skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is really a stretched out version of a single piece of information: all we know is that somebody might be creating a 3D printed gun. How surprising !

Citing a "police raid" and making links to gangs is just a dramatization that doesn't bring anything. Where's the evidence that there is a link to a criminal activity instead of just being a hacker who's curious and got busted because he order the wrong set of components from Amazon ?
Reflection in OCaml
"Google self-driving cars have caused accidents" - can you elaborate on that? I have only seen news reports a single minor (rear-end) accident, not plural.

But that was some time ago - were there other accidents, they've probably driven much more miles now?

And regarding speed-limits - I think that it's a great thing; speed limits need to be set to an honest number where I cannot get ticketed, ever, for simply driving at the appropriate speed, but apparantly the only thing that can force the bureaucrats to update those limits will be an army of robots that actually try to obey the law.
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When articles like this pops out, it means that soon 3D printers will get regulated to oblivion.

UK is crazy, even pocketknife or pepper spray is forbidden. And this country has one of highest violent crime rates in Europe.
The big difference is Facebook pages are public, or at least semi-public.

If you go through the e-mail account or texts of a spouse or close friend, you're engaging in a massive breach of trust, and better expect to have them break up with your or refuse to deal with you going forward.

Likewise, the US will now have to face the expectation that US diplomats can not be trusted with any kind of information, including phone numbers that may previously have been considered "safe" to give to allies.

Especially since the document made clear that the NSA did not know all the numbers, hinting that cycling numbers and keeping numbers from US diplomats may still be a viable strategy to reduce the odds of having your calls monitored.

If I was in a position of power now, the first thing I'd do is demand that all senior government officials change numbers, and allocate a wide range of different numbers per person, and allocate one set for the exclusive use for giving to US diplomats and communication that I want the US to pick up, and cycle other numbers frequently and compartmentalise their usage more, since it is clear that the US can not be trusted.
In the 1970s it was well known that the CIA worked to pave the way for American business interests overseas, through everything from espionage to blackmail, murder and military interventions.

I don't think this is the way countries should conduct themselves, particularly not ones which trumpet their freedom and liberty. Either the US can employ cynical realpolitik while making hypocritical statements about fighting for civilisation and freedom and live with the consequences, or it can aspire to live up to the ideals it claims to stand for. There's only so much hypocrisy you can employ as an empire before the hollow nature of your statements undermines your authority with allies and citizens alike, and exposure like this is inevitable when the lie becomes big enough.

but God knows what all the domestic spying is used for

I imagine for exactly the same ends, minus the military aspect, which is reserved for overseas at present (though also employed on US citizens abroad). If a politician wants to dismantle the extremely useful and effective spy apparatus, they are likely to find it turned against them first.
I already seen Segways routes in Düsseldorf, London, Athens, Nice, Frankfurt Airport.
I'll start with this. Fuck the past. You can have whatever life you want, now. I've known people who quickly turned their life around. When only a few weeks prior they were broke.

I think you have to change your mindset. If you think your life is terrible it's going to be terrible. Take things one small step at a time. As humans we're impatient and what to see immediate results. But that never works. It's more important to make consistent progress over time.
Charles Stross's 'Rule 34' features a dark near-future setting with organised criminals operating illegal, unlocked 3D printers that are used to print guns and child sized sex dolls. An interesting read for sure.

I assume the authorities will lock down 3D printers before they get good enough to print functioning weapons. If you've got an IPrinter that only builds licensed IObjects from the official IStore, this problem goes away for authorities, and all we lose is our computing freedom.
I get this:

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You have requested a site that is currently offline. This generally happens when a site is temporarily disabled for some reason, but has not been permanently removed...
Virtual behavior modification and prediction. Inducing an entire culture to gradually change how it behaves, and its beliefs, through a mixture of opportunism on real events, simulated events, and trial balloons.

Some of that isn't new, but the ability to use vast computing resources to map behavior prediction of 300 million people to an accurate degree, is.

They no longer need your friends, family and neighbors to rat you out as a traitor (terrorist sympathizer?). They already know everything you have said, everywhere you have been, and everything you've done.

ARGUS is very new. And it's a required cornerstone of behavior control. They'll have a hard time dictating who you are, if they don't know where you are at all times.

The ideal fascist state is one of total compliance. A step forward for them would be to accomplish that with even less bloodshed, by essentially brain washing an entire culture toward a new way of thinking (war is peace, slavery is freedom). Not just empty slogans, posters, and fear, but actual belief across an entire culture.

When you look at the near complete lack of protest against the rise of the fascist state in America, you can see they're already well on their way to having accomplished that.
I have a question that is possibly very simply answered: How do multiple LIDAR systems interact when they are in a very close vicinity? Say bumper to bumper traffic in NYC at rush hour?
Visual Bug Tracking Improves Your Dev Process
I'm seriously skeptical of this protocol performance. Ethernet and TCP/IP induce a pretty heavy overhead. This overhead is totally acceptable in LAN/WAN networks, but in case of storage network you want to keep latencies as low as possible.
The raids were part of an operation cracking down on gangs - the parts were found during that raid. It was not that the police raided somewhere because they suspected there were printed gun parts there.
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> UK is crazy, even pocketknife or pepper spray is forbidden. And this country has one of highest violent crime rates in Europe.

Umm, that entire sentence is total bullshit. UK has no way near the highest violent crime rates in Europe. Look it up. Plus pepper sprays and pocket knives are common place. You can buy them anywhere.
I really can't believe that there are so many comments that try to trivialize the actions.

It seems that the United States loses the reality and lapses in an egocentric / ethnocentric disease.

How would the U.S. react if they found out such a thing the other way around?
The military industrial complex is the biggest pile of assignable loot in world history.

$5+ trillion over the last decade alone. Far more if you count everything connected to it.

They knew the wars couldn't go on perpetually forever, and they'll be damned if they're going to give up all that money. One way to dictate that is through control of the political process.
> The person who posted that comment is behind the times re audio on Android.

No, that person has real life experience what means to develop for Android while targeting the majority of devices available to consumers.

All your answers so far were very good and I appreciate the time you took to answer them.

However, those of us that target all three major mobile OS across multiple OEMs, have a different experience of what Android's performance on real devices looks like.

And to conclude this thread, Google agrees with us, otherwise they wouldn't have spent $23 Million buying FlexyCore if Android's performance on real devices was so good as you have been defending.
If we're just discussing your definition of fantastic who cares really?

They lowered prices by $200-300, made them faster, more battery life, basically all you can do to improve a product, along with making a bunch of software free, that's several hundred more dollars there too.

I mean the Retina MacBook has no competitors. They don't need to lower prices.

Adding to that, a good quality laptop is honestly the same price or higher at other companies.

I guess Apple is nickel and diming their customers, though. That definitely follows...
Cheap thermal paste is under heat sink, I would have to crack open CPU with razor blade. And even after this operation 2600K is better.
> So if you know the position at which the string you're interested in appears, you can just 'compress' by giving the location in the binary expansion of pi at which your message appears, and the length of your message in bits.

It's a bit tongue in cheek, but this is exactly what piFS[1] does.

[1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs
I'm able to put things right with the content, but unfortunately not much else on the site
BIOS is still there, right?
just imagine a world where you can't drive your (super)car anymore on the common roads. because once that takes off, we know where is going to go: safe and controlled traffic, special highways, no human touch of the wheel, etc.
therefore the question is, is that really what we want?
How were you monitoring communications?

Is it possible for me to monitor any communication that is going at BIOS level?
> Meanwhile, anyone can create a (subpar) .22 machine gun in their garage.

Really? This is your argument? That's like saying anyone can construct a nuke in their basement so all explosives regulations are silly.
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My favorite investment is in something that has no monetary value. But it is priceless! I have it in a Bank Direct account that gives airline miles monthly. I get almost no interest.

It forces me to think hard about traveling, however. I can fly free for life. Since I'm not going to waste free flights, I take several international trips a year. Sometimes I work. Sometimes I don't. It allows me reset and really observe life.
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There may be a big amount of variables playing here that we might no be taking in consideration so I wouldn't say that.

Even if that's the case, I think sometimes this is what needs to happen that makes you realize the change/s that has to be done to be better. (be more transparent, fire some managers or key people, etc.)
>Plus pepper sprays and pocket knives are common place

Pepper spray is illegal in the UK.

Pocket knives with folding, non-locking blades under 3 inches are legal to carry around. Larger blades are legal to carry around if you've got a good reason to have them and aren't doing anything the Police consider dodgy (UK knife law is quite complex).
iWork and Pages 5 are huge regressions for those people who used all the features, and that's unfortunate for them. But for most people they will be upgrades. Most people want/need simpler word processing and office applications, and that's what Apple has given them.

Essentially Apple has started from a clean slate. They have unified the Mac and iOS version. Now they'll be able to add features all over again with subsequent versions.

This is similar to what they did with iMovie '08, FCPX etc etc.
This is effective but unfortunately there is already malware that plants itself inside the database. If you are able to execute code remotely you can also almost always write to /tmp
> Citing a "police raid" and making links to gangs is just a dramatization that doesn't bring anything.

The article notes that the parts were seized as a part of the Greater Manchester Police's "Operation Challenger", which targeted "drug dealers, loan sharks, rogue landlords and counterfeit good suppliers." [1] It is likely that the owner of these parts is was not targeted for creating guns on their 3D printers, but for other reasons.

> Where's the evidence that there is a link to a criminal activity instead of just being a hacker who's curious and got busted because he order the wrong set of components from Amazon ?

I think it is extremely doubtful that they just happened to buy plastic components that could be used as a trigger and magazine from Amazon while simultaneously owning a 3D printer (that could be used to construct said components).

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-24660056
"One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war." Kurt Vonnegut
Totally agree with this one here. Life is fucking short. Yeah, it's fun to work on a startup. But you should enjoy life at the same time.
Pierre (post author) is an interesting guy, and has been through some seriously tough stuff (brain surgery), but I just can't read his posts any more - he never has anything positive to say! BTW get well soon PI should you see this.
Unexpected HN traffic is likely to have used all the site owners pre-paid credit.

Edit: To clarify, NearlyFreeSpeech hosting is prepaid.
Do you have pointers on flashing the bios.

Had tried that TDSSKiller earlier.
I guess that's what I get for living in the city...
Actually qBittorrent seems to be a good alternative. Let's see how good it is compared to uTorrent.

I was looking for a simple replacement for uTorrent for a while now. I have been using linux for years now and was surprised how awful it became while I was off windows.
Their spoken words have very little value. They're willing to directly lie about all aspects of this and have demonstrated that repeatedly.

They initially - and to varying degrees still - claim they did not and do not spy on Americans.

I don't think you have to worry about tells. Given what we already know they did, assume they've done much worse. It's a very safe bet. Assume they're monitoring every single thing they can get their hands on when it comes to international leaders.
Unless the author wanted to imply that Seagate should seek to eradicate any other kind of harddisk interface with zealot-like madness, he shouldn't have used that phrase. Really, the first second I opened the website I noticed this poor choice of words. And yes, I am German.
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Pepper sprays aren't - they're illegal under Section 5 of the Firearms Act (no - they aren't treated as being firearms).

Pocket knife legislation is a bit off after a court decision regarding the length of blades. Under 3 inches and folding and you're fine - so Swiss Army knives are OK. Other knives require lawful authority or reasonable excuse - so workmen are fine, someone carrying a knife "for protection" is not, and rightly so.

The UK does have a serious problem with knife crime, and a serious problem with young people carrying them for protection.
AppleCare still sells well without a legal obligation. People tend to be risk averse, and prefer to pay a little bit now to avoid paying a lot later.
Nigel Warren Writes:

"The fact that iWork on the Mac has lost functionality isn’t because Apple is blind to power users. It’s because they’re willing to make a short-term sacrifice in functionality so that they can create a foundation that is equal across the Mac, iOS, and web versions. It will take time to bring these new versions of iWork up to parity with what the Mac used to have. In the meantime all platforms have to live with the lowest common denominator."

http://rarebitstudio.com/blog/2013/10/whither-iwork

Meaning that Apple had to reduce features to the minimum available on all three platforms and could not support additional features outside of this scope.

However, for some of the removed features, this clearly doesn't make sense:

- Keyboard Shortcuts for text styles. What's the issue with storing shortcuts in the file format that only work on the Mac Version. It's not like they have any influence on the 'looks' of the file

- Selecting non-contiguous text

- Outline View

- Customizable Toolbar

- Reorganize pages by dragging

- Select all instances of style

All these features have no influence of the actual display of the file in question, but only allow for faster editing within the app. Offering any of these features on the Mac version would not influence the usability or display of the data in the iOS or web version. The only actual reason I can think of to omit these features is that they simply had no more time to work on it and had to release in the current state.
Ask HN: Any Cengage authors here (chapter 11 question)
I just found out Cengage has filled for Chapter 11 (I moved just before this happened and the mail went to the old house).

I'm not in the US and I don't think they own me more than a couple hundred bucks on royalties so I'm not too concern about it, but would like to know if I have any chance of getting the book rights so I can publish the book for free online.

Any other authors that may know more than I do care to shed a light?
Just because anyone could doesn't mean that is how criminals operate - your average firearm toting gangster in the UK is not technologically smart.
There was a major case a few years back when an armourer got busted for reactivating firearms bought from mainland Europe. He was producing fully automatic Mac-10s and selling them for a few hundred pounds. Unsurprisingly he received life in prison as they had been used in several murders.

The UK, despite strict laws on firearm ownership, already has a problem whereby organised crime can acquire firearms - 3D printing is not going to be that much of a game changer.
That's just great! Many thanks for the info.
Of course it would be in Manchester wouldn't it... I promise it wasn't me.
When you hear that an entrepreneur should not be afraid of failure, I think you are misunderstanding it. It doesn't mean that failure is unlikely, it means that failure is not a big deal.

Corollary: whatever bold move you want to try, make sure that failing is not going to be a problem, especially a financial one. Note that in this context it is assumed that embarrassing yourself is most definitely not a big deal, which is way easier to say than to act upon.

In the story linked, what was the worst thing that could happen to this lady? The CEO taking the remark the wrong way and being pissed? Or laughing at her, maybe? Who cares?

You quit your job and start a company? Depending on the kind of company, your chance of success will vary considerably. After you failed, you just get a new job/go back to your previous job and that's it. You lost a couple months of incomes, some savings, and you can laugh at your epic failure with your friends.

The dirty secret is that your friends will probably love you more after you failed, because truth being told, they are unlikely to want you to be more successful than themselves...
Some discussion from earlier today here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6606423
Wait... I hope that wasn't my dealer :(
That's interesting. The word 'Sonderkommando' has no negative connotation at all in German. Is it something specific to how the British look at WW2? Or is it just the usually outrage between parties?
If people have 6A and you use a large amount more power. For an application like a hard drive the power consumption of the ethernet connection would be more than the rest of the system probably.
When this happens I like to play a little game. If I think the company has loads of money (Apple, Shell), I click the sponsored link and help fill the coffers at Google. Otherwise, I click the search result and save the poor struggling company some cents.
The idea itself is not that compelling that I would install it even if it fulfilled all the criteria of security.
This will be a hit if it comes to fruition.

A hassle-free hacker-friendly alternative to GMail. Simple freemium model, no ads, and complete privacy. Even use your own domain.

https://assemblymade.com/amail
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Neither Dishonered or Saints Row IV are particularly intensive games. I get in excess of 100FPS in both and my cards (GTX 670s SLI) barely hut 30-35% usage…

I don't doubt the OPs rig is powerful enough to play modern games, but I seriously question the "any modern game at highest settings" statement.

FWIW, I built a rig a great rig in 2010 which I still use from time to time. i7 920, 12GB DDR3, SSD, SLI GTX 460 2GB.
I'm surprised it's legal. Didn't Amazon have to backtrack on something like this?
UK Police find first 3d gun printing factory
Alliances are not formed on a specific issue, which is also why they're not broken on intangible issues. This is theatre by Merkel because it plays well with her public. I don't imagine US diplomats are losing any sleep over this.
As noted in the comments on The Verge's article[1], these parts actually seem to be replacement MakerBot parts. This feels like nothing but 3D printer scaremongering.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/25/5027282/uk-police-seize-3...
Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development.
No, not anyone can just build a nuke in their basement. The Chinese struggled for years until they liquored Richard Feynman up and he accidentally let an idea slip that led to them getting the bomb.

Anyone that has a garage and tools can easily, and again I want to emphasize easily, construct a makeshift shotgun or machine gun.

Your position is essentially the same one that enables the (never ending) war on drugs. I don't disagree with gun and weapon regulations, but the UK and AU stance is just laughable. Their violent crime per capita has somehow increased as well making the UK the most violent nation:

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/cfi/101-...
I can not stand to not post link to one old (2010-04-01) thedailywtf article about native key-value storage on HDD:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-F...
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I'll admit I know next to nothing about this subject, but aren't the parts of a gun which can be machine printed, also fairly easily manufactured using widely available metal working tools?

Surely the hard parts of manufacturing a gun, would the the ammunition, where you'd need propellant and percussion caps?

So, 3D printers don't really change things much, since they can only make the parts that can already be fairly easily made, and can do nothing about propellant or percussion caps.
I'd say US has a petty good record in the 20th century:

WWI
WWII
Cold War

All won. And for the latter two (I personally think Germany losing WWI was the worst thing that happened to Europe), I am 100% on the side of the US (particular tactics notwithstanding).