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Why You Don't Want To Use The Panini Presses in the Downstairs Cafeteria (bothsidesofthesandwich.com)

We all know the downstairs cafeteria is changing fast. Others have discussed the new panini presses and greater variety of pizza recently added to the cafeteria menu. Most of these developments have benefited diners, although I've previously written about the darker side of things in these blog posts:

* Why I Don't Love Meat-Lovers Pizza

* Ham Is A Sandwich Best Served Cold

Now, you might think that the panini presses to the downstairs cafeteria are an unmitigated good. They only increases the number of things you're able to eat, right? Hot sandwiches in addition to cold?

Wrong.

Let me give you an example from just last week.

I was at the panini machine heating up the Mark Suster Special -- an culinary invention whose ingredients, until recently, were known only to myself -- when a classmate of mine asked if he could put his sandwich into the machine at the same time. Normally I don't let other people use the panini machine at the same time as me, since it takes longer to heat the sandwiches with two in there instead of just one. But sometimes, their sandwich ingredients will infuse the Mark Suster Special with extra aromatic zest, so this time I agreed.

The sandwich turned out fine. Or so I thought at first. What I didn't know was that this individual -- who I will not name, but who sits in the front row of Mr. Boyd's 3rd period English class and the last row of Mr. Lowry's 7th period chemistry class -- would later go around claiming that he invented the Mark Suster Special and its near-perfect ratio of meat to cheese. In fact he divulged this ratio to everyone sitting in the second row of Mr. Vining's 4th period algebra class.

When I found out about this, I was flabbergasted. This classmate was trying to get all his friends to try out a sandwich that wasn't really his -- a clear violation of my intellunchual property rights. I only found out about it because this unnamed individual was bragging about the sandwich while sitting in the second row of Mrs. Roth's 2nd period history class, just to the left of my friend Ken.

I don't know how this will play out, but I've already filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities. The only reason I tell you this story is that it's becoming more and more clear to me that you can get "burned" by panini presses in more ways than one. If you absolutely must use the panini press, it's best to wrap your sandwich in tin foil first, lest unnamed individuals -- who are co-captain of the JV lacrosse team -- try to claim your sandwich idea as their own.

These days, it seems the thieves aren't just in the second-floor study area. They're in the downstairs cafeteria as well.
You'd have to have the resources to challenge this on principle, which might be hard to come by if a lot of your money and possessions were recently seized. Furthermore, for asset forfeiture, police departments tend to prey on the weak in the first place, so they are less likely to challenge it - or will give up the challenge once they receive back a pittance from these thugs.
Are you using an ORM? If you're writing a web app (at least in Rails, Django or Flask) you can start once you have a rough idea about your objects and properties (~= schema) and then use database migrations (e.g. with alembic) as you make changes.

If you don't care about your test data, just have your ORM create a fresh set of empty tables for you, each time you change the schema.
Should designers be more technical?
It's not guilty til proven innocence, but a lower standard called a preponderance of evidence.

The hearing you get is the due process.
"www" is generally taken to mean (world-wide-)web server (as opposed to ftp, gopher, telnet, smtp, imap or just "mail" server). So you could say needing both "http(s)://" and "www" is redundant.

Similarly, http://ftp.company.com is a bit of a misnomer -- if it was an ftp server, you'd have to use "ftp://" -- but of course a single host might run several different daemons, or a daemon might speak several different protocols.

I can appreciate that for many people "www" and ".com" 'denotes a URL', and also agree that without context, "Something.anything" doesn't really look like an URL. I fail to see how that's a problem within the context of hypertext (where the expected behaviour is clicking a link).

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Everyone avoids MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, Teradata etc these days not for any technical reasons.

It purely comes down to cost. Both in the short term and the long term. Even in enterprises its becoming hard to justify the vendor, consulting and hardware costs.
You can't compare an average 'tax' against the lowest working wage. So I did some rough figuring based on annual income. Assuming forfeiture is spread across all income levels evenly, it would be better to compare against mean income. Looks like (based on 2004 numbers) mean household income was 60,528, mean household size 2.57, for a mean income of 23230 per person. That puts forfeiture ballpark 6%, assuming it all comes from on-the-books assets. So for people working one full time job, about 3 weeks equivalently. Actually pretty close to what you got, I'm sad to see.

Wouldn't want to be living in the us right now, based on those numbers. That sounds like it adds up to a whole lot of corruption.
Is it legal to not share 100% of the information with all investors at the same time? Or is this just a requirement of public companies?

I respect the OP, so I assume it has to be legal for private companies, but it would be good to get confirmation.
Well - I think this article is aimed at people that are discouraged with their progress in programming for whatever reason.

All of the bolded items seemed extremely accurate. Especially for people I've worked with, those early in their career can really struggle with them. I'd love it if they took these lessons to heart.

Thus the title/subtitle:

> Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code; And what I’ve learned from teaching others
Not sure I can agree -- just as with all TLDs, it serves as a namespace. My.website isn't the same as My.webapp, which is different from My.webshop. I'm not sure any of these really are worse than My.com? In the end, it's just an alias for a numeric identifier.
Just thought I should let you know that the jobs@ionicframework.com is not a valid email address. Keep an eye out for my resume that I sent to jobs@drifty.com.

-Austin W.
I think browserling is a similar service.

browserling.com
We will start trying to sell machines pretty soon. Our background is in robotics so we thought this would be a fun application for the automation technologies we use at our day jobs.

We just showed this at Engadget Expand in NYC this weekend and made about 850 cups of coffee over two days. We wrote a scheduler which takes care of the timing and water volumes so every cup is the same. Parameters are controlled via an HTML5 app. The machine is built like a piece of factory automation equipment for good reliability. We've been running them 24/7 in the shop for months to verify the hardware.

The theater is a big part of it, we're definitely trying to strike a balance between the robot and the barista.
I always feel like an asshole when I say this, but... Much of the constitution and guiding American legal principles (as much as they diverge from Common Law at the time) were built on distrust of The Crown. And since then they've managed to fuck it up spectacularly. Elected public prosecutors instead of something like the Crown Prosecution Service. Insane semi-militarised police instead of a force whose ethos continues to be "policing by consent" (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles). ANZAC and the UK are far from perfect, but there's a bitter irony that a country built to escape oppression from the state now feels it more keenly than the other countries born of that state.
>IANAL: Last I heard, the logic was that you, the owner, are not accused of anything. Your property is accused of being used in a criminal act. Your property is guilty until proven innocent, because it is not a person protected by the bill of rights.

This kind of twisting the meaning of explicit passages in the constitution etc, is only fit for a dictatorship and/or a nation of slaves. It means those documents are more or less jokes.

Second, the "property is "accussed"", really? How does that fit with the "nor be deprived of life, liberty, OR PROPERTY"?

The same obvious BS twisting I saw in justifying no gun control, by twisting the "militia" thing to mean anyone at anytime.

That this twisting was made by the higher judges with prestigious degrees, 20 medals and awards, and 40+ year career doesn't mean much.
Private network using DoD addresses?
I read on the hacker news a couple of months ago about a service that was similar to hamachi (before it was bought by LogMeIn) that created a private network. I recall that the service was using non-routable DoD addresses for its peers.

I apologize for the post, I've performed some searching prior to asking, but I can't for the life of me find this web service based on my search criteria.

Does anyone know this service? I can't think of the name.

Appreciative,
I don't see how that logic flies. My property may be guilty until innocent, but I am still being deprived of property without due process.
The state can bring civil lawsuits. In fact, many agencies like EPA or Attorney General do that all the time.
Pragmatic Programmers has released a book on the iOS 8 SDK that uses Swift.

https://pragprog.com/book/adios2/ios-8-sdk-development
I'm not so sure that the pharaoh in the background was impressed.
I can confirm the awesomeness of the coffee produced by this machine. They were setup at Maker Faire NYC for the last two years giving away free coffee. The robotic pourover was excellent!

Best of luck to these guys!
Good. Probably no. But there is Saucelabs.
that happened to customers at a company I worked for. Turned out to be awful handling of threading in a rails app caused sessions to get mixed up.
If you wouldn't mind sharing your dot files, I'd love to take a look and see what's new.
> Seriously, from all the inefficiencies pointed out in this article, how is the economy of Japan not in the verge of collapse?

I dare say that it is. Have you ever seen their debt to GDP ratio?

How Japan manages to compete has been a big question in academic business studies for a very long time. I think Michael Porter did one of the best analysis of why Japan manages to be competitive in some markets, but his work is getting rather old now.

http://www.amazon.com/Can-Japan-Compete-Michael-Porter/dp/04...
Browserling.com is an alternative.

(Disclosure: I'm the co founder.)
The same way that growing a plant on your own property for your own consumption became "commerce among the states".
Police abuses of civil asset forfeiture have been around longer than many HN readers have been alive. Here's an example of civil asset forfeiture abuse in 1991 (the practice extends back to at least 1985), which was the subject of congressional testimony in 1996: https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/statement-rep-he...

I remember going to DC policy seminars on the topic that groups like the ACLU and the Cato Institute held 10-15 years ago, and Cato published a lengthy paper about these abuses in 2006: http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/balko_whit...

There's even an organization devoted to ending civil asset forfeiture abuses: http://fear.org/

But after roughly three decades of this practice, and over two decades of well-documented abuses, nothing has changed. Why this remains the case, even though every politician and judge is aware or should be aware of these abuses, is left as an exercise for the reader.
Why We 'Choke' Under Pressure, According to Neuroscience
Ask HN: How do I get bots to scrap and mirror my content?
For an experiment I'm running, it would be optimal to get as many bots as possible to scrap and mirror some html text content hosted on a public website.

I understand they will eventually come, but does anyone have suggestions on how to catalyze the process?
Maybe that's the problem. The two parties are at best reactive. If we'd have a third or fourth party, we'd get parties actually pushing for something and raising awareness about a problem. Most people can't be bothered with this because "it doesn't happen to them".
Rust and Go and Java
Extensible Effects
Yes, this is the ultimate solution. Fines and forfeitures should never go to the local government responsible for crafting them, or worse, directly to the police department enforcing them.

Remove that incentive, and suddenly the darker motive goes away. The officials can no longer emotionally rationalize excessive fines, misplaced priorities on seizure rather than crime prevention, or even outright theft. The only thing that remains is a desire to actually do the job of protecting the public.
echo, because now amazon wants to know when you're fapping, too...
I detest U2 in basically every way, but to say he's not an artist is quite shortsighted.
Why the American Middle Class Is Dying
$4.3 / .31 ~= $14.00

I think you mean $14.00, not $1400.
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis: Status and Prospects (2007) [pdf]
>Your property is accused of being used in a criminal act.

what happened to that case of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom, but his suit was rejected because he was property, and property couldn't sue?

Edit: found the case, it was Dred Scott vs. Sandford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
This is John Oliver's commentary on this issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

note: Not sure if we can post youtube videos here, but the commentary on the video very relevant to the topic
How should the law think about robots?  (2013)
>These are all straw-men. "Hitler was evil" is an absolute judgement of Hitler

He was a human -- even likable when you get to know him they say (he sure made millions of Germans like him). What was "evil", if you want, was his ideals and more especially them put in practice (the war, the holocaust, the S.S. etc).

To say he was evil implies he was something different than the next person. But ordinary people, the kind that would have been a friendly librarian or baker, when caught up in some historical dynamics can end up doing monstrous acts (e.g. in Nazi Germany, in Cambodia, in Nigeria, etc). Hanna Arendt wrote compellingly about how the most "evil" man in the camps was in fact a banal bureucrat.

I also dislike how we selectively call some people evil. How many call Truman, the guy who gave the OK to bomb to oblivion two civilian towns, evil? Or maybe if Hitler had only killed 200.000 civilians in the course of the war it would have been OK?
Prediksi Turki vs. Brasil 13 November 2014 Persahabatan
This is a bigger issue than just civil asset forfeiture. This kind of conflict of interest encompasses ticket "quotas" (technically disallowed but tacitly followed) or when someone with an out-of-state license plate is targeted on the assumption that they're less likely to fight the ticket. I've heard of cops bragging about the tickets they write and how they're putting money in the city's coffer.

But I'm at a loss what to do about it. Is there a way to disassociate enforcement from penalizing?
I just don't understand this fascination of Asian, and more so East Asian peoples, with the West. Replica of Eiffel tower? Why would you want that when you have the forbidden city, the great wall and maybe countless oriental palaces??

Especially after how badly China was treated by most western countries (and Japan) during the Qing dynasty.
To me Perl is the monk's language. Not very friendly monks either. Solitary monks, except when they're talking about the virtues of Perl with each other. Except within intentional cloisters, it's not a good language to use for largescale or outward looking projects.
Don't know if artists want to be heard, but see how you casually brag about knowing "hundreds of artists", including a Grammy winning one, "personally".
As far as I can tell, "due process" only means "a judge approved it".
If the media hasn't fully recognized the problem, how did you become aware of it fully?
Good article - it's funny how easy it is to forget these points.

"Worrying about “geek cred” will slowly kill you"

This one rang particularly true as I easily overlook any successes I've had because they're rarely made public. The ones that make it to the light of day are never what I consider my best work. I'll see more popular programmers, lament my relative obscurity and then the whole Impostor Syndrome will flare up and nearly stop me in my tracks.

It's such a fantastic feeling to have leaned to say "meh, fuck it" and focus on what I love about my vocation.
Writing an init script for a Java application
If I wrote an article with the same title I would only include one thing to remember when coding and that is to write code with the expectation that others will have to read your code. (This of course assumes you're not an ass who wants to make people's lives more difficult!)
I think instant-runoff voting is a better idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
I'd be OK with criticizing his capital gains if he were dead and they didn't seem to be distributed reasonably. At least until then, it seems pretty gross to criticize him on that basis. And to call a member of such an influential band "not an artist" just seems silly.
Yeah, why it wouldn't?

It's in fact one the 3 dominant CSS preprocessors (the others being SASS and Stylus.
The whole relationship and Tim Cooks weird statements like "ISNT THAT THE GREATEST SINGLE YOU HAVE EVER HEARD?" at the iPhone keynote seem so out of whack with their normal advertising audience I don't know how it made it through
Due process isn't the problem. The seizure is sanctioned by a court and you can challenge it, so there's your due process.

The reason it's a total scam is that they're claiming it's a civil proceeding rather than a criminal one. The government is making an accusation of criminal wrongdoing and is ostensibly acting on behalf of the people rather than any government agency but somehow it isn't a criminal case. So then the government claims it doesn't have to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, they can just steal your stuff and leave you with the burden of suing to get it back.
First of all, the author did not say she believed that, she argued that Joel Spolsky did. I'm going to respond to it anyway because I think a lot of people do think pointers and recursion separate the boys from the men[0].

In an era of coding bootcamps that claim to compress a 4-year CS degree into 4-10 weeks of adrenaline-fueled CSS/HTML/JS/Ruby memorization, and deem their graduates programmers, it seems like many people follow that sentiment.

I believe this kind of thinking is not so much harmful as laughable - in my experience studying programming has been an exercise in learning about the existence of more and more complex topics I don't understand yet. First it was OOP, then design patterns, then functional programming, and now I'm glancing over the horizon towards type theory, language theory, etc.

Getting pointers and recursion are very, very, early steps (though hard ones!) on a long journey.

[0] s/boys/girls s/men/women
That's what I mean by wishful thinking. Disarming is not possible in anything like a useful timeframe, at least not by a Government you'd like to have around after the disarming finished.
The Powder Toy, more or less the state of the art in falling sand games now, has a raft of Life rulesets. I found it quite interesting to pit them together; they have no particular rules for directly interacting with one another, but the way they take advantage of life and death and empty space nonetheless can produce some fascinating interactions anyway.
My comment is still in moderation; I've fired Juan an email to enquire about his moderation policy, which is increasingly looking like "quietly vanish posts I don't like".
Indeed - prohibiting individual use because it might morph into interstate commerce is an illegal type of "pre-crime restraint" [1].

In which case everyone's rights are violated on the mere possibility that a victimless act the government objects to might be committed.

[1] http://cornelllawreview.org/articles/pre-crime-restraints-th...
Agreed. It's a 'TV licence', though, not a 'BBC license fee'.
Is Something Evil Going On? Yes There Is
I am not a lawyer, but I have heard that cases literally suing property (as opposed to the property owner):

* United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency[1]

* United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins[2]

* United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola[3]

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U....

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately_...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty_Barrels_...
Show HN: OK Shift – SMS-based shift scheduling for the service industry
Tor: Hidden Service Protocol
I use entity framework. Like any ORM it has some abstraction leaks and a few warts, but all in all it only cemented my opinion above that SQL is holding RDBMS systems back.
I expected a bit more insight from such an ominous title. Long story short: cloud storage and computation are a commodity; cloud companies need to offer value-added features to turn a profit.
Stealing a touchdown
This Verbal Confrontation Shows Why Walmart Will Never Accept Apple Pay
This is the best that normal people can understand... unless you trick them in to being smart.

Voters, thanks to mainstream media, understand the concept of 'voting off' or expressing whom they have the most dis-approval for.

Thus get voters to construct a ranking from least to most liked; which you can invert to get the most to least liked. IRV also has poor behavior in the process for selecting whom to remove. My personal solution for that is to remove 'winners' until all that's left is a single candidate; that is the candidate that failed to win any election possible in that round and the one to drop. Re-calculate until there are the target number of candidates left and you have the set of IRV plurality winners (I wasn't even aware of the term plurality until CGPGrey's wonderful series on voting brought up the methods of voting in Robert's Rules of Order).
People seem to greatly undervalue the importance of aligning incentives with desired outcomes.
Unbelievable.

What kind of training get the police men? Is it police training or training how to be a crook?

There is one saying in the bible -- I don't want to preach, but some wisdom can be even found in old books -- "A man reaps what he sows".

It seems, this state sows crooks.
You can't see emails in profiles, but I'd be happy to talk about what I can.
Finding $816M, and Fast, to Save Detroit
You have to make it so that the money doesn't go back into the political unit's general funds nor a fund where the enforcing agency gets access to it directly or indirectly. Perhaps the money goes to a pool of charities, or is earmarked to remedy the victims of crimes, or is simply returned to the Federal Reserve (though that might just circulate back to the banks).

The idea is to remove the monetary incentives from enforcement actions.
What can you do with $10?
The random guy from Rochester here (~del)

I will hock destroyers, although I don't know if I can sell them, for reasons I can't go into. Also offering Yachts, to anyone who thinks that a destroyer is just too militaristic.

I can also confirm, don't know Curtis from Adam.
Glass, Home and Solipsism – Benedict Evans
This sounds like a story that Cartman would tell in the principal's office.