skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would make the reverse argument. Someone driving 100 miles today is far less likely to die doing it than, say, 30 years ago. The odds look about 3:1, eyeballing the chart. That, to me, seems like driving is far less dangerous than it was. The fact that people drive more miles today than before is an entire separate concern. One could even argue that making driving safer has also made it more popular, though I wouldn't bet on it being a large contributing factor.
This seems like a case where they simplified the wording too much to be worthwhile. "Armed with a realistic-looking toy and pointing it at someone" is very different from "Playing with super-soakers and water-hoses on their lawn".
To be clear, those sizes exclude pictures. Some articles are nearly useless without pictures.
Considering I can't even watch it on my Chromecast without having my laptop stream it I barely use the service at all. The integrated "smart TV" Amazon app I have is a total pain to use.
Injury reports are serious wrinkles. Often time players will be scratched within a few hours before the game. If you are optimizing, you need to account for this because it sends the backups value much higher than his salary. For example, last night Rajon Rondo was scratched. His backup Darren Collison, was in over 80% of the lineups in a FanDuel 50/50 tournament. I didn't have him, and I lost $2.
Admittedly, I don't think it's on the article's main page but if you were paying attention, you'd know about this one.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/16/justice/walmart-shooting-john-...
Cache miss latency was the first thing that popped into my mind as well when I saw the title.

It seems like they don't make a clear distinction between latency and bandwidth. From the little I know on SSDs(don't claim to be an expert here) the sequential reads are below or on-par with high spindle speed disks.

What seems to be a better take-away would be that sequencing of your reads isn't nearly as important as it used to be. Back in games we'd duplicate data across a DVD so that we could do "seekfree" loading where duplicating 5-10MB of data would mean just a single big call to read() and gain massive load time performance.
> In almost the entire US, being armed is not against the law.

So what? Cops don't know the law and aren't expected to know the law. The fact that a cop didn't know the law is a legal defense if you accuse him of messing up.
Leaving aside the apples/oranges comparison of the greater latitude given to the individual's rights in the US vs. the UK (2nd and 4th amendments in particular), I'd more or less agree with this criteria being a good way to distinguish the overall value of the two approaches to dealing with armed civilian confrontations.

That being said, if the numbers you're looking for exist in an unbiased, non-doctored study, I'd be surprised. If they did, and they supported the thesis, you'd see them quoted in every article advocating gun control.
Well, the market responds to consumers, who say (much to my chagrin): price/quantity over quality. The fact that these consumers spoil things for people like me who would gladly pay more for quality is another topic. But the market works as expected.
Fideism plays an important role in some sects of Christianity, but is considered heresy in others. It is not mentioned in any of the eccumenical creeds.

That being said, there has always been a strong minority pushing for it, and one interpretation of the doctrine "Sola Scriptura" (which is a core tenent of Protestantism) would be that anything contrary to scripture is wrong (hence young-earth creationism).
While I have a young child I waited till later in life to become a parent.

I feel fairly confident in my opinion that there is always something worthwhile to spend money on.
I found myself in a similar position a few years ago, looking for a new job after a startup had floundered, and felt really stressed about jumping into a new organization with false enthusiasm. I didn't want to lead any company on, but was really deflated from my prior experience.

Thankfully, I found an amazing consulting firm constructed of around 15-20 folks with a similar history that really valued work-life balance and carefully chose its clients based on respecting those boundaries. We did really great work, within those boundaries. As a starting point for a search for that kind of company, I would recommend weworkremotely.com (where I found that firm), because they're generally companies willing to make convenience/control tradeoffs (such as working with remote employees) in order to get stuff done.
>The integrated "smart TV" Amazon app I have is a total pain to use.

Seems fine on my Sony. No better/worse than the netflix one anyway
If a critical mass of people adopt this for a long enough time (and maybe even storing readability metrics about the articles), there could be a distributed search that works on the personal archives. A step further toward never dying content.
Many states require them to be lit for identification purposes. And there's a lot of malicious fundraising that occurs around these laws.
A circle is longer than a straight line, so it would explain the time difference too.
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Yeah, to my ears it sounds like someone is anxious that he won't be taken seriously if he uses a one-syllable word.
Electronic Cold Pasteurization would have been a preventative step in the right direction.
> When a man being chased by police stops his car, gets out, takes cover behind the door and starts pointing something that looks remarkably like a gun at police, he should be shot.

I disagree, especially in your outlined scenario, for a couple of reasons:

1) First and foremost: the police are professionals whose job should be to protect the public, even if that means they put themselves in harm's way. The person with the toy gun (or wallet, cell phone, etc) is still a member of the public.

2) After a car chase, the police have the ability to position themselves defensively until the situation becomes clearer (e.g. shots are actually fired at them). They also could be wearing unusual protective gear like body armor, which would further reduce their personal danger.

Now, if the person was actively threatening an innocent third party with a realistic toy gun in some way, then I think it would be much more justifiable for the police to shoot. Ditto if a person brandishes something clearly gun-like at an officer at close range.
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I have heard more than I can count express regret at having children. Though it is usually in the form of regretting the timing (too young) with a caveat that the regret does not diminish their love.
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> I'll get my hand on one of those asap.

Do a blog post on it? I'd love to see these extended, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy style.
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.
I think it's actually you who have decided on the semantic debate, since the reason we don't charge lots of people with felonies for killing people with cars is pretty apparent from the comment I just wrote.

I also don't think you read my comment carefully.

As a reset: here's what the state must prove in a manslaughter case:

First, the defendant unlawfully killed someone;

Second, while in a sudden quarrel or heat of passion, caused by
adequate provocation:

a) the defendant intentionally killed someone; or

b) the defendant killed name of victim recklessly with extreme
disregard for human life; and

Heat of passion may be provoked by fear, rage, anger or
terror. Provocation, in order to be adequate, must be such as might
arouse a reasonable and ordinary person to kill someone.

Maybe you'd rather look at a vehicular manslaughter statute? Here you go, California's:

To prove that the defendant is guilty of this crime, the People must
prove that:
1. The defendant (drove under the influence of (an alcoholic
beverage/ [or] a drug) [or under the combined influence of an
alcoholic beverage and a drug]/drove while having a blood
alcohol level of 0.08 or higher/drove under the influence of (an
alcoholic beverage/ [or] a drug) [or under the combined influence
of an alcoholic beverage and a drug] when under the age of 21/
drove while having a blood alcohol level of 0.05 or higher when
under the age of 21);
2. While driving that vehicle under the influence of (an alcoholic
beverage/ [or] a drug) [or under the combined influence of an
alcoholic beverage and a drug], the defendant also committed
(a/an) (misdemeanor[,]/ [or] infraction[,]/ [or] otherwise lawful
act that might cause death);
3. The defendant committed the (misdemeanor[,]/ [or] infraction[,]/
[or] otherwise lawful act that might cause death) with gross
negligence;
AND
4. The defendant’s grossly negligent conduct caused the death of
another person.

This describes only a tiny percentage of vehicular fatalities.

Again: we don't prosecute people for errors. We prosecute them for doing things intentionally, or, as I said, for causing grave harm recklessly.
It's not even that good here. Most series that ended within the last 10 years are not available. They don't have 9 out of 10 TV series that I want to watch. To make things even worse, they've raised prices from €8 to €10 even though it feels like they're removing more TV series (such as Lost) than they're adding back.
I don't see how it's radical. It's the only logical conclusion.

Many people have written about this. I haven't read a single convincing argument in favor of privacy as anything other than a defensive measure.
Right, I agree. I was referring to the parent mentioning "the Netflix you all talk about". That Netflix is changing every day.

I used to use Netflix to ship me DVDs, then I protested the Qwikster move by switching to streaming-only, which was great for movies (for awhile) but has been shifting to TV content.

To be honest, I don't use Netflix much, but the value I get is still worth the $8/mo. Some months I don't use it at all, other months I binge-watch The Man in the High Castle.

When I want to watch a movie, I first hit Netflix (hey, free streaming!) to search for it... then I check Amazon Prime on my Fire Stick, because some titles are free. If it's available for rental, I'll pay the $4. If available for purchase only (or unavailable), then I'll hop over to the iTunes store on the AppleTV and hope it's available for rental.

Or I just go to canistream.it, which was about my only original invention ever, until I found out someone had already done it.
Being up front: this is what I work on for IBM Systems. A buddy wrote this blog (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-...) with a little more info.

What we have is an IO offload accelerator that knows how to drive high bandwidth IOs to some external storage device. A user app doesn't interact with the device - they make shared library calls to read or write data from a particular buffer, and the accelerator (because it's cache coherent) can read / write from the virtual address space of the user space program to satisfy the request as needed. This means that the IOs bypass the entire OS driver stack, since everything is a shared library call from user space.

So yep! That exists. :-) There's other classes of accelerators out there too (and coming in the future as well). Adding additional function like compression or some form of indexing or search is stuff that we've talked about.

(edit) - https://github.com/open-power/capiflash has the code for the shared libs, the APIs, and some examples.
I am in Europe, I am on netflix.com, I can't seem to find a way to check the local catalogue (without signing up), what am I doing wrong?
I think it would be interesting to see rise of actors' fees over that period of time. Sure cable companies make money but most money seems to be going to TV networks and in turn TV actors.
"What if text was actually text?"

Imagine if you traveled back in time to the 90s and showed this to someone and said this was coming from the CEO of two multi-billion dollar 21st century companies.
"Performance" sounds like sloppy thinking too. What kind of performance are we talking about? Latency, throughput, false positive rate, false negative rate, click through rate, conversion to sales rate? There are a lot of axes on which to measure performance.
I don't like "performant" as a word, but I also recognize that is an irrational, emotional reaction on my part. I think it's valid to create an adjective that basically means "a thing that has high or acceptable performance". I see no reason to conclude people who use it are sloppy thinkers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this basically the same as an HTML DSL, i.e. functions which transform something like (in LISP)

(html
(head
(title "hello"))
(body
(p "world")))

into "<html><head><title>hello</title></head><body><p>world</p></body></html>"? Except this takes assembly keywords and outputs machine code.
But you have the data somewhere, right, because you gave it a number (roughly a quarter of all fatalities). Could I derive that number from your data set on Github?

(I'm not questioning the number; I'd just like to see if I can generate more context for it).
Australia has 2467, in case anyone else was curious.

[Though I really wish I could access some of the German language library directly from my Australian subscription.]
AFAIK all of the smart TV apps worked but wouldn't let you sign-up or stream.
Most Americans are one paycheck away from the street
Wikipedia currently is ~30-35TB total in size. If storage trends continue, you'll be able to store/run the entire corpus locally in 3-5 years.
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ha yah, and that is a great series. Too american?
You seem to be missing the point. The graph was posted to show evidence for a 'war on car fatalities' not a 'war on the dangers of driving'.

This is akin to announcing a 'war on cancer fatalities' but only caring about improving cancer treatments, not removing carcinogens on the environment.
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> Having lots of packages isn't bad for the ecosystem, it makes Node and npm unique and amazing. But picking bad npm modules, which is entirely avoidable, is bad for your project - that's all I meant.

Having an ecosystem where, say, 70% of the choices I make can be 'bad' is probably not a great ecosystem. I hope it shakes out in the next year or so and there's less choice. There's enough choices I have to make in my own application layer - having to make X more choices about code I didn't write and how all those pieces fit together (and how they'll be maintained going forward) just doesn't feel like a good long-term platform. But... people have the 'choice' to use it if they want ;)
Because back then it was only free when targeting desktop and servers, not embedded devices.

Also the license requires that all of Java is taken, not cutting down pieces as they feel like.
FAA says 181,000 drones have been registered since December 21
I believe that this is mostly because neither of them are available in the U.S. (as far as I know). Every single European service that I tried to use them with (note: I haven't used plenty of them) accepted them without any issues.

As an example, while Amazon.com does not provide the support for them, Amazon.co.uk accepts my Visa Electron card without any issues and I bought a Raspberry Pi using Maestro.
I think it's in-combo with the whole AI/automated personalization as well. It used to be very difficult to do intelligent bots, but now you have tensorflow/caffe/word2vec frameworks that come built-in with NLP

The walled garden thing has always been an issue though. I mean Facebook threw a fit when India turned down their "facebook-only" internet: http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21685292-...
> Finland: 3380 (So high because they don't dub?)

Why would you dub? I mean, why would you either have to dub everything or not include it? Just have at set up a screen that asks which languages you speak, whether you prefer dubs or subs and whether you will accept subs for everything that doesn't have a dub if you previously selected dub.

Why is language so tied to location? Specially in Europe! (and I can imagine there is a pretty large market for shows in Spanish or Mandarin in the U.S. too, and why not have those in French, German, Japanese, Korean, etc too while we are at it...)

I think this announcement probably changes things in the direction I want in this respect. But it always seemed like the obvious choice to begin with.
When you look at the Guardian data (manually, unfortunately, as that's the only way to do it), you're going to find that most of the "deadly weapon" cases involve firearms, not two-inch penknives.
I disagree with him both about the usefulness and harm of CoCs. There are jackasses, and not having preemptively adopted a CoC, they can leverage the lack of clear rules to divide the community.

On the other-hand, once you have rules, there are some people who for some reason or another go out of their way to argue that a behavior violates/does not violate the rules and completely ignore whether the behavior was benign or malignant, which is what one should really care about.
So no? I don't care about the labeling. I want to better understand the reasoning. Or at least, what pieces of information make it so obvious.
I really like this idea.
I tried to stick with the native mail.app but found it to be buggy and broken in too many ways to be usable. Airmail seems to be working fine for me and doesn't seem to be abandoned.
For example, slot machines in Nevada are only legally required to pay back 75% to players on average

The most important word in Vegas is that last one...average.

As long as all the machines in the house average 75% in payout, the house is in compliance.

What it means for the average player is that the low-denomination slots (nickel, quarter) can pay significantly less than 75%, and by setting a few high-denomination slots ($1/$5/$100) above 75%, everything comes out clean.

So it's an even worse situation if you play the cheap slots.
> regional sports and live network news

Precisely the things I don't watch :P
Excellent - I'm a big fan of GitBook and have been using it for my main project. So far, so good. Would maybe be willing to beta test this but I'm afraid I only use basic functions, no Latex etc support.
This looks like the perfect job for an FPGA (with a fast enough interconnect, poster above mentions CAPI which sits on top of PCIe but I have not had a chance to try it out yet).
For some reason the following caught my eye in this interesting article:

"In between the first and second sleep the person would be awake about an hour – enough to say prayers during Matins, which would typically fall between 2 am and 3 am, study or even have sex."

Why the even :-)? Shouldn't those three items be listed in the reverse order? Does this point to a fact about the medieval mindset or just to the sensibilities of the writer?
No, it is I who welcome you to being a viewer of the "web" rather than being a peer on the Internet.

It could have been different.
huh, I just looked here and did not see that: http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/
Not true in the case of poker.

It's also misleading since in, for instance, blackjack, even when you play at the highest (casino-allowed) skill, you will lose. That's not true of poker or DFS.

There's still plenty of nuance (luck prevails in the short term while skill prevails in the long term).
Please remain civil. "The English language, please learn it" is uncivil on multiple levels.
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It sure seems like the FBI has protected criminals in the past when they had the potential to give the Bureau information about other criminals. These suspicions were also raised in the Whitey Bulger case. I believe that this kind of behavior, from persons who are sworn to enforce the laws, is malfeasant and unacceptable.
Taking this rationale to its logical conclusion, a police officer would be required to wait for violence to actually occur before responding. Imagine the scenario in which a civilian points a gun at a police officer's head. What course of action would you recommend? Wait for the civilian to fire? If the officer were to fire, would you say "I feared for my life" is reasonable?

Second, you've got a straw man argument here. Police can't shoot (de jure) when there's a suspicion that maybe there's a possibility. In Texas (I imagine others are similar), deadly force is authorized [1]:

(A) to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force; or

(B) to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery.

and,

(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm;

(2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct.

There's a clear line here, and "reasonable" is decided by a jury of one's peers, not the responding officer.

Reference:

1. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/SOTWDocs/PE/htm/PE.9.h...
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In support of your comment, I would point out that gaming has become progressively less interesting for its technical developments over time. The first videogames really were revolutionary, even as they were derided for being crude, inauthentic, or simple transcriptions of games already playable with cards, pen and paper. The improvements from there have made them more accessible and appealing, but the forms and meanings of computer-driven interactivity haven't fundamentally changed - more realistic 3D just isn't as impressive as the first real-time 3D. We already passed the tipping point in terms of cultural impact, and VR is superfluous to that. It'll make its way into the world eventually, but not with the flash and bang that this generation is banking on.

Now, if we were talking about neural interfaces, that would be a more interesting discussion.
My main point is that it's not as simple as:

not("breaking law" or "pointing guns at other people") == not("get shot")

which is what you were snarkily making it out to be.

There are whole fields of study devoted to the issues at hand, neither you nor I will convince each other or make an airtight case in a single post regarding the full spectrum of input into all armed encounters with police that result in the output of either dying, or being arrested without incident, or anything in between.
Yes. Although MAD doesn't necessarily require the end of the world (eg nuclear winter), or even the end of a regime. It just depends on consequences which are "unbearable" for either nation.

I've always felt that the best strategy against NK is to simply wait for the regime to collapse on its own (along with sanctions that isolate them, FWIW). This is fine as long as they don't try to invade South Korea, leading to swift US-backed retaliation. But perhaps now as they continue to develop and "show off" their nukes, they'll feel emboldened to "try something" before their time runs out?