skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some minimal number of school shootings that's acceptable? My position is that we clearly have shown that this country cannot be trusted with personal possession of firearms, so let's all calmly proceed towards no longer having them around.
Original discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6892730
I can think of two potential "classes" of reasons for this. (Caveat, I have no special insight to bikesharing, these just seem like naive benefits to avoiding docks)

Real estate for docks is probably not cheap, either monetarily or in terms of "soft capital". (negotiations with city/business owners to allow emplacement). There may also be regulatory hurdles.

Then there's the docks themselves. They likely add a large amount of cap-ex (compared to the bikes themselves) while being "technically" tangential to the actual money-making-value-add of the bikes (so if you can work without them it's pure profit), and are less flexible/repurposable than the bikes themselves, both in terms of meta-strategy (e.g. if a company wanted to launch in a new city, it's a lot easier to just drop bikes on a bunch of corners than to install docks/go through that whole process. Similarly on pulling OUT of a city, much easier to just reclaim bikes) and in allowing better individual bike availability. (docks imply central locations for easy pickup/dropoff, which may not be the reality in a heterogenous city without absurd numbers of docks)

If a lot of this sounds similar to the well-chewed-tech-mantra of "distributed == good, fewer points of failure, more availability" it's because I'm largely pulling from that book. Especially with the sort of data TFA details, this model would probably allow for far more micro-tailoring than having to rely on static docks would.
Why are you comparing trends in school/mass shootings to trends in all shooting crimes?
On my most recent app, I started with Hapi but was starting to get bothered by the number of "official plugins" that did not include TypeScript typings. After waiting weeks for official Hapi v17 typings to make it into DefinitelyTyped, I gave up and switched to Nest and found it much easier to get started.

For me, the fact that it's written in TypeScript and based on Express (i.e. you can use any Express middleware) was enough to make it more compelling than other options.
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You could use a combination of stainless and mild steel to write some text on the surface of the bridge.

The surface of the mild steel would rust and the stainless wouldn't!
You could call it the Nutrimatic. Share and enjoy!
I guess that’s the “paper and pencil” speed.
I'd love it if this were true, but we don't really know if it is true or not, and Apple refuses to allow us to see for ourselves. I really want to like Apple, but they won't put their money where their mouth is.
They absolutely have the advantage of putting a check on government power. The US is a very heterogeneous country (probably much more so than the country you’re referencing). Not all groups have a great relationship with the government and very sensibly feel that giving the government a monopoly on firearms is not in their best interest.
Reference Capabilities are part of the type system. E.g. iso, val, ref, box, trn
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B2 is object storage. Similar to any object storage you generally want to use it for storing the data, not running heavy analytics directly on it. Usually you'd want to move the data to the directly attached block storage (which our compute partners offer) to run the actual analysis.
Source please. I’m almost certain that includes suicides.
> 1. Can your cash do this? [1] A breakdown of spending by my internet bank, by category.

Yes, but not automatically. You have to manually log all your spending by category yourself.

Big data has advantages but you have to trade off your privacy in exchange for the convenience.

Built in privacy for some people is a feature. For others it’s a bug.
Thank you, I think the best policy for approaching these rampage suicide murderers is to minimize their exposure in popular culture and forbid the use of their name in the media.

This has the added benefit of not stigmatizing their family, who likely have little to do with the event.

As an aside, I also think any killers of this kind should have their wishes for burial null and void with their brains and bodies given immediately to scientific research.
> For example in my current project the applications are packaged into completely custom and proprietary package that is then being used by the completely custom automation to be deployed to the infrastructure.

If you really need something insanely custom, you can just write a maven plugin (it's actually really easy to do so).
I want to point out an imbalance in your reasoning. Essentially, you are judging both sides by a different standard.

> how emotional and out of touch the anti-gun crowd gets
> someone stands up and says “Oh hey here’s an idea why don’t we just ban all guns lol!!”

Here, you are essentially judging gun-opponents by their worst examples. That is, you are judging them by their members that are loud and unreasonable.

> Gun owners are all about safety and personal responsibility, and many do support sensible gun control laws.

Here, you are judging gun-owners and presumably those who are against all firearms being illegal by something better than their worst examples. When you say "Gun owners are all about safety and personal responsibility" you are essentially judging this group by their ideals, not their practice. Moreover, it seems unlikely that literally all gun owners actually hold these ideals. Those that don't are a fringe crowd, but you judged the 'anti-gun' people by that same fringe.

Now, I am not accusing you, this is rather natural. You yourself are a gun-owner that is responsible and cares about safety, and most if not all gun-owners you know are the same. So, it makes sense to assume that this holds for all gun-owners.
At the same time, the less outrageous gun-opponents are much less noticeable to you. Mostly because outrageous things get propagated.

Note that the opposite happens among gun-opponents. They share outrageously irresponsible gun-owners, and presume gun-opponents are reasonable like themselves. To make actual progress on gun laws, we need to start engaging the reasonable part of the opposing side.

This still involves tough choices, because in the end one side wants to restrict gun ownership a lot more than the other side. Gun-owners are afraid to give ground because it might be a slippery slope, and gun-opponents are frustrated that even the most reasonable proposals are rejected.
Improbably bad context, I would say.

Not to cast aspersions; I think many of us make use of dark humor to get through the worst times.

If the cacophony current information age may push for a interest in regaining precise language, both as a way imposing a sense of shared consciousness and communicative skill, as a way to regain a sense of meaning and order within. I sincerely hope some of the media embrace similar ideals as something other than an experiment or side project.
Ask HN: How do you organize all of your life's knowledge and todos?
I have a long todo list of books to read, classes to take, videos to watch etc... along with years of notes from the same.

Right now its all a group of text files on GitHub, but I was trying to find a better solution. I had used evernote in the past but didn't care much for the interface.
Since no one has said it yet, /r/ludobots is pretty good. It's a University of Vermont course centered around ML for robotics. Specifically, the goal is to train a procedurally generated robot to walk using NNs. I wouldn't say it's the best I've ever taken but it's pretty unique and great fun.
> > Gradle... It's an environment for programmer

> To me this is a counter-argument. When I need to understand project configuration I expect structure, not behaviour.

Agreed. Every time I see a build system that lets you write arbitrary code, I shy away from it. Builds should be standardized, not a mess of custom code. Maven lets you write plugins for the case when you need to do something truly custom, but in my experience that's vanishingly rare.
I think it's extremely noteworthy to keep in mind the contrasting demographics between the rest of the world, and people likely to be commenting on those live broadcast.

There's a significantly higher chance they are relatively younger than average, as well as more influenced by internet culture & viral media.

I think those things and possibly more, significantly contribute to seeing such a concentration of ignorance.

Additionally:

"I don't know how to fix this problem"

Create a positive movement that counters the negativity you see. Advertise it and put it out there so that like-minded people will be able to come aboard, a portion of the opposition can reconsider, and people not involved can have a positive way to contribute.

Sustain, and nurture the movement in a smart way, and it will grow, and have a positive impact on the world.
If only they cared about protecting our rights in the first place, as much or more than they apparently care about alleged spying by foreign powers.
Nectome is still in the research stage, so we are not preserving anyone. If you'd like to learn more about how the preservation process works, check out the paper at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001122401... or the summary at http://aurellem.org/ASC/html/ASC-introduction.html.

And yes, we are in YC Winter 18
Yes, they’ve been cutting government services. Some parts of London are effectively lawless because there is not enough police to cover everywhere.

Mental health, social services, youth and gang intervention have been underfunded.
Can confirm. My flight from Zurich was delayed by over an hour today, causing my family and me to need to run, OJ Simpson-style, through the Philadelphia airport to make our connection.
Just as enraging now as it was then.
There are so many people that listen to their ONE favorite artist all the time...I don't think that music is as fungible as you think.
I use JMP.chat which is basically XMPP + OMEMO + a phone number.
It's not really trolling in this case since they actually use and develop on the technology
Titlefiend. I am often guilty of titlefiending.
I tried Sails about 3-4 years ago. Basically, you're taking the good from Rails (MVP code generation, relations, convention over configuration) and puts it on JS, which unfortunately it's still a nightmare to develop CRUD apps with.

Async is great for lots of things, but not for your entire app.

If you want an async-first app, JS is probably a good choice. If you want CRUD, use Rails.
I just wish we would talk about things that are causing the shootings in the first place and not boil it down to overly simplified explanations of "can't stop crazy" vs "why do we even need guns?" All that does is create an endless loop of stupidity and people dying. I mean the gun death problem is extremely multifaceted and there's a huge difference in how school shootings, active shooters, gangs, suicides, etc happen and how you mitigate them.
I haven't read the book but looked through it (hastily though). It was pretty the same - like a slide version of the course.

You shouldn't expect some direct instructions about "how to do/achieve X" in this course/book, I would say. It's more like Brain 101 - A layman's guide on how to use it efficiently. I say "layman", because as you go through the course you realize how little you know about your own brain. It teaches you how to treat the brain, basically - it was the case for me at least (e.g. the real need for sleep, for one). It's not a some kind of deceptive self-help book (course), after all.

Besides, Barbara Oakley is not the only instructor of the course. Terrence Sejnowski[0] is also involved, who is an important figure in his field - Computational Neuroscience. He appears in some videos.

Last but not least, maybe following the video lectures would be more fun for you too. Barbara Oakley, such a lively and nice lady. I wrote her a "thank you" e-mail stating my appreciation for the course and not surprisingly, she replied kindly. I'd like to meet and have a conversation with her some day - but I'm thousands of kilometers (0.621 miles:) away.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Sejnowski

My two cents.
> if so many gun owners really do support sensible gun control laws

Would you be willing to outline what you count as sensible gun control laws and what you hope to accomplish with these gun laws?
I don't know to what extent I trust Apple's follow-through. But, purchasers will have more choices.

And, Apple's silicon development appears to be top-notch. In addition, the company professes and demonstrates some ongoing concern about security.

So, depending on Apple's ongoing hardware developments, Intel may face technical pressures on the security front with respect to processors and SoC.

And Intel needs to match its technical developments with demonstrated concern for its users' security and not allowing its products to compromise same.

Anyway... I hope the pressure stays on Intel. Going through the current process -- not just with Intel, but with system vendors -- wondering whether my several year old but still quite functional systems will be updated, and when.

And right before that, the struggle to know what to do about the ME vulnerabilities.

Some people have to be getting kind of tired of this. And now to carry continued tension, waiting for the next shoe to drop.

In the phone world, Apple users don't seem to worry as much as Android users with respect to vulnerabilities. Because Apple usually patches them fairly quickly, and Apple also has used its muscle to bypass carriers' horrendously bad update support as witnessed in the Android world.

Computer users aren't going to want to worry whether they're going to get a full life out of their computer, or have to stop using it for X months until a problem gets patched.

Right now, most of them are pretty oblivious to the current chip problems. These problems start turning into active exploits, and that's going to change.

Ok. Ramble over.
I ask experts about this every few years, but I don't seem to write down what they tell me and I've encountered a bit of a range of opinion, but:

What's bad about cipher cascades?

(No, I don't current encourage people to use them and I tell people that there's some expert sentiment discouraging them; I want to remember the basis of that sentiment.)
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The process is described in the science paper at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001122401..., and also at the Brain Preservation Foundation website (http://www.brainpreservation.org/). It involves fixation with glutaraldehyde and then vitrifixation for long-term storage. It does not use plastic.
> Neither is lead by a founder who cares

[Citation needed]
Sadly, people aren’t replacing cash with EC (a very cheap interbanking card standard that’s local to Germany) but with VISA/MasterCard, foreign companies that demand foreign laws be followed in Germany, holding an oligopoly, and having massively inflated fees.

I’d be the first proponent of a cashless society if we’d ban VISA and MasterCard from operating here.
> At the end of the day who really cares what is and isn't a "tech company"? Every company has a tech aspect to it these days.

Because the way a tech company grows and a non-tech company grows are very different. Nike extensively uses software but you wouldn't call them a tech company, because their growth is limited by sales of their apparel, which is a physical good. 'Real' tech companies aren't typically limited by the distribution of their product (other than scaling issues and the like). There's (generally) nothing physical produced so there isn't a resource problem - growth can be much greater and faster.
Uhhh no. When I was a kid there was viturally zero chance of running across used needles at the park, nor being harassed by homeless people on public transit. Look I want to make cities work as much as the next guy, but at some point I’m going to vote with my feet and signal that things are not acceptable.
> Agree, but edge case.

This is by no means an "edge-case" if you live in a rural area. "Sound policy" within a heavily urbanized area may be unworkable elsewhere.

> Can't base sound policy at scale on the stars aligning

"Failing to scale" here would be to allow urban population centers to dictate policy that would be untenable in other areas of the country.
Amazon used to provide free networking for its readers... I think that it is very cheap to transfer text/"meta-data"... It might even be sponsored by the government...
Prior to that there was the Satanic Panic of the eighties, which did even more to the shifting relationships between children and adults. The panic was a seemingly organic media ratings fest, and reading up on it (I was born later than the audience) has been fascinating.

I cannot speak to your other proposals, as I would be adding additional speculation to something borne of tragedy that cannot be denied, regardless of specifics.
I think most hackers are concerned with public safety. The problem is subgroups of hackers differ on how to achieve it. Some hackers want to remove the rights of people not involved in a crime (like, me) to defend themselves and protect their families (interestingly, they also complain of clear plastic backpacks for kids in school, which I agree is equally ineffective in stopping crime). Other hackers want to preserve the right to defend themselves and their families from crime.

Therefore the debate is not about hacking. It’s about a different view of the world.

Therefore, there are other forums better suited for the debate, which really has nothing to do with hacking (with some exceptions).
It does.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4075701-tesla-closer-look-m...
Yeah, it's already happening, that's why I brought it up. Right now it's not a huge problem, because it doesn't happen too often or on a large scale. Like you said, it's usually a couple of songs in a larger playlist.

Now, imagine the scenario comparable to what @bogomipz said above: "no Beatles, Pink Floyd, No Motown, No AC/DC". I'm betting all of us would be a lot more frustrated and irritated than we are right now. Maybe you won't do anything about it. Maybe I won't, either. But it sounds plausible that a lot of people will, whether they switch to a different service, come up with a solution of their own or simply revert to piracy.
Yeah. Unfortunately this cuts both ways: I've also heard "you don't understand, we are on an embedded platform" when they mean "we're on a raspi".
Invest Like the Best, Albert Wenger (ep 32, 3/13/18)
The fact that it's common knowledge that you're armed means you'll likely never have to deal with that kind of situation.
major changes occurred here in 2017 with `await` making its way into the LTS release of Node - more on that: https://gist.github.com/mikermcneil/c1028d000cc0cc8bce995a2a...
You mean you pay for the privilege, as do I. We pay to take less employment risk.
1. The Knowledge Project: Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Radical Honesty

2. The Joe Rogan Experience #1080 - David Goggins

3. a16z Podcast: On Morals and Meaning in Products, Business, and Life

[1]: https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-...

[2]: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/

[3]: https://a16z.com/2018/03/20/morals-meaning-entrepreneurship-...
I don't want to sound picky, but wikipedia isn't the best source on controversial topics.
How do you know this? Would you consider a system of targeted persuasion where the subject is aware they're being manipulated a successful one?

I'm being subtly guided towards products and services all the time through myriad sneaky marketing techniques I'm completely unaware of. I know enough of them to appreciate how much I don't know.
Sounds like the whitepaper for this week's hottest ICO!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...

Midwest states have lower gun homicide rates than the many European countries despite having the highest gun ownership rates in the US.

The mass shootings that get media attention are a drop in the bucket compared to daily inner city gang violence that jacks up US gun stats. And taking guns from law abiding citizens isn't going to stop gangs from shooting each other.
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Archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20180403215610/https://www.akama...

https://archive.org/details/panera-security-video
And what about non-free?
Well, it's a good thing that the countries are not tied to one another, Politically, Economically, Diplomatically, Socially. . .
> If you look at the pictures it can barely capture the synapses

Electron micrographs vary quite a bit in quality (good micrographs are an art), but if you can barely see the synapses, you may be thinking of light microscopy, where it’s very difficult to see differences in the sizes of synapses. You can see for yourself what synaptic details electron microscopy allows you to see in the book, "Fine Structure of the Nervous System: Neurons and Their Supporting Cells". You might also want to see the FIB-SEM images from the Brain Preservation Foundation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKIePuVENY, which I find quite beautiful.

As for how sizes may relate to weights [1]:
“Some axons form two or more synapses with the same dendrite, but on different dendritic spines. These synapses should be the same strength because they will have experienced the same history of neural activity…the synaptic areas and volumes of the spine heads were nearly identical. This remarkable similarity can be used to estimate the number of bits of information that a single synapse can store, since the size of dendritic spines and their synapses can be used as proxies for synaptic strength.”

I hope that these are informative. I do want to clarify that we are not arguing that electron micrographs of brain tissue are all that’s needed to reconstruct memories. We are interested in building the best brain preservation technology possible, and one of the ways we evaluate brain preservation is with electron microscopy. The connectome is the first step, the “skeleton” upon which models of the mind can be built.

[1] "Nanoconnectomic upper bound on the variability of synaptic plasticity" at https://elifesciences.org/articles/10778
Is that Russian ship still parked nearby? I recall reading about that a while back. Maybe that's where the signal is coming from. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/russia-spy-ship-us-c...
Up to folks with teenagers, you mean. Many couples have more than a baby by age 37.
I also come from a near gun-less country, and think a similar system in America would work. However, there are some arguments in favor of guns that are not trivially ignored.

- Simply, guns are fun. Marksmanship is a serious sport of discipline and self-control.

- Hunting is also great recreation, is sometimes good for population control, and hunting is another reason for preserving and protecting nature.

- Self-defense. Sometimes, you need to use violence for self defense. Guns are a great way to apply violence.

- Independence. Partly, this ties in with self-defense above. Partly, this is about the government applying 'collective punishment' on all gun owners for the action of a very select few. Finally, some of this is about being able to resist a potential unjust government (i.e. the militia mentioned in the second amendment)

Now, all of these points have counter arguments. I think non of them hold up to the point of "we should keep semi-automatic weapons with 30 round magazines". But the arguments exist, and ignoring them isn't gonna help convince those that want to keep their guns.
Semantics wasn't the point. When police get reports of an active shooter on campus, you don't want to be the one seen holding a gun when they arrive.