skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great example how, based on your readings of the data, you can lie or present any case with statistics...

First of all, among the gun deaths there are people that shot themselves, and also people shot in gang shootings and such (where, if you're not in a gang you're not that affected). So the number is somewhat inflated (of course still bigger than terrorism).

Second, people fear going into violent neighborhoods with gun crime (say Compton at night), a hell of a lot than they fear terrorism. They might agree when asked in polls that "terrorism is a great threat", but they sure as hell as pragmatically more concerned with areas with violent crime, and avoiding them in their day to day lives.

Third, as people in certain places have witnessed, terrorism can be a constant source of death and horror, with multiple incidents per year, or even daily if a country goes sour. Just because it hasn't happened in some place, it doesn't mean it's impossible to happen (e.g. if there's a sizable militant islam population in the US).

Fourth, terrorism can also bring much more horrible outcomes than the regular gun death, even more than a mass shooting. Some crazies can kill literally tens of thousands via some (not that elaborate) plan. And while it might not always be possible to predict or prevent such a thing, one can still fear it (and fear to further stir the conditions that might make it happen).

Fifth, do the people that are OK with guns believe that if there was strict gun control gun related crime would go down? Or do they believe that criminals will be the only ones with access to guns (bought illegally of course)? If the latter's the case, then it makes sense to be OK with guns, as they see them as something they can use to protect themselves against violent crime and that the criminals will have anyway. And of course nobody realistically believes that they'll snap and kill their spouse with that gun (or vise versa -- as it often happens). It's more realistic, in that sense, to fear terrorism than yourself.
gRPC bandwidth estimate
For those deploying micro services using containers, would you please specify:
1) Number of containers/host
2) gRPC (or other RPC) requests/sec
3) Estimated bandwidth for gRPC
4) Do you use per node http proxy for client side load balancing?
Yes, I guess these particular seats are not more dense, but the idea of trading some cabin volume for legroom seems a good one, but requires some innovation.
Certainly not all, but catholic prep schools can have tuitions of $30,000+ in some cases so in that case the numbers are reasonable as a passthrough to the foreign parents.
It certainly feels like we've always been at war with R̶u̶s̶s̶i̶a̶ the Middle East.
Hey thanks for pointing that out. I'm rather new to the Java ecosystem so if you can point me in the right direction it would be great!

What would be a good practice for placing the examples folder into a Java project? Something like the following?

Project Root
/jurl
/src
/main
/test
/examples <= HERE
...
Actually, suicide stats indicate that "I do not intend to kill myself" is not how it works. In general, suicidal episodes seem to be short and having access to means to kill yourself increases the chance you'll actually do that. Not having the means available increases the survival rate - even small barriers like selling painkillers in smaller boxes show significant reduction in suicide rates. Another considerable factor are accidents - nobody intends to kill himself in a gun accident either, it just happens. So I think it's quite correct to include those numbers in the risk profile.
"Improving" is kind of a strong statement. See for example this recent PR: https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/pull/1217/files. It seems like they just keep adding and removing special cases, so there's code churn but not really progress in any particular direction...
From the CDC, .326 * 33,599 or about 10,953 firearm homicide deaths in 2014:

Firearm—In 2014, 33,599 persons died from firearm injuries
in the United States (Tables 18 and 19), accounting for
16.8% of all injury deaths in that year. The age-adjusted
death rate from firearm injuries (all intents) did not
change significantly in 2014 from 2013. The two major
component causes of firearm injury deaths in 2014 were
suicide (63.5%) and homicide (32.6%). The age-adjusted
death rate for firearm homicide decreased 2.8%,
from 3.6 in 2013 to 3.5 in 2014. The rate for firearm
suicide did not change.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_04.pdf

You should understand that firearm-related injuries will be proportionately worse. Moreover, toddlers kill people at the rate of about 1 per week which is significantly greater than terrorism deaths except for 2001 (2908 with 9/11) and 1995 (171 with Oklahoma City).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/14/peopl...
Why Semantic Versioning Isn't (2015)
They're not customizing the stats for you; it's for the average American — i.e., it's not P(shot|jplasmeier), but rather P(shot|American).
Telling the whole truth in a post-truth environment
I don't know what's going on here, but my old Mac Pro would always trip the AFCI circuit breaker when I turned it on, even with little else on the circuit. It must have been taking a big gulp of power that resembled an arc-fault. Perhaps some laptop power supplies could also have weird characteristics that trip such a breaker even without exceeding the current threshold, and be interpreted in storytelling as "blowing out the fuses."
Have you tried Blender? It's a 3D modeling tool with a python interface. Might work nicely for what you want to do.
The great Lewis Black has some wonderfully relevant commentary:

"The people who told us about sun block were the same people who told us, when I was a kid, that eggs were good. So I ate a lot of eggs. Ten years later they said they were bad. I went, "Well, I just ate the eggs!" So I stopped eating eggs, and ten years later they said they were good again! Well, then I ate twice as many, and then they said they were bad. Well, now I'm really fucked! Then they said they're good, they're bad, they're good, the whites are good, th-the yellows - make up your mind! It's breakfast I've gotta eat!"
Terrorism scales, it is fat tailed distribution (9/11 again, anyone?). Cancer, guns and car accidents - no.
Article is plain bullshit.
Isn't depressant just the opposite of stimulant? I don't think it has anything to do with depression the syndrome.
Keyword being yet. Recently Plex announced integration with Alexa. Nvidia Shield recently saw Amazon Video app. It is really just a matter of time before skills to play video on devices like the audio is available.
Right, but isn't that rather useless? If we knew the actual probability of each individual being killed by guns or terrorists, we could find that neither of these averages would be represented by even a single person.
Perhaps I'm easier to please. The article your linked to was publish in October 2015.

Just this year they've added code[0] to support alSurface[1], which I consider to be a significant (and unexpected) feature improvement.

Their news page[2] (to me) shows significant improvements since late 2015 as well, and it looks like the 1.7.x beta is just around the corner[3].

[0] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/commit/8b0bb02112f7...

[1] http://www.anderslanglands.com/alshaders/index.html

[2] http://appleseedhq.net/news.html

[3] https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/commit/3dfcad020e0f...
Using tmux properly
There has been quite a lot of work done. You can check the release notes to see precisely what has been improved.

https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/tags
You do not even need to be aware of the nitty-gritty details, it's enough to look at any jet program costs. Heck, even the Russians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100 couldn't build a regional jet below 1.5B.
Homeland Security suspends travel ban
Audi R8 Fatal Crash in China
Beer has good health benefits. It doesn't have sugar in it, so it's something you can drink without damaging your teeth. It doesn't have caffeine, so it's not going to stop you sleeping (hence why people meet for a coffee during the day and a 'drink' in the evening). Apparently it helps your cholesterol. It also kills germs/bacteria - when I was in India I tried to drink beer every day and I never got sick.

In terms of taste, I think it becomes much more appealing in hot weather, as a chilled beer is very refreshing. Also, it's something you tend to sip gradually, which lends itself to situations where you are sitting with friends for extended periods. Similarly with wine.

It does seem to cause people to lower their inhibitions which leads to easier conversation. Drunk people are very tiresome though.
Not with dynamic languages for the host code. Check out http://clojurecl.uncomplicate.org. Full speed with much less code.
Wow, this is a really good explanation! Thank you. I wonder though, are RBMs being used in practice? Are they worth any future research?
see https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download... for various coreboot for x86-chromebook builds
And then you have someone discovering the teachings of the Buddha from an ad ran by their local Dharma center seeking new patrons.
I also like metal, but it is not yet performant for high performance computing, which is more my wheelhouse. I'm also skeptical it will be popular if it does not get picked up by the GPGPU folks, but time will tell.
Good article, motivating employees by offering them training courses, go to conferences and meetups, work on prototypes one or more days per month, give them a budget to buy books or a budget to organize meetups or hackathons in the office are all goods things to keep employees (developers) motivated ...

But one thing always seems to be a motivation taboo, I'm speaking of the salary. If your company is a good workplace where employees feel motivated and enjoy working but another company offers then 5% more salary then they will probably refuse the offer. But if that other company offers them 50% or even 100% more then you might lose that employee. So please dear CEOs out there, be aware of what the average salaries for employees are and offer them a pay raise if the salary they get is lower than the average. Don't wait until it's too late, hoping your employees won't use salary comparison tools and not notice for years that they could be earning far more if they would switch to another company.
I'm not sure I follow everything what you wrote. I'm interested in how many inserts are you doing per second to the DB. Is it in 1000s/sec or millions/sec.
Terrorism is presently a major political issue.

People probably don't live their lives any differently because of it. Many do support shaping government policy around to an extent that is not easily justified by data.
Don't write it to your main transactional database, then.

Have a separate connection to a DB on another machine that is handling the load. Do that within the transaction/request from the client, or pop it into a message queue.

The queue will "persist" the data, but will also schedule it for when your other box/DB can ingest it. At the end of the day, if you're pushing too-much data, you need to have a mechanism in place to let you scale. To me, a simple solution would be a message queue server with plenty of redundant storage space. From there on, you keep adding more consumers.
It's focused on the resulting economics but I've heard great things about the book Misbehaving by Thaler. The remarks under "Outtakes" here give some context:

http://www.misbehavingbook.org
Not true. Some states have internal possession laws, which means it is illegal to have consumed a controlled substance.
I wasn't sure either, so I was looking for learning a new programming language when I found Robocode and General IO. I'll look forward to get the right name for the list.
I talked to the lady. It's true. Her property taxes are $18k and could not afford to live in her house. When she bought it decades ago taxes were <$900

The Chinese spend the money and the Catholic school churns out ivy and first flight college acceptance letters.

The school packages everything for the Chinese families. My $1800 is a 2-3 year old number and low if I had to guess.

Tuition for a primary grade is over $10k. So it's private money and lots of it. What a better way to spend your fortune on educating your offspring.
Remember that the US is 110 v so a has less capacity to the 240v or the hosts house wiring was old.
Agree with you, will put a more appropriated name on the list.
The higher the speed, the more important avoiding air resistance is to get high efficiency.

Planes are efficient, ones they are high up in the sky because there is less air there.

Unfortunately, they need lots of energy to get up in the low pressure regions, and we do not have ways to recover that energy in landing.

Moving slower also increases the per mile efficiency, as air resistance grows faster than linear in speed.

Net effect (highly simplified) is that trains beat high speed trains irrespective of distance, high speed trains beat planes on shorter distances (up to a few hundred miles), but planes beat high speed trains if the distance covered in one hop is large enough.

Hyperloop aims to change that by being a train riding at low atmospheric pressure (planes don't only burn fuel to go from A to B, they also burn fuel to stay up; hyperloop wouldn't need to do the latter) (edit: ideally, it also would recover energy on braking)
A question about me_cleaner: can malware simply re-enable it? Or does using me_cleaner "brick" the ME system permanently?
You're absolutely right, some things are unquestionably greater than code!

I think most developers, if asked, do in fact care about security, privacy, standards, net neutrality, and open source software. The issue, I have found in my many conversations with developers, is not that developers do not care about the items you have listed. Most do! That the EFF and the FSF and similar groups continue to exist shows this.

The issue I see at hand is that unions need to look like a good deal for people to sign up. People need to expect to gain more for their dues and participation than they could gain on their own. If a union is going to send money to the EFF, and I can send money to the EFF myself without the administrative overhead of a union, what does the union gain me?

Think of it in business terms, as successful unionizers have always done. What unique value does your new model union offer that justifies the costs? You're asking people to make a major financial commitment to group together and advocate for themselves, but you're focusing almost exclusively on secondary issues.

It is not that a union could or could not do all the things you suggest. The issue I see is that a compelling case has not been made that a new model union is the best way to advance the causes we care about. Where's the return on investment in collective bargaining for us?

Also: I see that you created an account solely to have this conversation. Have you come to understand why developers don't unionize, or did you expect to convincingly advocate for unions of software engineering professionals?
Lawyers and doctors require a extensive examination and continuing education requirements in order to get and keep their accreditation in their professional organizations. Developers, as a group, are unlikely to support such a professional organization because many of them got their expertise in non-traditional / unconventional ways and would fear being excluded.
It's funny I was talking to a friend and she said she's terified when driving through france because of the terrorists. So she drives non stop till she is in spain. And she is so sad about it since she loves france and can't go there anymore.

It seemed so out of the world to me, since it never occured to me that I will be the victim of a terrorist attack. And even if: what happens happens. No reason to stop going on with your life.

I have to say the only news I read are tech news. The rest I get from colleagues at lunch. And sometimes I skim through the newspaper and read some articles that really interest me.
It makes me a better dancer and singer.
Both you and pdog have made interesting observations, I suppose, but as I said, neither book described our reality accurately. Our reality is far more complicated. As you point out, millions have protested, but tens of millions haven’t. As pdog remarked, the world in 1984 might be described as a totalitarian hellscape, in part, but parts of our world can also be described as such; pdog needs to look outside his locale, I’m afraid. Our world really is like a combination of those two books, even if your neighborhoods aren’t. We haven’t matched the world portrayed in either book, obviously, but it feels to me like were transitioning to a world a lot like a combination of those books. Let’s review things in a decade or two and see what comes to be.
And that's exactly what I don't want.

I choose to trust Debian maintainers; I don't choose to trust Microsoft.

If the package ends up in Debian stable, its pretty much guaranteed to be stable and to at least install and uninstall cleanly and consistently; it also won't have builtin telemetry because that's Not Done in the Debian distribution.

With the beta stuff provided by Microsoft there's no reason for me to assume a similar level of diligence.
How did you keep notes on the implementation process?
We don't need to take his word for it. It's open source, so we can run the tests ourselves.

I think it's completely understandable that he threw in the others, probably default config, without caring much about it since they weren't the point of the writeup.
> In general, suicidal episodes seem to be short and having access to means to kill yourself increases the chance you'll actually do that.

Well, in the moment you still do mean to kill yourself.
What's your favourite beer?
If it's still an active project, please do a pull request with the information.
- I've never heard of Tungsten.

- Mitsuba is a mainly-academic renderer by Wenzel Jakob (I say mainly because I haven't seen its widespread use in non-academic setting).

The two important open source renderers that are missing in comparison:

- Cycles (comes with Blender; produces great results although it is said that it only recently has started doing a "PBR workflow")

- Luxrender (very popular with artists on deviantart; has very good OpenCL support)
Hi, please do a pull request with the game information.
What do these indexes below the "Thunderstorm" mean? Why are visualizations of them so different?
There are lot of Chinese kids in my UK town local public schools (ie private schools one of which Obahmas roomies at Harvard attended ) for this very reason.
Journalists really need some guidelines on how to report on statistics without veering into nonsense.
YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet
There's a huge difference between not drinking because you quit and never having tried it.

There is no doubt that you can have fun without drinking. The problem with never trying it is that you close yourself off to a massive part of the Western human experience. It is baked into the culture and is also a huge part of business relations. Being a lifelong teetotaller is in some ways tantamount to being a virgin.
They're not really a series --- just a shared setting that gives her an excuse to have curious but almost human aliens visit strange worlds populated by almost humans. In fact, the Ekumen barely get a cameo in _Dispossed_.

Read it; it's really good, and works well as a pair with _The Left Hand of Darkness_.

Oh, yeah --- the Old Hainish were Not Nice People.
Ironically, there's really good evidence to suggest humans only worked an hour or two a day to feed themselves before the advent of civilization.
It's useless for other reasons. Pipelining and non-idempotent methods (i.E
POST) don't go togheter.
> It's serfs and masters, and it always has been.

This is an excellent point, whose magnitude I have come to appreciate more recently.

One of my favorite ruminations on the fundamental role that inequality plays in civilized society comes from "Midnight Tides" by Steven Erikson:

"As they walked, Tehol spoke '... the assumption is the foundation stone of Letherii society, perhaps all societies the world over. The notion of inequity, my friends. For from inequity derives the concept of value, whether measured by money or the countless other means of gauging human worth. Simply put, there resides in all of us the un-challenged belief that the poor and the starving are in some way deserving of their fate. In other words, there will always be poor people. A truism to grant structure to the continual task of comparison, the establishment through observation of not our mutual similarities, but our essential differences.

'I know what you're thinking, to which I have no choice but to challenge you both. Like this. Imagine walking down this street, doling out coins by the thousands. Until everyone here is in possession of vast wealth. A solution? No, you say, because among these suddenly rich folk there will be perhaps a majority who will prove wasteful, profligate, and foolish, and before long they will be poor once again. Besides, if wealth were distributed in such a fashion, the coins themselves would lose all value - they would cease being useful. And without such utility, the entire social structure we love so dearly would collapse.

'Ah, but to that I say, so what? There are other ways of measuring self-worth. To which you both heatedly reply: with no value applicable to labour, all sense of worth vanishes! And in answer to that I simply smile and shake my head. Labour and its product become the negotiable commodities. But wait, you object, then value sneaks in after all! Because a man who makes bricks cannot be equated with, say, a man who paints portraits. Material is inherently value-laden, on the basis of our need to assert comparison - but ah, was I not challenging the very assumption that one must proceed with such intricate structures of value?

'And so you ask, what's your point, Tehol? To which I reply with a shrug. Did I say my discourse was a valuable means of using this time? I did not. No, you assumed it was. Thus proving my point!'"
That's because the point of the comparison is not to compare with other renderers, it's to check feature correctness. Mitsuba is widely used for that purpose.

Almost no one uses LuxRender or Cycles commercially to the best of my knowledge (or appleseed for that matter). Hobbyists use them, which is cool.

I'm in Los Angeles and work in the industry. Here, people use Renderman, Arnold, and in-house stuff mostly. I don't think Renderman and Arnold are used much outside of VFX. Arnold in particular is pricey, but works amazingly well.
What makes you think PH will be a worthwhile platform for launching if you don't even use it? Everything you get from that launch ends the same day of your launch. The hard problem you must solve - finding an audience for your product - will be harder for pursuing their audience instead.

There must by now be many products that went through that mincer and came out dead cause they couldn't find a profit that way and couldn't think past "can a business model really be as simple as submitting my link to some sites".
CryptoMove hiring an API, devtools, infrastructure (builder, not user) engineer
Yes, but let's imagine an extreme case... if 1 million people in the US had a 33% chance of being killed by a gun, and everyone else had 0% chance of non-terrorist gun violence, but the chance of a terrorist attack was evenly distributed, it would make sense for 99% of the population to be more afraid of terrorism than guns.

The problem is, that is the world that many people think they live in -- that gun violence is something that happens to "someone else", but terrorism can happen to anyone.