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> If I go through the airport with her, there is no guarantee the agents will let me stay with her and explain the situation.

I am - without being an expert - pretty sure there is a procedure for care givers.

The last time I flew - 2010 - it was a few months after my wife had bi-lateral knee surgery. She was mobile, but not spry, not able to walk more than fifty yards at a go.

We had an airport provided wheel chair, a guy or gal to push. My role was care-giver and I got to be with her throughout the procedure. 'Is this your care giver - step this way, Sir.'.

Worked pretty well: the pusher person knew where to go, the TSA goons got us to the head of the line and it worked out.

I don't know about the leg brace, though. That might be a problem.

I'm with you on the TSA being bad news and a worse idea. The day it was announced I knew it would be a goat rope, a hit against the 4th amendment and would never, ever, go away.

But I am old enough to remember when airports had observation decks for the public, anyone could march down to the gate with only a nod to the sleepy airport guy running the scanner, and if you'd told anyone what's going on in 2013 they'd snort and say

'Maybe in the USSR, it's run by commies. But never in the USA.'
A very cool idea with interesting science applications. Maybe you can partner with a university or the government as a data source?
Programming Best Practices
Check the Makefile. It's probably already doable.

http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/builders.html#sphinx.builders.e...
So ... this is just a paraphrase of the MySQL documentation on resetting the root password? Why is it here?
This code doesn't look right to me:

// list :: [Promise a] -> Promise [a]
var list = function(promises) {
var listPromise = new Promise();
for (var k in listPromise) promises[k] = listPromise[k];

Perhaps the assignment is supposed to be the other way around?

for (var k in promises) listPromise[k] = promises[k];
Do you have some evidence for this assertion? I see it commonly given here -- treated almost axiomatically -- but is there any actual evidence that 'the average American sees absolutely nothing wrong'? Or are we just assuming we know the mind of 'average' American... and that we are not they... and that they are simple, and complacent?

Public education would lead to... what... mass civil disobedience against the TSA's practices? Maybe, I don't know. Fighting the TSA's de facto policies with legal battles is an appropriate response (that doesn't at all require majority public attention).
Great to see some other crystallographers in the crowd, also worth checking out is Discovery Studio Visualizer.
I think adding a living wage and removing the minimum wage is the way you get though this bump. If you make human labor cheap enough someone is always going to want to have their lawns mowed by people or whatever. Assuming they can afford to do so. Basically, people with minimal skills end up working not for food, but to have toy's etc. The trick is finding a number where people can have a little disposable income, but working 20+ hours a week even at 3$ an hour gives them several times as much fun money.

I suspect in the US we could do that now with around a flat 40% tax without deductions. Note: Living wage would need to be a national number ~12 to 15k and not what it takes to get by in NYC or whatever.

PS: What makes the numbers work out is you also get rid of social security, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and the lower tax brakes as well as all other tax breaks. Also, people making the average income are revenue neutral in this scheme as they get back the same amount of money as there paying into it minus whatever overhead is involved in running the program.
Personally I would have totally buyed the ouya 2 years ago when the average Android phone was still too weak to play anything more demanding than angry birds without choking on it. But today, miracast+N4+X360 controller and you have something that mops the floor with the ouya, game over.

But the biggest irony is that I would really dig this thing if it were a portable: touchscreen controls suck, there's no way around it. The xperia play was a fiasco and the Vita is going to die any day now. There are portable consoles running android but spec-wise they are all pathetic, and the quality of some is just subpar. If the ouya was a GBASP with a Tegra3 it would be the best portable console ever made, and would blow any phone out of the water when it comes to gaming.
Two pronged approach is in order. Litigation _and_ education.

Won't do any good - the TSA is here to stay, short of the government ceasing to be.

But it's a good fight, and might delay the inevitable for a while.
The "pure" functions are just a subset of "procedure" functions. One can always restrict to use the "pure" function in PHP and yes, that's "first-order functional programming" in PHP. The question is: do we call PHP a functional language?

Likewise, Excel can do stateful update with side effect. The cell formula function happens to be a subset of all it can do. Sure, we can claim it's "first-order functional programming." But do we want to call it a functional language?

My point is that "first-order functional programming" is a really weak qualifier to call a language functional.
"The Contest is void in Cuba, Quebec, Saudi Arabia and Syria and where prohibited by law."

As a student really wishing to one day work at Google Montreal this has me seriously disappointed.

Does anyone know of a way I could participate if I turn down any prize I would win?
I've never met anyone who thought the TSA was anything other than irritating and pointless.
tl,dr:

Being a good marketer/promoter/seller that understands technology is what makes a great startup founder.

EDIT: This is the summary from the article, not my opinion.
There's so much hyperbole in here it's hard to know what parts to take seriously. I do believe the 'fix is in' but also don't know how to read someone who is afraid of austerity but also uses the word keynesian as an epithet. Is government spending bad? is it good? Would the 2008 crisis really have just evaporated so easily? Would anyone take that chance?
To summarize, a Full Stack Hustler can sell, market and understand technology. Instead of being a Growth Hacker, everyday I’m striving to learn and become a Full Stack Hustler. IMHO, this is what makes a great startup founder and work well with a technical founder.

The more I learn about businesses (from developing them and from helping people with them), the more I move away from this type of thinking. I use to market myself as a growth hacker. Because yeah, I can do that with no problem. But the issue is that growth hacking is a bad way to call it. I refuse to call it Full-Stack Hustling, because that is just plain weird. What I call it now is business development. From refining the business model, to finding new ways to profit, to negotiating better deals, to simply developing the business in any way.
So, call me a business developer. That's all you got be focused on doing.
Hey buddy,

how is it going after 10 days ?
This "appeal to the average" is getting old. I wager you would be surprised what the "average american" takes an interest in.
Signed up, looked to me like it's a Ponzi scheme. I automatically follow some Perks users, they automatically follow me, we all win, somehow?
No, it does not. I know plenty of good marketers that are shitty founders.
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Off topic rant. Flagged.
I think you are missing his logic: It doesn't matter what the nonstandard group can produce, it matters what the bosses think they can produce. If I think someone is worth $4/h, I won't pay them more, even if I am wrong.
Angular.js! That's nice. I may advice you to submit your site to http://builtwith.angularjs.org/
Voting rings.
selling and marketing plus understand technology is what makes a good combination. cannot leave either of three out.
American Universities care about your grades and test scores, not just your GitHub.

If you have almost perfect scores on everything, and a history of doing cool things, you might get into MIT, Harvard, and Stanford.

By the way, Harvard is by far not the most expensive. They give a lot of financial aid as well. All these schools do.
interesting. would you include marketing in business development?
I lost mine about 4 years ago. So sorry you had to deal with the pain.
Quick tips:

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You should choose when and where to talk about her and her death. See, people who know you will want to know how you are doing and how it all happened, or why you are not yourself lately. Or you hear from someone who doesn't know about your sister who says, "What's up with you these days". You'll feel like you have to tell them, including how you are doing with it. But you don't have to tell them. "I don't want to talk about that" is a perfectly good response. Pick and choose when to talk about it or you are allowing anyone you interact with the power to send you into a tailspin.

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People will want to show empathy with you by telling you about the time they went through what they think was something similar. And yes, when the loss is similar, it can be a source of much increased mutual understanding and friendship with him/her. But usually it's more like, 'My grandmother died at age 87 so I know what you are feeling'. As you know, they do not (usually). They are just inexperienced in life. They mean well though. Again, I'd recommend "I don't want to talk about it". Feel free to interrupt early in their story.
I think this poll is representative of many that have touched on the issue:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/156491/americans-views-tsa-positi...
Americans (and I am painting with a very wide brush here) I find are very authoritarian. For all the propaganda about freedom, independence, personal rights and property, they are very willing to support authority, very obedient, and most of all would not lift a finger to protect or step up if they see authority overstepping its bounds.

As a bit of a background, I grew in a former communist dictatorship so I am familiar a bit with oppression, keeping your mouth shut, not saying the wrong thing and listening to authority. That is why I have a smell test and a perspective to compare between.

Anyone think I am off the mark completely? Obviously in this forum most people aren't but am I completely off the mark in respect to the average Joe Sixpack? What is the reason for that? Kids do learn in schools about fighting for independence from England, about Founding Fathers, etc etc. so where does blind submission to authority come from?
Wants credit card info for free trial?
Instant browser shutdown.
> I also wonder if he is on calorie restriction [5], i think it's quite possible

He was at least a decade or so ago. I remember it as a factoid in a piece Discover magazine did about him and his research.
Google vows not to sue over certain patents for open source
That is absolutely fantastic! Kudos to UCSD and Saint Petersburg Academic University for creating such an awesome educational resource! And thank you for pointing me to it!
A great thought thank you. I will consider this seriously.
This is nice, but I'd recommend two scoops of django over this.
I'll admit it took awhile to find the evidence of nuthattery (FDR taking the domestic U.S. off of the gold standard, in case you were wondering).

It's a pity too as there are a lot of good points in there mixed with the non-sense.
My old group started "doing agile." We had daily scrums. They quickly turned into status meetings for the PMs to bubble up micro-progress reports.

This, on a team with four engineers and three QA types. We sat next to each other. We didn't need standups, we needed to be left alone to do work.

Finally, on one project the PM (who had appointed himself scrumlord) finally let us meet only twice a week, and had the common decency to call the meetings "status".

Call things what they are.
I personally hate standups. They are the 21st century version of Chinese Communist style Daily Morning Exercises. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2C3bvh6ms

Usually they either are void of real information (as they are supposed to be quick) and nothing is discussed in depth, or if things do end up discussed they end up taking too long.

Unfortunately they have propagated in most work places/engineering cultures.

Information should flow naturally between engineers. If you have a jelling team, people should communicate with each other naturally, without having to be forced to stand up and listen to status reports (that's exactly what standups are).

I prefer once or twice a week engineering 30mins sync ups. Short meeting, that get to the point on whats going on, and you have some time to discuss things in depth if needed. For any small things, the expectations would be that engineers should communicate with each other directly.

Instead of having 5 interruptions a week, you have one or two (slightly larger ones). At the end of the day accountability should be on the delivery of projects (end results), and not efforts (which standups are more about showing efforts, rather than results).

From personal experience, experienced engineers tend to highly dislike them, and the over-reliance on standups is an indication of a weak engineering culture.
I lost my sister a little over a year ago from cancer and can relate.
True, but you can't pin it entirely on Covenant -- If you watch the video, the Covenant representative who staffs the security checkpoint bring in the TSA agent for the airport to the checkpoint. The Covenant representative basically denies any authority to interpret the rules or make a decision other than to get the TSA agent. The TSA agent appears no better.
It doesn't appear that Brian Bailey actually posted this here ... and we do occasionally support our fellow hackers here.
The idea of some sort of big data / semantic analysis being used to judge my worth is honestly rather reassuring compared to the idea of some hr drone trolling google for my name. A person is likely to unfairly misjudge you based on what they find online, an algorithm is probably a pretty fair judge of character, or if it isn't it isn't going to get used.
You fail to address the fact that it is him choosing to disclose it. That is very different from being forced to.

The serious problem I see here is that even after he indicated he is not able to talk to them they refused him to use pen and paper. I also have a speech impediment and carry those with me. Taking them away and not letting someone use them when they are already frazzled and upset is like asking someone in the wheelchair to just "stop being a pussy and get up and walk" or accusing them of "being uncooperative".
Even armed with statistics or a report from a "legitmate" (paid) research firm, in the end you can always find something credible looking to back up what you say or believe. Often being confronted with proof to the contrary makes a believer even more convinced of their belief.

The real problem here is the difference between what people think, what people say and what people do. Everyone hates the screening process, and even the most law-and-order "nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" Ward Cleaver type is going to see patronizing, questionable and occasionally abusive behaviour.

It can be scary to confront the idea that the government might not have your best interests at heart, and scared people are not likely to speak up unless something is happening to them.

People are herded like animals through the screening process. The entire scenario is designed to scare people into complacency and obedience. Herds are not known for thinking rationally.

In the end, there's no obvious way to get enough people in a herd to speak up. That means that people who do get frustrated and push back look like trouble makers, they are made to look like the suspicious ones. Anyone who might want to help is fighting against the fear that they too will be singled out.

It's a vicious circle experienced by anyone that flies frequently. Asking for "evidence" that people aren't upset is missing the point.
You can do "Object Oriented programming" in C++. you can also do "OOP" in plain C, but why do we call C++ an "OO Language" but not C? because the design of the language itself encourages and enforces a particular style of "OOP".

In this case, I believe the "Excel is a functional language" meme is using "Excel" not to include ALL the things that excel does, which includes things like VB and Javascript scripting, but as shorthand for the spreadsheet model of application, and more specifically aimed at Excel's formula language, which enforces the creation of first order functions by excluding the possibility of state-fulness and side-effects from the language's design. It is the fact that this is inherent in its design that merits calling it a functional language, while in php there are no such design choices which enforce or even encourage a functional way of writing code.
Thanks, that's a fair reference. Still, they weren't measuring whether most people see _absolutely nothing wrong_. That's a fair piece further. Boycotting, protesting, or requesting disclosures under FOIA take a lot of effort and risk. The threshold of quiet discomfort before action is pretty high on this one.
Okay, lets say your facebook page is public and you rant about the company you work for. That, to me, indicates some incredibly poor judgement and it absolutely should come back to haunt you.
In POSIX thread programming the "state machine" that you talk about is commonly called a Condition Variable. https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/#ConVarOvervie...
Figured out the issue. Thanks all for your help!
There's a super-fundamental discovery about ageing--and a possible "cure" to ageing--that longevity researchers seem to be WAY TOO cautious in discussing and pursuing.

These are telomeres.

Telomeres are a DNA pattern that sets a hard limit on the number of times a cell will divide (and thus repair itself). When the limit is reached, cells stop dividing (then accumulate damage and age). The limit for humans is something like 70 cellular divisions if I remember right.

If you can find a way to lengthen or reset telomeres, you'd have cellular immortality.

The first time I heard about it ten years ago, it blew my mind. To me, this is the biologist's equivalent of a proof that P=NP would be to a computer scientist. I expected enormous interest and research into this, and billions of dollars poured into it, but I'm amazed that it hasn't happened and most people still have never heard of telomeres.

Why isn't there an Apollo-mission-let's-devote-the-resources-of-the-whole-country effort into this? I think it comes down to fear of researching or financing anything with the word "immortality" in it. You'd sound like a crackpot even though the science is sound.

A brief intro on telomeres:
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Telomere-What-are-Telomer...
"...New MBA Degree" may be a better title.

There are still plenty of subjects where getting a Masters degree or even a PhD is the gateway to learning more thoroughly about that particular field/subject.
Choosing Java and Dalvic was probably a mistake for Android.
Same here... Plus twitter access token revoked.
Being served lunch at the office is certainly convenient, and takes less time, but I wouldn't say it saves me time.

We have catered lunches 2-3 times per week. On those days, I will usually take about 30 minutes for lunch, and get right back to work. On other days, I'll take 45-90 minutes for lunch, and I'll get to take a walk, go outside, possibly see some of my non-work friends, and have different food.

The bottom line is that I'm going to leave the office at the end of the day at roughly the same time, regardless of the length of my lunch. That's almost certainly not the case for everyone, but, as a data point, it is for me. Lunch at the office only "saves" me time to get more work done that day. Don't get my wrong: I love my job, but I also love being outside and seeing friends too.
This is disturbing. I'm in awe at the TSAs complete failure here.
I think he's fighting this on principle, and doesn't want others to have to out themselves either.
Grasp: A Leap Motion mouse controller for OSX
Several times, I saw it stick to a single configuration for several lines, only to then suddenly start doing something else across the entire line.

Do the cells have more states than 0/1? Or is there something else I'm missing?
email me: marco@masswerks.com

I can provide some insight into creating an MVP and possibly help
Making lot's of money is not the same thing as innovation. Apple started as a somewhat naive computer kit company who's sales took off, but was far from a stable company. NeXT and Pixar where both more innovative, not to mention how much better run Apple was after Job's return.
You're absolutely right about herd mentality and the overall process that isolates trouble-makers. But I wasn't asking for proof that people aren't upset. I'm questioning the idea that a majority of fliers see _nothing_ wrong with this process.
I think it's vaguely true in an absolute sense, but I haven't lived anywhere else where people are less submissive to authority, except in countries which have obviously corrupt governments. It seems like a general feature of first-world countries. I live in Denmark now, and if anything people defer to the authorities here even more than in the US.

I have some friends in Greece who don't trust the authorities, but it had to get to a pretty bad state there for that to happen (e.g., infiltration of the police by far-right organizations).
Bloody Hand of Ulster
The 1 quart may have been specifically tailored to his own requirements, but I can imagine that many people, for most flights, would be fine with medical liquid amounts of 1q or smaller. Trying to bring a gallon or two of something on a plane just may not be practical, regardless of the medical necessity, and other transport might be required. But... the 3oz rule has struck me as stupid from day one.
You're mixing terms. Nobody is saying psychology doesn't use scientific methods. They are arguing it is not a hard science. The hard science version of psychology is called neuroscience.

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

Psychology gave up its efforts to become a hard science when it gave up trying to explain behavior from its roots in the brain, and moved into the realm of observing behavior and reporting correlations.
I agree, I was going to ask the same question. Unless there's some subtlety that I'm missing, the order you propose makes much more sense.
Can she not carry a written note (perhaps signed by a doctor) to hand to the TSA agent explaining her situation?
"This will only work in the cases where Google Analytics is not blocked."

Without Javascript and Analytics: https://docstrings.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/detecting-adbloc...
Related to the "absolute bare basics" suggestion.
Have you considered asking your 50 people what the most important 3 features they want are? From there you can work out exactly what your bare basics service actually is.
There are two problems here.

First, the myth is widely pushed by groups with certain ideologies without much grounding in real history. They take a couple of quotes from way back when and make a sweeping generalization. But when we go back through unbiased sources, the argument falls apart; the minimum wage was mostly well intentioned.

Second, that poorly educated blacks were somehow inferior to poorly educated whites is extremely racist in itself. The argument then should NEVER be "the minimum wage hurts blacks", it should rather be "racism hurts blacks". No would here would argue with that.
My company got a couple of emails from a "credit advisor" Stacy at D&B with no subject. Then in the third email, from the same person... the email was typed out in the subject and there was no body. facepalm
StackOverflow was a slightly bettor implementation of an old idea. GPS was innovative and game changing.