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There's a balance to strive for between making a statement concisely and making it nitpick-proof. I could have been more factually correct by stating that it's illegal to sell booze directly to minors, but that would've made the tone of my comment less rabidly libertarian.

The point, of course, is that parents can make a meaningful decision about whether they'll give booze to their kids a lot more easily than they can do the same for exposing their kids to advertisement.

Plus, I'm pretty sure that, even in those states, you could get in some sort of legal trouble for giving whiskey to a 2-year old. Obviously, we can't claim similar level of damage when it comes to advertising, but we don't seem to be willing to look more closely into it, either.
There is a discussion about W3C DRM support on the W3C blog.

Comments are moderated, and no new comments have been accepted for five days now.

This could be related to workload or a particularly high number of abusive comments, but the cynic in me wonders if it's to shut down the discussion.

I've emailed them to ask what's causing the delay & will post here if I receive a reply.
Thanks all, I'm Burak Can; creator of this.
nikolakirev, it's possible but i'm not sure if this symbol is available in windows computers?
Look up a medical supply store. There are various formulations available which were developed by folk better-versed in the research.
The thing is, though, to cool something in an airless environment you just put up some sunshades and suddenly everything is a ridiculous -100 C or so. No convective or conductive heat transfer to speak of, so it's entirely radiative, which means a couple layers of tinfoil reduce it to functionally zero. Assuming your tinfoil doesn't melt, of course.
Considering go's vocal support for UTF8 I'm surprised at this behavior and curious to the reason for excluding it.
I've been using jq for a few months now while working with big GeoJSON blobs and it's a big help. The query language takes a bit of doing at first, but it's really pretty great once you learn it.

curl -s http://tile.openstreetmap.us/vectiles-skeletron/12/656/1582.... | jq '.features[].properties.name'
It's also dropping IE7 and FF3.6 support. I'm glad they'll be hosting versioned docs as Bootstrap 2.x is going to be in use for a good while longer.
You don't sound like a libertarian/anarchist at all! /rolleyes
On Mars you'd need a long running power source anyway, so the same one used on earth should suffice. I think a good argument could be made that Earth is better than Mars for a survivable outpost, and that Mercury has a compelling energy advantage but not much else.
One size doesn't fit all
> Humans are part of a universe where time is measured in billions of years and economics is largely irrelevant.

Only if you have a narrow understanding of "economics".

Economics is the study of scarcity and how to deal with it. For example, arguing that energy is less scarce on Mercury than Mars is making an economic argument about which is a more desirable place to be. Given the myriad constraints on a colony, the only way to make an apples-to-apples comparison between two possible colonies is to invoke economic concepts.

The survival of the species very much depends on economics. We're in a race between the capabilities of our growing capital and the risks that could destroy us.

Much of what we do and have today would seem totally impractical to people from poorer eras. Likewise, solutions to problems that seem impractical to us (like geoengineering and space colonies) can become very practical given enough economic growth.
Morality has nothing to do with law.
A pretty harsh appraisal of a system that is already trusted with accounting for over a billion dollars worth of digital assets. Can you give some examples of other cryptographic systems of comparable complexity being used at scale for years without major incident? Message encryption, TLS, and Secure Shell are generally trusted as being secure, but all pale in comparison to the complexity of bitcoin in terms of what they attempt to achieve. Yes, bitcoin is vulnerable to a 51% network attack, but I believe there is a social engineering-type security built into the protocol. That is, early adopters are incentivized by easy block rewards and currency appreciation potential. But they also take the greater risk of 51% network attack. As bitcoin takes off, mining becomes more decentralized and less vulnerable to 51% attack. Just last week we saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5696596 (Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined)
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> I could have been more factually correct by stating that it's illegal to sell booze directly to minors, but that would've made the tone of my comment less rabidly libertarian.

Yes, it is a damn shame when reality gets in the way of your strawmen...

Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and South Carolina all allow minors to drink alcohol on private property without the consent of their parents.

In several states the only way you could get in trouble for giving whiskey to a 2-year old is if you gave it in sufficient quantities that child endangerment became clear. Letting your kid to take a small sip of whiskey under supervision to convince the kid that he wants nothing more to do with it is reasonable and legal in many areas.
I mentioned it on the DO IRC channel, apparently it's being looked into.
spending that the private sector would not take on...
The Internet would never...private telephone companies
(dial up) would never...SpaceX would not...only something
like a national government

Note your continual use of "only" and "never". You made this a black and white question. I'll freely admit that the government can build infrastructure; you should admit that history shows that independent individuals can as well. Then the question returns to the relative cost-efficiency of each provider, which was my original point. And that's an empirical question: could these services be rendered for less than $5.62 trillion in taxes per year?
Going handheld first and dropping older browsers? Good to know they're following the path that Foundation took.
Is there any widespread stigma surrounding the lower-ranks (academic/intellectual ability, etc), or is the system just widely acknowledged as simply some sort of salary structure?
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> I am angry that the law is so flawed,

I can imagine this could be quite a difficult problem to fix.

These big companies bending the law get away with it only because they a multi-nationals, which means they are governed by more than one set of tax laws.

Each country in which they operate has different tax rules and they use these differences to avoid and minimise their tax.

They are also help out by the fact that countries are notoriously bad at cooperation, so the problem always takes a longer to fix than it should.
But the goal isn't to just colonize any old planet. It's to colonize a place we can successfully terraform. Mars is the clear winner in that respect, and it's not close.

Mercury needs basically a planet's worth of water and atmosphere to be imported. Mars on the other hand could be (we hope) good to go. The only question for Mars is whether there are abundant amounts of nitrogen locked up in the soil. But even if not, the amount of stuff we'd need to import by bombarding the planet with asteroids would be orders of magnitude less than for Mercury.
I know it isn't really a big thing, but this is really going to cramp my style:

"Instead of .span and .offset, we're now using .col-span- and .col-offset-."

I can blaze through views using .row & .span in HAML, not so much now. I envision tons of personal errors in the short term as I transition projects to BS3.

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Issue #2, does anyone know why Glyphicons won out over Font Awesome? ( http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/ ) Isn't Glyphicons only free in .png? I'm kinda confused about how the licensing works here: http://glyphicons.com/

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Issue #3 [This is under the modal section...] This sounds like a bad idea, I personally don't have an ios3/4 device handy, but someone should be on that for something as big as bootstrap:

"Test on iOS5. Not sure if we need to go older, but I want to check here to see how well fixed is supported."
slid.es is originally called rvl.io, which is an online editor of reveal.js, and you guess correctly, it's from @hakimel.
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If I read this correctly from the "IT security incident report", they had a mainframe on the public internet, with FTP and other common daemons openly exposed. And thousands of user accounts, some more, some less privileged, with access to it.

Instead of debating how "cyberwarriors" can attack our public infrastructure and how we need to add new human rights violations to curb it, I think we need to institute exponential fines for companies that have failed in employing even very basic security principles.
Wouldn't a self sustaining underwater colony protect us from all but the worst asteroid impacts? If you go even 100m down surely you would be protected from pretty much everything but the earthquakes?
By your own standards, fruit also fails.
It was discovered with the original Tamagotchi that never disciplining it led to the pseudo-human incarnation. And a Tamagotchi's death was often a bit traumatic to small kids. I wonder how many nihilists it created?
Yes, I think that he is a good programmer who thinks and writes well about both the technical and business aspects of software development. And the et al are like him to varying degrees.

It is necessary for a great discussion site to be founded by an elite person or by elite people, because the core of the site needs to be made of people who both have quality thoughts and express them well. For whatever reason that isn't a commonly found trait, so those who possess it are elite.

That said, it is not necessary for founders of discussion sites to pursue exclusion, and as we have seen on Hacker News, a variety of quality new members are attracted here by the 'elites' and also become good participants. Many, in my opinion, surpass some of the 'et al' in member quality.

I do think some mediocre members come along with, but I see them developed into better members over time, and this gives the community practice assimilating and improving mediocrity. By contrast, TheList will have very little practice spreading its culture so it will be a brittle, barely fruitful community.

So, a community with elite core members can be open and fair to new members while making them into better members and even has the possibility to improve the community over time. A community with less than elite members that practices elitism and exclusion does not do as well even relative to its initial position.
Innovation and success is usually met with resistance. Resistance that's caused by the companies/individuals whose interest it's hurting. The one's I think lobbying against Tesla are the National Automobile Dealers Association (the middle men - link below).

Even though they're is 2 sides of this argument (ex. it benefits the end consumer by reducing costs :: it'll kill jobs at dealerships if manufactures follow suit), a company that refuses to innovate or change with their industry will fail...or in this case lobby politicians to block Tesla's success.

FYI: Nothing is stopping used car dealers from selling a "like new, 1 owner, low miles" Tesla in Texas ;)

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-23/dealer-group-lea...
It's physicists bias. Economics doesn't make very accurate or precise predictions. I mean, economic systems are complicated, it's not really possible to foresee all of the influences on a system. It's not an attack on economists, it's just how it is.

Physicists, however, expect 5 digits of precision.
Your argument makes perfect sense.

If all you need is storage and retrieval.

Take storing project management data as JSON files.

Suddenly the boss bursts in: he needs to know, right now, how many hours Jeremy has spent working on these three projects.

Given that your JSON hierarchy runs project->person and not person->project, you will now have to traverse your entire database to give an answer.

The deep magic of relational algebra or relational calculus is that they privilege no one view of the data over the other.

This is, incidentally, one of the causes of OO/relational mismatch. A class hierarchy locks in a particular view of the problem domain. Relational has many potential views of the problem domain.

The cost and inconvenience of traversing trees for ad hoc queries is one of the big reasons that RDBMSes swept away network and hierarchical databases.
Earth is better than Mars for a survivable outpost

...except that the context of the discussion is having a survivable outpost for humanity in the event that Earth was no longer habitable. TFA makes the case that, of the options we have left, Mercury may actually be among the best.
When Google first came out with "don't be evil", this was exactly the kind of thing I thought they wanted to avoid, especially since the corporate bogeyman of the day was Microsoft and they were doing exactly this (Apple too). Turns out I don't really have any idea what Google thinks don't be evil means. It looks like they operate like any other corporation, where the only people they truly care about in a bottom-line sense are shareholders. May as well be up front about that. From what I've seen, a better motto is probably:

Don't be evil unless it makes money than being good,
but never admit to evil or talk about it in any way.
The dealers can grasp for whatever reasons they want, but I have no sympathy whatsoever. They're rent-seekers, pure and simple, with no value add at all. Half the time they don't even have stock!

> "Buying an iPad is not buying a car," says David Hyatt of the national association

Well, it should be.
Wow. You must get alot done. What are you building? How old are you?
Well, there's a difference in that Fox News was simply telling your 70 y/o grandmother that her preexisting views were shared by many others, and therefore acceptable to express in public.

On the other hand, live action Disney shows have a much greater effect, because they can permanently affect the mental and social development of young children.
Wow that is a terrible change, I hope they back that out.
It has lactose which is metabolized slightly differently. And is not a lot. 4 grams per 100ml is 10 grams per glass.
> But at least nobody cares about MFC and ATL anyway

About a decade ago I did a lot of MFC/C++.

Form what I see here in Australia one of the reason nobody cares about MFC and ATL is for the last 5 years C++ has been pretty much dead on the Windows platform.

Over here in Oz C# and .Net are the kings of the Windows platform.
This is simply amazing. Stories like this are humbling, inspiring and provide a renewed appreciation for persistence.

Also, with respect to being unknown, the one thing that does pop up upon doing a search is his rating on ratemyprofessor: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=56169.
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Thanks for this interesting counter argument (and for the upvote, although the effect was quite short - I guess there are more emotional than rational voters).

It is quite valid - if we have a strong suspicion on something, it could be helpful to give a shot.

I'm just concerned we don't know how strong our suspicion is, which turns that into a bet (more on that later)

The real problem IMHO is that this bet will certainly prevent or stall proper studies for a long time afterwards.

Take for example LSD - there are many results suggesting it might be effective on depression. Yet it was banned, which means once we have the technology to conduct a real large scale study, we may not have enough data points as we would have if it had not been banned (thanks to recreational users)

I mean, it is not ethical to willfully expose human to known dangerous drugs, yet if they take it wilfully by themselves or by mistake, it's a great source of data: for example, pharmacovigilence collects accidental use of drugs by pregnant mothers to guesstimate the toxicity on the fetus or the LD50 on humans)

This is just an example, but you can see how it might scale, basically we are taking bets, and it hampers research.

Also, it is quite philosophical. Personally, I'm against coffee due to its addictive potential and it's social image, yet it would be wrong for me to say there are no positive outcomes linked to it, or that on average it might have positive health benefit. I just don't know. There are many contradictions and I remember reading an article on how there seems to be time trends in negative or positive studies result, with an oscillation. (which would suggest that our research results are biaised by our perception)

An outright ban on caffeine, like on LSD, even if it might be a) coherent with my refusal, and b) more comfortable to me since I know I wouldn't be accidentally exposed to coffee (ex: in a soda), would certainly hamper further research, which would be detrimental if there was after all a positive health benefit on average - ie it would deprive me of future data which could help me change my mind.

IMHO, with bad data, taking bet with one's health is acceptable (if at no cost for the health system). Taking bets with the other people health - aka banning or mandating, is wrong.

EDIT: I just noticed your answer. Sorry if I improperly stated my intend. The goal was not to enter into a philosophical debate, but to have counter arguments. I am interested in either proving or disproving my thoughts - both are fine. Therefore, to avoid sparking a debate, I will not reply to your comment. Your answer however was very helpful and helped me clarify my thoughts. I agree with your points. Thanks a lot, thanks also for telling me your position and your data on coffee. For my position on coffee, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632696 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5632995 - I'd rather not say more, or a coffee fanboy may start a debate.
I have this problem too - I definitely just need to get started writing code to break the trance. I force myself to start solving easy problems which naturally gets me into the flow.
All they need is to be able to sell in one state. Ideally more of course, but for a person spending $70K or more on a car, and especially a car with the cachet of Tesla right now, ordering the car online in another state and either going to pick it up or having it shipped won't be a huge obstacle.

On the NADA argument, I think they have a legitimate concern about wanting protection for dealer franchisees from competition by the manufacturers. But Tesla doesn't have dealer franchisees. So the concern really doesn't apply.
Or perhaps a kickstarter or indiegogo, that is driven by those with a problem, rather than those with a solution? Someone could post a "project wanted" and others could join in, until a critical mass is achieved and someone with the right skills sees it as a validated product and choose to build it and is okayed by enough backers. At that point, the funding from those that said "okay" kicks in and away the project goes.
One of the things I've learned from meeting smart adults with kids is how legitimate -- and prevalent -- are "no stupid bullshit" rules governing what kids may watch. I've met more than one couple now that forbids Hannah Montana, Bratz, and other associated nonsense, and their kids are probably better functioning for it.

If instead of idiot TV they're messing around with Minecraft -- a screen-bound Lego set with as close to infinite pieces as makes no difference -- so much the better.
Interesting, thank you very much for your detailed answer.

I think I'll aim a maintenance coder job in a company using low level languages (C would be good) and see what opportunities I can get from there.

I enjoy finding and fixing bugs, and as you said, even if it's not always necessary, reverse engineering is often a good ally for fighting bugs.
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I noticed a few years ago that "joins suck" is usually a thin abstraction layer over "joins in MySQL < 5.6 suck"
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Two related thoughts that always occur to me in these discussions:

* Many (I wouldn't say most but at least a sizeable minority) American programmers and IT workers display reservations regarding the policy of issuing visas such as H1Bs for a large number of foreign workers, because it's perceived as unnecessary or perceived as catering purely to the interests of megacorps. I wonder, do those software developers elsewhere) have a problem with buying products manufactured in China or other countries with low wages? Buying stuff made in China, including from American companies that outsourcing to China, effectively lowers American blue collar wages below the mandated minimum.

* It seems a lot of people on HN are favourable to policies allowing working from home. Most companies still don't have such policies, but I suspect that if telecommuting ever becomes commonplace (e.g. due to software development process or technological changes), it will depress salaries far more than the measly 60~80k H1Bs per year have ever done. For every H1B holder there are certainly many others who are skillful enough programmers and speak English, but cannot work in the US due to the limited number of visas, or don't have a degree, or don't want to take the risk of working under the constraints of H1B, or simply don't want to move to the US for any old reason.
A conjecture is something that a mathematician thinks is probably true, but has not been able to prove nor disprove. There are some widely-known conjectures, but most are just something a mathematician ran into while thinking about some other problem and then ran into a dead end while trying to prove/disprove it.

Often, a conjecture will be invented and then proved or disproved a short time later (I remember my wife disproving one her thesis adviser had proposed in class earlier that day), but occasionally one will remain unproven either way for a long time. With many of the "big" conjectures, this gives people confidence they're true -- they've been tested for millions, billions, or even trillions of cases over the course of decades or centuries, but nobody has found a counterexample. But they also haven't come up with an airtight proof; maybe they'd fail on the ten trillionth try, or maybe they'd hold true forever. That uncertainty is part of what makes them interesting.
EXACTLY.

Far too many people are trying to cling to the old method of purchasing a car as if it is something that was efficient, cost effective and transparent.

Car dealers can go rust in hell.

What do I want - I want to customize my car online and buy it for a known price and have it exactly as I expected to cost.

I also want to never put another penny toward gasoline purchases. Period.