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Surely you have seen the graphs comparing america to other stable democracies. Americans kill each other using guns way more often than the citizens of any remotely comparable country.

You can't kill people using a gun if you don't have a gun. If it isn't guns that is the problem, then what is it? Something in the water? The air? Genetic? Americans just love killing each other and would happily do it with their hands or knives or cars or pillows or whatever if they couldn't legally buy guns? Maybe, but what does that say about American society? I don't think there's much wrong with society apart from your interpretation of your constitutional rights.

This guy who everyone on the left and right labelled a coward is such a coward but would have crossed the border to illegally buy a gun from (presumably) some drug-cartel gangsters and committed the crime anyway if he couldn't easily buy it legally over the internet? I don't buy it.

Guns have everything to do with it. Assault rifles have everything to do with it. He wouldn't be able to kill and maim that many people using a six shooter or a knife or a truck. End of story.

And the guy is crazy. How is that a political or societal issue? Something unique about America made him crazy? America has a higher percentage of crazy people? Again, no one believes that. There are crazy people everywhere and in all countries yet we don't see crazy people in other countries that aren't currently in civil war killing each other at this scale all the time.

You can't stop crazy people but you can at least try to limit the damage.

I live in South Africa. We have notoriously porous borders. Most of the rest of africa is flooded with assault rifles and other illegal weapons, so if you want to get a gun illegally it should be easy. Legal gun sales, gun licenses, etc are tightly regulated not unlike Australia. Whatever political or societal or cultural problem you can point out in America, we have that too. Probably worse. Yet we don't have these massacres. We have a high crime rate, yes, but we don't have this sort of thing.

You say we're jumping to conclusions, fine. What other realistic interpretation do have to offer? How do you propose America deals with the "black or hispanic inner city" problem? Make laws to take away their guns, but allow the rural whites to keep theirs? Good luck with that. I suppose you would argue that those black and hispanic youths have illegal weapons. Fine. Maybe. But where would you even find illegal weapons if there are hardly any unaccounted for legal ones to begin with?
The Fart App doesn't fart. It is not possible to make an iOS device produce flatulence. Therefore, it is misnamed and the name is confusing to users.

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> Do you not enjoy features like the web interface and public links? Those are one of my favorite parts of dropbox and they wouldn't work with client-side encryption.

You can have web interface with client-side encryption. Check aes.io (plug).
"I don't own and don't plan to own any Android devices, because frankly I think it sucks." --jwz

Oh, the deep irony.
I find the look interestingly different to what I expected. The loss of colour is brave (given the Digg green) but is at least a clean break, which is perhaps what's needed.

It would be nice to have a small bar at the top that when clicked would show the most popular and upcoming rather than having to scroll to the bottom (although I'd keep the material at the bottom as well for those that don't notice).

The Popular section looks too big for my liking.

Of course the big thing is the content. How relevant is the content? Sadly on face value, it looks like it fails (but then again it would as the content will be the same as v4).

In conclusion it looks nice and is a welcome break, but the content doesn't make me want to sign up. I do wish the new Digg team the best of luck though, and will check back in a while to see if the content's improved.
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hey what gives? I'm getting "under construction". Is it because I'm in Yurop?
A few NSA reps should hang around HN, if they are not already, to respond to any questions and partake in the discussion on this thread.
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That is one of the themes in Vinge's Rainbows End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

It describes a near future where it is a legal requirement that all computing devices conform to a "Secure Hardware Environment" (SHE) standard.
I didn't read the "(a purely classical number, but most won't have a clue)" as being part of the question, but rather as commentary about people answering the question. Also "how fast do electrons move" does really suggest the velocity of an electron and not the net average velocity...anyway, calculating drift velocity is easy. From the current and the charge of an electron, calculate how many electrons are passing through the wire per second. Then calculate the number of electrons in the wire from the material properties. The answer is the ratio between these two, multiplied by the length of the wire. Since this contains many numbers that most people (even physicists) don't know off the top of their head (density & weight of copper, avogadro's number, electron charge) this is a bit hard to guesstimate within an order of magnitude without looking things up, but it will be a small number of meters per second.
Of course, taking those little bits of text out of context makes it sound pretty nasty. Thankfully I am not here for a popularity contest.

My experience in discussing the gun issue with people in person is that most anti-gun folks --not all-- tend to operate based on emotion and/or bad data pushed at them by, primarily, liberal-leaning media outlets.

HN, like it or not, does have a good liberal-leaning population. I would have been surprised if I didn't get a bunch of down-mods. It's not a matter of language. It's enough to voice opinion supporting gun ownership. It's almost the same if you say anything against Apple.

Look, I am not even a gun owner. I might go to the shooting range once or twice a year with friends. It's great fun. That's it. But I really dislike the media making generalization and accusations based on bullshit or not data at all. And, the sad reality of things is that the vast majority of the public takes what the media shovels as fact without question. Few people think of the idea of actually verifying what they are being told before forming an opinion.

It saddens me that no argument is being made based on the actual data, which is, if you read carefully, the only thing I am pushing here. That transcends socio-political beliefs and emotion. The FBI data I looked at is produced by compiling standardized crime reports across the country. Look at it and tell me that I am wrong. I'd be happy to learn so if reliable and reputable data supports it.

Look at the data. Tell me where and why I am wrong. So far nobody has offered critique of the data, just blind down-votes. That doesn't change the truth, does it?
Rumor has it that hand sanitizer on a wet hand has similar properties, at least for short times.
The Nobel prizes have been awarded for over a century now, and the main purpose of the Nobel Foundation is to ensure that they can keep giving out the prizes forever.

I'm confident that the Nobel prizes will still be around a hundred years from now. Will this Fundamental Physics Prize also be?
You may want to read Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "The Minds' Eye".
Seems to me that would only apply to the specific instance of content you posted on CL.
If you create another post somewhere else, just make it different - it's not a work derived from that content.. it's derived from facts that you already know.

You could post different content on another site all you like.. but nobody can take CL's content and use it.
> What do you need an assault rifle for?

Nothing particularly useful. It's just that most people like feeling powerful (evolution at work), and guns are a means to that end. Personally, I prefer fiction.
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Does it need ot be copyrightable in order for you to agree to contractual terms about something?
Does it even matter whether Apple is wrong, unreasonable or irrational? Just like I reserve the rights of admission to my house, Apple reserves the right to accept or reject applications from the app store.

If you really want Apple to change, how about NOT developing for iOS? Articles like this aren't really going to make them change their policies.
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It doesn't work as a "screen saver" on most devices, as the risk of phosphor burn in is pretty low nowadays. Isn't it still called that in OS X regardless of display type?

Also, a "fart button" is not physical object, can we still call it a "button" (Ceci n'est pas une bouton de pet.)?
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Doesn't this approach seem kind of backwards though?

For example, weed.
If they want to prevent enemies from blackmailing their employees for past weed use. They should come out and say we don't care how much weed you smoke, we're not going to drug test you now or ever, we just don't care what you do in your free time.

The fact that they polygraph & question you to find the exact # of times you have done drugs in the past opens the door to blackmail situations.

Polygraphs are not perfect, I'm sure some people that work for the NSA claimed no drug use on the application when that was not the case or claimed to have done it a handful of times when they really did it a lot more. Now an enemy could blackmail those people because they would be afraid of losing their jobs if the truth came out.
I don't think that copyright for photographs would be covered by the Craigslist claim though:

'Clicking "Continue" confirms that craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.'

I have an original photo and publish it as part of a listing ('the content'). The photo is not a derivative work.
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From a technical point of view this "redesign" scares me a bit:

All the old stories and user accounts 404 now. That is a major loss to their SEO. 14 million pages just thrown away and not passing any juice.

They don't employ canonical or robots.txt.

They have character encoding issues. ("'Superbird' Discovered")

They use a meta keywords tag, and it contains "celebrity news", which doesn't appear anywhere on their site.

They hardcode CSS with styles on div's. They don't use text-transform but type headers in all-caps.

They use the HTML5 doctype, but none of the new tags or practices (like ditching the obsolete 'type="text/javascript"' on script tags).

The layout breaks without javascript on, and the "upcoming stories" section doesn't get loaded. They provide no warning as to why the site's functionality stops working.

They don't combine or compress resources like CSS and Javascript.

They left debugging and TODO's statements in their javascript.

$(".story-image-marquee-standard").empty().html("<img src='http://imoscar.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/imoscar11.gif' alt='' />");

tries to load content from a discontinued website.

A lot of empty placeholder divs to js-load content into. TPL's are also stored inside the page contents.

URL's are not properly encoded (space instead of %20).

Links to the same article are both with 'target="_blank"' and without.

They don't use microformats or schema.org.
Thats a little dramatic.

CL isnt popular here in Holland, but i was under the impression, it was ebay meets dating, using a 200 byte php forum file, that looked so old, you would just assume encodimg errors.

Why are you getting your panties in a twist? What import role does this site play in your life or that of others?
I found it amusing that "demand progress" is an anagram for your comment, alluding to the love/hate relationship we have with technological advancement.
The C64 spanked the Apple II in every price-performance measure, and in units sold. But Apple are the last man standing from that era; Commodore can't dispute their version of events.

Old skool hackers will remember that the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were massively superior both in price-performance and raw performance to contemporary Macs. Strange as it may sound today, Apple won on business savvy, emphatically not on technology.
Hacker News is not "hacker news".
Oh, fair enough.

I am curious, though... what sort of operating costs might go into that?

Moderators, curating content?
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I don't personally own any guns. I have shot many at the gun range. They are fun to shoot. If I was into guns I'd probably buy one. Target shooting is interesting and fun. Also, as and engineer, I can see guns having an appeal for the mechanically inclined. Learning about how they work, how to make them more accurate, maintaining them, etc. is as interesting a hobby as, perhaps, working on cars, if one is so inclined.

That's my only answer really. They are great fun at the range and neat to own.

I can't seen any other scenario unless someone is crazy and has other motives. Those corner cases will find ways to cause death and destruction by whatever means necessary. The 9/11 hijackers used common knives to kill thousands of people. Tim McVeigh used fertilizer and a rented truck to kill hundreds and destroy a building.

This, and the underlying data is why I don't subscribe to the idea of "assault rifles" being the root cause of our problems. I think the data shows that the problems are far more related to drugs, education, social and economic root causes than anything else.
That was exactly my point.

Curtis takes reams of archival footage, sets it to funky music, then ties together disparate historical events into a seamless narrative.

The problem is that he likes that narrative to have agency. But a lot of history is "one damn thing after another". No particular cabal animates this or that outcome, people just act based on what's in front of them.

And that's what I mean by the animistic fallacy. Curtis sees the lightning bolts of history and supposes that some god is throwing them (usually, dunh dunh duuuuh, it's economists). But it basically doesn't happen that way.

It's style over substance. Mind-candy. Sweet and ultimately unfulfilling.
Actually, if you do the cross-posting, Craigslist would be entitled to sue you for violating their exclusivity agreement, not the other site. What this would put on a poster is the extra work to make the copyrightable content different between sites.
The title is misleading, Google changed Google Play content policy, not Android. There are other stores out there that do not need to follow this policy and yet can exist in Android.

EDIT: s/wrong/misleading
Very detailed analysis there. Nice!
Ah. So your argument is, we should only be looking to prevent probable threats -- whatever that means, exactly. I think that's pretty silly.

If there was a cause X that randomly killed 5 people in the US every year, and there was countermeasure Y that prevented those deaths, you wouldn't implement Y because X isn't a meaningful threat to any single person?

I think the answer should be: it depends. It depends on the costs associated with Y (not just the monetary ones). If it costs multiple billions that would otherwise have gone to, say, cancer research it's probably not worth it. If implementing Y involves installing a 10 PM mandatory curfew for everyone, it's probably not worth it. On the other extreme, if it costs nothing, you'd be negligent to not implement Y.

The point is, your argument is not valid if you don't consider the downsides. Arguably, there is a minimum threshold that needs to be exceeded in order to even make these evaluations, ie. if X only caused 1 death per decade, it might not be worth talking about it, even if it'd cost us almost nothing to implement Y. But I think that threshold should be really low and it really does not apply here.
It might be difficult for non-programmers to realize but the first computer that touches you really defines who you are as a programmer. Without you realizing it at the time, it sets up so many paths in the life of a programmer that the single machine becomes like a cornerstone of whatever you do later. And you always go back to your first computer.

Other people might have partially similar experiences with their first car or guitar. Possibly. I wouldn't know.

While I might have had an innate interest in programming, it was C64 that verified it for real. Without C64 I would have turned out to be a very different programmer or worse, I wouldn't have started programming at all. I owe so much to that machine--and all that in terms of what most people can't understand.

What a funny world.
Do short.
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Useless when the company you are getting the signed program from is serving you a malicious package on purpose which appears to be what happened here.
>I live in South Africa.

Your homicide rate is 7 times ours.

>Legal gun sales, gun licenses, etc are tightly regulated not unlike Australia.

Yet you have 7 times the murder rate.

>If it isn't guns that is the problem, then what is it?

Obviously it's not the guns. America has 7 times the guns (per capita), but 7 times less murders (per capita).

Going by your example there is an inverse linear relationship between guns ownership and homicides.

>Maybe. But where would you even find illegal weapons if there are hardly any unaccounted for legal ones to begin with?

We have 300 million guns in America, they are nearly all unregistered. There is simply no way to remove them.

Furthermore if you tried to confiscate them, there are literally tens of thousands of heavily armed people just waiting for the government to try to take away their guns.

The death toll would dwarf any killings you could prevent.

If you banned all guns the black market price would skyrocket and many of those 300 million guns that are currently just sitting unused in basements would end up on the streets.

The only possible outcome is that after the initial carnage, chaos and insurrection, law abiding citizens give up their guns, while hundreds of millions of guns are still circulating in the hands of criminals.

Then once the violence stops, thousands of gun enthusiasts will start manufacturing more firearms. You cannot possibly understand how seriously many American's believe in our right to own firearms.

Discussing banning, or Australian style restrictions is a moot point--it cannot happen in the foreseeable future.
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The presentation and style are pretty tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think that diminishes the nature of these drawings a predictions of a potential future, especially since a lot of them represent developments that actually did occur over the course of the 20th century.
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Great! I just subscribed to your Atom feed.

(BTW, who needs RSS anymore? Atom is so much cleaner designed and thus easiert to handle with. I'm even planing use Atom as main format and generating my website from that ...)
Are they referring to a God in the religious sense, or using it as a shorthand for "nature" or "the universe"?
For those of you who want to relive the days of the Commodore 64 (or the Commode 64 as us spec-chums used to call it) there's a very good emulator[1], as well as a site that lets you play games online[2].

If you want to see just what the C64 demo scene is capable of, then Booze Design's Edge of disgrace[3] is probably a good start. Finally, if you want to try your hand at C64 demo coding there's an excellent resource here[4].

[1] - http://www.viceteam.org/

[2] - http://c64s.com/

[3] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvMYE3PUn4

[4] - http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=base:demo_programming
I was a ZX Spectrum kid, too. A couple of years ago we cleaned out the attic, and mice had eaten the Spectrum's rubber keyboard. So much for the plan to display my first computer in the hallway of my yet to be founded billion dollar company...
What it looks like to me:

Pinterest on top
Weird section in the middle
Hacker News type thing on the bottom.
Kind of disagree, if users are still on the site to voice opinions that means they are pretty resilient. They aren't going to give up right away because the first release doesn't have everything.
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> It's pretty great as a sci-fi scenario

I've actually read a short SciFi novel with that very premise, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. Something about the other sentient lifeforms in the galaxy not requiring sleep and being able to breathe cyanide, but humans were unique in that we needed to sleep, and that was because we were all infected by some sort of mind parasite that now saw its chance to expand to other lifeforms.
I understand both sides.

This is why i meant it is a huge challenge. :)
The design is quite ok for me, but what about the provided value?

I skimmed through the links, and I saw many of them already, on other social sites I visit, I mean HN, Techmeme and reddit. What would draw me to digg could be a community of great commenters, like one on slashdot, which would add value by providing insightful/funny commentary. Without that, it's a bit redundant to me.
To be fair, consumer organisations here in Holland once took 25 EULA's to a judge.

Less than 1% of what was stated would ever be held up in a dutch court. Things like the concept that a company can just define their liabilty themselves. Or how they have the right to share personal data with 3rd parties. The laws can not overwritten with contracts, esspecially ones without signatures.

In essence, and this was quite funny to realize. There is no EULA that would reduce liability, or increase rights of the seller. An EULA can really only be used against the company.

Im not sure about the situation in the US. But the same should be true to some extend. EULA are fake legal documents lawyers sell as if they have any value.

Its a complete scam.