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Coming from a country where the police spends more time developing people skills than doing gun practice, it never ceases to puzzle me how the solution to any situation appears to be to shoot anything that moves on the flimsiest of assumptions, then figure out what happened afterwards.

Now, I appreciate that the police in the US does face a population with more guns on hand than the Norwegian police does; this surely goes some way towards explaining their apparent eagerness to shoot first, then ask questions later.

However, what puzzles me most is this - if the police around here shot but one innocent, there'd be cries for resignations, perhaps even going all the way to the secretary of justice; we collectively would expect - nah, demand - that the police come up with policies and training which would make it less likely that another, similar incident would ever occur, &c.

So - the demonstrations following some police shootings aside, is there any significant push in the US to drive the police towards less lethal encounters with the public it is to serve and protect?

Say, requiring better people skills, more use of non-lethal weapons (and, if sufficiently effective non-lethal weapons do not yet exist - to have them developed), more passive safety for police officers (say, if you are wearing body armour which will stop a cal. 50-round, maybe you do not have to fire the first shot) etc?
Thanks for the advice, we've been staying under the radar on HN recently but we honestly feel really strongly about this. We're a nonprofit, have been sinking lots of cash into this project, and are not in it for personal gain :)
I'd love to see Scott write one of these for modafinil (Provigil).
I’m as upset about police shootings as anyone, but there’s no way you can make this claim with the information available.
I had held off getting tested for ADHD because I was convinced I was just lazy and didn't like schoolwork but once I noticed I couldn't play a single videogame for more than 15 minutes at a time and had to do something else, I got myself tested and ultimately diagnosed.

I still remember the first day I took the medication, it was like somebody finally turned off a white noise machine in my brain and I could finally do all the things I've wanted to do.
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> According to the Slidell Police Department, some of Neu’s co-conspirators actually do live in Nigeria. Neo was the middleman who sent the money to the real brains behind the operation.
There is abundant evidence of effectiveness of prayer practices, thousands of years ago and now. The human mind has the need for divinity built-in at a hardware level.
India’s Vice President recently got scammed in a weight loss scheme.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindia/when-vp-venkaiah-na...
Would it? My understanding is the authentication worked just fine, it’s just spawning a shell that doesn’t. That could be intentional: eg for SFTP hosts or jump hosts.
Could this be applied to software? Building Linux from Scratch was awesome experience for me, even if I didn't write a line of code and just followed instructions (actually I wrote my own init scripts). I used that Linux for a year after that. But I'm technical person, so complete noob probably won't be able to do that. Something like installing a program to a proper place by extracting and copying few files and doing few registry tweaks to make it work may be?
I'm "railing" against the platform itself. I've had a web browser and a broadband connection since the late '90s.

Unwanted popups still happen. Cross-site-scripting attacks are still a thing. Canvas fingerprinting is still a thing, albeit a newer one. Sites I visit can still track me across other properties unless I jump through a number of hoops. Content creators are still largely not being compensated for their work. Half the sites I visit are practically unreadable for me, and my eyesight is pretty damn good.

The big companies like Google or Apple could have stopped a few of these races to the bottom in their tracks--just like Jobs did to Flash--but they haven't, for, umm, reasons...

https://web.archive.org/web/20170706120427/https://www.tedun...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10fnZ2chEYg
Fear Stands for False Events Appearing Real – Sergei VanBellinghen
To anyone interested in turning the tables on these scammers, I recommend this website:
http://www.419eater.com

Dozens of hours of entertainment guaranteed.
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26k blockchain projects launched in 2016, 92% are now dead
I think that the main takeaway and I think Thiel's explanation has the most explanatory power (Tech Stag Hypothesis).
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Every device has it's own unique keys - one for transmitting data and another for receiving commands. They are burned with firmware in production. If you are interested in bruteforcing - I can send you two weeks worth of my home water meters' data packets to play with :) See, the CRC is calculated for encrypted data, so there is no way to know if the guessed key is correct.
Scientists Question Safety of Using Waste Water from Oil Fields on Food
Doesn't surprise me. I've worked in computational fluid dynamics and never heard of contracts for difference until now. This is despite taking a measure theoretic probability class and being one of the few people who were not studying to a quant. Most of the examples were motivated by finance. The author of the website/book likely has had a similar experience.
One can also state, WRT the US, that "real" capitalism hasn't existed and its closest approximation has been in steady decline for the last 125 years. Ergo, if we only tried "real" capitalism things would be so much better.
Interestingly, even Java is probably going to introduce local variable type inference using syntax somewhat like

let foo = bar();

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/286
Want to be happy? Think like an old person
Your example is right on the money. I used to be consumed by organizational disorder, and even worse, wasn't aware that it was happening. Agile is no magic solution but it can be a vehicle to creating organizational order if you need it, especially if it's a hot buzz word in your company.
You can not change the world to get rid of idiots you sure as hell can screen police officers for psychological fitness and train them to apply force in much more reserved fashion.
What if person who made a call is outside of US? Or we are unable to track it? Who are we going to blame then?
The "911" seems like an open line for terrorists or some other nation to kill anybody they want... Or terrorize anybody they want...
They’re not.

I’m confused why you think this would be particularly expensive, though; the components aren’t that expensive, and neither is data service for the minimal data the meter will send. I would imagine it’s more expensive than a PLC or general radio solution, but on the other hand it’s got the benefit of requiring minimal new infrastructure.
Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?
Bit ironic that he might literally have to send emails to friends and family asking for monetary help for his lawyer fees.
Anecdata, but my circle of friends spend about 20x as much time playing board and card (we're just getting into Bridge and... we may not need any other card games now?) games together as we do board games. Probably more like 40-50x if you count pen & paper RPGs. Our digital gaming is all solo stuff. If we play video games together it's almost always local coop, and probably "classic"—something on Gamecube (I assume Double Dash is considered "classic" by now), the Perfect Dark HD update on the XBox360, that kind of thing.

We're technically Millennials (though early ones). I went to my first convention this year (with one other person from same circle of friends) and it was for board games. It was social, it was fun, every single person I met there was awesome. I'll probably go to the same one next year. I'd never go to a video game con, however much I like video games.
Nonzero mass particles traveling at the speed of light, the very fact itself is astonishing enough.
Another thing that can help is doing a yoga class once a week. I found the 3h0 Kundalini yoga to be the most helpful. But eliminating sugar is a big one too there are many ways in which we unintentionally expose our self to everyday food items that can induce ADD states.
It is unacceptable to take money from the crowd without making the appropriate effort to deal with demand.

The ponzi scheme aspect of it is this: the cryptocurrencies become more valuable as more people buy them. Very few people can access their accounts to sell them though, and that technical glitch will continue until the value collapses, at which point anyone who bought in will have lost the incentive or desire to sell and be left holding assets at a loss. This is designed into the system as a feature not a bug.

The coinbase status page is practically the definition of a ponzi scheme: https://status.coinbase.com/

In particular they write that while there is no friction whatsoever to putting money INTO the scheme, it is not currently possible to take money out reliably:

"Update - Due to outgoing wire delays, we recommend withdrawing via ACH (bank transfer) instead of wires for faster processing. This applies to withdrawals only. Deposits via wire transfer are not currently delayed."

If this were a real estate scam every red flag imaginable would be raised: you can buy but you cannot sell.

That this is passed off as a technical issue beyond anyone's control is the very nature of ponzi scheming.
That’s missing the point. ADHD meds make everybody concentrate better, regardless of whether the person actually has ADHD.
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There are a lot of electrics that aren't luxury cars and have range in 100-200 mile range. Most gas cars I've seen have a 300 mile range befor refueling..

The thing about an electric if you park at home the tank is always full in the morning. No more stopping for gas in the daily commute. Long road trips are a different story.
All good points except for the last one even if you could even theoretically develop practical armor that could stop cal. 50 round it would still be able to kill a person through the impact force damaging internal organs.
The article links to a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZixDTrQdzo) and the creator’s explanation starts at 1m12s. It’s pretty slick.
> advertising should not corrode conversation.

You really followed this with a link to your website?
Modern banks really don't. In Germany you truly have no use for cheques anymore. SEPA works both ways (wire transfers and direct debit from your account are free for you and very cheap for business accounts).

While for instance in France, Orange launched their own bank recently, they're 100% mobile, yet you can request a checkbook (for free, afaik they cannot legally charge you).
I dont think any mentally healthy person would want to work in politics.
I'm not sure whether it does certificate pinning or not. You don't know the security of the recursor either, and there is no E2EE between the nameserver of their domain and you. A hostile recursor could still cause DNS poisoning.

An easy way to remember is that DNSCurve protects you between client and recursor whilst DNSSEC protects from (cc)TLD till name server (while also adding gigantic bloat to DNS requests).

Trust issues often occur at the first hop: LTE (SS7 for example, lol), (public) WiFi (example: hotel, train station), or plain hostile ISPs who hijack DNS requests (like Comcast has done), inject ads, or government interventions (such as during Arabic revolution). DNSCurve/DNSCrypt can protect against these attacks.
That's really cool, but the results don't look much like her avatar. I'm guessing it's really hard to do this without a lot of human input.
DC entirely won for long distance power transmission. You might be thinking of the situation in the early 20th century. There was no previous use of DC for power transmission over any but very short distances because it was not possible to increase the voltage without the use of transformers. Transformers only work with AC.
I'm going to be adding a better form input to highly recommended users to use good passwords.

Since it doesn't store the master password (just the key derived from it), that is the true "game over" but would require trying the whole 2^256 space with HMAC-SHA256 to brute force the key.

If they try to brute force the actual mastet password, it would be extremely slow since it uses scrypt with a high n, which runs at 2 hash/sec on a good desktop (probably could be a lot higher using dedicated hardware, but still very very low compared to SHA256 which stands at millions of hash/sec).

I don't understand your last point, can you rephrase it?
Could it be something simple like a combination of measures designed to allow it to rotate for an extremely long time:
- Vacuum enclosure (remove air resistance)
- Perfectly balanced wheel (reduce bearing wear)
- Excellent quality bearing / lubrication
- Small electric motor & battery to provide enough force to allow for continuity once started externally
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"Most of the commercial E-Bike uses 250W or 350W motors, because that’s what the European specs are. While that amount of power is able to achieve 20MPH range, it does take its time to get there. In the US, with the open roads, that’s simply not enough power to keep up with traffic. Quite frankly, they still feel like a plain bicycle and it’s a bit boring to ride. Higher adoption require more power."

As I understand it, the EU standard says there's supposed to be no power assist past 25km, which is about 16mh. That is, for e-bikes which don't require a license.

I agree. If you want a more powerful e-bike, you should have a license.
Show HN: Mental Models flash cards
I've been wanting to spend time studying mental models and then I saw a comment on HN that recommended https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/

I decided to turn their post into "Flash Cards" so I can study a few each day.

It's a PWA, so you can save it to your phone's homescreen and use it offline.

Full credit for the content goes to Farnam Street. Some of it is a bit confusing out of context, so I'll probably clean it up as I go.

Find the app here: https://mentalmodels.co
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Living in Germany and have never seen one in more than three decades.
The principal issue is: why was an unarmed
man shot on his doorstep by the police.
This focus conveniently absolves the police
of wrong doing; e.g. "if someone didn't call
in a problem, no one would be dead".
An unarmed man was shot and killed in his own doorway. The officer that shot him could not have seen a weapon, because there was no weapon.

That is all the information that is necessary to make a determination not only that he should be charged with murder, but convicted of it.
> ...WTF is wrong with the Police...

WTF is wrong with a full-grown 25-year-old man, who thinks it's funny to waste scarce taxpayer funded resources for his own amusement, because he had a petty argument with a virtual stranger when playing an online game?

Of course I'm not defending excessive use of police force, and the officer who fired the shot should be investigated too, but we need harsher penalties for swatting. The fact we have 400 cases per year [1] is unacceptable, and I hope these criminals go to jail for a long time.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4253014/swatting-911-pran...
Any other managers notice that workers on Adderall will spend enormous amounts of time on totally non-productive or completely unrelated tasks?
This book can be very useful when developing computational fluid dynamics softwares or even doing theoretical fluid dynamics work.

There are very few comprehensive lists of verification cases for these softwares. This is one which comes to mind. My impression is that the tests are passed on through word of mouth, assuming any tests are done at all. This is far from ideal. A more or less standardized series of tests would be very useful to compare different softwares.

A more extensive section on the RANS equations in different coordinate systems (like the author did with the full NS equations) would be appreciated too. For example, I've never seen the Reynolds stress transport equations in axisymmetric coordinates. They would be very useful in many contexts. I plan to derive them myself early in the coming year, putting them in an appendix in my dissertation.
Not true at all. If the person firing the round can survive the momentum imparted into their shoulder from the rifle, then the person on the receiving end can survive it if they're wearing armor that spreads out the imparted momentum similarly. Basic Newton's Third Law.

Also, there are .50 BMG handguns (and no, I'm not mistakenly referring to .50 AE, I mean .50 BMG). They are stupidly impractical, but they exist. You're making this out to be some mythical projectile when it's really just a bigger bullet. It's not like getting hit by a tank shell.

The real flaw with this scenario is that full body armor required to stop .50 BMG would be so bulky and heavy that you wouldn't be able to move. The imparted momentum isn't the problem, it's stopping the penetration of the round.

It's also worth pointing out that this conversation is pointlessly academic, as .50 BMG has not been used in a murder once. Ever. In the entire history of the United States. Out of over one million gun murders total. It's ridiculously impractical for that purpose.
Non US'ers should understand that Europe, and Scandinavian countries in particular, is a different world than the US. No social safety net, lack of public transportation, exorbitant health care costs, tragically ineffective 'war on drugs', guns, violent crime, poverty. Honestly, the US really kinda sucks now, for most people living here.
A friend of mine just got a Tesla Model X. He also owns exotic cars and races cares. He is a true car guy and gear head.

If people like him are starting to switch to electric so will everyone else.
Sounds like you're not familiar with sociology nor macroeconomics literature.
We're talking about "gamers", right? Why wouldn't this "example" simply result in innocents being framed as SWATters?
> 24. Don’t let entropy get at your daily routine. Avoid entropy-driven work.

Your anecdote is rule 24 in practice. Good job.
I had an EeePC 900 back in the day, and used it as you described. I use my Chromebook in much the same way. I want a device with a nice screen that can run a web browser and a mosh client.
Indeed, dictators originally had term limits even, so the idea of a temporary dictatorship is... pretty much its original intent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator
The information available is that the victim was unarmed and not moving towards any of the officers. He raised and lowered his hands a few times. Not one account, even the officer who shot the person, indicates the man was behaving violently towards anyone. If it weren't a police officer that did it odds are the shooter would be in jail pending some charge related to homicide but not whatever that district's version of pre-meditated murder is. The only difference in this case is it is an officer, and they get special treatment in the US because our justice system is garbage.
Watch the body camera video in the same article.
They didn't caught the prince, all they got is one of it's little hands who was in charge of collecting funds in the US and then wire them to Nigeria.
Those little hands are often poor and elderly people that are naive enough to believe it is a legitmate business and are not aware of it's illegality.
> Of four recources commonly metered in Russia - electricity, water, gas and heat

When you say "heat" - is this steam from a combined heat & power plant? I was aware these were quite widespread in Russia but didn't know they were metered.
Annoyingly, I had to take the longish hike to go to Ikea to pick some furniture up a week or so ago. And it was such a mob scene that I passed on the cafeteria.

To the broader point, they do make the store something of an experience which works especially well because there are relatively few stores so it's a bit of an expedition for many people to go to one.
This is an interesting perspective. I would add that there may be multiple "healthy" modes of being human that are quite different, and some of these modes may be a small minority. In a small tribe these cognitive differences may have been valued (depending on the tribe of course!), but in our modern, highly systematized society these people are often considered a social "misfit" for being unable or unwilling to play along.

For better or worse, the rules of society are designed by the neurotypical majority, who are often unable to see that the concept of "normal" is frequently just a fig leaf for the majority consensus. This can get wrapped up in politics through layers of metaphor but is rarely (if ever) engaged with directly in public debate.
This is basically a subset of body integrity identity disorder, a mental illness that creates a strong desire to alter the body surgically, often by removing body parts.
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To the contrary, the article about _implicitness_ is the one that doesn't need to be written because people already know what it means.
I owned an EeePC 900 which I believe used the same keyboard. I wouldn't even describe it as "good".
That's your (negative) take on it. You can do something about being overworked without hiring (evaluate deadlines and scope, learn to say no). There's a good chance that hiring people without establishing the underlying cause of "being overworked" will only lead to more people being overworked. If you're hiring because of "being overworked", you're hiring too late.
At least in Germany it's also a matter of insurance. If your motor-assisted bike goes faster than 25 km/h you need insurance and a license plate.
disclaimer: I'm a member of Docker Security team

We're working on a solution that would please most people for docker containers and services called the Docker Entitlements: https://github.com/moby/libentitlement

These Entitlements are high-level privileges for containers and services that could be baked in images, same way as macOS/iOS apps. These permissions would allow to create custom {seccomp+capabilities+namespaces+apparmor+...} profiles (effectively security profiles) for a better granularity in app sandbox configuration by app developers and ops.

The current POC has `docker run`, `docker service create` and even build mechanism working. The integration is actively being worked on and PRs are being prepared.

The issue you mentioned is already opened here: https://github.com/moby/libentitlement/issues/44

Feel free to have a look at it and open issues/participate or reach out through Github as I'm the lead and would love to discuss use-cases :)
A piece on New Yorker 11 years ago (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/05/15/the-perfect-ma...) on this kind of scam.
Aw man, if you're zombie-strolling, you're missing out on the fun. IKEA can be a grand time if you do it right. Since they lay out realistic homes, you can play house! Invent some characters and act out a scene with your friend or spouse.
Apple's getting a revenue share of any sold item in the store ... so.

I guess the rational thing for them would be to prevent scams to make ppl less reluctant to shop there, but since there is no obvious short time benefit they hardly care.

Compare this to all these "child bought 1000$ worth of Candy Crush items on father's card" etc.
Aren't the >16mph bikes sold in the US too?