skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for citing the number differences - and I do agree that it is extremely unlikely each of those 953 cases required lethal force or even called for it. Believe me - I'm equally critical of officers and the increasing militarization of police departments that purchase surplus military supplies.

Though I will ask that you do not make the dangerous assumption that "unarmed = not dangerous" or that being found to be unarmed post-facto made them not dangerous to begin with.

If someone threatens to have a gun and threatens to shoot but is actually unarmed at a distance of 30' and they reach behind them - what do you do? Waiting for visual confirmation of a weapon could leave you dead. The potential of them not bluffing is there.

That scenario is a little contrived but there are many variations and they don't involve the suspect having a weapon or bluffing to have a weapon. What if they don't say anything at all but reach behind them? Does that change the situation?

>And it also seems odd to me that anyone would be surprised that officers might be injured

I'm not surprised at all, it is expected to have risk after all. I am surprised that people are asking officers to take additional and unnecessary risks.
Precisely. I used the scare quotes to illustrate that point.
That's a lost battle, the future is dark :(
I was trying to remember where I heard "UberBot" before... it was from http://bigwords.com! The best textbook search aggregator that existed back in 2007 or so... http://i.imgur.com/2i84pdW.jpg
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It might "work", for small values of "work". With a big emitter, at moderately short range, and a receiver on the back side of a laptop screen, it might work. Modest sized conference rooms with art on the walls, for example. Small classrooms. Maybe even a Starbucks.

Emitter panels on the ceiling could charge mobile devices placed face-down for charging. A car-based system could charge devices of people using phones while driving, if you had enough short-range emitters around the car.

The line of sight limitation, though, makes it only slightly more convenient than a power cord. The electromagnetic charger people have
the same problem, but they're mostly thinking "put mobile devices on charging pad on bedside table", which works but isn't selling.
Oh for sure. But non-white kids are automatically viewed with greater suspicion/less likely to be believed.
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You can add just about anything on OSM (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:En_key_descripti...), so the only limit is what people actually map :)

(and sometimes what the community decides, e.g. adding things that can't be seen anymore, like old tram lines, is generally frowned upon in main OSM and requested for something like Open Historical Map instead)
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The number of respected social commentators who think America is a police state is essentially zero.

If you believe America is a police state, then you are on the extreme-fringes of opinion. So you'd need extraordinary evidence to back your claim up.
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Emergency braking is active with or without the cruise control.
So is vi. I still use emacs.

Using only tools based on ubiquity is rather short sighted.
Web and Mobile has many frameworks(JS/native) that can be used to solve similar problems. I am wondering how we can write code that can be re-written quickly on other frameworks as a metrics of performance tests. I definitely think that developers should test there code/app on slower/older phones. A performance mindset creates better scalable tech and can save the company a lot of money in the long run and at the same time can be a core of user experience
Great for him but I think it will suck for his sister and mom's freedom.
How does one go from Dawkins said he didn't build a clock to "Dawkins is so against case-modding"?
Personally I'm not a huge fan of mixing language with UI architecture - it seems like it would slow down development on both fronts. Replacement costs are also much higher.

That aside, we'll talk about how we built our architecture in our next blog post! I promise you that I thoroughly pored over the Elm architecture tutorial[1] before designing any building blocks.

[1] https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/
They do this in a lot of places like western North Dakota (we use a bit more insulation though). This is basically a cry for help in housing / infrastructure.
I'm a bit surprised myself, more at the potential storage cost than the creepiness. Even at a low bit-rate, that's 10 MB/hr, which would add up quickly if many people are actually using Google voice search.
"Load a page when a user clicks on a link. Is this such a bad thing to keep things simple?"
Bloody hell! You've got to be kidding!
Any article about paparazzi is not properly balanced without a mention of the way many, many stars actually cooperate with them for media exposure.
Next big trend? This has been happening for years.
> I would absolutely say that Dawkins was in fact "going after him" and being an asshole, even if he probably didn't fully understand why

Don't forget that Dawkins said that Islamophobia is a 'non-word'[0].

Dawkins was being an asshole, and he definitely knew why. Ignoring Ahmed Mohamed's religion and race and pretending like it's not relevant doesn't change the fact that this entire incident is inextricably linked to the fact that he is Muslim and not white.

[0] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/richard-dawkins-def...
He has met with leaders all around the world and gotten the attention of major tech companies. His life is nowhere close to ruined.
Orders of magnitude, for me, starts at 1.5 log unit. That would make it ~15% charge overnight, assuming 100% power transfer efficiency.

Let’s read a bit more:

”the power levels beamed are more than 50 times lower than the lowest ultrasound imaging exposure limits set by the FDA for medical imaging”

The lowest limits I could find in http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm070856... is 20 mW/cm^2 (“A simple conservative approach for pulsed Doppler FHR monitors is to use 20 mW/cm2 as a guide for the maximum spatial-average pulse-average intensity at the transducer face”)

Dividing by 50 for the ”more than 50 times lower than the lowest ultrasound imaging exposure limits”, and multiplying for (ballpark) 100 cm^2 receiver area (about what one can get in a mobile phone), I get 40 mW of power received.

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulation... gives 17 mW/cm^2 for ophthalmic use, so 20 mW/cm^2 isn’t even strictly the lowest limit set by the FDA.

There may be a useful product here, but if so, I don’t see how all of what they say can be true.
I rarely ever want to open something in a new window. I do however like opening pages in new tabs so that I can finish doing what I'm doing on the current page.

I'm a Mac user. If I want to absolutely open a new tab when clicking on a hyperlink, I just hold down the command key and click on the link and ta-da it opens in a new tab (there's an equivalent for this in windows). If I want to open in a new window I just hold command + shift and click on the link.
There are a number of docker containers with httpie in them (I maintain one) as well if you don't feel like doing a native install, AND you're already using docker for things.
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Then again there's more to "meaningful communication" than a dog who adores its owner...
On the global scale of the shitstorms that unfold - I have a feeling the whole world is burning, racism in the US is a foot note.

What you have right now is the buzzfidization of the internet discourse - identity politics is easy traffic and money, so everyone is doing it.
Single threaded, meaning more focused? Also, during or after the float?
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Almost as annoying as pages filled with static content that don't follow the HTML design principles and fail to render properly with JS blocked.
Is it your contention that Congress also created a special exemption for Consumer Reports? That seems like:

a. It credits CR with a lot more power than CR actually has.

b. We would have heard about it before now.
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That's easy to say, but impossible to know. If the kid matches the right profile with the wrong teacher, there are plenty of scenarios where a white kid gets arrested for this.
Don't be silly. Qatar won't overtake US. Neither will BRICS or Japan or Nigeria, etc. They lack innovative culture, disrespect for authority, etc. West Europe, the only real competitor, is almost forever bound to US.
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Yea, but I can see through how much of a poser he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFvB1I7uMGg
Here is a rough diagram which demonstrates it http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/structure-yes.png (from the detailed page http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/). /dev/random will block when the entropy estimate in low, but in a practical sense, the output of /dev/urandom and /dev/random are both random.
You don't need a new UI: just disallow the ability of a site to open a link in a new window or tab, and leave that ability in the hands of the user, where it always belonged.
>Can be, yes. How often will it be?

The answer can even be ALWAYS, if remote controlling it is mandated by protocol.

>How often will it be operated remotely, and there's no other police in the immediate vicinity doing traffic control or some such?

That doesn't come into play at all. Do you think those kind of surveillance happens in busy streets with traffic control cops dancing around?
This. I'm more than willing to try different UNIXes, and I have. But when we're talking about running a business-critical database, it's a hard requirement that both myself and my teammates are able to maintain, keep patched, and generally competently administer the system. Trading an OS that my team has decades of combined experience running in production with for one where we collectively have zero production experience is a non-starter.
"Conspiracy theory" most of the time means exactly "legitimate criticism that the article/TV/politician wants to gloss over".
Like others, I was at first really pissed off at this saga, but the more I've read, the more I feel like it's a hoax. This whole thing has just been one scam on the media.
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> where's the solution to those web pages that put links in javascript that do stuff like window.open("url") that forces a new window, or do_postback("url")

I think a solution of hydrofluoric acid would be appropriate for them…
Amazon does the same thing with Echo recordings.
Remember that as the AOL search history leaks showed us, the anonymization is a fig leaf and it's not terribly challenging to re-associate a complete search query history with a person -- even without identifying the voice.
Because rational people grasp that almost everything is nuanced rather than a dichotomy?
I would suggest help.openstreetmap.org or one of the itc channels http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC for support.

The in-browser editor iD is really easy to use, however currently does not work with IE.
>Watching this unfold outside of America was really a masterclass in how racism and discrimination continues to thrive in America.

Kids get suspended for less in schools, now -- racism or not. It's easier (and more likely) to explain these outcomes through hardened, zero-tolerance policies.

>When I was 14 I hung out with (Caucasian) kids that lit things on fire in the park.

And...I'm assuming you didn't get caught because you used discretion and weren't doing things in a controlled setting (e.g. classroom) or putting others at risk.
I'm not saying that consumer reports did anything wrong, but insider trading or not, it happens. And places we would not expect. Who would've ever thought that members of Congress in their staff would be allowed to do insider trading? Until someone pointed out that it was illegal some years back, it never crossed my mind. I assumed it was illegal
So the media were the ones that made the school and police over-react completely? Riiiight.
Was it supposed to imply anything? Or it was just an information dump for information's sake, leaving it to the readers to make their own conclusions?

Because regardless of what your post's purpose was, people are obviously gonna read that extract as "hey, it's inside safety limits, so it's ok".

When we post something without further comment it's quite safe to assume that people will think we agree with it, and we're using it to pass a message (especially the most obvious reading it has). The only other interpretation that's (a little less) common, is for people to think we've quoted it sarcastically.
What's the story here?

>He visited the Google Science Fair, met with Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, posed with the queen of Jordan at a United Nations Summit, appeared on the “Doctor Oz” show and last night, made it to the White House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir

In March 2009, al-Bashir became the first sitting president to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), for allegedly directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur.

In October 2005, al-Bashir's government negotiated an end to the Second Sudanese Civil War, leading to a referendum in the South, resulting in the separation of the south into the separate country of South Sudan. In the Darfur region, he oversaw the War in Darfur that has resulted in death tolls that are about 10,000 according to the Sudanese Government, but most sources suggest between 200,000 and 400,000.
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Social commentators employed by the same companies that give us garbage news, terrible reporting, and comically blatant bias at every opportunity. For a social commentator to speak out against the government on a major news outlet would be a ratings disaster. Most Americans either agree with the surveillance state, don't give a shit, or don't even know about it. American media outlets are tremendously political and it'd be political suicide to speak ill of those who essentially own you.

I don't know how anyone can argue that the US doesn't fit the definition of an electronic police state as it was defined above. Your head would have to be very deep in the sand.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
If you don't need the newest and fastest, I recommend a ThinkPad X201 (upgrade the LCD to an AFFS one if you like a little DIY), or you can go really hard and get an X61.

Debian has worked great on both.
Uh, no, it mostly means "insane hypothesis which no amount of evidence can disprove but which some people will believe in regardless", such as the conspiracy theory that Jews perpetrated 9/11 or that vaccines cause autism or that Obama was born in Kenya.
No, usually it means "something with no shred of legitimacy or basis in facts that supporters will nonetheless defend with vitriol".

But nice try.
I hate to tell you this but that last bit doesn't have jack to do with race. I did things with fire and explosives when I was that age that would be grounds for prison time in the current oversensitive climate.
Especially for high-school kids who are getting started in tech
Top-level comment by sandworm101:

> They are not hard to spot. Watch the media entrances of events, where the on-location vans drive through. Look for where traffic is routed through a single lane. Inevitably they will route traffic past an unmarked van. Or, look for an unmarked van trolling any parking lots within any security cordon.

That "look for where traffic is routed through a single lane" makes me strongly suspect there's going to be traffic officers in the very near vicinity.
His father has run for president in Sudan and last made headlines for debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran.

This kid stuck a Radio Shack clock in a pencil case, and deliberately disrupted a class with it after he was asked to put it away -- he plugged it into the wall and left it beeping until he was kicked out of class and arrested for having a hoax bomb.

This whole episode was engineered by a politically active family, who is now running off to Qatar with all the free publicity and stuff gullible Americans gave them.

Al Jazeera is based in Qatar. Watch for the dad to appear on that network as a frequent commentator on anti-Islamic prejudice in America -- this was probably arranged weeks ago, possibly even before the hoax bomb incident.
I just had a look at the information Google has been keeping on me, and noticed that when I visited the visitor center for Zion National Park earlier this year, there was a photo of my car's license plate was associated with the event. Any ideas what's going on here?
Google asks you if you want to store your data to improve their model. Presumably they augment their model of you with the voice data and corrections you supply (voice-typed words are blue in android, and selecting one brings up a dropdown of alternate words that would be stupid not to record...).

I guess I always knew this data was being recorded, but honestly I would rather that Google not have released it via this interface. My Google account is not as well-secured as Google's backend, and if someone compromises my account I don't want them to be able to download recordings of my voice saying things (I probably have enough google searches on voice to make a soundboard for anything).

But, I can also appreciate that few users will appreciate the privacy implications of choosing to personalize the google voice model without a service like this, so...
It could suck for him, too, if he turns out to be gay, for example.
Can you personally ask the Solaris cryptography group why, in detail they think this is the case? No explanation I've seen for this makes sense.

In particular: the Solaris documentation suggests that urandom is fine for nonces, and /dev/random for long-term keys. But that's the opposite of the normal threat model for randomness! You care most about high-quality continuous-availability randomness for the nonces, where biases can be devastating to security, and attackers get repeated continual bites at the apple.

If someone can explain the logic here, I'll update the page that AGL linked to in this article to account for that.

I think the Solaris people are wrong. I'm not sure, but I'd be willing to bet a small amount of money on it.
I downloaded this data from Google and mapped every GPS location from 2014 using R.
It's true. There's definitely a noticeable segment of bitter Reddit users who complain "they stole that content from Reddit", blissfully unaware of the irony that most of the things "stolen" from Reddit often didn't originate on Reddit either, but they like to squawk about BuzzFeed (as it's only theft when it happens -to- Reddit).
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The difference matters, but on Linux, the difference means that you need to avoid /dev/random, because the blocking behavior virtually never helps security but always reduces reliability.
It does change things as the media (including the social media) has presented things much differently.
This is pretty much my takeaway too:

> Ahmed wasn’t accused of making a bomb – he was accused of making a look-alike, a hoax. And be honest with yourself, a big red digital display with a bunch of loose wires in a brief-case looking box is awful like a Hollywood-style representation of a bomb. Everyone jumped to play the race and religion cards and try and paint the teachers and police as idiots and bigots, but in my mind, they were probably acting responsibly and erring on the side of caution to protect the rest of their students, just in case. “This wouldn’t have happened if Ahmed were white,” they say. We’re supposed to be sensitive to school violence, but apparently religious and racial sensitivity trumps that. At least we have another clue about how the sensitivity and moral outrage pecking order lies.

What happened here is really clear, and it has nothing to do with this kid being named "Ahmed." He got in trouble because he made a look-alike bomb. Nobody thought it was a real bomb, but that's besides the point. Plenty of white kids get suspended from school for bringing in toy guns that are clearly, without debate, toys. Maybe "zero tolerance" for weapon look-alikes is a stupid policy, but it's a different sort of stupid policy than what people are attacking in this case.
I guess you would do something similar to this:

http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/

There isn't really a "central" place to flag such errors.
> the important thing is that he didn't build a bomb and was arrested by police officers

He was arrested on suspicion of perpetrating a bomb hoax. There may be a legitimate purpose for putting an existing clock inside a box where it can't be seen, and having it go off during class. But I'm less outraged if it turns out that law enforcement's only failure was missing out on that legitimate purpose when called to make a judgment on the spot.
There are plenty of QA tools available including such which show data that is stale.

It is true that very large multi-polygons can be hard to edit however they tend to be exclusively used for modelling large landuse areas and administrative boundaries, and tend to have no impact at all on adding and editing roads, buildings, POIs and so on.
That's equivocation at its best. Candles do not emit ionizing radiation in measurable quantities. X-Ray machines do. There's a huge distinction, similar to the distinction we make between shining an incandescent bulb up at a helicopter or passenger plane, and shining a laser pointer.
After you drive a Tesla, you feel everything else is outdated.

Today I drove a conventional car and it just feels so clunky and slow.

On the other hand, I prefer a normal key for opening my car, a simple, proven tech that works. Tesla has all those "someone had this idea and incorporated it in the car" that is typical of startups.

Everything has to be new and this makes reliability suffer in little stupid things, the basic experience is far superior to anything else.

The same happens to Apple in new products, you pay extra and you are the Guinea pig on anything new they include, think on ghost screens with retina display.
Don't disturb the circlejerk! Of course it's all a premeditated ruse to gain media attention, Richard Dawkins thinks so, too!! /s
I'm not sure why this is supposed to be a tricky problem. Seed urandom from /dev/random, just for the side-effect of blocking, before you generate host keys. Never use /dev/random again.
Well when you pretend that Coffeescript is just another language (like Java, or C#?), then it does become difficult to understand my statement.

Fortunately, most everyone else seems to understand what Coffeescript is, and thus they were able to grok my meaning.
Certs are published in certificate transparency logs, which would make the hostnames public.
Not sure which IHS article OP is referring to, but BCG did an analysis as well: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/content/articles/automotive-...

Relevant section is "The Price Tag". Here's a helpful image from the paper as well: https://www.bcgperspectives.com/Images/Revolution_Drivers_Se...

The biggest cost driver is the LIDAR, which is anticipated to cost Google $8k per car next year when they move to a cheaper system.
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