skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I would start by measuring the magnitude of mass shootings as a problem... That’s an average of 18 deaths per year. For comparison, three times as many die from lightning strikes."

This is a bullshit red herring designed to ignore 99.8% of the gun homicides that take place each year in the US [1]. Gun control works to control much more than just mass shootings.

[1] Using 8K as a rough estimate for annual gun deaths from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushomicidesbyweapon.svg
>then I don't really see how thats any different than traditional marketing / product development.

Bingo
The scale and total harmfulness of a mass murder incident is increased dramatically with access to weapons designed and manufactured for military personnel to kill as many people as possible with maximally engineered effectiveness.

In China, where guns are generally (if not totally) banned, they've had a problem with citizens going on murderous rampages in schools with swords and knives. So yes, the lack of guns is not necessarily decreasing murderous intent. But look at something interesting: all 22 victims of the most recent China rampage survived (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/12/14/china-sc...). If this man had a bushmaster, he'd have done a lot better.

Murder with highly refined weapons of war is much more effective than murder without. Removing assault weapons designed for wars would not necessarily decrease the count of incidents but would decrease the harmfulness of those incidents.
By paying nothing for it, you are telling CAH that that is exactly how much you think their product is worth to you. Nothing. If I were them, I would be a little bit hurt to see that.
It's closer to "NP-but-not-weaker". NP-complete also means you can convert other NP problems into them, which isn't necessary.
You're absolutely right; I have done a fair amount of tactical learning and training and have been shooting since 1st grade or so in 1967 (sic). Tasers can be ignored by many people and defeated by thick clothing and perhaps leather jackets.

If you desperately need to stop someone ASAP, rubber bullets are subpar unless they approach lethal energies, for obvious reasons, and a lot of school teacher types wouldn't be able to wield such weapons effectively. Your guess is correct.
Seeing this resolution to the mystery made my day. It's refreshing to see that all this buzz was the result of a glorious postal mishap, not a concerted effort to hijack our attention with a viral marketing stunt.
The C# community is trying. It's hard to separate C# the language from C# the Microsoft product. People just have it in their minds that you're stuck with the MS tools and libraries. Things like Nancy and Albacore is where C# should be headed.
You keep being needlessly harsh and bitter, that’s not exactly something that invites me to continue a conversation.
Obviously military use is quite different from civilian use. I was really trying to address the part of the original article which suggested that this technology might make its way into civil life.
It's not a fair question. It's a terrible question because every charity has their own merits, and any ensuing discussion is not fruitful and only causes conflict. What's makes it even worse is your self-righteous tone.

Your unfair question basically boils down to "My worthy cause is more worthy than your worthy cause!"
Please, sign up on http://bugreport.apple.com/ and post your report there! :)
My experience in trying to use $1 coins has convinced me that the US probably won't change soon. None of the cash drawers have a space for them. I witnessed more than a little consternation on the part of tellers who couldn't figure out what to do with the money I had just given them. More than that, it means that $1 coins aren't necessarily being given back out as change; easier for the store to just send it back to the bank.
Only the Holiday pack was pay what you want. The base game is $25 or free to print.
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Congratulations to Parisa!

It's good to see security represented on the list, and Parisa's work at Google makes her a brilliant choice.
Remember it's an amendment. Which means it can be repealed. We also at one point had an amendment outlawing all liquor and then another that repealed it. The inverse could be done easily with the 2nd.

This is something that often goes without mentioning, so thanks for bringing it up.

The founders were not idiots. They did not want to create a set of stone tablets, a collection of unchangeable holy texts. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution were intended to be changeable, living documents, adaptable to the times.

Maybe it's time to question whether or not the status quo can scale and remains consistent with our societal values.
Thanks again for bothering!

We will work on this and I would be delighted if you would give it another try after this Friday.
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

I'm not sure that Dicken's or pop culture calculated that our laughter and good humor might cause the disease and sorrow. Current Christmas culture just accentuates the problem that the average consumer is born into a world where it is often unclear how daily decisions affect the rest of the world.
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This is more of what I was getting at; back when she was first up-and-coming and becoming a clear contender. Not x amount of albums and globally sold-out shows later. And to the sibling comment's point, I do actually think she's less influential than she has been in the past.
A version of Shor's algorithm applies to elliptic curve crypto:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.8.38...
Me too.

(And (dreaming (in Lisp)) is (really weird).)
"When our politicians do something like this to us, it makes me want to become more conservative, and just never vote "yes" to anything that could have -- and in this case, did have-- hidden gotchas no matter how principled the ideal might be."

It sounds like you're looking for reasons to become more conservative.

It has been quite clear to all residents that the state of California has been in trouble for a couple of years now. Teachers being let go en masse, school districts seeing cuts in state funds, and state services from campsites to the DMV being cut.

The text of the Prop. 30 tax increase was originally finalized in March 2012, was sponsored by the Governor, and received a big push from him. The original text of what became Prop. 30 was developed by the Governor in 2011 (http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i1035_11-0...).

If you're significantly affected by this increase in marginal tax rates (an extra 1% for individuals over $250K/couples over $500K, up to 3% for individuals over $500K/couples over $1M), you should be aware of these issues, or be paying someone who is.
I really wish some service (such as Fon) would provide a vpn service that I could setup and automatically route all guest traffic through. This way Fon could establish themselves as an ISP, and be protected legally (common carrier), and I wouldn't have to worry about what people are doing with my wifi.

I've also though about setting up a guest network that routes over Tor. This way none of the traffic could be traced back to me.

Basically, I would love to provide free wifi for neighbors to use that is limited to a few mbps, but I don't want to have to deal with the legal risks associated with this.
This scares me about modern culture (at least that of middle class America). In grade school, I really enjoyed making things. Simple things, like creatures out of paper clips. To me that was more enjoyable than watching pre-made shows, or playing pre-made games.

When I discovered computers, it became even more fun to make things - websites, animations, scripts to make chemistry homework automatic, etc. My classmates would spend the same amount of time discussing who was the best at throwing pig-skin balls in an arena, or how funny that last South Park episode was.

Now that was before every kid had an portable entertainment system on hand for 24 hours a day, with interfaces tailored for consumption, and operating systems discouraging fiddling. I can only imagine the maker culture is dwindling, especially in younger generations. Is there a way to fix this?
They should have randomized the default value within a range that automatically narrowed / increased proportionally against the trending of people accepting the default. They could have optimized their return pretty quickly. 'Pay what you want' can be used for both publicity AND pricing optimization.
Being a proposition, does the legislature have any responsibility involved in the unfairness of this retroactive tax? Isn't the responsibility of a proposition in the hands of the voters, thus making it really important for voters to do their research? The blog post should be laying the blame on us voters.
I wouldn't go as far to say crowdfunding is indeed true innovation. As a society, we've been using this method for a long time, again, we've just created a website to make the access to cash flow a lot easier. However, with the advent of crowdfunding, I do see more creative projects being worked. But are these projects innovative? Granted, most innovation requires time and extensive research. I'm just worried that we have not spent the time to invent meaningful things. We are obsessed with the word "Entrepreneur" and the quick buck that comes along. The link you've provided is a great example of how crowdfunding should be used to fund real innovation.
The original Kindle was priced competitively for its day. It was better than all of the other e-readers of its time in almost every regard, and in the most important aspect, book selection, it wiped the floor of the competition.
Heh, VAX assembly language is arguably [1] the peak of the CISC instruction set movement.

[1] Some folks that x86 has taken that crown away as it continues to become more specialized but instruction 'feature sets' are, to my way of thinking, somewhat different than the base architecture.
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perhaps we could employ retired police officers as "school guards".

They have the training. Many of them are still in their 40s and 50s.
First two points make sense as reasons why people wouldn't pay, but I'm not sure how you get from those to your conclusion. Why do those two things not apply to other examples?
True. It is kind of interesting how often the "well-regulated" part is overlooked. To regulate something is to control it. So... there is that.
My comment wasn't directed at Will.I.Am specifically. Just the overall hype surrounding the "need" to code by everyone in the past year. I can't comment on him specifically but I do hope he's doing it for the right reasons.

That said, thats not necessarily saying much about whether or not he is only doing it now because the hype lead the perception there. Its a bit like doing a startup with a focus solely on fame and money. While there is nothing wrong with that, I sure hope the person doing so has a passion for what he does. Coding does give a person an amazing gift, but I hope thats not the only reason to do something.

But then again, who am I to judge why someone should or shouldn't do something.
Hacker fuel: lifeguard's red beans & rice/potato/noodle recipe
Save money, be healthy, eat good food!

Every Monday I cook some red beans.

99 cents for 8 servings of dry red beans. One serving is over 33% RDA for protein, 15% Iron, 10% Vitamin C. Add rice or potato and you are
full! 5 lbs of potatoes is 1 - 3 dollars. Ramen 99 cents for 4 - 8 packs.

1. before you go to sleep for the night, put 1/2 cup of dried red beans in pot full of cold water to soak at least 8 hours (or bring to a boil, let set for 10 min, change water and follow recipe)

2. two hours before you want to eat, start cooking beans: drain old water, add 3 cups fresh water and bring to a boil, then reduce to a low simmer for around an hour

3. add 2 spoons wershishire sauce, 2 spoons catsup, 4 spoons oil, salt, pepper, bay leaves, oregano, basil , hot sauce. add optional chopped onion/garlic/bell pepper/jalapeño and simmer for 40 more minutes

4. use a big spoon to smoosh 1/4 of beans against side of pan to thicken sauce and start boiling water to cook rice/potato/noodle.
About 20 minutes.

Serve beans over rice/noodles.

OR -- just cut a potato into chunks and throw into pot to cook for 20 minutes

OR -- just throw in a ramen noodle packet in beans and cook last 10 min

OR -- microwave/bake a big potato and pour beans over this with some fresh chopped onion if avail.

Make a double size batch and save half of it and make burritos or whatever in a few days.
Actually I think 10x cpu for encryption is perfectly feasible on modern hardware. 100x perhaps not.
Universal healthcare is debated because it has to be paid for by other parties. No one is suggesting the govt. should be buying people guns. One is a positive right and the other a negative right, as they used to say.
Interesting angle. Good idea.
Yes, hobbyist electronic kits were available, both in the US and the UK, in the 90s.
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Argh, I saw this two weeks ago, did a "remember to buy this when you get home" thing, and then forgot. I hope the expansion cards are made available somewhere. I enjoy CAH and am glad to send money as new bits are made available.

It'd be interesting to see if the "pay what you want" strategy works for you guys a second time now that you released such detailed data. You'd think it might make people more likely to pay exactly your equilibrium point just to see if they can get away with it.
Treasure Data Working as an Alternative to Hadoop
It is plausible, but on the other hand, how rare are fires in schools? We extensively prepare for those (and as it goes, something like 19 out of the top 20 mass murders in the US were arsons).

"Readily available" can be addressed by concealed handguns that aren't too easy to get to; you might have to give an attacker a "first bite of the apple" in favor of making them too accessible. On the other hand, a few M4s in a quick to open safe in the principle's office ought to be doable, as long as the staffers there have the right attitudes, to "march towards the sound of canons".

And it's attitude above all that needs to be addressed, we don't take this threat seriously, perhaps in part because it's quite new as these things go (we'll ignore the far more deadly 1927 Bath school massacre done with explosives).

This school had a crust defense; once the perimeter was compromised by the attacker shooting out a window (according to the latest never very reliable reports) there was nothing left but for the teachers to interpose their bodies between the shooter and their charges. Which was no obstacle to him (one does wonder what it takes for someone who doesn't seem to have suffered from schizophrenia or mania to shoot a bunch of 5-6 year old children 3-11 times each ... I admit the existence of evil, won't claim to ever really understand it).
Gates never said that.
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Instagram's new terms of service allow them to use you for their adverts.
MySQL Minutiae: Table Engines
You're embarrassed by a successful entrepreneur?

Can you explain to me what is embarrassing to you?

Is it the making money part?

Is it the understanding a market and serving it part?

Is it the education and knowledge sharing to better energize and expand the market part?

Is it the persistence, perseverance and timing part?

Is it the creation of a legion of folks who never would have participated had they not been given the encouragement and clear marketplace part?

Is it the successful marketing part?

Or is it some other part that I have failed to mention? We live in a world where people made billions selling tobacco, blood diamonds, sub-prime mortgages and Justin Bieber albums. But even without those, I can see very little embarrassing about an entrepreneur channeling passion into advocacy and sales of products customers clearly value.
I can see now why one would assume differently, but it has always kind of been my assumption that if a change to the tax code was approved before the end of the tax fiscal year, that the changes would possibly affect my taxes for that tax year. After all I always received tax breaks in the same year that they were approved.
I wish for something like this + https://telegr.am/ :)

With Telegr.am I could do most of the edits locally and check it in to GitHub.

With this I could do small adjustments, changes while at the customer etc. and still have the full history archived in GitHub.
Beautiful iOS mail app
App looks amazing. Looking forward to the possibility of replacing Sparrow!
Here is a non fantasy... You want to want to make the vulnerable defenseless. You are a despicable person.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I think more embarrassing are characters like Bre Pettis, who take an open source project(reprap) commercialize it, and then proceed to not open source their derived works.
Outside of higher-yield weapons like bombs, guns are the fastest, lightest and easiest-to-use methods for murdering the most number of people in the shortest amount of time.

It seems insane to me (as a Canadian citizen) that the pro-gun folks continue to peddle that safety comes from increasing the number of "responsible" carriers. Here are the issues that I see with this:

1. The assumption that all gun users are trained and responsible. It seems obvious to compare this to other licensees such as drivers and you'll immediately see that it is not a valid argument. There are terrible drivers on the roads with valid licenses, who have presumably been trained with a lot of experience. The barrier to entry is even higher in that the cost of a vehicle is higher than a weapon.

2. How do you differentiate the good vs. bad in a situation such as Aurora? If you see a number of random strangers running around with guns in hand, few of whom would have any sort of melee training outside of video games, who do you shoot at? Where does the liability lie if one innocent murders another innocent by mistake?

3. The number of guns will increase (as they are now). With more lying around either forgotten or marginally broken, it increases the availability for non-licensed usage as I doubt responsible users dispose of their weapons appropriately (see item 1).

I say all this fully recognizing the gun's position as a tool, strongly advocating mental health reform and even supporting the OP's position of rational rather than emotional response to Newtown.
Fair enough.

(I mean: I'm pretty new to the community, so thanks for the heads up. Live 'n learn, right?)
Amazon bought a digital marketing agency in NYC a few years ago, they often make smalll buys that later are related to major offering they make a few years later.

I think the great tension for all of this will be, Amazon can sell almost anything itself so if they're selling you ad space it's value to them is going to be less than the price you paid. Amazon is pretty smart, thus I suspect it will often be a bad deal to buy Ads from them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010–2...
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Consumers can't really take any action on their own, but ISPs can. Microsoft has been pretty active in this regard. My understanding is they use this to file charges against John Doe spammers so that they can use court procedures to track down their actual identity. IANAL.
The @font-face glyphicons will be a great change, it'll make sizing the icons a lot easier. I'm confused about licensing though - it seems from their site [1] that the vector versions are only available with a $59 pro pack...

[1] http://glyphicons.com/
Elon Musk used to eat sausages with bread - not buns (bread is cheaper) - and one orange to not die from lack of vitamins - and he did fine in the end! Maybe someone should do a proper investigation on what successful hackers used to eat?
And I welcome you to explain to me how my owning a particular type of firearms constitutes "threat of death or injury." Brandishing is already a crime, so I fail to see what point you're trying to make.
The links do not need to be encoded -- they are allowed to ask for your email address -- but they can't ask for much else. And definitely not a username/password.
the comments in the gc example are not there because the language this is implemented in is less readable than python; they are there because the problem the code solves is non-trivial and requires documenting. however clean, readable and trivial your code is, you can't express your thought process with it. and when you're doing sophisticated things, that is very important to convey.
The scale of the problem isn't in itself an argument for doing or not doing something about. The emotional impact is most definitely an important factor, and not something that can simply be argued away with numbers.

Most people don't live in fear of cancer or lightning strikes, unless they find themselves in the middle of an asbestos filled building or right underneath a lightning storm.

The knowledge however that so many people around carry deadly firearms, and maybe more importantly, apparently feel they have a pressing reason to own firearms, is a daily reality for many. This fear is real, and it is not irrational.

This is not about the odds. It's about not having to live in fear. Even though the odds are wildly in their favor, most people very rationally prefer not to go swimming with sharks.
Wait, you think a film studio was too much...
It appears that the author is upset that his post-liquidity tax planning has been up-ended by prop 30.

His argument only applies to entrepreneurs who have had an exit in 2012, and little to no income before that. This is a pretty narrow group.

As an entrepreneur who moved back to California recently - the poor school systems of California were more of a deterrent to living here to me, rather than tax burden. Prop 30 addresses that.

The referring article by Ethan Anderson [1] tries to extend this group of entrepreneurs to early employees of Facebook for example. However, most early employees do get paychecks and didn't have to "sacrifice" any more than employees at non-pre-IPO companies.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20121204/what-proposition-30-means-for...
Author here, see my previous post plotting homicides vs gun ownership across countries: http://diegobasch.com/homicides-vs-gun-ownership

Yes, the average American (not necessarily you, it varies a lot depending on where you live) is more likely to be killed by a gun than the average person in Finland. That is completely irrelevant to my post. It's not a competition among countries, it's about making the US better. "Daring" has nothing to do with it.
Fucking everything is political!

I am sure HNers have no problem discussing politics where it directly effected them - that's news. But where it effects others 'that's just politics'.

This is relevant because it is related to your / our actions. It is relevant because these 'bad' things are actually related. There was a time when we in the western world could claim ignorance.

And the reason he gets under your nose is he is a self described polemicist.
Unlike Star Wars, Lucasfilm doesn't outright own all of the rights to Indiana Jones. Disney would have to do deals with Paramount to do much of anything with Indiana Jones.

Something I hadn't previously considered is that given Disney does its own distribution, they probably have no need to use 20th Century Fox on the new Star Wars movies. Having a Star Wars movie that doesn't open up with the 20th Century Fox drumroll is going to be downright weird.
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Yeah but you don't quantify it after the decision is made (or the opportunity is chosen).