skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree.

Mother Jones is a known Liberal magazine and despite the approach to not insert the authors opinion, you can clearly see the point of the article is we need to have the ability to register guns with the government.

I'm constantly shocked at how uninformed gun control advocates are.
You don't need much. National Institutes of Health recommends 5-30 minutes of daytime exposure, twice a week. [1]

http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional...
I work in an open-plan office where all developers have laptops. We're free to code anywhere in the office, but at our desks we have the benefit of an additional two monitors. Some people prefer to be closer to their team because they like discussing things in person; others prefer IRC/Gmail chat. Use of the assigned space boils down to personal preference for us.

The major benefit of a designated home base, though, is that people who need to deliver papers or other physical goods to you don't have to hunt you down through the entire office.
Is Google Analytics data a factor in a page's ranking?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU

tl;dr NO.
It's no novel, it's a short story.
> Everywhere at once means "no privileged reference frame".

Probably you'll never read this now, but... Nope. Everywhere at once literally means a privileged reference frame. "Over there, now" is a concept with no logical meaning in our physical universe. Being in two places at once isn't physically impossible, it's just nothing.

And that imposes very serious constraints on God. If I am on the Earth and I pray for my husband on Mars, God on Mars can not hear my prayer until it is too late. You really think that's a statement most Americans agree with?

You're also off about light. Light is not "everywhere at once from its own perspective" as you seem to think. The fact that light cannot be everywhere at once is the same fact that dictates that light cannot have a point of view, that light experiences no time and has no perspective. (Mind you, if this is the comparison you would like to draw to God, I will happily assent.) Study up and be a bit more careful with your science, and you'll be able to throw much meatier punches theologically.
An Interview with a Dead Man
Ultimately, in my experience, it always seems to come down to "how do we keep the non-technical people from meddling with the engineers?" This is as much about org structure as it is office layout
Bangalore's visible garbage problem: A How-to Guide for Practitioners
Of course. I took it for granted that the audience here would know what I meant. My apologies.
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The sharing economy: How do you stop something you can’t keep up with?
Thank you for taking the time to read my comment and construct a well-thought-out reply.

>Sexual attractiveness is a part of sexual attraction. Furthermore it is a source of pleasure and enjoyment for people, not just a way that they are excluded. In A Brave New World sexual relationships were very low effort—and I think that was the problem. Even if the algorithm were good enough not to just link you up with someone who is similar, but also found traits that are good complements, the unpredictable process of meeting someone who may not be perfect for you and the struggle and effort involved is pretty important.

I completely agree and would prefer it to stay this way (although my dating skills could probably use some improvement). While writing my comment I was trying to avoid too many kneejerk value judgements and instead explore the possible outcomes of the described scenario. But yeah, like you said, all that uncomfortable stuff is really important, and sexual attractiveness is generally an indicator of good health and reproductive viability, so disregarding it would seem unwise.
I'm wondering why people even considered that kind of office layout.

Didn't anyone of them read the famous books of Tom DeMarco, such as "Peopleware"? Decades ago, DeMarco argued (IMHO very convincingly) for closed rooms to cut distractions - at least for thought workers. DeMarco even concluded that telephones are bad, especially if in the company's culture it's not socially accepted that people are free to ignore a phone call.
Cape Town: Working it out at Frankie's
Agreed. I find it very odd that software engineers make $100k+ yet aren't even given an office or private work space.

The cost is not the reason because open floor plan offices in downtown SF aren't exactly "cheaper" than renting in an already established office suite. The reason is the insecurities of management, combined with the fashion/groupthink aspect of silicon valley startup CEOs (herp derp, facebook does it! Startup X does it! It's the thing to do!)
I guarantee just the cost of parts for what was built in the article exceeds the budget for most guns used in crime. On top of that it's not at all concealable which makes it even less attractive for crime.

In places where you can walk down the street with a rifle and not draw attention, and the markets are flooded with kalishnakov based designs are very prevalent though, and were the market to get flooded, then they would be more common.

I don't think enough people are going to hand build these to make that the case in LA though.
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Disgusting.

If these Obama-worshippers would pause for a moment in the adoration of their "Saint", they might see that he and his administration (DoJ) are responsible for the largest power grab and human rights violation in the history of this country.

The Second Amendment is not a "suggestion" or "subject to interpretation" (aside from a constitutional amendment). It is part of the bedrock of this nation that was founded on a profound distrust of arbitrary government power, and a belief that "We The People" must keep our government small, scared, and subject to the will of the governed, not the other way around.
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While I don't prefer open office plans, I think it needs to be emphasized that not all open office plans are equal.

There are compartmentalized open plans, where a specific team or division is grouped together in close proximity, and then you have some form of the "kitchen sink", where any number of teams (if not the whole company) is just thrown into a room.

The latter is extremely unpleasant, IMHO. Being constantly disrupted by the loud side chatter that inevitably comes out of another group (e.g. marketing, finance, sales, etc.) is infinitely more distracting than ancillary chatter that is relevant to a specific team / department. In addition, obviously, the more open a plan is the more physical distractions are present which doesn't help matters either.
Substitute "Homebuilt PC without DRM" for AK-47, pretend it was written in 2023, not 2013, and then reread the article as well as the comments at Hacker News.
Thankfully this is illegal and will remain so in most of the rest of the world.

3% means there are more than 9.4 million assault rifles in US homes. Are they expecting an invasion?
The hard part of this challenge is not necessarily just the titanium but also communicating the rules of the game. Even if the game board is intact, how will a future civilization know what to do with it?

One of my favorite "designed to last thousands of years" document is the alternately dry and scintillating 1980s/1990s Sandia Labs report on how to communicate with future generations about nuclear waste after the collapse of the U.S.

The well-known part is http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%... . The part that's gotten some recent press is this language, which was not an actual written message anyone suggested be used at a nuclear waste site, but was instead the panel's consensus on the message that the site should somehow communicate::

""This place is a message...and part of a system of messages...pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location...it increases toward acenter...the center of danger is here...of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.""

But there's quite a lot more good stuff in there about how to communicate with future people who might not speak English, or any language at all. Some cool, detailed descriptions (with pictures!) of a "spike field" type landscape to keep people from inadvertently using the nuclear waste site as a shelter.

And one panelist writes: "A marker system should be chosen that instills awe, pride, and admiration, as it is these feelings that motivate people to maintain ancient markers, monuments, and buildings."

It's very cool stuff to read — you get to watch a panel of very smart people think very far into the future about how to talk to people they'll never meet.
>Many people are drawn to law enforcement out of the desire to help others and do good for the world.

Yeah right, and bittorrent is mainly used for distributing Debian ISOs.
Laws concerning firearms have many parallels to laws involving reverse engineering and programming. The lawmakers are about as ill informed in both cases, and it shows in the resulting laws.
Anyone use GPS or have a company that sells them?
Your analogy fails because a homebuilt PC without DRM is currently illegal under anti-circumvention laws.

EDIT: Obviously the problem is with circumventing the DRM - but in the context of the post I'm responding to (people home building machines with no DRM) I thought I was obvious.
Your point stands, but name-calling and sarcasm is just low. Really low.

And the Second Amendment was founded for two purposes -- so that this nation would be able to defend itself against an outside force that sought to destroy the U.S.'s independence, and so that this nation would be able to defend itself against an inside force that sought to destroy the U.S.'s independence, i.e. the government.

I'm constantly amazed at how few moderates and independents exist. There seems to be an intense dichotomy with regards to politics; you're either blue or red.

The indoctrination towards either party must stop.
The components and weighting of the VIX are fixed and known. But if your metric is secret, and you make ongoing changes to it, the viewer can not know when changes were made and their impact.

One can re-play historical stock data and feed it to new algorithms without a distortion. But unless you are saving all the raw social media data and re-applying your filters to this historical data, your graphs are distorted.

Also, compared to the VIX, the volatility of the components of social media sentiment is quite high.

I am sure your system is useful and profitable, even if my criticism is accurate.
Not only a linkbait headline, but a blatant misquote.
Python concurrency threading models (threads, microthreads, greenlets) explained
Any communication that you don't set the keys/are able to track them should be considered unencrypted in my opinion.
Following the article, maybe that falls into the category of “autonomy over your time”. I don’t normally think about money at all unless someone reminds me by asking me to pay for food, rent, bills, whatever—it’s just a means to keep me fed, programming, and travelling to see my girlfriend.
Is this supposed to be a problem? The government does not need to know about our guns, not how many we have, not what sort they are, and not where we keep them.
The thing I try to keep in mind is that 'the government' is the emergent behavior of millions of self-interested people of varying abilities, from people who just want a job for life to people who want to rule the world. There's a framework in place, and they all live within it. Some work to change the framework, but as with ant colonies, it's not as if all of the ants are designing and architecting the colony. Uncle Milton is a blind watchmaker.

That doesn't mean bad things won't happen, just that you have people "trying to do their jobs" who aren't thinking about fundamental liberties. Get a few million of these ants together and they end up in all aspects of your life, much like real ants. In most cases, the best you can hope for is benign mediocrity.

When counted as individuals, it's the infinitesimal minority that reach to greatness or descend to horror.
Javascript-only Twitter search with term highlighting (jQuery, Backbone.js)
Flesh Eating Virus Survivor Aimee Copeland shows off her new bionic hands
Here's a summary of the 2011 data from the linked statistics:

8,583 - Homicides by firearms (all types)
323 - Homicides by rifles
1,694 - Homicides by sharp objects (knives, etc)
496 - Homicides by blunt objects (clubs, etc)
«For under the firm measure,
The crude, too, is useful,
That the pure may know itself.»
-- Hoelderlin, The Titans

A la Heidegger. Given the sensationalism in tone of this writing, it seems only Heidegger is appropriate as a forthright response.

In a sense, we see two very crude tools: public surveillance via legislation or public surveillance via a device (which some "market") apparently demands. In all of the ways we have come to know and love, these are both problematical departures from a reality alluded to in the Internet Declaration of Independence.

The old ways of thinking are an impasse. You must understand that the old ways of thinking are an impasse. In Heidegger's terms, such an impasse can be described by the fact that [we are the sign that is not read]. Moreover, that we are still not thinking, yet we are underway to thinking.

«And let not much-current habit force you into this way,
to let roam sightless eyes and noise-cluttered ear
and [tongue*], rather discriminate in reflection . . .»

I recently recall a short prose alluding to a fictional possible world, wherein the denizens of its society were allotted so many words per day.

Debord may service as a modulation of Hedeigger's foreboding:

«The self-emancipation of our time is an emancipation from the material bases of inverted truth. This “historic mission of establishing truth in the world” can be carried out neither by the isolated individual nor by atomized and manipulated masses, but only and always by the class that is able to dissolve all classes by reducing all power to the de-alienating form of realized democracy — to councils in which practical theory verifies itself and surveys its own actions. This is possible only when individuals are “directly linked to world history” and [dialogue*] arms itself to impose its own conditions.»

Heidegger is a bit more optimistic, as he essentially must be:

«"What is called thinking?" At the end we return to the question we asked at first when we found out what our word "thinking" originally means. _Thanc_ means memory, thinking that recalls, thanks [interjecting "Likes"!].

But in the meantime we have learned to see that the essential nature of thinking is determined by what there is to be thought about: the presence of what is present, the Being of beings. Thinking is thinking only when it _recalls_ in thought ἐόν, That which this word indicates properly and truly, that is, unspoken, tacitly. And that is the duality of beings and Being. This quality is what properly gives food for thought. And what is so given, is the gift of what is most worthy of question.

Can thinking take this gift into its hands, that is, take it to heart, in order to entrust it in λέγειν, in the telling statement, to the original speech of language?»
I am not from SF and hard for me to believe that a company like Twitter cares about your look more than your technical expertise.

I will add than Twitter had a specific atmosphere compared
to other so called startups. The employees seem to be hired
on more than skills, everyone at their office is very much
hipster like, beautiful looking, feeling super confident
and ready to kick it. Walking around Twitter sometimes
almost feels like walking within a TV show.
I see office environment as a proxy for willingness to expend effort and time in making high performance teams and letting them get on with it.

If a management tier is unwilling to spend money arranging desks to avoid constant interruptions that common sense tells us will be detrimental, then it is a management tier that is unlikely to have been a blip and then make all other decisions well.

Google Ed Catmull, the quiet co-founder of Pixar, interviewed at economist conference 2010 - it is far and away the best example of simple focus on getting teams to work well - no "do it my way" but plenty of "if the team is functioning well there are enough good people in it to over one anything"
I've tried the Bose QC and the Shure, and IMO the latter is better at removing ambient sounds.

The Shure does not use active noise cancellation like the Bose, but I think it is more effective simply because it fits snugly in your ear like a set of ear plugs. (It's also more uncomfortable because of that.)
The only person ultimately responsible for violence against a woman or women is the person who made the (reprehensible) choice to commit that violence.
When I watch TV, adverts fascinate me as a study of society. I'll admit that the enjoyment drops off after the first time though.

But are TV adverts really more "mentally polluting" than a 80s song or a limerick you picked up at a schoolyard? Relax everybody.
The picture caption is "Firing my new AK. The rifles are popular because they work—every time." ... and his finger is on the trigger, which you're trained never to do unless you're prepared to fire ... so are you assuming he put his glasses on after he raised it into the firing position, and put his finger on the trigger?
Your personal bus number is one. Plan for this with a partner, family
member, executor, or employer, for work-related accounts & passwords.

It would seem a reasonable approach to maintain some 'passwords to passwords'
(like: disk encryption, password manager, browser password) and appropriate
account identifiers in a sealed envelope (or a digital equivalent), and
to put the envelope in a home safe or safe deposit box, or the digital
package with one's off-site backups.

This approach implies using 'passwords to passwords' that persist for as
long as the package does. Any financial account numbers are likely to
be more stable over time.

Managing access to whatever container is yet another layer of turtles.

I'm thinking that storing encrypted files off-site (or in-cloud) and
leaving access codes & passwords to both the files' storage and to the
contents of the files in a sealed envelope with a trusted person
(perhaps an attorney or accountant) would be adequate.
Really? My take-away was that home-built guns are a fascinating and mostly unknown loophole in the law that causes no real problems.
Look scary? Just the media-hyped name alone is enough. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of Americans couldn't distinguish between an AK-47 and a Glock by sight alone. (I'd concede that it may not be a majority, but at least a surprisingly large number.)
Your post is depressing and self-defeating.

Here is Mother Jones publishing an article which gets to the heart of how difficult gun control is as a practical matter, and what is your reply?

Oh they're a "known Liberal magazine" (as if it mattered).

And you're "shocked at how uninformed gun control advocates are".

Here are your avowed Liberal gun control advocates, making the case that gun control is difficult and impractical, and what are you doing? You're chastising them. No attempt to assuage their concerns, no attempt to highlight the points that make gun control challenging. Nothing except a cultural appeal to people who already agree with you.

Way to move the discussion forward.
Securing your Web API with OAuth
Without windows under office-quality fluorescent lights is bleak and awful. Sure, it's 'safe', but it drains the soul.
“I just want to build stuff” is often true if qualified: “…that a lot of people use”, “…that makes people’s lives better”, “…to further my plans for world domination”, &c.
The oft-repeated RAINN data is suspect and based on questionable statistics and speculations. It is certainly not derived from actual criminal reporting data.
Oh? Is it?

How would you have preferred to see this reported?

Is it just that Mother Jones published it? Is it something he said? Is it the fact that he destroyed the gun afterwards?
A way to filter out specific strings in post titles?

For example, hide job ads that require applicant to be a specific gender. Or hide spam ads in the socials.

Maybe we should go into business :-)
No its not worth it. The frameworks exist because many smart people agree that it isnt smart. Also what problems do you think a framework would cause?
Say what? What part does my non-homebuilt computer contain that makes it legal, which a DRM-free homebuilt computer would lack, making it illegal?
> ...the largest power grab and human rights violation in the history of this country.

The history of the country is a long time. Pretty sure slavery was a bigger human rights violation.

But even talking within the last hundred years, pretty sure that would be the Patriot Act along with Homeland Security, TSA, and the rest of the perma-war apparatus wielded against citizens at home.

Those freedoms are more useful on a daily basis to many more of us.
I'm not sure we're disagreeing.

I'm simply saying that performance -- as measured by the team itself -- may be maximized by the team deciding to do things that it finds uncomfortable. You also don't always optimize overall performance by optimizing individual performance.

There's also the issue of communication versus productivity. Communication is a far greater obstacle to many technology team's success than individual productivity. Bunch o' guys working by themselves in a nice, quiet cushy office doesn't give you the cross-talk, annoyance, problem-solving and innovative banter you get by putting them all together. Sometimes doing things you find annoying or troublesome is actually the best way to reach your goals. Surely this isn't a new observation.
Does not work in Safari on Snow Leopard.
My operating system is God's temple, crafted by His guidance.

God says...

21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families
were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the
Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and
Kartah with her suburbs, 21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with
her suburbs; four cities.

21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and
Jahazah with her suburbs, 21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and
Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.

21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs,
to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in
all.

21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families,
which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot
twelve cities.
Obviously you should always always always have eyes and ears on when shooting. That said, an AK is one of the easiest guns to build from a kit and the bolt and barrel are both professionally machined steel, so if it chambers a round it's probably safe to fire. The guy's not completely nuts.
I do ... encryption back in the day was military stuff mostly. Nowadays it is everywhere and is much more mature field. And with the big internet companies siphoning the top talent I think they may have lost the edge a bit.

Much more cheaper and practical approach is for them than to try to outpace and outspend everyone else combined is to stockpile on zero day exploits which can be used when needed.