skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1485564/
"Nevertheless, the correlations detected in this study suggest that the presence of a gun in the home increases the likelihood of homicide or suicide."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11130511
"Across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides."
Amazon has a monopoly on electronics retail sales? I doubt that.
Looking at this from a more general perspective of the Symbolic AI approach I would say it had its days. Data driven systems are proving to be a lot more powerful and easy to build. I remember I used to spend ages trying to encode my problems in AnswerSet or AgentSpeak and come up with all the rules. It never worked!
Whatabout...
He's saying that Europe has strict gun control laws and thus less homicides
> it's a sum of very high rents and wages, a small market and a general lack of competition

Australia is like Canada in a lot of ways yet retail in Canada is nowhere near as bad as Australia. Why is that? Is it all about proximity to the US?
Isn't Yahoo already dead? I thought they'd been carved up for parts and sold off to Verizon as "Oath"?

I was somewhat sympathetic to poor old Yahoo, but I hope Mozilla takes Verizon to the cleaners in court.
What makes it fake?
Reading on electronic devices may interfere with science reading comprehension
In my understanding, the ability to make transactions on a sub-tangle while not connected to the main network is sold as one of the main advantages by the IOTA creators.
MAybe. Still, wold have to be taxed at least as much as cigarrets, and I don't think that people used to consume cheap pot would migrate to legalized one.
they are a huge company (Google) with access to top top top talent (experts) and infinite hardware resources. I don't know why it would be surprising if they acheived performance that hadn't been acheived before
I think we are headed into the world of multi-cpu world. I see the ARM being helped by a CUDA power efficient co-processor with I/O similar to Power9. The issue is our tools as developers wouldn't be able to take advantage of this for a while. 95% of people's applications don't take advantage of multi-threaded processors.
Their kids will grow up with asthma, but at least they trolled the liberals.
Existing businesses have many incentives to not give bandwidth on their infrastructure to their competition - especially at competitive prices
The wallet doesn't matter, as long as you have a BIP39-compatible seed (which you can generate with many utilities), any software (or hardware) wallet can be used.
That wasn't the same thing though, was it? This isn't Windows RT v2, is it?
Patagonia Is Suing the Trump Administration
Comparing projects done in the open with multiple different universities, on public funds, with something done behind closed doors with only personnel from a commercial entity is pretty far-fetched.
1. It is relevant because the claim was "YouTube does not use it" not that "most of youtube does not use it"

2. I firmly believe now that EME is standard YouTube will start using it, especially as they start rejecting independent creators in favor of more High Budget Commerical Creators and Tradional media whom they already show a preference for. These Companies will demand it just like the big Movie Studios

3. I am not subscribed to YouTube TV service so I can not confirm but do you have a source or technical document showing they do not. I would be shocked if they were allowed to get Commercial deals to carry main stream cable channels and stream then in the clear with no copy protection.
If I can do it easily with 20mins of research and I am just a software engineer without networking background than any sysadmin should be able to do it to. Btw I have unifi ap, switch and router, also rocking backup 4g link on wan2 and some NAS storage.
TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
How do users pay for their use of this site? Are the free users loss leaders for the premium subscriptions, or is the user's data monetized?
> the American founders intended it to cause. Basically, armed revolutions.

So ... After all the history that passed since then, after all the civil wars and armed revolutions do we still believe they are good idea?

I guess US military thinks so after supporting so many in the middle east. Europe I think has different take on the subject.
> Pretty much no scientific paper comes with source code

Are we blindly accepting this as science now ?
I actually think this is a really interesting argument. Here's some quick napkin math that shows a large enough difference that, I think, you can't just shut this down as a strawman:

17.7M barrels of oil annually by bitcoin mining operations

8.16B barrels of oil by US banking sector employees

These numbers don't count the physical infrastructure, servers, and other plant that these businesses own, operate, heat, keep the lights on in.

Here are my sources:

One stat I just read says that the top 20 North American banks employ 1.2 million people. That's 1.2M people eating and commuting 5 days a week for the purpose of supporting fiat.

With a quick investigation:

-US per capita annual barrels of oil: 6800 (1)

-Bitcoin annual Terrawatt hours: 30.1 (2)

-6800 * 1.2M = 8.16B barrels of oil by US banking sector employees (3)

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/250220/ranking-of-united...

2: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-...

3: http://www.kylesconverter.com/energy,-work,-and-heat/terawat...
It should be, Logstash is just a message router, and this is one of the router's fundamental functions. Certainly this is true for Fluentd.
Yes. Newer versions of Logstash have an on-disk queue that will store events that haven't been ACK'd by ElasticSearch.

On the other side, every Beat (or nearly every Beat) can write to a messaging product like Kafka. That allows you to get logs off your client in the face of failures in either Logstash or ElasticSearch.
Bitcoin’s insane energy consumption, explained
Not true. Amazon punishes me every time I want to cast Amazon video to my Chromecast. I think the two situations are quite analogous.
As a Shogi enthusiast (but complete beginner), I'd like to have seen more Shogi details in the article. Nevertheless there's plenty of other things to geek out on...
While some of the criticism against EV might be valid, I don't see many good alternatives. Should we just collectively abandon any hope for better-than-DV level of security, is that really a desirable outcome?
Nordea Bank Chief: Robots Can Help Us Fire Legions of My Fellow Bankers
> some drugs are so dangerous in small doses

Citation needed.
My uncapped 100Mbps link costs me 0.7% of my monthly salary.

The plan you mention, is about 11% of the average salary in India.

Even though it's cheaper in absolute terms, it's still more expensive in relative terms.

I actually saw this mentioned in a recent UX talk by google: the salary differences end up making internet a lot more expensive for the locals in India, Indonesia, etc, to the point where some apps actually show how much they'd use (eg: Youtube shows the size of a video before downloading).

People still micro-manage they available data because of how expensive it feels to them.
Their sheet[1] of affected clients shows Thunderbird as WONTFIX, but that label is on only one of five bugs in bugzilla relating to mailsploit[2], specifically 1423440[3] for which I think the WONTFIX rationale is correct:

> There is nothing wrong with having: "Men @ Work" <menatwork@example.com>

> People use this and complain if it doesn't work, see bug 1359774.

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jkb_ZybbAoUA43K902lL...

2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423430

3. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423440
The ending of 2001 is the video clip of one of Pink Floyd's masterpieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSOnYrF_Qgo
This would probably be a grey area. We're also long past the point where an image can be absolutely trustworthy (without digital forensics). Certainly digital 'fake nudes' exist and as with any image alteration, a professional artist can make something very convincing these days.

When you use a GAN (or any kind of infill algorithm) it's not an oracle. It's generating a visually plausible guess at the data you're replacing. You could give it a face and a body outline and ask it to fill in the gaps, but what you generated wouldn't be 'real'.

Legally who knows? It would depend on what the law of making an obscene facsimile of someone is (or whatever the law calls it).
What it feels like to launch an online business from Africa
Have you tried writing down the Parsons Code [1] for the melody and searching against a large corpus? E.g., https://www.musipedia.org/melodic_contour.html

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code
Access your Raspberry Pi projects from anywhere
Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
There's been a world-wide reduction in crime since the 1970s. It's very possible to isolate the impact of Australia's gun laws by comparing to other similar countries that didn't implement a major gun ban at the time.
In hindsight you can find patterns in everything.

Also those "dead cats" where just random fluctiations.
Drug use is rising in Portugal. https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/133086356/Mixed-Results-For-P... The Guardian skirts around the issue with some weasley phrasing “ensuing years saw dramatic drops in problematic drug use”. Problematic according to whom? Being a high functioning addict who claims to be fine does not mean that you don’t have a serious problem that is damaging your relationships and potential.

How about the number of people living sober lives? That seems like at least as important a number.

And to what extent is the continued illegality of selling drugs in Portugal keeping people away from drugs by virtue of wanting to avoid the shady characters who sell them? It seems likely that true legalization would lead to a massive increase in usage.
As a corollary: see Microsoft, Adobe, etc. turning a blind eye to casual home users pirating their software. IIRC Microsoft even offered a free upgrade from pirated Windows 7 to a legit Windows 10 Home.
Yes, it's amazing that a language made when Go was is basically a version 1.5 of languages made 40 years ago. C had the worst possible error handling and Go has swooped in to take the second spot.

The very best error handling I know of is in CLOS. Instead of exceptions, they have "conditions". A condition is signaled like an exception but with a big difference described below. The thing about errors is, the code that detects the error can never know how to deal with that error. If it did, then it wouldn't be an error it would be a case within that function. However, that code may know ways the error could be dealt with, it's just not in a position to choose. So what conditions do is, you can define a condition and so called "restarts" along with that condition. What the restart does is say "here is a way I could handle this error" and code higher up the stack has the option to (1) use the restart, (2) define additional restarts on that condition or let the condition propogate upwards. The condition signalling does not necassarily unwind the stack: if you choose a restart, the code continues in the stack that restart was defined.

So this means every part in the stack that knows how a condition could be recovered from can provide the option but it is left to code higher in the stack to chose the actual strategy. This is superior to the exception strategy of unwinding the stack until you find a handler because sometimes you really want the code to continue execution where it is.

But, of course, such a system is really expensive to implement. If you can't have that my preference is the Haskell style of using a sum type where errors can happen but writing as much of your code as possible with any error conditions prohibited by the type system.
How did you get a LTSB license? I tried getting a license off ebay but unlike Pro licenses I have bought in the past the whole thing failed to work.
Indeed, this is the most interesting information in this article. I will definitively look for Disney's reaction !
Alcohol abuse is more harmful than crack or heroin abuse, according to a new study by a former British government drug advisor and other experts.

Neuropharmacologist David Nutt, MD, of Imperial College London, and colleagues rated 20 different drugs on a scale that takes into account the various harms caused by a drug. Drugs are rated on nine harms a drug causes an individual and seven harms a drug causes society.

The scale, developed by a panel of experts called the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ICSD), ranges from 0 (no harm) to 100 (greatest possible harm). It is weighted so that a drug that scores 50 is half as harmful as a drug that scores 100.

"The highest and lowest overall harm scores … are 72 for alcohol and 5 for mushrooms," Nutt and colleagues calculate. "The ICSD scores lend support to the widely accepted view that alcohol is an extremely harmful drug both to users and to society

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20101101/...
bcash is just a cash grab from some no name scammer.
In my experience people get addicted to drugs because they have underlying chronic depression and/or severe ADD, Bipolar disorder, BPD, etc. If you treat the disorder the drug use slows dramatically. Also, lack of social support structures and economic opportunity. All of these things are huge unaddressed problems in the US and increasingly so, and the opioid epidemic is a symptom of this in my opinion.
Seems that Australia has a higher suicide rate than Switzerland. Didn't Australia ban guns?

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/who-findings_switzerland-report...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/27/australias-suici...
None, because while I like the technology, I don't trust the politics, propaganda, and decision makers.
Brand and size of US capital are two different things. Yes Deutsch and SoftBank are big players in US technology.

http://www.businessinsider.com/running-list-softbank-investm...

Biggest deal is Softbank owns ARM, granted that is a UK firm but ARM really is the future especially now that Windows 10 can run on ARM. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-07/arm-bulks...
It's astounding how much concern there is about the relatively(!) small impact of bitcoin mining on the environment while we have immense adverse effects on the global environment from things like cargo ships without so much as a peep from anyone.

How do you expect to solve the bitcoin problem? Stop mining?
"It's not a loophole. It's simply [describes something that anyone can see is a loophole]."
Getting focus on an area of industry / interest is 80% of the battle, especially if the PR subject has saliency and recency.
Why Node.js Enables Ultra-Fast Web Applications
They can the webview change code on their platform?
Matematiksel İşlemleriniz İçin Microsoft Mathematics
Looking at the situation from the point of view of the business angle is the correct way to understand the actions of large publishers, and it's refreshing to see someone doing so. I'm not sure that the numbers are interpreted in the same way by the author and by the executives at EA, though. When they see $800 million from loot boxes in FIFA, they don't see just 'hey this can work, lets try to make it work elsewhere.' They see 'hey, this is what gamers actually want.'

Also, I'm a little unsure about some of the things said because I don't have a ton of knowledge about the performance of the different games discussed. Like at one point the author mentions "The SimCity backlash."... I do know a bit about that one. That SimCity game that got all the backlash? It immediately became the best-selling game of all time on the Origin service right after its launch. There is simply no way to classify that as anything except a resounding success from a business perspective. It is a fundamental mistake to listen to online talk from gamers as the audience has proven themselves to be their own worst enemy. They shovel mountains of money at the things they claim to hate, and withhold money from anything that deviates.

It's not like there aren't games that don't follow these predatory practices. There are tons of them. And they don't make very much money. How can you back up a claim that gamers actually do want those different practices followed if every game which follows them languishes miles behind the titles which don't? If the public pronouncements of gamers actually mirrored their actions, listening to backlash might make sense for a company. But as it is, when the gaming community lights up with anger and "boycotts", that is the most reliable indicator of stellar sales. There really isn't a solution to this problem outside of gamers doing the one thing they seem constitutionally incapable of - not playing the games. Not preordering them, not buying them after release, not even pirating them, straight up not playing the games. (Buying the game and then stopping playing it shortly after release is actually the ideal situation for any publisher, it enables them to more rapidly reduce their spending on server resources and even piracy drives other sales.)

I'm not sure why videogames have such a different audience compared to all other forms of media. In other forms of media, the audience vehemently defends their chosen medium, combatting censorship, responding to exploitative practices with substantial actions to back up their complaints, fighting for the rights of the audience over those of the publishers, etc. But we see no significant amount of any of that when it comes to videogames.
I guess the "even more important" thing you're thinking of is https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 ?

So with RISC-V GC + macro fusion of a few common idioms you get slightly less micro-ops than x86-64, armv7, or armv8.

That being said, for high-performance cores such as Skylake, POWER9, or the latest aarch64 server cores the ISA probably doesn't matter that much.
You cannot any more. There is some kind of piracy protection that prevents it. I tried streaming the marvelous Mrs maisel to Chromecast via fullscreen recently and you can't see any video when you do, only audio.
"Consider this as a divorce."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rziE39JWfs
Bitcoin is not going to be replacing dollars in any foreseeable future, so any (environmental) costs of bitcoins are purely additive to the existing infrastructure costs.
The Scallop Sees with Space-Age Eyes – Hundreds of Them
The Importance of Being Typed (2013)
That's a good but saddening point. I guess its hella naive of me to imagine a lotus might someday make picks based off who actually is best qualified for the job.
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10+ years experience in development.
How you should be shuffling cards
Amazon Prime Video just arrived on Apple TV.
There is a principle of minimal action for the physics of nature. Is there such a thing for software? If there is, what is it exactly?
Foreign Policy is more a matter of experts funded by agencies and think tanks (more political again) trying to shift the debate in the community.

Not sure it's of major relevance right now, when Trump does stuff that is not the common wisdom of the FP crowd, but normal behaviour should resume sooner or later.
How to Create a Design System in Sketch (Part One)
Bitcoin: Investment or Bubble?
I will name one movie and let your infer what the cinema's greatest scene is: MI-SE-RY.
Time and again Alpha shows it is much better at eval than Stockfish.

Alpha play feels "human" at least to this FM. This is fantastic news! It is what I would imagine a good correspondence GM would play like with engine assistance.

I already commented on Game 1 where Stockfish played extremely aggressively with 13. Ncxe5 ??! and 31. Qxc7 ?!

Game 3 is a positional masterpiece. Alpha is willing to play pawns + exchange down when it correctly evaluates that Black queen and rooks will be tied down.

This kind of long term thinking is beyond what regular engines perform.

Game 10 is also an impressive showing by Alpha. Alpha is willing to play down a piece and a pawn for 15 (30 ply) moves in a middle game beyond the reach of Stockfish's raw calculations.

If one could only get access to Alpha evals :) When do mere mortals get access to TPUs on Google Compute Engine?
Patagonia goes to war against Trump over national monument plans
Does Rust have official implementations of Crypto algorithms (in pure Rust)?

I am not talking about some github repo in some dudes repository which contributes to it in his spare time.
Show HN: A new video creation and storage tool for sports
Net Neutrality in the United States: An Opinion
The DMCA could definitely be relevant. It mandates[0] that "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." IANAL, but one could argue that YouTube (or large parts of it) are protected under copyright law, and that the user agent check is "a technological measure that effectively controls access" to it/them.

"(A)to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and (B)a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work."[1]

[0]: (a)(1)(A) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?def_id=17...
That's interesting, I'll do that now, thanks!

EDIT: Not much luck :/
Fish-Ui: A Vue.js 2.0 UI Toolkit for Web
9 Tried and Tested Ways to Increase Engagement at Events – NVOLV
...and this attitude causes quite a bit of them to not be reproducible even when people try with the same resources.
This looks really nice. I have been thinking of something along these lines for a while, both as a way to handle larger software systems and to grasp quantum mechanics in familiar terms.
Incredibly disappointing. They stuffed it.
Abstract.

The Bitcoin network has scalability problems. To increase
its transaction rate and speed, micropayment channel networks have been proposed, however these require to lock funds into specific channels. Moreover, the available space in the blockchain does not allow scaling to a world wide payment system. We propose a new layer that sits in between
the blockchain and the payment channels. The new layer addresses the scalability problem by enabling trust-less off-blockchain channel funding. It consists of shared accounts of groups of nodes that flexibly create one-to-one channels for the payment network. The new system allows rapid changes of the allocation of funds to channels and reduces the cost of opening new channels. Instead of one blockchain transaction per channel, each user only needs one transaction to enter a group of nodes – within the group the user can create arbitrary many channels. For a group of 20
users with 100 intra-group channels, the cost of the blockchain transactions is reduced by 90% compared to 100 regular micropayment channels opened on the blockchain. This can be increased further to 96% if Bitcoin introduces Schnorr signatures with signature aggregation.
Which is why I used it