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I honestly don't think the officer had time to find out or use non-lethal force.

Anything besides a gun would not have had the range nor the stopping power in this situation.

To me, the moral of the story is to think twice before aiming a deadly weapon (fake or not) at a police officer. I just wish there were more parents in this country that would watch their kids and give them a little more education beyond just plunking them in front of the TV.

I'm glad the courts came to the same conclusion as me. The system isn't completely corrupt.
... are there people who start it not at the bottom!?
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The US is a police state through and through. There's no accountability for the police, and they're constantly used to rough up politically inconvenient groups (the poor, the blacks) and are increasingly smashing their clubs on white, middle classed heads. 360 degree surveillance powers given to local police departments also allow them to manufacture charges or probable cause-- after all, they're the only ones with that privileged information, so they can claim it says whatever they want.

The police use a culture of paramilitary raids to stroke their need to feel like soldiers while not being in danger from the civilians whose homes they break into late at night.

Oh yeah, and then there's the whole civil asset forfeiture thing, where the pigs steal from people not accused of any crime.
Hm — how does the word "state" enter the equation?

I feel like I'm in a not-so-secret racist meeting: everybody is having a specific stereotype in mind and is barely hiding an understanding smirk, but still not saying anything out loud.
The existance of "the" key is not an inherent problem in situations like this. Instead, it speaks to poor key management practices by the people responsible for implementing cryptography for an organization.

Consider, as an analogy, the (poor) practice of using shared passwords. What do you do when you fire someone who had legitimate access to this password? You have to change everything or risk a compromise of all the systems sharing this password. Hence, the need for tools like sudo that separate authentication (what password / auth key) and access control (what rights).

With encryption, it's similarly possible to break one big risk domain into lots of smaller ones using things like separate trust anchors (for authentication) or encryption keys (for access control). For example, If your org gets served a subpeona for your financial records you can give them your tape backups for the relevant time periods plus the necessary decryption key, but withold the decryption key for the backups of your R&D data and the signing key for your VPN.
This is wrong. I have read some documentary on this by AVG. and they were asked about it and they denied it.
Would this have been caught by QA testing?
What's the saying, "Don't expect a persons behavior or opinion to change when their paycheck depends on them having said behavior or opinion".
to add: the safety on a glock is to prevent impacts and vibration from firing the gun.

the gun is designed to shoot only when you pull the trigger, but to shoot FOR SURE when you pull the trigger, until the magazine is empty.
“I'm committing suicide tonight”
Apparently Ian Murdock recently faced with police brutality and announces that he will commit suicide. More updates here: https://twitter.com/imurdock
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nothing. Just to make it more curious. :#
I'll play devil's advocate: do you?

In America (the only country I'm familiar with), people are sued by the RIAA or MPAA for copyright infringement. I've never seen a pattern of lawsuits for pirating books[0]. So there's very little risk of getting caught.

If someone has a moral problem with my piracy, I'd reply that I'm a paying member of my local library and I purchase far more books than the average person. If someone has a moral problem with them personally pirating, I'd suggest trying it out. You'll be so happy that you'll retroactively justify your behavior. Like me!

[0] Exceptional cases like Aaron Swartz (who downloaded 1 million+ Jstor articles) do not a pattern make.
I think Terry is more to blame.

Perhaps, but I think if you're the CEO and the flagship product most associated with your business goes to hell, the buck stops with you.

Ironically, someone like Terry might be best placed to clean up the mess, as a shift back towards in-house but centralised technologies like Exchange (a team he ran for a long time) could be Microsoft's best strategy for competing both technically and in PR with the online-everything brigade.
"The response I see most often to this question - and one that is clearly inaccurate - is that police don't target people for their politics or their culture."

Also, if you acknowledge that ethnic groups can have separate cultures (not a bold claim, IMO) and look at the ethnic distribution of US citizens accidentally (giving them the benefit of the doubt) killed by the police I think that claim is hard to defend.
Makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle where Newton and other scientists of the time are doing fantastic work alongside pulling off butterfly wings and basically nerding out on nature.
Doctorbase recent got acquired by a SoCal EHR company called Kareo this spring, not sure for how much.
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1. There’s room for improvement here. There’s some useful stuff in d3-array (https://github.com/d3/d3-array), particularly the nest and histogram operators. There’s also science.js (https://github.com/jasondavies/science.js). And UW’s datalib (https://vega.github.io/datalib/), which is partly a wrapper of d3-request, d3-dsv, d3-array and d3-random. New D3 modules or contributions would be welcome.

2. Not at all; I still think the data-join is a powerful concept for transforming the DOM based on data, and the new work on non-DOM D3 modules does not reflect a shift in my opinion. I’m simply decoupling D3 so that people can use the parts independently. I’m still developing the new d3-selection and d3-transition modules, and those will be released soon, but I’m saving them for last because I want to let the design “bake” to make sure I’m happy with it before release.

3. I am not currently paid (other than a buck or two I make off stickers). My wife is currently my de facto sponsor. ;) I’d like to find a way to make this financially sustainable, but I don’t know yet exactly what that will entail, and I’d like to get 4.0 released first.
The same thing has come to light about tasers since the famous case where a man was killed from being tased while handcuffed [1]

It turns out that Police had done zero testing and had no idea if tasers are "safe" - it just happened that some company started making and selling them, so Police started buying and using them.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_i...
I hope this account isn't linked to your actual identity, because in a police state, stating that you're indifferent to police being killed is a very good way of getting very special attention.
November 30th, she's retweeting about Code 4 Startup: https://twitter.com/JoeMinock/status/671395288830107648

December 3rd, she's tweeting about CodeUpstart joining 500 Startups:
https://twitter.com/CodeUpStart/status/672509204737822720
Come on, it's totally "idiocracy" with stuff like "innovation" and "passion" slapped on the end.
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If good engineers from China and India (or really anywhere) are just as good at their subject as anyone else then preference should be given to the citizen, but it's actually the reverse in practice, and that is by design.

If the foreign engineers are really that good then why do most of them do low level work with low status positions for 70k/year? Sounds like poor use of the "best and brightest" to me...
> both former CIA analysts

Is it not related to the events? I only skipped through the article, but they didn't seem to mention it ever again.

Smells... Interesting.
a glock isn't double action. if the striker isn't in firing position (done by racking the slide when you first insert the magazine), it won't fire no matter how many times you pull the trigger. the slide locks back after firing the last round, so that it only readies the striker when you insert a new magazine and release the slide.
This story is a pretty good argument against "if you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of", too. They had nothing to hide, but with the innocent information the police collected - the businesses they visited, the purchases they made, the things they threw away - they managed to construct an excuse to raid their house.
Can't you see? It's obvious.

Chariots Of The Gods, man. Aliens are everywhere including git.
I think I found your problem: you're not familiar enough with the English language. Try going through this article with a dictionary at hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_%28marketing%29
The amount of risks everyone in this story took is pretty psychopathic. It's not sane, but those are the people who make it big. Those are the people we reward. Those are the people who get away free when the entire mortgage industry collapsed in 2008.

...and for everyone one of these success stories, there are probably 8, 10...12 or more stories of people who totally failed and ended up with $200k in debt still paying it off from failed startups.

There's a side not talking about on Hacker News and it needs to be.
This is how you know he's good at sales. Always ask for a referral at the end of every call.

> Then I called him back and asked him, as calmly as I could, if he knew of anyone else at his newly acquired startup that might want to create a software company with me. I reminded him that I was good at selling shit. He introduced me to “Tooter,” who, it turned out, was heading my way to go snowboarding in Tahoe.
Good explanation of something I was feeling after watching The Force Awakens - it's a sequel, but it feels like a reboot. Abrams and Kasdan borrowed too many motifs and plot lines from A New Hope. So I agree with the criticisms of the article. But personally disagree with the conclusion, for two reasons.

First, my expectations were already very low, to the point of being non-existent. Mostly due to the prequels which attempted to push the series into new territory, but failed miserably. The prequel SFX were engrossing. But when it came to the backbone of the story - the plot, the dialogue, the structure, character motivations - it was obviously amateur hour. All I was expecting was a exciting and comprehensible space opera action flick, and that's what we got.

Second, Star Wars is no longer Star Wars. It was at one time revolutionary, iconic, a cultural touchstone, and a right of passage for millions. Now it's just another franchise amongst many - competing with Marvel, DC, Star Trek, Harry Potter, and many other glossy high-budget thrill rides.
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If the government were after info like this I doubt they would spend too much time trolling through crash logs, why not just subpoena your email or phone logs.
You might want to read that Wikipedia article more closely; it mentions that Algol was written about by Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
OP said 'cheaper to manufacture'.
Have you considered Open Sourcing this? I'd like to use it and I like the syntax. But I'd feel more comfortable if I could check out the source.
This article is very informative but at the same time heavily biased towards the opinions of Jairam Ramesh who happens to be a member of the Indian National Congress (the party that lost power in 2014 after a 10 year misrule in India). For instance he says “We cannot afford to say, ‘We’re going to have 25 years of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later.’”. This is wrong on multiple fronts. The GDP of India was at 8.5% during the NDA rule (1998-2004) and after the INC came to power the GDP tumbled to an abysmal 5.3%. After NDA came back to power in 2014, the GDP is now up to 7.4% which is in itself an impressive feat. If this continues, we'll be seeing a GDP of 12% with some reports (Centre for Economics Business and Research (CEBR), United Kingdom) even projecting India to become the 3rd largest economy by 2030 right behind US and China. But obviously this is something the opposition (INC) doesn't want to acknowledge.

The Village of Modern India is not the same as Ancient times. Today people live in villages not by choice but out of necessity. The high cost of living in the cities coupled with high rate of unemployment forces this large chunk of the population to live in slums and villages. India is poised to have, via the Smart Cities Mission lead by Narendra Modi, 100 smart cities (with some already in the pipeline: Dholera SIR in Gujarat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOFpWFLSqgU) and Amravathi in Andhra Pradesh) and rejuvenation of 500 others in the next 15 years which would facilitate movement of the unemployed population from villages/slums to these Smart Cities. We have seen this happen, for example, during the real estate boom in Bangalore, where entire population of some villages in North Karnataka moved to Bangalore because of employment opportunities in the construction sector. This will put less pressure on the power companies to supply power to the remotest corners of India when it's population relocates more and more towards cities.
This is not a new ambition; it has been my goal since starting Protovis in 2009. It’s working out okay so far, but I totally agree that things can go off the rails if you spend too much time thinking about abstraction and not about practical examples and real-world usage.
The current academic environment is not conducive to a startup founder.

I started one a few years ago and it not only takes huge risks, but the ability to stand up to people all over the place that will try to bring you down and only hinder your success.

'safe places', which have become more prevalent at universities, is the exact opposite of this.
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It's amazing that someone with virtually no life experience (12 years in grade school?) has to make this huge life decision on what they want to go to school for. Do they want to be an artist, maybe an engineer? They then get thousands of dollars in loans to go pursue it.

It's probably the second biggest monetary investment in their life (if they buy a house), but probably the least educated investment.

Now, some people get amazing help in high school while making this decision. They have extremely intelligent parents, a very supportive school counselor/teachers etc.

But a lot, and I know this from experience have zero help. I know today that if i'm going to invest a hundred thousand dollars in a college education I should probably try to know what the market 5+ years from now will be (good luck with that) maybe I should know what the ROI is on that degree... maybe I should know how competitive the labor market is/will be.

When i was 18 graduating from school I had zero help with this process. Zero. I was told "pursue what you love". How do you expect an (average) 18 year old to make this evaluation?

In my perfect world, we would increase business taxes to pay for higher education, those taxes would then be given directly to programs. Programming industry needs more programmers? easy give more money to computer science education. Students of course will still apply to programs they're most interested in, but in a competitive industry they'll get rejected BEFORE they make the major investment. If it takes a congressional act to change industry taxes, you can be assured someone is going to do some studies on how much each program will need. It's better to have a professional do that, than to hope the student maybe looks into it.

Finally how many jobs ask for a bachelors that just don't need it? If you start asking companies to pay for that education, they might make a better evaluation if its necessary.

Things just get more efficient, perhaps less "fair", but I don't life crippling debt is fair either.
How you could enjoy video games without having the entire game spoiled for you before the release date. Pre internet, you played at your leisure, didn't know what to expect and saw new things/character/levels/gameplay mechanics as they came. So you'd play say, Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII and every area, boss, new attack, etc would be a surprise.

Nowadays on the other hand, the internet means that a video of the final boss and ending will probably be up on Youtube in less than a week. Probably a matter of hours after the release date to be honest, there's a sort of obsession with recording the entirety of every new game as quickly as possible.

I also miss the existence of rumours and hearsay about stuff in video games. Like, of getting the Triforce in Ocarina of Time, Luigi in Mario 64 or finding Mew in Pokemon Red and Blue. Pre internet and early internet, this sort of stuff spread via the school playground and other places like a weird game of Chinese Whispers or Telephone. It was nuts the kind of stuff that you'd hear, like the the story about the flying pink cow that would apparently take you to the Temple of Light or something.

But thanks to the modern internet, these games now get disassembled about a week after their release, so people know exactly what's included and can confirm or rule out any interesting rumour before it can get started.
I (we) have been building an app for http://timeblock.com since we invented the TimeBlock method last january.

Sometime after the summer vacation I panicked since I realized that I would not be able to reach the 6k MRR goal I had semi publicly stated.

Instead of openly accepting this I started making bad decisions to boost the MRR, this in turn led to some (of the right customers) feeling abandond and therfore they churned.

That made me realize I was fucking up and in the end I agreed to part way with one of the wrong clients and now we are back on (an even better) track with our app and vision for the product.

But damn it was a hard realization and some hard months living the lie.
this one?
http://joxeankoret.com/download/breaking_av_software_44con.p...
How about when supposably serving customers? That's got to be the worse one. You'd go get a coffee or something, and the person behind the counter would be more interested in seeing what's happening on Twitter or Instagram than actually taking the order or serving people.
Maybe China will come and liberate the citizens of America from their oppressive regime.
"A state trooper had been positioned in the store parking lot to collect the license plate numbers of customers, compile them into a spreadsheet, then send the spreadsheets to local sheriff’s departments for further investigation."

this sound a lot like a stasi operation.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7209-what_does_big_brother_see_w...
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For transit, how about using a Transit App that covers those cities.
Yes I though that mention would lead to some espionage investigation or something. Perhaps the whole "drug bust" thing was a farce designed to search for evidence of some other covert activity.
The non-violent history of Norway is true.

Still, I think this misplaced fear (which many feel) is what's tricking us. If you dig a bit, there are examples in the other direction.

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# More likely to be crushed by furniture then killed by a terrorist:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/2...

# Guns kill many more than do terrorists (similar argument):

http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9446193/gun-deaths-aids-war-ter...

# Spending isn't allocated to the common causes of death:

http://i1.wp.com/thinkbynumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/...

# Airport security 'causing' unnecessary deaths

Slow air travel due to security is shifting (some proportion of) travelers to cars, where accidents are more common.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-11-18/how-airport-...

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I could go on.

Yes, terrorism is an issue that should be dealt with. But it should be handled rationally and with proportionality.
Get this: There were people who worked on televisions every day back then. My dad owned a TV repair shop until I was about 10 (when he went back to school to get a degree in engineering). He showed me how to discharge a CRT and capacitors when I was about that old.
HOLY SHT DID THIS OLD MAN JUST DO THAT? FUNNY OLD MAN
On the front page- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801367
yes, yes, we know, no one is responsible for anything that they do ...
I think the part about "scuppering" is just some nautical-sounding nonsense that the author of the article threw in. If you read the account I linked to above, it's saying they jettisoned the masts, then cut the rudder, then threw the cannons overboard, but despite these the ship eventually broke apart. Like you say, it sounds like they were trying to stabilize it to reduce the damage, but my impression is they were trying to make it lighter and less top-heavy rather than intentionally sink it.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair

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Does this mean you did not have to file for local income tax in any of your host countries?
Why do you think ordinary users should try to disable all the cloud based features of their OS? Surely a lot of the features they want (e.g. Google Now, Siri, Cortana)

The thing is, almost every piece of research I've seen from independent sources suggests that most users don't really want or care about these digital personal assistant gimmicks. Once you got past the hype, this was a point a few different articles made around the time Win11/Cortana became available.

That certainly seems more credible to me than the story the OS vendors' marketing teams would like us to believe. After all, I know plenty of people who use Android and iOS devices, but in my entire life I don't think I have heard the words "OK Google" spoken non-ironically outside of a tech presentation, and I have also literally never seen (heard?) anyone using Siri other than to show how badly it got something wrong and laugh at it. I mean, anecdotes and data and all that, but if almost everyone I know has a smartphone and literally no-one I know seems to be using these features that we're told users want, that's an astonishingly unrepresentative sample.
At this point, I don't think it'll help you, but about a decade ago, COIN-OR was put together to partially provide an organization that helps give academics a place to peer review and receive credit for the codes they generate (http://www.coin-or.org/). The other reason was to provide a place to host open source optimization codes before things like Github became popular. Now, did it every really live up to that promise? Not as much as I'd like. Honestly, after IBM purchased ILOG, it looked like their support dropped off pretty significantly and IBM was always the largest backer. That and a number of key people retired. In any case, there was just an election, but I know they're still looking for people to help drive the organization forward. As an assistant prof, it's a risk, but perhaps one worth looking at at least in the sense of what some kind of organization with moderate backing looked like that was trying to give academics better credit for their codes.
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