skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The drop is all the more remarkable considering that there are at least 168,000,000 more guns in circulation in the US now than when gun homicide peaked in 1993.[1]

[1]: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/1998_2013_sta...
Right, but adding "in my opinion" and "I think" and "I feel" in front of every opinion has nothing to do with communicating clearly. There are lots of things in communication that are implicit and don't need to be stated explicitly.

vs

Right, but I think that adding "in my opinion" and "I think" and "I feel" in front of every opinion has nothing to do with communicating clearly. In my opinion, there are lots of things in communication that are implicit and don't need to be stated explicitly.

Now, would you really argue that the second version is any more clear, or that anyone's understanding would be changed by adding all those qualifiers? Personally I don't find it to be anything except unnecessarily verbose. shrug
Yes, in (US) legal circles this is known as the "Third Party doctrine". Justice Sotomayor has said in at least one opinion that if we want to re-vamp privacy laws, the third party doctrine is what needs to be reversed, and that she may be willing to do so.
'Fear is a powerful weapon' - exactly.

The media and bureaucrats want you to be afraid of your own shadow, when in fact you should be afraid of McDonalds and not wearing your seatbelt.
Yes, asm.js is a subset of JavaScript that emscripten compiled UE3 into, in this demo.
Well, if no-one is pretty much all the non-english-speaking world, then yes.
> selectively choose which crime stats to promote

For example, FBI homicide stats last year show 350 killed by rifles of any kind, assault or otherwise, while 750 killed by hammers. I keep waiting for the groundswell of public support for hammer control.
That's her fault, not the gym's.
IOS app updates are broken
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You still owe use taxes on that.
Again, the argument i've made is that this is only because C/C++ are so difficult to otherwise parse and auto-complete.
Can you find a java example (for example :P)?
AFAIK, all the java IDE's use their own incremental parsers and completers.
Since you're comparing gun crimes to all crimes, doesn't that mean that non-gun crime rates are also falling lower than crime in general (includes with or without firearms)?

Public perception is being driven by a media with an anti-gun agenda.
He posted this earlier with a bunch of sockpuppet accounts saying short snippets like "wow!" "amazing!"; and he was clearly gaming the upvotes, an initial rush of them boosted it near the top just like this time.
He answered your question in his second line, " . . . gun crime's falling significantly lower than crime in general." Yes, he's comparing violent non-fatal crime to gun homicides. He's making a comparison of gun homicides to general crime, and the rate of change.
End the drug war and it drops even more if you don't count suicides (since that's not really a homicide) and you're only left with the occasional nutter with a gun(s).
There were literally none.
Reminds be of a bug waaaay back. In the original Elite, you could obtained a missile lock on a space station, then dock and sell all your missiles, launch, and finally fire a missile (you still had the missile lock). Suddenly you have 255 missiles! 0-1 = 255 in unsigned 8 bit integer math!

You could then sell all your new shiny missiles for loads of money. Made a hard game a bit easier.
You don't run any commands on your VM? Such as compiling/restarting an application?
Be careful about this - make sure you have an exit plan if you decide you want to stop freelancing. It can be a real pain if you don't have each client on a separate box.
This is very interesting

As someone that did a planet trajectory simulation program (but much simpler than that) this is very nice and interesting.

What would be interesting though is adding perturbation to the orbits to see how stable are they, or how likely is this to happen in a real situation

It usually happens with one or two massive elements (stars) and less massive elements (planets), all with different masses

So for two relatively equal stars and one big and one small planet with different energies I bet there are several 'choreographies' available, maybe with chaotic behaviour.
One of Neil Gaiman's episodes of Dr. Who, "The Doctors' Wife", features a thought-password. The password is "crimson, eleven, delight, petrichor" but you have to think of the concepts in order instead of saying them out loud.
In a totally and completely unrelated fact, the rate of gun ownership is also down 30% since the 1980's. It's almost as if the two may have a relationship, but that certainly cannot be the case because the NRA has spent a jillion dollars telling me otherwise!
Very complicated. That's why the OP went with an Apple solution, that he expected to "Just Work". Sadly, in this case, it doesn't.
It's not always a good solution for your entire team. I run Linux on my desktop, but have found that the touchpad drivers (even the experimental ones) just really suck on Linux+Macbook Pro to the point where it's either external mouse (not always possible) or decreased productivity.

I have a feeling this is going to devolve into a "well, just use vim and a tiling WM or X other thing", but the point is that just replacing Mac OS with Linux isn't always going to be good for your whole team.
If you agree to a privacy policy that says "we will give your data to the DOJ any time they ask for it" you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy either.
Ask HN: what things about yourself do you track regularly?
I am building a web dashboard for myself to input and track weight, expenses, training sessions, stuff like that. Possibly even mood and other more exotic variables (the cognitive cost of maintaining the input goes down if it all goes into one dashboard so I can afford to track more stuff then).

I might as well build something that others can use, hence my question :)
Yeah, I had the same heartburn with iphoto years ago. I was still in the mindset of wanting to do file management myself. Now I'm buying in to the principle of letting the app manage the files in a DB. Or just generally taking file management away from user, but no one has really cracked the nut of how to that across multiple services and multiple devices.
Learn how to fundraise your startup by doing it for a charity
Please keep the politics out of HN.

Edit: Referring to some of the comments in this thread, not the article.
I have many foreign friends, and most are surprised to learn I've never seen a gun used in a violent crime. They have a hard time seeing past Hollywood and the press's portrayal of America. Of course, they don't live here.
There's a lot of risks here for the buyer. Mostly risks that the seller fails to meet his side of the terms for any number of reasons. As the term becomes shorter, these risks are reduced, but then this contract kind of reduces to a retainer as mentioned below. The retainer is much simpler and probably better for both sides.
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I see much higher framerates than that running the demo on a laptop with a boring integrated Intel GPU. Are you using the released version of Firefox, the nightly Firefox, or a different browser?
It syncs nicely out of the box, in fact using a WiFi sync'ing SD card, SkyDrive now even supports my Pentax Proprietary RAW format images. Pretty damned cool, take a photo and when camera is next in WiFi, it appears on my phone, tablet, laptop, desktop.....
Looks like the suicide rate has been on the decline since the 1950s as well: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779940.html
hammers don't kill people; contractors kill people
SuperFreakonomics attributed the dramatic drop in crime in the 1990s to Roe vs Wade.
http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-wh...
Hard to understand why people spend so much time on a short game like Diablo III. Even before I finished it on inferno the game didn't make much sense, I just finished for the sake of it, which I regret.

Most Super Mario games requires way more abilities than that and less time.

Don't waste your limited time on earth playing consumption-driven games. I've been trying Eve online for a few days, It does not looks promising, it seems that Eve also is also driven by item accumulation and not actual playing.
Possible cause and effect? That's one of the claims of the folks who promote private gun ownership.
Sounds like someone who prunes trees and shrubs.

"Did some growth hacking on the hedge funds, bagged it, 100% organic product..."
There's also 58,500,000 more human beings in the US than when gun homicide peaked in 1993.

If you're going to talk about gun inflation, it helps to also mention human inflation.
REPL's in PHP are quite hard due to the fatal error issue, among other things.

I wrote one (https://github.com/apinstein/iphp) a long time ago that got around a lot of these issues using temporary files, but his idea to use forking is really neat. I never got multi-line input working, either. I have been thinking about re-doing it with runkit, but now I'll have to play around with BORIS and see how it works.
‘New’ Demonoid D2.vu Quickly Shutdown For Hosting Malware
Text from an email that was sent out:

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We all wanted to believe that Demonoid would be resurrected once again; but it seems that these events have spelled the end of Demonoid as we have always known it. We all waited to see if Demonoid would return, though its now clear that this time its really gone.

Now for some good news: The heart and soul of Demonoid lives on!
Through an amazing sequence of unlikely events, the data on those Ukrainian servers has made its way into the safe hands of members of our community and has now been re-launched as d2.vu

Invitations to return are being sent out only to existing Demonoid members, which is the reason you have received this email. For the foreseeable future d2.vu will remain a semi-private site and no new invitations to join will be issued until we are certain that the system is stable. To login, click here and authenticate using your old Demonoid username and password.

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It's a lot different when you're working with certain teams of mixed technical aptitudes. An automatically assembled VM image I can distribute means much less time supporting our less technical members of the dev team (front-end, designers, biz dev guys).

If it's just you, absolutely, don't bother. But it gets much more difficult to support a variety of platforms and configurations as your team size grows. This is where vagrant+chef/puppet really shine.
To keep the numbers relative, US Population:

1993: 257,746,103

2012: 315,809,000

= 58,062,897 more people since 1993.

So 2.8x as many guns than population increase.
I noticed this problem as well. I live in Ithaca, and crossing one of our many gorges generates grades of +/- 150% (as an example, try starting at "Arts Quad, Ithaca, NY" and ending at "Bess Brown Center, Ithaca, NY").

Seems like it would be a little bit tricky to try to systematically identify steep ravines like this in Google's elevation data, but it's certainly an interesting problem.
Errmmmm don't think anyone is offended by the word blitz, or ever has been. It's a pretty common term over here (UK) to describe a period of intense activity of any kind. Everyone from soldiers to school teachers use it.

e.g we need to blitz the sink - we need to clean it thoroughly and/or quickly.
> heck, I once had a data-gathering script that made a bunch of read-only calls to our system's API cause a live issue

I don't think you can just throw that out here with no story. Well...I guess you can, it just makes me sad.
I've seen estimates of death by auto-erotic asphyxiation to be in the 500-1,000 per year in the US. Whatever will they ban to stop that?
> It's almost as if the two may have a relationship

Negative correlation would be my guess[1]. Where do I get my NRA check for telling you that?

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=10129
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That didn't cause an exploit though. It just meant that the user couldn't get more than that amount of gold.

Although back in those days, if you had that much gold, you were controlling the economy by yourself anyways.
His second line started with "So". Meaning that it was derived from the fact in the first line.

The second line doesn't follow from the first as it is implied.

You can't get "gun crime is falling more slowly than crime in general" from that statistic, because "general crime" includes homicides which were removed from that statistic. It is entirely possible that if you add in homicides that overall crime is decreasing faster.
It sounds like he's talking about double-buffering "model" data - like an array of all actors and their positions. You can't have one thread reading the data while another writes to it, but you can have the reading thread work on an "old" copy of the data while the writing thread modifies the live data.

Games often want physics/model threads run with a consistent timestep, but have the rendering thread run as fast as possible.
Selective sync as in I'm syncing one folder at ~/a/b/c, another at ~/g/h/j and at /whatever/ etc etc?
Unless the software models those bits too and models them well enough.
Unfortunately MyShoebox - even the paid, "Pro" tier - limits photos to 20MB per image. It also only supports JPEG and PNG formats, not RAW. Both of these constraints prevent usage by photographers with modern DSLRs.
While I'm a gun supporter, I think the decline in overall crime has more to do with the reduction in environmental lead: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
You've been around here long enough to know HN is full of political issues and has been for years.
First release of MPS GC with full documentation (1.111.0)
> but I've probably got something like 120GB of photos

> I don't feel I should need to spend $200/year (plus $25 more for flickr), so that I can organize and maintain a photo hobby

At a generous 5 MB per photo, that's 24,000 photos. You would have to take 65 photos, every day, for a year straight to reach those numbers. That's 1 photo every 15 minutes of your waking life for a year (assuming 8 hours sleep).

That's considerably a bit more than a 'hobby'.

At your levels, I consider $200/year rather reasonable for that level of obsession. The amount a traditional film camera user would have had to spend in developing and film costs alone for that level of usage would be astronomical.

The only quasi-reasonable complaint there is the long term storage costs of your high level of need. However, you're also making a special case of needing those photos 'everywhere'. Comparing to traditional photography there would have been no way to lug around 24,000 photos. They would have been stored, with the negatives, in an album somewhere. Kind of like sitting on a harddrive - which the going rate for 120GB is $25 (250 GB external for $50) as a one-time purchase cost.

I understand your desire to have everything digital available at all times and backed up against disasters, but there is going to be a cost associated with that.

And that cost is MASSIVELY cheaper, even at today's rates, than someone with your 'hobby' would have been spending trying to do the same thing, 10-15 years ago.
I would be pretty happy if I could make a room in my house look like a scene from Avatar.
I fail to see how that's different from iOS uploading photos to the photo stream, which you can sync to iPhoto...
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (2012)
Last time I looked Berkshelf didn't even support Chef-Solo, or at least Knife-Solo since it stuffs the cookbooks in your home dir.

I'd be interested to hear how people were setting up their local chef environments.
Lighting is 20% of global electricity: http://www.c2es.org/technology/overview/electricity

Plus the 1% of lighting which comes from Kerosene lamps add's a further 20% to this.
The Chinese don't use the long scale either, at least not in this form - we count in magnitudes of 10,000.
diet and weight - myfitnesspal.com
workouts - runningahead.com & strava.com
places i go - foursquare.com
finances - mint.com
auto gas efficiency - fuelly.com

Though I use the apps, not the sites
I think this project is meant more as a proof of principle. You can't expect a new technology to jump straight to better then what is commercially available on day one. It can still hold a lot of promise for developing into something better then what is available today. (disclosure: I am roommates with the main guy behind this)
It's tough to kill at a distance with a hammer, unlike a rifle. I suppose that's why people fear rifles more, but honestly I think the hammer killer is more frightening. If someone decides to randomly put a bullet through my head from half a mile away, I'll never even hear it coming. But if someone decides to crush my skull with a hammer, I'm going to be around long enough to know that I'm going to die in a really stupid and wasteful manner.
I worked somewhere that required full suit every day. I charged a $40K/year premium for that.
>It’ll be interesting to see how the performance issues play out, no?

Not really, 3d rendering in haskell via opengl is not new or interesting at this point. Frag is 8 years old for example:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Frag
Not to get too meta but I've seen it a lot on Reddit and essentially someone is trying to say the thought was so completely expressed that they just need to suggest "This" as it is exactly how they feel as well.
I don't know of any automated solutions, but I routinely use QuickSSHd to wirelessly scp photos to my computer from my Android phone. It will also let you get a shell on the phone and delete the old photos.
I wanted to learn more about how this works so sorry I'm not responding to your question, but when one has an agent, does the agent take 15% (or in this case, a mind blowing 52%) of the workers salary or that's just how much the hiring company pays the agent? Basically, is anything being deducted from the workers salary?

And there are mentions of a contract. What would this type of contract consist of?

The job candidate-agent relationship...is it like sports where agents can represent multiple job seekers but a job seeker usually only has one agent? And is there a legal side to this?

Sorry for all the questions, just trying to learn!
You can edit and browse on your host VM. Just adjust the VM's network settings and use a shared host-guest folder for the code (what exactly this ends up being varies based on the virtualization).

You really can make it a near exact match for a local development environment. Bridge your ports to your expected ones on the host machine, share the code folders, and SSH in if you need to punt a dev server when you make changes (or set your Editor/IDE up to do that for you). Browser can still point at local:8000 or whatever you expect.
750 were killed by hammers or clubs which includes any blunt force attack (vase, bat, golf club, etc. I am assuming that you're accurately quoting a number, though last I saw that number was more in the 450 range). Secondly every home has numerous objects that qualify as "clubs", many of them serving valid, functional roles (for instance to hammer, or to hit balls, etc). In many households a firearm has one single purpose, which is to kill or maim (given that hunting is rare, though I suppose that's a weird exception I make given that hunting is ultimately about killing, food pyramid and all).

So that's the first gross misrepresentation that you've made.

The second is that few argue for "rifle control", but instead want "gun control". Those guns that kill 30,000+ Americans per year (whether homicide, suicide, or accidental).

I'm a hunter (albeit here in Canada), but just as I despise misrepresentation of facts one way, it doesn't justify gross misrepresentation the other way.
"It's probably just an intentionally quaint pseudo-folk saying invented by someone in Burbank."

LOL no, assuming you young folks pretending not to understand are serious. As a hint take a look at the skin color and local social hierarchy position of the people picking cotton back when that was still done by hand, by property or former property, as they used to say. It was basically used in place of the "N-word" when it was just barely not socially acceptable to use the "N-word" in that situation.
So, are you proud of your nickname?
Earl: Crowd funded $250 Android tablet (for outdoors) with E-Ink Screen
This is pretty neat. I'm a 2005 engineering graduate (CSE) and never knew about this. I wonder if I can get one ex post facto.
The fact that the diablo economy has reached the point where users are running around with 6 billion gold shows its been broken for much longer.
SpaceX signs three-year deal to test Grasshopper reusable rocket
What is this way of which you speak?
I actually exclaimed "UNREAL!" when I launched this in Firefox Aurora. I was expecting Engine 1, but I see now it's Unreal Engine 3. WOW.

If that's not proof that asm.js is a cool concept, then I don't know what is.

I don't understand how they're making this so freaking fast; they've done some special work to get it running with WebGL.

> We’ve had success in running it in other browsers, but it’s somewhat hit and miss – it heavily depends on the quality of the WebGL implementation, memory management, and JavaScript engine

Anyway, Firefox does a great job with it. I'm impressed.
From what I hear (I don't use functional languages, so I don't know for sure), functional languages minimize state, but don't erase it entirely.
> Which is good, because I also miss the days where the man with the biggest club had the power.

Not sure if you've noticed, but those days haven't gone anywhere.
The MPS GC is a commercial quality garbage collector that runs on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux and Mac OS X in both 32 and 64 bit configurations.

It has a long history behind it going back to the Harlequin Lisp company in the 1990s.

This release brings a modernization of the documentation from old formats and a lot of newly written material:

http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/version/1.111/manual/h...

(For those who are interested in it for open source work, they're happy to talk about the licensing. They've been very generous with us for http://opendylan.org/ for example.)
I think UbuntuOne already solves all those problems.
Someone link this to gaming, please.
"Commonly accepted" isn't worth much when it conflicts with actual science. Lots of things commonly accepted are simply incorrect.
Not. They own that address and everything on it. They could turn you off one day. They potentially could monitor it. your startup should have it's own email, otherwise just looks like a school project.
Here's the FBI source data: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...
can you explain to me why would it be a better news ?
Thanks for this. It's a humbling comment that puts reality into perspective: there are several ethical and moral challenges we coders are gonna be put through in this century, far, far removed from the Silicon Valley bubble and it's love of ads. And it's this love of ads (read, millions and billions of dollars) at the expense of enriching corporations and tearing down privacy that worries me a lot about our future, if it's going to depend on programmers' current moral standards--though really, it's all human nature, it's not like we're a different breed. But we definitely are more informed than the average citizen, and more of us should take responsibility for increasing freedom and basic human conditions, as opposed to selling social local deals.