skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More accurate hunting results in a cleaner kill for the animal being hunted, as well as keeps missed shots from potentially ricocheting to unexpected places. Further, missed shots potentially contaminate water supplies (lead bullets).

Otherwise, defense of one's home / ranch? I know that there are routinely horrible instances of drug cartels trespassing during the commission of drug or people smuggling across private property and literally killing anyone that gets in their way. Also, a more accurate rifle provides better defense against coyotes, bears, predatory animals.
Startup looks to re-invent the resume for design students.
Exhubit is trying to re-invent the resume for future generations to come. Do you think it has what it takes to be a Ycom company? Do you feel it is time to re-invent the formal resume?
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You could use @prefix.example.com.
The Guardian has announced 'Guardian Goggles'.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/apr/01/guard...
It would work for "turn a Rifleman into a Designated Marksman", but turning a random person into a great 1000 yard shot is not going to turn them into a conventional sniper (which implies a huge array of other skills beyond shooting).

Turning the DM in a squad into someone who can go from 400-600m to 1000m would be pretty useful, though.
Did you consider that people with a negative response might not agree with the intentional message you are conveying via sarcasm, and not just mistakenly having a negative response because they can't perceive your sarcasm?
And is Steve Wozniak more than a career engineer without Steve Jobs? I think it's more accurate to say they are both exponentially more valuable in tandem than solo.
He's not arguing for it to be legal, he's making a jab at California gun legislation, which many people believe wastes time banning things that seem frightening but in actuality are not much of a threat.

I think the subject he had in mind may have been the ban of .50 BMG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_Caliber_BMG_Regulation_Act_...

Such rifles are, as one result on Google put it, "the Rolls-Royce of rifles", and as my wiki link puts it:

not only has the .50 BMG never been used to harm or kill anyone in California, there is no record of a .50 BMG rifle ever being used in the United States to commit a crime.

One particularly choice comment from the time the subject was being discussed:

we certainly don't want to wait until a terrorist buys one before we ban it

Just think of all the things we could ban with that kind of logic.
Wouldn't that be a good place to start learning then? Without a community of people now to push me and work through problems with me, wouldn't a school of sorts be the perfect place to get those things?
What this tech does isn't something a competent shooter couldn't do anyway with a high degree of accuracy, it just lowers the bar on who can do it, and eliminates much of the need for many hours of practice before hand.

So, in short, yes, this already applies to any long range rifle, and a rifle capable of this degree of accuracy (though not auto-aiming) can be had, just about everywhere, as a cash and carry item for a retail price of under $500.
It's pretty sad that, 7 years later, all these good ideas still haven't been incorporated into any mainstream web publishing tool in a coherent way.

The closest we have to inline comments is the Google Docs interface and StackOverflow uses and exposes revisions, but neither has a self-hosted version.
ISIS Lab Fixes Security
Someone does this every year and the jokes still dominate the front page.

Some people get upset about this and some people let those people know that it's not a big deal because it's only one day out of the year.

This discussion is repeated on every joke submission.
While I wouldn't claim this to necessarily be the case, if my post were working you wouldn't see the pranks on the front page at first glance because the silly obvious ones would be downvoted.[0]

Ideally the front page would look normal, until you took a look at some of the stories and realize you've been had.

[0]: In other words, theres no distinguishable difference between my post helping or being unnecessary unless it doesn't work.
U-M takes first step towards teleportation
If you suppress a .338 Lapua or other serious, loud, supersonic rifle, you can usually get a fair number of shots off before humans can figure out your direction/range. It's still really loud, but makes localization much harder. I'm not sure how it affects shotspotter/boomerang, though. (Now that WA allows suppressor use, I'm totally getting a 20" bbl folding stock TRG-42 .338 Lapua and can once I move up there).
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This isn't remote firing though. At least if I read it correctly, this just moves all the functions of a spotter into the reticle itself, where it automatically does calculations. You still have to aim, pull the trigger, etc.

Otherwise, I don't disagree with anything you've said, except to perhaps posit that despite the general utility of a 4-man tank, how much combat is going to be offloaded to drones that can be just as lethal without putting any men in harm's way whatsoever?

Edit: It's also probably worth noting that with a few more iterations of the tech, they can do away with the pin-blocking technique they're using and just calculate more in realtime, perhaps with a secondary trigger or button to initiate 'live-targeting' so that the trigger can be manually activated by the trigger pull instead of on a delayed mechanical system.
Isn't this a 4/1 prank?
Then I feel sorry for you. Truly.
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Spoilers:

Check out this communally gathered data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajc_VqH8uv38dFd...

Apparently, all of the big red letters at the end of the trails spell out "APRIL FOOLS". The smaller red letters and numbers spell "MMC-900913", which is a reference to last year's 8-bit map.

In this video, you can see MMC-900913 printed on the a controller chip at 29s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg&feature=youtu...
I'll pass. I'd rather have my Accuracy International Arctic Warfare and my Schmidt und Bender scope and save the extra $10,000 for ammo. My rifle is a .308 Winchester but for that money, I could have easily bought the .338 Lapua version and still had several crates of match-grade ammo, a Bluetooth wind gauge, and a nice ballistics computer app for my iPhone.

My AW rifle: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/7960052026/in/set-72...

My S&B scope: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/7960054928/in/set-72...

I don't understand the point of this rifle. Is it to enable non-shooters to shoot? It's not hard to learn how to shoot. With an afternoon of instruction and a few practice sessions, you can hit 1000 yd targets with a normal scoped precision rifle without much difficulty.
And not a dog? Thanks for answering a question not addressed to you however.

It was really weighing on my mind.
It's interesting to note that Apple applied for a patent[1] for Converting javascript into a device-independent representation which explicitly mentions LLVM.

[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US20100153929
You'd be surprised how many locations are inconvenient. You need to find the right nexus of preexisting fiber trenches (digging new ones is super expensive!), cheap power, ideally some environmental factor to make cooling cheap (eg, a river nearby), and acceptable local zoning and laws.
Completely agreed. Also worth noting is that a 338 lapua wouldn't get you much mileage in a military sniper situation, which is why God invented the Barrett M82 and its ilk.

I haven't ever seen anything resembling it in the hands of SWAT or urban-area police, which is probably for the better for exactly the reasons you mentioned.
New book shares insights from Steve Jobs' 1st boss
Most interesting programming project in medicine you've seen
i am an (old) med student with some programming and statistics background. most of my colleagues in the hospital don't know anything about technology.<p>most of my startup friends care about boring consumer health (-fad) companies that aren't solving real problems.<p>what are the most fascinating health projects you've seen from a programming perspective?
EA says DRM a 'failed, dead-end strategy'
Having played with the iPad simulator for a few minutes - probably the best "feature" of this weapon, is the "Fire and Confirm" feature for hunting - that is, after you place a pip on your target, the weapon doesn't fire until you take the time to confirm your target. This gives you the opportunity to determine whether a heartbeat moved the gun a few millimeters (which, at 200 Yard+ range, could mean the difference between an immediate kill, and injuring the animal).

It will be interesting to see whether that ability to confirm a shot, is mitigated by hunters who would normally consider 200 yards to be the extreme end of their range, now taking 500 yard shots.
I still visit the site regularly just to see how many new rep points I've gotten from old answers. What is my life?
No, it is real I have seen articles about this gun before. Maybe up to even a year ago.
I'm sure the quirks can be dealt with given enough time and energy to climb the learning curve, but some people just don't want to spend energy on it when they can learn another language. I, for example, don't deal with JS daily and can't remember those quirks by heart.
Wow that's fairly insulting and not really an appropriate comparison at all. Peter Keating was anything but an arrogant egoist, and he bent over backwards to please the people he dealt with (his superiors at least)
While I think that the notion of banning something on the potential for misuse is absurd, it is possible to suppress the shot-noise as well as suppress the muzzle flash somewhat to make it harder to locate.

It's still not going to be foolproof, especially as the range of a 338 lapua is going to put you in relative sight distance, vs a more traditional sniper rifle which has an effective range of a mile, mile and a half.

Also it's worth noting that the DC sniper used a very pedestrian AR15 for his sniping, and just hid himself in a trunk to keep things hidden, which would work well for pretty much any kind of gun (except if anybody was very near it and saw the muzzle blast).
That is... I am not sure, either madness or genius.

But an intriguing idea either way.
Sounds like an opportunity. Maybe a name/brand search tool dedicated to software projects that gives a report on conflicts that costs a few bucks or is ad-supported.
most would probably by filtered out based on the lack of extra curricular activities

That's possible, but that certainly doesn't seem like a good reason to disenfranchise 25% of our brightest students.

Furthermore, I'd expect that if those students had help during their applications to the top-tier schools, they'd probably also apply to some other great schools along the way. More exposure to the system can only help.

The interesting thing about this is that a huge chunk of the operating expenses for top universities are paid for by us taxpayers. It'd be interesting to replace military recruiters with "government recruiters", charged with representing all the post-high-school government-funded programs available.
Or you could be completely wrong. This is hn, not some Amish blog. The hn crowd update their apps, compile their own kernels and don't use old hardware. Life's too short.
The NYPD just tried to buy a Serbu .50bmg rifle (a half-price M82), and got denied (because of NYS gun laws, Serbu refused to sell, and lulz were had by all.) I personally do not want NYPD to have .50bmg except maybe harbor police for interdicting boats. Once they have stuff like that, they'll want to use it, and their record for use of firearms isn't particularly stellar.

I've seen plenty of .338 Lapua used in military anti-personnel applications, but by far the #1 is still .308 (168gr SMK type). .338 with 300gr VLD is essentially the same for range and enough ft-lbs to wound humans vs. .50bmg; it's just inferior for anti-materiel. The M82 is just way too big for anyone to carry.

OTOH, the whole "stalk for a week to take a single shot at the enemy" kind of never happens anymore, either -- if they're stalking like that, it's an air force FACP or CCT who is going to just use a laser and call in much more firepower without compromising his position. Most military sniping I saw involved being within friendly lines, or driving to/from in a low-profile or hmmwv and setting up in a building. In early 2003-2005 I guess there were "go out with a motorized patrol, drop off along their route, do it all night, and then get picked up the next evening", but I obviously never observed this. So "too big to carry" isn't a real showstopper.
Explaining a concept to a friendly listener is an entirely different challenge than convincing even an honest skeptic of something. Metaphors are good for the former, dangerous at best for the latter (but beware the continuum between them).

And of course entertainment is yet another game. Any sort of serious argument in a work of entertainment is probably trying to fly under the radar of skepticism anyway... Dang it. Point is, fiction is not usually a good model for rational discussion.
End of the wither mechanic?
I've seen people ask questions about Scala on SO and get answers from Martin Odersky, the language's inventor.

I'd say that counts as an expert.
It will be different this year !
Airlied: on open source development and disagreements
Nice article about perl and its history, and Rakudo, but still doesn't explain why author loves perl.
It's not the name per se that is the problem; the point is that an "-er" class is indicative that you're actually using a procedural rather than OO paradigm, and thus attempting to arbitrarily box up a bunch of actions into an object.

Neither connection nor connector would be good, under this view, if it's just a thin package around an imperative program ("COBOL written in Java").
Why? They already have a perfectly intuitive way of doing this. It doesn't make any sense. I just tried it and its not particularly useful, doesn't feel anywhere nearly natural and I can already do zoom one handed just hold the phone so that there are two fingers free to pinch.
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deviantART launches deviantHEART, a dating site for artists: http://www.deviantart.com/deviantheart/
Also important, the police sharpshooters don't train as much as the military ones do, right? (I'm sure police snipers are no slouches)
Other code-generating tools build from the schema outwards.

So for example, my professional life is currently about an obscure system called Oracle Application Express. You point ApEx at a schema and it will auto generate forms, reports, validations and so forth by introspecting on the database.

Rails used to do something like this: you would point it at a database and it would generate code based on a superficial reading of the schema. Certainly nothing to do with validations etc.
Browserify v2 adds source maps
I recently helped to add source map support to browserify version 2 and will outline in this post, what source maps are, how to use them with browserify and how the support was added.
This is pretty fucked up. The author conveniently ignores the fact that sniper mass killings have already happened (e.g. the Washington sniper). The reason we do not get more sniper mass killings is that it takes a lot of skill to hit a target at a very long range with a sniper rifle.

This rifle of course removes the skill element and allows for shooting at an extremely long range.
Funny how things can come full-circle

> "On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on both sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose."

(http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Q/quadruple-bucky.html)
And Steve Wozniak isn't of much use without computers. I guess that makes him pretty useless as a programmer.
The biggest hack I have was using 20 minutes countdown clock like http://e.ggtimer.com/20minutes. And it must be easily accesible from the Bookmarks toolbar so I can easily select 20 minutes, etc. and then get going. I think this relates to point #7: "We're always more focused and productive with limited time". :)
Doesn't suppressing significantly lower the velocity of the round? Won't that affect the ability to hit the target and as well as the damage done?
It wasn't clear to me at first but the URL at the top is editable.
This seems relevant,
http://adviza.stackexchange.com/transcript/3H7fYEZJI0KJ
I hate to say it, but really good programmer doesn't make you a good business man. The best coders I know all have different results too.
iRoll - create fake iPhone apps to rickroll others. http://iroll.co/
We did Goal Tracking by Mail and we're actually honoring these.

http://blog.lift.do/post/46554731666/v0-1-goal-tracking-by-m...

People seem to want an Android version of Lift, but we thought a nice, high-res paper version would do more to increase our reach.
The "point", I imagine, is that it is high-tech and fancy. People like that. It doesn't shoot for you; from what I can tell, it's basically just a step up from a traditional scope.
Regarding the fact that you can edit blogs after the fact, he writes:

"...that's culturally weird, and feels dishonest to me"

(btw I just love Steve Yegge. Guys like him and pg brought me to Emacs and Lisps: thanks.)

I'm exactly on the same tune there: editing something after other people have already commented just feel dishonest. That's my biggest problem with SO: people can actually edit other's questions. For that reason alone things like Usenet / Google groups are much better: no revisionism can take place there.

A system where you can clearly see the edits (and always see them) would be much better than all these "wiki-style" blogs and Q/A sites where people can actually modify what others meant.

Wikis are great for stuff like Wikipedia: where people collaborate on a topic. But people don't "collaborate" on a SO question (on answers maybe, but on questions no way) just as people don't "collaborate" on a blog entry.

Edits, when allowed, should be clearly visible.

To me Yegge is spot on: there's a dishonesty issue at work here.
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Generally police sharpshooters don't train as much at sharpshooting as military do, but they're also fully trained police officers (in every case I'm aware of), so they know more than military snipers about chain of custody for evidence, general policing, etc. (and, less about final protective lines, indirect fires, etc., which military/infantry would need)

In a lot of departments, it's an extra duty -- it's a regular police officer who happens to ALSO be the department sniper. SWAT is also an extra duty (and snipers are usually SWAT). In some of the bigger departments SWAT becomes a primary duty, and sniper is probably a relatively dedicated role within the team.

It's crazy that DHS grants allow random minimal-threat small town, rural, or even medium sized town police departments to purchase essentially military capabilities for their SWAT teams, though. Armored cars, ~infinite weapons of every kind, endless training, etc. Because then they end up using SWAT to bust a person who was seen growing suspicious plants in his garage by an informant, which turns out to be a grandmother gardening to keep her prize tomato plants healthy in the winter. Or, a security expert who gets "SWATted" by Russian spammers after he exposes them.
OkCupid Labs SF announces new service: DateCourier
Misinformation on crowdfunding projects
I wasn't aware the Serbu was on the police loophole list[1], but I'm glad that they are.

I agree that I don't generally want metro-level police agencies having anti-materiel rounds in their arsenal, especially in places like California and New York. Still though, I'm building a 50 cal AR, so I don't see any reason they wouldn't be able to if they were so inclined, and Alexander Arms (makers of the .50 beowulf upper) have not declared for or against SAFE-act like legislation (probably because they haven't had to choose yet).

[1] - http://www.thepoliceloophole.com/
If you did this for Plan 9 it wouldn't be a joke. Actually I wouldn't be surprised if Plan 9 has already got this.
How to convert DVD for PS Vita
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Optimal Founder/CEO != Optimal Employee
Interestingly Farmville 2 still kept it, bucking the recent trend
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I have to apologize because I knee-jerk downvoted you because frankly, your position disagrees with my own. Had I waited half a second longer, I wouldn't have, because I don't believe that disagreement is a valid reason for downvoting, but my instinct took over apparently and got away from me. I'd reverse it if I could, though I don't believe that the potential for misuse should be a valid reason to prevent development of new technology.

Also, since I'm bothering to respond, I'll try to at least make it informative and relatable, and I think that this article is relevant: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/overreaction_a...
I know that there are routinely horrible instances of drug cartels trespassing during the commission of drug or people smuggling across private property and literally killing anyone that gets in their way.

You know of this routinely happening? In the US? I'd like to see some sources for that.

Also, a more accurate rifle provides better defense against coyotes, bears, predatory animals.

You need to tag the animal, then keep the sight on the reticule for up to a few seconds before the weapon will even fire. I'm pretty sure if your 1000 yards away from a coyote or bear you're already safe. And if not, this thing is going to be far less useful then a regular firearm.

edit: removed snarky question about whether the parent read the article. my b.
How much skill did the tokyo subway sarin gassings take ?

Lots of dexterity involved ? Nerves of steel ? A rock-steady hand ?

Exactly. Thanks for playing.
The notational part of this debate is definitely not agreed upon. Andrew Gelman and Christian Robert both argue for p(data|H_0) in comments on those blog posts.
Sure glad I happened across this thread.

I'm almost 1 year into taking community college classes, was thinking of transferring to state college mostly because nobody ever bothered to tell me it would actually be cheaper to get into an Ivy League college.

Now, just have to figure out how to get accepted with a GED!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_ca...
>HN
>Centuries
>Internet

Nothing to see here; I'm sure that there will be a new thing in 5 years max.
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probably by 500 startups

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sof/3715368374.html

saw it posted on YC jobs