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Most people here, myself included, are too young to remember what the world looked like when other industries were regulated under rules similar to Title II. It's a 1970's style, "ask permission before you do anything" regulatory framework. Such regulation was applied to airlines, trucking, railroads, etc.

One of the most exciting things happening right now is the disruption of retail with vendors like Amazon shipping directly to consumers. None of that would have been possible if it weren't for air cargo deregulation, which allowed UPS and FedEx to come into existence: http://mercatus.org/publication/unleashing-innovation-deregu....

I understand some people want net neutrality, but this is a bad way to go about it.
Peter Krumins also has decent a walkthrough of sed that essentially goes through and explains it via detailed explanations of sed one-lines (The explanations are original, but the list of one-liners was already popular on the internet).

Book:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-book/

Free online articles:
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/sed-one-liners-explained-part-o...
The article fails to explain why it worked.
This technology could be really useful in a car. Tracking eyes either could make driving more safe by detecting if I am really aware and watching the traffic or traffic signs ( "you have overlooked the 30kmh sign") or maybe more informative, and combined with a HUD to give me information about the objects I am looking at ( fun facts about the car in front of me, or what PoI / Mountain I am looking at, etc )
I'm not sure you're wrong about me and didn't take offense. I think you should rethink whether HN is rigged against your point of view. I think HN's moderators are just as irritated by groupthink as you are. I also think you should ask yourself whether you're commenting to persuade, or (like me) because you like debate, or (in your case, this time) just to vent. It's fine to vent, but I don't think you can legitimately get irritated at the mods for tamping that down, because venting gets disruptive and unproductive fast.
Our personal injury laws are even crazier
It's not about winning so much as about making your loss costly enough for the other party to deter the conflict in the first place.
So if a family is kidnapped and the kidnappers establish a system where the family members can leave one by one if they can win at the challenges the kidnappers come up with, and one of the family members has a few ideas of how to break free of this oppression, but none of those ideas are within the "system" put forward by the kidnappers, then you'd tell that family that instead of daydreaming about these other possible solutions, that they should just accept the oppression and only work within the framework of this oppressive environment and its system which was architected by the oppressor?

Because the way you put it makes it seem like you are blind to some of the most basic government propaganda. Of course oppressor gangs will want you to believe you can only change the way you're oppressed through their approved means. That's part of being an oppressor, lying to your victims to keep them from revolting, convincing them the only way to change is through these meticulous set of steps, that they have to talk to so and so, establish this and that, fill this form out, sign here, fingerprint this, get in line, come back tomorrow, we'll let you know when we've made a decision on your case, to finally tell you nothing will be done regarding your concern.

Wake up.
A few thousand guys in the Middle East with guns have given the U.S. government a lot of grief over the past decade. A few million people in the U.S. with guns would give them a lot more grief.
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This argument seems at odds with the claim that suicide constitutes the majority of the deaths.
Can you please elaborate on privacy issue? We are capturing the responses in a way that the managers will not know who gave the response. Only aggregated responses are shown to the team managers.

Of course, this will only work with a team size more than 5 people.
As someone who actually works in the game industry - I feel like making an emotional argument. If I write a game, it's released in stores, and then I see someone playing a pirated copy, how should I feel? Elated that they are playing it? Or am I allowed to be upset that they are playing my game without paying for it?

And how is being unable to run games designed for a different system and different time stealing from public domain? Just because tape players are not common today doesn't mean that people who made tapes 20 years ago have somehow stolen from a public domain - you just have to get a tape player. If a game was written for Dos, then well, you have to get a dos system or an emulator. If a game was written for DirectX 7, how can you blame developers that it doesn't run on the latest DirectX 11 system, with the operating system 5 generations ahead? If you are a software developer - how could you predict and counteract this?
As for the safety features, I think the opposition is because some of the states have mandated that if a safety feature become available then all guns in the state are required to have it. Given that the technology would no be 100% reliable there is obvious opposition. If the laws were not there then I think the NRA membership would be more open.
So are you saying you think they stand a better chance at defending themselves from the oppressive government without the guns?
> and math

do this instead for 60 intervals per second:
setInterval(function() {
window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollTop + 5)
}, 16.666666666666668)

or better yet skip the setInterval and have the page continue to move:

var scrollIncrement = 5;
var height = Math.max( document.body.scrollHeight, document.body.offsetHeight, document.documentElement.clientHeight, document.documentElement.scrollHeight, document.documentElement.offsetHeight ) - window.innerHeight;
var AnimationFrame = (function() {
var FPS = 16.6666666667; // 1000 / 60 = Frames Per Second
var RAF = window.requestAnimationFrame
|| window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame
|| window.mozRequestAnimationFrame
|| window.msRequestAnimationFrame
|| window.oRequestAnimationFrame
|| function(a) { window.setTimeout(a, FPS); }
var CAF = window.cancelAnimationFrame
|| window.webkitCancelAnimationFrame
|| window.mozCancelAnimationFrame
|| window.msCancelAnimationFrame
|| window.oCancelAnimationFrame
|| function(a) { window.clearTimeout(a); }
return {
request: function(a) {
RAF(a);
},
cancel: function(a) {
CAF(a);
}
}
})();

var scroll = function(){
var scrollPosition = Math.max( document.documentElement.scrollTop, document.body.scrollTop );
if ( scrollPosition == height )
scrollIncrement = (-1 * scrollIncrement);
else if ( scrollPosition == 0 )
scrollIncrement = (-1 * scrollIncrement);
window.scrollBy(0, scrollIncrement);
AnimationFrame.request(scroll);
}

AnimationFrame.request(scroll);

you can easily just tweak the scroll distance as well by entering scrollIncrement = x;
Actually it's not - the FCC definition is extremely broad, it simply states:

"No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this Act[.]" [1]

And in fact their explanation specifically states that jammers "prevent targeted devices from establishing or maintaining a connection". [2]

To put the same actions in a different context - if two radio amateurs are trying to communicate over a digital mode and I broadcast "disconnect" packets to shut them down, I am clearly jamming their communications. The fact that this jamming occurs on the 2.4GHz band instead of the 20-meter band is irrelevant.

What it comes down to - your laptop wifi is a device licensed by the FCC for radio operation, two parties (you and the router) are communicating, and a smart jammer interferes with these communications.

As for your DDOS example - jamming is usually used in the context of the low-level layers of the OSI model, not the application layer. However, there are analogous actions that would be actionable in amateur radio. If you get a dozen of your buddies to deliberately pile-up on someone's CQ/QRZ without actually trying to communicate, you can bet the FCC's gonna look at that as de facto jamming too.

You can get away with a lot as long as you do it on private wires - but when you get public airwaves involved then an additional set of much stricter rules apply.

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-29k-fine-employer-j...

[2] http://www.fcc.gov/document/consumer-alert-using-or-importin...
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Very interesting related talk about complecting things - "Simple Made Easy" - by Rich Hickey, inventor of Clojure:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

If you're a Ruby person, maybe watch this version instead, since it's almost the same talk but for a Rails Conference, with a few references:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
Gun ownership has been in decline for decades (along with hunting). In response, the industry shifted from hunting and home defense toward civilianized combat weaponry like the AR-15. There's a large accessory and customization market for these things. It's essentially a toy for military hobbyists and gadget-lovers.

More info:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/business/the-ar-15-the-mos...
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Statistics don't work that way. It's not an even distribution. For instance, I am not around gun violence at all, but I've seen and been involved in several serious car accidents. I live and work in areas nearly devoid of gun crime. My odds of being shot are vastly less than being injured or killed by an auto.
Brilliant idea.

With the Unix file systems, that show about everything of a computer, it should be possible to create a game, where the whole world is generated by that informations :D
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Didn't see the Frontline episode, but the NRA's history is quite interesting. The organization was quasi-governmental in that it administered the government's civilian marksmanship program (this was a war preparation thing) and it ran shooting tournaments and did other educational programs. It's interesting to read about the gun control debates of the 60s (leading to the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968) because people at the time thought that the debates were very heated but, compared to today, the NRA's position was pretty moderate. The organization was supportive of certain elements of the '68 act, including banning mail-order guns (one of which killed JFK) and Saturday Evening Specials.

After '68 there was a huge split in the organization between hardline types who wanted to focus on politics and lobbying and traditionalists who wanted to focus on shooting sports. At one point the NRA was even going to move from the DC area to Colorado and essentially give up politics altogether. In 1977, the political types took over the organization and purged the organization of sportsmen types.

Interestingly, the new head of the NRA was a former chief of the US Border Patrol who had shot and killed someone when he was a teenager. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlon_Carter

The organization grew exponentially in membership, budget and political influence. Interestingly, they went through a few cycles of purging people who were even more hardline than their leadership.
Armed peasantry have been beating western armies since WW2, and are pulling away in terms of effectiveness.

So, yes, I believe it. Because I'm seeing it happen.
Yes. "Guys with guns from Wal-Mart" could wreak havoc against a larger, better-equipped, and better-trained army. History is abound with examples.
This is part of the author's larger point: your title does not limit your contributions. You don't need permission (a title) to act a certain way. Titles, then, are an acknowledgement, not a license.

One of the reasons why engineers get dicked relative to executives is that engineers tend to be promoted "confirmationally" (i.e. you're promoted to X once you're an X already) while executives are promoted aspirationally. At least, that's how it's sold to the engineers. In truth, it's standard-issue corporate stinginess.

The problems with that are multiple. The first is that you can't just ditch your X-1 (and, typically, X-2 and X-3) work while you're still an X-1 in title. Standing up and taking on X work is a way to make yourself a McNulty: you're likely to be perceived as neglecting your assigned work or poking your nose where it doesn't belong. The second is that companies will often give better projects in lieu of the title bump and the raise that typically comes with it, which is why you often have to job hop to get genuine career progress. Google has a lot of SWE 3's and Sr. SWEs who were underpromoted but work on important projects, and ends up handing out $500k+ retention packages when it realizes its mistake (usually because the underpromoted engineer now has a Facebook offer).
No. You could use a bytecode compiler (Excelsior JET or RoboVM, for example).
According to the CDC, homicides by discharge of firearm was at about 11,000 in 2011. Death by motor vehicle accident was 35,000.

By contrast, 53,000 die from the flu, 27,000 from falls, 36,000 from accidental poisoning, and 600,000 from heart disease.

Table 10: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_03.pdf
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I believe https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a7a44ba55cb4f884c6... is it. The fix is intermixed with some code cleanups, but it seems to be in mul_add_c2 where a carry got dropped.
Ignoring the click-bait headline implying that guns have become more dangerous than cars - what we actually see are that deaths from both have declined. Car deaths slightly more quickly than gun deaths.

I find that incredibly encouraging. Nothing about guns or gun ownership has changed dramatically in the United States over this period. Perhaps this signals that the bizarre, and often fetishized, culture of violence in the United States is on the wane. I hope so.
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> somehow the NRA works against its own interests to make guns as dangerous as possible?

In an ideal world, cars are designed to be as safe as possible, as they are transports and getting people home safely is their most important aspect.

In an ideal world, guns are designed to be a dangerous and murderous as possible, as they are killing devices and efficiently turning people into corpses is their most important aspect.

The NRA does exactly what it should: advocate for murder device efficiency and access.

Of course, whether easy access to highly efficient murder devices should be allowed is a public policy question, but in the US, the answer is yes, and the NRA's strategies are a rational move based on that policy. The problem here is that advocating for easy access and efficiency of murder machines kinda looks bad.
Depending on your source of numbers, 40-60% of gun deaths are suicide and 30-60% are gang related. That at most leaves 0-30% "preventable" shootings. Gang member aren't going to use "smart guns" and I have the moral right to kill myself.
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It would be a stinging defeat for the main major actually existing ISPs, all of whom have been actively fighting any net neutrality regulation and have especially opposed the idea of Title II reclassification.

The adversarial perspective may slightly imprecise in identifying the one side ("ISPs" as opposed to "the major ISPs now in existence"), but is otherwise an accurate description of the facts.
Nothing for me either with a rMBP
As a KDE developer, it's a bizarre feeling to see our code at work there.

I'm very curious to have a closer look at the scope and quality of their modifications, and what they indicate about how the Red Star developers interact with the community. Some of their mods may be derived from popular third-party patches, which would require active exposure to the venues where they're shared.
Easy. Each weapon is a tool that will likely never be used, but if it is must be 100% reliable and quickly deployable while under extreme stress. "Smart" guns introduce a new feature that would impact both speed and reliability.

No implementation of a TouchID-like system for guns would be perfect and so the gun owner must weigh the potential benefits and risks. I don't think the NRA's members want to take that choice away from the gun owner, but even having a commercial solution come to market means some states will require it's use. IIRC one state has laws on the books to mandate the use of the technology once it's commercially available.
One of the comments in the article had a link to the wallpapers
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=706209438639911...
Sometimes that is what I want, but usually I want a list of all the iterations of something to cut/paste/adjust.
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Emission controls on modern vehicles make it difficult to die from carbon monoxide poisoning these days.
This is just a variation of the slippery slope argument except this slope doesn't seem very slippery to me. Gun rights have been getting stronger in the US not weaker, courts in recent years have decided that the 2nd amendment is an individual right and that it is incorporated against the states.

I don't see how a libertarian, as many gun advocates but certainly not all, can make a rational argument for preventing a private company from selling smart-guns to individuals.
I keep looking through the data, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr63/nvsr63_03.pdf, and it seems like cars still beat out guns by a good margin. They even say in the article most of the gun deaths are by suicide. Just the few numbers I grabbed says you're still 3 times more likely to be killed by or in a car. I looked again at the article and they don't even list the numbers because it conflicts with the story they WANT to have. The proper title is "The forecast for ways you might die in the next 5 years if you remain in the 15-24 age bracket shows a higher change of being killed by a gun, or killing yourself with a gun, than by being killed in or by a car."

Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms 11,068

Accidental discharge of firearms 591

Discharge of firearms, undetermined intent 248

Motor vehicle accidents 35,303

Unless you're taking your own life:
Intentional self-harm (suicide) by discharge of
firearms 19,990
I agree with you generally… but in this specific case, do regions with very strong and effective gun control have dramatically lower suicide rates than the US? My understanding is that suicide rates in Europe aren't dramatically lower, though they do appear to be a bit lower in western europe and higher in eastern… I can't tell if this might be handgun related, is the delta large enough?

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

I don't have any information on the suicide rates by gun in each country, though it would be useful information from a public health standpoint (especially if, as you pointed out, the accessibility could be reduced).
Technological progress is most certainly objective. Computers are much faster today than they were 20 years ago. That is objective.

I strongly disagree with this article (and I guess your argument). Technology is part of society. Technological progress IS societal progress. There's nothing "problematic" about that.
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I'm not an expert but, from what I do know, it seems like the take-away here is that it's running on tech which is within reach of most consumers. Sure, academics are accomplishing more impressive feats in the lab. However, it looks like nVidia has brought these algorithms onto hardware which is probably not much different from what they're already selling to gamers at a reasonable price. That could end up being a really big deal and could boost applications of computer vision in consumer tech significantly.
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"I should have the legal right to kill myself."

And of course, even if someone disagrees with that, getting rid of the gun is more likely to change the method than the result.
Awesome work! How much more/less radiation does this expose a patient to than a traditional CT scan?
Hard, Firm, and Soft real-time are all classifications in real-time computing. They are measurements of how detrimental it is to the system if they miss a deadline. Control systems can still be soft real-time.
I guess I'm saying, by the time guns are actually involved, I think they have 0% chance either way.
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Safety of whom? I care about the safety of the person using the gun for self-defense. The "safety" features compromise the gun for its intended usage.
I had better (in terms of both cost and quality) internet living in rural southeast Asia five years ago than I do now, living in a million+ metropolitan area in the US. From my perspective, it realistically can't get worse.
Not technically a ship, but those interested in this story might be interested in the Prelude, which is set to be the world's largest vessel. It will dwarf these ships...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30394137

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_FLNG
They are voting the way they are meant to vote. PACs exist for a reason.

Also, why vote? When democracy emerged in the U.S., the voting population was about 800,000. The current voting population is 206,000,000. The power of an individual's vote has decreased immensely.

I use federal numbers because the federal government has most of the power now, as opposed to the states, in which an individual's vote is worth relatively more, but still massively less than it was at the time the constitution was written.
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> It's a 1970's style, "ask permission before you do anything" regulatory framework.

No one yet who has made this claim has established that Title II classification would mandate the FCC to use that kind of regulatory framework, though I don't think there is any dispute that Title II classification could support such a framework.

Of course, rather than arguing about abstractions, we can argue once actual regulations are proposed, at which point -- and only at which point -- will we actually discussing anything other than what someone speculates might be the proposed regulatory framework.
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The solution to that problem is simple. Map the Doom process to doomguy. If you die, the process ends! :) You could even add a bit of code that sends a message to the head sysadmin so if a newbie keeps attacking a big nasty and dying as a result, the sysadmin would know to step over and tell the newbie to chill out.

This also raises an existential conundrum. If the sysadmin has god mode, what happens if they shoot init with a BFG? Kidding of course, but it is fun to imagine an invincible process stepping heroically through the ensuing wreckage of a kernel panic :D
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Variance: I suspect it's a subject to similar restrictions as in Haxe: http://haxe.org/manual/type-system-variance.html

> That's spooky action at a distance. It breaks modularity, could cause packaging hell.

Swift, Ruby, Nimrod and Smalltalk are a few languages - out of many, many more - which disagree with you here.