skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm Australian too, and it seems to work pretty well. One thing I hear a lot is that 'then only the bad guys will have guns', but I think our laws and enforcement must drive the black-market prices way up, because they do find illegal guns every now and then when they have a big drug bust and confiscate millions of dollars of drugs and cash, but your regular criminal on the street pretty much never has a gun. The drug gangs mostly only shoot each other, and pretty rarely too, so for the average Australian, the idea of ever witnessing gun violence (or being a victim to it) just feels really far fetched.

I wonder how much of it is cultural though - when the big gun buyback happened after Port Arthur, it was mostly taking guns from farmers - not people who think they could rise up against the Government or that they should be able to personally kill people in self-defense...
Semantics, but if you're struggling, you're not middle class. At least not in the classical sense.

It's a shame the downward pressures that have made "struggling to get by" the middle class norm. The whole point of the thriving middle class (in the US at least) was that, with a willingness to work, you could live comfortably, with a house and two cars and 2 kids.

This isn't meant to be insulting or directed at you - it's just a new definition of middle class, that the struggle builds character or your struggling is an indicator of your value or lack of hard work, that I find almost infuriating.

End rant, I suppose.
It's the same thing as using Polaroid cameras with Impossible film, or vinyl records. It's to find some tangibility in an era of intangibles. The low fidelity is the point.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10794314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10798336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796548 (9 comments, topmost has link to original paper)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9839344 (original paper)
Fedora 23 has been spectacular. I'm tired of the whole Unity, Mir direction that Canonical is taking.

F23 has played well with uefi + gpt on outdated hardware.
The important thing is that Java should not be allowed to be owned and trolled upon by companies. Java belongs to the community that developed it collectively, not to a single corporation that paid bucks to purchase it from Sun.

And Java IS open source. Lets not allow Oracle to monopolize and troll the API spec. If we allow that to happen, it will open a floodgates of patent trolls across the United States and the victims could be innocent startups who have just begun struggling and innovating in the market.
VR Interface Design Manifesto
I believe he means that constitutional issues should be decided by a "constitutional convention" which is kind of a "majority" vote in such cases. And of course why wouldn't constitutional convention be able to decide on freedom of unpopular speech?
Thank you for your reply. But I'm a little confused (perhaps the EU/EEC labour marked is more complicated than I thought (or your German hire wasn't a German citizen?): Surely a German is entitled to work in the UK?

Would you need/want EU hires to relocate physically to the UK - and if so, why? (Seeing as you're remote-first anyway)?
Randi isn't _that_ surprising
Both of you are right and wrong at the same time.
Fighting about this terminology is unproductive.
See my comment above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10848308 ).
North Korea also has few gun deaths. But I don't see the relevance in either case.

Australia has no freedom of speech for instance, is bringing in (additional) internet censorship, personal data (like telephone records) is given out without warrants to non government departments.

This is often left out of this comparison about restricting one of the freedoms.

Americans believe in freedoms of individuals, under this belief how do some more restrictive gun laws apply, is what this article is asking.
>Nevertheless, I don't think gun laws work unless you also confiscate and ban every single gun in the country at the same time.

You're setting up a false dichotomy. Outlawing guns, and complete unlimited rights to fire arms aren't the only choices available. To say their is a spectrum of possible choices is simplifying it, there is a high dimensional landscape of possible policies and they lead to many outcomes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831322 260+ comments
The metal version looks like Casio watch I wore in the 80s.

I think it's fine for a fitness device to look like a fitness device. But once it starts looking like a watch, you'd better make sure it looks device as a fashion accessory.
Yep, I have looked over your sample test. It was in both Go and Ruby. I finished the Go section and then decided against bothering with the rest.

The "instructions" for the sample test were either purposely obfuscated or just badly written and it reflected poorly on the merit of your documentation methods more so than anything else.

To be quite honest, you are nothing more than an arm of IBM at this point and I would never work for a company that so carelessly devalues developer time and then comes into a forum arguing with random developers that they are right and everyone who disagrees is wrong.

In all seriousness though, what do you guys even do? Set up etcd for a cluster? Or PostgreSQL? etc.? Do you have any idea how simple that is these days?

For all interested: the work sample was focused around alerting DevOps via third-party services like Slack and PagerDuty. In other words: I imagine the developer positions here are simultaneously "on-call" operations positions as well! haha!

Good luck, Compose Team. You're going to need it! :)
Also The Economist's podcasts.

To paraphrase Larry Ellison, "I used to read The Economist. Now I just listen to The Economist Podcast."
You're leaving out things like ops & security staffing, etc. not to mention the physical hardware other than disks: you need servers, cabinets of disks, etc. all of which need to be purchased, monitored and replaced just like everything else.

An SSD might use less power but you need more of them and the rest of the storage server won't change at all.

Finally, I'd love a citation for any compression + dedupe savings at the level you're seeing for large heterogeneous deployments, not to mention reliable performance at their scale.
I'm still waiting on an email too.
Just wanted to say the United States of America is not a democracy, it is a republic. In fact many framers of the constitution warned of democracy and spoke strongly against it.

Not trying to be petty but I do think details like that are important. There is a massive difference between the two forms of government.
What is a good replacement for YNAB?
Stemcentrx must be doing something unique as they were recently named the best new drug developer at the recent antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) Summit in San Diego, and have been the topic of some flattering press about their lead compound (http://www.firstwordpharma.com/node/1319074?tsid=28#axzz3nF0...).

Other presentations showing clinical activity are also below:

http://player.meta-fusion.com/late-breaking-abstract-safety-...

http://player.meta-fusion.com/late-breaking-abstract-a-phase...
This would be a valuable comment if you included names. As it is the only thing I can glean from this is that you know things other people don't?

I guess... congratulations?
North Korea conducts hydrogen bomb test
Mike,

As you know I had a very bad experience with Magic as well.

I worked for you for free for a week and on boarded 63 new customers for you. You guys arbitrarily deleted my account, and abruptly shut off my autopay donations to numerous charities we had set up together.

Then you went silent and wouldn't return any of the ten messages I sent to you asking for access to my personal records and information regarding my numerous charity donations.

How can I encourage others to use your service if I was shown such an unprofessional and disrespectful experience?
Seems a little dumb not to build half of the resort first and develop a revenue stream while preparing for the second phase.
Don't listen to these people; Ubuntu/Fedora/Etc are _garbage_ by default, and have been for years.

You're having issues with PulseAudio, systemd, and NetworkManager. Use a distribution that doesn't use these, or one that makes it easy to remove them.

Calculate Linux[0] is the easiest base with which to yank these tumors out of your life, because it has eudev and OpenRC installed by default. Easy to install, and simple to maintain. it's Gentoo, but without all that building of source, and only a 15-minute install. it's simple to install JACK[1], Cadence[2] and wpa_gui after you rip out NetworkManager and PulseAudio (or if you need skype, make PA the slave of JACK).

Second place goes to KXStudio[3], but only because it's an outdated (good) debian/ubuntu core, and uses JACK/Cadence by default. Third place is Void, which, while technically freer (and has LibreSSL!), is not as easy an install as KXStudio or Calculate. All are nice and stable, though.

After removing PulseAudio and NetworkManager from your computer, you'll be astounded at how stable linux is again.

0. http://www.calculate-linux.org/main/en/download

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBD-wsMiZCk

2. http://gpo.zugaina.org/media-sound/cadence

3. http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/
With photography, film and audio alike, it's easy to prove that digital has orders of magnitude more precision and accuracy. That's great, but it's not the whole picture.

Mixing desks are said to colour the sound in certain ways, and in doing so, introduce harmonics and other sorts of imprecision that would be anathema to digital components, for which THD and SNR are paramount and utter precision is the ultimate goal. Then, in the end, people listen to the source material with their own ears, which have totally different frequency responses anyway and the eardrum is basically an analogue device that will color the sound in the end anyway :D

But then you start getting into things like guitar sounds. It's not that digital guitars sound better or worse - all you can really say is that they sound different. The real issue is that there's no objective sound that it should have - the electronics, whether digital or analogue, are effectively part of the instrument. And in the same way that analogue amps and effects colour the signal in specific ways that a guitarist or engineer might prefer, film imparts its own aesthetic qualities that a director or cinematographer might prefer.
I have again started to use Facebook since last few months. So I never see anything that I want to see. What surprises me is I always see exactly everything I don't want to see.

I get people in friend suggestions that I must have removed (clicking on that "remove" button) like half dozens of times and they keep coming. I get stories that are not at all relevant to my taste, search history (even on other sites - assuming Fb tracks me anyway even with uBlock Origin) or anything I can attribute it to. I get page and group suggestions are ridiculously tangential to me as a person. I hide a story and I hide many similar stories and at times I also mark them spam, report but I still get more similar stories. Then they have some kind of limit on the number of posts/stories shown to you. At times, that limit seems to be like as low as 4-5 stories, sometimes more. This is very random. Then there is this completely irrelevant being shown to me throughout the week. Also, posts that I hide pop up again. I've not checked whether it happens all the time.

Then one day I decided to check my friend's walls (the ones whom I have not unfollowed) and evaluate what I am actually seeing. Well, there were many text status updates that I would have loved to see, many nice photo shares, very few article shares (for some reason articles shared on Fb are not really the brightest imho), decent rants, some excellent political remark, most of these posts were recent and usually latest post on those walls, but guess what - they were not shown to me. I was shown posts that would force me to unfollow more friends and force me to close the Facebook tab a lot quicker than I might have otherwise. I guess maybe that's a good thing.

As for this Slate article, felt like a paid PR piece.

> No one outside Facebook knows for sure how it does this, and no one inside the company will tell you.

Yeah, I guess, from an end user point of view, no one on the inside knows it either.
Thanks for pointing that out, considering he can't really participate in the culture or even read Japanese literature he has a pretty limited perspective I wager.

From article:
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I can't read — I can't — to this day, I can't read or write Japanese. And I'm at the mercy of things around me. I can't have the illusion that I'm on top of things. Japan was a place that I had a huge amount to learn from, and I'm still learning it.
Should we tax people to fund studies to see if less free speech could reduce violence? You are talking about things that are not granted by government[1], that's why we call them inalienable (or natural[2]) rights.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9847269

[2] http://www.mcrkba.org/w0.html
I think it is very important not to forget another factor - the Protestant Work Ethic. This had a gigantic influence on US culture and we still live with it today. It is the reason people reflexively object to McDonald's workers fighting for higher pay, and don't care that those workers are earning far more for their employer than they are being paid. The Protestant Work Ethic is the belief that the work itself, specifically the suffering endured while performing the work, which is of value. 'Hard work is its own reward'. It is a big part of why the improvements in productivity that came about in the 1980s due to computers and automation technology entering the workplace did not result in higher wages. Because the productivity was not a product of greater human suffering, the people did not 'deserve' any greater pay. The most virtuous are those who struggle and suffer the greatest for the lowest pay. They are paid primarily in the most valuable currency, the suffering, and to suggest that they deserve greater pay or to give them greater pay would denigrate them. Obviously this is not a viewpoint that most people would or can describe specifically. But it is what underlies the prevailing attitudes most people have about work.

To desire easy work, is immoral or weak. To desire high pay for a job which is not tremendously taxing, is immoral or weak. A person who is not working strenuously is inherently a worse person than one who is. It's why the unemployed are looked down upon, and why the working poor, no matter how exploited they might be, are revered as the 'salt of the earth' and the like. It is why it is presumed that a person who is not doing hard physical work is not "really working".

Mental work is of such a fundamentally different character from physical labor that our society simply doesn't know how to process it. The idea that a person, with the use of technology, can produce as much value as 100 people doing the same job manually seems a dirty kind of trick. Dirty either because the person is cheating and skirting the virtuous hard work, or dirty because being willing to accept such a situation is immoral. Wanting a job you love to do, and expecting to be paid well for it, is a fantasy tolerable only in children. To actually expect it is one of the biggest reasons older people say that Millenials seem "entitled" brats. In truth, the Millenials just seem to inherently understand that we're at the point where technology simply makes it the best (for everyone, employers included) course.
To expand on the shared history between China and Japan:

China was the superpower of ancient Asia, exerting significant influence on neighboring regions, and exporting its writing system, as well as science and technology to neighboring regions. As a result, approximately 60% of the words found in a Japanese dictionary are of Chinese origin (this becomes closer to 20% when you weight for usage).

Informatively, the Japanese word for China is 中国, or central country.

Additionally, the nature of the Japanese writing system means that any literate Japanese speaker would recognize the symbols in 中国 (China) mean "middle" and "country", and the symbols in 漢字 (kanji) mean "China" and "character".
Because renting 1000 cores for a limited time is much cheaper than buying them outright?
Besides the two choices that can work, my point was, one of the many outcomes of the remaining choices will lead to non-law-abiding people possessing guns, and law-abiding people following the gun laws, possessing no guns, and this situation will be a lot less desirable than either no one have guns, or every body have guns. It is precisely because doing something that's complicated is going to lead to a high dimensional landscape of possible policies and many unknown outcomes, I think it's wise to stick to more simple, predictable solutions, because otherwise you're doing something you don't know what the consequences are. And it is because politicians and the electorate have the tendency to be doing that in the U.S., why U.S. has mass shootings every other day, and why that isn't true for a country like Australia, which undertook option 1, because it was feasible for a relatively centralised, unified island country, as compared to the U.S.
What if you produce your opus and a series of constant organizational changes puts you right back in hell? Is there an end?
Extremely worrying for South Korea and Japan. Not sure how China treats this. This is like a crazy neighbor who you learn just got a gun.
What are the most significant improvements to this service since it launched on HN almost a year ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
Text isn't loading, says its on Bloomberg Terminal.

I'm not well schooled in nuclear bombs. What's the payload, how does this compare to their previous tests, and what's next?
> went with Go because the libs that I will need (cron like scheduler, embedding assets, etc).

Haskell has a cron like scheduler. What do you mean by embedding assets?
Since when does someone need the permission of congress to do this type of research? There are MANY anti-gun lobbies out there with deep pockets who could easily commission such a study.

Most likely they have numerous times and buried the results as it would not aline well with their agenda.
It's almost as if you can't infer valid statistical models from the occurrence or absence of extremely rare events.
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Damn their infernal terminal. Weirdest social network ever.
If this is confirmed, I am really interested to see China's stance. South Korea and Japan are definitely going to raise security concerns. The crazy neighbor now has a gun.
Black and white film? It's very hard, but doable. Probably comparable difficulty to building your own computer out of logic ICs. You'll buy cellulose acetate stock, a bunch of chemicals, and build a coating machine yourself. You'll also need some chemical engineering skills. Your film might be comparable to that from the 1950s.

Alternatively, you can buy a film factory when it gets shut down, but these tend to produce film in large batches, and it might be difficult to repair the machines. People have done this before.

Color film? Basically impossible. Probably comparable difficulty to building your own ICs. Only a handful of companies were ever successful at it.
If you don't have sufficient failure, your system is either corrupt (see financial sector), or almost by definition people are not trying interesting enough ideas and taking enough risks.

This is incorrect. There is no law that says "Hey, if you're not failing a whole bunch you clearly aren't learning new things and trying out stuff!". A great deal of progress can and has been made by people making conservative market decisions. A great deal of success has happened without spastic startupcanistan spending of cash with no rhyme or reason.

Steady-state in an industry doesn't mean stagnation, it doesn't mean no progress, and so forth. It means the same number of firms leaving as entering--usually because crazy gold-rush investment and whatnot isn't taking place. It means that wages settle towards a more reasonable and sustainable distribution, that customers are getting value reliably, and that resources aren't getting thrown away and careers screwed up by rapid business spinups and shutdowns.

I don't mind that people claim that the startup scene, Valley, etc. are somehow "building value"...what I do mind is the complete and utter denial of valid criticisms of that claim. A steady-state economy is, by definition, one that has built non-transient value: it remains to be seen whether the last five years of companies have accomplished that.

The thing about your last point is that, honestly, the fundable things aren't "super interesting crazy ideas". They're me-too followers on where a VC or angel is trying to bet on their favorite second-mouse to get the cheese.

Don't conflate technological progress with what the current startup ecosystem is doing, because that idea is the flimsiest propaganda imaginable. Innovation happens outside startuplandia in, I'd suggest, greater quantity (if not rate!) than inside.

~

There is a lot of blind regurgitation of "startup fail fast only way to progress must progress fail faaaaster" going on right now, least of all because it kinda suits the investing class--and a lot of bright and well written people, you included, seem to be parroting it without much critical thought.
This is going to fail HARD.
Not the OP but we have had a hell of a time with SoftLayer and have been doing everything we can to move. If you have a large ops team (or a team that isn't busy) and you go with a well planned physical server build-out (make sure you get them in different pods) you _might_ be ok.

We have been working on a POC in AWS and it's such a breath of fresh air. Things work as advertised, the provisioning process is quick and everything can easily be done with an API call. No more waiting for support tickets. The freedom you get with your network routing in an AWS VPC is worth it to me.

At the risk of sounding too much like an AWS fanboy we are actually looking at scrapping it all and just bringing everything in-house running on our own physical boxes with some type of hypervisor on top.
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It's hardly clear that the root is socioeconomic. I don't have data on crime, but in education race remains predictive even after you include socioeconomic status in the estimator.

https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/on-c...

Do you know of a similar analysis of crime?
Did your salary also drop to 80%? Did other benefits which legally require a 'full time' schedule go away?

The worst possible scenario would be workers switching to shorter work weeks, accepting pay cuts and loss of benefits, and proceeding to be more productive for their employer. I mean, unscrupulous employers would love it, but for society it would be terrible.
Here's another source: https://www.rt.com/news/328038-north-korea-earthquake-nuclea...
> It's also against the law to put people in "databases".

I find this very hard to believe. At face value I interpret this as saying that no company doing business in Sweden has any sort of customer database. Is this correct?

What about a CRM system?