skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so you didn't like that source, did you bother to read any of the other many sources I supplied? Guess not since they don't support your world view.

Like i said I'm not anti gun. But saying I own a gun for protection is kind of like saying "I BASE jump to stay fit". No you don't. You do it because it's dangerous and fun. Guns are the same.

I wish more gun owners were intellectually honest and just admitted that they like their dangerous hobby in spite of the fact that

- Their chance of being a victim of violent crime such as home invasion or car jacking is unbelievably tiny

- The chance that they or a family member will be killed or injured by a family owned gun utterly dwarfs the chance that said gun will actually prevent violent crime

These are facts borne out 100% by data.

from [1], which gets most of it's data from government collected statistics. These are stats just for accidental injury!:

- "In 2010, unintentional firearm injuries caused the deaths of 606 people.18"

- "From 2005-2010, almost 3,800 people in the U.S. died from unintentional shootings.19"

- "Over 1,300 victims of unintentional shootings for the period 2005–2010 were under 25 years of age.20"

- "People of all age groups are significantly more likely to die from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns, relative to states with fewer guns. On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels.21"

- "A federal government study of unintentional shootings found that 8% of such shooting deaths resulted from shots fired by children under the age of six.22"

Again, from [2], "Nationwide, there are about 100 burglary-homicides every year.". 100 homicides for the ENTIRE USA related to burglary!! And i'd speculate that a significant number of these deaths were due to victims escalating the situation by drawing a gun!

That means you are 6 times as likely to accidentally kill yourself than be the victim of a murder during a burglary.

[1] http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/gun-viol...
> If you're on the ground in India, you can tell people are thinking twice before selling their properties for cash (it's very common for people to sell for 70/30 or so ratio for white and black money) / other hoarding activities.

On the other hand, demand for gold has gone up. That's definitely a more fungible form of black money than property.
The one thing that definitely won't make people happy is someone else telling them they don't know how to make themselves happy. People want choice, even if that means making a few incorrect choices.

>We know people in cities are, on average, happier and healthier.

Some people really dislike cities. I need woods. I need open spaces. I need to see the stars at night. I need a place for my dog to run without some stranger screaming about leash rules. But I also need to work. Personal transport, my own vehicle to carry myself and my dog, allows me to both work and enjoy the open spaces. So I'm all for parking spots.

And yes, weather permitting, my dog does come to costco with me. She would much rather sit in the car than sit at home. If she wants we'll hit any number of dog parks on the way home. If I took the bus, or Uber, she would have to sit at home ... alone all afternoon rather than being with me. That's what having parking spots at Costco means for us.
really?

Because websites want customers to remember their passwords and come back to the service.
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> WIW my wife has a diamond ring which she almost never wears, and I can't remember anyone ever asking about it

Interesting, I'm from Europe and I'd be curious to know at which point exactly did diamond rings replace gold wedding bands as the "official marriage signs" in the States. Wedding bands are still quite popular over here in Europe, hopefully they don't get replaced any time soon (for one thing, gold actually has some intrinsic value compared to diamonds).
I wonder if dread is the right word for it. I've always associated feelings of dread with knowing (or fearing) something is going to happen that will be terrible. You can certainly dread going to your job, but that weird state of limbo--where you do absolutely nothing because you simultaneously are avoiding something but also are feeling guilty for avoiding it--always felt like a different animal to me. Then again, I've never had a good word to describe it, so who knows.
The fact of the matter is, you're still talking about buying a rock. Once you have accepted the absurdity of that, it seems like bikeshedding to argue that diamonds are better or worse than anything else (or any less absurd).

Despite this, I spent an outrageous sum on the diamond engagement ring I bought my wife (as well as the wedding band). Because anything other than diamonds wouldn't have been diamonds!
Why not F#?
Except he's coming at it with a strong bias:

No matter what you think the specs say, the fact is the software and hardware are so well integrated
it tears strips off "superior spec'd" Windows counterparts in the real world.
This has always been true of Macs.

Having used both lines of machines for many years, if I want raw power and 'specs' I use the PC.
As far as estimates go (if such an event can be estimated at all) the usual time frame is "a few weeks up to a few months" starting from the first strong AI.

Exponential growth starts very slow, even slower than linear growth at first.
How will the users remember complex passwords? By using password managers. So you should probably be asking, why isn't everyone using password managers. Maybe it's because of inconvenience, laziness, not caring or any combination of the three factors.
Or even better, at some point they should introduce "safe mode" or "strict mode", where you turn on a compiler flag.
If we are going to impose a $24k/person/year tax to help the environment, is New York-style living the optimal allocation?

You could be very picky about sourcing food, and put the farmers using cheap but unsustainable methods out of business. Pay the premium for American-made products under American factory emissions regulations, to shut down some cargo ships and Chinese smokestacks. Every 5th American could be a $96k/yr researcher working on environmental problems, etc. We could all telecommute, and have our pay docked by $24k/year to compensate for the lost productivity.
You forget the Vatican Swiss Guard.
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I'd guess OS X is an easier target to test the waters than Linux for now.
More than a few developers have spoken up on the issue here on HN. The escape key is commonly used, as are many other function keys. Other vendors have rolled out similar gadgets to apple and they've been rejected by the development community at large - which apple would have known because they don't implement things like that willy nilly.
> I like to believe that there's a lot of savvy and affluent couples out there who are buying either moissanites instead of diamonds and choosing not to tell their friends or family about it to avoid the social stigma.

This is so foreign to me. Why do people care? It's just a way to signal wealth and really not much different than a bride price (a cultural practice that American expats are quick to criticize in an Asian culture, for reference). My girlfriend / future-wife and I will get matching steel rings or something similar, like my parents have. She's not American so she was thrilled by that idea. I already told her I won't wear it most of the time because rings are annoying, and again that was no problem at all.

I would run the other way if someone is resolute about buying a diamond, after everything that is known about the diamond industry. It means either that person is totally ignorant of the world around them, or doesn't care about making a positive impact with their lifestyle choices.
CZ is a very satisfactory diamond simulant. A $10 CZ is almost impossible to distinguish visually from a $10,000 diamond - unless you're a very skilled grader, you really can't tell the difference without a thermal tester or a refractometer. The visual giveaway is that it's too good - the stones are perfectly clear, perfectly colourless and have exceptional fire. CZ grades better than the very best diamonds. When it was introduced in the 1970s, it sent shockwaves through the gem trade.

CZ is a bit less durable than diamond (8 vs 10 mohs hardness, some porosity), but it's so cheap that you can have the stone replaced if it starts to show signs of wear.

Moissanite is a very fine simulant, but to my mind, the main advantage over CZ is that it's more expensive. CZ is implausibly cheap for a high-quality diamond simulant.
Programming Windows, 5th Edition (1998) is still practically completely valid, although it does of course not mention anything that came after it.
I feel so strange about this.

On one hand microsoft stepped up their attention to individual professionals (e.g. designers, developers, etc., more or less like Apple 15-20 years ago) and apple seems to forget them.

On the other hand, microsoft is infamous for privacy, for their forced upgrades, their updates, whereas apple emphasizes privacy.

I like macbooks as laptops, but on software front apple seems to rest on their laurels and developers seem to use macbooks, either because unix or there's more money in App store than elsewhere.
S.D. police use catheters, force to collect urine samples
AFAIK the editor (shell) is WPF (C#?) but the internals are still mostly C++/Win32.
From what I know about this guy's project, he is more concerned about PR, going around taking money and talking at circlefriendly libertarian conferences than actually doing anything meaningful.

Last I heard him talk at one conference, he was talking about making a Liberland app, that's Uber, AirBnB and ebay in one app, using smart contracts on blockchain. And it somehow connects to Liberland.

So yep, I don't see this as a serious attempt.

Edit: here is the app, I have no idea what is it actually doing.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.liberland.s...
This is why:

<?php

function generateNewUserPassword() {

//A really secure password!
return "4kSj7BFq5ry992xUB$3V33eDkPe*9Et56YKWcu!G^fbEj@Db6bCHDeN4&4V6FG!rYCe2Xx2hDWnAjb$F";

}

?>

Everyone gets the same password, but it looks secure.

As a user, you really shouldn't trust that the person who developed a website you're using is competent. You certainly shouldn't trust them to generate security credentials for you.
I've also had the feeling he was strongly biased throughout the whole article
San Marino has a military.

Lichtenstein and the Vatican have contracts with other nations, effectively "renting" their protection.

You don't need a standing army, but having military protection of some kind is vital to maintaining your sovereignty.

All that aside, the only real way to have a nation is to have other nations acknowledge its existence. Good luck claiming sovereignty when not a single member of the UN is willing to say you exist.
CLion is like $8/month. That is the price of a couple of coffees. I think it is worth that IMHO.
But is driving the same as being in public transport? You can read a book, watch a video, and in general not pay attention to your surroundings (more or less). Meanwhile driving in traffic is half boring, half stressful.
Also, it's her life story.
Sure. Can you see the email in my profile?
> There is no need for a car in cities since you can get anywhere with public transport

Visiting Vienna some time ago was the first time when I realized that if I ever were to move to another city from the one I'm currently living in (a capital city in Eastern Europe) that city would need to have a decent tramway network, just like Vienna does (trolley-buses also count).

Relying only on cars or Diesel-hungry buses for carrying people around a big city is barbarous. It also counts that I don't like taking the metro, as traveling 45 minutes - 1 hour per day underground doesn't fit my idea of "good travel".
You know when it comes down to it, you're probably right that NZ was not an exception. Violence was inevitably going to be a part of its sovereignty

However, a couple things about those citations

1 - to the best of my knowledge the musket wars predominately were inter-tribal warfare b/w Maori. Basically Europeans gave them muskets and they turned them on each other.

2 - the NZ Wars actually occurred after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, which occurred in 1840, and is the same year when NZ was claimed as a sovereign country.
Since we're talking about what is basically a rebrand of Xamarin Studio, the current release of Xamarin Studio for Mac uses the function keys for stepping in the debugger
don't think anything is done, people will continue to create better mouse traps in every field.

Next in social networks could be more interaction options that will deliver new kinds of "fun" between people
This an actual thing?
The "easiest" fix to this issue would be fixing education. If it's generally easy/inexpensive to get a good education for every citizen (e.g. via a taxation based social contract) that particular incentive goes away. Different societies have different positions on this. I'm generally very much in the "less government please" camp but for certain areas where there's a potential for multiplier effects or where more equality of opportunity is very likely to have a positive effect on society as a whole (education, health, justice, possibly defense etc.) I don't mind tax-based measures to provide more equality.
clang-tidy does this (or is working towards doing this)

http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/list.html
I don't now where you lived the past 20 years but theses are maybe the most classical arguments against mac in business.

Mac have never been "for Pro" if you go that way. So I guess it confirm that it's not the company that shifted it's focus, but maybe there is more potentials customers expectation of Apple going more "pro".
> might emit a bit of radio interference, although generally not too much

It might not cause the FCC to knock down your door, but what will it do to the laptop's own wireless and Bluetooth connectivity?
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Maybe someone should spread the rumor that Liberia is the ultimate Libertarian paradise (I mean, it's in the name and the flag looks similar enough to the US).
I've found iocage's user interface to be more intuitive. I started using iocage because ezjail broke something when trying to upgrade a jail, but that was probably me doing something wrong.
I for one don't see a point in these micro countries - they are philosophically inconsistent, nothing more than a make believe game for adults. What if I came to said Liberland and claimed one of the corners of the island for myself?
Even kids on Club Penguin staged an anti-Trump protest
Seems plausible, I don't know enough details to argue this.
A while back she wrote about quitting Yelp[0], and 9-5 jobs in general, because it sucked to spend 5 out of 7 days of the week working on things that, in the end, wasn't making them happy.

Ever since, I think she's been living solely off of Patreon, writing blog posts about things that are interesting. A great blog overall, and a nice/funny person

[0]:https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/
Summit and Sierra are two planned DOE machines with hardware developed in collaboration with IBM and Nvidia. They're slated to feature Volta GPU, a generation past P100's Pascal.

More details here: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit/
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Thanks mtanski, this is great data.

We are running a recent kernel as in ubuntu 16.04.

The reason I'm framing the caching not so much at the CephFS level is because we are shipping a product, and I don't think that all our customers will be running CephFS on their infra. Therefore we will need to optimize for that use case also, and not only focus on what we do at GitLab.com.

Thanks for sharing! Will surely take a look at this.
Trams definitely carry more people than buses, even articulated ones. On top of that they produce no local pollution, as they run on power that is not produced locally (and which might actually come from clean sources of energy). As per for the "trams are slow" argument that doesn't really count. Most of the time cars are riding bumper to bumper during rush hour, while a tram has its own dedicated line which makes it get ahead of cars almost all the time.

Source: me, who's riding the tram to work and back most of the times.
Beagle 2 'was so close to Mars success'
Say hello to GrowthBot  the chatbot for marketing and sales
.NET Core is for running apps on Linux. For a large chunk of the server market, that is plainly a requirement these days.

But most people writing the apps which then run on Linux, develop them on Macs (and the point of WSL is to give them a reason to consider Windows for this).
Quality of life is very difficult to measure. Average quality of life is probably worse than median quality of life. What about minimum quality of live? Should we make the life of the very poor worse if it improves the lives of the middle class?

I think the problem is a lot more difficult than what can be addressed with a single sentence.
I'd much rather use razor than write all my markup in c#. This code looks way too bloated
Just two weeks ago I was ordering a ring from a jeweler and I wanted a moissanite. It seems to be impossible to find this gem in Ukraine. My jeweler wasn't able to order it anywhere. I'm visiting Germany soon, so I went to Charles&Colvard website to see if they have a reseller in Germany – no they don't. The closest reseller is in UK. And I can't just order it from US because every delivery service specifically doesn't deliver precious stones and metals to Ukraine. So no moissanite for me.
So it's essentially the prisoners dilemma. Two persons must admit they are lonely for mutual benefit but nobody dare to do it first in fear of being the only one being perceived as failure.
Great deck, some really nice advice in there for technical leaders.
Really? The only gendered reference I can find on the site is from 2012 and self-describes as a dude.
"There is more to the transfer of capital than what is generally written. It is believed that Tughluq wanted to make Daulatabad an Islamic cultural centre, thereby helping him to have better control over the region, reducing the number of "Hindu" rebellions. His efforts to bring Ulema and Shaikhs from provincial towns and make them settle down in that city give a clue to his true intentions. The view of Muhammad Tughluq was that something like the above had to be done in the Deccan to strengthen the Muslim position in that area.

As regards its remote effects, the Deccan experiment of Muhammad Tughluq was a remarkable success. The boundaries which had separated the North from the South broke down. It is true that the extension of the administrative power of the Delhi Sultanate into the Deccan failed, but so far as the extension of the cultural institutions was concerned, it was successful."
That's what I liked best about the post. I've noticed that often the stuff I enjoy most is stuff where I'm free from thinking what the 'use' is or what other people would think of the end result.

Usually this would happen by accident. I'd feel 'inspired' to make a quick photoshop joke only to end up spending hours making it convincing, or I'd write a quick little script to alert me of bitcoin rate changes and end up doing much more than that.

Something similar is the case with articles or books. Some of the most enjoyable reading I've done was the result of 'stumbling' across something that captured my interest, whereas I often feel a strong barrier to get to reading stuff I feel I should read. This all seems, to some degree, independent of the actual content.

I've been trying to allow more of that playfulness in my life and cultivate it, but I still find that 'tricking' myself into it is usually the best way to get started because if I don't, the 'what is the use?' and 'will other people like/care for/admire this?' questions shut me down.

Brett Victor and the XKCD dude are big inspirations for me in this regard. And Richard Feynman.
> Guys aren't the ones wearing the ring everywhere!

I believe that the bride-only thing is US-only, or (maybe) limited maybe limited to ex-british regions, but it's definitely not universal, and definitely not a thing in latinamerica (diamonds aren't a thing here either) or a great deal of europe.
Dear Facebook: Just let third-party developers tweak the newsfeed
And all the sites nag you to include a capital, a non alpha and a number blah blah. How is that different?
> They would also would be allowed to move to another country

If those countries are having them, that is. In medieval times banishment for the most part was equivalent to death (or turning to a life of crime as a bandit).

While a nice idea in theory, how would a contained society actually work? Prisons already are miniature societies (just generally not very humanely run ones). It'd still be a prison, albeit a larger one, wouldn't it? Worst case it'd be something like Manhattan in Escape from New York.

I'm not saying it couldn't work but it's not an easy thing to get right.
Totally. If he were serious about his libertarian ideals he'd bear arms against the police and declare war between his state and his neighbours - or is he waiting for a pro bono pmc to do it for him, in true quasi-libertarian-but-actually-fascist style?
Why should a taxi get to use a bus lane? That's essentially a single person car with a chauffeur. How is a taxi-driven car more worthy than someone else's car?
They get an average parallelism of 4-10 with some standard algorithms assuming unlimited resources. Where are we now with modern intel processors on those algorithms? 2-3?
> If you are a pro mainly using the Mac for professional work...

This is extremely dishonest assessment that only 'Developers' do professional work. Mac is used by Engineers, CAD/CAM, designers, illustrators, artists, musicians, etc and to reduce it only to developers is disingenuous.

I for one is happy with the new Mac and there are several people who've found it great for 'pro' use.
On the internet, without body language, it's hard to read tone of delivery. Thanks for the note back, and cool :-)
For me nipples doesn't matter... probably it's rated PG-13.

In USA animations aim for G and PG... so not so bad as possible...
There are still people doing desktop development, not as many as web but it hasn't completely gone away. Sadly we are being ignored.
Tell it to the Supreme Court Justice he has nominated.
Would privacy be an important factor for the masses?

No.
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The shell still has a lot of C++ in it, yes (but also a lot of C#).

But the shell is a relatively small part of the entire IDE - the bulk of it is the extensions that actually provide support for various languages and technologies. Those also have some C++, either as legacy code, or because the team just preferred it, but by now C# is definitely the majority of it, and it keeps trending in that direction.

A lot of it can be very non-obvious and defying common sense. For example, if you take VS 2013 (pre-Roslyn), the C++ project system was written entirely in C#, while the C# project system was written mostly in C++.
We had an online portal with projects to finish. If you finished to the 20th project in 9th grade you were awarded what in UK would be seen as a C, 30 B, 35 A.

After each project is completed it's assigned to you in the webportal.

Each 10th project were a more demanding one including a test with a teacher and each 5th test were to be declared verbally to a teacher.
What rest?

So far I have only seen Vulkan on GNU/Linux and Android 7.0+ deployments.

And I am willing to bet it won't change, specially since most of us only care about middleware engines nowadays.

Guess which API was being discussed at Unite 2016 LA? Hint: it wasn't Vulkan.