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The difference here is that guns are created for one purpose, killing another person. People aren't buying up cars with the intent of killing others.
There is a categorical difference in how a person could die because he crashes his own car into a tree and another one shooting at other people. Car deaths are terrible, and many are involuntary (someone killing someone else), but many are self inflicted and the driver is reasonably assuming that risk. The risk of walking out of your home and getting shot by a lunatic is an unmitigated externality. Its not a risk for a person to assume.
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Really, really good point! The FCC is deciding the outcome of those plans now, groups are calling for an open process to the decision so that there isn't any bad ruling before people can weigh in and all sides looked at.
Yikes! Don't know how I missed that. Thanks.
Given that the assessment occupied two weeks with two consultants, between $25,000 - $35,000.

I don't have intimate knowledge of NCC Group's pricing structure because I don't work there. But I have friends who do, and similarly situated consultancies that I've worked for are in the $10,000/week range for a one-off assessment with non-senior staff. This is also somewhat close to what I charge through my own smaller consulting practice.

Now, if there was specialty work (like crypto), particularly comprehensive work, more consultants billed on the assessment than usual or senior/principal consultants billed on the assessment, the total fee would go up. This is why I added a $10,000 premium to my estimate; the source code analysis detailed in this report might qualify as "non-standard."

That said, NCC might have worked on a discount for the opportunity to advertise that they were involved in the audit. But I don't see this assessment having costed anything less than $20,000 even in a charitable situation.
The only two comments so far are relating gun deaths and car deaths. Those are totally off base, and feels like astroturfing to me.

If we want to understand gun violence, we need to proceed on one front: science. We need to enable researchers to study guns, gun policy, and gun violence. We need to provide funds to do so. The state of research is none, zilch; we don't allow it. Once we understand it, then we can proceed with policies that will decrease gun violence but balance our constitutional rights.
I'm sorry but no. The vast majority of examples of violent revolution end badly for everyone involved, even the victors. The phrase "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" has a lot of truth to it.

That's, of course, humoring the notion that this is in the cards in the developed world. If you step out of the echochambers on the Internet and interact with people in reality, you begin to see that things aren't nearly as bad as the curated outrage porn would lead you to believe.
Just copy/paste it from the internet.

Nothing bad could possibly happen. [1]

[1]: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
I would choose Java. Java 8 with lambda functions and streams library, is a much more pleasant experience than previous versions. If you take the same library over framework approach with Java as you might with Node, you can build microservices just as easily, and docker equalizes the deployment effort. The main advantage I see with Node is working with JSON and a more simplistic concurrency model but to me Java is getting on the reactive bandwagon and beats Node by having more mature and stable libraries and by being statically typed.
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Someone renamed this. Why?
This is a red herring. Just because there are also a frightening number of driving fatalities doesn't mean we shouldn't better regulate firearms. It means we should ALSO better regulate driving.
i can see the others have answers it. Yes guns are not needed for daily activities and secondly they are way more dangerous i.e. Fatal than cars. Cars are not built to kill but guns are built to kill. I hope I am able to communicate a very basic difference.
With multiparty computation, nobody has the access they would need to decrypt any votes.
i've been a loyal apple user since the motorola 68030 mac ii, this was in the 90's so it's natural to expect apple to change the game every few years, with cook at the helm, he's done nothing exciting, just a lot of conservative incremental changes, you see where the stock's trending lately. i am not some fanboy that jumped on the apple bandwagon in the past 10 years, so from my perspective, apple is starting to falter, but jobs has laid a solid foundation of innovative products, couldn't see myself buy a dell/lenovo or android phone anytime soon, but things have certainly changed in the past few years, regardless if apple has so much cash in the bank. wwdc's in the past unveiled mac os x, the intel based macs (from powerpc), ipod, iphone, ipad, this wwdc has really been underwhelming granted it is a developer conference, but apple has always been using this to market their new gadgets.
No, it would just push the battle groups further out to sea, naval ships aren't sitting ducks against ASBMs, they do have defenses such as CIWS. If they keep far enough away then they won't be terribly vulnerable.

Also, the US doesn't just have nuclear weapons to retaliate with. We're perfectly capable of devastating these smaller countries without them.
What's the economic value we derive from cars each year, vs the same number for guns? (Total sales would be a reasonable proxy). What's the ratio of that to deaths?
No, this is validation that the FCCs position is legal. Nor they need a mechanism to enforce it properly.

That doesn't just mean the ability to impose penalties (which is part of it) but also means the power to know what's going on so that penalties can be imposed.
That's pretty awesome, very easy to read. I've been meaning to get into d3 soon, what is this particular style of graph called?
After half a year on Android I want to move back to iOS. Good luck with switching :)
Also whatever the camera specs, I still have impression that iPhone makes better pictures. On my Sony Z7 "normal" pictures are almost unusable (poor dynamic range) and I don't really use 23Mp (files are slow to handle, etc.). So I shoot in 8Mp and HDR which doesn't obliterate half the image into highlights but gives me crazy unnatural, "alien" colors (especially on a cloudy day).

iOS mail can't search? Well there's no usable mail or calendar or weather app on Android whatsoever. Book readers are a joke, too.

Apple may be wrong much of the time but it at least tries to focus on essentials. Google seems to always build geeky three-storey-configurable apps which most people don't probably need.

Also the file system. Why in 2016 I have to tell the machine where to save a file? (Other app cannot see it anyway after I download it. I have to open a "File manager" to locate the file and open it with the respective viewer. I can imagine, reading this makes an iOS user smile.)

Good luck with other "ecosystems" out there :)
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Of course the US does which is why it has such a serious policy of preventing nuclear proliferation. Part of these aircraft carrier's jobs is to protect allies so they don't feel the need to acquire nuclear weapons.
I know which app you're talking about. I've played with it a little, it seems to just transfer a link/identifier by sound to then download the file via the internet.
> Because many people need a car to function (get to work, shops, take kids to school).

I'm not sure that's a compelling argument. One could easily counter that people could move to be closer to work and/or school. Cars are "needed" because of the life choices people make.

> Nobody needs a gun to function.

If we apply consistent logic, there are people who need guns to function just as much as others need cars. Folks who live in the wilderness of Alaska and make a substantial living off the land need guns to hunt animals and acquire food. Sure they could hunt with a bow, but people could also get to work on bicycles.
The two viewpoints are completely opposed, and there is no reasonable compromise.

One side says that guns designed with the obvious and explicit goal of effectively killing numerous people should be banned so that they cannot be misused.

The other side says that guns designed with the obvious and explicit goal of effectively killing numerous people are necessary, in keeping with the Constitutional amendment which was drafted to ensure that if it ever became necessary the American citizens would once again have the means to cast off their oppressors and begin anew.
Vauban [0] designed his first handbook for trench warfare after the Siege of Maastricht in 1673. Prior to that, siege mining and sapping had been used by Rome and Warring States China since about the 4th century BCE. This also marked the first purported use of poison gas in warfare, when the tunnels were intentionally filled with smoke.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Le_Prestre_de_V...
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I believe it's a net negative.

Typically, ISPs in the US are either small and barely-profitable or large and with little appetite for business or technical innovation. The largest content providers already effectively share revenue with the largest ISPs through paid-peering and other arrangements. The smaller players, those that with success could grow and advance the market, are too small to justify the time of content providers that are also very worried about setting a dangerous precedent by extending the same deals to them that they extend to the AT&Ts and Comcasts.

Sure, as consumers we get additional protections, but I fear this mostly ensures that the industry as a whole stays put.
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Ah, but priorities, priorities.

Which should we regulate first? The media is leading me to believe that the "gun crisis" is the most pressing issue and that aggressive regulation will lead to the greatest gains in terms of preventing loss of life.
> The difference here is that guns are created for one purpose, killing another person.

Or hunting, or target shooting.
You worked on the newer Video Player for the Guardian? Coincidently I created the really old one built in Flash, never had too many bugs though since most of the work was already done with the Flash framework. Just visual stuff going all over the place.
How many guns were used to safely transport people on U.S. roads from one place to another?
Not to go too off-topic, but Sequelize is worth a look if you haven't played with it already.
Because when one car crashes into another and a family of four dies, the odds are likely it was an accident. It's a tragedy, certainly, but you rarely read news articles about a crazed maniac who got into his car with the express purpose of running down pedestrians.

When a gunman takes a gun into a public area and starts shooting people, that's not an accident. It might be a failure of mental health, but it was also a deliberate choice.
A car is designed to get you from A to B.

A gun is designed to kill.
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People who know that ketamine is "horse tranquilizer" uniformly also know that it's used in humans. That's simply a troll comment.
Is the stuff sold as drain cleaner not suitable for making soap?

My local big box hardware store sells 100% lye drain cleaner for $4 a pound (it's 100% sodium hydroxide as crystals or powder). I haven't tried buying any, but I doubt a couple pounds would be an issue.
Very little technical information. Still interesting article in its own right.
>> When properly fixed, SC4 is a much better simulator and challenging game than C:S

Can you elaborate on what it means to be proper fixed? I still occasionally play SC4 but aren't involved enough to know what the quick wins are to mod it for modern play. Appreciate the feedback :-)
I've been waiting for this announcement for a few weeks. Since the home page is quite lean on an actual explanation, let me give a rough summary of interesting points as i understand it. I apologize in advance if I have anything wrong.

1. It is a from-scratch source build system written in rust that borrows a huge amount from nix. This means repeatable software builds with isolated dependencies.

2. It attempts to move some configuration management primitives into the build pipeline so that the deployment config has enough flexibility for real-world use.

3. It intends to replace single host process supervision with a distributed model based on gossip.

This project is most definitely ambitious, and I'm not sure the whole goal is realizable but some aspects are particularly interesting.

1. The build process seems quite useful for building containers, especially if it gets some traction. The main drawback of nix is that no one knows how to use it. If this gets the backing of the hordes of chef-aware system administrators, we may have a good solution for isolated repeatable builds, especially if they focus on deterministic reproducible builds[1] as well.

2. Distributed systems are notoriously hard to configure in a general way. It seems like every company has their own magic combination of config management, monitoring, and scripting for keeping systems like zookeeper running. Its pretty clear that we don't have the right primitives for sharing this work. I don't think a container management system has the right primiteves for this either, because I don't think you can solve for all distributed systems in a generic way. You really need custom logic for the particular software you are trying to distribute. I'm not convinced that a gossip-based process-supervisor is the best approach for this, but it could give us a place to start collaborating on these primitives.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
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Well, do you think that it is a valid argument? I'm tired of hearing it repeated like it's some kind of deep truth even though it equates entirely different processes. I will call people shills when they're not interested in answering hard questions.

Today's XKCD has basically the same argument (http://xkcd.com/1693/).
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The main points around automation seem to be[1]:

* Flexible versioning and configuration rollout

* Ability to deploy anywhere

* Ease of management

Concretely, they're touting their gossip-based configuration and topology management layer as a way to send configuration updates to service groups, and then letting the service groups apply the changes to all the group members. Contrast this with a more traditional way of propagating changes across a network by enumerating every single host/VM/container. I'd imagine another large component of the application automation would come in the form of tooling allowing the ability to deploy anywhere (bare metal vs. VM vs. container vs. IaaS/PaaS providers), but haven't seen that just yet. Maybe it's being covered in the live announcement.

[1] https://www.habitat.sh/about/why-package-automation-with-app...
Does gun violence primary stem from mental-health issues or from easy access to firearms?
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The Alaska/hunting point is a good one - I fully agree here. I think what a lot of people disagree with is the laws allowing possession of an AR-15 assault rifle and it's kin
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This article, in my opinion, didn't raise above the level of a petty rant. For a more nuanced look at Apple's Mac pipeline (which also predicted that WWDC wouldn't have hardware announcements), there's this from MacRumors:

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/08/new-macbook-air-pro-june...
You had me quite intrigued, at least until I saw native advertising being mentioned so prominently on the front page. Unbridled resource consumption and tracking are far from the only ethical concern around the modern ad industry. The breakdown of the barrier between journalistic content and paid content is another big one.
We did. The original title, "Please OS X (or whatever your name is) just fucking reset your DNS cache please", is obviously baity, which means it breaks the HN guidelines. Please read
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. When a title is misleading or linkbait, one should change it to something accurate and neutral.
> The other side says that guns designed with the obvious and explicit goal of effectively killing numerous people are necessary, in keeping with the Constitutional amendment which was drafted to ensure that if it ever became necessary the American citizens would once again have the means to cast off their oppressors and begin anew.

Cue the progressives who claim this was not the original intent of the 2nd amendment, guns would be of no use in a revolution because the military is so crushingly powerful, etc.
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It's not seen universally as a negative thing (by people who know about branding and marketing).

It is, however, used as a negative thing by people who would vent regardless of the name change, and just want to emphasize they care so little about you that they can't even remember your name("or whatever you're called"). It's just some classic disgruntled customer stuff.
Humans are more afraid of gun violence than car accidents. Since we pass laws for the benefit of humans, it is fitting and proper to consider what they fear in the cost assessment.

If we ever start making laws for robots, then I'll get behind your passionless and ultra-rational account of death totals. But, for now, the laws we make are for meat bags and that's why your comment is a non sequitur.
How does this apply towards library creation, where the code is meant to be consumed by other programs languages?

While the total lines of code in libraries is less than that in applications, I would say the relative importance is more. That zlib has a fast and correct implementation matters to a lot of people.
> [...] US navy would effectively be pushed back to Hawaii.

You forgot about Guam, a US Naval/Air base 6000 km west of Hawaii:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Base_Guam
I've been watching Peter König's research on this topic for some time. I was notified via email this morning that they are working to finally productize it:

"This is Susan Wache writing to you from the feelSpace project.

I received your e-mail from Prof. Peter König because you were interested in our experiments with tactile belts and to participate as a subject.

Our project has developed further. Apart from scientific research with the compass belt, we are now also well on our way to provide a commercial version of the tactile belt, including compass functionalities and navigation functionality, effectively guiding you via vibrations directly to any location you want to go to.

A lot of positive feedback from our subjects, blind and non-blind, but also my own enthusiasm after wearing the belt for over 6 months lead to the next step: In November 2015, my two colleagues Silke Kaercher, Jessika Schwandt and I founded a startup: the feelSpace GmbH.

We are close to a first product version of our tactile belt, targeting especially but not exclusively blind people, and thus are running a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo:
http://igg.me/at/feelspace-navibelt"
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What you a describing is basically a private university's library, and hell yes. Though I retain access to my university's library, I don't live in that city anymore, and I have been unable to find anything like it.

Huge rooms. Reasonably nice interior decor. Fast wifi, reasonable printing, comfortable chairs at long tables with lots of outlets, rooms scattered throughout that can be reserved in half hour increments for collaborative work, expectation of silence in the main reading rooms.

I have often wished that companies wanting open plan offices would adopt this model (really all that's missing from most of them is silence).
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The 4 person including assailant definition for a "mass shooting" has always seemed cherry picked to include the "depressed guy kills wife and kids scenario" even though the term brings to mind some sort of broadly antagonistic attack on the public at large.

It's a propaganda effort designed to lend credence to the idea that gun control can somehow be effective. It caught on because the media at large seemingly despise guns and are are loath to acknowledge that anyone cam make one in their garage, let alone that none of the millions of current gun owners are at all likely to ever give them up.
I mean the best way to explain it is to say "I put my vote on several pieces of paper, and give it to several people. One person could edit it, but that would conflict with everyone else. Everyone can see who I gave my anon vote to, and can verify that it all matches up." It's abstracted by a lot, but blockchain is basically just a public ledger.
Before rayiner replies to this and insists it is not a monopoly, but a "non-exclusive franchise agreement", I give you this link:

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http://www.vjolt.net/vol12/issue1/v12i1_a2-Hazlett.pdf
Oh wow! I stand corrected, mostly. I was not aware that was an American thing. How very strange.
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Can we get a combined statistic on how many drivers & shooters were under the influence of serious prescription drugs?
> I think this is actually false, both anecdotally and when surveys have been collected.

Yeah, me too, I guess I was a bit vague with the "if asked" part. I meant if asked straight to their face when others (possibly) managers are listening. There are exceptions of course but in my experience most people see it as a potential conflict with coworkers and managers and will not support it publicly.

> No one actually thinks you're not a team player

Yeah, I know, poor choice of words. But I meant basically what you said. It's shite politics in play. The cost of an office is a very concrete number in a spreadsheet but the loss of productivity is hard to gauge.
> by omission it’s made something startlingly clear: your next laptop won’t be an Apple one.

not if you're an attendee of WWDC or anyone else developing for iOS or macOS....

I agree with @morley... it's just a lame rant.
I seem to recall being turned away from the gate at UCB's main library. Did you go to school there, or how do you get in?
Indeed. Or guns would be required to come with suppressors to protect people's ears. But instead that's a class III stamp.
As the ultimative target of your ads, I just want ads for products that doesn't suck and that actually cater to my needs and interests - I honestly don't care if they are HTML5 or responsive, though I am not sure I even have a flash player anymore so I suggest HTML5 as the most practical solution.

But the problem with ads isn't the technical issue, it is that they suck, horribly, because the products on offer are useless, offensive, or just plain not interesting. Facebook kept showing me offers for a shitty dating site that I am almost sure was a scam, for magic healing crystals, for utility services from a company 100s of miles away. At one point they even offered me to take the degree I already had, from the university I had already attended, despite the fact that facebook knew this.

Google kept giving me ads for the same shitty apartment search site after I moved into my new apartment, rather than something useful, such as curtains, furniture, etc.

Get an ad network that can actually deliver interesting ads I won't care how many requests it makes.