skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in Fallujah we let each household keep one AK (which was almost always full-auto). Why did we do this? Because it is immoral to strip an individual of all means for self defense, especially when we knew that we couldn't protect everybody. So while the US is not a war zone, when does such a moral principle kick in?

I don't trust everybody with a rifle, hell - I especially don't trust you given your expressed view, but I accept the fact that the police can't protect everybody - and it is immoral to insist that they depend on protection that isn't there.
Sounds like "Eugene Goostman". It's common to "cheat" on the Turing test by pretending to be an incomprehensible human, like "PARRY" which "simulated" a paranoid schizophrenic, about which Daniel Dennett relates this anecdote in his essay "Can Machines Think?":

"My favorite commentary on it was Joseph Weizenbaum’s; in a letter to the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (Weizenbaum, 1974, p. 543), he said that, inspired by Colby, he has designed an even better program, which passed the same test. His also had the virtue of being a very inexpensive program, in these times of tight money. In fact you didn’t even need a computer for it. All you needed was an electric typewriter. His program modeled infant autism. And the transcripts--you type in your questions, and the thing just sits there and hums--cannot be distinguished by experts from transcripts of real conversations with infantile autistic patients."

It's well worth a read!

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/mindsandmachines/...
Right, they couple that with "…and it's also a constitutional right that our gov't believed—at the time—was important enough to put a blanket ban on themselves writing laws in the future to limit it."

Other than that, completely like "banning bad things".
I find it questionable on YC part to fund a cannabis-related company. On one hand, there is a clear... growth opportunity, on another - in my opinion it is pretty much on par with financing something tobacco-related and may be detrimental to YC's public image.

To be perfectly clear, I am pro-legalization, as war on drugs only funnels money to criminal organizations, as if we did not learn anything from Prohibtion era. I still consider cannabis public evil in a way tobacco and excessive consumption of alcohol are public evil.
It works reasonably well against typical DDoS attacks. I've read that booters have started to show warnings that they're ineffective when used against IPs belonging to OVH. It probably doesn't do much against resource exhaustion attacks at the application layer (that's more of a job for WAFs/rate limiting, anyway.)

Their site has some details: https://www.ovh.co.uk/anti-ddos/analysis.xml
Its funny you ask that but I've watched and read a few articles of Nigerian scammers actually operating out of a country called Benin which is next door to Nigeria itself and another country (which I forget the name of). Anyways, from what I've read its basically the idea of trying not to implicate themselves and moving to a country that is known much much lesser to a scale
My take on the AR-15:

The Plaza Theater where Christina Grimmie was shot last week is less than a mile from where I went to Junior High. I saw the Friday the 13th there on a group date the last day of ninth grade. My sister and brother in law drum and dance there on stage from time to time with their friends and community.

The building where the other hundred odd people were shot last week used to be an Italian restaurant. the closest to the house where I grew up. I ate in that building more than a few times...both buildings I guess if concessions count. My mom is pushing 80. She was out walking the dog Sunday morning. She asked a neighbor if they knew what all the helicopters were doing.

I'm an alum of the high school a half mile down Kaley Ave from Pulse. Sneaking into Pulse is something its current LGBT students try to do. Some are friends of my nieces and nephews. Some were taught by my sister. The carnage touched a lot of people I know.

That's what I'm thinking about. Tonight, I don't give a fuck about your gun. It's probably a difference in priorities.
>do they help people follow the law in the most optimal way

Google doing double Dutch with Irish cowgirl is following the law in the most optimal way. We know where money is and what laws they are subject to.

A poor musician, a friend of Putin, surprisingly happens to be not so poor, ie. like $2B far from being poor - there have been no law followed here.
Under the proposed C++ TM, synchronised blocks can do i/o. They are not transactional, but do compose.

If you have two locked data structures and you want an operation to manipulate both atomically you need to expose the locks. And if you want the operation itself to compose with others... well get hairy.

TM is widely used I believe by least Haskel and Closure programmers, even with non hardware accelerated versions because of the ease of use.

HTM is another story, it's availability is still relatively restricted. Time will tell.
That's only a valid comparison to mass shootings, which are a tiny, tiny percentage of gun deaths.

By comparison, referenced in my other comments, if someone really wanted to kill everyone in a theater they could do it with a container of gasoline, or a pressure cooker. Newtown could have been accomplished with a sword, given the size difference of the attacker to the victims.

Anyone who wants to kill you can, with any number of objects readily accessible. This is only evident to some people when they think of an object like an AR-15 because they don't think about all the other ways they could be killed.
Should we ask governments and corporations to temporarily halt the creation of AI?
Many of us have likely read various warnings from the likes of Hawking, Musk, Gates and countless others - should we heed these warnings in order to request a more coherent explanation from corporations and governments as to why they are seeking AI?

tl:dr - I am hoping for your thoughts, favorite essays, readings and lectures on the subject, and your concerns. I have a limited but sufficient notion of the potential benefits of AI - this said concerns are more desirable for my purposes.

I too am excited over the potential AI (either partial and perhaps even full) has to offer us as a global society. Specifically self-driving cars and improvements to services such as Siri entice me. I am an avid user of Siri, despite its short comings, for simple queries and tasks and I detest the time I spend driving, which could be spent reading, coding, or drawing.

AI has the potential to be a massive boon to our existence, this much is clear; however I am not naïve enough to assume that a passive posture from the public at large will produce an AI (or lesser adaptive intelligence) that will benefit the majority and help provide long term solutions to current issues we face as a species.

My current opinion is that if we passively accept what is given us and don't help to shape what the ideal implementation of this technology is - we will miss a great opportunity and likely more bad than good will come of it.
good detailed response. thanks.
That's like saying hacking language. OMGWTFBBQ He can use assembly! Its a hacking language. Hacker this, hacker that. Its all about making something sound scary. All guns are scary. Guess what? All humans are scary too. Especially full grown adult males. And you know what equalizes weaker humans with these scary full grown adult males? Firearms.
The risk reward ratio is pretty favorable. If there's a big crackdown, that's another startup down, no big deal, startups fail all the time. Or there's no crackdown, and instead they have fewer competitors (because the industry is perceived as dangerous and risky) and they really take off.
Interestingly, there is even a movie called The Spanish Prisoner (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120176/) from 1997 based on this type of scam. It is good and I recommend it.
They actually provide it. They have some documents on how: https://www.ovh.co.uk/anti-ddos/
Ah, thanks for the clarification. But I think those 17-and-unders are still children, and I'd prefer them alive and with a chance to regret their gang-banging ways.
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Getting audio hardware to behave nicely for audio is pretty nice :)
The calculation for the time factor difference is simply 44100/60 which is about 733, i don't know how the 23 microseconds you got there relate to this.

Your comparision to graphics seem to relate to long FIR filters, which i dont't use because of cache reasons (big kernel/lookup table). FIR filters can however sound pretty nice with static parameters but get extremely expensive for realtime modulation. For realtime modulation i suggest IIR filters (Finite Impulse Response vs Infinite Impulse Response filter architecture).

Of course it's hard to give advice into the blue without any source, but i atleast expected some general hint, like 'avoid branches, use function pointers' on a next-level, since you were so opposed to function pointers to begin with.

I am also not completely sure what's the best approach in this regard, and i surely did not enough profiling in this regard.

That said, i remain sceptical regarding your critique of function pointers in a single threaded audio application, because of a lack of an alternaltive.

I/O on a microsecond critical deadline certainly seems to be in a neigbourhood to these problems. Do you use some arcane javascript asm.js with some jit auto-reconfiguring optimising for this, or how would you describe your approach?
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Expected to be able to download it.
Brother you know why they were allowed an AK. I did the same cordon and searches too. They faced a different threat model.
I guess putting a DRM-free installer on a website is too lowbrow for them.
Basic HTTP as defined in 1992
https://www.nranews.com/home/video/dom-raso-the-ar-15-americ...
Nice, maybe I'll consider this for dogfooding, thank you for the explanations!
Lethality of all of those other methods is significantly below that of a semi-automatic rifle.

The fact more people are killed outside of mass shootings by guns is irrelevant. Mass shootings are a good enough reason to get rid of them, it's a risk people shouldn't have to live with.
Senate Democrats' Surprise Gun-Control Filibuster
Is this a real issue? I can't think of any mass shootings where a rifle was illegally modified to be full auto.
Google me dude.
Extreme variety of types of plant is a bit.. overstated.. since inter-plant variation is probably just as significant.
I don't think so. It's not my project either. It was featured months ago on product hunt and since then I didn't notice any update on the app.
For those saying "why fail2ban?", fail2ban can be used for a great deal more than just watching the sshd log. You can activate fail2ban rules for apache and nginx which help significantly with small DDoS, turning spurious traffic/login attempts into iptables DROP rules. And a lot of other daemons.
Again: "So while the US is not a war zone, when does such a moral principle kick in?"

Concerns over moral principles might be totally irrelevant to you though, if you are a utilitarian/end-justifies-the-means sort of guy.
LOL at carrying around a few hundred 12 GA shells and stopping to reload in a room full of people that could over power you.
The downvotes are predictable and not worth commenting on (doing so probably attracts more of them). But, for whatever it's worth, this is pretty close to my position as well.
wouldn't be the first time the U.S. has armed an ostensibly rogue power in the region.
Yes. Doing this 'manually' step by step lets you choose which things are really necessary, your configuration might be different, and forces you to learn WHAT it's doing rather than just running a script. I am not a huge fan of Arch Linux (prefer debian unstable), but this is the same principle as the Arch Linux installation process which doesn't have a monolithic installer but forces you to do the process manually step-by-step.
At least one log parsing tool I've seen in years past was vulnerable to log injection attacks. Hilarious proof of concept to own a box by way of PTR record.

I haven't checked to see whether fail2ban suffers from this model or not.
I definitely do not agree that the first and second amendment have similar functions. In practice it is the restriction on free speech that is a much more effective and pernicious way of controlling a population. If you have a heavily armed population, that does not dissuade a repressive government from attacking you, it just gets more and more people killed- see Syria.
The storyteller as God.
Is it not the case that when APTs "happen", they stay happening whether you detect them or not. That's the persistent threat part. The advanced part means you can't realistically do anything about it.

The notion of unscrupulous or frivolous APTs (not just routine espionage) is quite frightening for that reason.
Update: sorry you're getting downvoted, that's not me. I think worrying about the predictability of performance is perfectly reasonable, especially in the presence of lazy evaluation.
If, for you, my AR-15 ownership is prima facie evidence of my mental instability, sexual inadequacy, lack of a conscience, or what-have-you then I honestly don’t care what you think about this issue. You can go back to broadcasting your own moral superiority on social media, and I can go back to tuning you out until your rage therapy session is over.

He creates strawman critics to ridicule and rant against, which also will dissuade anyone he disagrees with from reading on and will inflame all sides, but he also claims to want reasonable, open-minded discussion.

Another missed opportunity to discuss something reasonably and bring people together. If that was really his intent, it's hard to believe a professional journalist - a professional communicator - would choose the words above.

I hope it works out better than that but I don't have unlimited time to read everything.
They provide it, and it works.

Even if it didn't, they're at least trying. That's a much better policy than burying your head in the sand and pretending this doesn't exist like AWS and GCS do. Seriously, try to figure out what their policies are on DDoS, they don't even mention it anywhere.

Their active ignorance on this issue combined with their astronomical egress prices make them dangerous to use for public facing web sites of any serious caliber, as I've stressed multiple times on HN. I'd consider using them for behind-the-scenes stuff, but for front-facing sites? What's going to happen to your site when you get a 100GBit attack? Are you going to get charged for the bandwidth? Is your site going to get null routed? Zero information provided. Good luck.
async/await is not in ES7.
Yes. A deep history.

Paying for a blog is a really bad way to drop documents onto the Internet and stay anonymous.
Ask HN: Best, free (or cheap) blog service for coders?
My needs: Easy-to-use, nice-looking, formats code well. Free is best, but cheap is good, too. Syntax highlighting would be a real plus.

Tried:
Wordpress, Weebly, Slvrback, Wix, Squarespace (too expensive).

Looked briefly at blogger, but defaults were so ugly it scared me away.
Self defense doesn't require a 30 round mag.
You seem to have posted this in multiple places. I don't think it's a valid fear at all. If people are constantly monitoring Slack for fear of missing out on decisions, then don't make decisions over Slack. It's really as simple as that.

We have policies that dictate what types of conversations belong in Slack and what types of conversations don't. If something requires a person's input, they are summoned to Slack via a mention. Otherwise, it's widely understood and accepted that Slack is primarily for Q&A, collaboration, sharing of cool finds, and what we classify as "general chat."

Other than that, we also have meetings (both in person and via remote session/conference) for more important topics and decisions. The results of those meetings are communicated to the team via email (which everyone is expected to check twice per day).

If you try to use Slack for everything, it will fail for you. That holds true for any tool.
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Have you actually read the comment you're responding to? You cannot both remove the content and educate users. You have to pick one of the two, and "removing the content" isn't going to solve the problem.

You are completely missing the point, and just repeating what you said before.

EDIT:

> The widely shared IS propaganda has been cited as a factor why ISIS is so popular lately. Why so many people are radicalising. The lenient approach archive.org is having to this is helping them and they have big role in destabilizing the current world, if only indirectly.

This is horseshit. As I've already said, the problem isn't that the propaganda exists. It's that people unquestioningly believe it.

I'm sure that it "has been cited as a factor", because that's a far easier way to look like you're dealing with the problem, than to actually try and solve it. That doesn't make it correct in the slightest.
> It's beyond conclusive that broad availability of firearms if not the cause is definitely highly correlated.

Based on my time hanging out at Slater Star Codex, the amount of shooting deaths varies in the US largely based on culture. If you take a country like The Netherlands and find the equivalent culture in the US, violent crime rates are basically identical—despite the fact that the US has far more guns per capita (within their respective, equivalent cultures).

Frankly, talking about the "US" as if it was culturally homogenous is so misleading that it's borderline unethical. Once you tease apart the statistics, guns don't stand out as a problem for certain cultures (again, AFAICT based on discussions with other people I trust).
Chromium may have been packaged in 2010, but it was released three years before. The Debian weak keys "cockup" may have been created in 2006, but it was discovered two years later. Maintainers had long windows of time to add value. Did they?

I don't mean anything personal by it. If I was maintaining 38 packages on my nights and weekends I'd do a bad job too.

But examples don't go out of date unless you present some force that takes 30k unmaintainable packages and turns them into 50k maintainable packages. What specific advance in software maintenance do you believe improved the art of software maintenance by an OOM?

But if you want to talk recent examples, we could talk about how nobody's packaging Swift.
Where did you get your information on offense vs defense? It bears no relation to anything I've ever read or had training in, and has the complete opposite recommendations.

What makes you think that offense seeks to destroy, or that defensive seeks to disable? If anything, defense needs more power, not less. The key difference is that the attacker can choose the time and place of the attack, and so can either find a time and place that works with whatever amount of power they have available (note the tendency for mass shootings to only happen in "gun free zones"), or call off the attack. Defenders do not know when they will be attacked, and so they need as much power as possible to compensate for possibly being outnumbered or caught in a disadvantageous place. That's why defenders need bigger magazines and more effective ammunition.

But both ultimately seek to control, not to destroy or disable. Once you have control, destruction is easy. And if the opponent has a firearm too, then there isn't much practical difference between disable and kill.
You're forgetting GoboLinux, which had these issues solved long before NixOS/Guix existed.
Is this worth it? I'm not familiar with the series, but I love hardware hacking at a novice level.
Australia already uses trucks as trains.
Well, comparing Mexico (tons of gun control) to say Vermont (not much gun control) doesn't make gun control look very effective.
LinkedIn goes down following Microsoft acquisition
Anyone have any details? I'm curious how much acqui-hires go for these days.
I keep trying to picture how this would work using a 'drain in a bathtub' image in my head where the water rushing down the plug is like a black hole pulling things in with gravity.

Is there any way thinking like that I can get an approximate idea of what the gravitational wave would be in that scenario?
>>as proprietary software has been shown time and time again to be harmful to users.

A bold claim that requires quite a bit of evidence, in addition to evidence that the alternative (FOSS) is not harmful.
I never made the connection between the "type" in "stereotype" and "type" as in "typesetting" until today.
This mag limit obsession /fascinates/ me. Here is why. The people who push this are generally people who also believe that what we really need in the gun debate is hard data. Like, actual data from studies and such.

There are no studies indicating that mag limit would save lives in a mass shooting situation. None.

I understand that the mag capacity/body count link seems intuitively to be true, but I've read a number of accounts from actual weapon experts (I think the last time I saw this was on Sofrep.com, from some former SF guys) that indicate that this is not actually the case. And ultimately, wouldn't it be best to base a mag capacity ban on, y'know, actual hard data, and not what we sort of think is probably true?

I read someone who did the math (i.e. 2 seconds per mag change, rate of fire, mag capacity... I don't recall the details and Google isn't cooperating at the moment) and he determined that mag capacity has pretty much no effect on the amount of fire you can lay down in 5-minute engagement, which is about how long these shootings last.

The one thing you can say about mag changes is that they introduce an opportunity for operator error (dropped mag etc.). So over the course of some number of mass shootings, if you know the odds of operator error during a mag change and the impact of that error on the rate of fire, you could probably calculate some number of rounds saved.

Anyway, for reference, here is some random Meal Team Six commando on YouTube that I found demonstrating a mag change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkLCc7H-oSI

That guy took two seconds to change mags, and doesn't even look like he knows what he's doing. You can find plenty of sub-second mag changes on YouTube from random airsoft guys.

I'm pretty confident that the mag capacity/body count link would not hold up to even cursory scientific scrutiny.
For the record, i was pretty happy with Wordpress, but needed the ability to make the font for code smaller, and that requires a paid account.
> If you have a heavily armed population, that does not dissuade a repressive government from attacking you, it just gets more and more people killed- see Syria.

Syria is a great example—for the exact opposite belief that a lack of guns is a terrible way to deal with a repressive regime, and will get you and your family killed.

Syrians are NOT "heavily armed", not even close. Syria is ranked 110th out of all countries in terms of "number of guns per capita".[0] USA has 28.8x (!) as many guns per person as Syria.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...
They provide the necessary vehicles for their clients to break the law. They do this knowing that this is how their clients will use those vehicles. While this may not be a violation of the law in the jurisdiction in which they reside, it is certainly on shaky moral ground (being extraordinarily generous).
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You don't have to stop to reload at empty, you can just keep feeding the magazine after every shot or two. 50 (2 3/4) shells isn't an unrealistic loadout.
> No secure algorithm is defined at that key size.

HMAC-SHA256 is.