skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good percentage of the time a weapon used by a homeowner during a home invasion is used against them.

Get out of the house and let the authorities deal with it. Your stuff isn't worth your life or your family's continued safety.

Remember that most burglars aren't as shocked or scared as you are during a burglary. It's a routine for them. Their attention is focused on what to do if someone in the house notices.

If you brandish a weapon you're dealing with someone who is more alert and aware of the situation than you are and has no intention of dying.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/having-a...
This kind of sword-handedness argument reminds me of a similar argument for deciding the directionality of spiral staircases:

> Spiral staircases were a clever defence in medieval
> castles. They were almost always built with the spiral
> in the same direction (clockwise, when looking up from
> the bottom) so that the defending swordsman, who would
> either be coming down the stairs or backing up in
> reverse, could freely swing his sword. Conversely, the
> attacking swordsman (ascending the stairs) would have
> his swing blocked by the wall.
> This, of course, assumed that both attacker an defender
> were right-handed, which most were.

http://www.thejanuarist.com/clan-kerr-and-the-legend-of-the-...

(there's a little more discussion there about left-handed swordsmen and left-handed spiral staircases!)
Does it follow that if an organization discloses a security issue, it wasn't serious about security?
thanks!, That will definitely help a lot. I was thinking of using squid proxy and writing some custom handlers, but this helps a lot.
I have a Moto G on Republic Wireless, on the Talk/Text+WiFi plan. For $10/month I can't imagine why I paid Verizon close to 10x that for years.
It's what's implied when a gigantic portion of the population says, "Sure, no problem!" when things like the Patriot Act are created because it "helps them stop terrorists".

I'm too lazy at the moment to grab the data for what support was for the Patriot Act when it was first created, but in 2005, support to extend it was at 59%.
I've been on the site for almost two years and I haven't seen something quite like this[0]. Do you think Darn or another admin (are there other admins) would reply to this question so we could know for sure?

[0] I don't say it with the connotation that I'm surprised given my experience, but the opposite: I haven't been around long enough to witness the response of the community during the heyday of such a controversial topic and want to know if the admins would actually respond
Of course it is possible to imagine situations in which a gun makes you safer. The point is that in the real world, you are more likely to end up in a situation where it makes you less safe. More specifically, women are far more likely to be killed by their abusive partners than they are to face a life-threatening home invasion.
Theacademynewyork ig account hacked – someone help?
This is the only place I know of that might get the right people's attention. Sorry for the inappropriate post, it's just a great account and thought I'd try to help the guy out. I don't run the account.

Original account was @theacademynewyork and the hacked account name changed to @bestfeedofig
RISC-V is going to win now, it seems.

Just need a similar project for a big wide VLIW or similar part for graphics, then plop them together.
When that happens, ARM and intel will change dramatically as companies, I imagine.
> so you always end up with diversity that represents an objective improvement

Not at all how it functions.
1) They have a team.

2) You seem to ignore the multiple years of development before coming out publicly about it, then waiting another five for the first version to be released.

3) You rarely actually hear about the first application ever built in a new language. Computing a prime sieve is a wonderful way to test a brand new language.

4) You seem to have your own definition about the word "serious". What if they said they were going to keep the language development "relaxed"?
I think the point is that protecting abuse is a necessary but unwanted side-effect, not that it shouldn't be protected. This matters because it helps distinguish when such freedoms need to be applied (eg. in government, not my back yard) and how it should be applied.
It was lead in paint and gas that caused a rise in violent crime. It wasn't prisons that stopped that.

The Drug War and school-to-prison pipleline are real, too. We farm black people to keep no-neck white men in "good jobs at good wages." If anything, the Drug War is preventing a further drop in crime as lead gets flushed out of the environment.
It's almost unreadable on my 21:9 screen. So much at the bottom is cut off.
Forcing people to listen, act in certain ways or to follow specific practices is basically the opposite of freedom.

Saying that people should be open to your arguments privileges those ideas you yourself hold. How do you tell which arguments get such treatment?
Should I turn my motivational/accountability texting service into a startup?
Hi everyone,

I'm a certified personal trainer and life coach. I personal train clients in-person and mentor people mostly over the phone in areas such as diet, fitness, and motivation.

Just this year, I suggested my clients text me daily progress updates whenever they want and I'd respond accordingly. I'd say 80% of my clients text me their daily progress (like how well their diet is going or what they completed for a workout that day). It's been a huge help keeping them motivated and accountable.

Some of my clients have mentioned me to their friends, family, and co-workers and a handful of these new people have been interested in JUST my texting service - which I didn't even think was a service to begin with. I just see/saw it as a bonus for the clients I see regularly.

So my question is, should I make this into a website, service, or startup somehow? I'm not really sure where to begin if I were to do something technology wise. I just want to help whoever wants to be helped.

Thank you!! And sorry for the long note!
I also noticed that this very post here was on the front page a few mins ago and now it's nowhere to be found on the first, second, third or fourth page. This is strange and begs some answers.
How to clone project?
Whenever value i input in the "Local directory path", it always say: {"errno":-2, "code: "ENOENT", path: ""}

I don't think it's stupid at handling common situations like that for someone to try the first time.
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Off topic: You wouldn't happen to be Diamons from Diamon✝Sword? I used to play with a guy with the same name maybe 10 years ago in a game called Gunz.
I think the above poster is talking about how everyone will forget about it in a week. Better to have it started now where everyone can just contribute to the campaign after they read the article.
The preferred SV term is "disrupt".
> too many internal fiefdoms

Also what killed Nokia
Amazon interviewed me about my Amazon fake reviews detection app
Here's how it went down.

So last April-May, I built a chrome extension that detects fake reviews on Amazon. It analyzes a combination of factors about the linguistics of the review (part of speech tags, unigrams and bigrams analysis), the reviewer metadata (rank, percent helpful reviews, number of reviews...), and the overall product reviews statistics (standard deviation, percent one time reviewers... etc).

At the end the reviews quality are scored on all these factors to give the product reviews a letter grade rating where "F" means that the product is very likely to have gone through a reviews bombing campaign and an "A" grade is for a product that contains mostly reliable reviews from reliable reviewers.

On the side I've been applying to Amazon jobs, and the last one I applied I included in my resume that I made such an app. About a couple of weeks later I get an email saying I was lined up for an interview. The interview went OK, I didn't do great in it to be honest, I didn't do bad either. I got asked about the chrome extension I made to describe what it did and why I did it which I obliged in answering.

Two weeks later, I contacted them to know about the hiring process and I got a reply that I was not considered for the job and that they couldn't share the reason why.

That sucked. What stung me even further, and made me believe that the interview was only a sham reason to only know about my app, was the fact that the product that I used as an illustration on the chrome extension store got banned. Not only that, but multiple products from the same seller and other sellers in that product category engaging in review deception schemes also got banned or more in their lingo "Discontinued".

BUT the app still detects products with deceptive reviews in other categories so it wasn't a site-wide update.

This is my story. Do with it as you wish. And be careful in dealing with large corporations.

Edit: Here's the link to the chrome extension in question:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/evalute-amazon-reviews-le/cfngaogeljebhifobnjlhoakgaogmndj?hl=en
Anything that talks about sexism or racism in the tech industry or website usually gets flagkilled here.

That is because it is more political than technical. This is Hacker News not Political News.

I made a comment in that thread and then saw it was flagkilled so I deleted my comment least it get downvoted. What I basically talked about is that racism exists and we should teach people to be tolerant and empathetic towards other races. That is Reddit or 4Chan banned their racist areas, they'd just go someplace else. That some subreddits have guidelines or rules that say no racism or whatever and enforce it.
I'm genuinely glad you had the composure and wherewithal to handle that situation.
You're speaking of negative evidence; as in, evidence that negates a particular truth claim.

Negative evidence is not the same thing as the utter and complete non-existence of any evidence whatsoever—the absence of evidence. That's because negative evidence absolutely is evidence.

The saying goes, 'the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence' not 'the evidence of absence is not evidence of absence'. See the difference?

Watch the linked video when you have a moment.
The liberalization of China's and India's economies proves beyond doubt what's possible when "economic freedom is increased", yet there are many unknown variables that could be suppressing economic mobility in the U.S.? Interesting that you find one so easy to explain, but not the other. But, then you seem to have figured it all out mid-comment! It's that dastardly regulation! Or is it? What, exactly, are you saying?

Whatever it is, you seem to suggest that the success of India and China has nothing to do with trade agrements. Nothing to do with currency manipulation. Nothing to do with technology. Nothing to do with the outsourcing of manufacturing and other jobs to these low wage countries. Just increase "economic freedom" (what does that even mean exactly) and voila!

And, why is it that even with regulation and suppressed "economic freedom", U.S. corporations realized record profits, while unemployment remained high, and wages low? Exactly whose "economic freedom" is being decreased here? How is it that we can pay CEOs so many times the average worker's salary even while that CEO is driving the company over a cliff? Meanwhile, full-time workers find themselves below the poverty line? No problems there, right? It's the workers' fault. Or perhaps it's the regulations, but which regulation(s)?

I'm just not following your argument. Are you saying there are no structural problems with our economy that cause the poor to be disenfranchised? And, what redistribution have I advocated, to which you are taking exception?
Help indie game developer
help me please

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=49075.0
> What are the benefits of _intentionally_ introducing this boundary condition into the language?

Don't ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

I think the Go authors are simply unaware of the ways we can mitigate null in programming languages.
Ask HN: Anyone is creating React components based on Cocoa Touch?
I worked on iOS development and am learning React.js, Redux and RectCss. With my limited experience, I think the web development world is shifting to a more component way of doing thing (somewhat more like what we can do in Cocoa Touch). Does this mean we can just follow the blueprint of some existing frameworks such as Cocoa Touch to start building web components? This may not be the first attempt. But is this time we have a better chance? Is anyone actually working on this?
Meet Grexit, the year’s worst-named software startup
Author here. One of the things that brought me back to HN has been that it has felt less dramatic than in times past. Whether that’s flagging, or moderation, or the community changing its tastes, I don’t know, but I value it.

I stand by my post as worthy of being written, but that doesn’t mean it belongs on HN today. It could be that it does not address an issue that the HN community finds valuable, especially in a startup context.

It could be that it is a good post, but hey, it’s the seventeenth similar post today. That happens, I recall some talk years ago about bundling posts so that there could be one discussion, but Hn doesn’t, and there isn’t room for seventeen posts on the same subject in one day.

It could be that it’s a little heavy on my personal feelings and light on objective information. That’s fine, a blog ought to contain subjective experiences, but a site like HN ought to weight towards information on the whole.

It could be that it reads like an SJW having a hissy-fit and rage-quitting, and we don’t need that ‘round here.

Either way, I just want everyone to know that I appreciate that some HNers value its existence, but I am not dismayed that it isn’t going to be on HN. Regardless of what is happening to this specific post, on the whole I value the arc (heh heh) of HN’s growth.
> So how does this compare to other high-end Intel chips out there where they are already are at even lower nm?

It compares poorly. There's nothing this chip can do that's special or more functional. It's just an SRAM, which is usually the first step in proving a process works and can produce something useful.

They'll probably eventually use this to implement some logic which means the chips would actually do computations instead of just storing data. For embedded applications, there's a decent amount you can do with a 90nm ASIC process, but there's only a few applications that would actually make it reasonable to pay the price to build a whole fab to make them.

The only thing that's special about this chip is that it's made in Russia, which means that if you're Russian, you can get a chip made in Russia. Which is something a military or government would care about, but few other people do.
Came here to make this same comment! I've always thought something that combined react with a sweet wysiwyg gui would be the most awesome and powerful tool.
>What stung me even further, and made me believe that the interview was only a sham reason to only know about my app, was the fact that the product that I used as an illustration on the chrome extension store got banned. Not only that, but multiple products from the same seller and other sellers in that product category engaging in review deception schemes also got banned or more in their lingo "Discontinued".

This seems like potential evidence that they became aware of your app and made some changes based on the easy to identify information, but I don't think this is evidence as to why they decided to interview you. Maybe they would have interviewed you if your resume didn't include that app on it.
My nephew played in a minor tournament that Sam Groth won a couple of years ago. He said Groth did a second serve kicker that bounced over his opponent and continued over the back fence.
No, the complaint that drew the request for citations was 'antivaxers given same credibility as epidemiologists', not the complaint on journalistic rigour in general.

Just like the "it's a vibe" response, your own point on rigour isn't particularly rigorous.
I'm more curious why this needs to be crowdfunded at all? Seems like a venture where very few people would be able to understand the "Risks and Challenges".

New, unproven and expensive/risky technologies aren't a great candidate for crowdfunding.
While my info is a few years old, I could give you a rundown of what we were using at Tier 1 (Fermilab) for data storage and analysis of detector data from the CMS detector if you're interested.
Amazon has interviewed my cat's mouse toy. And companies never share why they turn you down. I really wouldn't read much into this.
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To what end? If they're afraid of backdoors why not use 3x commercial (in this case superior) gear & compare outputs constantly? Cheaper, faster & more reliable, no?
I'm glad I didn't have a gun when I was mugged by a person with a gun pointed at my chest. One of us would have probably been dead.
"... is why most people avoid philosophy"

Billions of people discuss and debate morality every week at Churches, Synagogues, Temples, Mosques and Monasteries etc. I don't think its that people don't want to be asked big questions or told how they act is wrong and should be changed.

I would argue they avoid it because 20th century philosophers are either boring/abstract, too political or too preachy.

For example, postmodernism thought, Feminist philosophy and Green Philosophy all tend towards certain political agendas which it offputting to those who don't agree with the agendas. Modern philosophers also tend to be anti-religion, putting off most of the world's population (being lectured on how the concept of a God has been the source of all the world's problem for millennia is tiresome, as tiresome as you would find a charismatic preacher telling you that you will go to hell for being an Atheist)

There are in fact Atheistic movements towards creating moral/church-experiences centered around philosophy, one such example if the London School of Life.

http://www.theschooloflife.com/london/

I think it is very sad Schools of Philosophy, like those of Ancient Greece, no longer exist. Sadly, I don't think they could exist in today's outrage-driven cultural climate where online lynch mobs are on the hunt for someone to say something controversial.
Been wondering when someone would do this. How the community rallies around it rather than relying on the maintainer doing all the work, assuming it's of high quality. Looking forward to giving a try!
Or if you know a good resource. Much appreciated!
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Check out Genode.org, MINIX 3, or QNX. Seem to have gotten a lot more done than Hurd despite being microkernel-based OS's. KeyKOS is one of the best from back in the day with EROS being a nice x86 variant of it. Turaya Desktop is based on Perseus Framework.

Many working systems in production from timesharing to embedded to desktop that are microkernel-based. Hurd and Mach's problems are most likely due to design choices that created problems.
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Extensive discussion 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188
>So we'll switch to an entirely different basis - as we did from vaccuum tubes, relays, gears - I like Kurzweil's historical argument on this.

The historical argument boils down to: "we've managed to do this a few times in the past, THUS we'll be able to do it indefinitely".

Hardly a logical or coherent argument.
LOL, yep, they said something similar: "You have to break laws of physics to get under 100nm".
When you reach a single atom limit, why can't you start building vertical structures? Moore's law specifies the number of transistors per area, it says nothing about the height of that area. Specifically, you're not restricted to a single layer.
Unless it's an actual product, those announcements are a dime a dozen. We're still waiting for "memsistors" and "cold fusion".
Oh. Those are ads. :) Nicely done.
A good percentage of the time a weapon used by a homeowner during a home invasion is used against them.

This quasi-statistic (which I will take at face value), while interesting from a sociological perspective, does not actually inform individual decisionmaking. It's a thinly veiled way of saying to someone "you can't be trusted to handle a gun/knife/whatever properly" - which, even if true for the majority of humans, is an incredibly offensive and patronizing thing to say to someone. And may just get you punched in the face, which (if it so happens) suggests that you were probably wrong about the individual in question.
Isn't this what every major political figure in America does, constantly? I don't know where you live but here I feel like not a single school shooting, natural disaster, high-profile murder, outbreak of sickness, etc. goes by without major figures from one or both political parties trying to use it to somehow advance their agenda.

It's a little scummy, but yours seems like a bit of an overreaction for a (sadly) extremely common practice.
>I think it was Michio Kaku who said that we have about 50 years left until Moore's Law is officially done ushering in the collapse of the industry and global economy.

Not even sure what he means. The efficiency of processors, especially beyond a certain point, hardly makes any difference to the "global economy".

Heck, there are even notable economists saying that the effect of the whole "www" on the economy wasn't that special compared to things like the first telecommunications, road and planes.

It's difficult to see when ones lives and breath in the IT industry echo chamber, but, you know, diminishing returns.

The fact that despite 50 years of Moore's law we didn't have anything like a 8,589,934,592 [1] times larger global economy, actually not even a 100x larger, should be enough proof that the Moore's law doesn't have a strong influence on it...

[1] 2^((50*12)/18).
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The communication would've happened anyway. Now it just happens through a common mechanism with strong isolation. That all the most resilient systems, especially in safety-critical space, are microkernels speaks for itself. For instance, MINIX 3 is already quite robust for a system that's had hardly any work at all on it. Windows and UNIX systems each took around a decade to approach that. Just the driver isolation by itself goes a long way.

Now, I'd prefer an architecture where we can use regular programming languages and function calls. A number of past and present hardware architectures are designed to protect things such as pointers or control flow. Those in production are not, but have MMU's & at least two rings. So, apps on them will both get breached due to inherently broken architecture and can be isolated through microkernel architecture with interface protections, too. So, it's really a kludgey solution to a problem caused by stupid hardware.

Still hasn't been a single monolithic system to match their reliability, security, and maintenance without clustering, though.
This ignores years of terrible phones between the Razr and the Moto G/X. For a while they even had the advantage that a large portion of the market treated Android and the Droid brand as synonymous. Not every mistake was entirely of their own making (their partnership with Verizon has seemed and still seems intent on ruining every bit of their reputation), but a large part of it was. It had almost nothing to do with cheaper Android devices undercutting them.
And hey, thanks for writing it. I don't agree with all of it, but appreciate your position, the eloquence with which you voiced it, and the dignity you've shown here.
I'm pretty stunned by the number of projects or services I discover exist by people posting their "X is shutting down" announcements on HN.