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My parents are from Taiwan, I was born in the U.S. I have reflected on this topic, and my thought was that South Asians, due to British colonization, appear to adapt more easily to American culture. Comparing immigrant parents from South and East Asia, (anecdotally) I have noted that South Asian parents speak English with greater facility than East Asian parents, which I have attributed to the effects of the British Raj.

I also have noted that South Asians have a strong culture that resists rote Westernization, which I attribute to native Indians (etc.) learning over time about what to sustain and what to adopt from the culture of their British overlords. So I conclude that when South Asians emigrate to America, they have a "leg up" in adopting to American culture, while East Asians experience culture shock to a much greater degree. Not only is the language more unfamiliar, but East Asians don't have the historical/cultural experience of keeping their culture separate from a Western culture as South Asians do. As an example, look at the relative interest of children of immigrants in the USA's National Spelling Bee.

I therefore think that because of these reasons, and because I think East Asian immigrants are as bright as South Asian immigrants, that we will observe a bolus of super-successful East Asian immigrants one generation later than when we observe a bolus of super-successful South Asian immigrants.

Now obviously these observation are generalizations, but I suspect that the "strong accent" observation of PG is not just a proxy for facility with English but a measure of cultural adaptation than may be helpful in becoming successful in the USA.
Looks very interesting indeed. But is it possible for you guys to somehow "lend" me a google glass so I can test/debug features I might add? wishing and hoping
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It was specifically in the context of criticizing someone who would be widely perceived as pro-gay. As in "I mostly support the same issues as this guy, but he's hurting his cause."

I'd be just as likely to say "I like black people, but <a notoriously criminal/amoral black guy> hurts the public image of black people and the cause of civil rights", sure.

I'm fine with Trump comparisons except please the 1980s Trump, not the current one.
I don't see any competition at programmable calculator's market.

Why noone gets a modern SoC, connects it to a modern OLED display (but keep hardware keyboard, please), burns in basic DirectFB-based GNU userland with tons of readily available free science (not only math) and programming tools, designs an basic UI over the thing (most hard part), keeps the POSIX shell available and device completely unlocked, and starts selling the product? I do believe there are parents who would like their kid to have a good calculator to aid in the school, but don't want them to have an iOS/Android tablet (as it's more likely the kid will end up playing or using it for social networks).

I mean, replace everything that sucks about graphing calculators - outdated (and seriously overpriced) hardware and limited programming and debugging functionality (if you're about to argue - please compare TI calculator to your development workstation to see what I mean), but keep the device feel generally science- rather than entertainment-oriented?

In short: a handheld device with a general feel of modern programmable calculator, with (preinstalled) Maxima, Octave, PHYSICA, R, Python, Racket and so on under the hood, and without any [readily available] "app store" full of games.

Or such products do exist, but I just haven't stumbled on anything like this?
Seems unconstitutional to me. You can commercially publish topless photos of actresses vacationing on a private beach, and that's protected by the first amendment. If the argument is trademark infringement then why a special law?
I don't think that's what he's saying. What Goldston et al. have proved is that Zhang's approach can't prove a bound any better than H=16 without major modifications, but it doesn't actually establish the H=16 bound. In principle, if the twin prime conjecture were only true for, say, H=20, that would still be consistent with both results.
Their statement is a generic "you can't use our logo because of this law" (exactly what you'd expect from a government agency.) And their denied any involvement in this particular case (ditto.)
No way on #2.

Coming to work on time and staying with a company for at least 2 years is a competence in itself. Job hopping is absolutely justified for use as discriminatory criteria.

Yes many of us have had a 6mo to 1 year job. One such job on a resume won't kill it. Neither will 2. But if you have a 5-7 year work history of 1 year jobs, that's not so impressive.
Of course. There is always the driver to actually work. In places that lack a safety net you have to take some "flipping burgers" job which you still can't really report on your resume so you end up with no time plus that ugly hole in your resume.
I'm Australian.

We have packet noodles too, we just call them "noodles".

Paul Graham has referred to ramen a lot in the past, I guess it's a west-coast-exposure-to-Japan thing.
IANAL, but this gets complicated. It all depends on whether a reasonable person, when seeing the error page with "no spaces in credit card field", would presume that nothing else in the form changed. If so, and the merchant is aware that most people presume that, then it could be fraud.

They are making a financial gain, by being aware that the terms have changed, and by misleading the customer into thinking that nothing has changed, they could be committing fraud.

The customer choose the original selection, and the merchant's systems swapped in a different, more expensive, version without telling the customer at the last moment, knowing that most people don't re-read everything again, then yes, that's fraud.
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Clumsily said but the point - don't be a dick — is valid. I take it to mean "I have nothing against gay people although I don't really know any". It's funny because the opposite clumsy-ism is "some of my best friends are..." With the idea you can be a total douche towards some group but it's Ok because you're nice to the ones you actually know.
O'Neill's plan was to bootstrap manufacturing in situ, starting with robotic mining of moon dust or rock. The ore would be sent to L5 by linear launchers and then smelted into simple metals to make reflective surfaces.
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So, he also knew Jed for so long and the service was named with him in mind?

Or I am totally wrong about the origin of the service...
Nevermind, I saw "we prove that there are infinitely often primes differing by 16 or less" but missed the caveat "assuming the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture".
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I get that; I'm talking about the ad containers. Not the ads themselves.
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> I'd be just as likely to say "I like black people, but <a notoriously criminal/amoral black guy> hurts the public image of black people and the cause of civil rights", sure.

Wow, I think you are hurting the cause that is your credibility.
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Zazzle fears the cost of going to court, even if it looks like a certain win.

That's a general problem with the US legal system, and would be worth protesting about more than any NSA scandal combined.

Discrimination of the poor from access to justice.
Im not an expert in VCs matters but what i think is that many VC's would fund a MVP if it is showing some sort of potential .Team also matters alot.
Ah, that seems pretty reasonable. I think my biggest problem is that when I'm interviewing I'll try to answer too quickly before thinking through a problem completely.

But I love discussions too, and if it's something I'm comfortable with, I could keep talking about the topic for as long as the interviewer wants.

I think there's value in recognizing when you don't know the answer to something. I had an interviewer ask me the difference between call and apply in JavaScript, at the time I wasn't sure, so I started to answer him... I explain that I knew you could use both to set the context in which the function was called, but eventually I just said: I'm not sure. And the interviewer gladly explained it to me.

In my case I got an internship where they gave me a 24 hour project to demonstrate my skills. I found that way less stressful than any interview I've ever had. And after the internship the company was so happy that they offered me a full time job!
This is absolutely true, however there are alternatives to companies that track you. Go to JCPenny and they don't force you to use a credit card to purchase some shoes. If you use cash, as opposed to a credit card, you won't be added to their database. The difference between a retail store and the government is whether you have the choice of having your information stored in a database. So yes, a government could just up and say "all your base are belong to us" to supplement any information they already have, but there is no opt-out for a government that might already have information on you based on phone calls and your Internet graph.
Government bodies that don't have "interacting with the public" in their main objectives tend to react that way. When you call, you don't get routed to a low paid operator, but to a random employee without specific procedures for dealing with calls.
I am current on this research.

The group for anonymous communication in Dissent is formed using unspecified means. It could be everybody who signed up in the last month, obtained a credential from some authority, has a key within the web of trust for the group, etc.

Some of these methods obviously allow the adversary to create Sybils (aka sockpuppets). The ones that don't may not provide anonymity about who is in the group, but the protocol will provide anonymity for who said what during the group communication. This is still extremely valuable. Consider voting as an example: the group is known, but individual vote anonymity matters.

If the group formation mechanism does allow Sybils, that still doesn't violate anonymity. For a message from an honest member, the adversary cannot tell which honest member it came from. It also doesn't violate the accountability of the protocol - any disruption will be attributable to some Sybil, who will be punished.
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The client will have N copies of the customer record, so the record schema doesn't change. Instead all the potentially valid versions of it are preserved until a peer (any client or server) marks the conflict as resolved.
"Your anecdotal evidence is wrong - I want the opposite"

"No, your anecdotal evidence is wrong."

"My anecdotal evidence is right."
A lot of people have a phone on their desk that can be reached directly from outside by dialing a specific number. Most people are not normally public-facing employees, so why would they waste their time with the whole "Thank you for calling, Smurfco. This is Sally, how may I help you?" I think a standard greeting would be poor OpSec for the NSA, since people could discover their unpublished numbers by dialing all the numbers.
Here's my problem with using quicksort at interview:

A developer who writes an implementation of the quicksort algorithm as part of their job should usually be removed from their post for incompetence.

The interview process should be a two-way procedure which also allows the candidate to understand what is expected of them in a role (and make their decision about the job accordingly). If regurgitating quicksort is expected, then this is a fair test: otherwise, this is not how you should be presenting the job.
It goes in a contact log. If we assume that the contact log is in a database, then it goes on the pile with the rest of the stuff. Pen-testers and social engineering hackers' calls may also appear to be ridiculous calls.

edit: In addition to tracking incoming calls in a call log for NSA reasons. An NSA employee needs to keep that log to be able to explain their activities if they are ever audited.
There are plenty of people that desire money more than following their ethics.
The article indicates that one of these kids ingested magnets which were used to decorate a wedding cake. It's just one example... but how can you possibly be held responsible for that?

And as pointed out below, these were never marketed as toys for children.
Jitsi also uses ZRTP for audio and video on the desktop, and there's RedPhone on Android and Silent Eyes (Silent Circle) for both Android and iOS. There are probably a few others, too.

I'm not sure if it can be used with WebRTC clients, or if it's even needed there.
You missed the point. The United States has not ratified the Geneva Protocols. The first step in upholding international law in this case should be ratifying those agreements.

I am in favor of those responsible for these atrocities being tried in court. But if the United States does not believe this law applies to itself, it is hardly the appropriate agent for enforcing it on other countries which have not ratified it, especially since its solution (killing) is as morally problematic as the original crimes.
The context here was "people who are having a hard time working in the US tech industry/being funded by US VCs due to accents". Obviously if you intend to work in the UK or another country which uses a different accent, it makes sense to learn in that accent. IIRC the phone bank people in Asia actually train people in specific accents based on the client for this very reason.

(A totally fluent UK/IE/etc English speaker probably is fine in any context, but I don't think someone learning from a webapp is starting from that point. If you are going to be a moderate speaker, it is better to be moderate in the target accent.)
"women's rights movement was ultimately a ploy by the capitalist class"

Rather it was about family not working as advertized.

Movements don't start your social troubles, they react.
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They would not be suing if they were expecting any sort of major defeat. It would destroy their reputation further. So yes, they have already consulted with the government on this.

We should expect a very limited amount of carefully parsed information to be revealed as a result of this suit. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I never understand the condescension towards swearing.

I accept it as a thing because the States can get so puritanical, but not swearing - other than in the presence of children - strikes me as one of those self-perpetuating norms that serve no real purpose other than proving you can conform to arbitrary norms. Similar to any other way of judging you on appearance like haircut, piercings, tattoos or dress.

Sure there is value in being able to navigate those and get the advantages they confer, but why actually care about it? Or am I being obtuse and you're just playing along and perpetuating them for their own sake?
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I'm not sure why, but I can't edit this reply, but here's a link to a simple gist that shows a simple inclusion technique that keeps the semantics and degrades nicely if you don't have JS (you're left with anchored links).

https://gist.github.com/IanCal/6398286
Clickable: http://goo.gl/VdQY9V
Not old enough to see naughty words.
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An interesting article, but many posts titled "Create <awesome program> in <small number> LOC" are misleading if they are highly dependent on underlying libraries. The logical end of this style of article would be something like "How to do X in one Character" and make a call to some external package.
Torvalds speaks Finnish and Swedish, he is from a bilingual family. But the Swedish language has a very limited vocabulary in profanities so Linus curses in Finnish.
it's actually called "Silent Phone"
Is that all? I swear more than that at my shell some days.
What's so bad about account name an email validation in Drupal? It's one of the few apps/CMS/frameworks that get it right and allow people to use their real name instead of forcing them to come up with some poor ASCII-only string to represent them.
And NSA is where the money is? Always thought federal institutions payed less than private initiatives.
This is nice ; is there a way to extend this to be a Javascript based Webex like library. I would pay for that . I often have to walk my users through a DHTML screen when I am on the phone with them and without being able to see what they are seeing, support task becomes a challenge. I would gladly pay for such a library.
I did not say "paying less is better". That sounds like a strawman's argument.

I did say that "pay for work is (within reason) preferred over pay for no work", all else being equal.

The term is "contrafreeloading", and is for example explained in Dan Ariely's coursera course: https://class.coursera.org/behavioralecon-001/lecture/57
Wow the Bouldering is amazing. So much fun and so dangerous!
Two problems with unscheduled communications:
1. It allows the adversary to disrupt communications by continuously sending junk. Solving this problem was a major goal of Dissent not adequately handled by previous designs based on Dining Cryptographers networks.
2. Without a schedule telling everybody when to send something, the first guy to talk is obviously the sender, destroying anonymity.
The point is fraud. You can publish photos, if you're not pretending to be that person. Similarly, you can use trademarks to refer to whoever owns them, but you can't claim that you are the person/company it refers to.
An article about a naughty word in Linux as almost at the top of the front page. Apparently we're 12-year-olds with or without the censoring.
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Thanks, that's very interesting (and impressive!)
So, we replace unsubstantiated claims with "opposing" unsubstantiated claims?

We know so little about proper nutrition, especially in the context of obesity and fitness that anyone who tells you they have the "answer" is probably just trying to sell you something.

Everyone's metabolism is just slightly different for there to be things that work for them and not for others. Experiment and track your results.

I used to think I was gluten-intolerant, now I'm not so sure.

What I do know is that alcohol isn't good for my digestion and sugar in high doses causes me to gain body fat. When I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and small amounts of carbohydrates from rice and potatoes, I get stronger, feel better, and have fewer problems with digestion.

My wife can't touch bread or she'll be sick for a day. She had crazy vitamin deficiencies and hormone dis-regulation from years of eating low fat meals, gluten-heavy food, and not enough protein. Six months, and 50 lbs of body fat loss later, she's feeling better than ever with a greatly improved mood.

YMMV.
Do you really think a member of a visible group acting badly doesn't hurt the overall image of that group? I agree individuals have every right to act as they please, but if you are the only e.g. Sikh in a Midwestern town, and no one there has ever met a Sikh, and you are a good person, people will generalize and believe Sikhs are good people. (This is why I as a white American in the Middle East would tip really well, be polite to everyone, help people who had broken down cars by the side of the road, etc.)

If you are a political activist campaigning for a cause (which drive through guy was), and you aren't aware that people will make generalizations based on your behavior, you will not be an effective campaigner. This is why e.g. Mormon missionaries dress well, are polite and friendly, etc.

If you are a member of a large group which is well represented in a population, you are less likely to be someone's only contact with that group, and thus generally less influential, but even then. This is why companies and organizations have policies about what members of that organization can do or say in uniform or when identifiable as a member, even when clearly off duty (so it couldn't be taken as an official statement).
Oh, I don't mean to say these aren't taught (though being taught something and mastering it isn't quite the same).

What I mean is that those are the parts of a CS background that have actually been useful in my everyday coding life, and that I would expect from candidates I interview. To be opposed to knowledge/implementation of different types of sorts, which is also a part of a CS background, but has low practical use in my everyday coding.
If it's really just a front-end bug, chances are they're getting lots of calls just like yours. You may just be part of a pile of callback tickets once the bug is fixed and all the refunds are processed. Or, they could still be trying to track down the root cause of the bug in the first place.
Given the current situation, how can this usage not be covered by free speech?
Redbull? Pay for injuries at your advertising functions.
Yes--even during practice. If you didn't dangle money
in front of these kids; they wouldn't be "pushing the
envelope ".
> "... At any time that NSA is made aware that the NSA Seal is being used without our permission, we will take appropriate actions."

The NSA has no idea what "appropriate actions" means.
Alternative: run your own Smokeping server, as I am here (give it some time to populate the data):

http://zen.ae7.st/smokeping/?target=Internet.Tumblr
I always assumed the NSA was one of the notable exceptions since they would have to attract the smartest people.

That said, how smart can they be if they got way too enamoured of just collecting everything rather than analyzing it properly...
> By the author's logic, the Red Cross is astroturf.

It would be like that if the Red Cross claimed to be a grassroots organisation and engaged in advocacy for its funders. As far as I know neither of those things are the case, and if they are I hope somebody will write critical blog posts about it.
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