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If a party owns land the US, by what moral authority can they block others access to it? By what moral authority can they demand rent on threat of eviction? Why wouldn't any democratic agency simply have the right to take it from them without compensation?

The reason this is a deeply interesting topic is because there are exceptionally strong claims to property rights made in the US and that same property was almost entirely all stolen in the recent past.

And because one gets such inconsistencies as claiming the theft occurred in the "mists of time" when, by definition, the constitution itself is further back in those same mists of time.

And the logically absurd (and patently false claims) that one can't locate a parcel's original possessor therefore some arbitrary purchaser down an illicit chain can make nearly unlimited exclusive claim to owning it.

And of course endless use of tu quoque.

So the authors intention is an utterly uninteresting red herring. It is a remarkable opportunity for thoughtful people to examine their own inconsistent views. The rest will simply shut their ears and convince themselves their is no reason for contemplation.
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Also, as mentioned in an article yesterday, people are also more choosy about what they upload to instagram. They spend more time on the photo, spend time with editing, and are proud of what they upload.
Different sections have different styles. This one is just a bit more informal.
Examples? Found some.

https://github.com/privat/nit/tree/master/examples
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Unfortunately, there's a tradeoff: each imaging session exposes the patient to radiation. Too much radiation can be problematic.

The article does mention lower exposure but it's not clear whether it's just shorter in time (and more intense) or is the total level of radiation actually lower.
Spoken like a true American (with all that implies).

Most of the world would want America to fucking live them alone.
> The Entitled
> being a Senior Staff Engineer enables her to do something that cannot be accomplished as a Staff Engineer

I think it is not an issue with being able to do something. I believe the reasoning is something of the sorts of "Being just a Staff Engineer, I'm not doing X because I'm not payed enough to do it" or "it is not my responsability", while being a Senior Staff Engineer has a bigger pay and more responsabilities. In my opinion, it is a perfectly valid stance. Someone should just talk to this engineer to clear up any ambiguities.

And I totally agree with santacluster's comment.
Interesting they did not mention the first human trial of young blood infusion that started at Stanford late last year and should already be completed.

Also since blood transfusions are an established practice, I wonder why the "anti-aging institutes" aren't jumping all over this to offer expensive treatments as is done with testosterone and other therapies lacking sufficient evidence of efficacy and safety.
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Federal prosecutors always throw the book at people. That is their job, that is how the legal profession works - 2 sides come at a case from the most extreme positions, knowing that the end result will fall somewhere in the middle. Of course they found inappropriate laws to throw at him. Of course it seems over-zealous. That is how our system works. But people need to realize that prosecutors do not expect every charge to stick. They do not expect to actually get the horrible sentences that they threaten.

Because this case never went to trial, any decisions or reactions based on the worst-case scenario threats of prosecutors are unfounded. Any criticisms of laws being unfairly applied would have been argued in court.

The tragedy here remains that Mr. Swartz needed professional psyche help, and did not get it. A smaller tragedy was that he needed better legal help.

Across the board, this is a horrible story. But people continue to focus on the wrong points. Petitions to fire the prosecutor? Really?

We should be working towards better mental health in our society. I would also love to see a change in our legal system, but that one seems a tougher nut to crack.
> Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off.

Eh, the hundreds of hours I spent learning Windows were much less useful to me.
What if 10% of those 61,179 signed the petition because they couldn't travel to DC or take time off work to rally? What if they have kids, a second job, or an ailing relative they care for?

And suppose they could rally. If it was big enough to garner media attention, it might keep the issue in the spotlight a little longer. But it alone wouldn't change much. During the occupy protests, people rallied for months, and nothing happened.

Protest has no teeth if separated from action. We need to get organized, pressure legislators, support specific policies, and get the right people in office.
If the precision is sufficient, it could be used to counter RSI. Also, I think for gaming it could serve as a third, passive input element.
Maybe if its default CLI wasn't a total piece of horse shit.

Seriously... some commands (like reset and show) do wildly different things based on a single flag or whether they're given an argument or not; the interpretation of arguments is by default context-sensitive (files vs. branch names); the "simple" way to do some things (revert local changes) is via a seemingly unrelated command (checkout); informational commands tend to show no useful info by default; etc.

The infuriating thing is that git's internal model is very simple. It's often easier to resort to working with the files under .git/ directly than figuring out what incantation I need to do simple thing X.

The only redeeming quality of the CLI is the existence of git rebase --interactive. It's one of the few commands that directly maps a user goal (editing the DAG) to a simple action (moving lines in a text file).

(Yes, I know there probably are replacement CLIs. That doesn't help when I need to help co-workers do something.)

Darcs is an example of a great DVCS CLI. Its commands each do exactly one thing; are well-named; only need options for the uncommon cases; and there's exactly one command for each basic operation on the repository.
>> "I can share photos on facebook if I want, or on Twitter"

And if you didn't use Facebook or Twitter and wanted somewhere to share your photos you'd probably use Instagram. The filters enable you to make shitty photos look better in one tap. Lots of people don't use them. I think that was the initial appeal but now that cameras are better it's just a good place to share and view photos. The ability to share it to lots of other sites in one tap is also very useful.

>> "I can edit photos with my phone, no instagram needed."

So can I. Instagram isn't really a photo editor. You can apply filters and do basic edits but that's the point. If you apply the filters your stuff automatically 'looks good' and you don't need to spend time editing.
Yes, I think so.

It might be of interest to you that there is now some published work on bandit algorithms for when all you have is ranking, not absolute ordering. This is close to what we were talking about: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.3393.pdf
Yeah those numbers aren't particularly accurate. GTX 980, which costs about $600, has 2048 cuda cores and 5 tflops peak, with 150 watts consumption.
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I was thinking the same thing, but thinking about it more I only get angry (which I suppose is constructive because anger can lead to the drive to do something instead of shitposting on the Internet).

This government would be tripping all over itself to comment if Aaron Schwartz was a police officer that had shot an unarmed kid, although he likely wouldn't have been indicted.

This government would be tripping all over itself to comment if Aaron Schwartz had released data from a private, multinational and said it was about an upcoming movie, although his actions would likely be blamed on what this government considers a rogue state.

This government stands silent and swings its righteous hammer of legalism without concern for harm and proportionality since Aaron Schwartz committed a victimless crime that in no way would change the political party affiliation of anybody voting in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe if he had actually killed somebody or massively hurt the bottom line of a multinational company it would be different...
ok, so now there's an EyeX, Rex and this newest 'SteelSeries Sentry Gaming Eye Tracker'. What's the difference? What's the point in releasing this newer thingy which is more expensive than EyeX, which I now see was available for arounf a year?
Absolutely. Maybe this can work if you only work around other engineers who are able to (somewhat) accurately judge the quality of your work and opinions based on their own knowledge. As soon as you're dealing with other departments or clients who do not have the ability to correctly judge your competence they latch on to other methods of ranking you, which will be word of mouth, and failing that, title.
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>room temperature IQs

Boy, this bubble doesn't think too highly of the outside world, does it? What an attitude. We're not all idiots.

As someone who has run product before, I can tell you there's always some self-entitled blowhard who feels you owe them something for the time they spend on your product, or their "help". No one is upset when they finally leave (and they always do).

The fact that you have switched away from Google products (and are threatening to leave the last) means your value to Google is likely slightly above zero. But I'm sure the competition are beating down your door for your business.
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deleting (i.e) not printing lines
Here are the examples for not printing the 4th line:

sed: sed -n '4!p'

awk: awk 'NR != 4'

perl: perl -ne '$. != 4 && print'

Not much between them really.
When it comes to smartphones, are Americans dumb?
I hope too.

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A guy know wants to block cell phone signals at his business so that customers are forced to use his phones, at a premium.

I'm sure there's a law against this though.
Even if it's just a 'day on the job' for the prosecutors it's not for the people they accuse and prosecute. Although I understand that that the prosecution in America seems more like bargaining than real justice and that you should always ask for more than you can reasonably achieve in bargaining, I think that the threat of years of your life wasted in prison is not acceptable. I agree with your point about better mental health-care, but the fact that Aaron needed, and did not receive, care does not redeem the prosecutor who drove him over the edge in my opinion.

Saying that it's unfair to challenge the prosecutors behavior because the case never went to court does not seem relevant in light of the consequences the threats have had.
Do you think you'd do better or worse with a 5:2 diet? Want to do IF too but I haven't decided on an approach yet.

Also this NPR article [1] seemed to imply 12 hours of fasting per 24 hours would be enough. That's actually simply skipping breakfast which is really easy.

[1] http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/12/05/2014/you-are-when...
It's linked in the writeup, though the link is not terribly obvious: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/ast.2014.1218
The power needed to keep the analog comparator going will probably be higher than keeping the 32kHz clock running.
Cough suppression is one of the first things that heroin was marketed for: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--k12ZMisi...
It still exist and Borland has ridiculous small screenshots on their website

http://www.borland.com/Products/Requirements-Management/Toge...
Yeah, I've come to the conclusion that any diet based on will power just won't work. I've done will-power based diets for up to 8 months before but ultimately I just give in again.

That's why I'm hopeful IF might help.
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A more scientific study on the benefits of fasting leading to improved cell regeneration was posted on HN a few days ago. Here's the corresponding journal paper http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2014.04.014 (paywalled)
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I do understand where you're coming from, and I also find myself using such analogies as often they are the quickest way to communicate a concept to an audience of developers. However, I think it's often worth considering if there are other ways to communicate the same ideas using methods more accessible to non-technical people, or those who might be new developers. I think my gut reaction to the (over)use of such terms is more of a reaction towards a potentially exclusionary culture which I dislike strongly.
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Seriously? The term "self entitlement" is often bandied around here with no real justification. But this comment truly exemplifies the phrase. Sure, I too had to click a couple of times to read this free article, but big deal, it could've been hidden behind a paywall.

Feeling so outraged as to blame the publisher for a cookie compliance dialogue (in Europe you have no choice; yes the implementation may be sucky, but they're making sure they get the message across) and an invite to subscribe isn't exactly the end of the world, or the justification to post their content on a pastebin.
I think stackoverflow is better for this specific question.

Having said that most databases (on the backend) have spatial extension where you can run queries like 'where inside(point,geometry)'. So you create a bounding box or circle around the user, then run a query. That's faster than calculating distances between all users. The databases have special indices for geographic lookup.
Both point and geometry probably need to be specified in WKT format.
http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.1/SpatiaLite-manual.html
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/applications/geospatial-index...
Very useful to know what to do with this new VAT mess. Thanks!
You're missing the point. The point is thousands of people get killed by world powers and nobody cares.
There was a wave of gentility that set in about 1800, and words good enough for the King James Bible fell out of use for much of the population.
So if the doctor says you have cancer but they can't start the chemo for a week or two, just stop eating? At best you kill off some of the cells and give your immune system a slight boost. At worst you lose some weight that might buy you a few days later on down the line?

I'm not sure there's anything useful here.
It could use a solution that isn't racist or anything tho
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If titles don't matter, then give everyone the title "King/Queen of Engineering Mountain". Oh, you don't want to do that eh? I wonder why...

In all seriousness, if I asked about job titles and got this trifle as a response that would be a negative signal for me. Politics function whether engineers choose to believe it, or not.
Because it works. I have never wanted to do anything on my iPhone that I can't and as a developer I've only had one rejection that annoyed me and in hindsight I understand the rejection. I've also used Android devices a lot (I own two, and develop for the platform) and I hate it. Really hate it. Waiting for OS updates, lots of crashing, things in different places depending on the OEM. Not to mention how slow some devices are. The S3 Mini is horrible to use, I don't see how anyone could feel comfortable putting it to market.

In short, the crap either doesn't effect most people, or creates a better experience. The only people who seem to really complain about it don't use the platform anyway.
Assuming you have the coordinates for the each online user, iterate that collection, create a CLLocation object from the coordinate data, and check that object against CLLocation method distanceFromLocation with a radius value.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...:
> The main problem with google is that it's too 'smart' for its own good (smart tool makes stupid users).

I don't think that's true; one, I don't think that Google's smarts are a problem with Google, and two, I don't think that allowing people to direct their intelligence other places than carefully crafting search queries to get useful results in most cases makes stupid users.

> If I search for something, I don't want it to by default include a massive list of other 'helpful' things up to and including antonyms or different word order that changes the meaning (e.g. how "foo guide for bar users" == "bar guide for foo users" according to google).

Altered word order in a query isn't equivalent to Google. I just tested with a bunch of pairs that differed in order, and got different results for each search in the pair.

Altered word order may be something Google things may be relevant to your search, but that's different than the equation you presented.

> So far, every single person I have explained filter bubbles to has been weirded out by the idea and thanked me for telling them about it.

Its possible to explain anything to people in a way that weirds people out, but I don't see why search personalization should. Most people, I think, understand that the same set of words from different people have different most-likely meanings: if you know one person is a cocaine addict and another is, to the best of your knowledge, drug-free but a heavy soda drinker, and each says to you "I need some coke!", you'll probably interpret those statements differently.
> I wonder if they could put a pitch-shifting circuit in his hearing aid to shift sounds up/down so that they fall within his hearing range, whilst not shifting frequencies already in that range. That would help significantly, surely?

If you read the article, you'll see that's more or less what most modern hearing aids do, via a technique called multi-band compression.

Edit: Actually, here anigbrowl, an audio engineer, states that this is not how multi-band compression works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854142

Assuming he is correct, my above statement may well be wrong.
Exactly. Unless there has been a crime, you vote these people, or the people who appointed them, out.
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Ask HN: What can we do to show we don't support the response to Aaron Swartz?
It's clear that petitions are useless, but it's even more egregious when they're promoted by the government and left out to dry for 2 years.

We shouldn't accept this from our government.

I don't want us to be a community of sheeple who complain a little bit, but ultimately just shrug our shoulders. We shouldn't have to stand for reckless, almost-criminal, prosecutorial abuse. It's basically the same as a cop beating up somebody to "make an example"

Should we code something? Organize a rally in the major cities? Write code to make it easy to start rallies? What're some good ideas to show our discontent?
Even though we're a major vacation destination, people seem to want to stay in and watch movies or play online games on their expensive vacations. There's basically always a minority of users ruining the connection for everyone else.
IIRC on this scanner, the actual data collection is very fast (few minutes) but the high-quality image reconstruction needs just under an hour. The images in the link are also heavily manually post-processed which is labor intensive.
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Search in the OS is killer, now tHe jury is out if that means I get a Wikipedia page, a definition for my search term, abriviated Google results AND the files on my disks that match my search term. For most of those, I'll always use search in a browser and not in my os.

Personally, I think that's just bad ux, it's simplification one step too far. The user might not want these search services to know they are searching for some terms. That's a distinction that I know many users clearly don't care about though.
First, you've purposefully picked the smallest module that you could find. And can you back up your claim that "the same people who shame other people's work worship and publish one-line modules"? Can't you see how using terms like "shame" and "worship", which poor Blake never used no accused anyone of, is inflammatory?

Second, so what? So it's alright to copy and paste the function? It is alright if a coworker wrote the function and presented you with an interface? Would you have a problem if a single module that was "designed in isolation, documented in isolation and can be used in isolation" but was published internally?
Also as @mtmail mentions, the better path for this is probably not on the device itself. It would get expensive where N number of users is really high. Perhaps at the service layer, send the device location to the service, and have the service return the nearby users.
What was their decision?
If you want to talk about the phrasing, I think you're missing a subtle distinction.

He disagrees IN principle, not ON principle.

As in, he disagrees in principle, but not in practice. As I understand it, "on principle" is the construction describing taking a stand on a decision because of your deeply held convictions. "In principle" is for a decision you've derived logically from a set of abstract premises.
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How do they do the 100% model? It sounds awesome, but how do they actually make that happen?
Yes. They used ofloxacin as a control. Figure 2d in the paper.

Kim Lewis, the senior author on this publication, is one of the world's foremost experts on antibiotic resistance. This isn't amateur hour.
Having people start their own campaigns is very smart and scaleable in my opinion. It's like having people be your salesforce. See how they set it up http://newstorycharity.org/create-campaign
Is that LAN controller illegal? According to the article:

"Federal law prohibits the operation, marketing, or sale of any type of jamming equipment, including devices that interfere with cellular and Personal Communication Services (PCS), police radar, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and wireless networking services (Wi-Fi)."

If that disconnect is disabling wifi aps then technically it is "intefering" with wifi services and thus illegal?
I've had to call 911 to report a traffic accident, and can attest that the iPhone cannot be heard over adjacent traffic whizzing by. It just doesn't go loud enough. My current Nokia doesn't either. Since the phone knows you're making an emergency call, I don't see why the volume limiter can't be removed in that case.
Are you using needles? Do you need to involve yourself with criminals in order to buy it? Do your colleagues know or suspect anything at all? Do you have a normal house or does it look like the apartments you see in Black Tar Heroin?

Sorry for all the questions but I'm genuinely interested and fascinated when you say you have a job as as Senior Software Engineer while being addicted to heroin.
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I have a similar experience, although so far it is only with one company so far. The company claimed to be flat, but it ended up being the loudest/most obstinate that ended up influencing the technical decisions.

I prefer more structure now to avoid running into that sort of situation.