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Whether or not we can assert a plausible constitutional basis for intervening, there are powerful reasons why we should not do so.”

And that tells you everything you need to know about Stevens. He isn't interested in what the Constitution says, he just wants to do what he thinks is right. What conceit.

The "powerful reasons" he cites, if they exist at all, are irrelevant unless and until he can get his cockamamie plan of amending the Constitution pushed through. In the meantime, maybe Federal judges should just worry about enforcing the Constitution as it stands?

Thus, even as generously construed in Heller, the Second Amendment provides no obstacle to regulations prohibiting the ownership or use of the sorts of weapons used in the tragic multiple killings in Virginia, Colorado and Arizona in recent years.

Actually it does, as, by and large, those weapons were exactly those in "common lawful use for self-defense, hunting, sport shooting", etc, or a functional equivalent. Many, if not most, modern rifles sold specifically for hunting are actually semi-automatic rifles, that function nearly identically to an AR-15.

Understand, military style fully-automatic or select-fire weapons are NOT being used in these shootings. In fact, a lawfully owned fully-automatic weapon has almost never been used in the commission of a crime since the FBI has kept records. I think there may be something like 1 or 2 cases in the past 100 years.

OTOH, a civilian AR-15 is actually not a "high powered weapon" at all, and is only semi-automatic in function. There are commonly used deer hunting rifles that are more powerful than an AR-15. In fact, there are handgun rounds like the .454 Casull that can deliver more muzzle energy than the 5.56 NATO or .223 Remington rounds typically used in an AR-15.

This is the kind of crap you get when anti-gunners, who don't actually know much about guns, try to spread misinformation and FUD just to advance their agenda.
I think car culture also means that everything is further away. I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands and from a young age I'd walk/bike everywhere (sports training, friends' places, etc.). When everything is close by, it's easy for parents to gradually give children more space and responsibilities. For example, at a very young age I was only allowed to walk/bike to the end of the street. Then, later, I started walking to school. Then, later still, I'd bike to my grandparents in the neighboring town and so on to taking public transport to the city to go to secondary school. If you have to drive your children everywhere it becomes difficult to gradually give them more independence in this way.
This was discussed in "Godel, Escher, Bach" in the form of trying to make a record player that can play any record.
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Same in the Netherlands.
In what way is rationing transportation a valid way to solve congestion problems?

Here in the Seattle area they're converting lanes on already heavily congested roads like I-405 into toll lanes with a maximum fee of over ten dollars a trip, effectively reducing it from three lanes each way to two lanes each way. Traffic has only become more congested since then.
New York is one of the safest cities in the world.
how are you going to give people free healthcare, free education...

Like Germany, Canada, Sweden is doing or any other developed country with a reasonable social safety net and free market economy.

It is not mission impossible like you make it sound to be
Is 'unstructured' a euphemism? If the children are expected to 'behave predictably' and 'forced to interact with other children', doesn't that imply some structure? (I assume 'predictably' means something more specific than, say 'not try to set the school on fire.')

This article uses the terms 'spontaneous and free form' and 'guided and pedagogical'. It doesn't sound like the former requires children to interact with others, though I can't tell from the article. Certainly the latter isn't unstructured.
> Make sure the room is not unlit though. Daytime naps shouldn't require darkness.

Darkness actually makes it much easier to fall asleep, and to get deeper sleep.
Just show up at the local office with your equipment.

Only if there is a local office. Frontier bought up a bunch of Verizon FiOS assets in the area. Frontier behaves purely as a short-term revenue maximization company. So they closed all their local offices. That's right. The local phone/internet/tv company doesn't actually have an office where you can go to return equipment!

Comcast is heaven compared to the depths of hell that is Frontier.
>"whipped and tortured their slaves in an attempt to extract more value"

This sounds like the US medical industry. We can only save you, if you work another few years of your life to pay down this debt.
Why is there a monitor on the bottom? Is the monitor used for watching TV/Movies? I can understand the benefit of naps at work, but a TV? Come on. If you must watch recreational videos, do so upstairs on your normal monitor.

Also overhang of the desk suggests that your feet would occupy that space when sitting. Why is the monitor facing away and the chair on the wrong side? The staging of this nap desk, makes me suspicious.
I enjoy it, his papers and that books sit proudly on my desk. It's interesting that his collection of papers gives an entirely different approach to his approach to probability theory and hardly focuses on it being an extension of Aristotelean logic.
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What most people don't seem to know is that fun and play simply is learning.

Kids play act scenarios all day that they're learning about. It's a way of internalizing what they've learned. Take away time for unstructured play, and you'll find a lot of kids have less ability to learn, simply because their brains need the play time to absorb the relevant facts.

We're using a curriculum-free homeschooling approach, and while my kids aren't on the exact same learning timetable, they're close enough to the normal education track -- and well beyond it in the areas that most interest them -- that I'm not worried. And they play all the time.
This was NOT a retail box that iFixIt bought, it was a developer kit of an unfinished product meant to allow developer early access to the hardware to build apps for tvOS running on Apple. No customers or users will benefit from this because it is not meant for them.

The terms and conditions were very clear in the NDA that the developers have to sign to get an AppleTV developer kit.

Guess what, iFixit used their developer account to get that AppleTV and they violated the terms and conditions of that NDA.

Guess what happened when your specific iOS developer account is found to violate the NDA terms and condition? It gets banned, which is what happened.

Apple did exactly what they said will happen if the NDA terms and conditions were violated. That's all there is to it.
> It's a bless, there's no need to convert time when you are travelling.

Hah, and people here are all for having timezones. "Imagine how crazy it would be to have the sun coming up at 3AM in some places and 7PM in others!" I can't be sure without trying, but I'd argue it's pretty much equally messed up with and without timezones. Right now as a computer guy, I know time zones make everything more complicated.

When traveling somewhere for business you make an appointment anyway, so you know when you have to be somewhere and can plan accordingly. For holidays you'd look up the local sunrise time (which varies pretty much everywhere on earth anyway, albeit a bit more predictably now).
Not everyone wants an "experience" every time they need to feed their stomach a morsel of food.

People are pretty capable of deciding that for themselves. No need to try to convince anyone what kind of appetite they should have for ceremony and the, deep voice, "human experience."
I usually just say personal reasons.
Hopefully adopting Rust code will eliminate the security risk for such decisions.
Malicious? Cancelling a random person's Comcast might be a random act of kindness!
in my experience, which is also a fair bit more than two years, that is deeply not-great advice for what the author's talking about, which is available systems. Systems with one-true-deciders need to serialize through the decider, which tends to lower availability and limits scalability. And, the decider can die or make wrong decisions, or get partitioned outside of a perfectly functioning set of shards or whatever.

It is, no lie, far harder to make a system that can stay available and does the right thing during the partition. Even though the research has been around for decades, we're still in baby steps in actual functioning systems. Even Riak, the poster child for this sort of thing, was straight up last-write-wins for years while they were making fun of everyone else. Hard problems!
How about big-endian x86, in case anyone makes a processor that operates that way? At least OpenSSL is ready!
Sadly due to convenience and ignorance our privacy rights will slowly disappear
>You need someone with a spine to get the work done.

You are right, the issues are mostly political and I'd be ecstatic to see it get done. However, given that after Obama's 8 year legacy we got a massively watered down public healthcare plan - I'd like to see a plan other than "we are going to get free education, everyone else be damned". To me its no different than the GOPs "We are going to make abortions illegal, or we will shut down the government." I just don't see how its "easy" to defund the MI complex in 4 years.

>You apply the same premise Medicare does: If your students don't learn, you don't get paid.

I pulled this out specifically because it made crawl in my seat. We have tried this already, its called No Child Left Behind, and many don't consider it a success. Turns out quantifying "do your students learn" is incredibly difficult to measure, especially at the federal level.

I'm well aware of why tuitions are so high - but another point that isn't addressed is that countries with free education typically have lower college entrance rates (admittedly it might be cultural, trade schools aren't attractive in America). Is it simply cheaper for Germany to send everyone to school? Are American school more expensive because they tend to be more cutting edge? Is that something we want to give up? Maybe at this point in the voting season, all we are getting is soundbites, but thats something I'd like to hear.

In any case, my POV is to enact any of these issues today, will end up requiring many compromises (as did happen to ACA) with state governments, corporations, and citizens. I'd like to what he imagines these compromises to be.
What do you mean by "totally expected"? A Turing machine "totally expects" an infinite ribbon.
If you have a choice of two, you are lucky. Cable franchise rights with cities are usually exclusive. Your choice is usually satellite, cable, or antenna.
They are entirely different products, with different ingredient lists. From what I understand, 2.0 is not able to be powdered, and 1.5 is not able to be stored as a liquid for long.
You are skipping through a few steps. The gene has to first appear. It has to be one of those many tiny little perturbations that appear every so often. It then has to give that organism some sort of advantage. For a gene controlling alcoholism, it would have to appear somewhere where alcoholism had some substantial impact on survivability ... and then spread out across europe, asia and africa giving some similar advantage to persons along the way else it die out.

I might be open if the old world suffered from widespread alcoholism (to the point of impacting survivability across classes) for the last 20,000 years, but is just didn't. Producing alcohol takes proper effort and resources. You only get there one you aren't starving anymore. Egypt and a few other areas capable of sustaining intensive agriculture were not the norm.
I've actually done that with text before - in particular, ensuring that links in a document had the same URL in their text content as in their href - by making one red and one green (and putting them in a monospace font for good measure), you can see straight away when they don't match.

I went with red and green because I intended to try using 3d glasses, but as it turned out, 'vaguely pinkish' was enough to see a match without actually looking.
I don't disagree that it's hard. I'm saying it's far and beyond what everyone else is offering, which is "Tax cuts for the rich, screw the middle class, all our problems are because of immigrants and the LGBT community, and because Millennials aren't bootstrappy."
HN benefits from user-driven moderation instead of having paid moderators.
I have several friends that are still in education, and several more who bailed after TFA. It doesn't help that teachers get paid such shit wages, and the only way to earn more in most districts is to hang on and take your yearly bump. Or get a University of Phoenix master's degree for a little bit more of a bump.
Would you be willing to share your cancellation letter template?

It would be great to have a repository for such templates on GitHub with variants for different companies. Maybe as Jinja2 files so filling in the sender's name, address, etc. would be easy.
Does this method also work when I'm missing a semicolon somewhere between lines 35 and 994?
Personally I'm hoping Google/Yahoo's End-To-End encryption tech goes somewhere. I really liked the idea behind the use of a gossip protocol to let everyone know what keys they had seen for a given user so that active attacks are not necessarily completely prevented, but are noticed.
>Your customer data is your customers' data. It's not yours to toy with as you please.

That's the European point of view. In the US, customer data is nothing more than an asset.
I don't think that's a useful hypothetical. If I were born into slavery, I would be a different person, and I can't tell you what that person would think.
I think that would only work in the discrete case or for simple problems, however something relevant

>“Information theory must precede probability theory and not
be based on it.” A.N.Kolmogorov, in [Kolmogorov, 19831.

and it was a combinatorics paper
Sure!

Eventually I would like to equip Octo with an optional 1802 emulation mode and the necessary mixed-mode assembler for producing 1802 machine code. Probably won't be available any time soon without strong demand, though.
Please read the comments you reply to:

"Once the format is finalized, the next logical step would be to make a library version of it, which will be most probably get licensed under the LGPL v3+"
I think you're confused about what "one part of the system" means. I don't mean one process running on one piece of hardware. I mean one software module with many instances - itself a distributed system, with one purpose in life (determine liveness) so it can be simple and verifiable. There's no serialization, and it does not lower availability or scalability as you claim. In fact, it preserves those properties far better than "everyone doing their own failure detection a hundred different ways" does.
HDF5 is much better suited for a lot of scientific data sets. How would you store multidimensional data in sqlite? Not everything is a table or matrix.
HDF5 also allows you to pick compression filters that are especially suited for the data you have.
If you are looking to replace a CSV file, then sqlite is obviously a pragmatic solution.
No doubt, even the opposition within his party isn't at his level.
sure but that's a larger topic than just the "best practices" article from OP. large-scale distributed systems are very difficult to test in an automated way and mostly rely on real production "tests" (ie, real traffic) to test comprehensively.
There's a related Freakonomics episode talking about timezones and productivity: http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/16/the-economics-of-sleep-pa...
I "auto pay" all of my billa through my bank (Fidelity) and they have an option to automatically pay up to $x amount but just email me if the bill is higher. I'm pretty sure it was intended for bills that aren't quite the same each month, but it would also work here.

Most billers have the option to send the bill directly to my bank, for the ones that don't, then it has to be a fixed amount each month for Fidelity to auto-pay it.
There is a long tradition in all democracies of people volunteering their time to support candidates, whether that's collecting signatures, holding signs, or developing software. Volunteering is not a meaningful locus of campaign finance abuse.
> It's not because FLIF is GPL v3+ now, that we can't add more permissive licenses later.

That's only guaranteed if you obtain copyright assignment from any contributors now. Otherwise, re-licensing will be a massive headache as you'll need to track down all the copyright holders for permission. Some might refuse or have have dropped off the map.
Kafka is really wonderful in its simplicity. You put messages into it and one or more consumers read those messages in partition sequence. My app only does around 1M messages/minute, but LinkedIn does 13M per second. Granted, LinkedIn's usage is across all of their services, but Kafka's log structure offers great performance and the replication offers durability.

If you're looking to process data streams in real time, Kafka is definitely worth a look and the team at Confluent is awesome.
I'm working at a large financial institution that's moving to git on stash internally, so unlikely I'd be able to use your product any time soon...

Honestly, I'd suggest working towards a solution to work with GH Enterprise, as that would probably align with your current structure better, it may be the most work, but it would be a point to more potential large business customers, and a better revenue model.
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I keep a combination did it/need to do it text file. Whatever needs done is at the top.

Also my unread email.

Also my memory.
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HDF5 isn't perfect but it does this kind of job pretty well. The C, C++, and HDF5 APIs are definitely not fun to use, but there are wonderful and intuitive APIs available in some languages---I'm thinking of Python's h5py here.

Let me add that the OP's experience that HDF5 files were less space efficient than comparable CSV files suggest that something was grossly amiss in his use of HDF5.
I wonder if the craw in Demon/Dark Souls game was inspired by something like that.

http://demonssouls.wikidot.com/crow
Boredom is when your person wants to speak to you but the you is not conscious to notice it. In others, you just can't hear yourself for you don't know what it is speaking to you. In the same way, you don't know what to do next as a machine that works on motivation.

That's when you should reach out to Alan Watts, George Carlin,e.t.c. if they could help you.
David,
Awesome article. Performance metrics collection is becoming a real interest of mine. What application do you guys use for your dashboards?
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Presumably, Pauline met some need for a time. He seems to have not really avoided her at first. He takes the easy way out of blaming her, even though his friend Fitzgerald was quick to tell him "Be rid of her.", advice he disregarded and even rebutted. Granted, she was obnoxiously aggressive. But when he really was tired of her, he divorced her as well. So when he really wanted to be rid of her, he was. It is a matter of convenience to pin the blame all on her during the time when he didn't really want to be rid of her.

It can be really hard to say whether it was a good thing he got his needs met through her or a bad thing. I mean, it can be a hard judgement call even if you are one of the people involved in such a situation. Outsiders generally have no real idea what is going on behind closed doors. A report like this, long after his death, really hard to judge. People will tend to judge based on their own prejudices, in essence.
tl;dr: While those pushing for more surveillance can use the events of terrorist attacks to rubberstamp new surveillance powers, the privacy advocates of the future should use the events of hacks and data breaches to help the people come together to push legislation in the opposite direction.
Americans have an almost pathological reflex to gaze at sentimental stories that are sensational because they are exceptional

I don't think those stories are sentimental - sentimental to me means stories like 'adopted siblings reunited after 40 years or something.' The crime-centric TV shows you mention tap into a kind of latent sadism which allows people to vicariously enjoy the violence of gruesome crimes and then project their bad feelings about themselves on the perpetrator, revving up the sadism again in anticipation of an impending execution or a lifetime rotting away behind bars. They are a form of ritually desexualized pornography.
There's a vast spectrum between bloody revolution and glacial change. You only need to go across the strait to see an example of quick but bloodless regime change. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Taiwan was an authoritarian one-party state under martial law. But from the late 70s on, the Taiwanese government steadily introduced reforms until it head its first direct presidential election in 1996. Today, Taiwan is a multi-party democracy with a stable economy. Certainly, it has its fair share of problems (there's been a lot of corruption scandals), but it's definitely come a long way.
I do not consciously support slavery. I just find some objection to the apparent false dichotomy that beating slaves is a sound path to their freedom.

If (and it's a very big if), the only way to end slavery is to have slaves be beaten, then you might have a good point. However, I can think of no way to verify that, nor can I think of any evidence in support of that premise that can withstand even most most basic scrutiny.

>How much different would the world be if Hitler had announced from day 1 his play to conquer Europe and massacre millions of people?

How do you know he didn't?
Back then, were members of a militia assumed to bring their own guns? If so, a credible militia would have been impossible.
> LGPL code is everywhere in Android and iOS.

You're not going to find LGPLv2.1 or LGPLv3 anywhere in them, however. Starting with LGPLv2.1 you are required to allow the end-user to replace a compiled binary you provided of the LPGL'ed component with their own, something that obviously cannot be guaranteed on any of the mobile platforms I listed.

I suppose I should have clarified the version, but it's important to note that the FSF has tried to pull the tivoization card with more than just v3 of their licenses.
To each their own. Durrett's text is perfectly fine. The books you mention are older, and perhaps you originally learned from them, so you still hold a torch?

In particular, sending people to Loeve for their first course in measure theoretic probability would be really cruel.

Personally, I learned from Feller, and Billingsley, and finally Durrett.
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also adds a few other things such a link highlighting, links open in new tab and search sorts by date.

how found: I wrote it.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10321678