skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is an "assault weapon"? Oh, did you mean an AR15? The most popular firearm sold in the US for the past few years.
Which Heller specifically protects ("in common use").

Dude, go ahead and out everyone in my neighor hood with an AR15 or other detachable box magazine fed automatic rifle. You know what will happen? Not a damn thing - we all have these things here.

I personally have had well over 6000 rds of ammo at some point. You know what? It didnt go bad, nor did it magically get shot at innocent people. I either buy in bulk, or reload in bulk because its cheaper. WAY cheaper. When you shoot 150+ rounds of ammo a week shooting competition, you can not do otherwise.

As far as arsenels being defensible? WTF does that even mean. I can have an arsenal if I want to. I'm not hurting anyone with it, so what business of it is yours?
It's not particularly clear to me what level
of mathematics you're aiming for, but for example
I found [1] & [2] interesting when I was a young
teen, and letting kids explore of the series of
books by the MAA [3] and AMS [4] would certainly
spark their interest.

In short your best bet is to get them to a library,
and let their interests take them where they want
to go.

[1] http://www.mathmosaic.com

[2] http://maa-store.hostedbywebstore.com/INGENUITY-IN-MATHEMATI...

[3] http://maa-store.hostedbywebstore.com/Popular-and-Expository...

[4] http://www.ams.org/bookstore/mawrldseries
You're correct they don't. But the Host Guarantee does cover up to $1,000,000 in property damage. Given that there is not property involved in Vayable activities, I think that some type of comparable protection of guides is required. As a "guide" I am legally responsible for the health and safety of guests. If I guide someone on a bike tour through Vayable and they get hit by a car, both Vayable and me the guide are going to get sued.

What if someone offered skydiving lessons through Vayable. They could certainly undersell other skydiving outfits if they didn't need to carry insurance. But as soon as there were an accident, everyone loses.
Because by definition, criminals do not obey the law. If arms were taken out of circulation, there would be none to obtain except via smuggling --which is time consuming, requires connections, is costly, etc. It would certainly require advanced planning to carry out. The criminal could not just go down to Sears and buy one or down to the seedy area of town and then do a stick up later in the day.
Multiple panels may be better for the way you work than one large panel. In general I don't think any programmer should have less than two monitors, ever. Ideally three (for the "center"), and if you're crazy, four.
That's quite another story. If I have to write Sci-Fi: Perhaps an underground scene that use and code for older versions of OS X, patching the system themselves to get only the good parts of system updates, while staying out of Apple's redefinitions of the computing experience.
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Usually telecom companies laying down infrastructure are given rights of way and easements that make their jobs much, much, less expensive.

Is it traditional for states and localities to just give this stuff away? If they're not accepting competitive bids for the right to lay fiber, they're leaving money on the table.

Certainly when it comes to things like wireless spectrum, the Feds have auctions for billions of dollars.

Here's a pre-dot com crash article that suggests at least for some areas these rights weren't given away:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-06-04/business/9906040...
That seems to indicate it was an issue after all?
i can already see sysop geeks setting up budget for massive sound systems in the dc. y'know, for fire protection...
I thought you had some lady who writes your landing pages for you. Have you got it totally automated now, or am I confused?
Ok, now tell us how to actually attract those email subscribers in the first place.

Maybe I'm cynical but getting existing subscribers to do something like a call to action is trivial compared to building that subscriber base in the first place.
I'm confused - they had a guestlist and everyone else in the class but her was on it, or none of your students were on it and they decided to exclude her personally?
Shave does less than iMovie for $10 more. Maybe that's why it's not providing decent income? It's hard to compete with free, even more a good free app.
I expect he'll be less likely to kill people if he knows
the weapon is tied to him.

If he's already hot-blooded, it seems reasonable that he won't care.

I mean say a .22 instead of a center fire. Less killing
power. bolt action also means less killing power (i.e.
much slower)

Ah, okay, but why not something like a 12-gauge shell, or just a blunderbuss? Or just normal/common 9mm/.45 ammunition?

knife could harm or kill just a couple of people.

Mankind has been using knives to kill in great numbers since we discovered the first sharp flint. Even in only the past ten years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre

I won't even waste time pointing out how effective a set of box cutters can be.

IED is in the same range as a homemade gun in that it
takes a long time and lots of effort to make.

This is incorrect.

Actually, I own a .30-06 and a 12 gauge and regularly go
hunting.

Cool. What models, out of curiosity?
clickable : http://www.bidsketch.com
Bolt Action means less killing power? WTF. You claim to be a hunter with an '06, yet you think a .223 is more powerful?
The .30-06 is roughly 3x more powerful than the .223 fired by an AR15 which is really just a glorified varmint round.

I seriously doubt you really shoot/hunt/own weapons based on the statements you just made.
You would have demonstrated that moral authority is on the side of the student who was wronged. It doesn't matter whether or not they change their policy, what matters is that you went along with excluding a student for no reason.

EDIT: Sorry, this came off a bit too personally. I'm a teacher too and I got angry when I read this story. I'll just say more generically that it is easily possible (and justifiable) for a student to feel alienated after a situation like this, especially if they feel like their educator didn't stand up for them. Whether or not "standing up for them" involves canceling the entire trip is a contextual issue, and I really don't know if it would have been a good idea in this case.
I think accreditation requires liquid wealth >$2m. It specifically disqualifies primary residence value.
Author here. Thanks for mentioning that; I've gone ahead and added a link.
Sure developers will play ball as long as Apple is where the money is. There's no doubt that iOS's amazing run of exponential growth and the creation of a distribution platform as frictionless as the App Store have been irresistible to developers.

However I think it's also fair to say that early adopters and developers were key to Apple's recent success. For instance, OS X lured me back to Macs from Windows in 2000 largely on the promise of unix under the hood. Many early iPhone users were jail breakers either to develop apps or to use them. Developers were on the forefront of Apple success, and I think it's impossible to quantify the impact that we had, and thus extremely easy to underestimate it.

It's true that Apple is very mass market and could not achieve it's design excellence by listening to geek feature requests, but I think they'd better tread lightly on the larger issues. If they turn OS X into a toy OS that doesn't allow serious development and pushing the technological envelope, and all future innovation comes exclusively in the form of Apple new APIs, then I think that will be a harbinger of Apple decline as the geeks and early adopters look for the next frontier. Apple without the hacker community is not nearly as strong as it is today.
The story was abbreviated: I talked to several people to figure out what was going on before they insisted we were blocking the entrance. By then she had decided it was not worth the trouble and wanted to leave.
The project setup in the repository also has two "superfluous" levels of hierarchy:

|- main
|- java

At this early stage this seems like overengineering, and if at some point the project gets code e.g. javascript, it might be worth it to add ./js-src at the top-level first.
Standard practice in Manhattan and Philadelphia at most office high-end office buildings. this is the world Americans live in. Yelp isn't in the business of protecting civil liberties.

edit: standard practice to deny entry to non-badged persons who aren't on a pre-submited event guestlist. i've seen this, for example, at every tech meetup held in a downtown office building i've ever been to in Manhattan and Philadelphia.

edit2: i've never actually challenged this, but i've been told that i would be denied entry if name not on list.
One day after DC police's reasonable camera policy, phone still taken
You're right that it isn't focused on Android, and so another book may be a better fit.
create friendly urls to replace urls with question marks.

Also, you need tens of thousands of pages at least to get worthwhile traffic. A few hundred pages won't cut it. Aim for long tail.
Another option would be to leave with the student, and let your other "kids" stay if they want to.

That's a pretty shitty experience, to be the only one who can't get in and have to walk away alone. A little solidarity would have gone a long way.
He probably would but the probability of actually killing the victim would be much lower.

You can kill a lot more people more easily and more accidentally with a gun and also with quite a high probability compared to a knife. Guns just require one click to inflict a fatal wound if you know the tinies imaginable bit of knowledge of where to aim.

So you can just shoot another person off the bat but with a knife or another close-range weapon you have someone who realizes that a) you have a knife and b) you intend to fatally use it against him. That means combat.

I don't know which person attacked is more determined or more difficult to stop, a parent with kids or a person who's just running for life but they're both damn fucking hard. You will have to catch your victim first and if you just did, s/he will try nothing but escape again.

Now, with a knife (or a bat or...) you're likely to be able to wound that other person but actually killing him/her always requires an extra mile. All kinds of odds are stacked against not only the victim but the attacker as well, and as stabbing requires an intimate range and takes time, the outcome is far from certain unless you're really, really good.

I'd much rather be attacked by an amateur knifer than an amateur gunner.
Problems with Git on OSX after update to Mountain Lion
They had a guest list and all my students were on it. This particular student was also on it, along with a note to exclude her specifically from entering the office.
this is extremely common in a lot of meetups in SF - really the only reason they want your name on the list is so if you are a crazy homeless person looking for free booze and free food with a lot of expensive ass computer shit laying around you can't just waltz in

also, I am in that meetup group and yesterday was insane email traffic w/the amount of people that couldn't follow the most simplest of advice -- "we need your name"
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I agree. It's a better point, but it's not the one he made, and it doesn't support the one he made.

Shifting the goalposts seems to have become so ingrained in how we debate that we now do it on the behalf of others.
There are many benefits to immutability. However, there are only a few smaller additional benefits of functional purity after we're already able to enforce mutability and immutability. Sometimes I really do want to modify some data internally before returning it, and baked-in purity keeps me from "cooking" my data properly.
Japan has a completely different culture from the US (obviously). You can't ignore the effects of such different attitudes towards individualism, income disparity, acceptable levels of violence, and trust in government. Never mind that the US is a multicultural society, whereas Japan isn't really.
See my comment buried at the very bottom. I agree with you and this opens up all kinds of professional licensing requirements and property liability requirements. You can quickly go down a rabbit hole of worrying about verification/accreditation and Vayable could basically become known as the best place to work if you're an actuary.

Addendum: This might be a more worrisome problem only in the litigation-happy US and other similar first world countries. The Vayable landing page for me shows a tour of Angkor Wat. The last time I was there, I wasn't too concerned about who I was going to sue if I fell off one of the temples or got sick from eating something not properly cooked.
In quite a few countries where weapons are heavily regulated, you can get a permit. The structure obviously depends on the country, but if you have a genuine reason (mostly hunting or sport) and satisfy some basic requirements (no criminal record, mentally sane, etc), getting a reasonable weapon is possible.
That's right. Then the app is dead and users are dissatisfied. No one wins.
Are you lobbying for the restriction of vehicles? Or are you making a point by analogy with guns that I'm missing?
Wow. You should get out and talk to the person on the street and what they think about this.

The only reason your sources are "safe" is because they are not the popular ones.

Malware goes after the high volume targets. If your OS has 2% of the market, yes, your binary packages are probably relatively safe.

But the situation is different for the Microsft's, the Google's (Chrome will no doubt be targeted as it gets more popular) and, eventually, the Apple's.

Apple was always safe because it was not the OS of choice for most of the population. It was niche. If you haven't noticed that is changing.

It's funny because some of the stuff I'm working on is, by design, "sandboxed", but I never think of this as it's most valuable "feature".

Sometimes we do not see the obvious. I'm sure in my case I'm missing something, and I think in yours too. Malware is ++huge problem. And there's no solution on the horizon. If your OS relies on people outside the OS developers contributing "apps", which users prefer to download and install as opposed to reading code and compiling themselves, then your "app store" is vulnerable.

A friend of mine recently got a virus. The kind that starts emailing all your contacts. I've seen this happen to family and friends repeatedly over the years. Nothing has improved.

When I mentioned it to him, his comment to me was along the lines of "Yeah, it was especially difficult to deal with because it was a Mac."

It's not easy to get at the innards of anything Apple makes, expecially these days when they are trying as hard as ever to prevent you from understanding how it works. If something goes wrong, you're fsck'ed. Unless of course "Customer Service" can help you. But when you become the next MS, there is no such thing. Customer Service, the human kind, does not scale.
I guess that is the underlying issue. Yelp is fundamentally a protection racket. "Those are some real nice reviews you have there - it would be a real shame for something to happen to them." I imagine that there are lots of business owners that would be a security risk. I wonder if Yelp people ask themselves if they might be doing something bad if people want to do them bodily harm.
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And it was worthwhile enough to tacitly agree to such a policy?

Edit: read your comment in a separate post. It would have been worthwhile not to abridge all the context out of your story.
This is my big question. I mean I can spam a few mailing lists or groups that I am a member of, but we are talking maybe 50-60 people. Nothing Major. I might get a few followers out of it.

-edit to say I have seriously considered waving a sign in the middle of Seattle traffic to get attention. But I doubt that is effective.
Yeah, I wouldn't consider $300 up front "free". It's an amortized price, similar to XM Radio's $400 lifetime subscription fee. Frankly, I'd like to see more amortized pricing like this.
I attended a meetup that was held at Yelp and I can confirm that entrance to the building is weirdly extra secured compared to meetups at other SF companies I've attended.
Go give yelp a bad review on yelp.
To be clear: he made a lower receiver, a very simple part and the one that has the serial number stamped onto it, it is the "gun" part as far as the legal authorities are concerned.

Every other part (upper receiver, barrel, magazine, trigger, hammer, etc) are just "parts" that one can order untracked.

Making an entire functional weapon is still beyond the scope of most inexpensive printers.

http://www.quora.com/3D-Printing/How-much-does-it-cost-today... (my question about this on Quora.)
Well, obviously, by using them in the language without requiring them on the filesystem? I think you should be able to cat together all the .java files in your project and it should still compile. I guess you could easily do it using a very simple preprocessor.
If they had the guest list beforehand, they had a responsibility to inform you of this issue before the trip. Putting you on the spot forced you into making a crappy decision either way you went with it.

I personally would have yanked all the students out and explained why and exactly why you were all leaving to someone in authority if this couldn't be cleared up, further that it was going to go up on the Internet, but my personal bias stems from years of being excluded from things for no obvious reason as a kid.
We need something like a next generation Usenet.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
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You welcome! Hopefully it will lead to more visibility to your product. I really appreciated your blog post!
Is there a market for an OSX Tablet?
Which has nothing to do with Java. The developer chose that hierarchy.

Correction: As per the message below I guess I should say that it has nothing to do with Java, the ecosystem, framework he is using is forcing him to use that hierarchy.
I'd guess it is the name of a disgruntled business owner.
Couple of things between two and four

a) Meet people at local tech meetups. Really prep hard before you talk to people though.

b) Contribute bug fixes to any open source projects the company has

c) Do a survey of what skills existing holders of similar jobs have. Invest strategically to acquire those skills before applying for the job

d) Reach out to people via Linked In
Not until we can push data across distances faster than the speed of light.

The input and video latency makes it impractical for all but the slowest-paced of games.
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Nice! I'd love to see you guys submit this to http://www.cocoacontrols.com
> To be fair, this tool has only one use: it kills things.

I disagree. A gun's primary use for law abiding citizens is that it intimidates things. The most effective way to use a gun is simply to deter crime.

You wouldn't say that the reason the United States and the Soviet Union stockpiled nuclear weapons was because they wanted to level each others' cities. It was simply deterrence.
Neither risk can be realistically eliminated regardless of your personal assessment of what they're good for. The question is simply whether or not we've reduced the risk enough that society finds the current level more acceptable than the marginal costs of attempting to reduce it even further. The car argument is saying that the risk of guns is already so much lower than cars that it seems unreasonable to think the former is still at an unacceptable level, but not the latter.
That's all mobile, though (and also wasn't what I was commenting about). My provider (Time Warner Cable) doesn't have any data caps- I know others do, of course.
Stagnated...maybe, maybe not. Over the past few years I've taken an interest in functional programming and machine learning, lately doing some programming in Clojure and looking at Scala. I've been "keeping current" with these technologies, but none of that is J2EE, Hibernate, JUnit, JQuery. We all love to hate Larry Ellison but I'm starting to think he was right when he said that the computer industry is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

I will be creating something, but right now I feel like I have to do something that uses the fashion instead of something I love. A project motivated by fear instead of love? I cringed while I typed that, but there will come a time when the savings runs out and the family will still need to be fed.
Thanks! I'm starting my journey of learning marketing, and going to be writing about it if you're interested (http://blog.codiqa.com/2012/07/step1-admit-you-have-a-market...)
I'm a crazy homeless person, my name is Adam Smith, nice to meet you. Or was it John Brown? Do they check government-issued ID? I'm visiting from BC or Ontario, you think they could recognize a fake ID?
I think the consensus is that they are not exactly the same. These may be panels that were rejected from high quality batches. And that only speaks to the panel itself. Do we trust the other components? I was shopping for panels in this price range and went with the Dell e-IPS monitors. I just trust them more.

More discussion
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292740

*edit: fixed bad link
Hang in there, things will get better! Job apps are a stochastic process, just have to keep plugging until you get through.
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Ask HN: Good Hackathon Prizes
We're bored with doing shiny iDevices or similar, and want to give away something more interesting.

What are some of the coolest hackathon prizes you've seen/thought of?
When is Google's/Android's competitor to OneNote going to be available?
What are we comparing the customer service to though? For ISPs google cannot do worse, it's impossible. I've used Verizon, AT&T, Charter, Time Warner and they all have terrible customer service, and I am understating it.
Isn't this the kind of mentality that is 'dangerous'?

"Why vote, I'm just 1 vote. It's not going to make any difference."

And you said you're not important enough that anyone would have noticed? So all the 'unimportant' people, when faced with difficult choices, should just roll over and go with the flow? (Not saying you made the wrong/right choice, but your reasoning is off.)

While you had to weigh a group of students' benefit from the talk against 1 missing out on some talk, this also could've been an opportunity for you to teach your students to a different kind of lesson.

I hate to say it but leaving a student alone waiting is pretty shitty.
I am arguing with you about it because it's worth arguing about.

There is such a thing called intuition. It just doesn't transcend the way the OP claimed it would.

Intuition is something you build via experience. It allow you to navigate even things you haven't been exposed to before. As long as you understand the basic premise of the context.

The general consensus and then point of the OP was to say that understanding the metaphor is enough to make you navigate two different paradigms just because you understand one of them and use metaphors to connect them . I.e. you can use intuition from one of them in the other. This is simply wrong and is not given at all.

Which leads me to say that intuition is learned. I.e. it's not some linear concept where everything fit together, but rather it exists de facto disconnected underneath the metaphors and concepts.