skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5th Amendment--
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The fifth amendment technically only applies to the federal government, but the fourteenth amendment due process clause has been held to "incorporate" the just compensation clause against the states. The due process clause also has direct implications for eminent domain under the procedural due process cases.

With an auction system, I don't see any reason to subsidize anyone at wholesale. Environmental "use" (i.e. not letting rivers run dry) would be, and should be, considered when setting the total withdrawal permits. Given relative demand, it is highly likely that the market clearing price would be such that it would make up only a very small portion of the total retail cost to urban end users, the bulk of those costs are in purification and delivery. If anything I expect wholesale costs to urban water districts to go down. Whether or not state or local government should subsidize potable water delivery to (poor) end users is a separate issue.

Finally, I don't see what's either laughable, ugly, or demonizing about stating the facts of the matter plainly. California agriculture makes up more than 80% of California's annual water consumption. The shortfall due to reduced precipitation is far less than that.
> a significant gap between what most want and what it is

I've heard this, but what exactly is missing? Do you mean features such as a hypervisor?
WordPerfect existed before MS Word
A tank would win in the boxking ring, but it would lose a chess match.
I've used Android studio on both Linux and OSX, and there's no difference. Both work great.
Forgo JavaScript packaging? Not so fast
1. Skeptic's Guide to the Universe

2. Bilingual News バイリンガルニュース

3. Serial

4. Radiolab

5. StartUp Podcast

6. Mixergy

7. Planet Money

8. Bootstrapped with Kids Podcast

9. Lou Reads the Internet for YOU!

--- why ---

For Skeptic's Guide I just really enjoy the chemistry between the hosts and how the show has continued strong for over 500 episodes, even with one host passing away.

Bilingual news is funny because the hosts choose bizarre news to cover and manage to get on strange tangents in their discussion. It's half English half Japanese.

I don't actually enjoy crime stories usually, but Serial was absolutely gripping.

Radiolab is the peaceful thing I would choose to listen to on a bicycle ride back from the beach while the sun is setting behind the mountains.

5-8 are the opposite, high-energy startup motivational podcasts to get you pumped up.

"Lou Reads the Internet" is a podcast where the host tries to find the most disturbing content on the net and reads it out loud. It's the 4chan of podcasts, I listen to it sometimes while shopping just to add a bizarre flavor to the otherwise mundane experience.
It was a mistake to leave the trees even.
Why Can't We Build a Splash-Proof Toilet?
That's also true. Things weren't always like that when it comes to large organizations involved in FOSS development, but one would hope lessons are learned :-)
So essentially because your pet social issues have been solved to your liking you see no reason to involve yourself in the political process?

Even if I totally agreed with you on those issues it would be incredibly naive of me to think that those issues are the sole indicators of "where the country is headed" beyond the fact that there are issues beyond the social questions du jour that need settling... don't forget financial and national security problems that both sides of the aisle are very concerned about (with cause or not). Also whoever wins this election is very likely to determine if we go to war in the Middle East again, so unless a non-deterministic state of simultaneous war and peace is your objective you still have a bone in this fight.
Stop them no - but why not try to convince? When did liberal society reject the notion of trying to persuade someone to adopt your point of view?
I was fortunate enough to grow up with the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall within easy driving distance. Some of my best childhood memories are seeing the t-Rex skull at the Natural History museum and the various space vessels at the Air and Space museum. I am extremely grateful to my parents for having taken us at least once a year.
do they remain junk-free when you install manufacturer software updates? Was wondering if manufacturers are mandated to keep the signature laptops clean or if the first time you install your "control center / driver center" update it will automatically pull in things you'd rather not
Made you click, though!

(You'd think the BBC needed advertising revenue, the way they carry on at times...)
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I can't say that parenthood has more "freedom" since I am not a parent, but I do agree with your assertion that the vocally childfree types tend to be the type who favor the maximization of various treadmills.

You can tell by the reasons they give: want more time for job, want more money for travel, want more X for Y, and a kid would subtract a ton from X and therefore ruin the desired end, Y. I'm sure they're right by their standards of the moment in most of these equations, but given the pedestrian X's and Y's which they usually mention, I assume that they do not take "meaningfulness" or "fulfillment" into their calculus. It's shortsighted, but I can't blame them too much, since it's easy to forget to be human.

I also assume they don't understand the re-prioritization that occurs when people have children. I don't know first hand, but I've heard enough people squawk about parenthood to know that it reorganized their existence drastically.

It seems like parenthood is a fundamental human experience. I suppose that people can reject it, but I'm not convinced it's much different than people who reject romantic interaction and choose celibacy for essentially the same stated reasons. A valid life choice that we should accept fully, to be sure-- but a product of our fiercely competitive time rather than Platonically apriori, I think.
>If people want to terminate their gene line which traces back to the genesis of life on this planet

MY gene line traces back all the way to when I was born, and no further. My family's gene line (the one that traces back to the first living cell) is being carried forward through other people (cousins, etc.). If I really want MY genes carried on, I'll go donate sperm...

Some of us don't romanticize the idea of having genetically-related children. My wife and I both have mothers who were adopted, so we have always felt that IF we decided to have a child, we would adopt, despite being fertile, simply because it would be better to give an orphan parents than to create another human life. Our mothers sure appreciated it when they were adopted into loving families.
That's exactly true. But even GH Enterprise still has insane pricing.

Hosting a git repo and a very very basic issue tracker is so not worth $2500/year. Not to mention that even this isn't a fixed price and it grows linearly with the number of employees.

GitLab provides the same service for free. Well, at the cost of "you reading the manual and installing it on a VPS", which takes between "minutes" and "a couple of days" depending on how deep you want to go.
A VPS that can easily - easily - scale to the needs of 100 people is "$5/mo".

Looking cool and having brand recognition will indeed earn you money, but everything has its limits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/us/mississippi-house-race-...
Maybe the most famous doctors only get called in on the most difficult cases (i.e. the ones with lowest probability of survival). When they're out of town, patients with these difficult cases get sent to other hospitals where the famous doctors are not out of town.
As a firefighter, some of the newer lights include filters to change the color tone of the beam, so you have a clear filter, and orange filters, for a lot of the reasons mentioned. Smoke is thick inside a structure fire, and I'd gladly pay more for better visibility. Most people I know have typically two to three lights (I have two Streamlights on my helmet and one on my coat, see below).

- Streamlight Vantage http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/product/product.html?pid=19...
- Streetlight Survivor http://www.streamlight.com/en-us/product/product.html?pid=30...
> I guess they don't have net neutrality. Those are some of the consequences

It sounds an awful lot like Facebook's plan to give free phones and "data" to developing nations... with restricted access only to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram.[1]

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-free-internet-access-p...
Given they don't have a JVM, I don't think anything makes adopting a JVM language easier.
> This is confusing - if the goal is to have high-tech companies there, and it should be, why wait?

You state very matter-of-factly your assumption that the goal should be to have high-tech companies there. I'd want to see that claim backed up.
This raises an interesting paradox to me. How would the people writing the marketing copy for any product that was supposedly Superfish-resilient actually know that it was?

Is the solution to simply not have marketing around such technical details? Is there a solution?
It is impolite to criticize the life choices of another person, especially when those choices don't involve or affect you.
I think that Twisted is too large and complex, and I don't approve of its "tutorials only" approach to documentation.
> More heavyweight applications like Firefox or Clementine slow the system down substantially

Systems in 2007 had no problem running Firefox. I'm surprised to hear it has a significant impact.

Maybe Firefox has become much more resource intensive? That would surprise me because processors haven't gotten much faster, Mozilla has focused on reducing memory consumption and improving responsiveness, and because of the rise of mobile, a resource-constrained environment.
Not sure what you're trying to say, as all copyrighted works are made available to the general public, that being the whole purpose of copyright law.
Open-source project release checklist
There are two ways of looking at this, and those ways depend entirely on how you use Linux.

One way is that, by having a "one holy solution", you avoid fragmentation and get more stuff working on end-user's systems with minimal hassle. This is why, for example, Steam targets Ubuntu. They're the 800lb gorilla of the Linux world, and if someone is a desktop Linux user, odds are high they're using Ubuntu rather than anything else. They target the most users with the least hassle.

The end user doesn't want to mess with dependencies, compilation, desktop environments, and so forth. They want their shit to work. Fragmentation is an impediment to this from a usability standpoint, and that's before we even talk about security (e.g. Android).

The other way is that by these tightly integrated, non-interoperable stacks like Unity and Systemd make life miserable for every other Linux user in the world who values the ability that they can sample this init system, that window manager, etc, and build a system that fits their needs much more closely than any of the tightly integrated one-size-fits-all solutions.

This isn't a false dichotomy either - there are no companies out there nowadays that make good software that works really well for end users with minimal hassle, while allowing the degree of customization and interchangeability that power users demand.

So pick your poison, I guess.
[they] briefly implemented a strategy where
one in every nine vending machine bottles
was empty ... this effectively raised the
price to 5.625 cents.

Instead, charge $0.10 but 44% of the time you get your dime back along with the bottle. Effective price is the same 5.6 cents, but people are excited to get free bottles instead of mad and disappointed.

(This might be illegal, since, it's a lot like gambling, but both versions should be equally illegal.)
I'm very interesting in maintaining security and privacy while still being able to use the internet, so please don't interpret this comment as a dismissal of your concerns. I share your concerns 100%.

But I hate the phrase "ruin lives". How are lives ruined? Bad things happen to people all the time, and their lives continue. It's really a poor way to talk about these issues.
Actually there's a mountain of evidence that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to delay or avoid parenthood.

Here's just one paper:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/585126?seq=1#page_scan_tab_conte...

Individual women who happen to be relatively well known have nothing useful to tell you about social trends.
At the time I was working in the same building of the Sony offices in Brazil and overheard people commenting about the incident on the elevator. I still think it was an internal job.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scardine/random-writings/m...
Inverse offers in Mesos
Iceweasel in Debian unstable stays up to date with the latest Firefox Extended Support Release, and Iceweasel in Debian experimental stays up to date with the latest Firefox release. Packages also exist in a separate repository for the latest beta and aurora releases, as well as of the latest release packaged for stable.
If it was made with an ESP8266 instead, the hardware cost would be $10 rather than $60, and it would be simpler to build.
Well, except that it simply can not be social recommendation. Math is too big, and interesting results too sparse for that.
Facebook’s Free Internet Access Program in Developing Nations Provokes Backlash
>>I wouldn't discount the possibility, though, that a future "creative" computer manages to produce a proof indecipherable to humans...

How would this be so? The sheer length of the proof rendering it unverifiable in a human lifespan?
No, precisely the opposite should be said of engineers. Engineering is about reusing well-known techniques to achieve repeatable, predictable results whose timelines can be estimated. Engineering is not art. When civil engineers build new buildings or bridges (and I'm talking about your common building or bridge, not some iconic project), do they try to innovate and undertake to do things in some new-fangled way every time? No, because this would be extremely costly and dangerous and would render useless much of the past work that's been done testing materials and loads and so forth. When a method is known of constructing a bridge or an overpass that is both safe and economical, a good engineer should just keep doing that, with perhaps some adaption as appropriate on a case-by-case basis.

If software developers would stick with tried-and-true tools instead of inventing new frameworks to solve the same old problems and immediately obsoleting the "old" way of doing things each time, we'd have much less legacy code and likely would be much better at estimating software development tasks, and wouldn't have to solve the same problems over and over again.
I've heard good things about Mithril performance. I'll need to take a look.

Virtual DOM as a panacea may be overrated, though. Maybe React's just isn't fast enough, but if you use another way to keep track of what parts of the DOM to change, simply pushing things into the DOM can be WAY faster than using a Virtual DOM. [1]

Cycle.JS still hits my "HTML in code BAD" reaction. An example from the front page:

.map(name =>
h('div', [
h('label', 'Name:'),
h('input.field', {attributes: {type: 'text'}}),
h('h1', 'Hello ' + name)
])

So we're again mixing HTML and JavaScript, and in this case we're also reinventing the syntax. If you're going to mix HTML with JavaScript, at least using standard HTML syntax seems like a better solution.

A lot of popular frameworks are using this generated HTML approach, though (including apparently Mithril). I'm still trying to figure out if my negative reaction is justified.

[1] https://aerotwist.com/blog/react-plus-performance-equals-wha...
> Websites need servers to harness and share data. The languages that were developed to do this (PHP, Python, Rails, etc.)

Common misconception perhaps, but the _language_ is called Ruby, not Rails...
We only really know the answer to that after the fact. Even then, we only really know they aren't if they accidentally conceive and still regret it.

It's not uncommon to know someone who was childfree for years and years, only do a complete reversal when they have children late in life.

That said, it's one of those topics of conversation where I might just say (to myself), "I hope you're right." To them I'd say, "oh, cool" and drop it. It's really nobody else's business.
Why do you think software is less protected? If anything it's more protected because you can get patents over it too.
> When the only certainty is killing people, I'd question whether the incalculably remote possibility of "unforeseeable advantages" undoing that killing counts for anything at all.

I'm somewhat inclined to agree with you but I don't think misrepresenting the arguments made by proponents is the same thing as rebutting them, like you did in this second comment.

> The last thing advocates of euthanasia and DNR for the heavily-suffering should want to see is their ethical arguments muddied by cryogenics salespeople hanging round hospitals persuading people that they'd be better off dying shortly after diagnosis...

Uh, that's great and everything but it's not even remotely relevant to the point of whether QALYs are a more appropriate measure than raw years of life for measuring the effectiveness of cryogenics. Sorry if that sounded a little caustic, but I find enormously tiresome the cynical tactic of appealing to "that argument is dangerous, what if someone down the road abuses it?" when one is unwilling or unable to address a point. Particularly because you could come up with some scenario in which pretty much every assertion could be used for ill.
I am not sure that buying an Android phone is helping much from a privacy point of view. There is a reason Android is free...
As appealing as Kotlin can be, many of us are only allowed to use platform languages on customer projects.

Hence why Google's silence on the language support is so irritating.

I could do without another Android Studio release, if they provided an open roadmap for Android for whatever language they think on supporting going forward. Instead of pure silence.

As it is, we will be using Java 10 on the desktop, server and IoT devices, when they eventually remember to let us know of a new platform language.
I think automated theorem proving replaces the "search function" of a mathematician. But there is another part, which seems to be more important, is the creative insights. For example, inferring and conjecturing a theorem from few "data points". Machines at the moment do not have such capability yet.
I think the poster is referring to this paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2807675
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I've never gotten the Emulator to work in Windows (8.1), and from what I gather after some googling I did at the time it is at best challenging to do. I'm hoping the talk of new emulators as part of the instant run stuff will have Windows sorted out and not be a 3rd (or worse) class citizen again.
>but given the pedestrian X's and Y's which they usually mention, I assume that they do not take "meaningfulness" or "fulfillment" into their calculus.

OTOH, why "meaningfulness" and "fulfillment" are related to parenthood? The latter is probably quite the opposite, the all too natural reproduction step that any animal can do.

Wasn't Mozart's, Newton's, Turing's, etc life "meaningful" because? (Or Jesus', if one's included to that kind of thing).

>I also assume they don't understand the re-prioritization that occurs when people have children. I don't know first hand, but I've heard enough people squawk about parenthood to know that it reorganized their existence drastically.

It's also that later "remorse" about parenthood makes you considered a monster -- so most people would spin the experience as something amazing for that reason too.

But in practice if one counts how many sad family stories with bad parenting this "new priorities" thing is not always true.
It's a neat architecture and I use at least the ideas of it all the time, but the name has always struck me as weird, because as the author says [1] it's just arbitrary. Seems like "port-based" or "microkernal-like" or something would be better.

[1]: http://fideloper.com/hexagonal-architecture , see "Why A Hexagon"
I agree with the author. Even in a "statically typed" language like Go, which has a simple type system, compared to languages like Scala or Haskell, the benefits of static typing are very real and enables a lot of extremely useful tools (code completion, refactoring, linting, whole program analysis, etc.).
University yoga class canceled because of ‘oppression, cultural genocide’
But I hate the phrase "ruin lives". How are lives ruined? Bad things happen to people all the time, and their lives continue. It's really a poor way to talk about these issues.

Leaking of your social security number can result in your credit rating being ruined for years. This will leave you unable to take our a mortgage, buy a car, etc. etc. In the Ashley Madison hack, details of people being unfaithful in their marriages was exposed, which has led to divorce and even suicide.

If that doesn't count as a "ruined life", what does?
Currently the emulator is faster on Linux (because it can take advantage of KVM), but the new version should improve performance on Windows AFAIK
> Assuming source distribution, I do not see any special effort required.

No special effort to support Mir/Unity/upstart? Other Ubuntu-only APIs, standards, UX, Kernel/Library versions not employed by other distributions, …?

(Upstart was killed when even Canonical realized it was impossible to demand of everyone else to support their special snowflake init system.)
Start from scratch ?
Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or Specialists?
I keep saying that one of these days I want to count up the Bugs-in-drag incidents by director and see who did it the most. I probably never will.
To store all my repositories as private repositories on Github, I'd need the $200/month plan.

Yet all of this comes to less than a gigabyte, which is well under the limits of the free tiers at most major storage providers.

In terms of storage costs, Github for most projects is several orders of magnitude more expensive than other storage providers even if you ignore the free tiers.
Do any of those actually predate Visual Studio (i.e. 1997)? (Not suggesting Microsoft owns the word "Studio" but you're not actually answering the question.)

When Microsoft starting referring to its developer suite as Visual Studio it was using Studio as a catchall for all the development tools it had branded as "Visual" (starting with "Visual Basic" in the early 90s).