skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem of the right to bear arms is that it was done during a time when weapons were single shot, and hard to reload.
There were limits to what you could do.

Now you can classify many of these weapon as having the potential for mass killings (not very different than explosives).

Should shotguns, and single shot rifles be allowed to be bought and sold freely? Sure, as they seem to fit the idea of what an weapon during the time was, and the right is in the constitution.

Should rapid fire machine guns be allowed? Probably not. The battle is where do you draw the line of what is allowed and what is not.
I'm a gun owner and own a lot of firearms, including a number of semi-automatic rifles. I have never liked the bump stocks, crank triggers, and binary triggers. These "almost NFA" items are just so incredibly degenerate. You never see quality people firing these things at the gun range--it's always a scumbag. I will not cry if a bipartisan group of legislators bans the sale of these items.
Tesla has missed on pretty much all of their goals, but this is a big one. They had predicted production of 1,500 units.

If they want to enter the low cost commodity vehicle business they will have to get a lot better at executing.
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This is one of those platitudes that are designed to make you feel smart about yourself despite being pretty silly when taken seriously.

Consider this: The funding of the judiciary comes from the executive and legislative branches of government. Yet, funding is never brought up as an argument in discussions of whether the judiciary is independent.

The reason is of course threefold: there is a large societal consensus that the judiciary should be independent; the independence of the judiciary is established in constitutions; and political norms, as eroded as they may be in some parts of the West, aren't sufficiently eroded that politicians feel like they can play hardball over funding with the judiciary.

All these factors could be established for an independent, government funded media as well.
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I really like Gelman's response. We should be using likelihoods, information and and intervals to describe parameters.
I think war is dumb on lots of dimensions. But the Rutan Mudfighter looks like a great, economical aircraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9LlHcX8lg for killing lots of small armed people.

Basically a Bayliner glued to a minigun.
Conjuring up Kubernetes on Ubuntu
Rather than conduct experiments I believe that existing data still holds an answer. There's one metric that hasn't been looked at. Many projects over a long period of time tend to get rewritten in a different pattern or a new language/framework. I would say dynamic languages tend to have this problem in greater proportion over say a typed language like java. This is a direct long term marker for the maintainability of a language.
Looking at PBS [1] and CPB [2] budgets from 2014, it appears that PBS gets more than 1% from CPB (if I am reading it right) but it is still a small percentage. Thanks!

1. http://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/financials/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...
> I get that we still have vinyl

Last year was a bumper year for vinyl sales [1]. FWIW I've seen multiple new record stores open up in my current city (Oakland), and in my previous city (Portland) I had like 4 vinyl/cassette shops within walking distance of my apartment. A few bands I'm into release exclusively on cassette. One of the first things I see when loading an artist page on Spotify is ads to purchase vinyl.

The physical medium is still there.

[1] https://www.economist.com/news/business/21722232-only-two-fi...
The press release was created to provide information to news organizations. It is extremely odd to say they are not good sources.
They're demonstrating Guacamole's ability to handle simple animations smoothly. Music visualizers are a solid, familiar example, despite not being a super-common use case for remote desktop.
The trick with intuition is that we need the right metaphor for it to work. The one in my mind is an inflating balloon.
It's absolutely an issue. Sad but true. I would bet that most American citizens don't realize that PR is also part of America, or that the people that live there are American citizens as well.
Everyone keep in mind that Guacamole has been around a long time -- I think it's just started being incubated by Apache, that's all.

Here's a walk-through from a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/4vdujw/guacamole_f...
I’m confused why this was downvoted. Maybe I’m too optimistic.
What narrative? That science is important? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2242349/#!po=15...

There's more where that came from.
The supply of doctors in the U.S. is tightly controlled by interests best served when the supply is limited. This is not competitive pressure.

Allow doctors to be "certified" by private organizations, then watch how quickly medical schools change, residency allotments open up, and doctor ranks swell. As the supply of seats in medical schools and number of residencies rises, the cost of medical school will decrease. More doctors with less debt will put downward pressure on medical prices.

You may argue that quality would not increase under such competition, but I disagree. People who can't afford healthcare would be able to afford poor quality healthcare which is better than they currently enjoy. Rich people will still have vanity certified doctors. In general the cost of comparable quality healthcare would be lower.

TLDR; don't complain about disappointing results of competitive pressure in a market with very limited competitive pressure.
Historical reasons aside, what is the difference between slow and fast weapons that would make one want to allow the one but not the other? As a first approximation, it would seem that any argument that could be given for allowing or disallowing either of the types would be applicable also to the other type.
Interesting that the author Tim Higgins writes almost exclusively stories of bad news regarding Tesla.
macOS has VNC and Remote Desktop servers built in; Ive never had issues with the functionality of either, although there are some security concerns
Waymo (Google's self-driving car venture) has a big lawsuit against Uber alledging patent violations (since dismissed), trade secret infringement, and assorted other claims. This is all revolving around their hiring of a senior Google manger (Anthony Levandowski) who quit google to form a bunch of companies that were then acquired by Uber.

Waymo/Google have claimed that Levandowski was negotiating with Uber to steal their secret stuff well in advance of leaving Google, met Uber executives during this time, and following his meeting with them, stole a bunch of files (a big SVN checkout of their hardware repo). He also did a bunch of other bad stuff that I'm not going to get into. They've also claimed to have evidence that Uber was using their IP through some stolen boards.

The pre-trial case has been really, really bad looking for Levandowski, but Waymo's been having trouble finding a smoking gun to implicate Uber as a whole.

However, one of the key pieces of evidence here was a due-diligence report prepared by Stroz Friedberg that went into exactly what info Levandowski still had from Waymo/Google. Uber and Levandowski, ESPECIALLY Levandowski have been fighting really hard to prevent Waymo from getting it's hands on the report - going all the way up to the Federal Circuit Appeals court. They lost all of these, and the report was handed over a few weeks ago.

This is that report. As to how big of a smoking gun it is... I'm still reading. Waymo's been claiming it is in their filings up through last week, but I haven't been able to see anything past that - something's up with either PACER or RECAP and there aren't any updates/filings on the case in over a week on RECAP for some reason. (If anyone's got a pacer account...)
There’s 2 parts to any connection in Guacamole:

Your remote <———> guacd (RDP)

guacd <———> the browser (custom protocol)

In my experience, Guacamole works very well with windows RDP servers, and feels very fast. Certainly faster than X11 or VNC remoting on the same hardware.
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I'm certain that you've looked into it (if you're implementing your own), but what about Emacs is a bad fit for your goals? From what I can tell, it is very modular. If you're going to build something heavily modular, but different from Emacs, I'd be rather interested in what you end up with.
Not yet, but considering the sheer amount of guns in his hotel and home plus the explosives I'm willing to bet something motivated him more than mental illness.
Corporations in Puerto Rico have done little or nothing to help
I know, but I don't know.

It is obviously my duty to deescalate & inhibit violence in my community when possible, while restricting people's avenues to tools that multiply the potential damage they can inflict.

This is why we have mental health care and regulations for buying explosives.

The best I could figure with my firearms at the time was selling them to the most responsible party possible, in my case it was gunsmiths. Recently some criminals attempted to break into their shop. Didn't get away with anything. So my choice already yielded measurable results in a way.

I'm not responsible people's heinous acts, but I am responsible for the environment people choose to act in.
The distinctions aren't important for the Las Vegas shooting, but they are important for the national discussion around gun laws. I would much rather have laws created through processes that don't abuse language to create fear in the wake of tragedy.
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Why I’m writing a Windows 3 Emulator (2016)
Considering how outlandish and unrealistic his goals are usually, I feel like this is not even worth reporting on. I feel like it would be better to report on when he actually achieves the original deadline he set out.
Shouldn't unit tests be exploring all the code paths? I know that's tough to enforce, but it's ideal. Regardless of whether you use a static analyzer.

And Python does have static analyzers, including for typing.
It's a first-person source, coming from the company itself. Thus it's inherently biased toward the company and not the best source. This is as opposed to when the news article itself is a primary source, which is achieved by a reporter actually reporting what is happening in-person at the source of the event.

Of course, in this case it's a bit hard, since the only insight into Tesla's production goals is what they report externally, barring leaks and whatnot. A press release from the company is pretty much the best we can get. But just because it's the best doesn't mean it's necessarily good.
FreeNet is a distributed key/value store. It can be used to store files by storing the contents of the file under a key that is the hash of the file content. Generally you operate on Freenet at the level of keys and values.

ZeroNet operates at the level of sites. Sites contain multiple files. Seeding of data happens at the site level.

You could implement ZeroNet on top of Freenet but implementing Freenet on top of ZeroNet wouldn't make much sense.

When inserting new data, Freenet pushes data out to nodes. ZeroNet pulls data from requestors. With Zeronet you can't disconnect your node until other nodes have a complete copy if you want the data to remain available. It is difficult to tell when it is safe to do this. With Freenet the data isn't stored on your own node, it is pushed out to other nodes when first inserting. When the insert completes you know you can safely turn off your node. The data remains available.
>delid cpu

>skew the rng and/or manipulate the instruction counter

Congratulations, you "hacked" REMCoin.
There have been public referendums over the decades. Only the 2017 one turned out in favor of statehood, and it had only 22% turnout. Public opinion polling only supports statehood by a slim majority.
> You never see quality people firing these things at the gun range--it's always a scumbag.

I'm not sure that argument would fly, but I would love to see you apply it when proposing a law! It doesn't have to be about guns even, just anything. :-)
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Ah, thanks for the explanation. For whatever reason, the idea of finding ways to encourage dinner guests to accept food or drink is foreign to me.
Two comments on effectively once stream processing.

1. Consider adding an example for a stateful event stream processor client that saves the last read stream offset in redis, together with its current state and continues reading from that offset as an atomic operation. For example, a client that sums a stream of numbers, in order to have effectively once semantics would need to persist to redis the sum and offset together.

2. Consider adding a stream read deduplication example to mitigate clients that reinserted the same event twice. It is not clear how the client should behave if it didn't get an ack and it resents an event. What is the correct resending semantics so the reader would effectively dedup? What is the right data structure used to dedup message ids without consuming too much memory, etc...?
You can’t even use their main product without loading in opaque binary blobs and agreeing to a backdoor.
Like your second paragraph expresses, a press release id from the company itself is the absolute best source on their production numbers.
Because "~80% under quota" isn't a meaningful way to assess the schedule slip. They're still a few weeks/months off from mass production of the Model 3.
> I would like to see that evidence, thanks.

You won't find it. This is the problem in the soft sciences. There are certain hypotheses that you just can't test and this is one of them. Choosing to believe that unbalanced gender representations in certain fields is unnatural is just as unfounded as the parent's opposite view. The best we can do is make conjectures based on the results of things we can test but it's incredibly difficult to determine how much the things that are possible to know matter at the population scale.
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It would be nice if the casino lost more than $1.4 million in revenue because of bad publicity, but that's probably just wishful thinking.
I'm pretty sure most tribal casinos have their machines "malfunction" in order to not pay out millions to the winner. It is easier to bring the winner into a tribal "court" battle (which will then be dismissed) versus just paying the winner. It's a sleazy tactic that shouldn't be allowed but it isn't an issue most people would want to get into.
Guns are fairly simple, mechanically. They're just typically classified mentally as "things you have to get by buying them" rather than "things you can whip together with a visit to a hardware store, an arc welder, and an angle grinder".
> The biggest problems are...

0) Trying to do automatic parallelization is something we've been working on for 50 years and we still haven't solved in any practical degree. You can't just slap a #pragma on C/C++ code at this point to say "run this on some non-CPU architecture" and expect to get good performance.
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False.

Heck, I even received a week's paid vacation as a crew chief (not even a manager) at a McDonalds when I was 17.
I suppose that depends on your POV. There are a variety of currently legal accessories that one can buy to make a semi-automatic rifle fire more rapidly. Primarily these are trigger cranks, bump fire stocks, and binary triggers. You can make these devices illegal, but out of the three trigger cranks are trivially easy to make, and bump firing is fairly easy to do with no accessories. And honestly, with hand tools and a basic amount of mechanical knowledge, it isn't very difficult to (illegally) modify most rifles to fully automatic fire.
> BSDL although originally for boundary scan has info about footprint but it is not a big deal since so few manufacturers make it available.

Devil always lurks in the details. That generic parameter is so sparsely defined in 1149.1 that I struggle to see any semblance of consistency between major reconfigurable device vendors, let alone vendors which don't actually integrate boundary-scan.

There's also a philosophical point: electrical schematics should document electrical intent. A BSDL-driven EDA approach which must consider arbitrary semiconductors would largely be constrained to simple I/O separation with a mechanical representation of physical package layout serving as fallback in the case of poor inference. This doesn't account for symbolic capability between PCADs either, e.g. multi-part symbols, variants, hidden pins, etc.

In summary, end result is pretty much a box with little to no functional intent conveyed, resulting in what I consider to be the worst type of schematic interpretation experience.
They bought one of the best hardware makers with one of the worst software platforms. I hope to all that is holy that they replaced the software entirely. What a nightmare those classes were...
These platforms have hyper-optimized their products to show as much stuff as possible that people will engage with (share, click), so that they also engage with ads and stay active.

The problem is there is often some time when there is no news. No news isn't interesting, so it doesn't get shared as much as "news". Take the moments immediately following a disaster. Two types of news articles will show up:

"There was a shooting. We don't know anything yet, but we will keep you posted". Boring.

"We know who the killer is. Bobby Bobertson done it". Woah!

Now imagine you are a heavy social media user. You don't want to stay silent on such a big news story, so you want to share something showing you are engaged. Which story do you share?

(edit: removed duplicate "the problem is")
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nwenzel: i actually thought about covering your case (see below), but decided it was too verbose.

edited: yc is elitist. with a few exceptions (you have PMF, second-time founder with exit under belt, obvious deep industry/technical knowledge), you have to know someone

in other words, there are a few types of founders (as listed above) that it's either a no-brainer, or a very good risk-reward/expected value proposition to fund under YC terms (ie. 2m pre-money). for everyone else, anecdotally, you have to know someone

also, i mean this respectfully, but one counterexample doesn't disprove my point. my belief is that we live in a world where connections matter, a lot (whether getting a job, into business school, VC funding, a coveted internship, etc), and that YC is no different. there are always exceptions, of course, but i'm saying this, as a generalization.
+1 There are plenty of brave journalists/bloggers but very few editors or corporate media vehicles prepared to publish their investigative reporting. I wouldn't dream of using FB as a go to 'news' source, while Google is essentially an aggregator/curator of information sources I may or may not take seriously.
The idea that these lightweight websites should somehow be the gatekeepers of 'the truth' is pretty offensive. I prefer to triangulate across multiple sources and make up my own mind base don the information I uncover.
Example: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/02/gunman-who-killed-5...

A lead story in the local Vegas newspaper states the alleged gunman was a multi millionaire property owner. Is this true? I have no way of proving it but it is certainly food for thought...
I always see gun promoters trying to divert the discussion from the real issue (read: mass shootings and terrorism) towards the technicality of the term "assault weapon". Would calling these guns "weapons of mass murder" be more accurate? Does that distinction really makes a difference? Why does a law abiding citizen of America needs mass murdering guns with thousands of rounds?
Not a single mention of OpenBazaar, easily at the forefront of the sector.

Terribly lazy journalism.

https://www.openbazaar.org/

"A free online marketplace to buy and sell goods / services using Bitcoin. OpenBazaar is a peer-to-peer ecommerce platform with no fees or restrictions."
Ah yes, like trap answers on a multiple choice exam. I suppose the Zen of that design would be: "There should be more than one obvious way to do it, but only one correct way."
> Digital renting isn't convenient for me.

You are the anomaly. I am in a way too; I listen to all my music via SoundCloud, because most new artist without deals are on there (especially in the rap scene, almost exclusively SC). If SC went away I'd be screwed, so I'd love to buy a lot of the music but I can't.