skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I'm dating myself by posting this. Tom, the creator is associated with Kai Krause, creator of some cool graphics software a long time ago...

http://kai.subblue.com/en/contact.html
Which of the above suggestions wouldn't apply to both?

I understand what you're saying in general, but there are a lot of universals that would apply across all kinds of jurisdictions.
It's misleading to say that they don't use Fourier.

The theory around any family of functions useful for compression/feature detection (like wavelets) is going to have the property that they define a Hilbert basis. And the idea of how to conceive of such families of functions and their potential required them being generalized from the specific cases of the Fourier and Laplacian transformations. Moreover wavelets have properties/tradeoffs defined in terms of time and frequency which are couched in terms and based on theories that are derived from this early complex analysis.
So if I understand this correctly, people that use ad blockers that include the blocking of Google Analytics have been safe from this attack vector for months, while others have not, correct?
Right. We create Docker containers and exposes a Terminal with websockets, so everything runs in a server and the response is shown in the browser in real time.
But anglo saxon employment law does consider it the same
> Reston

Watch out for the Ebola-infected lab monkeys :)

Welcome to the States, and congrats with your successes; your life story already sounds like something worthy of an inspirational (auto)biography.
The vast majority of police should not be armed. They are simply not well enough trained.
Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0
Malicious hackers are going to have so much "fun" with always-connected self-driving cars that get OTA updates that can "upgrade" their engines, or breaks, etc.

Also I imagine CIA would largely be made redundant as the NSA can just take over the assassinations from there.
What are the goals of the language?
I think it tells you a lot about the underlying economics that an organization that's so successful at making money on wireless can't even eke out a 5% operating margin on wireline.

Verizon has invested about $23 billion on its network, and has 6.6 million FiOS subscribers. That's about $3,500 per subscriber. Chattanooga spent $330 million on its network, to serve 65,000 subscribers, or over $5,000 per subscriber.

To ball-park Google's KC rollout. Estimates are $85 million to wire the neighborhoods, plus $500-600 per house. They've got about 32,000 subscribers,[1] so about $3,250 per subscriber.

[1] Based on the reported 27,000 video customers and using Verizon's 85% ratio of video to broadband customers.
Such a cool company. Love that they are raising from their community. Great post, too.
what library are you using for the Console in the browser?
Those statistics have some skew, as well. "Crime" is at a low, but it's not a crime when police steal your life savings of cash via civil asset forfeiture, nor is it a crime when they put you in a chokehold until you are dead, or burden you with unreasonable financial penalties for minor traffic infractions.

Crime as a category for the measure of citizens' happiness does not mean what it did 20 years ago. We can walk more neighborhoods at night with less fear, but we are more afraid than ever of what can be done to us in broad daylight by someone with a badge.
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If the Fourier transform didn't exist I don't know that any music could exist, since lack of it would imply that sounds of different frequencies could not be linearly combined. For example, imagine if playing a drum and violin simultaneously produced crackling static!

That being said, it's a poor linkbait title for a superficial article that's missing nuance, rigor, and causality. Anyone who takes interest in this subject should read Wikipedia or an actual textbook, lest they feed their Dunning-Kruger.
Many do. I've had several Windows laptops that want to do this.
Who's getting the "world-class" training? The NYPD?
that might be a safari bug on iframe. When open it without the iframe, it works on safari, link: http://codepen.io/wentin/full/doYyrj/
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Regarding your second bullet point, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement now investigates Miami-Dade County police shooting, instead of the agency investigating itself.[0] There's a step in the right direction.

[0] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/a...
First? Hopefully the last. Talk about idiotic.
This is well known amongst law enforcement officers.

I have two brothers in the California Highway Patrol, including one that's an instructor at the academy.

CHP officers go through a rigorous 1 to 2 year application process that includes background checks and psych evaluations. After they are accepted, they live on premises at the academy for 7 months where they are instructed in the law (academically) as well as high speed driving, weapon handling, how to properly make a traffic stop (like coming up on the passenger side, not the driver side), how to investigate a crime, etc.

My brother that's an instructor says that CHP officers are well aware that sheriff deputies and city police officers do not have a rigorous selection process and only receive 1-2 months training and that their interactions with them make that difference in training obvious.

It's too bad there isn't a standard certification process to become a police officer like there is for many professions. Your manicurist likely had more training a tougher certification process than some police officers.
> Should a single officer department in a rural county enact the same programs that NYC has?

That single officer should receive the same level of training or better. I don't see lack of backup being a good argument for those officers receiving LESS training, which is your implication.

Now if you give them MORE training, then I'm all for it. I just said a minimum level of training and continued education.
I think mainly the training regimen could vary wildly based on local needs.
You can counteract that somewhat by delegating rural policing to a larger force, so that the overhead of some programs are shared.

Maybe it wouldn't be too popular in the States, where everyone from the Mayor down to the city hall janitor (and including the sheriff) is elected. But it seems to work fairly well in Canada. Jurisdictions too small to warrant their own regional force contract the RCMP or provincial force (e.g. OPP) to serve as the regional force.

The flip side is that it can lead to a certain detachment (no pun intended) from the community because the officers consider it a "tour of duty" to serve at a tiny outpost before graduating to a "real" position.
What's the difference between military style weapons and police style weapons? which specific weapons do you refer to?
Perhaps you're thinking of some different concept of actor?

I don't recall Javascript supporting or having any library that would enable actor model of concurrency.

The general idea of actor model is that each actor is a process with a queue (mail box) and they talk to each other via msg. Javascript does not have such a thing nor does a server actor?
Hah!

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

The spirit of Burrell & Woz lives on :)
Most of these people didn't even work in a single field... Tesla, Newton, Planck, Curie, Turing, Galileo...
We use a custom version of term.js. Nice username, btw ;)
Looking at the image and assuming a similar level of precision as the Wiimote, it looks like it would be hard to quickly land your cursor on the right 'ribbon' and I would much rather have a grid with big, easy to click on tiles.

On the other hand that stylish ribbon design looks like it would work well with directional arrows, 1 right for Netflix, 2 left for CinemaNow, quickly gets into your muscle memory.
Poor people in rural Africa do move...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/03/thousands-migra...
I sometimes see the amount programmers believe they're supposed to enjoy their job as unique to programming.

People always talk about pursuing coding projects just for the fun of it outside of work, but that's a pretty unusual trait for other forms of engineering.

My father has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and has been doing crude assay work for the last twenty years. He obviously enjoys and gets fulfillment out of his job. But if you asked him to analyze crude oil samples on his free time? He'd say you're crazy.

I dunno, I've been in this field for five or so years coming out of other engineering disciplines, and it always surprises me how programmers view their trade as fundamentally different from other forms of engineering.
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Related: Karen Sandler's LC2012 keynote, which discusses the challenges of finding anything out about life-sustaining medical technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDTQLa3NjE
I worked for Hospira last year on the Plum A+ and 360 infusion pumps but not the PCA. I'm a little surprised such a blatant security hole wasn't caught, considering the magnitude of the regulatory environment we worked under. I'd never worked in that kind of environment before, and I left shortly after a successfully defended audit of our software development and tracking process and systems. (Although how successful is the development and tracking process if a year later this "bug" comes out?) My guess is that because we were beaten over the head day in and day out focusing on "if this software delivers the wrong medication the patient is probably going to die", and "if you make a mistake in the development process and in change tracking we can lose the ability to make these devices" that the idea of defending against malicious intent was de-emphasized/overlooked.
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Hardcode it in the compiler already. GCC has had it since 1992, Norcroft C even earlier if I remember correctly.
But, fortunately, not all journalism and data presentation has to revolve around SEO. (I have no idea if your statement is true or not however.)
I guess question mark is enough.
You are right and your comment is interesting!

And by interesting I mean irrelevant, because that's what interesting means to me.
socks!
There's an attitude problem. I think it was best shown here: http://www.theagitator.com/2012/07/05/two-videos-two-cities-... .

No amount of training is going to overcome the recruit pool you get by advertising "want to feel like a big man? Work for us!"
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My iPhone and a couple flash drives do this, probably because it thinks my scanner is a camera. Unfortunately I can't stop it from launching (assuming I can disable it in Preferences) until it will actually launch—I have left it beachballing for a very long time and it still has not finished launching, so I just force quit it.
/s/police/people
Was very impressed with a Kano demo a while back, so this seems like a great move for them.
Police in the US have killed 398 so far in 2015 [1]

German Police used only 85 bullets against people in all of 2011. [2]

Germany Population: 81 million USA population: 323 million (3.99x bigger)

So, if the USA were like Germany, Police would only use 340 bullets against people PER YEAR.

Not 398 deaths in 6 months, but 340 bullets used for an entire year!

Something is very different about the way the Police in the US approach situations.

[1] http://killedbypolice.net/

[2] http://www.thewire.com/global/2012/05/german-police-used-onl...
(I'm American)

Despite having some major complaints with police, I do not have any problem with police using deadly force against an assailant running at them with an exposed knife.

Additionally, I think aiming for the legs in that situation is largely a mistake.

Perhaps the article skipped that point because it would be lost on us, given that I think my opinion is widely-held in this country.
But... but... I want a datajack at the base of my skull!
Not evidence of anything, but I recently got a survey request when using Google Calendar. That's pretty uncommon. So I do wonder if Google is getting interested in the Calendar again, and what they plan to do with it.

I'm not familiar with the purchased company but it almost sounds like they'd want to integrate it more into Google Now than Calendar. Maybe some finer integration of both.
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Oh, that was for an old project I'm not working on anymore. I'm experimenting a similar thing to create a "modern world generator" thing for a survival roguelike (a heavy tendency toward squared polys in many places, breaking up much more in suburban and rural areas).
That already happens to some degree, but the point of aggregation is from local police to county sheriff and is primarily driven by economic concerns.

In my area towns with less than 10k residents have been outsourcing policing to the county sheriff instead of continuing to staff their 1-2 officer police departments.
Yes, I believe that is my point.
This thread is rapidly entering territory where only a comprehensive comparison of TCO will suffice (not that those won't be biased either way), but the price of the battery is only one part of the price of the car. 70k$ amortized over 300k miles is still 23¢/mile.

I understand Tesla's luxury-first strategy and hope the future part will pan out, but at the present time it is very weird to be making a cost based argument.
Written by Paul Hudak, who recently passed away.
Up until last year, Netflix was using Silverlight for their player. They used to trot out on Microsoft dev conference stages and talk up IIS media streaming capabilities every now and then. For a while, it seemed like every feature microsoft announced for silverlight was basically aimed at Netflix... so not that surprising they have C# talent on staff?
The intent, as I have been explained about this policy, is to bias the officer towards the "not shooting at all" side of the equation. If I can shoot to maim when killing would be inappropriate I might shoot more often and gunshot wounds can be lethal in a surprising amount of places (shoot the leg, get the femoral artery, still get a dead guy). Ultimately it looks like this logic might have failed, but without knowing more we can't know that we don't just have a trigger happy culture and lessening the threshold for gunplay wouldn't have an even more negative effect. If someone has data beyond European stats (there seem to be too many disparities for even comparison; gun ownership, police armament, societal attitudes towards police, etc.) I'd be very interested.
I have never seen how downloading and somehow managing a separate 'app' for every destination I'm interested in visiting on the web is more convenient. I much prefer visiting those destinations using a single tool equipped with a range of mature and hyper-convenient favorites mechanisms.
"While the time spent in the role activation stage may be minimal, it quickly adds up when you continually switch back and forth. And once you switch from one task to another, _it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to the original task._ "

https://blog.todoist.com/2014/05/13/how-multitasking-slows-y...
Any shot may cause a fatal wound. And aiming anywhere other than the centre of mass increases the likelihood of missing. Shoot-to-kill makes sense given these facts.

I'm from the UK so I absolutely don't think the police should be armed as a matter of course, but where they are we should be honest about the task they are being asked to perform.
That is also true for the higher environmental costs of fossil fuels and health costs of exhausts fumes.
it's mostly down to apcs and a change in uniform, coupled with a rise in swat team usage and flashbang/fully automatic weaponry.
This is super-cool. Not sure it's recommendable to use it in place of ssh, but maybe with ssl+http-auth it could be workable? It definitely adds some convenience for when I'm away from one of my boxes and I don't want to deal with putty.
As per all HN comments, one downside is that it kind of messes up with my vim colors, but that may be that my vim colors are messed up to begin with.
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Glucose meters and pumps similar to this one have already been found on Shodan :-/ The majority aren't directly on the Internet but it happens. There has actually been an increase in the number of hospitals that are showing up online.
> There shouldn't be pentesting, because there shouldn't be anything to pentest.

At the face this seems like the right approach, but you end up with security-through-obscurity protecting (yet another) critical system. If you don't hire pentesters, how can you be sure there is no way to maliciously interact with the device? Because you didn't intend for there to be? Its a good thing vulnerabilities are never unintentional right?

Its also not very resilient to a change in the software's requirements; maybe its okay for a pacemaker not to have a password when you need to open up a patient's chest to connect to it. Maybe those extra microseconds you save mean less blood loss and pain for the patient undergoing surgery, an undeniable win. But this operation turns out to be expensive (by every conceivable measure), so the next model ships with bluetooth, now we have a problem.

See also:

http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/02/broken-hearts-how-plausible...
Unless you're using a VPN of course :-)
Flashbangs, fully automatic rifles, armored vehicles, tanks--those are some military weapons that have no place in a police force, IMO.

I think they should be more-or-less limited to a standard patrol officer's gear, plus specific proven tactical setups, for specific situations, like sniper rifles when hostages are taken.
Thank you very much for sharing. I didn't downvote you (obviously). I actually have at many times in the last year (before things got... really bad) wished for a dog, but I live in a very uptight apartment complex that doesn't allow large pets.

> And you'll come to realize that, to your dog, you are literally everything. It really puts things into perspective. There really isn't much more to life than that, and I think there's a certain beauty to it.

this, and the video, made me smile. thank you.
> If a knife-yielding attacker runs toward you, police in other countries (say western Europe) will shoot at the legs to NOT kill the attacker but sufficiently harm him so that he is not a threat anymore.

That sounds more like a movie than "Western Europe." Nobody shoots at legs since it is ineffective, can end their life anyway, and can risk collateral damage (what is behind that leg? What if the bullet bounces off of the bone?). You shoot to kill, period.

Here's what the UK police do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf3RZ7gi2f0

Which is exceptional policing in my opinion. But no shooting at his leg.

PS - Not disagreeing with the argument that US police are too quick to kill people, even unarmed people. Just that shooting at people's legs is a legitimate alternative. Even when armed, other countries kill citizens much more rarely.

PPS - Another good video showing UK police's constraint, this time armed officers: https://youtu.be/nVOLH_aN-zI?t=3m35s contrast that with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwYVJ4W7DPo both incidents involve a cap gun and armed police (one in the US one in the UK).
I didn't say "don't have a radio interface". I said, "don't have a radio interface to the able-to-kill-you parts". There is a distinction.

Also, how does that work? Water is a pretty good attenuator of radio waves.
So you have a wireless interface for the non-able-to-kill-you stuff.

But if you're having to change the code of something that's been implanted, you've already done something horribly wrong.
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I saw someone asked about this (sorry, can't remember who) in an interview after one of the many recent shootings and he said that in a scenario where deadly force is not required, the gun should not be used at all.

It makes a lot of sense and I can only imagine the lawsuits and riots we'd have here if police were allowed to say "I was just trying to shoot his foot".
Unless you don't have a pinterest account in which case it becomes amazingly unhelpful. Many times I've searched for something boardgaming related, I like to make things for my games, and been blocked by the pinterest gatekeeper. I refuse to sign up so every time I leave.
"Value" is spectacularly subjective, though, and there are lots of people who can talk up their perceived value enough to be on the happy side of this calculus.
They also need to be "able to kill you" so that the patient can be defibrilated if their heart stops beating. If you do that when their heart is functioning it tends to have the opposite effect.
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The basic system - no. As of 2012 when I left, comp was about what your management was interested in. Maybe "take care of existing users" is on your review commitments, but what's really on there if you want to get ahead is: ship features, drive future business, etc. As such people wanted to work on the next new thing, it was relatively bad for careers to be on existing old things. Massive variations between groups, but basically that was the culture.
Seemed a bit more Diamond Age to me.
tl;dr - drug pump has no authentication on telnet port

This is the brochure page for this family of products (http://www.hospira.com/en/products_and_services/infusion_pum...) and the one that stands out a mile is

- Robust wireless capabilities enable remote drug library updates

the product itself (let's assume it's top notch medical hardware, I am afraid I cannot comment usefully) works fine, and has been battle tested and built by veterans.
But the second they add network access they are hit by a double whammy ... Actually I have rewritten this three times, and really I can find no excuse for this. Selling to moronic sysadmins - "hey easy to use web front end with passwords or even client certs). I can only assume the argument runs like this

- if we make it hard to do X over the network, and X does not happen, chances of someone dying are y%. If we bollox security, then X is sooo easy to do, and we just save y% of lives.

Now that is "tragedy of the commons" in sheeps clothing, but I can see it may be the only excuse you have
What's wrong with looking for commercial value? This community is heavily focused on startups, after all. Is the inherent value of 3D fractal art that it looks cool? I don't think that's lost on anyone here.
> A dependency graph would tell us, at a click, which of the pillars of scientific theory are truly load-bearing.

This is the problem with the academic form of knowledge transfer as a whole. It's too dependent on feeding of ego. And the "improvements" discussed here-in only reenforce that. If you boil knowledge down to meme, the necessity to "weight" and define pillars becomes less relevant. Without the ego's you get a remix culture where the Amen Brothers are more highly valued than say some one hit wonder... but not because we've measured them, and because we know that sample was from the Amen Brothers. It's more highly valued not because we know the source. In-fact few would know the music they are listening to has the Amen Brothers sample in it. It is more highly valued because it has taken so many forms and created actual value.

We don't need tools to allow for better attribution and knowledge measurement. We need to remove ownership from knowledge as ownership is a hindrance to the transfer and consumption of it.