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At the risk of being polarizing, that's already a false assertion. If fewer people have guns, there will arguably be fewer gun crimes, but that depends entirely on which people still have them.

If 100% of law abiding citizens' guns were to evaporate tomorrow, that doesn't make us any safer, as it still leaves possession of guns in the wrong hands.

Ignoring that though, I'd feel remiss if I didn't point out that people can already legally produce weapons at their home and amass their own 'secret arsenals' with readily available technology (a drill press, $200 on Harbor Freight). The ATF allows for the purchase of what's referred to as an 80% firearm, which means it's a block of metal in the shape of a gun that simply hasn't had its trigger group milled out. A $200 drill press and a $100 jig allow me to currently manufacture a large number of firearms for personal use, so long as I don't manufacture them with the intent to sell.

This might make it somewhat easier, and future generations of it almost certainly will, but at least for the moment you can rest assured that the printed product is vastly inferior to the firearms I can already manufacture in my garage and are not more convenient to make.
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My maps show Lebanon with Syria to the north and east, the Mediterranean Sea to the west. I imagine yours do also.
Ought to have an option for people who lost money trading options.
Generally speaking I'm right there with you, but thrown by your use of Japanese cars as an example of underdamping.
I haven't driven a lot of European cars, but compared to most offerings from Detroit Japanese damping is fantastic.
I've driven late model cars by two of the big three that felt like they forgot to put dampers in at all,
you just bounce and float around on the springs. I assume this (combined with size) is why American cars are so often referred to as "boats".
Has anyone 3D-printed a guillotine yet?
Yup. It's also really kinda entertaining how offended founders get when you ask for more money instead when you're employee #53 and they offer a number of options but refuse to disclose what % of the pool that is.
> I find it extremely unlikely I'll ever use any device like glass on a regular basis

Glass definitely not, because it's kinda crap (what I've seen so far are phone-style widgets — which I loathe in the first place — and telling your shades to record a video — underwhelming). An actual HUD/Augmented Reality system I can see myself using rather easily (as long as it remains fully under my control), but this'll need severe improvements of image processing and recognition (speed and flexibility).

I don't want notification popups, but virtual/augmented surface display could be very neat, e.g. have buses display "live" in wireframe even when they're outside field of vision (think "wallhack") to estimate how much time I have until it arrives, that kind of things.

Or the ability to "switch in" to an other user of the system (and get direct viewpoint) useful for virtual visits (potentially via "presence" robots, plug into the robot and see through it), helping people with stuff or (the other way around) getting help, imagine a tech of some sort doing an estimate of building/fixing something based on what he sees through your eyes. Also useful for things like surgeries (get colleagues in-viewpoints to assist/warn) or single-person dangerous works e.g. underwater stuff, multiple eyeballs on the same field of vision can pay attention to more things.

Or more "mundane" (but actually more difficult) applications such as ebooks with the physical feel of real books by having a "blank book" and AR inserting the ebook's content on the fly, or hologram/3D AR (easy to do when you've got a display per eye)
It has regenerative breaking, which is effectively 'engine breaking'. Engine breaking on an electric car puts electricity back into the batteries.

The brakes you see in the photos are for breaking, hard (full stop, quick stop, racing).
There are torrents out there of NeXTSTEP and OpenStep images that you can boot right into using VirtualBox.
Nope, not even one link. Edit: well OK maybe a little one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_the_usa#Two_steps...
I don't know about step 1, but growing the team is more about providing a safe refuge and the best guys will find you.
Original writer here.

Actually this was a website which streamed online broadcasts live from people, like ustream does but with adult content. Some broadcasts could be hours long.
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https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues
https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard/issues

you just reminded me of a mobile display issue on the blog:
https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/issues/32
Thanks. This is the only article on the blog? I was actually intrigued by the site and was wondering if anyone on HN has used this service as a dev or a client....
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Oh, come on, having horrible judgement is the whole point of being a kid. The process of growing up and becoming an adult is all about learning and acquiring good judgement. How can you expect people to gain the judgement that comes with experience without allowing them to gain that experience by trying things, some of which will turn out to be mistakes? How are they supposed to know which things are going to be the mistakes without trying some of them and thereby learning the patterns?

I once did more or less the same thing as Ms Wilmot did, and you bet I did it during school, and I didn't even bother to tell anyone about my intentions first! I set up an apparatus under one of the fume hoods in the back of the chemistry lab, dissolved a bunch of aluminum, captured the hydrogen in a balloon, and then blew the whole thing up. It made a hell of a big bang, shattered a bunch of glassware, and startled the hell out of my lab-mates. Bad judgement? Well, yeah. Duh. But I didn't actually hurt anyone, and I sure learned something from the experience, and I'll bet that all my classmates learned something from it too, without having to deal with the embarrassment and clean-up that landed on my shoulders for being the nitwit who tried it.

Just imagine how fucked I'd have been if I'd had to face felony charges after that. My whole life might have been different, my whole software engineering career derailed before it had even started. What a stupid waste that would have been. What a stupid waste it is going to be for all of us if this idiotic treatment of Ms Wilmot is allowed to stand.
Strange how 3/4 of the comments are more concerned with the title link, instead of the actual content.

Very nice post, was an interesting read!
We wouldn't accept that as an excuse for anything else considered dangerous, why should we accept that here.

For clarity, I think all of felony charges and expulsion are stupid and that this is more of an indictment of "zero tolerance". But "I had nowhere better to blow up lye" is lame reasoning.
Here are some examples of where I was able to do just that. It's tiny things, but it feels great to make something better.

https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/1/files

https://github.com/liveprogramming/2013/pull/2/files

https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public/pull/1/files

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/pull/625/files

https://github.com/mojombo/semver.org/pull/55/files
I think you can attach two child seats to the back seat. Like so: http://oi55.tinypic.com/2qsxish.jpg
Every time I've visited the Valley area I can't help but notice the enormous difference in density between San Francisco and the Valley in general.

Where parts of San Francisco are jammed with houses, every nook occupied, not unlike parts of Manhattan or Boston, there are large swaths of the Valley with nothing but parking lots.

Any time I've asked a local why the densities aren't higher, why a ten story apartment building is such an anomaly, I get some vague grumbling about earthquakes. San Francisco has a number very tall buildings with a few even built on the side of a literal mountain, and all of these have survived several significant quakes, so I doubt this is the actual reason.

It's absolutely surreal the amount of under-utilized real-estate one must drive past or around simply to get where they're going.
Yes, I was until recently in that category.
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It's funny, our system is lenient enough to give teens who commit horrible crimes such as burglary, sexual assault, and even homicide a 2nd chance. Even if she knew exactly what she was doing, even if she risked putting other people in danger, why doesn't she deserve forgiveness? This should not be a felony issue, this should not be a national news story. At worst it's a student who needs a good talking to. But excluding a student from civilized society, which is basically what is being done here, is a grossly extreme response.
>Gmail is designed for everyone and has to support the full spectrum of users, in particular the new ones (because they're the ones picking new email accounts - consider that they're partially trying to target people who still don't have email).

If anything, the new Gmail with all the hiding and obfuscation going on is going affect the new users the most. The other users atleast know that something is possible and will hunt around for an option, but the new folks automatically assume that some things are just not possible. For example, editing subject when replying or forwarding.
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The phone question is a complete non-sequitor...or maybe owning a Windows phone makes someone a psychopath?
The idea of software in a printer preventing you from printing counterfeit currency is ridiculous. These things (and similar nonsense in Photoshop et al) have only served to annoy graphic designers.

The only thing "protecting" real money is the many embedded, hard to replicate patterns and markers.

Of course, you can't put the genie back in the bottle with how guns work. You can't write software that will prevent anyone from printing gun parts, as if there was a way for the software to tell intentions from abstract 3D shapes.
> I extract the FLV tags, which I could use to multicast

I assume you don't really mean IP multicast (which would, incidentally, be one approach to edge-origin mirroring for the popular marketing campaigns you mentioned, at least within a data center).

Anyway that makes sense, simply sending the FLV is clever. What's the method of delivery -- chunked HTTP? Does it play well with proxies?
I was explaining both the power law distribution and expected value, and somehow that all got mushed together into one quote, incorrectly unfortunately.
But then can't you trace him based on the hacker news account? Why not just post the text itself on hacker news, is it because HN can take it down while the source should be relatively stable?
While I'm glad that over the past 10 years high tech gadgets have become mainstream, I also lament it to some degree. Articles like this, written by people not used to using early prototypes of gadgets, are always completely off base. Most casual tech enthusiasts have a hard time seeing the forest for the trees. Judging Glass based on its lack of wifi settings, email editing, or a bulky case is nonsense. We're getting a peak at a very early concept of something that we all know could be awesome if executed on properly, just like we knew tablets and smartphones would be awesome back in the 90s. There is absolutely no question that some sort of Google Glass-like device will become mainstream at some point. It's all a matter of execution.
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This finally made me get around to posting my 2038 countdown clock.

http://diskclock.com/2013/05/unix-disk/
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I suspect your salary over the years netted you a heck of a lot more than your stock options. I did 3 years of contracting in London 15 years ago (after barely out of school), invested the money, and ended up with about $150k due to a favourable FX rate at the time.

These days it seems that every man and his dog is earning $150k+ if they're a half-decent developer in silicon valley, so I guess the stock options don't really matter. (I earn a lot less than that myself now, because I run my own mildly-profitable business).

It makes you wonder whether stock options are really just like throwing a dog a bone. The only people who really make any money are the investors and founders. At post-IPO places like facebook and google the stock bonus is really just an add-on to your salary. When I look up 'senior software engineer' salaries at google, you typically earn around $250k including stock bonus, so if you're looking for money I guess that's where you should be :)
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No, not IP multicast. Imagine it as a web server that serves FLV files which always start at the current stream position. This is what it did.

Actually bringing up the proxy issue is interesting. I'm not sure if it does. Essentially forbidding all caching would make it play nice.
Oh joy, a report from Michael Patcher. I don't know why tech reporting follows the guy, because his predictions seem to be rarely right. Console gamers should know him as the guy that's been predicting that < 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 > will be the year of the Playstation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-22/netflix-seen-cracki...

Stupid things in that:

1. Cost, in bandwidth and storage, to keep a cookie on a server for an authorized device: around nothing.

2. Cost to stream content to the user: Not nothing.

Netflix limits the number of concurrent open video streams, which is the right thing to do(since that's what costs money). The 6 device limit is something I didn't know, and is pretty funny, since I have 8 or 9 devices that can stream Netflix content in my living room.

So what's netflix doing? They're adding a new streaming payment tier for families. Instead of 2 concurrent streams, you'll be able to get 4 for $11.99 a month. This is absolutely the right approach.
You are wrong. No, we don't. This used to be the case in the 1980s. Almost 50% of our debt is owned by foreigners:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_Sta...

That's exactly why the current crisis is so dangerous. Because the FED won't be able to simply raise the interest rates. (that would squeeze the capital from the USA to the foreigners).

They keep interest rates as low as they are currently - inflation will hit us sooner or later (already at 10% if you use US Government formula for calculating inflation from the Reagan years). The raise interest rates : well, that's akin to credit card holder raising interest they owe to the bank. Foreigners will earn even more from their debt holdings.

So, from the two evils to choose from, the FED will choose to print into oblivion because that will be politically more acceptable than repaying obligations to foreigners.

BTW, US Treasuries are currently at their all time (almost 300 years time) high. If that's not a bubble then I don't know what is.
Huh, some of those questions have built-in assumptions that are just ... wrong.
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That already exists, basically. You could manufacture hard-resin BBs for use in shotgun shells, or even hard-plastic discs for use in something like a Taurus Judge right now.

Manufacturing bullet tips wouldn't be any strange feat either, though you'd almost certainly find them less effective than metal bullet tips.

The real trick would be in printing gunpowder, which I'm sure is a somewhat tangential field of research.
I think there were a number of factors also, including economic and others, but I don't know that hair and eyes were ultimately very big ones - since those didn't seem to help surrounding areas like Austria and the Netherlands. The map of the territories at the end of WWII just amazes me with Switzerland standing out almost like an island:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Second_world_war_europe_1...

There was also a report in the mid 80s penned by, among others, former General George S. Patton (who was active during WWII)... "In short, Switzerland is an armed bunker." (PDF page 8, https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=http://... )
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I've been dying to hear the use cases ("killer apps") where Google Glass kicks ass. Scoble talked about how it speeds up photo so much, that I could it change the way we document our lives & experiences. That's big.

What else???

Any HNers use Google Glass yet and found killer uses?
How will you trace him based on the HN account? All that's required to sign up is a username/password combination. Looks like reddit is the same. Generate a random password and access them via tor to not get your IP logged and there isn't much to go on.
Nobody liked the Nintendo DS when it first came out either

Who is nobody ? The gaming community ?

Because I would imagine the majority of the population would not know or care what Nintendo DS is. I fail to see how it is applicable to Google Glass which is designed from day one to be a mass-market device.
I guess we're disagreeing with what is meant by innovation. For me it means big ideas. Better tires on cars is innovation but it's not satisfying to me. I think Thiel also means big ideas -- hence the 140 character quote.

I like your enthusiasm and your list is fantastic. I haven't seen Meredith Patterson's stuff. It looks interesting. But we were also "on the cusp" of curing cancer in the 70's.

This is personal, I guess. I've spent an inordinate time on deep research and I've done it on my own. It's frustrating to watch while things like the Kickstarter for T-shirts get drowned in financing while I count pennies.

I'll try to be more optimistic but there's nothing wrong with saying, "Let's stop chasing money and start chasing something more. Something bigger. Something better."
Have you personally been able to get XBMC working and decoding 1080p?
Redhat actually removed Taiwan from KDE's list of locales to please PRC: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/6/173153/329
Bitcoin never ceases to be entertaining, that's for sure.
$0, had them with 2 different companies, both became worthless.
Yep, both my home and work Chrome browsers required me to login this morning for the first time in about a year.
According to the police report, it was HCl, toilet bowl cleaner.

The HCl one is cool because if you have more than a trivial amount of foil, all the HCl reacts with it giving hydrogen gas and harmless aluminum chloride salt as the products.

People keep calling this an explosion or a bomb, it's not really either. The bang comes from the plastic bottle popping from the H2 released, and the H2 recondensing with atmospheric O2 back into H2O which is the source of the "smoke" seen in videos, which is just water vapor.

Those who are talking about "explosions", "bombs", "IEDs", and "incendiary devices" at the police department, and on this and other boards, are exceptionally scientifically ignorant and are not qualified at all to comment on any of this. The real solution here is for those people to take some classes and stop being ignorant and saying nonsense about "bombs" and such.

Performing this reaction is not illegal either in any state's laws I've seen. That's why these cases never go to trial - the authorities try to get the kids to plead guilty as a bargain. What these kids need is a good lawyer and a counter suit for malicious prosecution. And people who don't know science need to shut up about all this and spend more time studying, listening, or just minding their own business rather than falsely claiming expertise in things they are ignorant about.

Widespread ignorance about science, including among intelligent technical and business "trained" people, is very damaging to society.
I had similar thinking. I was excited, almost. If I couldn't use HN anymore, I would have no choice but to move on!

Alas, it looks like I am trapped again.
If they've netted that much, that means they've sold. As such, there's a good chance they've retired, or at least only work on their own side projects now. Not everyone sells a company and then starts another one.

Also, rich people have access to the same internet. Is there an "interesting shit about programming but only for rich people site" that I don't know about?
Amazing article! What I find particularly interesting in this is not that it highlights how awesome YC is and all that talk (I'm not saying that YC isn't awesome, I'm much inclined to believe that it is) but how startups offer a way for individuals to work with that they like more and how more and more people are embracing entrepreneurship and how technology plays such an important field in this.
Reminds me of 'virtual reality' from 20 years ago. It seemed great at the time and we were all waiting for a real-life 'cyberspace', but it never really happened.
Here are some great quotes from the same event:

http://www.it-engelhardt.de/memorable-quotes-from-microconf-...
Along the same lines: I launched a social calendar app with my roommate for students at UMichigan and to initially gain users, we bought $55 worth of pizzas and to get a slice, all students had to do was download our app and register as a user--we setup in one of the busiest halls on campus and needless to say, the pizza ran out pretty quickly.

Looking back, it was great for the numbers and a was a good marketing strategy, but we didn't gain much else from it. I wish we had setup a demo or something of the sort so that we could have also received feedback. Asking vital questions about the product should be geared toward customers, not as much founders, and we learned that the hard way.
Unfortunately that's the case. I heard really good things about wowza these days. Not open source but a lot of things are open and flexible. Also back then red5 was also an ok alternative, not sure if that's still the case.