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> Among those opposed was Beverly Quail... She said there’s no such thing as read-only publication online, thanks to the ease of making electronic copies. And taxpayers should not foot the bill for publishing standards of interest to very few people, she said.

That's actually exactly what taxpayers should foot the bill for, many of the services the government provides do exactly that, spread the needs of the few across the many, making it cheaper per-person to provide something, like the text of legislation. Wouldn't it be great to live in a world with universal access to ~~healthcare~~ legislation?

> Malamud, an associate member of the ABA who received special privileges of the floor, noted that the public would be prohibited by this motion from printing, searching or copying the law, and would have to preregister with a private vendor before reading the law.

Those are some pretty terrible constraints and it's kinda funny that one of the supposed reasons to oppose this is that it costs tax payers money, yet you can't copy the legislation and put it somewhere else. This hosting/mirroring issue was solved decades ago by having the trusted source provide a hash of the document in question, and then allowing anyone to mirror it. Interested parties need only verify the hash to ensure they have the document in question.

Edit: Whoops, should cite the better article (linked to in the OP) that I got those quotes from: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/after_strong_debate_h...
Sounds awesome. I think your website could use an explanation of the term "zero-knowledge".
I've got young kids. Any laptop without a magsafe power connector is going to be starting at a huge disadvantage, as far as my deciding to purchase it. That includes the USB-C-only Macbook.

Add being the only manufacturer (and software company—actually that part's probably more important) that gives even half a damn about battery life, and getting something unixy without the pain of Linux (also a long-time Linux user, so yeah, I know how it is), and my not caring about more than Intel graphics (discrete graphics in a laptop: always a mistake in my experience) and anything remotely close costs just as much anyway, so I'll just go with Apple. Competition would be great, but there's just... none.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Some of the members upvoted it, so I guess it's interesting enough.
Well it's not supposedly, that IS the law. Ignorance is not a defence.
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Hmm well I don't want to hear what a nightmare my colleagues lives are.

I ask "How was the weekend" you say "Fine". I don't care that your house burned down.

Yep I am a brit!
All laws, rules, and regulations should be available free to download from the issuing government agency. I don't see a valid argument for any other policy regarding this.
Yes, I am mad at myself for not just ignoring him, or not calling the police myself.

However, I do like to sit down and consider things before making a decision. Did I want to get arrested? Not really.

I got my photo and I didn't get arrested, so this is almost the best-possible outcome, right?
Not necessarily no need to work, but more importantly, easily available free time to spend on learning (or anything else).
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That it were so simple...

There is utility in people pleasing that does not end with self-satisfaction. There are costs, sometimes immediate, to conveying your thoughts and feelings directly. Examples from the workplace:

Your colleague is a bit chatty and annoying, so the last thing you want to do is start a conversation about how bad your weekend was. It takes more mental energy to deal with them than not, so smile and say 'My weekend was great!'.

More seriously, it is necessary for your boss to want to keep you around and letting your emotions hang out on topics not related to work may get them wondering about your focus and productivity. This is particularly important if you're supporting a family, and in practical terms, you really have to be judicious about being true to yourself vs. keeping your job. Not that it's that precipitous, but over time, you'll establish an image.

From the boss's perspective, people respond well to confidence, and letting your team know you're true feelings needs to be thoughtfully considered in each case. Showing lack of confidence in the right places can elicit helpful ideas and volunteers. In the wrong place, it can really kill your team.

So for me, it's a trade off. I know when I'm being less than truthful, and it is deliberate and purposeful in each case.
You mean this?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule

or do you mean this?

http://www.nbcolympics.com/full-schedule
Why do you think this is more correct than the user providing the public side of an ssh key pair?
I think they have that. [0] lets you filter by sport (or athelete) to see all the results, and move ahead and back day by day. And I think this[1] is basically what your second query is looking for

[0] - http://results.nbcolympics.com/schedules/
[1] - https://www.nbcolympics.com/live-stream-schedule
No idea. If I were being very cynical, I imagine that he had a "security training" and wanted to get an extra gold star. The Port Authority seems to think that photographers are Public Enemy Number One, even prohibiting selfies on their trains, technically.

He seemed like a nice guy who cared about his job, maybe a civil engineer or something. He wasn't dressed as though he were in a security position, or anything. (His badge didn't say.)
Well, Firefox currently seems to have the worst performance of all the major browsers on macOS. Try running it in a fresh environment, after backing up and removing ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox

However, while Safari always runs a lot better even with a lot more tabs, Firefox on my 1st-gen MacBook definitely doesn't take a whole 5 seconds to start. Could there be some resident third-party crap running in the background on yours?
Why ask then. Are there literally no other things you can think of saying that would satisfy the social norms? How about "Hope you had a good weekend."
WOW wonder if that announcement made some of their current customers squirm a bit in their seats as they read that...
Microsoft proves backdoor keys are a bad idea
So lawyers know how to use pointers and protected memory...
That's how creeping lack of privacy, lack of speech, lack of personal security works. It's hard to put a finger on exactly how it's impacting you, but it is. The photographer was afraid of the ramifications of his actions. It's unclear what the ramifications are but the fear is not unreasonable.

This is similar to how journalists feel in light of the NSA scandals. It's not wrong to write about government overreach but if you cross a line they might come after you so it's best not to approach the line, even if that is a private conversation on a phone or via email.

Protestors, photographers, journalists, and people with encrypted data are getting arrested. The first, forth, and fifth amendments are under attack. Cops are progressively getting more violent against nonviolent bystanders. The fear is real.

edit: add "about"
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Doesn't matter what the courts say if the mere threat of a lawsuit can scare off investors in a future startup.
> being on call may be a major hassle and increase your work hours significantly and affect your ability to make plans on weekends or evenings

Could you clarify? that's kind of what I expect when being on-call anywhere
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Yeah, that’s really cool.
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Indeed. Here I was thinking that ferrying passengers instead of other cargo was the largest cause of death...
Integrations- My SQL
Also see : http://gymcastic.com/nbcimprovements/
So what? If you propose to have someone do some amount of running that they wouldn't otherwise have done, they must pay for that running in one of two ways:

1: Eat more. This has a linear relationship to the amount of additional running.

2: Do less. By doing less, you can redirect calories that would have been burned anyway to the task of running. You cannot, by definition, redirect calories that are budgeted for the basal metabolic rate.

By paying for the extra running "in kind", by not doing activities you would otherwise have done, it is easy to show a nonlinear relationship between "total running done" and "total calories expended". But that's spurious, it has nothing to do with the energy cost of running. There is a linear relationship between "total running done" and "total calories expended on running", and that is what matters when calculating the cost of running.
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Honestly doesn't matter when one can't run CUDA and almost all the pro applications for a GPU are CUDA based.
A security guard with an pre-existing relationship with the cops who might pepper his statement with some drama that might or might not have happened to make sure you get either arrested or detained certainly has an authority over some random guy with a camera. Also, many police run on informal quotas and if there's a "letter of the law" arrest here then the cops will probably take it. The police not here to advocate for you and most are fairly ignorant of many important legal issues, especially in regards to civil rights.

Why does everyone think calling the cops will magically solve everything and every cop is a honest truth teller immune from politics, bullshit, and bias? As someone who is classified as 'white' but has much darker skin than your average white person (I pass as arab easily), I can tell you, shit gets real when the cops are bothered and the guy closer to the bottom of the potem pole usually gets fucked, regardless of merit. The cops will just let the courts figure it out, so now you're in a cell, spending money on lawyers, etc because some high school drop-out making minimum wage as a security guard thinks you're a terrorist.

Its just easier to just accept the bullying and go away. That's what the guy in the blog post pretty much did. He took a half-assed picture instead of the one he wanted and felt terrible after. How exactly did any of this make us safer? Who can he complain to? And if he did, who would even care?

This shouldn't be the status quo in America.
I could see some forces wanting to create a Genius-style annotated version of all the laws of the land. DRM and a EULA would be a great way to slow down such a creation and keep the power in the ivory tower.
I just installed NoScript and I can reproduce the problem you see. :(
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If you're going to build something, pay for access to the relevant building codes. I don't think you should have to, but it's not absurd on its face.
Because it is not a tool or a language problem but a network reliability problem?
Display-mode
It's interesting that I hear these anecdotes, because as a user of touch screen devices pre-dating iOS, and every iOS device from 2nd-gen iPhone onward, not once have I ever caught myself reaching to touch the screen of my laptop or desktop monitor. I dunno, in my mind "handhelds are for touching, things with keyboards are not to have their screens touched under threat of bodily harm."
Is "can't afford to read the law" a valid defense?
I have had a couple of amazon recruiters contact me (I applied via their website), and both appeared to be confused (I wanted a position in Toronto/Vancouver) which they assured me was what I was selected for (to go through the interview process). However after the first online test, they changed it to a Seattle-based position and made me do the test again.

As for the entry level jobs, it's weird because I applied to both SDEI (0 - 3 yrs of exp) and SDEII (1 - 3 yrs of exp) - and they rejected me for SDEI (which I'm more qualified for) while I was "under consideration" for SDEII.
we've never had 'limited government' that spent under 3.8 trillion dollars a year.

you no longer have a legislature , civilian executive (presidency) , or judicial court system capable of restraining the beast.

ronald reagan LIED about his intentions or his capabilities but he did not lie about the only succesful tactic;

it's time to cut federal spending IN HALF, indefinitely with statutory budget constraints put into the constitution that cannot be violated without a full supermajority of congress and of senate being forced to reauthorize the emergency spending suspension bill on an ANNUAL BASIS.

put that in the constitution. it is the only possible thing that can constrain the government at this point because of its simplicity and its 'neutrality' in terms of the idea that general budget guidelines are potentially neutral to any specific agency or lobbying group that might opppose them.
Do developers need an LCD display to remember when their function keys do?
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> Literally no one is saying otherwise

Nice, Argumentum ad populum.

After following this election pretty closely I have observed that many people do not in fact understand how the parties operate and that the primaries are a party and not a legal construct. It's possible that people either have faulty ideas how the party process is run, or just do not have enough experience with it (many new Bernie voters).
Although it's quite buggy (particularly with Chromecast), doesn't NBC Sports allow you to do that? I've watched most all the prelims I was hoping to watch. Of course you need a TV provider to login.
I have a hard time connecting "good hackers would find interesting" with "opinions about gymnastics on television".
Well, it's a security advisory designed to look like scene keygen/crack programs do (nice little nostalgia factor).
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I don't get it. So if I want to construct a building, I have to pay the city money just to be able to find out what codes I need to follow, on top of a billion other fees like permits and inspections?
So the startup that sent the Cease and Desist has nothing to do with the popular SaaS website you cloned?

Startups don't just get to bully owners out of domain names that use the same name. If the domain was important to them they could have bought it before you did.

This isn't legal advice, but I would take the site down (since it sounds like you don't care about it), refuse to transfer the domain, tell them you intend to keep using the domain but would consider having a conversation about selling it to them.
or a $70 official one from Apple that most people will just buy.
Are there dates attached to these? I don't see any, and this complaint could be outdated (I doubt it is, but it still could be)
You don't fucking care. You write ‘her’ if it's a girl and ‘him’ if it's a boy, then if they ask for something different you apologize and correct yourself. This isn't tumblr.
Ah yes, the parrot wasn't dead because after he was lying on the floor for almost a thousand years, once he had been prepared to be cleaned away we can view it as it was his own voluntary movement. And he was just resting. Good. I've understood the nature of your arguments, I have no more questions and don't expect anything more in this discussion.
I'm a Brit, and I fully expect to hear how people are doing when I ask them that question directly. If I didn't want to know, I'd not ask.

If the question is always to be answered with "fine", then is the person you ask ever going to notice if you don't ask it? You don't care about what they feel either way and they know it.
If you like making fiction maps by hand (but not fantasy maps) - have a look at this great mapping project: Open Geo Fiction: http://www.opengeofiction.net

From the about page: "This world is set in modern times, so it doesn't have orcs or elves, but rather power plants, motorways and housing projects. But also picturesque old towns, beautiful national parks and lonely beaches. "

It's essentially a fictional OpenStreetMap, and actually uses all the same stack as OSM, with all the data as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
If I got all my information about the Olympics from watching NBC, I'd believe that only a few events are taking place, and that only Americans (and a handful of people from other countries) are competing.

"Look! The American took 3th place! Let's interview her and show a little mini-biography of her life and not even show or mention the Australian and Chinese competitors who took gold and silver!"
Maybe Dutch directness is the reason why The Netherlands is consistently in the top 10 of the Happiness Index.

http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/expat-page/articles/...
I'm not sure it's a position that would be envied as such, I guess everyone is different. I suppose if you were wanted for questioning by police for a serious crime that you wanted to evade and you hadn't got a friendly government seeking positive news coverage to give you a legal loophole to remain at large, you might.
That sensor was taken out with the SSD MBPs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201666 (under Note at the top of the page.
Dear Christ don't visit this. The scrolling experience and constant history re-writing as you scroll is head-bangingly awful.

For the sake of anyone visiting your site, fix this please!
Mary Lou Retton. `84, LA Olympics.

Gynmastics was a Big Deal then.
Then you haven't been paying attention. What is at issue here is highly technical rules and regulations like building codes that cannot be written directly by elected officials because they do not have the expertise. That kind of work has to be contracted out to specialists who are not lawmakers, and those people have to be compensated somehow for their work. They could be paid with tax dollars, but tax dollars are scarce, and why should every tax payer foot the bill for the cost of writing a regulation that is only of use to a very small special interest group? Why not let the market take care of it instead?

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with this argument, but I think it's defensible.
I've added etag support
Binti's main SaaS web product is a conventional monolithic Rails/Postgres app that delivers value in heaps and heaps, and remains super fun to hack on. We're building the monolith up higher and higher, and looking forward to soon chipping off a service or two (perhaps in Elixir?). Specific engineering roles we have open are for someone that is highly-opinionated on the front-end stack/practices, a security specialist, and a UX/a11y specialist. We're using Kubernetes for cluster management.

Also hiring in sales and customer success.
Thanks! I think that might be what I'm looking for but, try as it might, my browser won't load any of the streams. Not sure if it's plugin related or if the site is simply being hugged to death.
And Germany invaded Poland on the 1st September 1939.
The problem is we signed up treaties with Czechoslovakia regulating the issue You think the eastern part of Poland was not ethnically mixed and there were no problems with this?
"And if a law isn't public, it isn't a law!"

Well... http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2687223
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I think some people don't understand that these corporations and the government have strong legal teams, that can do serious damage to an unsuspecting individual. jobs can be lost, public reputations can be ruined, not to mention financial damage and fines, or worse prison time for innocuous offenses, or physical harm and property damage from reckless violent police.

edit: regulation -> reputation
i'll add some positive thoughts as well.

i think basic tools like a source code respository and a wiki (especially one that allows grouping/arranging pages together into folders or some hierarchy) can go a long way.
Well exactly - you don't care and you just write 'their'. You're the one suggesting that we should go out of our way to do detective work to find some evidence of whether someone looks like a man or a woman. It's easier to just say 'their'.

Also, I've seen several comments here of someone making what I presume are honest mistakes in using the wrong pronoun and being publicly shamed for it.
Not just useful, necessary, when it comes to things like structural safety. You need a building code that get's updated to address issues civil engineers face.

These laws are the api for building things.

It's unjust to make the law you have to follow something you have to pay to see, especially when ignorance of the law is not an excuse for not following it.

Not just because it flies in the face of American legal principles to have private secret laws, but because laws you have to pay 10k to access and which have DRM that prevent sharing create a barrier to entry for new companies, and increase costs to consumers.

It's not like the organizations that develop building codes can't make money from things like testing, education, professional development etc.
>> Sending out the name of every woman voter in Turkey does not benefit anyone.

Stop passing on incorrect information. That wasn't them: https://glomardisclosure.com/2016/08/08/what-a-hit-piece-aga...
> Game changers like Einstein and Newton

Great examples you got, because those two did very little of the "here's a theory, let's see what it can explain" the GP is taking about, and focused basically on "here's some weird data, let's get a theory for explaining it".
lol the USA is #1 at Soccer
Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam
I would think the best way to eliminate the largest cause of death (ferrying passengers) would be with a detachable cabin [1] but given that most accidents occur around take-off and landing, it wouldn't make much sense.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
In all likelihood, if the cops even bothered to show up after someone called this in, they'd probably laugh it off. I get that people have skepticism about police, but after living in NYC over a decade I've come to notice that NYC police usually don't care one bit about stupid stuff. Even in the "see something, say something" age, they usually have plenty of common sense.
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Yes. What's not to get?
And you think the eastern part of Poland was just given us by Ukrainians, Lithuanians etc. voluntarily?
Not sure why you were downvoted. I suppose some people just can't handle the truth, because you're absolutely correct. The police have the power to make your life hell, especially if someone reports you for "suspicious activity" and there is an even remotely plausible reason (e.g. "he is taking photos because he's planning a terrorist attack!").
Start writing more classes