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Scalia's argument isn't that marriage equality is an issue for the states. It that it's an issue for the legislature; that is, that the people should decide on it, rather than an interpretation of our secular scripture.

It's helpful to remember that the balance of powers were carefully designed, with an overarching purpose of not centralizing power into a monarchy or aristocracy. We are by design not a nation governed by a panel of philosopher-kings.

Because the Supreme Court has lifetime tenure --- a design feature intended to isolate the justices from politics, not embed them in it --- there's a lot of tension involved in their powers. Unlike politicians, they can't easily be removed if there's a popular outcry against their decisions. They're the guardians of the Constitution. But the Constitution is first and foremost a document of procedural safeguards: it is most coherently and powerfully understood as a mechanism to ensure that all citizens have open channels to the decision-making of their own governance. The procedures of US government are meant to be zealously protected, but the substance is supposed to be left to the people.

So a lot of the dissent in today's result is best read as, "regardless of what we think of marriage equality, who are we to override the decisions of the people?" And further militating against today's substantive intervention by five pro-equality justices is the fact that marriage equality isn't really a process right. Whether or not your marriage is recognized has actually not much bearing on whether you're capable of making your voice heard.

Of course, there are even more powerful arguments in favor of marriage equality. For one thing, the black letter language of the Constitution, right smack in the beginning of it prior to any amendments, requires all the states to honor each other's judicial proceedings, public acts, and records. To allow Mississippi to reject a Massachusetts same-sex marriage is to contravene the process set up in the Constitution directly. That can happen, but probably not when the conflict is animated entirely by discrimination against a class of people.

All this is just to say: don't be too quick to discard the intellectual argument against Supreme Court-enforced marriage equality. There will be times in your life where the same arguments are going to make a lot more sense, applied to other issues.
However that is pretty typical for industries other than software. Usually you need factories or raw materials or buildings or inventory. All of these things are expensive and depreciate. Software is the outlier.
There are a ton of reasons:

1. Uber currently has the ability to grow and move at software speed. Other people buy the cars that it uses and assume the risk. If it needs to pull out of a city because of hostile regulation or whatever, its drivers are left holding the bag. Going from that to being a company with an expensive and gigantic physical inventory would be incredibly painful for it.

2. Driverless cars are the end-point of the commoditization of the rides-for-hire market. If you're buying a Tesla that drives itself, anyone else who provides the same Tesla provides exactly the same level of service to your customer. You can only compete on price or availability -- but availability now means buying expensive physical inventory, so both means of competing are now super, super expensive for Uber.

3. All of this assumes that it even makes sense to have a rides-for-hire business in a driverless car world. It's possible it will, but we don't know that! If the sensor package of driverless cars is relatively cheap and relatively durable in value, then probably driverless cars will actually drive business away from rides-for-hire and towards car ownership.
Monogamy also has a storied history of abuse. Up until the 1970's it was perfectly legal for a man to rape his wife. This does not make it fundamentally impossible for healthy and consensual monogamous relationships to exist, and neither does the supposed behavior of 19th century Mormons make it impossible for healthy and consensual polygamous relationships to exist.
Could you elaborate, or point to some material which expounds on this hack?
Great post, sorry to see you got bit by blatant plagiarism. :(

Maybe submit this as a normal post, not a Show HN? I think it might fit better.
The rule of thumb that I've heard is to walk against traffic if there are no sidewalks or dedicated space, but always to ride your bicycle with traffic if there are no bike lanes. You might be practically invisible to motor vehicles, but as you've noticed, traffic regulations often consider bicycles the equivalent of cars for all intents and purposes. Until the tide changes for cyclists and dedicated infrastructure improves, I think people are stuck with the cards they've been dealt for traffic regulations.
Tell that to MySpace.
This is how you challenge Facebook
Well children are always an exception.

Siblings/cousins creep most people out due to inbreeding, but honestly I don't really see a problem with it if they promise to not have kids. (I'm an only child though, so I don't have any perspective)

Polygamy also seems like it should be legal to me, as long as everyone is a fully consenting adult.

Basically I just think the government should just stay out of peoples lives as much as possible.
Polygamy is hardly a new deviation, if indeed a deviation at all.
Even though its dynamically linked the GPL still applies. The LGPL is designed to allow you to link to the software without requiring you to use the GPL license. Also since you have made your binary available you are required to make the source code you have used to make this release publicly available.

I don't think anyone cares enough to sue you, however you are clearly in violation.
Google has an advantage over Uber in all of those respects though - more capital, more experience building highly-available services, better routing algorithms, better contacts with carmakers, owns both the OS that the app will run on and the map data that they use to navigate, etc.
"Almost as popular as tcl and racket" is one hell of a selling point.
Not to mention the population of the US is almost larger than every other country on that list combined.

It's an astounding feat to have accomplished such a vast cultural change in such a short amount of time. I've read recently that upwards of 25% of the entire US population has shifted its view on gay marriage in just ten years.
So, in other words, "the beatings will continue until you come around to our views"?
It's a slippery slope when you allow a bunch of unelected middle aged and old folks gather in a room and decide what is good and what is not for the rest of the population.

The US political system is a big joke in my opinion.
No source code? I'm not even going to give this thing a glance. There is nothing so compelling in the database world that I would even be tempted to give up source access. What an anachronistic throwback this kind of thing is.
Mic drop!
My old church refused to marry anyone who was previously divorced. Clergy have a lot of leeway in who they can refuse. No one is forcing them to do anything.
Pre-requisite for protections under law; "long and brutal history of discrimination" - hackuser

Sorry white people, you can't be protected under law, you haven't been brutally oppressed for long enough, just a couple more years than we can protect you.
I am not the author of kerf/the linked software ;)
I still think that gay (two men) sex us gross... or any sex with a man. Which is why I don't engage in it, but I'm pretty grateful that about 50% of the inhabitants of Earth enjoys it!
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Let's say this happens fast forwards to the future.

Now Uber is saddled with a huge inventory of aging vehicles needing maintenance and all the other associated costs that come with that (repaid centers, staff, etc.).

A new company "Hypercar" or something is formed that let's people "ride-share" their own personal self-driving Teslas...making maintenance and upkeep the car owner's responsibility. Hypercar splits fairs with the owners.
Hell, Catholic clergy won't marry non-Catholics, Catholics who've divorced, etc. They had those rights yesterday, and they have them today.
When you're not being paid for it, everything is more fun.
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, sweetheart. :)
I believe that financial incentives can be added to the mix.

Colleges that are looking for a certain profile of students can provide a discount x% of their fees.

This is shown to the student who can similar rank the colleges for this.

On the other side, a student should not be allowed to pay his way in, so might be problematic?
And why wouldn't Tesla just 'run' them themselves? Besides a little iPhone/Android booking app, what is Uber without the drivers?
Ansible and ChatOps. Get started 🚀
Finding this has just made my whole (not great) week better by a huge degree. I've played with it on a workbook with ~100k rows and the performance is fantastic. I'm really excited!
I've also heard this.

There are also specialist contractor brokers, and I got a mortgage approval for a decent amount through one of them last year, they offered me way more than I could afford.

HSBC don't understand contractors completely but they have offered me a reasonable amount of lending (I make about half what you do, but then I choose to live elsewhere). HSBC seem to have about the best rates at the moment.
Robosexuality.
It's worth saying that this is dangerous; people do die when these tunnels collapse. If you're thinking of digging, be careful; make sure you know what you're doing.
Isn't the more natural play for uber to position themselves in the market for enabling early purchasers of self-driving cars to offset the cost by having their car go out and be a taxi when they're not driving it?

Uber got where they are - managing a massive fleet of vehicles - not by purchasing cars, but by getting other people to purchase cars on the assumption that uber would help them turn that investment into an income stream. Self driving cars raise the prospect of me being able to turn my car into an income stream without me even having to go out and drive it.

If uber do it right, people will buy fleets of self-driving teslas just so they can rent them out via uber, and uber won't have to invest a penny in depreciating vehicle hardware.
I use source navigator to understand the code base. I wish someone will keep improving it, especially the font etc under linux is not looking impressive, under Windows it's all I need. I'm unsure if other tools can provide as many functions for code base analysis.
That's just not true. If you are talking about hunter-gatherer societies, you'd be surprised to find out they didn't starve themselves regularly. They ate well and worked fewer hours than us, with a surprisingly high life expectancy.

"According to Sahlins, ethnographic data indicated that hunter-gatherers worked far fewer hours and enjoyed more leisure than typical members of industrial society, and they still ate well."

"Sackett found that adults in foraging and horticultural societies work, on average, about 6.5 hours a day, where as people in agricultural and industrial societies work on average 8.8 hours a day.[26]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer
Yeah, I definitely just reread that post and realized what it said. Maybe go-requests or something...
In my case I'm aggressively saving. I feel for people in professions which don't allow for that though. At the same time, I choose the software profession in part for the insane salaries we can command.
Why should labor rights supercede consumer rights? By trying to regulate an "acceptable quality of life" for drivers, protectionism is imposing a lower standard of living on everyone else.
You could recreate marriage as a form of incorporation which wouldn't be a bad idea if you think about the cost of growing old and having children. More adult partners equals more income to ensure the survival of its members and their children.

And yes, I read Moon is a Harsh Mistress too many times (I'm a sucker for that novel). :P
> "The story was taken completely out of context when describing a type of complex driving scenario that can occur in the real world. Our expert provided an example of a lane change scenario that our car recently experienced which, coincidentally, was with one of the Google cars also on the road at that time. It wasn’t a 'near miss' as described in the Reuters story".

> Instead, she explained how this was a normal scenario, and the Delphi car performed admirably.

> "Our car did exactly what it was supposed to," she wrote. "Our car saw the Google car move into the same lane as our car was planning to move into, but upon detecting that the lane was no longer open it decided to terminate the move and wait until it was clear again."

Source: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/no-2-self-driving-cars-d...
If you're interested in matchmaking and markets, check out Al Roth's work. He's been involved in designing matching systems for schools, jobs, organ transplants and other areas.

Homepage: http://web.stanford.edu/~alroth/

Blog: http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com

And here's a review of his recent book: http://www.wsj.com/articles/matchmaker-make-me-a-market-1434.... I'm reading it at the moment and it's fascinating.
If they can improve.

How can you tell whether a student with bad grades is smart and underachieving (possibly coachable/teachable) or just not that smart/not able to grasp concepts? Colleges will not spend the resources and take the chance. There are plenty of applicants with good grades: admitting these applicants is safe.

It would be the same argument for EQ.
> Do you think we've totaled into the billions in costs related to diseases spread primarily by sodomy?

We should probably ban preschool/kindergarten on those grounds, then.
Any property to be shared by the relationship is owned by the LLC, with people in the relationship being owners of the LLC.

Here's a great article on the subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/up-for-pol...
If the age of consent is 18 (and I don't think that is true across all the States), then 17 is illegal and should be illegal no matter what the age of the partner is.
No, it is not the mean average, it is the median. You are quoting the wrong statistics - you are including part-timers, but he is talking of the median full-time earnings, which are actually 27.2k on average nationwide according to the ASHE. The median full-time salary in Greater London is 32.8k, and still 29.9k in the outer South East.

Of course your broader point still stands - in London you can only own a house if you earn in the top deciles, or if you inherit a house or get gifted a deposit by parents/grandparents who got lucky in the house price boom. The latter is the default way.
Glad to hear your coworkers are excited!:) I'd love to support mac but unless excel 2016 includes VSTO, it won't be doable.
Then why have the states at all? Why have a tenth amendment?
Engineers break power and distance barriers for fiber optic communication
We perform a lot of backbreaking, dirty work voluntarily as hobbies.
Well, I'm not the one who brough up levels, but ok. Post mortem: That's a tricky tactic you used and I fell for it. All I was saying is ESR is most definitely a technical person, I didn't realize that by extension I was defining your twitter heros as also technical.

Honestly I don't care if these twitter personalities are "technical" or not. We're not talking about Adria and Shanley because of their technical ideas, or their ideas about technology because as far as I know they have none. They're famous for their social activism.
What is AI and what can we do with it today?
But semantics!
Yes but how would you pimp it out? ;)

You'd put it in a marketplace with an app for people to order the rides...:P
As a point in examining history the supreme court I thought was usually the case where issues like this bubble up. i.e.
Abortion
Women Voting (I think?)
Corporate Entities etc.
Sure; the authors in the Roemer paper found a couple of those. The best place to get a sense of how this works is the "Gadget Catalog" section of that paper.
Isn't it dangerous due to some (methane?) gas leakage, and it collapsing, without proper calculation?
If I read the news right yesterday, the ban only apply to Uber Pop and not Uber as a whole.

Anyway, there is no place for such regulation and it's on its way to be terminated soon by some european order, if I recall correctly.
Cortado, a location-aware caffeine-tracking app
5+Things+To+Be+Wary+of+In+VC+Financings
That will never happen. Platforms just get more DRM in the form of walled gardens, code signing, binary encryption modules. Alternatively everything becomes an online-only service though which everything is streamed and you don't actually own anything you just pay for a license which grants you access while you can maintain a connection to some server.
pro tip: listen to multiple at once
> There's a clear harm involved there

You conflation of marriage with breeding should be rethought. I suppose infertile couples should be allowed to marry since they cannot bear children?
Most of us do not have a lot..
Try doing some profiling. It'll take you through some of the more heavily used parts of the code, is useful in and of itself, and provides a target / some focus.
To be honest, the couple that can't procreate isn't necessarily a same-sex couple. And many couples, gay or straight, that wants children but aren't able to procreate will adopt a child that would otherwise not grow up with devoted, supportive parents.
I don't think so. It will boil down to fleet management. Tesla is bypassing the middle man to sell cars directly. If we combine self driving cars and Uber, then most of us will not be buying cars and instead will be renting by usage. So why shouldn't Tesla bypass the middle man again and reap the profits?
Very nice! A minor niggle: the map in the sidebar doesn't react when the window is being resized.

Edit: also, the map seems to get stuck: http://i.imgur.com/YOVzJwz.jpg
I definitely agree on the complexity of our tax / govt financial and legal codes, and the problem that poses. The solution there is obvious too, and has been needed for decades anyway: simplification. Of course that's held up by political gridlock.

The easiest way to resolve the child situation would be to keep custody to two parents as it is today. Any children that exist in the N=5 marriage, would be biologically between two people. So the only thing that would be changing is marriage itself, not child custody laws (which today are not primarily built on marriage anyway, we can obviously marry other people that have pre-existing children without adopting those children as our own; and we can obviously have children outside of marriage).
Who is waving the democracy flag? Certainly not me. I'm waving the fourteenth-amendment equal-protection flag. The United States isn't a (pure) democracy. Never has been, never will be. Thank goodness.
This "right to be offended" train of thought is parroted often by religious groups to try to remove speech and images that they do not like. I've been relentlessly called "too skinny/gay/etc" by people throughout my life and, yet people are getting upset about something that is gender neutral like "guys"? Give me a break. God forbid they actually have to deal with somebody who actually isn't nice or intentionally targets them about some aspect of who they are.
Yes.

Why should someone be paid quite a high salary, for job that in your words requires a lower education? Shall we mandate all jobs should be paid well? If low skill jobs pay almost as well as high skill/high paying jobs, where's the economic incentive in increasing your skills? In many ways its a trap, because you won't go out of your way to increase your skills.

And when people say Taxi driving is actually quite a high skill job. I say you should have no problem fighting off the competition then.

"software developers as a whole will drop." And on that day, I'll get an MBA instead proving that the incentives work.
>OK, well now you have a couple answers.

You're rude with your snark.
It is a rare person who learns from the mistakes of others. I think your words will resonate quite well with those who have lived and loved and lost. They may fall on the deaf ears of the young.

The choices you made were the ones that were right for you when you made them. When you are young and the future seems full of promise, you simply take each experience as one in a sequence leading you to the success you imagine is waiting for you at the end of the road. Whether it is success in love or business. That's the beauty of youth: optimism, uncorrected by reality.

I look at my daughters' faces every day as I carry them around. I see their optimism for what life will bring. There is something special in that look. When do we lose that?

Lastly, I did not want children in my life until, suddenly, I did. Had I continued to wait, I might have missed my opportunity without even knowing it. But then, it would have been the right decision for me at that time.
Congress is not supposed to be a consensus-enforcing machine. The Supreme Court is supposed to make sure the words of the Constitution and the words of the laws mean something. If they don't, then the country is ruled by people, not by laws.
The PC brigade won't listen to reasoned arguments anyhow, so no loss.
Or:

1[a] = 1;
The OSX version links against libedit. The Linux version is supposed to as well so if it isn't that's an oversight. Let me take a look.
The first project I published in Go almost 3 years ago, was a similar port of the python logger. While today I find this "I want to log like I do in python" approach a bit silly, IMO the Go standard logging package is still lacking, and I'm still using my python-ish port, not because it's similar to python, but because it has things like formatting, context printing and most importantly logging levels.
Thanks i had thought about a loan but didn't follow up.
The valuation is rubbish because it comes from multiplying together two numbers that do not mean what people assume they mean. Uber, like substantially all privately-funded corporations, has issued multiple classes of stock and probably convertible debt. The investors were issued securities that do not resemble common stock, so the standard practice of taking the number of dollars invested and multiplying it by the inverse of the ownership share they received is not appropriate. That method works only if all the shares outstanding are of a single class, and are devoid of preference, attached options, warrants, participation rights, etc. Which I can pretty well guarantee you is not the case.

Unless you have Uber's cap table in front of you, you cannot figure its valuation. The journalist certainly did not (and I don't either). The most we can say is that $50b is a ceiling on the company's valuation; in reality it is far less.

Many, many articles have been posted here explaining this in greater detail. Please read them.
One reason to ride with traffic is that you give the driver more time to react to you.
If a driver is going 40 mph and you ride 15 mph, if you're going the same way the speed delta is 25 mph. Going the other way makes the speed delta more than double (or 55mph).
That used to be illegal, too.
Brute force: Choose a new feature to implement and start looking for the place to write your first line of code.

This is probably not the best way to approach this, but I am somehow ADHDish and I need a clear task to avoid perpetual diving in the codebase.