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The courts actually ruling it unconstitutional would be a decent outcome as well. And maybe they even would with such a blatant contradiction. But if not, hopefully the incongruence would finally be explicit enough to dispel the wishful belief that the government is bound by a piece of paper.
Mandatory electronics. Outlaw mechanical pins, only electric pins can be used. Similarly a battery is required.

- Safety light: red armed / green safe.

- 5 second delay w/ blinking red after switching between safe and armed.
The interesting part about this is everything mentioned was about saving money on things. It sounds like it could destroy a few trillion in revenue. I don't think it is actually worth trillions to google though. (Obviously it could be worth a lot though)
> As a newbies with no experience in the field at all, it is unlikely that I would've even tried without a platform such as this. If Quantopian's intention is to bring more people into the field and get them exposure, even now, it's quite an impressive stepping stone.

This assumes that people with an inability to get experience should get into a field where one can lose one's shirt in less than 24 hours whilst competing against some of the smartest people on Wall Street.

There are barriers to entry to various things for a reason - e.g. driving, steel milling etc.

It's to stop newbies getting shot.
Why does it matter to you what some dude, somewhere in the globe thinks of you? Just curious.
at least someone has the balls to stick with his opinion. gender might actually be part of the issue. people are way more protective over women's feeling than they are over mens. is that reverse sexist or something?

I don't get why people immediately turn into:

a) a gender debate, and
b) act as if programming is the only place where people have harsh opinions.

get over it. if someone on the internet somewhere on the other side of the world says something that you don't like, and you break into tears, you should be reexamining your sense of self-worth.

agitated? sure, why not. but, breaking into tears? really? I blame hollywood, and commercials(yes, seriously).
Good point about false positives. The device could upload images to a human operator who would activate the defenses. This would add some reaction time, but it would reduce the potential for false positives.

If the device has image recognition to detect firearms being brandished, the operator could trigger the defenses before the first shot is fired perhaps.
Getco is, by all accounts, a money machine. I don't think they're gonna throw it all away by doing something pointlessly illegal like front-running hobbyists. Or maybe I don't know what you're getting at.
Gun theft and gun liability insurance do make a lot of sense, and are currently offered.

Generally you get theft as a rider on your homeowners insurance -- which you should have, and you should probably get for computer equipment, camera equipment, etc. Allied Brokers in Palo Alto is awesome, btw

Liability is either specific to profession, or membership in something like NRA, for instructors. It's worth having an umbrella liability policy too, since it's pretty cheap to get $1-10mm in coverage once you have $500k coverage for your car, which is itself only 2-3x as expensive as the legal minimum.
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> There's nothing wrong with rewriting sed in [X]

Indeed, especially since there's sed and sed.

The examples given use -i, but no luck with BSD sed, where you will use -i~ at best. Also, lack of -e before the expression may make things blow up at times. And the sed regex does not support stuff like +, so many times I end up replacing sed -i~ -e with perl -pi -e or ruby. Besides, sometimes your looping logic is not implementable with a find easily or at all, especially when its context is readily available in the original language, so maybe you use the CLI at times, but this CLI might just be a frontend to a lib part saving you from forking a thousand times over.
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In addition to pushback about our 'right to drive the way we want' (which will inevitably be complicated by government regulations on driverless vehicles), there's the practical fact that cars that require a driver will be here for decades. My family just got rid of a '92 Volvo, and a few years back, a '67 Mustang, still street legal. If 45 year old cars are still on the road, it may be that none of us live to see the promise of a completely computer controlled system.

On the other hand, a "Cash for Clunkers" on a big scale could accelerate the transition.
def cal(n):
if n == 1:
return [1]
else:
x = cal(n-1)
return [1] + [x[i]+x[i-1] for i in range(1,len(x))] + [1]

I didnt know "Pascal’s Triangle" , nor did I google, maybe I just got lucky.
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And here I was thinking that Linus was the one guy in open source who says "moron" a lot.
Call me cynical but this is a bad idea, and not for Quantopian either. It is well known that only a small fraction of traders ever end up making money consistently.

Effectively Quantopian get a vast and relatively cheap set of researchers/traders to develop strategies and they can simply cherry pick and front run the most successful. This means that the actual developers of the successful strategy will quickly be muscled out.

Of course Quantopian would deny they would ever do this but they have full access to all your code and results and can do what they like with it. You really think a "Wall Street" company is going to be happy with your $nn a month subscription fee when they can see you are running a strategy that when scaled up a bit could make so much more?
Reading books won't get you anywhere. You have to work in the industry to know the tricks. There are a lot of smoke screen mirrors in this industry.
Product wasn't the perfect word to use. I just meant something intended for outside use, as opposed to tools not designed to ever be released, like many internal tools are. I'd even say that the tools you mentioned are more of an external product than an internal tool; eg the whole clang/llvm ecosystem is more of a "product" than an internal tool since apple began using it as part of their iOS sdk.
being in LA, i think you'd have a hard time getting any help. seems like you may be a fit for SF.
Or that google isn't an auto manufacturer...
And two (one of which has two additional forks) C projects that reference <stdbool.h>. Sadness!
Any proposal that requires a battery pack probably isn't very reasonable. If the gun still works without the on-board computers, then it's too easy to circumvent. If the gun doesn't work without the computers, then you run the risk of it not firing when you need it too.
You are actually wrong about that. People tell each other how disgusting code that they wrote is in person all the time.
My (admittedly limited) knowledge of the cars is that they 'cheat' a lot, in that they don't just look at sensors to make decisions rather they look at a map of data to determine ie approach this corner at maximum 40mph, pot holes on left side of road at this point, always stop at this intersection as it's tricky to see, etc. So the parallel between improving maps data with phones will be improving the car detail map data with cars.
I love how he scapegoats Node. Node is an easy target. What an asshole.
Github being blocked for a few days was annoying, but the real story here is that for a person / company in China, there are no "safe" web services upon which to build things, no matter how apolitical those services might be. Anything you build on technology that you need to access over the network is immediately at risk of suffering a massive, totally opaque, and totally unfixable (by you, at least) failure. Domestic services are a little bit better, but (and I say this out of sad experience) not immune. Non-China based services are just a crapshoot, especially these days.

It's sad and it's frustrating and it really makes you wonder how China is ever going to really transition away from a heavy industry / copycat technology economy.
who's a rails core team member?

klabnik isn't: http://rubyonrails.org/core
Wikipedia says Mercedes has been working on it since 1980[1].

I read a claim[2] a while back that the coming S-Class could drive itself, but they chose to not sell it because of concerns about lawsuits, etc.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#History

[2]: http://www.businessinsider.com/mercedes-benz-2014-s-class-se...
It least it takes a pair to look someone in the eyes and tell them they suck.
Pretty much everything you mention simplifies to "choose a phase, then add an exec plugin declaration".

Have you looked at http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-...?

Maven is particularly good at generating code for later compilation and processing. Your custom code generator just needs to put code into src/generated and it will be picked up.

Given that Maven is used to organize and build some pretty large projects out there in the real world, you might want to amend your statement from "Maven scales astoundingly poorly" to "I am astoundingly poor at scaling Maven".

It's not all wine and roses in the land of Maven, but it gets a whole lot of the job done, and done well.
I seriously doubt it was misogyny as much as it's just online disinhibition. Twitter is especially notorious because the very format forces you to be curt.
I think times is a much more idiomatic and simple library to understand and use. Has one simple principle. Store all date as utc and convert to/from user's timezone only at the time of presentation.

https://github.com/nvie/times/
klabnik isn't in rails core: http://rubyonrails.org/core
I'd guess avoiding lawsuits is secondary to his other motives, which aren't necessarily characterised by "make money fast, safely".
You're lucky. It's a luxury to live in an area with effective mass transportation.

A lot of people aren't so lucky.

The freedom a vehicle provides those people is quite real.
being from LA, why do you think this? (not challenging you, just wondering)
Non-lethal weapons are something which have gotten a lot of research. Unfortunately, there's no technology yet which works like a Star Trek phaser on stun -- instant incapacitation without serious risk of death. So, "faintarms" don't exist. If you can develop them, they should go to every police officer, military unit, etc., as well as for self defense.

Pepper spray (OC) is essentially irrelevant once you're in close. If someone wants to kill you, and you pepper spray him, not only will it also affect you, but he can continue the attack. (I've been pepper sprayed during classes a few times, and it really sucks, and continues to suck for a long time, but I was able to unholster and fire into a body-sized target at 3 meters with all shots on target).

Tasers are ineffective if someone is wearing heavy clothing. They're also single-shot -- if someone runs at you, and you miss with the taser, you're kind of screwed. They're probably the closest, though.

Contact stun guns are pretty horrible because they require you to be in close. Essentially, if I can win a fight with someone to the point where I can use a stun gun on him, I'd just skip the stun gun and stomp him. They're really useful in psych wards or other environments like that to control people who you could actually control otherwise, while doing less damage to them. Pretty irrelevant for self defense.

Knives and sticks are potentially quite lethal, and are ineffective unless you're highly trained or substantially overmatch your opponent in strength/skill/size.

Flashlights (the 100+ lumen combat type) are probably the best in that they have low downsides, and are fairly effective in defense, and can be used to identify threats. I'd never carry a pistol without a flashlight in my pocket, and all my home-defense guns have mounted lights.

Sound is an interesting idea (infrasound, in the sub 10hz range). There's stuff like the LRAD. Unfortunately it is the size of a truck.
You haven't taken into account car pooling. Driverless cars can do adhoc car pooling. I can even see things like local 4 seater driverless cars picking you up, and taking you to another 10 (or more) seater vehicle for the rest of your journey. (By definition the congestion is because a lot of people have overlapping routes.)

Additionally you are no longer to blame for your commute since the driverless system would be responsible for timing, in much the same way trains are to blame for timing now. I'd also expect the driverless system to have variable pricing - need to get to work by 9am instead 9.15am and it is $5 more out of your pocket. Ultimately your employer is paying that and they have an incentive to only do so if it is valuable.
I fail to see what is being wrong with being positive and happy. We should strive to make the whole world as universally happy as possible.

We can improve others with constructive criticism.
You are a gentleman. That was exactly the right thing to do. I'm sure you made her day. Wonderful.
No, I DO in fact, want the statistics, if a writer is going to make the claim that:

"And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little."

It should be easy to prove/disprove this, as doctors get surveyed all the time on different subjects.
Badly written programs are far from an inevitable outcome with contextual tools. That is more a symptom of Maven's choice of a rather narrow context that has limited its appeal (that and all the ways it sucks ;-).
I don't necessarily choose it, I just don't go out of my way (like most people) to be nice.

I would argue, that what makes me who I am (a driven, passionate person) also leads to traits like being honestly vocal about things. Whether the way these things are presented is directly related or not is a little bit different.

If I see something I don't like, whether it's on the internet, at work, or just in general, I will usually say I don't like it. Now Twitter doesn't make a great means of communication for things like this (e.g. you can really provide much insight, or realistically follow up), it does make it easy.

I would argue that people who are unwilling to give their opinion (and I know that there's many on both sides of everything, that are quiet), are simply forcing themselves into an uncomfortable situation.

Often you (or rather I) will deal with the results of your opinion, but for the freedom it offers, and the drive it gives me, I'll stick by it.

That said, I admire Heather for doing something, but I am rather unhappy that the result of this was a (IMO, unnecessary) blog post, a ton of ignorant comments on the internet, and more importantly, people attempting to turn the situation into something it isnt.
No, that's not enough for vitriol; there has to be an emotional drive. If this code was written for you, and you were offended by the over-engineering, then you might feel slighted for being ripped off. But that's not the case here.

The reason these people were sneering was because the code was written in Javascript, running on Node.js, and Node.js is perceived to be a threat to their own community, Ruby on Rails. They mock and belittle what they fear so they can feel better.
She's also got a repo called "Kittydar" (Face detection for cats in JavaScript). This is someone who loves her language of choice and is just spinning out some fun projects with it. I think that's great.

Rewriting sed in JavaScript is cool. Even as a one-off, proof of concept, "I did this because I could." I mean, why not? Isn't that what the so-called hacker "ethos" is supposed to be about? She never said her version was better. She never evangelized its use over the traditional *NIX tools.

In the early 1990s, some crazy bastard decided to riff on the Unix kernel. About a decade later, another nut decided to rewrite the encyclopedia, and encouraged people to help him do it. Then another crazy wrote a programming tutorial using bizarre illustrations while eating a lot of chunky bacon. Why not? All three of those projects could have been considered pointless. We already had kernels. We had encyclopedias, and god knows, plenty of programming books.

I have the urge now to follow in Heather's footsteps, waste my own time, and write a version of sed in PHP. Or maybe Perl. And then write a wrapper for it in Applescript. Because, why not?
Mapping data will be important, but not to prevent accidents. Maps will not be 100% accurate, so even with perfect maps, cars will end up on roads they think aren't highways while in fact, they are. There also will be newly one-way streets that aren't in the mapping database yet, roads closed due to construction or accidents, etc. Yes, both will be rare, but multiplied by millions of cars (necessary to get the 'worth trillions' part)? Not so.

So, let's say you are driving a vehicle that isn't allowed on the highway but incorrectly takes one. How do you think maps will help with the "and then getting into an accident" part?
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The developer of Prototype had to handle also with a lot of criticism and there is his response: http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code

"I have learned that in the open-source world, you are not your code. A critique of your project is not tantamount to a personal attack"
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Not even that, but xargs can also be made to run N processes in parallel ('xargs -P N'), making a find|xargs sed pipe perform much better than anything you could easily invent on your own.

Note that 'xargs -P' behaves very similar to 'make -j' and is often useful as a simple work-unit scheduler.
> And the sed regex does not support stuff like +

Are you talking about BSD sed here, because GNU sed does support + with the -r flag.
Guns need to be as simple as possible so that they are reliable in a self-defense situation. If it doesn't work because the batteries are low or because you're wearing a band-aid on the finger that gets scanned, that's no bueno.
Honestly, make based projects are generally infinitely easier to parse and manipulate than Maven. Maven helps by providing a fixed organizational structure that is immediately familiar (and this is the advantage of being opinionated that I do think the article understates), but you can keep the structure and use make and be much better for it.
To decide if we should give Steve the benefit of the doubt, look at his tweet/post history. If he does this often, he is an asshole, if not he is an accidental asshole, which is fine because it is so easy to get real intention completely wrong in even long emails let alone a tweet. Also anyone can have a bad day...
Not a JS/Programming Pro here so please pardon my ignorance. One major problem faced by me in JavaScript is the weird handling of floats. This kind of application will end up dealing with floats. How should I avoid errors? or does Tangle itself handle the conversions?
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Totally agree with your point - "if they know everything, they will likely be best at nothing" this is where most of them get it all wrong.
I'm not sure what the benefit is here, and there's substantial cost.

Most legal self defense shootings are probably over within 5 seconds from touching the holster to firing the weapon. Depending on clothing, a trained shooter is at 1-2 seconds (in crazy competition, it can be as low as 0.5 seconds).

An attacker can close 21 feet in a second or two. Then either stab or grapple the weapon. If someone is >21 feet from you, he's probably not a threat in the first place.
C'mon we are long past the days where tools had to written in $somelanguage. These are days where even things like compilers and databases are not being written in C.

If its of any help I think its time for the Unix community as a whole to sit down and self reflect. If people are beginning to think something like 'sed' as too level to use, then better job needs to be done to make them more accessible and usable. There are enough examples on this thread where people are saying that they look at sed as an API on top which a program needs to be built up on. And not a complete program in itself. Also shell is not a full fledged programming language.
Didn't you transfer the ownership of repository ?
Homeowner's insurance is to cover the cost of the item. If someone steals my gun and then shoots someone with it, I don't believe the homeowner's insurance will cover that. However, I think that's what kunle had in mind.
I think you missed the point. The problem with comparability is that you have the freedom to compose things however you want to. It's not exactly uncommon for "composable" build systems to be all but inscrutable to the next guy.

The consistency of an opinionated build tool does provide some not insignificant benefit.
no, that a petty language squabble was worth abusing someone over - it had very little to do with her actual code
Let me pose another scenario.

Say you have a journalist who suspects a company is doing something not kosher or has a big acquisition coming. That company has a strict policy that employees may not talk to the press without permission. Despite that the journalist probes, he tries a bunch of people, he then finds someone inside the company who is willing to talk and reveal the company is doing something unethical or is going to buy a company.

The journalist then publishes that info and hopes, as a sign of the power of the story, that it is market-moving news. In an e-mail to an editor, she jokes that they ought to short the company. Or if you are Mark Cuban's short-lived venture, one actually shorts the company.

Given the journalist has exceeded authorized access to an employee and hoped to do damage to a company, should that journalist be prosecuted and charged with a felony?

If not, why is Weev being charged with a felony for doing the same exact thing by getting the info from a publicly available server that had no password protection?
Accusing everybody criticizing a woman of sexism is certainly not helping. They almost certainly didn't know she is a woman. Moreover Steve Klabnik at least is a widely known ally (http://confreaks.com/videos/1089-madisonruby2012-anti-opress...)
Putting the battery/comms/etc. on the holster and not the weapon would make sense. If I unholster my self defense handgun, I want a 911 call placed (ideally, with an open mic, and GPS, and open video) as soon as the gun leaves the holster, and continue for as long as possible.

You'd have to be careful how to disable it when you took the gun out at the end of the day, or whatever, but the fundamental idea would be useful for self defense guns)
To clarify: he requested advice on HN once. His request included a description of his history, including all the above-entioned points.

I read this comment to mean "he asked for help finding work four times, with four different reasons" until I clicked through the link.
Yes, your password DB should be backed up in a couple of places, and of course, keep the master password offline securely as well. I don't use a ready made solution, but something similar with GPG

And don't forget to test the backups periodically, and check the master password