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Great big IANAL here, but isn't due process something only the judicial branch can do? Do the police (i mean, the executive branch) get to strip liberties all willy nilly, and then you have to go to court to get those liberties restored?

AFAIK, it's not a judge that orders the addition to the no fly list, it's someone in the executive branch.
The title really should refer directly to alopecia. Those of us that have it likely know the name. For everyone else, they don't realize that "male pattern baldness" is completely different.
Exactly. I always read these stories and think... Is this the onion? Am I reading comedy?

For example, there was a story where a school aged child was suspended for using his hand as a gun and aiming it at other children. I just couldn't comprehend the idea that a principal would think that action justified suspending a child. Perhaps a detention and a stern warning, maybe.

I want to believe that journalists will leave out part of the stories that explains the harsh actions, that makes you say "Ok, I can understand why the principal did that", but when more and more of these stories are published, it becomes harder to believe.
Do you feel like your skills are steadily improving? Do you critically examine your code from a year ago, and have the urge to rewrite it because you could now do better? When you're coding, do you think "What's the best possible way to do this," instead of just "How can I get this code to run?"

If you answered yes to all of the above, then you're probably already a "good" programmer, and you'll only get better. If not, then let's maybe discuss why not. E.g. is there something about your job that's getting in the way of you improving as a coder?
If you want people to take you seriously, never cite The Register.
In theory.

In practice, the active ingredient(s) are required to be the same, but there can be some variation in e.g. binders that can make differences. The characteristics of the generic (bioavailbility, onset time, etc) are only required to be within a certain range compared to the original, not be identical.

See this, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug#Efficacy
Surely such a flush would leave residue on the bowl that would be easily detectable by a forensics kit.
Sometimes "no-knock" warrants can cause the deaths of police officers when they otherwise wouldn't have.

Check out this case, which happened in my buddy's neighborhood:

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/01/ryan-frederick-loses-appeal-...

TLDR: No knock raid with officer trying to batter down door, guy inside with small amount of weed who had previously been robbed by armed intruders fires through the door and kills officer.
I've been thinking about it too, in particular, how would a drone company go about getting insurance. A 5-10kg brick falling from 30 meters on a person or a road can do a lot of damage, both directly and by causing traffic accidents.
Those seem like great features for consumers.
We didn't learn our lesson from Prohibition, and now it's happening all over again, only worse.

I'm starting to think we need a Constitutional amendment that prohibits the outlawing of drugs. Something like --

The right of access to drugs of all kinds shall not be infringed.
Congress shall have the power to regulate and tax drugs, but may not
ban a drug outright.

This obviously needs work, but I think it's headed in the right direction.

The intent of the phrase "right of access" is that people should have the right to obtain a drug if they can afford it; my intent is not to create any obligation on the part of the government to make it affordable, and certainly not to provide it for free.

The intent of the phrase "drugs of all kinds" is to include any substance someone may wish to ingest, inhale, or inject, for any purpose, medical, recreational, or otherwise.

The intent of "Congress shall have the power to regulate" is that I think the FDA should continue to enforce purity and labelling requirements.

It would be nice to find wording to clarify that intoxication does not relieve one of responsibility for any act committed while intoxicated.

I know, it's hard to imagine such a thing passing anytime in the next 50 years. But it's not too soon to start talking about it :-)
It's time for designers to implement their own iOS designs
OpenInSublimeText.app
Tool that allows you to open the current folder or selection from Finder as a Sublime Text project
I don't usually complain about titles (and I know it's the original one from the article), but I came here with the fascinated (though admittedly skeptical) hope that someone had improved radically on botnet DDoS mitigation techniques. It would be better if the title contained words like perhaps "ad" and "fraud".
One of the interesting pieces I picked up from the related reading to this article is that any use of FPV equipment on a model aircraft puts it square out of the exemptions as far as the FAA is concerned. If the operator does not have un-aided eyes on object at all times, they lose the protection of the exemptions afforded to model aircraft.

Bleh.
>> It's one of the rights guaranteed by the constitution.

Again, not trying to be pedantic, but this is another major point of contention in Constitutional law - how broad of a scope do each of the Constitutional named rights have? The 9th Amendment implies that it is extremely broad, as it explicitly reserves non-enumerated rights as falling under the Constitution.

DISCLAIMER: just to head things off, I bring up Roe v. Wade not because of the topic of the case, but because the general opinion on the ruling's use of the 9th Amendment is pretty consistent (and there are numerous subsequent cases that deal almost solely with this). There are many who agree with the outcome but have major reservations with the potential repercussions of the legal reasoning.

However, you can just look at the general consensus on Roe v. Wade to see that it's far from universally accepted that the 9th Amendment is that broad (that the crux of the opinion is very flawed, relying on a very strange and far reaching right of privacy derived from the 14th Amendment and 9th Amendment - neither of which mention privacy. To clarify - on both sides of the Roe v. Wade debate, most will admit the ruling was flawed, and when relying on it as precedent, nearly all judges will also refer to subsequent cases that address the problems with that ruling). So, the Constitution does not guarantee a right to travel (and the way this ruling is phrased suggests that an appeal would bring this as a concern, and in upholding the ruling, a higher court would almost certainly clarify this). A more likely argument (in terms of its strength in Constitutional law) is one that protects a right to travel as a part of the 1st Amendment right to free speech, expression, and assembly (so a negative right granting freedom from unlawful interference in travel by the government).
I'm super psyched about this but, as a former ed tech entrepreneur, also a bit concerned.

The concern lies here. The blog post references a record $509 million in ed tech financing in 2014. However, in the last 10 years I believe we have only seen two companies go public (2U and Chegg). Both trade at modest multiples to invested capital and neither is focused on the K-12 space. And those are the success stories. Other than those two, I can't think of a nine figure acquisition other Wireless Generation.

My concern is that, unless we start seeing large exits soon, we'll have a lot of investors fleeing the space similar to what happened to the "e-learning" companies in the wake of the dot com crash.

I sincerely hope that I'm wrong though. I'm a big fan of ImagineK12 and many of the companies referenced in the blog post. I'd love to see a number of IPOs and big exits which will drive more capital towards innovation in this sector.
418 U.S. military drones have crashed so far. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/06/22/cr... Do you think commercial drones will be better-maintained or have more experienced pilots? I don't.
I went prematurely gray due to being very ill. I was told that PABA (a B vitamin that often is not part of B complex supplements) and adrenal support can sometimes reverse gray hair. I am now 49. I still have some gray at the temples but I think it is less than it used to be (in my mid thirties). I took a boatload of supplements for a long time (for health reasons, not vanity -- I figured if gray hair was caused by adrenal stress and vitamin deficiency, then it was an indicator of what to treat for).

It's relatively cheap if you want to try it and see if it does anything for you.
> They're 100% Microsoft shops

I think this is a bigger problem than most people realize. Expensive proprietary software has no place in education. It is antithetical to the students' interests in learning, and it inherently prevents them from tinkering. Techies with children entering the public education system really need to push for a wholesale transition to open source. If it's good enough for the office, it's good enough for schools.
HN naturally attracts people with expertise in STEM. Is it really meaningful or interesting that they think their own field is more valuable and important than others?
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I'd remove that exemption in this case. I want an officer that uses excessive force to be at risk of losing his house, his car, and all of his assets right down to his underwear. And I want him to be aware of this, because I want that knowledge to influence his decision to use that force in the first place. I want him to know that he's literally laying everything on the line. (Again, if he doesn't like this, he's free to resign.)

I want that officer to consider if, instead of using all his shiny military toys in a flashy no-knock raid, perhaps some old-fashioned police work might work better. Instead of storming the place in search of the suspect, how about just staking it out and waiting until the guy goes out for beer? Instead of charging in with M-16s blazing because the guy might flush drugs down the toilet, how about intercepting the sewer lines from the house and watching in case drugs get flushed out?

But those just require patience and legwork, and you don't get to be all gung-ho with your fancy SWAT gear and your armored vehicles and all that.
This may sound silly, but it seems like there could be a MythBusters episode specifically on this to prove or disprove how likely these no-knock raids are needed to prevent an effective coverup of evidence.

They could actually make some actionable data for public good.
I'm using it to monitor a single machine. I didn't find anything that was as lightweight and simple to configure.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TSTwSFH...
Now you're onto something! Your first point is true. If the suspect manages to dispose of even some of the substance, that could hurt the case. Or it may not. There's lots of factors, I was just giving the simplest example I could think of (trying to flush a sufficiently large amount of cocaine).

To elaborate on your own example though, pretty sure that even if a firearm is legally registered you can still get in trouble for having it around, especially loaded, in the context of selling illicit substances.

That is almost beside the point, though. How many dealers do you think are using registered firearms to protect their trade? Of that group, how many are registered to the dealer using it and not some random family-member or whatever?
Even if they lose, won't the laws change to give them these powers ? I don't see something as potentially risky as drones running around unregulated.
"succeed" is a very relative term...is Neovim even installable at the moment?
"Yet, every day I run across articles here and comments that make me feel incredibly useless and inexperienced."

You're 'Good' now. When you stop getting that feeling, you're no longer good.
Sigh. You still don't realize it's God. I was chosen by God to make His temple. Do you think I am a good programmer or bad programmer?
Actually, being blocked from international air travel is considered to be a deprivation of liberty.
It is true, you can probably stop supporting IE8 depending on your audience.

[UPDATE: also I was reading SVG/DOM as an or]
Thx. Useful advice and information. On second thoughts, I came across Honeywell's Smart Thermostat and I am leaning towards it based on reviews. Plus, I somehow don't like the round dial of Nest.
Fairly hard actually - you've got to stakeout the house without being detected and tail the guy when he leaves. Plus you may not know how many folks were in the house in the first place (and thus how many are still there when the main guy leaves) - you could wind up raiding a house full of awake and semi-alert criminals with guns and have a bloodbath on your hands.

Additionally, the idea of this sort of raid is to arrest anyone who might be involved when they're found to be in a drug house. If you raid an empty house and find drugs, the owner of said house is gonna go underground if he sees his place crawling with cops, and everyone else is gonna steer clear of it.

Finally, there's a time-sensitivity component - the entire premise of drug dealing is that the drugs are in more or less constant motion, so your chances of success go down the longer there is between tipoff and raid.

I'm not saying that I like no-knock warrants or that they're a good idea, I just wanted to offer some reasons when trying to hit the house when nobody's home might be less safe or less effective.
Design of ultra low noise amplifiers [pdf]
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قال الدكتور محمود جبريل، رئيس وزراء ليبيا الأسبق، إن قطر كانت ترسل المال والسلاح إلى تيار الإسلام السياسى فى ليبيا وهى التى ترعى مشروع الاخوان للسيطرة على المنطقة بأسرها. - See more at: http://www.alhadath-tv.com/2014/06/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AF-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7/#sthash.XYwloshP.dpuf
Where are you getting the data for this? It seems to be missing a fair number of startups that have had significant (>20M) rounds.
Violating the lease is probably the biggest issue imo with Airbnb. I think part of it is that we so often gloss over legal contracts and the concept of airbnb where you can just "rent out a room" doesn't FEEL like anything wrong. If as a tenant you know it's wrong, it FEELs like a petty offense which you shouldn't be penalized for or it FEELs like a broken law.
The music industry is changing so fast. I feel sorry for the industry, despite their bad karma.

Illegal digital downloads disrupted everything, and cut profits substantially. Luckily, Apple and Steve Jobs showed up and offered a brief reprieve. But now, just a 10 years into paid digital downloads, when the new revenue is still a tiny fraction of the old revenue, the field is disrupted again by streaming. And as with previous disruptions, it appears revenue will again be cut dramatically.

I'm not sure what the takeaway is. Maybe the importance of owning your distribution channels?
Meaning, I'm better than good? Or worse (because I'm no longer challenging myself)
That's ridiculous. They sell drugs because it is the Easiest way they know. Without drugs, they'd need to find some other, less easy way. Supply+Demand teaches that those other opportunities would be less available
> For anyone defending AirBnB

The gist of virtually all of the complaints against AirBNB is that it imposes costs on the neighbors.

And of course, it does.

There is a multitude of ways of dealing with that. If you cut the neighbors in on the action, they may take a liking to your side-business. A smart host will do just that.

At the end of the day, the only ones who can't be placated are the ones losing business because of this. The hotels. Well, that's just business.
I can see using this in commercial aquaponics setups like the ones that Murray Hallam is perfecting:
http://www.aquaponics.net.au/

Or the ones based on the of University of the Virgin Islands model:
http://www.uvi.edu/research/agricultural-experiment-station/...

In those systems you could measure averages of water saturation in plants in each tank/division using your plant tensiometers and then use your pumps appropriately. It would just be another sensor in your installation along with those measuring PH, EC, temp, etc.
ASCII Art of Danny Trejo, lol. I can certainly say we did not consider that for our logo. I like where your head is at though. The name "Machete" was/is a bit of a risk, I'll definitely remember your feedback when we re-do it. It currently was just a quick and dirty fiverr job :)
Sure, but what it doesn't mean is that it "Removes windowing for artists", as was claimed.

One problem with this whole discussion is that we have no previous contract to compare to. It's possible these are all new conditions or it's possible these are exactly the same clauses except with the subscription service mentioned.

Edit: In fact, here's the iTunes similar clause:

> "Except for a special circumstance, such as an exclusive, limited-time, one-off promotion for particular COMPANY Content, or for a reason beyond COMPANY’s control (e.g., a third party contractual restriction), or as otherwise agreed by the Parties, COMPANY (or a third party designated by COMPANY in writing and approved by ITUNES) shall commence delivery of all existing COMPANY Content as soon as reasonably possible following the Effective Date, and prospectively during the Term, for just cleared COMPANY Content and new releases, at least in time for ITUNES to begin selling eMasters the earlier of a general release date, provided by COMPANY, or when any other distributor is permitted to begin selling, or making commercially available, COMPANY Content in any format."[1]

essentially, absent exclusive one-off promotions, all the company's music has to be provided to iTunes, and new music has to be made available on the general release date or when other distributors can start selling it, whichever is earlier.

[1] http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/i...
Since kernel 3.5-rc1, vm.swappiness=0 will disable swapping entirely. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7660385
There's nothing implied. The Court flat out says that denial of international air travel is a deprivation of liberty.
So why would Oculus acquire Carbon Design, rather than contracting them to design/build their products?
I was looking precisely for that, thank you. :)
"rent[ing] out a room...is not the common case at all"

Wrong! This is very common. Half the listings in Manhattan are for parts of apartments.
Hence overhead non-highway surface streets. Drones are typically fairly small, smaller than delivery trucks. And hopefully the drone operators can figure out how to avoid power lines, overhead trains, etc. Wind could blow a non-functioning (or even worse, incorrectly vectored) drone off the street as it falls towards the ground. A market test could start off by declaring streets OK for overhead drone activity.

I bet if the FAA opened it up to cities to decide whether it's OK for a drone to operate commercially above their streets, you'd get dozens or hundreds of cities move to allow it. Starting with Seattle.
(Feedback helps! As you may remember from the previous thread, we did change the Remember Me + phone number fields to be optional, in large part because of the feedback we got on HN.)

That's good to know. FWIW, I hadn't heard anything about that change, which would have been of immediate interest to at least one team I worked on that was still relying on checkout.js at the time.

Each new payment method comes with its own constraints. We'll always try to give our users as many options as possible while working within those constraints. The constraints with Alipay are particularly tight, and for now the only way we can satisfy them is through checkout.js - but over time, if we can relax that, we will.

Understood, and thanks again for taking the time to explain.
What's the data source?

Is it the rapid increase in total raised from 2012 - 2014 (even without Freakish_outlier) a data artifact or has the amount of funding actually exploded?
Most financially well off, white Americans have no experience, I suspect that's also the demographic of most people on HN. I have friends who come from a poorer background than me and most of them have either been subject to police abuse themselves, or have friends/family who has been abused or even killed by police.
>> Definitely think this area of law can use some refinement to protect all interests more fairly.

In many cases, this is likely true. However, the nature of the word (which doesn't have a definition clearly defining it), means that adding clear definitions to it begins to risk what the founders intended to avoid by not enumerating any rights (hence the Bill of Rights as amendments, including the 9th Amendment). Again, all this suggests to me that due process and equal protection, rather than creating a new, judicially defined right to travel, will be clearly clarified as the crux of the opinion should it hold. The higher court can just defer to stare decisis and judicial restraint on the rest.
" 'seriously' building fairly complex web and mobile apps"

You may already be "good". The thing is that there is something or someone better out there than you and this applies a lot more when it comes to HN. I feel like a loser when I browse HN because well, a lot of ppl are faaaar better than me at the things that I want to be good at. It is all relative. Stop sweating it and focus on what you want to achieve. If you get what you want, who cares whether you are good or xyz.
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They will sit on unused SWAT teams and use them to collect unpaid parking fees and arrest suspected loiterers from yesterday. I'm exaggerating only slightly. The point is, if judges are signing no-knock raids from non-violent suspects possibly owning small amount of marijuana, they will be signing them for other petty crimes too.

End of war of drugs would just re-channel the same tactic against other targets.
If this is the quality of the argument then I have nothing to concern myself with.

Your post might be [slightly] humorous, but as an argument against PHP language constructs it fails miserably.
I think there may be a mixture since your question:

> When you're coding, do you think "What's the best possible way to do this," instead of just "How can I get this code to run?"

I do both. Mostly begin with phase 2 (mentally) and then go back and look at the 'best way' and design schema and business objects around that. I end up making a lot of sacrifices and doing things that are probably not optimal due to what I think is poor real world experience and experience working with other, more seasoned developers. My knowledge of design patterns is fairly limited and I tend to churn out projects that work, are fairly reasonable but yet I think they lack the elegance of many of the open source projects or example githubs I've seen.
Perhaps they've proven that privilege escalation is impossible.
Happy to change it if you or anyone can suggest a more accurate title.