skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article [0] seems to be much more in-depth and explains the situation a bit better (if factually correct).

I'm not so much baffled about actually showing up with a SWAT team before the threat could be identified as a hoax, but rather how an allegedly sleeping man could be shot twice. Once in the face.

The interesting parts are the following:

> Dobbs himself said when police woke him up with a call on his cellphone, he said he told them he would come outside. Dobbs said he walked around the apartment looking for something to put on because it was a cold February night. He said he walked out to the living room, saw the SWAT{ } team, and heard police yelling at him to come out. He said he turned around to go get his girlfriend but was shot. He said he doesn't remember anything after that rubber bullet him in the face.

And:

> Police say Dobbs was shot twice with two rubber rounds to prevent him from reentering the apartment. A Howard County Police Department spokesperson said Dobbs repeatedly refused to obey officer's commands, and also allegedly had his hand in his shirt, though police do not have video evidence of it.
When asked, Dobbs denied having his hand in his shirt, and said he had nothing in his hands at all.
The department said Dobbs was shot in the face as he was "falling forward," according to a written statement to 7 on Your Side.

[0] http://wjla.com/features/7-on-your-side/fbi-says-swatting-is...
The main problem is per se not the hoax call, it is the grotesque accumulation of incompetence from the authorities, and the inability to handle a situation from the SWAT team, due ot a probable lack of proper training. And, also, the impunity security personnel tend to have - shooting someone without reason should be prosecuted as for any regular citizen. What is happening in your so-called free country, dear Americans ?
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Windows Vista is now officially dead. And good riddance
"<anything at all> for Windows" would at least accurately express what operating system it runs on. "<foo> for Linux" on a program that is not for Linux is just awful.
Thinstall did something similar; I've used it in the past and it worked pretty well. It captures system calls and writes changes to its own storage, and when a program reads a directory or file or registry key, it presents a combined view of the host OS + that program's changes, so programs think they are fully, normally installed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_ThinApp
Actually, if the restaurant only accepts payment by credit card, you are free to not pay. That's the concept of legal tender - if they want to demand payment of a debt (i.e. after you finish the meal) from you with backing by law, they _must_ accept legal tender. If they only accept credit card payments, they can't use the law to make you pay.
If Google Now would be capable of open topic conversation and reasoning, it would be worthy of the name "bot".
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It's pretty nice to see her reaction to all of this. Instead of grieving and going around writing blogs blaming people she instead actually set up a successful campaign and is working so that no more people suffer her fate.

Now, this is very refreshing and nice to see, she seems a great person.
Yes both. The sim provides the dynamics that allow for computers to exist. At a basic level, even simple phenomena are computations. RNA polymerase performs a computation when it copies. And we can go really low level, pretty much everything is a computation - of course, not all computations are equivalently great for life.

You are assuming this universe ends. In a type of heat death or singularity (choose your poison.) Not if gravity isn't part of the dynamics. And even then, the universe could be a cyclic one. [1]

Most likely EC2 is not the right approach. I have worked with Cuda and OpenCL and buying a bunch of beefy Teslas or the new Titans would be more cost effective.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model
> Precompiled headers never worked well due to a variety of limitations.

We use precompiled headers on a large project, we've never had any issue with them (MSVC and GCC)> Care to elaborate on the limitations?
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I was scanning the article while, sure enough, I saw it:

> ...refused to obey...

Zero tolerance, zero patience.
and it's not as good as it could've be.
the statefulness makes it really really really really really akward.
I'm surprised though, that no old roma stumbled upon it and recognised the language or anything. It sounds like someone speaking their language could speed up translations tremedously :).
The console only recently (<2 years I think) learned to speak ANSI/xterm-ish escapes, Linux mouse support requires quite a few of those and doubtlessly the model differs sufficiently from however the NT console API mouse worked to require effort to support
Oh, American sports metaphors. They fly right over my head.

A situation where a hyped up 'blockchain' wouldn't be a good fit: when the organization is competent enough and/or the CEO has enough power to change things.

Google probably falls under the former. Amazon might fall under the former and definitely latter.

Let's quote Steve Yege to see why Amazon doesn't need "the blockchain" as an excuse (https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX):

> So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.

> His Big Mandate went something along these lines:

> 1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.

> 2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.

> 3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.

> 4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.

> 5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

> 6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.

> 7) Thank you; have a nice day!
40% is a fairly high success rate though, I think. Of course, it's probably usually just small amounts, a small bag of something or another here and there.
There should be some kind of voting mechanism on HN to automate what you did here (like a [hoax] flag) or something. I almost clicked on the bait but reading your comment clarified things. I was excited because this is a prerequisite of the Alcubierre (warp) drive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
NYT's digital arm has a paywall and their digital revenue is something over a half-billion dollars per year. The group that WSJ is part of, NewsCorp's "news and information services" unit, has annual revenues well over a billion dollars.

I'm pretty sure that should cover their server bills.
This is brilliant. I might actually consider switching to Windows now. Both Arch and macOS have been getting on my nerves lately.
> as this is the same police force that murders black people for sport

citation needed
Publishers that have come to the web from old-school media are still failing to understand the medium. They take their print content, slap it up on a website (designed to replicate the look of a print newspaper!), surround it with ads, and expect it to behave in exactly the same way as hardcopy newspapers. It doesn't, for a myriad of reasons.

I have experience of this world, having worked with old-school book publishers and old-media print journalists. They are way too entrenched in their understanding of publishing/journalism to make the change. The closest I've seen anyone get to something that might work, and they're still a long, long way off, is the Guardian. At least they understand that a) they need to provide additional content, suited to the medium (e.g. quality infographics, interactive data, etc.) and b) online advertising is not enough, but current paywall implementations are a poor substitute.

Spotify is a great example to compare. If Spotify worked the same way as online news, you'd go to Spotify, browse through some skeuomorphic representation of a CD rack, get interrupted, find an album you like the look of, listen to the album with an obnoxious advert between each song, put it back in the rack, repeat. Is there a single newspaper that will allow me to even, for example, do something useful with their content by collecting it / tagging it / whatever for future reference? Will they let my contacts, or famous people, recommend content on a particular subject? Will they offer any kind of api for other publishers wishing to reference their material?
The local new channel has a much better summary of the situation from before the caller was identified:

http://wjla.com/features/7-on-your-side/fbi-says-swatting-is...

The police statement on the issue has additional detail that, if true, puts the victim in a slightly different light.

https://www.scribd.com/document/271698829/Howard-County-Poli...

My conclusion is that the guy had a small stash of pot and was panicking thinking they were there for that. So he was going around his apartment trying to hide it instead of coming out when directed. Police interpreted that as hostility and shot him. They claim the shot to the face was because the guy "fell into" a shot intended for the torso. I really don't know how they said that with a straight face.

The advice in the first link to call your local police if you think someone might try to SWAT you sounds very helpful.
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> You can't exactly have a bloke ringing in at the door and asking if there's really an active shooter/hostage situation, that would render the concept worthless.

"can't" by virtue of "didn't"? That's not sound logic. It makes no sense to even send in a SWAT team when a situation is not first assessed. And for that, you have to communicate.
Sorry again for meta, and thanks for responding. I just mean on the iPad pro 12.9 it renders as if it were a huge iPhone, rather than as a desktop site. It just means the text is huge. Not a biggie - I've seen this on some other blogs, and wondered if there were a workaround.
The funny thing is that whenever someone leans on advertisers to pull ads from the mainstream press, they've never had any problem seeing this as an attack on freedom of speech, the media and journalism itself. Doing the same to upstart competitors like YouTube is just fine though.
Didn't know about that Juan! Thanks
But those are only samples and available for limited period of time...
Oh, I misunderstood the article then. Still, does USA (or the relevant state) have such mechanisms?
I haven't worked with HTTP2 much - I thought it was still stateless. Are you referring to HPACK?
Don't know, probably some VM testing on their part but I just upgraded to Creators Update and here's my result:

rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.098/0.109/0.131/0.012 ms
Hello pietistic, I'm the person in the piece, I hope you don't mind my responding to you directly. I'm sorry you had AK, and I hope you're doing better now. Just to be clear, swimming in contact lenses is an incontrovertible risk factor for AK- several studies have proved this. Moorfields Eye Hospital are also concluding a case control study which will also identify showering in contact lenses is a risk factor. Here's professor John Dart from Moorfields Eye Hospital talking about these risk factors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUYomeUkYM. Any questions let me know. thanks!
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Hi @the_gastropod, @balero and @temp246810,

The scroll-jacking has been removed! Thanks for all your feedback.

Be sure to clear your cache before checking the article again and it should all be fine :)
The craziest story to me is the building of the Colditz Cock - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Cock
Those people finally woke up, when others will start following the example?

Advertising is not an easy job: and it takes more than a few lazy banner to do it right. The current model, the one pushed by Google, has no future. Using adblocks is a duty we have to change the system.
Welcome to America - we shoot first, ask questions later.

There really needs to be a complete overhaul of law enforcement training in the US, and the government needs to actually enforce the law against its own agents, too.
I disagree based on this interesting story of an incident that reportedly happened at Google approx 3 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6750805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245316

This is all the data I've got on the state of industry; genuinely interested to hear tidbits from anybody that things aren't this ugly nowadays.

I'm not in the demographic of people dealing with problematic pasts (and very thankfully so; I don't envy those who are, at all) but I think that reasonable analysis of situations like what is described in those links is not at all too much to ask (?!), and I wouldn't want to touch an employer who deals with such situations in the way that is described in those links.

(Also, if you go through the user profiles of the usernames who wrote those two comments - based on the fact that the first comment links to the second I presume they're the same person - I must note that I observe a general pattern of cynicism which I think has an obvious cause and is sad because of its trivial avoidability.)
Okay, there are 2 parts:

1. The consistency: it's just one rule, so it should be able to drive decisions without much ambiguity.

2. The "absoluteness": if it's unique as the only workable self-consistent moral system, that should suffice. Perhaps there are others, though I suspect they have one of these features:

a. they drive equivalent decisions FAPP

b. they are unstable and eventually won't be able to continue; either the hosts die or move onto another system

I admit I haven't proven this to be the case, but I suspect it's true, or at least something along these lines. Certainly the opposite hasn't been proven.
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I remember that happened not too long ago, lots of schools getting fake bomb threats. The problem is that you can't ignore the threat, just in case one of them is correct.

That's why I think terrorism isn't nearly as big a problem as people claim it to be. It's relatively simple to create bombs; a malicious actor could first bomb a lot of places already, but also send bomb threats for weeks on end until nobody believes them anymore, then do the real thing.

So IMO, either terrorism isn't that big a deal, OR, all of the security measures and secret services are actually working and defusing (ha) the situations before they can act; the only recent terrorist attacks were ad-hoc things (grabbing a truck and driving through people) or from unexpected angles (the occasional school shooting).
I have only ever seen "<foo> Subsystem" used to mean a subsystem that does foo, not a subsystem for foo.
Let me properly quote myself, then, on a sub-issue that apparently has been your subject of some internalized cherry picking:

"It [blanket labeling negatives] does go in all directions, as I've hopefully made apparent in my above post.

But, just because that blanket label is overapplied doesn't mean that there isn't a ton of ill-informed bandwagon outrage against Uber, nor that the opposing pejorative SJW labeling of said outrage against Uber is ill-informed bandwagon outrage either, ad infinitum. (assuming all those stacked negatives parse correctly)"

It's a simple statement speaking against an antecedent fallacy. Look at the negatives and coverages of quantity. The misapplication of a blanket label to an entire population says nothing about the quantity in that population who actually do meet that label; there is no claim on the size of the population of the latter, just exaggerated unrefutables (in that particular logical construct) as demonstrative placeholders to drive the point.

I've asked multiple times what your counterpoint/problem/defensiveness was about, but received nothing but "Prove thyself!" and "Explain your claim!", not any actual discourse about your problem with whatever I said which causes you to make those requests. Obviously, my attempts to provide further explanations were not targeted to what you wanted to see. I would offer feedback that your short responses, which are seemingly broadcasting defensive steadfastness to 1 side and not seeking to broadcast openness, did not offer any useful specific feedback into what you were exactly having problems with, so I could only infer based on posture what you might need to understand. Said responses were very demanding without really offering direction to the demands, or if there's an issue with my "claims", what your current open understanding was. That's not a good way to elicit useful response. If you haven't noticed, I enjoy tearing into complex and important issues, and am happy to offer targeted dissections, if some actual target is elucidated.
So, he deserved death because he panicked?
Aside from ZFS, there is nothing on that list I personally want. And I've never liked mandatory access control - standard UNIX permissions please.
I never figured HN is like Reddit, where inside jokes get you votes.

I hope HN never goes there.
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As a homo economicus blindfoldus - nothing. Cheaper and better service here right now? Yay, party time!

As a responsible citizen of a civilized society however, one should be interested in how such a service comes to be, and what it means to people involved and the society at large.

--

BTW. I'm founding a biotech startup now; we provide personalized medication for free, OTC, ordered through our mobile app. We can do that because of our innovative manufacturing model, which involves doing BSL-4 level work with pathogens in our garage. I.e. we're disrupting the corrupt dinosaur regulations to provide a cheaper and better service.
This sounds like you threw in a few buzzwords. Why would a CI runner DDoS their database? How would WebSockets help them scale?
Humour is appreciated. I usually don't upvote humorous posts, unless they are exceedingly funny, because I don't want this site to turn into Reddit.

But hey, go ahead and try to turn HN into Reddit if you guys feel that's where it needs to go.

I feel we've already seen how useful a Reddit is to the world.
Mmm, kinda.

var i0 = $(Int, 5);
i0 = $(String, "Hello");

Perfectly valid.
HTTP2 has been created for big players. When you are a small team, benefits from it are not that interesting. Plus mandatory TLS is making boostraping a project unnecessary hard.
Hello there, I'm the person in the piece, I hope you don't mind if I respond to your comment above- I wore dailies as per instructions, only single use and then I threw them away. I had worn lenses every day in the run up to the infection. I hadn't gone swimming in lenses in the previous months but I had occasionally showered in them. We don't know what caused my AK, but many patients have reported swimming or showering in lenses before getting the infection and there is a strong correlation. Epidemiological studies have proven the link between swimming in lenses and AK. Studies have also isolated the same exact genetic strain of acanthamoeba from patients' bathroom sinks and shower taps as the one found in their eyes. Showering is a risk factor for AK. If you want to know more please do go ahead and ask anything else.
I use Windows Defender.. I am interested to know your opinion on it.
1. Your page took almost a minute to load.

2. What does your platform offer that I can't already get via Twitter?

3. You talk about the service being "free of media bias". But what about the bias of the people reporting your news? Journalists are at least taught in training that they ought to remain neutral in their reporting.

4. How are you going to assure quality? Journalists are taught how to write and most have a very good command of their language. I don't want to be flooded by "news reports" chock full of linguistic errors. (Also, journalists are taught how to do proper research.)

5. Lastly, how do I even know that a report is truthful? If anybody can post news, what's to stop a group of high-schoolers inventing an invasion of the US by Mexico (or some other nonsense)?

I think you have a worthy aspiration, but to put it bluntly: I trust a well curated selection of the traditional media with their trained, professional journalists way more than a couple of guys running around with their smart phones.

I find your current tagline of "disrupting the media" a) unnecessary, b) impossible, and c) just a little bit arrogant. IMO your service would be much more valuable if you set yourself up as augmenting the traditional media with first-hand accounts of people on the ground. (That I might actually be interested in.)

In short: your idea has potential, but I think you need to change the way you present yourself and address a couple of quality concerns.
>I'm not so much baffled about actually showing up with a SWAT team before the threat could be identified as a hoax, but rather how an allegedly sleeping man could be shot twice. Once in the face.

It is actually not baffling. What is happening here is the symptom of an increasingly-authoritarian government which benefits from a trigger-happy, order-obeying-without-questioning-or-critical-thinking-abilities police force. That's why you see this and so much other egregious, unjustified, awful police brutality in America, but it is uncommon in Europe, Scandinavia and East Asia.
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"An accident of birth placed them in a wealthy family and they’ve benefited from that their whole life."

Is this what our connection to our parents and ancestors, and their lifelong effort to offer their children a better life, has been reduced to? An accident of birth? Personally, I find this attitude sickening.
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If I sat down in a restaurant, finished my starter, and was then brought a bowl of vomit for my main course, I wouldn't expect to have to pay for the starter. I would get up and leave. If the restaurant had a big sign outside saying "vomit for main course", I wouldn't feel entitled to leave without paying.
Why? We already have one Reddit.
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Stop spewing bullshit.

Here's an old revision from 2005 by a Valve employee confirming Steam used VGUI back then.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/index.php?title=VGUI_D...
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."? :P
A game for Potterheads, by a Potterhead. Not too spectacular a game, however with limited coding knowledge, I am quite satisfied by what I've achieved. Humbled by the awesome user reviews as well! What do you guys think? Let me know.