skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graphical 'signatures' cannot be legally binding as they are trivial to forge.

I also don't understand this retrograde step. I will repeat it. It is trivial to COPY and FORGE a graphical signature!
And from a cloud provider??

What about S/MIME and PGP? These are cryptographically strong, essentially unforgable signatures that capture time and can ONLY be signed by the party that holds the private key. That is what i would want from a 'signing' provider.

I used to love the FireGPG plugin for firefox to "do this on gmail from firefox", however the javascript model in firefox meant that this plugin needed to be discontinued. (It could lead to private key disclosure).

Also S/MIME and PGP are open, free, standards that totally make 'graphical' signatures ancient exploitable technology.
I'm a bit torn. Absent mag capacity, I'm a firm believer in 9mm -- 124gr Speer Gold Dot Hollow Point (+P sometimes). If I'm stuck with FMJ, .45acp obviously.

My favorite guns are Sig SAOs -- I've got a few X-Fives, and P220 SAOs, and a fair number of DA/SA and a couple DAK too. Really tempted by the new P226 SAO which came out yesterday -- I'd love a P229 SAO though, or an "X-Three" or something. Also really like CZ -- I started out carrying a Browning Hi-Power in Iraq (along with an AK), and then moved my way up to a CZ-97b once I had a reliable source of .45acp FMJ ammo. The only 1911s I have are Dan Wesson (awesome) and Taurus (no idea why I bought them except that they were $399 and I was stupid). I'd like to get a Wilson or Les Baer and some of the new Sig, Ruger, and S&W 1911s.

For a competition, I'd take tested/tuned P220 SAO or X-Five, but if I had to grab something out of the factory box and rely on it for 6 months with no prior testing, it would be a Glock 19 (or maybe a Glock 21 if FMJ-only, but I really prefer the 19). Similarly, if I had to hand a handgun to someone with minimal training, it would be a Glock (or a revolver -- love the 627 PC "8 times")
I find Coda to have too much stuff. I don't want something that has a bunch of fancy icons and I have to scroll left/right to find my files and has 15 different areas all with extra garbage you don't need (such as the entire right bar which is mostly useless too me).

However the project control part of Coda is amazing.

So it's a matter of how experienced web developer and what exactly do you do? If you do mostly HTML/CSS/JS, then Coda is for you. If you do mostly other stuff hardcore JS, ruby, php, lua, blah blah blah. I'd say sublime.
> If you're Intellectual Ventures suing Microsoft over arguably legit patents,

I'm sure you meant that hypothetically, but in case you are not aware:

Bill Gates personally, and probably Microsoft as well, are investors in IV - and best friends with IV founder Nathan Myrvhold - who quit Microsoft to start IV.
I wrote this a while ago during uni to help cement the various numerical analysis processes covered in my classes in my head. It's not formal or well-written or covers all of the detail perfectly because it was largely for my own use. However, some of you may find it interesting I guess:

http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Numerical_Analysis

I offer no Good Science or Good Writing warranty on it ;)
Serious question about the accuracy of that term of art: Really?

All I see are people proposing regulations for the manufacture and sale of particular kinds of dangerous weapons. Nobody that I know of is trying to "grab" guns from people who obtained them legally. As far as I know, that has never happened in US history.
The U.S. does a lot of things through private litigation that other countries do through administrative regulation/enforcement. E.g. in European countries you have laws and agencies you can turn to if your employer treats you unfairly. In the U.S., even things like racial discrimination in the work force are left to private lawsuits. Basically, there's no free lunch.
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Studies like this can be valuable and useful. However, we need to be careful to use the scientific method in interpreting results and remember that correlation does not imply causation.

My main concern around studies like this is that the media outlets (and many people in society) don't apply scientific method and want to draw conclusions from such studies regardless of cause-effect scenarios.
"Gun grabbers" is not a fair term to use for someone like Obama (at least as far as the campaign he ran on), but it is a very appropriate term for someone who has actually endorse confiscating most commonly owned firearms if not all private firearms.

You're conflating "this will never happen" with "there aren't people who want this to happen".

Calling every single ATF employee a "jack booted Nazi thug" is indeed unfair, wrong, and incendiary. Calling someone who wants to confiscate guns "a gun grabber" is not.
The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine
I did, with a short stint in TextMate. ST has really been a joy to work with on Mac and after a little while getting a feel for it I'd never go back.

It especially is great for ruby/html/css. Give it a shot :)
Your local maven repo (.m2/repository) can get huge.
I see it becoming vastly more prevalent. Maybe not when Glass comes out (particularly due to data caps,) but I imagine that surveillance/sousveillance will be notably less taboo in 10 years.

Of course, I should disclose that I became greatly interested in (at least partially edited) lifeblogging once I saw devices like the vaporwared Zion Eyez[1] or the Memoto[2].

I attempted to start recording my drives home with my phone and publishing them on YouTube, but I'm not committed enough to keep it up until it becomes frictionless. This would be a perfect example of the potentially scary surveillance -- if a number of people start autopublishing dash cam recordings, it creates a way for people/organizations/governments to data mine someone else's data for their own surveillance purposes.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zioneyez/eyeztm-by-zione...

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinkallstrom/memoto-l...
http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/Default.aspx?blog=entry.7c334037...

If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers
Well, something akin was tried when the Massachusetts "assault weapons" ban prohibited the use of targets in the likeness of people. So someone printed up targets with Adolph Hitler's image; the Supreme Court denied the request to take the case (http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/lawsuits.html).
I'd argue "destroy" means simply "cause to no longer be".
"Stealing" means simply "Remove <x> from someone else's possession and put into your own".

The reason we don't refer to copying as stealing is not because it's "not physical" but more because only the second part of the definition holds.
Probably going to need a little better pitch than need a dev team: here is my email address... What skills do you have that will be needed to "revolutionize product marketing across the web?"
As long as the QuickBooks WebConnector software can run with your QuickBooks installation, you should be good to go, we're not restricting it to any specific countries.
In the above proposed methodology, Americans are exempt from the mental tests because those types of tests have questionable legality in the US, not because Americans do not need to be screened.
Would it be that big of a deal? South America (with the possible exception of Brazil) isn't exactly that economically or politically influential.
I would argue that for the purpose of nuclear waste disposal the relation between half life and problem is a bit more complicated than "getting it backwards." The short half life isotopes are easily disposed of, because we know how to build an organizational structure, that oversees the disposal. For example, to securely store nuclear waste with an half life of a decade on can simply coat it in some plastic and put it in a mine with a warning nailed to the entrance. With very large half life times on the other hand there is no big problem to begin with, as you stated.

But the intermediate timescale poses problems, since there the nuclear waste is radioactive enough to be dangerous and we do not have a good idea how a facility looks like, that can survive one hundred thousand years.
It wouldn't but if you invest a lot of time in configuration, it would suck to have to pay and depend on a third party to access it.
Seconded; GoSublime gives you a nice REPL for Go's build and test commands, package completion and linting. It is the second Sublime Package I install, after Package Control and before my own Antiki.
Knowing the internet, he'd probably sing "Never Gonna Give You Up"
There are a few people doing effective, targeted activism on tech issues in Silicon Valley (not enough, but a few). If this is your interest, PLEASE contact me. We're rolling out a south bay meetup in a couple weeks, and we could use volunteers around the country as well.

Our group includes people with experience getting real bills past the House. It's a chance to stop debating which strategies make a difference and make a difference.
there's always a noob like me who hasn't read it yet.
That's a really good question.

I think right off the bat, we'd have hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits flying. Most game companies would simply cease to exist.. remember, Sega and Nintendo even had a gun!

The next steps would be interesting.. would they want registration of our games? Would there be "buy back" programs? Unlike a physical object, I can go ahead and give you my dvd or cd, but is the game really gone?

And that's not even considering the backlash. Many of us - like myself - grew up with video games. (Kid Icarus ftw!) And now many of us are technology professionals with massive platforms, discretionary funds, and near legendary stubbornness.

I think it would make the SOPA reaction look like a fart in the wind.
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We are officially in the future, but we still have a long way to go as humans.

Can we just pretend that we didn't see the male chauvinistic side of the ad, because we'd love to have the technology that is showcased?

It really irks me to the level that the annoyance overwhelms the amazement from the new technology that was demoed just a minute before.
Errr, what are you trying to accomplish here?

Most traces dead end at the point the gun was stolen, the whole registration and trace thing is pretty much never useful in solving a crime.

Now there is some merit in discouraging straw purchases, which are a more than tiny but not "large" source of guns used in crimes, but that's not likely to prevent many criminals from procuring weapons, which in theory is what we're most interested in.

Whereas gun confiscations are always preceded by registration unless they're done during a revolution, so there's a lot of resistance to anything that smacks of registration.
And no security. That's not so great.

EDIT: What I mean by this is that if you give me your account number so that I can deposit into it, then I can also withdraw out of it (not through the Dwolla API, but trivially by other means -- see http://perimetergrid.com/wp/2008/01/01/checks-the-most-dange...)
Uh, I'm in the same boat as the person you responded to and I am still confused. What are the advantages of sublime over vim (rather than ways that Sublime can emulate vim)?
> Considering that probably a significant majority of firearms are semiautomatic

Probably the case for pistols, but a rarity for shotguns. Likely split evenly between semi-auto, bolt, and lever-action for rifles, but definitely trending to semi-auto as plurality (if already not the case).
The Disruption Institute (http://www.disruptioninstitute.com ) just launched in Kansas City, focused on mobile development.
I switched to vim a year ago, and I fucking love it. The one thing I miss from ST2 is column editing/multiple cursors. Column editing fulfills the same kind of need as basic usage of vim macros, I think (i.e., applying some kind of sequence of edits to multiple rows), but it's visual and you get instant feedback (across all rows), which makes it easier and something you can sort of feel out iteratively.

For example, supposed I have a row like (making up these names as I go, and suppose the list is longer):

Controller_Section
House_Model
Person_To_Category_Selector

and I want to insert after the first underscore the word class, so I'd get Controller_Class_Section and so on (this is a contrived example, but one has to do these kinds of things sometimes.)

In vim, I think I'd record a macro, but I'd probably forget some parts (like moving to the next line at the end) and have to undo and whatnot (could use a regex too, but that's a bit harder--I'm practicing recently to be able to do it more effortlessly.)

In ST2, what you do first is create a cursor at the beginning of each row (option + down arrow on OS X.) Then you move ahead one word (Opt + Right arrow on OS X.) Now the cursor is right before the underscore, even though the underscore is in a different position on each row. You can see that it's in the right place on each row, so it's hard to make a mistake, and if you need to do something more complicated, that remains true. Then, you just type _Class, and it types live on each row, once again making it so you get instant feedback, and it's hard to make a mistake.

That to me is the biggest actual advantage of ST2 over VIM, but there are other reason to not switch, like vim's steeper learning curve (when most of us are already busy, and learning other stuff at the same time), and the fact that some people prefer the mouse, which behaves strangely in vim.
How much of that 15 minutes at the range and an hour or two in a classroom for shotgun teaching is devoted to weapons retention?
No amount of guns in people hands could prevent Hitler or Stalin or WW2. Even in WW2 era guns weren't sufficient to overthrow governments. You would need tanks and planes and artillery, and logistic system to support all of this. Since 1945 war became even more expansive and require much more specialized equipment. Guns won't do.

Yes, you could organise resistance movements. People did that a lot, even on German occupied areas. And they were thorns in regular army side. But no resistance would suffice to win WW2, because by that time war required very costly machines.

You think Jews or Poles could maybe shoot at Germans taking them from homes? Yeah - they did that. And escaped to forests, and ambushed them, etc. Poles even did uprising and liberated Warsaw for roughly a month. Guns weren't that big problem - they massproduced them in homes and hidden factories. Tanks and flamethrowers and bombers and logistic were the problem. Germans retook and obliterated the city to be 90% flat.

Do you really think people in USA could overthrow government if it went Nazi? Assuming army is supporting the government. I think it's very naive argument.

Also pre-WW2 Poland had quite liberal laws regarding gun ownership - you only needed positive opinion from local police station. Didn't helped.
How long until United stops running the 787 ad at the beginning of every flight?
Interesting. So you chose to target Android first because the quick turnaround time of the Play store enabled rapid prototyping?

I wonder if that's going to become more and more of a differentiator vs Apple as the Play store catches up in overall app quality.
don't blow up the spot
Well, even if it's an IP, it is still a URL.
This is interesting. I guess it's so that if you cat a file, it doesn't clobber your cursor? I've always noticed that git will say "No new line at end of file", but I've never really known if that's a bad or good thing, or why it matters.
Good point. I guess it is OK to call a Nazi a Nazi, even if actual Nazis are extremely rare. I just don't see many Nazis or gun grabbers in mainstream American politics. Obama? Biden? Giffords? Not gun grabbers.
Common Lisp has optional type annotations; doing so should only help the compiler (or the interpreter if you're running that way).

Paragraph 4 of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp for a vague citation.
Sci0029: The Business Plan: The Income or Profit and Loss Statement
"when the value is the thing that matters, not price"

Are you are recruiter? Because, you know, as an entrepreneur, yes, value is always important, but price is always, always, always important. Fairness too.

25% is ridiculous. The recruiter is NOT generating the employee's value, the employee is. And don't go for the "you would not have found them if it were not for the recruiter". In my experience there are very few recruiters that actually add value to the process. Most are horrible resume farms that algorithmically (or not) match resumes with job requirements and barrage the employer with a bunch of candidates to see if something sticks. In other words, the quest for easy money rather than anything else. The more people and companies you shovel through the system the greater your probabilities of making money.

How many of us have received the formulaic email from some data-entry worker in India saying something like: "I came across your resume and it looks like a perfect fit for one of our clients. Please submit resume, availability, desired salary and ability to relocate." Right.

There are a few (definitely count them with one hand) companies that might truly do a good job of getting to know both candidate and employer, but these days, that is far, very far, from the norm.

I offered that 5% might be a good number. What I actually think is that the whole model is completely broken. I have some ideas on how to fix it, but that's not for this thread.
Typed Racket[1] has the advantage of being completely inter-operable with dynamically typed Racket - I can (and have) imported dynamically typed modules and used them in (statically) typed modules, as well as imported (statically) typed modules and used them in dynamically typed ones.

You can even turn off the static type checking while keeping the type annotations. Not to mention that the type system is incredibly powerful and expressive.

It's literally the best of both worlds.

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
Haven't talked to the company yet. I'm skeptical, but always willing to hear out a new opportunity.
"a URL". One doesn't say "an uniform resource locator".
When you say they 'removed MAC address spoofing', do you mean that they removed features that allow the card to work having duplicated an active address, or do you mean that they removed the ability for you to set the address at all? The latter has many uses, including simply not being tracked across every network session. To add this kind of antifeature truly is hobbling their customers' devices in pursuit of someone else's security.
1. Create fraudulent product page with billing form.

2. Add 1 line of code

3. ...

4. Profit!
I've had some modest success with my own iOS apps but I think that's mainly because they're targeted at a more specific niche (music making) and I've been able to do my own grassroots marketing on forums etc where I know the audience really well and there's far less competition overall.

Games are such a big, saturated market that I wouldn't even consider trying to tackle them as an indie unless I could find a similarly specialized sub-niche.
What a bunch of classic media hype calling these "disasters," with all the b-roll and graphics striking fear into the paranoid and uneducated. No piece of engineering rolls into production bug-free, ever. What makes for good engineering is how issues are handled and the severity of the problems. There have been zero injuries or deaths, was that mentioned? This pilot brought some sobering common sense; the anchors are fail.
I completely agree with this, and the documentation will be forthcoming on the GitHub wiki - so please follow and keep and eye out. There will also be an article at some point soon on Nettuts which will give a pretty complete example of it mimicking a new object instantiation to resolve a static dependency on an example class being tested.
I tried this after learning vim, and it seemed to suffer from an uncanny valley problem. Once you get into the flow of things, you'll start treating it like vim, and then when something suddenly behaves slightly different or doesn't work at all, it's very disruptive. I can't think of a specific example right now unfortunately, as that was a while ago, but it happened regularly.
Important detail: the collapsible stock cannot make an AR-15 pattern rifle "short" beyond a very small amount because the recoil spring is inside it.

It's mostly to allow issuing one variety of weapon that will fit anybody, and fit when wearing serious body armor or not.
Yes, I am aware of the theoretical justification for IP. I'm just not convinced that it's as strong a justification as is claimed. I think that the current system, in general, provides monopoly protection beyond what is necessary to compensate for these externalities, and is hence detrimental to the economy.

See, for example, chapters 4 and 8 of Boldrin and Levine's Against Intellectual Monopoly (Google to find the PDF), which presents empirical evidence that patent protections go beyond what is necessary.

"To sum up, careful statistical analyses of the nineteenth century's available data, carried out by distinguished economic historians, uniformly shows two things. Patents neither increase the rate of innovation nor are the best instrument to maximize inventors' revenue. Patents create a market in patents and the legal and technical services required to trade and enforce them."

My point is that a market in patents is not our goal, and absent evidence that such a market increases innovation (our real goal), there's no reason to have one. I don't think the evidence available supports the extent of the current patent system -- it might support a more limited one, but I'm not making a claim there.
Jx9 - An Embeddable Scripting Language based on JSON with an API similar to lua
Honestly, in this case I'd much rather trust the government (more specifically, certain sects of it) than investors in choosing and funding technologies. The government may be corrupt and unwieldy and inefficient, but it is operating on (I would argue) a better feedback loop that acts on much more data (not only scientific, but social as well) and with a much better scientific workforce.

Take a look at what DARPA is investing in now: http://www.darpa.mil/our_work/

While much of it is unfortunately directed in part towards destruction and warfare, the projects are above and beyond what investors are investing in.

Just a quick look at the Microsystems group projects:
"The Casimir Effect Enhancement (CEE) program seeks to manipulate forces very near surfaces to enable control of small-scale phenomena, including nanodevice adhesion and friction. The objectives of this single-phase DARPA program are to demonstrate unambiguous detection, neutralization, and dynamic manipulation of the Casimir force to modulate between normal and neutralized states. Some approaches to these program goals include the development of new materials, engineered nanostructures, or active elements. Recent research activities (models and experiments) have already identified manipulation of the Casimir force as an important challenge."

Edit: To clarify the feedback loop comment: I think the jury is still out on the effect of economic incentives. In my opinion, looking at the degradation of privately funded pure research over the last 30-40 years (Bell, Xerox PARC, etc), economic incentives are only effective once someone (usually academia funded by the gov't) has laid the ground work. Investors will not do that.
People who pronounce "URL" as "earl" say "an URL".

(One of my coworkers does this, Australian if it helps.)
Couldn't they just scan/cut/paste a regularly signed signature? I know it makes the process harder - but someone determined..