skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unintentionally. I'm pretty sure there's not enough mass in a normal handgun slide to slam the round home fast enough for that to work, and like pretty much all handguns of this class, Glock actions lock up before firing. I've certainly never heard of it being used for rounds with the pressure of 9 mm Parabellum. It would also be hard on the gun, and again there's less of a mass budget. And of course the Glock's frame is made out of durable plastic (which is not one of it's problems, although might cause problems upon occasion).

This is my understanding from memory: one reason .40 S&W is so popular is that it's a 10 mm diameter round, so it's easy to "bore out" a 9 mm design and in theory make it work (not an option with 11.5 mm .45 ACP). As I've been told, and this is common in handgun designs, the chamber does not entirely support the brass.

You can get away with this because the brass at the base is thick (at a point it has to be because the curve up into the base can't be supported) and this sort of gun design is generally allowed. Compare to the .38 Super, which is 1,500 PSI higher than 9 mm or .40 S&W, and about 50% more than .45 ACP. M1911's chambered for it have "fully supported chambers", the original John Moses Browning (PBUH) .45 ACP chamber isn't fully supported. Also do a search on glock fully supported barrel or chamber, there are after market ones.

However I gather that Glock cuts, or in the past cut the margin a bit fine for their .40 S&W handguns, which is not a good posture to start from for an out of battery discharge.

And then somehow, without warning or requiring lousy maintenance (or of course reloads, which cause a lot of "kabooms" that are no fault of the gun), some .40 S&Ws blew up in user's hands due to out of battery discharges. Which Glock fixed on the QT. Search Google for more details, I found out about this pretty randomly in the first place. It's consistent with many other reports of Glocks having problems and how the company dealt with them, including the NYC police as I recall.

And of course take this with a big grain of salt, I'm an anti-Glock type, due to the accidental discharge safety problems I identify above (no safety, no external hammer).
I think he's saying that any modern phone has firmware on it that has the keys owned by a third party other than the purchaser of the hardware. Anyone with the keys can potentially be 'thirty for user data', which may include "Peaceful-country-turned-regime's" 's, new owners.
Where I live something like 5 football games a week are available in HD for free.
Awesome for the developer, totally deserving. Alien Blue is pretty unmatched IMO, and I've spent forever looking for anything even close to it for Android. Flow is the closest I've found, but it's not supported any more :( I'd love to see them port Alien Blue, but I don't think the UX would fit very well on Android unfortunately...
Looks like an even more elitist Wikipedia, if that is physically possible.
why not just generic mobile-phone hatred?

they are all privacy intrusive in some way or another.

it's not all Brand Y vs. Brand X.
Do you have an Android phone? If you go to the settings you can look up battery usage. As a general rule of thumb, battery usage is the top consumer of battery capacity. For example, on my GNex I've just checked the battery usage, screen is at 52% (and that's on a very low brightness setting, low enough that I don't bother using it outside).
I'm an iOS developer and I've filed 20 different API bugs with Apple for iOS 8 versus a previous record count of 7 that I filed against iOS 4.

This is anecdotal (I'm just one developer) but forum grumblings seem to confirm that lots of developers are seeing their apps broken by buggy changes in iOS 8.
The linked WHO pdf (at the point in the article mentioning the 19 confirmed cases) states that there were 8 deaths in Nigeria (the other 12 have recovered). One of those is a death that is only listed as a probable Ebola case.

Normally, we have to complain that news articles don't link to their sources!
It has been corrected, and I was mistaken. This article originally said "PLUS" in the first mention, so I thought that was its name, and that the second mention was a typo.

And yeah, if there's better coverage out there, let's have that instead.
It would be more accurate and productive to characterize such a view as "freedom is one of many things to value".

"My kids not using weed" is another thing to value (and not unreasonably), orthogonal to freedom. It's fine to characterize that as something to value, but not as a variant of freedom.

"Satisfying intimacy with my S/O" is also something to value, but also not a species of freedom, and likewise unhelpful to frame as "freedoms from lack of intimacy".
Pot decriminalized, arrest rate falls. Tautology?
I think it is unclear what "... sharing your life anonymously" means. For example, if I told my friend that I'm using this app, and he follows my broadcasts, and he pretty much knows that I'm the only one using this app, won't he be able to deduce that it is me that is broadcasting? (You mention a "broadcast map" as well; well, if I live in Timbuktu, and I'm the only person there, won't my friend know it's me?) Also, in the text accompanying the first screenshot, you say, "... sharing it with the entire world." Saying that doesn't match up with the idea of having "followers." Now, I think I know what you mean, but the two groups ("followers" and "the entire world") don't match, and create a dissonance in my mind that gets me close to just rejecting the whole thing outright.

I'm sure you gained a lot of valuable experience programming-wise. To a programmer, that's something tangible. Not only that, but you persevered and got the app into the App Store.
There are a couple things that could prevent it. Did Alien Blue maybe use In-App Purchase subscriptions for Pro?

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...
I highly recommend Scott Hanselman's essay on the finiteness of the number of keystrokes you have in a lifetime: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DoTheyDeserveTheGiftOfYourKeys.... Draw your own conclusions about putting knowledge inside walled gardens.
Yeah, and that's another thing when the app is new. It's kind of a human nature to quickly write a bad review, than a good one. I'm in touch with the App Store on the removal of that review, because it doesn't accurately represent the app's functionality.

Back to the main point... I do have 186 broadcasts, and each of these broadcast stories have 1 or more pics. I love taking pics, and sharing with the world, and I have uploaded quite a lot of content. I do agree with you that the apps like mine can have chicken-egg issue, but when there are in total 300+ pics to get started, you'd think at least someone would be interested.

The app has anonymous profiles, so it is an anonymous network, where you can follow other users, like their broadcasts, comment, etc.

The purpose of this app is, you take pics (random, nature, selfie, whatever you like) and anonymously share with the world by creating a broadcast story (that can have 1 or more pics). Kind of like Tiiny by Kevin Rose, but in a network.

Yeah, I know what you're saying - if you're anon., how will you tell your friend "Hey, I'm on this by this name, let's share pics."

Thanks for the feedback.
According to Wikipedia, 99.5 isn't a fever.

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

> characterized by an elevation of body temperature above the normal range of 36.5–37.5 °C (97.7–99.5 °F)
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It's a $99 product, vs $400 for the N9 tablet. It's an easy bet that the Atom is cheaper and battery life is not an issue.
I just installed popcorn time, I tried a few tv shows but couldn't find many, or any, peers on many of them and the show wouldn't play well, with lots of buffering, or at all, or it was missing aired episodes in available seasons. No tv show on Netflix does this to be and that's why I pay. While the selection seems better on Popcorn Time, it's really just the most popular shows near the latest episodes that seem to work so the "extra" selection just made it a more frustrating experience.
Even if it has a "built-in mirrored sim" ... doesnt that just make it ummmmmm a phone?
How does one abuse cannabis?
Said gently, but this app isn't interesting. That might be why. This is the hardest thing about software development, building something people want. You have built something people don't want.
Home games are often blacked out on broadcast or cable channels too though.
If this is real, I don't think it's about release timing at all, but the technical complexity of implementing and integrating the specific new features they've chosen.

I don't have a list of specific examples to back up that claim, but I encourage other apple devs here to think about recent releases from that perspective.
"Think of the jobs" is almost as bad as "Think of the kids" as far as excuses for things go.

We see it a lot in the realm of energy production too. LEO or Roughneck can't be the only job these folks could possibly get if there were fewer of those positions.
I find myself using Amazon Instant Videos, Vudu, and Google Play Movies more and more, so, no wonder if I'm not the only one. The DVD service is a friction, I have it, but I have DVDs with me for over 6 months, and no time to watch them and get new ones. Before that, I had a DVD with me for nearly 2 years! Weirdly, Redbox Instant just died, so, this should've helped Netflix by a tiny bit, but still... Why are the movie studios so greedy? People still steal their movies and torrent them, so, I'm missing a lot of movies for which I could've paid a premium, but having kids, and all prevents me from watching them at the premiere, so, I rent them later and they make a lot less from me and many are like me, I'm sure. It's not about the price, it's all about the convenience, and I hope those old crooks get this once and for all. I'm sure if people had an option to watch a new movie without going to the theater, piracy would drop significantly, but I know there are people who'd always pirate even if the movie is $0.99 - people who don't value their time, nerves, and don't mind the risk of getting sued, I guess.
Oil wars are old hat. They were useful for bootstrapping the system, but now that that is done we don't need them anymore. Oil wars are not preferred because they are fairly transparent and therefore give bad approval ratings for politicians.

The new system: Find a war torn area (perhaps one decimated by oil wars), dismantle their army and replace it with a wildly incompetent one. Make an earnest but fruitless attempt to train them (how humanitarian!). Give them American weapons (cha-ching) without actually solving any of the issues that were destabilizing the region. Local strive escalates to war, the incompetent army is crushed and their American weapons are seized. Use American owned and operated weapons (cha-ching) to bomb the seized American weapons back into the stone age (how humanitarian!). Rinse and repeat.

War machine get's their money, and the politicians get to pretend that they are only trying to help others.
HBO to launch standalone streaming service
I don't see how this is "beating Facebook".
> I don't know what happens in a couple years for anyone who wants to see an old movie

Your local library? I've found some have a surprisingly good selection, and library networks probably make most movies available within a few days' wait.
I'm getting an internal server error when I try to buy it... :/
Technology solves unemployment: how to earn Bitcoins by wearing a tee shirt
Coda 2.5 released
If you've nursed a terminal Ebola patient 99.5 may indeed not technically be a fever, but it's something you should pay attention to. Heck, more to the point, she should know her normal temperature range at the various times in the day and if that's a fever for her. In the morning it would be a fever for me, I run a bit cool.

Also note even the professional WelchAllyn units are not 100% accurate, they're rated for 0.2 F plus or minus (I bought one not long ago after my old el-cheapo BD one died and Amazon reviews revealed today's el-cheapo ones are by and large worthless. Heck, 3M even created a new consumer brand, no doubt to avoid brand damage to BD).
Hmm, I can see it on computer but I can't seem to bring it up on my phone.
The big problem is how to fund something that looks, for instance, like #2 here. Academic journals have a certain functionality (create a legitimizing forum for research that gets people jobs, tenure, academic stature, etc) that makes them specifically valuable to academic institutions. Turning them into "curators of the noise of the web" is a neat idea, but who will convince academic institutions to pay for this new model?
hmmh... how about with a VPN?

ESPN's attempt to block World Cup in USA if you didn't have a cable was pretty easily circumvented. And then there's the option of using a buddy's cable login.
Glad I could help you find something you like, I think it's awesome too. :-) I seriously doubt it'll be $960 at launch, even if that's what the data we have now suggests. I have no idea about cases, perhaps you could drop Yota Devices a line... http://yotaphone.com/ru-en/feedback/
Hmm. The people I've talked to so far think this app has a place, it's not "nothing" definitely. But, I think I do need to work on the pitch more. Clarify it to the point that people can associate them or their lives with the app, and realize why they need to use it.

About taking it hard. Believe me, it has been insane the last few weeks. After working so hard, launching this, writing emails and contacting so many people and whatnot, when absolutely nothing happens, it feels bad.. True, no one is obliged to use it, or even look at it, but ya, it felt bad. Nothing much. :) It might look like it, but I didn't take it that bad. I've gone through this type of stuff in this field before, and the thing is - take the rejection, learn from it, move on, and build something even better next time.

I posted this is another reply, but the main purpose of this app is to share your life anonymously. Take a bunch of pics to create a broadcast story, give it a caption, and broadcast. Now anyone with the app can see it. It's like how Secret and Whisper are, but with Broadcast, you are part of an anonymous network. Another huge difference between those apps and Broadcast is that you can take more than a single pic. Why's this of importance? Because many times when you need to share something, you can just snap-snap-snap (or choose) multiple pics easily, and share. This creates a broadcast story, and aligns more with expressing yourself.

Thanks for the feedback. :)
Yah the only issue I ever had with Alien blue is the LONG update interval. Hopefully now bug fixes will come much faster.
That's not so easy. That's the point, right? It's easier to write a specification than an implementation, so it's valuable to check that the implementation satisfies the spec.
Ask HN: (meta) What are the peak hours of HN?
I'd like to get a good poll of Javascript animation libraries people enjoy using, or would recommend. What would the best time of day be to submit the Ask HN post?
That's no longer true. Most end user access to email is over a secure channel (https/imap with tls). While SMTP between most servers uses TLS as well.

The problem is we don't know if the message was sent over secure channels or not. I suppose the password less scheme could refuse to work with SMTP servers that don't encrypt the traffic.
There's a difference between protecting people from themselves and protecting people from each other. There already exist laws restricting where people can smoke in the interest of making it easier for non-smokers to reduce their exposure to second-hand smoke.
You can also view the sidebar by clicking on the blue dot in the top-right corner while browsing the subreddit.
I think the opposite is true. iOS7/8 was a giant transition that was staged over two releases. I suspect the next few years will be much less major reworking and much more tuning up and adding capabilities.
I use Alien Blue on my iPad Mini and it is the best Reddit app for iOS that I've tried. Oddly enough I find the Android Reddit Sync app to be quite a bit better and easier to use. I say oddly enough because it's probably the only category of apps where I've found the Android version to be better than the iOS.
The FBI is involved.
I completely agree with the article an will recommend reading Apple Core Rot: http://macperformanceguide.com/AppleCoreRot-intro.html
I wonder if things would have been better if the Qwikster spinout had happened. At least the Qwikster execs would be allowed to care about their business.
My 2013 N7 still runs like a dream. It was such a better device.
Reddit is following the Twitter path, then. I wonder if they'll end up blocking other third party clients some day.
I have used Quora for many questions and have received extremely useful and valuable answers from people. I once posted a question about how a current was flowing through a particular circuit and I found a couple people who weighed in and helped me understand. I've also asked a specific question about how the dragon docks with the ISS and got an answer from Robert Frost which was really enlightening! I asked how the Hubble is able to take long exposure pictures of galaxies while whirling around the earth at 17,000 mph? I have asked tons of questions on Quora, and generally find value in the answers I receive.

I realize your experience on Quora depends on what your interests are, and the type of questions you ask and search for. This determines the types of people and answers you come across. So everyone has a different experience based on what you do on the site and your interests.

From the questions I've searched for, and the questions I've asked, I've come across really great people who have provided me with helpful information and insights.

There are many questions that arise that searching google doesn't help. For this I need to pose the question to people, not a search box. There are many communities on the internet I can go to pose the question and Quora is a really useful one.

I do wish Quora would change the policy to let anyone benefit from and read the answers.
A new programming framework every 18 months? Is that an exaggeration? Teams are fairly dynamic; e.g. many of the .NET people went over to do Typescript. Then there is something like WPF that hasn't moved much recently (for better or worse).

Also, users really like the fact that there will be a new version of C# with more features (async, pattern matching, etc...) with some continuity.
Why use Quora when you have StackExchange?

Quora died the day they put the pay wall up. Also you can't post anonymously. It's fail after fail with me, it's unfortunate because I enjoyed the beta version of the site way back when.
True. Though hopefully Reddit will avoid making changes that break Alien Blue now that it's the official app, which should cut down on the bugs.
Thanks for sharing, I need to dive into that deeper when I have some relaxation time!

It's funny that you mention that because the mathematics used to describe the dynamics of artificial neural networks are the same mathematics used to describe (artificial) gene networks. In effect, a gene network is the 'brain' of the cell. In fact, it was such an effective system that life re-evolved this computational architecture with a different substrate: neurons. Functionalism at its finest! Insofar as cells communicate with one another and are composed of the exact same gene networks (albeit in different states), you basically have one giant meta neural network comprised of identical 'tiles' neural networks each 'tile' connected to their nearest neighbors.
"Top physicists?" Fusion is an engineering problem.
The thing to check here is what plasma temperature/densities they have achieved with their new confinement scheme. They've basically said the results are preliminary, and some of the results are from simulation (which should not be trusted; aka look at how well the NIF simulations worked). This is not particularly interesting.

Shielding was mentioned, though not enough, but it's fairly trivial: if you add enough matter with a high neutron cross section (paraffin for example), and build the mechanical components out of things with a low cross section (iron, I think) it's not a problem. Plasma is the problem.

It's interesting, but "10 years off" is not much better than the standard "20 years off" promises of fusion research. As others have pointed out, controlled fusion has been 20 years in the future since 1950 or so. "1 year off" would be a lot more noteworthy. As it stands, this is just Lockheed informing us they have a controlled fusion program. Anyway, "nice press release, dudes."
I'm aware that Nexus devices have lacked SD card slots seemingly as a matter of policy, but I still don't understand the logic of it for a tablet this powerful. You can buy micro SD cards with mind boggling capacity now. All the other specs are state of the art. And then you are limited to 32GB.
Win10 includes a terminal that has text selection and line wrapping?

This changes everything!
And being able to resize the console window...
It's strange that TrueSec (which is credited with this find) would not have any information about this exploit on their News[1], Blogs[2], or Facebook[3] pages. However, the video[4] posted yesterday seems to be uploaded from an account associated with them.

Speaking of the video: as Johan Ylinenjarvi points out in the YouTube comments, the same effect could be achieved with a simple bash script like:

echo <your_password> | sudo -S id﻿

Clearly, more information about the exploit is needed.

[1] http://www.truesec.com/News
[2] http://www.truesec.com/Blogs
[3] https://www.facebook.com/TrueSec.Inc
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQg2I_pFDk
Apple and Google have every incentive to keep you on their native platform as opposed to hybrid apps.

They would prefer you get frustrated trying to bridge the gap and work within their walled garden instead.
Well, here in Brazil they are dangerous criminals and very, very violent, and no, they won't turn into upstanding citizens if the money from drugs dries up. They'll turn into other forms of cime, probably just as violent. However, in the long term they won't be making as much money as now, so they won't have the crazy arsenal they have today (military grade stuff, like rocket launchers, grenades, etc). I find it ridiculous that we keep it illegal, which drives the price way up, which fuels the gangs pockets, so they become heavily armed, and in turn so does the police, and the result is that not a week goes by in some cities where an innocent isn't hit by a stray bullet.
In the end, I'd rather have someone die of an overdose because they chose to and ended up (unfortunately) in that situation than to have the whole city hostage to this unwinnable war, and to have people die just because they happen to live in a bad neighborhood.
A proposal for named arguments for C++
Did you find a solution? I also have the same problem.
Facebook has yet to release their promised, but long overdue (about 3 months) linux SDK. So about 10 days ago, a group of developers felt compelled to reverse engineer and come up with their own FLOSS version.

Meanwhile, facebooculus is still claiming they will release "soon", and claim to have multiple dedicated developers on it. They have been saying this for weeks. It would be embarrassing, but huge with if a small group of unpaid enthusiast/researchers/hackers beat the facebook team by releasing a working linux (and open source) version.
I wouldn't be surprised if coal use is a net loss to the economy (i.e. the value of the energy generated by coal is less than the environmental cost of coal use)

That doesn't make any sense. Net loss to the economy? If you were to say a net loss overall, including environmental costs, I might agree.