skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, in a "township" police is there to mostly bring cats down from trees and help with the traffic.

Maybe study the numbers or talk to people from big cities, and especially large urban centers?

Besides the homicides by police in the streets statistics, which are indisputable, confirmed by the police, and the worse by over 70x any western country, here are some other factoids:

Peter Kraska, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University’s School of Justice Studies, estimates that SWAT teams were deployed about 3,000 times in 1980 but are now used around 50,000 times a year. Some cities use them for routine patrols in high-crime areas. Baltimore and Dallas have used them to break up poker games. In 2010 New Haven, Connecticut sent a SWAT team to a bar suspected of serving under-age drinkers. That same year heavily-armed police raided barber shops around Orlando, Florida; they said they were hunting for guns and drugs but ended up arresting 34 people for “barbering without a licence”. Maricopa County, Arizona sent a SWAT team into the living room of Jesus Llovera, who was suspected of organising cockfights. Police rolled a tank into Mr Llovera’s yard and killed more than 100 of his birds, as well as his dog. According to Mr Kraska, most SWAT deployments are not in response to violent, life-threatening crimes, but to serve drug-related warrants in private homes.

He estimates that 89% of police departments serving American cities with more than 50,000 people had SWAT teams in the late 1990s—almost double the level in the mid-1980s. By 2007 more than 80% of police departments in cities with between 25,000 and 50,000 people had them, up from 20% in the mid-1980s (there are around 18,000 state and local police agencies in America, compared with fewer than 100 in Britain).
The best thing for reliability is to use multiple companies. AWS has proved that multiple times.
I didn't find them with a few quick searches, but it's highly likely that the early electric guitars had design patents attached to them (there's lots of guitars since that have had design patents issued).
OK, here's a food for thought: only in the US you can get shot for getting out of your car when a traffic cop stops you.
This is propaganda intended to create a social divide.
Bing is using them: http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/09/03/microsoft-using-fpg...

Using FPGAs allows new features and optimizations to be tested and productionized (almost) as quickly as regular software. Upgrading to a newer design is essentially free and instantaneous, compared to expensive and time-consuming process of producing new chips.
Time Tracking with Screenshots: Why and When It Is Indispensable
Cisco wins U.S. patent dispute over wifi technology
I did read the whole article, but I interpret cash as meaning paper currency. Especially when they say "Not just coins, but cash" it leads me to believe they are talking specifically about banknotes. I re-read the article and they do clarify that they are talking about Europe specifically, both in the book title and the interview. Perhaps 3AM isn't the best time to post.
No one expects JavaScript to run unchanged across all VMs anyway.
Of course a JIT is capable of producing code as good as an AOT and perhaps even better since it can capture more profiling data. The problem with a JIT is the startup time and this has not gone unnoticed by Oracle as even they've started working on AOT.
But BSD init is more horrible in this regard:

by using shell script, it is easy to incorporate proprietary code into an otherwise copyleft product. The proponents of the "UNIX philosophy" that try to define the latter as writing lots of independent tools that can be combined in shell scripts, are probably just trying to make sure they also can work around the GPL in the future too.

That's why the gcc compiler suite doesn't provide ways for other applications to access its AST via stdout: it could be used to code completion in emacs, but also to write proprietary gcc addons that manipulate the AST and work around gcc's GPL license.
1) New tourist attraction.

2) From an environmental standpoint, isn't CO2 in the atmosphere better than methane?

Lighting it would be admitting defeat. I suspect pride is a factor here.
Wow yeah. HUGE oversight by The Economist, imo.
baseless assertion it'll be another sector of the economy that will contract the hardest
Yes. Yes I do. I wasn't aware that wanting complete control of my devices was somehow a controversial stance around here.
This is a great, but very short, account of what some people with dementia illnesses go through.

There are some things that didn't get mentioned: stuff like how to you talk to your family about DNR and other advanced directives? When do you stop driving? When do you hand over control of your money to someone else? A lot of advanced directives will say something like "no heroic measures". Doctors hate that, because it doesn't give them nearly enough information to make a decision about care. Giving more detail is important. They may not be able to obey your instructions, but they need to consider them and have a good reason for ignoring them.

It's a really good idea to have those conversations now and get some kind of plan in place because at the time it's going to be tough enough for everyone anyway.

Here's a description of some advice from an English perspective: http://www.gloucestershireccg.nhs.uk/gloucestershires-dement...
The layout of Excel is a product of probably more spending on researching how people actually use a spreadsheet than everyone else has spent on the question combined. It's incredibly special.
> The flaw in this line of thought is that patents don't limit access to knowledge or technology. Quite the opposite, in fact. What they do limit is commercializing of knowledge or technology without license.

So they don't limit access to knowledge or technology, they just limit commercializing of knowledge or technology. Because technology that can't be commercialized (and therefore obtained or used) is what people want?

If someone has a patent on X then there is no competition for the production of X, so the patentee can charge higher prices, so fewer people will be able to afford X.

If someone has a patent on X then there is a greatly reduced incentive for anyone else to improve X, because the original patentee can prohibit you from selling your improvement unless you give them an arbitrarily large share of your profits.
this is going to happen no matter what - the rate of consolidation in my opinion is actually accelerating. despite what anyone says, the vast majority of people choose their hosting provider in order to "not get fired", i.e. they are extremely risk-averse, to the point of irrationality, even when presented with massive savings, better service, better underlying hardware and network, and more transparency.

most of the time they are spending someone else's money, also. you should see some of the deals that have come across my desk. the 'big names' can literally charge 2-5x more than a competitive quote and get away with it, oftentimes with worse deliverables (i.e. long stretches of downtime that somehow get a pass from their customers).

at the end of the day it's a server sitting in a rack in a datacenter, connected to ethernet. beyond a certain level of quality (tier 3 dc, server class hardware, an enterprise quality network) it's really all the same. people should choose their hosting provider on 1. quality of implementation 2. price and 3. whether or not the provider actually gives a shit about you and your account, but they usually just go with the name, like many other markets.
This is next generation of Google Glass
I never said 10 or even 5. My examples are "a year" and an extended period. It's possible you assumed that latter statement meant 5 or 10, but I was personally thinking 3-5, which it would absolutely cover. Either way I don't think I've grossly overstated, or even mildly overstated anything.
Most marketings have a formula that says

X Emails x Y Conversion Rate = Z Profit

It's much easier to increase X than it is Y, and turns out that method is pretty effective.
> In fact, everything was completely by the book.

Huh? According to the same article, the book said that he should have been given a copy of his contract and a daily list of goals. The book also said that there should be a careful point system to judge employee performance, not "late twice and you're sacked". Furthermore, are 11-hour shifts really by the book? Does the book say three of those hours have to be paid overtime?
I saw two (lesbian) women in a Starbucks doing this quiz with each other (and videotaped it). Really awkward
Bank employees creating fake ATM cards to steal from client accounts
Preventing cancer that prevents reproduction or hampers offspring survival is a priority for evolution.

Cancer affecting the old is not strongly de-selected for by evolution.
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> my recruiter, Angniezka,

Presumably Angnieszka?
Your comment has not even a passing affiliation with reality.

Amusing. It's your job as part of the commission to evaluate the performance of your township's civil servants, a circumstance in which those you interact with are highly motivated to act professionally around you.

And yet you claim it's the ordinary citizen who is out of touch with reality.

Here is my own anecdote: Out of four lifetime interactions with functionaries of the law, four have ranged from negative to very negative.
> Of course, if you don't conform, Oracle will sue you into oblivion.

What? OpenJDK is as free as they come. No conformance with Java necessary, you can do with it whatever you damn well please. You can use it to implement .NET if you want. Oracle has never (to the best of my knowledge) sued anyone for the use (or modification) of OpenJDK.
Python examples with Apache Flink
Some CS reps might not actually do whatever is promised, and that's a cause of frustration on top of the customer loosing trust in Amazon, which is not acceptable at all.

You should consider writing to them cis@amazon.in, and if you know the name of customer associate that interacted you with, the better. You could also, alternatively, utilize Amazon's chat-based customer service, as you can actually "keep a record" of things they said and things you said. If what was promised isn't delivered, you can sure make enough noise by directing the query to cis@amazon.in, and/or jeff@ and amit@
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Well, preventing Cancer has been a priority for evolution since the first multicellular organisms arose

It's only a "priority for evolution" to prevent cancer before the better years for breeding have passed - and evolution has done a fairly good job with that. After breeding and a little time for rearing young in the higher life forms, evolution has no real use for us.
We are adjacent to a major city most Americans would have heard of. Calls in the last week or so have included homicides, drug busts, etc. So no, not just getting cats out of a tree, which would actually be the fire department anyway.
Hedge fund managers receive share's as capital for running funds to ensure they have a vested interest.

Plus I'd bet they invest their residual salary in capital.
I think you addressed the point I wanted to make better than I could myself with the words "unknown" and "unsupported".
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This takes me back to the days of VRML[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
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Can't they just capture it and store it instead?
IBM and Nazis
So weird that Linode hasn't been able to mitigate this. I'd love to learn more about what's happening there. Particularly since we host our production documentation site on a linode vm. I want to move it off their server and into our DC but can't access the server to do it. Bummer. I've been such a big fan of theirs.
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"The books" in this case are likely referring to local employment laws. They are doing the bare minimum required, all that other stuff is window dressing on a shit job, and it is pretty clear that nobody takes it seriously or really gives a shit. Can you blame them? I doubt the local managers are raking in the dough either. You show up and do as you are told and get paid, or you don't work there. It is not great, but it is not illegal or egregiously unfair.
Okay, so can I modify it so that it doesn't conform to the Java specification? Can I modify it bit-by-bit until it's bytewise identical to Harmony? Of course I can't. Because if I do, Oracle will sue me.

Oracle is lying. They claim to be offering free software, but will sue you once you take advantage of that freedom. It's a fucking trap.

Do you really expect the technology community to embrace Oracle technology after Oracle spits in their food and shits in their sink?
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Looks like they have a history of suffering these kinds of attacks:

(2012) Upcoming DDOS Attack - FINAL Warning - https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=8530

(2013) Linode Mitigates DDoS Attack on Linode Manager - http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/linode-mitigates-ddo...

(July 2015) Incident Report for Linode - http://status.linode.com/incidents/vnslh3rmm9gq

So what makes them such an attractive target for these types of attacks?
For those who don't know, you can force quality settings by pressing shift+ctrl+alt/option+S
It sounds good. Except as was the case today for me where you enter an OTP pin and its expired (HDFC Bank) because each bank has its own OTP system.

Keep in mind this is something that any bank can use (3D secure). It is up to the merchant on whether they want this or not. There is an additional discount on the transaction fees if you use this.

Problem is of course, every bank has their own interface that doesn't always work. Customers give up on their transactions. You can't have subscriptions. You have no choice on whether you can disable OTP, even though you are the customer. You can also not save your card (keep in mind you can have direct debits anyway for subscriptions via a bank debit agreement)

It also sucks when you want to buy something and your phone is dead. It also makes integration quite tedious as you have to support dozens of payment methods.

Honestly, it sucks. It's nice to have that sense of security but it comes at the cost of taking care of 1/100 customers ad the expense of 99 of the others by forcing them to use 2 factor auth (or more if you look at the lost ones).
He(/she?) never said he wouldn't do it, just that it worried him. Back seat doesn't mean thrown out of the car.

People need to keep bringing this up, lest we completely forget about it and wake up when it's too late.
Entropy is the idea that all information will become uniformly distributed.

In a market space given enough competition all products become similar.

These are statements of the same fact. Just instead of the universe we look at a market space, time becomes competition, and feature set becomes entropy count.
As far as Android is concerned - AOT is here to stay. And yes, I'm aware ART has a JIT and it's probably used for devices that cannot handle the overhead of AOT, but I imagine it's seldomly used considering the specs of today's phones and the requirements of Google's CTS.
It is (though that's not the only thing it's designed for), but in a JS engine setting it only uses a few specific parts of the JS engine, such as the JIT backend to do the actual code generation work and interoperability with JS.

Indeed, wasm won't likely ever expose directly executable memory. But in the future it may expose JIT capabilities like creating and calling new functions, declaring "patchable" code fragments which can be manipulated through APIs, and so on, and with these capabilities it isn't unreasonable to think about porting JITing VMs onto wasm.
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> Okay, so can I modify it so that it doesn't conform to the Java specification? Can I modify it bit-by-bit until it's bytewise identical to Harmony?

Absolutely (on both counts, although if it is identical to Harmony you may be in violation of the license due to a collision between GPLv2 and ASL, as ASL imposes further restrictions which GPLv2 does not allow -- see the next paragraph).

> Because if I do, Oracle will sue me.

They will not. In fact, they explicitly allow you to do whatever you want with it. They are not placing any restrictions; their own license (same as Linux's) does not allow them to do so (section 6 says: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein").

Oracle sued Google, not you. They didn't sue them for using Java, and they certainly didn't sue them over OpenJDK. Of course, it has been Google's PR department's strategy to make you think that the lawsuit may apply to you, but it doesn't. The circumstances leading to the lawsuit were very unusual.

> Oracle is lying.

Maybe about other things (I don't know a large company that doesn't lie), but not about this.

> They claim to be offering free software, but will sue you once you take advantage of that freedom. It's a fucking trap.

Again, to the best of my knowledge, that has never happened.

> Do you really expect the technology community to embrace Oracle technology after Oracle spits in their food and shits in their sink?

I don't expect anyone to do anything other than to understand the facts and then make their decisions[1]. Oracle has earned the distrust of many developers, but I don't find Google to be any more likable. Personally, I'll take Oracle's old-school greed over Google's sneaky espionage and manipulative PR, but that's just me.

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[1]: I am willing to bet that very few people understand what the Oracle v. Google court case is all about, and the loudest voice was by far Google's PR.
Since this MS/Corel case touches aspects of patents, copyright, I was commenting on a broader issue of intellectual property rights. Though patents do limit access to technology in many aspects; for instance, if the patent-holder decides not to sell their product in particular part of the world but ruthlessly pursues legal actions against people doing something similar there, then a population may not get to experience (and observe, and study) the technology. Patents themselves, as implemented within a system, actually limit access to knowledge - a patent text was supposed to be able to explain the invention to people in the field; currently a typical description both is too vague to be educating and broad enough to scare people off touching a particular subfield, not to mention that just reading the patent itself may literally triple your liability in case when you're found infringing (justly or not).

> commercializing of knowledge or technology without license.

This pretty much fits the definition of "limiting access to knowledge/technology" directly. Free access and commercialization of knowledge / technology (with some exceptions, like nuclear weapons) are good for progress, good for consumers, good for humanity... but bad for the commercializers, hence they try to limit it.
That seems like a correct conclusion. They chose to try it out. It didn't just "happen".
> Are school administrators just vacuuming up all the extra money?

Yes. There have been quite a few stories showing how admin in education is booming. Also, growth in numbers requires growth in facilities, which are a big money sink for most education institutions; you could argue a lot of this extra money is actually going to the building sector (and again, admin required for all these projects) as well as the constant churn that is IT upgrades.

> Grants and scholarships from the state have shrunk and shrunk and shrunk.

The more the State pumps into loans (driven by student numbers, and carrying a considerable management overhead), the less it has for direct subsidies. In a situation where overall revenue from taxation is fixed or falling in real terms, that makes sense and it does not contradict TFA.

> A college education is more likely to lead to pulling you out of poverty than a lack of one.*

I agree there, but it depends on what "pulling out of poverty" means. A degree might help you get a job, but current trends mean that you might still end up being poor -- just a working one.

Rather than enforcing class status through education tiers, a progressive agenda should concentrate on restoring dignity to regular jobs. Sadly this is seen as class warfare, whereas platitudes about getting everyone and his dog into 4 years of subsidised drinking go down fine with all sectors of the electorate.
'What Is Mathematics?' Second Edition by Courant, Robbins & Stewart[0] is a great introduction to Mathematics in general (And covers most of the main fields), but also (iirc) is good at describing the notation used. As well as that I find Wolfram Alpha[1] and Math As Code[2] good at describing some pieces of notation.

Other introductory books I've found very useful are the 'Dover Books on Mathematics' introductions series, I've found their graph theory[3] and topology[4] books rather concise and clear to read -- to my knowledge they're availible at archive.org in the collection 'folkscanomy mathematics'[5].

[0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Elementary-Approach-Meth...

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/

[2]: https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code

[3]: https://archive.org/details/IntroductionToGraphTheory

[4]: https://archive.org/details/IntroductionToTopology

[5]: https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_mathematics
> So even though in my example the problem is minor and mostly random in nature

I would be more likely to agree with you if the problem was actually random in nature. But instead I feel that bad policing in the US is based on personal biases of the individuals involved (conscious or subconscious) and institutional issues that affects certain demographics more than others.
PayPal seems to have a lax attitude towards security in general. I had a similar issue a year ago, that (fortunately) didn't end up in having my account compromised <http://www.sanspoint.com/archives/2014/09/11/great-paypal-em... but my dealings with PayPal support didn't give me much hope for if and when things do blow up.

In this case, it's likely that phone support is optimized for speed, rather than security. Good if you're legit, bad if you're a target.
But there's nothing else to a guitar.

There's a bunch of stuff to a spreadsheet, and the interface is how most users will access those features. When the interface is nearly identical it's a problem.

It's a bit more complicated here because Corel are apparently following MS instructions about how the interface should look.
Without looking carefully at it, I suspect the only nearby storage with enough capacity to deal with it (if they could even capture it) is the thing that is leaking.
Oh, gee, the cops will surely avoid shooting you if it ~damages their rating~. Why has nobody thought of that before?

The implication here is that cops would care what you think of them. They don't now, and they won't in the future either. The Chicago PD don't run that torture warehouse for the Yelp ratings, yo.

This will be further enhanced by the fact that nobody likes being arrested/jailed and thus the ratings will be pretty much 100% negative. Why would a cop care about how much the perp is complaining, or a meaningless aggregation thereof? On an individual basis (and ignoring the systemic problems), being tough-skinned is basically a requirement for everyone in the justice system.

Periscope is a good app that will help. This is dumb cargo-cult behavior that does nothing. This app doesn't address the problem seriously and will be forgotten in two weeks' time. Yes, they're kids and it's nice that they're coding, but don't give a bad idea a handie just for the heck of it.

Tying recordings to specific officers to compile a history of bad behavior would actually be fantastic. But the Yelp aspect of it doesn't accomplish anything.