skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my interactions with them in some traffic stops, it does seem like there's a bit of power-tripping going on sometimes.
Additionally, consider how disorienting it would be to wake up, hear a commotion outside, walk out your front door, and suddenly you're blinded by lights and a bunch of different voices are yelling at you to do stuff.

It is completely unreasonable to expect an ordinary person to have perfect comprehension and self control in such a situation. Which is why the procedures police follow need to anticipate this very problem.
>So he either used his own truck, or he stole a truck and then gave it back after having fenced the potatoes.

I wonder if it's possible that he ditched the truck afterwards, it was recovered unharmed, so they didn't bother charging him with that, or the article just didn't bother listing the additional charge of truck theft since the potato theft was far worse financially.
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Right, that makes sense. I think they were really underestimating the risks of distracted driving. Which I think a lot of people (myself included) do.
This is a complicated multi-facetted issue so I'm only going to comment on one aspect of it. Your attitude and mental health.

Just think carefully about each avenue you want to take and how that will impact your well-being and productivity.

There's an opportunity cost to chasing the money. In the time spent chasing it, you could instead be earning it back doing other work and be happier for it. Then it may be worth considering. I don't have a full picture of your earning potential and financial situation so I can't comment either way here.

Anecdotally, I was over billed by my electricity suppliers by ~£50. I could have let it go but I chased it and spent hours on the phone and writing emails to them. I filed complaints and threatened to go the regulator. It made me very angry and I could have spent that time far more productively and earned £50 doing something else. So with hindsight, I would do things differently.

I know my example is small compared to yours but useful none the less.
for the misled: this was a joke reply that is not helping the conversation at all. lamename should feel bad.
Yea, I feel that. My girlfriend is absolutely allergic to spending money on anything. On the other hand, you could probably get my dad on a site to keep up with his family and he wouldn't think twice about the cost. How this changes between different income levels is also a really important question.

One solution to needing people on the site would be open sharing with private links. Kind of like an unlisted video on YouTube, I could still send out my vacation photos to family without them being on the site.
Hey mods, can this be changed to a non-sensationalist link?

Title: Updated WCRF Cancer Prevention Recommendations

Link: https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-prevention-recomme...

The actual source is much more informative.
The root problem is the overreaction to the phone call. Swatting wouldn't exist without police overreaction and lack of verification.

We can control how police act by settings standards and
demanding better. We cannot prevent terrible people from making false 911 calls.
The other kind of firewall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(construction)
Don't suppose you happen to have any old documentation lying around? Long shot I know but... nostalgia

github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/3599#issuecomment-391492737
May I suggest some fiber?
Excellent definition.

The second part is true when there is a documentation.
The Case Against Education – some inconvenient truths
The marginal value of a season with good ratings matters. The content is there forever and two seasons of it vs three might not impact subscriber numbers as much as two seasons of it and one season of a brand new show.
Right right, I'm not sure anyone really knows why this happens.

My point is that 15 points per half-decade is just baseline. Doesn't mean we've picked up any useful correlation.
Our company has this in the toilets, when it goes dark you just wave your hands
This doctrine isn't applicable to police, however, as they're (privately) immune to civil action anyway.
Parabola is browser-based so should work great on windows! And we support importing .csv and .xls files.
Is it the commercial part that makes it infringement, or does that just make it clear infringement? I was under the impression as long as it's non-commercial use it's mostly allowed, but I'm not sure how that works out if for example I play something on a large screen in a public park. Is that infringing? If so, is it because it's shown to a lot of people, or because the reputational benefit of doing so may have some commercial ramifications and it's argued under that aspect?
I agree with all of this except the tense: haven't they shut the whole thing down at this point with no immediate plans to start it up again? Or am I mis-remembering that.
For military this would be a war crime.
It's a really old debate.

If I understand correctly what law is, I would say that lawmakers make some laws to express what is moral and what's not (according to them), but not always it's true that our moral standards are completely different from the lawmakers'. If the objective is to be moral, then we should ditch contradicting laws.
> Google's INTERNAL use of copyrighted material is within the legal bounds.

No, there is no such exception in US copyright law. Internal use of material falls under the same rules as anything public facing.

> you are free to add a copyrighted song to a family vacation slideshow only intended/accessible to your family offline

That's murky. It is not automatically legal. It is probably illegal if you're including your extended family and intend for them to copy & save your slideshow.

> IF your son leaks the said video,are you to blame?

Yes, if your son is less than 18 years old, you are legally responsible for his copyright violations. You can get sued for it, and some people have been. Maybe you missed the rash of RIAA lawsuits a few years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_group_efforts_against_fi...
Potentially deadly? Maybe, sure, but at low speeds, up to 10 mph say, it is incredibly unlikely that falling off a bicycle (even with no helmet) will do more than cause bruises and damaged ego.
Please define stupid?

My dentist is stupidly inept at front-end development, a dancer is stupid at math, a front-end dev may suck at accounting.

Which one of them is stupid?
It is not retroactive, the law has been there for 2 years, becoming _active_ in 40 minutes. Secondly, it is not the collection of data, it is the storing of data. So if you store the data without user confirmation in 40 minutes, there might be a problem. The action which is the problem is the storing of private data.

There is nothing retroactive here.
Ask HN: Is A/B Testing your pricing considered unethical?
I'm working on a SaaS which allows you to generate configurable pricing pages connected to Stripe.
One of the things I wanted to do was to make it so you could have two pricing pages running so you can monitor how conversion rates change based on price. The problem is that I'm afraid our customers may get in trouble if they were to perform "unethical" tests (selling the same service at different prices to your customers).

I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Exactly. I think he was missing my point: Cells and biological structures of that size have always been easy to look at, it's not so easy to do the same with smaller structures, like DNA.
"Ever since the American-Norwegian crime drama “Lilyhammer” became Netflix’s NFLX, +2.32% first original series to premiere in 2012, the company has been committed to voraciously generating new content in addition to its huge library of existing TV shows and movies."

"huge", my posterior.

U.S. context: In the last couple of years, aside from a very few new headliners (e.g. "Rogue One"), and some lingering headliners from older contracts (e.g. "West Wing", Star Trek), and ever-fewer good independent productions, I find Netflix's streaming library to be the dreggs of barely acceptable quality. (People will watch it when there's nothing better.)

Netflix streaming seems to be more popular than ever, but, "Jessica Jones", "The Crown", and a few other Netflix productions aside, Amazon Prime is bringing more engaging content into their lineup than Netflix is. (And that isn't saying too much. Most recently, on Prime, I'm enjoying re-watching the old "Kung Fu" show from the 70's -- in good if not spotless, widescreen prints -- apparently, original filming was with cinema-format cameras.)

There are still some worthwhile titles on Netflix streaming (U.S.). But after a few months, you've seen them all.

For those of you outside of the U.S., for all that your catalogs are smaller -- so I read -- you should know that, in the U.S., almost no new major films end up on Netflix. And almost all of the older ones are now gone -- contracts expired. Per what I read and hear, some do still end up or remain in other countries' NF catalogs.
> Northern Ireland does not suffer a 246x increase in police-attributed deaths compared to the rest of the UK

Well, not at the moment, but during the Troubles there were armed troops and armoured cars deployed on the streets. Quite a lot of people were killed by police and army shootings, some of which were extremely illegal (Miami Showband, Bloody Sunday) and one or two of which were actually prosected (Lee Clegg's shooting of Karen Reilly).

Reform of the police was critical to peace there, and will be critical in America. America needs a peace treaty with itself.
It seems to be accurate enough for McDonalds to tell cell phone owners in front of their stores that they have this great offer.
Do you have any proof of this online or can you provide more specific details? Not that I don't trust you but I don't trust anything I read on the internet without a minor amount of verification.
I suspect this is nothing more than a continuation of the 'nerds are hot' crowd. Where nerd is a person who wears glasses.
I'll have to give Mastadon a second glance. I think it being similar to Twitter gave me a bit of a prejudice against it.
Announcement of a new C++ API to PostgreSQL
I think it's a fantastic idea, I'm not aware of any trusts/charities like it but I'm sure there's many older techies and rich .com entrepreneurs who'd be willing to donate something small.
> People care deeply about their privacy.

No, they don't. Do you really think if, before she made this purchase, someone explained to her all the things that could theoratically go wrong with this device, she would have chosen not to buy it?

She only cares now and acts like she doesn't share quite a bit of the blame because it actually affected her. I think it is highly likely she'll just switch to an Apple or Google equivalent instead of noticing the larger problem with these devices.
I agree, it would probably not even be close to foolproof.

I believe any implementation of security through acoustic biometrics would be vulnerable to replay attacks.

Systems to reproduce acoustics with high fidelity are commonplace - You might be using the output component of such a system right now if you're listening to music.

You could make the Assistant remember the exact fingerprints of all previous activation phrases and only trust you if it was original. This could be circumvented if you spoke the activation phrase at any point where your assistant could not hear you, for example to another Assistant of the same brand.
Last I heard Instapaper has 3 employees.

Some smaller companies and lower-profile groups within big companies are going to need more time to sort this out, and some may decide it's not worth the risk of the massive fines no matter how compliant they think they are and will block European users. Nobody knows how aggressive regulators will be in enforcing this so far, nor is their any precedent for how the law will be interpreted by actual courts. Calling people incompetent isn't going to change that.

This is one of the negative consequences of enacting complex regulation targeted mostly at giants like Facebook and Google and then applying it to every side project and business in the entire world no matter how big or small. Sorry.
https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc
Every time someone makes a statement, or series of statements that involve the words "can't" or "not" (or others) regarding the capability, adoption, or just general progression of technology to do a particular thing or reach a particular goal, my spidey sense starts tingling and I think to myself "well that's going to happen." Unless it involves basic physics, then I think "okay, probably not going to happen, but you never know."
My assumption is that for Netflix (and similar) it isn’t “ratings don’t matter” but rather “competitive ratings don’t matter”. Traditional tv/cable has to compare ratings for multiple shows at the same air time. If a giving show has a lower rating than other shows at the same feasible time - they need broad appeal because the opportunity cost involved in burning a specific time slot.

Basically say you have a few shows, 50% of people like A, 40% each like B, C, and D - note that there’s an overlap and underlay. If there’s a a single time slot available, the only “correct” solution is to run show A for the 50% popularity. If all the people who like D do not like A, then that whole group (40% of the market) have no compelling reason to pay for your service.

Netflix doesn’t have the time slot problem which means the shows are not competing. So they can provide A and D and both groups are happy, and B and C are also available to everyone.

But importantly making a show does cost money, so there’s still a minimum popularity you need to justify that cost.
Reaction time is only part of the picture. First you recognize the issue. Then you have to move your body. In court they generally use 1.5 seconds for all of this. Your best case is .7 seconds, but this situation was clearly not the best case - even if the human had been paying attention it would be much worse.

http://www.visualexpert.com/Resources/reactiontime.html has a good discussion (starting with why 1.5 seconds is not the answer)
EU can apply its laws "in the Union", in its territories. If we want to expand those territories, we need wars etc.
Given your deeper study of these things, I'd be delighted for your participation in a brief thought experiment: If the framers could be brought forward to the year 2018 and made to understand the facets of the current gun debate, what do you think they would say?

Would they look at all the mass shooting deaths, suicides, law enforcement killings, accidental discharges by children, road rage incidents, overseas military adventurism, and the power and behaviour of entities like the NRA and say to all of it, "Yup, that's pretty much what we envisioned for the future of firearms in this country"? If not that, what kinds of common sense measures do you think they might suggest as appropriate to tackle some of the worst of the problem?
That's demonstrably false.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-william...

https://foxync.com/3493743/pennsylvania-police-officer-fired...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/boca-raton/fl-p...

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/police-recruit-fired-rap-lyr...
NoraUi: NOn-Regression Automation for User Interfaces
Not related to speed at all. glibc needs to add the support for them and it doesn't exist, at least not in the older branches that all the commercially supported distros use.

There is talk of adding support for external libraries. [0]

[0] - https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16814
Your tone suggest that these were a couple of irresponsible 8 year olds playing a prank. There were 17/18 yo and the person that called in the swat was 25. They all are plenty old enough to know what our LE system is all about. As far as the 25 yo serial swatter, it was just a matter of time before something like this happened.
Those regional monopolies you mention are granted legal rights to the physical property they use to obtain those monopolies. In the case of Comcast they have physical infrastructure that they were granted permission to place onto public and private land. While you may not get to vote for who runs Comcast, you definitely have the option to vote for the people that are involved in the decision-making process that grants those allowances to companies like Comcast. Sounds to me like the issue is government deciding who gets to be a monopoly. And that's why I said the proper course of action is to change the law/policies that are causing the problem.
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Memory, Consciousness, and Coma
The passage describes the benefit of having the ability to hold conflicting beliefs. Interestingly this is not what cognitive dissonance is. Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable feeling we have when our beliefs conflict. Research in this area shows that people are quite intolerant to this feeling and will tend to alter their beliefs to alleviate it. Cognitive dissonance actually prevents us from holding conflicting beliefs. This is the opposite of what the cited passage describes. Perhaps it is a translation issue as the source material was originally in Hebrew.
I find it unproductive to think about what HN should/should not do, but I just wanted to echo your sentiment. Roblimo, hemos, CmdrTac (who posts here sometimes... condolences if you're reading) had big and positive impacts on my personal professional development with software and open source. I am very grateful to them.
Show HN: Koak Messenger – readable voice messages
I think you're wrong. The Uber software controls the brakes, thru whatever means they're controlling the car. It has to – the car has to stop somehow!

"emergency braking maneuvers" refers to an additional automated (software) system for automatically applying the brakes in an emergency (that's detected by that additional system).
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Nonsense. Instapaper was acquired by Pinterest.
It's a big lot in a shopping complex, maybe 5 minutes from pulling in the lot to walking in the door.

They have special parking spots up front for people picking up ClickList orders. It'd be interesting to see if those were made available for this too. I suppose you could probably even order the meal kit via ClickList and have it brought to your car (+= $5).
Believe me, capital is the biggest issue I've run into in all my startups. You can never have too much.

The groundwork your laying now will help determine whether you're successful down the road.

Read The E-Myth on how to run a successful business. It's a bit silly in its writing but the point of the book is really helpful and eye opening in my opinion. I've got my startup partner reading it now. He's 100% the "technician". It's only 280 pages so maybe a 2 day read max.

The best sales book I've ever read is 10 Steps to Sales Success by Tim Breithaupt. I think it's out of print but you can get a used copy cheapo.

Running a business is a hell of a lot more than just coding, the sooner you recognize that the better your chances to succeed.
I used Sketchy theme from Bootswatch for a game I did last week for a contest.

https://bootswatch.com/sketchy/

https://github.com/kay-is/startup-clix
When the majority of threats are otherwise unknown (pulling over a speeder? You dont know if hes going to quietly accept the ticket or if hes a wanted felon who will open fire in traffic with an assault rifle to avoid capture), it is all too easy to over-respond to a presumably clear threat.
> You don't have enough information to deduce how the world works and know how everyone in society behaves.

> I do.

Your trollish arrogance notwithstanding, we both have the required available information to deduce the outcome of your proposed policies. We have documented history for centuries that clearly shows what that outcome would be.
Those blu-ray discs come with a license specifically calling out that you're allowed "home use" -- the videographer in the news story did not give Google a "home use" license.
Yeah Amazon said there should have been an audible warning it was recording and sending the message. It's apparently just a 'rare' glitch.

Based on Amazon's response I assume the device didn't notify the user at all and it wasn't just a matter of not hearing it.
>It still seems like the safest option given the massive risk this legislation is exposing companies.

The safest option was actually to comply with the GDPR during the two years it has been in force now. I refuse to believe that the changes required were impossible to perform in two years.

I'd love to know when exactly did Instapaper start looking into the GDPR.
IMO it is the police's responsibility to die first. They are putting themselves out to protect the public from threats not to kill the public who might be a threat to them or a fellow police officer.

I am aware that currently legally it is the exact opposite and they have no responsibility to save or protect anyone only themselves.
I think two steps should be taken:

- Punish the swatters harshly

- Take a long hard look at police tactics. There are way too many incidents where unarmed people don't behave 100% compliant and get shot. This is a really stressful situation for untrained people and professionals like cops should be trained to take that into account. Some years ago I got T-boned pretty hard by a car. Once the cops arrived, one of them gave me instructions and I was simply not able to process them and did all kinds of stuff instead. Thank god that cop was pretty nice and patient but I can totally understand how people may do things against cops' instructions when they get confronted by a SWAT team yelling at them.
ugggh no way jose. no "real names" - "real people"- "let me shit all over you with my ego"-maniacs. rather keep reddit where even the trolls are anonymous
It seems to me that this is not defense of the swatter, but rather an indictment of swat. There will be hoaxes. The government still shouldn't kill people over a hoax.
I'm trying to understand how Gaskill is being charged, here.

He gave a different address to avoid being swatted himself. It is now "conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice" to exercise one's instinct of self-preservation?

Can someone with a better handle of the law than myself explain how Gaskill's actions are unlawful?
React Native vs. Expo
> I don't think that they should be charged with murder as they did not commit any actual murder themselves.

This is why in many places the law makes it simple: solicitation/incitement carries the same sentence as the crime itself. Unsure if that's usually the case in the US.
I once had a client refuse to pay €600. That amount is just not worth going to court over. Suck it up and move on.

But $17k? That definitely sounds like court material. Talk to a lawyer. Did you keep all of your invoices and your communication about this?

One thing that might work against you is that you continued working for him after he underpaid your invoices. When a client refuses to pay, quit. If they promise to compensate in other ways that are acceptable to you, make sure you get it in contract.

Most of all, though: talk to a lawyer.
Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps?
I hadn't thought of this, but this is an excellent point! You can use this to make a functional mockup for a client/boss/whomever, and by using these they will completely ignore all styling and focus on the functionality.

Heck, I'm even thinking of using it now when we launch a beta, to get the users to focus on the functionality instead of the design. My only fear is that they will want to keep the design!