skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But you would be hard pressed to argue that "information that could be used to build a gun" is among that category of information that the founders would be opposed to allowing people to have.

Pretty much anyone could just buy a gun back then. The founders even made sure to put this right in the Constitution.

And before someone goes on and says "but the founders never envisioned that semi automatic rifles would exist!" You should know that you are 100% incorrect.

Semi automatic rifles existed for a hundred years prior to the Constitution. Go google the "kalthoth repeater".

Not a lot of people owned them, because they were fairly expensive, but they existed, and I'm sure the founders could have envisioned them.
"The ultimate gauge of success for any private-equity firm, however, is the price at which it cashes out of its investments."

Is this correct? That sounds like the measure of success for a VC, I thought PE was about a consistent return better than the public markets, I didn't think that had to mean "cashing out".
I wonder if you've ever even been to Saint-Denis?

Segregation in France is absolutely nothing like what you see in America where, outside three or four major cities, different races, no matter how rich or poor, are absolutely cordoned off from one another and do not ever attend the same schools [1]. If you actually go to Saint-Denis you will find everything from Russian Jews to Moroccan Muslims to Nigerians to good ol' fashioned ("from before Napoleon took over the world") French families. It's an extremely diverse hood, the kind you'd only saw 30 years ago in America's largest cities.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/3/5/17080218/school-segregation-get...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/16/segreg...
Was the shot made of plastic too?
Baby trump balloon
I use Google keep, simple notes, never used Evernote and it likely won't cover all the features, but its fine for my usage.
It was 4 months later and it gave the option of keeping it.
Yes in part, but the mechanism is important, and what is being solved more so.

The USA is like the EU, where the various states vary as much if not more than the countries in the EU. The USA is far more racially varied than individual EU countries. The USA has used two big main policy tools to right wrongs of the past: home ownership and education. This has led to terrible policies, like the crazy mortgage crisis and student loan act, that means you can never get out of the debt through bankruptcy, which is morally extremely questionable.

When you have debt that can never liquidate, things get a little crazy, and a lot of the US college craziness is as a result of too much guaranteed money.
If you look at the numbers provided for this article, black men are still significantly behind white men, and things haven't significantly changed in fourty years. I'm not really sure why this is being written about as some new change.
bullets are way easier to make than guns.
We're not big enough for the time and effort to make hosting the ads ourselves work. We can't even pay someone to manage our online ads the way things normally work with larger publishers so, like the vast majority of smaller publishers, have to go the automated route of Google AdSense or similar. We've worked on other funding ideas including donations, merchandise, and the like, but these only work for a very small niche of publishers.

Side note: Tracking is an unfortunate reality in today's market. We use Google Analytics for statistics because anyone that even thinks about partnering in any way wants to see that. They don't trust your internal stats as a general rule, since you could easily fake them. So, anyone that fully blocks tracking (Google Analytics et al) is looked at as sunk cost since you don't count as a user in terms of potential partnerships and you cost money in terms of machine time and bandwidth.

I'm personally not a fan of this sort of tracking and wish there was another commercially viable option. I make donations available for folks who want to support the site directly. Even though we have a passionate community and many of them make donations, the unfortunate reality is that without the ads, I'd have to shut the site down. Either that or turn it into a paid commercial product, vastly shrinking the userbase but increasing the revenue, just to keep it going. I'm exploring some paid options, but many of them require a decent sized upfront capital investment that I don't currently have access to.
Well it is cheaper to change the direction of the door than it is to demolish and rebuild the hotel.
>but you're still going to get the same background check you would get at a retail location

Depending on the state (I guess), private sellers are allowed their own booths at gun shows and only dealers are required to do background checks (this is part of the "gun show loop hole"). But private sellers at gun shows make up a small percent, mostly just collectors. There would be no profit to buy a gun and then try to sell it as a private sell at a gun show. "Gun people" are not stupid and the last thing that would be allowed at a gun show would be someone posing as a private seller and selling marked up firearms to people that would otherwise refuse to pay a lower price from a dealer but would have to do a background check with them....
This sort of goes to something I learned as an auto mechanic. When you have a problem, describe the symptoms as objectively as possible. Don’t say, “I need my tires balanced.” Or you might get your tires balanced but the problem persists. Instead say, “I feel a vibration when driving on the highway at 60mph.” This forces the technician to diagnose the problem.

That’s an overly simplistic example but that’s the point. Tell your doctor what your symptoms are, without including statements that suggest a cause, or otherwise limit the scope of the issue.
Mindnode, which is infortunately Mac-only. But it is really a mind-map tool. I just like to take notes in mind mapping tools.

I wish I could find a polished open source mind map tool.
Isn't a return on your investment a slow cash out? Over time you receive money in return for your up front investment. Either way, you don't invest money to lose money.
This isn't true in the vast majority of states. Private sales, regardless of if they're at a gun show or a parking lot, only require a background check in six states (and three of those don't require a background check for long arms.)

https://www.csgv.org/issues-archive/gun-show-loophole-faq/
> up-to-date, auto-updating, officially recommended and totally secure server images

Plus volunteers to answer any and all support requests? And the tile rendering needs to be fast? $5/month isn't enough hardware to a world-wide tile server and it sounds like users aren't willing to pay for setup costs.

> just want to "throw in a map", I don't want to spend a day+ doing it.

There's plenty of SaaS offering OSM tile hosting. If those are too expensive (quite more than $5/month, some have pay-as-you-go pricing) it's an indication running those servers is more complex than it seems.

> Where the whole process shouldn't take more than 10 minutes

That said, check out https://openmaptiles.org/docs/ installation. (They will charge up to 1000 USD for commercial use, free for personal project).
You can get around the 2 device limit by getting a subscription to evernote.

I like DevonThink because it has good fuzzy searching. Good for finding articles that kept that kinda sorta has to do with the article you are currently writing.

https://www.devontechnologies.com/products/devonthink/overvi...
If you were to ask Kant, yes.

Assuming he'd agree that advertising was immoral, which he arguably would as advertising manipulates people in a way that might not be in their best interests, thereby using them as means and not as ends in and of themselves.

It's an interesting case though as merely informing people is not immoral, far from it, you have a moral duty to spread information that you think would help others. The problem with advertising is that it's not furthering other people's goals, but instead uses them as means to further the advertisers goals, which violates Kant's principles.
I guess if you post real news often enough, it cancels out the bad stuff you actually did.
Say there's a class of objects that we want to prohibit to 3D printers. If not guns, then some WMD that meets whatever your risk threshold is. How, technically, do we accomplish that?

There wouldn't seem to be any algorithm that could recognize any part that could be assembled into a device. A gun for instance can take on almost infinite forms and be divided into arbitrary unrecognizable modules.

We could enforce pre-approval by a government engineer of any part that may possibly become such a device. But such an engineer would have to generate a large amount of false positives to be at all effective. And the requirement for skilled human intervention would make it slow and expensive.

Bottom line, if there exists a device that you insist must be prohibited, then you will want to ban the free use of 3D printers that can make it.

So what's that threshold for you? Keep in mind that a box cutter was used as a WMD, killing thousands. Do we ban 3D printers that can make a box cutter? Let's posit a lower limit of a box cutter and an upper limit of a fusion bomb. Are gunpowder projectile devices the right compromise?

How dangerous does a printable device have to be before we must stand athwart technology, yelling Stop?
MS OneNote.
she is clever indeed.
The mental acrobatics HN performs is lovely. Here we have an all too rare example of a megacorp actually defending AGAINST censorship, and there will be negativity and naysaying because of politics.

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson

Is censorship our friend?

We should never withdraw from anybody who aligns as an opponent of censorship.
It both VC and PE firms try to value their investments while still holding equity in companies. This can be a challenge though as these investments are often illiquid and there is a lot of uncertainty about the future.

Ultimately investors in both kinds of operations want to eventually sell their holdings for cash. It is only at that point that one can truly judge the success or failure of an investment.

That's all this is really saying. Vista owns a bunch of stock that will probably be valuable but they won't really know for sure until they turn it into cash.
It's a poor drawing. They look like doors that open inward. Doors that open outward would be need to be set more deeply into the door frame.
Anyone who is in the business of selling firearms is required by federal law to have a federal license which requires them to perform a background check on all sales, whether they're at a dedicated store or a gun show. The only "loophole" is that you might be able to find a private individual willing to sell something from their closet. Some guy in an F-150 in the parking lot will sell you an old gun without a background check. An actual gun seller with stock at a gun show will perform a background check just like they would anywhere else.
There are exceptions to the rules for producing prototype weapons, that is why you have to be made 100% of your own design for them, you can't copy another machine gun and claim it is a prototype. In order to register or sell a new machine gun design you need to have a working physical version already existing. You also need to make something that could reasonably be considered a prototype weapon you were making to legit sell to the government, some pipegun hardware store contraption obviously wasn't produced with the intention of being sold to the military or law enforcement and would not qualify as a prototype.

Regardless, you should definitely speak to a lawyer before attempting anything like this, there are tons of local laws that you can break even if you are following state and federal law. And once you break a local law it becomes an illegal weapon and negates any legal standing you had with the state or federally.
What bad stuff? Their opinions? Their caricatures?

Not liking something isn't a good enough reason to characterize something as "bad".

In fact, doing so has a name: Libel.
Did anything change from an on-the-ground software development/project management perspective? Certainly reporting requirements would increase at the highest levels, and some of that would trickle down to imply more structure at all levels of the organization. But does Vista bring specific directives on how to manage low-level teams and add increased structure to the development process? I imagine that many software companies are successful in spite of their PM practices, not due to them, so I wonder if Vista injects specific culture there.
www.viewert.com - free online note-taking powerhouse. I use it every day, it's a personal wiki that can be converted to a blog and back.
There were a handful of them but they've all been abandoned and are listed on the Drupal site as such, complete with the requisite 'our security update and notification policy doesn't apply to this' warnings.
The article does a good job explaining Vista and their process. I took the intelligence test. It seemed trivial, but I suppose it's better than having nothing.

It very much reminds me of that show The Profit. Fix the books first, so you know where you're really at and what really needs fixing. Cut anything not making money. Focus on scaling the core business. I've seen all of these changes happen or are in progress.

Overall they've done a good job. As an old timer that's seen the good times and the money just spilling out, I can't help but want to grumble when they start cutting the fat, but it all makes perfect business sense.
I’ve recently started using TiddlyWiki for my work and personal notes. It really excels at modeling complex, real world data through its tagging system. Also, it is open source and locally hosted so it is safe for work or other sensitive information.
Current Mapbox pricing came into effect July/2017.
I see "buys xxx" doesn't seem to resonate with hardware purchases. Others have commented similarly. What are the places that's true? Cisco switches & routers, Dell servers, Microsoft Exchange? Hrm... This could make an interesting ask HN.

As for your cloud provider, it's Intel. Almost guaranteed. The server market has been so run by Intel for years now, EPYC just launched leading to the chances of you having amd and it not being fairly big news story is unlikely. [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15851470
Explanation and analysis of image dithering
A poor drawing and a worse excuse.

There's only one way this could work and how it's drawn has very little to do with it.
There are barely any posts on this yet, and your own posts make up the majority. One of your posts is trying to scare someone from saying Infowars does bad things by scaring him with a libel threat. Libel threat. Great support of free speech.
> make your own firearm from readily available parts

I am not a legal expert and it's not a legal advice, but in case of a bolt-action rifle, I think the action is still legally treated as a firearm. So you can buy most parts without hassle (barrel, trigger, stock), but you need to go through the FFL to buy the action.

Reference: https://www.brownells.com/aspx/general/faqdetail.aspx?fid=10...
I wouldn't say no problem, but it's a question of intent.

If a corporation microtargets an ad at me to let me know they have a product they believe I will like, that's a little creepy, but it might even be helpful. Maybe I'm in the market for a new backpack; maybe a company I've had a positive experience with before has just released a new model I might like. If they target an ad at me about their new backpack, and I buy it, that's arguably helpful for both of us...and at a minimum it's not deceptive. They're not trying to mislead me into thinking they have a backpack I might want, they're trying to ensure that I know the true fact that they have a backpack I might want. (False advertising is a legit issue, but it's also already illegal, already pretty well regulated, and not what we're talking about here.)

Similarly, an individual using ads to try and get hired is again trying to convey a specific message to a specific person using an unusual medium. The message, in this case, being "I'm cool, you should hire me", which is the same message every job applicant sends when they email their CV in. The message is fine, and the medium is merely novel; no big deal.

What we're talking about in this case is outright deception. Labour staff (allegedly) microtargeted ads to present a false perception; this is more like Uber's Greyball program than it is standard adtech. And, notably, the message wouldn't have been fine if delivered in some other medium. If Labour HQ had prepared a falsified spreadsheet of ad buys, and emailed that to Corbyn, that would be just as bad.
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Please be aware that this note taking solution is potentially geared to cater to the software user community or alike mostly.
Dynalist.
I use boostnote[0] for my personall stuff and slab[1] at work.

Boostnote can sync my notes with dropbox and supports markdown and code snippets with a nice desktop app and is free.

Slab has a collaboration functionality similar to google docs and it's easy to share notes with my team, with ok pricing.

[0] https://boostnote.io/
[1] https://slab.com/
Nope.

Private people can have stock at gun shows and not be required to have a Federal Firearm License.

I'll put a link here, not that you'll check it.

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/gun-show-fi...
What kind of questions were asked as part of the cognitive test?
What products fall under the “nobody gets fired for buying xxx” category?
In another thread [1], I put forward that Intel cpus would fall under this and lead to less adoption of EPYC. I got some dissent, understandably, that x86 is a commodity as far as purchases go.

What does qualify under this banner? What came to my mind, besides Intel cpus, was:

Cisco networking gear (APs, switches, firewalls)
Dell Servers
Microsoft Exchange email

Any ideas?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17532546#17533161
I've had the Wild Turkey 101 (aka about the most "regular" one I could find) and I don't recall it making any particular impression - though I don't keep notes either, nothing really stood out about it that I can remember less than a year later.
I don't really know a lot about artificial intelligence, machine learning etc., but I was interested in the idea of an algorithm as an opinion written in code; of an artificial intelligence not being some higher order, neutral being but something imperfect and bound to the biases of those training it. It feels like that should be common sense, but not many seem to acknowledge it.
Not everything requires imagination. Sometimes explanation is good too. While it may be obvious to you, other people find it enlightening and interesting.
Yes, that's what would happen. People would not take a report as seriously as if someone actually went and broke into the system.

You can call it mismanagement, but humans aren't perfect. Humans are emotional being who, in many cases (but not all) will not take a threat seriously unless someone goes and does it.

It is not even necessarily mismanagement either. It could just be ignorance. IE, someone can talk all they want about hypothetical vulnerabilities, but if you aren't a security expert, you have no idea how realistic those threats are, no matter what the pen tester tells you.

Who knows, maybe the pen tester really is being paranoid.

It is much easier to actually convince someone that something is a problem by actually exploiting it. That's just an obvious fact.

And it seems like the pen tester in question agrees with me. Because she didn't right a report. She instead broke into the system, and what do you know it worked in their goal of convincing the company that their was a problem.

If you will noticez the company in question really did think that everything was secure. The pen tester really did need to do something extrodinary in order to convince them. So she did, and it worked.
2D Printers have a feature like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
So the extrapolation-type problem you describe (an input not near any of your training examples) is an issue. Unless you have a world model you believe in (i.e. you've done some science -- not just statistics), hard to know if your prediction function works out there where you’ve never seen any examples. If you’ve seen some data out there, but relatively fewer than you see in deployment, then importance weighting or other approaches from covariate shift / domain adaptation could help.

Anomaly detection is definitely another important area, but I struggle to pull together a coherent unit on the topic. One issue is that it’s difficult to define precisely, at least partly because everybody means something a little bit different by it.

Also, based on classical hypothesis testing, I think that to some extent you have to know what you’re looking for to be able to detect it (ie to have power against the alternatives/anomalies you care about)... For that reason, I think it’s hard to separate anomaly detection from more general risk analysis/assessment, because you need to know the type of thing you care about finding.

In any case, I made an attempt on anomaly detection: There's https://bloomberg.github.io/foml/#lecture-15-citysense-proba... which is simply about building a conditional probability model, and flagging behavior as anomalous if it has low probability or prob density under the model. I also used to have 1-class SVM’s in a homework (https://davidrosenberg.github.io/mlcourse/Archive/2017/Homew... Problem 11).
Most of the project management staff has been replaced, with various open positions remaining. Other than executive level hires, they've stayed hands off of engineering. There are high level directives to reduce overhead costs and leverage some third party tech, but nothing in regards to development practices. They bring in a good CTO and let him set the culture. Vista's culture is all about recording the metrics.
How do publishers feel about this?
Yes, it is done very commonly although filing the number isn't 100% effective. As for changing other parts of the gun, matching the rifling on bullets or marks on the shell or primer is 99% of the time impossible unless you got some significant manufacturing defects or wear marks. They could possibly tell it came from a certain certain manufacturer's model, but mostly they just know what caliber it was, and there are tens of thousands of identical guns of that model all over too, it's like having the fingerprint of 1 of 20,000 clones. Some of them you can rule out due to unique defects or scars, but at least half of them are going to be too closely indistinguishable from another to tell.
Yep, my understanding aligns with yours. Mach ports are the IPC mechanism for anything outside kernel address space.
> The slogan in the unix world never matched anything well

It matched Plan 9 (which is really Unix V9) really well …
I have a mbp 2015 retina so same as he has I think, Apple quoted me $500 to change the keyboard but $219 to change the battery which included the topcase.

For newer models, no need to do this since keyboard repairs are free.