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Explosives are much harder to obtain and use effectively, poison gas is much less lethal than people think (blame movies - even the Nazi purpose-designed gas chambers took 20 minutes to kill people), and knives aren't anywhere near as effective as guns - for example, police don't use them to control suspects, and soldiers don't use bayonets anymore.

If you get into a knife-fight with someone, you are going to fuck them up... but you are at high risk of also being fucked up yourself due to poor stopping power and close quarters. Now repeat for each of the 12 deaths and 58 maimings seen in this event.

The Tueller drill says that it is dangerous to have an opponent within 21 feet even when you have a firearm, because they can cover that distance and be on you in 1.5 seconds, a short time even if you're ready and aware of their location and their intention. Now consider that all knife fights happen inside that distance. Seriously, it's not a valid comparison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
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I second NameCheap. The sign up process is fairly straightforward and free of un-needed upsells, but may be confusing to people unfamiliar with basic internet jargon/terms. However, I wonder how "easy" sign up needs to be if the hypothetical mother in question is savvy enough to know that she wants to purchase a domain name, rather than say, register her vanity URL on Facebook and call it a day.
There are maybe 60 years worth of proven reserves if we don't increase demand, at least according to BP in 2009. If that is end of story for the future of energy, then it is a fairly bleak story.
Getty sell images. They rightly pursue blatant [commercial] copyright infringements of those images; they're probably not going about it well but that's another matter I feel. JD sell bourbon, they wrongly pursue IMO the authors of books that use the same flourishes on their jackets as JD use on their whisky bottles.

If the defendant were selling alcoholic drinks, fair dos.
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Clean energy is expensive, takes a long time to build, and introduces more problems, but we have no other choice! We can either suffer the consequences of global warming or try to avoid the worst of it. Sticking with fossil fuels is not a choice unless we can somehow make them out of C02 we remove from the atmosphere for that purpose. All the choices we could make to deal with the global energy crisis are terrible, we have to pick the one that hurts the least. We can hurt the economy and stop burning fossil fuels, or we can take almost certainly catastrophic risks with the only planet we have to live on.

People love to blame China, but they are polluting to make goods we then import in many cases and are not responsible for squandering the giant fossil fuel inheritance of the modern age. Of course they may wish to get their share of what remains as long as everyone else is burning it anyway.
I'm not sure what to make of that last chart... it's showing wind power increasing from 0.09% to 2.91% in only 20 years (which is the blink of an eye in an industry that moves as glacially slow as electricity production--Chicago just this year shut down a couple of coal plants that were over a century old). If the trend holds up then in another 20 years alms tall our electricity will be produced by wind!
I recall using jsbin a month or so ago and had it fail on some basic JS I had inputted to test it out. Anecdotal and without proof but that is what made me decide on using jsfiddle. Going to give jsbin another try with this new version.

*edit:

This frustrates me so much on jsfiddle and I'm guessing it's a default browser formatting thing but why don't you guys make the curly braces NOT leap forward from where my cursor is?

Example : http://i.imgur.com/mZXTO.png
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If you have a way to segment your free users then come up with an idea and test it on 10% of them. See what happens. If you made a bad choice and piss of 10% of them, then you can turn off the test and leave the other 90% of the free users blissfully unaware. If your idea works, then you can expand it to a larger test cell, or to all free users.

View it as an A/B test, but don't just default to a 50/50 split.
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Yep, this plainly correct argument has been persistently ignored by everyone on the bandwagon for an embarrassingly long time now, and that is leading, predictably, to some unfortunate situations. Nice to see that the IEEE has at least an ounce of integrity left.
ECU updates that are normally done by your dealer could in theory be done OTA like that. So, 10 minutes of 'down time' instead of a trip to the dealer and an hour+ of down time.
Lots. We are just now beginning to unlock vast fields. The USA alone has 200 years worth of domestic supply (cite: parent's economist link, not sure if it includes consumption growth).

The good news is that hydrocarbons cannot get much shorter without turning into hydrogen. At some point solar will be too cheap to use anything else. Gas is thus an economical holdout until then so we can avoid a Malthusian future.
Given the complexity of legal issues, you can explain away every legal study ever the way you just have.

The point that the study was making is that the vociferous folks frothing from the tabloids aren't operating from an informed position, so their opinion shouldn't be held as the canonical one to base policy on.

My favourite example is this: Politicians love to say "it's the will of the people" on topics like this. "Hey, you industry professionals might not like it, but it's what the uninformed general public want". Strangely, they never seem to take the same attitude when it comes to their own pay packets - all of a sudden it becomes "what the public doesn't understand"...
You're the one who is making the case that the second amendment is distinct from the others. Give him something to respond to.
If you want a spritesheet generator that works ofline, the company I work for has open sourced a crazy fancy one, which is able to do things like take an entire directory and recursivly convert it into a single image with as little space lost as possible.

I don't remember if It comes with css output, but if not it should be really easy to plug it in as it was designed for that. It does come with an ant target. (http://opensource.cego.dk/spritemapper).
"If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." A typical remark from gun-loving Americans. They seem to miss a couple of things: if guns are outlawed, and you catch someone with a gun, that indicates they posess the gun with criminal intentions (i.e., their objection can actually be an advantage); if lots of people have guns and normal people can buy them, it makes it that much easier for criminals to obtain them; and a gun in a home is more likely to be use to accidentally kill children than to kill a criminal intruder, which means there is a good reason to try to discourage regular citizens from owning guns.

I think there are compelling reasons to keep guns legal, and I could imagine circumstances in which I would buy a gun. If I have children, I will teach them to safely handle a firearm, as I was taught. But this NRA cliche about banning guns doesn't hold water as an argument.
The evolutionary pressure of people dying at 65 instead of 66 (completely made up numbers) is pretty small, especially in a modern society where their dependents will not usually starve as a result.
"Due process and requirements for warrants are important because it keeps the government honest, and suspending them would cause more government abuse than it would stop crime."

That's fairly vague. I'm not sure what clear distinction you are trying to draw between the 2nd and 4th Amendments.

"But what makes a right to gun ownership important? What does it protect against, and what makes it better than not having that right?"

It can be seen as a right to self defense.

First, consider that your life, or at least your quality of life, depends on the police doing their jobs. To destroy you, the police merely need to make it known that you won't be protected.

There are many examples of this for many different reasons. It could be some political reason why the police chief doesn't want to enforce order in a minority neighborhood. Or, it could be more personal.

Even if the police do make a reasonable effort to protect you, it might not be enough to deter a stalker or someone that you're afraid of. Police generally react after the fact to punish a perpetrator rather than actually protect you, anyway.

You seem to be turning the burden of proof around, to ask why I think we should be allowed a freedom. The social contract says otherwise: we must agree together that a freedom is so dangerous that it should be outlawed.

Honestly, I think you should carefully evaluate whether you think that we are really better off with severe restrictions on guns[1], or whether you are just reacting emotionally to the thought that someone on your block owns a killing machine (which is what guns are, really).

But there are 200M+ guns in the US (numbers aren't precise, but it's about 2 guns per 3 people -- men, women, and children), and we aren't dropping like flies, so you have to look past the emotion. Most gun deaths in the US are suicide, by the way[2] -- and some people argue that is a human right.

[1] The research is mixed on the subject, and I imagine it depends on a lot of factors. To really have an opinion that the right should be removed, you would need to put in a lot of serious effort to research the numbers and convince yourself that people actually would be saved. I have the advantage that I win by default -- I don't need to prove that gun ownership increases safety to hold my opinion, I just need to convince myself that it doesn't increase danger enough to justify restricting it (which is pretty easy considering the low number of gun homicides overall).

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Stat...
I'm kind of shocked that no one here has suggested you look at the Khan Academy's CompSci videos. For simple video learning, you can not beat the Khan Academy:
http://www.khanacademy.org/science/computer-science

It is very python heavy, but python is an excellent first language for someone wanting to quickly get into the thick of things. Enjoy!
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I've never paid for a drink at a casino, and I'm strictly a small-fry.
I didn't realize that the zsh OS X currently ships with (4.3.11) isn't a stable release. Is that unusual for their built-ins?
- Globally wind power produced < 0.5% of energy last year. Most people forget, or don't realise, that the current obsession with alternative energy is limited to parts of Western Europe and parts of the USA. It has virtually no traction elsewhere in the world.

- You're right, I should have written billions instead of trillions, though I'd be surprised if it hasn't reached a trillion by now. It's still an insane amount of money.

- Bankruptcies in Germany and Spain by solar companies are very much the cause of bad policies - by pumping up a sector with unsustainable subsidies, then being forced to remove subsidies precisely because they are unsustainable. This creates a bubble into which resources rush, which then bursts and creates a lot of problems.

This is the fundamental problem, of trying to coerce a particular set of technologies into place when they aren't suitable for it. The correct response is to admit there is no current technical solution to affordable energy without burning stuff. There is a noisy subset of people who don't agree with this position, and that's fair enough. History has always proven that major advances come from unexpected areas, and tend to render prior technologies obselete almost overnight.
pretty cool! I wish it had scroll-to-refresh though.
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3 immediate flaws:

He ignores completely hydro and geothermal power. They help Iceland (100%) and New Zealand (77%) amongst others to near complete sustainability for electricity generation.

While mentioned, the cost of co2e emissions from gas is glossed over. Charge the true economic value for emissions and hydrocarbon sources are going to be wildly more expensive.

He criticizes China for unfairly subsidizing wind on the one hand (their solar story is amazing btw) then complains China is building too many coal plants shortly thereafter.
I don't think it is the 'occasional theatrical events' so much as what it leads to: millions of dollars of free publicity.
I won't inconvenience you with the facts, then
The article notes that the total CO2 emission from India and China is rising and crossing the US. This is true but the per capita emission is still a fraction of that of US[1]. It will be impossible for China and India to compete if they aren't allowed the same per capita emission as the developed world. Per capita the US CO2 emission is huge.

[1] http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=co2+emissions+per+capita&...
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So there you have it: A former Air Force lieutenant colonel, speaking on the record and using the present tense, said in 2011 that "private contractors are whacking people like crazy over in Afghanistan for the CIA."
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A journalist looking for any reference that would support his article. I'm not saying the US Gov. isn't contracting private security firms to carry some of their dirty work. But saying "Huh a former lt-col from the Air Force confirmed <whatever>" isn't worth anything. In fact, all it does, in my opinion, is uncover and expose how naive is the reporter.

A former Air Force lieutenant-colonel... is it supposed to mean anything? It's a claim to Authority, with a weak authority to bring forward.
Anonymous email service?
Is there a consensus for which are the best providers of anonymous email services?
The funny thing is he is 100% wrong.

The "focus" that Larry Page has brought to Google came from his meetings with Steve Jobs who specifically told him to only do a few things but do them well.
Doesn't matter; you can't pay enough. If Google went ad-free, it would be out of business within months. The Internet would regress by a number of years. This collateral damage is, quite frankly, beyond out combined bankrolls.
Maybe it's a regional thing?
I think many of the built-in are actually pretty out of date, but it does seem like Apple's not too concerned with following the upstream release schedule - one of the Xcode releases shipped with a slightly pre-3.0 release of LLVM's clang.
Yeah this is an interesting discussion. I usually stand on the side of one or two features done really well at first, then adding more as time goes on and needs arise, but always make these less used features more hidden in the UI.

However I think most people tend to use that train of thought, not so unique.
humanity has become excessively risk-averse

Well exemplified by our incredible fear of nuclear power
approx. 8 year payoff (to break even with what you would have paid for utility bills) with around a 30 year lifespan at least...4x ROI. How is that a bad investment??
I think people get so freaked out at the idea of doing anything out of the ordinary. If you end up trying to go your own way people discourage you because it brings up they're own fears. If you can stick to your guns, power to you.
It would devalue them, but this doesn't matter if you are truly only registering for defensive purposes. If you are then selling your portfolio 10 years down the track for massive money, they weren't really defensive were they.
I don't think his main point was to compare per capita emissions but to illustrate the futility in deploying comparatively costly alternative energies when the great majority of new energy production is "dirty".
> we have no other choice!

There is another choice: geoengineering.[1] Instead of reducing emissions to slow down global warming we actively remove these pollutants from the enviroment around us. I'm not going to comment on it's efficacy though.

As for reality, the problem is that nobody can be precipitous. Those who go with more expensive fuels will immediately put a burden on the local economy and throw themselves out of the competition.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
How do projects like Pypy help this? I know Pypy wants to be able to build fast, cross-platform interpreters; but how close to reality is that?
The problem with your position is that, on current calculations, and assuming the IPCC calculations are correct, all of the current policies with building solar + wind + other alternatives will change the trajectory by a year or two.

The big lie is that building endless solar panels and windmills is the solution to the problem, when it patently is not. A large game-changer would be needed, and niche technologies patently are not.

Any solar panels or windmills must be backed up by another form of energy, or their intermittent power will be unpredictable and extremely bad for quality of life. So if you have to build a regular power plant to make up for the intermittent nature, then why not just have the one power plant?

If you strongly believe that 'we are taking almost certain catastrophic risks' (paraphrasing) then trying to solve the problem with solar + windmills is like throwing buckets of water onto a housefire. It is simply ineffectual except for making people believe they are doing something.
HN is not good with discussing these kind of articles. Far too many armchair experts. At least with the programming articles you get the occasional comment from someone who really knows something. Here its just a lot of noise.
Yes, you might be right about the volume. I was looking at the buttons here [1] but the volume one looked more like a round push button than a dial. I guess it could be a dial

As to the ring around the number, well I'm more confused going back and looking at it again. Sometimes, like [2] it's a single colour, and others, like [3] it's divided into multiple segments. 12/14mph is slow, so I'd expect to see the ring extend not as far as it does. I'd expect it to extend that far around for speeds like 70mph

Another thought - the little mpg/regen graph is prominent but largely useless. However, if speed and acceleration were added it could be a very useful tool in working out which driving conditions give best economy

[1] http://www.minimallyminimal.com/storage/post-images/doko/d13...

[2] http://www.minimallyminimal.com/storage/post-images/doko/f07...

[3] http://www.minimallyminimal.com/storage/post-images/doko/d10...
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Did you properly fill out your government-mandated speaking request form 18764(a), and sign it under penalty of perjury, before submitting that comment?

Of course, your speech isn't banned. These forms are just necessary to make sure we know who you are before you speak, and to force you to testify that you haven't committed other unrelated crimes.

The only time we actually would ban your speech is if you fill out the form improperly, because that's a felony, and felons don't get to speak. So read it carefully.
Probably more disturbing is the modern law enforcement emphasis on militarization and crowd control. Witness the response to OWS. Imagine if they were actually attempting to overthrow the government.
Where are the hordes of other scientists trying to prove Darwinism false?

I hope they are reading the prior literature on the science of evolution, for example as assembled in the "29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent,"

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

so that they understand what "Darwinism" is today after 150 years of scientists checking facts and refining the understanding of the origin of species. Alas, there are still spectacular examples of people who purport to be scientists who disagree with Darwin

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/21/creationist-fu...

who totally misunderstand what Darwin meant and what evidence has turned up in more recent generations to refine our understanding of evolution.
Can we agree that, contrary to your original claim that "repeatedly attacked its neighbours with no good cause", North Korea does not "repeatedly attack" Russia or China, with or without "good cause", these being their only two non-Korean "neighbors"? That leaves this to be only about possibly a single "neighbor", not multiple neighbors regarding claims of "repeatedly attacking a neighbor with no good cause".

So let's look at that one "neighbor". It's reasonable to consider whether that is truly a "neighbor", or is a split of an original united single nation that was split over ideological differences, exacerbated by foreign influences.

The american south declared independence from the american north. The north asserted the right to restore its country through military force and waged a massive destructive war to reunite the nation. This was facilitated by foreign governments supplying arms to both sides.

This is extremely comparable to the current N/S Korean schism, right down to the difference in philosophies regarding human rights by the two sides.

To object to efforts to reunify a split nation by force in one situation, one must object to efforts to reunify a split nation by force in the other situation, in order to remain ideologically consistent. This is why I asked "Do you also object to the War Between the States as unnecessary aggression of the North against the South?"
He doesn't ignore them, but the capacity for hydro and geothermal is finite and very geographically specific (there is only so many cubic km of riverflow and only so many geothermal sites). The TWatt output of NZ and IS is negligible, on a global scale, therefore they have little impact. It's great for those countries, but they're not a solution to CN's or IN's energy questions, for example.
but standing for periods of just 10-15 minutes is correlated with vascular disease;

Just 10-15 minutes? Where did they find subjects for a research study that didn't stand for at least 10-15 minute spans during the day?
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Jason's numbers are incorrect. Brady (the most anti-gun lobby) states that firearms related homocides are 12,778 for the year they have statistics for.
Discussion of link from original source without blogspam currently on front page:

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Because it relies on someone overpaying you for the electricity produced, which is added onto someone elses' bill.

In a democracy, that's not sustainable. Sooner or later, someone will get voted in that promises the remove the subsidy.

Indeed this is happening all over the world.

It also leads to resource misallocation whereby time + money + manpower is spent farming subsidies over other productive activities.

If your example is for an unsubsidised installation, then it's a good ROI. Otherwise, it's a bad idea as well as morally questionable. The poorer members of society shouldn't pay more for basic energy to make richer members get excessive returns.
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I think his point about that is that promises of renewables replacing traditional sources in ten and twenty year time-frames (such as the proponents he cites) is wildly optimistic. I think the time frames to adoption and ramp-up to significant share are his main points of contention, via a vis boosters of renewables as solution to our energy problems.