skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UK gun deaths per 100,000 per year - 0.06

> US gun deaths per 100,000 per year - 4.62

The majority of which, as you point out, are suicides.

Also, measuring "gun deaths" is like measuring "blue car accidents" an an argument for restricting blue cars. A better metric might be something like "homicide rate" except that then you have to reckon with the fact that the US homicide rate is higher than the UK homicide rate even if you remove the US firearm homicides entirely, proving that the difference has causes other than access to firearms.

The same is true of the suicide rate. Even excluding US firearms suicides, the US still has a higher suicide rate than the UK. Moreover, preventing suicides by restricting access to firearms is certainly not a real solution -- it implies leaving people in such a despondent state that the only thing preventing suicide is lack of means. Addressing the underlying problem is still necessary, but is then also sufficient and obviates the supposed need to restrict access to firearms.
What pleases me is that - obviously I suppose - this mapping is all done in the counties near where the map developers live / work.

It's the thought that they just got in their cars and drove up to buildings and harbours and cloverleafs and checked.

That bit just says a lot about ... accuracy.
Same, Focus is great. Also a very warm mention for what I think became one of my favourite features while browsing - one single tab.
>In other words, TomTom’s database somehow has roads from Parkfield’s boomtown days—roads that have been gone for more than 75 years. No wonder why Apple removed them.

Another possible explanation is the TomTom was using these unlikely to be visited streets as trap streets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

>In cartography, a trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map who, if caught, would be unable to explain the inclusion of the "trap street" on their map as innocent. On maps that are not of streets, other "copyright trap" features may be inserted or altered for the same purpose.
>But our carbon emmisions are still climbing while most of the europe that we should be comparing ourselves to has either stopped or reduced their emmisions. We are still not contributing to a carbon negative world other than not being as bad as we could have been.

What now? Your emissions have remained flat for the last ten years, you have a carbon tax, your country was one of the first to implement CCS technology [1]. You guys have by no means been sitting on your hands.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway
I think this article illustrates a critical issue with Apple's software. The stance on privacy means little machine learning can take place. Little machine learning means that Apple has to resort to more manual techniques. This, in turn, leads to the far inferior (and often dangerously incorrect) place databases and issues with their Maps application.

And then users will simply turn to an alternative which absolutely does not care about their privacy, undoing all of Apple's effort in protecting their users' privacy.

Apple needs to strike a balance between protecting users' privacy and performing analytics. Perhaps send the data off-shore to a location not under US jurisdiction, I don't know. But it is clear that Apple cannot keep up with its competitors with its current practices.
This is a frustrating thread. Everyone is trying to outdo themselves. Feels like the Peoples front of Judea
True, regarding the UK.

There are some complex dynamics at work

1. a conflict of interest when there is a financial incentive to do a surgery

2. a pattern of doctors / father who are circumcised feeling the need to promote it to others

3. an issue where men circumcised as infants are never approached for follow-up consent by healthcare professionals, so never know what happened

4. an issue where men circumcised as infants know what happened but rationalise it
To be fair, this discussion is unhealthy being full of hyperbole of both sides. Your were one of the first answers, so there was a lot of lost context.

The article has a perfectly nice point, that nearly every site does not need stateless sessions. Keeping them on the database is perfectly fine.

The article also has a point that there it is impossible to revoke certificates without shared state.

People here have a point in that it is possible to optimize that shared state as much as it is a performance non-problem.

Other people here have a point in that this is a hard problem that isn't solved by default, so you either do some low level work creating your revocation list from basically the ground up, or you'll get something that is worse than a database.

Yet other people have a point in that it's hard to set your PKI correctly and if you don't want to bother with that, you are better with a standard database implementation.

All of those are true.
You make it as if it would require some creative work do paint China in a bad light when the facts are more then enough and that's what is happening here. Facts. Reality.

It's interesting though that you simultaneously know that this makes China look bad but instead of blaming those who cause it (Chinese government) you chose to blame those who report it. Why is that?
I don't know what you're referring to with "the philosopher getting women's number of teeth wrong". Aristotle did get it wrong. There are scholarly work exploring why he got it wrong. Or am I just completely missing your point?
Possibly because Australians can get an E-3 visa easily? That would mean AU salaries would have to rise to stop them simply jumping on the next plane to S.F.
So cryptic and hand wavy description in paper but hey I'm glad they have good results. Going from pedals to combustion engines clearly has efficiency benefits but they gloss over the real flesh of the fruit when they don't describe how their particular engine is better or tuned. Wish they had more talk of notifications as Markov chains and how they evaluate interaction
I think complaining about changes being made to a free service is a losing battle, but I'll go along with you a bit longer.

It sounded sarcastic when you said:

So, leaving my account alone for 3 months = losing most of my photos forever.

Great.

Just the service I want to pay for.

But if you were actually paying them, this wouldn't be a problem.

And no, I don't quite understand your recent claim that you were paying them with your data - that's not paying, and clearly your expectations were not aligned with the actual contract (or absence of same) that you had/have with the company.

You've since stated you have all your photos since 2003 backed up, but you claimed originally that this change of policy for non-paying users would see you 'losing most of my photos forever'. So, which is it?

If it's just 'sets of photos that you've selected to share with people' then that doesn't really mesh with your earlier complaints.

Your other complaint - that you haven't received an email they haven't sent yet - is disingenuous. The announcement was made on their web site, and (I'm sure) emails will follow. Mail-outs are typically staggered over many hours, perhaps days - but you typically want the web announcement available first. In the unlikely event you don't get an email in the next couple of days (though it sounds like you don't read that email account either, and haven't in your ten years of using this service thought to change your account's contact email address) then I'll concede this point.
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I’m not detracting from Linus at all but it’s just a kernel - I think one of the BSD’s would have filled the void
As long as the water-haters are mixing ice cubes, tea, juice etc. in their "waters" I think they'll be fine. I am going to assume this is a prank. Although, if more blogs and news channels and talk shows pick this up, I guarantee this will become a "thing" within 6 months. The internet is exhausting sometimes.
What? There’s a whole cottage industry of helping business travelers accumulate miles and award tiers. And the vast majority of heavy business travelers are just rank and file employees. It’s definitely not only highly placed executives.
There are many African students at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (an alumnus of which runs the World Health Organization).

The discourse at that institution around circumcision, and the taboo of mentioning it alongside FGM/C without saying "circumcision is NOTHING compared to FGM" are difficult
For me that paradox just means that you can't just assume distribution of calculated property because (a)symmetries of the calculation will bite you in the ass.

Same thing that you can't just : "I don't know. Therefore 50/50."

The whole quantum thing angle doesn't make much sense to me because noone assumes there's some distribution of derived properties. Whole qm is as I understand it, calculating those distribution from underlying (a)symmetries of the model.
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Was that a dog at GNU’s vapor ware OS?
Asking is better than listening is better than talking
In regard to the details, hardly anything could be compared to maps.me
> I like your site. It's not busy with distractions and works flawlessly without JS.
Thank you! We've been watching recent website design trends with something approaching horror. (See this excellent discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18284910) We decided that our website would reflect our belief that HTML should be rendered on the server side and CSS should be used to make it look pretty; JS strictly for

> Unfortunately, my opinion is probably irrelevant, because I'm not a potential user. I'm simply not that interested in news (yes, I realize the irony of saying that on Hacker News) and looking at your headlines confirmed to me that I'm not really missing anything.
You're not alone. Many people have had this reaction.

> I do have an suggestion for your "In the News" sidebar: some entries (e.g. "U.S" and "President Trump") are likely to be there constantly.
Yes, President Trump does stay have a tendency to stay in the headlines constantly. Last week's issue of The Economist concluded that his disruptive approach is working well abroad and that "unpredictability has some advantages". https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/10/27/trump-is-...
The New York Times concluded 2 days ago that "the president has sought to seize the national stage in the last stretch of the [mid-terms] campaign". https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/politics/midterm-elect...

> Maybe it would be more informative if you adjust for topics that are mentioned unusually frequently compared to their base rate.
That's a really good idea. Let me chew over it and see how it pans out.

> Additionally, that list begs for each item to link to a list of relevant stories.
Ah, you've guessed at what we're working on right now! That's right, we're working on search results for news archives, with stories ranked by relevance and displayed in a reverse chronological timeline. We're aiming to make search fast and scalable using the free text search capabilities of Postgres 11 but if anyone wants to point us towards a better approach, we would welcome it.

> Oh, and the link to your engineering blog's RSS feed in the announcement post needs an initial / to make it root-relative.
Thank you for pointing that out. It's fixed now https://www.newshound.co/blog/20181101/under-hood-newshounds... and the feed URL is the correct one: https://www.newshound.co/blog/engineering/feed. We hope you subscribe!
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Using streets from maps that predate TomTom’s maps defeats the purpose of a trap street. The plagiariser could just claim to have sourced the data from old, public domain, sources.
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I don't see why it's a death knell - as the linked article says, 97% of free users have less than 1000 pictures, and so won't see any difference. Your specific use-case would only be affected if the users you rely on happen to be mostly that 3%.
Not so well for Safari and IE users.
Images have been consistently failing to load on this article for the last few hours.
I am surprised to see a long thread about nothing. Google does force you to give them your phone number and they do not let you register new emails after you hit some limit.
My favourite parody of csi style enhance.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
It also appears that he works just as hard as his staff, and right alongside them instead of in a fancy room off my himself.
> This License Means More Open Source Code

Probably true, non-open source code provokes multiple open source compeitors when successful, so this non-open (per OSD criterion 9) license will, when used, probably provoke more open source code to be written.
Cool, but as a non-American I expect those changes to roll over to my country in 2030.
My IOS devices are set to Incognito mode by default and I use a Fire Focus as an add on for blocking with Safari. Been that way for ever. On my laptop Safari is in Incognito mode for all but a few sites. I clear the browsing history on the one that is not after the browsing session.
I know absolutely nothing about psychology except I read some Freud. I don't have any opinions about psychology, or the nature of psychology, or Freud (tbh I'm not that interested either). But I'm not clear why I'm supposed to believe you more than psychology community. See, I'm not trying to be skeptical, I'm just trying to understand who is crank, and you stating Freud crank doesn't seem to make him crank in my eyes. Am I wrong? Why?
True, but that is assuming that those streets ever existed. As far as I can tell from the article that's just an assumption.

Although I think it would actually be possible to use once-real-but-no-longer steets as trap streets, as long as your sources are improbable enough. For example, if you take a map from 1908, remove one street, then add in another single street from 1920, etc., your exact combination of streets could serve as proof of copyright infringement.
The beginning of "A Link to the Past" went even simpler than that and just looped a transparent rain layer over everything: https://i.imgur.com/W4fdw19.gif

I think what helped sell it, though, was the rain and thunder sound effects.
There's something about air travel that makes it a uniquely terrible experience and drives me to participate in these programs.

There is nothing I do in my life regularly where I'm more restricted, or more closely related to a rigid caste system than air travel.

Every time you take a flight, for somewhere between 3 and 20 hours, you're told exactly where to stand, where to sit, what you can and can't wear, what you can and can't carry.

Almost everything about frequent flyer status is about making these limitations slightly less terrible. You're still going to be stuck in a shitty seat for several hours, but your seat might have slightly more legroom. You're still told when you can get on the plane, but you'll be at the front of the line. You still have to go through an invasive security process, but you'll go quicker, and it'll be slightly less invasive.

Most of these are stupid little things (and there are other much more objectively valuable perks, like waived change fees, improved options in the event of cancellations or delays, free checked baggage and the like), but in the artificial, restrictive and status-driven world of air travel, they're so nice to have.

All that said, I still think Southwest is the best domestic airline to travel and not be treated like a complete peon, assuming you don't fly enough to earn status with a traditional carrier.
This is exactly what it is. Same for hotels.
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True, but the fallback protocol is pretty simple.
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Agreed. Simple ignorance
I did end up watching the whole talk, just to make sure i didn’t miss the point.

What do you mean by his ideas on how to educate children ? Not dumbing down , and in the process use computers ?

I don’t think this in itself is anything original, unless you provide some examples on how that would look today ( the video sample in the talk shows a child manipulating a computer interface from the early 90s so i couldn’t tell how old that video was).

But more importantly why spend the first 40 minutes on general pseudo-scientific anecdotal statements, if you’re eager to talk about that ? Do you think people really need to be convinced education is important ?
Linear optimization and generating some simple graphs. I would like to be able to at least generate the graphs automatically from my database.
There is at least one bad egg almost anywhere.

I mean no disrespect, but if you quit every time you have to work with a bad/obnoxious/egotistical/incompetent/delusional manager (or project manager), you'll never remain long in one job.
great visualization
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People downvoting the above - see the cached version of the article to see why the utilitarian / public health justifications are incorrect.

I agree - it's on the wrong side of history. When we look back will be shocked at what we did to ourselves and our children, simply because we could not evaluate a study correctly.

In the case of infants it's certainly non-consensual

In the case of adults there is an issue with the "informed" part of informed consent

There is massive historical momentum behind it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision#R...
But not as bad as “free software”, which was well-established before the FSF for, and has continued to be used (even now) widely for, gratis software.
> Can you tell what you use to source the news articles? Any API or just scraping?

We use a mix of approaches but we don't scrape web pages, we're quite scrupulous about that.

> May be you want to add personalization based on persons interests/needs etc.

We've been thinking about personalization. Can you tell us in more detail what you're thinking?
> nature photos of particular plant and animal species

It's not a like-for-like replacement, but GBIF (my employer) indexes a fairly large collection now. You need a scientific (Latin) name for an effective search.

HN's favourite genera are presumably these three: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/gallery?media_type=StillImag...

NB the "license" filter applies to the text parts of the record, many images have a different license.
I needed a good set of headphones a few weeks ago, as my work environment has changed and I have more background noise than before. Instead of trying to find something audiophile (I have Grados already) I went to Guitar Center. They had a huge selection and in 30 minutes of trying out different models I had something I was happy with and could leave in an unlocked drawer.
Aside from the novelty effect, I'm not sure this will be much better than a live broadcast video. The hope is that there is more connection/intimacy from having a 3D-viewable person. Hoeverm capturing the speaker's gaze, waiting for backchannels (e.g. head nods) from the audience, responding to queries and so forth, are all what differentiate remove/video from live conversations. Some other technological advancements need to happen to make this a fundamentally more engaging experience then video broadcasting.
Agreed. But, unfortunately, I followed the standard Marine path: Married, deployed, divorced in 5 years. Thankfully, no kids.

I almost went back in in 2007... but, basically, had to choose between that path and my current fiance (of 11 years).

I've always had a good aptitude for computers - 95 on asvab and I was a Radio Repairman.

Got out in 2005 and got my education thanks to the GI Bill.

I do miss it - the best decision I made in my life - but am also happy where I'm at.

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