skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're embedded directly in project teams at agencies. I spent five years working remotely and running a major open source project before joining the U.S. Digital Service in January. I love remote work and enjoy extolling its virtues, but very simply, we could not do this job remotely, at least not for the time being.

Our friends at 18F (https://18f.gsa.gov) have a lot of people working remotely, as well as offices in SF, Chicago, and New York. The nature of their work is simply different (and just as awesome).
The current faulty shortcut is to plead guilty for a crime you didn't commit [1]. That is not justice.

Being processed in a time frame that matches the severity of the crime seems more fitting.

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-basics-plea-barga...
Yeah, that one entry about the pepper spray made me think, 'what if a judge could sentence an improperly-arresting officer to the same treatment?' I bet a nasty afternoon in a cell with pepper-spray in one's eyes would do wonders for some people…
Verizon now owns AOL, AOL (Verizon) now has major advertising business, Microsoft gains additional search share... Google's weight in this business has definitely managed to create some strange alliances against it.
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.
I guess if I go to a drone race, I should expect that I might get hit by one. If I'm standing at a parade, for example, I don't expect to get hit with a baseball or a drone.

This is probably why we need "unnecessary" laws.

People like yourself think you're entitled to put others at risk. Common sense isn't sufficient.
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It doesn't matter. There is no individual benefit to doing this. It is a stupid idea to go through life presuming you can do, and it's to an extent, a violation of the social contract: we notionally let people do all sorts of things on the assumption that they will generally avoid doing them but that human nature is a finicky beast.

You want good and fair outcomes from the police force? Then be respectful, but also support a justice system which won't screw someone over for just having a bad moment.
I've heard it as "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride".
First, the reactors are consuming the fuel while deployed, but no waste is stored at the sites. It is stored centrally so there are a few centralized sites that hold the waste for a few hundred years. After which you could make things out of the material and use them around your home without issue.

The reactors cannot be deviated for nefarious purposes. And the materials are not less secure. The materials are being consumed by the reactor, and they are not dangerous as they are. In fact these reactors could destroy weapons grade material that is slated to be destroyed for fractions of the cost of programs the US is pursuing. Plus the reactors are secured when deployed. They are also buried and completely cooled by natural forces so they always stay cool. No fuel overheating.

The reactors cannot be hacked, and if a bad actor commandeered one, all they could do is turn it off safely. Even if they tried to make it hotter it would just turn off and cool down. There just isn't enough fuel in the core to do anything else.
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Helion is investigating a different shaped magnetic containment field[0], and $5m is enough to get to them to the next prototype.

They have had previous success[1], and the torus-shaped magnetic containment fields used in most fusion research is known to be a problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversed_field_pinch

[1] http://www.alternative-energy-action-now.com/helion-energy.h... (yes, that domain sounds terrible, but the info seems ok)
If you're in the Bay Area and interested in FPV racing there are monthly events where you can go and race on a course. Game of Drones setup the last one I went to (Came in 3rd Place!)
> EDIT: and of course actual physical copies of the games are probably the best way to go if possible.

In terms of logistics, physical copies are the worst possible way to play. They have benefits if you're playing as a bonding activity, since everyone has to be there. They have absolutely no benefits, and enormous drawbacks, if you're playing to play.
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Of course it is. and it should not be abridged, but we should not underestimate the abuse public servants who interact with people face daily. Ideally, there would be a way to balance this, but there isn't. So the fairest solution is for one side to take it for the team (society) and that is the public servant side (parking meter maid, police, bus driver, dmv employees, social services employees, etc.

Still, it's not fair and I certainly would not work as public employee dealing with people who unload their problems on the face of the state.
Meanwhile, robots are getting married in Japan
> Having the power to waste someone's time is too much power.

Only if there are never repercussions for misusing it. If police got in trouble for detaining people who hadn't done anything wrong, it would happen less.
You know what gets unending amounts of vitreol thrown at you? Working customer service. Especially tech support. I had urges to smash phones whenever I heard them ringing for years after doing tech support for three months. Tech support is a job where you sit on a phone and people abuse you all day, day after day.

Only cops get to pull this sort of crap in response. Find yourself a retail clerk and ask them how much abuse they have to quietly take, every day; it'll shock you.
I was a teacher, and I was pretty much called every name under sun. While I had some ability to punish children, at the end of the day, I had nowhere near the power to detain and charge somebody. It's not fun, but it comes with the territory. I can maybe support an officer's ability to give like a $10 ticket to someone who speaks abusively to them, but that's about it.
"I want to change the world and all, but I just got really comfy in this chair..."
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This seems like it could be used to automatically insert vulnerabilities, too.
It seems to me that they deserve protection from abuse the same way disaster-cleanup people deserve protection from biohazards and radiation: by limiting their total lifetime exposure. If being a police officer was, say, a five-year-limit tour-of-duty, which wouldn't be followed by retirement but rather by sponsored retraining (as for drafted soldiers after a war), I think we'd see a lot more people willing to become police. It'd be like joining the domestic peace corps!
What were the issues you encountered? I know a few people who developed side projects by reading through oDesk and elance jobs. I read them time to time to stimulate brain to come up some relevant features to my own projects.

Definitely you will need to have patience to find ones that catch your fancy. Also no one job going to give you idea, but when you read a lot of them, you start to see patterns and might develop linkage that will make interest project for you.
This young boy is literally being raped at gunpoint while the other kids watch
People who had moved there a generation or two before.

Unless you've made it rich, each generation gets pushed out at least a tube zone or two, or to commuter suburbs
> isn't a big deal in someone's life if they are exonerated

It is if they lose their job because they're in jail. It is if they don't have anyone else to look after their kid while they're in jail. It is if they can't afford court fees.
https://www.judicata.com/ is less compiling code and more pattern recognition and mapping, like a genome.
And he was researching antiseptics because he had served in the Royal Army and had watched numerous colleagues die from infections following their wounds.
It's interesting that this (unanimous) Supreme Court decision seems to take a more restrictive line on permissible speech than the examples provided in the article. I'm not familiar, however, with intervening case law.

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The complaint against Chaplinsky stated that he shouted: "You are a God-damned racketeer" and "a damned Fascist". Chaplinsky admitted that he said the words charged in the complaint, with the exception of the name of the deity...

Writing the decision for the Court, Justice Frank Murphy advanced a “two-tier theory” of the First Amendment. Certain “well-defined and narrowly limited” categories of speech fall outside the bounds of constitutional protection. Thus, “the lewd and obscene, the profane, the slanderous,” and (in this case) insulting or “fighting” words neither contributed to the expression of ideas nor possessed any “social value” in the search for truth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplinsky_v._New_Hampshire
This whole drone thing is new and people are flying them around crowds. So actually, yeah, the dangers of drones are a new trendy thing that does need to be looked at.
Folks are getting really carried away with this type of thing. If you curse out a cop, you're probably up to no good and you will be harassed or detained. If not then you're an idiot. Why curse out a cop? Why?

Crime could possibly get worse with the consequences of this recent anti-police sentiment which isn't really fact driven but an availability bias drummed up by the news, social media, etc.

By injecting excessive bureaucratic checks in the manner in which police keep the peace, we're putting a hurdle in front of their ability to provide it.
From the article you linked:

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If the police force wants to be respected, then it must act in a way worthy of respect. Showing respect where none deserved is like painting the brown leaves of a dying tree green to make yourself appreciate it. Respect stems from behaviour like fruit springing from a tree. Neglect the tree, lose the fruit. Act foolishly, lose respect.

The US police has lost my respect, because there are so many instances of police getting offended at flipped birds - none of which I'm responsible.
I'm amazed that nobody is doing this yet. The notion that states can act as laboratories, at least insofar as many of the most frequent interactions with government, isn't working very well right now.
Ask HN: What exactly constitutes free will?
I am a fundamentalist. I believe free will means chaos. Convince me otherwise.

If free will means freedom of choice, then why is hate a crime? i.e. Hate crimes

If free will is what we actually pursue as society then why do we put constraints on it? i.e. Rules and laws.

Why is it that when the supreme court still criminalizes an act, a state can go ahead and legalize it but when the supreme court legalizes an act, no state can refute it?

So what is free will really, are we even pursuing it? Regulation, by definition is the restriction of free will.

So what do we really want, let's not call it free will if it's not absolute.
Courts are overwhelmed because laws rarely get revoked, revised, or modernized.

6th amendment to the US constitution:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the
right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury
of the State and district wherein the crime shall have
been committed, which district shall have been previously
ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and
cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the
witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for
obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the
Assistance of Counsel for his defense
It's hard to speak of motivation unless you're the person in question. Most people do things for a number of different motivations. Hence the adage "We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior."

I suspect that as far as Bill Gates is concerned, he considers it all a game and just wants to win. For the first half of his life, the game was maximizing the money he makes. For the second half of his life, the game was maximizing the money he donates. This is all just suspicion, though.
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Design is crucial but it's not as unique of a specialization as it used to be. I wouldn't see it as depreciating if you're intent on keeping up with new trends and techniques as they become useful or learning in other realms beyond simply design.

The depreciated web designers will ignore this advice.
It does happen - it happens all the time. Go to any reasonably sized college campus and FOIA their police and medical records and you'll find many instances of bystanders being injured by baseballs and frisbees every semester.

However, students are by and large willing to put up with this side effect in order for the commons to still be a place to recreate.

Precautions - for all sorts of flying things - is reasonable. And failing to take them is negligent and rightly bestows liability. But drones introduce nothing new in this respect.
I frequently stop on two feet. I see it as a form of communication. The safest thing you can do on a bicycle is be predictable - what ever you're planning on doing, look like you're planning on doing it. It's just signalling, but expanding "wave your arms around" to whole-body language.

Stopping on one foot, with the other on the drive side ready to go, says I'm ready to go. Standing on two feet makes it clear I'm stopped, and going to remain stopped while I'm in this stance. It works out - if whoever I'm waiting for has to brake because they think I'm about to kill myself, they take longer to get out my way.
bureaucracy, 200K employees, they establish R&D centres with thousands of programmers, no wonder left hand doesnt know what the right one is doing.
damn, so many buzz words I varely remember now.
Hmm, it does bear resemblance to the argument from contingency, thanks!
Can you tell me what legal framework will allow you to undertake these investigations --to delve into and discover economic secrets? We have enough trouble extraditing criminals, nevermind politicians from sovereign nations. What court makes decisions and who in the court is making those decisions, to whom are they beholden?

See how so many countries are rushing to resolve territorial disputes at the International Court of justice? Only the plaintiffs.
That's why the reactor can use thorium! There are big benefits. But frankly all advanced reactors are cooled by natural forces so are immune to fuel overheating. The challenge is more that the consequences of accidents are way overestimated. Nobody died from radiation at Fukushima, and no one is going to. The land is not uninhabitable, some bureaucrat who sets limits non-scientifically just says it is. If people actually paid attention to data and not just assume things based on what pop culture or some bureaucrat has falsely led them to believe, people would realize the consequences of catastrophic meltdowns just aren't that bad. They shouldn't happen, but we shouldn't speculate wildly about indirect costs that are generally made up and use that as a basis for their thoughts on nuclear power. Your comments are right on in that people need to investigate nuclear. I find most people who do, find it to be a great option, while it is generally those who are opposed that didn't like it at the onset without knowing much about it and then refused to learn about it. That is why the opponents are the significant minority in the US. So your advice is good, but it's directed at the wrong crowd.
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Definitely. People should be seen by a doctor when they lose consciousness from a blow to the head, because of the risk of concussion (as well as other kinds of brain injury). Concussion can last for days or longer, and failing to rest puts the victim at greater risk of complications or re-injury.

http://www.cdc.gov/concussion/pdf/Facts_about_Concussion_TBI...

I wish I had a better source than that, because I found the advice on p. 4 kind of ambiguous (whether "should be taken seriously" is meant to make an emergency room visit more urgent or less urgent).
I have a lazy eye. If I do some eye exerices every so often, my eye isn't lazy. Watching a 3D movie or using properly calibrated VR goggles has the same effect as my exercises.

What you're thinking talking about is the discrepancy between the eye lens focus and the stereoscopy focus. Luckily, it doesn't cause lazy eyes. Some people can naturally seperate the two and everyone else gets headaches.
Just because that's what the headline says doesn't mean people were "blaming" the car.

So if a headline said "Man killed by falling rock", you assumption is that people blame the rock?
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It's funny manslaughter is not portrayed as a planned crime, but I suspect it would rightfully get the same tone that the crime in the article did; the pilot was really recklessly negligent which warrants the response.
Well put. Definitely experienced this many a times.
it's happening in almost every major city

Agreed. Here, for example, is an excellent article about these effects in Portland, Oregon: http://www.invw.org/cash
I just finished reading Permutation City a couple weeks ago. Good fun. The core conflict is between two different approaches to modeling, via mimicry of existing systems versus really interesting cellular automata. The automata version doesn't need to 'cheat' in the same way, and is thus a bit harder to find the edges of... (Hopefully that doesn't count as spoilers.)
> Dark matter may or may not exist but there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about it

18% of matter is "regular" matter that interact with each other via bosons, and the other 82% is "dark" matter that doesn't interact with the known bosons. Could dark matter have its own "bosons"? Even more interesting, could dark matter be partitioned into various categories based on the "boson" they interact with? If so, perhaps the categories would have random but regularly distributed size ratios, for example:

* 25% of matter is zyzotic interacting via yetions

* 18% of matter is hadronic (i.e. quarks, leptons) interacting via bosons (i.e. photons, gluons, W, Z)

* 13% of matter is xenatic interacting via winnions

* 7% is vivacions interacting via ululons

* smaller partitions at 5%, 4%, 2%, 1.9%, 1.8%, 1.8%, 1.7%, 1.7%, 1.7%, 1.7%, etc etc etc

* there'd be millions of partitions overall

* the smallest partitions would consist of only 1 particle each (and perhaps its anti-particle) in the entire Universe

This would put various properties such as mass, etc of the hadronic particles as being randomly determined, perhaps quantumly, a split instance after the Big Bang.
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On a more serious note, you have services which will e.g. Wheel in your bins for you, or manage your grocery delivery and housekeeping services so you never have to see the people doing the work.
Is thought part of this UI as well?
If you enjoy computational finance then it's not all doom and gloom. Finding one's interests is what college is really for and if you didn't broaden your intellectual horizons during that time, it would be unfortunate but not all that uncommon.

Part of the difficulty of going to a top school for some people is that their relative standing moves toward the middle because the group is so select. But against an absolute standard, a double degree from a top university in math and CS is pretty high achievement. Which is all a way of suggesting to keep things in perspective and to move at your own beat toward your own goals.

Finally, CS is hard and any time you doubt it pick up Knuth Volume 4a and realize he's been writing a book on compilers for over 50 years and he's one of the smartest computer scientists we've come across so far. Peter Norvig suggests learning a programming language takes ten years [0] and he was the head of AI at NASA's Ames Research Labs and may have written your AI Textbook.

Good luck.

[0]: http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
But if you're enmeshed in the simulation, you would never notice the slowdown! The only reason the video game is annoying is because we experience time outside of it.
The anti-police sentiment is certainly fact-based. The apologists claiming "it's really not that bad" because they desperately wish it to not be that bad aren't really fact-driven, they are illusory-comfort-from-a-place-of-privilege driven. Social media and the news just make it possible for us to hear the facts; normally they would never surface because the police lie to cover each other.

And about the cursing, sometimes when people are being abused by bullies who are supposed to protect them they get angry and mouth off; they are human. It's obviously not a measured logical decision, it's a natural response to someone abusing their power, being a jerk, or even just doing their job when it happens to cause problems for you. Cops aren't gods who get to beat you up and lock you in a cage because you don't act like an obedient servant. Is it smart? No. But it's fully understandable, emotional, and human.
I had a very poor experience with one of the founders from livecoding while he was courting me to stream there. I asked for basic information such as whether a potential viewer requires a login to view a stream (Yes) and whether a potential viewer requires a login to participate in chat on a stream (Yes) and he was very abrasive and offputting. When I said I wasn't comfortable participating due to his attitude he claimed I wouldn't be a good fit for streaming and derided me for not just creating an account and figuring out the answers through trial and error.

When asked I suggest people stream on youtube.
I think you're optimistic. What you'd have is criminals taking advantage of this up to the point where they'd get in trouble... then given the rise in crime people, the electorate, would demand the police "do something" about the crime and the police would get a mandate to arrest suspicious people again.

Criminals are savvy. They'd game it and people would capitulate.
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They are not poorly secured, and the material is not weaponizable. Not to mention they are not toxic sites, the waste is put into a block of metal that is completely passively cooled so it can't melt. It is buried, and it is secured. And they would generally be deployed in multi unit farms. Plus, no need to throw away the energy, especially if it's cheaper than energy from gas or coal.
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now imagine it was this one:
http://i.imgur.com/Feek05g.jpg

Would she still have a head?
I really appreciate the reply.

I'd be interested in learning about the restrictions at USDS that prevent it from going remote. Perhaps taking the conversation off thread is best. I imagine it's a combination of being embedded at agencies and perhaps a clearance issue?