skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any data on police shootings of concealed carry permit holders? Also any data on how many concealed carry permit holders actually shoot police?

Hint: practically zero.

Making a correlation between concealed carry and shootings is beyond ridiculous — there is zero data supporting such conclusions.
Propaganda can be used for good. A lot of the stories that children are told by their parents and teachers when they were young are based on the same principals as propaganda. Propaganda is just done on a larger scale.
Like this one where Maria Ressa, without further investigation, just published the news. Months later it was found out that the one who killed the guy was an assassin from the drug syndicate.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/185962-pieta-michael-siaron-d...
IPOL Journal – Image Processing on Line
name one consumer sales startup other than Amazon
> "And we're going to keep having these meetings, until we figure out why nothing's getting done around here"

Do you work with me?

I've been fighting this battle for the last 3 months. They've added almost an hour of meetings every morning at 9am. Half the office shows up at 8:30. That's enough time before the meeting to check email and get coffee, so essentially no work starts until 10. At 10 they get back to their desks, there's a bit of whining about whatever management has changed that day and how stupid the meetings are, some email correspondence and by 11 nothing is done and they go to lunch. They get back by 11:30-12 and finally start doing work. So your 8 hour workday turns into maybe 4 hours of real labor time, and no one works 100% of that.
anybody with links to the db?
Thanks, I stand corrected. It seems Perl has everything!
Multi material in single print with Stacker S4 – finished part
I don't think the photographer would say that the polar bear should convince anyone that climate change is occurring. Instead, they assume that reasonable people are already convinced, and are trying to demonstrate a reason one should care.
I too wish that we could basically get all amateur drivers off the roads and replace them with with automated electric cars.

But there are problems. One of the issues with self driving cars is that traffic will probably go up because all elderly people (as well as disabled) can now buy a self driving car.

Cars are a major source of freedom for people, so trying to restrict what you can do with them is going to be political suicide.

One of the things I thought about was only allowing professional (i.e. taxi, bus, lorry) and automatic cars on motorways. This should reduce accidents on motorways to almost zero which certainly here in Belgium is a massive cause of economic loss through time wasted stuck in traffic. But even this I doubt is possible. You'd have to have some massively expensive / privacy invading system to police it.
There will always be terrible things happening in the world. That doesn't mean we should only work on those problems at the expense of everything else.
> one of the main tasks of a technical manager is to set conventions

I'd be more inclined to say one of the main roles any manager is facilitation more than anything else.
Any manager that "sets convention" is somebody who wants the easy part of technology without the corresponding hard part.

Talking about technical solutions is easy. Implementing it is much harder.

I've come across multiple "technical managers" who were hands on with code greater than x years ago and they always end up talking out of their arse.
And that's not to mention the numerous wrong choices they've committed to/spoke about at a high level meeting with zero notion.
What's changed in this advisory since it was first issued November 20? Just more vendor links?
The problem is: if you remove yourself, it's still going on back home. It's probably better to stay where you have some power to try to change it for everyone's good, particularly when foo is something like climate that affects the whole world. (or that's what I tell myself when Canada beckons)
Isn't this:

> Massive differences in productivity are possible depending on how individuals work together on a team.

Addressed by this:

>> Exceptions I've seen are with mature and well-bonded teams working on familiar scope they understand clearly, with a timeline they themselves defined.

?
The name mangling is part of the ABI. It's super complicated in C++ because the functions can be overloaded and have variable amount of arguments. The rules are compiler and version and flags specific.

P.S. Name mangling is what define that the function "int print(char*)" will become "___4print@4" in the compiled DLL. All the functions in a DLL are listable and have a name, that's how they are found.
Depends where their electricity is coming from, doesn't it?
If the guild of professional Kobe beef ranchers were given government authority to fine anyone who referred to non-kobe cow meat as “beef”, would it be right?
Yep, Python made me productive, Java made me collaborative but only Scheme made me understand.

(In fact it's another way around : I learned basic at 10, assembly at 14, pascal at 16 then I learned Scheme (continuations, tunks, parallelism, etc) at 22 at university and realized "now I understand what I've been doing the last 10 years)
Some Musings on Capsule Networks and DLPaper2Code
I truly hope you’re paid for this, and not a true believer.
Jony Ive back as design lead at Apple
My theory: Patreon doesn’t want to be a money services business
Well, yes it can be pointed out as bias like any other news out there but "Very dishonest ..."?

As other media organization have reported, in case you're interested:
https://newrepublic.com/article/138952/rodrigo-dutertes-army...
http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017...
Jocko Willink podcast http://jockopodcast.com on discipline, leadership. I am trying to follow some of his leadership ideas and started to do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and take care of my body.
I think people equate Bitcoin with the blockchain and by that understanding I think the parent poster is correct. The current blockchain doesn't scale and isn't suitable for every tiny transaction.
That is a very astute observation and I do agree with it. I would argue though, that a lot of mediocre people are actually very smart, but have been trapped under micromanagement all their lives. As a result, they constantly expect to be told what to do. They have the ability to think cogently, but believe it imprudent to do so. I've hired a couple of "non-performers" in my firm from corporates, and once they've been thrown in the deep end a couple of times, they're actually pretty productive.

To be honest, my own senses were numbed by being a yes-man at a corporate job. My job title made it sound like I ran the world, but much of the work I was made to do was simply idiotic. And I was very happy to toe the line because it was easy, you could always spread blame and I didn't have to think much. Then I realised I have a limited amount of time on this planet and decided to do something more useful with my time...
Let’s see if this has impact on the MacBook Pro Design. Maybe we get MagSafe back?
I must admit I smiled when I read your rejoinder because you nailed me and I had it coming.
man you're destined for failure. you ask for advice and someone actually takes time to give you very good advice and you not only once but twice behave defensively. I'm in the same position as you and I'm going to implement literally every single thing sogen recommended because I don't care about being wrong I care about succeeding.
There are enough videos on the internet where exactly this happens to US officers. I don't want to link any because they are often very graphic but you can find one in 10 seconds on youtube.

I dare you to find a single article about something like this from Germany or even the EU.
Really? My position is that the 2nd amendment is one of the best ideas in the US Constitution.
>Take tests for example: blindly going for coverage metrics will be much less effective...

I agree. However, this is about tools and processes, so it's not really relevant to my argument, which is that you shouldn't explicitly deprioritize tools and processes.

>I don't understand your last statement.

I'm making fun of people who cargo cult 'agile'. Actually standing up is the least important feature of stand ups. Sitting down during a stand up and seeing people's reactions is is a good litmus test. It highlights those people who put a great emphasis on non-functional rituals.
One view of management is that it's about making sure the cogs of the machine are completely interchangeable. Everything is uniform, orderly, perfect. Everyone is replaceable. No one's contribution can be distinguished from that of any other. Everything must be measurable and measured. See how the graphs in our status updates always show progress!

This is actually an extremely inefficient and demoralizing environment for those involved. Yeah, it's easy to take over when someone leaves, because they were so hamstrung by the environment that they never built anything interesting. And you're going to be doing a lot of this taking over, because people are always leaving, because they were hamstrung. So this idea that we can't trust individuals to stick around and do a good job, and we have to make sure they never have enough power to do damage when they make a mistake, it's a self fulfilling prophecy. It makes them untrustworthy and drives them away.

It really is about ownership. Programmers who are achieving at a high level move much faster and do much greater things. It's worth letting them make mistakes to retain the best people and get their best work. The only catch is figuring out how to keep them accountable for their decisions. OK, you want to use this new tech or try this new architecture. How do we tie your compensation and career progress to the success of those decisions?
> Are you from Philippines? From what I know people there

Is his argument invalid if he's not in the Philippines, but yours isn't?

> If you are in US I can't see how can you criticise him given that death penalty is quite widespread there

Because maybe he doesn't support the death penalty in the US either.

> and a lot of times the trial is a farce especially if you are black.

As compared to the trials in the Philippines? Here's what it looks like:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/07/world/asia/ro...
There's a lengthy line between condemn and condone. One of the police shootings I find completely and absolutely condemnable is that of Charles Kinsey in Florida [1]. And that was perhaps a nervous breakdown of the officer. Apparently when asked why he shot his immediate response was, "I don't know." In this (Daniel Shaver) video, I think you have to consider the context. If this was a normal scenario and this guy was being arrested for e.g. drunken disorderly/theft or something of the sort, then I think murder charges would be completely in order here. However, that's not the context. Let's say you receive multiple reports of a person pointing a rifle outside a hotel window. How are you going to perceive the situation? I find it difficult to imagine many scenarios other than somebody planning to engage in murder or possibly terrorism. The best case scenario would a mentally disturbed individual who is armed and likely dangerous.

Did you notice how the officer was constantly tucking himself around the corner? He had no way of knowing whether there were more individuals waiting to ambush the officers. And that is a perfectly justifiable fear given the context of this situation. And the victim in this case reached behind his back multiple times, even after being told precisely not to. He could have been reaching for a weapon or it could have been something for more dangerous - imagine he was reaching for a detonator. It's easy to condemn the police officer, but at the same time this shooting took multiple unbelievably provocative actions on part of the victim to reach this point: point rifle outside hotel room apparently in vicinity of other hotel guests, decide to reach around back when specifically told to keep hands visible, repeat that mistake and reach even more directly towards your waist. I obviously can't condone the act, but on the other hand I also can't entirely condemn it either. It's an extremely unfortunate scenario.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLd-lEFqsM
Or https://raiden.network/micro.html
If your serious about it, my recommendations would be to take it in the context of working with a mental health professional such as a licensed psychologist. That will keep it in perspective, provide a context for interpretation and a resource for discussion of the results.

Good luck.
The opposing side is currently employing a constant deluge of propaganda to push their side of the debate. Insisting that we educate all of humanity in enough science to sway them would be bringing the proverbial knife to a gunfight.
Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2018)
Check NCBI and Pubmed. There's a lot going for ketosis and certain vegetarian diets, backed by good research.

Not saying there aren't an abundance of diet fads that find roosts the minds of uncritical hopefuls (like anything else, really), but being more conscious of what you eat and how you feel is a good thing. If the diet seems zany and tenuous but promotes portion control and variety to people who've been feeding themselves and their families out of cans and whatever is closest and cheapest, I'd tolerate if not encourage their new interest.

Some people's enthusiasms are just difficult to put up with day in and day out, whatever they might be. But in the grand scheme of it, I'd rather they be obsessed with salads than Scentsy.
Is this something you have to switch on? Oneplus3t here, I am not aware of this feature. Thanks
Where can I download this dump so I can find out if any of my accounts are in it?
I found the explanation from the Immutable JS presentation easier to understand when talking about Immutable data structures [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/I7IdS-PbEgI?t=5m7s
If humanity decides to walk the path of the worser tech, you can build a metropolis from diamond and light elsewhere as much as you want- nobody is going to migrate. They are going to pay outrageous sums, to upgrade the path the group is already heading down, the will pay to bribe and cast aside tech that holds them back. Alternative standards, no matter how pure and clean from a technical point of perspective, will be ignored.

Linux vs Windows allover, in fintech infrastructure and protocolls.
Anybody can run a lightning node. I intend to do so.

It's not like PayPal where if you want to pay using PayPal you have to use PayPal-the-company. With Lightning, if you want to pay using Lightning you can use any route you like over the Lightning Network to reach the recipient of the payment.
This is getting really, truly absurd.

Might as well trade in four-leaf clovers. They're solar generated, renewable, organic, gluten free, etc. etc. etc. And just as worthless. Let me take that back. At least clovers can be plowed back into the soil and used to improve the earth.

What the world needs is to wake up from this nonsense and get back to actually making tangible products and quit obsessing on ways to sell mindshare of fellow citizens as if it is a commodity.
Asteroid 2017 VL2 misses Earth unnoticed, by 1/3 distance to moon
Litecoin is the solution.
Bullshit. Fake news is different from bias. CNN is biased. Fox News is biased. Rappler is biased. What they don't do is pass of fake information or rumors as news, like saying "since 2016 a certain Liberal Party Senator and Maria Ressa wants total control of social media and internet." You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts.
Yes, really. One of those points where it seems to matter a lot in which culture one has been brought up.
Interface looks cool but what benefits are there over using mitmproxy?
Litecoin is the solution. It was not designed to be a Bitcoin replacement, but rather to handle this exactly.
But that breaks the value of this finely-crafted propaganda and won't help the cause, brother. You can't question the Official Narrative(tm). Now off to the re-education camp with you!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pwned/comments/7hhqfo/combination_o...
I wonder the long term effect on unpatched MEs out there.

What would a skilled attacker use it for? Hack nearby laptops of folks within the cryptocurrency world?
Any advantages over mitmproxy?
I know this, but this doesn't answer my question

Edit: do we know if economies really behave like this under these conditions? Are we really using a scientific approach on this? Or are we holding these models as divine truth?
Bookmark their comment pages.
> The value of the US dollar comes in part from our ability to pay taxes with it (and perhaps ultimately from the US military).

It doesn't come from either of those things. It only has value because people believe it does, otherwise they would all try to get rid of it as quickly as possible.
Show HN: A tool helps you do Function as a Service with painless
This is my thought as well, and I don't understand why it isn't more commonly stated. The sheer chances that the very first implementation of this technology turns out to not only be viable for long-term success, but is actually adopted as such, seems extraordinarily low.

There's what I call the "football" effect. The player jumps on the football after a fumble, and while he's the first to grab it, there's a handful of 250 pound guys about to jump on top of him.

Bitcoin is the first to the football, but over the long term I think it's going to get inevitably crushed.
Given that bitcoin can be boiled down to essentially a Chinese energy index, these two things are not unrelated.
"But in a little less perfect imaginary world, in which bad people never get the chance to hurt innocents because police stops it, some bad people might still go down resisting arrest, at which point 100% of all homicides would be police-inflicted, and that would be good. Not perfect, but better than what we have."

No, because every police killing is extra-judicial execution. Our laws don't put a capital punishment on resisting arrest, fleeing from police, reaching for a wallet, or being scary looking (i.e., black) (/s). They don't even prescribe capital punishment for most malicious acts and crimes. It's not up to police to serve as judge, jury and executioner.
Show HN: SoundCloud Player with Equalizer
There is indeed a lot of engery spent elsewhere - your comment is pure whataboutism though.

A single Bitcoin transaction currently use as much engery as energy spent in a single home for days.
It's definitely not much, but having the first google result for someones name point to a dossier with ideally:

* Name, DoB

* Some decent photos for easy identification

* Footage of them murdering someone, pages like this without solid evidence don't seem like a good thing.

* Collection of news articles, court documents

* Contact information (social media, home address(es), phone numbers)

* Employers contact information

it's not nothing.

Hopefully it'll at least hurt their future employment prospects a little, maybe make it harder for them to find a place to rent. At the very least it'll be easier for their neighbors to find out that they're living next to a killer.

Best case scenario they'll waste a lot of their time and money trying to get the site taken down via legal means. From experience I would expect many of these folks to drive themselves crazy trying to do that, generating further source material and drawing even more attention to their past.

The somewhat unlikely worst case scenario is that it simply doesn't bother them at all.
That’s just an empty sop to a blistered conscience.
> debugProxy is a HTTP/S hosted proxy server that lets you interact with the traffic passing through it, using a web based dashboard.

So, when I use your proxy you can see and store my http and https traffic (assuming I install the certificate in my device). Furthermore, all the traffic from the my pc to your proxy is also transmitted unencrypted so everyone who sits between my device and your proxy can see my traffic as well.

While this interface looks really cool and it is probably feature rich, I will pass using it because of those privacy concerns. If anyone is interested in a local http(s) proxy, check out mitmproxy[0] which is open source, runs locally and is easy to install (I’m not affiliated with them, i use use mitmproxy occasionally when Reverse Engineering am API).

[0]: https://mitmproxy.org
Ah, I did not realize that. Thanks for clarifying for me!
Git is not a purely functional data structure [1]

[1] man git-rebase
In my view Bitcoin as a very important flaw it's distribution timing it should have been scheduled with a more linear curve and to last at least 100 years so you can achieve a fairer distribution or alternatively to have a small inflation system built in.
This isn't really about evidence. It's an argument from emotion, and obviously effective.
Why Trying New Things Is So Hard to Do
Para Pemain Bintang Yang Pensiun Dini Karena Tidak Cinta Sepak Bola
Again - pure whataboutism here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

There are multiple reports now out detailing and comparing energy use of traditional transactional fiat money vs. the new schemes
This code is equivalent.
I often recommend people to read "Git Internals".
If you know how git works internally, it's much easier to understand how it works and the reasons behind it.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v1/Git-Internals
What's the definition of a processed carb? I'm scarily ignorant about this.

I feel like anything in the frozen foods / microwave it 2 mins and eat it isle probably falls into this category, but I'm not sure exactly why. Is it the enriched wheat flour? Do you know a good unbiased resource for learning about this?
Imagined scenarios shouldn't ever be used to justify lethal force. That's all there is to say.

Police probably shouldn't ever fire their weapons first...

Of course that would make being an officer slightly more physically dangerous, but only slightly. Most never have cause to fire their weapons in the line of duty anyway.
The "death squads" or criminals that you are referring too are already part of the police several presidency before Duterte took office. Some of them are involve in drugs and have been killing before Duterte came so why are you blaming the president now?
Phys.org is a dumpster fire, and the actual study is interesting.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1314

Excitons—bound states of electrons and holes in solids—are expected to form a Bose condensate at sufficiently low temperatures. Excitonic condensation has been studied in systems such as quantum Hall bilayers where physical separation between electrons and holes enables a longer lifetime for their bound states. Kogar et al. observed excitons condensing in the three-dimensional semimetal 1T-TiSe2. In such systems, distinguishing exciton condensation from other types of order is tricky. To do so, the authors used momentum-resolved electron energy-loss spectroscopy, a technique developed to probe electronic collective excitations. The energy needed to excite an electronic mode became negligible at a finite momentum, signifying the formation of a condensate.
"propaganda for a just cause"

That's a troubling turn of phrase.