skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest statistics that I can find on the CDC's website (final data for 2014) shows that the number of homicide deaths in the US for that year was 10,945, which far outstrips terrorism deaths.

Since I don't intend on shooting myself, the probability of me being shot is immediately a fraction of the number quoted in the article.

While I did not review the data for 2005-2013 and 2015, if the trends are similar in those years, then firearm deaths are about 1/3 (32.6% in 2014).

I live in Ohio.

If you're looking at regional differences, the ratio to firearm homicides to terrorism deaths is even higher in Ohio since there has been no major terrorist attack there, but there have been hundreds of firearm homicides over that 10 year period.

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_04.pdf table 18, firarm, homicide
Yeah, there's some progress. But it's slow, compared to other projects. E.g. Tensorflow was released November 2015 and already has 1.7x as many commits and 25x as many committers, and companies like IBM are adding support for it to their toolkits: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/26/ibm-adds-support-for-googl... (roughly like what Maya did for Arnold, although Autodesk just bought the whole company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoHAhODpi8)

Maybe it's not possible to make a similar kind of pipeline/platform-type thing for renderers, and they really do need all that material/shader garbage, but I always have been kind of disappointed with the state of the art...
Actually some of my high school teachers knew "a guy who knew a guy". It's very common. People usually talk to other people and anyone can be part of your professional network.
Why are tournaments (or rankings; it's hard to tell from the article) sexed in the first place?
There's some rationality to people's fear for terrorism. The impact of a terrorist attack is probably exponentially distributed, like an earthquake attack. Saying no one has died in earthquakes in SF in the last 10 years is not relevant.

Or pandemics – people are afraid of the next Ebola for the right reasons. The 1918 influenza killed 20-50M people.
+1 for Antifragile. Very interesting ideas, even though his writing style is a bit overbearing (lots of rants and personal attacks). I found it interesting to think about how the ideas in the book apply and relate to software development: https://henrikwarne.com/2014/06/08/antifragility-and-softwar...
As a home brewer, I'd dispute "doesn't have sugar in it".

The wort is stuffed with maltose, dextrose before fermentation.

The yeast turns most of the fermentable sugars into alcohol, true, but some are left, and some are required.

The yeast cannot work above a certain level of alcohol (%ABV), so any sugars added above that will not be fermented.

Some styles have added non fermentables (lactose) to add sweetness.

Also in cold weather, a mulled ale is amazing. :-)
I wonder how much of Huxley's work is influenced by his friendship with Jiddu Krishnamurthi.

I am only marginally familiar with K's work but have no knowledge of Huxley's . Would be curious if someone who has read both can comment about the similarities/influences between the two.
it would not affect gang shootings

Saying this categorically is going too far. I absolutely agree that banning guns wouldn't end gang shootings. I do think it would have quite some impact.
FWIW I hear it too.
> Microbenchmark results don't linearly scale to everything else.

Certainly they don't. But when evaluating something like this it is up to the reader to have critical thinking skills and realistic expectations about the level of experimental design applied to an admittedly alpha implementation published on a wiki on GitHub vs. maybe reading something like published in a peer review journal.
The color differences are from different "tone mapping" implementations after the render is stopped and can be ignored.

The point of that page is to evaluate renderer correctness (think of them as visual unit tests), not to really compare "which one looks better". For example, some of the images show appleseed with hard shadows, when they should be soft.

If you want to know which one is "right", Mitsuba is the one to look at as it's generally the most correct.

The graininess comes from not letting the machine renderer longer—the longer it goes, the less grainy it will be. That said, all of these renderers employ "tricks" to reduce the graininess that can make it practically impossible to remove whatever graininess slips through.
+1 for Deep Work, especially in this easily distracted world (get off Twitter and do deep work instead).
Please don't generalize HN like this, particularly as you choose to participate in the community. If you have specific criticisms, please address them civilly.
>The goal is equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

Opportunity is the probability distribution over outcomes. You can't equalize opportunity without reducing the variance of outcomes.
Also see https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
"... We feel we are the real keepers of Smalltalk-80, and enablers of the Dynabook experience."
Because of the specific way that child porn is, you are basically admitting to breaking the law by reporting it. If you want to go after child abusers then you have to do it anonymously. And of course, in the U.S. you can't even use synthetic images to lure child abusers, because they can count as child porn in some cases.

The system discourages everyone from the public to law enforcement from doing anything productive about child sexual abuse.
Android gives apps full access to your network activity
Going hands-on and behind the scenes at the Plume Wi-Fi HQ
I am the same exact way. Can you please recommend where to buy the teas you recommend for the stated effects?
Did I say they did? That's why watching youtube videos from FOSDEM doesn't replace going to FOSDEM.

But it's also clear that current VR or even "telepresence" robots (ie. ipads on sticks) are awful and there's a huge opportunity to make virtual interaction at virtual conferences great.
Beer is about as caloric as sugar-sweetened soda and has comparable carbohydrates. It's not health food. :)
I believe, but am not sure, that the tournament and ratings are both non-gendered. But one can look at the list of rated players and observe who the top rated woman is on that list.
I read this many times as a teenager after finding this on a railway platform in India. Changed my life. Good to see it here.
I re-read it two years ago, and was blown away by how good it was. A really good read!
>We saw this tried many times in the 20th century and there's not one success story to come out of it.

Mid-20th-century America seemed pretty damned successful, and it involved very high income taxes at the top, confiscatory inheritance taxes, and strong antitrust laws.
In chess this makes no sense. I can see that in other sports women are physically at a disadvantage but chess?
Godel, Escher, Bach.

But I'm not fully re-reading it, because the first time I only got to one third of it.

So, until I get to that first third, I'm re-reading, and after that, it is all new.
Well she is supposed to be the best woman in the world by far yet the top 100 in the world are all men. She probably feels she should be competing mostly against men so she can get shots at those above her and move up.
and this my friends is the face of addiction.
By the way, I think you're right. The moral argument is stronger than the economic one. And among another crowd, I would probably lead with moral.

That said, there is no need to only have one argument, they can both stand together.

As best I can tell, we have no moral obligation to let every person into the United States, but we have an economically-sound reason for accepting a steady stream of new folks.

Really thoughtful comment though, thanks.
Many many religious people don't do alcohol at all. In the USA, especially the south, many Christians don't drink. In most of Europe most do, "in moderation".
Or maybe moderate alcohol makes you wealthy, thereby making you healthier ;)
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Millions, not thousands, of inserts per second. TrailDB is hella fast (that's why we use it).
There are 'coastal' airports where noise isn't a huge problem, although even then it's debatable - the Concord project almost failed when New York cited noise pollution as a reason to ban the plane from landing there. The problem here though is that a private jet wouldn't be limited to a few Atlantic routes. The owner would presumably only buy one if it could be flown pretty much everywhere. That means the noise impact would be felt everywhere too.
Sure. Until that happens, developers should unionize. An adequate fix would take years to implement, and congress is unlikely to pass one within the next 4-8 years, so I don't think your suggestion is likely to be relevant within a reasonable timeframe.
"How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie. Timeless wisdom that is good to be reminded of regularly.
I did not intend to imply that my family was poor, only that we struggled with that income in suburban PA.

The reason I posted that is because I find it very difficult to believe that any family of 1 or more children on an income of 40k a year today would have a comfortable life, and affording broadband Internet would be difficult.
For some companies, open-source projects or contributions to open-source projects are a pretty strong signal that you: a) are commited enough to work on a long term project; b) have had some experience in working on a team; c) have worked on a project that has real-life use.
We do have few hundreds users which we got through reddit and medium. We are just thinking of putting it out there in front more people and get feedback and PH feedback tends to be great. We do think PH users will like it. Also I have been using PH for quite some time now but never signed up. Thanks for the reply.
> So there's a lie being told to the rest of us that life is supposed to be reasonably fair and that we're supposed to work toward keeping it that way.

Whoever told you that did you a massive disservice. You're not entitled to what others have; you get what you create.

> Why the hell do I need to be put up against your performance enhanced kid when it comes to success? Just have me toil in your lands where I compete against all the other serfs instead. If you're going to start people off in life ahead of me at least give me the courtesy of degrees of separation. Pretending at equality while everyone is rigging the game is trying to have your cake and eat it too.

Drop the histrionics; at least in the US and Canada, the game isn't that rigged, especially in fields where merit and effort matters (and within tech, I've noticed PR, marketing, other non STEM to be where the 'connected' get promoted). I grew up relatively poor and my kids will grow up significantly better off because you can earn your way into better opportunities (and I say this not being particularly smart).
A GNU/Linux distro + vim usually, with some Docker and shell scripts/make for the build process. Very transparent and everything can be versioned in Git.

Kinda the opposite of IDE-centric development, but the available Xamarin tooling didn't support that way of working.
I believe that acetate is actually at the heart of the health benefits of ethanol. Acetate has been shown to have many health benefits, and pretty much all ethanol is metabolized to acetate before being further broken down. Wine and herbal spirits may have some additional benefits due to compounds in the plants they are produced from.

On the other hand, it seems clear that ethanol itself isn't healthy. Thus, if you want the health benefits, skip the wine and use wine vinegar. Use alcohol for the pleasure it provides.
>However, despite top universities accepting significant quantities of low-income and minority students

I don't think that's in evidence. The top universities are almost devoid of low-income students, however many "minorities" they pick up through international admissions.[1]

[1] -- https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/no-poi...
Is your assertion that we should seek to normalize outcomes in order to address differences in opportunity?
Peter Thiel is hiring a personal assistant
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I hear Bane is a shoe-in for this one.
Something like poisoning the water supply, maybe?
Everyone here is trying to tackled the stats of gun deaths, but I'm really floored by a survey that shows Americans are more afraid of losing guns than loved ones.
> And what's up with the graininess of all of them?

I am not a rendering expert either but IIRC "physical rendering" works by shooting photons across the scene based on a random distribution, and in the end, the finished rendering is an average version of all photon passes. If you don't shoot enough photons, the averaged out version will be noisy because there will be some hotspots were significantly more photons hit, relative to the total photon count. More photons = longer rendering time, so the graininess is in the end probably caused by a time constraint enforced for each of the images.
Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
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>I wonder if there are child porn "Hunters" that go after these scum

If you are looking to build a skillset these are the only acceptable targets in my opinion.
I think it's terrible how universities reduce a student's achievements down to a single number (GPA) when there are so many factors involved.

When I was at university, some students didn't have to work to earn money and they could focus on their studies 100% - That gave them an unfair advantage.

I worked for the second half of my studies and there was an obvious, sudden decline in my grades.
Bindu Reddy seems to be overwhelmed with the balance between half of the core product being effectively censorship, while the other half is about countering self censorship. Tough company to run.

And even to set up a machine learning model to prevent CP sharing, they would need to find a jurisdiction where it's legal to store the training data.
Well, I know that drinking any alcohol is bad for me personally. Of course this does not apply in general, but even after a single drink I feel a little depressed and anxious the next day. The more I drink the worse I feel and the longer I need to recover.

Stop drinking was the single best thing I did to recover from depression and anxiety.
Seize the means of production.
It's ok! :)

So, if we only want to call a couple of animations and submit a form, I agree that a small script with three jQuery-style functions can do the job.

But that's rarely the case nowadays, in my experience. Almost every frontend project I came across professionally became a full application at some point.

There's the need of dealing with concurrent user interactions, online data requests to the server, non-traditional form behaviors, different routes...
>Opportunity basically means that everyone has the same rights of access to the marketplace. It doesn't make any guarantee about anyone's success once they enter that marketplace.

Having money (derived from inheritance or anywhere else) gives you privileged access to the marketplace since it helps you get over natural as well as artificial barriers to entry.

This is exactly why the unifying feature of entrepreneurs is not a greater appetite for risk (quite the opposite), but access to cash - often from parents:

http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/entrepre.pdf

>Since we don't have a substantial, legally-enforced caste system or other artificial limitations on success in America,

Access to wealth is an artificial limitation on success and it's largely what the American caste system is geared around.

>I'm not sure why you say that confiscating a family's resources will ensure opportunity for anybody.

Opportunity flows from resources.

You can act like you don't care about equality of opportunity or you can support a 100% inheritance tax (and no private education) but you can't really have it both ways.
The blue zone diets, and to a lesser degree the diets of natural bodybuilders provide a fairly good answer to this question.

Lots of vegetables, lots of legumes, fermented food products, and moderate consumption of animal products with an emphasis on fish. Eat enough so you don't feel weak, but limit consumption to stay fairly lean at the same time.
> [Hou] recently left the women's chess circuit for mixed events where she can compete against men

It looks from the article like there is indeed a women-only circuit.
No, just not everyone lives on Silicon Valley, or cool cities with startups.

There are zero jobs for Elm, Elixir, .... where I live.
They talk in the article about how she worked to get OUT of gendered tournaments. This one isn't gendered, but it seems that there's a ghettoization of women in chess that she's working against.
Skipping breakfast and not enough sleep can make children overweight
That is what I am talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13567612

Making possession illegal is a measure to reduce consumption and harm producers. It introduces "victimless crime" that does not harm others per se.
Define foreign. Canadian doctors certainly can get licenses to practice in the USA.
>Btw it is non-consensual porn production which is harmful, not distribution

I disagree. Production would be pointless without a way to distribute it.
This [1] indicates average doctors' income in the US is about $200K, and specialists' average is about $285K. That seems to exclude your statement "$500K/year is mid-range doctor salary...".

[1] http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2015...
Question: isn't the drawing of opponents dependent on relative ratings?

If so then it probably makes sense that more of one population would match with each other, assuming there are significant statistical differences in the populations. For Chess, this is most certainly the case (top 100 is almost all male iirc).
What you're talking about is the opinion. I was talking about the fact cited.
I don't know why you've been downvoted. This comment is depressing but it is at least partially true. I wouldn't go as far as the 'virgin' part, but there are definitely people in the UK who view teetotallers with some suspicion.
You did a nice job on me, however.
Most people don't spend a lot of time traveling. Some people do. There are different use cases. I spend a fair amount of time processing images. My laptop has 1.7 teraflops and 4GB of Quadro GPU. It's also not a typical use case. That's the difference between a ThinkPad X1 and a Thinkpad P.

As I mentioned, in the early 1990's the magically light laptop for Simpsoning through airports was 6+ pounds and 2" thick. What's changed besides raw compute is expectations not physiology.
> Guns kill more people than terrorism, period.

People with guns kill more people than terrorism. Guns aren't sentient (yet). Guns are inanimate tools; it's a people problem, not a tool problem. Just as you wouldn't say that cars kill people and try to ban cars when it's actually irresponsible drivers (drunk, inattentive, etc) that cause the accident, you can't blame an inanimate object for what its user does with it. Shifting the blame is a political maneuver as old as mankind.
You sound like my grandfather.

Using the mail is not inferior. Quote the opposite. One thing I noticed with most people who use the internet is they have no idea of their environment.

When you use the mail, you get a better understanding of how information travels. You see stamps, feel the paper, get hand cramps when you write too much. You see which post office a letter came from.

These are quite many points for which the real mail is superior.

And please: there is no"critical" tool there.
I think the real issue here is that perceptions of many of these risks is as much a matter of tribal identity as anything else. For example, liking guns is a tribal value of "team red" - therefore viewing it as dangerous is as much an attack on "our team" as it is a rational assessment.

This behavior is hardly limited to "team red". Tolerance of gay sex is a tribal value of "team blue". Yet it turns out M2M gay sex is between 15x and 200x as dangerous as gun ownership. How many people are remotely aware of this?

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/are_gays_or_guns_mor...

People suck at risk assessment in general. Apart from scoring cheap points for our team, why focus on terrorism and guns specifically?
> It's always been an international community.

Yeah, I thought a lot of the deep-learning revolution had come out of Canadian universities.
The risk with PH users is that they're only using the site for a stream of new products. No product matters because later there will be more new products to look at. Even the products they like will only be liked that day.

Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?
Looks pretty interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.
The only thing this news confirms is, there is some form of military budget committee meeting soon.

The biggest proponents of Chinese power is department of defense.
Ah yes. That does not surprise me. I thought that the person I was responding to was asking about this tournament specifically.
Agreed. You don't hear him referring to the male participants as "boys". This type of sexist language, while probably not intentional on the part of the speaker, is one of the reasons women struggle to be taken seriously in so many professional contexts.
It is not official. The state government has "welcomed" Apple's move and confirmed that they have had talks with Apple representatives. It's highly likely to happen, but not confirmed yet.
I agree. Does he also call the men, "boys"? Probably not. Not that it matters whether he does as that's still diminishing and dismissive.

It's also really insulting how he said she let herself down. She lived up to her beliefs and he should acknowledge that. Instead he invalidated her choices.
There are pretty strong rules about how the draw on FIDE tournaments can be done and the programs that make them have to be certified. In one forum someone said they actually checked:

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I see a lot of remarks saying "well, let them show the machine, so someone can check it", "It must be manipulated, this is so unlikely", etc.

The FIDE Swiss Dutch rules are on the FIDE website, in the handbook. There is pairings.fide.com which has a list of endorsed pairing software, meaning it was tested by FIDE to follow those rules. Why is nobody doing the checks?

Guess what? I did :)

Took the SwissManager tournament file from chess-results.com, created a TRF / FIDE rating report file, imported it, verified the pairings.

Round 1: differences, which is to be expected:
people show up late, ratings get corrected, mistakes fixed, etc.
Round 2, 3, 4: equal to the pairing in Gibraltar
Round 5: a few differences in the group of people with 1.5 and 1 out of 4, nowhere near Hou.
My educated guess: results of previous rounds were corrected after round 5 was paired
Round 6, 7, 8: equal to pairing in Gibraltar
Round 9: in the lower echelons 2 pairings were adjusted (the black players exchanged),
due to (probably) Israeli not playing Iranian
Round 10: equal to pairing in Gibraltar.

Does that count as sticking to the facts?