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On my side of the aisle, the feeling is that gun rights groups take a mile with every opportunity they get. While some states, like Connecticut, have enacted slightly stricter gun control measure, federal laws have been more and more relaxed as the likes of NRA lobby and bully congress. Again, I don’t believe gun owners and especially organizations that represent them have done anything to make me safer in this country. All they managed to accomplish is to stoke the fire around gun ownership to the tune of rising profits for gun manufacturers. Because of that I support the idea that they aren’t responsible actors and should not be a major voice in the debate. Basically self regulation didn’t work.

Again, if we are talking about gun experts, Wayne LaPierre ain’t one.

As far as the second amendment, yes there are a lot of guns in this country. But, I still posit that it failed:

1. We don’t have a well regulated militia. We have a bunch of individuals, often times with poor training.

2. The individual gun owners are not doing anything to keep the State free. There have been no instances where there was even an attempt to form the well regulated militia it talks about.

3. Even if a major threat to the State showed up, within or without, in a modern world hand guns and semi automatic rifles would not stand up to modern military tech. That fight is over before it starts.

Notice that the second amendment does not talk at all about personal safety, hunting, or anything like that. It basically says that for the purposes of having a civil defense force, individuals can own guns. So in my view it doesn’t even apply to most cases of gun ownership.

As for suicide stuff, I am not sure if you are familiar with some of the stats around it, but basically women are more likely to attempt suicide but men have a higher rate of success. The difference is that men tend to use more lethal methods, often times hand guns. In HN terms, guns reduce friction. Of course if someone is determined to commit suicide, they will. But the other thing is that most people are not. They will go through the steps but also look for an off ramp as they do. And the longer the steps, the more chance they have to change their mind. Suicide is a very complex issue with a large number of underlying causes, but I would argue that not having access to a firearm will in some cases give the person extra time to think before they go through with it.

Lastly, as for mass shootings, I would say that schools were safer in 2017 vs 2016, etc. but they aren’t at an acceptable level of safety in absolute terms. As a citizen I want my schools safer than this. Also, check this out http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.....

I also appreciate the dialogue. If only this had any real world effect :)
The only way this can succeed is if it can be proven that the rich and powerful can become even more rich and powerful through the reduction of poverty.
I don’t think it would be possible in anything like a reasonable amount of time. Non-Tesla fast chargers have huge gaps for a cross-country run. You’d have to spend days waiting for 6kW commercial chargers or 240V RV plugs charging you at 25-35MPH.
I pulled $250/hour out of my ass.

As for the rest, I am not talking about consulting-style contracts where a company is billing out people individually. I'm talking about contracts for development of bespoke systems, provide specific services, and so on.

When Raytheon gets a contract, they get it to build X. They need to account for the work, and the amount they get paid for labor is the number of recorded hours times the agreed-upon rate for that specific type of labor. There is frequently also a soft cap on the number of hours that can be billed in specific periods. The billed rate covers not only the employee salary but also benefits, overhead, and profit.
Personal experience: My college undergrad education which is considered one of the hardest in the country was a fraction of the difficulty compared to the education friends at home went through.

What it lacked in rigor, however, it more than made up in the remarkable growth of perspectives I experienced by interacting with students from a massive spectrum of backgrounds from all over the world.

That will be another major loss for US universities, outside of the purely financial side.
Do you include your phone?

I'm torn in the thought. At face value, I can't but agree. However, I also enable crash reporting in many applications. Have for years. Firefox gets usage stats. At some point, I have to wonder why I trust one group of people and not another. More, have the groups I trust changed out from under me?
> I am talking about how big your opportunity to create something in the US is no matter who you are and where you are from compared to other places.

What does this even mean?

Please give a specific, concrete explanation of how and why it's easier for someone to "create something" (create what?) in the USA than in the EU or Canada.

> Canada actually has a very strict immigration politics compared to the US then sure.

And yet apparently accepts around three times as many new immigrants per year than the USA, as a percentage of population.

> The tough people were the ones who endured what it meant to live in the US in the beginning. There weren't tough when they went on a boat but they soon became just as their children and their children.

So is the USA the land of opportunity or the land of greater hardship and toughness?

People don't typically leave the country they know and love for another land, unless enduring hardship already. OTOH, while they may believe (at least in part due to propaganda[1]) another land will provide greater opportunity, that doesn't mean it does.

[1] The UK government notoriously considered an ad campaign a few years back about how bad life was in the UK, to deter immigration.
This is valid for any private company/corporation, normally only government employees have some sort of 'matrix' salaries (this position with this years of experience -> salary).

Iceland is definitely not the first country to implement this on paper, but for non-governmental employees I can't see any real way to enforce this. Everybody within our teams, for all the employers I ever worked, had the salary they were able to negotiate.

Meritocracy, the best system there is and ever will be.
Fun read. I was thinking the answer would simply be kind of the same as the reasons for not making an entire plane out of whatever its "indestructible" black box is made of.
Way to over engineered compared to kubernetes (YMMV obviously)
> culture where you can wear a hoodie instead of a tie

I was amused by this as I have worked in a lot of DoD environments where a tie is "overdressed" and makes others uncomfortable. Likewise for a lot of environments where the uniform is a hoodie.
Partisanship. There are no electoral consequences to moving on. So long as corporate interests have us focused on voting eligibility and who can have sex with whom, and whether there can be an abortion afterwards, no one is gonna vote based on this.
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That and you can have multiple timers running. When cooking I use that. When leaving the house, I ask the weather for the day. When planning a weekend trip, I get the weather a for the weekend at where ever.
Lol, how is that being a creep? I can see how the word sexy may put some people off but that is a LARGE leap to Harvey Weinstein.

The vehicles are sexy... to me at least.
Understanding the Event Loop in Nodejs
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Almost true for Chandigarh in India, as well.
I don't think this agrees with the parent post. Niche package managers and window managers are precisely the sort of thing that you need to fiddle for an hour to get the projector to work or install some software that isn't packaged.

I do agree that the freedom of choice that you are mentioning is a great benefit of Linux and FOSS software in general, though.
Is that really true of Silicon Valley startups? It seems that they start focusing on international sales shortly after their inception, mostly from VC pressure. Most SV startups that get big are international by default (can you think of one that wasn’t?).
My servers run Linux, my workstation runs macOS. Nothing that others have said (this submission I am replying included), nor anything I have experienced on my own, have provided enough ground to make me change my mind. Same applies to Android vs. iOS.
>> It's also worth noting that it's much, much harder for teens to get ahold of booze these days

20 years ago we just had an older sibling or co-worker buy for us. What's changed?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/dating/19-scienc-men...

But yeah, lets blame MRA
>Gamers and compute-oriented workloads won't be hurt hardly at all.

Actually KPTI doesn't only affect syscall but also interrupts. It makes interrups slower, which affects every workload.
As a shareholder that's great. Concerned that this is a very fragile win though. I don't think there will be much real world fall out.
Ant Financial’s Moneygram, a victim of ‘quite difficult’ political environment
Yes, S-video is better than composite. But RGB component is the best, if your TV has inputs for it.
I can't speak to Palantir's contracts but the government generally does not allow billing bespoke development efforts by outcome. Companies don't get to just decide how they are going to bill the government, at least not if they want the government to actually buy.
Using the TypeScript type system to validate Express handlers
Worth noting that one of the authors is the CEO of a company (https://www.robotsandpencils.com/) that works on these kinds of bots. Probably should have some kind of disclaimer on the article...
A successful peer review strategy for code review requires balance between strictly documented processes and a non-threatening, collaborative environment. Highly regimented peer reviews can stifle productivity, yet lackadaisical processes are often ineffective. Managers are responsible for finding a middle ground where peer review can be efficient and effective while fostering open communication and knowledge-share between teammates.
They probably hoped, if they work long enough for the man, they'll become the man.
> I have a theory that introversion and extraversion don't really exist as personality traits, and that we build up preferences out of existing culture about how much social interaction we want in our daily lives.

I am under the impression that there is quite a bit of diversity when it comes to introversion/ extroversion. While I was not the one to go out partying and neither was my friends, I always thought that it was more due to which social circles I was with rather than a bigger trend.
Please don't undermine the (very real) fight against sexual harassment by conflating it with such nonsense issues.

It only gives ammunition to the chauvinists claiming that sex will be outlawed, or the idiots calling for politicians to resign for having sex out of wedlock.
I didn't knew that was composite, i thought it was something about audio or one of the generic I/O stuff. TBH i barely used the Pi, after getting it i played with it a bit but between the keyboard malfunctioning (keys getting stuck due to power, etc), wifi being disconnected (again a power issue) and the awful performance i didn't find much use for it. I also got a Pi2 but that seems to need a special cable for the composite output. But i guess Pi1 should be able to play video even if i have to transcode it in some other format and size.
This in response to an otherwise very positive experience report that singles out a fault in what should be a really, really boring, unexciting, stable subsystem on "known good" hardware that somehow, in 2018, is still not working fluidly. Seriously, if you're cherry-picking hardware, I think you could be forgiven for landing on this laptop, and yet it doesn't work in a fairly obvious way.
I guess the difference is in the assumption:
Iceland assume a gender wage gab but no gender competencies gab.
This assumption is also advantageous for men: Iceland has an equal system for men wrt. paternaty/maternaty leave. Furthermore we can also expect that nursing and kindergarten teaching professions will be easier for men to get into than is the case now. Lastly, there is also an ongoing debate about stay-at-home fathers (A consequence is that the Nordics are doing something about a _very_ deep assumption that women are better emotional providers than men).

In the Nordics (I am Danish) we increasingly talk about _gender_ equality as on objective thing, where both men and women have their problems. Though on the international scene gender equality means women's rights. Therefore this angling of the article.
In the wake of scandal, the movie industry reckons with its past and its future.
Related: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/8/15557846/stripe-peiter-mudge...
You make valid criticisms. However, you have to bear in mind that nothing in this world is perfect. Not even Linux. I bet every sports person gets on the field intending to win but they don't always win. That doesn't mean that sportsperson is a failure. They just lost some matches.

I do not think that Musk should get a free pass. His companies have taken on some pretty impressive projects. One day someone will make a better electronic car but much like the Wright brothers and Henry Ford, Musk did lead the way.
In our house hold we had the infamous 40 inch XBR 700 (our neighbors had the 40 inch Mitsubishi equivalent, which was also very nice at the time). A 320 lb glorious spectacle. We loved it. Eventually though it started to wear out and because of it's shear weight and size, dad posted on Craig's List for free, with the caveat the person(s) had to come get it without him helping. The people who came were in for a rude awakening.
Petrodollar is pretty outdated, the current would be Eurodollar or dollar-denominated derivatives outside the U.S.
Ask the user what kind of device it wants. (And then when the user says give me the developer hyper bleeding edge pro X, because my mom needs 4K cat videos, then maybe try to persuade the user that the regular non-devkit version would be the sane choice.)

And in the dev version protect the dev mode by some small ritual (like the 7-times tapping on About in Android).
Yes, if you overtly sexualize something for which there is no real reason to take the conversation in that direction then you are very likely a creep. They could have been cool cars but I just don't like that.

Incidentally I was responding the comment that mentioned there is a lot of hate for Tesla. What I mostly don't like about Tesla, aside from that stupid naming convention, is that they missed all of their manufacturing targets and are about to hit a brick wall with investors, regardless of how "sexy" one thinks the car design is.
What is "large-scale demographic manipulation on the part of the left and intelligentsia"?

It sounds like you are trying to say people voted Republican to stop white people from becoming a minority in America? That cannot be achieved in 4 or even 8 years. And even if it could, why would the failure of that agenda be bad?
Amazon got me on their Kindle, which is also an Ad device...I posted a rant about my experience years ago: http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-not-buy-amazon-kind...
Barrier to buying a different device is low, but barrier to switching platforms is high. It seems like most people would rather deal with sub-par results than change their daily habits by even a little bit.
> But you see, the thing is with commercial music is that the music owner is not a single entity.

Great example, but you don't always have to split everything up 100 different ways, either.

There is commercial music in almost every genre owned entirely by the songwriter/composer/artist.
Commercial use cases of AR face recognition and facial tracking apps
The extra money is for options (e.g. to add longer range/higher performance, there’s an upgraded sound system etc.). The base car is $35-40k.
They have a nice API for working with playlists. Dozens of services would pop up for ripping them if spotify goes EOL.
Dell XPS are very nice but whatever you do don't go for a model that has an integrated AND dedicated graphics card.
I made this mistake, got a 15" from early 2017 fully maxed out only to realise that since I have two graphics cards and Linux has very bad support for nvidia prime (if usage low, use cpu graphics, if gaming use nividia).
You can either:
- manually activate one and have the other disabled for the time being
- use the cpu always, unless you launch a program with a optirun, then it will use the nivida card

You can't have the OS make the decision for you, where Windows can.
Apparently it has something to do with Nvidia not willing to share some of their source with the linux community but the end result is that you either have an overpowered computer that will run 2.5 hours and get very hot and make alot noise, or an underpowered computer that does have a longer battery life but visibly degraded performance (even on Youtube...)

Most distros wont even let you boot into X with a dual gpu setup...
I tried every version I could of Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora and more, in the end the version that seemed to work the best was Fedora. But I still had to heavily optimize it and find a way that was practical enough for me to use.
I still tried to live with it for a couple of months but I got really tired of everything breaking now and then because I updated a single package or some cosmic ray shifted a bit somewhere...

And don't even get me started on how Wayland is supposed to be better at this than X... The Nvidia control panel won't even open under Wayland...

Opened an issue on stackoverflow about this some months ago, got maybe 10 people following the question and not a single answer...

So yeah lesson learned on this one.
If I had to do it all over I would have gone for a Thinkpad without a doubt. For now the most usable "linux" I can have on this XPS 15 is Windows with the Linux Subsystem enabled...

EDIT: also make sure you laptop screen has the same scaling as your (potential) external monitor(s) or you are in for a bumpy ride...
I'm an user too and I'd like to be treated like an adult by my operating system.
I know this is pretty much a nerdy tangent, but something similar is discussed often in Star Trek with the Klingon anatomy. Supposedly every major organ has a redundancy (though I'm not sure they really mean EVERY organ). It's seen as a strategic advantage by many for beings who live a violent lifestyle, but some question it as over-engineering. With twice the organs there's the potential for twice as many things to go wrong during a normal lifespan.

If you consider the fact that human males who live to 80 have a 80% chance of prostate cancer (IRL not Star Trek), it seems like we live with time-bombs that do eventually go off.
Also, you can use ctrl+f4, which is like cmd+` but for all windows instead of just the active apps' windows. I'm sure you could reassign that shortcut if so inclined.
I'd suggest separating these anonymous complaints into those which at least have boolean choices and those which have unary choices.

Reorganization of dept. has created red tape. Ok, that seems like one of many opinions a source at the NSA could have.

Snowden hurt our agency and made our jobs more difficult. I'm not sure that an NSA source could have any other opinions on this matter, especially given that a) I've never read anyone who currently works at the NSA call Snowden anything but a traitor and b) the NSA certainly knows the identity of the sources for this story. I think we have to reject such complaints as facile.
This is load of reasonable sounding horseshit. This tech is excellent at extracting every drop of potential value that flows through organization boundaries and little else (self driving cars aren't reality yet, when my mother is in a self driving car my opinion will change) The thought of an online system that can do this being bolted onto government IT systems on this scale is hilarious, the bottleneck here isn't knowledge of AI or deep learning. It is an idealistic future that fails to take into account all the shit it will have to be built upon. I'll interpert the title in it's literally sense -- another way for the poor to get fucked over by something they don't understand!
To put it another way, their goal is to be the scum floating on the puddle of diarrhea.
Yeah, but that was before they thought that was a problem.

"This mixtape thing will never take off"
I agree. Summer time would consume less energy than Winter time.

But waiting might not be an option if you want to be the first!

It's an awesome record for Model 3 that has only 310 mile range which is less than Model S with 335 mile range!
Afaik https://plaid.com/ allows you to access transaction data
I'd recommend searching for "Introversion and extroversion brain differences" and similar topics in your favorite search engine. There's evidence that there are physical differences in the brain.

Hopefully somebody with a background in medicine or neuroscience can provide a more comprehensive answer.
That's not a great source. It also tells men to wear red and eat garlic.
100% agree. I used their isochrone API several times for consulting work.
I think the difference is that those apps come preinstalled by Apple. Most users would think, if I install a bit of software, I can remove it later. That's normal behavior. If the KEXT installation process has a way of getting software into the special hidey-hole, it should provide a way of getting software out of it again if it is user-installed.
A practical guide to microchip implants
There isn't a huge gap, not for the same job/title combination (there are cases where the gap does exist for the same job, but it's typically less than 10%). The gap widely most widely reported, the 70% figure, is primarily caused because of the genders holding different jobs, where the average pay for female-dominated jobs is less than the average pay for male-dominated jobs.
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I know, I know this is anecdotal 'evidence'.

I happen to be 21 which fits me right in this generation and the main reason this occurs is due to parenting. My parents wouldn't let me go _anywhere_ by myself until I was at least 17. By that time I was completely and utterly addicted to computing to just let go and 'hang out'. As a matter in fact most of my friends are online rather than 4 real friends in real life. It seems like people in my age group had parents that would rather have their child stare at a screen than experience the world. Just my two cents.
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Is there something I'm missing here. Is Harrogate particularly low paying? I work in Glasgow - which has one of the lowest costs of living in the UK - and I would be surprised to see anyone looking for those skill sets here offering anything less that £30k, even for a junior dev.