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① looks very interesting, but is clearly showing age. Is there anything newer on this topic in similar spirit?
The actual _work_ done here was by ArtchiveTeam, which is not the same thing. Archive.org are just doing the hosting of the end-results.
And the other NI constabulary that has every officer armed is... Belfast Airport Police!
For starters train US police in gradual escalation rather than have them use a gun by default.

E.g. one big difference between US and UK police irrespective of weapons is that US police seem far quicker to rush into a situation to end it instantly, while UK police will only do that in extreme cases (e.g. someone is actually being harmed right now). Otherwise, police will secure a perimeter and get people away if necessary, ensure they have overwhelming force, and only then approach the suspect.

There was the case a while ago where some axe-wielding idiot was shot in the US after attacking a police officer. Only said police officer was only in range because they'd pointlessly rushed in to try to arrest him without trying to de-escalate from a safe distance first. When that situation had first been created, it was probably the right decision to shoot, but that situation wouldn't have existed if police weren't acting recklessly in the first case.

If UK police were in the same situation, the two initial responders would likely have gotten people away, kept their distance, and waited to have a dozen or so colleagues in place and kept trying to de-escalate the situation as long as possible before intervening.

The more police are careful about escalation, the less reason criminals will have to risk escalation as well.
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> That's not true.

You're going to need to be more specific than that.
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>I read more history

None of those are in a history book.
Thank you, this is a very good explanation and now I'm convinced that this is the right thing to do.

But I do need mutual authentication, and want to avoid rolling my own crypto for it--so does Rustls expect to support client auth in TLS 1.3 when that spec is finalized and implemented?
The linux scheduler uses red and black trees, there doesn't seem to be any performance problem there. I think that's a pretty ringing endorsement of the dsta structure no?
Good question. It shows that this is the snit we've gotten ourselves into: philosophy=formal systems. Physics must be based on a formal system, therefore we must have an advancement in formal systems to help physics. There is no advancement, yadda yadda.

The "good" parts of philosophy are the mushy parts. And when you've created a formal system that's self-consistent yet offers no value, you're going to have to step outside formal systems for a while.

That's gotta be a painful leap for a lot of folks who believe that math is the ultimate reality.
Well, quite a lot of tourists do visit City because of things like St Pauls and Museum of London.

To put it differently: City is one of 33 regions of London (the other 32 are boroughs; City is not a borough), and one of the very smallest.

> and for a long time it had its own police force

It still does: https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/
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> or is it just you who matters (solipsism)?

Basically yes (depending on the definition of solipsism). From your point of view, all that really exists is your current consciousness. Other people's minds are just a part of your mental model of the world.
Uh, no? The UK police seems to shoot less than the Finnish, despite Finland having a fraction of the population.

Quick Google, for England and Wales:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

"The Police discharged a conventional firearm in 3 incidents (down from 5 incidents in 2011-12)."
HN has been talking about this article a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056210
> While searching for things in the immediately loaded buffer is easy (CTRL+F), searching for things said a long time ago can't be searched via the client. You either have to use command line tools to dump the sqlite db into a grepable text file or install the quasselsuche web app (last updated in 2012).

Why not just open the sqlite file and search in there? Could even ask for the log to be stored in an FTS table for fast FTS queries.
>What I was referring to can be summed up here

Well, checking for the crime rate between different races and attributing it to "race", instead of looking for the underlying causes, is the epitome of racism.

No different from 18th-19th century scholars, who concluded that blacks had inferior intelligence and reasoning skills etc, which they might indeed have as individual examples under study -- but those scholars also forgot to account for the fact that blacks didn't have the schooling and freedom to develop their personality, or that their original culture was stolen from them and they were abducted and had to operate in a hostile and foreign environment.

>As far as medieval history and the other things you've mentioned go, every type of tribe on this planet has engaged in conquest and warfare. Some won. Some lost.

And some caused endless bloodshed and massacre all over the world for profit and control, and those tended to be whites, from them, to the modern world and wars for oil and strategic interests...
However that still will not make you a great painter.
In the pre civil engineer era, civilian death rates averaged around 80%, typical woman has 12 kids, 10 die before they reproduce, etc.

Against those odds, world war level losses are a rounding error. Its telling that the influenza epidemic after WWI killed more people than WWI.
The problem is not the lack of prosecution in the US. There are in fact countless attempts to prosecute officers for deadly force. The problem is that the bar for determining justified vs unjustified is low in the US. This bar makes it extremely, if not almost impossible except in very rare cases, to prosecute an officer for deadly force. There were two Supreme Court rulings that created the bar that we see today. First is Tennessee vs. Garner and the second is Graham vs. Conner.

The US has bigger issues that are at the root of police shootings in my opinion. These issues stem from extreme poverty, lack of jobs, disenfranchisement laws for convicted criminals, a lack of responsibility or taking responsibility for actions, and a growing distrust of the police that is so large community members would rather not report any crime. As an example, there is an article this morning in the DC news[1] calling for the police department to be completely eliminated and allow citizens to enforce the laws. I don't even know where to begin with that idea and I know it will never happen, but to have so much distrust that you call for eliminating the entire department shows a bigger problem.

How do you fix it? That's a good question. I am huge proponent of community policing. Taking officers out of cars and putting them on foot in the communities. But unfortunately community policing creates another set of problems in the US. There are limited police resources and therefore those resources logically are deployed to areas that most need them. Right or wrong, these areas tend to be poor communities or inner city areas where minority populations are larger. In turn community policing is often viewed as targeting.

I am not going to sit here and deny that "profiling" does not occur and that there have not been extreme instances of "targeting". It is easy for me as a white male to be numb to the day-to-day problems that minorities face. But these terms, in my opinion, have become overused and the media has no problem turning "community policing" into acts of "targeting" solely for profit.

Instead of focusing on these isolated shootings (and they are isolated compared to the amount of policing that occurs daily) we, as a society, need to focus on solving the bigger issues. You start addressing the poverty, the education system, disenfranchisement laws, and working to build families instead of tearing them apart, only then will we see reduced incidents of officer involved shootings.

[1] http://wjla.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-dc-speaks-out-...
Except that will drive away most good engineers. Most good ones I know will refuse to do "take home" problems for interview purposes. I understand them. It is demeaning.

When I get offered one, I send back a quote to solve their problem, at my standard contracting rate.
It might but we've been generating many imaginary solutions without a lot of take-home benefit for a while now. ST has had an extraordinary run given how useless it's been, especially since it's sucked up money and time that might have been better spent on real science.
Yes, state cops on the beat have pistols. The special AFP officers who guard parliament house (who replaced private security contractors) have submachine guns.
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I'm sorry, I may have been ambiguous. I was actually wondering what the best engineer does.
the attached video of how British policeman handle a man with machette is nothing but pathetic

Incidentally, this attitude is a perfect illustration why violence is so prevalent in US society.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against disruption at all. It's just there're cases where doing this doesn't make sense. Write a new text editor, invent a new programming language, sure. But writing a new cryptography library? You are throwing away decades of effort that went into to harden and secure the existing library, and your gain is pretty small.

Making things even worse is that you can't really write a crypto library without using C/assembly. So why write a new crypto library?
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It's interesting that you seem to have completely forgotten that reproduction ("breeding") usually requires two people people, usually of different genders ;) Women, no matter how "fit and healthy" did not tend to participate on the front lines in either war.
Actually, they are related to organized crime. Sure, most of that is drug-related but that's because there's plenty of money to be made there.

Regulate drugs, organized crime might shift to a different product or scope. It's way too simple to say that it will "solve" the problem.
Custom controls are supported, although I'm not sure that inheriting from Canvas is the best way to do that. See e.g. https://github.com/Core2D/Core2D for an example of an application with lots of custom controls.
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Yup, totally worthless, token effort.
Are you from the physics community? The EmDrive wasn't viewed well at all, it's viewed as completely baloney. None of the early experiments afaik was none with sufficient experimental rigor to reveal anything surprising. All this while making an absolutely huge claim. The average physicist (I'm not one) wouldn't want to waste any more time with it than with the 2nd-law-violating "free energy" claim of the week.
That's true, but what about the sales guy that takes 5% of a $10 million deal as commission? Or the exec team that gets a 10% cut of the increased profits this year?

There was always a huge amount of players at work helping the upper execs and sales teams, from the devs to HR.

I guess OP's post was and the article itself are noting that working your ass off and making a big contribution in SV as an engineer can sometimes be a bad deal, especially when the engineer in question really is talented.
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As we mentioned in the recent Security meetings notes (https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/London-Security ), there will be a blog post on blog.servo.org in the coming weeks from the folks on the team who are making these decisions.
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Why do you think that expecting reasonable level of competence and effectiveness from police officers is a bad attitude? All I'm arguing here is that policemen should have enough training and enough equipment, including weapons, so that it wouldn't take 12 men to take down one guy with melee weapon. Typical two person patrol should be enough.
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There are in fact countless attempts to prosecute officers for deadly force. The problem is that the bar for determining justified vs unjustified is low in the US

To be fair, the GP talked about accountability of the officers. If 99% of the officers are prosecuted, acquitted, and they keep their jobs, in effect they are not held to account.
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Do you inlclude freelancers/contractors? I got started recently
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That may work, but then you're in the same workflow as the more traditional IRC clients with their .txt logfiles and needing tools external to the IRC client. Ostensibly the point of moving away from the human-readable logfiles to something like an SQL DB was to let the client be a more powerful search engine into your chat history. So this is mostly a lament that while there's a great vision to what an IRC client can be in designing Quassel's infrastructure, Quassel has not yet fully realized its vision in this area, but I'm sure it'll get there some day.
That's really interesting. What were your prescriptions before/after?
I'm sure most theoretical physicists would call themselves mathematicians. I don't agree physics should favour creating testable predictive models, because who are we to say what's testable in the future? Take the theory of relativity, for example. Would you have stopped Einstein et al from researching it, just because it wasn't testable at the time?

In my opinion, physics is and has always been about answering the big questions, the how's, the why's of our existence. That new technology sometimes comes out of it is a bonus, not the ultimate goal.
Why was this posted here?
What's the immediate advantage for me in using a less intuitive syntax? I understand cat is meant to concatenate files, so what?
Who paid for the property damage incurred while they waited?
Why would anyone made such a change every year? Many people write articles about better ways to do X in many languages but that doesn't mean you change everything to follow that today. Maybe it informs your decisions tomorrow, maybe it doesn't. Ultimately you don't need to do anything here.

Personally I don't use promises and won't use this either but that's only because I am working on a code base that needs to work in more places (so no ES6 for me and no I don't need the extra complexity in my build and debugging steps to do a transpile).
I don't like this either. My long time wishes have been to have federated systems for instant messaging and for social networks. Neither seem to be getting any traction with the big and rich corporations actively working against any kind of interoperability. All the pro-privacy solutions depend on getting all your contacts into another walled garden, albeit a nicer one than the likes of Facebook and Google.

Beyond federation, I would also like the solutions to have good features and usability. Right now I'm bouncing between a few walled systems:

1. Telegram - really fast development pace, poor crypto, E2E encryption is only for chosen chats and single device.

2. Signal - slow to deliver messages, not multi-device and has usability bugs and issues. I update it somewhat regularly and try using it, but still go back to Telegram because basic expectations aren't met.

3. Wire - I discovered this recently and like the feature set (it's a lot richer than Signal). It claims to use the Signal protocol and has support for voice and video too. All chats are E2E encrypted (unlike Telegram where non-secret chats are by default not encrypted on the device or on Telegram's servers), and it has multi-device support with message sync (only from the time the device is joined to the account). Clients are available for different mobile and desktop platforms. But this one also has poor usability in getting started with it and has simple things missing - like no message delivered or message read indicators (the latter could at least be present as a user selectable option for privacy). I don't know how slow this is to deliver messages, but it's definitely not as fast as Telegram is. Not knowing if a message reached or not is unacceptable in this era.

I'm still waiting for some more strong solutions to appear in this space. Seeing that more platforms are adopting the Signal protocol, it would be great to have some standardization in user identification and federation. I actually do not want any of these solutions to be completely free and wish they would provide some way to help them monetarily (at least for the people who do want to help them). I feel repelled by the "free forever" and "we'll sell premium things later, like stickers" parts. That also brings suspicions about the motives of the company/developers and the future viability of the application or platform. At least allow people to donate to you so that you feel some kind of return obligation for all users!
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You can avoid the class syntax here and write a function to return the same if you prefer.
My point is that "take down" is not the goal. There is more than one way to defuse a threat, and as other commenters have pointed out, the strategy was effective.
For the working sysadmin or devops specialist, what does this offer over e.g. Ansible?
That's a great point. Makes me wonder why we're not getting that moon base setup. Seems like a natural first step prior to colonizing Mars. Learn how to survive on the Moon, take that knowledge and apply to Mars.
Maybe your time machine uses a bad design.

Which is a bit tongue in cheek, but I don't see how you can speak so concretely about it without having a working time machine.
Previous relevant discussion from a few weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11937132
Better to keep that in a separate thread i guess .
I'll take another look when we have a few hundred samples of this size over the course of a thousand years or so.
I am surprised you had a failure installing numba on Ubuntu 14.04. I am using it on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS without issues and with pip (no special Python distribution because I want full control). You need to have the right version of LLVM installed from the Ubuntu packages (there are several of them).

Note that I am not a developer of numba, just a simple user, so maybe I was just lucky.
To count as a startup you need a product. If you're freelancing or contracting or consulting, you are the means of production but the product belongs to whoever hires you.
Haven't tried Quassel, but I use Smuxi because it's a very good (also distributed) alternative, which is multi-protocol (not only IRC).
I recently started using Wire and liked the richer feature set. But I'd say it still has some way to go on usability, features and speed. I hope you look at Telegram as an inspiration on those (not on crypto though, where you seem to have the one commonly accepted as the best).
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I'm using it with postgres, and yeah I don't know why there's no option to search all historical logs (well I guess if I really wanted it, it is an open source project), but since I have desktop client opened all the time, in settings I have it configured to fetch some ridiculous amount of backlog, and then ctrl-f searches quite far in the past.
My side project StatusGator, which monitors service status pages, has been running profitably for the last year. It took about 3 months to become profitable and it's only so because my time is "free". (But isn't that always the case?)

I don't do anything to promote it so growth has been entirely organic. I get a few free sign ups every day. Although they very infrequently convert to paid, I keep expenses low so it doesn't take many paid users to be profitable. If I had more knowledge of how to market such a thing, I believe it could be a reliable revenue source. But I'm otherwise happy that its relative profitability motivates me to maintain it, as I find it supremely useful for my own personal use.
For single author papers, I see many papers that switch from "we" to "I". We are probably observing a trend in the process.
I wish this sort of question was asked a lot more often when we see something "new" on HN.
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The danger with math is that it can prove its own truths based on its own internal rules, so there's a temptation to believe that whatever you can describe mathematically describes something that actually exists in the real world. But until you've tested it experimentally, you don't know whether you're describing a total fantasy world, like The Lord of the Rings, or something actually real, but boring, like an apple. Just because you've proven with mathematical certainly the existence of hobbits doesn't mean you'll actually find any.
Logical and structured thinking is good tool when doing physics, because a precise model can be used as a language and communicated and taught, since it's simple.

But those models are correct only in what they describe, they don't completely describe nature. They are just that, models. Every time science has progressed, it's either an "exception to the rule", or a re-understanding of an incomplete theory.

I'm not a scientist, but I vividly remember how a physics professor warned us about the laws he was teaching. Those laws work well, use them, but never pretend that they're universal and that they will be for the next 20 or 100 years.

You can see this problem in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is being very hard on philosophy and certainty in general. Up to a point, using models might be a limit to physics.
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I run a single person company https://www.fantasysp.com

It is a fantasy sports company that helps you manage your team(s) by offering player projections, waiver suggestions, optimal lineups, trade suggestions, etc. We also help with fanduel/draft kings lineups.

Revenue has increased steadily over the past 4 years in the range of 20%-30% year over year.

User base growth is different as I focus more on active users rather than total new users. Active users increase around 15% year over year.
So ... less educated people are getting more kids? (or the inverse: more educated people are getting less kids)
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Yes, forex trading using deep learning, media monitoring

two startups, both profitable

I built, support and run them all myself (though everything is automated)
pfSense on my Xeon E5-2403v2 at home eats up 25% of a CPU core WITH TSO and TCO enabled when maxing out my 100Mbps

That sounds like thermal throttling, or software failure. There is no way a single 100Mbps link can come close to making a current CPU sweat.
Truffle at the moment wouldn't make #blank? fast, because it uses a regex, and at the moment that's still a black box to our optimiser (which is a shame).
Speaking of IRC clients, I don't understand why one particular feature that has been requested all time (feature request in various clients I've gone through) but never implemented - keyword highlight and notification, but customizable depending on the channel. This way you don't have to pay visual attention to certain channels.

And I thought the need is common enough and it's easy enough to implement..
Finally finding like minds. I felt sick when heard how the two hour standoff in a parking garage with one person who police did not have a clear shot so neither did the suspect...wtf? The chief said they gave him 2 options, really? There are only two?