skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking of it as "guns" being a fundamental right is... kinda backwards.

And, for the record, I think that "because the Second Amendment" is a horrible and fantastically lazy argument for gun ownership.

Now, let us take a look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Specifically, Article 3:

"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."

From this, I don't think it's a stretch to say that everyone has the right to protect the above -- within reason!

Everyone has an innate right to defend their life, liberty, and security of person. Without that, those rights are meaningless.

This is not the job of the police. You should definitely call them if you have the time! But they are under no obligation to protect you, or even to show up.

(Most people don't know that, by the way.)

When you encounter a threat to the above, you have the right to fight until that threat ends, with some leeway granted for the adrenaline dump of combat.

This is not an indiscriminate license to kill or even to engage in violence!

Even if you "feel threatened". You must be able to demonstrate that you acted in defense of life -- yours or another's -- in order to justify your use of force against an attacker.

Weapons are the means by which individuals use force.

Allowing for self-defense allows for the use of weapons.

There is no such thing as a "non-lethal" weapon.

Your hands and feet are natural, and lethal, weapons. More people die by these every year in the United States than by "assault weapons".

Clubs and knives? Definitely lethal. The difference between the winner and a loser in a knife fight, is that the winner dies on the way to the hospital.

Tasers kill more people annually in the United States than "assault weapons". Tasers are also one-time use only. Miss your attacker? Too bad. Attacker has a thick jacket? Better luck next time. Multiple attackers? That sucks.

Pepper spray is probably the least-lethal thing you can use, but it still can and does kill people. Pepper spray is horribly ineffective. Use it indoors, or against the wind, and you will incapacitate yourself. It is useless in the rain. Or if your attacker is wearing a face mask. Or if you have multiple attackers.

A gun, on the other hand, works in the rain. It works in the wind. It works equally well regardless of how strong or weak you are. It works against multiple attackers.

Guns, even if "silenced", are also amazingly loud, which is a big advantage when you're defending yourself, because you want people to hear that noise and call the cops.

So, in a world where we respect peoples' human rights, allowing gun ownership really is common sense.
Can you elaborate on how that change affected news outlets? I can understand they losing traffic to fb in general but I guess I'm unaware of that specific change.
Then there may be a de facto restriction against the exercise of such a right by such a person, as one needs to have a permanent address to comply with the laws as they are currently interpreted.
The new Intel Realsense D435 is giving us fantastic data, and I've got two of them plugged into ROS.
I think we’re largely aligned here. As I said elsewhere in this thread, I’m very open to restrictions on foreign purchases of residences. And I totally agree with your remarks about charges of racism being used to shut down valid complaints about a government not privileging the interests of its own citizens over citizens of other countries.

I am a little more optimistic about things in general, though, for a couple of reasons:

1. I think Canada has a serious construction policy problem. My wife is from Langley, BC (we were just there over the Easter weekend). There is tons of land available to build on in BC. It’s incredulous that housing costs are so high with so much undeveloped land.

2. All it takes is a crash to flush all the investors out of the housing market.
Honest question: what systems/distributions do you like?

What Unix (or unix like system) doesn't suck? The linux distributions are all fairly sloppy, the BSDs are fine but starting to have issues as so much open source code isn't being tested there.

Not defending Solaris here, but it seems to me that all the unix systems have become a little sloppy recently.
Do you think that they want to cede the entire low end market to chromebooks/linux?
And of course it will be sending the data to the cloud, to improve ad targeting.
Never really thought about it. But it makes sense to cut a "gap" in the forest using fire, to prevent a fire from crossing the gap. Once burned, something aint gonna burn again...
These sorts of threads are usually created as much to attract more Twitter followers as they are to impart interesting information. They can be easily shared around on Twitter (via retweets) so more people find the creator.
Uhmmm...just thinking out loud here.

How feasible do you think it would be to use Mastodon for this?

If you have a "Medical Node" as you put it (which I find apt btw), you could share it with your doctor(s) and provide access (maybe using Keybase? Auth0?) for them to either add "their own posts" with the analysis results, their findings, etc, or just to read the relevant data (e.g. for a dentist).

Again, just thinking out loud, but they way you put it sounded interesting :)
Government didn't overrule the public. The agency is not legally allowed to arbitrarily deny the permit.
On the Nintendo Wii U we were able to do this. Check out "GX2 unchecked memory read/write": http://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Wii_U_System_Flaws. Same issue with "gspwn" on the Nintendo 3DS: https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/3DS_System_Flaws
The only thing genuinely useful on the touchbar is the fingerprint reader, after you enable the PAM module. Well technically the reader isn't part of the touchbar, so I guess that doesn't count now that I think about it.
I see many comments talking about teaching objects with Pharo, we used to use it in the UNQ (a university in Argentina), now we use another Smalltalk flavour, because of the complexity of it. It's called CUIS, developed in Argentina too, the first days we use a framework that uses some similar to prototypes, so the students can start learning objects without the overhead of classes and inheritance. And then we switch to the classical class hierarchy way.

It's a nice tool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_e3_3MyTBY
I see. Thank makes sense.

Yes, I also think it's annoying that they do this.
There are also mathematical models about how ideas emerge [0], with edge-reinforced random walks.

As I understand it, you tend to stay close to familiar concepts, while sometimes being open to new ones. As you revisit a concept, it gets reinforced, allowing you to comfortably spend more time there and opening you to a cluster of new concepts and ideas.

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180124123053.h...
Delegation. Hobbies. Exercise. Fitness. Partying or similar. Travel.

Above all.. teach others to work themselves out of a job and gradually do it yourself.

Work is great, in limited amounts. Killing yourself doesn’t win any rewards. Delegate, delegate, delegate (wisely, of course).
That's surprising. All the times I've been to Turkey, I've only seen a couple of squat toilets. I saw far more in Japan.
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I wrote a little article related to this matter; I submitted it to HN on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16760768
I think his sort of awkward introvert style already marked him as not much of a threat politically. How would he do in a debate? Thus, not buying a conspiracy to keep him out of politics. It shouldn't be this way, but charisma is a base requirement in politics.
A company that balks at spending 2k to enable an asset who costs 50k-250k annually to perform maximally isn't very wise. We are talking about spending 1-4% more.
Why would anyone expect HN to venture beyond its area of expertise.

Wouldn’t it be something of a presumptuous brad and chad move, to dive in and try to fix things one is clueless about?

Why would it be surprising that computer nerds have no visceral reaction to a non-computer-nerd story?

Filing this as a feature, not a bug.
Lightning Labs | Crypto Protocol Engineer, Frontend Developer, Distributed Systems Engineer | Remote | Fulltime

https://angel.co/lightning

https://lightning.engineering/

At Lightning Labs, we scale blockchains. Our current focus is the development and deployment of the Lightning Network[1], an open blockchain scalability protocol[2] primarily being developed for Bitcoin. Lightning allows for high volume, low fee, instant payments on top of Bitcoin. We strive to continually push the edge of innovation w.r.t blockchain scalability, advanced privacy-preserving smart contracts, and cryptocurrency UX. Amongst our team include applied cryptographers, the designers of the Lightning Network protocol, and several Bitcoin developers making key contributions to the open source Bitcoin eco-system such as roasbeef[3].

{Cryto Protocol Engineer || Distributed Systems Engineer}:

We're looking for an experienced software engineer well versed in applied cryptography, peer to peer networks, distributed systems, open source software collaboration, and cryptocurrencies. Your job description would include working on lnd[4] the most feature-complete implementation of the Lightning Network, neutrino[5] an advanced lite client operating mode for Bitcoin, conduct novel research into cryptocurrencies (and related areas), and helping to design the next generation of smart contract applications on Bitcoin.

{Frontend Developer}:

Our work on the second-layer of blockchains presents a number of UI/UX challenges, as we lift traditional wallets to the next layer creating a new application platform on top Lightning. As a result, we're also looking for a frontend developer that is able to pick things up quickly, develop skills in our interdisciplinary space, and has strong implementation ability. Applicants should be Javascript experts an eye for design, that have experience building applications with React and React Native.

You can contact me directly at jobs@lightning.engineering with some, or all of the following: link to your github account, resume, a brief cover letter detailing your past experience in the areas listed above, and some relevant work you've done.

[1]: http://lightning.network/

[2]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/

[3]: https://github.com/roasbeef/, https://twitter.com/roasbeef

[4]: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/

[5]: https://github.com/lightninglabs/neutrino
The customer ends up paying the same amount just the tips are added into the prices.
I’ll install this plugin and pay $5 just to avoid tapping the dot durn brightness buttons by accident or instead of escape. Happens many times every day. Even though I’m trying not to. Can’t remove it from the touch bar.
Not entirely random: you need a place to set your drink while using the restroom.
There’s an even older and probably more relevant (or at least similar) called “The Caine Mutiny.”

An lt takes command from the Captain during a typhoon due to the caltain’s actions/behavior and is subsequently tried for mutiny.
A lot of it is also their new policy of removing old Apps that haven't received an update in a long time, of which from last year they started removing my earliest Apps.
Whilst agreeing in part, the history of martially-motivated technical development through all of human history is remarkable. I'd argue it's been a vastly greater influence than so-called market motivations.

As an evolutionary selective pressure, war and military necessity are unparalleled.

Re-reading Samuel B. Griffith's translation of The Art of War, I noticed that he mentions, in 1963, Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China, which had only begun delivering volumes (the work remains in progress). That would include not only metalurgy, but entire volumes devoted to both martial and marine technologies.
You just described my experience as a first-time CEO/founder.

One thing that helped me was getting better at expressing things in terms of what I needed & why I needed them.
It was extra important to make sure the person(s) with whom I spoke understood by explaining my request back to me. I didn't always get the exact results I expected, but I usually got what I needed, or an understanding that a different might be in needed. It also helped to only request things that I really needed.
The drivers getting tickets.

I found your response very lacking. Why should everyone abandon care? Obviously some speed and others don't.
>I'm having a hard time thinking of any scenario where taking someones life is a justified, logical and logically judicial act. Especially in the case you said.

Someone breaks into your house with a knife with the intent to cut your throat and steal anything that can be sold quickly.

People have been murdered by burglars many times so you can't bury your head in the sand and pretend that's not an outcome.

In your ideal world, do you prefer that the victims allow the burglar to eliminate them as a witness?
I wonder if that was a tongue in cheek comment or if you knew this is already done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
Detecting a loophole în Facebook enables you to hack accounts
Steve Jobs on Privacy at the D8 Conference (2010)
Somehow related, "Command and Control" is an excellent read.
Hmm. Lived in Izmir for a couple of years, and the gilded hole in the floor was specifically the (otherwise posh) Izmir Hilton and the toilet in my apartment, at Kushadasi beach, friends house's etc. It was early 90's, so maybe something changed?

I did end up buying a normal toilet and mounting it over the hole in my apartment.
Although I don't believe this is worse than the injustices of generations past, it's certainly sad to witness politics in 2018 contain a plethora of virtue signalling, charades, and ineffectual action. We support the killings of innocents with our military industrial complex, and our media tells us its necessary because otherwise we will lose jobs[1]. Where is the investigation of 500 million missing dollars of charitable relief to Haiti[2]? Not to mention, where is the media coverage of the CLOUD act, and why did congress underhandedly sneak a law that harms Americans rights into a "must pass" omnibus spending bill without[3]? The war on drugs and prison state? Or any of the homeless crises? Unjust and corrupt healthcare and public health? Cities with murder rates higher than anywhere in Africa or the Middle East? Surging suicide rates[4]? And we are just scratching the surface here, and when you get to the bottom there are things you can't even talk about, like human rights for Palestinians[5]

Tyranny, injustice and oppression were not simply eliminated at the end of WWII. And living today to witness the convenient virtue signalling about a historical artifact of a long-defeated tyrant, juxtaposed with the willingness to tolerate current injustice, is really sad.

But isn't that what made Nazi Germany possible? Our willingness to tolerate injustice, so long as it doesn't happen to us? Our desire to follow authority--to serve in the court of despots? That is the irony here, which calls to light the real meaning of this kind of virtue signalling: If we lived under the reign of any of those other tyrants, in Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, or wherever, would we all suddenly be among activists, not just mere virtue signallers championing the virtues of our leaders?

I don't mean to come down hard on you personally; I just personally wish to see the conversation move away from moral grandstanding to moral responsibility.

1 - https://theintercept.com/2016/09/09/wolf-blitzer-is-worried-...

2 - https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...

3 - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/responsibility-deflect...

4 - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate...

5 - https://theintercept.com/2018/04/02/israel-killing-palestine...
>if I help develop A.I. that can be used for all sorts of things, one of which happens to be military-related, is the effort "evil"

There's a famous quote for this:

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Borenstein

Of which I believe the meaning is yes, it's evil. It's handing a toddler a loaded gun sort of evil. If you DestroyBaghdad, you've limited the harm your program can do to what is specifically required by the situation. DestroyCity is easily misused in the wrong hands and should be carefully considered by ethical programmers.

Doctors solve this by disallowing unethical members of their profession to legally practice. Programmers should consider becoming an ethical profession, because depending on others in the field to do the right thing and police themselves hasn't been working out.
Just to confirm why this is getting downvoted -- I'm guessing the MRI vs BEAM statement is super wrong? I can't say I know much about erlang's VM but being "bytecode VMs" I don't think MRI the same as BEAM, nevermind the primary paradigms they service being completely different.

I assume JRuby is faster than MRI Ruby (at least for parallelizable tasks), so I can't imagine the second statement being wrong per say... Also I'd never heard of TruffleRuby, and call me prejudiced, but I don't want to be anywhere near anything developed by Oracle, whether it's oracle labs or not (I hadn't heard about GraalVM before).

Speaking of fast ruby... I'm surprised no efforts to make ruby faster/swap out MRI haven't panned out. In python land I know there are efforts like pypy and pypy+stm tackling the slowness and GIL problems while maintaining axiomatic use of the language.
At $0.40 per secret it would have been nice if they had a 5 secret free tier.

That would get smaller users to start using it instead of parameter store and eventually realize the value of automated and audited secret rotation
But it sounds like all your complaints are about classism. Why not then look classism straight in the eye, rather than punishing young Asians looking to get into college?
There’s an interesting ethics question here: If your ship’s location places you near a hurricane, should they just quietly upgrade you for free tenporarily so that you don’t sink?
>When our daughter was born, and I sent an announcement via GMail, I started seeing ads for diapers.

Your comment is making me feel really, really old. Have people forgotten Gmail's history?

Gmail is not that old. When it was new, what you are pointing out was in the news. It was all over the news. To the point of members of Congress commenting on it. It was heavily debated. Google was very open about the fact that they were doing it. Google was the first (major) email provider to offer 1 GB of mail (well over the usual paltry 50MB that was the norm). Everyone asked "How can they afford it?" And it was very much in the open that it was being paid for ads, and that Google will mine your emails and provide you with targeted ads.

I remember while reading an email on Gmail back in 2004/2005 there was a very obvious targeted ad based on the content of that email.

I honestly do not mean this as a criticism, but I am really, really surprised that a HN poster was surprised by this. That Gmail scans (or scanned) emails and uses them for ads is almost part of their identity. It's like being surprised that there are ads in a newspaper.
The problem with this strategy is that it's trivial to run a script to strip off the +coin from the end.

I have my own domain name, so I've started using address aliases for different things. There's no way that they can get around that.
I really appreciate your thoughtful comment!

But I also wonder, if your employer asked you to provide some legal cover for something you found unconscionable -- like maybe draw up incorporation documents for organizing sex tourism to a place where it's both legal and likely to involve slavery -- would you subscribe to the same argument about how you should just do your job and not ask questions, how someone else will do it if you don't, and dutifully provide the legal services?

And if you think that hypothetical scenario is meaningfully different from this one, could you describe how? (I don't mean to try to back you into a rhetorical corner -- I'm genuinely interested in your response.)
I'm not really sure you can lay that one at FarmVille's feet. And to try and make a connection between the two seems a little ridiculous.
That's excellent information to have, thank you for the link!
Working part time next to study in Tokyo
I only have classes for 24 hours a week at most at the moment and still have 4 months left in Tokyo, does anyone have experience in working part-time in Japan, where would you get a job in development in Japan?
my visa is not an issue as long as work + study is not over 50 hours a week total.
Different people in each case -

Facebook have an API to export data - team privacy are loudly outraged, team data-portability are quietly happy.

Facebook lock down their APIs - team privacy are quietly happy, team data-portability are loudly outraged.

The end result being that no matter what happens, there will be a fairly consistent supply of outrage - the only question is do you want it from one side, the other side, or a bit of both?
The Vanity Fair article made the case it wasn’t being done by FAA licensed mechanics; it didn’t make the case that it wasn’t done to FAA standards. It just gave a lot of innuendo to that effect. One doesn’t need to read or speak English to take out or put in 39 rows of seats that are all the same...

I don’t believe that maintenance signed off on a US N-registration aircraft by an FAA-licensed mechanic outside the US is any more likely to be substandard than that done inside the US. There’s just too much at stake for the company and inspector and the safety record of N-reg airliners is outstanding.

There is a LOT to worry about Central and South American and African/Asian airlines. The second two articles focus there, and there is genuine, statistically significant reduction in safety there.

The Vanity Fair article made a big deal about FAA licensed vs not, but I don’t see that as nearly as big a deal. I (no FAA mechanic credentials) can do any amount of work on an N-reg airplane provided I’m under the effective supervision of an FAA licensed mechanic. I see no reason to think that isn’t safe for me and no reason to think it isn’t safe for the teams taking out and reinstalling interiors on heavies.
> Why must an intruder, who may be there just to steal something and not harm others, immediately have to pay for their actions with their life?

Why would a guy who grabs a cop's gun and waves it around pointing it at people for a thrill have to pay with the actions of their life when another cop shoots them?

>Do gun owners truly believe that they can band together and stop the entirety of the United States military anymore?

Do you really think gun owners would line up on the field to take on the military in the open? Ruling over a country where half of the people are supporters and the other half are armed dissidents would be impossible regardless of military strength. Just look at the failures of the last Iraq war to see how a tiny fraction of the population was able to throw off the whole thing.
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