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What racist crap? Black labor was cheaper, this was a fact of life, universally recognized by contemporaries. Why it was cheaper is a complex question, but I did not intend to open it, because the fact that it was cheaper was known and mentioned repeatedly. You may say it was wrong, but it still doesn't change the fact it was what it was.

And because it was a fact of life, unions were up in arms against blacks "taking their jobs" and "lowering the prices" (as they are up in arms now against other non-union people lowering the prices). Of course, another solution would be to accept everybody to the union and have them receive the same wages, but for some reason (I live as an exercise to you what it was) they preferred not to go with that, and African Americans had to organize their own unions - with, of course, much less power and access to legislation and regulation - because they were frequently excluded from the white unions up to the Civil Rights era.

You can talk all day long about evil libertarians but if you look it up the history of labor and racial relationships is widely available and there's no way to deny the basic fact that racism played a huge role here and unions were as racist as state officials were.

See e.g.: http://www.oxfordaasc.com/oa/article/opr/t0005/e0934?p=oamon...
among many other sources (really, it's just a google away). If Oxford's African American studies center is full of racist libertarians, then apparently they are much more powerful than universally thought.
>There are two kinds of people, people who happen, and people who things happen to. I choose to be the former.

We are all both. Nobody gets to "choose" to be one or the other.
This is a great idea, but does it violate Twitter's ToS? How is this different than tweetadder?
The article doesn't address whether working in a fast-changing unstructured environment is right for you. Some people are genuinely in their element in a startup. Others are happier in a more predictable environment. Some were meant to be in academia, or whatever.

Finding the right match for you is more important than making a billion dollars, getting a Master's degree, or whatever other analogies they make.
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Again I hope people can separate Core Data and iCloud.
Core Data works perfectly fine (though I suspect some will argue with me on that point, I've had no issues with it since 4)

But iCloud is just badly implemented for the moment. Will probably get better. Apple doesn't call iCloud beta, and people will probably be pissed since it doesn't work properly.

I suspect that if they did call it Beta, some might have had gone easy on it for all the faults out there.

I gave it a try when the API was accessible, I didn't like it, never looked back.

1)SSO can work with other form of social logins - and will also work from other platforms/clients

2) Privacy? As a developer you have access to those files

3) This works better if it's stored on a server that has a more public API since you probably want a web interface and etc.
Could you quote that part for me? I can't seem to find it.
Kudos. It's too bad that there are so few places hiring like you do in my own geography.
I foresee you guys having a real hard time reaching critical mass with requiring users to sign up with a credit card.

Why not just shut off the account after the 14 day trial instead of forcing me to go through more work to sign up?
Of course not; if they trained TSA agents beyond having a simple state machine there wouldn't be so much money left to buy Rapiscan machines. I highly doubt being assholes is due to anything but poor training and their salaries are probably too low for them to really want to put any effort into anything. I'd remove the machines and give them higher wages and better training if I had any say in the matter.
Airports generally are privately operated, but it's not about that. Air travel is federally regulated, so the situation isn't even addressable on the ground. For instance, you can't build your own runway, pile 50 people onto a plane, and be free and clear of FAA and DHS.
“If you approach the TSA adversarially, it's logical that they'd respond unpleasantly.”

Why? Aren't they trained to deal with all kinds of people and types of behavior, like anyone in a customer facing profession? If I go to an Apple Store to buy a product while I'm in a bad mood and don't feel up for chit-chat, the sales rep isn't going to make me play nice.

Also, I think Sai was very courteous and patient, given the situation. He obviously knew that if he had actually raised his voice or made a scene, he'd be giving them an excuse not to cooperate. Nonetheless, in the video one of the TSA agents told him to calm down while he was clearly quite calm. That's the kind of shenanigans we see again and again from the TSA.
The iPhone Killed My Creativity
Minute by Minute Probability Graph of Michigan vs. Kansas Game...Amazing
I have a prosthetic leg and travel weekly. Apparently, the TSA's official policy is (or at least was) that, if asked my me if I am allowed to remove my leg and place it on the x-ray conveyor belt, they are to tell me doing so is forbidden. However, if I simply do so, they are not to stop me. I presume the theory to be that travelers might somehow mis-understand and create a PR disaster by claiming that an amputee was forced to remove his leg.

If I leave my leg on and walk through the metal detector, I must wait around until a male agent is available to swab me, check for explosive residue, and determine that I am not carrying a weapon. It's much more efficient to take the leg off and waddle on my knees through the metal detector.

Most of the TSA agents know me at this point, but occasionally a new person will be caught off guard. Usually, they are speechless in fear of breaking two seemingly conflicting rules: (1) don't offend, humiliate, etc. and (2) don't allow passengers to do stuff they aren't supposed to do. I see some panicked motioning to a supervisor and hear, "Oh, he comes through here all the time! ...Yes, it's allowed." Occasionally, a new agent will tell me, "You can't do that, sir!" When I reply that I've done so well over a hundred times in the past couple years, they defer to a supervisor who informs them of my "rights." [Quotes to convey the absurdity of the situation, of course.]

It is because of my experiences in hearing TSA agents make-up a rule out of thin air that I do not doubt the author of the blog posting. Interestingly, I suspect that my notoriety actually has lead to less scrutiny over time -- the frequency at which my carry-ons are hand inspected has decreased over time.
I was with him until I watched the actual video, where he basically comes off like a guy deliberately looking for a fight who gets one. He tries to pull the "i don't have to explain why it's a medically necessary liquid, you fuckers should screen it".

All they did was ask why it was medically necessary, which is reasonable, in order to prevent people from abusing the policy.

His citation that the special needs memo says things like "a doctors note" are recommended, not required, doesn't say anything to the contrary. Nowhere in the memo does it say "you will not be asked to explain why it's medically necessary", and in fact, the reason they probably recommend doctors notes/etc, is to avoid having to repeat a verbal explanation 100x over.

Realistically, if he challenges this in court, he's likely to end up making bad law.

People don't like to hear that non-sympathetic plaintiffs and bad actors often cause bad law to be made, but it's reality. Judges aren't automatons, and the law isn't that rigid in most cases (which is yet another thing engineers/etc don't like to hear).

He seems to act like fourth amendment law is not open to interpretation, or that fourth amendment law has not changed over time (in fact, to his detriment, since there are a lot more exceptions related to border searches and searches used to ensure security than their used to be).
By doing this he misses the one mildly likely result: He will be the cause of a new exception to the 4th amendment.
To those thinking that he's just causing a fuss for no reason. The same could be said of Rosa Parks. We need people like him to move our rights forward.
Yeah this sounds much better than, actually learning to create something with your two hands. Whether that's a building, vehicle or software.
1. For most US colleges (including all the ones you listed), you must apply by January 1 of the year you want to attend. There are a lot of documents you need to send in from your school and teachers so you need to start applying at least 1-2 months before that deadline. You also need to take standardized tests (SATs), so again, you have to plan for that at least 3 months in advance, and probably a lot more if you wanted to study for the test (and you really do need to study for the test). So it's too late to apply for entry in September. If you're taking a gap year you would be able to apply.

2. Getting into the schools you listed is incredibly difficult, even for an American citizen. For an international/foreign student, the bar is set even higher.

3. The top American colleges will usually offer financial aid to everyone who needs it, including international students. These colleges are incredibly competitive (the three colleges you listed do offer financial aid). There is a special process for financial aid; you must specifically apply for it. Colleges that are not top-tier typically factor in financial aid into admissions; meaning those who need financial aid face a higher standard in admissions. Some colleges (usually the wealthiest) do not factor in financial need into admissions.

4. I seriously doubt any admissions officers will now with git or github is. Far more impressive are internships or actual products you have shipped on the App Store or online. And you really need to sell yourself - in your applications you would probably need to specifically say that X app is on the app store, X number of users and $X revenue, etc.
Couldn't agree more than it's just badly implemented right now. It's at a "barely viable" stage right now. Article was meant to question the very assumption that it's a just a fundamentally bad idea to begin with, and all the negativity that's recently coming out in the press. Yes, it's not for every app or every situation, but it could be a great solution for a lot of apps (if only it worked a bit better!).
As much as I agree with what you pointed out, it still doesn't address the attrition rate that occurs mostly for women that I pointed out below. Take any account and look any inbox over time and the attrition rate becomes obvious. If you look at my inbox on OkC, and you go to the last page of messages (about ~2 years ago) and most of the avatars next to the message are the default avatar, which usually indicates that the accounted is deleted or turned off. If you look at the account of a heterosexual woman that has been on OkC as long and look at a page of messages that are equivalently old, you'll see that most messages have a photograph avatar next to the messages.

It may be fundamentally unfixable, but it doesn't mean that the ratio of hetero women to hetero men can't be far more equal than it is now.

Message exchanging liquidity can also be improved, possibly via the methods I outlined below.
If I'm not using some integrated VCS system (which currently happens quite often), it's still mostly the case that I just switched from an editor when I'm writing my CLI commit command. So the mental context switch to transfer back into an editor setting is pretty minimal. And with the editor running (or EDITOR being vi(m)/emacsclient), the startup is negligible, too. So since the time of CVS, and now with either SVN or git, I just don't care too make a difference between small or larger commit messages and completely ignore options of expressing my commit message on the shell, going to the editor all the time.

I found that this also encourages me to be a bit more specific about the reasons for the changes committed. A few lines don't really hurt.

On the other hand, it might be that my commit schedule might still be too influenced by the older VCS systems, and a more frequent git-ish approach would encourage a more in-line approach. But right now I think that my one or two additional lines help more than they hurt.
I'm glad someone else thought that looked odd.
Yes! I commented a few weeks ago about listening to an NPR ToTN segment about the loosening of the pocketknife ban. ToTN even got a guest for the duration of the segment to argue the case for relaxing TSA regulations. As I recall: every caller called to complain that the TSA was relaxing requirements.
"will manufacture a specified gene, and send you back frozen plasmids, which you can then inject into your favorite bacterial host."

As a fan of the Bioshock series, I wasn't sure if you were trolling here or I'm just completely unaware of the current state of real biology.
The problem is not with the TSA per se but with the representative democracy. Every elected official that has a choice to repel some stupid rule or law is present with the following game-theoretic matrix:

repel then some incident happens that can be somehow associated with this - it's a catastrophe even if the association is completely superficial, the media will manage to spin it to cause enough damage.

repel then nothing happens - there is a minor positive outcome but incumbents already have an overwhelming advantage.

don't repel - there is a minor negative outcome but incumbents already have an overwhelming advantage.

Until incumbents start routinely losing elections repelling any "safety" regulation is the worst move you could make. There is very minor upside and a huge downside.
So we will have to keep our kindles showing the splash screen while the plane is waiting at the gate and throw out toothpaste at the TSA checkpoints. Any possible relief will come either from the money pressure (e.g. confiscation of lighters apparently had been interfering with the airports operation so much that it had to be repelled) or political stunts (e.g. Obama showing the terrors of sequester by allowing pen knives and hokey sticks on-board).
'DannyBee, who IIRC is a practicing lawyer, is alluding to a legal truism: "hard cases make bad law". Look it up; the links are interesting. I think about "hard cases" making "bad law" a lot, even in non-legal situations (like the PyCon drama).
I found it interesting to read the comments on the blog post where the TSA announced they would stop confiscating pocketknives (effective April 25): http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/03/small-pocket-knives-more-support...

Instead of celebrating this as a victory for common sense, many commenters argued against the change, claiming it would make flights less safe (or at least feel less safe). I think these people are representative of a significant fraction of the population who think the TSA's work is both necessary and effective, and would oppose limiting it any further.
Really? I think it has been in the press for a couple of decades now. At any rate, it's probably wise to spread the research money around. The war on cancer started with Nixon is about 40 years old, and we still have a long way to go? My hope is that crowd sourcing and funding really catches for science on in the next few years. Wouldn't it be great to have a lot more resources, both money and people, working on interesting science problems?
I'm not sure how this is relevant to my parent comment.

Also, some unsolicited feedback:

* The product page keeps jumping between campusbubble.com and universitycollaboration.com

* The "Try Demo" asks the user to click on the contact us link that takes you to the contact page. The "Beta Test" page also links to the contact page. Essentially there is no way of "trying out" what the product does for something that has been in development since 2011.

* The left column on the "Try Demo" page has two deadlinks instead of previews.

* And as a (recent) former student, I am not sure the value the product provides to students over much simpler solutions (such as: facebook groups, r/mycollege, group texting apps for study groups, pizzza.com, etc). Good luck regardless.
Hiring a couple .NET Web devs in Dallas
"Hire when it hurts"

Oh baby it hurts.

Looking for people that can manage the whole stack (even if not an expert at everything). SQL Server, ASP.NET MVC/C#, HTML/CSS/jQuery/bootstrap, etc.

Our typical projects are 1-3 month web applications (either public facing or intranet/extranet apps).

Full time positions, good benefits, good work/life balance, etc.

email info/resume to sgoodpasture at thirdcorner.com
Similarly, many commenters on the TSA's blog post announcing this change opposed it: http://blog.tsa.gov/2013/03/small-pocket-knives-more-support...
That's kind of false advertisement. Excel (or spreadsheet in general) is great and easy to use because of declarative programming, not because of functional programming. The functional programming aspect of it is minimal. No variables, no state, and no side-effects are mainly attribute of declarative programming.

The most important aspect of being functional, high order function, is completely missing.
USSR existed for 69 years, no major battles were brought over institutions like KGB, that were breaking the democratic soviet constitution.
Not buying Sun was the mistake. $7B is all that would've taken (less if they sold the os and hardware division) to make the computing world a better place.
apparently, not.
“All they did was ask why it was medically necessary”

If he had explained all the ins and outs of his illness, then what? Are they in any position to judge the necessity of him drinking sugar water? If not, what's the use of explaining it to them? They should know their own rules and act accordingly. It's unacceptable for them to make someone wait for 20 minutes while they look up what they should already know.
I was curious as to whether this was true, so to test it out, I looked at Hilbert's Problems[0], which are widely considered some of the most important problems in Mathematics in the 20th century. Of the solvers whose ages I could find on Wikipedia, the median age was 30.5 and the mean was 29.4. (For Hilbert's 10th problem the solution is listed as the joint work of 4 people. I treated them as one person with an average age of 42.5)

This obviously isn't statistically significant, but it lends some weight to the myth that Mathematicians "die young."
Return JSON. The end.
Please put this online, it'll be a very very valuable resource.
I'd recommend a section on 'Function Based Views' in there as well. I've personally found the CBV-based approach is sometimes good but in most cases I still prefer the FBV approach. You see it often enough that I think it is worth going over in detail.
Why didn't Google just buy Java, way to drop the ball.
Building Photoshop 1.0
Harlem Shake on Wall Street
7B is pocket change to them, completely agree. I was shocked to hear they let it pass iirc. I figured they were playing hardball and it just blew up in their face.
I think the issue is just that the TSA policy is not "good enough"

And that's exactly how people see americans, by the way. Some random dudes try to piss of a bunch of people, and maybe make some money in court, because a document, law, whatever didn't specify something that was common sense.

Then you end up with ridiculously long documents that attempt to cover every single tiny case - and of course, generally taking the road "against" the consumer, customer, whatever - because it's _safer_.

So yeah. By watching the video, the guy does appear as a douche. He should just ask TSA to make their papers clearer about the policy. He could also split his liquids into smaller liquids or just bring the doctor note. But nooope.. let's piss off TSA to "make a point". Except, it's not a very good point.

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For the record I travel through the US every now and then, and I bring sensitive items, that always get scanned, but always go through. I sometimes even get this little "TSA inspected this bag" from checked-in luggage due to the contents.

Never had any issue. But such behavior, I fear, actually work toward restricting all items I travel with, and thus, effectively forbidding me travel with those in the future.
I would like to be able to upvote stories without the story going into the "saved stories" section of my user profile. I use this (perhaps obsolete) feature as a means to mark things I would like to reference later, and upvoting everything which was quality but which I don't want to reference again would defeat the purpose.

Having a separate "save" link which puts articles into the saved stories section would address this use case. Or perhaps one day I should go back through all my saved stories and bookmark the ones which are still relevant so that I can upvote all submissions which are good. Maybe a future version of HN will do away with "saved stories" as it's likely the intent of upvoting articles is meant to be the same as upvoting comments... and there's no "saved comments" section.
TSA contractors have absolutely no right to demand intimate medical information from people who simply wish to travel through the air. The fact that you would think otherwise is a symptom of how unhinged the thinking in this country has become.

They prohibited him from drinking juice. He asked to be allowed to drink it in front of them, and they said no. What in the fuck is anyone from anywhere doing telling anyone they aren't allowed to drink juice?

If you answer "safety" or "the law" or really anything, you are utterly, utterly lost.

This is wrong.
It's not just contract work with the government. Once you are a business of sufficient size it's almost inevitable that you'll run into some random thing where you're required to have a DUNS number before proceeding (and it's always unclear why this is a requirement). So dumb.
I'm not sure what video you watched. Here's a guy who, to the extent of his non-lawyer knowledge, stands up for his rights in the face of bureaucratic harassment. He doesn't yell, scream, or cry, he just insists on people following their own rules, not having his possessions taken, and being treated like a citizen whose rights should be respected.

The above comment implies that it is reasonable for TSA contractors to inquire about medical conditions. That is a huge grant of personal information no one should have to make. The above comment also makes the assumption that instead of authority proving it has a need to restrict rights, individuals must prove they deserve freedoms. It is that reversal of attitudes that scares me more than anything.
True, but you can choose which defines you.
"Apparently, the TSA's official policy is (or at least was) that, if asked my me if I am allowed to remove my leg and place it on the x-ray conveyor belt, they are to tell me doing so is forbidden. However, if I simply do so, they are not to stop me. I presume the theory to be that travelers might somehow mis-understand and create a PR disaster by claiming that an amputee was forced to remove his leg."

Wow, I was reading a few books on USSR lately and this is exactly how the soviet low enforcement functioned. It's very hard for servicemen to find balance between common sense and social traditions on one side and the madness of totalitarian authority.
If a cop stops you on the street because he thinks you look suspicious, how do you respond?

1) "It's none of your business. I'm going to start recording you to make sure you handle this situation legally"

2) "I'm just rolling a cigarette. Don't worry it's not weed!"

Although most people don't like answering to authority, especially when they aren't required to, option #2 is the path of least resistance. That said, I do respect people like the OP who take the first approach and challenge authority.
Cool, thanks.

But already I found one issue in the "setting up your environment" steps. Unless I'm somehow missing it, I don't see any link to pip or mention of where I'm supposed to get it.
how does it compare to https://plugg.io/?