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> This will have about as much protective effect against the criminally-motivated as putting up "gun-free school zone" signs.

Even if what you're saying is true, one could argue that means "some protective effect."

Yes, it's probably true that someone who intends to ignore the law and most moral codes and commit a crime with a firearm will almost certainly ignore a sign and the associated additional legal penalties.

"Gun-free" school zones are not really meant to address that problem. They're an attempt to address the problem of crimes/accidents committed with firearms brought into a zone without intent to commit a crime, but that end up being used criminally anyway in a confrontation or when they end up out of original hands, etc. Given that these things happen, restricting access to firearms in a place like a school probably has some marginal positive effect (you can credibly argue there may be a negative effect too -- not having anyone armed in a school represents a targeting opportunity -- but the intelligent response to this is probably to figure out what reasonable exceptions might be rather than throwing up your hands and letting any student or visitor carry).

Similarly, I think it's possible that making attempts to restrict the legal manufacture of high-capacity clips will have some positive impact -- probably a greater one, since the larger scope makes leaks through neighboring less-restricted zones less likely. It will remain true that where "criminally-motivated" means someone with resources and strong resolve, they will be able to acquire not only high-capacity clips but probably just about any form of contraband they'd like. It's also true that by placing restrictions on the process of making of high-capacity clips, the bar for sufficient resources and resolve will be at least somewhat higher: there will be fewer made, fewer people making/distributing 3D printable designs, introducing scarcity, making it harder to do.

Would this be an absolute deterrent? No. Some people will still do that. Is the lock on a door an absolute deterrent? No. It raises the bar: you need to be more determined and you face additional risk of being conspicuous while breaking in. Seat belts don't protect you from many risks of driving. Sometimes, making improvements in the margins is how you get things better.

Now, that's not to say that there might not be other problems with any given measure. Personally, I think if you're going to ban manufacture of something, focusing on the method is probably a bad choice. There's also the question of tradeoffs -- what does it mean to "ban" 3D printing something? Does it mean every 3D printer gets a regulator or a monitor? That might be too big a cost for the benefit.
Another option for functional on the front end (and back end) is LiveScript. http://livescript.net/ Many people may not have heard of LiveScript.

I prefer LiveScript for a number of reasons, starting with the fact that I just don't like brackets and parentheses enough to want to use them everywhere.
Cops will often pursue petty things in hopes of discovering something more serious to charge you with. By impounding your car, they are clear to search it without your consent.

This happened to me a few years ago in Maryland. As a new resident, I didn't realize I needed to fill out a form called FR-19. My registration was flagged, and an Anne Arundel cop pulled me over one evening.

As luck would have it, my insurance paperwork was a few months out of date. Strike two. I was given several charges adding up to a year in jail, my car was towed, and I walked home.

After buying new license plates to replace the ones he took, I picked my car up from the lot ($250+). Everything inside was strewn haphazardly; even the ash trays were turned up. You know what they were looking for.

The good news? A few months later, the court dropped all charges when they realized I had insurance the whole time. No harm done!
I agree; it is fitting.
Seems to work fine since we're dropping in the exact same implementation instructions as would have been there otherwise, and using the same object too. That way, any ivar references still correspond to the same positions in memory.
I think you are correct in that you don't need to know everything to get started. But it also shows the benefits of maturity of the technology stack. As much as I would love to develop my geospatial analytics app in Clojure...I'm doing it in Python/GeoDjango. And unlike my attempt in Clojure, it is going incredibly smoothly. The language bugs me, but it is better than tracking down bugs due to the immaturity of the ecosystem.
I'm skeptical it's being done to misguide people. I'm not sure most people even realize there is an invite only "internet cool kid's club."
I thought it was that Bravo failed by being "earnest/fawning", ie the opposite of cynical/ironic
I think we're in agreement. Taxes are a small but seemingly inevitable cost to pay for living in a liberal democracy.

I am also not using pleasant literally here: as in, places stuffwhitepeoplelike.com crowd like to visit and rave about, but would not chose as a place to settle down with children.

I like US (Bay Area in specific) and am not going anywhere. As far as within the US, I considered Seattle area, Portland area, and Austin as mental exercises, but Bay Area seems to represent the best set of trade offs in terms of what I want.

US could have either lower taxes or same taxes and greater social benefits if excessive military adventures or the drug war were curtailed, however, but the change would probably come gradually.

I am curious as to how Taiwan and Singapore are able to sustain low tax rates despite welfare states, military on active alert, and in Singapore's case, an expansive police state. Would never be able to live in Singapore (I can say that with absolute certainty), slight chance I might consider Taiwan (but probably a "no" too).
Hell it was in the impulse buy range for me and I'm a college student! :)
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Dang it! I was hoping that those machines were actually going away.
Disabling javascript completely eliminates the ability to use the web effectively, unless you're Richard Stallman. 10 years ago we could justify disabling javascript, not today.
As long as they've got guys randomly swabbing old folks' palms to test for bomb-making materials, and all of the other ridiculous trespasses on personal dignity that comprise their much maligned "security theatre," I won't be flying. Amtrak may have a few threatening "see it, say it" signs at the station, but at least they treat me like a customer and not a maniac.
I find airfarewatchdog.com much better. Usually get alerts and able to find deal price as quoted. If you have flexibility in dates, these services are pretty good.
I don't doubt that health harms are minimal if any, but every time I go through these I get a very weird sensation in my torso which I'm just not fond of, so I've started opting out since December.

I personally don't mind the patdown at all, and the TSA personnel have all been professional each time I've requested to opt out. I do wonder what would happen if a significant minority started opting out, since that would most likely clog the system pretty badly.
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I hear people mention using free adwords coupons, but I can't figure out where people get ones? Any tips?
What is "button"?
I'm currently a student at UWaterloo on my second work term. It's nice to be able to try different places to work at before graduation. Any specific questions on your mind?
Abortion when outlawed usually had separate laws (as far as I can tell), although the punishments were equally high.

Also pretty sure "civil disobedience" precludes violating criminal law vs. merely civil violations. The requirement is general non-violence, although that's more specifically "non-violent civil disobedience". Abortion or euthanasia are unclear if they're violent.
The difference is Java is a third party add-on, while JavaScript is part of the browser.
I see that Bloomberg is keeping with their habit of misleading titles and linkbait.
Why is it that you do not see people using Drive on desktops? It can be useful in many ways.
your probably using adblocker or ghostery. they dont show you the content unless you disable them. Scummy.
I agree that the "DESIGN BY @DCURTIS" is misrepresentation and I assumed it was part of the Svbtle network too.
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What about Pascal? Seems like a simple, block-based language with the same functionality as C. Apparently, the only complaint against it is that its users like to eat quiche.
Belatedly - thank you. Good to see feedback being acted on.
I can't remember where I read/heard it, but they received advice about what to use, and change to use in order to scale better, and were willing to listen to that advice.

So the lesson is not just be good at what you do, but be willing to listen to other people who knows better than you do.
having hard time understanding differentiation from crazy egg, clicktale, etc.
Draft bill would make mobile developers delete your stored data
If you completely ignore risk then what you say is true (especially with interest rates so ridiculously low). However, if we're talking about improving lives, I personally find value in eliminating debt (including the mortgage) as quickly as possible because such obligations represent risk. I could apply all these extra mortgage payments to other things (rental property, stock market, etc.), but then I stand a varying (but non-zero) chance of losing money on those things and still being stuck with a mortgage. I'd rather wait a few years and take those risks with my own money instead of money borrowed from the bank, and I think that economic woes of late suggest we'd be better off if a few more people thought this way.
Plus humanity will eventually perish
Man, you should probably never say anything is fitting with a username like that. It's just too wide an opening.
That's strawman C. We could just as easily write hideous C++, Ruby, Python, etc. code and complain about that.

Edit: By this I mean; if you want to prefer the C++ libraries, that's fine, but please don't claim C is inherently ugly.
You could also try just launched http://www.tripcommon.com to see if there is some romantic destination for you to meet up.

They search prices from both departures and then collate to find the few destinations that are cheap for you both.
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I've opted out every time I've ever ended up in a scanner line, but the millimeter wave stuff is absolutely significantly more safe than the backscatter, specifically because it doesn't use ionizing radiation.

Of course, it's also easily defeated[1][2] by anyone that knows what they're doing, so it's not like it's keeping us particularly safe.

[1] http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/1b-of-nude-...

[2] http://americablog.com/2010/01/german-tv-highlights-failings...
Super incomplete headline by bloomberg.

ONE kind of naked scanner is being replaced with ANOTHER.

And then the existing naked scanner is being kept in service just at different locations like courthouses.

Absolutely nothing has changed, extraordinary amounts of taxpayer money still changing hands.
Ask HN: Where to find hackathon
Curious as to how others are finding hackathons to attend currently. Thanks
surprised to see why so many people are after creating feed reader? is it for learning purpose or you got creative designs?
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I remember what scared me to death with C++ when I was using it with frequency was the potential to end-up with these horrible inheritance trees that could really bungle a project in so many ways. If you didn't take the time to really, really, really think through your class hierarchy you could really shaft yourself in a big way. Bacause of this, as life went on I started to really appreciate the idea of composition vs. inheritance.

For me C has always been an easy no-brainer go-to language to get things done, particularly so when performance was at stake. I've always thought that learning programming should start at the lowest possible level (yes, assembly), then move on to Forth, C and from there ideally Lisp before hitting Java for some OO love. With that kind of a foundation it's easy to learn and absorb just-about anything that comes your way.
Things that can be picked up by metal detectors easily: bullets, ammunition casings, gun barrels, gun slides, recoil springs, magazine springs.

Polymer cased ammunition exists but is very rare and not general purpose (e.g. flechette rounds), but even those rounds would show up quite easily on a magnetometer based metal detector due to the steel content in the flechettes. The idea of a "plastic gun" is a myth that has been advanced due to the extreme ignorance of the media inducing a moral panic in the 1980s after the introduction of the Glock 17, which merely had a plastic frame and still contained over a pound of metal in it.
I'm a bit baffled to what degree some people here try to deny the obvious.

Yes, you can use ssh-agent with chrome (if they have that implemented, I don't know). Yet you are still in trouble when the chrome sandbox gets compromised, because all your keystrokes are passing through it.
Nobody would fund a "method and apparatus for linking users of free app to the paid app" lawsuit if they had anything significant to lose over it.
Not available on the Australian App Store?
Hah, the most depressing moment of my life was when I realized that Office Space is disturbingly close to reality.
Honestly, I don't understand the hysteria over 3-D printers when it comes to guns. For less than ten grand you can buy a 3-axis CNC machine and mill yourself a heavy machine gun in your garage. This has been possible for decades now. Hell, you can see youtube videos of CNC projects where someone takes a manual lathe and puts together his own computer control for a grand total of $600.
Meh, original comment about shitty services holds

http://www.texasobserver.org/how-the-budget-got-cut/
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And for all I know, a highly accurate 3D representation of my body is being stored in a database for future identification.

I realize that's bordering on tin-foil hat land, but it's why I opt out every time, and will continue to do so...
This is doubly confusing in the case of Dartmouth College, which is actually a university (I got my physics Ph.D. there - and they have a medical school, a prominent MBA school, etc.) but is called a "College" for interesting historical reasons involving Daniel Webster.
Should be. It may take a little while to proliferate through Apple's system. After they told me it was "Ready for Sale", it took 45 minutes before a link worked for me. And as soon as it did I posted here haha, so it may be just a little bit.
Very clean UI. Would love to see indication of what articles I've already read.
Difficult? Call it houselessness and you'll start to see that no, it's not actually hard to solve.
The JVM is not as fast as C or C++ - there is no end of real-world data and benchmarks to validate this claim. It wins in microbenchmarks where the it's allowed to dynamically inline things and otherwise take advantage of just-in-time compilation (which, of course, kills startup time), and it's certainly fast enough for many applications, but in general it does not match the performance of C.

I don't know anything about your work Lisp compiler, but making code written in a dynamically typed language run as fast as code written in a statically typed language - outside of microbenchmarks - generally requires making a lot of assumptions about that code.
Maybe they'll surprise you by having a bar empty out after CloudCo's North Virginia datacenter has an outage.
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Only an issue if Go becomes popular as well.

EDIT: Must have missed the headlines where Go was the new java.
I was there visiting some family. Which I will visit next summer. Will make sure to make the trip to Chattanooga again. Beautiful place full of very friendly folks. Best cup of hot chocolate I ever drank came from there. I'd be happy to meet the group of entrepreneurs from that area. May you send me an email? (in profile).
This reminds me that they did deliberately try to make JavaScript look like Java, but again it is for mostly marketing purposes.
Hello! I'm female. I don't post a whole lot, because I usually get about halfway through writing a comment before deciding someone else has already said the same thing and abandoning it, but I've never hid that I'm a woman.
Great idea. Would adding a "hide read" feature be something anybody else is interested in?
Here's the official answer:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...
I'd like to request for the ability to open links in comments.

Thanks for creating this:)
In case you missed it and feel like reading a really bizarre story about fake girlfriends, this account of Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o faking the death of his non-existent girlfriend is just too weird -- http://deadspin.com/5976517/
I was a physics graduate student at Dartmouth. The undergraduate lectures were given by professors, but most of the homework and exam grading, and all the lab instruction, was by us, and doing this was a requirement for the Ph.D. I discovered in teaching my first lab that 1/3 of the undergraduates at this Ivy League school, mostly premeds in this case, did not know how to add fractions.
What kind of hardware(put parts on a pcb, design analog ICs, design digital ICs, something else?), and what do you know already?
Instead of another todo app, could you make one to help me decide how to vote?
Some of us who travel between continents don't have that luxury.

TSA already monitors Amtrack:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/06/opinion/don-phillips-tsa-vipr-...

Due to the broad description of the organization's purpose, it gives them overreaching powers allowing them to secure any mode of transportation. This has led to the TSA expanding its presence and showing up at NFL games:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-elliott/the-tsa-wa...

Edit: For those commenting about NFL game presence without reading the linked article...

> Few people know that $105 million of their taxpayer dollars are going to fund
> 37 VIPR teams in 2012, whose purpose is to "augment" the security of any mode
> of transportation. They don't realize that these VIPR teams can show up
> virtually anytime, anywhere and without warning, subjecting you to a search
> of your vehicle or person.
Just a thought...

Be allowing (almost) everyone the same power to falsify information, this company is reducing the power of today's fraudsters to lie convincingly. (Now, people won't trust unreliable sources so easily.)

Could this be a good thing?
Also check out the MITx/edX introductory electronics course:

https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.002x/2013_Spring/about

(I did the prototype version last Spring: https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu/)
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Java is in no way in a precarious situation! its one of the most popular enterprise language. Just because the cool kids these days think java is lame because they've got their ruby and node.js, doesn't mean java is dying at all. And i m saying this even tho i dislike oracle.
NYC is different because you can live an urban lifestyle without living in Manhattan at significantly lower cost. You can do this by living in Brookyln or Queens or even Jersey. When the urban thing gets old, there are plenty of detached single family neighborhoods in the city, early 20th century inner suburbs, or you can flee to the suburbs.

I've only been to California a couple of times to visit, but it seemed to me that everything is "newer" than your typical east coast city, and there's an immediate transition from urban environment to 1960+ suburbia.
I suspect they care a lot more about the effect these additional upstream bytes have on response time than their own network ingress. Especially for a site that cares so much about performance, an extra handful of bytes on a slow connection can noticeably hurt latency. Lots of small parameters can really add up.
To most programmers, Go is less scary and foreign than Haskell/OCaml and thus easier to learn. Much as I love Haskell, I'll admit that's a pretty important advantage for Go if you need a team.
I actually believe the comic has a lot to do with situations pertaining to marriage - or any relationship whatsoever even if the poster didn't think much of it. I think that was kind of the point of the original root comment and the supporting response by the parent, and seems perfectly valid to me comic notwithstanding.

On your second point, there's an enormous difference between saying "I can't continue with the project, someone else want's it?" and "I can't continue, because of A, B, C...Z, someone wants?". When you add the personal touch to a question it's inevitable that someone is going to answer with a personal experience. The same rhetoric you use can easily apply on the inverse case. Making unsolicited comments about you marriage life to a crowd of technologists/geeks/whatever should not be noble (whatever this means in this context anyways) either then. If the project developer didn't want advice about his married life, he should have kept his marriage troubles out of the spotlight.

In any case, there's one important distinction to make: Giving such marriage advice is worth it if at least one person that needs it reads it. The original poster probably didn't give marriage advice because of the odd chance the developer will read it; I mean lets be realistic here, the poster/blog-author is not the developer with marriage troubles, so there's no reason to believe the developer will read this. He most certainly did because maybe someone here in HN could be going through a phase in his/her marriage/relationship that could use the couples therapy, and publicly acknowledging the benefit it had for him can have an positive impact on someone that actually needs that advice and is browsing Hacker News instead of attending to his significant other.
As someone who used to travel extensively for work, I've been through these things dozens of times. I consider myself a modest person and wouldn't walk around a locker room without a towel, but I don't see what the big deal is with these scanners. Who cares if someone you don't know who doesn't know your identity can see a blurry outline of your junk? Its like two ships passing in the night.

Edit: I will admit trying to avoid them. Not for privacy reasons but because they are sloooow. The line going through the regular x-ray always moves much faster.
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