skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> data on Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

Overall, in Central Europe the differences in fatal police action per capita is essentially noise.
Sounds plausible, but he didn't give any evidence.
I'm not trying to play down swatting, I'm just saying that this:

>Trying to get the target "accidentally" shot is the entire point of SWATting.

Is usually not correct.
Whatever IQ measures, it's correlated strongly with success.

There are 'cultural bias free' IQ tests that has no words in it at all, and the correlation holds.
boot up the old xbox so we can play some Halo2 on x-link kai!

I have my old xbox around here somewhere. For its time, it was an unbelievable unit, and the modding scene was amazing. The last modded xbox I gave to a friend had an LCD scroller and a bunch of really annoying lights.
Paper seems to have greater weight in court than electronic records, so people keep everything on paper in case they need to show documents in court one day.
I have around hundred books to read.

Why those hundred? Why not some other hundred? In other words, what is the selection criteria?

Is it necessary to read those hundred books? Why? Are they reference books or story-books?

If reference books, do you need to read the whole book or just the relevant parts of it?

If story-books, what is it you want to discover? The actual story, or the style of writing? Again, do you need to read the whole book or just the relevant parts of it?

Does it have to be a physical book you read? Could a summary do? Many books are reduced to a short summary of the storyline in Wikipedia. Could a movie or documentary do? Could an audio-book do?

Regarding actual brain-input time. There are lots of times during the day when you have a few minutes available: on public transport; while sitting in the toilet; while relaxing before turning the light off at night; while eating your lunch; reading it off a computer screen; listening to audiobooks while driving, or walking, or resting.
At least both of my banks in France don't charge me anything when doing wire transfer to other European countries. So, I'm not sure how prevalent that is.
The dispatcher will type in your address into their computer and will immediately see and read these notes.
Here's another review

www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/11/23/bolshevisms-new-believers/
While SWAT should respond, shouldn't they cordon off the area and try to make contact? Actually going inside seems like it should be the last resort, after there is no response or there is observable probable cause or imminent threat.

Especially if the call is anonymous with few concrete details -- the police should consider why does this caller know the info they know? Why is the call anonymous or otherwise untraceable?

How many times have lives been saved by SWAT entering after a call like this vs an innocent person getting injured or killed? How many anonymous, untraceable calls to 911 have even turned out to be legitimate?
I didn't ask for it - did you? Please be careful of the language you use when asserting something belonging to society. 100% of the time, the tyranny of police is not something the people ask for.

Dial-a-murder shouldn't be a thing - we need 100% body cam coverage and real repercussions for law enforcement officers that kill innocent people. How do we achieve this when the system is so corrupt?
The point of powerful tools and metaphors is not snobbishness, its so these activities can be automated and made easier, eliminating drudgery and reducing mistakes.

Sometimes that process can be done by the people on 5he factory floor (through excel of course, and, pace your own comment, admins famously writing their own macros in Emacs), but mostly it’s via other folks being able to write stuff for them.

And the tragedy produced by this “no learning” premise is that most people who operate computers spend their time imperfectly translating and t4ansferring from one silo to another
I think that was because it cost money to transfer between SWIFT and SEPA. SEPA to SEPA is very cheap/free, and so is SWIFT to SWIFT, AFAIK. I haven't tried to send money between the two systems for a long time.
I've got an Apple Watch and AirPods. They're both delightful products, if non-interesting for a software developer like me.
This! This! This! This is the workflow in the 3D modelling/animating program Maya -- every UI action is backed by a MEL (Maya Embedded Language) command, and is logged (it reads like a shell script). It's very easy to perform a task, copy-paste the log, parameterize it, and add a new shelf or inspector for the new compound task. I've seen technical artists without programming backgrounds adapt to this very quickly, and create amazing extensions to the base application. I wish every program worked this way.
> My conviction is that all these theories on strains having such different effects is mostly BS.

How scientific do you want your evidence to be? [0] It's pretty much a fact that different strains have different ratios of cannabinoids and terpenes, these can additionally be altered by the way the cannabis is cured and stored.

Badly cured cannabis still has lot's of chlorophyll in it, making it rough to smoke and changing its effect profile, many people get headaches/depressions from smoking such cannabis.

In that regard, your "one datapoint" is nothing but an anecdotal experience which can be explained by a number of reasons: People who are already prone to anxiety attacks can have their moods increased if they feel stressed out by the whole situation of being "the center of attention" for trying the first time. Especially with a high THC strain with barely any CBD in it to counter the THC effect [1]

Just like overfocusing on trying to "feel the effects" can give the user the impression he's not feeling any effects at all, which is something I've witnessed plenty of times with first-time users: They will be sitting there trying to focus on the effects, pretend they don't feel any, while not even realizing they are already on a small trip with their whole "Look at me I'm not feeling anything over here!" behavior, while they expected the effects to be something like seeing pink elephants roaming trough the room.

A lot of this has to do with decades-old stigma about the effects of cannabis forming a lot of users expectations about its effects.

[0] http://www.amjbot.org/content/91/6/966.full

[1] https://prohbtd.com/how-thc-and-cbd-interact
Definitely its context. I stayed at one company 7 years longer than I should have and then started being more aggressive about my career in 2008. I was an average to slightly below average developer from 2009-2016. I chose jobs that between my interview skills and technical skills, I knew just enough to get into the door, learned all I could from people who were much better than I was and once my skill set outpaced the salary they were willing to give me, i left for another job.

Now, after being a journeyman for the 9 years, I'm the tech lead for a small development shop. I consider myself the top performer because what I do has the biggest development impact on the company.
My mother's maiden name on exactly one website is "X729gD9naatotKORNKkuV0BwSm4A8GnL". On another it's "7RQCpeaG66ffxxgEoUKwvcSZfj6hEZ3Z".
Cheesy, but I kissed a girl I had liked for two years and hadn't seen since we met for the first time. What did I learn? Sometimes things happen as you envision them.
2 major features have been upgraded while the pricing remains the same
Well, what it says is definitely not great, but in this specific case it's probably a bit less about the police overreaction and a bit more about the prevalence of guns and how to safely proceed when notified about extremely volatile and dangerous situations, such as a hostage situation with an armed individual that is exhibiting signs of mental instability (whether true or not).

How the police respond may be weighted too much towards a specific action, but it's important to consider this is the actual reason that SWAT teams exist.

I would definitely be interested in knowing how situations like this are handled in other countries, and the success rates involved. My suspicion is that in countries without the equivalent of SWAT some scenarios don't have an adequate response, while others that we use SWAT somewhat inappropriately for that are handled better. I suspect a less military approach is better overall, but an entire lack of that option isn't beneficial either. I don't think it's hard to argue that there's far too much police militarization in the U.S. right now.
Not all of them do breach and entry as the first course of action. Depending on what's been reported they may knock, they may stand out in the street and yell at you over a bullhorn, or they may try to breach the door. A lot of factors go into considering which course of action they take. The idea is to establish contact and negotiate a course of action before they try storming the house with itchy trigger fingers.

In any case, my advice does not preclude obeying orders if an officer is pointing an MP5 at you and telling you to put your hands on your head-- it's too late then, so just comply and hope for the best.
And it may have unforeseen consequences or it may take away funds for something else equally or more important, etc., etc.
Wow exactly the situation in india! We’ve had 2FA, mobile alerts, etc. ever since the dawn of the Internet banking in late 90s. Wasn’t so in the US even as recently as 2010.
Latin America's Groupon Mafia
Mass killings are caused - in almost all cases in history - by disastrous economic performance preceeding them, and yes, including the Holocaust. But of course there are many cases, mostly further back, where economic disaster was caused by climate change or just a real natural disaster.

In many cases in the 20th century (arguably including that one) disastrous economic performance was caused by incompetent and corrupt central control of the economy, and then that caused massacres, essentially from Western Europe Eastward all the way the the pacific coast.

Say, what was the basic idea behind communism again ? Yeah I'm sure that version 2.0 will "skip" the incompetent and corrupt parts. Right. Otherwise it's not real communism.

Arguably corrupt and incompetent leadership is a fact of life and is the very core of what distinguishes theory from practice.
Ancient Rome in 20 minutes
Move a running process to GNU screen
Garbage trucks cruise at a certain pace. They hardly ever stop and go, for good reason: fuel efficiency, wear and tear, and just general work efficiency. The drivers jump on and off and back onto the truck. Have you ever watched a garbage truck squad in action?
Maybe the cops should not execute people after a phone call? It's kind of weird that there are more blame for the negative action of someone who places a prank call Than for someone who murders another human being. Just because they wear different clothing??
By the way the reason they don't fix the issue of trigger happy cops and the reason they send an entire SWAT team for a prank call is simple. It is because it's good for business. (That is the business of selling weapons)
Until very recently my bank here in Australia was limiting the complexity of passwords.

no more than 10 characters, no special characters.

utterly ridiculous.
Sorry to hear of your condition and I wish you a full recovery. I don't want to sound arrogant either nor do I wish to take anything from you.

I gave it an extra thought and, for me, it may also be the system that's at fault. When he died they (the hospital) made me gather at least 5 liters of blood donated (friends, family etc) otherwise they won't help him. I also had to buy even the syringes and other super-basic stuff because "they were out". I probably lost my trust in the medical system we have here and I'm simply horrified at the idea of having to rely on it.
A clever idea but by default, apps on iOS do not have access to the microphone, and it would be rather conspicuous for most games to ask for the permission.
I was just thinking that even people who aren't even involved with these situations are potential victims, so what could someone do to protect themselves? Just some ideas off the top of my head:

Spend some money on home surveillance, inside and outside. Cameras that are connected via some sort of home automation that can provide not just an early warning, but evidence for yourself and your family in the event something goes wrong. Offsite storage would be ideal, something that cannot be held, removed, or destroyed at the scene that only you or a limited number of trusted people have access to.

Alerting when there are people outside of your home. This way you'd be able to contact 911 if there was suddenly a large police presence around your home and let them know there is nothing happening there, you are extremely willing to cooperate, unarmed, and awaiting further instructions. It might give you some time to deescalate the situation before it starts.

Maybe contact the police and let them know that because of the work you do, you feel you may be targeted for these kinds of things. Ask a lot of question and see if they can put some sort of process in place like attempting to contact you or a neighbor if something comes in, or at least having the dispatcher let the responding officers know that the call might be fraudulent and to proceed with that in mind?

Do everything you can to minimize your online presence. I know that's saying a lot these days, but every little bit helps. If it takes someone an extra few minutes to find information about you, that might be just long enough for them to lose interest or find an easier target.

I'd love to hear other ideas because I'm kind of at a loss myself for how you can protect yourself from this.
> rulers, compasses, french curves, pantographs, planimeters

I had never heard of a planimeter[1], but what a fascinating device it is! I'm surprised that such a thing is possible: that you can calculate the area of an arbitrarily complex shape just by tracing the perimeter with a simple mechanical device. Unfortunately, how it works is not at all intuitive but seems to require a fair amount of math to understand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planimeter
Hell, 3G and EDGE/1x are plenty capable today for a lot of use cases
The bit about not being able to cash out over $1k is flat out false.

The order book history from GDAX (I maintain a personal level 3 copy) also doesn't suggest market pressure at $12k beyond a lot of opportunists (myself included).
Shut Down in Settings, General works.
> If you feel like you don’t know what you are doing it’s probably because you don’t know what you are doing and that’s bad.

I think this one depends on one's personality. I know people who have been relatively successful in their role for years who still regularly express impostor syndrome.
Although the author didn't give any evidence and just a lot of circumstantial hand waving, the whole idea of market manipulation by the exchanges isn't something new. eg. the stock market

In the new year, look for a narrow trading range on a day to day or even week by week basis, with a steady rise in price on relatively low volume. This could possibly be a tell that things are being manipulated upward.
surely commenting on the spelling of something you understand is not a high priority, high leverage, effective use of your time?
Primecoin (sign: Ψ; code: XPM) is a peer-to-peer open source cryptocurrency that implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system. Primecoin's proof-of-work system searches for chains of prime numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primecoin
> I am terrified to live in the US. The acceptance of illegitimate aggression is absurd.

That's a bit extreme.

First, because illegitimate aggression isn't just accepted by quite a lot of people, there is vocal debate and public outcry over it. Which is good.

Second, confirmation bias may be amplifying your fears here. According to the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...), there were about 1100 people killed by police in 2016, and almost 1200 in 2015. And some portion of those were likely justifiable (and maybe even saved lives).

To get killed by police is not quite as unlucky as getting struck by lightning, but the odds are about 1/295,000 for the former.
Thanks for passing the info along I'll be sure to check them out.
Gridcoin dates back to 2013, and is one of a large number of "altcoins" that was released during Bitcoin's last price surge and bubble of media attention. It uses proof of stake, which greatly decreases the computing power needed to secure the block chain -- am approach used by many other alt coins. There have been a lot of criticisms of PoS over the years, including here at HN. The most prominent being that PoS coins often use checkpoints which mean they are not truly decentralized. The "Proof of Research" seems gimmicky to me, and maybe I'm a cynic, but my impression of Gridcoin has always been that it is just another attempt to cash in and doesn't do anything particularly useful. PrimeCoin is another example from the same time period.
Denmark uses Greenland for fishing, it is really important for them for eating. This is basic strategic decision. Food is a priority over anything else.

To only talk in dollars is ridiculous. You know how much it cost food when you don't have it, like in a war? infinite. My grandfather paid a fortune in order to survive during the escape from a totalitarian country.

What was portrayed in the West as "Arab Spring", "fighting for freedom" was in reality people that could not buy food because it became too expensive. Prices for food went to double or triple within months as some rich bastards had stockpiled all rice and cereal surplus in to world knowing well the situation in the north of Africa months before the conflict became visible.

That is what happens when your country leaders could not warranty your basic needs.

Another thing, Greenland is part of Europe, which is industrialized and needs raw materials. Selling to the US would have meant making Europe even smaller and weaker, and making the US even stronger.

In Geoplolitics you don't want to make other countries so powerful that they could basically enslave you. It is called "Ballance of Power".
The article mentioned it.
Not relevant to the article, but her avatar is very cool - and apparently she generated it with SVG and stylesheets: https://codepen.io/tallys/pen/mPBBXr
I love these types of breakdowns! It would be really cool to see breakdowns in other portions of a game engine, too: physics, character animation, managing the massive assets, lots of potential goodies.
This is an important point. It's also important to note that Denmark is making this claim on behalf of/in support of the Greenlandic claim [0].

The goal for both Denmark and Greenland is for Greenland to become independent, and harnessing natural resources in Greenland's current and future territories is crucial in that regard.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/dec/16/why-...
In the very real sense that laws are regulations. Calls to SWAT are regulated through the law and backed by the force of the state. The mechanism is regulated by punitive measures after the fact, rather than some sort of regulatory filter, due to the nature of emergency telephone services.
is there anything out there that beats a good old paper notebook and a pen? The lack of backups is bad but I can't find anything else where I can put down the notes and ideas in the format I want and draw pictures and diagrams in my notes. Everything else just falls short.
Unfortunately, "fire fast" is now known widely enough to become a business fad / cargo cult. Which means, people are going to do it because it's the thing to do, and not because there's a good business reason to do it.

As a consequence, a company could strategically use "fire fast" by claiming it as a policy but not doing it. This would attract the people who perceive themselves as high performers, with minimal impact on employee morale.
> Something that I never really considered was that if electric car are set to replace ice car in the next decade(s), basically half the parking lot would need to have electric recharging capability i.e. several thousand slots. Street parking will need the same as will office and residential parking lots.

I think self-driving taxis will have replaced car ownership for most people by then. Parking lots will probably shrink or disappear entirely.
Just for the sake of accuracy, the victim here wasn't 'shot dead as soon as they answered the door[0].'

Not that 'shot dead from across the street as soon as his hand twitched' is justifiable.

[0]http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.html
I prefer software that is open source. I like to contribute my time, effort, and money to open source software as well, at least that which I find useful and interesting.

I guess I'm not an open source proponent but just whatever you would call the above?

What would you consider to be an open source proponent? Someone who believes all source code should be open source?

> That's you prerogative, but you completely miss the point of the discussion if you ask why should users want to be independent from proprietary services

Well don't just leave me hanging.. what is the point of the discussion? Please do enlighten me.

> Sure, 99% don't want that and would click any colored and shiny button if it promises them a free Justin Bieber ringtone, but this is not the topic of the thread.

Isn't it? I mean the comment was literally asking for an opinion which I gave. I'm not sure I understand why this is off topic? Most businesses would be unbelievably successful if their product appealed to 99% of people.
>Microsoft’s stranglehold on the desktop market relented anyway

Hardly. Market share is still roughly 85% Windows, 15% Mac, and fuck-all % Linux, which is reflected in the level of support provided for applications, games, hardware etc. Even disregarding compatibility, MacOS is not a straightforward alternative as it only runs on Apple hardware, which is very expensive and only offers a narrow range of opinionated designs.
Spoofing caller-ID is easy using VOIP (as phone scammers well know), but 911 does not use caller-ID per se. Landlines use ANI/ALI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1
Which dictionaries are those? Here's the Google result:

> the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder.
The low technical nature of paper is a huge factor.
I think you just proved his point.

How insane is it that you have to pre-empt SWATing now?

The only reason this is even a problem is because (too) many people know that the police is so trigger-happy these days that all it takes is say something dangerous-sounding about someone else and there's a not insignificant chance that the police will murder them.

That's how out of control the "Serve and Protect" police has gotten in the US.
Very relevant if you want to include China in your user base.
I think this comment is unhelpful, but it does raise the point that landlords doing unsafe/illegal things like that electrical feed (I assume that's not to code) does put a landlord in a vulnerable position: "you mess with us and we'll report you, too."
No sources, vague circumstantial accusations. It makes for a good story, but without more information it's just another theory. Not saying it isn't true, but it's presented as fact without very much real assurance. I don't doubt that there's market manipulation, but I have strong personal doubts it's this nice and tidy. This sounds vaguely like a conspiracy theory at times.
While I understand what you were getting at, we actually do open source some of our software as well as contribute to an early open source project so I wouldn't say it's the FARTHEST away..