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It is amusing and unsurprising that, in 91 comments, the word Devuan is used a total of 2 times.
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I'd be a lot more interested in a smart gun SAFE than in smart guns.

What I want most, specifically, is a bedside pistol safe, the size of a "gun vault", which is actually secure, but still rapid-access.

(The problems with the "gun vault" style safes are numerous -- some of them can be simply dropped 6" and they pop open from inertia on the locking mechanism. Others can be defeated surreptitiously by peeling off a sticker and inserting a paperclip to hit the reset button inside. They're not suitable for leaving a loaded firearm inside when you have untrustworthy people about for extended periods. The only reasonable model right now is to take a carry gun and put it in the safe every night (which is great IFF you carry every day), or to transfer a weapon from a "real" safe to the bedside vault every night. The problem is at some point you might forget, and both false-positive and false-negative kind of suck there.)

The tradeoff I'm willing to make is spending $1k for this vs. $100, and accepting two distinct entry modes: an slow-path "unattended/unprimed" mode which uses a UL group II electronic lock for access, with timeout-access, and a fast-path "day gate" (which would actually be night gate...) which opens quickly using (ideally) a chording keyboard mechanism, or biometric, or something else.

What I absolutely want to defend against is surreptitious entry when unattended -- i.e. for someone with kids, capable of entering hundreds or thousands of combinations in a week, there should be very low risk of users brute forcing the combo or otherwise gaining access in a way which doesn't leave evidence/alarm. Ideally, tamper events would lock the safe down to full TL-15 mode; if your kids can defeat a TL-15 safe, particularly surreptitiously when it is monitored every day, they might deserve the firearm for their new life of crime.

I'd be willing to have no override capability on the fast-path -- if it misreads, or is at all suspicious, if fails back to the slow-path. The mechanism for enabling fast-path might be unrelated to the slow-path entry mechanism (i.e. you don't need to open the door); what I was thinking of was some kind of presence-detect using bluetooth watch (Apple Watch) challenge-response, or something like that.

I could accomplish this today by buying an actual UL TL-15 safe of some size and putting a gunvault inside it, but that takes up a lot of space, and would weigh half a ton. There has to be a better solution.

I'd also like to have it tied into my alarm system and notifications -- if someone attempts to enter the safe, I want a notification on my phone. I'd also like to be able to force slow-path-only remotely. (I'd also like to have lighting, cameras, etc. controlled by alarm events, but that's a separate thing; I'd prefer NOT to have my bedroom recorded on video normally, but when the gun safe is opened, I'd like video logs to be streamed offsite in realtime.)
Anyone else think we'll see "tax havens for the masses" become a thing in the next several years?
The piece seemed kinda disingenuous to me. Although everything said was kept very general and abstract, the author seemed to obviously have many specific events of "barbarism" in mind. The following section was bristling with thinly-veiled anger:

> This self-driven accumulation of “knowledge” has created a healthy dose of skepticism among the public toward facts and arguments, as well as a more intense public engagement. Some speak of the modern citizen as a “proto-scientist,” emulating, no doubt incompletely, some of the well-established practices of academia. It is no longer enough for experts to argue by means of what mathematicians fondly call “proof by intimidation.” The authority of science has been eroded by these public debates, a subject that deserves a separate discussion. One of the immediate consequences is that the scientific community will have to spend much more time engaging with policy makers and the public, not only communicating the products of research, but also the scientific method itself.

These are some pretty harsh accusations, suggesting that everyone falls either "for" or "against" science, assuming that it has a unified thrust and direction. The accusations are cushioned and a bit removed though, like a dog-whistle.

I decided to check out the guy's twitter, and it turns out he's a super fan of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, which makes me wonder if the "barbarians" that he's referring to in very vague terms are religious people, "Bell Curve"-naysayers, social justice people, and the like.

Kind of a weird post, simultaneously trying to sketch out a distant, objective, apolitical high-ground perspective, while being clearly driven by it, and unwilling to be upfront about such incidents.
I used to shoot at an indoor range north of Atlanta. Once a sheepish customer came in asking the clerks what they knew about the rifle laying in the parking lot. Apparently the federal agent who had just left the range with his issued M4-style automatic carbine leaned it against his car while loading up his range bag. Then he forgot about it and drove off.

I hated shooting next to law enforcement in general, they were bad shots and had poor gun handling skills. I think because they were paid to carry guns they thought they were "professionals" and didn't put the same effort into training and cultivating a mindfulness around firearms.
Ogg Encapsulation for the Opus Audio Codec
Perhaps the title should have [2010] at the end.
Telekom still charges up to a euro per minute and the price list was updated last week: http://www.telekom.de/dlp/agb/pdf/43777.pdf I know why I'm not a customer there...
You nailed it.

I rarely make use of the BSD scripts provided but I like them as simple examples of how various services are intended to be run.

I find there is a certain amount of uniformity and consistency and arguably coherence to the rc.d system.
Everybody[1] who's actually owned a gun (or plans to) hates smart guns.

[1]: Okay maybe not everybody but based on my anecdata it's everybody.
I resigned after 1 month. It was my first job after graduation. I realize that I don't like embedded systems. I continue my career with JavaEE and I am so happy now.
The vertical forward handgrip claim is a bit much. While not too useful for aimed fire, as the author points out, it makes un-aimed "spray and pray" shooting easier. So does a barrel shroud. Neither feature is needed on a hunting rifle.
http://waitbutwhy.com/
Are you claiming the songs are not made by individual persons? I know such song writers personally. It's not that big of a deal to create a song an put it on Youtube.

I don't really get why you are comparing it to Toy Story.
See also rm -rf
The pertinent part of that bill is about listing mental health information in the background check system. It doesn't increase the number of transactions where a background check would be required.

The NRA regularly opposes such expansions (for instance they oppose closing the so called gun show loophole).
I've written about 5 programs about 30% as functional as this... I can't believe I didn't know about it. Been using google keep for a while, but going to try and live with this for a bit.
A more helpful (accurate) description, for many startups, would probably go like this:

Interview process: one 4-hour take-home assignment (which may or may not be properly articulated, and which, in any case, there's a fairly good chance we may never respond to); 3 on-site whiteboarding sessions (the first conducted by someone whose first words to you are "man, I'm hungover!"; the second, by a pair of disinterested devs from another team, apparently shanghaied into covering for someone else, who take turns boredly rushing you through algorithm questions, while the other plays with his phone; and the third by the resident math genius who walks into the room well past the time they said you'd be done, says "Hey, got time for another?" and proceeds to grill you on a mis-stated graph search problem that ends up having a null solution class); and finally, a pair-programming session on some made up problem which you're required to use certain clearly unsuitable data structures to solve (resulting in clearly unusable performance in any real system) "because it's easier, and because I wanna see how you think. Look, just tell me what to type, OK?"

Only to be told 2 weeks later, when you timidly beg the HR contact for an "update", that you aren't a "culture fit."
I started working out heavily to lose weight, but also to "feel better." I succeeded at both points, but it took an extremely long time to hit my goal weight. Looking back, it's clear I was eating too much to compensate for the additional work I was doing.

I gained half of that weight that I lost back pretty quick because I couldn't keep up the strenuous exercise routine. So, the next time I instead focused on my eating habits and skipped formal exercise entirely (mostly just went for walks instead). I had much more consistent and predictable weight loss week-over-week and now I'm about to surpass the goal I had the first time I tried in 1/3 of the time. It really came down to small portions -- I didn't have to give up many types of food, I just didn't eat nearly as much of it as I would have in the past.

This echoes experiences from people I know. They start out with a strenuous exercise routine and it's fun in the beginning to push yourself, but most people can't sustain it. Or they get injured and that sets them down a path of being lazy and gaining the weight back.
Instant hot coffee in a can was one of my favourite little ideas he put forward.
5 Reasons This Is the Best Time to Become a Writer
All of those things can be provided by a virtual band - that's pretty much the point of the article. You can still have concerts where you interact with other flesh and blood fans.
Another popular option is: https://zapier.com/
Except that organization is the National Shooting Sports Foundation, NSSF. The NRA represents the interests of gun owners, you know, the 5 million or so dues paying members.

Looking at their 2013 Form 990 (http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/530/5301161...), member dues totaled $175,577,863, which swamps the money they get from the industry including advertisements, and that's not counting the donations from members which are on top of their dues.

Which is a large part of the $83,356,202, from the figures I saw in one of the linked hit jobs, I would guess the majority, and advertising is a mere $24,468,824.

No dice.
Could you stop with all the A-10 hardon trivia bullshit.
As per HN guidelines, please don't use the title to editorialize:

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sounds more like you aren't trying to understand it.
Another essential point here is when you get 'fancy' error messages. Google is amazing at finding why (and usually, The Patch) when you fail to compile random packages.

I have my own little cross-distro builder[0] and I /rarely/ bother trying to dive into autoconf/make hell before cut+pasting the exact error message into google! That very likely saved my sanity many times over :-)

Otherwise I agree with the article -- Given the number of environments and languages around, actually 'knowing' trivialities like exact library names and such is a waste of good neuron..

[0]: http://github.com/buserror/minifs/
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Smart guns aren't going to hinder anyone but responsible people.

We need a few things:

1) Funding alternatives to incarceration. People that go to jail tend to have a frequent flyer card.

2) Law enforcement sharing of critical data on offenders.

3) Funding treatment and therapy programs for drug abusers (ABUSERS, key word. I know this isn't a popular opinion on HN, but ABUSE and USE are two different things)

4) Finally, we need to wake up and realize there ARE bad people in the world, and unless you live in a small community, you can't have 100% safety. You can react by protecting yourself (yes, carry concealed), or if you're not comfortable with that, take a professional classes on how to survive extreme situations. Your safety at the end of the day is your responsibility ultimately.
I missed your first article the first time around but read both. I just wanted to say that you did a fantastic job... well-researched and explained. Thank you.

Also, the parallels with how legislators cluelessly approach the adoption of any new technology were painfully clear.
137 points, 57 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8655580
I get a ton out of my to do lists. I could not function without them. But I do not use fancy tools. I use a text editor, and always have my todo file open.

For me, I make a note each morning of everything I want to get done that day. I write up notes as I plan out my work, and design my solutions, so I can focus on just one piece at a time, and make a note of other details as I think of them. Over the course of the day, I knock things off the list. And if things are leftover that are large enough to warrant it, I document them in the "real" tracking system we use at my company.

That being said, you should do what works for you. If to do lists are not helping you, by all means, don't use them.
Replacing the menu bar icon of a Mac application
Feinstein-Burr: The bill that bans your browser
> Systemd's own documentation[1] disagrees.

Interestingly, most of it is reimplementable independently elsewhere. But I think it's instructive to quote why they say what they say:

"A number of systemd's APIs expose Linux or systemd-specific features that cannot sensibly be implemented elsewhere. Please consult the table below for information about which ones these are.

Note that not all of these interfaces are our invention (but most), we just adopted them in systemd to make them more prominently implemented. For example, we adopted many Debian facilities in systemd to push it into the other distributions as well."

So yes, there are some interfaces that are tightly coupled to Linux interfaces, and there are a few things like unit configurations, generators, system updates and presets that are very specific to systemd and, like they say, don't make any sense being implemented outside of systemd!

> You're contradicting yourself. If I remove all of systemd, existing daemons will need to be recompiled because libsystemd-journald.so is missing. You don't just to pretend that isn't a dependency.

I don't believe I have contradicted myself. That component is a sticking point, and is a problematic dependency. I'm curious what the devuan guys did to sort this out. I assume they recompiled everything.

Edit: I'm watching the talk by Klaus, thanks for the link - very interesting! I think I'm a bit confused about his point about the kernel taking an extra 15 seconds to load... does that have anything to do with systemd? I would have thought that's something else.

I'm also not following his point about systemctl being a "GUI"... that's a command line utility, not a GUI based tool?

OK, he's not happy about journald's binary format. I get it, I'm not keen on it either. But I guess he didn't realise that in journald.conf you just change storage to 1 and ForwardToSyslog to 1 also...

He's concerned about parallelization on slower hardware. Fair enough... in that case, setup the unit files to set the order?

OK, and now he's concerned about Ubuntu's packaging... ?? I'm not entirely sure how that is a problem for systemd... and seems to be concerned about a sysvinit package that's not a standard part of Ubuntu any more? That seems a bit of a strawman...

Yup, that's what I thought! It takes 15 seconds when he replaces systemd - so not an issue with systemd in terms of bootup speed.

And now he's saying he doesn't like the fact that his system now requires multi-user session management. What? Oh come on, that's silly. He also doesn't know why the error is occuring...
Neither feature is needed on a hunting rifle.

Which the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with. I'm told that many prefer it for vertical pistol grip rifles and carbines in close quarters combat, the combination is more ergonomic (I'm too used to the classic horizontal grip, and that's what my Scout rifle has, so I'm very unlikely to even try it).

Barrel shrouds are to keep yourself from getting burned if you have to fire a lot in a firefight, which again hits on the self-defense and offence purposes behind the 2nd Amendment.
With binary especially I feel it's easier to read if the number is written out in nibbles. Besides, many of us were introduced to binary through ASCII, so the 8 bit format feels even more natural imo.

Oh damn, that must have been tough to find!
Trigger warning: There is text below this text.

Heh, I laughed.

Interesting to see where HN draws the line on 'offensive'
The worst thing in America is healthcare. Low quality coupled with the highest costs in the world.

Its enough to make me move away.
Okay, fair point. Perhaps I did not explain myself thoroughly.

When I see bank + policy + not just some random bank but the BANK OF ENGLAND, I do expect to see HTTPS guaranteeing the integrity of what is unquestionably important and influential data being served to decision makers.

This amused me, but maybe I'm just easily amused.
Claude Shannon is my favorite scientist too. He made break throughs in the most literal sense. Everything was different after The Mathematical Theory of Communication.

I feel lucky and proud to have studied his work, through the lens of signals and systems, at his Alma Mater, University of Michigan.
>But I have a feeling that author is judging about whole set of EE technologies by JSRs that loose their popularity at the current time.

That would have been a viable explanation, I agree.

Unfortunately, this isn't the case. I follow all the Java EE specs very closely, and this inactivity by Oracle concerns each and every spec. JPA as pure backend technology didn't even get an update, then after much asking a maintenance release was scheduled, but that's completely quiet again. JAX-RS, same deal. Spec lead didn't show up for months, and then occasionally he shows up saying little more than: "no! we're not going to do that"

And the same thing is true for brand new specs like MVC and Security. They were started with much enthusiasm, and then at exactly the same time as the graphs in this article shows (just after JavaOne) commits and mails from the spec leads completely plummeted.

>I've seen GC utilization in JSF under a big load. It wasn't nice.

I've actually seen the reverse. Which version and implementation of JSF was that?

See for instance this: http://jsfcentral.com/articles/understanding_jsf_performance...

The GC churn of JSF is rather good, and better than for instance Spring MVC + Thymeleaf, which people somehow expect to perform better.

> Also, JSF/Portlets' APIs are mostly synchronous.

In what respect? Many JSF applications uses AJAX quite intensively. And WebSockets is used a lot too. PrimeFaces has its own Atmosphere based implementation for a long time, while JSF 2.3 will adopt the approach introduced by OmniFaces which is more Java EE standards centric.

But while an interesting discussion, I'm pretty sure client-side vs server-side is not the main thing the article is about, which is really about Oracle silently and without giving any reason all of a sudden doing almost nothing anymore.
that's funny since mountcritremote and friends have been around sine, at least, 2000.
This small post is spot on. The search queries could have been typed by me. One of the important things a developer has to learn is how to actually use Google for software investigation. Especially with the acronyms and very short names that we use all the time, its important to know how to structure your Google queries. Writing Google queries to quickly find the correct solutions is a skill on its own.
Berkeley greybeards release lite of AT&T-free Unix fork (1994)
No it doesn't. The domestic US gun industry is tiny - not nearly big enough to have this kind of influence. Beyond that, the government is a big customer, so they have a history of going along with regulations as long as the police and military contracts come through.
Banning private sales means that I have go to into a gun shop to transfer a gun to a friend. That implies:

- Buying new now no longer has additional hassle compared to buying used, since the difficulty of the latter has been increased.

- Two people are now forced to go into a gun shop where they wouldn't have before. They might browse for accessories or maybe a new piece.

This is rather similar to the software industry's attacks on the ability to resell. If the NRA was just a lobby for gun businesses, why would they not support private sales bans? They should want this kind of captive audience.
It seems very strange that the 3 missions that would deploy an X-ray calorimeter have all failed. I feel sad for the scientists who have been hoping to get a working one into space for what sounds like over 16 years now (based on the article).
Google is certainly a 100% essential tool for programming. I use it constantly, every day, and I am sure basically every single developer does the same. The most essential point in the post, imo, is that on any given project you have to wade through the details of dozens of components and tools. There's only so much room in the average brain.
This is the original title, but it deserves something more explanatory. I couldn't find a version that use the subtitle or the first sentence of the article following the extended guidelines, so I give up an I propose this: "This must be a Conspiracy: How a demogroup made their 64ks"
Those youtubers are just jerking off. A .50 caliber rifle is just a big expensive dangerous toy. No one is going to commit a shooting spree with one. It's not practical. Regulating them only impacts people who like loud bangs and will never hurt anyone.
Saying that 2nd amendment supporters want politicians who threaten their rights is like saying heavy eaters are in favor of natural disasters because they justify buying a lot of extra food.
I often joke that my ability to formulate good Google queries is the single most important part of my software engineering skillset. Except, you know, I'm not really joking.
You are also ignoring WEALTH and capital growth that does not generate income.

For example, wealthy people can do 1031 property exchanges - which is non taxable way to sell and buy a replacement property.

A wealthy person can construct corporations that generate lots of tax "losses". For example, Amazon does not make very little in terms of taxable profit. If Jeff Bezos wants to buy a house, he can use his Amazon shares as collateral against a loan that Amazon makes to Jeff to buy the house. Completely legal so long as it is disclosed.

The wealthy make things that are after tax expenses to you and I - a before tax business deduction. Lunch? business deduction. Fancy car? Lease it for a business deduction - better yet have the company lease it. House? Host board meetings and company wine and cheese events in the house - leasing the house to the company at a very generous cost.
You don't know what you're talking about and I'm guessing you may have never actually shot a semi automatic rifle before.

This is a rifle with no scary barrel shroud, pistol grip, or vertical foregrip. If you google "bump fire" you might notice it is pretty easy to rapid fire just about anything as long as it's semi automatic and you don't much care if you hit anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hlzuAzvuJQ

In fact I find pistol grips and vertical foregrips plenty ergonomic for aimed fire, especially because I have a bit of carpal tunnel going on and cocking my wrist is somewhat painful. That's why every olympic target rifle (eg the Anschutz) uses some version of a vertical grip.