skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really, I don't know that much about wine myself; I'm just making a weak attempt at my uncle's usual stylings (he's a wine journalist working for, of all things, a wine-kit manufacturer--so a bit of an apostate in the industry.)

Relevant article from him: http://www.timswineblog.com/2011/01/robert-parker-is-not-the...
The code analogy is silly. With wine (or food) we're talking about a fundamental sense we all have. Everyone can eat and drink and either the stuff tastes good to people or it doesn't. And that's the point of the food/drink to begin with. The point of code is not generally to appeal to novices' innate sense of code aesthetics.

Chef: You stupid amateurs could never appreciate my noodles!

Tampopo: But people who eat noodles are all amateurs. So why make noodles amateurs can't appreciate?
I would much rather there be no 3D-gun-printing situation... but I'm not sure that I'm too concerned about militias, albeit only given the current state of 3D printers. There's a weird race between the capacity to manufacture anything at any time, and the ability to harvest sufficient energy to make the former not-so-important... and the former is in front right now. That is for sure a kind of scary thought. Plastic-gun-toting militias are probably not a big deal right now, but yeah... what if 3D metal printers become as prevalent as mobile phones? Hopefully some balancing technology will have also become so prevalent. If not, there are companies that make amazing tents, and there are lots of mountains and woods... :)
It's already really simple, and has been since time out of mind?

Anyways, no, I don't think that it will make a huge difference--the materials in use and the resolution in printing is just comical compared to even a simple throwaway zipgun.
> there are so many people who can argue eloquently and passionately for diametrically opposed perspectives on an issue. Both sides can't both be right

It is sometimes true that both sides can't be right -- there certainly formal propositions which are mutually exclusive (a circle can be squared, a circle cannot be squared).

Other times, people are arguing in a space where there's tension between multiple true principles (which programming language is best for your new project -- the more expressive/flexible/typesafe one you don't know? or the one you're already familiar with?).
I'd be more concerned about recently stolen state-of-the-art technology taking an early one-way flight westward on a thumb drive than I'd be about a plastic single-shot gun (that apparently isn't even stable; from what I've heard the thing has exploded before in testing). As others have said, producing weapons independently has been happening for ages; the processes and technology for pushing pieces of metal out of tubes at high speeds aren't overly complicated. Unregistered guns are still obtainable even if you can't hack one together yourself.

But this isn't the first time ITAR has been abused. Can you say strong cryptography?
Yeah, surprisingly (or unsurprisingly, depending on your POV) there have been very few major players stepping in to convert their historical or recent titles for Linux. They are probably waiting and wondering if there's any good reason to do it... If the Steambox ever sees a release based on a Linux environment, I would expect things to change, though.
If you're a militia, you're going to purchase a laser sintering printer. What then? Restrict the purchase of metal powder?
My knowledge is quite basic on the subject, but how would this be a first amendment issue?
I most certainly did.

This was addressing the section towards the end, "The Exception": "among amateur wine drinkers [...], the survey found [...] a negative correlation between price and happiness".

Check the residual sugars in Menage a Trois, Apothic Red and similar wines. They get that by adding concentrated grape juice, then enough chemicals to stop those sugars from undergoing more fermentation. Lots of amateur wine drinkers love that style.

If saying this makes me an asshole, so be it.
3D guns are 99% useless, but 101% provocative in the current political environment.

There are 350 million real, fully functional, STEEL barreled firearms in the US today.

The epitome of 750 years of tweaks and improvements.

SURELY one of those would be easier to obtain (and safer to fire)if you wanted a gun.
I was originally going to rage a bunch about the government here, but then I saw they were invoking ITAR, and I was like "yeah, okay, that is the one card they could've played that I wouldn't have complained about".

Then again, it's not like blueprints for single-shot infantry weapons are exactly the key to America's military supremacy, the loss of which will result in the final storming of our golden cities by barbarous hordes.

Were somebody to post up a mod of their RepRap fabbing an explosive lens or something, now that would be interesting to watch the banhammer on.
> How did this manage to survive first amendment challenges?

This goes back to what Phil Zimmerman said about ITAR and such almost 20 years ago when they threw it at him for PGP:

"The Government has made it illegal in many cases to export good cryptographic technology, and that may include PGP. This is determined by volatile State Department policies, not fixed laws."

This has nothing to do with law and everything to do with those same volatile policies a generation later.
TIL the internet constitutes import/export from country to country.
Valve indeed has done a good job so far, though I'm hoping they do the same with DotA 2 soon...
Any ST3 users want to share how it compares to ST2?
Thanks for the link. Can't imagine how I missed this.
I can purchase a laser sintering printer that can print 3D metal objects for a few thousand dollars. I would argue this is a low enough price point that your average person could afford it. I could also print a gun with a laser sinter, that while not as smooth and refined as a cast weapon, will still fire.

Sure, ABS plastic weapons are still somewhat laughable. What happens when you can print a metal gun in your own home with some metal powder, with a machine purchased for less than $1K?

Note: Boeing uses laser sintered parts in their new Dreamliner; this isn't just for prototyping.

EDIT: Make Magazine plans for an open source laser sintering device: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/02/01/an-open-source-laser-sin...
> Were somebody to post up a mod of their RepRap fabbing an explosive lens or something, now that would be interesting to watch the banhammer on.

I am not exactly sure what it is referring to, but the State Department's letter includes mention of a data file for a "125mm BK-14M high-explosive anti-tank warhead".

Maybe that is a model for a mold for warheads? I don't think anyone has a printer printing with high-explosives yet.
I will use this every week. Might be the best "Show HN" yet.

Great domain name too, especially how hard that is these days.
Why do you care what VCs like. Making a mil a year (or run rate of 1 mil) should be the goal, not impressing VCs.
I believe that this important mantra is illustrated by the use of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) technique. This is described in detail by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup (pgs. 99-102), wherein he explains the tremendous amount of learning and customer discovery that a startup founder/team can experience first-hand by making the effort to personally provide initial customers with customized one-on-one "concierge treatment"...
Absolutely yes this is a risk. Do not do this. The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is not something you want to mess with.
I've always assumed that the violin and piano are favoured by tiger parents because they are high-status instruments.

(Please excuse this off-topic rant: it dismays me that the violin is so high-status. The damn things are so shrill and squeaky they make me cover my ears. Meanwhile, the viola and the cello sound exquisitely resonant, yet they, especially the viola, are the ones who got second-class status. It is a tremendous musical injustice. I wonder if it has something to do with violins having been more suitable for virtuoso performance and thus more likely to be written for by primo composers.)
I'm not going to lie--if they did, that would be really cool.
Before the implant I had an external pacemaker for 3 days. No shocks, but someone brought a bunch of med students by and started fiddling with the BPM knob for no good reason. "Please stop that." And be very, very careful with that wire.

Post implant, setup process caused several convulsions. Harmless, but gave me a giggling fit. Thanks to one wire too close to my diaphragm I couldn't sleep on my left side (compressed them together) for two years until they figured out how to reprogram it to stop making me twitch each beat.

Diagnostics is always amusing when they drop the heart rate to 40, and do it as if I won't notice.
What? I live in NZ and I've never heard of an ATM that gives you money without a pin.
Your irony is wasted on me. IMO parents should actively encourage their child to be the best student in the class. So many talented kids amount to nothing because they're allowed to coast during their formative years. Encouraging them to be the best, teaches ambition and excellence. It doesn't matter if they don't end up being Engineers or Surgeons or what-have-you. Regardless of the life goals they purse, to succeed, they need to be always hungry for better.
How is censorship of speech a violation of freedom of speech? AYFKM
The law's main reason for existing isn't really about handguns, but that doesn't stop it for being applied to them. I don't think the U.S. government is really all that concerned about a single shot pistol, but someone got all in a tizzy about it and decided that it should be shut down before it becomes a problem (not that I agree with that thinking).

These export controls primarily exist to keep our advanced military technology out of enemy hands. I am not a lawyer, but I am reasonably certain that these laws would be upheld by the courts. Even though the first amendment promises free speech, the Supreme Court has said that there are some things you still aren't allowed to say, like "Fire!" in a movie theater. Things that could harm public safety, such as distributing weapons plans, are not protected under the first amendment.
The credit card companies are making billions in profit. One way of increasing the profit is by using 40 year old technology like magnetic strips instead of upgrading the hardware. 45 million may sound like much, but it's much cheaper than ensuring that every credit card reader in the world only uses chip readers.

I am sure that the crew here att HN could come up with 50 better solutions to security than the magnetic strip and a string of numbers.
There's a big gap between "can be made to run under wine by following a recipe someone posted to appdb.winehq.org" and "click on Download, then Plan".

I fiddle with messy integration issues on embedded Linux and Android professionally, and am about as qualified as anyone could be to make that work. I never once bothered trying to get wine running. I installed Portal last week without a moment's thought.
Plenty of great legislation is "introduced" all the time. Most never even gets brought up in committee. Those that do get killed before hitting the floor. Those that are passed get killed in the other chamber.

This is far from the least likely bill to pass, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
"You just need some basic machining skills (thanks MIT OpenCourseWare)"

I wish I could learn this kind of stuff from OCW. There's some text descriptions of how lathes and milling machine work in one of their courses (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-670-mech...), but not enough to make me comfortable with either tool.

I've been looking for a place around my city (Toronto) where I could take a weekend or evening classes about machining skills, but haven't had much luck. So, I think you're underestimating the difficultly of getting basic machining skills in our post-industrial society. Though I agree with your main point.
Wow. According to the government's theories, I as a dual citizen of the USA and Canada am not allowed access to this stuff because for ITAR purposes I count as a Canadian national.

I wonder whether under the 14th they actually have the right to restrict my 2nd amendment rights in this way. That's in addition to the obvious 1st amendment issues.

(I somehow thought that the USA lost The USA vs the Progressive but Wikipedia corrected me that the case was dropped after it was obviously moot.)
>Facebook Login

Nope.
Of course 30-somethings can like robot godzilla movies, but I think the force with which reddit upvotes stuff like Avengers and that Godzilla movie is an indication that the demographics have shifted to high-schoolers and early college instead of college and older.

Maybe you're right about subreddits, but I still think it'll hurt the subcommunities to be associated with a larger more immature whole. Now if reddit was just search engine for forums and each forum was more independent, that would be different.
For anyone who doesnt know: http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/
Ubuntu Touch for smartphones could be ready by end of May
PySide isn't half as bad as you might remember. And yes, kivy is pretty respectable and only getting better. They did win a little grant too recently.
It wasn't that they could log into any account they wanted (that would be much worse); it was that they could view any profile page they wanted, so it was essentially like an employee could become "friends" with a user, without the user knowing, and without the user's consent.
"What happens when you can print a metal gun in your own home with some metal powder, with a machine purchased for less than $1K?"

What happens when I buy an eight-round Mossberg from the pawn shop for $250 dollars (that is like 8 Rasberry Pis!)?

Odds are, same outcome: it sits around doing nothing, because nearly nobody is murderer just itching for an easy way to do it.
While I don't necessarily subscribe to the same reasoning, I think I can suss out the reasoning that leads to this comment.

If you take faith because God kept you alive during the war as a foundation, a few conclusions can be drawn.

1) God did not want you to die in the war. Why else would surviving be proof of God?

2) God either wanted other people to die in the war, or having no preference either way for them at that point, let them die in the war.

3) God therefore has a preference for you over those that died, even if it's only to fulfill a future purpose.

I personally prefer not to make assumptions about what someone was thinking (but what they could have been thinking is another matter), but doing so at this level seems more a matter of poor assumptions and rigor to me than hate. In any case, a simple explanation of what is wrong with their reasoning along with the accusation of hate is warranted.

Keep in mind, the poster may truthfully be offended by these types of remarks, just as you ostensibly are by their response.

If you castigate them for their actions without even attempting to understand their reasoning, that makes you guilty of exactly the same thing you accuse them of in this instance.
Documentary on Google's master plan to scan every book
Looks like you can also peek at "apps that <friend name> uses". I wonder what other privacy issues linger here...
why did someone downvote this?

it's literally a one liner question, and some intelligent responses were posted as a result.

im baffled.
I will be lazy and ask here instead of looking it up: Is the barrel 3D-printed too? Out of what material? I'm having trouble accepting the idea that a 3D-printed barrel can withstand the pressure of firing normal ammunition.
It's doing the weirdest thing for me, I get this[1] for the preview, but I get this[2] when I download it. Other than that it works better than I expected for non-real life stuff.

[1] http://i5.minus.com/i49HmJ8HXW90P.png

[2]http://i4.minus.com/ipofptgUlIIlj.png

closer inspection on the preview reveals this

http://i1.minus.com/iTe6ZEeS9Xv1k.png

It's playing nice with all the other screenshots I've thrown at it so far, though.

here's the original I guess if anyone wants to see if it happens with them too

http://i5.minus.com/iC7VIeASPpmHi.jpg
Kids don't know jack. If a kid isn't good at maths, and their friends aren't good at maths, they conclude that maths is stupid and not worth doing. Adults know better which is why they need to push kids toward productive activities and away from unproductive ones. Which isn't to say they shouldn't be allowed leisure time to be kids. Simply that a guiding hand, and sometimes a forceful hand, is necessary.
Yeah, no idea why you're being downvoted--you make a fair point.

Like, this is annoying, but all of the secondary actors seeding and whatnot here are provably and knowingly infringing on ITAR.

I don't agree with what's being done by the .gov here, and I don't think it's a good thing, but especially given how we see the courts behave and how we see the confrontational system run, I must remind our overzealous peers here who wish to antagonize the .gov:

Do not taunt happy fun ball.
This is an issue of disruption that can cause a large, politically entrenched gun market to fail being disguised as a gun control issue.

What steps need to be taken so that we can legally possess a 3D printed gun?
> Even though the first amendment promises free speech, the Supreme Court has said that there are some things you still aren't allowed to say, like "Fire!" in a movie theater. Things that could harm public safety, such as distributing weapons plans, are not protected under the first amendment.

The "clear and present danger" thing has not been true for many decades now. The current standard is if the speaker intends to cause imminent lawless behaviour.

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

Of course the case where the "fire in a movie theater" thing first came up was about a war protester telling people that the draft was unconstitutional...
As someone who has been in this situation more than once, a cubicle versus a desk versus an office is not the issue - the issue is, can you motivate people with work they are passionate about and an incentive/compensation plan they feel is fair. Once you have those pieces in place, the work environment usually doesn't matter as much (and to the extent it does, the newly motivated employees will take steps to fix it on their own).
While I like CoffeeScript (and code in it, day to day), I think having a base level of what's going on in the JS is still important- and will be until browsers allow you to exactly map your CS code to in-browser results.
I'm nothing close to a lawyer, but I bet the people you linked to would indeed get in trouble if they started shipping their parts overseas.

The law (ITAR[1] and the Arms Control Export Act[2]) wasn't designed to keep home-milled ArmaLite parts out of the hands of US citizens. The goal was to prevent someone like Lockheed from doing something like selling stealth fighters to an adversary without checking in with someone first. It's basically written as banning the export of military technology to foreign countries without the proper paperwork.

Apparently, to the folks at the State Department, stuff like PGP[3] and plans for a 3D-printable gun count as "military technology" and putting it on the internet counts as "export". That's pretty different from the ATF deciding that a lower receiver without holes in it doesn't need a firearms dealer for a transfer.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Export_Control_Act

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_R...

[3] http://stason.org/TULARC/security/pgp/99-Appendix-VI-A-State...
Has ITAR been challenged under the 1st Amendment?
BTW, Visa and MC are rolling out EMV smart cards in the US by 2015. Presumably they have preferred to invest in server-side anti-fraud up to this point.
Nobody doubts the shutdown is to prevent citizens from seeing the files, not foreigners. Ergo, censorship.
3 degrees of separation covers a lot of people.
Portal worked great on Wine / Linux for me right up to (what I think is) the last level, when the frame rate suddenly plummeted to barely playable. Now it's out for native Linux I'll have to see if the same thing happens.
I see your Streisand and raise you one Darknet...

"The idea of the darknet is based upon three assumptions:

1) Any widely distributed object will be available to a fraction of users in a form that permits copying.

2) Users will copy objects if it is possible and interesting to do so.

3) Users are connected by high-bandwidth channels.

The darknet is the distribution network that emerges from the injection of objects according to assumption 1 and the distribution of those objects according to assumptions 2 and 3."

See "The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution" - http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf
> Is the barrel 3D-printed too? Out of what material?

Yes, and plastic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPz6n6UXQY
Over 2m? I did some quick extrapolation, which is probably wrong.

Current rent: 1595/mo ~= 19k/yr

Add 2% each year for inflation(probably wrong, but gotta start somewhere) and sum up 42 years (25 to 67) comes to just shy of 1.3M, merely paying your rent. Take taxes out of that 2M and rent+food+retirement is about the only things you can pay for and thats cutting it close.

2M to live in the place I was born just isn't going to cut it. There are of course optimizations, you could buy a condo or marry someone who also works to up it to 4M, but for a quick back of the envelope calculation its close enough.

My original estimation of 20M is probably off by a factor of 2 to 4, depends who you brown nose it with in the ivy leagues.

But basically, every time i think about my current costs and inflation, i realize that the estimated 2M average lifetime earnings potential of my education doesn't get very far.
I agree "hate group" is stronger wording than would be appropriate (at any rate I don't want to quibble over a definition of that term) but I personally dislike intolerance - and I avoid forums[1] where it is considered upvote-worthy rhetoric.

There are insensitive and caustic comments everywhere - but when they are promoted through upvotes they discourage participation from affected individuals, breeding an environment where people only feel welcome if they subscribe to the dominant opinions. This results in a hollow echo chamber, which is not a satisfactory equilibrium for any forum trying to encourage healthy discussion.

1. Pre-internet definition of forum.
Why is creation of a firearm a relevant concern? Is there anybody who really wants a gun who somehow can't manage to acquire one?

The average citizen who wants a gun has one. And they have one that is much more effective than this 3D printed gun.
Because it's the format string, which the programmer is supposed to control?

NSLog(untrusted); bad. NSLog("The user entered %s", untrusted); OK.
Ooh no! A bank lost $45 million for a few hours or days. I don't feel bad at all.

Meanwhile, LIBOR, but I'm sure the banks will spend millions ensuring that these hardened crims spend the rest of their days behind bars.
Plus openable and closable comment branches. Would love HN to add that...
Yup, barrel is printed as well. Entire gun is ABS plastic, which sounds absurd until you realize that it's only a .22 being fired through it, and it's only intended to be used for one shot. This round is so weak that it's explosive charge is comparable to the primer charge on other rounds.

Only two things aren't printed, the firing pin (which is a nail), and an additional hunk of metal that goes in it so it will be detectable with a metal detector (there are other laws against "stealth" weapons that have no metal in them).
Fighting wars? or just fighting? His context was about fighting wars, not just a couple guys running into each other and throwing a few punches.