skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...Meanwhile another cryptocurrency called Ripple basically jumped up 500% during the past week. I think some people might've been cashing out of Bitcoin and moving to the next big thing.
Gonna be weird when all the gas stations start to close up.

Also when we go all self-driving and we don't need parking lots anymore.
The Challenge of Separating All Things Seen from All Things Unseen (1997)
Indeed, seems plausible the police keep tabs on individuals in the community (yay for the privacy implications there) but the point of the gp is the cops have a disincentive to take X citizen's statement "Hey, I'm doing nothing but someone might swat me" since that's what a criminal would say. ("There is no 'do not Swatt' list" is a great tl;dr;)

I mean, if there was a special thing someone could do before hand to keep the cops from showing, guns blazing, when they thought it was appropriate, nearly everyone would do it and that would be a problem if such a response was appropriate.

So there's really only approach - make cops dial back on the use of deadly as their default. That's the only thing, there's no way to get a special "no don't shoot" card for random in random suburb, much as people might want it. Well, unless you are a neighborhood with money, then it's different.

Edit: And don't think the cops would cough-up their notes on house X for the same reason. Obviously, if the cops even admit they are keeping those notes, of course they become subject to all sort of controversies. Whether they're constitutional would come into question, etc.
For these cases, I use a trivial program I wrote myself that just serves a specified directory over HTTP, optionally with basic auth.

Most home routers have dynamic DNS updates enabled, so the only instruction for the other side is "put $hostname into your browser window", sometimes followed by a "prefix it with http://" if their browser insists on searching Google for that name.

It requires some effort and knowledge on my side but tends to work pretty well for the other person. Even better when you have some instant messaging channel available where you can just send a direct link.
Once we define what kind of encounters to sample, specifically encounters involving police breaking into your home, it's no longer a ratio of 1:1000000+ that you will have a bad encounter.

If I were told the chances of me dying from jumping off a cliff were 1:1000, I still wouldn't jump that cliff.
By grunt work, I mean "low skill" for a software developer / white collar professional with a similar income. I don't mean like, minimum wage data entry type work.
I think you are confusing the data presented by WSJ with an audited SEC financial report. Uber didn't make anything public - this is just data they presented, privately, to their investors who obviously know the difference. I mean, this data was leaked to WSJ.

As a better comparison, here is the data Expedia puts out on an earnings release: https://files.shareholder.com/downloads/EXPE/5068357871x0x92...
First of all 12% tax, really, that is your reason for living there? Get a grip, 12% is nothing to pay to be somewhere you want to be or that feels like home.

Secondly, you have lost what the Japanese call "reason for getting out of bed in the morning", which is when you start to die, no matter what your age is.

The longer you live like you are the less you will have to connect with anyone about.

Worry less about the money and more about doing something that you feel has some purpose. It doesn't have to be some feel good save the planet/whales/children, just something that you believe in and needs doing.

Don't throw away the advantages you have built/won/stumbled into, just take them and use them.

Lastly back to the taxes, they pay for schools, hospitals, roads, immunisation programs, disaster preparedness etc etc - given they are not exhorbitant, just pay them and feel like you are contributing to the greater good.
I just want to say I've cross trained SWAT and other LEA's, and other countries militaries etc while I was in the military, and as a combat vet I cannot express how scary some of these groups are due to realizing the makeup of their teams. Lack of trigger control, lack of tactics, too little training, and fragile egos combined with a "war" mindset results in this sort of thing. The kicker is you would be amazed at how many of the swat guys I met were noncombat pog's in the military who wiggle their way onto SWAT to make up for their lack of combat oconus.

We need to be addressing these issues at the training and policy level, but the thine blue line needs to be busted up first. I knew an old school LEO who had done undercover and cartel work, and even he complained constantly to me about the death of the concept of the "peace officer".

Police forces are way too eager to be in a war zone and they are going to keep doing this shit until the public stops them, the ultimate irony is that most of these incidents are because the war-wannabes are actually cowards who get scared as shit at every blade of grass and end up emptying magazines for no reason... Essentially SWAT is mostly just COD players who grew up but couldn't handle war if they got what they think they wanted.

Its like they never heard of an OODA loop.

Oh, and let's not let this opportunity to talk about how much the cops protect rich corporations and pillars of the community at the expense of everyone else... Their pinkertonian origins make things like CIA working with them against occupy wall street that much more disturbing.

Oh and one more thing. Many of the bad escalation of force policies and training are because a huge amount of these guys get cross trained by Israelis...and I'm just going to let the implications of that sink in.
You mean like this: https://github.com/menny/docker_android/tree/master/android_...

I really hope that ChromeOS's way would be better.
Maybe you are depressed so go for a talking therapy or maybe just a lifecoach (I know a former tech entrepreneur who went through a breakdown and now is a lifecoach, I can introduce you). Also help others. Is there any field you are interested in? Animals? Volunteer at a local homeless shelter? Work on creating a start-up that may help others (that what I do and it is great)?
Synchronizing the Motion of a Quadrocopter to Music (2010) [pdf]
Try Websters, Oxfords, or just dictionary.com

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homicide
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/homicide
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/homicide
That is bullshit. The police do not have a "job duty" of killing someone. They are entitled to employ lethal force in self defense when their lives are in danger, which is exactly the same legal standard as for civilians.
Zcash and FileCoin seem most technically innovative to me.

(I own some Zcash, don't own FileCoin but would like to.)
Every component of the framework of individual rights in common law societies, including but not limited to trial by jury, a speedy trial, public proceedings, and prohibitions on excessive bail are all designed to ensure that the state can't capriciously violate the rights of innocent people.

Although, like all legal principles, its application is entertained and applied in a court room, it is pervasive throughout every component of the mechanisms by which the power of the state is restricted.

That the presumption of innocence is a legal right (you use the phrase "courtroom standard" - fine) and not the SOP of a civilian police force serves to lengthen its reach, not shorten it.

...and to the degree that this principle is about restraining the moments at which the state may encroach upon rights to lawful findings of guilt: shooting someone at their front door is about as violative of an innocent person's rights as I can imagine state conduct being.
That overwhelming amount of noise might well interfere with the ecosystem of tastemakers itself.
Probably won't happen. Cops rarely ever see jail.
Absolutely agree. I had come to the same conclusion about the same term. I had thought to call it "just-ifying", but then I remember that is already a real word.
They're using a relatively simple opcode map, but most instructions are logically redundant as can be seen here:

http://www.pastraiser.com/cpu/gameboy/gameboy_opcodes.html

The next step in emudev, with most compiled/systems languages at least, would be to create macros (such as OP_LD or OP_ADD) that generates static instructions at compilation. Another, cleanish method, in C is to generate a 256-length function pointer (void*) based static array and map those generated functions to that, to make the dispatch step simpler. Small trade off, performance-wise, but rarely matters for 8-bit CPU's (where you would usually use an opcode table over an instruction decoder).
How many calls should it take? The point is that they create an urgent situation where life is threatened:

"My dad just shot my mom, I think he's going to shoot me next. I have to go--" and it's done.

It's dissimilar to a bomb threat in that an alleged victim is calling.
I'm glad the article mentioned ReMarkable. Mine arrived about a month ago and I love it -- carry it everywhere now. It's done a great job of taking care of my need for scratch paper to jot notes on, and it's really kind of an improvement over keeping track of lots of bits of paper or having a separate notebook.

It's so far the best of both worlds of paper and electronics.

Bit pricey though.

https://remarkable.com/

(I haven't been paid, reimbursed, or otherwise incentivized for this in any way, except that I think it's cool and I want it to be successful.)
OK let's talk about depth of field. DOF is both a function of sensor size and lens aperture. That's why small sensors even with 1.8 aperture have no bokeh comparable to 35mm at 1.8.

And anyway with very small sensors you can only get blurriness if you are extremely close to the subject, while 35mm and higher sensor formats allow for MUCH more creativity.
Suggesting that signing up to "protect and serve" reduces the value of your life to 1/10 of someone who didn't is...insane. Generally speaking, the suggestion that a person's profession influences the value of their life is abhorrent to me.
Reading about wolves crossing borders, killing stock, and people hunting them reminded me of the opening chapters in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. A good novel, though not among his best.
To be honest I can't even tell that I've been down voted. I never thought to bother posting my clone to hackernews and likely wont unless I do a postmortem when the game has been released and if I have something worth reading.

My market isn't really here on Hacker News, there's already a built in community on Discord which is where its worth link baiting so I don't even have to promote.
https://discord.gg/bpk6ue

There are sum of 100 hard code people or less and thats all I'm likely to reach. My only motivation for my clone is so the community I already participate in has something for competitive play.

I could certainly say I could have written something with more breath to it and that might merit a downvote.

I remember I once wanted to hack on the open-source CIV4 game to give it a friendly UI game but found the codebase to be as unfriendly as the one linked above.
I could be wrong about this, but note also that not all of the material ejected from the impact wound up in Earth's orbit.
“As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”

Oh... ok. So the takeaway is, when someone pounds on my door at 3AM, it's safer just to not answer in case it's the police and an officer discharges his weapon (A lovely euphemism that shifts blame away from the officer).

In fact, any time you get a knock at the door, it's probably best you retreat to the farthest corner of your house and lay down with your hands on your head because that's basically the only way you can maximize your chances of not getting blown away for responding like a rational human being.
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192229414.html
In my experience the HR people think more highly of resumes when a big-name company is on them. Maybe they shouldn't, but they do.
Hahahaha, good one! I actually really love B. K. Robbins - he is my favorite motivational sneaker! The way he speaks is so deliciously appetizing!
No, I'm imagining, and I'm sure we'll get there eventually, but BTC has a lot of inertia at present.
Questions you must ask when building a product for billion users
That’s terrible to hear jotm, I hope you have people to talk to and if not my email is in my profile. Maybe there is some esoteric treatment worth a punt... still worth hunting around for a second opinion and emailing a few universities.
I think the best in the series on AOM, felt like a streamlined version, though that game requires no cloning.

I only have faint memories of AoE II and at the time never had a powerful enough computer for AoE III.

I can never get the iconic AoE theme out of my head.
Considering the security question forms are brute-force proof, I think it's better to keep fictional answers which cannot be accessed by social engineering for these questions.

In India we have SMS based 2FA for transactions in spite of these questions, Some Chinese banks seems to provide HW based 2FA for general accounts.
In this case a long passphrase (a la xkcd: https://xkcd.com/936/) is probably the best choice. It still looks legitimate, while being more secure than any random real name.
> Perhaps another way to put what I was trying to say is that top performers are constantly looking to maximize the amount of value they're adding, and a day filled with grunt work is seldom that; while a job filled with grunt work and little else is actively damaging to your career, if you're capable of more.

Yes.

Its a situation where the individual's interests (focusing on being visible on high impact projects that hit deadlines and then moving on before the maintenance and/or technical debt issues crop up) are diametrically opposed to the business's interests (building maintainable systems that do not have 5-6 figure bugs that likely exceed the development cost of something as simple as executing on a critical path combo box).

I've never worked for a business correctly values the impact of the former on the latter.
Yeah that's what I meant. It's been more than 5 years so I didn't remember the exact details. Thanks for the specifics!
I agree, I think they’re a real problem. I think it’s possible to eliminate human error over the phone too. Perhaps design a system that doesn’t let the representative into your account until they type in the 2FA token your phone provides or something (I don’t really know, I’m far from a security expert)
IMO is quite the opposite. Accounting, as "science", is mostly about making sure numbers represent a good view of reality, with a very conservative bias.

Those example are gimmicks set by C management that, while legal, certainly raised a few eyebrows in the accounting dept. Also, having accounting training helps detection BS practices.
Asking your best performers to do grunt work is a waste of their skills and may eventually drive them away. Let them add value by doing things that lesser performers are unable to do.

> I've found "Top Performer" is really code for "Person who focuses on getting involved on the highest impact project they can at any given time." And then end up resenting grunt work when such projects are not available to them.

Isn't that a good thing? If I were running a company, I would want the best people to focus on the things that had that highest impact on the bottom line. If grunt work is all you have, grunts are all you need.
The liberal obsession with guns exists to avoid having to think about other factors involved in the US's high rates of crime and murder.

Do a graph of legal gun ownership versus murder rate (comparing US states, or countries). No relationship, in fact slightly negative.

Do a graph of other demographic factors against murder rates. Bingo!
It definitely seems like some simple heuristics could help a lot in giving police a sense of the probability that it's a false alarm. They will of course still need to assess the situation, but systemic police accountability issues aside, harming completely innocent people is still no picnic for the officers involved, so knowing when the fraud likelihood is particularly high should help them calm down and take a more measured approach.

Apart from call tracing, I'd expect simple things like whether the caller stays on the line and cooperates with the dispatcher (vs hanging up immediately) to be quite predictive.
That's exactly it. And the thing is no matter where you worked, if you did great things and have great skills, you're going to get opportunities and recognition. If you don't have the skills and don't do the work, it doesn't matter where you filled a seat.
we (users) would catalog them by md5 hash and block them accordingly. It will always be an arms race: but at the end of the day; it's the users' computer, it's the users' connection.
You can't really think like this, seriously.

The way your police acts is retarded. No other country would respond with such backwards way to a simple single call.
I would assume so.

Of course various dispatchers will be running different software so this may not be universally supported, but these notes are a pretty basic feature.
https://i.imgur.com/aO6oWe7.png
Gamers are particularly bad about it, but I think it can apply to anybody who spends an inordinate amount of time attached to a computer or phone.

My theory is that they spend so much time playing games or screwing around, performing repetitive activities that have no consequence, that other activities they perform via virtual means just become an extension of their gaming mindset.

I think the same goes for Dread Pirate Roberts, the guy who wrote Mirai, perpetrators of cyberbullying and others-- they spend so much time wrapped up in a digital world where they get to play God with no consequence that the real-world implications of their digital lives start to become blurred.

* You can tell your parents you love them with the push of a button.

* You can have food brought to you with the push of a button.

* You can take a picture of your cat doing something stupid with the push of a button.

* You can send it to millions of people with the push of a button.

* You can buy clothes, household supplies or a car with the push of a button.

* You can conduct business with the push of a button.

* You can build and explore virtual worlds with the push of a button.

* You can create virtual life with the push of a button.

* You can destroy virtual life with the push of a button.

* You can tell someone they're ugly with the push of a button.

* You can distribute naked pictures of someone who trusted you with the push of a button.

* You can buy something expensive and make someone else pay for it with the push of a button.

* You can cripple the internet with the push of a button.

* You can put out a hit on someone with the push of a button.

You press buttons all day long for fun or for work, with no negative feedback. What's one more button?
The downside to doing it, for the people who do it, is that they will have a hard time finding another job if they get laid off. Their skills are likely outdated if they have been doing unchallenging grunt work for years.
Yeah I also withdrew 5 figures of cash during the crazy period. I have an old Coinbase account.. I think there are worse delays/limits put on new accounts.

For sure, if everyone did a bank run then there would be a liquidity shortage. But saying that is wayyy different than what the article said, that most people couldn't even withdraw $1k.
> I agree with the G that when food runs short every other consideration becomes secondary.

I get it, humans need food. If that’s your point I agree. That doesn't mean Greenland is a giant fridge to Denmark though. Other natural resources may have been and continue to be of interest to Denmark, but I'm pretty sure that zero Danes consider Greenland a backup food supply (even in times of crisis, which have occurred numerous times)
Google prioritizes tested theories over those that confirm the null hypothesis / science by consensus?
In the US, much of oil can be domestic, too. In Europe, things are pretty different (except maybe Norway).
I just wrote a mini rust script (https://github.com/rtaycher/make_password) to spit out 5 random dictionary words for secure passwords I need to share. Everything else gets auto generated by keepass, i should probably just figure out how to write a keepass plugin
Few - Many electric cars use inefficient electric heat that draws as much battery power as the traction motors. Some have more efficient heat pumps, but not all. Regardless, heat is no more instant in an EV than a conventional vehicle.
Does anyone have a link to how to go about generating an image like this?

Did the writer hand make the individual polygons or generate it from an image of themselves?
I've used Eaze. You pick an item from a menu in the website or app (although the Android app doesn't work for me), then someone drives up 20 minutes later and hands the item over. In my case I've gone outside to the driver's passenger window, they didn't come to my door. Think Uber, except the driver takes longer to arrive and gives you weed.

It's like any other delivery service, but I suspect the economics work better than food delivery because users make larger orders, you don't need to pick up from restaurants, and freshness is not as important (comparing to a central kitchen for food delivery).
Germany has ordered Amazon to stop taking advantage on “Birkenstock”
This is just fearmongering and falsehood.

Guns are not the issue. The issue is badly trained people and the idiotic mentality.
Hardening the OS is not enough. As the infamous Intel ME taught us in a different context, unless one uses only 100% open hardware, security cannot be guaranteed by software.
We need open (documented, reproducible) hardware rather than alternative OSes; until that day security on current platforms is to be considered a myth.
Taking Sides: Mary McCarthy’s Unsparing Honesty
The usable energy density of fossil fuel is hard to beat, especially in a weight-constrained application like a drone. I'm surprised more of these haven't hit the market yet. The refueling advantage is substantial in a fleet application, too.
For the record, a regular American sent to jail will typically be afforded the opportunity to post bail and continue to conduct their life as an innocent person, pending the outcome of their trial.
CommBank and NAB spear-headed instant transactions.

CommBank dropped an absolute mint on it, with a goal of sub-second transactions, with decent fraud protection.

After a bunch of talks between the big banks, and VISA and MasterCard, and a little bit to do with the ombudsmen from various government branches, it was decided to share out that architecture, including fraud protection.

The fraud protection is actually really good, and thanks to actual cooperation between the banks, reimbursement is a fairly likely scenario.
If you can produce 3BTC worth of goods using 2BTC, then people will pay you 3BTC.

Your doubts are based on the assumption, that somehow "there would be not enough money", which is simply not true. During the process of producing and trading goods money are not destroyed. They are just changing hands. There is always enough money in the economy.
My Gemini account says I have a $100k daily USD withdrawal limit via ACH, and doesn't note a limit for wire transfers. I haven't needed to max that out yet, but I don't think I would have a problem selling millions of USD worth of BTC/ETH and withdrawing it to my bank account.
Find a cause or project that you really believe in, and put your effort into that.

The book "Smartcuts" by Shane Snow address the issue of wealthy people feeling depressed. Its a great book!
What a load of rubbish.

1. The compare gun deaths. This includes suicides and excludes all other murders. So it is a totally biased metric.

They even admit most gun deaths are suicides.

2. Ignore by far the most salient variables for predicting murders.