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I wouldn't be suprised if he had written the whole thing ON PAPER, and then just re-type it to a computer.

Also, there is known story that Gates and Allen wrote BASIC compiler for some obscure microprocessor without having access to an actual thing, just paper spec. So they wrote emulator first, then compiler and guess what? when run on the real processor it worked like a charm from first try.
But even for the meatspace courses in our uni, the course materials (lecture notes and exercise pdfs) remain available on the public course web page to the foreseeable future after the course.

Having predetermined time schedule might be reasonable for stuff like course credit and motivating the students to complete the course on time, but killing the forum community and even restricting access to materials (or making the access an unnecessary hassle) seems very unnecessary if the objective really is to foster learning in general.
is there a special reason why this is the top HN item? I've used Quassel for years and it's a fine client, but why now?
> Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace has fully armed well trained soldiers. They probably don't need armed police.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard
Pretty neat, at least as a learning tool for people interested in writing their own transpilers!

Incidentally, I evaluated a few tools for going "one level lower" than numpy just last week for a project at work.

Pypy was out since our codebase already migrated to python 3.

Numba failed to install on Ubuntu 14.04 via pip even after some prodding. I don't want yet another python package manager on my system.

Cython is it's own language; not Python or C. I don't want yet another language in my codebase.

For our codebase I decided to go with numpy's ctypes integration; a good example is way at the bottom of:

http://scipy.github.io/old-wiki/pages/Cookbook/Ctypes

For our (already mixed) python/numpy/C++ project, the incremental cost was just a few lines of boilerplate per function to make up for both languages (and ultimately the linker) lacking a proper language-level nd-array type.

For our project there were no new dependencies, and as a bonus, after heavily testing and benchmarking your .so file from python, it's still callable from anything with a C FFI.
Looks like "Open as window" option is not available in Chrome osx, it disappeared ~2014 https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/29ZcfR...
I would test the waters with a contract employee first and have them work remote.

If you build a small remote team and things are going well you could think about an office.

You could even run an agency style business with remote employees as contractors so you don't have to do payroll or have the expense of an office. If most of your clients are remote I would avoid the expense of an office. Unless you chase local work and need a place for meetings and to show off the team.

Good luck expanding your business.
We have access to guns, the difference is that to own one (at least in Norway) you have to have a purpose for it and "protection" is not one of them. If you look at the statistics, Norway and Sweden are number 10 and 9 respectively when it comes to the number of guns pr person.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...)

To own a pistol for instance, you need to be an active member of a gun club for 6 months before buying one, and then you need to keep it at the gun club for 6 months before bringing it home.
At home you are only allowed to store it in a locked cabinet without ammo and the only time you are allowed to transport it is to and from the gun range.

In the US you have the expectation that a gun will provide "protection", i.e. you can buy a gun with the purpose of harming others. I think this is the biggest difference.
I think it is mostly for show, or to "reassure the public". You would think that a deliberate surprise attack would require many more armed officers in defensible positions. Not a few isolated individuals mingling with the public.
The US does not have a gun show exception. All dealers must do the same background check and paperwork that they do in stores, and the dealers will also do this for any individual buyer & seller who ask.

Some private sellers (a minority, in my experience) don't insist on having a dealer do the transfer, but that has nothing to do with where the sake takes place.
I didn't say that math is not important, but you can also dig yourself into a hole with it, there are quite a few competing theories all of which have a strong mathematical basis because you develop the math to explain your model of reality especially when you cannot gain sufficient evidence from experimentation.

The overall point was which I might not have expressed fully is that there is in my opinion too much bias in the field of theoretical physics, and to paraphrase Brian Greene again we took a giant leap and probably skipped a few steps and no one seems to want to look back and see if we missed something.

I think one of my favorite quotes that somewhat describes this view is by Rudolf Peierls:
“In recent years the debate on these ideas has reopened, and there are some who question what they call ‘the Copenhagen interpretation’ of quantum mechanics’ - as if there existed more than one possible interpretation of quantum mechanics.”

And I think that this view is antithetical to the advancement of current physics, and sadly this bias is instituted even unintentionally in most new physics students especially those who take physics as part of their degree in CompSci/Engineering.
No, it actually happened four years later, presumably due to a concrete threat of islamic extremist terrorist attacks, the details of which were never disclosed to the public. To no one's surprise, the decision, which was touted as temporary in the political debate that ensued, is still in effect.
To build on that a bit, I also had a number of police encounters when I was younger (a few justified and others that were obvious fishing expeditions). I haven't been stopped or asked for ID in many years, but frequently ponder how various scenarios would play out if I exercised my rights with nothing to hide today. I ask myself at what point standing up for myself becomes a liability.

The answer is that I would have to try to read the personality and mood of the officer because many see lawful refusal to display ID or consent to search as evidence that I have something to hide. I base this on personal experience from having sheriffs assert that they smelled marijuana in a car that I'd borrowed from a family member who didn't partake years after I'd stopped smoking (thus, there was no lingering scent and they were waiting for me to make a mistake to reveal some amount of guilt). One of the officers clearly seemed annoyed that I would not consent to a warrantles search and threatened to arrest me and impound my vehicle in order to conduct a search. I called his bluff and was released, but only after ten minutes of attempts to scare me into submission. Officers with the same attitude may also confuse or ignore the limits of their legal authority, as seen when a guy was arrested for burning a flag last week. Others seem genuinely unaware that they cannot require ID at random. In these situations, it's a roll of the dice and a potential night in jail if you won't roll over for them.
it wasn't a broken tail light stop, they were stopped because they matched the description of suspects in an earlier armed robbery
Same thing as the British and CCTVs
Project MKUltra, Tuskagee, Operation "Green Run", "Igloo White"...
Understanding why the price (of Bitcoin) cannot go to the 'moon'
I think ita a byproduct of the discussion on "The Lounge" also currently on the front-page
Sorry, but there was no explanation. I cite statistics from the US government and he calls me stupid and biased because he doesn't like that I refer to these statistics. It just clashes with his reality or the dogmas he believes in.

> You can see whatever pattern or proof you want if you look at the numbers long enough, to serve any narrative, to rationalize any opinon.

In most Western countries the governments release stats about crimes committed by type and by citizenship or in case of the US by race.

I don't have to search for a pattern there that fits a "narrative", the statistics bluntly state which race commits most crimes in different categories.

If you don't like what these government stats show please feel free to share with us why you believe that we shouldn't use these stats. But I'm not interested in trading insults, so please keep the discussion civil and based on facts.
apparently I'm in the minority (women who want to be indépendant from her partner and do not mind and want to make more money than their partners )

and I'm soooo happy the society allows me to be so.

I guess this is what feminism is about
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Thanks for the correction, I was sure that Heathrow went under MOD in the past 10-15 years, especially since most of the AR officer I've seen at Heathrow were wearing the MODP badges (not literally, but cap and shoulder strap :)) but it could've been just localized reinforcement, I think the last time I've noticed a serious number of armed police at heathrow was in the weeks after the xmas day bomber.
Probably someone just discovered it.

I think it is relevant in the Slack-oriented era. I would love IRC getting the hype instead: the protocol and software is open and easy to understand.
Which dark patterns?
I would be very interested. Do you have a sample lesson to share?
"Premise: Saying “Black Lives Matter” is an expression of racist hatred of white people."

BLM refers to not just the statement, but also the organization and what it does and encourages.

If you look at the BLM twitter feed, you'll see plenty of pictures of BLM supporters wearing T Shirts saying things like "Assata taught me" (Referring to Assata Shakur, the cop killer).

BLM organizes events where they chant things like "pigs in a blanket, fry'em like bacon". The pigs in a blanket referring to cops in body bags.

It's sad when someone like a law professor thinks its ok to identify with such an organization.
If someone loves Russian airplanes so much (I am somewhat an aviation geek too, and a Russian — our planes are interesting, but not _that_ interesting), why risk traveling to North Korea? There are many of these planes serving Russian or Ukrainian regional airlines, and getting into any of these countries is relatively straightforward. More than that, it is relatively easy to arrange for private tour and see everything that aviation geek would ever want to see. In Moscow, you can even fly Russian military fighters (with expert co-pilot, of course). Hardly imaginable in North Korea.
Robert Plomin has proved a genetic influence for UK A-Level (exam) results.

He uses the statistical method of comparing identical and fraternal twins to demonstrate that genetics accounts for twice the variation in exam achievement than different schools.

Plomin is keen to stress that individual genes effects are very very tiny, this is a 'whole genome' comparison.

Interviewed for BBC radio's Life Scientific : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j1qts

"In 1995 Plomin launched the biggest longitudinal twin study in the UK, the TED study of ten thousand pairs of twins which continues to this day. In this study and in his other work, he's shown consistently that genetic influences on intelligence are highly significant, much more so than what school you go to, your teachers or home environment. If only the genetic differences between children were fully acknowledged, he believes education could be transformed and parents might stop giving themselves such a hard time."
In Finland the police are always armed and always(?) have been. Yet, iirc, they discharged their weapons a total of 6 times in 2014. They also carry pepper spray, batons and tasers and are trained to use the appropriate amount of force in any given situation after trying to de-escalate instead of just shooting first. If they have to shoot, they go for the legs.

I have zero issue with them being armed.
This is generally overblown. What has mainly happened so far is that already-existing products have been incrementally improved by deep learning - speech recognition, spam detection, search ranking, etc. all worked reasonably well before deep learning came along; deep learning just improved them.

There aren't actually that many actually massively-impactful image recognition products out there yet (there are certainly products with the potential to be impactful, e.g. medical diagnostics, but it is too early to call).
> the attached video of how British policeman handle a man with machette is nothing but pathetic

Members of the public were protected from harm, including officer-inflicted harm from shots fired that miss the target and hit innocent bystanders.

Officers were protected from harm, including officer-inflected harm from missed shots, and the harm that arises from killing a person.

The mentally disordered offender was subdued, and removed to a forensic unit. (A secure mental health hospital where patients usually have a criminal justice involvement in their care (note that most patients in forensic units would prefer to be in prison.))

That seems to be a pretty good outcome, compared to just shooting him (and possibly any bystanders or other officers).

> As the very minimum, if the policeman does not carry a gun he should carry a taser instead. This would resolve machette man situation in seconds, and only took one policeman to do so, instead of dozen.

Like this guy, repeatedly tasered in the middle of a still full restaurant with a bunch of other people around? Great policing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-QEsv0ZEg
Don't worry, your funds are nothing compared to their military expenses, and every opportunity for North Koreans to see and possibly interact with a foreign tourist is bringing the end of the regime, one small step at a time.
Does this allow for me to be "always on"? The reason I moved from IRC to Slack is exactly this. If there was a way for me to use many different peers to keep my connections alive even when I'm offline, that would make want to use IRC again.

Otherwise I just don't have time/energy/money to get a server just to host my IRC session.
To put "not much support" in perspective, during a survey almost 80% of serving police said they opposed being routinely armed on duty, and over 95% opposed being armed both on and off duty. Not even the police themselves have any appetite for escalating the use of firearms in routine duty.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1429898/Police-vote-a...
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> Assuming tasers are effective, do US police forces carry them?

I remember watching the Cops documentary/show [1]. You can see cops regularly using their tasers. Actually, it's amazing to see how easily they may "tase" non violent people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cops_(TV_series)
Anecdote: I saw an article about Native Americans, using a technique of quickly focusing from near to far and back as a means to increase their eyesight range, when I was around twelve years old. Called Eagle Eyes, or something. I have been practicing regularly for eighteen years now, and my eyesight has only improved. I have been looking at computers and books at least a third of my time since. Am I actively preventing myopia? Interesting.
"Don't show up with a knife to a gunfight" is what most people would say, but in many occasions the opposite holds true too.
When the officers are implicitly armed it by default escalates the situation.
That said the US always had a problem with "gun violence" and even some level of "utter lawlessness", the wild west, the prohibition era, and now the more modern gang violence.
You think of 1930's you think of tommy guns, you think of bonnie and clyde you think of the hails of bullets shot at them by the FBI, somehow the US has been always that extreme.
I don't know if that's actually was the case or that turn of the century popular culture is too American centric especially due to hollywood, but at least to me that always seemed the case.
The core stays online and connected to IRC even if all clients disconnect.
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My father was a cop in Norway. He told me that they once tickled a belligerent drunk to get him to surrender.
Probably. Me mentioning firms was meant more as a shorthand for "in popular consciousness". You don't really see that same widespread fascination with guns in other countries.
See the whole premise that someone can call up some government official and go "booga booga" and actually get a real change in policy while citizens fight for years to be heard really makes me think there's a bit more to the narrative ...

It's almost like governments repressing their people is like a little kid looking for an excuse to eat candy.
>Women can be perpetrators of the equally serious crime of assault by penetration. Men can be the victims of rape or assault by penetration

But the point being that a woman forcing a man to have sex counts as none of those things. It only ends up in that list if she sticks something in his butt.
> It seems very natural that when criminals are trigger-happy

What exactly is the level of danger faced by a police officer when confronting a suspect who may or may not be armed with a gun or another weapon? Is that a level that justifies officers being trigger-happy?
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> The primary author of RhodeCode formed a company, RhodeCode GmbH [...] The company announced a license change and added a 20-user maximum into the Python code for RhodeCode. That led to complaints, threats, and ultimately a patch to remove the 20-user restriction. The company then threatened the author of that patch. [...]

> The company claimed to have 100% of the copyright in RhodeCode, even though patches had been accepted from others

https://lwn.net/Articles/609709/
You are looking for a BNC[1]. Quassel is a superset of the features you could expect in one.

I think that there is a lot of people in your situation. They don't know about the existence of this tools or think their setup is hard or time consuming and ends using Slack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_(software)
Check out IRCCloud as well, it's a pretty nice service if you don't wanna run something like Quassel yourself.
Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
Pinboard's numbers* were just realeased, and that made me curious. How many of us currently run a single-person company? By company, I mean something that generates (or is intending to generate) revenues. Side projects count.

Three thing I'm most curious about - growth in user base, revenues & profitability over the years.

If you can share numbers, that would be fantastic.

*https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12059965
>> If you start prosecuting officers for using deadly force without proper cause I'm sure use of it would drop pretty dramatically.

Or yet more reasonable: police would not care to act. Why act if you can destroy your life and nobody protects you? The proper cause is very subjective and nowadays biased against police officers.
So does this automatically show messages since I was connected last?
You need to look into sysadmin's toolbelt, then. Sysadmins use configuration
management systems (CFEngine, for example) for quite long time now. The only
thing you need is to put a post-create script (however it is called in AWS),
which would install and deploy such system and let the system configure the
machine.

I know it's not sexy for developers to take advice from sysadmins, but at the
end of the day, it gets the job done reliably and elegantly.
that's why it's here, not why it's the top item, but WTH, I guess enough people just discovered it, so enjoy, it's a really nice client.

I personally switched to gnome-xchat recently, which is not as feature rich, but is really nice as well, and looks better IMHO.
> it is abandoned

Last github commit 13 days ago == "abandoned"??
Any chance/interest at adding http://riotjs.com to this benchmark?
> In the UK it s a big deal when an officer uses his weapon, there are investigations etc.

Agreed.

Though even so they still shoot more than other (smaller) countries:

http://yle.fi/uutiset/finnish_police_fired_guns_only_six_tim...
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so you just want auto-login and history?
The only problem about it for me, is that having search and offline messages is not possible by default. I'm using IRC for the #redis community channel, and joining a discussion after my laptop has been in my bag for a couple of hours is not really feasible.
I still respect Isaac Newton, even tho he was an Alchemist and searched for Atlantis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studie...
"but also ubiquitous available." --> "but also ubiquitously available."
> US police don't just shoot offenders with guns, they shoot offenders with knives and offenders with cell phones.

And sometimes police in the UK shoot you if you're just carrying a table-leg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Stanley

Obviously this is an outlier, but I think we'd do a disservice to ourselves if we don't acknowledge the fact that sometimes the UK is as bad as the USA.
XChat doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (I do not know about gnome-xchat).

Have you considered Hexchat? I migrated to it one year ago and seems solid while keeping the same look and feel.
Polls aside, there's a chance having autonomous driving could end up giving you a reduction in insurance premiums, resulting in it actually adding value that way.
> You can take an experienced internal ops team that was managing physical infrastructure for some BigCorp (servers, switches, etc.), and migrate them to AWS instead, and there will be a 1:1 mapping between their problems and AWS's offerings.

Well, you should have said: "you take an experienced internal ops team that
was managing physical infrastructure and software running on it, migrate
them to AWS, and then still need an experienced ops team, just without
managing the hardware". It's not that you migrate to AWS and magically don't
need to manage software (or that your programmers magically learn how to do
that).
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While some people get a bit cargo cult about things there is a rough consensus that XML is good for some things and terrible for others whilst JSON is the exact reverse ;-)

I personally rather like YAML for anything intended for humans to read and edit.
It was fairly controversial when the Australian Government recently decided to have submachine gun-armed Federal Police provide security at our national Parliament House. It was rationalised by claims of terrorist threats, of course.

To an Australian, it's very weird to see submachine guns at all, let alone around our national buildings.

(Another thing to consider about different attitudes: There's a bunch of interesting politicisation about the terms "Police Force" vs. "Police Service" in some jurisdictions around the world, to the point that, in general, conservatives prefer "force", progressives prefer "service".)
> What algorithm(s) are you using? Nobody should be able to brag publicly about their AI without simply naming the algorithms.

What if the algorithms are original from, say, new
theorems and proofs in applied
math, so far have no names, and, really, are
not related to well known
AI algorithms at all?
I started the warrior VM after seen this message.

However it seems whatever they are crawling cannot handle this type of mass distributed crawler, for the past few hours My computer haven't done anything.
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