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> This industry needs to be regulated.

Ask Tesla how that's going for them.
> For example, there's practically nothing we can do to make governments better.

Sure there is.

> No, voting doesn't count.

Sure, voting on its own is of limited utility. Marketing better ideas of what government should be doing is the big thing that can be done to make it better. If there's not better ideas, or they aren't widespread enough to have a electorally-significant constituency that prioritizes them, voting isn't going to be able to effect much positive change.
Which is exactly why it will never happen. Those over-represented tiny states will oppose it by every means, fair or foul, and there's simply no way that anyone else will find the change desirable enough to join the fight on California's side.
Zapier integration next would be logical.
California is a beautiful state and I never want to see it broken up. Joshua Trees, Lake Tahoe, the coast of Mendocino, in fact all of Highway 1, Alpine, Torrey Pines, Russia River, the rocky hills of North County San Diego, Red Woods and Big Sur, San Francisco, Balboa Park, White Sands, Death Valley, and on and on. The many missions. The many universities.

Between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, California touches more minds and hearts than any other place in the world.

This state is amazing, so diverse and rich in culture. This six state initiative is such an embarrassment. People that advocate something like this are so out of touch with reality. The New York Times brought this up when they were referring to the weird rich kids that live in the bay area. I'd support California becoming it's own sovereign state before I'd support breaking it up.
I keep README.txt files in the project folders with a line that reads --CHANGELOG-- above the stuff that was, above which in turn sits the stuff that yet wasn't. I use punctuation as labels (+/- #/= %/$), and more rulers like --INBOX-- if I have a lot of ideas.

I use many of those lists, a couple of which I revise daily or several times a day, those are my main INBOX.txt and FOCUS.txt
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In Switzerland, some cantons (their equivalent of a state) decided to split. Before they had 2 votes each in the Council of States; after the split, each half-canton got 1 vote each - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland#Half-can... .

It would be fair to split California into 2 and then each half would get 1 senator. Otherwise you might try to play the population card, but other states would need to approve (or could veto) the process.
I don't think anyone disagrees with you that there may be an outlying segment of the general human population that can "outwork" others in certain, specific circumstances.

However, I don't think this advantage is genetic, and is more likely a function of age and lifestyle, both of which will change over time. Not only that, these outliers are often below average in other important areas like fitness, communication with others, and personal integrity.
"NOTE: the Internet version of this episode includes un-bleeped curse words."

Are there really people who care?
IE in wine perhaps
a salesman is walking with a customer in a dark lot trying to find a particular model? don't they have updated inventory?
That's all this is, a thinly veiled attempt at keeping tax revenues in the Valley. And the plan is totally impractical given how the state manages its water supply; questions of water supply will keep the state united (unless the northern parts were to dry up in coming decades).
Well how many people using non-windows OS do you expect to go to Microsoft's website to check for what Windows version they are using? It not lack of attention to detail, it is a waste of time trying to implement a complex User Agent parsing for that 1 in a million who decides to do it for fun.
unless your talking about your wireless carrier, in this case, Verizon.
I've used "peer-led exit interviews" to great effect. Essentially get one of their co-workers to take them out for lunch to talk about want went wrong. Folks are much more comfortable talking to their colleagues. The person conducting the interview is generally happy to pass along the criticism (usually because they agree with it) without having to since they don't have to put their name to it.

I've gotten some real painful, but incredibly meaningful, feedback from these interviews.
"... Rather than procuring 48 planes per year for 10 years, why not 36 per year for 13 years? .."

Or how about forcing military aircraft producers to use smaller domestic partners to do subassembly, thereby "unbundling" the purchase? This would also create higher unit costs, but would also create an ecosystem of small manufacturers.

I agree there is a strategic problem at play here, but the answer is forcing more competition instead of paying more to huge conglomerates. Manufacturing is set to take off over the next decade or two, and it's not going to be BigCo manufacturing. If we wish to address this strategic problem, we need more emphasis on mom and pop manufacturing.
Ah, will certainly trust your assessment there. :)

In your opinion, what are some good starting points for interested Ruby readers ?
I'm not aware of this research but lets just say it's true. The purpose of the laws isn't about any concern for children's health (otherwise they would be outlawing fast food, or caffeine or sharp objects other "dangerous" things kids could get exposed to.) It's because of social taboos against porn and viewing it as obscene or immoral.

In any case it should be up to the parents and should not at all be necessary for the government to force people into it. ISPs are not selling internet access to 13 year olds in the first place, and if they were, under the current law they can easily opt-out.
I'm in NYC and was able to strike it off. I just explained to the company that I enjoy working on iOS apps as a side hobby, and wouldn't want that to be a problem. They removed the clause from the contract, it wasn't a big deal. My company isn't that big though (~30 devs).
Oh how I will miss Fireworks, I always feel Photoshop for interface design and mockups is very much a square peg in a round hole :-(
That's usually how it works for internal transfers. If the person is well known enough, then the team (or manager) may decide without as formal an interview process.
I'm not the parent poster and I don't know how representative of the current state of the art but here's a quadcopter going 12km (~7 miles) one way with an unspecified 'hd camera' payload [0]. They claim 88 minute hover endurance.

I don't know if ~tripling that performance is in the realm of non-breakthrough engineering improvements but it seems at least order-of-magnitude close.

[0] http://www.uasvision.com/2013/06/25/unmanned-microdrone-cros...
"Work from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep."

Depressing as fuck.
Small warehouses in big cities still cost a lot of money. Land is expensive in big cities, and even small warehouses are pretty large.

Warehouses -- even small ones -- also need to be able to take goods IN. They need truck-accessible streets, loading docks, and they need staff who store, and then pick/pack/ship your goods. Small warehouses that handle high-turnover goods need even more staff, since they need to constantly replenish themselves (since they're small, and can't just take a hundred thousand units in once a month, and since we're stipulating that the goods are high-turnover and leave the warehouse quickly).

It's expensive. Amazon has wonderful warehousing and distribution, which only goes to show that they aren't actually naïve about how expensive it is. Which goes to show that the drone delivery thing was a publicity stunt.

Too small a warehouse, and you don't deliver the customer satisfaction that is presumably the point of a drone delivery, because a trivial number of goods actually get delivered to customers. (Especially since we're talking very small goods in the first place).
I agree with most of the review, except the controller.

The battery life on the dual-shock 4 is really poorly designed. Playing games for more than a few hours at a time almost always requires plugging it in to keep using it.

Note: The Dual-shock 3 was also USB charged.
You need to seperate people that use gear from people that handl the money to buy it, and the politicians that pursue their own agends, for selfish reasons. The US military is surprisingly competent at a managerial level in many ways. I wouldn't knee jerk react to a statement like that unless you have actuall experience with the matter, tho. I know it's not the first thought that comes to mind, and its certainly not the view taught to kids or promulgated in the media. YMMv.
They were stuck on an Antarctic ice floe for 497 days, and you think it was the lack of carbs that reduced their stamina? What about the debilitating cold, the crushing expectation of a lonely death, or the general ice-induced boredom?
I've always referred to designing how things function as "user experience design." I agree that the terms aren't perfect. The skinning or rendering stage as you call it is still very important. Most of what we point to as good design (on the surface) is because it is well skinned.

I've written two books (http://nathanbarry.com/webapps and http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook) on end to end process, so now I'm working on teaching the practical skills to create the end result all new designers are looking for.

I think we agree about the process though. I always start on paper before moving to Photoshop and code.
> Those over-represented tiny red states will oppose it by every means

I'm not sure why they would oppose replacing one giant Democratic-majority state with 6 states that aren't mostly Democratic-majority -- it improves the Republican structural position in the Senate and Presidential elections.
Exactly. And can sometimes open up follow-ups with, "Can you tell me why not?"
I already debated this before... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6940199

I hope this doesn't pass because I know how the lines will be drawn. The rich, privileged will be grouped together and will take advantage of the poor.
I you don't want to miss anything use a feed reader that stays up 24 hours. Since I don't have a server and I a power off my computer when I am not using it, I use Feedly.
How printers and Photoshop detect and refuse to process images of currency
You can't sign a contract that sells you into slavery because of the 13th Amendment.

Why can you sign a contract that limits your freedom of speech in spite of the 1st Amendment?

Yes, I realize the law is complicated and there are many years of precedent distinguishing the two. But it's incorrect to argue that this isn't even in spirit related to the 1st Amendment.
In this case, it is totally normal. In return for a payment, you agree to keep quiet. I don't know of any other firm that gives severance without this. What is abnormal is that someone is being asked to sign it for 2 weeks of salary.
Thanks ! Really needed this !
From link: "median annual household income rose to $52,100 in June"

Previous poster explicitly stated "one salary."
It's not strange at all. First the military is a military, it's not a contractor. It's just not what they do.

Additionally privatization is usually pretty efficient. Among other things it also lets the factory owners do other things with the factory which can bring cost savings.

And finally one of the unwritten goals of the military is the economy.
PDF stands for "Portable Document Format". It was invented by Adobe; you can find more information about it at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html .

It's an excellent format for sharing documents, because, unlike, for example, HTML, it preserves formatting exactly and it can be self contained: you can embed all the fonts for a document within the PDF. It has some disadvantages compared with HTML: it doesn't reflow and is slower to search through, for example. But when you need or want a document's formatting to be preserved in detail, PDF and Postscript are the only open specifications you can turn to, aside from just using images.
IE for Unix?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
Well, there is probably a greater cultural gap between San Francisco and Los Angeles than exists between Fargo and Little Rock. And I do have a preference for smaller and more responsive polities.

But with my foil hat on, I realize that this is a play by non-Californians to manipulate national politics at the expense of the states. I'll only support it if they do California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, and New York at the same time.
I've always loved hearing about our heritage as an industry. This article reminded me of when I made a pilgrimage to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and saw a replica (working!) Babbage Engine amongst a bunch of ancient and obsoleted hardware. It's fascinating to see the progress we've made in only a few decades!
For the vast majority of professional designers Photoshop is critical to creating design elements. Not everyone creates a final, pixel-perfect mockup in Photoshop, but those who don't use Photoshop for smaller parts of the design.

It is very common to screenshot your rendered HTML/CSS, take that into Photoshop, design one portion of the interface, then take that back to code.
Well, because the 13th Amendment by its terms governs private conduct.

I agree, though, that there's a Shelly v. Kraemer type argument that could be made against the enforceability of contracts limiting freedom of speech in certain ways.
Do registrars not accept pre-paid cards?
> A lifetime in prison is not worse than death.

The fuck it isn't. Or, more civilly, that is definitely a statement on which reasonable people may disagree.

I'm not particularly depressed, but if I were actually sentenced to life in prison, I would check out in a hot second. There's no point. My opportunities to create joy in the world and to experience unalloyed happiness are done. The rest of my life would be nothing but marking the days and the years until death. It's a waste of good consciousness. I'm opposed to capital punishment because it's irreversible, but I do believe that death is more merciful than life in prison.
No, I'd say their track record is spot on.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/04/09/ea-voted-w...
Wrong thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7006679
Well, it depends on your needs, but really I have yet to see an app made with any of them which isn't an unpleasant user experience.
Ask HN: why should I care about my Klout score?
How does a high Klout score help me or anyone else? How are companies like Klout adding value to the society, if any?
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> You can't sign a contract that sells you into slavery because of the 13th Amendment.

Because the 13th Amendment doesn't prevent Congress from making a law to make people slaves, it prohibits slavery from existing.

In law, words make a difference.

> Why can you sign a contract that limits your freedom of speech in spite of the 1st Amendment?

Because restricting such a construct -- preventing you from trading speech or restraint of speech for some other good -- would violate the prohibition on government regulation of speech applied by the First Amendment.
The difference is, if my company said, "instead of vacations we've invested in Refresh-O-Pods; you will each spend a day in them and come out refreshed for work" I'd say fuck that.
Speak for yourself; I own my cable modem outright. But I do understand (and I don't care) that the ISP can essentially reprogram that device, since that's how the technology is intended to work. That device is just feeding into a router I control, anyway.
"The original officials who were bribed"

There is just no end to the things US does abroad. It is a shame. American people believe in freedom and honor while their officials will just do anything even for simple commercial interests.

Here is an example from Turkey. There is this cult called "Fethullah". They infiltrate to police and courts to advance their cause in the state. Their goal is to bring an Islamic state to Turkey. Ironically, the cult works with CIA on many levels to help each other.

In the last decade, Turkish navy started making their own ships and equipment, changing a hundred year of tradition of buying from US. The result? The cult put all of the generals, officials, and engineers who worked on the new ships and equipments behind bars.

Everybody knows that CIA is behind this since the cult have no reason to do this on their own. Nobody knows what they've got from CIA in exchange though.
Sell, Design, Build - It's not an opinion, it's a requirement
That all makes sense if they were only determining the OS version for internal purposes, in order to filter the content as you said (still, it's great to let users know about it, otherwise people may get confused as to why they see different content on different machines/browsers).

Since this is a public page, with the title "Which Windows operating system am I running?", I think the right thing to show when the user is not running Windows is, well, "You are not running Windows". That would clearly inform users, who may not be aware, of the fact that their OS is not Windows (and that, most likely, that website will have nothing to help them with using their current OS). Another alternative would be "Can't determine Windows version". Anyway, they way things are now, that page is definitely wrong.
If you are operating in California, push back. Non-enforceable doesn't mean they can threaten all they want.

Note that good companies clearly spell out the CA legal section which covers this. Bad ones try to hide it.
If they want to update the modem/baseband, why not just put "modem" or "baseband"? And why do they have to do it without notice?
There might be a temptation for tiny red states to support the move as a way to improve the Republican position, but...

(a) Such an advantage might be transitory. Who's to say those new states will remain red, especially when they're submitted to a new level of political targeting that they never were when the state outcome was dominated by urban blue-ness? Even those tiny-state folks can recognize a two edged sword for what it is.

(b) There are small blue states too.

(c) Both effects are likely to be outweighed by issues that have nothing to do with red vs. blue. The over-represented states want to stay that way, no matter which parties are involved.

Also, don't downvote just because you disagree.
Good point. Python's __init__ is closer to Common Lisp's 'initialize-instance :after' except for the fact that Common Lisp provides :initarg to allow make-instance to fully construct an object in most cases.
Threema, mobile messaging with end-to-end encryption.
The Future of Neural Networks & MLaaS: Dave Sullivan Interview (Ersatz Founder)
Peter Watts is a traveller who was searched by U.S. Customs in the United States, just prior to crossing out of the United States, and Canada had nothing to do with it. All travellers exiting the U.S. are subject to exit inspections if desired by Customs. Or indeed, which is the subject of this thread, subject to search even if they have no intent of crossing any border and have never done so in their lives, as long as they are within 100 miles of the border.
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Nonsense? Hardly. One thing people tend to struggle with when new technology comes around is that it has a different set of tradeoffs and advantages/disadvantages than the current dominant technology. But that doesn't make it inferior or impractical, just different.

Consider horses vs. automobiles, for example. Horses conveniently can be bred, so owning a horse can potentially give you more value than just having a means of transport or labor. Horses can also be trained for a variety of tasks, they can get better at their job over time. Horses are also excellent at traveling along uneven ground. They can travel along city streets or country roads and dirt paths or through forests and open fields or even through mountain passes. In comparison, cars, especially early cars like the model T, are inferior to horses in a great many ways. But it turns out that the few key advantages of automobiles are more than sufficient to make up for the down sides, which is why automobiles won out.

Similarly, if you imagine that drones must be a 100% drop in replacement for FedEx/UPS you'll rapidly come to the idea that the whole endeavor must be nonsense. But if instead drones only provide a complementary service then they can still be a feasible addition to delivery options. Even if drones only delivered high priced orders (say, more than $1k) to businesses with special drone landing spots it would still likely be a profitable and successful venture. Being able to have something delivered the same day in mere hours is a game changer in a lot of ways.

Imagine how much that would put Amazon even more into the existing business space of, say, home depot, as a simple example. If a home builder could order a replacement circular saw to be delivered to the work site in an hour without having to send someone out to a store that's a big deal. And there are countless examples of where the value of having some durable good delivered as soon as possible is immense, and would more than justify exorbitant drone delivery fees.
Yes having a family is something that affects everyone. But on average the burden of childcare is significantly biased towards the mother.

Men spend about 33% as much time on house work and about 42% as much time on childcare as women do.
The career path is different, but mindset is very similar. As far as mindset goes, I find I have a lot more in common with the artist or musician than with the doctor or lawyer.

And much like the artist or actor, but probably unlike the lawyer or doctor, I'd probably pursue my technical passions (at least as a hobby) even if there was very little money in it.
The Soviets and then Russians did a very good series of deals flogging their air defence systems to all sorts of countries. Syria for instance is a prime example - though get involved there was avoided, rightly or wrongly.

If Syria and North Korea have proved anything to the world it is the messier you make any potential intervention the safer you are from intervention, and thus can do what you like to your populace.
Useful, well-documented, TODOs right in the readme, and fast response for pull requests. I wish every open source project was like this.
No, that's not the main purpose. It's the stated ability, but the main purpose is to scare others into not even thinking of attacking, and the secondary purpose is to provide jobs.
Learning a little and pondering a little is far less dangerous than learning nothing. Learning how it's been interpreted over the years is better, of course. But a simple reading of the text would benefit many people and the public discourse. Once you have that, adding the interpretation that congress shouldn't make laws be extended to "the entire government shall not interfere with" isn't a big stretch. But whatever level of understanding one hopes to achieve, the place to start is with the text.

And it's not just this article. See almost any discussion forum where moderation has come up and you'll find invocations of the first amendment. See Sarah Palin saying her first amendment rights were violated because she was criticized in the media (and the assenting opinions by far too many). On and on. These people, who make a very specific claim, have not even bothered to check the basis of it. They wouldn't need to learn too much of the finer nuances to realize their claims were invalid.
Agreed. That is one useless designer. When I hired designers I would only hire people who could write front-end code as well as they designed.