skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend looking at the data on this before leaping to the conclusion that guns are effective at protecting their owners from lethal injury.

In a Philadelphia-based study, "individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession" and that grew to 5.45 times more likely if the assault victim had a chance to resist. [1]

Successful defensive gun use happens, but it's the exception to the rule: guns escalate conflict, especially when both parties have them.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/
> This may be an uncomfortable fact but people have surprisingly short memories: the military funded the majority of the early advances in systems, networking, [...]

And what do we have to show for it? Wikipedia is great and Youtube is entertaining, but the rest of the internet is horrible. I say that as a software developer.

Due to the wonderful internet our children now have attention spans far below the time a typical class lesson takes. The smartest brains on Earth are not building spaceships or curing disease, but rather implementing systems to get you to click on ads. Our bodies and habits are being tracked, our opinions manipulated, and our privacy is being handed of willingfully for a chat and photo-sharing platform.

Military tech _often_ has implications far beyond what the original scientists and engineers intended. Sometimes for the best. But as you allude AI to the internet, don't forget how much damage the internet is doing to us even as we enjoy it and profit from it.
Yep, I'm guessing there may be similar issues. Hard to say without more context or hearing examples of some of the offending remarks. For example, if an engineer is explaining something technical in a condescending manner to someone non-technical who may struggle to grasp it, that's on the engineer and their communication skills.

However if they are being curt and coming across cold and frustrated because they keep asking for the same things every time and don't get them, that's a process issue and an easily solved one at that.

Sounds like you may benefit from digging deeper into people's issues on this to identify how much is really communication style and skills vs. symptoms of process issues.
Sorry for being combative. It comes from two things:

- giving talks at universities (then I admit that "data science" is more engineering, compared to academic science)

- people who had only experience with software development and then any research-like stuff (or simple mathematics) suddenly becomes "science!"
What makes you think the signatories of the google letter have forgotten that?
They have stopped improving their client, doing anything novel in their store, releasing titles in popular franchises and improving graphics or game engine technology.

It's been 6 years since their last franchise title, CS:GO, was released and it's profitability was based on micro-transactions. I think this experience (along with DOTA 2) would forever change the way the company perceives its value to customers.

In hindsight, I regret hats on TF2. I regret that as customers we steered Valve into this lackluster state where microtransacted eSports is in and beautiful game engines for storytelling are forgotten.
5000 upvotes, hundreds of comments, easy to verify, 100% wrong
It does not. I've asked support about it but there isn't even one hidden away at the moment.

I suspect with GDPR coming one might show up sometime soon though.

In the meantime I've been using instalooter (https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter) along with some of my own scripts.
Diminishes and eliminates are two different words for a reason. The other thing I think you're missing here is that there's a certain level of rationality implied with someone who robs a bank. Ignoring morals, sure, but rationality nonetheless.

Random shooting sprees tend to lack that rationality - as this one does. There's no chain of cause and effect that goes from "youtube demonetized my videos" to "I'm going to shoot random people at youtube with no understanding of their responsibility, and later myself".
Debugging Android Chrome from Your Windows PC
Interesting stuff. Given that it's AP-compliant, does that mean messages from the rest of the fediverse are not stored on the blockchain?

Also, can Numa be used like a regular fediverse client, without spending Ether or storing anything on the Blockchain?
> I decided to steal this feature and make the "coffee break" button. It locks the laptop and switches the screen off.

Ctrl+cmd+q = lock screen. Display will dim/sleep shortly after that. (Found this out myself not too long ago, I think because of HN).

Incidentally, I just switched the touch bar to the standard function key display with fn switching to the buttons just like the keyboards of old. I found I almost never look at the touch bar and there's absolutely nothing I found that it added that I couldn't already do with the old setup. I hate that the escape key is no longer where it used to be (fully left-aligned). I also hate on the new keyboards that the left and right arrow keys are so big. I use the space on the smaller keys of my old keyboard as a tactile indicator of where my hands are (perhaps it's finally time for vim?).
I'm not a legal scholar but the argument seems to be that actions taken by the justice system or the police (death penalty, imprisonment) are legally different than actions done by individual citizens. A woman can go to a doctor and get an abortion without government intervention. A woman cannot execute another human being without government intervention.
Not a MUD per se but back in the late 90's my friends and I had an awesome time playing http://explorer.sourceforge.net/
Messenger was expected to come up with non-advertising based business models. The most credible rumour was to sell to large companies the ability to communicate with their customers and prospects over Messenger, a trusted and spam-free platform (email appears ineffective because of poorly targeted marketing). Having payments was a key step in that direction: you could not just change your flight over Messenger, but pay the extra to do so.

Workplace (née Facebook at Work) is now considering payment options, too. That could actually bring quite a bit, especially if inter-company communications are worked out.

The reason that ads remain on Facebook is that the senior team believes that they can make the ads genuinely improve the quality of the experience. I personally block a lot of ads on Facebook (about 80-90% of what I see) and actively look at my Ad preferences, and I get genuinely useful ads -- often new offers from competing business, which allow me to monitor them. I can imagine why many people don’t see it that way but I would love to know where are the limits of that model. I would more generally encourage people to treat targeting (on Facebook and elsewhere) as something that they need to be pro-active about, and trust at least some platforms to use that information to improve their experience. That way, we could learn more about how to connect brands and customers better.
Cloud-load testing service: lessons generating 1M concurrent user load (2016)
For those interested I bought this exact model and it didn't fit my toilet seat. It essentially adds an extra 2 inches or so of material between the porcelain and the bolt tabs on the seat. This means it doesn't close completely. Apparently you can buy bumpers but I'd need huge bumpers and didn't like the aesthetic. I have what I'd consider a standard seat so I'm not sure what kind of seat wouldn't require the bumpers.
> trying to connect users with products they might like

It is delusional to suggest that this is the goal of ad-tech. The only people thinking about the users and the products are the creative teams that make the ads themselves.

Ad-tech, on the other hand, engages in dragnet data mining operations that serve the creative/design teams at ad agencies. The way the ad-tech industry has decided to go about things absolutely is inherently unconscionable. The unrestrained nonsense they've unleashed on the web over the past two decades have resulted in leaving nearly all internet users vulnerable to malicious code, privacy loss, and other horrible things.

> some of them just got shot at yesterday

Nice appeal to emotion there. But how do you know what the people at YouTube HQ did for a living? Do you have insider information? By all means, don't hold back.
Where did you read this?
Mental Illness and Social Media do not seem to mix well.
“Show HN: Cheat Code Compiler for ARK: Survival Evolved (singleplayer)”
See DC vs Heller, 2008.
With social networks where the users own their data.
C# already jumped on the bandwagon with Blazor https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor
IIRC wasm has no GC capabilities, so Python is an unlikely source language.
Thanks everybody, for answering.
Facebook: What a fiasco
As someone with chronic sleep paralysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis), it is astonishing how frequently I read about pseudo-paranormal or "OBE" experiences and go, yeah, that's just sleep paralysis man.

Although, the causes of sleep paralysis still aren't well understood, so maybe it's a VR bug after all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know very little about stock trading. I shouldn't get in a world of financial pain if I don't trade on margin (Robinhood Gold Buying Power) and only transfer money I can afford to lose right?

That is treating Robinhood like a casino. I recognize I don't know what I'm doing at the casino. Therefore I don't use a credit card to buy casino chips and I have a hard stop-loss of a couple hundred bucks that's budgeted as entertainment money.
Could I get a ban? It's turning into reddit and reading it is becoming a habit
'What you can export' is not the totality of data provided by, or collected about you. Only what they choose, or are compelled, to reveal.
Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination
For the relatively uninvolved individuals who were shot, yes, the blame is on the angry woman who shot them. For YouTube as an organization - not an individual - whose corporate base was the target of a violent act? I do blame the overall policies and actions.
You didn't read the post correctly
One site, your question made me remember was a third party app for events, Heyevent.

http://heyevent.com/

Out of curiosity I just re-authorised them for access and was displayed the following message:

"We're sad to announce that due to dwindling traffic, expensive hosting costs, and new limitations of the Facebook API, we've decided to close down Heyevent. We're sad to have to do this, but we unfortunatelu we see no other option. Since the launch of Heyevent, Facebook themselves has added more event recommendation. They're not as good as Heyevent's recommendations, yet. Hopefully they'll get better. Thanks for using the service!"

I found it somewhat useful in the past to keep using facebook to a minimum, so I wish them the best.

There must be some other areas of data based servicing that experience difficulties that but I can't think of any other right now.
Isn't it obvious? To understand causes is to have a better change to predict and prevent these events, at both the individual level and that of sociological forces.
Every example of yours had plenty of external help without which I am doubtful they would have as much success.

No idea what your definition of totalitarian state is, but there certainly was not a complete ban on firearms neither in Nazi Germany nor in many of post WW2 socialist countries (e.g. hunters).
I can vouch for the luxe. Life changing. And it's a good conversation piece :)
The sandbox limits are what bother me. They make the API basically useless for side-project type experiments.

I really enjoy Instagram the app to post photos of my travels but as the years go by it's feeling more and more locked down. I'm not really sure what the alternatives are, Flickr?
I guess I don't understand what you mean by this.
They were responding to the mention of "fire in a crowded theater," a reference to Schenck v. United States.
I have 2 of the 7 books of the X Window Programming Reference in that role.

Apart from K&R, there are very few programming books which are worthwhile; up to about 10 years ago the ORA series were worthwhile, but nowadays especially with StackExchange it's just far better to get the one fragment of information you need in a handy searchable pasteable internet format.

(Non-programming book recs: recently The Man Who Stole Portugal (non-fiction, surprisingly relevant to crypto) and The Time Of Gifts (biography, extravagantly written, requires checking wikipedia every 5 dozen words unless you have a really excellent knowledge of European history)
“Do-nothing farming” sounds alot like Wu wei.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748971
I remember someone giving me a copy of the Internet Yellow Pages back in '96 or so. It looked like the Yellow Pages you get for phones, but it had about 10,000 or so links grouped by category (e.g. astronomy, comics, newsgroups). I would sit down with that and just start exploring.

Later on sites like Yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos would help you find information.

You also had webrings to lead you around.

It used to be pretty fun.
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>Apple Music is supposedly set to surpass Spotify in number of paid subscribers this summer.

Where did you get this info? Look at the graph

https://www.statista.com/chart/8399/spotify-apple-music-paid...
Yes, it's inherently tasteless and makes the world a worse place. No-one needs or wants the "help" of advertisers providing suggestions about what products they might want to buy.
The gaps are an improvement. I take it you never had to piss in a trough? :P
Likelihood is irrelevant -- what matters is if it was covered. For example, if he bought "How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found" on Amazon, was doing Google Searches for it, etc. -- seems not only worth further investigation.

Research shows that if for example during an interview his wife said it was possibly a suicide, that the odds are good it was:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_...

Faked deaths happen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faked_death
> Things got even worse when Apple "reinvented" the Play/Pause button in High Sierra.

Actually, this was introduced midway through macOS Sierra; https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaplayer is available in macOS 10.12.1+.

> Buttons rock. It's always faster to tap, not slide.

If you press Fn, the slider will go away and the "normal" function buttons will appear.

> I want to have instant access to Finder, anywhere. Default Touch Bar can't do that. Weird.

Why is this weird? Finder is always in the Dock for every user.

> E.g., the eyedropper tool, to take the hex color code from the screen.

/Application/Utilities/Digital Color Meter.app

> Standard Touch Bar will never support the most useful feature — to display the name of track playing.

Slide out Notification Center.

> Would be cool to display the name of the YouTube video on the Touch Bar, right?

See above.

> You have a script running once in 20 seconds, and praying it won't overload the CPU.

Don't do this. Use AppleScript to watch for changes, instead of polling.

> I decided to steal this feature and make the "coffee break" button. It locks the laptop and switches the screen off.

Press the power button.

Not offense, and I'm sure you enjoy your setup, but I really think it would do you well to learn a bit more about why your computer was designed that way rather than writing a rant online and spending time making it "just right".

EDIT: it looks like this comment is pretty controversial, since it's flip-flopping between ±5 points rapidly. Let me give a more detailed response.

Personally, I don't have a computer with a Touch Bar. I have, however, used one a borrowed one for a couple days. Personally, I would be fine switching (there are other issues with the MacBook Pro that are preventing me, but that's a story for another day).

I don't use the function keys that often, so I don't feel as if I'm "losing out" on them. Many of the supposed grievances that I normally hear are easily solvable ("oh, I didn't know I could control the volume slider without lifting my finger", "I didn't know I could add sleep to the Touch Bar"). Really, I think the main issue with the Touch Bar is people view it as a second screen rather than an extra set of controls as it's supposed to be. The Touch Bar is meant as a place to have surface extra controls that would be nice to have at your fingertips; what it is not is a place to show you data or be a Dock or menu bar or Notification Center or Activity Monitor. Why? Because you're not always looking down at it. There's no point putting any significant information there.

That being said, Touch Bar is not perfect, of course. It's a nice idea, but it could be improved if it provided more tactile feedback (e.g. haptic feedback, some sort of dynamic change in texture). And given that it's new, Apple's guidelines, while good, may end up changing as real-world usage influences them. Overall, though, I feel that much of the Touch Bar criticism is based on knee-jerk reactions or issues that are not difficult to resolve. Yes, there are some deeper issues, as I've outlined above, but I think the concept as a whole is interesting.
Gossip has negative connotations to start with. If people are gossiping about it's not something people most people consider a compliment.
He has a whole book on maritime incidents (culled from long-form narrative pieces he did at The Atlantic) --- The Outlaw Sea.
I actually like using the sliders for changing brightness and volume. Although you nailed it, the new media play/pause functionality is absolute garbage.

I've been meaning to get the status line from Atom and have it displayed in the touchbar.
Agreed. It might bring some marginal convenience but overall feels like a gimmick. I'd rather just have a normal keyboard with an Esc key.
That is far from correct. Any device with DNS records will work just fine.
I highly doubt that MailChimp is banning the use of cryptocurrency marketing because they're afraid that cryptocurrency is going to usurp them...
I agree. The author did not even bother to make their point clear (something something aesthetics something virtual illusions something personality), did not even bother to speculate as much as they hinted they might. Shame.
Yeah, coordinates are a pain in the ass, and here they're even using the same coordinates, just with different formatting. There's also UTM, deg-dec-min, deg-min-sec, and you have some differences between WGS84 and NAD27, and every group has their own preferences for their own reasons.
The reason why sudo wasn't working is that it runs the command with root privileges, but redirecting to a file with > is done through the shell, which is running under your normal user level privileges. If you want to redirect to a file that only root can write to, you can use the tee command. That command will write anything passed to it via stdin to the file given as an arg.

For example, echo "foo" | sudo tee /path/to/file

or any of the other ways listed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/82256/how-do-i-use-sudo-...
Thanks, I may need to review my understanding.
People always mention mental illness, but other things are more common: being male; having a conviction for domestic assault; having a drug or alcohol addiction; having a TBI.

Other countries prescribe anti-depressant medication in similar quantities to the US, and those countries don't have the same problems of violence that the US does.
As an owner of an x360 Raven Ridge Envy, I'm also having similar issues. GPU Drivers on Raven Ridge seem to be borked at the moment.

I'm running Win10, default drivers (which seem to be 17.7 GPU drivers). HP Envy x360 laptop CANNOT upgrade to more recent drivers.

Have you tried updating to 18.3 or later GPU drivers?? Raven Ridge is allegedly all the same die, so I wouldn't be surprised if the iGPU drivers between both of our systems have a similar issue.

But yeah, its looking to me like Raven Ridge (the iGPU parts) still have some warts. The pure CPU Ryzen parts had warts too when they were released, but they were fixed much more quickly.
Primary reason it turns off is because its oled, and leaving it on would cause burn-in.
23 nanometers off, dang. If they'd only had a slightly wider field of view, they could have found those poor people. :(
> You may already know this but you can just tap and hold on one of the brightness or volume buttons and just slide the way you want and the button morphs into a slider.

Yes, this is actually one of the few things I actively like about the touch bar.

I love that Apple is trying something new with laptops, but sadly it's been mostly a dud for me too. I'd take Face ID + a T2 chip (like iMac Pro) any day. The fundamental problem is you don't tend to look at the keyboard when you're using a computer; there isn't enough incentive to do so, so it always feels a bit like a chore to use.

I think there's a kernel of a good idea here, but the current implementation isn't it.

Edit: Reading this article, I've realized all I really want from the touch bar is a permanent Dock. The Dock is important enough to always be on your screen, and it'd be really useful to have at a touch.
Artificial yes, intelligence I dont think so.
I think one main reason is it facilitates cleaning--also can see if it's occupied or the latch is just stuck if you call out an get no answer.

I've seen them just turn on a pressurized hose and get all the stalls in one strafing action.