skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gee,I hope there is no bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Research_Institute
If you're interested in zero down time for a go service, then check out goagain [1], inspired by Unicorn. It uses simple fd passing to restart itself, passing the listening socket.

[1]: https://github.com/rcrowley/goagain
Or in a country where anyone can make an AK47 in his garage for less than $100 by pressing a shovel into the shape of an AK receiver.

Pretty soon, we'll be entering an area where printable 3D guns are less likely to blow up in one's face, which raises the production costs a little bit in the short term, but which will likely result in even cheaper firearms manufacture.
Buy Jolla. You get a management team and product.
Total tangent, but man do I love unicode!

Also for future reference, there's a superscript two (² at U+00B2) and three (³ at U+00B3).
The search button says it all - "Get Ideas", not "Get Info". You can't even choose Broad, Phrase, or Exact. This is a shocking tool. I feel that in addition to its philandering with the NSA, Google is abandoning every principle it once stood for.
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Australia has tighter gun control laws, fewer guns, and more violent crime -- but far fewer homicides.

So, leaving aside the disjunction between a society in turmoil with strict but poorly enforced laws, there's the possibility than gun controls increase violent crime while reducing homicides, or the possibility that when lots of people get shot you tend to miss other stuff.
That anecdote does nothing to lessen my dislike of marketers and other similarly worthless people that value form over function.
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Well in the UK law-abiding citizens can't arm themselves so you'll never hear that story. The law in the UK even goes so far as to prohibit citizens from carrying an 'offensive weapon' without a good reason.

So if you happened to be walking down the street with a knife and you were not a chef on the way to work, you could be arrested.
Here's one instance: http://www.azcentral.com/news/free/20121218flagstaff-gun-tot...
I can say that friends residing in Washington, D.C. told me it happens a lot, and cited specific crimes near their residences.

Particularly from Virginia, which is correctly assumed to have a lot of gun owners, and since sometime in the '90s more than a few concealed carry licensees.
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The USA, and by extension the three-letter agencies the implement it's policy has often been viewed as the World's policeman. If that's the case (and here we are about to stick our nose in Syria where it doesn't really belong), then it's time we started acting like real police.

There's a whole bunch of rules for how police are supposed to act, how they determine suspects, how the collect evidence, and so on. It is well past time for the national agencies like the NSA to operate within clear (and public) guidelines similar to that.

Then, if the NSA hires people who are loyal to the rules and the ideals of the work (rather than because of nationality or institutional loyalty), then it can operate effectively, without much fear of leakers like Snowden and Manning.

I have no idea what it would take to reform these big institutions though. And I fear for the damage they (and those who oppose them) will cause before they are replaced by more effective agencies who are based around the old ideals of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way".
Ah yes, "dog eat dog economic liberalism." And then people say Ayn Rand wrote caricatures. Infact, this phrase has been in decline, as it was used to buttress the industrial monopolization of the National Industrial Recovery Act in the New Deal as competition was considered harmful back in the 1930s.
'Diverse society will fail' --Robert Putnam.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/t...
Thanks a lot for the feedback! My goal is to make a tool you would use to quickly prototype 2D games that involve physics (eg: Angry birds).

Hmmm I see, I'll make sure to change the commands' instructions.

Defaults would be cool, but not fixed right? What if you could click somewhere and the x,y gets pasted in the command box?

Joints come from Box2D (a famous physics engine), they should have fixed length but it's not 100% accurate. Ok cool, when I add the other joint types I'll improve the description!
Oh, look. Google changed a service and now they're "abandoning every principle it once stood for".

Which has been said by someone, somewhere, (or some variation) for literally every service change Google has ever done. Stop it. You're adding nothing.

And they are not "philandering" with the NSA. They are subject to NSL's just like everyone else.
> "He was doing far more important things"

Apparently for Jobs this was very important to him (he was very picky about details anyway), and if you sum all of his time wasted on each interaction I can see how they are equivalent, he just changed a few UI things anyway.
Yes; of an entirely different nature than hurricanes, torrential rains etc. Unfortunately the best locations on earth for truly enormous high-efficiency solar are equatorial.
These are pretty cool, thanks for sharing, definitely a nice way to make a link or menu item stand out.
Honestly, I'd say it's fairly likely. DOJ reports and CJIS statistics have pointed out that criminals, by and large, prefer their would-be victims to be unarmed, and will actively seek out targets they believe to be unarmed.

This is likely the reason that the Aurora shooter went 20 miles out of his way, passing both the closest theater to his home, and the largest theater in range, to perform his assault at the one theater in the (otherwise gun-loving) Aurora, Colorado area that specifically banned guns.

This is also a potentially contributing factor as to why a majority of mass murders are committed in areas labeled "gun free zones", like schools, college campuses, Fort Hood, etc.
http://pastebin.com/gzF4XkBL

Fun find from the source code: There's a module named "gandolf.py" which appears to have something to do with version control.
I've never found this argument convincing. I've always thought that the following seems like a likely expansion to your thought experiment:

You live in a city that enforces gun control, and you know that the nearest convenience store holds a lot of cash after 8pm. The nearest city that doesn't enforce gun control is over a 1hr drive away in traffic, and you don't own a car. Do you (a) commit a crime of desperation at a local, familiar place, or (b) find a way to travel 20+ miles to knock over a liquor store?

Chicago would be a good example of this. To get from downtown Chicago to a nearby city without gun control might take an hour in a car, which our supposed criminal might not have access to. It seems to me that "locality of victim" is just as strong a determinant as "safety from retribution."
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What kind of apps or websites were you developing sheraz? I'd like something less complex than Symfony, but Laravel doesn't seem as feature-complete for complex applications. Form definitions seem much more lightweight (I build 9+ page loan application forms, multi-page legal forms with repeating regions, add-remove rows etc), APIs and REST interfaces - the works. I want to change framework, but I get the impression most of the others have a smaller-project sweet spot.

[And yes, I know large stuff can be built with the others, like it can with Drupal. But does the framework make it as/more easy than Symfony, that's the question?]

A free rant :): I hate the Doctrine ORM for it's hideously bad documentation (either missing information or written by core devs for core devs -- I can't contribute to improving it as I don't understand it well enough!) yet I appreciate a 'real' ORM vs an ActiveRecord+QueryBuilder system. Gah.
You might want to reconsider Google's target market. Only a minority of the world use the Latin alphabet.
sadface! enthusiasm shouldn't always be encouraged, but this was a wonderful contribution! how did computer cases not have holes like this in them already?!
I met a few Apple fans in my life, and those who were programmers had a thing for fancy UI - they were not always right, for example the damned switch toggle, but at least they have an opinion and interest. So my small sample size led me to conflate UI and mac users.

So emacs ey, why Mac then? Why not a Linux flavor?
Let's change the thought experiment - you have two people, both in desperate situations and strongly considering committing a crime. One lives in a country where guns are illegal, and the person knows his victim will not have a weapon to defend himself. The other lives in a country where there aren't any gun control laws, so it is highly likely his victim could have a weapon and defend himself. Who is more likely to follow through with their crime?

My point was that gun control laws empower criminals because they know the odds their victims will have a gun to defend themselves are significantly lower.
ActiveInbox is really the best thing to happen to my Gmail account. I love it.
And those people will always exist, helped along by talk-radio fear mongers who continually generate a stream of xenophobic, america-fuck-yeah types who will happily spy on their countrymen in exchange for that ever-elusive "secure job".

I pity the fool who tries to build an effective agency out of those guys though. It will be a giant waste of money, and produce little of value to anyone. That's not to say that people won't try, however...
I'd prefer if it required the 'probable cause' standard, but I agree, this seems like a very reasonable compromise...
Correcting your question to replace "state or country" with "jurisdiction", considering the extreme variance of gun laws within the USA, the answer is it does make a difference.

There is growing evidence that criminals DO, at least to a meaningful degree (hey, they're criminals - most are stupid), choose their targets based on odds of the would-be victim fighting back. Of late and in particular, several mass murders have occurred in "gun-free zones" when more convenient/suitable (to the killer) venues existed but allowed civilian weapon carry.

Parallel answer to your question is that the measured violent crime rates you reference are too broad, aggregating a few small high-violence areas with broad low-violence zones, creating misguided statistics.
I tried to endorse my friend for Defense Against the Dark Arts. Didn't work. Useless I tell you.
It's also an appeal to authority to think because he is an expert at infosec, he's also some sort of expert on presidential review groups :) I agree with tptacek on crypto and as it turns out very little else.
Does Elance let you bring on your own clients (not sourced through Elance) to use the prefunding?
It looks like you're a throwaway, but I'll bite. If you follow the conversation, you see that 'tptacek isn't using appeal to authority to defend an argument. Rather, he was responding to an abrupt dismissal of two people. He also clarified that he doesn't necessarily like or agree with either of them.

There's no appeal to authority here. If the parent had actually made a strong argument, Thomas might have responded with an actual argument as well.
I've looked it up real quick but I can't see the Holodomor being illegal to deny in any other country other than the Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor#Holodo...

Or are you talking about something else?
I don't know why people would take the piss out of those fairly sensible investments, MS has been solid for decades, Apples rise has been unstoppable since the original iPod and ARM has been on the rise for decades too.

But your predictions for winphone are hopelessly optimistic, and MS has already lost the business sector for phones. They had a strong position a few years ago and threw it all away...
Excuse me, this isn't Digg.
I would venture that your numbers are pretty off.

As of the last quarterly results, 55% of Google's income is coming outside of the US[1]. China has more than double the number of internet users than the US[2], and this is increasing rapidly. We also know that Google has a mind to capture the burgeoning Chinese market, so the relevance of this number to them is pretty substantial. India and Japan combined also equals the US's internet user count.

If you look at the top-10 in that list, it accounts for about 1.4 billion internet users. Of those, about 309 million come from English-speaking countries. 462 million if you're including all western European languages (romance languages).

We know that, by sheer economic force, wealthy developed countries occupy the lion's share of Google revenues (the USA represents ~10% of all internet users, but 45% of Google's revenues). In terms of raw users impacted though, that's quite different. Google has no lack of users from non-English countries.

But forget all of this for a second and assume that your numbers are in the ballpark. 60-70% English, moving up to 90% if you include western European "romance" languages (Latin and Germanic languages aren't the same thing, but whatever). Having just finished translating a large app into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, I'll say that "romance" languages aren't any easier to translate. French for example tends to run long, and provides huge headaches in any UI that's even remotely space constrained. German tends to mess up line breaks with long compound words, and there are a puzzling number of common verbs in Portuguese and Spanish that run much longer than you would expect them to. All of that requires babysitting and constant iteration to ensure everything fits, reads write, and works right.

And you can see this with Google - they haven't gone all pictographic in their UIs. Instead they've most heavily iconified parts of their UI that are space-constrained. Toolbars are the canonical example. These are the components that most common make people tear their hair out and run screaming into the woods when translating.

[1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
Is a government granted monopoly "property?" Is cancelling such a monopoly a "taking?"
Oddly enough though, the inverse does exist. If you flood a township with guns, as they did in Kennesaw, Georgia in the early 80s; By passing a law requiring every head of household to own a firearm, they were able to drop crime in all forms by over 80% in the township proper. 25 years later they were able to celebrate 25 years without a single murder in the township, despite population growth of 500%.

Also interestingly, the areas immediately surrounding Kennesaw have the same levels of crime as ever, which illustrates that yes, they didn't solve crime, they only displaced it. On a crime map, there's a ring of 'red', like a corona, around the township proper. It's amazingly curious.
Amazing book! Hope they finally make it into a movie sometime soon.
Immigration also increases the size of the labor pool, driving down wages.
There's a difference between "knowing how to code" and actually doing it. I know a lot of people who know the basics HTML/CSS, but most of them don't do it for a living for whatever reason. Just because "Steve didn't code", doesn't mean "Steve couldn't code"...

Perhaps Steve's greatest contribution to Apple was being its ultimate guinea pig. He wasn't an engineer, so he wasn't bogged down by the insecurities and fears and analytical thinking that plague the engineer's mind. He could "let go", as it were, and really evaluate the products coming out of his company for what they ARE, and their usefulness, unlike an engineer who always has the potential of making really geek-oriented products that fill a specific niche and aren't very useful outside that niche.
Darwin and Einstein were a once in a generation geniuses, I'm not sure much can be extrapolated from how they worked.
Uber is moving fast. Good to see them in Bangalore.
> This is also a potentially contributing factor as to why a majority of mass murders are committed in areas labeled "gun free zones", like schools, college campuses, Fort Hood, etc.

Aren't those areas that are labeled "gun free zones" because it's easy to commit mass murder there? It's not the signage that makes it happen.
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Oh, so peaceful areas don't have guns?
Some terminology might help..

The domain is the inputs of a function and the range is the output. I assume that if there were multiple arguments to the function it would git you the other ones too.

BTW compare it to the haskell version of the same:

> 1 + "1"
No instance for (GHC.Num.Num [GHC.Types.Char])
arising from a use of `GHC.Num.+'
Possible fix:
add an instance declaration for (GHC.Num.Num [GHC.Types.Char])

The shirt looks significantly less hairy in clojure :-)
I guess I should have wrote infants that are unable to stop crying. I'm fine with children if they can manage to not kick the seats. Upping the cost enough would prevent parents of infants from flying and it would be wonderful.
So, on the topic of the (not provided) "data hiding" and now this... if it's just because of users using secure search, is this really as big of a travesty or a problem as its made out to be?

To me it looks like SEO/Marketing folk acting like it's the end of the world that 50% of clickthroughs are (not provided). And for them, it may be bad as they like having that data (which they certainly didn't have a little over a decade ago).

On the other hand though, if I'm using Google secure search, as a user, this seems like behavior that benefits me privacy-wise.

Am I missing some aspect here?
> Good/law-abiding/upstanding armed citizens, however, do.

If your area is filled with good law-abiding citizens, you probably have lower crime rates.
A lot of engineers are incapable of seeing the value that someone like Steve Jobs brings in the technology industry. These might be the same people that wonder why Linux has not succeeded on the desktop.
In addition, Smith v. Maryland explicitly allowed pen registers to record call metadata, as a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy with regards to that information.

Later, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act explicitly allowed telephone companies to record the information to ensure proper business function. Under the same act, police, with a court order, can search the recorded metadata.

As it stands, the procedure described in the article was constitutional.
And if Wal-Mart didn't exist, these people would have no jobs and require even more public assistance.
Unfortunately declaring "let it be so" isn't enough to make it so.

If you hire only people proficient with Linux, you won't create a sudden thirst for developers to grok Linux. Instead you'll have just limited your talent pool to the subset of developers who enjoy tinkering with OSes. If that's your goal, then great - but most companies are looking for people who can develop well, regardless of their OS preferences.
You mean the TSA?
C++ exceptions are not checked at compile-time like Java exceptions (excluding Java's unchecked RuntimeExceptions). The C++ throw() specifier is a run-time check that aborts your program if an exception not listed in the throw() specifier escapes the function.

C++'s design combines the worst of checked and unchecked exceptions and adds some additional run-time overhead for good measure. Writing exception-safe C++ code is essentially impractical for large C++ programs that include C libraries unless you write your own RAII classes for everything. But then your C++ code is littered with unreadable std::shared_ptr<whatever> everywhere. If C++11 had adopted some Rust-like shorthand syntax for std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr, it might actually be palatable.
Looking through the responses to your comment, I would bet that most commentators in this thread are unaware that London is the most intensely surveilled city in the world. And the system of surveillance was set up to stop a very real threat - IRA bombings.

For a list of failures of this system, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_.... Most successes didn't get reported. However this history does leave people in the UK with a rather different perspective on universal surveillance than Americans.
if you stop the page loading before it's finished, you can bypass that awful splash screen barrier.
It happens an estimated 2.25 million times a year in the US. Needless to say, the vast majority of these involve neither the gun being fired or publicity.

My favorite independent site was taken out by the Righthaven copyright trolls, but you can start with this: http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen.aspx ; each item is from the media.
Nobody wants office on a phone, and the rest of the features are present on all the other platforms.

So yes, you can compete with that, and do it much better.
Yeah, we'd have trouble cracking down on people growing Glock's in fields or manufacturing AR's from scratch with stuff they bought from CVS.

And it would be impossible to stop gun's from being imported from Latin American with it's renowned industrial base for manufacturing firearms.
From what I've read it seems that both Manning and Snowden were gung-ho patriots when they signed up. When they signed up.

It seems in this end game the HR departments are better off picking the cynical, venal and power-hungry. At least they don't have the "disillusioned idealist" failure mode. But you may end up with a kakistocracy.
I am not expert, but I have listened to a course where the teacher said that we should use many frameworks. When you develop a project for a client, you select the current best framework and you do not change until you really need to change. Then when you have a new project for a new client, you use the new best framework.

I do not know if it is feasible in all cases. Having many frameworks allows to anticipate the problems, cost and benefits of a migration. I think it is interesting for developers who will have more interesting work. The cost of many framework may be compensate by the fact that it is easier to associate a migration cost to a client.
I'd say 'locality of victim' is a consideration when committing a crime as well - there are a lot of factors that go into the decision to commit a crime. Aside from gun control, poverty is by far the biggest driver of gun violence (hence your mention of crimes of desperation). IMHO, poverty + gun control laws = much more violence.
There are a LOT of would-be mass murders which were cut short because someone was armed and stopped the attacker either before killing started or after just 2-3 deaths. They don't enter the mass murder statistics precisely because they didn't happen despite intention thereto. The info you want is easily found on the web.
The history of Macintosh boot sounds, including the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns3ynH7bFsU
Engineers, of which I am one, tend to see the world in pure dialectics, so they often have very difficult time understanding why accomplishment is not purely evaluated by some rational universal force and recognition made manifest commensurately.

Self promotion is a skill that we all need, and do not think for a moment that people like Einstein were not well skilled in it.

As for claiming credit in higher proportion to one's contribution, that is evil in proportion to the exaggeration. However, perception being limited as it is, no one, not even the other contributors are in a good position to judge.

As for outright lies, they are, well, outright lies.
Racket also has a typed version. It seems to be the preferred version for many of the more serious projects.