skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gun control certainly won't solve everything, but that does not imply that it's not worth doing. You say so yourself - "Sure the number of mass killings with decrease because it won't be as easy". I agree, and that seems like a pretty decent thing to me. Sure gun control isn't a panacea, but anything that can help reduce the number of mass killings is probably a good thing.

Furthermore, I think a plausible argument can be made that restricting access to guns in general (especially handguns, assault rifles, and other non-hunting guns) will, over time, result in a cultural shift away from guns. We're talking a cultural change, so I'm aware that's a hard thing to predict, but I think it's certainly a possibility.
Not to mention that Google ad servers actively worked to undermine Safari's 3rd party cookie blocking default.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/16/how-google-tracked-sa...

I'm not personally terribly concerned about browser tracking and take no steps to block it (I work for an advertising supported business and on the whole would rather have targeted ads than not), but it is completely fair to say that Apple does more to protect privacy (as it's commonly understood online) than Google.
If Amazon's search and discovery work correctly, no one should see these books until they start generating sales. So it might almost be like they don't exist until/unless the "publisher" can generate some interest and sales.
"Application is language independent." My guess is these "books" are pretty horrible. Interesting idea though.
As a recent college grad in CS looking for a leg into the industry, besides the HN monthly "who's hiring" threads, I feel like I'm missing out on probably 95% of potential companies I could work at just by them not using online job boards to recruit from. I feel like having some situation where employers can get a list of candidates in advance can open up opportunities better than my current workflow:

Read email for responses -> check linkedin groups for various languages -> read rss feeds of Dice, Careers 2.0 -> write some cover letter emails, attach resume (with links to github, etc) -> hope for something back.

Having some place to put myself in public view to possibly be contacted first sounds really nice.
Title is incorrect. There are only 522826 of this author's books listed on Amazon, not 800000: http://goo.gl/byxKn
I think privacy is the wrong frame. That’s not what this is about.

Google wants to put ads into their maps. Apple wants maps to help sell more iOS devices. That’s it. Those different goals lead to conflict.
Security in IT can be a way to reduce cost (via risk mitigation), but all too often it's just a form of authoritarian power play by petty tyrants.

In my experience, executives will get "dust in their eyes" if you bend a few rules to get things done in a bureaucratic environment. Plausible deniability, effectively. They want productivity without having to pay for it.

Dropbox, for example, is mostly free (up front), but with a level of risk cost associated with it. An enterprise on-premise Dropbox alternative is not free (up front) and may or may not have less risk than Dropbox. What's the better one? It's hard to measure. What's the ROI of sharing files? Depends on if your management likes fancy numbers games or just approves projects based on personal preference with numbers to make it look like they're doing some due diligence.
With as much ram as people have on their machines these days, try virtualizing!
http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others...
I'd definitely like to see how they got their cost figures for storage. The numbers I've seen have been quite a bit higher.

It'd be nice if the actual study were online somewhere without a paywall.
If it can filter candidates better than the generic post job opening on craigslist / linkedin / dice / careers 2.0 / ycombinator jobs board / slashdot jobs board / etc, get resumes + a few paragraphs of personalization from candidates, then have to go to their online repos and look at code samples before contacting them then it is probably better than the status quo.
Why should Apple do that?

You know what would be the much cheaper solution? Allow iOS users to set default apps (for maps and even other stuff). Problem solved. Google and Apple don’t even have to meet for that, agree on anything or pay anything.
Mine was almost identical, except with i++<100 instead of ++i%3? etc. Also 64 characters.

But is there really no way to end the ternary operators without parenthesis?
You should be. If it could produce books of any quality it would be useful for fantastically more profitable things than spamming amazon.
>It comes from voters who are too apathetic or ignorant to understand the value of basic Liberty.

No it doesn't. Voters aren't complaining to government about this stuff. Someone else is pushing for this. These sorts of ideas don't come from nowhere.

>Any other finger-pointing is pretty meaningless.

No it isn't. If we know who's pushing for this we can possibly persuade them to stop. Politicians aren't going to stop if someone is donating to their campaigns and there isn't a massive public outcry, but a special interest pushing for this might be easier to reach (or, if they can't be reached, they can be exposed, increasing the chance of the kind of public outrage that politicians might actually react to).
Just what Amazon needs: 800,000 computer-generated books crapping up the listings along with the thousands of on-demand printed copies of Wikipedia articles. Wonderful.
I looked at some of the author's titles - they all had one star
Toxic? Really?

Lighten up, Francis.
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This is exactly my problem. I live in rural PA, went to a moderately close liberal arts school on a full boat (in reflection, I wish I applied to some bigger name schools like Carnegie Mellon), but now that I have graduated I have 0 contacts in the industry and the career center never has companies contact them about software jobs. So I've just been stuck using online jobs boards and they haven't proved effective yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

It's a complicated issue. Assuming guns in the hands of criminals in the populace today, its probably better to have an armed citizenry than an unarmed populace.
Thanks psuet. I'm not one of those guys who goes around saying "mainstream economics is wrong and ignorant". Well, OK, we are often wrong and ignorant, but people who aren't in mainstream economics are usually even more wrong and ignorant!

This is just a particular beef I have. Because I keep on seeing examples where economists make mistakes by missing this point. Like when economists try to test whether headline or core inflation is better at forecasting future inflation, and use those results to give policy advice on whether inflation-targeting central banks should respond to core, headline, or both indicators. All they are modelling is the central bank's mistakes, in responding too strongly or too weakly to those indicators.

I think proper identification does require the econometrician be (in some sense) a "better" driver than the driver. If you can see the hills better than the driver can, then you can see the effects of a hidden hill that you know he doesn't see.
> it's no surprise that people are going with consumer grade products

Indeed not. IT lags because it's hellaciously expensive to have it any other way. They're more than aware of what's happened over the last 8 years. At my day job, a profitable software shop doing some fairly cutting-edge stuff, we run everything on Lotus Notes. My desktop PC has 2GB RAM and runs Windows XP: a decade-old operating system. We just migrated our source control system from Visual SourceSafe to - wait for it - SVN. It's a gigantic leap forward!

IT recognize that they're not in a position to dictate radical, wholesale tool-and-process change. So they turn a blind eye to private initiatives which help employees stay productive, while gradually and systematically replacing broken pieces of infrastructure.

I use my own personal MacBook Pro for most of my work, relegating the XP clunker to a Notes terminal (a job at which it struggles.) I use Dropbox for syncing my own work and for sharing gigantic virtual machine images with my staff. I run three agile development teams using various cloud-based apps to manage workflow, dropping back to Lotus for necessary book-keeping tasks and ticket assignment. I run a backlog database in Evernote, and we have an internal wiki for mockups and collaborative story editing. In other words, my own personal mix of bleeding-edge and relatively mature.

That's what most businesses are like: a compromise, a heterogenous mix of solutions and processes which evolve over time. There's no shining uplands where every employee exclusively uses the latest tools, while very few workplaces are stuck with uniformly last-era tech.

Even if IT suddenly decided to spend millions of dollars in a company-wide orgy of upgrading, the resulting chaos would bring our business down quicker than the spend would ruin us.
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"It's Instagram for paper."
At 29 USD for 38 pages, Basketry[0] doesn't look like a particularly useful buy.

Also, from the description: "…editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process." Is it really correct to describe that as an editorial decision? (Not to mention "editorial decisions…is"?)

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Basketry-Websters-Timeline-History-700...
Honestly, this is a lot easier than you can believe.

I can only speak for my family, but we spend lots of time with other families and children. Church, Boy Scouts, Soccer, etc.

Ask yourself, have you ever been in public and recognized a home schooler because of the way they act?

The inverse is true too, how many socially awkward people do you remember from your public schooling? I sure remember a lot.

From my personal experience, I don't see a relationship between home/public schooling and social relationships.
I remember at an old job on a stock trader's last day he emailed himself (from corporate email to gmail) a spreadsheet that contained proprietary models, client holdings, etc. That's a serious breach, and luckily traders are dumb enough to use corporate email to do this because if he used something like dropbox it probably would never have been caught. I don't like being restricted ever, but you can see why a company might try to block these cloud storage services to protect itself and its clients.
Yes, but it costs $37.
Moderate Success Is the Enemy of Breakout Success
Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker's Losing Ticket
No, just forbid guns. Kitchen knives are made to cut food. Guns are made for killing.

"Twenty-two children injured. Versus, at current count, 18 little children and nine other people shot dead. That's the difference between a knife and a gun."

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/american...
The TL;DW
#1. Dilbert is Real - don't expect a job where it's "100% fun stuff". You have to fight for the cool design work.

#2. Always work on your own projects, don't rely on your job for your design satisfaction.

#3. While you're young, get a "one man band" job.

#4. Move around a lot / change jobs.

#5. Never, ever be afraid of losing your job
This is more like what I'd expect from a next generation search engine than from a book.
It's not a straw man. Go back and read JoeCortopassi's comment [0]. He didn't propose the argument then knock it down. He genuinely presented the argument as his own. He says neither will work unless implemented completely, then he recognizes that there are problems with either and that some crazy people will always be able to commit heinous crimes.

Your argument is that the two absolutes are not the only options, which is pointing out a false dichotomy. Of course, even that's not an appropriate response, since JoeCortopassi had already pointed out the potential problems (like excessive loss of personal liberty) with absolutes.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922651
No evidence with me. This is recollection from my degrees ~20 years ago.
An actionable petition for Gun Control
Sounds like a human-guided genetic algorithm might be able to handle this today.
> Is this a joke?

It is not a joke.

> I have no understanding of the concept of humor...

So it is a joke.. Or at the very least tongue in cheek. (With some exceptions,) I doubt hosting is what most VC funding is spent on.

Edit: as he said, "The biggest obstacle to creating something useful is finding the time to build it and attracting an initial pool of paying customers." If you have access to those you probably have $37. I get that he is trying to say technical costs can be negligible for startups. I fail to see how Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud helps anyone in anyway. And thus, I think it's a joke (even if the funding is real).
That sort of thing perverts the way that science is done. There's an increasing zeitgeist that "science" is done by publishing papers which present evidence which confirm existing theories. This has led to a lot of unpublished papers and a growing problem of "fudging results". We need science to be an open and honest discussion where experimental results can be presented without the researchers being at risk of opprobrium merely because the particular evidence doesn't conform to the status quo.
Not sure about just typing, but working thru things for yourself helps, even if it a repetition.

This is how I taught myself mathematical problem solving (and math as a side effect). I would read the problem statement, instead of looking at the solution, try to solve it for upto 15 minutes or sometimes even for several days depending on how much value I am planning to get from the solution.

The Brachistochrone problem(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone_curve) is an example of a problem that I tried to solve for several days. Newton solved it in 3 hours, and when you learn math like that you don't take things for granted. You can admire the amount of insight that went into the steps. You can also internalize the knowledge obtained thus exponentially more effectively than you would by listening(and falling asleep).
I like where this is going. The next step is $5,000, then we've entirely lost the plot.
hi1.4xlarge high-IO instances might be of interest to you, however they are vastly larger and more expensive than m1.large instances.
I'm always intrigued by how some startups can launch two-sided marketplaces so easily; most fail.

I always tell clients that its like launching two businesses at once, and they both have to succeed at the same time for either of them to work.

Not for the timid.
It depends whether "disarm everyone" is meant to include exceptions government law enforcement and legitimate hunters. If so, then I do think most people (in the USA, at least) subscribe to one of those schools of though.
In search of workplace happiness, why not learn to program?
These nervous middle classes who aren't experts in anything more complex than "fizz without the buzz" often rise to project manager status by taking out the existing leaders. These are the "open source project leaders" who engage in backslagging, usually indirectly, e.g. telling their clueless minions that so-and-so represents a threat to revenue and perhaps someone should "earn another stripe for their hacker colors by putting a dent in this problem".
Thinking of applying as a single non-technical founder. All I have is an idea but I am sure with the $37 dollars I could hire an awesome programmer to put it together for me!

EDIT: Seeking technical co-founder to help build out idea. Must be prepared to sign NDA before equity can be discussed.
Rocket data
"The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed," written in 1983 by a program named Racter. Bestseller? It's very well known, but I don't know how well it sold.
"I doubt hosting is what most VC funding is spent on."

You might be surprised.
Ugh. It feels like the cesspool of the SEO underworld is physically manifesting itself.
I'm not anywhere near the firewall team, but my company seems to struggle with blocking these services quite a bit. In particular, google drive is very hard to block: they use HTTPS and they don't have a fixed set of addresses that the service is delivered from.

Their solution? Add a GPO to all our windows machines to force a '127.0.0.1 drive.google.com' entry into all the HOSTS files on our network.
> I doubt hosting is what most VC funding is spent on.

I doubt that was the point.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4919729
WIMAX or LTE in a rural town would be fine, but you're still going to need to get that town into the grid somehow. You'll still be stringing fiber to the nearest big city or MAE.
Heh, actually I bought the Android humble bundle as well. I loved the fact that they could do something like that on Android. Its true that there are loads of services that people find outside the app/play store such as twitter or drop box. But if I wanted to install a drop box client, the first place I would go is to the play store to search for dropbox!

It would be a really interesting experiment for an existing service to host an .apk on their website in addition to listing in the google play store. I wonder how many people would side load the app, vs just going through play?
Do you mean use something like a BaaS?
I put this together after reading four other petitions which are getting shared wildly which lack any structure or goals. I realize we discuss tech/etc, but this is also a place where we've joined together on really big issues that impact us and our children.

Here are some of the headlines on the petitions:

- "Create a national commission to review our gun control laws"

- "Begin a national conversation on sensible gun control"

- "Start the process to enact Federal Gun control laws"

As everyone here knows, you can't get shit done without goals. We need to stop asking lawmakers to converse and start telling them what we will support.

Help!
I don't think so. That certainly forms a part of it, but there are also the aspects of e.g. senseless policies, large sub-organizations doing nothing useful for no good reason, people engaged in turf wars instead of doing something productive, etc. Authoritarian or dictatorial regimes can be quite efficient if the dictator is good, and I don't really associate those features with authoritarianism, but they are definitely stereotypical (if not necessarily real) communism.
Couldn't resist:

class Solution{public static void main(String[] a){for(int i=0;++i<101;)System.out.println(i%15==0?"FizzBuzz":i%3==0?"Fizz":i%5==0?"Buzz":i);}}

143 characters, 57 score
Is $37 an ode to 37 signals?
Ask HN: How much do you charge as iOS Contractor?
I am thinking of getting into iOS contracting/consulting. It would be great to know from you guys how much should I charge. (I am interested in the US rates). Thanks a lot.
Working Alone Does Not Suck
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This [1]The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China seems to be the most reviewed book (35) at 3.3 stars, being sold for $495 USD.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/2009-2014-Outlook-Toilet-Seats-Greater...
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So this guy has been able to find a common schema across several different domains and add rules to it to churn out content. I like the concept. I watched the video in the article and could see how this could be used for instruction in the case where the resources like trained teachers are scarce.

I've had a feeling for a long time that due to the predictability of humans and our processes that it this is inevitable. I think it's great that he can do this for things like instruction but if this were to get "smart" enough that would put a lot of people out of work.
Stay focused here. Nobody is talking about knives.
Why did you work there for as long as you did? After the first two you could have packed up without any repercussions, and you should have made a little farewell present to the CEO giving him your exact reasons for leaving.
The index for this book is also useless. It seems to index every word in the text, whether it's significant or not; for example, "September". Also the index has entries for "Nova" and "Scotia", but not "Nova Scotia" (which is presumably where these two words came from).

I don't think that real authors would face any significant competition from this guy.
>If Apple has fostered/encouraged multiple great mapping applications rather than promoting just one this situation might not have occurred. Of course, then they'd have multiple mapping apps and users might be confused.

Apple could have done this from the beginning... if they didn't rely on Google's data. That would have really opened up the market for quality map applications.

The hard part of any maps application isn't necessarily presenting the data to the user. What really counts is your backend's data. Right now, Google is pretty much the king of that data, which is why everything that used their data, even Apple's old app, was pretty good. Honestly, I don't know how Apple could have come out looking good with the new maps. Even if it had been in development for years, it wouldn't have been nearly as full featured, or as good as implementations based on Google Maps. Apple's simply too far behind to come out swinging.
Let's not bring logic and facts into an argument about guns with Americans.

The simple fact is that Americans are exceptional, so anything that happens outside the US is irrelevant.
Russell's paradox
Why do you think access to kitchen knives was restricted in the UK? When people stopped having access to guns they started using knives for crimes. Guns have legitimate uses for self defense. What the object is made for is irrelevant, anything can be used to kill someone.
If wishes were horses... Why stop at merely hoping that someone not have a gun when they snap? Why not hope that they are in a jail cell when they snap?

As far as arming teachers, it's not a perfect solution, nor is it going to "make everything alright". When you have people like this who end up being so bent on destruction and violence things are not going to be alright, it's a matter of degrees. However, there have been several incidents of teachers and civilians putting a stop to mass shootings, likely saving many lives. These often don't get as much news coverage precisely because the body count is lower and thus the events are less newsworthy. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting
This is how I lean too. A few percent in a mass measurement is a pretty small systematic error and could easily come from something that has been overlooked or miscalibrated. There are a tens and hundreds of calibration and corrections that go into these detectors and analyses and it's all too easy to miss something.

What really makes me convinced it is an experimental error is that CMS does not see the same mass discrepancy. If both independent experiments saw the same discrepancy then this would truly be really interesting new physics.

Disclaimer: I am on ATLAS myself, though not associated with the Higgs groups. I can only comment on public results due to much information being confidential.
Dropbox 2.0 brings a crisp new mobile look and refined photo experience on iOS
Should be noted that they are all joke reviews.
Are you sure investing this much capital in young startups is wise? There is precedent for it leading to messy disputes.
IPhone 5 launch in China is not looking good.