skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> let's not forget that America's crazy gun laws are pushed by gun lobbies because they help increase sales by creating an easy way to funnel guns into South and Central America.

Could we please stick to facts? US gun laws have essentially no impact on this issue. Based on murder rates, it would seem like Brazil is the place with "crazy" gun laws. Shifting responsibility for Brazil's violence to US gun manufacturers is intellectually dishonest. Ultimately, Brazilians are pulling triggers and they're pulling triggers of mostly Brazilian weapons.

US gun makers sell a lot more guns to Americans than Brazilians, yet Brazil has 63,880 homicides? The US had 17,250 homicides and over 125 million more people. The idea that Brazilian homicides are because of US gun makers is just absurd.

Homicide rates don't directly correlate to gun availability. Mexico had 29,168 homicides in 2017 with a population of 200 million fewer people than in the US. And Mexico has some of the strictest gun laws anywhere. Venezuela has the third highest murder rate in the world and the influence of the US gun lobby is non-existent. Most weapons there have some sort of Soviet/Cuban/socialist origin. You won't find too many Smith and Wesson's on the streets of Caracas.

Venezuela passed the "Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law" with the stated aim of disarming all citizens, with prison sentences up to 20 years for even possessing a gun. And what happened? The homicide rate rose from 73 per 100k to 90 per 100k (despite Maduro being known from undercounting crime.) Correlation doesn't imply causation of course, but the point is that Venezuela's homicide rates have nothing to do with the US gun lobby. It's absurd to even make such a connection.

In Brazil, over 68% of guns seized by police were manufactured by Brazilian government subsidized firms including Taurus, Rossi, IMBEL and CBC. Most of these guns were purchased or stolen from Brazil. My 68% number comes from 2014, but here's a report from 2011-2012 that shows similar numbers: http://www.soudapaz.org/upload/file/relatorio_armas_do_crime...

The point is that some political cheap shot on US gun laws and the "gun lobby" isn't even relevant to this problem in Brazil. In terms of "assault" rifles, an AK-47 is more common in Brazil than US-manufactured weapons. So we could just as as much argue that leftist-government gun policies are just as much to blame since AK-47s are vestiges of the Soviet-Cuban-backed socialist revolutionary groups from the 1980s. But even that argument is weak considering the vast majority of weapons used in Brazilian violent crime are handguns of Brazilian origin.

The point is, Brazilian violent crime is a Brazilian problem. Dragging US gun laws into this debate is just ridiculous since such an assertion isn't backed by any actual data.
My Ford has one key, works on everything, of course it is a truck and has no power locks or windows.
Yeah... I wouldn't count on retirement too much.
3 Common GDPR Myths
You don't just move power from a single farm for 30 years using just that line.

Reality is end up with a network of these lines at various utilization numbers. But, an average of say 60% seems achievable which would put you at around 0.33 cents per kWh over 1000 miles. Now specifics becomes a rather complex geometry problem as the US is mostly above the equator etc, but it does show you can shift power more than 1 hour for under 1 cent per kWh which makes this cheaper than storage.
What Apple Maps limitation? You can open Google Maps with Siri now with an ugly work around (https://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/17/how-to-use-google-maps-with-...)

And in iOS 12 any app will be able to provide a Siri shortcut.
That the patient, on their own, does not want to treat. But when those disorders negatively impact their lives they become a clinical case that can be treated. Either some legal proceeding causes them to opt into treatment (ie to keep/win custody of a child) or those around the patient insist they seek help.
Why do you assume that that money goes back to the customer?

They're not paying the 30%, the developer is. That's just 30% more money the developer makes. The price point for the item wasn't chosen solely based on how much the lose through the app store, it was chosen based on what the customer will bear.

They know that they're only getting 69 cents on that 99 cent download. But they'd take 34 cents if the item will only move at 49 cents. And they'd happily charge $1.50 if they thought you'd buy it.
Dr. Raymond Stantz: You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.

Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself.

Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I.

Dr. Raymond Stantz: Well, no sense in worrying about it now.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
You get super paranoid. I've lived in Rio de Janeiro all my life, and I've never heard of anyone who either was never mugged or had someone very close that was (by someone close, I mean spouse, parent or child).

I've seen three people being mugged in front of my place, and I don't live in a place locals would call "dangerous".

But that's just me. Besides some common practices that have become instinct, like not using your phone outside and looking over your shoulder in desert places (or avoiding these places altogether), I think the majority of the population got numb to this situation and just accepted it like it is normal.
In my experience Rust macros are painful enough to write to deter people from abusing them too much. Whether that's a bug or a feature, I'll let you decide.
In addition to books/tutorials/etc, I've found reading the source to unison [1] was a great way to see a more tangible example of using OCaml to create software

[1] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
Where did you live in Brazil? As an American I visit the interior of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte often and have never experienced anything like this, nor does it seem my Brazilian friends live in constant anxiety.
I know. This is the second time in a couple of weeks that I seem blatant lies about my country here on HN.
Awesome. I've been getting into OCaml lately, and it's great to see new resources. This bodes well for future adoption.

For those looking for a slightly more comprehensive source, check out https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ (no affiliation).
> I'd count that as a lost sale.

It's a lost sale, but that's still not a cost. It's just money they never got. If it had actually cost them, then I'd expect it would take away money they previously had, like I say lunch costs me $15 because after the transaction I'm down $15 (but up a lunch).

At best, it's akin to opportunity cost.
Actually its not true - notes (or rather domino) data metamodel is really simple (except for rich text maybe). The real problem is lack of schema which ecourages people who dont know better to build horrendous things. And if there is no schema and no documentation then is it really notes fault that migration is sisiphus work?
They also did this for adnauseum.io.

Use firefox! They do not seem to have this conflict of interest problem.
In these parts, doing things for practical reasons is itself a status symbol. It would be more contrarian to say you own the most expensive car you can lease to get attention.
A few days ago, I read on the most reliable source in the world, the internet, that if you have a class 3 alarm system from BMW, the OBD port is blocked as soon as the alarm goes off. I do want to verify this with the dealer once my holiday is over.

I also read about the OBD key cloning, but I'm not sure whether or not that was an issue with the first F30s. I'm unsure whether or not it still works with the F30 LCI from 2017 that I have
Create an iOS application using Machine Learning
The lower level = bad drivers argument doesn't really apply to D3D. Microsoft is in control of the high level pieces of that, and the ISVs target a low level API underneath all of that. It's been that way for decades at this point.
If the only question left is whether or no it's easy enough, I think we're good and can find a solution for that problem too.

> A counting room full of people counting paper ballots is a machine, and it's a transparent machine where everyone inside it and outside of it can understand how it works, and trust that it's working properly.

I agree with this 100%

Electronic voting must be cryptographically secure, and increase trust and security. I think this should be the first rule.
Venezuelan here. I was gonna make the same point.

Imagine how bad Caracas is, given that the population is roughly the same (or a little larger than Chicago's). There are no official numbers for Caracas as the government "chose" not to report. But Chicago has a 15.65 murde rate vs. a +110 in Caracas (per 100 000).

I don't even want to think what's the rate for the equivalent of Engelwood in Caracas :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Brazil

"Thus, disarmament is effectively happening in Brazil,[12] as are massive gun confiscations,[13] notwithstanding its refusal by Brazilian people (at the referendum of 2005). Some argue that this will increase gun homicides. Other research shows that there is a decrease in firearm deaths correlating with disarmament.[14][15] However, 2012 marked the highest rate of gun deaths in 35 years for Brazil, 8 years after a ban on carrying handguns in public went in to effect,[16] and 2016 saw the worst ever death toll from homicide in Brazil, with 61,619 dead.[17] Only to rise again in 2017 to 63,880 a 3.7 per cent rise from 2016. [18] "

Doesn't seem like the gun laws are working out.
This is a Ross Douthat piece; the man never met a concept he couldn't tie in to the supposed cultural decline of the West, however tenuously. I wish I had realized it was him before I read the article and saved myself a click.
Just look at the links in the parallel comment.
The Early History of Programming Languages (1976) [pdf]
The concept of a platform business is an insane racket.
But the company selling you those services does. Do you think the consumables are any cheaper just because they're not paying the 30% App Store fee? Think again
Traffic deaths are nearly at the same level (nearly 50k per year) even though statistics only count those who died on the spot. I fear the road more than guns, because most shootings occur in certain regions (mainly poor neighbourhoods) which I can avoid.
I've been thinking about that. A good one with parking mode and cloud support sets you back about 800 euro including installation. It could be worth it but the chances of the cops actually catching someone based on the footage is quite slim.

For hit and run accidents in which you can record a license plate it might be worth it.
Servo is "one of these based on servo" :) Of course the embedding stuff is WIP just like Servo itself, but here's a few examples:

https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example
https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell
https://github.com/antoyo/servo-gtk
Exactly. The murder rate in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city was in the 50's. It has recently dropped to 6.1 per 100,000 residents and is quite safe.

So the city is in some cases MORE safe than the less urban areas, the main reason for this drop was a drop in gang violence based on the consolidation and dominant victory of a single gang. That gang is the PCC.

In areas where multiple gangs are still fighting for control the violence can be incredible.
Ho.lee.shit! This is stunning. After quite an array of consecutive processor ring-level security compromises being reported, finding some oldschool hardware with even olderschool exploits that somehow proliferated to the modern day is quite a nice rounding in of a hitherto forgotten fog of computer exploits: the processor as a universal eyeball is a soft spot in the tower of defense.
Seafile.
> people will never do a complex blockchain verification

People don't verify their vote now, so this is unimportant.

> have a mechanism to be certain that no additional machine-generated ballots were added to the results

This should only require a hand full of people to check.
Your first point is a good one. However I don’t think you can blame one administration with all this mess surely?
>I think schools need to do a better job requiring humanities majors to take STEM classes in the same way I was required to take humanities.

This. And incorporating more technology/computing into the humanities themselves.
I'm a little surprised that other places with military conflicts (eg. middle east) or paramilitary conflicts (eg. Mexico) aren't higher? Maybe those are counted differently?
Yeah it is. Some india based IT Sweat Schop (HCL) bought it and they are going to add node.js integration to it to make it look modern :)
>S population has increased by 10s of millions since then, but murders continue to drop.

Yet mass shootings are becoming dramatically more common.

What I find curious is that while the Brazilian murder rate is about 6 or 7 times that in the US, the rate of firearm related deaths is 'only' double. Is firearm suicide dramatically more common in the US, or are a lot of the murders perpetrated in Brazil not firearm related? It just seems odd.
Well they did leak their users' HIV status[0]. That's pretty unethical IMO.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17189078/grindr-hiv-status-data...
Use Laravel Dusk, browser automation and PHP to programmatically surf the web
Google intentionally allow app developers to do this. They have chosen to leave this option on the table. They could have just as easily chosen to make the installation of apps from third-party sources impossible or prohibitively inconvenient.

One app is not going to change Google's approach to the Play Store, even a multi-million dollar app. The vast majority of apps don't have the marketing power to profitably circumvent the Play Store, so cutting fees across the board would be a huge net loss for Google. Offering special discounts on the Play Store fee is a very slippery slope - if you offer it to anyone, everyone is going to start demanding it. It would undermine the value proposition of the Play Store and create a two-tier system, with one rule for blockbuster apps and one rule for everyone else.

App developers begrudgingly pay the Play Store tax because it's preferable to the alternatives. They'd very much prefer to get all the benefits of the Play Store at lower cost, but Google has absolutely no reason to sell their service at less than the market rate. One outlier does not change that equation.
As a person working like 40% academy, 60% industry, I'd say it is in reverse: you get to 'spy' on industry's knowledge and practice and transplant it into academic setting, where it is very likely publishable.
Everything that makes Android, Android to most Western consumers is closed source - the play store, Google Maps, Youtube, the dialer, Chrome, etc.

Google has abandoned more and more of the open source parts of AOSP with closed source alternatives over the years.

That’s not to mention all of the drivers that are proprietary....
I went to Rio and São Paulo last year, and EVERYONE I met gave me constant warnings about being safe in Rio. I felt a lot more comfortable walking aimlessly around São Paulo than Rio, not because I saw anything bad, but because of the warnings and general feel.
Not a proper source ("braZZil.com really?) and it's only about 1/3 of your claims.
I have the opposite fear: that we're entering the age of car interfaces that have to be constantly updated. Like my grocery store changing its layout, I don't want to re-learn how do the only 4 things I do with my car's interface: change the A/C, Turn on NPR, set my destination, reject a phone call. If I could teach it to do all of these automatically, I'd turn the display off....
> I was in Tibet in 2007 and a lot of locals came up and talked to me, asking America to do something about the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Our hired driver had no problem showing us his picture of the Dalai Lama(which was(still is?) illegal to possess).

2007 was a different era, a lot has changed politically in the meantime.

I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but maybe you didn't see it:

China’s mass indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution (https://apnews.com/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b):

> At first, Bekali did not want the AP to publish his account for fear that his sister and mother in China would be detained and sent to re-education.

> But on March 10, back in China, the police took his sister, Adila Bekali. A week later, on March 19, they took his mother, Amina Sadik. And on April 24, his father, Ebrayem.

> Bekali changed his mind and said he wanted to tell his story, no matter the consequences.

> “Things have already come this far,” he said. “I have nothing left to lose.”
sounds like he's a hypocrite also, as his game is on IOS and even available there first.
>Then it sounds like cyclists ignoring the lights aren't putting you in any real dange

That is simply a non sequitur.

>"cyclists choosing to stop running red lights" as you suggest would do you very little good.

It would stop them frequently nearly crashing into me, which would certainly be good from my perspective.

>But notice how no-one in that article even mentions the possibility of introducing traffic lights

Erm, because it wouldn't be possible to add traffic lights on a canal tow path. The point is that ignoring traffic lights is dangerous, not that traffic lights should be put everywhere.

https://www.gasholder.london/2017/02/09/cyclists-vs-pedestri...
Yes, when you are coming to a foreign country you should adapt to that country and not vice versa, the but that wasn't the point of my critique.

I critizied that the people in France are known for their hostility against English. So I just wish they would embrace the international nature of English a bit more.
Ugh, I use Dropbox on several platforms, some NTFS, some APFS, some HFS and exFAT. The majority of my files are synced to exFAT because it's the only bloody filesystem that's officially supported across all major OS. No it doesn't support extended attributes and I don't care, 95% of my files are photos!

If Dropbox go ahead with this I'm bailing. The only reason I use a managed service like this is so I don't have to care about the technical details (filesystems etc.)
CRISPR ‘barcodes’ map mammalian development in exquisite detail
Thanks for asking. Here's my reply https://notlar11.wordpress.com/newton-the-greatest-genius-of...
In the long term, I think you have a point here. It would be nice to have IBM not being the only producer of, say, the POWER15. In that sense RISC-V is substantially more open than OpenPOWER.

But parent was talking about in the immediate timeframe, and right now (and I predict for the next few years at minimum), if you want free(r) and ballpark performance class with x86, then you're going to have to play with POWER. I don't think ARM is there yet with respect to grunt and some ARM designs have some of the same concerns about creepy dark corners of the processor die. It's why there's a Talos II under my desk.
Venenzuela fully “disarmed” in 2013. And the murder rate went up significantly. Mexico is also “disarmed” and their murder rate is sky high. There is no correlation to gun disarming and crime rate reduction. The problems aren’t caused by guns, but by disfunctional governments.
The bulk of academic work is chasing grants, not "curiosity driven research". If universities want professors not to leave in droves to tech companies that will consistently give them funding and cut away the bullshit that eats up the majority of a professor's time, they should try competing, rather than bemoaning that professors are no longer following the sacred path of academic asceticism.
Maybe Google is trying to get back into China and wants to show Winnie the Pooh that they are willing to play ball on the whole censorship thing.
oh okey so paying up front 6 months of rent is not a nightmare?
70-80% of all firearm deaths in the US are suicide related.
And you know there are a bunch of intelligence agencies around the world that are either cussing this guy out, or furiously downloading example code (or both).
To me it seems that a patch would be like trying to put a band-aid on the brainstem for a concussion. These exploits run lower and can be triggered at any time with the appropriate instructions. Is it even possible to patch?
If you think that my point is that a society's cultural vitality can be measured by the quality of its investment bankers then I invite you to read the comment again. I'm not making the point you were hoping to rail against. To explicate it a bit more, I'm saying that college major decisions are mostly a result of market forces, and a higher degree of social mobility (ie, competition for who gets to be rich in the next generation) forces college students to make more pragmatic choices.

Fewer philosophy majors doesn't mean that people don't care about philosophy as much anymore, it means that it's no longer reasonable for 18-year-olds to expect that they can spend four years contemplating Kierkegaard and then have a skills-heavy job waiting for them once college is over (in which they'll be taught the necessary skills via OJT), so long as they start the process from a highly-enough-ranked school.
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Unfortunately, modern American capitalism has stripped from 99% of college students the ability to worry about "society's cultural vitality". It's easy to talk a big game about the choices you make and 'a forsaken world', but when you're an 18 or 19 year old trying to pick a career path that won't leave in you in debt the rest of your life the considerations become a lot more immediate and pragmatic.
where's the PDF version?
Woooosh
This whole article read (to me!) as them wanting to reduce test load, and probably workarounds in their codebase.
How about physical stores and selling items in retail space? Companies pay money to get shelf space and special promotional displays in CPG all the time.
I used to work for an insurance company and I got an entertaining presentation from a 3rd party that showed how ingenious thieves went around car block, special keys, etc, by bringing in the entire front panel of the car (thieves had one for each common model they wanted to steal).

"Casual" thieves are finding it harder though, it's more organized mafia in concert with dismantlers (as mentioned on a sibling comment).
None of this is the slightest bit responsive to the point I made that some people;s response to losing an argument is to engage in violence. There's no law to enforce here, nobody suggested that Lane Davis should be arrested for the holding Nazi opinions. It's a simple observation that the solution to bad speech is not always more speech because people who are engaging in bad speech in bad faith often aren't interested in making progress through dialog.

That's why online trolls often make arguments that are empty of meaning but cling to a posture of superiority - they are not interested in winning an objective argument, but in having the appearance of controlling the conversation, so that if the honest interlocutor gets exasperated by the trollish arguments, the troll claims victory. Provocateurs at real life demonstrations engage in the same tactics. Supporters of authoritarian rulers revel in the discomfiture of their political opponents rather than any objective improvement in their own conditions.

Now, if you want to make general policy points and articulate your views that's fine, but if you're going to simply ignore your conversation partners and beat down straw man arguments of your own creation, why should anyone take your nostrums seriously?
"I just created a Gab account to try to find hashtags or accounts that are not WN."

As I clearly wrote, I created a Gab account in order to look around. I've not made one post nor followed anyone.

Please remember that many HN followers look up to your posts...