skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All evidence to the contrary.

Unless you seriously want to claim that the number of murders and easy access to firearms are merely a matter of accidental correlation.

You're correct if you're talking premeditated killing. But most killings aren't.
Honestly, this seems like a pretty unambiguously good thing - don't assume it's bad just because you dislike the politician / party that's proposing it.
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Right, that's why other people are trying to verify the proof and aren't just taking it on faith. They're almost certainly going to find errors, the question is whether or not those errors are easily fixed, difficult to fix, or fundamentally impossible to fix.
It is basically a marketing expense. There are countless reports of applications going up due to a successful sports team. When applications go up, a school can be more selective and choose better students. More selectiveness and better students will lead to a higher academic prestige. Basically anything that makes a school more attractive will eventually help bolster academic prestige.
Eh, I can see it for undergraduate admissions, etc. I'm very skeptical as well.

However, I know some very smart people who did actually choose their undergraduate program based partly on the football team.
Fun fact. Placing a halved avocado in a bag of water will save it from oxidation overnight, as will face down on a plate with oil (olive, veggie, etc) creating a seal. #AvocadoHacking
Before March next year: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0429/.
JsDOSBox: Run dos programs from the early 90's.
I don't understand your "yes but". I was just pointing out that the signalling being asked for in the GP comment was quite real.
Then you probably didn't read to the part where she only came back after seeing psychiatrists (read: not just some smug guy who's into absurdism), being diagnosed with clinical depression, and getting medication.

The comic was tiring to stomach - hey mister, what happened to depression being a gift that creates beauty? - because depression is tiring to stomach, because it's not a now-and-again, masturbatory, recreational musing into the meaning of it all you indulge in over some Camus.

She has gotten better enough to create this comic, after getting medication and professional help.

Again, after two years of not creating anything before she started treatment. I'm not sure why you think you're more qualified to determine if somebody was depressed by half-reading a comic they made after getting medicated than professionals she spoke to at length, while she was depressed, in the process of getting diagnosed, treated, and trying medication. I suspect you're not very self-aware.

You may find it useful to ask yourself, "which is more likely: a hilarious, talented artist stopped enjoying things she loves, quit creating, left the internet and isolated herself, went through the painful and difficult process of trying to explain what she was going through to others, went to doctors, got incorrectly diagnosed, and started medication with very serious side-effects because she doesn't get the Myth of Sisyphus, or...someone with no medical training who didn't even RTFA ran his mouth presumptuously about a stranger's mental health and got it wrong."

Or indeed, "who better knows what clinical depression is like - somebody who exhibited the symptoms of depression for two years before getting professionally diagnosed and medicated and the doctors who diagnosed her, or some guy who totally thinks about philosophy sometimes and stuff."

Things to mull over.

Your opinion is embarrassing, and you should feel embarrassed.
> actual examples of these problems

I think anyone who uses github enough has run into more than a few.

Look at github's very own fork of one project:

https://github.com/github/aws-s3/tree/url_for-with-parameter...

https://twitter.com/davidnwelton/status/304972225411440641
> AWS goes down but Amazon carries on quite happily

Usually more like “isolated parts of AWS go down and people who didn't follow Amazon's deployment guidelines complain”
> Guns aren't that scary. We are good at identifying and arresting/shooting gunmen, they can rarely kill more than a handful of us

Guessing you're from the US - where there were 14,078 firearm related homicide deaths in 2010? I don't think that's an indicator you're any good at identifying gunmen at all. 14,000 deaths is also considerably more than "a handful".

Gun deaths in UK in 2007 totalled 51. So yes, I do feel less scared in the UK than I do in USA.

In 2010, 499 service personnel were killed in Afghanistan. I wonder what public sentiment would be if that total was closer to the 14,000 back at home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Stat...
http://icasualties.org/oef/
One that has worked for me - if they have a personal website, check the domain registry using a service such as http://whois.com, and if not a private registration, you will see the registrant's email :)

Prime example
http://www.whois.com/whois/500hats.com
Anthm reborn as Jukio after Rush (the band) takedown
Looking at the source code of the OS does not change anything, as you don't know which compiler was used or even if the same source was indeed compiled. Even further, if you compile it yourself you still don't know since at this stage you clearly wouldn't trust even your compiler.
You're right in that this weapon isn't really worth the effort, and if it were only about this particular file neither Defense Distributed or the US government would have cause for concern.

This is a big deal because 1) this is one of the first weapons designed from the ground up to be printed. Most printed firearms based on existing tech break easily because they weren't designed to be built with the materials you can print with. Over the next several years better and better firearms will be designed. In this way it is important the same way the very first shitty light bulb was important. 2) this addresses the still very unanswered question about what options governments have to restrict speech and international distribution of information over the Internet.
He said "not for the sake of getting rich". This indicates he's okay with her being rich, but he hopes she becomes rich for the sake of helping with an innovative idea rather than pure profit-mongering.
The only similarity is the signature; semantics are completely unrelated.
The safety cover is not part of the device under test and I doubt it interacts with it except during a catastrophic failure. It does not need to be replicated exactly the same in a future test.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen Cube before. Looks similar to Urban Airship's data-cube project: https://github.com/urbanairship/datacube
A few comments on the problems:

* CPU bottleneck. The mongod is no usually bound by CPU except for building indexes on existing data (which shouldn't really happen in production). The issue he's talking about is contention between the web server (or workers) and the mongos. This isn't anything unexpected. It's recommended to put the mongos onto the application server and then you scale this by adding CPUs initially but then by adding multiple application nodes and using a load balancer. Or perhaps splitting the mongos onto dedicated nodes?

* Virtualisation: VMs are notorious for having variable performance because you have the overhead of the hypervisor but more importantly, are sharing resources with others. We run performance critical apps on dedicated servers and reserve VMs for tools or things which aren't high throughput e.g. a MongoDB arbiter.

* EBS: This has had known performance issues for years. It's fine as a basic file store but should never be used for databases. PIOPs are the way around this but local instance storage is also an option.

* No transactions: MongoDB has never had them. This is known.

* Schemaless != no schema design. It makes it easy to play around but you still need to think through things carefully. See http://blog.serverdensity.com/mongodb-schema-design-pitfalls...

* No joins. Again, it has never had joins. This is known.
> Iterating over the members of an enum does not provide the aliases

Anyone know the motivation for this? Seems like a source of frustration to me.
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Honestly, I don't remember. A native steam package is available in the 'multilib' repository, which should be enough to at least start Steam. To play games, I remember having to install some 32-bit Mesa packages. I also had to install libtxc_dxtn and lib32-libtxc_dxtn, which are texture compression libraries. Without these two, textures didn't appear.
Ask HN: Best Tools for Social Media Management?
What tools do you use to manage your business' social media? Why?
Django: The Easy Form Views Pattern Controversy
Don't forget the secretary of state. That's always a sure fire winner. Someone from Wonder Widgets LLC ship you crap on Amazon Marketplace or get a horrible app from CrapApp LLC? They're not responding to your emails?

Relief is at hand! Find their LLC, knowing the state helps, but Google can figure that out. Now go to that State's Secretary of State site. Most will let you look up filings for all LLC's and corps. Now you've got the owner's mailing address (probably his/her home) and phone as well as the information for all other officers. Ring them up. You'll be amazed how helpful they'll be now.
Glad that you liked it, daviedR. We've also just started the process earlier in this week, but it's already getting some results. And I'd be more than glad to help you.

Ping me: oguz@limk.com
Make sure you're not confusing resignation with contentment.
I think that some people misunderstand the primary purpose of Schema-less design. It's not about typing, it's about document flexibility. It's about getting rid of EAV tables (read: Magento) and storing document-specific information. Typing obviously comes into play, but is only half the topic.

If you are building a system where the schema is the same for all records, then you really shouldn't be using Schema-less design.
Great tips for anyone looking to get their startup off the ground.
That's a lot of responsibility to put on somebody, for one - and for the other, that somebody may not have either the distance from you or the skills to assess your situation correctly. (Of course, a therapist might not, either, but you can't easily fire a significant other for failure to meet your therapy needs, and what you're describing is much more intensive than mere friendship.)
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Dart vs Java – the DeltaBlue Benchmark
Nice tip! I only learned about refrigerating avocados recently and it's awesome to not have to consume a whole bag of avocados within a couple of days :) I'll definitely try the avocado in water trick.
I know that benchmarks are damned lies, but I'm honestly surprised it's this close. Dart isn't even at 1.0 yet, and the JVM is almost 20 years old with millions (billions?) of dollars into optimizing it.
And to top it all off, the dart vm throws away static types when it hits the vm - all of this is done through its tracing jit (just like v8).
I chose my school partly because I followed the basketball team as a kid. It's free marketing. I never heard of half of the small division III schools in my area, but all of the big state schools were on my radar because of sports.
God says...

him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very
much land to be possessed.

13:2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the
Philistines, and all Geshuri, 13:3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt,
even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the
Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the
Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also
the Avites: 13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the
Amorites: 13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward
the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into
Hamath.

13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the
Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
I tried a couple of the "precomputed datasets", and both came back with this error:
"The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. The developer of this web site can generate a new key here."
Nice argument, arbuge, thanks for pointing out.

It's not that we actually don't like & use lean techniques, but it's just I wanted to address that actually 'fetish of failure' might not be a good thing in the long term.
RethinkDB's "silly dependencies"
I would love a la carte TV, but make no mistake: it will destroy the profitability of cable companies.

Bundling allows cable operators to segment the market: to sell the same product to different audiences at different prices depending on their willingness to pay.

A $100 package of bundled sports + movies can be sold to the person who is willing to pay $90 for sports and $10 for movies and also to the person who is willing to pay $10 for sports and $90 for movies.

But sports and movies are unbundled, they must be sold at the same price to everyone. Should they be priced at $10 each? $90? Somewhere in between? Pick any price and the cable companies lose money: the person who values it more will pay less for it than they would have, and the person who values it less won't buy it at all.

EDIT: I don't want to sound pro-cable; indeed, I am not; I am just pointing out the effects of this legislation. In some ways, bundling is a natural way to package content. MOG, Spotify, and other subscription music services bundle their content (you don't get to pick and choose what you subscribe to), and the big daddy of disruption, Netflix streaming, doesn't let you unbundle either. It's one flat fee for everything. In these cases, of course, it's easier to swallow because prices are so low to begin with. Perhaps it's not bundling that's the problem with cable, but the pricing.
You sure it's not better spending the energy elsewhere? Python 3 needs more exclusive features to encourage people to migrate from Python 2.
"automatic merging" upon consensus -- had to laugh at this idea, the ratio of merge requests that would merge cleanly, automatically is low. Generally they have to be rebased against the exact branch they are to be merged against with human intervention to rectify not only merge conflicts and broken tests but possible interaction issues with recent changes on master branch. In any case, arbitrary changes can (and sometimes should) be made to bring the branch in line with the main code. So branch merges that were "voted in" still need human intervention to merge. Should that then be re-voted on, given that merges and conflict-resolved rebases/merges can include arbitrary changes? Obviously, but what if more changes go into the target branch while folks are getting around to ratifying the rebased merge branch? There still needs to be trusted "merge officers" or whatever who can and will clean up, test, and merge popular branches which were voted on. You can't get around that.
>It's free marketing.

Expensive marketing.
Agreed on all counts. Sounds like he is complaining more about issues with VM performance than MongoDB performance on VMs.

The joins statement kills me. If somehow the database design requires joins, Mongo is fast enough to run two queries and then let you work with them in code.
Seems RethinkDB is still relational. Meh.

If you're using C#, I'd recommend RavenDB.
http://www.mypatriotsupply.com will send you a can of seeds, 20 varieties, enough to cover an acre, "heirloom" (seeds from plants are re-usable next year), for $40.
the accounting that goes into whether a sports program is profitable or not is sort of tricky

scholarships are counted at the full tuition rate

its obvious that the marginal cost of educating 80 some football players isn't 0, but its not obvious that its the full tuition rate

a sizeable chunk of students are offered some sort of financial package to attend a university,

some non zero percentage of football players come from low income situations such that it is unlikely they would be paying full tuition sans the scholarship

also a dispropotionate number of scholarship athletes are from out of state, if they disappear its unlikely that the replacement 80 some students would be paying as much out of state tuition
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Thanks goshakkk, this looks nifty! I assume it takes care of the indexing and all that jazz for you? How well does it scale? It looks very similar to something's I'm already using but we use Mongo's map/reduce functionality because it allows us to store count and other stats and build charts/etc off them. I'm interested in your thoughts about that.
AS noted elsewhere, general African bees are not the same as "Africanized" bees, which are derived from a particular colony of unusually fierce bees in Brazil, not Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee

Note the genetic engineering in action here. No high-tech needed DNA splicing needed to get disastrous results.
So the argument is that since you already can bring a real bomb into the airport, creating one-shot un-concealable weapon that is useless in any practical scenario is a huge security threat requiring the government to ignore both 1st and 2nd amendment because of it? Could you expand this argument a little more, I don't see how exactly it plays out.
In Argentina you can take photos on public places and publish them, given that you are not obviously targeting one specific individual without his (explicit or implicit) consent. For instance, in tennis matches, the cameramen and tv program can get into trouble if they do things like zooming and making focus on a beautiful girl from the crowd. There are also other specifics, like that the person can't already be famous or a public figure, since those people have voluntarily exposed themselves. Eg: TV actors don't have this right to privacy when they are on public. If you see a famous person in the street, you can take a picture of him/her and publish it.
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I think you have a bright future in the opinion pages!
People won’t take your half finished app seriously if you are outside of the early adopters market… which happens most of the time.

A point a lot of people seem to miss about MVPs and the whole Lean Startup approach (specifically the aspects taken from @sgblank's Customer Development Methodology) is that you start out focusing on early adopters. You aren't, with the initial cut, usually trying to sell to the mass market yet. You're trying to find out if there's any market for "the thing you're building".

This, to me, implies that if you're working with an MVP that is "half finished" or less than polished, you don't publicize it to the world and try to drive massive traffic to it right away (this is assuming some kind of webapp, SaaS thing). A closed, invite only, beta or trail program, just to get feedback, find out how customers interact with the thing, etc., should probably come first.

Of course, webapps are a slightly different model than what @sgblank wrote about in TFSTTE, and he revised some of his stuff in The Startup Owner's Manual to address that more specifically.
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I would love to be able to host this on my own server. Even letting me pay say $5 for a .zip of some HTML to put up on my website would be excellent.
>closer to the gun death rate back at home

You haven't mentioned one rate, just totals.
I'm not sure what the big deal is. Individuals have been smithing guns since their invention. Hillbillies in the Ozarks could make rifled barrels. People with a manual or cnc mill in their garage are making ar15 lower receivers from billet aluminum. The 3d printing technique takes a lot of the skill out of it, but at the moment all you are getting is a low quality plastic gun. As a practical matter I don't think the swapping of gun part cad files is a significant vector for the creation of guns that are used to do bad things.
True, but 3D plans for the AR-15 are also easy to find online. Which, I suppose, is a point I should have included.
awesome, up the good work.
Sounds like 90% of your problems could have been solved if you'd spent a day or two researching what you were about to build your entire company around.

Sounds like the "We Fail" slide might be the most accurate one there.
The aliases aren't part of the enum, if you think of the enum as a set of values. Iterating is done on the values, not the names.

(the next paragraph gives you the __members__ ordered dict, if you want to iterate on something else)
When the Virginia Tech football team made it big, the average incoming SAT score increased markedly.

A quick look for historical data failed, but if you can find the data, the big shift should have occurred with the class matriculating in 1994±1.

Correlation is not causation, but it's not implausible that notability in athletics can have sympathetic effects for funding and student quality.

If only there were a daily 'Science' section in the newspaper to go alongside 'Sports'....
I would totally love to order the sci-fi channel, fx, history channel and a couple others and not have to scroll through 30+ channels to get to them... i haven't had cable in years because it's never been worth it to me for just a few channels...
Profit centers, eh?
http://seattletimes.com/html/collegesports/2010103078_ncaa21...
I don't think people in charge are stupid. I just think they are pretty much forced to look like they are trying to act on it.
This is the problem with most of the guys who go with MongoDB. Obviously, this person is very technical, so I am not flaming him nor accusing him, but this is my view of the rest of them who pick MongoDB without exactly having a clue as to why (hipsters) or when they should use a NoSQL db and when they shouldn't.

I do not hesitate to admit that I was a hipster sometime back too. I chose MongoDB for many of my projects and it went well, till it reached some kind of moderate scale where I realized it was a terrible choice going with a NoSQL db (Sometimes, I'd have to duplicate data because there were no Joins, etc). And that's when you start to realize, that NoSQL is not a pure-white solution. It is designed to satisfy very specific use-cases. Relational databases are really good enough for 99% of the use cases out there.

Unless otherwise you are COMPLETELY unable to design your schema in a relational database, you SHOULD NOT simply opt for a NoSQL database. The claimed NoSQL performance benefits will easily be outrun by a terribly designed schema, if you use the wrong db for the wrong scenario. Trust me, MySQL has had so much negativity because of these hipsters, but even something as basically relational as MySQL scales really reaaallllly well. Infact, many top guys still use MySQL till date, for a reason, in production.[1]

Next time you launch your start-up, spend some time carefully evaluating your db design decisions, as the wrong db for the wrong use-case could easily become the most expensive mistake of your startup.

[1]http://www.quora.com/Quora-Infrastructure/Why-does-Quora-use...
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I believe the novelty is being able to get it past metal detectors.
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Yeah that's a bit like not allowing mobile phones because they can detonate bombs.
The version of Android bundled with several cell phone manufacturers' smartphones isn't open source. In many cases, it's not possible to just check out Google's tree and build it on your Samsung; you still have to fiddle with proprietary hardware modules, etc.

That said, i would only trust my cell phone to be off if I took out the battery.