skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All that is true and I get it (really, I do)... but I guess my point and the thread came about trying to understand what it means to be open to idea-stage because surely by definition an idea-stage venture is that- only an idea?
Please don't use link shorteners. They just obfuscate the link target.
How is it that this isn't THE major issue?
It should be noted that those stats are averaged over all aspects of police work. Some particular aspects are more dangerous, and some are less dangerous. Traffic stops are more dangerous, accounting for something like more than half of on duty officer deaths and serious injuries.

Also, several people here seem to be reasoning that policing is safe, so there is no need for police to take strong control in these situations. Isn't it possible that taking strong control in these encounters is why they are reasonably safe?
Daniel Kleppner on Bose-Einstein condensation, atom beams, and quantum computers
Mainly to identify the good stuff. So let's take the example of the subject political economy. Political economy has a rich philosophical tradition. You start at Hobbes, then you've got Locke, Rousseau, Smith, Marx, Ricardo, Mills, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman... Each of these philosophers cites a previous philosopher and has transformed our thinking of political economy in some way. You cannot just ignore all of them because then you'd have no clue about how the world came to be the way it is and when you read contemporaries you'd have no frame of reference. So, who do you eliminate?
@gluggymug (2nd... don't know why the 'reply' button doesn't appear below your comment)

Yep. Check out this https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket-chip ... there are plenty of testing options you can do, including waveform vcd testing.

EDIT: Also, relevant paper: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs250/fa11/handouts/lab3-... ... check out the part regarding test harness
Syriza’s covert plot during crisis talks to return to drachma – FT.com
I'm not saying it's not horrific, it just to me kind of makes this otherwise surreal state of affairs make sense. A grown man who doesn't know how to responsibly wield power to me seems extremely similar to a teenage boy not knowing how to properly behave with new strength and freedoms. Put a bunch of these similar people together with no responsible authority to control them, and you often end up with toxic and dangerous cultures.
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From the article:

If you don’t want to be identified, you can disable mssfix, just set it to zero on both server and client.

As for the OS/browser fingerprinting, I suppose you could just use p0f to figure out what your VPN "exit node" is running, then modify your user-agent to match.

Interestingly enough, it assumes that if it can't figure out either OS or fingerprint, they match:

Detected OS = ???
HTTP software = ???

...
Fingerprint and OS match.
can they possibly give it a less sexy name?
With no ill intent: I'm a bit skeptical about software quality / test coverage after finding a bug in the linear algebra implementation - I would not use it for production right now.
Ok. If you do the majority of your testing on the generated Verilog, I am not sure what the point of the Chisel C++ cycle accurate simulator is. I thought that ran on the Chisel RTL.

What simulator do you use to test the generated Verilog? And what language do you write the tests in?
I don't get it. What does this do?
I know a veteran of the US Navy who was ordered by his captain to throw quarter million dollar flight computers overboard. Had he not done so his aircraft carrier would not have used up its budget.
Let's say that you're reading for comprehension and read fast (200 wpm). That's 15 min. carved out of your discretionary time budget.

That's significant, let alone the fact you're taking a chance ROI-wise by reading a random blog. Furthermore, asking "Can you?" is different than "Should you?" I'm hitting on the latter.
> Derrida would like to have a word with you

Yeah, but no intelligent person would like to have a word with Derrida...
Apparently they just moved to a new domain: http://projectfreetv.so
To push the metaphor further, one could animate the evolution of the buildings over time based on git history.
But this is exactly the point. How do you know that it is a correlation? To establish a correlation you would also have to look at all the founders who did not succeed. As far as I am aware, Jessica has not done this.
Black and white thinking is unproductive.

There are good cops and bad cops. I have many good reasons to hate and fear the police - but I dont, because I judge them as individuals rather than as a group.

If a law enforcement officer commits a crime they should go to prison.

But most law enforcement officers are good people who want to do right by others.
San Francisco uses 'pee-proof' paint
reverse a C string in place.
There is also OsmocomSDR[1] which is an excellent starting point into software defined radio.

[1] http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr
> America's fighting forces will continue to carry out their mission, day in and day out, just like they always have.

What is the mission? And why is it taking an infinitely long time to carry out?
better title how to read like a hack. Or how to read like a entrepreneur.
Nope - What unique opportunities does the silicon valley offer for MBAs? How are you making the best use of these opportunities to make your MBA count?
My roommates in college were in ROTC and they were always looking for things to fill that gap. I don't think they ever broke anything, but if I remember correctly they managed to get a popcorn machine.
Perhaps he sold short on tech stocks.
Caffe is in C++ and supports Matlab and Python. It's quite easy to bind, e.g. I have a Go binding that I use for 'neutral net surgery'.
Seeing updates for Phaser makes me so happy! It really is a gem of a library.

A nice thing about it too, is that it is very easy to make something that is compatible with both desktop web browsers and smartphones. When presenting at a game jam or hackathon, it's nice to be able to push what you've done onto GitHub pages and encourage your audience to try things themselves.
Anything which wins damages under a civil action could also (at federal discretion) be charged criminally: the CFAA elements which allow civil recovery (section (g)) are a proper subset of those that allow criminal prosecution.

As the EFF amicus brief notes: "…although this is a civil dispute, the CFAA is also a criminal statute, and permitting Craigslist's computer hacking claims to go forward would also mean creating criminal liability."

Craigslist's specific allegations againt 3Taps would seem to qualify the responsible parties for imprisonment up to 5 years, on a first offense, by CFAA (c)(2)(B), if a prosecutor felt like making an example of them.
It hadn't occurred to me that Syd Mead might still be alive.
Is OTP one-time-password?
Back when the first bubble burst in late 2001, I scraped a bunch of historical craigslist data from a secondary archive and built an interactive gnuplot webpage of post-traffic by category over time. At the time, it got slashdotted, a couple hundred thousand people looked at it and it was all fun and good.

So I thought afterwards, hey, the economy is kinda sketchy still and looking at this stuff sure is neat... I should build a real tool that robustly and respectfully logs daily post totals for more locales, and maybe build out a cool little graph portal. Maybe I can even do a little NLP to make it smarter. hey, it's craigslist, they're community minded.. they thank me when I post, they won't mind. They give pencils to teachers even.

So I email them, and Craig responds in a cc'd message with a 'hey cool, can this guy use our RSS feeds'? At which point, the assholes that worked there started inventing every excuse under the sun as to why doing so would totally damage their infrastructure (because you know, polling RSS every half an hour is total abuse.)

Anyway, that's when I realized that all the hippie-dippie stuff was just window dressing and that I really truly was dealing with a really special species of asshole.

I put the project down and walked away. The end.
It is more important to sell software than it is to write it.
That's why I would be tempted to create a craigslist competitor with really free access to the data.
If I recall correctly, BPF also explicitly lacks any looping instructions, or instructions that can be used to create a loop. Forward jumps only. :)
Don't make fun of Tai Lopez...he's got Lambos and a bookshelf FILLED with books in his garage. ;-)

edit: TL's the youtube ad guy who claims he can teach you how to read ANY book in 10min.
> It's entirely possible to maintain both packages in Debian with the alternatives framework.

It is, but it is also a big maintenance burden, in particular for the security team.
All of that works with hosting md files in github repo or in gists, but with them you also get a convenient version control system also known as git.
Ask HN: Avoiding techical debt
I saw a another ask hn post today regarding technical debt and I wanted to ask this.

If technical debt is a big deal, KISS should be the most important decision. Let me elaborate.

Even before writing a single line of code, chosing the frameworks and or introducing a framework to you application stack is a big decision. For example, does your web app need a frontend rendering framework?

If there is a single engineer, he will be the devops, backend dev, and frontend dev. Even if the dev is familiar with angular or react, the simple introduction of such a framework is an immediate take on a debt. This is one way too look at it.

Do you just write the so called jquery spaghetti code that people frown upon so kuch these days? Or is writing jquery code more of a technical debt?

As a startup, do you slowly incur debt or immediately take on lump sum with more frameworks, betting that it will pay off.
Video for anyone who hasn't seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZKp_jFxQJc

It has also spawned plenty of parodies :)
While the signal he is receiving is in the 2-meter
band, a monopole antenna works better if it is 1/4 the
wavelength, so he might actually get better reception
with a 0.5 meter length of wire.

I always thought a lambda/4 antenna is used because it's almost as good as a lambda antenna but much more conveniently to handle. I understand that more complicated antenna designs can be better than a simple lambda wire, but how can a lambda/n wire be better? I don't doubt what you are saying, I'm just curious how this can work.
> when I can write three lines of code in a version of F# that shipped six years ago and issue SQL-like data gathering queries over everything from Wikipedia to the Department of Labor.

What's the name this technology goes by, and is it possible in C# (regardless of if it's extra lines of code)?
The fact that the law handles the physical world doesn't mean that real world analogies lead to meaningful conclusions about the digital world. That is the point I intend to convey, that the analogies themselves are counterproductive to the goal of producing coherent digital law.
If I ever invested money I'd look at determination as the primary criteria. It's hard to measure though- what questions would be good to figure out how determined someone is?
While the author has a great underlying point, I find this style of writing a particular disservice: "Perhaps 5% of the population has enough abstract reasoning skill to verbally understand that the above heuristics would be useful once these heuristics are pointed out."

This is a version of "you, enlightened reader, are the special chosen few" - to me it reads no different in rationalist essays as when it gets pitched to me by multi-level marketers selling their get rich quick schemes. If you're familiar with reading bullshit such an appeal to the reader's vanity should immediately send up a few red flags, and it can completely detract from what would otherwise be a reasonable piece.
There are a variety of factories producing these at variable quality. I'd still recommend the Nooelec version if you have the budget to spare.
I'm familiar with those bounties, and they're galaxies out of the ranges you're quoting.
I've always thought the the web UI was meant for trivial things. For everything else, there's always the Command Line Interface.
A wrapper for a now-defunct service? Useful!
> If we're going to resort to ill-fitting metaphores, it's closer to the owner of a piece of artwork posting public notice that their art can only be viewed in their studio, permitting a public gallery to show that art, and then suing you for trespassing because you looked at their art while it was in a public gallery.

Changing the scenario slightly makes this seem far less absurd: you took a photo of the art piece while it was on display at a public gallery, then used your own photo commercially.

> the very quietly changed their ToS just 4 days prior to filing suit -- that's bullshit if I've ever smelled it

From the article, CL changed their ToS, and after a month sent a Cease and Desist Letter to 3Tap. After that, they required CL poster to agree to new copyright rules, and then 4 days later sued 3Tap. It's not clear if that later change was also a change in their T's and C's.
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So because of one isolated incident you think all cops in the U.S. act this way and therefore will never visit again? You think what you see on TV isn't just handpicked? and is actually representative of the thousands of pull overs cops perform daily? You think every single black person pulled over gets shot?
I also wondered that. I think a lot of technical people are irresistibly drawn to solving scale & performance problems by resorting to ever more complex rube goldberg machines & processes rather than just throw a few measly grand of hardware at it and be done.

Stackoverflow is one example of scale with a pretty boring architecture.
Activism. Hacking Team were not liked.
Show HN: Implementing the “3D Split Depth GIF” Effect in Three.js
Why Humans Run the World – Yuval Noah Harari – TED Talks
Here's a useful article on what you should and should not do during a traffic stop if you want to both assert and defend your rights, but still have a good chance of getting off with a warning, or at worst a ticket.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/police-stops-when-pul...

A very important piece of information in there that I think many people here are not aware of is that you can be ordered to step out of the car during a traffic stop, and you do have to obey. (You can also be ordered to stay in the car).

Here's an LA Times article where they asked several experts to go over the Bland video.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sandra-bland-arrest-expe...

They point out several mistakes officer Encinia made, but also note Bland made a serious error in refusing to get out of the car. Most of Encinia's mistakes occur in dealing with that and its aftermath.

I urge people to read the first article linked above, and keep it mind if you are stopped for a traffic infraction. By doing this, then even if you end up with another Officer Encinia, you can make sure the encounter doesn't get to the point where he has a chance to make the kind of mistakes Encinia made. It generally takes both the officer and the driver making mistakes to get a traffic stop to go seriously bad, so if you encounter a bad or insufficiently trained officer, make sure you don't make mistakes, and then report him later.
> Well, Switzerland still ranks very high in terms of gun ownership. (4th place in the world)

If you're insisting that the situation with firearms in Switzerland resembles that of the US you are either ignorant, obtuse, or dishonest. They are not even remotely comparable.
Yes, typically synonymous with two-factor authentication.
Lol, I was 1/2 way through this email thinking I'd respond that the only one worse is valve... turnabout. I've never had them respond to me. I've got several tickets multi months outstanding.
"Undocumented workforce" is just as slanted. Their problem is not lost paperwork. It obscures the lack of steady demand for their labor, and their willful defiance of our efforts to guard our home.

Prior to the late 1800s, we still had an untapped frontier, and immigration was in our interest. It was never a principle we committed to at all costs, despite what one poet might have thought. Now our own huddled masses are splitting a pie that isn't growing, and immigration is not so beneficial that it makes up for the overpopulation it causes (because few people have been emigrating).
A sample three.js viz is at https://learnforeverlearn.com/splitdepth/
Steam allowed password reset without token from email, producing mass hacking
Detecting cheaters in an asynchronous online game
Please update the title, article is from 2013.
This guy is a history professor. A history student at a school of Swarthmore caliber who has e.g. two upper division history courses plus one course in a related field like philosophy/political science/sociology/cultural criticism and maybe one physical science course or something to satisfy some general ed requirements is going to be assigned something like 1000+ pages per week of reading, in addition to a substantial amount of writing and whatever work that science course requires, and of course time spent in lectures and discussions.

If the student tries to read everything carefully at a leisurely pace, that’s going to take 25+ hours a week of just reading.

History students can’t afford the time to read everything line by line. They need to learn to skim, track the structure of the argument, figure out which bits are fluff and skip over those, and then focus down on the tricky sections.

It’s not that close reading isn’t also important in those fields (it absolutely is!), but not everything can be read closely.

To the grandparent poster: 3000 words is peanuts compared to the kind of reading loads this professor is talking about.
> why should I not vote to block and prevent this growth?

Because all you can vote to block is the growth in housing - you can't block the influx of people. So then demand continues to rise while supply stagnates... and prices keep skyrocketing as a result. And that doesn't freeze the city into being exactly what it's like now - as more low-to-mid income people are priced out, the city WILL change in character and in culture. Discouraging high-density housing gives you higher prices AND a much less diverse city.

Either way you cut it, there's no way to freeze San Francisco like a time capsule. It's going to change, the question is how do we maximize how much of that change is for the better?

(Btw, I think wanting the city to stay exactly how it is currently is fundamentally a NIMBY / selfish attitude - 'I got here first, but no one should be allowed to come after me and change things any further').
Show HN: Q – A gentle way to grep with a named predefined sets of regexps
Ask HN: Promotion through title, do I advertise?
Recently, Ive been given the title VP of Technology and when I went to linkedin to update my profile, I stopped.

Im now asking hn, if I should go ahead and do it. Better title but why not?

I was asked, what title do you want. So I really gave it to myself. I only have two reports in a team of 7. Another person the same day got the title VP of Engineering.

Basically I feel undeserving of the title and it does not mean anything. More importantly I feel that if I advertise this new title, I feel it will actually hinder my future opportunities in the future.

When I read vp of tech, I dint see a developer. But that is what I am. The company is just small enough for me take it.

The company is doing well, and growing. So maybe I will also grow into the role. But I feel that this will actually deter others from hiring me in the future. Intimidation, over qualified or not a developer.

Thoughts?
My use of correlation is indeed confusing and probably inappropriate.

What I ment to say is that Jassica saw these common traits in successful founders. We can thus deduce that these are probably required. But they are obviously not sufficient.
To add to my previous comment (now below), Scala DSLs are without rival only in the complexity of their composition. Clojure DSLs are based on macros. Groovy's are on builders and method-missing. Haskell's are on symbols, monad syntax (do) and lazy evaluation. Kotlin's are built with typesafe builders and inline functions. Scala's are built with symbols, right-associative operators, macros, implicits, monad syntax (for) and possibly even dynamics.

Even this most powerful yet most dangerously-clever capability offered by some programming language is supported by like five different Scala features with ten different ways of achieving the same goal. It's absolutely perfect if you want to explore different ways of programming. It's not so great if you need to maintain your DSL for the next 10-15 years in a large organization.

Besides, given that the JVM has two of most advanced meta-programming tools anywhere, Xtext[1] and JetBrains' own MPS[2], I wouldn't call any JVM language's embedded DSLs "without rival". All this is about to get even better with Truffle/Graal in Java 9. Saw an interesting talk about easily constructing very efficient languages with Truffle and object algebras at ECOOP[3]. So, especially on the JVM, going for an embedded DSL, let alone one built with very complicated techniques (rather than just Lisp macros) is probably not the best way to use DSLs. It has no advantages and lots of disadvantages.

[1]: https://eclipse.org/Xtext/

[2]: https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

[3]: https://twitter.com/biboudis/status/618402989720662016
> If you don’t want to be identified, you can disable mssfix, just set it to zero on both server and client.

Wouldn't the server get fragmented packets and discover that?
Forward-thinking for a US city might be a fair description though. That's still no small thing.

(Though I'd certainly quibble with the article's notion that SF's transit-first policy has been a shining success story so far).
I think, in this forum more than any other, it is clear that this article is way too simplistic. It also makes sense that a start-up needs to be monetised / pay for itself. That said, whether because of family money or the economic-cost of giving up a stable job, it is true that more financially stable people (rather than necessarily the most creative or smartest people) have more chance of founding and sustaining a start-up. Maybe that is just "the way it is" but could there be alternative ways to help encourage those from less stable socio-economic backgrounds to join the start-up world (especially as founders)?
Yes, but the only way people get cynical about investment advice is either by being burned or by check how the advice panned out. Personally I favor the the second option :)
The comments here remind me a little of Pierre Bayard's delightful(ly) postmodern monograph, _How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read_ [0].

It's an entertaining read.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read-ebook/dp/...