skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the red/blue ignorance clubs have done their best to make people think that support of the rights described in the first and second amendments are mutually exclusive, but I assure you that's not my stance.
Do you have a link for this, by chance? I hadn't heard.
I'm truly sorry that people (I assume) got hurt/killed with this.

It may be worth keeping perspective that over 10,000 people in the U.S. died from drunk driving in 2016.

School/workplace shootings are scary, but if we really care about saving the most lives, we have much bigger fish to fry.
Could you elaborate on GDPR being opt-out? The main point I keep reading about seems to be unambiguous separate consent for every use you use any piece of data for. (on mobile, but I’ll come back with references if needed)
Some logic (be it faulty or not) brought me to wonder; isn't Google's lead in AI a direct result of sitting on figuratively all the data in the world?

That must account for a huge portion of their advances, right?
Given that suicidal shooters often crave attention, this is the wrong signal to send.
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Also being raised by single mothers.
You have to buy assets. The income used to buy them has already been taxed. Then, whenever those assets generate further income, that additional income gets taxed.

You can quibble about what the tax rates should be, but I was responding to somebody who made it sound like wealthy people pay no taxes, which is an utter misrepresentation of the situation.
You might be right. My point is that the deterrence excuse is difficult to prove to the point of absurdity.
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"Are you suggesting we not save lives so that we can avoid some unrealized fear of overcrowding?"

No, and putting words in my mouth like that is extremely uncivil. We're talking about people who have already died.

"I find this argument both unimaginative (improving technology changes the nature of our challenges) and repulsive (it's advocating murder through inaction)."

And I find your tone repulsive and uncivil, as you're making extreme assumptions about my positions.

Not to mention, you're only advocating that we save the rich. I don't see you setting up a GoFundMe to preserve homeless people.
Each of these things is a much better predictor of violent behaviour than mental illness, which is the thing normally blamed.
JuiceFS [1] could be a replacement for S3QL, which has better support for B2, can also be mounted on multiple machines in the same time.

If you don't have more than 1TiB, JuiceFS is totally free.

Disclaimer: Founder of JuiceFS here.
To pick on the memory-safe languages bit:

- I get it. But libcrypto is less likely to have some insane UAF bug than, say, libtiff or whatever. If you're going to use unsafe code, libcrypto and libsodium are pretty great choices. I wrote a Clojure (so JVM) library that binds libsodium FWIW.

- I hear nice things about Rust's ring lib. Still gotta FFI from OCaml or the JVM though.

- A lot of the recommendations on this list are algorithms designed to be safe to implement. For example, it's unlikely that a JVM impl of XSalsa20 + Poly1305 is suddenly unsafe because of the environment you're running in. This is NOT TRUE for things like AES-GCM; firstly a lot of naive AES implementations are insecure, and good luck doing GHASH safely in software.
As I posted elsewhere, drunk-driving is a far bigger problem. I propose we tackle these things in priority order.
Nice.

At least 5 years ago, I designed during a week-end project a coral-like structure.
You can find it on shapeways :
https://www.shapeways.com/product/GRPT7WT7Z/sphere-tree-12cm...

It doesn't take the same approach as you. But it still posed as an optimization search. But as you have noticed, doing the full optimization yields some regular structures, which are not as interesting. So the trick is to stop it before convergence to get a richer structure with some regularities.

In my case I constrained the various nodes and branch nodes on spheres, made the tips spread out over the sphere, while preserving the tree structure, but trying to shorten the branches. The resulting optimization problem gives the upper entangled mesh which progressively gets untangled.

Fun little anecdote : when it was designed Shapeways pricing policy was cost proportional to the volume of material used. My object being of wiry structure, its manufacturing cost went at least x5 when they decided to count the volume of the enclosing box.
Hmm, I guess I come from an older generation where mention of the "IRA" was a whole different genre of terrorism...
The link is not only factually wrong but also from a biased source.

Mass shootings in the US: there have been 1,624 in 1,870 days

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/oct/...

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_S...
Who is “we”? This was a few days ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_and_Trèbes_attac...

(Edit: nevermind, I guess you’re talking about Australia and not Europe)
Your 'Merkin is showing. Wrong again. You deal with the airline. Not the 'government'

If the airline does you wrong, at that point the CAA takes it up on your behalf. CAA ~= FAA
One thing I noticed was there Hamburger menu in the top left hand corner. It gives me, a web developer, a chuckle to see the hamburger menu as an actual hamburger...

But regular users will have no idea what to do with that icon. Just a small example of the redesign I took away from it.

I think JS rendering can definitely be a major issue, too. Uber (I know Uber is bad, but m.uber.com is a great piece of engineering) and Netflix have taken big leaps in rendering performance, they'd be wise to take a page or two away from them.
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First off, the term assault rifle probably isn’t what you think you’re referring to.

Second, the reason effective conversations can’t be had on gun control is because of how emotional and out of touch the anti-gun crowd gets. A lot of this is due to activists and the media riling people up.

Gun owners are all about safety and personal responsibility, and many do support sensible gun control laws. The problem is, as soon as someone stands up and says “Oh hey here’s an idea why don’t we just ban all guns lol!!” then you know the conversation is over, and after that point it’s just a downward spiral.

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

The people you are arguing with didn’t shoot and kill your family, in fact quite the opposite, if they had the chance they would probably jump at the opportunity of saving them with a firearm. You could argue whether or not they’d be effective, but it’s the thought that counts.
Assume it is a NodeJS Electron app that people run locally (and in the future, a browser extension).

(there is also a web version, which of course could always be compromised, but we're encouraging users to download the app so they have full control and don't have to worry about that. But they need to be compatible.)

Telling our users not to use crypto isn't an option. Recommending our users not use a browser is possible, but forcing them not to use a browser isn't an option either.
Your absurd example doesn't really engage the point in a meaningful, substantive manner. It merely mocks the idea that deterrence is real. It frames it as something crazy people imagine. It isn't remotely a good faith argument.
A litre of 40% ABV spirits per day, or equivalent. It's not that hard.
"1 - First, I like cash. It's tactile and gives me a feel for my spending."

"Going cashless" is a flavor of class warfare. There are some people that absolutely depend on, live on, cash. Believe it or not, there are people that do not have access to cards.
You'd need to hide no matter the weapon.
"would you start by advocating for mass executions"

The very idea that this would cross your mind after reading my comment shows that you are not interested in having any kind of serious discussion about this topic.
Sort by homicide (which is what you were getting at in your original comment). US has 3.5 per 100.000 people. First European country is Montenegro which has 2.42 per 100.000, then Cyprus with 1.05. For example France is 0.21, Germany 0.07, Poland 0.04.
For me, the killer ML use case in Google Photos is object recognition.

For example, I took a picture of my driver's license a year or so ago, and needed the number on a form recently. I just went to Google Photos and searched for "driver's license." Sure enough, the old picture showed up, even though I never manually tagged it.
• MITx "Introduction to Solid State Chemistry" [1]. I've never been good at chemistry, but this course managed to make it clear to me.

• MITx "Circuits and Electronics" [2][3][4] (three links because they have split it into three courses since I took it). Most electronics courses have not worked well for me. Some fail by using analogies that don't work for me. The analogies are either to things I don't understand, or to things I understand too well compared to the target audience for the course.

The latter might seem odd--how can understanding the analogous system too well cause a problem? It's because there usually isn't a perfect match between behavior of the analogous system and electronics. The more you know about the analogous system, the more likely you are to know about those places that don't match. If the author expects the students will not know about those parts, they won't mention the limitations from those parts. So you can end up expecting too much of the analogous system to apply.

Other courses have not worked for me by being too deep and detailed. For instance at one time I knew, from a solid state physics intro I took, how a semiconductor diode worked at a quantum mechanical level. I could do the math...but the course gave me no intuition for actually using the diode in a useful circuit.

The "Circuits and Electronics" course struck for me a perfect balance.

• MITx "Computation Structures" [5][6][7]. At the end of this three part course (of which I only took the first two parts), you will know how digital logic circuits work at the transistor level, and you will know how to design combinatorial and sequential logic systems at the gate level, and you will know how to design a 32-bit RISC processor...and you will have done all those designs, using transistor level and gate level simulators.

As I said, I only took the first two parts (didn't have time for the third). In the first two parts we did cover caching and pipelining, but we didn't use them in our processor. I believe that in the third part those and other optimization are added to the processor.

• Caltech "Learning From Data" [8]. The big selling point of this course is that it is almost the same as what Caltech students get when they take it on campus. The only watering down when I took it was the homework was multiple choice so it could be graded automatically.

The most outstanding thing about this course was Professor Abu-Mostafa's participation in the forums. He was very active answering questions. I don't know if he still does that now that the course is running in self-paced mode.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-solid-state-chemistr...

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-1-basic-circ...

[3] https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-2-amplificat...

[4] https://www.edx.org/course/circuits-electronics-3-applicatio...

[5] https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-part-1-dig...

[6] https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-2-computer...

[7] https://www.edx.org/course/computation-structures-3-computer...

[8] https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
This seems like a rather poor time to opportunistically comment with your own affiliate links.
Someone told me that some of the victims ended up being shot by the police. Based on your research is that true or it's another one of those rumors?
When I figure out how to pour that in a document I'll let you know :-D Until then it's one small bite at a time. But yeah, you're right: this is the style of audit and design work we do for clients.

General reco from your list: the answer is always symmetric unless you literally can not accomplish the same thing any other way. (And you probably can.)
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> So, that doesn't specifically say that the shootings are by the same person or even related.

It's baffling that these threads always have people saying "sure, a bunch of people got shot and some of them died but that's not gun violence".
I would also recommend The Postmortal, by Drew Magary. It explores a world where the cure for aging is found, so no one has to die through natural means anymore.
OK I guess we have a different experience. As an iPhone user who uses Google Photos I find it to be quite a lot ahead of Apple's solution. It isn't really the filters it's more the search feature. I can search for "pets with children" and it will give me accurate results. Apple doesn't come close.
When you're that small it really requires more context. What are you trying to do?

I've deployed TLS in 50 KiB flash and 6 Kb RAM. But I could rely on hardware support for some public key operations and could pick a single ciphersuite, and controlled the server end as well.

The boring answer is that you'll need to identify the set of primitives you need and then find a library that matches. I can't think of any single primitive that would break that budget, so it'll depend on how many you need!
I think this is good news. I think the kinds of politicians that are typically over-friendly with the police are also the kind that want a strong military. The use of "law enforcement" technology like stingrays by hostile intelligence agencies, might create a useful tension in them that could help convince them to harden domestic communications against law enforcement spying.
I'm genuinely interested what message you were trying to send with that link?

I'm Australian.
Nah we feel sorry for you guys haha
I believe taxation on capital gains from investments is much less then on salary.

Also another fun game the wealthy can play is they can fund a company with large sums of capital. Then make themselves officers of the company. Then the cars, houses, flights, and clothing budgets are all expenses of the company. So they personally pay no taxes and the "company" can write them off as a lose for the year.
You apparently ignored when I said control for demographics. Compare midwest gun stats to Europe
Technical management failure in how to mitigate late or stalled deps, fallback should have been to add ddr4 modems to existing chips.
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< Id' be awfully nervous about GDPR if I were a large American tech company.

They should be and that is a great thing.
Presumably this would only apply in class A airspace above 18,000 MSL. No one hand-flies there anyway.
Take Monocypher or TweetNaCL, and rip off any primitive you don't need. This may be enough. Even when you take the whole thing, Monocypher only needs 30kb of x86-64 machine code when compiled with -Os. If you only keep authenticated encryption and x25519, which are enough for many uses, I think you should be able to halve that down to 15kb or less.

If speed doesn't matter, TweetNaCl is even smaller.

If those aren't enough still, you may want to dive in, learn a ton about crypto (starting with https://www.crypto101.io/), and investigate the sponge construction, whose versatility may allow you to shrink the code even more. Perhaps. I'm in over my head at this point.
I used Rails 3.2 and Sails 0.12 in the past.

The lifecycle callback methods are almost identical to Rails. Waterline is an absolutely awful ORM for database management: You have almost no granular control over joins on MySQL tables. Additionally, the third-party libraries available for Node.js are much more sparse than the Rails' ecosystem.

Having said all of this, I am still very excited to upgrade my Sails API to 1.0 and take advantage of all of the new ES6 features.
You're jumping to conclusions. You don't need to be a nation state to operate a dingy IMSI-catcher.
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America is 12th in the world in per-capita gun deaths by country. Should we be satisfied with 12th?
This is an uncanny coincidence. Just today I (being a Swede in the largest city) wanted to deposit some old bills, and found out my primary bank went completely cashless years ago, and my secondary bank never dealt in cash to begin with.

This sounded so weird to me so I had to google it while on the phone with the support rep. Turns out it's a big shift where at some point around ten years ago, the government released control and now almost every big private actor is moving away from cash, despite the fact that it goes against the recommendation of nearly every expert in the field.

It worries me hugely, and I am considering switching banks to the only big bank that is actively in favour of dealing in cash: Handelsbanken. I know this will come at some cost to me, but if the alternative is sticking with a bank that does not even offer one of the core services of banking---even society---that will have to be worth it.
Do you mean the individual retirement accounts? /s
I'd agree with you, but almost every Youtube video I watch comparing iPhones vs. Pixels, or HomePod vs. Google Home, always tend to get to focusing on what Google queries can accomplish vs. Siri queries. It might not be called "AI" concretely, but the sentiment is probably there to some extent for some users.
So, I'm part of a secondary market. I was looking at their valuation in November and considered picking up some shares, when insiders / investors were selling shares at a $15bn valuation. Now they opened at $30bn.

Where did the increase in share value come from? Just the liquidity of going public?
Then we need to figure out which numbers are correct. That shouldn't be rocket science. But either way, hysteria still isn't the way forward...it never is.

I won't attempt to debate any of the points made in your article, as I'm not authority on the subject myself, but thanks for linking it.

However, you might find this article written by a former member of the FiveThirtyEight team interesting:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-...
"Gun owners are all about safety and personal responsibility"

Not all gun owners.
Just saying, it does state all of the dependencies:

{
"name": "apihandlerrestful",
"version": "1.0.1",
"description": "A simple api handler for nodejs",
"main": "handler.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "mocha --reporter spec"
},
"keywords": [
"api",
"handler",
"restful",
"apihandlerrestful"
],
"author": "Talon Bragg",
"license": "MIT",
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "git+https://github.com/talonbragg/apihandler.git"
},
"bugs": {
"url": "https://github.com/talonbragg/apihandler/issues"
},
"homepage": "https://github.com/talonbragg/apihandler#readme",
"devDependencies": {
"chai": "^4.1.2",
"coveralls": "^3.0.0",
"istanbul": "^0.4.5",
"mocha": "^5.0.5"
},
"directories": {
"test": "test"
},
"dependencies": {}
}
It is also safer to assume multiple. You cannot be sure.
> I think it's funny that people are so upset about some high school students voicing their opinions after experiencing a school shooting.

Did i direct any anger towards any of the students?

I think you misread me. PAC's are circling them this way and that to push messaging on people. That is undeniable.
That is child abuse. That is wrong. That is why i am upset. (i'll say that all night, i don't care about karma)
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Since HN only shows vote totals, I want you to know that you aren't alone.
Cryptography I by Dan Boneh in Coursera.
No, it was not :(
I don't think this is true. I do specialize in ML and you are probably talking about neural networks ("deep learning"). While they do require a lot of data for most tasks, it's still finite and after a certain size the improvements are not significant anymore (the definition of significant is up to you..). I don't know what Apple is working on, but i think for most of the ML-applications they are interested in, getting the training data is not that hard (like suggestions on the photos-app or autocorrect). It's still apple.

If I remember correctly, sharing analytics info etc. with apple is opt-in? If 1% of the users share the relevant data (or you've got money for annotating data in asia/africa, like tesla), this might enable you to solve most of your problems.

this does not mean that the quality of apples solutions is the same as googles, i just doubt it's the training data. Google is A LOT (not even comparable) more visible in the ML-community and i bet they have better and more researchers.
Whatever in the world are you talking about? Forget about the strawmen in your head and read what people are actually saying here.
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I'm not a woman so I have literally nothing to worry about as a man wanting to live in Saudi Arabia or Qatar, except that nobody would argue with me if I said I don't want to live there because I disagree with their cultural attitude towards women.

What you're trying to tell me is that it's not valid for someone to consider US culture as it pertains to guns as a reason for wanting to live there or not, because I'm statistically unlikely to be involved in gun crime. The statistical likelihood of being a victim is totally irrelevant, we're talking about the compatibility of cultural values.

And on that basis it is totally fair and rational to refuse to move somewhere that fundamentally opposes your own values. It's a matter of integrity and what's important to you, and nobody has the right to tell anyone whether those values are better or worse (or more/less rational) than your own.

Crime is practically a given anywhere so on that basis you're absolutely correct. It's totally irrational to think that prolific reports of crime in the news is a good reason to think you're gonna get shot or stabbed when you walk down the street. Which is why I'm focusing so heavily on the cultural aspect.
I guess I wasn't clear about the assumptions that I'm talking about. The power balance between citizens and government has shifted drastically in favor of the government, and there isn't any citizen-controlled, organized force. The police are militarized, and I'd expect them to be on the side of enforcing the status quo.

My point was that I think that maintaining citizens' gun rights wouldn't be sufficient to allow the people to overthrow the government, giving its overwhelming advantage in resources.
That'll hurt Google's competitors, and hence help Google, more than it hurts Google.
> I think Apple is so many years behind Google in AI that they have little hope of catching up.

We are so early on in the AI revolution, it seems very premature to make this claim.

I would wager we can't even imagine the scope of the kind of data we'd have available in the coming decades, let alone how the latest AI tech will use it, or which company will lead the way with its application.
It is in dev dependencies.