skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The view of Second Amendment advocates is that civilian access to firearms is a fundamental civil right that protects the people from their government. This makes it a fundamentally different question than the standard utilitarian arguments one could come up with. It's easy to imagine ways of making people safer by eliminating their civil rights. But we choose to maintain these civil rights despite the costs.
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Strong Passwords: Education not enforcement
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I like this story because it illustrates that there are lots of ranges for normal and that parents often make the difference but I do want to make it clear that many mental health situations can't just simply be snapped out of.
One way I'm reading this is that in effect it is illegal to hack a computer without permision; YET a computer can hack you without permision. When you think of it like that it does appear one-sided. This data centre could indicate you thru false positives of a crime and even present enough data to potentualy incriminate you even if you are innocent. Whilst we have managed to lock up innocent people in the past indicating the system is not perfect, the prospect of stepping closer towards automating that does not bode well.

That all said I understand what they are doing and why and it does make sence and if anything will make people realise that online is the same as in person, just better documented.
Love the phrase "a standard web browser" - having just written two web apps, I can attest that there is no such thing.

You can write an app that sort of works on most browsers or you have to bite the bullet and tailor a version for each of the major mobile browsers. Fair to point out that almost all of the code is the same but the differences are crucial - and where I suppose I earned my fee.
Gun death & gun ownership data for OECD countries from Wikipedia (image)
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In Australia the policy has been to essentially close institutions and make mental health a community care based solution. Once upon a time the methodology for dealing with schizophrenics and other more severe cases of mental illness was to sedate, blast neural connections with electricity, and if that didn't work, cut it out.

With more modern drug regimes, extreme behaviour by these poor souls is more 'manageable'. And in many cases I think, that's the best you can hope for.

The effects of this policy are varied. On one hand, it can make the polices' job more complex. There was a period some time back where the police were being confronted regularly by dangerous behaviour, which lead to deaths by police shootings. It spawned a rash of confrontations and corresponding shooting deaths, which appeared to be escalating. It soon became obvious that these mentally unstable people were getting a fast ticket to pain relief, assisted by police action.

This lead to improved education for the police, in respect of resolution and firearms training. The situation deescalated after that, and the cycle of depression, anger and suicide by proxy was broken.

Australia is a large country, only a little smaller than the United States, with a population of only 20 or so million. So there are regional areas separated by reasonable distances from the major capitals. Two regional cities near to Melbourne that I am aware of have become the nexus for individuals that are part of this community care attitude.

Like attracts like in this instance, and a natural clustering has occurred so that the proportion of the population with mental health issues is greater than the average.

To get an inkling of the degree of organisation involved as a result of these policies, just google 'bendigo mental health'.
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No, it does its job. If I were a customer, I'd be able to find what I wanted. Yes it's ugly, of course.
> Then another tortured soul shoots up a fast food restaurant. A mall. A kindergarten classroom.

There are crazy people in every country on earth, many (most) of which have worse "health care" systems than the US; yet only in the US do kids shoot other kids with automatic weapons.

I very much doubt it has anything to do with mental health (nowhere else in the world are young children medicated for being kids to such an extent as in the US, BTW).

I think there are two main reasons why there are so many shootings in the US
1/ it's a behavior that has ceased to be "unthinkable" (and every reporting of every new incident adds to the problem)
2/ guns are everywhere

I know HN frowns upon any kind of "political" discussion, so I'll won't elaborate too much, but can someone please explain why a school teacher would have three guns in her house, one of them a Glock semi-automatic pistol??

- - -

Also, if I had had a "soccer mom" that told me I couldn't wear a this or that color of trousers when I was 13 (13!!), I would have called her names, too. I have three kids of my own. They can dress any way they please.
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@OP: I've flagged your comment. Hoping you or a moderator sees that you accidentally posted from your not-throwaway account. I could figure out what startup you are a founder of.
> It is similar to Arab countries

Egypt is an Arab country - the biggest and most influential Arab country, located in the center of the Arab world. Saying Egypt is similar to Arab countries is like saying France is similar to European countries.
I'm guessing you're either young or ignorant, so let me explain to you how it works with any Google product. I'll use Gmail as an example:

1) You sign up for Gmail

2) Google starts data mining all of your e-mail, scouring it for any type of keywords as well as using algorithms to determine your age, gender, sexuality, married, location, if you like Mac or PC, what mobile phone you have, what diseases you may have, etc... Remember this is on a HUGE scale and they can easily uniquely identify you using many methods.

3) Remember, that if you leave yourself logged in and then go to do a search on Google, they log that information too, they also log the information from you on YouTube or any other of their properties.

4) They now have all this information and they track you using cookies. So when you get to a site that uses Adwords or Double Click Google has a VERY good idea about what type of ads to place on that page to entice you to click on one of them.

5) Profit

Unfortunately, there's quite a large number of people out there who don't know what Google's doing. Just so you know the personal information IS paying the bills in a HUGE way. Google gets > 90% of all revenue from advertising. You seem to fall into that group. Please educate yourself and also try not to call people stupid as sometimes you MIGHT be wrong yourself.

Also, just so you know, the reason that Google is stopping EAS for personal Gmail accounts is to attempt to cripple the Windows Phone before it has a chance to take off. It's a shrewd business move and once again, it has nothing to do with economics.
That's a valid issue, definitely want to conform with Go standards and don't break anything. Like the "sql:" proposal very much, will change it to that!
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I thought about it after commenting and was trying to think of a loose vocabulary you could introduce for "sql" to be interoperable among as-yet unwritten libraries, as jedsmith says on Github, and that's a pretty tough nut to crack. Letting it evolve over time is probably the right choice, so will be interesting to see how your choices impact the SQL landscape down the road.
Which storage engine is Wikipedia using (MyISAM, XtraDB or Aria)?
FOr me the best medicine is to run.. run as hard and as far as you can for as long as you can.. there is nothing that a good run cannot fix... (distance and speed are relative) and please note the situation you are feeling is all chemistry in your head.. they are just chemical reaction.. if you are feeling low because of your startup then please be aware you are not alone.. also, a person is not a failure an event is.. besides the real failure is failing to try and you are not.. stay strong and there is plenty or love and kindness in the world..
This looks amazing based on the contents.

I don't think this one has the videos available?

I'd love to see video sessions of such a course (best if it's being taught with D3).

Are there any such courses?
Indeed. I'd say they were Darwin award candidates.
It wasn't actually Dijkstra who said the bit about premature optimization; it was Donald Knuth.
So What If You Have Big Data? Without Data-Driven Processes And Products,..
Why are we limiting to firearm-related deaths? Within hours of the event in CT, there was another mass attack at a school in China - that one by knife, wounding twenty or so.

While guns may have increased the severity of the damage, the lack of a gun did little to stop a similar event from taking place. People that want to do harm to others will find a way, and while there's something to be said for trying to lessen how much damage they can do, that seems to be a poor attempt at treating the symptom rather than the disease.

Put another way: let's look at the overall violent crime rates by country instead. Here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
US ranks at 4.2/100k

I'd also like to point out your selective data pull is very misleading (whether it was intentional or not I don't know; I'll give you the benefit of the doubt). Of those 9 deaths per 100k, 5.75 are suicides and 0.27 are unintentional; only 2.98 were murders (so we have nearly 75% of our murders by gun, but overall a quite low murder rate compared to over a dozen countries at 30+/100k and four over 50). Also from missing from your quote - the US is #12 in terms of firearm deaths per capita, not #1 as your data implies.

The only data that is really relevant to gun control arguments are murders that would not have been possible without a gun and (probably more relevant) accidental gun deaths. Anyone sufficiently determined to kill themselves will find any number of ways, so that's almost completely irrelevant to the discussion.
How algorithms secretly shape the way we behave
Schema management is one of the features I really want to use in an orm as it's the main pain in the ass when it comes to dealing with relational databases.
Agreed. Mental health problems are not limited to the United States. But widespread, poorly regulated, gun ownership is.
JavaScript vs. C++? Cascades Lets You Make Native Apps With Both
Matching the json-tag style will probably be the best bet (using commas, e.g. `sql:"size(128),default('abc')"`)
I fear people are confusing things. Take the analogy of police patrols in streets. They may see all what you do and even control your identity and ask you questions. You may consider this as a frontal aggression to your privacy and right to move around without beeing spied. You may claim it's the same as the gestapo, or your preferred historical reference. It wouldn't be fully wrong.

But see that it has also been understood by your ancestors that it is a price to pay to ensure security of the people. Because while they look at what you do they also look at what bad people do and will detect them most of the time.

The same change is taking place at a country and hopefuly at a world scale by using the new tools available.

Now back to the police patrols. While this has a proven positive effect on ssecurity, this is also a risk because these armed forces walking among us may also be subverted and they may abuse people. This is a real danger and by society evolution and learning mechanisms and rules have been put in place to avoid this.

All I say is that police patrols are unavoidable and needed to ensure security. Our concern should be to focus on the mechanisms and rules put in place to ensure it doesn't go wrong, gets misused or abused.

So I think we agree that there is indeed a danger with this. We may disagree on what the danger is and what we should focus on. This is in par with democracy.
How Obama Used Big Data to Rally Voters
Motorqa.com - New motor-related site - what do you think?
See my new site: motorqa.com - A quality motor Q&A-forum. My goal is to make a stackoverflow-like site for the motor-enthusiast..
Getting to know Google Maps on iOS
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Ask HN: What production sites are powered by Google Dart?
Dear HN,

We are intrigued by Google Dart (http://www.dartlang.org/) and seriously thinking about using it for a few next projects but the main question is how sustainable Dart would be in the next years.

Do you know any commercial sites and web applications built with Dart and running?
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Worth it for the links alone, many of which I'd not seen before.

I AM a semi-competent coder/designer, and I got a decent amount of new information out of this article. I don't agree with all of it, but I didn't expect to.

Great info, well-presented, easy to understand, make me think. Five stars, would read again.
Don't give up.
Have a love in life, let her sooth your mind.
I have been suffering the same. i'm definitely younger than you, and have this problem.
> P2P, VP8

So is Chromium Remoting. http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git;a=tree;f=remo...
Well sure, if I only ever listened to views that echoed my own, I'm pretty sure I'd feel like that too.

A few points from this video:

1: Horrible presentation: this is fear-mongering at its finest.

2: Not a single argument presented from the anti-gun perspective.

3: Admissions that length of sentences are not high enough (nothing to do with guns at all).

4: Admissions that police are hilariously under-equipped to respond and deal with crime (nothing to do with guns).

If your police force cannot do its job, and your justice system is a joke, then surely you can see how that would reduce the risks for would-be criminals and make it more likely for them to commit a crime? Why is 'no guns' the only explanation for an increased crime rate (if indeed those figures are valid)?

You can't just say that gun control = tyrannical regime (note: I have never once actually advocated an outright gun ban). Stop being ridiculous.

What level of weaponry do you believe individuals should be allowed to own? Would you be happy for Joe Schmoe to own that same level of weaponry?

Gun advocates are fond of saying 'guns don't kill people, people kill people'.

Yes, people kill people. Using guns. A gun is such a devastating weapon to the human body - the only reason to point it at somebody is if you want them to die. If it's trivially easy to get hold of a gun, then more people are likely to use them against other humans. This isn't complicated.

The pro-gun lobby seems to think that anybody who advocates gun-control is some kind of idiot: that we don't understand how not owning a deadly weapon reduces the ability to defend myself. Of course we understand that - but we believe that the risks of easy access to guns far outweigh the benefits. I am fully aware that criminals will still get hold of guns - but they have access to them anyway if guns are legal. I'd rather have the odd armed criminal than all of them armed.
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Fix the link. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/12/apple-shareholders-di...
It's often encouraged. Font foundries (and other sources) will occasionally publish lists of type pairs that work well together, and more often than not, one will be serif and the other sans serif.
I love these online courses ... I'm currently taking the crypto one from Udacity, and I also started the Coursera networking one, though I soon found out I didn't like the way it was presented.

I realise it's churlish to complain about something given out for free, but can anyone tell my why so many moocs want to replicate the classroom experience?

For example this course:

> is completely online with no location requirements; It is free for those who are not seeking credit or certification, and it is open to the general public.

... which sounds wonderful. Why, then, does it start in May and run through June? Why put time limits on it? One great advantage of Moocs for me is the ability to do them at my own pace, slow or fast.

I'm reminded of a complaint my wife makes about her english lessons in secondary school: the teacher shouted at her when she finished the class book early, and told her not to read ahead again. It destroyed all her interest in the class.
IPhone 5 launches in China, Apple shifts focus away from U.S.
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Problem is that errors are always going to occur. the stronger the data sets the harder it can be to prove your innocence. We have rights and the law not to prevent the bad guys from doing bad things, but to protect the citizens from the potential misuse of the governmental system.
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lord.dfg <-- this is my Skype.

Add me anytime you like, we can chat and hang around. I am a decent listener, I love helping people out and I am great motivator. I do browse Reddit & help out whenever I can but since this is HN I will make an exception just for you.

So, cheer up, life isn't over it's never to late to start again.

EDIT: anything we talk will be considered confidential. So, you're in safe hands.
Well, this is crap.

I live in Tunisia and we have the equivalent political party in power (Renaissance party). It turns out they used religion to attract voters.

It's clear, a year later, that they are here for power and money. For instance, they are putting around $1bn in indemnity for former prisoners. I admit they should be compensated for their losses especially if it's caused by the former regime injustice, but I don't believe the economy can handle that much. So we might end up breaking the whole economy for a bunch of jerks.

What amazes me about the new gov. is how economically illiterate their members are. You can see them driving us straight into the wall. For instance, you can't find milk or potatoes in the stores. And also, there are no available new cars in the market. Next availability is 6 months later.
Comparing cars to guns is very dishonest. Cars are primarily used for transportation, and can kill people in some situations. Guns are for killing [people or animals], period.
The oft cited Chicago example is also extremely dishonest, because most of the violence is gang related which is a completely different problem. The guns in this case DID kill the people involved..at the point when people are using bomb recipes on the internet to commit mass murders, we can also address that problem, but guns DO kill people, and they really should be taken out of civilian hands.
That's analagous to saying it's a problem that Health screenings are often targeted at high-risk groups when the vast majority of those groups won't get the disease in any case.
There are some good depression meds out there. See a Psychiatrist for more details.
Show HN: Clerkd.com (iOS) - new way to share & discover music.
Hey guys!
Our small team has been building this thing for last 6 month (I'm the developer). We're trying to figure out easier way to share and discover new music.

Clerkd is an app for iOS (5.0+) and it's absolutely free. It allows you to play music (obviously), follow friends to see what they listen to (kinda instagram style), see what music has been listened where (color-coded music maps), make charts from people & places and get recommendations (powerful AI under the hood).

It would be really awesome to get some feedback from you guys :)
At the moment app is invite only so if you want to try (and hopefully give us your feedback), please use code:
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Hello my community
mixergy has a great interview with the founder talking about hitting $1M+/year for the product that started it all (ios), and a phd's journey from pakistan to the bay area.

just search for "iteleport mixergy interview"

very inspiring story. congrats to J & team.

~B
I disagree, the US haven't faced a real threat since 2001. I agree with you that the UK cannot have a position of moral superiority. Perhaps the UK has learned the error of their ways, and in recent times has sought to mend them. A apology more than twenty years after the incident isn't much solace though.

This article about an incident in Northern Ireland may be interesting to you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings
In practice, the legislative, executive and judiciary powers are separated from the church there too. But formally, yes, that could be a subject of debate.
When you remove steering, both groups simply do statistical modelling. From my observations, the main difference is that stats people make simpler models, test well, but are a victim of mathematical tendency to build on too optimistic assumptions; CSists are closer to the data, make more complex models and do poor verification (but thus report better accuracies). Regardless of the actual performance, stats has traditional monopoly in biomedics (minus neuro* stuff) and CS in engineering.
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I figured you did, but there others who will read your story and think -- "That's just like that Aurora guy! He just needed that! He just needed somebody to come along and tell him "XYZ" and then straighten his shit out". I still thought the story was good for the reasons already outlined though.
"Also, if I had had a "soccer mom" that told me I couldn't wear a this or that color of trousers when I was 13 (13!!), I would have called her names, too."

Just an fyi, many countries have different levels of school uniforms. When I studied in England, I was wearing a full school uniform - button shirt, tie, trouses, sweater, etc. This from the first day of school, basically.

Here in Israel, some schools have a "school shirt" policy, some don't have anything.
> The aim of the TIA initiative was essentially to create a kind of ubiquitous pre-crime surveillance regime monitoring public and private databases.

I Ctrl+F-ed for Philip K. Dick's name, didn't find anything, I'll be the first one to copy-paste this:

> Paradoxes and alternate realities are created by the precognition of crimes when the chief of police intercepts a precognition that he is about to murder a man he has never met. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report)
.....and, where the cost of false positives is sufficiently high and the rate of false positives is sufficiently high, that is a very relevant consideration that is in fact made by the medical community. That is just a basic of modern medicine.

The world is not black and white. These are things that must be weighed and considered rationally with real data, not emotionally with fabricated absolutes. You don't get to discard half of your equation because when you include it the results don't make you feel warm and fuzzy.

P(A|B) = \frac{P(B | A)\, P(A)}{P(B)}

Not a hard concept.
Please note that the json data he used is not from bl.ocks.org as it is only a proxy for GH Gist data. In this case it is a Gist [1] from @mbostock.

[1] https://gist.github.com/3750900
About a billion people have found a use for those. Users from all walks of life use Facebook. Granmas, dads, kids. They find utility in it right away. Same could be said for MySpace when it first came out too.

Google+?
What about MariaDB5.5 and MariaDB10.0 performance compared to 5.3?
fixed: https://github.com/eaigner/hood/commit/7e7742dfd1aff966c6745...