skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
False allegations are far from being rare.

You also have to acknowledge that when you have a rape accusation, there isn't a boolean result(either the allegation is false, or it's true, meaning there was rape). It's a broad spectrum, with only around a third of the cases resulting in conviction.[1]

As far as I understand, only if there wasn't a sexual contact will the allegation be considered false. In other cases, there will be some sort of investigation. So, it's possible to have basis for allegation and NOT have rape.

Correct me if I am wrong though.

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Of the 136 cases of sexual assault 8 (5.9%) were coded as false reports, 61 (44.9%) did not proceed to any prosecution or disciplinary action, 48 (35.3%) were referred for prosecution or disciplinary action, and 19 (13.9%) contained insufficient information to be coded (see Table 2).

[1]http://www.icdv.idaho.gov/conference/handouts/False-Allegati...
It's not Business @ the Speed of Thought???
It's also said explicitly in the article that it was a bit of an act.
This was a story on radiolab titled stochasticity: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91684-stochasticity/
No one said replace outright. First it will eat into some of the secondary autos and perhaps delay car ownership for teens. And it will continue in that direction until you see some real impact on car ownership.

You're right, no one said it will replace a lot of commuting (although I know of a number of people who do commute via Uber). I know lots of families that have 3 cars and only 2 drivers with the third car serving for certain functions. I can easily see Uber nipping into that situation.
What is Hacker News doing that makes it better than any other website with links and comments?
So basically this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki
I thought they were marked by the incumbent powers that be!
We don't- you need to explicitly instrument.

I think auto-instrumentation is great for web because you already have a clear DOM structure. Mobile is more difficult as it's native code and 1 to 1 mapping to UI elements is not as cut and dry and things can become brittle. It's also more difficult to scale because when you're tracking everything data volumes get pretty crazy. There is the big upside not having to instrument though! We haven't seen any requests from anyone who has experience analytics for it. I'm curious to see how this shakes out for developers.
If you give me some contact information, I can send you some infos on that.
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Ultima IV was awesome. Here's text maps that were passed around from when the game first came out. Designed for 80-column, tractor-feed output. Just print them out, and tape them together. Woot! =)

World maps:

http://www.kitchencloset.com/home/bryan/text_files/ultima_IV...

http://www.kitchencloset.com/home/bryan/text_files/ultima_IV...

http://www.kitchencloset.com/home/bryan/text_files/ultima_IV...

http://www.kitchencloset.com/home/bryan/text_files/ultima_IV...

City maps:

http://www.kitchencloset.com/home/bryan/text_files/ultima_IV...

http://www.kitchencloset.com/home/bryan/text_files/ultima_IV...
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I have absolutely no idea. But it seems like these would be moving far too fast, and the maneuvering far too precise, for GPS tracking to be used.
Thanks for the several comments about my comment. I upvoted quite a few, because they made thoughtful points. I appreciate thoughtful discussion of public policy issues, especially from people who disagree with me, because that helps me learn more about the world.

Some of the thoughtful points brought up in discussion of my parent comment of course address important issues that I didn't discuss at length in the parent comment. I should make clear that I fully agree with everyone here that if the common people of the United States (or of any other country) don't work together zealously and with mental toughness and solidarity to defend basic civil rights, then we are all hosed. I've seen one country's transformation from stark dictatorship to democracy and rule by law first-hand,[1] and that experience makes me very eager indeed never to see the United States slide into dictatorship. Similarly, I'd be happy to see the "tyranny of the Taliban"[2] reported on by the Guardian newspaper (the same newspaper that is the source for the article we are all discussing here) fall everywhere, and never return. People who have the dictatorial impulse try to spread their control as far as they can reach, and it takes concerted action to fight for and maintain freedom, which is why I frequently recommend that my fellow Hacker News participants study the writings of the Albert Einstein Institution,[3] based on the experiences of people power movements that have overthrown dictatorships.

Simply put, I am one of many Americans who has not only participated in public protests about NSA activities in view of my local police and TV cameras,[4] and I will continue to decry and protest about interference of my freedom or my family's freedom by anyone. Along the way, I am trying to engage in what one thoughtful comment described as discussions around "threat mitigation and risk mitigation," to understand better what private actions on my own part, what governmental actions by my government, and what actions by other actors will best maximize your freedom and mine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/18/terrorism.afgha...

[3] http://www.aeinstein.org/downloads/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5992149
Anyone seen Aliens? Anyone say M56 Smart Gun?

http://alienanthology.wikia.com/wiki/M56_Smart_Gun#Target_Tr...

"When powered up, the gun begins tracking targets via its infrared tracker mounted above the barrel. The tracker consists of a 256 x 256 element platinum-silicide focal plane array cooled to 770 degrees K by a tiny cryogenic gas cooler working on the Stirling principle. This system monitors a 30 degree cone in front of the gun and transmits high-resolution thermal images in the 8-10 um range to a miniature video display in the operator's eyepiece."

Thats all available technology - right now.
Agreed. Everything I've seen from them, every time I've interacted, I've felt like I needed a shower. They're scummy, shitty guys, and hopefully ejecting that founder will help them.
It was really offensive, and he made the jokes right after people had been killed which was even more offensive, and he didn't even put it on his own blog but injected that crap into the product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

E.g. No.
On the internet, I see women CONSTANTLY getting death and rape threats, with all sorts of accusations leveled at them. Kathy Sierra was hounded off the net, with threats to her children. (http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...)
By the way, you can stop calling them "girls" after age 12 or so.
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I think the idea is to automatically compensate for wind or other factors that would otherwise take the bullet on a path that is not on target. I think the part where they aim away from the target is just for demonstration.
To the extent that people instantly, completely and forever believe rape accusations levelled on the internet and then never read anything to the contrary, yes.
Remember Casey Anthony? Remember how being merely accused of killing her daughter caused a national spectacle, where a large majority of the country was just sure she was a murderer? And Nancy Grace got on television and fanned it right along, studying the evidence like some kind of fucking freak show? LOOK AT THE DUCT TAPE. JUST LOOK AT THE DUCT TAPE.

And then she was acquitted and the nation lost its mind? And if you ask anybody on the street "is Casey Anthony a murderer?" you'll get the answer "oh I know she is, I studied the evidence and the prosecutor is a moron?" You know how so many people want justice for the girl that now Casey Anthony has to hide, everywhere she goes, for the rest of her life?

That's what people are working toward with the Internet. You should not care if someone is accused of something because accusation is an easy thing to do. Being convicted of a crime is a different story. Yet, we have an entire ecosystem of people who have built up a defensive wall around the sacred act of accusation by calling it "coming forward," and absolutely destroying anybody who speaks out against that holy act being considered as important as it is.

I don't know how to fix it, either, but I do know now, more than ever, it is frightfully easy. And that a frightening portion of people are perfectly willing to spend their limited time on Earth debating something that impacts them absolutely zero, including this accusation.
You can hit stuff that moves after the bullet is fired. It doesn't require computer vision.
It says "optical guidance system" in the article. I suspect that the sniper needs to light up the target with a laser sight, and there's a small computer and microchip that adjusts the form of the bullet (per other commenter's description here) so that the laser dot is always directly ahead.

The article also says it's designed to compensate for "weather, wind, or target movement", so my assumption is that the sniper has to keep the target in their sight at all times, but it can compensate for the bullet ending up off-course after it has left the barrel.
Here's MustWin's answer:
https://medium.com/@mustwin/the-deep-end-identifying-winning...
Interesting tricks, but it seems impractical or even dangerous. For example, showing the images at a specific quick refresh rate may cause them to not appear on some monitors, or worse, may annoy some people whose eyes are more sensitive, possibly even trigger an epileptic seizure.

In the end, if the content is meant to be seen by people, it is copyable. Seeing presumes the information is being transmitted. The only compromise you can make is to watermark, i.e., degrade quality and only hint at the full image.
I think what you're implying is that students could pay for extra lessons per week? You might want to work on making this explicit, it's really hard to tell what you're getting at here (I'm still not entirely sure). And to my original question: would the tutors get paid a portion of the additional time? Just really confused about what exactly the situation is you're presenting. I think you'll have a hard time rounding up mentors if you're unable to clearly explain it.
Taking a queue from Diddy?
No, it doesn't work that way at all. Buzz and alarmist headlines might capture our attention for a day or two, but they don't have a lasting impact.

As long as no further evidence or testimony surfaces, this will be forgotten by almost everybody within a week, and in a month or two, nobody will even think about it except for the accuser and the accused.

Want proof? You raped me. Remember when you did that? Hey everybody! Beachstartup actually raped me. It definitely happened and I'm very traumatized by it. Not a day goes by where I don't encounter some trigger that reminds me of the time that beachstartup raped me.

See? Nothing happened. Both in meatspace and online, accusations that aren't backed by evidence might gain temporary attention, but they won't last. You certainly can't just decide to make someone's reputation "instantly, completely and forever ruined" on a passing whim.
I could never understand the appeal of Facebook. Social networks have been around forever, there is no breakthrough in the UI or anything. What exactly are they doing that warrants this kind of investment?

It's amazing how many startups you could insert there.
This is super interesting because we've had to deal with it for a long time. In fact, "I don't want my images stolen" was one of the main objections we had when trying to get website customers to move from Flash to HTML5 (even post-iPad).

We still give customers the option to disable right-clicking. It might annoy users, but they don't seem to care. Many will still not upload images above 600px on the long side.

The demo isn't great because there's some visible flickering. I also can't tell if the image looks like crap because it's a crappy image or because of the techniques used. Would love to see a demo with a real-ish image (say, a high-quality image that's 900 pixels wide).
Did you miss that this person, who while admittedly is biased is also quite credible and has infinite more information than we do, described Uber having meaningful usage from South San Jose to Napa?

You might have a look at Uber's open job list. This service is going to (continue to) work in a huge number of locales. https://www.uber.com/jobs/list
again the parents, hmm. But what did that call cost?
Between 880-930meters/sec. I would think that a gps would have a hard time fitting inside a typical 50bmg bullet anyway. They only weigh about 45grams.
Actually, there hasn't been any changes to the amount of content on Genius, we (the community) are just presenting it better! And while Genius has, off the top of my head, about 20 employees (including 9 engineers), they have 150+ community moderators that oversee the site's community and hundreds of community editors that are trusted with accepting and editing the site's annotations. Genius isn't a small project!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guidance
Has anyone tried the yeast suggestion with success?

http://www.businessinsider.com/yeast-key-to-drinking-without...
Why not?

* Both are perfectly working versions of software

* Both have been obsoleted by newer, more fully featured, and more secure replacements (git cryptographically hashes its commits, cvs does not)

* Both have users that refuse to migrate from them because "it works for them", despite the benefits and impact on everyone else.
Laser designator, I think.
I carry a pager daily and agree with much of the article. It just _works_.

Other points:
- A single AA battery lasts at least 1 month.
- It takes a literal 2 seconds to pull out of clip, push button and read message.
- ~75% of my pages contain a 5 digit internal phone extension for a return call. The rest might say "Smith in ICU bed 104 is going to CT", etc. Not exactly transmitting a lot of patient information.
- There is a huge physician workforce of "old school" docs who would have a difficult time adapting to smartphone-based technologies.

I don't see a single texting app being able to successfully penetrate this space. Instead, I believe a more robust suite with a simple, slick UI with access to laboratory data, vitals, and dictated reports would be optimal. PerfectServe is one company that I know of that is actively working in this space.
The replay button of The Fifth Element trumps that, but it's not available yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7wOX2WqbXE
Its the branding and marketing. If you get the cool factor you get momentum.
When you request a page over internet you receive a copy of this data. The text, images, styles, scripts, videos.
The key point: you receive a copy.
Yes. Some construction crew put a backhoe through one of my circuits several years ago. You can call hicap support every hour politely requesting status updates, but that's no substitute for driving around the neighborhood until you find the poor engineer rewiring everything and bring him a coffee / iced tea.

Unfortunately, this works better in your small town or my small town than in San Francisco.
I commented below that it's marked by laser, but the counterargument was that if you can aim a laser you can aim a rifle. Let me rephrase: the goal of this system is to correct for deviations from the actual target which occur in the air. Because of wind, temperature, rotation of the earth (when taking really long shots) and other factors a marksman might have to adjust his or her aim and actually aim off-target to get the bullet on target. However, using this system you would just keep the crosshairs on target and the bullet will correct itself in the air to hit that target. I think that aiming the rifle in a different spot is only done for test purposes. I can't imagine why you would want to create a system that automatically determines the target instead of letting a trained marksman determine the target and help that marksman.
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Have you ever worked at a company that open sources code? I mean it's fairly common, even VERY common that the devs are all for open sourcing the product but the legal department has not made a decision yet. Engineers move at an incredibly swift, no pun intended, pace but Lawyers tend to take glacial ages to decide anything. It's completely and totally credible that the legal department hasn't given their final ok on things, especially at a company like Apple and as large as Apple is.
This may be be related: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/48/how-the-datastore...
I was being sarcastic about peoples' fears about marijuana, yes, and hopefully making my observation a little more salient: since the distribution of consumption is so ridiculously bimodal (look at pg15, it's amazing), that means there are a lot of people getting extremely high doses, but without obvious ill effects.
Fletch, that's spot on. This is why the utility is gated to the areas where text to 911 is available (in upcoming update) and why 911 will send you a bounceback if the dispatchers aren't so equipped
Is this a meta-meta argument?
Not even remotely true. A friend of a friend was accused of something like this and made TechCrunch, and still, four years later, gets death threats in his e-mail and people e-mailing his employer.
If it's like other smart ordinance that is self guided, it requires a designation of some sort. This is often done with a laser. Snipers work in tandem with a spotter already. Their job could go from spotter to laser operator. Or it could just be a function of the actual shooter. Keep your scope (and laser) on the target until impact. Actual the recoil would probably screw that up. I think you would have to have the spotter manning the target designator.
Right, okay, so lisp is primarily a programming language for practical software development. That's really my whole point.

I'd argue that there are lots of other settings with ideas a powerful or more powerful than whatever it is each individual evangelist feels someone should get out a lisp. Yet none of these other things have enlightened evangelists pushing the product.

That's all I'm saying.
Neat idea, but the onion routing in Tor is quite slow. You might consider cjdns instead for better performance and scalability.

http://cjdns.info/
Unless this data is encrypted en requires reverse engineering to decrypt (e.g. understand how the obfuscated JS decypter work). That's the goal of the interlaced "trick".
This! I remember it as well. Edit -> pretty sure it was II, or III... hell I don't remember, can picture it though. What about dropping a coin in the lake in I to get a random weapon, do it enough times and your puny starting character gets a blaster (most powerful weapon).
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NSA says Snowden e-mails exempt from public disclosure
HAHA, thanks for that - My memory is completely clouded in 7th grader nostalgia... so I appreciate you having a much mre recent objective look at the game :)

I recall having a blast in bards tale, and memorizing the exact arrow keys to get from town to dungeon entrance without even looking at the screen.

I recall dutifully mapping out all dungeons on graph paper.
Emails Contradict Administration Claims on Guardian Laptop Destruction
...surely NSA doesn't have the time and resources to analyze all of the data it gathers, and maybe it is not gathering as much data as some people claim.

That's just as speculative as absolutely every other bit of speculation that's flying around, though.

If you're in the NSA's shoes, and it turns out your budget is insufficient to analyze the mass of stuff you're recording, you don't stop recording stuff. You'd use this "analysis crisis" to justify additional budget for expanded analysis efforts, especially if it takes the form of automatic systems developed and sold by contractors located in the districts of selected legislators.

My own speculation is that yes, they're recording and keeping (for a little while, at least) absolutely everything they can get their hands on, doing massive damage to the ideals of freedom and democracy and America in general in the process, but surprise surprise, all that recording simply turns out to be much less useful than everyone had hoped.

"The police," broadly speaking, have argued for (often successfully) more and more high-tech spying capability for many decades now, but it's not obvious that such capabilities have made any big improvement in public safety. We may all fantasize about magic wands that could make our jobs easier; for some reason, American authoritarians actually believe they can buy such a thing.
Ahh.. you're absolutely right. Ars Technica is reporting on this too.

Neat :)
Once I didn't get any sign of being drunk regardless of the drinks being >50% and 70% vol. and higher, even though we danced, made push-up and have had fun on a trampoline. To this day I still don't understand how not only I, but also the friends who drank the same didn't get drunk. There must have been a secret ingredient in that moonshine, because I didn't eat anything before that.
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Recording every sexual encounter doesn't prove that you didn't rape your partner.

You could have threatened/forced your partner to appear to be enjoying or giving consent. Or your partner could falsely accuse you of doing that. Either way it doesn't prove there was no rape.
Where did you read tampons are more common?

I found this which sounds like pads are used more: http://lipglossandabackpack.com/feminine-hygiene-around-the-...
The paper notes a similar dynamic: right now, it's much cheaper to buy marijuana there as a medical marijuana user, and so 'retail' sales are only a small fraction of total consumption because they're having a hard time competing on price. (This explains something that confused me in coverage: out of state visitors represent a majority of retail purchases, it seems, but they represent <10% of total consumption - because all the locals are buying medical marijuana, growing their own, getting weed from 'caregivers', etc.0
I'll chime in with a "pt-online-schema-change rocks". Wonderful tool.
Why do I need to run the entire build script as root?
He wasn't fired for what he said, he was fired because it was only the latest in a string of incidents.
Yes, and the logical extension of this is developing an image that people won't be able to remember since we all know that remembering things is copyright infringement.

What? It gave you a seizure? Well that's just our DRM. Obviously your brain was trying to circumvent...
But did you start with Akalabeth?
I love LastPass, and this response is one of the reasons why. There will always be issues in security, there is nothing out there that will ever be perfect. The question is how you respond when things are discovered.

The one caveat I have is that I do wish they open sourced. Overall I prefer that when it comes to security.

But LastPass has always responded well when issues come up.
Doesn't CouchBase Mobile Sync Gateway do something similar?
A laser is unaffected by things like gravity, recoil, wind, dust particles, drag, etc... Also, if it's a line of site issue. The sniper could be out of the line of site and as long as the laser operator can put light on target, it still gets hit (theoretically).
I'm not sure most people are that keen on their own stuff.
Initially you'll only be able to use them with a Zorg ZF-1 pod weapons system.
Yeah, it should be something like:
"A private key is nothing but a number roughly between 1 and 2^256, that is only known by you. This number is usually pseudorandomly generated by your bitcoin client, but it could be generated in any way. The important thing is that it is an uncommon large number, that others will not be able to easily guess."