skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, you post an authoritative sounding reference that confirms a popular slant--in this case "gun violence is as bad as ever or even getting worse!"--and it gets voted to the top of the comments where it stays visible just long enough to protect the confirmation biases of those who agree with it, then falls off the front page before it can be refuted.

Your link is behind a pay wall for me and I don't have time to completely analyze how they're justifying their spin, but according to the Bureau of Justice, non-fatal firearm crimes have indeed been falling for the last 20 years, so, no, it's not just a product of improving treatment of gunshot wounds:

Nonfatal firearm violence declined from 1993 through
2004 before fluctuating in the mid- to late 2000s.

[http://bjs.gov/content/pub/press/fv9311pr.cfm]

As this is a well-known trend, I'm pretty sure anyone who wants to can find lots and lots of citations.

Moreover, this should be obvious to anyone who has participated in public society for the last 20 years. Decreasing crime statistics, including gun crime, aren't fool's gold. Crime is down. Society is getting gentler.

Twenty years ago I was 15. Gang violence dominated the news. Hard gangsta rap infused pop culture and music and it carried with it a true dangerous edge. Now culture is changing. Electronic music is popular. NBA basketball players dress up to look like Carleton Banks for press conferences. Internet culture, reddit culture is taking over. Kids spend all their time watching silly YouTube videos and playing iPhone games. There is far less free time for roving bands of aimless punks to get up to mischief. My teen-age son and his friends are incredibly nerdy and gentle and I've noticed this throughout the generation.
Everything, Zen: can you be a monk and a tycoon too?
Thank you. I really appreciate it.

That's a very interesting idea. We've had some similar thoughts that I think we'll begin to start incorporating over the next few months. We want employees to have more involvement in the benefits, but at the same time make sure that the employer can customize Uncover for the type of culture they want to create. For example, we have some beta customers that have books clubs at their company and are now using Uncover to facilitate that.
Why there is politics in Indian IT Industry?
Out of curiosity, why bring that into this discussion? The linked article says nothing about firearms.
Why I decided to self-publish my books
All Ruby code does this. Mathematics can still be performant because of tagged pointers. If the MSB is set, the value is a Ruby object. If it's not set, the value should be considered a native data type.
Hah. You bring up a good point. We'll definitely do some A/B testing as we begin to have more visitors to our website. As we only went live an hour ago, we didn't accumulate enough homepage data to begin testing our assumptions.
Take it easy on the rhetoric.

No, those founding fathers were not anti-authorianists to the degree that people would call a pathology. The continental congress did not descend into a bunch of bickering every time someone asked someone else to do something. They were mostly, from all reports, pretty well-adjusted and got along with each other civilly even with major disagreements on how to do things.
That is true, its a change for better or quite possibly worse.
Sigh. I feel like you didn’t quite understand the point I was making. I don’t think ridicule is in any way an appropriate response.

On a basic level this is not about regulation. It is, of course, in some way, but only a roundabout one. Regulation in EU countries already exists. National regulators have been regulating stuff here forever.

EU regulators very often do not wake up in the morning and think "What laws can I add today?”, they mostly think “How can I best unify those complex and already existing laws into one cohesive whole that makes some sense, taking into account the interests of all 27 member nations?”

Now, that’s a hard problem to solve, but it is very often not driven by any sort of desire to create more regulation. In fact, if you are a company operating EU-wide (or just a number of EU countries) the complexity of laws you have to adhere to may even go down with a unified EU law, even though the EU law may be more complex than any single law in any single EU member country.

It’s a messy process and it’s far from optimal, but I think it’s pretty much an EU wide consensus that the goal of the EU is not to abolish regulation in any kind of grande way. So unifying it is.

(It is, of course, also through that through now more and more unified laws the decision process on regulation now moved to the EU level. Where laws are already unified, decisions about future regulation are made on the EU level.)
The difference is that a 2048x1536 display would generally just offer 4x the screen space whereas Retina and other high density screens display the same page scaled up 2x. "Make Your Website Retina-Ready!" is like saying "Make Your Website Look Good When Scaled to 200%!" You can test this by using Ctrl-+ in your browser.
Seems to be loading just fine for me, though the blog post doesn't have an update?
> But that's because of the internal market, that isn't some specific internet tax, is it?

Despite the dishonest label "internet sales tax" frequently used by the media and opponents, the US measure being discussed "isn't some specific internet tax", either. Its a feederal law that gives permission, with conditions, for states to require remote retailers to collect and remit sales and use tax that are already due on purchases (and which, for remote sales, would otherwise generally have been the responsibility of the purchaser to report and remit). It is neither a new tax, nor is it "internet specific" in any way.
My only concern with benefit programs like these is if I'm earning less income because the company is allocating money for benefits I may not need.
The trick is largely to learn when to shut your gob, or say one thing and do another. I was repeatedly diagnosed with ADHD and ODD in my year of school in the states - flushed the pills, got expelled (well, forced to leave, as they didn't want an expulsion on their squeaky clean record).

Back to school in England... "Engaged", "curious", "incisive questions". Partially down to cultural differences in terms of views on mental health (I'm merely "eccentric" these days), and partially down to me doing a year long master class in the states as to how to lie my arse off and pretend to accept authority while rejecting it.
Hey it would be great if you allowed some GET parameters as well as POST, that way people could bookmark pages, etc
It's about bureaucracy in a lot of cases. It may require senior agent signoff for the warrant, etc.
The good news is that the crash in Chrome is not due to issues in asm.js or WebGL. Apparently, this demo exposed a bug in Chrome's garbage collection. There is already a ticket in Chrome to fix it.
I think your hypothesis is correct in that it makes intuitive sense. [1]

The problem with the approach is that n=1 so regardless of the outcome it wouldn't really adequately prove the point you are trying to make. You could do the same experiment with sending 1 person to Harvard but unfortunately that's not enough to prove anything either.

[1] TV does experiments that I've seen where they take a blond woman asking strangers for help vs. a brunette to discover (iirc) that blonds do get more attention (or something like that) as well as "good looking" people. Add: No surprise there.
I love the simplicity of this website!
It also tackles a good problem employers have.
How To Be A Vegetarian. Why Vegetarian?
Thats a mighty fine list :)

Great to see Alfred Lin on there, Always nice to see a fellow LinkExchange alum in the news.
> Opening a retail store in a state is not the same as opening a website people in that state can access. There's no conscious decision, or deployment of capital to that state.

Yes, its much more expensive to open a retail store, and involves some contribution to the local economy to operate it, so the two are not equivalent.

On the other hand, they are similar in that each is a conscious decision to conduct business with people in the State, and there is no rational reason to favor remote business.
True spirit?
Yes, but that something needs to wash the chickens due to bacteria.
The purpose of the article was to claim that the opinion of the only people legally allowed to make diagnoses is that the venn diagram shows the anti-authoritarians completely enclosed as a subset of the mentally ill folks.

The author's personal experience was being diagnosed with "issues with authority" because he didn't kiss up to his crazy boss. I don't see any conflict between not kissing up to his boss and owning firearms, so sure, let him go deer hunting on vacation if he's got no other, real, issues.
You're making a good point. Thanks for the answer.
interesting. i assume you're referring to legislation at a state level? got any links? i haven't read much about that era, but from what i have, it sounds like things were awesomely crazy back then w/ PIs tapping for clients, corporations tapping each other, etc.

at least at the federal level, everything i'd read places the catalyst for modern wiretapping laws as the conviction appeal of seattle bootlegger Roy Olmstead's arrest based on evidence gathered by a warrantless wiretap by "rogue federal law enforcement officers." his appeal reached the supreme court in 1928 and was upheld 5-4 on 18th century trespass laws. in 1934, congress passed The Communications Act of 1934, which made wiretapping a federal criminal offense and any evidence obtained from such would be inadmissible. it wasn't until the The Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968 that the constitutionality of wiretapping was articulated for investigative purposes.

this gives a better overview/detail compared wikipedia:
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/li...
Setting up a server room, part 1: The basics
Just going to spit out what first came into my head:

- Pretty nice looking website for rolling sushi!
- I can sign up to reward my employees by learning to roll sushi? Something is not right...
- Oh, employee rewards program - cool!
- Hmmm, I wonder if they break rewards into categories like "Developers" so I could redeem things like GitHub, DropBox or MT/RackSpace plans.

All in all, nice looking site and pretty impressive for a first go at coding.

Best of luck!
Wow. Am I get downvoted for pointing out a fallacy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
Well, I believe our bodies need salt, so eliminating it altogether isn't really an option. Maybe the paprika of programming languages...
Why I don't like Haml
I don't think Japan and the USA are very comparable. In fact, I think insofar modern countries are concerned you'd be hard pressed to find two countries that are more different than Japan and the USA!
chances are that money wouldn't have been spent on your income, because of taxes (income tax, payroll tax). it would have been spent on something else that falls under the category of "nice things" but is tax-deductible.
Yeah, the Einstein reference triggered my bullshit filter too. If the best evidence you can cite for Einstein being pathologically anti-authoritarian is a dislike of Prussian discipline, failing exams he was pushed into taking early and a patchy graduate employment record, you've haven't distinguished his behaviour from millions of present-day Americans who manage to be stroppy teenagers and underemployed young adults without attracting the attention of mental health professionals.

I'd much rather hear anonymised examples of alleged misdiagnosis (I'm sure they do exist) but the author is surprisingly reticent on that front. He even observes that his patients previously diagnosed with various psychoses had "fully recovered" whilst retaining their anti-authoritarian streak: implicitly acknowledging they probably did have a problem and that losing an anti-authoritarian streak wasn't a prerequisite to recovery.

I'm pretty receptive to arguments that certain disorders are overdiagnosed but the article has surprisingly little to say about that.
Not everybody believes in rights, per se. He did put scare underscores around the word. Just saying, if you believe your position to be the moral high ground, you shouldn't need to mischaracterize the positions of others.
Interesting point about linear growth from organic downloads.

Do you have any advice about which of those methods would be most effective for increasing downloads of a side project (no money for big ad spend, not a large network to do cross promotion, etc)?
My dad still pays despite having Comcast since forever. He thinks he'll lose his email he's had forever if he cancels. I've tried many times to convince him otherwise but.. some people just don't get technology and the Internet.
Neither should be favored. If a customer that lives in each of the 50 states walks into our retail store, we still only have to collect a single sales tax and remit it to a single entity. If a customer that lives in each of the 50 states logs into our online store, we have to collect 50 sales taxes and remit them to 50 entities. That's a law that favors retail store owners over online sellers. A law with the same practical effects could be written that favors neither by having a single federally-operated sales tax that's distributed to the states according to the relative sales volume to residents of those states.
Hah. You're the second person to think we help you learn to roll sushi! Totally valid feedback. I think we need to experiment in shifting the sign up to the left and presenting what we do a lot clearer.

As to being able to breakdown benefits/rewards into Groups of employees, that's on our roadmap. You can currently reward one or more people for going the extra mile, but we'd like to do more.
Prime Minister of India's website requires prior permission for 'hyperlinking'
I'm pretty sure SpiderOak offers this feature, as well as an option to not sync specific folders on specific computers.
Thank you. We hope so.
Marco Rubio: America Needs a Pro-Growth Immigration System
awesome job! Although can someone else start a company that teaches you how to make sushi...
Thank you. It's the best bet. I am going to pursue that today.
PyCharm user here. I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the info!
Someone wanted to start a flamewar.(?)
Well there's another way to look at it too: the strength of any password-based credential system relies upon the user refusing to give the password to unauthorized parties. The unfortunate consequence of this is that the user must authenticate the system (and verify the security of the connection between) before entering their password.

Intel has brilliantly demonstrated a social engineering/phishing attack here. "A street game" on New Yorkers, of all people! http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/passwordwin-...

But the strength estimates they give are far too high: What is the strength of a password which a user is willing to type into a non-https website or computer on the street?

Very low.
Gun Crime Drops
See the unusual facts about gun crime drops, but U.S. is still has most murders committed with a gun. 2 out of 3 murders used a gun.
I think the type of product he was talking about is an info product - book, series of videos etc. So I think your numbers are a bit off for this particular type of product...
Then the clients hold the final payment hostage while asking for unending changes

How much of your work did they have at this point? The client should be discouraged from adding more and more work because it delays them getting their website/software/app in their own possession.
Yes, this would be a complete turn-off for me.
I run ArchLinux on a ThinkPad X120e. I get 3-4 hours of battery life out of a 57Wh battery.
> They just can't name it feta. They can include a sign like "feta like product" though.

No, if the name is a protected name it can't appear on the label or any advertising. Champagne is from Champagne. There's no such thing as 'wine produced to the champagne method', even though some Cava (etc) are produced to that method.
I think transparency is a huge competitive advantage. And like you said, it works great as a marketing tool AND as a tool for accountability. There are several ways you can do this but probably the easiest is to just sign up for a service like Pingdom (which is great b/c it injects a 3rd party measurement into the equation) then use their status page tool. We did ours using a twitter widget, pingdom's status page, and some CSS, and I think it turned out OK: http://www.getadministrate.com/status/
Trak.io - Beautiful Analytics for Startups who Love Data
CNN split screen interview in the same parking lot
One minor suggestion that I think is super important. Smile in your headshot photo man. No teeth = no confidence, which means people are less likely to put their trust in you. Great site. Good job.
Eve was a black whole for me. Played casually for a week, then learned how to make money via trading, then I found out there is a Python API for grabbing data out of the game client, as well as some other JavaScript-APIs using the in-game Browser.

Next thing you know I was crawling all popular market hubs in Eve, storing price history of each item in mysql, and programmatic analyzing the data to find the best trade routes for profit.

Then I realized I need much more data, and prepared a small data-grabber client for other people to run, as well some cloud storage to upload it to.

I looked at the calendar and noticed 2 weeks have past and I didn't do much else, so I came to the conclusion this might not be the most productive thing to do and quit Eve :) Problem is, I can't play these games the "normal" way, when I see it got APIs etc. I just have to go all out on it - or just not play at all.
I use the Stanford PwdHash extension, anyone else?

I think it's a solid scheme for using unique passwords on every site, based on just having to remember at minimum one input password.

http://pwdhash.com
Perhaps also of interest, here's a page that lets you draw an arbitrary curve and attempts to find a choreography close to it: http://gminton.org/#choreo.
Wish they'd just use the pressureNET data, since it's publicly available.
Would be useful for the rest of the world.
Because it absolutely is a related issue these days. New York and California are, as a result of very recent legislation, actively seeking out and disarming those labeled "mentally ill". The USA's federal leadership is pressing hard to do the same. Genuine at-risk cases aside, we're facing a situation where sensible liberty-defending anti-authoritarian citizens may very well be involuntarily labeled as ODD and disarmed & silenced, much as many communist countries have done at length to great effect.
No. The reason there is politics in the Indian IT industry is because there is politics in every human endeavor involving more than two people.
CONGRATULATIONS!
It would take about 2.956558857989926e+39 years to crack your password.

Bueno.
Bad examples:

* Champagne is a sparkling wine made with a specific method from a specific kind of grapes grown on a specific soil in a specific climate. You can reproduce the method elsewhere and use the same grapes, but you can't reproduce the soil or the climate. Hence, the end-result is different. It's a sparkling wine and there are a lot of sparkling wines that are equal or better than a mediocre champagne, but they're still champagne.

* Bordeaux is nothing more than a regional specifier. It encompasses the climate and the soil found there. It neither indicates quality nor taste - though many people associate it with both due to some of the best wines being produced there. What would any consumer win if all of a sudden wine produced in Berlin could be labeled "Bordeaux" - the one person winning here would be the seller. Is that fair?

* Cheese is even harder. Roquefort derives much of its taste and character from the microclimate found in the caves around the town of Roquefort. Something similar is true for Parmesan: Each cheese labeled as parmesan must be made by a specific recipe and is checked by a local authority. So I guess you could make the same product and ship it to Parma and have it certified - but would that be worth it?

Neither of the words is a descriptive word such as "Diamond" or "Sugar". The descriptive words in your cases are "Sparkling Wine", "Red Wine", "Whisky", "Hard Cheese". It's a brand name, like iPhone is Apples particular type of smartphone and Nexus Googles type.

All in all: What would the consumers gain if all of a sudden all blue cheese was roquefort and all hard cheese parmesan, all red wine Bordeaux, all whisky Bourbon and all sparkling wine Champagne? Pretty much nothing.

(*) Sidenote: Wiener Schnitzel must be veal in germany. If it's made from pork it's "Schnitzel Wiener Art". Now, that's stupid.
The incidence of suicide (and related-party homicide) in households with guns is significantly higher. Unless we believe that there's a correlation between gun ownership and suicidal tendencies, the answer seems to be, mostly no.

Having a highly-effective killing device in the home turns attempts into suicides - and a gun is an order of magnitude more effective than other common methods.

http://archive.sph.harvard.edu/press-releases/2007-releases/...

Americans would go bonkers if someone started selling a do-it-yourself euthanasia machine. But we're ok with lots of handgun sales, despite that being one of their most common uses - more common than self-defense.
Your Wikipedia link shows that the US murder rate is 4.8, the rates for Western, Southern and Northern Europe are 1.0, 1.4 and 1.5 respectively. Eastern Europe has a higher rate of 6.4. If you are looking at economic similarity Western, Northern and some of Southern Europe are comparable to the US. So the murder rates are very different.
Sure, sure. But would be ever prescribe prescription drugs for this? Everything you're describing is characterized as a personality trait, whereas the OP (who I hardly fully agree with) is claiming that anti-authoritarian sentiments are labeled a disease. Obviously, this makes a big difference in how these phenomena are treated.
Or, you mean things like all those websites that send you new passwords in plaintext because their security isn't what it should be?
And you have conclusively proven that the government is not always good.

This might surprise you, but I agree completely. I do feel that it's better on the average (at least for the U.S.) than the counterexamples you might see elsewhere of where government is ineffective or nonexistant.
Not really. You'd need a second credential, i.e. a username or email address. Not that many people would be dumb enough to enter their username and password to "check" how secure they are, would they?

I think we trust it primarily because it's client side code and on Intel's site.
Microsoft Code Digger
> As the temperature in Chicago rises, so does the crime rate

While almost all the violent crimes rise with temperature, almost as interesting are the exceptions which are flat with respect to temperature, e.g. Narcotics, Kidnapping, Intimidation and Prostitution.

Eric, the Domestic Violence data clearly has an error.
Interviews are the sole reason I started to do consulting. Guess what? Three times the money, more flexibility, and less headaches.
Ha, fair enough.
This is beautiful work guys!
The Colors of Dribbble
I bought a copy. It looks nice, but I had to add it to the pile of Stripe "add-ons", app or otherwise, that don't do the ONE thing that I'm constantly trying to figure out manually (and I imagine other SaaS owners would, too):

Based on CURRENT subscriptions, how much money can I expect to collect over the next X days? Stripe tells me about transfers that are scheduled, but I can't look past money that's already been collected without manually pulling down a bunch of subscription data and trying to figure out how much we're going to be paid on each day in the future.

I'd be happy for this to be a command line script - I just haven't managed to figure out the best way to do it!