skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things can obviously be true at the same time: that "police officers"† are improperly keyed up as if they're shock troops preparing for a battle, and that calling in a false report with the hope that it will provoke an armed response is effectively an attempt at homicide.

To me, the (standard) overreaction by the police makes arguments minimizing what the gamer did here even harder. Unless you live under a rock, you're aware of the controversy about armed police response in the US. Surely this gamer knew that, and called a fake report in anyways --- one involving an active shooter and a hostage.

I'm with Ken "Popehat" White: what the gamer did here is homicide. We can argue about the degree.

† really, in almost all cases in the US, "assault officers", and we should separate the two concepts, stop hiring new assault officers, and start hiring a new class of less-armed police officers

Later

It turns out there's already a concept in US law that captures this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder
ETA did the same sometimes.
You knew old Bolsheviks? Or did you know some Western sympathesizers? Big difference, but either way you’d have to be north of 80 years old.

Chomsky on Leninism:

https://youtu.be/Nz11K1wUbrc

Hint: he’s not a fan
People tried and it didn't work very well, see e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_cryptosystems

It seems it's just really hard to create a new public key crypto system, so people sticked to what works as long as the quantum threat didn't sound too scary. Now it sounds scary enough that people look for alternatives.
Weren't the Bolsheviks just a minor faction that ended up winning the civil war? Bolshevism became the party in the USSR.

No. They were the largest left faction, and the word bolshevik translates to 'majority', while menshevik means 'minority' - so named because the Bolsheviks pursued a majority-rule policy while the Mensheviks wanted a more parliamentarian system that preserved the rights of minority parties. There were two communist revolutions in 1917; the first, in February, toppled the Tsar but the provisional government led by Kerensky didn't deliver on its promise of pulling Russia out of the war and made so many compromises with the conservative and militarist interests that eventually it lost the confidence of the working class, and the Bolsheviks were able to take power in an almost bloodless second revolution in October.

Lenin was in hiding at the time, having been accused of sedition (I think, I forget the exact charge) against the provisional government, and Trotsky's execution of the takeover went so smoothly that when Lenin turned up at the Bolsheviks' HQ a couple of days alter he demanded of Trotsky to know why they weren't fighting and was astonished to learn that they had already won. Having seized power, the Bolshevik's first task was to get Russia out of the war, and they sent Trotsky off to negotiate the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This didn't go as well as they hoped, and to get Russia out of the war they had to make huge compromises, but they succeeded in signing a peace treaty thereby fulfilling their primary objective.

The Russian civil war began after the exit from WW1, but the Bolsheviks were legitimately in power before it began and remained in power the whole time. Civil wars in any country are bitter and destructive, partly because many of the issues are personal and partly because both sides know the territory well and are able to wage war more intimately and effectively than a foreign invader, who is more constrained by logistical and infrastructural considerations.

I think the Bolsheviks and the left revolutionaries in general were quite justified in seizing power; Tsarism was dreadful and World War 1 was a horrific waste of life and treasure which the Bolsheviks were quite right to oppose (and which many socialist parties around europe cynically sold out the working class to promote). Having achieved victory and pulled russia out of the war, I don't know why you'd expect them not to defend the government they'd just established against its White Army challengers.
I think we can all agree that swatting is an incredibly dangerous and should obviously be a criminal act. I haven't seen anyone defend it as anything other than that.

So let's talk about the part that isn't generally agreed upon…

> It is my belief that those officers did nothing wrong.

That may be your _assumption_, but going straight to "belief" is a HUGE step considering the lack of information. We don't know that the police identified themselves. We know that the police had an _entire block_ instead of an actual address. For all we know this was a random person stepping outside to see what was, to their mind, happening "across the street". We have near-zero information about how the shooting happened.

Why the strong desire to pick a side?

I'm not saying that I think you're wrong. I just think it's odd to form a strong opinion _right now_. We know so incredibly little, why bother forming and espousing an opinion at all? Why pick a side now? You don't have to be on a team. You can just… wait. It's possible to not have an opinion — at all. We can all move along with our day. Why the rush?

On ending lives.

Given that you've formed and shared an opinion despite a near-total lack of information, it seem to me that you're of the more general opinion that cops have the right to end lives with little information. At best, information that they know has a reasonable probability of being incorrect. Cops jobs center around dealing with false information.

My question given that world view: In the spectrum between "someone was shot at this address, your life is in danger while near that address" and "there are dangerous people roaming our streets, your life is in danger", where is the line? Should cops be allowed to end the life of any person who places their hands out of sight while in their presence? There are, after all, dangerous people roaming our streets.
Great point. Would it be beneficial to create "open databases"?

Instead of having companies own data (Google/Facebook), all data resides in public databases. This would work for services that do not need sensitive data and can be anonymized, such as what videos do I watch, what words I type/search, etc.

This would help both privacy (I know what data is being recorded) and help small competitors thrive.
Congrats on releasing 1.0! I had used an old version (0.12) and liked it very much. Also well done for not increasing the 1kb size.

Actually I liked it so much I'd started writing a non-trivial app to use as a tutorial (https://github.com/spapas/hyperapp-tutorial) but because of the breaking API changes I wasn't able to finish it. Hopefully, now that the API has stabilized I will be able to post it!
Let's hope we will not find ultimate computational limitations of our Universe's physics instead.
"We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture suffers, and we notice it firstly in the way in which death is swept under the carpet.

This is one of the major problems in hospitals — when a family conspires with the doctor to keep from grandmother the knowledge that she is dying. Grandmother suspects that she is dying but probably doesn’t really want to know for sure and her family talk with her in such a way as to say, 'Well you’re probably be getting alright in a few weeks' — because they have this funny feeling that it’s important to build up courage and hope. And so they become liars and the mutual mistrust develops. So the person is left to die alone, suddenly, unprepared, and doped up to the point where death hardly happens. And there is no derivation from it of the peculiar spiritual experience that can come with death."

– Alan Watts
Darwin Award nominee? 2 would-be copper thieves electrocuted at power substation
what's the deal with IE11 and CSS Grid? Is it partial support or MS specific notion of CSS Grid? I keeps seeing both sentiments represented with regard to IE.
> My sony PSP and nintendo DS are collecting dust because I already played all the licensed games I was going to on them. Now these devices are worthless to me and get tiny prices on the 2nd hand market. If their owners released firmware signing keys, these devices could have a new lease on useful life as homebrew machines

Where have you been for the past couple of decades? This is literally planned obsolescence, you need to buy the new hardware and discard the old one. According to manufacturers, you shouldn't have any electronic device older than 1-2 years, or any car older than 5. Any ideas of a homebrew around any device are viewed as dangerous...
Think about it: if you absolve the police, you're permitting terrorists to lever the state's monopoly on force and do their dirty work for them. All ISIS et al need do is sit down with Google maps, a caller ID spoofing setup and an American accent and cause all the havoc in the world, and to your mind, that's fine.
I think all the autonomous fleet stuff done by Uber is pure hype to get more investors thinking that is the endgame, and that it's not just viable in the next 5-10 years, but inevitability.

There is no reason why municipalities should not consider their own autonomous fleets as part of public transit. The roads are already public, having a fully autonomous fleet is hardly any different than public buses or trains purchased from private manufacturers. It'll be a commodity (or at least it should be, short of monopolization and cronyism).
In all seriousness, this is the biggest reason that I don't use Twitch. I know the risk is low, but all it takes is a single troll somewhere in the world to find my CV or a WHOIS record.
It is, if you ask Ben Horowitz
Weird. I grew up literally walking distance from that spot on the map, in this house: https://goo.gl/maps/d2idrNkE3Zw

At least one of my friends lived in that very mobile home park.
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It's too bad Google itself only allows you to do that with a Gmail for Business account.

I had to use a profile for my banking app to isolate it from all my personal apps, instead. But it seems that Google doesn't' even care that much about the multi-profile functionality, as it seems to crash quite often and has other issues. I imagine they don't put it through a lot of Q&A with each new Android release.

Even so, having to change between profiles often just to get that kind of isolation is quite frustrating.
I cannot down vote, and would rarely do so if I could, but I would here. You are blaming the hurricane on the butterfly. One guy pulled a trigger and killed someone.
I'm 25. I make about $150k. My father would never tell me how much money he makes ("it's rude to talk about money") but he probably makes at least double what I make. My mother doesn't work.
On the Leroy Lettering System as Used in Golden Age Comics
Disk I/O being synchronous doesn't disqualify it from being real time. Disk I/O not having a bounded execution time would make it not real time.
I'm sorry, wait, what? Swatting should be at most a fine? I hope I misread that.
wow, you folks hate jokes. It wasn't even an offensive one.
But CS isn't about shopping for guns; the Minecraft server was explicitly very much about the economy. I think a better analogy would be being so good, with such good twitch reflexes and understanding of the map, that she could single-handedly win most rounds.
Speaking from experience, it's primarily due to 'tradition.' All of your combi-nozzles and rate control valves are rated and marked in GPM (Gallons per minute) and hose is purchased and stored as 50' sections. NFPA specifications for the hose required on a first due engine are in feet.

A department can't decide to use metric alone. The entire industry first would need to support at the minimum both standards.
Even better, SWAT teams can be weaponized by enemies of the US. North Korea, ISIS, whoever - just call up the US and cause havoc.
> I have the feeling that iPhone batteries are just large enough that the phones survives a day of medium use if the phone is brand new. After 1 or 2 years the battery is so bad that it barely holds enough charge for a few hours of usage.

That’s just a feeling. I’ve had my iPhone for 3 years now and the battery is completely fine.
I'd guess that Wichita police will be relieved to be able to pin some of the blame on the prank, despite the fact that it may have no real bearing on whether their response was justified given the situation and what they knew.
> > $130 meal is a once in a lifetime type celebration (e.g. 50th wedding anniversary,

> Most "traditional" weddings (like you see in TV shows) cost $130 per guest for meal and alcohol. Many people attend many of these in a lifetime.

Right, but the host pays for it all. Your children getting married is a "once in a lifetime event" like a 50 year anniversary or a major career promotion.
Yes, that’s what I mean. Pointing that out because athletic programs are sometimes “profitable” because they bill the school for stadiums. My alma matter charges a yearly fee straight to the students for their new football stadium.
I was hoping for an explanation about how some of those NP-complete problems have a large class of edge cases that make them vulnerable, or maybe that it's difficult to design protocols that use them. I wasn't hoping for a conspiracy theory.
Firefox containers really helped with this (the worry of going through Facebook, that is). I have a Facebook Container (which facebook always opens in), and a News Container (which I just set WSJ to always open in. The redirect goes through both containers, and facebook obviously sees the referral and knows where I was redirected to (since it confirms I want to leave FB), but at least when I end up at WSJ any direct Facebook tracking links (cookies) aren't shuttled with me (they just have to rely on their massive dataset of information to link me as they would for any random request, which I'm sure they can...)
There are gangs of thieves who strip copper wire from houses and abandoned buildings in Detroit. Pour some gasoline on a pile of wire, light a match and after the fire finishes you're left with pure copper. But so much copper has been looted it's getting hard to find more.

Two years ago the freeways in the city flooded because thieves had broken into the pump stations, turned off the power and taken all the wiring.

But the degree of difficulty is raised if you're breaking into a power substation. This is the second time in 2017 this has happened.
“A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”

Livingston didn’t say if the man, who was 28, had a weapon when he came to the door, or what caused the officer to shoot the man. Police don’t think the man fired at officers, but the incident is still under investigation, he said. The man, who has not been identified by police, died at a local hospital.

This seems quite unusual. Looking at details, Wichita KS has a population of 380K. Perhaps they don't see much of hostage situation and were ill prepared for it. Would be interesting to see the results of investigation. Also there were studies that looked at how stress could result in these kind of scenario. IIRC, one of the triggers were being on a suicide watch/dispatch call.
How Raganwald Lost His Crown
It looks like mosselman lives in the Netherlands. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15497755 . You are in Portugal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029643 ), which also has paternity leave. One difference, according to http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/portugal-among-best-for-... , is that:

> Portugal is the member state with the fifth longest period of paternity leave, with a potential of 21 weeks to care for their newborns. However, this report paints a different picture when it comes to the division of domestic chores. Here, Portugal joins Estonia, India, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey as among the countries where women put in three times more time on such tasks than their male counterparts.

That sounds in Portugal fathers are more expected to work/be a career man, and mothers stay home, than in the Netherlands.
Disclosure: A rare self-post. I'd be very grateful for any and all corrections to the story, as I am far from an expert is astrophysics, geology, or pretty-much anything else.
Is there any reasonable doubt that the officer abused his power? The officer shot a man with witnesses. There's no doubt that the officer killed an innocent man. The facts have been established that the officer had no cause to use that amount of force. That being the case, what reason is there to not put the officer in prison awaiting trial like any other person that committed murder?
A couple of takeaways:

- One of the problems (enabling teenage drinking) is an ambiguous view of the line between child and adulthood, she says; the resistance to call a kid a kid, and treat them as such, and really make it easy for them to pick among fun kid things to do with their time, to keep them interested

- the opposite of the D.A.R.E. approach, the Icelandic approach makes the community responsible rather than the individual teen.
There are new games coming out for the Atari 2600 just about every three months.

And a guy in Texas recently released a very interesting looking Ultima IV-style game for the Commodore 64.
Well, they have magic online as a digital product tie-in. MTGO is just as popular and of course more convenient, especially for competitive players because there are tournaments happening all the time and 24/7 trading market, that also helps practicing and paper for them becomes only important because that is where the major tournament money is.

The physical cards are still the main product because that's how people meet the game and it encourages in-person activity, they are not looking for the wow factor they are looking for community, same reason why board games are on the rise.
Again, what is the purpose of our universities spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year managing multiple athletic facilities, coaches, strength programs, trainers/medical support, practice facilities, etc.? How is that at all related to their core mission of research and educating young adults? If we as a society think that we should be devoting those sorts of resources to running what is essentially a shadow professional sports system for unpaid athletes, fine. But let's dispense with the fiction that this is somehow aligned with the goal of higher education.
Is any of this enabled yet (even if only in the dev channels)? Being able to run arbitrary containers locally would make a Pixelbook a lot more powerful.
I'm wrapping up my 6th month of using an iPad as my main computer [1] and this is one of my largest remaining annoyances. Working on frontend code is a huge pain, and I often have to resort to hacks like alert()ing to debug problems. Weinre [2] is great but it's in a separate tab and requires you to run a server.

It would be great if someone wrapped this into a React component so you could drop an <Inspector /> into the root of your project.

[1] http://campedersen.com/2017/06/30/ipad/

[2] https://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/
Also, why aren't positive reviews considered evidence a conflict of interest?

Or why isn't having a lopsided or one-sided set of reviews considered evidence of a conflict of interest?
Except the person "making the complaint" is a dead man that committed no crime, as the police chief established.
It's not a reward. /u/thatsnotmynamesir details exactly why that's the policy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/1s01lr/mos...

Sub-quote:

>Even then, the Administrative Leave isn't fun. The take your badge and gun and you are basically on house arrest between the hours of 8am and 5pm on weekdays. You cannot leave your home without permission of your superiors, even it its just to go down the street to the bank or grocery store. You must be available to come into the office immediately at any time for questioning, polygraphs, or anything else involved in the investigation. Drink a beer? That's consuming alcohol on duty, you're fired. So even when officers are cleared of the charges and put back on the street, Admin. Leave still isn't "paid vacation."

I encourage anyone to read the entire comment, as it explains much more about the process. Given that the review process can reasonably multiple to many weeks, it's not unreasonable for that time to be paid. If we're being honest, most people are not in a good enough financial position to pay 1 or 2 mortgage payments without any money coming in the door.

If it were unpaid time, why would I as a police officer want to volunteer to serve in the parts of town which are more rough?

If someone accused an officer of sexual harassment, the response would probably be the same - paid administrative leave. If 5 people came forward with completely untrue complaints against an officer sequentially, they could bankrupt the officer who literally did nothing wrong.
That sounds great, except how is Coca-Cola meant to advertise? Or any car company? Or McDonalds? And why is crediting the last advertisement a user saw the right thing to do when it is usually a totality of advertising that causes people to buy things, rather than a single ad.
The top 3 safest states are all constitutional carry states.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/the-10-sa...
That is not totally true.
EA never comitted to the Dreamcast and its death was due to all SEGA's past mistakes that burnt consumer and developers alike.
Piracy was never an issue with the Dreamcast in that it didn't hurt the system.

Someone did a pretty in dept analysis of the Dreamcast console and games sales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hGK2ep3gJI&feature=youtu.be

Sega was strapped for cash and couldn't compete with Sony's hype and deep pockets. The Dreamcast was dead out of the gate unfortunately.

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Seamus Blackley the CTO of the Xbox and person who came up with the idea that Microsoft needed to get into the console market and pushed the company to do it, is quoted as saying "If I had known how powerful Sony and Nintendo were, I would have probably given up on there wouldn't be an Xbox"

That should give you and idea of what the console business is like. Even with Microsoft's deep pockets its a hell of a challenge.
I've done this with all Google apps minus maps. Haven't found anything close to Google maps.

Also how do I turn off location tracking by Google, constantly asking me to upload pictures, write a review, answer questions ect
The most hilarious tweets of 2017
I built my own trailer, a "tiny home": http://tinyhousemansion.com/

I filmed a several how-to videos and put them up on youtube. Not the most economical (cost/resale-wise), but a great experiment and real-world break from full-time programing.

My Tiny House is super insulated and energy efficient. The only leaks are from windows. I wrapped the whole thing in rigid foam panels and lifted the metal roof up an inch to keep the roof from ever getting hotter than the ambient air temperature.
If you have fire based EMS then that will account for the vast majority of your call volume, full stop. Accidents requiring extrication are rapidly decreasing as cars are becoming safer. Additionally, homes are becoming drastically less at risk of fire (to the point many municipalities now include residential suppression sprinkler systems as a building code requirement.)

As an anectdote, my district has around 10 miles of interstate and 20 miles of major highways. Our call volume is, in order of prevalence,:
1. Fire Alarm (Only 2 have ever been actual 'fires')
2. Medical Assistance (We are EMR, not EMS)
3. Grass fires / Trash fires
4. Accidents
5. Building fires
6. Something else

Our neighboring district has a ton of farms and little to no major roads. They may receive a total of 20 calls per year compared with over 300 in our station. (Both low volumes but the type of response is reflected.)