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Of course, the Constitution doesn't grant rights. Do you have a natural right to be left alone if you so choose? Do you have a natural right to not be a witness against yourself? It seems a society based on popular sovereignty should define these rights as inherent and innate to being a person.

And if you do assert your Constitutional rights, it's an easy way to escalate a situation where you soon learn the meaning to "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."
Which scenarios have you thought of?

A start would be to do anything an Estonian can do today online in almost real time. Founding a company online: 5 minutes and you're in business. Very simple tax and other legislation, so very simple reporting online - and getting tax refunds if needed in a few days.

But this should not be limited to existing legacy services we use. Think of what you could do anything online with an absolute cryptographically strong vetted proof, that it's you, valid across the world? That's very different from a corporate ID which has no power internationally.
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Of course, the Constitution doesn't grant rights. Do you have a natural right to be left alone if you so choose? Do you have a natural right to not be a witness against yourself? It seems a society based on popular sovereignty should define these rights as inherent and innate to being a person.
"Ralph 124C 41+" is awful. After that, Gernsback published SF of others, rather than his own, and as a publisher did much to launch SF as a genre.

Before SF, there were "Edisonades", the classic being "Edison's Conquest of Mars". That's a milestone in science fiction. It's one of the first space travel stories, and it's reasonably plausible given scientific knowledge at the time.

Heinlein is not from the "beginnings" era. Heinlein is from the "golden age" of SF, when a space-oriented future looked not only technically possible but close. Watch "Destination Moon". Most of Heinlein's better works predate the discovery that Mars barely has an atmosphere and Venus is well above the boiling point of water. Planetary colonization within the solar system looked possible back then.
The US isn't exactly setting the bar for healthcare.
Linus posted a very relevant document yesterday entitled "Linux kernel management style". I wonder if Lennart's piece is in response (or perhaps vice versa). I'd recommend reading each in mind of the other.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417154
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
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Estonian language is perceived as having uncharacteristically long dragging of vowels during pronunciation, so e-Estonian works just as well. I wonder if there is some kind of inside joke around that.
lol, dudes going to prison. He ain't getting no hat...
I've received my shipment of Soylent. I read many negative and positive reviews. I've been on it for three weeks now and am loving it so far. In fact, I find myself craving it sometimes. It hasn't replace my meals completely, but as someone who has been skipping breakfast for most of my life I now get the nutrition I need in the mornings and my life has considerably improved as a consequence.

The concept of Soylent is wonderful. No one is saying it should completely replace all meals, but it should be able to do so, otherwise it wouldn't work as a single meal either. The joy of cooking still exists, you choose whether you want a quick meal or a longer one. I would still never turn down a well cooked meal for Soylent, but I'm happy to know I have some in my cupboard for when I need it.
There are some very dubious claims in their DMCA takedown notice:

> The work, Inspeqtor which is hosted at GitHub, is far from a “clean-room” implementation. This is basically a rewrite of Monit in Go, even using the same configuration language that is used in Monit, verbatim.

There is no concept of "clean room" in copyright law, the only issue is whether or not substantial copying has occurred. While it may be easier for the author to avoid accidental copying if he has never looked at the Monit source code, having seen it, being inspired by its design, or deliberately building a compatible system do not constitute copying. The notion that it must be copying simply because it uses the same configuration language is without merit, due to the fact that the configuration language itself is not a creative work and is not eligible for copyright protection, in the same way that an API or a programming language is not eligible for such protection: it is a medium for expression, not an expression in itself - otherwise all programs written in a given programming language would be a derivative work!

I suspect that it is this misunderstanding that has led the authors of Monit to file this DMCA takedown, and that they have acted in good faith, but with an insufficient understanding of the limits of what copyright protects.

> a. [private] himself admits that Inspeqtor is "heavily influenced“ by Monit

Being heavily influenced is not the same as copying. OpenOffice Writer is heavily influenced by Microsoft Word, and can even open the same file format, but it does not copy any of Microsoft's source code.

> b. This tweet by [private] demonstrate intent. "OSS nerds: redesign and build monit in Go. Sell it commercially. Make $$$$. I will be your first customer.”

The quote was "redesign and build Monit in Go" which does not show intent to engage in substantial copying of Monit's source code. If anything, it suggests an intent to write a new, redesigned system with its own source code but compatibility with monit.

Without looking at the source code, it's hard to say more, if the author simply ported the source code of Monit to Go then it would certainly be a derived work, but the DMCA claim doesn't mention any such copying. It's important to remember that compatibility is not copying and that only the source code to a computer program is covered by copyright - its architecture, design, and even APIs (see Oracle vs Google) are not protected by copyright, because otherwise the copyright claim would effectively behave like a patent, preventing anybody else from creating something conceptually similar.
Most people have watched enough "Cops" to have memorized the script. Now, go grab a copy of a law dictionary (I use Bouvier's or Black's) and read the definition of every word in that script. You'll be amazed at what it really means.

Silence is considered acceptance in contempt. A cop telling you that you have the right to put yourself in contempt, when you have a duty as a taxpaying citizen to respond, should give you some pause.

Don't take my word for it, though; read a law dictionary.
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Asserting your rights is a fantastic ride, if you know how to do it. Everyone should Google how Geithner beat both rap and ride from the NYPD in four hours.that guy's a pro.

If you don't know how to properly assert your rights, then you have none; expect to have your window smashed in, and be pulled out of your car. Or have cops and social workers come to remove your kids from an "unsafe" house 30 minutes after the power company shuts off the power for some reason.

But if you do it right, you're treated extremely politely by policemen and justice system participants.
Would prefer as an rss feed over cluttering my inbox...
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Cuba was the world's best experiment in total communism. Unfortunately the US ruined the experiment by imposing an embargo for decades out of spite. Still, when you compare Cuba to neighboring Dominican Republic they're doing better under many measures, including health, education and a GNP per capita of $5890 vs DR's $5620.
Can you point me to a description of CCleaner's problems? It's still my go-to tool for cleaning computers, and I've never had a problem or heard of anything major (besides the normal bugs that get fixed). It also isn't a 90s tool, being first released in 2003.

What's your idea of a better alternative?
I am one of the founders of a startup that sells a similar, proprietary library for Python and Java: http://heliumhq.com. Maybe some of the people reading this will find it interesting.
I'm surprised so many people engage in a Soylent vs cooking debate as if there are two sides and you have to choose one. Recently I was cooking an elaborate dinner, starting early in the afternoon, and I found myself wishing my Soylent shipment had arrived so I could have lunch without interrupting my dinner preparation.
Isn't that for citizens and residents of those EU states? This "e-residency" is for anyone in the world: there's 241 nations in the "Your Country" menu.

(which by the way is a few years outdated: e.g. there's no South Sudan, and Libya is still the "Libyan Arab Jamahiriya", which was Qaddafi's name for it).
Is it doing this by checking colored pixel areas and making SVG shapes for them? If so, whatever you use should replace Illustrator's Image Trace functionality, cause that is so bad at creating crisp vector copies of things.
Hacker's Delight is one of the most fun tech books I have read. It is filled with fun tricks and algorithms, with each of them adequately explained.
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It's made by Trüb in Switzerland, the leading player in Europe in issuing national id cards: http://www.trueb.ch/en/identity-card/secure-citizens

Here are the Estonian specs: http://www.id.ee/index.php?id=35772
In projects I've seen (both inside and from the outside), one side usually wants to use the term "agile" as a synonym for "we don't write anything down", nothing more.
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EstEID specification - covers all ID-card application versions issued in Estonia:
http://www.id.ee/public/TB-SPEC-EstEID-Chip-App-v3_5-2014032...

The Estonian ID-card and Digital Signature Concept:
http://www.id.ee/public/The_Estonian_ID_Card_and_Digital_Sig...
It's not that simple. Being "agile" does not necessarily makes you an employee in the US. From IRA Pub 15-a:

"The general rule is that an individual is
an independent contractor if you, the person for whom the
services are performed, have the right to control or direct
only the result of the work and not the means and methods of accomplishing the result."

As an agile contractor you can give clients options that allow them balance quality & cost without being under "behavioral control." The client gets to say they want to build a widget that does X and Y, then you choose to build it at time T using whatever tools and methods you deem appropriate.

Couple that with offering these services to the public:
"People such as doctors, veterinarians, and auctioneers
who follow an independent trade, business, or profession
in which they offer their services to the public, are generally not employees."

That said, "whether such people are employees or independent contractors depends on the facts in each case" so make the facts obvious in your contract with a section like this:

"Independent Contractor.
The Parties agree that Contractor is an independent contractor and that Contractor has full control over the methods utilized in performing the Services. Contractor will not make any representation of an employment relationship between Contractor and the Company and will not claim any benefits provided by the Company to its employees. Contractor has no authority to contract for or bind the Company in any manner, except with prior written consent of the Company. Contractor shall devote such amount of his or its time, attention, knowledge, and skills as may be required to create and deliver the Product and to perform the Services."
Looking forward Monkey Server v1.2 and Duda I/O v2
It's a 30-year-old book ... older than many people who are making viable VR a thing now. Neuromancer sparked the otherwise naive notion of what VR would be like, but now we've developed and normalized a good chunk of the technology & language (verbal & visual), in a society which has grown accustomed to pervasive computer interfaces (I sit here with 8 on my desk alone, and totaling 22 in this room). Reality has taken a somewhat different & concrete direction from what Gibson fluidly predicted. The wonder of a hypothetical world of people jacking into their sector of the matrix surrounded by bright geometries has been replaced by the mundanity of a real world of people staring at Facebook et al; we live the electronic consensus-hallucination of massive data, and are not impressed by someone telling us in abstract terms how wonderful it will be.
"Again, I agree with the rest of what you're saying, but I don't think it's unfair to criticize the most recent SCOTUS ruling for appearing to[0] reverse or mitigate our understanding of the earlier SCOTUS ruling."

It's certainly fair to criticize, but honestly, this is the problem with unenumerated rights in general (like "The right to privacy" and others), and judicially made rules like the exclusionary rule - they tend to erode or change over time, even after people come to rely on them.

I'd much prefer to see both in the constitution itself. :)
Thanks.

This guy writes a lot of text but it takes him forever to get to the point.
There's a lecture by a law school professor called "Don't Talk to Police" that I've seen on HN before and is definitely worth watching. The case in the article is unfortunate, although I'm curious what might have happened if Tom had asked "am I under arrest?" after not being allowed to go home.

In the second example the article gives, I wonder what would've happened if the defendant had not answered any questions voluntarily and chosen to remain silent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I just had my first soylent 'meal'. I am planning to use it as my breakfast meal too.
You should provide great sources for AngularJS plugins/modules to prevent implementing our own, and reinventing the wheel, Also could cover in a chapter how to extend AngularJS with similar stuff. I'd love to read about handling producer side of message queues.
At first glance, the tweet [0] was sent a while ago, expressing desire for a port, with the idea of $$$$ as an incentive/joke. It appears that the author later decided to implement it themself. I hardly think that makes his intent to commercialize it clear.

[0] https://twitter.com/mperham/status/452160352940064768
The diversity that I am talking about has nothing to do with the variability of code quality. Like you, I want to produce and to consume the best possible code.

The diversity I'm talking about is in personality types. There's a lot of people, even on Hacker News, even in this thread, that would be excellent technical contributors to the Linux Kernel, except they have a personality type that requires them to spend more emotional energy dealing with verbal abuse, either directed at them, or just being flung about.

As you say, size isn't the most important measure of a contributor pool.

In my mind, angry, hateful language, especially if it is accepted by the whole, will greatly limit the amount of talent available.

Good development and merge practices has and will continue to keep bad code out.

And note, I have not said anything about being warm, friendly or inviting. I'm not necessarily suggesting those be specific goals.

Finally, nowhere have I suggested that anybody stop working on features, and instead 'encourage the surrounding community to be nicer to one another'.
Re projects, here's a list of some of the Estonian startups: http://hub.garage48.org/estonian-startups
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"Yeah, this major bug you told us about, not eligible."

Fk Yahoo, they deserve what's happening to them.
With products like this, the concern is always that we "don't know what we don't know" about human nutrition. Our mechanical understanding of how nutrients do what they do is in its infancy, and human metabolism is mind-bogglingly complicated. This is the thinking behind the (pretty good, in my opinion) advice to "eat real food."

I've been toying with the idea of developing a "real food soylent" -- an easy-to-prepare-in-bulk stew or chili, with a base of real-food ingredient options that can be interchanged based on season, availability, and taste. The idea would be to develop a real food framework that could (in theory) constitute once's entire diet. I think of this idea as Soylent minus the hubris.
Well, Ebola is pretty famous for changing hospitals into deathtraps. I guess European safety procedures aren't sufficient to eliminate the risk, and hopefully they're testing every patient and visitor discharged in the last week as well.

I hope to heaven they won't find anyone, but if Africa's MSF (doctors without borders) hospitals are any indication they probably will.
Agree, Switzerland seems definitely one of the top countries in the world which keeps itself intentionally under the radar. As Taleb put it, in addition to all the obvious benefits, Switzerland seems to be an antifragile country.

In any case, as far as I know Switzerland makes it pretty hard for people to immigrate there. Do you happen to live there? What would you say would be the most effective way to immigrate there?
How could a person who has 24 hours a day be:

1. very nice.
2. receiver of whatever shit (including good shit) people send.
3. productive.
4. responsible to make a critical system work.
5. a filter of bad code.
6. ...

Without offending anybody?
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Looks like https://baremetrics.io and http://hookfeed.com combined. What are the main differences?
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You're not incorrect. But I always like to think there is always a possible ;) The reality is agile is such a strong buzzword in 'The Enterprise' now that you can't even avoid it anymore.

The one that was successful was a $250k project - 3 months. Client insisted fixed price and done "in agile". We estimated the actual work was only 6 weeks, but knew they'd change their minds 100x times (they did). We didn't optimize the timeline properly (as you are insinuating, it's almost impossible to predict), so our margins ended up being quite low.

I do know one company which successfully does agile (within a company that does $100bil in rev). They budget the whole year out for X amount of employees and then do everything in 3 week sprints. They basically "fit in as much development as they can with the resources they have" and disregard the high level 3-year "integration plans" that the management consultants put together.
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Reading about the Pork Marketing Board, I can't help but be reminded of the Celery sketch on Portlandia, where the Produce Sales Board tracks the marketing of various produces. Bacon plays a key role.

[10:49 video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQX44THWIyc
A section on testing would definitely be a great addition.
Genuine question: Did you read the article? I feel like the author's main point is that there seems to be a higher abundance of toxic interactions in Open Source than other communities.
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cutting back on health care will not necessarily have immediate effects on the life expectancy, just as investing won't. At least if you can still provide a good basic level of service.
I love this! I did something similar when a local high school student asked to shadow me for a day. He said he'd never done any programming but really wanted to learn. His parents were currently on welfare and his dad needed him around to help with a disability. I decided that rather than ask him to do mundane webdev tasks, I'd download a PyGame game that I'd been working on, make some changes to break it, and then ask him to work on the game. After the game was fixed, I asked him to look at another game and figure out how to add an audio track. Anyway, he had a fun time and I thought, "I wonder if anyone will ever do this sort of thing on a larger scale." :-) So I'm really happy to see it. Thanks again.
Thanks for your feedback. I have some ideas in mind to create the differentiation you mentioned. But it was time to launch this thing and learn more from real users before building everything I'm thinking of.
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I don't know I could see a scenario where you have an object moving around in space and you grab a special developer handle and a code window pops up with its behaviors. then you modify it and it starts moving around again.
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When I wrote professionally, sources I had recorded on microtape (obviously with their permission) saying something would often complain that they didn't say what was recorded.
I agree, and thank you for succinctly explaining a subtle concept.
That's pretty cool. Ages ago I made a procedural platformer that colorized random tilesets in a similar way (I don't have any screenshots handy, sorry) and it worked out really well. I used the same random colorscheme code for a procedural landscape generator:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/12/19/some-planets/

If anyone cares, the code is here:

https://code.google.com/p/ld48jovoc/source/browse/ld19_disco...
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He was already trying to sell it, starting at $25/mo.

http://contribsys.com/inspeqtor/
Very nice. FYI best practices are to have a CTA or indicator on your site to scroll down, so no one leaves thinking the whole site is just an image and title.
The jobs may not be doing those things, but those skills are appreciated. The best programmers I've worked with were the ex-pure-mathematicians.
Also lots of free stuff at Project Gutenberg, including a bunch of Astoundings (which I believe is what Amazing Stories became?): http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%2...
It's not about the United States being the best, it's about them being the "reference standard" for life quality in developed nations. Everybody compares themselves to the US from economic metrics to quality of life, as one will do when a superpower has dominated geopolitical dynamics for as long as the US has.
I agree.

The book itself is very thin; but the content is incredibly rich...
A diversity of personality types doesn't guarantee better code either. I'm suggesting that there's a tradeoff to be had with the various aspects of open source that require time and energy. Spending an increased amount of time and energy on supporting a personality-diverse community (and less on other things, such as writing code) should not be assumed to automatically equate to better code.

There is a very real possibility that angry language results in an increased ability to ship code by discouraging more net-negative contributions than net-positive ones.
This guide covers filters better than anything I've ever seen.
This use of the word "privilege" has always irked me - maybe I'm just not reading it in the correct sense. It sounds very paternalistic.

Driving is a regulated activity, but you do have a right to a drivers license if you are able to comply with the regulations. "Privilege" sounds so arbitrary, as if someone could say "I don't like your face, no license for you".
This debate exists on a spectrum of gray areas, but I'm pretty sure "you should be retroactively aborted" crosses the line from "shaking someone's cage" to "flagrantly excessive verbal abuse", if for no other reason than it equate's the target's worth as a human being with their skill as a developer, which is obviously not a healthy viewpoint.