skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly you didn't take time to read the aforementioned article at all, or you would've seen the graph that puts the USA at roughly a bit more than triple the assault deaths per 100k vs an eyeball average of the other OECD nations (down from maybe 8-9 times as many in the 80s.)

I pulled the above statistic because of the specific context of mass shootings. But hey, at least you got a pithy retort out of it.
I'd certainly be curious to see statistics that adjust for population. The stat quoted by 'slyn above is that the next country for gun violence over the last 25 years would be Finland with 2 incidents, but Finland has 1/30th the population of the U.S. It would be more appropriate to look at the EU overall for comparison. Last year there was a shooting in Norway with 70+ dead and I believe one in southern France in a school.
For a supposedly hard-core science guy, he was not beyond name-calling and BS accusations based on pure opinion.
Thank you I think this is the most graphic explanation. Then a mass suspended close to the event horizont would be in fact traveling very fast related to the space time inmediately arround and therefore increasing its mass acordingly. Is that right? Could it be possible to use this as a way to extract energy from the blackhole? Or more exacly from the space-time falling into the blackhole? Kind of river mill. (please forgive this naive questions!)
What a horrible uncommitted scientist Richard Feynman must have been. His hobbies included drumming, safecracking and many more. Also, he was a ladies man.
Solution HN: Patent trolls
Big companies have the pockets to fight or pay patent trolls but what should smaller companies do to combat this problem?

The problem is not with the trolls but with the system that can't gauge the enormity of the problem because the hundred thousand dollars a small company loses never blips on the radar. But what the system doesn't realize is that this has been hurting so many people from so long and needs to end.

The system and its rules aid the trolls in this extortion and the only solution is to unlink our companies from the system that (unknowingly) aids them in this extortion.

How do we do it?
Incorporate offshore in some tax haven, make the local business a cost center that does contract work for the parent. Now the patent troll has to route litigation to unfavorable places without systems to aid them in their extortion and cannot pursue litigation without resorting to costly measures. Once the cycle of easy money is cutoff, and since they are not viable businesses themselves, they will be starved and will die a painful death.

But the intention here is also to transfer the pain points from us to elsewhere. With this structure, businesses will start saving taxes through the new route and now the system is the one losing money instead of the small businesses. This jolt will definitely wake it up from its s;umber and will make it fix the menace.

Maybe this is dumb and you have a better idea. Please share it so that WE can put an end and not some politician.

We are hackers and we'll find a way to kill patent trolls today in HN.
Let the discussion begin!
This has nothing to do with authoritarism. It is method to detect behaviour not mathching "normal" pattern. This is used as a heuristic to detect suspicious behavior.
Here is the list http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/20/the-worst-mass-shootings...

It certainly looks like Scandinavia and the UK might have a problem. Europe as a whole still has fewer than the US for a similar population but it is high. None for China, India or Brazil. So it is not just about normalisation...
So how do you create/increase intrinsic motivation? Giving them more freedom + choosing their own goals (or at least let them think the goals are theirs)?
Concerning the size of the json file with geo path, I don't know if you can rename the attributes, but you can save 300ko just by using simplified coordinates ("-86.411786" becomes "-86.4"). I don't think you need sub-pixel precision :)
Well, if you could absolutely convince anybody of anything, that would akin to hypnotism and will amount to fascism.

So, let's assume that you only want to convince people of things that are indeed true.

Then the thing goes awry: how do you know what's true? Maybe it's not, and they are rightfully not convinced. Maybe there are more than one ways that the thing can be seen. Etc.

Take something that is "obvious" for some people, like "PHP is a bad language".

It's not at all obvious to me that even that one universally true. One could answer, e.g: all languages have sore points so it's no big deal, if reversal of needle-and-haystack is your biggest worry about a library then it's pretty much fine, I can easily find programmers and that's what matters to me, it has never failed my projects, it works for Facebook, it has tools and communities I cannot find elsewhere like Wordpress, etc etc.

And PHP is as close-cut a case as it can get. Fighting Fortran? Not so much.
Packaging of a cellphone done right.
To be perfectly honest none of the parties come out of this with any dignity. I love using F/LOSS. I love the learning that comes with it. I contribute where I can, mainly financially and with help. But...

The F/LOSS community's attitude in general stinks and this whole sorry affair highlights why I believe many are put off by F/LOSS. Its proponents are generally condescending, arrogant, self righteous, sanctimonious, rude, judgemental and overly hostile. There are a few diamonds in the rough, anecdotally the ones I have encountered work for Canonical. This infighting and idealism is doing the F/LOSS community far more harm than Microsoft ever did. To counter with the predictable howls of derision or claims of ad hominem and strawmen fallacies is to ignore a serious issue that the community has, itself.
It's awesome. I love it!

One feature that would make it much much awesome would be an integration with Github. In our university we're trying to convince professors to release the latex source of the lecture notes on Github in order to receive issues or pull requests from students for typos or improvements.
As most teachers don't know git it would be great if they could open files on writelatex from github and commit changes.
I know that's quite hard to do but imho it could really improve the project.

p.s.: Is it open source? Will it ever be?
Shame there's no external high-speed bus for that FPGA. If there were, this would be an interesting platform for software-defined radio and high speed DAQ products.
I don't recognise this. No one ever told me to cut my outside activities down, indeed I used the flexibility of the PhD hours compared to a job to go to all sorts of distracting things in the first year (you know, the type of political meetings which are technically "open" but at 3:30pm on a Wednesday?)

Of course, of my own accord I have cut down on all my "other" activities during weekdays (except perhaps meeting someone for lunch or a drink in the evening) in order to make sure I actually get enough done. Time management skills, acquired (maybe).

But seriously, no one ever said this to me, in UK universities. My entire department does loads of sport, debating, and random things with their spare time.
>The comparisons you've made are flippant ones without much serious weight to them.

I find them mighty fine comparisons. He didn't want to convey the same language features -- he wanted to convey languages that draw similar kinds of criticism today and serve similar functions.
>arguably their own customers

I use an Android phone but I wouldn't label myself as just a Google customer
"MLE is a special case of GMM"

You have it backwards. MLE is actually a special case of GMM.

I'm done here.
Not much, considering he didn't bother to add a fast/wide external bus for it.

Very frustrating, and surprising considering who is spearheading this design.
You've identified a task that 98% of motivated persons can accomplish. Building a billion dollar company is something that less than 2% of the YC companies have done.
Why don't you want to rent once you have kids? Full disclosure: we have a 2-year old.
>Is it because they didn't have relatively easy-to-use languages such as Python back then?

No, it's because (people like Djikstra at least) didn't regard the stuff we do with Python nowadays as real programming, in the same way you don't regard office doodles as Van Gong style art.
It would be really interesting to know if there's a per-user cost. If so, then it would seem to be extremely generous of Google to be paying Microsoft for the privilege of having Microsoft's users get free email access on their phone. If not, then it seems kind of mean. But then, when the other side is giving away free phones to people to publicly trash your operating system it must be hard not to be a little bit mean in return.
There were (and are) plenty of ways to make some simple scripts that you could term 'programming'.

This isn't what Dijkstra is talking about - he's talking about formally correct programming which has gone out of style in favor of unit tests and 'move fast and break things'. Completely different perspective on programming - a scientific approach versus an engineering approach to problem solving.

Dijkstra would be very upset by your hacking together Python scripts as programming and he would probably have sent a similar letter to the one in the OP. ;)
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Thanks!

Yeah, I'm not sure where to place the blame on our system here. The great thing is that I don't have to pay for my care, which was definitely a concern for me at first. However, I had to go through 3 different avenues before I was finally allowed into a group CBT session. I even went through my university's counselling services, only to be put onto a several month waiting list and then forgotten about; they never put me on the list.

I only got help because I kept pushing for it. I'm sure many others would have given up sooner. Heck, I gave up a couple of times too.

Mental health issues can be difficult to diagnose. If you have "obvious" symptoms, you can typically get help fairly quickly.

In my case, the signs are not obvious at all. If you met me, you wouldn't suspect anything was wrong with me. I can mostly function in my daily life. I have a wonderful fiancee, and I've been fairly successful with a solid undergraduate engineering degree, and good in-roads in my business-related work.

You would never suspect that I was physically and mentally abused throughout my childhood and undergraduate. Or that I second-guess everything that I do, and that I worry about every mistake I've ever made. Or that I cannot take joy in any of my successes. Or that my father has his own mental health issues, and that my uncle/his brother lost his battle with alcoholism, and that their father was institutionalized several times in their home country.

I'm a relatively normal guy with great ambitions. But my mental health issues, while hidden, are there, and if left unchecked will contribute to my future failures.

As a society, we do need to pay more attention to mental health and start to have conversations about it.

(Actually, it's one area where I think a non-profit startup using web technologies could actually make a meaningful contribution.)
Wow that looks fantastic. It's like jekyll, just different. Highly configurable, supports many layout templating engine and well documented. I especially like the i18n part.
Tony Blair I'd say. Not Tony Benn's sort of thing at all!
Nobody is freeloading.

Again:

People pay for Google's consumer offerings with personal information.
No, but for them there are tons of exporter apps for Flickr they can run from THEIR computer.
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I don't understand the critics. Do you think that terrorists or criminals are detected by oracles ? You ridiculed the security agencies after 911 for not beeing able to detect such a plot and now you are in shock because they do their job ? There is no way to detect a plot while staying eyes shut.

There is a problem, more precisely a risk, but it is not in collecting the data and processing it to detect a plot. It is in the usage and control of usage of the data. This is the heart of the problem and the secrecy around this information gathering and processing is not a good sign. Who controlls and how is this information controlled are the core problem which is absolutely not properly addressed.

The need to collect the information to ensure security is on the other hand obvious, at least to me. Not doing this is stupid.
Exactly my point. It is nothing to do with democracy or secularism, what is your point in mentioning bomb blasts. Entire world is suffering with islam terrorism, unless they are muslim states.
Mud always comes up in these discussions but isn't a real problem. You can get mud, water, sand, branches, snow, grass, gravel or entire bushes into your gears and hardly notice it. Sometimes it feels like the whole forest just wants to go into your gears but in some magical way it always falls out again. The more i think about it the more amazing i think it is, the amount of punishment the powertrain takes is quite remarkable and even though the components are so small and precise they don't take much damage.

The only real problem with derailleurs in the forest is when they get hit by a rock, a think branch or the ground. Anything else that doesn't actually bend the derailleur is a non issue. In very very rare occasions something might jam the chain but no changes in the gear are going to fix that. And of course the mud will slowly wear and tear things down by grinding but that's not an issue of the actual gear but more of the cogs and chain.
Thanks for confirming my point.
>It's stupidly easy to restrict access to guns.

Yeah, the founders of the United States wrote the 2nd Amendment for exactly that reason.
>I'm betting against that. Photos, unlike many other types of content, are not ephemeral. If you don't believe they are then ask anyone who takes photos of their kids.

Only each and every hosting solution one might pick for OpenPhoto (S3, DropBox, their hosting company, whatever) is just as ephemeral as Flickr and Picassa. A lot of them even more so (I've seen tons of hosting companies close, Google can shut down Picassa like it has closed down lots of it's own products, Dropbox could get bought by the big players and close down, etc).

>It is often difficult to defend my thoughts with younger more technical groups.

And yet, those are the only part of the population that might be interested in a self-hosted, open source, photo hosting.
This woman is saying she both doesn't have the ability to handle her son, and is afraid of him. He's repeatedly threatened to kill her, and is old enough to be a credible threat.

I'm all for individual rights, families taking care of their own members, etc., but it sounds like society would be better if there were a way for her to give him to the state or some specialized institution, rather than just waiting for him to be the next spree killer (or just run of the mill killer, or even just suicide).

This clearly falls in the "public health" category of expenses even most libertarians would be fine with taxes and the state covering.
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Target knows you're pregnant, Facebook knows you're gay, now the government is working on knowing if you're a terrorist.

Big data isn't the future, its today.
I certainly know what it is. It's just that we have been commenting about it in the shades of other discussions like X joining Y. I wanted to start a broader discussion instead of talking about it the context of other stories.
OTOH they've been pretty successful at preventing attacks on America since 9/11.
Its ultra slow, almost 5 minutes to open first email? http://d.pr/i/W9iO

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trying to get their users onto proprietary gmail apps / webmail where they can eventually ramp up the advertising & personal information harvestry
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Mental disorders don't go away when you have two parents.
Egypt has oil, very thin water supply and enormous population growth rate. Corruption is massive. It is similar to Arab countries not to India and Pakistan. Go and see for yourself.
I feel for the parent who has written the article, and whereas I agree we must do more to address the needs of kids with mental illness, I disagree with the stated premise of the article, that it's easy to talk about guns.
It's actually not easy to talk about guns in this country, which has led to a lack of any serious gun control regulation. It borders on insanity when we look at the type of weaponry we allow our citizens to purchase, all in the name of an amendment written in a long gone era, where the survival of a fledgling democracy was still uncertain. Just as islamic extremists have hijacked the interpretation of their Koran to serve their purpose, so has the NRA hijacked our constitution to serve its own purpose. And so it's time to come and call out the NRA for exactly what it is - a terrorist organization.
Despite whatever mental illness may be afflicting these young unfortunate individuals - the answer to preventing what happened in Connecticut from happening again is extremely strong gun control regulation. To the point where even those few who are allowed access cannot keep weapons at home. I know this does not make the lives of families of people with mental illness any easier - but at least it prevents tragedies of this sort from occurring.
I think it is the British who deserve credit for the 1937 The Muslim Personal Law Application Act which simply confirms existing Islamic/Koranic traditions, while they also insisted that the Hindus would finally agree to unambiguously codifying the Dharmasastra. Even though I am definitely not a fan of colonization, I must admit that the British administration did a superb job in preemptively demining the situation well in advance.
Iam afraid,d It is also likely that economic discontent will grow with increased population and similarly competing neighbors. All those countries will find equilibrium at a steady destabilized state.
If you have a record then isn't it understandable that you might attract more attention than someone with a blameless past? It seems logical to me anyway. Obviously not to the extent that you'd be held but keeping an eye on you is fair enough imo.
I am glad its coming to windows first, I hope you mean windows 8 for touch ( read RT )
Don't let the proprietary door hit you on the way out.
Well, they've been very good at preventing attacks before 9/11, too.
There has not been a major attack on US soil since 9/11. This may or may not be because of the level of security apparent in airports. You can't tell.
Do you have any evidence to suggest that the absence of 9/11-like attacks has anything to do with the TSA?
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How many of you have stared at yourself disapprovingly in the mirror and wished your youthful years returned? It is something we all whine about, women more than men.
I hope I don't come off as cynical, but there's no way this project will ever 'defeat' Picasa or Flickr. It could very well end up being a successful project, but it will never be on top. Also drop the whole 'Open' and 'Free' thing when it comes to naming. No one outside of the dev community cares about or even acknowledges the existence of FOSS. This project sounds great, it just doesn't seem tailored or marketed towards a mass userbase.
It turned out that because he had been arrested aged 19 and failed to declare it that the border people felt that he had answered fraudulantly when challenged on "Have you ever been arrested?".

What interpretation should they have taken from it?
'Are future scientists ... to be found by chance among the most serious students who apply themselves, the winners of prizes and the winners of competitions? At times, yes, but not always. ... A good deal more worthy of preference by the clear-sighted teacher will be those students who are somewhat headstrong, con- temptuous of first place, insensible to the inducements of vanity, and who being endowed with an abundance of restless imagination spend their energy in the pursuit of literature, art, philosophy, and all the recreations of mind and body. To him who observes them from afar. it appears as though they are scattering and dissipating their energies, while in reality they are channeling and strengthening them.' ( Santiago Ramon y Cajal)
So, i'm sure any minute now you'll post the statistics on how countries with tighter gun laws have huge numbers of stadium fires...

We don't need to talk hypotheticals here. There are many countries with tighter gun laws. Any "but regulation will make it worse" argument can be vetted based on real world observations.
You seem to have just repeated the quote? Presumably you mean "GMM is a special case of MLE"?
That's my site. I'm glad you're a fan - thank you.

I suspect, in this case, that you're simply not this article's intended audience. If you've already got a good feel for design, then the suggestions could feel simplistic.

We publish an article every day during advent. It would be easy to turn out 24 articles that everyone nods their heads to, but it would be really dull and a disservice to our readers. In order to have a really vibrant schedule of interesting things, not every article will appeal to every reader - and that's totally okay.

Today was for developers struggling to know how to make their projects look a bit better. Yesterday was some reasonably hardcore CSS selector stuff. Friday was about designing questionnaires. It's all about variety.

We're happy if any individual doesn't like an article, as long as we're never being dull.
This might have something to do with Office 2013 supporting Exchange ActiveSync connections. My first thought was "awesome, Outlook calendar/contacts/mail push support without having to pay for Google Apps for business to use the Outlook Sync connector!". Google probably saw this as an attack on their business model.
fortran = perl.

Not because of their domains (which are very different) but because nobody notices that they are evolving, and people still rant about how ugly they are (because it was true of versions that are now 20 years old.)
Gmail was pretty revolutionary. Just out of curiosity... were the biggest obstacles more technology/product related or "human" (eg. making it an official Google product)?
I know you meant it as an illustrative example, but India has been a liberal democracy ever since it won its independence.

We had a Muslim head of state in 1967 (Zakir Hussain).

APJ Abdul Kalam - the President you refer to- was one of India's most beloved Presidents because he holds a double Ph. D. At the time he was elected, I think the Indian cabinet had the highest number of Ph. Ds in the world, for political (non-appointed) positions.
I have seen something similar before, and let a comment with a theory on what has happen here[0].

There is an SQL statement with a user provided LIKE comparator value that is returning email adress which isn't being filtered properly. The attackers take advantage of this by running a set of dictionary words against it with %, for eg. logmein% will return all emails containing 'logmein'

[0] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/12/logmein-docusign-investig...
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