skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
scholars speculate that the human brain might be around 2 to 3 Yottabytes
others says is unknown. In My personal opinion there's no table to measure human brain storage capacity, since is an organic drive but perusing a measurable table, they should add one more variant to the table - Humabyte - representing human storage capacity above all known table up to date.
As simple as this suggestion is, it's probably the best advice on the topic ever.

I still do this when learning a new language, and I've been programming for almost 20 years now...
Yes!

We have that already, though (StackOverflow).
Consultanting Job:Security While Traveling Among Other Things
I need someone who's comfortable doing a whole disk encryption on ubuntu linux and familiar with finessing programs to work on it. I'm learning my way around these things pretty well and will want to look over your shoulder and have a basic idea of what you're doing.

Please submit credentials to mariannekay@runbox.com

Thanks!
your quote just negated your argument. Read it carefully, it says: "MOST stories about..." Most is the important word here.

This shooting is unprecedented in the US as far as the number of children killed, and will mark a point in history. Considering I don't even watch the news or go to any news web sites, if I hadn't heard about it on HN, I probably wouldn't have even known about it to be honest.
Cabbie Used 'Voodoo' Trick to Prevent a School Shooting
which was the first one?
Flag it, don't post in comments complaining about it.

Then again, your comment reminded me to flag it...
frankly I'm angry that you just assume everyone who is pro-2nd amendment just isn't as enlightened as you are.

Where exactly do I make that assumption? You'll notice that I didn't even call for a blanket ban on guns, just that, as a nation, we could actually sit down and have a serious talk about whether people should be able to own weapons like this one for private use:

[EDIT: I regret posting the link to the rifle, there's clearly plenty of debate about it that detracts from the main topic of discussion- and we don't know any details for definite.]

https://twitter.com/MarlowNYC/status/279655599585775616
I use github issues and pomodero
I'm making two assumptions here: firstly that there is a hierarchy of contributors, where triage doesn't have to be handled by the guys right at the top; and secondly that the first few submissions by a new person aren't major--they are going to attempt something small first. If the latter isn't the case, the response should be "sorry, we appreciate your help, but try to get some minor bug fixes in before a major architectural change".
That doesn't make any sense. Startups are not fully invested in any product or process, so they are nimble. Newspapers however are the exact opposite of startups: they have been here for a very long time. They already have well-established products. They don't have the luxury of just flailing around by throwing shit on a wall and seeing what sticks.
Note those words most and probably.
It was in Oregon:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/justice/oregon-mall-shooting/i...

The sad reality is that most people barely heard about it, because "only" two people died.
Gun control cant and wont solve these problems. These are societal problems. Anyone insane and evil enough to kill children would get guns on the black market or use some other weapon such as a bomb. Schools need to able to have armed guards and better locked/secured entries IMO.
GMail is having issues again
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/gmail/report-an-issue

Many reports (including from myself) of people being unable to

1. Send email

2. Upload attachments

3. View attachments

The status page isn't showing any errors, either http://www.google.com/appsstatus

Edit: My important email was finally able to be sent after 20 minutes of "server errors".
Awesome feedback! And I understand, my background is on computer engineering and even sometimes when starting to learn about something completely new that I had not done before (e.g. web-services/mobile), despite my previous knowledge or background, it can be frustrating. So, how could we fix this?

What was your process to figure it out? What did you search for? Where did you search it? Did you ask someone?
Will Obamacare Spark the Next Tech Boom?
It's important to be aware of performance in every domain, but there are few domains where performance is always the overriding consideration. As Carmack said:

Most of the time this is of only theoretical interest; we trade performance for productivity all the time
What did he stab the kids with, a spoon? None of them had life-threatening injuries.
The Patent Troll You Don't Read About In Bar-Code Inventor's Obituaries 
$500m siphoned out of the pockets of people and companies who actually did all the work...
Well, why don't we bring it back to technology then?

Everyday on HN there's this drone about the next Instagram or 37 Signals. Or who will produce better email or flamewars regarding the next dominant mobile OS. Time wasted, honestly (Oh yeah, 'I figured out project management, again.')

Where's the debate on HN on how best to handle gun control in the U.S. using technology? Can this community not produce answers for those questions?
> If it goes into production, then it is not a prototype by definition.

That's not what prototype means to me. A prototype is a first cut that's enough to try an idea out with real users, but is built by optimizing developer time only, not performance or scalability. If an idea is validated, you can come back and optimize things, add caches, optimize db queries to pull minimal required fields or add paging or all of the dozens of little things you can skip to save time that don't add functionality but do add scalability to either traffic or a full database. This has nothing at all to do with mathematical knowledge.

It's not about correct code vs wrong code, it's about the right code for the situation. Bad ideas don't need scalable code and scalable performant code is not as fast to write as quick and dirty code. Quick and dirty doesn't mean wrong, it means working but not optimal.

Sometimes you write these quick and dirty things to let the business guy try his idea out and if it fails, as it often does, then you've not wasted time or money making something scalable and performant that doesn't need to be.

Production code is code that has had the optimization pass after you've decided an idea is worth the effort.
Interesting to see the year-to-year changes among big donors (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml). Looks like NetApp and Google upped their contributions significantly, but Hudson River Trading dropped theirs (or is possibly waiting until the very end of the year). Also, there was a $50k+ anonymous donation in 2011.
In Europe, Publishers Dealt a Setback Over e-Book Pricing
One word: coworking! As a freelance developer I struggled with this for a while (getting depressed working at home, and getting tired of reduced productivity at cafes) until I joined a good coworking space. I realized that while working alone wears me down, I wouldn't trade working for myself for anything, and being around a group of people who feel the same way is awesome.

For me at least, coworking is better than working at home in every way I've considered. I'm much more productive, it's not as isolating socially, and professionally I've even found new contracts through people I've met coworking.
I had similar issues briefly on the West coast yesterday. Maybe Google is doing a rolling upgrade or something?
Exactly right. But did you using your spoon make 27 fat who didn't want to be?
I understand what you are saying but just to get a better feeling for what you are thinking about, could you give me an example:

If you wanted to learn X, what would be the next kind of answers/sub-topics/topics you would like to get exposed to?
> While Agricola and Dominion do a pretty darn good job of it, it's often a matter of individual opinion whether adding randomization is a 'fix' or not. I hate playing a game where I feel like I could lose by pure chance no matter what my level of skill is.

Le Havre (sort of the sequel to Agricola) improves on this. The ordering of the buildings is partly random, and can result in very different games, but it's symmetric to the players and all the information comes at the beginning.
The high-level design of Servo, the concurrent browser engine written in Rust
Fair point. I'd also like a serious discussion on whether most government have also lost the right to own them.
The Museum of Mathematics Gala Grand Opening
I have flagged it, and I'm not so much complaining, as reminding people that this isn't a generic social site, it's intended to be specific to hackers. As such, anything that's not specifically of interest to hackers as opposed to general members of the public, does not belong here.

Yes, this is of relevance to the vast majority of people in the USA, and it should be of major concern, and that's exactly why it doesn't belong here. Sometimes people need to be reminded of that.

Well, that's my point of view.
They really need an invested co-founder with technical experience. A consultant can help but really doesn't have the right incentives.
Packages Doing Too Much?
Ahead of Facebook: G+ Now Lets You Reply to Comments
Maybe or maybe not. 27 or so dead kids out of the blue might be HN worthy.
Very many people suffer from undiagnosed mental illness.

An even larger amount just go way off the deep end.
I came up with

for(i=0;i<100;)console.log((++i%3?"":"Fizz")+(i%5?"":"Buzz")||i)

earlier. 64 characters, because I don't have "var ", an extra set of parens, and a semicolon. Worse syntax, but hey, it's code golf.
As for the form, you should take a look at http://www.jotform.com , (not affiliate with them, just a happy customer) , they are less expensive and have a 50 % yearly discount during this period, that could be a place to start to bring your spending down
Well, I think this is an example of technology not being able to solve everything.

Computers are logical and deal in absolutes. People are the exact opposite. Gun control is an emotional, sometimes irrational issue, and the solutions (I suspect) lie in societal changes. Gun control doesn't need advanced technology, as far as I can see. But I'd be interested to know what ideas people have.
Geeks look Chic
Guys, get your questions answered for those times when you want to step it up a notch. Impress your lady or snag a new one.
The Google Authenticator key length is truncated because of a usability tradeoff. Initially, a design goal was to allow people to manually type in keys on their device. This would be for cases where you couldn't scan a QR code, like when your device has no camera.

Given the security setting, I am comfortable with the tradeoff. I do not think brute-force attacks represent a significant risk, especially compared to other attack vectors.

That may change over time. Fortunately, it's straightforward to increase the default key size.
Then why is this problem more prevalent in America? I know this sounds like baiting, it isn't. Surely gun laws come into it, even if they aren't the root cause (they aren't IMHO).
I like how the "guns don't kill people" like to argue that guns protect people.
Give thanks. Or at least, don’t be such a jerk.
Djikstra thought that programmers needed mathematical maturity and the ability to write well in one's native language.
The weapons needed to resist a regime are not weapons we allow people to generally have in America at any rate.

If we really believed in the 2nd Amendment, people would be allowed to own serious weapons of war but not be allowed to own concealable personal firearms.
Agreed, we do 90% of our revenue in the 3rd and 4th quarter, and the NHL lockout was a huge hit to our growth trajectory this year.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the...

The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes)

That said, I don't think you can make a simple comparison between the bits in a computer and the memories in a human brain. I think that the human brain beats the computer in terms of raw storage capacity, since a single brain can continue accumulating data for a lifetime without needing an upgrade, but the computer is more efficient at storing the bare minimum. For example, a computer can store a simple concept like a picture of a plate of spaghetti in a 3KB file. The human brain might store that image, along with a memory of the smell, taste, and emotions related to spaghetti. It might also connect that memory to different places you've eaten it, and how they compared. In a computer system, it would be impractical to store and retrieve this extra metadate, but the brain seems to be able to.

I remember learning in a college class on cognitive science that some scientists believe that human memory is permanent, in that long term memories don't get erased, they just get harder to access. It makes sense that when something is on the tip of your tongue and you remember it later on that it was probably just a slow query.
Try on a little human emotion and sensitivity for size: this isn't your site to police. Even pg has pointed out the precision of the wording which you seemingly ignored.
It's depressing how we are becoming numb to mass shootings due to their frequency. It seems like a week can't go by without a tragedy like this occurring.
I agree, but the idea of switching to immutable blocks in this case is so you can use auto-threading on the blocks. ie. you're switching to immutable blocks to increase performance through threading.

If the immutable blocks don't increase performance through threading in excess of the loss from just using mutable blocks, then the whole exercise is wasted. Bolting on immutable blocks into C# is unlikely to have the same effect for readability as designed-around-immutability of Haskel.
I've seen that a lot. Part of the reason can be plant starvation -- I'm not going to do a big build if I can't power them, so Benelux helps. Also, it helps to select regions with high connectivity (low diameter). If the one player who wants step 2 can't reach the only open space, there's a stall.

I do wonder if the rules could be tweaked to give some reasonable reward to a step 2 starter.
1) The GPS that we know and love is the Coarse/Acquisition (C/A) code[1] which is not encrypted and thus is relatively vulnerable to spoofing. Note that spoofing (as opposed to jamming) even a C/A signal is non-trivial, but equipment to do that is available[2].

2) The military uses the Precision (P) code which is encrypted and should be impossible to spoof unless you break the encryption. That is quite unlikely.

3) All radio signals are vulnerable to jamming. In order to jam, you must transmit, however... which means that your jammer is a beacon that the military can direction-find on[3]. If you piss off the military too much, they will turn off your jammer. Permanently.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Satel...

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=gps+simulator

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel
I am able to
1)send mail
2)upload attachment
3)view attachments

Kashif, Chennai, India
There are many different types of .223 caliber rifles, many of which are bolt-action and don't fall into the "oooh scary looking para-military-like assault rifle category".
Get your code refactored
Guns themselves don't kill people, but they make it highly efficient. Guns are tools, they create or enhance capabilities and as such they can be judged based on the probable outcomes of their usage.
Within a couple years this exact scenario will play out. A gunmen will talk in a crowded place loaded to the gills. Assault rifles, bullet proof vest, explosives hid around the building. He will pull out his gun and kill the poor unsuspecting first soul. After that initial shot someone with a concealed weapons permit is going to blow his brains out cutting his rampage short ( I truly hope the person who plays the hero is a little old lady packing heat in her purse).
Stop linking to FUD. It's been well reported that the shooter had two handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-co...
I've seen a lot of confusion about the numbers in the Clackamas (Portland suburb) mall shooting if that's the other one you're referring to. Not sure if it would be considered "mass" even though it was done in a food court, as it was 2 dead besides the gunman, with a third in serious condition but expected to recover. Not negating the significance of it at all or anything, but the shooter stole the gun from someone who was licensed to have it, so that's another issue to address entirely.
"He was wearing all black and was carrying two 9mm handguns" - http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/14/15907407-26-dead-...
To a developer maybe not but to the average consumer the os is the layer where their files and software are, both of which are displayed through the desktop and the "finder" windows. They don't care and almost allways don't know about the drivers or kernel.
Politicians talking about a topic is not the cause of political change, it's the result of one. There is currently a public consensus against your preferred policy position to the extent that it's disadvantageous for politicians to promote themselves with it. Changing that consensus won't lead to victory on its own, but it's a necessary precondition.
The influence of Wall's linguistics background on Perl is pretty profound and obvious. He referenced it often.

>He wrote Perl for all you youngsters out there

I don't know what's young for you, but I'm 24 and was perfectly familiar with Wall's work and background.
Betting on Black Swans
> "Schools need to able to have armed guards and better locked/secured entries IMO."

Then they will find some other means to do their thing. School buses? Malls? Day cares? The list is endless. Not to mention school shootings are far from the only form of mass murder - movie theaters recently too.

Unless you are ready to sign up for a fortified, bunkered America in all facets, "security" is not a solution to this problem. The vulnerable surface area is all public spaces.

I'd be much, much more concerned about the state of mental health care in this country. No one in their right mind goes and shoots children, nor a theater full of movie-goers - these aren't crimes of opportunity, they are indicative of severe mental disturbance.

Inevitably when tragedies like this come up we get into a big fight about gun control and then forget it ever happened. So rarely do we see any real discussion about preventing someone from seeking out the gun in the first place.
I think Seasons has a low random factor compared to other card games. This is despite the fact the game incorporates both cards and dice. You can play it online for free on http://boardgamearena.com . You can watch people play without registering.

1) Rather than starting with a random hand, the game starts with a draft. Each player gets some random cards, he must pick one of them and pass them to the next player. So even if you get all "great cards" at first, you can only take one. By the time your cards go back to you, pieces of your dream combo might be gone.
2) Dice are used for option selection, not tests of success/failure. Players+1 dice are rolled, each player picks one. The last player usually has an interesting choice too, because the die that wasn't picked determines how much time passes in the game.
3) Cards are balanced very well. Out of 50 cards, there are only 2 clear stinkers: Balance of Ishtar and Idol of the Familiar. The rest are so well balanced the game gets away with "you get -5 points per card in hand at the end of the game" rule.
4) Many card-drawing effects offer you a choice. Amulet of Fire makes you take 4 cards and discard 3 of them. Divine Chalice works in a very similar way, so does Naria. You can even activate a power which gives you a choice between 2 cards when you draw one (draws are very rare in this game, it's entirely possible to win the game without a single card past your initial 9).
5) 3 times per game, for a price of negative VP, you can bend the rules. This is an another airbag against random screwage.

So in summary, there is a random factor but best players keep winning consistently.

My longer description of the game:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?6825-B...

In general, I like games which have randomized options but (pretty much) deterministic results of actions taken. Wesnoth is a bad example, the outcome of your attack is highly random. Neuroshima Hex makes you draw 3 cards each turn and play 2 of them, but apart from that the game is deterministic. Furthermore, if you get bad cards at the start the luck tends to even out over the period of the game, because later you'll be drawing only good cads. Each player has his own deck and the usual win condition is when a deck runs out. I highly recommend the game. You can play it online, too:
http://online.neuroshima.org/
Like most places in the Northeast, Connecticut has some gun control laws (especially regarding handguns).
Thanks for the response. That was my initial advice was to hire programmers full time and give them skin in the game via substantial equity.
I hear you, and I'm not going to flag this because it just seems like if people want to talk about it they should talk about it. It's just that noteworthy. But it just seems like it's nice to have a place to focus back on your work and you craft.

There is something to be learned from what the HN crowd's thoughts are on this though, but I'm conflicted.
I don't know. Is it in fact more prevalent in America? I don't know just asking. It is a societal and cultural problem IMO.
Many who suffer diagnosed mental illnesses roam the streets because we don't care for them. Our mental healthcare system is that of a third world country.
This is an incredibly touchy subject, but something that I always come back to when tragedies like this happen is that if a disturbed person wants to hurt people, guns only make it easier.

What does this mean in practice? It can both be an argument for gun control and an argument against. I have no idea where this really comes down. I just know that there are disturbed people in the world, and we need to take a step back and figure out how to prevent them from causing damage in the first place.
The .223 is common. The accessories make that gun look a lot more impressive. And you can't tell a gun's lethality just by looking at it -- the difference between semi-auto and full auto is just a cut-firing-pin apart on some guns, so there's no way to tell from outside the weapon.
Noted. Thank you for replying.

So let me ask - given that this is all over every news channel I have access to, and every other tweet in my feed is about it, do you feel that it's appropriate here?

If so then I will reassess my understanding of what you want this site to be. I appreciate that I might be wrong, and I'm willing, even eager, to assimilate more data on this and adjust my views accordingly.

It's your site - I'm pleased to have the opportunity to gain insight.
I remember something like this in a Sun compiler. I don't remember exactly what was being optimized, but it gave a significant boost to single threaded program.
The kind of guards who are actually capable of armed defense cost 200K/year and work for blackwater.

As for gun control, it's really not possible as you suggest. There are almost 300 million guns in the country. I wouldn't want to be the guy rounding them up.