skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fat is "coming back" in the sense that it is no longer mistakenly being viewed as evil. It seems carbs have taken that place, but at least that is kinda true: http://examine.com/faq/are-there-health-benefits-of-a-low-ca....

Granted, people overdo the 'carbs are evil' thing.
It seems to me that if you can afford a 3D printer, the computer to run it and the technical ability to do the printing and assembly you probably already have better options than a funky zip gun of questionable quality. I would think the money to buy the above equipment would get you a decent gun on the black market if guns are illegal in your country. And if there is no black market to speak of, then you would probably not be allowed to buy the 3D printer in the first place.

It seems like this is more of a novelty than anything useful.
I think that's pretty unfair. You shouldn't have to care passionately for every object you use on a daily basis.

How often have you checked the quality of your drinking water? By your standard, you have no clue what the hell is going on with a substance you use on a daily basis and put into your body.

How much do you know about the supply chain of the food you eat? Do you ever use commercial rail or air travel?

Globalized civilization makes life too complex for anyone to know what the hell is going on with each thing they use on a daily basis.
Fruit also carry vitamins and such. One apple covers about 10% of your daily calcium, potassium, vitamin A needs.

Also Most fruit isn't all that high calorie. An apple is only between 55-110 calories depending on size.
Somehow this makes me sad. Guns are bad.
I can understand the govermental concerns and questions I have are:

1) If such a gun was used in a crime, would bullet rifeling patterns be usable to tie up the shot fired to the plastic barrel gun and let alone the ability to dispose of said gun with a simple lighter.

2) Concerns about it only having a metal firing pin and with that how hard would it be to use say another material for the firing pin like graphite or a the like - only needs to fire one shot

I also understand why this project was done, it was a challange and we like challanges.

But as other have said, it is a simple type of gun that is the form that can be made by anybody wishing to make such a zip gun, still need ammunition.

What the concerns are is they have created a form of weapon that can be produced as easily as a photograph and that is just the tip of the concerns.

I will say that personaly whilst making a printable gun was something that was going to happen, giving out the blueprints for anybody to use and abuse was perhaps akin to writing expliot code and releaseing into the wild for any script kiddy to use and abuse with there click-run mentality.

The sad part is that people pushing out such blueprints for such printers will only mean that down the line such printers will get taxed and curtailed and effect those who mean no harm and the type of people who given a nuke button infron of them would resist in pressing it as they know the concequences.

As soon as a crime is commited with such a gun they will be banned and the 3d printer market will get more controled by legislation. Which is sad when such vigor is not bestowed upon normal guns.

Facts are guns do bad things in bad hands so the net result is they are outlawed in many countries and championed as rights in others. So if anything this highlights the issue with guns and not 3D printers, though I suspect the Rifle associations of the World will not defend 3D printers if they start to be restricted over this issue.

As an aside nukes are illegal, yet if somebody posted blueprints to make one, well that would pan out badly. Yet on some level this is just the same.

I applaud that somebody did and proved it was viable, I'm personaly not happy they gave out the blueprints in a form that enable people who do not understand the issues free access to them. Most will be good people, but not all and that is the crux of concerns however you look at them. So with that this is akin to releaseing 0-day expliot code into the wild in a point and click form.
I'm assuming #1 is supposed to be a joke/irony?
I wrote up advice about the 'Rapportive Hack' last year, and published a spreadsheet to automate it:
http://www.distilled.net/blog/miscellaneous/find-almost-anyb...

which others have taken and improved in creative ways.

This was one of my favorite versions, which checks against Gravatar: http://linksy.me/find-email
From TFA: "Even an incorrect proof is better than no proof, because if the ideas are novel, they may still be useful for other problems, or inspire another mathematician to figure out the right answer."

edit: I can see taking issue with the word, "universe" in the original quote. I have trouble seeing how the word "understand" is debatable.
I'm a little blown away by the total lack of technical understanding when it comes to MongoDB. This person is obviously very technical, so why would he have chosen MongoDB in the first place? It isn't like MongoDb's technical shortcomings are a secret. The description of how MongoDb does sharding and distributed queries should have immediately raised red flags to any who has even a modicum of CAP understanding. If it sounds complex, a total hack and impossible to manage it probably is.

For gosh sakes, even the 10gen guys admit MongoDB lost data a year(!) ago. [1] If a database lost data in a single server configuration, why would you trust it as a cluster?

1: http://www.dbms2.com/2011/04/04/the-mongodb-story/
Yahoo’s Mayer Said to Explore Bid for Hulu to Add Video Service
This depends on your personality, I think. Bold people tend to be assholes and timid people tend to avoid both the things they should have done, and the things they shouldn't have. Some people, like me, have a little of both.
As a nighthawk myself, the thing about morning people that I've come to realize in my 38 years is that they are 100% right. Life is much, much better with an extra hour or two of time before the day than an extra hour or two after the day.

I've tried, and tried and tired, but I can't do mornings. I hate them for it.
There's a lot of potential in stacked icons, although I'm curious to see how it interacts with CSS styles.
Given the span of the rotors and distance from the ground, it looks as if they have designed it specifically to fly in ground effect, which puts a pretty low ceiling on it.

It also means they have more of a ground effect craft than a helicopter. We'll call it a RIG (Rotor in Ground-effect) as opposed to WIG craft as we did for the fixed wing Russian varriant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTWWsh6iGA
When weighing the balance between even through the lens that this article presents, the driverless car is still a net good. Google potentially knowing if I have cancer is an ok exchange if it reduces the very real chance of death, injury or legal problems that my commute presents me every day.
A (Very) Rough Guide to Beginners' Barbell Training Programs
I've had good luck by just emailing support@github.com; they told me that this is their preferred way to submit suggestions/feature requests.
That's exactly the bad article that started the misconception.

This is a case where you need to let common sense override your trust in journalists. You are probably smarter than them, you know more about tech and phones than them, don't trust them when they write stuff that doesn't make sense. Even if it were true don't you think some hacker woud have verified it by now? Offered a hack to stop it? They haven't because the article is dumb and wrong, and CNet should retract it. I'll cite the source cnet lazily misinterpreted if you give me a minute.
The epigraph to that chapter is brilliant.
> Every photograph and video you take at a concert or other live event will probably be terrible. Just enjoy the moments, don’t feel pressured to document them.

I've changed my mind about this one because of a service called Timehop. Every day it grabs any photos, social media updates etc. from 1 year prior and stuffs them in an email (or push notification in the app). It's a great way to remember, and appreciate, what you've been doing and where you've been. A shitty little photo from a concert will take 15 seconds from "the moment" but give me that enjoyment back down the line, sometimes tenfold. (Since the additional marginal enjoyment of those 15 seconds is small, but the marginal enjoyment of reliving that experience a year later is much larger.)

Overall though I really liked the post.
A coach probably brings more revenue into your school than any other employee.
No mention of "video" on the page for the paid version either.
How Open Can a School Be?
That's not even a poor man's enum, it's just an enum. Named tuples can be used for everything an enum can be. This doesn't seem like a necessary PEP, but I've made my peace a long time ago about Python's bloated standard library. It's not the end of the world, and I still love Python, but this doesn't seem necessary to me.
Life after PowerPoint: Prezi zooms ahead in digital storytelling
Well, Linus still ultimately pulls from his lieutenants' repos though. Nobody has direct push access to Linus's repository but Linus (if I recall, at least.) That's functionally equivalent to github's pull request system.

What's better about Linux is the fact that Linus cares enough to keep things up to date and have a functioning release process with freezes, etc. All of that can be done in github, it just requires maintainers to put in the effort.
They do say an elephant never forgets. It's possible that after stomping through the fence and releasing all the bees the elephant simply continues to charge into the field. But once the elephant is shooed out of the field, the next time it considers entering, it will remember the bees and might reconsider.

It's also possible the elephant doesn't stomp through the fence, but simply meanders toward it until it feels the wire. After which some of the bees come out and the elephant simply decides to not break through the wire and to instead return from where it came.
Basically: the media can take photos/video. But they have to remove it from their publications if someone invokes 'droit à l´image'.
Building smart Builders
Intentionally contrary, as I see a glaring over-application of "poor" and "can't".

This country was founded on people having very little walking very long distances to build homesteads from nothing.

I'll agree there are some people who truly can't make the changes I indicated; we have a social safety net for them, and I do put in a weekly effort to help them. Most who whine "I can't" can, they just won't.

Obviously there are exceptions, and a short aphorism of "you'll do it if you want it bad enough" is not expected to have encyclopedic thoroughness covering those few genuine cases who really, truly, can't; it's directed at the other 99.99% whose only real barriers to success is themselves.
Isn't this the real issue that should be fixed then? Some way when you form a repo, you get notice of all the forks and PR's of the original repo, giving you the possibility to merge everyone's work and become the defacto upstream.

IMO, yes. Providing some kind of mechanism to make it easier to gain cohesion between all the disparate forks is definitely at least part of the answer. I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about this, though, and I don't pretend to have any real concrete suggestion in mind.
From the standpoint of an English speaker, UTF-8 is effectively a (good) compression scheme for Unicode, as opposed to using 2 or more bytes for every character.

I guess if I were German or Spanish (to say nothing of Asian languages), it would be the opposite of compression :-)
The murder rate in the UK is 1.2 / 100k, it's literally 4x higher in the US.

You've probably read that the UK is significantly more violent than the US, but the difference comes entirely from different categorizations of crime. For instance, UK violent crime stats as typically reported include such things as harassment, 'causing public fear, alarm, or distress', or 'possession of an article with a blade or point'.

Depending on how judicious you are with the categories, the UK is either safer than the US or slightly more violent, but it's very close. Combine that with 1/4 the murder rate, and I think it's clear which is performing better.
This is like Christmas! More icons. Thanks!! :-)
You are conflating a hypothetical with a real claim. it is hypothetically possible, but it isn't actually true. And you can ensure in many ways. Like measuring the power usage when your phone is off. Like looking at the source code of the operating system.
I think it depends on why you are attending the concert. I don't attend as many as I did in my teens, but back then it was more about community than music. In hindsight, the music those bands played wasn't particularly good. The real draw was getting together with a bunch of like minded people and just "having a good time." That often included singing, dancing, and generally not paying attention to what happened on the stage. If you truly want to enjoy the music, odds are that it can be done easier and cheaper from the comfort of your own home. The same applies for most other live events, whether they be WWDC sessions or sporting events.
Sometimes the decision of what technology to use and the task of making it work for your needs are entirely disconnected.
"Why screw with that?"

Exactly. This period of decreasing violent crime is correlated with a massive, near nationwide relaxation of gun controls that go back to the post-Civil war period. Correlation does not suggest let alone prove causation, but desiring a reversal in a trend that correlates with what in theory is your objective should give one pause.
Awesome, I've had a lot of trouble getting stacked icons to work on my own (e.g. putting a filled disk below an icon has a lot of uses). Great feature!

The spinning icon still makes Chrome max out the GPU on the retina macbook though. One instance of it is enough to send my GPU temperatures in the high 70's, worse than a Youtube video.
"Other people cannot always see your intentions, they can see your actions." - so true, so important to understand.

I would add exercise to the list for sure. The energy and cognitive boost absolutely required to be at your best as you age.
No, no institution subscribes to every journal. However, see point 2. Given the title and author, how many of those paper's can't you find with google / google scholar(or emailing the author).

Paywalls for publicly funded research our wrong, but the cases when it prevents people at research institutions from doing research seem to be tiny.
Tell your son to put the lamp _behind_ the screen. It will bless his eyes.
India outsourcing under scanner after $45-mn global ATM heist
A beautiful piece of work. I'll use it again and again. Any roughness in the resulting image can be fixed in a couple of minutes in Photoshop.
Dear Google, let’s talk about webapps
Are there still (many) of people using EBCDIC?
You can show him that it's a paint program, then blow his mind one day when you can make his little characters say something and move around. Maybe have him make a ball one day and save it - when he's not around, go in there and add some gravity, momentum, friction, and elasticity. Later ask him to check out his ball sprite it should be pretty big surprise when you click the flag and the ball falls and bounces. My daughter loved just playing around with the painter.
Nowadays you could paint the algorithm on the side of a wall near a road and wait for Google streetview to pick it up or paint it really big on a paved area and wait for Google Earth to pick it up.
I was confused about this as well. The construction manual is much more specific. More information on page 4: http://www.elephantsandbees.com/research_project/Beehive_Fen...

It seems that fences are set up to prevent elephants from entering entirely. Although they are spaced widely (and a weak breakaway trip wire is strung from hive to hive), so that if an elephant is trapped, or approaches the fence violently, it can still pass through without damaging the hives.

I'm guessing that has to do with their 85% effectiveness. Most of the time the fences work, but when they don't they want to minimize hive damage.
Who is still surprised by this? I feel that after 2-3 years of the litany of stories and cases like this, it should shock absolutely no one anymore.
"Own fewer things..."

I turned 30 ten days ago and have thought about this one a lot recently. It's an interesting transition, because when you enter your 20's you typically have no stuff and thus everything is valuable. Your parents old couch, your roommate's spatula he left behind when he moved out, ect. Getting out of that mentality took me longer then it should.
Food carts and the Unix philosophy
This is what it is for me too. For the last several years I've used Zoloft on and off and it helped me a lot. However, after the most recent episode hit back in February/March, I decided to try a nutritional approach. I've been seeing a therapist who specializes in this am about three weeks into a pretty extensive supplement regimen. It seems to be working.

Part of my problem relates to alcoholism. The therapist says alcohol and other depressants have a depleting effect on nutrition.
Or the 6 bit funky set that the old CDC Cyber mainframes used to use! ("What is this lower case 'a' you speak of???")
Seems fitting that #30 is the best advice on there.
You are right, but having a JIT able to generate fast code means you can avoid writing C code at all, just look how fast Julia already is.
Personally, I can't stand dark liquors. There is no enjoyment in scotch, whiskey or cognac for me, no matter how wonderful the particular brand is. (My father was in fine dining... I've tried them all) Burning my mouth and throat with a substance isn't my idea of a good time.

Give me a good craft beer, a nice gin, or a good bottle of red any day of the week.
Wow, I like your 15th slide. I have a new website just launched and start from 0 (zero) followers. I don't know the best method to get more followers.
Would be interesting to interview nobel laureates and see what fraction of them are working 40 hours a week.
Founder Guilt
1. Gets lots of karma from silly/fake projects
2. Send in a PR to a high profile project with obfuscated malicious code
3. ???
4. Profit.
Here is the original source, the court memorandum. You can see how grossly irresponsible/lazy/stupid Cnet was.

Note that it is VERY clear that the government is asking to install a physical bug into a phone that works when the phone is off. It has nothign to do with the inherent hardware of the phone.

http://ny.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.2...

Judge Jones granted the application, authorizing continued interception at the four restaurants and the installation of a listening device in Ardito's cellular telephone. The device functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be.
I would estimate that it would be pretty much impossible for the average internet user to find child pornography or videos of murder/rape etc. But I find it is hard to estimate if the reason for that is targeted government action, or it is because sharing those kinds of material goes against the natural moral instinct of most normal people.
I don't know about other people, but I would use a driverless car just for the countless hours it would save me from sitting behind the wheel wasting my time either stuck in traffic, waiting at stop lights, or just plain driving from point A to point B. I don't know how much time the average American spends behind the wheel in a lifetime, but this reason alone would be enough, not to mention the decrease in accidents.
Yes. High volume printing is often done using IBM's AFP/MODCA print language, which typically has the text in IBM's EBCDIC encoding.

(disclosure: I once worked at a company that made tools to port code and data from IBM minicomputers to Unix & MS platforms, and also at the largest [format,] print & mail shop in the US)
Even if they are closed, you can link to the papers (unless the DMCA metastasized again). Granted, someone can't make an automatic tool to find such studies, but that would be hard anyway and presumably the authors are aware of the study they are refuting and could tag them.

Now, people trying to make policy decisions could not read or evaluate the studies. If we assume they are capable of doing so in the first place( i.e. their not Lamar smith), then we have an actual argument for getting rid of paywalls. I still think the best one is its a waste of money and a tax on universities/ grants.
Genetic Algo - The OneMax Problem
Maybe some people won't be comfortable with driverless cars at first, but I'm guessing at least 10% of the cars on the road will be driverless within 10 years. Regardless of how people feel about it, once the actuaries get some data to crunch on liability regarding driverless cars, it'll quickly become more expensive to insure your own car than a driverless one.
I was more surprised by a technical post complaining about workers, waiting on io, and context switching. There are ways to handle concurrency and network communication without large amounts of context switching and threads.
I'd be happy if she got rich, that would be fine by me. I think the economics of her getting rich off of it are hard for me to imagine, but I don't have any problems with it. Since I can't imagine a way for her to get rich given the rural (and thus likely poor) nature of the problem she's solving I was simply providing a caveat.
First off, read the link early in the story to his comments. Its more informative.

I wonder how he is going to address must carry channels that local governments impose upon the cable companies? I am all for choosing channels, but I wonder if this would permit currently premium channels to be chosen without excessive charges? As in, will they still permit bundle requirements to have HBO?

Considering it imposes similar rules on those companies selling channels to cable companies the host of groups who will line up to fight this will be impressive.

My favorite part is eliminating the black out rules on sports events for public funded stadiums.
So many have done this before and recently - Coderwall, Collegefeed, and Path.To, just to name the first three that occur to me - but I've never seen portfolio minimalism done so well. It integrates blogs, projects, credentials, and social profiles efficiently and beautifully.

Now, please allow me to change the order of skills without typing them all back in...then put in a Stripe box, shut up and take my money.
Comparison of Javascript Game Engines
Guest Post: Search without Social is Incomplete
You have a better chance of success if you try. Even respected core developers, including Guido himself, fail to get stuff they want in. So, no, it's no guarantee.
For someone who doesn't want to customize everything and have a quick UI flushed out, its a good showcase for developers. I like the idea I have a hoverboard...
NO. This is where you're wrong. This is a business; their goal is to get money: ALL the money, at all times. If they could raise prices and make more money, they would have done it already. They're not sitting on their laurels saying "We have enough money!" only to be shaken from complacency and driven to change their price schedule because of an unexpected expense.

This money comes straight out of their value as a business. It is a loss to the shareholders.
I pretty much do? I definitely have some strong personal biases toward particular instruments and not others and I would push for those. Asking a kid to choose a music instrument yields a decision every bit as informed as rolling a dice. Why bother?
The Curious Case against my Grandfather (1960)
You're right, of course.

s/physically/practically
Oh hi, fellow Discworld fan.