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I evaluate military technology and I have shot the rifle myself. I think the rifle has a lot of potential, but I see this rifle as more of a technology demo than the future of marksmanship.

I was easily able to put rounds into a man sized target at long range despite less-than-ideal shooting conditions with a lot less concentration and effort than I would normally need.

I think this would make an excellent police marksman tool. It lowers the skill needed for a police sharpshooter to do his job without injuring anyone.

I don't see it being used by military snipers. It is big and heavy. It requires active ranging (two separate range finders) lighting up the location of the rifle for anyone with NVG (and the onboard electronics probably have a terrible heat signature). The "closed loop" (their words) of the system means that it requires everything, including ammunition, to come from the company who makes the rifle. Change one thing and the accuracy might be terrible. It is complex: you can diagnose and fix many problems with a normal rifle in the field. You can carry a spare optic in case your primary optic breaks.

Expect to see this technology integrated into fighting vehicles and static emplacements (like the parent suggested).
I acknowledge that it very well could be read that way, but Alan Gura (the attorney of record in DC v Heller) held in his argument (which was confirmed by SCOTUS) that it can't be circular reasoning -- e.g., you can't ban a weapon to take it out of common use, then argue that it is not in common use because of the ban to prevent it from being unbanned.

That was, effectively the case in Heller, because DC had banned all handguns completely, making them clearly NOT in common use, which they felt allowed them to perpetuate their ban. DC's law was overturned on that logic.

That said, how do you prevent the banning of every new type of gun/handgun/rifle/taser/whatever if the claim is that "Well, it's never been sold, so it's obviously not in common use, so it can't be bannable?" In reality, this isn't even really a gun at all, but a complicated aiming system. The gun it's attached to is the Surgeon equivalent of a Robot tuner on a Gibson guitar (which is why I brought it up elsewhere). According to the ATF, the lower receiver of a gun like this is the only part that is the 'gun'. What this means is that I can buy the lower receiver by itself, with no firing group, no barrel, no butt stock, etc., and that constitutes the sale of a firearm. As such, as it seems that all the tech for this thing is basically in the reticle (except for the trigger group, which is still not technically part of the gun), this is really just an accessory.
I've never believed that Tesla had a viable product. In fact, Electric vehicles make very little sense and are far less "green" than most consumers perceive them to be. It's sad that people tend to believe whatever marketers tell them... Check out this article... By far the most comprehensive analysis on "green" cars so far. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732412850457834...
All I can say is, wasn't me. And in fact, I've upvoted your arguments since the one accidental downvote.
> ... and can be upgraded to the range of the 60 kWh upon request by the original or a future owner.

Does anyone remember Intel's co-processor "upgrade" for turning a 486SX into a 486DX?
Jobs gets wish in 'thermonuclear war,' at least for now
Breaking news: Apple allegedly paid North Korea $35b to attack South Korea and destroy rival company Samsung. Steve really meant what he said about "Thermonuclear war"...
Cmmandline Fu[1] is a good place to start to see the possibilities; then, start forcing yourself to solve daily problems on the command line that you might either solve using a scripting language or solve by manual repetition.

Working on the command line is just like writing any other software. You have to think about what you are trying to do, and decide how you will accomplish it. As you think "what do I need to do next", Google is your friend for finding the obscure command to accomplish the task.

Repeat every working day until you aren't going to Google.

1. http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
This could be a new business model for selling cars: the automotive freemium!
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
La UE revisará la exposición de los trabajadores a las radiaciones
As always, the really good stuff is in the comments.

I'd like to think they're playing along, but...
That article is neither "comprehensive" nor convincing. It's an overtly-biased opinion piece by a global climate change denier.
On top of that it makes work of TA easier. Everyone works more or less on the same problem, be it programming assignment, quiz, etc. If there's a new question TA most probably remember what was in the last lectures and what are the common issues students are having this week.
s/rich//
Free charging is definitely an incentive for Googlers to jump on board :)
Docker from dotCloud is now open source. The future of Linux containers?
april 1.
I was looking at Linode, and started setting it up, and thats what got this question started. But this is a much better deal... thanks!
No, that was not the argument at hand. The argument was whether high skill vs. low skill vectors of attack somehow change the ethical judgement involved in allowing something in the first place. I don't care that you hijacked the thread in this direction, but I do think it was a hijack.

How does bringing up Sarin gas help your argument here?
Sarin gas = illegal, low "skill vector"[1]
This firearm = legal, low "skill vector"

Unless you don't consider consistency important, you seem to be arguing that either sarin gas should be made legal or this firearm should be made illegal. I think you failed at making the point you were trying to make.

[1] I'm assuming here that sarin gas has a "low skill vector". That's obviously not true.
In regards to your last point, it would be like saying, "The Honda Civic is the most used getaway car". What is the takeaway? The Honda Civic is the most useful car to criminals and the best getaway car, or just one of those cars that is everywhere?
why is this comment made hard to read? Was it not well received and this is how HN handles this?
Hey there. I'm completely unaffiliated with Coinbase and I am aware of the issues they have been having and the frustration we all feel. I know they are working very hard to increase their limits and fix other issues, but is it really any different than the challenges faced by any other startup?

I believe in their business model and know that when coin is available, they provide the best method of acquiring it with USD. Over the long term, I'm sure they will figure out their challenges.

And also, they actually have an official Ruby library written by their founder. Enjoy!
The thing is, my friend in SF says he rarely ever sees a model S. Granted SF isn't the most car-friendly city and the mental hurdle of driving from SV to SF prevents many people from driving into the city (I for one always take the bart from Daly City rather than drive in).

SF is the most geographically close, high income center near SV, and yet it doesn't have many Model S's, despite the strong coolness factor that it'd get being so geographically close by. Some surreal proportion of Model S sales must be in SV...
Apple paid $35b to N.Korea to nuke Samsung (cnet breaking news)
Breaking news: Apple allegedly paid North Korea $35b to attack South Korea and destroy rival company Samsung. Steve really meant what he said about "Thermonuclear war"...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57500246-276/jobs-gets-wish-in-thermonuclear-war-at-least-for-now/
Easy GOPATH management for Go(lang) projects
Automatially manage Go(lang) project workspaces by looking for a .goproj file up in the tree and setting GOPATH to it's location.
Not a single car more, since they are production constrained.
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I went to a CA public school (one of the most competitive ones), and my math teacher had a PhD from Stanford.
Angular doesn't have this feature as part of their core library, AFIK.
I am not sure why this comment is getting down voted, if anything it made me read the article quoted above and I was wondering if anyone else had any inputs or addendums (as in, with the issues listed with electric cars, why Tesla is selling well)
Hi, did you mean that just creating more apps you could reach 2M downloads? could you share more about, Search App optimization, or if you have some share-feature or something that can explain more about your success?

Best,
I was totally fooled by this!
What constitutes "unreasonable"? IANAL, but presumably, it would be doing something without having a good reason to do it, which is what's happening here. (Looking back, this looks sarcastic, but I didn't mean that sarcastically.)

Under your way of looking about it, that whole amendment is completely worthless, because "reasonable" is anything.

> balance the needs of the state against those of the people

There is no such thing as a "need of the state" that is opposed to "needs of the people." They're one in the same. I'm not claiming this is obvious, but I'm claiming that it's true. (BTW, there are no "needs of the people" apart from "needs of specific, individual people.")

Tangentially, your example of "avoidable" administrative searches actually is self-defeating. Air travel and road travel are completely analogous in every relevant way. So, the laws of the country are inconsistent.

Specifically, if commercial air travel is avoidable ("Hey, just drive from North Carolina to California,") then so is car travel ("Hey, just walk to work every day").

I mean, hell, why don't we just "avoid" going out of the house each morning?

The lawyers SHOULD go, "Hey, we can't stop cars on the roads without a reasonable cause, so we can't stop all air passengers, either." Of course, instead they'll just go, "Hey, now we can use the TSA to screen cars, too!" Talk about the erosion of rights.
I've seen many answer a phone calls using their nose during winter months.
Of course, bad ideas also look like bad ideas in the beginning.
I'll invariably make a few statements in this diatribe that I hope don't color my argument negatively, but I feel might help in clarifying my position.

1) I think that all arms that the government possesses ought to be allowable by the citizenry. That is my interpretation of the intent of the second amendment, though I do not necessarily discount other people's beliefs as wrong. I understand that the founders aren't still around to ask (regrettably), but given what I know of the times, and what I know of our war for independence, I see a couple of logical conclusions from that, and I have settled on the opinion I have because I believe it to be the most logical extrapolation.

I also acknowledge arguments that suggest that the second amendment was primarily meant to deter the ability of foreign invasion, as it has been proven to be effective for, and fits with the actions of the times (if not necessarily the 'off the record' statements of many of our founders), and I agree that it is not as effectively spelled out as I would like it to be. That said, none of the other rights enumerated by the Constitution are either, and people don't generally balk at them. Nowhere in the Bill of Rights is there any mention of Twitter, Facebook, email, megaphones, etc. I personally believe in the principle of liberty (and am in fact a Libertarian), and believe that people ought to be free, and that our country, as intended, does a better job of this than most others. That is not meant to believe that I think we are the best country, or that our people are in any way better than other people, but I think that, if our government works as it is supposed to, we have the greatest potential for freedom of any of the countries I am aware of.

As for where I set the lines, I believe that until its appointment process is somehow violated, the Supreme Court are the Constitutional authority of our nation. So, by that logic, I define my categorizations by what the Supreme Court has tested, and what they have remarked on. Regrettably, there hasn't ever actually been a test of the firearms act in the supreme court, so I am free to have a vaguely defined opinion of it because there hasn't been any opinion offered. Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently banned big gulps in the state of New York -- just because it's a law does not mean that I am obligated to agree with it. More importantly though, the courts recently struck down the ban as being arbitrary and capricious, which (thankfully) sides with my own personal opinion of it, so I believe that justice was done, however delayed.

I would happily keep going, but I think I've given enough to digest at least, and I hope I've explained my position well without completely convincing you that I'm one of those gun obsessed nuts you see on the news (I'm not).
>It's an...opinion piece by a global climate change denier.

Where by "denier" you presumably mean "person who thinks there might exist other important issues of concern in the world besides CO2 levels".

Or perhaps you mean "person who believes public policy proposals ought to be able to pass a cost-benefit analysis"?

Or do you mean, the sort of person who says stuff like: "Global warming is real and man-made, and it needs an effective response." ( Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/not_so_hot )
As of Python 3.3, unicode string indexing in Python is a constant time operation. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
"but range will be software limited to 40 kWh"

DRM in my car that will leave me stranded by the side of the road. Wow, this is a new low even for DRM.

No thank you.

Tesla, you were kinda cool.
Good question, and one that could use some discussion (e.g. in blog posts). Perhaps I'll write one.

I think some redundancy is a practical necessity, regardless of your approach (using database constraints or only application code). Consider registering a unique username: even if you check for availability beforehand, you still need to handle the race condition. That's guaranteed to be a somewhat awkward user interaction because they thought it was available but you found out that it was taken by a concurrent user.

So, your application always needs to have a nice way to avoid errors when they can be caught early (e.g. javascript check while filling out the form), and a less-nice way of handling errors when they can't (e.g. "sorry, that name has already been registered" after submitting the form).

There are SQL-standard codes for many constraint errors, so those can be turned into exceptions.

For things like CHECK constraints, think of those more like an assert: intentionally redundant.
"If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime ..."

Is this guy serious? The average car is driven 13.5k miles/year. So 50k is 3.7 years.

Why would anyone use a ridiculously low number unless they were just trying to prove a point they already made up their mind on?
Penn and Penn State are distinct universities; Penn State is a public university (and not an Ivy), while Penn is a private university (and an Ivy).
How do I prevent the banning of every new type of gun/handgun/rifle/taser/whatever? Easy. If I'm the dictator the first thing I do is throw out that sad excuse for an amendment. It's much too vague to be useful.

People hold up the Bill of Rights as if the amendments were etched in stone by God.

Whether any given weapon should or shouldn't be legal depends on a lot of things, including the state of the country at any given time. The idea that the right to bear firearms (some arbitrary invention) belongs on the same document as eternally useful rights like the right of free speech is silly and was a huge mistake.
So... are you legally allowed to have root on a $60k car you paid for?

Can we replace "cell phones" with "cars" in this whitehouse statement? [1]

The White House agrees with the 114,000+ of you who believe that consumers should be able to unlock their cell phones without risking criminal or other penalties.

ps. it's ironic that a software limited battery like that is going to last a lot longer than unrestricted depletion

[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...
Is this so much worse than disabling cores in CPUs and selling them as cheaper models? That practice seems to be nearly universally accepted.
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One of the biggest things I've despised about the mobile paradigm, and something I think apple helps foster, is that instructions and tool tips are mostly gone. Everything is supposed to "just work" but I wind up finding useful features I didn't know about months later.
What kinds of guides did you find helpful set up a VPS?
Stanford researchers create genetic transistors
Not particularly true, since when you start getting into products that could have a "veblen good" status this phenomenon becomes exacerbated.
That is totally false. I see at least three/day in SoMa.
Without trying to sound condescending, a car is a far less useful tool for preventing invasion by an enemy nation-state or for defending against tyranny by our own government.

Just because you don't see the practical need for that utility does not negate that such utility exists and (in my opinion) is the express reason for the second amendment.
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No 40Kwh models have shipped.
You basically have to have a garage with power to buy one. There is a good reason they aren't as prevalent in the city as they are in the valley.
Python got an elegant syntax
If you are stranded, then because the battery ran out of juice, DRM or not, since obviously how they are going to implement this is by limiting the maximum charge percentage [1].

Even an on the spot upgrade can't put more juice into the pack.

[1]: very easy to do in software and batteries last longer when they are not charged to full capacity. If they would charge over 40kWh, people would pay for electricity that they then couldn't use; that seems very unlikely.
They're becoming really popular in Norway too, in large part because of how incredibly cheap it is compared to the equivalent gasoline/diesel cars.

In the US the Model S is a quite expensive car, but here in Norway the taxes on gasoline/diesel cars are so high that the Model S actually is really cheap for its class. In the US the Model S have often been compared to the BMW M5, but in Norway the BMW costs 3x what the Model S does.

595.000 NOK ($101.495 USD) for the Tesla Model S Performance
884.600 NOK ($150.915 USD) the BMW ActiveHybrid 5
1 766.500 NOK ($301.370 USD) for BMW M5

In addition to how cheap the car is to buy in itself, it's also much cheaper to own. It's allowed free toll road passage (which can save you a lot of money if you are paying $8 a day for your commute), free "fuel" through both free government and Tesla charging stations (gasoline/diesel is expensive here in Norway), free communal parking, free ferries and it is allowed to drive in taxi/bus lanes (for now at least ;) ).
Just added pan. Looking into zoom next.
"CoffeeScript may require fewer tokens, sure, but not 10 to 1 fewer."

True, but I find that its real power is in not forcing me to remember all sorts of crazy-ass stuff that's only relevant because JavaScript, as a language, is just sort of batshit crazy.

Case in point: I'm doing some work right now that requires me to use JavaScript[1]. Today, I was writing your typical 'is this variable undefined or not?' if-clauses:

if (typeof foo !== 'undefined') { bar(); }

Obviously, I don't do this enough, because I ended up having to look the stupid thing up instead of just knowing it ("I know I have to use === for equality; is the equivalent 'not-equals' version only two equals signs or three?", and so forth).

In CoffeeScript, in comparison, I'd simply write:

bar() if not foo?

It takes a lot less mental energy for me to remember the second version than the first.

Also, if I had a nickel for every time I've had to write var that = this... Anyway, suffice it to say that CoffeeScript may not be an order of magnitude more expressive, but it's cheap enough to get up and running that its benefits are well, well worth it to me.

[1] It's an iOS app that has a critical component built into a UIWebView, and there is absolutely no way to make this stuff native, seeing how it's rendering HTML. I guess I could rig up some awful build phase voodoo that would compile my .coffee files, but that sounds ridiculous.
Last year I uploaded an empty package to Ubuntu titled "Free Launchpad Karma" -- the idea was that whenever an Ubuntu developer wanted more Launchpad karma points, they could easily file a bug against it, close a bug against it, upload a new version, provide a translation, and so on.
I agree with most of what you said, and I think you are misunderstanding what I said because the context got complicated. So let me recap, in a nutshell.

Someone said that flying is a privilege. I said, no, it's not. He said, yes it is, because that's what the Supreme Court has ruled. I said, no, that's irrelevant: I'm making a philosophical point that would hold in _any_ country. The Constitution/Supreme Court is not the source of morality (including moral issues, such as what a privilege) is; reality is. It's a moral question, not a legal one.

> Constitution is not just not a source for our morality and values; it is deliberately designed to avoid those questions.

Exactly my point, although you seem to be trying to argue against me here.

Separately, I think the Constitution happens to be morally right with regards to the 4th Amendment, and that the government is not legally acting in accordance with the 4th Amendment.
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No, I mean the dictionary definition of the word. He called the greenhouse effect a "myth", and has been thoroughly discredited by the scientific community and respectable publications.
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You know what else "sold out". Palm Pre. Microsoft Surface. Nexus Q. Blackberry Playbook.

How are those doing ?
That, due to its popularity, it is likely to be used in a greater-than-average commission of crimes.

If we looked at drunk driving incidents, and from those, were somehow able to determine that the Honda Civic was used in a higher percentage of them than other cars, it would be a mistake to conclude that Honda Civics were in some way more appealing to drunk drivers, or that they more easily facilitated drunk driving, while excluding overall ownership on the whole.

Further, much of the legislation being considered (at least in Feinstein's bill) is akin to saying "Okay, the Honda Civic is used by drunk drivers. The Honda Civic has 17" tires and cup holders. Let's ban cup holders and 17" tires. No, let's ban all cars that have some combination of 17" tires and cup holders."
Yes. Downvoted comments get grayed out.

I am not sure why someone downvoted that comment, though.
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..sometimes programmers are just different and work environments can be rigid.

No. Just, no.

While I can totally relate to not wanting to have a 9-5 job (and even moreso when it comes to holding out for the right job) a dislike of working 9-5 jobs this is not unique to some (but not all, remember that) programmers.
PG, the application is still accessible for edits.
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