skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that police report to local governments in the US, I would expect diverse responses.

It doesn't work that way.

Lots of funding for local police comes from state and federal programs. So police end up doing the same thing museums, local theaters, and various other non-profits do-- they do the work required to continue getting the grant money that sustains them.

With a lot of this funding comes conditions in the grant that the department has to fulfill the program's purpose in order to continue getting funding. If a department secures funds to buy a hummer, some rifles, bullet-proof vests, and a drug dog they can't just use those things to take citizens deer hunting all year. They have to put it all to use and show that it was effectively used to fight drugs, or whatever the program is about.

Unfortunately, the U.S. did this batshit insane trillion dollar invasion of Iraq, and now we have a surplus of military equipment and military ideas up for domestic application. So most local police have a decision tree with one branch on it-- sign up for the programs that fund you for "war on drugs" and "post-Iraq war military surplus equipment and ideas" programs. Then maintain funding by doing all the training and policing within the guidelines of those programs and documenting it for further funding.

I don't see any easy way out. Imagine you're an officer and there's a program that will fly you out to an all-expenses-paid anti-terrorism training where you watch your instructors simulate bomb threats and blow a bunch of shit up. What are you going to do, not go?
Europe’s Data Regulators Set to Enforce New Powers
I bought the PH-1, and have been very happy with it. Their commitment to releasing source code, supporting no bloat, and stock google android (not stock aosp but close enough) made it a real winner in my book. I was looking forward to the PH-2 so I could push my relatives toward it for their upgrade cycles.

With Amazon going full force on the Alexa hardware (1st and 3rd party) but their only attempt at a phone a failure, I wonder if they will try to pickup Essential and go for a Essential Fire Phone-2?
It’s funny to think of JIRA as Turing complete because when using JIRA nobody can complete any programs.
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> But the converse is that the suburban drug lord pulls out his AR15 and shoots down 3 cops before they have a chance to figure out what is happening.

I've just gone through the information at https://www.odmp.org/ for the last 3 years and I can't find an example of anything like this.
It was a split second decision, and in hindsight he made the wrong decision. The same could have happened to anyone. The only way to prevent that is to force a delay of a few seconds before making a decision, but of course there is a reason they are trained not to do that...
>I don't consider Google to be largely this sort of company, as they've fought to expand access

They have fought to expand access to other people’s protected property but make sure theirs is locked behind paywall.

Think of all the copywrite violations on YouTube, from movies, tv shows, copywrite broadcasts of sporting events.

Now try to watch episode 3 or beyond of YouTube Red (Premium) series Cobra Kai without signing up for the service and giving them your credit card.

Do as I say, not as I do.
Micronaut-Projects/micronaut-core: Micronaut Application Framework
I see it more of a fast start to generate an MVP type of product because their are certainly still flaws in expo but the whole idea of not worrying about module updates breaking your app are huge. I personally use and like both but for different situations
This is amazing, I love the sketched feel to it. I started an open source project in the fall, PaperCSS, that’s in the same category as wiredJS. PaperCSS is like if someone quickly drew the page with a marker, whereas this is as if someone sketched it all with a pencil. Happy to see less clean lines on the internet :)

http://github.com/papercss/papercss
There are two kinds of patents: design patents, which protect the arbitrary look of a product, and utility patents, which protect a technology. The relevant patents here are design patents that address the recognizable "look" of the iPhone (rounded corners, colored border, etc.).

These are arbitrary choices, and that's precisely why it isn't rent-seeking to protect them. There is an infinite number of arbitrary designs that would achieve the same function; the only reason to use the ones Apple chose is to try and trade on the consumer goodwill Apple has created with its products, or confuse people into associating your product with Apple's. Those aren't legitimate bases for competition; they are free-riding (a concept at least as important as "rent seeking").
Hahah so my favorite thing to do when people use Siri, Google voice, Alexa etc is shout

"WHERE TO BUY COCAINE, SAN FRANCISCO"

or

"HOW TO JOIN ISIS"

or

"PLUTONIUM FOR SALE NEAR ME"

The commands are usually recognized but turn up nonsensical results.
GDPR = a lot of spam in my inbox
Just today alone i got something like 50 GDPR emails from companies telling me they have updated their policies. And its like that since a week. Am i the only one thinking this is crazy and useless?
What I hear from photographers is that movie and music companies/bands often take photos from the internet and use them without permission.
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"Cocaine poodle"
When you're balancing on two thin tires, you are lucky if you fall and don't slam your head on the pavement.
There's also a decade or so of PDA's with grid of icon interfaces that predate the iPhone.
Please stop calling our country Middle Earth.
Right now I'm slowly building a Git GUI for working with changes I make in my TiddlyWiki instances. The app will keep me from getting behind in my commits and be a fun way for practicing Python and working with Toga.
Weel, we're in Bellevue. It's a super fun problem to work on and one of the first thing we figured out was that trikes won't work because of their width and difficulty to ride, so we got a two-wheeled bike to balance. The autonomy problems are easier than cars in a lot of ways, and this Uber case is something we don't deal with because our bikes can always stop when presented with a no-go situation since we're only autonomous when no one is riding.
Design patents are different from utility patents.
There is so much here that couldn't work as it does, without the implicit assumption that everyone is going to behave politely. Hell the polite queuing after a major earthquake for water and food is absolutely astounding.

The foreigners who don't try to live up to the social standards while living here should be shunned by the local gaijins.
I forget, did Braun ever sue Apple for all of those stolen designs?

Anyway, shouldn't this be copyright law and not patent law?
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Those 'ultrasonic deterrents' should be completely illegal to deploy on/near any publicly accessible property. Having run into them many times over the years here in the US they're horrifically loud, painful, and less of a deterrent and more a punishment for having less-degraded hearing.
Eh, Zealandia doesn't make most lists of continents. It's more traditional to say that New Zealand is not part of a continent.
John Bain, YouTube most subscribed PC gaming critic has passed on
Wait, are you saying its notch is better than the iPhone's? I must confess I haven't considered the possibility that the form and size of the notch could be a differentiator. I thought the notch is a design dead-end if there ever was one, but maybe Apple are on to something; after all Apple sure knows a hell of a lot more about design trade-offs than me.
Indeed, this is similar to calling a plane "X-Y plane" - coordinate axes are a part of a reference frame and not of the plane itself.
Could you elaborate please ?

What do they bring on top of static fields and methods ?
Sleeping in on the weekends can compensate for lack of sleep during the week
Show HN: Clippi.io lets you collect your visual inspiration from any video
I think advertising is great. It allows people in need of a product/service to be able to purchase it, and it allows people providing said product/service to be known and deliver the value.
As always, the problem is not the concept itself, but to what degree you allow it to grow.

A civilized society has laws and rules limiting individual freedoms so that things don't get out of control. Different societies have different values and put laws in place to enforce those values on the people.

About advertising, did you know that in France, the law literally says "The dental profession may not be practised as a business.", which means no direct or indirect advertising ? This is a consequence of the belief that citizens health is more important than private gains (that doesn't stop French dentists to earn very good money compared to the rest of the population).

On the other end of the spectrum, you have all these insane marketing tactics who use known human psychological mechanisms to push products/services into their mouth until they swallow it. In other words, people create a need from nothing in their own interest, at the expense of other people. I believe that is bad, and we should have laws preventing that.
I always thought you’re supposed to hash on the client side first to avoid sending the password to the server, and then hash again on the server. Even if the password is a billion characters long, the server will only see a 60(?) byte array and hash that.
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Elon Musk’s attempt to discredit the media is dangerous, even if he’s joking
Location History – Google Maps
What role are you looking for the CTO to fulfill? What tech infrastructure do you have currently, Any? Why are you raising money? Are you hoping Tech problem + money = business? Where should we go for more info? Where should we contact you if we're interested? Oh and WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?

Already seeing some Red-Flags that you aren't well prepared. No Offense.
Yeah I can't really defend that. Skype has always been a piece of shit though.
Unless a larger company hungry to get into the smartphone market wanted to buy Essential. Rubin totally knows how the Google acquihire system works and how others emulate it.
No, that was user psychometry.
I wonder why someone hasn't created a browser extension to just automatically accept them, yet.
What could we do better?
GDPR isn't to blame here, the companies are. Just stop working with the companies that emailed you.
> I forget, did Braun ever sue Apple for all of those stolen designs?

Did reasonable amount of people confuse a Braun Pocket radio with the Apple iPod?
I built an application for myself called meditations: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations

It's actually...a todo application, but focused on habit formation and creating a positive feedback loop around a few consistent habits or projects.

I wrote it for myself because there was nothing quite like it that I was aware of. I use it on a daily basis; I also learned a lot of frontend development by having to maintain and use a real, interactive application.

> it's also pretty cool to see it being used by other people around the world.

It is cool! I've gotten one or two reports of people using it, despite the fact that I've taken almost no effort to make it easy to use, and it feels good.

I haven't published it on any stores because it's a self-hosted application -- you can keep all your data (encrypted if you want). I actually thought there would be no market for anything like it but over the years I've learned of a few that are making a decent revenue.

Bottom line, it's fun and rewarding to work on.
I’m sorry, but I’m not sure how you think the p800 looked anything like the iPhone, https://goo.gl/images/t3XvMA

Yes, they are both rectangles. But there were massive differences aside from the capacitive touch.
I remember switching to Android way back whenever the iPhone 3gs was "second-best" iPhone (was the 4 the next?), from the 3gs.

The 3gs had perfectly functional "play my xyz playlist", "next song," "play songs by artist" functionality, and to this day I don't understand why it took so long for Google to implement it, and why the implementation is so shitty.
I imagine it was for a few. Now not so much, and not taking any energy.
I've been brainstorming a shallow, poor-man's poor man version of this. I couldn't hope to compete. This looks incredible. Kudos!
Textbook strawman.
No, I think they made the right move. Their market share was a rounding error. This is Microsoft we're talking about.
>Can we? It's not looking likely that Kevin Spacey may work again, despite his clear talents as an actor.

You seem to be surprised that a person in the business of selling his public image can't sell it successfully once that image has been irreparably tarnished. (You are aware that popular actors are celebrities, and what they do off screen matters, right?)

> I'm saying that horrible people can make meaningful, positive contributions, but in the current politically charged environment we seem to be acting before we consider that.

Where's the evidence for that? It's always a business decision. Spacey has been discarded because it is profitable to do so.

What a surprise, pissing off a <population group> that contains <the majority of the population> has a negative impact on your career as a public person. Who would have thunk?
You are conflating IQ with criminality.

IIRC, there is a high correlation with those who get caught in certain kinds of crime and IQ.
I was gonna get one, but no headphone jack :\
I think it's pretty easy to argue that such an intent could be described as "stifling innovation", if it's preventing people from trying new things because of the overhead associated with an impact analysis and continued maintenance of e.g. responding to data requests indefinitely.
I got sick of how slow ESPN/Sportsline/NFL.com etc. were when all I wanted was to see NFL scores. So I made a little script to pull the NFL's live JSON game data file and display it in plain text. Bold who had the ball, italicize if they were in the red zone, etc.
i was skeptical of the simplistic approach to typography, color and icons. but honestly the result was clean, simple and thus oddly effective. very nice job! (download only provided info.txt file)
Ask HN: What is Going on with Symantec?
So the most in-depth article I've read is this one & it still doesn't explain much: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4174685-investors-right-worry-symantec-appears-sec-investigating-since-least-april

Hypotheses anyone? Likely related to their SSL/Verisign stuff?
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lol thats exactly every tech company.
This is why Disney's casting of real actors for the new Solo film struck me as odd.

In Rogue One, ILM already conjured the younger forms of two actors using CG and achieved damn near photorealism in doing so. Furthermore Disney's TRON: Legacy (2010) featured a slightly uncanny but nonetheless impressive young Jeff Bridges.

A fully photorealistic and believable young Harrison Ford in about ten to fifteen years doesn't strike me as entirely beyond the pale.
How Netlify migrated to a fully multi-cloud infrastructure – Netlify
Wow this is very clean and well designed!

Does it work for all the sites? I have always wanted to save reference footage but couldn't find a useful tool.
> I see this a lot on Tinder of all places. Lots of women identifying as "sapiosexuals" who claim to only care about intelligence.

As an Asian, I disapprove this message.
Exactly this. I see lots of other comments bringing up "Hey, rounded corners are obvious" or "A grid of icons is obvious", and then bringing up phones like the Sony Ericsson P800 to show how grid of icons already existed.

This is what I call "losing the forest for the trees", and for some reason I think is extremely common among engineering folks. It's not just rounded corners, or a grid of icons, but rounded corners and a grid of icons that looked and felt extremely similar to the iPhone.

I think it's still a very valid debate to say whether or not these kinds of things should be patentable, but lets not pretend that Samsung just happened along to a similar design. They were clearly copying the overall gestalt of the iPhone.
Built in deflation you say? That once again, favours the incumbents. Those starting out will be at a disadvantage even more than they are now, for not having held any tokens of value. It also means that anyone who does attempt to do anything which requires money up front, whether that be starting a business, or starting a family, are at an even greater disadvantage. A rising tide lifts all boats, unless the boats haven't been built yet. Then it just becomes very difficult as more and more of the land is covered by the ever increasing tide.
> this service would appeal to people who want to remain anonymous to local law enforcement

It doesn't make you anonymous at all. It announces: "I'm using Pornhub".

> ge untapped market in eg Islamic countries

Do you have any evidence of that? What's an 'Islamic country'? Is every country that you've lumped together in this category the same in regard to this issue? Is Islam even one uniform religion?

> I guess it's not that uncommon.

That is not evidence of frequency except in that coffee shop at that moment. I have far more evidence: In all the time I've been in coffee shops, I've never observed it.
> Other thoughts aside, if they wanted to stop doing business in the EU, how should they?

Erase everything.
Russian Natural Language Processing
TL;DR: C was not designed with modern CPUs in mind.
I paid a small number of those, appealed others in court (sometimes going through multiple instances) and the last years just kept ignoring the few letters that still come from time to time until they sue me or try to freeze my accounts. I think they have me tagged in their system because they give up pretty quickly as soon as I actively communicate with them. Might have to do with some small won cases against them. Maybe I’m not worth the risk to them anymore. Plus my VPN-fu is strong now.
>should humans interpret this as a natural expansion or an invasive species.

well, for starters, how would humans interpret themselves?

>They thrived, in part, because of increasing forest fragmentation and agricultural lands along with the annihilation of predators like wolves, cougars and jaguars.

sounds like an invasive species [of humans] cleared path for natural expansion of coyotes.
The issue is google doesn't care about they're users. As long as it's good enough to keep the data-gravy-train going.
StumbleUpon was "unique" in the aughties sense of the word. Before Reddit and Digg made things Hot or Not this was the place to go for interesting content. It wasn't loud or or overly verbose; it sent you to great sites before SEO and paid media killed content.

Maybe I'm just waxing nostalgic on the implementation as well as the time. IDK.

I hope Garret, Ali and the team at Mix do great things.
Had to scroll down the page for a while before understanding the point of this: drag-and-drop data transformation pipelines that comes with app integrations at both ends. It’s a great idea!
Don't agree "profitable to do so." Where are your statistics to back up that claim?

These aren't arguments; they're hypotheses. "Pissing off" huh? Because a few jerkoffs Tweet they're upset doesn't mean most of America cares. That's the problem.
That's only if they don't /cant run the entire DC of battery -whilst the gensets come online this is how telco exchanges / central offices work and important ones may have power supplied via different routes.
This is Germany I’m living in not the USA..
hmmm...It's like Pinterest for videos
This is a good point, although I suspect the so-called "victim" here wouldn't have trouble finding gainful employment elsewhere.

Basically we're a bunch of crybabies today.
I rest my case :-)
As always, accessibility is the last thing people care about.
Might be more a telco thing as they tend to regard serious outrages as a one every one or two generations as just about acceptable.
Alternatively, "We can't have misinformed if we haven't informed at all"
Still a jerk move
That’s fair, but again, a smartphone fits that description too and nobody is talking about how you’d have to be crazy to let one in your house.

A lot of people talk about it, they’re just laughed or shouted down. There’s also the argument that mobile phones undoubtedly offer a number of incredibly useful tools, not the least of which is a primary phone line. I think anyone would be hard pressed to argue for commensurate utility from Alexa or similar products.
Dude you are 19???!!!
This isn't shocking - Twitter was notorious for being held together with Scotch tape technically.

Honestly this hands-on approach is an impressive example of doing things that don't scale.
I think we have our own marketing department to blame for that...
> Giving up on your cash cows is the most misguided business advice I've ever seen.

Sure - but sooner or later there's a time.

The people who wouldn't give up their buggy whip manufacturing capability didn't win in the long run. (Or for more recent examples perhaps - serial/parallel ports, floppy drives, or removable phone batteries...)

Diesel passenger cars had a brief window of regulatory and technological advantage. Those started to close (eg: the tightening NOx regs and the tech and infrastructure improvements for electric cars), so the players in that game needed to change (eg: Mercedes' BluTec urea injection), get out of the game (like Toyota stopping diesel car sales in EU), or cheat (like VW chose to do).

My guess is - over the long term, Toyota's strategy will end up the best out of those choices...
Really curious, what do people say about Californians? - Native Californian
Are we ready for AI we dont understand?
> The first amendment doesn't apply to Twitter (the company). It applies to governments.

So, hypothetically speaking... if Trump would move to a social network owned by his friend... then Trump would not be allowed to block anyone, but it would be okay if the friend would take a hint and ban the person from the whole platform?
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I'm a kiwi, who lived in the US from the age of 8 to 13 (1998 - 2003).

I remember getting into a massive argument with an Elementary school teacher who tried to tell me I was wrong when I told her that my country was not in fact part of the country of Australia (not just continent, but she was adamant it was part of the Australian country).
For those who don't know him by his real name, this is TotalBiscuit/the Cynical Brit.
Raise better children, and pay living wages, basically.
I think the supposed trick is that they are not in bank accounts.
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It absolutely is to blame.
I didn't care about the privacy policy the first time, and I don't care about it now.
Not to be confused with paperjs, a /completely/ different js library.

http://paperjs.org/