RubberSoul

You're right, the United States has been incredibly successful at reducing motor vehicle deaths [0]. Those reductions aren't fortuitous; they're the result of engineers, policymakers, and public health professionals recognizing a problem and designing novel solutions. Maybe we could apply some of that same creativity and engineering talent to the problem of firearm deaths.

[0]: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

There is some research showing self-defensive gun use is not associated with a lower risk of victim injury during a crime [0]. If training levels were generally high, I'd expect people who use guns in self-defense to be more successful in preventing injury.

[0]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743515...

What do you mean by "more attention compared to its actual impact on everyday lives"?

Firearms are currently tied with motor vehicles as the second leading mechanism of injury-related death [0]. Number 1 is poisoning, which has recently surged thanks to opioids.

[0]: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D132/D21F190

Is there any research or even anecdote from people running lots of machines that indicates how frequently corruption occurs?

Suppose I'm doing scientific computing, is ECC solving a super rare problem, or something that might happen weekly or monthly?

Showing the full URL is a checkbox away in the preferences. It's listed under "Advanced" as "Show full website address".

Can someone who thinks Uber's pricing is unethical or bad please explain their reasoning?

Why would the scenario without surge pricing be preferable to you?

The result without surge pricing would be a much longer queue. Queues typically lead to a poor allocation of resources. Surge pricing causes people with other transportation options, or less need, to seek alternatives. People with acute transportation needs are then more likely to get rides.

People have been known to mistake them for volvariella volvacea or amanita brunnescens.

The article doesn't say how young the specimens these people ate were. Mushrooms that seem obvious as adults can be harder to identify when young.

Some quick search counts for the catalog:

25 matches for "U.S. and Foreign Release"

67 for "General Public Release"

175 for "Open Source"

212 for "U.S. Release Only"

225 for "U.S. Government Purpose Release"

So a good chunk of stuff is openly available, but there's a lot that could still be opened up.

The ACLU opposes it for a number of reasons [0]. A lot of objections relate to the potential for surveillance.

[0]: https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards

Makes me wonder what the best options are for cheap phones and laptops that can be used while traveling.

Also, does having saved passwords in a computer (for servers, email, GitHub, etc.) mean that CBP could use those passwords to search computers inside the United States? Or is their search power limited to information actually stored on the machine's hard drive.

I got my monitor today and it doesn't work. LG technical support confirmed the following:

1. Monitor does not work near a router.

2. MacBook must be to the left or in front of the monitor.

3. Thunderbolt cable shipped with monitor might be defective.

LG is shipping me a new cable to try, but I only have 14 calendar days to initiate a return.

The static/tuning sounds never stop playing for me in Safari. It would be nice to have a button that completely turns it off.

Why not?

Is there any work being done to improve the installation experience on macs?

I love the software, but getting it up and running in OSX can be painful.

Looks awesome!, but requires 10.10 or later.

I'm not sure you've established the problem is the individual developers. Of course you can't provide all relevant information for diagnosing the issue in an HN post. I'm just making general suggestions.

I recommend that you rule out other possible explanations: (1) A former manager told them to always use a VM. (2) A CS professor taught them to do this and no one has instructed them to do otherwise at your company.

Coming back with the same question multiple times is problematic, but maybe you didn't offer a sufficiently clear explanation. Next time you explain something say, "Do you understand?" or "Was that clear?" Then you'll be able to say, "people like this" next time they ask the question.

Have you asked why they spend time setting up VMs they don't need?

A good first step is stop saying, "people like this." Perhaps try starting with the five whys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys

Who owns the trademark?

I just started home brewing and I'm not sure I understand this product. "Hit brew and walk away" says USA Today. Why, that's almost as easy as simply buying beer! This kind of defeats the point of home brewing as a hobby :) It's not like there's a shortage of excellent commercial beer and we need a special machine to fill a gap in the market.

I'd like to see tutorials for submitting to app stores.

You should cite your data sources better. Might seem minor, but as an academic I am immediately turned off when I see sites/services not describing and ideally linking to their data sources. See Quandl for a site doing this pretty well.

Finish. I am also a grad student and your not the only one with experiences like this. Those ideas actually sound interesting. Get the degree.

Realtors enjoy lots of laws that protect them from competition. They have considerable market power. See this DOJ website: http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/real_estate/commission-tab...

I recently bought a house and was amazed by the fees. My buyer broker basically opened doors (I don't mean figuratively, I mean he literally took keys out of lock boxes and opened the doors). I plan to do a FSBO when it comes time to move.

Zillow and RedFin are perhaps changing the industry some. I think most people go with realtors because they are intimidated by the process and it's such a large purchase. I will be much more comfortable handling it myself the next time around.

What do you dislike about EDGAR? I find EDGAR to be pretty good. It's easy to search and completely free.

I am an academic using Zotero and it's great. The Chrome plugin allows me to download PDF and metadata at the click of a button. User written plugins allow me to sync selected articles to my iPad and extract annotations I make on the device. It also has automatic backup via WebDAV so that I can re-download an article in my library anywhere.

I like having dates. Perhaps because I'm an academic and it annoys me when I go to cite an online resource and there is no publication date.

What are the legal issues around this? If I rent my hard drive and someone puts child porn or pirated movies on it (even encrypted), could I be liable?

Looks interesting, but how about some info on distributing games through App Stores? There's so much information on using tool/framework X to make games, and so little good information on how you actually take a JS/HTML5 game and get it into stores, handling multiple devices and ensuring good performance.

I would like a "more like this" feature and maybe some voting buttons. The quality is pretty variable, although there are some gems in there. Not sure how you prevent voting from being gamed.

I love the idea, but changing the current system requires more than grant money. Professors need to be recognized for their efforts creating and updating free educational materials. That means schools need to consider these contributions in promotion decisions or otherwise compensate academics for their time. Most academics receive a modest advance against royalties for working on textbooks. Switching to a system in which universities become the primary publishers and distributors of textbooks is desirable; we need to get the incentives right.