skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...

(a) the US seems to working its way to tyranny just fine with the 2nd amendment intact.

(b) many other countries seem to do a pretty passable imitation of freedom without a 2nd amendment.

Update:

(c) on closer examination, it almost seems like an "opiate for the people" kind of thing: people being lulled into thinking they are free because they can kill innocent children with their high-powered weapons when the fact is that actual armed insurrection against the government is as ludicrously impossible with those weapons as it is without.

At the same time, real freedoms have been largely eliminated, habeas corpus is gone, 4th amendment largely gone, freedom of speech going away, freedom of assembly AWOL, elections manipulated and legislators bought, the president can have anyone incarcerated indefinitely without charges and without a trial, or summarily executed by simply labeling them a "terrorist" (and those labels fly looser every day). Focusing on these issues will have a much larger impact on actual liberty than trying to prevent meaningful gun control.

Yet, yay, we are "free" because we have our Glocks. Yeah, right.
> Murder is banned. He committed more than twenty murders. Why do people think that you can ban mental illness? The focus on guns as opposed to the person is similar to the TSA's focus on weapons vs. terrorists.

Of course you can't ban mental illness, however you can make it more difficult for people to access the tools that enable them to kill many people.

Guns are very much are a part of the problem. I'd also think that the culture of gun worship is also a big part of the problem.
Are they really the same people? Gun ownership isn't something I am interested in, but neither does it frighten me. My drug if choice is already legal in my state.. and federally, but I think drugs should be legal.

I don't know.. maybe I just universally underestimate risk, but the targets of these bans or proposed bans all seem motivated by the irrational fear of tragic edge-cases.
Do you like to develop and improve the latest technology? Do you contribute to the projects you're bringing into your job? If so, look into getting a more "low-level" job in that you build software and tools that other developers use to build business projects.

Do you like to advance the cause of the latest technology? Look into being hired as a developer evangelist.

If what you want to do is use the technology to build business applications, then I urge you to develop a side project using your favorite technology and transfer as many good qualities of those technologies as possible into your day work. For example, your skill writing and organizing Clojure functions will certainly improve your PHP functions. Later on, you might find a job that requires your kind of tech or your side project might become your full-time project.
I once watched that monologue. He argued that bullets should cost 5k$ to make killing unaffordable, IIRC.

This raises another point, with regard to the original article: will printing bullets be easy with 3d printing technology? I may not be as easy (you probably need to insert manually the powder at some point), but I think it will eventually happen.
Awesome post. It has been bookmarked, Evernoted, printed and stuck up on my wall.

I did note the absence of the oft quoted Andrew Ng's Coursera course on ML. I assume the author has put it under : "disruptive educational sites".

But genuinely want to know how Ng's course measures up to the other resources mentioned in this post??
System.out.println("porque muitos os outros desenvolvedores odeiam java?");
System.out.println("eu amo java! objective-c, php, jquery.etc...");
Culture is a not an excuse for allowing humans to gun down each other. Improved firearm regulation can be a part of a comprehensive social policy.
I’ve been thinking about entrepreneurship a lot lately,
and this really drove home the point that I have no clue
what people want.

I think this is the most important/practical point from the article. It certainly is for me.
I don't think its so much about adding interests as it is offering random but related articles to what someone views. Not everyone always checks the related articles section- and that section is not always very comprehensive. It'd be a good start to use that section though, and compensate by eliminating pages you've already visited.

I really like your idea, although the implementation still needs the actual recommendation engine. Wikipedia could really benefit from more related articles being listed/organized.
How about including "drawing people's eyes to the presentation for random visual reasons, instead of getting them to focus on you" as a mistake, instead of saying "use better pictures" like #3 does.

It's one thing to include good visuals for graphs/things you want people to focus on while you explain the slide.

It's another to have visuals for things like "partnerships" or "security". That would be the part where you are supposed to be talking, and want people focusing on you.

It's funny that this comes right after the point about asking too much of your slides.
> people don't get addicted to guns like they do with drugs

I agree with you on this one -- but only fifty percent of the way. Some people love guns. But it's more like being addicted to video games -- the addictive behavior doesn't directly provide a chemical substance which alters the brain's behavior the way drugs do.

> Someone using a drug can not directly physically injure someone else

Have you looked at drunk driving statistics lately? The altered brain states caused by drugs result in lethal behavior toward innocent bystanders. Depending on your definition of "directly," your statement may be technically true regardless, but that doesn't make them any less dead.

> Drugs are much smaller and easier to hide.

Only for the end-user. They're less easy to hide if you're a drug cartel shipping them thousands of miles, by the ton, on a regular basis.

Speaking of cartels, you do realize that gun control would be loved by organized crime? It gives them something else illegal but common that they can sell for dear prices.
Well, in case anyone's curious:

http://www.lasc.us/SAAMIMaxPressure.htm

http://www.matbase.com/material/polymers/commodity/abs-gener...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder_stresses

That's a start, anyways.
We had comprehensive alcohol control, too, and that was with enough national support to get an amendment to the Constitution passed. That worked out almost as well the drug ban.

In the US, starting a conversation with "we need comprehensive gun control" is going to mostly a conversation with oneself. I am not in favor of a gun ban, but I'm completely OK with there being some additional requirements before being allowed to acquire on.
I don't disagree with that. However, I don't think that anything will change with stricter gun laws - the people committing all those firearm homicides are the same career criminals who make a living by selling illegal drugs that are smuggled into the country. Do you really think that making guns illegal will change anything for them? In fact, guns are already illegal in many of the urban areas where they live, and that has had no effect at all.

There's no need to punish law-abiding Americans who responsibly own and use firearms under existing laws while maintaining a firearm homicide rate that is similar to that in Europe.
What are the health risks of space travel?
Sorry, I did not mean to imply anything about you. Just a passing observation tangential to your comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona... (per 100,000)

Switzerland	0.7

United Kingdom	1.2

So in the UK they've just switched to other weapons. The end is the issue here not the means.
Except that crime rates dropped the same way in just about every other western country without harsher sentencing, and without locking up large sections of the population.

Update: Thanks "lostlogin", fixed.
Many probably don't know, others probably don't care. Just like beers and wines, many people probably don't have a very advanced coffee pallet and are perfectly happy with what Starbucks is serving and some may just prefer it.
Congrats to Travis and the rest of the Continuum analytics team on the Darpa XDATA funding!

As someone working to build tools in the same space as Continuum (and perhaps as a competitor), having your competitors (Continuum) be intelligent, nice, interesting folks who really understand the problem domain is pretty darn great.

Point being: the numerical computing / data analysis landscape is going to be seing a lot of great tools emerge and/or mature over the next year, and I have no doubt that 30-50% of them will be coming from Continuum Analytics. [edit: to the substantial enrichment of high level tools for extending numerical within python / and likely generally!]

I can only hope that I execute my tool building work at WellPosed well enough that I can call them a competitor for years to come!
I was just answering to OP who talked like the fact that it is on the constitution is somehow a valid reason not to change the law.

>Finally, I'm sorry to say this and I know it gets old, but the U.S. constitution identifies a right to keep and bear arms.

But ok; I am going to pile on the other hundreds of comments making noise and tell you what I think America should do.

Decriminalize all drugs first (or at the same time). Then change the constitution and proclaim nobody should have guns except the police/military and some special cases (some bodyguards, bank guards); despite the popularity of "guns don't kill people" is pretty clear that where guns are the number of gunshot victims are always higher. Anyone who thinks they can overthrow the USA government from inside is delusional, before there is even 1000 people organized all forms of communication would be shout down; even internet. Your only hope to overthrow the USA government if such thing ever is required is that some generals and soldiers of the USA army itself revel.

Obviously this change would need to happen gradually; first the high caliber guns and then progressively the others; the government should pay for the guns so citizens have one more incentive to give them away.
Some folks hunt as a way to put protein on the table.
Well said, plus this gives the person a chance to think through more of their idea and explain it in more detail. Lot of times developers simply "assume" that other people get it, while that may not be the case.
and banning guns won't fix the problem:

http://progun.ph/sites/default/files/jamaica-murder-rate-197...
http://progun.ph/sites/default/files/jamaica-murder-rate-197...
Which would cost more than the $50 being charged extra for this card.
All of our deployment scripts at work use SSH to accomplish their tasks. All of the tasks are prepended with "LD_PRELOAD=", and I've always wondered why but never bothered to look it up.

So when would you want to use LD_PRELOAD?
Since the event horizon itself is supposed to be a fairly non-event to cross, why can't you just fly in a lazy circle around a large black-hole at a relatively "safe" distance and maintain an orbit that's decaying only very slowly?
>Would prohibiting a law prohibiting people like Seung-Hui Cho from buying guns for a few years really be a step along the road to tyranny?

If I'm understanding your use of the double prohibiting correctly - maybe. The devil, of course, is in the details. Once you have a mechanism to declare people unfit to possess guns the reasons for such a declaration will grow in number. You need only look at the behavior of 20th century governments like the USSR to see the way psychiatry was used to marginalize people the government considered a threat.

I don't remember the specifics of the Cho case - clearly if someone has made explicit threats or is hearing voices he shouldn't possess a firearm. But there's a huge grey area there - conditions like depression are pretty common in people who function perfectly normally.
Personally, it's a beautiful article in my opinion.
Are you talking about gun control or gun banning?

I've come to develop the POV that we should focus on ensuring that the gun control laws we already have are made effective. When murderers keep showing up with automatic weaponry (when automatic weaponry is basically outlawed) we should start by figuring out how they are getting automatic weaponry.
Please don't toss around casual aspersions like that. First, any behavior like that would be contrary to our obligations to our investors. Second, we were properly excluded from knowledge of the transaction due to conflict of interest.
No one said that it was technically impossible to port it. But it's not exactly easy either and it's not a problem worth solving since it's a wasted endeavor. And yeah I'm sure RMS can't wait to run IE on his machine.
> Benjamin is one of our community managers and I'm glad he wrote this.

You shouldn't, really, the hyperbolic tone is monopolizing all the discussion. Hardly anyone here seems to have even heard of OpenPhoto, so starting with "Unless you've been living in a cave" is basically insulting to everyone.

Be modest, focus on the value of your project and don't insult your readers, much less the readers that might want to become users.

Tell him to tone it down.
Doesn't "tidal force" dictate that it's acting on something? What is a force if there's nothing for it to act against? Just as it takes two to tango, you can't have a force without two participants at opposing ends.
More to the point, how is it that 15 months after being involuntarily committed Cho was worse than he started? That sounds a lot more like a failure of the mental health system than a lack of proper gun control.

The anti-gun myth implicitly assumes that if you have someone who, given access to guns, would shoot a bunch of people, but you take those guns away, that person suddenly becomes harmless. I don't want anyone like that walking around free in society; I don't want them buying guns, and I don't want them driving cars or buying anything at hardware stores or pool supply stores. They're a clear danger to themselves and to others. However, I'm not going to support gun control measures just because the mental health system isn't perfect.

Adding regulations that restrict what free people can do or buy based on their past history doesn't tend to be very effective. Ex-cons who are disqualified from owning guns, and who cannot buy them legally, have no trouble acquiring firearms through other means.
How many school shootups have been "in the heat of the moment"? Every time the police follow up, it looks pretty apparent they were planned. I mean, who has full body armor available "in the heat of the moment"?

(Aurora and the most recent shooter were both in full body armor)
this is my point - printing the whole thing does not do anything without adding gunpowder. creating that out of a 3d printer is a bit longer off, re-arranging molecules is a tad hard.

the US already regulates handling of explosives. simply expand that regulation to any amount of gunpowder. no need to ban guns, no interference of the constitution. having a right does not mean that it needs to be easy or cheap.
I've read it. It doesn't change the data.
Not by the same amount, though.
I'm kind of amused by people commenting on the project itself rather than the dev blog idea.

Anyway, I really like this and have tried a similar system in evernote. Except yours looks really nice and mine is really cheap looking.

Finding a mechanism that's helps you continue working on a project is a important thing for some people. (myself included at the moment.)
While I laughed at the dark irony of your response to the subject after a few moments of reflection it's actually pretty depressing because when you really ponder it, political correctness and agendas are the reason that things like a bunch of little kids in a school being senselessly murdered will never get addressed properly and any laws enacted will only be laws of agendas. People won't let go of their own crap for 2 seconds to actually do something good for someone else.
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It changes the interpretation of the data, without which the data means nothing.
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I totally agree that every new habit begins with mental shifts
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Sounds a lot like what Ryan Block did after leaving his Editor-In-Chief post with Engadget and set up gdgt.com.
I see the same breathless optimism here as in the dawn of the WWW in the laste nineties. People with little to no understanding of what 3d printing is or its limitations, making wild extrapolations that don't take much reality (especially the social, legal, and political implications) into account.

The fact is, we do not have any idea where 3d printing will take us. The idea that we'll all have 3d printers in our home is possibly a bit silly.

That said, I also have a huge optimism for the future of 3d printing. But these use cases thrown around by people often just sound silly to me.
Yep. A long-barreled rifle, of small-ish calibre (.223 maybe) and with a fixed 5-shot magazine should be good enough for them. A determined person can hold up a mini-mart with that, but he'll be much less effective if he tries to go on a spree. Any features you add to such a weapon are, essentially, for the purposes of increasing its lethality to humans.
True. I read once that only 4 bricks in a million are defective.

Who knows, LEGO's .01mm accuracy might become the mark by which 3D printing measures itself someday.
They (the FBI) didn't know that this was connected to the director of the CIA when they started the investigation. They only made the connection to him after getting information from Google without judicial oversight.
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Well, su/Sudo are suid bit programs, so that means LD_PRELOAD doesn't work on them
Honestly the much more powerful effect to check that an entrepreneur is acting in an investor's interest is the entrepreneur's reputation. It counts for a lot here in Silicon Valley.

The compliance requirements are effectively a tax on acquisitions. We're only better off with this tax if it prevents more damage than it costs to enforce. The enforcement cost is not just on everyone's time, but it also effectively restricts their available decisions in unanticipated ways (for example wanting to ensure that there's appearance of compliance with the law). It's clearly costing Instagram/Facebook to comply, can anyone point to a case where having this regulation helped/would have helped an investor and therefore was a good thing?

I don't know why, but it seems like there's a pro-bureaucracy mindset on HN. People seem to be supportive of rules as long as there's a coherent reason for them without questioning if the rule is a net negative. Can someone explain this to me?
And sometimes, while searching for a better explanation, you gain a little extra insight on the topic.
Find any of the recent threads here on the Connecticut shooting. We (in the US) do seem to have a relatively high per-capita mass-murder rate, at least compared to other first-world countries. That wasn't my main point though.
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Manning's a hero.
The culture of freedom worship is also part of the problem. If we had checkpoints every 1 mile that you had to present papers and submit yourself and your vehicle to a full search, he'd never get anywhere near that school. Do you see where it is getting? As soon as you start treating people's right as means to an end, you come to the conclusion people without rights are much more convenient means to whatever end you seek.
LD_PRELOAD loads symbols from dynamic libraries before "real" dynamic linking happens. This can be used to inject or replace certain symbols with your own definitions.

The classic LD_PRELOAD trick is to replace malloc and free with your own functions that contain some kind of instrumentation for debugging/profiling purposes.

Tinkering with LD_PRELOAD (and LD_LIBRARY_PATH) may have unintended consequences, so it's not a good idea to use them in your environment permanently.
In the past I have used it to make fsync and similar a no-op. ( This allows you to explicitly turn off data-security for certain processes, in order to either get performance, or to prevent them from affecting the rest of your system)
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I remember when paper printers were the same. We have no idea but we can interpolate from the past.

I can easily see myself owning a 3D printer to make all the various trinkets I would otherwise buy at IKEA or the dollar store. That is if the quality/price ratio increases.
The problem is not inefficient killing. The Rwandan genocide was performed largely without firearms, but required massive planning and mobilization. It was a collective and political massacre involving the complicity of many.

The problem I have is with the proverbial army of one. It needs to be harder for a single person to murder 30 people in one incident.
I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter whether there's a 3D printer in every home or not, because there will always be a non-negligible number of people who find the ability to rapidly prototype objects on demand in their homes appealing. You wouldn't argue that the law can ignore the fact that many people have general purpose computers just because most people use iPhones, right?
You've jumped from "What are the arguments to own any gun" implying 'No guns' to 'Some guns are ok but not others'. Which is actually your belief?
So are you claiming that the substitution rate is 100%? Any evidence for that?

If it's any less than that, we've saved some lives. Which I consider a Good Thing™, but you're obviously entitled to your own opinion.

Or is this the old "if we can't prevent 100%, there's no point in preventing any"-canard?
The gun control that works: no guns
Re: Item 1 and Item 2

Are you claiming that the government 'whipped up' the terrorist attack in under 24 hours?
Printing guns is curious, but irrelevant for the stated purpose - "gun" "control". Various resistance movements mass-produced guns under Nazi regime. If the regime as brutal as Nazis was unable to prevent it in 1940s, how much chance any modern democracy has to prevent it in 2010s and beyond?

Obviously the point is not to completely eliminate guns, that is too stupid even for public politics. The point is to scare the average citizen so much and to distance them so much from the guns that if he wants to commit a crime, he would be too scared of the guns to find one, and others around him would be too scared of the guns too much to provide it for him. We can see that works well because the same works quite well with drugs, which are not available to ordinary citizens and only available to hardened criminals via their underground criminal networks. Oh wait, that's wrong - anybody who cares knows where to get some pot, and anybody who cares enough knows where to get stronger stuff - or knows somebody who does. However, for some reason people think with guns it would work differently. Even though making a primitive gun takes only basic knowledge in material working and basic metalworking tools sold in any hardware shop and all over the internet. Of course, you may go the way of the drugs and severely restrict even basic chemicals and tools under the pretense they could be (and are) used to manufacture drugs. And you'd end up exactly the same place as with drugs - nowhere. With only exception that drugs are consumable and guns can be bought once and remains with you - so you'd need much less production capacity to reach the same level of saturation.
What do you think happens when bullets cost $5000? You've just created a new revenue stream for drug cartels. Manufacturing ammunition isn't any more difficult than running a meth lab.