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frankly it makes me mad/sad that its so high up on a site like HN

I don't get that mindset. Who cares if it's a "quality" story or not, so long as it sparks an interesting discussion? And the thing about the HN crowd is, even the most banal articles can, and often do, spark a really interesting discussion.

I would argue that upvoting this isn't upvoting this specific link or this specific story...it's just upvoting the general topic.
Judging by the downvotes people are more interested in the story than in the truth, I'll try one more time, but I suspect it's pointless.

>>There is NO law requiring death from eating pork!

> I don't see anywhere in the article that even remotely suggested there is. And I certainly made no such claim.

You wrote: "even in the face of death, a Jew must refuse pork in order to remain true to his people"

So yes you did make such a claim, and no, it's not true. In the face of death a Jew MAY eat pork, and is actually REQUIRED to eat pork. Except in a public case like in the story.

> Eleazar was killed for refusing to eat pork .... I think pork has at least something to do with that.

If he was ordered to eat an apple from a tree less than 3 years old the story would play out identically. The pork is completely incidental, yet the author makes it central to his narrative.

> The eating of pork products was a key point of differentiation between the Romans and the Jews ..... not because the dietary laws relating to pigs are more important (to the Jews) than the other laws, but because the Romans ate a lot of pork products

So you do get it at least somewhat. But the author does not. The author makes the refusal to eat pork as something very important to the Jews to maintain purity, when actually pork does not hold any such central position. ALL the dietary laws are to maintain purity, pork is not more important than the rest.

The author believes Jews did not eat pork because it was physically unclean and they were required to maintain purity. This is false. Jews did not drink camel milk either - are camels physically unclean?

I can totally see how the Romans would elevate pork above other restrictions, but that's a story about the Romans not about the Jews, and it has nothing to do with the eating habits of a Pig. The Jews did not think "I don't eat pork therefore I am apart from you", pork was not the thing that separated them.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/...
Poor community: bail bonds, pawn shop, payday loans, dollar store, cash checking

Affluent community: party planning, wine shop, dessert specialty shop, boutique clothing, european car dealership
Your statement reads as if you're bothered by the lack of usage / credit towards `bthread`? (Sincere question...)

You write excellent code, most notably `elliptic`; your work on Node.js/io.js is much appreciated! I think the problem is that you don't prioritize documentation. The reality is that consumers of libraries need to know two things: 1) how said library can help save time / be a hero, etc 2) how to use said library.

Keep writing the awesome code that you do. Next time, maybe spend bit more time on documentation, and I think you'll see more traction :)
From a real estate agent, yes, I would surprised if that was not forbidden by the Fair Housing Act. Also, I assume, from landlords or sellers. But I also assume that does not extend to people who are part of the renting and selling of homes.
Because god forbid someone be able to actually find out from their real estate agent if a property is in a good part of town or not.
What would be a viable option for you? For many people, an 80 mile range EV is already viable for a daily commute car.
"It absolutely is not illegal to provide answers to that question more directly when selling real estate"

As applied in the US (not the original article, but I suspect where nsxwolf is talking about), the Federal Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) would prohibit certain questions from being answered.

http://www.jmls.edu/clinics/fairhousing/pdf/fair-housing-pri...
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Yep, initial commit for tox is 2010. tox.chat is 2013.
To address your responses collectively:

(1) "You normally don't accelerate while reversing" sounds odd to my ears: from my understanding of physics, one has to accelerate in the initial stages of moving either forward or backward.

(2) The first person was struck while recording the the car's license number (i.e. from behind the car); this increases the chance that the driver didn't see them. The second person was struck while "approaching" the car; also increasing the chance that the driver didn't see him. (As opposed to say: standing ahead and at a safe distance from the car, firmly and without moving, gesturing the driver to stop).

(3) "At minimum, they'd have to show that the Tesla guards were trying to kill them or inflict grievous bodily harm." -- No, they just have to say "We thought we'd be caught, and our careers would be ruined -- so we panicked. We beg our victims for forgiveness, and we beg the court for forbearance and mercy."

(4) I'm certainly not positing that this was an "accident" (let alone "purely accidental"). My reading is that it was most likely an incident of reckless driving, triggered by the fact that the reporters knew they were caught red-handed, and were desperate to escape (and quite likely simply panicking). And one can easily imagine scenarios where (in their haste) they simply didn't see either of the 2 persons -- one of whom was approaching the car; the other who was standing behind; both perhaps from skew angles.

We both agree that the driver's behavior was at least criminally negligent. I just don't see a need to introduce a narrative in which the driver intentionally or even knowingly struck either of the victims -- when the facts at hand do not, beyond a reasonable degree of doubt, support such an interpretation.
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There was an additional talk on this subject from Bryan Cantrill at Surge 2015 which should be available in video form soon. Interested parties might want to follow @OmniTI on twitter to catch the announcement.
Funny - I had a conversation with a friend about this exact topic the other day.

Painting a few (old) walls in my apartment. I asked the original designer what color they were, and she confidently replied "Swiss Coffee". Great! So I got to Lowes only to find out....there are about 35 different variations on Swiss Coffee.

We seem to have solved the color issue when it comes to programming - hex codes are (relatively) easy. Why are we still choosing our home paints based on horribly arbitrary names like "Shadow Mist" and "Lily Pond" ... ?

(And yes, I know the actual answer - branding! Why would you buy Brand A over Brand B if all the colors get commoditized into hex codes....the answer is...you wouldn't. So? Fancy names for everyone!)
This is about transferring IP ownership, since it's a chrome extension he probably doesn't even have any source code to hand over.

There's not really anything he needs to do after he receives the money, the contracts should be signed before the money is sent and only become active after the money is received.
I would agree, if the tool weren't a simple Python script. You can just "wget" the .py file and copy it into your source tree -- no need to mess with any package managers or anything.

Or you can write code generation in C, like the sqlite lemon parser, and then you really don't need any more tools.
I thought it too, until started (resumed) writing with fountain pens. The ink leaks through the page awfully.
If it takes two minutes to load a 100kb page, does it take twenty minutes to watch a 1MB video? Over three hours to watch a 10MB video?
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I have a similar setup. I live in San Jose, and with a digital antenna and an amplifier, I get more than 60 channels, with 20+ in flawless HD. The farthest I think is in Napa. A not insubstantial number of them are in Vietnamese, but still. Sometimes it's nice to just turn on the TV and watch whatever's on in the background instead of having to choose something on Netflix or Hulu.
Protected class in the Fair Housing Act, so in the US (I have no idea about the UK) it is true. One online real estate statistics site got hit with it but its been a while so I don't remember who.
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> However when you get angry about something that someone didn't intend, it stifles discussion.

I think we've been having a rip roaring good discussion tho.
There was no scientific merit in your comment. You mentioned that some studies out of a list of many that disagreed with your opinion had potential for bias in their conclusions due to external motives. I merely pointed out the same potential for bias in your conclusions.
Pretty funny story considering YouTube is back to unusable on slow connections. They used to buffer the full video, so you could load up a page, let it sit until the video buffers, then watch it eventually, maybe after reading your social news sites. Nowadays the buffering feature has been removed and you'll just come back, hit play, get a second or two of video, then it has nothing again for a long time.

Feels bad for the engineer who spent all that time reducing the size and finding out it made YouTube much more usable across the globe. Amusingly, disabling buffering was probably some penny wise pound foolish way to save bandwidth.
The actual replacement cost of a new 85 kWh battery is $25k, over twice as much as the blog uses to justify its conclusions.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/45988-Model-S-...

I couldn't find the original source for the $12k claim, but some articles mention this is the price after 8 years. They had a deal where you prepay $12k now and get your battery in 8 years, which sounds too similar to be a different deal and can't be used to support a $/kWh claim.
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In WW1, helmets were introduced to protect soldiers. Surprisingly the frequency of head wounds went way up. It took a little while to realize soldiers were "just" being wounded, rather than outright killed if they had no helmet.
Ugh, P.C. white people annoy me. You're not better than a racist, you're just better intentioned.

Why on earth would we that poverty and fried chicken (and black people) aren't associated? Racism begets poverty, and poverty begets lack of nutritional education and resources, which causes black people to consume more cheap, fatty foods. Throw in a lot of southern and caribbean cultures, and that equates to fried chicken.

Your political correctness is counterproductive. Calling this discussion racist prevents people from talking about it. White people coming up with reasons to cry "racism" so they can feel good about themselves is just another variation of racism. Instead, how about you listen to actual black people.
My claim is that campus rape is (probably) not a serious problem in terms of incidence. The implication in my statement is that the phrase "serious problem", in this context, is generally used to imply that campus rape has reached epidemic proportions. There is much evidence to the contrary, as mentioned in the article.
This would actually be a lot better with speech recognition built in. Is that something in the works?
A good one, but it only works in Polish.
Not really. Let me check... according to Wikipedia, hydrogen has energy density of 142 MJ/kg.

In 2014, about 136.78 billion gallons of gasoline was consumed in the US, which is about 518 billion liters. Gasoline has energy density of 32.4 MJ/L, so this amounts to 1.68 x 10^19 J = 16.8 EJ.

If all this gasoline converts to hydrogen economy, we get 118 billion kilograms of hydrogen (per year), which will produce 1.06 trillion kilograms (or 1.06 billion tons) of water.

An estimate for the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere says 12,900 cubic kilometers, or 12.9 trillion tons.

So, not exactly a drop in the bucket, but more like a teaspoon in the bucket, I guess.
I agree that there are times when it fails, although I am not so sure we would agree on when exactly that happens. But it's a bit of a stretch to say that anything not perfect does not work -- particularly since there isn't that much agreement about how it should work.
There was a Hollywood movie about the topic last year, GOOD KILL. It didn't get much attention or promotion and flopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Kill
I want to take them at their word...but it's more up to Google, isn't it? And doesn't Google still rely (in part) on the canonical meta tag to resolve duplicates? Currently, the posted Medium post has this:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://medium.com/engineering-at-ifttt/data-infrastructure-at-ifttt-35414841f9b5">

It would be relatively easy for Medium to appropriately set that tag -- I mean, if "original URL" is captured somewhere in the API, or in the Medium post-create-admin interface (I don't know, I haven't logged into my own Medium for awhile)...that would explicitly resolve the ambiguity, though at an obvious cost to their own SEO.
Simple answer: Writing a responsive site is much faster and easier to maintain than creating two versions of the same site. And it wouldn't it be just two, you also have to support tablets, various desktop sizes, and various mobile sizes. Custom versions for each one isn't feasible.

Also, if you care about page and weight and optimization, your site will be light everywhere, and the criticism of shoehorning a big bloated desktop site into a phone won't apply. This is not that difficult to achieve.
JavaScript isn't the problem, but it seems to always take the blame. And its not even slow.

Here are a couple of real culprits:

* Advertising / analytics / social sharing companies. They deliver a boatload of code that does very little for the end-user.

* REST and HTTP 1 in combination. A page needs many different types of data. REST makes us send multiple requests for different kinds of data, often resulting with those 60-80 requests mentioned above. We could be sending a single request for some of them (e.g. GraphQL) or we could get HTTP 2 multiplexing and server push which completely fix that problem.

* JSON. Its simple but woefully inadequate. Has no built in mechanisms for encoding multiple references to the same object or for cyclic references. Want to download all the comments with the user info for every user? You have a choice between repeating the user info per comment, requesting the comments first then the users by id (two requests) or using a serialisation mechanism that supports object references (isn't pure JSON)

* The DOM. Its slow and full of old cruft that takes up memory and increases execution time.
After the disaster that is Carousel (particularly on iOS), I am extremely reluctant to use any other dropbox apps.

Carousel has had major bugs in their iOS client that have not been fixed in nearly a year. I'm talking core features, like background upload of photos not working, which could have led to the loss of priceless photos of my kids, had I not been more vigilant before taking my phone in for service.

Its a fair bet that a goodly number of dropbox customers have lost photos due to this bug. No fix in sight.
I worked with Anuj at LinkedIn, so I'm thinking the most pedestrian answer is that Kafka works, and it's a familiar tool.
This never came up in my research (although I was biased against Tivo), but I just checked and it said:

"$14.99 Monthly service with 1-year commitment"

Do you (or anyone else) know if the Tivo will work without an internet connection?
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> As applied in the US (not the original article, but I suspect where nsxwolf is talking about), the Federal Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) would prohibit certain questions from being answered.

I can't find anything in your source to support that claim that answering questions would be prohibited, in fact, it seems to directly contradict the claim about merely providing an opinion on school quality being prohibited as steering (p. 12, "Racial steering is where a real estate agent steers white persons to one community
or area and minorities to another community or area. [...] The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held the proof of a discriminatory motive is required in a steering case.")
> It's relevant every time Dropbox is mentioned

I disagree. If the thread is about Dropbox in relation to their security/privacy, then yes, it's relevant. In a thread announcing a new service, with no other mention to privacy? Not so much.

That said, I'm not saying it's not important to bring it up. It's very much important to discuss the implications of something like that, and people clearly didn't know about it judging by the comments here. But I disagree that this is the right place for it; a repost of that thread from 2 years ago I'd consider more appropriate for this discussion.
btw they were Iraqi not Iranian
Also see Rice's partaking in justifying torture, holding people without charging them with a crime, and indefinite detention. And that is just the things that have come out. Any company willing to associate with such a person deserves to go under.
This seems similar to how focused the American car companies in the 90s and Oughts seemed on Hydrogen Fuel Cells: a lot of it just seemed to be perverse market incentives, including Government research grants, to build proofs of concept HFC vehicles with no actual practicality. That said, at least it doesn't seem to be all Japanese manufacturers as thus far Nissan seems to be fairly transparent that they are focused on electric vehicles.
> The current market capitalization of BitCoin is $3.7 billion.

By definition only publicly traded companies have a market capitalization. BitCoin is not a publicly traded company and therefore does not have one.
love you guys. super smart and focused. surprised you're not looking for venture funding :) keep up the awesome work.
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That's interesting. Wouldn't that logic excuse the "weapons" though? A common nazi excuse after WWII was that they were just obeying orders. That excuse seems to have been wildly disregarded.

Edit: Yes, I am very aware both parties should then be considered morally responsible.
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We had something similar with Comcast in SF - 2 boxes and 1 dvr in the house, '50Mb' (I'll leave that in quotes) down, 10'ish-maybe up.

When we first moved into our place last year, the internet was stable and worked well enough (I say well enough because the d/l speed would fluctuate pretty consistently at night). Sometimes there was a hiccup, but overall, it worked.

Then this summer hit. No warning, no reasons, nothing - internet no longer stayed stable. It was all over the place. Some nights, 2mb down. So, you have to spend the time to talk to tech people since it's late at night and the kids are asleep and you just don't feel like getting on the phone to battle.

Got the usual excuses that service was being upgraded in the street, the line looked fine to them, it must be something on our end (that one's always predictable). Annnd of course, a tech came out, twiddled and fiddled and discovered our signal was low. Weird that it just happened now and now when the second cable run was installed when we moved in.

Because my wife and I (sadly) work from home after hours, when you have no internet, you're screwed. We weren't watching tv anymore and when we did it was netflix or game of thrones or silicon valley - all watchable via hbo go. So, I switched to Sonic.net (the best isp in the bay area in my mind) and haven't looked back.

Sure, we're running over at&t fiber (sigh) and capped at 50 down/5 up (sigh), but it just works. We're not running 50 one day, 80 another, 10 another and we're paying about the same for internet as we were on Comcast.
Broadcast TV doesn't place any more restrictions or limitations on linearity of watching than any other transmission medium. If anything, broadcast TV places fewer restrictions since it's open access - anyone can connect and receive.

It's the devices used to receive the information, as well as the viewer's desire to be WATCH IT NOW which force the linearity.
single atoms no, but splitting atoms.. maybe
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No, Apple is not the only one

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
Why is Python so popular despite being so slow?
I started out playing with eBay searches to be able to flip stuff (made really, really good money). That turned into SEO, but I didn't want to do "full stack" SEO and thought I wanted to be a writer. I'm not sure it's around or necessary anymore; Google is a little bit smarter. Now it's more manipulating social or creating linkbait.
The Nature paper uses the phrase "data-driven hypothesis generation," which sounds pretty accurate and consistent with what you're saying.
Here's a start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0fHpQV9wHo

tldr: longer reorgs and less energy mean less security. Which, is presumably the reason to even use a blockchain
ATSC (well, 8-VSB) is pretty terrible at handling multipath. I live 12 miles from the antenna farm and ought to be able to get great reception with a bit of aluminium foil, but because I have a tree (who would have trees, right?) any one antenna position gets only about 2 channels well.

If the FCC hadn't succumbed to NIH and used the European version (COFDM), which handles multipath better, people might actually see the very nice picture available over digital broadcast.
Pusher is doing some awesome stuff with Haskell! They run a lot of the bitcoin exchange web socket APIs on their infrastructure. I'm sure they have other users too. Cool stuff.
It's a spam engine.
I don't have a financial incentive to promote healthy food, whereas the studies I've criticized do have a serious conflict of interest. It isn't difficult to see the difference.
> Well, why should people necessarily care about this issue more than about any of those?

Because their government is murdering innocent and helpless people in cold blood?

Yes, I sometimes forget that for general population, morality is inversely proportional to the square of distance...

> Also, just because people do not agree with you, does not always mean they do not care.

I know. I'm sure there are people who after careful consideration of their values and information available to them decided to support the drone strikes program. But I don't believe their number is anywhere near 60% of US population, or even 60% of people who responded to that poll.
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Ha, I posted this here the other day and it died on its arse. Random
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Personally, I consider all data I store in "the cloud" volatile and non-secure. I am confident I can retain IP for the data I upload to services but that's about it. I have no guarantees any of the devices I use are not compromised so the security of my external data feels like a moot point.
Hey. A not-so-humble-brag right here on HN!

Learning to code won't get you 60k a year.
Pantone uses coded colors (e.g. things like "#106U Bright Yellow"), with each having RGB and CMYK values, physical ink-mixing proportions for custom printing, paint standards, etc.

From what I understand it's pretty popular with corporate marketing because it takes the hassle out of getting extremely consistent colors across different physical and digital media.
He gave a newer version of this talk yesterday at Velocity NYC