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I think it is important to have a look at the code and have it imprinted as an abstract algorithm / pseudo code that you can reproduce easily later. It feels such a natural thing to do, I am not sure what kind of people would not do this.
So perhaps you'd like your neighbor to acquire a nuke or smallpox-based vaccine. Sure, he's a great guy and will never use these things, and besides, nukes have plenty of other purposes in a household. Their primary reason is totally not for killing people, so this is all good, right?
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I love Linode, and use them for just about everything, but storage is the one place they fall behind on. I wouldn't mind low amounts of storage on instances if they had some sort of internal "cloud" storage like Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files (ie I'd still have to pay, but there are no bandwidth charges associated with moving data around).

That said, only having one complaint is a great vote of confidence, and a boost in drive space is always welcome!

Thanks, guys.
I wasn't clear. I'm not suggesting that gun control is the answer, simply that we can use technology to address and understand how this happens.

I agree, using technology to understand brain chemistry and further mental health research is a step forward.
Is "I want good schools for my kids without spending more than an hour stuck in traffic each day" uninteresting enough for you? This may be somewhat particular to the Redmond/Bellevue/Seattle, but these same things are considerations for everyone I've talked to out there.

You know, it just occurred to me that my dad got his PhD in urban planning and I remember him presenting 3-D graphic computer models of commuting back in the 70's. Perhaps that's why I think this should be an uninteresting and solved problem by now. :-)
> increasing traceability of weapons and ammo

The guns used in shootings are usually legally bought. There are no disreputable dealers here.
Especially in "developed tastes" where you suddenly can't stand "inferior"

* music

* typography

* movies

* food

* wine

* art

* fashion

And so on and so forth. Of course, there is always someone out there who is better than you with better tastes, and people sometimes forget to see this as a humbling fact.
Agreed. My wife is a psychotherapist and has seen a lot of what is happening. Mental-health spending by government is down, service is down, and more folks are going without competent mental health services.

Regardless of ones position on guns, it's almost universal that not nearly enough who need mental health care get it. And, our national attitude is still one of "Therapy is for crazy people!" - yeah, just like "the ER is a viable form of preventative healthcare" and "you only go to the mechanic when your car is on fire".

I'm a libertarian but in practice I'm not sure of a solution that isn't more government involvement.
This is precisely true. You need not look further than America's troubled middle east wars to see how devastating a small guerrilla force can be. Some of the insurgents are using Mosin-Nagant rifles, a Russian bolt-action rifle that dates back to 1891!
OS X has become "the OS" now?
Someone - was it Kernighan? Ritchie? - wrote a nice description of this. In short, when you find the source a bug, don't just fix it - stop and think what caused you to make that error, and think about what else in the code might be a victim of the same line of reasoning (note: not necessarily the same code - just the same design decisions).

Back in the day when you had to submit your code to the computers overnight and wait until the next day to find out if you got your output or just a one-line compiler error, you were much more careful to avoid errors, big or small.

Having a longer iterative cycle can be good training.
Just went in ##C-unregistered, and they were quite nice
Awful, tragic things happen every day. Some can be prevented and some can't. It's highly unlikely that this is saddest thing to have happened in the world today.

There are a certain percentage of people in the world who will kill people for no reason, molest children, order executions and market crystal meth to young mums. This has always been the way, and will always continue to be.

Now I'm not belittling it as a tragedy, but we have to accept that some terrible things just happen and cannot be prevented or deterred. They always have, and they will continue to do so.

Sometimes there is no lesson to be learned, and we have to accept that what we've seen is a manifestation of human nature, in the same way that lightning is a manifestation of nature itself. Neither are predictable, preventable and both will happen forever.
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Key distribution is always a problem - perhaps the problem is that it's so easy for "enable" TFA for WoW.

Google makes is relatively difficult to setup TFA, and you can (and I have) forced a password/TFA reset - took 30m over a couple of hours to restore.
http://code.google.com/p/magarena/

Magarena is a GPLed program to play almost Magic: the Gathering. There is only a small rule modification to simplify AI calculations: the defender chooses how combat damage is distributed, not the attacker.

Magarena doesn't have ALL the cards - only close to 3000 - but it has disturbingly good AI. Several AI algorithms to choose from, in fact. It plays like a bastard, and despite having a few flaws (sometimes it performs suicide attacks, it doesn't save cards for later, is bad with activated abilities and doesn't guess what card you might have in hand) you will dearly regret underestimating it.

More cards are coming, but each new mechanic needs to be coded separately.
Most members of this community see the absurdity of making a certain string of bits illegal, whether its the private key to decrypt blu-ray discs or describes the shape of a firearm. What's odd is that they don't see the parallel absurdity of outlawing a piece of metal carved into the shape of a firearm. Perhaps they will now that its possible to produce the object from the bits.
That's certainly not the sole purpose of IRC. Perhaps you're frequenting the wrong channels. For example, ##c on freenode is notably caustic.
> It's not the gun. It never was the gun. It's the person.

So what if it's the person? How can you find those people and stop them from getting guns? All the people who knew the shooter in the Oregon mall shooting a couple days ago said that he showed no signs of being anything other than a kind and friendly person. He showed only a marginal interest in guns. But that could describe hundreds of millions of Americans. You would never be able to find the ones that might do this and make sure they don't get guns.
Maybe the OP meant the median world income, which is around $10k/yr.
I don't think he understands what a black swan means. You can't 'shoot for' a black swan because it's by definition unknowable. A specific 'sale or product idea' isn't a black swan. Meeting the perfect cofounder is arguably one; it's as likely to happen at a rave as at a tech meetup. An even better example is the side project that you never expected to turn into a startup.

"Although Black Swans are risky by their nature you can put yourself in a position where you maximize the chance of success. For example; You want to have the best team to maximize the chance of success."

There's something wrong with this paragraph; I don't see an example.
Not quite the same thing:

http://www.policemag.com/list/tag/friendly-fire.aspx

(Do note that many of the incidents there involve an officer intentionally firing on other officers. But there are accidents there.)
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Nice, The 82 character one works for me also, on Mac OS X python 2.7.3
Tell that to Philip K. Dick, J. D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Orhan Pamuk, Albert Camus, George Orwell, to name a few..)
If you believe that the shooter in this case was disturbed or had mental illness (I've seen no reports to conclude this, btw) then the first thing you would demand is 1) better mental health care facilities and treatments for the public at large and 2) universal health care systems to provide the least possible friction in accessing those mental health care services.

Also, you don't have to be either for banning guns or having no regulations at all. Instead, a compromise of allowing regulated gun ownership would be better.
Disreputable dealer? I absolutely agree, any car used in a drunk driving accident should be traced back to the dealer responsible, and they should be punished.

If you can determine in advance who the "wrong hands" are, I'm sure the TSA would love to speak to you and dump buckets of money over your head.
The Ludemetic Game Generator [1] is an amusing, and often inspiring, fictional game generator. It randomly combines BoardGameGeek.com's game category and mechanics keywords to create a new game. Some random examples:

* Web Tycoon in Space: Categories: Expansion for Base-game, American Indian Wars, Mythology. Mechanics: Commodity Speculation, Hand Management.

* Popbid: Categories: Music, Territory Building. Mechanics: Auction/Bidding, Modular Board.

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1. You can play at fantasy/SF club. You will only pay a monthly fee, if any.

2. On http://boardgamearena.com , you can play several dozen board games for free. No flash, it uses HTML5 magic.
Hey guys, looks cool. I want to build an automated response email system for an entirely different purpose, and I'm wondering what technologies you're using. I've looked at Lamson a bit.
Alfred is simpler, and noticeably faster than a non-fine-tuned Quicksilver in my experience. And the little details are done better - e.g. punch in an equation and it'll show you the results as you enter them, and hit enter to copy the results. Small, but I use it often enough that I would miss it.

For anyone with a fine-tuned Quicksilver install, you're basically weighing the more advanced features (e.g. "find file -> open with -> find application" is a favorite of mine) against Alfred's "Power Pack" - it'll cost you $ and probably a bit of speed to switch to Alfred. Ultimately though, a highly customized Quicksilver install has basically no competitors.
That is the political process. The gun lobby can deliver votes, the anti-gun lobby can't.

Support for gun control is extremely shallow, a lot of people are for it if asked a yes/no question but the activist population of people who would change their vote, volunteer time, or donate money is tiny.
yea. the thought of copy-pasting code is really weird. i would feel very uncomfortable doing it. i'm not surprised people copy-paste, though
I don't agree with this completely. The idea that Nassim Taleb talks about in Antifragility relates to the allocation across assets of 1/n, i.e. all have a uniform probability of 'being huge', since it's impossible to know at the time of investment. You don't know which ones are going to take off, but you put yourself in a position to capture as much positive upside as possible.
Also enjoyable is building and designing a board game from the ground up.

Similar to software development in that you need constant iteration, much different in that it takes forever to implement and test those iterations.
I've found that it's easy for me to space out and just go through the motions if I'm simply reading or copying and pasting. Typing the code manually (or writing full notes in a university course, et cetera) forces me to focus enough that it actually drastically increases my efficiency.

So in my case, it's more work to type out code than to copy and paste, but it saves work in the long run.
I don't think he meant is the easy to implement solution, but it's the easy to suggest solution, because it's the one that our emotions lead us to. I read his comment as saying, "Hey, let's not limit ourselves to the first idea that pops into our brains. What else can we do?"
I think of fonts like colors. There's no magic number - it's more an issue of creating a meaningful palette composed of elements that both compliment and contrast each other. At http://kernest.com - we shoot for 3-5 fonts in the Konstellations offering. We've found that two fonts usually don't provide a rounded, full palette. Yet, 5 - even when very deliberate - can feel like a ransom note.
It's still a fair question though.

How many streams of retina-quality video do you need to watch (or feed) simultaneously?
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Similar story here, but in the late 90s. I used to print out TI-82 calculator apps/games and type them in by hand because my parents wouldn't buy the $60 connector cable. It was surprisingly fun. All my initial programming knowledge came from debugging the typos I had made.
I don't think anyone expects a foolproof solution. If we could come up with a solution where a few less crazy people had guns I'd be happier. Some training or licensing of guns ought to be discussed
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I am personally a fan of another a solution along another axis entirely: a complete overhaul of our medical system, notably in this case the way we detect and handle the mentally ill. (A part of that could be mental evaluations for those who want to buy guns.)
I'd love to have something like this. As a student at a small school in Canada it is very hard to make connections in the industry that are often facilitated by larger schools.
The success of this will depend heavily on the people doing the parsing of applications and matching them to the right company. While I like the idea of lowering the barrier for applying for jobs, I cannot help but think that many students will look at this as another opportunity to focus on quantity of applications they send out. Instead, I would rather that students take some time to research and figure out on their own what they want for an internship, rather than just sending out a bunch of applications/resumes.
Of course not, but I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment.
That's actually true. There is a wealth of research that shows that things like having larger spoons and larger bowls causes people to eat more and therefore get fatter.

Similarly, is taking a crazy person's gun away going to stop them trying to kill people? Probably not, but it'll be much harder for them to kill anyone.
I don't see this in GitHub projects (so far), but this is the usual experience when asking for help on Stack Overflow or Freenode.
Does this mean that vim is now officially finished?
You imply I am emotionless and insensitive. With respect, I believe you to be wrong, and that your information on me is incomplete.

You imply that I am trying to police the site. Policing requires some degree of authority and/or power - I have neither here. I have no control over anything here except my words. I simply quoted the guidelines to remind people of what they say, and added my opinion.

PG has said that the words "most" and "probably" are relevant, and I accept that therefore, in his opinion, this is exceptional. I have no problem with that, and I am interested to see if he chooses to expand on that.

This event is a tragedy, and it is right that it provokes debate and awareness. I can wish that it didn't do so here, but that doesn't seem to be the prevailing point of view, nor the point of view of PG. Fair enough, that's the way it is.

Previous interactions with you leave me with the impression that you really don't like me, but I believe that to be the result of significant misunderstandings. It's most likely too late to change that, but please don't accuse me of being unaffected by events like this.
Chambers and barrels will be very difficult to print, they have to be forged or machined because of the extreme stresses involved.

EDIT:
That article you linked to discusses a 3d printed lower receiver. That part of the rifle does not have the barrel and chamber. The part of the ar with the barrel and chamber is called the upper.
Sometimes people forget the fundamentals and need a reminder or worst..their fundamentals were poor.
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People don't buy guns to "kill people", they buy guns to defend themselves. Most people who own guns would prefer to never have to use them.
I'll add my 2 Cents: Also try to write a program first on a paper using a pencil and then on your Editor. Full blown IDE's are not the best way to get started for relative beginners!
The problem is that easy availability of guns amplify the destruction that can be perpetuated by mentally unstable individuals. A similar incident happened in China today where 22 kids were stabbed by one perpetrator but not one had life threatening injuries. What if Walmart China sold guns like the US one does? How many innocent kids would be dead today?

> How much liberty do we all give up, to limit the devastation of the senseless acts of a few?

Liberty? What about the liberty not to get randomly shot down and you or your loved ones' life taken away from you and the people who know you? Isn't the gift of life the supreme liberty taking precedence over the need of some to worship guns?

The ability to take away someone right and liberty to live at a moment's notice borders on a superpower and should be handed out very sparingly to those who absolutely need it to do their job.
And now you live in a country with enough societal and institutional safeguards against oppression that it isn't necessary for the citizenry to own automatic weapons. Congratulations.
Yeah, I'm a little concerned about updates breaking things. The good thing about this hack is that you don't have to modify your installed OS X system. If I understand correctly, the Chameleon bootloader emulates EFI64 and fakes OS X into thinking you booted an EFI64 system. So I think the likelihood of updates breaking things is much smaller than that of Hackintoshes, for example.

Nevertheless, I'm going to try to make sure I have a full backup before doing any major OS X updates. I also have both a Lion backup (as well as an old Snow Leopard backup) that I can boot up in case I need to.
I do think Wordpress, big hairy pile of PHP that it is, is actually a much better way to learn to code than CodeAcademy or equivalent. In fact, it's because working with WP involves so much hacking and kludges that it's such a good way to learn.

CodeAcademy seems to follow the Dijkstra school of CS teaching... start people off with the fundamental principles. Sounds like the logical way to learn, but maybe it's not the most effective.

There seems to be a gulf between "I know how for loops and functions work" and "I know how to use HTML, CSS, PHP and an FTP account to get a website working". People also complain that CodeAcademy spoonfeeds you too much - those of us who had to claw our coding knowledge out of shitty w3schools and tizag tutorials might actually have been more fortunate.

That's why I like Wordpress, or similar platforms. I've known a few people who accidentally taught themselves to code this way: they install Wordpress, then install a theme, then decide they want to tweak the theme and end up accidentally learning HTML and CSS. Then they start installing plugins, decide they want to tweak the plugins and accidentally learn Javascript and PHP.
> 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.

You can't ensure that every single person that has a mental disability gets treatment, but as a society we do not support easy access to mental health treatment. Mental health services, like physical health services, are pay to play and that provides a huge barrier for people with mental disability, esp. since some amount of those people will have a very hard time affording such treatment and/or medication. Consider also that folks with mental disability tend to have less robust support networks of family of friends and that mental health care has stigma attached to it for most of the US population.

The best option is to reduce the difficult of getting mental health care treatment as much as possible: universal health care, public awareness campaigns to fight against social stigma, and more robust social services.
there is a chance he read Nassim Talebs book and tried to apply a technique of betting on very rare and unpredictable events as a risk mitigation measure or profiting when everyone else loses. but i'm not sure how that applies to his examples.. It's seem like more of a "numbers game" with some general advice on how to be successful. Kudos on making a catchy title.
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@2) Wouldn't it be possible to reverse engineer a military receiver? Or is it a changing passcode that must be input manually?
More people are carrying guns though, and yet overall violent crime has been falling.

It's not the gun.

Guns are tools, they aren't the problem. We need to be better at being able to detect these individuals who are likely to go on these rampages. But more than that we need to have a society that is better able to defend itself. If even 1 in 20 or fewer teachers at a school were people who were responsible and trained and carried guns for self-defense then these sorts of attacks would be far less common. Because the attacks would be ended sooner by armed citizens acting in defense. And because then schools and other places would no longer be defenseless. The reason why these crazy people go to schools to commit mayhem is because they know that they aren't going to be stopped. They know that it's just going to be unarmed teachers and defenseless children. If that stopped being the case, if there started to be more of a risk to the shooter in these situations then maybe these sorts of shootings would be less common.

We've spent the last half century in the developed world progressively making ourselves more and more defenseless and less and less empowered, on the premise that doing so also disempowers the bad guys. The rage killers, the school shooters, the terrorists, etc. But the exact opposite has come to pass. We've disempowered the individual and made ourselves defenseless and even more vulnerable to these monsters.

No, not everyone should own a gun, or be allowed to own a gun. But if we started to cultivate more of a culture of self-reliance and personal responsibility, and if we started increasingly empowering individuals to take care of their own self-defense by becoming more aware, more trained, more prepared, and to carry weapons if they so choose then maybe we'll actually end up with a safer society.

I've been shooting guns since I was 10 years old, and I've been carrying a pocket knife since middle school. I take these things vary seriously. I maintain my certifications and training in first-aid and CPR. I have well stocked first aid kits in my home, car, and backpack (when I ride the bus or bike), including things like hemostatic compounds. I also have a concealed carry permit (which means that my info and fingerprints are on file with local law enforcement) and own firearms. If you make a law which limits my capability to defend myself or others then you are not making society more safe. And almost any gun-control law is going to preferentially disempower good people like myself while having much less impact on the bad guys who don't care about living within the law.

Edit: the concentration on guns as an item which "enables violence" is no more sensible than the TSA's concentration on liquids or nail clippers. It's just another form of security theater.
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