVANT_OLD_TECH.

Yeah on the surface. $IRRELEVANT_OLD_TECH didn't catch on or it wouldn't be irrelevant but _why_ didn't it catch on?...

I'm a young person, too. Lipstick on a pig doesn't make a cow, you know.

Arguments like "It's only similar on the surface" I've found tend to give too much credence to incidental properties - this runs on X, it's widespread unlike previous solutions, it's better at specific Y use case, etc. Yet regardless of underlying platform, the concepts do not tend to evolve quickly, and it is all too often the case that their limitations have been discovered either in academia or engineering practice. These limitations will eventually be uncovered again, and no one learns from their failures or successes. Where languages and platforms shift, architecture will always bite you.

As for the reasons why, that's another fallacy. It assumes the status quo always maintains an equilibrium of what is inherently technical superior, and that popularity implies great technical qualities. The reasons can be plentiful, often it's unfortunate historical circumstances.

It's comforting to think we're on to something truly new, but this is rarely the case: http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html
The video and imaging pipeline on OS X is light years beyond anything you could roll yourself in a reasonable timeframe. It's really good stuff.
Huh, I don't get it. I'm being really sincere here; I want you to think seriously about what it means, to you, to be kind to others, and then change your use of language -- or not -- however you see fit.

But that message didn't even get past the firewall. Instead you decided to elaborately deconstruct what is probably the least presumptuous part of what I wrote, as a way to impute some contrived ulterior motive to me, as a way to not engage with what I was saying, at length.

I guess I don't see what you're hoping to get out of this interaction at this point. Like, okay, you don't need to think about how your words affect other people... if you really don't want to?
Work on changing your attitude, an interview is not a challenge for you to succeed and surpass at.

An interview is a dialog, do you really want to work for those people and with that product? Can they convince you to spend your time and efforts?
That's just not the reality. If you look at suicides, you pretty much always see someone who was depressed for a long time.

And that disease of depression has been studied in so immense detail, that your point of view about it is plainly wrong. The suffering is clearly immense. And it is clearly temporary for almost all patients, especially with good treatment. It can't be rational to kill yourself to avoid temporary suffering.

Of course you can construct situations where it would be more rational. But really, if someone has suicidal thoughts, the assumption that this is an irrational, "insane" idea, is pretty much a no-brainer.
(-: hehe don't let life pass you by, and don't trust anyone under 30.
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It's not clear-cut, that's for sure. I just wanted to post a different perspective.

Thing is, if you asked the sender for permission to post pieces of their email, they'd probably say no. It seems a bit gauche to say posting is okay because "nobody told me not to."
Gcsfuse
There used to be a ton of 3rd-party solutions for racking Apple products. Marathon Computer made a number of them, including replacement top brackets for a G3-style system: http://www.macobserver.com/news/99/june/990610/marathoncompu...

I used to have a tape measure from Marathon that was marked out in U, but I haven't seen it in years. They were a pretty cool company at the time.
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It isn't used not because of patient lack of trust - but because of resistance by the medical community, some warranted, some unwarranted , and most of this resistance isn't because of trust issues. And the last thing that will change the minds of good doctors is a PR piece.
> "Nothing, I've got a great job, seeing all my friends weekly, just started on a really exciting new side project,

You haven't met a lot of depressed people. Many have jobs, and family, and friends, but still irrationally feel alone and don't feel trust in the people that love them.
Yeah I saw it was half the density. Too bad they're so expensive. On the plus side... you can actually buy them :)
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> you ask anyone who's suicidal what's wrong with their life, they will give you a litany of actual real-life things rather than, as you suggest, answer "Nothing

You need to re-read what bayesianhorse wrote more carefully, because you're not actually disagreeing with him. He said: "If you ask yourself the question "Why do I have to kill myself?" You will get answers" Attacking a straw man is bad enough, but attacking it with such vehemence is really not cool.
Thanks for telling me. I've probably missed it.
I would love to do this. I am a hiring manager, and would love to be on the other side of interviews myself so I can learn more.

Anyone that's interested can reach out to me: kevin@mattermark.com
I'll have to disagree with you.

I don't speak for everyone who was suicidal obviously, but one of the answers to "Why do you want to kill yourself" is that you are unhappy and don't think you'll ever be happy again. I am not suicidal or as you say "in that particular state of mind" right now, but I can definitely see this as being rational or valid.

If you have been depressed for as long as you can remember, I can certainly see why you would feel as though things are hopeless. I like to think they aren't, but I wouldn't disregard their feelings and opinions as irrational. Like an aspiring musician or athlete whose prospects don't seem to be getting better, sometimes you feel like it's time to give up.

Have you ever been suicidal? Not trying to be rude; I'm just curious whether your opinions were formed because you had a different experience than I did is all.
Alright so looking at the comments we've got one person complaining about the naming of the framework, one person complaining about the argument of sexism surrounding the use of the word "guys" in a gender-neutral context, one person complaining about the UI of the blog itself, and one meetup recommendation. (And now we have one comment complaining about the other comments, BINGO!) Nice work HN!

James, thanks for the informative talks - I hope we can continue to push the bounds of React Native and succeed in making it an obvious choice for developers in the future. For anyone who hasn't tried it, I highly recommend giving it a shot for any new app you work on. There's a lack of Android support at the moment (it is about 5 months from release I believe), but at the very least you'll speed up your iOS development significantly. It's hard to justify native development now (for me, as a non-iOS dev) when you can, for example, create a camera view in React Native with a single line of code.
If I tried to quiet my mind or focus it during meditation I would get tense. The idea is to let it focus.
Well, I'd suggest that OCaml probably has similar bug fighting properties as Haskell. It depends a lot on how much you enjoy writing module existence proofs :)

If I had any genuine reason for a unikernel today I'd definitely go for Mirage.
> who may be prone to pass on theories of how things work rather than facts

This is the biggest nightmare about working with OS X, to me.

Any forum discussion you find on Macrumors or the Apple forums is hilariously misguided with pathetically bad "theories" on why something isn't working and how to fix it.

"Zap the PRAM!" can be found in any/every thread, and that's a mild example.
If you're depressed to the point of considering suicide, those things aren't exciting. Nothing is.
I'm interested in whether Apple will do anything about the use of the "Mac share icon" - it looks like both copyright infringement of this particular logo and contributory infringement (equipping others to use works without a license). My guess is they'll never know.
The biology is a bit more complicated than that, though. Sure, if we had a big database of all the correlation factors in some easily computer-readable format, standardized testing procedures that lined up with these factors, and an army of experts keeping all of this up-to-date, it would be easy to write a script to make it all work. But we don't, and (in my off-the-cuff estimation) such a project could wind up being of Human Genome Project-esque scale.

Watson is giving us a way of doing this when the available data is in a much less accommodating format (namely, scientific literature.) Not, perhaps, the biggest achievement ever, but pretty nifty and useful.
I would definitely contribute to this cause.
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> None of us know what is going to happen when we die.

If you know the basics of the human body such as the brain, hormones, etc, I think it's pretty clear what will happen when you die. It's the same thing what happens to a computer when you shut it down. Do you know Occam's razor?

Anyone can believe what they want of course, but it won't impact reality.
I'm curious -- since the custom emitter is tied to the RPython JIT and not to the Python interpreter, could one easily plug in the existing Ruby or PHP interpreters written in RPython and get similar performance?
PHP doesn't even pass its own test suite.

That's right... they consider certain tests failing OK, a certain number of failures OK, tests failing nondeterministically OK.

Just saying... Who gives a shit about programmer headaches? ;)
Yes, I'm looking for an epaper solution since my eyes get readily fatigued while staring at an LCD, which I have to do a lot.
which driver would tell you to install a power utility? how would that happen? what driver, could possibly get installed by windows update that would tell you to do that?
"By using this service, you agree to our Terms and Conditions" I click there and the link leads to nothing...
Correct. I'm not data warehousing. I'm running a parse-like backend out of Postgres, where I have a lot of duplicated json keys. It would be great to have compression on the json to include this, while maintaining the other advantages of the json column store. However as they're hierarchical and there are many of them columns aren't appropriate (as far as I know but I haven't benchmarked some crazy dynamic solution... json certainly is easier to work with).
Sure you could get the information for free but it's much more motivation for me to really learn when I'm spending my money on it.

Books don't give the same feedback that a live person could. Especially when you have a question and don't have the right terminology to search for it (that's getting harder with how good searches are getting).
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But the undocumented workers who handle your food, fix your car brakes, built your house and construct the fairground rides get a free pass. I don't understand the mental gymnastics required to support regulating ride sharing before all these other markets. For every bad story about a bad uber experience are 100's of lives spared from people not driving drunk. It's just mind boggling to me. Only blind ideology can make people this stupid. It's like they're afraid of a market solution being orders of magnitudes more efficient than the medallion system. And then we end up with lines like "you dont want your ear getting cut off do you?".
I just set up my first campaign. This is working good and I can see people following back!
BART os not even remotely close to be good, but it is lightyears away from being great. The only thing that is consistent about BART service is the interruption. It is kind of funny how people from US see BART as a great service while people from Europe or other places with excellent public transportation see it as rather expensive and bad. Just one minor example why I refuse to use BART: if I was using it i had to combine with a bus service. The bus service is leaving exactly 1 minute sooner than the BART comes in to the station making sure you have to wait additional 20 minutes. This makes my commute exactly 1 hour (each way) while using BART, while if I am driving it is exactly 20 minutes. The pricing difference is insignificant, does not justify the lost time. If BART was that great, we would see significantly less traffic on 280/101 in the commuting hours.
You dont have to register, just select no for the first three options.
If you don't like "keep it simple stupid" and determinism in your language of choice (much less immutability)... you're basically everything wrong with programming in the year 2015
I just wanted to laugh with you about Laszlo Bock's recent post, citing "The one true expert, Nelson Abramson."

https://plus.google.com/+LaszloBock/posts/avZNRFzW8f9

If I were Nelson Abramson, I'd be quite tempted to put that reference on my resume.
Intriguing, but does it address the pdf reading problem?
Reddit launches a video division to create original content
Some of the most creative people I know swear by functional programming, even for livecoding.

I just can't see it, but this is more evidence for why I'm the one in the wrong.
It looks like https://circleci.com/docs/deploy-google-app-engine explicitly hard-coded an old version of the appengine SDK. And by old, I don't mean not-quite-the-latest, I mean quite old. When it was yanked, it was not the previous CLI, it was the CLI from a deprecation-policy-timelimit ago.
My experience is that an older programmer brings a wider variety of skills to a project. For instance the project I'm working on right now involves both old-fashioned serial NMEA data (6 bit ASCII anyone?) as well as big data skills. And I'm doing quite well. I'm in my forties now and working as a contractor. I do have to bite my tongue now and then to prevent me from saying things like "we already solved that in the nineties", but other than that I feel I'm really contributing as I am the only one who oversees the whole technological landscape.

It does take some effort to keep up though. I still don't feel I've quite mastered this "everything is an delegate" kind of programming young javascript programmers tend to use.

Other than that I'm really looking forward to growing old as a programmer. It's the job I love.
For the life of me, I can't decipher if this comment is actually suggesting what it seems to be suggesting.

There's plenty to say about technical interviewing as it exists today, but it seems remiss to suggest someone wanting to practice doing technical white-boarding beforehand is somehow undermining the process.
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What I learned from running 1000 miles
> since you have one JIT, you can't AOT compile what it produces

I'm not sure what this means, but if you mean that Firefox doesn't cache compiled asm.js code, that's not true. It does [1].

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2014/01/14/asm-js-aot-compilat...
The "I did X that caused Y, which is a percent of Z" is probably the best ways to frame your experience on a resume.
I suspect the Star Trek (Voyager) episode you're referring to is:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Critical_Care_%28episode%29
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One specific thing you can do, that is rather unlikely to counterintuitively backfire like many ideas, is to simply make plans with some to meet and talk/eat/play with no pressure.

Having something planned -- an easy commitment, but not a heavy intimidating responsibility -- gives people a sense of purpose to move foward through their day/week/month, buying time for luck and expert assistance to come together.

This in addition to steering toward professional help.
The diagram resembles a decision table:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table
No more BASIC, but I still code in Common Lisp whenever I can. And I'm using some library code that I wrote when I was in grad school 25 years ago.

Once you grok Lisp, everything else is easy. You come to realize that the vast majority of what passes for "new technologies" is really just a re-discovery of something that exists (or is easily implemented) in CL. That makes it a lot easier (if a tad frustrating at times) to keep up.

EDIT: CLOS, and generic functions in particular, are a HUGE lever that no other language has co-opted yet.
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Please send me your cv's @ yogee1105@gmail.com

More details here
https://us.sogeti.com/sogeti-usa-announces-plans-hire-500-new-employees-part-summer-growth-strategy/
It's pretty obvious why they have to: "Don't worry about your shitty life now, if you believe in my religion, you will live in paradise for eternity when you die". And then the loophole: "So if I die now, I'll be in a better place? I'm going to kill myself". "No, in that case, you will go to hell for eternity"
The housing bubble was beneficial for a lot of people until 2008 :-)
The Tesla K80 didn't exist when I started this project, but to do some quick math:

K80 gflop/s: 8740
2x FirePro D500 gflop/s: 3500

K80 runs about $4900 a card, whereas the entire Mac Pro (list price) is $4000. So it's 2.5x the performance at easily 2x the cost if not more.

You're right that there is a cost advantage to going with commodity server hardware, but I don't think it's as great as most people think in this particular case. It's also far from free for us to do the necessary engineering work, and not just in terms of money. It would basically mean pressing pause on feature development at a crucial time in the company's life, and that just isn't the right move.
I wouldn't. But what I would pay for is a book on how to give interviews that extract useful, predictive information from candidates. That doesn't seem to exist now.
Personally I think founders should plan to do it for at least 5 or 10 years.

If a founder doesn't think a company will be worth running in 5 or 10 years what does it say about their long term plans for it? Are there many examples of successful start-ups where the founders left within the first few years?
One answer is very simple: $$$. Study 12 years of your life to be a specialist only to be ultimately replaced by some installed machine at a Walmart Pharmacy.
Very well organized datacenter indeed, clean and well designed.
I just downloaded the whitepaper without registering.

Maybe they stopped requiring it?

Discouraging people from following security best practice would be counter-productive.