skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A call from someone calling in via a VOIP line that was effectively out of country, yet pretending to be the neighbor. Corroboration is a good thing, and based on my (first hand) knowledge of what information shows up on a 911 dispatchers screen about call origin, should have prompted more 'skepticism'. Little details like "it's a one story house" (when in fact it's two story), and the like.

> But the person most at fault here is the one who lied and called in SWAT in the first place.

This I absolutely agree with.
The immediate reaction seems to be that the police are too militarized or not disciplined enough, but it's not clear to me that these claims apply in this situation.

Police militarization is a real problem when it happens for non-violent crimes. But this was thought to be a serious hostage situation, and I'm not sure there were a lot of good options here.
> Of course, you can work remotely in San Jose and live in Wyoming, but this doesn't scale.

Well, that does scale. Which is why you have TCS, Infosys, Accenture et al.
Even when it's not pretty clear it's not an accident. See http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/news/nationworld/ct-daniel... (Daniel Shaver killing).
Yes, but not a big city in Germany. Many bike lanes and speed limit of 30-40km/h. Also several roads with two lanes. If there is no bike lane, I take the entire lane to prevent cars from passing by closely. I certainly wouldn’t drive with a trailer everywhere though.
Quite true, some of the stuff I was reading related to the study includes some coaches currently telling parents that they are overprotective fools if they are concerned about letting their children play football.
There's an age factor here.

From personal experiences games with older gamers tend to have less... idiots.

They are still there, it's just they are banished from well admined servers quickly.

Games from Tripwire Interactive are a good example (Red Orchestra, Killing Floor).

---

COD is bad, simply because it is too big and "young". But again if you play on well-admined servers it is not a problem.
In my experience, the "calling around" thing was something that started when everyone got a cellphone. Prior to about 1999, folks would actually just drop by your house unannounced sometimes.
As an Infantry soldier who deployed to Afghanistan, I received more training on how to handle this type of situation than most cops seem to ever get. If we require soldiers to be better, why not require cops. Soldiers get to face more stress than cops.
The articles has some examples on the difficult -> easy propagation. Like discovering what a company does well and creating a vision that uses it is difficult; joining all current projects and creating a slogan that fits them all to use as a vision is easy. Measuring impact is difficult; setting and measuring deadlines is easy.

There is more there. I leads to an "I know it when I see it" understanding. If I tried to compress it into a definition I would certainly miss lots of relevant details, at least without refining it for some time, so I won't.
We know what is different but we refuse to address it. I understand that many people feel the second amendment is very important, but we at least have to have the intellectual honesty to admit that shootings like this are a consequence of it. We might decide we are willing, as a society, to accept that risk, but we can’t pretend it isn’t there.
Shotgun slugs are a lot less penetrative than .50 BMG though; they're proportionally heavier and travel slower. 12 gauge is .73 inches. You need significantly more thickness of armor just to stop the .50 BMG at all, by which point you've added so much more mass that you've gone much of the towards solving the higher impulse as well.
I never said that the company/organization can't stand up again (after restore, i.e. after several hours of frantic works by the IT guys), only that it can be brought on its knees.

And as well, the same people who lose the paper ticket (or have it stolen) may well have lost their smartphone (or I would say with some more probabilities, have it stolen).

But I appreciate the single point of failure note.
‘Nigerian Prince’ Email Scammer Arrested in Louisiana - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035183

;-)
Verizon India allegedly used bouncers to coerce staff into resigning
These old articles are good read because shows how thinking advances. Warnings about euroarea turned out to be true.

Today the idea of optimal currency area is more known.

* https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/08/sustain...

* https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/05/optimal...
They aren’t going to give you the chance to call 911.
US Dollar Will End 2017 as Worst Year Since 2003, While Bitcoin Is Up 1,372%
I think they got caught red-handed with an existing pasteboard API that suddenly gained handoff powers but at the same time started showing modal system overlays UIs when accessed? At least it came off like that.
Programming languages

Slepak et al - An Array-Oriented Language with Static Rank
Polymorphism [1]

Distributed systems

Kiayias et al - A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol [2]

Cognitive computing

Boahen - A Neuromorph's Prospectus [3]

Machine learning

Silver et al - Mastering Chess and Shogi [4]

1 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/rank-polymorphism...

2 https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf

3 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3767/1e53c9949fa08d9dc150ad...

4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.01815.pdf
Docker would fit nicely Microsoft’s Azure container offensive and new found love for all things Linux. They tried Mesosphere, but that didn’t work out.
Ask HN: What's the best thing(s) you shipped in 2017?
Hey - 2018 is just one day away! Show the rest of us at HN what you actually shipped in 2017 that you are super proud of! Promote shamelessly, and don't forget to include URLs!

I'll go first; after a 10-years-or-so hiatus I finally got back at composing music, and completed 29 songs and 4 albums, this fall only: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nxDh1lPq0EclBPMNXnYa3 and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgNm_EwMyLBrKp_kmdU3XoA
Mobile friendly list:

1) rapid adoption of Kubernetes

2) shiftless response strategy

3) aspects of the response strategy that imply internal recognition the company won't last

4) changes to organizational structure / personnel

(Don't use code formatting for lists, use a blank line between each item.)
Thanks ! Really interesting topic. It says almost all states (including Kansas) of america follow that rule and expand on how some CW nations don't. Law is fascinating.
Normally I'd agree but the US already has the largest prison population in the world. By far. We are obsessed with long and lengthy prison sentences even for the most minuscule non-victim offenses i.e. 20 years for pot possession (meanwhile armed robbers get 3-5 years). Terms like "mandatory minimum" and "zero tolerance" get thrown around by politicians like it's candy to get themselves elected, with little to no regard from the general public on the monetary and psychological costs (although the private prison industry and the cottage industries around it stand to make big bucks).

A solution to all of this is to eliminate victimless crimes, hold police accountable when they mess up, and switch to more of a house arrest model for crimes like this. Force the prankster to pay restitution to the victim's family. Make him work it off with 1000s of hours of community service if needed. But let's quit crowding prisons at taxpayer expense.
Very well done. And the ducks -- hilarious! Now how do you scale and vary this enough, to prevent suspicion? That's the next step. Near the end (28 min), it felt like the caller was probing with "can you hear me" to collect Lenny's canned responses. Would it be better to hang up earlier to avoid suspicion?
The overuse of SWAT is ridiculous, but sending them into a shots fired / hostage / bodies on the ground situation is entirely appropriate. And no different from most other developed countries. If you go into a house in Germany, shoot someone, and then threaten to shoot everyone else, do you really think you’re going to get an officer or two casually knocking on the door without weapons at the ready?
SWATing should just lead to a bit of wasted time, and a “sorry to bother you sir”. With proper response procedure it should be a complete non-issue. Placing blame on anyone but the cops is completely discounting the problem.
I agree. I'm far from an expert in this field, but my general observations is that we have a huge police presence in America. They are also empowered way beyond what our founders intended. That for one needs to change. It may also help if we stopped criminalizing every little thing, and giving our Environmental Protection Agency a freaking SWAT team[1].

[1]: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/14/armed-epa-agents-...
This.

It is almost as if Hacker News is techno-luddite.

Anyone who's paying attention knows that this is revolutionary technology.

There is only the bitcoin protocol that is the main innovation here.

You can change coin supply, change POW algorithm, change the block time, etc but it is still "bitcoin".

Once you understand that, then you can imagine where this is all heading
I have moderate sympathy with police for the difficulties of their job. If they find it uncomfortable or find themselves unable to handle the rigors, like the rest of us in society, they can get a new job that is better suited.

When it comes to police shooting people, I have little sympathy. They are the only class of people in society who can kill and under most circumstances, face no real consequence for their actions unlike the rest of their citizen compatriots. With that privilege comes a greater responsibility in my assessment.

I have absolutely zero sympathy for post-shooting employment difficulties police face who have, unlike nearly the rest of society, union protections and can not be terminated at will. When my employment circumstances are equal to a police officer, either by at-will provisions being extended to that class of citizen, or by me having access to a union of equal effectiveness, will I have one iota of sympathy for cops who find scrutiny too hard to bear.

Police officers are free to do like the rest of us and find a new job.
Yeah I expect these rules will be rendered effectively moot by equity swap trading.
I think probably the most effective way to solve the problem would be to make people better aware of what makes you appear threatening and non-threatening in a confrontation.

Unfortunately in America, what makes you seem threatening is based on the color of your skin.

I am an African American living in a predominantly White county in the south that was made famous 30 years ago nationally for being anti-minority.

While, the county has changed somewhat because of an influx of younger people to the burbs, I still worry when my son starts driving because he is a big tall dude even though he would never hurt a fly, has lived in the burbs all of his life, and his friendship circle is like the cast of a WB show.
I think of brittleness as a subset of risk. Risk has a very large surface area, and has to be mitigated by a correspondingly large number of techniques. Brittleness seems like a useful subset to address in the context of specific techniques that can avoid it. 'One thing' seems like a useful heuristic in this context.
It looks like in many cases [1] it's confusing the threads? Subjects and discussions start changing after a few messages in many threads I looked at.

[1] https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/vkeezpyz/
With total control over the PC, external network access, and critical security functions. And Intel couldn't be bothered to run Coverity.

Or this was a deliberately inserted but deniable backdoor.
IT companies formed cartel to keep entry-level salary low in India
This is the big difference. The GH supports natural language for most things and the Echo requires more rigid or basically commands you have to memorize to use.

I think of our Echo as a command line and our Google homes as using a GUI.

BTW, GH is also a lot easier for old people has been my experience.
Pray. Even if you aren’t religious.

I’m not religious and I would definitely pray.
Based on my understanding from the tweet, it sounds like it can only see the type of data i.e. URL/plaintext and will only be able to get access to URLs and not necessarily the actual text (ex: if you copied a password), can anyone verify this?

Edit:

Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-is-spying-on-your-cli...

"This recognition software prevents the app from scraping text that does not look like a URL, like passwords or emails, Harrison said. It’s not a perfect system, though: broken or fake links like “FacebookHasAccessToMyData.com” are still automatically recommended for posts."
>They can ruin it any way they want.

Fixed that for you
You'd be surprised at how little extra momentum (speed or weight) you have to add before disc brakes become essential. For me, the aha moment came when I started pulling a 40 lbs bike trailer - then you really don't want soft brakes when approaching a junction with cars. I installed some Avid Juicy's on 180 mm rotors and they're awesome - even now when the bike trailer is 70 lbs.
Yamaha Venova
> A single anonymous source on a non-911 number without corroborating reports of gunfire is not sufficient cause to shoot a man on his porch.

No one is arguing that.

> Here's an idea -- fly a drone around the house and look in some windows. Knock on a neighbors door and ask if they heard a gunshot.

That sounds great. Until there is an actual hostage situation, and police waste their time doing this and a hostage is killed, at which point people will be asking why they didn't kick the doors down if they knew someone was being held in there.

> Establish the identity of the reporter - how does the reporter know what is happening? Is the reporter physically proximate to the area?

The reporter claimed to be the person who killed his father and was holding other people hostage. How would you confirm if the reporter was physically in the area? E911 includes location reporting, but this can be spoofed(I don't know if it was in the situation)
That's surprising since we are putting a whole lot of money on making people feel safe from much less dangerous things.
I used to be n flicker and many communities had pretty good moderation --there was also a flagging mechanism. It worked pretty well. It seems the issue is scalability. The bigger a group gets, the more unwieldy they become. Small ones also get ignored.

Yet, for all the good, there was also the specter of in-crowds and echo chambers. That is also manifested in Reddit.

Still, I think group-centered moderation is key. If a group is "censoring" you, go create your own group with its own rules. They might also put a limit on group size and auto-split at a given threshold.
I am saying it should be placed on the cops' boss.

I agree with you that those should have been the consequences---i.e., none. Though, in a country where SWATting is a thing, whoever placed the call is very much responsible too, because he must have known the possible effect of his prank.

All in all, the cops (while responsible) don't have the largest slice of responsibility.
Had a good chuckle reading through the chat logs, but it would be interesting to see the results using NLP to formulate new nonsense questions aimed at the spammer.

The spammer side seems to also employ some level of bot automation, and its like two bots going at each other with the occasional broken english comment showing confusion and frustration....this is truly golden.
What you should know about the new Instagram feature, ‘Recommended’ posts
Know Your Rights – Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hmm. Tried it and the email bounced back with:

“554 Recipients' domain disabled”
And if it turns out they weren't armed, you were way, way too early.
I think I'd rather read a book than keep monkeying around with a bicycle, though. That's the value of the time I'm referring to. I know some people like endless tinkering with things, but not me; I just want them working. Mechanical repair isn't a leisure activity for me.
I have spent a few years mostly walking around either in Vibrams or in canvas shoes I bought for $10/pair in China, and frequently walk like this.

The guy in the video is exaggerating his motions a lot though (could explain part of why he finds it takes so much work for his calves). In particular, my steps end up being small, with my feet staying under my center of mass, my stepping leg is bent, my steps are almost directly in line, and I find that my torso moves very smoothly without bouncing up and down or stopping and starting.
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.

As transaction costs increase and Bitcoin's usefulness diminish it is becoming more and more like a ponzi scheme, a pyramid scheme or a game of greater fools.

For what is the use of Bitcoin when other cryptocurrencies can be a store of value and peer-to-peer digital cash? I see none thus I see no value with Bitcoin.
"Docker has protected some crappy people along its rise. This led to my personal dislike of the company’s leadership."

-> what is he referring to ?
Have both the Echo and now several Google homes. The Google home is a lot easier than the Echo to get it to do stuff. The reason is the GH does not require rigid language or basically commands you have to have memorized like the echo.

So it is a lot easier to use and especially for kids and older people.

You can talk to the GH more like you would talk to your wife.

I think of the Echo as using a command line and the GH a GUI.
That's a good point, except we already have a term for that as well. It's a single point of failure.
I also received military training. I don't think it enabled me to make perfect decisions. In fact I saw several poor decisions made by my fellows-in-arms. If you didn't, then you were probably lucky enough to have not been placed in those difficult situations.
The grandparent said that the person most at fault was the person who called it in. I disagree, the people most at fault were the police, by far.
Can you elaborate about what has been tried and what hasn't worked out?
There’s a German barefoot shoe manufacturer called Leguano. They swear by the toes-first walk. I think it’s a bit silly to walk this way.

But I got a pair of Leguanos anyways (for the barefoot shoe experience) and I definitely walk different in these shoes. Before, my stride was quite far. Too far for my body height. Now I take smaller steps, there’s less pressure on my heel. Overall, I can say that barefoot shoes are great. First shoe that I actually enjoy wearing.

So I guess going toes-first could make sense, but simply taking smaller steps with less pressure on the heels could have a similar healthy effect.
They signed up to put themselves in danger. I as a civilian never signed up for it. If anyone should accept an increased risk, it's not me or my family that were peacefully minding our own business.
That short bio has no qualifications enough to write a book on effective engineering especially making claims like guiding people to become 10x engineer.

I find it difficult for a person with valid credentials in real life support this content marketing fraud.
A lot is already done. Download away.

UK Lidar: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/lidar-composite-dsm-1m1

There's even some Unity plugins that will merge this lidar with satellite photos and openstreetmap and get you a 3d environment from all this data.
> Have you found any reference

I haven't bothered searching. If they don't care enough to sell me on the idea - and they probably don't, I'm not their target - I don't care enough to go looking for reasons to buy into it.
Couldn't we say the same thing about gold? I'm sure if you look far enough, you'll find someone willing to "sell" you gold and hold the gold for you when they don't have the said gold.

Or replace gold with US dollars or tulips or Amazon.com stock or whatever.

How is this a Bitcoin issue?
Perhaps you could point out specifically what GP is wrong about, rather than using vague flourishes like "overblown" and "sour grapes".
The shares of holding companies would end up being the ones getting dumped.
In Norway, reservists can keep their assault rifles home. Once a guy in our neighbourhood decided to clean his AG-3 on the porch, triggering armed police response in the area. This being Norway of course, no shots were fired and the situation cleared up.

Otherwise, you can buy pretty much anything non-automatic when you have a hunting or sports license. Neither is hard to obtain. The circulation is regulated but still quite simple. You can even sell a gun over post with cash on delivery.
You may well pay more in aerodynamic penalty on the bike trailer than you would in extra weight on the bike itself, though. It merits calculation.

Also ... biking with a trailer just isn't fun. I'd much rather bike on a loaded-down heavy bike than on a lighter bike dragging a trailer behind it.

And there's the fact that I'm sure you must be underestimating something, because a bike trailer has additional weight from its frame, wheel, and tire to add on that a fully-loaded bike does not. I don't see how it's possible that, for equal carrying capacity, adding a trailer could somehow reduce total mass.
That's a cute idea. But I wonder if the system is mis-matching messages and replies.[1] How did a spam for fake Ray-Ban sunglasses turn into someone wanting app development?

[1] https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/cturvzsr/
Not much, but consultants tend to get paid more than freelancers.
Did you listen to the audio? The person calling 911 was the supposed suspect he claimed to have killed his father, so I'm not sure how you would contact the suspect without just getting the same 'prankster' again.

Knocking on doors of the neighbors sounds great, but does it give you any useful information if no one heard a gun shot? What if he shot his dad in the basement, or the walls of the house are thick enough to block the sound. You still need to go in and check even if every neighbor said they didn't hear anything. Also, knocking on doors wastes what may be valuable time in a real hostage situation.
Please don’t cut my balls off or “On the creation of useful coding standards”
Basic income experiment in Kenya is disproving a big myth
This is stupid, there is one thing I value which hasn't changed much between now and then - my time. If I owned my time I could spend it reading, talking to friends, thinking. These things haven't changed much between now and then.

From a UK perspective, a reasonable house in London costs 1 million. So broadly, until I have that level of assets, I don't own my time because I must work and don't have a choice about it. I work somewhere between 10 and 12 hours a day, 6 days a week on average, on a much higher than average salary and it will take me almost a lifetime to have the assets to own my time.

This comparison is only relevant for those people who already own most of their time, so say $500,000 and above assets. Which is a lot of people but not most.
my namesake does this too, but i do it in maille and i use a spear not a chunk of rebar.