skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite recent events, the worst year for mass gun shootings was 1929. Looking at the 2011 preliminary data[1] death by Assault (homicide) dropped out of the top 15 causes of death in the USA. It is still more dangerous for parents to own a swimming pool as opposed to a gun. We don't teach actual risks and pay for it daily.

Stunts like this just paint targets on people. Gun owners will be targets for theft of guns. Non-gun owners will be targeted by other types of criminals. Neighbors might learn some things about their neighbors. Overall, the incentive to register anything goes down.

edit: add footnote
1) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf
They might allow non US citizens to compete as long as the primary point of contact for the team is eligible to compete. This is how I remember they did the Darpa shredder challenge.
Sorry about your colleague's experience, but from my understanding of how Dropbox works even with old clients this shouldn't happen. Are you sure your friend hadn't deleted the contents of his Dropbox folder on that system and then turned the client back on later? That would definitely explain this. It'd be great to have your friend weigh in.
A Cliffside Cliffhanger
This is absolutely sad and pathetic.
If only. I think that the business model of grow first then make money will still be vastly more popular than it has a right to be over the next few years and likely beyond. Though hopefully some of the sheen has been taken off of it.

The problem is that sometimes the strategy works, and sometimes when it pays off it pays off big. Amazon being the best example. And there will likely always be a continuous string of the strategy working, in a big way, for the foreseeable future. And that will create a much larger group of gamblers who think they can bet on the same strategy even when the business fundamentals show they have almost no chance of pulling it off.

Facebook is a weird example in this case because in some regards their business model was justified. They managed to create a multi-billion dollar, worldwide business in a short span. There's every reason to believe that they can sustain billion dollar per year profits for many years. However, they managed to sell their IPO on the premise of being a company that's almost 100x bigger than they are now, which is a bit of a ridiculous idea. Even if they gobbled up most of the worldwide ad budget it wouldn't justify their IPO valuation. Yet enough suckers bought into the idea that the company made a lot of money from the IPO and the stock price has even managed to rebound from its low this year, although to be honest I don't think that reflects a rational evaluation of the company.

As far as businesses targeting customers directly, I think that continues to be a big thing and is if anything only growing in popularity. For every instagram or facebook which tries to court hundreds of millions of users with free services there are a huge number of smaller companies who are selling services directly to customers at a profit. The rise of indie game studios and crowd sourced projects is an excellent example of this in action.
/usr/bin/sed on Solaris 10 and earlier does not support -i. I don't know if OpenIndiana / Solaris 11's sed support -i, but OmniOS uses gnu sed by default, so OI might also.

As I recall, AIX's default sed also does not support -i, but I no longer have access to AIX systems to test against.
A number of professional footballers in the UK had their houses broken into during matches they were playing in, in the last two or three years. In some cases repeatedly, after new items were purchased to replace those stolen, the house was broken into again, during another match.

I'd guess home matches are best, because their wife/gf/partner will be more likely to go to the stadium, rather than for an away match, when their wife may not travel.
They are just given as examples as ways Intel is getting quantifiable UX data. Probably more clear written as "quantified using tools ranging from high speed cameras mapping frame rates to user survey data"
Ask HN: What to do for a year?
I attended a prestigious public university for a year, and dropped out due to financial and family issues. After that, I was the youngest person at a Fortune 50 company, and did Linux administration for them. I hated the bureaucratic corporate environment and became interested in startups and running my own business. I immaturely left my very good job without truly thinking things through to start providing web services to local businesses. It hasn't panned out as well as I would like. After lots of meditation and reflection, I have self-actualized my number one issue, and that is discipline. In order to gain the discipline I need to reach my full potential, I want to engage in an institution(s) that will help me instill the discipline I need to succeed, ideally for a year, although I am definitely open to shorter/longer options. I have read a bit about Hacker School and feel like it is a great fit for me, so I plan to apply for it, but I am in dire need of suggestions (other than finish college. not my cup of tea.) I'm open to anything, job, internship, program, camp, etc. Thank you for taking the time to consider this, I really appreciate it.
I find author to be right in he's statement, but wrong in type signature that can't do anything other from what he described. Actually, your type signature is better (in C++) since it doesn't contain concrete types, which means you cannot use any functions with those types.

Here's what you can do in Haskell:

boo :: (Eq b) => Map a b -> b -> a

This would describe that all your function could possibly do inside is just using eq operation with values of map items.
AWS outage brings Netflix down for some devices on Christmas Eve
It seems he changed the title of the blog post and left the reference to a Chinese wall in the body. That doesn't bother me near as much as a headline blazing with borderline racial slur.

Seems like that title might have gotten the article flagged off of the HN home page though.
Isitchristmas.com uses WebSocket and node.JS to allow user interaction
I assumed from the headline that this would be a stupid article, but I took the time to read it anyway and found that this assumption was wrong.

The premise sounds quite solid: The unique challenges of being a flying mammal require spending lots of energy. Which leads to lots of free radicals. Which leads to lots of DNA damage. Which increases selective pressure for DNA repair.

Evolution normally doesn't select for organisms that are able to survive aging, because, from the standpoint of natural selection, once your reproductive years are past, your survival doesn't matter.

That aging resistance would be an incidental benefit of general DNA repair mechanisms that evolved in response to a lifestyle that encourages free radical formation makes a lot of sense. The specific molecules and reactions involved in bats probably will provide important clues to the aging process in mammals, even if the adaptations in bats can't be translated directly into treatments for humans.

How immunity and disease fits into this picture is less clear from the article. But the aging angle alone is enough to make this research very interesting.
I think it's a political move more than a technical one. WinRT lets MS say to Intel that Intel has to care about the tablet market and low-power processors or otherwise ARM will get a foothold in Windows (giving them easy access to the low-end of the laptop market in the next few years).

Of course, this would have worked a lot better if people cared about WinRT at all, but I'm sure that was the idea.
To possess an "Assault Rifle" in the US you need to have a Type 6 or Type 7 Federal Firearms License. You have to apply to the ATF and the State Department, with a background investigation done by the FBI. You undergo yearly inspections of inventory and records by a federal or designated state agent. The location at which the firearm is stored must be approved at the federal, state, and county level. Pretty much the only people who bother to go through all this are the folks who manufature them for the military.

What most people confusingly label "assault rifles", AR-15s, are not fully automatic or even select fire. Many states even ban you from hunting with them because the cartridges are too small to mortally wound animals with a single shot.
In the spirit of "using words correctly", assault rifles are incredibly tightly regulated by the US federal government and various states. Assault rifles are fully automatic weapons (technically select-fire) and have not been legally manufactured for sale since 1986 and require a special federal permit. The rifle used by the person in Connecticut was not an assault rifle, but is categorized as an "assault weapon" by the government (essentially a crippled version of an assault rifle or, as others put it, a scary looking version of a basic semiautomatic rifle).

The short answer is yes, assault rifles are on a separate registry, but NY states appears to essentially ban both assault rifles and assault weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle#United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_York
I just figured he open-sourced his house so more people could "contribute" to the repair work.
Ask HN: HN Christmas Colour Scheme?
It's 1am on Christmas morning so obviously I'm checking hacker news, I seem to remember previous years there being a Festive colour scheme for the upvote / downvote..

So PG, Can we activate Christmas please?

:)
New Delhi Locked Down to Douse Rape Protests
The largest retailers in the US do not look very healthy
SpaceX Grasshopper Takes Off and Lands Vertically [video]
Yeah, sorry for all the edits.

Just pick a secure random number of 128 bits for the salt.

And read the NIST docs on CTR mode. Merry Xmas.
Thanks for that link. Pretty interesting.

Point 2) I tend to be the nail sticking up, but that is more a function of my job descriptions in the past where it was my responsibility to say "no" or question things. It takes a a certain amount of deftness to pull it off consistently combined with a fearlessness of not getting your head chopped off.

The results of the test I recently took said something on the order that I am a very blunt person that appreciates honesty. While this is true in many cases, the test dismissed the idea that I have situational awareness. There is a time for letting someone know that they could have done better and there is a time for congratulating people for doing their best, even if my expectations were disappointed. Empathy didn't seem to be an important measurement for this particular version of the test. People are complex and slippery, with their own motives, and sometimes you can't expect people to be what they aren't.

To say the least, it was upsetting to read a small part of my personality painted with such a thin brush. Ultimately, if I was a hiring manager and read such a description, I would probably think twice about speaking to this person again. This seems to suggest that whoever created the test, or whoever wrote the descriptions, had axes to grind vs certain personality "traits."
I have done it, but it ended up being a lot of work relative to what I earned (and eventually I lost all the income after a Google algorithm change.)

The thing is, it's generally easiest to create lots of value (and correspondingly, earn a lot of money) in an area where you have very little competition. 10 years ago nobody understood the internet, so passive income online was easy. 5 years later it was doable, but harder. Today you'll probably get a much higher RoI by learning R and doing some Data Science consulting.
Precisely my thoughts. The way things are looking, by the time MS gets sizable Windows RT device sales, Intel would be beating ARM on performance/efficiency.
Trying to dry up the hipster job market, are we?
But at least they will be better able to defend themselves as their guns are robbed from them
>That's exactly how a particular side of the debate wants to frame the issue.

And these strawman arguments being tossed around is exactly why we can't have a productive discussion regarding guns in this country. When you insist on turning the other side into a ridiculous caricature, why do you expect to be taken seriously?
> WinRT lets MS say to Intel that Intel has to care about the tablet market and low-power processors

I don't think Intel needs MS to say that. The lost money on the table in the smartphone-tablet ecosystem is enough incentive!
H) I occasionally see Instagram photos in various other social streams, but don't have the app so I don't follow anyone or see popular photos.
Startups by definition are elitist.
the case is, git, github or heroku are not needed at all for web development. if I was to teach somebody how web dev as a whole works, I would introduce them the concept of source control and web hosting for sure, but not tie them into some specific solutions of my choice. learning technologies (languages, databases, frameworks) is timeless, learning how to use a commercial website popular at the time isn't.

frankly speaking, whenever I drop into a tutorial and it begins with an introduction to github or vim, I leave the page. it's because it shows the author isn't focused on solving my problem which is I am not familiar with some specific technology, he prefers to advertise his favorite tools for some reason and lock me in his way of doing things. just show me what I'm looking for, I will figure out the rest myself if I need it.
Why are bats the litmus test for rabies, then? That just seems a bit odd. And why is rabies so prevalent/dangerous in bats that even breathing the air in bat caves can get you the disease?
Congrats. You are a great example of a YC startup and an angel network fund working together to get you $200K.
> Intel has always needed 3 things to beat ARM, and they need all 3 to be competitive: performance, energy efficiency, price.

It's a nitpick, but surely you don't mean this literally? What if Intel's offerings beat ARM chips on, say, efficiency and price, or efficiency and performance... would you still believe ARM to be in a superior position?
I try to keep myself true to two simple rules: no single file over 500 lines, and no single folder with more than 50 files. Obviously this ends up varying by project, but overall it discourages the monolith design pattern that I've seen so many times when picking up other code bases.
I clicked on this hoping for a ruby api.
Is gun theft ever really that much of a specific goal? Seems guns are easy enough to get on the street that breaking into a house just to steal guns has a much higher risk than is normally necessary.

EDIT: Well that didn't take long to acquire a silent Reddit-style "independent-thought downvote."
1970 ipod would be awesome.
The Business  of Tracking Santa
The american law wouldn't be imposed on the seller. They'd merely have to accept the limitations of their county's law on the buyer, with regard to their inability to prevent resale.

Which isn't as much forcing our law on them as not letting them force theirs on us by attaching it to a sale.

Anyways, the entire issue is a red herring created by fraudsters. There are already the concepts of renting or licensing which are limited. Sale is unlimited. Anything else is false advertising.

To retain resale rights simply don't sell something. If that isn't enough for you (in the generic) you're a criminal.
On the bright side , there are legitimate procedures that work.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/ontario-man-s-sight-restored-wi...
This was public information before this interactive map.
If you're interested in the full history, watch Crockford's Your New Overlord talk. He explains that Sun wanted JavaScript gone, but they had to keep it, because it was the only way for Java to talk to the DOM at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trurfqh_6fQ

As for Apple not seeing JavaScript as a threat... that's quite the understatement. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Steve Jobs actually went on stage and declared that Web Apps were the way you would develop apps for the iPhone, in 100% JavaScript. This was almost a year before the App Store and the Cocoa Touch SDK. Nobody really believed him at the time, but it was in line with what they'd been doing.

If you look at Safari's evolution on the desktop, there was a ridiculous performance boost with Safari 3. Incidentally, this was during the same time they would've been developing the iPhone's browser. At the same time they started doing things like CSS animations, CSS transitions, CSS 3D (which was first available on iOS, not on the desktop), all technologies that are required to bring an Apple/Cocoa-like experience to web apps. That's not a coincidence.

Someone who worked at Apple told me that, in fact, Steve Jobs wasn't entirely lying. They did believe web apps were the future. But they simply couldn't deliver on it, and even today, native mobile apps still have a huge lead over web.
Perhaps if you find it uninteresting you should refrain from commenting? Just a friendly suggestion. I mean, what value are you adding by saying you find it uninteresting?

What makes your comment particularly annoying is that it is obvious you haven't even read the short article that accompany the pictures. It states two things:

"Testing revealed that all processors are identical according to the CPU Exerciser except clones from AMD."

"Interestingly, AMD i8080-compatible chips were reverse-engineered from schematics literally stolen from Intel."

In other words, they are identical, which is why they look identical. DUH!
Fight elitism by getting rid of the elitists. A successful startup is not fueled by egos, but by hard work, dedication, and cooperation. It's perfectly normal to feel good about yourself if you've done (and continue to do) those things, but those who do not tend to become elitist.
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That doesn't really matter in this case. Browsing public registries manually is one thing, having an interactive map is another. The latter makes it orders of magnitude easier to do what the original commenter suggested.
Because despite years of trying to shove it in people's faces, nobody genuinely liked using it. Then again, they never fixed the absolutely abysmal start up times.

Through Java Applets, Sun associated the Java logo with "my browser freezes for 10+ seconds". How nobody thought that was a colossal problem, I still don't understand.
You'd be suprised: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/thieves_break...
The extending the brand comment is exactly right. And it goes back way before iPhones too, Nokia is probably the best example. While people may not be able to hum the melody of the original Nokia ringtone when asked spontaneously, I bet that they could at least recognise it when it is played. It's a catchy jingle that makes you think "oh that's a Nokia phone ringing".
While this might not be news to some it's new to me. I don't normally use macros, but I'll certainly keep this in mind if the need ever comes up.
So here's an explanation of why these stories have been done...this is not unheard of open records project and several have been done before...

1. The accountability angle is that this allows the public to see who is allowed to own guns. In some jurisdictions where regulations are strict, these stories have exposed how gun permits go to those with political favor or to those who aren't legally permitted to have a license.

2. It's hard to see how this puts the gun owners in extra danger. You really think there's a subset of crooks who desperately need a gun yet have no other legal or illegal means to attain one except to break into an arms household? Is that really the path of least resistance for burglars?

3. Wouldn't burglars look up county assessor records in order to rob the most wealthy people?

4. Ok, I'll pose the question: many other types of licenses are public record...such as who is qualified to be practice medicine or deal in real estate. Why doesn't a neighbor have the right to know if their neighbors are allowed to have firearms? (The records are for permit holders, not gun ownership) Gun permits are issued via government action...I have the right to know why police arrested my neighbor...why wouldn't I have e right to know who the police is permitting to own a handgun (especially if I have been denied a permit?)
Sure, but the criminal element isn't exactly known for its high IQ. By making it easily accessible, you are inviting abuse and ultimately, the political will to make that public information private.

On top of everything, the law of unintended consequences is at play here. I wouldn't worry about somebody breaking in to steal your gun ... I would worry about the neighbor who doesn't show up on the map. I can rob him without worrying about being shot.
I don't know why you got downvoted, as I found your sarcasm humorous. :)
Your post formatting is a little iffy. But I'll bite.

I've played on HackerRank a bit and one thing that held me back from solving some of the challenges was not knowing what I needed to know. If you're going through various courses to come up with the questions, why not link back to those courses so we can learn and then try our hand?
A fashion/clothes recommendation engine. I was going to start it earlier this year but got discouraged when I say another startup was much further ahead with their product. Haven't heard much of them since so I think the market is still there. Maybe that.. maybe not though.
The net says it is mostly on the East coast but I am in California just a few miles from Netflix HQ and it is down for me on my iPad.
I should try on the Apple TV since they mentioned that it is working on other devices.
I will be curious to hear the post mortem of the outage from both AWS and Netflix.
The timing I am sure doesn't help with Christmas Eve around the corner and probably many engineers not reachable quickly.
You're taking a word too literally and conflating it with something it doesn't mean.

HTML/CSS is not coding/programming.
How about a map of compact items with a high street resale value?

That's what this is.
Interesting to see that the outage is in fact all over the place as the comments below are showing:
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/netflix.com.html
So you're blaming the website for showing some publicly available information in a more accessible form?

That's security by obscurity. So not security.
This is petty comment. Most home intrusions in the US occur when no one is home. If you were planning on robbing a home that is known to have guns would you not be a little preemptive and attempt to do it when no one is there?
From a 'security' perspective, this seems like an objectively good thing to me. If having this data publicly available is a good thing, then this map is a good thing - the more exposure, the better. If it's a bad thing, then the higher exposure resulting from this makes it more likely that a change in policy will happen.

The status quo (prior to the publication of this map) was that the information is publicly available but only a few people were aware of it. I can't imagine any argument for that being the optimal situation.
It's not really too bad honestly, it's an acclimatisation thing.

Spent a few holidays in places where it was regularly 35+ degrees and only really struggled for a day or two, I can't imagine it being worse for you if you live there full time since you'd be much more used to the weather.
dramatic
I meant the wording on the website. If I log out, then login to the team account and then choose "Switch Accounts" the resulting page says "Sign in to your personal account". That is what implies to me that it would have issues if I had two team accounts.
You're basically arguing against the visualization of information.

Just think of how dumb that is.

You might as well argue to publish all government data in Klingon, it will make the life of dumb criminals even harder.
Seems very interesting. Just checked the business model and if
people use it repeatedly (not just one wager) this could make a lot of money. Good luck!