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Snark: Not an unreasonable response to predictable [1], pointless chest-thumping.

A reasonable discussion of rape defense / deterrents or even gun ownership would be fine. A quip that romanticizes "the smoking barrel of a 9mm" like it's just that simple is pure bullshit.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948542
Children of any age are legally able to work on farms owned or operated by their parents, which would disagree with your premise. If parents are able to legally assume consent for their children to work on the farm, they would be able to consent for all employment opportunities.

For what it is worth, working on the farm as a youngster brings some of my fondest memories of childhood. I find it rather sad that people outside of the agriculture communities do not have similar opportunities until they grow older.
Really cool concept, makes donating very compelling. In fact, I just donated to help fund Esther's treatment.

An idea to get more people to give more - make it competitive. For example, it'll be cool if I could create a group for my school and then get people to 'tag' their donations with the group ID. Would love to see which school can get the most donations!
Glad I'm not the only one who immediately balked at the name. I just spent like the last two minutes repeating it in a trance to see if it would become any easier to say. Nope, sounds like I'm trying to say "kernel" while balancing a grape on the back of my tongue. It's a physically uncomfortable word to say, which is an impressive linguistic construction!
As others say, it varies by state, but sexual blackmailing (e.g. "screw me or lose your job") and unwanted sexual touching are illegal just about everywhere.
Again, in any sexual facet not pertaining to rape, I find this news saddening.

If I were to enter into a relationship with you, and I said that the only way I would continue the relationship is if you kept it under wraps, then is that really qualification as sexual harassment?

The fact that we provide legal representation for people who have the choice to discontinue a relationship is beyond me.
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Really? That is the first I heard of absolute immunity being applied to prosecutors. Where is that spelled out?
All very true, but this needs to be handled in-house. I think that's the big issue here. Square should have the right to enforce its own policies, not be subjected to legal harassment.
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There are shipping AAA games and game engines that use some variation of a component system for entities, including Unreal Engine 3 and CryEngine.

In practice, "component entity system" simply means favor composition over inheritance. There are different ways you can architect your code to fit the definition, some of them efficient and cache friendly.
> Who says I am not authorised?

The Federal Prosecutor threatening with 50years of jail time Or you can accept this no-brainer plea bargain for only 1year.

See also, 50 million posts on this subject last couple weeks since prominent software engineer suicided himself.
Great to hear it loads fast. That's been the biggest hurdle.

Definitely agree about the layout of the Upcoming Movies page.
Fortunately, we do not have a decider in chief, and the US president is (emphatically!) not one. Everyone decides for themselves, and on the business arena, every business decides for itself.
> Order of magnitude performance improvement isn't going to be possible.

I think the term 'order of magnitude' has started taking on a connotation of essentially meaning 'a lot'. It's a fair observation, but I hear it bandied about so often that I rarely actually think the parties are in fact using it literally.
I like it. I dislike the weird stupid half cut header. (Because it looks like there's a sticky header, but it's not a sticky header, and it feels like the font is broken. That's a dissonance that I don't get from print-typography experimentation.) But I like the "big" (readable) fonts. I'd probably make the body font a tad bigger, but I guess that's just me. I wouldn't have a bright white background either, but again that's mostly me. It's nice when a website needs a minimum of tinkering to make it readable.

There are (as they say) a few oddities. The link on "Why are links blue" is not blue, it's black.
'Gun Toting Nonsense'? God this is absurd elitist bull - the type of drivel spouted from the mouths of people who assume the argument is already won by virtue of their 'superior minds'.

I'm guessing you live in a wonderful neighborhood with great police protection, low crime, and are not part of the demographic that is often targeted for assault. I'm happy you get to live your wonderfully enlightened progressive existence.

The rest of us will just become one of those statistics that happen when you 'offload' your rights, yes?

Of course you don't take your self defense completely in to your own hands - we live in a civilization so that we can organize and protect each other. But, ultimately, you are the only one who can ensure you stay alive. To think otherwise is pretty naive, or comes from a position of entitlement.

For the interest of full disclosure, I keep a firearm in my vehicle and one at home. My wife concealed carries. We live in a neighborhood with fairly regular home invasions, and even a few murders over the last few years. We plan on leaving as soon as student loans get paid and we can.
I hope she still runs for office so we can have protests at every event.
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Brilliant is an understatement. I've never seen this level of self-awareness before.

Also, I simply can't believe how I've never heard his stage name once, despite how insanely popular he is in China.
Even in (hypothetical) cases of obvious misconduct or corruption? That seems extremely unlikely.
How would one start thinking about specialized hardware? Any examples of specialized hardware?
What constitutes a good product manager and when should we hire one?
Does anybody else find the photo of the motel owner a little jarring? It's something about the lens distortion, I think, that makes me see him as a cardboard stand-up when I just glance at the picture.
It seems strange, but this policy seems pretty pragmatic to me: Here you have two elected county-level officials who often work together and thus are familiar with each-others business, but are not subordinates to one another. Basically peers.
Statistics don't comfort the victims that could have done something but were restricted from doing so, usually by people who already live safe lives and want them to be safer.

And your second example basically says 'we will prevent you from defending yourself, so just take it and hope the system saves you'.

And if you think this culture 'supports rapists and demonizes survivors', you are in need of getting your facts straight.

EDIT:

I'm beginning to take this whole thing a bit personal. I learned a long time ago to call it quits when that starts to happen on the internet, so I'm out.
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edit: removed, some people might get offended.
It makes some sense: the coroner is an elected official (why the hell do we elect coroners?) who has some independence from the sheriff. Other officials who are ostensibly higher level than the sheriff probably depend on his good graces as much as the sheriff does on them.
If you are using a partner in a "major law firm" for routine contract work, you're doing it wrong.

(If you use that firm, such work should be turned over to a less senior staff member and billed at a somewhat lower rate.

If the partner is a friend or friendly acquaintance, s/he might ensure the assignment is to an attorney (and possibly assisting staff) they respect and they might look over the results before they are returned to you.)
This is different in essential details. Google are indexing these pages. That means the pages are advertised as part of the public internet.

Now not every layman knows how to properly hook things up to the internet, but there is a definite implied consent in doing so. If the pages were restricted by password and we were bypassing it, or they were locked to an IP and we could spoof it, then there wouldn't be an implied consent to access the service being provided; but that's not the case here.

If you want to look at intent then it's notable that many listed are University addresses - people setting up those printers absolutely know what they're doing.

If you purposefully used excessive paper/ink or you kill the hardware with a broken firmware update then those things are definitely not authorised by the implied consent and would constitute vandalism.
A company called Wang took this approach with their word processing workstations. It might have been before your time, but anyway, this approach has been tried before and it didn't really work out. General purpose hardware running a general purpose operating system that abstracts away that hardware's peculiarities won the day for a variety of reasons.
Totally agree with everything you just said! I'm not down on Smali; obviously its incredibly powerful because you can tweak and baksmali. I just personally have no need to modify and rebuild Dalvik.
Police are not there to protect you. Their job is to bring perpetrators to justice. If they are nearby, they may or may not attempt to stop a crime in progress, but they are not required to do so, and that does nothing to stop personal assaults that might occur. In the best case, they are purely reactionary, not preventative. In the worst case they are useless.

The military is not there to protect you either. Their job is to enforce national policy abroad, put down rebellions and repel invasions.

I agree that police and the military make us safer overall, on average. But they do not protect you personally. You can either pay a private security firm to defend you if you are rich, or you can defend yourself. There literally are no other choices.
He could have been working on a side project for awhile, and is now able to work full-time on it.
Ortiz's office will probably appeal, so no money will be paid for many months.
The font size used to be horrifically small. This is a big step up, for this change alone.
I'd say "curl-null", more or less. Not too bad I think.
Reading tracts on socialism by Mises is similar to learning about capitalism from Marx or mainline Christianity from the Church of Latter Day Saints. I'm not the biggest fan of Wikipedia social science articles, but on the whole I'd still see it as a better starting point than someone beating straw men to death in order to promote their own fringe agenda.
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The bizarro world where improved efficiency of coal use led to more coal use, rather than people miraculously keeping the same pattern of behavior despite the increased utility of using coal?

The bizarro world where nobody ever increases their fuel use in response to its greater effectiveness of use?

The bizarro world where people can feel like they've said something insightful simply because they're advocating greater fuel efficiency regardless of how poorly they understand the system in which it operates?
There's so much implicit wrongness in your statement my mind doesn't know where to lock on to respond. Sorry.

edit: I figured it out.

You seem to desire a world where Square is exalted to some sort of sovereign status, answerable to no law beyond their own policies and procedures. Which is a horrifying state of affairs.

If something happened here that is against the law, I am heartened that a legal framework exists to provide remedies. If it did not, I am similarly heartened to note that the accused at least has resources sufficient to mount a defense. We can argue the injustice of a false accusation, if indeed it turns out the accusation was so, but the accused admits maintaining a physical relationship was in poor judgment. This is one of the realities that comes from that level of success. It's a cost of doing business that you must be much, much more cautious in the deployment of your genitals.
They're going to suddenly discover al-Qaeda operating in Antigua.
This should be a community-like group?Sounds interesting.
I just donated some euro's, and I truely believe those euro's will be well spend. But it feels wierd (and somehow wrong) to crowdfund someone's health. I'm not questioning watsi, they are in it for the right reasons. But is crowdfunding something important as health for poor people the solution?

I think everyone is trying to do good here, but nobody is solving the real problems.
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No, but a quiet, brief, wander in the woods is generally what people expect - or a strong victory against the lawsuit.
I love the fact that the song pointed to in the blog post is sexual healing.
These sorts of interfaces are often connected to fileshares, so there's probably a route in there for a cracker. Also it may be possible to upload firmware - either corrupted firmware that bricks the printer or firmware that sends copies of all printed docs to a file store.
Registration page seems kind of empty but other than that its a great start.
I suppose the devs all have the latest 10" phones... ><
>A couple billion Chinese and Indians are moving up in the world and they aren't going to be riding bicycles.

But wait, bicycles are more fuel-efficient than even the best cars -- that should imply that the Chinese will want to use them instead, right? Because the problem is as simple as discovering greater fuel efficiency?

Or is this the bizarro world you mocked where higher fuel efficiency is bad?
I guess it depends what you mean by "pirating." If you mean some thing based on morality or justice, the copyright holder is not getting their promised share of the revenue, so (regardless of how much you actually care about that) the site is in the same boat as The Pirate Bay there. If you mean "legal" then the immediate question becomes, legal where? Rojodirecta was "legal" too, remember? Didn't stop the U.S. from seizing their domain for a year and a half.[1]

What's that line? "The truth is not a bulletproof vest."

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/government-goes-0...
To be honest with you, no, we didn't seriously consider it. Maybe we should have. I do not know if ClojureScript would be able to work with all the dependencies we have (for example, Hadoop client library to talk to HDFS). But it's a good point nevertheless. I'll mention it in https://github.com/Factual/drake/issues/1.

Thanks!
> but I have created websites that look fine on everything

Just checking, but really "look fine on everything", or "need to be zoomed in by many people"?
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"Not including dates in the highlighted articles on the homepage (and only highlighting two to begin with?)"

Which is basically intended only to increase page views. If you're searching for something about web design, and Google's results show the slug for an entry as "Sep 21, 2004", you're probably a lot less likely to read that than the other link that is "current". So, better to take out a date altogether. The only person who loses out is the viewer, who might rely on sometimes vastly outdated information (says me, who has spent the last couple of days looking at Crystal Reports forums and having to discard search results from the early 2000s and even 1990s).
that is very interesting
Yep! We will do!
Front-end intern interview coming up -- what should I study?
In about 2 weeks I'll be flying out (all expenses paid) to an on-site technical interview for a front-end internship. I'm wondering if the wonderful people on HN have any suggestions as to what I should refresh myself on. Books, materials, concepts, etc.
Can anyone clarify why is he expecting to be paid $600K for his legal fees? I thought that in US the party which lost the case is not obligated to cover the legal fees of the winner. Which is one of the things that makes patent trolls thrive.
The Grey Period seems to be like Flat Design and Big Fonts: there's an unwelcome general trend at the moment to dumb everything down to the point of being... well, dumb.

Subtle visual effects like gradients and shadows and the use of different colours don't just make a site or UI look pretty, they also give cues about how it works. At the moment, it seems like everything is just another flat, grey rectangle, and we've reached the point where sometimes you literally can't tell whether something on the screen is a block quote, a button, the title of a drop down menu, or possibly even more than one thing arranged in a toolbar...

These new trends can't die fast enough, IMHO. Too many projects are sacrificing both usability and aesthetics just to be fashionable.
As opposed to the much more persist, false, and negative meme that all buyer's remorse is sexual harassment, and that all men are potential rapists under the right circumstances. Just look into the "gender equality" orgs.
Don't announce your project until you at least have something going. The empty repo at https://github.com/kerlnel/kerlnel ? That should at least have enough code in it to boot something, even if it's just a "hello world!" that doesn't have anything to do with Erlang. Getting a build system in place and developing some sort of contribution guidelines are also important.

There are major advantages to keeping your grand projects in stealth mode for a while. For one, it's good to wait until you have instructions for even the dumbest ADD teenager to compile and run the thing, or else you'll have to deal with a flood of endless terrible questions. For another, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence to come out and say, "Hey, we want to run Erlang on bare metal, we have README.md, please contribute!"

I fully acknowledge that the creators intended to wait longer and that bandris may have just come across an interesting looking Github repo, but even that proves a point: Your repo should be private until you have something to show. When Linus announced Linux, he already had code running in userspace, with bash and gcc ported!

Edit: I say this having been involved in projects that announced too soon. It's important to establish something concrete first.
See Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (197-) and all cases since
I can totally understand if it's his therapy, it would likely be mine... That doesn't answer the confusion in a teaser of a big work/unrelated announcement being in there though.
I really don't understand why people bring up this logic whenever the government loses a court case.
Sure. However, we in Europe care little about what the mpaa says and German judges tend to be independent from the US government as well. I'd love to get legal and timely access to high hd content and would be more than happy to shell out some bucks. Europe has a financial crisis, but there's still a market here.
Well once v1.5.2 is out. You can trash that 8mb apktool.jar. I got Proguard in v1.5.2 so the jar is only 2.2mb, on top of a lot of fixes.
My main point is that most people won't have a chance to protect themselves, although I do agree 100% people have a right to protect themselves. It's important to note that self defense isn't a solution to the overall problem and leave those in circumstances where its difficult to defend themselves without options (e.g. someone with a disability).

My second example was to highlight that people defending themselves faces more prosecution than those actually committing assaults. The system will not help you, generally speaking, if you are a survivor of sexual assault and you are likely to be prosecuted for defending yourself. That is a part of rape culture, btw, the legal indifference towards rapists.

For an overview of rape culture, which is a real thing, see: http://www.shakesville.com/2009/10/rape-culture-101.html
A brief bit of searching indicates that prosecutors do indeed have absolute immunity from civil liability for their official actions during a trial (see Imbler v. Pachtman).
I don't see where the implied consent is unless they were advertising the availability of those addresses on the public internet, eg they were listed in Google. It's a small but crucial difference to the legal position IMO.
These guys have a lot of potential, especially the more researchers they get on board.
welcome to the "appification" design era , where every web site is dull, flat , look like each other and look like crap on laptops and desktops.

"Generic", 0 personality design may work on tablet but that's it. And what is with these huge text fonts ? it's just not readable , reading is not about how big letters are but how the eye is able to identify blocks of text. I just cant read the text , it's just too difficult and exhausting.
That's from criminal law, this seems to be a civil act. Also, while we're there, the burden of proof is different -- proof beyond a reasonable doubt vs balance of probabilities.

(IANAL, I just remember this from an engineering law class)
Note, that's absolute immunity from civil liability. Criminal conduct could still be prosecuted — not that it's likely to be, of course...
In this case I don't even think 2x is possible.
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Perhaps for psychological effect
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Yes, No, No.

It's a shakedown - and successful entrepreneurs need to start getting smarter about this shit. We've actually got something to lose now.
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>>I think it's just a necessary culling of the people who aren't going to be happy or successful in programming careers.

Thanks for the article, but he is wrong on this point. I have been programming for 17 years and I a) probably wouldn't do well if given an test on algorithms b) have many happy customers that would vouch for me. In 2013 I don't need to know how to traverse through a linked list to write web software that pleases clients. The thing about needing to know pointers and algorithms to have a successful career in programming is wrong. The closest thing to algorithms I need to know is that I need indexes in my database if the queries get slow. I would argue most developers need to learn marketing more than how to program a fibonacci sequence using recursion.
Yes.
I posted the main case that starts this line in the comment to Chuck, but also see Rehberg v. Paulk, 132 S. Ct. 1497 (2012).

It's worse than you think.
In Rehberg, the accusation was the chief investigator for the DA's office simply presented made up testimony in front of the grand jury, knowing it was false, and the prosecutor knew it was false as well when questioning him/presenting it.

They did this 3 times, leading to indictments against folks that were, thankfully, later dismissed by judges.

It was also alleged that they both had conspired, pre-indictment, to make up and present this false testimony to the grand jury.

Holding: Both are entitled to absolute immunity.

This particular case seems more about grand juries, until you realize what was alleged and who was testifying.
If it's something you're using to keep your mind off of other things, it seems completely natural to mention it. I really don't see a problem here.
>why the hell do we elect coroners?

I've wondered that as well. What are even the issues in a coroner election? Seems like a pretty objective job to me.

The other poster makes the point about the coroner and sheriff being peers. That makes sense.
Sounds like you're looking for Emacs:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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It is not so obvious. There's a lot of suffering going on in your country too.

Charity comes from the heart, and where you should direct your love is your own choice. If you feel the people in your country are closer to you, there's no shame in helping them before others. We are human after all.
Apparently less efficiency would be better. I think we're done here.