skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chances of that happening anywhere on earth are greater than zero. If you believe different you're delusional. Are they higher in the US? Yes, but it isn't the law abiding citizen that's doing the shooting. In most states schools are gun free zones. I can't even pick up my kids from school while carrying concealed - even if I don't get out of the car.
To the millions of customers around the world? Mostly no.

Also, in the court of public opinion, the punishment for breaking laws depends a lot on what the law was, to what effect was it broken, in what circumstances it was broken, and so on.
Looks like a drone to me.
Heh, what I had imagined in my own little scifi vision of the future was a hub system. Everybody gets their own little single seat self driving car pod thing that drives you to the train station. But here's the twist, instead of getting out and boarding the train the pod just drives up and latches in. You're then whisked away in the comfort of your own personalized vehicle, which automatically undocks at the appropriate station and delivers you to your workplace.
SF is a little unique in that post apocalyptic way

A fifteen minute walk with the Walking Dead theme song playing on spotify always beats the commute from hell.

You get exercise, cardio, and All of us here are able to monetize those additional 2-9 hours daily to amplify our salaries #yayinequality. Plus lets be honest you can always just walk on Van Ness or summon an uber.
The point is to force the Republicans as a whole to take a public stance on the issue, so they can’t claim to be uninvolved.
Body armor comes in a wide variety of sizes and weights many of which are not heavy and obvious. You don't need a full getup with plates to stop handguns.
What is "much more robust" even supposed to mean? It sounds like meaningless marketingspeak. The countless number of sites that break the back button, scrolling, general navigation, showering my eyes with distracting animations, or show some stupid popup when I select text make me lean towards the UI being much better without JS, and indeed I keep it off by default.

I once had a site beg me to enable JS "for a better user experience", one which didn't need it to work. I did, and promptly turned it off again when I realised what the "better" actually meant (see above). Not going to fall for that one again...
I am not a native English speaker. What definition are you referring to?
The single parent doesn't get any benefit from less pollution and less global warming?
It's cool how "nothingburger" is now a shibboleth to identify Trump supporters.
As someone who has put in well qualified bids with university consortiums for multiple US government research contracts, including DARPA and other similar groups I can confirm that this is completely false.
This director is the sane crazy nut working with Tom DeLonge now.
The App That Reminds You You're Going to Die
Posted a bit earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15943816
For which case(s), specifically, and how does human error resolve the issue?

Or do you not know any specific credible cases of unexplained UFOs, and just dismiss the entire phenomenon because of its "low probability."

(I'm being facetious because many or all of the interesting cases easily rule out human error as the source of the phenomenon. Simultaneous human (and radar!) hallucination maybe, but not error.)
If you are looking for an open-source solution then checkout https://docs.dapt.in
The financial crisis has many facets. I was deeply interested in the subject at the and in the ensuing years afterwards. I highly recommend Michael Lewis' books on the subject, especially "The Big Short." The film was decent, but didn't go into the same amount of detail as the book.

There was much fraud, especially in two places: At the ratings agencies who turned garbage bonds into A+++ good to go, never-gonna-lose investments. They should have all gone to jail for that.

The second place was at the banks doing no-doc mortgages because the bankers had huge demand for the crap bonds and the result was that lenders were both outright fabricating loans or lending money to illegal immigrants who couldn't speak any English and didn't even have jobs. Tons of un-prosecuted fraud all over the place there. A few people went to jail, not many. Look at Wachovia Bank and Countrywide as two examples.

The other place there was not fraud but enormous unethical behavior was in the sale of CDOs--the "insurance" policies that backed up all the garbage bonds with huge leverage. CDOs took down Bear Stearns and in all honesty, should have taken down all the big players including Goldman Sachs, but the Fed stepped in and bailed them out to the tune of trillions of dollars.

The American public paid the price. If you recall the $4-5+/gal gasoline from 2009 and on? That was all part of the bailout scheme. And your 401K took a huge hit, some people still haven't recovered from that time period.

Regular people paid literally out of their own pockets so that a bunch of shitbirds could stay billionaires. We allowed corrupt politicians to bail out their pals and we didn't do anything. We the people should have revolted and shot every one of those stinking crooks. Instead, we the people are treated for what we are--a bunch of doormats.
> Biased poll with leading questions. Ask them if they think the FCC should outlaw unlimited video streaming on T-Mobile Binge On. The 80% evaporates immediately.

Your potentially good point got lost in how awfully you put it. This wasn't a vote on T-Mobile or Binge-on, so it would have made no sense to ask if they should have been outlawed. But if you do have examples of questions you consider biased and legitimate corrections to them that you believe would lower the bias, I would be happy to be convinced it was biased and would love to hear your genuine improvements.
Keystone Light. Zhenka. Mr. Boston. There's your reasons for most cases of sexual assault on college campuses.
There's a great article called something like 'a biologist's take on the Fermi paradox'. Worth reading because it challenges some core assumptions.
Sails had a bad reputation in a lot of NodeJS circles. Most people use express/koa and use knex or pg-promise.
We now get ads bundled with OS (Windows 10, Android sort of, Amazon with Ubuntu), ads bundled with browsers is just a little step further...
If it's unfavorable to large tech players, why does every single one campaign for it? These are the companies that make up most of the bandwidth use, which is why ISPs want to slow them down if they don't pay for a "fast lane." Either way, losing NN will decrease their profit margins.

The GOP is for states rights, and they are also for the general decrease in government size. They are against state-level NN because that is increased regulation in those states. There are legitimate exceptions (gay rights, abortion rights, war on drugs, etc.), but those apply more to social issues than to economic ones. In terms of free market policy, the Republican party has a pretty reasonable track record of supporting it. For example: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-do....
To answer, I need your help.

What does "safe engineering" mean and how is that different than "engineering?"
You can't illegally acquire guns when there are no guns to acquire.

You realize that in the case of one of the Paris attacks, the weapons were legally acquired, right? Guns aren't 100% banned in France. In fact, the French police decided to confiscate legal weapons from over 100 individuals with terrorist ties.(1)

(1)https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-07-06/france...
There are quite a few examples of serious academics that have endorsed anarchism and have more robust arguments against the status quo. Chomsky and Graeber are very well-regarded and have works on the topic that are properly cited the way you'd like.

That said, anarchism is all about refusing to acknowledge any legitimacy in the institutions it critiques. It's not surprising that these writers don't conform to your idea of how such a text should be organised. A dense, academic format also doesn't make for very good propaganda either.
You keep doing this in all the arguments you have in this thread: you ask a question, and then when you get a response you reframe the question. You are being either dishonest or a zealot.

> Those - as far as I understand - don't exist at Google.

You asked for example of extreme "feminists" opinions that are allowed in the workforce and I gave you some. Also Damore's argument is that google is propping the numbers in a way akin to quotas, by jigging the selection process. (Well, I heard people say that, i haven't read the essay).

> So you are all for "freedom of thought" but you don't want people to be able to group in whatever way they want. That's an interesting take.

Now you are reframing the question as in a constitutional matter. That was not the question you asked. You asked for examples of extreme feminist positions in the workplace and women-only events is an example of one. Man-only corporate events dont exist, and if you called it one, there would also be public outrage. Women-only is actively discriminatory. Some people are fine with that, some aren't. The standard is not the same for everyone.

> That's totally the point. Why on Earth would he write the manifesto otherwise?

So if a feminist had written the essay, you would agree with it and would find it enlightening?
Its a simple ad-hominem. It can be true and Damore be the worst person ever born at the same time. Its not an argument of anything.
To add a different perspective: the only reason gangster types are in this business is exactly because it is criminalized.

Gangsters aren't particularly good at doing business, and will be out-competed by professional outfits when the law allows.
Mundane description of this anyone?
Should have been: ... will not have me avalanched out of existence.
I'd imagine it just would try to maximize utility -- remaining undetected in all scenarios may come with its own costs and risks.

Alternatively, maximizing utility may require a certain minimal level of detection. It's hard to predict what cost function is being optimized.

Given what is now common knowledge about AI game theory, it's super hard or impossible to actually ascribe any form of motives, ethics, intent, etc to the underlying system or intelligence that is controlling these objects if they are not natural and have no association with human culture or intelligence.
Ruby's Blockchain
Hey guys...
Just created a very simple blockchain implementation in ruby.

https://github.com/Hamdan85/cryptoruby

I hope it can be useful for anyone there.
The US has: there were lots of criminal types in the alcohol business in the 1930s. Now there are virtually gone.
Sure, and it is that generally harmful impulse that probably inspired the creation of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
> He's right that proprietary software can be used for malicious purposes or evil intent, but he's incorrect that it must be

Perhaps it must be simply because if it can be misused, it inevitably will be. Therefore, Stallman is correct.
The fact that it even got as far as "Mr robot Easter egg extension? Great!" boggles the mind
Your hometown and its metro area are almost entirely car dominated. >80% of workers commute to work alone in cars, >10% carpool to work, most of those with 2 people per car. About 4% work from home, 2% walk, <1% take a bus, and 0.3% ride a bike. (Data from the Census Bureau.)

I can’t easily figure out what proportion of other trips happen by bike/walking, what proportion of students walk/bike to school, etc., but I would be surprised if they match cities like NYC or Boston or most parts of Europe.

I don’t know what your neighborhood is like in person: how well trafficked is that underpass by pedestrians and cyclists in practice? Having some freeway underpasses near low-traffic streets be “pedestrian and bike friendly” doesn’t really help anyone if nobody walks or bikes anyway because there is nothing nearby to walk to because nearby places are extremely spread out and largely designed with the expectation that people will visit them by car, e.g surrounded by giant parking lots, with inconvenient road plans, etc.

The Southern CA town I grew up was similar low-density suburban with freeways passing through, and there were various ostensibly pedestrian-friendly freeway crossings here and there, but in practice few people ever walked anywhere except in the small downtown area or maybe exercising their dogs or going to one or another park (a decent number of kids <16 rode bikes around though). One of the nicest low-density suburban places I know of, but life for kids without cars was necessarily highly structured and relatively isolating.

You picked a spot right near the downtown between a low-density residential neighborhood and a commercial area, but looking at a satellite view and map search most of the residential areas in the city and surrounds seem to be relatively far from shops, restaurants, grocery stores, schools, ..., (at least compared to denser cities) so in practice many trips probably require a car. I’ve never been there so I can’t tell you what it’s like in practice.

But anyway, with that said, as low-density suburban development goes, Grand Rapids looks pretty nice, just judging from satellite view. Not my personal cup of tea, but definitely better than lots of places in the US.
I like how their “Featured Media Coverage” links just to homepages of news networks and/of “paid press releases” about Graft.
Your choice of companies to compare is pretty odd. Amazon now has over 500k employees (http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/26/technology/business/amazon-e...)

Sorry but I highly doubt the democratic party would see anything but benefits from this stance. The 5+ votes to repeal Obamacare that ended with vetoed by Obama on Obamacare seemed to have had some good effect for the republican party.
The death penalty is for dealing, not for users.

The quantities listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapor... seems higher than what a user would have on them.
>You cannot possibly believe that you can confiscate all the guns in the US.

You don't need to confiscate all guns to practically eliminate gun crime. The UK didn't, we just adopted a harm reduction model, gradually controlling and then removing those weapons with the greatest risk for harm and the least legitimate use - handguns and semi-automatic centrefire rifles. It took decades, but it worked.

Start with a serious federal licensing and registration system. Establish a national database with comprehensive ownership records, including private transfers; require firearm manufacturers to submit forensic samples of bullets and casings for all new firearms. Mandate firing pin microstamping. Fix the known shortcomings of the background check system. Close the gun show loophole. Instate the five-day waiting period originally proposed in the Brady Act. Require secure storage of all firearms in an approved gunsafe. Introduce mandatory safety training. Impose considerably harsher punishments for reckless or dangerous use of a licensed firearm.

Once you've got all that in place, then you can start talking about buybacks, amnesties and outright bans, starting with Title II firearms. Mandate a legitimate sporting or professional justification for the purchase or transfer of any firearm. Ban large-capacity magazines, then centerfire handguns, then semi-automatic rimfire handguns, then semi-automatic rifles.

After 30 or 40 years of incremental progress, you end up with a society that has a negligible number of handguns and semi-automatic rifles, while still maintaining the rights of sportsmen and farmers to own shotguns and bolt-action rifles in a properly controlled manner.

You can do it, if you can muster a serious and well-funded opposition to the NRA.
There's no question the ratings agencies played a huge part in the collapse. Part of the problem, politically, is these agencies were set up by the government.
Seriously, without prohibition in the first place, so much of the police/industrial complex never would have come into existence.
> The core idea (deploy an easter egg via an add-on) seems pretty reasonable

Erm no. I don't use a browser to have fun. I certainly don't want any surprises, and coming from Firefox/Mozilla this is very, very disappointing. How can we trust you guys to do the right thing from now on?
It's because the American government is bought out by NRA lobbyists so they don't try hard enough.

If you mean "bought out" in terms of actually bringing voters to the polls over this issue you'd be right.

Like it or not, people against gun control are more likely to vote on that issue in the US than people for gun control.

The NRA has over 11 million paying members. That's almost 3% of the US population, probably over 10% if you just count adults. That's a powerful voting block.
"software which is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain authorized access to a computer system."

Not malware for me. Definitely confidence shaking bloatware and adware though.
>Free markets would have let the banks fail. Instead we’ve created a world with champions for free markets for trade, free markets for labor, but protected markets for capital.

Because the government was afraid failing banks would take everything else with them.

The problem was banks were allowed to become too large and to sell risk to each other. If I were running things I'd break them all up into regional entities and separate them financially.
A tiny ELF (114 byte Linux program for Christmas)
Think of how few complete implementations of C, C++, Python, Java there are.

C++ is at least an order of magnitude more complex, but there have been plenty of C implementations, some even entirely the work of a single person[1]. "I wrote my own C (subset) compiler" seems to be a reasonably common thing on HN too.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

On the other hand, I haven't see very many "truly independent" webpage rendering engine implementations (e.g. HTML4 or HTML5-subset, CSS2.x), so if anyone wants to give it a go (or Go, if you like...), they are more than welcome to, if only to increase the diversity of available implementations --- something that could probably handle HTML4/CSS2 might not be all that difficult, and especially so if you don't care for 100% identical results to the mainstream browsers (which often differ slightly too.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13914137

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15463738

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778353

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11903674

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9125912
Chomsky's not actually especially well-regarded in political science. I had a semester of linguistics, Chomsky was a god, we talked about his theories a lot. In political science, he's literally never been mentioned in readings.

That said, anarchism is all about refusing to acknowledge any legitimacy in the institutions it critiques. It's not surprising that these writers don't conform to your idea of how such a text should be organised.

Surely anarchists believe their arguments are better with evidence.

A dense, academic format also doesn't make for very good propaganda either.

If propaganda is averse to truth, discard the propaganda. Not asking for a page of footnotes, asking for a single citation. It's as though it was written in a vacuum, and it was not.
Fake reviews? I received a firkin fake Bose QC-35 II Headphone! Check out the fake product and read the reviews, and this listing is still active even after Amazon verified and refunded me the cost of the product.

https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-headphones-Bluetoot...

Infact one of the reviewers did a detail comparison between the fake product and the real QC-35.
As someone who has put in well qualified bids with university consortiums for multiple US government research contracts, including DARPA and other similar groups I can confirm that this is completely false.

What is the size of your organization? How are you submitting bids, and where are you getting your solicitations? Does someone in your company network with the government liaisons beyond just the one you've submitted a bid to? Has your company hired someone to work this network for solicitations that aren't on FBO? Do your PIs have experience outside academia in contracting? I've been a part of several (successful) bids and -- operating under the assumption your claim was made in good faith and not just a lie -- I wonder at your approach. This is work that pretty much every organization in the US government needs.
The U.K. never had a serious firearms problem, at least not on the scale the US does.

I think there are a lot more factors at play then gun control.

For example, single shot rifles and shotguns are legal in the UK. Yet rarely used. Why is that?
Here's something that I don't understand. Mr. Robot is ultimately owned by Comcast. Comcast of course has spent an enormous amount of money destroying net neutrality. Why is Mozilla supporting a company that's at odds with Mozilla's claimed goals?
All of the startups mentioned are venture backed. There seems to be a distinctive lack of scandals from the IndieHackers, IndieWeb, Platform.coop, etc. communities.
It would be easy to hide such a vehicle. Just do your final deceleration burn in the outer solar system. The gravity of Jupiter or Saturn would be useful for an interstellar capture maneuver anyway. At that distance we'd be very unlikely to see anything, especially if it happened in 1940.

The little things sighted as "UFOs" would not be interstellar craft. They would be probes or local runabouts. The interstellar transport might resemble the craft depicted in the film Avatar (which was actually a realistic design), or maybe a hollowed out meteor. The latter would look natural when not executing a major engine burn.

As far as hiding: if they knew they were here to observe an intelligence with conceptual thinking ability and language (even one much less intelligent than they) they would know any overt contact would radically and permanently alter the subjects behavior.

This is all incredibly speculative. I'm just saying that it can't be ruled out by easy superficial arguments. It can't really be ruled out at all. We just don't have enough evidence to rule it in either.
Yeah, fake reviews have been a problem for years and are only getting more sophisticated. The latest scam is "brushing":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/27/american...
Your response smacks of the typical over confidence of jury trials with surprising outcomes, like how people think the McDonald's coffee verdict was ridiculous until they actually learn all of the facts.

The jury deliberated on this rape case for 30 minutes on all of the evidence and apparently easily reached a not guilty verdict, but this is apparently evidence of a grand conpsiracy rather than the more reasonable conclusion that the facts reported in this article do not convey the whole story.
Was this title generated by a markov model of other HN titles?
But they brought into their "experience" to become one with the mr robot brand in a unique and intuitive way which lines up perfectly with the Mozilla manifesto!
Epic Ink: How Japanese Warrior Prints Popularized the Full-Body Tattoo
> Hot is consistent with artificial.

I never said it wasn't.
Airports Are Losing Money as Ride-Hailing Services Grow
Well... "real" is a stretch. It's a clone of Monero, modified only minimally.

https://github.com/graft-project/GraftNetwork/commit/2737bf7...

(Bonus: In a number of commits, they've deliberately removed copyright headers crediting Monero -- which may make this project a copyright violation.)
I never said you conflated them, I said you misconstrued them, and I still think that since your rephrasings of the original arguments are making completely different claims.
Not as much if you do open bidding which is pretty common in local and state government