skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! Surprised how much I like seeing a simple tree view for HTML elements. I can imagine using this on front-end dev job applicants, replacing my current view source + build quick mental model of how they approach structure. Don't see using it for evaluating performance, as it doesn't indicate the expensive paints etc (and nor should it) - problematic page weight would reveal itself in more direct diagnostics (pagespeed insight, etc). A view like this might be interesting in a larger tool, but no need to expand this into one.

It would be nice if #id values were printed, as their prevalence and values can also tell you a lot about how a page is constructed. Printing classes would get excessive quickly.
Twitter's pretty good:
http://blog.twitter.com/2013/03/annncng-twttr.html
Stories can't be downvoted, only flagged, as the OP suggests.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_...

Google's Find Treasure Mode Prank
As Steve identifies in his post, I think that the critically difficult part is applying versioning to multiple degrees of the content: the prima facie post itself, but also the inline comments, etc. In a sense, you'd have to have some kind of conflict resolution. Git could be an inspiration here.

Should anyone be interested in experimenting/prototyping a system like this - I'm up for a weekend hack or so. My contact information is in my profile.
"compile their own kernels"

The HN crowd compiles versions of iOS? If so, I'd definitely like to find out how that's done.
Honestly, I don't think I was making a jab at anything in particular, just observing that it likely would be banned soon given California's gun politics. That said, I am politically biased in favor of the Bill of Rights, so I probably couldn't swear that my bias wasn't showing -- but at least consciously I didn't intend anything more than what was said.

Regardless, you bring up some interesting points -- specifically that the 50 cal has never been used in a crime, but at least in today's political climate, the least criminally used guns are the most targeted by gun control legislation. I guess that logically, if the 50 BMG has never been used in a crime, then it should be obvious that it's already banned.

I know that you can reload "California Fifties", which are just slightly shorter, which I think does point out the ridiculousness of the ban, but that's probably digressing.
April Fools on the Python bugtracker

#17587 Have all core library modules imported by default

http://bugs.python.org/issue17587
Funny, the first thing I thought of was long-distance target shooting or hunting, not mass killings.

The fact that you immediately go to the sniper mass killings angle is what I find to be pretty fucked up.
Unrelated comment directed at @martinced who commented on this page: you have been hellbanned, all your comments from the past 3 days are marked as dead even though they are (as far as I can judge) relevant and thought out.
As fiat money devalues bitcoin becomes more valuable; but it might be doomed because the central banks could easily bubble it to oblivion.
Penn State is not a typical public university. You might as well have said UC-Berkeley.

Hell Penn is a public university and an Ivy.
yes!! I am heading up to cambridge in couple of weeks and I would love to chat.

DM on twitter with your e-mail: @wguaraca
Also, check out kaggle.com for some inspiration.
World Backup Day 2013 – Strategically Backup /some/ of Your Files Now
Google Nose

http://www.google.com/nose
Your point is made, but the snark isn't necessary or welcome.
I don't have the table in front of me, but you give up 10-20% (mainly from going to a 20" from a 27"). It reduces range, but using e.g. 300gr Lapua Scenar, it retains plenty of terminal energy and is above 1400fps for >1200m (vs. 1600m otherwise).

I've never had access to a range beyond 1000 yards, anyway.
Neat idea. Just added #ids.
At the end of the day what Peter Keating did was because of how people reacted to him.

Tell me that using the dealer trick to not have a license plate is somehow not the same childish level of vanity that you would expect of a successful manchild.
I was kidding and not kidding at the same time. Sometimes they interfere
Agreed, but I'd support police having big/slow/heavy .30 or .50 AR-type weapons for SWAT teams much more than .50bmg, though.
From what I gleaned from the article, it does indeed "shoot for you" so far as it is what actually fires the shot.
Thanks for the feedback. Other people also said this. Just made the input focus on page load. Does that help?
Same.

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=xcrwasje7ojqdf3k...
Modern cars electronically control the throttle plate based on your input on the throttle. Modern planes modulate ailerons in the same fashion. Do you consider the computer to be driving/flying for you?
Are you sure this isn't real?
The production and ownership of sarin gas is illegal. So you seem to be agreeing with the parent that things that are easy to kill with and that have (arguably) little other use should be illegal.

If you're not agreeing with the parent, care to explain your point a little more articulately, and without the smug and childish "Thanks for playing"?
There are dozens of great schools that aren't Ivies. I used to be in your camp on this issue but one thing I noticed is that going to an Ivy gives you access to resources that you don't necessarily get at a great school that isn't an Ivy.

You can, without a doubt, get a great education outside of an elite school. But going to an Ivy gives you access to better speakers, better alumni networks, more institutional resources granted to students to do interesting/valuable things while they are at the university, the list goes on.
I guess HN doesn't allow '>' in the title so I had to choose a different one.
I've done something similar with inotify for compiling/concatenating CoffeeScript/SCSS/Haml in case anyone wants to use it:
https://github.com/Tarential/autobuild-client
Ornate rug made from computer parts
not so impressed by this april fools. =(
I've signed up for over a dozen, finished three, learned significant amounts from, and done significant work in, about 5.
Long distance target shooting? It has a computer that helps you aim. Where's the fun in that?
Google Nose is AWESOME! Think of the possibilities. This technology has the chance to improve the lifes of thousands stressed with long-distance relationsships.

Man... this will revolutionize cyber-sex as we know it!
When you asked, "Have you ever practiced law or been involved in it?", I took that to mean you'd want to know that.
Steve Jobs is the visible topic! You don't have to bring up Woz or any of the other countless engineers to still admire his genius-- you don't have to be an engineer to be a genius-- and common ignorance about the nuance of the story doesn't make for an incorrect story. Of course there were other brilliant people involved, and they are celebrated, without qualification, in the circles which understand their work.

Is it tiresome to hear about Jobs? Yeah, I'm over it. But you know what's worse are the people coming back with the idea that the managers are all leaches. You don't work in a vacuum. You are not capable of accomplishing it all on your own. And guess what? Steve Jobs was capable of things that most people are not.

Criticize him for taking the aesthetic and not the architecture from PARC. Criticize him for creating locked platforms and eschewing FOSS. Criticize him on any number of substantive topics, but don't let's bog down every moment of cultural hero worship just because they didn't choose the guy with our job title. The engineers get their time.
Evolution versus Intelligent Design: a mathematician's view
In usability tests you'll see that pinch-to-zoom is hardly discoverable, or even particularly easy. It's a learned behavior.

Once users "get it", it's powerful. They'll attempt to pinch to zoom all over the place. I guess I don't see how this is any different. It's a gesture, and I find it to be intuitive (it's been available on the Android version for a really long time).
Having been (accidentally) downrange of a suppressed AR (556), I'd say I localized the direction of fire within a few seconds. Granted I knew the terrain and probably had an idea where shooters would be set up, so that probably helped.

I've worked with suppressed PCP's a lot (legal where I was), and it does affect shot dynamics. I'm guessing one could hack this monster scope to reflect that. I just don't really see anyone, good intentioned or not, going through all that trouble.
The reason we don't get more mass killings is that most people aren't homicidally insane. Those that are seem to fall into either impulsive or relatively able to prepare.

Those able to prepare would be more than capable of becoming decent rifle shots already. Decent is Whitman/Texas Tower level, not Carlos Hathcock level.

That people don't do this now probably means it's somehow unappealing to most homicidal maniacs to go shoot people at "extreme" (100m) range with a rifle, rather than doing it up close. So this is probably not a huge risk.

If it makes the short-term killing spree guy more effective, then it's a problem, but I still don't see a short term killing spree person using something like this vs. a more up-close weapon where he gets to exert his power over people in immediate vicinity and dominate/kill them. Just pulling the trigger on people at range through a scope doesn't seem psychologically rewarding to most killers.

It would be appealing for terrorists, or maybe other brands of crazy, but not for your average spree killer. The Washington sniper was really amazingly unprecedented in the US, and hasn't been copied, and really was more terrorism than anything else I think.
I agree 100%, and it's my point.
Then, as you say, we have nothing more to discuss, and I'm spared the need to respond to your non-sequitur question.
Oh. This is legit?

I skipped this story because I assumed it was an April Fools' prank.
This is great. I get the impression that they are mocking app.net.
Aww man, and I thought I was so clever :(
I really don't see any long range precision shooters getting any joy out of a computer that does all the hard work for them.
Long distance target shooting? The bullet kills the animal for you. Where's the fun in that?
I notice you don't bother to argue with the parent's point -- that this weapon is a lot more dangerous than your average rifle since the level of skill required to use it effectively (and, equivalently, lethally) is much lower.

It seems a valid point to me. Maybe you could give share your viewpoint instead this silly red herring suggestion that the parent is deranged for bringing up the point.
No one would hire him today. Companies are risk averse, given the current economic/political climate. If you can't produce and "fit in", don't bother submitting your resumé.
Problem is, you really don't want to wait until terrorists or other baddies actually use some capability to kill people until you do something about it. Even so, banning should not be a reflex like it seems to be here in CA. It's a hard problem.
Apple. China. Cyberwar.
Generate SQL is really easy using Squel.js, especially when all you need is insert statement.
Check Your Google Real Time Analytics: International Space Station gag
An hour ago I submitted a Show HN and since then I've been watching Google Analytics in real-time. Looks like most of my visitors are coming from the International Space Station :)
Google introducing Gmail Blue
I would consider an automatic transmission to be shifting for me.

I'm not trying to slight the gun or anything, it seems pretty cool. I'm just saying that "you tell the gun what you want to shoot and when to start, and then the gun decides when to shoot and promptly does so" is a straightforward description of what it is going on.
I'm from Utah, and I would have much preferred to be told that I could actually afford to attend an elite school through financial aid instead of being disappointed by my state school education (though I did have a few great classes and teachers). I took an online class from MITx and the difference was astounding.

The rest of the state has no right to lay claim to my life. If states are worried about brain drain, they should incentivize local development to attract others from out of state (which I believe Utah is doing), not hide the truth from their youth.
Atlassian JIRA Jr. http://www.atlassian.com/jirajr
Considering it's a killing machine designed to make it as easy as possible to kill something very far away from you with no skill, I think jumping to mass killings is the logical thing to do. There is no reason something like this needs to be sold to the public.
That was my initial thought too
On second thought it could be real, but the notion of a startup needing a VP of engineering with 5 years of rails 3 experience seems absurd given how long rails 3 has been in existence.

edit: there are several articles about this company since 2011, so I guess it is real...

edit2: it's hard to take seriously with this line from the ad:
"Yes, we realize that the best technology leaders are highly sought after. So why should you join us over that sexy social - local - mobile - sharing start-up?"
Thanks for this, I think you've articulated it much better than I could have.

The Knee jerk reaction would be to see the 'evil' aspect of such a precision machine, but then again who would have thought of 747's as a WMD?

I frankly see no practical purpose for such a rifle. I'm surprised they've almost sold out, but with collectors and people who just have to have something for the sake or it, maybe I shouldn't be.
Google Adds 'Treasure Maps' for April Fools' Day
Yup. Youtube's prank this year is pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0
April fools ;)
http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft/?utm_sou...
I get hunting, I don't get "target" shooting, just play a video game and save the $17k - or am I missing something?
On take-off runway with a chance of runaway growth: a case of social products
Fucked up or not. Who cares. It's a statistically challenged worry. You're more likely to die in a car accident. If you want to get all bent out of shape about something, get bent out of shape about humans operating motor vehicles in cities that prioritize motor vehicles over pedestrians.
Non-sequitur? Perhaps the meaning of that phrase eludes you?

You wrote: "The Constitution largely avoids moral concerns --- or, more precisely, values and substantive rights."

I replied that slavery is essentially a moral question and is at the very heart of the Constitution. It would not have been ratified without it.

You ignored this statement entirely in your vacuous reply.

Did that help you to see how it follows?
How about we just let people vote up and down on stuff they like? Why do you think it is important to control this democratic process? If you haven't noticed there is some commercial aspect to pretty much every post on HN. Let the people decide.
Well, you're right that I'm an asshole. And you're right that I'm not inline with your discipline.

I'm just inline with my own discipline where promise has a different meaning, a super ordinate meaning that includes your meaning. As a consequence, anyone from your discipline just thinks I'm clueless. I'm definitely not going to convince you that the typical definition of promise, the one you're used to, is actually just an operational definition--an instrumental label assigned to a particular instance of a promise-like thing.

I'd cite the tiny field of cranks who think like me, but that would just bring shame on them by association. I'm not doing research in functional programming. I'm working on hair-splitting tyrannical distinctions-without-a-difference. According to your paradigm, I'm an outright fraud spouting bullshit. So enjoy your victory I guess.
Google Nose (Beta)
It's a nice dig at Apple but part of me wishes they really would put that much effort into their design. Gmail is pretty un-spectacular at this point.
I did read the article, thank you very much. If you look elsewhere in this thread you'll see that I remarked that after a few more iterations of the technology, they'll likely be able to sort out the delay from being necessary. Regardless, I think you're overlooking that the animal doesn't need to be 1,000 away for the technology to be effective. It also doesn't seem to indicate whether or not weapon need engage the targeting computer for each trigger pull either, but I think that, at least in future iterations if not right now, I would likely be able to manually fire via the trigger where it wasn't necessary.

As for citations:

- http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_commun...

- http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_11770847

- http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/media_and_commun... (linked to from the first reference I believe)

- http://www.protectyourtexasborder.com/portals/border/Narco-T...

Also worth noting that there is an unknowable amount of cartel-related crime that goes unreported for fear of getting on a hit list.
The Link header is a really good solution to this.
Technology doesn't go away. In 10 years, you'll be able to build this rifle with a 3d printer, an arduino kit, and plans from the internet. However you feel about gun control, you've got to acknowledge that strict gun control will be unrealistic short of ridiculous, draconian measures.
So my cable company is Cox and the DVR menu is.. blue.. like everything is blue (light and dark). In fact it so hard to read from a distance, I am beginning to wonder if their design team seriously were thinking like this. I am sure there is a setting that I may be able to adjust, but seriously...
So what is your point, that since you did not think of it, we do not have to worry about it? I am sure the potential mass murderers will think of it.
Meta flagged... Now get over it.
The question is whether they are domain experts or SO experts
It does the least interesting part of the work. It doesn't read wind or mirage, which is the hard part.

Also, read up on rail guns and benchrest shooting; then get back to me on "doing all the hard work for you".
NodeFly Switching from Node.js Monitoring to Digital Rain Profiling
Tesla Model S Sales Exceed Target
Actually if you compare the Roadrunner against what it would cost to get the equivalent horsepower on Amazon (hypothetically, of course), that price tag is quite a deal.
You might be the best as an individual but if you are not a team player, the probability of succeeding is minimal. Team members complement each other to make successful products/companies or any relationship
Oh ok. Usually, in the English language, and a great many others, when someone asks a question and then answers it in the very next sentence ("If not, prepare yourself; you are in for a frustrating experience") then that sentence is considered a rhetorical answer.

That is, a question not in need of an answer. Hope that helps you.
I will never forget. The day Jobs died, Al Alcorn was giving a talk at San Jose State University for my Computer History course. He took about 15-20 minutes before the talk and shared many inside stories from the Atari days about Jobs. Truly remarkable stuff. As he put it, "I was the only boss he ever had". I am sad that his stories got cut out from the recorded lecture, maybe because he said a lot of colorful things :)

Here is a short post talk interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcXGIQuxAg

And, the talk itself (5th one in the list), plus many other interesting ones from computing legends if anyone wants to check them out: http://www.sjsu.edu/at/atn/webcasting/archives/fall_2011/his...
N Korea nukes US mainland. China supports the move.
You raise an interesting point, and honestly, one I just realized a few nights ago.

The legislation around gun bans seems to based on what could possibly happen, and not what's been demonstrated to happen. There seems to a be a "scary" factor, or maybe a public appeal, or maybe even just a future politicking angle when it comes to weapon bans. (i.e. what if the terrorists get 'em!?)

I had a "let's get caught up on current events" night last week, and decided to dig into the proposed rifle ban (of which I hear about constantly from my family). So I read through Obama's Now is the Time plan, and the only thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was the ban on Assault Rifles (Barring that, and two of the other items, I actually think it's a pretty good approach).

I remember when Clinton's ban was set to expire, and the media exclaimed that it would be like the "Wild West," and then it happened, the bill expired, and rifles went on sale.. and.. everything was exactly the same. It was actually reminiscent of Bill Hicks' bit:

>"War, famine, death, AIDS, homeless, recession, depression, war, famine death, AIDS…"

>Then you look out your window it's just: (Birds chirping)

>Where is all this shit happening, man? Ted Turner is making this shit up!

This fear of these weapons seems based on, well, a characterization that doesn't line up with reality. Yes, they have great lethality, but when you look at the stats, the data that you would need to see to justify a ban just isn't there.

When checking all this stuff out, I pulled the [FBI's Uniform Crime Reports](http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...) so I could investigate everything for myself. Here are some fun stats:

* Of the total gun related felonies, only 3.8% of them involved rifles. One unfortunate bit about the available info, is that all rifle types are lumped together. So there's no way to tell if the weapon used was of the "assault" class, or a simple hunting rifle. However, I'd wager, that "assault" rifles make up only a small proportion of the rifle category -- but that's pure assumption; back to the data!

* You're actually slightly more likely to be murdered with someone wielding a shotgun, than one wielding a rifle (though only marginally so at 4.1%)

* You're 2.3 times as likely to be punched or kicked to death than to meet the same fate by riles.

* You're Five times as likely to be stabbed to death than to meet the same fate by rifles.

So, as I looked through all the stats, I was left with this feeling of "What the F* is the point?" Banning rifles just seems based on terrible, fear based, reactionary logic.
Defense Distributed and DefCad Seized
There isn't anything particularly intuitive about the pinch to zoom gesture. Most of us already knew about it because we saw the iPhone keynote when it was originally released. I still meet people that own new-ish iPhones (4/4S etc) that aren't aware you can actually zoom in/out in the Maps/Photo etc apps.
I, for one, am going to flag everyone who complains about April fools posts. It's tradition at this point so lighten up.
Reddit, stackoverflow, lifehacker, stumbleupon, digg etc.
The real headline seems to be that this is the first profitable quarter for Tesla.
There are lots of things to worry about in this world. Cars are dangerous. Gasoline is dangerous. Shotguns are dangerous. Swimming pools are inordinately dangerous.

Very, very far down on my list of things to worry about are $17,000 ultra-long range computer aided bolt-action trigger initiated rifles.

[edit - after thinking a bit, I believe I could come up with a list of 500 things that we should be more worried about than this weapon. Just the cost alone means that there will be very few of them in general circulation. In the next 20 years, I wager there will be less than 10 homicides in the United States resulting from this weapon. If you want to get up in arms about something - start with the likely 500,000+ automobile deaths that will occur in the same time period (I'm presuming automobile safety will bring the numbers down to those levels)]