skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I agree, the US at some point passed a tipping point: Police and the population were armed, so criminals needed to be armed, so police needs to be armed etc. Rolling that back would be incredibly hard.

In UK and other countries where police are generally not armed, using a dangerous weapon often also adds substantial amounts of time to potential sentences, and there's either low levels of private ownership of guns (UK) or tight controls on storage and use (e.g. Norway has tons of firearms, but the law requires it to be separate into at least two non-functional parts that must be kept locked down separately, so your hunting rifle is not something you'll go fetch on a whim when you hear a weird sound), and so criminals know that not only are they unlikely to face an armed response if they don't arm themselves, but they're also likely to get off lighter if caught without weapons, and so there's very little incentive for criminals to arm themselves in most situations.

It's one of those things where de-escalation is nearly impossible because of the likely public response to news of dead cops, and how widely guns permeate the culture.
People still flock to the US and Dubai for some reason.

Not me though.
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I don't think this necessarily has to do with weapons. There are ten thousands of armed German police officers who (number went through the press) shot 85 bullets in 2011 and usually do not draw a weapon immediately.
what makes it a lifestyle company with almost a billion in sales annually. Facebook makes just about 4times over that annually at the moment.

Would you call Instagram, Yammer and Youtube that were all acquired for a little over a billion dollars, lifestyle businesses?

Or except you raise venture capital, you a lifestyle business?
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Love this. Cool hack!
>> "undercover agents from the state's Alcohol Beverage Control"

>> " One jumped on the hood of her SUV; another pulled out a gun"

What The F*ck America?
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> pull out a gun and start shouting

I know this is a typo, but that picture in my head made me smile.

Confirmation bias is only dangerous when there is significantly more evidence against the statement. You rarely hear, "we could have saved the day if we had higher damage output!"
Seeing the outpourings of tributes for Google Reader reminds me of Elon Musk's comments about GM recalling the EV1. There are not many products which are missed so dearly and it doesn't seem like progress to me.

RSS is dead but I cannot uninstall Google Currents from my Nexus 4...
Reckless were the officers, that did not have properly recognizable badges. They should've called in Police to stop the car.

As a team they showed tremendous lapse in judgment and should be fired for endangering a group of teens.

For all it was - tour de force by people who had nothing better to do. There are safe way to do things and there are stupid ways that might make them feel empowered.
Damn, great idea! I love the immediacy of prompting for a voice recording.

Would be very keen to integrate this with one of my apps that's currently in beta. Direct, actionable, voice feedback from beta users would be awesome.
Or to google itself, the way it's been pushing google+ lately.
honestly it is fark.com grade material :)
Putin is a former KGB agent and not to be trusted. We know that from the leaked cables.
5 Things Running Through the Minds of Whistleblowers Like Edward Snowden
I appreciate that, its about the polices training and response to "threats" as someone mentioned below pulling a firearm on a "suspect" just leads to aggravating the situation (innocent will panic and probably do something stupid, guilty will probably pull their own weapon to escape) neither ends well for anyone.

America can't undo its weapons problem even if it introduced gun control but discouraging pulling weapons out in public without serious consequences (even for the police) might stem this trend of pulling weapons at every situation.
> What was Edward Snowden's job when he worked for Booz Hamilton as a contractor to the NSA?

We don't know. That's the nature of jobs with security clearances doing work for Secret Government Spy Agencies.

> The fuzziness surrounding this is frustrating. I'd certainly like to know more about what Snowden did for the NSA. Did he work on network security? Was he a threat analyst of some kind? Did he actively search out vulnerabilities in other networks that NSA could exploit? Did he do this only at Booz Hamilton, or did he have basically the same job previously when he worked directly for the NSA? Exactly how much does he know about the NSA programs he's been revealing to the world?

There are two issues here.

1) How can we organize effective oversight of secret spy agencies?

2) How can we trust whistleblowers? How knowledgeable are those whistleblowers?

For 1) we have to create strong law. We then give a small independant group oversight powers. We then have to trust the spies, and the people overseeing them, to obey the law. We have to be careful about crafting the laws, because these people want to push the boundaries of what they can do.

For 2) I guess we just have to accept that people tend not to whistleblow unless they feel strongly about something. He's been called a traitor for revealing this much. Imagine what happens if he reveals even more.

> Or, at the very least, I'd like to know why I can't know.

There are several guesses we can make here. i: The slides reveal information that put people's lives at risk. ii: The slides reveal information that give too much information to the enemy; or cut off information to the US. iii: The slides are not particularly relevant to the prism story. iv: The slides contradict the prism story, and giving the whole context ruins the story, and the journalists are sensationalising scumbags. v:etc.
flexie was being sarcastic.
I think the illustration is beautiful. It makes me appreciate technology, but also reminds of the process when beepers existed, and pay phones were prevalent (before 2way pagers, and alphanumeric paging).
It's inventive and clever, extremely well-written, and the combination of a hyper-rational character in a fantasy world setting is unique. Don't let 'but is it literature?' questions deprive you of an enjoyable reading experience.

That said, you probably will get more out of it if you've already read J.K. Rowling's novels, and if you worry about whether something's 'actual literature' or not, I'm guessing you haven't.
I don't think it was a typo. Shouting usually comes before shooting.
Actually I think I saw this on fark a couple of days ago...
Whistleblowing is protected, so the debate about whether he's a whistleblower or a spy is also the debate as to whether he has committed a crime
Important as these stories are to get out, really they are handled by other news outlets quite well.

Exactly what one learns from one incident, in one state, in one country is hard to say.

The story has no round up of a greater meaning other than the one incident which leads the reader without any cause and effect.

Is this American budgets cuts? Is this the problem with counties having to much power? Is this the militarisation of the police force? What is the trend here if any?

As per news is bad for you, I think this is one of them. High stress, low information.
I'm not in it, but it seems like it has a neat, active community.
No, it's not. If they're not on your timeline they're gone forever.
The biggest thing for me has been that you're old enough to die for your country -- required enlistment for the armed forces selective service ("the draft") -- but not old enough to buy a beer.
Sounds like two separate stories mixed up.

In the gambling case a SWAT member actually shot the man dead: http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal

And here's a story of an elderly woman having a heart attack from a flashbang in a failed drug raid: http://gazette.com/grandmother-sues-over-flash-bang-grenade-...
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I kind of hope that it's making SV types realise that some people just don't appear online.

I guess there's a bell curve. At one end are the extremely privacy conscious with no-online presence and at the other are the people plugged into everything. Do start-ups want to grab the hump of the curve? Or do they want to target the careful users at the lower end?
>> So she is probably going to be fine.

I bet she's going to have an all-new viewpoint on law enforcement officers though.
The whole thing doesn't make any sense to me. I can understand that governments may have shadowy departments doing illegal things we don't know about, but the whole scope of Prism seems to be too wide. When people talk about it, they describe computer systems I couldn't even begin to imagine, let alone design.

Somehow, the US government is spying on every piece of internet traffic for the grad sum of $20M a year. I just don't believe it's technically possible.

Add to this the emphasis by all parties on Snowden and his shenanigans, and I'm just left confused.
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There are two kinds of fan fiction, fanfiction that degenerates from the source material, and fanfiction that generates from it. The former is much more common than the latter but this is without question the latter kind.

Then again, I can understand if you have better things to do, I try not to read books that I'd regret spending the time on later. As a litmus test, if I could revoke having read HPMoR in exchange for the time I used, I wouldn't.
Can't see Snowden harming America. Pretty sure America is harming itself.
Wow, this is fast! Then again so was Chrome when I didn't bog it down with all my preferences, extensions, etc. Off-Road looks like a rebranding of their Turbo feature, which was my main reason for using Opera in the first place.
I've not seen this before - the first three chapters have had me guffawing something dreadful!

I'm going to have to ration my reading of this...
Australia rolled that back and they are doing fine.
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Unfortunately for the early adopters, Google didn't go public for another six years, and all their early funding came from people who were already rich.
$1000 was the money they had.

$912 was their annual revenue.

In my opinion, this is Apples to Oranges. Capital and Revenue are not the same thing. Also, you should take into account his knowledge, experience, and partner help.
Not joking.
I agree with you in all possible ways.

Counting that your average lifespan will be around 85 years, and you've been reading real literature since you were 14, that gives you 71 years of good reading. That is, if you are lucky enough to preserve your eyesight.

On average, let's say you read about 12 books per year, which gives you the sad total amount of 852 books you'll be able to read in your whole life. In my case, I've still got enough time for 684 more books. Think about this when you go into a library. A whole life worth of books fits into a couple of bookshelves...

There are more authors worth reading than books I'll ever be able to read before I die. So, nope. IMO you should NOT choose to read this over actual literature.
My son's a cop. He said what I was thinking. There is far more going on here than what the story states and the reporter is not asking the right questions or the agents can't say. In either case, the girl got caught up in something bigger than the writer says by mistake.

Nothing to see here. Move on.
We had $1,100 total when we incorporated Esri.

Pretty clear in my opinion. They had $1,100 of capital and not of sales.
The article is about a CDMA phone from Verizon.
> If #Snowden can't find asylum, it will be depressingly clear that the US not only eavesdrops on the world but runs it.

- @JPBarlow https://twitter.com/jpbarlow/status/351937848217317380

I am trying to imagine what leverage we have over Russia.
This is "actual literature". I say this as someone who greatly enjoys world classics as well as modern writers, everything from Gogol, Tolstoi, Kafka, Dickens, Dumas, and so on...

The only point of reading JK Rowling, imho, is to make HPMOR more fun.
“The Court can reduce this risk by requiring Feldman to provide the Court with the decrypted contents of his hard drives now, ex parte and under seal, so that they can be securely retained pending the adjudication of the Fifth-Amendment question.”

Am I the only one who does not believe they would honor the 'Fifth Amendment adjudication' and that they would not seek new and different evidence for new and different crimes?
I'm pretty sure plenty of Reader power users would have been glad to pay for it, myself included.
Your parents are truly nice, but that makes you the exception, not the rule. Most students at my university perform like crap because their parents are either too demanding or don't give a damn.

I also observed that people who get great grades at school usually can't get anything serious done on their own.

I'm perfectly happy being average in school.
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Ditch Facebook and join Diaspora. It's a great project that Rails/Javascript devs can contribute to.

http://diasporaproject.org/
Isn't pulling a gun on a supermarket customer a bit of an overkill?
Would you donate your data to the Internet Archive?
All I have heard is "Linux will follow", no mention of FreeBSD so far.
Heh. Why am I not surprised?
I'm not familiar with auto-update, but reading at Bugzilla, it seems that auto-update has been working for a few months at least. The bug to which you linked seems to be about letting users update Firefox without having to wait for the auto-update, which is something else entirely.

Or did I misunderstand what feature you are referring to?
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>We’ve put a lot of work into making deletions permanent, so I can imagine how frustrated you must be

It shouldn't be necessary to put a lot of work. Just delete the content, clobber it with blank fields, or randomized content. It really is very easy.

The problem is that your company's policy is to never truly delete content despite calling it "delete", there are many ways to weasel-word it ("many software subsystems don't truly delete" blah blah) but when someone asks a third party to delete something (s)he doesn't ask for it to have it marked deleted. Just delete it.

Surely not your fault though.

PS: there's no money in this world so that I'd work for a company with the morals and values of Facebook.
To serve and annoy. Thanks for keeping our city safe from the dangerous and out of control 20 year-old college females. They are quite the scourge on our modern surburbias.
Very wrong comparison. Even if you get easily VC money, there still some liability with it. I don't expect anyone to ask me or advice where and how to spend the $100 bill.
India turns down Edward Snowden's asylum request
I bet if Opera will be default browser in OS X it will be more popular than Safari.
>There are more authors worth reading than books I'll ever be able to read before I die.

Since you seem like you would have an interesting opinion on this: What books do you feel I should read before I die?
Lets see the benefit of ETF here
Impact costs will be higher esp when Bitcoin doesnt have traditional market depth sources like arbitrage
Its wallet will be a bigger target than yours for cyber criminals and would atleast get 10000x more attack attempts on it both virtually and physically.
Also your holdings will no long anonymous as you're registered under the ETF with your exact holding.

In summary makes sense if your lazy and innovation is all about letting people be lazy
Not just you. I don't see unread counts either, no matter how many times I toggle the odd-looking button in settings.
I was thinking about this, and maybe they have recorded Putin et al admitting fraud in the last Russian elections?
I did mean shouting; it wasn't a typo. I see that the way I phrased it was ambiguous though. :-)

I meant that the police generally pull out their gun to emphasise their power and to reinforce their shouts, not always with the intention of actually shooting.
More in-depth release message on their developer blog: http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2013/07/02/introducing-opera-1...
Unless you're suggesting that the girl actually was up to something nefarious, there absolutely is something to see here. Police should not be drawing weapons for anything other than an imminate danger to human life.

Watching the police in action is the one negative experience that I have had in the US. You guys really need to calm your (oversized) police force down - they're thugs in uniform.
The us has approximately 80 times that many armed police officers. So, if they shot ~7,000 bullets a year they would arguably be showing similar levels of restraint.

Unfortunately, it takes less training to become a police officer than a kindergarten teacher in the US so we don't see the same level of restraint. IMO we would be better served by a smaller but better trained force unfortunately the federal, state, and local governments all do law enforcement and at the local level there often seen as a way to generate revenue making them 'free'.
Freedom, hey?

All a bit Sharia, no?
Even though Google Reader is dead you can still migrate to alternative services, like Feedreader Online: http://feedreader.com/online/ Just use OPML files to import your feeds and categories.
The U.S. and Russia are still large strategic and economic partners. There's other political balls being juggled around, like the ongoing conflict in Syria. It's not necessarily "leverage"
Someone so concerned to optimize their reading experience really ought to be reading more than 12 books a year.
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Yes, from the About Opera menu item:

Browser identification

... AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.52 Safari/537.36 OPR/15.0.1147.130
> I am trying to imagine what leverage we have over Russia.

Russians don't want a cold war again
What type of nonsense is this ? What that article fails to take into consideration is that ONE just ONE terrorist act can cause unprecedented damage to consumer and business confidence, economic outlooks, employment, tourism etc as was demonstrated during 9/11.

It's like saying don't worry about keeping planes safe because the chance of one crashing is so small.

And according to the NSA chief (who is unlikely to straight out lie to congress) said that more than 50 potential terrorist events have been thwarted because of these intelligence programs:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/nsa-leak-keith-alexand...
> Perhaps this is just confirmation bias though. I only get to read about the US cases where things have gone wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menez...
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it is funny that you can buy the same beer when you are 16 in Denmark.
Ah, well, people seem to believe that my above post is a troll, so let me elaborate.

Windows 8 explicitly blocks the installation of any browser other than Internet Explorer (+ skins) on ARM. This is not due to a technical reason. This is due to the fact that Microsoft imitates Apple's policy that prevents any browser other than Safari (+ skins) on iOS [1]. While anti-trust rulings have forbidden Microsoft from doing this on PCs, Microsoft claims that ARM-based computers are not PCs and that the anti-trust rulings therefore do not apply. I therefore suspect that Microsoft will continue with this behavior unless a court of justice decides that ARM-based computers are also PCs. Hence my above comment.

And if anyone wonders why we need open platforms for mobile devices, that's a pretty good reason.

One source among many: http://www.linuxstall.com/microsoft-blocks-chrome-and-firefo...

[1] Yes, technologically speaking, Chrome for iOS is a reskinned Safari bundled with utilities.
The 13 years was hyped up by some small newspaper in San Diego. If found guilty it probably would have been a fine.
That's a very small proportion of the overall police force that carry. It's got to be to do with the attitude around weapons.

There are about 7000 armed police in England and Wales. Their weapons are kept in safes in the back of their cars, they need to have a very good reason to be carrying one, let alone actually using one.

I think in the UK, despite the police closing ranks when threatened (I don't think we have this as bad as the US either) an officer that drew a weapon on a suspect that they had no reason to think was armed (and was only suspected of underage possession of alcohol) that officer would be subject to some sort of disciplinary action.
I'm downloading it right now. But based on first impression, and reason why I started using Opera in first place, it may alienate users.

I started using it because I was on a slow connection and back then, Opera was a 10 MB internet package. It had email, download manager, chat and everything.

I am not sure about these features but size is 29.7 MB! Curious, did it increase just because of brink?
I'm sorry you're getting down voted to oblivion for expressing an unpopular opinion. It is a shame how far HN has fallen.

Also, the 13 years was a spun up non-story. If found guilty he was probably only facing a fine.
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"And a Silicon Valley start-up company with the unlikely name of Google.com is showing the way."

Funny how brainwashed you get. Nowadays Google seems like the perfect name.
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Why did they have to jump on the front of the car, as the article says? That would completely terrify me if I was walking to my car at 10pm in the evening.
If I was reading more than 12 books a year, I wouldn't be so concerned to optimize my reading experience ;)

Anyway, that was just an average, and I was just talking about literature, I wasn't including essays or technical books.
some days back i posted a question on quora asking which is the most hipster neighborhood of chicago. i must admit the map concurs with the humans:

http://www.quora.com/Chicago-1/Which-are-the-most-hipster-ne...
I can guarantee not the ones on my devices.
Is it done yet? I read it when it was half the length it is now, and thoroughly enjoyed it. When it is done I will read it again, starting from the beginning.