skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this just normal packet networking but with big packets and no timeouts?
Yeah I remember almost exactly when it happened because it (and later Columbine) set off a lot of media hysteria about violence in video games. I think there might be consequences to playing violent games on some level (it's your
mission to shoot people) but the way they went about it was wrong-headed and sensational.
>> "unpopular opinions"

I don't think anyone has been arrested for writing in 'unpopular opinion'. They've been arrested for writing highly racist content or directing abuse at others.
> There was a nice xkcd about this

Also Hackles

https://web.archive.org/web/20160307122907/http://hackles.or...
Author here.

Hi all - thanks for the interest in the survey! The Rust community team is still working the blog post (this link was to an early draft), and we're looking forward to posting it when it's done.
Yeah I'd prefer to be patched up whilst in a k hole than sober, in all fairness. Could the ketamine complicate it with ODs and other stuff, though?
BTW, people jumping from government to industry and back is usually seen as corruption in liberal HN crowd — but I don't see any complains here.
We have background checks.
Running text means INSIDE text (as in: "running along" with the other characters), not "used in a book as illustration".
> How big a massacre would it take before a gun control law would be carried by a majority in the US?

A majority already does but they don't really care, whereas the NRA has a relatively small numbers of highly motivated people to push against gun control bills (I believe John Oliver made that exact point recently).

The US have already got bigger massacres than the already mentioned Dunblane (18 deaths 15 injured, 1996), or Port Arthur (35 deaths 25 injured, 1996) which resulted in significant gun control increase in the UK[0] and Australia[1] respectively.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre#Gun_c...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australi...
Watch what happens when you let the post doc PhD "help" set up a scan in the MR scanner. It's amazing/terrifying what a very clever person will do in an unfamiliar environment with different rules to the real world.
Tons of the things in unicode are not "globally universal".
If the Sandy Hook massacre didn't do the same in the US then I can't imagine any single event that will.
Most female devs I know are trans women. So maybe they are over-represented in the dev-world in general?
> hard to take out since they can be anywhere undersea, mobile and ready to counterattack at a moments notice.

When I was working in that stuff, the usual point about the SSBNs (the US long range missile firing submarines) was that they were darned difficult to find. Also, it was standard to assume that they moved in some variation on Brownian motion so that, even if did get some data on their location, it was not very useful for extrapolation.

So, a major point about the design and operation of the SSBNs was that they be darned difficult to find -- via passive sonar, magnetic anomaly detection, active sonar, or anything else. Also, a big deployment of search resources that might be more able to find an SSBN would be regarded as provocative.

Then there was the point: If the Soviets did find a US SSBN, now what? If they track it for very long, then that is provocative. If they don't track it, then they will soon lose it again. If they sink it, then there are all the other US SSBNs ready to fire back.

So, the Soviets would have to find AND sink ALL the US SSBNs at the same time. Finding all of the SSBNs at the same time without being provocative was regarded as essentially impossible.

So, maybe somehow there could be a nuke war but limited to sea. Then could pick off each SSBN as it was found one at a time. Then how long would the SSBNs last? Once I was asked to answer that! So, I derived some math, wrote some software, submitted my results, and the next day my wife and I went for a vacation in Shenandoah! Later my work was sold to a leading US intel group. I could tell you which one, but then I'd have to ...!

Ah, the math wasn't either artificial intelligence or machine learning!
If the Republican party prevented that vote inside the constraints of laws, procedures and whatnot, there is nothing to protest about.

In fact I agree with OP : politicians should never have to protest for anything. There are procedures to follow, and in politics who is right is not supposed to be whoever whines the most spectacularly.

If for one reason or an other the Democrats think the Republicans have used unlawful methods to prevent this vote, then they should file a complaint and be done with it. Not make some kind of a circus.
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They did, but in a different batch or track. https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/dec/11/django-awar...
A better option would be to not watch TV and do something productive with that time instead.
What you said sounds perfectly reasonable, if you have a normal functioning government that executes the law in a normal and reasonable way. The US was founded, however, partly on the idea that laws are executed by humans, and humans are fallible, and if the laws of our country were ever abused, they couldn't unjustly damage or harm the lives of the citizens subject to those laws. With the current proposal regarding terror watch lists, Donald Trump wants to put all Muslims on a terror watch list just because of their religion. Does that sound fair to you? Should those Muslims have their right to self defense taken away because of their religion? This is what our Constitution was designed to protect.
>As the story mentions regarding the off symbol (a circle), there are many visually identical code points that have different semantic meanings.

So? How is that different from any regular character in real life?

101 for example means the number 101, an introductory class in university, slang for "anything introductory" in general, etc.

And let's not get started on the meanings of letters, e.g. a and e.
I know. I'm not questioning the intention, I'm requesting the term not be used that way -- it is known to alienate people.
Ok, so what would it take to sway you?
Wow, the Japanese really spend a lot of time inventing these combinations: http://japaneseemoticons.me/all-japanese-emoticons/
AFAIK/remember complex hitboxes were a new feature in HL too. It would be cool if Valve open-sourced HL so we could have a look. One can wish...
Can you really run a transaction-oriented DB over NFS "in the cloud" with meaningful performance and guaranteed writes to disk in case of network/power failure?
"Maybe, in USA such an extreme event hasn't happened yet"

Really? Columbine, Orlando, Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Virginia Tech.
I realize this may sound like an ignorant question but I really don't know the rules in Congress.

Can you just refuse to discuss a topic at all ? I mean... is that legal ?

Like the original comment said, the purpose of a body like the congress is to "...debate an issue, vote on it, and then to enact the result of the vote..." At least, I thought that was how things worked. Is it the case that congress doesn't even consider debating certain issues ?
if by discrimination you mean guarantees versus best-efforts. business class services, speaking generally, are less or not at all over subscribed while providing contractual guarantees to service performance and problem resolution.

residential is best effort. they'll do their best to keep it up and give you the speeds you pay for, but if it doesn't work out that way sometimes, well, they're sorry about that.
An anecdote tangential to the main topic: Its well known that not all states in the USA have the same gun control laws. For instance, in New York, a gun is banned in the hands of civilians.

Now suppose, you are traveling from city A to B with a flight change in New York, and suppose you are carrying arms (duly registered) and you checked out your luggage at New York to catch the next flight, then you are effectively breaking the NYC law for those few moments!

In fact, I've heard that a lot of NYC cops are just hovering around that luggage checkout counter to catch and harass as many innocent passengers as possible!
Well, they're not essential either.

In fact up to less than 5 years ago, there weren't anywhere except in some phones (and mostly Japanese phones at that).
fashionable cache

Not a fan of Memcache? Personally I find it has a certain cachet about it. /jk
> in europe now there's bans on pretty much everything

Czech republic is pretty liberal (conceal carry, attack rifles...) and we have lower crime rate than UK.

> I don't really understand why people are so against having some gun control

Problems:

1) not everyone lives in a big city, where police is on every corner. In remote rural areas it takes hours before cops even arrive. Some people simply need gun for living.

2) Regulations always get more strict over time. Eventually everything will be banned (knife, pepper spray...). In UK it is illegal to carry a screw driver on street.

3) People are motivated not to report crimes. There was a case when girl escaped a rape, but was charged for possession of illegal weapon, and for using a pepper spray on her attacker. With regulations, it would be best for her, not to even report that attack.
I'm looking at this with a foreign eye, so I apologise for any ignorance on my behalf, I just find it amazing that so many Americans feel that gun control wouldn't help with decreasing shootings (Kasey_Junk linked this poll [0]).

Can someone shed some light on the views of these people? Living in the UK, with rather nice gun control restrictions, means we can't just buy guns at the local supermarket but of all of the ~ 8 people I know who has wanted a gun, every single one got a license and went through little to no hassle to get it, simply filling out a few forms. Yet seemingly because of this, our firearm related death rate is 0.23 per 100,000, compared with the US' 10.54 (~45x as many deaths [1]).

[0] http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/187511/america...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
The whole point as far as I understand it is they don't want to vote because they'd have to vote against such a measure and this may prove to be very un-popular and with the elections coming up it will cost them (potentially) a lot of votes.
After 20 years working on the same platform maybe he didn't want to go into that fight, knowing the eventual outcome anyway.

I have seen that quite often with my ex-colleague. Some people have been working on the company for ages, solving issues in the same business realm and just at the beginning of the next big thing in the company, they decide it is time to go someplace else.

I used to think they were just afraid they could not compete, or were technically rusty. With many more years in the industry, I understand that the most likely reason is that they didn't want to commit to another round of the same bullshit with new shiny tech on top of it and they simply needed some fresh air.

We are lucky to be employed in an industry where you can still say fuck it and find something else to do instead.
Ha. Maybe if we are talking about geological timescales. Nobody is going to rewrite all those trillions of lines of Java code out there in the wild any time soon. Also with all the tooling built around the JVM, a non-JVM replacement is probably a non-starter.

Java is the new COBOL - and it'll be lurking in the guts of big enterprise systems for decades.
The comparison to goto was not meant as criticism, but because both disrupt the control flow in a way that has no structure. Conditionals, loops, and calls do have structure, they are the flow.

When a language support contructions such that normal control flow event are either "success + result", or "failure + error", it's much easier to follow, for me, and experience has taught me that it is far less error prone. Exceptions have a use for things that are unexpected, but happened anyway, such as OutOfMemoryException.
Do you only need access for yourself? If so, you should really check out ZeroTier. I use it on my Android phone and Linux boxes and have been really happy with it.
I'm always intensely curious what residential (and these days, even business) customers want with a dedicated, publicly routable IPv4 address.

why were you disappointed?
Well, yeah. Having the same sum, or having the same number of digits aren't really obvious properties of numbers.

Similarly, both being prime and having the same product aren't obvious properties either. Making the fundamental theorem of arithmetic non-obvious (or at least individual cases of it, but if the general case were obvious then the individual cases should also be obvious).
As cynical as it might be, then for those few moments those passengers aren't innocent according to local law.
Not to mention the biggest issue here is that Democrats want to put anyone the executive suspects on a secret "terrorist watchlist," for which there's little to no redress and they won't even tell if you're off of it or not, so you could continue to be harassed by the government and you may not even know why that's happening.

Fix the terrorist/no-fly watchlist first, and then we'll talk. Other than that, I am in the camp of favoring much stronger gun control. But secret lists and a further weakening of due process in the U.S. is not the answer.
> To many people in the US, gun ownership is an as equally essential right as freedom of speech.

But that's a relatively recent phenomenon, though. The US has had a strong military history, but the 'citizens need guns to fend off our government' thing has only been frothy for the past little while.

It's not going to go away either, until the US kicks the societal idea that problems are best solved by men with guns. It's going to take a long time for that to ebb away, even if public opinion were going in that direction.

Gun control laws won't work even if they're brought in, because handguns will never be a part of them, and it's handguns that do three-quarters of the firearm murders in the US. So there'll be some pissweak restrictions eventually brought in about really fringe longarms, and they'll do nothing to solve the problem.
But if you don't what would the point of a unified standard be? What should happen to glyphs that noone have used outside of research for 100 years? 1000 years?
If I still wasted money on Apple, I'd rather tape over the logo!
>several logo changes

So just change the font you use to render Unicode. The Unicode itself can remain the same.
U+1F499 BLUE HEART
U+1F49A GREEN HEART
U+1F49B YELLOW HEART
U+1F49C PURPLE HEART
U+1F53D DOWN-POINTING SMALL RED TRIANGLE
U+1F536 LARGE ORANGE DIAMOND
U+1F537 LARGE BLUE DIAMOND
...
Any legislation relating to mental illness does nothing but create a subclass with less rights. You can either be honest and argue for full restriction of firearms or nothing. I had problems with depression in my early 20s, am I too mentally ill? All a law like this would do is incentivize people to never get help, never see a doctor, and never get medication. The mentally ill don't commit most gun violence. Most mass shooters are not mentally ill, that is a comfortable lie repeated mindlessly by scared people. They're just murderers.

People who just want to take rights away from the sick because they demonize them are literally going to make things worse.
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Why does this list remind me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole... ? :)
a. This one smacks of sour grapes. It doesn't help with maintenance when you're dealing with a dense graph, and every time you add a relation you have to check if you need to make something weak. Reasoning about reference graphs is often not intuitive, due to it being hard to see indirect references. Also note that some cyclical structures cannot be broken by statically using weak references, and require special action like specialized manual reference counting (I recently had to implement such a system ).

b. Very true, but these are the exact opposite of the cases that I'm talking about.

c. Two things:

First, memory has gotten incredibly cheap and dense for servers. Server GCs are generally more cache friendly than reference counting (due to both allocation strategies/compaction and the lack of need to touch reference counts), which is important because CPU performance gains are slowing down.

Second, the graph he shows (I've seen it before) is looking at older GCs, and more importantly GCs where memory usage outside of the working set was not optimized for. In a paged system, it is of little benefit to ensure memory outside your working set is released.

Obviously on mobile the situation is different, but there are also GCs that have far lower memory usage because they have been optimized for constrained scenarios. Android's new ART collector is sort of an example of this, but their efforts were massively undermined by the fact that they had to adapt to all of the existing Android library/app code which uses tons of object pooling. Manual object pooling with GCed objects creates all kinds of problems for GCs, particularly generational ones.

I agree with the decision to go with ARC for Swift from a lot of perspectives: Swift's target market is not usually dealing with complex interconnected models, using a GC would make ObjC interop difficult, etc. But it is far from obvious based on this information that it is beneficial to have a language stick with only a GC or only reference counting.
Can anybody see how the characters look like? Wouldn't it be good to have the pictures of all 4 and half? Some link?

I see there was a proposal here in PDF:

https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode/raw/master/power_symbol_...

But there's a lot of glyphs there. What was accepted then? If the circle was reused, what are the remaining four?
Mario ( a working class plumber) made a career out of squishing mushrooms, to get the princess in the castle.

Once your deducation goes whack, you can never go back.
Nuclear waste shouldn't contain plutonium. That stuff is expensive, so there's an economic incentive, as well as environmental, to reprocess waste and recover any remaining fuel.

Chernobyl (and Fukushima) are entirely different (and much worse) because you do have the nuclear fuel itself being exposed to the environment. But waste fission products in a modern reactor are far less dangerous compared to the fuel that goes in, especially once they have been properly reprocessed and then stored for while.

Isotopes with half lives in the millions of years, as opposed to years or decades, really aren't all that dangerous in terms of radioactivity. Longer half life generally means less radiation.
>If I had complete authority over a nation's nuclear weapons I would never, under any circumstances, actually use them. In all respects I would act as though I would respond to a nuclear attack in kind without hesitation, but that would be a lie. If I were faced with an overwhelming strategic attack and had the opportunity to respond with an attack of equal magnitude, I would not. Such an act would not change the outcome of my own nation, it would merely inflict the same on my enemy, which since I am not a psycopath has negative utility. At that point the war is already lost, the best one could do is minimise the destruction inflicted on humanity as a whole.

part of me wants to hope that the individuals involved in the creation and deployment of nuclear warheads have actually agreed to silently sabotage them all, rendering them inoperable even if there were an attempt to use them

it would make a good storyline, at any rate
To be fair Peter Norvig is much more "old AI" and shallow learning, which doesn't fit a lot of cases

Also 2008 in Deep Learning is 100 years ago :)
In Sweden it is a crime to criticise goverment's immigraiton policy. Saying "we should not let so many immigrants in" counts as "hate speech".
So? In this 11% it already covers almost all written languages in use and tons of dead ones. It also has lots of classic symbols, from math, book ornaments, standard typographic stuff (left arrow, etc.).

So all the basics are covered.

We could cover the rest 89% with variations of the turd emoticon and we'll still be perfectly fine.
But the Hiroshima bomb was the gun barrel thing, and the gun was heavy and so was the bomb.

For a small bomb, would have to test it, and tough to do such tests without being detected.

Tough to be doing much with fissionable materials without being noticed.

Still, broadly, the OP seems correct -- nukes are dangerous.
But isn't that "breaking of local law" just a technicality? Its not like they are actually shooting anyone, they are just passing through an airport.
Are you really saying that the law cannot be protested?
This is inspired by Spray, which I just learned about recently. The project is being migrated to Akka, so it's going to have support for the foreseeable future.

It looks like a great fit for Nim though.
I accidently hit downvote on your post, and I cannot undo it. I hope some kind soul will upvote you to counter. Your post has solid information for the topic at hand.
It's sometimes surprising how difficult it is for a death toll to force political action a sizable minority of the population strongly opposes.

How many people had to die from tobacco before even our currently very modest restrictions were put on its use and sale? Cigarettes can't be used as defense against wildlife, they can't be used for hunting, they can't be used in guerrilla defense during an invasion. But they're addictive and so even though they've played a part in killing millions and have been estimated to kill over 40,000 non-smokers a year, it's extremely difficult and time consuming to regulate them. And they aren't protected in the Bill of Rights, either.

We're probably going to see very slow change for gun control in the US, and with increasingly sharply divided opinions among voters.

http://www.livescience.com/23562-secondhand-smoke-kills-nons...
> The course itself is not public access, but the materials are.

What materials are you referring to?
This link is asking for a login. Is there anywhere one can read the results without creating an account?
Sounds like a job machines could do..
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Multiply your rating system by 2 and you won't need half stars :)
Conventional weapons are destructive enough, not to mention chemical and bio agents. What concerns me is the most is the last part of your comment.

>The kind of surveillance that would be required to adequately secure a nation against such weapons is the stuff Orwell never even dreamed of. It would require utterly pervasive, invasive, and constant surveillance.

1. AFAIK mass surveillance is not very effective in preventing bad actors (e.g. terrorist communicating via sms) yet it is promoted so much we are ready to accept that reasoning right away.

2. It is a symptomatic treatment, however we can go much further in prevention and deescalation to swing those actors a better way. I don't think certain people are born evil.
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I like how this is a blog post appears to be about 2 code commits (neither of which appear to have any tests btw).

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/cheer

I appreciate how the PM gets support for his team though. This post may have been budget justification for happy hour.
Nope, it's not like the law could be amended, or anything...
This was a draft blog post intended for review which was posted on HN, and has been made private for now.
The above is real text used in countless device manuals.

"Every possible image" (e.g. an elephant icon in running text) is not.
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I mostly agree with you.

But I see no problem with a little civil disobedience. And I don't see why politicians can't engage in some of it occasionally.