skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> allow databases about U.S. civilians to be handed over to foreign governments for analysis, presumably so that they too can attempt to determine future criminal actions

...where on the line did these guys lost the "innocent until proven guilty" part?! (the possibility of your government handing personal data of innocent civilians to foreign governments sounds "out of your freakyn minds" even for a foreigner like me! Imagine someone coming to the US in attempt to flee from an oppressive government and data about his whereabouts getting to a contract killer via an "en masse" exchange of data about "suspicious" civilians between governments...)

...keep it like this and the USA will be the last place on Earth someone would want to emigrate to, either to work or to open a business!!!
I think you confused 'truth' with 'things jlouis likes better than others' --- to be fair, djikstra seemed to suffer from the same distortion.
In western cultures, "Democracy" really means "Liberal democracy" [1]. Separation of church and State is a pillar of Liberal democracy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy
Children are a severe puzzle. What can we tell mothers like this?

Is there a long-term self-care situation for a child that misbehaves, even if his IQ is "130"? Do we tell her to modify her expectations—that no test can change his disabilities?

Or do we embrace the neurotypical? At low expense the taxpayer can pay people to study kids like these and build an environment where their "high IQ" can thrive.

We are weird with children in this country. Our constitution does not establish any interest, state or federal, in them. We have gun rights and not children's livelihood rights. We abrogate responsibility of the hard question—treat like disabled or treat like special genius—to fallible and powerless parents.

The discussion is not, What do we do with moms or guns? It's what do we do with children.
I think you're being unnecessarily confrontational. The question is a valid one. If you're hoping to apply to a fund led by someone, and that someone says "we pay the most attention to how you can hack stuff", then it'd be pretty silly not to try to demonstrate that ability. Even in the real world where there is no Internet or computer monitors, knowing the goals of the people you're applying to is pretty fundamental.
"When a child has demonstrable, repeated, unpredictable..."

If its repeatable, its definitely predictable now.

Thank you for the person who posted this method(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivotal_response_therapy), it was unknown to me before, but it seems to be what could be attempted in a majority of these situations.

As far as anyone becoming more isolated...Why does a person have to be social in the first place, isolation is sometimes exactly what is needed even, wanted. In the mindset of certain autist/apsy, Tradition(s), family-concepts-dynamics, even self-preservation are completely worthless ideological fantasies.

The violent behavior is purely reactive, and just an escalation of the manipulation technique that he is employing. He's SO SMART his brain is brute-forcing social methods of manipulation in order to obtain/achieve a goal/objective. If he is rejected one way, he will just attempt another method to get what he wants, and so on. Violence is usually the last resort of the reactions unless, he knows it will usually work the first attempt.

Its intelligence that is both the savior & the enemy here.
Well, it may be confusing to some that one of the most, if not the most, prolific mathematicians of modern times accepted, and even embraced, what would be in modern times, the use of a substance that would make said prolific mathematician a felon (at least in the US).

Also, Wikipedia, while generally good, is likely not good to use a definitive source.
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No, I mean which way is the photon traveling - left or right? (Relative to a line pointing "down".) You can't just decide to arbitrarily curve - you have to curve in a particular direction.

> How does it imply this? I don't understand your argument here.

Emit a photon from just inside the event horizon, traveling directly away from "down".

What does the photon do?

Does it go into orbit? (What gave it the angular momentum to do that?) Does it hit the black hole? (How did it turbn around without ever curving?) Does it just travel forever thinking it's moving away from the black hole, but not actually going anywhere? (i.e. redshift into nothingness, since it's constantly fighting gravity)

Something else?

Tell me what it does from the POV of the photon, not the black hole.
Everyone reaches for answers at a time like this, and a sad majority reach for thoughtless answers like gun control, that ironically embody the very stupidity and carelessness that contributes to this violence. It's such a smug, pat answer that relegates responsibility to some higher authority. It's the same sentiment that makes people feel isolated, alone, unheard, helpless, and eventually, desperate. "Just shut up, get a job, go to church, watch football and pay your mortgage. And if that existence doesn't make you happy, then there's something wrong with you." If you hear this often enough, and if you don't manage to connect with others who are equally appalled by it, then you WILL go mad.
I agree that at the grass root level, things are not as pleasant in India as they are portrayed in the article. But at least we have a way to challenge the government(which has been happening quite a lot these days). But imagine living in a country where a extremist clan decides what you wear and how you live. Most of us do not appreciate what we've had since birth.
Angry white adult males don't go to the doctor. Get their guns.
Gravity curvature works fine at ordinary masses too. Take a rock, throw it directly away from the earth.

It's not moving in a curved line, it's moving straight - from the POV of a distant observer as well.

In order to curve it must have some lateral motion relative to "down".
> And Google knows IMAP is pathetic as a replacement for mail.

Sorry, could you be more explicit?
IMAP, CalDav and CardDav.
I've taken just as many stats classes that don't touch data; I don't think either of us want to argue pedagogy of teaching on HN (fuck, I didn't even want to spell it and it's likely I didn't), but I don't think that there's a huge difference in how Econ and stats departments teach the same material or use terminology. (there are big differences in the material selected, obviously).

This statement can't be true: "GMM provides a way to estimate the parameters of a model with out making assumptions about the population.". You need assumptions, just different assumptions. Frequently those assumptions involve agent rationality, but not always (after all, MLE is a special case of GMM).
Solar-powered wireless routers you can just glue on top of
lamp posts run by the sun.

Stross, Doctorow. "Unwirer" (2003)

She handed him the Motorola batarang he'd glimpsed earlier.
The underside had a waxed-paper peel-off strip and when he
lifted a corner, his thumb stuck so hard to the tackiness
beneath that he lost the top layer of skin when he pulled
it loose. He turned it over in his hands.

"How's it powered?"

"Dirt-cheap photovoltaics charging a polymer cell --
they're printed in layers, the entire case is a slab of
battery plus solar cell. It doesn't draw too many amps,
only sucks juice when it's transmitting. Put one in a
subway car and you've got an instant ad-hoc network that
everyone in the car can use. Put one in the next car and
they'll mesh."
Am I falling faster than light? At the moment of the crossing, does the floor of the spaceship look dark?

If I can see the floor, then light from the floor is passing the horizon and entering my eye.
Or: Microsoft is screwing their customers by not supporting open standard protocols.
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Do we actually have statistics showing America to be worse about this than other places? It sounds like the kind of thing that people just assume after hearing about a sensational, attention-grabbing tragedy.

Remember when there were huge epidemics of suicide and Satanic ritual abuse in the 80s? Or rather, people said there were. In reality, suicide rates remained mostly flat, even declining slightly overall, and the evil Satanic cults were a myth. So, be careful about postulating something deeply wrong with our culture, when there may well be another explanation.
I love how the details captivate people. I think it's because your 'admissions technology' is so advanced it is indistinguishable from magic.

And people love learning magic tricks.
Have you considered that this might be a purely statistical phenomena? What I mean is, isn't it possible that such things occur in the US only because there are so many people in the US, and once the population gets large enough, the number of outliers get large enough, in absolute terms, to become noticeable? It's often forgotten that US has the 3rd largest population, after China and India (although admittedly far behind either one)
> Google has also said they are not going to support Win8 at all.

Source? Last I checked, Chrome is fully supported, and whatever internet explorer comes with it is SURELY supported.... it'd be huge news if they didn't.

> And Google knows IMAP is pathetic as a replacement for mail.

Is it? It's much better than POP3, and to my knowledge it supports every feature of GMail I use but search and different star ("flag") colors. Syncing does suck, but that's syncing, not IMAP. I can't imagine downloading 2 gigs of email would be much better with another protocol.

> But as it stands today Google only believes in open standards when they aren't in a strong market position.

Hey, it's better than doing what Microsoft has done traditionally- i.e. using their strong market position to lock customers into closed systems.

But I'm really not trying to take sides in this matter- the customer gets hurt no matter who the target is. I just think that saying "Google is screwing over Windows users" is disingenuous; that's clearly not their intention (which is "Google is trying to manipulate Microsoft."). Microsoft is no longer the biggest kid on the playground, and they can't expect everyone to license their tech, especially when most mail-reading devices are probably not windows devices.
What Will Happen, Now That Ray Kurzweil Works At Google?
Or the next person you've never heard of, because he hasn't achieved noteworthy success in business, homicide, and/or the creation of filesystems. Normal outcomes do sometimes happen (hence the name), but they don't get as much publicity.
I'm adding this to my list of counter examples, for when some tries to tell me I have to get my life together before I'll find a girlfriend.
So which way do you actually fall is all directions are down? Or from your point of view you are motionless?
Schmidt is not really a naturally charismatic speaker. This is a video of when he was a regular manager (I think) taking public speaking classes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1I6MUOKkU.

As you can see, public speaking was something he had to actively train and work on. Public speaking is something most people need to train and work on. We can't all give presentations like Steve Jobs (and even he obsessively prepared for those).
Cars are dangerous! You can run people over with cars, so we should ban them!

As you point out, what many people don't know is that the purpose of the second amendment was to provide the people with a means to rebel against a tyrannical government. Not for hunting, not for home defense.

Now, the A/B test thing sounds like a perfectly great idea. The problem? Doing such a test would mean placing authority over our right to self-determination to a faceless bureaucratic government. That's exactly the opposite of what pro-gun people want.

I don't personally own a gun, but I am not against the responsible ownership of firearms for self defense or even defense against a tyrannical state. As long as the police and military are allowed to have guns, you should have them too. You trust someone to power, just because they wear a uniform, or are more financially well endowed than yourself?

In NYC, the only people who have guns are the private security details of the elites, and of course, those who possess illegal guns.

As it is, violent crime is higher in the areas with the more restrictive gun laws. Chicago, for example!

Shootings, we have had a problem with. But honestly, it's not the gun that killed those people. He could have looked up bomb recipes on the internet, ran people over with a car, or slashed people up with a machete, furthermore, he could have obtained an illegal gun, since he was going to break the law anyway, why would he care?

Kennesaw, Georgia, has a MANDATORY firearm posession law. All adult heads of household must own a gun, unless disabled. Crime rate there is < 1/2 the US average.

BTW, this is why our system is great. If you don't like the gun laws in your state, move to a state that is more suited to your tastes.
It wasn't meant as a straw man, it was meant as a way to identify a boundary. The most restrictive regulation possible would be a total ban, and only a total and successful ban would prevent people from using guns in massacres. So "regulation" while well intentioned is practically meaningless. Those people would still be mentally ill, and outlawing guns or some lesser regulation would not have addressed the actual problem.

And yes, a knife in the situation is less dangerous. But the person is still mentally ill, a danger to themselves and those around them.

It's medical treatment that's needed, in the worst cases combined with confinement.

Gun regulation is not medical treatment. Gun regulation is a separate issue, admittedly related, just as knives and baseball bats are related.
Is it a Cheatsheet if it has 14 pages? Serious question, English is not my mothertongue.
CardDAV and CalDAV are not really good replacements to EAS. And IMAP is really pathetic. I'm on board with open standards, but if the proprietary one is better, then I'd like to use it.

Google's just using the "open" argument to screw people. If it's related to "open standards being better", drop EAS support on business accounts too. That'd be a commitment. This is just a chess move to drive the market to their direction.
The truth is that humans, like all other animals, have been selective breeding all the time, it's called evolution. We select our mates based on their phenotypes (like aggression, intelligence etc). It was more so in the past than now. People used to abandon infants that are born "defective" (we now have abortions). Parents selected the mates for their children because they are believed to be better judges of "good" phenotypes. It was customary to ensure that the family of the respective mate has no members with mental illness. Yet, after millennia of selective breeding, we still have all the crazies among us. The fact that those "bad" genes still exist must mean that they confer some benefits to the carrier.

The interplay between genes, RNA, proteins and other macromolecules is so complex that I doubt we can pin down a mental illness to a single gene or safely remove a mutation that causes mental illness from the gene pool without reducing other collateral beneficial traits.
I think gene therapy and possibly selective abortion would be common as well. People won't leave someone they love because of some simple genetic tests when there are other alternatives.
You clearly have it figured out. You should call this woman have arrange to have the kid live with you for a few months. I'm sure he will be cured.

Your last two comments may be the stupidest things I have ever heard. I would love to know more about you and know why you think you can fix such a complex problem in < 200 words.
You're right that there are no easy answers, especially for the mentally ill who may not be treatable. [Note: I come from NZ, so the perspective of a largely state-run health system].

I think that humane mental institutions would be a much better alternative to prison or surgical intervention.

A lot of people were locked up in mental institutions right up until the late 80s, early 90s. Often, people who should not have really been in them. I know people who were seriously fried by drugs administered largely to induce docility, and the brutal ECT of 50s-70s.

There were some serious problems with the way these institutions were run which were very difficult to fix. The pendulum has swung towards community care. In NZ at least, most of the mental hospitals have closed. The mentally ill were flooded back into the community. To be fair, the problems with the system were so severe that this was not an entirely bad outcome. Many have done well in the community.

From here we can divide the mentally ill into two classes: those who manage to function in the community, and those who end up in prison or dead. Sometimes it's the degree of social support they have which makes the difference, while some simply cannot be treated.

I think the pendulum needs to swing the other way a little. We need to identify the truly dangerous and incurable and care for them in humane environments before they hurt themselves or others.

Identifying when this needs to be done and ensuring the system works properly is obviously an incredibly difficult problem. Essentially you will be locking people up based on psychiatric diagnoses for things they haven't done yet. However in the current scheme of things even clear pleas from family members for intervention are ignored.

As an aside, I'd like to point out that you're proposing to take people who might be psychotic or schizophrenic, and implant remote control devices in them.
Amen to that. Thanks for upvoting it (I assume), rather than flagging it. I had some doubts about posting this vis a vis the guidelines, but thought it was important, especially given the stridently political nature of all the discussion I've seen about the shooting in CT on here thus far.
> "He's SO SMART his brain is brute-forcing social methods of manipulation in order to obtain/achieve a goal/objective."

This seems like wild supposition to me. We know that the child has wild mood swings and alternates between "normal" and "manipulative and violent". I don't think it's clear at all that his behavior is due to raw intelligence. To be more blunt, this seems like armchair psychology with nothing in the blog post (or the other cases referenced in this thread) to support this perspective.

There needs to be substantial support if we are to believe that a child that experiences psychotically violent phases is doing so for logically sound reasons, because our current understanding of disorders such as this point in the opposite direction.

> "As far as anyone becoming more isolated...Why does a person have to be social in the first place"

I think you're conflating two issues. There is indeed no reason to force anyone to be social - but the reality is that even in the 21st century it is practically impossible to lead a life without social contact. Even the most ardent hermit must interact with the rest of the world at some point.

The question here, in the context of the tragedy that occurred this week, is not about the child. It is about whether or not, if left alone without interference, the child will eventually pose a substantial threat to society at large. It's about the state of mental health care in this country and whether or not people like this child need to be "fixed".

And when it comes to explosively violent people - particularly people who can be set off by unpredictable triggers (the child's mother, after caring for him for years still has no handle on his triggers, and there is no real reason to believe the mother is unbelievably daft) - I emphatically believe that it is correct to pathologize this behavior.
Hi, thank you for sharing.

My question is, do you think your brother is better off now than he would have been had he been institutionalized?
"the purpose of the second amendment was to provide the people with a means to rebel against a tyrannical government"

by this logic, shouldn't you be able to buy IEDs and RPGs (and launchers) at walmart? I understand these weren't available at the time of The War of American Independence, but going by the spirit of the Second Amendment, one would want people fighting tyranny to have the most effective weapons possible to do said fighting. Those(IEDs etc) seem to be the most effective weapons for a guerilla force fighting a tyrannical government (vs Glocks or whatever).

And if you are considering non guerilla forces facing off with government forces, you probably need artillery and heavy machine guns (to start with).
It's been happening in the other direction for a number of years now.

My brother was turned back when he flew to Miami with his family to take his children to Disney World.

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?".

My brother answered no because whilst he was arrested he was never charged or convicted. He had attended a demonstration in the North of England and when a few people caused trouble the police had just arrested everyone only to release the vast majority some hours later.

He'd forgotten about this because nothing had ever actually come of it and it was over 20 years ago, yet there he was being confronted by it at a US border.

Clearly the UK authorities already share data with the USA on its citizens, even those never charged or convicted.

That it may happen more does not surprise me the least. The only part that surprises me is that the data flow might go the other way too.
Push a fairly big one though. It's the whole reason I use Googles Exchange service. It's the only thin offering it on the iPhone.
People without guns = (subjects as in the UK)
People with guns = (citizens as in the USA)

Also said people with guns used said guns to kill people in the oppressing countries army. They then used their new found freedom to create a constitution that said that the RKBA 'shall not be infringed'. Of course it was over 200 years ago, but it is still relevant as the Constitution is still the source of law in the USA.

I don't trust the government to protect, and it is important for society to have access to the same infantry weapons that the military does, but without the obligation to any certain individual. This was the point of RKBA.
I agree with you about the use of raw SQL when a query gets too complex. Often I find that the ORM is capable of expressing a query I have in mind, but it might do it inefficiently. Sometimes I will rewrite this using SQL. Usually what limits me is how much post processing I will have to do on the results to attain my desired goal.

Often I avoid putting any work on my db beyond filtering and grouping of results. Its typically much easier to scale out app/web servers than it is to scale out databases to support a heavy query workload.
Faculty at universities are notoriously biased on this subject, tho. They hate d1 athletics, for the most part. This is worth knowing, if at least in passing. Its not at all impossible that that might color an application review. Either (a) they think the student expects to get a break/has already benefitted etc; or (b) they just don;t want to listen to another view. TLDR any "too red-blooded"activity (track, foot/basket/ball, etc) is not academic. This kind of petty/banal stuff is pretty typical for academic politics. (Not supporting, just explaining).
Startup russian roulette [social media startups die in Europe]
Even as someone who can shoot 1,000 shots in a day for a wedding easily... mind sharing, what/how you have over half a million shots of?
Thats intriguing. It seems like he has somewhat adjusted over time. Did you witness a general improvement in his personality as he grew up? Did things especially improve in his late teens perhaps?