skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're very welcome. Feel free to ask any other questions,
I've been researching this since the early-mid '70s when the gun press started realizing the ATF was terrorizing the community.

Why? The ATF (BATFE) was in the Treasury until the creation of the DHS because in 1934 the government felt a fiction of using its taxing powers was required to make full auto and handgun ownership too expensive except for the rich, requiring a $3,500 transfer tax in 2015 dollars. So it ended up with the same bunch as Elliot Ness's G-men.

But a sad thing happened to them not long after the Gun Control Act of 1968, sugar price supports made moonshine uneconomic, so they had all these agents used to busting stills and all that brutal drama with nothing to do, so they turned to this shiny, new law. Imagine a black legal gun dealer being coerced into selling guns to what he thought was the mob on pain of his family being killed, and Federal judges thinking this was just dandy....

Lots more where that came from, and for statistics, I'd suggest looking up the surveys on self-defense uses per year. Critically, the first data set was collected by gun controllers, and it demonstrated over a million uses per year. But it didn't ask participants how many times per year---most will probably be in high crime clusters---so later surveys by the pro-gun side, along with I'm sure an increased population, came up with figures as high as 2.5 million times per year.

Ah, here's the statistic I came up with: in the same period where both the population and number of guns owned by it increased by very roughly 50%, the number of fatal gun accidents per year decreased by 25% (800 to 600). I've heard this was largely due to mandatory hunter safety classes, but have no data on that except that the classes did indeed come into existence. If I was somewhat younger, I'd have had to take one when I retired to my home town back in Missouri.

ADDED: one other statistic you won't hear elsewhere: 5% of the age eligible, 19 and above population of Jasper Country, MO, has Missouri's very expensive concealed carry licence (note any state's will do). I gather we're not the only locality with such numbers, and per http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/apr/15/jeb... Pennsylvania has an amazing 9% + whatever's in the 18-20 age bracket. Florida has the most total, but with the smallest youth percentage and larger population it's slightly lower before factoring in the 18-21 population.

Ah, I knew there was a particularity good self-defense case in Chicago: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-uber-dr...

Uber driver stops a mass shooting (in a city in which a few years ago he couldn't own his gun, let alone legally carry it). That happens a lot, but it doesn't get reported because it would counter the narrative and obviously "citizen stops nutcase before he can shoot very many people" is much less newsworthy than a lot of people getting shot in one incident.
Docker Monitoring: Best Practices and a Comparison of CAdvisor and Prometheus
Note taken. I should clarify that the "however unfortunate" statement wasn't necessarily a personal opinion, but rather a response specifically to the original poster's opinion.

Better-worded, what I meant was 'irrespective of the standards followed by the scientific community'.
The point isn't "the world is exactly the same as the 1960s", the point is that the world is much more similar to that of the 1960s than the early 2000s depicted in any scifi from that period, especially the scifi written on the premise that the idea that anyone in half a century's time would still work in an office and drive a gasoline powered car was desperately unimaginative.

I'm sure there's a lot of subtle-but-significant ways in which society will have changed by 2065 too (whether influenced by scientific advances or not), but I'm not convinced that they'll find the idea of characters set in their time period eating hamburgers nearly as unlikely or amusing as some of the things we might invent in their place.
A bit onerous indeed. I've been working in vector graphics for over 15 years and I have no idea how I'd get the total path length for a file. I understand automating this on the server would be likewise an onerous development task, but users are going to need something more than "measure this thing you’ve never had to measure before" to start with.
I wonder if any of this can be used to answer the objections to Biblical stories like Noah's flood: "how did the rainforest come about in a mere 4000 years?" And here we read that the forests were domesticated in the last 3000.
Do you have any evidence of that, or are you just saying 'of course Amazon must have done something'? I use goodreads and haven't noticed any changes that would cause that.
How do you arrive at that conclusion? I assume that you are stating that for a given mass of power generation equipment, you'd prefer all three, but I am not convinced that this will be more reliable, and I am sure that it will have a lower output.
Are you available for some questions? If so could you shoot me an email? (jacques@mattheij.com)
Maybe they forgot a keyword? It certainly isn't the sole cause of global warming/climate change, but it is real.

CO2 in the atmosphere--what's historically known as the greenhouse effect--leads to earth's warming. CO2 emissions are also undeniably connected to the the greenhouse effect, which we clearly have a role to play in. That's science that no one disputes.

But somehow people come out of the woodwork as climate change denialists.

It doesn't really make sense unless seen through a political lens, since politics is antithetical to science in a lot of ways.
I know little of space physics, but wouldn't the additional gravity of an asteroid disrupt tidal patterns on earth?
I dunno, but I've read some of the books from this year's list and I liked them. Especially Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, although I think it was a bit longer than it needed to be. It's a high value book, but I got most of the value from the first chapter.
Virtuality Reality and the Future of Music
Compared to the past standard of 'you are a woman, you aren't allowed here', discrimination has decreased. The problem is when you focus on more recent history, say in the last 10 years. How has discrimination changed in the last decade and who are the winners, the losers, and the ones not impacted either way?
I suspect simply because the 1-3% who are skeptical are literally excommunicated from the scientific community. The problem is that it requires a belief. While we have evidence, there is no conclusive proof, since it's it is difficult to "test" in this field of science.
Usually I don't have any objection against the word Christmas. But in this case I think it is abusive: this talk is not about Christmas and it is not on Christmas day or even close. It seems just a random way of adding the word Christmas to a seminar, maybe only because the speaker happens to be Christian... I would like to believe that Stanford is above this kind of behavior, but sadly it is not.
Respectable affiliate programs will cut off affiliates who promote affiliate links via spam.

Less respectable affiliate programs quietly ignore whatever affiliates do.
Wealth and Health of Nations Graph
> "Why do people sell though?"

The simple answer is "to cash out." Think of it this way... you have a small business that has been growing successfully, but the space is incredibly crowded and has giants like Starbucks, Peet's, Keurig, etc.

You're still on track for great growth, but there's a big risk you could stagnate and die off. Then on the other hand you have these investors coming who want to throw large sums of money at you. And since the coffee business isn't necessarily like the technology startup space where a lot of your employees have equity, there's a decent chance you're keeping a lot of that.

So when you're looking at the possibility of banking 10's or 100's of millions now, vs. a gradual payoff for a business with steep competition that adds a massive amount of stress to your life, for some people the answer is quite simple.

Of course some are very passionate about the business to the point where they can't see themselves doing anything else, and they might not sell, or might not sell the entire stake. But you honestly can't fault someone for taking a guaranteed payout after busting their hump on a business that, statistically, should have failed (and still might).

Life has other priorities beyond coffee.
This is what one of the world’s loveliest commutes looks like
Why do people blog about what their company is building without so much as mentioning the name of their company or product or even a hyperlink?

In the author profile at the very bottom of the page, in small letters, there is a URL (but not a link) to

https://frontapp.com/

and the email client the author works on is apparently called Front. But why should her readers ever care about that?
Outlook. Seriously. It supports multiple accounts I believe (I only use my work exchange account so not positive), and it has scheduling of messages. The scheduling hasn't synced very well to the desktop version in my experience, but a lot of people have called it the best gmail client on iOS.
> One thing I don't get from this argument is: does he consider programming a profession?

If an engineer that programs, probably. But not likely programming by itself. When I worked at an integration company (industry contractor), we had to be careful about the language we used on timesheets. We were strictly forbidden from using "engineer" (verb) since we were not an engineering firm.
Elementary Worldly Wisdom (1994)
The public don't ask for it, they don't know what tor is, they ask for it to never happen again, than the politics turn to the secret services and ask them what they want, no surprise here at their answer, the politics don't have to accept any of that, but the internet is quick to victimize itself.
BTW, this is the real news from France today: http://www.lefigaro.fr/elections/resultats/
It will be easier to build a new email spec that's more feasible/modern with security built in mind than it is to build a sustainable email client that tries to comply with various email services (GMail is the worst offender for not being consistent with IMAP spec).

Mailmate is my fav OS X client that focues more on power user features but it has a boring classic interface which doesn't bother me at all. Despite having integration support with SMIME/PGP, Markdown reply, powerful search features, and so on that makes me productive, the only thing I hear when I recommend this to other people is that its UI is ugly. :|
His strength is in political philosophy/history. There was a point when he strayed into pop-science-type inquiries about human behavior, that relied a lot on generous leaps of logic. I think that was where he got the most of his bad reputation.

But, his writings on conservative political philosophy is insightful, if not original (not something I care about personally). His old-school Burkean conservatism gives him an internally consistent, rational framework from which to critique or support the current GOP, from the center-right. It doesn't always work, but worth the read nonetheless, imo.

And, like Gates, I like his extension of that political framework as a critique of our current ideals and values.
>nothing else I know of has message snoozing. ANY suggestions welcomed.

The new Outlook mobile apps support scheduling for later. I don't think it's as nice as Mailbox was (with multiple choices for when to schedule) but it's the closest thing I know of.
I'm sure a large majority of nutrition scientists supported a low fat diet 20 years ago. (Food for thought)
I don't understand this obsession with offline support for collaborative realtime apps. There is an idea going around that you can magically sync everything using the same algorithm.

Accurate offline collaboration is impossible without some form of user-assisted conflict resolution - The core problem is that automatic sync algorithms cannot capture the collaborative intent of users.

For example, assume that you have a list of items and two users are interacting with this list while offline. Let's say that one user called 'John' coincidentally deletes all items which start with the letter 'A' but, while also offline, the other user 'Steve' renames one of those 'A' items such that it now starts with the letter 'B'.

There is a problem here, because if John comes back online first; all items starting with 'A' will get deleted. So when Bob comes online, either his rename operation will fail because the system cannot rename a non-existant item or it will re-create the item which John explicitly deleted (but this time with a new name - Which goes against John's intention).

The system can never know for sure the intent of both users so it cannot automatically resolve conflicts (at least not accurately). In some cases, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages but it's important to be aware of those disadvantages and that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions which work perfectly with all kinds of data.
I feel like I can get my fix of fiction via TV and movies which is probably close to one hundred hours per month, perhaps more. More fiction is not what I need right now. I suspect most people's media consumption follows mine. Books are great for learning while TV/movies are great for storytelling. Yes, I understand the benefits of the novel, but its value proposition for me from a time perspective is very poor, especially since the standard length of the novel is a lot of filler to meet commercial expectations (I'm not paying fifteen bucks for 120 pages!). Most fiction books I've read can easily be edited down to novella length and lose next to nothing of substance.

Conversely, My wife consumes nothing but fiction. I find that pretty sad honestly.
Gotcha. Yeah, so the Rust Capn' Proto does compile-time codegen to write out all the structures, so the grossness is hidden away, or at least, you don't have to deal with writing it out. I believe it's basically the same as the C++ version.
Turkish Delight tastes like deodorant.
If women in the tech sector aren't qualified to comment on the worthiness of the "hack a hairdryer" approach who is? I mean, what then is the relevant experience for qualification?
That's because making a big pile of money the Silicon Valley way requires two things: a product, and a moat. It's not hard to create an email product, but email moats are hard because it's an anarchist technology by design.
Thanks. Maybe I'll give 5GHz another try.
In case you are looking for a job, you're hired! haha.. Remarkable comment....

PCB stencil service is something we'll have to try out with the engraving machines - the laser cutters are too powerful for such thin sheets. The max. standard dimensions might be soon changed. (we can already provide larger parts in custom applications)
Yup, I've had the same experience. Every C++ project or framework pretty much has its own style and I don't just mean code structure.
Could it be possible that it is Lyft affiliates that are doing this on their own for affiliate commissions? Not saying it is right, but at least it isn't a marketing strategy from the central office.

I wonder why they aren't at least doing some crafty Photoshop and merging images of 2 different people to create a unique persona. There was a guy here on HN that did that a few years back it was a pretty popular post.

Possibly even worse than Lyft spam are infinite scrolling websites such as these. Ctrl +A? I don't think so. How do you tell where the article ends? I was in "skimming mode" and 1/2 way down the page before I realized I was reading another article.
Related: Sanford Wallace is suppose to be sentenced today for spamming Facebook.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/25/spammer_wallace_face...
"Waking up: A guide to spirituality without religion" by neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris. Don't be so quick to dismiss it please, give it a try. It's not mysticism.
> some land

Which potentially includes lots of coastal areas, like, say, New York, large portions of Bangladesh, and a few entire island nations. That's a pretty high cost.

But the linked post is politics, so I'm flagging it in any case.
I mourn for Intelligentsia :-(

Best.Damn.Coffee.This.Side.Of.The.Atlantic.Period.

Srsly! Better coffee than that is only found in mainland E.U.
As he says in the first 30 seconds of the video, the lecture has been called the "Annual Christmas Tree Lecture" for 20 years, and it was always a lecture about trees in computer science as a bit of a pun. Dr. Knuth said - again, right at the start - that he had trouble finding a good tree-related subject, so he dropped "tree" from the name.
OpenZFS: Artificial Disk Latency Using Zinject
I switched from Mailbox to Inbox a few months ago. Glad I did!

There is no desktop app, and the settings aren't as customizable but the bundling feature makes up for that.
I suppose it would have been more accurate to say Iberians. They were Europeans, none the less.
additionally, I personally believe that what you say is absolutely correct. From a manufacturer's point of view, costs can be low. It's demand + optimisation that keeps them low.
That's not enough? Most major cities are coastal. We'd lose Hong Kong, New York, most of Holland. We'd also see more extreme weather in the form of powerful hurricanes and droughts. Water and food supplies start to disappear which will inevitably lead to conflict and war over resources. Then you've got the medium-term horizon of about 1000 years when the ocean can no longer sustain phytoplankton and oxygen levels drop to the point that most air-breathing animals will die off.
AWS::CloudFormation::Interface
Regardless of one's stance on global warming and whether or not humans contribute to it, I would hope that we can all agree on the necessity of environmental stewardship. It's deplorable that many bodies of water cannot be swam in (let alone fished from), that breathable air which does not contribute to asthma and lung cancer is a luxury, and most of all that this happens because corporations place the cost of these externalities on society without adequately paying for it.
> Carbon dioxide != pollution

It's what plants crave!
He also describes himself as a third wave feminist, and was an early advocate of the conservative argument for gay marriage.
It's different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve_stimulation

Vagus nerve stimulation doesn't seem to be any better:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990624/
You're right. When I wrote this article I was more interested in replying to Des Traynor's article than promoting our product. I've added a link (even if I'm not sure people care)
I find them pretty tasteless, it is the powdered sugar that gives them taste.

This will sound strange, but try taking a Turkish Delight and dipping it in some water. It will remove the powered sugar, and you'll get to taste what the Turkish Delight itself tastes like (very little).
You show follow John Carmack[0] or Elon Musk[1] on twitter. They keep making my sci fi queue grow (John more so than Elon though).

[0] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk
You americans must go beyond the false dichotomy of republicans and democrats.. its just two different ways of getting your tax money, weapons and staged wars or bureaucracy. Neither gives a damn about an african genocide to lower the price of chocolate.
Show a keen interest in the individuals problems, priorities, and mission-- share ideas on how you can help assist them. Gitomer has a good piece on Buyer's (Hiring Executive) Motivations > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1w-BX8jMJQ
What about ocean acidification, which is also a very-dangerous effect of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels?
It's hard to make money in that space, yes.

I've considered merging mail and messaging, so that email protocols are used to do the things people do with instant messaging, Telegram and such. The first step is to get away from queuing mail.

A first step is a new kind of mail forwarder, one for machines that don't have local mailboxes (which is most non-mail servers). It acts as an SMTP server and client. When an email comes in, and the sender reaches the end of the DATA section, the forwarder checks its forwarding list to see where this mail is supposed to go. It opens a SMTP connection to the destination and sends the email. The incoming SMTP connection is held open while this is in progress. Any problems are reported back to the sender immediately with an SMTP status code. There are no bounce emails, no queuing, and no possibility of joe-jobs. All mail is handled immediately or rejected immediately. (This only applies to single-address messages, and only to "To" addresses. Everything else is bulk.)

The next step is an IMAP server which has the same immediate orientation. When it gets an incoming email, it sends a push notification to any connected clients, while holding the incoming connection open. If at least one client is responding, a SMTP success status is returned. Otherwise, you get some status such as 251 (User Not Local, Will Forward.)

Then, a threaded email client. It would help to have the convention that an email with subject but no text, text but no subject, or text the same as subject is displayed like an instant message.

All of these can be done independently, and are backwards-compatible. If you have all of them, email is equivalent to instant messaging - you can tell if it was delivered, it goes through immediately, and it works like a conversation.

Of course, there's no big-money startup in this.
There is also good evidence that there were extensive agricultural urban civilizations around and along the Mississippi. But they were so thoroughly destroyed (by the Little Ice Age, drought, and disease) that by the time European settlers got to those territories, even the descendant peoples had no memory of them. Only a handful of early explorers recorded them, and the principal archaeological traces are earth mounds (some rather large) built in their cities. For quite some time the "Mound Builders" were thought to be a different people entirely from the present native peoples.
There’s never been a more exciting time to be Australian :)
If only it were that easy. With energy use expected to rise and the Jevon's Paradox sure to annihilate any environmental benefits from increased efficiency, we will have to make some unfortunate choices about energy sources. Coal is very very dirty, beyond CO2, we're talking sulfur and mercury poisoning. Fracking is actually quite safe but notoriously under regulated. Nuclear is clean and safe but a generation raised on Homer Simpson and Chernobyl footage means they'll never accept it.

Even green tech is dirty. Refining rare earths is environmentally disasterous (gotta rip those high valence electrons somehow) and battery recycling in Nigeria has created a huge spike in lead poisoning cases and deaths.

Fighting climate change is the biggest conflict in the history in humanity. Our species is our enemy and our ally, and we are tasked between holding onto the plummeting biodiversity we have on this day, December 7, 2015, or complete and utter extinction. It won't be easy, and we will all have to make choices we don't like.
That went to founders and investors. Mailbox has clearly received a bullet.
ISTR it spurred the sale of modems. Together with that less known series named Whiz Kids.
Wednesday Hearing in Facebook Case Against Power Ventures
Verizon could consider buying Yahoo's internet business
Gun Control on the Blockchain?
The authors of CouchDB understand this, too. The document would be marked with a conflict, and the application could try to resolve this conflict if it makes sense, or surface a UI for the user to resolve the changes.