skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've never been to Police College in the UK. I have.

'Officer Safety Training' is all about banging in the concept of "There is no such thing as no threat. There is only a known threat and an unknown threat." It's even on posters around the college showing a police officer talking to an old lady carrying some shopping.

I'd describe it more as a siege mentality than warrior. However it leads to officers drawing batons in completely inappropriate situations and causing all sorts of problems for no reason.

I'm thankful firearms are not routinely issued as these same officers would just as quickly draw a gun and completely fuck a totally innocent situation into a major incident for no reason.

I had colleagues who were proud to be nicknamed Tackleberry. Not a good situation.
It is a feature of the new syntax to bind the current context (what "this" points to) to the created function.

http://tc39wiki.calculist.org/es6/arrow-functions/
Nearshore/Offshore outsourcing concept. We match the talent to client needs.

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I think the point is that who needs them? Most news networks serve up propaganda and useless bullshit anyway IMO.

Endpoints that don't depend on advertising dollars to keep the servers running will always be there (like GitHub, Hacker News, IRC, Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, etc.) if people want them.
Using the context.io API for a while now. I like how it can help address a fear of "lock in" and not owning your email-data like you might have with something like https://postmarkapp.com/

Also hosting your own email boxes has come out of fashion in recent years but with a good "middle-ware" maybe it gets interesting again.

Good idea with the hackathon folks!

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Apparently not, considering the vast industry around gaming just that activity.
Seems like many years ago one of the first kickstarters I invested in, was hugely successful, and the first message from after the group received their money was "After a grueling kickstarter campaign we're taking the team to Thailand to celebrate. This is currently being sent from the beach, and thank you all for making our campaign a huge success."

This was the last message from them.
> There have been countless attempts to make software easier to write...Decades of efforts have gone into helping civilians write code...Nothing yet has done away with developers, developers, developers, developers.

I still believe. Someday, somewhere, something incredible will emerge for the right-brained bourgeoisie and literati.
Indeed, but I believe the unfortunate timing makes the lack of reaction to this article even more of interest. Juxtapose that with the leaders of our ruling class singing the very militant Battle Hymn of the Republic in the National Cathedral five days later (http://www.mrrhoads.com/national-cathedral-dc-battle-hymn-of...)....
So basically I start with something small, something that appeals to me? Interesting.
Why not? A search engine is one of the biggest leaks of information to third-parties. Apple has its own encrypted messaging system, and a search engine wouldn't be as big a project as that.
But the general concept of controlling externalized risks through regulation is. That's the lesson here, rather than dissecting individual regulations and causes. And the same process that regulates externalities and allows people affected by the decision a voice in the process (in contrast to a more autocratic decision to do something; people and costs kinda be damned) slows things down, sometimes because of over-regulation or dishonest actors.

I'm not making any value judgements here, but I think it's important to understand and recognize how when dealing with systems this complex, bad coming with good is inevitable. Both approaches have benefits, both have costs.
> There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs).

No, there isn't. "SJW" is an insult used by their opponents. (Some of them might choose to adopt it, but most as far as I know do not.)

> The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it.

I've seen that claim, but I'm extremely skeptical that it's a significant phenomenon.
That’s how many public toilets work in China.

Many of those I saw were pretty disgusting, and my travel companion reported that it also applied to the toilets for the opposite sex.
Group collaboration environment. Work together wherever you are. Bullpens with people from different buildings, even different states, all talking and sharing and collaborating together, continuously.
The alternative would be to generate JSON as a JavaScript file or in a SCRIPT tag, so my guess would be so that it can be rendered as part of the view without generating code.

Another reason would be that they keep the same HEAD but swap out the BODY for things like a/b testing, caching, page loading, etc.

Either way, after you determine that you don't want to store JSON as part of your BODY, the HEAD is the only other place you can store it, and if you don't want to generate code, then META tags probably make the most semantic sense.
Could you give me the link to the clothing website? I'd love to have a look and then proceed?
My personal favourite is talking The Business out of things. Solving issues without any coding at all!
It's easy: the code is that part of the computer which can't be grabbed and slammed but only cursed.
could you easily simulate human speed control, with gentle variance and effective repulsion between vehicles? or overload the road and see how it breaks down.
Pricing's a bit confusing. Is that 10 new posts a month or are you only allowed 10 posts ever? :)
I used EclipseBSD, it was production ready. The community wasn't receptive at the time for getting it into the mainline FreeBSD tree.

For this I applaud Google for making it in, even when the masses don't see the point.
Then wouldn't something like this be a good candidate for reproducible building?
I have been a manager, and I have had to fire people.

I have also quit a job because they fired the wrong person.

In my opinion, if you fire someone and the reaction from the whole team isn't "thank god, that guy needed to go", then you made a mistake firing them and should have tried to make it work. In the past when I fired someone, the general reaction was much more along the lines of "what took you so long". In both cases I was the one at the table defending the person while everyone else said they needed to go.

Interestingly, in both cases the reason for firing them was that the person in question was not treating other people with respect. So what is worse, letting one person shit on your whole team and make everyone else feel bad, or getting that person off your team?

Managing isn't easy.
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MDN thought it was a good example... [1]

And your second example; I was going to re-write it, but then I realized I couldn't because I didn't know what `this` was. I don't think `this` is useful, and I try to avoid it because of its malleability and the confusion it often brings because of its overly dynamic nature.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... , Ctrl-F for `Person` or something
I made a rating override on our firewall and sent an email to the support team. You can also send them an email, stating that their UTM profiles -> Web filter is classifying your website in the wrong category. Cheers
This is pretty hard - we use raw data for speech [1, talked about in comment above] but it still needs some work to do really good synthesis. FFT is not really the way to go either - then you still need to deal with the problems of complex data which is very, very unpleasant. Most people use FFT -> IDCT (cepstrum) or a filtered version (mel-frequency cepstral coefficients, MFCC). This can work but it is a lot of domain knowledge.

One thing we tried in early testing, but did not pursue farther was vector quantized X (where X is MFCCs, LPC, LSF, FFT, cepstrum). Basically you use K-means to find clusters for some large number of K, then simply assign every real value (or real-valued vector) to the closest cluster. The cluster mapping becomes a codebook, and your problem goes from input vectors like [0.2, 0.7, 0.111, ...] to [0, 1, 0, ...] where the length of the vector of 0s and 1s is the number clusters K.

This is a much easier learning problem, and closely corresponds to most "bag-of-words" or word-level models. The quantization is lossy but for large enough K I do not think it would be noticeable. After all, we listen to discrete audio every day, all the time in wav format :)

To synthesize, you can either map codebook points back to the corresponding cluster center, or as most people do, map it to the cluster center with some small variance so you have a little bit of interesting variation.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02216
how much space my data will take up after compression and deduplication

Valid point. You can use tarsnap's --dry-run option (along with --print-stats) to find out how much space your data will take up; unfortunately you need to have a key file before you can run that, and you can't create a key file until you've created a tarsnap account and added money to it.

I will be adding a mechanism to allow people to run "keyless" dry runs so that you can install tarsnap and find out how much space your data would take before you spend any money.
For some reason it's not working well for me with Safari. I tried it on Chrome and it sounded pretty good
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Most of conferences for programmers are just around single language/technology so this one is something no so usual.
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I liked this actually, but I can't tell, is the main detraction that everything must be condensed into a single expression?

As far as dynamic languages go, having every statement block return an expression, or the last expression evaluated, is not so rare, but having access to it is. In terms of static languages, it just might be that that information is discarded.

Also, I have to say that this project is really well documented.
Logjam was found with model-checking software, right?
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Just packaged it up for Arch Linux (user repository): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tarsnap-gui-git/
It doesn't matter what attitudes change, the community relationship between police and citizens will not be repaired till at least my generation is dead (mid 30s) but more likely till at least three current generation of young people is dead. And that only if dramatic changes happen now. Otherwise things will continue to degrade and the police will continue to arrest and kill innocent people for committing crimes that are victim less and shouldn't be crimes at all.

The irony is, of course, that being a police officer is not even a very dangerous job. That leads me to conclude they're just a bunch of cowards with an inferiority complex out to hurt people to make themselves feel better. I'm sure cops exist who aren't like this but that doesn't disprove the fact that the majority are. Then you add their racism to the mix... Cowards will be cowards.
Agreed. And btw thank you for Ramda, which is a very beautiful thing. Too sad in day-to-day web development lodash is just enough.
If your argument requires us to stipulate that Saletan wrote something dishonestly, I'm not sure why I have to concede that the apology was the dishonest bit. Let's just conclude then that he's entirely untrustworthy and move on.
He also performed with Rhapsody of Fire (formerly Rhapsody) as noted in the original article, including a song off of the Power of the Dragonflame album and throughout the Symphony of Enchanted Lands II album (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_of_Enchanted_Lands_II_...) - this band was his first involvement in metal, and he seemed to have passion for power metal after his first involvement.
Well now you've got me to investigate. There seems to be a video in the article. However, it is only displayed as a white box in my browser (Safari), without any controls. I can't stop it, I don't even know it's there, except it it playing audio. Strange...
Seems like you could just do

var process = items => items.filter(isOk).map(toOtherType).flatten()
>> All server logs tell you is that some user agent loaded the page. They tell you absolutely nothing about whether that computer was actually a person, or if that person actually read the article.

Why the hell should you get to know what I'm doing with data you've provided me?

I asked for a page, you sent it to me, our relationship is over until I decide to contact you again.
Radley Balko has been highlighting this for years.

This has a good set of links to articles and reviews of his book -
http://www.theagitator.com/2013/08/05/all-things-warrior-cop...
How does one get from "a few kids being rowdy and not listening to police officers" to "x group of people has entitlement issues"? Seems like quite a disingenuous stretch.
The deltas were completely made up. If I knew they were right, I'd sign right up today. (I think.) What I don't want to do is guess at the deltas, sign up for Tarsnap, start up my first backup or my first incremental thereafter, and find I'm on the hook for hugely more than I originally budgeted.

I think the way it actually works, what would happen is that after my first backup completes my account would go overdrawn and I would lose access to Tarsnap. And then I could walk away and all I'd actually lose would be whatever I'd prepaid. But -- and this is surely irrational, but I bet it isn't only my brain that works this way -- I would then feel really bad because (1) I would be failing to pay for something I had bought and (2) I would have spent money and got nothing in return. Even though (1) Colin surely budgets for a certain amount of attrition and (2) the sum of money involved needn't be bigger than $5.

I don't want to do something that seems like it has a substantial chance of leaving me feeling simultaneously guilty and wasteful.
Likewise. I started some stuff at work recently comparing Mongo, Orient and PG (using a JSON column). Alas, all the test suite does so far is insert small "documents" (5000 docs w/ 3 name-vals excluding PK/ID) and time that. No read-back tests of any kind yet, so no indices in place either.

For this little test (on my macbook), Mongo was the fastest. PG took 1 1/2 times as long, and Orient took 4 times as long as Mongo. All 3 were driven by a Java client connected via a socket to the DB on localhost. (Orient could have been "in process", but I wanted it external as if on a server)

Of course, the main use-case for Orient is reading back graph chains, so it's a horrible test. However, what we need is a supplemental store to dump some flat junk as the app runs.
Don't forget malware delivery on the web and in your native apps.

I think the worst kind of ads have to be those that get loaded into a native app instead of a browser too because - who knows what kind of vulnerabilities the given app has?
Any other day, I would be full of passion about yet another attempt to subvert what 81% of folks want and the FCC has put in place... but today? Man, I'm just so completely unsurprised.

Le grand sigh. :(
10K miles of high speed rail in the U.S. would be great. We desperately need a realistic alternative to air travel.

Unfortunately, Americans simply don't see it as a priority, and we have huge legal and environmental obstacles to building almost anything these days. The new WTC only got built because there was a national consensus that it should be built. There's no national consensus that a high speed rail line should be built, so it probably won't happen in our lifetimes, other than a minimal, barely-fast-enough 20th Century design here and there such as between D.C. and NYC.
One of the few worthy things I felt I got out of school was the moment I grokked the whole stack from sequential logic to the program counter and control logic from a cpu, how each clock tick formed a new circuit. That was really mentally expanding. I got it from reading a prescribed book for a class I wasn't taking from a professor who was a tool, so it is possible to learn these things outside of class. In fact, that's where the real learning, IMO, happens.
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In the article they mentioned the issue of leaks.I read about it in another piece about an American pre-fab building, where it has been a huge problem.

What do you think about that issue ? how can it be solved ?
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Sending links to protected content is considered bad manners, even if only registration or login via Facebook required. I would ask that person to send me printed PDF copy of that article instead of link.
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YouCompleteMe (https://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/) is a code completion engine built on libclang and works quite well. If you happen to use cmake for your projects and tell it to emit the build database file (CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS), YCM can use it. As with anything in vim, you don't get this for free - the setup is non-trivial.
Excellent!

Would I be right in thinking that, if the storage cost is small enough not to bother me, then the bandwidth costs are extremely unlikely to be a problem?
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If Hodinkee is the rising juggernaut of modern horologists, Kevin has one shot to solidify this as newly appointed CEO. I'm excited for him.
Absolutely sure. The machine I am most interested in backing up is a FreeBSD box.
I'll summarize this for you. "Be afraid, be very afraid. All the time." Said every government snooping agency everywhere. "Citizens, we only have your best interests in mind and would never use this to impose civil or moral restrictions on you."
That's exactly right. He's a businessman above all. His business is essentially the sale of semi-luxury goods (i.e. high margin). Their profit is astounding. He can cut way back on privacy violation without any effect while Google might go bankrupt doing that.

If he's so righteous, let's see him cut back on the prices or lock-in tactics of his devices. I'm betting his whole salary that he's not doing that.
> grumbling among some hardcore LOTR fans when it was announced that Ian McKellen would play Gandalf, mostly because of his political and cultural leanings.

Is there a way I can read some of this? Sounds fascinating.
I did not expect this good of an article on this subject from a business publication. Well done.
You're right, of course. But CVE-2015-4000 was announced and extensively discussed a number of weeks ago: https://weakdh.org/
> You're assuming direct malicious intent. Which might be the case for jealous spouses and high-value targets. But a far more likely consumer scenario is handing your USB stick to a friend with a compromised computer to share a file. After he plugs it in, his malware-infested computer overwrites the USB device's firmware as a new attack vector. When you get it back and use it again, your computer becomes infected.

> It's not common now, but it's not really that far fetched.

And as the average USB device becomes "smarter" (or more like an embedded PC, in any case...) in the future I would assume it will become easier to infect without hardware access. (I am not an expert.) Or think of the many thousands of lab and internet-cafe PCs which are already out there and being used as public or semi-public charging points: those can already certainly be compromised without any hardware access. Even attacks using hardware access to a USB device don't have to be ignorably small-scale. A single compromised public USB charging point could hit hundreds of people: one could consider ATM skimming as an advance warning of what is feasible.

And more generally, access to the hardware on the far side of the USB connection is not (in the general case) the same as access to the hardware on the near side. If in practise one is always as good as the other, well that's exactly the bloody problem! And it's a problem with the USB protocol etc., not the inherently-mostly-insoluble problem of direct access to the internals of the user's local machine.
Bingo, but not regional as far as I know, not even common in pro-gun circles, but since I love alliteration I use it a lot.
Thats right, the edges of sections or when a visitor finds himself surrounded by home fans is when things tend to get interesting. But again, its miniscule compared to soccer riots, usually one or two guys who have had too much start a conflict and security usually gets them out before anyone even pushes.
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That MDN page gives a good example of how it works, but it's not intended to convince doubters with persuasive arguments.

Not sure why you don't know what "this" is in the second example. The whole point is that it's predictable. "this" is always the instance your method is defined in, unless you bind it to something else, which requires being explicit. I intentionally didn't include any context, but think about it this way:

class Store {
save(object) {
this.client.put("/objects", JSON.stringify(object))
.then(result => this.update(result))
.catch(err => Application.showError(err, "Could not save.")) }
}
}

"this" is extremely useful. I'm not sure how you could argue otherwise. Here's another pattern I use all the time:

this._socket = new WebSocket(`ws://${url}`);
this._socket.onopen = () => {
this._state = 'connected';
this.emit('connected');
};

The lambda syntax allows placing logic lexically where it belongs.
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> Git with a Gui (Sourcetree, Github etc.) is a pretty straight forward exercise.

I don't know anything about the situation myself, but jordigh (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9694685) said:

> last I heard, they all have to learn how to use the CLI version of git

(emphasis mine).
Yes. There's reasons Kickstarter goes to great pains to make it clear backers are not investors. SEC regulations and compliance requirements are much more burdensome.
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I am curious: if it's not irony, which project was it ?
Great, now tell the graph-based-DB guys how you do on multi-doc "join" queries :-)

Disclaimer: I'm more of a Postgres fan-boy.

Mongo's single rec insert/fetch times are impressive, though. And, it's pretty easy to set up a single node. So, it could sometimes be the right choice.
Check out this snippet from an episode of Shark Tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88RoyiKyLmI&t=18m40s

It perfectly personifies the idiocy of SV VCs. The kid comes out in a hoodie with the typical college startup story: "changing the world from our dorm room". He has an app called Scan, a barcode scanner, that makes virtually no money and has already garnered almost $10 million in funding. When the Sharks are skeptical, he lays down the most stereotypical tech kid answer ever: "I have some interviews with investors that look at numbers to make a decision and they miss the boat, and then I have investors who look at me to make the decision." This is supposed to sound noble but it just reveals that SV is so full of idiots afraid that they're going to miss the next Facebook that anyone who comes to them and looks like an apathetic college kid and talks about dorm rooms can get $10 million on completely silly business concepts.

The same applies to Rose. The numbers don't matter, it's about having the visage of a trendy tech whiz. This is apparently enough to convince SV investors to part with tens of millions of dollars. I don't know why I'm not out there trying to cash in on that.
Sounds like a better experience than on Firefox, which fails to load anything, even text, past the first video.