skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the wrong thing to focus on. Once the guy was chasing the officer, the right decision may very well have been to shoot.

But what I imagine is a police force that is trained enough to know better than to approach a man with a hammer without adequate backup and preparation.

Thankfully I live somewhere where - despite high profile, dreadful, mistakes - that tends to be what police does. The high profile, dreadful mistakes are high profile because they are so exceedingly rare. This is why we get lists like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...

while still having lists like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_police_officer...

The answer is to approach with the intent to isolate and de-escalate rather than with the intent to confront. British police are only armed in exceptional cases, and as a result they can't go in the way US police often do because they don't have someone ready to shoot the suspect at the drop of a pin. Instead they go in with more people. They get other people away if possible. They keep their distance if there's potential danger until they can approach the suspect cautiously, and ideally from multiple directions.

They don't walk up to someone wielding a hammer with only one person as backup.

There are of course exceptions where there are immediate dangers they must respond to, but they generally try very hard not to contribute to creating those dangers - whether for themselves or others.
This may be the case, but they don't accept males. It's in the FAQ, which I find unsettling. This is not acceptable in almost any other setting, but I don't see any outrage.
The Identity Theft Index: When to freak out about a stolen identity
riding both motorcycles and bicycles I never have felt as safe on the bicycle as my motorcycle. Part of that might come from wearing a full face helmet and protective gear on the motorcycle but even if I had the same protective gear regular bicycle helmets just feel wrong. The sensation of speed is wholly different, speeds over the mid twenties on the bicycle feel as dangerous as speeds on the motorcycle over a hundred.

Still nothing disappoints me more than the number of children I see riding everyday without any protection
It's not disputable.

Do you know how hard it was for US marines to retake the Japanese held islands?
I can't help but imagine this thing malfunctioning and completely strangling some poor biker.
Great news, this means the vaccination numbers can go back to the western world level in the LA private schools.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/wealthy-la...
Indie Action/RPG on CryEngine Killing Diablo 3
I could see some Fixie riders deliberately trying to cause cars to trigger this.
Cool presentation, but holy shit, taking ~2 minutes to load on FF and freezing the browser is not.
Awesome Malware Analysis
You can already get motorcycle riding gear that is equipped with airbags. It's not full-body, but it does protect the chest, back and neck.
Ah. An oversight on our part, we will make it MIT licensed so feel free to do whatever you want with it.
Human-robot emotional and musical interactions: Lecture by Massimiliano Zecca
The details in the press release are thin but my impression is this has nothing to do with SSH other than the fact that the creators of the protocol are the ones doing the suing.

I was worried by the headline but reading the article this looks like it's more about going after someone with deep pockets over a trivial patent. My guess is they are fishing for a quick settlement.

Something to keep an eye on though. Sigh, I miss groklaw.
China Hackers Force Penn State to Unplug Engineering Computers
I think that's very severe and undeserved. Just criticizing someone in a post shouldn't get you hellbanned. That's for persistent trolls that just won't go away.
This is due to the journalism lobby, i.e. Rupert Murdoch, insisting that the commercial and profit-making arm of the BBC should not be allowed to compete with UK business.
I wonder how much of the company the Lyft founders still own. They have raised over $1B at relatively (compared to Uber) low valuations.
"SSH Communications Security announces failure to remain relevant"

Every time an announcement like this comes out, it's almost always for a company that has utterly failed to thrive by providing a useful product, and thus decides to descend into litigation against other people's useful products instead.
Indonesian satellite deal to patch broadband coverage across archipelago
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank has no impact in German courts.
Yes, but there's several people out there with that name... What I really wonder is whether any reporter was able to get GWU to supply them with a photo of the "GWU Nick Szabo" to confirm it's the same person.
> It's astounding how the more educated and affluent areas are the ones with the highest level of exemptions.

Not necessarily. There's also a tragedy of the commons here. If all children but mine are vaccinated, then my child is the safest, since I avoid both disease risk and vaccination risk.

So it can actually be rational to not vaccinate on an individual basis, depending on the state of vaccinations in the population. (On the other hand it is also rational to support a law forcing everything to vaccinate, since that fixes the tragedy by fiat).
All Eyes on Polymer, Material Design and Android M for Google 2015 I/O
Are you sure you are replying to a correct post? Your statement is correct, but so are my points.
> bitcoin itself has never actually played a direct role in helping to identify darknet kingpins (who end up tipping their hand in some other fashion)

See: parallel construction.

Bitcoin or not, if the technology existed to identify "darknet kingpins", the technique wouldn't show up on the open press.
We all have that relative whose tall tale gets taller each time it gets told.

And it's not (usually) because they intentionally make it more outrageous each time.
I don't follow NSA links at work anyway.
The idea of a mostly free online CS education seems quite popular on HN. However, I remain skeptical re: employ-ability. Has anyone done any kind of study or survey to see whether these types of rundowns improve a self-taught programmer's change of gainful employment? How does self-taught compare to degree-holding, and how do they both compare to this kind of pseudo-degree? How does one list "cobbled-together CS education" on a resume?

If I sound grumpy it's just because it's before noon, I'm genuinely curious as to whether this kind of pursuit is a viable alternative to the degree I'm slogging through.
> In terms of priorities, it seems reasonable for medical exceptions (eg. "this child is allergic to the vaccination so is more likely to die if it is administered") to come before religious ones ("my child won't suffer from an increased risk of harm [than other children receiving the vaccination] but I don't want the vaccine to be administered").

It's true that a child immunized against a religious objection won't be physically harmed, but I think that many people who have been forced to do things against their religious objections will tell you that the emotional harm of being forced to violate their religious beliefs is substantial. (Which is why there have been numerous cases throughout history of people who have died rather than violate their faith.)

I know comparing physical harm to emotional harm is hard to do, but I think it's worth pointing out that the "what's the harm?" argument requires a more nuanced understanding of what both sides feel is at stake than is typically considered.
I thought you were BS-ing me but you are absolutely right (especially if you go up to $600k): http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Fairfax-VA/house,mobile....

For some reason I thought houses up there had gotten crazy expensive. Not too far from Reston and Tyson's and some of the best schools in the country. Can't beat that.
It is absolutely not-ambiguous: Pairs in parentheses are attributes, everything after is values. He later introduces the || syntax to disambiguate: (foo (bar "zot")) vs (foo || (bar "zot")).

The <|> syntax is also absolutely non-ambiguous.
OP here with a few disclosures.

Firstly, the paper is paywalled, but there is an article discussing it at http://phys.org/news/2015-05-scientists-atomic-scale-hardwar....

Secondly, after double-checking the abstract, I made the editorial decision to replace the subtitle "nanoarchitectonic design of a complex system for natural computing" with "design of a functional device". My reasoning was that the original subtitle seemed hopelessly opaque (outside the field, presumably), and that the development of a testable device seemed to be the most interesting news.

Thirdly, I know next to nothing about the topic, and am only guessing that this is newsworthy. My introduction to the news was from a post at phys.org by Lisa Zyga (http://phys.org/news/2015-05-scientists-atomic-scale-hardwar...). Phys.org is a frequently breathy science news site, but Ms. Zyga has been blogging there for years and is a decent science reporter.

I am hoping that this post will be of some interest to those with domain knowledge, and that I can learn from any discussion or criticism of the paper.
Where I live, my taxes go to building people free houses. I have no problem with that and I support the economic argument. Is that really a point of contention for anybody?

Perhaps I'm too far removed from the target audience of the article because I still don't understand the granite countertops comment. Where I live there are people waiting for houses for more than 20 years after being promised. I went to help dig trenches once as part of a corporate donation. The stories you hear are heartbreaking. Granite countertops vs normal countertops, in countries with serious inequality is actually a real thing and can mean the difference between somebody waiting another year for a house, and getting one today.

The guy's comment was a perfectly valid criticism - shaving 0.1% on a budget may sound like nothing to privileged people, but in a country where 10 million people don't have homes it actually does mean something to 10 thousand people.
Just one feature missing: event delegation.

Event listeners in d3 are not delegated listeners. Implementing this feature actually is not an easy matter as you need to preserve the d3 data binding context and also attach to the nearest svg element because svg events don't bubble through it.
They have recently announced a newer version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIOD67PKCY
I understand the fairness argument, but I wonder where the line is drawn between pre-mine and low-key release. Just releasing the client doesn't seem like it'd be enough to evade criticism if the practical effect is the same as a pre-mine (i.e the creator gets a huge head start before people start to catch on).
Just FYI, this is an inaccurate headline ("No More Vaccine Exemptions: California Senate Overwhelmingly Passes SB 277").

"No More Vaccine Exemptions" will be true only IF this passes the Assembly, where it faces a tougher fight. (Then the governor must sign it, but this is expected to happen.)

(I wish HN headlines about politics were half as accurate as the technical ones. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9276841)
Show HN: Run native windows software on any mobile without installing
Is it reusable, or is it a one time deploy?
I have 6+ different web browsers on my computer (firefox, opera, arora, rekonq, qupzilla,…) why is this video looks like a distorted psychedelic pile of vomit in all of my browsers ?

I usually like warp records and squarepusher, with this video both their reputation have taken a serious hit. Do you think it is a smart move alienating fans who care for their privacy ?
Some people surely think they suffer ill effects. You get a shot and the next day catch a cold, so you blame the shot. But that's not science.
The one that leads to fewer serious complications and death.

Which is vaccination, by a margin so close to 100% that presenting it as the greater harm and refusing it on that basis is completely untenable.
This raises some questions. How do the sensors work? And, more importantly, how do you know it actually works? What happens when it is accidentally activated; can you re-use it?
> Cool presentation, but holy shit, taking ~2 minutes to load on FF and freezing the browser is not.

Do you have any extensions installed? It took less than 2 seconds to load for me in a blank Firefox profile, which isn't particularly long for any website with a decent number of images on my connection.

My only complaint is that the animations make me seasick - I wish there were an obvious way to turn them off.
The discussion is free speech and "hate speech" (whatever that should be), the "example" used for free speech limits is the "fire in theater" ... how does this example even remotely relate to hate speech? And if it doesn't relate why is telling that not relevant to this discussion?
> The fiat currencies that people actually save in have a direct lineage from gold

(1) What difference does "direct lineage" have? They aren't gold, and they aren't backed by gold. Unless you arguing that they have sentimental value from a historical association that hasn't been real for generations, this is meaningless.

(2) Also, this is more true of silver than it is of gold. the gold standard was sort of a brief fad (in long-term historical terms) in the final centuries of commodity currency standards as the dominant model, while silver had dominated for a much longer time previously. Pretty much all of the extant currencies that have a "direct lineage from gold" also have a direct lineage from silver, and the ones that aren't themselves relatively new have a much longer history under silver.
I also like ColorPicker for Sublime Text: https://github.com/weslly/ColorPicker
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't see anything wrong with her explanation. Anyone who has run/moderated a public forum knows the pain all too well.

Of course, this only works well when the overlord behaves in a way that the subjects agree with. As soon as the overlord makes one too many bad calls, the subjects revolt.
“Wait, Google Sent Me” Google: No We Did Not
Where did he copy and misunderstand this from?
He didn't really have to... 80s was the Stevie Ray Vaughn era, and there was none of that in his music.
I am not so sure it is an issue of understanding science as it is about personal liberties. While I am not opposed to vaccinations, lord knows I have had them all, but I am not keen on government mandates. Especially when the example they give, at least in this article, to support the bill is 136 people out of a state of 37MIL.

If you wish to force vaccination then there needs to be copious oversight of those supplying them.
If you want to see what things will be like if they're "not funded by the license fee", look at America's media.

Appreciate any form of actual journalism while you have it.
Panopticon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
There is also something named after Caesar where if you treat people like criminals they will become criminals (someone help me with the citation here).
I had same problem on Chrome. Have a lot of extensions, but other websites are fine.
It's funny that you reference T2, because the usual snarky reply to your question is that that only works in the movies.

The whole point is that you're trying to neutralize a deadly threat. It's no time for target practice or carnival games. Someone is attacking you with a deadly weapon. It is time to neutralize that threat at all costs.

I appreciate the instinct to preserve life. That shows a level of empathy that I respect a great deal. But I think it's an eccentric position. Most people are of the opinion that you lose the right to your own safety when you make a threat on another person's life.
Just so you know, the video is blocked in Germany.
Thanks, we updated the title to more closely match that of the article.
This pay wall circumventing extension, gained alot of attention and made the front page of Hacker News. Now it is gone. Why?

See the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531941
Not much in the way of face protection. In the linked video provided by another HNer I see the face gets some protection from the "visor" but not all falls are perfect faceplants on flat surfaces.

In the "culture" of racing/biking - a biker with a "bucket" helmet is a sure sign that the rider is more concerned with vanity than safety (is is just a noob)
That's actually the standard model, at least when I took ecology: there's actually a whole biome described as the "woody invaders". I've never heard of woody retreaters, or grassy invaders.
>Only if you are determined to be at odds. It's quite possible for an atheist and a die-hard Christian to get dinner together, if they both commit to focusing on the topics they share rather than the ones they disagree on.

That's not honest debate.

>seems like a willful misrepresentation of the aims behind the concept.

As a white male I am often told that I'm not allowed to participate in discussions because of my race and gender due to the discussion taking place in "safe space." No matter what the original aims are behind the concept, it is easily corruptible and almost never used in the "best case scenario." It's usually used to set up echo-chambers where individuals can feel safe from criticism or debate. It has no place in a healthy society, IMO.
I think the passage of a law mandating vaccination with no religious exemption is rather interesting, personally. Yeah, the vaccine side is not that interesting. Vaccines are great, we all know it. But the political side is very interesting.
If someone thinks selectAll is inconsistent, they probably don't understand the central enter/update/exit pattern [1].

D3 is a powerful _drawing_ library and I've used it for totally custom visualizations where no canned tool would suffice. I think there's an un- or only partially-filled niche for more customizable _charting_ library that is more user-friendly.

[1]: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3808218
>>Why is it inherently negative for an employee to use their job-skills for non-job purposes?

It's not. I guess my point to the original comment is that they might not put in as much passion on the after-hours stuff because they are tired from work; and that doing it because you're kind of obligated to do it (for family, friends) is different from being required to do it in order to keep your career moving forward.
I have similar concerns. From my experience working in the biz, many companies job opportunity are hidden behind a thick wall of HR and corporate recruiters. I was interviewed by one just a few weeks ago, and I was left feeling pretty dirty afterwards. The person who interviewed me had no way to verify my claims, knowledge, or understanding of the industry. I have a degree or two, but none in CS, though Ive been self taught since age 11. It is unlikely I will receive a follow up call for the job as the individual in question has no way to qualify my experience.
tl;dr they xor'd the files with 37 (ASCII '%')
Happy birthday JavaScript – two decades of WTF
For what it's worth, this actually ends up being fewer than ten distinct kinds of inoculations, as 1, 6, and 9 are typically combined as the DTaP/TDaP vaccine, and 4, 5, and 8 are combined as the MMR vaccine. Some do need boosters, though, so I imagine it comes out in the wash.
Couldn't he return the question to you? I mean would your answers differ if you were or weren't Satoshi?

Let people have their privacy.
N=1 but all of my friends use uber and none use Lyft. Not sure how long they'll last.
Tell HN: Have your emergency contact on you
A friend of mine went running without his ID and phone and suffered a heart attack a block from his house. He is pretty young, and sometimes you just don't know someone's heart problems by their looks and fitness.

Only through the grace of someone nearby saw this, and gave him CPR. The police were called and he was sent to the hospital. We only found this out when we noticed he was missing and went searching through local police stations.

Now at this point he is in an induced coma, and we had no way to get to his emergency contact info. His phone was locked, and his Facebook happened not to have any of his family on it. After much searching and time lost, we were able to find a relative.

My psa to everyone:

1) If you going running or do something physical, please have your emergency contact and copy of identification on you.

2) Knowing CPR could save a life.
Welcome to the modern web, where bad technologies (JS, HTTP, CSS and others) are developed to the max and declared modern despite always remaining bad technologies
This is far more important than upper management believes. It's almost impossible to overlap workdays in an effective way with people 11.5 hours off of your clock. Night shifts don't work for various reasons, either in the USA or India, so every communication is via email, and can take a day or two longer just due to no schedule overlap.
My sweetie ordered one of these for me for Crimblemas. They didn't ship to the US so she had a friend get it in the UK. Then they shipped it to the US.

It never arrived.

We did some digging and apparently US customs seized the explosive device I was being shipped and destroyed it.

And that's how the US Gov't blew up my crimble present.
I just wish the best language would win, not the accidentally ubiquitous one. And giving a real choice of language would been even better.
OK, but your perception is wrong.

http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/transportt...
Motorcyclists are 3 times more likely to die per kilometre.
Nice presentation but some of those slides are useless without notes or audio to explain what's going on. I like looking at code snippets as much as the next guy but without context I'd much rather admire my own code.
What You Get When You Blend a Drone and a Gecko
"It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes."

So the not great, old programmes are funded through the licence fee?
This looks like a better video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Oud3iGXWY
> https://github.com/servo/html5ever is the largest parsing library we use in Servo, and there are a bunch of Rust tricks done there. HTML parsing is hard (the spec is insanely complex), and this library does it well with much less code.

This might simply be because of
a) Servo has no legacy
b) Servo developers are awesome
c) Servo is not complete yet

A large part of the complexity of HTML is simply quirks and compatibility. Which Servo does not handle yet.

Don't mistake all this as language wins...
Or tax exempt status for teaching nonsense pseudoscience.
Voat does indeed seem to be a viable replacement. Of course, it's just starting out, and they are in a self-described alpha state, so they may not be ready for a huge influx of users.
More importantly: if Bitcoin was invented and released for that reason, then it will turn out to be one of the more epic backfires in security agency history, for the simple reason that everyone involved knows that inventing the first successful distributed pseudonymous e-cash is much, much harder than inventing the first successful distributed anonymous e-cash.

As soon as Bitcoin became clearly successful, it also became inevitable that things like Monero or Zerocoin or Coinjoin would be invented. Once the genie of distributed e-cash has been let out of the bottle, it not merely can evolve but will evolve.

So in exchange for a brief period of visibility through Bitcoin, they would have permanently and irrevocably damaged their ability to spy via banks, Western Union, PayPal etc (entities which they pwn lock stock and barrel) as usage diverts to anonymous currencies (Bitcoin with extensions or mixes, or anonymous coins).
In fairness, taking 2 minutes to load and freezing the browser is a pretty darned good summary of Javascript at 20.