skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It borders on insanity when we look at the type of weaponry we allow our citizens to purchase..."

"The nra is a terrorist organization."

Wow. Just plain wow. It's probably pointless to respond to your post, considering the emotions you are displaying regarding this topic, you probably won't even listen to a single thing, no matter, at least others who see this reply might understand just how perturbed you really are.

It is a founding principal of america for individuals to maintain and own weapons. Let's just start right there. Since there are many countries with the kind of gun laws you apparently want, I'd suggest moving to them. Reason being, is owning your own weapon isn't a passing fad, it's a mentality that will not be broken by you or anybody else. The best course of action for you, might be to leave america for other countries that place safety above an individuals freedom.

" the answer to preventing what happened in Connecticut from happening again is extremely strong gun control regulation."

Well then I'm sure are glad you are here to tell us the answer. I really would like to hear this, because Connecticut has some of the strictest gun control regulation in the country. The guns the kid used in the shooting were stolen from his mother. Exactly what sort of legislation on the books, beside from a complete ban altogether, would have helped?

I'm personally insulted by your insinuations that the nra is a terrorist organization, and I'm insulted by your blanket statements regarding gun ownership.

"but at least it prevents tragedies of this sort from occurring."

Yes, lets impede on the freedom of a majority, because a minority are unable to handle something. That is possibly the worst logic a person could use. That somehow everybody should be punished because a statistical fraction of users are unstable.

You sir, are part of the problem.
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Whether it's scientific or not, I think it makes sense for some people. It's not based on where the moon was when you were born or something like that, and for that reason I don't oppose it too much. For ex, I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert and that is obvious to me and others. Therefore, to say that I'm an I instead of an E is just a true personal statement. Am I a thinker more than a feeler? Also yes. Again, most people who know me know this.
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Linus is definitely not nice.

He'll say so to your face, too. So at least he's honest about not being nice.
Book also starts off with a mention of how quantum entanglement proves something about "metaphysics".
Any chance you could link to that discussion?
Keep calm and query on
We built an entire semantic content discovery engine on top of it. However, had to shut it down when their price went up by 10X.
I think many young founders, such as those that seem to gravitate to San Francisco startup culture, are chasing emotional goals rather than logical ones. They're after the pride and excitement of the culture itself rather than the "boring monotony" of a business plan and market research.
Cool, can you expose an API for this data?
This post is gold.
And agrees with Amy Hoy, Rob Wailing, Dane Maxwell, and many others who have been writing about boostrapping for a while.

If you dedicate 70% of the time to find the market and isolate the pain point, risk decreases hyperbolically :)
I think it's possible. Human brains are not wired to understand exponential growth. I don't think it will happen within 5 years, but 10 = very possible.
New exploit could give Android malware apps access to user data
Yes, and if there were no knives, maybe there would have been zero deaths. But for some reason a call to ban knives is never heard.

Calling for a ban on guns due to what is relatively a statistical anomaly, is kneejerk at best, and encroaching on individual rights at worst.
And if you don't use Gmail, but you're corresponding with someone who does, then Gmail is not your email provider.
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These are always fun, and always wrong but of course we can only see what we can see as my grandfather would say.

I suspect that once we can inject data directly into the brain's visual and auditory systems things like telepresence will take on new life. I'd predict that at some point in the future people get cochlear type implants rather than headphones.

I also wonder about the increasing violence of the weather cycles and whether or not that will result in new ways of building cities. Do we start building towns in the midwest that just by staying indoors you can avoid any danger from a tornado? Or housing systems that are immune to floods by either floating up or simply being sealed and ready to be temporarily submerged.

Will communities build power banks? Giant power storage facilities to hold excess renewable power that was generated? Or will that storage be distributed amongst the buildings?
May I suggest my friend Tim's blog? I'm pretty sure it's unknown, it seems he writes it mostly for himself. But there are some great technical articles on it:

http://www.pixelastic.com/
Strange, I had no problem understanding the symmetric rankings, barely noticed it before reading the many negative comments hee.
I imagine that dealing with the t.co URLs, and mentions by/conversations with Twitter users who aren't on App.net, or use a different name, would be a problem too.
I try to keep my subscription to an absolute minimum since I like to leave some time for reading books. After a lot of culling, I'm currently subscribed to some popular feeds:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ (general web design / dev)

http://www.alistapart.com/ (long form web design / front-end)

http://dailyjs.com/ (Javascript / node.js)

http://createdigitalmusic.com/ (digital music / software)

http://www.creativeapplications.net/ (new-media art)

And a handful of unpopular ones:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ (absolutely my favorite blog in the world – self-describes as "refactored perception)

http://www.tempobook.com/blog/ (same author as above, posts related to his last book)

http://worrydream.com/feed.xml (not really a blog, but Bret Victor writes some of the best long-form articles on interaction design around – read all of them)

http://www2.technologyreview.com/rss/video_rss.aspx (Tech Review videos, sparsely updated – mainly because the editor's interviews are awesome/hilarious)

http://idlewords.com/ (breathtaking travel blog from the founder of Pinboard)

http://www.loper-os.org/ (awesome / hilarious posts by a software heretic on the general terrible state of things in technology – keeps me in touch with Alan Kay-esque thinking)

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/ (the only contemporary art blog I like from a very dedicated Italian writer)

http://vagueterrain.net/ (occasionally published digital art magazine, themed topics, guest curated)

http://theixdlibrary.com/ (occasional classic UX articles)

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/ (occasional forward-thinking posts on web design, focus on layout and grids)

http://informationarchitects.net/ (same as above, but focus on typography)

All of these feeds have been selected for a very high signal to noise ratio and most of them are updated only occasionally (which I prefer), with the exception of Smashing and DailyJS.
One wonders if we'll converge on a single common language. But in the case of the article they were implying your phone would translate for you.
>Both of you are missing something important. A population with a high birthrate will only achieve that dominance if the children remain in that population.

Great-great-grandparent:

> Secular culture has managed to peel away many of their kids in recent decades but [...] that process is about to change
Where is this useful? The bus speed across to the GPU is so slow, I thought it was only meaningful for near-autonomous operations.
HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system
The most important part of using vagrant, the provisioning, isn't even covered in the article.

A paragraph or link to vagrant's homepage is enough to explain the value. The hardest part is automating the dev environment via chef or puppet, which is where the article should've been dedicated to.
These seem very over optimistic.
We don't do cloud storage, but S3 works from anywhere of course. Uptano https://uptano.com
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Samsung intentionally created new kernel-userspace interface to bypass normal kernel security mechanisms and give userspace direct access to RAM and IO registers, allowing them to put low-level device drivers in userspace. I'm pretty sure that somebody writing a Windows driver for this hardware could use the same "architecture" as well.

However, Windows is less likely to see such hacks because they are usually created to avoid dealing with kernel's GPL.
It would be nice if every programmer owned a copy of Abramowicz and Stegun, and every mathematician knew at least one programming language.
It would make porting CyanogenMod and other custom ROM's a lot easier to other phones, so I don't think that would be a waste. If manufacturers aren't going to support the devices anymore, at least the community will. Plus, it should make it a little easier for manufacturers, too.
I don't mean to come off as insulting, but you do understand how incredibly easy it is to make your own ammo right?

Dye casting lead is peanuts, considering the low boiling point of lead makes for easy casts.

There is so much ammo already out there, new brass probably won't even need to be created, simply reusing all old brass that's out there would more than suffice for the needs of even a large squad.

So we have lead, and we have brass covered. Next is the explosive primer. That would probably be the weakest link in the chain, in that your average basement redneck won't be creating his own primer anytime soon, but it is possible. The problem is how little primer is actually needed per round; and you have guys that have put away in storage literally pounds of primer.

It might be possible, but I'm sure if it ever got to that point, it would be trivial to order primer online, just like how one can order not-quite-legal-drugs online and have them delivered right to your front door.

In this modern world, I don't think it is possible to regulate things like it used to be. Anyway, anything can happen, and thanks for reading.
> You're being hyperbolic.

I wish he was being a lot more hyperbolic.
Can you explain what this has to do with the GPL?
I don't think it's that bad, probably because I quite like the aesthetic, but it really could do with being just a little bit less busy.
I did not mean to lump all depression into one boat, and while I personally do not know that kind of deep long-term depression, I do know the kind of that effects entrepreneurs. There are so many ups-and-downs that it can be hard to weather a deep trough if you are not prepared. I do not know your company or work situation, but I know it can be an extremely lonely and long road working on company. The only thing I know that benefits everyone is exercise. It is a good thing to focus on because even if everything else in your life is going in a direction you can't control, it is one thing you can control and constantly improve upon. And the benefits are long lasting felt in every area of life.
Out of curiosity: what do you feel that Dart provides that makes you consider it (over say other ->JS solutions in the front end and Nodejs on the back)?

Are you even considering using it on the back end?
This is ridiculous. A corporation's product cannot be a national treasure.
Can the android and the iPhone app be used for sharing photos through email or with with Facebook, Twitter and Google+?
With their new Python 2.7 multithreading support the price of GAE seem to have gone down, I read about some gaming company that got their cost down to ~40% of what it was before. So with that and coding around GAE's limitations I think it's possible to use.

We're certainly looking into using it instead of AWS for our next projects (games). Rovio also uses it for their Facebook games.
http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/php

Jesus christ guys. It were probably others than visitors from HN (most here are a little more thoughtful and less trolling), but if there is nothing but negativism on the PHP page (I can't find a single positive point) then why in the world are we all using it? Why does almost everyone know the language? Why is it one of the biggest languages on the planet?

I don't trust this site anymore just because of the first item I happen to look at. PHP may or may not be a horrible language, but certainly it has some good uses and advantages to other languages, or it would never have become popular at all. Perhaps it's just because PHP is so easy and that's the only reason. I'm not saying it is, but it might be. But then at least that should have been written on the page.
http://www.devttys0.com/blog/

http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/

http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?lang=en

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/
Thanks for the reply, Paul.

My thought was to offer a stripped down version, no customization options at all. Those who wanted more than just the basic functionality would pay.

Does that still sound like a bad idea?
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What do you like about GAE, that would make you choose it over aws or heroku?
I think bambax's main point is summed up by - "The NRA says "guns don't kill people, people do" but the truth is that guns help people who want to kill people, kill more people."

Do you have any real points to counter that, rather than just pointing out irrelevant technicalities or calling him names? And no, it doesn't change bambax's real point at all whether its a automatic or a semi-automatic.
This belongs on "the best of HN" (if such a thing exists) and should be required reading for any aspiring startup founder.

In the online startup community very little space seems to be devoted to methods and tips for researching markets. Perhaps this is an opportunity itself? Someone should research this niche and then start an on online information resource if the demand is there.

(edit: yes, I realize how meta this is)
I think what he meant is, Egypt is going to become muslim state like other arab countries, instead of Pakistan. It does not make sense to compare it with India since India is mix of lot of religions(Hindu, Xstianity, Budhism, Sikh, Islam, Jain) and has high tolerance for religion freedom.
Most of Zynga's products come to mind. Mindless crap designed to be attractive and psychologically addictive without teaching the user anything or providing any intellectual stimulation.

I wouldn't expect many high profile examples though. By its nature junk tends to have a short shelf-life, last years junk just gets replaced with this year's junk.
Awesome blog!

Nice to see some people from EPITA doing cool stuff :-)
Scott Aaronson's blog is so awesome. I would be reading it now if I still had room in my head for the whole 'rationalist' thing (along with Overcoming Bias, etc.) Check out his "Favorite Posts" in the right-hand column.

Lambda the Ultimate is also a rare gem of a community on the internet and likewise I'd still be reading it if I wasn't trying to care less about design and more about hustle right now. I'm really interested in dataflow programming and I've learned a lot by searching through previous discussions on the concept at LtU.
README suggests RAID processing, file system encryption, and AES.
What weapons do you think people will use once all of the guns are gone? Maybe something less deadly, maybe something far far more deadly.

The mass-killers are the issue, not the tools that they use. Effective mental health treatment is a necessary step in reducing the pool of potential mass-killers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Oklahoma_City_b...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
iirc, if you write a kernel module you have to release it under GPL, but if it's just a user space program you can keep its source closed.
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Link for the lazy: http://nshipster.com/
I found the interface for actually giving my answers to the questions unusable, at least for such a large number of questions. ("Large" in this case, I would probably say is "anything more than 5".)
For many early-stage startups at launch, ease of development/ops is much more important to optimize for than uptime, and Heroku excels at that compared to dedicated hosting or VPS. If a quarter of the internet is already down because of an AWS outage, people will survive without being able to access your shiny new "AirBnb for Pets" startup. When you're successful, build out manual infrastructure, sure, but at initial launch it's often worth the tradeoff of potential downtime for the savings in manpower.

Naturally, if your startup is a backup service or something else where having as close to 100% uptime as possible is a truly key feature, then it's probably not in your best interests to rely on Heroku/AWS.
Well, I've been enjoying Joey Hess' build log of git-annex assistant [1], and I like Julien Danjou's [2] too, even though he writes more about Emacs, while I'm a VIM user.

Then there's Old New Thing, LtU and John Resig's blog, but those are less obscure.

[1]: http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/

[2]: http://julien.danjou.info/blog/
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Reading the top blog entry, looks like a very useful blog to me. No big fancy talking about how he scaled up to 4 million users, but a down-to-earth story about FTP and versioning that I can relate to. Thanks for the link :)

Edit: I forgot to mention another thing: It made a positive impression by being a dark blog with a good design. I don't entirely like my own blog's design, and I thought white-on-black just wasn't a good setup. This shows it can be great. I also like the lack of "recommended articles" and pop-ups (javascript ones) to keep me on the site.
Hello. We are the publishers of Exo IDE, at http://cloud-ide.com/ We are a cloud IDE, with a focus on enabling creation of apps that will ultimately be deployed to the cloud.

On any given week, we have up to 2000 projects that can be created. Those projects can either be bound to a production PAAS or, in some cases, "no PAAS" can be selected. For the large majority of projects, a production PAAS is selected at the time of creation.

Of the projects that select a PAAS, we see about 60% of those projects select GAE. This is a number that surprises us, as while we know that GAE is a leader in the PAAS space, not sure that it's a 60% share holder as a relative fraction on the number of PAAS projects created each week. While we haven't published any case studies, we do have a number of projects that have been published to GAE in a production sense. We've collected this data through interviews and surveys.

Some things that may explain the results:
1) We do not have complete PAAS coverage. We do not have Rackspace or dotCloud, for example, and we just added AWS Beanstalk in the past two months. So maybe there is a normalization of the data that needs to occur.

2) We provide GOOG oAuth as a logon mechanism. That binding, could imply an overall tighter integration with GAE, and for developers who are PAAS agnostic, may encourage them to select GAE over other selections.

3) We provide a Chrome Store plug-in, to make configuration even easier. We do get some people who indicate they wish to do everything within the Google realm.

4) We have spent time doing co-marketing with Google, so we may have gotten an unusual influx of people who were already looking at GAE. But our referrer metrics indicate that the large number of referrers we get are people from Facebook, Twitter, GigaOM, TechCrunch, and direct.

We will watch this thread for the full conversation as we are interested in hearing about other projects.
Agreed. I'm also struggling to see what kind of massively parallel operations need to be done in kernel space in the first place.
Nothing wrong with Ruby, but are there alternatives which do not require it?
It's a disappointing list for such a grandiose title. Nearly every single thing listed will be achievable in the next 20-30 years. It's reminiscent of the French predictions of life 100 years later, 100 years ago. http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/15/19th-century-french-art...

I would personally like to see some people come up with zany ideas. It's really hard to try and think that far ahead, given how much has changed in the last 100 years.

Computation should be everywhere, along with intelligent "software". Quotes because those entities might not like the phrase "software". I wouldn't.

Beyond that, it's hard to guess. Most predictions don't take culture into account. Technology and culture change and shape each other. Culture may be radically different in 100 years. Kind of like Egyptian culture can be demarcated before and after the rise of Islaam. Longer than 100 years, but gets across the idea.

My gut predictions are about what wont happen. Civilization won't collapse. Global warming will have some change but won't kill all seaside cities. This is because either through market forces (likely) or unified global political action (unlikely), we fix it.

Wars: check. Pandemic plague: no. Space stuff: check.

I general, try not to say what won't happen. Be like Star Trek in the sixties. Propose what seems futuristic to inspire people, and they'll figure out how to do it.
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I don't follow your logic at all. The assertion that some colleges altered their admissions policies to prevent Jews from getting in implies "Nobody cares if you're well rounded"? All sports not being equal makes none of them possess any value to an individual? Being well-rounded isn't a gimmick; it's about enjoying a fulfilling life that supplements your work.
I took one in college and one in grad school (4 years later). Results starkly different from each other.
That's a strange question. How do you "pretend" something when the security personnel have your passport information, and for citizens, a lot more?
I use plenty of javscript and PHP at work. They are poorly designed languages, IMO. (I am not an expert, but I'm familiar with many languages and I always read up on such topics)

>Jesus christ guys.

Despite the poor design considerations and wanting to kill off some of these languages, (or-rehaul them and not being able to) many of us still have to use them day-to-day. This is one of those things that convinces me that there is a God, and he's got a twisted sense of humor. I can't really explain it otherwise. :p
I also wouldn't do exactly the same thing regarding the transparencies (maybe kill the extension of the year/day highlights behind the primary white-ish content area, and just only have those highlights be visible in the framing area?), but my first reaction was actually "oh, cool, a site daring to have a bold design and go its own way instead of trying to look 'beautiful' like most of the bland sites posted here."

So don't tone it down too much. You can't please everyone, and there's a big design echo-chamber on here. And actually, on second thought, maybe I wouldn't change it at all. Be bold and distinctive. Own it. Design isn't about toning stuff down to the lowest common denominator.

And I love the ease of navigation provided by the top year bar and side day bar.
If you live in america, you are more than welcome to leave if the laws bother you that much. It's a fundamental right for an individual to own their own weapon. Instead of sitting on the internet making snarky comments to people, perhaps your time would be better spent researching new countries to move to?

And if you already don't live in america, why so much attitude?