skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have statistics to back me up but I wonder if using stun guns means police don't feel the need to learn de-escalation tactics. There have been a number of situations where police use taser on kids, or repeatedly use a taser on a person in seemingly torture like ways. I've seen videos where a police officer tases someone for not complying but after each tase it appears the person is not able to comply due to pain.
Yes, according to https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitra...:

> One of the players behind the scenes, The Times found, was John G. Roberts Jr., who as a private lawyer representing Discover Bank unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case involving class-action bans. By the time the Supreme Court handed down its favorable decisions, he was the chief justice.
The point is it could be. You only have to be wrong once
Even the speakers are superfluous. Give me an analog audio out and I'll figure it out.
Jokes that I'm certain they would fulfill if they were to receive that much funding. I'm pretty sure they're simply not expecting those numbers.
edgerouter lite 3 does IPv6/IPv4 dual stack just fine and the switch shouldn't be looking at IP anyways it's just keeping a table of MAC addresses.
How a Great Mobile App Can Help Achieve Your Business Goals
Ask HN: Sugesst me some pet projects
I am learning a new language (Go) for my work and I liked in the first week I was given to make a chat server to get familiar with it. I enjoyed working on that.

I am looking for similar projects which are not too easy but not too challenging either (like making a text editor). And I also want to work on something I would use rather than just build it and park it.

Looking for some ideas from the community or I want to know what are you working on.
Well, my boss is still a person at the moment (as far as I can tell) and has line of sight on me. I better get back to work.
Right, that's a big blot right now. I am hopeful this is going to change sooner than later, maybe through fierce campaigning.
Sears to close more stores, sales continue fall in 2Q
How to get started contributing to Clang
It's (more of) a trademark issue instead of a copyright one.

Basically, you use your own prudence when displaying references to a business (be it with their official branding or with an indirect reference). Of course, many businesses will try to strengthen their brand recognition by insisting you use their official branding or nothing… and only in ways they approve, lest you get on the wrong side of their legal team.
this is the bomb.
In the earth sciences the term radioactive dating has been replaced with radioisotopic dating. Maybe isotopic power? Or just wait till the generation that grew up with "duck and cover" drills at school to be out of power. Not very long now.
Exploring some of the internet's weirder favicons
Have you heard of a company saying their users hate their products? :)

A Google engineer saying their users love their products is probably expected. They were probably fed this by some marketing/sales droid.
Part of the linked paper's point is that because computer systems involve many "levels of failure", even a more careful programmer cannot usually rule out every class of programs. The DAO hack, yes, possibly.

But, for example, people have also lost money due to bugs in the Solidity compiler: https://np.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/5foa5p/daily_disc...
How many "more careful" Ethereum programmers also check the compiler for correctness?

Another paper in this vein is James Fetzer's "Program Verification: The Very Idea". http://lore.ua.ac.be/Teaching/SSPEC2LIC/critique2.pdf
What happens on the Internet in 1 Second
Mine too. They should be issuing us dividend checks, not asking for donations!
Congratulations! Outside of the hedonic or material treadmill, I strongly suggest you do something that you honestly enjoy for your community or for a cause you believe in. Lots of studies show that if you "give back" (in a way that you trust makes a real impact), you will lead a more fulfilling life. Also, it's fun to get back to trying to solve problems :D
Russians can and do travel freely over vast swaths of Eastern part of European continent. This is incidentally a huge chunk of Europe the continent. Moreover, Russians are Europeans. It seems to me you are confused by the adjective European in European Union. European Union is a large union of states, with most territory in Europe. There are (quite a few) more countries in Europe that are not a part of EU. They are 100% as "European" as someone living in EU.
Show HN: Laravel Filterable: Neat and useful scope for querying your models
I don't think it actually is going in the right direction, they've screwed up loads of things.

Things like getter/setters and object initializers. And don't even get me started on Web Workers, which basically seem to be dead on arrival. The Web Workers design is so shockingly bad and not fit for purpose that I don't understand how anyone signed off on it.

Some bits of the new js are in the right direction, and those are the things that people talk about and are getting used, but lots of things were definitely not.
A Recurrent Reconstruction Neural Network
Because Node is just a very thin wrapper around V8 and V8 has a limitation that it isn't re-entrant (can't handle multiple threads without breaking).
Communicating Sequential Processes Hoare
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/courses/cop4020/sum2009/CSP-hoare.pdf

Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
https://research.fb.com/publications/tao-facebooks-distribut...
I have the same experience. btrfs has been great to me. I've disconnected disks on the fly as well on raid 1 and the mount is happily serving files off the remaining disks.
warehousing and many other jobs at that pay level are notoriously high turnover and not having to manage the people directly can be a good choice for many organizations.

the idea it is merely to escape benefits is not really valid. now the ACA was modified so that self insured and group insured companies must offer benefits after ninety days. the turnover prior to that can be very high so escaping that rule isn't the primary reason to contract out, its to reduce the HR costs associated with hiring.
You're looking for a (likely NEC or Sharp) "Display" - they're not called TVs when they're not for the consumer market.

http://www.necdisplay.com/p/large-screen-displays/v404
Might I suggest you correct 'years at experience' to 'years of experience'

otherwise, interesting survey. I hope i'm not too much of an outlier here to mess with the result for uk.
How difficult to become a MVNO in Canada?
We had some conversation with biggest mobile carriers but they don't see too willing to let us become a MVNO company. What do you know about that?. Have you tried before?.

Thanks !
I agree that Whole Foods isn't a big deal merger but the fact that Amazon has a logistics system in place that could topple the other competitors is very scary. The silver lining to this is that it'll be mostly Walmart vs Amazon now rather than Walmart trying to destroy the regional chains (and Kroger to some extent on the national side of things). Hopefully this will add some competition on the Walmart front to force them to pull back where they're really not needed (or wanted).
The characters are a reflection of these societies' history and culture. Doing away with them would break the connection future generations have with their own literature, art, and history.

China did officially approve a new system of simplified characters (簡體字) in the 1950s and 60s to improve literacy levels and save time (1), but many people think the thousands of invented characters don't look nearly as good as their traditional counterparts (繁體字) which are still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong and some overseas Chinese communities in SE Asia.

There is also a slight learning curve for people from China to learn traditional characters and Taiwanese and Hong Kongers to learn the simplified versions used in China, but the exchange of mass media, social media, and Chinese travellers seems to have helped people in the different areas get more familiar with the different systems.

1. https://harvardextended.blogspot.com/2007/11/undoing-simplif...
I remember going to Disney World as a kid and having no idea what half the characters we saw were from... Br'er Rabbit, Fox, Bear.

That was in the 90's, so before the Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel stuff got pulled into the fold. It's good to see that there are still some characters floating around that kids have no reference for.
Them: "Why isn't your TV on the Wi-Fi and why aren't you using the built in apps?"

Me months later when crap like this happens: "To prevent situations like this."

More seriously, I wouldn't buy a TV if I didn't expect it to work, literally, out of the box. Hence I don't need to upgrade it either.

I don't want new features. I don't want to connect it to my Wi-Fi. I don't want to use any built-in UI for watching Netflix. I just want a dumb video output device that works regardless of what I plug into it.
"Plenty of legal systems have those rights, and also ban nazis or similar groups. It's not an either/or."

They are mistaken. Free speech and free association are not extant when books are banned or ideas are outlawed.

It is an either/or and all historical evidence serves to confirm this.

If you want blowfish source to not be a munition you need to put up with the Westboro Baptists.
I've found in my own writing that when I start to use the passive voice I often either don't fully understand what I'm writing about, or am embarrassed by what I'm documenting. Passive voice seems to be an easy way to hand-wave.
Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership – The New Stack
The meat-and-potatoes is the WeChatAPI class, found here:

https://github.com/justdoit0823/pywxclient/blob/master/pywxc...
The “smart constructor” pattern
Great paper, yes. Immediately useful? More like disheartening, because it doesn't really tell you how to be sure your measurements are OK.
Switches have IP routing for a reason, why make a hop off the switch to the router and back just to route between separate VLAN's? I've got four ports on my switch at home in a LAG for my FreeNAS box, having to jump out to my external router then back to traverse the separate subnets make the setup worthless.
I don't think it's safe to say that at all. Where do we get this foolish notion that a job involves only one specialized kind of activity?

You wouldn't tell a software engineer that their only job is to crank out code. That's actually a recipe for either 1) an absolute savant, or 2) a severely career-limited engineer. Engineers need to plan, estimate, document, test, troubleshoot, help recruit, and be technical leaders for all sorts of random things that come their way. We often deride that stuff as "admin work" that keeps us from our true calling – but let's be honest, that actually is part of the job description.

Similarly, it would be foolish to tell a professor that their only job is to sit in front of the classroom and teach. They should be expected to spend time improving their pedagogy, attracting students to their program, being a champion and mentor for students, spending some time in public outreach, and otherwise helping to drive their department's curriculum and agenda so it will flourish. At a research university like Stanford, they will be expected to spend time attracting research and research funding as well. Professors may bristle at having to do all that, and they can't do all of that alone – but again, it's part of the job description, and there's good reason why they're being tapped to do it! You really can't expect an admin to drive the research agenda of your department, for example.

So, where does your statement come from? How do you define "admin work"? Are you a teacher that feels like you're tapped to do stuff you shouldn't be doing? Are you really sure that's work that should be delegated?
Well that's one way to guarantee the customer upgrades to a new phone. I wonder if it'll be possible to brick a device via OS update when Oreo's hardware abstraction layer goes into place.
Not sure if you're looking for a marketplace to buy or launch a business, but I'd say the Atlassian store might be an interesting one.

A lot of (business) users who are willing to spend money. A lot of ratings/reviews you can improve on to make a better product and a big ecosystem.
I don't think that licensing terms is the right term here. But IANAL. I'd call it licensing terms if you are using the license of the trademark holder to do something with the icon, like marking a product of your own. That's not happening here. Feather is distributing icons of brands (which is legal) or icons that resemble those icons of brands (still legal) to people that may use them to depict those brands (for which one does not require a license).
I'm intrigued...
WikiLeaks – CIA used ExpressLane to covertly collect data from liaison services
App Engine Flex takes a long time to deploy, and always has. App Engine standard is what deploys quickly, and also scales quicker.

Firewall settings work just fine for our platinum clients with complex network architectures, I don't see why it wouldn't in your case unless something was misconfigured.
OTH if you use their icons from e.g. Bootstrap as they are usually used then users actually recognize them without thinking and the icons actually help users interact with your website - which is the point of the icons anyway!

The same goes for classic simple buttons, nav bars color pallets etc - users know them already before they interact with your site. Most of that design work you did to make you site "different" or "beautiful" just made your site less intuitive for a user.

This opinion comes from experience building b2b webapps - users generally wish they didn't need to do the admin work the webapp is helping them do. So user stories are dominated by building the simplest quickest workflows to allow users to capture, fetch or manipulate the data they need and to then get back on with their lives - having standard controls that are familiar from other sites helps with this.
Why would these people change to a phonetic writing system when most of the world's isn't? English for example is a morpho-phonemic one.
The Chinese writing is also more resilient to language change, and given proper education, texts from millenia can still be read.

If you look at the PISA scores[1] for example, the top 10 includes Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Macao and Honk-Kong. So the Chinese script and its derivatives is clearly not impairing its users to learn maths.

On the foreign language side, it's even a boon because someone knowing a CJK language wanting to learn another one can rely on a lot of words with shared roots to learn it faster. But as the phonology of these language is different, the knowledge of the Chinese characters can help connects the dots between words, which aren't obviously related when romanized.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2015-results-in-focus.pdf
European privacy law improvement next year: protecting EU citizens personal data
"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
My employer (one of the big three) thinks otherwise :) My manager is in UK, for example.
Good blog post and audio samples notwithstanding, annoying that they don't put the paper on Arxiv. As they themselves point to in the blog post, the learning architecture was introduced in 2014's "Deep mixture density networks for acoustic modeling in statistical parametric speech synthesis" so it's not clear how much of this is just good engineering vs novel research.
Tried something like that in Django, but needed another page of JS to get CSRF tokens to work. Its not always as simple as the first suggestion.
Hard Systems, Soft Systems, and “It Depends”: A Walk Through the SEBoK Glossary
Audi Uncorks a VIN mystery
Ask HN: What were the biggest challenges when you started to code?
For the purpose of a research study, I would like to hear developers opinions, insights and experiences about the topic: "The biggest difficulties for beginners when learning and writing code."
You have it all backwards. Fashion is the reason you hate it, but before it was fashionable it was not. I get that you're bitter and angry, but you do yourself no service by sticking your head in the sand and willfully ignoring the forces that drive popularity.

I'm frustrated that better stuff doesn't win in the market as well, but I've been a web developer 20 years and Node's appeal was pretty obvious and exactly as the GP states. Without that it would not have gained traction to become fashionable.
The Google's business is not search, but answering questions. Web search is just one way to ask (and answer) a question.
I had worked on earlier model of Microsoft surface table. They had the same pitch that these multi user multi touch devices will be used by education and banking systems etc. they don't work simply because its not solving any problem. Why would people go out of their way to learn new ways of designing, developing and communication just so they can share their work in hologram? What does it solve? Until this is answered AR and VR are not going anywhere.
"3B. Life and personal liberty are not creations of the Constitution. These rights are recognised by the Constitution..."

Similar ideas underlie the thought of the founders of the American constitution. The most fundamental rights are inherent- they do not need to be recognized separately. By including privacy among these rights, the Indian Supreme Court is making it more fundamental than e.g. freedom of speech or assembly.

Although I am far away and unaffected, I find this enormously encouraging. In a decade or two, the most populous country in the world will be a democracy with a fundamental respect for human life and liberty.
Every 11.6 seconds, Amazon makes a deploy
I have always wondered how much extra cost would be to provide a very basic "it just works without any fancy stuff" failsafe boot option.

Since all these TV's are - more or less - Linux boxes, it should be no issue to have a kind of dual boot, or a "reset" button with a "basic firmware".
Re: HPKP suicide, why not pin a handful of 'recovery' keys that you can use when things go sour? Stored off-server or offline so in the hack scenario you don't lose them.
> At an atomic level, events are not deterministic.
> At a molecular level, events are not deterministic.
> Therefore, we all behave randomly. Qed.

This doesn't follow. The combination of many random events can be highly predictable.

Tossing a fair coin is random. Combining 10000 coin tosses will give you a result close to 5000 heads and 5000 tails, and I can predict you won't get 4000 heads and 6000 tails or 100 heads and 9900 tails.

So there's various types of randomness, and the more you average out uncorrelated events the more you get something very close to a predictable result.

Example via A. Einstein:

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~dfrey1/ench630/ein_ran_walk.pdf
> Mass quantities of free, mediocre quality content will give way to something else in this new equilibrium. But what will pay for all the infrastructure?

There are still a lot of people who just rent a (virtual) server, or rent space on someone else's platform, to post whatever they want. They might have tens, hundreds, thousands of viewers. They could easily scale to even more viewers with the help of some off-the-shelf CDN, while keeping the total expense well within the realm of "hobby spending" for most people in the developed world.

Producing and distributing content only costs a lot of money if you want to deliver a lot of content to a lot of people. But I would much prefer a decentralized network where a lot of people each produce and distribute a little bit of content. Each of them would only incur a small expense, if and only if they want to. It will probably cost less than what they're already paying for advertising anyway.

Even in a world like that, large content producers who actually have a concrete revenue stream, such as Hollywood studios and a small number of world-famous and/or publicly funded news outlets, will continue to reach billions of people at a time. We don't need to worry about BBC as we say farewell to thousands of content mills who had no reason to exist in the first place.
Ex-Uber Engineer Takes Her Tale of Harassment to Supreme Court
The magnitude of the difference is so huge that I don't think it matters how complicated a bitcoin transaction is. It's something like a factor of 10,000 at the moment.

And I think either way, my statement that the question is based on faulty assumptions is correct. If bitcoin supplants a large portion of the financial system then the energy use will be ridiculous. If bitcoin's energy use is kept low by limiting it to large settlements between payment companies, then it won't supplant a large portion of the financial system.
Admittedly a good portion of my appreciation is due to the title alone, but the paper and contents itself are very good as well:

'The Geometry of Innocent Flesh on the Bone: Return-into-libc without function calls' by Hovav Shacham

http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/geometry.pdf
The title in the submission is accurate with the article, yet clickbaity. The alleged story is "Prosecutors in Bavaria have found documents showing thousands of Audi vehicles were exported to Asian countries with the same identification number" according to the article.
Given that Turkey has the worlds most famous transcontinental city it does rather imply that Turkey itself is spread across more than one continent.
A Digital Volcano
> but the extfs family should be the standard one.

*XFS
> I was looking at the Dragonbox Pyra, but this seems even better.

I've been following the Dragonbox Pyra for a while too -- I actually just sent a link to a co-worker this morning.

The Librem 5 does seem really awesome, but what I really like about the Pyra is the physical keyboard. If I could have the Librem 5-alike in a Blackberry KeyOne or Pyra-like form factor, I would be one happy camper.

In other words, I really want a device that could replace both my laptop and phone, in terms of productivity. It seems like the Dragonbox Pyra is more closely aligned to that ideal than the Librem 5.
That would suck so much, taking a 30% paycut just in the past 7 months due to this.
Practical tips for making you and your tech team faster
Agreed. 90% of the complexity of JS has to do with loading, in some form or another. You can't deliver 100MB application to your end user.
> Is active voice always better?

I recommend this talk by Dr. George Gopen, which does include some advice on the use of the passive voice:
"A Radical New Way to Control the English Language"
https://www.youtube.com/embed/XuGII3MzBic

> The writing instruction we received in school was inadequate to prepare us for writing in the adult, professional world. We were taught how to avoid grammatical errors and how to write a 5-sentence paragraphs and 5-paragraph essays. None of that is of use when we try to write grant applications or technical manuals. The writing advice we get (if any) as adults is equally inadequate: We are told to avoid the passive, to keep our sentences short, and to write the way we speak – all very, very bad advice. In school, the important person where writing was concerned was the writer. In the real world, the important person becomes the reader. Concerning the quality of a piece of professional writing, one simple question dominates: Did the reader get delivery of what the writer was trying to send?

The part about the passive voice is at 15m10s but I encourage you to watch the whole talk from the beginning. It is worth it.

If you want more, some of his writings are easy to find online: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=george+gopen
I had this same idea until I found about:
http://openresty.org/en/
https://github.com/Mashape/kong/

Making a full API on nginx via lua sounds crazy but it appears that people do it.