bdisraeli

This is totally wrong. Previous Supreme Court decisions, especially Gonzales v. Raich, have set a pretty clear precedent that the Federal Government has the authority to criminalize drugs even when their use is legal in a particular state.

The US can't default because it prints the currency it's debt is denominated in.

Is that with the 'Infinity' screen or whatever they called it? I just got the 1080p one and don't use scaling. I had a Yoga with a hidpi screen and agree that a bunch of programs just don't work at all with scaling in Linux.

I have an XPS 13 and run Linux on it. The drivers for the touchpad were very rough with the version of Ubuntu it shipped with, but updating to a Kernel version > 4 fixed all my problems.

It would be difficult (maybe impossible?) to do given the US's Federal system of dividing powers between State governments and the National government. The Federal Department of Justice investigates, but the only power they have is to sue local police departments in court and make them agree to stop their unlawful behaviour.

If you're interested in other things IPRA 'investigates', some people have FOIA'ed Chicago police misconduct complaints and created visualizations based on the data[1].

[1] http://invisible.institute/police-data/

There is no national body that oversees police, but Chicago has the Independent Police Review Authority. However IPRA rarely upholds complaints against police (it's staffed by ex-cops and other people connected to the police), and recently an investigator was fired after finding a shooting unjustified[1].

[1] http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-investigator-who-found-c...

Unless I'm totally missing the point of the instant search feature, this is definitely something you can do in Emacs[1], and something I believe I've seen co-workers do in Sublime.

[1] https://github.com/syohex/emacs-helm-ag

Also the person in charge of lighting on a film set.

Cider (for Clojure) and Ensime (for Scala) give you excellent support for auto-completion, documentation, and refactoring in Emacs. It's definitely possible, so it probably just depends on how popular Emacs/Vim are in your language community.

Russia was also one of the least industrialized countries in Europe in 1900 and had about 27 Million people killed in the Second World War vs about 400 Thousand Americans. This is not a valid comparison.

If companies don't want to use code licensed under the GPL, they're probably welcome to pay the original the author for a separate license.

Yes it's a client for the WhatsApp API, presumably reverse engineered from the what the official app does.

No Google forked Webkit into Blink[1] about two years ago.

[1] http://www.chromium.org/blink

Why would private regulators be more efficient? Regulation will always seem inefficient no matter the nature of the regulating agency because it has different goals (ensuring safety and efficacy) vs making a profit for shareholders.

Public regulators are always preferable, when a market needs to be regulated as you admit, because the public, through the press and their elected representatives, can hold them accountable for their actions. If someone from the Mayo Clinic is receiving improper benefits from pharmaceutical companies how does the public find that out? There are no laws that would force disclosure of those relationships.

In the case of public regulators like the FDA, Congress can force its leaders to testify and the press has tools like FOIA to get at private documents. They're not perfect and can still lead to corruption and regulatory capture, but are preferable to private organizations with no public accountability regulating the pharmaceutical industry.

That email contains no evidence to back its claims.

Most states have their own FOIA laws. [1]

[1] http://www.nfoic.org/state-freedom-of-information-laws

Why can't the rich have express-ways and make the poor drive dirt roads?

MBTI doesn't have tons of issues. It's entirely unscientific.[1]

[1] http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

The American invasion if Iraq, whose planning and execution Condeleeza Rice was involved in was clearly a violation of the UN charter, which prohibits aggressive action by one nation against another without the authorization of the UN Security Council.

You can use CORS [1] on browsers that support it. [2] You really should use it if at all possible given your application's constraints, so you don't have to abuse GET requests and can use a JSON parser.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing

[2] http://caniuse.com/cors

It ia not thorny. Discriminating on the basis of race is immoral. Period. You cannot determine someone's character or how they fit into an establishment's 'vibe' simply based on the color of their skin.

For a and b you should check our core.match [1] and core.typed [2]. One of the best parts of using lisps is that things that are features of other languages can be implemented as libraries. Not to say Scala probably isn't great too, but I haven't ever really used it.

[1] https://github.com/clojure/core.match

[2] https://github.com/clojure/core.typed

I really couldn't imagine that Yahoo would be liable for copyright infringement on user submitted content. Assuming they have a process for Porn Companies to submit DMCA Takedown notices, it seems Yahoo and Tumblr would be protected from being sued for infringement by the DMCA Safe-Harbor Provision[1].

[1] http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID127

Most people in the prison system are there for non-violent offenses. [1] In Chicago, blacks were arrested (before decriminalisation last year) for cannabis consumption at a rate of 15 persons for every 1 white person despite similar rates of cannabis consumption among blacks and whites. [2] People who have gone to prison for any of offense have a 40% chance of eventually going back to prison. [3] I would suggest that the change in incarceration rates starts with less racist policing.

[1] http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1118

[2] http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicago-marijuana-arrest-...

[3] http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/08/prison-math

HTTPS Everywhere[1]. Using SSL certificates helps prevent man-in-the-middle attacks[2], such as this. Comcast wouldn't be able to read any of your traffic and insert js without spoofing SSL certificates.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/https-everywhere/g...

[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8145/does-https-...

Why would it matter if they shut it down? With Google Takeout[1] Google has proven to be be pretty good about making sure users can move their data out of Google's services.

So you use Keep it ends up being good[2], but then 1 year from now Google announces it'll be shut down. Oh no! I guess I just have to download all my data from Keep and upload it to Evernote.

I understand people (although seemingly more people than actually used the product) are upset about Reader, and justifiably so, but I think it's a little hyperbolic to evaluate every new Google product in that light.

[1] https://www.google.com/takeout/

[2]I haven't used and don't really plan to, so I have no idea whether or not it's good.

I agree that it's unfortunate that there isn't be a Firefox on iOS, but it's a problem with Apple and their App Store rules and not with Mozilla.

We have to remember that Mozilla is a non-profit foundation with a specific manifesto[1] that espouses principles directly in opposition to the closed nature of Apple's App Store. Chrome on the App Store is a different beast than Firefox would be.

Google's primary mission, all the 'Don't be evil' stuff not withstanding, is to make money, so they need to go where users are. Mozilla's goal is to help build a free and open Internet to create choice for users, and a skinned UIWebKitView isn't real choice for users.

[1]http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.html

Not all Smartphone users are iPhone users.[1] I use Firefox for Android as my primary mobile browser and am mostly pretty happy with it (I stay on the Beta channel so occasionally there are stability problems). In addition, Mozilla will soon have an entire mobile OS[2] based on their browser.

HN always seem quick to jump on the whole "Firefox is dying" meme, but Firefox still seems to to have about 20% market share in most usage reports I've seen[3][4]. I think it's great to see the Mozilla Foundation continue to standup for their principles.

[1] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2335616

[2] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/

[3] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/chrome...

[4] http://gs.statcounter.com/

I don't think piracy is the reason for including always-on DRM. Console makers are trying to kill the used game market in this generation.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/examining-sonys-intern...