skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of my head:

Nazi Germany, initially using "well intentioned" Wiemar law, in fact (the period after the WWI defeat was very chaotic and bloody). See this book by the #1 RKBA legal scholar for all the details: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598131613/

The description also helps confirm this next example:

Any country they invaded with registration lists, including the Netherlands; perhaps the #1 US RKBA activist of the 20th Century got started down that path in basic training after WWII, when a refugee from there related an atrocity he'd witnessed, where a whole family was machine gunned in the village/town square after the head of the household couldn't produce a handgun the register said he had.

The above examples are particularly instructive since by definition you can never know who might in the future use such data for ill.

Soviet Russia if I remember correctly; in fact, if I remember correctly, there was not a single genocide in the 20th Century that wasn't proceeded with the pattern, aside from China, where the Communists instead dried up the supply of guns held by the population by imposing "rifle taxes" on the wealthy. Basically, their life was forfeit unless they supplied the Communists with a certain number of guns, and they moved heaven and earth to do that, not that it did them any good in the end.

Of course, the poorer the population in general, the easier it is to pull of such a gambit, or a registration followed by a confiscation, so many fewer have guns.

Communist Cuba, for sure. They came up with a catchy slogan, got too many people to register, confiscated the guns, and then gangs of them started having fun with their class enemies.

As noted elsewhere in this discussion, in smaller numbers for select types of weapons, with of course the option to remove them from the state, this has happened in California when the status of the obsolescent (but certainly effective, e.g. used by the recent Dallas cop shooter) SKS, and in New York State. Something like it might be playing out right now in Massachusetts as their AG decided to redefine their "assault weapons" law, but she's still changing her not actually all that official position on it (i.e. it's published in unofficial venues like the office's web cite, no proper rule making process was followed).
i'm disappointed that we haven't made more progress with voice interfaces. Many people are happy with the keyboard/mouse as their primary input devices but combined with subtle gestures like you might get with Google's Soli and we should get a better user interface for everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0
I wrote MSPaint-as-JavaScript library, Literally Canvas (http://literallycanvas.com). People sometimes want to pay good rates for work done on it. I'm always looking for someone to take over most of those requests, since I no longer have time for it.
I'm not sure it reduces race discrimination in Sweden. It's not as blatantly in your face, but it still affects people greatly.
…than any other country, by both absolute numbers and per capita (with the exception of the Seychelles)
Concentrating on grams of sugar seems highly reductive. Usually foods with added sugar are also high in fat, additives, food coloring, etc. I think it's a combination of these things.
I'd love to get your feedback on this - a little side project I've been working on.
> If you're looking for exhausting your CPU cores, you can do it with Python as well, by using multiple processes, like when using "multiprocessing".

Successful multiprocessing frameworks are, in a modern sense, indistinguishable from networked peer-to-peer systems. While this space is well explored, it's very difficult to call the resulting discipline "easy." Just like threaded programming, it's easy to make something subtly wrong.

> Rust and Ocaml are very different programming languages. Rust does not have a GC and that changes its nature completely. For example Rust could be used for real-time systems where garbage collected languages would struggle.

Surveying the field, real time garbage collection is not a pipe dream. It's a delivered and purchasable reality. Propagating the myth that only direct memory management can possibly deliver good results is ignoring the last 15 years of hard work on the subject, as well as products in the field.

You're propagating a sort of urban legend. Please reconsider it.
I grew up with "you're so special" parenting, sort of, but I also was raised with tolerance and acceptance. Looking back, it makes sense, because if everyone is a unique snowflake, they have to learn to be tolerant and accepting of all the other unique snowflakes in the world.

Most parents seem to teach their children that, but looking at the millennial generation, of which I am unfortunately part, you're supposed to be "accepting" and "tolerant", unless someone else's uniqueness hurts your feelings or makes you feel uncomfortable.

The former is just plain childish, and the latter is just too vague to base an ideology off of.
For all its warts governments seems to be mostly good.

It seems however they should however be balanced by a powerful population.
I wouldn't be surprised if this has been in the works since before Rust was successfully integrated into Firefox's build system. Now that it has been, I'd expect brand-new development of this nature to start considering using Rust, but I still wouldn't expect 100% of new development to be in Rust because I don't expect FF devs to immediately become experts in a new language before getting work done. And C++ still beats Rust in IDE support, which for many devs might be their most important consideration.
I don't understand your comment. Do I need to know something about Paul Straw that isn't included in the article, or have I just missed the point?
I recently did a bunch of user interviews for a project - the results surprised me.

No one I spoke to under 20 used Facebook or Twitter. Instagram and Snapchat ruled completely.

Their opinions of Facebook were that there were too many ads, it was too text heavy, and it showed what others were interested in - they weren't interested in that.

For everyone over 40, Facebook was basically the entire internet, both professionally and personally.

Small sample size I know, but it made me wonder whether Facebook will soon have a serious demographic problem - and made the WhatsApp and instagram purchases look smart.
Shipping new Firefox code that parses untrusted data from the network normally requires security view, and a new fuzzer for the data format in question is usually written. There's lots of process and infrastructure around this sort of thing at Mozilla. This is sometimes handled in a separate bug from the one implementing the feature. I'm surprised that the corresponding security review bug isn't linked from the FLAX bug, though, which may be an oversight. (Or it may be the non-public blocking bug, and it's non-public because an issue was found.)
and dealers should primarily punished for tax avoidance, operating a unlicensed pharmacy, breaking DEA license terms.

which would put them in prison for way longer. and for the right crime.
I wish I could be definitive. This the explanation I was given by one of my professors. As I understand it most large businesses use accrual accounting, instead of cash accounting that a small business might use. In accrual accounting money is recorded in the ledger (I would say put on the books, but that could be confusing given the topic.) when a sale is made, even though the cash may not have yet been received. So, you have a profit on paper even though you don't have the cash in hand. The IRS ruled that all the books the publisher printed had to go in the ledger at face value when printed instead of waiting for a sale. That means that on paper, via accrual accounting, there is a profit that is taxed whether the publisher has the cash in hand or not. Publishers could record sales and make there quarterly tax payments knowing that they would get the cash in hand next quarter, but recording the printing of the books as sales and paying taxes that quarter when they might not actually sell the books for years was to much of a burden. Publishers started producing just the number books they thought they would need for the year. And, next year, if you are setting up a whole new printing run why not make corrections and updates, that is, print a new edition.
Yeah I have been doing software for a long time and a couple years ago I started getting into embedded software and loving it. I have found some embedded developer positions I could get into without an EE degree but would have to take a cut in pay. If that's something you can afford to do, that's probably your best bet. I can't afford to take the cut but some people are better with savings than me lol
The prognosis depends on the circumstances leading to the vfib. If it is a response to a sudden 100% blockage in the left anterior descending coronary artery, that is a widowmaker. No amount of defib will "fix" that until the blockage is cleared, and there is only a window of a very few minutes to clear it by going in surgically, or a hail mary measure to dissolve it fast.

If the vfib is "just" a result of chemical imbalance or a less major blockage, the outlook with vfib is much better, and it has even been known to spontaneously self-clear.
You said you already knew about the Google route. That's all that link is.
Something is enjoyable and has mildly negative health effects? Better tax it! Can't trust adults to decide for themselves if the risk of drinking, smoking pot, or God forbid, eating sugar!
Other people's tragedies can be cathartic, or at least so I recall being taught in high school English class from nearly two decades ago. Knowing that someone has it worse than you do can make you feel better about your own situation, not due to schadenfreude but just by helping to put things in perspective.
Are you certain that this applies to Americans that don't have a college education?

No, I am not certain that Americans with American parents in the bottom 20% didn't get an education. Some of them probably did (about half the population has at least some college) and had their place at the bottom of the ladder filled by an immigrant.

Don't look at averages, look at distributions.

It helps if you actually follow the link provided and look at the exact figure being cited. Then you'd see it's a histogram of a distribution!
I have built https://www.writedown.co an opinionated immutable Twitter like social network that has most of the features you would expect (something like Akasha). I wanted to make it compatible with blockchains also. Nodejs (ES7) + Ractive + Orientdb. Didn't get much traction / I lack PR skills. If you think you believe in the idea/cause you can either take it or work together (it is almost feature complete).
Sorry, when I said "whose authority" I wasn't referring to the conference runners -- obviously they can choose to invite and disinvite anyone they want. I was referring to these Twitter randos the conference runners are apparently required to "vet" their speakers with.
The Arches of the Little Prince
I've seen some pretty crazy doxing I think would be hard to do in other countries but I've never seen the system be questioned in media.
What difference does that make here? It's an analogy. Feel free to swap the genders used in the analogy so that you can comment on the main point being made without getting distracted.
On IE and Edge, every sentence becomes prefixed with the string "null". This appears to be caused by the code that clears the element content with:

el.innerHTML = null;

Changing that to a blank string fixes the issue for me, i.e.

el.innerHTML = "";
Old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5635437
25g of sugar is under 100 Calories. This is not a substantial contribution to the caloric intake required to sustain obesity.
> Sure, what is required is for the constituency to actually be inclusive of those not in the in-group.

That does not make sense.

Seriously how is this not doublethink?

There exist no political groups representing interests outside of the political group, it is a straight contradiction in terms.

> Examples like [1], combined with a lack of interest by the candidate or his followers in correcting the situation make historical analogies seem prescient.

These characters and the things they say are the obsessions of the media and I don't share their enthusiasm.

Nothing they say or do in ten, twenty years has any substance. It is demotic theatrics that distract us from anything that actually matters. Like how we're continuing to plateau economically or the dire need of our government institutions to be reformed.
This theory is reversing the cause and effect. Self-awareness is not the primary because it is a consequence of free will, i.e. the capacity to direct the focus or object of your consciousness. Initially the focus of attention is external to the mind for its obvious survival value and the higher animals clearly have some primitive ability to direct their focus. But the step they cannot (or have not made) is to direct that focus onto their own cognitive states (i.e. self-awareness) and discover such things as anger, jealousy, want, love, motivation, etc. From there its a small step to project that certain other animals have similar internal states that explain their behaviors, i.e. mirroring. Hours of observing others animals perceptually would never lead to mirroring nor self-awareness. It is a projection of our observation of the internal states of the only consciousness you can or ever will directly observe, your own.
Why do you feel justified in assuming what your company would think? And how do you justify working at such a place with the kind of corporate moral code that would punish employees for behavior not defined in the employment contract?

There are plenty of scenarios in which an employer believes that they deserve to know how their employee conducts themselves outside of work, including other jobs, and in those scenarios, this should be specified in the contract. In the news business, working for someone who might intersect with your beat, e.g. making phone calls for the local chapter of Democrats if you're covering politics, will often result in a severe reprimand if not firing. If you want to be a schoolteacher, you can be fired for having worked in porn, even if those days are over. [0]

[0] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stacie-halas-fired-calif-teacher...
Naive factorial() implementation is self-aware, I'd say. So what?
I think http://www.strawpoll.me/ is a popular site used on Twitch that does a very similar thing
what have we done to deserve this?
Yes, of course. I like using portable players, so FLAC is counter productive there. I see no point in streaming anything if you can just put files on your player and not depend on any connection.
This "X shaming" or "X gender inappropriate joke" is really getting out of hand. You can't say anything anymore. You may hurt someone's feelings, bla bla bla. I'm sick of this. I'm sick of this political correctness that is intoxicating our society. You cannot say anymore: "hey, grow a pair!" because this is sexist? Come on... this is insane! One thing is to respect everybody and another one is to apply censorship to everything. Even though people didn't meant to offend, harass or shame other people.
edited. You are right.
Microsoft also deserves applause in the accessibility stakes.

My cousin's child is quadriplegic with cerebral palsy and a lot of his eye controlled tech runs on Windows
I am a bit obsessed with food ingredients so I always read the labels. I noticed there's sugar in most ready made sauces and ready made meals. Indian sauces, pasta sauces, and salad dressings all have a lot of sugar. Surprisingly you can find added sugar in mexican spice mixes and most bread types (probably not a lot but I never understood why).
I've been confused by the recent emphasis on added sugars. Why does it make a difference where the sugar comes from? Two bananas also have 25g of sugar but somehow it's different according to this guideline. Maybe it comes from a reluctance to telling people not to eat fruits and vegetables.
Rocket Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpYoQfhk37s

God says...
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I founded and help maintain a very large Clojure codebase and to be honest, I am sick to death of not having a real type system to help me.

Sure, we can test the crap out of our code watching for npe's. We can lint like crazy. We can write large integration tests to better understand the larger picture better. But ultimately nothing is as pervasive as the compiler relentlessly asking you to be clear.

What's more, the benefits of a language like OCaml (where Tagged unions, GADTs, direct modeling of errors via an Either composition, etc. rule the day) on your code leads you to a really good place when the codebase is sufficiently large.

Giving up s-expressions and monads is indeed a sad thing. I'd miss it.
already on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12425119
Thank you! I'll check this out!

Edit: ...is that Chris Gammell? How did I not know this was a thing he made?
This comment is a great microcosm of what's gone wrong in the US food supply. "Peanut butter" doesn't by definition require any ingredients other than peanuts. Want some added salt for flavor? Sure!

This is America though. So let's take those healthy salty nuts and mix in a few tablespoons of high-fructose corn syrup! Not just as an option - let's put that in every damn product we offer, except maybe a double the price "natural" option for yuppies. Same with yogurt - great, healthy food: almost impossible to find in a US supermarket without shitloads of added sugar.

I don't care about "what the market wants" comments, nor am I a fan of NYC-style "soda laws". I do think it ought to be borderline criminal that basically all the huge companies whose job it is to supply the US public with food have laced a majority of their otherwise healthy product lines with poison, to the point where the inability to find basic foodstuffs not laced with poison is just taken as a fact of modern life.
http://www.kickassapp.com is never finished!
Look at Erlang / Elixir for that specific feature.
The higher you push alcohol taxes, the more people turn to black markets, the more people get injured by improper distillation.
A long-term shareholder that is worried about an announcement day bump must be new to the stock game, or not that good at it.
This really looks cool. But you should add some brief instructions on how to compile the code in the README!

I only managed to compile the code after one hour of work. Then I'm kinda new to ubuntu.

apt-file search

helped me out a lot. It was only when I could use apt-file to search for pc file that I managed to install the necessary deb packages.
You're thinking of "MNG", which is a different PNG-related animation format than the simpler "animated PNG". MNG was removed, but animated PNG is still supported in Firefox and indeed is used in its UI.
Yep, but now whoever you check will receive a notice about who checked their salary.

So basically nobody does anymore which is a shame in some ways.

OTOH: Keeping everything wide open with no audit in the time of Internet and free access for East European criminals maybe wasn't the right way either. (E.g. you could plan a raid on rich old people based on electronically searchable archives.)
"All the research" and "nothing to do with" are both huge oversimplifications / exaggerations of what otherwise might be a good point.
Not sure I'm following. Can you elaborate?
Support for zaurus platform discontinued (OpenBSD)
It is surprisingly close to my personal anecdotal estimate, but is far smaller than the 5% number I see quoted regularly in the press. It is great to have a hard number rather than some unsourced estimate.
Slashdots different types of karma were great: Insightful, Informative, Interesting, Funny... you could add Agree, Disagree and a few others.
Camouflage passport
From the article:

> You propose running a Tor node or using Tor internally. Before, this was just something you could do. After Tor’s pivot, you now have to justify why the company should explicitly associate itself with banned HR activism and draw the government’s ire. Using Tor is now an additional mild liability for all of its non-HR users.

Using Tor already marks you as suspicious depending on who's looking, regardless of why you use it. The ideals or mission statement of the Tor project don't change this.

Tor suffers from the same impediment as the Bittorrent protocol; it is used a lot for illegal purposes, so a stigma of illegality surrounds the tool itself. By focusing on the legitimate use of Tor (e.g., as a human rights facilitating tool) the Tor project might actually improve adoption rather than frustrate it.
Irrational numbers can be represented exactly; integrals allow us to perform exact calculation using them. In what comparable way does truth (e.g. the true process underlying gene expression) have a role in statistics? We neither measure the truth nor model it; it is absent.
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It has to do with the way the sugar gets metabolized. Actually the rate it gets absorbed and released in the bloodstream. A banana has a lower glycemic index than refined sugar. A gram of refined sugar will cause a blood sugar spike requiring a large amount of insulin to remove it from the blood. A banana, takes longer to digest and release the sugar meaning the sugar spike is smaller hence less insulin. Type 2 diabetes is thought to be caused by sugar spikes in the blood stream - the more insulin gets released at once the body builds tolerance to insulin and requires more and more to do the same work leading to diabetes.

check the following for a list of glucemic index in different foods:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glycem...
How to encrypt-then-MAC using pen-and-paper and a Caesar cipher?