skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your approach to First Amendment issues is to disregard the history of judicial interpretation and application in favor of "this case didn't involve a law passed by Congress explicitly doing one of these things, so it doesn't apply".

Thank you and good night.
It's over half a GB for freshly opened messages app. Give it a full day and I'm sure it won't let you down. Compare that to the previous native version:

https://imgur.com/u1xL3Eg

But if you think a 5X RAM usage increase is fine I really have nothing to add.
If there is actually a need for this position? I’ve recently run into a few positions where they are just fishing and aren’t necessarily filling an existing position.
If you have nothing to hide, you are literally worthless! (In a financial sense, not saying this as an offense.)

People should get it that in a full fledged information economy the only thing that will have value will be information that they only they have. So encrypt, don't share, obsfucate, and when applicable use legal protection like patents for anything you can...

Never know what might be of value. One of the few good ideas I've hear in the crypto space is owning and encripting your personal data so that only you can sell it to advertisers. Sounds retarded, but as more and more things will become worthless there might be some prophecy of a future to come...
What about the phone company's role in all this? Don't they share some culpability for delivering spoofed information to a 911 operator? I understand that their entire business is delivering calls, but for whatever reason that 911 operator thought the call was legit based off of the metadata they saw. I feel like if they had a "hey this looks like a shady voip call" message on their terminals, they could communicate that to the responding officers which could have diminished their response.

I'm probably vastly simplifying the phone system, but if it doesn't hurt for telcos too when this kind of abuse happens, they're not likely to help improve the situation.
I turned on recording indication sounds on my Google home in accessibility options.

Now I hear it beep and randomly start listening when my wife and I talk. Sometimes it does it randomly without me making a sound.

I ask it what's up and it ignores me and goes to sleep.

Smart speakers are so dumb I'm hardly surprised by this.
> Modern law enforcement training puts so much priority on the safety of officers that it results in the deaths of unarmed innocents in this manner.

No it doesn't. But contemporary american law enforcement training sure appears to.
> A general purpose social website requires most everybody to be on it.

Who said it has to be general purpose? Part of the attraction of a paid social media site for me would be the fact that most people aren't on it. Isn't that why we're currently discussing the matter on HN rather than FB?

That said though, I'd be much more excited about paying $20/yr for the VPS where I host my node in a (hypothetical) FOSS distributed social media app than about paying $20/yr for a login to a closed source and proprietary one.
If anyone is looking to export a list of their saved pages the links for this are on the Settings page: https://www.instapaper.com/user

A list of all saved pages in all folders can be downloaded in CSV or HTML.
If people are willing to buy your product sight unseen, will the actual product specifications and warnings fend them off?
You wouldn't speak those protocols. You'd run your whole web-browser on Earth, and then the Earth<->Mars connection would be a minimum-bandwidth delay-tolerant DOM-event synchronization protocol† to allow you to see what that web-browser is rendering, and tell it to go click things/type things. Essentially like a graphical thin-client protocol (X11 or RDP), but the primitives would be HTML/CSS elements and binary assets in their native formats, rather than native controls and assets in decompressed texture format.

† I believe the Chromecast already operates on some variant of such a protocol. It'd just need to be modified to expect events to come from both sides, rather than only from the "sender" device. (And to remove any/all timeouts and keep-alive pings, of course.)

...or, you could just use https://mosh.org to shell into any random server and run shell commands (including, say, w3m. But even things like IRC would work this way!)
In other countries, not all police carry guns. Those countries are not suffering from the epidemic of gun violence which plagues the US. We are definitely doing something wrong, and they are definitely doing something right. So while we may not disarm the entire police force tomorrow, should we consider ways to deescalate? Hell yes.
All the manufacturers have their problems. It doesn‘t matter if you buy HP, Lenovo, Microsoft or Apple.

If you want a low maintenance device you are probably best suited with Apple or Microsoft devices since you don‘t have to worry about driver updates and bloatware.
This already exists, with SWAT.
They like to shoot people (and dogs) for no good reason, too.
Going wide with many shows instead of tall with a few shows with lots of seasons is probably way more optimal.
Websites would run into the same situation as banks: anytime you open an account at most banks in Europe and probably around the world, they specifically make sure that you're not American, because then they have to comply with American laws if they don't want to get blacklisted.
Ambitious widespread adoption of brand new badly flawed technology. China's plan with tech is looking more and more like the Great Leap Forward 2.0.
s/not ready to brake/not ready to drive/
Digg is actually pretty good now that it's 100% curated.

Killing the community was one of the best moves they could have made.
Here is the picture of where the cops were when they killed the guy: https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/singl...

The shooter claims the guy held up a gun. Obviously, he didn't. But assuming he DID: how did this cop get a 1-shot kill at that range without a scope? If he was using a scope, he could have seen there was no gun. If he wasn't using a scope, it's very unlikely at that range you could tell if someone was holding a gun up or a cell phone in the dark. The cop was even behind cover, and well across the street.

"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."

So, yeah, I'm totally fine with blaming the trigger-happy cop that killed this innocent father of 2. As it turns out, the cop will not be charged at all.
So, why weren't the police charged for opening fire on an unarmed civilian?
Are you seriously suggesting that we should arm people who can’t even behave with at least the restraint that we expect of soldiers in war zones?
Peugeot is working on this for years but it got frozen last year: https://www.groupe-psa.com/en/newsroom/automotive-innovation...
Michigan is pretty nice. The occasional tornado rips a few awnings off buildings, but it's nothing that would bother a datacenter or whatever.

We're seismically stable, too. Fairly far from the New Madrid fault that threatens sizable chunks of the rest of the midwest.
0, 1, a few, many. Just enough to tell you how much to crank up the HVAC.
also, is hunting that important? like, if that hobby is the only reason for people to keep guns, I'm fine with sacrificing it so that no one has a reason to have guns
This was discussed extensively here after the event happened. It's not pitch black around there and a number of people have recorded videos driving at night through that exact area and the entire road is well lit enough to see a person with a bike on the road. The low-fidelity CCD video Uber posted in the immediate aftermath is not representative of human vision or (apparently) the sensors that Uber had on the vehicle.
Definitely not accidental, I seem to remember at least one of William Gibson's books mention people avoiding face recognition with masks.
The problem is with stopping there.

If these scumbags had tried this in, say, London, chances are the victim would still be alive today.
It can be hard to reason about the culpability of the people involved in this thing, but I think your comment brings up an interesting point aside from culpability when you compare USA police to other countries that would "ask if everything is OK".

The police in the USA sent what was in effect an execution squad to the house of the victim. What kind of situation is that where there are execution squads ready to 'deploy' to anyone's home address?
A fair point. Edited to add.
The number of guns floating around in the US has a whole pile of effects that are active in this case: more guns increases the chance of a gun really being present, it increases the number of dead LE officers the ones in the SWAT team are familiar with and it increases the chance of the officer not making it home. Add poor training, the SWAT team already being only called in into situations that are supposedly dangers and you're a stupid mistake away from one or more people being killed.

USA police always struck me as super insecure in the few interactions I had with them compared to Canadian and European police. Even in Latin America the police in general was a lot more relaxed.

Incidentally, in the military there were similar issues with something called 'force protection'.
It really irks me the way the article says Andrew Finch was "at the wrong place at the wrong time". He was at _his_ house, which he's allowed to be at _any_ time.
>It is not the society, but market/economics of today that value intelligence more than anything else

Society has chosen to give the market relatively free reign. Society could also choose to redistribute profits and incentivise companies to act in the interests of society in general, rather than their just their shareholders. You might disagree with that, you might even have a profound moral objection to that, but on a societal level it is very much a choice.
Also, I'd imagine it makes a difference how _replacable_ shows are. A show which is the only show watched by a user in a given month is probably more valuable to Netflix than a show that is one of seventeen shows that user watches.
The killer was not charged.
Why not program right?
Wow, that was very informative and interesting. Definitely worth a read. Thanks!
There are many unclear things in the GDPR, but the relevance of citizenship is not among them: Nothing in the text of the GDPR or any official guidance mentions citizenship or nationality.

The only sources which do mention those are informal and imprecise third-party summaries. But yes, this mistake has been spread widely.

The more precise compliance guides from, say, European law firms don't mention citizenship or nationality either.
It was pretty much 99% law enforcements fault with a tiny bit the kids fault. If someone across state lines can call in a hoax and get someone killed then sorry but it’s pretty much on the LEA idiots.
Why are they taking the word of a random, unidentified caller?
I can recall a period when pirated MPEG-2 SVCDs could be found easily enough. It was mostly during that period where DVD players were commonplace, but DVD burners were rare. I think some players (Apex?) could even play MPEG-4 video off of CDs, though I don't think that was a standardized format.

Regardless, pirated SVCDs were nowhere near as common as the h.263 discs you mentioned, and you're right about MPEG-1 VCDs. I don't recall seeing (m)any pirated movies in that format.

> a 4head Hifi VCR though would look better

I'm suddenly missing my old Sony SLV-N81 :).
The police in other countries function without guns.
I think a big part of the problem is our gun culture, in particular our self-defense culture. If you read online gun forums one of the main themes is people hesitating and being afraid of hesitating. For example,

Force yourself to make a decision and implement it as
quickly and completely as you can. Go all in or GTFO.

-- http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/04/robert-farago/hesitation-kills/

Similar themes are speed and stopping power. So you're told to never, e.g., use a non-fatal round in a shot-gun. Moreover, people are constantly told to use the most lethal round available.

It's much worse with cops because not only do many cops have the same mentality, it can be compounded by an us-versus-them and better-him-than-me mentality. Basically, the mentality and the discipline leaves no room for actually assessing the situation. Whether or not using using the most lethal rounds, for instance, is legitimate, the emphasis is entirely misplaced. Such things are some of the least inconsequential aspects of what should be most concerning to someone training and preparing to use lethal force.
Reminds of the Napkin look and feel for Java Swing apps. I worked on a project where we only demoed the Napkin L&F to our customers until we were feature complete.

The idea was to keep them focused on functionality.
Average reaction time for humans for a visual alarm is 1/4 second. So more than a second left. And that's a second at the current speed. At 60 mph (was that the speed?), that's about 25 meters. With 1 g breaking for 1 s, the car's speed could have been reduced to 27 mph, and the person on the street would have had almost 0.4s more time to jump away, alerted by the sound of the car breaking.
> plenty of companies have gotten very large fines for gross non compliance of other regulations/directives

Gross, wilful, intentional, deceptive non-compliance. To be honest you have to put quite a lot of effort into managing to get fined for non-compliance with EU regs/dirs.
>Who said it has to be general purpose?

The author did and that's the context. The blog post was talking about sharing photos etc with "friends and family" so I took it be general purpose so it is adopted by a general audience.

Yes, there are things like Mastadon instances run by volunteers that are funded by donations for topics like anime but niche social networks doesn't seem to be what the author is talking about.

>Isn't that why we're currently discussing the matter on HN rather than FB?

I think the plea was submitted to a technical site like HN instead of FB because it's trying to drum up interest from programmers who can _build_ the $20/year a general purpose replacement for Facebook/Twitter.
I put mine in my pockets. I also exercise some intelligence and common sense in how I do it.

It's not unusual for a fair amount of strain to be applied there.

For you and other people, apparently not.
+ earthquakes in the rocky mountains?!
Yes, until they get better trained and stop shooting first. They should also get rid of all of the military style equipment. If they want to be soldiers, then go be a soldier...except soldiers have a set rules to adhere to before shooting at possible hostiles.
The UK has 4.9x fewer population compared to the USA, yet manages 246x fewer deaths due to policy activity. While some of our police are armed (covering Northern Ireland only - 1.65m population) the majority are not.

The real problem is likely not having armed police, after all, Northern Ireland does not suffer a 246x increase in police-attributed deaths compared to the rest of the UK, but the expectation by police that theirs live are at risk - due to the common access of regular citizens to offensive weaponry
What is with your agenda to not pin blame on the cops?
Class absolutely plays a factor. There are plenty of intelligent people who look or act differently than the prototypical white male our society privileges so much who are then written off as stupid and/or unimportant. There are just as many unintelligent people who are nonetheless lionized because they know how to be articulate or charismatic.
That wake word can be disabled in your phone and it's perfectly functional without it. This way, it only listens when you want it to (theoretically).

I'm sure you can appreciate the difference: press a button to talk to Siri vs Siri is always listening.

The latter seems crazy to me, on a phone, cylinder, laptop or whatever device it's implemented.
I built a tool that analyses one's IMDb ratings – this is what it says about me
Effect of lazy loading script on load time (20x better)
You don't need to be intelligent to be sapiosexual, just like you don't need to be wealthy to be a gold digger.
M. Polanyi – Life's Irreducible Structure
> You can start with the scumbags who placed the SWAT call.

Let's just agree that someone having committed a crime doesn't mean the next person in the chain of events isn't responsible. People saying the cops should have done differently aren't in any way saying that the people placing the call aren't responsible. It's a false dichotomy.
What is the font type that is used in this blog? Is it available for free use?
They can't detect me slowing down before I start slowing down. So if it's t-4 until impact and I'm still moving at full speed, they would need to start braking now if they can't stop in 4s (assuming the worst case that I continue on my current trajectory).

That being said, I'm happy to find my assumptions about stopping time are incorrect and a car traveling at 25mph can stop in less than a second. So on busy NYC streets this wouldn't be an issue. Even at 50mph it appears that stopping time is sub 3s, so the vehicle could probably have avoided this collision if it were running a more intelligent program.
He makes a great point. How can we get the internet to be more useful and less clickbait?
I'm saying they need to get their act together, and for that there must be consequences for not doing so. Make do-not-fire-unless-fired-upon standard RoE. Suspend or fire officers that violate it. Jail officers who kill or maim innocents. Put management that don't do their part on trial.
This quote caused me to re-evaluate a lot of my thinking when I first read it some time ago:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

-Stephen Jay Gould
Even at shops just hiring for Java or JavaScript, I don't think knowing them is a career advantage. They don't make you more hirable than you would be otherwise. That's really the only reason I left those out.

Paul Graham, while a thought-leader of sorts, isn't generally thought of as someone working at either the edge of tech or in large-scale systems. That's why nobody wants to chase the tech he's using vs what Google/Facebook/etc are.
If any non-rich, non-corporate individual had done the following: sent out a vehicle on city streets, driving fast under computer control, which did not have any capability to brake and which did indeed strike and kill someone, I think that non-rich person would certainly be sent to jail for their reckless behavior and also receive very large fines and civil judgments. It wouldn't even be close. The judge would shout at them during sentencing and the papers would cheer.

So, let's see what will happen to the Uber personnel involved.

By the way, it's insane to be an Uber test driver under these circumstances. They're going to hang you out to dry. Quit.
So your model isn't even mathematical, it's what, just a SWAG of the combined hazards and odds? That works for linear, small risks.

It absolutely does NOT work for serious risks, e.g., of death, serious injury, massive privacy violation, and other potential life-changing events.

The concept you are clearly avoiding or missing non-linear risk.

You (and amzn_engineer1) are advocating for simply subsuming risk assessment into the ordinary development cycle, and calling it "taking it seriously".

That is fooling yourself.

Taking it seriously is actually making full and serious effort OUT OF THE NORMAL DEVELOPMENT CYCLE for no other purpose than to SEEK and identify potential critical risks.

It is then engineering a variety of in-depth solutions to prevent those critical failure points from ever seeing the light of day. And implementing them. and testing them. And monitoring them.

>> I don't think it is an a priori fact that accidentally sending a recording of a conversation to a contact is a 'critical risk'.

This is an exact example of this sort of failure: 'it's not a priori bad'..., minimize it and streamline it into dev.

I really want to know in what world any sane person would say that it's OK to randomly divulging an intimate conversation to a contact or random recipient -- seriously, who would say that?

I mean sure, most conversations are benign, but some could be utterly life-changing if revealed. and that's OK with you?
In the USA it's shoot first ask questions later. There is very little consequence when an officer kills someone by mistake (or even intentionally sometimes) because the tax payer will cover the settlement with the surviving family, etc and the officer typically gets a slap on the wrist and at most a demotion.

My solution to the quick or reckless trigger finger is either holding the Police Union responsible for any settlements and not the Tax Payer and/or the officer is charged with manslaughter, loses all his benefits and can never own a gun again.

There was an officer in Toronto who had a Van Rampage Murderer actually either point a fake gun or motion that he was reaching for one multiple times and to the officers credit wasn't shot but taken into custody. At least now they can figure out why it happened and not have to speculate or attribute to some unknown reason.
And also because the victim lowered his hands to his waistband, and the officer thought he had a gun:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wichita-officer-who-kil...
I always press the lock button before I put the phone back in my pocket, but I've seen people put the phone back in their pocket or purse unlocked. If you have the phone app already running, butt dialing is very likely to occur.
This is good doc about the increasing militancy of the police in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZ1HvdPEEk
But what would you be violating exactly? How could those violations be detected? It seems if the EU is so generous in not wanting to fine and you and walking you through the process, then shutting down would look like a reasonable thing to do if you are still attempting to comply.
Quite a few subreddits do have the 'shitpost' tag, but it would be nice if that could be applied in a global fashion instead of being per-sub styling.
Those of us in the EU hate them too.
"My lady in the tube did this weird thing today" is something I've heard
Yes: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gloria+Hallelujah
The cop that shot him was not part of the SWAT team, they arrived after the murder.

http://www.kwch.com/content/news/Preliminary-hearing-starts-...

Here's a line from the article showing just how poorly trained cops are:
"He [Officer Justin Rapp] said he can’t answer whether he would have pulled the trigger if he knew it was a swatting call."
> Modern [edit: American] law enforcement training puts so much priority on the safety of officers that it results in the deaths of unarmed innocents in this manner.

'Pantywaist machismo'

All the trappings of machismo without any sense of duty or bravery.
>Ok but when they saw him, was he a threat

Yes (from their point of view). They were told he had a gun, and he lowered his hand to his waistband after being told to keep his hands above his head.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wichita-officer-who-kil...
Somebody who owes money can't take a trip? Kind of smart.