skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While a dramatic presentation of the hysteria over the subject, a key point is overlooked: the problem is not the tools, but minds using them. The drama depicted could be equally depicted with a personal handshake and a pen.

We are far from on-demand instant-printing of effective railguns, and security personnel would be well aware of the possibility. Assassinations have happened for millenia with far less sophistication.

~~~

Recalls a bit of literature...

H.ma: I cannot allow you before Theoden King so armed, Gandalf Greyhame... by order of Grima Wormtongue.

[Gandalf nods, and they hand over their weapons]

H.ma: Your staff.

Gandalf: Oh... you would not part an old man from his walking stick?

[Prolonged discussion ensues]

Gandalf: Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth! I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

[Points his staff at Grima]

Wormtongue: [Terrified] The staff! [To guards] I TOLD YOU TO TAKE THE WIZARD'S STAFF!
Their official blog post and explanation: http://www.young-targets.com/formation-of-tech_hub-started/

There's a pretty big discussion/shitstorm going on in the Berlin Startups Facebook group.

The trademark owners claim that they want to use the licensing fees to support non-commercial events, quotation: "I think it's worth trying. If not, there sure will be other ways to finance non-commercial projects. I any cases it's better that it's a trademark of a non-commercial project, than of some cease-and-desist law firm."

I totally disagree with that whole idea though. Makes us Germans look ridiculous :-).
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Maybe, if America doesn't have a history of white-oppresses-black racism stretching back to before its founding as a country. Since it does, I do not thing any rational reader could com to that conclusion.

In either case, it doesn't matter. The point is the prosecutor really seems to be taking race into account on juvenile cases. Were they favoring black kids or unduly penalizing them is immaterial.
3d printing also allows you to make a lost-plastic cast with far less work than it would take to whittle and chisel a gun mold out of wood.
> 3 liter bottle (remember those... Shasta, baby)

Sometimes store-brand colas will still have 3-liter bottles. They are pretty good for bicycle-pump/bottle rockets, if anyone is interested in that sort of thing.
With cookie-stuffing the cookie is normally "generated" by loading a page in an invisible iframe. The loaded page is actually the same you would land on if you clicked normal advertising, with "everything on the page" - including an invisible gif. Visibility or Invisibility of the iframe doesn't change anything to the loading of this file. That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

Or did they use another method to place the cookie I don't know about?
So eBay is cutting him a check for $1 million to $2 million per MONTH. This equates to $2 million to $4 million a month in profits for eBay that they share 50% with the affiliate.

When his traffic drops, the affiliate manager calls him and asks to do whatever it takes to get his numbers back up. It looks bad on her. "Why is affiliate revenue down 20% this month?" her boss asks.

She doesn't even CARE that it's crappy traffic. She needs affiliate revenue to rise and rise every month no matter what.

Every person at eBay doesn't have to act in the best interests of eBay, just in the best interests of their job at eBay. I'll believe that there were dozens of people at eBay who were encouraging him to do whatever he could to get his numbers up, no matter if it was white hat, grey hat or black hat. They didn't care.

And then suddenly one day someone cared.

I'm not saying its right to defraud them. I'm saying I can believe they condoned it at one point.
OP sets up a "science demonstration" on roof of his high school

A "punk kid" discovers said "demonstration"

The "punk kid" tells the gym teacher

The gym teacher takes the "science demonstration" from where it was safely installed to his enclosed office

The gym teacher calls the LAPD bomb squad
License, tax, label may be strictly different under exacting law but the point is you have to pay and get permission to make one. As phrased, he sounded like you didn't.
Also Tab+Space.
I hate the new interface for a simpler reason -- why would I want to take the size of my writing area way down???? So I haven't used it.

Any word on when Google will force users to switch? That's my deadline for finding an alternate email client.
(Where science demonstration is probably something like fireworks, skyrockets, roman candles, m-80s, but OP is being vague, so we can't be sure.)
Tesla improves financial product and lowers monthly payment
Sure, but you don't need a classroom for that. Forums, sibreddits, etc, can host a class.
I've worked on many domestic and foreign cars, and I've never seen slide-out calipers. Most have a window so you can check pad and rotor thickness, but none have a slide-out section.

Even if you don't replace the rotor, you still have to remove have it turned (grinding the contact surfaces flat again), so the new pads make good contact, instead of being pressed against the ridges and valleys left in the rotor from the worn-out pad.

It just seems like a bit of over-engineering.
Every first world civilian population but a small minority of the US is "disarmed", none of them are being "abused".
He put some sort of device that would make a loud boom up on a roof, intended to coincide with his graduation ceremony.

Another kid found it and reported it to an authority, who put it in his small enclosed office (thereby making it much less safe) and then called the bomb squad.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5651510 - just doesn't work that way afaik.
Sad thing is that if I had sold all of mine on the last day I could exercise them, I would be in a different category.

But what are you going to do, that's super risky. No regrets.
Too much downtime
JC Penney Reintroduces Fake Prices
Blythe Masters, facing prosecution for role in defrauding California & Michigan
(My name is green, oh I'm a green hand then) Sorry, my fault. I mean comment box in a blog. One must type email address before submitting. like this: http://wpthemetutorial.com/2013/05/02/working-with-vagrant-a...
The author of the parent comment set up his own 'experiment' on the roof of the school that was planned to go off at graduation. I am assuming it was nothing malicious but something 'fun' like fireworks.

Unfortunately for the author, another student climbed the roof and discovered the 'experiment'. He reported it to a gym teacher, who was suspicious of what is was and subsequently called the Bomb Squad, therefore spoiling the graduation 'surprise'.
I tried to implement this for project Euler using Clojure, but got hit in the face with stack overflows. Most likely I was doing something naive. Ended up using C.
I work at a hardware company - high-current and high-voltage power electronics. Things occasionnaly blow-up, but there have never been any serious consequences, because eveyone has very safe working habits, even the individuals who act like they don't care. Unfortunately this is not always the case for our clients..
Well, it's not out of the question that the pit orchestra might appreciate that effect.

What was the necessity of clamping down the top, given that there were open tubes for the fog (and pressure) to escape?
Use Big Recruiting Data for Good, Not Evil
It's messy that they replaced these conventions but I understand that gmail is not targeted at the geek population exclusively anymore. Also, I like minimalistic user interfaces and geeks should be able to adapt. Here is a mapping for gmail:

Tab -> Ctrl + ]

Shift + Tab -> Ctrl + [

Quote -> Ctrl + Shift + 9

(They are also helpfully annotated in the formatting menu in case you forget.)
The question isn't unambigiously answered, but there's a top of good stuff here (first link in the article):

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are...

"In short, porn sites cope with astronomical amounts of data. The only sites that really come close in term of raw bandwidth are YouTube or Hulu, but even then YouPorn is something like six times larger than Hulu."
"Those batteries sure take up a lot of space. I wonder what their physical volume is -- compared to a 15 gallon gasoline tank."
Its more realistic to compare the volume and weight of the ICE, transmission, driveshaft, rear end, and fuel tank with the electric motors, drive train, and batteries for two cars of similar range and performance.
And it has DRM on it.
You don't need the exact material for a quality counterfeit bill. I don't think sufficient bill-like materials are any more scarce than the high-grade plastics these guns need, not to mention bullets and gunpowder.
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Don't assume anything when it comes to gun laws. Two simple examples should make the point:

- In New York (and many other jurisdictions) law, a rifle is not a firearm.

- In US law, "armor piercing" as defined has nothing to do with the capability of piercing armor.

Not kidding.
Ask HN: What was the first cell phone to be carrier locked?
Hey folks,

A reporter from Mother Jones just called me to ask when cell phones first started being locked by carriers/manufacturers.

And I have no idea. I'd guess it was around the introduction of GSM and SIM cards, but not sure. Does anyone here happen to remember?

Sina,
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We can definitely make the case that it used to and that it doesn't anymore. Sending an email isn't like filling in several text boxes on a web form, it's composing/editing a lengthy message that often has proper formatting like indentation.
I feel the exact way. I have been inspired to study electrical engineering ever since I read this story from 10 years ago: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/01/15/1829244

And the nerd/hacker/enthusiast in me would gladly put down the cash to make it happen.

However, I also run into a wall when thinking of what to do with such a device. I'm not inspired by webcam+embedded linux. I don't want home automation. I already have devices hooked up to a TV. I work on the Kindles, which use Android (Fire) and embedded Linux (eink), so I can't argue buying a BeagleBoard for educational reasons.

Every time a product like this comes up, I get excited and start searching the TI website or BeagleBoard.org or Raspberry Pi or Arduino for lists of related components I could purchase to put together. Make my own weather station? I live in Seattle, the weather never changes :). What about a toiler paper roll sensor so I know if I need to buy more next time I'm at costco? (with a gf, this is hard problem!). I don't want this electronic staying in the bathroom around the moisture. What about getting a blue light star tracker and calculating celestial position like the old stealth fighters did? Cool, but kind of niche.

The closest idea I came up with is making an RC car. It would get me into the shop to make a frame, perhaps use a 3D printer for mold coverings, and be a fun demo with friends. When I start looking for motors, I get stuck finding a place to buy a motor. Take this page, for example:

http://www.ti.com/tool/dk-lm4f-drv8312

It's unclear to me if this page is a 'kit' for a large shop who want to try out this motor for a specific application. Or do I really need the huge controller board to operate this brushless motor?

Also, is it even possible to buy 4 or 8 of the motors? Or do I really need to put in an order of 1k or 10k units?!?!

Forgive the naive question, but where do other people go shopping for related components like a motor to wire together with these kits? What am I doing wrong?
It's very disappointing to see such a smart community bicker about a topic they clearly know little about and have done even less research to back up their comments. Let's cut the crap about Bitcoin, building esoteric Facebook apps to broadcast message, and A/B testing funding effectiveness to prove a point.

An article from Humanosphere (full disclosure, I work with this organization) http://www.humanosphere.org/2013/04/unicef-sweden-wants-your... actually digs a little deeper into the topic. Regardless of what you think of The Atlantic's article, the UNICEF campaign is fully integrated with press ads, tv spots, radio commercials, digital material, and PR. An integrated campaign on this scale is (unfortunately) relatively unheard of in the development community due to funding issues and uproar whenever any non-profit's seen to be spending excessively on initiatives that don't directly go to the task at hand.

I personally think the campaign is effective; UNICEF is going against the grain by calling out the shortcomings of social media when most other non-profits (I've had experience working with a couple) are all using likes, retweets, and pins as KPIs (but clearly don't have a perfect correlation with the bottom line)
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What was the rooftop science demonstration?
One of my father's co-workers had emptied out one of the better high schools in Mexico City by synthesizing essence of skunk and releasing it appropriately. I think that he and his collaborators got a week's suspension. This would have been sometime in the 1940s.
O_O. You just obviated my last reason for having windows on my home desktop.
That's the discount for user group members offered through O'Reilly's user group program.
We don't provide any special support for doing this, but we do give you access to the browser's MediaStream object. You can attach that to an AudioContext and use the web audio API to do what you're asking for.
Microsoft and Apple both have publicly disparaged the obsolete IE for Mac, so why shouldn't the FBI? It's very, very out of date and highly-vulnerable. It's not like something that would show up on CNN.
You are also paying for superior quality ingredients. That $80 steak might be because the restaurant has an exclusive relationship with a specific organic beef rancher and you can't buy that rancher's meat in regular stores. Those grilled scallops may have been caught that morning, sent fresh to the restaurant, and shucked five minutes prior to you eating them.

If you're only getting grocery store quality ingredients at a fine dining restaurant, you're getting ripped off.
I think this is absolutely correct. In particular, it gives you a socially acceptable (and externally validated) excuse to ignore many of other commitments in your life for three months so you can get your idea off the ground. It's a lot easier to tell your family that you're going to quit your job and hole up in a cave working on a crazy idea for 3 months if you can hand them a New York Times article on YC and explain that you are going to be a part of that thing they keep reading about.
PL/pgSQL #1 annoyance
The body font is far too large as well.
When people's feelings are involved, honesty is the best policy.
About 26,472 cubic inches. Fifteen gallons is 3,465 cubic inches. (Taking the wheels off, if the car were rectangular its dimensions would result in around 696,581 cubic inches of volume, so the battery pack takes up about 3.8% of that)

Rotors don't have to be changed as frequently as pads. It's probably a lot easier this way vs dismantling the whole thing.
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Yeah, I'm a member of a hackerspace which is almost entirely made up of PhD's, engineers, security specialists, artists, creatives, inventors and innovators and almost all of what we do is related to fire and explosions (and electronics and art!). So yeah. Total support for this lady. I would contribute to a defense fund or college fund.
That's almost exactly how I started the fire. We launched the rocket several times, progressively losing more parts of it. First the nose cone. Then the body. All we had left was one last rocket, so we launched the rocket alone without a body. It sort of spiralled into the air. It didn't make it very high---maybe about 100 feet---then fell into the brush. I think the parachute charge went off after the engine landed in the brush.
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I think Yahoo mail beats Gmail at many levels..especially the newest UI. It feels like working from desktop email client.
I think Jamie is the explosives guy. After all, two of his more well-known lines are "Jamie wants big boom!" and "When in doubt, C4!" I always got the impression that Adam liked building things more than he liked blowing them up. But I'm sure he enjoys a good fireball nonetheless.
Shift + 8 = *

Seems like a sensible mnemonic to me.
I have wanted a service like this forever! Thank you.
You should add options for negative quantities too. You can pay money to exercise options and never get that money back.
> for new users it's a miserably difficult product to learn, especially for any kind of casual use.

.. means the UX is bad. Just because it's an advanced tool doesn't mean it needs to be unreasonably difficult to wrap your head around. Pixelmator isn't as powerful, but the UX for most of what it does far exceeds Photoshop's similar features.
Would he get the same CTR if he changed the title?
Are you a psychopath?
But you're missing out on the all the fun of managing your own DKIM & ADSP DNS records! And debugging mobile device SSL issues. And Courier-IMAP IDLE support for various broken IMAP clients. Not to mention Outlook's amusing approach to TLS. What do you DO all day?

Also, does Gmail do S/MIME? I see a Firefox plugin, and Penango which appears to be Firefox/IE. What about Chrome / Android?
I do not think two datapoints can really support any conclusions here. Are there other cases to point to?
We tried making thermite, but got sloppy and used pellets rather than powder. Our chemistry teacher (whom we did not inform of this) had fooled with stuff that went bang when he was a kid.
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I know :)

It's fun to think about such scenarios though... Play Dan Brown's thoughts through your head occasionally...
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I can remember talking with the Amazon Affiliate people in a conference call 10 years ago. They have been leaders in this game a long time, and I can believe they have tightened their security on fraud as tight as it can go.
Wiktionary has a very inclusive list of definitions. It does include hackathon: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hackathon

For such a tool to be most useful, I'd recommend gathering data from several places (such as DuckDuckGo, Wiktionary, Wikipedia). Also, it would be better not to be tied to fixed thresholds (such as 10 million results); rather, it would likely be better to construct a feature vector and try out various machine learning approaches.
Couldn't you say the same even for native mobile gaming? Or even PCs vs. consoles...

There are plenty of game types -- some "casual", some not -- that are perfectly satisfied by either lower hardware or arcane/wasteful software stacks. And you can benefit from the ease of development, distribution and cross-platform capabilities. Energy, sure, but with browser-based 2D games that's mostly CPU, so given the identical native game we're talking about what, a 30W difference? Might as well tell people not to play triple-A games with their SLI GPUs...

This isn't really a new discussion, as you can bring the same argument for desktop apps, too. Look at something like extjs, compared to native GUIs. Wastes heckuva lot of resources to try to look like a real application and will never reach that (like early Java...). But it's darn convenient...
Err, what the heck are you talking about? The GPU is a SGX530. http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack
To be fair, Django has excellent documentation and a great online community of bloggers and people to poke with questions. I've rarely come to a situation where I was truly off on my own. Although, yeah, I would love to see more Django books out there.
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You do have a point there. No doubt about it.
I should have written my comment differently. While yes, I do agree Messages has issues and launched prematurely (and hasn't been updated enough to fix all those issues), Adium has been out for many years and so many problems I've been having with it have never been addressed.
So - while yes, Messages is buggy, I'd say no Adium is not a more stable and productive replacement for it (in my humble opinion).
No! Big difference between interviewing multiple places and flaking out after accepting an offer. I've seen candidates do this and think it is a bit uncool.
The issue is making sure all actors in such a system is rational - no point in optimizing one constraint while ignoring the other.
Only barely harder, and only for human scanners. Spaces stick out like a sore thumb in a straightforward substitution, even worse than Es!
Thanks for that info! So the batteries take up about 9 times as much space as a gas tank?

If you do not replace the rotor when you replace the pads, a machine shop has to grind the rotor, so its surface will be flat to work effectively with the new pads. If you don't, the pads won't make full contact with the rotor, and maintaining the brakes would make them operate worse until they wore in.
> You can't just say "No". You need to say "No, these are the reasons why, and here are my solutions".

Sometimes, you don't have the solutions. But just because you don't have the solutions doesn't mean the problem doesn't need to be brought up and considered.
They removed the image. Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/279887/pm/03-05-2013%201...
This is a page out of the anarchists cookbook. Ah, to be young again... ;)

But seriously, unless this was sanctioned, why the hell would you be doing this at school?? She wasn't at the flippin' science fair, how exactly did she expect all this to go down? Did she expect the teaching staff to give her a standing ovation for successfully making a "drano bomb" on campus? You do it in the vacant lot across the street, or in the alley, or... literally just about anywhere besides a school.

>>> "She wanted to see what would happen [when the chemicals mixed] and was shocked by what it did. Her mother is shocked, too."

This quote is silly. "She wanted to see what happened"? I don't think she's being intellectually honest here. The chances of mixing those chemicals by happenstance just "to see what would happen"..? Let's not be disingenuous. The only reason you mix those ingredients is if you know what they are capable of together. And extrapolating from that, we can re-write this as "she just wanted to see what the explosion would be like."

And that, is horrible, horrible judgement that deserves to be met with reprimand from the school system. Without being part of an actual science project led by an actual teacher, you can't just light off fireworks in school because the science of it is fun. This is overwhelmingly obvious. That's behavior that can't be tolerated. I just wish we weren't in this insane system of zero tolerance where poor judgement by children in their teens--where ultimately nobody was hurt--can result in their lives being ruined forever.

I've done things like this before, I empathize with all the stories i've read of people doing similar things. But this fist pumping about "oh it's no big deal it's in the name of science!" is a little confusing to me. She showed horrible, horrible judgement and could have actually hurt somebody. I understand that 2 felonies is ridiculous, but I don't know why many of you are acting as if we should be actively -encouraging- this behavior unless it's supervised by someone with authority at the school, and there is an actual learning experience. Many are jumping to the conclusion that this is the innocence of a curious mind that loves science and nothing more. I find it hard to make that jump without seeing more information; there are too few facts in this article.

So I agree with part of your sentiments, and disagree with others where I feel you're thinking irrationally because of your own love of science.