skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifics on how exactly this is happening are unclear.
Is the officer less confrontational to begin with,
avoiding escalation? Or are suspects and complainants
more wary of their conduct? Is it some combination of the
two, or are even more factors involved? To determine
these things would be a far more complex and subtle piece
of research, but the study does suggest that officer
behavior is probably the most affected, and that other
effects flow from that.

Clearly the brilliant researchers of Cambridge don't have teenage children. The answer is simple. People in emotional need of attention will act out (and escalate) as necessary so long as there remains feedback (whether positive or negative, healthy or harmful).

I suspect this sort of irrational behavior is most frequently displayed against the police officer, but in some cases can be caused by officers (they are people too). The only distinction between officers and non-officers being frequency of experience dealing with confrontation.

Despite the behavior being completely irrational (often out of control) there remains a fear of accountability. Will video evidence go out to your parents, spouse, coworkers? How embarrassing, right? The magic is that this fear of accountability is immediately present. The irrational behavior has to ramp up, similar to rage, and so is not spontaneous. This indicates the accountability fear is a constant reminder to not embarrass yourself, particularly when there is evidence that will appear on YouTube.
One way your broadcast can be achieved is through a newsgroup. The best you can do is identify who is a member and who posts messages. But so long as the messages are encrypted, you can't tell who gets which message, since everyone in the newsgroup gets every message.

Still not perfectly metadata proof, but it carries a lot less metadata than peer-to-peer messages.
I'd like someone to save me from Apple's garbage cloud services, but I just can't get away from their hardware. It's just too good.

So... Can anyone convince me that this thing is going to be different from the iPhone killers that are reported on every year in these regurgitated press releases?
The camera on pixel is the killer. The low-light photos + the image stabilization is amazing.
QEMU JITs the code and is very performant, much faster than any FPGAs. The two lowest hanging fruit now are:

- Multithreaded TCG would let us use multiple host cores (eg allowing parallel builds). MT-TCG is a very new feature even in QEMU.

- Adding virtio 1.0 support would allow us to use much more efficient block devices.

qemu-user exists already and avoids both these issues, however we cannot use it for final builds because of concerns over incorrect building when the kernel isn't a RISC-V kernel. For preliminary test-building it is fine, and very fast on Intel Xeon host hardware.
Funny that Open Whisper Systems wrote in the last chapter that they essentially should come back with a court order or search warrant to get more data, but forgot to include the critical information, that even then the FBI will not get more information, because Open Whisper Systems has no technical ability to provide that data at all.

It's volatile data exchanged between the clients only, but not centrally stored anywhere (contrary to all other secure chat systems out there).
The FBI has probably no idea how Signal works, what is stored and what not.

Even a grand-jury subpoena has no chance to produce more data. But maybe they can force them to re-implement Signal with a government backdoor (because it's a police state after all), and that's what Open Whisper Systems is really objecting to?
Or just logging the metadata? (Which btw. duckduckgo does, even if it slows down their webserver by at least 20%).

Or did they just try to mess with the FBI lawyers?
Possible to reach out to someone directly? The application platform is a bit clunky.
Ask HN: How do spammers make “connections”?
I receive SPAM "pretending" to be from people I know. But what I don't know is how the spammers make the connection between myself and the person they are pretending to be.

Consider this: http://imgur.com/a/CSEXL

I know Martha Howlett.

We send e-mails back and forth.

How do the Spammers know to send me spam, addressed from her? How do they make the connection?

Do they have her address book? Did some app suck her contacts up to the cloud?

Does she have spyware?
By choosing not to drive and being vigilant while crossing the street, you definitely reduce your cross-section (although drivers do plow into pedestrians every once in a while)
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It even it has its own bronze age style end of days cult which promotes Trump for a more through destruction of the world. Got to admire how they managed to sell their stuff to early Trump shills and play internet frog illuminati.
> It always blows my mind how much people like Assange and Snowden and Musk get attacked for trying to make the world better

Lots of evil is done in the name of "trying to make the world better". Its not unreasonable for people to be more interested in what they see your actions as likely to produce (and what they see that you reasonably should have known that they were likely to produce) than what you intended them to produce.

(And that's even before getting into the fact that "better" is subjective and one person's better can easily be another person's dystopian nightmare.)
> That seems to have more to do with his refusal to face the music on rape charges than his releases.

Assange surely is a conspiracy theorist to hide in the embassy when politicians publicly call for his death and his main informant Manning was placed into 24/7 solitary confinement which could only be described as torture.

> the calls for his punishment, including by the most drastic means, have been bipartisan but stronger on the Republican side

Okay, then please name a Republican that has called for killing Assange.
Don't they just usually release a dump of whatever information they have

That's what I'm suggesting they do now, but they aren't.

Your particular criticism doesn't apply here

That's your opinion.

and it seems like you just don't like Wikileaks for one reason or another

I listed my reasons.
Not sure if it's been verified, but the parent reference itself is legit: https://jalopnik.com/is-this-virginia-police-department-popp... - from 9/26/2016
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Summarizing Garbage Collection
The way you put it, I would say no.

3 vans, operating 16 hours per day, would require a minimum of 7 drivers (to perform two 8-hour shifts per day, with a driver to stand-in for call-outs and vacations). Let's assume we can pay the drivers $10/hr (which is on the low end). At 2080 hours per year per driver, that gives us an annual cost of $145600. And we haven't even paid Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, or worker's comp and unemployment insurance yet!

The Uber deal sounds more cost-effective than the van plan.
I don't think there is.

Think democracy. We have to fight for democracy over and over, and we have a technical solution in the form of an election process that's designed to make tampering hard and in the form of institutions controlling each other for a good reason. There is no political solution to the risk of putting all your trust in a single person, aka a dictatorship, there is only a technical solution, and that is democracy: A system of government that avoids the single point of failure at great cost.
because public health consensus[1] currently disagrees with your "good advice".

[1] https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/...
I peeked into the HN history. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20peeked%20into%20my%20node_... .

I believe there are about 35 comments from the 6 previous times this came up 2 months ago.
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I assume gp would say arrogance towards the god of whichever monotheistic tradition they're adherent to.
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Purposefully, as it's utterly irrelevant to the discussion on whether a stack is complex or not.
Here in Sweden, 3D secure is effectively synonymous with two-factor auth.

It's insane that, at this point, the banks don't just outright block any payment recipient that doesn't use it.
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Why is Google still insisting (with 7.1) that the 3 navigation keys (menu, home and back) need to be on screen - either wasting real-estate or annoyingly hidden - requiring a swipe to expose them?

Old Android phones used to have hardware or software keys that were off the bottom of the screen - and in fact my Xiaomi Mi Note Pro still does - it frees the entire screen for content. If the '3 keys' regularly changed meaning I could see the need to have them 'on screen' but they don't.
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I agree to your sentiment that needless complexity is bad, technical debt is a real thing and it is plain reckless to use something for the sake of it.

But the term "complexity" gets used in two different meanings in your comment:

a) complexity of usage: You make the point that Django is easy to use, but it isn't simple software; it contains an ORM and is huge.

b) complexity of the system: Django is a complex system. If you are not using any of its benefits, it has needless complexity and you may be better off with a simple PHP script.

And this brings me to the conclusion that it's all about your use case. If you don't build a big SPA, you can get away with vanilla JS without using a transpiler or even a build pipeline.

The reason it's simple to develop something with a full-fledged framework like Django is that they have build a complex system to abstract all those complexities you don't have to think about anymore.

And I don't get your argument in regards to express.js because this is entirely a software architecture decision and they decided that a modular approach suits them well - maybe it's actually less complex for them to develop the software that way because they isolated the body-parser and other components. It's like comparing monolithic with micro kernels - it's all about trade-offs and the added complexity from a developers' point of view may be worth it for the specific use case. There is no general definition of "needless complexity", because the need is very subjective and different for each project.
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Even if they don't store it now, they could be forced by court-order to start storing it, even if for a limited number of endpoints.

Remember LavaMail? This is pretty much what happened to them.
“The difference with this device is that we started from the beginning,” says Dave Burke, who runs Android engineering.

Started from scratch, yet the end result looks like a iPhone knockoff from a random Chinese shanzhai company?

http://i.imgur.com/LlqaAPO.png
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>That puts black at about 2.5 as likely as white.

You are ignoring the representation of blacks in violent crimes, where they are disproportionately highly represented [0]. If a population represents between 30% and 50% of the violent crime, you would expect them to represent between 30% and 50% of the police shootings, no?

[0]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Google is three times the market cap of Verizon. I think I know how to solve this.
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I'm really happy they provided documentation on how to fight an unconstitutional gag order on a subpoena. They put gag orders on subpoenas they're not supposed to all the time, and it's good to show people an "easy" way to fight them.
I agree that the JavaScript ecosystem is complex, that's why I said it in my comment. I'm just making fun of the notion that we should expect simplicity when web development has never been simple.

I have JavaScript Fatigue Fatigue.
> I.e., 99.99% of AI designs will be dystopian.

Not sure if I consider this a valid premise, much less an intelligent one, but luckily I'm not the arbiter of such things. If this becomes a "number of possible goals times the means to carry them out" argument, you could easily construct the same one against human progress as a whole.

> I'm not sure why you consider minds hardwired to enjoy serving us to be unethical.

Holy shit, yes it's unethical.

If I asked you "would it be unethical to genetically engineer a new race of humans who enjoy being slaves to the upper class?" I hope your answer would be yes. The same rules apply to a non-human species as well.
Yeah, assume the city is 2 by 3 miles and the station is right at center, then one'd only need to walk at most ~1.7 miles to the train station. That's like half an hour walk before and after work. Do your cardio a favor and start walking and leave the parking space for less fortunate people who are not able to walk.
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1) It's a desired erosion of user privacy. Services the phone can access inter-operating to make them easier to use is a feature, not a bug. What would the alternative solution be to synchronize data and understanding of user intention across multiple devices and interface layers?

2) What makes you think the data is no longer "yours?" Unless you mean "Not yours as soon as it gets shipped to a Google server," in which case that's always been true of data sent to Google---do you consider Gmail "Not yours?"
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There is an ISA-dev mailing list where this is discussed (unfortunately a Google Group but you can subscribe using an email address):

https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/forum/#!forum/i...

Subscribe links here: https://riscv.org/mailing-lists/

I'm not involved in the upstream project or ISA dev, but I would definitely welcome having heavyweight kernel developers like yourself contribute, because ultimately it will ensure that the hardware is practical. We're probably 1-2 years away from having lots of RISC-V devkits running Linux, and it'd be nice if they ran Linux really well.
I like the approach, but north jersey gets considerable snow in the winter. No one is walking that in heavy snow to stand outside waiting for a shuttle
At that point, you're basically adding public transit. And a lot of folks won't want to take "the bus" and potentially walk half a mile or more in all kinds of weather.
Ask HN: Cheap VPS provider with backup solution?
Does anyone knows a reliable and as cheap as possible VPS provider that supports some simple backup/restore solution through their admin panel?
I already worked with DigitalOcean & Vultr and looking for other possible candidates.
I came up with an idea yesterday, perhaps someone can do something with it as my life isn't at a place where I would do YC right now and applying today would be a bit short notice... but if you wanted to apply, and were looking for a strong idea, maybe this is it.

What is it?

- A tithe manager.

Tithes are a historical donation of a % of earnings to charity, many religions have this but many non-religious people donate to charity too on an equally regular basis. The monthly amount is fairly consistent but sometimes one may wish to vary the amount that goes to which causes.

What this company will do:

- Act as an intermediary between donors and charities

- Encourage people to give more to charity (help with accounting of donations and claiming of tax relief as applicable)

- Help charities to be discovered by donors

What the company's product would do:

- Receive the whole amount to be donated each period

- Pay each charity according to the donor preferences (this much here, that much there)

- Provide end-of-year reporting for government tax claims, and instructions on how to claim, or auto-filing if it makes sense (where govts allow this claim to be filed separately)

- Allow the donor to change these figures easily, i.e. during the Ebola crisis I put a higher % of my tithe towards Medicins Sans Frontiers.

- Provide alerts on crises

- Provide marketing services to charities (to help be discovered, but also to keep existing donors informed of what their donation is doing)

Size of market: In the UK alone, some GBP 14BN is donated by individuals annually.

Benefit to donor: In the UK, for every £100 donated via a Gift Aid registered charity, the charity will receive an extra £25 and if you are a higher rate taxpayer you are eligible for £25 in tax relief. The vast majority of these donors never claim their tax relief and do not realise how far their donations go nor that this would only really have been a £75 donation for a £125 gain for the charity.

Benefit to charity: Reduced marketing costs, know who your donors are, able to react at times of crises, increased revenue.

That's the idea, to handle payments and manage donor accounting such that donors can be encouraged to give more, and charities can do more.
A political decision to stop sabotaging technological solutions would be a good starting point. Even if changed later, all the technologies already developed would still be available.

Being provably secure is great, but this is a tall order -- there are always conditions to satisfy (solution is secure if A, B and C and governments and other attackers might invalidate those by a tap point, decree, a court action, etc.).
What makes you think that startup would be interesting to Wikileaks?
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Political actors usually only respond when they are or their colleagues are harmed in some fashion. When people successfully affect politicians, they tend to do so from a grassy knoll.

Summary: Oppressive bullies only respond to equal or greater oppressive bullying.

edit:typo
The bottom of the article says the phone is assembled by HTC. I suppose the difference between this and the Google Nexus phones is that Google is no longer doing hardware design in collaboration with outside manufacturers. However, collaboration in hardware assembly continues.
I love that you used a throwaway for this. I think it's perfectly reasonable to have this reaction, but it's also perfectly reasonable to allow the kind of data sharing Google (and others) require in order to provide "intelligent" assistance. I don't think it's reasonable to bring out the pitchforks every time a company requires user data in order to provide an arbitrary service that would be otherwise impossible.
Hard :)

The network effect is hard to overcome. I migrated to it just because a lot of people in my company used it.

You can try to persuade just the friends that you talk to the most, and if they will like it, let them share it further. Or not, if they don't.