<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>alphonse23</author><text>I hope he realizes this, as much as I hope everybody else realizes this, that the only reason why he got the violation reduced was because he brought his attorney on board. Anybody who lives in California whose contested a ticket knows that 9&amp;#x2F;10 times (if not even more than that) judges side with the officers -- whether they have a strong case or not -- the State of California certainly doesn&amp;#x27;t want it&amp;#x27;s residents to get any ideas.. if you know what I mean.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if his attorney cost more than the actual citation? Most people can&amp;#x27;t afford lawyer fees, so cops in California get away with this small stuff all the time without any fuss, whether they were liable or not. Congrats Joshua Block -- BTW I loved &amp;quot;Effective Java&amp;quot;!</text><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>I confess I was expecting to not care for this.  I&amp;#x27;m not sure how any of it should be surprising, as it seemed fairly straight forward analysis of the tools.&lt;p&gt;That said, this was a ridiculously fun read.  More detailed than expected for some parts, and always informative.  I&amp;#x27;m glad it did not come across as anti speed detectors.  Really more of a &amp;quot;know the limitations.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lowdown on Lidar</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Alupis</author><text>Josh Bloch is always entertaining, watch some of his video talks or read some of his books. He has a couple really good talks on GoogleTechTalks youtube channel.</text><parent_chain><item><author>taeric</author><text>I confess I was expecting to not care for this.  I&amp;#x27;m not sure how any of it should be surprising, as it seemed fairly straight forward analysis of the tools.&lt;p&gt;That said, this was a ridiculously fun read.  More detailed than expected for some parts, and always informative.  I&amp;#x27;m glad it did not come across as anti speed detectors.  Really more of a &amp;quot;know the limitations.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>The Lowdown on Lidar</title><url>https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B941PmRjYRpnX3ZqLWlQMGdGXzQ/edit</url></story>