skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel a bit like this deserves a Hacker News black bar. Reading Slashdot back in the day, Roblimo, CmdrTaco - those were good times. I was at the early bit of my career then, and being part of communities like Slashdot, Sourceforge, etc. were instrumental in helping me grow and more importantly learn about the constant changes in our field - so to me, these folks are also heroes of the Internet as much as some of the founders - for example, people like Vint Cerf, or Tim Berners Lee. Maybe in a slightly different way, but heroes of our communities none-the-less. RIP.
Are you seriously suggesting that the better software strategy is to aim for the kill because it is cheaper than possibly causing 'only' injury?

That should be criminal.

I'm all for chalking this one up to criminal negligence and incompetence, outright malice is - for now - off the table, unless someone leaks meeting notes from Uber where they discussed that exact scenario.
Ah, TIL. Any kind of additional metadata likely wouldn't have helped anyway.
Hope Mariadb gets a page out of their book and stops Ctrl-C from exiting their command-line tool.
How much of that is cultural or due to a "mentality", and how much is due to the mechanics of gunfights, though?

It's very easy for a person to be fatally injured but still able to kill you, and likely highly motivated to do so. For most women and men over 60, any aggressor with a knife and surprise can overpower them physically. At that point, you may as well assume their intent is lethal.

> So you're told to never, e.g., use a non-fatal round in a shot-gun.

Non-fatal rounds make sense in riot control, as do many police tactics where you have a large team and the ability to bring in backup.

For an individual, when you reason through it, you think you need to shoot someone with nonlethal, okay, what do you do if it doesn't work? After all, you don't have backup, so you don't really have a "plan B".

That article also hints at a legal problem, which is a result of the perverse logic of intent and probably not amenable to any legislative remedies.

1. Speaking generally, you can commit homicide in self-defense if there is a genuine threat to your life.

2. But, if you shoot to wound, you're demonstrating by your actions that you didn't think there was a genuine threat to your life.

3. Therefore you just weakened your claim to self-defense.

I think the statistics belie your claim that there's a cultural problem because, despite all this, the fact is that defensive gun use is overwhelmingly simply brandishing a weapon or arresting an individual by holding them at gunpoint. By orders of magnitude, violent situations are resolved peacefully vs. by shooting.
No one here is ONLY blaming the cops. Nice strawman you're throwing up.

The fact is the cop (Justin Rapp) was not punished at all, and has been on paid vacation.
Although this is a true statement it is not persuasive in that Bitcoin (unlike a special issue comic, or any other rare thing) has specific, meaningful properties (fungibility, divisibility, durability, etc.) that interact with the world according to well known principles (Gresham's Law, Lindy Effect, Theory of Computation, Network Effect, etc.) that must be shown not to apply in order to disqualify it as the best available store of value.
There's nothing to "eat" because the court didn't certify the class.
Thanks for the “lower the keyboard” tip. I’ll try it out, although most likely will be raising my seat.
Let’s Encrypt (ACMEv2) for HAProxy
Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus [pdf]
There are IT shops with large dev teams that don't put proxies between their users and the Internet, but in every one of them that I'm aware of, developer laptops are subject to intrusive continuous monitoring. And, even at firms where there are no proxies, VPNs are problematic.

The reason is that large firms are legally obligated to make sure that insiders aren't exfiltrating protected or confidential information.
Move to Utah. All there is to learn.
>The part that makes no sense to me is that swatting is even possible, there are enough indicators that the call is not originating from the location indicated by the caller.

Google search SS7.

https://securityintelligence.com/ss7-vulnerability-isnt-a-fl...

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/fix-ss7-two-factor-authenticat...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/03/hackers_fire_up_ss7...

TLDR; the SS7 protocol (which cell phones operate on) is extremely unsafe and vulnerable.
It still seems like the safest option given the massive risk this legislation is exposing companies. Especially low margin per user businesses like Instapaper. From The Verge:

> because it’s not entirely clear right now what information residents will request, what format that information needs to be in, how to locate it and package it, and whether new infrastructure needs to be created to manage this request pipeline.

So in the meantime they can at least stop the flow of new data from the EU into their system until they are 'compliant' and have systems in place to deal with the existing large amount of EU users/data they already have.

It makes sense to me to be cautious here, plus it has the dual benefit of drawing attention to the real costs/risks the bill has on smaller firms without teams of lawyers and internal human resources (developers, CSRs) to deal with the new obligations imposed on them.
The law doesn’t actually target Europeans, but anyone in Europe. Since it is based on geolocation rather than nationality, not being in Europe might be relevant legally (IANAL).
And yet multiple (ten) other officers in exactly the same location did not open fire, because they saw no gun, no threat.

This one cop supposedly did see him reaching for his (non-existent) gun and opened fire.

"The reality was that Finch was unarmed and that nearly every officer on the scene never saw him raise his hand with a gun in it. Several reported that they didn’t fire because they didn’t see a gun."

His poor lyin' eyes...
https://tinyurl.com/Special-Pleading
I don't understand why you are getting downvoted, because this is indeed what Tether claims. From their homepage

"100% Backed

Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves. So 1 USD₮ is always equivalent to 1 USD."

Whether Tether's claim is actually true is at best unclear, of course.
This might be vaguely off-topic but sometimes I feel like the only person on Earth that has absolutely no interest in webmail generally and gmail in particular. Sure, I have an account dating back to the very early era when it was invitation-only (May 2004 or thereabouts) but I’ve never really used it. Plugins and multiple redesigns have totally passed me by. All I do is keep it linked to my various versions of Mail.app running on my Macs and iDevices as a kind of ”Email Provider Of Last Resort”. In general, what is the appeal of having two web-applications with their double layer of inconsistent interfaces (web-app’s and browser’s)? That feels more like confusion to me than it does universality. Tabs to recreate a lesser incarnation of multitasking in the browser totally at odds with the multi-windowed manner in which most OS’ GUIs present it multiple applications onscreen simultaneously. It is all so deeply wrong to me. You have things you consider ’apps’ in a browser but they’re actually thickish clients to cloud-based services; a single browser window has a bunch of them running in tabs that obscure one-another, you switch (with a convenient hot-key combo) into another application running on your desktop as a local process, then you have to go back to the browser to another webapp, so you hot key back to the browser, and then have to hunt through the tabs, losing what you had onscreen to begin with.

Seriously, folks, it’s ludicrous.
Who does the rating? Which progressive media were on the list?
Nothing for windows? MS Office?
Fair point; to be clear, I was responding very specifically to the argument that "but military won't even do this."
The best of Python: a collection of my favorite articles from 2017/18 (so far)
I think there are two sides to this. Either ignore it, or embrace it and accept it as part of the human experience. If you accept that suffering is inevitable, you recognize the positives in life more readily. To me, this approach allows me to be present in life, as opposed to numb with drugs, waiting to expire.
Per the arxiv paper "...Thus, at some point, the kinetic energy of the device-driven mass exceeds the energy input, and if this energy is collected via decelerating the mass (via regenerative electromagnetic braking, for example), then there would be a net gain in energy."

So, first of all, the author of the paper certainly acknowledges the simple priniciples that make EM drive propulsion function. The author is simply arguing how feasible the technology would be for achieving any significant acceleration.

He doesn't claim that EM drive is in principle a perpetual motion machine, rather that 'ar some point' [during acceleration] the energy input to achieve any signiificant acceleration to make the technology feasible would require output energy greater than the possible energy input aboard an engine of a given mass (a statement which is certainly dependant on the efficiency of the 'power conversion' of the system, which can be improved with, for example, more efficient conductors/resonator cavities, etc.).

The paper is fine IMO; it's the comment that cited the paper that is inacurrate.
I don't know if (1) is true but the data was collected under previous laws. In my opinion laws like this should not be retroactive. Retroactive laws, especially when affecting billions of dollars of commerce, are unfair and draconian.
I think you may be misreading what people are saying. I'm not seeing anyone defending the swatter. (I might have missed it of course).

I'm arguing that the cop ALSO behaved in a way that is criminally incompetent. But blaming the officer isn't somehow saying the swatters aren't responsible. Blame and responsibility isn't shifted from one party to the other.

Edit:
> a tiny bit the kids fault.

I DON'T agree with this: but what I disagree most with is the attempt to divide the responsibility. It doesn't need to be divided. Two crimes were commited. Treat them separately. The kid is 100% responsible for his action, and the cop is 100% responsible for his actions.

It's pretty clear that without the actions of one, the person wouldn't have ended up dead. So why try to divide it?
Earnest question: is this perception based on data or is it biased by media reporting? (not your perception specifically, but the general perception)
Java interop in well-designed Kotlin or Scala is pushed to the edges of the application and fenced off. Kotlin makes null safety a much more practical proposition at that point where Scala doesn't. To be frank, Kotlin's null-handling is one of the bigger reasons I think lesser-skilled developers should use it over Java.

And Scala's is good enough, but it's not as good as Kotlin's. Scala has plenty of other beams in its eye to deal with before getting on anybody else, though (this week's shitfire: developers thinking implicits are a good idea, much as it's been for the last five years...).
Yes, but the tornado cleaned up the gay bar and then left.
> the police in the US have the same right to keep and bear arms as anyone else

And we have the right to make them not be police anymore.

Disclosure: I am a staunch Second Amendment supporter, well into the "extreme."

The Second Amendment does not override the employer-employee relationship - firearm possessors are not in a "protected class."

You're free to have that firearm and you may not be arrested for it - even while at your place of employ. We need not maintain your employment, however.
Can't both issues be the real issue?
"The second season of “Flaked” was released earlier this month, but industry observers anticipate it will become Netflix’s 20th canceled original show."

When was this written? That aired last year. Also IIRC Flaked was one of those pre-canceled shows where it was announced in advance that the second season would be the last.
Hey, I shot you an email and added mine to the about page [1] on dailyprog, also I'm on here.

I laughed about the typo, I do actually really love piracy.

1. http://dailyprog.org/~tacixat/about.html
"The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Majority Ownership of BAMTech" [1].

"The company's major clients include the NHL, HBO (for its HBO Now service), the PGA Tour, Riot Games, WatchESPN, PlayStation Vue, WWE Network and TheBlaze." [2]

"Marvel, Star Wars films to ditch Netflix for Disney service" [3]

I'd say they have both the content, technical expertise, and tenacity and perseverance to pull it off.

[1] https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acq... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMTech [3] https://www.cnet.com/news/marvel-and-star-wars-films-will-di...
Ironically, the comments in this thread will likely be as the writer of the article posted and I quote:

"UPDATE.2: You know what would be a nice change of pace? If commenters would refrain from saying, in effect, THIS IS WHY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LIKE ME ARE BAD AND CRAZY! I’ve tried to make it clear in this post that this problem belongs to all of us, and few if any of us have the right answers. If all you have to offer is the usual griping about the Other Side, don’t post here."

How about more questions and solutions rather than finger-pointing, this isn't caused by one side or the other as there have been both Liberal and Conservative administrations and policies and people etc.
But he's spot on about contacting the regulators because they already know they won't be in compliance.

Now would be a good time to do just that, and if the actual legal professionals thought it was a good idea to ban EU citizens but keep their data then maybe they should get better lawyers because that certainly won't work.
If you are interested in a similar discussion of consistency levels, write skew, and how FaunaDB allows indexes to opt-in to serializability, this blog post covers a lot of ground, but brings up index write skew toward the end: https://blog.fauna.com/acid-transactions-in-a-globally-distr...
Defaultdicts to the rescue! But I think it should be an explicit choice. If you only intend to have lists at some keys, and then accidentally mistype a key, it shouldn't (in my opinion) silently create a list, effectively hiding the bug.
cosmic ray - is that an exploit name or the secret government program that mandates Amazon provide this information on request?
>Egalitarianism: the doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
Would really like to know how that works out for you, tempted to get one myself. Holding out for 8th gen i7 though - work XPS 13 has 8th gen and not looking to 'downgrade' CPU. Pixelbooks are rarer than hens teeth on eBay so no refurbishment bargains to be had.
Yeah I tend to agree with you on this thought experiment, a more appropriate response obviously - but if you take away the faulty variables like that and the call does in fact require you to defend yourself in the manner described, then yes, it it was a hoax then the caller should be responsible (if they figure out who obviously).
Glad to see this on HN!

We've all been on both sides of this article. Sometimes (especially in startups) we overcommit and fail to hit our deadlines. This can burn relationships and do such harm that I think it's an incredibly important skill to develop, particularly for entrepreneurs.

This skill seems to go hand in hand with the ability to say "no" when you have too much on your plate.

As a side note... the Edittress platform is pretty cool! It looks like a much needed mentorship platform that I think will receive a warm welcome into the tech community particularly now that we are having more open discussions about mental health, inclusion, and diversity.

I hope we can expect a ShowHN soon! I just signed up.
I agree with you, one of the biggest contributors to police violence in my opinion is tolerance for it within the system.
You're (mostly) missing the point. This is, more or less, the point...

"Yes, some careers do require smarts. But even as high intelligence is increasingly treated as a job prerequisite, evidence suggests that it is not the unalloyed advantage it’s assumed to be."

When I was young I tended to equate academic performance & raw smarts with success, but as I've gotten older I've notice that long term success is less correlated with raw intelligence and more with disposition: charisma, grit, and emotional intelligence.

In some ways, in the current academic system, being extremely smart is almost like being able to cheat. You can skip the studying, take a test that others will struggle with, and still ace it. Real life is less like that and more of a slog where having a high IQ gives you a 20% advantage instead of a 150% advantage (these numbers are obviously pulled out of thin air).
They just say “you guys” up here. Seems to work just as well.
> If you're doing a cordon and search, which is very roughly equivalent to what SWAT does, you shoot if you see weapons.

Looks to me like the military has less itchy trigger-fingers. The man was outdoors, and they didn't see any weapons.
Julia suite for high-performance solvers of differential equations
The benefit of Netflix is that they can leave filmed shows on their platform and cancel future production if interest wanes.

Then they can see if interest comes back and can build future shows based on this feedback.
I can't find out why everyone rants and raves about the XPS13. Everywhere you look people are more or less shouting their positive reviews for it. The one I bought (top of the line i7 with fingerprint reader, touchscreen, the works) broke. They sent me a replacement (after a lot of arguing, even though I was in warranty), and that one broke too. I called again, they sent me a third laptop and within a month it broke again!! All of these problems were internal problems with the hardware... For example, my first one had a heatsink (heat pipe? I don't remember. Something to do with heating) come loose and would constantly overheat. Anyone who's had a XPS knows that these things are fragile enough that dropping it would shatter the screen before dislodging a heat pipe.

It also had one of the most annoying touchpads I've ever used and the small bezel made me not want to use it for anything that took more than five minutes - for some reason programming especially was difficult. I'm not sure why, it just felt way more difficult to do on the 13.

I finally just bit the bullet and bought a surface laptop - I love everything about it. I'm on month three right now, no problems so far. Fingers crossed.

(I don't work for Dell or Microsoft)
> Here is the hard thing to swallow: Some people are worth more than others.

According to whom? Why do they have the authority to say? You can say that person A produces more economic output than person B, but the true worth of that is subjective.

Higher IQ doesn't necessarily mean you're more competent, it means you're better at solving certain kinds of puzzles. Unless it is your job to solve that kind of puzzle you should directly measure what you care about.

I also don't see how a preference for high IQ scores is inextricably linked to the notion of progress.
Companies with a legal department may be forced to do so if they have ties to the EU, regardless of what business side thinks.
My understanding is the cyclic fasting causes a fat storage response in the body to prepare for periods of low caloric intake.

Personally, my brain, emotions, attention, all shuts down when I'm hungry. I bet I could get used to it, but the transition would definitely be tough. Also from past experience, my body consumes all of my muscle fairly quickly when I don't eat at regular intervals.
How are you going to fight off two or more 250lb men with knives who want your wallet, your life, and your wife?

Harsh words?
One can literally not overspend on food. Good food (i.e. fresh fruit, vegetables, good meat and fish, etc) are 100% worth the investment in my view. But to each their own priorities in life.
The law has been on the books for two years, it just wasn't enforced and for a long time before that there was another law with much the same effect. So even if the data was collected under previous laws there is not much that would convince me that denying the users access to their data or to the legally mandated data life-cycle features is the right thing to do.

In fact that attitude goes exactly against what the law is trying to achieve in the first place.
I'm not making these claims you seem to think I am.

I am 100%, absolutely, positively not saying 1:1 backing is required for a currency peg.

I am saying that in the case of tether, that is the explicit claim they are making about their cryptocurrency. They are claiming that each and every one is backed by a dollar in their account. This is their value proposition, this is what you are buying when you buy tether. An open, audited, 1:1 backed US dollar token * .

Please go and read their homepage if you have some sort of issue with this, it's right there at https://tether.to/

The idea is very much that you can park money in tether and it's not vulnerable to a run on the currency and it cannot drop below a dollar, because each one has a corresponding dollar in an account.

(* unfortunately they are not very open and have never been audited)
I dunno, ye've elevated one of the less mentally gifted people to be ye're supreme leader.
Why isn’t the cop getting punished at all?
It's kind of bizarre how nuclear had achieved a sort of counterculture renaissance. It has many, many drawbacks too numerous to go into here that are technical and sociological in nature.

And anyway, you tried to be too clever. I said "non-renewable" and not "carbon free" just to avoid this conversation. Unless you can start synthesizing utility grade quantities of well-behaved fissile material at a net energy surplus then it's not renewable even if we have decades/centuries of supply.
> fun Int?.orElse(fallback: Int) = this ?: fallback

Or even better:

fun <T> T?.orElse(fallback: T) = this ?: fallback
I guess storage tech is optional for auto and heavy industry - you can use diesel engines or whatever. For smartphones and the like though there is not much option apart from developing batteries.
Clearly not mentally however. (not arguing that this should affect their sentences however)
The part about catering to the "less-well-IQ'd" minority sounds very off to me. Reminds me of the Vonnegut short story Harrison Bergeron => http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
It is not anti-law-enforcement to point out the incredibly negligent independent assessment of the situation, required because the report was totally unsupported by any facts, the incredibly bad risk assessment training that US police use, and the incredibly bad escalation guidelines that virtually guarantee that many innocent people will be killed.

In fact, I would say it's quite pro-law-enforcement to insist that all these things be improved.
Well for one even if the swatter had told the one hundred percent truth the police would have been damn negligent. Imagine a hostage taker instructing one to head out and leave as a diversion or just to open the door while he is in cover with a rifle readied so he can take potshots at them or something. Then the police would have shot the hostage for no reason without even a crossfire as an excuse.

Also the fact they are so trigger happy that they can be used as a free dial-a-hitman is in itself a huge problem. Sure the callers are dirtbags but the fact they are so readily exploitable is on them.
Could we agree that the level of commitment to society’s well-being can be a slider and not a switch between two extremes?

Also, from what I know, “socialist” societies in the eastern block were closer to socialism-flavored dictatorships resulting from power grabs and nepotism on epic scale.
Here's a visualization of that electron in action:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuringMachine.html