skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, one can fill out a police report, but that doesn't mean that the police will opt to press charges. If one contacts the police to report a crime, they still need probable cause to press charges.

As for witch hunts, folks do get burned in the digital age, whether as result of posts on a public twitter feed, or worse yet in some cases, privately via other social media channels or other (digital) communication mechanisms. Publicly outing someone or a group is perhaps a last resort, but necessary in some cases.
How do you even rank SWATing incidents and on what continuum? That’s the same as suggesting not all incidents of having a loaded gun pointed at someone are created equal. SWATing is the moral equivalent of that loaded gun. Just because no one has died before does not matter.
He mentioned that protein crystals are hard to create. There have been experiments to grow them in space. That possibility could open up soon.
Case in point: fidget spinners
Don't get me wrong. Many of the events are real, or based on real stories. There is an avid amateur historian/fan community which has tracked down the details, including newspaper articles from the time that specifically mention some of the events which occur.

For instance, Mary's illness is mentioned in the local paper twice, according to this paper which argues that it was likely meningoencephalitis, not scarlet fever, which caused her illness and subsequent blindness. Interview at https://www.npr.org/2013/02/07/171413261/laura-ingalls-siste... and paper at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/ear... .
Have a Heart? Their online ordering is the best, and they do essentially a constant 10% off discount if you sign up for their membership (every time you order you get a discount based on your purchase amount you can apply on your next order. I believe it's roughly equivalent to $1 for every $10 purchased.) I switched from Uncle Ike's and never looked back.

The only pro I see for the line is that the staff can help you pick out a nice strain depending on your needs and you don't have to do the research yourself. Personally, I'm in the same boat as you. I get stressed out looking at all the choices while in the store and almost exclusively use the online ordering system before I leave the house. By the time I reach the store (a few minutes away) the order is ready for pickup.

It's crazy to think of how far it's come in the few years since it got legalized. From the quasilegal delivery services or even worse going to Westlake Park or another sketch location at night to a clean, accessible system with some of the nicest people around.
Awesome! Glad you're enjoying it so far
I drive a Leaf and I think the switchover is going to come faster than people think

Yes. That's the other thing: the best argument for an electric car is driving one—particularly a Tesla. The minute most of the population has access to one (from a friend, family, whatever), they're going to want one.
XRP was 100% premined. How many percentage are still held be owners?

My bet would be that the tiny float is multiplying the value. Because of that market cap of XRP is artificially inflated.

XRP network is not really a cryptocurrency, if you ask me. It is not trustless, has counterparty risk, is censorable, not designed to be a commodity in itself, etc.

I was actually playing with Ripple before Bitcoin existed, and it was centralized website. I could see it having some application, but it is just no the same game as Bitcoin and other altcoins.
Thanks for the link. Happy to hear they're maintaining Linux-hardened themselves.
The little guys did not do fine. The FDIC was having to step in and handle a bank failure at a small US bank every couple of days in 2009-2011. Some of them they managed to find a buyer for, a few resulted in the outright loss of all funds beyond the FDIC insurance limits. This didn't get nearly the media attention that the big banks did, but it happened nonetheless.
Just noting that this comment first only talked about the browser bundling antitrust thing, and then, after I commented, completely morphed into something else.
How much to raise at your next funding round, how much equity to give away
Support to Buy a Cryptocurrency mine company
Hat's off! I'm astonished that people like this still exist. I really have no idea under which rock and in which tinfoil hat they still survive. But we need more such people, so please keep your windmill-fighting.

In the meantime, before they deliver "non-programmable HTML6", they deliver HTML 5.2 (or was it .3?) with DRM inside. Mozilla? They produced buggy, resource-hungry browser for decade (was less resource-hungry than competition, now the same). What to expect from them? These Xmas time, when opening a new empty browser page, they show an ad phishing me for money. And that's exactly what everyone expects from them.

The stories about HTML with DRM and unsolicited adds from Mozilla were discussed here on HN. So again, no idea what tinfoil hat you wear, but godspeed with keeping it up.
> Maybe people convert the cost savings of building themselves to building with higher quality materials (for tiny homes).

Building your own construction project is generally not a cost savings, in the same way that growing your own food is not a cost savings.
Non profit has no bearing on salaries paid, only what happens to leftover cash. If there is no leftover cash after salaries are paid, nothing really changes.

So saying you are a non profit is a good way to fool some people. The rest know that a non profit still pays salaries in any capacity they'd like.
Good luck with that. Driving a stolen minivan wrong-way in a police chase and killing a pedestrian didn't pass depraved heart murder:

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2014/07/23/new-yorks-top-court-e...

The level of culpability, not least the causal connection here is hundred fold weaker. Casual reading of the law rarely lines up with established case precedence.
> One could imagine a scenario where a user is caught off-guard by a super strong weed, but I don't see this happening. Standard THC rates are 15-20%(?) you're not going to get much more than that amount and you will always notice at the first inhalation if the weed is more potent than what you're used to.

For infrequent users, I believe the potency does make a difference because undesired effects could come with as little as a single hit.

Cannabis potency 10 years ago was 7%, and yes today's rates are at around 15%. I figure that means that in 10 years the potency of a single hit of cannabis has doubled.
Maybe you should be ashamed of this behavior and stop? I play games on-line and not only do I manage to avoid doing these rather reprehensible things, I will chastise others who do so.
Sure, I'm not saying there's no reason for them not to be expensive.

Just that they are, and I bet that's one of the main reasons why they're not mainstream, yet.
One alternative would have been something like a 99-year lease with a handover in 2045. On the other hand it'd probably have more superfund sites in return. So all in all, likely a good choice.
Running your containers as non-root is still great though! Shocking how uncommon it is.
That's obviously not true (calling in false police reports was illegal long before SWAT-ing was a thing), but, what's your point?
I don’t understand how any of those points would help at all. Number 1 is irrelevant and number 2 is easily handled.
“Oh, neighbor didn’r hear a gunshot? Well let’s put down the guns and knock on the door nicely instead”. Come on now.
China smells the disruption here. The US and Japanese automakers are delusionally living in the 1900s and when it comes down to it they will be playing catchup.
Your Mind's Software Is More Important Than Its Hardware
> We find that doxing victims in our data set are overwhelmingly male, have an average age in their 20s, and a significant number are part of gamer communities (or maintain accounts with multiple video-game related websites). We also find that most doxes include highly identifying information of the victim and family members, such as full legal names, phone numbers and online social networking accounts.

I hope someone uses this research as a starting point for an investigation of why gamers are so heavily doxed. Might help us predict and prevent more doxing in the future.
When I look at banks they incentivize you to go back to paper. I signed up for paperless for a while only to realize that they allow you to retrieve online statements only for the last 2 years. If you have a business and need to be ready for an audit, you are better off with paper statements.
Please compare how long it takes to train US cop vs other first world countries. Length of training is woefully inadequate.
4chan: The skeleton key for understanding the rise of Trump
I thought it was interesting that the article focussed on trends in the US market, which seems the least EV-friendly (from what I hear, fuel prices are half what they are in the EU).
Yes performance is better overall. It is still possible to choke though depending on machine, map size, and number of units.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16031849

I'm still kind of amused y'all think you can just magically automate and abstract things perfectly without consequences in all situations.
Ask HN: Is There Something Wrong with the Shape of My Skull?
My skull is on the left of both images:

https://corticalchauvinism.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/img1.jpg

https://corticalchauvinism.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/img3.jpg

Some more thoughts and a description of my cognitive difficulties: https://corticalchauvinism.com/2017/11/13/yuval-levental-cranial-deformities-sinus-difficulties-and-autism/
Depraved heart, aka depraved indifference is probably too mild here. Depraved indifference applies to situations in which the object is not murder, and may not even be gross bodily harm. It’s a matter of not caring that your actions have the predictable potential to end a life, such as firing into a busy club.

In this case there’s a clear case of premeditation and targeting of an individual, which is genuinely different from the depraved heart statute. At the same time however, it’s going to be hard to prove intent without relying on something like the statute in question. This really does feel more like murder one, albeit with a very unreliable weapon.
"Death is good" philosophical arguments are nothing more than hilariously overwrought cases of sour grapes.

> I doubt humans as a whole will ever feel strongly that death is a negative force.

We (correctly) consider death a strongly negative force in every single situation that we don't consider it inevitable. The only thing special about "inevitable" death at the end of a typical modern day lifespan is that we can't do anything about it. This is suggestive, to put it mildly.
The former part was exactly what was done.
To offer a slightly anecdotal counterpoint, if you discard ideological reasons and generous subsidies available in a few markets, I have no idea why anyone would buy an electric car right now. The range and the charging times are still an issue, especially if you don't live in California. The performance of most electric cars is abysmal (straight line speed may be all right, but cornering with the extra weight is just inferior) compared to traditional performance cars and while styling is subjective, the only electric car I've seen that wasn't outright ugly was the BMW i8, and that's a hybrid. That's not to mention the fact that they still carry a severe price premium in most markets.

I realize my opinion will be highly controversial in the HN bubble, but I find it to be very common in real life, particularly outside the U.S. Like any future prediction, I'm probably way off, but to me it looks like on the list of vastly overhyped car trends pure electric cars are second only to self-driving cars. I'm sure they'll find specific markets (taxis, urban deliveries, etc.), but I don't see myself switching to an electric car for at least a decade, probably more.
When I say "mass market" I'm talking about cars that start less than $50,000 (and then it's still sarcastic).

If Tesla are moving faster than everyone else backwards looking metrics should pick up on it soon enough.
article says save@provo.net, but it is pruvo.net
You left out the reasoning.

At the precinct, defendant admitted that he stole the minivan, exceeded the speed limit, and swerved into oncoming traffic as he fled the police. In explaining his driving, defendant said he tried to avoid hitting cars and pedestrians, and that he did not know the neighborhood well and drove down the one-way streets by mistake. Defendant said he was lost when he ended up on Manhattan Avenue, and that he was avoiding cars as he evaded the police. According to defendant, he was going against traffic and looking in his rearview mirror for the police immediately before he struck the victim. When he looked forward again, defendant said he saw the victim and that he thought he "hit the girl in the hand or something." When he saw more people and traffic two blocks later, defendant decided to crash into the parked car to avoid hurting anyone else. He also expressed remorse for his actions.

It's easy to make the argument that SWAT-ers do the opposite of what this person did and are in fact more culpable: they deliberately, competitively, and with care create circumstances optimized to put lives at risk. They don't just call the police; they call fake active shooting incidents to the police.
Men resist green behavior as unmanly
Yeah. I've got a couple of good old fashioned regular performance cars here in the SF bay area. I'd love to have the excuse (read: carpool lane access, long commute, whatever) to buy an electric but there's just no "need" in my life for a new vehicle.

That said, the penetration rate of electric vehicles as a proportion of new vehicles here is staggering. The Model S easily outsells any competitor's luxury car in the same class, you'd have to combine all A6 / 5 series / E Class sales to even hope to show the same numbers. And I can see why -- if you want to plunk down all this cash for a new car, why not get something truly new, not something outdated?

My uncle is very frugal and has spent years looking at buying a new car and then up and ordered a (very base) Model S with the reasoning, if I'm spending all this money, I want to spend the money on future tech, not old tech.

Even sitting in my 2016 car this morning, in the cold, I was thinking how silly it is that I have to wait for the coolant in the car to warm up before the heater starts blowing hot, and how funny all of the ICE cars look with steam coming out of the exhaust on a cold morning. It already feels out of date.
While the Nobel prize is indeed not awarded posthumously, the characterization of Rosalind Franklin being unfairly dispossessed of credit is very reasonable.

Watson and Crick achieved great fame for "Discovering the double helix structure of DNA". Their original paper:

1) contained no experimental data

2) does not cite Franklin

3) was based on her as-yet unpublished X-ray crystallography
Humaniq Opens Sandbox and Ecosystem Access to Partners
Yep, and I'm saying that's going to change quicker than people think.
> A scale would tell you that you weigh[] slightly less at the top of a mountain than at sea level, though in reality you'd have the same mass.

For an illustration of a pedantic distinction, this seems awfully unlikely to be correct. You gain mass by eating and drinking and lose it by urinating, defecating, and breathing; odds are you're not going to have the same mass on the mountaintop.
That’s not true at all. You use one of any number of filing systems.

I worked on a pretty huge paper to electronic record conversion project... millions of pages. We made it much easier to access, although about 25x more expensive, but 95% of searches align with the indexing systems in place for the paper process.

Even in my life, I use a traditional 43 folders system for some things. Very accessible.
Again you assumed a Gaussian distribution. There is nothing "factual" about that.

Not to mention I was pointing out that your facts were irrelevant because the miss they point (Using population statistics to guide the design/engineering of an experience is doomed)
I believe that the post above is a reference to household ownership rather than per capita, there are a number of countries where the household ownership percentage is similar, but the number per household is much lower, that is true of many things, cars, TVs, guns, etc.
I don't think the contention is necessary in most cases. You can make something developer friendly and secure at the same time, you just have to allow for both. Simple things, like taking any credentials from environment settings, can make it easy for both dev and ops/prod to work with and be secure.
Paper is high-tech. We tend to look down on certain technologies just because they're older, but paper and paperless both have pros and cons.

There's a chasm of complexity between paper and its alternatives. In addition, we already have tons of experience using paper, along with the knowledge of how it should be handled and preserved.

I suspect that much data will be lost due to bit rot, proprietary formats, legacy adapters, DRM, etc. AFAIK, we're still figuring out how long data can be safely stored in many of these newer mediums.

IMO, it's highly desirable to have both options available. I don't really want everything I do passing through computers over which I have no control.
Right, I see your point. Absolute gun ownership isn't the number we should be discussing-- it's the number of guns that can be easily carried and used in public. In Switzerland guns are everywhere, but the ammo is stored in sealed containers to prevent frivolous and unaccountable use of the guns. In Canada you can't ever carry your gun around on the street and handguns are almost completely illegal for all intents and purposes. In most of America you can carry a semiautomatic pistol in public with no consequences. Firearm incidents occur when you increase the availability for people to get and posses guns in public-- whether they buy them at Walmart or steal them from unlocked cop cars. That's indisputable.
This. It's getting a bit hard to read relevant security news now due to this happening a lot.
This project started as a way to import listings into an open source website builder I created.

Right now it effectively scrapes single pages that the user provides. It won't be too hard to enable crawling so that from one page it discovers others and scrapes those too.

Will be interesting to hear if anyone has some ideas about how I could monetise it in the longer term.
If you can influence that, please make the PDF slides available on the CCC page. Thanks.
Well, Fdroid is great and with the automatic upgrade extension (totally optional) really easy to use. But using an Android without access to the Play Store is just kinda weird.

So yes, you can remove Google completely from your smartphone, but then many things are getting much more complicated. So I don't want to remove Google completely from my phone. I just want to have easy options to turn things off I do not like.

I just wish Google would respect their users wishes a little more and would keep developing their services in a direction which would embrace community contributions to the eco system.
I am petrified of SWATting. I am in the Crypto world, and number of crazies / anarchists I deal with is insane.

What steps can I take to protect my home from SWATting attacks?
I don't know, but this made for an interesting and thought-provoking read so I hope you gain some insight for these investigations.
Honestly since I removed the app from my phone my usage has dropped drastically. Haven't missed it much
While I understand this is impressive work, my understanding of the FreeBSD-kernel on the PS4 is not enough to warrant some kind of understand -- Python, however, is my forte, and oh my... I think he hacked Python too! :)
You, as the first owner, get to keep the incentive, so why does it matter if it reduces the resale value?
Ddbug: extract useful information from DWARF/PDB debugging data
I appreciate what you're trying to say but banking is not a great analogy for an emergency response situation. Banks do not face the same element of time pressure or lives being at stake.

How would "being a lot more sure" help here? If you mean the police should verify information more thoroughly before responding, then that comes at a direct tradeoff in response times. If instead you mean police should respond swiftly but not bring out the SWAT teams without more verification, then that could pose a (different kind of) safety issue for responders and potential hostages.

The issue here is more one of militarized police tactics. When you're trained to respond to any threat, any sudden move, with overwhelming deadly force, then deadly outcomes will happen.
> the toxicity of online interactions is due to an online disconnect between communications and consequences. It is a failure of the mechanisms which regulate the social animal Homo sapiens.

> Perhaps the existence of walled gardens is akin to the building of town walls and the rise of feudal lords.

> People in the virtual 0th and 1st worlds are still in a feudal world of rule by force and of personal/tribal loyalties taking the place of principle.

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. It will probably be a few generations until we get to a normal cyclical situation where the pendulum swings back and forth between online behavior, privacy, etc. We're not even close to knowing where there center/average is on these issues yet.
SWATing is the moral equivalent of that loaded gun.

No disagreement here.
Consulting as in 'self-employed' in my opinion is a safer career path than becoming a full-time employee.

If you're working full-time you only have one client. If you're self-employed you usually have multiple clients at a time, which mitigates risk.

Moreover, if you work for somebody else part of that deal is that your employer gets to keep most of the value you create with your work in exchange for relative job security, benefits, social security etc.

Software engineering as an industry is particularly amenable to becoming an entrepreneur and being self-employed because there's a lot less risk involved than in many other industries (less upfront investment required; huge, increasing demand for the foreseeable future).

Therefore the traditional argument for working full-time in order to mitigate risk doesn't really hold for software engineering.
How Alice and Bob meet if they don't like onions
I think we don't contradict each other necessarily. JavaScript applications not delivered by websites but through the package manager would be okay for me. We would have the sandbox on one side and the accounting and responsibility on the other side. After all, even the JavaScript sandbox (FireFox) itself is delivered how I think software should be delivered.

The size of the market is no argument. Supply drives demand.

I don't simply proclaim how things should be done. I point out problems, criticize the status quo based on sound facts, and point to better solutions. What else do you suggest?
Well OK, yes, I kindof missed your "mass market" specifier. Tesla have only shipped a few thousand Model 3's so far. But they have 400,000 reservations that they intend to fulfil in the next 24 months or so. And that's a big challenge to everyone else.
Also NYC does have an enormous homelessness problem. It's just that it also has a culture of police action driving homeless people out of upscale areas so that the well off don't have to be distressed by noticing it.
Magically? Without consequence? In all situations? I wouldn't ever (and didn't) go that far in my statements.. guess I'm not part of "y'all" =)