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Personally, I live in one of the "murder capital's" of the U.S.. Them going for dangerous people highly armed would make plenty of sense. Still, despite high crime, police are quite safe with them rarely dying and that's not due to militarism: hood areas could pour 100+ rounds into any cop that showed up. Most people, even crooks, just wouldn't try to kill a cop. Run or resist a bit? Yes. Gun down? Only the dumbest, most evil, or most mentally ill. Very few and cautious, non-asshole cops can handle them with training.

Cops still regularly use plenty of macho attitude and force against many here. This ranges from kids smoking weed to drunks to white collar criminals. I knew one teenager that got SWAT'ed because his mom was a small time meth dealer. She has some addiction and non-violent crime then her kids are on the ground with machine guns shoved in their heads and their belongings torn apart? Please... No wonder they "learned" that police were heartless pricks to avoid when they themselves became dealers or whatever to get ahead.

The OP may be going too far with it but I've seen a number of police departments adopt the stance of "we care about you, working with you, and will drop you with a quickness if we have to." They're doing fine last I heard where militant areas like mine surely ain't. Hood rats pride themselves in fighting or being jailed by such police. So, it not only doesn't work: becomes a vicious circle between police and thugs.

Glad to see more taking a less simplistic view than "more violence = more compliance."
What's really funny is I started in software (have code committed to some open source projects... BIND, Valgrind), and then moved to Physics. The code is garbage because the constraints are totally different. Experiments and code can be brittle and still work. There's no time to consider user experience for fellow grad student when there's so much else to do... though I do know of SOME students who make time to write good code. Hats off to them.
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Chronos 2.3.3 released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660598
Everyone who is interested in popular science should study at least the basics of philosophy of science. It helps us understand the meaning and implications of a lot of concepts that we often use in our arguments, such as falsifiability, reproducibility, and "evidence-based".

These concepts sound neat in theory but need to be interpreted a lot more carefully, with a healthy dose of subtlety, in the messy world of bleeding-edge scientific research. Especially if you're using them to try to discredit somebody else's work as "unscientific".

If you're the type that gets impatient with philosophy, the broader field of science and technology studies (STS) is a lot more exciting and interdisciplinary. It's a loose collaboration among sociologists, anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and political scientists who share a common interest in the interaction between science and human society as a whole.

If you're interested in STS, Sergio Sismondo's Introduction to Science and Technology Studies offers a high-level overview of the field, both philosophical and political, in a compact and accessible package. The bibliography section is also a gold mine of interesting books and case studies from every subfield of STS. (Disclaimer: Sergio was my Ph.D. supervisor.)

Programmers in the age of social networking and IoT might also find actor-network theory particularly interesting. Callon and Latour were way ahead of their time, trying to view everyday objects as first-class citizens in the vast, distributed network of knowledge that makes up modern science. French sociologists are crazy, but sometimes they're prophetic as well.
Except for when it works with glue

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/09/chaos-computer-club-hac...
Brian Lambert is about as skilled a UI programmer as you are likely to meet. He was one of the early developers at Onfolio, a startup and product that Microsoft acquired and out of whose ashes Writer arose. IIRC Brian was long gone by the time we started working on Writer, but plenty of his code ended up shipping in it.

I imagine there must have been scores of more colorful comments by Brian and others that got scrubbed before the open source release.
see it on the roads in the next 5 years

Nah. At least not the way you put it, that most drivers will be out of a job. I think that could take closer to 50 years than to 5 years.

Much more quickly, the automation could be doing the actual long distance "driving" (such as maintaining lanes and distance), while the human driver will sit back and supervise.

Without a human present, the first automated truck that "pulls a Wal-mart"[1] and wipes out a bunch of cars and people will result in the whole thing getting shut down. The human has to be there for liability reasons if for no others. It would be very hard for a company get away with blaming the computer after an injury accident.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/1...
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Similar story with ecommerce sites. Even Amazon still runs most of their shop experience over HTTP. From a technical perspective, switching a simple site to HTTPS-only isn't that hard. Fix mixed content warnings, update urls, etc. Ecommerce sites often use dozens of third-party vendors for things like analytics, ads, and recommendations. Making sure all of your dependencies support HTTPS can be a logistical nightmare.
I disagree with the analogy. Human population will not grow from 1 billion to 7 billion because of data, that is the kind of change we got with oil. Oil is a hard asset, data is not entirely hard asset.
Please stop with this nonsense apologia. If JP Morgan was not guilty it would fight at least one of these many cases in court. Virtually every time they settle, which means they are either guilty or the settlements are so low that they don't matter.
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I think you underestimate how much you need to spend to counter the amount websites make on advertising.

I did a back-of-the-envelope-style calculation at one point (I can't recall my source data anymore now though), and basically you'd need to pay something like $120 a month for websites to end up with the same amount of cash as with ads.
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what you are condoning is not politely asking, as if that ever got anything accomplished in this world. polite requests can be politely ignored.

you are condoning bullying. bullying is threatening and demeaning in a way a shirt can only hope to one day accomplish, for the record.
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Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9320235

The blog post is from 2012.
we don't know what police been told. if neighbor told "they got machine guns and looks like are going to slaughter our neighborhood" - this is enough to break door with guns drawn in my opinion.
The Value of Science
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0375758488/

Meditations on First Philosophy
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0192806963/
I wonder if it would be possible to take the idea of certificate authorities and apply it to cell phone towers. Basically, each cell tower company would be a CA, and could generate a certificate for each cell tower. Major cell tower companies could then be trusted by other CAs, and cell phones could have a store of trusted CAs. Then, when a cell phone attempts to connect to a tower, a check is made to verify that the tower is trusted by a trusted CA. This way, a user could (at least maybe) revoke a certificate from a CA that has trusted a group that has set up a cell site simulator.

My knowledge of PKI is pretty shaky. Does anyone know if something like this would work and/or be an improvement?
According to Crunchbase this is the 17th round of funding. That seems insane to me.
To be clear, they raised $129M in this exact round of funding, which complements $550M previously raised in 2015.
I don't understand why you would share a three year old post explaining the basics of interfaces in Go.
Read this when I was first getting into Go; super helpful and a fun(ish) read for people curious about the language
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Michael Polanyi is also a solid substitute for Kuhn, and a contemporary of Fleck.

Kuhn is way more popular, though, and the Structure is short and straightforward, so it's probably a safer recommendation for beginners.
Both good points. Yann LeCun (et al) have developed CNN FPGA designs where they project future ASIC performance, but I'm not aware that this has ever been taped out, nor any power numbers released:

http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/farabet-iscas-10.pdf

IBM has been working on these chips from 2009 I think, before DNNs really became popular again and I bet they would change a few things if they were designing from scratch today - especially better support for CNNs. The cost of chip production for something like True North is very high (5.4B transistors!) so I suspect they are trying to squeeze as much out of it as they can :)
Only good Skype version I know is for OS X. Issues seem to be rare. Even it is not as good as it used to be.

Skype on Windows 10 freezes and crashes pretty often. It doesn't seem to like RDP with multi-monitor setups.

Android version doesn't always seem to update latest messages. It's presence indicators are also not agreeing with desktop Skype and often just plain wrong. Annoying when you're talking to someone who is 'green' and should be present and turns out they were not.

Overall, Skype has gone downhill for at least the last five years. No positive changes.

What would be a good replacement? Must be zero configuration, grandma usable, with good voice quality, ability to chat, to share screen and send files.
The article is a pretty good intro to how to use interfaces. I think some people, especially those not familiar with the language would benefit from reading such articles and learning how to write idiomatic Go code, rather than ask for features that would allow them to write idiomatic $LANGUAGE_THEY_LIKE code.
There's only so much to know. What's more important is what we do with it, and how we apply it.
You could probably apply for the Amazon accelerate program and get $15K from them pretty easily.
Surely? No. Possibly? Yes. Likely? Both.
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> The criticism is due to the fact that they burst into the room with guns drawn. It was an over-reaction to a completely unknown situation that was about 99.9% benign.

The cops received a report about armed individuals- that warrants an armed, yet retrained response, no?
The $15k of credits are only for "startups in select accelerators, incubators, co-working spaces, and other startup organizations".
Which is why we need to get this adoption completed ASAP so we can eliminate the magstripes on our cards.
This is nonsense. $35B is certainly enough money to stop and fight for, if they thought otherwise. The idea that "nothing was proven" is preposterous, they are certainly guilty not just "not guiltless".
I'm on FF current; no crashes through wave 14 or so (and died naturally). This laptop has Win7.
That's exactly what I did, and it left me feeling even more confused. As an example, the book, as I understood, proposes that "What is life?" is a serious philosophical question for biologists to deal with. That sounds an awful lot like arguing over definitions, which seems to be rarely useful.[1] Then there's the famous Feynman quote which seems to make it clear that he thought little of PhilSci.

It'd be great to see a real example applied to software languages. A concrete "here's why it does X" kinda thing. I see there's several essays and a paper linked from Tomas's site so perhaps I'll find something useful there. I do understand that as a mere software writer, there may not be much for me.

Meanwhile, the biggest use for PhilSci is defending physics models we can't test, isn't it? Perhaps, for example, using Bayesian probability to rate things, and using, I dunno, elegance, as positive evidence. But I'm way out of my depth here so perhaps someone can tell me if this is even remotely coherent. Consciousness seems to also involve a lot of philosophy, mainly because the understanding at this point is fairly limited and a lot of is just reasoning about things. (Versus being able to point out how a brain really works, how a consciousness works, etc. Some apparently think this is simply unknowable and magical.)

1: It's more common that fighting for definitions is useful for rhetorical purposes. E.g. copyright infringement being called stealing versus infringement or "piracy".
Lync... what a piece of... although latest version (Skype for Business) is a bit better than before. But that's not saying much.

Microsoft doesn't seem to have any clue how to make a working chat app.
> OTOH if the machine processed the current transaction correctly while sending all your codes to the bad guys, it could do so until the store noticed its bad firmware, which could take years

Banks already correlate fraud reports to where customers have used their cards to track down offending stores that skim cards. They don't have to find the bad firmware, they just have to see "well 10 customers had their cards skimmed, and the only store they had in common was that one"
Not necessarily, if the report has a high chance of being false.
Basically the entirety of paragraph 3...

"set up only for those who wish to become theoretical physicists, not just ordinary ones"
--- use of 'ordinary' instead of 'experimental' is intentionally condescending, hopefully for sarcastic effect

"very best, those who are fully determined to earn their own Nobel Prize. If you are more modest than that"
--- I'm not sure if this is actual encouragement or a joke. But the following:

"finish those lousy schools first and follow the regular routes provided by educators and specialized -gogues who are so damn carefully chewing all those tiny portions before feeding them to you."
--- Must be a joke. Nobel prizes are not awarded to individuals these days, they go to collaborations. There is no way to get into a collaboration, or likely a PhD program without an undergraduate degree in Physics. Legally not allowed in many European countries to join a PhD program...

"More than rudimentary intelligence is assumed to be present, because ordinary students can master this material only when assisted by patient teachers."
--- if this isn't sarcasm, then this guy is a monstrous prick who just decided to insult the 'rudimentary' intelligence of all Physics undergrads who deigned to actually attend college. Again with the 'ordinary'.

The opening paragraph continues the authors apparent disdain for school in general:

"But what if you are still young, at School, and before being admitted at a University, you have to endure the childish anecdotes that they call science there? What if you are older, and you are not at all looking forward to join those noisy crowds of young students?"

Which is a bit humerus considering the importance he himself places on fundamentals with:

"solid foundations in elementary mathematics and notions of classical (pre-20th century) physics. Don’t think that pre-20th century physics is “irrelevant”"

If it isn't sarcasm, then I have no idea why the author has decided to be so acerbic in his notation. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't actually mean to insult basically the 99% of physicists who don't show up in "Brilliant Mind"-esque movies.

edit:
From his CV:

* Gymnasium-Beta, Dalton Lyceum, The Hague, 1964
* Physics and Mathematics, University of Utrecht
* Kandidaatsexamen N1, 4 July 1966
* Doctoraal examen Theoretical Physics, 10 October 1969
* Promotie (PhD thesis) on the subject "Renormalization Procedure for Yang-Mills fields", 1 March 1972

i.e. He did basically all this stuff he is brushing off as worthless. As in going to classes, with teachers, at an undergraduate university, before applying for a PhD program.
And there are still investigations ongoing! Once they close the case on bad-doings in one market sector, they then find they were doing the same in another!
Pay the fine for LIBOR.
What? They were involved in the FX issue too? Get them back in with the check book again.
The people would really like to see the firms not get away with paying fines of pennies on the dollar of the profits of bad actions.
The Best Interface Is No Interface
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His scenario was the company raises at 10M and afterwards gives 1% of it's shares to the employee. Actually I think most countries would treat that as taxable income which is why companies usually give options not shares once they get going.
Gonna go ahead and recommend Hume's Treatise of Human Nature on top of this, which underlines the complete impossibility of inductive proofs—not deductive, recursive proofs, but inductive proofs based on incomplete knowledge of state available.

This is not because it's immediately relevant to coding, but because it helps illustrate the difference between knowing the complete state of a problem and only knowing part of it—the latter of which is the central problem of science, arguably. Most of the philosophy of science builds on this work either directly or indirectly. Hustle and read it!

EDIT: reasoning -> proof, my bad.
BSOD is indeed impossible without kernel or more likely driver bugs.

That said, Skype on Windows 10 does do weird things.
+1 do it specially for programming languages - ruby methods; javascript methods; java methods; Objective-C methods :D :D etc!
It's an actual selling point that Apple Pay stuff is only stored on the Secure Enclave on the device, and not in the cloud. I'm sure any house key type stuff Apple would implement would work the same way.

Lose your phone and you lose your payment instrument and your keys... no thanks.
Do you use PayPal on your website, are you happy with it?
How much of the transactions are coming from the PayPal?
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They bombed Serbia in 1999 as well. That was supposedly about Kosovo, but they were bombing cities that weren't in Kosovo and didn't have military infrastructure to "destroy economy and infrastructure". It was kind of a dick move really. Serbian economy already wasn't much back then.

Kosovo being a majority muslim state within orthodox Serbia. Afaik their independence/sovereignty is still questionable so the NATO bombings didn't really do much.
Scrolling down the posted page you can see the details on loading latency: it ranges from daily loading on the free plans to 30 minutes on the business tier.
You missed my point. I am speaking of squid caching, which won't normally work with HTTPS.
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They are sleeping in the sense that they go under the radar of most of the public in spite of being massively influential.
Is there a reason that Feminist books would add something particularly special? (Versus books simply written by women?) I don't know much except apparently respected Feminists have said stuff like "E=mc^2" is a "sexed equation" and other inane stuff. (Generally non-physicists talking about physics doesn't end well.)

Is there a short, concise, summary of what Feminism has contributed to sciences? (Given that I don't think one's chromosome's or gender should matter much in the first place.)

Sorry if this is extremely ignorant; just curious.
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Thurrott covers Microsoft but to straight out call him fanboy is for simple minded. He is and has been critical of Microsoft and its various products.
Given that inductive reasoning is possible and that that it is (in the case of Solomonoff induction) on very solid philosophical and mathematical footing, I'm skeptical of any book which claims it's impossible.
Cellphones are half duplex but the basestation is generally full-duplex. A half-duplex basestation could probably handle no more than one cellphone. OpenBTS and YateBTS, as well as most commercial basestations, have design patterns that require tight timing capabilites that in turn lend themselves to running on full-duplex basestations.
Everyone in tech knows about Palantir.
Haven't read it but it looks great. And yes, seems like a great exercise to entertain thoughts while suspending judgement.
I also recommend the course PHIL202 - Philosophy of Science on Saylor.com. It is for free.

https://legacy.saylor.org/phil202/Intro/
You're a couple of orders of magnitude off, my friend.
The ships/words on screen all start with different letters. Once you type the first letter of a word, that one changes orange (and you have it finish it before your key presses will be recognized for other words).

This also applies to the single-letter bullets, unfortunately, so if you've just started typing "misappropriation" but a stray "s" is about to hit you, you're out of luck.

What got me a few times was a first-letter typo - which matched another word. Then I'd lose a few seconds just finding which word was claiming my key presses, and that'd be the end.

I didn't know Esc would work there! I'll try that next time around.
I have to say, though, that regardless of whether or not it's quantum it's still damn fast. But the question was, is it quantum? I don't exactly know how you prove that. I assume you can, I just don't know how.
Well, we'll keep getting better and better at extracting more worthwhile data, and increase our ability to use the data we have. And data will allow extensive growth (of business). It might be reaching, but yes, kinda.
also Our Knowledge of The External World by Bertrand Russell
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OpenBTS and YateBTS need a full-duplex radio to function. So far only Ettus radios and bladeRFs [1] have those capabilities. The bladeRF is also the cheapest option, costing in the low 3 figures (with coupon code HKRNWS). Full-disclosure, I make the bladeRF.

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You can already do that. It's just several orders of magnitude slower if you don't run it on a dedicated GPU.
Interesting. I'd never thought about the potential issues with HTTP/2 being only HTTPS based. Though seems that self signed certs could still be used or is that disallowed?
Awesome! This means a lot for Clojure traction. The reality is that a lot of Clojure new arrivals are going to be still doing straight Java and this provides a nice blended experience. Hence, this is a profound contribution to adoption.
How do you figure how much to charge? Do you give them x amount of hours a year, use it or lose it? Or structure it some other way?
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