skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's remember this is in context of owning guns and having children.

Children like to swim in pools. Children like to ride bicycles. I sure hope even the most enthusiastic gun owner doesn't give guns to children to play with.

I don't have to justify the usefulness of pools or bicycles. The kids like them, it's a fact.

As a society we tolerate the risk of those things. Is it rational? Should we? I don't care - we just do and that's a fact.

You can take away a risk associated with a pool or bicycle but only by taking away the fun that children have swimming in pools or riding a bicycle.

It's true that some parents enjoy the things you can do with a gun. It's also true that having a gun in the house is additional, sometimes tragic, risk with no benefit to children.

First, as a parent you're supposed to put the benefit of your child over the little joys in your life, like squeezing a trigger of a 44 Magnum or getting enough sleep.

Second, you can enjoy most of the benefits of having a gun without actually having one in the house.

I'm pretty sure you cannot hunt or discharge firearms within city limits anyway.

You can still indulge yourself in hunting or go to a shooting range without endangering the life of your child by having a gun in your house.
Scaling product "management"
There are many different degrees of how shipped software is. What I want to build is software that matters.
Er, ok, it can slightly mitigate the problem in a few cases. Even to the extent that it work though, this is a very fragile "solution" — (1) declarations often occur alone, (2) multiple declarations can have similarly sized variables, meaning there's no big whitespace chunk to act as a separator, and (3) one shouldn't have to run one's code through a code formatter, or use awkward formatting practices, to get basic readability....

Simply following standard practice (over decades), and including a colon, on the other hand, would have made all declarations more readable, and be more familiar, for no real cost.

Really, some of Go's syntax decisions are completely baffling...

[Sure there are lots of crazy computer languages around, but these guys really should have known better—and anything they do is much more likely to have an impact than most random languages, so it'd be nice if they could take a bit more care...]
The same for me.
I understand the metaphor, but my problem with it is that there are many fireplace designs that reburn the smoke. Rocket mass heaters, gasifiers, even catalytic converters combust the smoke which quadruples the heat yield from wood and produces only CO2 and H2O.

The lesson I end up taking away is that intelligence can be applied rationally to fix whatever the problem is.
Now this is actually a cogent and reasonable argument. I do think there is a strong argument for the fact that guns are part of American culture, or at least a large enough proportion of the American population to count in that respect. Hunting, recreation, these are perfectly legitimate and reasonable arguments to allow gun ownership.

The problem is that the 'gun lobby' doesn't stop there. They insist that guns make you safer, when the actual evidence couldn't be clearer that they don't. They perpetuate myths such as that an armed society is a polite society, when in fact access to firearms dramatically increases the risk that a confrontation will escalate to lethal violence.

American society is saturated with guns. Those weapons aren't going to go away any time soon. So the IMHO the rational response is to look at what is achievable. Educating gun owners as to the real risks, promoting gun safety, encouraging and legislating for safe practices around gun ownership, storage and use. These are all achievable goals.
Only large and friendly, according to The Book.
Yeah, I misread your comment as "in the developed world.."..

Having felt the effect of "fireplace smoke" without a chimney I find it strange that people live like that. OTOH, African houses are probably much more open than the house I'm used to..
Yeah. Litterary sounds like ... litter. That can't be good.
Possibly true, but i still believe that self-reflection is very important.
It seems like the invention of the computer is one of the most controversial "who got there first" things in all of science.

Turing's Cathedral has a ton of really interesting historical details about the history of computers, and LOTS of details about the political fight Von Nueman waged to even be allowed to work on the first computers at IAS. I didn't realize how big a role he actually played, and I would encourage people to read that book because its pretty good.
When it happens to you, the % jumps to 100%/. end.of.story.
Suppose you make illegal all guns right now. Do you think it will be hard for a crook to his hands on a now illegal weapon?

All I need to know:
A gun will help me defend myself and family.
A gun can be kept safe by adhering to certain known gun safety principles. Accidents happen but then a brick from a building's facade can smack you in the head in the morning.
Cops are great, if you have one right there, right when you need him/her.
So, I think to myself, why not have one? Leaving all fun aside, it's a piece of mind.
Sadly it just seems to be aggregating a number of spammy download sites. Searching in my product category turns up pages on CNet, Brothersoft, etc but no original developer sites.
Well, good thing they found that out

Humanity couldn't possibly live hundreds of years with that harmful heating method. Oh my god, it even produces greenhouse gases.

Also, I always laugh at the "equivalent to X cigarettes", always blurted out as a scientific comparison.

First of all, even cigarettes are different amongst themselves it's pointless to compare

Second, comparable to what? Nicotine? Wood doesn't have any. Carbon monoxide? Tar? Sulphur emissions?

Not to mention different substances spread differently.
That is scary... the website for the medicine I use seems to stress that it uses herbs over metal or minerals. Hope they are safe. But the fact that there is no central body which can check and authorise these medicines is a cause for concern.
While firearms do provide a means of self-defense, there is also data which suggests there's an association between less firearm laws and higher firearm fatalities:

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=16613...
What is a "revenge porn" site? At work don't want to Google this....
I am one of those few people who enjoy having my beliefs being disproven - and I guess there are plenty of us here on HN. Most likely people with this predisposition are drawn to science; after all, refuting hypotheses is what science is all about.
I felt the resulting plateaus were nice, though I'll admit it's a tad distracting that they're all the same height.
Ask HN: What do you think of this idea?
Can someone provide a mirror for the pdf file please ? I can't download it. Seems too much load on the server.
Well. I am an American and we are the world, right....?

// I jest. But if your colas are still made from sugar you are having the last laugh.
I also prefer PyQuery over Beautiful Soup.

Especially since you can use a Chrome or FFX plugin to inject jQuery into any webpage and then refine your selector via the JavaScript console.

All you need to do then is to copy the selector in your python script and you are done.
Does it always have to come down to killing ?
>I don't have to justify the usefulness of pools or bicycles. The kids like them, it's a fact.
As a society we tolerate the risk of those things. Is it rational? Should we? I don't care - we just do and that's a fact.

OK, now you've lost me because:

People like to shoot guns, it's a fact.

As a society, currently, we tolerate the risk of those things. Is it rational? Should we? I don't care - we just do and that's a fact.

Did I just win the argument? Because that's the case right now. It is quite legal to have a gun in your home. Done. Or are we both perhaps arguing about the way things should be and not simply reciting to each other the way things are as a matter of fact?

> Second, you can enjoy most of the benefits of having a gun without actually having one in the house.

Sure, and I agree that is probably a wise decision. Having pools outside the house (where there is always an active life guard on duty) is also a wise decision. I will personally choose to not live in a house with a pool if I have kids AND not have guns in my home, because I think they are both wise decisions. In particular if my kid ever drowns I won't think to myself "but since it is a fact that kids like swimming this was definitely worth it".

I seem to agree with most of what you've said: both the context of children and not needing something unsafe in your house all the time. I guess I just don't see the need to (strangely) shrug off one set of real dangers when discussing another. Now I think the real reason you are disagreeing with this is that you don't want me telling you not to have a pool if you have a kid. It's not really that society decided anything, you have made the personal decision for you and your family (which you agree may not even be rational) that it is a risk you are willing to take. I disagree with that risk but accept it is your risk to take. I believe having a gun in my home is similarly my decision, despite me using that ability to decide not to have one.
I beg to differ. As software itself has grown, it's developed an enormous need for axiomatic methods because of the benefits it can confer for software reliability. Simply, we want to prove that a program is wrong at the earliest stage possible - "intuition and physical experience" is also known as "the program failed in production."

Although we've invented a number of algorithmic methods to find bugs in software, the long-term trend is to find "better axioms" to define the program against, which reduce both the code size and complexity - that's the goal otherwise known as "programming language design." We don't want people to code in 19th century fashion, because it sucks.
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I wouldn't say I left Godel out, but I suppose I got the historical order wrong, because Godel was 1931 and Turing was 1936, I didn't realize that, oops!
I personally develop on a mac and I always have the Dictionary app opened on the thesaurus tab. In my case I use several Editor or IDE: XCode for iOS development, Eclipse for android development, Emacs for C++ development... the Dictionary app is for me the best approach.
I'll check in with bunnie to see how he'd like to handle.

Bill
The author is inspired by the show Suits!
There is some more info here - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/13/open-bank-project/
This is pseudo science, there are droves of scientific literature that shows that meal timing is irrelevant and that as long as macronutrient content is similar, a calorie is a calorie.
> Despite all of the scholarship on the subjects at the law school, due process and transparency remain foreign concepts to these people.

I have to agree with Aaron here: The worst part of this story is that Dean Michael Smith, who authorized the search, teaches a privacy class, CS 105.
I really liked this, except the fact that - for me - it was translated into Danish.

I have only read Douglas' works in English, and the phrase is "Don't Panic" - it's not "Undgå Panik", which is a lousy translation that literally means Avoid Panic.

Sometimes this geolocalization goes too far.
For Android we've built AppBrain (which is also included in the Google application search engine).
The same argument could be, and often is used, to prove the existence of god.
Well, guess I'm not burning wood anymore.
While this is amazing for you it should be taken with a note of caution from readers. This may happen or may not if you decide to have kids. There are many parents who are unhappy with their families and feel trapped. Before having a family do research into it beneath the pop culture "transformation" ideas. This transformation may happen and you may be incredibly happy. It may not and you will feel trapped. Have children because you want to, not because you need them to change your life.
My skepticism antennae are twitching

Firstly it has the tang of religion - we have found the answer, it requires certain rites and adherences and we must now persuade you to believe

Secondly it is highly highly unlikely an actual Stone Age person had access to the range of meat and vegetables currently in wegmans and so the question is which Stone Age diet? The one where they lived near a lake and had fish, the one where they had lots of vitamin C rich berries but few fish?

Thirdly evolution is slow but not glacial - 2.6m years is a long time, and frankly why go back that far and not further? At what point has evolution not caught up and how does that overlap with 'out of africa'?

Finally and th biggest question to me, is why assume that so many maleases are solely or primarily diet related. Obesity is pretty obvious but asthma? Cancer even?
This is at the top of hacker news? Yikes.
I don't use Xbox. However, I appreciate your generosity.
This is a common argument, and while it has some merit, it also reeks of illusion of control bias. Guns make people feel safer because they feel more in control of their safety.

In reality, if someone is armed and has broken into my house, I want it to be absolutely clear to them that I am unarmed. I want them to know that they have no need to attack me, and that they should just take some of my stuff and get out (by far the most likely reason they're there), leaving me unharmed. The alternative possibilities sound much worse to me.

This is true in almost every situation where people talk about guns being useful against crime. I think I am more likely to harm myself, to incite the other party to harm me, to harm a bystander (maybe someone in my household), or to harm someone that I perceive as a much more serious and dangerous criminal than they actually are, than I am to successfully be a "good guy with a gun who stops a bad guy with a gun".
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After they got shut out of the US market in November 2012, they lost a lot of customers overnight and had to pay all of them out in full. It might be something like the Madoff case, where he might still be free, if the financial crisis hadn't hit and made his customers cash out.
Raja Bell released on Sunday
Happy International Women's Day (A Day Late)
An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead
Algolia powers search so your mobile app doesn't suck anymore
Making use of space technology to advance medical products
I am sure alot of those infected pcs still run XP, so one could argue that these type of things go away as the more secure operating systems spread.

Then again, if people continue to execute some shady stuff found on the internet, the OS doesnt really matter all that much.
Related: I recently found out that coffee contains cancerogenic substances. Still, people advertise it as healthy because of its antioxidants. And, the stats seem to suggest that it's actually good for brain health etc. (too lazy to search for references now)
Wait a second, who are you getting feature requests from?

It sounds to me like you need to examine your market and talk to the people who are asking for things and figure out what problem you're solving for them.

If people care enough to send you feature requests, then you need to look at what's driving them and how you can reach others like them.

It sounds to me like your product is close enough to an unmet need that it's picking up signal, but that you haven't quite found the place to really dig in for the results.
I'd be curious to find out as well. It's a very fine line between a luhn10 checker, and a luhn10 sniffer--the law's wording would need to be very precise to avoid criminalizing legitimate business software.
"Release early, release often"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often

That's what my old boss always said, he sold his company for a few millions :-)
If you're unhappy with the games that exist today, perhaps you could make one that suits your creative desires? (That is essentially how all of the existing games came to be.)
I am not a lawyer, but I have noticed convictions. The grounds where simply 'aiding and abetting' criminal activities.
Maybe it is baseless but I wanted to give a little perspective, to show that it's not always about your wishes. If you live with someone you have to accommodate for their needs as well.
It exists! (And it's not bad, either.)

http://www.dafont.com/hvd-comic-serif.font
I tried to look where the claim "Research shows that nearly 70 percent of chimney smoke reenters nearby buildings." comes from as I find it interesting. In the "woodsmoke health effects" paper it references this:

Pierson, W. E., Koenig, J. Q., and Bardana, E. J., 1989. Potential adverse health effects of wood smoke. West J. Med. 151: 339-342.

which is found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1026893/pdf/west...

And it says:

> Also, about 70% of the outdoor wood smoke reenters the house (T. V. Larson, PhD, University of Washington, Department of Civil Engineering, unpublished data).

First, the article is from 1989 and it's not known when the T.V. Larsons data is collected. Also wouldn't for example the density of the houses or the type of the houses and their ventilation and filtering affect this result? How much?

Secondly somehow the original article mentions that the smoke reenters the house, which I understand is the same house with the stove/fireplace, but in the "woodsmoke health effects" paper it has transformed to "can actually reenter the home and neighborhood dwellings"?
"This is absurdly hyperbolic. Few people are going to die because they made a wood fire in a fireplace 10-20 times a year."

Did you even read the linked papers? There is direct and plausible evidence that recreational wood burning in the West is a significant contributor to pollution in residential areas, with the pollution itself clearly linked to public health. So basically, you're flat out wrong (or arguing a straw man, if I take your comment literally) - yes, dozens of people are going to die each year because of recreational wood burning.
One thing that certainly changed is that more women are buying video games - potential clients, that might dislike to control the anatomic equivalent of a sex doll.
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Paleo to me is certainly not a historical reenactment. I also am not one trying to recreate the standard diet in almond flour and all that. Paleo people drive me crazy being so anti-dairy; cream is a wondrous fuel.

I think Dr. Harris' blog is a great source and I follow his steps best I can: http://www.archevore.com/get-started/
Analysis: Antibiotic apocalypse - is the end nigh?
Could you name me some of those cultures? What interests me is given the choice would they want to have extra space or not? IMHO good indicator of it is how their rich live.
If you look at children 14 and under, 390 drowned, and 376 died by firearms, including accidents, murders and suicides. And if you only look at accidental firearm deaths, there were 62 for children 14 and under, and 123 for 20 and under. Pools really are dangerous, even compared to guns.

Using Consumer Product Safety Commission 2008 numbers for drowning, and the anti-gun group Children's Defense fund numbers for firearm deaths.

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2012/New-CPSC-...

http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publicat...
Is that the Google offering? I'm surprised that Google of all people would make something with such a poor concept.
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Firefox really needed the release of chrome to kick it back into gear because it had stagnated to some extent, easy in its "we're better then IE and that's all that really matters" mediocrity, and swapping over to the rapid release schedule has just accelerated things.

The fact that mozilla actively fights for internet freedom and user privacy is just the delicious icing on a technically solid browser cake.
I don't agree at all: I think that apps should be installed as admin and auto-updated. I don't follow any of your arguments that installing things as non-admin are more secure.
That's beside the point. There are plenty of valid uses for other things which would have been criminalized such as Metasploit and Core Impact. Not to mention that such things as writing PoC code to validate vulnerabilities would have been right out of the question.
SubSeven, anyone :)?

Also, apparently it was relaunched in 2010 and soon after their site was hacked[1], they also lost their source code - ahaha. No backups, 2010. Christ.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7
At the least, we desperately need Firefox as competition for Webkit.
> and probably most programmers, truth wins over feelings by quite a long shot.

You only have to read any HN thread about nutrition to see that idiotic woo is entrenched in a sizeable portion of HN commenters.
And it's bookmark system is still second to none (imo)
I made the same switch about a year ago now. Firefox feels so much better than it did when Chrome first appeared. I also now have an Android tablet, and Firefox on Android has come on leaps and bounds since it was first released; the tab syncing feature it shares with the desktop is fantastic and I haven't even launched Chrome on my tablet since I got it.
This. Paeleo this.

Hey look something humans have always done.

It kills people?

But it's comforting?
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His facts are right, but his view on this is way too narrow;

First there is the social factor. I live in the countryside and every season we build fires for different purposes, like celebration and preparing different vegetables (in Slovenia, corn and potato being the most popular ones). It's fun for everyone, regardless of being dangerous. A lof of people gather around the fire and chat, prepare the food and connect. If I die younger because I wanted to meet with people and have fun,... well so be it.

Second reason: nature. The author explains that we have evolved, that we're no longer running from lions and bears. That's true but what about volcanoes (and other natural sources of fire)? The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland erupted 250 million cubic meters of ash (According to Wikipeda), and there are more active volcanoes, releasing loads of toxins into the air on a daily basis. I'm not a scientist but I think it would take A LOT of wood burning to produce a similar amount of toxins.

As I said, his facts are right, but there is more to it. Much more.
Not sure if you're being serious. In case you are: http://www.linhadefensiva.com/2013/02/signing-malware-applic...
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This is the sentence in question:

The first controversy occurred early in Hilbert’s career and concerned his vigorous use of the "law of the excluded middle" (proof by contradiction).

I don't see how you can interpret that as not implying that the law of the excluded middle and proof by contradiction are not one and the same thing.

if you do not accept the law of excluded middle than proof by contradiction ceases to be a valid proof method.

I don't believe that this is true, because that would imply that you can derive the law of the excluded middle from proof by contradiction.
Nintendo's Metroid franchise has already been mentioned, and then there's the Zelda franchise (where despite the fact that the main character is male, Zelda is actually a strong character who tends to be a victim of circumstances beyond anyone's ability to control, and in some instances fights shoulder-to-shoulder with the protagonist), and others outside of Nintendo as well (Tomb Raider?). It may seem like a larger problem than it actually is if you only pay attention to the examples that bother you.
I live in Australia. Last Friday night I went out for a meal. Again I had to pay at the counter and collect the meal myself.
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/c8dc6374720b60824a3...