skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DA's have to walk a tightrope, because if they push too hard in an investigation on a cop, they now find the well of police cooperation drying up on them. It's worse for their career to undermine their own ability to get convictions than it is to take on a cop here or there (I feel like the equation changes when you can make a career move like uncovering department-wide corruption).

I agree with you that if you have a different district/office handling this sort of stuff. But it always comes down to Who's Watching the Watchmen. Checks and balances are hard AF.
That's a... nonstandard use of the word collusion.
It used to be one of the only share targets (Twitter was the other). iOS 10 & 11 removed it; to log in with FB or share to FB through the OS, you must install the app to do so.
I'm not convinced. Here's why:

Punishing criminals with jail time not only makes sense from the standpoint of protecting the community from bad elements. It also serves two other purposes that are often overlooked:

1. Retribution for the crime committed. This is especially important if the crime had one or several clear victims.

2. As a deterrent / warning for other potentially criminal actors.

Point 1 is important to support righteous citizens' trust in the state of law.

Point 2 is important to instill respect for the state of law in everyone else.

I am aware that this is not in line with more progressive / liberal opinions, but I haven't come across any good alternative models so far.
My mother had macular degeneration. She lost almost all vision in a couple of years. She was a very active women all her life, a business woman when women had to ask permission to her husband to open a bank account.
It was devasting for such an independent person. She was deeply depressed and being in her early seventies her health deteriorated quickly, finally dying.

If researchers find a solution it will improve the quality of life of millions elder people.
Is very hard to know if the promoter of the Kool-Aid has drunk their own Kool-Aid, since the method of getting other people to drink theirs is to first learn to act as though you really, truly believe in the Kool-aid.
This is a non-issue. District Attorneys handle this situation all the time: they get plenty of bogus cases, or cases that could be real but have flimsy evidence, and then decide which ones are solid enough to take to trial and which ones are ignored. There is no reason a standing office of a special prosecutor for police misconduct couldn't do the same thing.
I love what you're doing, I love your mission.

My biggest concern is the Prison Guard Union. For example, in California, they are the most powerful political group in the state. California is #41 in spending per student, but #1 in spending per prisoner.

How will you break through the prison union, when what you offer ostensibly reduces the need for prison guards?
It is apparent that there is Chinese influence on this board.

Look at the commenter's history for some of the comments on China related news. This is interesting. China is known for manipulating information and spreading propaganda.

I hope HN cracks down on comment manipulation related to Chinese government news stories.
I'm not sure the ESP8266 is a great way of accomplishing the goal of being able to know what's running by just looking at the code, unless the Espressif has suddenly opened their firmwares and toolchains. An AVR (like an arduino) would probably be better suited for the task, as the open toolchains are mature.
An interesting storytelling
Well, the typical story is that the money is going to an overabundance of administrators, construction boondoggles, and institutional vendors. There's a lot of profit-taking that happens in academics, and administration is always going to slim faculty and programs at the expense of pet projects and personal priorities. Faculty lost control of the academic enterprise to professionalized administration, and there does not appear to be any chance of a reversal.
Is there an advantage to Lightning/Stellar as compared to Lightning/Bitcoin? I understand that Stellar has far better speed than Bitcoin, but with Lightning being used as the transaction layer, does that speed difference matter?
I can't speak for others, but I use it because I wanted a WhatsApp alternative after they were bought by Facebook. At the time I don't think signal was available yet. Now there's a critical mass of family and friends using telegram and it's a lot harder to move to something else. Besides, your average end user probably doesn't care about FSB spying on them because they have "nothing to hide"
Mont Saint Michel is certainly a fantastic place, however I must admit that I got a bit bored of walking around the cathedral after about the 20th empty room of pillars ;)

Unfortunately a lot of monuments/castles in France suffer from that feeling of emptiness; I assume they were cleared out during the revolution. Your best chance of seeing interesting things as well as interesting buildings seems to be to look for privately-owned/smaller castles that are open to the public. I went to a particularly nice one a couple of years ago where I believe the tour guide was a member of the family who owned it, and they had a fantastic collection of old furniture, art, weapons etc. And the biggest holly tree I have ever seen (we're talking castle-wall height).

It's something we kinda take for granted in the UK. We have a lot of ruined castles that are obviously pretty empty, but if it's got a roof it probably has lots of old stuff to see inside too.

I do like the number of castles in France though; there's always something to see nearby. It's fun to be in a place with so many historic buildings, like here in Wales (~600 castles)!
Ugh, this keeps on coming up.

Wire [1] already has both end-to-end encryption and cross device sync. It's not the only one to do that either.

It's not a tradeoff.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_(software)
Employers must provide "reasonable accommodation" to their employeers. Uber drivers are not "Employees" of Uber they are Independent Contractors. The driver has the right to refuse letting anyone in their vehicle. The vehicle is owned/leased by the driver not Uber. Uber has very minimal control and liability when it comes to said vehicle.

Gotta love "disruption" /s
Harvard, presumably.
I think their focus is on people who are pre-trial and haven't been convicted yet, so neither of your points apply to those people.

Their other focus is on parolees, so your points don't really apply to them either.
People are legally allowed to avoid dogs they encounter on the street.
> Quite the opposite. Technology allows users to become less and less power users.

That seems pedantic. Technology allows users to become "less and less power users" by giving them the tools to solve problems they were not advanced enough to solve before, or that were too time-consuming or difficult to solve before.

That's exactly the same point the OP is making -- Google has the potential to build a tool which would allow people who otherwise cannot make use of these archives to do so.
The text isn't the important part, its the video that keeps popping up a lot, I just grabbed the first tweet with it in it.
This makes me worried for Apple. IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services, and Watson in particular has seemed to be a pretty mediocre product with heavy marketing and gimmicks (Jeopardy and H&R Block come to mind).

Does Apple really think that it would be better to outsource cloud services to IBM than develop their own? To me, it looks like Apple lacks confidence in their own internal abilities, and that’s not a good look.
My point is not the veracity of any of the underlying legal principles. My point is the underhandedness of how we are entered into these agreements.

FOSS has in fact, printed their stance it on a T shirt, and subsequently told the world about it. It's actually one of their flagship contributions to the world.

What is different with the standard flow of the presentation of Terms of Service is more like being presented with the documentation and destination fees, and any other fees on the tail end of a car purchase, after you've talked at great length about THE price. For you see, the sales person conveniently considers those as completely different, and very odd to bundle together with the actual cost of the car.

It comes back to my original point. FOSS isn't switching narrative voices throughout their legal document. They actually want you to truly understand what you are agreeing too, because assuming good intentions, the goals of the users of FOSS align with the goals of the creators of FOSS. Contrast that with Magic Leaps TOS. Why else would you layer in persuasive, folksy, nonthreatening ad copy with your legalese, except to shape any negative opinion I might arrive at through only reading the legalese. Thats because their goals are profit at the expense of their customers, which necessarily means adversarial relationships with those customers, on some level.
Yeah I don't think he officially graduated. Harvard gave him an honorary degree[1] 12 years after he dropped out.

[1] Source: Mark Zuckerberg will get his Harvard degree after dropping out 12 years ago https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/7/14847968/facebook-mark-zuc...
In that particular case, have a drink instead of rubbing your stomach and making deep oooohhm noises.
My understanding as a non-lawyer is that unless there's an assignment of copyright by contributors they retain copyright to their contributions. I think in practice they also license that contribution under the project license, but some quick duck-duck-go research indicates that this is at least a complex topic. The most reliable source I was able to find in the time I care to spend on it is from the FSF[0].

Even in the case where copyright ownership is assigned to the project owner, it is a very different situation than the case where your created content is just hosted on a service that claims rights to it.

0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#AssignCopyright
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire MuleSoft
> it's about 50$

And if Silicon Valley brogrammers built it, it would fail about 25% of the time, and catch fire the other 5%. But, hey, the fires would make for a great YouTube video--because the video uploader always works.

Medical has little to do with cost and lots to do with certification and indemnification.

Certification--that defibrillator WILL do what it is supposed to

... or ...

Indemnification--if that defibrillator doesn't do what it is supposed to, somebody is out a lot of money.
> That lets every person arrested charge the police with something criminal, and have it taken seriously, no matter how bogus the charge.

No, it doesn't. An independent special prosecutor can brush off an allegation as not credible as easily as a police-aligned prosecutor; in principle, they won't be biased by their other prosecutions depending on the police, but they don't somehow lose the capacity for judgement along with that source of bias.
When you are a soldier you are required to follow your orders, a programmer is totally free to deny any project for personal reasons. The soldier is on some level a policy tool of the state determined by politicians. They can individually disagree but must carry out what the state decides, if the order is illegal they can deny it but the 'big picture' is all set high up.
The police officers involved are entitled to a jury trial just like everyone else.

The deeper problem is that juries do not convict police officers for this sort of thing, which is one of the reasons that prosecutors decline to charge officers. While a "special prosecutor" might result in a more enthusiastic prosecution, without the risk of damaging the relationship of the district attorney with the police force.

I don't think a law like this would be a panacea, or would even meaningfully impact the problem.
$30 is a lot for some people, especially those facing jail. Then there's paying for data. The app might not work on the older Android version that's on a $30 device. People with intellectual disabilities may struggle with a mobile phone.

None of these things should wind up determining whether a person goes to jail or not, but that's a risk here.
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Well there's one way to slow down China's economy. Nothing says first-world country like crippling student-loan debt.
This doesn't answer the question. Getting people out of jail is already rewarded as part of your business model. But you would also benefit by more people being tried and found guilty. I wonder if there is an answer. What about something like establishing a fund that is...funded based on recidivism? If recidivism is high, you cannot distribute profits, they must be channeled back into R&D to improve your services.
Cambridge Analytica distributed a Facebook application to 270,000 Facebook users who wanted to use the application. The application permissions gave CA access to information shared with those 270,000 users. Non-public, but shared with friends. Those 270,000 users in effect shared non-public information on as many as 50 million Facebook users. That works out to about 2.5% of Facebook's 2 billion monthly active users.
Well you can reasonably discriminate if the job requires it eg firefighters must be able to pass physical tests some jobs are barred to those with colour blindness for example
1. Correct.
2. Incorrect.
3. Incorrect.

An embryo is completely dependent on another life to live. Nobody has the right to enslave another person against his/her will.

Try again.
What I meant is that the OP would have plead not guilty and then had their lawyer file the request as part of discovery to see if any dashcam or bodycam footage was available. Believe me, I have no expectation that they would review this naturally themselves and offer up evidence of officer wrongdoing (even though these people swore an oath to do exactly that).
Nobody can buy land in china, but Microsoft was granted a long term lease on some nice prime real estate in zuongguancun that HR at the time of our move bragged had already made Microsoft a lot of money in land appreciation.
Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM, I guess... On a more serious note: why??
As someone who wants to seen the societal view of facebook change, what's prevents a viral uninstall campaign from happening to facebook? #UninstallFacebook
Ok, I guess I'll try to read this.

However, this comment won't wait:

If you were "with" the news, you wouldn't have done things like kill Google Reader, a primary vehicle power users used to process the news.

Stop prescribing. Start listening.
Doesn't matter. Nothing can be trusted on a plain HTTP page.

It's quite inexcusable today that setting up a certificate is such an inexpensive and easy thing with Let's Encrypt.
This already happens for me? Stopped using windows mail for this reason.
Thank you! We agree. And we will be working to make positive change.
Hear that "pop"? It's the student-debt-driven education bubble springing a leak and starting to deflate.

Thanks, Bush 43, for your legacy in this when you "reformed" the bankruptcy laws to make it impossible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy. That set educational institutions free to raise their rates to ludicrous levels: it took away the incentive for student lenders to push back.

It took away lenders' incentive to say such things as "$126,000 is too much debt for a special education teacher. She'll never be able to pay it back. We won't lend it to her to give it to you. Reduce your tuition, and cut your administrative overhead."

Institutions with some cachet, like Westminster, will get rescued. Others will just collapse.

This bursting bubble is going to hurt.
Is it this one? https://youtube.com/watch?v=T17XQI_AYNo
Fixing problems isn't just a matter of turning a knob on "who gets more trust" or "amount of investigation to do" or "how much government regulation to do'. Real-world problems don't exist on one-dimensional axes.

Fixing problems means making qualitative changes to how the broken processes work.
I mean, the conviction rate on cops is embarrassingly low. You have body cam footage, cell phone footage, a law abiding citizen's testimony, and they still just get a month suspension. Too frequently we see cops abusing their power and they get a slap on the wrist.

I think there's a pretty wide range of options between "let the DA who needs the cops to lie so he can keep his conviction rate high half-ass his way though the case" and "bring charges literally every time someone wants to bring charges." I think OP was talking more about WHO handles them, rather than whether all of them have merit.
I know right lol. had a good laugh at the hyperbole.
And they might even be granted as an incentive....
You're absolutely correct. This is extremely serious.

And it's extremely common.
Yes, most Swedes will understand "ulv" as well, but it's associated with stories for children from long ago, if that makes sense. It exists in expressions and derived words, so "werewolf" is "varulv", and "a wolf in sheep's clothing" is "en ulv i fårakläder", for example.

So the word is still there, it's not completely taboo like the original word for bear.
Timestamps in the block header. These timestamps are used to regulate the proof of work to maintain a block interval, so in the end both measures have the same time accuracy.
it is. by far.
Isn't that convenient? The only sources that document this widespread, omnipresent bias against right-wing are far-right "news" organizations who themselves engage in endless propaganda.

BTW, that forbes article doesn't show any kind of determined bias on behalf of Politifact. I don't think you really grasp what the problem is when we talk about bias in journalism. Newspapers can make mistakes. Newspapers can even report totally incorrect information. What's important is that mistakes and erroneous reporting are acknowledged, discussed, and critiqued. It's like science -- peer review is the key. When an organization like Politifact makes a claim and is then subjected to legitimate critique and then it responds to such criticism -- that is the process working. This is very different from what happens with the far-right news complex though, isn't it?
Not just carriers, but police, too. One of StringRay/KingFish's functions is encryption key extraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
Agreed, sharp founding team.
Mandatory upload filters in the EU?
Perhaps I miss something for cultural reasons (I am not a US citizen nor do I live in the USA):

> The tech is amazing, but this is a company owned by a consortium of big hotels (Marriot, Sheraton, etc) and they have no interest in feeding a disruptive startup that threatens their business. Rather, they simply want RoomKey to exist so they can use it as leverage in negotiations with Expedia and Orbitz and maybe Kayak. In other words, they want to be able to say "Give us a better percentage of revenue or we will fully fund RoomKey and you will be sorry."

> This truth is obvious to the tech at programmer, and they find it immensely frustrating.

Why is this so frustrating to the programmers working there? They can work with interesting technology (e.g. Clojure). Yes, because of the incentives it will probably not become a really huge company, but again: where is the problem if they earn a good salary?
We already have the mating part with NeatAI. Link: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf

Essentially it's a neural network which is represented by a series of genes. Genetically, new genes come in by having new links form between neurons, disabled, or split (with an in between neuron). This, as you can see, allows for a wide range of network representations. Because these variations are tagged with id's sequentially, we can mate two neural networks by combining their genes in order. They never conflict, and will produce something similar to both parents.
They really have no choice but to provide it, if the defense attorney subpoenas for it, but public defenders often don't do a good job defending people, and the dashcam evidence suspiciously often goes missing or broken.
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Nope! While your skepticism is totally reasonable, this is not a lead up to anything basic like a social network on the blockchain or any ICO/Coin pitch at all.

That blockchain wind up was only a foreshadowing of another piece of content..an essay that attempts to actually define what the blockchain is (in historical context) AND how it can be applied over the next generation to solve huge problems in energy, food production, transportation, municipal government, civic engineering, education, etc.
You can easily delete the last 3 words in a line in any other text editor just as fast.

Press End to move the cursor to the end. Then hold CTRL-SHIFT and hit left arrow 3 times to highlight the last three words. Press Delete or Backspace. It's just as fast as typing "$ 3b D" and is far more intuitive.
> The police officers involved are entitled to a jury trial just like everyone else.

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." -- Anatole France
How can a computer know to handle something when it is relying on us to supply models we don't have answers for?

These systems are fancy statistical sorting engines, looking up the most relevant next steps provided BY US.

They cannot subvert the laws of physics with their actions.

We don't have an answer for this at all because humans just swerve or hit the brakes, regardless of the outcome (often creating an outcome that's worse).

What else is there given the constraints of physics? Time and space aren't not mutable, no matter how big the data set we apply.
I don't think that anyone here is trying to say that this is the only industry in existence that has reverse incentives (in that their success could limit their future).

I think it's a bit of a stretch to compare online dating to an industry which, quite literally, destroys peoples lives and often unfairly targets disadvantaged groups.
Stellar is already fast enough, but I think it will improve scalability. Stellar aims to be "the internet of money" and for this the current throughput of 1000 tx/s is just not enough.
Let's be fair.

WhatsApp is NOT any different. They may have Signal's encryption algo, but they still store effectively unencrypted messages in their servers. Because that is the only way to sync between devices when adding a new device. And also the only way for FB to data mine.

So... Yeah bad reporting.
Indeed, it's entirely possible to get some % of your contacts to install it though. Every little helps :-)
Salesforce agrees to buy Mulesoft in $6.5B deal
The parent made it sound like the PayPal links were also http
>Is "Naïve" an accurate word here?

No, it's not at all accurate. It's surveillance capitalism, making money with the attention of people, manipulation and violation of privacy on a massive scale, using addictive mechanisms and networks to keep them engaged.

The public is only now recognising how damaging it is to democracy, personal relations and intimacy among other things, but companies like Facebook knew this for a very long time already, it is their business model.
Totally! I would never suggest otherwise. My point is that animals appearing in your rides as a driver shouldn't come as a surprise. Example: UberX, do you reserve a seat for your service dog, or do you just select 1 seat? There should be no ambiguity here, it should be a clear and well understood process for both the rider and driver.
I love the idea. Eliminating state where you can is a great strategy for making code as well as infrastructure more robust and I usually only see people mention the former.
MIT applies to the source code. Unless they reused exactly the same code, that doesn't apply.