skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gun owners are all about safety and personal responsibility

If that were universally true, we wouldn't have so many gun deaths in the US. I absolutely believe that some (perhaps even many) gun owners handle their guns safely and responsibly, but the laws ensuring such safety and responsibility are few and far between and lack teeth.

> Nothing can be done unless people start taking a rational, sober approach to these issues. Not with tear-fueled rage.

You're attacking a straw man here. The majority of the pro gun control crowd pushes sensible restrictions and limits on firearm ownership: universal background checks, stricter controls on what can disqualify some people from owning a gun, mandatory training and licensing, restrictions on ammo purchases and magazine size (notice how I'm not even mentioning "assault weapons" here). Sure, there are some (unfortunately loud) people who scream "ban all guns", which isn't productive to the discussion, but those people are in the minority. In the end, we can't even get these sensible regulations in place due to rabid groups like the NRA that spread FUD and whip their constituents into a frenzy.
First off, legalizing CDC research into gun violence seems like a reasonable step
We complain a lot about the quality of modern news reporting, but I think a large part of it is that we are just more aware now due to the prevalence of the internet and huge numbers of sources. Back in the old days, there was plenty of misinformation, but we just didn't get as worked up about it. Our standards now are higher and we tear apart even small inaccuracies.
I'd agree. I think it would be better to say:

"Now that we have developed tools and processes for validating truths against falsehoods which seem to be accurate across all applications thus far - for a religion to exist it must violate one or more of the rules that are true elsewhere or bypass these rules entirely."

So "false" vs "unprovable".
Nihilism need not be an end-point. There are many positive and motivating philosophies that are less bleak and more illuminating. The author's positions on most of their anecdotes do not seem to convey a sense of optimism.

Buddhism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Shamanism; there are all sorts of neat philosophies you can abide by that have deciphered the non-dualistic nature of reality. In doing so, they provide you with tools to cope with this truth and lead a full and joyful life of belief.
Probably not trivial though, and I would not be surprised if many of these has already taped out and sampled. In general a modern DDR3/DDR4 memory controller is not a trivial thing to do.
I’m curious. Do a lot of people actually use a single music streaming platform? As an avid music lover, I get my new doses from various services. Spotify is the only one that I pay for. I mainly use it to discover the latest mainstream stuff from genres I don’t typically listen to. But the Beatles? Come on, why isn’t that saved in your hard drive somewhere?
I loved both Nand2Tetris and Coding the Matrix, although I had different experiences with them. For Coding the Matrix, I didn't buy the book, but just watched the videos and worked through the course work. This was super fun, but I could see someone who was not proficient in python getting really frustrated. I took it the first time it was run as well, and there were a couple of rough areas, but overall it was really enjoyable.

With Nand2Tetris, I just bought the book and worked through it without taking a class. I'd sketch out the hardware literally on the back of napkins and then try it in the simulator when I got home. It was incredibly fun, and I loved how it took everything down to first principles.
Look at Germany’s gun laws. Way saber than the USA.
> "We removed this latest set of Pages and accounts solely because they were controlled by the IRA — not based on the content.”
Agreed. One of the reasons I've enjoyed robotics so much is that it presses on all three of mechanics, software, and electronics. Since there is rarely someone who is good enough at all three it gets a huge boost by community involvement by folks with complementary skill sets. The problem with robotics was that once you did the basics, obstacle avoidance, line following, balancing perhaps. You Were sort of stuck on the next thing to work on. But 3D printers are robots that can make more interesting things so they are useful in their own right.

My current favorite application is to make holding fixtures for things like breakout boards so that I can fabricate systems out of a bunch of separate boards easily.
I've never seen anything mentioning that so it seems dubious to me. But it looks like there was a motion filed in court claiming this [0]. Not sure what ever came of it, but I assumed Google would turn up more if it had been confirmed.

[0]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-columbine-student-killed...
There are about 800 people from Las Vegas with bullet wounds that would have fared better against an elderly man with only a knife.
It might be fairer to look at the scientifically falsifiable claims that are or were important to major religions and determine which of those have been scientifically falsified.

Some conspicuous examples have certainly been falsified, like young earth creationism, but that certainly doesn’t mean that all of Christianity’s claims have been falsified.
> Because most people live their whole lives without encountering this.

This is getting to be less and less the case. Some anecdata:

* A good friend of mine worked at the UPS in SF where a mass shooting occurred
* I almost took a job at the YT San Bruno office
* Luke Woodham killed two students at a high school in my hometown

There are a lot of mass shooting events, and the number of people caught in their emotional orbit is only increasing. How many people were in the crowd at Las Vegas, for heaven's sake?
Right, how do I know there isn’t an HTTP POST buried in these scripts somewhere?
The dangerous part about implementing payload encryption isn't the cipher; mainstream modern ciphers are quite strong and bear few caveats. What's dangerous about encrypting are the constructions you use to apply ciphers to actual data (the "modes", though this is a terrible term that needs to go away).

Cascading ciphers does nothing to address the dangerous part of encrypting (order of operations for authenticating, authenticating all the security-sensitive components of the message, validating authenticators safely, randomizing encryption, safely handling truncation of authentication tags, providing adequate headroom for nonces, &c &c). In fact, since the best modern authenticated encryption constructions tend to be built up from a single cipher core (usually AES), cascades make encrypting safely harder.

You could "cascade" authenticated constructions, but different constructions have different failure modes. The poly MAC constructions fail and cough up authentication keys. Some gracefully handle truncation and some don't. Some constructions fail somewhat resiliently if nonces get repeated; some explode; some purport not to seriously fail at all. Some of them can reliably be implemented in software on any platform, but the binary field stuff really wants hardware extended carryless multiplication or you get new side channels. These things aren't designed to snap together in cascades and smushing them together doesn't make a lot of design sense.

It's hard to get this stuff right even when you're making the conventional, boring choices. Cascades involve a lot of "not boring" stuff, and the payoff for that not-boringness is arguably homeopathic.
hear, hear!
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A female shooter must be a relatively rare scenario?
blackthrow or svartkast is a term for a device left behind in potentially hostile territory to continue operating until it is discovered or fails
Alright I think the timing is right with the implementation of SQL transactions and ES6 features. Time to jump in and give it a go.
Well that's rude.

> The goal of these accounts was to build a following to be able to influence more people. A page with a couple of hundreds likes or followers will have much more impact than a million accounts with no followers.

Of course. I do not mean to suggest that every single account that the Russians created was a success or has millions of followers. I am positing that they likely created many many accounts, and I would presume many of those accounts gained few followers and exerted little influence (edit: although, some influence is some influence; even 1 follower can be meaningful).

> It is much more probable that there are around 70 accounts than millions.

I disagree - I think it is much more probable that there are hundreds of thousands of accounts. I certainly don't think there would be millions (who brought that up anyway? wasn't me) as that seems too high to be real. It's just a guess, though.

> Sorry to be that blunt but do you know anything about this matter?

Yes, I do. You're not being blunt, you're being rude.
> Just like there are no bugs without security impact

I'm compelled to once again bring up the report that went "when I zoom in, the text becomes blurry".
This is readily searchable, but here is an example:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/01/media/russian-facebook-ads-r...
Backpressure gets more "interesting" when you throw QoS into the mix. If the client has hard latency requirements, the server can't afford to "stop the world" when it gets backed up (à la TCP).

Keeping your queues shallow can be a solution, but only if your system doesn't need the benefits of batching that deep queues can bring. You then have to be a bit smarter about crediting the client, only handing credits out when you know you'll be able to complete that work within the QoS requirements, instead of simply whenever you have space in your queues. (Simply rate-limiting the source will work in a pinch too, at the cost of potential throughput.)
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One day the humans will all leave the internet out of disgust, leaving the bots to fight their wars alone.
Seattle has plenty of dockless E-Bikes. Limebike rolled them out over the past 4 months or so, and everything seems to work well with them.
Australia, a country of 20M people, had 354 homicides (not just firearm related) in 1996, down to 282 ten years later.

In 1997, it had a rate of 1.733:100,000, and by 2007, 1.2.

In 1997, the US had a rate of 6.678:100,000, and by 2007, 5.7.

We had a lot more room for improvement. And you're still nearly five times more likely to be murdered in the US than Australia.

But hey, it says a whole lot about the narrative you'd like to push when you want to focus on that delta. "America got safer faster! (Just ignore the fact it was very far worse and still far less safe!)".

I think you're likely to find the homicide rate asymptotically approaches zero, and as such it would be hard for Australia to improve at the same rate as the US. I'm not sure what correlation you can show to "firearm control doesn't work" from that.

Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?end=2015...
I can second this. We run significant bandwidth from you guys to Linode, and this would help immensely in a few of our applications.

We also use Digital Ocean, so they'd be our second choice; however, I doubt they'll be willing to integrate with a direct competitor to their Spaces product.
I think that would be a great first step. For it to be acceptable it will need to be very careful to ensure the privacy of gun owners.
> the number of shooting crimes (including school shootings) in the United States is going down

His statement is absolutely correct. Your link shows that the number of school shootings is going up. Note that school shootings make up a small portion of all shootings. All shooting crimes are going down.
> Finally, some of this is about being able to resist a potential unjust government

Anyone who truly believes private citizen gun owners in the US could ever band together and overthrow the US government is deluded, at best. The US military would shut them down in record time.
Had that man been armed, they wouldn’t have even bothered with an investigation after shooting him. Hey, he was armed, waved a gun at a cop, must have been a bad guy.

Likewise, given an active shooter at a school and armed teachers, how do police tell the difference between the perpetrator and the armed teachers defending the kids? Ya, they don’t.
Not German, can you explain what Germany's laws are and how it makes them safer than the USA?
Both numbers are correct- the person you replied to misread the original commenter's comment.
Your shortened link is an affiliate link.

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I think the police are more aggresssive because they know any citizen can be armed
wow - supports SQL and not just through GraphQL
The UCSD bioinformatics algorithms courses on Coursera are fantastic: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics
The World Bank has it quite a bit higher for the US: 4.9 in 2015: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?location...
We are 31st when you don't include suicide or accidents FYI.
> some high school students voicing their opinions

They said "media spotlight", not "the fact that some students voiced their opinion".

> It's odd that the majority of the time that argument is used by the same group that wants and has tried to gut any attempts at improving the system.

It's odd in the same way the above is funny, namely in that you're just saying it.
Why don't you just say "black people are the problem" and stop beating around the bush?
Do you know anything about this matter? The scope of this is still largely unknown, unless you have some information the rest of us don't.

Influence can be local. Generic-looking pages (i.e. not locale specific in the content they post) or accounts are often followed by people only from a specific small city and surrounding areas (10^4 people, say). Is it so hard to believe that accounts such as these were used by the IRA?
Seattle rolled out dockless bike sharing in August 2017, and we haven't had any problems with it. If anything, it's been amazing.

The city has been extending and building protected bike lanes like crazy too.

I've seen everything from daily travelers to huge groups (20+) of tourists riding them.

I can't comment on DC's dockless bike share, as I haven't seen it myself. I wonder why it's working so well over here and not over there?
That is based on severe cherry picking of data - just one month (February 2018) and small absolute numbers (11 vs 15). On longer sampling intervals the rate is still quite a bit higher in NY:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43628494
The midwest state with the lowest gun homicide rate (North Dakota with 0.6 gun homicides per 100,000 people) isn't even less than the European country with the highest rate of gun homicides (Portugal with 0.5 gun homicides per 100,000 people).
> It may be worth keeping perspective that over 10,000 people in the U.S. died from drunk driving in 2016.

> but if we really care about saving the most lives, we have much bigger fish to fry.

Given that "over 10,000 people" died from firearms (where that number is higher than the drunk driving number), I'm not sure how you figure this.
1. Snapchat was listing, not raising capital. Until we see a similarly high-profile company try to raise equity (and I doubt we will), there's no reason to worry for IB.

2. If a client wants to buy/sell snapchat, the investment bank is still going to make broker fees on the transactions.
Maybe they have enough capital now to adjust the Discover Weekly algorithm, which provides a weekly recipe of 30 songs that have no basis in what I listened to or have in my playlists. I do get to discover Millennial sleepily-singing voices to a disco beat and a 'laid back' riff that promises to stay in the background (thanks to a faux garagey sound). Is that what Indy means?

For pre-selected music that I listen to frequently, I use playlists with Spotify.

For truly discovering music with algorithms that work, I use Pandora.

I do notice there is NOT a lot of overlap at times, due to bizarre licensing restrictions and deals.
How do you call P2P that is strictly without any third party?
That's including R&D, which for a company that is relatively young is to be expected. GM1 is net positive though, and when people say 'X loses money on each item sold' they are typically talking about GM1, not about margins including R&D. This is important because the second depends very much on the number of items sold which one can not know until the run is over or a substantial number of years have passed. It's safe to say the VW beetle had it's R&D paid back fairly early on and that Tesla will take a bit longer (especially for their niche products) because there are simply fewer units to do the pay-back on. Even so, there is a fairly good reason to believe they will be OK on the Model S in the long run, will be about break even on the X and hopefully will end up making money on the Model 3 if they can deliver it in large enough numbers. Also important: the Model 3 R&D was to some extent paid for by the gross margins of the Model S, if not for that they would have had to receive even more outside capital.
Really? I've always found Mac OS unpleasant, because it seems to me very program oriented. I typically work in a task oriented way (a collection of windows, probably from different apps, on one virtual desktop, referring to related files; another virtual desktop has windows from the same apps for another task).

This has always seemed to me to be a species of "file oriented" working, and I prefer apps that run in a file oriented way. For instance, a graphical file manager that shows a folder in a window, and you click to get open an item in the folder you so always get a new window - even if it happens that the item in folder is just another folder that is opened by the graphical file manager. Or office apps which always open each document in a new window, and when I close the current document, the only thing I notice is that the current document is closed - it doesn't try to focus some other window from the same app.

But Mac OS has always seemed an almost perfectly application-based interface with its fully application-based dock and it's application-based global menu (close a window for a file that was loaded by Cool App, and Cool App's menu still shows). I think it's Finder is a bit confused: it used to be mostly file based, at some point in the OS X years it got more and more application based but perhaps it's swung back - it's been a few years since I've bothered trying Mac OS. It had some of the most appalling virtual desktop support when I last used it, that made me think "the people who have implemented this only work in an application-based way". I can only imagine that's got better. But it seems that Mac OS is always: application-based workflow is prioritised, file-based workflow is secondary.

I have found that Linux can[1] excel in this workflow, Windows is ambivalent to all workflows, supporting all of them badly because it supports none at all, and Mac OS prefers you to think "what tool am I using", not "what task am I doing".

Is my experience entirely unique?

[1] i.e. it depends on what particular tooling you're using - it's possible a default setup is appalling.
> Have you not used a modern contactless payment system before? They're fast enough to be used on the barriers of underground railway systems which see thousands of passengers pass through at peak times.

That isn't that impressive when you consider the equivalent traffic was handled in cash before electronic payment systems even existed.

> Even the time taken to empty the contents of your wallet into the appropriate slot of a cash system takes longer than those machines, never mind time taken to process the notes and coins, dispense change and allow you to put that change back in the appropriate compartments of your wallet.

Describing all the steps in detail doesn't make the total any longer. And half of that stuff can be done in parallel with other stuff. You can get out your money while you're waiting in line. You can put it away while you're walking out of the store. It doesn't add any real latency.

> And change-dispensing machines with their scanning software, moving parts and need to be fully stocked with change break down at least as often as networks for card based payments.

Stores typically have more than one checkout machine to handle the volume during peak traffic times, so one can be down and there is not even any consequence outside of peak hours, and only a minor delay even then.

If a network is down, it's down. Retail stores typically don't have redundant internet connections.
Are you implying that the community is not involved in the spread of disinformation, or..?
>It would be very risky to operate, even briefly, a portable imsi catcher in a briefcase and move it around WA DC, nevermind one that remained in fixed locations for hours.

how about quick switching between several [semi-stationary or briefcase carried] catchers (by analogy with an old Russia/USSR anti-aircraft tactic of quickly switching between several radars to avoid being detected and locked-in by an anti-radar missile :).
Moving from a 7200 to a SSD would have made a big difference. Your boot time and program load time were cut in half or better. A lot of inconvenient actions like file search became easier to do frequently. I can only guess that you do almost everything via web on a newer machine to not notice much difference.
The mean average of the countries in Table 4 have a per capita gun homicide rate of 0.208

(0.2 + 0.2 + 0.3 + 0.5 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.3 + 0.2 + 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.4 + 0.3 + 0.0 + 0.2 + 0.2 + 0.0 + 0.5 + 0.0 + 0.5 + 0.2 + 0.1 + 0.2 + 0.0) / 23 = 0.208

There is not a single U.S. state midwestern or otherwise that has a lower per capita gun homicide rate than that average. The two lowest are Vermont (0.3) and New Hampshire (0.4), neither of which are in the midwest. The closest midwestern state is North Dakota at (0.6) The data also shows there are plenty of midwestern states with per capita gun homicide rates well above 1. Your claim is incorrect.
The is also the issue of dock balancing. You have x number of spaces on a dock. If traffic flows mostly one way during the day and the other way during the night then you get network weightings that are lopsided, so there is not enough dock space at popular dock A. As a result you need a very high dock capacity, potentially like 10x the amount of bikes for all docks.
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Adding more guns to a situations where police are using guns unjustly is not going to end well.
> Async is great for lots of things, but not for your entire app.

That criticism is pretty dated now that JS has async/await. Given that you understand promises, async code has become trivial.
Most will probably be owned by law enforcement. Many will be operating without the benefit of a warrant. So what do you do when you find one? You won't make many friends if you interfere with an ongoing investigation particularly if you raise questions about the legality of the operation at the same time.

Things were much the same back in the old days. If a telephone employee would find listening devices on the lines they were best off just quietly removing them and disposing of them. In the wild, surveillance equipment legally installed under a warrant looks exactly the same as all of the other kinds.

So in practice everyone got to tap phone lines, just as long as they didn't annoy anyone too official while doing so. The targets would never find out, unless the were willing to climb a telephone pole and check for themselves. The same thing will probably happen with stingray type devices. People like private investigators are likely already using them.