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Look, "text/less" is not something browsers understand. This question is also asking about the adoption of standards — this has absolutely nothing to do about stylesheets. Three aspects of the codebase are involved here: HTML (the lingua franca of the Web), CSS, and LESS.

Look at what the question contains: "presentational CSS classes in the markup". That's Separation of Concerns, not "stylesheets."

You're begging the question. And it's one question that can easily be generalized as a format-question: look at the operative words "use" and "utilize". Look at where they appear in the sentence.
The two weeks is very American no one in a professional job in the Uk and Europe doesn't get a monthly salary.
Probably too late for the very hard mid-December deadline for those losing their insurance, maybe too late for getting enough young healthy people enrolled before adverse selection forces insane 2015 premium filings from insurance companies, which are due by the end of March.

They also have only 4 well functioning states' systems to chose from as I understand it.

The centralized subsidy calculation/verification/etc. process, which the Federal system does for all the exchanges is another issue, although I've only heard that some time ago is was known to produce incorrect results under testing.

Also would require the Federal government to admit a much bigger screwup than they've been willing to so far, in a process entirely driven by politics (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogge...) until the last week of last month when CMS was fired and the fix-it czar was appointed.

If you've been in this game long enough you've seen projects and companies destroyed by a failure to take decisive action when it could have made a difference (or read, for example, Churchill's The Gathering Storm, or any shorter version of how WWII could have been so easily averted by preventing German rearmament). The odds are pretty high this is going to be another example of that.
> Who wants to be cool here?

the guy who says something is open when it is not and rips off copyrighted assets.

hmm? openmario...yeah right.

> a game released in 1985

yeah like it changes anything.
Neato, reminded me of the RSA dolphin (http://e-privacy.winstonsmith.info/2007/2005/2002/munitions/...)
what are the benefits to doing this compared with using a vm?
> Another incident was a truck mirror that grazed my helmet.

Of course, if you weren't wearing the helmet, the truck mirror may or may not have touched you at all.
More armor near the front of the pack, and a redesign of the front of the pack to deflect debris to the sides, so the pack doesn't take the brunt of the force.
they don't. foiling curtain twitchers is as much part of british culture as tea.
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Nothing. Conventional cars are designed not to catch fire when they run over road debris, especially not cars built within the last two decades. At worst, debris may cause a flat if it punctures one of the tires.
Here's the court decision: http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Korte-G...
That's a surprisingly fitting analogy. Also related, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
Fortunately some research indicates that stoned driving is less cause for concern than drunk driving.

One study[1] has found that "THC's effects after doses up to 300 mcg / kg never exceed alcohol's at BAC's of 0.08 g %" and that "alcohol impaired performance relative to placebo but subjects did not perceive it", whereas "THC did not impair driving performance yet the subjects thought it had."

Another study[2] finds that "marijuana smokers tend to compensate effectively for their impairment by utilizing a variety of behavioral strategies such as driving more slowly, passing less, and leaving more space between themselves and cars in front of them", although it notes that the combination of marijuana and alcohol can impair even at doses that would be harmless for either drug alone.

[1] http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/t95/paper/s1p2.html

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722956/
Given that I routinely tell my minions to expense the books that they need, to look up the answer in one of the books I have on my shelf or the group's shelf, and that we have in the past (and may in the future, I dunno) purchased corporate subscriptions to Safari Bookshelf and similar programs, I think the answer is pretty obvious.
> it's debatable whether or not profiting from a thirty-year-old game is adding social value

the law says it is not,case closed.
They didn't say one way or the other whether the language was pure FP, but I don't think any of the examples featured mutuality
SF has problems with people running lights and stop signs because of the hills. I think its dis-ingenuous to deny this. It may be different in soma/mission, where the topography is completely different. But in the financial district (lots of 1 ways, no left turns, hills, tourists, etc) and around market street...the whole industry of bike messengers (ie, 30 years of history) is predicated on them not following traffic rules. Actually, that might be a little strong. But you get my point. They make money because they are faster...and the way to be faster than traffic is not not go with the flow.
I'd argue HN is no longer a healthy community. At least, not as healthy as it used to be. Silly stunts like throwaway accounts and being overly concerned with reputation are one reason why.

For what it's worth I have my doubts about the article as well. If the driver didn't have enough time to avoid the object but the truck in front of him did, then it's probably because he was tailgating.

Regardless, please stand behind your words with a real account. It's the right thing to do. It will also help maintain the integrity of the community here. Which sounds like something you're concerned about.
Any company that can advertise a quiet working environment would have a huge boost with me and other developers who care about that sort of thing. I'm not looking for a private office, but open plan offices with dozens or hundreds of programmers lined up seem incredibly depressing to me.
Well, good for him. I'd like to see him stand in a pool of dirty water in contact with a 400V DC power system trying to remove someone who might be hurt from the car. If you've ever seen what things look like around a serious car crash you know what I am talking about.

Here, pick one and let's "use large amounts of water" as the emergency response manual recommends.

http://www.google.com/search?q=serious+car+crash&safe=off&cl...
Speaking for northern NM: I was in Albuquerque recently and can't say enough of the hiking nearby. The city actually backs into the Sandia Mountains, which are full of good trails.

If you're into the history, brief drives north or east put you into easily-reachable ghost town territory.
I said fun and innovative.

Believe me, I wanted to love Nintendo after the Gamecube.
NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, GBA, DS... I loved them all. But after that, somewhere along the way, it seems Nintendo lost its unique flavor and started to look like a pale copy of what it once was.

I'm not trying to defend the guy who coded a Mario Bros. clone (in fact, I couldn't care less...).
I'm rather pointing out how saddened I am by the fact that the only instances where I hear about Nintendo now are for silly disputes like these.
From the very beginning we have debated whether or not to make the initial stick optional. We wanted at least a semester of code to review before we made a decision. I personally lean toward making it optional and just have to persuade the others (-:. With that, you would be able to write

data Color: Red | Black | Green;

We did also initially discuss using = instead of : in places where we were defining things (functions, data). That's still not completely out of the question. That would get you to

data Color = Red | Green | Black;

We need a closing delimiter to avoid creating huge ambiguities in the grammar.
Then slow down and wait until it's safe to pass. What could you possibly be doing that is more important than endangering someone's life? Do you understand that the cyclist has a legal right to be there, and that the reason for that legal right is safety?
You understood the point as to the nature of my question.

It's a fishing question.
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If you are stressed about it, there really are Walmarts pretty much everywhere. There's also lots and lots of campgrounds that are something like $15 a night (you can save that much fueling a smaller vehicle...).
Cycling on highways I'm pretty sure is illegal everywhere, thankfully.

I'm also an advocate of taking up a full lane, but the laws in many places (like New York) actually require you to ride to the right/shoulder where feasible. Unfortunately that's not really clearly defined, so even though you have a legal right to a full lane, cops will still give you a ticket.

Having narrowly avoided being doored a few times, I won't ride anywhere within a foot's range of a completely open car door.
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> I wonder if it could be made a crime?

Unjustifiably trashing people's names is already a recognized offense, it is called "slander" or "libel", depending on whether it is spoken or written.

There are two defenses to this, one that the comments were 'fair comment", i.e. not malicious falsehoods, and the other is "freedom of speech". These defenses are variously successful in different jurisdictions.

In the UK, for example, it is very hard to defend yourself from an accusation of libel, since you have to prove that what you said was factually correct, which is of course easy if that is the case, and you have proof to hand. However if a good lawyer reduces your "facts" to mere hearsay, and then you are in trouble.

In the US "freedom of speech" usually trumps everything else, and you rarely get into trouble for lying about another person.
I worked at a place that came around and asked the developers what they wanted on the monthly book order.
Just an anecdote, I've known one guy who had a chunk of old exhaust pipe come up through the floor of his vehicle, almost injuring him. It was a pickup truck with high clearance.
I'm pretty sure if the cops knew someone was texting when he hit a cyclist he would get charged with something serious. But I'm not sure how you'd go about proving that's the case in the absence of witnesses. It's not unreasonable to take "I didn't see the cyclist" at face value if you don't have any evidence to the contrary - that's just a presumption of innocence.
> I can't remember the last time a bicycle did it (and in the few cases I saw it...
This. I saw a bus mirror actually catch a guy's helmet and pick him up off his bike by his head, hauling him down the street.

Had he not been wearing a helmet, that never would have happened.
This applies to virtually any item on that list. The questions are good, but the lack of ambition bothers me.

But maybe that's just me, I would always prefer to work at the place that isn't 100% perfect but will give me the opportunity to change things. Much more of challenge in that than just being a replacement cog in an already perfectly tuned machine.
it's worth considering what the alternative would be---what happens in similar situations in combustion engines?

What happens then? There are several innuendos throughout this thread that allude to some sort of catastrophic scenario if it were a normal vehicle, however this seems unsupported.

Yes, normal combustion engines catch on fire, but they don't explode in a fireball when they hit debris on the highway (there is absolutely nothing rare about hitting debris on the highway).

Further there are millions of combustion engine vehicles on the roadway -- there are currently some 250 million traditional vehicles in the United States. Last I read Tesla is delivering something in the range of 30,000 vehicles per year.
I don't necessarily think of Haskell's type system as sufficiently expressive, it's just the most expressive type system that I'm familiar with, and it's also the type system in which I've seen cool examples implemented, such as the "catch SQL injections at compile time" example. I think you make some excellent points, and perspectives like this are exactly what I was looking for when I originally asked the question.

So, I accepted an answer that says "yes", but "yes" won by default because every answer was either "yes", "no because HN is not even good enough to be a workaround", or irrelevant.
Why do you assume that doesn't happen?
I've programmed in and taught Lisp syntax for 24 years, much of it exclusively in that syntax. I've also extensively researched errors in parenthetical languages.

The simplicity of parens is widely regarded as a strength, but I believe it is also a weakness. There is too much regularity in the syntax, resulting in numerous errors. Programmers, especially beginning programmers, need more "guideposts" in their programs. Additionally, parsers also benefit from this when producing errors.
Exactly. Whoever thinks admissions people, recruiters, or anyone else can fully put aside their bias to make a decision is scarily ill-informed. Most of it happens subconsciously. Thus the push for diversity among decision-makers in business, government, etc.
"Unlimited vacation time" isn't always a red flag. I work for a company with unlimited vacation time (Braintree) and I've always felt comfortable taking vacations. In fact, in June I went to Europe for over 3 weeks, and I still feel comfortable taking time off for the holidays as well.

A "real" unlimited vacation policy is a strong positive signal about the company. It shows that (a) people are trusted to manage their own time and not to abuse the system and (b) the people who work there are good enough and driven enough to deserve that trust.
I would imagine that it's related to how getting run over by a bicycle tends to be somewhat less fatal that getting run over by a car.
Its shocking to me that so many languages designed after Scheme get variable scoping wrong.
What for? A tiny bump in crime fighting efficacy? I assure you, there are many other more cost effective ways to do that.
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I've programmed in and taught Lisp syntax for 24 years, much of it exclusively in that syntax. I've also extensively researched errors in parenthetical languages.

The simplicity of parens is widely regarded as a strength, but I believe it is also a weakness. There is too much regularity in the syntax, resulting in numerous errors. Programmers, especially beginning programmers, need more "guideposts" in their programs. Additionally, parsers also benefit from this when producing errors.

The developers of Pyret are drenched in Lisp syntax; we know it profoundly well. Pyret is a conscious attempt to fix what we regard as flaws with that syntax.
Given how many cops and taxis park in bike lanes and how many cars use bike lanes as turning lanes, yes, emphatically this.
What a trite article. To claim that the British are complacent about state surveillance because we all perceive ourselves as "royal subjects" smacks of fire-starting by a Guardian columnist desperately trying to draw attention to his newspaper's position to gather more readers.

There are a number of factors why this is less of an issue in the UK than it is here in North America, including:

1. Brits fundamentally trust their government more - not politics, but the concept that a state government exists first and foremost for the good of the people is more prevalent in the UK.

2. The influence of special interest groups and corporate electioneering is much more muted in the UK.

3. As someone else mentioned, CCTV cameras in themselves are not bad - most are privately operated and NOT linked to a central government data store.

4. As someone mentions in the article comments, the UK has been a target of terrorism for much longer than the US.

5. Increased education levels in the British armed forces, garner more confidence in the military to do the morally correct thing given a tough decision.

6. Britain is institutionally far more liberal than the US with less interference in policy from religious extremists and a history of judges making activist decisions in order to preserve civil liberties where legislation threatens to undermine established convention tantamount to constitution (given the choice I'd rather have a country that is self-restraining and no constitution than a constitution that restrains, but a government that looks for ways to usurp it).

This is not to say that there is not a worry about civil liberties in the UK - you only have to look at the furore about the proposed introduction ID cards a couple of years back to see that the Brits care a lot about civil liberties, they just see the threats in different terms.
I would warmly recommend Warsaw, Krakow or Wroclaw
Riga, Latvia. Cheap. Very good internet connectivity. Our simple 25m² office: 80€ including heating, electricity and high speed internet. Little bureaucracy. Safe. Contrary to what people seem to think, low corruption. Low taxes, especially for startups. Euro starting from 2014.

Plus I like the funny language and (some of) the people. Do take a trip to some sunny destination in the middle of the winter though, because it can get really dark during winter...
>> "Is it ethical for your employer to expect you to obtain the knowledge to solve a work-specific problem"

To play devils advocate:

If you have applied to do the job shouldn't you already have the knowledge? If you can't do a job you have got it dishonestly or their was a failing in the hiring process.

If the job has changed to incorporate something new (e.g. a new technology) that it did not when you were hired then learning during working hours should be acceptable.
I mentioned this in another thread about this incident. I was driving a mid 80's Volvo 850 in the early 2000's, and while turning around, I managed to run over a wheel stop and impale my car's oil pan on a piece of rebar sticking out from the top of the wheel stop. From what I remember, the oil pan on that particular year of Volvo station wagon was made out of aluminum of about the same thickness as the battery casing.

If an aluminum wall vessel like that is going to encounter a pointy piece of steel with all of the car's momentum behind it, the steel is going through! No getting around it. No designing around it. It's just physics.

There was no fire, but this resulted in all of the oil leaving my car's engine. All of the oil. No fire, but it created a situation where I could have wrecked the car and needed to pull over and stop the engine immediately, which I did only because I spotted the trail of oil in the rear view mirror. I never got a warning. In contrast, the Tesla told the driver something was up. IMO, the Tesla system was in better control of its incident and provided clearer and better information.
In picture three, that chick in the green shirt is pretty hot.
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See my other response. Great, until you have a crash that looks like these [0] and you have a bunch of people trying to help victims while walking around in a wet 400 Volt DC environment.

Now add more electric cars into the mix for a fun multi-electric car accident. Would YOU walk into that on Elon's recommendation? I'll tell you, I've been around high DC voltages, from a few hundred volts to tens of thousands. Water while handling components? No fucking way.

Don't get me wrong. I love electric cars and would have been in line to buy a Tesla SUV had they not pulled that bone-headed design stunt with the falcon wings. At the same time I am a realist in that I understand that there's much to be learned about having thousands of cars with fully charged multi-hundred-volt power systems sharing the road at the same time. The emergency manual says that the pack can easily re-ignite and that it should be under observation for at least 24 hours. That's one of the issues with electrics. You can secure a gasoline powered car by simply draining all of the gasoline and dealing with it chemically. Imagine an electric car catching fire again as it is being towed away on top of a flatbed truck. We are going to have to develop new approaches to all of this. Tesla, I would think, will be at the forefront.

So, not diminishing them, just stating reality.

[0] http://www.google.com/search?q=serious+car+crash&safe=off&cl...
> It's just completely surreal driving a bicycle in car traffic.

As true as that is, I almost wouldn't have it any other way. Biking in city traffic is exciting and almost like meditation to me. It's way less dangerous than biking in the country where I live now and biking here is pretty damned boring anyway.

I'm getting fat!
Is this the sort of thing that the guy ran over?

http://image.made-in-china.com/43f34j00uKJEycPnlgbk/Triple-B...
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Realtime track: http://www.foxnews.com/science/interactive/2013/11/08/track-...
It's like your eyes refused to show your brain the words that you didn't want to read.

"Subsequent studies, however, provided mixed results: some confirmed findings of brain lesions in animals or symptoms in humans, but other studies were unable to replicate the results. Double-blind studies often showed little correlation between MSG and adverse symptoms. Parties on both sides of the debate slung accusations at the other, with the anti-MSG researchers claiming that studies were being funded by MSG producers, and pro-MSG researchers accusing the other side of fear-mongering.

From the FDA to the United Nations to various governments (Australia, Britain and Japan) the public bodies that have investigated MSG have deemed it a safe food additive. The FDA states on their website:

FDA considers the addition of MSG to foods to be “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS). Although many people identify themselves as sensitive to MSG, in studies with such individuals given MSG or a placebo, scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions.

Scientific interest in its deleterious effects seems to be waning: one of the last studies to gain public attention was published in 2011. The authors of that study claimed to have found a link between MSG and obesity, though those results have been questioned. While the general scientific consensus seems to be that only in large doses and on an empty stomach can MSG temporarily affect a small subset of the population, MSG’s reputation is still maligned in the public eye."

That last sentence is important.
Regarding #2 what if a person wants to be both. What should one ask then?
> The missing full-stop is no different to a missing semi-colon

Yeah, it's an annoyance. The difference is that the feedback loop on operations codebases is longer, so they're more annoying.
They are, but they have heat vents that spew off into the front, to protect the cabin itself. That is why the front of the car caught fire.

The battery itself is also segmented such that thermal runaway doesn't cause a cascade to the whole battery (which is why the driver here had ample time to continue driving and pull over).
The Tesla didn't explode in a fireball, it vented the heat to the front, away from the battery pack and the cabin, and then the front caught fire.
> Teenagers, not surprisingly, are hip to corporate exploitation.

That's why they use Pintrest instead!
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"I'm practically John Smith" means "I have a common name". He wasn't trying to hide his identity.
> The European Space Agency says it cannot predict exactly where, or when, but that it is highly unlikely to cause any casualties.

So they cannot exclude that it crashes into a major city.