skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your third:

How exactly do you define "provocation"? I'm curious because you seem to have a very lenient definition when talking about police using deadly force. This is remarkable to me when there have been a number of highly reported incidents involving police shooting a civilian without provocation that warrants deadly force (by my definition and video evidence). Here are a few to consider:

1. Tamir Rice

2. John Crawford III

3. Levar Jones

4. Laquan McDonald

Seriously, I could go on. It happens far too frequently that Americans are killed by police firearms when they are not posing an immediate and credible mortal threat. Sadly, there are too many high-profile cases in which cops fire before even bothering to assess the situation. Videos of these incidents abound.

Now, I assume we all agree that police are charged with serving and protecting their communities, right? I believe that also includes suspects and criminals. The bar for determining provocation that warrants deadly force should be very high.

If we are being rational and reasonable, I think there are behaviors that we can agree are not provocations of mortal danger. A few such behaviors:

1. Running away from police

2. Verbal altercations

3. Suspicious behaviors of any kind that are not posing credible mortal threat to other persons or officers

4. Reaching for waistbands (of what are too often excessively sagging pants that frequently need to be pulled up)

I think it is reasonable to have a civil, national conversation about better training for police, and a national charge and expectation to keep every potential suspect alive until a situation is properly assessed and resolved.

If ranchers in a standoff, or bikers in a gun battle, can make it out alive, I think many more can, too.

Funny story from my childhood in Southern California, around 1990:

I was playing in the yard with my toy gun. I hated the orange cap at the end of the barrel and had pulled it out with pliers. It was a metal rifle. A cop came down the neighborhood street, and I took cover behind a tree and pretended to shoot, as if he was my new imaginary enemy. He slowed down and stopped in front of the yard. I was within earshot, so he called out to me in a friendly way. Asked if I was shooting at bad guys. I nodded. He asked if I'd like to see his gun and might be interested in a trade. I thought that was cool, and ran over to his car with my metal toy rifle. He opened his car door to me and stepped out, asking if he could see my gun. I handed it right over, and he invited me to sit in the drivers seat of his squad car. Looking back, I'm sure he was checking if I had a real firearm. He then showed me the shotgun he had secured between the front seats. He talked to me about being careful with guns. Then he suggested there were some bad guys sneaking around my house, and I should go get them with my gun. And I ran off to chase them down.

I shudder to think what would happen to my 12-year-old in the same situation today.
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They've been doing this for years with deluxe editions on DVD and Blu-ray, providing things like deleted scenes, extended versions, and commentary tracks. You can pay one fee (or get a rental) for a bare-bones experience or pay more for a better one.
It might be hypocritical, but it is a logically consistent point of view. If you desire to exert control on X and it is feasible, you advocate central control when you are the center. On the other hand, if you do not have the power to be the central control and you see some other entity controlling it centrally, you advocate for decentralization.
If we assume they will drop the 3.5mm jack in favor of using the lightning port for headphones that would mean we couldn't listen to music via headphones while charging the phone. That would be my biggest issue.

On the plus side it would be nice if they put an extra speaker where the headphone jack currently is for stereo sound and so that the speakers are harder to obstruct.
You're probably not in the target market for this one.

> The computer revolution is one of the greatest revolutions in human history. And yet, 75% of the world still lives outside of its reach, struggling to fulfill the most basic of needs... This product has been designed in emerging markets, with our users. During our three years of research, we encountered thousands of ways in which technology today does not meet the needs of our users. And during those same three years of development, we have built the solutions that do.

https://endlessm.com/about-us/
Quarterly report will tell, until then, it is only speculation
There is no transcoding done, however that could be implemented.
It provides a remote viewer that you install on a PC and leave it on, not touching it, and a remote control that you can use to control the remote viewer.
That way you can play videos on your PC from your mobile phone, or watch a movie from your PC on your HTPC connected to your TV.
You still get some of that with existing graphing calculators though. There's a reason the #1 comment is about a TI-83+ game :)
Is it possible to work entirely remotely even in the first job in the industry?

Absolutely, and you'll learn quite a lot from it. The biggest (somewhat hidden) risk is that of communication disconnects that happen from the lack of F2F. Amplified by the fact that companies (especially startups) love to do weird things, like put inexperienced people into management; not communicate generally, and misunderstand things as if on general principle; fire people at the drop of a hat, etc.

So (aside from particular collaboration tools), mastering the art of what we might call "defensive communication" might be particularly helpful. By that I don't mean being continuously neurotic and fearful about people what people are thinking about you when they're not right in front of you. Rather, much more mundane stuff: (1) getting all important agreements (as to compensation, promotion) in writing (or at least in email); (2) not assuming that people are always reading / understanding (or even seeing) your emails, or other electronic leavings -- quite often they aren't; (3) being very efficient in your own communications (so as to triggering or further amplifying any such misunderstandings as they do occur); and (4) maximizing F2F, and other opportunities for bonding (softly, naturally) with others, as they do occur (without putting so much time or effort into it that it seems like you're putting too much effort or time into it).

That kind of stuff.
We live in a deterministic universe. You'll need a different definition of autonomy if you want anything to have it.
I upvoted you. The pitch doesn't reflect reality. The computer actually consists of an offline reader for popular Wikipedia articles and some parts of Khan Academy. It also has some open-source music and a couple of games. This is only storing "as much of the Internet as it can" insofar as 32GB means storing very, very little.
dope. let's connect.
It will be interesting if there is room for traditional cab companies after the market stabilizes. Uber and Lyft have been effectively subsidizing fares at the same time as providing superior service.

It is not really clear what level of service the market demands without loads of venture capital helping to subsidize it.
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Data infrastructure should be controlled by the government only.

Why? Well, imagine that every transport company had to support their own road network... Alternatively, imagine that one company controlled the roads, creating effectively a controlled market nested inside a free market.
Sure. And I'll have a bigger house, better food and more luxuries in compensation for volunteering my time to help support humanity.
Doesn't seem that editorialized. The "roadblock" is the feedback from critics, and the Economist's subhead is "Critics argue Mark Zuckerberg’s generosity is a cover for a land-grab".
Pidgin has had a working plugin for a while: https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook
Open-source web app to display and share text in a large font
So to put what I'm cofused about plainly (my fault on the confusion I'm sure :D ):

It sounds like the reason for having that outside of your primary infrastructure (or more accurately, inside a cheaper bandwidth host) are lower bandwidth costs with the trade-off of some slower requests getting sent to your origin server when the cached resource expires/is invalidated.
I don't agree with seat belt legislation any more than gambling legislation. That's not to say I don't understand statistics or the arguments behind wearing seat belts--I just feel that it's an encroachment on personal liberties.

Risking all of my money (or more) on a big gamble is one of the liberties I not only am glad to have, but have exercised in the past, including becoming a professional poker player, starting a bar business, buying a large property, and riding a motorcycle.

I dislike that I'm required to wear a seat belt, and even more than that, I dislike that other people get to demand it of me.
Open carry is only disallowed in 5 states. That said, I agree that the police are more likely to shoot first and ask questions later no matter the situation.
I'm of a similar (although not identical) opinion to miguelrochefort. The short answer is... if you imagine a utopia, do you imagine lots of secrets or lots of openness and acceptance?

The reality is that I came to this conclusion through a long process but I'm pretty tired. The process definitely considered whether the 'private' version of the world was even possible. I don't think it is. Surveillance will happen. Better we accept it and keep an eye on how it's used than pretend like we can prevent it in the long term. Even if you were able to discourage the ubiquitous 'high tech hackers' and 'big data' forms of surveillance (which I don't think you'll be able to do), bribes and drones will continue to be used for the powerful to get what they want.
PoS has a fatal flaw: a person who wants to fork a PoS network simply needs to pay other people in the network for the private keys to their older, spent, transactions. Alternatively, any kind of security breach giving access to used private keys would work. After you have enough keys that had coins in them at a certain point in time, you can "grind" the history forward, and create an alternative chain with your chosen transaction history.
Interesting read. I don't think its too different from your average financial market though. Lesson 101 in finance is that money flows from private to institutional investors. It seems this is the case with DFS too.
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You can also use "fb purity", an extension that can hide posts based on string matches. For example "liked a post", "commented on", and other annoying things fb fills the feed with
You should still accept and then offload your decisions onto someone else you think is responsible enough.
Also noticed it several years ago. I may be wrong but to me it seems to have arrived from the same group that's imposed corporate-speak on boardrooms everywhere, including high-profile retreadings of words like synergy and paradigm.
https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel

I heard about some more, but didn't bookmark them :<
I don't know Haskell (yet) but do have a small ammount of assembly experience and I managed to follow along fairly well. However on purpose I didn't worry about fully understanding the monadic side of things.
> It's because decentralization like that is stupidly, stupidly inefficient.

Disagree. If you're Netflix wanting to distribute Jessica Jones then you want something like a CDN (although in that context BitTorrent is also "something like a CDN").

But think about wanting to share photos with your friends. There are only thirty people who actually want to see the photos. Twenty five of them live in the same city as you, which makes direction connections to you about as efficient as a local CDN node, and the other five live in four different cities, so in all but one case there is nothing to be gained from caching in any of those places because there will only ever be one copy requested. In that one last case the CDN would conserve just one long-distance copy, and that's assuming we can't make P2P software smart enough to have the second person in Timbuktu get the photos from the first person there.

> we're not on IPv6 yet

This one is probably the main reason why this hasn't actually happened yet, but it's not like we don't know what to do -- how about we get on IPv6 already?

> or that people also use cameras

You seem to be implying there is some reason why a photo taken with a camera couldn't still be distributed using a mobile device (or plug server or PC or whatever you like).

> or that they change their phones

And then they can copy the stuff from one to the other.

> Not to mention that the assumption that your phone is actually on-line 24/7 is unrealistic

Availability is a different tack. OK, your phone doesn't have twelve nines of uptime, but it probably is actually online upwards of 90% of the time. And we know how to build reliable systems out of mostly-reliable pieces.

We're assuming that there is a piece of software on your device which already knows who your friends are. So now it just needs a check box that says "cache things for my friends if they cache things for me" and now your friends can get your photos from your other friends (or from their own device) even when your device is occasionally incommunicado.

> or simply want to free up space on SD card for something else.

I think there's a law of physics that says your photos, to exist, have to exist somewhere. I suppose "I would rather give my private data to Facebook than buy an SD card big enough to hold it" is the sort of thing you have to decide for yourself.
On the contrary, in the US most states do allow open-carry. Only 9/50 states prohibit or restrict licensing to effectively prohibit open carry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_carry_in_the_United_State...
Shipping to Australia is $132. _ouch_
This is exciting. Sounds like exactly what Gernot Heiser was talking about: a sufficiently safe language for userland on seL4. Rust was the first that came to mind for me.
Copy complete – supercut of computers in films of the 70s/80s/90s
Parent is looking for the technical specs of the rift itself, not the pc specs required to power the rift. As far as I'm aware, those specs are not available.
This is why I try very hard not to comment on people's decision not to have children. I think the vast majority of them would likely feel differently once they had them and would find it rewarding in ways an early 20 something cannot imagine.

On the other hand, some of them might not and I sure as hell don't want them having kids. How miserable for everyone involved.
Bitcoin, csgo skins, virtual items in plenty of games, property in secondlife are a few examples.
How does that explain the cable industry?
Their real catalog is on discs, not online. Many great movies aren't online even years after release. I'm on 3-at-a-time sub, can't deplete my disc queue in years.
If it's such a straightforward fix, why isn't it part of the docker core? I'd love to hear from the docker team why it's not a concern for them. Presumably if it was they'd have addressed it by now.

From my own experience with docker in production, I'm yet to see any of the described scenarios crop up. Has anyone else, or is this solving an extreme edge case?
Would a suggestion to stop contaminating the ground water and air with carcinogens also miss the point?

Obviously, it is a bad idea to maximize the wrong metric. In the case of cancer, just measuring survival rates is a bad metric, but so is measuring cancer deaths per capita. A better metric is to measure the per-capita deaths due to cancer within specific age groups.
See, you gotta do it right. Make it romantic. Stars are romantic. It has to be on a huge scale, too, so it sounds impressive. And then you need something tangible, so there has to be a piece of paper, preferably showing how they could see the thing named after them. Stars are easiest, but you could do custom constellations named after them. Shouldn't be too hard to hack up a python script that draws pictures over a star map and prints out certificates of the brand new constellation.

I'd buy that for my grandma. She'd like that.
Ish. How much do you know about the Russian cultural psyche?

I'm not disagreeing that the paranoia around American<->Russian relations isn't massively overblown, but I think you underestimate the aspirations of the Russian ruling class, and the degree to which the working class would bend to those aspirations if called upon (forced to).
Or even the famous question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?", to which we have a constructive proof (under some mathematical idealizations) that the answer is " No".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum
Thank you for this excellent response.

The first part made me think that in the past when church was so dominant and had to get people to work for them, this philosophy would have done the trick.

'Hard work is its own reward'

This unfortunately brought the "Work will set you free" quote to mind but I'm not in a position to further comment on it.

I think people in power (Churches, Politicians, CEOs) would always try to portray work in this light as it is inherently valuable for them. I think this might be the case too with the older folks calling Millennial entitled brats.
In my experience, on the other hand, I've found that Netflix has a pretty good selection of movies that I otherwise wouldn't have known I wanted to watch. So yes, if I expected to find tons of hit movies and classics, I'd be pretty disappointed most of the time, but I do feel I get my money's worth of a good selection of left-field films, and my list of favorite movies is a lot longer because of it.
Another option would be to turn lengthier posts into cards. Uses existing Twitter concepts, doesn't change anything for existing users, lets people express more complex ideas. Seems like an easy change and a big win for everyone.
On the other end of this - this sucks. Anyone who has a Facebook page now has users encouraged to message them (and you get scored if you respond too late). Just found out this out later & it's a headache when you're trying to funnel people through your actual customer service channels and not trying to handle things on Facebook. ugh.
Personally, I believe Zuckerberg is sincere in wanting to connect everyone in the world with each other.

However, I believe he is also sincere in thinking that Facebook is the best and perhaps only platform by which this is possible. In this he is sincerely mistaken.

I feel sure he doesn't think of it as a land grab, even privately. But he is looking from the inside out. If he wants to be seen as the Great Connector, he needs to be pouring money into local infrastructure, subsidizing open source routing software, lobbying worldwide against entrenched bureaucracy and corporate obstructionism. They're doing some of that, sure, but Free Basics is heavy handed and no one trusts Facebook to begin with - it's not strange to think of it as a sort of modern digital imperialist.
They need to just shut down the LaGuardia airport and sell the land off for development. It's silly to have 3 airports that close together, creating the busiest airspace in the US, especially when LGA is such a small (and old and crappy) airport anyway. Shut it down, expand service at Newark and JFK, and then improve the mass-transit service to both of those so people don't need to spend a bunch of money on stupid cabs just to get in or out of NYC by air.
Oh, i did. Not enough to keep me from playing, but when it hit, it hit hard. Hard enough that i still get minor flashbacks even from screenshots. Surprisingly, the first game where i did not have that problem was, of all things, Descent. Must have been something specific about the movement and/or projection.
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from last year, not sure how I missed it - but a great trip down memory lane of tons of appearances of computers in films over the years. See also http://www.starringthecomputer.com/
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What does this have to do with anything?
I would say that it's one thing to regret that you could not do something, and another to regret that you had children. It's a matter of opportunity cost. If I have two events I'd like to attend that are at the same time I can regret not attending one whilst enjoying the one I did attend.
The big issue with IE<11 is that they are not happybrowsers, i.e. with automatic updates. Thanks God, the world evolves and things get better.
Seems to be fixed, just canceled my plan from the site in one click.
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Everybody talks mostly about the content. I started using Netflix (Germany + US), because of the technology. I don't want to move to my next apartment with thousands of discs, and when I want to watch something I don't want to search for days before i find the disc. Streaming is the way to go and at least in Europe Netflix is the only one who does it right. (Youtube of course as well, but youtube has no interesting movies/tv shows with licenses and high quality)

What I'm really missing is the option to pay for single premium movies like the newest Avengers movie like I could on Amazon or Google. I don't understand why they don't offer the content that may be too expensive to them for general access at least for extra pay.
Agreed! I just wish tables were supported. I actually have to export it to a .docx and then add the tables :/.
I asked them a while back and they said they weren't planning on supporting tables any time soon.
Yep. That's the point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybBa_Ygg1rE
That only works if the people you are trying to convince believe that the Sun is far enough away for its rays to be essentially parallel at the two measuring locations.

Do flat Earth believers believe in a sufficiently large solar system for that to be true?
This is what I have begun to wonder about this interest in the old sleep pasterns. They're usually put forward as healthier or the way we evolved to sleep. It seems to me it is more simply a symptom of going to sleep very early because the sun went down.

The sun is setting here at around 5:15 pm and rising at around 7:30. Twilight times are about half an hour more light around those times. If you're going to sleep around 6pm because the sun has gone down, you're probably not sleeping through until dawn which is 14 hours away. So you got up, did some stuff, it still wasn't light out, so you just went back to bed.

It's not because it's healthier, or because you evolved to do so, it's because your source of light hasn't shown up yet. That changed with cheap electricity, because even candles weren't quite as convenient or cheap.
> lets them make more rational decisions.

it re-frames decision process from 'what should I do?" to "should I kill him?"
I take it you're not a cop, and don't have any cops in your family. The rule is very simple: unless you want to get shot, don't fuck with police. Pointing a toy weapon at an officer counts as fucking with police in my book.
Have you seen http://instantwatcher.com/
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Heh. My last early adopter experience assured that I would get Portal 3 (if it's ever released...). Pretty much anyone using a steam controller with a mac got the Valve Complete Pack, future titles included, as a gift due to buggy support on pre-release.