skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lower receiver doesn't determine if it is automatic or semi-automatic. That's the upper receiver.

And automatic weapons are regulated in the U.S., they are not prohibited (everywhere, anyway). If you go through the appropriate paperwork (and a few months wait), and live in the appropriate places (Louisiana, etc.), you too can own a (pre-May 1986) fully automatic weapon.
I like the explanation. However, I gotta wonder whether the javascript syntax noise is a bug or a feature :)
IPad's for every high school student in tiny Michigan town
As someone who has been on TechCrunch many times, I offer the following observations:

1) There are a glut of startups. The only time the majority of startups get coverage is a money event (funding, acquired, dead-pooled). You chances of launch coverage if you are not funded is pretty low. But fight the good fight!

2) Do your homework on the editors! If you just send an email to tips@techcrunch.com, you're going to get routed to a random editor who may or may not be interested in what you do. Take the time to find the most likely editors and email them in advance.

3) There's an old VC trope: "If you want advice, ask for money; if you want money, ask for advice." In this case, I would modify it to "If you want silence, ask for coverage; if you want coverage, ask for advice." Get an editor interested in what you do before asking for the money shot.

4) Take the time to develop relationships with editors. You're in this for the long haul, over multiple companies, right? At this point, I can probably get coverage from Mike, Erick and MG, because they know me and trust me. Conversely, I only ask for coverage in rare instances.

In the short term, #2 is probably most important. In the long term, it's all about #4.
that reminds me to put 2 of three puzzle solutions online....
We used "Webware for Python" back then. And Java.
There's at least one instance of a guy who machined his lower from a polymer cutting board. A wooden lower is certainly within the realm of possibility, although I can't find a video of this one being fired: http://www.weaponeer.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8035&....
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Ok, we disagree about our expectations w.r.t. Code signing. I think it will become obligatory withtin 2 years.

As to the renaming: I know that, but I was commenting on the requirement to have the application menu following renames. A visit to developer.apple.com learns me that that is possible. I have not checked it, though, and the default for a Xcode cocoa application is to use a string from inside the bundle, not the file name.
Ask HN: Customer wants access, what should i do?
Hi Guys,

Need your are help, m in tricky situation. Potential customer wants access to private beta. If he likes it, straight way he want to use it for their production.

Product is not yet very polished from UI prospective. As they said first impression matters ,What should i do ? Shall i give customer access as it is or wait for some time ?
The "Lehman" Moment
Stalin, Hitler, and Mao replaced (or in Hitler's case, supplemented) religion with cults of personality that might as well be called religion.

This is a far cry from what Dawkins advocates - free thought.
I got all excited when I saw 'Huddle' had been replaced by 'messenger'; thinking this would mean google talk and huddles had been integrated. I mean, wouldn't it be great to have an alternative to the closed stuff like whatsapp/kik/etc? Google would have to start by releasing a native google talk client for the iphone (why isn't there one yet?!).

I'm amazed that after all these years there's still no real open standard for instant messaging that is also actually the defacto standard.
Some of the comments here are along the lines of "Well, they should go get a better job!"

Hint, folks: not everyone can get a professional job paying six figures a year. And even if they could, the moment they did, your own wages would drop substantially.

Have some sympathy.
I noticed this comment in the "notes.html":

// Set the floating point precision ...
_controlfp
// Question: Why do that for every frames ? Probably because precision is altered during the loop execution.
// Answer: The is no other call to this function. It appears that floating point precision remains the same during program execution.

I seem to vaguely recall reading something about some versions of Windows not preserving the FPU state across task switches. Could it be that this call to configure the FPU for every frame is a workaround for that?
Seems the author made himself a hater after being too lazy to try the thing out.
I post very little in public, I try to keep it to a minimum, I don't think it is fair to dominate a single persons stream. If and when I do want to publicly post something I do so knowing that everyone gets to see it, including those in my tech circles.

I just get more selective of what posts I do that with. Generally I try to keep it short, or just a link to a blog post so that it is easier to skim over it and realise that it is not of interest.

Google+'s feature of allowing people to mute a post is absolutely fantastic as well, and allows people to control whether or not their stream gets my content that is actively being commented on.

Would I love a feature that would allow me to post publicly but not include certain circles (or rather, not force it into their stream), absolutely. Have some way of doing soft suggestions when posting publicly, as in, this circle may be interested in it, and those following me may be interested in it, but my family isn't interested in it so don't push it to their stream.
Anonymous is Getting a Book Deal
Python and Roles of Variables in Introductory
A Different Samsung Galaxy S II Review
Last year I found a backup of my early 90s WWIV BBS on 20-ish 3.5" disks. I thought about trying to retrieve the data, but decided it wasn't worth the effort.. so I just tossed them. This article makes me a bit sad about the decision.
Why Prada is killing it
"I'd say in a given week, I probably only do about 15 minutes of real, actual work."
The Information Architecture of Slayer
There's a concept called the 80% receiver, which is a freely-transferable hunk of metal that's almost but not quite a receiver. You can order a receiver flat for an AK-type rifle, a parts kit, and assemble a complete rifle for cheaper than you'd buy one. You need a means to heat treat the metal, and probably a drill press. That's not a much greater barrier to entry than the 3d printer for the lower receiver on an AR.

So really, this doesn't change anything. This brings preexisting truths more prominently to the public discussion.
Chasing code-coverage baubles
go katherine! I wanna challenge her to a match after this, but she would probably destroy me
Just me or does that sound awfully close to Apple's marketing language? "We think the benefits are going to be huge."?
A perfect place to make decisions
Is It Wrong to Lie?
FaceTracker
C/C++ API for real time generic non-rigid face alignment and tracking
Triumphalism without much actual substance. The Japanese have an amazing standard of living, superb infrastructure, world beating products and awesome tech.

If you wander around a big city in India you'll see wild dogs and malnourished children, enormous shanty towns and slums. How this nationalistic rag called the india times can proclaim "victory" as having "toppled" Japan is beyond me.

Also - claiming that Russia and India are coming to the aid of European countries is completely ridiculous. India currently receives £1billion + in aid from the UK.

Having a "big" economy because there are 1 billion citizens within that economy doesn't mean anything in itself.
Ha, that's a joke - are you aware that during and prior to the crisis, Fannie and Freddie were both PRIVATE companies? They traded on the stock market, as private companies do. The government eventually nationalized them (in 2009 I think) and completely destroyed their value on the stock market (I should know, I owned stock in the two during the crisis - they traded under FRE and FNM before they turned into junk stock).

The only respect in which Fannie and Freddie were public (prior to being nationalized) is that they were federally-backed. What happens when you have lenders backed by government dollars? They take in riskier loans and leverage the hell out of their credit line. In reality, it is much more complex than that though - there are many layers on which debt is traded. But the end message is that private companies should never be federally backed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were not the sole catalysts, but they were silos for toxic debt.
Recipe for Any Android Phone Review Ever
Phone interviews or in person? I think after 3 such I would have decided these people just couldn't make decisions or were such a political organization they would have been toxic to work for. Did your contact give any insight into this inefficiency?
Neal Stephenson on Video Games, The Metaverse, and REAMDE
Perl was everywhere; that was its heyday.

PHP was not yet a joke. Or, rather, it was a joke, but a chuckler rather than the groaner it has become.

In 1999, if you said you were a software developer, that meant you wrote programs for people to use on their computers. If you wrote software that ran on servers, that was sort of unusual, so you would describe yourself as a "server-side developer" or something of that sort.

If all you did was make web pages, well, that was basically just gluing HTML tags together, so you were at best a "web designer". Maybe, just maybe, you could rise up to a sort of limited honorary "developer" status if your work involved a lot of heavy-duty CGI coding. Nobody would have called your tools a "dev environment" back then.
Facebook did blow up in select circles though right from the get-go. When it hit college campuses it spread like wildfire as there were no restrictions to entering and you could have all your close, daily contacts together in one place instantly. Google+ let me and 5 other friends in but prevented me from inviting others and now it's basically dead with the last post between any of us over a month old.

The overall number of users in the system isn't something important, it's how many users I know. A network with 10,000 users at Harvard will spread out much faster than one with 10m dotted around the US as it represents a contiguous userbase that is a solid foundation for social interaction.
The article says "license to buy" not "license to own." I know that in Minnesota you need a Permit to Purchase from your local PD or a Permit to Carry from your local Sheriff in order to purchase an AR-15 (or a handgun).
Shouldn't productivity be measured in number of things done where each "thing" is multiplied by a number that represents the difficulty of the task divided by the time taken to do it?

If hours are the chief measurement, then you can stretch things out to make it take more time. I'm sure this is happening in businesses the world over anyway.
I'd consider the typical poetic fork bomb
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That's just nonsense. There were no "plans to keep things going" -- if that were so, then whose plans were these, exactly, and why weren't those plans enacted?

If the default threat were really no big deal, why did the stock market plunge 15% during the Republican-engineered budget crisis? Clearly somebody thought it was a big deal, because it requires a hell of a lot of selling to make the market move like that.

The Republican congressional leadership stated outright that default was preferable to raising one penny of taxes to balance the budget. That's not "business as usual". It's arguably not even constitutional. But it's certainly never happened before in the history of the United States.
The core issue here is the pricing change wasn't just about making more money, the main reason was Netflix had to pay a lot of money for users with Streaming included but had never used it.

As they had to say in the licensing "x amount of users have streaming" when only a percentage had ever used it".

The idea was they could now say "These users are specifically paying for streaming". They'd already split up the two plans into two different business departments.

In my opinion they should have offered a streaming plan, DVD plan but let DVD users pay a small premium to access streaming instead of doubling their core users bills, if they wanted to sort this licensing issue.
Not everyone will have the chances or make the right choices to "better themselves". That doesn't mean they deserve to work in unsafe or unhealthy conditions.
That's back when I was using C++/ASM in Visual Studio 6, IDA Pro, and WinDbg to reverse engineer games like Starcraft and Diablo. Now, I use Python to write relatively simple web code. Have I regressed? haha.

Self-taught beauties such as this: https://github.com/ryancole/broodwar-chat-enhancements/blob/...
It's amazing what the thought of having an unfair advantage in an online game can make you want to learn.
HAHA. As corny as it is presented, it is very informative.
There's another quirk of binding up federal, state, and local voting into a single act.

I live and vote in New Jersey (not to mention pay property taxes, etc). I also own a cabin in upstate New York, on which I've got to pay property taxes as well. The thing is, since I am an NJ resident and I vote here, I'm forbidden from voting in New York.

Given the way we structure our voting, this restriction is necessary: I'd be able to get two voices in Washington, otherwise. However, the flip side of it is a situation of "taxation without representation" -- and that's not fair, as Schoolhouse Rock tells us.
Become an iOS developer with this Objective-C primer
I don't know if it's necessarily a good thing to get rid of it.

Maybe a better balance is needed, but I think there's a real link with the kind of person who can't sleep for thinking of work, and success in what they are doing.
IPhone Skype XSS Vulnerability Lets Hackers Steal Phonebook [video]
Impressive discussions. I like the Spotify model compared to Netflix. Care to comment?
Tips for How to Use and Apply Stencil for Home and Office Projects
(Web) Entrepreneurs don't sleep because they're proficient with the internet. Not only do you get into a routine of not going to sleep, but your also not really trying to. I know, this was me!

Now I try to unwind, I have to make conscious decision to down tools and watch the TV, set the timer. I have a time when I know I should really have my head down.

On the flip-side, 2-3 years ago - I was up till 6-7am, waking at 12/1pm and repeating all over again. After all, I had the internet (read: unlimited stuff to look at) and nothing to get up for.
Mentally, at least for me, it's too easy to fall into the trap of classifying "work" as something that directly produces results....writing code, changing a design etc.

When looked at it from that perspective, it's easy to feel that you/someone are not doing a lot of "work", but often a lot of my time is spent on "work about work".... answering emails, managing clients, or even just brainstorming on a whiteboard / notebook. All of these are just as important to the end result of a project but are easy to overlook in a day/week/month that is ruled by deadlines, expectations, metrics, etc.

If I've got a telecommuter on my staff that gets shit done, but only works an hour a day, more power to him.
There's a great response from Loic LeMeur: http://loiclemeur.com/english/2011/09/the-influencers-verdic...

"Time will tell if Google+ will succeed, I am still getting incredible traction and interactions in it (thanks) so I don’t believe the influencers verdict, I was waiting for it to start to show up and it of course did.

It’s a great reminder on how to launch a new service: it’s not about the tech bloggers and writers, it’s about normal people and whether they will adopt it or not. Forget the influencers, the history is packed with services that succeeded when the influencers said it would fail and vice-versa.

No, Dan, your opinion doesn’t matter. It’s the other millions of users that matter, you might be right, but only time will tell. You’re trashing Google+ just because it will get you some attention today."

Edit: And I notice that Google has started to advertise G+ on the home page.
That's the nature of opinions, though; they're not supposed to be for your benefit, they just give you something to consider. I have a tendency to agree with the kind of people that downplay panic, simply because they seem more focused on what has happened than on the worst that might possibly happen. When "swine flu" broke out, we had the people that told us that it was deadly and dangerous, then we had the people that told us it was worth being careful but not worth being petrified.

You bring up the RIAA and I think that's a good choice of analogy for anti-alarmism -- when you're that unlucky individual who does get hit with a lawsuit, you're pretty screwed and the problem is pretty bad. However, I have known a lot of filesharers (I am in college after all), and not one actual lawsuit victim. It's not analogous to the scale of, say, a nuclear accident or $250,000 in tax penalties, but I think it's still reasonable to consider the odds of actually getting hit before freaking out.
I'm in High School and regularly go to bed later than 3 because of the points you raised. F.lux has also made my life much better. I love to wake up early, that's my other problem. I hate to sleep in and waste time.
Read my comment above.

Then check your facts, and the "facts" others post before preemptively determining what you think is based on rhetoric and dogma.
For nuanced questions, I agree. But many important questions are quite clear cut. For instance, "is there a God?", or "is there an afterlife?" hardly admit any other answer than "yes" or "no" (for any given definition of "God" and "afterlife", that is).
No video but he did fire it, see page 2. It cracked on the 2nd round. Interesting enough, this was made of pine, which is just about the worst possible choice short of balsa.
I love the idea of getting gigs without having to go get them myself. Can single person devs shops apply too?
this is a perfect example of taking something that would normally be legit and because it is outlawed rules and regulations are flouted at best, a massive fraud and corruption at worse.
When I see cases like this, I was wonder how people involved but they would be able to get away with this if you look at the amount they supposedly had on deposit versus what they actually had it doesn't take an accounting major to know there is a huge discrepancy that you will unlikely be able to pay back. It's clear the poker sites make some money through ads and transactional commission but since people play against each other they don't benefit from the advantages a normal casino would have. Although people lose their money they lose it to the person across the table not to the "house".
With this high-profile company now under a dark cloud of suspicion, they are definitely putting a big if not final nail in their coffin. With player bots, player collusion and security vulnerability in their systems people start to think long and hard before they wager money online.
Interesting form of technical debt. I hear Akka is replacing Scala's actors lib in 3.1 or thereabouts. Any talk about adopting it?

>There's some people at Twitter who truly love and grok Scala and Scala idioms inside out, and there's some people who look at Scala as a more functional, less verbose Java.

I'm a full card-carrying member of exactly both groups, but if all Scala does is succeed b/c of the latter, it will have served a wonderful purpose in displacing Java.
Of those 10m users there are only 5 that I know. If they had opened G+ up to all current Gmail accounts and Apps accounts they could have made a huge impact, there was enormous buzz around my college campus (where everyone had an Apps for Education account) but nobody could get in. When FB opened itself up to non .edu accounts it had swept my school in weeks because there was no barrier to entry and people wanted to try it out. Even though there were far fewer users on FB then than G+ now you had social circles joining en masse creating a foundation for a usable network. For most younger people your group of friends likely joined all around the same time, which couldn't happen with G+.

Instead of universal limits on access, Google should have kept the first iteration a truly closed and internal beta then opened it up to everyone.
The Cool Kids' Table (VC/Angels)
Well what gets measured gets improved.

What's subjective to you is pretty objective to me - the health impact of unhappiness, for example, will reflect in healthcare costs. Which btw makes up 15% of US GDP. Now is that even real GDP or just a manufactured problem - with doctors and lawers and insurance guys all making money off of health problems of consumers.

See this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:International_Comparison_-...
5 Film-School Violations in Videogame Cut-Scenes
Convert Scanned PDF Files To Text In Linux With OCR
Fastest selling would be one possible metric:

"Kicking off Microsoft Corp.’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), a four-day event that celebrates the accomplishments of the company’s 640,000 global partners, CEO Steve Ballmer today thanked partners for helping make Windows 7 the fastest-selling operating system in history"

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/jul11/07-11MSW...
So, if you are perfectly happy with XP and don't want Win7, I assume it's really easy to buy a new computer and install XP on it, right?
> IANAL, but mere possession of an automatic weapon is prohibited, is it not?

They are legal to own. They require a class III license and no automatic fire guns made after 1986 are permitted to be sold to private citizens.
I'll add a counter-anecdote, the only broken thing I've ever been delivered was from Amazon (a baby stroller)... return was no-hassle.

I've bought plenty of tech stuff from NewEgg, mWave and others, too.
Transformative Change Is Rare, Wishful Thinking Is Not
Couldn't agree more... happens to me all the time.
I see a trend in the world of these so called social media experts, they really love to amplify the gravity of the situation by N+1. Of course, Facebook can/is worse than a ghost town, twitter the same, but in order to fix this, how about get some actual people in there? And please stop trying to predict the future, let them be, if you don't like it, surely someone else does.
yeah we currently don't restrict startup team size. Past project experience plays a big role in vetting the team (in your case, a team of 1).