skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if shots were really fired, what kind of a strategy is to shoot anyone in sight? How do you know it's a perpetrator and not an escaped hostage?
I believe his point to be that there is zero oversight on when SWAT is deployed, remember the police made the choice to go in guns blazing ready to shoot people. The fact that a choice like that can be made without strong justification is pretty horrifying.
Why didn’t the article cover the wolf’s attempts to hack his diet to extend his life?

Was he on a life-extending keto diet, practicing intermittent fasting, or using Soylent as part of a calorie-reduction diet? What apps did he use?
Building on your "lack of charging infrastructure," I think it's worth noting that there has been a huge shift from owning to renting in the last decade or so. It's easy to add an electric charger to a house you own, but if you rent the house or apartment, it's not going to happen.

If you live in a newer apartment building, you might get lucky and they'll have chargers in the parking garage. But when I lived in such a building in Chicago, the chargers were ALWAYS full. It was a large building, and there were probably 40 or 50 of them across a five-story garage.
Except if you use the metric of murder or violent crime instead of gun deaths you find that there its much more complicated

Vermont = lots of guns and safe

Louisiana = lots of guns and unsafe

Hawaii = not so many guns and safe

Illinois = not so many guns and unsafe...
I don't know anything about pot, but it's pretty evident that conducting controlled studies hasn't been terribly easy, so maybe as that becomes more of a possibility, we'll learn something.
Also Emilio Estevez's character in Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
> For more than a decade, after "growing up" in what was essentially the computer underground, I've been grappling with discomfort about the way technology blunts and abstracts consequences.

Me too. I often wonder how much worse the results of a modern-day Milgram experiment might be.

This is one of those things that keeps me up at night. I've instructed my wife and children that if police ever come banging on the door, get on the floor, face away from any entry points, call 911 immediately and negotiate compliance over the phone.
The whole point of depraved heart murder is to put intent aside and refer back to mere actions. I can already read the statement of the swatter claiming his intent was to pull a prank on a loose friend. Follow the reasoning in Maldonado and you are not getting anywhere near depraved heart murder.
> Leninism had a lot of adherents because it had actually worked on multiple occasions

Leninism, like traditional western capitalism, “worked” at displacing a pre-capitalist elite with a new elite and industrializing pre-industrial societies, and largely in the process replicated the key problems associated with western capitalism identified in works like Marx’s Capital, which is why post-Leninist Marxist critics of Leninism often call that system a “state capitalism”.

Leninism didn't however, “work” at solving any problem for which the Left didn't have a clear, well-established working solution before Lenin, and I don't think the Left (outside of the Leninist part, which just ignores the problem and pretends that Leninism is perfect) yet has a theory of how to move on from a Leninist society that doesn't run through capitalist democracy on the route to anything else. Leninism is an unproductive dead-end for the Left.
This is not (only) about being green. Electric cars are a pleasure to drive, they are less costly to maintain and repair (far less moving pieces), they are cheaper to run (at least in Europe, don't know in the US), and you can charge them at home (this is more of an advantage in the US than in Europe).

Even the most anti-green buyers will prefer electric vehicles in ~10 years (if no sooner)
I'm overall quite pleased with my Copperhead phone, and very much appreciate getting actual OS updates.

I have one issue however that I thought I'd put out there from a customer service standpoint. If you buy a phone from them, you pay what seems to me like a nice premium (Pixel XL $1,269.00; though it's hard to find a good comparison point), and it comes with a service plan. Copperhead (as I understand) takes stock AOSP and (among other things) swaps out some of the default applications. Notably, the SMS application is something called Silence (silence.im).

Here's the issue. I've had a problem or two with Silence, and I contacted their customer support. They suggested trying other SMS apps to see if that solved my problem, which is in itself fine. However, at that point they closed the issue, because they claim that they're not responsible for 3rd party apps, even ones that they bundle and (I presume) update with system upgrades. The reason given is that they don't control the source for those, unlike the OS. I don't accept this at all. I paid a good premium (unless I'm mistaken) for the phone, I expect a _working phone_. This, these days, includes a functioning SMS client. How they go about making that happen is _their_ responsibility. They can work with me to find a suitable replacement, they can submit a pull request or a bug report, etc. But I argue they should consider the issue open until it's fixed or I decide it doesn't matter.

Anyway, not a big deal, I worked around it. Perhaps if I pressed enough they would have been okay with me returning the thing on these grounds, but it's nowhere near worth it. I just disagree with their philosophy on this issue. I understand it must be _really_ hard to deal with all this as such a small operation. But then they should put this point in big bold letters when you buy it, or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> the Fermi Paradox.

I think this applies to that theory only if we assume an evolution of strong small group tribal mentality of species in all cases. For all we know, that could be a requirement for intelligent high-technology using life, but there's not a lot of facts about that to my knowledge.
Yet you are arguing grunt work shouldn't exist and the fact it does means you should automate it. This may just be a sore point for me because of the number of times I've had to clean up messes created by people with the "automate all the things" attitude when they automate something they really, really shouldn't have.

Countering my point by claiming you should automate and then backtracking with "Well, not everything" isn't particularly productive tbh.
DIY House building can save a lot of money and a higher quality build at least in the uk
In the cities I've lived in over the last 15 years, probably 90% of the taxis have been hybrid. I've seen FedEx, and even Coca-Cola running electric delivery trucks in urban areas.

I think a wholesale shift from gas/diesel to electric is a long way off, but certainly it seems that electric/hybrid is the end of compressed natural gas vehicles.
Hey man. In case you see this, you might consider contacting Go Public (CBC News) about this: gopublic@cbc.ca

In addition, the Law Society of BC offers half-hourly consultations for $25, it's called the Lawyer Referral Service.
Plus the electricity in France is enviably green:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#/media...
Thank you, I also decided to send the results to Massachusetts General Hospital to get a second opinion from one of the world's leading experts on this subject. http://www.massgeneral.org/second-opinions
I think those are the money quotes right there. It's important to remember that there are many people that can remember life before the internet, and had to learn as they went, and those are the people that the younger ones that grew up with the internet saw as elders and the people who set norms.

As someone who has been using the internet since before the existence of the World Wide Web, the younger generations who came along happily ignored many of the preexisting norms and groupthinked/made up their own.

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

What's more, this sort of thing happened again and again in smaller, less global contexts. Programming is termed "half a field" by Alan Kay because it forgets its own history. There is a tremendous tendency for human society online to re-invent its own body of knowledge whole cloth, ignoring what has come before in a way that further propagates ignorance.
This is actually not an uncommon occurrence: a Canadian citizen sued TD after his bank accounts were closed in 2012: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/montreal-man-b...
So very sorry (and depressed) to say, but there are some sound and scientifically based metrics that show that it does work. I know. You and I can't imagine it. Personally; I think that it can't possibly be bringing in as much money as they spend. But whatever.
Do you believe what you are saying?
Of course. I just thought a discussion would be useful to reference in the feature request if there was voiced support for this idea.
I can't comment on the latter though it may be dangerous to operate machinery or drive just like that's true with SSRIs. Then again, the same might be true with an upper, like Ritalin, or anti psychotics. But the reverse could also be true. Someone with f.e. ADHD who uses Ritalin might be able to be a better driver _due_ to the Ritalin.

As for the former,

1) its widely documented and I can personally attest that marihuana caused anxiety attacks, including one clear case of a psychosis, in numerous occasions.

2) It is also known that people who suffer from schizophrenia should stay clear from marihuana. The same's true if they have a relative who suffers from schizophrenia. Why? Elevated risks to trigger a schizophrenic episode

3) I worked in a Dutch coffeeshop and know that, to put it black-and-white: sativa gets one high, while indica gets one stoned. There's also a lot of hybrids though, as well as some conflicting info. Decent website is Leafly [1]. I was wary to give tourists sativa, as well as spacecakes which we also sold. I recommended them different things instead (including: not buying). My boss didn't give a shit though, as long as people were 18+.

For a good movie about the subject of drug-induced psychosis, see "Das weisse Rauschen" (The White Sound) [2]. Although in this movie the drug which causes the trigger is "magic mushrooms" this movie still takes a good shot at what a drug-induced psychosis could look like.

[1] https://www.leafly.com/

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276617/
80% of drivers think they are better than average.
Something to keep in mind.
Do your best to avoid pissing off or making yourself known to crazies, and do your best to make sure that any actions that might piss off crazies or make you a public figure can't be traced back to an address.

It's not a great solution, and there might be other ways, but this would be the common advice. It's not exactly feasible all the time though.
No, that's not the point of depraved heart murder. It's a culpable state-of-mind standard that requires the prosecution to prove that the defendant acted with "utter disregard" for human life. The predicates are (1) a set of reckless actions that were likely to put lives at risk and (2) a total indifference, unmitigated by any actions whatsover to prevent harm, to the prospect of causing harm.

Read the case you just cited. It overturns a depraved indifference conviction and so goes deep into the details on this.
I know, author of tampermonkey is waiting for this https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=471801 to be implemented. As for the extension that's up to you :) you can just post it on github and not to the store.
Teleport: Modern SSH server for clusters and teams
Although the toxicity that is a regular and observable part of the CoD community is awful, I'm having trouble coming around to many of the comments who view the caller as of equal responsibility as the police.

911 is an open API with no authentication. It cannot possibly prove guilt. Therefore, in a society which values innocence absent proof of guilt, police are bound to treat anyone they encounter by dint of information from 911 as innocent.

Also, it is not unlawful to carry a firearm in the USA nor in Kansas. Therefore, even if this person had been wielding a firearm, they are still to be regarded as innocent.

I'm actually of the mind that it makes sense to intentionally subject 911 to incorrect information (like we do with the TSA) in order to audit and pentest it.

We need a society where incorrect information given to open, authless APIs never leads to anyone's death.

And in fact, in this case, the officer who fired a weapon is, to my way of thinking, the only person at fault for this murder.

The caller is certainly an asshole and is even culpable for homicidal intent, but I don't think that their conduct is tantamount to murder - more like involuntary manslaughter. After all, with the exact same intent and the exact same conduct, they can reasonably expect that the other party is killed only a very small percentage of the time, and in every such case there is another more directly culpable party.

I'm also concerned, despite solid reasoning from many other commenters here, that any deference to the police officer in the form of pointing to mistaken information is a roadblock to advocacy of police reform.

In short: when the state murders someone, it's the state's fault. It doesn't make for a peaceful and just society to hold the state to the same low standard we hold some idiot CoD player.
Let's hope so! :-)
It's kinda funny, I worked for years as an artist and never used paper and then I became a programmer and I'm drowning in paper. I use post-it notes, notebooks, and loose sheets of paper to track progress, work through concepts, sketch layouts, etc...

I'm not sure what it would take to replace that. Working on paper allows me to disconnect from the digital world and concentrate on logic, it also allows me to organize my information physically.

Maybe a very advanced augmented reality system could offer me everything there plus the ability to hang my post-it notes in mid-air. I'd give that a whirl.
Depending on how you feel about “law enforcement” and wether we need such an armed military police I will just point out that constitutionally the only law enforcement agent recognized by the constitution is the sherrif. Anything else is...
Your LEAF is a golf cart. Leaf people are gay.
You make a very important, and often overlooked point: Social skills vary from culture to culture. Make sure to research this from the context of your culture and location.
You might enjoy this tongue-in-cheek 'Test Drive of a Petrol Car' written by a Swedish Tesla owner back in 2015

http://teslaclubsweden.se/test-drive-of-a-petrol-car/
Is there a specific reason you bought a second car? Because the real zero pollution option here is not buying another car.
So, I wonder, what's the problem? There's been some talk about this for years.

The British already have some projects underway to build there quite soon, example: http://www.forewind.co.uk/projects/dogger-bank-creyke-beck.h...
Move to a country that doesn't send storm troopers trained to kill you at the slightest 'provocation' (and often without) based on a single phone call from a blocked number, and then later exhonorate your killer?
As both an interface (including actively functional, not just passive, e.g. mark-up) and a data store, it still has advantages.

Of itself, and in the way we function, cognitively (e.g. spacial orientation).

P.S. Thank god they still haven't managed to make it blink at me. Harry Potter and his animated pictures, be damned! ;-)
This article's giving me the heebie-jeebies.
Also, assuming we're talking about rest mass, since without that distinction the word mass is ambiguous in accelerated contexts.
High leverage, compounding learning, exponential growth, high impact work, high priority, fast paced, focus on value, larger time blocks, ever deeper flow, prioritization for higher leverage, faster deployment, faster tools, shorter iterations, skyrocketing productivity, scale impact beyond confines, impact scaling, time saving, shorter loops, faster tests, shorter compiles, mastered tools...

Does any of this seem a bit Shepard Tones to anyone else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsBanpBQj0k

(ever-ascending-tones audio illusion)
3 Brain Technologies to Watch in 2018
Well first, football trainers in highschool and college would face a lot of lawsuites, supporting and even causing death threatening concussions on innocent teens. Which would lead to reforms, like amateur boxing helmets. Which would not be enough, given the football rules and mindset.
But loosing the support from amateur sports would lead to less support in the professional killing game. Mom's have a lot of power.
I don't want to be the defense lawyer for the police but all the Silicon Valley and other office workers on good life always criticizing every move police makes should show an example and become a cop. And show how it's done. Make a sacrifice and show what's the right way.
Ask HN: How was 2017? What do you plan on doing to make 2018 better?
I just wanted to pose a question for some honest reflection. What did you do right this year? What did you do wrong? How are you going to approach next year? Are there any challenges you’d like to take on?
My mom rented out a concrete slab in her backyard in August to a few guys living in a RV. They have access to the garage which has water and a full bathroom. And I ran electric and Ethernet to their RV.

They are not supposed to come into the main house without knocking. They do not have keys.

It is like pulling teeth to get them to pay rent and utilities. They hit one of the peoples car that lives inside the main house and refused to fix the broken taillight. The part is 40 bucks and I can replace it. But they refuse.

And this has escalated over the last few weeks. The police have been called three times over the RV guys behavior. I told my mom to get a restraining order to get them out fast but for some reason refuses.

So the eviction process has started. And they were not happy. I was there the other day and was getting the space heater in the bathroom going so the pipes don't burst and overheard them saying that when they leave they should, "SWAT the bitch".

And my mom rents out a room to a forty year old guy on disability that they say has a mental capacity of a 12 year old. He is somewhat impulsive. If the cops poured in he would not understand what is going on and would probably get shot.

I went with my mom to the police station to tell them what I overheard. So hopefully before they send a SWAT team a note pops up that they were warned about this and it is probably false.
You remind me of my mother, she was as summer of 68 as you could get- in full blown constant denial of the human reality.
We were not allowed to have guns and swords, or play violent games - outside, computer games where the devils play anyway.
Guess what, we made them from sticks and stones, and fought anyway.

This is the best you will get- meaning the hostile part of humanity encapsulated. This is a golden era, normally these guys would be out there to get you.

And sorry, but the world you wish for sounds kind of dystopian to me too. So frozzen, free of any conflict and thus development, a humanity so flawless that nobody needed advances anymore. Sitting there, throwing the dice of beeing to nice a million times, until the one in a billion event strikes and it all vannishes in a puff of suprised helplessness.
What a nightmare.

Im happy your inability to grasp the human condition also renders you unable to effectively do anything about it.

Game theory states that only second return prank call capability can deter first strikes. So i guess its robo-call swatting all the way.
Dated 18 January 2017, almost a year ago (but not quite long enough to add it to the title) so some info might be out of date.
except we designed the justice system so that it's better to let 10 guilty people go than let 1 innocent person suffer

the rest of your comment just sounds ridiculous, hurting the world? im sure you realize not everyone else has the same attitude and arent going to throw away their livelihood because of a false accusation. that's not moral high ground, its just pathetic
Prosecutors will get to describe the crime in any frame they choose, and a jury of humans will get to decide whether it's murder.

Assuming this player is in an extraditable country, I predict he's going to rot in jail for the rest of his life. It's not like he was playing CoD through TOR. He won't be hard to find.
There’s no lack of “tastemakers” in music. The problem is the absolute flood of garbage produced in bedroom studios. Cutting through the noise to find what’s good has become near impossible for everyone. Popular music used to focus on scenes, the internet made sure to stomp that into the dirt.

During the rise of Napster we all liked to paint the record labels as evil. What we all failed to realize was how important labels were to seeking out and developing new talent. We’ve seen the last Bowie or Radiohead for a very long time.
Wow! That surprises me. I'm a guy and I actively think about the environment. But ive never been concerned about appearing unmanly because of this.

I think most of my guy friends are similar. Based on this, I question the robustness of the survey. I know my friends and I are a small sample size. But the article referenced a small study size too.
Thank you for stating your opionion here.

Actually, I think removing Google services by default is not what we have in mind here. So we are okay that most users like Android as it is. Well, I think many of them just don't know which information Google collects and if they would learn about, some would not want to share that information either, but that is something everyone has to care for themselfs.

We just want the options to opt-out of every Google service easily and use alternatives (without having to flash custom roms) and to have up-to-date kernels and drivers. So having closed source drivers actually reduces the security (missing updates after a few month) and life time aspects of the product (the device). With the Android market domination Google has, it could easily force the hardware manufacturers to produce devices with open source drivers.
How Ripple could succeed but XRP be worth nothing
I think gasoline engines will stick around much longer than most people expect. They are a known commodity and many people have invested time and money into learning how to operate and maintain them. For example it's been brutally cold where I live lately and I know my gasoline engine works just fine in these conditions. If it fails to crank I know how to jump start it. I know to let it warm up a bit before turning high RPMs. I don't know anything about how electric cars would fare in these cold conditions. They may work just fine too but I have no experience to back that up. I'll learn at some point but a lot of people never will.
The third factor is legal system that rarely if ever punish officers while being eager to punish anyone else suspect.

What incentive the department has to promote training that leads to less violence? It seems to be very little. They have trainings that makes cops more paranoid, more afraid and more aggressive (per Radley Balko reporting). It is not poor training as in "little of it". It might be result.of training itself.
This is physics, we're clearly assuming a perfectly spherical human with lossless and instantaneous modes of travel.
How many companies ignore your projects’ business impact when evaluating performance? I’d guess none.
Given that it's a used car, and under the assumption that every electric km driven is displacing a fuel km driven, why would this be true?
In other words we are now optimizing for people who have talent AND are good self promoters....rather than just talent. Record labels, at one point, excelled at identifying and developing talent. I’m not convinced that this brave new world for the music industry is any better.