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At the risk of getting massively downvoted:

Most of the brutal and cruel acts you listed are a result of carrying a child to birth. Surely they would have noticed that they were pregnant and had the opportunity to abort at an earlier time. Better yet, why couldn't they just... not have children? Do they not have access to contraception?
Uber did start as a limousine service so it'd be surprising if they didn't consider this scenario.
"I'm wondering how secure this method is"

Well this depends on whether the firmware has been scrutinized and hardened over time, similar to how Yubikeys just get better and better. FIDO and other initiatives are more secure because they have more eyeballs on them
> You get elected on hopes and dreams, and propose a bill, but you are a freshman. The senior guy you ask to help you sponsor the bill which is only 10 pages long then says he will support you if you add an amendment that says X, even that amendment has nothing to do with the main bill, and he has been donated money or promised campaign support by $KSTREETGROUP. If you say no, you get derailed, the bill never leaves committee, and you have made an enemy. You agree, and then the floodgates are open for 10 other sitting house members to throw in their amendments too. Before you know it, your bill is 250 pages and they removed all your original text and it's no longer your bill. If you rock the boat, you make enemies and forever get shoved aside. Agree and support the bill you introduced, that is actually now bad legislation, and all those people say they will help you next time.

The alternative is that you're a freshman congressman (so are many of the rest—term limits!—and no-one could be called senior) so you have no idea WTF is going on, so one or both of 1) long-term staff you inherited from your predecessors—mind you, I'm not even sure such people exist under the current system, so this is hypothetical, or 2) lobbyists, who really are so helpful, telling you how to get things done and summarizing complicated bills for you, and won't you just do this one little thing for them? end up running the show.
I make a point to do this in all of our company's interviews. Even if they don't end up working for us, if they speak highly about us to other developers, it can have a positive network effect. And even then, outside of corporate interests, everyone wants to be loved and appreciated - isn't that enough of a reason to be kind to each other even in situations like an interview?
Kepler is a fascinating historical figure. As a non-Catholic, he had interesting and fruitful relationships with some of the early Jesuit scientists, at a time of great religious tension between Catholics and Protestants.

See, for example: http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/guldin.h...
If your primary content is video's, then a carousel with thumbnails and no autorotation may be a very good UX element. You can't play multiple videos at the same time so showing extra full sized videos via scrolling is out of the question. Go to any video sites (i.e. YouTube, Vimeo) and you'll see that they all have what's effectively a carousel.
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Off-topic: you probably don't know the facts about the coffee case :) http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm
but its not good enough, then

thats like saying a stone wheel would be good enough

if we didn't have pneumatic/michelin tires

anything is good enough when its the only option
Or pay attention to the gates and lights?
You can do "pip install livestreamer" to install livestreamer which will automatically open the Twitch HLS URLs in VLC or another media player of your choice.

Of course Twitch should support HTML5 video though, no idea why they aren't.
Scanners designed for this purpose use X-rays and are in use by counter-terrorism and law enforcement units: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/google-street-v...
The more worrying thing about Gnome is that by being in large part done by RH employees, their antics are not confined to the DE. Over time it has dug itself deeper and deeper into Linux user space, and will probably dig itself into the kernel once Torvalds steps down as maintainer.

As best i can tell, they want to create something like a hybrid of OSX and Windows. OSX up front, and Windows in the back (to be comfortable to all those MSCEs around the corporate and government offices).
I'm just going to let this stand with no comment. It's perfect.
How does this jive with Twitch's adult content/nudity policy, which is somewhat restrictive? Where is Twitch going to draw the line on art, and will "Twitch Creative" have different rules than gaming streams?
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Unfortunately I doubt the net positive effect would be enough to bring in the money needed to fend of potential litigation when the service accidentally fixes something in a broken manner.
This is something that's always bothered me with inertia actually. You have to measure rotation against a frame of reference right?

The way I frame the problem is generally by imagining a gyroscope (say, a spinning bike wheel) somewhere in the universe far away from any galaxy or massive body. Relative to which frame of reference will it maintain orientation?
A similar experiment is being used to ask whether we live inside a digital computer simulation, AKA The Matrix. Both situations would be "pixelated". But one would be due to the fundamental fabric of space-time and the other to The Architect running the simulation. I wonder if there are experiments to distinguish the two.
> Looking up love in the dictionary is useless.

Establishing the agreed-upon definition for words used in communication is a sensible thing. Otherwise everybody is free to interpret things however they want (such as my correspondent, jMyles, treating love as an "act") leading to communication being rendered ineffective.

> You're stuck in language.

No (language is merely a tool; it is not possible to be "stuck" on it unless you have an emotional hold). However it would seem that as you find establishing the agreed-upon definition to be useless it may well be the case that you are stuck in less useful one-liner responses (especially going by your comment history).
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They're trying to build ecosystems around streaming. Gaming has taken off and is sustaining itself, so it only makes sense for them to try and expand into newer realms.
You'd expect a chief pathologist or someone from that field. But if they are licensed medical doctors that is good. Usually there is also a Chief Medical Officer.
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It'd be interesting to see how someone handles vehicle routing problem on a large scale, quickly and optimally.
You got one inbuilt. It's logic goes something like

if myself.is_near(train_tracks) and (myself.can_see(train) or myself.can_hear(train)):
myself.risk_of_oncoming_train = True
As the title doesn't indicate, this is a pretty big deal. Full host compromise from a guest that always works and doesn't leave any traces. Amazon is claiming it doesn't affect them[0], but they don't give any details as to why.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/XSAsecuri...
Which is an utter shame.
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Do you have a statistical source for this assertion?
Here is the Innocence Project's original habeas petition: http://www.innocenceproject.org/files/imported/morton_writ_f.... It does not mention either the bandana nor the semen in its list (at 8-9) of evidence withheld by the prosecution in violation of Brady. The semen had been introduced at trial to support the prosecution's theory that Morton had masturbated over his wife's dead body (see 13). Morton requested a DNA test in 1990 that showed the semen was his.

Also note that the investigation and trial were in 1986-87. The first use of DNA testing in a criminal was in 1987, and testing would not be routine until many years later.
How do / would you prefer to find "news"? I treat HN as a stream of stuff I would have missed otherwise with my limited set of RSS feeds (like you, limited on purpose to avoid making them infinite).

Seems like there's a follow-up: do you find reading actual news to be a waste of time?
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If you engage in any business that requires or benefits from a working relationship with the political system, then employing lots of people is, without a doubt, a positive aspect of your business.
What problems are there that software engineering can help fix? You sorta left us hanging there :)
With all the nonsense yesterday about the military's lost ballon and what a boondoggle the whole program was, I was thinking they should be repurposed to provide internet.
The US should fix immigration and patents or kiss its innovation edge goodbye
Anything less than the harshest possible punishment is being lenient.

This isn't a case where a man is desperate for money or undereducated or is in a fit of rage or has a mental condition. This prosecutor has years of professional training which includes ethics courses. He knew exactly what he was doing. He wanted the conviction to appear tough, and damn the consequences.

I'd throw him in solitary for a year and never allow him access to a clock or calendar.
Earlier this week the UK media were reporting that some parts of London rates of TB up to 150 cases per 100,000 population - higher than Iraq, Eritrea and Rwanda.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/27/tb-rates-in-p...
She's a witch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
Does it significantly damage the image of Twitch as the place to go for gaming streams? YouTube has been gaining a lot of high production quality content makers for a while now (e.g. web series and music videos) but I feel like it still holds its reputation as the place to go for more independently made content as well.
> a staggering 20GW of overproduction

> the recent drought

Desalination is normally shot down for being very wasteful of energy, but given the energy can't otherwise be stored and California seems in constant drought, are there any reasons why isn't it a viable use of the surplus energy in this scenario?
Cool concept, but it keeps crashing (iPhone 6, iOS8.4)
Kids these days use all kinds of fancy throbbing, pulsating and gyrating add-ons using for example oh-my-zsh [0] and the like.

0. https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
Can you elaborate on a monitor stand & arms that would work well for a setup like this?
Brits do and our police shootings count is pretty low as well.
Just as companies are responsible for the conduct of their employees, the state is responsible for the conduct of government officials. It's the responsibility of the state to fix things as best it can be fixed.
I really like the Hanke-Henry calendar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanke-Henry_Permanent_Calend...
Stallman wins again :)

also... woah, old iTunes
Yes, they are responsible for killing them. It's a conscience decision an executioner makes to kill those the state deems worthy of execution.
Hi I'm Chris, one of the creators of the Starling. Here's a link to the Stanford research on early childhood language processing if you or anyone else is interested:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/langlearninglab/cgi-bin/publi...

There's more from other research institutions, but Anne Fernald from Stanford's Language Learning Lab is has been an advisor of ours since the beginning.

On affordability, it's not lost on us that the Starling costs less than a single day's tuition at Stanford. We hope to make it more affordable still.
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This article breaks down the Grant Study at Harvard Medical School, which is one of the longest-running longitudinal studies ever (at over 75 years)[1]. The primary researcher has written several books[2][3] on the topic, and it's a fascinating study.

One thing to remember is that happiness is relative and changes over your lifetime. What makes you happy does not make others happy, and what makes you happy at 20 may not make you happy at 30 or 40. It's easy for HNers to read an article like this and strive to achieve happiness in the boxes defined in this article, but living authentically in what gives you happiness is just as (if not more) important than the tenants that are outlined in this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Study

[2] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674004146

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Aging-Well-Surprising-Guideposts-Devel...
Easier proposal would be no rider bills whatsoever. All proposed legislation must be published online two weeks in advance. And the like.
TIL some people actually believe the things Mubarak says.
It's entirely plausible that those things are not profitable enterprises any more. A user doesn't have to surrender his/her privacy to prop up a dying industry.

It's possible that journalism becomes supported by patronage the way art once was.
That's not completely true.

Some anti-Microsoft types (about 15 or 20 years ago) were outraged after it was pointed out that (according to the headers of the posts) Ritchie's posts to the 9fans mailing list were being sent from Microsoft Outlook.

Maybe the lesson here is that people who accomplish a lot tend to be pragmatic?
I recently spent a few months in Buenos Aires, and these sort of "illegal" restaurants (in the chef's home) are common and have been for years. In fact, they're amazing. Of course, it doesn't happen EU and the US for regulatory reasons, which in a way understand. But it's so sad that great chefs that could be making a living and providing some great food (like in BA), can't because it requires a ridiculous amount of money and licenses to open and operate a legal restaurant. I understand why those laws are in place, but it's still sad. After all, most people cook at home and people rarely get sick or die from not following thorough best practices. Mind you, these illegal restaurants are usually quite small, so they don't really cook at an "industrial scale" like a lot of restaurants do. At one I went we were just 8 random people sitting around a table, and the meal (and company) was amazing. More info: http://munchies.vice.com/articles/argentinas-best-restaurant...
Does anyone know why Dennis Ritchie's screenshot has all that noise? It's almost like it was printed and then scanned back.
High School reunions are the unsophisticated version of this study. You get a snapshot of your cohorts emotional state every 5 or 10 years. In the long term some grow into a state of peace and others descend in competition and bitterness.
Be aware also that federal courts only hear a very tiny percentage of criminal cases.
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Ask HN: Anyone ever moved from SF to midwest start a company?
I work at a big tech company in the bay area and hope to start my own small online business someday. I'd love to start testing ideas at nights and on weekends. But, in the bay rent is outrageously high and the commute is draining--I feel really tired by the time I get home and end up not working on my small business. I could push through this or look for alternative setups. I'm always amazed by how affordable rent is in the midwest. Has anyone ever saved up some money, taken the plunge, and moved to a more affordable place to start a company? Would love to hear your stories/take on the idea.
>> and an adult human at least occasionally answers

Funny you should mention, because that is exactly what worked for me. Every time I get a marketing call I say I'm 17 so I can't buy anything from them, sorry.
"You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license."

The traditional "license" to have children used to be marriage, and children born without such a license were called illegitimate - i.e. outside the law. It was an unjust system that hurt a lot of innocent children, and we've moved away from it for a reason.
I (think I) understood the GP post, I just have very little tolerance for idiotic and easily falsifiable statements. Therefore, I chose to respond to the first sentence only, and ignore the rest of the post.

My use of that population number was simply that: a refutation of the assertion that the earth has no population limit, as it will be hard to argue that our planet can support 10^9980 humans per square millimeter of land area. A genuine "argumentum ad absurdum", to counter the GP's completely nonsensical opening statement.
> Problem is that they contradict each other and we have no way to combine them in ways that make sense philosophically

No, that's not true. The classical world is an emergent property of the quantum world, and the manner in which it arises is perfectly well understood. It's just that the popular press has not gotten the memo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
Yeah, but you have cause to trust your friends. Your friends have accumulated reputation with you, so you have reason to trust them. Not so much with random strangers.
I didn't mean to insinuate it was damaging, just that the brand would be diluted. Yes, if they can pull it off and maintain and support the different communities - then it won't be "damaged."
Anymore, answering the phone simply because it is ringing is an anachronism. Ditto to having a land-line (especially without caller ID!). These companies pushed so hard that they've pushed all the sensible folks out of their reach permanently. And kudos to the new wave of phone OSs that allow for blocking any number from your phone itself. We saw that the government wasn't going to do it, carriers certainly didn't do it, so companies and individuals did it.
Great to see the Blockchain on the cover of the Economist, with a proper emphasis on underlying technical promise and not distracted discussion of Bitcoin. Also promising:

"Drawing up regulations for blockchains at this early stage would be a mistake: the history of peer-to-peer technology suggests that it is likely to be several years before the technology’s full potential becomes clear. In the meantime regulators should stay their hands, or find ways to accommodate new approaches within existing frameworks, rather than risk stifling a fast-evolving idea with overly prescriptive rules."
i assume they are thinking that they'd like to expand into new areas, and this was the best way they could think of to do it. do you have a better idea?
What is an aspiring middle manager? Is that a programmer age reference? What is a rock star? Does not being a rock star mean you're a rock?
There's a difference? As far as I'm concerned, there is no such thing as a legit cold call to my home number.
Jon Stewart's beautiful 12-acre farm is now a safe haven for abused animals
It wasn't terrible for its original purpose, which was to livestream a man named Justin's life continuously, a la the Truman Show.
Stallman may be the only serious computer user who hasn't paid for a Windows license
Indeed. I didn't took into account the possibility of having my access to AWS service cut off if there are some problems on the shop account side. Looks obvious now.

It is good that Amazon is protecting user accounts. But the way it was handled in my case is scary - writing just that my "account is closed", it "cannot be reopened" and it's the end, when I have a few sites running on AWS managed to frighten me ;) Maybe they would try to contact me before by phone if I didn't live in Eastern Europe, who knows?

Fortunately, an hour ago I received an email from Amazon saying that my account has been reinstated, so these few times I've contacted them about this problem have an effect.
Because a hash function in version control system is a cryptographic application — it's important to be able to verify the integrity of repository.
The new board is:

20% military - James Mattis, retired USMC general

20% legal - David Boies, lawyer extraordinaire

20% construction/civil engineering - Riley Bechtel
Yes. Obvious scammer calls, skip answering a few times, same scammer keeps calling, answer & ask, poof, no more calls.

Of course it doesn't end such calls altogether, but 2 a week is a damn sight better than several a day.

Do you have direct knowledge that they would not bother managing their call lists, or do we have dueling suppositions?
Plea bargaining should be illegal. It creates a situation where the sentence isn't connected to one's guilt or danger to society, but rather to one's ability to judge their chances in court and get a good deal for themselves. If someone is a genuine threat to society, then shouldn't get out of prison while they're still a danger just because they saw a deal as beneficial and decided to take it. If someone's innocent, they shouldn't be given an incentive (threatened) to say they're guilty.

We also wouldn't have the situation where prosecutors let wealthy and influential people off the hook and then later claim, "hey, it was the best plea deal we could get."
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Kepler became a founding father of the scientific method, with his Christian conviction that the material universe should necessarily be ordered and not chaotic and have laws for mankind to discover, if it was indeed created by the LORD of the Bible.

Interestingly, Kepler was also a student of the brilliant Greek scholar Melanchthon who was himself a student of Martin Luther.
it is just as brutal and cruel as US cop.in china,one child was a law,you want more child,you pay more money,it was called Social maintenance fees.but someone did not want to pay the money,so come the brutal and cruel just like US cop shoot on blacks,but in china the one child law-executor has no gun,and they are base officer,they have more pressure and want more benefit than US cop
My blog http://blog.higg.im/ sits on a private NGINX server and is proxied with a CDN to address traffic spikes. I used to think my blog didn't get that much traffc and a CDN seemed like overkill. I never liked serving a site from the raw Apex IP because it's too easy to boot offline (DDOS'd).

I wrote about this setup on the blog:

"Why I run this blog on MaxCDN and Ghost"

http://blog.higg.im/2015/02/10/why-i-run-this-blog-on-maxcdn...

And very worth it getting a site off the apex too:

http://blog.higg.im/2014/03/10/getting-jque-re-off-the-apex/
No, the toys are "Lego sets", the individual pieces are "Lego bricks". What is "a Lego"? That's why you can't pluralise it.

Also, it's not an English language-wide thing, it's - as far as I'm aware - limited the US; certainly not practised in the UK.
It could influence whether or not someone exists in the future.

Some star in an obscure galaxy went supernova, and none of us would be here if it hadn't.
The coffee trial is one of my pet peeves. The lady had severe burns on her legs, genitals and torso. She had to go to the icu, and then to a burn clinic, and then later went through at least one round of surgery. The location that served the coffee had been written up for the temperature being way too high, but no one ever acted on it. IIRC that penalty was appealed, and I think they settled on a lesser amount later.

Also, part of having a healthy justice system is having the ability to sue for literally any, or no reason. In an ideal world a flagrant lawsuit would just get thrown out without any harm to either party. Unfortunately we've built a system where a suit can bankrupt either party, so it turns into a war of attrition.