skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I think the "keep us safe" line, though, is really just an attempt at trying to have a more respectable-sounding defense than "I think they're pretty neat!"

Gun owners are constantly on the defensive (except, of course, when their lobbying groups are being rather offensive), and constantly required to justify their existence, so of course they're going to go with something that sounds more noble than "but it's a cool hobby!"

It's probably been parroted so much that a lot of people who say it actually believe it.

Full disclosure: I've never owned a gun, but I do think they're pretty neat.
> I assure you, it is not normal what you are describing.

Phoronix seems to assure otherwise. It feels like every day I read about a minor performance bump with RadeonSI and then a 10fps regression. The proprietary drivers are clunky and don't seem to play nice with my multimonitor setup. Needless to say, my attempts on Ubuntu 14.04 this year on my very standard i5 3570K / AMD 7950 rig have not been very successful. I had this one awful text rendering bug (artifacting) with both the proprietary and apt-get open drivers. Only when I compiled Mesa from Git did I fix it. Taking a step back, running Hackintoshed OS X felt more reliable in the 3D graphics department, and I used it for over 6 months before dropping back to Windows 7 full time.

I wish, wish, wish to use Linux full time. I really do. I'm sure if I had older/integrated graphics hardware my problems would disappear. Unfortunately I need dedicated hardware to drive a dual link DVI (Korean 27") and two more HDMI/single link DVIs.

I'm sure the driver support will come with time. Maybe around the time Wayland/Mir take off. I'll be waiting. My MacBook is my rock, of course.
What graphics card does Mac OS X think it's using when running in QEMU/KVM as you describe? Are you able to get different (more than 1200x800) resolutions? One of the major shortcomings of most of the "Mac OS X in a guest" efforts is that 3D hardware acceleration is disabled (unimplemented) in the guest video driver, which the Quartz compositing engine assumes will always be there. This results in weird video behavior, like certain things not showing up or for FLV video to not render in a web browser. Are you able to view web video with this Mac guest?
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Can you elaborate on how lawyers are "member[s] of the protection racket"?
More people are at home. Less altercations. More surfing the internet. Just as consumerism helped pacify people's urges (see Century of the Self http://vimeo.com/m/67977038) so the internet did it even better:

Sexual urges - porn
Entertainment - movies etc
Education - wikipedia etc

People are more educated, more sedentary, richer and have more to lose
The thing you're missing is Chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The current theory is that CTE can be caused by the constant repeated non-concussive hits unique to football (at least among popular American sports), so analyzing concussion rate really isn't helpful.

>A brain injury study conducted at the Boston University School of Medicine showed that 33 of 34 players tested post-mortem showed clear signs of CTE.[1]

Even when you account for selection bias the number of NFL players with CTE is insane.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chroni...
Your "office" door is tied to a Github issue, and when it is closed, your door opens :-)
> It just didn't work properly.

I echo this 100%. Even after significant tweaking it wasn't smooth enough. I can handle lower FPS than Windows, but delays, full blown glitches, flat out incompatibilities just rule it out for me.
> I never intended for that to be taken as "gun homicides are the only homicides that matter". That's silly.

I didn't interpret things as extremely as that, I just feel that I don't think the distinction really matters (as long as someone got murdered, I'm not sure it matters whether it was by gun).

What also bothers me is that numbers on gun homicides feel to me like pro- or anti-gun propaganda, which is annoying either way.
Turf Goes Modular – Modular GIS in JavaScript
Android KitKat Hits 13.6% Adoption, Jelly Bean Falls Below 60%
There's plenty of apps on Android that use downloaded maps.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android

Unfortunately AFAIK most of them are missing many of the things that makes Google maps useful. Real time traffic data, real time road closure data, updated public transportation schedules and closures, search by something other than address, ...

Also I believe online vector based maps teams found that vector map data was actually larger than tiled map data. I thought as you did lines = smaller but lines + colors + line weights + building outlines + elevation contours + street names + road direction info etc adds up were as jpeg tiles can be pretty lossy.
Anonymously do what you think is right.

It would be interesting if someone created a payload that patches exploited device.
The Dutch one "money tail" is more widespread than "at", I would say.
I wonder how much it is due to the drug cartels and gangs.
I have a question: Who would win, a citizen with an AR-15 or an Apache gunship? What about 30 citizens or an Apache gunship?
Ask HN: Open-source knowledge base or wiki software?
I'm looking for some software (preferably open-source) that I can use for a personal wiki/knowledgebase.

On the desktop application front, Microsoft OneNote and Evernote seem to be the best options - however, OneNote's online support isn't great, and Evernote is unreliable and flakey, and I've had it lose data under me.

On the hosted webapps,Confluence is the most complete/polished software, however, it's quite heavy on the browser, needs a chunky server with lots of RAM to run, and you need to pay a yearly subscription (which I currently do).

I've tried MediaWiki, but found the editing UI unintuitive and unpolished for the use case of a personal wiki.

A lot of the existing open-source projects seem to be either abandoned, or not very active - and the editing experience is often poor.

Are there any good open-source pieces of software suitable for a personal wiki/knowledgebase that you guys could recommend?
I read the article. Hydroelectric is not free -- to scale up to powering the automotive industry requires more dams with massive ecological impact -- and you left out the part out greenhouse gases and the transportation of heavy batteries over hundreds or thousands of miles per recharge.

1K miles could be easily used up on a couple roundtrips. That's not even 2 roundtrips between SF and LA.
Use a Swift standard library function in the documentation (like println). Command-Click on it to go to it's definition. You're taken to a header-like description of the standard library (assuming the index has been built for your project – sometimes you have to wait a few minutes in a new project).
I can think of a few English pictograms on the standard keyboard:

^ = Hat

* = Star

# = Hash

~ = Squiggle

{ = Curly
Being a big fan of football I have sometimes wondered what the sport would be like if they slowly phased out the protection. You are taught early on to put your head down and drive your shoulder through the target, but I imagine this would be different if your head and shoulders weren't the most padded parts of your body.
Determine the demand for your product and price your solution right below the point where people will think you're charging too much, such that they would continue to use the old way of doing things.

The finding of that price is hard. So try to find it pragmatically. Ask questions like how much do you pay your employees to do this task? How many employees do this task, what is their hourly cost? How much time will the new software/website save those employees? How will revenue or profits be increased?

Your price should be what the market is willing to pay, not what you think your software is worth or how long it will take you to build the solution. If you're going to price the solution as a service with recurring revenue, make sure you can continually justify your value to your customers on an ongoing basis. If you want to build this solution as a one time custom project, price it accordingly to the value delivered, the cost of your time, your opportunity costs, and establish a rate for ongoing care and feeding of the code base before agreeing to build the solution.
Record videos of your interaction using iOS8 and OS X Yosemite
>>The Server Room was a few meters from the conference room, it was a 2 minute job, but we could not enter and do the changes ourselves without IBMs permission.

Sorry, But there are reasons why your dev team is kept out of the server rooms. Because generally when permission is given they go in and make big mess, which some one has to clean up later. Plus there are thousands of other issues like data security, theft etc that need to be taken care of here.

I've worked for a outsourcing firm here in India, we partnered with another outsourcing firm. While we were there our partner offered a lower hourly billing price and we lost most projects to them. We had a strict server room policy. They came in with all these policies of 'process elimination','cutting bureaucracy' - Which ultimately directly translated to cow boy behavior with total collapse in discipline.

After some time the chaos ensued. Dev's would just walk into servers rooms for even simple things collecting logs, or troubleshooting production software issues. Until some one accidentally pulled out a power cable while toying with a server. A downtime happened, followed by all kind of data consistency problems. It took quite a while, and a lot of beating from senior management for them to realize rules exist for a reason.

My respect for IBM just increased after I read your story. If I have to ever in the future outsource some IT infrastructure I may chose them.
The OP didn't build the app to subvert the school's revenue model. That's the difference.
Interestingly, the .. and ... operators are not part of the language but are defined in the standard library.

This means you can override .. (to disable it) and define your own operator for half-closed ranges if you'd prefer (Swift supports building your own operators from combinations of punctuation characters). At least I think you could do this: I haven't tried.
It may have something to do withthe mandatory military service BEFORE getting the gun.
Now if only we could get some WebRTC support! Has anyone heard anything about that in iOS8?
So, you requested written permission... didn't get it... charged for your app... and now they are just a bunch of luddite meanies turning you into an evil villain instead of fawning all over you?

You are serving as a proxy for credentials into a system where the school is legally liable to protect the privacy of the students, families, and staff. Yeah. You get shut down NOW. It doesn't matter where your code is or how great your work is. you are taking control of something that they are required to protect.

If someone can hack iOS or your app and steal credentials, who's ass is on the line for discovering, disclosing, remediating, rebuilding trust, resigning, etc.? All those people have enough work without your app. They are responsible for what they create. They can't be responsible for your work. If they knowingly let it exist, they will have to take responsibility for any fallout that may come from it.

Who is going to be handling all the calls when people change their passwords at the site, but your app locks their accounts out by trying to use the cached credentials?

They have plenty to lose with your app. You are learning many things.
Aluminum does use a lot of electricity. The first time; that is why recycling aluminum which is cheap, very easy to do, and does not require much power, is such a win.
There was an interesting article posted a while back showing a strong correlation between crime and the levels of lead in the environment most notably from leaded gasoline. The theory is that the reason crime has been dropping so much is because leaded gas was outlawed and it has taken the better part of the past couple decades for those bad effects to wear off.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
I've always been curious what sorts of scenarios people envision where their guns can actually protect them from government.

In the vast majority of cases, the moment law enforcement becomes aware that you are armed, they will respond with overwhelming force. And if you do actually injure or kill one of them, congratulations, you are now in much deeper shit than you started with (and will indeed be lucky to get out of the situation alive to serve time in prison).
This sort of response always make me laugh.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that you're not a member of a well-regulated militia? You know, that thing the 2nd amendment specifically mentions?

I'm totally okay with private gun ownership, but if you're going to justify it with "we're going to have to rise up against our evil government!", do you really think you're going to be able to mount a hollywood-style one-man stand against "the evil government"?
Anyone else get a JavaScript error when they attempt to load the demo?
I think you underestimate the power of mailing lists among the general public
Not to mention the crap he puts up with, like being SWATted twice. Luckily, the 16 yo kid who did it has been recently caught ... http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/teen-arrested-for-30-swat...
That's true but the direct emissions are still very substantial. It only seems small in comparison because smelting uses so much electricity to begin with.
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The situation would be a lot more complicated even if it came to that. What's your point? If we're going to suggest a hostile government takeover I would rather have the gun and I don't know who wouldn't.
There aren't /that/ many Apache gunships / the Taliban are still hanging on despite their opponents having them.
It's an unfortunate situation. I wonder if perhaps it could have been mitigated by small changes to the wording to make it gender neutral:

"A Relationship with Maven..."

- Looks Great

- Complains A lot

- Demands Attention

- Interrupts Us When We're Working

- Doesn't Play Well With Our Other Friends

Of course, the photo to the right would need to be gender neutral, too. Perhaps just the logo.

I can't imagine that such a slide would have any repercussions, but it would get the same point across. It's often not hard at all to just be inclusive.
It reduces code redundancy, especially when 'i' is something more descriptive. Though if someone were to claim that the redundancy of i=i+1 is a trivial price for settling on one consistent multipurpose construct, I wouldn't put up a fight. :)
In the same context as "normal" decimal floating-point literals, e.g. double x = 0x1.ABCDEFp+89;
> his synthesizers were only meant to be audio equipment

Whoops: that should say "his synthesizers were only meant to be studio equipment".
> almost every other civilized country in the world.

Eh? Not sure what you mean by civilized country. If you mean a richer country vs. a poorer one, then it's a bad choice of words.
What is the Python Equivalent of a Map in Ruby and JavaScript?
Consider a more descriptive variable name and hopefully it becomes obvious:

sheepCounted += 1

vs.

sheepCounted = sheepCounted + 1
Are you suggesting "recharging" these batteries happens via recycling? That is not true. Aluminum is converted to alumina via the reaction and they need to be resmelted, just like the first time.
^ and ~ are accents in latin languages.
Here you make the mistake of assuming security is binary. Making attacks more expensive and likely to be exposed are effective deterrents.

There are many things that people in us government would like to do but cannot afford it.
I was about to ask something similar. Ever wonder how other people view us engineers or white hat hackers? Misunderstood by outsiders? Perhaps this is applicable to the legal profession as well.
That and most gun issues in the us mostly fall into gang activity or suicide.

It isn't so simple to compare country XYZ to the USA, especially a homogenous society like Switzerland with different military requirements compared to the US with a vastly less analogous population and training.
Maybe if we just wish harder...
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002211...

Yes, there is a lobby.
I like to say that there is no science in Sports Science, that said I was impressed with how much force Ray Lewis was able to generate with about a 4' head start in this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1CwwsWkQLU&t=5m42s
It's right there on the form they sign in blood at their initiation ritual. I forget whether they use their own blood, or the blood of the sacrificial goat though.
IIRC latin languages offset longer words by speaking generally more syllables per second. The information per time unit is roughly equal across languages. I don't think they actually realize that the word is long/awkward (or at least not to the same degree an English native speaker would realize).
I call it Namestorming (play on Brainstorming). I'll come up with some key words that convey what the product does in 1 word. These will be the root words. Then I'll look up all the synonyms, and any related prefixes or suffixes. I'll put them all in a spreadsheet and try them in different combinations until I come up with some cool ones. Then I'll do a trademark search on the USPTO to make sure it's not already trademarked. Then I'll do a Google search on the name, and see if anything comes up. Then I'll search for the Domain and see if it's available. If it's a Web based product, a service, or something tangible, then I consider the .com is essential. If it's an App based product, then I'm ok with other domains, especially ones that play into the word (for example, one of my unbuilt projects is named infostre.am). Then I'll do a search in the App Store(s) and make sure it's not in use (previous example is in use in the UK, but not in the US). The last test I do is to ask 10 people if they can spell it just based on saying the word verbally. If more than 75% of the people spell it wrong, or everyone spells it different, then that's no good. About 99% of the time, one of the above will fail, and I'll toss the name and start over (usually its the .com domain squatters that ruin it).
Contributor to Forbes.com on ghostwriting for CEOs
Only runs on Firefox, it seems.
And how exactly does he determine whether that is the case?
That's nice for a fanless i5. But a fanless i7 is already out there with some great specs, though it's pretty expensive.

http://www.tinygreenpc.com/microsvr.aspx

Power: 8W – 35W (Depend on system configuration and load)
Except with Bungie's role being replaced by a crack team of high school web programming student gurus.
That's it?!? All these years and now there is incontrovertible evidence there was no substance behind the idea.
Israel and Switzerland have dramatically different gun ownership patterns than in the US.

I'm not familiar with the Swiss model, but in Israel:

- You must have gun license, which are strictly controlled and must be renewed every 3 years[1]

- You get a one-time supply of 50 bullets, which cannot be replenished[1]

These measures have been effective:

The 2011 attempted assassination of a US representative renewed the national gun control debate. Gun advocates claim mass-casualty events are mitigated and deterred with three policies: (a) permissive gun laws, (b) widespread gun ownership, (c) and encouragement of armed civilians who can intercept shooters. They cite Switzerland and Israel as exemplars. We evaluate these claims with analysis of International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) data and translation of laws and original source material. Swiss and Israeli laws limit firearm ownership and require permit renewal one to four times annually. ICVS analysis finds the United States has more firearms per capita and per household than either country. Switzerland and Israel curtail off-duty soldiers' firearm access to prevent firearm deaths. Suicide among soldiers decreased by 40 per cent after the Israeli army's 2006 reforms. Compared with the United States, Switzerland and Israel have lower gun ownership and stricter gun laws, and their policies discourage personal gun ownership.

[1] http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Israeli-gun-control-regul...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22089893
The taliban were (effectively) a national government before 2003. Before that, they were part of a civil war to become the national government. They're hardly a couple of unorganized gun enthusiasts.
Hard coded compiler version?

Could not find compiler set in environment variable CC:

gcc-4.8.

I'm running gcc-4.9. I got it working by doing:

ln -s /usr/bin/gcc ~/bin/gcc-4.8
ln -s /usr/bin/g++ ~/bin/g++-4.8

I'm not saying this is good practice, but it works.

Also need to make sure python means python2.
I also find Product Hunt to be alienating and therefor a bad overall experience. I understand wanting to limit who can post new submissions at first, to avoid too many self promotional posts, but I don't understand the rationale behind preventing users from commenting. It's especially perplexing because the quality of comments on Product Hunt is pretty low right now so I'm not sure what you're even protecting. There are a lot of comments that don't add any value to the conversation, that say little more than "Thanks" and "Great job!", and hardly ever any substance filled replies. If you're worried about spam, I would think putting new commenters into a moderation queue until they've proved themselves to be worthy contributors would be an easy enough solution.

I love Show HN posts so I should be one of your biggest fans. I want to be. I love reading about new products and I love discussing them. But every time I visit your site I feel like I'm treated like a second class user. I wonder how many others feel the same.

EDIT: I do think Product Hunt will be a successful venture for you. It's a decent idea but more importantly you're hustling hard to build a community, which is no easy task. Most developers tend to put in a lot of hours building something scalable but are too far outside their comfort zone when it comes time to find and engage with users. That's something you're excelling at and I think it's the reason Product Hunt will ultimately succeed. I just think you're making a mistake with some of your earliest adopters. You should be treating us as if we're special, because we are. Instead you're asking us to be a part of your community but barring our ability to communicate.
*shrugs.

The current laws have definitely changed the feel and reduced the danger when it comes to scrums. I watch a kid taken off the field a paraplegic due to someones foot slipping on "engage", so I don't necessarily disagree with the laws, but you can't argue that they're not in place to slow it down and make it safer.