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There's a libertarian principle called minimal force. That is to say, libertarians believe that the initiation of force is immoral, and thus use of force against the initiators is just, but only sufficient to mitigate the crime.

When someone steals your laptop, they are initiating force. In doing so, they give you the right to use methods, such as this software, to recover the laptop. But that right only extends to recovering the laptop, not to unnecessarily violate the privacy of the thief. While the thief does owe the laptop owner compensation for the crime, this is something that is determined via court, not by the victim of the crime.

So, yes, you have the right to hack into your laptop, turn on the webcam, collect evidence necessary to locate and recover the laptop, but you don't have the moral right to exploit the thief beyond that.

I remember the Defcon presentation had some privacy obscuring bits for the thief when he took nude shots of himself in the shower. That's appropriate. Shaming the theif by showing their face is reasonable, but only if you know they aren't an accidental victim. Sharing the thief's nude photos with the police or with any unnecessary third parties, where the they are not necessary for recovery, is a violation of privacy.

At least morally. Who knows whether a government in the US will hold the police accountable for any immoral actions.
Back in the 90's, I was something of a PIC fanboy because their documentation was so damn good, and the PIC16F84 was great to learn on.

Are they just jerks now, or is there some more charitable explanation? Obviously, the company is filled with all sorts of different people, but are the people who have the power to change the marketing claims deliberately blowing off the truth?
They don't help you with visa stuff, you need to do it on your own. An H1B holder can work for his or her own company now, but you need lots of money (~400-500K) and need to pay a real salary (60K ish for a software engineer). The H1B is not a startup visa, perse, it's meant for established companies.
What about the >466 GeV range? Is that considered a possibility? Can the LHC explore that high?
What is your price range and are you using padmapper?
Procter and Gamble was a HUGE DEAL for box.net. Did box go through yc?
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This varies greatly by field. In theoretical computer science, most conferences have turnaround times on the order of 3 months or so.
I've been using padmapper with CL - is there any advantage vs using CL alone?

Anything under 2k a month is reasonable enough for me given the prices I've seen.
Hey, I made almost the exact same thing a few months ago:

http://nearish.com

Drop me an email at joe@nearish.com if you'd like to talk, I am interested in your solution to scaling.
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Indeed. Bean-counters are looking at things totally upside down.

A few billion to further the human understanding of the world around us vs the 1.4 trillion spent on the war effort. I know which I'd rather have backed.
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An official letterhead letter be a cheap way to demand reimbursement. The letter can say "<person> wishes to cease employment and requests reimbursement for $<amount> for <work> by <date>. Please avoid delays otherwise there may be further costs." The employer can then settle to avoid further costs for both sides. I don't believe that such demands mean you are required to take them to court. So, it's like a legal bluff.

That said, the work you gave them belongs to you unless you stated otherwise (look through your logs). If the employer uses it, then you can send them an invoice for a license to use your IP with a notice that there'll be annual charges starting <date>. The employer will want to come to you for a full IP release. Otherwise, send an overdue notice then later send the unpaid invoice to collections after the overdue date if the employer refuses to pay.

Or release the code/work to GitHub or similar. You own the code (unless waived otherwise).

Note: The employer sounds quite charming to you, you'll need to plan out what to do before meetings including attempts to 'understand your plight' for lower but legally binding settlement (eg undesirable $100 reimbursement). But most important: stick to your objectives, not theirs. Maybe bring someone who can provide strong support which you can say they are present 'as a witness'. Maybe take a look in seduction ;)

IANAL, you should seek your own answers from someone more local at least. There's many ways to go about it like I listed above.
Ignore the date on the article, this did promotion back in February, but supposedly they're running it again this week. Had to link to a legit article to let folks know that this isn't some scam or something.

I just tried again and was confirmed for another 1000 minutes for 5 seconds of effort.
I've been playing around with the beta for a few weeks. It has come a long way. It is by far the best data set I've found so far.
Well, he has it since before the iPad. And isn't iPad kinda hard on old people? (shaky hands, etc.)
What about the possibility of encrypted traffic that doesn't look encrypted? Perhaps "Liking" public Facebook status updates such that the first letter of each status liked, in chronological order, is the datastream.
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There is a dearth of cheap rooms and rentals. However, if you want to pay $2500 a month for a 1BR you will have no problem finding a place.
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The Golden Age books deal with this rather dramatically. It takes various ideas (augmented reality, global network connectivity, the singularity, etc.) to an extreme, to the point that a severe social punishment is to be disconnected from all globally integrated technology. A person in this state virtually becomes a non-person, unable to even achieve basic communication with other people physically in the same room, most other people even filtering disconnected persons out of their entire sensory experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Age_(science_fiction...

They're pretty dense stuff and can be dry reads at times, but the ideas explored are really fascinating.
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Thanks for that, the Wikipedia page has some useful links and info on the relevance to UK copyright law. The case I was remembering is almost certainly this one - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery_copyr... concerning use of photos of images in the National Portrait Gallery on Wikimedia pages, the case dating from 2009.
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I don't believe there's any laws that would mandate this, at least in America. As long as you're merely analyzing legitimately acquired content, I don't see how anybody else has any say in what you're doing. Copyright isn't an absolute control over what can and can't be done with your work — it's just a right to restrict reproduction.
Can't really say. But I analyse wage demand based on job sites, reviews (People post salaries, fake ones too), past company history (Known for poor/good salary average?) and personal reference (like here). Hope it helps!

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You don't have to board immediately when they call first class. You can wait until everybody else has boarded.
Why didn't they give the non-management murder statistic? Or the percentage of fatalities that were in management?
Thanks to Rails core and all the contributors for yet another killer release :)

If you're new to 3.1, the following resources will help you to get started:

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Ok you've got the tools. I'm seeing lots of things in your price range there.

Whats your pitch?

The thing about Bay Area housing is for some reason everybody wants to be there. So you got to sound interesting and move fast.

When I interned out there last summer my pitch was

Hi I'm {name},
Found your listing on craigslist I'm here in the valley interning with {company} for the summer.I'm a {student/in your case recent grad} from {hometown} and I'm interested,
would you be free for me to come visit after 5pm. You can reply to this email and/or
give me a call at {phone number}

You want to give people the fastest way possible to get in contact with you and the soonest time possible you can go see the place.

The pitch is extremely important because renters want to know several things before they will be ok contacting you about moving in.

- Who you are in the first place?

- Are you legit?

- Can you pay? and if its multiple months or times can you pay consistently

- Will you cause trouble.

Also in terms of using straight up CL vs padmapper remember padmapper does everything it can to only list places with addresses in them and it has a slight update delay. If you want to whole picture make sure to check the CL site as well.
The family part could also borrow from Southwest; there, families board in between numbers (special preboard/unattended minors go before anyone at all, families in general go after business select). Although since we're assuming that the seats are assigned here, the families should probably go last (they take longer to get settled).
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Another simple solution would be to board from back-to-front. Right now it's front-to-back: the business-class passengers (at the front of the plane) board first. Economy class boards last and each passenger has to walk through the congestion.

Getting business-class travellers to give up their sense of entitlement and board last could be a little tricky, though. I'm sure there's a psychological marketing trick that could be used to make them happy about boarding last. Maybe something along the lines of, "You're special. Boarding starts 10 minutes later for business-class. Take your time" or something.
Smugness isn't the word. It's more about having the whole experience be less stressful. I just made elite status for the first time, and being able to skip the lines, get my choice of seat (even in economy) makes a huge psychological difference.

I can settle into my seat, and do some work before the door closes, or even fall asleep before the wheels leave the ground.

Also, lounge access. Lounges make air travel civilized, like staying at a nice hotel (SFO international British Airways lounge excepted— it feels like being at a Holiday Inn Express).

(I'll fly 75k miles this year. AA PLT/OW Emerald, and I fly almost exclusively CX/KA/AA.)
Shrouds do two things: 1) they improve the efficiency by reducing tip vortex losses; 2) they increase the effective diameter of the turbine, so Betz' law is circumvented to SOME degree.

I worked for a time on shrouded propellers for ship propulsion and studied ducted propellers for aircraft. These are more efficient than unshrouded propellers - but in each case the difference is under 10% - this is combined gain from reduced losses and larger apparent diameter. With turbines, things are a bit more complex, because with a well designed duct you achieve an effective diameter actually larger than the duct itself, and capture the additional wind energy from that extra area. Taking things to absurdity, I am fairly sure (without doing the math...) that you could have a relatively small turbine inside an enormous duct, and achieve 3x the power of an unshrouded turbine of that diameter. But this is a poor solution, because the large duct will surely cost a lot more than a larger conventional wind turbine.
My personal experience is that about 20% of bosses (I'm including my boss's bosses) were so often out of line that there were employees hoping to meet these guys in a dark alley. 70% of my bosses were varying degrees of competence/incompetence. And, only about 10% were respected and liked.
I like when physics theories don't work out, it means the real answer is probably even more interesting
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Indeed. The question isn't, "Did this experiment advance scientific knowledge," the question is, "Was this a prudent and appropriate use of tax money, especially in light of the enormous opportunity costs inherent in any expenditure of tax money?"
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October 8th? It seems like a decent % of people share your birthday (me among them). Certainly feels like a weird to me. How many thousand people read a page (given that it has a moderate up-vote)?
See (4) about unconscious incompetence.
It's not 100% open source, they had to remove spam control parts to make it harder for spammers. It's even mentioned in their FAQ.
Suppose they got absolutely nothing out of it. This shouldn't matter.

You cannot easily predict what rewards will come as a result of cutting-edge scientific research. It's a gamble. However, due to all the technologies we have right now as a result of expensive government spending on research, the general consensus is (or at least should be) that the benefits FAR outweigh the costs.
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The Higgs boson has essentially nothing to with dark matter, as far as we know. In fact, they're not even in the same category: the Higgs boson is a theoretical prediction that has yet to be observed (or conclusively ruled out), whereas dark matter is a real, observable thing in the cosmos that we don't yet have a theory to explain.
What they got out of it was
a) gaining a greater knowledge about the way our world functions,
b) training a new generation of scientists at a level of advanced research which goes beyond what was previously achieved.
c) developed an advanced engineering industry which has broken new ground in materials science, not only in superconductivity and cooling, but in practically all engineering disciplines.
d) developed a new level of sophistication in computer analysis and processing ability.

Many universities and advanced research facilities around the world contribute to a project as large as LHC, so the benefits are spread worldwide. However the location of LHC makes a huge impact on the scientific abilities and human resources of Europe.

As for how much benefit the average European derives from LHC, the question is really how much they benefit from the advancement of general scientific ability and human resources. Besides the innumerable everyday fruits of the advancement of science which average people enjoy today as compared with, say, 1803, there is the even more important fact that their future ability to establish a high quality of life, and to solve major problems, depends on their having an incredible skill and wisdom in dealing with the actual, factual world.
I think it's far to early to start talking about the LHC's value in a past tense.
I was like you back in the day, then I tried using one of the new frameworks (it was Django) and I was like why didn't I do this earlier, it would have saved me a bunch of time from all the stuff it does for me and the less writing I have to do.
Very helpful, but unfortunately I won't need cold calls for a while. Do you have any good materials I could read in my spare time?
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This is, I think, a dishonest question, because we can't know "what they [got] out of it". There is a 5% probability that they might "get something out of it" in the future, and an unknown (likely greater than zero) probability that they will "get" a great deal out of it through readjustments of previously invincible models of how the universe is constructed.

Remember, we're trying to figure out why things have mass here, (which, I think, is rather prima facia a very important question to answer) and if we're wrong about how that phenomenon arises, we now have a very big clue to look somewhere else.

In short, they got petabytes of data out of it, and frankly, that will most likely prove to be invaluable in and of itself.
Author is actually Tianfang Li. As an entrepreneur he is famous in China. I did not think he would have time to make other projects.
I really like the Metro design that Microsoft has. A mishmash of Metro UI based apps and this older looking aero windows are going to look strange together.
They had one expert witness, a criminal law professor, go a step beyond that, attesting that “there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in communications via the Internet.” Period. The idea that any electronic communication lacks privacy protection whether on a stolen laptop or not is a scary thought and a ridiculous conclusion.

A scary thought? That's why it's wrong, because it's scary? I've grown to expect slightly more sophisticated arguments from the people I agree with.
On Reddit, the resolution was 2.5mm which isn't good enough. I wondered if it'd work better if there was a camera attached?
Please don't harass the gate agents unless they look really idle. They don't have control over the boarding process, and they are desperately trying to get everyone on board, seat change requests accommodated, standby and upgrade list cleared, plane catered, wheelchairs, minors, gate checked baggage, strollers, etc., all the while dealing with a bombardment of impatient, indignant, overtired, and entitled "customers".

Be pleasant and let them do their job. I believe their job performance is measured by on-time percentage/turn time.
If they could find enough room, I always wondered why they don't have a line for each group. So, if there are 5 groups, have 5 starting point lines.
Do we know if she took into account population migration / movement? Looking at the description it doesn't look like it, but I'd be really curious to see how that affects the stat. Or how the stat changes if the zip code is tied to the person's DOB. In that scenario it probably drops a lot, because (I'm assuming) most people are born in a hospital, and there isn't a hospital in every zip code. So to my first comment on population movement, maybe that's actually a representation of the effect of population migration / movement. Cool.
Yes, they are within 20% of the Betz' limit. But you must understand that the Betz' law refers to "available power", and the "available power" is higher for a shrouded turbine due to its larger apparent diameter.
What they got out of it is that the standard model and supersymmetry are (likely) wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model#Higgs_boson

EDIT: actually it looks like they only searched a partial range of energies, there's still a chance to find it.
Which statement? That wasn't the point of your statement that the resume provided more information than the candidates' races. It actually provides no useful information if the other guy has the exact same qualifications.
Your example is the same. They do the job exactly the same, so you decide based on the skin color. What would you think about someone who tells you "you should have just decided based on their performance?"
Um, what? For all practical purposes, those apps you mentioned are frameworks. Joomla actually has a pretty firm MVC structure inside, and IIRC Wordpress's codebase has a rep for being hard to work with. Drupal makes no bones about being a framework. These are not good examples to support a "just stick it together" philosophy, if that is indeed your philosophy.

You have to stick the layers together at some point, but you'll still probably be better off keeping the glue out of your "business logic".
My solution: Offer free drinks if everybody can board in <X minutes. Social pressures will do the rest (I occasionally see people help load heavy bags overhead, but I imagine this would pick up).

Not entirely joking!
Colour coding the ticket is not trivial - current monochrome printing is easy with thermals. Ever run a colour printer in an office? It's a nightmare to manage just in an of itself. Then there's a lot of investement in creating a system that works across all models of planes. It's doable, but it's not trivial.

Then on top of that is the issue that despite all this, a lot of people ignore what's on the tickets anyway and board when they feel like - the boarding crew are not going to tell someone to go back against the surging crowd and wait their turn. I've been on four international flights before and I followed the "people in this block, board now" - and when I entered, pretty much every time I passed by an uncalled block, it was at least a quarter full. People aren't disinterested particles.

Given also that planes are sitting around doing things both before and frequently after passengers have boarded (or waiting for the late passenger...), I don't think a straight-out claim that 10 minutes shaved off boarding times is a direct 10 minutes shaved off turnaround times (not that the article claims this, just being wary of it)

The video shows an "aisle management" technique, but it isn't a "boarding" technique, as the latter task is much more than wandering down the aisle.
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There's actually a fair amount of time spent on the taxiway by arriving planes waiting for gates. Sometimes they'll shutdown and wait, but often they're sitting there idling. That's a lot of fuel savings by reducing time spent waiting for gates.

Additionally, increased turnaround times means that airlines can fly (on a marginal basis) more flights per plane per day. On high-load-factor routes that increased revenue can be significant.
I would only consider racism a fault if it leads you to make bad decisions. In the hypothetical situation where two candidates differ only by their race, that won't happen.