skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the most difficult bit from the AR-15

As far as I understand it, the lower receiver on an AR-15 is actually a pretty trivial housing component, subject to almost no operational pressures, but interesting legally because it's where the gun's serial number happens to be stamped. (But I should note I don't really know much about AR-15s, just stuff I've read.)
Open source is only as old as its latest commit.

https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/list

Which, in this case, seems to be 5 hours.
Ugh this is linkbait and upvote-bait if I ever saw one.
The whole tone of the article is so contrived and fake-mysterious that it's kind of digusting. Basically the whole thing can be tracked down to a rich privileged white kid doing what rich privileged kids do. NOTHING worth reading about here. And the shitty app could maybe start about thinking of getting some cash flow.
Indeed, writing is vapid at best.
I briefly wondered that too -- every time I've seen a news post about moot.it I assumed that it was one of Christopher Poole's new projects.

Googled it this time, and nope. There was a threat of a lawsuit for trademark infringement last November, but nothing since then I guess.

I don't understand why anybody unrelated to Poole would willfully name their online discussion software something that's got a strong connotation to 4Chan.
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Ah - thanks. Seems I've made a bad assumption that was key to my position. I understood the significance of the stamp but had also thought it was among the most vulnerable spots for operational shock. I'll go back and re-read on this.
Quoddy seems to be an addon to Grails, which is a self-contained ecosystem. Despite the claims otherwise, Grϕϕvy has no real uptake outside Grails, only sporadic use. And Grails may be about to switch to vert.x [2], a polyglot (i.e. JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Python, Grϕϕvy, Java) framework, which would make Grϕϕvy even more irrelevant.

[2]: http://grails.io/post/48599814766/more-on-where-next-for-gra...
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I hope so. I live in a country where I do not have to carry a gun, the vast majority of people do not carry guns, police officers rarely carry guns, it is very unlikely you'll be killed with a gun, and I'd like it to stay that way.
which makes the sale of Shitagram slap in the face to all startups which actually have, oh I dunno, a business model lol
Zuckerberg is a gentleman of Harvard! I say good day!
Isn't the joke on the guy posting the (impossible) job?

I see some have commented on the economic desperation or the salesman attitude of the coders bidding for this impossible job, but when someone asks a large population of salesmen that they have a serious intention to procure a bridge ... well ... there will be a few who'd definitely show up wanting to sell one.

Don't see the point of this whole thing really.
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I'm a bit confused, we might have misunderstood each other.

There's nothing to "back up" - I said that the most talented employees in the world, who can build a $1B company up in 18 months, will not do so outside Silicon Valley in exchange for a 10% employee equity pool, and a low base salary.

Outside Silicon Valley they would only do so for a very high base salary.
The last time moot.it appeared on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486786.
Bitcoin may be finite in number, but it's ultimately infinitely divisible, so it does not matter how many bitcoins are "wasted". Regardless, any property worth tracking in such a scheme is likely worth enough to justify a $0.01 investment in bitcoin.
Nope. He's already sued them: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20408037.
No, it has no connection to moot.

It's a baffling choice of name. It's a shame because I'm interested in meta stuff about discussion on the Internet and how to improve it, and maybe moot.it have some good ideas. I've discussed the name before on HN. Here are the threads.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537896)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563379)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486786)

tipiirai only submits links to moot or to flowplayer (another of their projects).
My point was not so much about SV but about the "can do attitude" - when taken too far it will have you go deeper into debt and chasing pipe dreams rather than cut your losses. It can kill good companies too, if it leads you to ignore risks.
It sounds to me like somebody just saw this video on TED http://www.ted.com/talks/marc_goodman_a_vision_of_crimes_in_... and wants to become popular.
Cool project! A few easy ideas:

Zn: outside of a zinc/carbon battery

He: balloons

Ni: welding rods

Am: smoke detector sensor

Pt/Ir: spark plug central electrodes (your mechanic's more likely to give you an old spark plug than a whole cat converter ;)

Hg: thermometer

Trying to think up easy/cheap ways to get elements is quite fun
Is your job so stressful that you don't have time to read HN at all during normal workdays?
Explain to me how talented coder 'x' (whoever, maybe
will1000) will be able to live without any compensation
whatsoever during 18 months.

Savings? Perhaps if Bitcoin rises and deflation becomes the norm, it will become more common to have 18 months of savings before quitting your job.
you're gonna have to ban lead and saltpeter and basic tools then, too.
Thanks for your comment. I do see that the TLS is used in a conditional to avoid the barriers in most cases (the already-initialized case), but the initialization still happens in a synchronized block. I may be wrong, but the docs for D say that effectively wraps the block in a critical section which seems likely to include rw barriers, meaning the code given has barriers at init and also uses TLS. If so, the TLS would be unnecessary, for my reasons above - causing me to suspect that the example has just hidden the barriers behind the synchronized keyword.
Wake me up when VCs choose to fund companies that seek profit.
"Among other things the Government claimed that federal rules shouldn’t be interpreted so narrowly" - does that give the public the ability to 'interpret' laws as they feel they should be applied, rather than as they are written? Shocking moves from the US Govt, desperately hoping the case is dismissed.

And this gem "When a person located abroad violates the laws of the United States, that person may be held criminally liable despite the fact that the person has never set foot in the United States." - US != world police.
Bullets are very easy. All you need is a mold, some lead and a fire.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bullet+mold&rls=com.micr...

You might have meant "cartridges". But they are not hard either, or even necessary. Black powder is pretty easy too. Primers are a bit harder (still easier than a gun, just need to know how), but you can make rifles that fire without primers (google "matchlock" or "flintlock").
And yet I've met people from Xinjiang and Sichuan who share my feelings about other people and view things through the lens of international solidarity on a personal, human level. What's your point? That the risk of 'white guilt' is a reason not to discard indefensible perspectives like xenophobia and othering?
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There is no mention of salaries in that article. It seems like you are a little bit jealous and rampantly speculating about this whole scenario.

Obviously with the trajectory Instagram was on it was much easier to hire with equity. I don't know what you mean about the "level of talent" though. There are hundreds of small teams with the talent level of Instagram both in and out of the valley, but talent does not guarantee traction. What makes Instagram extraordinary is a confluence of factors, not just an amazing team.
That is a bit misunderstood. Norway does indeed have a maximum prison sentence of 21 years, which is called "life in prison", but preventive detention can be used to effectively keep convicts incarcerated for the rest of their lives if deemed necessary for the safety of the public.
Sorry, but I didn't say nor even think that it's the cause of my main problem.
Bullets aren't really controlled. You can buy them online or at Walmart, legally.
3D printers - worry for the right reasons
Then stick with emacs. It sounds like its the perfect tool for your needs. Which is perfectly fine, right tool for the job and all that. That said, I would suggest that the ubiquity if vim (and latterly that of nano) renders your point a little pompous. No need for the same old pious rhetoric.
There is no such thing as a perfect store of value that is nothing else. A store of value must have real value - for use as a material or as a medium of exchange. Otherwise, there is no value to store.

By this logic, any cryptographically strong series of bits is a perfect store of value.
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It would be interesting to know how they pitched the jobs to their future employees? If someone came to me saying "Hey dude, work for free and you get 5% stake in a photo sharing app for the iPhone. It's cool app. We have filters!" I'd show him the door.

So there must have been some "we know people at $comp and they will buy us out"-talk to convince people to work for free.
Are you a foreign national who can't move to the valley? Because you certainly have an extremely distorted view of reality. People are not being hired with pure equity with the ease you seem to think. Also, I might add as the co-founder of a growing startup with offices in both Palo Alto and London, salaries are higher and competition for employees stiffer in the valley.
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All right, that's fair. But people hugely underestimate the difference that employees willing to consider equity as serious compensation makes. It's the difference between being able to afford to change the world and not being able to afford to do that.

That is one of the biggest things about the valley.
"Rags to riches?" What a bunch of BS. Dude never experienced a moment of poverty in his life, and I doubt he would deny that.
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Oh, so if not raw JS, you don't "understand" what other possible libraries might be use to design modern usable intractive web apps?

Way to go downvoting for that, too - shows real depth. I shall not try make you "understand" the existence of this fast-expanding space.
As I understood it, they're basically searching for people with prosopagnosia for further research. They also mention somewhere that some people with prosopagnosia can do well in the test (I assume if those people have seen the famous faces enough it can work for light cases.)
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As an American living in the UK, I have actually seen it first-hand. This belief that because we border Canada that we somehow have first-hand experience of their medical system is exactly the type of willful ignorance that I was calling out.
> Also if you fail nobody is going to trust in you any more, you are done.

It's the same in Germany. If you fail with a business you are on the same level of a criminal to many people. I don't care about being jobless (because I know how to scrub together at least 1000 Euros every month). But the "failed business" stigma is really what inhibits entrepreneurship here.
There is a benchmark test which includes the 'computer language benchmarks game' (aka language shootout) programs in the Go source tree under go/test/bench/shootout

Last time I checked GccGo won most of them hands down and even more so when you changed the optimization from -O2 to -O3 (on my machines atleast 'i5/i7' -O2 always lost to -O3 in these tests so I don't know why they defaulted to -O2 here).

This was on 1.03 I think, I haven't checked on 1.1x as of yet and given that there's been improvements in the Go compiler the overall results may have changed considerably.
I think you missed a static keyword in that line of code.
The difference between this and kerosene is that there are real reasons to use electricity rather than kerosene, whereas the only reason you have not to use emacs or vim is some kind of personal preference, not the lack of some modern text editing technology.
I'm not jealous at all. Talent is one thing, but do you honestly think you can have a professional team working on the payroll that (I assume) Instagram had?

I just don't see it happening. one thing is you are right, I don't have detailed payroll figures. I was going on the prevailing wind and the fact that the employees were 20-somethigns.
Kind of reminds me of the arguments about ajax around 2004 when the term was popularised: everyone (me included) went "This is stupid, we've had 'ajax' for ever: years ago I was doing long polling with iframes, this is no different it's just a bit more convenient".

Convenience turns out to be a pretty big contributing factor in how many people do something!
Can you recommend any resources for writing performant code for canvas / SVG?
Might be Ruby?
Let me put it to you this way. Can you hire a talented CEO in London within the next month, who will work for you for below half the median wage in London and be able to build a company with you and a cofounder that is worth $10M within a year?

In the valley, this is easy. You do have to give up equity though.

In London, the above will get you shown the door, with a grin. Haha, good luck.
cturner, you're actually right overall here. The DD team has succeeded in 3D printing a rifle barrel that works for 10 shots. See the Forbes article linked at the very top of the thread.
I'd be interested in knowing where you're located. Not quite for "free" but including a very low salary what you've just derided seems like a fairly standard startup pitch...
It's fine for you to use whatever tools you want, even if they are under-powered toys. But qualitative hand-waving like 'archaic' shouldn't be confused with an objective disadvantage.
> eople sitting in refugee camps on the edge of hotzones won't have have difficulty getting access to them.

I am sorry but really - people in a refugee camp, with no sanitation, insufficient food and clean water, and yet working 3D printers with plentiful supplies of plastic dust?

Refugee camps are by defintion, walkable from the worlds worst trouble spots, Access to weapons in the worlds worst trouble spots is not hard (http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-43343/police-recover-...).

3d printing of guns is a "first world problem" and will remain so forever. By the time a refugee camp has turned into a place that worries about 3d printing of anything, it has become a suburban utopia and the soccer mums can deal with the 3d printing labs.
You're going to rob a store with a flintlock pistol? With a 3d printed gun you can.

Furthermore, bullets are much harder to regulate than guns. Plenty of people have access to bullets and can make 50 of them disappear, claiming they shot them.

"But if you don't have a never-ending supply of bullets,"

Why a never-ending supply? You only need 5 bullets at most for each robbery or murder you commit. A box of 50 can last a criminal career.
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Am I the only one who thinks it's a good thing that people are at least trying to do the right thing for abused children? Trying to come up with something new that might help?
>remember they came at him with helicopters and automatic weapons

That was the New Zealand police, not the fucking FBI. Why is there no outrage at the government that actually arrested him? Was the minister held at gunpoint? If you read torrent freak you probably think so.
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A similar project using Emacs and really clever use of Python and Dragon Naturally Speaking SDK was my favorite presentation at PyCon this past year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
For starters, there is no Walmart here, nor is ammunition legally obtainable as far as I know.
Javascript / Dart?
Logging does not mean I/O.

Logging to disk means I/O.
No more Skype chat via imo.im?
Skype logo now missing from home page and from "add account" options on web interface... https://imo.im/
My bet is on node.js meaning JavaScript :)
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I thought most people familiar with Ryan and Macklemore's story knew about this already. It's not entirely a secret they hired help from Warner (through ADA) to do promotion, they've been pretty open about it. The interesting and impressive aspect about the story of Ryan Lewis and Macklemore is that they were the ones hiring the label, not the label hiring and exploiting the artist like is usually the case.

What these two guys did was get a song to number one all without losing one single bit of creative control. The labels didn't tell them what their album should sound like, who it should be marketed too or what the first single should be, the label merely used their resources to get the song on the radio and the rest happened organically.

Thrift Shop was one hell of a catchy song, they deserve every bit of success they have. It was in the best interests of the label and Ryan and Macklemore to get the song out there. The song was rising up the iTunes charts and Youtube so fast before it hit the radio that the radio had no choice but to play it anyway.

The reality of music is you can't rely solely on digital music sales, physical mediums are still well and truly alive (on the decline but still alive and kicking). If you want to physically distribute music, labels which have been in the business for a long time like Warner Bro's have established supply chains that can get music manufactured and distributed faster than an independent artist manually burning CD's, printing, putting them in jewel cases and mailing them out ever could.

What do people expect? Did you expect Ryan Lewis and Macklemore to build their own manufacturing plant, purchase expensive printing and duplication equipment, hire employees to package their music up and then establish trade distribution agreements to get their music out there?

I hate to sound cynical, but this is shoddy journalism. It's like saying a company producing ground breaking medical equipment couldn't have succeeded without the help of Microsoft or Intel because the computers they used to document their research notes and build their CAD drawings on were Intel computers running Windows 7...

The journalistic standard of NPR is usually pretty good, but this article definitely subtracts a couple of points of respect that I had for them. Don't get me started on that link-bait title, "The Real Story Of How Macklemore Got 'Thrift Shop' To No. 1" — you can't say that's not a completely misleading title that insinuates that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have been lying about some all aspects of their career.

The general gist of this comment is: they outsourced the promotion of their music to a label rather than being owned by the label. No secret, just intelligent. Definitely not a secret, read around, they've made this known. Recently on Colbert they essentially said just that as well. What's the issue here?
Ouch. Not even sarcastic?
There's an extensive discussion from an earlier submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5658400

Interestingly, for me, the link there currently doesn't load, whereas this one does. The other is an "https" link, and I'm speculating that that's related.
And willing to pay bottom dollar to do it, even if it means terrible results
Currently doesn't load for me, but the http (as opposed to https) version does:

http://www.nextbigwhat.com/indian-developers-accused-of-chea...
That seems closer
The boss is always right
Even though a lot of infrastructure (i.e., Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom) has been privatized, it is interesting how the former state monopolies are just still de facto monopolies within Germany. They also compete well internationally. I am personally looking forward to the US privatizing some more of its infrastructure and hope the results are positive. Also, I agree about German mechanical engineering... but I am biased. I work for a mechanical engineering consultancy out here. There is a very high level of professionalism among the Diplom-Ingenieur graduates from German universities. It is also nice how there are more jobs for mechanical engineering out here that aren't so tied up in the defense and aerospace industries. It's good for the soul.
Greater programmers don't cargo cult on abstractions like dependency injection.
What's with the negativity? Are you telling inspiring musicians to stop trying as well?
I thought it was fairly obvious that this ad-campaign is less about the actual gimmick being useful or not, and more about creating discussion.

The ad is probably not going to directly get the number into the hands of children, and there are much better ways to get the number to children (leaflets in loos at schools; leaflets in phonebooths at schools; etc) and so the numbers of children directly helped by this are probably going to be low.

But it does raise some interesting discussion.
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That is very true, it is unrealistic for us to travel to SV to just socialize. Speaking at conferences seems like a great way to build a reputation and get to meet people. If only I had something to speak about that would interest people... :)

We do miss out a lot of startup action but there are still large startups in Europe, and I assume Singapore. I do think making connections via HN/Twitter etc can mitigate some of the issues caused by geography but not entirely.

Talking to people in your industry (especially if your speciality is quite niche) goes a fairly long way. Perhaps someone in your niche went to your alma mater, or lived in Singapore - that is something in common that can spark a conversation.
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> Relying strictly on conventional uranium fission reactors would burn through known reserves in a few decades -- 30-80 years.

While strictly speaking true, this is completely irrelevant. "Known reserves" refers to the surveyed amount that is technically and economically feasible to extract at present market prices. The cost of uranium ore is a vanishingly small part of running a nuclear plant -- fuel costs are less than 10%, and the vast majority of that is enrichment and processing. Uranium market prices could go up by two orders of magnitude without endangering the industry, and at that point, we have milennia of known reserves (mostly in seawater).
Given that the majority of these disorders do not have any clear etiology, and may not have any biological reality, requiring measurement of causes would destroy most of DSM.

Not just pharma but the whole psychiatric establishment has a vested interest in handing out diagnoses, whether they are understood or not. Prescriptions are not just convenient for big pharma, they can be given out in a short time so that a doctor can turn over many more patients per day.
You said Safari, but if there's any Chrome users with the same problem (I know I had), I recommend the OneTab extension.
What does being white have to do with it?
Seems very much like a simple differential (which I always thought could be used that way after playing with them a bit). Page 63 of the text.
Ha good point! I always forget he didn't attend Stanford.
It's nice to see x-invalidates in the wild!

Do you have just 1 varnish instance or two?

I never did fully solve the ban propagation problem when running multiple redundant varnish instances.