skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
132 police died while on duty in 2016. There are 750,000 police officers in the US.
> I spent all my time playing StarCraft to cope

Stereotypes aside, a lot of Korean teenagers (for me, counter-strike and an early 2000 korean MMO called N-age ㅋㅋㅋ) went through this cycle. It was a form of escape, especially as a kid dealing with a stressful environment, I can see why some of us form a special bond with video games.

Another contributing factor is if in that environment, the prospect of earning six digit salary as a pro gamer is very real with poor job prospects in a hyper competitive society. The industry is rife with health issues that is conveniently ignored and unfortunately "mental disorders" are still viewed with the stigma one would attach to institutionalized patients, although its improving thanks to organizations like WHO setting a standard.
I like how the police feel threatened and have a hard job is more important than the fact a completely innocent person died.
There's no technical reason why Facebook can't present different views and filters on the same underlying data depending on which country an HTTP request comes from. Personally I find that kind of collaboration with censorship disturbing, but they clearly have the engineering talent and financial motivation to make it work.

I doubt this will drive many users away. Most people just don't care. And most users' friends are in the same country so they'll still have consistent experiences.
Play songs/videos synced so that an event occurs exactly at the new year
Couldn’t the store of value thing just be temporary, while Bitcoin gets well-known? To be clear, I don’t think vanilla Bitcoin is very viable as a widely-used consumer-level p2p transaction system (like cash or credit cards), but I think the volatility and meteoric rises in price would have happened even if that were the case, simply because the value of such a network depends heavily on the number of people and organizations who know about it and trust it enough to use it. It’s a massive chicken and egg problem that would be faced by any currency or payment system that isn’t forced upon a population by a government.
Your concern is only the tip of the iceberg. Any set of rules will be gamed. The only way I can think of (and it can probably be gamed) that would really put the long term into the executives mind is to have most of their compensation based on the value of the company a few years after they're done. But given the existence of options and shorting stocks and any number of ways to mitigate risk or make money that don't depend on positive outcome for the average investor, anything can be gamed.

With a shift to long term outcomes, one could do any number of things that are short term bad to line their pockets and claim the benefit is further down the road. The problem isn't really about short or long term goals - does Amazon or Tesla give a rats ass about profit next quarter? No, and IMHO one of those is a solid company while both have high valuations.

In some cases I think the answer is to strip investors of control. They are the ones allegedly pushing short term profits at the expense of the long term. But what is ownership if not a form of control?

Another thought I keep coming back to is dividends. A proper investment gives returns without having to sell your stake. Lets provide incentives for companies to share profit rather than pump stock prices, then everyone can get excited about the right things. This has its downside too in cases where growth may require reinvestment. Perhaps forcing dividend payments for all cash equivalents above some threshold? I dunno, there are a lot of ways to approach this and none of them are good for all companies.
Yes, the guy is definitely guilty of some degree of murder, because he knew what he was doing. However, I'm contrasting it with my country, where calling in such a situation would be very unlikely to get someone killed, because the police are much more reticent to shoot people. In such a case, the caller could be guilty of wasting resources, but not of murder. The only difference is the handling of each situation by the police, hence my reasoning above.
Did you not see his outfit?
There is a market for this, the OTC or pink sheets. At initial listing and if the company itself or its insiders or affiliates are selling, there are required financial disclosures.

I think there's resistance to public trading however because it generally requires more structured accounting (GAAP vs cash accounting), and invites external scrutiny and pressure.
> I said Bitcoin's usefulness is diminishing by becoming less useful due to the high transaction time and price.

If I want to store my assets I don't care about high transaction prices.

> It's more a greater fools game at this point and I only mentioned ponzi scheme as it was what I was responding to.

But you still used it in the wrong context. Bitcoin can't be a Ponzi scheme because the founder and the early adopters clearly didn't have this intent.
I probably enjoyed 'Mastering the game of Go with deep
neural networks and tree search' the most and especially
appreciated the 'Methods' section where they go into a good amount of detail about their implementation.

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/alphago/AlphaG...
Police using hollow-points sounds insane.
> Oh and add to this the stress that if you screw up, one of the following is likely:

I think this sums it up better than if you were trying to make the point that I’m about to attempt. It’s not necessarily “likely” that someone is going to die in all of these situations. It’s a possibility.

It’s probably near impossible to tell the difference in the middle of a high-stress situation, but the assumption that it’s going to result in death at the outset is the problem.
Not to be overly reductionist, but from an evolutionary perspective isn't one of the most important things the survival of your own genes?

Seems especially in modern societies the actual cost, effort required, and difficulty of finding a mate and raising children responsibly (e.g. so that they might also be in a position to have children if they desire) is much higher than it was in the past (hence the sharply declining birthrates in all modern nations).

You have outwardly modern, prosperous nations like Japan going through slow demographic implosions. If things are so great, why doesn't society want to, or manage to reproduce itself in the aggregate?

Are modern conveniences, travel, time to read, travel, etc., the ends in and of themselves, or are they just supposed to be the means to the only goal that nature cares about in the long term, which the survival and propagation of parts of our ourselves?

Not of the individual, since that will always perish, but our genes, our thoughts, our values and cultures?
I think most of us would agree here that "violent media creates violent people" is false. But violent media can still be a problem, if it is caused and enabled by a pathological society, a symptom of that pathology. I personally think it is, and I think that's the point the post you were responding to was making.

I don't think it is any coincidence that most of the violent gun-laden media you consumed as a child was American.

Killing is a* fundamental problem-solving strategy in American culture (both domestically consumed and exported). And the overwhelming most common method of killing is a gun. This is why it is very rare to find a film or TV show with any kind of action/adventure/thriller/crime/mystery plot without guns, usually on the poster.

When this is true in other countries, it is usually because they are intentionally aping American media.

I think it has never occurred to most Americans that there is any alternative to 'kill the bad guys'.

* On reflection it is probably 'the' fundamental problem-solving strategy in American media.
America's biggest problem is it's heterogeneity, not guns.
Another question - how does the exchange make money if the rules seemingly discourage trading?
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> To be fair the developers of Bitcoin seem to have abandoned the original vision of Bitcoin, peer-to-peer digital cash, and has moved towards being purely a store of value.

How, exactly, has this “original vision” been abandoned? By supporting a maximum block size?
Tell him to apply to UoP and get an accredited degree tuition free online https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/cs/degrees/computer-scienc... it's $4k or so for 4 years of exams ($100 each). Problem with self-learning courses is most people decide to skip things they believe won't be useful but actually are, which is why they are in the university curriculum, then later they get lost since they didn't do all the pre-reqs. UoP also has TAs
> companies issuing high-fees prepaid cards.

These cards are essentially issued by the government. There are no fees associated with purchases, only fees associated with multiple cash withdrawals in a month (which some banks also have) and with bank transfers.

There's really not much downside to that alternative - it's basically the government creating a limited-use bank account for you and tying it to a card.

> I'm not sure you were ever able to cash one out without having your own bank account anyway.

Why would that be? The only reason other banks want you to have an account is because they can't know whether it's a good check, i.e., whether or not the payer actually has the funds to pay the check, so they need a way of clawing back the money (by drafting your account) if it's bad.

> And even assuming the scenario where you want to walk in the issuing bank, what if they have zero or limited physical presence?

Well, until recently, they would be a pretty uncommon scenario.

I do generally believe that being "unbanked" is a poor decision, but at the same time, I'm a little uneasy at the idea that we should all be effectively forced into participating in the banking system, which, while it is beneficial in many ways, also serves as a key way to redistribute wealth to the wealthy. I'm not a huge fan of check cashing businesses - which does include large companies like WalMart - but if people are really making the free and conscious choice to not have a bank account and they prefer to pay $5 to get a check cashed, well, I would have a problem with someone telling them they have to get a bank account to participate in society, if what they're doing works for them.

BTW - if you have some links on the cash transaction limits, I'd be interested in reading them. It seems kind of crazy that a country could tell its citizens they can't pay in cash above certain amounts.
The Benefits of Economic Expansions Are Increasingly Going to the Richest
The USA have a truly messed up culture.

I wonder how it can be fixed. Some things seem to be going in the right direction, for example gun ownership is on the decline (from 47 % of households owning gun in 1971 to 31% in 2014 http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun... ) .
However the number of guns keeps increasing, so it looks like some people are stockpiling. Nonetheless if gun ownership continues to decrease they will be marginalized.

At the same time, police is very violent and its militarization is a sad, messed up, joke.

And violent deaths in the USA are still an order of magnitude higher than those of other developed countries.
Swatting should be considered domestic terrorism and not a prank. Just listening to the video describing the events and how many lies the caller provided to convince the police there was a hostage situation is sickening.
That’s a good observation. Today’s Dual class systems only protect the founders from a specific kind of short-term pressure. But there are still thousands of employees overreacting to volatility and jumping at shadows. Our rules are designed to address the full “user experience” of being an employee in a public company, with the goal of aligning the whole enterprise towards more Long-Term goals.
1. Surely, and if they ever have a $15K model, or even $20K model, my estimate about how soon the transition would happen would change. As of now, I think the pricing points are such that only rich (and rich by SV standards, which are significantly higher then the rest of the country) people can afford it. So the transition has no way of happening. I am not saying it will never happen - I am saying it's not nearly close now.

3. I am speaking from experience of what doing non-trivial stuff takes. E.g., installing AC requires permits. Maybe installing proper (not "more than overnight") charger does not, if it's just using a splitter cord then it's good news.

5. I do not think it will stop now. I think it's still far from where we could see mass transition from ICE to electrical cars. In 10 years? Sure, why not. Right now? Don't see it.
Another: sparc.network
I don’t follow your argument that Bitcoin won’t be around for long because of the nature of technology. What exactly do you mean? Of course advancements will be made, but those can be merged into Bitcoin or even forked off of Bitcoin.
Is there any legit reason for the clipboard API? If I want an app to see or fill its contents, I would just copy and paste normally.
Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
Or anything else, except speaking up, as demonstrated here. I mean, someone made a comment implying FB only removes really nasty, criminal things, but they don't get told that "it's Facebook's business" (even though it would apply just as much, but never is applied, to supportive comments), instead the response that adds some grounding in reality does. This is a discussion site, and the correct response to GP is to respond to GP, not do something else elsewhere.
GOOGL caved in when Eric Schmidt joined Hillary's camp.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-emails-google-eric-...
> This seems like an unreasonable assumption given that many people own bitcoins through custodians, such as exchanges and funds.

Have a look for yourself:

https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....
Not yet. You bet your ass that if Bitcoin gets large enough State actors will use coercion to regulate it, track it, tax it, and do what bureaucracies do best. Nothing escapes the Leviathan. The USA uses Eminent Domain to steal land, and uses laws to deny gold as a currency, what's stopping congress from doing the same with cryptocurrencies.

I mean people are acting as if governments in past haven't faced similar problems. The only real value of currency is if a STATE actor accepts it as payment. Otherwise international trade, commerce, taxes, etc. would all be moot. So Bitcoin can never be a large scale, nationwide, let alone international currency. Even though currently it is large, and getting recognition from State actors, but it's not large enough to enter the domain of legislation.
I'd really like to pursue a PhD in Comp Sci (My BS is in CS). But with a family there's just no way. If I kept my full-time job, I might have the money to do it, but I wouldn't have the time. And vice-versa if I quit my job and became a full-time student.

I did go and get an online Masters of sorts (an MBA from WGU), which was definitely do-able while working full-time (and also useless), but it was nowhere near as rigorous and time-consuming as an engineering graduate degree would be :)
Not needing to subject yourself to drug testing for work definitely a perk of certain industries.
3x france 4x UK. The USA has a high murder rate; ok.. not as high as Iraq, but by the standards of developed nations, high. Put it this way, more than 10k people a year are murdered in the USA that would not be should the murder rate be the same as the UK's.
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>I guess you go to the bank's office if you forget it?

Yup. An account reset requires a visit to the bank and you'll get the new password mailed to you via postal service and you'll be required (usually) to immediately pick a new password upon first login.

>and not called wiring, not sure what in english though

SEPA Credit Transfer. Beginning next year banks will also test and deploy an instant transfer variant of this.

>Today mobile auth apps are taking over.

Mobile apps are indeed a lot more popular these days but a second factor is still employed.

SMS 2FA is being phased out (atleast in germany) and current alternatively are either having a list of TAN codes, optical TAN generator or a proper Card reader on your PC.

I think this is in large part due to, atleast in germany, banks being liable for all damages if they can't prove their system is reasonably secure. This makes some parts of account management a PITA since you need to show up at their local branch office but tbh, it's much better than the US.
It's more important in terms of solving the issue. Why would we even be talking about this if an innocent person dying wasn't important?
-Reservists and the home guard no longer store weapons or ammunition at home; that practice ended a few years ago as the AG3 (HK G3 made under licence in Norway) was the weapon of choice for reservists to kill their spouses, then themselves (what we call honor killings when committed by non-native Norwegians)

Additionally, it was no secret who was a member of the home guard, so there were numerous cases of homes being burglarised for the AG3 stored there; the weapon was then used for further crimes, like bank robberies.

Now, weapons are stored at the home guard's places of assembly in case of mobilization.

Also, while I agree that it is no problem obtaining a hunting rifle or a shotgun (passing the test isn't THAT hard), a handgun is more complicated:

a) You need to have a clean criminal record, and be more than 21 years of age. Also, the local police must approve - say, it is (theoretically, at least) possible to be turned down even with no record if the local police do not think you are suited to own a weapon - say, if you regularly binge drink, are known locally as a trouble-maker or whatever.

b) You must have completed a safety course at an approved gun club. Typically 3-4 nights, intended to learn you how to handle the gun safely, know and follow shooting range regulations &c.

c) You must be an active member of an approved gun club, and must have been so for at least six months prior to applying for a purchase permit. Active basically means turning up at club events and shooting with one of the club's weapons until you have your own.

d) Yout licence may be revoked if you no longer have a need to own a weapon - say, if you stop showing up at club nights and let your membership lapse. Also, any problems with the law? Better take a good, hard look at that licence, because it will be revoked as soon as they get around to it.

e) You normally only get a permit for one weapon, unless you can lay credible claim to being a collector (in which case even more training and vetting is mandatory).
> often have to deal with.

Really?

A growing portion of total gun deaths are police shootings. ‘Serve and protect’ doesn’t seem to extend much further than themselves.
I totally agree. We are slowly deluding our profession by reducing it down to a few online courses. The vast majority of college is not about learning a specific topic. It's about being given a wide range of problems to solve in very different and complex topics that stretch your abilities.

I've been amazed at how many programmers I've interacted with in the past two decades who cannot operate outside the one, small subject they currently know. It's one thing to say you can't work on scientific modeling because you couldn't do Calc, but when I see front end developers who say "nope I can't do back end ever" I realize that they were never challenged and they will be the last person I want on my team. I want to have an employee who says "I don't know that topics but I'm going to learn it and solve this problem!" Dumbing down our profession doesn't help us.
Not originally a CS paper, but this one describes a distributed algorithm medieval merchants used to simplify their debts graph: http://eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/boerner.pdf

I highly recommend it to anyone interested in CS, history & finance.
Lots of people in Europe work 35-45 hours per week, have decent healthcare, dental, school systems and free time.

In fact the EU mandates vacation time.

Few jobs are physically hard and lots of people have the option to choose between free time and money.

Sure being rich in 1916 offers some different benefits.. but I'm not sure I would swap.
This is terrible.

> Through brand new listing standards, software tools, and advocacy, we’re reinventing the public company experience with novel approaches to executive compensation, shareholder voting, disclosure practices, board and stakeholder policies, and community governance.

None of this reduces short term trading. Even if it did, reducing short term trading would make for a less efficient market and prolong bubbles.
Yep. I went to Notre Dame as a non-legacy. I knew several people who got in off the wait list simply because they were legacy.
Yes you are blaming the victim. People should not be required to perform jumping jacks just because someone in uniform tells them to. That's not cooperation, it's coercion.
Agree with other answers here. But it's useful for just some of the "easier" use-cases. Just throw an example here. Sometimes when proving the upper-bound of a value (runtime, probability of error, expected runtime, etc) it's helpful to use derivatives to show that a function is decreasing/increasing.
> It's not going to exist for decades, let alone for centuries, because of the nature of technology

How do you know, did you found a time machine??

> It isn't backed and guaranteed by a government

Even better. So many countries (basically 70% of all countries) have governments I wouldn't trust a single cent.

> there are no organization that are demanding to be paid only in Bitcoin as America demands to be paid only in dollars.

Exchanges?

> precious metals all far exceed as stronger "stores of value"

Go and try to buy some gold, it's not that easy and also, oh which surprise, also volatile.

> Everyone knows everyone else's entire transaction history,

Pipe it through exchanges and it get anonymous again. Not that I like this feature but if you need it...

You didn't really convinced me.
Two schools:

* Coq/dependent types. Check out Software Foundations by Benjamin Pierce, et. al. Everything's online. Also see Idris, which has a good book from Manning.

* SMT-solver-based verification of existing languages. See SPARK/Ada (there's a good book but I can't remember the name presently) and the GNAT website. Also, Frama-C, although the documentation is more spotty. Then there's Rustan Leino's work on Dafny and Boogie. Oh, and Why3. And some work on verifying Java code that I haven't played with yet.
For the author, I'm really curious about the section "Economics of owning an E-Bike relative to car". Would you mind sharing your rough math on how you came to those numbers? The IRS rate for expensing milage is $0.54/mile which (in theory) is supposed to cover standard maintenance and fuel.

However mostly it just seems really high for the bike to be $0.14/mile. My back of the envelope calculation for electricity cost is: ~$0.10 per KWHR. The battery pack is sub 1 KW so even with charging inefficiency should cost no more than $0.10 to charge. Divided by roughly 50 mile range means an electricity cost of $0.002 per mile. I could be way off, hence why I'm curious.
Welcome to the echo chamber.

In my experience, the only people who think CHI publishes great papers are the people publishing at CHI.

(Disclosure: I've published at CHI a few times myself. I'm done with it.)
How many gun-related homicides are there per year in your country?
Do you honestly believe that most people buying bitcoin are buying it for any reason other than the hope that the price will increase?
And pension.