skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will +nth this course. Tying an ancient philosophy with modern science lends both a lot of credibility. Note that religious aspects are not addressed. Practical aspects of buddhism (such as a regular meditation practice, approach to emotions, etc) are discussed. I find it very useful in day to day life.
Sounds like typical father behavior. I'm sure he is convinced everything he does is for your own good - but in reality has very little regard for your contributions and acts as a control freak, choking the life out of your best years.

Part of me would install log-less rootkits on all critical infrastructure and plant disc corruption and subtle misconfiguration here and there. Not enough to bankrupt the company but enough to drive any hired sysadmin mad, then refuse to answer the phone until the equity demands are met. Ok, don't actually do those illegal things.
The first rule of gun culture is don’t talk about gun culture
I keep waiting for the government to realize that "payment processors" have far more power to regulate the monetary supply than the federal central bank does. We've handed over the majority of transactions to these groups that charge a percentage based, I suppose, on the notion that transferring a larger number over a wire is significantly more difficult than transferring a smaller one. So if they want to set the nations monetary policy, they will. Want to increase the supply of money? Good luck if the payment processors decide to bump their cut up to compensate. Want to decrease it? Good luck when they bump their cut down to keep things as they are.
I'd say let's hope they'll remember that the next time they'll ask for backdoors in some other technology.

But in reality I have very little hope that they will.
Homicide rates in these countries are roughly 1/4th to 1/3rd of the US.

Gun homicides ~ 1/10th.
HN is a site devoted to tech, right now the tech world is dominated by US companies. Therefore many non-US based readers of HN will be devs or work in the tech industry and could have the opportunity to move from safe countries in the EU to work in the US. In the same way that the GP wouldn't choose to move to the United States most people would not choose to move to the middle East for their career due to the risks. The GP has simply indicated that the risk of being shot in the US is too high for them. Now you have lived there and have never seen anybody who has been shot. I live in the UK and I have never seen anybody who has been shot either. But if we look at the overall statistics, you are much more likely to be involved in a gun related incident than I am.

I think you are taking it personally as someone disliking your country when in fact it is a rational response for someone to want to expose themselves to less danger. In the same way that you would not move to Egypt for a better paying job because, as a woman, you would be much more likely to experience sexual harassment and/or sexual violence there than you would in the US.

And where else would this be discussed, everyone says "don't politicise" these events, but if you dont talk about it now when do you discuss it? Brought up next week and we will be in the aftermath of a different tragedy or some other crisis. These events need to be addressed when they happen, otherwise nothing will be done.
What evidence do you have for that claim?
One mass shooting a month would be a drastic reduction. The US had 30 mass shootings by the end of February.

https://www.abc15.com/news/data/mass-shootings-in-the-us-whe...

(terrible music choice for that autoplaying video).

In 2017 there were over 340 mass shootings. The US has nearly one mass shooting per day.
Did you read the article?

It says Assault by gun - 1 in 315

Bicycling - 1 in 4030

So cycling is 10x safer.
Indeed a great feature, and I just learned of it here - thx!

This is an excellent way to visualize and surface relevant/interesting network activity. Good work
I'm glad I live in the EU in such circumstances: EU regulation 261 [1] covers so much, with €250 to €600 compensation depending on flight distance for delays over 4 hours, with a percentage of full compensation for shorter delays. No specific credit card required.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_Compensation_Regulation...
In these cases, all of the arguments were false, the defendants knew they were false, and they were able to significantly delay justice by employing all of them. Furthermore, each successive claim denies the premises of all those that precede it, and in a purely rational world, it would be reasonable to say that only one could be presented. I am not advocating that the law should be changed in this regard, as I am pretty certain that there would be cases in which such a change would be used to prevent valid defenses being made, but there is certainly nothing wrong with pointing out that this is happening.

> like the woman who decided to surgically remove her own silicone breast implants.

As red a herring as I have seen lately.
That's cool its part of our culture if you don't like our culture then luckily you're still mostly free in the rest of the world to move around and not be in the US.
There are lots of things that are outside of the set of recommendations that are still fine. If you use UUIDs I won't tell you you're wrong and you need to rip it out :-)
Good idea, I'll implement that it's a bit misleading indeed.
Two shootings in London just last night. A 16- and a 17-year-old. Murder rate that surpasses NYC.
Flexibility is not something I want in a build system. I want predictability and simplicity. "Flexibility" just means that the dumbest guy on the project will find sufficient rope to hang the whole team sooner or later.

That being said, "flexibility" is not special to Gradle. As long as there have been build systems there have been people who are too lazy to learn them and get "bright ideas". For instance I have no idea how many shellscript-infested build setups I've seen for C programs that could easily have been built using entirely standard Makefiles. If the author had bothered learning to use Makefiles.
They don't.

Well, I have only released a single and plan to release an EP later this year and I'll figure out what to do. I'm thinking Facebook ads since I figure there's where my audience will be, but I don't really know.

I wish I was more photogenic so I could do the YouTube thing but, alas, I'm not.

That's where I think Spotify comes handy, because it has helped me to discover awesome artists that I wouldn't otherwise and I wish it could do the same for my music and other small artists.
Designing New Ways to Give Context to News Stories
Myself and coworkers joke about our "armory" of weapons ready to combat a shooter. However, we're not stupid enough to actually do that. We know the police that would show up within seconds would see us as targets as well.
The first rule of being a decent human being is to not walk up to someone who has just had something terrible happen to them and gloatingly say something like "He he, there's your problem. It's your fault this is happening to you. Glad I and my neighbors are so much more civilized."

I cannot fathom how anyone can mistake such comments as evidence of civilized behavior.
Except the fact that gun homicides are still above and beyond every other first world country by far.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/americas/us-gun-statistics/in...
How is Netflix not at the mercy of major movie studios? Their originals, while popular, are not a proven business model. No tech company to my knowledge has proven that taking content 'in house' improves the bottom line, yet. Pandora attempted to get into tickets and I don't think that went well although I am not sure a true stratechery style analysis of that has ever been done to my knowledge.
As a resident, let me pose to you this : The government doesn't always know what the rest of the government is doing. I would be surprised if there weren't rogue Stingray's out there, and even more not surprised that it's some discreet arm of the government.
Yet they never thought to move away from making cars with internal combustion engines and 2k parts vs 200.

Say what you want about how long it is taking them to get going, Tesla make excellent cars and the longer they make them the better they will be.
Live feed on CBS: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-respond-youtube-possible...
Not sure if this counts but recently I started the “elixir for programmers” course and I’m loving it. It skips over the low level stuff and starts from “I know how to build apps in XYZ other tool, how can I get up to speed on idiomatic Elixir” which is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

You follow along building the same app as the instructor. Lots of hands on coding and experimentation between clips. I’m not an expert but my confidence level with elixir is very high now.

https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...
It's definitely a sliding window. Elvis is not so important but stuff from the 1970's to the 2000's remains popular with kids.

Heuristic: parents pass on their teenage music preferences to kids but don't pass on their own parent's teenage music preferences to their kids?
For Watchdog Scientists, Using Software to Fight Dubious Cancer Research
I can't reply to you anymore unfortunately but:
Where's the right place? when is the right time? I'm not trying to make this about me, I'm trying to understand a completely foreign concept to me. Unprovoked mass shootings seem to be a very regular occurrence for years now, and yet until the recent one in Parkland there doesn't seem to be an appetite for change.
Care to extrapolate? We tried hard to take industry use cases.
Just to be clear, I'm not against XML at all. Maven does more but can be a pain to program compared to older systems like ant, which is also XML-based. Configuring plugins to fire at the right point in the build cycle (e.g., package vs. install) comes lightly to mind.

It's gotten a lot better because there are many examples now accessible with Google. Overall I'm pretty happy with maven now. It works.
People complain about C and C++ compile times but they don't hold a candle to that in Android-Java-land in my experience.
History... and the word Slave came from the word Slavic...

Today this behavior is illegal and perpetuating that stereotype reinforces racism
Total umbrella statement applicable to anything, ranging from fortunate events (e.g. winning a lottery) to unfortunate events (e.g. crashing your car).

What's the point?
Stay safe people! You life matters, don't listen to those vile political trolls that couldn't contain themselves to inject their own agenda into this tragedy.
Uhm, have you seen our cops?
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Are you talking about Android? I'm using Gradle for traditional Java projects (standalone and web) and its performance was good, similar to Maven. I agree that Android plugin is very slow, but I think that it's not a Gradle to blame.
Is it really necessary to maintain the state of the entire network on all federated nodes? (Since I'm guessing that's what you've described)
186 Asians (19,437,463 estimated total) die to gun violence a year according to this chart. And the majority in the US, whites (232,943,055 estimated total), 3,049 die a year due to gun violence.

In a country of 327,421,076 (estimated).

I used those two demographics because of their representation in tech (and thus this site).

Use those numbers to draw your own conclusions while living outside of the US.
I admit that I wrote that before I read the rest of the article. The rest of the article is great :).

I don't know why that one paragraph stuck out at me so much, but it triggered the "screw you, don't tell me what to do" reflex.
Gradle is objectively faster than Maven.
Android projects suffer heavily due to multidexing.
> low friction of switching services

I don't agree with this. Most people build up a catalog of songs/playlists on one platform and moving to a new one and re-discovering all your music is quite a pain in the ass. This was one of the main reasons I was a late adopter of Spotify (I work in the Music Industry).. there was no easy way for me to take local libraries/playlists and create Spotify playlists from them.
> it bothers me that you feel so free to say that on HN.

Freedom to express one's opinion is not a uniquely American value, especially on the internet. You're free to be bothered, but it's invalid to criticize someone for commenting about why US gun culture makes living in the States a non-starter.
You know that OSX and Linux both use the same printer stack (CUPS) right?
Use Monocypher, TweetNaCl, or Libsodium.

Monocypher is portable (C99/C++), pretty fast, and has low memory footprint (generated binary between 30kB and 60kB). Problem: it isn't trusted yet. (I'd like to run a bug bounty, but I'm not sure how I should go about it.)

TweetNaCl is portable (C89), has low memory footprint, and is made by trustworthy professional cryptographers. Problem: it is slow.

Libsodium is blazing fast on modern processors, has portable implementations, and is trusted. Problem: it is pretty big, and I hate the auto tools.

Edit: of course, those recommendations only hold if you have a trustworthy RNG.
...the federal government, yeah. The mistake was extending it to the states instead of letting their own constitutions say what should happen in their jurisdiction.
You have to be smart enough to realize people will think you're trying to make an insinuation here.
I track mines here: http://pa-mar.net/Study/Online/OnlineCourses.html

Best - in no particular order: Introduction to AI (Stanford), the one who started it all, Coursera Data Analysis and Introduction to Operations Management by University of Pennsylvania.

You can find more details about all of these in the page I linked above.
It's a pretty uncharitable read of the situation to say she wants an interview while he is hiding. She's leaving him a message to get back to her, presumably at a safer time.

And while it's pretty grim to see the process at work, journalists need to report news somehow. This is how we all end up with detailed news reports to read.
Nobody here has done that.
Yes, but 30x a tiny number is still tiny. That isn't a reasonable way to determine "danger", it's a statistical fallacy.

Like, the difference in traffic deaths between the US and UK is 10.6 to 2.9 per capita, which is under 4x. But the actual lethality difference is massive. It pretty much completely swamps the difference in gun murders (I'm treating this as a naive comparison to prove a point, not trying to dig into the particulars of these stats), but I don't here people making sanctimonious posts about an absolute hard-line refusal to moving to the US due exclusively to the dangerous driving culture.

It's just psychological biases at play.
I don't carry a gun but I almost always carry a fog style pepper spray on me. I used to use Fox Labs but UDAP made an even stronger pepper spray, pretty much the strongest legal to carry, self defense pepper spray. UDAP is famous for their bear spray line. [1]

If you work at an office or startup, I recommend purchasing a fire extinguisher style 1-5 pound pepper spray due to the increased range and capacity. [2]

A note of warning though: I have sprayed myself on the arm with the weaker of the two, the Fox Labs spray - mind you, outside with good breeze. Just a spritz. Well, my arm pretty much burned for two days straight and if I went inside, it was hard to breath due to the constant smell. It would not rinse off my arm with water or milk.

If you have poor accuracy, go with the fogger style. Stream style pepper sprays have longer range but are harder to hit vitals and create a barrier. Fog pepper spray can pretty much be sprayed to create a wall of pepper that no one will able to go through without being blinded and severely impaired. So it can be used to prevent an attacker from heading towards you, even if you can't reach the attacker.

I am not saying pepper spray is better than a gun but it requires almost no training and can save your life if used properly. Every office should have some along with a fire extinguisher.

[1] https://amzn.to/2Eh6Byk
[2] https://amzn.to/2GQBLln
If the purpose of guns is killing, I think mine are defective. They’ve never killed anybody!
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological or national tangents. Those inevitably lead to generic ideological and national spats, as demonstrated below. All such discussions are much the same, and they're what we're trying to avoid here,

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My bad, I had multiple tabs open and got them confused.
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Personally, I think Gradle (and a whole lot of other software) needs to stop the whole convention-over-configuration idea. It makes things way too difficult to debug and learn from, all to save some one-time typing. Making everything implicit for the sake of simplicity is really just the opposite.
Lack of efficient fully homomorphic encryption -- as soon as we crack that, we can start injecting ads into encrypted messages and it will be profitable enough to make not suck.
you left out:
"Motor Vehicle Crash	1 in 102"

http://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-ov...
To be fair, the accumulated wealth of the rich person has already been taxed.
There are a lot more important problems than guns we have to worry about. Well, we have to end apartheid for one.

And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger.

We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women.

We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values.
Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern, and less materialism in young people.
Only if you include stabbings:

>The Met Police has launched 44 murder investigations in 2018, 31 of which have been as a result of stabbings.

If you look at gun homicide rate, then the U.S. has 30 times the homicide rate of the U.K.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34996604

Do you still say a 30x gun homicide rate a "sinister" reason to 'ban guns'?
* Easy to read
* Collections tools
* Functional programming with closure
* Traits
* Typed or not
* DSL
* 100% compatibility with all jars
* Awesome framework like Grails and the upcoming Micronaut and SpringBoot
* Enterprise software or script, you're welcome.

There is a whole world out there.
Active Shooter at YouTube HQ
Actually, they pay way better than most other streaming services: https://torrentfreak.com/artists-think-instead-spewing-spoti...

Quote: “I can tell you that Spotify has made me about 30% more than iTunes, Pandora, Amazon, Xbox Music, Google Play, eMusic, Rhapsody, Rdio, Deezer, MediaNet, Simky, Nokia, and MySpace Music combined in that period. Even if you tack on my checks from ASCAP to that long list, Spotify is still ahead,”
Can I get some background on who is behind this project and if there is an initial target/goal that led to its creation? Found a bit of detail at [0], now just curious its background and maybe even why the choice of licensing.

0 - https://github.com/marekjm/viuavm
I think you are taking it personally as someone disliking your country

No, that isn't not what I am doing. You are mistaken.

And where else would this be discussed

There are plenty of ways to express your concern about these trends and ask what can be done about them without being ugly about it at the very moment that tragedy is occurring. If you imagine you are some kind of civilized person living in a morally superior culture to mine, perhaps you can set the example for my heathen self by bringing these issues up in a way that is respectful, compassionate and sets an example of how to problem solve and be decent to dummies who don't know what they are doing.
But nobody's walking up to the victims and saying this. HN is an open -- and international -- forum for discussion.

Given that the US is affected by gun-related violence unlike essentially any other developed nation, it's completely reasonable to bring the American gun fetish up anytime there's a shooting, to draw attention to it and to (hopefully) enact change which can prevent these kinds of tragedies in the future.
What about overall murder rate? How about murders with a different weapon like knives?

Those seem like important statistics to have for a true comparison, but strangely is missing from the article you linked...
To be honest, someone saying "I would make a better salary as a programmer in the US, but I won't go because of X" is topical to HN (Even if X is a false statement, heck, even if 'I won't go because' is a false statement, because in all cases it's being said, and that's relevant in a country that is simultaneously debating a programmer shortage, H1-B visas, and how these impact our industry.

I have plenty to say on the gun debate, but HN isn't the place to bring most of that it up. Where the gun culture (note, OP said 'culture', so it has nothing to do with the legality per se) DOES intersect the HN topics, however, seems like something that shouldn't be ignored just because it's a political issue. Ideally your political issues are important issues - outright avoiding discussion of them is not helpful, even if discussion requires more effort towards civility and open-mindedness on everyone's parts.
Idea works fine with non-trivial Gradle builds. It might be theoretically impossible, but on practice it works.
Maybe if you’re a 19 year old black male in Chicago, but not a 35 year old Asian software developer in Palo alto
YouTube Shooting: Multiple Injuries at Tech Firm's HQ in San Bruno, California
GWU event on “Christian Privilege”
I find it odd that as an American, from a military family, you take issue with his/her ability to speak freely.
Cryptocurrency wallet design contest – great chance to try “six-domain model”
I have been a user of make, Ant, Maven and Gradle. And Grunt, Gulp and now npm + webpack in the JavaScript-world. And of all these Maven is by far the better build tool.

To the creator of these tools: Try to remember that what you are creating is a support tool. A second act to the main development language. It is better if it is not general purpose, it is better if it is not turing complete, it is better if it is less powerful.
But can you own an AR-15?
It isn't necessary, and we don't do it. What I've described is what happens if you type '/join #matrix:matrix.org' and your server starts participating in a large room which spans tens of thousands of users and hundreds of servers. Rooms are only replicated over the servers which participate in them. So if you don't join massive rooms, your server can be have fine. (And in the near future massive rooms should be usable too).
If his freedom to speak and criticize is to be respected, then so is mine. It cuts both ways.
This is awesome.

I love that I can't instantly tell which of those three footnotes is a real thing.
> Artists continue to receive almost nothing for their music being played

This is kind of FUD. There's a lot of royalties flowing out of Spotify. While it's true the payouts for many artists are smaller than they should be, 90+% of artists simply get very few plays on Streaming services and thus make no money.

And Spotify isn't the only one to blame here. Most music goes through a process like this:

Artist -> Label -> Distributor -> Storefront

Spotify is only the storefront.. but both the Distributor (the "big three" labels UMG, Sony, and Warner do their own distribution) and the record label take a cut. There's also additional overhead for the artist, such as paying out to producers, writers (if they don't write themselves) etc.