skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to think that mass shootings would turn out better if everyone was armed. It is so much harder to kill a lot of people if someone is shooting back at you.

However, overall, it would be terrible policy because such a proliferation of arms in public would result in all kinds of extra mass shootings, suicides, homicides, accidents, etc. that would cause more deaths than any reduction in the lethality of a given mass shooting.
You might appreciate the Digital Currency MOOC from University of Nicosia, with Andreas Antonopoulos and Antonis Polemitis.

https://digitalcurrency.unic.ac.cy/free-introductory-mooc/

Latest live stream (with Andreas Antonopoulos) goes into Ethereum and alternative uses of the blockchain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyPNS5QmAI

Edit - Actually, the latest live stream is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2aeToagyaA

Figured I'd leave both, since they cover similar topics
And I'm saying that your insistence on spouting off about you and your feelings on this topic at this time in this thread is boorish behavior and I am appalled that you are following up with a rebuttal to my remark justifying such behavior. It makes me feel that you aren't anyone I would want to live next door to that you can be so incredibly insensitive and self centered.
It's called a discussion and definitely not a non sequitur.

"I wonder if it was because of the recent rules changes made by YouTube", "Wouldn't be surprised if it was because of the recent rule changes YouTube made" and "Do you think this was because of the recent rule changes YouTube made?" are equivalent in what they bring to the discussion. The only difference is you choosing to interpret them differently.
So don't drive a car anymore...
> I don't believe we could ever see any kind of system 'approximating consciousness' without a body.

For the sake of argument, I'm assuming you're talking about a physical, tangible body.

> Dualism is wrong and there is no mind/body split.

Not really seeing any argumentation to back this claim up. Particularly important for a debate that has been ongoing for some centuries now...

> The full state of the brain, simulated perfectly, would perfectly reproduce the experience of a brain in total sensory deprivation paired with total whole-body paralysis.

This segment of your post makes me wonder if you are fully comprehending the end-game proposed. I don't think it would be unfair to say that anyone dreaming of a future down this path intends for these "brains in vats" to have ways to sense/communicate.

> Even just sensory deprivation alone is enough to cause consciousness to entirely evaporate in moments. Add in whole body paralysis and no, you can never hope to have anything approaching 'consciousness.'

Here is where I find a particular loss of argumentation. What evidence do you have to support your claim that without sensing things, consciousness disappears? Don't some groups of monks utilize sensory deprivation to attain "higher states of consciousness"? I'm not arguing that they are truly achieving higher states but rather that the technique itself has a connotation of "consciousness-growing" rather than "consciousness-receding".
I think that under the circumstances links/citations are required. False rumours are rampant and it's too easy to contribute to their spread (even unwittingly).
Why shouldn't it be free? Would you accept an inescapable 0.3% tax on everything you bought?
I think what OP meant was ASIC specific to deep learning like TPU's. However as I see, current frameworks are not matured enough to support GPU's and TPU's with exact same code. Also there are no standards so every big org is going to build support for their own ASIC interfaces for the framework they manage. Is there an open source interface for ASIC's for deep learning?
You say this, but there's people recording video and posting on twitter/snapchat. It's not only the journalists. And I think the word you are looking for is morbidity.
I'm actually replying to sibling comment regarding being duty-sworn to protect but don't see reply button there for some reason... Police are NOT duty-sworn to protect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
No difference if you aren't being intellectually dishonest.
Did anyone use both Rails and Sails and could elaborate a bit about the development process compared to Ruby On Rails?
I had a brief look at the boilerplate project sails generates supporting login and payments but I found it not as clear as Rails. But I use Rails for about 9 years now and therefore I am used to it.
so still 10000 to 15000 (depends on who's stat i'm going by here). That's a small city wiped off the map every single year.
It's in Danish crowns, so more like $150, and I also moved it away from a month.

Also, I can recategorize any transaction, or all transactions from any merchant. I think I set the canteen at work to "fast food", as it's a food category I almost never spend in otherwise.

(The interface is the default view of my online banking, but otherwise, I don't use it. It's very swish, but fortunately I don't need to budget this way.)
There was a section of this bridge on display at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco. Very heavy :)
I’ll never live in South America because I don’t want to be kidnapped or beheaded by some drug cartel.

I’ll never live in Europe because I don’t want to be blown up by some terrorists entering the country as refugees.

I’ll never live in Africa because I’ll get a disease and die without healthcare.

I’ll never live in Australia because there’s too many creatures that can kill you.

I’ll never live in Asia because of oppressive or unstable governments.

I’ll never live in Antarctica because the weather is too harsh and days too long.
And also, shoot everyone because guns just aren't accurate weapons unless you're in the calm situation of a range.

See all the innocent bystanders shot by police who miss the alleged offender.

https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/05/nypd-baby-you-know-we-lov...
Well, GM has required direct government assistance in the recent past in order to stay solvent. Google is rolling in liquid assets.

GM exists in a very competitive industry with major competitors at or above their capacity, while Google has maybe 1 or 2 competitors in several of various industries, and dominates several independently and almost completely.

GM might be able to claw aware market-share from competitors, and end up more valuable, but not by that much. Google is in the sort of position that allows them to potentially capture a brand new industry if one appears.

GM could (relatively) easily get broken up or get massively devalued to to a large market event or by falling behind in an industry that is rapidly changing shape from what they are accustomed to. Google falling out of existence/dominance would almost have to be the result of a fundamental societal shift at this point (or anti-monopoly legislation somehow), and they could throw enormous amounts of cash at problems for years before facing insolvency (from my understanding).
anywhere we can read up on this? :)
YouTube being insanely slow with rolling out Red doesn't help YouTube their business. I really wanted YouTube to have Red in Europe but they cant or won't so I moved over to Spotify because no ads and massive quality increase.
This entire thread is speculation.
> Now we simply have bash scripts that do all our one-offs that often were nightmares to accomplish in Gradle or Maven. Whether it is JAXB or Docker integration every maven/gradle plugin I ever used was 10 times harder than just bash.

This is the opposite of my experience. Trying to get consistent behaviour out of bash scripts is a nightmare (every nontrivial bash script has an undocumented dependency on a particular version of some system tool, every time you try to build on a new machine you're rolling the dice). Maven plugins are versioned and (usually) tested, have sane defaults, and will Just Work (provided you're willing to roll with their defaults rather than fighting it).
Yeah the gun fetish here in the USA is a bit bizarre unfortunately. :(
Luck or bug? Newly created MetaMask Ethereum address already existed
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Americans drive awful lot. Americans are more likely to be shot then citizens of pretty much any other western country and also of quite a few non-western countries.
Has anyone read her book and can comment on the differences?

I own the book and have half-read it twice, it’s very underwhelming. At no point am I thinking “that’s going to change my way of doing X”
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I've read the concept that a self driving car cannot react to everything that it sees in front of it because otherwise it would basically be inoperable, ie, it has to disregard things like overhead signs, bridges crossing over the highway etc, because braking for those is unnecessary and possibly dangerous.

But, when the car detects these things and decides to disregard them, does it just forget about them? Just thinking back to the Tesla car that ended up going under the truck crossing in its path, supposedly the car didn't react as you would expect because it assumed it was an overhead sign. But I would think that an overhead sign would begin to look different than a truck on the road crossing in front of you as you continue to get closer to it, is the software not capable of at first deciding to disregard something up ahead but then change its mind as it gets closer? Likewise with a concrete stanchion that keeps getting closer and closer? Does the software allow for it to second guess itself?
The BBC put some numbers on this a couple of years back. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34996604

> The number of gun murders per capita in the US in 2012 - the most recent year for comparable statistics - was nearly 30 times that in the UK, at 2.9 per 100,000 compared with just 0.1.
Actually:

Assault by gun: 1 in 370
Riding inside a car, van or truck: 1 in 536

http://www.businessinsider.de/mass-shooting-gun-statistics-2...

"Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than many leading causes of death combined"
This is not even remotely the same. YouTube policies on gun related content is 100% related to this issue. Simply because you want to be right doesn't mean you are.
> Focus on Android Studio because that's the only place people really use Gradle because they are forced to do so.

False
Well, at least in Mexico there is no christian radio nor a big christian music industry (no Top 20 charts or any of that). So that means touring and doing the old church pilgrimage and hoping that your style of music isn't offending to some people. The chances are bigger if you land a ministry on a big church but that's not my case.
Why is it better to use 256-bit IDs vs 128-bit IDs? I thought UUIDs were fine?
This article was worth writing, and I'm glad you wrote it. It is helpful. You might not realise it but:

> If you could use KMS but encrypting is just a fun weekend project and you might be able to save some money by minimizing your KMS usage, use KMS. If you’re just encrypting secrets like API tokens for your application at startup, use SSM Parameter Store, which is KMS. You don’t have to understand how KMS works.

Paragraphs like this come across quite condescending, and the tone might have more to do with the lack of adoption of the ideas herein than the content does.

Security Professionals seem to have an unfortunate habit of talking down to everybody else.
It makes the risk of being shot by someone else a lot less than it appears to be when you use raw gun death statistics.
It makes it exactly twice as better than the original statistic.
Have you not used a modern contactless payment system before? They're fast enough to be used on the barriers of underground railway systems which see thousands of passengers pass through at peak times. Even the time taken to empty the contents of your wallet into the appropriate slot of a cash system takes longer than those machines, never mind time taken to process the notes and coins, dispense change and allow you to put that change back in the appropriate compartments of your wallet. And change-dispensing machines with their scanning software, moving parts and need to be fully stocked with change break down at least as often as networks for card based payments.
Or maybe this dude is just surprised at how much gun violence happens in the US.
"Zuckerberg's resignation would open up the possibility of a world-changing and reputation-enhancing second chapter, not only for him personally but also for Facebook the corporation.

...

That said, the new CEO should not be Sheryl Sandberg. She's just as culpable as Zuckerberg, in terms of how Facebook got into its current predicament, and she's far too associated with the ancient regime."

Source:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-case-for-a-zuck-free-faceboo...
Advice for that kind of problem typically requires a lot more context, e.g.:
* You need to do symmetric crypto between two MCUs, where only one has an RNG;
* You need to do symmetric crypto with no RNG;
* You can't rely on your MCU safely storing state / unreliable transports.

Cryptography and libraries/standards are gradually building towards a world in which higher-and-higher level abstractions let inexperienced web/high-level application developers build safe systems. The same isn't really true for the lower-end of the embedded space, and consequently you can't really produce an equivalent set of (reasonable) guidelines like the ones linked.
Spotify is fantastic. Excellent usability. I can control the output of my iPhone Spotify app using the app running on my linux computer.
Gradle scripts are an undocumented superset of Groovy. It's not just Groovy, it's the fact that there's no consistent way to know what settings and defaults come from where.

(And really, why would you know Groovy these days? Is it even used for anything outside of Gradle anymore?)
Homicide statistics are rather incomplete, but they don't really paint a picture where "most" are obviously explained by "inner city gang violence":

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
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Swish is 1 to 2 SEK (2 being the list price that can be negotiated) per transaction. Then swish has a daily cap of payments you as user can do of 150k SEK (system limit, not a soft cap that the user can remove).
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Now that's gonna hurt...

I think somewhere she failed to grok the idea of a "self-inflicted death."
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Very few Western countries actually ban guns. Sweden, for example, has 2M registered guns (21 for each 100 persons). Germany has 5.5M. In the Czech Republic you can get a PAR MK3 (local version of the AR15).
I'm pretty sure you are talking about a different point. The original comment is about laying out all the arguments upfront to avoid the appearance of back peddling if the first argument turns out to be false. You seem to be focusing on the example more than this point.
Strongly agreed. Citation or it's just a rumor.
"Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than many leading causes of death combined"

http://www.businessinsider.de/mass-shooting-gun-statistics-2...

You wanted statistics, you got statistics.
I'm English but have lived in California for half my life.

London now has a higher murder rate than NYC, which gives a different perspective.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-43610936
I've never owned a gun but I respect the second amendment which seems to have been cleverly crafted primarily to give the citizens options to overthrow a future oppressive government.

I find the whole pressure to 'ban guns' sinister in Trump's America...
I think institutions are more important than leaders for sustainable social goods.
I've had problems with malicious ads redirecting me lately. I began to suspect that my phone was infected, but it turns out that this is now a common occurrence:

https://www.wired.com/story/pop-up-mobile-ads-surge-as-sites...

I don't know why the ad platforms even allow custom JavaScript...
It's not different enough to not count as the same story.
People have been able to listen to music over the Internet for about twenty years at this point. Why do you think you can only do it with Spotify?
Remember the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook from WNYC's On The Media: https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-...

1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong.
2. Don't trust anonymous sources.
3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information.
4. There's almost never a second shooter.
5. Pay attention to the language the media uses.
• “We are getting reports”… could mean anything.
• “We are seeking confirmation”… means they don’t have it.
• “[News outlet] has learned”… means it has a scoop or is going out on limb.
6. Look for news outlets close to the incident.
7. Compare multiple sources.
8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers.
9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.
Our government has regulations and conducts research to minimize car accident fatalities. As a result, cars today are much safer than 10 or 20 years ago. There's no reason we can't do something similar with guns.
https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-incremental-build-suppor...
I also attempted to bring this up, be prepared for the downvotes.

The issues are highly likely tied together.
The key point that Gradle needs to make clearer is to delineate between task creation and task execution and which code is running where. It is very confusing for people to know whether their code is going to execute at gradle file load or at task execution. People get confused that they can't just use the result of one task when setting the opts for another.

Edit: Also, I personally do the opposite route wrt the paradigm of the wrapper and the daemon. I don't commit a wrapper script and have people use a downloaded Gradle themselves. I also run --no-daemon on every manual execution for smaller projects. But I may not be normal here.
Same experience for me. I bought a cheap printer from eBay and slowly started re-designing and replacing existing parts by printing them out on the printer itself. Nearly 100% of the printer has been replaced, and I’m finalizing the design for a second printer. I’ve started making contributions to the firmware, slicers, and host software to get features I want, learned to model in Blender, learned about programming micro-controllers, started researching thermoplastics, material science, and the list goes on.

3D printing is an incredible intersection of software, electronics, machinery, chemistry, and an open, community-driven R&D environment. It is the most fun I’ve had since being a child building RC cars.
The UI could definitely be improved, but the core team has recently hired a UI designer, so hopefully this will improve in the future. If you have any other feedback that you've heard from your trainings, I'm sure the core team would love to hear about it either in their issue tracker (e.g. github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues for Riot web), or in the Matrix rooms (#riot:matrix.org or #matrix:matrix.org).
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Which platform? I only use Mac for a GUI OS and that has secret chats for Telegram.
Did you feel that entire graf was condescending or just parts of it? The "you don't have to understand how KMS works" perhaps? (It's definitely not meant that way :-))
I grew up in the Deep South. Most of my family members are morbidly obese and have diabetes. I avoided this by spending hundreds of hours reading and thinking about nutrition. Here are my ground rules for healthy living:

1) Drink a lot of water everyday.

2) Calories are the most important baseline measure that affect your weight.

3) Walking for 20 minutes a day will give you 90% of the exercise you need. Go for a walk after lunch with your colleagues!

4) Don't trust food scientists, including ones that work for the government. They are paid to sell more food.

5) Putting vegetables on pizza doesn't make that pizza healthier. It may make it "less unhealthy". Think in terms like that.

6) The more synthetic a food is (i.e. the more processed it is), the more unhealthy it is. Human evolved to eat a certain way -- remember that. Use olive oil, real butter, etc. Eat whole fat everything.

7) Eat a lot of vegetables. Don't eat a lot of red meat. Yogurt is really good for your gut.

8) If you're going to eat something unhealthy, embrace it! Acknowledge that you are treating yourself.

9) THINK about your diet. Evaluate how you feel.

10) Look at your body in the mirror more than you step on a scale.
Yev from Backblaze -> Let 'em hear it! We'd love to be integrated, but as the integrator to B2 they would have to prioritize the project! QNAP is integrated with B2 in some ways already, you can take a look here -> https://blog.qnap.com/backup-data-backblaze-b2/.
You don't need ethical flags to be cynical about the state of general "X makes me healthy" research.

Most studies, even the squeaky clean ones (in terms of possible conflicts of interest), tend to suffer from persistent methodological flaws. P-hacking and small N are depressingly common. Actually establishing rigor in controlling only the independent variable is difficult (e.g., alcohol-is-good-for-you tends to be control poorly for the preexisting conditions of teetotalers versus non-teetotalers). There's also the "standard" biases of publication bias and the like.
Why the assumption that "to pull a Netflix", they will have to get rid of the back catalogue? Netflix has plenty of third-party content. I would assume that Spotify's music licences are highly variable cost, ie almost entirely pay-per-stream. All they need to do is to get people to stream less licenced content and more own-produced.
It does not address the altitude issue, but there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lateral_offset_proce... which addresses aircraft on the same route.
It’s bad that in Australia our police beat up pensioners, I cannot imagine how bad things would be here if we had a free-wheeling gun culture.

Actually, scratch that - I can. Until we cracked down on guns in the 90s we had massacre after massacre. I think I forgot how it was because we’ve not had one since the Port Arthur massacre.
The problem with statistics is that people like to ignore them in when they don't support their narrative.

If you lived your life entirely trying to avoid things with an incredibly minor chance of happening to you, you would stop living life. You a much higher chance of dying in a car accident, choking to death on your food, or in a bike related accident. Yet I drive, eat, and ride my bike.
I'd suggest everyone reading exercise extreme caution with unverified information like this. There are already widespread conflicting reports of female vs. male, wearing body armor vs. not, etc. etc.

Don't doubt for a second that 4Chan and the like are eagerly spreading disinformation as we speak. You don't know the source of this information. Wait for official information before forwarding anything.
> you either expect any user to coerce their case into your model (and hope the plugin is documented, dependencies work (bwahahaha) and is maintained)

I find all the cases can be coerced, and it's not even hard. Some users seem to insist on customization for its own sake, "oh I absolutely must call my source folder source rather than src", but Maven does the right thing by ignoring those users, with the result that you can pick up any project that uses Maven and be immediately productive.
Police respond to reported shooting at YouTube
Definitely agree with this. The Gradle lifecycle and the difference between Task Execution and Build Configuration is not intuitive at all. Neither is the fact that when you just stick a `<<` or `doLast()` in there without understanding why, it works with some tasks and not with others (killing << is a step in the right direction but making the build lifecycle more understandable would be hugely helpful).