skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gun show loophole has nothing to do with gun shows and everything to do with private sales. The vast majority of gun sales at gun shows are from licensed arms dealers and they are required to do a background check.

Requiring background checks for private gun sales sounds like a good idea until you do the research on the effort vs benefit. The effort to enforce this would be massive and virtually no gun crimes are committed with these guns anyways. In practical terms you'd have to track every firearm and figure out what to do when Grandpa does and leaves his gun to his children. A parent would have to run a background check on their own child of they buy a gun for them as a gift. Realistically, the only time it could be determined that a gun was sold in private without a background check is if the gun is eventually used in a crime and recovered. The vast, vast majority of guns that wind up in the hands of criminals are through corrupt licensed dealers and straw purchases.

If the purpose of gun control laws is to prevent violent crime, then there's no loophole here since this is not a significant source of weapons used in violent crimes.
The Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara [video]
To be a firearm dealer you need an FFL license, but there are no federal laws against making your own firearm (as long as it is not restricted by the ATF, such as select fire, or destructive device or something). States may have their own laws against firearm manufacturing.
Write on spiral notebook paper, then scan it.
Democracy means rule by the people, not rule by the states. How is giving states power in any way democratic?
I'm pretty sure you have to in California?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_California
You literally just proved my point.

And anyways, I don't work for infowars or any media related corp, so I wouldn't be in a position to accuse someone of libel. I was explaining that there are limits to what you can DO but not what you SAY. You CAN commit libel whenever you want. You MAY be charged and found guilty in court and the rest of your life goes in the toilet, but nobody can stop you from saying it, and I think that's a beautiful thing.

I won't hold your little virtue signal against you though. You probably don't know any better.

And finally, I was referring to the hundreds of other conversations about infowars already on HN. That could've been made more clear on my part.
County Meath (where the "henge" was discovered) is in the Republic of Ireland...which is not Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a province within the UK created after the partition of Ireland the landmass in 1921.

Dublin is in the Republic of Ireland and the capital city.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland
Interest - are you interested? I know you are because it’s fuck or walk. You close or you hit the bricks.
One thing I do know is that the LED lights my council is replacing the old sodium ones with are about three times as bright. They're painfully bright, and I have no idea why they are this way when the people who should know better keep telling us the illumination is the same. Sure, the orange part of the spectrum is just as bright, but get a grip!
Free Science Textbooks
If they open inwards you replace the rope with a stick.
Paper, vim scratch.txt — personal favorites.
Hard to say as all detectors are different. I only know that while as a teenager I got kicked out of public school for skipping class too much and was sent to an "alternative placement center".

Everyone there had to wear a white shirt and pants. There was only one entrance and there was a metal detector right in front of it. But what all the "cool" kids were doing was seeing how big of a knife they could sneak through it. And there was a couple of 3 inchers that got through. It mattered were the knife was and how you held your hands as you went through, but can't remember the details (this was back in 2001).
I agree it's not a fair comparison.
Your analogy, though, confuses latency and throughput.
CNN, the guardian, and the Washington Post could also work under that principle after all the misinformation and falsehoods they have published this year.
How many of those characteristics identified on that page are really shortcomings rather than, as the parent comment says, freedom-enhancing (if not performance-enhancing) features?

The workarounds seem to have more to do with SQLite's use as an embedded library than with filesystem behavior.

All of section 1 is about rogue overwriting. Absent a particularly fine-grained filesystem permission model, or enforced locking. The former might only have "freedom" implications without any performance penalty, but perhaps not the latter.

Section 2 is about locking, so see above. Even if it's advisory, that just moves any slowdown from the kernel to the application. Of course, broken locking is clearly a shortcoming, and this is one of the quirkiest (maybe newest?) aspects of the filesystem. If anything qualifies under the "bad sign" characterization, this does. However, it's also not exactly fundamental to the filesystem, as even section 2.3 describes what SQLite will do if POSIX adivsory locking is not supported over NFS (i.e. it is possible for locking to be unavailable).

The remaining sections all appear to be about bugs, either hardware, thread library, elsewhere in the kernel, SQLite itself, or in configuration/usage (disabling corruption protections).
It is easy to learn "people skills", as it is largely an experiential activity, but that takes dedication and a desire to do so. Most people who complain about not being able to learn how to deal with people are afraid to or just don't want to put themselves in the position.
I think I lost the files but I will try to put something together.
"Cut anything not making money," works great when you're a monopoly or your business wasn't built on customer service.
Guns typically kill a few people here and there. I'm talking about the deaths of large swaths of people from technology that wasn't envisioned in the 1700's.

But since you mentioned it, that's the problem with taking an originalist view of the constitution. Nuclear weapons didn't exist back then, neither did DNA sequencing. And in your view for any X it must be legal, because the founding fathers were silent about X.

I am pretty sure that if you could go back in time and ask whether George Washington whether the common man should be allowed to have and use nuclear weapons, the common sense answer would be a resounding "NO".
Requiring parents to do background checks on their children would create liability for a parent that gave a gun to a child that shouldn't have one.

Your argument that it is silly hinges on the idea that parents wouldn't ever do that. But they would.

Those background checks in total would have little impact, but it's not a good argument against requiring background checks.
Giải đáp thắc mắc thường gặp trong tuyển sinh Văn bằng 2 Cao đẳng Dược
Caveats for people passing by: the Netflix version has little or no resemblence to the book series and its creator's career seems to have ended following accusations of rape and sexual abuse by more than 10 people[1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Landis#Sexual_assault_ac...
Same way they feel about this [1], they are simply unaware.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Billionaire’s+Secret+Buyout+...
One of the owners of Netgate, the main company behind pfSense here...

Looks great! I’m impressed.

I’m actually about to be out of touch for a week, so I’ve cloned the code for Router7 to read while I’m offline.
I used Keep for
a while, but now just have a folder with some markdown files (roughly one per note). I use git to push it to a server and download onto my phone and tablet. Works well, but obviously does not sync across all devices in real time.
It's a timed, multiple choice test. "A car is driving 50mph and drives for two hours. How far did it drive?" Like, really simple. I had more trouble with ambiguous wording than anything. Almost nobody finishes as they don't give much time.
It's adverse selection in both directions. "non-technical" people have also been burned by charlatan or otherwise flaky technologists. Word of mouth and social connections are definitely the way to go here
I'd be interested in hearing what issues you've had with adding a card on Google's platform. There is a chance you could diagnose it yourself by trying to add it, then contacting your bank and asking why the authorization was declined.
I think those books are restricted by export law too. Doesn't it?
Coffee Tips for Baristas: 8 ways to up your coffee game
The bathroom in my house is like this. This solution would make me happy, but perhaps is too weird to be worth explaining to visitors.
POSIX does constrict you. That is, it doesn't let you get the full performance you could get by talking directly to the hardware. It doesn't offer abstract features that would be useful to people making rocksdb, sqlite, etc. In fact, it does a rather brutal job of constricting you.

Of course, disk drive protocols also constrict you, relative to having direct control of firmware and visibility over raw flash devices, drive head position, etc. For example, it would be neat if you could send block A and block B to the disk at the same time, only to have the disk compute the checksum of block A and put it at offset k of block B before writing block B.
Shouldn't that be "On Semicolons; the rules of writing" ?
Thanks for being clear about the Republic of Ireland vs the landmass, unlike knolan!
From what I remember Mach ports aren’t even used much anymore.
The Big Five

* Personal exceptionalism

* Dichotomous thinking

* Correct overgeneralization

* Blank canvas thinking

* Schumpeterianism (creative destruction)

i don't endorse the guy and didn't vote for him, but, um, this reminds me of Trump.

i mean, how can we assess any person who actually succeeded at a goal that thousands of others wanted but failed to achieve?

i don't know. how did this guy avoid losing? it's just so weird. i'm still seeking good theories for his unexpected success...
I’d find it rather difficult to use a bathroom that was divided in half by a leather thong.
> "Cut anything not making money"

Does this mean unprofitable markets or things like janitors?
There are plenty of open-source projects where there are WAY more than 4 contributors/team members. The Python language implementation. LLVM. Linux. Firefox. Have a look.

Google has written a bit about their monorepo culture. Here, for example: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
The original 13 states plus Vermont and Texas should have that option because it would be going back on the deal with those states when they voluntarily joined the country. The other states should not because they were created by act of Congress out of territory that was already part of the US. There was never any deal made with those states.
> A personality test aims to determine which of them are suited to which jobs. Salespeople are better off being extroverted, and software developers more introverted.

If my eyeballs were rolling any harder at this they'd pop out of their sockets and race off over the back of my head.

That's the thing about billionaires. Everyone agrees with them. Just ask them: everyone they knows agrees with them. Every brainfart is the golden truth, hand-delivered by Minerva. The idea that people might be nodding at any halfbaked notion to get a fullbaked paycheque seems to have slipped their mind.

> Vista, which has done more than 300 deals, tells investors it has never lost money on a buyout

I can't tell who they're kidding here, their customers or themselves.
Debunking one of the most misunderstood concepts in Deep Learning
Right, I think it’s a matter of running an OS made for a new machines on an old machine. It was also a matter of switching off superfluous graphics features. This phone had android 4.4 new and got upgraded to 5.1, and worked better with 5.1.
Lisp and Haskell (2017)
workflowy for quick organized notes.
i didn't find the audio to this talk, is there?

I sense that there are some insights and good observations here, unfortunately for me this is all wrapped in a lot of psychological jargon that i can't penetrate.
It was definitely not created to protect the interests of farmers. The vast majority of the population worked in agriculture at that point, so they wouldn't have needed any special protection.
For a semi, once you want to get rid of it, ram a file down the barrel, take a hammer to the extractor, file the surface of the fireing pin, field strip the gun and toss it in different places (preferably in salt water). That sounds like a lot of work, but without disposal it takes like 10 minutes.

For a revolver, you slam a file down the barrel, forcing cone, file the striking surface and the chamber, take that apart and ditch it separately (again in salty water).

Even if they manage the find all the parts, they will never be able to match up ballistics. And hey, somebody stole your gun, you have no idea why they would do all that.
Ask HN: Should I worry about Android any more?
I'm currently working on a mobile app, and, naturally, I want to reach out to as big crowd as possible. However, this is a one person effort for now, and I do not have capacity (nor much desire) to maintain 2 completely different platforms all by my self (IOS swift, and Android Java), it's simply is not practical (although I have created a prototype for both).
I was seriously considering investing into becoming proficient in React Native to be able to create really cool UX for both platforms. And recently I found out that AirBNB just ditched their React Native in favor of Native (good that they can afford it).
I also have a millennial son, who is an IOS coder, and he tells me that all kids in college have iPhone these days. My other son in high school says the same, every kid in his class has an Apple device. So, my son who is an IOS developer says not to worry about Android and to become proficient in IOS only, because that's the only one which is going to matter on the long run, and do not even bother with React Native.
I'm not looking to start another religious war "Emacs vs vi" -- I'm looking for an evidence based advice.
I'd appreciate any comments, thoughts, suggestions.
cool... would you point us to some of your writing? i needed some scary/wake-up moments to nudge my health into the right zone!
I thought the US A didn't tend to use IQ tests for a number of reasons, also IQ tests are gameable.

Also the liberal use of the word debt in the article worries me in the UK there have been a number of scandals where PE buys a company loads it with debt and flogs it to some dozy fund mangers and a few years later it all collapses - Debenhams is one example
Two thoughts on this article:

1. I agree with the "tastes like chicken" argument, especially for enterprise software. Most enterprise software is basically CRUD apps with a data analytics component where most of the complexity is in integrating with existing 3rd party systems and processes. It really is mostly plumbing.

2. I think this article does a fairly good job in raising the red flag that most of the profits are on paper. I say this because a funny thing about enterprise subscription software is that companies can spend a lot of money on it, but the purchasers are often not the people actually using the software. This can create a situation where things look OK for a while as the revenue rolls in, until one day when the folks with purchasing decision power actually talk to the end users, and the end users say how much they hate the product and all they are doing is working around it with an inefficient process (yes, I've been involved with enterprise software before). Then the software subscription is cancelled, and the subscription revenue can have a huge decline over a very short period.
I had hopes for Millicent back around the turn of the century (man I sound old), and my employer at the time had me working on setting it up as a payment system for mp3 downloads. But it just kind of vanished. It's astonishing that all these years later there is still no widely used fractional-cent micropayment system.
That would be the right thing to do with a competent technician or indeed your doctor. However, here in India where I live, mechanics and computer technicians are for the most part essentially illiterate. They have absolutely no experience with the kind of analytical and critical problem solving skill you describe. Very often I am the expert in the room, and the only thing preventing me from doing the repair myself is the actual tooling (Plus I don't want to get my clothes dirty :-) ). So I do the do the diagnosis, and tell the mechanic what to do and they do it. Works well for all of us. :-)
I visited some dorm rooms in Croatia once, and they had a nice solution to this problem. Both doors opened inward, with the non-hinge side of the doors sitting very close to one of the walls with no doors. Instead of a conventional lock, a narrow piece of wood ran the length of this no-door wall that could be rotated to block both doors simultaneously.

This is like the solution in the article, except deals with the "opens-inwards" case instead of the "open-outwards" case, and is less fumble-y than having to attach a rope to both doors.
I don't think it's simplistic at all. In fact I think it's core to product/requirement management if you're doing it well.

"Tell me what you want to do, not how you want it done."
Wikidpad.
Can you provide any evidence that suggests these private sales are a significant source of weapons used in violent crimes? If they're not a significant source of guns used in violent crime, how would you justify such a law?
Word for mac is pretty good
That's a common technique in multiple choice tests and not like any of the IQ tests I have taken which a more abstract
Customer support can easily be a competitive advantage.

I guarantee you that unless your company recently downsized (or is very small) there are things you can cut, because no one cared enough to fix them or they thought it was cool to have X even though X is not returning value.
Use the notebook feature and it formats well with bullets
Given that they're all over the web that would be kind of amusing.
macOS and iOS notes - easy, free, no one is mining my data, and it automatically syncs across devices.
It’s not really portable though
They can make you an 80% lower receiver, but would need a manufacturing license to make a 100%.
Ireland becomes world's first country to divest from fossil fuels
Bicycle Control Design in Python
Some people are in the 99.99th percentile of being irritating and proposing bad ideas, such that virtually nobody on earth has enough diplomacy to stifle their temper when having to deal with them for extended periods.

Most people are never forced to deal with enough people, to regularly be forced into extended contact with this particular kind of person. The kind of person who is forced to deal with enough people that they are likely to inevitably, eventually have to work with such people, is what we usually refer to as "a politician." But that's not quite accurate.

See, elected politicians learn to hide their distaste for such people, and that's how we get our sense of what it means to "act like a politician." But founders, kings, and other such benevolent-dictator-for-life are still politicians—they have to hold court taking the full spectrum of opinions from the brilliant to the idiotic—but they don't usually bother to hide this distaste.

We have no equivalent word for someone forced to do what a politician does, but without the same incentives to put on a face and pretend they aren't hating some parts of their job.
It’s comments like yours why I always check the thread after reading an article. Thank you!!
That’s different then. You aren’t asking for someone to solve a problem for you. You are just paying them to perform a task. I’m referring to the issue addressed in the article about problem solving.
Electronic Cigarettes and Harm Reduction
Was going by this [1] which seems to show that if one of the charging ICs goes bad it can cause the rest not to work. This is probably one of many failure mechanisms.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=MY8LlHfK9ZA
"Before it buys a company, Vista evaluates whether its software is “mission critical” and whether it has control over its “critical factors for success,” or the key drivers of its performance." If this was true for your company, why go the route of a buy-out exit? Why not continue onto ipo?
Yeah it sounds like a typical puff piece for me. Oh look how methodical this man/firm is!

His company is progressive and he's a philanthropist to boot!

No negative acquisitions experiences or anything like that in the article either.
i personally prefer the l.php workaround as it preserves the site layout and formatting

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...
You have to either trust your mechanic or know enough to avoid getting flimflammed. An unscrupulous mechanic can cost you hundreds in superflous services easily.
I think the contribution of the shareholder value myth to overall economic inequality also bears mentioning. When companies optimize for short-term share price, the primary beneficiaries are short-term traders and activist investors, that is, people who already have a lot of money; employees generally suffer, as do small investors who tend to invest for the long term.
My example is pretty simple. An antenna does not radiate only 900MHz. It radiates a distribution, centered around 900MHz. The fall-off is rapid, but there is non-zero power at higher frequencies, and there can also be harmonics. It's just an example, but the point is there could be some hidden effect we're not considering or aware of. It would hardly be the first time we thought we had it all figured out, and whoa hey there, we didn't expect that to happen.
Chrome Deploys Broader Site Isolation. The Cost? Just a Little RAM
I don't like posting my health blog on HN. You can find it via my twitter account if you really want.

Pocketputer.com should get you to both Street Life Solutions (About page) and San Diego Homeless Survival Guide (Links page).

My Patreon link is in my profile as well.
The animation appears to be missing some frames, at the point where the couch starts to turn.

Someone with a moderate amount of time on their hands could probably patch it by mirroring frames from the end of the turn.
Heavy note taker here. If I'm on my Mac, I use the Notes app. My favorite things about the app are real time sync between the desktop and phone app, easy checklists, text format options and the ability to inline embed images.

When I'm on my phone I use Google Keep. What I love about it are the colored background, tile view and checklists. I wish Keep allowed inline embedding of images.
if you can game raven’s progressive matrices i’d love to see what that even means
Medications are indicated for disease. Only pseudoscientists take drugs for health.
I'm guessing you haven't taken the subway in NYC. A lot of times the stairs are only on one side. And the tracks are extremely long and have many trash cans and objects occluding a clear view.