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> lawful

I think you need to be careful how you ask that question. Lawful may not necessarily what is right, or what is in line with what freedoms citizens expect to carry.

I'm not American, but I think you should approach this issue first by asking if it's moral, then if it's lawful, and then if it works in practice as it is written in law.
I added an extra up vote just in case that's what he was attempting.

Also, I wanted to up vote the comment either way.
There are times when pedantry is called for, one of which is when people are insinuating there's anything remotely unusual about a pilot playing with some nearby airports on a home flight sim; whether you intended to contribute towards the excessive levels of FUD on here or not.

The Maldives are pretty darn scenic, the landing strip is a tiny island and a 777-rated pilot wouldn't have been flying there with MAS; some of his friends might have been. And even landing somewhere as run-of-the mill as Changi can be made less dull by doing it on the military runway in a storm - it's a lot easier on a sim when you don't have to explain your actions to ATC

And there are enough plane spotters amongst the aviation enthusiast community to suggest that the real aviation industry equivalent of reimplementing of "Hello World" has its fanbase :-)
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Yes, sometimes parents in a bad relationships can fix their relationship. Marriage counselling is a great idea for couples who's relationships are on the rocks.

Very often however the situation is well beyond repair. Sometimes the relationships were built on a foundation of abuse in the first place, so there isn't even anything positive to restore. In those situations, we should provide all the encouragement and assistance to single parents as we can muster.

> "Coming from someone who's lived it. 2 parents (in a bad relationship) > 1 parent"

Your experience, while valuable, should be taken for what it is: your experience.

(In the interest of disclosure, I feel that I should mention that my parents have never been separated. I was lucky.)
The advantage of having it in go get would be that no one has to rely on a single point of failure like gopkg.in, nor would they have to get new urls recognised there, and finally that it could become an accepted way to version dependencies instead of the versionless future golang lives in right now. They did add versioning to the lang after a while so hopefully this will be similar. It's not a huge deal anyway right now, it'll become more important as the pkg universe grows.
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Constant cringing state with that video...
> At some point, I felt kind of stupid standing in the hall talking for so long and asked if he wanted to come sit at the table in my room. He wisely declined.

WTF? worked at Sun where we had offices and never had any issues coming into women's office or with women coming into my office. Would close the door on many occasions, especially if were talking in general (read - critical about Sun) instead of specific work topic. Never heard other people, managers as well, being afraid of doing it. Some people of different sexes shared offices. Following the logic of the article it was Sodom and Gomorrah.

I mean, some hear man and woman laughing from behind closed door and think "they are at it again", and somebody, like article suggests, would think "they are doing _IT_"... Why would we allow the later people to rule our lives?
You've got it backwards. Compare:

"Because he's a nitwit, his arguments are wrong." = Ad Hominem

"Because his arguments are wrong, he's a nitwit." = Not Ad Hominem
Might be a bit like Google Play where it becomes a super-package on any Android OS, integrating apps with the API and while giving the apps functionality also feeds Google with data.
Thanks for your reply.

>Unity is not related to standards in any way

I know, I mentioned it. I believe a standard at least has some practical positive impact, unlike the integration of a particular closed platform.

>web content was always non-open

It's true that obfuscated JavaScript makes, in a way, a closed platform, but much less so, in my belief, than straight-up binary code (which Unity delivers and EME enables).

I get your overall point, but it just seems a slippery slope...
> That isn't a far comparison to make because the British government taking my stuff deprives me of that very stuff. The US government making a copy of my digital stuff doesn't deprive me of my digital stuff.

So, "Information wants to be secretly collected?" That has a certain symmetry to it.
agreed is a much needed / long overdue improvement to the web experience on iPhone / iPad mini
It appears my Ubuntu server only updates nginx mainline to 1.5.11. I've disabled spdy support in my listen directive for now as an easier work around.
Today every terrorist with access to a pocket Constitution

The above sentiment leans towards labeling any who dare possess a pocket constitution as potential terrorists, which is absurd.

Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?

Does the wholesale interception of electronic communications based upon the premise of someone might be a terrorist make us any safer?

The Ft. Hood shootings, the Boston bombings, and other evil acts, were not prevented by any of the un-American spying by the alphabet gangs, furthermore, when viewed with an objective eye, acts of terror have actually decreased in the last few decades. Some may argue the point that this reduction is a direct result of the omnipresent intrusions by the Five Eyes crew, and if so I'd like to hear some reasonable explanations as to why some rather major attacks have occurred in spite of the spying.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/terror...

Seriously, is the article supposed to be a joke? How can any part of a covenant between a government and its people be considered to be Top Secret?
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I can't help but think of the law of unintended consequences.

I imagine entrepreneurs reading this and wondering "can I postpone hiring our first woman so I can avoid this source of awkward situations and liability for as long as possible?"

I have no idea how to fix this...
whoosh

The author is satirizing the government's thinking, reductio ad absurdum style.
For those who don't know, Greg is one of the common faces of the Seattle VC scene. He is a staple at nearly every startup event -- Startup Weekend, Geekwire events, TechStars, VC panels, etc.

I don't have a dog in the fight, but I did spend some time reading the actual bill since these blog articles felt like more political campaigns than informative pieces. The last time this came up I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7303232

The Seattle city council passed a law that made so-called "ride sharing" services legal after intentionally withholding prosecution for over a year. The law isn't perfect, but it does feel like it strives to balance protecting existing investments with new services. The most salient changes about the bill:

1. Seattle defines uberX, Lyft, etc as Transportation Network Companies (TNC) and declares all drivers as "for-hire" drivers, which is a legal distinction that means Seattle can regulate them.

2. TNCs are taxed at $50k for first year. Second year is the greater of $50k or .35% of gross revenue.

3. No more than 150 drivers may be associated with each TNC at a time, and each driver can work only 12 hours per 24 hour period. Previously the law would have limited 300 drivers per TNC per quarter regardless of who was active, and this was "the cap." For comparison, there are 1100 taxicabs in the city.

4. Drivers can't double dip: They can't both drive for-hire cars and also do uberX on the side. They also can't work for both uberX and Lyft.

5. Rates may either be flat-rate between preset zones OR subject to RCW Chapter 19.94. RCW Chapter 19.94 defines appropriate measurement devices that may be used with commerce, which I think precludes most cell phones... uberX would need to install meters it seems and precludes surge pricing.

6. The insurance requirements are stricter than what uberX or Lyft provide today and are mostly in line with existing taxicabs.

7. There was a 30% increase in the cap on cabs at the same time.

8. TNCs have to report their activities to the city, which will be available to the public for inspection.
> by means of questioning his authority

Not authority; credibility. It's a nitpick, but the distinction is important when we're discussing government agents. Credibility is essentially rhetorical authority ("I am willing to take your word because I consider you an expert in the relevant domain"), rather than the kind of authority derived from official bestowment of power.
Yes, I can confirm this.

Clojure seems like a good fit for tiny projects that are little more than scripts, but the start up time makes them kind of annoying to manually test. Fortunately Clojure does have a REPL.
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From the source:
"It’s not appropriate for every web page, but it’s great for image galleries and web-sites that mimic mobile apps."

I think this sums it up quite nicely
rpm, dpkg, windows MSI file, .App folder on Mac. These will all work with any language that you want, plus, you get the added benefit of standardized placement and having the USERS of each platform know what to expect when they install whatever you've decided to throw on their machine.
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My parents would still have been married under your brilliant system, and if they'd remained married, it is extremely likely that both my mother and I would have taken our own lives by now, so I'm going to go with "take your ideas and fuck right off".
I don't think it _is_ super obvious. Rather, I think the goal is to properly fill in the scene with the very subtle clues we unconsciously look for.

I had a similar experience working a bit with Radiance years ago. The output looked mediocre, at best, but it was reporting a real view of the scene; it's call to fame is that it outputs real energy values in physical units (like energy per unit solid angle or luminance or such). But despite the cartoony models I provided, it did demonstrate subtleties that weren't hacks (needed for this application), things that you wouldn't think to or bother implementing directly.

This? This grabs a lot of needed visual artifacts faster and more correctly without crazy hacks (or so it seems - it does say hybrid rendering).
You're a dying breed my friend. Most software developers, game developers including, have no appreciation for the technical aspects of their field, and no appreciation for the importance of thoroughly learning and understanding the foundations on which their patchy work is standing - they're glorified product managers and all they care about is the end product they can make a quick buck off of until it's superseded by another, not how well-crafted it is.
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before this change, playing our game was a real pain on iPhone this was a much needed improvement.
A French economist and statesman, Frédéric Bastiat ridiculed government protected industries in the same manner as OP in 1800s.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat#Econ...
Agreed.. I can't imagine Spotify are happy about this!
Did you read the article? The vote that you're referring to, found farther down in the article, was the one to remove all caps from taxis. They council voted against it.

If you read the beginning of the article, the one placing the caps on alternative taxis passed: "the Seattle City Council voted 9-0 Monday afternoon to enforce new legislation that will regulate app-based transportation companies like UberX, Lyft and Sidecar."
It's written at least slightly tongue-in-cheek...
Why do Seattle's residents need the playing field levelled in the direction of services that they wouldn't choose in the absence of legislation?
It won't though. Because it'll still be a decade behind haskell. People want more than just "ok, you can use multiple OS threads now". They want a concurrent IO manager, painless and seemless multiplexing of low cost green threads over OS threads, and high level concurrency and parallelism constructs. It is going to take a long time for ocaml to catch up to haskell in this department, and who knows what haskell is going to be offering by then.
Congratulations for using a word you don't know the definition of!
I have custom search plugins for work stuff that are absolute lifesavers when combined with the following addons:

Context Search (adds a context menu dropdown when you right click highlighted text; think plaintext words you search in trouble ticket type stuff)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/context-searc...

Add To Search Bar (adds an option to search-engine-ify any submit text box)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-to-search... (might as well mention https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/organize-sear...)

Bonus productivity favorite: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

So yeah, you'll pry Firefox away from my cold dead hands.
That's not a problem of the build system, but rather a fully bootstrapping compiler (needs to compile itself 3 times), that's doing certain things in rather non-optimal ways (e.g. passing more code than necessary to the optimiser (LLVM)).
> The differences for artists are that they'll have to learn a system with different limitations.

If current-generation AAA games are any indication, either very few artists ever learned the raster workarounds or few artists ever had time to implement the workarounds.

I think ray-tracing will be a game changer. Raster shadows are easy to get subtly wrong and very difficult to get right. Cube-maps are easy to get subtly wrong and very difficult to get right. Transparency is easy to get subtly wrong and very difficult to get right. The list goes on.

> Even in AAA games, there are tons of artifacts in the shadows. Same goes for reflections.

Exactly! I can't count the number of times I've seen shadows pointing in the wrong direction, having the wrong color, having the wrong penumbra/antumbra, casting through solid objects, etc. Cube-map reflections are even worse (yay for faucet handles reflecting forrest scenes) especially when they're moving. Expect to see a reflection slide up the body of a car as it comes to a stop? If you're not in a car-racing game, forget about it.

All of those problems can be overcome with artist sweat and tears. The code has already been written and is in the big engines, but the effects still regularly fail to happen in AAA titles.

Ray-tracing makes it easy to do things right. None of the raster techniques have achieved that landmark. This WILL be a game changer.
most of my side projects are for personal use with the goal of reducing the total amount of my life i spend sedentary at a screen. if time is money, then i guess that's something i hope to make money from, but... well, i guess there are just lots of different perspectives on at least a few different topics here.
Did you accidentally hit submit a few times or why is there like ten copies of this?
How can you justify all the State evils happening with, well, my neighbor can't run an SRO out of his apartment. You didn't mention your other neighbor who was a casualty of the drug war. The same people bringing you these supposed protections are also hurting quite a few other innocent people, but I guess that's OK as long as you feel safe.

> we have bigger problems, not the least of which is the question of why those big, successful companies get so much influence over the laws in the first place.

If those big, successful companies can have so much influence, how exactly are you safe? This doesn't exactly support the gist of your first paragraph.
I might participate if I didn't just unsubscribe from Spotify. (That's what happens when you send me ads by push notification, especially when I pay for your app.)
The "old ways of family life" are NOT nuclear family, and are incompatible with that concept. Throughout history, most civilizations have lived and raised their children in extended families (or other community/group arrangements), not nuclear families. The switch from extended family to nuclear family become viable only during/after industrial revolution.

A separate couple rising their kids is not 'traditional family' - a traditional family would delegate significant parts of the childcare effort away from the young adults/parents, so they'd focus on their work; a nuclear family doesn't do that.
yes, in our experience building games this has been a major issue / concern for iphone players.
How does that that give the FBI legitimacy to record phone calls of US citizens?
> Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?

The irony of this is that the most strident critics of such authoritarianism are precisely the kind of people who mindlessly characterize these things as "our freedoms".

And no. The IC is not under such a misconception. The IC regards terrorists as enemies precisely because they know the terrorists are less interested in our magical "freedoms" and more in the reality of how the military and industry will happily, say, invade Iraq to get what they want.

The privacy debate is just a way to keep us from discussing the larger problems.
"I do want to know that my hired driver is insured."

So enact laws that force drivers who offer rides professionally to have insurance.

"I don't want my neighbor running an SRO out of his apartment"

Why not? The noise? We have existing nuisance laws for that.

"I like the ability to know that my prescription medications aren't radium-based elixirs."

We have consumer protection laws for that.
Does anyone know if all the security issues that have given bad reputation to java are fixed in java 8 ? Is it safe again to develop java applets ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gshc8GMTa1Y

Voxel technology is improving, and certainly exists at realistic levels. The question is... what game _cares_ about such details?
Right, like in a web app on the home screen.
Spamming hacker news is probably not the way.
The current executive class is extemely weak because it resorts to con tricks for fighting corruption, they are not able to fight it by playing along the rules.

The problem with this is that sooner rather than later they will use these same con tricks in all the situations where they want to just get their way.

This means that the people they are supposed to serve will be victims of these con tricks and in the end will cause a revolution in slowmotion, no matter how violent the executive will react to this.

At some point the con tricks will undermine every moral validity of any person that is supposed to maintain authority.
You misunderstand; one of the councilmembers who voted for the caps was considering dropping the caps later. The council let Uber &co operate for one year before updating the law and are prepared to wait, see and update it again.
> I was lucky.

Or you don't give your parents enough credit.
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This article is bullshit. It's quite obvious to me that Seattle roads are a classic tragedy of the commons. There is a point where Seattle streets are saturated such that adding cars increases traffic and congestion without reducing cab time from point A to B. There is also a point where the supply of taxis meets the demand exactly.

Currently, we have little data to say where these points lie on the number line of "taxis" in Seattle. If the first point is less than the second, the city should place a limit at that point. If the second point is equal to or less than the first point, then the city can set the limit at an arbitrary value equal to or greater than the second point and let the market sort it out.

Either way, by regulating the quantity of taxis, the city can slowly increase the limit to find the optimal solution.
People with no kids, please don't listen to anyone telling you how a great source of motivation these adorable little prats are. I've personally been fucked in so many unimaginable since my kid was born. Really think about it hard before committing to such madness.
All of your posts have been full of strawmen and mischaracterisations... (e.g. the insanity about only Linux being supported.)
I find it to be one of the most horrible misconceptions about life that you have to be securely "settled" before having kids. Many older new parents (aruound 35-40) I observe struggle a lot more than we (30) do with raising small children.

People tend to underestimate both the amount of stress that small children are and the gradual reduction of stress capacity that comes with age. You are good at pushing yourself to the limit? That's great. How do you cope with 24/7 low-level stress for months without _any_ break?

My wife and I decided to do the kids thing early in life (relative to other academics) and now are finished with our family planning while yet having to reach any sort of "steady career-path".

Best choice ever.

But I must add that I do this with the strong social safety net of Germany in my back. I'll never be homeless, I'll never go hungry and my children will get an excellent education, _no matter what_.
I'm sorry man, but that sounds crazy. Raytraced scenes are much easier for artists to control the results because things actually behave like you would intuitively expect (if the amount of rays is high enough).

If raytraced scenes were hard to control, why would every single animated movie be raytraced?

Raytracing really is the be all and end all of graphics. The more rays you can render, the more realistic your scene will be, up to 100% realism.

Of course, we can come pretty far with the hacks as well, and it's hard to say if hardware raytracing can come close to the quality hardware shader hacks can achieve on traditional GPU's in real time.