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You're being overly modest. You should mention your contributions to the ruby community with respect to Ruby Object Mapper as an example. I have not used it in a project, but in any future undertaking I will most certainly give it a look.

One of the reasons I've started to look more to Elixir and Ecto as ORM is because issues like immutability come up more and more.

In an ideal world we'd have a dynamic client side querying language like GraphQL, a simple application layer that maps REST to CRUD without constraints pushed upon it based on the ORM, and an ORM abstraction that allows for immutability in our models. Concurrency and race conditions are shouldn't be a developers concern when working with higher level framework.
Mr. Kerr, your story is about the Law not Justice. The first story was about Justice and how the couple didn't get any. Both are good.

What happened to "Protect and Serve". When did it become "Spy and Horas".

Why has judging become about convicting and not at all about justice. Why can the judge not say "I see ignorance and ambition" (as we all do). Think of it like manslaughter not murder. (Like you drive on bald tire, one blows, you run over a pedestrian. You didn't mean to kill them but you're still responsible.)

I smell a case where the couple could sue the drug testing company for not informing more about false positives. Or, if they do, the police for not reading them.
What Apple owes is clear to me: pay the standard U.S. corporate tax on the standard U.S. profits. Do the same for all countries.

The Apple problem is that its lawyers are deliberately avoiding using current tax codes, and instead essentially claiming that Apple is based in Ireland, then playing shell games with what counts as U.S. sales, U.S. profits, and also U.S. property. Apple ends up paying ~10% U.S. tax, rather than ~35%.

Where Apple is located is clear to me: Apple products say Cupertino and there's a gigantic new Cupertino headquarters in progress. Apple also has many subsidiary locations worldwide, and occupies real property, and hires real people; these locations should pay their respective country taxes.

Tim Cook and Apple have an opportunity and moral responsibility to help close these tax loopholes that are siphoning money out of the U.S., California, and Silicon Valley-- then do similarly with the EU and worldwide.

Specifically, the goal is to streamline tax codes to be more clear, more consistent, and more algorithmic. This would be unpopular with stockholders but it's the right thing to do for employees, customers, and countries.
There is no market for healthcare and medicines in the US. Its just an illusion.

US runs so much on the whims of the health insurance industry, that $1000 pill justifies a rich/middle class family's $1000 a month insurance premium.

Would the families/individuals pay the same expensive premium every month, if the pill was available for even $100 in US?

I pity the guy who jacked up the price of the pill in US, and got burned online. All he was doing, was to take a bigger chunk from the stinking rich health insurance companies, and providing the product in the US "Market".

I live in US and have spoken many Americans as to why they don't think of going to India for medical reasons. I was expecting some kind of a condescending / patronizing response about quality of service etc. Often, the response is that they have a "sunk cost of expensive monthly premiums", which gives them the illusion that getting treated in US costs lesser.

The blow of a $1000 pill is softened, to those who pay the expensive premiums.

As someone who moved from India to US, I can know market prices of individual tablets /medicines in India, but its way too difficult to know the "market rate" of medicines in US, unless you go by the rates shown by your health insurance company.
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Not sure SideCar is a good example. Investors are pouring billions of dollars into Uber and Lyft in an attempt to get the monopoly position. That doesn't sound much like a natural "winner take all".

Google got lucky because AltaVista was run by Digital Equipment Corporation, whose marketing was legendarily bad (slogan: "DEC has it now, but you can't have it.")
I've played with this kind of stuff in the past, it's a lot of fun. Have you tried shading the triangles so each is colored as the interpolation of the color at the vertices?

I've wondered what a video codec for this would look like, compute the triangulation for I frames and in between just tweak the location of the points, when triangulation is totally broken, time for a new I frame. It's somewhat slow to compute, but displays well on hardware optimized for displaying triangles...
Agreed. I think it can be fairly argued that the officers in question did not, in fact, know how shitty their field test was. Unfortunately it could just as fairly be argued that they did know and would gleefully make use of an investigative tool they knew was faulty at every opportunity just because it increases their odds of making an arrest (and then lie about it).
"a debugger becomes even more obsolete and cumbersome"

I'm struck by the analogy that I entered the programming game juuuust after front panels went away from minis, a long time ago, and there was much crying about how the programming world really needs front panels to debug code at that time. Nobody demands a front panel to debug code now, of course.

Anyway my point is I wonder if something better than a debugger will ever evolve. Much like front panels were replaced by technology or were no longer relevant for the task. A smart AI agent providing advice? Crowd sourced code reviews? Maybe nothing at all, unfortunately.
Championing privacy over fixing the reasons we need privacy is the ultimate kicking of the can down the road - encryption won't prevent the government from harassing me based on my skin color or my choice of employment, or anything else I do or am that can't be encrypted.

> let's say someone thinks it is moral to impose their will on to others

I don't know how to respond to that as any rights and morals you could legitimately give yourself or obey by definition can not depend on other people's compliance.

> Good fences make good neighbors - privacy is a fence.

Really? Do you even know your neighbors? Would you really argue that you'd know them less or that they or you'd be "worse" if you didn't have fences?
"entry" is a fantasticly sinister name if you're writing the sql directly in your application though. object would be hilarious in java assuming the compiler lets you do that.
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I completely agree with you, while I know $40+mm means $40M it is only because of context, not because I actually parse it as "thousand thousand". In my mind mm is millimeter, even as an American.

HN is the only place I see this notation used.

The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

https://xkcd.com/927/
> The point, though, is that under the right conditions, brain damage may paradoxically result in brain enhancement.

Makes me think of one of my favorite stories: 'Understand' by Ted Chiang. In the story, brain-damaged people treated with an experimental drug gain superintelligence.
>is most likely he was having some major mental issues just due to the tweets linked here

I don't think we're in any position whatsoever to say this.

Was he experiencing major mental issues when he wrote the tweets? Probably. Are such mental issues feasible to occur due to abuse at the hands of police? Sure. Is it also feasible that such mental issues could result in routine policework seeming like abuse? Yes.

There's not enough information available to us for it to be anything but irresponsible to speculate on whether this mental condition was the cause or the effect of whatever it was that occurred with the police.
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It wouldnt stream for me.
I'd say that because of history the connotation of the relationship with the state has become the exact opposite and the rule of law has been established. It started to change with Magna Carta:

https://www.runnymede.gov.uk/magnacarta

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/medieval/magna...

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/contents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
I'm not qualified to comment on what's "good" or not. I'd just be willing to bet that if you wrote your own best-of with better/reproducible methodology AND borrowing some established copywriting practices you'd easily outrank this post... but only if you do both parts.
It may look like it is not in loop constructs, but it is. `for` and friends just apply `local` scoping to `$_` internally.
No! No! No!

What you legally owe in taxes, in a reasonable tax structure, has NOTHING to do with your moral compass. You should be able to plug numbers into a spreadsheet and get it.

I'm not saying that taxes are bad. We need tax revenue. I get that. But there should NEVER, EVER, be two legally correct answers to how much you owe.

The fact that you had to spend paragraphs making your case, makes mine -- when you resort to emotional appeal to try to get people to pay their taxes, the system is completely broken.

Edit: the original comment said that this was clear to anyone with a "moral compass"
The primary goal is to get Apple to pay U.S. taxes on U.S. sales.

The linked Forbes article is a great introduction, but unless I'm reading it wrong, it covers how Apple avoids US taxes on foreign sales, not US taxes on US sales. How exactly are they avoiding US taxes on US sales?

The US practice of taxing entities (corporations and people) on their global income based on citizenship instead of residency is just stupid, so Apple is in the legal and moral right here in my view.
It also took Italy to remind Apple to honour the EU's consumer rights: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/03/apple-eu-warr....

Don't know what it is Italy's got going for it, but they're doing something right.
Yeah. This article seems really to just be saying that the reality was more nuanced than the headline of the original article (which I stumbled upon and posted here on Monday). But of course had you continued reading past the headline of that article, you would have drawn the same conclusion.

I do appreciate the additional information about the situation that was covered in this article, though.
Again, this would require us to reject most advances in software after 1968 if we are to apply the logic consistently. Go back to single-tasking, cooperatively multithreaded systems with static file allocation tables and no access control. Actually even the Multics of 1968 was far more advanced than that.

Fact is, without debuggers, most highly subtle war story bugs would go unsolved. Logic analyzers, tracers and ICEs are debuggers, too. "Debugger" doesn't just mean gdb. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
I agree with one caveat, the "leadership" you mention is actually "management". Actual leadership requires you to do a hell of a lot more than just what you're told/serving your own bottom line.
> separate firefox profile...

Is it possible to run it in a tab-less chrome/ff instance through arguments? If not, this should be possible.
Sell it to a country that has the technology level needed to copy it. Russia and China likely would be interested; they might not want to do business with the Taliban directly, but might be willing to buy them through a middle man, say Pakistan.

It is fairly common for countries to let other powers take a look at technology that lands in their hands (sometimes before returning it to them). See for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko#Aftermath
I'm not convinced a (mandatory) app is always seen as added value - often it can be a liability instead.

But anyway, it's not clear to me at all that the owner would want such statistics or sees them as valuable. They bought the product to solve a specific problem - get their cat to exercise - and I assume the value they expect from it is to see their cat interact with the toy and eventually lose fat.

The statistics are all nice and well and may even be of interest to some customers - but that's in no relation to the hefty price that all customers are paying for them: That suddenly your cat toy requires a smartphone, an internet connection and an external cloud service to function. (Not to mention the collected data itself)

Things would be different if the cloud service was an obvious requirement for the product's core function - e.g. a location tracker that lets you find out where your cat is right now via smartphone. But that's not the case here in my opinion.
Google would only need to fork and rename though, then Oracle wouldn't be running it. If using the fork were a requirement to running on Android, that's a big draw.

I'm not sure Google is really interested in that though.
It doesn't reduce average wait time, but the variance in wait times.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/

We are already there.
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I am a hydrographer in the NT working out in very remote areas- Phone reception is rarely possible for such monitoring sites. Currently we use satellite Comms. to relay water data home, but this is very expensive and prone to failure.

I'm wondering if you, or anyone else, has some ideas on long range communication strategies for large areas (NT is 1.4 million km2).

The area we are required to cover generally means sites are chosen based on accessibility rather than operational importance — it would be great if we could expand the network with low maintenance loggers capable of communicating long distances.
I really hope a Streisand effect happens here. Even though I'm not a fan of TOS, I'm definitely going to be contributing to the film and / or any legal defense fund they setup.

Copyright refers to concrete expressions of ideas, not characters or similar concepts; this is an abuse.
At AWS we had some tests which involved adding stuff to DynamoDB. Since it's eventually consistent, sometimes the tests would fail because some assertions wouldn't be true until some time later. Of course we tried to make them succeed every time with retries, but we didn't want the tests to take forever either.

So, it was expected that the tests would fail once in a while. Maybe there could be a better way to handle this, but what would happen is if that test failed we would just check the data manually, waiting for it to come up.
You have the intent to pass on the information and performed the act to pass on the information. That's mens rea and actus reus covered. It doesn't matter how convoluted you make the method. No court in the world is going to be amused at the idea that you can wriggle out of following the law by doing things in a complicated way.
500 Internal Server Errors out the wazoo; e.g. http://magictests.com/static/js/bootstrap.min.js
I'm not an expert on Dawkins's writings, but surely that is not what he is saying. Presumably his conclusion is more along the lines of "I'm am nearly certain that no relevant god exists" (i.e. no god that actually interacts with us meaningfully).
As I said, we'd have "less" but better software; that doesn't preclude we'd not have some things we have today nor does it imply better software can't be built with debuggers; it only means we'd have fewer less capable developers making software and thus the overall quality of what we would have would be higher than the overall quality of what we have today given how much shit code exists.

There's a ton of programmers who can't code without a debugger because they don't really understand what's going on any other way than line by line. Those people would be filtered out. Debugging doesn't require a debugger, it's just the easy way to do it.
You didn't answer anything I proposed - if I'm being oppressed based on something that can't be made private, what difference does privacy make?

> it is about multiple systems in a Swiss cheese model where privacy is one of those layers.

True, but acting like it is the cardinal solution for which ultimate personal freedom will emerge is a farce and is ignoring the real reasons we want privacy in the first place - we don't have the freedom of transparency b/c of legal actors over which we have little to no control.

> Stating that there are situations where one of the layers fail isn't proving anything, it is obvious that they fail some of the time

The point of pointing out the flaw is not to prove that privacy isn't important, but that it's not nearly as important as the underlying issues for which privacy still won't fix.

> The question is if a layer adds something significant some of the time. Privacy does.

Until the unchecked power discriminates based on things that can't be made private. Watch the watchman and privacy becomes a nice bonus rather than a critical component of a half-solution.
I've considered it before, but I've been avoiding using it on my phone out of some sense of social obligation. After my experience with this site, I think you're right and its time for me to put on ad blocking on mobile also. Its really a shame that a few irresponsible websites have to ruin it for everyone.
Source for that slogan? Can't find it anywhere
Amiga OS Kickstart and Workbench source coded leaked
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I don't think this is about self-disparagement, but about holding ourselves to a high standard. I love Linux, and have been using it without major problems for some time now (mainly Ubuntu-based distros). Especially if you are into programming, I'd say it beats MS hands down.

However, I do acknowledge that there are still many problems that bar Linux from being an operating system "for the masses" (i.e. all those people who are not computer nerds). Many small problems can be fixed with a few commands in terminal - but which grandmother/stressed office worker/gamer kid is willing to learn how to use a UNIX shell or configure fstab just to do their stuff? And there are other problems that aren't solved as easily. I help out at the Ubuntu Forums, and I see plenty of posters with problems that the combined wisdom of a few thousand experienced Linux users can't solve. (Just have a look at the "Unanswered Posts" section.)

So yes, Linux is a fantastic OS with great software available, and by all means let's keep advertising it. But let's not pretend that "it just works, right out of the box!"(TM) every time.
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"Desktop system" is vague, but obviously u-kernels can serve as workstations, and hence desktops. CTOS was a major example of its day, if not the purest possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat...
Agree. “Natural monopoly” is a very lazy term. It’s mostly about looking around at a moment and declaring that it must be so.

Utilities don’t need to be monopolies, necessarily. It’s just that they were designed that way at a point in time. It’s a path of history, but not a natural law.

Wintel too. Which was a monopoly, until it wasn’t. It’s not that their position in the market changed, but the definition of the market itself (i.e., computing became mobile).

Google (a monopoly) is (or was) terrified by both Facebook and Amazon. Neither of which is a search engine, but each of which is a path toward determining what product to buy. The market itself changes.
You are disgusting for disrespecting his own wishes for justice.
It has all changed and it is all busted.
There are two distinct outrages here:

- Apple avoiding paying taxes on foreign income to the USA

- Apple avoiding paying European taxes to anybody

Your argument holds weight on the former. However, it obfuscates the second, where Apple pays taxes on its European income at a rate of 0% to Ireland. That's a true outrage.
Uber Pool and Lyft Line are now the majority of rides in SF, not sure about other cities - but there is definitely a network affect there
People pay their taxes, generally. Corporations on the other hand... Well many pay their taxes as well, if I'm being fair.
Commvault is killing this network
I guess I don't see how liquidity effect and network effect are different here. If there aren't enough riders then there aren't enough drivers. If there aren't enough drivers then pickup times are too high and the service dies. It really comes down to how important pickup times are.
That is a good point, I have Roku as well in another room (connected to a "dumb" older TV). And yeah, I trust Roku more. And I trust Google -- I have a Gmail. Heck old work trusted Google with their internal discussion and files!

Thinking about it, I guess I made a (perhaps bad) bargain -- you can have my data if you give me something useful and working that I want back. Roku works and gives me something useful, working apps and I expected I had to do it when I bought it. Google gives me Gmail, so it can spy on me. Vizio gave me a TV, but I paid for it, and I didn't expect that it would need an invasive home phoning agreement to be usable.
You can't. And that's why all the open source CAD systems suck.

People pay $10K per license to Altium or Solidworks for a reason.
> Countries will make up taxes for foreign companies just because they can. Microsoft EU settlements being a prime example.

What has to do Microsoft N with taxes?
I wish it were that simple, but it isn't. Whether it is New York trying to collect income tax from people who didn't live in the state or California trying to get everyone to pay 'use' tax (the equivalent of sales tax) on anything they bought outside of California, there are plenty of examples of tax law where morality never enters the picture.

What you can do is insure that you follow all applicable laws, and within that simple admonishion are two "get out of jail free" cards, one "Does this law actually apply?" and the other "What does this law actually say?". And after paying cash to the IRS on gains which you didn't actually get (looking at AMT here) you start wondering, what is the law here trying to do, other than suck as much money as possible into the government? And once you enter into an adversarial mindset it is you vs the government over whether or not you need to pony up the money.
That's probably because the UK has far, far, far, far higher standards for its police than the US. Even the worst police in the UK are far better than the police here in the US.
It's not so much that people think they'll be mocked, but entering that big facility with dozens of verities of machines and weights and you're the only person who doesn't know what they are doing, is incredibly intimidating.

It's not an unfounded feeling either, when I first started going, I got ejected or talked to for rules I didn't know about yet: no jeans, no open toed shoes, don't touch those machines, you don't do that with dumbbells. And that's just the formal rules, then there's the informal: how long can I occupy a machine? Can I take the dumbbells into the other room? what's "switching in"? how much is talking allowed? Can this injure me? Is that guy really advanced, or should I tell him that he's going to hurt himself?

I got started in the collage's free gym, with lots of other beginners and rule breakers. But I'd never have shelled out $150 in initiation and membership fees to try out this weird new sport I wasn't comfortable with and might not like.
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I would love for you to explain why Apples shouldn't be paying taxes in the US instead of Ireland I simply don't get it.
Why would you have to the back of the queue after reconning the other queue? What kind of jerks do you queue with?
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The difference is in scale.

Full duplex connections are powerful and heavyweight. When there's one per page visitor, it can be overwhelming for your servers.

Cars are fine on the highway. But not inside a house.