skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of those victims were people with prior violent felony convictions? How many of those shootings were in self defense? We can parse data all day long but people don't normally just get randomly shot by a cop. Chris Rock has a good bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2plo4FOgIU
I love sites like this because there's always that one person who can swiftly dig through all the BS and nail the point.

Thank you
Tangentially related, but I'm a little bit surprised to see something like this coming from CATO. Traditionally, a focus on police abuse and statistics like these have been the purview of the American left, while CATO is a conservative think tank.

It's very heartening to see this problem addressed by the other side of the aisle.
I understand that that's a feeling that you have, but I don't think there's any evidence for your claim
Thank you. It still looks strange to me. Amorymeltzer’s addition in his answer here really did a lot IMHO.
If we are going to sing that song: if somebody is going to kill 10 million people tomorrow is, necessarily, somebody with nuclear or biological weapons.

As a non-American I would feel a lot safe if you just dismantle yours.
2k was the first Windows version I remember that I didn't have to reboot daily. In my first proper job (a web developer, in 2000, writing what you'd now call 'single page applications' in DHTML) I'd go home at night and not even log out. The next day, it'd be waiting for me. At most I'd reboot weekly.

I also loved the workstation-y, crisp UI that would let me drag a window with its contents around the screen. My computer wasn't even all that powerful by the standards of the time.
If you complained after 2 years that your battery was less effective than when you bought it, you wouldn't have a case. But if it failed completely, then you probably would.
You have a choice of not living near a large population center which draws more potential terrorist attacks.
Without being privy to the entire context, what I think might've happened is that your discussion caught the interest of a core developer who then picked it up and ran with it. I doubt they intended to step on your toes as a consequence of fixing the problem. Hackers tend to be intrigued by problems, including small ones, and especially ones that cause software behavior to deviate from expectations.

The other side of the coin is that without a patch, the developers have no idea what your motives or capabilities are. They can't read minds, so if you pique their interest sufficiently, they're very likely to take it upon themselves to do the legwork. No malice intended. I should hope you'll change your mind about contributing to FOSS projects after reading this thread, because I think it's counterproductive to take this sort of thing personally (I don't know if you are, but it appears to me that you're unhappy about this at the very least).

That said, there aren't many projects that post credits or thanks to people who have discovered bugs or whose line of questioning has lead to fixing application behavior. While it's extra work and isn't always feasible, it can encourage users to pitch in if they know their name might appear in some credits (even if it's only per-release). Then there's the question of how big the problem needs to be to credit someone...
I imagine he'd also lose his job, and any career he had.
As of a few months ago, he has been browsing the web (sometimes) using IceCat and Tor.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
It's not copyright infringement to consume only part of something.
Point 4: "load deflection", aka "grid parity" sounds good on paper but doesn't reflect the fact that the cost of conventional sources is a moving target controlled by governments and monopolies (not that there's much of a difference). No doubt that solar cost is dropping fast given huge investments in R & D. But the cost of conventional sources can be dropped with the stroke of a pen.
Here in Australia we have one of the highest per capita uptakes of household solar panels in the world. At some point during the day, most of those households produce excess power and that power is sold back into the grid.

But because there is so much power being generated, the householder is only paid a fraction of the equivalent price of extracting an equivalent amount of electricity from the grid.

At present those householders have no choice but to put up with that dud deal, as they have no where else to put that excess power. But move on a few years when battery technology starts to take off and battery prices come down, that will change.

When that happens, total household electricity costs will be coming down and they will be one very big step closer to being off grid.
Rate limiting in ASP.NET MVC
Definitely. Listening to an MP3 while browsing the internet? Hope you like pops and skips every time you load a new page. Starting a game? Better close everything first. Hitting swap? Have fun sl...ow....l...y... moving your cursor where you want it.

Applied to Windows and Linux both, with the bonus on Linux that X11 couldn't even move windows around the screen without all kinds of artifacts and stuttering.

Then again, you can't even fit a single browser tab with Gmail open in the RAM they ran on, so you gotta cut them some slack.

However, BeOS was practically miraculous and suffered few or none of those problems on the same hardware. That it didn't survive the OS wars is proof that we are not in the Best Timeline.
It's a cost that the businesses and consumers have to deal with but it is not necessarily a cost for society at large.
> Symantec first said it improperly issued 23 test certificates for domains owned by Google, browser maker Opera, and three other unidentified organizations without the domain owners' knowledge. A few weeks later, after Google disputed the low number, Symantec revised that figure upward, saying it found an additional 164 certificates for 76 domains and 2,458 certificates for domains that had never been registered.

Wow, Symantec really really fucked up. I wonder why they still can be trusted now.
oh EU, you had me at "internet rules".
> Then what did op reply to their questions such as 'can't you afford a real machine'? he just mubbled? I would reply very harshly to such comments and show them who is the weakling.

That's a rather macho way of handling things. Personally, and i speak only for myself here, i would be miserable in a job that required me to behave that way, but perhaps it's fine for others. Different strokes for different folks and all that.

Just bear in mind that not everyone functions that way, some of us prefer respectful and constructive environments. But i, too, concede that that's just my preference, and there are probably different personality types that will gravitate to different office cultures.

For the record, i still think it's boorish to make such comments. I know that i would also probably just mumble and steam in such a situation (after all, i'm in people-pleasing mode, i want the job, but at the same time, i'm being goaded).
Precisely. I used to come here as a kid, and watching this video made me nostalgic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxiD9rSzEcU

I never knew all of the details about Nellie Bly's life, and I thought the park was dilapidated and gone, but apparently they restored it under a new name and new management.

I'm glad I now know more about Nellie Bly, a name I had forgotten from my childhood.
You provided that solution -- "lawsuits with a risk of criminal prosecution."

That's your invention, so feel free to knock it down.

I'm simply observing a truth, and was in the original comment: the enormous legal resources being wasted dealing with unnecessarily incarcerated people would be useful in dealing with prosecutorial misconduct.

I won't claim it's a profound or useful insight. :)

And the justice system could stand to spend more on limiting the amount of injustice it causes, an amount which the general population is starting to realize is not trivial.

(Also, I notice that you've amended your original comment to be a bit more sympathetic).
I like the twitch platform, technologically, but this really needs to be a separate site entirely. If it's connected to twitch, it'll have all the stupid twitch spam and emotes and nerds saying OMG GRILL constantly.
One has to be careful with strings in pypy, because they don't have a string-builder optimization. Or maybe they do now?
If a star explodes in an obscure galaxy and no one observes it, does it have an impact one anyone's existence?
I think you have to be a successful founder i.e. huge revenue or huge user growth or a VC in order to give expert advice and feedback.

For user testing, the most important metric is not how many people give us feedback but whether it's coming from a credible and relevant source.
Bill collectors have been known to spoof caller ID with relatives' phone numbers. Yes, I know this is illegal, but it is still done.

The best approach is audio captcha where you have to enter a random 3 digit code to get the phone to ring. This throws off most call centers because, the part which makes the phone ring is automated. Once the line is answered, an agent is connected to the line.

If the collection agency does not use automated dialing, then DTMF passwords may be necessary. This is a pain for friends and family, but it can be a very effective filter.
Yay! Glad to hear it. Using Python makes me so envious of Perl's startup time. Maybe some day we can have that in Python too...

Where are those blog posts?
Chilled police behavior, violent crime rising, claiming mostly young black men
I don't really understand that lobbying thing, who is paying who to officially make life worse for citizens and how this is justified? PS: I'm not american.
Cato has been good on these issues since forever. I picked up my instinctive knee jerk support of civil liberties from them when I was a wee little thing.
IMO the word 'Terrorist' is a hopelessly useless propaganda word used to incite fear of the bogeymen in the population.

It also lumps all sorts of people together, from credible conceptual revolutionary ideas to psychotic mono religious zealots. Slight digression from the point Cato is making but the headline inevitably falls into the sensationalist trap for this reason...
> in some rural area

I spent a summer in Beijing in 1998 and knew a young lady whose unborn baby was forcibly killed. So I don't buy "in some rural area".
If something on the order of the 9/11 attacks happened every other day, we'd still lose more Americans to heart disease.
Space-time becomes an emergent phenomena, rather than fundamental.
That would have been completely possible had he still been under the manufacturer's warranty, as yours seems to have been. The issue here was the he was outside the standard warranty but still within the extended warranty that he hadn't registered. There's no way for Apple (or any company) to know that you bought an extended warranty from a third-party unless you notify them/register it with them. That's the crux of the issue here. If you have an Apple warranty, you can even take it to a third-party authorized Apple center and they can fix it. Their current systems allow them to have parts on order within 12 hours and they don't have to hang on to your machine, if it works (which it would for a battery issue), in order to get something that takes longer to order.
The OP's company appears to be: UtilityAPI.com.

Some more info about solar tech companies here:
https://powerhouse.solar/companies/
Criminals are out of control. Don't fight with a cop, don't resist arrest, you don't get shot. Pretty simple solution. Perhaps, to be fair, we ought to discuss violence committed by illegal aliens. We don't have that discussion on HN. Perhaps our outrage ought to be directed at the criminals and misfits that seem to think running from cops, fighting with cops or insulting cops is somehow smart. I know far more victims of crime than I do victims of police brutality. You're more likely to be shot by a gangbanger than a cop, thus shouldn't we be complaining about that?
Pleasantly surprised at the developers' reaction to the rejection. It's like they knew that there was a chance and they weren't really upset when it didn't go their way. Kudos to them for their ingenuity despite the failure.
An important nitpick: the description of the equivalence principle [1] in the article is incorrect.

A spinning astronaut in a universe without stars can discern whether she or her partner is spinning, particularly if they work together a little.

The astronaut can change her moment of inertia by curling into a ball or spreading out: if the astronauts' relative rotation rate changes, she's rotating. If it doesn't, she's not.

Things are more complicated if they're both rotating, but with mental math and freshman/high-school physics, they'll be able to sort it out completely.

Even in a universe without any external reference, it's possible to place limits on your rotation rate. If a centrifugal force is palpable when extending an appendage, then you're rotating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
> There is a lot of police brutality news lately in the media so I suspect a lot of availability bias is going on

Sure. The actual rarity is why it has been hard to convince people that reform is needed. The majority will simply not be affected, so anything they're made aware of is easy to pass off as happening to "others".

But regardless of how much it happens, if justice were being achieved then we would expect any case we do become aware of to end with the victims being made whole after the fact. Not just for spectacle cases where someone dies, but in all cases, even if someone is simply arrested yet never sentenced - "You can beat the wrap but you can't beat the ride" is antithetical to due process.

Such compensation not happening routinely is a fundamental problem with the justice system, and I am glad the issue is finally getting attention.
It's an interesting question. I think there are two things which are in play, at least:

Guns are readily available and we have "a right to guns" so police have to presume civilians of any kind are potentially armed.

Second, we are not the only country with wealth disparity, nor the one with the largest, but... We sell people on the idea that everyone can achieve the dream of living a middle class lifestyle. When people see this opportunity unrealized they feel someone must be actively working against the promise. In some cases there is some truth to that, in other cases it's wishful thinking, but in the end, and on the whole thankfully people don't just assign their station in life to divine assignment and do feel disenfranchised, unlike other places where people might just accept their "fate" as predetermined, to great extent.

So lack of opportunity by itself don't create strife. It's lack of opportunity coupled with a dissonant promise unrealized that creates strife in our cities.
One example that comes to mind would be four neighbourhoods in a row along a freeway. At each neighbourhood, traffic slows to 30mph to handle local traffic. Does it make sense to build a bypass to facilitate getting directly from neighbourhood A to D? Observing axle counts only tells you the volume from A to B, B to C, and C to D, but doesn't provide information about new roads or routes that might improve things.
Police forces don't operate in a vacuum, they are composed of the citizens of the places in which they serve. Police, like prisons, should be viewed as a reflection of society.

If Americans are going to be serious about eliminating police brutality and killing, they need to take a hard look at their own culture of guns, violence, and racism.
Time zone news
oh good another open sourced MySQL management tool. This usually happens right when the company decides it's not good enough and is about to move on to something else. See Netflix OSS
The morning I decided that “F&^k Kodak”
How about a constitutional amendment which states that a bill can only address 1 issue. Separate bills would be required for K street lobbyists to address their interests, and then they would have a tougher time getting these passed.
NGINX Plus with a machine-learning based WAF built-in
I don't personally block ads, but I of course find all the arguments against tracking, malware, etc to be rather compelling, since they don't really fit any reasonable definition of consent, given many users' lack of awareness of tracking and the intentional failure of ad companies to be explicit about it.

> They all abuse their users in one way or another. Tracking me across the web? How about no? What about distraction? Is time free now?

But your comment reaches new heights of absurdity. Taking your attention is "abuse"? When you go to the store and they force you to pay for goods, is that theft and abuse? You're consuming a service for free, and the cost of that service is a modicum of attention. When we're not talking about the terms of the transaction being hidden from users, pretending that paying for services is "abuse" is frankly just pathetic. Grow up.
Why do you want to learn programming in the first place? Why not make money with something else? Learning programming is hard work and takes a long time, even for those who love it.

I would recommend you look around for distance-learning courses on other skill sets that interest you more and doing those instead of trying to force your way into programming. Of course you can learn programming even if you don't enjoy it at all, but I think the only way to be really good at anything is to love doing it enough to put in your 10,000 hours...
I recommend clang-format : http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
Wouldn't it be better to just implement W3C Recommendation Pointer Events[0] and its touch-action CSS control and to stop trying to kludge things based on viewport META tags?

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/
I am somehow reminded of Viktor Pelevins' Omon Ra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omon_Ra)

Having said that, it is great that we, as species, are looking towards space!
Thank you so much for answering my doubts. I’m Italian, and I’m culturally biased, as someone exposed to me in other answers.

May I suggest to rephrase it a little?
You would be surprised at how relevant some of the old case law is. Mainly because it goes straight to the heart of certain issues - i.e. What does it actually mean to 'own'something. These fundamentals don't change, but of course, this modern world does put stress on some of these principles, for example have I really stolen from you if you still have the item? (Digital copying)
I've read:

Elixir in Action by Sasa Jurić

Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! by Fred Hebert

All recommended.
I agree, but if the cops in the US are put in a naturally more violent environment, then it is unfair to solely call out their policing tactics as the cause for the violence, when the underlying problem is much deeper.
FlightMate – Tool that alerts you when a flight's price has dropped
uBlock Origin in advanced mode can also block (and temporarily unblock) Javascript, much like NoScript.

For me, I found uBlock Origin's advanced mode easier to use than NoScript, while blocking the same amount; the only thing I sort of miss is that NoScript attempts to "fix" some pages so they work even without Javascript, while uBlock Origin does nothing more than preventing the scripts from running.
Or you know... don't smuggle stuff into a prison...
The NSA is a whole lot more than just the bulk collection program.
6 Startup Finalists of 3D FinTech Challenge 2015
I was, of course, using the "155" number that the OP used in his analysis, so we are both correct.
Why We Decided to Take an Investment (Even Though We Didn’t Need the Cash)
I wonder if it'd be okay to stream writing a novel or something? Not sure who would want to watch such a thing, but it might draw a niche audience if the author was zany enough.
Does the government allow a newborn to be transferred to a family that's under quota?
American has used nuclear weapons twice in history. Fearing American nukes is ridiculous and not based on any rational thought.
Only top level application windows were tiled. Dialog windows were floating above them and they were overlapping.

There was no need for hardware support because windows were not buffered, they repainted itself when the system told them to do it.
You picked a particularly terrible example, since the Times hasn't stopped struggling since introducing an online subscription, and most depressingly, is starting to experiment with the same clickbait bullshit that Buzzfeed popularized (things like increasingly questionably labeled "sponsored stories").
The answer to hyperbolic statements in a forum like HN shouldn't be.... more hyperbolic statements. The GP's statements might not be grounded in facts or statistics, but neither are yours.
MIT building wireless tech to sense people through walls
I see these things as valuable in preserving history, even if artificial history based on reenactments and research. It is one thing for a person to hear or read about an event, and one much more likely to engender empathy to experience the event viscerally.

Specifically, it engenders empathy and reflection of a much higher degree.

Back before world war 1, many young soldiers went to the front with an eagerness and starry-eyed-ness born from insufficient knowledge about how war really looked like. In this day and age only the most uneducated, or most strong-willed would happily go into battle, because we have plenty of media informing us of the reality of it.

Yes, this kind of thing may creep you out and make you feel really uncomfortable, but that is exactly the point.

If you don't have an Oculus, just watch the thing on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-yQfiyzSo Try and see what observations you pick up on that you never even thought about while reading it.
Also, there is a lot more at play in the middle east than simply whether the people want democracy or stability. There is plenty of foreign interference going on from USA, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc... it's hard enough to overthrow a dictatorship and set up a free and democratic replacement. It's even harder when several foreign powers are fighting to prevent this from happening.
Building the infrastructure in Clojure for an electric-powered bikes scheme
Well, at least in this case, gavinking's protests were utterly unnecessary because I didn't attack the language (despite his beliefs to the contrary) so there was no need to defend it. I just wanted to clarify its clearly stated, official design goals, and later (after being called lots of names) also asked why the language designers think those goals are the right ones to address, because on the face of it, they appear to be the wrong ones to me. It is, of course, a matter of pure opinion and outlook, but still, it is interesting to hear the designers' views (especially because a new language is generally something that makes a much stronger statement -- ideological, philosophical -- than most developer-facing software products. Even if gavinking thinks I have misunderstood Ceylon's treatment of generics or the quality of the Java interop, those topics were really not the core of my statements, but rather Ceylon's basic raison d'etre.
The whole exercise seems to be closing ranks. These guys would not want to lose their reputation with one article out. They will use smoke and mirrors etc. The Theranos facade will continue. Who ever thinks Elizabeth Holmes is going to go away are mistaken. With $9 Billion valuation a lot is at stake and there are lot of stake-holders. Elizabeth Holmes practically OWNS every member on that board.
If you're going the technical route, you can automate a lot of the farming. Still might not need more labor.
"It’s been an amazing privilege to watch live video grow up".. really?
Hasn't happened to MissCookiez yet (best Creative streamer on Twitch). I also saw a cooking channel where someone was baking Hearthstone scones which seemed alright. Not the biggest but a few thousand viewers at least.