skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd actually be surprised at how "normal" your workflow is. I'm one of the Picturelife founders and found that actually a ton of people start with Aperture or Lightroom, review it, rate/filter/adjust etc, and then let it automatically push to Picturelife (or wherever they backup). We don't have Lightroom integration yet (just Aperture for now https://picturelife.com/learn/aperture ) so I'm not trying to sell you on anything, but your workflow is actually remarkably normal.
"These statistics represent the number of firearm background checks initiated through the NICS. They do not represent the number of firearms sold. Based on varying state laws and purchase scenarios, a one-to-one correlation
cannot be made between a firearm background check and a firearm sale."

I imagine the total's quite a bit lower than the stated figure since many of these background checks would be for transfers and sales of used weapons, not always just new guns entering the system. I also imagine some people go through the background check but then for one reason or another don't complete the sale. Still, the number of new guns in circulation is likely very large.
thanks, DiggDigg issue catching us out :S
You can run those through your console on the host machine like normal, with the added SSH piece. Or you could set your editor/IDE up to do that after changes (if required).
Well, right now, the government has the biggest club, and we gave it to him, or at least let him build it. Not sure if the alternatives are any better...
The phone company is the best example because with a couple of alligator clips they could easy listen in on phone conversations. It's understood that listening in is a rare occurrence but we are ok with it happening.

Same goes for FB, Google and other providers. They have the ability to read your mail and occasionally do just like the phone company.

Bonus example: voice mail. It's just like email since its a message sitting on the service providers computer. Can the Feds just listen to those messages?
The article seems to disagree with you:

>The number of firearms available for sale to or possessed by U.S. civilians (about 310 million in 2009, according to the Congressional Research Service) has grown in recent years, and the 2009 per capita rate of one person per gun had roughly doubled since 1968. It is not clear, though, how many U.S. households own guns or whether that share has changed over time.
I don't know if politicians are in on this, bit of a conspiracy that I don't want to get into. However, crime and murder sell. My mother loves to watch the 10 O'Clock news every night but luckily she reads the paper and surfs the web, otherwise I think she might lose her mind. Those nightly news programs are awful. If I only watched local or even cable news and used them as my source for staying in touch with the world I'd think we were living in a complete hell hole. I live in a major city with several local news channels and they are all the same. Just murder and crime and usually some human interest piece at the very end of the broadcast. They report the worst of the worst.
I fail to see how review and discussion of statistical information equates to politics. Facts are not political.
The New York Times discusses the different sides to this project today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/energy-environmen...
The focus on "gun violence" or "gun homicides" instead of just violence or homicides strikes me as very strange.
Interesting theory... but to really evaluate it you'd have to consider all environmental changes that could impact mental behavior. The usage rates of various legal and illicit drugs shift over time, as does the content of our food supply. It'd be a tough analysis, but I'd bet it would produce some interesting results.
I played enough to get a lv. 60 Monk and lv. 60 Demon Hunter. The problem with Diablo III, compared to Diablo II from 10 years ago, is that nowadays there are so many options for online games without monthly fees that there's little incentive to stick to just one.

Then I started Guild Wars 2 a few months later, and played that to death. :)
UbuntuOne already solves those problems.

You can sync only the folders you want.

This is the list of clients:

Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
Mac OSX 10.6 and higher
Ubuntu
Android 2.1 and higher
iPhone & iPad iOS 3.1 and higher
At the very bottom, he says he doesn't know, but don't expect it to replace a light bulb. More like glow-in-the-dark paint. But it is v1.
Aren't you also around long enough to try to do something about it? That seems important to me.
A big part of the perception problem is that gangs have spread out or have left the larger urban environments in favor of smaller cities and suburbs with no resources.

So people see gang activity in places like Albany, NY or Springfield, MA or some suburb in Tennessee and hear about 15 year old gang members carrying handguns. They associate that real social problem with the tools that they are carrying.

That combined with pandering politicians and advocacy group funded PR efforts that land gun related incidents on the TV everyday leads to the present situation.
Yet, cities like Chicago and Flint are setting new records for homicide rates, and the % of those committed by guns is at an all-time high.
Doesn't the plant still need to produce energy to emit light? Won't that energy have to come from somewhere? Soil nutrients and water require energy to generate and transport.
Doing this again soon?
Yet another indicator of how powerful modern CPUs and modern javascript has become. Yet when I see projects like this, I think about how everyone's video cards & chips already have hardware video decoding. Why are we not given access to those APIs? This seems fundamental, yet never a peep about them. I want access to my own friggen hardware. And it's about time video decoding got standardized, isn't it? Why, other than media publishers being afraid of it, do we not have access to these APIs?
Don't let the initial Eve gameplay get to you. Join an active faction and go on some roams. Pvp is where the game shines.
I don't think they're going after the photographer market. It's more for regular people who take photos with their iPhone, etc. A ton of people don't shoot RAW.
That's interesting, because someone else pointed out a large increase in the total number of guns. Can you provide a link for that figure?
It's basically a very pretty slot machine. I played quite a bit of D2 and D3. The thrill comes from grinding for hours (and hours and hours) and finding that one item that earns you hundreds of dollars. (Yes real dollars) You can thank the the Real-Money Auction House for both destroying the game and being the one thing that keeps so many people coming back for more.
I switched over to picturelife.com for photo storage a few months ago, and it's the first photo management service I've been happy with in years.

It'll store your photos in your own S3 bucket if you want, and it'll automatically pull in photos from iPhoto and any other photos on your computer, as well as most popular services you might have photos on, like Flickr, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Also has nice iPhone and iPhoto apps, that will auto-upload photos from the device, and allow your browse and manage your library without requiring you to sync your entire library to your device [I believe].
Why, because you say it isn't? How many different credit cards can you sign up for right now?
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How do you call the phenomenon that leads statisticians to rename themselves "data scientists"? I propose the Freud-inspired "science envy".
Which stats are you looking at? The 2012 UCR isn't out yet, and the 2011 stats show 323 by rifles, 457 by "blunt objects" which includes but is not limited to hammers. There haven't been 750 people killed in homicides by blunt objects in 2007 through 2011.

However, "firearms, type not stated" is 1587.

Source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...
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This has been on HN before. EDIT: Here it is. Turn on showdead to see unfortunate over-enthusiastic support. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5596212)

It's cool to fund scientific noodling. I'm not sure this project really describes the current state of glowing plants, or the amount of work needed, adaquately. I guess that's a problem for people wanting bright glowing plants.

I'm also not sure if there's anything to know about the problems of glowing plants might face. Plants use light for a bunch of regulation; things that live in plants and trees use light for a bunch of their regulation. Having glowing plants risks screwing that up.

The project owners have a problem with communicating what they've actually done to a scientifically ignorant, fearful-of-anything-mentioning-DNA, public.

But yeah, glowing trees is probably cool
Health points isn't a state, it's a piece of data that exists at a given time. If you have time, go on YouTube and watch some talks Rich Hickey gives about state, he breaks it down far more eloquently than I can.
Of course it is. All violent crime is down.

That has nothing to do with the fact that kids are still accidentally getting shot.

I propose a new law; if a child (under 18) is found in possession of a gun the gun owner is fined $50,000. If the gun's ownership cannot be established, the parents or legal guardians are fined $50,000 instead.

People might be a little more serious about locking up their guns and not letting their kids play with them.

Dumb parents never seemed to be scared of their kids accidentally shooting each other but and one of them dies, maybe they'd be scared of them accidentally shooting each other and owing $50,000.
Deaths by handguns in US 2011: 6,220 [1]

Most people aren't really bothered by rifles (which are mostly used for hunting), but handguns (which really have no purpose except killing humans)

[1] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...
Those games (Frontier Elite and First Encounters included) had loaaads of bugs like that.

Another one in FE had you put in passenger holds, fill them with passengers, then sell the holds -- this would obviously not work as you had to evict the passengers first, however the game logic credited you with the cash anyway because the check came after the money had changed hands.
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I almost hope this goes to court. I suspect Boston has plenty of people who would be happy to testify; dude's been infamous around her for forever. You'd think an entrepreneurship consultant would understand how the internet worked by now.
If you're per chance running on Linux/Intel/IvyBridge, it can be even faster than on Windows:

Details:

Windows 7 (latest Intel GPU drivers), Firefox 23 nightly

Ubuntu 13.04 with custom Mesa git (Mesa 9.1 also works, but a bit slower), Firefox 23 nightly

I had to set layers.acceleration.force-enabled variable to true in Firefox (in about:config) because it is blacklisted for some reason on Linux/Intel (probably some previously resolved bug).

The browser Window was maximized in 1920x1080, and game view was not full-screened.

Cpu is i5-3320M on Thinkpad X230

Windows: 40.5 FPS
Linux: 43.6 FPS
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>And websites are also not just text and links anymore

Twitter is. Twitter is an absolute clusterfuck technology wise, they are the prime example of doing everything wrong. Defending their idiocy does not reflect highly on you.
Generally it'll mean there are no set number of days, and they don't roll over. In practice, you are a responsible adult. Everyone needs time off. If you tell them you want time off, and it's not during a crucial timeframe, and there is coverage, it'll be ok. But yes... people will not like you taking months off at a time.

It does work in the companies benefit, because people will tend to take less time, or shorter durations. If you are told you have 17 days, most people will try to take all 17. And possibly towards the end of the year when it tends to be busy.
This already exists in most consultancies - its called "maintenance".

Pay me 500 bucks a month and I will keep one day aside just for you / scramble to find a day on the month you do actually call in the marker.

michaelochurch's approach is interesting - and reminiscent of a TED talk about auctioning piecemeal factory worker time
which I cannot find right now, but both of these suffer one big, possibly insurmountable drawback - they are chicken and egg - when 30% of the workforce finds work this way, hooray! Everyone will trust it. Till then ... no-one
is it outperforming lua jit in all or many benchmarks?

It's been a while since I rolled up my sleeves and ran various algorithms in js vs lua vs py (pypy was speedy as well last I checked).

asm.js isn't dynamically typed afaik, so I think of a fair comparison as v8 vs luajit
I'd argue this is up to the folks commenting rather than the OP, which is a link to some polling that produced a bunch of data points. It can be strictly analytical without blowing up into petty arguments.

Not that it will.
You really can't see that? Do you think there's the odd chance the ensuing discussion might - just might - deviate from the discussion of some numbers?

My inclination is that we will see yet another reenactment of a famous internet flame war.
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That's mostly likely a factor but 100% of the story. The decrease of lead in soil is another. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
If productivity is key, get a ThinkPad, install Linux on it (they're very Linux-friendly), and learn to use the TrackPoint exclusively. Watching people use MacBooks, even with all those fancy multitouch gestures, is like watching a slow-motion movie. And they are always amazed how quickly I can do stuff on my ThinkPad.
I loved Diablo 2 and probably spent a good portion of my high school hours playing it. I was very excited for Diablo 3 and tried to get into it but just couldn't.

I felt that they just took a ton of ideas from WoW and implanted them into Diablo. Sure it may have made them more money but it made it a lot less fun.
My limited understanding of photography is that even the professionals take many, many photos to get one good one.
You're typically introducing a positive, not a negative. Most people enjoy a quick chat and find being asked out flattering even if they're not interested.
Also keep in mind that one background check may represent the sale of several firearms.

One additional data point - nearly 9 million guns were manufactured or imported into the US in 2010 alone: http://www.businessinsider.com/more-gun-stores-in-america-th...
This is a solved problem.

max-width: 600px;

This stops your text from being excessively wide, but also doesn't prevent smaller screens from making it more narrow.
> In many households a firearm has one single purpose, which is to kill or maim (given that hunting is rare).

Kill or maim criminal intruders (given that murderers are rare). I'm not sure where in Canada you are, but hunting is far from rare in Canada and most areas of the US.
I am totally with you on this although meta-discussions are usually not allowed.

I hope pg and moderators find that there is more value in building a community that talks more about technology and startups than the growing group of single minded group of prolific downvote button clickers who make others want to stop participating.
You're very wrong in that assumption. Don't get me wrong, I wasted 9 months of my life becoming completely absorbed by the game but it's so immersive that no other game can compare.

It's about hoarding, alliances, corporations, mining ops, PVP ops, big alliance battles, 0-sec space mining/pvp ops (this is the best part of the game).
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I only have a layman's understanding of bioluminescence, but I was under the impression that it:

1) Made the plants extremely frail and prone to die at the drop of a hat

2) Generated extremely faint light levels, to the point where someone specialized equipment is needed to see it.

3) Was usually generated by a short-burst chemical reaction in the organism that was triggered somehow (eg. shake, tap, etc.) and had a rather short chemical reaction life, after which it faded.

4) The organism required significant time and nutrients to regenerate the chemical 'glow cell'.

So, mark me as a skeptic this will produce anything particularly useful, but I like the idea.

I'd be rather interested to see any links to science papers on things that make any of (1)-(4) no longer an issue.
Let me fix that for you. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/click-print-gun-the-inside-...
>The move to "web-page-apps" is not about eye candy, it's about speed, responsiveness and yes, usability

No, it is about following fads, just as web development has always done. Creating sites that are slower, less responsive, and offer terrible usability is clearly not done for reasons of speed, responsiveness and usability. Enhancing a page with javascript can increase responsiveness and usability. Replacing the page with javascript is moronic.
It depends on the company. Technically it does mean you can "reasonably" take off as much time as you want. Realistically, it depends on how much vacation everyone else takes. If you see that most people are taking off 10 days, you'll probably get 10-15 days. The main benefit for your employer is that if you had something like 20 days off and only took 15, they don't have to roll over the extra 5 days or explicitly pay you for them.

I would try to get in touch with a couple current employees and ask them roughly how much time they take off each year - there's really no other way to know.
The Camera Roll stores only the pictures you've taken since your last sync to iPhoto. The intended (pre-Photo Stream) workflow seems to be:

1. Take picture with the phone -> iPhone's "Camera Roll".
2. Sync phone with iPhoto and delete pics from phone -> iPhoto's "Last Import".
3. Organize pics in iPhoto -> iPhoto's "Albums" and "Events".
4. Sync phone with iTunes, including pics -> iPhone's "Events".

Note that iPhoto will automatically group pics into events by date, which along with the "Last 3 Months" and "Last 12 Months" albums giving you at least some ability to find photos chronologically.

I'm not claiming that this is a good workflow, or that it was designed with the user's best interests in mind! Rather, it seems to be one of the many obvious and annoying inconveniences that show how much importance places on locking users into iTunes as their media-management tool.

(The primary example of which is that Apple will sell you a giant hard drive in a WiFi backup appliance, and a WiFi->HDMI box that pipes content from your Mac to your TV... but not a media/backup server with HDMI and a giant hard drive, which is all we really want, right?)
Less people may own guns, but the people who own them own more per person than they used to.

That said, most guns used in homicides aren't used by the/a registered owner.
>The second is that few argue for "rifle control", but instead want "gun control".

Except that's not what was actually happening. Most of what was hotly debated over the last few months has been over an "Assault Weapons Ban", that is a ban on certain semi-automatic rifles, very rarely involved in crime.

It was only after that was defeated that people started talking about universal background checks.

>Those guns that kill 30,000+ Americans per year

60% of those are from suicide. If you look at suicide rate by country--there is no correlation with gun ownership. How is gun control going to help our suicide rate? The best information we have shows it's not going to help because there are too many easily available alternates.
Just a sanity check: "Researchers have studied the decline in firearm crime and violent crime for many years, and though there are theories to explain the decline, there is no consensus among those who study the issue as to why it happened."
The postal service is the only one of those mail carrier which you have listed that actually have legal standing for that privacy expectation though.

Regarding phones, those also have specific laws attempting to protect wireless (cellular) communications from eavesdropping (with the exception of legal wiretaps, which cellular providers are required to be able to support).

Likewise for pagers, those have specific laws making it illegal to intercept the communications sent to pagers.

For normal phones, a specific law had to be passed to require warrants for interception of communication (the "Wiretap Statute" from 1968, later extended by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986).

So the point to all of this is that those privacy "rights" that you talk about are not 4th Amendment rights at all, they are protections granted by specific legal action on the part of Congress. Had that legal action not been taken then you'd be right back in this same "interesting 4th Amendment question" that we're talking about for this.

The bottom line is that if you're willing to give info to a 3rd party unencrypted you need to assume the government can be given access to the same information unless there are specific laws forbidding it.
I've heard Eve online called an animated space themed spreadsheet before. I tried it myself a long time ago, and I felt it was too complicated and boring.
Sorry, but that's not good advice. Read almost any guide to photography and the advice is always take more photos. Sometimes a shot turns out great by pure chance. The less photos you take the lower probability of a good shot.

Take more and keep only the good ones would be a more reasonable strategy.
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So is this to imply that we should stop doing things that benefit the planet and the human species if we believe it will have a negative economic impact? Obviously I'm not arguing KP should be the ones doing this, but your point seems to imply that these actions are only rational if the market supports them and you make a profit.
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Can you link to these stats ?

(not an evidentiary challenge, just morbid curiosity)
They stay in the "Photo Library", not the "Camera Roll", which is meant to hold just the photos you've taken since your last sync to iPhoto.
One of the factors in reducing gun homicide is we have gotten better since 1993 at keeping people alive after they have been shot.

I am interested in the change per capita of gun shot victims as a whole.
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Note that the recent release of VMWare support for Vagrant may at least partially mitigate the problems in your second scenario.
So there are more guns in circulation, but distributed amongst fewer people? This doesn't surprise me.
Any basis for implying North Dakota must be less functional than your locale?
I've often thought that it would be nice to have a script that rebuilt the software installation on a developer's workstation from scratch, completely automatically, using only configuration files and scripts checked into version control somewhere. Such a process could run every night while the developer sleeps. This would ensure that it's dead easy to bring a new developer fully up to speed on a team.
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Here's the paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Legalized_Abortio...

A number of people disagree with that conclusion based on seemingly reasonable scientific arguments.
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