skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once made something very similar, back then it was called an autobaiter by the scambaiting community.
It would actually figure out what kind of scam the spammer was pulling and adjust its script in kind to pretend to play along with the scammers script.

I should dig that up again.
I remember LISA and USENIX.
I don't know much about this stuff, but I think that this would be considered overkill (and thus too slow) if you don't need crypto-level randomness. But other than that it should be really good.
Horses galloped differently in the middle ages.
>In this one particularly the victim walked out of the house and then was shot after he slipped up on one of the commands.

In what other first world country a person would just be shot if they merely "walked out of house" and "slipped up on one of the commands"? Even if they had a gun on them, unless they actually fired, they still might not be shot by one of the actually competent police forces -- they'd tried to talk them down first.

Then again, in what other first world country a person can be shot if they walk out of their car after they have been stopped by the police?

Heck, unless he has been messy with their wives and they just found out, nobody in a first world country would shoot an unarmed man sitting on the floor and BEGGING not to be shot:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/daniel-shav...

And it's the people that need better schooling?
Interesting! Another way you can tell it's cultural is that the running community does both kinds of gait. I'd never noticed Indians toe-walking, but I do meet recent immigrants from India on a regular basis, so I'll have to watch for this in the future.
I'd bet that it is an IT company in India that had a compromised email server that sent spam. The mails look kinda legit, except for the first one.
Because in this conversation Rockefeller is the placeholder/poster child for « stereotypical rich person », not the real Rockfeller personnality. Parent's thesis is: status > wealth.
That's why it seems a bit unreasonable to compare how the police in your country would react to how American police unfortunately reacted in this scenario. Because the situations those officers face on a daily basis is completely different. American cops can reasonably expect to regularly deal with armed and hostile psychos, unlike the cops in many other countries. Again, that's not to say that the shooting was in any way justified, but try to put yourself in the life of American police officers.
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I'm skeptical Fakespot works well. Consider this product:

> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064EKNKI

Where do they get the idea that 25% of the reviews are unreliable/deceptive? I bought it and it works just fine, which is pretty consistent with 87% of the reviews being 4+. Why should I think otherwise?
Gunfire means high probability of failure.
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I mean technically reliable.

(Really) everybody knows that you should not keep your money on an exchange.

Gold can also crash and btw is a volatile asset as well.
I don't care if I can convince you or not. That doesn't matter. Realistically only time will tell which one of us is right, and give either one of us the satisfaction of saying "told you so".

With that said are you saying that there will be no other competitors, or technological advancements that will improve on Cryptocurrency technologies, and supplant Bitcoin? If so, I think that's a more irrational position.

If Bitcoin gets large enough you'll just have cryptocurrency legislation that will regulate it to oblivion, and make what are relatively private transactions today into Big Brother is watching. Perhaps that's the goal anyways.

Physical cash is still king in terms of privacy, but a poor long term store of value if that cash isn't invested.

Metal is difficult to buy, and it is tracked, but that information isn't public. The value of a precious metal isn't in its liquidity, but rather its theoretical long term value so volatility isn't necessarily a factor. Land is better because it actually has uses, but similarly it too is volatile, and as such viewing it as a long-term 20+ year investment is better. Again the current value of it doesn't matter so much.

I'm not saying Cryptocurrencies have 0 value, just that we haven't reached a consensus of what exactly the value of a cryptocurrency is, or its role in society, let alone having achieved a technological stasis to make a cryptocurrency a long term store of value. There are in reality no true long-term store of value, just that some are better in way than others.

In general though, I think, the problem is what we as humans consider "value". So far I think the only real value of anything is what a State actor demands, and enforces as valuable. Not land, not precious metals, not cryptocurrencies, or dollars, but whatever a government deems officially as valuable becomes magically valuable.

If tomorrow congress makes Bitcoin the official currency of the USA, and buys up all the Bitcoins then Bitcoin will become infinitely valuable in comparison today. On the other if it's made illegal to make Bitcoin transaction it won't be worth a penny.
A biased article, which does not mention any "SWAT team"—only that some gold miner was outraged that the police investigating him had handguns. Big deal.

The next substantive, impartial article from Fox News about the EPA will be the first one I've seen.
I would totally sacrifice air travel, the Internet, telephones (I would gladly give up telephones with zero compensation) to have more free time and an infinite number of people to attend to my every need.

If you have all the time in the world why would you need air travel? You can charter your own boat and travel in style with interesting friends with whom to have interesting conversations, while staring at the sea. That beats sitting in a cramped seat next to a big man and a crying baby, anytime.

Pain relief, anesthesia and modern dentistry, may be more difficult to renounce.
Along with decreasing reward size increasing mining difficulty creates a selection pressure, a rising bar of difficulty that weeds out the weak.
I missed the part where perfect decisions were required?
>What's full-disk encryption do if Facebook et al are going to funnel the data off your devices anyways?

Serious answer: the threat model FDE aims to address is cold physical attacks. That's it, everything hot (or even warm) and online is outside of scope. Facebook would be more akin in class to gray non-persistent malware, although they aren't actually malware in the strict sense and do face some bounds from the law which should make filtering and keeping them off a sensitive system more straightforward. At any rate, FDE is a good idea for a bunch of reasons given how cheap it is at this point, but it's just one of many needed pieces.

More fundamentally and beyond Facebook specifically, we need better ways to control data exfiltration and transfers from our datastores to and between software and services, period. Whitelisting should be the default. Data channels like clipboard APIs should either simply not exist at all or at least require explicit user per-application sign off (and preferably even then with restrictions like requiring code signatures, timeout options etc). While single purpose hacks are generally not justified, the specific instance of passwords & keys might be important enough in reality to justify operating systems providing some much more explicit "secure pasteboard" system that is far more heavily mediated.
thanks, link for the impatient https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2212
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The worst case scenario? I’m pretty sure that is the scenario that played out. Police should be prepared to die wearing the badge, with civilian casualty being an absolute last resort.

It works this way for the military. I can’t fathom why it doesn’t work this way with police.
In the topic of trading places, you would lose substantial buying power, but you would gain a crazy opportunity to establish a legacy through generational wealth. People would sacrifice internet and dentistry and all other modern amenities for such an incredible shot. Better to reign in hell, as the saying goes.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this, but I'm guessing that there won't be any really reliable / scientific sources for any of this.

It's been illegal for so long (and at the U.S. Federal level, still is) that I can't imagine there's been much research on this.
Same, I noticed this years ago. I'm like a ninja walking around the house. The banging around of heavy feet drives me nuts, my parents are like this.
That might be true. But remember we are talking about people posting in public places like Facebook. I can't imagine that being a smart move, so I am questioning their intelligence.
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I have noticed a strange effect where as new technologies arrive to replace old ones, the old technologies become obsolete and we assume that the old technologies never existed in the first place.

For example, we now have the internet and can search for information online, so we imagine that pre-internet people had no access to information. But this is simply not true. There were libraries, bookshops, letters, conferences and workshops, and a whole infrastructure around knowledge-sharing which has now become obsolete.
Current State of Home Automation:  Non-Cloud Options?
What options are there these days for progammable home automation solutions that are:

- compatible with at least some closed products like Cree bulbs, Ecobee, or equivalent
- Totally not cloud dependent! Screw the cloud and all the telemetry. I'd rather set up my own infrastructure if I must access things remotely.
- Open source, but I don't care if it's not.
- Nice API.

Or is the 'open' nature of what I'm asking not baked yet?
We don't have to, and shouldn't, read this article in isolation. The author is a pretty hardcore libertarian economist. If you search this blog for "inequality" you'll come up with a bunch of articles revealing that he thinks inequality is at worst irrelevant and at best a good thing:

http://cafehayek.com/?s=inequality

Example quote: "Second, in a market economy rising monetary inequality is evidence of the expansion of choice and diversity made possible by economic growth. As society becomes materially richer – that is, as consumption goods become less costly and more abundant even for poor people – individuals enjoy a greater range of options of how to spend their time and lives."

Given this context, it would be bizarre if this article was not an argument against addressing inequality.
Please leave this heavy-handed political propaganda at the door, it's tasteless and not funny.
A right to a trial by a racially biased jury isn't much of a right in my opinion.

I'm all for throwing people in jail if they don't want to serve on a jury.
I said the police could only have gained from calling. You have not provided a scenario in which it would further endanger lives. Even if it didn’t provide “actionable” info, it wouldn’t hurt to try and some semblance of doubt around the veracity of the initial claims could be forwarded onto the SWAT team.
Whatever. Also don't forget, then, the cost of living in the Bay Area (astronomical) and the difficulties of policing in Oakland (formidable).

Pension is something we should all expect. Not resent.
This was across the street. Is that close? You can barely make out the victim in the body cam footage.
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Not sure if this is true, but I walked solely barefoot for a few months and definitely noticed changes in my gait. Rather than just dropping my foot onto the ground, I almost gently slid the foot to the ground to minimize impact, and walked more toe forward.
> even if it didn't have the technology to reproduce that music with high quality, who cares when you can afford to just pay top-quality musicians to come play it live?

Agreed! One of the most ridiculous part of the article. You don't need a stereo or Airplay or Sonos if you have an orchestra... or several.
So? In 2015, there were 51,548 assaults against law enforcement officers, resulting in 14,453 injuries.
And in special circumstances a butter knife could probably kill someone. But I don't think getting trapped in a continuum fallacy represents forward motion in this kind of conversation. Maybe a tazer should count as lethal and should be excluded. Let's draw the line somewhere, most definitely. But I'm not any closer to understanding whether you merely object to that example or the principle itself, and the latter is the pertinent thing.
This. Proof of work means votes are apportioned according to computing power, making it prohibitively expensive for an attacker to double spend.
Actually I agree, and I think most cops would agree with that too. One thing hindering that ideal is how police officers are trained to have a chickenshit mentality where no risk to an officer's safety is tolerated ever. In that philosophy the balance is tilted too far in favor of officer safety and away from public safety. Scour the news for any "hero" story. A hero never displays concern for his own safety, he acts out of concern for someone else's safety. (Remember heroes/heroism? So quaint!)

Nonetheless, and maybe I'm just jaded here, if the police show up anywhere, be it an Occupy protest or a carjacking, there is likely to be mayhem and bloodshed. They're a blunt tool with a single purpose. It's only after the smoke clears and the cuffs are on, that someone gets a formal legal proceeding. Cops always stand between you and a courtroom, in other words. Not sure I like it that way, but that's how it is.
> Fear of insecurity is absolutely brutal

This is probably the thing that would make people swap.

I also feel like it's a thing that mostly affect poor Americans.

GP was from UK and if you ask the same question in Northern/Western Europe I feel like risks of bankruptcy and homelessness is a lower.
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> Great that they moved the problem to a place with even fewer protections for workers.

Other big problem with this is the lack of cultural background for doing this.

Only if you belong to a given culture you can understand the subtleties and the cultural tolerance according to each culture.

This is one of the things that should make us think, about how bad is the situation of centralized social networks, when the values of one culture can be arbitrarily imposed into another.

People and cultures in general should have the right to organize according to their own cultural values. So the only right way to do this, at least if its a centrally managed network, is to have native people doing this for each country they have presence for.

If this is too expensive to do it in the beggining .. maybe hire not just cheaper labor, but from countries (cultures) that have good sensibility about foreign cultures, and select the people with talent to understand cultural nuances.

I feel particularlt outraged when according to a given foreign culture, one thing that locally is not a big deal, get censured, and then you think how close we are to the big brother (by the way theres a certain country already going through this path).

But in the western hemisphere, if nothing change, we are slowly consolidating a regime of digital feudalism were corporations are free to dictate rules for our lives.
Scrum, if you do it right, is precisely the solution. Scrum specifically rejects the idea of "just doing something on the side".

Unfortunately, most organizations believe in cults and magic, and believe (and act) that Scrum is a cargo cult where you say the magic words and hold the magic rituals and get the results.
Multiple policemen killing random unarmed people is not the worst?
Can't agree more with you. Especially about the back and forth rejections. It's insane how easily such apps escape the scrutiny of apple's review team.
How is this the solution? Wouldn't the selection process of any bureaucracy be designed specifically to 'weed out' people like this?
Even with all the technology police + military has. I don't think it would be an easy win if the gun owning population decided to revolt. There would be millions of deaths. The government may end up on top, but the consequences would be dire.

Not an American. Canadian here. I actually wish we had American gun laws, even with their consequences.
Same here, also Gmail. Maybe it's overloaded right now?
The Enchiridion by Epictetus (and basically every other book on stoic philosophy).

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

My own opinion is that a lot of mental toughness can be developed simply by realizing what you can control and what you can't. This is known in stoic philosophy as the "dichotomy of control", and is put this way in the Enchiridion:

“Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not within our power are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word, whatever is not of our own doing.”
That would be more relevant if it happened on the scale of the Police shooting unarmed people. That is a one off story that you are giving the same weight as something that happens every day in the US.
Latency and the UI of the orchestra are quite a bit worse.
I’d definitely take a glossy display over a matte display with ghosting and blotching.

And anyway, Lenovo’s matte display technology consists of a slightly cloudy piece of adhesive-backed plastic sheeting stuck on top of the display. I don’t know why anyone is impressed with this. It’s not as if they actually have textured glass or even a proper screen coating. It’s contact paper that you can buy for pennies per square foot at Staples. It’s really awesome if you have a device that has pen input because the pen scratches up the plastic over time.

If you really want this, you can buy it aftermarket and stick it on any glossy display. You’ll end up with a better result than Lenovo if your laptop is using a decent panel to start with.
My brother, quite an intelligent person, attempted to do just that at least three times but no law enforcement agency would admit him (clean record). I am assuming this is because he made comments that to them seemed subversive in interviews.
18K NGN is the minimum monthly wage.
As some said down below, a lot of this scam don't originate from Nigeria.

> One other point i failed to mentioned. If you live in SV, tech will rub on you. Same applies living in developing nations. Scam will rub on ya.

This is assuming scamming is a national pastime in developing countries. Its not in Nigeria (as a percentage of 190 million population) and I assume most developing countries.
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See, I want to send my kids to school and be reasonably sure that some idiot can’t go down the street, buy a couple of rifles, and murder them and their classmates. Being able to go to the gun range once in a while and post on /r/guns is sorta secondary to that. Different priorities I guess.

Edit: and funnily enough the above scenario doesn’t happen in the developed world, except in the US, where it happens multiple times a year. Here we don’t tolerate things like weed, or abortions, or refugees because the societal price for those is too high, but mass child murder is cool because otherwise how would we prove our manliness?
It’s a great example of why these SWAT units shouldn’t be in every small cities police department. Paramilitary tactics should come with military discipline.
Most people seem to be concerned about ”gaming the rules” but are positing scenarios that can be modelled as acyclical directed graphs (ADG). I’m wondering if who framed the rules even thought of general directed graphs with potential cycles (company A owns shares of company B that owns shares of company C that owns shares of companies B and A). It would seem that most manners of computing seniority would fail in such situations because of the lack of unique, non-ambiguous ancestry (but I might be wrong).
> The root cause is that if the police show up they might open fire and kill someone.

So how do you reduce the number of times the police shows up randomly at your doorstep? Four hundred times per year, more precisely?

That's the definition of "root cause".

I get it, this is HN after all, and most here feel outraged by police brutality, particularly in the US - myself included. But instead of putting the blame on police officers - who are trying to decide in a fraction of a second if their lives is at risk or it's just another stupid case of CoD gamers pranking each other - to me the blame should go squarely to the idiots causing it.
Yes, that's another good point, and a big factor in why the police there acts the way it does. Yet, even with all the needless deaths, gun culture remains widespread.
I see a lot of idealistic opinions about how it should be in regards to police violence but what can we actually do? Is there anything that people of this country can do to change this or is it just a waiting game to see where it's all headed?

Why isn't there an EFF for this sort of thing? I know there is the ACLU but at this point I feel like we need something solely for police violence.
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It is absolutely disturbing that an individual would do that, but cops should be held to a much higher standard of morals and responsibility than civilians.
It's not right, but we have a broken system that favors them over us. And I don't think it will be fix soon.

Another problem we have is people getting falsely accused and sent to jail when they make mistakes in interrogations. It's why you always if you can afford one, get a lawyer for guidance.
Police should be prepared to die wearing the badge, with civilian casualty being an absolute last resort.

I disagree. No one should be prepared to die while working a job, a job that one will have all his life.
America is the best. Therefore if Europe does something different, then it must be worse.

Hah, no, US banking is absolutely in the dark ages. When I first came here they didn't have debit cards FFS. I had to carry a check book and write on it with a pen. They've only just got chip and pin!
Would it be possible to have a manual transmission electric car? I’ve been thinking about getting a new car with a stick because I think it would be fun (and I need a new car), but if electric cars are right around the corner maybe I should wait for those?
Elegant and simple. Thank you for sharing it even though it is over 30 years old.

Next time you happen to be at a store that has the rare, old fashioned-type automatic doors that swing out (not slide in/out), hurry out before your friends and stand on the pressure pad that is in the direction of the door swing out. No one will be able to exit.

This is a simple example of a state machine in the real world that I like to use to explain more complex state machines.