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Procreation at this stage of our civilization is not the hurdle, procreating high-value citizens is the hurdle. Whether your value metric is happiness, ethics, wealth, income, etc., or whatever combination.

Once past the baseline survival of struggling to meet and secure basic physiological needs, arguably established for the majority in the developed nations, our species (not just "the state" groupings) should be blind to which groupings (not just pairings) facilitate the procreation and raising of high-value future adults, and if interfering at all, should instead focus upon which individual "family" groups are producing high-value results, regardless of the structure of the "family".

There are long and interesting discussions about what constitutes high-value; that's politics. But I don't subscribe to the notion that there is a currently-valid "objective interest" in promoting heterosexual families on the basis of straight-out procreation. If the species dropped to a population bottleneck level again, then sure; but absent similar catastrophic situations, I don't see where simply promoting procreation progresses the species' civilization, though I welcome counter-views.
For example, let's say that one of the things you want to compute is the number of friends of the current user. This value is used all over the codebase, but it only makes sense in the context of the current request (because every request has a different idea of "the current user"). So this is a memoized value, even though in the language it looks like a top-level expression.

Memoization only stores results during a request. It starts empty at the beginning of the request and is discarded at the end, and it is not shared with any other requests. It's just a map that's passed around (inside the monad) during a request.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/10/2...

The key point about the Idaho ministers is this: "The Hitching Post has apparently in the past operated as a for-profit business and offered civil services as well as religious ceremonies. Earlier this month, it either became a religious organization or decided to present itself as such. If the Knapps are operating and plan to continue operating the Hitching Post as a religious organiztion, they have no reason to fear prosecution from the city."
Jesus Christ is not on every line of the Bible, but the work as a whole is the Christian holy book.
People seem to miss the part when Uber has a lot of mindshare and users with the app already installed. That is part of why they are valued so heavily. There is a giant and obvious market out there and Uber won't be competing on even ground since they already have their app installed in so many places.
I hope you don't have good luck with enforcing it.
I don't have a problem with an 18 year old and a 17 year consenting to sex with each other.
As a libertarian, the less government is involved in marriage, the better. So yay!

But Scalia's argument is the stronger here. And there will be a time when this kind of reasoning is used in a way that will not be good.

Historical sidebar: back in the 90s, there was a rash of state governments passing "defense of marriage" laws. There was one at the federal level. At the time, the best argument I heard against such laws was that they were idiotic: there's no way the federal court system would start mucking around with marriage.

As I said, today's decision is a good thing. But I am very disturbed that many very intelligent people thought this was none of the court's business. For a fundamental issue like this, it's not a good thing that nobody knows even whether it's relevant to the court or not.
He's talking about the practical effects of fallible humans using the version of Bayes advocated in the original post (citing Yudkowsky and Muehlhauser).

Pulling numbers out of your backside and running them through a process makes you more confident than just pulling them out of your backside directly, but I've yet to see evidence it does more than increasing your confidence.
We use square cash extensively at the office. No fees!
> Religious institutions are not considered public accommodations so they are not required to offer their services without discrimination to protected classes.

What if their services are funded by the government, such as services to the poor? Can they refuse poor gay people?
The problem with this is just how often the story seems to involve porting of solutions. Not necessarily refinement or advancement, but pure porting. With lots of debate/fighting on the syntactic properties of the solutions.
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Ask HN: Is it fair to try and raise money for huge medical bill?
hi, long time HN user but using throwaway.

I need to raise over 100,000 USD for my dad's heart surgery (LVAD device implant) as he does not have any insurance where he lives (India) even though I live in the US.

He has been recommended LVAD device as the only option which is a very costly procedure and in India, it will cost 100,000 USD at the minimum. In the US, without insurance, it may not even be an option even though I m researching the options. I am sure in the US though, it may cost twice or thrice the amount.

I don't have that kind of money in cash even though we are not that poor. I was thinking about starting a campaign on indiegogo etc. to try and raise some part of the money if possible ? Is that something worth considering ? We don't fall in the "extreme" poor category and I could try and arrange the money by asking friends and family but not sure if we can raise the entire amount.

Is it fair to try and raise money via crowdfunding if I can honestly share all information about my dad's health and situation including his medical reports ?

Also, looking for advice from anyone who has gone through LVAD implant or knows anything about it.
> but I am supportive of regulations that permit people to have an acceptable quality of life.

This is the same reasoning as DMCA btw. I'm curious, have you NEVER gotten ahold of media illegally? Even if you haven't, if artists were to riot on the streets and put people's lives in danger, only have the government make even STRICTER internet laws, would you consider people being concerned by this tone deaf?

If you think the instances are different, what makes it different? Your own personal judgement that taxi laws are actually necessary for taxi drivers but DMCA laws aren't necessary for artists? Both are ultimately "THE LAW". If you have the ability to make a subjective decision, then shouldn't I be able to make it in reverse?
Support for interracial marriage didn't pass 50% until the '90s, but SCOTUS ruled decades before that.

The fact that they waited until after support for SSM passed 50% is what's unusual.
"everyone" is offensive to people with dissociative identity disorder. Such people have multiple identities (or personalities), so they are not "one". You're basically erasing they're identities by using such language.
Curious why actual dolphins didn't evolve to use it. I'd guess it's some combination of horizontal vs. vertical stroke only mattering in the top meter of depth, and issues besides raw swim efficiency.
Maybe huge post it notes on the coffee machine as a reminder?
Mormonism is very much a part of America. The claim wasn't "it has deep roots everywhere in America".
Gah! You are correct about the map not resizing. Has to do with the library I used, called Datamaps. I could listen for window resize events, but for the MVP I figured it wasn't worth it. Thanks for pointing it out though, I'll get to this.

What did you to do get that map stuck in your screenshot? Never seen that before.
I used http://tricount.com/
It can be web only or a mobile app.

I remember looking for the word "iou", meaning "I owe you" and found some apps regarding splitting the bills, but I ended up with Tricount.
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>> Why not allow brothers and sisters to marry?
> Claimed societal interest in preventing harm to offspring born from inbreeding.

If that's all, it seems that logically, brother-brother marriage should be OK.

I suspect the real reason for a lot of these laws are is "because it's icky". The justifications seem more like rationalisations.
polygamy is a correct term. polyandry/polygyny are specializations
What is your opinion on Loving v. Virginia? Do you believe that anti-miscegenation laws should be allowed if the populace decides to vote for them?
I'm a bit confused about the point you are trying to make.

Based on your comment history, you seem comfortable with taking liberties with the English language to get your point across quickly (e.g. omitting implicit pronouns and articles in sentences such as 'Somehow never was true with Iceland.', or 'They should quit Euro (Merkel will never allow because others would follow suit) and debase currency. Do exactly as Iceland did.')

So I'm not sure why you seem to take particular issue with 'econ', which is a very common casual way to refer, e.g., to the economics major at uni. ('econ 101' etc)
The title of this is misleading.
Seriously? How many cubic meters did you actually dug out?
> Why not allow 12 year olds to marry as a consititutional right?

Marriage is a legal contract. 12 year olds can't enter into legal contracts (alone). Therefore, 12 year olds can't get married. This also takes care of pedophiles marrying children.

Gay people are born gay. So this is different from polygamy. Animals can't enter into legal contracts. So this is different from bestiality.

As an aside, my girlfriend just pointed out to me that it is hard to justify laws against incest (two adult relatives). Maybe we shouldn't have such laws.

The best way, in my opinion, to look at this issue is to see marriage not as some kind of weird lovey-dovey thing, but to see it as what it is, a legal contract that has special consideration in many areas of the law and society.
America continues its slow march forward. Congratulations.
sourcegraph.com can help.
Here's the difference:

> Five statistically unlikely people have been shot simultaneously

> Five statistically common people have been shot simultaneously

To say nothing of the killer's explicitly stated racial motives, historical repression, slavery, curtailing of rights, violence, et cetera. :P

See also, "man bites dog".

If the shooting had been in a predominantly non-white society, the headline could well have been what you proposed.
i use google calendar's "task" for it but sometimes procrastination takes over and the old tasks don't show up.... Recently started trying Trello, hopefully it sticks
Hi Kevin and Sam,

We’re MinoHubs (https://www.minohubs.com) and we build commercial and community tools for software projects. The barrier to building a successful software project is high - apart from writing the code, you need to build a community and potentially set up some commercialisation (backing, licenses, support etc.) which isn’t an easy task.

We provide customizable hubs that give projects:

Commercial tools

- Paid support - ability to offer on-demand consultation to businesses and developers.

- Licensing - ability to sell one time and recurring licenses to businesses and developers (coming soon).

- Backing - monthly contributions. In return, backers get more visibility in Discussions.

Community tools

- Powerful discussions with voting.

- Announcements - emails and notifications to project followers.

From Kevin’s initial feedback (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746206) we understand that we need to be better at:

1. Leading the user through things to do after creating a hub.

2. Showcasing the benefit of using MinoHubs.

We’re working on those right now.

Our challenge is that, as Kevin also pointed out, we have a lot of features, but we’re also trying to appeal to an audience that would use different combinations of features; open source software, commercial software or projects that want to just use community features.

How do we reconcile that users want a wide variety of functionality with the issue that this might present too many features for us to convey concisely?
I was transfixed. Really, really good. The music really makes it for me. It is interesting to try and guess where the mystery locations really are. Sometimes this information is included in the hashtags. I got a few right! :)
> Have you seen any indications that either Uber or taxis are failing to meet minimum wage laws?

Yes. Uber is violating the guidelines set out for classifying workers as independent contractors. Based on Uber's requirements, they should be properly categorized as employees, with the taxes paid by employers for their employees properly paid.

> Not all "labor laws" are equivalent and useful. Some are bought and paid for by the current set of companies to stifle competition, because it's easier for them to comply than a new company, or because the laws outright ban competition.

And its not up to the tech industry to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore because its convenient for their VCs. Want to change the law? Go change the law.
You can build debian packages that way; dh-virtualenv (https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv) makes it quite easy to pack a full virtualenv into a .deb.
Both points aren't possible to do with large codebases.

It will take months merely to tidy the code with the effect of making the rest of the team hate you for committing thousands of files for superficial changes. Its much more productive for everyone to simply adapt to the existing style guidelines.

Reading all of the code is only an option for the smallest of codebases. Reading code will only get you so far before you get lost in the complexity of how all the parts interact with each other.

A better approach would be to limit yourself to a subset of the codebase and start poking around with a debugger while the system is running. Then you can gradually work your way through the codebase starting from the core functionality.
Do you follow this process even on code without tests? How do you make sure you're not introducing bugs in the process? Or you don't commit your changes afterwards?
Two 12 year old girls can get married in Massachusetts as long as their parents approve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_marriage_in_the_United_...
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Scalia says striking down campaign finance laws passed by congress and supported by the people was vital but striking down discriminatory marriage laws is extreme judicial overreach. There's no principle there, it's just the politically expedient argument for his ideological battles.
I start with running the tests if there are any. Typically peeling layers of the onion starting with the boundary. If there are no tests, then I'll try to write them. Then running tests in debug mode helps step through the code. If I have the luxury of asking questions to an engineer experienced with the codebase, I request a high level whiteboarding session all the while being cognizant of their time.

Some others have mentioned recency/touchTime as another signal. For large complex codebases, that may or may not always work.
This codebase is documented and well structured. I would simply being by tackling the issues on github first and sending pull requests. No need to take over it right away. After you feel comfortable reading the code and knowing where is what, you can ask to become a maintainer.

I'd try to fix it using the same style used in the codebase. This way anybody else reading, maintaining ,or using it won't have to make sense of the new style. Pay attention to how each method is defined. They are very readable. Very few traces of complex one line statements.

Most importantly, be patient. You won't be any good with it in less than 2 weeks of constant tinkering. Good luck.
Smathers' accusations related to issues that had no bearing on Peppers' merit as a political candidate or his ability to carry out his official duties. My 'insinuations' (actually, again, statements of fact) are related to Soon's behaviour within the context of climate science. If you cannot grasp this, you are not qualified to engage in debate. If you do not wish to for whatever reason, it makes it pretty clear that you are not interested in good faith discussion of this issue and are not worth anyone's time in that regard.
Do you consider Libreoffice it's own project!
Self-driving cars may be too expensive for one person to own soon after they are available.. It will take a lot of time and resources to build these machines to be safe and reliable, and companies will need to recuperate the costs in some way. On the other hand, most families will not need as many cars as they do now, so the demand will be lower than most people expect, which will raise the price. We can also expect companies to be the first users of self driving cars, as it will make more financial sense for them, so many suppliers will move to service businesses like Uber. Companies like Uber and Lyft will lobby lawmakers to make it harder for people to own self-driving cars, and effectively make it unaffordable to most. In short time Car-As-A-Service will become reality. In the name of safety and cost reduction, many roads will be closed to regular cars, effectively making it pointless to own a car.

Source: Crystal Ball
When switching costs are low that mindshare isn't worth too much.
Funny anecdote. At a former company, about 20 of us went out to Dim Sum, expecting to split the bill.

One of my co-workers was from Hong Kong and mentioned that they did this once or twice a week. So being a clueless American, I asked how they handled splitting the bill.

I guess I wasn't too surprised at his response, but he seemed completely puzzled as to why this was an issue. He said they each paid their share, and that was that.

I shared how this is a constant problem for diverse groups in the US, and he basically understood, but thought it was really funny.

My theory as to why this is an issue is that people all have their own preferences around food. What to eat, how much to eat, whether they'll also drink, and how much to tip.

We feel very entitled to all of those. Some people, when offered an all-you-can-eat service, will eat an insane amount of food, while others will eat the same that they would if it were plate-by-plate.

Some will drink if the alcohol is cheap, others will drink twice as much if it's expensive.

Some want just a salad, while others want salad, a main course, and dessert.

Welp, this causes a huge disparity because the bill comes in and either you need to go line by line to get the total, then impose a line by line tip percentage for each person, and, surprise surprise, nobody has cash.

So, how can all this be solved?

Here are a few solutions.

1) If it's for the office, have the company pay for it. This is a really reasonable request. Expense it. It removes any question about who owes what, and removes the sort of grating annoyance of collecting money from individuals. Doing that again and again will wear down a team.

2) Get everyone on board with the same money transfer app, and collect payment immediately.

Use Venmo, or Square Cash, or what ever else is out there. Instant payments make this all go away. If you want to get the app adopted fast, have your company pitch in and send $5 or $10 to each person as an incentive to join up on the same app. This will pay dividends down the road.

3) If all else fails, make it clear up front that the price is going to be split equally, and keep a public log of who has and has not paid – send out an email reminder to the team with the names and who owes what. This may seem extreme, but if for some reason you're unable or unwilling to do 1) or 2) this will make things clear up real fast. If you are concerned that someone on the team can't afford to pay, obviously, don't hassle them, and try to amortize the cost by spreading it over the rest of the team as discretely as you can, or ask a few people who are sympathetic to pitch in offline.

For tools: At my company we use Abacus for expenses, and Venmo for cash transfer.

Amongst friends, we use Square Cash, mainly because one of the regulars works for Square :)
Context: I wanted to include a sample file from their MSDN website in the repo of a toy project of mine for testing. Apparently that would be a bad idea.
I'm not an expert, but it is often claimed that the constitution is a living document, that is, it is designed to be broad and flexible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution
> There's no evidence that sibling marriage results in defective offspring. It's simply the fact that we find the idea of siblings having sex to be icky

Bullshit [1].

[1] http://www.larasig.com/node/2020
I'm not going to flag you for libel here, because I'm sure you believe this, and that is your cross to bear.
Marriage penalty? My taxes went way down when I got married. Additionally, all of the income limits where benefits phase out go up when you're married, so for instance, you might qualify for a Roth IRA when you're married filing jointly, but not if you're single. In my experience, getting married is one of the best things you can do for your tax bill.
In the description meta tags you wrote peak instead of peek. Sometimes if a lot of short clips are played successively I only see compression artifacts.

Very nice idea and implementation though!
Incest is legal in France since 1810 - and the new law from 2010 that seem to forbid it really doesn't. It's some additional protection law for minors.

As far as I can tell, it didn't lead to the entire French population growing an additional eye (and I doubt that incest rates are extraordinary in the first place), so the impact of lifting that ban probably isn't all that bad.
I think your third point is what's most striking about the dissenting opinion. Not providing marriage licenses to couples based on the arbitrary criteria of sex is a deliberate act of denying a specific group of people access to marriage.

The women's and civil rights movements went against the traditions of plenty of millennial old cultures such as the "Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians
and the Aztecs"[0] as well.

[0]http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf#p...
Splitwise, https://www.splitwise.com/, works well for splitting bills and keeping track of who owes what. I have heard it works really well for ongoing relationships like roommates or coworkers.
There is a double-standard that you are glossing over, perhaps willingly. Jewish influence in the media is overstated by their own admission, and they are notorious for not furthering diversity within their own group. If I am wrong please correct me so I learn, instead of downvoting me to shame me.
I think the primary difference is the level of escalation. Protests typically involve destruction of property with violent interpersonal encounters as collateral, while terrorism usually involves torture or mass killings.
Not when your interpretation seeks to define the other person's statement to fit your viewpoint. You can respond with:

"You seem to be saying this, and I think that's wrong. Is that what you're saying?"

versus:

"You are saying this, and you are wrong."

It's called communication. It's a two-way street.

If the speaker intends a statement as a compliment but states it badly, why is your reaction that much more important because you take it as an insult? Why do you get to redefine the intent and totally dismiss the statement altogether, which means you are also dismissing the intended compliment?

That type of reaction actually increases the misunderstanding and makes the problem worse in the long run.