skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I've been saying about tax breaks people want for the film industry here in LA so they can compete w/ Atlanta and other places in the US when really they need to be competing on a national basis, if these benefits are actually useful (which hasn't really been the case for taxpayers).
> Also forgot "vandal suspect"

The article describes the offence he was being chased for (according to the police).

Do you have a problem with that?
If you think opioid addiction only affects white people outside urban areas I invite you to visit any large city in North America.
And it is possible to get waivers for particular individuals. However, because of the process involved, it is unlikely to be pursued by someone like SpaceX except in very exceptional cases of getting known international experts.
Is systemd's hand-rolled Desktop-Bus-over-SSH tunnel a security worry?
As long as you obey robots.txt there is nothing wrong with crawling. Your code in GitHub doesn't give any indication of what sites you collect data from so there is no indication that you are scraping instead of using it to crawl in an acceptable manner. Though it wouldn't hurt to label your work as crawler scripts instead of scraping scripts ;)

Why use your own scripts and not Nutch?

Do you know about Common Crawl? https://aws.amazon.com/public-datasets/common-crawl/ It obeys robots.txt so it may not have everything you want, but it could save you part of the effort of crawling yourself.
> men hate the film way more than women do

The "climate change is bullshit" narrative is engineered to appeal (among many other things) to this whole mythology of rugged individualism. If you "believe in that global warming stuff" it must be because you're a weakling - as opposed to the strong manly individuals who choose to reject it.

It's gut instinct politics.

I've a hunch (heh) that gut instinct politics correlates with falsehood (and perhaps specifically with engineered, purposeful falsehood) more strongly than intuition would guess. E.g. the whole rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany in the 1930s was entirely predicated on a backwards, anti-intellectual, think-with-your-guts ideology.
For once, I don't feel as if anything key was left out -- mostly because I think it's ridiculous to pull a weapon on a (non-violent) 'vandal', especially one with a history of lethality.

'Vandal Suspect' added in there somewhere does absolutely nothing to help me relate to the decision to shoot a TASER at a non-violent vandal.
If you don't see any logged requests to that endpoint for a certain period of time, you can be pretty sure of its status.

If you don't have that detail in your logs, that's step 0.
I don't doubt that they are effective, I've seen them being used. What I'm questioning is the states right to treat its citizens like that, no matter how convenient. And they're obviously not as safe as claimed. What it seems to lead to is tasing anyone who doesn't agree with them without missing a beat, is that really the kind of world you want to live in?
I am perhaps not making it explicit, but that is more or less what I wanted to say.
Tased to death for spray painting McDonald’s windows :\

> the 18-year-old graffiti artist. The teen had been spotted spray-painting the blackened windows of an abandoned McDonald’s.

> Within seconds, Officer Jorge Mercado caught up with him, drew his Taser and fired a single shot to the chest. The recent high school grad and aspiring art teacher collapsed on the sidewalk in cardiac arrest. The chase lasted six minutes. It was 5:20 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2013. At 6:18 a.m., he was pronounced dead.

Whyyyy is using a taser against a teenager who’s running away even nevessary? Dude was doing some vandalism. If you can’t catch him on foot just let him get away. It’s not like he’s selling drugs to little kids or trying to punch you in the face.
The title of this post is much more inflammatory than the title of the actual article ("How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons") and in no way justified by the link.

That said, Tasering someone seems like an extreme over-reaction to this sort of vandalism.
Thanks for the example -- it was hard for me to picture what was going on before. I wonder if the unstable "Placer" APIs will make the standard LinkedList more capable of this sort of thing, but I'm not really familiar with them. Still, I suspect it'll always require `unsafe`.
Now of the most horrifying videos I have ever watched is of a cop who pulls over a teen and tases him, in the chest, which led to that kid falling into a coma and later getting brain damage.
Maybe the title should append "in V8" so it's clear this is for the JS Engine
TL;DR version:

Taser claims its guns are safe and do not cause lethal injuries, marketing them as such. Deaths related to Taser usage are typically attributed to "excited delirium" through a complex web of relationships between the company, law enforcement personnel, and medical examiners. Excited delirium seems to be a questionable medical condition where several researchers studying this condition have financial ties to Taser.
200 pounds is the average weight of an adult male in the USA.
Yeah, this is horrific. From a medical standpoint:

"AED readings are important. Shock versus no shock" - this is basically allowing them to go one of two ways "Shockable", then they weren't 'fatally' injured by the Taser, and external circumstances caused the death. "No Shock Advised", well, they must have had a heart defect. Never mind that there are multiple rhythms beyond VF (Ventricular fibrillation), VT (Ventricular tachycardia) that can be recovered.

The next three are basically trying to imply typically drug use interfered with cardiac activity and that, not the Taser, caused the cardiac event.

It's basically "here's a laundry list of things that can exonerate Taser. Collect them."
Well yeh, that's what I was getting at hence the "don't take it literally" part.

I've seen people still don't like what he said even after knowing it was not literal. Some people just don't want to see the internet as something not only invented by the government, but was not the total wild west they romanticized it as.
Really crazy hours. Sometimes, I'll get in a lot of hours and make plenty of money, other weeks I'll get nothing.
If there is some sort of condition they have no control over where they can't possibly raise prices or cut costs anywhere else and their margins are too thin to eat the difference (which frankly sounds like a just-so explanation) then I guess they're just going to have to deal with the small and drug-addled applicant pool.
Imagine the day everyone has an IPv6 and NAT has disappear from the map... that day will be like hacking in the 90's, like MS03-026 days or even worst, it will definitely be a disaster waiting to happen for the network engineers and CISO's worldwide.
Usually, use of force guidelines say that this level of escalation is only warranted when the person is actively resisting (e.g. attempting to strike the officer). This would be a good case to have body cam video for.
Not sure if there were really any passengers disembarking in San Juan. I would guess that it was pretty much an empty flight flying in.

What a heroic effort! Salute to the entire team!
Heh. Nicolas Cage shouted us an evening of drinks in Bangkok once. Nice fellow, really. Much less rah-rah than most of the Hollywood types, and a genuinely friendly fellow.
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Sure, but how about we put Tasers in the category of firearm alternative where the victim has better odds of living. Treat Tasers as lethal force and tell officers that if they wouldn't use their firearm then they shouldn't use a Taser either.
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And the least watched too. People would be excited or horrified just by the name and rate accordingly without watching.
Well in certain parts of the nation you used to be able to own black people and derive income from the fruits of their labor along with the proceeds of legal corruption sometimes called campaign contributions.

Inconveniently they get freed and you now have to pay them, worse they vote against you and without sufficient votes you are no longer viable and liable to lose the corruption money.

If only you could shake down the annoying population regularly and you know put them in their place wherein their place is a prison cell wherein you can work them for free again and take away their inconvenient vote.

Disenfranchisement has always been a tool as long as voting has been a thing in America. Its only a bold claim if you missed the last few hundred years.
> Further in typical UK practice they claim it is not helpful but offer no alternative treatments, claiming it should be discontinued even if there are no alternative.

Untrue.

https://www.nice.org.uk/search?q=pain
A feature just to generate media attention, clever. Looks like kotaku fell for it as usual.
No software is creatively fathomed out of nothing. Opinionated frameworks abound, pre-ordaining the little manouevres needed to wire them up properly, and solving familiar problems with established patterns. If these have all been decided beforehand, even if only by convention, then what are they but blueprints?

What difference there is works in software's favour: there's a frothy top layer of most projects where developers can indulge their whims/hone their abilities and approaches. But it's not the whole.
> It makes life hard in companies where binary whitelisting is used.

The application would still have to be audited, signed or not, prior to whitelisting.
I'd agree with all those points if use of tasers was limited to situations where guns would've previously been used, but their "less lethal" nature has meant they're used in a lot of situations where shooting would never have been acceptable.
America needs oversight of police's use of force. We don't even collect good enough data and that opaqueness only helps abuse.
> If you like keurig enough to drink it, why wouldn't you pay a dollar a cup?

That was the question.

If I don't have to pay the extra 60c... why would I do that? I have no incentive to pay $1 cup for something which I can get for, say, 40c/cup.

I might pay $1/cup, sometimes, but if I can get it for 40c... why pay more?
Yangqing here from facebook. We consciously made it a MIT license as onnx is intended to be widely shared by a lot of participants, and MIT seems to be more widely agreeable among different parties co-owning it. It's also simpler.
Personal pain points. What do you find to be annoying? Are other people likely to find it annoying? Go from there.
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Right, except for two sentences earlier where it does say that.
> I'm much more concerned with whether or not there is a seat available, than the amount it will cost me.

You're in a very privileged position to not care about the cost, but you're talking like everyone can do this. Many people don't have that option. Your solution favors the wealthy with zero recourse for those less fortunate.
It might be morally questionable but isn't Amazon doing what you're describing? Most companies shopping around don't publically announce their plans to move in exchange for tax breaks. Amazon, OTOH, is explicitly calling this out.
Search is one of the main reason why I ditched Thunderbird for GMail...
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Most people don't have a problem with using them in a situation like that, but zapping a tagger in the back is asshole behavior and should not be tolerated. There was no self defense here. The suspect is unlikely to be a danger to the community. It's a disproportionate response that ignores the inherent danger in the technology.

I think Police should carry stun guns, but they need to be treated like the potentially deadly weapons that they are.
Yeah, I'm sure the gas stations selling the gas at $20/Gal are thinking about the greater good of the community.
im a self-described fat-ass, i eat constantly. im not ungrateful to people who work in the agricultural industries, but im no more grateful to them than i am to those who work in energy, water or telecomms. they are all necessities, and farmers aren't that special.
I have quite a few friends with a green card working for SpaceX. So, it's definitely not an issue for them.
I hate and fear lots of technologies. When you struggle against a bad technology decision at a company for weeks, months, or years, hatred/fear is justifiable.

Luckily, I don't care what "companies all over the globe" are doing. I'm paid to know the difference between cargo-cult decisions and good decisions.

Interesting to see Mongo's (in)famous marketing in action again, though![1] I'll stick to equally-or-more popular products that succeeded on technical merits instead of marketing (e.g. Postgres).

1. https://www.nemil.com/mongo/3.html
So S.V. is more Liberal than Democrat, is this news to anyone who understands the distinction?
That's fine until you get numbers with decimal points.
Eggshell skull:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
In theory, yes. And it works for the easy things. But one does not simply walk into expensive electronics sector. Between capital requirements for product development and for marketing, it's really hard to make a viable product. People do try - there have been some bottom-up efforts for creating smartphones with features missing from the mainstream (ranging from security to customizability to openness), but they mostly failed.

What I'm saying is - voting with your wallet works for products where it's easy for a random entrepreneur to design a release a new, unique model focusing on unmet market needs. But smartphones are not such a product. Customers always choose out of available options, the difference is in how easy is for the market to iterate on different variants for different market subsegments.
Yangqing here (caffe2 and ONNX). We did use protobuf and we have an extensive discussion about its versions even, from our experience with the Caffe and Caffe2 deployment modes. Here is a snippet from the codebase:

// Note [Protobuf compatibility]
// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
// Based on experience working with downstream vendors, we generally can't
// assume recent versions of protobufs. This means that we do not use any
// protobuf features that are only available in proto3.
//
// Here are the most notable contortions we have to carry out to work around
// these limitations:
//
// - No 'map' (added protobuf 3.0). We instead represent mappings as lists
// of key-value pairs, where order does not matter and duplicates
// are not allowed.
I think the quality of engineering talent at Space X is probably higher. Having lived with and met a couple of Tesla Engineers, they seem to optimize for ability to work insane hours and accept lower salaries. The result is that Tesla does not have as many people from top engineering schools. This probably doesn't apply to early Tesla employees who seems much more qualified.

I'm sure there is a reason for this and it might be a better approach for scaling production.
The people who will donate their time, gas and energy to supply water to those who need it will not vanish if we allow prices to fluctuate freely. But we do lose the resources of those who are not willing, or cannot afford, to donate their time and energy for free.

Empathy would be better directed toward donating money to the needy so they can purchase the things they need at the higher market prices. Price fixing may feel empathetic, but if it actually makes the scarcity problems worse, it's not.
Now if only Apple would quit mysteriously stripping out features from the full LLVM release...
I just don't understand why politicians don't take this seriously[1]. A smart and savvy politician could build presidency reaching career if they spent time talking about this and trying to find solutions.

[1] I could be wrong.
>the config files were always messy.

How? It so much cleaner and simpler than Apache. I don't get this sentiment.
Moreover, rolling their own hash function (which is what they did) is a rookie mistake.
Great comment. Despite my fears/concerns about Trump and seeing the similarities to Hitler, your comment is the first one that hit me with a "crap! it _could_ happen here too!" realization.
This is a really interesting question. what are the legal repercussions for killing someone that's about to die? Is imminent death an extenuating circumstance?

Could one argue that law enforcement would have used force that on average is much more lethal (gunshot), but instead used a Taser, and unfortunately they died because of the Taser? I'm a lot more comfortable with this defense than some sort of hot-potato "maybe it was the drugs, maybe it was the taser" excuse.
Ya but just barely. Based on deaths, blacks make up about 10% while the black population is 12%.

http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/opioid-overdose-dea...

The biggest problem with the 80s is the same problem we have now, Americans are easily scared shitless about every damn thing and the news just fuels it. In the 80's it was crack epidemic, devil worship and super predators. In the 90s, it was ecstasy and raves. In the 2000s it was meth, terrorism and trailer parks. Today it's opioids and ISIS.

As a country, we do irrational things because we always have an irrational fear. Who plants that fear? News.

Did you know we turned away boatloads of Jews during the holocaust because we were afraid German spies would be on the ships?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/jewish-...

Remember Ebola? Zika? Anthrax? That scared the shit out of everyone and it ended up being a whole lot of not much.

When FDR said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he knew how afraid Americans are.
The whole Hyper-V thing with the default Docker for Windows stuff has put me off - is there a workaround to go back to using a VirtualBox VM again? I do a fair amount of development on Windows machines along with Mac/Linux so I need something that works consistently among all those platforms.

Vagrant is filling the void for some of those projects since it just works with no fuss on Mac/Windows/Linux without forcing me to use Hyper-V.
Laugh away, I'm not interested in flashy code nor resume padding. I am interested in SOLID, clean code. If you have clean code that is easy to add new features to, refactor, and teach to new developers, then good for you. I know good code when I see it. It is clear to me when developers lose sight of the forest for the trees.

Your sales technique makes your project sound like torture.
Whereas law enforcement also sees that, say I use a blank shotgun shell to make a retort to scare someone. And then that causes them to die of a heart attack due to a weak heart. I am to blame for manslaughter. That's because it doesn't matter the health status of a person - if I caused it, im to blame.

Unless you're law enforcement. They're... uh, special.

Edit: downtopic, user:revelation said it best. It's called the Eggshell Skull Rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
Trying to shift the blame for disagreement to the people who are on the right side of the facts is mistaken. People are deluded on the facts because of a massive decades long propaganda effort. The left moving to the center hasn't brought the right to the center on any issue, it's just allowed the right to get even crazier.
That probably excludes anywhere outside of the NE or West Coast.

Even then, the metro areas are blue, rest of the states are red, like everywhere else in the country.
> Al Gore's name had the biggest impact on the polarization of the score. He's been a polarizing figure (for whatever reason) for a very long time.

That statement seems to imply that polarization is caused by and originates with Al Gore.
Why do you think you can't run WordPress on a VPS? Also scaling hardware is the last resort, there are almost always cheaper optimisations to be made.
The first thing I thought of was the Dragon 2 capsule.
Sorry But Your App Idea Sucks
Because they are a stock market listed company, the way to check this is to read their annual report[0], which can be found by searching 'htc annual report'. The latest is from 2016, published March 2017. VR and Healthcare are listed.

Interestingly, HTC bought a company I used to work for way back in 2010, that was focused on cross-platform mobile video solutions (including content discovery/DRM/licensing). They sold it like a hot potato only a year later after apparently changing corporate strategy, I suspect for legal reasons (we had large contracts with most rival manufacturers: Nokia/Sony Ericsson/LG/Samsung/etc.). They also bought the Beats brand in 2011, which IIRC has recently been acquired by Apple. For a nominally famously 'engineer run organization' HTC certainly seems to vacillate in its strategic development.

[0] http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/IROL/14/148697/Ann...
There were 30 people on the flight to San Juan.
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I'll take it a step further. I see no difference between this and fake news. One has somewhat less repugnant ends, but the means are equally repugnant.
Why do you think that Ohio (Cincinnati) is a conservative stronghold? They are typically considered a swing state.
Thank you for the insightful explanation!
> and an NPR affiliate

Just one NPR affiliate? We've got 2!

Some of our politicians are from the stone age though.
Correct. Both of those actions occur due to the ion channels and gates resetting to their normal, pre-triggered state. In both of these plants their movements are triggered by ion potentials changing, like nerves in animals, opening channels to move water from one area to another, changing the shape of cells, bending cell walls due to water pressure, causing the movement. Then, slowly the water is moved back to its pre-trigger state, slowly opening the venus fly trap, or leaflets in this plant. Some insects move their legs through adjusting liquid pressure.