skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've only done the lazy thing of looking at Wikipedia, but it appears that the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11 is the only event carried out by non state actors in recent history that killed more than 1000 people.

That doesn't offer much guarantees though. Before that one, the ceiling was much lower for attacks in the US (or even elsewhere), but it suddenly got to 3000 at one go.

Here's a kind of disaster that can be caused by an attack (it was caused by corporate greed at the time), and which claimed thousands of lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Note that, as the article says: "Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) contends water entered the tank through an act of sabotage" -- even if its BS, as I believe it is, it could just as well have happened under an attack to such a facility.

But on the general issue of the past as a predictor, let me use Scott Adams' words, which can be fitting:

I keep seeing tweets and articles saying the odds of an immigrant killing a citizen of the United States are approximately zero. Obviously those calculations assume that our past experiences do a good job of predicting what happens next. And this is good news. Really, really, good news.

It’s good news because I used to be afraid of lots of stuff that never happened in the past. For example, I have never died from a nuclear attack, but now I understand that risk to be zero. We can dismantle our nuclear deterrents and relax. If a nuclear bomb hasn’t killed me in the past, I can safely conclude that it will never kill me in the future. I feel sorry for all of you science-deniers who think otherwise.

I built a complicated prediction model to prove my point. The model only has one variable – the number of times I have died in nuclear blasts in the past. That number equals the number of times I will die in nuclear blasts in the future. Skeptics might doubt the credibility of my prediction model, but I would argue that it fits the past quite well. And that means it predicts the future too, unless you are ignorant of science and whatnot.

More good news: Climate change is not a risk in the future. Man-made warming has never destroyed civilization in the past, so that means there is no chance it will happen in the future. That’s how the past works; it tells you what happens in the future. And boy is that handy. Before I learned that secret I was just guessing.

We all learned as kids that history repeats itself. You know it is true because you heard it when you were young and stupid, and it stuck in your head. That’s proof right there. And it fits your observations too. For example, look how many times the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. They must have done it thousands of times by now, just like they did the first time. You might think the airplane would stay invented. But that’s not how the past works, you ignoramus. The past repeats. Those brothers just keep inventing that airplane, over and over. Even after they died, which obviously they did not see coming because they had not died in the past.
Even if you intend to have a good faith discussion about gender dimorphism in chess (whether it be intrinsic or extrinsic), the resulting thread has a high potential for descending into ideological chaos.

I'd recommend not taking the stand that "women are physically disadvantaged in chess" is a "simple fact." You welcomed citations for reasons why that may or may not be - but much like sociological studies across ethnic differences in accomplishment, studies across gender differences accomplishment for non-physical activity are going to be, shall we say, "muddled."

People may not be able to levy citations that argue against that thesis, but it's still a very difficult thesis to defend both socially and rhetorically. Engaging in dialectics about it is unlikely to be productive, and I think it's probably more fair to take an even ground in the absence of compelling evidence on other side. Extrinsically, yes, women display collective disparity in overall chess accomplishment. But we cannot infer anything about womens' chess ability intrinsically unless we have more women in chess. Specifically, we cannot infer anything physically about the female brain that would demonstrate a disadvantage.

This doesn't mean you're wrong; it just means that it's so emotionally loaded, and so devoid of clear, replicable data that even a debate with citations will probably be disappointing at best, and personally insulting at worst.
The city Im in uses about 100 million gallons per day. Delivering a toxic dose to tens of thousands would require poisoning a targeted 10 million gallons without being detected early.

Im not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying adding hundreds or thousands of gallons of poison to a distributed system isn't easy nor is it something a few pissed off people can do alone. You're well in to the realm of controlled/watched substances, advanced chemical synthesis, and dozens of people carrying out an attack against hardened targets.
Assuming you're not a native speaker, that's an example of synecdoche. Just like The White House does not issue proclamations (it refers to the person occupying the office of the President, who occupies The White House).

One could also say, "The suits are coming for your money." but articles of clothing do not, as a rule, walk around robbing people.

Anyway, I'm pro-gun, but 'guns' kill people is just saying that gun users kill people with guns.
It's not SPA, it's static. You can load without any JS on the frontend if you want I believe.

Code splitting is an expected part of an upcoming 1.0 release I believe (may be misremembering)
I always just took them as a fun excuse for that glass of wine with dinner (that I would have had anyway). The pre-altfact alternative fact if you will.

Excuse me while I go eat some chocolate "for Alzheimer's prevention". ;)
I don't drink a lot, so I guess I should focus on increasing my wealth.
Would it though? How well does it work on, say, Mexico? Or Eastern Europe?
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Thanks for that perspective. As a web user, I'm aware of fingerprinting techniques but I've been wondering how prevalent the practice actually is.
Newsflash: Canonical want the 'desktop' to die.
Gradient boosting also often does wonders.
It's interesting that the drugs society accepts (caffeine, alcohol, tobacco) all help you cope with excessive work whereas the ones we ban all have a negative impact on work.
Misleading headline: she threw the match to protest against the tournament setup, having to play against too many women.
There are a lot of good suggestions here, but if this is the route you're going down and you are still using the same database, do everything you can to batch your inserts. In your queue consumer, aggregate as much as you can tolerate in memory, and then insert them all and commit the inserts in a single transaction. This eliminates a huge amount of MVCC overhead.
All too true what you say about TV commentators.
Thanks. I will check it out.
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CMU has a few lectures on this open to the public:
http://15418.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2016/lectures
Check out Lecture 7: GPU Architecture and CUDA Programming it starts 16mins in after some review.

Udacity also has a parallel image processing algorithms w/CUDA course though I haven't done it https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-parallel-programming...
I saw this mentioned in the Go newsletter the other day. A CAS written in Golang. Thought it may interest others. https://github.com/corywalker/expreduce
They supposedly put words into Red Hat's mouth by saying Snappy had support it clearly didn't have.
Hey,

How does one apply for junior level job. It seems only senior role is available in the career page.
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If some terrorist nuked NYC, there wouldn't be 15m deaths (there could be well over 1m deaths). The chance of a terrorist attack killing 15m is probably much closer to 0.000001% than it is to 1%.

The estimated immediate casualties from another nuclear state air-burst nuking every major US city simultaneously is only like 60m. A terrorist attack would be able to achieve significantly less.

I get your general point, but what I'm going for is roughly: humans are total crap at properly estimating, predicting, and gauging the risk of crazy anomalous events like that. (I think if we weren't so bad at it, less people would play the lotto for one...)
> Throwing a game against a woman because you're grumpy she's a woman is not a good thing.

Not to be pedantic, but Lalith Babu, the Indian Grand Master, is male. I believe the article says Hou Yifan threw the final match against Lalith Babu. She played all the women pairings till she got there.

Not to mention how the winner of that match would feel with such a terrible victory.
Maybe they need to consider the idea of better-than-random pairings. What this means would be a subject for discussion, but for example there could be heuristics that say something like pairings need to at least look random. What does that mean? Again, it's a matter for discussion, but just to take the Yifan situation as the example, seven out of nine paired with the same gender does not look random. Just saying "it's decided by machines" is not sufficient. They have to say what the rules are that the machines are going by, and what is the source of randomness exactly. And then they have to address the point that maybe pure randomness is not good enough.
"Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?"

^ It's too soon to judge any product/startup by its PH launch at this moment. But then, a lot of huge companies launch their products there.
We ban accounts that abuse this site from any political angle. You're abusing HN by using it primarily for political battle, tossing Molotov cocktails ("now we know you can only be racist if you're a white European") and reposting flagged comments. That's indeed trolling, in effect if not intent.
Good point, I forgot that OCaml is French. On a related note, I've heard that might be related to why the common style is to prefix the colon used for type annotations with a space, whereas in some other languages with that syntax (e.g. Rust and Scala), it's more common to see no space before the colon.
I'd suggest an online portfolio like that to anyone looking to develop or sys admin. There are predesigned webapps for this sot of thing.
Hear hear. Downvotes to substantive comments all too often are simple "You made my feelz cry." Or In this case "Fuck you SJW, you made my feelz cry."
Zero to One. If I had to highlight the most important parts of the book, I would end up highlighting the whole book. :S
Hyperion

Reading this book is a nice way to step into another universe for a while.
His analogy is specious. One reason that there is little violence caused by legal immigrants is that there have been screening processes in place. Equating the status quo of US immigration policy with dismantling nuclear deterrents is ridiculous.
You can't really tell without more data. If the overwhelming amount of responses are anti-Trump they might drown out his Tweet due to some automated trimming process. There could be anti-Trump tweets eliminated too because they weren't popular enough but he can't tell.
One very seldom "needs to" pinpoint the location of something in a far-off city before one gets to the general area first. Which is what one used to do when traveling (i.e. at the first gas or train station in the general area, depending on the mode of travel, you get your coffee, your would get your donut/baguette/whatever... and a map of whatever fancy new city you've just arrived in).

Sure. being able to do this online, for any place in the world, within seconds is a huge convenience... but ultimately just that -- a convenience.
SQLite is a major powerhouse for stuff like this, and if your analysis is on a single computer with a single disk, analysis is almost always faster than any sort of highly parallel big data setup. I've loaded, analyzed, and reported on 2TB of data using SQLite in less time than it took for an 8 machine spark cluster took to load the data.
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Thanks for sharing your project. It looks interesting. Be sure to let us know when you formally launch with a "Show HN" post.
^^ Poe's law.
For me, the answer is it depends.

What I buy depends on the context. If it's the middle of summer and I'm at a baseball game, I'll always get a hot dog and Budweiser.

Tonight I'm going to grill something and I'll have a Shiner Bock with it. Right now in my fridge I have two cans of Guinness (the doo hickey in the can always impresses me).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13557174 and marked it off-topic.
It was the package mechanism for the phone project, so that makes sense.
I may not receive the same sympathy I had in the previous reply, but I do believe that the way the past administration (and their NGO and think tank satellites) "promoted" (enforced) an agenda of "liberal" values (LGBT, abortion, hollywoodian feminism, "democracy", etc...) and regime change to all countries that fail at least in one item of the checklist (and even some that comply with all of them, like Brazil).

I do think that the current situation is a huge backlash of the past (and recent) politics.
I replied something similar in other reply. See above, please :)
I'm not sure this quote is as insightful as it's made out to be.

Questions and answers are not a one-way system of thinking. Who hasn't thought of more questions after being given an answer?

For example, statistics require a computer to calculate. They answer questions like "what is the unemployment rate?". Once you get a number, say a time series, you are going to ask "what affects the unemployment rate", essentially asking what the generating function is. This in turn leads to more and more calculations, a whole web causality.

So computers are not providing questions any less than answers.
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A downvote without a counterargument is not conducive to open discussion and debate.

I can understand this behavior when comments are particularly egregious in some obvious way, but in this case please do contribute to the conversation by explaining your take on the commenter's opinion.
>In the one example we have of it, a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway at rush hour killed 12 people and seriously injured 50 more.

It also says that it caused "temporary vision problems for nearly 5,000 others" and that "hospitals saw 5,510 patients, seventeen of whom were deemed critical, thirty-seven severe and 984 moderately ill with vision problems".

So this says more about the particular gas used or venue chosen, than about the effectiveness of such an attack to reach thousands. A different gas could have had more devastating effects, and same for a different setting (e.g. a closed stadium).
Through what medium or platform would you expect to have access to that data? A video on the app/page for the store?
>The city Im in uses about 100 million gallons per day. Delivering a toxic dose to tens of thousands would require poisoning a targeted 10 million gallons without being detected early.

How about just that of a huge building, say a hotel or hospital?

>nor is it something a few pissed off people can do alone.

Who said anything of a "few pissed off people doing it alone" though?
refactoring is better then an extra if and argument. and force you to understand the code and result in less bugs.
I guess in high school, one has teachers. But you never know.

In my high school, the physics teacher also ran the computer lab. He had all sorts of connections. He even hooked me up with a babysitting gig.
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Well Brunhilde Pomsel has unfortunately recently died.
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Excellent book about nanotechnology, which is something we don't really seem to hear about much anymore. I remember when it was going to be "the next big thing".
Here is an example of something small that can benefit from F# sharing:

http://banashek.com/posts/20170204-a-brief-peek-at-universal...

Sharing types, validators, etc mean that the api communication is type-safe.
>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.

You're re-defining opportunity to mean the same thing as outcome.

If all outcomes must be equal for opportunities to be equal, which is the argument you're making when you say that both artificial and natural barriers must be equally surmountable and that any potential benefit, direct or indirect, from one's access to and deployment of resources is inherently unfair, then you're in an argument that fundamentally opposes private property and the hard physical realities that dictate human behavior.

If you have a specific complaint, like that the qualifications to be admitted to the bar in almost every state require graduation from a school accredited by the ABA and that this constitutes an unfair monopoly and presents an unduly burdensome artificial constraint which was installed only to limit competition in the law profession, then that's a totally valid example of opportunity gap that should be fixed.

But saying "Someone with more resources could potentially derive more benefits, either direct or indirect, than someone without an equivalent quantity of resources, as long as they deploy them efficiently" is only stating the obvious. Suggesting that this is an inequity to be resolved is simply suggesting that individuals should not be trusted to participate in a real marketplace at all.
I think you don't understand what "to scale" means.
Guiness is too thick for me. I'm Molson or Sam Adams or Miller Lite, on a hot day.
It's been 3.5 years and that's surely a lot of attempts...

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt#/entity

Do you mean companies that were already huge launched new products there? That's proof they have traction, not that they hand it out.
Go to school, go, don't work while in school, load up in your course works and finish fast. Then do the job thing.
Yeah completely destroys the fact that you often choose not to disturb someone of they are busy
I propose all human beings be allocated a 10x10 meter concrete apartment (15x15 if living with a partner, and 20x20 if you are permitted to have children).

Furthermore, everyone will be given a standard monthly food ration consisting of rice, dry beans and powdered milk.

Each resident can own up to 3 "luxury" items selected from a standard catalog.

Each resident is permitted to travel no more than 150 miles from their residence each month, and personal cars are banned.

Imagine how quickly we could heal the environment if everyone could agree to these common sense restrictions!
Also systemic racism of a kind nearly unimaginable today, cultural barriers to many jobs for half the population, and a world economy severely unbalanced in the US's favor by a World War.

Nostalgia for the era of "Mad Men" seems bizarre to me.
I don't know. People are constantly learning new things and making mistakes is part of the learning process. If everyone told Linus a kernel is too complicated for newbies there would be no Linux.

This constant scare tactics and putting crypto on a needless pedestal is counterproductive as it may well turn potential learners off. It may be complicated but people learn complicated things all the time. No one is born an expert.
Why would Mexico be instructive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Mexico#Type_of_fir...

This isn't a great table, but which Eastern Eupopean country do you think has worse problems with gun violence than the US? They tend to have stricter laws on guns and less intentional homicide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_guns_and_...
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I was in a similar position a couple of years ago, and HN's advice as well as some HNers helped me get started with consulting online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4079567
I may not be the right guy to articulate it, as I don't have a deep knowledge about Us history, but in the past, other ethnics that currently are considered Americans had a though time adapting, like the Irish, didn't they? I do think that this foster assimilation is what made USA great. But I'm not an American, I'm a Brazilian. And currently we are facing some similar immigration trend that I believe will be very good for us, I hope.
It was this one. https://www.udacity.com/courses/web-development

I did it in the early days before the tracks were introduced and where it was still single courses
Article doesn't actually make the case described in the title. I'd recommend ignoring.
I'm more interested in the techempower style benchmarks, at least those show some sort of semblance of real life usage. Do some queries, return encoded json etc.
>One reason that there is little violence caused by legal immigrants is that there have been screening processes in place.

He talks about odds of being "killed by an immigrant" though -- doesn't say "by a legal immigrant" specifically.

Plus, in places like France and Germany it's often not even immigrants, it's citizens that have been born there (of immigrant parents) that have been radicalized post-facto.
If people agree that the software was correct but that the pairings were poor, there is always the possibility of reevaluating the algorithm itself. For example, an algorithm could be chosen that results in more "mixing."
Who are you going to report the anomaly to when you flip a coin 10 heads in a row, and what is a satisfactory resolution?
Blockchain based tax resistance aka “Resistcoin”
House of Leaves. I read it in college and thought it was okay, but I had some ideas about the world I think I was trying to project on it, and I didn't really "get it." Some stuff happened in my life recently, and for some reason I remembered it and felt compelled to re-read. I'm glad I did. I felt like I understood and identified with it a great deal more.
I'm not concerned about society to be honest. You hurt children, I hurt you. I refuse to compromise on that.
I tend not to put too much inportance on these generic health statements because of this. I could care less if alcohol has health benefits if i personally experience ill results from drinking.

the same can be said of statements like "coffee has health benefits" when it can cause acid reflux for me and others who are susceptible.

everyone needs to evaluate general health suggestions against their personal health history. personally i find them marginally useless.
Island by Huxley is also a fantastic book with great social commentary on the west vs. an idealistic society. It's interesting to see, for example, his early take on preventative vs curative medicine in "modern" society, or how education needs to be reformed. One of my all time favourites.
>Why would Mexico be instructive?

Because, as it says right above the section you've linked to, ownership is much more strictly regulated there:

"Under this clause, only citizens who have been granted a license to carry can lawfully carry a firearm outside their homes. Beyond military and law enforcement members, these permits are only issued to persons who qualify such as those employed in private security firms, those who live in rural areas, or those who may be targets of crime (politicians, public officials, wealthy citizens)".

And even those are limited to specific (and less potent) types of guns (unlike the US).
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general note on when companies open source non-trivial projects but squash all pre-release commits, not being able to dig though implementation history and change logs make it difficult to jump in despite the code being publicly visible.

Context: initial commit with 277,989 additions [0].

[0] - https://github.com/facebookincubator/beringei/commit/17a6c2d...