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I think you're right.

Japan which has a very strict sword and firearms law, afaik, has not seen a "homebrew" industry spruot since they passed the laws back in the '70s. And, it's not as though there are no criminals. The Yak syndicates are not, on principle, against the use of guns --they do occasionally used smuggled guns to settle things.

Now, Japan does allow some kinds of firearms, typically to farmers and such who need to deal with threats/vermin, but the permit process is lengthy and few people obtain them.
Of course they're cheap for a reason. I was just a little bit interested in the technical details of what causes a display like this to fail.

And yes, these monitors are dual-link dvi only.
I don't see that as the case. There is malware out there
in torrent land, sure. But if you acquire software from
reputable sources (like a paid app store, referral from
a friend, heard about it on a forum like HN, package
repository), malware just isn't a concern.

Are you kidding me? Have you missed the large number of browser-based vulnerabilities, from Flashback and MacDefender, to the huge number of vulnerabilities the latest Safari fixed?
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but this is bullshit, in almost all of the sciences we advanced because of someone who had more insight then anyone else, if any one of those stumbled we might not of gotten anywhere close to what we have today.

what if edison has succeded and we built a bunch of dc waystations across the entire country would we ever consider switching to AC? what if all the railway/trolley companies werent destroyed by the car/oil companies? what if we recounted bush vs gore would 9/11 still have happened? if Hitler's mom aborted would Germany still have turned out militant? what if einstein died in the holocaust and no one figured out general relativity till 50 years later? what if sony never broke with Nintendo and we ended up with a console monopoly by Nintendo?

historical determinism is bullshit spewed by people who cant create and try to bring down the accomplishments of others. just because you cant contribute shit doesn't mean other people wont.

edit: sorry, people that actually believe historical determinism piss me off
I think that the problem lies with Billy Bob, not the gun. It's not worth preventing the edge cases if that means reducing the average person's ability to defend themselves. Say that one person of the family had a pistol, and ran and got it while the Billy was busy shooting the others? The family member could then shoot Billy and possibly save a few family members. Guns are a means of personal power, and while loose gun laws mean that an unlawful person can get a gun, it also means that other people can defend themselves against said person, or other, non-gun-related crimes such as burglary.
Right. I hope so as well. Maybe they can use that as the wired backend for the white space spectrum, and bypass the cell networks: http://mashable.com/2011/01/28/google-white-space-fcc/
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Wow. I couldn't find anything either. Then again, I first learned about it in an economics book in the 90s ... and I think that book was from the 70s.

Price bashing is when a competitor lowers prices to the point where they are losing money on the transaction. The desired effect is to destroy the competition and once the competition is eliminated, to raise prices to an artificially high level as a monopolist.

EDIT: Found it - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
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> Missing of course is the amount of other stock or what their losses were.

why on earth would that matter ? How much money did Martha Stewart go to jail for ? If they recouped 1% of their losses via insider trading, that's...insider trading !
Although I've never really been a reddit user, I can see your point. It's an interesting question: how do you actively maintain a culture of respect, thoughtfulness and two-way dialog?

This is one of the few spots I've ever seen it on. As a newcomer to HN, I find it very unique. Great resource.
... Which is a 23" screen and has a native resolution of 1920x1080. How does this compare again?
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It makes sense for corporations to pay for support if it costs less than hiring a team of people to do it. If that is the strategy a company uses to make their products more accessible to me, I'm all for it.
I thought the 20/month was to get calls using the femtocell that don't use your minutes, letting you choose a plan with fewer minutes.

I was able to use the femtocell for free, but had bad luck with it.
Because perl regex is really quite slow

http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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You seem to think it had something to do with her name? Was it a Middle Eastern name?
Get your friend to set up a call with the manager (or even just to give you their phone number) for the team with a vacancy and try talk to him/her for ten minutes. If their main worry is lack of particular knowledge is the problem you could potentially offer your first couple of weeks for free or expenses only basis to show them what you can do.

If decide just to do an independent project for experience I would try something substantially different and/or demo able. Maybe a mobile app or a web service. It sounds like your recent experience is narrow so any substantially different project will make you appear.

Most of all do something that you think is cool and you can get excited about. Enthusiasm is worth a lot even before the project is complete and it will help you see the project through.
>Why would the Wall Street Journal publish this garbage?

It's part of the campaign to undermine Net Neutrality, 'deregulate' the Internet, and turn it over to the telecoms to run as they see fit.

If the Conservatives can convince the public that the private sector and unregulated free markets, not government, are responsible for creating the Internet as it now - a truly level platform where all comers have equal access to audiences and bandwidth (services like Akamai excepted) - then it's easy to make the case that Net Neutrality, common carrier, and all that stuff is just more government regulation that impedes progress and economic growth, or worse control what people do on the Internet.

Looks like a new front in the battle for the Internet.
>You might change your mind when you consider that Bell Labs (part of the "Soviet Bureau" you despise) created

Just because bell labs was owned by a telco, doesn't mean they were a telco. A research organization existing under the ownership of a telco company doesn't make telcos provide good service, or have fair prices, or have good customer service.
For anyone who is not a graphic design type, color reproduction is primarily an enjoyment thing.

Like high quality headphones. It is in no way whatsoever required, but some feel it enhances their enjoyment.

That said, if a terminal constitutes most of your usage, there is honestly little point in getting an IPS display. It just doesn't matter whether or not the blacks are really perfect black, when you're reading text on a white background.
So at some point I'm guessing they will run into problems with "experiences" in popular destinations or large municipal areas which require licensing( e.g. tourguide/sight-seeing/insert miscellaneous professional requirements). Ah...the challenge of disruption. Probably not terribly different than the problems faced by Airbnb or Uber.
During my studies we ssome classes in rapid prototyping. One of our favorites (since prototype car parts or funtional gear boxes aren't simply cool enough) was a fully funtional, for 20 shots or so, (semi?)-automatic rifle. And that was 6-7 years ago. The only non plastic part was the barrel, after the 20 shots the resin and plastics melted so.
I don't see the connection between this, and your assertion that the internet would've happened by now anyways.

The US government funded (or provided funding for) many of the early developments that made the internet as we know it possible. As others have pointed out, the government also made it possible for the telcos to lay the infrastructure by providing them access to public lands and private lands (easements and eminent domain).

How would the companies have assembled the capital to acquire that land or land access themselves at that time? Keep in mind, unlike the Google Fiber announcement, the thing they were building had no demonstrated value as it does today.

In your painful analogy, you suggest that the spending and research and construction the government did or enabled was akin to tossing coins into a wishing well, and magically the internet came into existence. How does that fit with the facts that we have? Or do you also deny that anything in history is knowable?
Interesting. So we have content, and you can access it without logging in (e.g. http://fuelizer.com/profile/external/Default.aspx?u=2). I wonder if Google can't crawl the pages if they're too dynamic? Maybe a sitemap could help?
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We have been on a hiring binge lately and it is very difficult to find candidates who know anything but Microsoft tools.

Geography.

A buddy in Louisiana who was looking for a job tells me there's nothing but Microsoft stack.

Where I live, it depends which side of the lake you live on.
On a very similar note, if you want people to upvote you on another HN thread, you should really probably link to news.ycombinator.com instead of .org so people like me won't have to sign in again. :)
Never worked for a corporation, huh?
Other developers will happily come along, work within Apple's guidelines, and sell to the giant slice of the pie chart. It's obviously a radically different model of software development, and one that's probably far less appealing to current developers, but that's what happens when industries change. The incumbents never like it.

The same thing's coming to Windows, too, thanks to the Windows Store. The whole industry's headed toward appliance computing. Maybe you can sell software to Linux users.
At least there is some net neutrality for regular ISP's. There is none for carriers, and very soon they will be very aggressive about pushing their own services and charging extra for stuff like Facetime, Skype, etc on top of what you pay for the data you're using. Watch it closely. It will happen.
With a murder rate twice any other developed country[1], the United States clearly has a serious violence problem, and taking guns out of the hands of the average Joe would surely help reduce it.

The second clause does not follow from the first. Murder in the US is heavily demographically biased, and most gun owners are not murderers. Furthermore, will you be the one going door to door to collect everyone's firearms? It sounds like you are saying, "Surely, we must do something. This is something; therefore, we must do this."

Using the argument of "Hardened criminals will still get them anyway" is like saying we shouldn't have a law against murder because some people will do it anyway, so it's a waste of time. The point is to deter or make it extremely difficult for as many people as possible.

No, no it's not. You are conflating possession of a tool with misuse of the tool to commit a crime. The US has been trying to make it "extremely difficult for as many people as possible" to do a lot of things, and failed spectacularly. Now imagine that same level of failure applied to something protected in the US constitution.
Why wouldn't he just grab a knife from his kitchen? Or run them down with his car? Or a bat? Or set their house on fire?

Not having a gun isn't going to stop a person who wants to hurt someone else from doing it. It's just a tool.
IPS has been around for a long, long time. Pricing might be a reflection of many things. Bad or questionable panels are one potential example. Another might be an EOL panel or monitor (End Of Life). Translation: They are not made or supported any more. It can also be an old model.

I spent some time in the LCD OEM business. The simplest way I can put it is that the major LCD module providers defecate all over LCD monitor manufacturers. Their defecate takes the form or panels that sometimes are good and other times are bad. Sometimes the bad is obvious (remember the purple aluminum Apple Cinema Displays?). Sometimes it isn't (reliability issues, pixel issues, etc.

The panel makers also pull stuff like discontinuing panels seemingly overnight and changing specifications on you without notice. We saw a case where the manufacturer changed the logic power supply specification for a panel from 12V to 5V and didn't bother to tell anyone. They shipped us new panels. Monitors started to blow-up during testing. I mean, smoke coming out of them. It wasn't until we burned-up the equivalent of a small BMW (or two) of OEM LCD panels that we came to the realization that the manufacturer had caused this issue. All we got was a new data-sheet out of them.

It's a rough business to be in. Ugly as can be. The sheer size of the providers and sole-source nature of the products create a situation where, for the most part, these companies are above the law (don't ask me how I know this) and can fuck with you --the monitor manufacturer-- to no end. The only companies that don't get screwed with as much are the large players like the HP, Dell and Apple's of the industry.

IPS panels of very high resolution have been around for quite some time. Probably the most famous of these was the IBM-originated quad-HD 3840 x 2160 22 inch panel. Memory fails but I'll say that this panel goes back at least fifteen years. OEM cost started out around $20K and dropped to about $6K with time.

My concern with these 27 inch monitors would be about the unknowns. They could be just fine. But they could also not be OK in a million ways. Did they, for example, not make it to US and European shores because they did not pass safety tests? I don't know. No amount of money will compel me to, quite literally, play with fire. Do they have system-level premature failure modes such as questionable power supplies or the like? Don't know. Or how about panel-level issues, such as high failure rates or deterioration with time, temperature, etc.

Buy them if you must, but be very aware of what you are not buying. I, as an example, would not leave these things plugged in and unattended. I'd plug them all into a power strip and switch them off every time I leave the room for more than thirty minutes. While I am not saying that a fire is the unavoidable consequence of paying so little for them I am proposing that, sometimes, when thing are too good to be true there's a reason for that.
It's funny how one of the relatively few design errors in Unix shells now indirectly comes back to haunt us. Recursing is built into pretty much every command that can handle multiple files - which very strongly suggests it should have been made a feature of glob (or the shell).

I think it's a bit sad that those "big-picture" features in unix are treated as if the were written in stone.
Yelp reviews are a big point of anger from many business owners and there's some valid security risks. However a name based policy is rather dumb.
Hey, your project is nice! I'll check it out later.
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It should be obvious, but to make it even clearer.

- Centralization of control. Apple has frequently jacked around with iOS programs being allowed/disallowed; why should we let some central authority control what we have on our computing devices?

- Centralization of malware. Monocultures are subject to waves of viruses.

- Limitations. The more interesting your app, the more places it needs to touch. A "fun" limitation I noticed this morning is that Mail.app's sandbox poses significant limitations to GPGMail. That's not good- hopefully I can continue to have encrypted email at will with Mail.app. Fortunately, the open source world provides encrypting email clients.

- Should Apple know what I have installed? App stores give them that knowledge. Is there a right that App stores take away?

Obviously, I have no great faith in Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, or the other centralization advocates. I don't see that I should.
Maybe once you have tried Gigabit (GIGABIT!) internet, on a daily basis you won't feel the same. Cloud storage and a bunch of other things will now feel very different.

- Why own a computer when you can just vpn into a cluster through a thin client?

- Why own a game system...

- Stream 4k HD movies

- A whole bunch of ideas not thought of yet.

0r maybe your right and it wont be that different, I would like the chance to see if it does make a big difference. The current telcos were not in that game, google is.
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But people need to get to places. People don't need guns for daily survival. Japan annually sees double digit gun-deaths. In the US we see triple digit accidental gun deaths.
Political activists in China no longer able to anonymously release software?
What's wrong with Apple trying to control which binaries it will and won't let you run on its OS? Doesn't Apple always have your best interests at heart?
Get off recruiters as soon as you can. They are very risk averse and follow the sage advise for bankers - 'lend money to those that dont need it'. ie if your job search is not going great to begin with its unlikely a recruiter is going to put in the effort to connect you with an opening.
Would having a sandboxed app store help with any of these? The point I think he's making is that a curated app store isn't going to be a significant malware source.
This is the real reason that Notch is working on 0x10c. He's hoping that along the way, he'll learn enough physics to develop time travel, so he can release code before he even begins development.

I tip my hat to him for his commitment to "release early, release often."
What kind of domain/industry have your worked for? I have friends in financial industry in the East coast and could possibly refer for Java positions. But they prefer financial experience.
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> Do you have any stats or experience to back that up? It might happen, but you are stating as fact something that's not been tested.

It's difficult to provide stats and experience for events that haven't happened yet, but we can look at history. The last major prohibition of a product for which there was widespread demand, and has since been abolished, was alcohol in the 1920s. That didn't go so well. We continue to prohibit non-narcotic drugs, such as marijuana, and there is an equally ginormous pile of evidence that this prohibition isn't working out for us either.

It is also difficult to compare the U.S. to other countries with regard to guns because of the difference in environment here in the U.S.. The sheer number of guns and gun owners in the U.S. makes for a different set of conditions compared to somewhere seemingly similar, like Australia.

I don't think it's all that far fetched to believe that a relevant portion of gun owners would seek to make their own, should the government restrict them past a tipping point. I don't know what that tipping point is, but I suspect it exists.
"Just because bell labs was owned by a telco"

They were able to do that because they were a public utility with guaranteed profits. The stock and earnings were stable ("widow and orphan" money was an expression for people who needed these safe investments). Something important to keep in mind. Really not possible to do that in today's competitive disruptive environment.
This is actually a problem in land based gas turbines that are used for power production. A neat application to putting out sound waves.
In the eyes of the ATF he DID print a gun. The lower receiver is a 'gun' for the purposes of manufacturing. The upper receiver, buffer tube, trigger group, etc. are just parts...
That's completely hypothetical. I could say "cat" and "dog" should in the future both be called "dog." That doesn't really excuse calling cats dogs.

Perhaps a new standard of spelling could be created and, as you suggest, "it's" and "its" could be replaced by "its." But that's not what you're doing when you write "it's" instead of "its;" instead, you are writing a word that is different from the one you mean.

"Its" has a meaning now, today, that whoever parses you language will use. Perhaps you will convince everyone to overload that meaning with a new one, but in the meantime write what you mean.
But I'm assuming none of the Android Design Principles will be regarded?

https://developer.android.com/design/index.html

Design decisions on Android generally play by different rules and conventions.

https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/pure-android.h...
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Clicky: http://musicforprogramming.net/ Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694

Music during 'Notch live coding 0x10c': http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3811332

Found somewhere in there, a 290GB 'Essential Mix' archive: http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix
As someone with multiple near death experiences under my belt, I can attest to this.

I have almost been shot once (not in the US), but I've have had a little over a half dozen near misses in cars (several countries, as driver, passenger and pedestrian/cyclist) and two near drownings (not in US).

Of all possible dangers I may encounter, cars easily worry me the most.
Four people is just an exaggeration. He's saying there are very few people who are genuinely great at this stuff.
Just went to puppyshowdown, looks nice.

What's a good way to list a "personal" site on a resume?

Do you put the source code anywhere for employers to peruse? And I mean this in the nicest way, but you know how some things are developed nowadays, how much is original original and how much is using example code? Does that make a difference when explaining your site?

How do you host puppyshowdown? For a personal project site I figure I can a) use my VPS, but it's only 512M of memory and I'd probably do a J2EE-based site, b) get a Linode or something, but too expensive for the memory, c) get a static IP at my home internet and leave a computer up, or d) figure out an Amazon EC2 site.
I love the idea behind Vayable. I would love to be a guide with them. I am a whitewater rafting guide in Denver and could take people down rivers that commercial rafting companies wont go to, but until they offer Liability coverage to guides, I can not comprehend working with them. (and no, having a waiver to give customers is not good enough. I would still get sued).

So Dear Vayable,

Learn from AirBnB's example and offer insurance to guides!!!
> Once Google is the only player in town, you still think they'll shit lilacs and spread rainbows and unicorns?

Actually, yes, because unlike most telcos, this isn't Google's core business. The only reason it exists is to drive people towards their core business. They have a wider, longer-term view of their business goals.
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Hah, that sounds like fun. The best I could ever get my hands on was raw corn kernels, party balloons, and a short section of garden hose.