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Web of trust I suppose. I trust Nintendo and I also don't think Google would allow such a brazen and public endorsement if it were untrue. If google does indeed reset permissions then you know they've at least been in contact.

If it were a smaller company I'd like to see proof.
You say that like the ACA was the only way to get that outcome...that somehow more insurance was the solution rather than the problem. The fact of the matter was that with a democratic president and the largest democratic majority in generations, voted in on a platform of "just fucking fix healthcare already", we still couldn't even see a single payer proposal make it to the floor for a vote.

Not only did we not get the healthcare that we voted for, we got mandated insurance based healthcare at even higher prices, with even more bureaucracy, and huge tech boondoggles as the icing on the cake. Sold to the public as not a tax, but then justified at the Supreme Court as a tax. 5% of the population comes out ahead and everybody else behind.

The 111th congress will go down in history as the most cowardly and counter effective we will ever see. That Obama is whitewashing and patting himself on the back like this is bordering on insanity.
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> Higher the number of pages in a regulation harder it is for the representatives to read and study.

Representatives don't read and study most regulations, since regulations are issued by appointed regulatory bodies to implement legislation, not elected legislative bodies.

> Reform generally means government gives up control in favor of market so people can get what they want

No, that's what "privatization" means. Privatization can be a reform, but it is not what reform means generally.
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The spec for C++14 wouldn't fit on a Commodore 64. At 1300 pages, it wouldn't even fit on external storage (170k floppies).
Isn't SAS better than R?
"No means no" is about rape, so can people voluntarily be raped? If I look up the definition of rape, will I find the word "consent", as in, rape is an act when someone is involuntarily being involved in an sexual act. You can not voluntarily be raped. People can pretend, but then people can pretend that they are dragons and live on the moon.
We went with a higher price point because we have a better quality Tshirt.
They may be Non-Profit but you are probably not. If you really like their cause, you can offer them a small discount. I don't usually know if my subscriber is non-profit but when they do mention it, i happily say that we offer a <insert random> percent discount and give it to them.

Don't bother checking if they really use your service for non-profit. Check if they are abiding by your TOS and that's it.
I find this stuff interesting to read and think about. But I think that ultimately all arguments expressed about the subject in words are in the same category: works of fiction. In the end, things... are -- including all the different ways people describe, or attempt, to describe meaning.

I would also add that I am logically correct about this, as things are in fact... are. Which is kind of a stupid thing to say but often times i think that stupid things being said in fact are smart things when they are said in a context of being a response to stupid things.

Add #2:

I also think that this falls under "philosophy" which is an academic discipline that became outdated and was superseded by science about a century ago now.
> What many people don't understand is that a wrong decision is better than no decision at all.

100% wrong. That reasoning justifies all decisions.

This is what's wrong with our institutional thinking these days.

> This is an active shooter incident.

This stopped being an active shooter situation when they pinned him down without hostages.

> he suspect is threatening to have explosives and claims to want to kill more people. The first order of business is to eliminate the threat.

Fatally wrong again. Eliminating the threat would involve eliminating the bombs, not just the gun.

If they truly believed there were bombs they'd have had more motive to question the shooter, not less, because a single missed bomb could sit for days until triggered inadvertently.
Yes, I liked the content in spite of the "trolling," since there is enough of actual math, the author actually knows the field and it is presented simple enough to make the math path enjoyable.

I'm sure it would work good even with less or no "trolling." It is possible to make the approachable text even without the jokes based on misinformation. I see the author made the book with that in the title, so it was obviously a selling point for him, but the quite clear approach to the math material (when he reader manages to ignore the trolling) is actually good. I have nothing against the funny presentation of the actual biographical facts however.

The misinformation is, however, problematic. The author even states in the foreword that he "hopes that some of those will appear in Wikipedia." Unfortunately, it really can happen.
Telling a car manufacturer to design a vehicle that doesn't kill it's occupants ishardly totalitarianism. Calling it such does a disservice do everyone by conflating helpful laws with actually totalitarian things the government does.
If you're going to have a policy, I would caution against having one that requires a case-by-case evaluation. That will not scale well and can lead some to allege bias.

As an example of a reasonble, scalable policy: Salesforce used to (and still might) offer any 501(c)3 non-profit organization 10 free licenses. The IRS makes a judgment call when issuing or renewing 501(c)3 status, and you can save yourself some time by relying on their evaluation. If an organization is big enough to require more than a small number of licenses, then they're big enough to pay for them.
What restricts someone from constructing a tall building?

If I buy a piece of land, and it's my property, I can do whatever I what with it right? Who can stop me from constructing a tall building on my own property?

The United States is a free country right? I assume a free country respects property owner's freedom to whatever[1] they want with their land?

[1] Of course excluding actions would cause significant harm to one's neighbors, like environmental pollution.
> I'm sorry to say but you must be delusional

Please don't include things like this in comments.
I imagine antibiotic resistance is not just an on/off switch in a vacuum, i.e. a different chemical surface might interact differently with a drug but also have some adverse effect, so losing the resistance would be advantageous.
> People of today are just as smart. It was only simpler then.

An additional effect is that when people learn the major past discoveries (e.g., calculus, mechanics), the version that is taught is often significantly different from how the discoverer cast it or how the idea was originally formulated. Years of teaching, refinement, and finding other techniques to solve problems or prove theorems makes it easier to learn. One example is "Maxwell's Equations" for electro-magnetism; the most commonly used modern form consisting of 4 equations was condensed from Maxwell's 20 equations by Oliver Heaviside:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Formulat...

If the original 20 equation form was more conducive to use and teaching, I suspect we those would be more widely used.
We use this in generator-reveal[1]. One markdown file per slide and minimal configuration in a json file. I have no shame

[1]: https://github.com/slara/generator-reveal
Since the Evernote announcement, I've been trying to find an open source alternative. This one is the closest I could find. Notable features:

- Markdown
- Image in Markdown
- Notebooks and tags and searching
- Encryption
- Dropbox sync
- Open source and built on Github Electron

Missing features:
- Mobile support (android coming, iOS client missing?)
- Better searching
- Importing Evernote notes
- OCR?

Would be interested in what's coming up. What replacements have you been using?
you like that? I can see how you might like a command line as opposed to a dumbed-down, simplistic, and intelligence-insulting GUI.

But I cannot see how you can love Markdown. A shit standard that uglifies everything it touches, instead of celebrating the beauty of typography.

There is no inconsistency between liking command line, and being demanding in terms of text layout. Just ask LaTeX.
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This is why I think this is a problem "by design", and Tesla could fix it "by design" as well. But that would mean drastically reducing Autopilot's marketing power, so Tesla chooses not to do that. Instead it chooses to leave the Autopilot in a much riskier mode, while telling drivers in a footnote not to take their hand offs the wheel, or they could die.
Say are there any compounds that fight only gram negative and leave positive untouched? I'm thinking that might be useful for periodontitus?
> No fix in place to make sure other people working closely with Alphabet/Google won't leave door open again.

Niantic Labs did not create and does not own the permission model and therefore by definition they can't fix it.

All they can do is improve their review process to reduce chances that bad code somehow makes it into production. (as probably most of us do)

That is not to say that there aren't valid and reasonable use cases for even the most powerful/dangerous permissions. People even root their phones to give some of their apps access to permissions they otherwise couldn't use because there's a lot of cool/interesting stuff you can do that way.
> with active shooter, you prioritize removing the shooter [...]

... to save hostages, of which there weren't any.

Except if he'd had planted bombs on a deadman switch, which would have been triggered by taking him out.

They're lucky he was lying. Not smart, not skilled, lucky.
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It's articles like this that make it very hard to continue to take RMS seriously, and that is a huge shame. He's brilliant and has contributed so much. Things he created are the reason I get a paycheck.

That said, this tribal religious you're-either-100%-with-us-or-you're-against-us and I'm going to "condemn you" ("nor have anything to do with it, nor even talk about it except with condemnation.") attitude makes it almost impossible to be sympathetic to his cause and puts him on the level of other rigid religious fundamentalist radicals.

If he IS talking about Red Hat here, as others have theorized, then he is worse than a fanatic, he's a self destructive jerk.

Red Hat just recently came out and said despite other companies abandoning GCC for Clang (See Google, Apple, FreeBSD, Android, even the Linux Foundation) they were still investing in GCC. Without GCC there is no more "GNU slash Linux" it's just Linux at that point. There are other C libraries, other userlands, but Linux still needs GCC and Red Hat is backing GCC. Keep condemning allies like Red Hat and soon they'll wonder why they even try to be your friend.

As soon as llvm.linuxfoundation.org gets Linux written in C instead of GCC, there will be no more GNU slash Linux or GNU plus Linux or whatever RMS wants it called. FreeBSD, Android, and then Linux will be fully capable of ditching GNU, FSF, and RMS and GPL'd software (save for the kernel which is GPLv2 and only nominally so, they never actually sue for violations like binary blobs) altogether. And who would be sad? Linux didn't "win" because of the philosophical views of RMS. Linux won because it worked. What happens when Linux, and companies like Red Hat, don't need this kind of garbage anymore?
Usually that's limited to very short stints. Employers nowadays are acutely aware of the "2 year rule" (It might be my background in finance, though)
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Not precisely. The idea is that no discussions about anything will occur before Article 50 is invoked. Article 50 kicks off negotiations for the practicalities of leaving the EU. After that, and only after that, negotiations for UK's following status are supposed to take place.

Neither of these conditions are in the interest of the EU or the UK if talks are to be amicable and realistic. Amicable and realistic talks are very much in the interests of all concerned - and I guess from the EU point of view, the leadership resolution in the UK could have been a lot worse. The rules are meant to discourage les autres, but there is little appetite at the moment for other countries to flirt with leaving. Also rhetoric is beginning to calm down as well - no more calls for immediate Article 50 invocation and UKIP have faded into the background a little.

So far so not as bad as it could be.
> I despise that the federal government didn't eliminate health insurance companies entirely and move to single payer through Medicare.

Medicare isn't single payer. Its actually very similar to the ACA exchange system, only with a public option alongside private options (all of which must offer at least as much coverage as the public option, and which are partially publicly subsidized for people choosing them instead of the public option.)

(And, in the case of prescription drugs, with a big hole in the public option, for which, if you want coverage, you either have to reject the public option or purchase a publicly-subsized private plan to cover that hole on top of the public plan.)

Medicare was a single payer system, back before most of the people posting on HN were alive.
The Bay in the area in question is bounded by landfills and water reclamation ponds (meaning sewage treatment).
Site point, smashing magazine, and not a mention of blogs like 2ality, addy osmani, or perfection kills by kangax.

Truly a horrible list.
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Hey guys,

I'm currently interviewing for a web developer position for a pretty well funded startup. I've never really interviewed for a startup before and figured i'd ask some folks on here for some advice. The premise of the code challenge that i was given was...."we will be sending you a link to a JSON data set with a specific task. We want you to create a solution, using the provided data, with your most comfortable tech stack."

It's supposed to take about 2 hrs to complete....anyways if anyone has any advice on some tutorials i can check out as i've kind of been out of touch with dev work or tips on interviewing with startups thatd be great!
Looks interesting, on a first try the demo presentation didn't work on my iPhone 6s - and you need to install additional software. p_slides is explicitly dead simple.

hovercraft looks nice, though - I'll probably check it out later on a bigger machine, again. Thanks for sharing!
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DC being what it is, this makes a lot of sense. I only showed up on the xkcd forums, which can go from full of cool people to full of assholes at any moment. It's better now some of the particularly bad trolls have left. Criticising the strip is cool. Being an idiot douchebag isn't.
Ask HN: What's your favorite way to save money?
My startup has been kicking around the idea of developing a Chrome extension to help save you money.

I've been wondering - what are some of everyone's favorite apps or extensions for saving money? I've heard of Ebates, Honey, and Ibotta. Is there a need that's currently going unmet?

Would love to get potential user feedback. Thanks!!
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It's not incompatible in the slightest. If I write software and give it to you only in exchange for money, licenced under the GPL, then I am selling software completely in agreement with RMS's principles.

Also, RMS doesn't insist on any freedom of end users to distribute without cost. Only on you not limiting their redistribution.

Now, that makes some licencing models impossible, sure, but those are hardly the only way to sell software.
Cool, but if you've seriously been on the web for about 5 years, this is nothing new.
Great work!

Are you aware of markdeep?

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

...support for it might be a nice addition to this project.
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Neat. Problem with code in Rust, resolved by project in Rust :)
In religious discussions, people go around in circles arguing within the narrow space of each person's belief system. When even simple terms like "objective" are used in radically different ways, the conversation is doomed from the beginning.
Oh man, I remember trying to understand AppleDOS and 6502 Assembly on the Apple II+ when I was a wee lad. It was so confusing what all these hex memory locations were. Being able to give them actual function names (or even just named constants!) would have made things so much easier!
Note that in-video disclaimers are not enough in the UK, where the regulator (the Advertising Standards Authority) wants consumers to know before they click a link that it's sponsored content.

https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Media-Centre/2015/New-...

https://www.cap.org.uk/Advice-Training-on-the-rules/Advice-O...
Yep, although it is not near the upvote button and sits among such links as parent and flag.
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It's happening. I think the one thing people need to realize is the big "space crunch" in the Bay Area is a relatively recent issue. There is NIMBYism to be sure, but development is slowly catching up. Look at the Sunnyvale side of Moffett Field, it has rapidly grown a collection of tall buildings.

The potential issue that was brought up in Mountain View is an unwillingness to become a "company town" for Google. Residents can remember being a "company town" (to a lesser extent) for SGI and then SGI went poof, leaving the Shoreline area vacant for a time. I actually think it is good for residents to be suspicious of tying their fates to one very large employer; nothing lasts forever.

The same issue may one day impact Cupertino...how many companies could or would want to acquire a single property as big as the "spaceship" campus? Apple isn't going away anytime soon, but this is still a valid concern.
That's exactly what you shouldn't be doing.
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Give me a chrome extension that always alerts me if I am missing a possible coupon on an e-commerce site that I am on. For example, automatically check sites like retailmenot.com etc and tell me possible coupon codes for a product i may be checking out without applying any coupon. Bonus points if u also apply that coupon for me :)
Please could you explain to me, if Squirrel is "similar to Lua, but uses a C like syntax", why I wouldn't want to use C or Lua instead?

Is this about Steam? If not, is this (even) faster than Lua? Is it easier or safer than C? Am I missing something? You better have something seriously good to offer if in your first breath you're pitching yourself alongside the very best of both interpreted and compiled languages.
We'll cringe at the names, sure.

I'll be very surprised if we actually go back to merging, integrating, testing, and releasing code once every few months/years instead of hours/days.
Well gee, there's a solid argument.
I tried using this to pay my rent. The key is the recipient didn't need to sign up for anything - they were verified instantly. They also claim to transfer funds overnight for businesses but I haven't tried that yet.
Well, LLVM doesn't work well on SPARC yet, so anyone on a SPARC-based system would be affected (yes, I know the number of people running FireFox on SPARC is relatively small, although it certainly numbers in the thousands).

And until recently, as another example, rust didn't quite work yet on Solaris (amd64); thankfully, a community member stepped up and has been actively working on that port.
I've heard there are concerns about disturbing the soil because it can trigger responsibility for dealing with the pollutants left by early valley hardware companies such as https://yosemite.epa.gov/r9/sfund/r9sfdocw.nsf/ViewbyEPAID/C...
If there's a clearer and more specific way to speak about something, we should try to use it.
I've never heard about this, and it's interesting. Have you seen any evidence beyond your interactions with non-profits, such as a study? Ideally indicating how widespread this practice is, the degree, or the motivations / why it happens.
> What restricts someone from constructing a tall building?

The insane laws of the bay area might restrict you, for starters.
>I am painfully aware of what totalitarianism is... Should I not talk about it and warn against it until it's undeniably here?

No, you should just avoid the slippery slope fallacy.
Also has a nice tax benefit. Thy can restart depreciation.
You must be very old.
You can call them anything you like, I'm just saying that you shouldn't.
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No! Stop the removed madness!
And about 2,500 too many engineers
And Kate Beaton: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php/index.php?id=134
In other words, NIMBY asshats unwilling to accept progress.
That and because the vast majority of products can use a standard, off the shelf enclosure. Problem is that many of the new product designers don't come from a hardware background and either aren't aware of the huge scope of what you can buy (and get modified cheaply) off the shelf, or they think that their product must have a fully custom enclosure.

One of the benefits of having a traditional engineering education and experience is working alongside other engineers and designers who are trained in fields you weren't. It's really hard to put that type of combined experiences into a book or a tutorial.
The capacity of the roads and highways that feed the campus is more of an issue.
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The government reduces Medicare payouts by a fixed percentage, starting at 1% in 2014 going up until it reaches 9% in 2022, to any participant who doesn't meet meaningful use requirements. The only way to opt out of the requirement is to completely opt out of medicare. That rather sounds like a nonvoluntary penalty carrying program to me.
Thanks! Are you interested specifically in coupons? One thing we've been brainstorming is an extension that offered a more comprehensive set of ways to save - coupons, cash back, deals, etc.

Is that something you'd be interested in?
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It would be be funny to see the corporate equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog (maybe a single office building hallway where some of the offices were used by one company and some by another? but there are coworking spaces and incubators where this actually happens!).
issues with trust re government? who would you suggest to trust then, because i assume free market businessmen aren't trustworthy either?
Of course excluding actions would cause harm to their neighbors with their actions.

What would you call it when your new 50 story building leaves neighboring properties in permanent shadow, or get in the way of their previous panoramic views of the bay?
It's maybe not the best statistic, but many African countries are pushing for a common currency, so it's not completely unjustified.
Bullshit. Even the cliché quote from Saint-Exupery is there.
> If I buy a piece of land, and it's my property, I can do whatever I what with it right?

No.

> The United States is a free country right?

Nothing to do with the United States. Most countries have zoning laws.
This has got to be wrong. Have you seen the "Moffett Towers" buildings that are actually bordering Moffett Field? Google's buildings are 2 floor max; Moffett Towers has 6-8 floor buildings.