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Ryan Dahl in February 2010, when Promises were removed from core:

Because many people (myself included) only want a low-level interface
to file system operations that does not necessitate creating an
object, while many other people want something like promises but
different in one way or another. So instead of promises we'll use last
argument callbacks and consign the task of building better abstraction
layers to user libraries.

Those libraries do exist. There still isn't a canonical Promises specification. Node trying to force promises onto the ecosystem early on would've been like applying brakes and slow down adoption enormously.
There are appropriate answers to those questions, which come from the field of philosophy, but are generally unrecognized. Which is precisely why the US _is_ heading in the direction of totalitarianism.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll see if I can write up a more mobile friendly version as soon as I get some free time.
The point is that finding that said pesticides are harmful to bees is not the same as finding that colony collapse disorder is caused solely or primarily by those pesticides. Assuming so may blind you to other important factors. I really don't get what's so hard to understand.
But he's not actually citing their actual rules, he's citing his interpretation of the rules, and claiming various court decisions support him.
He's wrong on both points, AFAICT.
Now, he may not like that their is more wiggle room than he likes, but ...

As for what is reasonable to inquire about, they can ask about a lot. This is particularly true since it's probably not a custodial interrogation, and they are clearly not asking about evidence of crimes.

You can cite "the way the world should be" all you like. I actually agree it would be a great place to live. But expecting the judicial system to transform it into that world is a dream.
I know the guys that did the iPad work for the coatchex system. I questioned then along similar lines. I realized I wasn't thinking wide enough. I don't want to speak about something that might have been off the record... But let me pose this. You can get information from anything. That information may be more valuable (to others) than you may think.
Promises are just tools for managing a list of callbacks with less boilerplate. I wouldn't call one imperative and the other functional. Both are functional. You might dislike callback patterns, but through one of the beautiful parts of JS, you can trivially wrap any callback-oriented API you want and have it become a promise based one. I've done this before when I had a very complex dependency graph at the start of a program and a few API calls were callback related. It looks something like this:

SomeClass.prototype.someActionPromise = function(){
var deferred = makeADeferred();
SomeClass.prototype.someAction.call(this, function(err){
err ? deferred.reject() : deferred.resolve();
});
return deferred.promise();
};

Now you have a promise-based version that makes your code a little cleaner and easier to read.
That settles it, then: "the US federal government is not legitimate under the US Constitution."
I know this pain, and mine comes from a similar place. My grandma lived with my family for my entire life, and she was always there for me, sometimes before my parents. I didn't call her as frequently as I would have liked during college (or my parents, for that matter), but I have atoned for those sins, and got better as I finished school and started my adult, not-living-at-home life. After her first heart attack, I called her twice a day until she was home, then nightly since, with rare exception. We were both the night owls of the family, so talking to her was how I ended my day. She passed just over a year ago, and I still get overwhelmingly sad when I consider that every day is one longer than the the longest since I've talked to her. Saying I miss my grandma puts it in too easy a light. I keep an alarm set on my phone for the time of the night when I would call her. It's not the same, obviously, but it's a little time set aside to think of her.

I honestly don't know how to deal with it, either. I think being 29 before losing your first really close loved one is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I got nearly 30 years with my grandma - time I wouldn't trade for anything. On the other hand, I'm a grown man who can't deal with death. I think you're right - a big part of it is just continuing to move forward. Because, like it or not, the world doesn't stop spinning, even though it feels like it just did. One last anecdote - when we knew grandma was in the hospital and probably never leaving, I went to pick up my cousins and take them to say goodbye. We stopped to get some flowers, and I remember looking at everyone at the store and thinking how could normal the rest of the world felt, whereas I felt like my world was ending. Alas, it doesn't. Sometimes you cry. Sometimes you laugh. But you never stop.
Explaining how he's wrong on both points would be very useful.
His suggestion was for testing containers, if there is a legitimate security concern.

This takes less time than arguing over a 2 liter of aloe juice and ends any inquiry there without violating privacy.

That having been said, I don't think it's the best solution, but it seems to be a minor improvement in most cases, and a very big one in a few others.
I'm scrapping player data (achievements, ladders, history, etc) directly from Blizzard. As for units/buildings information I had to update them myself right now which is a bit of a pain.
Last for rankings, I'm taking data from sc2ranks.
Can you provide any more specific justification for the specific measure of liquid to allow, or is it just going to be what you can imagine seems reasonable to you?
"Good" or "bad" Genes show in a man's face
Thanks for the information. It was really helpful. I guess what you say is most probably correct you must know about facebook more than any of us. I'll look if anything like that happens again. Cheers mate
The app is ready for internationalization but I dunno Korean and I don't have funds to get someone to translate it for me... So no right now.
> ... or just statistically useful may be good enough ...

If "statistically useful" means reliably above market averages year after year, then that would constitute a surefire winning strategy. There is no such thing -- if this were not so, we all would know about it by now.

A tiny advantage -- a legal one, not dependent on insider trading or any other questionable premise -- however small, could be exploited to enrich the player who used it.

But there is no such thing.

> The general public is misinformed about the markets and gets consistently fleeced yet keeps getting pulled in by dreams of easy money - akin to a lottery.

Yes, and the key to all these misleading strategies is ignorance of the EMH.

Evidence for the EMH lies in the fact that, in the long term, buy & hold investors do better than players -- in the long term, on average, if all results are tallied objectively.

> It takes a lot of work to figure out how the lottery works and how to consistently game it.

Again, there is no such thing. If there were, businesses would refuse to use equities to raise capital, knowing they would be fleeced by the players. The only reason equities are a reasonable way to capitalize business is because it's a fair approximation of an efficient market.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why people find this so hard to understand.
Question: will this cost Google $7B?
I was the youngest in my family and my older sister (2 years older) died suddenly when I was 16. Thanks for sharing this.

I still imagine that I'll bump into her one day, as if she never died and she had just gone off to college and gone on an adventure. It sucks, but talking about it, at least for me, does help.
Thanks for tip! Will add it as soon as I get the chance.
I'm sure terrorists have chemists too, and would defeat that swab test in a week if it was that easy to take large amounts of unknown substances through security.
https://www.google.com/search?q=3.4+oz+in+ml
Good points, though I'll just say this:

- using Apple-sanctioned technologies might improve your chances of getting featured by Apple. Of course, well-known popular apps get featured regularly by Apple, but this is one of the factors that goes into their calculations of who to feature. This is not a reason per se for using iCloud, but an added incentive (as I mention, it really didn't pan out for me!)

- Exporting data out of iCloud shouldn't be any more complicated than importing data into iCloud is. You can easily walk through the Core Data object graph and do whatever you want with the data. And with NSIncrementalStore, you can easily keep the core of your application the same and utilize some other web service to power the data for your app.
There is no volume limit for medication. The issue here is that in his case store-bought juice is his 'medicine'.
Does anyone else see an interesting idea for a start-up here??
And how about Myanmar? Have Google lifted the restriction? I remember when I was a student in US and wanted to compete but couldn't.
Privilege is not a false concept just because you don't like it. Whether or not you agree with the policy, you can't just ignore the existence of Supreme Court jurisprudence because the SC is the arbiter of these questions per the Constitution itself.

And as for reason, I directed you to the concept of severability. Your claim that a constitutional violation invalidates the entire existence of government is just not anchored in reality. Lots of laws have been overturned as unconstitional, as have many actions by individual law enforcement officers or officers of the government over the ~230 year history of the United States. Has any of the Supreme Court decisions ever resulted in a dissolution of the government? No. Why? Because an infringement of the a constitutional right does not delegitimize the existence of the government. The point of a constitutional republic is to be self-perpetuating and self-correcting, not to fall apart like a game of Jenga when you pull on the right piece.

Please, read the whole constitution. It's not very long, you can do it in an hour or so. There's a lot more to it than just the bill of rights.I stand by my original argument that your approach to this is an example of magical thinking, and is actually getting in the way of the change you seek.
Steam Charts update - Added Search and Linkable Chart Timespans
Median Household Income Down 7.3% Since Start of Recession
“To be politically incorrect (insensitive) a good number of TSA employees don't seem to be very bright.”

In the words of a former TSA agent: “Did you know you don’t need a high-school diploma or GED to work as a security screener? These are the same screeners that TSA chief John Pistole and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refer to as a first-class first line of defense in the war on terror. These are the employees who could never keep a job in the private sector. I wouldn’t trust them to walk my dog. [...]

Most TSA screeners know their job is a complete joke. Their goal is to use this as a stepping stone to another government agency. We work in a culture where common sense has no place. All but a very few TSA personnel know they’re employed by a bottom-of-the-barrel agency. [...]

It’s the people who’ve been there a good number of years who could never find employment elsewhere. When you have a real job, it usually means you have to actually work and think, which a lot of them have a hard time doing.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/confessions_of_tsa_agent_...
Who else scanned this article?
This. I don't mind writing this code from a mechanical perspective (copy, paste, and a few single-token replacements per line) nearly as much as I mind reading, debugging, and being forced to rewrite this kind of nauseatingly boilerplate code.

Ironically, my most recent use of regexps has been finding such boilerplate and simplifying it by using newer, cleaner APIs so I can remove the old terrible ones. Let Regexes Delete that code for you.
Show HN: I redesigned Steam for Mac
With some time on my hands, and a lot of frustration with the design of Steam for Mac, I decided to take a stab at redesigning it from the ground up.

This is what came of it.
I think you are confusing the right to public transit with the right to transit with any commercial carrier through any engagement of your choosing...

Which is unfortunate, because I agree with your point but I don't think the law backs you up here.
> It just seems that you're searching for some sort of 'fairness' in a 'system' where it doesn't really exist.

But "fairness" is what the EMH means. "Fairness" expresses in human terms what the mathematics tells us. An efficient market ruthlessly adjusts for inefficiencies and oversights, sort of like biological evolution, and evolution is the ultimate in ruthlessness and indifference to the fate of individuals. It's also fair -- each species has an equal chance to prevail.

Insider trading is unfair to ordinary investors who aren't criminals. The announcement effect is unfair to ordinary investors who don't have that kind of influence over the markets. If you take away insider trading and the announcement effect, the result is ... more fair. That result is closer to an optimally efficient market.

> Markets are structurally exploitable.

Only by cheating (and as your example demonstrates). The SEC knows this, and they know how corrosive distrust in the fairness of equities can be for society as a whole, so they aggressively pursue cheaters.

Absent cheating, equities markets cannot be gamed. Absent cheating, a long-term buy & hold position is the optimal strategy, By the way, and for what it's worth, Warren Buffett agrees.
Why Datomic? (explains its use at Zolodeck)
I don't agree that there is any fundamental difference in functionality between callbacks and promises.

Promises don't somehow magically make asynchronous code easy to write while leaving callbacks out in the cold. They have very similar strengths and weaknesses and I didn't find any of the OP's arguments compelling.

In fact, if I had to choose, I would take the opposite view and say callbacks are neater, cleaner and more consistent than promises.
I'd love to hear what you all think :)
You think people getting their phds in physics are just anteing up to the game? The fact of the matter is thaat innovation is cumulative, and it takes time and education to get up to speed on what's been done so you can incrementally imrpove it. That's where innovation comes from. Not some kid with a text editor.

Look at it another way: where are the game changing algorithms coming from kids with no experience and just a text editor?
I've just added them.

My initial selection of rules was based on aesthetics and liveliness. That is, how well the output of one rule would provide interesting seed material for the next rule.
The medical expense fundraising site he set up [1] mentions that she "passed away on March 29, 2013 after living with cancer for more than a year."

[1] http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/in-memory-of-lau...
FWIW those product/company sponsored hackathons aren't all hackathons. StartupWeekend happens with some regularity in tons of cities across the US, and their schtick is "build-a-business-in-a-weekend". So you're free to come up with whatever idea and build that.
Why I Don't Care 'If I Had Glass'
Ask HN: Recommend a grid-based CSS framework that plays well with Bootstrap
I'm trying to find a framework which I can drop on top of bootstrap and add functionality to have elements which span more than one row (like you'd be able to do with a table). As far as I know, I can't do this with bootstrap directly (I can only make elements spanning multiple columns).
Indeed. It's likely just my Rubyist side talking, but the OP's example sets off my DRY alarms something terrible.
Also, if you'd like to change the pixels per cell, add a param to the link like so:

http://archetyp.al/other_pages/cellular_automata.html?ppc=1

or

http://archetyp.al/other_pages/cellular_automata.html?ppc=50
Let's separate two things: The way I believe the law is right now, and the way i wish the law was right now.
You are conflating both. Like most lawyers, I can be dispassionate in my analysis of things, regardless of my personal feelings.

I actually have a very good understanding of what the law says right now. I personally think it's become seriously perverted from its original purpose, but that does not change how the law has developed, it only means we need to fix that.

As it stands right now, the government very likely has the right to demand intimate medical information from people when that intimate medical information is the reason they are citing to avoid legally enacted security rules. Again, i think this is mostly bullshit, and shouldn't be that way, but it doesn't change that it is. The supreme court and others have been very protective of border and transportation searches made for the purpose of security.

Note, btw almost any ADA claim he makes would fail

The ADA does not actually prohibit these inquiries on it's face (it would if they were made for a job related purpose), and aircraft is specifically exempted from most of the ADA's transportation requirements:

"The term "specified public transportation" means transportation by bus, rail, or any other conveyance (other than by aircraft) that provides the general public with general or special service (including charter service) on a regular and continuing basis."

If your hope is to get a court to decide that he won't have to justify it's medically necessary liquid, there is a roughly 10% chance that will happen (maybe less).

If your hope is for a court to decide the TSA needs actual individualized suspicion before fucking groping people, there's an even less percent chance of that happening. In fact, courts have already held exactly the opposite numerous times (due to them being held to be administrative searches)

Your best outcome here is probably that they'll require the TSA offer to ask this stuff in private, and be required to guarantee confidentiality.

At least right now, no court is likely to stop them from doing it.
According to a former TSA screener: “Did you know you don’t need a high-school diploma or GED to work as a security screener? [...]

[Most screeners] are only there for the paycheck and generous benefits. Screeners start at $15 per hour, and there is tons of overtime — mainly because they are filling in for the many screeners who don’t bother coming to work. For every 40 hours you work, you receive four hours of vacation and four hours of sick time.

One screener didn’t come to work for four weeks. When he finally reappeared, he asked for another week off. The answer was no. So what did this brainiac decide to do? He took another week off — and didn’t get terminated. People have been caught falling asleep on the job. They get written up, it’s put in their file, and that’s it.

New hires see how bad it is working there, and, believe it or not, TSA does manage to hire some pretty decent people. They just don’t last because they can get a normal job. It’s the people who’ve been there a good number of years who could never find employment elsewhere. When you have a real job, it usually means you have to actually work and think, which a lot of them have a hard time doing.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/confessions_of_tsa_agent_...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:netrunn...
I agree that GLSL shader support would be awesome, but if IE didn't support GLSL we wouldn't have to hand-write our HLSL. Chrome and Firefox for Windows already use ANGLE, which translates GLSL shaders to HLSL [1].

Unfortunately, complex renderings can produce some tough-to-debug problems when things get lost in translation. The good news is that ANGLE is still quite good, actively improving, and it allows automatic translation of GLSL to HLSL.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/
It states very specifically in the memo he refers to:

"It is recommended (not required) that passengers bring along any supporting documentation (ID cards, letter from doctor, etc.) regarding their medical needs."

So yeah, it would likely be easier for him if he did have one, but it's certainly not something the TSA can demand.
It sounds exactly like Pluggio. The author of this app should go and listen to the last 200 episodes of the TechZing podcast and hear the creator talk in detail about Pluggio's journey 4 year journey to get to a respectable (but no enough to live on) ~50k revenue.
> If you think blacks are absent among low-skilled workers

I said given two poorly educated workers, one white, one black. Any big delta in their treatment is due to racism, not the minimum wage.

> How you then explain the quotes about "colored labor"? Ah, yes, I know - they never said that, despite the sources, evil libertarians invented that.

You cherry picked your sources and then made a broad generalization. Libertarians aren't racist, they are just dishonest for using racism to further their own ends: to make the minimum wage sound like a racist plot when there is no real evidence for that.
Can you point to where it says that?
It actually does not say that they can't ask, and you don't have to prove it. The only thing the rules say is that it's "recommended but not required" that you carry a doctors note.

That doesn't mean "welp, i don't have to prove shit, because i am not required to have a doctors note". It means it's recommended, but not required, that you have one.
If you don't, there is nothing in these rules that say you won't have to explain yourself.
I'm a type 2 diabetic. The medecine I take affects my blood sugar. The "medecine" that protects me from my medecine is sugar and can be bought anywhere. It's medicinal to me regardless of what any moron TSA agent might think. If my flight is delayed and I can't eat or drink something sugary when I need it, my blood sugar drops and I go into a coma and risk brain damage. Should I depend on the flight attendant to rush me some sugar if I'm about to pass out or should I be allowed to carry it with me? I don't have to rely on sugary drinks in emergencies, I can use sugar pills but his needs are more constant and immediate. I may not agree with this adversarial approach but I sure as hell understand his position.
Not necessary. The TSA already gave a better alternative. FTFV: They can put the liquid in several smaller bottles and then let him through with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m12mLXgO1A&t=11m10s
Do you have any examples of actual products?
What worth would the 3d simulations produced by Blender's physics engine be? I'd imagine that they wouldn't even compare to those produced by full MD simulations, which are already of debatable correctness depending on the size of the system, force field + parameters, time step, solvent, etc...
If Oracle gets heavy handed with Java ... doesn't that just mean it's time to use something else?

Am I missing something?
There is already sub-reddits for this
I'm curious to know why you decided now was the time to launch a new twitter app? Twitter has been putting the thumbscrews on app developers for quite a few months now. I thought the changes twitter has made to their TOS meant that creating a twitter app now has a ceiling on it's potential upside.
> The work must be enjoyable for self before it help others.

The garbage man who doesn't enjoy carrying your trash away still helps you get rid of your trash. The truck driver who doesn't enjoy driving still gets your food to the store...

Sure there are a lot of jobs that people can do better if they enjoy them, but that's certainly not all of them.

Getting to have a job you enjoy is a luxury that most people in the world don't have.