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"1. What constitutional limit?"

The purpose of the Constitution was to give the federal government limited, enumerated powers that benefited the individual states. Would you say that the federal government still has limited, enumerated powers? The interstate commerce and general welfare clauses have been used to justify pretty much everything (except for banning guns manufactured entirely within a single state from school zones[1]). The current interpretations of the Constitution have made the act of enumerating powers worthless. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments now mean nothing. The federal government can do anything, and that wasn't the idea. Even independent of what the Founders may have desired, this is clearly a negative development if you believe in self-government. Governments should have limits that are defined by their citizens. Ours does not.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1...
> Public schools are starved of funding

For a different take on this, some urban school districts are consistently underfunded compared to their more well-funded suburban counterparts simply for the reason that their property-tax base does not exist (for the main reason of people who live in subsidized housing don't really pay property tax - and if they do, it is a fraction of what is paid in more affluent suburbs).

This is a touchy topic, for sure.
The question then is then: is it a genetic predisposition or is it more behaviorally learnt?
That is the idea, I would like to go one step further. I see it as being in 2 possible 'states' The first would be some overview of the document and the second would be very relevant to what you are typing right now and what you are about to type. For example if you typed "Ted Nelson" right away you should get a picture, bio, birthday and anything else that may be relevant.
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Perhaps this, and the related book, will explain it better: http://www.fee.org/nff/the-myth-of-the-robber-barons/
Just wondering, how do you determine keywords?
What does "non-technical" mean, really?

I always wonder what someone means by it, because I may well (once done with my current project) decide to start a startup as a solo founder. And I'm "aspiringly-technical," let's say. I studied math in college, but only started programming more recently.

This article was reassuring, in a sense, because at the very least I qualify as a "technically-literate non-technical person." But I'd like to be more than just technically literate.
If it was obvious I would not see people discussing about causes of the crisis, right? Besides the fact that debt and the inability to pay for it was the main cause I do not saw something close to agreement in this area.

About Roosevelt, ok you're probably right about that, I am not American to say too much about that, but changes in office were not exclusive to the US, in some places some fringe parties got control of the government such as the Nazis.

For me this thread is over here but I would love if you can elucidate some points about your first paragraph.
The advent of [DNT] threatens the barter system wherein consumers allow sites and third-party ad networks to collect information about their online activities in exchange for open access to maps, e-mail, games, music, social networks and whatnot

This narrative about a "quid-pro-quo" social contact is completely manufactured. All of this <sharing> was part of online culture before the cookie, and in particilar widespread privacy invasion of pixel tracking and the rest. Ie, it's ex-post rationalization by those who have a stake in the outcome.

Was the cookie the <worst> decision ever in the history of the internet? The Barter System? WAT?
You've swallowed the big lie of globalization -- that only by exporting labor to 3rd world serfs can we enjoy the standards of living that we enjoy.

The government is an enabler of bad economic activity, but the capitalists are always the catalysts. Government regulations did not force Countrywide Loans to give $1M mortgages to people who lacked the resources to repay. Government regulation did not force brokerages in 1929 to offer 50:1 margin loans.

Read some real history, not some cherry-picked analysis by economists. Travel to historical sites in places like Pennsylvania. Study the origins of the labor movement. Robber barons were/are very real.
There are people in America who go to bed hungry, are homeless, or die because of lack of basic health care. These are the same problems that poor people in the rest of the world face and the fact that they stroll the streets of megacities like LA or NY doesn't make them any richer.

Maybe a significant majority of the low class US population (and for that matter of the developed side of the world) is better off than their counterparts in poorer countries but definitely not everybody.

Edit: Why the downvote? Care to explain?
Its about social equity and respect. I remember a story where a redneck in Appalachia made about as much money as a highly regarded doctor in Africa, but the redneck was definitely worse off: he had no respect from the community, his social contribution was very low, and very low self esteem, while the doctor got to eat with the president of their country, had connections abroad, and so on. The war against poverty isn't finished once survival needs are met, people want meaningful lives, to thrive in society also and not just survive.

I very much admire Europe (or at least Switzerland) where the upper class treats the working class with a lot more respect. Everyone is important, you don't treat the guy at the fast food rudely, even if you have much more money than them. Everyone's life seems meaningful and people are happy. Now, compare this with China where I now live, where very little respect is given from the middle class to lower-working class that cleans their houses, makes their food, drives them around...

Edit: I didn't mean to use redneck here as a pejorative, it just seemed to get the point across more quickly.
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Ask HN: Professional development for Web professionals?
A friend of mine recently asked me if I knew of any resources for ongoing professional development as a Web developer. His company will pay for him to continue learning so he stays on the cutting edge. All I could really recommend offhand was going to industry conferences, and reading HN.

What are some resources he can utilize to keep up with professional development?
Cython is definitely worth learning if you're writing in Python and want to make something that runs fast -- numeric or otherwise. It's a Python-to-C compiler that has two killer features:

1. For the most part, you can just take existing Python code and have it magically transformed into not-too-horrible C. A few optional type annotations will help with the speed, but the compatibility is great right from the get-go.

2. With a little care, you can often get the inner loops of your Python code to be just as fast as hand-written C.

The tutorial is a quick read, and gets you up to speed without much effort:

http://docs.cython.org/
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I mean that as scary as things seemed in December of '08, most Americans' incomes hadn't actually declined that much. They would later, but that's the point. The wealthy had already seen a huge income hit. Based purely on choosing your window to match a market rally or a crash, you can create the kind of disparate income impact statistics that Saez trumpets.
Even if it is 100%, it would have to be multiplied by the probability of photons from that star making it past all the interferences like nebulae, Oort cloud, and Earth's atmosphere along that exact vector. That I think is a much lower percentage.
Now can you start ignoring haberman like you said you would? Your belligerent comments are getting a bit old at this point. You hate NaCl. We get it. Criticizing a slide makes you upset. OK. Understood.
It is meant as a pun, as often process heavy methodologies get in the way, but you are right and I agree with you.
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> I think what you meant to say is that the reasons for their preference are unknown. Yes, obviously.

> If Romney actually was what he tries to seem, he'd be more popular in the Valley.

These two statements are contradictory.
Thanks for the excellent write up. Out of curiousitt: Did you investigate other centralized solutions like graylog2 and logstash?
I am a happy customer of Freckle, love the product and what it does. But to hear the statements of the work that is in Freckle is a little disheartening. I have made requests in the past for updates and was happy when I was answered back about the requests. Its been already half a year and I haven't seen my request or really anything new come into the service. Small lesson here is that a simple answer back made me think of progress.

Is this a big issue? No, I am not leaving Freckle - I recommend it a lot to people. But with the little time as stated previously in development, I shouldn't hold my breath. It's just an example of how communication can be presented and perceived differently. I don't want to call it BS, but that is what I think is meant in other comments here.
Thanks! I'm pretty erratic about blog posting. I'm sure I'll get to writing eventually, but I need to come up with a unifying theme to write about. Then I should be able to put out regular installments.
We're talking about increasing the pool of opportunities.

And what are the progressive schemes for doing that?
What text editor is that you are using?
And more to the point, PyPy can do Python inlining with its tracing JIT. The method, in both cases, is similar: find some type assumptions that are useful and usually true, generate code under those assumptions, and fall back on more generic code if they're ever false.
+1 to the writing as a practice.

I look back at things I wrote a year ago - sometimes as much as 6 years ago - and wonder if they were really written by me.

Writing every day and being willing to do it even if it's just for throwaway is the only way to develop the talent. You know, just like every other talent, ever.
Looks like Sublime Text 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/2).
Very cool. I don't think this is the “future of document editing”, but it's a neat project nonetheless.
To claim this is a 'dilemma' is to ignore the increasingly common types of workloads that companies need to run, and the amazing technology stacks that have been created to run them. Namely, horizontally scalable systems on commodity hardware with linear performance vs node count.

Software is eating the world, and as the speed and availability of the network continues to improve dramatically, computing workloads will continue to centralize, and companies will serve their massive user bases with wimpy cores at a massive scale.

Amdahl's Law says that "the speedup of a program using multiple processors in parallel computing is limited by the sequential fraction of the program."

So while you have a hard limit trying to improve performance of a single function through parallelization, there is no upper limit on running multiple instances of the same function to respond to multiple concurrent and independent requests.

Individual cores need only to be fast enough such that the latency of a single request/response is acceptable. After that, any increase single-core performance requires a commensurate increase in the complexity of the scheduler, leading to rapidly diminishing returns, not to mention significantly lowering 'Responses per kWh'.

The fundamental shift toward multi-core processors may have been necessary due to physics, but not coincidentally (I think) it's also exactly the architecture you want if you are trying to serve large numbers of requests over a network.
With Doppler, in space, its the relative changes in position that create the effect, unless I am mistaken. Velocity needs a vector, in other words.
That's when you turn to using multiple data streams/connections/endpoints. Funnelling multiple data streams with different needs over a single mechanism (TCP, or UDP, or smoke signals) only yields misery, sadness, and death.
Quite frankly, the reason I haven't raised my rate is that I live a comfortable lifestyle.

Earlier you say,

I do feel like it is time to raise my rate, though, and the next project I start I will.

Could Brennan's $49 ebook resolve the tension between raising and not raising your rate?

Could some other $49 ebook have done it?

What is resolving this indecision worth to you?

Or is it, as you put it, "just having the balls" deciding either way?
I have found that most restaurants in my area do deliver but they severely restrict as to how far they will go, so I am mostly out of luck. I think that the answer to your question is mostly a cultural one, pizza places are expected to deliver and be open 24 hours because, hey, it's pizza. However, there is not so much pressure on other restaurants so they avoid the logistics of providing the service or they do so but don't go very far away.
Anyone know that theme?
Drew's gem doesn't specify a license. It may be open source, but it's not clear what the license is. That doesn't help in this kind of a situation.
People tend to get paid depending on how much they can negotiate from the market, which is not exactly the same as how valuable their contributions are, and at the executive level is more related to how good their contacts are.
"A preoccupation, in that sense, is a hell of a useful thing for a mind."
Well said!
Here's to more frequent talking into pages.
though, brevity can be a blessing
Come on, where can you get 1000 likes for $10?
Phoenix Dark. Great theme with numerous customization options.

Color scheme is Tomorrow Night.
Depends on the open source license... some of them totally allow commercial ripoffs without attribution.
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Phoenix Theme:

http://netatoo.github.com/phoenix-theme/

Not sure the color scheme.
If no license is specified, then the author(s) have all the rights.
Meh, I get annoyed when people try to make something seem racist that isn't. Is it so hard to believe that Asians would be interested in a style blog? No, that isn't the point. Is it hard to believe that a promoted post for an English language blog which isn't specific to Asian culture would be overwhelmingly clicked by people from Asian countries? Yes, it seems odd. That isn't really saying anything about Asian people - it is saying something about Facebook's advertising platform.

Either Asian people really love clicking on ads, something about their blog caught fire in several Asian countries, or else there is click fraud going on. The most obvious answer is the latter.
I thought username links were nofollow?
Looking at the examples it's really hard to know if this stuff was copied. How else would you write this sort of stuff? This seems like really simple, straightforward code.

A lot of it seems to be about creating a hash based on a well-defined data type. Is there some other way of doing this that makes sense in Ruby?

Similarly, he points out similar variable names. If you have a variable containing an API key what do you call this besides "api_key"?

Maybe these are just poorly chosen examples, but if these are the best evidence the author has I don't think there's grounds for flipping out quite yet.
Correct. No license implies copyright.
Actually, it does. If you don't have an OSS license, it defaults to standard copyright, which means TaxCloud has even less legal right to copy the code.

Drew could have used a license that legally granted commercial use without attribution, and in that case he'd have a bigger problem.
FYI: relevant, not relevent.

It's a cool idea, but presented in a sidebar like that i think it's mostly a distraction. when you're writing you want less outside information, not more.
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Given the privacy flap when Google started serving ads based on the contents of e-mails, do you foresee any worries here --or do you think it's sufficiently different, or that such worries have faded away with familiarity?

Also, as a minor nitpick, 'relevant' is misspelt (as 'relevent').
I'd explicitly state the license to be blunt, obvious, and avoid any confusion.
The printf ' format specifier is not Standard C. It's in neither the C99 Standard nor the new C11 Standard. So it's not actually valid, and it's a coincidence if it happens to work with your Standard Library.

Consider that the compiler generating that warning knows only Standard C, and in fact you could be pairing it with any C library, including those that are strictly conforming and don't support the ' extension.
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Not in this post, but a quick search on HN shows patio11 saying that ("don't be a commodity") many times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3261769

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555558

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4556091

Those are only the most recent.
I always reply when I have something worth saying.

"Hate" is the wrong word. There's nothing to hate in a well-done SFI-enforcing compiler. I admire the R&D effort. We -- bad old Mozilla, including evil-me -- are seriously considering using NaCl (not Pepper) for SFI in native code parts of Servo. No "hate" here, so do try to grow up: "You hate NaCl" is just weak, beneath you, as an analysis of motives and causes.

Let's step away from NaCl as pure tech for safer compilation of unsafe languages.

I do call Google's business strategy pushing NaCl+Pepper via games and even (till it all fell apart last November) Flash heavy-handed, and one-sided to such an extent that what's pushed can never be standardized.

What's belligerent here is for someone (haberman), who I hear works for Google, a company that has all the money and power in the world, and which makes actual "pro-NaCl propaganda" as well as pays game developers and others to use the Chrome-only tech (NaCl, not PNaCl, note well), to fire first on this thread. It wasn't me who showed "belligerence".

That first shot even tried open-washing, lamely, and it tellingly put Mozilla in the subordinate position. ''I could understand "we want to be more involved in the process."''

If you don't work for Google or hold a brief for them, ask yourself why haberman's presumption is that Mozilla, or any other browser maker, should be asking or begging to be included in a process that we were excluded from and practically speaking could never participate in without equal big bucks and market power.

The great thing about the Web is that no one owns it. Browser vendors, tool makers, and developers (whom the first two groups avidly court) have to reach consensus via standards. And I find that developers, not just pure web devs, definitely including @kripken (Emscripten's creator), @jashkenas (CoffeeScript), and others, are more creative and faster moving than many highly-paid C++-first hackers, including those perpetrating single-vendor follies such as NaCl+Pepper.

Whine at me, cry "hate" and "belligerence" while turning a blind eye to the big gun who fired first, and shoot the messenger. It doesn't matter. NaCl+Pepper have already lost to JS for portable cross-browser high-performance native code compilation.
IMHO, the unnecessary require statement is a fairly solid evidence.

And programming is like English writing, no one will actually produce the same code. You can try by yourself
I was thinking the same. How do you know these stories aren't BS? "Oh, I did some shady things in the 60s..."
> The top 0.01 percent captured 37 percent of these additional earnings, gaining an average of $4.2 million per household.

I just want to thank the author for separating the 1% form the 0.01% The 1% is the upper middle class, the actual "American Dream" fulfillers, and they are getting a lot of heat that was deftly deflected away from the 0.1% and upper echelons of aristocracy, because most reporters are too lazy to think about logarithms.
That require is a smoking gun for sure, but I'm not too sure about the copyright claim. It's their copyright on the API in the first place, and there are a limited number of ways to wrap an API in Ruby.

It's sleazy to cut and paste code without attribution, but this post comes off as way too confrontational considering the company hasn't had a chance to respond yet. (Which response is perfectly likely to be "Ah shit, brain fart, sorry.")
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Yes, you can use it
Agreed and lesson learned.
Fixed, thanks.

I guess there would need to be the ability to hide the sidebar in a more usable version. Thanks for that tip!

EDIT: grammar
Right, but it was improving. If there's no high-performance 3D hardware target with a hope of having FOSS driver support, it'll put a stop to any innovation in that space. Hence, this is bad.
Just because we spend the money doesn't mean it makes it to the students.
CPython compiles to bytecode, turning all local variable references into offsets into a local variable array. So, getting the "str" function requires a global name lookup, while getting your local "lstr" only requires an array lookup with a constant embedded in the bytecode.

You can have a lot of fun playing with the dis module to look at the bytecode that Python generates for your functions:

http://docs.python.org/library/dis.html
We've doubled the funding per student, but less of that funding ends up advancing education. More of it goes on administrators, metal detectors, security guards, textbook publishers, educational software vendors, and giant wall-mounted computer displays, which cost a lot [1] but don't really provide much day-to-day benefit over blackboards.

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