skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the fervor of the poster as I strongly support the 2nd amendment and find leftist/democrat arguments to be hypocritical...

But... I don't see the relevance to HN and if this were a leftist post I'd flag it and I want to be intellectually consistent, so... Flagged. Sorry.

If I'm wrong on flagging it, please let me know. Trying to adapt my HN behavior to the general decorum.
Not sure why this is on hacker news, but regardless, this article doesn't say much that isn't new. It even mentions specifically that...

"all guns start out as legally purchased weapons but “huge number of them” fall into the hands of unlawful owners"

And that's the issue. The USA has a massive amount of guns available for legal purchase, which countries with less gun violence do not have. Some of these guns make their way into criminal hands and are used in crimes. Why do other first world countries not have this issue? Because they do not have massive amounts of guns available for purchase.

Banning legal guns decreases the number of guns that will fall into criminal hands to be used in crimes. This is what other countries are doing, and it works. I don't understand the issue with this, I get that shooting is a fun sport, but people are dying. LOTS of people. Get a new hobby.
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Sad to see. A friend and I developed a niche Mac pro-audio software tool in 2002 and Kagi was pretty much the only turnkey payment solution available. Primitive by modern (post-Stripe) era standards but we processed a few thousand dollars a month through them for several years without issue.
This is neatly done.
Thanks to Github for open sourcing this.
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> When a founder doesn't know that they don't have money to pay their employees it's unforgivable.

This is a constant state for a startup, from day 1. You always have a runway of some length at which point you know you can't pay your employees. The question is when you start to warn about the runway running out. It's much more grey than you suggest. 2 days warning is unconscionable, IMO. But do you need to start warning employees at 120 days? 90 days? 60 days?
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I agree with your point in general but it's worth considering that the act of getting off planet is a/the great filter.

Either because it tends to involve the development of Von Neumann probes that unexpectedly turn on their creators or because it signals to latent berserker probes sitting in the asteroid belt that we have reached a threat threshold and need to be eliminated.

Either way I agree that we need to try to get off this planet in a meaningful and permanent way.
He said “the fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your collection of models. If you can’t, anything can be painfully difficult.” This is very revealing about the actual nature of learning, human and machine, and it's something that the ML community has simply ignored.
So most crimes are committed with guns stolen from or lost by the legal owners. Is that what gun rights advocates want to be saying?

Maybe it's because I'm not an American and I've never been to America but this all just seems strange.
Is there an 'Unencrypted user traffic by device type' [1] chart just for YouTube traffic, as opposed to all Google services?

Specifically, are non-HTTPS connections coming from desktops, mobile/device outside of an official app, or mobile/device through an official app?

[1] https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/https?hl=en#device...
That's a workaround only if the server forges the value of '_method' into method via. Middleware
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> Most traffic is not SSL.

:(
Better but not great because the new link is not specific to this story. This is a better link

http://www.media.mit.edu/people/in-memory/papert

It was submitted but incorrectly marked as a dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12204756
This is America, where profits are irrelevant (take a look at any of the recent companies with multi-billion dollar valuations that surely aren't on that level of profitability).
The overwhelming majority of guns on the black market have been sold legally at one point. Obviously, legal gun sales are much easier to limit than illegal ones. How would you tackle illegal sales?

The same statistic probably applies to countries with stricter gun laws, it's the sheer amount of weapons available that make the difference. The US gun laws have created a flood of weapons into black markets, especially in South America, where the Mafia is often armed better than the police.

It's safe to say that this development cannot be reversed at this point, but it can still be curbed.
Shared vehicles could make cities dramatically more livable
I think an IDE is a must for Java.

You get an astonishing power to refactor the code in ways I couldn't have dreamed about before.
I've always thought of it like this (could be wrong):

An electric field moves charge. Charge has mass, so it takes work to change it's momentum. When the electric field wave enters the metal, the charge is moved around by the field. So a lot of the energy in the wave is turned into motion. If the wires were thicker, there would be more charge and mass to move around, so more of the energy of the wave is lost moving the charge around by the time it exits the metal.
I think this correlates strongly with the idea of "Defaulting to Yes". If someone has an idea or a suggestion, your default position should be, "Let's try it and find out" instead of the unfortunately more common "That won't work because..." response.

Discussion is good (because ideas are surfaced and knowledge is shared) but long discussions are bad (because action is delayed). Action is good because that's how you learn things. By adopting an "Let's try it" attitude, you can move from discussion to action more quickly.
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I do think the author told himself he was writing it in good faith, but it was hard for me to see where he took direct responsibility for the outcome.

I read it as more blame-shifting to Simon, and since this Simon character doesn't have a voice in this, we can't see the whole picture.
The magazine reported that an American retiree could fund “a relaxed and comfortable lifestyle” in Cambodia on nothing more than a $1,000-a-month Social Security check.

You can do the same in some eastern European countries, and they have the advantage of not being Cambodia.
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Gary Johnson stated that he would eliminate the Board of Education. That is the opposite position from Bernie Sanders' push to expand access to public education. Don't take that as an endorsement of the status quo; right now schools are locally funded, with wealthier districts providing higher quality experiences and fighting vehemently against out-of-district access to those resources. [0] However, the market-based solution that GJ and the Libertarians propose looks like a step backwards, furthering the stratification between rich and poor. A stronger national education system is necessary to enable sensible resource allocation and equitable access to quality schools.

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cool, the rest of us don't savor the ability of the uber-rich to erase Others from the face of the earth (some might even call them super-predators!)
Microsoft's naming (or lack of) is a mixed blessing.. usually combining "Microsoft" + term works... what sucks is when you search for anything "SQL" and you get a bunch of MS-SQL related links... really, T-SQL and MS-SQL should always be prefixed when referring to the vendor's product.
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Still something I'd consider an anti-feature, as it both punishes small software authors/projects and creates confusion on new releases even for bigger projects.
Yes, this is to avoid the problem many an FMEA (Failure Modes Effects Analysis) meeting agonizes over: "it's possible for the software to fail in this way, but how do we quantify the probability of it happening so we can calculate the risk factor?" By assuming that if it can happen, then it will" you remove any handwaving from the equation.
Harry Potter facts via machine payable API
Huh. I always interpreted this as a sort of binary search algorithm you apply when working out a feature or trying to find a bug.

"I know the bug happens between this and this, so lets try this - nope, before then. Divide and conquer.
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Actually, that was Steve Ciarcia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia, not Bob Pease.
That's kind of the consensus modern psychology and trainers are coming to. Some kids just have a drive that others don't, and that is what determines how well they do.

The major difficulty with the idea of "natural talent" is that every time someone points to a skill/whatever and says, "this is natural talent" someone else finds a way to teach that skill. Here is one paper: http://talentdevelop.com/articles/ITROM.html
Assuming he's a NY resident, the laws here are not particularly generous. For example, our homestead exemption for a married couple tops out at $331,100.

I don't really understand all the ins and outs of chapter 11 bankruptcy (it is more commonly used by companies than individuals) but I don't think he is going to be able to retain all that much wealth if the judgment ends up standing. On top of that he'll have to pay all "disposable income" to creditors for five years.
I started using Kagi in 1996 for Vestris.com. I was too young to incorporate in Switzerland, so I bought a BVI offshore. Kagi was the payment processor, helping me sell my shareware and sending a check, reliably. You were awesome! I would go to a bank in Geneva to get cash. Sad to see it go, but shareware is no more.
Or perhaps it was just easier and cheaper to fabricate a sheet-metal box with one side die-punched with a grid of holes.

I can totally see how making a cage of wires might use less material, but be magnitudes harder to fabricate correctly (electrically, mechanically, and aesthetically) and get right without any leaks.
One of the icons is copied from the old iOS Game Center icon. Maybe they got it from this package: http://www.iconarchive.com/show/ios7-style-metro-ui-icons-by...
These new features depend on general Safebrowsing to be turned on, so you shouldn't need to turn off anything new...
> You're obviously right, it's libel, full stop.

Libel requires falsehood. That's not the case here.
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Does anyone have a few examples of the claims being made here? Like what utilities and services are being owned/managed by PE firms?
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Sprinting is largely anaerobic, which is good too. Variety is probably best since different muscle fibers release different myokines, and since the stimulus necessary to elicit a particular level of response increases with degree of training.
It's done by the guy who runs hardcoregaming101.net. He has an insane amount of knowledge about gaming, but he tends to prefer quantity over quality in his writing.

All in all though, his knowledge is great and appreciated, so I still enjoy his stuff.
Because getting time scheduled in a holodeck is really tough. They must have a high energy requirement or something.
That's great.

Did you try the regular "adult" tutorials with them? It would be interesting to see if they liked this more, or found one of them interesting.
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I can only echo all the sentiments echoed here – thank you for those reflections.

Kagi allowed me to get started as a developer, and my company has grown a lot since that fateful day in 2002 when I sold the first copy of my software Isadora. In all those years, they were never late with a payment until this month... a payment I suspect will never come now. (Or for which I will be offered pennies on the dollar. Guess we'll have to see.)

Customer support was pretty great; you always got a person who knew what was actually going on and who was super friendly and chill.

Well, farewell. One of those "end of an era" kind of things.

-- Mark
> How does an investor benefit from overpaying for equity?

It's not overpaying if they know exactly what they are doing and why: they can afford to pay for an inflated valuation. Also, value is subjective. If you go down Sandy Hill doing valuations, you're bound to get wildly different values - which one would you consider "correct" or "overpaying"?

Possible benefits, in no particular order:

* Increases chances of startup accepting their investment.

* Halo-effect on their investment. If $STARTUP is worth $X billion, then surely "they are onto something big". This in turn increases the chance of the startup succeeding

* Prestige/profit. If you were publicly buying a painting for ap speculation/resale, surely you can afford to pay 10% extra if it increases the painting's percieved value by 30%. Now you own a painting that's worth 30% more than it's "real" value (had you not paid more)

* fear of missing out on 'hot' startups.
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I don't get these comments. The growth of large Chinese MNCs is just getting started.

People said the same thing about Korean companies and Japanese companies.

The Chinese will continue to push into international markets and will grow to be incredibly competitive with western corporations.

Really naive to think otherwise...
This is true in Brazil as well. Not necessarily considered a "waste" of money, but Olympians are paid somewhat generous grants. It's still hard to qualify, which kind of creates a Catch-22 scenario, but at least hopefuls don't need to live on food stamps.
What types of public services (and their quality) are bing provided by private firms vs governments and municipalities is a very relevant conversation, and one we should be having.

However, conflating private equity with wall st., and making a distinction between how firms under private equity ownership behave vs. public equity or closely held (no financial sponsor) seems pointless other than to further some other purpose (which i won't speculate about)
So.......where do all those billions in revenue go?
> On the other hand, it isn't good that a select few (the extremely wealthy) can wield so much influence when other less wealthy people who may have been similarly wronged simply cannot.

It's also not fair that wealthy and powerful corporations (e.g. Gawker) can wield so much influence. I think the only thing the little guys can hope for are good big guys to do battle on their behalf.
> With current Bitcoin you can't even do micropayments.

False. https://bitcoinj.github.io/working-with-micropayments
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Sorry, should be "https://jet.com/careers" . Omit the final forward slash.
More like 172... another issue are the longer limbs that require more strenght to balance the body
Do you think not even Wikipedia could pull this off? Maybe is content was limited for Scientific channels? Maybe if Wikipedia buys Subbable, and uses VP9 to reduce some bandwidth costs?