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I've never heard anyone argue using number of upvotes as evidence before! And I'm not sure that the right thing to do is always the most popular option.

Simplicity is desirable, but not at the expense of security. I'm sure you wouldn't suggest that we omitted the password checking step in login forms because it gets over the "forgetfulness" barrier.

And it's also questionable what it actually brings in terms of simplicity, since it doesn't install node for you.
Actually it might in many cases be a knife that is used when guns are not easily obtainable. There has certainly been at least one case like that in the UK. Still horrific but very likely to be fewer people killed and injured.

Schools don't need armed guards. That is kind of ridiculous for every school and a person on a mass murder mission with the element of surprise is very likely to be able to take out a single armed guard before moving on to anybody else. Two or more armed guards is a massive expense especially for small schools. Plus if you put tens (hundreds?) of thousands of armed guards into schools across the country that is likely to bring its own problems too.

Absolutely locked down perimeters have their own problems and still don't help when someone is buzzed in on pretext - "I've got a package to deliver..."

Edit to add: Was very tempted to vote you down for idiocy/wrongness but managed to resist as this is HN and wrongness is not the proper criteria for downvotes.
Fixed. Can you try it now?
Attempted mass shootings that fail like that don't get nearly as much news attention...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Colorado_YWAM_and_New_Life...
> You have a natural right to self defense from all threats.

Foreign and imaginary.
I went through the entire http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ by Michael Hartl and decided to type every code sample in vim (and in certain cases predict how to create the code before looking). It was a lengthy process, but I definitely got more out of it. Even still I find myself copy pasting code snippets, but after this little reminder I will be typing everything out by hand. It's a great way to really learn a language!
Lets not muddy the waters here. You mean the gunman could've used a number of crossbows, knives and rocks to take down so many people in such a short span of time?
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In my ever so humble opinion, it's a population issue.

When you have a population size of 300 million you're going to get a lot more outliers (crazy people) than if you have a population of 7 million. Statistically, you will also have crazier people.
I can't say for sure but I suspect the problem in the US stems from a number of factors not at all related to gun laws. Just a short list (for overall gun violence):

1) The way our prison system works. It makes people worse. It makes them better criminals. It removes much of their opportunity to get better (try getting a decent job as a felon). It creates desperation.
2) the way we treat mental illness. By that I mean it is demonized and ignored. Does health insurance even cover mental health exams or treatments? Probably not basic coverage
3) Disparity of wealth. In the town I live in there are people living in absolute poverty and people driving around in lamborghinis and million dollar churches. The cost of that car could feed 50 people for a year.

In thiscase there is no telling what the root cause was yet. I suspect a case of someone just losing it.
In addition to the problem of wide-spread untreated mental illness, many public schools are much like prisons for kids who have trouble adapting to social norms, both in that they do not grant basic human rights and that inter-student relations are barbaric. I don't know whether the shooter was a student or not, but based on my experience, it is not difficult for me to imagine somebody with less self control acting out in a violent manner.

Sorry for your loss.
From a legal POV, that's true in many places.

Getting legal access to high-performance rifles similar to military weapons is pretty trivial. Easily concealable weapons like pistols usually are more difficult to get a hold of legally.

The legal environment doesn't always translate into reality. I live in a small upstate NY city where we unfortunately have lots of shootings, mostly between poor high school kids. The local drug gangs make "community guns" available in public places like parks.

I would never want to own one, but for someone like me to own a handgun for target practice, there's an onerous process. I'd be required to get training, get background checked and go through a permit application process. After that's done, it's up to a county court judge's discretion, and in this county, the answer is usually "No."
The point was that "he with the gun holds the power" in those situations. And I'm sure the person with the gun feels like that. Make the odds of him having his tables turned on him by respectable law abiding citizens, and suddenly he'll be more afraid to do harm.

Ideally.

As a side note, she shouldn't shoot for the head anyway, especially if the bullet is going to go propelling out of the man. That's a great way to have unintended collateral damage.
Well that is just one, and as I mentioned cross-origin requests and access have been further locked down recently, not opened. With all the different versions and variants of libraries you are implementing and exposing a lot to save very little. You wouldn't even save 1% of web requests. as mentioned, this isn't a new idea, I'm just telling you the reasons why it hasn't and won't happen
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The AP article says only that it was a .223 rifle. This [1] is also a .223 rifle.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/1aCHK.jpg
I disagree.

This is a third approach—and a more public one—than we see from A-H and Greylock to help funnel talent to their portfolio companies. It's intended to serve as a first pass and binning for the company to then look for culture fit and second-round interviews.

This process lets FRC centralize talent and reduce at least some amount of time that founders have to spend on recruiting, at least beyond employees 1-5, mainly coming directly from personal circles.
Wow alpha loft is an amazing resource, thanks!
While I agree with everything you've just said, I'm not sure what the answer is. You have to go and purchase a gun, it's extremely difficult to manufacture one yourself. So, there's a point of control, where we can check people (including, yes, for mental illness).

But mental illness itself has no check point. How can we ensure that people do not have untreated Schizophrenia? Mandatory checks for everyone once a year? I'm really not sure how it could be done.
Spoons would actually make you skinny, if they were all you had to eat with. It's hard to cut a steak with a spoon.

By the same token, it's harder to kill a dozen people with a knife, if that's all you have to work with.
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And then we let him get some guns.
It is very easy to kill someone with a gun.. It is also very easy to imagine how impersonal an experience it can be doing so.

If you have to use a knife to kill someone, you are going to have to get very close to them to do it. You're going to have to be very aware of what you're doing. With a gun.. not so much.
Note that these things are pre-meditated and that the people doing this are clever enough to hit soft targets.

Little old ladies with guns are typically not present in grade schools, nor would you want them to be because their weapons could be taken away from them and used against others.
Time, lack of time really, because man o man i can get caught up and obsessed once I'm trying to learn something new
I don't feel like the post was being dismissive. The key sentence is toward the beginning: "The genius of the compiler created for the paper is how it offers safety and allows auto-threading with much less effort than previous attempts."

For example, I'm not terribly skilled in Haskell but I believe the ST monad has to be managed manually by the programmer. You do get a pocket of mutability that allows you to constrain state to a particular scope, but that pocket has to be manually defined by the programmer, and internal to that state the programmer's still responsible for ensuring that any concurrency relating to the mutable data is handled in a thread-safe manner.

As far as freezing/thawing, again I'm no expert but I believe it doesn't work quite the same way as what's being described in the paper. Freezing an array in Haskell doesn't involve taking an existing array and declaring that its contents can no longer be modified; instead the freeze operation creates and returns an immutable copy of the array. (Same for thaw.) There are also unsafeFreeze and unsafeThaw which don't do that, but they really are unsafe. The unsafeFreeze operation doesn't take away your MArray, and that MArray happens to be pointing to the same storage as the Array. Unless there's something else going on in there I don't know about, that's a situation for which the word 'unsafe' is an understatement.

Perhaps there are other facilities in Haskell I don't understand which are able to do what this C# extension does, and not just doing different things that happen to be describable using similar language. If so I'd be really interested to see them. And really curious to know why there hasn't been more interest in them thus far.
Most wars are still primarily men + logistics + intelligence + rifles, the rest is just details.
Can pro-gun people please stop using Switzerland as their go to argument? Do you know why they have so many guns? Because people who have done military service are required to keep a rifle locked up in their house. These are trained people who have gone through psychology tests and military training. That is very very fucking different than the situation in the US.
That doesn't mean we should start encouraging everyone to carry guns, knives, diesel fuel, whatever. "More guns" isn't the solution any more than "fewer guns" is, but I would still feel safer if I knew that getting a gun was more difficult than a stroll into the corner shop.
I can see how you would assume that, but it's not actually the case. I watched every single game of the last world cup (even the simultaneous ones! -- I worked at a TV station), have been to huge, emotional live soccer matches 20+ times, and the most interesting part of it all was the strategy, skill, etc.

But at the end of the day, it really is just kicking a ball into a net.

The military has planning and strategy too, but there the goal is replacing a government, or saving lives, or changing a society (or less noble causes) -- things that can change millions of people's lives in huge ways. So I can get into military planning and strategy, for example.

But if it's just to kick a ball into a net... after the game, and after the world cup, I find myself asking, "why do I even care?"
Yup, because here in Canada, we're a horribly oppressed people, and have no hope of ever gaining true freedom because we don't have guns. Please.
Greatly in favor of the regime, with civilian casualties of the Iraq War.
A news anchor on CNN had a theory about how as a society, we are becoming less empathetic because of our tendency to have more and more online relationships.

Just look at the people on Twitter and even here on HN. You act very differently than you would in real life. I almost wonder if there is something to this and has an effect on some people, which leads to less empathy in real life.
Nice stuff happens but I find it hard to come up with a single instance that offsets grade schoolers being murdered in cold blood. Stuff like this just makes me want to cry.
> It is what it means in English.

Oh, you want to be a jerk; OK, discussion over, grow up.

> Scalable and performant are two entirely orthogonal concepts.

Obviously, that's why they were mentioned separately. Get a clue.

> Neither of which are really relevant to the topic, correctness.

Well aren't you full of yourself, bugger off now.
I think you have too much faith in the political process. The gun lobby ensures that there is no debate on gun control.
They just order what they reckon and are usually 10-15% under what they thought. We charged for what we actually stored so it worked out fine.

Books and clothes are now the core of the business. When we started people all had hifis, 14" TVs, VCRs/DVD players, desktop computers, CRT monitors, boxes of CDs and DVDs - all that has gone now. And books will probably be largely gone in five years.
Because its worthless to focus on what they used when finding out why and working on brain chemistry and mental health research using technology would be so much more beneficial to society.
NONE OF THEM DIED. How do you think that incident would have turned out if the guy had a gun?
>> Was the 2012 Toronto mall shooting a wake-up call for gun-control in Canada, which already has extremely stringent gun-laws?

IIRC, the talk after the shooting in Toronto was for more countermeasures against illegal guns being smuggled in from the US.
At first I was skeptical about fullcontact, afraid of the big-brother like effect.
Then I met the CTO at a hackathon, and it turns out he's really concerned about privacy and respecting opt-outs. I highly recommend the company.
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I was surprised at how effective it was when I started learning c# by forcing myself to type all of the exercises. What I was also pleased with was that it really helped me quickly recognize and remember patterns(code shapes), even before I understood how they worked. Plus I could leave comments for myself to come back and learn more in the difficult spots. Highly recommended.
Grade School Shooting kills 18 Children
Material with no dates, software version numbers, etc., so that it's hard to tell whether information is obsolete or not.

Topics that are difficult to search for (D, Processing, ...).

Lack of mid-level information. (Say I want to learn to build websites. I can easily find, "HTML tags begin with '<'". I can also easily find, "Here's the bestest, coolest CSS grid." Quality tutorials at a level between these two are much rarer. Similarly, "to output in Python, use 'print'" vs. "Here's how to optimize your Django-based site." But in between ... ?)

Video tutorials for anything that doesn't involve physical action. (Give me a video to teach me how to ride a unicycle, but not how Newtonian mechanics works. How to type, yes, but not how to code.)

Video without subtitles/transcript.

Audio-only for anything at all. Ick.
Kids these days have it too easy with this new-fangled Internet thingie. When I learned to code in QBASIC from dead-tree books, I didn't copy-pasta because I couldn't.

Now get off my lawn.
My accountant seems to be pretty happy with my ideas...
Because as we all know, psychology tests and military training are foolproof for sifting out the crazies.
# Perl at 51 characters (149 points).

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I think the usabilty could be improved if you could click anywhere on the map to close a popup and the videos were embeded.
First off, the school shooting is a complete tragedy, there's no two ways about it. It's sickening and frustrating and depressing. I can't imagine what something like this does to a person or how a person is drawn to do something like this.

However, our world isn't any different than it was. There's hope in everything. Crazy, murderous people have always existed and will always exist. Life has always had tragedies, even ones bigger than this. As humans, we're designed to look at the most recent thing and go "oh my god, this is the worst thing ever" in order to deal with problems - it's just how we're designed.

What I'm getting at is that the world will be here tomorrow, and it's not ending any time soon. There's plenty of hope in this world, we just lack the proper context sometimes:

1) Your children are more at risk dying in a car accident or eating crappy food than a school shooting.

2) You're more likely to die of a lightning strike than a terrorist attack.

3) If we couldn't have guns, he would have used a knife.

Be hopeful for the world.
There's been a bit of a roundabout fad in the Triangle area, actually. They installed a couple in Wake Forest (a nearby town), and there's actually three near the spot you mentioned now. As a British expat, I am personally fine with them, but people around here do tend to have issues with them.

The upshot of this is that one of the most terrifying things I've done recently was to try to navigate all three of the roundabouts, in succession, on a bicycle, at the same time as two or three buses.
Wouldn't it take about 30 seconds to put a rule on an outbound firewall to block this?
HRT always donates in the last couple of weeks of the year; no reason to think they won't be doing the same this time.

The anonymous donation in 2011 was $100k.
"It's not the gun. It never was the gun. It's the person."

This kind of zero sum game attitude is a problem in my opinion. yes, Guns are used by people and they don't shoot by themselves. But better controls must be put in place to at least try and keep it away from crazy people. I am saying try, make it harder. If you have a toddler in the house and he starts playing with knives, would you blame it on the toddler ? No, I would say that you need to ensure that the toddler does not get his hands on the knife. Is it possible that he could still do it ? Sure. But is it harder if u hide them? Sure.
> When you have a population size of 300 million you're going to get a lot more outliers (crazy people) than if you have a population of 7 million. Statistically, you will also have crazier people.

So consider the EU, with a roughly equivalent population.

Statistically, once you hit a few million people, you've got enough people involved that the proportion of outliers has stabilized pretty well.
When the mass stabbing has more fatalities than the mass shooting. That no one died in the stabbing attack, makes a pretty good argument for some form of gun control.

(Actually, I prefer Chris Rock's idea for bullet control. Make it too expensive to buy enough for mass shootings.)
I thought this was exclusive to the Rails community - but it is good to see it's not.

I am glad someone is speaking out against it, because it sucks.

One of the major reasons people don't learn to be better developers is because of "elite developers" that have come before them that take pride in humiliating them.

This article is very on-point. I nearly stopped learning Rails because of the torment from #RubyOnRails on IRC. But then I remembered it is the internet and everybody is probably a dog.

I am glad I didn't stop learning - and I am very conscious of this with "noobs" now.
I wouldn't qualify myself as 'pro-gun', rather the opposite.

Switzerland is interesting in many ways, one of which is the degree to which the government is very close to a true democracy, the fact that they don't waste a ton of money on their defence (which has a lot to do with them being in a geographically special position) and in the way that they have guns but abuse is low.

The fact that this is very different to the situation in the US might hold some clues to what could be done about this.
I agree. I'm fascinated by politics in a structural way -- ideologies, movements, narratives, red states vs blue states, liberalism vs conservatism, states' rights and federalism, etc.

But there are lot of people who don't seem to care about that at all, but rather follow politics like sports or soap operas -- which politician said what, how that affects their polling, etc.

There are two very different ways of being "into" politics.
Exactly, if I'm going to get shot (which i'm generally against in principle) I'd hope it was a AR-15 and not an AK for instance. The round will fuck you up, but you might get to wake up in a hospital.
Is gun control the easy answer, or the achievable answer? How can we ensure that no-one's life gets to the point where they shoot up a kindergarten? What exactly are we going to be checking for, and how will we do it?
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07YMliQ4iqE is some of the weirdest cinematography I've ever seen.
While not really a part of definition, eurogames tend to have fewer but well thought out pieces, cards or mechanics. Often a great deal of depth comes from fairly simple rules (like Dominion or Tigris&Euphrates). In contrast, ameritrash games tend to have lots and lots of cards and dice rolls which are often poorly balanced. Examples are Arkham Horror and Bang!

Another common trait is that eurogames tend to have less interaction and feel more like a race (Dominion, Seasons) than an elimination game. It has good sides - it's harder to gang up on the leader, making him lose for arbitrary reasons. In games with high interaction kingmaker syndrome can pop up - you no longer have a chance to win, but you can determine who gets knocked down to 2nd spot. On the other hand, sometimes it feels like you can play without looking at your opponents. Some games manage to strike a balance. Cyclades has a rule which makes it almost impossible to eliminate another player, AND it allows a badly damaged player to steal a victory. This is because the first player to own 2 Metropolis wins, but they exist on the board and can be conquered, not just built.
For parallax you need to take two measurements at the same time. Given that the distance to the moon is about 384,400 km, a 1,000 km baseline gives an angle of 1/384 radians = 0.15 degree. This requires some a rather sophisticated methods, such as clocks with good precision and a telescope.

The method of Aristarchus is much more clever than that. At 1/2 moon, the earth/moon/sun forms a right angle. The angle moon/earth/sun could be measured as about 3 degrees - something that the ancient Greeks could measure. This gives a ratio of earth-moon/sun-moon distances between 18 and 20.

Then during a lunar eclipse, you can measure the width of the cone of the earth's shadow vs. the moon's width. During a solar eclipse you can see that the moon's angular width is about that of the sun. That information, plus the measured radius of the earth, and a bit of geometry, gives you an estimate of the size of the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_%28A...
Could be, but I don't know why they'd want to be anonymous. My guess is that it's a company which is using FreeBSD but doesn't want to announce that publicly -- it's not uncommon for companies to consider "using FreeBSD" to be a tactical advantage they don't want their competition to know about.
I wish you better luck than Eazel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eazel

Edit: I didn't realize they went public with such a ridiculous business plan. Dot com madness indeed ...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/22/hertzfeld_spills_all...
That's a great question, and one I never really thought to think through all the way. It's one of those words you throw around without really thinking about. Kind of cliche.

But, it has made me think about it a little bit and I guess I do have an answer. I think it's that critical mass of having a large enough group of people and the support network to allow startups to actually make it from conception to profit. So, for example, we have a handful of startup accelerators, CincyTech and the Brandery, to name the big players. There is also Cintrifuse, which is run out of P&G now (not affiliated business-wise, mind you). There are also a lot of heavyweight dev and design minds in the city (due to big marketers) who host and speak at events. There are also investment firms bringing money into the city, and the state of Ohio has also invested a couple of hundred million dollars in seed ventures around the state.

So, as far as 'vibrant' as a descriptor, I guess I would say that the combination of these things creating a feeling of excitement and possibility is why I would use the word. Does that help? I feel like I just rambled.
How about the millions of children who have been educated for 13+ years in the public school systems and go on to lead fulfilling adult lives?