skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't end violently probably because they are inherently much less dangerous than swatting situations.

In a swatting situation, the person calling it in: (1) often claims to be the criminal and includes threats, (2) reports that the crime is in progress, often with people already harmed, (3) places the crime somewhere that will make it hard for arriving officers to access the situation safely if it turns out the report is real, (4) if it is real there is a good chance lethal force will need to be used to save multiple innocent lives and there is a good chance that decision will have to be made quickly.

In a "stranger with a gun is in the neighborhood situation", even one reported as acting aggressive, (1) the caller is not claiming to be the person, (2) they are not claiming anything criminal has happened yet, (3) they are usually reporting the person outside where arriving police will be able to get a good look at the situation quickly, (4) even if it is real and the person is there to commit some crime, it's probably just an economic crime (break into a car, at worst a mugging) and the person is not going to turn violent on the police--the person almost certainly knows that the police won't have enough to arrest him and so he will just have to answer a few questions and leave.
Is there anyway to recover that money?
Not married nope, girlfriend drives a way more expensive car than I do but we usually do road trips on my beater because we don't want to hurt the nice car haha
You can learn more about the history of the Chicago River at this small museum right along the river:

http://www.bridgehousemuseum.org/

Chicago has really done an impressive job making the Riverwalk accessible. You can also take one of the many river cruises that go back and forth if you're interested.
Chicago accomplished quite a number of engineering feats in its time. The big one was the reversing the flow of the Chicago river [1] through a system of canals and locks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_fl...
How did you come up with that percentage? Have you ever played CS?

Firstly, OP basically said that CS is not a strategic game at all, which is completely false.

Secondly, CS can get extremely strategic in the professional scene, but it is also quite strategic at higher ranks in the game's competitive mode ladder. It is also a heavily team-based game: e.g., if one of your team members is not communicating, you are at a huge disadvantage.
Isn't it the exactly same situation for DVDs? Why does it stop you buying BDs but not DVDs?
Guccifer, who exposed Clinton private email server, ready for US prison sentence
> Most of these are leases where they’re paying maybe $5k a month

a fully optioned 911 turbo S lease is about $2900/month. most high end 911's lease around $2000/month. most high end bmw's and mercedes sedans (M, AMG, etc.) lease around $1500/month.

these leases are usually tax deductible for business owners and consultants (1099, K1, etc).

and you're right, the problem with HN is some people just have no idea how much money people in technology are really making. these lease payments are a drop in the bucket compared to personal earnings or, more to the point, a successful small business' revenue.
Very common and growing type of fraud sad to say
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Oh yeah! I wrote a similar algorithm and constantly suffered similar problems. Constraining the latent space can be a major pain. Its hard to visualize but I think a lot of latent features may exist in non-continuous latent "pockets", meaning that the desired direction of the latent vector is dependent on your position in space.
What are you talking about? Tesla was founded in 2003, and did in fact have to stomach the major economic downturn in 2008. Was not a great time to be a car company, especially a small start up.
The constantly aghast tone makes every paragraph feel like clickbait. Shockingly. Surely. Alarmingly.

Why is it shocking that you can buy used voting machines? Why is it alarming the data is there and unencrypted? Why wouldn't a government (or supplier) sell on used hardware? Why would tamperproof screws stop you getting access? (They're for proof of access!)

It's nothing like sensitive medical data (a comparison made in tfa). It's anonymous data that should be publicly available.

The only concerning thing here is that these crappy machines were used in the first place. At least they're being flogged off now.
I would say, if kids are attracted to screen, there must be a biological reason to it. It's not like an intake of chemicals like alcohol : the device and interactions with it actually stimulates their brains. It should be studied and used in a good way rather than plain banned.

It seems the parents are disallowing devices for other reasons than just "it's bad". They are privileged people, are they afraid of being spied by the devices of their kids? Are they afraid that the existence of their privileges are leaked to a greater population?

Tomorrow's society will be connected, and so will be politic, information, and learning. But no parent wants to risk it with their own kids, because of fear of the unknown, or because they don't accept that they will lose control over their kids sooner than ever.

It's their choices to rise their kids as they want, but they are probably from the top richest 1% anyway, their kids future is already privileged and boosted, phone or no phone.
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It is a food story all over again. Few hundred years ago additional body weight was a sign of riches, as they could afford excess food. These days with the prevalence of sugary and processed food tables have turned.

Same with screen time - staring at cute animal videos and other junk is not the same as using the screen for a quality education. Quality education (still) needs a lot of human guidance which is getting increasingly more expensive (at least relative to an abundant screen time)
Hard agree!

Still one is the latter and the other, the former. Hence I think the first tells more of the lisp story, with just a few more parens. ;-)

"Why is it called REPL when the code says LPER? Well..."
> It goes further: even at the kindergarten level, all toys and costumes are natural materials, you won't find a single piece of plastic among items intended for a child's use. Even the crayons are made of beeswax.

I can't possibly imagine the purpose for these restrictions.
Is there actually a link between screen size and addictiveness?
> Can you recommend any literature on the topic of these "tricks"?

I am talking about basic stuff like:

* Push notifications reminding you that you should play the game.

* Let you win some money but then lose it unless you make a payment.

* A bar that fills faster at the beginning and then starts to fill slower. So it looks like you are closer to a goal that you actually are.

* Show a deck of cards that instead of the 52 standard cards, expected by the players, has another configuration that makes you lose more often.

etc.

Any mobile games video - like https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014450/Behavioral-Economics-a... - has a lot of forbidden techniques for on-line gambling.
No channels specifically. I've watched these videos as a good primer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWY-8n9igM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NUO4JEtkDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blpCz9HsUaA
It does.

My RAW Images has a higher dynamic range than the final image shows without any HDR feature.

You only put back what was already there and 'lost'.
Thanks for the reply Anil! I followed a bookmark about Trello's tech stack that was published there.
Interesting joining OIN was driven by GitHub acquisition.

Did MS confirm that them joining OIN includes non aggression with exFAT and ActiveSync patents?
In game items don't have value. If they did, then effectively all games with RNG mechanics would be banned. Heck, even the original Rogue would fall under that umbrella.
the cynical in me says that many scientists choose to forgo research that would disprove some semi-established research in the fears that their work might get heavily scrutinized as well. I think you 're talking about "great scientists" which are extreme outliers. Scientists often enjoy that mythical appreciation, but the truth is a lot more pedestrian - there are 7.8 million researchers , 0.1% of the world's population.
Watch the Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine clip.
A 4k stream on Netflix isn't even close in quality to a 1080p BluRay - the bitrate is lower. IIRC they stream 4k HDR at just 25mbit/s. Even the superior codec can't compensate.
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I used to have a printout of https://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot-snakes/index.html over my desk. People got so freaked out by a piece of paper "moving" that there were people who literally refused to go to my desk. :-)
Microsoft uses other providers from time to time, I know a few of their services which reside in IBM's SoftLayer too.
Regarding games schedule, if the user is not root you can use cron or systemd timers, but this could be more user friendly for a child:

Create a zenity, xdialog, or any kind of graphical dialog explaining why it's not gaming time (even remembering the allowed gaming time) and put it in /usr/bin/games-denied

Rename the games to /usr/bin/GAME-allowed

Then with cron/timers just symlink /usr/bin/GAME to one or the other, so when the kid click in the game will get a dialog or the game, depending on the hour.

Also, I could recommend:

1) Try to automate the re-installation (disk images, preseed/kickstart for the OS, ansible for the setup...)

2) Provide some way to make backups (the kid will create content, you may want to save)

3) Download a lot of content (drawings to colorize, songs, funny images, whatever may interest this kid) and put it in the Documents/ dir so the kid can explore. Install extra fonts, icons, and whatever may improve document creation.

4) You may explore the system package manager for educational, science or artistic stimulation packages. Kids are surprised when they see the can play the piano in the laptop, or they can see the stars, or ... :)

apt-cache show ubuntu-edu-preschool

apt-cache show ubuntu-edu-primary

apt-cache show ubuntu-edu-secondary

5) Put a sound recorder icon, and a cam recorder icon, right in the desktop (if there is sound card or web cam in the laptop), you may get surprised by their creativity :)
That's why I said categorically. As a parent, try to consider the merits -- or lack thereof -- of each individual game.
I can't say I'm an expert in go - I only wrote the cli for my program in go, but I feel like elixir optimized for developer productivity far more than go does. Most of the time you don't really need that level of performance.
> What Google services are required for daily life? Don't they all have competitors?

Not really. It's sort of like RMS with open-source hardware: yes there are a handful of modern computers that can be made to work without binary blobs, but it's a lot of trouble and only a few people will actually do that out of principle. It's practically requred to run proprietary binary blobs. Similarly, Bing, Duckduckgo, and OpenStreetMap exist, but Google services are practically required for modern daily life.

For an illustration: a typical local shop is going put the effort into making sure its information is correct on Google Maps and that their website is indexed on Google; but it's going to put zero effort into updating its info on OpenStreetMap or making sure it's indexed by Bing. If you want info about that shop, you're probably going to have to use Google.
They had one since 2006 (Codeplex) but it didn't attract much interest as could be expected.
> 90ms is a 90th percentile response time on The Outline

How much of that is the DB, and what DB are you using?

I like the BEAM environment quite a bit, myself, and have used it successfully in several semi-embedded environments, where it really shines because of its robustness and reliability.
Your last comment reminded me of this article [1] on "Google Maps's Moat", which discusses the vast resources that Google has poured into collecting data at a global scale to make Google Maps what it is.

[1] https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/
I´m having a blast changing all the parameters. Really uncanney valley feelings. Some women come up very attractive, looking like Jessica Alba. How can I react to a face of a person that don't even exist?

On a second thought, I don´t mean that the controls behave randomly. I understand they affect related parts of the system. If you increase "baldness" on a woman's face, it will obviously increase the "male" factor and the "gray hair" factor. I understand that this faces are being generated from a continuous space. Fascinating.
Same in many other indo-european languages. See Language tree: https://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/196.jpg
Doesnt mean you were hacked could be an inside job by someone at either organization or could be a hack on the other company's email. If your email provider has any sort of activity log like gmail does you might want to review those, or if you run your own there should be access logs on the server.
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I think the key issue for these devices is that they can only give you a representation of the “real thing”. Kids don’t have much experience of reality to create natural intuitions about nature, social relationships, and society and foisting an internet full of other peoples’ opinions to children can easily distort their perception of what’s healthy and what’s not.

The solution is to limit kids from using internet devices and put them into environments where it is easy to have rich interactions with nature and with other people. Examples like Boy Scouts, school clubs, and road trips are good.
For anyone (like me) not familar with WebRender, here's a great writeup: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

Also a great read for anyone interested in long-form technical articles that try to serve a wide range of reader types.
Well, it was 1983. So seeing something like this in a programming language was more novel than it is now.

Also, up to that point the author has only programmed in a couple of different assembly languages, plus Basic. Coming at it from that perspective, there's plenty of novelty to be found in Lisp family languages.
Depends on the game. In multi player games where people can exchange items, people will pay real world money for other players items.

EX: People buying WoW gold.
By no means is this a universal truism, but in general if you think you have a Cluster B personality disorder, you probably don’t. If you think you’re the smartest, best person in the world and other people are inferior and should know it... then you might.
Context is also helpful. “I’m not sure what’s novel about function composition” is a little bit of a smug take on a language and concept that was pretty cutting edge back in the early 80s. Now we Meat-and-Potatoes Programmers know the composition is useful, but I’d be hard pressed to find first-class composition in 1980 in any popular language that wasn’t {academic, Lisp}.
Dear female founders, where are you hiding?
The best (known to me) informal intro into the architecture of Git is The Git Parable: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm...
- Ecto is still a climbing hill for me. In fact I'm currently trying to warp my head around changesets and associations.

- Same for GenStage. I wanted to use them for workers pulling from an episodic queue but the docs with the emphasis on consumers pulling multiple events at once from a never ending stream didn't really speak to me. Tailoring to my usage looked verbose: storing demand etc. I'll have to revisit when I'm better at Elixir.

- I still think caching should be part of Ecto in some way, at least in the docs.

- I would still like more straightforward template inheritance in Phoenix (think Jinja2, Twig).

Excited for the future releases of Phoenix 1.4 and Ecto 3.
Statistically, half of all people with Impostor Syndrome aren't suffering from a syndrome at all. They're actually not very competent.
I don't want to go back down to a feature phone, but if you said "I want to bike more places instead of driving my car everywhere" it would be reasonable to not want to buy an $80,000 luxury sedan that you love to zoom around in.

Unfortunately Apple has decided that's the only car they're going to make.
How to get terminating or terminated event,when UWP app is closed by the system?
2.5? Few hours on weekends? 45 minutes after daycare? I think that is too much.

What did parents do before that when they need to cook dinner?
In my very expensive part of LA, I see a number of Hyundai Ioniq, a lot of BMW i3s, even a number of Jaguar i-PACEs, but one or two Tesla Model 3. There used to be more Teslas in the neighborhood when they had no competition from other automakers but a lot of the local owners (including several good friends) jumped to other automakers as soon as they could.

This is why I've been extremely bearish on Tesla in my HN posts. I've seen firsthand their place in their target market suffer as the competition heats up.

Moreover, visiting friends back in the Midwest (Chicago and Cleveland)--they're almost all BMWs, Nissans, and Chevys. A few guys have the high-end Tesla Model 3s to show off at events, but they use their i3s for daily commuting.
Highly unlikely.
Is there anyone that trusts there is a USD for every Tether without an audit?
I think the difference is how quickly you get the reward is and how the reward is gained. It also relates to the way the money is made.

In 'old school' game you receive reward after period of effort. You have to perform better and push yourself. Game is designed to be fun but selling the game once is where the money is. Good game is measured by the short peak experiences, not by the average feeling.

Another (more advanced but evil) way to design addictive game is when it the difficulty and reward frequencies are optimized to keep you playing for as long as possible. You are offered cheats or the difficulty automatically adjusts to optimize the time you spend with the game. The goal of the game is stretch the interest over time just above the threshold where you would quit. In the end the game just removes lows from the boring moments.
I would also add

set -u

in all scripts. Then set +u when you need something undefined such as a case statement.
Having worked at Mozilla I can honestly say that I'm confident Mozilla can't keep a neferious secret :)

There is a lot of passionate privacy activists at Mozilla. Many of whom to would leak an NSL at the risk of persecution.
(In fact I dare say the lineup would be long)
This has always been a form of Luddism. Tech is inevitable.

it's been proven that if you do abstinence only education then bad things happen

How about driving technology? Children receive abstinence-only education on driving until they turn 15 or 16.

There's plenty of precedent for young children being unable to safely & responsibly handle certain things.

Was it Luddism that I wasn't allowed to operate a table saw when I was eleven?
Dude, don't be ridiculous. There are countless games that aren't FPS monstrosities.

Into The Breach, Starbound, Galactic Civilizations, Celeste... these are all games that require you to think in some way and aren't mindless hack-and-slash or competitive shooter games.

Can they replace going to school? No, but let's not devolve this argument into "most games aren't like Civilization". A lot of the hatred for games is seriously misplaced.
What your trying to do is make White an issue. The thing is White isn't the issue and wasn't even a way a person would categorize or see themselves. I can't give you a short clip or a sound bite because this is history and is just a given understanding that the idea of whiteness is a fairly new way for people to think of themselves. That is why the Alt-Right and White Nationalist are just 100% wrong.

It's due to a small worldview. The average person never went more then 14 miles from where they were born their whole life.
> Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines?

Slot machines are regulated because they fall under the category of gambling and video games don't meet the legal definition of gambling. (Although, I'd agree that it's starting to seem more and more as if they should.)

There's a pretty good explanation of the criteria at https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... but the brief summary (from the article) is "Gambling consists of three elements: consideration, prize and chance. If any one of those three elements is missing, the game is simply not gambling (Rose, 1986))."

By looking at those criteria, there's a lot of ways video game companies can defend themselves. The strongest one IMO being that, from a legal standpoint, there is no prize. You "win" things or get drops but the TOS of all games say that the player does not own them (or anything else in the game) in any legal sense. The analogy would be more like a carnival ride where you are paying for the experience rather than the expectation of getting anything material in return.
Yep! It's so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.
I'm surprised I'm the first person to point this out, but you have not lost any money, your client has.

You sent the goods to the client, and they have yet to remit the payment to you. So they still owe you the money and you should insist they pay it.

Granted, they're not going to like that, but the reality is they sent payment due to you to some other person. That's something they did not something you did.

They may be in a position to take steps to recover the payment they sent to someone else, given the banks involved and so on, and they should try to do it. But that's not something you're really in a position to be involved in, you didn't have anything to do with it and aren't a party to the fraudulent transaction.

In the meantime they should return the goods or send you the payment they owe.
Dropbox, perhaps.
You can certainly achieve the same low coupling with anything. But ....

Messages tend to be lightweight. Often a symbol/atom "command", and a few scalar values. Like command line arguments. If the process needs more data, it sends its own message to the owner of said data.

With conventional functions and OO, you're often dealing with complex objects (with references to references ...) which often leads to breaking the Law of Demeter.

Message passing also gets your asynchronicity. You're also decoupled from specific runtime implementation (the receiving can be on a different machine, the semantics are the same). You can achieve the same without message passing, but it's certainly more baked-into the runtime/tooling/language.

Joe Armstrong's popular quote on this:

"The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle"
Looks like it pretty transparently sends all replies to "dr.com". Seems like something our email client should warn us about explicitly, instead of just showing "Reply To: Kyle".
In most cases, myopia is caused by physical properties of the eye (wrong length, etc.). Relaxing the ciliary muscle actually increases the focal distance, so I don't see how muscle-oriented exercises would help.

> in fact, that's a part of what happens when you get atropine drops during an eye exam

Even a fully paralyzed ciliary muscle cannot overcome a wrong geometry of your eye. Whether atropine has any real effect on myopia is controversly discussed.