skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely not correct. You are saying the police are safer if their strategy is "shoot immediately". If that is the case, they've just eliminated any incentive for someone with a gun to not shoot at them or to resist arrest. In many cases, the cops do not have the advantage, and if you know with certainty that you will die if the police get the first shot, you will shoot at the police at the first opportunity. You don't open the door and talk to the police. You find a place where you'll be protected and wait for the police to walk into the room.

I don't know the exact probabilities of each of these events, and it would depend on the situation, but it's dangerous to assume that the police are better off if they open fire just to be sure they kill the bad guy.
It is a reference to the stone used to slay Goliath.
Related: The Mark of a Masterpiece - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/07/12/the-mark-of-a-...
I'll settle for a reasonable "undo" feature.
My point is, I have no clue what's collecting data in an improper way, and I'm not going to hire a lawyer for a hobby app.

The amount of conflicting information about whether I do or don't need consent based on what services I use is just stupid. And I wouldn't even be showing ads.

Part of the apps function is related to location, do I need consent? Maybe.

It will use Firebase, do I need consent? Maybe.

It will collect crash data so I can debug the stupid thing, do I need consent? Maybe.

Etc...
Yup, Mac OS 7.5 had speech commands, my colleague named his machine "Oi!" and I would routinely shout "Oi! Shut down!" as I left the office. Never got old.
What was the time you visited Paris? I visited London last year and I have seen a quite some police carry MP5 around Big Ben and area (I was also in between attacks in there). On the other hand in Amsterdam where I live I have only seen police with machine guns after attacks in Paris.

From what I have seen UK police usually carry no guns like outside London. In the Netherlands usually pistols. In Poland where I am from I have not seen Policeman with machine gun only military and special occasions.

Shooting by the Police happen but it is like one in 3 maybe 5 years. Where in states it seems from my point of view every month at least (never been in states so it might be skewed).
It seems to be a meme (charitably, or less charitably, an attempt at propaganda) nowadays to consider all mainstream media to be left-wing.
To everyone saying "these are basic phone designs," try and remember reactions to the original iPhone release keynote. The design was originally reasonably polarizing/radical. Half the reason these design elements are now so widespread is because everyone immediately copied Apple.
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How often do I need to explain that this siphash claim of DDOS protection is utter nonsense. siphash can easily be brute forced like every insecure hash function (<256 bits), and proper DDOS protection can only be provided by a proper collision strategy. Even DJB himself does so.
> i don't think that's been said.

I think it's implied by the phrase "they are free to inject their biases unchecked."

> false. or i guess we'll exclude most of quantum mechanics and dozens of other things few people are knowledgeable about.

Note that I said "neutral article". For articles on esoteric QM topics, it's not like one would expect the existence of a well-organised brigade trying to push an alternative viewpoint at all costs, either.
I scraped a representative set of Slashdot comments a few years ago and it was notable that only the users in the 100K to 300K UID block were very active with a progressive decline over the years. AC posts picked up as mobile became more common but that wasn't enough to compensate for the loss of logged in comments. Projecting forward, it was clear that the core commenters would age out completely by 2022-ish. That is when I expect Slashdot to go belly up.
Also:

Neverwinter Nights:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWScript

Morrowind:
http://en.uesp.net/morrow/editor/mw_scripting.shtml

And I suspect countless others. (These two games exposed their developer tools to the customers so they could extend the game.)
> Actually I think long term success is mostly about luck and starting privilege

From the perspective of a culture/society? No way.

For example you have no choice that you grew up in a single parent household - but society and culture have a huge influence over how likely/often that happens.

Etc etc etc.
I did not receive any email notification about this either, just double checked all Spam folders..
If their goal was to go from a top 50 website to a top 3000 website they certainly succeeded.
I'll add that Slashdot's user comment toxicity is a product of its founders' commitment to non-censorship and free speech.

Back in the day (what some here have referred to as Slashdot's "peak"), Slashdot commentary and trolling could be side-achingly hilarious, irreverent, profane, thought-provoking, insightful, silly, and humbling.

Slashdot's editorially permissive policy coupled with algorithmically assigned moderator points allowed "representative" Slashdot users to choose which trolls and provocateurs would be buried and which boosted.

As a result, Slashdot was renowned and reviled for its sometimes predictable and frequently appropriate inside jokes (e.g. "Had Netcraft confirmed it?", "Only old people ______", "IN SOVIET RUSSIA $NOUN $VERBs YOU", etc.) as well as for its sometimes intractable and iconoclastic user base.

The user base was in fact so intractable that a site-wide redesign was deployed and then retracted due to extraordinary complaints from the user base. Dice ended up throwing a lot of invested time and resources away to appease a user base determined to voice its displeasure with a Web 2.0 redesign.

Roblimo, CmdrTaco, and CowboyNeal were the ones who forged Slashdot's editorial policy and, by so doing, indelibly shaped the character of Slashdot at its peak.

Today, thoughtless shitposting and unoriginal trolling of anonymous (and some pseudonymous) Slashdot users has driven away all but the most hardy (or desperate) of Slashdot readers. Slashdot today seems to be an endlessly burning tire fire. I'm grateful the current /. thread for Roblimo is so far civil. [0]

But there was a time when its moderation policies and commitment to anonymity generated insight and humor. Even now, Slashdot has a hackerish mean streak that can yield endlessly entertaining threads full of puns, jokes, and in-jokes and if there is anything I wish HN had more of it is an understanding that iconoclastic juvenile humor can play an important discursive role in conversations of technology, society, and culture.

I only rarely visit Slashdot these days due to the toxicity of its users' comments (I can't bring myself to hide comments moderated to -1 for the same reasons that I "showdead" here on HN).

I am forever indebted to the original Slashdot team, the Slashdot community and, on this occasion, especially Robin Miller for providing a platform where I could learn from others, express my opinions, and keep abreast of geek culture.

Roblimo, you will be missed.

[0] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/05/24/1750210/robin-robl...

EDIT: typos and small changes here and there
Uber's system could obviously brake but not 'emergency brake'?

There are two systems in the vehicle. One is the manufacturer's, let's call it System V after Volvo, and the other is System U, for Uber.

System V provides collision detection and emergency braking. It played no part in this incident, since it's inactive if the car is under control of System U, which it was at the time.

System U can decide that the car should slow down in some situations. Let's call gradual slowdown Action U1, and emergency slowdown Action U2. The incident called for Action U2, by Uber's criteria. What Uber said is that a) they disabled automatic execution of Action U2, punting it to the driver (really, a bored passenger in driver's seat), and b) that the driver would get no indication of emergency situations from the system.

The idea is, presumably, that driver should watch the road and react in emergencies. But we also know that the driver had the duty of working with the onboard console, which must have been quite a distraction. Effectively, Uber has set themselves up for failure, and it happened.
What evidence do we have? I’m about 99.9% sure that this story is just accidental activation and bad reporting.

If you’re concerned with malicious intent then I really don’t understand the difference. If the device maker is trustworthy then you’re fine either way. If they’re malicious then you’re screwed either way. A setting for “please don’t listen” isn’t going to make the slightest bit of difference if they’re malicious. M
No one has said it better than Steve Jobs himself:

"We did iTunes because we all love music. We made what we thought was the best jukebox in iTunes. Then we all wanted to carry our whole music libraries around with us. The team worked really hard. And the reason that they worked so hard is because we all wanted one. You know? I mean, the first few hundred customers were us."

"It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do."
GDPR explained
As I do most of my daily work in cheminformatics with a (shell-based) workflow engine (http://scipipe.org), awk has turned out to be the perfect way of defining even quite complicated components based on just a shell command. These days, pretty much 50% of my components are CSV/TDV data munging with awk! :D

(Can be hard to explain how this works without an image, so an (older) image is found in: https://twitter.com/smllmp/status/984173696448434176 )
They patented "a grid of icons" when it's literally the first way you'd think of doing the UI - basically the definition of an "obvious patent". Not to mention that it'd already been done that way many times before and was the standard thing on smartphones by that point. So both obvious and massive prior art.

For instance here's a Nokia phone from 2005:

https://phys.org/news/2005-03-nokia-3g-imaging-smartphone-sh...

And a Cingular branded HTC Windows phone from 2006:

http://www.flobee.net/wp-content/uploads/cingular2125.jpg
For me also Zortech was gold. The Symantec version was also fine.

Loved the compiler and the UI. Best UI ever. Esp. if compared to the Turbo/Borland stuff and then MSVC.
I can understand. My experience working in non-profits: poor pay, in great need of talent, strong sense of purpose (you will spring out of bed and be content). anecdotal, but I've seen it with others as well.
Why fixed bid for programming gigs is the future (2018)
It doesn't matter if they're original. No company should have exclusive rights to rounded corners.
The Philistines thing worked with the David+Goliath comment tree...not as much here.
My "feels like its not that big of a deal" is based on my own companies approach, legal advice I've seen, and internal training.

I realise that Pinterest is large and I'm sure they have sought legal advice, but that doesn't stop this coming across as an overreaction, if one assumes that they _aren't_ using the data in ways that explicitly violate the rights granted by the GDPR.

Now if they are explicitly violating those rights, that's another story! I'd rather attribute it to ignorance than malice though.
Probably worth reading this.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria

EU agencies would prefer compliance over fines and would work with businesses to help them. As the article suggests, prosecution/fines will come when all other avenues are exhausted not the starting point.
See RobertJWagner's top-level comment.

Are you chuckling about classic (pre-2000) Time? Or about new (post-2000) Time? Or do you feel that there's no essential difference?
A long time ago I built an app to monitor online retailers for items that were hard to find in-stock. It would send me text alerts so I could buy them before they went out of stock again. I made it into a business for a while, then the retailers caught on and stopped paying commissions on a those items.

I’ve also built code generators for myself.
Hitlist’s new premium service puts a travel agent in your pocket
At some point in the future, the perks one finds today at Facebook and Google will someday be similarly unfathomable.

Someone will figure out how to capture the outsize profits they produce, or some technology will come along that they miss, and it will all fade similarly.

Don't know what that technology is, or when it will happen, but the fat days for nearly every industry eventually come to an end.
Ban online advertising?

No, this is not a serious proposal, but I am afraid that nothing less will help. When you have a strong financial incentive to do something, saying "but it's not nice" is not going to convince many people; in best case, those convinced by the argument will change their business, and someone else will take their place.
Trust is proportional to access. I don’t trust any third party with an always-on microphone in my house, especially one that’s networked. Malice aside, I don’t trust their competence.

Nor should anyone I think.
This is really rad! It's fun just to refresh a couple times and see the randomness at work. Nice job!
In all likelihood, the answer from most companies would be "sorry we don't yet have the ability to provide that data, it's on the roadmap, you'll have to wait".
> perhaps training? perhaps military backgrounds?

Yeah, both, and they are provided with ex-army weapons as well in order to fight "the war on drugs", and train to see every potential citizen as a threat rather than an innocent victim. The book "Rise of the Warrior Cop" explains very well how we got there.
Predictable from Day 0.
You can get one for <$30, they're called featurephones. The rebooted Nokia 3310 claims one month of (stand by) battery life.
Time was always a very biased news source so good riddance.
https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria

Setting an example is how the US regulators work, not so much the EU.
Probably a MacBook Pro 2016-2017.
You can use `Debug.crash` in Elm, or `error` or `undefined` in Haskell to achieve this. They type check to anything, but will halt execution if reached.
Progress! I stand corrected. Thank you.
The variety in transit cards is mostly due to the variety of operators who use different systems. Japan Rail has Suica, Tokyo Subway lines use Passmo. Some regional operators have their own ones. As you say you can mostly use them interchangeably, probably because it is less trouble for everybody that way.
I don't understand your example (and I don't understand why you consider lambdas silly), but more importantly: if most of the world -- by which I mean, modern language designers and practitioners -- seems to be going one direction, and you insist in staying put, aren't you at least a bit worried you might be wrong about it? "It" being the partial adoption of FP idioms and features in this case.
When I referred to smart ass HN comments in my later reply, this is definitely one of the better examples :) Awesome stats and fabulous insight, thanks for sharing!

(And thanks for scraping Slashdot for inexplicable reasons)
Of course you can compare them! They're both phones with a notch! You can also separately compare their face detection capability. But that doesn't disallow you from saying one notch is smaller than the other.
Says some random dude on the Internet that seems to be a tremendous fan of GDPR. I prefer to base my understanding of laws on the text of the law. This one says that no warnings are required and that fines can be up to 20M EUR.
Yeah, with DNA, you literally have to x-ray it to 'see' anything. That tends to be rather destructive. And as science goes along, we are seeing that the smaller stuff is really really important, like scaffolding proteins in synapses.
OpenCI – a community of open source CICD/Infrastructure practitioner
In this case it was an irresponsible prank, but it seems perfectly possible that someone could mistakenly give an incorrect address for a real situation, or the 911 operator could copy it down wrong, or whatever. There are simply too many possibilities that could lead to a false alarm that shooting first and asking questions later when showing up at a house without in any way ascertaining whether there is a real threat is, in my mind, a completely unreasonable procedure.
Y Combinator used to ask for your Slashdot handle as part of your application for startup funding. Slashdot was assumed to be the place where technies chatted, taking over from Usenet before it. Interestingly, by 2010, Y Combinator had switched to asking for Facebook and Twitter IDs. I don't know what they ask for today.
I respectfully disagree with your example. We have very specific standards required for competent and safe driving, and in addition to the laws, there is well-established official practical guidance available in the form of the Highway Code. We have a regime of qualified instructors and examiners to guide and assess newcomers, and everyone has to pass a test to demonstrate their competence and understanding before being allowed out on the road independently. And then we're talking about criminal law, which means the burden of proof is heavily on the prosecution, you're going to be in court, and for more serious cases there is going to be a jury involved. And even then you have to fall far below the expected standard in a way that is obvious to someone who doesn't. None of those things applies in the context of GDPR.
I really don’t think your example holds up.

> US tourists on a trip to Paris are protected by the GDPR

That’s not entirely correct. They’d fall under GDPR if they do business with a company doing business in the EU (eg by buying something off of amazon and sending it to their Paris hotel address. They would however not benefit from GDPR if they were to order something from amazon but sending it to their US address instead.
Hi there, I'm the founder - open to any feedback/AMA!
Food? It certainly has some kind of value that dollar bills, gold, and bitcoin don't. You may not like the word "intrinsic", but it's still in the right direction.
Well, logically, it would be in the North Sea off Old Zeeland.
> Going into an active shooter situation would definitely cause almost anybody except for those that are totally apathetic to experience some degree of nervousness.

But you've just equivocated on "an active shooter situation" and "a reported active shooter situation." Swatting has been well-known for long enough that there needs to be more evidence than an anonymous untracked phone call before police approach a home under the assumption that there is in fact an active shooter on the premises.
I would've liked it to have a headphone jack and a screen about an inch smaller. It's a gorgeous phone.
I have some sympathy with this comment (although like other commenters I don't quite agree). I think some of this disconnect is cultural (or what you're used to). The most important thing to understand about Japanese trains is that there a many train companies. If you don't realise that, then you can easily get confused about the need to go to a completely different building across the road to get a transfer. Many stylised maps don't make it clear and I've been confused before. I'm guessing that the blue in your example is the Keisei line.

As for cards, Japan is still very much a cash based culture. Although you can use credit cards in most places now, if you had come 10 or 15 years ago you might have been astounded that you practically could not survive without carrying cash. Even now, if you go out to where I live (in the countryside), I don't think there is a single store that accepts credit cards. It used to be that the ATMs were only open during banking hours (what's the point in an ATM if it's only open when there is a teller available? ;-) ). I got into the habit of that time of carrying about $1000 all the time. Hell, the gas man would pass me on the street randomly, hand me my bill and expect that I would pay him on the spot. Different culture :-)

Anyway, I hope your trip was enjoyable otherwise. One more quick tip: If you come again and end up in a station without romaji train maps, you can corner one of the station attendants and they will find a way to help you somehow (also probably won't speak English, but I've seen them being very inventive).
The law says you need to work toward a solution, it isn't a cliff edge thing where you are immediately legally liable. Are you just not wanting to risk it or do you not read the law in this way?
> Your current reaction seems like a huge and unnecessary

It's most likely action based on what their suits (Lawyers) recommended, and not a reaction.
> Most world maps use the Mercator projection. This 16th-century projection leaves New Zealand in the bottom right-hand corner of the world, and places Europe in the center.

That's not intrinsic to a Mercator projection...
Some parts of the world would tell you those days have already come with the wages you'll find for engineers of any rank.

The last shop that contacted me ranged from 35k to 60k CAD. They couldn't even keep the appointment they had made with me in advance.

There's a rise in people who work with technology (procurement managers, for one), however, who are often paid 4x to 6x as much as that last shop. They are, in my experience anyway, half as informed as anyone who has directly worked on similar technologies. But I digress.
> - The landscape of transit cards is confusing, and while many of them are still accepted in various places, the existence of such a wide variety is mostly a legacy thing as far as I could tell. I had a Suica card and it worked virtually everywhere I went in Japan, though I didn't venture off the beaten path.

I think this is correct. I first went to Japan in 2008, and the cards you had actually mattered. I went again last year, and I used a Suica all over the country without problems -- it was a Suica I bought in 2008, and it still worked and had money on it after sitting in a drawer for 9 years.

It seems like all of these cards equivalent now, at least for tourists -- for people who live there, I think there are some differences in the kinds of monthly passes you can get for each card.
You can't make money selling Android phones in today's market. Chinese phone makers eke out small profits and Samsung makes most of its money as a component manufacturer. The average selling cost of a Samsung phone is $227 (https://www.androidauthority.com/price-gap-samsung-apple-sma...)