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A privately-run court system which is prone to corruption wouldn't last very long, when a competitor could easily pop up who offers transparency and a lack of vested interests.

Oh, really? If that were the case, then why does it take so long for people to overthrow the regimes in decidedly corrupt third-world dictatorships, like Libya, or Egypt? Those states were well known to be corrupt and unsustainable, yet it still took decades before Qaddaffi and Mubarak were overthrown.

The fact is, a court system needs a way to enforce it's judgement. Such enforcement necessarily requires force. And once a court system has a monopoly (or near monopoly) on force, then it becomes very difficult and painful to get rid of that court system and replace it with a competitor. In fact, we have a name for that process: revolution, and it's not exactly as easy as you make it out to be.
I wish I could downvote this "article".
Unfortunately when a website is built with the requirement to support as many people as it can, even 2% will cause things which make incompatibilities to be taken off the table.
Not sure what you mean.

I have an iPhone and an Android phone.

When I pick up my iPhone and open an app I'm not surprised by an app using a Tab Bar interface.

When I use an app on my Android phone I'm used to options popping up when you press the menu button.

Yes, in a perfect world you'd have exactly the same interface on all devices. That's not today, not tomorrow, not next year and most probably never will be.

When you want to launch an app on your Mac you might go to the Dock.

On Windows, it might be in a Start menu.

On Linux it's somewhere else.

On a TV the menus are somewhere else.

Finally, there's native capabilities that HTML5 will always miss out on. It's why Java apps look and feel odd. Even though they try and mimic desktop look-and-feel (and often do an amazing job) it never quite works.
Referring someone for a job - why does it suck and an idea how to make it work
Being simple could more useful than being succinct e.g.:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

is simpler than

d9$lLsi

because the first is just 45a

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
For some you don't need them, but for some they are a hard requirement. It means they aren't going to be replaced by tablets. Tablets can take some percentage of activities that used to be done on regular computers - that's true. But not all by any means. Therefore talks about "killing" - are not to the point. When some revolution in the interfaces will happen, and new methods will replace keyboards mouses and wide screens - then one can say the classic PC is obsolete. But that time is not here yet.
Why now this article, when IE 9/10 finally works well (from web dev point of view)?
Maybe it's just me, i'm not expert in html/css by far, but I must do tweaks for firefox and chrome equally like i do for IE. Or better, i don't do them very much in last year or so, browser standards works in all latest version today.
This is the WORST advice for startups who statistically are more likely to fail before even getting to market. It's even terrible advice for large companies as well.

Build what you want to build. Build something that you are proud of and that motivates you to get out of bed and keep working on. Build something that excites you and that you can see a roadmap for.

At least then you won't spend your life with regrets.
Those in the UK (or soccer fans in general) will be more aware of this due to incidents involving Marc-Vivien Foé who collapsed and died during a game, and more recently Fabrice Muamba who survived a cardiac arrest (his heart had stopped for over an hour but was receiving CPR[1] during this time).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Vivien_Fo%C3%A9

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

After the Foé incident there was a lot of promotion of the Cardiac Risk in the Young charity in the UK http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/ who do ECG and Echocardiogram screening for those between 14 and 35 for a donation to the charity.

I got myself tested a couple of years in a row (until I turned 36!) as I was doing a lot of long distance (>200 miles a day for multiple days) cycling and my HRM showed me that I've got an atypical heart (resting heart rate down to ~40bpm at my fittest but I could regularly see >200bpm on my HRM whilst playing 5-a-side and I could average ~185bpm for an hour without feeling uncomfortable at all). A chat with the cardiologist after the scan(s) put any fears at bay, whilst mildly unusual there's nothing fundamentally wrong with my heart, if anything it's just a little smaller than average (hence the high HRmax).

Thoroughly recommended and you won't be wasting their time as you'll be helping support the charity by donating.

1. From, among other medical staff, a consultant cardiologist who just happened to be at the game, the same cardiologist later treated him throughout his stay at hospital.
I would have thought hen because the other three are mammals.
But Gimps whole point is to wean you from another tool. So 'alien file formats' should be a priority, I would think. Anyway that's what I expected when I tried it, so its failure to support pretty much anything was surprising.
Matt Blaze is a UPenn professor, and one of the most important security researchers working on electronic voting.

What I don't understand about NJ's plan is, why don't they just delay the NJ statewide elections? NJ isn't really in contention in the Presidential race; the only tricky election is Menendez's for Senate --- not because he could lose, but because the Senate needs the election wrapped up. Christie isn't up for election, nor (obviously) is Lautenberg.

So they could limit the potential damage/controversy here; let people provisionally vote for President (Romney won't challenge the results; NJ is going for Obama the way Utah is going for Romney), and wait a couple weeks for the rest of it.
Awesome.

I've just gotten my first iOS device and was looking for a reddit client.

Minor request: could you make the blue configurable? I happen to find that particular shade jarring and would love to be able to change it to something else. Thanks much.
Technically, you're allowed to use whatever prior you like. A beautiful thing about Bayesian inference is that it tells you how to update your prior, without making any assumptions about what it may be.
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I find interesting the backlash against those who may have any interest in knowing their IQ, or god-forbid even feel good about it. What your anecdotes tell me is not that IQ itself is meaningless, but that success has a large factor of luck involved.

It's a failing of our society that genuinely high IQ people are not out there working to improve the lot of mankind. This growing trend of derision for those who acknowledge their own raw intelligence is only making it worse.
But other browsers can't take advantage of fast Javascript compiler like Safari can, or i'm i wrong? That's almost like Apple forbid all other browser.
Thanks :)....Sure I will include settings for a lot of different blues in the next update!
Not to discourage you from playing with EC2--it's awesome and useful--but if you just want to spin up Rails or Node.js apps quickly, it may be easiest and most convenient to use Heroku[1]. They run on EC2 and manage load balancing, web-server setup, (some) databases for you. All you do is push from your git repo to their endpoint, and they take care of the staging and deploy for you.

EC2 itself just provides blank virtual machines and gives you full control over them. At a high-level, you'll be setting up your web server and db, pulling your application code, and running it. It's really not too dissimilar from setting up your app on your local machine.

The complexity around EC2 comes from the need to scale an application. Then you'll want to add load-balancers and more instances. While you can add these by the GUI console, you'll want to learn to use the EC2 Command Line tools[2] or the API via a library like Boto[3]. You may want to look through Amazon's suggested architectures to understand how to put these tools into play[4].

[1] http://www.heroku.com
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/351
[3] https://github.com/boto/boto
[4] http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/
Why should I use this over Alien Blue?
I'm confused, is this intended as the next zen coding, or do you intend to actually parse the symbols, like APL[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
Use google docs. It's so much better. It's free, has a better UX, and is so much more powerful.
I for one only actually care about women in tech to improve my dating pool. Not sure what more minorities would do for me.
> it assumes a level of familiarity with formal logic and English grammer/vocabulary.

Grammar, not grammer.
Sometimes, asking the customer what they want is futile. Especially with an existing product, asking for futures. E.g. ask a farmer in 1901 what he wanted- he'd say "a horse that can pull harder and eats less hay". Never, ever would you have heard 'a tractor'.

Build that tractor. Or rocket ship, or twitter/blog/flash mob mashup. Then lead people to it. Then, get feedback from early adopters, hone your pitch, figure out how to draw them in.
If we wanted to protect our children, we would ban cars. If your child is going to do die it will more than likely ivolve a car. Think of the thousands of lives we'll save once we rid the world of cars. Sound stupid, so does banning magnets.

Stats old car accidents and kids:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/811641.pdf
Hah. After 13ish years of tech support, I automatically say "backslash - that's the one above the enter key" or "forward slash - that's the one below the question mark" Often I won't even say the key name, just the location.
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I'd wager that a small but significant fraction of people will play with these things in their mouth (sticking them on either side of their tongue, for example) and accidentally swallowing them at that point is not hard to accomplish.

And no, people shouldn't be doing this, but these things look completely harmless. They're not poisonous and they're small enough to pass without harm, so what's the big deal?

I think that's what it comes down to. The danger these things pose isn't terribly large, but it's far larger than what a typical reasonable person would perceive as the danger.
Yes, I would recommend reading the source. There's more info in there.
Apple getting a cut is the reason why MS doesn't put it on that service. There's no point in paying 30% if you don't have to, and MS doesn't have to.
It's merely a guide to "unicoding".
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False; it's just very unusual in modern times.
What is unicoding? I feel like I should probably know, having read it but I really have no idea what you mean.
Why? Seems like a smart solution to a problem.

We have designed many of the risks out of cars too, and I for one appreciate that.
What you describe is a probable scenario, but I think the real reason is in the patch process. Contributions in python don't appear to happen pull request style ("here's my repo with my changes, please merge that in"), but rather through submitting patches ("here's a .patch file with my changes, please apply that to tip").

So what happens isn't that someone with write access merges in changes (which, unless tools get in the way, should preserve authorship), but applies the patch - which attributes that code change to the person applying the patch.
The cow, pig, and sheep all have hooves (are ungulates). The hen is the only one without hooves.

Surprised nobody mentioned that so far. That was my first go-to.
Which, again, I think is problematic. I'm hardly going to worry about being able to purchase magnets for engineering applications.

'Some degree of danger reduction' just doesn't qualify as a catch-all justification for regulatory action. At least not with me.
We're in a culture of productivity. Here, a person in "good health" is like describing him a proper-functioning working machine.
Morpheus: Fortunately, no one can be told what unicoding is. You have to write it for yourself.
No, my argument is not that parents are cavalier about medicine.

I think I have done all that reasonably I can to make my point of view clear, short of writing an essay, but it is still not understood. I'm not continuing this.
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Yeah, it really depends on the kind of transit. In the SF Bay Area, for example, I wouldn't try to do real work on the Muni subway or streetcars, but you can get stuff done on Caltrain.
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Doesn't work for major cities an example from the UK 2 bed flat in Bedford a 35/50 min commute is £115,000 red lion square near our office its £625,000.
it's SEO, plain and simple. Facebook doesn't show you everything all of your friends say, it uses 'edge rank' - a complex algorithm - to choose what gets shown and what gets hidden. There is much speculation around what the actual inputs are, but no doubt that likes are taken into account.

So, someone who posted something with 1 million likes is more likely to have a better edge rank and you're more likely to see things from them in the future.
Their are two similar sites, one for programming and another for Linux system administration.

http://linuxzoo.net/ and http://progzoo.net
The combination of cars and children is already heavily regulated. Also, you can't ban cars without destroying the economy. You can ban dangerous toys. The lawn dart ban didn't cause an economic catastrophe.
Pills are specifically formulated to cause vomiting if overdosed. Obviously it's not perfect, but medicines have a significant necessary purpose, unlike tiny magnets.
Apples-to-Apples: Is Marco correct that the Surface is expensive?
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Chemistry sets vanished due to anti-terrahrism BS, not safety concerns.

And in the magnet case, larger magnets are plenty fun while still being much safer.
The US Constitution specifically says that election day (for President and Vice President) must be the same date for every state.
thx, that is great info.
Hmm you're comparing the pace of change of a facist totalitarian regime that ruled for decades via strict force to a laissez-faire marketplace? Of the all the analogies to choose from, that one is quite weak.

As I mention in other comments, I personally favour minarchy which supports a system of law courts and enforcement, as well as state run military and police.

There are thousands of things more important and much more obviously broken than the court system (military expansionism, war on drugs, domestic surveillance, federal reserve etc, etc).
Yes, for President. Which is my point. The Constitution does not compel New Jersey to hold statewide elections on any particular day.

In fact, if they go ahead with the email plan, they may have to vote on some random other day anyways, when the controversy over challenges forces a re-vote.
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I agree with this. I wasn't sure if he was a non-native English speaker or was going to play this up rhetorically (e.g., "I made a thing: it is now The Thing"). Very odd, repetitive, and unusual construction. I wouldn't normally call someone out on this, but if they're taking this messaging to a customer it's terrible. Use some terminology, vocab, jargon, not "a thing".
Maybe your problem is finding other people that would like that type of sneakers.

If the product was good, and priced well, perhaps it was a marketing problem. You were marketing it to high-school kids, while this type of shoe seems to be fit for the SF Mission/hipster kids.
"Underrepresentation does not equal racism" contradicts the academic party line ("systemic racism"). If a white person said something like that, they would get a lecture in "denying privilege". If an asian person said it, he would be ignored.

But I agree that the author's way of thinking is far healthier for any given individual. Which is why the author is so successful.
If I got paid $100,000 for every unlawful arrest, I wouldn't give a crap about what some random newspaper wrote.
I have a saying I like to think I coined, "Don't make it hard for your customers to give you money". I think that applies here.

When you are working to optimize your business, take a step back. If you're focused on adding new features or exploring some marketing campaign, consider how you can optimize the most important part instead: getting paid.

There have been more times than I can remember where I would have bought or paid for something if only the retailer hadn't made it so difficult.
If you go to an underdeveloped country and see people working really hard, that's not a rationalization. It's a counterexample to the implied thesis that economic development is a matter of hard work.
>I mean, I already hate the commercial of antidepressant

I live in the UK and I have never seen an advert for antidepressant, or for any drug stronger than aspirin. Sounds to me that the problem you describe is not so much legalisation of drugs, but that your country's advertising laws are broken.
Just over a year ago my favorite uncle died suddenly in a freak car accident. Besides his immediate family, my mother and I were the very first ones to make it to the hospital where he was DOA. They took us in to see him one last time before he was sent to the morgue or wherever they take the bodies of those who die in the hospital. Everyone says great things about people who are recently deceased but I must stress that he was an extraordinary man. Really. And I thought that long before he died. Seeing his lifeless body there was shocking. What got to me the most was seeing the lifeless expression on his face. He was a man who was always smiling and more full of life than anyone I've met. The contrast between the live man I knew and the heap of dead flesh I saw will stay with me forever.

From that day on I have thought about death at least once a day since and always remind myself that every fear I have and every psychological block that keeps me from being who I want to be and doing what makes me happy is an illusion. It's not real and it can't hurt me. But it also reminds me that my hopes and dreams are meaningless too. But if I'm going to be alive I might as well live happy regardless, right?

Unfortunately, the problem is that knowing this has not changed my behavior. There's this weird mental barrier between knowing you have a short life and need to really live it and actually doing it. And so despite knowing this truth and coming to realize it in such a traumatic way, I still don't live it nearly as often as I should. I suspect many people are like that. I don't know why that is but I hope someday we can figure out how to go from knowing how we need to live to really doing it in a real way.
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If I understand it correctly, they claim that you must be in what is thought to be the top 2%, in other words your IQ must be over 130-something.

But this does not mean that they reject 98% of the people that take the tests. People interested in taking that test must already be, I suppose, in the top 10% of the IQ distribution (125+?), or so they think. If this is true they they do reject 98% of the applicants but only 80%. Yet I suspect they reject even less.

Any source or third-party evaluation of their acceptance rate?
being intelligent has no intrinsic value

Loving what we are has to be worth something, or why bother with progress?
Well for better user experience for now :)...I will actively add features and get up to par with alien blue....as this is the first version/MVP I am not quite there yet!
This is a field where a surprising amount of progress is being made. People still tend to assume that CPR is mostly a token effort so bystanders feel like they're doing something. In reality, high quality CPR + rapid access to an AED can give just about any heart a fighting chance at beating again (assuming the underlying problem is transient or easily treatable... if your LAD cardiac artery is 100% occluded and half your heart has died, there's no coming back from that...). Techniques like 'hands only CPR' are dramatically increasing the willingness of bystanders to get involved and do something productive.

The area where really exciting progress is being made is in improving the rates of survival to discharge from the hospital. Techniques like the therapeutic hypothermia mentioned in the article are rapidly gaining acceptance. ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support, the standard of care for acute cardiac emergencies, including cardiac arrest) now suggests that providers should 'consider' therapeutic hypothermia whenever a return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is achieved (I know 'should consider' doesn't sound all that exciting, but the American Heart Association is an (understandably) conservative organization, and doesn't make broad based recommendations without a fair amount of data to base them on).

I could ramble on about this for a long time, there's a lot of exciting research being done (continuous compressions, continuous EtCO2 monitoring for evaluating compression efficacy and alerting when ROSC has occurred, even really controversial stuff like withholding Epinephrine (a large scale study from Japan has shown that while Epi increases the odds of achieving ROSC, it may _decrease_ the odds of survival to discharge)). This is a topic near and dear to my heart. I volunteer with my local ambulance service, and I'm very close to my New York State Paramedic certification (just need to take the exam). Calls like the ones described in the comments here are exactly why I love doing this... The overlap between my work in EMS and my day job (development) is bigger than you might think... Debugging is debugging... the stakes are just a lot higher.
Since you sign your apk locally; it'd have to be integrated into the build process instead of being done in Play (else the signatures get broken).
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Years ago in our 20s my wife and I took an IQ test. I think she got in the 150s and I scored in the upper 140s.

But I felt I had done much better. When we looked at the scores, for several answers I had results that were clearly consistent with an internal model I could build of the problem, but it just wasn't the model the tester wanted.

So in a geometric progression, I noticed that each figure had an odd number of visible vortices. In a word analogy, I noticed that all of the words except one had an Old English root. And so on. Many times there were multiple patterns of resolution. How could one be better than another?

I could certainly understand her choices, I just thought they were no worse or better than mine. The fact that IQ tests are created by people with high IQs led me to believe that what is really being measured here is some sort of academic cultural cohesion; how much we begin to solve problems in similar ways?

Not necessarily a bad idea, but not what I think of when somebody says "intelligence test"
Thank god for commuter rail. My commute is 20 miles. I take Metro North every day into Manhattan, and it's absolutely the most civilized way to commute. The trains run frequently (~4 an hour), are pretty cheap (~200 pre-tax), and are never very crowded. It's ~30 minutes at the beginning of the day where I can check my e-mail, plan the day, etc, without anyone bugging me.

I used to car commute that distance from the DC suburbs into DC, and it was hellish. 2 hours of my life each day wasted in ungodly traffic. That's not how people were meant to live. I'd much rather have Biden's 100 mile Amtrak commute into DC from Wilmington than the 20 mile car commute into DC from the suburbs.
What about non-apple tablets and phones that may not have common screen formats? You'll get horizontal scrollbars or wasted horizontal space. Why not just work with a fluid grid and set max-width to something conservative like 960px?