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What? I'm not ignoring what he said. I am responding specifically to it. You are telling people to ignore the objectionable sections of his comment to talk about the bit you want to. Sorry, but I'm not having a conversation about activism right now - I'm talking about how inappropriate this guys comment was. Stop calling it a 'defense mechanism' for people to criticise someone for objectionable behaviour. If my manager stands up on the conference table peeing while presenting the annual sales figures, it is not a 'defense mechanism' for me to respond by objecting to his pee instead of talking about the sales figures.

I am curious, if my theory was wrong, why you tend to believe that people are joking about being bigoted when it is so likely that they are not.
"And there's also a nail file, on the other side of the screwdriver, but what is this obsession with nail files on multi-tools? Who are these people filing their nails all the damn time? I've never filed my nails once in my entire life! Can anyone mansplain this to me?"

Jagged, unfiled nails are viewed by women (accurately) as a major sign of sexual inexperience/ineptitude...
Because you can be one without the other, and people frequently assume that because you're one, it means that you're the other--and predict your actions based on that (for example, by buying you stupid geek toys when you are merely a nerd.)
I was comparing to natural gas, which is what most people prefer to cook on.

But even comparing coal, and being a few hundred times worse, 1% of the energy usage is nothing to celebrate.
You ignore that "don't be evil" can be a competitive advantage. Certainly, it was premised to be in many of the texts that form the foundation of laissez-faire capitalism (Adam Smith, who coined the invisible hand, most notably).

Focusing on the bottom line to the exclusion of all else also tends to encourage static short term thinking that leaves businesses unprepared for a changing market. A good long term investment is more than just a currently decent dividend.
Read the first sentence of the article.
I wonder how this compares in total efficiency to traditional truck-based delivery. I could see it going either way -- trucks can presumably move more goods further per unit energy, but you can't take full advantage of that unless your destinations are fairly close together. Otherwise hauling everything with you for the whole trip becomes rather more of a liability.
Official downloads from official websites probably should have a filter. I don't see those names as useful. They are a dark pattern, forcing you to click on the package because the name gives you no hint as to their function. If a cop plants evidence why discuss his choice of cocaine over heroin?

Peer pressure = bullying.

I think the best strategy for raising the bar of acceptable behavior is the same as fighting vandalism. Create wide open spaces, keep them clean and orderly, make positive improvements and point people to those places. Spray painting a neon star around every broken window (these blog posts lately) does the opposite of help. From what i understand, RailsGirls has the right idea.
I wanna know: how/why does the observer change the behavior of quantum systems?
I used to respect Jeff a lot, partly because of his stackoverflow fame. However, these days I find him annoying, as he has just become part of the "noise" we all find unproductive. This post just strengthens my point, where he buys useless bling to show off and everyone applauds him for being a materialistic prat.

I'll probably get downvoted but I've just had enough of this 'utility belt' bull.
The fact that the 14th amendment prohibits reneging on the public debt does not mean that the President is empowered to ignore the other provisions of the Constitution in order to avert a Constitutional breach by Congress. Section V of the 14th amendment clearly gives Congress the power to enforce the other provisions of the amendment.

See: http://www.volokh.com/2013/10/03/14th-amendment-option-table.

As for the illegality of prioritizing payments, as far as I can tell, out of the mandatory expenditures only a small amount is Constitutionally required (specifically, judges' salaries). The rest is only statutorily mandatory. As you correctly perceive, it seems preferable to commit a statutory violation to avoid a Constitutional one.
More balanced coverage shall include epidemic heroin usage, mass alcoholism and total degeneration and population decline, criminalization and corruption, ruined and sold out industry and social system at the very least.

As for Detroit, come on, we have thousands cites like that, actually, all except Moscow, Spb and Novosib.)
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Thanks for the info. I don't feel bad anymore.
Bullshit. Congress has been exercising the power of the purse all along, passing budgets with deficits. Congress does not have the power to default on our obligations. The executive taking corrective action is worse than the congress doing so, but it's the congresses fault for failing to do their jobs not any sort of power grab.
Is 0.0001% really that useful for drawing any conclusions at all. I mean it's one in a million.
Site looks like shit. Just saying.
In order to observe something you have to bounce photons off of it, which changes its behavior...little over-simplified, but I believe that's the gist.
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Exactly. The guy hating women or not is not _irrelevant_, but it's not relevant in the way GP is trying to use it. That's why he tries to play the "ad hominem" card so he can throw up some moronic straw man about relevancy.
That is like saying your bank info is insecure because you shred it and throw it away.

It is one thing for someone to steal your hair and run a somewhat expensive genome sequencing on it. It is another to have it already sequenced and stored in an internet accessible database in a easy to read file format next to all of the other relevant data I would want. Of course this is stored next to thousands or millions of other already sequenced genomes that are also in the correct format and accessible without me even leaving this chair.

My email address or credit card info generally doesn't get stolen from my shredded trash. It gets stolen from a 3rd party database chock full of tons of other emails making it a goldmine for people who want email addresses/credit card numbers.
Something which occurred to me - a bit without precedent but possibly legal...

Congress has the power, with a 2/3 vote, to expel a member. How about, instead of playing chicken with the world economy and our jobs, they put their own jobs on the line: scrap the existing debt limit and replace it with a rule of procedure in both houses that says if the House and Senate can't prevent breach of the debt ceiling (moved as they feel is necessary) they're all expelled.

Obviously it'd need to be worded such that a veto couldn't force out congress, but that sounds doable.
It might be unconstitutional for Congress to default on our obligations, under the 14th amendment. At the same time, by the terms of the 14th amendment itself, Congress is the one entrusted with enforcing that requirement. The Constitution does not require that for every possible violation by one branch, some other branch be able to cure that violation.
Interesting comment but this is nothing new. Hacker News threads have been suffering from "Eternal September" for years — opinions were always better and more interesting in the old days. Putting down original reporting as an example of "seen it all before" is disingenuous at best — according to the unwritten rules, one never scores points with "this is nothing new"; it's practically expected.

Frankly I'm a bit tired of all the negative comments about the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments by simple reflex. I can scroll through comment threads or posts in the archives and describe an HN where "middlebrow dismissals" rule the roost — but we all know that those do not (or should not) represent Hacker News as a whole.

Edit: HN top comments have problems everyone knows that, I would just like to see more relevant thought coming out on top. Talk about the specific technology and techniques being used, a response to the article that demonstrates you actually read it, or compare these "new news" approaches to attempts that were made in the '00s.

;)
Following the thread here, I think what you are asking for is unreasonable given the current infrastructure or massively unpopular.

In the current environment what you are asking for is completely possible. Comcast will give you your speeds, but if they see you are seeding your debian torrents for too long, they will throttle your connection. Now they could advertise this, but we know how unpopular connection throttling is. However in a way, a connection throttle is your minimum service guarantee - your speed will never go below the throttle.

Now I don't know anything about laying internet pipe, but lets say we gave everyone minimum service guarantees, how much do you think that would cost, and how much would you be willing to pay for a given speed? It may be completely possible that Comcast is fine with your seeding as long as you limit your speed to percentage of that number.

This doesn't really refute your point, but given these two constraints its easy to see why ISPs may choose to go the "up to XMbps" route rather than the "minimum allowed route." Would it really change anything for you if you found out that your minimum service guarantee was 768kbps at your current price point?
probably nothing but you should migrate to bs3 ASAP
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This leads me to wonder why you run any portion of your mail server from your home if you have access to a small satellite server?
It's most likely all of that. They seem to be testing the waters on what written journalism means in the 21st century, and I think it's great.

The Rolling Stone recently did an article[1] that I otherwise would have ignored(due to my distaste for their material), but ended up reading because of the fantastic presentation. I don't know if this trend will stick, or how it will evolve, but it is certainly an interesting spin at modernizing these features.

[1]- http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-geeks-on-the-frontli...
It only a matter of time before you won't be able to have a conversation on a patio or deck. Enjoy your BBQs while they last.
Would love to see some screenshots or video of the dashboard itself.
I think "I brush my teeth so they don't rot" and "I need to shower because I don't want to smell" daily.
Like I said, I'm not worried about it. My DNA is already publicly available as part of the Personal Genome Project: https://www.personalgenomes.org/
Practice. Lots of it.

Also, take your favorite framework and look underneath the covers to see how others have been doing it.
Are you sure, because I just looked at Wikipedia and it says 16 not 13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_Americ...
Believe it or not, lawyers deal with conflicting laws all the time. There's a few general principles, the most important "rule of thumb" is :

Constitution trumps amendments (but only in certain high-up courts), which trumps normal law, which trumps contracts (written "generally" before oral ones), which trumps common sense ("what a good house father would do"). The sum total of all these things form "the law" as viewed from the perspective of a person (so yes, you are legally obligated to "generally be good" even when the law doesn't explicitly require it (e.g. help people involved in accidents))

Basically since the government debt obligations are contracts, while the debt ceiling is a law, Obama has no choice in the matter : any lawful payments (like medicare, ...) have to be fulfilled before any contract is paid. So barring a new law (the "agreement" the news talks about), on Okt 17, the US should default. Maybe Obama can delay it a few days, but certainly no more.

Please note that congress is doing exactly what it was designed to do. Congress, whether you agree with it or not, represents the will of the people of the united states and Obama is ignoring it, refusing to do so much as negotiate (or so claims congress, and I see no reason to doubt their claims). He knew years in advance that this was coming and gambled. Every executive who has fought congress on this has failed, again something Obama is perfectly aware of (it featured prominently in his education for one thing, hell, it's one of the main forces that brought us democracy in the first place).

In case someone doesn't know this : Obama's a lawyer. Lawyers tend to be lawyers first, people second. And he has a history of this sort of thing : expect him to follow the law over common sense.
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>Frankly I'm a bit tired of all the negative coverage of Russia by the NYT, The Economist and other respected establishments. I can drive through the Appalachians or towns in the South or Detroit and describe an "America Left Behind"- but we all know that those places do not represent the USA as a whole.

But... This is not about a cherry-picked stagnant area, this is about a main highway between Russia's two largest cities. It seems to be woefully neglected, while facilities used by Putin are done up to @#$%-the-expense standard. This is about the leadership of the country gone morally astray, and not caring about who sees it.

> Russia has problems everyone knows that, ...

Oh well, that's allright then. No point actually doing something.
Actually I was pointing out that lucisferre's use of the term 'ad hominem' to characterise your comment was completely fair and not 'putting words in your mouth' just because you never used the explicit phrase.
Laws in violation of the Constitution are not laws. If the Congress sets up a situation where the only legal option is default some component of that setup is not law. The fact that Congress is granted powers to make laws that enforce the article doesn't mean the article only has effect through actions of Congress.
File a bug with the project. That way the maintainer (or anyone, really) can fix it and make web-mode better for you.
Yes all those problems exist, but compare the situation today to the mid-90s and I would argue that people as a whole are better today than back then- we see very little of that kind of coverage.
I think .io appeals only to techie/developer market
> perhaps make some edits at the emacs wiki...

It's a wiki, go for it ;)
I think that in the moment, it is very beneficial to have large chunks of rural, not overpopulated lands. And I don't think that it is in any way a problem.

Current approach of developing natural resources is an ecologist nightmare! Just consider growing fields of mono-cultured plants. And in developed/overpopulated countries, well, the land is 'developed' on the country-wide scale. Ecological nightmare on a country-wide scale!

So. Until we learn how to build better-than-natural ecologies, I'd never consider any under-populated regions as a problem. I wouldn't even think of such region as poor, considering the richness of local ecosystem and natural resources.
You're missing the point- negative coverage on Russia is ALL you hear coming from the major Western media outlets, this is my complaint.
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Well personally, I wouldn't inherently trust any source by itself, on any topic, to make me not want to look up more information (no matter how they display it). I think for every type of publication (major, minor, etc) I always think about who finances them, where they're hosted, who their audience is, and what emotions they are trying to evoke in that audience by the language/graphics they use (how much they try shape the perceptions of the reader).
I think we will post it up in a few weeks. The whole thing was built so fast, the dash looks incredibly ugly - think bootstrap without any styling. It's border line command line colors :) But, it's working out so well that we haven't spent resources to pretty it up yet. I think in 1-2 months we will need to redesign it, based on all the pain-points we have learned, and that's when we will implement a stylish and efficient dash, ready to show.
We switched to Zenefits from Algentis and couldn't be happier. The only thing we lost was some HR work (employee handbook generation, etc.) but saved many many thousands of dollars.
Maybe I missed it, I'm not the sharpest, but I don't quite understand what about meteor in particular made it easier or better than Sinatra + some frontend JS framework.

I'm in no way saying it's not, I just, from the article, didn't gather why the interviewee really thought it was better? Like what in particular is so much more awesome?
I was under the impression that these are all mathematics and theoretical physics related.
Power lines, objects like cars and people and pets on the ground, pools - I wonder how these things will avoid doing damage. Frankly I would be pissed if they drop things on my head or my car.
You can do HIIT in many low-impact sports. Swimming comes to mind, but there are plenty of great high intensity sports which work with agin bodies.

Most coastal areas probably have outrigger paddling clubs or dragon boats or crew. I can't recommend outrigger canoe paddling enough.
Moral behavior is basically antithetical to passion; it is a concept we've invented via reason, it has no meaning outside rationality. If you're making a moral judgment, you're being reasonable, not passionate.

Also you've failed to give any evidence for your hunch that 'grinding' in business implicitly encourages amorality. As far as I can tell there's absolutely nothing necessitating this, you've just made it up.
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> As for Detroit, come on, we have thousands cites like that, actually, all except Moscow, Spb and Novosib.

Obviously you know nothing about Russia if you say that...I can list you hundreds of cities where life is much better than many US cities and city areas...I am myself from a city called Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Region) and we have a much better roads, much less garbage on the streets and a lot less crime compared to NY (especially Brooklyn and parts of Queens and NYC which to me looks like a sewer)
What are the most complex programs/projects that are written in D?

Has anyone tried to port any of real world open source projects such: Nginx, Apache, make, VLC, VNC, XBMC, eclipse, wireshark, etc into D and write up the +/- of those project in C/C++, etc v.s. "D"?
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My bank made me choose three icons out of a list of 50 that I have to re-pick every time I log on to internet banking. I have no fucking idea which icons I picked, or why, or what significance the bank imagines that an icon of a frog could possibly have for me. All I know is that I don't use that bank much any more.
For those who missed it, a recent HN headline: "Facebook using D in production starting today" [1]. I'm pretty sure it made the front page.

I'm planning to put type inference in a new programming language I'm creating [2], so I looked up the Wikipedia article on type inference [3]. So the parent headline is the third mention of D I've run across this week!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532322

[2] http://picomancer.com/blog/foil-compiler-tech-preview/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
I agree entirely and followed a similar path to what you did. I switched from linux to OS X in 2004. I'm looking to switch back, but the linux desktop experience hasn't changed much if at all in the intervening years. Elementary OS gives me hope, but it just mimics the OS X look and feel, but uglier.

What's keeping the linux community from creating a beautiful UI for linux? Is it because UI designers don't get involved in open source projects?
I don't even see any images!
I get your point about the security of the system as a whole: my point isn't that the algorithms are on the list, just that they're at the top of the list.

RC4 may have helped TLS to succeed, but it's 2013 - surely there's something that is robust enough to be used instead by now?

Of course the simple explanation could just be for performance reasons.
> At the same time, by the terms of the 14th amendment itself, Congress is the one entrusted with enforcing that requirement.

Yeah, but Article II charges the President with taking care that the laws be faithfully executed. To quote Lincoln (in a different context, certainly), "are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the Government itself go to pieces lest that one be violated?" Obama would be on solid legal ground in saying that he has to reconcile conflicting congressional mandates by ignoring the debt ceiling.

(On the other hand, I read today that any debt that was issued above the debt ceiling would be a lot more costly because buyers would insist on premium interest rates to compensate for the increased legal risk that the debt would be held invalid.)
As the non-tech person on the team, the greatest value I see is how fast it got us up and running. it was like a dream come true when jaigouk showed off how we can see live transactions appear in real time on our dashboard, making tracking activities a breeze, above all, it make proactively predicting when we should reach out to our users possible, which helped a lot in helping some of our users along in their transaction.
OMG you are so full of bullshit.

>in Russia, the white faces ARE the aboriginals

Also in Germany, France and Norway.

>the government cannot afford to spend its money everywhere and anywhere

Of course not, they have to focus spending on facilities exclusively used by the elite... right?

>there are lots of people who like it that way because they want to live in the forest, breathe fresh air, collect mushrooms and berries, etc.

And not have hot water, electricity or access to ambulances. 'Cos to have that, plus fresh air and berries is just wrong.
Regrettably, I have nothing valuable to add, but I wanted to call this out as absolutely beautiful. Specialize generic programs to a very specific execution context, using abstract interpretation to inform the specialization. I can think of at least two super-hot applications of such techniques...
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I'm just confused as to why we're using posting on HN as a measure of success.
You've never driven through Appalachia. Good roads, orderly towns and lovely scenery.
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From what I understand, there are two phenomena at play, often mixed together. The observer might interfere when it tries to measure (the observer effect, which is true to any system), but there's also an inherent uncertainty on the way waves are measured (the uncertainty principle).

The observer effect is well-understood, there's nothing magical about it. For example, a multimeter acts a (very small) resistor, affecting the circuit it's measuring. Sometimes the error you introduce can be ignored, but get unmanageable when you try to measure really small systems, where things are more easily disturbed.

The uncertainty principle, on the other hand, is something else. There's a video that I think explains the uncertainty principle well, with a practical example (it's explaining why there's a limit to how many pulses you can send down a fiber optic and still be able to measure on the other side): http://youtu.be/0OOmSyaoAt0?t=7m28s
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This is great publicity for the service, if nothing else.
> this is about a main highway between Russia's two largest cities

Go ahead and drive around in Brooklyn or NYC, the roads are much worse compared to Russian highway or Moscow streets, also it's not like in US where the most goods travel by highways, in Russia goods travel by trains, so there is not as much need in road highway compared to US.

Also I have no idea what does the gypsy wedding has to do with Russia? Gypsies have the same wedding rules everywhere they live..
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