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Effectiveness is the only rationale that should matter. Also, you might benefit from having a look around http://lesswrong.com/; many of the arguments you will see on HN are grounded in the concepts of Bayesian rationality described there.
There has to be some threshold. How many lives per year is worth restricting the freedom of every law abiding citizen?

Let's say we could ban peanuts, and it would save 50 people every year. Would it be worth it? Probably not. How about 100 million. Probably so.
reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
wtf is "hyperlocal"? reviewing each table at the local starbucks?

seriously, it just sounds like local + recommendations. this article reads like it's just drumming up hype for this company.
Having done a bit of development in both, I found I got productive in Go quicker than with Ruby. With Ruby, there's many ways to do the same thing. That might be great when you're experienced with the language, but for someone starting out it can be daunting. The compexity of installing RVM put me off also - I was never able to install it on Linux properly so ended up using the version that came with the Ubuntu package manager, which was an old version.
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If I have to pay cash, I usually just leave the change as a tip or donation (many places have boxes for that). But usually I just use cards and carry no cash - which makes me feel rather bad for some panhandlers I occasionally meet and have literally nothing to give them - I have no cash and credit card is not very useful in such situation. I wonder how that goes further as cash is more and more phased out - will still enough people carry cash or will there be some way to beg money electronically?

Readers for Salvation Army would be a nice idea - SA brand gives enough trust that they won't do something nasty with your card, and if you have a credit card you probably can afford some donation. OTOH, the cost of the reading device would probably outweigh the donations, so unless there are some very very cheap readers, not yet.
If you're interested, Tor is looking at a Cipher suite upgrade. There are obviously compatibility issues when you are rolling out to a network that has 500,000+ daily users. If you look around the Tor proposals you should be able to find it https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=tree;hb=HEAD;f=p...
> The code in the Windows kernel is never touched by anyone outside of Microsoft

Not exactly true. Device manufacturers and antimalware vendors add kernelmode device drivers all the time. It's not unheard of for very similar problems with that code to be found.
Sorry to be 'that guy', but have you ever build a (successful) business?
If you really want to improve your presentations, just get "Presenting to win"[0]. It's a very good book, provides decent advice on how to craft your presentation, to captivate the audience and to think about what exactly it is that you want to convey and how best to do that.

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> The leap from "folding DNA into shapes" to "making trees grow into a chair" is astounding in it's oversimplification.

Yep, agreed. Besides, you don't need to invoke DNA origami (nor the actual techniques you would use to achieve that, like typical genome manipulation) to get trees to grow into chairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping
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That the most experienced devs say this the most might not be just about status games. You need to have a very solid shared background to be able to jump to understanding something after the sort of short verbal explanation "I don't understand" can be replied with.

If I go to an university lecture on advanced math, I won't understand things, and can say so. But it's unlikely the lecturer can say anything in the span of five minutes that will make me understand, since what would actually get me close to understanding the content of that lecture are several semesters worth of studies leading up to it.

The senior devs might be the only people on the room who do have such a solid grasp of their stuff that they can fill in their understanding with just a few minutes of explanation. Junior people don't understand either, but they might need to work over the new thing for hours, not five minutes, to get a proper handle on it, and you can't give an hours-long answer to someone who says they don't understand.
Yes, you can grant them some power, but clearly there's a limit. In fact, our law and the Constitution defines that limit - and this program (and others; see SoftwareMaven's response as well) is beyond it. They have taken power not granted them.

And I don't think anybody (except maybe protesters in large cities who suffer police violence, and of course black people anywhere in the country) thinks the United States is a police state. Similarly, I am not suffering a heart attack as I'm typing this. I still eat salad instead of cheeseburgers for every meal. Analogously, I think it's important to keep an eye on excessive power grabs by the government.

The Bill of Rights is only self-government if it's used to limit the government, you see.
Oh christ. Who do they think they're protecting themselves from specifically?
You are very welcome.

My advice (even though you didn't ask for it) is let the Paxil do it's thing for a while then start implementing exercise and nutritional adjustments into your routine once you are feeling normalized.

Treat it like an A/B test if you can. Think about the long term and try to find a routine that will work for you consistently. If you find something, talk to your doctor about coming off the medication to see if your routine continues to help without the meds. Make sure you only do it with the support of your doctor though, the with drawl from Paxil can be enough to put you back into a depression. From what I recall it wasn't too pleasant.

Good luck!
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Here's to hoping that Lego pivots into a foundation for educational, manufacturing, structural, (etc)... research while investing in 3d printing and bringing the tech up to and beyond their current spec. Optimism!
I think you underestimate how ingrained guns are in our culture.

If you priced ammunition out of the reach of an ordinary citizen, you've effectively banned guns for the ordinary citizen.

The first problem you have to deal with is the number of lives that will be lost in the armed insurrection you've caused. There are thousands of people just waiting for the government to take their guns and I can guarantee you any kind of gun ban (even if it's only an effective ban) will cause enough deaths to offset any drop in murders for the next 50 years or so.

After that's over there is still going to be a large criminal element who isn't going to stop fighting each other over drugs and will need ammunition to do it.

> it needs to be hard for mentally unstable kids like the recent one to get ammo

How many people die each year to mentally unstable kids as opposed to crimes committed by hardened criminals usually involving drugs?

If you haven't looked at the statistics, it's overwhelmingly the latter.
A revolution that worked: American Revolution.

By some measures, it began in Lexington (the linked Economist column is "Lexington"), when the British government moved to seize citizens' arms.

We must better understand how it is that those who would choose to harm many people reach such a decision. Guns are a tool. So was anthrax, in the post-9/11 mail scare, and it could have been much worse. Mutual respect, understanding, education, kindness, and vigilance are our greatest bulwarks against tragedy.

Banning guns won't solve the problem.
Chris Rock is a moron--here's a life tip, comedians say things because they're funny, not because they're right. I do not take political advice from Chris Rock, George Carlin, Lewis Black, or Larry the Cable Guy.

Making black powder is not difficult. It's easier than making drugs. You can make it from charcoal, potassium nitrate (KNO3, you can get that from urine), and sulfur (an extremely common chemical). Home-made black powder might be risky in firearms but would certainly be lots of fun for blowing things up. You can make all kinds of explosives, as the movie says, from common household items.
No, the biographer also had a clearance. They were actually within their rights.

Whether it was a gainful use of resources given the origin of the tip is dubious, but they weren't actually violating the judicial oversight requirement, as far as I understand it.
3d printed flintlock.
>Coming to my case, I consider any one who boasts about great hand writing a loser.

I dedicated a lot during my school days trying to improve my handwriting without anyone's involvement. Naturally, I'm proud of how much my handwriting has improved. Thanks for the 'loser' tag.
I get the smart but slow thing ALL THE TIME.

When on contracts I often have quite heated debates because everyone who is running, is almost always running right into a brick wall that they refuse to acknowledge... until it happens.

And then guess who they turn to to dig them out of the shite? Oh yes the smart guy (who saw it coming).

It pissed me off to the extent that I made a conscious decision to break free of the contractor world and go it alone.

I probably am slow, but I like to refer to it as considered. It means I take the best possible path having weighed up the odds, and not rush into the one that seems obvious.

It means sometimes I end up with a counter intuitive result, which works far better than the one other people expect to be the answer.

And I'm much happier with that.
Guns to solve the gun issue.

Great thinking, 'murrica.
Additionally, use the ?layout=compact option on a the wishlist URL (http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/?layout=compact) to simplify the HTML served by Amazon. The script would then want to extract the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) from the linked URL. For example, B007X5ZBU4 is the ASIN for "The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive Schoolfor Startups [Kindle Edition]" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Launch-Pad-Combinator-ebook/dp/B00...). Now take the list of ASINs and convert them to ISBNs. I'm sure there's an Amazon API that can handle this lookup. With a list of ISBNs you can search against your school's database of books. Depending on how open they are with this information there may be an API that allows you to search by ISBN. Maybe talk to a tech-savvy librarian at your school.
Nice page, an example of the language in action of the front page would be nice though. After some browsing I have, although I have looked at F# in the past, resorted to Wikipedia for a quick glance to remind me of the looks of the language.
So I guess images that appear on both are the actual images of the year :)
I can't find a source for it right now but I seem to recall some organization like The Red Cross accepting donations by credit cards in Sweden a few years back.
No, it actually is the point, because it's perfectly OK for Santa Claus to know whether you've been bad or good - Santa Claus is inherently trustworthy and won't tell your boss, deny you travel privileges, sell your company short, or give bad rich kids presents instead of coal.

So the day I see a reindeer with a glowing nose landing on my roof, I will consider allowing the elves to collect all the information they want, as long as the storage center is at the North Pole.

In the meantime, invasion of privacy will continue to be done wrong.
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@roel_v yes. Also a very relevant one to the conversation. See my profile.
"Assuming, for simplicity’s sake, that each bill weighs a gram and we average the denominations out to all twenties."

Doesn't this assumption negate the point about the weight of the currency? Inflation means that larger notes are now more common - to assume Dillinger had the same portion of twenties as the Lufthansa heist is silly.

In the US this has been less the case, but to take Australia for example I remember my grandmother withdrawing cash in $2 and $5 notes. Now (25 years on) the ATMs only dispense $20s and $50s, and the $2 bill hasn't existed since 1988.
For some, maybe some in New Zealand even, being able to go to Starbucks is an economic show of purchase power and has its own status associated in circles we may not frequent.
Yeah reminds me a bit of Back to the Future II. There was a fax machine in every room of the house.

Also a lot of people barely know how to work with wood. I'd expect even fewer to understand the basics of material science to work with polymers and other compounds.

If anything we're at the ImageWriter phase of 3D printing. You could print from home but to have anything worthwhile you'll probably want to take it to a shop who'll have better materials and someone knowledgable. That expert will tell you why you shouldn't use your creation to serve food on or that it dissolves when exposed to solvents.
Welcome to techcrunch, regurgitating exactly what the company's marketing spiels claim + how much money they raised as though the companies success depends on VCs.
this was one of the more entertaining and enlightening articles I've read in a while.

It reminds me of the scene in The Dark Knight when the Joker is sitting on a literal mountain of cash.

When visualized that way, it's very true that bank robberies no longer make sense.
Who knows, but it's got the word "local" and it even has "hyper" applied to it, so we've got to fund this. The only way it could be better if it was also "turbosocial" and "supermobile"!
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A lot of charities are moving online, so what they loose from one source, they can recoup from another. The good thing about online/cc is that the giver isn't limited by whatever spare change he has in the pocket.
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To bridge the gap between naive Bayes and LDA, I would recommend going from k-means to EM and then from EM to variational Bayes. K-means to EM is covered in chapters 20 (pp. 286-), 22 (pp. 300-) and 33 (pp. 422-) of MacKay's ITILA [1] (excellent and free book BTW). I recommend to learn about (== apply on something) the junction tree algorithm because you will have to brush on graph theory. Also, do more convex optimization beforehand than I did, or you will have to catch up: take a full course or full book on it.

For LDA you'll need to understand Dirichlet processes, I find the introduction by Frigyik et al. [2] to be excellent for that. You may need to read A Measure Theory Tutorial (Measure Theory for Dummies) by Gupta [3] before. Finally, I put there the two most influential LDA papers to me: [4] and then [5].

[1] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html

[2] http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/guptalab/publications/...

[3] https://www.ee.washington.edu/techsite/papers/documents/UWEE...

[4] http://www.psychology.adelaide.edu.au/personalpages/staff/si...

[5] http://videolectures.net/site/normal_dl/tag=83534/nips2010_1...
It's a silly idea but at the same time not totally unrealistic if you assume that one, it's not something we could necessarily start today, two, it isn't a task that could be completed in any 'worthwhile' timeframe, and three, that the raw material for such a venture existed and could be harvested in some at-least-minimally efficient way.

Once we have some sort of solution to the materials problem, it sure would be fun to throw out a couple of linked, self-replicating devices into space and check up on them in, oh, a thousand years or so. Hell, bury our best AI somewhere in the core and maybe by the time it's discovered we'll have a created the next Big Thing. I wonder how long it will be before machines can 'meditate' (usefully of course, hibernate doesn't count)...
Teenagers tell me panhandling is still very lucrative, just throw on some ratty clothes and you still make 2x minimum wage.
I would like to see some numbers for the home defense case -- it seems that the reasoning is mostly based on common sensical intuitions. IIRC guns in the home are multiple times more likely to be used against the family, than against an intruder. Permitted law-enforcement use is also acceptable to me.

Everything else you mentioned can, I think, be narrowly compromised on -- for shotguns, we can have single or double-barreled breechloaders only, 20 gauge only. That is plenty lethal, and the freedom to own pump-loading and larger gauges are, I think, acceptable casualties.

I think there really is not a fact-based case for the civilian ownership of the majority of weapons designed and sold in the market. Why does anyone need a Bushmaster or knockoff AK?
I think anyone who questions the need for an "empirical evidence" has never written a single line of code in their life

Because it's in plain sight

No, this is not a matter of "trying to find it"

If someone questions this they're already wrong.
That makes sense: with a gun we shoot -> shooting; with a knife we stab -> stabbing. Although it could also be a slicing or dicing then, I suppose :-)
Does anyone know what a $8M Seed means?

Does that mean it was raised in such a way that no investor has a board seat?
> There was a fax machine in every room of the house.

/house/office and they predicted the future of Japan pretty darn well!
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I'd also be interested in research on graphs or charts, if you've seen any in your travels.

It just strikes me that so much of this stuff is straight-up opinion. And we know from other fields (eg: advertising) that what we prefer may not be the same as what works.
Even when these events are planned, there is still a time when you go "I need a big gun" to getting one. If mom has one in the closet, this obviously makes that event happen instantly. If there are more roadblocks to the process of acquiring an assault rifle, wouldn't it be worth it even if it saved a single life?
Now we only have to wait for the respons of the "attacking gunmen"... will they increase their firepower? Body armor? Hand grenades? Tanks?

Fighting violence with violence will only result into more victims!
While I agree there is a clear need for version control, telling someone looking for evidence that they are already wrong is extremely unhelpful.

Almost everyone had a time when they didn't use version control, at least not properly. I wrote thousands of lines of code on an Amstrad CPC, and the closest I came to version control was cycling between two different tapes when it came to saving my data. When I moved to PC I did the same, with two floppy discs.
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Ah, there are some regulations with respect to getting a firearm then? But given the enormous amount of firearms around, would it be hard to get one illegally? I suppose everyone knows someone with a healthy mental outlook and with a serious gun. It does not seem as if you have to go to some heavy criminals to get one.

But it is good to hear that there is at least some sort of barrière to obtain a dangerous weapon.
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Thats ok, I'm rather long winded, and there was even stuff I omitted.

I don't have a lot of experience with therapy that I can easily recall. I did a lot of therapy around the time when the "some kid" situation originally occurred as it became apparent to my parents something was up with me, but I was <10 years old. I remember spending a lot of time with therapists trying to figure out the symptoms over the next few years, but it was all very confusing and no one (including me) really had a handle on it. As I started to get older, things escalated so it was harder and harder for them to get me to even go so I ended up with a lot of fragmented treatment and I was mis-diagnosed for probably 10 years or so I would say. So between that and the fact that a lot of those years were a manic blur, I can't say I really recall any therapy of value especially anything like inner child or regression therapy.

I would definitely entertain the idea of doing this now because even to this day there are certain triggers (said or done, implicit or explicit) that will have the same affect. Luckily I can usually self-diagnose those episodes within the first 10 minutes and adjust as it's fairly dramatic and obvious to me that something has changed biologically. It's the cycles that scale more slowly that I find it a lot harder to identify and throttle, but luckily they don't surface very often in a more serious manner then irritability or obsession. These are the cycles (the feature) that I try to use to my advantage due to the perceived increase in cognitive focus that I feel I experience.

I will do some research about this type of therapy, I'm all for any approach that helps me to understanding my triggers better.
Yes, I know, and I thought it might be useful to state a few obvious reasons why some game software might be useful to teachers!
I think that's good advice and I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who see's a different side of the coin. Thanks for your response.
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I don't know how it is in the US, but as far as I remember, in France, teaching is one of the professions with the most suicides. Not so long ago, a teacher put herself on fire in a courtyard, in full view of the children.
Speaking of cartels, you do realize that gun control would be loved by organized crime?

Heck, they already use guns to get the drugs to customers! It would be win/win for the cartels, no new framework required.
No, a possible scenario is there was a group of Pentagon employes that knew about the missing money and were pushing for investigation for months. 9/11 was (among other targets) a way to delay the investigation, eliminate key people/evidence and give a lesson to the rest.
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IMO, we are still a ways away from 3D printing being as disruptive as a lot of people think (at least for home use).

From owning a 3D printer and doing prints for friends in my engineering classes, I think people still greatly underestimate how high touch 3D printing is today.

For example, look at the makerbot google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/makerbot

Even looking at Shapeways (an online 3D printing company with really expensive machines), they still deal with quality control problems for the average model someone uploads.
You hit on a good point, the Constitution is seen as invioble. You can tweak it, but you can't start striking pieces down.
How many months ago was it that Fox was calling Teachers overpaid, lazy, and incompetent? Definitely within the past year, right? Yet now it makes perfect sense to arm those same incompetent slackers who co-parent their children for the school year? This level of hypocrisy and short-sightedness hurts my brain.

In gaming terms, this amounts to an egregious level of power-creep; the crutch of overwhelmed and inexperienced game balancers.
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> I think anyone who questions the need for an "empirical evidence" has never written a single line of code in their life

Just like anyone who questions the need for empirical evidence of the miasma theory has never worked around sick people a day in their life.