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The former a constitutional fact of law, the latter an opinion.

I also believe the former to be a moral absolute, which is a second opinion.

Clear?
As someone who is most definitely on the Emacs side of the Emacs vs. vi debate, I agree with that statement.
It's interesting that they used jquery (MIT licensed) for the web page, and also interesting given RMS's dislike of the use of Javascript. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html. MIT is GPL compatible, admittedly, so his main concerns about Javascript probably don't really apply here.
Well that sure is nitpicky but if it makes you happy....

My actual point is that Acela is painfully slow and proper high-speed rail is much, much faster. A 13% difference in the numbers is not really relevant, especially when I took pains to indicate that it was approximate, and never said that was some sort of minimum.
Barbarism isn't a crime, so it's not possible to be criminally barbaric.
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The halting problem! Great point. I'll have to remember to bring that up next time theology comes up in a geeky context.
It's a publicly traded company.
Oh, I was not making a personal comment about you. It was a comment in your first point. That being discouraged by others is a sign that one should thread lightly. I was not discouraged by anyone when macros appeared on my horizon. And boy did I write some bad code. :)
There's nothing wrong with asking the question. In a free society, it should be perfectly acceptable to do so without consequence. It would be Orwellian if the question were never even asked.
If there were so many people in such positions who held that view, the inhabited areas of the US wouldn't be 90% sprawl.
I guess I'm looking at the pristine, logical atheistic position, whereas you're looking at what most people actually believe. I try to ignore emotional satisfaction in these debates, but I have noticed that most people do believe in evil, regardless of their views on the existence of God. :)
Actually, in the United States, you can. Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_...), no law can interfere with someone's practice of their religion, unless the law a) does something really important (a "compelling government interest"), and b) there is no reasonable alternative. This applies to the federal government, and many but not all states.
i am surprised that neither in their job opening, or exec board or advisory board there's someone with specialization in gov regulation or legal matters (except an opening for dir. of IP).
I wonder why they are positioning this as visualisation technique rather than dimensionality reduction which would be a much bigger deal. Is there something to suggest the technique doesn't work well for reduction in arbitrary dimensions?
New Orleans, Minneapolis, Oakland, Berkeley, Providence, Madison. There are lots of cities in that population range, and they aren't islands.

And, I just gave you a specific example that isn't "one mixed use sounding shopping strip with attached condos".
Certainly, precedent helps. Who sets precedent? Higher courts. How do they decide how to rule? See parent. Who enforces their precedents against themselves? Well, no one.

A precedent goes against what you wish to conclude? Distinguish why it doesn't apply in these circumstances, depending on how much you fear being overruled. Keep doing that, until it swallows the rule, if you wish the rule to go away. In things like evidentiary rulings, you can always distinguish the circumstances, until you go from "a man's home is his castle" to "I smelt marijuana & kicked the door down".

In practical & long terms, for issues of government power in particular, predicting how a court will rule is not best done by looking at plausibly applicable precedent.
Was Zen 2017? Last I saw had it dropping in October of 2016. I actually decided to hold off on an upgrade for it.
> In about 40 percent of its trials, the researchers intervened to offer guidance of some sort—as in the GIF above, where a human hand is seen holding the thread. In the other 60 percent of trials, STAR did the job completely on its own.
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I lived in Houston for a year and walked 2 mi home from school every day. While I would agree that the humidity (more so than the heat per se) was profoundly stifling to outdoor aspirations, my experience suggests that if a place is interesting enough and if meaningful destinations can be reached by foot, people will nevertheless walk there, in almost any climate.
I think the cause of with out of control home prices is low interest rates. Often, people buy the biggest house they can afford, the lower the interest rate, the more they are willing to pay.

As the interest rate fell from 14% in 1981, to roughly 0% today, and mortgage rates fell from ~20% to ~4%, people could afford to pay more and more, comfortably or otherwise, for their homes, and because often people buy the biggest house they can afford as a proportion of their monthly income, the maximum people can pay will continue to rise as interest rates fall. This drives house prices upwards.

As house prices rise upwards, all homeowners will have increased equity-debt ratios, giving them additional collateral to further pledge their houses to increase the amount they can borrow to spend on more properties. It is a pro-cyclical effect on house prices.
FWIW the protobuf varint encoding was seen as a mistake by the inventor. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/capnproto/Qxw7YSoPP18/HS06Kc...
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Who decides what is ultimately evil, spiteful, or cruel? The most powerful God? Isn't that just supernatural might-makes-right?

For God to be beyond good and evil, someone (probably God) has to have the authority to decide that. This is analogous to the concept of standing in the legal code. So even to say that God is beyond evil, you'd have to admit that there's some ultimate judge out there somewhere. And therefore something that defines what doesn't count as evil.
Trump is beating a populist drum to pander for votes from the disenfranchised Republican base. As a textbook narcissist there is no way he actually cares about the downtrodden and would leap at the opportunity to offshore labor if it was ever to his advantage. Witness today's flip -flop on taxing the wealthy. He's cribbing from Sander's playbook to try and attract more left leaning voters. There's no way he would ever push for such tax reform if he were actually put in office.
Guile is another exception.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
But no law has been created to prevent visits, it's just not something the prisons do anymore.

Unless you think religious people should have the power to force you to offer services you don't want to this doesn't apply.

'My religion says that you must offer the public tours around your house.'
30 minutes out of midtown on a weekday is still midtown. ;)
The article says that you shouldn't write them unless you need to, not that you shouldn't write them. He lists quite a few scenarios where they should be used, one of which is DSLs. :)

Also, given that Clojure is a lisp, I think you'll find you need macros left often than a language like elixir. They're still incredibly powerful, but you can do so much in Clojure without them that you would otherwise need a macro to do.
Tearing is the big one. As soon as a game starts playing, I get a whole bunch of horizontal lines that will continuously shift and flicker as the screen refreshes. It doesn't happen with regular video, but it happens with Kerbal Space Program (not that graphically intensive) and PCSX2 (very graphically intensive).

I don't know nearly enough to say exactly where the problem is, but one of the more frustrating aspects is that there is next to no documentation on troubleshooting such issues. It might be a problem on my end for all I know, but all that I can tell is that before updating to Ubuntu 16, fglrx worked okay, and after updating, playing games is extremely aggravating.

I would like to say that the drivers are a hell of a lot better than they were in 2011, though - last time I had to deal with the open-source drivers, it was "Display minimum functionality so that you have the ability to install the proprietary drivers," and HDMI support was horrifyingly bad. These days, it's "Works for everything except gaming," which is completely serviceable for me.
Or you are woken up by an airforce guard after your iCar attempts to drive onto the base. Car approaching a checkpoint + not responding to vocal commands + no apparent driver = not good things.
I'm just happy my msngr.js project is in here; the last two or so posts about "Show HN" analysis left it out and it made me mildly sad.
Generally, they're not replacing UIs, they're replacing call centers. The idea is to put an NLP and task layer between the user and a call center agent, with the hope that you can automate commonly-recurring tasks and save opex. (I call them "opportunistic interfaces" -- situations where users are unable or unlikely to use a formal web or app UI, so you've got to stick with something that works over a phone or SMS.)

In this case, they're probably talking about the blue-collar labor force for sick-day management, so you need a lowest-common-denominator interface; you can't assume they have smartphones or even Internet service, so good old fashioned voice or SMS is your best choice.
It's the single largest thing that gets lost in this whole discussion: the idea of preference.
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Those are all really good points actually. In response to them individually:

- The problem with generating id's is that it isn't known ahead of time how many there will be. This forces a solution that is suboptimal in all circumstances.

- The reason for rejecting UTF-8 is mostly backwards compatibility with existing software. Being able to use encoded UTF-8 strings that exceed the million is possible, but really burns a lot of bridges along the way. The point about boyer moore is really cool, I had no idea that was a goal!

- Having the length in folder structure is exponential, but only at the top most level. It will be uniform under each length dir. This is an acceptable price to pay when typing "ls ./dir", since removing the prefix would make it hard to read quickly:

0/
0.jpg
1/
1.jpg
Those aren't confidence intervals.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe I've read that Foxconn's suicide rates are actually lower than the rates of American college students. I understand that may not be a perfect comparison since college suicide rates tend to be fairly high and there may be many other reasons to be critical of Foxconn/Apple's labor practices but I'm not sure the highly publicized stories about suicides are necessarily a good indicator of working conditions.
How is this not a national debate?
> The projection chosen IS the model

Not if you're going to say the projection is flat. If the projection is flat, and the projection is the model, then I should be able to lay a flat ruler, appropriately scaled, between any two points on the flat map and read off the actual distance between those two points. But I can't do that; and the model knows I can't do that. The model tells me to take the coordinates on the map of two points and plug them into a complicated mathematical formula if I want to get the actual distance between them. So the model is not flat in the sense that matters--in the predictions it makes for distances between points.
Supreme court does overturn precedent occasionally, but this is extremely rare. Most of the time cases never get to the supreme court because they've already been ruled on in other cases.

Do you have any particular evidence that courts frequently ignore precedent in favor of their own wishes?
Instead of a basic income, we could have Universal Jobs where anyone could make $X an hour in a government jobs center computing hashes by hand for a welfare cryptocurrency.

Roll the dice, use your government-approved paper to calculate the hash, and claim your prize if you're the first winner. Prizes and difficulty are designed to statistically provide a target $/hour.
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This sounds like what3words (http://what3words.com), except they're using unpronounceable alphanumeric addresses whereas what3words uses 3 actual words (and what3words is 3x3 meters instead of 5x5 meters). For example, for the coordinate that "97.N7" maps to, what3words calls "narrow.career.puppets".
Hard to tell. Unfortunately neither this nor the openalpr project have any benchmarks or evaluations on a test set. It could be that the openalpr project already gives you 99% accuracy (unlikely), in which case there really isn't a point in trying to optimize it more (e.g. move on to harder problems).
More accurate to say that the hot & cold analogy does not fit. St. Thomas Aquina efforts were sabotaged by the lack of scientific understanding of his time.
Yes, you are correct. Science has only now come to the point of being a somewhat unified field because of the communications network of the scientific community and the relatively simple task of describing the physical universe.

Religions are much more varied than modern science because the subject matter, God, is much more difficult to access or understand than is the physical universe. Religion is a universal phenomenon because humans throughout the world have experiences of God. They then struggle to communicate this encounter with an infinitely higher reality in terms that others can understand.

Christianity teaches that God chose Abraham to begin a people with whom he could have a special relationship through which he could impart a better knowledge of himself than what humans could come up with on their own. After many generations, that culture was at the point in which God could enter it as one of us, and at least some of them could begin to grasp what was going on, and thus the Christian Church began.
Makes sense :)

I guess i've just heard for so many years how badly wrong macro usage can go, that i've not even been tempted to try languages that use them - until very recently.
There are historical reasons for pretty much all default settings. For example, you said:

"e.g. commands that act on regions should act on lines when no region is selected"

This is because traditionally Emacs never had the concept of "no region selected". The way it Emacs works is that it has two markers: "point" (which is just the cursor) and "mark" which is another position somewhere in the buffer. You can set the position to mark to that of point by pressing C-SPC. In fully traditional mode, the position of mark nor the selection is ever actually displayed in the buffer. If you press C-x C-x, the locations of point and mark are swapped, allowing you to quickly jump to mark and then back again.

The way Emacs was (and is) designed to work is that all region-based commands simply apply their function on the characters between point and mark. Since there isn't any "selection" as such, talking about what commands do without the selection simply does not make sense.

Now, in (what I consider to be) a misguided appeal to users of "windows style" editors, Emacs introduced the concept of "active regions". The underlying concept of having a point and mark is still there, but there is now also a flag indicating whether a region is "active" or not. Commands can look at this flag to perform different operations whether or not this is the case. Since several years, active regions has been enabled by default in Emacs.

The problem when having active regions enabled is that in many cases the user has to reactivate the region before performing some operations, making many region-based operations much more complicated[1] to use.

I seem to have become to the go-to person for Emacs support at my workplace, and I have seen a lot of new users being confused about regions in Emacs. Instead of adding even more Elisp code to try to coerce the application into behaving more like Notepad, I typically recommend them to turn off active regions and learn Emacs the way it was meant to be used. It's certainly different from most other editors, but the behaviour makes a lot more sense once you pick it up.

Footnotes:
[1] I used the word "complicated" to mean "needs more keypresses".
This applies to prisons because they are part of the government, and are therefore state actors. It doesn't apply to private citizens.
I live in the northern hemisphere, and wish more maps supported "South up." Maybe I'm weird, but in my mental map I expect the light (the sun) to be at the top of the page.
A good "documentary" on DeLillo by the BBC in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTePKA1wgc

Musings on terrorism (through the lens of the Kennedy assassination) are even more prescient today.
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Definitely. For whatever we inherit, I think it's important to inherit all of it. To see where we are going, we have to be willing to see where we have been.

That isn't to advocate for guilt, which I don't personally feel, so much as responsibility. Whether or not I feel guilty for what my ancestors did, I am certainly responsible using wisely what power I have. And that power definitely depends on their actions.

E.g., I'm in tech because my dad was. And he became a programmer because his dad was high up at a company that got an early IBM machine. But at that time and place, those were positions reserved for white men from families who could afford enough education. Past racism and classism definitely benefited me. Do I feel guilt? Not really, because I didn't do that myself. But I do feel an obligation to use my inheritance for more than just my own desires.
The article is already off to a bad start, assuming the existing therapy they're talking about is Pegetron:

> The interferon-based treatments weren't successful half the time, and the side effects were so debilitating few patients could endure the months-long punishing protocol.

If the success rate is 50%, I would say that's pretty good, especially since we're talking about treatment, not just managing the disease (as we can only do nowadays with HIV). And from the product monograph: "The most frequently reported adverse reactions were mostly mild to moderate in severity and were manageable without the need for modification of doses or discontinuation of therapy. "

But no doubt, the pre-existing therapy sure has a pile of side-effects.
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (back when 8 MB was a lot)

Or, more appropriate when explaining why it's not a good fit for touchscreens:

Esc Meta Alt Control Shift
In the form of political participation and activism one can make such demands. There have been a number of famous instances where such have led to improvements and changes.
Nothing is truly incompressible.
That's unbelievably silly. Having laws arbitrarily apply based on the internal beliefs someone has is incredibly inelegant. Freedom of religion should be an emergent property of freedom of speech/thought/association/etc. For instance, it should be illegal to cruelly slaughter animals, regardless of your personal feeling on the subject. Yet certain groups get exemptions and continue otherwise illegal animal treatment because they, essentially, want to.
There's nothing subjective about withholding the ability to sort/filter by ratings.

And it's obvious that users should be able to mark content as "watched" even if you didn't watch it on Netflix.

I generally like Netflix, but when I'm wading through 100s of movies and television programs that I've already seen, or that have 1 or 2 stars, my loyalty to Netflix is greatly diminished.

Meanwhile, they waste time and money on algorithmic recommendations that are, in my experience, almost completely useless. (And I've bothered to rate a lot of content in the hope of improving their recommendations, too.)

I want to turn on Netflix (or an alternative), hide all the watched content, hide everything below three stars, sort by highest-to-lowest rating. It's not difficult.
You can get USA made jeans for under $40. Round House and Union Line both have them.
I couldn't think of movie names, would be cool to have a "browse" mode of discovery as well.
Of those, I've only been to Minneapolis, but I can say with complete certainty that it, too, is a suburban wasteland. Yes, it's got a downtown that's clearly seeing some promise, as is true of numerous cities (even the very same Atlanta), but all in all, it's almost entirely a driving city.
I'm using emacs for a year now but I'm reallt bad at it, I wish there was a text like your comment with the words linked to specific webpages or videos which explain how to install everything you need for that word and show how to use it. I would link:

"Semantic navigation", "incremental search", "semantic editing", "keyboard macros", "optimized keyboard navigation", "inserting simple and complex code templates", "managing projects", "complex work with Git repositories", "regex incremental search"
It's not irrelevant, since there is a minor area of ML called 'curriculum learning' which asks how to order examples to teach a ML algorithm most efficiently, and it comes up in some other contexts (for example, a boosting algorithm which focuses on optimizing performance on hard/misclassified cases can be seen as somewhat like curriculum learning, and there are variants of gradient descent which focus on hard examples rather than wasting time on cases where the NN can already get the right answer; and for 'active learning', you want to pick the example which will teach the algorithm the most), but there's not much you can take from known pedagogy at the moment and apply straight to NNs. Even the non-bullshit parts of education like spaced repetition have no clear analogues for tasks like 'train an RNN to write news headlines based an article text using this corpus of human-written headlines'.
"I don't know," in other words.

I mean, you must be able to imagine how your reasoning sounds to people who don't already believe in god, right?
Well, if we represented objects with a blob of bytes, we would have to implement our own garbage collector and manage our own heap, as object references would just be a pointer that points into an array somewhere.

For interop with JavaScript, there's a usability difference between a JavaScript object and a blob of bytes, although that could be overcome with an object "mirror" that proxies operations appropriately.

Our approach was to leverage the existing GC and language features that browsers already have.
Yes, the ‘dual use’ characters were define at the request of European delegations and the language makes it clear that it was expected that English-language terminals would continue to have " look like " and not ¨ and so on. ASCII was defined before video terminals were developed, so no one thought overstriking was remarkable. As it turned out, non-English European language versions ended up not generally using overstrikes anyway, but redefined the ‘national use’ characters #$@[\]{|} instead, which unfortunately did lead to ambiguity.
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