skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guns aren't toys.

They are an important tool in America's system of checks and balances: Guns are not for shooting deer; guns are for shooting politicians.

The 2nd Amendment is very clear; in fact, it's probably the clearest portion of the entire Constitution:

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

In order to protect the freedom of each state from the imposition of some tyranny, it must be possible to gather groups of patriots who are armed with the highest quality equipment; therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

America was born out of armed revolution against a tyrannical government, and Americans are taught that they must be wary of enemies both foreign and domestic. To Americans, the government is at best a dangerous servant, and at worst a tyrannical master.

The gun is known as "The Great Equalizer" for a reason. To restrict gun ownership is to transfer even more power from the weak (the individual) to the strong (the State); that is anathema to those who understand what it actually means to be an American.
No, it's just that American companies as a rule tend to have a dim view of privacy and some pushback against that is welcome.

As for enforcement, if you're a European company you have much more to be worried about since it is going to be much easier to go after you.

Selective enforcement is hopefully going to be limited to going after a couple of very prominent offenders after which the remainder will fall in line.
No, it's not.

Exercise and/or don't stuff your face. Pretty simple, really.

And, unlike your finances or genetic predisposition for cancer, you have total control over it. No one is forcing you to over eat.
I like the suggestion from 1890 to use cotton in the ears as a low pass filter to increase fidelity.
Unlike Venmo, Swish lets you transfer money instantly between bank accounts. There are no social features like profile pictures, emojis, or public transactions. And it uses proper authentication, rather than typing your banking password into a third-party app.

Venmo falls well short of the transfer apps in most countries.
Why not both ? Both are excellent courses. I took deeplearning.ai last year. This year I am planning to complete fast.ai.
Valve Reaffirms Commitment to Linux, SteamOS – Phoronix
Um, how about elaborating on embedded?

> you can use STROBE and a sound, modern, authenticated encryption stack entirely out of a single SHA-3-like sponge constructions.

Or I can go grab TweetNaCl. Is there any reason to use something else?

> Speaking of AKEs, there are, like, 30 different password AKEs you could choose from.

Each with it's own specific (often multiple) footguns. I haven't found any good AKE implementation that I trust for embedded devices.
Why Neanderthals Had Faces That Were So Different from Ours
The ARK page says the CPU can handle 64GB. LPDDR4 memory isn’t required when you’re going to be sucking as much power as this chip will
That's also the one I would have picked.

I liked that it used ML, and the parallel/isomorphism between functional and object-oriented programming was really well illustrated IMO.

Really good to develop basic intuition before going into more advanced stuff.
If the rate is flat, then the quantity is increasing due to population growth.

We need the rate to go down proportional to population growth just to keep the number of shooting deaths constant.

It's unrealistic to expect the quantity to stay constant or go down with such growth, it's already a pretty low rate.
"It's gotten a lot better because there are many examples now accessible with Google."

That is the main reason I am sticking with Maven (where practical). Examples, documentation, and answered questions are plentiful.

"Configuring plugins to fire at the right point in the build cycle (e.g., package vs. install) comes lightly to mind."

The official documentation has that covered well: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...

An example they give is:

...
<plugin>
<groupId>com.mycompany.example</groupId>
<artifactId>display-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-test-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>time</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...

i.e. plugin "display-maven-plugin" should execute its "time" goal during the "process-test-resources" phase.

IIUC, there are no fixed phases in Gradle, so this sort of thing is done with task dependencies.
Much of it seems to more be designed to sew discord between the parties than to directly influence the election.

Mission accomplished I guess.
Naughty Password Generator, because (o)(o)ies
Not disagreeing with you that Google has advantages in some areas. However, Apple has some advantages as well, especially in its hardware/software integration in end user devices, which allows it to deploy e.g. hardware neural network acceleration or specific sensors, as in the iPhone X.
This is true of certain parts of Google's business, but definitely not with other parts. It seems Google is hoping websites will agree to make Google a "co-controller" of their sites, and get their users' permissions for Google to collect data on them.

The entire ad business, aka, most of their money, is not really GDPR compliant. Collecting tracking data from third party sites is not okay.
I dunno. I didn't invent a term for it, but my beliefs map relatively well to the author's. And I've always considered myself a nihilist - it just seems (to me) basically irrefutable.

There is exactly one escape. I'm having enough fun that I don't want to take it, but that could change. That's nothing empty or baleful about that (again, to me).
Car companies fought against seat belts.
Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds
This is relevant:

> But, seriously: you can throw a dart at a wall to pick one of these. Technically, argon2 and scrypt are materially better than bcrypt, which is much better than PBKDF2. In practice, it mostly matters that you use a real secure password hash, and not as much which one you use.

It’s not so much a strict order of preference as it is a preference, any preference, so as to still be recommending things. Argon2 and scrypt are too close to call.
18 months on – Impact of the Interchange Fee Regulation on the European Union cards market [1]

[1] https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/news-insights/insight...
State Dept. Wants to Expand Social Media Collection to All Visa Applicants
> My point was that I think that maintaining citizens' gun rights wouldn't be sufficient to allow the people to overthrow the government

Nor was that the intent. Gun rights were viewed as a necessarya sufficient condition for that; the sufficient condition was the dependency of the government on the citizen militia to enforce its will; the Constitution presupposed (but did not mandate, which led to this presupposition becoming invalid) the absence of large permanent standing armies and permanent professional paramilitary police forces at the federal and state level, and they both federal and state government would be dependent on mobilizing the armed citizenry to deal with internal threats to order and external security threats.

The guaranty of liberty wasn't “the people have smallarms to fight the government's armies of professional troops with the weapons of large scale warfare”, it was “the government may have stockpiles of weapons of large scale warfare, but absent mobilizing the armed citizenry can't actually effectively employ them and has very few troops to do anything”. The envisioned asymmetry in effective power was the reverse of what it is now, with or without gun rights.
Torvalds Expresses Concerns Over Current “Kernel Lockdown” Approach – Phoronix
Online courses that aren't MOOCs either:

1. Allow a limited number of students to sign up for a run of the class, which is on a specific schedule, and there's high interaction with and feedback from other students and the instructor.
2. Allow unlimited students to sign up, often at any time, but at most there's a forum or mailing list for participants to interact with each other. Many are just a series of videos or articles, maybe with some assignments, but there's no pressure to complete them.

MOOCs try to combine those. Unlimited students can sign up for scheduled classes. While the class is in session, students are assigned to grade each other's homework, so there's both pressure and interaction.

Most MOOC providers let you "audit" a class for free, which is basically a type 2 online course.
Wasn't this the first?

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2015/io/the-first-3d-printed-bridg...

Ah, it is the same project only a bit delayed and they've redesigned the bridge itself and moved the project indoors during the printing phase (which makes good sense).
Seems like a fairly small number for removing propaganda/state influence..

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9233-uncovering_british_spies_we...
Possibly another reason apple may be looking to do their own laptop cpus?

six to 8 iphone's "glued together" would be somewhat appealing.
Non-competes are not legal in California employment law.

This is a part of why Silicon Valley happened instead of Boston being the center of tech.
Git v2.17.0 released
I took the class during my undergrad at Tech and I could not agree more. There was such a disconnect between the class material and the project.

Additionally, this is the class that gave us "Jill Watson", the robot TA.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/robot-ta-ai-1.3585801
>> The root server would just see your NS lookup for .com, ...

> That's not how DNS works today so you're asking for a major re-architecture.

Actually that is how QNAME minimisation (on the resolver) works https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7816

unbound has some nice slides: https://ripe72.ripe.net/presentations/120-unbound_qnamemin_r...
Apple has a 600 GFLOPS NPU in the iPhone X. Nvidia's $3000 Titan V has a 110 TFLOPS TPU. After a couple of decades of researchers using GPU's for compute, dedicated hardware is available, with a better FLOPS/$ ratio. Looks like the future of compute.

We'll see Apple releasing more uses of their NPU for AI.
I wouldn't be surprised if it stays disabled for a long time; there are plenty of non-Spectre-related timing side-channels that are made possible by shared mutable state.
In London, the tidal effect of workers taking docked bikes east ensures that after 9.30 there are no bikes near the mainline stations. Should you find one and need to head east, you will have a hard time finding a docking space to leave it at.
Many of those guns are smuggled out to Latin America (guns for drugs trade), while the rest are owned by an increasingly small segment of the population.

Mexico doesn’t mass produce enough guns to feed the American market in any significant way, and their gun laws are much more strict than ours. It’s the other way around: the bad guys in Mexico get most of our guns from us, the gun shops in the USA with the highest sales are near the border.
I'd accept that from a nervous survivor who makes an off-color joke, but making fun of someone else's tragedy while it's happening to them is not a coping mechanism, it's being an asshole.

Even gallows humor requires some amount of time to pass before it's socially acceptable.
This is a fantastic sample of the sort of romantic philosophizing that animates the technosphere.

It elides from some reasonable, nineteenth-century claims about atheism and materialsm to full-on AI worship without a moment's hesitation or reflection. It uses ecological and physiological fragility to justify the headlong embrace of more durable, synthetic minds -- as though all that were valuable about the human experience is intelligence. The value of embodied experience itself -- of being mortal, of having flesh, of eating food and sleeping and fucking and laughing, is never mentioned; presumably it just sort of falls out of the main thing. Gotta get those mind-MIPS up.

It wraps with the bromide that, because empathy is a form of intelligence, a superintelligence would be super-empathetic. Because of all the sociopaths drooling in the corner.

Sorry, I would like to return my kool-aid, is there a refund
What motivated Vitalik, as creator of the #2 cryptocurrency by market cap, to "do that" aka respond to a discussion by leaders of the #1 and #4 cryptocurrencies by market cap on the topics of mass adoption and scaling of cryptocurrency?

>Neither btc nor eth are close to being ready for mass use.

You answered your own question, or what was your point here?

There is a lot of controversy on the subject matter being discussed and there is a lot at stake, so Vitalik being aware that there is a need and demand for additional commentary from an influential and knowledgeable outside observer, much less from the creator of arguably the (so-far) greatest innovation in crypto since Bitcoin itself and voluntarily contributing his thoughts to the conversation...

>Came across as immature, glib and nitpicky

How exactly?

>Looking at this makes me wonder if he has made his money and is just cruising.

Him doing the opposite would make me think that. He is taking an active role in the conversation, and by expressing himself and presenting his thoughts to the public he is taking a risk. Sounds like the opposite of "cruising."

Compare to "satoshi" who used to do the same thing on the bitcointalk forums but who eventually disappeared and has never shown his face or identity, not that I blame him (or them)...

>Would add that Debt is not the authoritative source on money

This seems like an obtuse point since he never said it was "authoritative source on money", and kinda missing what I took as his argument which was that credit/debt should be included when speaking of the history of conceptual forms of currency. I think he is just providing a basis for his argument and you are taking it the wrong way.

>He's also flat wrong about shenzhen vs hk

He is not wrong that including Shenzhen adds nuance and more of a challenge to the argument about western "free market" economies vs. communist style "controlled/planned" economies. You are nitpicking this addition of China and missed the point entirely.

>China is a financial wild west, comparable with 19th century America. Shenzhen is in fact a far more economically "free"zone.

China is a communist state with a centrally controlled economic system, one that saw the benefits of the American system of nationalist/protectionist "free trade" and was successful in their implementation on a macro-economic level. I still think you are reaching to say that Shenzhen is factually a more free economic zone than HK, especially since that can be taken away at a moments notice, but none of that has anything to do with the economic freedom of the average person within China vs Hong Kong, which I would think has more to do with property rights and non-state-authorized entrepreneurship than state policy on what industries are allowed to engage with whatever international trades and how...
Computer Networks is definitely the best MOOC I ever took. I hope they bring it back.
I don't agree with that.

There's a substantial difference between "What motivated this?" and "I wouldn't be surprised if this was motivated by {political reason x}.". You're getting hung up on grammatic structure. "Could it have been motivated by {political reason x}?" has the same problem, even though it's phrased as a question. It's the baseless speculation.
I'm really happy more work is being done in this space! Also nice to see nods to various attempts from the past - it's important we learn from their failings, but also their successes. It's too easy to get stuck in the mindset of "Ugh CORBA" and "noes, SOAP", without being able to see an opportunity there. Let's be persistent and figure this stuff out!
Layman question: one can limit their exposure with encrypted VoIP communications (e.g. FaceTime) and chats (iMessage, Signal), correct?

That being said, the intercepter would still know:

- phone being connected (IMEI)

- location of the phone

- which servers were requested, but not the encrypted content (yet)

- how much data was transmitted, "call time"

So if two phones were talking with each other over FaceTime connected to stingrays, a third-party can still deduce that they were talking to each other given the amount of data being transferred and when the requests occurred.
> I was responding to somebody who made it sound like wealthy people pay no taxes, which is an utter misrepresentation of the situation.

Who? Because that didn't happen.
People used to say this about 8GB being enough just a few years back.
Check the freakonomics show about ticketmaster. The tickets problem is not going away any time soon, and no company that leans heavily on good PR is going to get into that business
I'm a big train fan and do impractical train rides quite often. I dont think millions of people share our appreciation of trains. Most people use whatever is faster, or cheaper. Trains over 3 hours tend to be neither. Paris to Flensburg is both slow and expensive. By most people's standards, the 6h additional duration of the trip offsets the airport annoyance by far.
Ticketfly and Monero Team Up for New Blockchain Startup
I'm laughing because that's how this discussion will go when posted here: We'll detail a method to catch rogue sting-rays, then brainstorm how to operate them with less risk.
Theoretically possible. Using current off the shelf tech, several imsi catchers could be networked together by normal LTE data networks with battle tested VPN crypto. Doable with any mifi type hotspot device or even just a modern phone and tethering. People with high end spectrum analyzers and directional antennas would struggle to locate a thing that only powers on for 1-2 minutes, and the relocated to a random location. If I were trying to find such things I would need three separate DF (direction finding) teams, and try to establish a pattern of behavior or movement on the part of the operators to narrow down the target areas. Could take weeks.
People can exert a lot of influence with just one account, and in this case it’s about 270 so far. You’d be surprised at how effective Sybil attacks are with far fewer than a dozen accounts, never mind hundreds. When those accounts build reputation, often assisted by more accounts, it’s even more powerful. Still, the biggest advantage is that you get to probe your audience multiple ways, then just go with what gains traction. The reputation of any one account doesn’t matter, it’s a “team” effort.

So while you or I might care about what we say, try to build a reputation, and in general say things in accordance with what we believe, they don’t have to. It’s a radically different proposition, and devastating when done well. Even being discovered can be its own kind of “win” if it creates distrust and instability within the network itself. You can undermine faith in said network by exposing it as essentially corrupted, albeit by you.
In percentage terms, didn't Australia's rate fall faster?

It seems weird to say U.S. dropped "more" with these numbers.
It'll be this decade or next, never you worry.
I'm under the impression Argon2 is at least marginally better than scrypt as it has heavily analyzed side channel mitigations and such. Is scrypt better in some other way?
> there is no need to use SSL; instead, you can distribute the server's public RSA key (or its hash) along with the client code

Imagine the following scenario:

All the hard negotiations are done and you're about to sign your biggest customer or even sell the entire business for big bux. This is, of course, contingent on a clean 3rd party security review.

The reviewer asks: "How does the system enforce key expiration policies? How do you rotate keys? How do you revoke a key that may have been compromised or recover from known compromise? Which private keys get used on network-facing servers? In what model of HSM do you store the root key?" ... and so on.
We middle-aged folks also remember some big bombing incidents executed by the IRA. The IRA is still referenced in the news now and then.
Because most people allowed to own property, run a business, and offer products and services?
In case you’re not aware, there’s a setting to show unavailable tracks greyed out in your playlist, so at least you can tell which ones are missing.
(1) Yes, but from a utilitarian perspective cell phones, cars, and any other technology offered finite utility over their alternatives, whereas immortality offers infinite utility over the alternative of death.

(2) ? unsure about what you're saying here.

(3) Okay yeah, sure, I've read that before. I don't think he offers a (currently) practical alternative to "resignation coupled with an effort to achieve closure in practical affairs and personal relationships." The harsh reality is that we'll probably die--why would I choose to conceptualize this as a violent death from a dragon? That'd surely lead to despair in my last years.
For example an imsi catcher spliced into 120vac power and stuffed up into a ceiling tile in a busy shopping mall. I bet that with a stepladder, a clipboard and two guys in high visibility vests, a set of electrician tools, you could do this at nearly any mall in America.
Your argument is "relative to Australia, the US actually got safer", where "safer" is an expression of velocity change, rather than any declaration. Given that we're not talking about firearm homicide rates, but generally, then this is at best disingenuous.

But hey, let's talk firearm homicides.

In the US, 1997, firearm homicides were 6.24:100,000, and in 20145, 3.5:100,000, a 44 per cent reduction.

In Australia, 1997, firearm homicides were 0.56:100,000, and in 2016, 0.18:100,000, a 67 per cent reduction.

So where were we again?

Sources: https://www.allcountries.org/gun_deaths_by_country.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
> Even gallows humor requires some amount of time to pass before it's socially acceptable.

No, that doesn't work for gallows humor. Gallows humor requires that you be on the (at least metaphorical) gallows. Making fun of someone else who is in a desperate or hopeless situation when you are safely on the sidelines isn't gallows humor.
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It's a good thing that the crazy European, British, and Americans were around to counter those sane, rational Germans in the 1940s.
Hah, works for me.
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Because it’s included in my Spotify subscription. Why would I pay ~200 dollars to “own” all the Beatles albums when music ownership is basically worthless?
Let’s please not conflate someone like Becker with the Disney Movie Conspiracy Theory Alt-Right philosopher king.
It gets even worse when you limit it to firearm homicides (the initial numbers were all homicides), see my sibling comment.
Absolutely. It's been well worn advice from psychologists to the media that the loud, panicked approach to shooting news encourages more shooters.

The media takes the advice to always mention suicide help lines when reporting on suicide. But they never take the advice to cover shooting news locally, without detail on the shooters identity and without hysterics.
They didn't create "half-electron". They created Majorana quasiparticles inside a superconductor.

Majorana particles are weird because they are their own antiparticle, but they are not "half-electrons". Moreover, probably neutrinos are Majorana particles, but nobody is sure, and currently there are some experiments to try to prove it.
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