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The vast majority of U.S. guns are in private collections and don't kill or threaten anyone.

The U.S. doesn't have a gun problem; we have a violence problem. If one magically made every single firearm disappear tomorrow, the murder rate would still be ridiculously high, because we'd still be finding ways to murder one another.
This makes sense. Thank's a lot.
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Dear Denis, now lets do something, seriously.
For me it has always been vimscript vs (emacs) lisp. I like to be able customize and not be restricted by a somewhat cryptic and inaccessible language. With evil mode you get a perfect compromise (depending on what you use such a text editor for).
Where I worked previously it wasn't generally common for developers to have a side project. It probably depends on where you work. I presume everybody in Silicon Valley plans to start a startup like every waiter in Los Angeles plans to become an actor.

One reason I can think of, is maybe because they can - developers have the means to create software themselves though maybe not a way to market it. Anything physical requires a fair bit of capital to manufacture it, where's developers just need time. I suspect also that independence is more important to "developer types" than to others.

Another reason I can think of is management in companies can tend to treat developers as second class citizens which can make work unfulfilling. Working on your own products can make programming fun again.

Also in a lot of other white-collar areas like design, medicine or law it's fairly common to setup your own studio/practice after a few years of work experience. IT tends to create large global companies which sucks in a lot of developers.
I don't want to be that guy but trying to read this on a tablet is a major pain. The scrolling keeps breaking. Why do people mess with something that isn't broken?
Before I read the details I figured it was a picture of number lines committed per contributor. With tall monoliths being single contributor projects, and urban sprawls being multi committer projects. Now, I wonder what that visualization would look like for all these different projects.
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This, this is the best JavaScript game framework. Been using it for a few years and it never let me down. It is constantly updated and has lots of examples to get you started.

I have just created a small game and exported it to an android .apk and easily runs at 60fps on Nexus 7 (2013) at 1920×1200 resolution.
Stopped reading at

The first rule, in some ways the only rule, is skim, skim, skim.

Nonsense, try to do that in a mathematical text and you understand literally nothing anymore. This might work for lightweight texts, not densely written heavily mathematical and algorithmic texts. Maybe that works if you're studying something like literature and don't need to understand complex things afterwards.

EDIT: He's a professor of history. I am not surprised.

EDIT2: brudgers is right, the professor wrote like 2000 words later that none of his advice applies to the situation I mentioned. I think he should have clarified that in the beginning instead of the end of the post. Introducing a rule as universal and introducing exceptions much later is not a good practice.
Considering the popularity of Evil Mode, Vim emulation for Emacs, the idea of Vim conceding to Emacs is like the notion that the parasitic Alien in the movie of the same name conceded to Sigourney Weaver's shipmates.
Paradoxically, they say we want people because they're accountable. At the same time the show that parole judges are consistently making wrong decisions. But they're presumably not being held accountable. Sure we feel nice imagining there's accountability, but in some professions it's only an illusion. The same goes for doctors in some countries. They can get away with carelessly killing a patient. There isn't real accountability there.

Even when there genuinely is accountability like drivers and pilots who pay for their mistakes with their lives, it doesn't stop them making careless mistakes. I seem to remember that pilot error is the cause of the majority of plane crashes. It certainly is for car crashes too.
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I beg to differ. You can make a significant amount of money as an academic in Australia if you are in the right discipline to get a market loading and be able to do consulting on the side. AU$200-300K a year is easy to achieve for these academics some are even pulling in $500K+ by the end of their career. Plus the 17% superannuation means you'll retire with a nice big pot of retirement money at the end. Very hard to find a comparable position in industry...
I've asked on the blog but presumably this also affects Vagrant images too?

I've never understood the appeal of Ubuntu on the server, and stuff like this just reinforces that opinion.
There is a slight contradiction in this line of argument. Why are currently more people of the total population employed than ever (at least in industrialized countries) and not less? Housewife isn't an option for women any more. All available human resources are seemingly needed to sustain the economy. Where are the robots which do everything better?
Are you talking the network code, or playing? For the latter, by the looks of it, there's a free-for-all alpha playtest every month.

Not sure I've presently got a client that will play it sufficiently well to do it justice, but it looks like fun. If you click the banner back to the homepage on the site, there is a YouTube video of one of the previous tests, along with the date and time of the next one.
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I guess so it is the same situation as far as I can see.
That's really interesting ! I can also see this being used for the opposite usage for some security websites. They could ban all non-vpn users.
>Only after massive security vulnerabilties and a lot of media attention more people looked at OpenSSL in detail and eventually decided to do something about it. Which mostly was "let's write a new library or fork it". Thus, LibreSSL, sodium, nacl and such.

Right, but those vulnerabilities _were_ found. I worry that they wouldn't be found in this. The only people who'd go looking are the people who see that a specific website is using it and want to exploit it.
FreeBSD Community Distances Itself from Notorious Activist Randi Harper
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It's a credit, just like in banking but instead of money you're borrowing time.
Why I stick with either Debian or Gentoo. Ubuntu on the desktop, sure, but for the server hell no. I now have another reason to stay far away from redhat based distributions for anything, yes even centos.
Get with the program: the coders offering training for free
Indeed.

"Ignoring Patents", Mark A. Lemley

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=999961

What's going on here? The answer, I think, is quite simple: both researchers and companies in component industries simply ignore patents. Virtually everyone does it. They do it at all stages of endeavor. From the perspective of an outsider to the patent system, this is a remarkable fact. And yet it may be what prevents the patent system from crushing innovation in component industries like IT. Ignoring patents, then, may be a "workaround" that allows the innovation system to function in the face of overbroad patent protection.
Will it be able to conceptualise what tasks it cannot do and hire others to do them? And if it can conceptualise, could it not over time teach itself, or learn from others?
In Sweden the agency that deals with cartography and land measurements (Lantmäteriet) charged money for their data. An acquaintance who works with the government checked their income and where it same from. Something like 80% came from other government departments and the rest from companies. But the extra 20% was roughly the cost of running the administration to manage the billing. So the data got limited use for no financial gain.

In May they started releasing the maps under Creative Commons [1]. Not only me was really excited about this here in Sweden.

[1] in Swedish http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.616018/slapp-kartorna-...
Doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a bad developer; there are many frontend devs who see their job as pure programming. Which it is not. For frontend developer, an important part of the job is to know what a good design is and what concepts underlie it. Yet it’s hard to gain such knowledge without either designing or working closely with designers.
I cannot imagine someone on a dev meetup saying "we ended up choosing knockoutjs and backbone over angular because their models were more visually appealing than angular's city model" .. this is what I mean when I ask "what do I get out of this?"
I used vim for a few years before switching to emacs. I don't think there is a definite reason, just multiple of small ones:

- Vim script is ... very awkward to use, to say the least.

- For any reason I'm not sure of, Emacs plugins seem to be more well developed and refined than Vim's. Mind you, there are still land mines that blow up once every blue moon in any plugin, but things like Emacs live certainly was pleasant to start with.

- I started learning Lisp family languages, and Slime/Nrepl etc. wasn't as advanced in Vim. Now that I'm thinking of it, it seems like Emacs plugins for any language tend to have more focused on live coding.

Still, I think Vim keybinding and default editing functionality is better, and apparently that seems to be a common enough sentiment for Evil mode.
Ideas are easy. Reality is hard. Doctors and pilots are often too stressed out to perform properly, if you are working 20 hour days you're probably out of it at hour 16. Careless mistakes often happen because people are expected to be machines. Humans were not made to do any of this. We're apes that have in a few thousands years decided we rather be machines. Not really decided, more like been coerced into being machines. And we don't know how to shut the system which tells us these things, which are lies, off. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should. Human beings don't understand this concept. Just because you can do something, and someone wants you to, you absolutely should is the current human way of looking at the world.
When I skimmed the article, I discovered that the author identifies contexts in which different tactics are appropriate in the latter half of the article.
Are you European? (No offense.)
Real drowning is a quiet, terrifying event.

In waves it can happen almost invisibly. Remembering who you've seen where, and when, is challenging but critical.
So, I didn't read the full article yet. However, the bit about Southwest really surprised me. Apparently, it's not acceptable to be an introvert if you work there. If you're not 100% about talking and interacting with everyone you meet in the hallway, you "don't fit in with their culture." Southwest: Introverts need not apply. Really?
I'm Asian :-). Why are you asking?
i don't see them upholding this violation in court so i will carry on.
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It wasn't till after I graduated that I started to realize the enormous volume of books arts majors had to read. And I don't understand why their information is presented in such an inconvenient format.

If the book is making an argument with a lot of discrete points and interconnections. Why isn't it a diagram or some kind of interactive hyperlinking thing? Why don't the individual points at least have a box around them so you can separate them visually from the other stuff without having to actually read it all?

Arts text books and essays just don't make sense to me. I can understand text format if it gives the reader motivation to understand that a soul-less diagram might not, but it sounds like most of this writing doesn't do that either. So I guess my question is, is this information really too complex to structure in an obvious way, or are the authors too lazy to design such a structure, or is it simply an ingrained culture that nobody can break free of?
> responsible

That part is kind of weird to me. I understand you want someone to be "responsible", but what do you expect the response to be? This doctor failed to deliver, let's fire himher. What follows? You get a better doctor, hopefully. Wouldn't it be better to have an algorithm that can be improved when it fails, so you don't have to train a whole new doctor to replace the bad one? Plus, you can have every single robot doctor be exactly as good at everything. No more "you need to find the best surgeon for X". You can have as many best surgeons as you can economically build.

The responsibility would fall on the robot's designers to improve their software, so it doesn't make the mistake in question. And you will be able to assure people that no doctor will ever make that mistake ever again. Imagining that all these robots are linked, or at least synchronise every couple of days, they would learn a lot faster than a human.
Which discipline are you speaking of? That kind of money I've only heard of in finance land (for academics)... and that kind of dried up after 2008.
Ah yes, fat salaries on other people's money, and a fat pension on other people's money! Sweet deal!
This one was too easy; spotted it almost immediately into the video. It's usually fairly easy to spot people "out of their element"--he was not floating with the waves and was going under every single time.

I had my eye on him so much I was afraid I was going to miss the "real" victim and I had to force myself to keep scanning :/ Just as bad.
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Most of them seem to have the same two chips in them, RTL2832U and R820T. Does anyone see an issue with this item I linked to? Some people were mentioning quality issues with generics.
Over one of the illustrative photos in this article you can see how US Army officer is communicating with elder in Afghanistan, but he did not care to leave his army boots before entering the pleasant clean carpet for conversation. Robot would never do anything so obscene.
Music theory and the humanities in general are concerned with the creation of culture itself. It is just as important as a 'practical application'. (IMO)
My analogy of gene transfer with the LHC is as you quote; whatever humans do with respect to gene transfer has already been done many times over, and never resulted in a mass extinction event.

There are two mass extinction events that have a clear biological origin. Minor extinction events are a permanent feature of evolution.

The first is the evolution of photosynthesis causing the Great Oxygenation Event[0]. In this, cyanobacteria converted CO2 into water and oxygen on a massive scale. This lead to a cooling of the planet due to reduced CO2 levels and the precipitation of iron oxides into massive deposits worldwide, today visible as "banded iron formations" [1].

The second mass extinction with a clear biological origin is the current one, where Homo sapiens is converting a massive quantity of carbon previously sequestered during the carboniferous back into CO2 and warming the planet as a result. In addition, this species destroys the habitats of many other species.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation
... That describes every job... ever. Unless you are the one stealing the resources directly from the land... in which case: Fat salaries on other peoples' property.

But hey, hate on the academics, they are the WORST! right?
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Great to see this coming along, looking forward to working with the new release
The point of the de minimis examples is to tease out the animating purpose of the law. If preventing rivalrous use was the animating purpose, it simply would not make sense to give a trespass right of action in situations where the trespass was de minimis. Yes those de minimis examples can become rival if repeated endlessly, but they're not, so why would we base the law on an extreme hypothetical?

The animating principle of property law is that it gives a stronger right than just the right to exclude rival uses: it gives the right to exclude, period. That doesn't have to be the principle, but that's a question that's entirely orthogonal to meat space versus cyber space. There is nothing about cyberspace that obsoletes the idea that private property gives a blanket right to exclude.

As for revoking license, in this case 3taps had specific knowledge that it's implied license was revoked.
Fair point - gas taxes should be approximately doubled and dividend/cap gains taxes should be reduced commensurately to keep things rev neutral. (Choosing the latter two since they are highly distorting taxes.)

Of course, singling out Uber and taxis for special regulation is a nonsensical solution to this issue; the main beneficiaries are people driving their own car.
To me this is a serious downside of cryptocurrencies - the fact that criminals have this secure channel of stealing from victims.

Besides malware, one can be blackmailed with information disclosure (everyone has secrets), one can be physically bullied into transferring his BTC or forced to pay bribes by police or corrupt authorities.
In western countries some of these may seem impossible, but in a lot of places, police or authorities are worse than criminals. And of course good old hacking.

It's also a very good incentive for maybe-criminals to actually go and do the crime - because the risks of being caught are very small.

One counter argument is that it's possible to steal cash anonymously too, but of course it's not the same thing, just like crypto is not cash.

This is serious problem with (anonymous) crypto and it will only grow bigger and bigger as it goes more mainstream..
Very interesting analysis.

PS: Small correction on the article:

"To prove my theory 2 VPN services has been tested:"
"To prove my theory 2 VPN services have been tested:"
Geography?

Here? Vim won. Emacs is the phase you go through before you go back to vim or go forward to Word or Sublime Text.
At this point, I would welcome a completely robotic doctor.

Could you imagine, a Computer Doctor says, "I have throughly scanned every study, ever produced on SSRI's, and I don't want to make your life more difficult by a placebo response?
I've made a calculated decision, and decided you might benefit from this off label drug. Try this drug for a few days? If it doesn't work, or you are skeptical of my recommendation; I have a Medical Doctors waiting for you at this hospital. Here are their resumes, work history, and patient evaluations. Just bring your ID. Money is not necessary.(Your taxes paid for this service.) Have a great day!"

Computer, "Your pain is real. Pick up your prescription for pain pills at the pharmacy of your choice. I will only need to see you once a year. If my database, shows any signs of abuse; I will direct you to a drug rehab facility." No ass kissing! No needless office visists(visits to make money?). No stereotyping?

In reality, I'm not for replcing doctors with computers; just the financial game some doctors have abused in order to become wealthy? I am definetly tired of office visits more than once a year for patients whom illness is stabilized.
THIS is the answer I was looking for. Thanks. I do, of course, still get the inherrent risks (especially as a non-tech founder) and the intense competition, but the crux is that idea-stage is therefore open (even if limited in liklihood) to less traditional "winning applications" :)
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> you have people on HN saying pretty much that most of the black people who get shot and killed by police deserved it and that black people are stupid violent criminals so it's no wonder they get killed so often

I haven't seen anyone say anything so nasty, but I have seen the FBI's crime statistics:

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf

Blacks make up 13.2% of the population, yet are arrested for 49.4% of the murders (3.7x their share), 32.5% of the forcible rapes (2.4x), 54.9% of the robberies (4.1x), 34.1% of the aggravated assaults (2.5x), 38.5% of the violent arson (2.9x) and 31.9% of other assaults (2.4x). The numbers for whites (77.1% of the population) are 48.2% of the murders (.6x),

Now, it's important to note that the explanation is almost certainly due to poverty and class; class in America being unfortunately highly correlated with race. It's also important to note there are almost certainly structural factors which protect some whites from being fairly arrested and lead to some blacks being unfairly arrested.

Given those violent crime statistics, is it not understandable that people in a potentially violent situation fear more for their lives when facing a random black, who is approximately 6.1 times more likely to commit murder than a random white?

And in fact, adjusted for the racial disparity in homicides, the police are 1.7 times more likely to kill whites than blacks; adjusted for the racial disparity in cop-killing, the police are 1.3 times more likely to kill whites than blacks[1].

'Black people' are not 'stupid violent criminals,' and anyone who says so is a racist idiot. But a higher percentage of black people are violent criminals, and thus it's no wonder that a higher percentage (but fewer absolutely, and fewer adjusted for the higher rate of crime!) get killed for violent crime.

Now, how does one reduce the racial disparity (by reducing the rate of black criminality to that of white criminality, not vice versa, I hope)? That's really tough to answer. Maybe it has something to do with ending the War on Some Drugs, which takes fathers away from their families; maybe it involves basic income, which would eliminate poverty; maybe it involves school choice and/or vouchers, to enable blacks to escape terrible schools and get good educations; maybe it involves using social persuasion to reduce the culture of violence (fat chance when that culture is so highly profitable!).

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/21/police-kill-...
To me, it seems like all of them are behaving like little children, too – but that doesn’t change how the people involved think of each other.

I see the issue, I – as user – prefer ffmpeg, but I – as dev – prefer libav. I’d love to somehow see both sides working together, but it sadly just won’t happen.
How is the uptime of the machine being detected?
On the flip side, real world principles don't become irrelevant just because we're talking about the digital world. What does it mean to have private property? It means having the right to exclude. I don't think there is anything difficult about translating that principle to the Internet.

What I think happens a lot is that people use "the Internet is different" as a sort of short-hand for the idea that the Internet should be governed by different underlying principles. But I think it's disingenuous to say that the nature of the Internet dictates that it be governed by different principles. The existing property principles translate just fine.
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The site has always given me that vibe. I'm not sure I understand the point of a bunch of people getting together to celebrate how smart they are. Especially since they're pulling statistics out of thin air and using unconvincing examples: you're telling me most comedians don't keep track of which jokes are getting laughs?!

My final impression: https://xkcd.com/874/