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> Hasn't that NY Court heard of the Constitution?

Its not a NY Court, it is the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (Its seat is in New York, but that's hardly relevant to anything.)

And, yes, they've heard of the Constitution. They apparently read it differently than you do. If you want to criticize the decision, feel free.

> Either way, what's scary about this it's that it's happening under normal conditions. At least if they could declare an emergency state

You mean like the one declared on September 14, 2001, that has been repeatedly extended since?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/11/messag...
Don't mistake seeming popularity for "top-of-the-line". More often than not, an old, mature library is a much better choice than the latest fad.
But I'm guessing you'd say in the same breath that Wade v. Roe is unconstitutional, because it disagres with your politics?
I'm just amused at how supporters of these politicians forget that their enemies will be back in office, eventually...
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That's certainly an important difference in general, but I don't see how it's relevant to this article. Here, the issue is not that people are priced out, it's that important, cheap drugs are underproduced.
Oppressive governments are notorious for killing off large percentages of their populations to eliminate dissenters and dissuade survivors from even contemplating dissent.
Mostly right is a mostly correct statement. Heard of Renaissance Technologies?

IMO, continuous time finance is a flawed model. Academics always rattle off theorems based on assumptions that do not hold across all time scales. I've worked with traders lacking any formal education that have a better understanding of the market than someone like Protter will ever have. Trading isn't about investing; it is about capital flows.

That said, I don't miss the job (only the $).
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I know what you're talking about but I think you just failed to read the second paragraph of the post.

> I'm using OpenCV for detecting the faces and a rough Eigenfaces Algorithm for the recognition now. But I thought there should be something out there with a better performance then a self written Eigenfaces Algorithm.

Does this sound like a "plz send me teh codez" to you?
I saw this at the [Wisconsin Film Festival this year](http://wff.to/10SMEZh). It was very well done, with a fair amount of detail of Watterson's early work, inspirations and philosophy. His peers in the cartooning world, fans and critics speak of what he created with irreverence that seems mostly reserved for the great painters of the past century. Simply: Watterson created art that has inspired a generation.

As mentioned in some other comments, die-hard fans will probably not find any new information here, but I would say see it anyway. Even people who haven't even heard of Calvin & Hobbes, and casual readers should find it insightful and entertaining.
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I know the feeling! It's so annoying when people don't know to stand to one side of escalator and they take up the whole thing. It's five times more annoying when it's an airport escalator and you just got done waiting in line for an hour and then being molested by airport security.

Move to one side people! /rant
He actually addresses that in the interview. He says he was not influenced by OWS in any way when making the film.

But Blomkamp insists Elysium isn’t some sort of filmic Paul Krugman op-ed piece. It’s important for him that his movies grapple with things that matter, in this case economic disparity, immigration, health care, corporate greed. But he disdains prescription-happy “message” movies—that’s what documentaries are for, he says—and intends Elysium to be first and foremost a mass-appeal, summer popcorn flick. Allegory, satire, and dark humor interest him; providing pat answers to society’s woes does not. “Anybody who thinks they can change the world by making films,” he says, “is sorely mistaken.
Also, it breaks the back button. However, there are use cases for it. It really depends on the application, the use case, and the target audience.
Since 2008, money has been tight and inflation has been low. Yet the decoupling has continued. I think your implied hypothesis is very unlikely. However, I agree that interest rates play a large role in the decision of whether a company invests in capital.
Bullshit. The two things don't even correlate. The fact that you even think so is astonishing.
I don't understand singling out conservatives here. Liberals have been at least as complicit in bloating the spectrum of government power. Even worse, the majority of the media expressed practically no skeptical interest until they found out the government was spying on them.
Oles is a very "nice" guy. I had a couple of servers at OVH and one time we've been DDoS'ed, we hade no idea why, but Oles wrote an email to us telling us that he's terminating our contract and banning us (after 2 years there). We had no clue about who that was that attacked us. I replied and asked him why he was doing that. He told me: "You should ask yourself. You've made some enemies, deal with it".
Well, he lives on the West Coast, and likely prefers to solve problems he faces more often first. If it works, there is nothing stopping one being built on the East Coast, but as long as the West Coast is thinking of, designing, and building the thing, I see no problem with it starting out here.
With all due respect to Jimmy Carter, and he is a good man at heart, but he appears naive as to what is the true core of the USA. The USA has always been a country of military power. Without military power, the USA would not be what it is today. Even during peace time with the Soviet and others, the underlying military power of the US serves as an important factor to maintain that peace.
I get the correct behaviour in both the search bar and the omnibar (edward snowden girlfriend being the second result).. I should not that I am in Canada but I've tried both google.com and google.ca (although I am logged in at the moment so they know where I'm from regardless)
It's really no different than superlative language used in many advertising materials actually. And yes it is a robot response meant to weed off the passersby who have no money. Anyone with money will skim that and know what to do. Anyone who thinks they can buy the domain for $10 will go away.
The future as described in 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson I think is more likely, perhaps scarier even, and taken to levels beyond Elysium (though don't get me wrong, I'm very excited for Elysium).

2312 is a future where many generations of people have lived on colonies on Mercury, Venus, Mars, hollowed-out asteroids ("terraria"), the outer moons. The spacers live in a new paradigm, not a rich paradise like Elysium, but a very pleasant, long and happy life, while those who inhabit the Earth live in a warring, diseased, overpopulated and climate-change-disaster struck Earth.

I think the crowd here would like this book. You should read it.
The former POTUS's quote "America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time" was covered in few U.S. outlets, and initially reported in the German paper Der Spiegel in the German language.

Perhaps the most visible outlet to include the quote was The Huffington Post, but they can't be bothered to do their own translation. So they cover it via a link to The Inquisitr, which can't bring itself to validate the source, questioning the accuracy of the German newspaper Der Spiegel (which it calls "Die Spiegel").

Note: Carter made this statement in Atlanta, Georgia, not Germany.

Maybe Carter should have also said "America does not have a functioning news media at this point in time."
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You just exposed the lens through which you view the world.
As an engineering project this is truly a resourceful and rather elegant solution to tune a Kahlman filter for positioning. But on the level of privacy ... big consequences. The BSSID allows tracking when someone moves to a different place. And since that's tied to GPS with multiple captures over time you get a pretty accurate location for the WiFi device.
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Americans are also the people above and below the map of USA.
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Well I as employee currently am in the exact position. A few interviews I had in the last year (I work from home for 7 years now)

- Do you allow remote work?

- No

- Then you have to more than triple my current salary (it was double but one company accepted it)

- We will call you.

Treating your people properly and with respect could help a lot.
Not allowed to, in many US localities. Segways are too fast for sidewalks, posing danger to pedestrians. But they're not fast enough to merge with car traffic on a road.

Where do they travel in European cities? Bicycle paths?
C&H has a special place in my childhood, but I agree that in terms of quality, Mafalda is just as good, or better.

That said, it's a strongly political strip, which no doubt alienates some people, and of course, it requires a good translation for anyone who can't read Spanish.
He says he was not influenced by OWS in any way when making the film.

Yeah, and I say I'm the King of England.

There's a reason why he was asked the question. It's because at very least the trailer makes it look like he's doing some pretty heavy axe grinding.
Carter was the first Democratic President after the Church Commission, and his CIA director (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Central_Intelligenc...) was infamous for his scorn of HUMIT and e.g. firing of 800 in operational positions in a "Halloween Massacre". I've read that today the CIA has 90% of its personal stationed in the US, and their loss of fieldcraft skills is infamous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack).

So you might say that his actions in the long term pushed us towards a dependence on what the NSA does, especially in a "War on Terror" where image reconnaissance is of limited utility.
Surely that ought to lessen the annoyance? If you've just been held up for an hour anyway, another 20 seconds doesn't make a lot of difference.
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Haha this reminds me of an old Microsoft interview technique I read about a while back (2 years ago?). I don't think they do it anymore because, well, it's a little odd.

Basically the candidate would state something that was pretty obvious at some point in the interview and then the interviewer would say that he was wrong. The idea here was obviously to see whether the candidate had "the balls" to confront someone who basically has more authority here and tell him that he, in fact, was the one who was incorrect. From what I remember the reasoning was that in real life, you're often in a position where you have to convince someone higher up than you that they're incorrect and here is why.

I just tried googling for the story for a few minutes but couldn't find it :(
I think it's in the norm of French salaries (or I don't know good companies)
Cannot up-vote enough.
So Wyoming has as many escalators as they do Senators.
"Succeeded" sounds so much better than "rejected the null hypothesis."
That's what the parent said: there were previous chances to definitively end the experiment by observing drips, but no-one thought to monitor it with a video camera until recently. There was no need to wait 69 years.
As the poster of the original comment, thanks for this. It was indeed supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.

The scenario was intended to be completely fictional. It doesn't necesarily need to be the US and could just have likely to be somewhere like the UK. This could be 20 years down the line.

It was intended to demonstrate an extreme, where the intimate knowledge of someone's entire personal life by the state is exploitable by a malicious entity. Snowden is an example of a whistle-blower. His ex-co-workers could just as easily be blackmailers.
You forgot being able to chain 84 buzzwords in a single sentence. Also known as half-Ballmer.
Your comment makes it quite clear you haven't actually _read_ the article.

No, it makes it quite clear that I didn't just nod my head and agree with whatever came out of his mouth.
I was expecting Techcrunch to promote subreddits about computing or start-ups.
https://twitter.com/dronestream is a Twitter account that's reporting through the history of all US drone strikes.

Here is an interview with Josh Begley, the man behind that account:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/josh-begley-int...
Forget the back pocket: get a notebook, write some questions down and have it open on the table in front of you. Keep a copy of your CV there too, for the inevitable occasion when your interviewer is looking at something that's been mangled by an agency and you want to show them what it's supposed to look like.
Part anchoring and part weeding out people who don't know the value and setting expectations.

Let me give you an example.

We are getting out bathroom redone. The first step is the contractor is going to come out and "take a look and get an idea of where we will be at price wise". He will then (he said) give us a rough idea of the cost. After we hear that and we look like we are both in the same ballpark he will proceed further to get an actual design in place and we will get down to specific prices. There is also anchoring involved in this as well (say he gets us to agree to 30k for the bathroom won't be hard getting us to 35k, right?).

Had the same just happen with putting in a backup generator. Guy on the phone stated "most systems like you need will cost $15,000". Said "ok". Came out, job priced out below that he had shot high. Didn't want to waste his time quoting if we thought the price is merely what you see for the equipment at Home Depot.
If current systems and economics stayed the way they are, then I imagine that it has a higher probability of being true. I foresee those economic structures shifting / changing though.
I believe they have a new tool now to make bindings easier.
That's not true. I was recently on a segway tour of San Francisco in which we rode as a group on the roads alongside traffic.
It was a bit slow on the ipad2, but really flies on desktop chrome.

There's a bit of jankiness on the modals though, as the scrollbar disappears when the modal appears, which causes a reflow of the page body.
What are you then suggesting? Killing the suicide bombers family? Well, the US is already doing that and this behaviour is just barbaric.
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"Since WWII" is not the same thing as "always".
Why not? It's not as if it will make a difference - developers are already bombarded daily with many recruiters, some of whom actually represent good positions at good companies.

The market for programmers right now is very efficient. If someone isn't being paid well enough, or treated well enough, than they can get on the free market, this problem will resolve itself very shortly.

What this company is doing is basically security through obscurity, except made hopeless by the fact that I have no doubt all of his developers are being courted frequently via non-company channels.
The semantics of ICollection<T>.Count and IList<T>.Count are well defined and known to you at the time your write your extension method.

You don't know the semantics of a method of an arbitrary type you've been passed in just because it has the same name. Go plays fast and loose with this idea, but at least the interface type of the argument should document "I'm expecting these methods to have a particular semantics". If they don't, that's then your fault.
True. It will probably be relatively expensive, at least at first. Still, if it's moderately priced (<$100) I would be much more willing to take long-distance trips down the coast. As it is, I rarely go to NYC or Philadelphia because of the time and/or cost. Maybe not commute, but certainly visit with some regularity.
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> Even during peace time with the Soviet and others, the underlying military power of the US serves as an important factor to maintain that peace.

What makes you think that Carter, who was President during that time and initiated the large military buildup that Reagan is often credited with to maintain that peace, is too naive to recognize that?
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No matter how many inquiries you get (and as I've mentioned you don't get many inquiries per name but in total if you own thousands of domains you get many inquiries) it normally pays to at least find out who you are dealing with and why they want the domain (size them up) prior to quoting any price expectation etc.

Curious what the domain was I've seen that letter before but can't place the seller that uses that.
This sort of rational sensibility isn't going to stop the TSA from power-grabbing and mission-creeping their way into any new transportation system. They'll get their tendrils in the pie, sure as the sunrise. So will a million other government bureaucracies.
Those features are from MPlayer, KMPlayer just puts them on a GUI.

Also, I don't get the idea that subtitles are favoured in any way by MPlayer. Did you see the amount of options you have for handling sound?
Is it stupid to pay for beautiful things?
It is amazing to think how much progress mere inconvenience may have thwarted.

This is not to downplay the effect this coordination has had on your life. Rather this sort of thing requires deliberate planning and cognizance on the part of management / leadership / founders, not minimizing someones claims of hardship.
The military-industrial complex was basically created from scratch in WWII (The U.S's industrial contribution to WWI was a joke). This was never de-mobilized because the Cold War began immediately after, and Europe was in no position to defend itself.
Make them usable in bright daylight while you're at it.
Downvoted for being wrong. Pakistan works with the US -- they don't want to appear to be working with the US.
Have a link to that last statement? I can't imagine someone saying that, considering how quickly technical content gets outdated.
Seriously, go read the article. You might find him more likable and his reasons for the story a bit different from what you are envisioning.
> "knowingly handing your vehicle to someone who acts as an agent of the government in performing a search"

That's the part I really don't understand about this: [1]

Is the TSA hiring and managing valet attendants now? Or do they have some authority to direct arbitrary airport staff to perform 'security' tasks?

What are the odds these valet attendants receive any training in identifying potential explosive devices, let alone methodical search?

And what's next? Are the janitors going to start poking through the trash bins looking for bombs as part of their regular duties? Are the curb-side check-in attendants going to start rifling through luggage? (those bags can linger at least as long as a car) And if not those things, why valet attendants?

[1] That the TSA would seek to ratchet up their presence and staff in response to essentially arbitrary hypothetical threats is, sadly, unsurprising.
And before anyone asks, OpenStack is Apache 2.0, which does not require you return source if you use/distribute modified binaries [AFAICS].
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Watterson writes about this in one of the bigger compilation books (one like The Days Are Just Packed): infringers are too numerous for him to track down, and he was loathe to hire on assistants just to hire IP. I couldn't find that source, but I did find him talking at length about why there's almost no officially licensed merchandise:

http://iheartpicturebooks.blogspot.ca/2010/04/bill-watterson...

I think if he had gone down the official licensing road, someone else would have taken care of infringers for him. As it is, he wanted to do what he loved and not worry about that aspect of the business.
shouldn't it be >=, to catch double-charging?
> At a million g's, I'm a liquid

Not really. You'll disintegrate in strange ways based on the relative density of your constituent parts.

<edit>: Another thought is that if you laid on a bed for 13 years (the time it took for a drop of pitch to form) without moving --ignoring tissue decay and other factors-- you'd probably "flow" just as you might in a high gravity environment. Gravity, like rust, never sleeps. </edit>

Yet, unless a domain expert says otherwise, I think your point is absolutely valid. However, pitch might just be the kind of substance that would be fine at a million g's. I don't know.

That's the reason for my request for comment from someone with centrifuge experience. At a million g's a lot of seemingly strange things can happen. However, perhaps 100, 1000 or 10,000 g's is reasonable. I used the million g example as an illustration of the attainable extreme in response to a comment that spoke about 6 or 7 g's. Clearly we can do better, far better.

In consultation with a domain expert (Chemist?) I would design the experiment to give results in somewhere between a day and a month. Faster if possible. The criteria would be to choose an acceleration that does not fundamentally change the nature of the substance under test. All we want to do is promote faster flow.
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I don't really care for the story line, but finally somebody worked a high-quality render of a full-scale rotating habitat into a movie! Always wanted to see how that might look since Rendezvous with Rama and Hamilton's books.
I get instant suggestions for "Edward Snowden" on the main search site, but nothing from Google News. Suggests "Edward Sharpe" until I type the "n", then nothing.
There's also something about having a work environment, or coffee shops and department stores and restaurants that all have air conditioning. Where it gets really hot, is when you spend an entire summer without even a minute of air conditioning. We're used to being able to tolerate spurts of 8, 12 hours without air conditioning, but it is rare to have entire days in sweltering heat in the northeast.
The Go dev has acknowledged that this is a bug, but also pointed out why something like this was done elsewhere ( io.Copy ), and the Count example was pointed at that.
>If the government doesn't take the risk, long term innovation would be very difficult.

What I'm wondering is, if the taxpayers have to take all the risk and spend all the R&D money out of our own pockets, why don't we get to keep all the profits as well? I thought innovation was the role of heroic figures who eat risk for breakfast? I thought the massive, economy-distorting pay packages were justified by all that risk?

EDIT: obviously a lot more money is needed for marketing, manufacturing etc. But as I understand it the IP from these projects is basically given as a gift to favoured arms manufacturers when it's ready to become a product? Please correct me.
FISA was a law which criminalized much domestic surveillance, and placed explicit limits on notionally "foreign" surveillance, in response to abuses occurring in the 1970s (particularly, the Nixon administrations use of national security apparatus for domestic political surveillance.)

FISA wsa the law that was broken by much of the post-9/11 surveillance, and that it was the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 which weakened the restrictions put in place by FISA and immunized those who had illegally cooperated in the illegal surveillance that led up to it.

I don't think Carter was aware that FISA's restrictions would be casually cast aside within living memory of the abuses which spawned it, but I think he was quite aware of the kind of things that could happen if those restrictions were either not in place or not enforced.