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Bike Sharing Shambles More Than a Bump in the Road
just buy a pair of scissors
>Censoring content you disagree with is societal suicide.

There's a big difference between censoring truths you don't agree with, and just moderating verifiable outright lies. The problem is that most people are decent human beings, and find it impossible to believe that someone would write something on the internet that is just a completely fabricated lie. Fake news hucksters take advantage of this psychological "hack" and exploit it, which should not be allowed to happen.
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Man-In-the-Middle Attack – An Advanced Security Crisis
There are only "less lethal" weapons. People can very well die from being tasered for example.
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1937
Naked shorters by definition own no stock currently so have no right to vote, but it may or may not affect calculations regarding the average seniority of stock against which rights are measured (it cannot be absolute, since you could conceivably have a situation where everybody shuts purchased the stock, and thus ownership of all would be zero, and thus nobody would have a right to vote).

And what of options and other derivatives? What of trust funds and other intermediate vehicles of ownership that might themselves have (perhaps partially) changed hands?
Sure, but you’re assuming that the clarity has been established. That threshold needs to be met, and it certainly didn’t happen in this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing was actually introduced in 1997 by one of the authors of that paper.
In terms of physical control of the machine? In terms of what software is loaded on the machine? Would you elaborate on what you mean "typical password manager user" and "does not control"?
That title sounds straight out of Jonathan Coulton's "Ikea" song for those unaware of the reference.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IUPu_ipbVB0
Disc brakes are catching on, but for good reason: they increase the stopping power in rain substantially.

Though, it doesn't matter if you don't ride in the rain, and many people don't.
Fair enough, but your original point was about their use of the word "white" probably just being informative. Given their agenda, it seems unlikely to me.
Facebook is trying to be the only place people communicate. It's just as unacceptable for Facebook to be removing or hiding information as it is for the email protocols to be removing or hiding information. If people don't want to look at something, they can unfriend the person posting it.

So, yes, I believe there should be no changing or altering content at all. I believe Facebook should act like a dumb utility instead of trying to impose themselves as a moderator over people's private lives.
Like many problems, I think the root issue is money in politics. The police have a dangerous job and doing it right involves a balance between risk for the officer and risk for the citizenship. When police unions have the ability to exert large amounts of pressure ($$$) on politicians, the whole system folds to their inevitable inclination to shift that balance toward their personal safety.
Not agreeing that turnabout is 100% fair or virtuous, but in many philosophical systems or legal systems "extenuating circumstances" are fair game for consideration.

I agree it would be nice to be progressing, but as someone who deserves what she gets if I don't stand up to things, needs to turn the other cheek if I do stand up to things, and is being "inappropriate" if I just try to be snarky about it, at some point you just pick which thing to be criticized for as you gotta do something. The Root has picked -- and the Smart Brothas as noted above are very funny!
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't useful. For a trivial example, I often use calculus to measure rate of change of telemetry of production systems, and that's just as a simple developer measuring performance of things I'm responsible for.

I assume by "order of magnitude" you're talking about big-O and friends... I use that math all the time when I deal with things at scale. If you're doing anything that's not a CRUD app with a trivial amount of users, you quickly run into math.
I don't see anyone here asking this: how many people are police killing who are not 100% innocent bystanders like in this case, but still didn't need to be killed? I mean, we're all outraged because they shot "some dude in his PJs" but doesn't that imply they must be shooting 10, 100x as many folks where we'd be thinking "well, he shouldn't have had a knife in his hand" or "he shouldn't have been high"?

Where I live, small town in the middle of the US, to my knowledge the cops have killed at least two people who were no real threat to them in the past few years. If that death density is consistent across the country there must be hundreds of events like this every year.

I get the impression somehow we've been brain washed into seeing this like unlucky folks being hit by a drunk driver.
Ask HN: Good books on scalability
Is there any good book that talks about scalable web application? By scalability I mean not just scaling in terms of infrastructure but also design.

We want to build something similar to JIRA that will allow it's users to make things as configurable as possible. Also, it's important to allow 3rd party developers to develop things on top of our platform.

I'm looking for some books or resources that can help us build a perfectly modular and scalable/extendable codebase.
And retained control of Guam, Puerto Rico, etc.
I wonder what happens when redirecting to 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost
Only on Facebook? Or anywhere? No limits on posting illegal material?
I came across an article on a disappearing Greek whistled language earlier this year:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170731-greeces-disappearin...
SWAT is usually only involved when it's clear there is an immediate and present danger.

That is demonstrably false.

For reference, start with this case.
There should be no limits on anywhere that is trying to be a general-purpose communications utility. I'm fine with people, for example, deleting trolling from the comments on their personal blog or whatever.

FTP doesn't care if you're transferring "illegal material". Neither does TCP, neither does HTTP, neither does email. Why should Facebook be different just because it's implemented as a corporation instead of a protocol?
This remembers me of rescam.org
If we allow for powered armor I can imagine armor with appropriate crumple zones. But I guess with powered armor you also get to carry ridiculously huge guns...
Every society has assholes, monsters and others with perverted senses of humor. One very simple objective of a civilized society is to ensure that such people cannot exploit state sponsored violence to hurt people they don't like. The problem here is that the US system is seriously flawed.
The militarization of the police force precludes this. Whatever's in the house is Al Quaeda, and our hero boys in blue are here to frag some shit. /s
I found Knuth’s “Dancing Links” paper [1] very well written and a somewhat easy read (I had to reread certain parts a couple times). I had to write a sudoku solver for one of my classes and I read that dancing links and algorithm x was one way to do it [2]. I then read some things around the internet to apply dancing links to sudoku solving [3] [4]. If you read the Wikipedia entry on exact cover problems there is a section on sudoku as an exact cover problem [5] this is one thing necessary to understand in order to implement a sudoku solver with algorithm x and dancing links.

Knuth even talks about dancing links in his new 2017 Christmas Tree Lecture [6] specifically here at 4:28 [7]. Basically he uses dancing links to solve for certain n in the problem he sets up in that lecture.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011047

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku_solving_algorithms#Exac...

[3] http://garethrees.org/2007/06/10/zendoku-generation/

[4] https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jchu/publicportal/sudoku/sudok...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_cover#Sudoku

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQw4CdxLr8

[7] https://youtu.be/BxQw4CdxLr8?t=4m28s
Unless this was launched by State Street or Vanguard how would anyone think this was a good idea or effective idea

More like Zero Liquidity Stock Exchange am I right?
Indan here.

Just want to say majority of these fake news come from Whatsapp forwards that spreads like wildfire amongst Indians and not Facebook.Check out the subreddit r/theunkillnetwork that covers many of such forwards.
The article doesn't really describe it being "abused," just perhaps too "easy" of an option for some who really could "just try harder". (By "easy" I mean prescribed or requested with the "sure why not" attitude without reviewing the side-effects which the author lays out pretty plainly.)

I don't find the sports analogy very compelling. We watch sports for the competition and the idea that the results are a combination of genetics+work. Hence taking PEDs is cheating in a sports context.

But if there's a medication that helps you live your life better (i.e. in a way that's more fulfilling to you) and if taking the medication doesn't impact anyone else negatively, why would you not want it taken as widely as possible?

The important thing is to let would-be medication-takers know with full honesty what the side-effects are - this is what the article focuses on most.
At which point, if you're up against armed individuals, you've lost the element of surprise, and have created a hostage situation at best, and a shootout in a suburban neighborhood at worst.

Or, someone walks out and defuses the police, then their compatriots wipe all the police out unopposed.
Bookmarked, thanks
With vintage clothing, aren't you pretty much guaranteed that someone has the exact same item?
Not really because of Kremlin "presenting" but, rather, because Russians see an example of "young, progressive and free democracy" right next to them. The one, where the current government came to power through a revolt, displacing another "democratic" government, which also came to power through a revolt 10 years earlier. The one, which is waging a civil war right now. One, where corruption eclipses Russia's own in 1990s. It's hard not to notice since millions of their citizens flee war and poverty in Russia as well as other countries in Europe.

Nobody has a problem with it though since the government is eager to listen to the West so it's a proper "democracy" and things are fine.
> 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?

Keep in mind that most people in the U.S. care about issues like this in an abstract way. They think that improvements should be made, but when, say, the time comes to vote they won't bother taking 10 minutes to see where their representatives stand on this issue and vote accordingly. If you ask people who they voted for the day after a primary, most will have a hard time even recalling the names in the downballot races, let alone what the positions were. The people who do tend to vote for these positions tend to be extremely focused on particular policies - they only care if the politician supports or opposes some obscure regulation that benefits them personally.

So in the end you really are talking about a very small number of activists and groups that are trying to bring about change, and they're fighting against entrenched groups opposed to said change - or more often than not, just general political inertia (why rock the boat if most voters don't care?).

There has been traction in the effort to get more body cameras, though, so there have been some improvements. But there doesn't yet seem to be enough people who care and act accordingly to bring about the big changes that are needed.
There is a wide difference in the prevalence, severity of condition and extremity of treatment in some of these conditions.

Poor eyesight afflicts a large portion of the population, but the severity of the issue and the extremity of the treatment are not high. It doesn't impact your ability to maintain social relationships, for instance, and the treatment is very well understood and has low/no side effects.

Color blindness, partial deafness etc., are readily and inexpensively treated, but they do not afflict 5-10% of the young and healthy population.

The issue comes in when we start saying 5-10% of the population has an extreme condition (ie: impacts ability to maintain work, social relationships etc.) with a relatively severe (ie: fairly large % of users experiencing side effects) treatment necessary. When you put that in the context of our massively volatile understanding of mental illness over the last 50 years, as well as the massive incentives for pharmaceutical companies to push a specific narrative, it is difficult for me not to see a red flag.
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I think that's mostly because conversations in the home page are sorted by frecency right now. That naturally favors bots, because they respond more immediately.
This is simply not true. First off you're applying American sets of values to the entire world, a lot of countries take the access to information just as serious as the rights of distribution, and even within the US there has never been a situation in history where a single publisher controlled 96% of the news access to large parts of the population.

This kind of monopolisation of information, in the US largely spread up between Facebook and Google, is entirely new, and it was once commonly accepted that situations like this have no place in a market economy or a civil society.

Now apparently it seems legitimate that this monopoly position is used to leverage power against marginalised populations in foreign countries under the guise of 'they have the right to do whatever they want'. This is intellectually lazy and morally bankrupt.
I still remember reading an interview years back with people working at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (I think; it was some time ago) whose job was to identify and track exploited children online. The part that's stuck with me was a remark about an infant whose photos kept popping up and didn't match any missing person reports. They gave the child a name at some point, and could only watch as this child literally grew up through child abuse images, year after year, because they didn't have anything to identify him by.

That interview was haunting. I can't imagine how hard it must be, or what kind of toll it takes on you, even if you're able to rotate through to something less stressful after a short period of time.
We have a very clear picture of what the minimum we need to do is. There is a minimum we need to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

My issue is we can't even decide to meet the minimum. It is a minimum for a reason. At some point we need to stop talking and do something. After 20+ years of trying to convince skeptics we are running out of time to be diplomatic.

You don't sound like a denier. Or if you are you are reasonable enough to not state absolutes.

I was OK being politically correct when the "debate" was just stalling progress. Now that the debate is not just stalling progress but actually reversing it, it is downright frightening.

Your counter analogy doesn't hold. We only have one earth.

And I think your argument is a straw man. No one is calling people who want to debate the solution deniers. I have only seen people called deniers who say that we don't even need a solution at all. Or worse, that warming is good.
Sure, but the goal is to waste their time a bit, you can't fool them forever anyway.
Software random number generators are technically
pseudorandom number generators because the output
of a deterministic program cannot really be random.

On the other hand, everything we build is made of quantum particles which exhibit truly random behavior. Including the computers that run those programs. So programs cannot really be deterministic.
We had ad-free social networking in 1994, and 1984.

Usenet, IRC, BBSes, MUDs… heck, remember The Well?

The Internet has always had ways for people to get together and socialize. Ello invented nothing.
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I think that humans are going to find out that algorithmic news feeds are not a good way for people get information. AI shouldn't decide what knowledge is consumed. RSS and Atom are much better solutions.
Managing Software Versions on Windows with Ansible
They compared the error rates of working+short time memory to values that non-adhd people score.
My score was significantly lower than average at my first test and on my second test above average on medication.
Sorry, I emphasised HN because I perceive it to be a place where "enlightened people" (in a non-sarcastic sense) tend to hang out. And therefore, of all the discussion forums I can think of, HN is the one that is most likely to have a view on censorship that prefers freedom of speech rather than suppression of wrong-thinking.
> At what point does the average citizen look at "SWAT death as an option for what could happen to me today" and think, 'well .. this is okay'?

The average citizen saw 20 1st-graders being shot 5 years and 2 weeks ago and decided it was OK with that. Citizens weaponising police (I have a hard time calling that law enforcement) against other citizens barely even ranks.
Why is there life? And what does it have to do with AI?
Yeah considering that the 911 call mentioned a 1 floor house and the house in the video is 2 floor they should have had some idea it wasn't quite right.
Police militarization makes this man more culpable, not less. He called the police with foreknowledge that doing so would provoke a militarized response likely to end in a death.
In that case, you can help them secure the capital.
> Watching the video of the shooting in the hotel hallway a few days ago, I think that the answer is just go to the floor with your hands visible and don't move, never mind what they say.

And get shot anyway for not obeying orders.
Tactful self promotion used to be accepted and encouraged on HN. (No comment on whether this comment fits that description)
Tesla the Car Is a Household Name. Long Ago, So Was Nikola Tesla
My wife's family house was mistaken for a drug house years ago, it was around the block.

Police came in cuffing them and shot the family dog when it got aggressive trying to protect the yard, and noone in family being able to restrain him as they were in cuffs

This was in Canada.

This happened ~15 years ago, my wife still traumatized and never leaves pets outdoors.
Their family has quite the disdain for police overall since..

Over use of police force happens everywhere, and just more known in these communication real-time times.

The guy who requested to take the "hit" out, definitely the guy who made the call, and I doubt but also the officer most of all should all be charged.

Hope they make an example of the guy making the false reports as he has history of doing it, and blew off the consequences of his joke.

I can't believe the police didn't verify the situation before escalating.
Even if it was a real situation, the guy who had his life stolen could have been the hostage.

Police have made these mistakes without false information... I put the biggest blame on them, also important to not label all police officers the same as some are very upstanding citizens.
Maybe a naive question, but couldn't they just stay in armored vehicles that are bullet proofed and agree not to fire until they are fired upon?
thanks for the pointers
It's only recently that there has been any tracking of how many people are killed for any reason by police. The Washington Post has a database:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shoo...
It is mostly - but there are some where its obvious the spammer gets frustrated: "I believe you must be a fool or an idiot to think am here to play games." - Spammer [1].

[1]: https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/meqpscxa/
At least your Bitcoin isn't going to be yanked out from underneath you overnight by the government:

For example, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/08/india-withdraw...
Wichita police release body camera video from shooting linked to 'swatting'
If nothing else, they fuck up addresses all the time.
BBSes sometimes had full screen ANSI art interstitial ads, too, though.
They've changed the book business, and they are dominating the paid eBook market: "According to AuthorEarnings, which studies the book market, Amazon accounts for more than 80 percent of ebook sales in the US."

It'll be interesting to see if they delve into the ePaper market with an entirely new, dedicated device.
> “name the philosophical framework adopted by Communist Russia (since technically this predates the USSR) which was based on the works of Marx Engels and co.”

Marxism-Leninism? [1]

Honestly, Dialectic Materialism[2] can be summarized as "the idea that ideas and real-life influence each other" and Historical Materialism[3] is the thesis that history has been shaped mainly by its material reality.

[1]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism

[2]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dialectical_materialism

[3]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Historical_materialism
East vs West Germany, North vs South Korea, even Cuba vs Florida. There have been plenty of experiments.
Tummy Patch Claims to Reduce Fat, Supplies Drugs Converting White to Brown Fat
Can you please help me understand how distributed systems involve in stock trading robots
Whether gaming addiction is a disease or just a symptom, we need to treat both the cause and the symptoms.

I don't really care how we go about working the medical system to enable this.
> Result is they get kicked, slapped, scolded and vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds who know they would win the case for a judge if it comes to it (or otherwise get 40 hours of public service).

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if an offense only warrants 40 hours of public service, it's probably not serious enough for a cop to use their firearm.
lol that's not a personal website...
Are we discussing 1982 or 2017? :-)

There were no bathtubs on the trains in 1980-s in Soviet Union...
I bought a pretty basic no-frills bike (https://www.feltbicycles.com/USA/2016/Bikes/lifestyle/Urban/...) and used the same conversion kit that the author of this post uses (Bafang BBS02 from LunaCycle - less than $100 for a local bike shop to install). I've been riding my e-bike to work for several months and the caliper brakes that came with the bike have held up fine. They have enough braking power that it feels safe, and don't seem to be wearing too badly. So I don't think you need disc brakes at all.

The only problem I've had with the underlying bike is one incident where I slammed on the throttle from a full stop and the motor wrenched the whole back axle out of its alignment and jammed the wheel at an angle to the body of the bike. I guess the nuts securing the axle had worked themselves loose. Luckily I was close to work and was able to walk my bike in, and bring some tools the next day to loosen and re-tighten the nuts.

Overall I think it's been great. I wouldn't go back and buy a more expensive bike if I could. The nearly car-like prices of "good" bikes are too much.
While a protocol may not care, jurisdictions do have a say as to what is transmitted over them. A mailbox doesn't care what's put into it, but it's illegal to send a bomb throw the mail.

I think your argument with respect to Facebook attempting to be a utility is interesting, but I'm not sure how true it is, and whether that actually implies no restrictions. Utilities are generally subject to regulation. Edit to add: One can discuss what form that regulation should take and what it's limits should be, but that's different from saying there should be no limits.