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Unfortunately such a common phenomenon that it has a name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_from_California_syn...

The issue was never one of safety, the odds were never high that you would be on the receiving end of one of these SWAT attacks. The issue is the rights of citizens and their protection from unwarranted searches and unreasonable uses of force.

Australia has it's own issues on that front, look up Labor's recent proposal of data retention for electronic records or the infamous great firewall of Australia.

And as far as government's with regulatory zeal go, you've hit the motherload.

It's a lovely country (I've spent the last three years in Sydney and really and truly loved it) but don't kid yourself about the level of government intrusion in every. last. bloody. thing. It's maddening.

"I'm of the opinion that there is nothing wrong, or rather that the population is acting entirely naturally and appropriately given their adaptation to specific evolutionary conditions, which have changed drastically in the last 100 years. I doubt controlling marketing material will have a long-lasting effect, but anything is worth a shot. It is a very serious problem."

Which is it then, 'nothing wrong' or 'serious problem'?

You knock the gluten avoiders and follow that up by saying you became healthy by staying to the periphery of the grocery store where the fruits/veggies/meats/dairy are (and not the grains/gluten)...

I think you just contradicted yourself entirely.

Don't under-estimate the value of spotting CS legends (Norvig, Thrun, all of the old Bell Labs guys, etc) wandering around.

I was massively impressed when I visited.

so I'm curious-- has anyone ever made or received a job offer via these HN hiring threads?

if you want this on the JVM today and can abide Scala, see: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dataflow.html

+1. Another ex-professional dev (for +6 years) who left to do Hacker School here.

A lot of the students seem to have at least a few years of experience under their belt but it totally runs the gamut; you'll meet everything from people a few months into the hacking pursuit to people with decades of experience. And yes, it's a staggeringly amazing program. :)

"Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation."

and yet you bragged about flagging the submission...

Why do you see a positive incentive to female applicants as an implicit disincentive to male applicants?

How hard would it be for HN to filter posts like this? There are only so many permutations of "Why is this here? / What does this have to do with HN?" possible...

Let's take your theory and run with it, say that Derek was 100% lucky, that he's a hack, a fraud, just a product of some lucky circumstances, even so-- how on earth can you bemoan his simple message of encouragement?

The message is literally: reach out and try to make as many connections with other humans as you can and maybe even help them out if it's within your capacity. _That's_it_

Now have a good long think about how cynical of a person you'd have to be to complain about that message.

http://www.quora.com/Where-can-I-do-a-weekend-Vipassana-retr...

5th result on google for "vipassana retreat, bay area"...

I wonder what the complexity of a plugin would be that watches you use vim and tells if you're doing an anti-pattern?

My only gripe with vim is that the discoverability of features is god awful because :help is so overwhelming.

wow, capital register appending is super useful. lots of good tips in this one.

thanks for posting this!

I have to say that 'Indie Game the movie' is absolutely fantastic. It's the programmer's 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi'. (with added bonus points for their DRM-free delivery).

Well worth your $10 through http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/ or whatever you pay through this bundle. Go watch the trailer and then buy it in some form.

and for reference: 92% on RT

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/indie_game_the_movie_2012/

failing? MS has been holding 70% to 85% of the desktop market for decades, even by conservative estimates.

Societies are complex systems and managing them efficiently is actually (gasp) quite difficult.

This is _precisely_ the core tenet of conservative fiscal policy. The idea of coordinating any economy of non-trivial size from a central position is a fool's errand and invariably puts drag on the economy.

Link: http://www.automaticfinances.com/monkey-stock-picking/

On October 7, 1998 the Journal presented the results of the 100th dartboard contest. So who won the most contests and by how much? The pros won 61 of the 100 contests versus the darts. That's better than the 50% that would be expected in an efficient market.

It strikes me as smacking of old-school fatalistic "some are born winners" type thinking which is fundamentally contrary to everything we are led to believe about startups (namely; success is a function of smarts, hustle and luck).

I have not met either of them. And while I have met a few individuals who have achieved success I can honestly say I have never met anyone who I thought radiated success or was otherwise predisposed to success.

a guy 'radiates "winner"'? Really?

I sincerely hope you're being flippant and don't mean that as a serious answer.

Per the article, it's more like the difference between a violent criminal and a white collar criminal.

I have to agree with you. While it is possible to accept gift airfare and hotel worth thousands of dollars and remain neutral, it certainly looks dodgy. Especially if you're a broke blogger.

If the allegations are true, Samsung acted reprehensibly but these guys were naive.

Seems like an arbitrary distinction. Job, school, marriage, et al are all social constructs with certain principles and rules to try keep things operating smoothly and beneficially to all participants. You can break the rules in any of them to the detriment of your counter-parties. In this case, they cheapen the brand of a Harvard degree and potentially screw the non-cheaters if there's a grading curve.

Have you seen https://github.com/nvie/gitflow/ ?

It's a workflow level abstraction over git operations.

My company (at least for two more days) apparently sends all exit-interview notes to the senior management team and we're a fairly large company.

So if every exit interviewee says the same things, you'd have to think they would eventually address them or keep facing the consequences.

I also received the reset email and my password for dropbox was a random string generated by lastpass so I'm fairly confident that it wasn't leaked elsewhere. I wouldn't be alarmed if you got the email.

The citizens.

He got some decent responses so it seems like it turned out okay. You can give the audience here a little bit of credit, really.

"MRI scares the bejeezus out of me" - you, an hour ago

I think asking about alternatives is fair game.