skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All guns are for one reason only - shooting bullets. Also, most firearm-involved homicides in the US are committed with handguns, a fact routinely ignored or brushed aside by those trying to keep the focus on the guns that are 'scarier', but usually less effective for criminal purposes. Knives kill more people per year than all other gun types combined.

The gun control debate in this country is effectively screwed because of the fact that there is a second amendment whose purpose is to ensure civilians remain armed well enough to defeat military occupation, and 'well enough' is being argued about by extremists who set tone of the entire debate.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ODAU_WF...
Numbers do get reused. I live in Paris and last year a friend freshly arrived from my hometown in Portugal was attributed the cellphone number (major French operator) from a german acquaintance of mine that had moved out of Paris a year before. She still gets text messages in German all the time.
This would singlehandedly kill 10-20% of Google's profits. Microsoft is playing a smart game, now that they have accepted that they cant beat Google in search/web-ads.
I feel like that fine print was implied, but yes.
Expat kiwi here. Unless something has changed in the last 5 years - security personal in New Zealand generally don't carry firearms and I don't believe there is a legal justification for lethal force. We don't have anything like the "Castle Law" found in some US States and gun owners rarely use firearms defensively. Also, if people dressed in black and armed with M4's are knocking on your door you can safely assume it's the Police in NZ.

It's hard to understand why they would raid his house like this.
Not sure if they're charging for incoming/outgoing but you could use this to set up a Google Voice number from outside the U.S.A.
I too was surprised by the comments. I thought the post was nice. It demonstrated their process for coming up with a new logo. It showed their thought process. It gave me an insight into how such things are done. An insight I didn't previously possess. A number of the comments to the redesign rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't down vote any of the comments but I didn't like tenor of them.

I did like their redesign though so this may skew my perception. I don't like Wikipedia's landing page. It's quite frustrating to me.
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Dunno, but I've all too often had a Clayton's boycott - the boycott you have when you aren't having a boycott. Perhaps we could email each other to exchange ideas?
I chose those two to start things off for two reasons: The first is that they stand out to me as pretty basic misspellings that don't appear in any sort of popular literature, so it speaks to someone's reading experience. You can take that for whatever importance it is to you, personally. The second reason is their frequency. If the unit of measurement was larger than a half-hour or hour, I could measure a bunch of other things (which I might still do). As it stands, anyway|anyways|yea|yeah occur 25k-70k times per 30 minutes.
Very cultural thing. I'd rather sit beside someone with a slight body odor than beside someone with a strong artificial deodorant perfume, especially when eating. Hope one day all these irrational and costly behaviors will go away. Another is shaving pubic hair, what a weird thing to do...
There is somewhat of an incentive to consciously misspell words on Twitter to save characters which muddles potential analysis like this.

Admittedly that doesn't apply here with "anyways" but it perhaps does with "yea". Perhaps throw out tweets over a certain length?
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> "People will get sick of the randomised takedowns,"

They haven't yet. And what rival content host has a better system?

I'd like to think people would demand better. But when it comes to free services, they generally don't.
Businesses don't get to negotiate with Visa and Mastercard. They negotiate with banks. And banks negotiate with large volume customers. That's why McDonald's can afford to take credit for a $1 ice cream cone without losing 33% of it to the card company.

Square has a lot of options in the way they process transactions, and they have a very high volume (now more so than ever)
So many invalid takedown requests (under the auspices of the DMCA, even if content ID pre-empts a formal DMCA request), and you stop honoring their content ID and/or takedown requests.

The problem is that such a strategy won't hold up in court. If I'm a content producer, and I file a thousand invalid DMCA takedown requests, YouTube still has to treat request #1001 as a valid request. If they don't, they're liable for contributory infringement, and on a site of the scale of YouTube, that can be a billion dollar liability.

Or at least then make them go through formal channels consuming the maximum amount of time before response and doing the most to coerce them to prove the validity of the request.

A DMCA takedown request is the formal channel. The only more formal channel than that is a lawsuit.
This could be the reason Facebook ads for pages pick up so many useless likes...
Yeah, it can be part of the answer. We have different departments so instead of announcing to everyone, maybe keeping it in the dept instead of agency wide?
> Perhaps the solution is to have legal weight (perhaps like 'Lawyer' or 'MD') behind the title, as countries like Canada have (the US has this to some extent, but it's not nearly as strong).

But here you're taking it for granted that professional licensure of software engineering is actually desirable, which is not at all agreed upon. Among the organizations against the notion are the ACM.
Well put. I'm the co-founder of a database startup called FoundationDB. One of our central philosophies is to decouple the logical data models our product supports from the physical one. In our case, we choose a core data model of an ordered, transactional key-value store, and built layers (http://foundationdb.com/#layers) from there to expose other data models.

However, decoupling the problem this way without true ACID transctions is very difficult. I think this is why there are so many NoSQL databases in the market with so many different data models; without transactions a change to a logical "record" cannot atomically update multiple physical "records" atomically.
Trello?
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i agree. it's a subconscious attempt to exert their ego even though they betas.
I think app sales a vastly overrated. In my last 15 years as a software developer, only once did a company pay me to make an application that was sold to people. As a customer, most of the software I use does not cost any money. There are only a few categories where app sales work: mostly consumable items like games or movies. Some tools are doing great as well. But most do not.

Most programs are written for business cases other than getting money from license sales to individuals.

Last year I wrote an Android app for a gambling company that now generates 4.5 million Euro in revenue every single month. And the app is not even in the Play store, you have to download it from a website that is embarrassingly hard to find. And the app can only be used in countries where gamling is legal.

We did not charge 99 cents for the app, and somehow there was money to pay my bills anyway.

Then there is the ebanking app I used today: free. And the hipmunk app I use to search for flights. Free. And the audible app. And the kindle app. And the facebook app. And the ebay app. And the Google Search app. And the wikipedia app. And an information app from my government. And the app that let's me see the TV program.

All free of charge. Still, there is a business model and good money behind almost all of these apps.

Again: there are definitely certain apps that you can sell for money, and statistics about how many people buy apps on each platform are of course interesting.

But app sales are not what makes a platform live or die. What makes a platform live or die is reach.

Android is currently in the hands of most people that own a smartohone. That includes rich people and poor people and those who buy apps and those who don't. If you want to reach people through their smartphones, then you want to make an app that runs on Android.
Unreal. How can such an awful website have $270 million on hand, and how can they be willing to spend it on another awful website?
Let’s Clear Up Some Details About Square’s Big Partnership With Starbucks
LibreOffice 3.6 released
It irks me (but only a little), because almost every licensing FAQ now has to have some caveat and say something to the effect of "by the way, Combat Engineer does not actually qualify as Engineering work." Maybe the answer is to simply add a similar caveat to Software Engineering in all of the FAQs until Software Engineering develops its own licensing process (which it should, since unlike some people I actually do think Software Engineering work is Engineering).

For example (note "combat engineers" is in quotes):

"Military experience?

All branches of the military have engineers doing genuine engineering work. In this regard, the military is just like any other employer, and the engineering work experience counts. However, work performed by "combat engineers", electronic repair technicians, and so on is generally not true engineering work." [1]

[1] http://ppi2pass.com/faqs/qualifying-to-take-the-licensing-ex...
Check your battery usage in the setting area. It'll tell you what's been using the battery.
The above is my personal experience, with absolute-zero story exaggeration. Though how long you'll need to apply the salt may vary (and how frequent you'll use it).

I don't have a preference for any brand (it's all the same) but here is what I have now: http://www.thecrystal.com/

You should be able to buy these in any good organic food and health store.
Sure. Companies often invest in other companies. Google Ventures is an example of this. Microsoft invested in Facebook then promptly integrated connect into Bing, Xbox Live and Outlook.com (with probably more to come).

Starbucks can benefit from the Square deal, invest in them, and help promote them all at the same time. Actually pretty brilliant.
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Watch "The Wire."
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This is why I'm so opposed to using the term "software engineering" to describe software development. I do agree that "engineer" is a term that shouldn't be used loosely - it is a prestigious term that indicates a high level of education and rigor. But there's a deeper reason - I absolutely reject any claim "engineering" (the PE kind) has over my work. If I use the term "engineer", I give more credibility to that claim.

An exam based in physical sciences would be a great way for people with an educational background in physical sciences to stake a claim on software, calling themselves "engineers" while everyone else is a mere developer or programmer, putting themselves at the top of the field.

I majored in Math and have an MS in Industrial Engineering. I think that it would make as much sense to make everyone prove that they've passed courses in Abstract Algebra and Real Analysis, and take a difficult exam involving proofs about optimization and convexity to be a "software engineer." And this time, I would get to be on the top of the totem pole instead of people who have a more physics and chemistry based education! I hope it's clear I'm being facetious here - I just want people who do advocate PE style licensing to get a sense of what it's like when people from a different field start telling you what you need to know and do to practice your craft.

I do understand that there are software elements to engineering systems, and it might make sense to have some sort of licensing around it. However, I have yet to see a professional association refrain from severe "scope creep", using their cartel-like power to establish arbitrary and unnecessary barriers to entry to restrict entry and jack up prices.

Software is kind of like engineering, but I agree with the author that it has more in common with mathematics. Seriously, it would make more sense to require a degree in math and an exam in path than a PE exam. And it would not make sense to require this kind of math.

My take on it is this - I am not an engineer, what I do is not engineering, and the PE folks have absolutely no legitimate claim on what I'm doing.
It's in the interests of Zionists to conflate "Jewish" and "Israeli" with "Zionist," then react to anti-Zionist sentiment as if it was anti-semitism.
The problem is that "safe harbor", as I understand it, is an all-or-nothing proposition. If they ditch the DMCA safe harbor clause for this one particular video, they're opening themselves up to liability for any and every video on YouTube. That is something that Google definitely does not want to consider.
This is most certainly not normal or accepted in NZ, and in case you missed it, the courts have ruled it was not legal, have asked the US to back up claims, and have not extradited Dotcom.
Wouldn't you still need to prevent the sweat in the first place? I mean even if it doesn't smell it is still annoying and visible on shirts, etc.

And there is no reason to sell a 1 usd stone. You can properly sell it for 50.
It's not about Wikipedia. It's about the declining ROI on online publishing, and the effect of Google Panda on their bottom line. Historically, noone visited about.com for reference on a topic.. they just stumbled upon it when they saw it ranking #1 for a keyword.
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I'm sure they've made similar comparisons, just look at the Samsung phones that preceded the iPhone. But if they have hundreds of other documents, I assume they would try to get them admitted into court in order to marginalize this document. And failing that, that they would leak it to the press in order to win popular support.
There is also SmartOS as well.
GNOME OS plans laid out
I can't believe people are actually debating this. Did you really expect a check box 'jogging with backpack' mode?

It's a quick and dirty calculation that google is making about routing. Im pretty sure the google walking routes wont take you through marshes or thick forests.
> Right, which makes it all the more important to ensure that when racism/sexism claims are made, they are made legitimately and not casually, lest they be used as examples to dismiss, or ignore, genuine issues.

Too frequently this line of argumentation is inflated and used to attack even legitimate claims of sexism/racism -- they can be used inappropriately turns into they are being used inappropriately halfway through the argument, and the entire point slides unchallenged.

> someone using a social smear tactic will make an appeal to the wider issue (e.g. "x is a horrible sexist, and we all know how bad those boys clubs are") to solicit agreement and rapport, thus strengthening their attack.

Exactly. Consider that this is easier and more powerful in the reverse direction from a majority/empowered group to a minority/under-powered group.
I agree. Anything that gets people interested in programming is good for the industry. Typically I try to steer people who are interested in trying out programming to scripting languages first. The benefit here is the learners get an expedient path to gratification. It's important that people experience the gratification that comes from building something before the ugly truth about how horribly complex these systems are sets in.
I assume this is incoming only? or can a Burner number be used to make calls and send texts? Either way, I see huge value in something like this (too bad you are iOS only). But the value is even greater if the Burner number can be used for out going communication.
Off topic, but I find it puzzling that there's basically a handbook for a subculture trying to be different. It seems like a logical impossibility for a subculture to actually be unique and different, when there's essentially a dress code (short hair, levis, dr martens). I'm not trying to make any value judgements on the subculture, just trying to understand.

Maybe the point is that the subculture / group itself is unique, and I'm mistaking that for individual uniqueness / individuality?
I would think that the majority of the overall usage of kitchen knives would be true to the designer's intention. Given that this app is available on the iPhone App Store, which every immoral spur-of-the-moment teenager has access to, and will likely abuse, it is definitely something that the developers should have considered.
You may be able to do it fast, but do you really learn anything new?
Yes, there were lots of solutions a while back, including Slick's predecessor ScalaQuery, but none of them were that developed and it required you to build a fresh object model from whatever legacy schema you had. Not difficult to automate, but with so many solutions and it being entirely unclear which would survive, it was difficult to justify even that minimal effort of converting and testing. In the end, I found a modified version of https://wiki.scala-lang.org/display/SYGN/Simplifying-jdbc to be best for my purposes at the time.
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This is some pretty tone-deaf PR considering all the patent lawsuits that are going on right now. If their database is as great as they say then this patent won't make or break them.
Well i think he is referring to Smart DataCenter, which runs on Smart OS etc.
Ok, I don't get it. What are they trying to do, and what problem are they trying to solve? Getting customers to refer their business?.. and why would someone want to do that? That's work, and they're not getting rewarded monetarily for it.
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Who doesn’t love Hadoop?
No, I don't think I am. I believe I addressed this when I said: "Efforts have been proposed to make Software Engineering part of this licensing process, but it seems to have a lot of push back."

As you indicated, ACM would constitute as (a major) part of that push back, so I don't see the contradiction.
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"We know things like MSG and artificial red food dies cause ADD in a large percentage of the population, though in North America we still allow it in our food - whereas in much of Europe such things are ban."

First, MSG has not been banned in Europe, and you can buy this food additive and use it for your own home cooking, I should know because I sometimes use it instead of salt. Second, you'll have a hard time finding an actual study proving the harmful effect of MSG, and links to websites with no credibility like rense.com doesn't count. It's not a coincidence that most links point to stuff like that on the first page of google when you search for MSG and they are popular among conspiracy nuts/fear mongers.

If you listen to the conspiracy theorists, MSG causes diabetes, alzheimer, autism, heavy migraine/headaches, parkinson, seizures, addiction to MSG itself.. stop propagating the bull*.
It will be there in iOS 6. The Passbook framework will allow Starbucks to create a representation of my existing Starbucks card in Passbook, which also starts laying the groundwork for NFC integration one day by beginning to replace the wallet.
I'm glad XFCE is finally getting the attention it deserves. It is clean, simple, usable, and well-designed. Gnome 3, while arguably having better design, has awful usability.
HN seems to focus a lot on execution. I want to say that I think it would have been better received if they had just taken the wikipedia full content download, taken a small subset of the data and actually just built the redesign as a live site with all of their proposed features. Then we could have just tried the original, the new, and see what really did or didn't work. As a side benefit, the designers themselves while doing this would also have made lots of adjustments going through this process and probably would have fended off a lot of the caustic comments.

Plus, if they actually had access to coders who could take a full image of wikipedia, div it up and refactor it to a db, then wpredesigned.com could actually run as a real site, with hourly updates from wikipedia merged in automatically.
There are multiple sets of infinite size. Lets take two: the set of all whole numbers (1,2,3,4...) and the set of even numbers (2,4,6,8...).

Now since the set of whole numbers contains the set of even numbers AND the set of odd numbers the set of whole numbers MUST be bigger than the set of even numbers. So now we know that there are different 'sizes' of infinite (when comparing sets of infinite things).

This leads to the dangerous thought that there might be something MORE infinite than God which is an abomination. Since only god is infinite.

This kind of logic makes me cry.
Sample size is the anyway|anyways|yeah|yea instances. I get those as they get posted, so that's why it fluctuates with time. Since they're so commonly used, it should incidentally give you an idea of all of Twitter's load. I'm also grabbing some other words that I haven't implemented on the clientside yet, but I don't include them in the sample size.

HN comments tend to be more varied and sparse, so I think you're right that measuring yea:yeah, etc. wouldn't be too enlightening. That said, I've noticed a defined qualitative shift in HN comments over the past few months, and I'd like to develop ways of measuring that before they reach Reddit/Twitter levels.

As for your last point, I could track individuals but a relational comparison based off of /all/ data would be pretty difficult due to the number of comments vs. the few number of any individual's comments. Also, ARI isn't a great metric (hence me putting it in a tiny graph) because it measures chars instead of syllables. For example, "FFFFFUUUUUUUUU" has the same score as "constructivism".
This reminds me of a fantastic radio show I used to listen to in Canada called the Age of Persuasion (http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/age-persuasion-from-cbc-r...). Great read.
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brain, memory
Seriously though there are lots of licit uses:

-girl goes out to to pull. Gives her number freely knowing that it's only good for a few days.

- enter online competitions that might be spam. Advertise a job without getting onto a HR spam list

- Sell a used monkey online without fear of monkey spam

- Put up an MVP for a salsa lesson in Denmark. Get a local number using the app you already know about from the monkey business

- Set up sales meeting with your competitors (define licit..)

- Inform on your boss

- Call your uncle in Iran

I'm sure there are lots more. Who doesn't have some temporary/secondary email addresses?
They don't avoid it; it's still CDDL, and it's still incompatible. This means that it can't be shipped within the kernel itself, so you have to build a module (which is marked as tainted) for your particular kernel. OpenAFS has this same issue BTW.

http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue
I'd say "how to sites".do:

"how do I fix my refrigerator?"
"what's the cheapest insurance?"
Ha. The last link (points to a FeeFighters blog post) has the hallmarks of a "next big thing"--namely, dismissed first as a "toy".

cf. http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...
I am more sinned against than sinning, when it comes to respect for privacy.
I completely agree with this. As a programmer HUD is the only thing keeping me on unity. Gnome 3 is _way_ more stable on all of my computers and I prefer it aesthetically.
Vestidos de Novia
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I'd rather be consistently right.
One thing that surprised me about American TV is just how many adverts were for medical products. Every time I watch TV here I find out about another dozen or so problems I didn't know I had that need to be cured.
You have access to infinite payphones just outside your door?

More seriously: what's wrong with asking developers to think about what their creations are enabling?