skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What democracy has to do with that sentence at all? We are speaking about religious tension in countries and how it is handled in India and other countries. As well noting that India is doing better here.
I'll agree that the Constitution is horribly outdated in many situations and that the amendment process is unnecessarily complex.

But this is one situation that DID exist in 1787. Surely there were criminals in big(ish) cities, and surely the press was reporting on those criminals. Perhaps social media makes press errors more damaging, but the principle—protecting the privacy of criminals and victims—very much existed back then.
In response to everyone who has responded (or will respond) to you, Thomas Friedman is an idiot[1]. The only logical conclusion I can come to about why he is still a regular op-ed columnist for the NYT is that he has some blackmailable material on a member of the Sulzberger family[2].

[1] "he displays a stunning lack of basic cognitive function" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/an-idiots-guide-t...

"You wonder why people have stopped thinking for themselves? Maybe because verbose gasbags like Thomas L. Friedman will do all their thinking for them, no matter what the subject." http://bradfordschmidt.com/bitf/thomas-friedmans-brain-is-ho...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times
Media Responsibility During Tragedies
And you can only domesticate a dog by hacking its pack instinct to make it follow you instead of another dog anyway. No such hook with a cat.
Is there any evidence that healthcare would help with this situation?
Outlawing - at least if you are not police officer or soldier - is not a straw man at all. Only recently we got a SCOTUS decision that proclaimed US citizens have right to own guns, and that was a close one too. Before that, many places existed where private ownership of guns was essentially banned, and many still exist now, even though with the new decision they will be eventually phased out. However, people that instituted these bans are still in power in those places, and they very well intend to put a good fight and make obtaining legal guns as difficult as is could be without running afoul of the law, and probably more difficult just to see if they can get away with it.

Regulation of guns would absolutely help nothing unless you ban possession of guns by healthy individuals without criminal record or any other problems - because you can not predict people going crazy, and you can not eliminate all sources of obtaining weapons by somebody very smart, very determined and having absolutely no moral problem to lie or commit any unethical or criminal behavior. In fact, even completely removing all guns from law-abiding citizens would not change that - criminals will still have guns. Only coordinated campaign of terror and totalitarian control from the state - something of Soviet or North Korean measures - can make guns relatively unavaliable to common person. If you doubt that, think about how much successful were governmental efforts to make illegal drugs unavailable.

Given that, I would rather live with relatively small threat of psychos than in a totalitarian state needed to get rid of the threat of psychos.
Thanks for bringing this case which shows the complexity of the issue.
>by this logic, shouldn't you be able to buy IEDs and RPGs (and launchers) at walmart?

Yes, that was the thinking of the time. However, RPGs did not yet exist. Notice what you quoted me saying. "The purpose of the second amendment was..." That is past-tense.

Obviously in today's age the original scope of it must be limited. I don't even support the idea that everyone should have an absolute right to a gun. There should be some regulation, but outright outlawing guns? I am glad that I can say I'm confident that it won't happen across the entire US any time soon.

I believe they should have about the same level of regulation as automobiles. Both are deadly. Yet, with proper training and mental clarity, they are both useful and safe.
The whole point of the 2nd amendment is to be able to form a militia if the government gets big and tries to take your liberty. You don't need artillery, just a small percentage of resistance like the small percentage that fought the british
<<Your last two comments may be the stupidest things I have ever heard>>
Damn! Do you guys even read the comments before typing out these pithy replies?
The guy(LatterJohn) clearly said he is coming from the OPs son's perspective. That means he had the same issues OP's kid has. In my dictionary that means he has more knowledge about this stuff than you(unless you too are autistic). He is just telling what it's like being somebody with autism/aspy from his personal experience and you are calling it "stupid"? This is exactly what is wrong with "normal" people like you, who try to model "not-normal" people with your "normal" context of life!
Well Hitler was pro banning guns for a reason and so does any other tyrannical regime. Here is what happens shortly after:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15KLhgZaRvc
He's doing it all in the DOM, that's very interesting... I'm not sure how that's going to pan out in the long run. Wouldn't someone typical do this sort of thing on a canvas?
>15 of the 25 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took place in the United States. In second place is Finland, with two entries.

That's a bit of a disparity.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/n...
just to be clear, I am not saying you should ban handguns. Or saying that the constitution writers should have foreseen all weapons of the futue.

Just saying that if the purpose of the Second Amendment were to promote the ability of the populace to fight tyranny, then citizens should probably be able to access all military grade weapons short of nukes or other WMD (maybe those too?).

I am not taking a stance against that position,just pointing out that it takes some weird mental contortions to be have citizens be have a constitutional right to buy a high magazine hand gun, but not (say) a mortar, or RPG, a grenade launcher, or even an HMG. The former provides defence against tyranny, but the latter don't?
Well put. College is a constrained optimization problem, and real life is not. The only way to figure that out is to live it.

As an aside, I know a lot of people here on HN find your comments to be overly aggressive, but I love them. Keep it up.
Thinking the unthinkable: boys of single mothers have bad outcomes.
Assume everything is recorded. don't expect anything less
I tried to go add an account via the iOS app - was told, "Couldn't Execute Requests".

I guess on the flip side, it makes me feel better about PhotoStream uptime. :-)
yes, and just as muskets were probably the most effective weapons for the resistance then, so RPGs and IEDs are, today. And so (following logically from the 2nd amendment) citizens should be able to buy and stock them. Or can the potential oppressors decide what weapons the opposing militia may have?

How can you promote handguns, but not RPGs (if the logic of promoting handgun availability is that it enables resistance to tyranny)? Or, looking at it the other way, how can you ban RPG/IED purchases, but not ban handguns?
Amazing site - actually reminds me a little of the Million Dollar homepage :)
> "You decide where to store photos"

This is the main reason why I decided to remove the photos I share with friends out of such services and create a minimal gallery in my own web site.
This is great news, yes, but past failure to delegate is evident here.

Also life happens while making other plans.

So I welcome the announcement and I'll be super happy once umpteen long-waiting pull requests are processed.

But somehing tells me, don't hold my breath.
If I want to fly to Latin America from Europe, I'd rather make the stop for the second plane in Europe, and then go straight to Latin America, than make the stop in US. I just don't want to deal with TSA in any way, especially after stories that now they even have data on what you tweeted and stuff like that, and they can take you aside or even arrest you for a while because of that.

Will TSA consider me "suspicious" just because I tweeted articles such as this one? Or maybe some Wikileaks-related articles or some OWS articles? That is ridiculous, and I don't even want to risk that by flying through the country, let alone want to live there (which is something I really wanted to do before). The world's view on America is changing fast and the view is increasingly more negative.

The world wants America to be its role model, something to aspire to, and a place where they want to live in. It doesn't want to see an America as the bully of the world, or a bully even of its own citizens. So yes, I do think this will impact tourism, cloud businesses, as well as other type of businesses, if they keep going down this road of increasing surveillance and more government abuses, not only against Americans, but against foreigners, too.
My first processor was a Z80! :)
Just because a site makes money doesn't make it good. Think about how much more they could make if they actually invested in a half-decent web presence.

My housemate used this site recently to try and order some stuff and was almost reduced to tears !
Glad to hear your brother could end up somewhere happy. My younger brother fits the same archetype but is only 17.
Yeah, thanks for correcting me.

I joined a bit later, remember? ;)
This is well accepted. Also,Erdos was and is far from alone in this.
And they also become President of the United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Again, total prevention is a straw man. No-one is claiming that total prevention is an achievable goal. (Massive) reduction is.

I am a pilot. It is said the FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations) are written in blood. We still have fatal accidents from time to time, but they have been reduced by an almost incredible amount, especially considering how much air travel has increased.

Yeah, you could argue that the fundamental problem is that people want to travel and that the laws of physics are not favorable for the safety of air travel (gravity and all that). However, throwing your hands up in the air and saying we can't do anything without addressing the fundamentals is fundamentally and provably wrong.
Its not clear how your awesome quote relates to the article.
In france there are pools of bikes to rent in big cities. There are many pools in many places so that you cant pick a bike in one place and leave it at another. These bikes could benefit from such gear system. It has to be extreamly robust to common usage with user not carring about the bike or hardly now how to bike. The bikes are cheap and I think the first half hour is free. Howerver it is a profitable business. So there might be use cases where this product could be a good fit. Its weight seems however to be a bit excessive. Its called vélib.
The latter do, and I think there are quite a few people who probably believe they should have a right to those items. I'm personally not aligned with their beliefs.

Obviously we can go uphill with this until the argument caps out at nuclear power. I believe that personal small-arms are probably at least enough to make an escape if troops were sent out to capture you and take you to an internment camp or something (which by the way, they are trained to do) -- it should be considered that if the government really did become tyrannical, that a lot of the military would rebel as well.
My wife and I bought Carcassonne because it could be played with only 2 people. But it's one of our favorite games because it's never the same game twice!
> I'm moving all of my machines and family/friend machines in the next few months to Win8

So you're pushing expensive closed systems on everyone around you, but you're thanking Google for the "forced motivation"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
The United States also has more than 50 times the population of Finland. Normalize!
http://d3js.com/ -> http://d3js.org/
Talk this over with a molecular biologist. Its never gonna happen. Some pathologies are (or have components that are) hereditary. Of those things, a handful are specific gene mutations or groups of mutations. These mental illnesses are so poorly understood... None (to my knowledge) have been shown to be genetic. And its not just that we haven't found the underlying genetic reason. There probably isn't an underlying genetic cause! These systems are so complex, and DNA is only one piece of the puzzle. Epigenetics is a field that isn't getting enough public attention. Its probably responsible for much of the more nuanced hereditary pathologies and patterns that people observe.
I agree with the premise. But were they really not fundable? :-) I believe investors were running after them (funny thing is 5 of them had Sequoia as institutional investor, in fact first VC for 4). Also all of them worked like a charm. In fact, when you used Google and YouTube for first time I bet your reaction must be "wow, this just works". At least, that's how I felt.
It's the responsibility of people in technology to design systems to defeat passive surveillance as a baseline. Defeating simple active-attack assisted monitoring (mitm with a different cert, etc.) is a nice additional step, and being able to resist targeted attack is basically beyond what we can do now, most of the time, but we should try.
I should clarify: I used to work there but I sometimes still say "we".

I'm not a ganglia wizard - maybe this comes close? Although it's just all selects. I think.

http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/graph_all_periods.php?ti...

You might try asking on wikitech-l, the same mailing list that the original post comes from.
> Regulating guns ... ameliorates the problem of how much damage a mentally disturbed person can do.

No, it makes it much worse. We want the violent lunatics to have guns, because guns are not particularly fast or efficient at killing people. A lone gunman can kill at most a few hundred people before he is stopped.

You know those nightclub fires that kill hundreds of people in ten minutes? We want our nutjobs to have guns so they will not be forced to recreate a nightclub fire on a stadium scale, followed by decades of copycats.
Outlawing is a straw man in that it is not the only option for regulation that would help. These things are not booleans!

Countries with much tighter gun regulations than the US don't outlaw guns. They also don't prevent 100% gun violence. They just have less of it. A LOT less.

So "Regulation of guns would absolutely help nothing" is just plain false. It would help some, as the numbers clearly state. It would not prevent everything, but that's not the same as it would "help nothing".
Well, is not IAS kind of a counterargument?
AFAIK it is a pretty "democratic" place to work...

I, in general, believe that single-mindedness is really hurting science - truly brilliant people do not tolerate this mkind of environment.
Bubba too. Unfortunately, the plural of anecdote is not data. Statistically, children of single moms fare poorly. I am curious as to the degree that it is different beween single fathers and single moms.
great advise - thanks
I wonder if something else can be said.

Egyptians are almost twice as wealthy as Pakistani's or Indians. Either of these directions would terrify the Egyptian people who are not used to that level poverty. Egypt's own fiscal cliff is worrying many residents. I think the winner will be the person who can promise stability - and stability is not possible without concessions to secular forces within Egypt.

I see something like Mubarak reappearing, it is not unreasonable to say that Egyptians aren't ready for western democracy - especially considering the grievous financial condition of their government.

A successful politician in Egypt will unite stabilizing and not revolutionary forces to solve the economic discontent.
Police records are routinely exchanged between various countries. This is an entirely different matter.
"Pre-crime"

You thought it was a movie, now it's reality. Soon, it'll be something you get arrested for. Mark my words.
LogMeIn and DocuSign investigate email breach
OpenGL is a C API. This is an acceptable pattern for a language at the level of C, without such features as exceptions, multiple return values or sum types.

Which is not the case of PHP, which has both multiple return values (kind-of) and exceptions, and had them long before the json* functions where added.
He is in the mountains chopping wood with his girlfrend?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Humans vs Dolphins
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams
Same experience here, i kept my laptop in a socket almost every day for 2 years only bringing it out maybe once a month. The battery was as good as new until i forgot it completely uncharged for 2 weeks when it overnight reduced its 2h capability into more like 2 minutes.
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Not only is Shuttleworth's reference to McCarthyism extremely distasteful (and something he should be apologizing for), the bitter irony is that he's doing exactly what he accuses the free software fundamentalists of, to quote the man himself: "ranting and being a dick".

Throwing a near-Godwin into the debate is not exactly being mature an constructive.

Especially since he should be fully aware that it may be in the short term interest of FLOSS to be pragmatic, we need voices like RMS and the FSF to remain alert for the long term consequences, and dismissing such a voice as dangerous political extremists hurts everyone.
Nothing new, move on :(
Not surprising. Consider the government to be dreaming about 1984 and prepare to deal with it now.
I suspect it only goes the other way mainly in such minor, insignificant cases to build up the stats to satisfy the bilateral agreements, which go back for a long time.

This is what Churchill meant by "special relationship" and the agreement which Tony Benn oversaw when he was in office. The price set for the Polaris was Her Majesty's subjects' data. All of it.

My brother answered no because whilst he was arrested he was never charged or convicted

-> http://craphound.com/littlebrother/

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/21783-the-government-is-profili...
Is "wanting to kill people" really so far from the norm as to have a gene associated with it? What would the gene be responsible for, "Propensity to give a fuck about other living beings"? Because in my mind, the line between being "sane" and killing everyone in sight is pretty fine.

One's logic could go like this, "Man, everything sucks, and those kids down at the preschool are always so damn happy. Fuck Them. If I'm not happy no ones gets to be happy. Lock and load assholes." Suddenly you've got another tragedy. I would imagine people that are suicidal sometimes feel like this. Maybe it depends on how introverted or extroverted they are. The introverts disappear quietly in the dead of night, and the extroverts start mowing down pedestrians in the town square and then blow their brains out standing on the Mayor's statue.

If a gene could be isolated for "suicidal tendencies" and also for intro/extro we might be able to reduce future events like this. But just because someone is a suicidal extrovert that hates everyone it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to start killing people. Maybe the ones that don't are just pussies and the gene for "guts" or "courage" would also have to be isolated?

I don't know I'm just rambling. I ask myself why I don't kill my neighbors. Is it because I'm "sane"? Well I guess so, if "liking others" and not wanting them to be sad is a characteristic of sane people. But I firmly believe that there's a tiny slice of murderer in all sane people, and I like to think of people like Adam Lanza as having just a bigger slice, because putting them in a different category of "mentally ill" sort of feels like I'm denying a part of my own nature.
It's interesting to consider that if the mother, by keeping the troubled child "Michael" in the middle class artificially, she is some how enabling a possible shooter (but still unlikely).

If the child was shunned now, sure, he'd end up homeless in LA, but he would be so busy struggling with his daily existence that he wouldn't have the resources or time to go on a mass rampage.

The father seems to understand this.
I don’t understand, but what exactly is your problem with the article? I couldn’t find anything where he so much as indicated that India isn’t a democracy or a republic. He speaks very highly of India.
Exactly

If you can't fill the application form, you're already out

I guess it makes sense, if you can hack (in the traditional meaning of the word) something outside of 'tech' this shows that you understand something about entrepreneurs sometimes having to play with the rules or thinking outside of the box (which does not mean doing something illegal)
UI and Capability
Hardware makers don't like sync or standards. They like platform lock in and exclusivity to motivate buyers into buying their product over a competitors, or buying both. Honestly, the steam box will end up being an x86 processor of some description with some ddr3 memory and a discrete gpu of some kind, designed to run games well at 1080p, and they will probably use some kind of boot-to-steam system (I mean steam has its own web browser and everything already!) where they replace the usual DE with just big picture Steam.
Everything we "know" about the inside of a black hole is speculation - there is no way we can observe what's going on inside.

That said, from just inside the black hole - what is "down"? Towards the singularity? Does that even make sense when you'll hit the singularity no matter what direction you travel?

From the POV of the photon, nothing special happens. You get emitted, you move towards the singularity, and then we have no idea what happens next. You might happen to take a longer path, but that's it.
The interface is bad on iPad. I can't zoom the text. It's stressing to read with so small text. Reading to the end, the back button makes you skip back through all the pages.

This guy is not doing what he says people should do. He uses the latest fancy web page UX where he should use a well proven UX but maybe boring. Do what he say not what he does.
"I've seen this exact same layout on this exact same site."

Dude.
Outbursts can, from what i've seen, be a final attempt to manipulate somebody. If every time you bring up death/suicide, and you get what you want, well then... why wouldn't that child try that technique again.
So the UK isn't a “democracy” in the western sense then?
All reasons to watch them fall, none grounds to declare them dead yet.
As somebody who has dealt with the mental health care system without and with mental health care... absolutely yes.
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Wow, a felon?

Millions of americans take amphetamines or similar substances every day legally, by the name of Ritalin, Adderall and others.
Hm... apparently I can't do math in my head :(
> using “predictive pattern-matching,” to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior

Here we are again : authoritarianism being rationalized.
This is the standard NRA line. It's not about guns, its about mental illness. But in fact its about the intersection of easy access to guns and mental illness. It's terrifically hard to screen for mental illness. It's stupidly easy to restrict access to guns.
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