skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also explosives, home-made or otherwise, and more mundane "domestic terrorism" that goes after food (I mean, grocery stores just put out all the food on easy-access display..), city water supplies, electricity, gas lines... It's fortunate that there are very few real psychotics who want to cause a lot of damage, and also that of those few only a few again are intelligent or imaginative. People have a good reason to suspect a lack of imagination of imaginary killers: real ones don't seem to have much of one.

What intrigues me currently about Holmes is that his residence was booby trapped sufficiently that federal experts had to get involved, so he's more capable than the average spree killer. Yet he alerted the authorities about them, he didn't let them "figure it out" with the death of some cops. I don't see any sort of twisted logic in that. But I initially approach this topic with a gamer's "high score" mentality such that even Brevik's count seems small, the behaviors of killers are thus constantly perplexing from that angle.
Unsurprising. Not only are there literally hundreds of liquor bottle designs to choose from and this one chose Jack Daniels because of its obvious brand association with rock & roll, but this is a club that prominently displays other liquor brand sponsorships under an umbrella of a design derived from a competing brand.
If Apple was the dominant OS for all portable devices manufactured by everyone then I would agree. However, Apple only controls the OS for devices they produce. I don't see that as a monopoly of the worst kind.

If you go into any non-Apple electronics store you can buy many devices which don't use iOS. When everyone made the big stink about Microsoft's monopoly it was almost impossible to buy a computer without Windows installed from any major retailer or manufacturer.
Do some work and research the freemium model and you'll see that it is possible. Depending on the nature of your product, you may want to checkout dropbox & Evernote. Both are great examples of different strategies that help convert free to paid users.

Generally speaking, a 5% paid to 95% paid to free ratio is really good.

Good Luck.
It's not uniquely American, sure. But Europe has 2.5 times the population of the USA, yet has only 12 listings in the last 10 years in your first link, against the USA's 10.

In the second link, the page points to individual pages for rampage killers, which give 19 for the USA in the last 10 years against 13 for Europe.

But really, arguing about spree killers isn't really the way to do it, even though they are symptomatic. Much scarier is the US's overall homicide rate - currently at 4.8/100k. Compared to other anglo countries (1.1-1.8k) or western European countries (0.8-0.9), the US is far in excess of these.

I think a large part of the problem is that in the US, there's much more focus on resolving problems through the use of firearms - it's manly, it's patriotic, it's in all the movies.

Check it out - the highest rate in a western first-world country (= similar culture base) that isn't the US is Israel at 2.1, less than half the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
Your second point undermines the first. Essentially, you are making the case that the government should monitor and attempt to pacify groups of crazies.
It's a shame the offerings for music are so small (limited just to "Listening to World Music"). I bet I'm not the only person who would leap at the chance to take a top notch music theory class.
First hand experience. Almost identical background, self-taught teenager started working professionally at 18 with very little formal training. 33 years old now and almost completed a part-time math degree. (2-1/2 years to go)

Advice: don't just pursue the math that you think will directly benefit your software career.

I went into my part-time math degree thinking that because I was a self taught programmer the limiting factor in my career was lack of exposure to higher maths.

I ended up discovering that the math I enjoyed the most was the more theoretical stuff in analysis, topology, category theory, abstract algebra, etc. The applied math came easier, and I probably could have self-taught most of it, but the challenging pure math subjects have been most rewarding.
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A letter that deals with trademark violation
imho - No comparison to feathers, that looks like has been of inspiration as well to gistio (even from our manifesto) :). Check it out and signup for the private beta!

http://feathe.rs/
Meta, but this is a great example of the availability bias.
It sure does seem like catnip for message board addicts that the government sees those people and their boards as so important that a coherent and documented strategy is needed to disrupt them.
Your attitude only keeps the status quo in place. We need to be radically opposed to patents, there is no good in them whatsoever. They are a gross injustice to decent people trying to create new things and move humanity forward and deserve not the slightest bit of legitimacy.
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In 2011, AT&T made 22 billion in revenue for wireless data. 8.2 million is 0.03% (if I didn't make a mistake). I wouldn't call that big bucks.

http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/annual_report/pdfs/att_ar...
You blaspheme the Holy Spirit!!! You deceive others?

Look here. They said it was a demon. You are doing the same.

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22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. 23 All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? 27 And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

29 “Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

30 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. 31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

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...but anybody who thinks that health insurance provides any such guarantee (in the US) has never dealt with serious medical problems.
The WSJ previously wrote an article titled "Sitting for More Than Three Hours A Day Cuts Life Expectancy," and now they backpedal by writing an entire article summarizing that correlation does not necessarily imply causation. Unfortunately, the damage is already done. The Illusion-Of-Truth effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_memory#Illusion-of-tr... ) is a cognitive bias that states people will believe familiar statements, sometimes even after being told they're false.
i can't understand any part of your argument that would be legally supportable that wouldn't make every single kind of embedded system illegal. consoles? right out. dumbphones? illegal. gps? nope. atms? gotta be hackable. mp3 players? can't.
Check out Slingshot- basically CloudApp for Dropbox. It sits in your menu-bar. When you take a screenshot, it uploads it to your DropBox public folder and puts the link in your clipboard. Super easy and no subscription (I think it costs like 3 bucks in the App Store)
Same here in Argentina, the startup community is almost engineer-free (almost, there are exceptions) but yeah it's kinda difficult to find engineers because most here don't want to work at a startup that might last less than a year, so they go to big and established companies instead.
Well, yes actually. But most of how JavaScript sucks are fixable. The core of how the language works (imperative, prototypical) is great.
Not a hiccup, apparently -- their Verisign-issued EV cert is still revoked. Things look ok to users because they're now using a GoDaddy wildcard domain cert.
I think that a better analogy is thinking of patents as nuclear weapons. What we need at this point is a disarmament treaty.
How come? What is better about this than cloud app?
I would expect to spend much more after retirement because of all the extra free time I'll have. Even if I just decide to stay home and work in a garden all day I'll have to spend money on plants, tools, dirt, etc.
Possibly the Appalachian School of Law shooting, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_sho...
Deep knowledge takes time and effort. There's nothing more to that post.
What that has to do with anything? The post I replied to said that "language neutral bytecode project neve worked" and brought up Parrot as an example. He was not specific to them not working for Javascript.

Now, besides off context, your comment is wrong in four ways:

1) we are not discussing about a bytecode to implement Javascript, but a bytecode to use in browsers for implementing all sorts of languages.

2) There are other lnguages that have been implemented in CLR/JVM that are faster than Javascript.

3) V8 has been optimized by a special team, for millions of dollars, with speed as the #1 target. When that amount of money and effort, a JS running on JVM/CLR can be fast too.

4) A bytecode does not preclude a JIT. In fact it would be trivial to have V8 run a bytecode instead of raw js, just as Python runs pyc.
Judge Posner on why Americans are more religious than Europeans
:)
I'm new to those kinds of beverages. I tried JD a few times before and liked it. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out. Anything else worth trying out?.

I do try to follow the principle of "voting with one's money" though, so I think it is only fair for me to show the appreciation for this JD move by buying a bottle.
I am not an American and it is clear to me that without essentially unrestricted to guns that crimes like this would be less frequent (and probably just not happen).

Guns kill things, it is their purpose and easy access to guns makes the killing of people more likely.
When the antitrust/monopoly ruling came down from on high Microsoft held something like 90% of the home computer market. That's a dominant position. Apple maintains a solid percentage of phones, and the tablet market is too small to notice.

There's no loophole, Apple is small enough in percentages and there's that much more choice that they can't be classed as a monopoly. Don't like it? Don't buy the product. The issue was with Windows there was only one game in town for the vast majority.
Hence why I said "good estimate" rather than "absolute maximum". However, the kinds of problems that health insurance won't buffer for you will generally screw you whether you have 31k/year or 131k/year.
The media not-so-infrequently points out that the CIA monitors terrorist recruitment forums. Suppose those reports are true, would it make sense to develop a plan for disrupting such sites?
Another alternative is droplr (http://droplr.com). It does not use your dropbox account, which I think is an advantage.
okay, okay, i got your point. Yes as long as the fund is a really low fee one, like Vanguard's ones with around $10 per $10000 a year invested, that's nearly an equivalent to a stock market minus the pain of balancing the portfolio yourself.
Besides being polite this letter provides two remedies that are unusual, and I think there might be a potential third that would make these cases much less contentious.

First off, it doesn't demand a removal of the book for sale, but merely requests that the next printing have a different cover. That's a huge step forward, and since the need here is to protect the trademark ability of the brand, outrageous demands really aren't' called for. Offering to pay for the cost of changing it if they are willing to do it earlier, is also a generous remedy that protects the brand. The violator doesn't lose money, and the act of paying for the remedy is an act of protection.

I wonder if there isn't a third remedy in cases like this, where it isn't flagrant violations: That being licensing the brand.

Certainly trademarks are licensed all the time- coca-cola licensed clothing is a good example. So, someone using your trademark under license doesn't undermine the ability to protect the mark.

Thus they could have offered to license the mark (as a third possibility) for a reasonable fee. The fee would have to be industry standard (e.g.: "You can use it for $1" would undermine their ability to protect the brand) but I imagine for mildly infringing or only partially infringing situations like this the remedy is probably not too high.

Not that the publisher of this book would likely want to take them up on it, but maybe given the books content in some cases that might be preferable-- where the infringement on the brand has positive economic value for the book, and everyone makes out ok.

The trademark is protected, and the publisher makes a bit more money by being able to use this design than they would if they had to do something completely different.

Further, this activity- of issuing licenses- shows diligence of protecting the mark which enhances its trademark ability. You might not know all the violators of your trademark, but it is the failure to defend the mark that can cause you to lose it. A license is obviously not a failure to defend the mark, and so it helps bolster the mark. (This is what it would seem to me, but I'm not a lawyer.)

Yet I've never seen someone offer to license the trademark to a violator.
That's true at least here in sweden. I'm guessing the rest of europe as well.
Thats the problem. Probably investors didn't get the return they expected. Google bought sparrow's for the team, not the tech. So what likely happen is Google payed a small sum for Sparrow and instead gave huge sign-in bonuses to the team. Thus investors don't ge a huge return, the team does.
The way people typically do this is by VCing their configurations in a "dotfiles" repository. New machine? Pull your dotfiles, and create the symlinks in your homedir.
The book "RESTful Web Services" [1] has a really good overview of HTTP in general and some hints on resource oriented architectures.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529260.do
Anyone else think that device is a disaster waiting to happen? The example shows sending a "whoami" command to the device via SMS, and then the device responds "root" via SMS. Uh, what's to keep someone else from hijacking it via SMS for their own purposes? A "bad guy" would have to figure out that there's one on the network, but it would still concern me to have a remote-controlled device on the network that's open to arbitrary SMS-sent commands.
This do-it-yourself pension system has failed. It has failed because it expects individuals without investment expertise to reap the same results as professional investors and money managers

To what extent is the gap between the returns of normal people and of professional investors the product of a gap between those returns? How much do professional investors profit off the ignorance of normal people?

It seems likely that this is a number somewhere between 0% and 100%.
> wonderful bars, clubs

They don't close. They. Do. Not. Close. As a nocturnal developer I could go out to a club, get back to my hostel at 2, write code for 2 hours and then go out again. Bliss.
I do not doubt that someone somewhere got allocated money for a project to troll potential terrorists off recruiting boards.
Did you skip the part where I said to ensure the examiner finds it you can file and then abandon?
I use (and really like) droplr, but the recent content isn't encrypted fiasco[1] is kind of scaring me away.

But, still there because I can't give up the screenshot sharing and keyboard shortcuts in the meantime.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226285
Unless those civilians have been trained under live-fire circumstances, there is a far greater probability that they would add to the toll of bystander injuries than that they would quickly stop the original threat. It's not life on the target range; flinching, adrenalin tremors and tunnel vision are real, and a miss (or a through-and-through) doesn't always go safely into a sand berm. And what about the other armed individuals whose situational awareness is formed when they see two or three shooters rather than the original one?
There's a really nicely annotated version on waxy.org

http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/

if you haven't watched code rush yet, the annotations are really a fantastic addition to it and i'd suggest starting there instead.

edit/comment: the annotations are mostly useful, if like me, you want to rewind to some particular scene when showing part of the film to a friend. i found them pretty useful, but, ymmv :)
You're still a bit ambiguous, even after the edit. If you want the real fundamentals of programming, then you need discrete math, algorithms, and data structures; everything else is built on those foundations. Programming as a skill, you can get by without them, just as a carpenter doesn't need to know mechanics. But really understanding computer science without them would be like a mechanical or civil engineer that doesn't know classical Newtonian mechanics.

I don't feel comfortable giving specific book recommendations, because I have no way of knowing whether the ones I own or have read are much if any better than most of the others out there; and you can look up reviews on Amazon probably easier than I can.
As I've said elsewhere, we will sort this out in the end. Right now MELPA tends to be the latest and greatest and marmalade is more stable (read 'less exciting') releases. It would be good to have this recognized per-package though so hopefully we will merge the strategies of both repositories into a single repository that can do any one of those things for any package configuration.
I don't really know where they get their data and the overall picture might well be right but e.g. the rent index within Germany is quite dubious: In their list, Frankfurt and Cologne have a lower rent index than Berlin, whereas I think the map on immobilienscout24 looks a lot more believable[1]

I don't have original or better data but let's carefully say that from the anecdotes that reach me it would be useful to study what rent you would have to pay realistically (for an apartment and for office space) as a non-local coming to a given city. Specifically, as a start-up founder or engineer, you would most likely not want to live in the cheapest neighborhood, independent of if it's New York, Sofia, Warsaw, or Berlin.

tl;dr Most eastern European capitols might be a lot cheaper than Berlin but the linked data should not be trusted blindly.

[1] http://immobilienbewertung.immobilienscout24.de/karten/
I think the key here is that phones were for a long time "embeded devices". It is protected platform that can not be 'tinkered' with. This was how iPhone 1.0 was. That is point one to ponder.

Point two: Original intent of sales. iPhones and Android and other phones are sold as a smart phone. As long as it is not sold as a computer, the vendors are free to dictate what is possible and what is not.

NB: While Android does has third party browsers, it should be noted that the default Browser.app can not be recreated using the Android SDK as it relies on private APIs.
Ask HN: What is the software startup environment in your city like?
After reading the Berlin thread (edit: and the recent Canada thread), it made me curious about what others thought about the software startup environment in the places they're located in. Where are you? What things would be useful to for people who would consider starting up there? Is it nascent, growing, non-existent? Who are the movers and shakers? Particular industry focus? We obviously hear a lot about the big dogs like Silicon Valley and Alley, but it'd be interesting to know about other places from those most active/experienced with them.

Not looking for anything with statistical rigor (though that's welcome too), just subjective experiences and fun anecdotes.

As I'm in Silicon Alley, I won't say much about it other than being thrilled to see my home turn into such a great place for software. Growing up in Brooklyn, I would never have imagined what it has turned out to be/is turning into.
I use grabbox(http://grabbox.devsoft.no/) it's free does all of the things people have listed here.
Crazy? Seems like a smart move for shareholders to ask for a government policy that increases stock prices at the expense of other investment vehicles.

It's funny how most (all?) government policies result in a wealth transfer. If it's not directly buying goods and services from a corporation on behalf of the people, it's a policy to encourage the people to spend on one thing instead of another. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it's good to notice who stands to gain.
Version 1.0 came out in February of 2011. However, there were 7 Public Betas before that. The first one came out on October 4, 2010 [1]. By the time version 1.0 was released, Sparrow already had hundreds of thousands of users [2].

(Granted, October of 2010 still isn't ‘a few years’ a go.)

[1] http://blog.sparrowmailapp.com/post/1262858384/40-000-sparro...

[2] http://blog.sparrowmailapp.com/post/2497742134/150000dwnlds
Wikipedia lists the average lows during the winter as around freezing, which is not really that cold… Comparable to (actually slighter warm than) NYC winters, for example.
Yet I've never seen someone offer to license the trademark to a violator.

Licensing would probably push the case into another department and out of the lawyer's hands. I wouldn't be surprised if they act out of self interest and prefers to deal with it themselves.
hysteria over edge cases due to scope insensitivity.
First, Jack Daniels is not bourbon; it's Tennessee whiskey.

Second, if you're going to tell people to drink Evan Williams, at least point them towards the single barrel. It lacks most of the abrasive industrial solvent characteristics of the black label, and if I recall correctly it's still typically cheaper than JD.
Very cool! Ignoring the relative strengths/weaknesses of the languages themselves, JavaScript's killer feature is that it is ubiquitous in web browsers and Lua's killer feature is that it has an extremely small and easy-to-embed implementation. With a project like this you could write code in Lua and get the best of both worlds.

When it comes to actually comparing the languages though, Lua is the language that you'd get if you had 10 years to refine JavaScript's design and throw out the cruft, IMO.