skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prohibition is very definitely a solution to some problems. Take drugs as an example: You can make an argument that marijuana, or even harder drugs like cocaine or meth should be personal choices. But those arguments have limits.

For instance, nobody would run a "Legalize Vancomycin" campaign. Being one of our last resort antibiotics that remains effective against many cases of MRSA, preventing its overuse is critical. If not for our prescription drug system, it'd take less than a week for someone to start selling ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP! KILLS 99% OF MRSA! and the drug would become useless in short order.

While I won't say that's analogous to gun laws, it's a good example of there being cases where prohibition is an effective solution, and there are absolutely situations where things should only be available to people with a strong need to use them.

Saying that prohibition is never a solution reeks of the same aversion to complex opinions that the linked article was written about.
Wonderful slides, if there was a Coursera class on visualisation I would sign up in an instant.
HN, can we show some restraint and compassion?
HN, can we let go of the need to be the smartest person in the room for a while and show some humility in regards to some of the more people centric threads that have been showing up the last few days?

The responses to the threads relating to the Anarchist Soccer Mom blog and the depressed startup guy here recently have really made me question participating in the community again. It reads like a ham fisted race to prove that you bootstrapped your way out of "depression" or everything is "solvable" if you just put in enough work, get a slap upside the head or discover the right gimmick to get to the goal.

Depression and other cognitive issues like Bipolar or Autism / Aspergers, in their genuine form, aren't things that exist because people are too lazy or stupid to "sort themselves out". If some cheap hack or bullying your parents enough that they indulged your every whim "got you through it", you probably didn't get through very much. People spewing this garbage in the direction of people dealing with these issues is as moronic as telling someone who's missing a leg to just get off their ass and grow a replacement.

It is great that people are working on self-improvement in this community but don't assume you're some special snowflake who has all the answers just because you have technical or business strengths. There is a lot of horrible and damaging advice floating around here at the moment, is it too much to not have an answer for a change?
I would not get much pleasure from the possession of the metal card. Will others? I think many will, even in excess of the $50 mark-up.
That might be handy for people who want to study a certain subject one day. For example, if I could keep hitting a button to get random articles from a certain category, such as computer science or math.
"outlawing" is a straw man

I'm so glad that someone said this. So many otherwise reasonable people get seriously worried that someone with a badge is going to come to their home and pry their guns from their hands (which may or may not be cold and dead at the time)

The reality of gun control is far less dramatic, and make for far less compelling soundbites. "You can close the gun show loophole which allows people to sell handguns without background checks over my cold, dead, body" doesn't have the same ring.
They can help. It depends on finding someone worthwhile talking to, and being in a frame of mind where it'll help.

As for this:

> Surely an intelligent person can see what their questions are getting at and influence the therapist's inferences accordingly, in the same way as you can when taking those silly multiple choice psychological assessments?

If you're seriously seeking help, why would you bother doing this? You're going to a therapist because you've got problems you think might be helped by talking them through with someone. If you're just interested in proving how clever you are or showing the superiority of "training in rigorous disciplines", there's cheaper ways to do it that don't waste other people's time.
Before posting this topic, I thought making CL social would make it better. Then, I watched a video documentary about CL on youtube, and I felt that being unsocial, and anonymous posts is what's propelling craigslist. So, you're probably right about doing nothing.
You have brought a knife to a gunfight, so to speak. Mellow out.

"Fart, poop, I farted." - Dr. Who
They actually sold more iPhone 5 than the two previous models. It's a new record for first weekend sales in China. There weren't lines because Apple managed to make enough iPhones and by letting other retailers and carriers sell, whereas when iPhone 4 and 4s were first launched here the Apple Store was pretty much the only place you can get them.
A coroutine decorator for Twisted
"Can someone explain why this department is doing that?"

Besides the more general reasons that others have given, the last sentence of the first paragraph is, "Facebook requested the hearing as a way to speed up the approval of its acquisition."
Why? If I'm putting out a C++ app on Qt, surely I'll upgrade occasionally to squash bugs, improve platform integration, and use new toolkit features to make my new application features.

Just because my application now gains traction, I wouldn't throw out or fork the GUI toolkit. Maybe add some extensions and helper libs, maybe throw some patches upstream, but not NIH the whole thing.

Passing a common maintenance burden off to FOSS is a glorious win. When you fully appreciate Bootstrap, you'll see that's what it does.
In the screenshot of the code editor, the project is named "bwckup"
Is there a way to send a secure attention command to su/sudo to protect against this?
Resent the invite.
It's a completely boring handgun

This illustrates an interesting cultural divide. Many people don't have any real experience or understanding of guns, and let half-truths from pop-culture drive their emotional response.
I actually don't really like where Google has been going with their iOS apps. They don't look bad, but they don't look / feel like iOS apps. Microsoft and Google both like to try and bring the look and feel of their mobile OS's to their iOS apps, and I wish they would just make iOS apps that look like iOS apps.
I really am surprised by most of the (young) parents I have met so far in the US. My father used corporal punishment for even little things on us and left a (psychological) scar - I could never touch my kids - on the other hand, in our home (4 kids of my own) discipline is an extremely high (positive) value.

This has nothing to do with submission but with self-control - a rare quality which kids have to master. The so-called "timeouts" and disciplinary measures by our American friends don't work - resulting in children which cause so much more suffering for everybody - they don't work because the parents just do not establish a sense of authority and strict rules. Forget physical punishment for a moment but at home the parents and in school the teachers have to be able to establish their authority. I have seen so many parents, themselves using mental pharmaceutica who let their kids get away with things that were purely evil. At the same time I feel the sub-human stimulation (TV, games, etc.) many kids are flooded with over decades is considered less (negatively) habit forming than the application of simple repetitive acts of cultured manners, polite expressions and self-restraint.
Most people want Vanilla device

That's exactly what I don't believe. To someone not in the know vanilla, stock, or standard all sounds sub-optimal. Android With Sense? I'm getting Sense for free. Why wouldn't I want that?
> Even the most hard-line Libertarians will admit that "complete freedom" is overrated.

Be careful with statements like these: Every time you use them, you're betting that you have, in fact, actually seen the hard line.

In this case, I am pretty sure there are others here who have experience with Libertarians (self-proclaimed, perhaps, but loud enough) who do, in fact, believe that complete freedom would lead to market solutions to everything. Utopian Libertarianism, like Utopian Socialism, is quite dogmatic on some issues.
FYI, I couldn't read this on my iPhone because your sidebar is position:fixed and gets all in the way. Your face stared back at me on top of the text.
Since there are many countries with the kind of gun laws you apparently want, I'd suggest moving to them.

There are also many countries that are representative democracies where we, the people, work together to change laws when we feel that they can be better. The "if you don't like it here, then move!" argument is both cliche and vapid. You do the rest of your compelling argument a dis-service by bringing it out.
I disagree. I rather like the htc 8x and the lumia 920.
Really neat app and useful idea for tracking companies.

But what is the logic behind the formula used for the fast_growth metric?

I see that the formula is:
log(day14_sum_of_metrics/day1_sum_of_metrics) - 2*sqrt(1/day1_sum_of_metrics + 1/day_14_sum_of_metrics)

Is this a standard metric? Would be great if someone could share the theory behind the math..
Thanks for this. I've heard this several times and always just assumed it was a throwback. I can definitely agree with "An unguided child is a spoiled child" though.
The situation we are in is quite simple actually. It is nothing more than a Nash equilibrium. Suboptimal, but stable...and nobody gains anything by changing their strategy. Everybody wants to disarm everybody but themselves.

The solution? Now that is complicated. Has anybody ever seen a Nash Equilibrium broken by anything other than a third party? What happens when neither side trusts the third party?
Guys, this is simple. For people who can afford it, it makes a great Christmas gift if they love someone that loves Starbucks.
Bangladeshi Hackers "National Victory Day" Hack
I'd rather have it tailored to my personal taste instead of a community thing, myself.
What's an 'A' Worth?
An auditor is faced with a massive system of data collection that no one person in the world could possibly understand without having written it themselves. They can only go by the information the company gives them, which is obviously not trustworthy. I'm not saying that Facebook has done anything wrong, but if they had, an external audit wouldn't have a hope of finding it.
Buying a new car and losing 10-30% of the value by driving it off the lot is lunacy to some people.

Buying a used car with no warranty is lunacy to others.

Stupid is relative.
I think your algorithm puts too much weight on StumbleUpon "recommendations" which are really StumbleUpon "views".

I was happy but surprised to find my startup http://taskarmy.com in the list, and having a closer look at the metrics taken in account, it seems that it is because of the StumbleUpon stats.
Russian YotaPhone smartphone with secondary Kindle-like display
Why is submission a terrible goal in raising children? Isn't submission to authority absolutely required to achieve success and stay out of jail?

And once a person is an adult, physical abuse (police beatings, confinement with criminals, disgusting (http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/apr/loaf/)) is the normal way rebellion is treated. And it seems to work. Most people avoid harming their neighbors and pay their taxes.
I agree that there is requirement for research results to be useful immediately. That would probably be counter-productive. However, there should be some hope that we will be able to apply them some day, even in a rather distant future ...
Reminds me of the Dunning-Kruger effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
DNS Advisory: D-root is changing its IPv4 address on 3 January 2013.
Unfortunately, she doesn't deal with her son the way he needs to be dealt with

I understand the urge to sympathize with her son's perspective, but it's very possible that a parent, who has worked with this kid every day of his life, might know a thing or two more about how to be a parent than you do.
Another Australian startup to follow would be http://OneSaas.com, I think they will grow fast in 2013.
Article about the card, and EBay sales on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2012/12/13/starbuck...
You may receive a "complaint" in the form of a cease-and-desist, or a lawsuit. Do you really want to take that risk? If you are hesitating it is probably because the logos make the app better--but that's the point! There is value in the logos and the right to benefit from that value is 100% the NFL's.

The app is awesome, though. I hope you're able to keep it going. I'd get rid of the logos now, though!
Report says Cisco offloading Linksys
I've used both git and Clearcase in a large software company.

The reason you'd go with Clearcase is for the tools and support. I personally think git is easier to work with but clearcase really worked well when your repositories got really large (250GB+) and you had long lived branches with customers needing specific fixes.
Because, given a common interface shared between stacks and queue types, you can turn a depth-first search algorithm into a breadth-first one, simply by changing the parameter from stack to queue.
I don't understand :)

Could someone explain what this kind of technology means in practice? Does this mean I can GPU accelerate my old code?
The #1 review on the App Store for the Google Maps...
Here's a solid way to log actual keys from the keyboard (rather than just terminal input) using evdev. It's not good for, say, logging keys of a headless server, but it is good for logging keystrokes from a computer with a monitor and keyboard.

source code: http://git.zx2c4.com/evdev-keylogger/tree/

zx2c4@Thinkpad ~ $ git clone http://git.zx2c4.com/evdev-keylogger/
Cloning into 'evdev-keylogger'...
zx2c4@Thinkpad ~ $ cd evdev-keylogger/
zx2c4@Thinkpad ~/evdev-keylogger $ make
cc -O3 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe logger.c keymap.c keymap.h evdev.c evdev.h process.c process.h -o logger
zx2c4@Thinkpad ~/evdev-keylogger $ ./logger -h
Evdev Keylogger by zx2c4

Usage: ./logger [OPTION]...
-d, --daemonize run as a background daemon
-f, --foreground run in the foreground (default)
-u, --force-us-keymap instead of auto-detection, force usage of built-in US keymap
-e DEVICE, --event-device=DEVICE use event device DEVICE (default=auto-detect)
-l FILE, --log-file=FILE write key log to FILE (default=stdout)
-p FILE, --pid-file=FILE write the pid of the process to FILE
-n NAME, --process-name=NAME change process name in ps and top to NAME
-h, --help display this message

It has the ability to daemonize, log to a file, and mask itself in the process table. Far from what a real kernel rootkit logger could do, but instead it's clean and reliable.

I used to actually have this in my git repository with a little thing in there that would connect back to my server when run, and then I had a README and notices all over in the source code and makefile and everywhere that you should remove this part of the code before compiling, under all circumstances. Anybody reasonable would have seen the notices and removed the code. The idea was that this way I'd know how many script kiddies were abusing it, and if maybe it was a bad idea to keep it up there. Well, in fact I did get a lot of connections, and it was kind of horrible to see. Then I forgot about it, until seeing this post. So I figured, either I take it down, because script kiddies, not people who are merely curious to see how a key logger works, are using it, or I keep it up there. In the end, I decided to stop being a dick, remove the connection thinger, and now the HN crowd will hopefully find something interesting to learn in it. A failed experiment at dealing with the script kiddie situation, oh well. At least, now, my code is untainted.

Anyway feel free to email me or leave a comment here if you find any bugs or have patches, or whatever. The code should be pretty basic to understand.
no. just a "honor" murder each week. usually knives though, so does not count.
IBM’s new 5 in 5 techs are about bringing computers to our senses
Using of Google Cloud Messaging in Adobe AIR based Apps (push notifications)
Evolutionary Image Replication Using Perl
Best way to find a Senior Dev for a big project?
I'm looking for a Senior Dev for a big project that will require about 2-3 months of coding plus 2-3 months of debugging/QA. This is a new opportunity that I need to source.

I'm don't think the eLance/vWorker method will work. Looking primarily for California-based dev's. We're based in Los Angeles, would like an intimate relationship with the dev(s).

Will provide resources, travel, office space, per diem, etc. Well-funded.

All my guys are tied up doing mobile, other jobs and I need someone dedicated so I'm reaching out to the HN community.

Job will pay anywhere from $45-75k depending on experience and work involved.

Experience requirements: Seasoned in jQuery, HTML, CSS, Php, MySQL, Web services, application services, AWS. Must have an amazing understanding/vision of UI/UX design.

Very generic info: Complex data management app, running in the browser, tablet-ready, on-top of AWS, UI/UX must be A+

Please reach out to me via email under my HN handle.

Thanks to the community in advance for reading this
Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It
Admittedly, the libertarians I've spoken to personally have some concept along the lines of "Your freedom ends where mine begins," and don't think a society where someone might feel entitled to murdering you over a parking space would be a good idea. But I could probably have worded it better.

In any case, I don't see "complete freedom" for everyone as a concept that can even exist in the abstract. If you have complete freedom, I can't (as a silly example) lock you in my basement and make you sew Snuggies for 20 hours a day. But one definition of freedom (#3 on dictionary.com) that I think applies here is:

>the power to determine action without restraint.

If slave ownership isn't permitted, then I don't have that power. Either you get "complete freedom" or I do.

Replacing "overrated" with "not possible/feasible" should make it a bit more accurate.
this is kinda unrelated, but a highly ranked startup is shebusiness? If i made a manbusiness startup business club i would be shot.
Creating a culture where asking questions and identifying when one doesn't understand something is what we strive for, but there still seems to be a stigmatism when one expresses their confusion.

How do we create an environment where one doesn't feel it's wrong to ask for clarification without being subject to "looking stupid"?
Well, the mathematical method is pretty much typified by its propensity to engage in derivation of equivalent statements. This is simply what people do when they construct a "proof", which is of course not a proof, but that is another issue altogether. Alonzo Church says that derivation can entirely be done by (1) renaming (=alpha) (2) application (=beta) and (3) substitution (=eta). I think that Alonso Church is right. That summarizes the only technique that pure mathematicians seem to be capable of, which is indeed a bit poor. So, I agree with Dijkstra: don't go into computing if that is all you can do.
Trapping fork/execve is probably overkill here. Since the user will often just type su or sudo, all that 'malware' needs to do is modify PATH
I want him to stop making hideous iPhone accessories with the JooJoo tablet guy. We can't always get what we want.
Simply stating what you believe is frowned upon here, you are supposed to include your reasons.

The basic assumption that we all hold about our opinions is that everyone else would believe in them too if they knew the facts we did, so it is best to accompany all statements of opinion with a logical argument for their validity.
You make a great point. I didn't think of the big picture when I made that claim.
It's like all those starving people. Why don't they just... move to where the food is?
You put deuterium and carbon 14 'on top' of their respective elements on the periodic table. (or at least in my mental model)

> In fairness, discarding data which does not fit the model has not been without it's practitioners.

I'm not trying to say we should discard data, I am pointing out that we would need to discard our model. (or at least a part of it) And discarding a model that has been around for so long is always surprising. (or at least to some people)
What's `dp pd bq`?
Agreed. And the idea that you might contact their grad admission committee and get a clear cut idea about whether extracurriculars are a positive, negative, or don't care factor seems nutty also. It's a committee, which means its members will all have biases of various kinds to various activities, and it would be impossible to summarize. I'm dubious any committee member would care to characterize it, and if they did, you'd be silly to put much stock in what they said.
Though I'm not totally convinced of his techy-brilliance, I think it is more positive and productive than most other individuals in his arena.
An Akamai Founder Takes Rein As CEO
"Gun" "Control"
Although if you have 250GB+ of stuff in your repo, it might indicate more than just source files are getting checked in. An artifact management system might make sense.

http://archiva.apache.org/ is one example.

As an aside, I have had trouble with dll checkins from some of my developers, and git filter-branch worked wonders, but that's probably a bit off-topic.
I'm really not. I understand the context.
Echo the LD_PRELOAD environment variable first and check for anything suspect.
Nicely done!
Love the b&w look.

What do the different colors represent on the map?
I never said it was going to happen lol. Just expressing an opinion of how many follow the herd
Intellij supports CSS refactoring to some extent:

https://www.jetbrains.com/editors/html_xhtml_css_editor.jsp?...
Unless the shared object file also includes an override for the function that expands environment variables to lie about the true value of LD_PRELOAD.
Have you read the Supreme Court's interpretation of what the 2nd amendment means and it's historical context, as laid out in the Heller and McDonald decisions?

It's reasonably accessible reading (if long) but complete debunks your statement.
Taking the US as an example, how many Americans share a lineage that can be traced back to the pilgrims? I would venture that the majority of the population comes from immigrants outside of the parameters that you provide. Does this higher incidence of 'maverick behaviour' come from a minority of the population?
Twitter Bootstrap Drop Downs with SelectBoxIt
Yes that is not permitted - they need to use encoded links in the email to identify you automatically upon click.
Backbone-Require-Boilerplate
F# Software Foundation
What are the metrics based off of? What is fast growth vs big growth? I couldn't find it on the site and I even downloaded the CSV data but it only had the aggregated numbers.
http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/102828-Edged...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
Could you cite me where Bill Gates threatened his parents with a knife? I must have missed that article.
Not that much to figure out. The kernel sources are on git.chromium.org and they have a script (prepare-config, I think it's called) that gathers all the defaults that they set. Then just run make menuconfig and it's just like building your own kernel. Just be careful that you don't turn off anything that is needed for the Chromebook.
Manufacturing a Renaissance with 3D Printing
Twitter had their chance. They offered roughly 50% less than Facebook, and without a liquid currency to boot. Apparently, they weren't even in the ballpark. It wasn't Instagram's responsibility to negotiate with Twitter given the relative disparity between the offers. If they chose not to take Facebook's offer, and hold out for Twitter to increase their offer by 100%, again, without it even being a liquid offer, they would have run the risk of Facebook walking away and being completely at the mercy of Twitter.