skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is a surgeon; while we were flying to Morocco last spring, a man on the plane accidentally put himself into a diabetic coma. A nurse was sitting next to him and thought that he was having a heart attack. The attendants called for a doctor; my wife recognized the actual issue, and revived him by rubbing honey on the inside of his mouth and gums (the onboard medical kit had nothing of use beyond rubber gloves).

The other passengers on the flight actually did applaud her, which was cute, but I think they mostly did it because it meant that the flight didn't need to be diverted to Heathrow.
> 3) Potentially being discovered and held against you by employers.

Interesting, I just realized that political viewpoints is not necessarily a protected class [1]. Presumably owning a gun is sort of a political view. Can an employer technically discriminate against such people? It feels like a class action law suit waiting to happen so I am guessing there is a law out there that gets violated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
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I agree, this is a good example of why I think the complaints about criticism in the open source space need to be put back in check. Some are deserved, but these guys aren't trolls or well-intentioned idiots they're all trying to build the best rails they can.

I've been in and witnessed plenty of disagreements in closed source development, they always get much much more heated than this before someone pulled rank.
For a Hyper-V Windows client, you should be using Remote Desktop. The Hyper-V desktop client is really designed for simple installtion & management. For other OSs, I'd imagine installing a native client (ssh/X) on the host would be a better experience.
Now that I think about it you're right—it's been every year or two for me. (On a standard Timex Ironman.)
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The comments on the TC piece are quite disturbing, even by Internet comment standards.
Individual caliper readings have a pretty high margin of error- I've noticed up to 3% swings from week to week. But when the readings are done regularly and applied as a trend, it's pretty clear.

I've also changed my diet significantly- I eat way more protein and fat and almost no carbohydrates. I think that has as much to do with my fat loss as the exercise.
Can I get added to the list of gun owners please?

Make a note that I am an expert marksman and I shoot to kill.

Also, please add that I don't own anything worth trading your life for.
Take a look at leangains.com .. The guy there suggests a form of intermittent fasting that works for him and others.
Swimming is great, in many ways - great cardio, super low impact, endurance strength, high base metabolism, and puts you in line to have a good physique.

The biggest problem is that a standard swim is 2-3 hours, whereas I can complete all my lifts in 45 minutes.

I used to swim ~3 miles a day. That was before I had two kids, a house, etc.
> This site doesn’t tell its encoding

Same problem here. So much for the master chef with a decade of experience...
Just to add a corroborating data point here: I left a job I loved because I was underpaid. There were extenuating circumstances and my manager's hands were tied, but when an offer for 75% more came along I did not feel bad at all taking it.

The job I took was not nearly as interesting to me, but life in general was much better because of the money. We had just had another child and the increase contributed directly to less stress about bills and the costs of a new child, and allowed us to maintain a more comfortable standard of living.

Sometimes it is entirely about the money.
I am not supporting the publishing of either set of information. So this is Devil's advocate a little. The only benefit I can see from publishing the original list would be that as a neighbor it might be nice to know if your neighbor's owned guns. Why? Well, if they also displayed disturbing behavior it might be good to have that as context. To dramatically simplify - perhaps it would be nice to have some additional context to put around the house down the street or across the way where there is ongoing issues of domestic violence/mental illness or disturbing behavior.

One of the most disappointing elements of Newton was that the family understood that their child had severe behavioural issues and also kept the means for massive destruction within the house. Perhaps a third party could have encouraged the removal or one or the other when witnessing the anti social behaviour.

Lastly, however flawed, the newspaper did present a logic of "common public good" while the response was purely vindicative/vengeance. It's worth noting.
@dhh:
@jon_lemmon Why don’t you go ahead and fork rails so you can change the default gitignore file for new apps? You can call it Rails on Drama.

ROFL, DHH has cajones.
Yeah, I don't believe that the interesting part of SLAX is the small size (many distros have done this before, like Puppy linux, DSL, etc), but rather what they've managed to fit into it.

Shoehorning KDE4 into a 200mb distro is pretty impressive. I used SLAX a while back for a short period of time, and I might have to give it another go. Hopefully there's an easy way to remove KDE and add XFCE. Last I checked KDE desktop was checked as a dependency for nearly everything, which made switching DEs a real pain.
> [1] A flash player that doesn't tint everything blue would also be welcome.

Are you talking about the problem described in this post?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-bl...
Making your house a target for people who want to steal your guns.

For some people it's a list of gun owner households... for some robbers however it might be a list of homes without guns :P
I was curious so here are some population figures (from wikipedia)

Eurozone: 332,839,084

EU: 503,492,041

Europe: 739,165,030

So 45% of Europeans (66% of EU citizens) are in the Eurozone.
That some random individual with a blog can harvest the addresses of every single registered gun owner with a freedom of information request is thought provoking to me.

In the past, I had vague fears about what such lists could be used for, but my fears were always aimed toward the group that held civil control. Now I am struck with how easy it is for the $FANATICAL_CAUSE down the street to obtain such a list. Such freedom of information is dangerous.

This inability for a government to avoid releasing large databases full of dangerous information to random people is frightening.

Is this the way the world is heading? If so, I have some business ideas I need to start working on.

Let me use the freedom of information act to obtain the database that maps license plates to names and addresses. Next time you accidentally cut somebody off in traffic, expect him to be waiting at your house when you get home, after visiting my website. Maybe he's already had a little visit with your family while he was waiting.

Let me use the the freedom of information act to obtain the tax returns of every person in an area. We'll publish how much you make, where you work, and the names and ages of your children, so anybody who might be interested in such things can visit my website to do searches. After all, information should be free, right?

The only thing that scares me more than my government having complete and total knowledge of my life, is for it to be accessible by any lunatic with a computer. That was a worry I didn't even have when I woke up this morning.
In that case, you might be better off asking for a phrase to be used to retrieve trusted apps. Hawkee is right, you're dealing with an unusually paranoid audience.
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> squats are great but there is a 100% chance of injury with them

What?

Machines are terrible for you. They are to deadlifts what the treadmill is to a marathon.
Yeah, but why does Fedora need a contract with Microsoft to use a Dell computer, or a generic computer built from parts?
Tiny Core Linuxis still going strong (http://www.tinycorelinux.net/). They're now up to three images, all built on the idea of running out of RAM with a 3.0-era kernel. The Core image is CLI-only and weighs in 8 MB; TinyCore adds a GUI/WM interface at 12 MB; and if you have RAM to burn you can opt for the 64 MB CorePlus image which is the only one that starts up with wifi set up.

It's a kick to play with. It's just amazing how fast a minimal distro can be running out of RAM. Even when you load it up with Firefox and a bunch of other apps you're still only looking at a few hundred MB.

No xmonad version yet though. :(
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However... CRTs were definitely standard for the more than a decade. During that time, many of the same people now saying "everything works for me" were also saying "everything works for me" with CRTs, and they clearly don't (at least in the GP post). And I don't think anyone went out of their way to remove/break CRT support in earlier versions - it was never quite there for everyone.

Essentially for me, and others I know, the trust in Linux on the desktop has been abused, and it'll be a while before I ever embrace it again as my day to day workstation (VMs and headless servers are where Linux has been relegated in my day to day work).
Seriously. What the heck happened to TC? It was never the high point of debate on the web but it's struggling to rank much above local trashy mag comments. And so much for the quality improvement we'd receive when people had to use their real identities. Is the problem AOL piping a lot of traffic into their stories?
For those who don't know, the Eurozone is basically those 17 EU member states who use the Euro as their currency. The remaining 10 members of the EU use their own national currency.
Next step should be a ruby DSL to generate CoffeeKup markup!
Why should it build upon yet another type system? Vala was designed around GType for a reason, so that it would not have to deal with the same language-interop issues that occur with languages that use different type systems from GObject. Vala originally compiled into C, so implementing another type system in C that isn't GObject would be kind of silly.

If you develop in C#, Java, Python, or Ruby then you need a layer between GTK and your language which can make their type systems work together. But Vala was designed around the existing GObject system, and since it compiled directly to C it didn't need much in the way of a glue layer, at least for GObject-based libraries.
Consider that Microsoft Azure offers Linux virtual machines, I doubt that is a major reason for a secure BIOS.
why is this even on 'Hacker' News?
That's pretty pathetic if true. If you're going to ban someone, just man up and ban them. Passive-aggressive methods like that feel like they're straight out of a playground. Although I guess some of silicon valley acts like a playground, so that makes sense.
I do something similar. Two days/week: heavy weights, primarily machines (+cardio). Two days/week: free weights, compound+core exercises. Much lighter weights- still a grueling work out.
Pretty much a collision of unfortunate events. We were at a work function until 2am in London and returned to our room to find it had been robbed. The thieves took his bag which contained his insulin kit.

So now it's 3am GMT and he can't reach his doctor in the States. We're supposed to leave at 8am for the flight home. No pharmacy is open and even if they were, they wouldn't help him. Nurses at Heathrow couldn't help him either.

So he decided to risk it and see if he could make it all the way home without having any trouble. He went into shock 4 hours into the flight.
There's probably a lot of opportunity in simply connecting said vaults and making switching costs lower, with fewer mutants, radscorpions, and less radiation to endure between vaults.
3 weeks/year is what passes for lots of holiday in the US? Wow. I took 31 days this year (not counting public holidays) and it was less than I'd've liked.
> It is always intellectually lazy, in the same way that blindly accepting provided claims is intellectually lazy: it allows the reader to avoid thinking about the claims in question.

I did think about the statement, and I thought it was untrue. Then I asked for evidence to support the claim. Is that intellectually lazy, or is the original post intellectually lazy?

Regardless, 5-10 minutes after I posted "citation needed," I backed it up with examples, and followed up on subthreads with more points.
"but for unknown reasons could not urinate"

Maybe that guy suffered from the Shy bladder syndrome [1].

[1] http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Shy+bladder+...
The email thing is a great idea IMO, first.last is great until you grow and the second and third John Smith start working for your company. Then you run into the "Who is John.Smith3@example.com"? issue. Your email system has a directory, use it and let the employees determine their address.

The "just take vacation whenever" thing works great until it doesn't. What do you do when:

- You have burnt out people who won't take vacation.

- Employee X has a husband with a terrible medical condition who is taking off excessive amounts of time. When do you stop paying her for this time?

- Employee Y crosses the invisible line and becomes a "slacker" because he takes too much time.

- Supervisor Z makes it difficult for employees to take anything more than a long weekend.

- Employee ZZ takes on reconciling the credit cards that everyone has access to, and uses this position to embezzle from the company. He's always busy, so doesn't take time off, and nobody else looks at the statements.

IMO, the issue to the company is that you don't want to accrue lots of liability for paying out accrued time. So figure out another way to do that. Want to make people happy? Give them 6 weeks of PTO, minimize accruals, and do a year-end shutdown that forces them to burn a week. Start with some sort of written policy -- people need to understand what they can and cannot do.
Hmm. Perhaps you could stop generalizing about people generalizing about Europe. Varsavsky has lived and built businesses in Madrid since 1995, so I think that his contrasts between the European market and the American market from the entrepreneur's point of view are really pretty trustworthy.

Your points about European diversity are quite valid, although I think they're beside the point. But your ad hominem "Oh my, another American is butting his nose into Europe" framing is less than persuasive.
Dumbbells are definitely safer if you need to drop the weights and don't have a rack, but I find certain lifts (power cleans mostly) put stress on my elbows if I'm not using a bar.
How long did it take for the back pain to go away once you started training? How often do you train and which weights do you recommend?
"err... eye for an eye, leaves the whole world blind, Anyone remembers that?"

It seems people have taken on a more Parker Brothers attitude: "Sorry! You get me I get you back".

"A criminal can use the info to take revenge on a media personnel, or rob/hurt/murder/rape someone without a gun."

Just because somebody isn't on that map doesn't mean they don't have a gun. All it means is that they just don't legally own a gun.
There's an old saying that goes something like, the lower the stakes, the more bitter and destructive the disagreement. It goes along with that old anecdote about how the disputes among people involved in volunteer organizations are more charged than in situations where money is involved.

In this case, this drama was triggered by... a one-line change to the default gitignore file.
It's a little surprising to me they didn't even attempt CPR.
If you have an always on, reasonably fast and unmetered broadband connection perhaps. I understand it on the laptops, but desktops have plenty of available space so they're removing them simply for the sake of removing them.

I don't use the optical drive on my iMac much, but the times I have had to were not times I would have been able to avoid. I don't want yet another accessory/dongle or one less USB port. There's tons of room, just include the drive.

This came up recently with trying to install Windows inside Parallels on my girlfriend's laptop. Their IT people had a DVD and of course her laptop has no DVD drive, so I looked up how to use Remote Disc and found out that it works great except explicitly not for installing an OS and oddly almost all the other common uses of an optical disc.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5287

These types of discs are not supported by DVD or CD sharing: These types of discs are not supported by DVD or CD sharing: DVD movies, Audio CDs, Copy protected discs such as game discs, Install discs for an operating system such as Microsoft Windows (for use with Boot Camp), or Mac OS X.
I'm curious how that $46B breaks down. It's not like the Apple watch will ever compete with a Rolex, Patek Phillipe, Parmigiani, Frank Muller or Cartier for example. People buy those watches for style and to show off.

Then again, I could totally see some of the high-end watch companies creating exceptionally nice bands for the Apple watch to meet the need for style and showing off.

Whatever they make though, it better be waterproof. A watch that isn't waterproof simply isn't that practical for most people. No one wants to have to fiddle with taking it off their wrist and stuffing it in their pocket at the first sign of rain.
> that a few borderline whiners will catch a clue

Just so you know, those 'borderline whiners' are mostly other members of the core team.
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Ah, that explains it. I do low bar and had forgotten there was such a thing as high bar. Do you suppose low bar works better if you have broad shoulders? Low bar certainly alleviates the sore neck problem.

JoAnn definitely not bulky. And cripes would I love to be able to bench 165! Sometimes I resent stumbling on this type of training in my 40s instead of my 20s.

Nia Shanks is something like 122lbs and (last I saw) could deadlift 315lbs. She is not bulky or "'roided out." It is because of her that I've set my goal at 315lbs. I've had two kids by c-section, though. Dunno if I'll get there or not. Sometimes stuff hurts.

Daniel makes this point in his article, in a way: goals are important. From what I understand, there are three goals: get strong, get lean or look good naked. All three are perfectly respectable goals in my book. Approach a random person in the gym and ask them what they are training for, "To lose weight." This is a meaningless statement we believe has meaning.

So far, the best response I've heard is, "Retirement." I forget who said it, though.
Rails Core. I don't think he actually has Ruby core access like Aaron Patterson (Tenderlove)

Actually, I think he's sort of on vacation from Rails for the most part. He's got Elixir to work on.

As for the matter at hand, Bundler author Yehuda Katz said that checking in binstubs is actually not a good idea and is not recommended. DHH is going against the grain here.
One could probably trivially combine the gun ownership data with publicly available property value data to pick targets for robbery.

You could further enhance it with proxies for use of security systems such as 911 calls (can one FOIA a list of all 911 calls?), but with the software industry as it is anyone going to all this trouble could probably make a better return by getting a job or just doing freelance dev work.
I could make an almost identical argument about the usage of terms like "Americans". The states and even cities themselves are all very different.
Have you followed the HN discussion about Varsavskys post? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4968589 He takes his experience from Spain and UK and glosses it all over europe with some hearsay in between. Some of his statements may apply to spain and the UK, but pretty much all of them don't apply in germany - even the ones about germany. So it's not an ad hominem attack when the author says "another one that falls in the trap."
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Yeah, it's so obvious that it was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the author got a PhD from CMU for it.
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It sounds to me like this information was intended to be public and disseminated to interested parties (researchers, critics, etc). From the article: "Gun permit holding is public information in New York, and can be acquired through a mere request via the Freedom of Information Act."

So I think your example of DMV registrations or tax returns being obtained through a freedom of information act is a bit of a stretch because the DMV has explicitly stated on the myriad forms I've signed that they will only ever share your information with the court when required. Or in the case of a DUI they will also sell your information to ambulance chasing lawyers (personal experience).
Very impressed by the quality of this app although it's targeting GNOME. Only thing missing for now it multi-account support...
very specific definitions

Ha! Hard to argue with that because you pluralized 'definition.'

But what I mean is, (1) If I'm doing a chest exercise, for example, with 270+ pounds, and I fail on a machine, I can get out of it. With free weights, I need a spotter and it's much trickier. (2) Perhaps more important: If I'm doing heavy legs (450 lbs, for example), with free weights I have to load a lot of weight on my back for a squat. This is dangerous even for younger men (I'm 50 years old) because slight distraction and they can hurt their backs in a way that is really hard to get over. Load up a weight machine and I don't have to worry about it.

I hit the stabilizer muscles doing light weight squats on a bosu ball.

So, yeah, in a perfect world I'd be 25 years old and doing all free weights. But I've adapted to my circumstances in what I believe to be a reasonable way.
Unconvincing anyone of their convictions is a quixotic undertaking. I've had a few women approach me over the last year and ask me how much I'm lifting, and I've seen them watching me from afar. Alas, the way I am built, I am only going to reinforce the stereotype. My people were built to pull ploughs, apparently.
These days, Rails is very much pick-and choose: https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api and https://gist.github.com/1942658#file-config-ru
Thanks for the suggestions, I will definitely keep all of this in mind as we work through some of these things.
I watched this guy's videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/jonmervis/videos?view=0

I also learned a few things while shopping:
1. You need to see the diamond in person.

2. Size is easily quantifiable, but sparkle/pop is more important. See #1.

3. I don't like to haggle. So I went to a diamond wholesaler, which was basically an office environment as opposed to a sales floor. I took my time, didn't feel pressured and I walked away with a great diamond at a great price. I can't recommend this option enough.

4. Not all certifications are equal. If the price seems to good to be true, it probably is. This is especially relevant for online vendors.

Another random tip: before you propose, secretly make a manicure appointment for your significant other for later that day or the next day.
I think you are pedantic about other people's semantics and not your own. E.G. when you say American, do you mean US citizens or people from the two continents of America? I think you mean the former. Just like they most likely mean Western Europe.
This 'low stakes' change breaks every single new Rails app on Heroku that uses rbenv.
The cultural differences among states do vary, but not to the degree countries in Europe do.
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