skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the NFA branch has a rule change out for public comment that would include removing the CLEO signature requirements for individuals. It's expected to go into effect sometime next year if I remember correctly.

Of course, since nothing they do comes without a trade-off, they will be making the trust route somewhat more painful (requiring fingerprints and background checks).
These devices do their measurement in a completely different way.

Laser distance meters are essentially tiny radar units operating with light instead of radio waves (lidar). With a pulse radar, you need the pulse itself to be of extremely short duration, especially when you're measuring short distances. You need to have stopped transmitting by the time you begin receiving the reflection to have any hope of actually finding the reflection (because the return "sounds" exactly like what you're transmitting). In order to reliably detect a short unmodulated pulse, the transmitted power generally has to be pretty high so that the reflection is loud enough that you don't miss it.

Short pulses and high power are generally hard to do with cheap semiconductor devices (big radar pulse generators tend to use vacuum tubes and exotic and expensive hardware).

A better approach for lower power devices is to modulate the carrier wave itself and then transmit a longer, lower power pulse. One way to do this is to transmit a "chirp" (a transmission that starts at a low frequency and ramps up to a high frequency). When you receive the radar return, you'll start receiving the initial low frequency while the transmitter has moved on to transmitting a higher frequency. You can then use this frequency difference and the chirp rate to compute the time of flight and therefore the distance. This also has an added advantage of allowing you to integrate the received signal for a much longer period of time, so it tends to be a lot less noisy and error prone than a pulse radar.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMCW#Modulated_continuous-wave
>> The first rule of any educator is to never, under any circumstances, make someone feel inept. And it was so easily avoidable here.

In none of these instances did anyone attempt to seek out knowledge. They were looking for a solution. If they had said "how do I [get on the network|reinstall the OS|rip this file off YouTube]?" then it would be a lot easier for me to dismiss him as a curmudgeonly holier-than-thou IT guy.

I know plenty of people (and I even like some of them as people) who intentionally do not learn to do things on the computer because then they can't ask me to do it for them. When I like these people I make a subversive effort to teach them anyways, otherwise I just get it done for them to get them away from me, feelings be damned. Actual computer literacy (not MS Office literacy) is actually a necessary skill today in almost every office job. Knowing how to program? Probably not. Knowing how to connect to a network? Probably.

Finally, it is so damned easy now to google something, that much of the described behavior is inexcusable. Oh, but your problem is connecting to the internet? It sure would be helpful if you had a small computer in your pocket that could independently connect to the internet over some infrastructure that wasn't dependent on your local network, bummer. </rant>

But seriously we should actually be concerned about this and I hope that education does get better on this. I do fear that interfaces are almost too rich, meaning that it takes a concerted effort to "really" use a computer, unlike in even the recent past where you were forced to. Many people who were accidentally exposed to the more in depth aspect of computing and found it interesting would not have sought it out on their own, meaning that as a community we are losing out on that category of people going forward.
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I use to experience this heavily. I've resorted to self-deprecating humor to tell them to buzz off without them feeling too insulted.

"Oh wow, [Windows|OSX]? I don't know how this stuff works, I only work with little computers!"

With my parents I feel less obliged to be polite so I generally just say something about not bothering a mechanical engineer with your car problems. The idea there is to emphasize that despite a degree in something they think is plainly related to installing printer drivers in windows XP, that is not actually something that I am trained in.
As I mentioned in the article the code was inserted into a good core file from Joomla as part of a malicious attack. Thanks for the comment.
That evidence does not address the issue.

In order to show cause and effect, you must account for the other experimental groups (nations) which were subjected to the same stimuli yet reacted differently (far less than 2.7 SWAT raids per 10,000 residents).
I can't think of any doctors I know who would respond to "My body hurts" with disdain, rather than "Can you tell me where, and what type of pain?". If you genuinely wanted to help someone, would the terminology really get in the way?
Unfortunately your car analogy does not compute. A car is a device to do one thing and one thing only: getting you from A to B. A computer is a universal tool in the sense that it can almost be any tool. Being able to harness that power is "knowing computers". Without being able to harness that power you're unable to truly master your environment as you see fit. You're then restricted by what those who have mastered the computer^* allow you to do.

^*: i.e., programmers, computer manufacturers, software providers, saas providers, and so on.
I rather liked amazon's solution to the printer selection issue: there is a badge reader on every printer, when you print something it goes to the Great Spooler In The Cloud, when you want it to emit as paper you walk to the printer you want, badge in, and it prints your items. The UI is wonky and slow, but it's better than the solution I've seen everywhere else: the stack of orphan printouts from someone that moved to another building/city long ago.
I am glad I live in Oregon where my representative (Ron Wyden) is actually offering some resistance.
If it move overseas, then the gov has 100% rights to store and search your traffic if you connect to said service.

Everyone overseas are terrorists, after all.
Yes, you're correct.. Too much C in my mind :) We are going to correct the post. Have a good one!
>"A hundred years ago, if you were lucky enough to own a car then you probably knew how to fix it. People could at least change the oil, change the tyres, or even give the engine a tune-up. I’ve owned a car for most of my adult life and they’re a mystery to me."

I wonder if this guys mechanic/dealership is as much of an assumptive, condescending douche towards him as he admittedly is toward everyone who seeks his help?

There are good points in there, but they're buried among 4000+ words of rambling tripe.

Personally, I agree with bits of what is presented. Thing is, I don't think these are things which necessarily need fixing. We're in a period of transition where this kind of mismatch is apparent, but it will fade quickly with time and I'd question the impact of widespread low-level literacy on progress.
They do mention that regular engines are also billion USD territory in the next sentence after the one you quoted: “Just to do a run-of-the-mill, state-of-the-art subsonic aircraft engine, you’re talking a $1 billion bill,” says Stephen Trimble, an editor at the industry publishing site Flightglobal.

Most kinds of mass transport are going to be more fuel efficient than an SUV (and many regular cars). Airplanes are however unique in that they enable people to travel thousands of miles in a few hours. The alternative to flying Paris - London for a week long trip or a weekend is not going there by SUV (or boat), it's not travelling Paris - London for a week long trip.
Nice one davey!
Ok thats your choice however the company wasn't liquidated so they should refund their customers who are asking.
You're right, I mixed up WebKit and Chrome there.
I had a Java professor who would load up a browser and use the Google search box on the school's homepage to search for Yahoo and then put a URL into the Yahoo search page. Most infuriating thing I've ever seen.
> "702 is focused outside the United States at non-citizens," said Adam Schiff, a member of the House intelligence committee. "The evidence of the effectiveness of 702 is much more substantial than 215 [the bulk phone records collection]. So I think there are fewer fourth amendment concerns and more evidence of the saliency of the program."

Here is as clear an admission as we will ever get that despite all the lip service politicians are paying to "tradeoffs" between security and liberty, all they really care about is providing the appearance of security at any cost. Apparently, when a law is deemed to be "effective" it justifies "fewer fourth amendment concerns". One wonders if rounding up (aka "rendering) political activists or people like Glen Greenwald would justify fewer First Amendment concerns.

When did the Fourth Amendment become a nice little luxury that Americans jettisoned as soon as rumors of terrorists doing bad things started circulating?
Agreed. This would be enormously useful for vacation rentals and real estate professionals. Add on and partnerships with virtual tour companies would be expansion value.
It's not a false choice. This is the government, not a random factory somewhere making random widgets where the biggest ethical problem a person may face is whether to report their boss for embezzling. This is a lot bigger.

You needn't be ideologically synchronized or operationally involved to be complicit in oiling the machine responsible for the crimes that keep coming out recently.

Moral responsibility comes in when you decide to take money from these people instead of deciding to yourself "You know, maybe I don't want to be part, however small, of crimes against the public".

And that takes it right back to ignorance, apathy, or malice.
> strangely the police report through the city manager which is another topic of discussion for the BBQ

Why is that strange? In California, in the usual case (i.e., not in charter cities with a different arrangement), the city manager is the appointed operational head of the city of government, and the city council (including the Mayor, who is effectively just the presiding officer of the council) is a (part-time) legislative body.
Who in the room was the advocate for open internet?

I don't want my future to look like the Apple Store or AT&T's closed network. I won't accept it.
I read this a couple weeks ago and decided to try and find a math book that incorporates some history in it. I found Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics with some great reviews.

I am working on an iPad app that pairs up people to mentor each other through books like this. It has video chat and a shared whiteboard, so it is ideally suited for discussing math. If anyone is interested in reading the book with someone, email me at bridger@understudyapp.com. I could really use some beta testers for the app!

If you have already read it, you could still mentor someone in it to review the material again.
You're also missing "<?php" as the opening php tag. Seems the "?" was removed.
appreciate the heads up but i don't see anything online explaining what it is about. anyone?
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Bury it on a Friday afternoon. I do a lot of media / pr work, this is intentional.

It gives the administration the ability to have it in the headlines that "Obama is curbing NSA fears," without having enough people around to truly scrutinize his message.

Not trying to be a cynic, but they put out the declassified powerpoint slides a few weeks ago on a Friday, too. Not much scrutiny. Greenwald has been the one mostly pushing the story forward.

It's likely the only reason Obama's doing this at all is because his internal polling indicates that people are hitting the threshold of caring and he's trying to prevent the media from going too much further. Look at what the New Yorks Times editorial board said today, Obama wants to avoid more of those. He can weather Greenwald, but he needs the rest to fall in line.

He'll probably spin this as, "Bush authorized this stuff and I'm going to clean it up."

That's garbage, most of the practices were expanded under his watch.

I'm pissed and I voted for the guy twice. :-X
From the wikipedia article. I'll admit, the first sentence is opinion of the author, but the rest backs up that opinion. I remember watching the 1997 video and the commentary afterward. There was a very large amount of support for adding military weapons to police departments.

I'm sure that 9/11 happening just four years later helped to further arm police departments when budgets for 'anti terror' increased. How else to spend the money except on armored personal carriers and fancy new equipment?

The ineffectiveness of the standard police patrol weaponry in penetrating the robbers' body armor led to a trend in the United States toward arming selected police patrol officers with semi-automatic 5.56 mm AR-15 type rifles.[14] Seven months after the incident, the Department of Defense gave 600 surplus M16s to the LAPD, which were issued to each patrol sergeant;[30] other cities, such as Miami, also moved to supply patrol officers, not just SWAT teams, with heavier firepower.[31] LAPD patrol vehicles now carry AR-15s as standard issue, with bullet-resistant Kevlar plating in their doors as well.[32] Also as a result of this incident LAPD authorized its officers to carry .45 ACP caliber semiautomatic pistols as duty sidearms, specifically the Smith and Wesson Models 4506 and 4566. Prior to 1997, only LAPD SWAT officers were authorized to carry .45 ACP caliber pistols, specifically the Model 1911A1 .45 ACP semiautomatic pistol.[33]
My problem with the method you have described is that it gets much harder when the client pushes further after you suggest something else.

"We'd like to just use the free AV"

"Free AV is not a good solution...."

"Yeah...I see...but we'd like to just use the free AV"

"....?"
Medium got Search feature. Some suggestions.
Talking about surveillance reform, increasing transparency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187237
I find it hard to understand why people think that softare 'should' be free. Don't you mean they think that someone else should pay for it?
yeah, this article is horribly biased. it didn't even mention how heavily armed the robbers were in the gallery. i have to assume they were pretty heavily armed because they called in swat.
Man, the distant future is going to be an interesting place.
Docker sounds brilliant, but I haven't had much luck with deploying my (moderately complex) Django apps on it. For example, I want the postgres db data to live outside the container, but volumes can't currently do that with Dockerfiles: they're initialized at "docker build" and then the files are just overwritten when trying to mount an external volume.

Another use case is trying to spin up a development container (where the code resides on the host), but, again, shared volumes overwrite the directory. You can ADD your code initially and then mount the volume when you run it, but it's added hassle.
I am under 25 and I can use a computer.
Why?
Because my parents bought me only my first computer and refused to upgrade after that. At one point my need for playing new games got the best of me and I started experimenting. First OS cleanup, first format, first memory upgrade, etc.

I have never really learned how do deal with computers.
Its just 10+ years of just fixing whatever is broken/not working, because there was no one to fix it for me.

Now I just have to find a job where I can do this problem solving for money
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Very cool! This actually can be very useful for our company to demo apps. I guess audio is not there yet, but still very nice and great URL as well.
I was certain that Bush Jr. was going to go down in history as the worst president in my lifetime. But if Obama doesn't straighten this out soon, it's going to be him. Which is very disappointing, because he showed so much promise before he was elected. But under his watch, whether directly or indirectly, he's created the least free regime of any president ever elected in the US.
In a 2013 poll, people who could name their own Congressman approved of them 2 to 1: http://www.gallup.com/poll/162362/americans-down-congress-ow.... This is basically the most telling poll out of any. The people who can name their Congressman are probably the people who vote regularly, and out of those people, the vast majority support maintaining the status quo.
I really like the mechanic analogy. Why do you think this difference exists?
Trying to take some of your customers with you when you leave is ... often a grey area.

If they genuinely have more faith in you than in your former employer sans you, then it seems much harder to criticise. The problem, I think, is that anybody in that situation rationalises their point of view to that being true, even if it isn't.

I don't have a good answer here, other than "I don't intend to ever end up in a situation where I have to make a personal choice about it, because generally I don't consider even grey areas worth while."
No worries, no offence taken at all. I welcome all constructive criticism, more so than positive feedback so thanks!

I know it was a tangent from the initial impression readers got from the title but it served as an analogy that people can blindly misuse beliefs just like they can blindly misuse tools. I am not a fan of name dropping and in that given example I admit I could have avoided mentioning Stallman looking back at the post and generalized it to free software advocates who try force their beliefs on others. Also want to add that I do not think all free software advocates force their beliefs on other developers.

Criticism appreciated, like I said, no offence taken, I did not think you were attacking me.
The difference here is that we're willing to pay those vehicular technicians a realistic amount of money for their expertise, and nobody expects a mechanic to fix your car for for free, even if it'll "only take a second".

I also have a healthy respect for their skills, and if my car breaks down, I'd be embarrassed about my ignorance and inability to fix or diagnose the problem (and I suspect most people would too).
Meyer has proven that she knows how to spend money. That might actually qualify as progress for Yahoo! Market seems to like it, but that can change quickly.
KDP/Createspace [1] make it really easy to self-publish on Amazon. There really is no reason not to have ebooks at launch these days. Especially if you're self-publishing. There are plenty of apps that help (had to research this personally recently):

[1] https://kdp.amazon.com/

http://www.booktango.com/

http://www.bookbaby.com/

http://vook.com/

http://pressbooks.com/
I'd pick up a pair at that price.
In the cases I've seen state first hand, state law regarding NFA items usually just provides a blanket exemption for legal ownership so long as the item was procured in compliance with NFA procedures.

In those states, so long as the NFA branch issues the stamp and you are (federally) legally allowed to possess the item under the NFA, it doesn't matter whether you or a trust owns it.

Of course, the trust must be valid under the trust law of the state you reside in or else it cannot legally own the items, but competent trust attorneys are not too hard to find.
I suppose we have different perspectives on what the general public is capable of.

Who's talking about capability? I'm sure the vast majority of people are capable of it. Likewise, I'm sure you're capable of performing lots of the services you pay for. Nevertheless, we all decide differently which things we want to do ourselves and which things we like specialists to do for us.
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Hi Kevin, Thank you for your feedback. The '^' was meant to reveal a translation feature that I was working on, but I suppose 'Open All' would be a more worthwhile feature to implement. The markdown on HN makes it a little tricky to render comments (with their nesting), but glad you mentioned it [1]. Anyone second that feature request?

[1] Wasn't sure of how many people read comments before the article, or read them at all - I stopped when I found that it gave me a biased read, especially on the Show HN type posts.
I had some good laughs reading this article, and I agree with almost everything the author wrote.

I then came here to read the comments and it's just everybody complaining and nitpicking about every single comma in the article. GOD, this is getting tiring.
While I do kind of agree with parts of the article, the author proposes some seriously nonsensical "solutions".

Especially this gem:

"""
Mobile
[...]
I use Ubuntu-Touch, and it has possibilities. [...] Okay, so I can’t use 3G, it crashes when I try to make phone calls and the device runs so hot that when in my jacket pocket it seconds as an excellent nipple-warmer, but I can see the potential.
"""

To learn more about "mobile" the author proposes using a something that's not functional ... yeah, that makes sense.
a) I used the words "genetic predisposition" in my reply; b) just because you are genetically predisposed to having breast cancer doesn't mean you have or will have breast cancer.
So yesterday I thought 3d printers were just for making blocks of shaped plastic. How has this suddenly moved on to making biological parts?
I love hacker News and wouldn't consider posting this unless I were certain that it applied. My friends and I are working on a game that will teach players (mainly kids) how to code. We have done workshops in NYC, Philly and Sheffield, England. I'd love for you guys to take a look at it and give feedback, we think we're making something pretty cool. www.betathegame.com
But you did understand the problem and given enough time you would have figured it out.
Government highly regulates and practically prohibits the dollar here in Argentina. As a consequence, black market dollar is the only available and it's obviously more expensive. Huge inflation of 25% or more makes the black-market dollar even more attractive.
Today the dollar exchange here is 5.50 ar$, and black-market dollar is 8.7 ar$.

There are several ways to circumvent the prohibition, for example using credit cards. But the clever government implements all kind of crazy pseudo-taxes on dollar purchases to close the loophole.
Bitcoin is another example of such loopholes, but very expensive and illiquid at the moment.
By the way, the same situation happens in Venezuela but the grip is harder and has been happening for far longer, official dollar is 6.3 Bs. while black-market "lechuga" dollar is a whopping 34 Bs., so bitcoin exchange should be even more attractive there.
Are you people stupid? This is PR! It's so transparent.
Snowden revelations force Obama's hand on surveillance program
I voted for him too. Disappointed doesn't cover it. I know his speeches were rehearsed and all politicians just want that golden seat at the top, but i honestly thought he would follow through with a few more promises. I was actually shocked that he chose to openly back the NSA. I unvoted for him in my head that day.