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There is just one way this isn’t a massive police screwup, and that’s if the person SWATed reacted in a way that was (very) threatening, such as grabbing a gun, or something that is reasonable the police could believe was a gun.

My hunch here is that, just like you are suggesting, Swat teams are used incorrectly as first response in unconfirmed situations. No investigation by anyone has confirmed the threat.

At the end of the day, police officers just can’t shoot unarmed people, no matter how stressful the situation.
I was convinced that I had ADHD by the time I was 21 after a lot of struggling in high school and college. I went to a psychiatrist and he asked me the basic DSM IV questions and he said it was a 90% match. So he put me on Ritalin and then eventually Adderall. I also had severe insomnia so this exacerbated my abuse potential in order to make it thru multiple days with higher performance without sleep. Within a year or two, I got off all the stimulants because I was falling apart.

Almost 13 years later (and a lot more serious work struggle) I started talk therapy and began to realize that confidence, self-esteem, chronic anxiety and depression were my real underlying problems. It's hard to focus when you feel anxious all of the time. It's very hard to think deep - which reinforces the confidence and focus problem in high performance work situations. A vicious circle. So we tried the usual SSRIs, sleep meds, and benzodiazepines - which all have their own problems.

Another 12 years later after being on these meds, I stopped early in 2016. Life was slowly getting worse - and my physical health as well. In the start of this year I to realized that SSRI/SNRI are not fully effective if you don't change your lifestyle. So I cut out sugar, juice, sweet fruits, simple carbs, alcohol, and limited my caffeine to the morning - all of which makes a world of difference. Now I'm struggling to form the daily habits of cardio in the morning and mindfulness meditation a couple times a day. I feel 100% more focused and stable.

Only wish I had figured this shit out when I was a younger man.
The SWAT team should never be the first line of defense, unless pre-authorized by a warrant. They should only be involved after escalation from a normal police patrol, and should never be involved due to an anonymous tip.
In this case there was no immediate and present danger yet SWAT was called in. There was a report which turned out to be false. The SWAT team also was under no danger when they shot this guy.

I should add that being a police officer is not a particularly dangerous job. A telephone lineman has a dangerous job. A garbage man has a dangerous job.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/
And the recording of the 911 call as well: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192229414.html
> I'm honestly not sure what I can do to prevent that.

Nothing, it seems. If you find yourself in that situation, it's a roll of the dice whether you're getting a jumpy or stressed-out cop who'll end up shooting you no matter what, and having no hearing issues probably won't help as stumbling, twitching or otherwise being confused by contradictory orders will get you shot anyway.

In the long term, probably fighting for the demilitarisation of your local precinct and the shutdown of all these bullshit "SWAT units", in the short term… wearing a bulletproof vest when answering the door?
Rejecting "a court system, contract law, a police force, an army" sounds like an anarchist's point of view, and while libertarian anarchists (or anarcho-capitalists) exist, equating them with libertarians in general approaches the limit of how ignorant I can believe a non-troll to be.
Aside from the fact that there are a steady stream of actual ponzis centered around bitcoin, many new coins and tokens are almost certainly hollow schemes designed to transfer wealth from the naive to the ICO creators.

Then you have the "mining" companies selling shares of mining power, but those sometimes turn out to be pure frauds - no mining nor equipment. Those behave just like ponzis.

It is probably in the average person's best interest to avoid it all.
Yeah...video based and also sort of like a gif wherein you can show how stuff is happening? I am sorry if I am being naive but I am not a techie.
Dude, just try it. I see where you're coming from, but in practice I find that the reduction in obviousness to be small, and the benefits of reduced typing and noise in my program to be huge. I've come to see type declarations as work fit mostly for computers and I'm almost personally offended at languages that make me do it for them. So basically, if you try type inference, I don't think you'll want to go back. :)

P.S. I hear the Rust plugin for IntelliJ is pretty solid.
I am pretty cynical about humanity, but I don't understand why there aren't hundreds or thousands of swatting incidents per day, given the availability of anonymous communications, payment, and surplus of bad people in the world.

It seems like it would be trivial to set up a dark web service to SWAT on demand. For 0.1 Monero or whatever, place a credible spoofed SWAT call. Maybe hold payment in escrow and follow police radio or blotter to confirm they were deployed and then release payment, or just do a reputational system.
I remember when learning to scuba dive we were told to walk a similar same way when doing a shore dive - slide your feet forward and explore with your toes so you don't step on something you shouldn't like coral, sharp rocks or a ray.
http://killedbypolice.net/
China vs. Taiwan and Hong Kong.
No, the vendors will not give you water under any circumstance, wristband or not, paid or not. You literally have to get soda, pour it out, and find a drinking fountain if you want to refill with water. And of course, the drinking fountain has low water pressure, so you're tilting the cup and lucky to fill it up halfway.
It's not a Ponzi scheme - it's worse. At this point it only makes sense to call it a Nakamoto Scheme.

https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/
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Police were responding, in this case, to a call made by someone claiming to be armed and holding his family hostage. You do not assume a call is fraudulent in a situation like that. You assume the worst.

What happened to the civilian is a tragedy. He should not have been killed. But the person most at fault here is the one who lied and called in SWAT in the first place.
The risk of a paperclip maximiser isn't that the paperclip maximiser wants paperclips, but that the limits of almost any reasonable goal become strongly perverse when one approaches the limits of feasible computation.

Corporations are different because there are very strong diminishing returns on scale when it comes to how smart they can be.
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The problem in India is WhatsApp, which cannot have moderation because it is end-to-end encrypted.
The solution to that is to actually enforce the academic requirements. Clemson actually tried this in the mid-2000s with an academic review committee called (AARC) who would tell the coaches if they didn’t think a potential recruit could succeed on his own academically and disallow them from recruiting him. This all blew up when a top wide receiver prospect who we weren’t allowed to recruit turned around and signed with UNC, who was supposed to be a higher rated academic school. Years later we found out how much academic fraud was happening there and it made more sense.

IMO that stuff should be heavily policed to the point that doing so jeopardizes accreditation.

Fans of the school will turn out to watch walkons playing as long as the field is level with all of the other teams.

One of the reasons Dabo was hired is because he understood that Clemson’s administration didn’t want to go back to the win-at-all-cost mentality of the 80s and he was actually the staff member under Tommy Bowden who attended all of those AARC reviews.
Be in this place this summer and even though not heard the real one personal it is quite famous

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero
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> You know what would help? If the police tells you to do something, do it without question or big mouthing. Cops tell you to put your hands where they can see them? Do it. Tell you to lie down? Do it. Fight them later for any unjust actions but while at gunpoint just beeping comply.

-The problem, at least in some cases, is that you may get confusing, if not direct contradictory orders.

Say, if one officer yells 'Put your hands up' whereas another yells 'Get down, get down' - sure, keeping your wits about you, you could get your hands up, then kneel and get down - however, you are probably stressed as hell (being at gunpoint hopefully not being an everyday occurrence), and stressed people make mistakes.

Being frightened is NOT a condition which carries the death penalty. Police officers are the professional party in encounters like this. They should act like it - and receive training in how Joe Q. Public is likely to react when having a gun pointed at him.

(Heck, it might even be justified to have a masked instructor crash a class at the police academy and holding them at gunpoint for a few seconds (better make it a class where the cadets are not armed!) - with any luck, the brighter ones will remember how scared they were and cut civilians they encounter later a little slack for being scared s--tless.
> This process is designed to have a weapon be discharged.

Unfortunately, as a US civilian you need to be smart about de-escalating encounters with underpaid rage-monster cops with something close to legal immunity. Your goal should be to avoid injury or death until you can get to a lawyer.
In the middle chivalry (loose rules of wars, feud and honor) required to spare the enemies that surrendered, but you could take them prisoners for ransoms. It was a totally normal means of financing warfare and profiting from conflicts. Knights were paid using land taxes (not enough) and from loots/randoms (potentially a lot if you were good at it).

I guess it was totally usual back then to expect a letter asking for a random for a nobleman to war. If the dude was dead and a the letter a fake, you had no way to know.
Looking for an article about startup investors and open offices
Hello! I once read an article where a startup founder said that his investors would have viewed not having an open office as a waste of money. I'm researching the topic but cannot find that article. Does it ring a bell for anyone or does anyone have something similar?
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Ask HN: What is the difference between contractors, consultants, and freelancers?
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Ask HN: Best informal introduction to Economics?
Hi everyone,

I would like to study Economics out of curiosity and for the sake of my own education. I am not planning on becoming an expert.

Can you recommend any informal resources to study Economics? I've heard about books such as "Naked Economics" and "Economics for the Common Good" but I don't know how good/bad are they. The resources don't have to be books.

The questions are on my mind at the moment are: How does a country's economic system work? How do markets function? How do systems like Capitalism and Socialism function?
Seems like it might do a better job of incentivizing long-term thinking if you had to lock your shares, and your vote were multiplied by how long you have to wait before selling them.
This mindset is exactly what's wrong with policing in America. Every single part of training seems to be designed for worst case scenarios. There's no room for common sense or judgment.
That video, among all that I've had the misfortune of viewing, is the one that has most resonated - and scared - me, because it's one I can so easily see myself being in. White. Drunk. In a hotel. Throughly confused and scared. That's me.

Yes, I can get on the floor and not move. But I have absolutely no faith that "do nothing" won't also get me killed for, as the other person mentioned, disobeying orders.
ponzi schemes have no utility, bitcoin is a hedge against inflation, against corupt goverment, is bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, same is gold, and yes, i know about industrial utility of gold, but that's just 5% of its value, everyone that buys gold in india buys it as store of value due to inflation, corruption, etc.
In terms of software design, I found that Designing Data Intensive Applications to be very informative, I am going to give it another read next year. It cites a lot of references at the end of every chapter for the reader to explore the various topics further.
So if I understands correctly it’s intended to be a place where one can only go long on shares? Why would some company list here? Why would investors use it? That post was 2 paragraphs long and explains nothing.
If terrorists were really organized, they would obviously use swatting... I wonder if police units can even detects fake hostage alerts...
I have been using this site for about a month on every piece of spam that tells me to write back. But, I have not gotten any responses. How are they even making money if they don't respond to clearly interested potential customers?
The article talks about people's careers being stymied, or people losing promotions to, colleagues whose attention span is longer because they're abusing Adderall. That's the intro.

> The human brain wasn’t built for accounting or software engineering. A few lucky people can do these things ten hours a day, every day, with a smile. The rest of us start fidgeting and checking our cell phone somewhere around the thirty minute mark. I work near the financial district of a big city, so every day a new Senior Regional Manipulator Of Tiny Numbers comes in and tells me that his brain must be broken because he can’t sit still and manipulate tiny numbers as much as he wants. How come this is so hard for him, when all of his colleagues can work so diligently?

> (it’s because his colleagues are all on Adderall already – but telling him that will just make things worse)

> He goes on to give me his story about how he’s at risk of getting fired from his Senior Regional Manipulator Of Tiny Numbers position, and at this rate he’s never going to get the promotion to Vice President Of Staring At Giant Spreadsheets, so do I think I can give him some Adderall to help him through?

I don't see the problem with the analogy.
I find some irony in that the frequently stated mission of the LTSE is, well, long term thinking, and yet the most recent Dec 7 medium post is about how excited they are to be accelerating their launch by pairing with an existent platform.
It's sad to see how many people here view police as the bad guys

Apparently they just killed a totally innocent man, entirely avoidably.

In this case, they are the bad guys.
Maybe Toki Pona could be adapted to boatswain whistle?
In early eighties many central banks tried targeting the amount of money in circulation to achieve stabe inflation, but failed. There is no reason to expect that a predefined rate of money supply would generate a predefined inflation. (See: gold, bitcoin)
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The problem isn't just capital in the sense of fiat currency, the problem is that they have no state and no rule of law, no incorporation into the global economy either formally or factually. There is no real way to even operate a global or local industry without the basic requirements, they are excluded from the rest of the world.

There isn't a single serious facebook competitor in the entire United States. Please don't pretend that this is somehow a serious suggestion for a region like Palestine. They are entirely dependent on the digital and analog infrastructure surrounding them due to the circumstances they find themselves in.
> wearing a bulletproof vest

You joke, but I've considered it. Of course, the vest is probably visible and would be perceived as a threat.
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True, but also being a bit more random where it's not trivial to filter the bot on the spammers side would make it just a little bit harder to ignore.
How? Are you going to send an officer to the door to ask someone if there is a murder going on?

This was a bad shoot, but the tactics were sound. Don’t correctly they would have called him out of the house from a distance with lethal cover from multiple angles and then cleared the house.
Let's cut the BS US Military is facing unimaginably more dangerous situations on daily basis yet expected to obey engagements where rule often is do not fire unless fired upon. Police is not even in the top 10 list of dangerous professions in US. Situations that in most countries are handled by few police officers in US are handled by paranoid SWAT teams on armored vehicles with assault rifles in full tactical gear.
That's an argument that's persuasive in very specialized regions of spacetime with particular chemistries. Like dorm rooms equipped with bongs.
It takes a weapon to kill someone from 30+ feet away.
You do not assume a call is fraudulent in a situation like that. You assume the worst.

We're talking about literally a life or death situation here. Why on earth would you assume anything, rather than being cautious and trying to confirm for sure what the situation actually is?
This article has nothing to do with russophobia. It just explains very clearly why we, Russians, lose the cold war. When you restrict knowledge exchange and set up artificial barriers between scientists you are going to fail the competition.
OP mentions Paul Ford's tilde club [1], [2]. I really must get around to putting up one of these locally soon - if only to learn about running a Web server in the wild.

How would one go about that now?

[1] https://medihttp://tilde.club/um.com/message/tilde-club-i-ha...

[2] http://tilde.club/ [infinite waiting list... suspect dead]
Anyone in the US who makes under $64k can e-file for free[0]

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
Another recent post from Reddit on a related topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/7mxn9i/is_facebook...

A lot of circumstantial evidence for extreme pervasive surveillance by Facebook apps is mounting.

Edit: another possibility is that other apps are doing the monitoring and selling the data to Facebook or to data brokers that then sell it to Facebook. Lots of "free" apps ask for every permission.

In any case security researchers now have something new to tear apart in 2018.
Guanfacine (Tenex/Intinuv) is just a prescription you can get for ADHD hyperactivity. It complements stimulants really well but is hard to live with - you feel sedated, have no alcohol tolerance, and ramping off it takes a week or two.

> Any other things on your stack?

Like nootropics? Popular internet topic but a little goes a long way. Here's what I know:

- Vitamin D 1k-5k IU, fish oil, theanine: These all work great and everyone should try them.

- Magnesium: Too many different supplement formulations to trust one, and I read they give you copper deficiency - just eat spinach and you're good. Actually zinc is better to supplement, especially for men.

- Nootropic stacks like Qualia: Tried some, but pretty sure they're expensive caffeine pills.

- Every other nootropic: Bacopa helps long-term but makes ADHD worse short-term(!). No effect from anything else.
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.

IMO this is backward. Representatives should choose their issues by the voice of the people, or people should vote on issues and the appropriate candidate suggested automatically.

We will always get suboptimal results when people are forced to commingle their opinions on everything from science to security into a single binary choice.
In the very early days of the internet being used at a very large corporation, I had the task of reviewing proxy logs to monitor what was euphemistically called "non-business use of the internet". I started by scanning for URLs with "XXX" in them, then pivoted to make a more extensive list.

I never looked at the content itself. Just the seeing the URLs was corrosive enough.
This. The burden should be on the few police to be trained well enough to recognize body language, not on the mass population to train how to avoid being shot.
and being woken in the middle of the night, wearing boxers or pajamas with hands in the air, better pray that they don't happen to slip down causing you to instinctively "reach for your waistband" in order to hitch them up
>1) Anyone who gets shot by cops must have done something to warrant being shot.

Done something like being poor, minority or both?

I've recently read a nice piece (Vox IIRC) on authoritarian personalities and I think this is the new norm.

A decade ago I would have just written that type of comment as trolling, but now it's a different world.

People genuinely hold this cryptofascist beliefs.
I wasn't implying ADHD wasn't real. It very much is real, but unfortunately it seems to have become a sort of "catch-all" diagnosis. It's now more of a common label than it is a medical diagnosis. Isn't it equally as dangerous to not treat the underlying issues or root causes? And when the common 'treatment' for a hyper-active disorder diagnosis is a prescription for Adderall/Vivanse (again, this is speed with a fancy brand name. call it what it is) it's incredibly dangerous -- these are KIDS we're talking about, there's no way we've had enough time to tell what giving this shit to a brain that's still under development actually does in the long term. Then there's the very real potential for abuse -- we're already in an opioid epidemic in the USA do we really need a bunch of tweaked out kids running around?
You may like to know that Knuth's fascicle 5C of The Art of Computer Programming Volume 4 is going to be entirely about Dancing Links. He's still working on it, but the “incomplete draft” is available at the (hidden) link https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc5c.ps.gz — check it out if you're interested; it's already 130 pages of fun.
Not surprising.
What is surprising is why more world governments don't aggressively clamp down and fine facebook.
When handoff was first introduced, it was obvious that facebook was auto-scraping the pasteboard, because as soon as you foregrounded the facebook ios app, iOS would show a "pasting from macbook handoff..." type dialog despite no user interactions performed.

If I remember correctly, the facebook iOS app would also auto-prefill a new post draft for you if it found an URL in the pasteboard?
I'm not familiar with the RTL-SDR. Why would one use that to monitor temperature/humidity over something like an arduino + sensors?
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What kind of investigation would you suggest take place before hand about a situation where there is supposedly a person with hostages who has already killed one?
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Have you ever heard of "the entire market research industry?" It's about 100 years old.
Hackers Broke into Forever 21's Payment System for Over Half of 2017
So build a post-racial world by building up racial barriers and continuing the "other"-ness of people with different skin colors? I'm not trying to be a dick or strawman you, that's the only thing I can get from this comment.
The Last Video 2017 – Happy New Year 2018 and Merry Christmas
When People Don’t Trust Algorithms
1. The power of a positive no
2. Black box thinking
3. Difficult conversations
4. Transcending loss
5. Braving the wilderness
6. Motherless daughters
7. The happy medium
8. Deep work
9. The golden sayings of Epictetus
10. The best interface is no interface
11. 101 essays that will change the way you think
12. Leaders eat last

Will keep adding more as I remember. Hope this helps :)