skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, intent doesn't matter at all.

The long held "legal tradition" of establishing intent in US legal process is completely absurd.

You think that the SWAT pointed a gun on a man and presses the trigger completely unintentionally?

No, even with an accidental manslaughter nobody simply walks away from the charge.
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Resistance from a community is not a "restriction", and characterising this as NIMBYism would be intellectually dishonest if it weren't so ridiculous. Google is not a group, it's a vastly wealthy and powerful corporate entity, and objecting to its presence in a community is not a slippery slope or precedent-setting in the sense which you (again, preposterously) imply.
I'm not saying they should, other than that I can't think of a good reason they have to do it the way they do it and the way they do it inconveniences anyone trying to be proactive about controlling where users can visit.

They don't have to change, but I don't have to like what they're doing either.
I'm not sure your point. It's extremely harmful as it caused the death of an individual. The investigation concluded the officer was not in the wrong.
> The first text he was assigned was Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy”; unlike “all the confusion of mathematics,” it immediately struck him as clear and perfectly rational.

Bad sign...
The news here is just how prolific this guy was. He was calling in a bomb threat or swatting every two or three days for months!
Visualizing world's population in 3D
If you're using domain tlds as a heuristic strong enough to make blocking decisions your users are going to get wrecked because you don't have a real method of detecting phishing/malware sites.

Seriously, blacklisting tlds is not how to secure a network. If you can't trust your users and browsers enough to prevent phishing on a .io domain, they're gonna get phished on a .com and a .net. The existence of free dynamic dns services on both of those should be enough evidence for you to rethink that.

If your network is that sensitive you need to be whitelisting specific trusted IPs and blocking everything else. Your current approach to security is the kind of attitude that breaks the internet for nebulous gains. Do you block ipv6 too?
i thought these constraints were known as dependent types?
the issue is that it is the work computer I guess. depending on your contract as a VP.
Thanks for the reference to the FIRE ("Financial Independence, Retire Early") movement. Bookmarking the documentary[1] for this weekend.

[1] https://www.playingwithfire.co/the-documentary/
I think a better example of this new policy is Google getting "docs.new". What about onedrive or other companies. ICANN should never have started down this path and opened this can of worms.
There was an investigation. It was concluded that the victim reached for his waist (maybe to pull up pants) after being told not to. Very very difficult situation for sure.
What corroborating phone calls would you expect from an armed hostage-taking inside a private residence? Can you imagine the public backlash had this been legitimate, the police did nothing, and the hostages were injured or executed?
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It had probably already lost the 3% but now realized it after your unintentional "calibration".
If this is worth exploring, do it right: make an experiment and actually measure these things. Imagining is not science, and we shouldn't make decisions on things we've merely imagined.
I don’t feel like anybody is asking for any shop to stop serving anything.

The paper is highlighting the dual identity of being Québecois: whenever Canada celebrates anything Québécois it’s Canadian, but when it’s a bad thing then that’s not Canadian.

I remember the terrible jokes at the expense of poutine when I was a kid. How it was a horrible Québec thing. Now the jokes have stopped because poutine is deemed wonderful, but poutine is no longer Québecois, it’s now Canadian.

That’s cultural appropriation, and the reasonable thing to do is to express its existence, internalize the meaning of this act, and move on. No one should stop serving poutine.
Standing up here means getting into a working but unfinished state. It’s a slightly uncommon turn of phrase, but it’s legit English.
Just curious, do you think enough subject matter experts (e.g. Data Scientists, AI researches) would volunteer in the event of a national emergency or is patriotism not a viable motivator as the authors suggest?
> Blew them away as soon as they opened the door.

Source?

My point was that "as soon as they opened the door" and "seconds later" are not the same thing. Go watch the body cam or do some research. There were 7-10 seconds with commands being issued to Andrew and he did not comply. Absolutely not his fault, I'm sure it was a very confusing situation. I'm simply pointing out that if we are going to talk about it, let's face the facts and not make bullshit up.
> Nobody is restricting Google from doing anything

From the article: In September activists occupied the building it was to be located in for several hours.

That seems like the activists were preventing them

> This is "you piss in the pool wherever you go, please stay away from our pool." This isn't NIMBY in any meaningful way and the comparison is downright mendacious.

Saying you do [something I don't like] and I don't want you to do [thing I don't like] in my neighborhood is exactly NIMBY
Swatters are just mean trolls who exploit the paranoia of how the police reacts to emergency calls. It's exactly like terrorism, you just scare people about a non existent threat and expect to have forces and security applied where it doesn't matter.

Blaming swatters is one thing, but questioning how swat teams respond to calls should be put on the table.

You cannot only blame swatters.
> If you're using domain tlds as a heuristic strong enough to make blocking decisions your users are going to get wrecked because you don't have a real method of detecting phishing/malware sites.

You say that like it is the only measure we employ to guard against malware and phishing. We have many other measures in place.

If this mechanism were causing more trouble than it was worth I'd be among the first to say we should ditch it.

> Do you block ipv6 too?

Sadly our ISP doesn't even support IPv6.
The choice isn't "send SWAT" or "don't respond". There are a range of actions that could be taken prior to SWAT being involved.
Having worked in a law office, I can say confidently that the future of legal AI is human+AI. AI can rapidly spot all the issues, saving expensive lawyers from spending their time wading through the documents. But the human lawyer brings strategy, judgement and face-to-face consultation to the process.

In other words, I don't think lawyers are in danger. But law clerks? Junior staff? The people who are usually forced to do all the grunt work to allow the top lawyers to focus on their strengths? Those jobs are at definitely on the chopping block. There's still an insane amount of rote repetitive work in your standard law firm.
But how to invert the colour of web pages? Dark themes darken the UI but the webpage is almost always still dark text on light background.
The hitman always gets off scot-free, right? Because someone else told them to do it
I used to. What's the misunderstanding? (My current understanding comes from my memory of a manager I trusted explaining it.)
Kreuzberg is the center of left activism in Berlin which is anti-globalisitic, anti-corporate, anti-american and anti-gentrification, Google (and its entourage) is the embodiment of that. Ironically however, Google is present in Kreuzberg at "Factory community".
Another great little paper in the same vein is this one here (shameless plug is that it's by a former professor of mine) https://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.p...
I think it’s possible to broadly generalize about a culture without needing to caveat that yes, obviously some people are different.
Show HN: Slides as map tiles, featuring an intro to Distributism (2012)
A fair point, but I, for one, will give him a chance.
is there an alternative URL where I can read this article? It won't load on my end. Thx in advance.
If anyone is interested, here is some more list for free programming courses

https://hackernoon.com/5-free-r-programming-courses-for-data...

https://hackernoon.com/10-free-courses-to-learn-docker-for-p...

http://www.java67.com/2018/02/5-free-python-online-courses-f...

https://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2018/01/5-free-git-course...

http://www.java67.com/2018/01/top-5-free-angular-js-online-c...

I have also shared a lot of curated list of free resources, which you can find on my blog http://javarevisited.blogspot.com
I had built this page in 2012 while experimenting with novel ways to present slides online.

On the plus side, the novelty of the mechanism by which you advance through the slides is likely to keep people's attention, at least for small presentations.

On the down side, for longer presentations it becomes tedious, and there's no real significance to how the slides are mapped, so the user has no intuition about how to get back to a previous section. (It's almost like you're stuck in Ikea and have no choice but to keep following the arrows to retrace your steps.) Plus, because the slides are represented as map tiles, there's no easy way to select/copy/paste the content.

Still, it was a fun exercise -- and a cool way to share a little bit about Distributism, a "third way" economic philosophy.
I'm using a wildcard certificate too for several reasons. The main reason being: if you want to test your code on a real device (iOS and Android simulators included), a simple self-signed certificate won't do the job. But with a Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate and a dnsmasq wildcard domain mapping on the local router DNS server, it all works like a charm.
I am a pretty pro-police person. I gladly support law enforcement, because they have a tough tough job.

I am in complete agreement here, and I see agreement with this kind of libertarian sentiment even in the conservative circles I sometimes travel in. The police in the United States are over-militarized, under-trained, and way way too eager to engage in gun fire. SWAT 'deployment' (even that is a military term) should be a last resort, not the immediate reaction, especially to an unverified phone call.
I think sometimes they are implemented as a solution looking for a problem. I've seen many times when the automated solution is much more complicated than the manual solution. Sure, it's more reliable, except that it breaks when you change something.

The tools are good, but use them when you need them and when they help, not just because someone told you it was best practice.
> Is there a good and generic way with Linux to tell the battery to stop charging at 80%

There is, if your device contains a Texas Instruments charging chip. Many Laptops, not only Thinkpads, use them and they can be told a maximal charge voltage via SMBus.

You don't even need a kernel module for this, but its source might be a good starting point.

Please let me know if you write (or know of) a tool for this or need some help regarding SMBus/TI datasheets.
You realize that Google has billions upon billions of dollars and effectively unlimited weight to throw around, yes? A few protestors hanging out in a building does not prevent them from doing anything they want to. They have run the numbers and presumably realized that having your neighbors not want you there is not worth the PR hit of doing it--but literally nobody is stopping it from happening.

This poor-benighted-Google thing is gross. These companies are not on anyone's side.
>If you mean that the individuals in such a scheme would agree to pay each to have a "private court/police" enforce their contracts etc, then that's the same as government, just one without voting

Actually, there is voting. Those individuals are voting with their money. But, this is more direct market signaling rather than being relayed to a "representative" in our "republic".
> By that I mean the real story here is that the police dispatched a sniper to execute someone without a trial. Blew them away as soon as they opened the door.

This isn't even propaganda, it's just wrong.

The victim opened the door and was told to freeze. He started to reach for his pants (presumably to adjust the waist or pull them up) was told to stop, and didn't.

So I don't know if you're intentionally lying about the facts or just ignorant to them, but regardless your description of events is 100% wrong.
Instead of using a metaphor why not quote an example of the 'retardation' you have in mind. I guess you don't think readers here should be overly concerned with folk who claim the world (the Earth) is flat as against being approximately spherical.
From literally the second paragraph in the article:

> When the cops showed up in force, 28-year-old Andrew Finch opened his front door to see what the commotion was about; seconds later he was dead, shot by a police sniper across the street
I'd be more worried for the folks at Microsoft that work in competing spaces. :)
I have slowly moved most of my projects to GitLab. The UX is a little different, but you also get unlimited private repositories for individuals and organizations.
...it’s in the linked article, fairly obviously.
A 'poor persons' HDR can be done with ONE good photo. Load it into a decent photo editor, and adjust the exposure down two stops and save it, then repeat again but up 2 stops. Now with the 3 copies, run it through a HDR generator. Not as good as bracketing directly in the camera, but can yield acceptable results.
If a brain cancer test had a high false positive rate we wouldn’t irradiate people’s heads just in case it was a “real situation”. The same thinking should be applied here.
>I certainly don't think they're safe, but a much, much higher ratio of .com domains are A) actually used by our business, and B) legitimate.

So what? It seems like you are confusing false positives with false negatives and using that to justify bad policy. There are probably 0.001% of .com domains your users need access to and 0.0001% of alt tlds. That's not a justification for whitelisting .com and blacklisting the others.
I’m not quite there yet (mid-40s), but I have reached the point where I’ve started thinking about what life would be like post-career. I have no desire to sit around watch the news all day, or commiserate over coffee with other retirees, but like Tim, I have any number of projects that could be interesting to work on. They’re unlikely to be profitable, but would be fun to build, and would keep the gears turning.

Regarding his comment about his father declining rapidly after retirement, this seems to be a frequent enough occurrence - I heard some statistic once about a large percentage of people dying within 6 months of retirement, but I’ve no idea if it’s accurate. I’m wondering if there are studies that have looked at why this is and what separates people who live long lives after retirement, and those who don’t.
Well, to be honest both jobs and salaries are booming there right now.
> Saying you do [something I don't like] and I don't want you to do [thing I don't like] in my neighborhood is exactly NIMBY

No, that's most definitely not NIMBY. NIMBY means you support something when it's farther away but oppose it happening close to you. It stands for "not in my backyard", not "not in any backyard".
All the legal traditions I know consider intent in the legal process and e.g. have multiple categories of homicide differentiated mostly by intent (and secondarily by planning & emotional context).
Even if Tesla achieved as expected, it's very far from being just a normal company. As a person who suffers from air pollution every day, I'm really thankful for Tesla employees for working on decreasing this constant suffering in the future. In my view Tesla is changing the world.
Exactly the same dynamic is happening in Amsterdam, where schools are closing down fast as less teachers can afford to live within the ring and move out to Almere and other satellites. Some local politici were even celebrating and advocating this displacement but were trounced at the last municipal elections, but the process continues and these schools are being refurbished and sold as elegant lofts in Hartje Hoofdstad.
Prague is a beautiful city and they were generally friendly to me and didn't mind speaking English. Some don't and sign language helped when I traveled. But they knew I was a tourist (I was a brown Indian guy who is not exactly the type there ;)). One thing I found surprising for being an European city is how hard it is to find any kind of food past 9 PM. Maybe I picked a neighborhood like that to stay? Also, stores didn't bother following any sort of schedule :). Overall,I'd love to live in Prague and experience more of what the city has to offer. And the train ride from Germany to Prague is so awesome!
Could this potentially be a school sanctioned enrichment activity during the school day? I’m thinking this could be a way for a small school system to add specialized electives to small groups of kids.
"When the cops showed up in force, 28-year-old Andrew Finch opened his front door to see what the commotion was about; seconds later he was dead, shot by a police sniper across the street."

From the article.
It's the police's job to not shoot innocent people. The presence of a police officer should never be a bad thing.
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Here's a description of the events, including bodycam footage. Interpret as you will. But he was shot within seconds of opening the door, that is not disputed.

https://www.kansas.com/news/local/article208812519.html

EDIT: I will add that I am not endorsing the comment that he was "blown away" as soon as he opened the door, which has a very specific connotation.
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That is not what I'm at all. I'm only responding to the GGP's characterization of the swatter as "just making a phone call".
Most up to date presentation on WebRender I could find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXzLC6ArlgE

Slides:

https://github.com/MadRust/talks/blob/master/slides/meetup3_...
The selection process is strange indeed. Google's first German office was in Munich of all places. Extremely expensive, not very exciting (for people to move to), and very high competition for IT workforce. So they have one of Germany's best universities for IT, but the differences between universities actually aren't that large here.
I think the problem is not the amount of hours per week, but the hours per day. It could be useful to start at 10 AM and leave at 5 PM or something. That way, you can take a nap before taking care of dinner and stuff.
> which is obviously not exactly something AI can do reliably today, especially on phone hardware

But do we know that it runs on phone hardware? If voice interfaces have taught us anything, it's that we can't ever make that assumption again.

The amount of data you'd have to send to run this off board would be enormous, but hey, anything for a jawdropping hype feature, right? It just works, those preview pictures literally made me check the price and size of the pixel 3, and I haven't been interested in anything but a Sony Compact since the z1c came out.
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I find it disgusting that anyone would consider not obeying a cop’s orders to be a justification for an execution.
TFA mentions the community "paper cuts" issue tracker[1]. I'd love to know what's so hard about the standout top-voted issue[2] that it hasn't been implemented since being logged in 2014.

[1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aop...

[2] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283
Savvy admins do both, because outsourced filtering isn't 100% and can always be tuned better for your businesses actual needs.
The article lists that reason (gentrification) explicitly. The only other one given in there is that Google is evil (data collection, tax evasion, etc.). Someone else pointed out that the type of hosted campus would not lead to the same gentrification when the startups don't offer high salaries, but I think the point is still valid. At least, I do not know of another Google campus where this was not the case... I could be wrong.

As an aside, I dislike the term "techbro." It's obviously pejorative and I hardly ever see anything kind used to describe men working in the IT/CS sector. Just that and "neckbeard."
I think the point here is not to focus on tools for the sake of tools but instead focus on delivering value to the organization. Quite often, improving a workflow can be done more effectively by improving how you use your existing tools rather than by adding or replacing tools. Fear of missing out can drive us away from considering our existing workflow and how it can be optimized.
Thanks for the perspective. Maybe it's an age or exposure thing but I never knew of poutine to ever be a bad thing or a joke.
Never saw any documentary, I just read this classic:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim...
> Currently there is no great GitHub alternative

GitLab is decent, with an open source core that can be installed on premise — I introduced it for a former employer and they are still very happy with it.

https://gitlab.com/

All isn't perfect and I'm still on GitHub due to the network effects, but you do have alternatives.
And 3% on the lost 5% were after I ONLY ONCE let it go to full discharge.

It is probable that what you saw was your capacity gauge calibrating to the actual capacity of the battery. The device doesn’t actually know its capacity until it hits empty.
This works remarkably well:

http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/light/cd_spectroscope/sp...

https://lavinia.as.arizona.edu/~mhammer/outreach/cdSpectrome...

(diffraction spectrometer from used CDs!), very easy to make, and it costs ~$0.

It has enough resolution to distinguish individual lines of fluorescent lamps (by using a narrow aperture). Highly recommended (very nice as an educational tool also, to impress folk with the hidden spectra of light around us ;) ).
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Intent to kill with no reasonable evidence that would justify any nontrivial use of force is morally bankrupt. If that’s the new normal in the US, I don’t know what to say. A prank call is a prank call, but the one given the power to project lethal force is fully morally responsible for their decision to pull the trigger. And if that was somehow within their standard rules of engagement, so are their superiors.
They could probably say "Tesla is gonna be a normal company-here's why" and everyone would still click by reflex.
Exactly. The "my" part is operative here.

If I had to guess, a lot of those protestors probably don't care if Google ever opens an office anywhere--but, not being billion-dollar panopticons-as-a-service, they are constrained to act locally rather than globally.
Never in the history of acquisitions of that profile has the buyer ever given a different message than "we won't touch anything".

Of course they will make big changes two years later down the line. You don't buy something if you have no plans for it.
My Father Says He's a “Targeted Individual”. Maybe We All Are
I'll be in that position, minus the fame, eventually as well.

I'm leaning more towards a second career around 50 at this point. Not any stop in work really, until much later. Just something less stressful; and to say I finally did it.