skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to switch the mentality of our police units. Right now, the mentality is that of a soldier who is going to run in, kill or lock up all the bad guys and save the good guys.

This black-and-white view of policing ends up getting a lot of citizens killed. Police officers often end up getting called out to fill the gap in social services, so why not allocate funds to those programs to help people out of poverty? I mean, I know the reasons (police unions and the prison-industrial complex) but it would make more sense than making the police do this crap.

Right now, the police have to act as social workers. When your social worker carries a gun, anything they do to help you sounds more like a command than advice (and the police often confuse the two as well, since maintaining a sense of control is rule #1 of modern policing).

Myself, I don’t fuck with the police. I don’t volunteer information to them either; I don’t trust the police to be good at their job, so anything you say will only serve to get you in more trouble. And I grew up as an upper-middle class privileged white kid.
VMware 6.5 finally has an HTML5 interface! Woohoo!

Too bad it's still a "work in progress" and not actually that useful for the more fine-grained/advanced things (like deploying a new VM or template directly from an OVA file).
> most of their github OSS releases other than a few high profile ones are unmaintained crap with zero response.

I find this a very entitled and weird attitude. I also find the opposite side of this attitude weird, that if you release source suddenly you have new obligations. That opposite side is even worse because it makes people scared of releasing code.

Being open source or free software isn't some kind of contract to provide support and "community" or whatever. Slap a license on the code, toss it over the fence and be done with it. If you want to offer support and accept patches great, if not, also great. If you're doing it for fun or advantage good, if you're doing it out of respect for your users to let them fix it themselves, even better, because the alternative is to give them no recourse but to go around begging for you and only you to fix it.

The free software that MSFT has releases is free software (and open source), period. They don't have to do anything further to deserve that appellation.
If you're talking about "obedience" in general though, then some equally valid examples of rules someone might ask you to obey would include "don't murder people" and "don't do drugs". "Obedience" is far too broad of a term for you to characterize it as outright good or bad entirely.
Gates Foundation suing Saama Technologies on claims of fraud and more
> Every major version was a new os.

I had had some Nokia phone with WP7 and it was a pretty nice phone despite lacking some apps, and I was looking forward the the future of the platform. Of course when the future did come witn WP8, they said there would be no updates to existing phones and they were pushing developers to use APIs that would only work on the new OS meaning my limited pool of apps wouldn't grow on my current phone, which hurt more than the no OS upgrade. While the lack of OS upgrade isn't uncommon in the Android world, Google doesn't generally push developers to abandon the old OS base so quickly. So with my Windows Phone basically EOL'd overnight(within about 6 months or so of buying it), I went back to Android.
Intel Unveils Neuromorphic, Self-Learning Chip Codenamed Loihi
While I get the author's point, the problem is that for a lot of us in the US (those primarily impacted by Equifax I believe, unless they do work overseas as well), if someone claims to be me and gets the IRS to send my income tax refund to them, they are not going to mea culpa and send me the refund too. I'm just hosed.
Is this a hammer question, or one of e.g., concrete vs. wood?
It is not trivial to prevent at all. You need to spend money and fraud prevention effort at every trust point.

All of this costs literal salaries of people who say "no computer says no" at every point. Those people also suffer risk of physical assault.

In the electronic space you need to pay for "social media consultants" and look after twitter and facebook and such. You would be surprised how incredibly expensive the things you seem to take for granted are, to a large organisation which pays proper wages to people.

Practically speaking if your personal details have been disclosed by some douchebag fucking company it is very difficult to distinguish you as a caller from some random internet asshole impersonating you.
Hm The Canon DSLRs Can do that out of the box - at least 60D and 6D
I was going to post this, just be warned anyone who was meant to be working, the Mitchell & Webb "related videos" on YouTube is an incredibly addictive spiral.
Cloudflare moves into video with the launch of Cloudflare Stream
This is what enterprise IT is all about - supporting legacy systems. It's different when you have a controlled environment.

The standards for consumer products are different - especially in a case where your website requires a plugin that your own browser has deprecated.
I’m using Vimeo as the backend for my video course on how cars work. It’s working out great. They do all the storage, transcoding, subtitle hosting and provide a player. I had to code up a course player to wrap it all up with a playlist but everything else was basically solved from day 1. I even use their ‘Review’ tools to annotate the videos that my editor uploads.

It’s a great example of a business in a strong and profitable niche in an industry that is absolutely dominated by YouTube. I’m happy to give them my money.
Sarcasm aside, I think this is an important point, and I would like to know if you or anyone here has suggestions for plug-and-play analytics solutions to look into for those of us who would prefer to avoid Google Analytics?
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15345483
A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub
There's nothing in the Free Software definition that requires copy-left licensing and RMS, along with the other FSF members have validated most OSI approved licenses as being Free Software, including BSD, MIT, MPL and Apache 2.0.

RMS has said a lot over the years, including that the dual licensing business model (e.g. GPL + proprietary) is a valid business model (i.e. whatever it takes to keep development of the GPL version going). And his opinions don't necessarily reflect the official position of the FSF.
Do you support yaml for people who dislike json?
Using Zoom is totally fine for pair/mob programming, but if you want a collaborative IDE, Cloud9 offers this functionality, and everybody on the task can hop onto Zoom (or really anything) in order to facilitate the audio/video. People behave as though there is no way to do this because of their preference for doing it live (the "proper solution"). But this is absolutely possible and I would say actually better facilitated using these tools than everybody gathered 'round a single machine. Anybody can jump in at any moment and make a comment and a change and have it immediately propagated to everyone else's screen. No need for "Let me sit in the chair" or taking five minutes to nitpick over the minutiae of programming to convey an idea.
> Very true, as someone who grew up in the 80s and mid-90s, we usually met "friends" for an hour or so in a day and the rest of it was spent with solitary pursuits and perhaps with family. These days we're "connected" 24x7 thanks to the Net and particularly mobile. Almost everything we do is either over these mediums or at least shared on them, commented upon, collaborated and so on.

Yes, and on the other hand it sometimes feels as if this leads to social fatigue. Meeting someone face to face sure felt different and more...worthwhile (for lack of a better term) growing up in the 90s, when it was the only way to keep in touch with friends. Compare this to today where social gatherings are preceded, surrounded and accompanied by constant, always and immediately available, often lesser ways of communicating - whether it's social networks, group chats, messages.

Of course I don't want to paint a pure black picture - I enjoy those options as much as the next guy, but it comes with side effects I guess.
Certainly Not News ranks about the same as the Daily Mail personally.
Going with Defaults
> that feature can never be topped regardless of the tech's quality or the marketing budget.

Never? That's a silly thing to say in the computer industry. I'm going to guess that we'll have an alternative to the web sometime in the next 20 years.
Their reputation as a source of news is absurdly poor in the United Kingdom, please do not conflate circulation and age with being factual or reputable.

Insidious companies can continue existing for a long time.
I've been using a Sony A6000 lately, which has a great auto mode that will pick pretty much every parameter for a shot for you and do a good job of it. As you learn more about the camera and photography you can start taking more control.

However, I've found that smart phone cameras have gotten so good that they match or even beat the A6000 for a lot of shots so I tend to use it only for very specific kinds of pictures now.
Kind of like this: [1], where the mortality rate seemingly goes down as doctors go on strike.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/slightly-blighty/201510...
Can I ask a very dumb question - is there a (simple) roadmap to some kind of open hardware nirvana - ie general purpose chip design that can be created on fabs 2 generations old (I think that's one of the features here)

Things like

- we still need to do X to this design
- we still don't have Y

I would be interested in how close or far we are from dropping things like IntelME and other nice things to have
Mine is 28" and I can't really imagine having something of lower res as a larger size.

Fonts are really crisp on it. It's very pleasurable to work on and one of the things I look forward to every day.

It acts as 2-3 screens on its own so I don't really see any use for more screen space.
How to get rich taking advantage of the rise in ICOs
Can anyone explain how to make a million dollars marketing ICOs?
Is there an expectation that most phones won't be able to provide hotspot / tethering for various platforms (not sure if there's some peculiarities with the three precisely branded devices you mention)?

Polished OS, build quality, call quality, battery life -- these features are all available (and were pre-Microsoft mobile) in both Android and Apple worlds.

Be cautious about assuming that the applications you use are all other people will want. I suspect the massive disparity in application volume & variety was the driving force behind Microsoft abandoning this platform.
>> But the other issue is that they can't attract much foreign talent to relocate there, like Europe and the U.S. have historically done. Because they don't have a culture friendly to immigrants, but also because their environment is toxic for those of us that are accustomed to liberal democracies.

This is becoming more and more untrue by the day.

While Europe and US did historically attract foreign talent, the good times were bound to come to an end once the immigrants started conspicuously thriving at the same time automation killed a lot of once well paying jobs for the locals. Ergo, Trump and the Trump-wannabes across Europe.

The notion of a "culture which is friendly to immigrants" is on a fairly quick downward trend and I would like to place bets with anyone here on this: the number of people immigrating into Europe and US will be drastically lower in about 5 years time.

The environment in liberal democracies are no less toxic today. A good example is a famous cartoonist whose once-intelligent writing on his website has turned into nutjob click-bait after he started fantasizing about his king-maker abilities. Either he holds opinions which are far from the majority, in which case you need to explain Trump's election. Or it coincides with the majority, in which case calling the outsiders' philosophy toxic is an example of someone in a glass house throwing stones at others.
A Tour of Abstract Syntax Trees
At one point, Microsoft was reported to be earning somewhere in the neighborhood of $2B per year in revenues from IP licensing agreements with Android ODMs. I think that's largely fallen away now, but it's not as if Microsoft didn't get a pound of flesh from this platform, commercially.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per...
Not sure why you're downvoted because it's a perfectly reasonable question.

Rust's safety guarantees are mostly there to prevent you from making a certain class of coding errors. "unsafe" means that you've disabled those protections, but that just means that you have to be extra careful not to make those mistakes, and that people reviewing your code need to spend extra time to make sure that you haven't made those mistakes.
I never understood why they didn't allow duplicate questions. It provides a fresh prespective and a new updated way to solve a question.
I tend to type Ctrl-C then a command. Ctrl-C clears the line for you, so you can be sure that you are starting on a fresh line.
They don't, and it is (or should be) considered bad practice for functions, in general, to take/return smart pointers. Normally these should only be used as variables or class members; functions, on the other hand, should take/return raw pointers (except some special cases) or, better yet, references (except when there is a need to check for null value).
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This is more a reflection of where the compiler is at, not the language. As a compiled, strongly-typed language without a GC, there is no theoretical reason why Rust could not be faster than C++. As the use of MIR and HIR (two intermediate languages used within the compiler) increases more optimizations taking advantage of the memory model could be added.

In the current state, much of that work is left to LLVM which is designed more around the C/C++ memory model and only some of the ownership and aliasing information can be represented in that form.

I am not arguing that Rust is faster now, only that it can be without fundamentally changing the language.
CodeCarbonCopy: transferring code from donor application into a recipient [pdf]
That's Huffington Post level of reporting.
Search, actually, hidden within the browser, aka 'navigational queries'. Significant portion of all search queries are just that.
Acer, HP, and Alcatel still make them. Microsoft doesn't make any and Windows Phone 8 is dead, I think.
The Drug-Maker's Guide to the Galaxy
One question seems to have been left unexplored: why did the stoppage stop? Could it have been that police themselves observed by the drop in crime how superfluous or even deleterious their usual contributions to society must be? "We've got to get back to work, or else there will be much less work to get back to!"
There’s at least one product trying to address the issue with “valid, but probably wrong” typos. It’s called Grammarly and for some unfathomable reason it gets advertised to me a lot on YouTube whenever Google detects I’m in South Korea; I believe they are seriously mistargeting their marketing efforts.

(That said, if it were me, I’m not sure if I would give up typing doe snot every once in a while.)
I get the others but why "unreleased policy"? The public will find out what the policy is so whats the point?
The expensive parts of cars have little direct relation to their size. Body panels are cheap, transmissions/airbags/brakes not so much.

Which is why SUV's are so profitable as their markup relates to perception not cost.
Piwik[0] is the most "plug-and-play" alternative I'm familiar with.

[0] https://piwik.org/
Police need to be a part of and work with communities. One of the problems with the Ramboification of the police is that everyone is treated as a criminal. Officers are always looking for evidence of some crime, and can't wait to use whatever new toys they have picked up from the military. This leads to communities not wanting the police around which then leads to more serious crime.

An example situation might be a person who sees some neighbor waving a gun around and generally being pretty dangerous. That person should call the police, but since that person likes to smoke pot every once in awhile they will probably not call the police out of fear that they will end up who one being harassed and treated as a criminal. The police and DAs have made it such that it is in everyone's interest to never speak to the police, and that is how policing fails.

Admittedly not all police officers are like I describe above, but since you'll never know who you will interact with you have to assume they are one of the bad ones. I once had a police officer acquaintance and even he would tell me stories how he would never want to be pulled over by some of the guys he worked with.

Finally, I'm not sure how society comes back from this mistrust. Once trust is broken it is so hard to regain. Body cameras can help, but then you see the above where they are turned off.
It’s not only developers (although that was a HUGE Robles and also one of the big two problems with WebOS).

Every time they made a huge change in the OS (for the better) basically none of the existing phones go it. So every time they updated they were basically throwing away the previous platform. If apps weren’t compatible (I don’t know) they may have been resetting that as well.

Combined with how late they were to the party that was just a death sentence.
Grayscale Image Compression with Zpaq (2015)
> The difference is merely a philosophical one

NO. They can be very different practically.

For example, your Android phone/router contains open source software pieces (and very likely have GPLv2 licensed code). You get the source code of those, but you may not be able to change them. So yes, they are open source, but not free software.

Open source means the code is open, and you can do anything with the code (licensing restrictions implied). Free software extends that further to have freedom to run modified code on the same device[0] (See freedom 1 and its explanation: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish). This is a very important distinction between free software and open source software.

This was one of the primary reasons why GNU GPLv3 was introduced.

So in many occasions, open source != free software.

[0]https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
Not attacking you but you've lost me. How does switching to chip+pin at the gas pump instead of zip code cost "salaries of people" or "risk of physical assault"? There might be a cost to upgrade the panels to read the chip but they need upgraded anyway with electro-mechanical locks to prevent skimmers anyway. There are also savings in police, courts, incarceration, etc. This won't stop all obviously, but there is a subset of criminals who perform CC fraud because it is so easy and hard to get caught.
I, and it seems a few others in this thread, like our Windows phones. It's the only Microsoft code I have running, actually.
Also, Adam Smith's theories assume rational actors. Humans aren't rational, they are emotional and rationalizing.
Is there anything free that doesn't have a 15min delay?
I mean, yeah, but China is now economically on par with the West. On a PPP, they're on par or even larger than the US. And they're export-driven with questionable policies themselves.

I think they can take care of themselves now and follow trade policies which are fair.
Mozilla: Firefox 57 is so fast we're calling it Firefox Quantum
not really contributing to the discussion mate.
Its analytics, its a good product, people use it because its convenient.
What bearing does it have on the words in the article?
To me, and obviously I think it is the appropriate attitude for others to have, too, but of course I'm not trying to force that on anyone.
How is it better than TCMalloc? (If it isn't, it probably should be replaced by TCMalloc.)
No it didnt... but I started from a fresh profile and I thought that it was why
It would be kind of cool to see a `go gen`-syntax based Go + generics implemented in Rust. Another thing that has been attempted is a stdlib for Rust that uses syscalls into the kernel much like Go's.
I don’t know how it could. It doesn’t matter how nice it is the app ecosystem is too important and they’d be light years behind.

If they emulated Android (like Blackberry)... why not just buy an android phone?
He is putting 150M of his own to start the fund. Also, closing a fund because it's not providing the expected returns is not the same as closing a fund because you are -30%.
Google Chrome Offers WebVR Support for Surfing Using Daydream VR Headset
As someone who got caught up in the OUYA craze, nah that's not why it bombed. A console will probably do fine with just indies. What will kill it is a company that continues to not fix problems, act like everything is "rock star awesome" all the time, and pretend like they're some buddy of yours instead of be responsible.

OUYA just continued to piss me off by not even bothering to make sure their experience was good and brushing it off by doubling down on marketing on how cool they were. They slapped android on a Tegra and called it "good." At no point did they try to unify the controller api, yet they claimed to support multiple brands/types of controller. It was on the dev to map each one when they can't even predict every brand. I had controllers work in one game but not the next! That's unforgivable. Either handle an SDL2_Gamepad style mapping at the ENV/system level or just say you only support OUYA controllers.

When they were getting complaints about overscan (ugh, why do we still need to deal with this (aside: holy crap iPhone X, not you too!)), they elected to just force-scale the UI down by an inch (memories of PS2) and again tell the devs to just deal with overscan themselves on a game-by-game basis. A good solution would have been to make overscan a system setting that the games could query ("oh, btw, your display area is actually 1900x1000, offset by 9px left, 25px down").

This pattern of "slap a fix on it, and then plug your ears and yell 'LALALA'" was what killed it, and probably all other attempts at an indie console for a while. Hopefully the world has forgotten the OUYA enough that this has a chance.

I mean OUYA didn't even have a useful recovery partition COME ON.
Where is all this epistemological sophistication when we're discussing crime statistics that favor more draconian police tactics?
I just installed it and my .Net Core 2.0 Application worked instantly, so far I am very pleased with the performance.

One big plus I see in Rider is the same Git Integration they use in PHPStorm. In Vistual Studio Git was always a bit of a second class citizen because of TFS
What is the advantage of obscuring the algorithms used to detect fraud? (I.e. is this not just security by obscurity?)
PostgreSQL 10: Transaction traceability with txid_status(…)
No remote working solution comes close to in-person collaboration, in my opinion. I can explain someone something in probably less than half the time in person than over some electronic link-up.

I'm not sure what it is (lack of body language? Lack of shared physical presence and tools?) or if it can be remedied by better technical solutions (it's possible), but it's the reality right now.
This only matters because a measure of blame is assigned to the victims. Even if we switch the words around and call it bank fraud, individual whose identity was copied will still be the one to endure the pain and effort of putting their affairs back in order.
Website isn't clear, is Windows supported?
Wow. You somehow made it worse!
I wonder what's the backend of this app. BuiltWith doesn't detect much.

Edit - I really like the simplicity of search box (no JS):

<form class="search" action="/search" method="get">
<input name="query" placeholder="Search" type="search" required>
<button type="submit"><svg> ..search icon.. </svg></button>
</form>