skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"My problem with the idea of gun control is that it assumes making something illegal will make it go away(We have seen how well that worked with Drugs, and Prohibition)"

Maybe a better comparison is gun control in other countries.

"Sure its a bumper sticker slogan but there is some truth to the slogan that "If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns.""

So what, "some truth to it" is a shockingly low standard.

"To me the only truly effective way to neutralize criminals or insane irrational people with guns, is to surround them with sane and rational people that peacefully also have guns."

To me this is nonsense because:

(1) Countries with gun control have neutralized gun violence without arming the entire populace.

(2) Allowing the entire US population to arm freely has had a net negative effect on controlling insane people with guns.
"far too easy to obtain illegally."

Please go to Japan and obtain a gun illegally as proof of this claim.

" I remember my gun nut friends all had illegal assault rifles during the Clinton ban."

Bad regulation is proof that all regulation doesn't work! ... right?
You mean we can wish problems away? Man, I have been doing this all wrong!

Guns have absolutely no effect on violence. Treat people better, make sure they have access to opportunity and caring about one another is how you reduce violence.

I own more than my share of guns and they have never made me violent, or invoked violence. I have a few knives, they too have never invoked violence in me.
The fraction of gold that's actually used (for jewelry or other industrial uses) is very very small. Gold's market value has everything to do with the perceived risk of holding currencies and basically nothing to do with supply and demand for it's actual uses. Hence why most of it is locked away in vaults, never to be used.
I'm surprised this type of stuff hasn't gotten more attention here on HN. What some politicians are proposing right now is an outright snub of the 2nd amendment. I will side with the forefathers who made this counter 100 out of 100 times in relation to any recent politicians.

No one ever said that Freedom was easy or that it didn't come at a cost. It does and always will. But maintaining freedom and our core principles as laid out long ago should be a goal we never stop working towards. This seems like a huge step backwards.
Although I haven't attempted it, I'm guessing that example would also be possible with Super Debugger. It would require a different interface, but I think it's possible.

>One thing that isn't shown is that the code is simultaneously saved to a file within the Xcode project, so live tweaks and XCode project stay in sync.

That's one thing I've yet to solve for superdb but would really love to get figured out. If you (or anyone) has any suggestions on how to implement it, let me know.
Parrot Adds GPS and Partial Autonomy to AR Drone, Shows Off SenseFly UAV
"the "taking phone out of pocket" motion is inhibitive enough to be a barrier for a successful app."

I think the same goes for any wearable tech. I find the idea of watch phones awesome, but all of them right now (like on aliexpress or Sony's smartwatch) are pretty tacky/nerdy. But with the right execution and design a watch phone could be an awesome way to avoid taking the phone out of your pocket for checking messages or snapping a pic real fast. A phone client rather than a full phone seems like the right way to go. Plus it's way less intrusive than a pair of glasses (not as fun as augmented reality though).

Edit: something like these would be amazing:

http://www.archiarcha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Samsung...

http://sumanl.com.np/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Electronic-w...
The idea is awesome, but handling products via a SKU is hard. For instance, if you had the SKU 517030000077284 (a Gibson Les Paul) how would you determine the package size that each customer individually uses? Or determine how much extra weight was added by packaging to keep the guitar safe?

I would love to solve this problem but it is definitely a hard one to solve.
Doesn't your account also get wrecked after you've received a certain number of takedown requests, regardless of their validity?
In practice the tool doesn't have any blame feel to it. When I commit code that causes problems Squash correctly identifies me and lets me know what to fix. And when I was mistakenly chosen I'm still a good candidate for triaging the bug and sending it off to the appropriate developer.
I did hesitate before submitting this, but decided that it was on topic as it may have insights into the ever-present issue of signal-to-noise ratios in large online communities.
A company with $4.5 billion of operating income isn't exactly capsized.
Usually doing some sort of number crunching to figure out which deals might make sense, eg. Company A and Company B should merge because of X, Y and Z. Then pass that information to the higher ups (rain makers, big swinging dicks, and what have you) who have the contacts and experience to bring the business in and get the deal done.
Script defeats minteye CAPTCHA - with Google's speech2text API
As a hiring manager, the thing I find most interesting on posts like this (ignoring that the analogy is TERRIBLE) are the comments of people used to being on the other side of the desk. I don't think we (as interviewers) do a good job of explaining why we ask the questions we ask. And I don't think we do a good job of communicating what our job is.

Our job is to stop you getting hired.

If we get 100 people applying for the job, then our job is to not employ at least 99. So we are looking for anything that identifies you as being one of the 99.

That you could go away and learn what color the middle wire is is great. But the guy next to you has been fixing wiring in distributor caps for years. And right now, I need people that know what color the middle wire is.
Apologies for the off-topic comment, but I really love the layout and style of this blog. Any chance it's not a custom jobby and someone knows where it's from?
If you want to try some out via curl it is pretty quick. See https://www.geteasypost.com/docs#addresses

I do agree tho and a quick form to test out all of the APIs is in the works so users can quickly see what the API will return.
Why do you only allow 'funded' startups to bid? What about highly profitable bootstrapped companies? Drop the angel list requirement.
well -- it's complicated.

i started building a javascript library (nuclear.js : https://github.com/reinpk/nuclear.js) to calculate the decay chains... the problem is that short lived isotopes, which are dangerous, can decay into long-lived isotopes, but basically the decay chains are complicated. i'll do a post about that soon :)
This is what I have wanted.

I really, really want cheap disposable computers which I can plug into a keyboard and large screen, and save files on something like tarsnap.

Give me that and I'll be buying them by the handful.
It's a probability thing. For instance, suppose 90% of great people go to great schools. Suppose only 20% of non-great people go to great schools. Suppose only 1% of people are great. (Just making up numbers, as the exact numbers don't matter to illustrate the point. All that matters is that great people have a significant tendency to go to great schools, and that there are a lot more non-great people than great people).

Then a random candidate from a great school will have a 4.3% chance of being great, whereas a random candidate from a non-great school will only have a 0.13% chance of being great.

If you have a ton of resumes, and only time to examine, say, 1000 of them, pulling at random from a pool that mixes those from great and non-great schools will give you a pile with about 9 great candidates (8 from great schools, 1 from a non-great school).

If you tell HR to filter out the non-great schools, and then look at 1000 resumes from just the great schools, you'll have around 43 great candidates.
Japan isn't the same as the United States. We don't want to be the same as Japan, because to do so would be to give up what this country was built on. We have always had firearms and our constitution says we SHOULD always have firearms.

Nevermind the fact that we have millions more guns in our country -- making guns illegal after they've hit such a penetration level would be impossible.
If your videos are acceptable to Vimeo (they have anal TOS but great technical platform) then I recommend at all times upload duplicates to Vimeo (and someone else). Then register your own URL shortener domain (such alex.je or whatever) and send links to your video through your own shortlinks, such as: alex.je/2013
Trusting your business to single platform provider - no matter how big - is disastrous.
With planning like above you'd be back in business in no time by flipping redirect URLs to your videos at secondary provider.
What's with this "only Subaru" analogy? What I've found is more along these lines:

"Are you sure I'm qualified? I don't feel like I'd be very useful. I've never done Java, only C++ and JS and lisp"
"No, you'll be perfect. We don't hire people for specific languages"
I'm not sure what point you're making regarding exceptions. But I don't believe those exceptions are enough. Being able to remove someone's right because you don't like how they choose to exercise it is no right at all. Either you believe in a right or you don't.
> A timeboxing app. Duh.

Sorry but as developer who had to google timeboxing this immediately turned me off to your product.
According to Wikipedia new gold production is consumed 50% by jewelry, 40% by investment, and 10% by industry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Consumption)
Can you link me to any of these? Would like to read more about them.
> name = details[:info] && details[:info][:name]

If you have ActiveSupport, then:

> name = details[:info].try {|hash| hash[:name]}
I have to disagree with one point: that writing tests doesn't make you a better developer. Here's why:

Writing a test requires you to think about your code in different ways than just creating it. TDD requires you to plan your code. And the more code you write, theoretically, the better your skills will be.

Now, will it make you the best developer? Probably not. I doubt writing tests is the most productive use of time. But for the practice of software development, writing tests is critical.
I don't get the point to use this app
Well, to be fair, honesty is probably something pretty unusual on Wall St.
In every article about thorium reactors, I never see any real discussion of drawbacks, or why uranium triumphed over thorium early, so I asked here the last time this author's article was linked. I got good answers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912614

The short version is that the typical thorium reaction still requires/produces U-232, which is weapons grade uranium, so you have all the same problems as before regarding proliferation concerns; and more seriously, the product U-233 produces a lot of gamma radiation, which is really deadly at a distance and terribly difficult/expensive to shield against by comparison to the radioactive products of U-235/238 fission reactors.

Also, there's a general engineering issue that lots of work and research has been done on current reactor designs, while little has been done on thorium reactors, comparatively. Thorium looks good on paper, but there are bound to be a bunch of practical issues that come up that raise the expense and mitigate the advantages. Basically, uranium fission is far more advanced, practically speaking, so a better bet for commercial applications.

ETA: And on reading the article linked above, I find that Mr. Reinhart addresses neither of these two issues.
(The fact that my cable provider did not produce that content does not enter into the statute, and is therefore irrelevant.)

Is this really true? I would think the circumvented security and the damaged party would need to be more "proximate". If you downloaded 500 copies of antivirus software from the Comcast only FTP site there'd be a case.

I don't think piling on of charges is right, but I don't think charges are piled on in quite the way you're describing. There is a connection, even if tenuous, between them.
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Should You Charge More For A Rush Job?
Note that the part of the law that restricted its applicability was unconstitutional. The ability to offer this tax break, period, is not.

Thus, the logical resolution would be to allow those unconstitutionally barred from receiving the benefit to file for retroactive benefits. However, this would allow pretty much any company located anywhere to file for the benefit (at least to my reading; IANAL), completely defeating the purpose of a tax law that encouraged CA businesses and potentially bankrupting the state.

So: someone ignored the spirit of the law and exploited a loophole to get themselves a bigger tax break and instead broke the entire system for everyone. California was stuck between a rock (allowing for pretty much everyone to file for retroactive benefits) and a hard place (nullifying previous year benefits for those who received them).

Nice job, guy.
There's both. We use a primary cluster which all apps share by default, and for customers which need more customization or resource isolation, we offer dedicated instances.

We don't deploy per-app instances for all our applications because at our scale - dotCloud has deployed hundreds of thousands of vhosts - the overhead would be huge compared to a single large cluster, and having to deploy and instrument so many nginx instances would make our system much more complex.

The majority of web apps are actually better off using a shared cluster: they get better reliability, better support, better peak performance and a cheaper price, in exchange for less customization and less guarantees of worst-case performance.
There was an interesting study by the national nuclear laboratory of the UK comparing thorium and uranium:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/meeting-energy-demand/...

the article is difficult to understand for a layman as myself but an important fact (among others) is that the uranium reserves on earth are considered to last for 100 years at 2008 levels of consumption. furthermore if demand rises, higher prices will make accessing more reserves economically viable. hence resource availability doesn't appear to be a concern for the near term future.
I agree that making something illegal won't make it go away and that is why I think all of the so called gun ban legislation is a front or cover for something else. I'm not talking about wacky conspiracy theories or a government military takeover but something along the lines of someone somewhere will greatly benefit from some sort of gun control legislation. I don't think it's "to protect Americans" but to pad the pocketbooks of politicians, appease lobbyist or some other sort of twisted expression of this recent uprise in government corruption.

The article mentions a staggering obvious truth, "Why would we rush to ban guns, when almost all of our mass murders and most of our violent crimes occur in places with the strictest gun control?" There is also the fact that the proposed gun control laws all talk about assault rifles. That's fine, go after assault rifles but don't overlook handguns too. Last year in Chicago, more people were killed by handguns than the total number of those killed in all of the mass shootings over the last decade. How can those proposing gun control ignore that? Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US yet it has one of the highest rates of murder in the US…most of which results from the use of handguns. Yet, assault rifles and high capacity magazines are the problem….
Sorry. It's not really a product yet, more like a weekend project, so I hope that partially justifies the stupid joke.
That's a pretty well written example. You mention your article on character arrays several times, but it would be much more convenient if those mentions were hyperlinked with permanent links to the other article. While the "Previous" link on the navigation takes you there, it's not as obvious, and interrupts the reading flow to look for it.
White House Gun Proposals – NYT posts full documents
SpaceX had a lot of the same challenges but the first money making contract - flights to ISS - was only about 5-10 years out. NASA also paid them when they hit certain design milestones toward that contract.

I would think that the best path forward on this would be for the DOE to setup similar milestones w/ large cash rewards. Private companies compete on getting to those milestones with oversight by the appropriate regulatory bodies. Then once through the initial milestones the company could actually build a small scale reactor, make money on it, then build a large scale and really make some money.

Not saying it is going to happen, but that is MORE likely to happen than the DOE building this kind of reactor themselves.
Cool. Looking forward to trying it out!
Not necessarily disagreeing with your main thrust, but this sentence: "So maybe thorium power generation is a technical solution looking for a problem." goes a bit too far. Certainly, there are it might be a political solution in search of a problem, but there are technical problems around waste, proliferation, and safety that MSRs at least attempt to address, and they also don't produce greenhouse gases the way fossil-fuel-driven generators do, and have fewer outstanding technical question-marks than renewables (at least as baseload power, a role for which huge technical challenges will need to be solved before they can be considered viable). That still may not be good enough, but there are clearly problems in current energy production that will need to be solved somehow.

Also, aside: that guardian article isn't terrible, but the author gets half-lives backwards the way lots of authors seem to, implying that elements with long half-lives are bad, I suppose because we'll need to bury them for longer. It's the elements with short half-lives that are scary; they decay really fast and give people radiation poisoning/cancer/whatever. An element with a 16-million-year half-life is barely emitting anything at all; that's the category of waste that can, as the author of this post says, be buried in a shallow pit in the desert.
>my mom isn't there, she's on facebook

the problem is that facebook does not allow to friend your mom from other social networks - Diaspora, Friendica, Google Plus, etc.

If it were, you would have your info let's say on your own Diaspora node, and your mom wouldn't have to register in Diaspora network in order to see them. She only would have to friend you from her existing facebook account.

Why it is not possible now?
Why we assume this is normal?

The problem is that we don't have good enough anti monopolistic laws that would prohibit facebook to not allow to friend fb users from other networks like Diaspora.

So we could choose service provider, or set up our own, like we can do in case of email servers.

Oh, I forgot - email was designed by scientists, not capitalists. If it were designed by capitalists, it would not allow you to send pics from yahoo to google. Or, big corporations would make agreemensts, like they fight with patents now, but small entrepreneurs wouldn't have the possibility to provide a service, or at list I wouldn't have my own email server.
However, now I run my own Diaspora node.
As far I know, US government once confiscated gold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
I last used SU a year or so ago and the quality of results was pretty abysmal.

Lots of spam/low quality content farmed articles and the odd gem.

SU was a useful alternative to Search, but there are now plenty of other (social/content discovery) options that return better results.
Yes, that's what Hipache does. From the project homepage [1]: "Hipache is a distributed proxy designed to route high volumes of http and websocket traffic to unusually large numbers of virtual hosts, in a highly dynamic topology where backends are added and removed several times per second."

It also addresses your question on scaling: "It currently serves production traffic for tens of thousands of applications hosted on dotCloud. Hipache is based on the node-http-proxy library."

[1] http://github.com/dotcloud/hipache
Thank you for your time and effort. It's much appreciated.

Edit: Also, tokenadult has a very interesting profile. Scroll down to "METAINFORMATION". Great work!
I know it's not a very helpful comment, seeing as you've only just started, but I think the website would be better if the screenshot was bigger.
Hi Alex:

Am I correct that the You Tube or Google user, like yourself, pays nothing for the service or space & is therefore receiving a gift? If that is true, than what alleged "right" does the gift donee have to continue receiving the gift?

love
PB 01/16/2013 17:37
What is driving growth in government spending?
How are metaphors processed in Kurzweil's PRTM?
For those of you interested in Ray Kurzweil's new Pattern Recognition Theory of the Mind, and metaphors:

In "How to Create a Mind", Ray says:

“The third and most powerful method is the ability to combine two lists. One list can have a set of transformations that we have learned may apply to a certain category of pattern; the cortex will apply this same list of possible changes to another pattern. That is how we understand such language phenomena as metaphors and similes.”

How are these transformations encoded, how do they process other patterns?

One of Kurzweil's examples on this model of combining two lists follows:

“[...] certain phonemes may be missing in spoken speech (for example, “goin”). If we then learn a new spoken word (for example, “driving”), we will be able to recognize that word if one of its phonemes is missing even if we have never experienced that word in that form before."

How does this help us understand metaphors and similes? Here is my own example: “The guitar was made of air”. Here is a possible interpretation using Ray's model:

- list1 is a pattern encoding a transformation which converts a pattern into one of its defining characteristics, ie. list1(air) = lightness, list1(whale)=big, etc.
- list2 here is a pattern representing air

list1(list2) = lightness

In other words, the source of the metaphor is air and the target is X in “The guitar was made of X”. Through this metaphor, information is transferred from the source to the target.

All of this is hand-waving without an understanding of exactly how, in the examples given by Kurzweil, list1 makes its transformations in list2, within the PRTM.

Your thoughts are welcome!
Javier
Thanks. In terms of marketing the show, I've been pointing everyone to CWATF.com/xxxxxx, so to get back up-and-running, I would just need to upload the video files to a different video platform and re-embed per URL.

I do regret not backing up each video to another platform while I went. The reason was because I wanted to aggregate all traffic to a single platform, in the case that I started to run ads. I guess I could have uploaded them privately on another platform, only to open up publicly should something like this happen.