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> They're lobbying because the government surveillance revelations hurt their business model, not on principle.

That's fine - politicians are much more likely to take action on something because of the economic impact than due to any principle(s). Especially if it impacts their district...and the President's "district" is as big as they get.
No - that's what is called a 'living wage' or sometimes 'family wage' to be clear that it should support a family and not just the worker. The minimum wage is in some places intended to meet that definition, but I don't know if the USA intended that when they created theirs, and because the federal minimum wage is only raised haphazardly instead of by indexing to living costs, it doesn't now meet it if it ever did (some states do index their minimum wage). I've heard people argue that minimum wage jobs are intended for teenagers who don't need to support anyone, for instance.

The poverty threshold, on the other hand, is based on actual costs - apparently it is "three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, and adjusted for family size, composition, and age of householder." [http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq2.htm]
Nothing in the post indicts millennials, and in the post linked by this one, they even say that millennials find themselves "screwed by financial storms caused by another generation".
I was just looking at Stackmob last week as a potential backend for my next project. I had originally planned on using Parse but with their acquisition, I felt uncertain about their future. With Stackmob going the same route, is there any decent backend I could use reliably?
When I flew with them to spain a few years back, their Barcelona airport was in Girona (105 km away, according to Google maps).
Did you miss the errors column? :/
The machine room has an air conditioner that runs during the winter in Calgary.
"Student Charged For Bomb Threats At Harvard" used TOR and Guerrilla Mail
What Facebook's acquisition of SportStream means for Squadio
Just dug this out from Quora:
http://www.quora.com/PayPal/Why-does-Paypal-have-so-many-pro...
From when I worked in fast food - 1, absolutely. The big corporations can't afford to allow variation in employee quality to change their food/experience, so instead it is all run as though they are all low-quality employees, which means it doesn't really benefit you to get higher quality employees (who in any case probably can't stand the micro-management and will quit as soon as they get another option).
> I would expect a more severe sentence if I keyed a cop car vs some random car on the street.

If everyone is equal, then so are the cops. It might not be... smart to pick a cop car, but I don't think it should make much difference in punishment.
First thing that comes to mind is cheap optical sensors. I think you can even use small laser/ir led and detect the reflected light because distances are so short. If you want to detect direction with single sensor, you might want to use optical modulator (rotating reticle) just like many IR guided missiles do. Maybe the reticle could even be tiny rotating rotor powered by the air.

Tactics should be same as real missiles have. Approach others from below if possible so that signals from ground can't mess the signal. Calibrate against sky before flight. You should also make sure that the plane does not chase sun or moon.
I think the android project is starting to move toward optimizing for lower performing devices in an effort to get the OS in more hands. If that's the case, it may make a usable $38 tablet more feasible.
They have all the power of a bank, but none of the accountability.

They're actually a bank in Europe.
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Professional voice over website The Voice Realm this week expanded its offerings by adding more voice over actors to their roster and increasing customer support staff in more countries to satisfy an increased demand for its services.
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Sticking Windows on your Steambox turns out to be pretty straightforward
I think it depends on how essential one regards the service, and on your income-dependent definition of 'unaffordable'. In bad conditions, taxi service might be considered more essential to many than it is during normal times. And I think 'eight times its normal rate' qualifies as unaffordable for most.
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The benefits are just too big to ignore and the barrier of entry is really, really low. The Go language is so refreshingly simple and the standard libraries are very well documented. You can hit the ground running in days.
Cars are killing Horse Drawn Trolleys.
Not to diminish the downsides of this, but I really can't get enough of the wide variety of tiny bananas I get to eat when in Asia. You can find them occasionally here in the US, but they seem low on the import priority list. Wouldn't mind seeing more diversity in the banana department. There's a whole world of deliciousness we rarely see.
> A number of logistical reasons prevents us from moving the machines to another location which might offer space/power for free,

Regardless of the scale, I suspect it would be easier for some companies to offer space and power than to pay bills
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I've been completely reliant on Parse as a backend for a long time. The acquisition made me nervous but I've been reassured and am now comfortable with Parse as a long term solution for a few reasons. For one, the development of the platform has not stalled at all since the acquisition. I don't think you can find a more complete and enjoyable backend solution than Parse.
In my brief try-out of it, it felt to me like if you want to do anything different (e.g. your own implementation of something), you pretty much need to switch to Scala. It's a Scala framework first and foremost.

A minor demerit was getting SBT and Play Java to work correctly in IDEA was enough of a pain to make me wonder how much overhead that was going to incur in the long run.

If someone who has used Play Java in production on a large project can weigh in on whether these points are true or not in real production use, I'd love to hear it.
Practically everywhere I've seen it's called Golang since Go is so hard to search for on Google.
I think you are looking for this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
IIRC, the poverty line in the US is the cost of food, multiplied by three. Minimum wage can be below this, depending on region and number of dependents.

Poverty is defined by the means you can afford, and if that meets some rough threshold of basic necessities (food, shelter, possibly transportation, etc). In a perfect world where policy is defined justly and the economy can support it without repercussions, the minimum wage would be defined by the poverty line, no the other way around. In the real world, there's no fundamental reason why the minimum salary in an economy would pass any particular bare-minimum lifestyle threshold.

I believe the magic number three was derived from one study decades ago, that found that food accounted for one-third of poor people's spending on average. There is no reason to think it has remained constant, or that it is stable to begin with, but that became the formula used in the US.
I have been forced to use Vertx for the last year for work and I don't recommend it.

It's basically a poorly thought out half baked messaging framework tightly coupled to a poorly thought out application development style.

Just reading the documentation and reasoning behind it's design choices should raise some serious red flags for anyone considering using it.

Trying to be a better Nodejs is a weird place to start from when designing a framework.

If you need message passing you are by far better off with AMQP.

If you need an app framework you are better off with Spring Core and Spring Integration.

If you actually want polyglot applications then you are not concerned with long term maintainability.

If you need runtime speed which is one of the major promises of Vertx you should look at the benchmarks first. It's not winning any races.

I like Scala but it doesn't change how I feel about Vertx.
Actually I don't think paying for the plan is the problem. There are many prepaid providers in the US. Many retail stores sell inexpensive phones and prepaid service for cash (hell even my local grocery store sells them). I tried several of these recently with my new Nexus 5. T-Mobile didn't even ask for anything other than a first name when activating and I got the impression that was so the customer service rep could call me by name.

So if obtaining service is really not the problem what is? Quite simply the problem is that most of these prepaid services don't sell the phones that a teenager is going to want (smart phones in general but iPhones in particular). It's only very recently that these sorts of phones have been supported at all by the prepaid industry.

Even when the phones are supported the American phone market is distorted by carrier subsidies. Many people don't realize how much cheaper buying a phone and using a cheaper service can be. The prepaid market on the other hand is not significantly subsidized (if at all). So kids and/or parents don't even consider buying a phone outside of a postpaid provider on a contract.

It's possible to buy a used phone for a fairly reasonable price, but then you're dealing with a potential mess of issues. You have to make sure to buy a phone that your chosen carrier will activate. Even some seemingly compatible systems won't activate phones sold by the other (Verizon & Sprint in particular). The phone might work and be allowed by the provider, but not have the proper bands for 3G/4G service (some iPhones on T-Mobile). Your carrier might refuse to activate service since they might say the phone is still under contract or stolen. For that matter the phone might still be carrier locked to another provider.

Even if a teenager has the cash to pay for their plan they often won't have the cash to buy the phone they want. So I suspect a lot of parents buy phones. As others have pointed out a lot of the carriers have seemingly low charges for adding additional lines. So combined with the additional line charge and the subsidized cost parents just add their kids to their own postpaid service.

Often times though these additional line fees are misleading, since they typically tack on more fees for data capabilities. Which racks up the price. Since this isn't clearly advertised a lot of people don't understand it and don't consider it in price comparisons with prepaid providers.

So in my opinion it's almost entirely about phone selection and phone subsidization. Those things drive tons of people to postpaid plans which of course do have the issues you point out. But as soon as you are willing to accept less fashionable phones those sorts of issues erode and there's nothing stopping a teenager from obtaining service (or for that matter even paying for a phone).
Noting that the experiments described in the article were performed on yeast, can anybody better versed in biology convey a better idea on how applicable to humans these results are?

Yes, I'd like to know too.

Which, if any of these genes that regulate telomere length are also present in humans?
Yeah, finance. That explains it.
Different perspective I think.

Here (I live in Europe) they make routine breath tests during the holidays and week end for every car in X place (not surprisingly close to bars and clubs, but not always).

As a driver, I'm glad they try to reduce drunk driving, and I don't see how they could do it without regular tests (which are less invasive, than say, car that don't turn on if you fail the breath test inside the car. Yes, that was proposed at some point)
I find it hard to believe that a piece mentioning what grades to award "work submitted by farm animals" is difficult to recognize as satire without a political cartoon nearby...
i am so glad that intelligent arguments started to come out. I was about to think of the hacker new readership of comprising of entitled white closeted middle america , who can debug a complex graph of function calls, then plead ignorance to obvious positive re enforcement relationships such as:
more black arrests -> more black crime statistics -> more black prejudice -> less black prospects

on a slight tangent I've grown a little disappointed in the so called leaders of information age being completely dismissive of social responsibility, instead of using heads for social good or economic stability there seems to be and endless pile of bright young minds devoted to dross antics like delivering pizza by drone, or getting maximum ketchup out of a bottle.
to be honest... here in the US i know unrelated people that are in each other 'family plan' just because of price.

price here is awful, so, the more the merrier.
What about something like pushbullet? It doesn't have a widget like you described, but it allows you to easily send files, links, etc to each other (you can send to 'friends' now too).
I have one of those (I volunteer with a program that teaches kids how to code, and we're thinking of giving one to each of them for them to program games etc. on). It's actually pretty responsive! My main everyday tablet is an iPad mini, and I was expecting a clunky piece of crap - but for 38$, it's totally worth it.
You forgot the #firstworldproblems hashtag.
Any attempt to show the priviledged how unfair others are treated and how broken is the justice system will only lead to denial, anger, accusations and rationalizations from the priviledged.
No you don't.
I'm German and I've gotten cell phone service with several providers over the last few years even before I had a SSN / credit history / ...

So far I tried:
Redpocket / T-Mobile (30$ Walmart/online plan) / AT&T Go Phone / T-Mobile Monthly plan / ...

All of them give you Voice Minutes, Data and Messaging.
I just popped those SIM cards into my (unlocked) GSM phone and that was that.

I guess what you can't get are those 100$ / month with a "subsidised" phone plans. But I don't know why anybody would want these.
Any of those options cost me less than 55$ / month.
I'm currently on the T-mobile 30$/Walmart/Online plan. 100 minutes talk, Unlimited text, First 5 GB at up to 4G speeds. No need for any of the mentioned things.

p.s. and the ones I picked are only a small subset. H2O and Simple are even available at a lot of supermarkets.
None of them handle all of: being picked early, being shipped, sitting in a supermarket display, and being bagged. That's why there's only one cultivar in US supermarkets in the first place.
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In major cities, it's quite easy and becoming even more common to find prepaid SIMs available at small shops on every block. Here in New York, prepaid carries such as H2O and Simple have long been accessible and in-demand due to large tourist and immigrant populations who might not have established credit.

These sorts of plans are gradually spilling over into the tech community, as those with the means to purchase their phones up front for full price, see the value of a contract-less plan.
One that sometimes shows up on the main TED site anyway. Regardless, people don't know what it means.

I've lost count of how many times someone has complained about an overly political, low quality talk and seen someone else come along and try to explain that it wasn't a real TED talk because it was a TEDx talk. Except on Hacker News, that person is usually just ignored. TEDx is substantially diluting the TED brand. Growth of TEDx has been far too fast and reckless.
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you've reversed the condition. what matters is the probability they are a gang member given they tag. in gang fueled areas this probability will be high. at a general average, it's probably very low.
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I don't think we're in a position to say. JavaScript is good enough and ubiquitous enough that a replacement will have to be pretty compelling. The only thing I see on the horizon that's actually got a shot at unseating JavaScript... is JavaScript. (EcmaScript 6.)

Whatever replaces JavaScript will have to do the following just to get its foot in the door:

* Run on every browser in use

* No compile/build step required

* Work with browser tooling and debuggers

And it will probably need:

* Familiar syntax

* Work with all significant existing JS tooling, libraries, and frameworks

...and that's before we even get to the merits of the language itself.

My guess, and it's purely a guess, is that massively multi-core processors are the wave of the future, and that pure-ish functional languages are going to be needed in order to program them effectively. So that's my bet as for what will be compelling enough to replace JavaScript. But I'd also guess that EcmaScript will get there first, at least in terms of widespread adoption. Perhaps as a pragma'd subset like "use strict" or "use asm".
It seems kind of impossible to me for that to be the whole story. I mean, I totally buy that it doesn't matter how competent or incompetent a cook you are in terms of assembling McDonald's meals, but there are a lot of axes that employees can vary on:

1. Speed. Employees are going to be better or worse at turning orders quickly, and I can't see how good preparation from the corporate overlords can entirely compensate for this.

2. Graft/Wastage/Slackery. If your employees steal from you, that's going to affect your bottom line real fast. If they're dropping burgers on the floor all the time, that's a big deal. If they are chatting with each other instead of serving your customers, that's a big deal.

3. Customer Service. It has traditionally been the case that a bright smile, eye contact, and polite language has seen some reward among food service workers, and again it doesn't seem possible that McDonald's has figured out how to make all employees great at this.

I would be provisionally ready to believe that the combination of corporate work to provide a simplified work experience plus a slack labor market has created a situation where there's a glut of potential fast food workers who are somewhere between the 60th and 99th percentile in worker quality, and the difference between 60th and 99th percentile is small enough that it doesn't warrant paying a higher wage.
> they can't outsource their work to another, cheaper state

They have done some of it for almost a decade http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/11fast.html?pag...

They can also use more automation - "outsourcing" to machines.

There are far more subtleties that the article didn't cover as you partially point out. There is a good article on cafehayek about it. (eg the nature of work done can change). http://cafehayek.com/2013/12/again-more-on-the-minimum-wage....
Been using Roots for awhile and absolutely love it. For all the other features, they make it quite easy to remove. Very active on GitHub too.
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I think there is a lot wrong with this comment. Perhaps since you're an immigrant you're not familiar with the concept of institutional racism[1].

Regarding Obama's 2012 Election: according to [2]and[3], 62 million of 221 million possible voters cast their ballot for Obama. ~28% of citizens voting for you does not really signal the end of racism in the US.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism#Institutio...
[2]http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2012G.html
[3]http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/common/pop_vote.h...
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I think the API trend now is here to stay in a large part, but there will always be a place for a complete embedded solution. One embarrassing outage and customers would loose faith in a solution.
Where's that?

I spend ~$5 (R$ 10) a month on my prepaid data plan. I have to put ~$17 (R$ 35) in credits every 90 days or so.
There's always fungus in the banana stand!
You have a point - getting to where Amazon is now is hard. That should make us appreciate the perseverance, acumen and sheer willpower of Bezos. And I am not even mentioning the tremendous risks he took. So yes, duplicating Amazon is not easy, but then doing anything worthwhile is not going to easy and quick.

But then, the "competitor" or "job provider" need not be in the same space as Amazon. They can be restaurents, transportation companies, anything.

However, you will quickly realize that running a business of any sort is hard, full of unpredictable variables and very risky. The people who do it, as well as the people who invest in such companies should not be penalized by legislating a solution that would transfer wealth.

Eventually, if the cost of the employee is more than the value that the employee is providing, then the economy will move towards automating such jobs. And Amazon-type jobs are going to be very easy to automate.
In my opinion is all these studies are myopic.
The reality is probably more complicated and can be broken down into a few steps

Short term: Employees get paid more and the number of employees stays close to the same. The businesses must operate as they did before

Medium Term: The quality of employee goes up. The people who are willing to trade their time for more $ is a different demographic as you climb the $/hour slope.

Long Term: Businesses find a way to remove high costs out of their operating costs and will automate the jobs were possible. This will improve productivity of each paid employee but the total employee count will go down (all other things held constant). The productivity and manual labor has been shifted from person to machine.
I can think of a range of models for getting funding for research:

- convince a single person or small group knowledgeable in your field of study to invest in your research or fund it yourself

- convince a non-profit that your research will have social impact

- convince a corporation that your research will pay off

- convince a government body knowledgeable in your field of study that then invests tax money on behalf of the general public

- convince the general public to vote directly for your research with dollars

You can be sure that the type of research that gets done is going to be different with each of these. Certainly the last two are going to be widely different even though they are both pulling funding from people who generally understand little about the science they are funding.
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I've got news for you. You're getting ripped off by AT&T. Unless you are a heavy user $40 is more expensive than what you'd pay on a prepaid provider. There are a number of options such T-Mobiles $30 prepaid plan (that's somewhat hidden and includes 5GB of 4G data, unlimited texting and 100 minutes of voice), Ting (which can be very cheap if you are only a moderate user and as low as just $15 with up to 100 minutes, 100 texts, and under 100 MBs of data), and a bunch of other cheaper options.

I'd encourage you to look at your actual usage and reconsider these all you can eat plans. They really are not that great of a deal unless you're a high usage user, which a lot of people are not.

Another point I'll make is be careful about looking at your reported usage. I'm not sure about AT&T since I haven't had an account there in a while, but Verizon can be very missleading (often showing your usage rounded up to the next nearest whole GB e.g. 100MB shows as 1GB on the usage part of your bill). In the case of Verizon I had to retrieve a CSV file and add my own usage up to realize I wasn't using as much as I thought I was.