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This comparison is flatly hyperbolic. The general warrants the framers prohibited were a tool of harassment that essentially allowed agents of the British government to tear apart the homes and belongings of anyone they saw fit. You could be stopped, detained, intrusively searched, have soldiers enter your house and dump the contents of your drawers and cabinets on the floor.

The similarity he's trying to invoke is between the probable cause requirement of a criminal warrant and the lack of any targeting whatsoever in a general warrant. It's obviously true that a FISA warrant is less targeted than a domestic criminal warrant. But FISA warrants also also much less intrusive than a criminal warrant, and, like airport searches (which are entirely warrantless and nonetheless constitutional under administrative search), serve a safety goal instead of a criminal evidence collection purpose.

FISA warrants also are targeted, unlike general warrants. The FISA court exists to verify that actual investigations are being served by the warrants. It's not hard to see why FISA warrants are rarely rejected: the government is not actually in the habit of randomly surveilling people outside of actual investigations.

Heading a series of unproductive responses off at the pass: seeing the logic of the "yea" votes in the Senate on this issue does not mean that I agree with them.
Agreed. What impresses me most about the CreateJS suite is the ease in which you can use and interact with sprite-sheets. That's the one thing that I feel has been missing from most of the newer open-source drawing / animation libs coming out for HTML5, and really sent me back to the days when I was first learning how to animate in Flash and the joy of seeing it 'simply work' in the browser without much development time.

Easy to use, performant, JSON based, and thus interoperable with many pre-existing tools. I hope it catches on.
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“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.”

― Winston S. Churchill

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/95528-show-me-a-young-conser...
That's taking the argument to an unrealistic extreme. Rather, non-zero interest rates and resulting inflation/deflation incentivize market inefficiencies. Not a big enough inefficiency to drive an industry out of business (unless we're talking hyperinflation), but enough to be measurable consequences.
Using a condom is hardly comparable to having a kid (in work, implications, responsibility -- ie "decision)
If you want to have your biases confirmed, Greenwald is a very effective mechanism for doing that.
Would you be willing to take a bet on where this currency will be in terms of net worth vs BTC in 5 years?
"We've always had two or three dogs at a time"

A dog is not a human child. It's not even close. I've had dogs and kids. I know the difference. Why childless people compare their dogs to human children is beyond me. It's a dog. In the wild they run in packs and kill moose and stuff. It's not a child and never will be, so please stop pretending that it is.
Saying "I regret having children" is one of the most taboo sentences in our society.

Spot on. I've had some family members and friends admit to me that they wish they hadn't had kids, and I know they mean it in the abstract. Too many people would hear a parent say that and have some emotional knee-jerk "you don't love me! you wish I was dead!" reaction, so it never gets said. You can still love a child but wish that you'd taken a different path in life.
"we are unlikely to find an honest answer as to whether having children really is a source of fulfilment"

That sounds as if you already have a made up answer: of course if we were honest, it wouldn't be a source of fulfillment? Well, you are wrong - at least for some people. Obviously nobody can generalize for other people.

I don't really care if other people have children or not, I only find it sad if they decide against them for the wrong reasons. I suspect the people who started this "kids are only a nuisance" meme are silently laughing to themselves about the fools who believed them while playing with their 5 kids.
I read about Sonos a couple of times, but never understood what it is about. Now I did it again. Same result. I dont get it.

When I buy the Play:5 - what do I get? Where will I put my mp3s? Can they stay on my Linux box? Do I have to transfer them to a special device? It looks like Sonos uses its own wireless transfer mechanism. Why do I have to connect it to my router?
Another solution is CloudControl: https://www.cloudcontrol.com/for-developers.
This is a provider from Berlin / Germany.
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After age 6 they need fewer hours per day of your attention.
>That's essentially how tax-deferred retirement accounts work, right? (or other structures, like an investment company or REIT)

Sometimes, sure. The trouble is that not everyone can use those structures. A corporation can't use an individual retirement account, but it will still make investment choices and "pay" (i.e. make every cost effective but economically damaging contortion necessary to avoid) income and capital gains tax. Likewise someone investing money they anticipate needing before the official retirement age for any reason. And I think most structures of that nature have caps on the amount of tax you can defer using them.

Making it the rule rather than the exception would reduce the distortionary effects substantially, and would simply things a whole lot too.

>All of this starts to get really complex. I wonder how much of the capital gains vs. income tax issues go away if the rate of each is the same and very low (<10%). At some point, transaction costs would start to dominate.

It's questionable whether that would raise enough revenue to cover existing expenditures, so then you've got to figure out what to cut.

It seems to me the simple thing to do is to make the purchase of an investment tax deductible and then make the full amount of its sale taxable as income. Then if you sell an investment and buy another one in the same amount, the deduction cancels the income. If you sell an investment and use the money to buy a smaller investment and a non-investment purchase, the cost of the latter isn't deductible and becomes taxable as income.

Then the only question is how to define what an investment is. Which is by no means trivial, but we already have a good framework in place in the form of deciding what purchases are eligible for existing deductions like business operating costs vs. personal consumption in partnerships and LLCs.

>If there weren't family businesses as ongoing concerns, and all assets were financial, I think there would be a pretty reasonable argument for lower income and gains taxes and higher inheritance taxes.

You can't have an inheritance tax rate higher than the personal income rate or people will just hire their heirs to be the Vice President of Collecting a Huge Paycheck and arrange to have no assets left when they die. That's why they call it the Death Tax: It only applies to people who die unexpectedly. Anyone old or sick enough to expect death within the next few years and with enough assets to hire a financial planner has already arranged to avoid it.
It's still the Wrong Way™. You want to parse JSON, you write a lexer that recognizes its symbols and a parser that consumes them and spits the JS equivalent. Otherwise you are playing an eternal game of whack-a-mole with the JS eval parser. No. Just no.
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Any links to the "manufacturers in China"?
Neither Beidou nor Galileo are usefully operational yet. There are receivers that can handle GPS+GLONASS, though.

And my point was that no one who isn't compelled to use only the Chinese system need trust the Chinese system - for most navigation consumers around the world Compass will be there to provide redundancy and to make the error bars smaller.
You say this as if it's easy. You're talking about like 2-20% of parents who can do this. I made that number up, but it's small.
I think we may be talking at cross purposes.

I'm a Brit too, and I'm well aware of the history you describe. If anything, you've presented the truncated version: English/British interference in Ireland goes back more than 800 years, to the Anglo-Norman invasions of ~1170 and the award of the Lordship of Ireland to the King of England by Hadrian IV (the first, and so far the last, English pope).

I was alluding to Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland of 1937, which explicitly claimed the whole island of Ireland as the state's national territory; this was replaced by more wishy-washy language about the Irish nation in the wake of the Good Friday agreement of 1999.

By the way, the Irish state created by the 1921 treaty explicitly wasn't a republic: it was a dominion of the British Empire, and the King of England was still technically King of Ireland (even under Irish law) until 1949.
You assume it is YOUR labor they are taking away from, when in reality, usually capital gains is interest and dividends, which -- is exactly the opposite of YOUR labor. That being said, lots of capital gains ends up getting paid on retirement funds etc... but as you can see, we're still a world away from incentivizing a would-be entrepreneur.
If I want the most efficient dining experience I'll order in or go to a fast food place.

I go to a restaurant for the UX:
a date night, the atmosphere, getting out of the apartment, people watching, hanging with friends, etc.

Downtime is the point! It is supposed to take time. It gives me a relaxed period of time to talk with the people I'm with while drinking beer/wine and waiting for the food to arrive. To enjoy the experience.

Converting restaurants to a twitter/facebook 30-second attention span experience seems like a net negative de-evolution to me. I don't play with my phone while I'm at the table with other people - I think it's rude as hell - but Dave does that all the time I suppose.

Giving me a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am experience is not what I want. I don't have children or am in a giant hurry, but it sounds like that's where he's coming from. Perhaps that's a bigger section of the population than I expect.

But, there's a reason why McDonald's has pictures of food as the menu and Ruth's Chris doesn't.

edit:
That said, I do wish restaurants had a better idea of who their "best" customers are and all that jazz. I just don't think dropping iPads at every table is the right way to go.
> We've always had two or three dogs at a time, and they've had our love, attention, and affection. They're spoiled rotten. Better dogs than children.

One very common trait among people I know who don't have kids is that they have dogs. For them, dogs help to fill the need they have for unconditional love and the seemingly built-in paternal/maternal need to care for someone. That's great. Nothing wrong with that.

I've had lots of dogs in my life. In my experience, the dogs were fun. We played and wrestled and went on walks and went to the park. I was sad when they passed away.

I also have three children. I can honestly say that I never experienced anything close to the feelings I have for my children with the dogs. My children look like me, and like the woman I love. They think deep thoughts and ask questions and figure things out.

Instead of teaching them to sit or rollover (though you have to start somewhere!) I teach them to reason and understand. I try to teach them as best I can to be a good person. That's a process that has inspired deep introspection and personal growth, as well as some of the best work I've done in my career and my community.

Owning a dog is certainly easier than having a child, by which I mean it's a lot less work. So if easy is your metric for better you could probably say something like "Better dogs than children." But using every other metric that I can think of I would say the opposite.
Man, us gay guys with no desire to contribute to the gene pool must be real monsters.
I'm not a bitcoin believer, but what advantage can you come up with for "freicoin" that bitcoin won't simply adopt?
As long as we're in the business of building cryptographic financial systems to test out the theories of economics -- I want a "market basket of commodities" currency to test out Hayek's theories.

(I am not sure if I could make a sustainable business out of it, or even a fundable business, but a chaumian blinded digital token system (software and then multiple hosting options) where people got to then run their own arbitrary currencies, with a lot of them choosing to do commodity or equity/debt currencies, would be a pretty awesome thing. It would probably cost $2-5mm to do, though, and while I think you could avoid most legal challenges by separating out the software dev vs. hosting mints vs. hosting exchange vs. currency underwriting vs. marketing vs. wallets vs. merchant services vs. end users, I'm not sure how you could realistically make money doing it.)
I have kids, love em, but why the fuck should anyone's life decision be termed narcissistic for not participating in a large scale, indifferent physical process? Am I narcissistic when I jump because I'm (momentarily) defying gravity?
Someone has invented a digital currency based on EVEN more dubious economic ideas than bitcoin itself!

We did it!
you have to be extremely careful with setting headers
for objects or every request will be proxying for an
image from Cloudflare, back to the internet, then to
your servers, then back through the internet, through
Cloudflare and then finally to the user.

I'm pretty sure PageSpeed Service will do this too if you set headers to prohibit caching (which is depressingly common).
Forethought in the heat of the moment is pretty hard.

If it wasn't, I'm sure people would have a lot fewer kids.
One thing I'd love to see is an improvement in personal analytics. Fitbit is a good start, but the data is only useful up to a certain point.
You mixed up the references. But my point is that the argument is philosophical. And doesn't really matter.

People are out building and shipping stuff in PHP, .NET, Ruby, Python, C and foobar. And it all works. And users don't care.

If you believe all (heck most) PHP developers care that it's a fractal of bad design, then your view is way too narrow.
Here's the key:

A successful restaurant owner cultivates the ambiance of their venture--from the table layout to the color and texture of napkins, from the lighting to the type of door handles, they likely have an opinion and a firm belief that they are there to curate and create an experience for their patrons.

The problem is that these instincts--typically correct in the physical world!--lead to website design input that goes against the conventions of the virtual world.

Thus, a restaurant website will be needlessly animated, or sing music to you, or do any of those other things that we all dislike in our pages, all with the good intention of providing ambiance.
The correct use of caching can dramatically improve the performance of websites. Also knowing how to keep certain pages from ever being cached can be important too.

//php do not cache
header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0, s-maxage=0');

Recently I was dealing with someones crappy hand rolled PHP site that had terrible image performance. The images were being called from a database and had no-cache set?! While moving the images out of the database would most likely be the best thing to do, it was not worth the effort in this case. The images almost never change, old id's would be removed and new added. I modified the script that output images to send a s-maxage header of a sufficiently large value and put a instance of Varnish in front of the server. Server load dropped dramatically, response times dropped dramatically, and the maximum amounts of clients the server can withstand increased greatly.

Proper use of caching, either between your server and the database, inside your application, and between your server and the client can greatly reduce hardware requirements and response times. In finalizing your application before full deployment always validate your http headers to your clients are doing what you expect them too.
It was kind of creepy to read. To me it was the epitome of "I don't know what to do to feel whole so I'll have kids" and the implication that everyone else is selfish or unfulfilled if they prefer or prioritize something else.
IMDB app is the new hello world ;) There is mine: https://github.com/caruccio/pymdb
Yes. The birth defect thing is terrifying.
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And his solution was simply to find different drugs. Considering there's a 53% failure rate for this surgery, the results sound similar.
I'm not asking a deep economic question. I'm saying, why would any real business accept payments in a currency that overtly and deliberately penalizes them for holding that currency when alternatives that don't do that are even more available? It just makes no sense to me.
I think the two voices here are interesting. The first account is very much a personal account (here's my story), the second comes across as much more prescriptive and didactic (you should have kids). The first person seems content with her choices, these ons comes across as frustrated and unhappy. I found this fascinating and took from it no lesson about whether or not to have children--only that, here, happiness/contentment accompanies humble self-awareness, frustration with the idea that your life should serve as some kind of black & white prescription for the world.
It really scares me that the only issues able to find bipartisan support in congress seem to be the bills that benefit nobody. The republicans and democrats can never agree when there is good to be done, but when they get the chance to fuck over the average citizen they're full of cooperation.
If I had to put places in order, I'd go with: NYC, Barcelona (May-July), Seattle (August), Austin (not summer).
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Simply buy a basket of commodities futures, or create an ETF/Index fund that trades a basket of commodities futures.

I'd bet Vangaurd or another major IB has a product similar to what you're looking for.
Yes, I have contacted Coudflare about slowdown issues. I tried to use Cloudflare across a few sites with many weeks of testing. I agree that they are extremely helpful and responsive. One specific support ticket was about the time it took for ajax requests to complete. Cloudflare was adding up to one FULL second of latency. I also mentioned response times reported by GoogleBot. They had no real answers. Though they did acknowledge some Ajax slowdown that was supposedly fixed.

Some days are better than others, but overall Cloudflare did not speed anything up. Perhaps free users don't get as good of a performance boost?

I had similar features enabled with Cloudflare as I do with Google PageSpeed. The sentence right before the one you quoted says: "The response times to the far left are a result of Cloudflare’s Full Caching features with Rocket Loader enabled.".

Essentially that graph shows what happens when all of Cloudflare's "CDN + Full Optimizations" features are enabled compared to most of Google's PageSpeed Service. It's the closest comparison that I can make.
As a technical matter, everyone has parents. Most people even have parents who are alive. One of the big features of American culture that I've noticed that makes parenting harder is that unlike nearly everywhere else in the world, Americans go out of their way to avoid getting help from their parents.

Now, of course not everyone has parents who can help and sometimes life makes it very hard to live near one's parents, but we have this very entrenched cultural phenomenon where older folks live by themselves and are lonely while younger folks live by themselves and complain about the hassle and expense of child care.

The show "Everybody Loves Raymond" is really illustrative. When I was a small child in Bangladesh, my mom lived in the same city with her sisters, brothers, and mother. The idea that living near your in laws could be the premise of a running joke would've gone over their heads.

Re: saying that parenting is easy--I never said it was easy, and I'm not speaking from my vast experiene as a parent for all of one month. I'm speaking from my experience as a child who grew up with non-American parents who didn't have the same cultural expectations about parenting.
Where do you see pressure from peers to get married ASAP? Maybe its because I'm still in college, but almost everyone I've spoken to (in my age group) wants to wait until their late 20s, if not 30s to settle down and get married.
Also, I suspect dogs are actually a lot more work to maintain than kids. Changing diapers was actually no big deal at all, but I can't imagine having to pick up my dogs feces from the road (because if you are a nice dog owner, you do that, right?).
Sure. There are at least a couple ways I've seen that it can be triggered (and if one of the Cloudflare guys on HN is around they might have more or correct me if I'm wrong).

The first seems to be that if a page is experiencing slow loading times on the upstream locations (and pretty much everyone using Cloudflare is likely just an 'upstream' entry in nginx), you can trigger the error. If the upstream server returns a 500 error I have seen certain circumstances where that will return a live page error... or, if the web-server on the remote end terminates the connection for whatever reason that will also cause it to happen.

For us the last time we had a problem it turned out to be pretty complicated. There was a bug (which we reported and was fixed in the last release) for the php NewRelic module. Whenever there was what the module considered a 'slow' mysql query, it would cause a segmentation fault. This particular day there was randomly a few 'slow' queries, thus when the segmentation fault occurred the php thread would die killing off the connection and bringing up the 'page is down' error from Cloudflare. That was a pain to diagnose. Strace for the win.
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Evolution takes care of itself. We've evolved a society where the majority of our children survive to adulthood, so now it's expected that there will be people who don't care to have children of their own and the tribe will survive.
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If you're out with others when it's cold, be aware of the "umbles":

Stumbles, fumbles, mumbles and grumbles.

These can be relatively early external signs of altered mentation and potentially of the on-set of hypothermia.

Hypothermia can occur even in fairly warm temperatures, too; you don't need freezing temperatures.

When carrying food, remember you're going to be eating a whole lot more when it's cold and you're exercising.

Avoid cotton clothing, as that gets and stays brutally cold when it gets wet. Wool or synthetics work much better.
It's hard to support a rational argument that FISA mechanisms benefit "nobody". FISA's supporters in DHS and DOJ and DOD will point lawmakers to a litany of cases where FISA-backed surveillance saved lives. The issue is whether the cost of that surveillance is worth the increased safety.
Ask HN: New E-Reader (Kobo) Suggest some PDF reads?
Hey everyone, just wondering if anyone could suggest any PDF's that I could download and read on my new e-Reader?

Anything recommended here by fellow hackers will likely be relevant!
Front-loading parenting effort pays of dramatically. I don't think a lot of people know that.
You might want to look into Open-Transactions [1], which is a Chaumian blinded token system supporting basket currencies out of the box. You'd presumably have a list of reliable issuers that mint their own tokens backed by real-world assets, then do a basket currency over all of them together.

[1] https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions