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Nuclear fusion is the most energy dense process in the universe. If the reaction is already going, why mess with it?
Damn I feel so far away from reality..I am still using vanilla JS (plain old JS not the framework) & JQuery....yet I have no problem.
That's the joke. I might actually take steps to ensure mine is achieved as advertised.
Didn't see this as I skimmed the article but: What happens when people return? The train lets off a bunch of people at once that need rides, but will there be enough uber drivers to meet the demand?
Very saddening to hear something like this. But after knowing his work in software it's even more hurting. Rest in peace sir. You have our deepest respects.
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> Do you think it is love to extinguish the greatest gift of all — life — in order to satisfy your personal theory of self-determination? Do you think it is hatred to urge someone to preserve the most important thing he has — himself?

This is the single most ridiculous thing I've heard when it comes to the Christian stance on euthanasia.

Pieter had incurable cholangiocarcinoma. He went through a course of treatment, but that treatment did not succeed. He did everything he could have done to preserve himself, but in the end, the form of cancer he was incurable. Your definition of "love" seems to be to force him to waste away, forcing his children and other loved ones watch him degrade slowly, knowing there is no hope for recovery.

The ban on euthanasia is there to prevent people from foolishly taking their lives. There are cases, and Pieter's definitely fits the bill, where the only action left to take is to allow the person the dignity and the right to die as he sees fit.
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If we're judging only on criminal behavior then I would have to stack up Trump's crimes against Clinton's. But since both of them seem to be criminals, both their characters are questionable, it makes more sense to go by which actual policies I prefer.
Not everything needs to be sanitized to protect the delicate sensibilities of America's boardroom.
> I am morally opposed to euthanasia.

Then let's hope you never develop terminal cancer.
What could be done is prosecutors could prosecute the obvious crimes here, but they won't, because they generally think prosecuting bad cops for even flagrantly criminal misconduct that ruins police/community relations and taints the credibility of the police will jeopardize police/prosecutor cooperation.

(Police unions get blamed a lot, and certainly might restrict internal departmental discipline, but they can't constrain criminal prosecution.)

Perhaps establish separate offices only to prosecute crimes by law enforcement officers detached entirely from regular prosecutors offices. (But then, they'd need their own investigation and arrest force, and who prosecutes their misconduct? The regular prosecutors office?)
I think a lot of that is that there is a huge power imbalance in the interaction. So the presumption of guilt on the officer's part may have something to do with the fact that they are completely in control of the situation from an authoritative standpoint.

Having said that, all of these police body camera studies I've been exposed to say that ALL parties behave better, and every conversation I've had about this acknowledges the same.
I've got a feeling that is not true.
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I'm lead to believe that either jquery isn't useful for dealing with virtual DOMs, or that it does screwy things when working together with a virtual DOM system (like react) or both.

I've also heard claims that React's theory of slow DOMs is wrong. Which doesn't make it a 'bad' framework to make use of, just optimized on the wrong thing. I haven't had time to suss this out. I spend a lot of time in "good enough for now" mode because I'm not a dedicated front-end person.
Unplugged the head phone in the office today.
A colleague asked "what kind of dumbass music is that?"
"Sound of creation" I replied.
He was intrigued and was blown away by the concept.
It always blows my mind how much people like Assange and Snowden and Musk get attacked for trying to make the world better while the countless number of corrupt cowards that are in power come off relatively unscathed by these types of criticisms, at least on Hacker News. Why? Why would you attack someone who is trying to democratize power and uncover corruption? Even if the person in question has character flaws, that is by far low on the priority list for reasons to go after someone.
> the amount of complexity you are adding to projects which might not need it

If 80% of your projects are written in X, it's probably simpler to just use X for everything, even things that don't need it
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Yes! Also, it would be interesting to see a histogram of who gets in by the time in the day that the application was reviewed. Or by "time since last meal of reviewer" :)
Unreal Tournament had a decent mod scene too though, and it was only with HL2's Source Engine (and I suppose Valve's active support of modding) that I saw people leave that scene.

I only worked on mods for UT and the original Jedi Knight, and I've only heard second-hand that UT and Quake (3? 2?) were easier to mod than HL1, so I might be wrong.

And compared to Jedi Knight and its only editor(s) being user-made, all these games were easy to mod!
A blockchain, of sorts...
There is no excuse for not knowing CSS as a front end/UI developer. That so few know much of anything about it nowadays, or think they don't actually need to is tragic, IMO.
Among decent, rational people the presumption of innocence is a function of their normal human relationships. There is nothing special about assuming someone is innocent until sufficient evidence is presented.
Your always going to get issues with cuts, financial issues in the public sector. It's very political, and will always be at the whim of the political parties.

It's quite hard to argue for more spending.

It's an advantage of being in the private sector.
Pets are no less an important member of your family than a spouse, children, parents, etc. We may obtain these companions knowing full well we expect to outlive them many times over, but that doesn't mean the eventual loss impacts us less than losing any other member of our family.

Never think your comparison isn't apt because it's "just a pet" :)
Wasn't a major search engine making changes to affect an election a significant plot point in the last season of House of Cards?
Chrome blocks the nfs port:

game.js:3 Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to construct 'WebSocket': The port 2049 is not allowed.
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I have worked at large companies before, and one theme of them was always stagnation. They never really expanded after their initial product was developed. Years and years worth of man-hours were just spent on beauracracy, reinventing the wheel and just sitting around doing nothing (harshly put). A lot due to the leadership and lack of motivation.

I'm just so amazed by the level of innovation going on at Docker, and none-stop delivering of new features. All the while building a very solid base product. I'm genuinly intrigued at how they are able to do this, and grow so fast. How can all these new products be spawned, and yet still be relevant in the grand scheme of things? Sorry for sounding preachy, I really love what Docker is doing.

And technically there is probably a lot to dislike about Docker. I get that vibe from some comments in this thread. While everything is not perfect (yet), the Docker eco-system is just such a besutiful blend of user experience and function. Even their marketing is spot on. It feels almost like I started loving Docker because of the cute whale!
Check out Article 9, Section 9: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_9

I'm not sure of any court decisions. Someone would need to be restricted by the University and challenge it to produce a case. I don't know if that has happened yet.
First: Hillary would have to step down. To the best of my knowledge, once nominated, a candidate cannot be "fired." For instance, Bob Dole had a rough start to his 1996 presidential campaign, and the republican party decided to cut their losses and pull support. They couldn't remove Dole, and he wouldn't step down. That meant that they just refused to fund him or promote his candidacy, and focused their efforts on congressional races.

The strategy worked well for the republican party, but Dole seems (understandably) bitter about being left high and dry by his own party. Note that no living US president has endorsed Trump, and George H.W. Bush has said that he plans to vote for Hillary. Bob Dole is the closest thing Trump has to a presidential endorsement. Remember when there was talk of the republican party cutting support for Trump and focusing on congressional races? I won't pretend to know what Bob Dole thinks, but I suspect that his own history factors into why he supports Trump.

Second: Yes, it would make it easier for Trump to win.

The ballots have already been printed in most states, and early voting has begun in some areas. Some number of people have already voted for Hillary. If Hillary is removed from the ticket and another Democrat is selected, Hillary's votes probably wouldn't be transferred. I can't imagine it's legal to switch someone's vote after-the-fact. Needless to say, you don't get to vote a second time just because your candidate stepped down.

Meanwhile, in some areas they wouldn't be able to (for either time or budgetary constraints) print new ballots. That means Hillary would still be on the ballot in some areas, and it would be up to voters to write in the name of the new democratic nominee.
So as a non doctor, do you think the surgeon choosing to operate was malpractice?
The city is about 6 square miles in area and the general layout appears to be a central hub with major routes as spokes around it to each edge.

Anyone living between the spokes can probably get to a spoke by walking 0.75 miles or less.

Just two or three continually circling vans/buses could go from the city center, down a spoke, then back via another spoke. Probably could return every 20 minutes, give or take.

Can it be done for less than the $167,000 per year this Uber plan will cost the city?
> Do you think it's humble to arrogate for oneself the ending of one's life? Do you think that radical self-determination is not arrogance?

Serious question: Arrogance towards whom?
A psychologist told me that she analyzed men who have prostate cancer.

Long story short, she found out that men who simply go to the doctor every 4-5 months to make sure that everything's fine are happier than those who did an intervention. The reason lies in the fact that you lose self-confidence when you're impotent and incontinent.

Sounds plausible to me and the results had high statistical significance, therefore I agree to your skepticism.
4chan festers, it doesn't contain.
Ask HN: Is it possible for an author to completely conceal his or her identity
While using a fake name is fairly common among published authors, it’s also very common for the fake name to be linked back to a real life identity. Is it possible for an author to remain completely anonymous from the publisher and still receive payment for his or her work?
(Don't explain the joke, man.)
You may want to read his The Ultimate Lessons at:

http://hintjens.com/blog:125
What is the difference? The state is enforcing racial inequality either way.
> If they don't store the contacts, or even a hash of the contact, how can you figure out who was talking to who?

Think of it like email. The body is encrypted, the subject is encrypted, any attachments are encrypted, but in order for them to route the message to the correct destination every message you send still has a "To:" field - their server still decides who to send the notification to.

They don't need to read the contacts or anything of the sort - they just read the "To:" field.
I somehow would guess that few people only use HN, in the same way that few only use 4chan.
An incredible pioneer that will be greatly missed.
Interesting you should mention this. I've really enjoyed and really hated programming over the course of the last 15+ years. A low point for me was Java, Spring, Struts, Struts 2, Wicket, Tiles, Hibernate, JPA, iBatis, Ant, Maven...

Interestingly, Rails (along with a few other really good technologies, such as django) came along and, with a loud crashing sound, swept everything off the table. It's been a lesson for me. First, have the conviction to keep doing things the "old" way if the new way seems to be a churning mess. Second, realize that things may not settle down, they may be completely swept aside instead.

This is how I feel about javascript for the moment. I actually don't think the churn will resolve. It's more of a feeling, so I can't blame anyone for dismissing the rest of what I have to say... but I just sense that, like the J2EE world, that something is going to sweep this all aside.

To go even further out on a limb, I believe that (buzzword alert) languages transpiled to isomorphic javascript will play a huge role in this.

I truly don't believe that because Javascript runs so well in the browser, and if you have to use javascript you may as well write the backend in javascript, means that languages like ruby and python are destined for legacy or niche status. It is immensely reasonable to prefer to code web apps in ruby or python. I think that the dominance of JS will be a temporary situation, and that various technologies that allow people to code for the web in a consistent, relatively simple, straightforward way, in languages that are not JS, is likely to emerge over the next 5 years.

I'm only keeping a toe dipped in the JS waters right now, because I really do need it for some things. But I've decided to drop out of the JS churn (I do recognize that for the next few years, there will be amazing opportunities for people who are willing and able to keep up with it). Just like I wish I'd had the conviction to stay out of the nuttiness of J2EE a decade ago, I'm trying hard to position myself so that I don't have to get swept up into the JS vortex.
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Possibly. I found this doing a quick search. I don't know how credible a source it is, but it sounds reasonable. (Better, more reliable sources would be interesting to see).

"Non-commercial use cannot be prevented, except if that use harms the distinctiveness of the trademark."[1]

There may well be an argument that the confusion about who's behind this and that it actually deals with the company holding the trademark, I would think GitHub has a case. I'm not sure it would be worth pursuing, unless not doing so threatens the enforce-ability of trademark.

[1]http://www.iusmentis.com/trademarks/crashcourse/rights/
Right, that's what I linked to ;)
There can be if Uber's systems can proactively position the supply to meet the predicted demand.
Who owns Open Whisper Systems? I know Twitter bought WhisperSys, and with it Textsecure and Redphone though unsure who currently owns Open WhisperSys and it's products Signal (I assume Twitter does). Twitter is also rumoured for sale with Microsoft looking at aquiring it, so the future of Signal not keeping this metadata depends on who aquires it.
You took the words right out of my mouth. It has more to do with ego than everything else, and you can tell because most competing tools, in JS anyway, don't have a significant edge over the others and are largely the same tool reimplemented without much of a concrete goal besides "performance" and "scalability ". Like you said, taking an existing tool with a deficiency and rewriting it from scratch without that deficiency. Advances have occurred for sure, but not without some massive failures from not having a good roadmap. Brute force, in other words. The projects that do have more concrete goals and vastly different methodologies in the JS world happen to be low in popularity, relatively speaking. I wonder if the inflated egos in the JS community comes from all the talk of "Node.JS is the future" in recent years. There aren't nearly as many competing projects in the Ruby world, or Python or even PHP.
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Assuming that the cause of disagreement must be due to the other party's ignorance is a sign of unjustified, arrogant certainty of one's own position.
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Sort of; the hover interface helps, but I would prefer it if the IDE showed it as if it was written there explicitly, not just when you hover over it.

Which requires explicit UI work, which this protocol won't support.
Dvorak! And nice to see you've got fonts working, that's not something I've messed with. Thanks!
At last year's DesignCon there was a lot of talk about switching to PAM-4 encoding versus the now-standard NRZ. This would almost double the bandwidth given the same clock speed.

NRZ encoding means on a clock tick you either get a 1 or a 0. With PAM-4 a clock tick can be a 0,1,2,or 3.
I'd really have a general question about how well Uber (or competitors) can deal with very spiky demands. Suburban towns haven't historically had a lot of demand for taxis so one wonders how many drivers will sign up to provide transportation during a fairly narrow timeframe in the morning and the evening.

It's not that there isn't a potential pool of drivers who are fine with working a few hours a day but it's not obvious.
GPU - General Purpose Unit ;)
You never win. To use a controversial example: Who thinks abortion rights people "won" with Roe v Wade? Their opponents have been relentlessly chipping away at that "victory" ever since. When you make something a political issue, you are guaranteeing that it cannot be won with any kind of finality.
I see this as Ubers endgame- it doesn't have to beat lyft or other rideshare options, it has to outlast insolvent public transportation options and fickle taxpayers and be the biggest network such that they can get these government contracts. We are seeing more and more of these local deals as it is a superior option in quality and cost to public transportation except in certain mass transport situations.
>>You think people are idiots and can't distinguish between urination and groping?

Well clearly so, because that's exactly how sex offender lists work in some countries, where there is no distinction made whatsoever.

>>In the context of countries which accepted a lot of immigrants, it is to either confirm or dispel the claims that the attackers are mostly refugees from the Middle East.

And my point is, what good does it do to anyone? Criminals should be persecuted with the same severity, regardless of where they are from.

Let's say that data shows that middle eastern refugees don't rape more than native citizens. I'm almost certain such raport would be dismissed by some(look two comments above) as "doctored" or "prepared" by the government that doesn't want people to know the "truth".

Or let's say that they rape more - What do you want to do in that case? Write special laws for them? In US, most criminals are black, but you should know very well that it's both because the are marginalized by the society and punished harder by the law enforcement, and not because they are black.

That's why I insist that we treat all criminals as criminals, not as "native criminals" and "middle eastern" criminals etc. There's just no benefit, except maybe feeding fear against them.

>>Please refrain from ad hominem attacks - it is against HN rules.

You are right, my apologies.
Haha, 45yo geezer here! And allow me to retort w/ another broad stroke:

Young people tend to assume they know a lot about things they have never experienced.

Rest assured, what misconceptions time does not fix for us, death certainly will.

edit: changed 'you' to 'us', none get out alive.
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I went to Berkeley and I still drop by to sit in on lectures.

The IP department has always been terrible to deal with. They really are the opposite of Stanford with regards to IP. A pain to deal with, everything up front. Very hostile to startups. This probably puts SiFive in limbo.

They (the IP dept) lost a first rate EE prof (Howe) over nonsense like this. Their glory days of the BSD lawsuit are long over.
Yes, a few prospective clients and one deal. Not particularly much in terms of annual revenue but still.
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Pepe is used for everything. You can take any symbol and make it horrible if you start adding nazi paraphernalia to it. 4Chan happens to add that sort of stuff to everything