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>First, she gets pulled over for an improper lane change. When was the last time you got pulled over for something so random and minor?

Drive a beat up old vehicle in a wealthy area and it will happen every month or two, even if you're doing the same speed as everyone else. If it's a slow shift cops will pull over anyone suspicious which basically means looking different or out of place, just a funny looking hat or a bunch of boxes in your back seat could be enough to catch their eye, then they'll pull you over for something like doing 4 over, rolling a 4-way stop or a lane change violation even if you're the only vehicle around and it's 1AM. I find a lot wrong with this "stopping people the check their papers" behavior, but that's not the point, point is that it happens and is likely what happened here so making the traffic stop itself was likely a perfectly normal practice.

Being white with a clean record I've always gotten off with a warning. If any of those weren't the case or I fumbled the "where are you coming from/going to" question I'm sure I'd receive a lot more scrutiny. If you don't just bend over at that point and the officer is a jerk then theres a chance of things going downhill like we've seen here.

It wouldn't surprise me if they doctored the video as a knee-jerk reaction. It's a small organization with lots of group-think with a culture discouraging transparency. They had after more than a decade of being allowed to do all sorts of things without public scrutiny. A dumb mistake like releasing a edited video is most certainly not out of the question. If they edited it it was likely done in-house (explaining the abundance of "rookie mistakes") to prevent a loose end.
Relink in case that goes down:
https://medium.com/@BenjaminNorton/dashcam-video-of-violent-...
I'm more sick of arrogant engineering types who continuously belittle anyone outside their own limited bubble.

Firstly, he's not a 'self-appointed ethicist', he's a professor appointed by the University of Washington. And your ridiculous straw man about drinking water is not appropriate and serves merely to reflect badly on you.

Secondly, he's not 'opposing everything'. He states, quite correctly, that there are large ethical and political implications to any significant form of geoengineering. We regularly see examples of this. For instance, when a major river passes through multiple countries and an upstream country decides to build a dam, reducing or eliminating the flow of the river downstream, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of people. That this has huge ethical and political implications is unquestionable.

Similarly, if an entity such as a government or corporation decides to unilaterally modify the climate, this too has ethical and political implications. Even if the actual outcome closely matches what was predicted, such changes may be unwanted by other parties. Furthermore, there could be knock-on effects from changes in one location to elsewhere. For example, suppose the United States engages in climate modification by purposefully increasing rainfall in the south-west US. This may be welcome there, but could have the side-effect of increasing drought elsewhere.

I don't see any ethicists opposing geoengineering in principle, they're just pushing for a full debate - which would include many more aspects than just the engineering one.
> The problem is scaling your database

There is only one database for everything in the business? Of course it doesn't scale. The problem you describe stems from solving every business request by adding yet another table to 'the' database.

It's a monolithic solution. It doesn't matter if you use database features or not. There is no difference between a mess of stored procedures and a mess of business logic classes. It's still a mess.
I liked the review that said "This thing is very effective in conjunction with traditional flea collars.
It's different in humming in that it makes no sound at all. In humming you let the air pass, here I guess I'm pushing air up to vocal cords but blocking it before it proceeds from the throat.
So, an activist dies in Texas and the video is fubar in not one, but two separate situations and that does not impress the potential for foul play on you? Combine with the fact that she was pulled over for a completely minor infraction that two white, Republican cops in my family think is complete bullshit.

Like I said, it warrants further investigation.

Personally, I think it was a hit, but that is besides the point of my earlier comment.
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Others may be unconsciously judging your features in ways you don't realise
Despite conspiracy theories its more likely that the aim is to avoid congestion at peak times, and control demand for parking, but hey, its a government policy, so has to be evil by default. Everyone should just be able to do whatever they like, and let the free market economy ensure only the rich live well.
The users/sysadmins I've known take the following process:

o Run Application

o Get weird error.

o Google the error, see someone mentioning "This is because of SElinux"

o Google how to "Disable SELinux"

I'm not saying that's what they should be doing, just saying it's what I've observed. What's nice about tame is - there is nothing to enable/disable, it's just part of software.
another one that seems missing is this one http://www.quantumplayground.net which runs in a browser and has tutorials on how to write programs.

EDIT: spelling
> Interestingly, there's at least one database (AllegroCache) that uses this similarity [...]

It is even more interesting to note that AllegroCache is a Common Lisp product from franz.com
Those are all fair. However, I think they are also unethical. If a "reference" contributes anything that gives you cause to pass on a hire they can be successfully sued for damages. As I understand it, this liability is the primary reason that most companies no longer let their employees act as references, and instead ask you to direct reference queries to the HR department. If I know that calling a reference and prodding for negative information may result in that person getting into legal trouble, I have a difficult time justifying that act.
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The satire on this site writes itself many times over.
My advice would be to work on debugging. It's where I struggled most early on in my first job, and where our current intern is weakest (despite being really good overall).

If you're working on a large system and haven't worked with one, you're going to end up lost a lot. Debugging a complex web app is very different than debugging an algorithm.

Here is a blog post that discusses the topic and links to four books on the topic. David Agans' _Debugging_ ended up helping me quite a bit.

A second point I'd make is to learn the idea of refactoring as a systematic process. Early on, I wanted to refactor everything, but didn't know how to refactor safely and methodically. Martin Fowler's refactoring book is not exciting, but it gets the message across that refactoring is not just "changing stuff to make it better" but a process.
To be fair, as science becomes a parody of itself in the general populace, informal poorly structured tests are becoming the norm. E.g., that's what all of mythbusters is.
> Has anyone seen anything like this 'just happen' in digital video before?

No, this isn't anywhere in the realm of what could happen during uploading. The video has very clearly been edited intentionally by a human. Poorly.
Dutch auctions work with one item (or multiple items where a single buyer would want n items of a limited supply: see eBay). That still wouldn't solve the problem in this case: remember, they didn't run out of passes. They sold every one they could at the offering price. Where there are multiple buyers, no rational buyer is going to look to pay a premium.
So you're going to spend more than the cost of the ticket on lawyers, repeat court appearances, and subpoenas?
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I've plugged in a few friends' Epson printers and it just worked. I don't think I have yet to run across a printer that didn't work in the last 5 years or so (maybe it's just because my printer usage is declining)
they may be older so that when they studied there was no formal computer-specific education

The reality is likely to be the other way around - older people will have taken fundamental computer science stuff, wheras younger people do not have such a need to.
Moreover, they need you to learn how it works in your future team. And for that you need to work there.

So, that's simple :
- First, rest right now !
- Second, when you'll be there, work hard !
Knowing the difference between these 2 lines of bash can save your day
Exhibit 1 (ok):

find . -name [pattern] -delete

Exhibit 2 (bad):

find . - name [pattern] -delete

It's a good idea to take a quick second look at the command you're about to run, to make sure there aren't any typos. I learned this the hard way today.
I'm perfectly fine with management at a media company deciding it wants the curate the content that is produced by employees or visitors.

If the best defense of some piece of writing that an author can muster is that the writing "isn't illegal," then what value have you added to the community of readers/consumers.

I'm tired of having to ignore racists, trolls, etc. Why should I have to constantly filter trash from my input. I'll be happy when spam filters are omnipresent and upgraded to "content quality" filters.
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Not really. Authorship attribution methods typically rely on function words (the most frequent words), which cannot be readily substituted, as that would require rewriting the whole sentence.
> Far more likely the recording software is crappy and sometimes skips back a second or two.

What?
The police officer didn't like that the woman was belligerent and wanted to assert his dominance. He ordered her to put out her cigarette and to get out of the car simply to show her who's boss. A clear abuse of authority.

Sandra Bland -- as a citizen -- has no obligation to be polite and deferential. To suggest that her attitude somehow justifies abuse against her is despicable. The police offer escalated the situation at every opportunity, even though it's his job to deescalate, to serve and protect, and to keep the peace.

When dealing with a suspicious suicide of course the public is going to demand whatever raw footage is available. Not a cropped and edited version. It doesn't matter that the edits are probably innocuous. Denying the public the raw footage by itself speaks of arrogance.
> Many people commute and Europe has a good transportation network as the U.S will soon have to? Then what .... then city centers become less attractive as you can more easily get to where the action is without living a stone's throw from it.

This is the crux of the issue. Cities were built around different modes of transportation (walking, biking, driving, trains) whereas suburbs were built up entirely around the automobile. This aversion to driving is something unique to Millenials; owning a car meant freedom and marked success to previous generations. These days, young people are comfortable with streaming services and the new shared economy, so "owning" something isn't important as it once was. Additionally, we face economic concerns (we're making less money and cars are expensive), political concerns (oil, in many cases, directly supports oppressive regimes), and ecological concerns.

In a generation or two, suburbs will have had to adapt to this change in lifestyle and commuter rail/light rail projects are already underway to connect the first ring to the urban cores. Additionally, I think more emphasis will be placed on rebuilding a town center/main street in the areas that can support it. Finally, self-driving electric cars will calm traffic immensely (imagine if all vehicles report to a centralized dispatch AI that can calculate the most efficient routes available, knowing exactly when to turn, stop, accelerate, etc using computer vision, path finding and flocking algorithms.) Cities and suburbs around the country are already adding bike lanes and pedestrian to roads.
I do not believe that this is a serious question, and is rather a parody of this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928556

If this is serious, could you please indicate what you mean by "web-focused", but not in a technical sense, means?
It was water-proof and washed in the dish-washer at the end of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hv7iGNKLY

The company seems to have pivoted to a more lucrative business model though (Slovenian population is 2MM, with GDP per capita somewhere around 17000 EUR).
but it is in user space, why the need for compile kernel?
Whoops, guess I'm wrong.
Self-driving cars cannot get here soon enough. Police interactions as a result of driver error will be obsolete.
Every time I've been pulled over it has been for something that minor. I'm white.
Well, of course it is a Common Lisp product. I haven't seen its internals but I would be surprised if it didn't use the features of CLOS+MOP to that effect, or, vice versa, if these features of CL weren't the very inspiration for that functionality. (Well, maybe Smalltalk could also achieve a similar level of seamlessness.)
After seeing all those enthusiatic comments, I was very disappointed when I saw what this is actually about.

I was expecting something like changing marks on the street, maybe even auto-rearranging parking lot marks. That's what I imagined "E-Ink" / "electronic ink" to be. However, it's just a display within a sign.

Not sure about other cities, but at Berlin's highways, we have this for years. It is used to adjust speed limits to traffic, avoiding or dewarping traffic jams. It is also used to block lanes as needed, e.g. during the time tunnels are cleaned, without having to put up signs and moving them with the workers while cleaning.

What is so spectacular about using same old idea for parking signs?

Am I missing something?
I have been asked that by a police officer and I find the best way to answer is "that's a good question!"
The article talks about taking control of a Jeep Cherokee yet the captions shows a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Does anyone know if the exploit is across the whole line with U-Connect? I plan on purchasing a Grand Cherokee but I may wait and see how this plays out (or get an older model).
I'd imagine that it has some overhead. So running it on production all the time would not make much sense. Because sometimes restarting a process makes it very hard to reproduce the bug.
But snasphost / restore would handle that case. The problem is - what to do with file / network descriptors?
Condor [1] has done this since sometime in the 90's. This [2] paper contains references to a paper about it from at least 97. An interesting part about the Condor approach is that it can proxy file and network access, so the file-descriptors etc. can remain open (of course this may not always be what you want).

[1] http://www.sysproject.info/condor.php

[2] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/doc/condor-practice.pdf
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Once you get rid of your N+1s the bottleneck in my experience (working with Rails now since v1.2) has always be Rails / Ruby itself. It is so incredibly slow, even using just Metal (even Sinatra for that matter). The slowdown at the view level is significant.

I always have a caching strategy (usually varnish in front of nginx) with Rails unless it's literally only supporting a handful of users, and anytime I need to support non-cacheable hits like writes to more than 50 or so concurrents I consider swapping in Node or Go or something reasonably performant to handle just those writes.

Lately I've been looking into Elixir as a Rails alternative for APIs for performance and scalability. I am very intrigued by a PostgreSQL based REST API.
Attempt at Reddit summary: Doing "web 2.0" to outsource content creation to the public for free while collecting all the corporate ad revenue sounds pretty cool until inevitably the people you outsourced your culture, brand, and message to disagree with people on the payroll and the org chart or with your corporate advertisers, but you can't do the traditional neofeudalistic corporate top down enforcement via the payroll and org chart if your content generators are not on the payroll or org chart because you outsourced them to web 2.0 general public.

Reddit Lesson: Never outsource your core competency.

The gawker story appears to have nothing in common at all. Seems to summarize to being totally spineless about admitting they operate an online supermarket checkout lane tabloid, followed by drama over people who would like to pretend they are not (why? They can't be that dumb, ego they're being paid to generate heat and clicks with an artificial story), with a side dish of I'd rather debate the overall ethical issues of tabloids as an industry sector being good or bad.

Gawker lesson: Be honest. People might or might not like you, but they hate dishonesty more.

If there is an overall lesson from both, from a past article awhile ago, I suggested an indication of bubble top is we're seeing the results of amateur hour tryhard then crashing and burning. Basic management leadership skills would have avoided both problems; "real companies" do not suffer from basic mistakes like this. In zero sum bubble markets like real estate, commodities, and stocks there's a concept of bag holders, where around the top, you can tell who the incompetent traders are because they're the ones left holding the bag. With a side dish of if you can't tell who the bag holder is, you're probably the bag holder (there is a poker table analogy WRT suckers...) Everyone can see bagholders all across tech, therefore we're at or just past a bubble top in internet tech companies again. Its all downhill from April 2001 or spring of 2015 or whatever. Wheeee!
This is all true, except nobody has a large quantum computer yet. You could discover an efficient SAT algorithm and not be able to apply it for years or decades. (I don't expect this either.)
Not just startup-centric, but Valley startup-centric. I love how it assumes the reader has their pick of companies to work for. Kind of insulting to those of us outside the Valley who don't. :/
And the problem is that we're going to blame the hackers, rather than the car manufacturer for creating such a defective product.
I would advise to always run "find [...] -delete" commands without the -delete option first. You can screw up a find command at multiple places.
He said it was a warning in the video. Though I guess he could be lying.
It's openly pointed out in the docs that it's intended to prevent unintentional system alterations, not stop an actively hostile program - i.e. there's not a lot of confidence from the devs in it's isolation levels yet.
I'm sorry to hear your anecdote. I would have to come see your particular situation to see exactly what you mean by 1, 2, 5, because those don't seem unsolvable, but in general:

> 3) Orthoganality

You've introduced that by treating a relational store as a "hole to put your shit in". It's not fair to blame the database for that.

> 4) Duplication

Not with the project that is the topic of this thread you don't.

> 6) Lock in

As I mentioned in my original comment, you can be locked to your database or you can be locked to your ORM/DAO/ActiveRecord/DB client library or whatever it is you're using.

Not using database features isn't the key to heaven anymore than using them is the key to hell. I just meant to point out that in my experience they are underused massively.
I'm going to be a bit pedantic, but wrt to this part:

> because they speak an unique old Norse tongue

They don't speak Old Norse

Note that "old" in the original quote isn't capitalized. They aren't saying they speak Old Norse, but a unique (and somewhat older) Norse tongue.
This is Public Choice Theory in action. The prosecutor's priority is not to make her "area" safer by correctly convicting prisoners. Her priority (like all politicians) is re-election.

I have to say though if I was the prosecutor in this case I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Yet I know several founders who do exactly that and with great success.

I think it comes down to what kind of business, what your business is based on (IP, network, patents, technology, marketing) and if you are the kind of person who understand how to hire the right people and delegate the right kind of jobs.

There is always a middle ground.
I grew up in a small southern town. I was the weird kid, had funny hair and didn't wear cowboy clothes. I was pulled over at least seven or eight times for no reason. Once I was told I was being pulled over because some kids were playing mailbox baseball in the neighborhood I just left. Another time I was told the area I had just left was known for drugs and the cop wanted to find out if I had bought any... the area I had just left was an abandoned empty field in the middle of nowhere and I had simply drove through it as a shortcut. I've been told my tail light was out only to find it miraculously working went I went to check. I've been told I fit the profile of another guy who was throwing bricks at a house. If a cop doesn't like the way you look and wants to release some aggression, they will make up any excuse to pull you over. I did know my rights so all the examples I mentioned didn't lead anywhere, I worry what those times would have been like if I hadn't been white.
The title is a little misleading. She was never actually hired, just interviewed.
Could you update your question description and elaborate further, please? To me, HN feels like:

[33.3%] Startup-oriented technical content, focusing on web and mobile in particular.

[33.3%] Startup-oriented business professional content... such as funding stories, job interview styles, debates about open floor plans being a good or bad thing, etc.

[33.3%] "Social justice" content, open-source licensing, NSA surveillance... random interesting articles from The Atlantic, The Economist, Nautilus, or PLOS.

Myself, being primarily interested in that first 33%, I long for MORE "technical" content, and I see that as being coupled together with "web-focused". Slashdot was awesome 10 or 15 years ago, but is an empty shell today. While Reddit has its moments, the demographics are a bit young and there just aren't enough greybeards there to teach me things. It often feels like a thousand sophomores, lecturing to ten-thousand freshmen.

I'm interested in how exactly you perceive HN, and why you see "technical" and "web-focused" as contradictory rather than similar.
Because Theo is right, having to write programs to observe programs is insane.

While spender is wrong for multiple reasons. Such as that /var is mounted nosuid on OpenBSD by default so their hypothetical "httpd chmod'ing to setuid" doesn't work ("nix" points this out to them but isn't aware of OpenBSD's defaults in this area). The other reason is they are decrying the whole system because of a fairly weak attack scenario (requires a local user account) and it's not like that attack isn't possible now, so while tame() doesn't protect against that specific thing it protects against others but spender is just saying nope, it doesn't protect against this specific scenario therefore it's useless.

Also if you keep reading spender's commenters they go on to claim OpenBSD's devs are delusional plagiarists so "vendetta" does seem appropriate.