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> Who is "the Government"? Wait, ain't them the very candidates that you the people vote into offices?

Yes, the very candidates we vote into offices chosen from a menu prepared by the 0.1% of the wealthiest people in the country.

Please see Lessig's TED talk on U.S. Democratic process.

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
As a libertarian I would never work for Government Especially the IRS.

>>You often need permission, then pay royalties, to copyright holders. That is the theft.

You operate under the idea that I believe they are entitled to these things, I do support or believe copyright is ethical, I do not believe the government has the ethical authority to tell me how I can arrange the bits on my hard disk, I do not believe the government has the ethical authority to grant a person or company the monopoly on an idea or arrangement or words, notes, or images
I like the concept (reminds me of gobyexample.com) but this really isn't documentation. Instead of more code snippets I want high quality annotations (like snippets!) atop official documentation. If more people were driven to canonical docs but with a guiding hand I think we'd see more people actually understanding the code they write.
Perhaps not entirely germane, but I worked for the U.S. branch of a Japanese company - it was about %50/50 Japanese expats and Americas. The Japanese worked 50-60 hours a week, Americans worked in the ballpark of 40 or so, and nobody blinked an eye. They were notoriously stingy on vacation time, which led to a pretty dismal retention rate (partly why that was the only job I left in under a year).
but we do know what they are logging, and they are logging everything and the kitchen sink compared to retail Win 7 install.
Very true. So, the question becomes: is this 3D printed chart misleading or is it focused on the relevant data?

I must stress that I'm realize I'm being very analytic about a piece of art. As art and as a statement, I recognize that it is very well done. I just don't have much to say about it other than wondering if it is misleading.
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I didn't even know that powers, logs and roots were that related. My math is bad :( I struggled through some of the Khan Academy but I find it really hard to remember all the rules. The triangles really helped me. But maybe the video was overly simplistic? These triangles (visual items) can be placed in the mind palace. I can picture them now and could probably figure out where the log2(x) fits in.
I'm not the parent, but yes those people definitely exist. They enjoy improving human systems the same way hackers enjoy building things. And they get paid well for it.
A few things:

1) Reach out to people who used to work there. You have to discount the negativity somewhat, but if the response is positive then that's a good sign.

2) Rather than ask "Are there communications problems" you should ask "What are the biggest communication challenges?" Also ask, "What are the 2-3 most important managerial areas for me to fix on day one, and the 2-3 most important areas for me to leave alone"

3) Go to Glassdoor. Again you have to discount the negativity, but that will give you good areas to probe and it's fair to ask, "I see this on Glassdoor, what do you say?"

Good luck tomorrow!
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At this point the Eve project is so far out in left-field it's astounding. If you start with Lighttable and move on through Aurora and Eve you see the same patter over and over.

1) say X is broken we should fix it
2) we will fix X in a way that we don't have time to explain in detail now
3) please send money!
4) ....
5) we didn't solve X but we worked on Y and Z!
6) Y is broken we should fix it.
7) don't have details on how we will solve Y but please send money.
8) ....
9) we didn't solve Y but we worked on Z and Z'

What started as a Lighttable eventually got set-aside for Aurora. What then started as a Excel like environment, morphed several times into databases, temporal stores, and who knows what else. The even started building Eve in Rust and Typescript! Can't see those anymore on the github, but hey! I can see Lua and JS!
Ooh, that 'might' is huuuuuuge.
Wealthy voters secretly like the situation but pay lip-service to economic inequality concerns because they know nothing major can come of it. Poor voters are voting for the red herring of rent control while being slowly gentrified out of town.
> Well, almost, let's address the "It's not fair" whingers. The HTTPS test is faster because it uses HTTP/2 whist the HTTP test only uses HTTP/1.1. The naysayers are upset because they think the test should be comparing both the secure and insecure scheme across the same version of the protocol. Now we could do that with the old protocol, but here's the problem with doing it across the newer protocol [is that HTTP/2 over TLS]

This doesn't invalidate the argument that you're comparing two things and claiming you're comparing two other things prima facia. For this use-case HTTP/2 will be faster, with or without TLS (if it could be tested). Claiming that it's the TLS that's speeding up the connection, which is what you mean when you say http vs https) is just plain wrong.
Musk made $165M from Paypal.

Google tells me Zuck's current net worth is $35B.

Sure, this might be inexact, but the latter number is about 200 times larger than the first.
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Ars, The Information [1] (slightly controversial because of their paywall), and I also really like Fred Wilson's short blog posts [2].

[1]: https://www.theinformation.com

[2]: http://avc.com
> Why not educate your fellow citizens on the danger of the laws? Why not change minds? Why not raise money for candidates who will change the laws appropriately?

Because that's incredibly inefficient when compared to taking someone to court. Most people don't care about the things you care about, and they shouldn't have to -- that's what the courts are for. Democracy is a great last resort, but it should only be used when all other options have been exhausted.
I really am beginning to wonder what kind of people self-select to become police officers: a strong belief in order, conformity, and demand for unquestioning obedience, with no hesitation for meting out brutal penalties for any divergence.

It also seems that the training they receive only amplifies these tendencies rather than screening out these pathological behaviors. The cop with the most abuse complaints (68 complaints) in Chicago was actually given a service award.

See here: https://cpdb.co/data/bmEM6b/citizens-police-data-project

and compare here: http://guardianlv.com/2013/05/chicago-annual-award-ceremony-...

Unfortunately, it also seems like this has been going on for a long time, perhaps decades. Movies like Training Day (with Denzel Washington) appeared as pure fiction when they appeared in 2001; now you can watch them as watered-down documentary of the real thing.
Mostly because the "C with classes" crowd tend to be C developers dragged into using a C++ compiler.

Personally I like to turn everything on, but I also understand there are use-cases where it isn't possible.

My first C++ compiler was Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, so I also used this kind of bare metal programming back in the day.

What I don't like is "C with classes" which throws away all the safety mechanisms that C++ offers over C, to the point the code could be compiled with a C compiler.

However the advices presented in the "Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++" look quite good.
In the case of the drug, we as a society (and I use "we" very loosely here; in this case it means "mainly people who benefit directly from this opinion") have "decided" that a "person" (company) who invents a useful drug "deserves" to gain tons and tons of money, and operate in a way which prevents others from duplicating the drug, even if that behavior leads directly to the needless suffering of potentially millions of individuals.

In the world I want to live in, this type of thing would be given to society due to the benefits of it. "But it's an investment; how will they recoup R&D money?" some will say. My response is that we as a society should recognize that the "free market" approach here can be quite inhumane for many people and figure out a way to either publicly fund this research (and address the related problems such as fraud and embezzlement) for the benefit of everyone.
Is it really illegal to share your Netflix password?
>Because those preferences are mostly the result of sexism

Another extraordinary claim made in the complete absence of evidence.

Are you claiming that men and women don't have different preferences? Are you claiming that Iran, where 70% of engineering students are women, is less sexist than the US?

>Yet today, women make up 50% of graduates in those professions? Did something change in their genetics? Or did those professions just become less sexist?

So medicine, law, education, biology, veterinary science, and chemistry got less sexist, but philosophy, physics, and engineering didn't. That's your claim. That you've made, again, without a shred of evidence.
Not all by any means. But the church does encourage self-reliance, frugality, saving, education, emergency preparedness, and hard work; promotes stable families; and discourages various expensive and life-destroying vices.
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The best thing to do in a situation involving the police is ask them, in the heat of the moment, to be very specific as to what their reasoning is behind something. Being human, they may slip up and say the wrong thing, and that's really the only "out" you have. Otherwise, the prosecutor will put themselves in the officers shoes and find a reason why their actions were justified.

Once you get something, shut up.
Do you have experience of using sequel with rails 5?

Also, what do you use for authentication?
do you know many people who enjoy jumping into dysfunction and making it better?

It's as much fun as solving any problem. And even more fun if you get paid extra for it.
It's not only overkill, it probably doesn't work because the resolution is typically way to big.

http://qz.com/631697/a-regular-inkjet-printer-can-spoof-a-fi...
That seems unnecessary. Or did you use (something like) Meteor.js?
22% of Indian mobile users use WeChat? I'd like a citation for that, since in my experience less than a percentage use anything other than Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.
If you think my comments are "destructive criticism" then I invite you to post to a medchemist's site, like Derek Lowe's, or present at a medchemist's conference and see the responses you get.

By giving you all these pointers I am trying to provide the "constructive criticism" you say you want.

I am also trying to establish my bona fides, so you might have a chance of accepting as true my statement that you've offered no insights which were not already known a century ago. It's not like the concepts underlying unit testing didn't exist before CS developed them.

And I have no wish to put up with an eternal September here on HN when some enthusiastic engineer thinks the methods from that field can be moved over to drug development. It very similar to what Lowe, above, calls the 'Andy Grove fallacy' - http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/04/02/sil... .

Also, there's an entire field for the theory of the design of experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments . These are used in drug development. Perhaps it's software development which should incorporate ideas drug development, and not the other way around.
when i first saw the sculpture, i was like, hmm...

then, when i read the article, i was like... WHOA!!!
Are chickens a significant predator of mosquitoes or mosquito larvae? That would make a lot of sense. Or maybe some other bird that chickens happen to have a smell in common with.
Which might explain why men, who are far more motivated by money than women are, would seek to enter the field despite it being a much more difficult degree and arguably less rewarding career.
Steve Jobs did this really well. If you want to show authenticity, you need to show both your good and the bad side. All we see from Zuck is his good side and that's why he comes across as pretentious.
Oh wow, the Department of Justice actually went after someone at HSBC. Are they trying to compensate for a recent report that concludes it let HSBC skate on its criminal money laundering business because it was too big to jail?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/house-committee-says-hsbc-w...

And for background on the blatant money laundering they enabled:
>drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...
Usually you're there for a couple hours, it's easy to sneak out in between 2 interviews for 2 minutes.
I read somewhere that if you don't "behave" when stopped on the highway, there is a good probability to get shot when being asked for the documents.
Thanks for referring stats book.
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Exactly re: influence. Laws like this are de-facto evidence of the power of the will of the people vs. the power of the will of financial interests by other people who deem that more important (in terms of their bank accounts and short-sighted profit motives).
Sure! Heroku have a list here https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains#configu...
Are people not aware that black men were banned from being pastors until 1978? Or that the Church funded huge campaigns against gay marriage? And continues to use its influence over the Boy Scouts to slow progress there as well?
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> Claiming that it's the TLS that's speeding up the connection, which is what you mean when you say http vs https

But that's the entire argument he's making. It's not what I mean. When I go to my web host's sysadmins and say "I need to use https so I can use service workers," I don't mean "I need to use TLS so I can use service workers." I mean what I said. https was once defined as merely http + TLS (well, SSL), but it has now come to be a protocol/scheme that supports things that http does not. One of those, and certainly the biggest, is TLS. But there are other differences.

This is a comparison between http and https. It investigates the reason why https is faster, and makes it clear that the difference is that https means other things besides TLS.
How do you figure?

One of the keys to cheerfulness is valuing your own experience and in seeing the world as it is, faults and all.

My experience has been that a lot of stuff in the Ruby/Rails (and the Node ecosystem, a thousand times worse) ecosystem is due to well-meaning novices cranking out ever-so-slightly different iterations on the same ideas, cluttering up the package managers with not-quite-right solutions.

That, and a pervasive attitude of convention-over-configuration and self-aggrandizing that tends to place an emphasis on popularity over talent, and on talent over restraint.

I remain cheerful because that culture hasn't yet infected the Elixir community.
I have to ask the morbid question, why couldn't they use the dead man's fingers directly?
That's because he's a rent-seeker rather than an innovator.
How can I make my American home more European?
As much as I like to contribute to open-source, the reality is I have budgets and deadlines to meet.

Most libraries out there will do a LOT of things I couldn't care less about, making them harder to integrate and debug and reason about, on top of bloating your executable.

I do agree there are a lot of amazing libraries out there and we do use a lot of them. But that's after analyzing them and figuring out they solve our problems and actually will save us time. For the vast majority of libraries we look at, its usually faster and better to roll our own.
Sorry our research seems to have offended you. :(

All our experiments have been moved to here: https://github.com/witheve/eve-experiments, which has the complete history of all the versions we've built.

Our work is all open source, we've published our bibliography, and we've talked about all the prototypes and what we've learned from them here [1]. The only time we asked for money was the Kickstarter, which was only done because HN community specifically asked us to. Is there something specific you're particularly upset about?

[1]: http://incidentalcomplexity.com/
What? No. Orbital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_Sciences_Corporation) launched a rocket into space in 1990, entirely privately.

France [1], Japan [2], India [3], Israel [4], Iran [5], and even North Korea [6] have developed and launched rockets that successfully put satellites in orbit.

I like Elon as much as the next guy, but this mythologizing is just too much.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamant

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_(rocket_family)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Launch_Vehicle

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavit

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safir_(rocket)

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unha
But the other point is that https now means HTTP/2 or HTTP/1.1, where as http always mean HTTP/1.1 - so I'm not sure that's true.
> the four-character PIN system used to access Microsoft services is insecure, because there is no limit on the number of attempts a user can make.

I just tried logging in with my pin.

After a handful of tries I was given a string to enter before I could try again. I did that. After another try I got told to restart the device before I could try again.

So it doesn't look like 10 tries and locked out forever, but rather increasing penalties for incorrect attempts. Which is fine.

oh and my pin is 6 characters long.

If they don't have this right why should we believe them about any of their other claims?
It's not a lack of training. In several of these similar cases, they officers were found to have acted in accordance with their training -- which is why they aren't disciplined.

I've seen videos some of these training exercises. The "dangerous" situation exercises seem to favor escalation to deadly force as soon as viable and encourage the trainee to look for a reason to escalate. One was a domestic violence situation, where, when the trainee is told, the appropriate response to a person reaching into the sink is to use deadly force, since there may be a gun in there.

Which is why, I think, any situation results in a successful lawsuit or settlement should automatically be considered a violation of training policy.
Bring facebook to everyone and replace the internet. He said he was going to do it years ago and here we go, he's going to do it; a proprietary, walled internet in which you are only allowed to speak and think liberal authoritarian approved things. Facebook wants to know, are you thinking the right things?
Don't rush with conclusions, they've shot an autistic kid as well http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/la-state-police-pro...
I think the TensorFlow the API has indeed won. TensorFlow the Machine Learning Engine not so much. It's not derisively referred to as TensorSlow(tm) without cause.
Facebook to me just looks like a service that wants to build as big of a walled garden as it can and then feed the inhabitants whatever it wants to further its agenda. Then they just speak of it in terms of "helping" everyone.
DEET has been in use as an insect repellent since 1946. Insensitive mutant insects are known but in most cases it's still effective. The more distinct mechanisms of action we have available the less likely insensitivity will become a problem, so it's worth identifying the active compound in chicken odor.
Why would it make any sense to account for the effort needed to produce oil from high-entropy substrates and an energy source? If you're going that far, why not take it to its logical conclusion and ask how much it would cost to create a barrel of crude oil starting from nothing at all, creating your own Big Bang and going from there? As Sagan said, if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

There are certainly implicit subsidies for oil, in the form of the externalities like health and environmental damage from the pollution emitted when using it. But it makes no sense to me to account for the work that went into creating the oil. Hordes of microbes already did that work millions or billions of years ago. It's done, it's there, and the cost of taking advantage of that work is just the cost of extraction and use.
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I think you might have some misconceptions about the structure of the American legal system and about American politics.

> One thing always bugs me about Americans: despite the liberties that they enjoy, despite the very real capacity to impact change in their government and laws, they all hate "the Government." Who is "the Government"? Wait, ain't them the very candidates that you the people vote into offices?

Fear of government is essentially a founding value of the United States, but I agree that people often go too far with it.

> Like this idea of "suing the US government." Who are you suing? The executive branch? Why are you suing them? This is over a law. It's a piece of legislation. The executive branch merely, you know, execute the laws.

Because that's how American constitutional law works. If you believe a federal law to be unconstitutional, you sue "the United States" so the courts can rule on the matter. The Justice Department, part of the executive branch, which for all intents and purposes is the government's legal team, is then tasked with defending the law.

Also, in constitutional law cases it's common for the plaintiffs to not seek monetary damages of any kind, just for the courts to affirm the rights they're asserting and remedy the specific situation that led to the lawsuit.

> Why not sue Congress?

The only time you would really have standing to sue Congress is if it did something to you directly, like you walked into Capitol Hill and one of the security guards roughed you up for no reason. Otherwise, Congress is acting on behalf of the government, and if you don't like acts of Congress you sue the government as a whole.

> Oh wait, why sue Congress when you can simply vote them out of office? Oh wait, why "stop enforcing" the laws when you can, you know, CHANGE the laws?

A couple reasons.

One, as an American citizen, there are at most three members of Congress you vote for: your Representative, and your two Senators. That's three out of 535 members. If you don't live in a state, you have no representation at all. So even if you can energize your neighbors to agree with and vote like you, it's still hard to sway the tide of national lawmaking.

Another reason is that it simply might not be politically possible to seek relief in Congress, because you're suing for a right that's politically unpopular, or for the rights of an unpopular group. Think of all the lawsuits involving flag burning, sodomy, the KKK, and the Westboro Baptist Church.
Those are political values not cultural ones. And surely conservatives exist in Europe to? Perhaps there are fewer of them and they don't have the political power they do here, but conservatives exist in every country.