skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gun control is (or was) a fairly settled issue. Even James Carville said, "I don't think there's a Second Amendment right to own a gun, but I think it's a loser political issue." The only reason to unsettle it is if you wanted to change it, and since it's considered a civil right by many Americans, that's a pretty big deal.

If you want to better understand that sentiment, just substitute any other Constitutionally guaranteed civil right for "guns". "We need to have a national discussion about the right to a fair trial by jury." How does that not sound sinister? It's fairly settled that we have fair trials by jury, or at least try our hardest, and it doesn't serve any good purpose to reopen the question.
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Windows RT has the desktop -- with the same task bar as Windows 7, littered with icons as it's always been back to Windows 95 if you so choose, plus the familiar shell apps like Explorer and Task Manager. All the Microsoft Office apps that come bundled with Surface also run in "desktop mode" -- they're not Metro apps at all.

The only difference between Windows RT and Windows 8 is that the only sanctioned way to install software on Windows RT is from the Windows Store, where all apps run on both CPU architectures.
GameSpy blames publishers for old PC games losing its service
I would go with C/C++ as the ways to address performance are well studied. There are many tools out there like callgrind or nvvp that will make it pain-free.

I can narrow down performance in C/C++ quite quickly, but neither I nor anybody I know has done much of this for Python. Many people who I work with consider a Python implementation a prototype, while Fortran/C/C++ is mature real code worthy of attention.

The only real downside is that C/C++ requires a little knowledge of the POSIX/LINUX or Windows. This represents a learning curve, but when you are over it, it represents quite durable long lasting skills.
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It surely appears a great customer service policy. Unfortunately, the cost of fraud, waste and loss is passed on to honest consumers in the form of overall higher prices.

It's probably true that Amazon can still offer generally competitive prices despite scams like this; but in principle, I agree with the OP. And not necessarily because it would mean slightly lower prices for myself or slightly higher profits for Amazon; but simply because I dislike knowing that I'm complicit in the scam for the sake of my own convenience. Especially when that convenience means having an item re-shipped to a different address that I never used before, which happens to be the address to a 're-shipping' organization.
I spoke with an MS recruiter and they have 4k new job opening. We will see some more violent flailing before they die. Maybe even innovation.
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Reddit communities are a minefield, at least in terms of the larger subreddits; Reddit is a site which has a significant young, male, socially liberal audience that is suspicious of advertisers. On Reddit, companies are seen as inauthentic, because people pushing a product cannot contribute to a community that was created without a profit motive (i.e. Reddit). For many users, this suspicion extends to corporations as a whole, since the profit motive poisons any interaction a company has with consumers; any interaction is dismissed as inauthentic. This sense of cynicism has become pervasive throughout the site, such that any self-promotion is questioned, even when money is not at stake.

And EA thought it would be a good idea to advertise on Reddit? I can sympathize with the team members who have no control over the business decisions. I am sure they are great at making awesome games. However, a cursory search of Reddit would show that more vocal Redditors hold extremely hostile views of EA's games and business practices; these opinions cover such grounds as studio acquisitions, DRM, game quality, content distribution methods, DLC pricing schedules, and artistic vision--just to name a few topics of scorn. Given the extensiveness of the Reddit echo chamber, I wonder who at EA made the brave decision to send the SimCity 5 team into it.
You can cut down the amount of error even further by not iterating. Instead of iteratively updating the height, just store the initial position, velocity and time. You still compute the current position as pi + vi * dt - a * dt * dt/2, but intermediate results are discarded to avoid compounding floating point errors.

Of course, you will need to update the initial position/velocity/time whenever the jump is interrupted or modified. The reduction in error is also quite small.
I think you're overestimating how much the average person really pays to design. Having worked in online advertising for a long time, I have seen some seriously hideous sites convert far better than well manicured ones. For an example of one of the ugliest, highly successful sites on the internet, one need look no further than GoDaddy. That site looks like it was made in the dark. People don't really care.
It's great customer service, but what happens when the scam takes off and starts impacting their margins? Profits go down, prices go up, and customers start leaving.
To solve our debt problems, let’s sell Alaska
It's probably a good idea not to use the same Amazon account for AWS and personal shopping, just for this reason.
Hey, I have an idea: how about stop using Amazon and start buying and selling from your local community, small businesses, like with actual people who can get to know you and who aren't susceptible to this kind of nonsense?

The cool thing about dealing locally is that you no longer have to wade through bureaucracy to get customer service - you can walk up to a flesh-and-blood person and talk to them face to face! And, unless they have masks from "Mission: Impossible" you'll be very, very difficult to spoof!
I'll vouch for the ease at which Amazon sends replacements for broken products. I've ordered obscure replacement phone parts (namely touch screens and lcd panels), but had issues with a couple. Amazon gladly refunded the defective ones on the spot, which allowed me to buy others right off the bat.

I really hope this gets stopped - I'd rather not have Amazon's generosity thrown down the drain because of a few scammers.
"And up until early this afternoon, the whois information for my domain"

Whois information is archived basically permanently by many online databases. Changing it doesn't help anything - the old values are easy to find.
In this day when everyone is bragging online about what they bought recently, its easy to get this data.

I see limited options available to amazon if they want to reduce fraud at the same time increase customer satisfaction.

One option would be for amazon to only ship the replacement to the address(es) that are on the account or better yet, only to the shipping address previously given with the order.
But again it could happen that the customer recently moved and forgot to update the address while ordering. Also could be that the customer made a genuine mistake with his shipping details and want to change (say wanted it to ship to his new office instead of to his home).

Another option for them is to call the customer on his given phone numbers. Again, the customer could be traveling overseas.

So ultimately amazon has to decide and I feel the best option for them is to lose money instead of troubling genuine customers.
NASA does not get 10 billion a year just to explore the moon. They had and have other priorities. Why would they develop a new-and-improved shuttle when space exploration was basically canceled?
Thanks to Chris Cardinal for taking the time to write this up! I think it's important to be aware of current fraud like this since a lot of HN readers are probably also amazon customers (as I am myself).

Also interesting to know about gmail "dot blindness" - kind of like "plus addressing" you could use it to track who adds you to spam lists, by giving out different versions of your gmail address to different vendors (not that most people have time for that - I've never done this).

Plus addressing looks like this: myusername+whatever@gmail.com sends to myusername@gmail.com, but some site's email regex check do not allow this, so dot addressing could be used instead.
Heh, there was similar journalistic confusion in a Maclean's magazine article (Maclean's being Canada's main weekly news magazine):

"Microsoft also unveiled a tablet this month. The Surface will have a built-in keyboard on the screen cover and run on the Android operating system…"

Yep, Android!

Source: Maclean's magazine for July 16, 2012, page 47.
Apart from personal experience working in grocery stores, where nobody really cares, there is this: http://marga.voxpublica.org/2012/08/shoplifting-and-magnetic...

Depends on where you go and which mall. Strip malls are a lot less effective with countering shoplifters than the 'real' malls.
So is there anyone using Python for machine learning in production systems (i.e. not just for prototyping). I would love to do it but seems Java/Mahout is a safer choice, performance-wise.

I wonder whether Blaze is a step towards that direction.
Why not? I wouldn't be surprised if they created complex viruses to cause harm to other security software, but their own.
Yeah, it sure is an affront to the basics of civilized society when violent criminals are prosecuted. I mean, what justification is there aside from "we don't like them"?
Time for some positive drone PR. It helps divert disapproval of double tapped child murdering and paves the way for domestic abuse.
Remember what this article is about?

Japan.

Population
2005	127,767,994	+0.7%
2010	128,057,352	+0.2%
2012 (est.)	127,530,000	−0.4%

Per Capita GDP continues to rise.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=ja&v=67

EDIT: This is, of course, also not related to inflation, as Japan has had deflation for years.

http://www.rateinflation.com/inflation-rate/japan-historical...

So perhaps I am not wrong on a profound level after all, considering my views are echoed by reality? Just throwing it out there...
Question: how long before Bill Gates steps back in to be CEO of Microsoft?
I hope we have handful of Ramanujan's DNA stashed somewhere so, once we accept (and achieve) human cloning, we can clone thousands Ramanujans in hopes of some of them developing such beautifully abnormal brain.
Because NASA has no incentive to become more efficient. When you are a national organization the incentive is to keep your budget as high as possible and spend as much as you can to prove that you need the money, every year. That is precisely why such businesses are ripe for disruption, because they were never built for achieving a lot while spending less. If we ever see Space Tourism develop, it will not be through NASA operations, that is for sure.
Paul, thanks for sharing.

My son was also born prematurely. He's 2 and a half years old now and he's wonderful, but while reading your piece it gave me shivers down my spine, as I know exactly what you and your wife went through. Other people don't realize how awful this was. Personally I wanted to switch places with him, except there was nothing I could do except trusting the doctors and pray for miracles.

My son was indeed a true gift and speaking of spirituallity and death, personally I feel like a part of my soul was transposed in him and the odd thing is that I fear death less since he was born.
Hopefully, we will all be developing on/for quantum computers.
Reddit also has a fairly dim view of IE, but that didn't stop the IE9 team from having a fairly successful AMA[1]. The difference was, the Redmond boys owned up to past failures and seemed genuinely interested in fixing them. EA's response to customer dissatisfaction appears to be to claim that they're wrong, and should not be dissatisfied. Two different approaches led to two entirely different outcomes.

An AMA on reddit can be successful for anyone, so long as they're primed on how best to interact with the reddit community. Obama was well-primed, and his inclusion of several reddit in-jokes in his replies (no doubt at the insistence of staffers) made for a very successful AMA, even if it was an easy crowd for him. On the other hand, Woody Harrelson should also have faced an easy crowd, but his ignorance of what's expected in an AMA led to that infamous clusterfuck.

EA should have known that online-only DRM would be a big issue, and they should have prepared a better answer to it. That they didn't is only their fault, especially given what I suspect is fairly high reddit usage among the rank and file there.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_memb...
MS is definitely confusing the market. Their ARM offering should be for tablets only and shouldn't be called Windows RT or Windows anything else. It should have been called Metro OS or some such. It shouldn't have included desktop mode, which serves no other purpose other than to confuse things.

No one would have been confused.

I don't believe I've used word "confused" enough times.
Unfortunately, what Amazon has to secure is almost every account. 2 factor authentication is great for the more security-conscious, but that's a very small percentage of Amazon's customers. All the scammers would have to do is hit one of the 98% of accounts that just have default security.

Sure, it can protect your account, but it can't protect Amazon unless they force everyone to use it (which would obviously not be good for building customer loyalty.)
Sinatra.io seems to be down? Do you know their github address?
$36,550 to the credit card companies against $70,066 profit?
I work at a small online retailer and almost all of our fraudulent orders are from outside the US. Use of a mail forwarding service is also typical.
So basically what the judge is saying is that there was jury misconduct, but due to a technicality Samsung can't prove it?

And from this companies are fined $1 billion?
Point! I was thinking 'shooting range', not hunting.

Which is silly - where I live half the office is gone during deer season.
You are very naive; take a look around, unless somehow most Americans stop being fat slow ignorant arrogant elitist self-rightous fools you have a pretty incompetent guerrilla; wish most likely would use the guns just to kill other citizens who disagree with the revolution and many would die because those have guns too. The 2nd amendment was wrote in a time were the enemy was an external entity (Britain), now it would be pointless and more nasty... well, actually it already is.
Witty how he flips the Amazon "smile from a to z" upside down into a frown.
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The only occasion I can think of where a private citizen would use a firearm in a public area is a city-owned gun range, or hunting on public land.
Tigers and especially lions are somewhat easy, not to domesticate per se but to befriend. I wouldn't really call this a hack the way domesticating dogs was a hack--they just seem willing to occasionally befriend humans the same way ordinary cats do.

Tigers and lions are very confident apex predators, so they don't really have the vicious instinct or the intense fear response that some animals have. So they don't deliberately attack humans. By contrast, leopards and jaguars will kill you out of sheer viciousness, bears will attack you if they feel threatened, and polar bears will attack you because they are hungry and you are made of meat.

The main danger with tigers and lions is that they don't really understand how fragile humans are, so they might accidentally kill or maim you, which happened to Roy.
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I'm not very familiar with Foursquare's data. It seems comprehensive in San Francisco, but that's certainly not a great example. Is it pretty comprehensive, even in smaller communities?
Re: "...is from the Windows Store, where all apps run on both CPU architectures."

From the OP quoted article:

"While Windows 8 and Windows RT can both run so-called “Modern” apps (formerly known as “Metro” apps) designed for touch-sensitive screens, even those apps must be converted, or ported, to Windows RT, and not all Modern apps appearing in the Windows app store have been ported over, compounding compatibility issues."
I hope never, what he is doing at the moment is far more important than running any tech company.
That's not what I said, of course. Google doesn't just "give away services:"

They release all kinds of useful free services. They then actively support the misconception that all online services should be free – this helps them because consumers then make the error of assuming that this is reasonable; meanwhile, Google benefits as consumers turn a blind eye to their data mining, advertising, etc.

In other words, Google was the first to really push what could be done in free services. Sure, HTTP was a "free service" before Google ever existed – but that's not my point. Search engines existed before, but Google took a first step by placing the search results first – instead of the flashing banner ads.
I doubt that. I say this because there are always people who want to do something crazy(like create a virus) just to exploit an OS/app or prove how good they are. Some create malware to infect pcs so they can add to their botnets which could be sold or used for themselves.. So these antivirus companies are just trying to help out.
Never. Why would he? He's made all the money he'll ever need to make, and by all accounts is happy and fulfilled with his role in his non-profit. Why go back to MS to right a sinking ship, have his public image tarnished (again), and have to deal with the stress of being CEO? What would he gain from it?

Gates seems to be happier and more fulfilled (certainly better-liked) than he ever was while he was at MS. I just don't see the value proposition for him in returning.
Funny you mention my country; because just here in my City, the 3° biggest of South America, the amount of murders have reduced significantly since the ban of weapons in the streets; its called Bogota.

And you can keep playing to the hypothesis that someday you will need a revolution and guns will be useful, in real life in the present there is just people dying because you have associated your national identity with abusing gunpowder.
Telling quote:

At age 14, Wilson became the youngest ever to build a nuclear fusion reactor.
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Here are all 8 of them. Let me know if you have more ideas I can add: http://checkthis.com/user/jdaudier
Because I personally don't value seeing a flesh-and-blood person very much. In my experience, Amazon has them beat in price, convenience, and customer service (they replace items and take my returns without an attitude, always). They also carry items my local stores wouldn't dream of carrying.

The only time I buy from local stores is when I absolutely must have it that day. And it looks like Amazon might even be doing that soon.
The same thing happened to me. Afterward, that prompted me to sign up for Amazon Prime. I had decided that if they were going to take care of me like that then I may as well dive right in. My Prime renewal is coming up in a few weeks and I will be renewing it. Hell, my girlfriend and I order light bulbs and various trivial household items via Amazon now. They've made it so easy for me. It sucks that people are taking advantage of that.

I once ordered an item by mistake (oops, one click shipping!) I should have paid attention. I requested to return the item and fully expected to pay the shipping costs back. I explained that it is MY fault. They still told me that it wasn't a big deal and that they would cover the shipping back.

I'm not sure what the proper solution is. I don't want to lose that helpfulness, but I hate for them to get ripped off, too, due to assholes. They've been very good to me and have quickly addressed any issue I've ever had.
Yep. Aware of that, mostly hoping to remove some of the low-hanging fruit. My fault for stupidly posting my real information in my domain records.
... And evades taxes to Bermuda ...
The sign of maturity is to see something like this, neither be impressed nor upset/resentful, and just move on.

If that's what you think, why didn't you?
Via Wikipedia:

As he grew up, Bieber taught himself to play the piano, drums, guitar, and trumpet. In early 2007, aged 12, Bieber sang Ne-Yo's "So Sick" for a local singing competition in Stratford and was placed second. Mallette posted a video of the performance on YouTube for their family and friends to see. She continued to upload videos of Bieber singing covers of various R&B songs, and Bieber's popularity on the site grew. Chris Hicks, Bieber's A&R at Island/Def Jam, explained Bieber's huge online following to HitQuarters, stating: "He was doing something different. He was an attractive white kid singing very soulful R&B hits. That set him apart immediately from anyone in his range because no one was covering or singing these kind of records."

FWIW, I don't like Bieber's music. But I respect him as a performer and moreso as a socially responsible figure (e.g. participates a lot in the Make-a-Wish foundation, donates a lot of his money to charities)
Thanks! You were right. Apparently it didn't do anything when I wasn't moving but I finally had a chance to try it on the move and it worked flawlessly. Thanks for correcting my initial assumption.
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maybe Microsoft needs to revamp their marketing efforts. They have some great things happening in the innovation space (for example http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/technology/microsoft-renew...)
Don't most people see psychologists, though? Psychiatrists cost much more, so most people see the less rigorously schooled psychologists instead due to insurance policies. That's been my impression of it, anyway. You really don't have to be all that smart to be a psychologist, unfortunately; psych being one of those squishy soft "sciences" that doesn't really have much in the way of academic rigor. Psychiatrists here go undergrad (4 years), med school (4 years), and then go on to their residencies and etc. Psychologists have to do psych undergrad and then complete a doctorate I believe to practice on you, but again: chances are pretty decent that someone in a technical field will probably be more intelligent. (An argument could probably be made that psych people might have higher EQ, I suppose.)

I'm sure they work for some people, but there are so many bad and underqualified ones who basically just sit there and listen to you without offering much in the way of insights (but sometimes offering up insults, in my experience). I think a bad therapist can be really damaging, which is unfortunate. People in these sorts of situations don't really need any more things going against them.

edit: I'm in the US, so that's where I'm coming from. When I reread this I realized you're referencing a system outside of the US.
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Take a look at the Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley - pulls together a lot of these historical thoughts but focuses on people/texts that haven't become so popular they've lost meaning or been misappropriated.
I enjoy using Foursquare only for personal location tracking, I don't use any of the social features, and I've found the data to be quite good. I travel quite a bit (> 100,000 miles this year, 8 countries, more than 15 states, etc.) and the 4sq data has been pretty solid everywhere, surprisingly... I've been able to check-in pretty much everywhere I went except Palestine (understandably!)

One note: Almost all the places I checked into with 4sq were major cities (London, Paris, Gothenburg, Brussels, Rome, Chicago, LA, SF, Washington DC, etc etc.)