skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
So still well above average?
Now that is just being prejudiced. It's not EU's agenda to try and bring down American tech companies for the sake of malice (or protectionism). You do not think they have not been at some fault? Or that there is something good about GDPR too?

While it's easy to start mulling over why and how things are or could have done differently I'd argue that there is no animosity towards American companies per se. The data of its citizens however is a very sensitive issue for EU and in the light of Snowden leaks maybe they are rightfully fearful of US having too much technological hold over them. There is silly people over both sides of the ocean but let's not start willfully feeding rash preconceptions for no reason.
If you're looking for something between the minimalism of vanilla Express and the heaviness of Sails, check out a project I've been quietly building with a small team for a couple years: https://github.com/rooseveltframework/roosevelt

We don't consider it finished (or 1.0 quality) by any means, nor do we consider the API stable or fully thought out, but we think we have something here that is unique and a good balance between simplicity and features. The main emphasis is on having as low a learning curve as possible.

We're also happy to take suggestions or even better pull requests. Got many issues marked "help wanted" for anyone interested, and we do provide mentorship to people who want to contribute but have limited experience with Express or Node.js in general and want to learn as they go.
Your normal car insurance covers rental cars.
Experiments are collected here: https://github.com/witheve/eve-experiments

The way it's broken out in this repo corresponds closely to how this blog is presented. Earlier prototypes like Aurora aren't included here though.
Facebook may be the next Yahoo!

What I fear is what replaces it ... it may be an even more unscrupulous company that avoids the outrage simply by being less transparent.

Those who want to use our data and take our privacy aren't going anywhere. Don't ever trust any company, ever - it's about what data is being collected, not who is collecting it.
Note that wolfSSL is also open source (GPLv2) and you don't need commercial license to use wolfSSL.
21,190 suicides of 33,636 is 63%. And there is still a definite victim. Not to mention any affected loved ones they left behind.
Tesla Model 3 is now officially the best-selling electric car in the US
They have different types of accounts for different purposes some are just used to comment or authenticate to 3d party sites and to comment there. They also serve as feeder accounts for the "core" accounts that are actually trying to build up followers.
While I’m all for unbiased, scientific research on gun violence, I have little confidence that it won’t just become the liberal’s version of climate change denial.
Scanimation has always had a huge fascination for me. Not least because Scanimated stuff was in vogue when I was a kid, but their analogue and arguably intentionally imprecise means of production means you never got the same effect twice and every scene was unique. I purchased Scanimate DVD-1 way back when and it not only has a great selection of ads and some other feature productions, but some tidbits on production methods and what actually went into the technology. You can get it here (not involved, just a satisfied customer): http://www.scanimate.com/DVD1.html

I think some of the same applies to modern CGI compared to the old blood-sweat-film-and-tears visual effects methods, which doesn't always yield a better result, and sometimes comes off as soulless.
Heck I even lived in the Bay Area on less than that and did OK as a single person. But I have been a lot more successful financially in a region with a much lower cost of living. Your mileage may vary, but I bet on an alternative strategy that has been working for me. I believe that many people are discovering that the strategy of working in a high COLA region expecting an extreme payoff is not as reliable a strategy as it was for our parents' generation -- in part because our parents' generation was able to afford to buy property at reasonable prices and then benefit from the appreciation.
Curious - why is argon2 still second to scrypt on this list?

I'd also question the backup solution, I think Restic is a better option due to its flexibility, I can do cheap backups to B2 and fairly reputable people seem to be approving of its cryptography:

https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/

If anyone sees a reason why Tarsnap would be better (other than Percival's brand), I'd be quite interested.
It is indeed, a wrong idea.
Nevertheless, it is an idea that needs to be addressed, not swept-aside.
The same goes with all the other arguments I mentioned. If we just ignore these and say "There is no possible reason for owning guns" we are essentially arguing in bad faith.

Generally, convincing people isn't helped by immediately dismissing their entire position as trivially wrong and deluded.
..which, on further reflection, raises the question: if those page tables aren't loaded when in kernel mode, why do they even need a self-referential entry at all?
What other option is there in that checkmate situation though?

The US constitution was framed expressly to overthrow the colonial rulers and keep them out...

The Swiss are all armed for the same reason

'the long-standing practice of a militia organization of the Swiss Army in which soldiers' service rifles are stored privately at home'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Switzerland
Having used dockless Mobikes in Paris (despite being a fan of classic Velib', they managed to fuck it up so badly last year that it's close to useless now) I can attest to the convenience of bumping into a bike, using it for a short ride and just dropping it off wherever you are going. Velib was annoying in that it was sometimes hard to find a bike or a dock to leave it. Citymapper really was instrumental to using Velib' because it had a good UI to spot bikes and docks.

The Mobike system is global so it also works the same in other cities (one of the big Uber advantages: get a ride exactly the same way no matter where you are).

All in all I really like the concept. The Mobikes themselves, on the other hand, suck. They're way too small for a general western population. They're probably designed around the average asian height.
sigh, what about the active patterns, yo. brains aren't static connections of neurons when they're alive.

they have hojillions of firing patterns, some of which are cyclical and constant, other of which are transient and tiny. these stop when the brain is dead. you're not gonna capture these from a dead brain.

what if there's some essential aspect of consciousness that's depending on circles of five or six neurons holding a pattern of action potentials in perpetuity?

i doubt that this is the case, but if it is, cracking the connectome -- which is already an achievement that would require an effort greater than the human genome project -- wouldn't be very helpful at all.

oh yeah, and as far as preserving those circuits go, do you have a solution for clearing neurons from excess sodium or potassium after it accumulates there during death? depending on which ion pump fails from lack of energy first (and my bet is that it's the sodium-potassium ion pump, because it's responsible for some absurd percentage of the body's total energy usage), neurons could very easily be left logjammed with a glut of charged particles that prohibits making action potentials in any capacity even when energy becomes available. you don't wanna be assuming that all those excess ions are signal when they're noise.

finally: have you considered your philosophical disposition wrt substance dualism or materialism? you're gonna have to have a damn good case for some philosophical angle when dennett comes a knockin or he'll immolate your entire project.
> Good for Trump that he said that. He has an imposing physique

Okay, while attempting to be as neutral and objective as possible, Trump is an obese geriatric. He's decently tall, 6' or so. But that's about it.

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bin...
That doesn't sound like normal behavior to me.

In any gnome 3 distro I've ever used, I've only ever had to change it in the gnome control center and it works system wide.

Right now I'm running solus mate and changing it in the mate mouse and touchpad settings is system wide and works in both qt and gtk apps...

Were you using a touchpad driver other than libinput?
This argument is absurd. Any "reasonable, intelligent person" who's read basically any history book ever written would know that the United States would not descend into civil war with its military intact.
Real estate isn't a problem if it's institutionalized by the city. It can often become a boon to retailers if there's a dock right outside. That, and, they are on sidewalks that the city generally owns the rights to.
That makes a lot of sense. He's been doing crazy AI stuff for a long time.
It lists "Security (CSRF Protection, Validation, Cryptography, SSL, Network etc.)" as a key feature, but https://diamondmvc.org/ doesn't load...
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One question that perhaps we should be asking is Should the right to bear arms include assault rifles or only lower power guns similar to what we’re available at the time of its writing? There seems to be general public agreement that the right to bear arms does not include RPGs or stinger missles, etc. Yet those are certainly arms. Why are assault riffles in the same category as shot guns?
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I agree that city gun ordinances do little to combat gun availability for criminals, that's why we need nation wide legislation.
I'm surprised he was able to move straight to Apple. Would Google not have a strict non-compete clause?
I mean like a workflow or a sales funnel for less engaged users. Not in a nefarious way.
Yeah, I always thought IRA was the main acronym for the "Irish Republican Army". Weird that they used IRA in this article to mean something else. Has the main association changed?
Now this I can get behind.
> I think one thing we need to figure out is how Google and Gradle can accomplish these things together.

We refer to that in the corporate world as "death by committee".

You can solve the problem with a GitHub repository and an intern trawling StackOverflow and IRC logs. Choosing not do that sends a signal.

Waiting for Google to "accomplish it together" (aka sometime before the heat death of the universe) is a good way to get replaced.
Among all the data-dependent tech companies, I believe Google is one of the best situated to comply with GDPR. Mainly because they have lots of cash to tackle regulations in terms of resources and manpower. Also, Google has revenue streams (Cloud, Play store, non-personalized Search ads) which are not as user-data dependent as some others (eg. FB, startups with ads-based business model).
Are all of these non-data science courses from the same source? From different sources? Where are they?
You’ve got the burden of proof wrong. Before limiting citizens’ freedoms, you need evidence that gun control works. Pointing to places like Australia, which already had dramatically lower homicide rates, then saw rates drop more slowly than in the US over that time, doesn’t help prove that point. Gun control can’t be the reason homicides are so low in Australia compared to the US; it was already dramatically lower.
Yes, the overarching counter argument is that these aren't good enough reasons given the bad results of legally owned guns.

I also missed the argument "gun-ownership is part of my identity" it is not an argument that comes up, because people don't expect it to convince gun-opponents. But I think it is the main reason opposition to gun-control is so strong. Thank you for pointing that out.
Don't forget the i7-3770 has half the TDP of the FX-8350 despite the overwhelmingly superior real-world performance in every meaningful metric.

I'm not sure in what world anyone could think the FX series ever "dominated" Intel chips at the time, much less current ones, in the datacenter -- unless they are literally delusional.
How to fly from the U.S. to Europe and back for less than 500
What range training features people who are bent on killing _actively shooting back_ at you?

_You_ don't want to harm anyone else, you only want to protect yourself (and possibly others). They have no such compunction.

Being able to put a few downrange with a Glock is not an active shooter situation, and honestly, as a first responder, most people in such situations find themselves vomiting, urinating in terror (and reasonably so).
The wall of sound
Storage laws are super strict, police can and do come in your house to check that you have your gun in your safe. You aren’t supposed to lose it, or let anyone else get ahold of it. Psych evaluation required for those under 25 (to cut down on school shootings), more restrictions on fuller background checks and so on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany
Non-compete agreements are banned in California:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/understanding-californi...
How do you possibly plan for each of those people to know decisively who the "shooter" is? You're all shooters to each other, until proven otherwise.
Or, as I suspect, an intentional acronym.
You might be thinking of smoking related deaths, which kill ~480k Americans/yr. Unfortunately even if every American stopped smoking today, the damage is already done and the rate would only bottom out over a period of ~20 years.
Small # of accounts, but massive amounts of followers/viewers. Kylie Jenner has a "fairly small amount of accounts" (ie one) on Twitter, but a single tweet can send a company's stock into the red[0].

0. http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/22/technology/snapchat-update-k...
How about a utilitarian one: it's most likely that everyone alive right now is going to die, so from a quality-of-life perspective most people should try to accept their death.
I don't know if it's irony, but RMS has this (I assert WRONG) view that opinion statements like this article shouldn't be free culture. He wants to use the legal structures to make any translation or derivative work something he can censor unless he approves of it. He's worried about being misrepresented (even though the actual free CC licenses don't allow altered derivatives to be presented as though they were unaltered etc).

I think this article could very well be a valuable free-culture contribution. The chain of derivatives could go deep, and having to get permission at every step cuts it off.

This is a long-standing disagreement between RMS and those of us who support cultural freedom.
Guardian: "1,624 mass shootings in 1,870 days"

Wikipedia (sourced from CNN): "90 mass shootings between 1966 and 2012"

They both use the same definition of mass shooting (four or more victims) so how is there an order of magnitude difference between their numbers? Ah, I see. CNN excluded gang violence in their numbers, and the Guardian included it. Seems like they may have a few biases of their own.
I clarified the asterisk by removing it.
I'm american and remember some high profile movies that featured them. Then again, I'm almost 30. I thought it was common knowledge among many who the IRA were, even among americans.
> The US constitution was framed expressly to overthrow the colonial rulers and keep them out...

No, it wasn't, throwing out the colonial rulers was done under the Articles of Confederation.

The US Constitution was framed several years after that effort was completed, to deal with the problem that that the government under the AoC was too weak to get anything done outside of the imminent life-or-death struggle of the Revolution.
"Estonia wants to be a role model and leader for a different way of seeing the world: a world that is more open, meritocratic and reflective of the demands—and opportunities—of the 21st century."

Meritocratic seems highly promoted in many circles (seems like on first glace a good idea as opposed to say, despotic), but in a meritocratic world, what happens to the dumb and/or lazy (unmeritable?) people.
I have lots of negative things to say about older versions of sails, but most of the bugs I’ve had to workaround are fixed in later versions.

If you’re starting out just ditch the ORM altogether.

Sails is just plain express so if you need to piece it apart at some point in the future it’s not too hard.

That said Sails is great for bootstrapping a reasonably secure and functioning app in short amount of time.
Can anyone recommend some good cryptography books/links for someone that would like get up to speed on best practices for building secure systems? Ideally the full gamut of beginner to advanced.

What are the classic/authoritative texts in this space?
Is E-commerce tech? Amazon has built out a ton of technology to scale their fulfillment operations and wouldn't be the company they are without it.

We are getting closer to the day where every company is a tech company. Marketing requires tech to do what is very complicated bidding and A/B testing. Most companies involved in sales are using CRM to understand how to better reach customers. This list goes on and on, as tech is embedded into everything people do these days.
sounds like police
AI is used all over the place in iOS. In a number of cases it is actually worse than not having it.

For example if you force touch the Maps icon it uses a ML model to determine what favourite location to show.

Unfortunately it takes a few seconds when really just asking the user for a favourite location would've been better.
I work on full-stack product, with iOS/Android SDK element that other people integrate in their apps. Server-side with UNIX boxes: everything works always.

Xcode/iOS: we published CocoaPods. It was pain to get to work reliably on laptops/Jenkins b/c of upgrades to Ruby, but if you lock yourself to one Ruby version, and lock the Gemfile, it's mostly OK. At least it's pretty obvious when/why it doesn't work.

Gradle: it's such a mess. I don't even know where to start. I don't know Maven, but Gradle error warnings are the worst. 4 lines, tells you nothing, with turned on debugging the output tells you nothing, while e.g.: in reality you don't have the child-repo checked out because you forgot to `git submodule update --init`.

Getting Gradle to work on a laptops across the team of 4 was a pain. We had cases where two people with the same AS version and the same gradle version couldn't import the project into AS. Our instructions are - after 'git pull' make sure you do 'git clean -dfx' and re-import the project.

Personally 50% of time when I start Android Studio I have some critical exception of some sort, each time from Gradle window. There's this, plus gradle wrapper. I pretty much never worked for me. This is meant to solve problems with always getting you the right Gradle version, but this is sci-fi. I believed it's just me who uses SDKMan to be able to fetch the right gradle which our project depends on, but others around do too. Otherwise it's a pain in the ass -- and `brew` doesn't have the gradle's we need, because they migrated to the very latest one, when in production you'd rather have older version for an extended period of support time.

If you, just like us, have a project which has 3+ years of scar tissue and it has to integrate with javanet, picasso, okhttp, volley etc. and you have several people who fetch and integrate your code in their apps--I feel really, really sorry for you.

DSL is all right, and maybe Groovy has some unique features, but I never discovered them. This is Java language that isn't Java, or some dialect of Java-like language aimed to make Java 3% better, but to be honest I don't hear people writing Groovy for fun and pleasure. So to me it was a cost of learning basic stuff just to be able to automate simple stuff in Android build system (when we run ./jenkins.sh --local, we want our Android functional tests to hit local dev environment). Of course in XCode it works 100% better and took 20% of time to do, since Apple owns XCode and made it look better: go to project settings, drop in the path to post/pre built scripts to customize your flow, and in a language you already know. Google, who subleases Android Studio from JetBrains, had no choice and made Android ecosystem look like a Frankenstein.
Man, he just walked right into that one, huh?
Siri has a massive lead for you and the 5 people who use PGP for their day-to-day email correspondences. That's not enough to build a business on.
Nihilists are often guilty of something which many teenagers are guilty of, which I call epistemological narcissism. Basically, they think they know it all, pretty much.

The cure for this is to take the extrapolation strategy which PG uses in "What You Can't Say." ( http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html ) However, you should instead apply it to "what you can't predict." Would any of our ancestors of 400 or 1000 years ago been able to predict the world of today? In many regards, they would not even have had the conceptual framework to ask the right questions in the first place!

If you don't know the future, how do you know if what you do will or won't matter in the grand scheme of things? How do you know if you can even properly conceptualize "consequence" or what "matters" for your future self? When I was growing up, books were something to be treasured. Now I'm quite aware that it's only the knowledge in those books which really matters, and the particular form they take is only a medium with certain properties. Even our concepts of identity and mind are changing, and they are bound to change much further. Given all that, how do you know if you aren't already a part of something of universal consequence?

To fully understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
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Could you not spit out the DB as a JSON file and have it included directly into the lambda as a source file then have any updates as part of your CI? Then it's just an O(1) lookup in a map, and as long as the lambdas stay hot you're flying.

Perhaps a JSON file for 4 billion IPs with all the data would be too large to fit in memory. Who knows. Lambdas can be up to 50MB so maybe this is a dumb idea unless you normalised the data somehow.
Uh, actually not. It matters tremendously for laptops.
With a title like this I was expecting a little more from this piece.

The best responses I've heard to nihilism are from Ernst Becker's Denial of Death [1] which argues that the best way to overcome nihilism is to stop thinking so hard. Another way to phrase this is that you need to move away from the abstract and towards the concrete. As you focus on a more specific set of experiences, the bigger existential questions seem to fade.

The second is from Jordan Peterson, who argues that nihilism is too easy of a solution. If you find yourself drifting too much into pessimistic nihilism, then you should ask yourself whether this worldview also "conveniently" relieves you of certain responsibilities.

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