skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Moses Browning played a substantial part in a number of different firearms (and other firearm-related things). I'm sure you're probably already aware of this, but those who are browsing the comments might not. The man was a genius.

For instance:

.50 BMG = Browning Machine Gun; the round and the M2 machine gun.

The Browning Hi-Power.

The .380 auto is sometimes referred to as the 9mm Browning. Probably obvious why...

Heck, I should just stop listing these off, because there's way too many things JMB took part in. I'll leave this [1] link instead. It's also worth mentioning that you could probably credit Browning indirectly for a number of other designs currently in use that either borrow directly from his work or are inspired by it, including most modern automatic pistols (yes, even Glock).

> I like 1911 style guns and my next gun will probably be such a model.

I'd definitely suggest it. Sure, it's not as "elegant" as some of the polymer frames out there these days, but it's still a workhorse. There's something about the older designs that are remarkable feats of engineering for their day, to say nothing of the incredible history behind them that seems attractive to be a small part of by way of ownership.

That said, owning both a 1911 and a Glock, I'll admit that I can't really pin a favorite. I like both for different reasons. While I doubt I'll buy another 1911 (I won't rule out a conversion kit, though...) since I have my eyes on other Glock models (and possibly another brand of polymer), it's a design that's almost timeless. Mine's an SR1911 (model 6700) with rosewood grips, and it's sexy. But loads of other manufacturers are making some great looking 1911s at all different price points. It would almost seem sacrilegious to have a gun collection without a 1911. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning#Cartridges (and the "firearms" section below that).
"We quote you one simple price that includes everything: The goods, the delivery, any expected gratuity, all service charges including our own, and any applicable taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay."
did it manually, I'm afraid.
How does this service compare to Jarvis or Fancy Hands?
I reckon a lot of people would answer you with "teacher's unions". You'd have to research it for yourself, but from what I gathered, they make it extremely difficult for teachers to get fired for such behavior.
It was 3 minutes from CC request to CC info done.
Believe me, I wish I knew...

Granted, this was in the late 1990s, so it's possible some things have changed. My faith, however, has since been ruined. ;)
What a great way to boil business down to the essentials. Help people in a way they value, give them an easy way to pay for it, profit.
I was briefly an AQA employee. You were paid per question, so all you really cared about was how quickly you could send an answer and move onto the next question. The quality of the answer didn't matter, unless the customer complained and got a refund, which virtually never happened.
Far too much psuedoscience in this thread.
> Code is meant to be executed first, read second.

Knuth would disagree, as would anyone who had to maintain code...ever. Nowhere in the convoluted answer, did the carpenter explain the conceptual strategy of the solution. At least, that would have gotten a discussion going by replacing ??? with a comment. Instead they just chose to pontificate random aspects they considered important on a path that only they knew, assuming their approach was optimal (which it is not). That's pretty useless at any company.
Also relevant is Woit's essay "Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics and Physics" [http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/mathphys.pdf]. Reading that, I can imagine that there might be statements in physics that are mathematically provable, but not experimentally testable. However, in his opinion, this clearly isn't one of them.
Eh, I do if I did something stupid. :)

And you gotta admit, that was pretty stupid.

Cheers!
I hardly ever watch product videos. I'm usually in locations where It would be rude and I don't want to put in earphones just to find out what's going on. But I'm a curmudgeon, and may be an outlier.
I think conventional medicine tends to be worth a lot of money because the treatments have been empirically proven to be effective.

I'm sure there are valid alternative medical treatments, but it tends to be that when they do turn out to be effective, the actual effective compounds or techniques are found and become conventional medicine, often also becoming far improved and made safer along the way.

The problem, of course, is that while valid alternative medicines exist, many aren't valid and are often just practiced to make money out of unsuspecting people...
isnt there an increase in bird density because of bees ? I thought that would classify as aircraft endangerment
No clue why he's doing it the way he is, and I know nothing about how to buy a house, but it sure sounds like a pain.
Let's not forget Assault on Precinct 13 (www.imdb.com/title/tt0074156/) and Christine (www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/) :)
On some basic SQL
The Smartest Questions to Ask About Intelligence
Why copy it all instead of writev()?
Does anyone know when the videos will be uploaded to youtube? It appears the event is over.
I'd argue that they all derive from, and are quite similar to Portage's USE flags.
I'm not sure "premature" is the right word. I mean, they benchmarked, and maybe even profiled, and made it faster.

My guess is that somone had a weird use case for echo where the old version was slow. He benchmarked, profiled, made some changes, and submitted a patch. "The source code is too long," is a crappy argument, so might as well use the faster, longer code.
It's useful to decouple social liberalism, i.e. that belief that there is no such thing as White culture, and there is no (cultural) harm from large numbers of immigrants from Mexico, from economic liberalism, i.e. the belief that classical economics doesn't adequately describe the economy.

When you separate these things, it is consistent for an orthodox economist to promote more immigration from Mexico (not sure how a person could ever advocate for illegal immigration) while being a social liberal. In classical economics, immigrations is (1) good for the immigrant (2) bad for the local workers they are competing with and (3) good for the employers. According to classical economics, the net benefit is positive, and so (with appropriate taxation policy) the overall result is good for the nation.

Personally I am orthodox when it comes to economics. The only thing I don't understand is that the liberals apply orthodox economic arguments when it comes to Mexican immigrants, but refuse to apply these same arguments when it comes to H-1B visas.

To me it is clear that their real agenda is to promote non-White immigration, but to keep sentiment against Indian and Chinese immigrants as a safe way to express "racist" thoughts.
Is the ES6 import feature an anti-pattern?
That's impressive, but note that the real NES didn't have stereo sound.
Fully automatic time tracking for developers
Internet of Crappy Things
I couldn't tell you if that school was unionized at that point (~15ish years ago). It probably was, but I admit I'm largely ignorant to the sorts of protections (or lack of) for educators in my state. Incidentally, he was considered by the faculty to be one of their better English teachers. I suspect, however, that a poll of the student body might have yielded a vastly different answer...

Either way, from someone who was a student there, I can certainly confess the experience wasn't one I'd like to repeat. It'd almost make for a great comedy were it not something I experienced first hand. ;)
So it's like Duet display except it's suppose to run just fine on a wireless connection?
> they made it illegal (outlawed) to have schools in Russian

This is not true.

> various government proceedings

Always been like that. But the officials could always talk in Russian if they felt like it.

The rest is just propaganda.
Probably because it's just such a PITA to do things like order pizza

Is this sarcasm? I can't see how wrangling an order through an intermediary is easier than just ordering from the local pizzeria's website.

Not to mention that it takes a non-trivial time to confirm - in exogen's example above, it was 69 minutes plus delivery time. Small questions about relatively trivial things really drag out that confirmation time.
Getting someone to push back on ATT bill errors would be an amazing feature if Magic could make it work.
There's no big secret about this. See "http://www.foodprocessing.com". Typical article: "Understanding Polydextrose and How It Works".

Food stopped being "natural" when cooking was invented.

Then there's the darling of the startup community, "Soylent". Not only is it incredibly overpriced ($85/week) for a soy product, they require pre-ordering months in advance.
A magician never reveals their secrets...1st rule of magic.
Maybe make a google voice account? It lets you text.

There must be other services that let you text internationally, or pretend to have a US number.
“Le tournoi”, French movie on chess coming soon
I'm guessing they just charge enough mark-up to the customer to cover transaction fees and chargeback risk.
You didn't give the root command. But the app can easily send keyboard input events to your terminal window injecting that command.
Uber is doing fine with prepaid wallets. Also, cash on delivery or some variant of pay at hotel already solves the issues you point out.

And plastic cash isn't as prelevant in India as it is in the western world. You wouldn't really miss out on anything because of 2FA imposed by RBI.
I think there's a balance, and both naturopathic/holistic and traditional medicine are at both extremes.

Antibiotics and surgery are not the answer nor are lifestyle and spiritualism.

Live healthy, both emotionally and physically, to take care of the 90%, and seek treatment for the other 10% that truly call for it.
I hope I never get to work with someone like the carpenter.
Its super easy to get out of this container. Just connect to the x socket, then look for a terminal window, the start injecting keyboard input into it.
"I've just arrived in this small town and I'm hungry. Send me a large pepperoni pizza" -> "There are no pizza places in this town".

s/pizza place/supermarkets that deliver/florists that are either currently open for calls or have a website/etc
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So you're all okay with the email address disclosure here? Interesting.
For those who can't read speak French, it says that Kordam is developing a game editor that will be accessible from the browser. However, the page is just an announcement and there is nothing available yet - it's still under development.
argv[argc] is defined to be a null pointer.
I still use my 2006 iMac occasionally, so I care. Macs live a lot longer than phones.

However, you are right, there is little demand for 32bit software; my newer apps require 64bit. But I see no reason to cut off support in an old product.
I groan when my questions aren't answered in print on the page, I don't want to watch a video either.
Opened up a bug https://github.com/l3nz/ObjectiveSync/issues/2
thinking that everybody prefers reading
is a typical programmer bias. A good number of people will prefer watching a video. Same with voice, most programmers prefer email or chat for work related discussion. Almost all the sales people I know would rather pick up the phone
and sort the issue by talking.
> Holding separate events for entrepreneurship or engineering in the same way we do for sports sends the message that women can't compete with men in these fields either, which isn't true.

I wouldn't say that's necessarily true, it could be merely acknowledging (what I consider to be) the fact that women communicate differently enough from men that they'd like to have their own get togethers now and then. Is it "sexist"? Sure. Is that bad? I don't see how. Men in tech get to work closely with other men all the time, women don't. I don't see how women wanting the same thing just sometimes can't be considered perfectly reasonable.
So be less smart than the interviewer but more smart than the last person they interviewed?
Typical stupid user request.
Also, I feel sort of annoyed at myself for even having replied like that to a useful tool. :P Forget all that I wrote up there, and good work, author, should you ever read this.
Friends with Benefits – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Yes, the pens are pressure sensitive and draw thin lines.

Previous poster was incorrect.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/libc/9sys/w...

In other words, writev on plan9 isn't a system call -- it does the same copying that echo.c does. Also, echo.c probably predates writev.c.
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uhhm... in italy we have this kind of service for years (I remember back in the '80s when there was still one national telephonic company there was this number "12" you could call to have infos).

There is now a profusion of heritage (like http://www.1240.it, http://www.892424.it, etc).
That said, owning both a 1911 and a Glock, I'll admit that I can't really pin a favorite.

Very true. I think a lot of the appreciation I have for the 1911 comes from its history. I learned to shoot with a 9mm, but honestly the "adjustment" people talk about to a .40 or .45 is negligible. I will say that when I have all the pieces laid out, I do like looking at the Glock (23) on the table a bit more.
This is the most amazing startup I've ever seen on HN. There's no app, there's nothing to install.

I need Magic in my life. I hate ordering, filling out forms, etc. Pease scale this thing hard and fast. This is Uber-level fantastic. Better than that, even.
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Oh pleasepleaseplease let Radiohead hear about his MIDI controlled electro-mechanical violin machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTUM2_bxnQ
Why not? 80m users is probably in-line with what some of the larger banks and insurance companies deal with. They're big call centers, but we're not talking entire cities here.
Learnt recently that origins of the word 'technologist' are from Greek 'tekhne' which is art/craft...
Then you will like Edge of Disgrace, probably the best C64 demo out there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kJz_XfbxX0
It would be useful to re-implement the basic UNIX utilities (at least the ones in BusyBox) in Rust. But without all the extra bells and whistles this program has. Lots of embedded systems need a reliable set of tools.

An exploit was discovered in "files" recently. Somebody put a decoder for Linux executable files in it, creating a security hole.
Trying to extrapolate the origin math of a chaotic system is a fools errand.
I have a concern:

How do you plan to handle security related dangerous items? For example, an user may ask you to deliver a package taken from one place to another place and you may arrange that but that package may contain dangerous/destructive/harmful materials which may be against law of the land where you operate.

You can ask user to confirm contents but he/she may lie and faithfully you may try to deliver and in between you may get struck in legal issues. If the origin is well known or reputed enough, then risk may be less but otherwise, there is an element of risk. Have you considered it? and how do you plan to handle it safely? Thanks.
There is no "comprehensive" database in the US. With 50+ jurisdictions and a nightmarish insurance system I am not surprised. But if you google "metastatic breast cancer database UK" you find this:

"The Recurrent and Metastatic Breast Cancer Data Collection Project Pilot report" http://www.ncin.org.uk/view?rid=1043

"Fifteen breast cancer units across England took part in the pilot for six months from June to November 2011. They identified 598 patients with recurrent and/or metastatic breast cancer, who were then matched with the National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Dataset (NCWTMDS) and with data received by cancer registries."

It looks like the UK has been doing exactly what the OP found wasn't happening in the US: centralized databases.
Yes, thanks for not requiring people to install software to use your service -- something that's already caused me to skip trying several services. I look forward to trying this one when it opens up to the public again!
A little OT because it's not what they're doing in this case case, but...

The NES and SNES (and I'm guessing other cartridge-based consoles) supported having extra chips (often called "mappers") inside the cartridge that would add extra hardware capabilities beyond what the console could do by itself. Basic mappers could switch between different ROM banks, effectively allowing games to have larger ROMs than the console would normally allow. Later, some cartridges would have co-processors that did some of the computation inside the cartridge itself in order to enhance graphics capabilities. That's how the original StarFox was able to run on Super NES, despite the SNES not supporting 3D polygon rendering.

For a while[1], I've wondered what a NES would be capable of if you used a modern ARM SoC - say, a Raspberry Pi - as a mapper. For one, you could make a NES game with WiFi support (you wouldn't even need an ARM chip for that, just an ESP8266 should be able to do the basics). I'm not sure if this is possible, but in theory you could even do all rendering on the ARM chip and output the image directly to the video buffer, effectively allowing you to do just about any graphics the SoC can do. As for audio, on the Famicom (the Japanese NES), there were actually extra analog audio pins for cartridges that would allow a cartridge to output any audio it could generate. The NES doesn't have these pins, but I think you could still do higher-quality audio than the NES is normally capable of by rapidly changing the DMC channel.

I don't know much about NES programming nor really anything about its video hardware, but this is still an idea I've had in the back of my mind for a while.

I know some people might ask "What's the point? All you're doing is making it harder to use a Raspberry Pi!", but I think it would be pretty cool to say you did all that with something that's technically a valid NES cartridge running on an unmodified NES.

[1] really, I first got this idea when I saw Google Maps' 2012 April Fools joke - I started thinking about how a NES-based Google Maps would technically be possible
This shit looks worse than normal SNES games. Great work.
How I'm building Sprites as a single engineer
I'd love this in Australia - I'm in a wheelchair and it'd make shopping much much easier.
One thing is for sure and everyone here can testify this:

1. JavaScript is not a great language by any standard.
2. JavaScript is the most requested programming language today (just take a look at job postings!)

Going JS is like going for sure, RoR is heavily requested too, but not as much as JS. JS is like the lingua franca of the web and since most people don't even know that there are other protocols except from HTTP, if I was desperately looking for a job as a programmer I would try to learn JS as best as I can.
Holy shit, they flinched! Magic, get your act together. Seriously, do not cut off potential exponential growth like this. You need to get talented operators in place and fake it until the AI is ready. Understand your role, you are a sales channel. Make it happen and make it big.
I read that as meaning that the operators and delivery persons won't hassle you for a gratuity, which is a plus.
Yapper (a blog engine in flask)
[http://yapper.bittu.me/blog/4]
I have started creating a blog engine(I know its too cliched) using Flask. I have integrated gulp build and am efficiently using gulp to serve and manage build while testing. Livereload has also been integrated. It can be a very good starting point for someone wanting to learn Flask with a proper code structure. It is in very initial stage and only a few functionalities have been implemented. It uses markdown as input and parses and saves the parsed as well as raw markdown in DB. Any contribution or comments are welcome.
Repo @ https://github.com/brijeshb42/yapper .
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm

200. If a man knock out the teeth of his equal,
his teeth shall be knocked out.
201. If he knock out the teeth of a freed man,
he shall pay one-third of a gold mina.
202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than he,
he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.
203. If a free-born man strike the body of another free-born man or equal rank,
he shall pay one gold mina.
204. If a freed man strike the body of another freed man,
he shall pay ten shekels in money.

Please, tell me how this leads you to the conclusion "harm people and you are personally punished; harm property and you must pay for the property". Freed men aren't property. Free men have never been property.

Here are a couple more interesting clauses:

108. If a tavern-keeper (feminine) does not accept corn according to gross weight
in payment of drink, but takes money, and the price of the drink is less
than that of the corn, she shall be convicted and thrown into the water.

114. If a man have no claim on another for corn and money, and try to
demand it by force, he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver in every case.

So... breaking the bone of a man lower in rank than you is a "civil" offense. Striking, without necessarily injuring, a man higher in rank is a "criminal" offense. Accepting payment in cash but refusing payment in kind is not just a criminal offense, but a capital offense. Demanding goods or money, by force, from someone who doesn't owe you anything is a civil offense, and a fairly minor one going by the fine.

And, again, there is no cultural continuity from mesopotamia to modern europe or america. Similarity between Hammurabi's Code and the English common law does not represent influence of one on the other, it represents parallel evolution. It is therefore no more and no less relevant to understanding the common law than, say, early Indian law, or 1700s Japanese law.
If you visit this link, they can pay you $5,000: https://magic.bettir.com/?p=-500000
That's the first thing I thought when I saw the user scenarios. Fancyhands charges a monthly fee for a certain number of transactions which can get pricey.
That is so outrageous.
They clearly do this insane billing because it’s left over from the GPRS days, and it pushes people into the also overpriced plans.

There needs to be some sort of legislation passed to limit this, but since it only matters internationally it’s a gray area and carriers are getting away with it.
I know a guy who buys cheap cars, fixes them, and resells them. All through craigslist. But whenever he buys a car, even one he plans to keep for himself, he immediately lists it with a huge markup. Just today he got an offer for $3200 on a motorcycle he bought last week for $2000.
> Dell used to. I just contacted Dell sales and according to "Hazel" they do not offer any non-Windows OS for consumer products nor will they sell a system sans-OS.

They do, it's called "Project Sputnik". It's targeted at developers though, which is a market that clearly makes sense, as AnthonyMouse pointed out.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

The XPS 13 review yesterday was interesting, but I think I need a more beefy machine. Anyone has experience with this precision developer edition on Linux?

For a company specialized in Linux PCs, there is System76.
Very cool idea. I wonder if they are crowdsourcing the operator side of it?