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Why? Why is that?

Say you encountered a local situation where you meet someone in real danger, and for some contrived reason only you are able to help them (say, they knock at the door of your remote house during a blizzard or something, if it helps to make it concrete.)

The majority of society would say it is your ethical duty to help a person in such a circumstance, even at moderate inconvenience to yourself. You wouldn't necessarily be expected to sacrifice your own safety, or even your own fortune; but in general, most people would frown on your choice of a fancier car or a European vacation over someone else's life, in this kind of local, specific scenario.

So what makes that ethical obligation go away, just because it can't be pinned on any specific individual? Why does this ethical logic apply in a 1:1 scenario, but not in the many:many situation we find in society?

It does. And that is the basic ethical argument behind government welfare.

There may be room for discussion over how dire someone's straits must be before it's ethically mandatory to step in and help; fair enough. Maybe a "working senior" qualifies, maybe they don't.

But that doesn't change the underlying point. Your life is _not_ just your own. You live in a society, and that comes along with ethical obligations, both in direct circumstances of your life and indirect social issues.

We as a society shouldn't abandon a physically or mentally handicapped person to the streets anymore than we should walk whistling past someone lying on the road, injured by a hit-and-run.

Existence as human beings, and humans in society in particular, does impose moral obligations.
> If you use Google CDN, why does it matter how big jQuery is?

1. Most people won't have the version you wanted to use cached from the location you were trying to use it from. Studies show hit rates on requests for libraries on "shared" CDNs are very low in real world conditions. (Also, caches are small. Oh, you wanted 2.3.4r17 of BigLib? I've only got 2.3.4r18 cached; I'll go ahead and delete that so I have room to download your new copy.)

2. We don't get have HTTP/2, which means that while the number of bytes is important, so is the number of requests. If your app can get by with JUST jQuery, that doesn't matter. But if you need jQuery, plus two plugins, and lodash, and a promise polyfill, and...then all of a sudden your performance starts to be dominated by the number of requests being made, and (again) in real world situations you may see your effective load times improve if you concatenate your libraries.

The dream is "just list the libraries you need and let the browser sort it out super fast". The reality is a long way from it, and I don't think telling people "just use a CDN!" is currently good advice.
I don't want to be a broken record, but you're right, not a tall order, but no it's unreasonable on account of cost. It's impossible for USB C to be hooked up backwards by its mechanical design, so why guard against it? The high-side transistor to prevent reverse polarity faults could be 3 to 4 cents in manufacturing cost! It's also not trivial to make sure that transistor trips fast enough to prevent all your low-voltage ICs from being destroyed.
Make journals report clinical trials properly
>"There are two problems with that: the most obvious is that differences in velocity at the first level is one of the main bases on which distribution differences are held to effect demand growth, so you are just assuming away the main issue."

Demand growth for what? CNC machines and tools, or LCD televisions? Making a capital investment in semiconductor fabs will affect production and inspection equipment demand, as well as driving down production costs for a wide variety of goods, whereas buying an LCD television will increase demand for TFT screens, backlights, and slightly increase demand for television production machinery. I am making an assumption because we have to. No one has ever make a comprehensive economy-wide microeconomic model that worked, and no one ever will; this is the essence of the calculation problem.

>"The second is even assuming away velocity differences at the first step, you also have to assume that velocity is the same in the different markets to which the rich and poor allocate funds: even if velocity were the same in the first case, this assumption would be invalid. (In both the first instances and later steps, this is even more true when you are considering growth of the domestic economy, where you aren't just concerned with velocity at each step, but also the propensity to spend within the domestic economy.)"

I agree that there is probably a difference between velocity of spending between rich and poor, but I'm not sure which one is faster (; please provide a link to such information if you have it). It seems likely that the poor spend more money on low cost foreign imports (stuff made in China) than rich people who are investing in very expensive specialty goods made in the West, so I think it likely that allocating more money to the rich is beneficial from a mercantilist point of view.
If they have, they won't be commenting here. MagicLeap locks everyone up with an NDA.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick personally helped design the new logo, and it shows
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When you're a little bit more comfortable with Rust, Exercism (http://exercism.io/languages/rust) has a lot of cool toy problems to solve.
Seizure of government property at gunpoint is certainly something.

(Though I'm not sure it really tracks with the definition of a "terrorist," since a terrorist is an armed combatant who explicitly strikes at civilians instead of at their government. A better term here might be more 19th-century-flavored words like insurrectionary or seditionist, though terms like those fell out of use as rebel and guerrilla groups abandoned direct attacks on governments in favor of terroristic tactics.)
That's nice but costs $$. <now here comes the bit where i talk about MY solution...>

I have a markdown file in a private git repo for each month, I append a new header with the date at the start of each day and use it as a notepad, dumping whatever comes to mind. Most importantly I don't go back and revise what I've written.
By 'ready', I mean 'when it is cost competitive with other technologies'.

This would be a wise economically point of view if there were no externalities. With externalities it is a pretty bad idea.
Do prepared statements count as emulated if the DB doesn't support prepared statements, but the DB adapter is doing replacement during the encoding-to-typed-binary-wire-protocol step (i.e. replacement of typed tokens with other typed tokens) rather than by just concatenating strings?
Let's not forget these people had every intention to use those weapons against humans. This isn't some guns club hanging out.
In emacs, `keyboard macro counters` are the appropriate tech for that job.
For about 5 years, I volunteered with the elderly in rest homes. I saw what happens to us as we get old, infirm, sick, and lose the last of our mental faculties. I'm being somewhat serious, in that I've watched the elderly closely and believe they will vote en masse for their own desires and interests until the younger generations are completely unable to survive. I'd probably shock you by also holding a belief that voting and driving are two things senior citizens should prove competent to do in order to continue to be allowed to do them in society.
Obviously we need more immigration to solve this problem. A larger pool of unskilled labor would increase wages. As everyone knows, when you increase the supply, the price always rises.
>> "Might sound cruel, but strangling the youth to feed the elderly, as would be the alternative, doesn't work in the US economic model."

It sounds very cruel. There's most certainly a balance we can strike but when politics, particularly in the US, is so two sided balance is hard to find. Picking up the elderly and forcing them to move is pretty drastic. Imagine being 10-20 years from death and having to leave your home, family, friends and community. When your partner dies you're going to be pretty damn lonely and I doubt you'll survive long - or want to survive long.

>> "not counting the immense medical bills they'll probably try to rack up on their way out the door. Want that new hip at 74? Sure, just pay for it all out of your pocket."

There's absolutely no reason we can't afford to provide free health care to everyone. Health care should not be something you get if you can afford it. I doubt you'll be espousing this same view when you can't walk due to a bad hip and can't afford a new one possibly due to factors outside of your control. If we can afford endless, unnecessary wars, and the bailing out of large financial institutions we can afford to help everyone to lead bearable lives with adequate medical care and decent financial benefits where necessary. Sure there will be people who abuse those systems but from what I've read it's negligible.
Needs 1 or more of:

Handling out-of-order js file loading

Duplicate loading prevention

A way to deal with a file that is timing out (holding up page load)

Ideally using async property for script tags

AFAIK most CDN versions of popular libs don't support what you need, so you might as well load locally...
Greed and taking advantage of people will not lead to the opposite when taken to big enough extremes. It's not the suffering which causes revolts that is the problem, it's the possibility of revolt. Once that is taken care of the suffering can be ignored or even enjoyed, depending whether the person is just a coward or a sadist.

When enough people are so disenfranchised that they need "handouts" to survive, I wouldn't be surprised about the decision to simply get rid of those people, then revising history to turn that into the best possible solution for an unfortunate problem nobody was guilty of creating. It'd be just more of what we're doing already.
Rent for a studio. Who needs food, toiletries, or prescription medicines?
This really speaks to a lack of infrastructure for people who are interested in scientific topics beyond the generalist level provided for in US schools. If there had been a legitimate and clear pipeline for him as a teenager to be mentored by a nuclear engineer, none of this would've happened.

I had a friend with similar proclivities and eccentricities who was fortunate enough to have a father that worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His studies were directed and safe, he was able to visit the lab on a regular basis, and he ended up going to MIT and becoming a nuclear engineer. It's entirely an issue of access, and a lot of times you literally have to be born into it, which seems like an inefficient system.
They are deadly serious about crypto backdoors
That article would be better if it removed all the "geek" spam. It isn't a "geek" phenomenon.
Actually it is not as simple as that. You are over-simplifying.
>It opens videos im fullscreen automaticaly, forcing me close each video on iPhone

Unfortunately this is how Safari works and there is no way to get around it.
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She made several major financial mistakes in this article. 21.36 would have gotten her a months worth of beans and rice. But we shouldn't write people off for making poor financial choices. Maybe SS payments could be offered in the form of room and board for those struggling to manage their cashflow.
"It also alleges that women were treated better by managers in the media group. While men were immediately terminated after receiving low employee scores, women were allowed to appeal their ratings, the suit says."
Any chance you guys looking for a someone in UX? I'm currently looking for a position in that realm:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonruddy
Actually I have a summer birthday so, yes, I do not enjoy them very much. I'm basically very disappointed at the economy and society that I've inherited. Forgive me if I don't wear a smile while looking critically at those who came before me.
Thank you - the existing copy falling into the category of "archival copy" makes some sense to me. I realize that probably isn't the exact way the law works (at least in some country).
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> are induced by her own choices (expensive dinner, speeding ticket)

The point of the quoting of the speeds ("43 mph in a 35-mph") was to point out that the ticket she got was part of the trend of local American governments of turning traffic enforcement into unchecked taxation and exploitation of poor people by abusing traffic rules to the hilt to hand out as many bogus tickets as possible in order to turn a profit. This has come up many times on HN.

In this case, it sounds like it was part of a speed trap where a sign is put up to lower the speed on a very short stretch of road by 10mph or so and then a cop can sit there and harvest the traffic; there's one of these where I live, and it makes me furious because aside from being transparently bogus a highly regressive tax/revenue trick, it actually makes everyone less safe because the flow of traffic along that road is always faster than the dip section and if everyone complied with it and braked, that would endanger people and encourage rear-endings. Similar to the abuse of red-light cameras.
I guess this "VC" guy lives in LA.
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If the objective of the fine is to provide a financial disincentive to commit a violation, then the fines should absolutely be scaled for different incomes.

Otherwise, there is no real financial disincentive to the rich (who can hire lawyers with chump change), as is obviously demonstrated today.

Finally, it is extremely difficult to drive perfectly enough to avoid violating the speeding limit. Signs are often missing or covered. Limits change at unexpected locations, sometimes nasty ones (at the end of descents, etc). There is very little culture of speed change warning (varies state to state, but nowhere like, say, the UK).

The poor and the downtrodden have to apply a significantly larger effort to maintain speed limit compliance in their driving, because the downsides of getting a speeding ticket are so financially devastating.
That's reassuring. Thanks.
> There is reason to believe that the more “strength requirements” we impose on people, the worse the passwords that they create may get.

I'd love to see empirical evidence of this.

Has anyone compared password requirements against password strength from leaked passwords? I've been Googling, but have not found it.
Healthcare spending is at least as broken as education: The US health care system is 50-100% more expensive per capita as comparable European systems, yet less capable. There's lots of savings potential here.
Exactly. She's already getting her social security and other income. Is she not to blame for 50,000 in credit card debt? Or buying a mobile home, which is never a good investment. It sucks that people are in poverty, but just bailing everyone out after making poor financial decisions is a bad solution.
Every time I read stories like this, I think of dozens of things, little things, that people can do to improve their situation, one thing at a time.

First off, the speeding ticket. You're in an RV, how do you go 15 over the limit? Doesn't make sense to me. You're wasting gas and painting a big red target on your back for the cops. If I were in her situation, I'd have already trained myself to keep to the speed limit no matter what. It's possible, don't tell me it isn't. Even more possible in an RV with limited acceleration. I found it harder to speed in my 20 year old truck than I did to not speed.

Second, the busted water pump. With all the time she had on her hands, surely she could have done some research in the library on how to repair these things and done it herself as opposed to spending hundreds / thousands on paying someone to do it for her. There was no rush, she was able to take her time finding someone, why not take that same time to save even more money?

I say these things because I used to be really hard up for money and resources, and I was able to get resourceful in return. The human brain is amazing, it finds a way. You just have to listen to it and be willing to try stuff out that's outside your comfort zone. For me this kind of resourcefulness is never too far from my mind, as comfortable as my dev lifestyle is right now, if economic circumstances forced me onto the street, I'd work out a way to thrive pretty quick, I simply cannot abide the slow degradation of self-worth that other people in these sorts of situations seem to experience.

But the more I think about it, the more I realize she's already being as resourceful as she can. It's a reminder that deep down, people really do differ vastly in ability, and that we need to be compassionate and generous to those caught in nasty situations with no way to pull themselves out.

But at the same time we need to encourage the kind of inventiveness and resourcefulness that made America great. Times are tough, but we can be tougher.
the usb ports on macs are supposed to have overcurrent protection. You actually get a dialog popup in the OS when it happens.

I know because I've triggered it doing something with an arduino.
And just about all of them have higher fees if you want it published under a creative commons (open) license. Note in GP's quote: the researcher can choose CC for a fee. This option has come available in nearly all peer review journals recently due to recent US grant requirements to open published results. They still have to go through a rigorous peer review. Frankly, GP's mate doesn't know what he's talking about.
To give and trust are two different things. Americans give everything, they don't trust it at all.
Though you can get real Windows laptops for less than that....

EDIT: for whoever downvotes simple statements of fact...
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>"Poor people have to spend money on essentials as soon as it comes in. Rich people don't. That's pretty much the simplest possible definition of being poor. So that is not a valid assumption."

Rich people invest money in capital goods as soon as it comes in, either through a direct purchase, or because the investment bank where they hold the money gives it to someone who spends it.

>"This can't possibly be true either. Rich people spend money on essentials and on luxury goods and on investments and keep some spare cash on hand, because why not?"

I said 'as a proportion of income'; rich people spend far less on living expenses than the poor do as a proportion of income. They might have a car that is 10x as expensive, but with 100x the income to pay for it.

>"Poor people spend money on essentials, and perhaps a little distraction and entertainment."

This agrees with my previous statement.

>>"If this assumption is true, both will create the same total 'demand', but for different goods."
By prepared statements, I mean your application actually sends the query string in a separate packet from the data, and thereby gives the data no opportunity to corrupt the query string.

You can stop all known attacks with escaping, but then you run into fun corner cases like http://stackoverflow.com/a/12118602/2224584

What PHP does is silently perform string escaping for you instead of doing a prepared statement. This is stupid, but PHP Internals discussions are painful (so changing it is unlikely to happen any time soon) and the userland fix is easy:

https://github.com/paragonie/easydb/blob/f90fbca34ac7b7b96f7...

If you're sending a 1+N packets (for N >= 1) to your RDBMS for each new query, then you're probably using prepared statements.
The woman in the article receives $1390/month in COLA'd fixed income and free ''major medical'' health care. I can tell you from personal experience: this is ''enough to actually live on''. It's not super comfortable but then we're talking about someone who worked for decades and ended up with a net worth of zero. I'm not assigning blame I'm just restating a fact. Where my family is from in the midwest a studio apartment is $300/month in a safe enough area, and there are plenty of very low cost community resources and activities. Obviously not a highly desirable area but people survive there with a roof over their heads, food on the table, and a community to spend time with. Back to the woman in the article: to me it seems that her real problem isn't poverty but rather clinging to her RV and her wanderlust lifestyle. Which of course she's entitled to do, but we shouldn't look at it as an example of the system failing when it's actually the opposite.
Please stop posting comments that break the HN guidelines.

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This is AR, not VR, right? The two are quite different. VR does not aspire to be AR. It seeks to completely replace the world around you, not just add onto it.

From what I understand, upcoming VR headsets like the Rift and Vive have pretty solid FOVs, but Microsoft's HoloLens AR headset has a significantly more limited FOV.
A cautionary tale for the child-free. multi-generational households are one way to assuage this problem.
I believe the implication is, "Americans don't trust their own government or any corporation to abide by their publicly stated policies on how and when data is collected and used."
Oh they're well within their rights to do that. However my complaint had to do with the fact that one of their higher ranked volunteers was trying to point to an issue with the system after being dismissed and instead of trying to work with their community and address it, they just ban him instead. To quote him:

> For me, it was always like I was looking at a five-alarm fire,” he said. “To them, it was smoldering.
Right, and either way the fact that this cable made it out of the factory to see the light of day says terrible things about this manufacturer.
It's not as simple as you're suggesting. With Closure you sometimes have to rewrite otherwise correct and idiomatic JavaScript significantly to avoid it breaking during compilation.
I left Wikipedia because of the user Giano. Whilst he is good at writing articles (but consistently violates NPOV), he is a bully that has somehow managed to remain on the Wiki.
Another great article:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/224033/can-we...

Wish I found this one from the very beginning!
What would your guess be for that area?
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Its hard to rectify gender bias without somebody crying foul.
In cases like this it's not clear to me which side has the most compelling greed, so I'm always interested in hearing some reasoning about what makes your preferred side in the conflict the right one.
>Why did Boomers not have enough income to put savings aside?

To be fair, plenty of millenials don't have enough income to put savings aside either, and they're not even getting social security benefits.
It's great to see somebody caring about AsciiDoc as well, which is always getting neglected! Even GitHub supports it!
This article is missing much in the way of evidence. While sexual transmission seems a possibility (even likely, within my vastly limited understandings), nothing says why a mosquito couldn't have done this transmission, other than "it hasn't happened in the US".
This mirrors what appears to be Cisco's acquisition strategy—pick up companies that makes things which use loads of bandwidth (UC etc). It's a smart move, sell products which inflate bandwidth requirements and conveniently be there with shiny new infrastructure to support those new found needs.