skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not an execution when you attack a police officer. The word "execution" has been brought into the debate solely to rile people up and make them forget that fact.

Let's put it this way. Now, I'm not saying this version of events happened. I'm saying, please bear with me and seriously consider the question: You're a cop. You have a gun and nothing else. Someone has just leaned through the window of your cruiser and tried to grab your gun while beating your face. Adrenaline is pumping through you as a natural consequence of this. You defend yourself. He runs. You run after him to apprehend him, because it's your job and your duty to the community to apprehend someone brazen enough to attack a police officer. If they're willing to attack you, an officer, then obviously they're willing to attack anyone else in the community.

As you run after him and catch up, he turns around and charges towards you. The gun is in play, now. You know it, he knows it. You've seen videos of how this has ended for other officers, where other criminals have grabbed the officer's gun and murdered them with it. You have two seconds to decide what to do.

How would you react? What would you do? I don't know what I would do. I wouldn't want to be in that situation. But the officer certainly didn't either.

Would you run away? Would you let him come up to you and try to punch him, and risk him wrestling the gun from you? Would you try to aim for his legs, even though every hour of gun range training in your life has always hammered into your instincts to aim for the center of mass, and never to point your gun at anything you're not willing to kill? What do you do in that scenario?

My only point here is that the above scenario is the one which physical evidence has most closely corroborated. In particular, the bullets did not enter Brown from behind.

Obviously, it was a huge failure of the police department on two counts. One, that every officer wasn't armed with a taser and pepper spray. Two, that every cruiser wasn't equipped with an audio and video recording system which was turned on at all times. That happened because the Ferguson police department is seriously under-funded. Other police incidents have experienced intentional coverups or other malicious intent, like destroying evidence or erasing video/audio tapes, but this wasn't one of them. The lack of equipment was a factor of funding. No one wanted a video more than that officer, whose life as he knew it is now essentially over. He has to live in secrecy the rest of his life, along with his family, friends, everyone he knew. He has to either cut ties with them or swear them to secrecy about his new identity and location.
“Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”
I don't see how this solves the problem of some doctors tackling harder/easier cases.

How do you distinguish two doctors with high prediction ability and low success rates (compared to the average for that procedure) if one is bad (and she knows it) and the other is tackling harder cases (and is actually one of the best in the field for cases with high probability of complications)?

Without input from other doctors (or simply using a lot of data where you can correlate hard procedures with other factors in the patient data) you'll never be able to distinguish the two doctors mentioned above.
I can't speak to your particular experience but it's a single datapoint from one year for one person.

I no longer work at Google but for the nearly 7 years I was there while not every complaint got handled by a group of engineers like described in the article, a startling number of them were. It was still very much a part of the culture when I left and I would not be surprised to discover that it still was.
It has nothing to do with Brown being black. It has everything to do with him being 193 cm male weighting 95 kg. It is fascinating how discussion of something having zero to do with race suddenly turns into discussing "black athletes" vs. "whites, hispanics, and asians".
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I thought the joke was that the AI was completely correct.
I agree that bad metrics can be worse than none. I've certainly seen other examples in books on management.

In this case, though, it sounds like they've put a lot of effort into coming up with good metrics that are hard to game and, most importantly, are convincing to the surgeons themselves. The article talks about that at some length.

(BTW thanks for plugging static code analysis -- I work in that field :-)
> It is fascinating how discussion of something having zero to do with race

It started out about race -- "especially those of Brown complexion" isn't "zero to do with race".
Like #89? The control system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWexFaRylM#t=2869
> You get insulted by somebody ranked low in Sympathy? No need to worry.

Because you totally need to worry if someone insults you on the Internet.
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> Wilson shot Brown when we was a significant distance from the car (100+ feet)

Distance from the car is not relevant. Distance from Wilson is what is relevant. All shots were fired when Wilson was near Brown.

There were two shots fired at or near the car (shown by two spent casings near the car), and there is blood there showing Brown was hit. Hence Wilson was near Brown when these shots were fired.

The remaining 10 shots were all taken near were Brown's body ended up, a smidgen over 150 feet from the car. The spent casings for those 10 shots are all within 20 feet of the body. The pattern of the casings, and the location of blood stains that are not with the body, show that Brown was moving toward Wilson at this time. There is not enough evidence to ascertain his velocity.

> These deaths are wholly related to the racism of police practice in the United States

Do you really think that if a white man hits an officer in the face and tries to take the officer's gun, and then gets shot, and then runs away with the officer in pursuit, and then turns and runs toward the officer, he would not get shot several more times?

> Presenting disputed testimony as the truth is extremely misleading.

I presented no disputed testimony. Witness testimony in this case is contradictory. That's why I stuck with things that are strongly supported by the physical evidence.
Please see the edit - I did not mean "complexion" as color, but as "physical appearance". Looks like I used the word which has different meanings one of which is completely wrong for my point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747065
I now understand why you took it wrong, it was my fault.
He was just a child. It doesn't matter. We shouldn't be killing children.
AFAIK specifically Google Play Music can import iTunes tracks (due to a special arrangement with Apple), but it was achieved recently, and can probably break.

With music (or any other data) locked in the cloud, you don't own it any more. You are granted a right to use, and this right is revokable.
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There's an analogous Japanese program called "The Making". The entire series, 300 episodes of 15 minutes each, is available on Japan Science and Technology Agency's (their version of DARPA, minus the black projects) youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_X1TqiJZQ&list=PLOEDIkStOh...
In SF for 2 days where to meet up with Developers?
I am in San Francisco today and tomorrow afternoon. Whats the best way to meet up with web developers or people who are interested in startups? Let me know thanks! I want to network while I am here for a limited time.
Just ask the developers whose code they'd rather have to maintain.
Air Force Bases are also full of technologically inclined 18 to 25 year old men, i.e the Reddit demographic.
Mind mentioning the town? It would be interesting to see what this looks like from the air.
Hm, it's computationally expensive thing to do and the crawler must be feeded and "crawl" 26/7... I mean either is run by a community running many many nodes or an individual with huge resources, otherwise isn't worth it.
A Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis [pdf]
The process you described is correct.

However, the problem here is that the enzymes aren't perfect and coding errors are quite common (they get fixed, sometimes). A big problem is that some chemicals can look like a nucleotide (A or T or C or G) and after insertion it can "decay" into a different one, hence causing an error. During replication it is possible for a DNA fragment to be cleaved (once again, it is often repaired, but thats how the Y chromosome came to be AFAIK) however sometimes enzymes "mess up" and reattach them at wrong positions. At other times base-pairs are deleted or inserted shifting the whole strand. There is a lot of things that could go wrong.
Is that the Fremont Tesla plant featured on your frontpage?

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/b/6/e/highres...
Highly recommend checking out "Hack All The Things - 20 Devices in 45 Minutes" by CJ Heres & Amir Etemadieh & Mike Baker & Hans Nielsen. https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2022/DEF%20CON%2022%20vid...

This is the GTVhacker group that hacked the GoogleTV.

"Weaponizing Your Pets" with Gene Bransfield is definitely also worth checking out. "The War Kitteh and Denial of Service Dog."

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2022/DEF%20CON%2022%20vid...
I cited one of his papers actually, I didn't know that site with all his works existed though. Thanks for the link, I'll read some more of his writings.
Even if it was so, one shot would do it, may be only wounding. Yet he had the right to kill, he used it like others. Shooting multiple times or chock holding to make sure that target is dead is execution . They could have shot Garner in leg, instead they used the right to kill.

The killings at will are part of the Dominant Force law enforcement framework. In short - instilling fear as anything can happen to you, your live and death are at their will. That fear is supposedly makes you behave "good". It is a violation of civil rights of general population the same way like sniper rifle prominently targeting demonstrators (another piece of the Dominant Force) is a violation of the demonstrators' 1st Amendment rights (by generating chilling effect)
Well, BSD sockets don't use file abstraction. Plan 9 recovered "Unix philosophy" in that regard. In my opinion.
"How do you distinguish two doctors with high prediction ability and low success rates (compared to the average for that procedure)"

The doctor is never compared against the "average for that procedure" for exactly the reasons you give. The doctor is only compared against that doctor's own predictions.

So as a patient in need of a surgery, you would get opinions from 3-4 different surgeons, each one would offer their personal outcome probabilities. The patient gets access to that doctor's stats that score their actual track record against their own predictions. The patient should then choose the surgeon who gives the best odds but also has a track record of hitting their predictions.

A doctor who tackles hard cases should still have a good success rate against their own predictions. Such a doctor will just lower their predictions according to the riskiness of the case. If the doctor is good, such a doctor will still get business, because the skilled doctor will still offer better odds (odds that the patient can actually trust) than can be reliably offered by a less skilled doctor.

The one weakness of my system is that it does not give any sort of global score. There is still the problem of having to find 3 to 4 good surgeons to ask for an opinion in the first place. But at least once you have gotten to that point, you can have trustworthy predictions upon which to base your decisions.
Is English your native language? I also interpreted your "complexion" as build/constitution because the word for "complexion" in my native language is "compleição" and can be translated as complexion/build/constitution.
These aren't the citations you're asking for, but they are interesting (and the comment you responded to got killed).

It's a fact that while second-generation Chinese-Americans score quite well on tests and get a lot of bachelor's degrees, their children score even less well, and by the third generation they're as dumb as Americans. Wait, they are Americans. Right. See table 2 in [1]. So, the point is that according to census data people who come to the US from Asia get dumber, people who come to the US from Eastern Europe get dumber, and people who come here from Africa continue doing very well if they are Nigerian [2] and improve in educational attainment if they came from a refugee camp in Somalia. Hm. Apparently American society makes a lot of people dumber, although it does help out people coming from refugee camps. Since white people from Europe get dumber the longer they stay in the US, we've got to admit that it's the water, or our environmental regulations, or something else affecting their genetics, right? It's only fair. It couldn't be culture.

[1] https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs...

[2] http://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-mo...
As someone with experience of psychiatric medicine, the way things are going at the moment in the field is, in fact, to over-emphasise the biological side of mental illness. It goes beyond the (unsubstantiated) idea that mental illnesses result from "chemical imbalances" for which no tests exist, to a total disregard for the social circumstances of the patient or their psychological profile. Sometimes the medical people will refer to a bio-psycho-social model, but it is mostly just lip service. If you want to see the Fundamental Attribution Error in action, psychiatry is the place to look. It's a variant of the FAE where the patient is held primarily responsible (through their biology) and their relationships with other people or current circumstances, or even upbringing, are ignored.

Ronnie Laing showed that for at least some sufferers from mental illness, taking them out of a pathological family environment would cause a remission. Release them back to their family, and they would get ill again. That was in the 1960s.
I have no idea what you people are talking about. All of my websites are https but the problem I have is that Google is NOT serving data from secure servers. Open the chrome console on my webpage here and look at all of the errors and warnings. All because Google refuses to serve secure content despite people complaining for YEARS in the forums.

https://www.websmithing.com/gpstracker/displaymap.php

Can't Google spend a little more time securing their own websites instead of telling everyone else to secure theirs?
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Yow, bit by the English as a second language bug.

Yeah, that one word really changes the meaning of that phrase.

Yes, absolutely a more reasonable statement knowing that it's the way 'complexion' is similar to 'constitution' in some languages.
That is some beautiful code.
Guile-WM is a very neat project and fun to hack on since, like Emacs, you can edit it while it runs. It needs some more love to be usable for me as my daily driver, though. If I could only figure out the cause of a couple of bugs, things would be good enough for me.
Ask HN: Am I fit for the startup world?
I'm 34 years old ex-programmer who turned IT/sysadmin for 4 years (long story filled with regrets) and grew tired of it quick enough. I want to dive back into programming and I decided to consider working for a start-up.

My previous programming job was in what you might call corporate environment, my only degree is an Associate's degree in programming.

Is my age or lack of degree going to be an obstacle now or in the next 3 years in the start-up world? I suppose once I'm closer to 40 I can become senior but then again most senior developers are younger than me, start-ups or corporate. Also, I would have experience in start-up technologies - probably a nightmare to market through the average corporate HR (assuming that I'll be unworthy to work for start-ups after 38-40).

Give it to me as honest as possible. I would like to make an educated decision about my career and I would hate to spent months and years of rigorous studying just to be dismissed for things beyond my control.
I looked at YaCy not too long ago. It's an interesting technology but needs an economic incentive to work as a Google replacement, I think. If system activity was (carefully and judiciously) tied to cryptocurrency payouts it'd probably experience hockey-stick growth.
I presented no disputed testimony...I stuck with things that are strongly supported by the physical evidence.

Yes you did. hits an officer in the face and tries to take the officer's gun That is Wilson testimony. Not an objective fact. ...and then turns and runs toward the officer.. This also is not an objective fact. You disputed this yourself in stating that Browns velocity could not be determined. It just as plausible that he was tired, shot, and giving up. Your cognitive biases are giving Wilson the benefit of the doubt. Your statements are not pure "fact".
It's funny seeing people complain about throwing away fuel when we're already throwing away rocket engines now. Spoiler: the engines are more expensive.
> "an international collaboration audaciously called Project Grandiose"

Nice to see audacity in hard science on in a while isn't it???!!

> "transcriptomic epigenomic and proteomic data sets"

So your 'big data' startup has a few petabytes? lel.

> "Early transcriptional events, driven by high levels of reprogramming transcription factor expression, are associated with widespread loss of histone H3 lysine 27 ( H3K27me) trimethylation, representing a general opening of the chromatin state "

IANASCBC ( I am not a stem-cell biochemist ) but the state of chromatin corresponds with how readily certain genes are accessed, facilitating transcription ... and ultimately "what happens in the cell"

project website: http://www.stemformatics.org/
Indeed, English is not my native language, and in my native language the same word means exactly as in Portuguese - build/constitution/physical appearance. It looks like English one also has this meaning, but the "skin color" meaning seems to be most frequent, which I did not realize. I probably would if I thought about it specifically, and usually I am aware of the words which mean different things in different languages, but in this case looks like it slipped my attention and completely derailed the discussion. May it be a lesson for me to be more attentive.
Lol how do you think 'slavs' got their name? Have you looked at the Arab and Ottoman slave trade?
> I've never heard a justification for it,

The usual justification I've heard is that it is superior for the flow of operation for expected cases to be clear from inspecting the code, and the use of exceptions breaks that up.

> or a rigorous explanation of what "expected" means.

This is a problem. I have my own construction of what it makes sense for "expected" to mean in this context [0], but its not clear to me that that's what others offering this rule necessarily do mean by "expected", it usually seems to be fuzzier (which is problematic.)

> Exceptions are a language construct, like variables, classes, and for loops. As with those other constructs, use them when it results in a program which makes sense. But that's a judgment you can only make on the program, not on the construct.

I generally agree, but I think that -- with the understanding of "expected" relating to the advertised constraints/expectations of the unit of code in question --
its a fairly good rule of thumb for when using exceptions results in code that makes sense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746874
It seems that even DHT based botnets need to hard code initial peers. Using the Bitcoin network eliminates this completely (now you need just need Bitcoin's bootstrap nodes).
Thank you for your clarification. We may still disagree on some things, but at least not on something so foolish!
I'm sympathetic to your point. Where I work, we use Grunt and npm for our PHP projects, and I'm in the process of replacing them (slowly but surely) with PHP-based versions of the tools we use, and replacing Gruntfiles with Makefiles. It's experimental, currently, but I feel like it's doable. The only dependency then is PHP and Composer, which I think is nice.
Just as a note on communication:

I think it would really help if

(1) You would correct "Brown" to "Brown's" -- it is possessive, and as written its not clear if you omitted the possessive or if you mistakenly capitalized "brown", the color, and

(2) You would be even more explicit with what feature you were referring to and said "build" rather than "physical appearance" (which -- especially with the issue with "Brown" -- could still quite easily, without the extended explanation at the end of your post, be viewed as a veiled comment about race.)
What's wrong with StartSSL for your use?
A collection of well-funded corporations can compose a "community."
>an economy of eternal growth in art, scholarship, mathematics, music, and software //

They're all production with minimal consumption agree; they hardly summarise current human activity though. They don't require [many] raw materials beyond energy and humans but nevertheless they do tend to still use some non-renewable resources.
If you enjoy this sort of thing you might enjoy my Brainfuck micro-JIT: http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/12/hello-jit-world-joy-of-s...
No horse in the identity theft question, hasn't happened to me, but I did have seriously bad credit for a short while due to a cockup by my bank, exacerbated by difficulty passing identity checks due to moving house a lot. Some of the potential consequences:

* I almost ended up in a situation where I couldn't get paid or pay bills, because no bank in the country would let me open an account

* I was at risk of becoming homeless because my lease was expiring and you can't rent a flat without passing a credit check

* Even signing up for a mobile phone or home internet requires passing a credit check

So: No job, internet, or house. Pretty far-reaching!
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Here are two mirrors for the first video "Hack All The Things - 20 Devices in 45 Minutes".

West coast mirror: http://comp.adrenl.in/DEF%20CON%2022%20Hacking%20Conference%...

East coast mirror: http://lelandbatey.com/DEF%20CON%2022%20Hacking%20Conference...
Did anyone catch that C.O.L.B.E.R.T. system sticker, with Colbert's face on it? Pretty great
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The officer was equipped with a P229 Sig Sauer, which loads with either 9mm or .40S&W rounds. I've been unable to find whether the autopsy indicated 9mm or .40 rounds, but if it's 9mm, it's most certainly not true that a single round would stop someone who's charging towards you and is flooded with more adrenaline than they've ever experienced in their life. This phenomenon has been documented time and time again, as counterintuitive as it sounds.

In fatal stabbing incidents, people often comment about how they had no clue how bad the stab really was. That's because adrenaline disables your normal systems which tell your brain that anything is wrong.

Officers aren't trained for Hollywood-style precision shots to the leg. They are trained never to point their guns at anything they're not willing to kill, and if you are forced into a situation where you must use your weapon, to aim for center of mass and continue shooting until the threat is neutralized.

If we disagree with officer training policy, we should try to change it. But we can't go back now and say they shouldn't have followed their training.
Thanks, corrected as suggested. I suspect my unfortunate slip has derailed the discussion anyway, but in case there's still hope I have made the edits.
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You are 34. And a baby. Ok that may be going too far. But 30-40 is the perfect age.