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Judicial opinion often follows public opinion more closely than you might think. The constitution did not apply to non-whites until it did. Women did not have equal rights to men, and then they did. It was not the constitution changing but rather the legal interpretation of it.

Edited to add: the court cases do not occur until a significant portion of the population believes in an issue enough to be willing to fight for it. Even then, the courts may take a significant amount if time adjusting their legal interpretation.
I've worked for a major static analysis product company for 7 years and I can tell you from experience customizing rules is not a popular feature. People like the idea of writing custom rules, but the vast majority don't. You guys may make a market out of this and prove me wrong wrong, I just wanted to provide some feedback based on my experience in this industry.
Thanks for the feedback! How would you call it? Static analysis? Linting? Code linting seemed too be a very specific and not widely known term for us while most people seem to know what "code review" means, hence our decision to call it "automated code review".
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Is there a protocol for making your radio more phone like, that is it rings when someone calls you or beeps when someone texts you? I guess if I were to hack together an RTTY or PSK32 thing to do this my next question would be where can I find a portable cheap low power draining SDR similar to a "smart phone".
Good point, we'll think about updating this. Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, a perfect example of a person who does professional comedy being funny in a way that makes it look so easy that any rank amateur thinks they surely can do it as well (when they can't.)
I find that sort of statement deeply disturbing.
Can you link us to more info on the NFC implant? Is this useful for auth like a YubiKey?

What is the state of the art on battery-powered implants? How far out is sourcing energy directly from the body? I guess inductive charge is an important option here.

Has the neodymium implant served any practical useful purpose for you? That seems more interesting to me than the electronics in some sense, because of how quickly anything silicon becomes obsolete.
No, the USN has said the F-35 will be the last manned "strike" aircraft for them. They are developing the F/Axx to replace the F-18, and this will definitely be manned.
I reject the premise that the country should be open to anyone who wants to come in and give it a shot.

At some point a country has to stand up for its citizens, people who take on massive debt to go to school here, who grew up here and whose family paid lots of taxes, should have priority for jobs.

Besides, if it's about research, research institutions can sponsor H1B really easily and are cap exempt.
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2) hbase+phoenix: http://phoenix.apache.org/

3) opentsdb: http://opentsdb.net/
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is pretty cool. I like his transparency. He writes really useful things. His writing about salary negotiation is probably the single most useful thing I've ever read. Lots of other stuff he's covered I hope will be relevant to me in the coming years (B2B sales).
Complex systems exhibit all sorts of interesting emergent behaviours. Many things in living systems, like the way proteins fold, can be incredibly intricate. There are thousands of complex chemical pathways that need to work in synchronicity. We don't even fully understand all the factors influencing the appearance of cancers, many new exciting discoveries are still being made. Even things like resonance in certain circumstances could bridge some of the gap in power levels discussed.

It is the height of hubris to suggest there was never even any point in checking if mobile phones could cause cancer. Those studies were not a waste; science is full of surprises and empirical evidence is still the loudest voice science has.
And if we can prove that ionising radiation is the only thing that can cause cancers then we're golden in applying this model.
It would be nice if they had something similar in NJ. So close yet, so far.
"For instance, a Danish study followed 420,000 people over 20 years and found no link between cancer and mobile phone use "- Studied Mobile phone use for over 20 Years!?
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Inserting a "pilotless control system" into a previously manned fighter does nothing to improve its performance, and degrades it in many ways (i.e. situational awareness). Where unmanned systems do better is in size and weight since they don't have to carry all the gear to support a human. Although you can remove ejection seats, oxygen gear etc from a manned fighter, unmanned really needs to be designed from the ground up.
An RC F-15 exists and is used for training I believe (no link handy) however I think moving forward, it would be more reasonable to expect them to make an RC/autonomous F-35 or F-22 or comparable fifth generation fighter.
Maybe it reflects what we understand today.
But we also know that we know very, very little.
I wasn't dismissing the study's quality, just saying that this is not necessarily going to lead to any change in policy (e.g. all EU computers mandated to run OpenBSD).
It is a very similar situation where I am in the Midwest/Southern US. Most "investors" are doctors/lawyers/etc that think investing in a startup is an alternative to the stock market.
So basically, some people are douchebags; therefore Cards Against Humanity, Ruby, and Haskell all suck.

Got it.

Holy non-sequitur, Batman.
I just did a search and came across this meta-analysis, which confirms your statement:

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=185157
I agree with you as to the conclusion: I don't believe that cell-phones cause notably higher rates of cancer. I believe that based on the studies, as I think you do.

The problem with the article, and perhaps the reasoning in your comment, is that it assumes that ionizing radiation is the sole cause of cancer. The article implies that cancer studies that consider anything other than ionizing radiation are a waste of time and money.

I believe the debate as to whether there are non-radiation causes, catalysts or contributors to cancer is very much open, and I appreciate the work that people do to investigate these possibilities.
I know what the distinction between the mean and the median is, and I know which one is appropriate to use with quantity like "how funny someone is" (hint: you can take three people and point to the one who is in the middle on the funniness scale, but you can't add together how funny they are and divide it by three).
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I was surprised that the PHP database access layer doesn't throw an error and aborts the transaction (like the other DAL I know would do).
That actually seems like an interesting idea, but I'd like for the public to be able to view the list of unique coins for each candidate and verify theirs went where they wanted it to. Wouldn't the 1-coin-to-1-person connection be vulnerable to manipulation, since you wouldn't want someone (perhaps on the inside) to be able to generate coins and spam-vote?
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Any treaty that's inconvenient will be abandoned, with hardly a second thought. Those treaties are the least concerning challenge in the entire legalization process, they are truly irrelevant.

Nothing will happen to the US if it abandons those treaties. It'll be a blip in the news for one day, as a few grumbles are heard. Other than that, what you'll hear is mostly cheering and celebrating.

Other countries will take it as a cue that the global war on drugs the US has been prosecuting is now over, and they will begin legalizing (this is already underway). It's no longer a question of if; at this point nothing will stop the inevitable rolling back of the war on drugs, the momentum is overwhelming.
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And we know now the government has already been working to build back doors into all these opt-in services. However, contrary to what you say, it is arguably not opt-in. It is becoming increasingly infeasible not to leave digital footprints. And if you make the effort, then you automatically red-flag yourself as someone who is behaving like a terrorist or meth-dealer.
"I don’t particularly hate it for the obvious reasons of middle class white kids sitting around a table giggling at how transgressive they are being with their jokes about race. I don’t approve, and I would probably avoid it for that reason alone, but it’s frankly so banal in this regard that it probably wouldn’t be enough to raise my ire above lukewarm. What I really hate about it is that it’s a game about convincing yourself that you’re much funnier than you actually are."

Wow. There's a lot going on there, up in that ivory tower.
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There is definitely business value in contributing to these projects.

First of all, by contributing, you show a mutual interest in the increased quality of the solution. This in turn will motivate the maintainers to better understand the business concerns of the new contributor.

By contributing, the contributor will gain insights in the workings of the solution, thus increasing the quality of the product itself. (As an analogy: by taking apart an amplifier, you increase your understanding of the way the product satisfies your needs).

Last but not least, contributing generates good-will, subsequently increasing the probability of adequate answers to support questions.
Ah, memories. A lot has happened over the past several years that could be added to the code.

Having said that, GCS/MU d-- s-:++ a C+++$ UL+(+++) P+++ L++ E--- W+++ N++ w+ M++ PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP- !t X-- R++ tv-- b+ DI++++ D+ G+ e++ h---- r+++.
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Maybe he was already familiar with it before?

I also wonder just how far into an article like this you have to read before you can accurately describe it as garbage. You come across nice quotes like "Contraception made it possible for females to conduct campaigns to act on their urges of hypergamy." pretty early on. Is it really necessary to drink the entire bottle of crap before one can safely declare that it is, in fact, crap?
Considering how many things that go boom they must deal with on a daily basis, that's surprisingly mundane.
I am sure every civil rights movement faces similar kind of backlash in the beginning.
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I manage a 2.5 TB/day Splunk cluster at my current employer and can offer a few tips for making Splunk less painful to manage:

- Make frequent visits to answers.splunk.com. It has a very active community, and I've frequently been able to type "how do I do X in Splunk" into Google and found multiple answers on Splunk Answers.

- Deployment Server. Make friends with it. In a perfect world, it should hold your configurations for all Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, and Forwarders. If you're having to populate $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/ yourself, you're doing it wrong.

- Make friends with the "splunk btool config_file_name list --debug" command. That makes it dead simple to know which configuration options a Splunk install is running. Append "| grep -v system/default" on the end of that command to filter out the defaults and you'll more easily see which of your options are being used.

- If you have the cash, attend Splunk Conf and load your schedule up with presentations. It's worth every penny.

Hope that helps.
the cellphone causing cancer theory has nothing to do with ionizing vs. non-ionizing radiation. it has to do with the fact that cell phones are shown to alter brain activity in the area localized to where the phone is physically placed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3184892/ (nyt background story: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/cellphone-use-tied-...)
The 'mem::forget can be written in safe code' meme comes from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24456

Which, as you can see, uses Rc, which uses unsafe code in a way that leads to the soundness bug. So that's not strictly true, or rather, doesn't really change anything, as it relies on the same bug.
They'd certainly be the start platform but without the human in the cockpit you can do stuff you simply can't do now like push the G-envelope right out, modern planes are often computer limited to the G's to prevent injuring the pilot.

If you know you aren't going to exceed 9G you don't design the airframe for more than that, if you know the pilot is going to be a computer then you can push that out way more.

You can also make them much smaller (removing the human, his seat, the redundant controls, environmental control) and somewhat more stealthy.

Quite frankly they'd be terrifying as a weapons platform, they'd re-write the rules of air warfare and I suspect they'd be used a lot more than normal piloted planes because no risk of body bags on the evening news :|.
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You can meaningfully count up the total number of fingers that five people have between them, and divide it by five.

You cannot meaningfully add together how funny five people are and divide it by five. However, you can put five people in order of how funny they are, and point to the middle one.

The only appropriate concept of average for ordinal data (e.g. how funny someone is) is the median, from which it follows by definition that 50% of people are less funny than average.

PS - if it is true that it "cracks you up" every time you hear "the 50% of people are above/below average fallacy", I suggest that you might be one of the 50% of people who have a below-average sense of humour ;)
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Thanks for the answer.

I met a couple of developers employed and contracted by the EU / Parliament, I really don't want to generalise this but they did not seem the type that would work on such software that you linked to...or the type that would actually recommend OpenBSD..or even actually know what OpenBSD is.
Why just picture it in your mind, and not spend the trivial effort to actually work it out?

It's a square with 110 trees to a side. A rough overestimate at 20ft spacing gives us a guess of less than a quarter of a square mile per day, or maybe 75 square miles of saplings planted per year.

For comparison, the U.S. has something on the order of 3-3/4 million square miles of forest.
The past tense is for a past activity. The past perfect tense is more complicated. From an online ref: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html

"With Non-Continuous Verbs and some non-continuous uses of Mixed Verbs, we use the Past Perfect to show that something started in the past and continued up until another action in the past."

Which is a more precise statement than it was just in the past.

Languages are full of such corner cases. I was once asked by a non-native English speaker what the differences were between the following phrases:

* I went to the store

* I was going to the store

* I have gone to the store

* I had gone to the store

* I had been going to the store

* I have been going to the store

All of the phrases refer to actions in the past. The differences between the phrases indicate where it was a past event that was one-off, or continuous, or whether it started in the past and continued to the present, or started in the past and ended in the past.

Language tenses exist for a reason. Simply denying them is delusional, IMHO.
It's an incredible feeling to read an article where all you can think the whole way through is how little you'd like to go for a pint with the author.

(Yes, I like Ruby, I like to poke Haskell occasionally, and I've only played Cards Against Humanity once, but it resulted in my mother-in-law combining "a girl's best friend" and "three dicks at once".)
> consider that 50% of people are less funny than average

Assuming that average here is an arithmetic mean (which is the most common use, but how are we quantifying "funniness" to warrant such a measure?), this would only be true if we assume a symmetric distribution with no individuals at the average.

This also assumes that objective funniness is even a meaningful concept; funniness is obviously subjective, and I would suspect that people tend to voluntarily socially engage with people that they find pleasant to be around -- part of which is having compatible sense of humor. So, the people you are voluntarily associating with (i.e., the people you are like to play CAH with) are likely to be disproportionately from the upper end of the funniness distribution from your subjective perspective -- and are likely to be among the upper end of the distribution in how they perceive your funniness, as well.
The rump kernel unikernel (rumprun) will happily work on actual hardware. It's a bit hazy if that's a unikernel or an embedded system in that case (and what's the difference anyway?), but to avoid hairsplitting, you can replace the hardware with KVM and off you go.
There is also the RISC-V ISA (http://riscv.org/) being developed at Berkeley and the lowRISC SoC incorporating a 64-bit RISC-V CPU (http://www.lowrisc.org/) by a team in Cambridge.
When do you think mobile phones were invented.
While it is certainly informal to say "guys," I have heard both men and women use it in a definitely gender-neutral sense for my entire life, including in workplaces, and informality is not impolite in an informal setting like an IRC channel. I wasn't sure if I was crazy here so I asked a couple of women I know and they were as surprised as I was. By contrast, nobody uses the word "gals" - it sounds incredibly awkward and lame. Perhaps the use of the word "guys" is regional, like "y'all" (sadly, it seems like English does not have any universally established pronoun for this). It's sad that you are proud of treating people who are new to Rust by permanently excluding people and labeling them as assholes for using idioms which are considered perfectly courteous and gender-neutral in many places. Given that, banning people just for using the word "guys" smacks of finding excuses to harass and ban people more than offering a welcoming community. If this is "what usually happens in IRC" then that might be a clue that there are dialect differences you aren't recognizing?

Insofar as you are representing the Rust community via HN, you've given an overwhelming impression that the Rust community is an unpleasant place where "outsiders" are totally unwelcome. As someone who considered adopting Rust prior to reading your post, that's a problem because with such an immature language I would eventually have to interact with that community and then I would apparently have to deal with people randomly nitpicking which dialect of English I learned and calling me an asshole. No thanks, life is too short.
That only solves one part of a large problem.

You still have solve

* How to stop someone from coercing your vote by being there while you vote

* How to distribute the coins evenly

* How to ensure that the vote was cast by the person you gave the coin to

* How to ensure that nobody can find out who you voted for afterwards
Yes, I should have added strike fighter, but the F/Axx is listed as manned or unmanned. I have my doubts about the duality they think they are going to get. On the technical side the F-35 is replacing the F/A-18C while the F/Axx is replacing the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.
Well, to be fair, a human pilot can decide to do those things on their own. Plus, most drones I'm aware of still have a human pilot, just not on board.
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I think that's exactly it. We use js so we can unite against a common enemy & build solidarity among the team :-)
Valid point

lets go with instead

Alpha (“the upper class”)
Beta (“the second upper class”)
Gamma (“the middle class”)
Delta (“the second lower class”)
Epsilon (“the lower class”)
Double-Plus (“the superior subdivision among Alphas”)
Plus (“the superior subdivision among Alphas, Betas, Gammas or Deltas, but inferior to Double-Plus”)
Minus (“the inferior subdivision among Alphas, Betas, Gammas or Deltas”)
savage (“a person outside the integrated portions of society, and therefore separate from all classes”)

Your point about a society capable of large scale gene editing would not need a working class is legit. it will be used to thin the populations out to 'manageable' numbers. Then class split based on parentage.

A perfect system and within 3-4 generations completely normal
I don't know a single person that doesn't have a very low, highly critical opinion of the US Government already. That includes essentially universal skepticism of Congress.

So yes, I think Americans criticize their government almost as a professional sport. Non-stop 24/7, everywhere. Even for things the government isn't responsible for.

I'd argue the only thing Americans are guilty of is too much complaining and criticizing of their government, and not enough doing to change it as a follow-through.
OpenBSD is already quite popular. It runs on plenty of routers. Routers have very high attack value.
> That actually seems like an interesting idea, but I'd like for the public to be able to view the list of unique coins for each candidate and verify theirs went where they wanted it to

This now means that if you can be forced to give up (or someone knows through other means) your coins "id" then they can see how you voted. This is something there are quite a few laws in place to try and stop with the current voting system, and it's considered to be a very important property.
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