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Omniusaspirer actually wrote "they're effectively above the law", which is hardly hyperbolic, and was directly preceded by a decidedly relevant example: "Without a global government agreement you simply can't bust up megacorps like you used to".

Consideration of the fact that multi-national corporations transcend national law-makers is part of "real, important discussion about these kinds of things", as you put it.
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Someone should distrupt the tax market.
Are you using S3 with multiple EC2 instances/multiple servers? Do you keep your /storage/ on S3? I'm considering pulling from S3, then resizing on whatever server it is, then storing back on S3 - any issues with that?

Do you handle the malicious case of someone supplying various widths and heights potentially DoSing the server?
Well really, what did you expect the second leading killer to be? They are literally in the prime of their lives. In general, they are as physically healthy as they will ever be. The leading 'killer' is the 'unintentional injury' category. Take a look at these charts (Canada and USA both included for comparison).

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/10lcid_all_deaths_by_a...

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/lcd-pcd97/table1-eng.php

Suicide only 'drops in the rankings' because peoples start dying of other things.
please, name is "Gandhi" not "Ghandi".
I rather use objects and function composition in a REPL.

Kudos to Microsoft for bringing to Windows a little bit of Lisp Machine experience with Powershell.
"I used to believe that the future of the Web was anonymity. The Web boom of the '90s focused on anonymous content consumption. The '00s were all about signed content creation (think Facebook, YouTube). I thought the third era would be a combo of the two - anonymous content creation. But anonymous content creation has its limits. We want to trust our sources, so we need to know who they are. We want to connect with other people, not just ideas."
Were you previously depressed yourself or are you just trotting out the party line?

I have been depressed before.

While it's true that some people can take medication and receive platitudes and coping methods on how to deal with the facts of a sad and sorry life, this won't "cure" everybody.

What about those people that suffer for 10+ years?

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In regards to the typical statements that depressed people have to hear day-upon-day:

When I was depressed (and I was very depressed for around 5 years) I knew that based on what I saw around me, I could probably expect to stop becoming depressed at some point of my life. However, it greatly annoyed me when people said "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem" because when you've felt particularly bad for years and years, you're not dealing with something which is so easy to change, and it's in fact far more permanent than many things in your life. Time stretches without pleasure. Days are long but years are unimaginably scary.

Another statement which I would hear a lot was the idea that you shouldn't kill yourself because your family, friends and community need you. It doesn't necessarily sounds nice to a depressed person. Here's how I used to rationalise it: I was committing a selfless act of martyrdom by continuing to exist without pleasure - every day I would be nailed to a cross and for their pleasure would hang there on a side of a hill they didn't care to visit. "What did they get out of my suffering?!"
You do not understand (or it seems so) that in most cases, the "decision" to commit suicide is not either a "free" or a "willing" decision.

There are cases where it is but, honestly, they are so few that legislating for them would be dishonest.
I went to the website of the organization you mentioned. I browsed and then searched that website. A link there took me to another organization, the American Association of Suicidology, at first to a dead link, then I browsed and searched that organization's website, and found a fact sheet on the issue you bring up.[1] The fact sheet mentions some studies and their conclusions, without detailed citations or descriptions of methodology, and points out "Because no reliable data exists, we do not know whether LGBT youth die by suicide more frequently than their straight peers. Sexual orientation and gender identity data are not included on death certificates so aggregated national death data do not include this information. In addition, many LGBT youth do not disclose this information to family members and friends; as a result, sexual orientation and gender identity often do not show up in psychological autopsy interviews." In other words, we are not completely sure that LGBT status is a risk factor for completed suicide in the United States, although that is the current working hypothesis among many suicide researchers. As the article submitted to open the thread here today makes clear, there is a lot of basis research on suicide that still needs to be done.

[1] http://www.suicidology.org/Portals/14/docs/Resources/LGBT%20...
Funny, I had edited it just before you said that. I know but it's muscle memory in typing Ghana.
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And why is that? It's her body and she has the right to remove the fetus in her. Why does she not have the right to put a tankful of Nitrogen in her lungs if she chooses to do so?
I am married to a person who came very close to suicide and might have gone through with it except for the relative difficulty and the intervention of other people against her will.

After short-term medication, long-term therapy, and some lifestyle changes, we live mostly normal lives and have two happy children.

So you're damn right I'm asserting that there's a right decision and that I knew better than her in her chemically imbalanced state.

Now, this is one scenario that has a happy ending. I don't know what I would think about someone chronically and incurably suffering. But the idea of absolutely unfettered access to assisted suicide scares me.
Because the majority of those people never had the opportunity to work with Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, Oberon, Amiga,...

So they look around and see only UNIX CLI.

It is just like mankind during the middle ages that never experienced how the Roman and Greek society were developed before the empire downfall.
Maybe you could read at least the first paragraph of the linked article.
It's a legacy language now. Time to let go.
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I think the original source is on a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM . The video aggregates data from multiple sources:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit...
http://danariely.com/2010/09/30/wealth-inequality/
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334156/top-five-...
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/news/economy/ceo-pay/index.h...

How reliable these sources are, I'm not sure. If the information is wrong, I wouldn't blame it on Upworthy, it's a distribution channel after all.
What he wrote is plain false. It's wrong. It's incorrect. Those companies must - and do - respect the laws of the countries they wish to operate in, although clearly they try and wiggle and squirm around them where they can. When push comes to shove, they are most certainly not above the law.

When you write things that are false, it does not help a conversation go anywhere useful.
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I think most people who choose to commit suicide have given it a good few months or more of thinking. How long do people have to suffer in order for you to say "this person's done enough thinking about it, he can go"?
It's always amazing to me that good business people are so much more real in interviews than almost any other category of "celebrity". (The regrets question here or, say, Steve Jobs "hearts outside your bodies" comment.)
My contact details are in my profile. I'd be interested in taking a look.
I logged in just to downvote you as, extremely unfortunately, you are the top comment on this thread at the present moment. I don't think, for most cases in which it is not terminal, that you can say it's a case of physical suffering.

As someone has pointed out in another comment, a huge number of suicides come not from people who are terminally ill but from people who are just depressed. In those cases nothing you say in your comment actually applies. Those people are not "critically injured" they are just depressed, frequently they go on to live full and meaningful lives if they seek help.
You're quite right, it's 20%, and still dwarfs other nations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/e...
Yes, he did. At that time or a bit later I worked for UniPress; the owners knew that taking any action about that beyond a polite request would untimely be harmful. But it was seriously reckless of RMS to put his GNU effort in jeopardy.
alt-tab on osx closes current chat so you have to click it again, counterproductive, deleting/not using until its fixed.
Kotlin and Ceylon are very similar feature-wise, but their ambitions and tradeoffs are completely opposite. Ceylon tries to remake and replace the JDK with new libraries (i.e. modernize everything) while Kotlin has Java interoperability as one of its top priorities, at the expense of some compromises in the language/libraries.

I think that Kotlin takes the more pragmatic approach, and introduces much less risk to the project (I use Kotlin and Java classes in the same package, and it's very easy to replace one with the other). So while neither is as mature as Scala (I really don't like Scala but I won't get into that again), Kotlin is as close to risk-free as possible, while Ceylon is more ambitious. It comes down to your personal preference: are you an idealist or a pragmatist (said half jokingly)?
While you're right that the current versions of all browsers seem to support it now (though Safari still requires prefixing), it's pretty recent on some of these: http://caniuse.com/#search=flex. Most people still won't feel comfortable using it for probably another year or so, and this is just one element in the Flexbox specification; it doesn't necessarily imply the rest is well-supported or that implementations are reasonably consistent across browsers.
I wonder if it’s really the editing or if their Javascript fails to serve the video chunks in correct order.
I suppose so, because it's a pretty awesome (free) game :)

PS. Not related to it
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Among the auto manufacturers offerings, some 'lane assist' systems can only handle the most simple of turns (taking you out of the lane, _very scary_). These systems are too simple IMHO with single cameras and or no mix of additional systems.

Tesla seems to want a system that is more complex. Things like "have the car come meet you from where it was parked", lane _crossing_ (let alone lane keep assist), and eventually on-off ramp driving. All with live updates rather than going into the dealer.

What makes this offering (potentially) different is the ambitious intended use of the system, something which would make even a Daimler-Benz lawyer cringe.
Actually, i'm 27.. But the app itselve is quite funny while dating (except the best-friends visible part)
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It is a terrible idea. What are the consequences? Punishment for those who attempt and fail or punishment for the families of those who succeed by denying them life insurance, proper burial and so on.
That doesn't mean that the monopoly drives it and there are plenty of examples of monopolies hindering it.
And Yasser Arafat; there have been many contentious Peace Prize recipients[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Criticism_of...
> I think most people who choose to commit suicide have given it a good few months or more of thinking.

[citation needed]

Most seems unlikely to me, at least for first attempts.
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I think people who tried and failed may have been punished.

AFAIK, life insurance has never paid out for suicide and doesn't now.
Wow, this is gibberish
well, this blows steep.it/3minutes out of the water for my regular tea timer.

Thanks. I had wondered why Google hadn't added this before.
Thanks for saying this. I was scratching my head as to why the top comments focused on the wrong thing. Distributed coordinated engines is in my opinion hugely exciting
It's hard to judge what you think, but certainly more seriously than the Academy Awards. Do you take the Wateler Peace Prize or the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize or any other peace prize seriously?
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OK, fair points, but if the OP can look back 8 years and apply that to now then I reserve the right to look forwards 8 years and do the same :)
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My fault - I misread the grandparent as saying those ages are the most likely to commit suicide.
Is it fair to compare an S-class, which has been engineered into it's current state over 60 years, to a car that did not exist at all 3 years ago?

You may have it backwards; Tesla is building the powertrain for the Mercedes electric A-class E-cell.
Oh I don't just mean programming; I've run into perfectly intelligent people who nonetheless respond to even the most basic computing tasks as if you've asked them to insert their tenderparts into a badger's den. Now, I'm perfectly willing to accept that some people just won't "get" computers, but I've also seen elderly retirees who took to it like a fish to water once you talked them out of being afraid of the thing in the first place.
What strikes me odd about the Ebola problem is this seemingly fear to do anything about it. With SARS we had many countries preventing people from traveling, we had border checks, and the restrictions affected air travel.

Yet Ebola while not airborne is far deadlier, so where are the travel restrictions? Is there some PC element to this, or is there some fear of perceived over reaction? Considering two recently publicized cases involved people who should have known better (if not the organizations they are part of) screwing up how are we to deal with people who don't know better understanding the signs and risks?
Many people that have survived a suicide attempt (a guy jumping from the Golden Gate bridge is a well-known case) have regretted intermediately and go on to live a "normal" life.
You seem to mix up three different points/views, which weakens your argument a lot:

- The word "platitudes" and the scare quotes around "cure" indicate that blanket skepticism towards depression therapy of the kind I see from conspiracy nuts. You disqualify yourself from serious discussion that way.

- "coping methods on how to deal with the facts of a sad and sorry life" indicates that you believe depression is caused by external rather than internal factors. This runs very much against well established knowledge. If you suffer from external factors, those should be improved, and it's primarily up to you to do that.

- In cases of depression where therapy is ineffective for some reason, should this be considered morally equivalent to someone wishing to die to end their suffering from cancer, MS, etc.? This is absolutely worth discussing. The main problem I see is that we know that depression generaly is curable - so at what point do you decide that a given case is not?
Yep, looks about right for Angular: flashy but not-particularly-useful functionality (dynamic real time updates) while sacrificing basic web usability (blinky-blink loads, strange back button behavior, etc.)
Your definition of illegal behaviour seems to rest on a very narrow view that unless behaviour is prosecuted then it is not illegal. By this view, corporations are not above the law because when any illegal behaviour is discovered they are duly prosecuted, when laws are available, and if laws are not available then it was not illegal behaviour in the first place. However, Omniusaspirer's contention was that corporations are "effectively above the law", not that they were literally above the law.

The exemplary area in which corporations are effectively above the law is tax arrangements, where multi-national corporations can take advantage of their multi-national status to pay lower amounts of corporation tax than companies in all the national jurisdictions in which they operate.

The corporations are effectively above the law because they are legally paying lower taxes than those other companies. That is, they get preferential treatment by satisfying the letter of the law, but not the intent, that being evidenced by current international efforts to close these loopholes. Such issues can only be addressed by multi-national or even global agreements, as Omniusaspirer said.
Thanks. It seems after getting the initial learning under the belt, working with an agency is a good option to learn the iOS way of doing things working alongside others. Congratulations on the full time role and wish you all the best with Inkmill.
I still don't get it. How people can seriously believe that something you send to another, uncontrollable device can be displayed once but impossible to be saved for later use? This had to happen, sooner or later.
That seems to be the logical comparison.
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Your statement implied that there was much in common with the two scenarios. There isn't. Therefore it's a bad comparison.

fwiw I'm pro choice on both issues.
There is some interesting info here as well on how to compute most of libm (including transcedental functions) in a correctly-rounded/precise way:
http://lipforge.ens-lyon.fr/frs/download.php/153/crlibm-1.0b...
A blog post would definitely be helpful for others starting out. Let us know if you do end up writing it. I hope you do.
A silly interactive retro terminal / DOS prompt for the HTML5 canvas
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Sadly yes, and worse, people seem to enjoy this way. sigh
What's the difference between those and tilde.club?
This seems apropos: the woman in the cube across from mine just announced she had cancelled her airline flights because of fear of ebola virus, and has decided to drive to Disneyland instead (much longer trip). She wants to cancel (fear of ebola, again), but doesn't want to disappoint her kids.
SARS came from China, Ebola comes from Africa....

ADDED: the downvotes I'm getting for pointing out this simple, uncontestable bit of inconvenient truth guessed by Shivetya rather prove my point, yes? (At one point a net minus 3.)
We've seen this happen with airplanes. Where the autopilots result in the human pilots no longer being fully aware of their environment and context in that environment. So, when the autopilot alarms, the human pilot doesn't have the context of the problem and often makes a naive mistake as a result (a naive mistake that has fatal consequences).

There was a good article discussing this recently on here, a quick search should find it for more details.

So, I agree with the parent that semi-auto pilot like features are probably quite risky when intervention is required. At least current generations, but I think we can also make better designs that address these concerns.
Look, if Nissan has beeb doing it for years already, Tesla can do it too. This is a terrible excuse. It just shows that Tesla is still learning, and cannot make a cheap car, even after getting their currebt factory at a steep discount.
Obvious as it seems, I never got a good answer like that from "experts" about how to define PM fit.

There were those guys talking about lean startup, measure everything and stuff; but when come to this crutial question they were all "well, you will know when you have PM fit" or an arbitrary question with an arbitrary answer "ask your clients how disappointed they would be if your startup would shut down now; if 60% answer very disappointed, you have PM fit".

So, similar key takeaway for me: "It is easy to be wrong about having Porduct/Market fit. Make sure your retention flat lines at the appropriate level."
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Man Jessica seems so damn chill
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About the cost of A PC and an Android phone
or a Mac, an Android Phone, an IOS Phone and $100 per year.
And some time.
He said something similar to "when I jumped, I realized that every problem in my life was fixable, except the jump".
Well, the volume bug fixes are fixing things with the volumes re-write which hasn't yet hit a release (which also adds no public functionality at this point) .
That's a very interesting question.

I'd guess that the technical decisions that differentiated early unix from the lisp machines etc. were based on hardware and cost limitations.(the development of unix is something I'd be interested in reading more about) Then as unix took off, these technologies became entrenched, with a kind of apologetics developing amongst users who liked those systems, or never used anything else.

There's an interview with Bill Joy where he said that Vi's famous modal interface was merely a result of his poor quality terminal and network connection, and now it's used by millions of programmers. I'm not saying that these users are wrong about the benefits of modal editing or the unix text interface etc, but that these are discovered benefits that are then used to retroactively construct a containing narrative of justification that often walls people off from alternatives.

I'd also hazard a guess that many of these technologies were simply inaccessible and/or unknown to the mass of post-pc-revolution developers who create the bulk of our present systems. The number of devs who had access to Lisp machines was small compared to the number who came in with Unix with its success in the workstation market, and tiny compared to the number of devs who came in through home computers/PCs.

I myself grew up with 80s home computers, moving to the PC and Linux in the late 90's. Lisp machines, Oberon etc. were unknown to me until a few years ago, and information about them is still hard to come by. Nearly all the lisp machine sites are web 1.0 with broken links etc. Very few of them try to market the benefits of these systems to people in the wider community.

After I got interested in lisp and lisp machines (thanks pg!) I spent a weekend getting that notorious leaked Symbolics Genera distribution working on Linux, inside virtual box on my mac. After a few hours in the Listener, with its rich output and superior incremental help system I wanted to show it to everybody I knew. It was one of the most incredible things I had ever seen on a computer. For the next few weeks at work I was occupied with the constant thought, "This is not as good as Genera". It's had a huge impact on how I think about software, even my indie game development.
But ~ doesn't mean person. It means 'home'. Hence, 'ls ~' lists the contents of your home directory and 'cd ~root' takes you to home directory of root.

In web context ~user translated to 'home of user' which was fitting in most cases.
Currently in Beta and only a few cloud storage providers connected. But what do you think about the idea in general and which services should be connected in future? Thanks for any feedback :)
Not really surprising, given how much trouble they gave Cyril Sneer.
A very very well delivered lecture. I love that YC is taking a stance against buzzwords like growth hacking, and getting startups to look maniacally at building a solid product that gets to product/market fit quickly. Seems pretty consistent across lectures from PG, Peter Thiel and now Alex as well.

And much like the other lectures, here are 24 quotes from Alex's lecture worth remembering: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/24-quotes-from-ale...