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> Seems like the best plan is to give weapons to those most responsible, rather than only those who would use them for bad.

That's the old Charlton Heston argument. There are "good" people and "bad" people. How likely is it that a teacher is going to flip and kill Andy, 16, next time he shoots his mouth off?

> It's not like all guns are just going to disappear into thin air.

The UK essentially legislated away private gun ownership years ago. But of course, it's a society choice. I'd rather live in a society where my kid can go to school safely, with no guns on the premises.
Anyone know why apparently so many things work on mice but not people? Apart from "cause mice aren't people" of course.
Almost 2 years ago, I had three major things going on in my life. I was working at another startup in San Francisco, finishing my Computer Science degree from SJSU, and being a boyfriend of a 4 year relationship with my then girlfriend. At the time, I was really worried about doing well in my career as well as making sure I don't fail my courses otherwise I would be held back and be even more miserable. I had to commute between San Jose and San Francisco every other day. I put much of my time into the startup, and naturally that took away my time from other things. In hindsight and after reading this blog post, I realised how much I overlooked and have developed further understanding on how things played out. But yeah, great blog post, it is important to learn to identify what is happening and realise the gradual damages taking place before its broken.
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Oh wow, my crush on Joyent just increased by two orders of magnitude. First, now (finally!) being open, manta is a viable alternative, and second, landing on MPL v2.0 seems like a very nice and pragmatic choice.

I highly recommend checking out the linked talk on Open Source anti-patterns for those, that like me, haven't seen it. I do think Bryan is a little quick on dismissing the GPL/CDDL problem (implying that RedHat didn't want dtrace) -- but I do see how the CDDL could evolve as unfortunately GPL incompatible, rather than intentionally so (he goes into this a little in the USENIX talk on OpenSolaris/Illumous).

Exciting times.
This seems to be research related to Type I diabetes, which means it's only potentially a cure for one variant of the disease, and it's also not totally clear how it differs from previous research:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00626359#page-1

Nonetheless, it does seem that there have been a number of encouraging research finds around Type I diabetes in recent months (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/10/giant-leap-aga...).

In general, always take media coverage of scientific finds with a grain of salt, and maybe two grains for local news coverage.
I'm reading this while sitting in a restaurant in Nepal. My wife and I are here for around three weeks for hiking to Everest Base Camp. After this, we are headed to China for 11 days. In total, I'm going to be out from work for 5 weeks. Almost three years ago we quit our jobs, sold our house and travelled for 9 months through South America, Antarctica, and Europe.

I work at a startup. I'm the product manager and we are rebuilding the product from the ground up, in December we will have been working on the rebuild for a full year and our first beta customers will be starting on the new platform. The five weeks immediately previous to that, I'm out of the office for an extended period.

This is to say, you have to make the time for yourself. We both work hard, both of our new jobs (which are way better than our pre big trip jobs btw) allowed us to take this five weeks without much hassle. The team will survive and I'll come back refreshed and ready to tackle new problems.

Perhaps some think our startup will fail because someone took time off for this long, I'll tell you that I sure don't.
I love the true engineers' launch, with no logo (twitter account is just the egg).
We're not using Dart commercially currently; though we are prototyping in it as a candidate for vNext of some very large applications. To me, it seems incredibly promising. Every time I have to go back and write JS in our production apps; I seriously miss the static analysis Dart does; it's so clunky to find trivial errors at runtime in a browser that the editor should've been able to show you!

However; there are some frustrating holes in it though that have made our prototyping tricky; such as:

Serialisation; not even JSON support. Alan Knight is working on a Serialisation library; but even that is frustrating to use (it doesn't support DateTimes at all well for ex), so I'm generating having to generate serialisation code from C#.

No private pub server. If you want to host Dart packages internal to your company locally; you're out of luck. Although the source for pub.dartlang.org is open; it's written to only work on AppEngine; which kinda sucks.

We're also slightly nervous that the Dart VM still isn't in Chrome. I don't know what's taking so long, but this would seriously help convince others that Google is really invested in Dart.
One presumably talks about the production environment, the other about staging environment.
If you watch the keynote video about AtScript you'll see that they describe AtScript as a superset of TypeScript 2. They add features they think are missing but are trying to keep the syntax wherever possible (actually they hope that much of TypeScript will be in a future EcmaScript standard and then they will follow that syntax).
General posession of fire arms is illegal in Afghanistan. Do you know otherwise? I know Mexico and Guatemala I think have a right to bear arms in their Constitution.

Also, can't think it would have been legal during the Soviet occupation. Presumalby we should then ban the guns here as well if we are to follow the model then?

Or, if we don't then I want an ammendment to let me have Stinger missles. Pretty sure just semmiautmatics and pistols wasn't quite enough to shoot down military helicopters and blow up whole convoys between mountain passes.
As a pre k teacher, i agree whole heartedly with you.

(For the record we definatly dont do that, but im also in japan haha. )
I would love to see this happen; but I'm just not convinced it will. I just don't see MS/FF ever choosing to build/maintain a Dart VM for their browsers (even though I think it would be a massive step forward for web dev).

(Google should've spec'd a generic VM together with MS+Mozilla and built Dart on top of it; but that ship has sailed!)
Read this again, then you'll see what I ment:

"It could be an update check, or it could be the transmission of a new voice fingerprint."
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This page gives a good summary as to why mice are used in research:

http://research.jax.org/mousegenetics/advantages/advantages-...

Humans have far more variation in environment, they think relatively independently (making sticking to a prescribed regimen less likely), and they are far more complex organisms in general.
Where does your daughter attend schooling? I live on the West Coast and I've had "lockdown" drills all my life. They aren't specifically for the situation of "a psycho killer is in the hallways" - they are usually enacted when a threat appears nearby the school. A loose dog wandering the campus, nearby robbery of a store, etc. The point of these exercises is not to increase a child's likelihood of survival in various dangerous situations, but instead to ensure that if a threat were to appear the staff will be able to handle it appropriately and keep the kids in a calm, docile state.
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Because building a custom kernel is like building a custom implementation of a language and a runtime.

Even though you can easily implement custom HTTP server you cannot easily implement full custom Go runtime.
Cobol 2014, perhaps the definitive final version of the language…
See also comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567620
I recently heard someone (Gilad?) say that it's still not "a done deal", but they're confident it will be agreed. Can't come soon enough for me; will make convincing others that Dart is here to stay much easier.
> Something is very wrong with how web developers think about threat models

Yes.

We have pretty much the same problem with the web, as we had with macro-viruses an office suites -- because we're solving the same problems in the same way, without learning from past mistakes. It might actually be worse, because if you tell people you don't run macros in untrusted office documents, most people will applaud you for being wise -- while if you say you use noscript people will dismiss you as a paranoid Luddite.

Runable code created by random people, from random sources, in one address space with access to all your user data -- what could go wrong?
This seems like a very strong argument against any kind of transhumanist rhetoric, and that no matter how much our understanding of the universe and manipulation of the physical word progress, the very concept of being human is forever tied to our physical body.

I would replace "physical body" with physics here, and from that draw the opposite conclusion. The fact that we are purely physical/electrical/chemical in our existence suggests that some other physical/electrical/chemical system could reproduce our existence if it behaved in the same way.
I'm finding questions on current salary, age, marital status, kids and details on your commute all pretty common now in the UK.

EDIT: What's worse is if you even imply it's not a relevant question, they get offended and then all friendly and pretending they're just making conversation and not making a hiring decision based on your answer...
No, these things are definitely not taught enough. For example, ask grade schoolers what the signs of a stroke are, and what to do if you see someone exhibiting those signs. What percent can answer? Google says strokes kill 130,000 Americans every year. So, I'm thinking... what's the "Expected ROI" of 15 minutes per year on stroke education? Somewhere between 10,000x and infinitely more than the Expected ROI of this drill. But that's just one random example, I think you would be hard pressed to find literally any use of 15 minutes of classroom time with a lower ROI than this drill.

To me, it reflects so poorly on the judgement of the school administrators that it should make people seriously question what's going on. Every school does fire drills, probably because there's some regulation requiring it, and the mental framework for the drill is that there's an accidental fire in the building. This is an entirely different league. This is a "terrorist loose in the hallways" training exercise for 5 year olds. I'm mad enough it happened to someone else's kids.

Just to give some context, my daughter's JK teacher brought her horse to school for show-and-tell, she gives my daughter riding lessons (and yes there's a lot of trust involved letting someone help your 5 year old ride a horse), she had my daughter over for dinner one night when we had to take my son to the ER. It's a parent-participation school so regularly I spend time in the classroom. I could not imagine a more nurturing, peaceful, and loving environment. The juxtaposition of that with this terror drill is hard for me to reconcile.

I totally agree this is a combination of fear and horrible policy-making by administrators. I in no way hold the teachers responsible/accountable for this.
I love Angular for how it allows to seprate concerns cleanly. You view logic goes to templates and directives. Your data/bisness logic goes to controllers. When developer writes controller he thinks in terms of data he works with. When developer writes view he thinks in temrs of how to represent data available to him from scope.

I hate how in Backbone or just jQuery way you have mess of html, javascript and data manipulation in same class... Reminds of how messy frameworkless PHP looks...

Now looking at some React examples I see jsx files that do same mess... Model manipulation, some logic and html code in same file... WTF? How is that good?
May be someone can point me to a good example app of using React with good speration of concerns? Classical TODO MVC looks horrible...
https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/re...
"Lectures"/"Talk" these do not compute in the real world.

If you know your field then you do not need this.

If you don't it won't make you succeed.

You need a capital, & that's the bottom line!

Without any kind of money which is time you simply can not do a startup.

Now, why people give up money to others? That's the real question.

I confidently can say at least 80% of the time it has nothing to do with the venture itself!

Connections, how you look/sound etc.

If you watch Shark tank you can see this clearly where Sharks bend the "rules" when they like someone.

Money is never an issue for them here, it's why would I give this person my money.

People tend to revert to these things because no one knows the future & unfortunately instead of making decisions rationally they end up going to the other end which is almost like consulting an oracle.

I am doing a Startup & have launched a fundraiser www.9mim.com & will share the process

Please check it out & give me your honest feedback to me this is more important than the $ itself as I'll do it regardless but with the $ it'll happen faster & have a better chance of succeeding.

Please do your feedback here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567801
If you truly have "no room for error" (i.e. you are shipping code to a hundred-billion-dollar space vehicle), you might have:

- Very strict coding guidelines

- Rigorous code review

- An extremely thorough test suite

- Multi-stage approval through a QA process involving many pairs of eyes and thorough, formally defined and scientifically rigorous test procedures

- Static analysis and possibly even algorithms proved correct in Coq

Simply playing with it in staging for a while and determining that everything looks good is NOT the kind of testing that you do when there's "no room for error."
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Yes beta cells killed by the immune system is Type I.
Doesn't work with HTTP Switchboard enabled on Chrome either. None of the links on the site do, which makes it a one-page site... ;)
> The name of this test server is Leeroy, who does all this with the help of Jenkins.
Presumably this makes the API uniform: Ask gppagent for sign/encrypt -- and the agent can delegate to smart card, or do everything itself?
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It's a good one Sir.. Good for all beginners.
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I am sorry, I have no clue about Afghani law. I just gave an example of militia, armed basically with rifles and improvised weapons, successfully defending against not one but two modern military forces.

Also, from the history of recent internal conflicts (e.g Ukraine) a militia fighting its own government can obtain and use tanks and artillery quite easily as there are plenty of people on the both sides who are trained to use such equipment.
I am not a quantum physicist by training, trade, or hobby, but I did do some level of dabbling in information theory some time back.

This appears to be than a restating of aspects of information theory, with extensions to quantum information. Is that something heretofore lacking?
Yes, absolutely. I haven't personally been present during these drills but my wife has. No children were crammed in a closet. No teacher made the "mental shift, if only for a moment, from the routine to a pure, clear terror." I believe the context presented to the JK and K classes was that of taking attendance, but my wife is sleeping and if I wake her "because I need to comment on HN" I think I'll get in trouble. :-)

Drilling for fire alarms or an earthquake are entirely different in my mind than drilling for a terrorist roaming the halls. That's why I think it's toxic, because it's spreading fear, and to an extent it's conditioning children to expect such a thing.

Fire drills don't create an environment of fear because it's in the context of a passive/accidental/natural event. Fires happen all the time. When my daughter was in pre-school a couple firemen spent an hour in our daughter's classroom and then fully suited up, because apparently kids who have never seen a fully geared up fireman will often hide/run from them instead of going to them in a fire. She had a wonderful time playing dress up with them, but she also started to learn about how fire is serious and to stay away from it.

But, let's play the "Hide-from-my-terrorist-classmate" game... just I don't know.... I don't want to think about, "Daddy, why did we practice hiding in the closet at school today?"
Pretty much all of the sites are perfectly visible in Bing maps, so if it's actual censorship it's a bit weird.

Other governments or large organisations would have to much trouble getting arial photos of pretty much any censored sites, so it's not really effective anyway.
The point is that you should already be confident, because the .onion address itself establishes the identity of the server.
I meant that Amazon are doing the same as Google. They have similar revenue, Google has twice the margin but is banking $10B+ p.a while Amazon spend all and beyond. They are both maneuvering to capture these new markets using their existing advantages.

For some reason Google investing in projects makes a sense for a lot of people, while for Amazon it doesn't even though it has produced business lines outside of their main that have more revenue and margin than anything Google have done.
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A little more background on this: the person who was tapped to run this program was the key person behind Washington's marijuana legalization I-502 citizens' initiative. i.e. she's pragmatic, capable, and has a track record of getting things done.
Are there any well funded national intelligence organizations that does this, and still do public recommendations? In theory the NSA, MI5 etc should be advising their various governments and businesses on how to protect secrets (not just military, but protecting against corporate espionage, protecting journalistic foreign sources (think: Chinese dissidents etc)). Obviously the NSA have some very real trust issues -- but does anyone have an update on whether or not they've actually sacrificed large parts of their mission on the altar of total information awareness? Does Navy Intelligence still provide support for Tor?
A small bit of feedback - The only issue I have with this style is offline reading: I tend to print every webpage I'm interested in to PDF files for offline reference. Story Glass doesn't really work very well for that - the PDF I got was not formatted and not usable.
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Cannot upvote enough.

Is there a good book or site with a nice list of scenarios that don't involve an evil government and a heroic anti-conformist fighting the system, that show that a mass surveillance system can do already enough harm because of factors that can be explained by Hanlon's razor alone?

Btw, the freezing of bank accounts happened to me once in Italy, curtesy of my bank and theoir automatic implementations of anti money laundering laws; promptly sorted out after calling in in the bank, but I was actually quite annoyed that I had to let people see me give fail to complete the ATM transaction at a till. Call it first world problem, but I think there should be more transparency with these things, at least they should notify people when they block accounts.
There are products out there with names like "EZ Fly" and "SAFE mode" which do exactly as you describe - fly the plane for you so that you can get your wings stretched as a new pilot. My kids often have to engage SAFE mode on final approach so they don't cartwheel into the ground - its fantastic for that sort of situation where you really do have a thin line between flight and boom.
For folks following this discussion, I don't know about Anglic works, but I think "la disparition"[0] and "All'alba Shahrazad andrà ammazzata"[1] show outstanding illustrations of lipograms for Italians and Gauls.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Disparition-French-Language-Georges-Pe...

[1] http://www.amazon.it/Allalba-Shahrazad-ammazzata-Giuseppe-Va...
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Regarding your example of companies A and B, I think one obvious solution is service contracts.
Thank you for your analysis and advice. Reaching the required number of paying customers is not possible at the moment, that's why the CEO is looking for other investments. The marketing we did was too small to reach that number and we are probably bad marketers anyway.
We were expecting for a buzz that would make us famous and then become superstars. And that's why we tried to make a better slack with our chat.

But I don't see that point coming. And I think it is the reason we are falling
> "Like even most gun fans agree fully automatic weapons and RPGs shouldn't be privately owned."

I think you have not talked to many gun fans. Exceptionally few crimes have been committed with legally and privately owned fully automatic weapons, so I see absolutely no reason why those laws should be revised. Your issue is with the illegally owned guns, and I think that few gun fans would object to enforcement of those laws.

I cannot think of any crimes committed with a legally owned RPG. Clearly the regulation for RPGs that is already in place is sufficient.
I see that this has been posted several times already, but after watching it I can see why. IMO one of the more entertaining episodes of a brilliant show.
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It's interesting that they found a cure for the root issue.
Dogs already communicate with humans - it's just that most humans are too 'dumb' to understand the signals being conveyed: body language, scent, vocalization, behavior...
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I've recently spend some time playing around with the xv6 kernel (more specifically a 64bit port of it), one problem is that the amount of work necessary to get a reasonable clean hardware abstraction for a x86 system is fairly complicated. For example for a full acpi implementation, you either have to write ~50 admittedly short glue functions for ACPICA or implement acpi table reading and an AML interpreter yourself. Unfortunately if you want to use modern features of PCI, there is no way around using acpi.

That being said, there are several such "modular" kernels implemented on top of Xen. For example Mirage is a framework for creating free standing Ocaml applications on top of Xen.
Nice try, but you still got an 'e' in your username )
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This is great! I'm always switching back and forth between tabs! Thanks! Why does the app wants to read browser history though?
That's a big part of why I was inspired to take on this little project.
This is cool. But, uh, how do I see the source to Manta? I read through all of the README on https://github.com/joyent/manta/, and cloned it, and can't figure it out.

Is there not a meta fetch/build tool like Chrome/Android have? I have built those two projects from scratch with no problems.

Or do you have to start with the sdc repo?

EDIT: I just cloned the repos manually. I thought that there would be some automated way to start from the manta repo and get all dependencies.