skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Homicide is the killing of a human being due to the act or failure to act of another. Criminal homicides include murder and manslaughter. Non-criminal homicides include killing in self-defense, a misadventure like a hunting accident or automobile wreck without a violation of law like reckless driving, or legal (government) execution. Suicide is a homicide, but is rarely prosecuted."

from definitions.uslegal.com
Ask HN: I made a ridiculous amount of money and feel “depressed”
Hi HN: couple of years ago I made decision to work a ton and make a lot of money. I'm currently making over $380k in a very well funded startup and live remote in a no income state. I'm in my 20s and everyday, I wake up, work, play games, look at my investments and sleep. I'm pretty introverted and read a ton of books on investments and don't go out much. I'm not an unsocial person per se, but I'm in a small town and it's hard to make friends here. I thought about moving back to Bay Area but the 12% income tax and $2k rents goes against every frugality principal I was brought up in (I currently pay $500 for rent and 0% state income tax).

Having said that, this lifestyle has been taking a huge toll on me. I won't say I'm depressed, but I'm becoming so disillusioned with life. I've so much goddam wealth that literally everything comes easy. I've travel oversea frequently in a hope to feel alive - and for a short time I do. Drugs, women, crazy adventures. Then I come back to this small town and it seems like there's nothing to strive for. I have everything I want in life. Nothing is a challenge anymore. The other day I randomly bought a house for $45k in cash so I can rent it out, but i kinda lost motivation after the first week

Anyone feel like that? I feel completely directionless. I tried going to meetups and everything but I can't connect with anyone because our interests are so different.
I transferred in excess of $50k USD out without incident.

Could I have done the same with $1M USD? I have no idea.

The bar is considerably higher than $1k, though, and I'd wager is considerably higher than most people have to comfortably move around.
I feel like this article takes a lot of words and time to suggest the reasonable solution: make up fake answers to security questions and store them somewhere, preferably a password manager. Sure, it would be greatly preferable to use 2FA and people should really get on that, but lamenting on all the ways security questions can be inappropriate for people when there's an obvious solution feels like drawing it out for the sake of filling up that word count.
He never said Coinbase was doing it. It doesn’t matter if Coinbase was involved - it will looks terrible that it was exposed right when they launched.
Oh, I'm sure you can get them somehow, I'm just saying that they're so rare that no bank gives them out by default (nor have I ever seen one or know what to do with it).
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Good question, I can only answer that for the German/Austrian market.

I wrote a few Selenium scripts that would gather jobs from ~20 jobboards/freelancer sites.

Then I compared them, distilled the technology and also the amount they were willing to pay.

I'll spare you the details, but the clear winners were Java and C#.

On the Java side of things, it's Spring MVC ( Spring boot catching up )

For the frontend, Germans and Austrians tend to trust Angular.

So I picked Spring and Angular.
So far I'm more than pleased with the customers storming in.

I'd suggest you do the same for your region, I'm also convinced that your result might look totally different, depending on your country and region.

I also did a few isolated tests, for some parts of Austria and the results surprised me a lot, for example, C# was the clear winner with over 60% market share in some areas.

What I'm trying to tell you: This question is rather biased, just because you see 10 purple buses in the morning, that does not mean that suddenly the bus company changed its colors, it's maybe just a coincidence that someone just painted 10 buses purple, the only 10 purple buses in your town/city.
A brief summary of what something is can be helpful. I probably wouldn't have noticed this story if it wasn't explicitly mentioned as being about phones; I like hearing about a new OS but since I don't have the time/urge for kernel hacking I've generally stopped reading such stories.
If you are a VC, or run a company, or... pretty much anything, this is a no-brainer. Spend more money on your companies, your employees, yourself - and less on rent!

I posted this because it is very directly relevant to the bay area tech industry.
I don't think anyone is seriously believing in the loch ness monster. Crop circles properly too. Are they still happening?
You can't just "work" at the company, you have to produce.

There was an anecdote about Netflix about how a group of engineers who were top performers were let go after they did their part in transistioning Netflix's data center to AWS.

So should we feel bad for the people that got laid off? They will be some of the most sought after people in the industry.
Is the Smithsonian so desperate for revenue that it needs to ask me to both enable "notifications" and sign up for its newsletter the second the page loads? Who needs notifications on smithsonianmag.com?
"Gun deaths" always seems like a silly metric to me. Who cares if you're killed with a gun instead of a knife or baseball bat or whatever else? Why not just compare murder rates?
> 911 is an open API with no authentication. It cannot possibly prove guilt. Therefore, in a society which values innocence absent proof of guilt, police are bound to treat anyone they encounter by dint of information from 911 as innocent.

No, "innocence absent proof of guilt" is a courtroom standard. Police encountering suspects do not apply the same standards of evidence as a courtroom.
Just to be sure: have you heard of or looked into police violence in your area?

After that execution in Arizona[1], I wouldn't rule out the possibility that some of your local officers, depending on where you are in the country, are more interested in getting some action and shooting "criminals", than helping you and your mom.

The thought of wannabe-action-heroes or, god-forbid, psychopaths like Charles Langley, getting ready to tear through my family's property, terrifies me.

[1]: http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/07/mesa-police-involved-shooting-...
I use different security questions for each site to avoid this.
I live in Wichita and watched the police debriefing including the 911 call.

The caller spent upwards of 20 minutes on the phone with the police describing a homicide scene with the intent of misleading the police to cause this type of reaction.

He could not have known the murder would take place, but the intent was obvious.
When you say fraud, do you mean theft or identity fraud? 2FA is extraordinarily relevant when it comes to theft with regard to online banking. The purpose of 2FA is mostly to prevent automated attacks or remote account entry via password resets by email or something similar.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but Europe has proper 2FA in the form of a dongle type device, and not this SMS BS many companies in the US use out of laziness. They also need to use this device for not just online banking, but basic everyday transactions.
Sure, but you're not spending all day running customer service "DoS attacks" against people's bank accounts. Even if "it's gibberish, and I forgot it, can't you please help me out" only works one time out of a thousand, do you really want to bet your bank balance on a weak link customer service rep who's just a tad too eager to help?
I lived in Germany for 30 years and never had used a paper check before I came to the US. What are they used for?
> To start, in the mid-19th century Marx believed that capitalism has inherent contradictions that would lead to its weakening and being overthrown through violent workers revolution and replaced by communism, a utopia in which everyone would work together and the state would disappear.

Wrong, he thought that capitalism would be replaced by socialism, which would itself transition over time to communism; Marx’s socialism is not a utopian state, and Marx did not see workers revolutions replacing capitlaism directly with utopian communism.

> Leftists say none of this matters because none of the nations were true communism

No, non-Leninist Leftists say none of this is relevant to non-Leninist communism and the broader non-Leninist Left, because all these systems were Leninist vanguardism, and non-Leninists on the Left reject vanguardism and generally also the Leninist deviation from classical Marxism in bypassing capitalist democracy as a necessary part of the path.
It’s called good writing. He has a unique voice.
American SWAT teams are also trained to "properly identify targets before shooting", and officers are held accountable through a variety of systems (even though we may not always agree with the conclusion).

We're not going to get anywhere with such silly caricatures, and they are dangerous in themselves -- just ask Dallas. May be something to keep in mind while we're on the subject of indirect culpability.
Sure there are workarounds we can use as consumers, but getting the message out there will help push the companies to a better system. Something like 2FA over SMS is common in other countries and way better. Journalism is helping give security a bigger mind share in the public eye so they can understand how current systems are flawed and demand better ones. Its a good time to tackle the problem given all the recent hacks/leaks (like SSNs). Corporations will only budget for this stuff when their users demand it.
You replied to a comment that says:

> can we see that mythical laptop that is 3-4x cheaper than equivalently-specced MBP or not?

So, how is it even remotely equivalent?
Some people are starters. Some are finishers. Some are maintainers. Few are good at all 3. Most people seem to label fast starters as "top performers". But you can be a "top performer" in any category.

However, I would claim that if you never do maintenance work, you don't really know if what you're writing is crap.
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> Justified police shootings are not homicide by any definition.

Yes, they are; they are pretty much the textbook example of justifiable homicide.

They aren't criminal homicides, but not all homicides are criminal.
I thought the killer feature of electric cars is recuperative braking. So I suppose that a reasonably lightweight electric car should be perfect for city commute with constant start / stop on traffic lights, and for congested roads of SV.

Long commute, OTOH, seems favorable for a well-built ICE car.
Do some volunteer work?
I appreciate the simplicity of your calculus, but I think you’re being downvoted for lack of citations. The value of the simplicity of your claim is also what makes it an extraordinary claim. Therefore you should back it up with extraordinary evidence.

That said, you’re being upvoted because what you’re saying makes instinctual sense.
> No I meant a good client/server would never use sslv3.

They did. They don't now, but they did.

Eventually, a good client/server will never use TLS 1.2.

My point is that it's the same situation - just at different points in time, with different protocols.

> The moment 1.2 is known to be broken, every client/server should mark it insecure and never establish/accept 1.2 connection.

That's basically what happened with SSLv3. The moment SSLv3 was known to be broken, every client/server marked it insecure and never established/accepted a SSLv3 connection again. This took the form of hotfixes, CVEs, "crisis", etc. - after all, that's just when browser devs found out it was broken. Frequently, criminals and security agencies will find out before them.

To avoid repeating the exact same history of hotfixes, CVEs, and "crisis", you can patch out 1.2 proactively - before it's "known" to be vulnerable.

But either way - proactive or reactive - we end up in a future with TLS 1.3+ and no TLS 1.2 downgrade support eventually. Does releasing 1.3 early with downgrade support help accomplish that future? The TLS and browser devs seem to think that's a distraction, and that plain old TLS 1.2 will do just fine until they can make TLS 1.3 just work, without the downgrade support.

Sure, it delays the release of "TLS 1.3" a bit, but so what? It's not delaying the release of "secure against any future TLS 1.2 exploits" - the part that actually matters from a security standpoint.

And if I'm reading the "Making TLS 1.3 work" section of the article correctly, they're already nearly ready to roll out TLS 1.3 without downgrades: A 0.2% higher success rates with "Experimental changes" (TLS 1.3 without downgrade support?) than TLS 1.2 on Chrome somehow (possibly just within the sampling error rate) and a 0.05% drop in success rate in Firefox (again possibly within the sampling error rate.)

> I think this might be the misunderstanding: A good client/server never establish/accept insecure versions. If they get poddled, then no tls connection.

We agree there - but a better client/server drops support for "secure" versions before they become known to be "insecure".
> Imagine the hash rate of the BTC network going towards some useful calculations.

Unfortunatly BTC mining now runs almost entirely on ASICs that can't be used to compute anything but SHA-256.
I think it’s all debatable. That human will always be a weak link. It just takes one representative to forget to ask or get convinced with “oh it’s my wife’s mother’s maiden name and my wife isn’t here and I’m in a real bind”.

But in exchange, my security answers are no longer compromisable online. I think overall it’s a positive trade off, but that’s just my hunch.
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I'm sure some black market activity will remain because of the tax rate, but I'm also sure most middle- and upper-class people would prefer to pay more for their weed at a legal venue than risk arrest by buying from a black market dealer.

There also exists a black market for cigarettes because of taxes, but the vast majority of smokers buy cigarettes legally because it is easier and safer and runs no risk of arrest.
I would expect that the same exchanges tend to be on the same side of arbitrage spreads, for various reasons that could include lack of liquidity.
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Australia is fairly similar to this. Particularly the fee free transfers between banks (for both private and business)

What’s interesting is that next year most of the banks seem to be launching an instant bank transfer system - big interbank implementation. Right now it takes generally 1 business day if you’ve transacted with that account before and 3 business days if you haven’t. I assume that’s some kind of anti fraud but not 100% sure.
back in the "good ol days" of btc-e.com, i feel like the entire point was pump and dump. it should be expected 100% of the time.
Fishing in Greenland probably has little significance to Denmark's economy now, but in the event of some future political/economic crisis it's nice to have backup resources. Japanese militarism in the early 20th century was motivated by the fact the population there was growing faster than their rice production ability.

Admittedly if Denmark was suffering from genuine food insecurity then convoys to and from Greenland would probably be under threat as well, but I agree with the G that when food runs short every other consideration becomes secondary.
Seems like it was more of a "per-capita-inspired fudge factor for Greenland relative to U.S.". I'm not sure why that should be valid?
Something that I haven't seen much comment on is that the fact this call was false is somewhat irrelevant to the failure of the police here.

Even if this had been a real hostage situation, that absolutely required the presence of SWAT - they still shot an unarmed man by the front door - in a real situation that's a hostage.

Dealing with a house full of only innocent people is objectively simpler than one with a mix of innocent people and bad guys even if you don't know which you'll face when you open the door.

But laying this at the door of one man is not much help - there's no deterrent needed here just better systems/training.
Buy a house with a very, very long driveway and put in an alarm system around the perimeter of your land? At least that would give you some warning.
I speak from anecdotal experience here but have seen a bank account password reset using only the confirmation of address, name, DOB and bank card #.
That's not true. Guns are expensive. By far most of the guns are owned by people for whom they are a relatively expensive hobby, and the more guns you own the less likely you are to commit a crime. Note that concealed weapons licensees have a lower rate of crime than police officers.
Recursive, you have everything you want. but if you have, how the hell you want? to have and to want will never be the same, cause to want is to work for a new objective. and to have is to rest by the previous objective completed.

if you dont want to go to "the moon" maybe you dont want anything more. just to rest.
Not the cart ID, you're looking in the cart header at byte 0147 for the actual hardware (MBC1, MBC2, MMM01, etc) functionality in conjunction with bytes 0148 (ROM size) and 0149 (RAM size) for specific bank sizing/mapping.
Actually a fair bit. When I was consulting, the apps were data entry/reporting type backend systems and Bootstrap was mostly sufficient.

If it was user facing, I'd typically use a theme built on Bootstrap.
Hmm, should I sell my ICE now before it becomes worthless?

Just got it last year too, ah well.
> At some point, a satellite the size of Mars came crashing into the earth, so hard and so fast that about a third of the earth was blasted into space. It didn’t go far–the debris formed a ring around the earth, and gravity eventually compacted it into a single satellite, our moon, but a satellite much larger than our planet’s gravity would normally be able to capture.

Something seems off about "a third": according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon, the Moon's radius is a bit less than a third of Earth's, but its volume is 2% and its mass is just 1%. I'm no expert, but "about a hundredth" seems more accurate.

For what it's worth, I only looked it up because I've come across this discrepancy before, so perhaps I'm missing something!
On the plus side BOINC has credibility as a scientific computing platform so at least the incentives line up as opposed to the purely speculative aspect of many other altcoins.
> 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.

The way we northerners deal with that is to have a remote starter installed in our car. By the time we're done putting on our coats and shoes, kissing our wives, and brushing the accumulated snow off the car, the heater is blowing hot and it is fairly comfortable inside. I will grant that this does burn some gas, but how much range in comparison does an electric car sacrifice by heating the cabin off battery power over your entire commute?
The psychopath swatter and the trigger happy cop both need to spend time in prison. Perhaps they can share a cell?
I didn't explicitly say why renting concrete slabs is a bad thing because I think most HNers can understand without needing additional explanation
I love just how pervasive the influence of xkcd is! I do the same as you by the way, and no one has ever called me on using something that is obviously not a name.
Ask HN: What are your favorite cryptocurrencies?
Personal favorites; Stellar and Status. I think HN community would have much better view on the altcoin projects, so I wanted to hear your thoughts.
Read the article. The first and more important example, is the business that wanted to expand its peanut processing operation.

That highlights the danger of centralization of finance. Some regional commercial banker at Bank of America or whatever doesn’t care about a small loan for a peanut processing facility. It’s not worth doing the paperwork to write that loan. The local banks did.

Local banks fold up mostly because of the ridiculous monetary policy where large banks get free money conjured up by the Fed.

Read “The Silicon Valley Way”. These types of issues are actually covered.
Well, those hefty executive bonuses aren't going to fund themselves!
>> but has a delay for clearing...

not only is there an ODFI-clearing house - RDFI delay caused by the actual "clearing" process - the whole flow starting from the merchant->payment processor step is a sequence of nightly batches with cutoff times factored in to boot.

from the merchant perspective, however, ACH payment is cheaper to process than a credit card payment and is way less likely to end up in a chargeback.
Imagine and equivalent amount of computer power in an alternative future. I mean, you're right, and this limitation is a flaw in bitcoin, but you've also missed the point.
Well, for sure it's better than using your mother's actual maiden name. But I'd rather see security questions done away with altogether.
First, congratulations on gaining so much wealth at such a young age. I would recommend looking into turning that into a million or more before you hit 30 to insure your future is good to go (retirement age, when you cannot or just do not want to work anymore).

In terms of keeping active, I would recommend moving closer to a major metro area, this could be on the outside of the beltway so you possibly drive or take a ride in to reduce your rent/mortgage. Remember, it is hard to keep the mind busy when you live in a place with little to no activity.

Have you tried spending time working on your other hobbies, looking into things you would like get involved in (learning the ins and outs of cars, setting up a home datacenter, getting more in-depth knowledge about your favorite music genres, designing your own clothes, car mods etc.). If you do not want to move have you looked into ways to enhance your local community to bring some life into it, create jobs, get to know the locals better,
conduct local hackathons, and start small conferences to get others interested into what you do, etc.?
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This doesn't take into account beatings, getting shot and not killed, the police stealing from you (civil forfeiture), etc. Plus, police almost always get away with it. Terrorism is a smaller threat, yet we spend billions on preventing it and it's a major political issue.
Not just as bad, because you'd be measuring the correct thing, which is force. Not mass. That's all I was getting at - they're different things and depending on context, one can change (weight) where the other does not (mass). That's all.
You sound like you are well on your way to financial independence. I'd suggest stopping by /r/financialindependence you may well find others in a similar position.
Interesting. I know the microG folks tried to upstream a patch to Cyanogenmod, which the devs shot down almost immediately.. So you're saying that the microG folks are now maintaining a fork of LineageOS? If it's not tracking VERY closely to upstream LineageOS, then it's probably not worth it.
"Juries are told not to focus on the shooting, but to think if the officer believed his life was in danger"

The way that plays out in practice is, "that's my secret. I always think I'm in danger."
It is really terrible. We currently solve it by charging them the missing amount via credit card when this happens.