skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that this could have easily resulted in a death, calling it a "prank" and suggesting that "Whomever instigated the swatting should be ashamed of themselves" seems the wrong of language for what is a pretty serious crime.
What research should the police force do when someone calls in a bomb threat or a shooter in a school?
Unfortunately they have to take every call seriously and act immediately. There is no way for them to distinguish between a fake and real call. Unless the place where the alleged threat is occurring is a regular target for swatting. In that case police still visit but they don't send a whole swat team.
SWATTING. Usually the phone call is spoofed so it seems like the call is coming from the building itself.
This McDonald's ad from the 90's was pretty cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68jiSejx3wA
Agreed, and where can I get a 2Br apartment in SF for $1950? (30% of a $78,000 salary)
I don't think cryopreservation is like a religion; I've proven that's the case (albeit a religion without a personal deity, but there are others like that, I think). You're simply claiming that cryonics is a true religion, which might well be the case. In any event, I don't see spending money on alleviating the fear of death as wasteful by any means. That's how we spend most of our money anyway.
I totally agree that containers in general, and Docker in particular, could play a big role in moving the status quo towards IPV6 and a more sane approach to service-oriented networking. I would love to turn on IPV6 by default on every Docker runtime everywhere - the question is, how do we deal with 1) existing host systems, 2) existing networks and 3) existing applications which may not be IPv6-ready? We are already upgrading the guts of Docker for more powerful networking and clustering in general, so if you give me a solid answer we can get this out the door pretty quickly :)
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Cult leader, ponzi schemer or other conman believing his or her own bullshit does't make a difference. Victims are lead to believe something with no basis in science, reason, logic or reality for the purpose of personal or financial gain.

Being a scam doesn't require the buy in or belief of the scammer.

Plenty has been written on Alcor[0] in particular[1], there is an entire book[2] written by a former employee. The entire industry is dangerous, weird[3], and preys on the vulnerable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundatio...

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/alcor-employee-makes-harsh-a...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Journey-World-Cryonics-Deceptio...

[3] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/354/m...
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Or, you buy at a price you can afford, but find over time you're taxed (directly, indirectly) beyond your means and still can't afford to live there.
Entirely possible they release a generation of code only when they're already on the next generation. Sort of like Quake, maybe.

Of course, even if you're 3 gens ahead, that's still better than updating everyone else to 2 gens behind you.
Seriously. How about, "Whoever committed this crime should go to prison"?

I also object to the headline. It makes it sound like the police raided and arrested him for playing games.
Yes.

You have a sampling bias in the types of people you associate. Facebook applies a filter to posts which selects for things that are popular with a wide swath of your friends and which support your political/social views (as guessed by their profiling tools).

That something blows up with your friends on Facebook is usually a better indicator that it's polarizing drivel than that it's a well thought out, impactful study, since that's what the machines (essentially) optimize for.
Sorry but having a hard time mastering only 3 of the words that you've put together here (being already familiar with Linux and vim), how exactly do you "learn" JQuery, PHP, Ruby and Android in 3 months?!??!?!?!

I'm asking out of real curiosity, I'm not judging or anything.
It always bugs me when police turn off cameras in situations like this. How is it not evidence tampering?
Let's go line by line.

- that death does not alter the structure irrepairably

As far as we can tell, if we freeze it quick enough, it won't. No magic required. (death doesn't mean something magical is happening to matter, it only means molecular machines stop working the way they should)

- that the structure and information contained therein will not degrade over time

Possible. Manageable with technology. Testable. No magic required.

- that the freezing process itself won't damage the information

Possible. Subject to fixing by improved technology. Testable. No magic required.

- that the information will be recoverable

Possible by definition of solving previous two points. Subject to advanced enough technology, which cryopreserved people are hedging against. No magic required.

- that we will be able to make sense of such information

See above.

- that the information after successful restoration can be transplanted into some other medium

Not required. Technology advanced enough to revive a cryopreserved patient will likely be able to fix the original medium. Technology already exists (in form of nanotechnology - viruses, bacteria, proteins, enzymes), but we don't know how to use it yet, as we didn't build it. No magic required.

- that this other medium will be able to 'execute' using that information

See above. Also, if you really insist on another medium, then it depends on whether or not brains run on magic. If they are not, then the problem is addressable with technology (develop a good enough medium).

- that the electrical component of brain activity once lost can be restored

Evidence suggests that this component is mostly irrelevant. Even if, it's solvable with technology (tough luck to those already preserved though). No magic required.

- and that all of the above will result in a restoration of consciousness

Unless you believe consciousness is magic, it's possible by definition of solving #2/#3.

- and that this consciousness will somehow be given the status of person (that's more of a social issue)

That's a social issue, but again, if consciousness is not a magical process, we can hope the society will mature enough to be able to accept revived people as persons.

> All of these together to me are equivalent to or maybe even greater than believing in God.

Now this IMO does not follow. There're no supernatural phenomena required to address any assumptions you stated, so isn't this by definition requiring qualitatively less faith than religion?
Ditto this. My wife can nap no problem. I might nap every couple months, and its basically a disrupted sleep and not a nap. I wake up feeling terrible; groggy, mild headache, irritable. I'd have been better off not napping as it inevitably comes when I've got so much to do and no energy and that "if I have a quick nap I'll feel refreshed and be ready to work!" Nope!
Yeah, running your own switch allows you to send whatever you want as caller ID. You get the subject's number, call 911 and claim there's a hostage crisis.

I miss the days when prank calls were about refrigerators running. Things are so mean on the Internet these days. Trolls play for keeps, not for luls.
I believe these reports are done using calls with a fake caller identification. A number of ways to do that is just one google search away and is only a tiny bit harder than sending an email with fake "From:" or a real envelope with a fake sender address.
> * Do people can really fall asleep on command just like that when they have some spare minutes in their day?*

It depends on the time of day. I can't exactly fall asleep on command, but I'll find myself longing for a nap in the afternoon, usually around 2 or 3. I can fall asleep pretty quickly then, and usually I'll wake up about 20 minutes later.
Maybe they shouldn't send the SWAT team, but rather, send a car around to see what's up before the team goes bashing through the windows?
Men and women get different from of criticism. Our current culture is to judge men by what they do, women by their person. This article simply include an other example of a rather well established concept.

It would be kind of fun to see what happen if the reviewer intentionally reversed this and judged women solely from what they accomplish, and men on their personality with a token "The work ultimately went well". The resulting culture shock and mixed signals would be an interesting pattern to observe.

An other kind of interesting test would be a dating site that write the profiles for its clients. If they wrote female profile that only focused on job, earning, and skills, and a male profiles that only describe the person personality and looks, would the clients be happy when they got to read their own profiles?
Padmapper has no 2BR units for $0-1950 for rent anywhere near what someone would still consider to be "San Francisco". If you drop to 1BR there are a handful but not many.
The pet peeve is that Google does not deserve this attention.
>I can tell you that I have a male named account on hacker news and it never, ever gets called too angry, or aggressive, or emotional.

I'm not being sarcastic or facetious - this is a very enlightning statement and I almost cannot believe my own bias. To me your comments have sounded aggressive and emotional and it may just be my subconcious had seen your account name and biased my conscious assessment. So please forgive this bias, I didn't realize it ever existed! (for what it's worth I have historically thought myself to be logical, rational, and understanding of my own bias in most circumstances!)
Oh, dlthomas caught what went wrong! I misunderstood, apologies. If they dont compile then that's great.
'manageable with technology we do not have' -> magic.
I do think you are misinterpreting the author.

1. She states very clearly in the last line: this is a call to action to review the language in reviews for for bias, not just the scores.

2. I can see you and others here very willing to accept the possibility that women just are more aggressive and that worries me about potential bias far more than this study does. Do you see that in yourself? To be fair to you, I see in myself the bias to believe what I read here because it is absolutely consistent with my experience. If you do too (i.e. you believe women in tech/business are somehow more aggressive, out of gender norm, etc) then that is a perfect reason to step back for a minute and examine your perceptions.

3. As you state above, non aggressive women never getting hired--one possible reason could be, as others have stated is that non aggressive women do not have the emotional or financial resources to withstand the cultural assault of doing something outside of gender norms. Do you see why that's a problem? Why the stereotypes of behavior in tech/business that are predominantly male are so damaging? And why it would be so important to look at the language used here?

4. Honestly, now, are you not struck by the difference in tone in those reviews? Or do you truly believe the women's words were "deserved?" because that's the fundamental question that the author asks us to consider.
They have the capability to knock on the door and see if there is a response before they throw people to the ground and point guns in their faces
Thankfully the fact that people have come back just fine from minutes of total EEG silence (Often involving hypothermia) shows that the immediate state of the brain does not matter nearly as much as its structure.
Larger sized RC planes like a Skywalker can usually run for around 40 Minutes to an hour and cover around 50 Miles in that time. There are examples of much longer flight times and longer distances but 50 miles seems about right in real world usage with a payload. As soon as it comes back you can swap out the battery and launch again, a 2 - 3 minute turnaround is easy.
Evidence tampering refers to manipulating evidence once it has been collected not while it is being created.
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For those living under a rock like myself, I think MRA = Men's Rights Activist.
I can't nap, but just laying down for 20 minutes with my eyes closed in a quiet room gives me a huge energy boost.
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Google did nothing wrong. What is wrong is people promoting it here on HN.
Probably should have dated it - this is from right after 911

I remember when the change happen, because there were no longer the large bins and signs at both SFO and Sydney.

Lighters were the biggest single item holding up security queues prior to the liquids changes after the TATP '06 plots.

The one year period after summer 2006 was the worst possible time to travel, routinely took an hour to pass through most checkpoints.
Well this doesn't look like it was a school and if it was a bomb threat why would you send a SWAT team into a building that you believe is going to blow up? It doesn't say what information the police were acting on but you would think they would have figured out before putting the guy in handcuffs that they were acting on false information.
Another case of being forced to euphemize by the fear of the culture you're trying to critique. It's men. "Fuckwad" "douchebag" are code for men. Why can't we just name the problem? Because we fear that those same men, who naturally lack the critical thinking skills to the sufficient extent to be able to come back with "b-b-but not all men"?

Men trying to help get stuck in the details of events like this, when it's ultimately just men attacking and hating women. That's obviously the problem. It can start to be solved by listening honestly to women who think more deeply about the problem than we men do. These women usually call themselves "feminists". Suspend your disbelief and pay more honest attention to this intellectually and positionally diverse group of women if you actually want to learn how to help.
Yes. I'm sure.

At best you were grossly ambiguous. And really, attempting to argue this point is beyond childish.
That's not quite the same as freezing your brain for an indeterminate amount of time (decades? centuries? millennia? forever?) and expecting a spontaneous reboot after transferring and read-out + a whole bunch of other unknowns.

That's a brain that was still almost the same brain as the one in which the electrical activity as we currently detect it was lost.
I like the idea but then the challenge becomes how do i know what questions to ask?
That's one hell of a tagline! Colour me intrigued.
We already use cryopreservation for sperm and revive them so on the surface it seems reasonable. The issue is it's not black magic we know freezing does not prevent decay it just greatly slows it down. Which presents a fundamental flaw as the dificulty in reviving someone keeps increasing over time.

So, if the goal was maximizing the chance of revival you would study decay rates do some cost benifit analysis and keep trying to improve your approach. But, that's not what's happening. It's preform ritual X and wait for magic to happen.

As to the singularity, the basic assumption is super intelegence allows for super technology. However, the basic laws of physics still apply. I don't care how smart your computer is it's not going to accuratly predict the weather 6 months from now. If the universe says no them traveling faster than light stays impossible etc.
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it's supposed to be difficult to get "no knock" warrants but apparently they're being passed out like candy on halloween now.

Also, busting the door down and yelling "police" counts as "fair warning" :/
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Imagine you called up to report a genuine crime taking place, and the dispatcher's reaction was 'oh really, that doesn't sound very convincing.' You'd be furious, and rightly so. If the caller's location is spoofed, which is not hard to do, and the caller has minimal acting skills, then the police would be remiss not to act on it.

I really do not care for the prevalence of SWAT teams in the US, but then I don't care for the ease with which criminals can heavily arm themselves either.
Why not just run a tank through the front door and demolish the building while they are at it.
Chronic29, who is hellbanned, replied "The pet peeve is that Google does not deserve this attention."

I'd like to know who else has built and successfully trialled tail-sitting autonomous flying vehicles. This stuff is awesome!
Great reply, thanks.

With regards to "setting up immigrant neighborhoods in the absence of jobs has proven to be a bad idea." what's an example of this? I'm curious about what's been tried in the past.
Depending on what you're looking at setting up you can also see about picking up some older Cisco gear. When I was studying for the CCNA I picked up a couple of 2500 series routers off of eBay for ~$80 shipped. They were a generation or two out of date at the time, but I picked up some newer IOS images off of a torrent site and was able to use them to experiment with most of the topics covered.

I imagine a couple of older routers/switches for the hands-on experience combined with simulation software for more complex setups would still get you pretty far.
I respect your ability to admit that and share it with people here. Truly isn't that the way we can all get better at understanding each other, to walk in each other's shoes?

hats off to you.
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I understand that part. I question why the police's first thought would be to send a SWAT team w/o first verifying the information they received was even a little bit true.
So far I've only used them for the tutorial, but I definitely expect to start using cloud IDEs for real projects as well. They've really come of age in the last year or two. I suggest giving the recommended cloud IDE a try to see if it might meet your needs as well.
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Lua's somewhat diasporic community gives it an unfortunately high barrier to entry. It might be helpful to post this in /r/lua or on lua-l; disclosure: I moderate the former and it's pretty small.
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It's not incomparable in a mathematical sense, but the probability of any known religion being correct is not remotely on the same scale of reviving a suspended human mind.

Along the lines: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ml/but_theres_still_a_chance_right/
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"Agile" is very popular for upcoming next gen tech projects in the intelligence community partly because budgets are so erratic and progress is much more scrutinized than before (sequester may be over technically but you wouldn't think so if you look for job listings in the DC area). The problem is that even that process is not unaffected by the waterfall and spiral externalities of who these projects must ultimately answer to and (much more importantly) receive headcount and budget from to accomplish a goal. I'm familiar with one project where iterations / sprints took about 2 months each. Comparing this to the precedent of top 50 enterprise size orgs taking half a year to deploy one... or one thousand physical servers due to sheer bureaucracy in the name of checks and balances... well we should not be trying to compare ourselves to the worst to just make ourselves feel better. It's not like low morale is the primary reason for low performance in enterprise work for so long.
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"It can start to be solved by listening honestly to women who think more deeply about the problem than we men do."

Gender swap that, and see how it sounds.

(In more detail: no-one, man or woman, is going to fix this problem by tacitly accepting collectivism, because it is in no small part a problem caused by collectivism).
I have a related take, I guess:

I live in Williamsburg, NYC. A lot of people want to live in Williamsburg, NYC. More people than the neighborhood can house. What's the solution to this problem? Preventing landlords from raising rents to what the market will bear seems unfair. Allowing rents to run wild and create problems for existing residents seems unfair, as well.

I know money doesn't at all indicate someone's worth as a human or how great of a contribution they're making to the world. But. In an economy such as ours, it does indicate what kind of TV you can buy, what kind of car you can drive, and what sort of home you can live in.

Oh, and I'm not saying I think housing prices should just be a free-for-all. Regulation is good. But it doesn't get us completely around what seems like the core issue...
It's not going to hell, it's a slow adjustment. This isn't rocket science, it's a simple system stabilized with negative feedback. Wages for low pay jobs will naturally rise when there is no one there to fill them, instead stimulus is being introduced to keep those people treading water. It's just the reverse effect of all the high paying jobs leaving; let all the low paying jobs leave.
I'd bet $100M on IFTTT if I had it. They've got an amazing ecosystem of often proprietary devices and services feeding event information into them.

v1 is rules by end-users—v10 intelligence by the system.

What if they could take that data and create concepts around the identity of people using those devices, where they are at certain times, what they're doing, etc. etc. Turn all that data around and broker it back to services/devices, making each of the providers that much more powerful but dependent upon IFTTT. It's super-charging the internet of things in a way that perhaps only Google (with Google Now) seems to be thinking.
Oh, now I understand mummies.
The gamer asked them to turn off the streaming as he was going to give them personal info and didn't want it to be broadcast.
I made the following point in the comments, but it's still in the moderation queue ...

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Pretty much spot on – upvoted on HN FWIW. One gripe:

“The next time that you feel like saying ‘not all men…’, keep in mind – it takes ONE asshole to make a comment that is so foul and disgusting … And have the courage to call out douchebag behavior when you see it for what it is.”

So the thing is: claiming that [all | most] men are [potential] rapists is every bit as much douchebag behaviour as all the mysoginistic shit you’re (rightly) criticising, and is in no small part based upon the same flawed philosophy as the people threatening female game developers with rape.

That said, there are constructive and destructive ways to point it out. “You know, by saying that, you’re behaving in the same way as [fuckwad in question].”

But, and this is worth bearing in mind: in the same way that douchebag men are actually (as you point out) pretty rare, so are douchebag women.

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Thanks a ton for looking into this, I made an issue at https://github.com/luster-io/impulse/issues/5
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Compared to the rest of the United States, obviously. And why the condescending tone?
I'm no lawyer, but to me, that's an interpretation that's more to-the-letter than in-the-spirit. A savvy judge could conceivably consider evidence collection mechanism tampering a special case of evidence tampering.
It's not "unfortunately", they should take every call very seriously and act immediately. Anybody that calls 911 as a joke needs to be punished swiftly and severely.
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A 20 minute nap does way more for me than a cup of coffee, but this is a promising approach I'll definitely try.