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If I were to apply the idea initially expressed to your comment it would be to say "why not give people the choice to invest in non-SEC regulated markets." If the effect is net-positive, than why would you have to force people to choose SEC regulated markets.

Obviously if it was not actually positive then not having the choice is pretty crappy.
The main threat is that the gun does not fire when it should. As soon as those "smart" guns are mandated (they can't win on the merits, as nobody is buying them), there will be $5 gun jammers all over eBay.
We have very very effective toddler thwarting technology; low tech, very cost effective and easy to impliment, its called "keeping it where the toddler can't get it". Its worked fairly well since the inception of the firearm.

To which the inevitable reply is: If I put my gun in a safe place, it won't be where I need it when I need it. A similar argument is frequently used as an objection to manual trigger locks, which have also been around for a very long time.

An effective smart gun eliminates that objection by allowing a firearm to be stored somewhere accessible while still preventing accidental discharge.

I understand there are enormous technical challenges to achieve that goal, and I'm not claiming the current generation of technology is effective, or heck, even that an effective solution is possible.

But I think it's absolutely disingenuous to claim that all firearm discharges are done under deliberate, life-threatening circumstances, or that this kind of technology does not have the potential to save lives while still providing an effective tool for self-defense.
There's no such thing as a "smart gun" that's actually useful in the real world. There are too many failure modes that cannot be tolerated when a gun is needed to save your life.

To your point about toddlers - safe storage and safe methods of carry solves that, and they work with every gun in circulation already.

1) Lock up your gun if it's not directly under your control (i.e., in a holster).

2) Carry your gun in a proper holster, on your person. Not in your purse in the shopping cart, but on your hip.

These two, together, would prevent every case where a toddler shoots somebody.

It's not appreciated outside gun circles, and sadly even in gun circles a lot of people don't get it, but good holsters are the most important investment you can make. A huge fraction of gun accidents trace back to cheap holsters.
Sia is NOT ethereum. Don't call it a token
The handshake contains the encrypted password. The idea is to reverse this encryption to obtain the plaintext password.
It's simple to show addiction is an unsustainable configuration for pretty much any system across all economic levels.
Was thinking the other day: could someone prove by signing with some wallet keys or moving some coin that they control enough crypto wealth to be an accredited investor? Could you do an ICO that required that?
If you're employed at the company, I'm pretty sure you'd know. However, as an outsider look for regulatory signs such as hiring of new finance/CFO roles. Quiet period without new product announcements or features (out of the ordinary).
Insurance companies and hospitals "accidentally" bill you for the wrong thing all the time, even for the little stuff.

I went to the ER for a broken hand a couple years ago, got a $450 bill in the mail when I should have just had a co-pay. Called the hospital, they said I had to pay. Called my insurance, insurance company said I didn't have to pay. Got in a three way call with the insurance company and the hospital... The billing specialist at the hospital literally said "Sorry, that's a known billing error!"

I'm generally not a conspiracy theorist, but I've never heard of a medical billing error that was in favor of the patient... If you see something alarmingly high or out of whack (especially if you've done your due diligence, read and understood your policy, and researched covered hospitals) you'd be silly not to fight it.
> The Visitor pattern mostly addresses the shortcomings of the type system (i.e no "match" statement).

The visitor pattern addresses doing multiple dispatch in a single dispatch language.

> The Command pattern, in its most basic form, could also be considered as implementing 1st class functions by wrapping them into objects.

BTW, that's not really true; first class functions are not a replacement for commands. Commands are about turning behavior into state so it can be stored and executed, potentially replayed for example, at a later time. Commands aren't just functions, even languages that have first class functions still use the OO command pattern when doing things that benefit from command patterns.
Most maybe, but not by any means all. And there are tons of auto-installing viruses for windows.
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It's a logic error. It's actually still atomic.
Even in the "watch" case, it's not good enough.

What if you need to shoot with your left hand and the watch is on your right? If you make the range long enough for that case to work, it's long enough to have your gun used by someone else close by.
Maybe. I'm just responding to what seem to be the OP's own sentiments that he's wasted a decade.
I've used it in the past. It works, sometimes. I wonder if it is still actively developed?
Shyp is scaling back operations and laying off employees
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> Dharma does carry a secular sanskrit definition, but sanskrit is not a precise written language like English. The meanings of words are often only discoverable in context, and approachable only with a prior familiarity of common illustrations and allegories depicting the concept.

But for the part about it being different in this regard from English, this is probably true of Sanskrit.

But that's not a different from English; lots of things in English require similar (local and cultural) contextual information to understand.
What was the (name of) the book you gave?
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People, left to their own devices, manage complexity effectively.

For example, most people don't understand how microprocessors work. But this is addressed through an effective and spontaneous process of delegating responsibility.

The government can play a positive role in helping manage this complexity, by providing certification programs, and freely available public information. What it should not do is constrain the actions of individuals, by mandating that a particular standard be used.
Well, corporate laptops where I work (company bought Macs usually) don't have mandatory (or even suggested) anti-viruses on them.
I remember after the ethereum flash crash how many people were saying "screw decentralization, I'm getting a lawyer". Those sort of values go out the window when the person who loses, loses a lot. The laws are in place for the benefit of all
Negligent discharges happen because people break gun safety rules. In the entire history of USPSA there were only two fatal accidents. If you think it's a lot, compare to other sports.

Besides, the device in question won't help in the cases you mentioned, as the parent with the watch would still be within the range of the transceiver, and the gun would fire anyway.
Share links to some of these non-battery "electric" devices!
Absolutely not. Any tool used in a life or death situation should be as simple as possible. Panicked people, where every millisecond counts, require a simple tool. I can make a case against every "smart" gun system developed.
>> How much do the company registrations and filings actually cost?
>It depends on how much you raise. Right now it's 0.01159% [4].

Those might be the fees. The cost of a registration is much higher. Gotta put food on the table of all those lawyers and accountants.

https://www.pwc.com/us/en/deals/publications/assets/pwc-cost...

Certainly, money can be raised more cheaply with exemptions, but those come with their own tradeoffs.
That's not an externality. An honest business is not entitled to any customer's business. If the customer wants to squander their money away at the casino, leaving them with no money to spend at the honest business, they have that right. It's their money, and they are not obligated to spend it at the honest business.

And in any case, the market for lemons is a theoretical exercise. It does not actually happen in real markets, because there are various market mechanisms that emerge to address it.
Speaking of disingenuous... there are other places besides a safe that toddlers can't reach. Like say, any shelf more than a few feet above ground.

Source: Once was a toddler.
It's immensely more problematic. Getting out a key, inserting it into a gun, and operating it under tremendous stress (likely the most stress you've ever been under in your life) requires an amount of fine motor control that most people simply won't have.

It'll also completely removes the element of surprise - you can't draw your gun and fire in one motion, you have to draw, fart around with a lock, then fire. Which is all the opening the bad guy needs to use his against you.

I suggest taking a class, or even watching youtube videos of classes, about active self protection to understand exactly how much stress and how little time is involved in these situations.
An easy to make yet baseless accusation, how childish.
I don't know about the load boards themselves, (of which there are many), but there are a lot of companies in the logistics space. $62 million isn't that much.

Not saying whether they'll succeed, but saying deep pockets will do it doesn't make sense, IMHO.
Not really. There are better ways to deal with this problem, e.g., retention holsters and quick access pistol safes.
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Value is going to dip. They are speculative. Investments.

The big supporters of cryptocurrencies were under the delusion that they were exempt from financial regulations. Today the SEC reminded them that securities law applies to everyone.

This makes it significantly harder to invest. Investors getting out will cause a drop in the coins' value.
I'd recommend rewording the last sentence as it seems to imply that training speed has same "hard to reproduce" numbers, when in fact I believe you meant to say that LightGBM is indeed faster.
Where's the revenue?
Update here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2017/07/adobe-connect-on...
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> Commands are about turning behavior into state so it can be stored and executed, potentially replayed for example, at a later time.

First-class functions plus partial application do that trivially. (First-class functions provide the ability to store a generic command, partial application let's you get a specific instance with local state that can be “replayed” against a different external state object.)
I'm an embedded developer. What are you hiring for?
I'm going to play devil's advocate, here:

1) Lock up your gun if it's not directly under your control (i.e., in a holster).

"But then it's not available when someone breaks into my home!"

2) Carry your gun in a proper holster, on your person. Not in your purse in the shopping cart, but on your hip.

"How does that help me when I'm in bed and someone breaks in in the middle of the night?"

I'm going to be blunt: while I recognize my own reply is somewhat simplistic and idealistic, yours is no better. There is simply no technology, today, that makes gun ownership in the home both safe and is perceived as 100% effective in circumstances where a weapon is needed for self-defense in an emergency situation.

This type of technology is a search for a solution to that problem. Is it the solution? Or a perfect solution? Clearly not.

But to imply there is no solution, or that it's a solution in search of a problem, belies a profound cynicism.

This is Hacker News. Folks, here, believe technology can solve everything, from world hunger to poverty.

But for some reason, apparently it's impossible to improve on the firearm.

it's baffling.
And if you're non-law enforcement - if you know ahead of time you might need to use your gun, you avoid the situation altogether.

Defensive gun use is about terrible surprises, it's not something people can plan for.
Especially given all the warnings in the post, I'm wondering why one would want to do this? I imagine the ostensible answer is security, but given the many recent posts about Solidity's poor design and the many recent heists due to (non-obvious) smart contract bugs, why would anyone want to run a private Ethereum network?

Is there a better alternative?
Why not just use Clojure?
Texting.
I think you're maybe taking my example a bit too literally...
There are tons of ways to safely store a firearm that mitigate the "where is it" objection, all of them cheaper and safer than buying a new gun of debatable reliability.

I have yet to test this but I believe the grip safety of a 1911 or the standard safety lever on a modern pistol would thwart a toddler as well. Teenager not so much.

Again, this is a solution in search of a problem.
My first thought was sending email.
Reminds me of an article from 5 years ago, "The Cigarette of This Century", comparing cigarettes and smartphones. Although that one is looking more at their social roles than their health effects.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/the-c...
Yes, holsters. Unfortunately even among "gun people" quality holsters are not appreciated.

Nearly all accidental shootings can be prevented by a quality holster.
I'm always having to tell people to put their phones away. I purposely have a really cheap phone, because I don't want to sit on my phone and use social media all day.

Sometimes I'll be sitting in a group with a few friends, and I'll be the only one not looking at my phone. I have to tell them to stop trying to socialise with people hundreds of miles away, when there's people right here.

As for travel, I've never bothered taking photos of landmarks, everyone has seen pictures of them before, probably better pictures than I can take.
You're not even representing my view accurately. My view is that scammers should be punished, not the entirety of the population on the premise of preempting crime.

Rejecting a person's argument on the grounds that it's "extreme [insert label]" that "everyone rejects" is not constructive.
Exactly. My kids rarely play Minecraft, but love that they can play Roblox together (on different computers) without me having to set up a server for them to share.
Could you do so? It's non-obvious to me.
Sources, please, on the claim that "some cops use it."

I know a lot of cops, and none of them would get close to something like this. Too many ways for it to fail and get them killed.
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You're missing having mental quiet time by always being attached to your phone. Take a minute or two to contemplate what's around you while you wait for your car to warm up.
It would be interesting if they compared training speed with CatBoost [0].

I remember seeing a paper where they managed to avoid getting stuck in local optimum in terms of number of learners, and the more trees you add better the result.

Logloss results seem to confirm there's a superior tree algorithm going on there in CatBoost.

[0]: https://catboost.yandex/
I'm actually building a product that incorporates a CC1350 in it, which is the variant that has both a 2.4 GHz and a proprietary sub-1GHz radio.

These chips are totally amazing. TI used every trick in the book to help the designers save power. There's even a specialized coprocessor that uses special low leakage silicon to handle some simple 16 bit I/O processing so you don't have to wake up the main processor, and the main Cortex-M3 is pretty darn low power already.

I am kind of annoyed that you have to call into their ROM routines to use the radio, though. The datasheet is a snarky little tease that says ha ha, the radio registers are somewhere around these addresses but we aren't going to tell you what they do! Shhhh it's a secret! This is particularly annoying because I could make my life a lot simpler if I could interface with the Nordic shockburst protocols, and TI's firmware only knows how to speak TI simplelink packet formats.

The thing that TI isn't talking about is that they did some stuff around the voltage regulation that looks like they were planning on pushing some kind of energy harvesting companion silicon. It's just a guess, but they might announce something in the future along those lines. Whoever ends up first to market with a productized energy harvesting IoT chip is going to print bucketloads of money.

There's also a lot of stuff going on in the low power LTE space right now. Altair semi announced the 1250 chip, which is -- get this -- power competitive with the TI chip for low frequency telemetry applications. AT&T and Verizon have already launched their cat-M1 networks and cat-NB1 is going to be out by the beginning of next year. Those protocols use oversampling and a bunch of other mad scientist RF hacks to get even more range than the LTE radio in your phone. The bandwidth is really low, like modem or ISDN low, but there's a ton of applications that can be implemented with literally one bit per day worth of data. The chips are getting pumped out in volume now, and the cost regime is actually causing revenue jitters at the carriers. They want to squeeze some extra revenue out of LTE IoT space since it's basically free for them to implement since the LTE IoT designers figured out how to reuse the otherwise useless guard bands surrounding the real full-fat LTE signals your phone uses.

However, it's kind of a tough problem to figure out a cost model where customers are paying something like $10 a year for maybe hundreds of devices that are so cheap that the most expensive item on the board is the SIM card. And even that's going away in the 2nd generation IoT chips now that someone figured out how to get around the UICC requirement for provisioning by doing something funny with a protected element in the main LTE radio.

Also check out my profile. It's not a joke, someone made a homebrew monitoring solution out of someone else's IoT chip to keep track of cow farts because they wanted to adjust the feed based on farts per minute or something, I didn't really understand it.
One common use is to test out your new contract code without using real ethereum. You could even imagine a time where you could run a fuzzer on your contract to try to find bugs.

Personally I don't think there's a real risk of exposing your real Ethereum wallet by setting up a testnet, as long as you only let localhost connect to it.
This is the point that made me really chuckle.

While there's probably something to the motivated young weirdo hacker theory (it was William Burroughs who said "only the young bring anything in, and they are not young very long"), I would also very skeptical what a JP Morgan banker has to say about the SEC. It's like asking a bank robber what he thinks of the police (hyperbole, I know. Bear with me). There's a bit of a natural bias there.

That said, JP Morgan has launched their own Ethereum fork and is working closely with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and (to my knowledge) Vitalik Buterin. It seems they're sincerely chasing this tech (dragon?) for better intentions or for worse.
That is the most bizarre argument against single-payer healthcare I have ever seen.
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>things like paying the NFL to fly F16s over stadiums

Actually those are training flights that pilots volunteer to move to coincide with the event. The net cost to the tax payer is zero as those flights would of simply happened on another day. If you have an event you can request a fly over yourself.

http://www.airshows.pa.hq.af.mil/PublicSite/Index.cfm?fwa=ho...
At one point, financial regulations were somewhat optional. The SEC was created to put an end to securities fraud, because it turns out that having no rules on speculation is a bad idea.

Do we need to repeat history, just to prove that financial regulations are a good idea? We had a Depression once. I'd not like to do it again.
It's not impossible to improve firearms - tons of innovation happens in that space. At the same time, anything that decreases reliability is a deadly liability that cannot be tolerated.

To your counter-examples. Carry your gun at home if you're worried about break-ins. Put your gun in a quick-access safe when you sleep. Problems solved
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People are going to make bad investments, no matter how much the SEC restricts. There are a huge number of non-securities investments available, and people pour huge amounts of money in them. A government is never going to be able to protect individuals from their own bad judgment.

All these regulations do is drive up the cost of directly accessing public capital markets (at last count, $6 million to do an IPO), and contribute to growing income disparity [1].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/research/make-elites-compete-why-t...
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Yeah this is my question... A lawyer that spoke @ Devcon 2 almost a year ago seemed to think Ether(ETH) did not pass the Howey test.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/devcon-2-ethereum-may-pass-howey-te...
It may be compared to similiar content aggregators, therefore not much? As a social platform, I am not sure this community would be easy to monetise: what kind of premium service would YC offer on top of the freebies? For one, I would think of a gamified approach to YC services like one-to-one briefings, networking opportunities, dedicated pitch sessions and so on. Karma acts as a gamifier already, so the currency is there.