skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling the house won't get the "prankster" again. If you call the house and the same person answers making the same threats, that's confirmation that the situation appears to be serious (most likely someone attempting suicide by cop though).

If the person who answers tells you that nothing is wrong, and that no one called the cops, then swat team can be a bit more careful about keeping their safeties on.
The fast way, if you can get and use Kindle for PC 1.17.1 (on filehippo, for instance), is to use that. It will download books in the traditional (usually encrypted) azw/mobi formats, which you can drag right into calibre (with the dedrm plugin). Newer KindlePC versions (1.19 and up) tend to download books in kfx format, which doesn't currently have a dedrm plugin. All kindle installers should be signed by Amazon Services, so it shouldn't be a problem getting them from a third party as long as you check the signature.

Alternatively, on the [kindle] "content and devices" webpage, if you click the three dots in the second column (I'm guessing the interface is the same for the french website), it gives you the option to individually download & transfer books via usb if you have a kindle registered to the account. If you have calibre and the apprenticealf dedrm plugin, I believe that process still works, though I haven't tried for a long time.
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is a favorite of mine.
The "two sleeps" thing is entirely about long nights far away from the equator. It never really happened in tropical climes, or during summer.

Cheap lighting has simply allowed people away from the equator to sleep in the more natural pattern, if you grant that humans are less adapted to cold climes than to tropical ones.
In germany any police shooting that results in death of a human triggers an automatic investigation.
I've heard that one way of doing this is for the seller to give the purchaser a discount coupon for 100% off
Then you tell your team there is a high likeylhood of a false call, and maybe they don't keep their fingers on hair triggers.
Without the difficulty increases you would get more blocks mined per hour as the mining hardware improves. At some point you'd have multiple chains at once that can grow quickly because its too easy to hash, so effectively forks.
> destroys Bitcoin being usable as digital cash.

So what? I value the use as store of value much higher than a cash system and I don't care if this was the initial use case. Go and find a better store of value (won't be easy) but it's easy to find another cash system (FIAT-based ones likes CCs or new upcoming ones like Stellar).
So don't put your passwords into your pastebin from your password manager.
i had a lenny bot running on my home phone line for a bit, i had an asterisk server with a whitelist ( i only get land calls from 2-3 numbers ) and recorded some hilarious calls, i even have a few from the church of scientology ( the prior owner of the number apparently was a member) and from bill collectors ( and she also owed a bunch of medical bills )
Certain political factions seem to do nothing but write articles, tell poor people that they should not fight for their self interests.

Besides the though experiment is stupid. If I was richer than John D. Rockafeller I would be using my influence to effectively fight climate change. But I'm not, because a stupid shiny gadget with a tiny screen, doesn't make you richer than John D. Rockefeller.
Most of these calls are false or inaccurate. You don't assume the worst, or you screw up just like these cops did.
Absurdly violent culture? Culture is arguably less violent than at any point in recorded human history. If anything the issue is repression of the inherently violent human tendencies. Why else would people be so fascinated by violent movies and television?
How a Star Trek card game quietly continues, 10 years after its official end
“The Evolution of LISP”, Steele/Gabriel (1993).

PDF: https://www.csee.umbc.edu//courses/331/resources/papers/Evol...

80 pages, very well written and interesting.
Very very very rarely. I've never seen or heard of anyone using either personally and I'm not even sure where I would get a check book or cash in a check.

Germany is very cash. You pay taxi in cash, you pay the restaurant in cash and you pay the train in cash. Credit Cards exist but largely the EC system is prefered since it's not credit based and pulls from your bank account instead. And I only really fall back to EC when I run out of cash and I know I'm going to be at a place that has a card reader.
That case made me quite concerned: our national wealth was actually managed by people who were as gullible as this. OK, he might have tried the old age defense: he was over 75 years old when he fell for the letter scam. And he was actually sidelined from state businesses already in 1981. But still, his arrogance was astonishing.
Low to no savings doesn't imply people can't afford insurance. You're not accounting for government aid.
So is this a good PRNG?

f(i) = SHA256(i + salt)
And yet it is a mental disorder to feel that you should have a different body in non-sexual regard. The treatment of that disorder is also not to proceed with the desired surgical alterations.
Coming Soon: Machine-Checked Proofs in Everyday Development
then apply it to a router?
Does anyone have any good books to recommend about gaming and mental health? Or, really, just gaming in general? Perhaps from a philosophical perspective?
The story goes, that allowing US military bases with nuclear wepons on greenland denmark entry into NATO without fullfilling any of the normal requirements (like military spending).

If somewhat true it was properly a better deal than selling greenland.
> For example, it doesn’t even _mention_ the diehard and dieharder tests, let alone discuss their merits

It mentions the DIEHARD test near the beginning. Try ctrl-F.
How to round up yourself as a programmer and a human being?
People passionate of programming read Hacker News. What do liberal arts people read to effortlessly serve the same purpose?
I'm not an app dev but a mere user, but I completely understand your frustrations. As a user, the discoverability of new apps is abysmal. I don't understand why Apple can't look at what Amazon etc are doing with their stores, and recommend me apps based on apps I'm using recently ? Whatever happened to Genius suggestions ? And why can't I filter for e.g. strategy games without IAP in the 5-10$ range ?

It's terrible and i can only imagine how much this hurts devs. Apple really doesn't care about the long tail.
Agreed. Though this "swatting" thing is horrifying and tragic, I think the Wichita police should shoulder most of the responsibility. Am I wrong in thinking that they could have done some reconnaissance or something? In any case, I hope they revise their procedures to give a horrible prank like this zero chance of succeeding.
Knuth is, almost universally, a joy to read.
This is HN, I’m sure there’s plenty of us who have spare unused domains that would do it.
> So, a new industry has mushroomed - people offering "investment" opportunity in bitcoin "funds". These guys are not authorized investment professionals. They collect any where between 25-50k and promise a fixed return.

So scammers are using the Bitcoin brand to attract customers?

Sounds exactly like what ICOs are doing here in the West. Except they use the word “blockchain” instead.
And don’t forget to check the bogus site. A “Maritime company strategically located in Mongolia”...
Hi Eric, are you using the Lean Startup methodology to develop this? It seems to me you're trying to solve a very big problem directly, and there is less room for iteration... Would you say that when the LTSE opens in 2018 it is an MVP and iteration will start?
Same here, Office365.
Too late for what?

What do you think will happen if a shirtless man on a porch a pulls a pistol, while you have your high powered rifle's scope locked on their chest while you are wearing body armor, positioned behind a police car, a few hundred feet away?
It also relies on this idea of an "average American" and just completely ignores the question of the working class. I think many blue collar workers would actually trade places with Rockerfeller to escape their debts, a life of hard labor, imprisonment, discrimination.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/11/that-was-typo-t...
Please don’t compare gold with bitcoin and make bitcoin look good.

How is bitcoin super reliable? Someone could buy it for 20k$ and next thing he is getting only 5k$ for it because of a crash. Or someone has hacked the exchange and it’s all gone.

How can it ever be reliable?
I guess you didn't address my main point: Why would Bitcoin be a sane store of value if other coins can fulfill the exact same niche while also being p2p digial cash? Why would you pay very high fees when you get the same features with a coin with very low fees?

For now Bitcoin is valued higher and has better liquidity than other coins but with use cases quickly moving away from Bitcoin this is changing. The only thing Bitcoin has going for it by that point is FOMO and selling to greater fools.
sounds like you are needlessly wound-up about this. it is merely a thought-experiment detailing some amusing anecdotes regarding the progress of society. your idea that this is some rebuttal to undermine the issue of inequality seems to be your strawman...if you look at it from another perspective, much of the progress addressed in the article has resulted from the democratization of economic growth
I don't know what you mean by proof, but it's filled with information that supports the claim. For example,

Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said Tel Aviv had submitted 158 requests to the social media giant over the previous four months asking it to remove content it deemed “incitement.” She said Facebook had granted 95 percent of the requests.
if you worked a job where your life is legitimately at risk then you would know that you prepare for the worst every time.
This is great! Instead of trying to be smart, Lenny capitalizes on prejudices about elderlies and possible communication factors regarding non-native call center operatives. It's more social engineering than a conversational bot. – Well done.
Well, I've heard self proclaimed libertarians say things like "taxation is theft of private property". So that's what I'm basing that on.
I think the disagreement here lies in that people think "given that the police is likely to kill someone, the person who called in an innocent man is a murderer", and I agree. However, I contend that the police should not be likely to kill someone, exactly because they might be killing innocent people. The police are the ones with guns and ostensible training.
> We know it's not guns. So what's the cause?

You misspelled “I want to believe it’s not guns.”

I am from Ukraine originally. Poverty is the reason there. So yeah let’s have that proper safety net instead.

But when we are talking about this, let’s break it down a bit between different types of violence where guns are used: police shooting suspects, gang violence, run of the mill murder, and acts of terrorism. You don’t believe that the police are shooting suspects because the officers are poor, do you? Or that the Vegas shooter was poor? Or the Sandy Hook one? Gang violence is a result of poverty, but terror attacks (the US likes to call these mass shootings when the suspect is white and/or Christian), are not.

I think it is time to repeal the second amendment. It clearly failed to create an organized militia that could stand up to an oppressive government. The US police force alone is enough to suppress any rebellion by the civilians, and if aided by the military, no militia could stand up to it. You can have gun ownership without the second amendment. Individual laws could grant access to weapons. But it is time to switch from a loophole that lets us have all the guns unless specifically disallowed by a law to a denied first, allowed second system.

Do I hear you ask about all the criminals that would keep their guns anyways, and only the law abiding citizens would be left unarmed? I will buy that argument the day it’s applied across the board to drugs and abortions.
Figure out what I can do to be happy with my career given constraints in my life and what I want from life. E.g. I could have a great career but a miserable life if I leave my family but that would make me utterly miserable and probably depressed too so is self defeating. I'm not a Steve Jobs or Elon Musk type but I can't stand just cranking out code for the next JIRA each day I need something between. 9-5 and a startup.
What happens when stock is held by a shell company (or trust fund) and its property partially changes? What happens when one LTSE form buys up part of another LTSE firm that partially owned the first one to begin with?

(I assume that rules are built with ADG in mind, general constructs are far more involved.)
How does that make Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme? A ponzi scheme is an organizational structure, not the people that exist in that organization. Bitcoin is a piece of software, and some people using that software are trying to profit. There is nothing inherent in the structure of Bitcoin that makes it a Ponzi
I have a huge conflict in my mind.

I am a firm believer is due process and equal protection under the law for all. What you are suggesting is far from it, and a far cry from the ideal.

SWAT teams, as heavily armored as they are, are still police, serving under the motto of protect and serve. If armor and automatic weapons are necessary to fulfill that goal, so be it.

But SWAT teams are fundamentally not an extrajudicial force to kill people in the middle of the night.
Precisely an example of these definitions becoming heavily politicized, to the detriment of people suffering from disorders for which it is now unfashionable to seek a therapy for. It is offensive to you because you accept it as a dogma that is not allowed to be questioned. It leads to paradoxical, irrational treatments for disorders that could otherwise be researched and their impact minimized.
I thought the same thing, but a quick search [0] seems to indicate that geometry shaders aren't available in WebGL.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8641119/webgl-geometry-s...
Creating a Responsive Dashboard in Angular 5 from Scratch
> pedantic

Think you're maybe projecting? It was meant to be a silly example and taking a super uncharitable interpretation (object x at different times or states with different masses) of my statement just to be able to pick a nit strikes me as more pedantic than responding to a request for corrections with my high school level understanding of basic units.
Wow, this really is good I started it and skimmed the rest of it the first 34 pages are explanations and algorithms of dancing links and the rest of the 130 pages is all exercises and answers to those exercises. Truly awesome, thanks again for the link.
I encourage you to come over and see how things actually go by. People are getting killed by terrorists who happen to be 16 years old kid brain-washed by the same news you and I are having an argument over. My point was that we've never demonstrated the same approach to the so-called beef. We do not go out to the streets, gun blazing, and start killing. I'm sure some of you will hop and go say "Right, you prefer to do it in the fields, with soldiers bullying and taking lands they don't own." For fuck sake, give me a break. For all I care, my neighbor could be Arab and we can be BFFs as long as the killing-spree stops.
I'm not against Palesintians, nor any Arabs. I care for my family and friends being slaughtered in our fucking streets and we have nothing to do about it.
Gait is Def cultural. My gait changed from living in America for decades. I can tell who is Indian vs American Indian just by the gait.
You've lost the element of surprise to someone who called you and asked you to send a SWAT team to their house?
Someone made a call bot called "Lenny" to fool telemarketers, which uses recorded messages. They put up their call logs on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO...
> Go and find a better store of value

Monero is far superior as it's fungible and private.

Bitcoin Cash is also technically the same as Bitcoin while being cheaper to use and by virtue of being actually useful as cash has more uses which helps price growth and liquidity.
> I suspect 1916 Rockerfeller would not want to give up his position in society even for cars with electric windows and wifi.

That is a massive assumption and given Rockefeller's personality I think it is very inaccurate to say that he cared about his social rank at all. What makes you think this way?
This comment makes me think you didn't read the article in my parent comment. Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme, it is a Nakamoto scheme.
Ask HN: Which config to choose for a new MBP?
Hey guys,

I'm thinking of getting a new Macbook Pro but can't decide which specs to bump up and whether that's even worth considering.

I'm a web dev so my usage is mostly code editors, web browser, and then I'll use Photoshop/Illustrator occasionally.

Was thinking of future proofing and going with 16gb of ram (I always have a million tabs and apps open) and keeping the base i5 processor.

Or would the upgrade to the i7 be worth it instead?

Thanks!
Does anyone know how well it works to just check to see if reviews have been posted in a short/bursty duration? I feel like most fake ones seem to be ones posted very recently or during a short time period, but I'm not sure if that just means I'm missing the rest of them or not.
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It’s almost as if the USA isn’t the only country on earth and other developed countries manage to have police forces that don’t murder their own citizens regularly.
What I got out of this article was be thankful where we all are today, and let's all work towards a better future solving hard problems. and fight for things which are good, and against things which are bad.
Actual solution or alternative: You and tons more people like you, should apply for jobs in law enforcement, work your way up into leadership, and change policy.
Lenny being 'just' a bunch of unchanging messages in unchanging order made it all the funnier and more amazing to me (and it was completely brilliant before I realised).

I remember first seeing it a while ago, posted here, ironically (or perhaps naturally) in a thread about Spamnasty (also excellent).
Most cops never get shot at their entire career.

Cops are far more likely to die of heart-attacks, cancer, and a dozen other causes than to be killed in the line of duty.

Being a cop isn't much more dangerous than the average jobs.
Or crash down to nothing and lose it all in a hack.

By the way can you please cite sources for your stats around inflation?

Last I read a Bloomberg article quoted Indian economy to be no. 3 behind China and US by 2030.
As dukeflukem said below, Iceland and Finland probably have very different aspects driving up gun ownership (rural populations hunting, vs self-defense).

An issue with the provided list is that these countries are all relatively poor. As for something that stood out for this list for me: inequality. i.e.: with the exception of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, all the Gini coefficients are above 35% (with the US (41%) being most similar to Turkey/Turkmenistan/Ukraine (41%/43%/41%). Compare that to Iceland and Finland (26%, 27%)
> Atleast in germany you have a multitude of options you can pull even without a lawyer getting involved. You can also file legal complaints easily and most fraudsters will drop the money at that point and apologize.

In this case, all I had to do was log into my credit card website, click "dispute transaction", explain what happened, and forget about it.

Moreover, I don't know what would have happened legally, as it is a reputable, well-established vendor in the local area, and it came down to my word versus theirs - I didn't have a receipt or anything.

> Plus you get the money back.

The money never even leaving my account is much preferable to getting it back.

The US debit system works in a similar way as you describe, but the credit system is still better for that reason.
I noticed this in college. My adderall-using friends and roommates would take a pill to study for a test, and sometimes that's exactly what they'd do. But sometimes they'd obsessively clean their room or get into a Wikipedia editing war or corner someone and talk their ear off about a pet topic.
>The response to most situations should be careful assessment of the situation at hand

This is not the forte of the SWAT teams whose adventures we read in the news. Idiotic cowboy cops given heavy arms to play with is more descriptive.
Is it possible to be "neutral" and yet keep sensible limits for what is allowed and what is not?

Enforcing the rules is not straightforward and different parties tend to view things differently. Somebody sees hate speech, someone else valid criticism.
Dullien, Thomas F. "Weird machines, exploitability, and provable unexploitability." IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2017).
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8226852/
PoC‖GTFO 0x17 [pdf]
T-t-t-taligent?

My second real job out of college was with IBM's Taligent Project Office (where I independently invented mobile IP routing); I bailed as the wheels were coming if the IBM/Apple partnership.
I have spent a decade walking like this, and I agree with you.

It seems that he wants to make his movements clear to the audience, but in practice I would expect he is walking with short balanced steps.

I walk like you describe you do, but in the end I also developed calves like those you see on the folks in paintings from the 1400-1500s!

A parenting aside: I want to make sure that my daughter grows up walking the way she already naturally does, but it is hard to find good footwear for it in kids. The materials are all heavy relative to the size of the shoes and so it is hard to find a shoe that is both flexible and resistent to the weather. I'd love to hear any suggestions.
Hate to break it to you, but America IS a macho, gun-loving, power-tripping culture. What macho, gun-loving, power-tripping game were two man-children playing that got one of them so pissed at the other that he SWATted him?
If this logic holds, why aren't we all cripplingly depressed about how good those assholes in 3016 have it?

This is sophistry.
Too many cops see the people they interact with as criminals. They know that they interact with innocent people sometimes, but they are heavily biased towards thinking that by the time they are interacting with you, it is very likely that you're a criminal. And it's their job to protect "society" from "the criminals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line
Work for any university as an outside contractor in a research programming position, example: https://cmu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

You work with PhDs, so can pursue your graduate interests directly from them while being involved in the research, and get paid at the same time albeit not industry standards, prepare for lower salary. Open AI hires developers too and plenty of researchers are there.
Most people buy stock, gold and sometimes houses in the hope of the price will increase. Does that make them a scam?
Stories like this is going to make every encounter with a cop a lot more frightening for me.

As a teenager I was once yelled out by undercover cops that came out of no where. They yelled at me to "not put your hands in my pocket" or "put my hands up"... I really do not recall the exact words. I instinctively put my hands in my pocket. I couldn't help it, I do not think I even processed what they said. Luckily they didn't shoot but they were mad and warned that I could have been shot. I really do not understand how they expect people to understand them when they are yelling and surprise the sh!t out of you.