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You're right, it's more of a conspiracy theory than anything else, but I can't get past the idea that tech corporations are suddenly interested in right's of users to privacy from their government.
His other point is still true however, being able to have 5-6 people self manage is much easier than even having 25 people self manage. Just because getting that many of the same kind of people is difficult if nothing else.
African-american male Between 5'5" and 6'2" between 16 and 30 years old about 150 to 200 lbs.

Sprinkle some crack on him Johnson...
They didn't know about all of it either.[0]

[0] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...
Is it a good thing though? APIs are centralized and brittle. Sometimes an API makes sense, sometimes I'd rather buy a program or library that I'm sure won't change or go away.
>They're only allowed to use a breathalyser if they have reason to suspect someone is drunk

That is a weird rule.
I'm white, from Switzerland.

The only time I experienced racism was taking a vacation in Spain, in a place where there are a lot of french tourists. They get a lot of hate, and me speaking french got me treated like one of them.

I'm a very laid back, cool guy, and I'm usually the last one to get angry. But being at a restaurant and being made fun of randomly by the waiter, and then wondering if someone spat in my food, and having this impression that everyone hated me for now reason...

It was a terrible feeling. But I knew the only reason they were like that was because of a misunderstanding. All I had to do was mentioning I was Swiss or speak Spanish and it would stop instantly.

Now if I had been french, and I had no way to defuse the situation, I can imagine how frustrating it would have been.

Then I can see how things being like that your whole life must feel, specially when its something that stands out as much as your skin color.

I've been extremely frustrated on rare occasions in my life, and I've done things I would never thought I would. Karma is a thing. If people give you shit without a good reason, you'll do the exact same, probably to someone else, just to balance things.
Why did you find lacking in java on Play? I've just started playing with it and aside from the template engine (which I don't count) I haven't found any part of the java support lacking vs the scala.
There is a lot of BS in the PC thing with profiling. I'm an Eastern European. Almost all Polish people I know work in construction or baby sitting, etc. However, none of them or us Polish immigrants blames the United States for that. Or the Government. They know they aren't educated very well, so they don't finger point to any type of discrimination for their fate. But somehow there are people there, like some Latinos I know who just don't even try. They just want to be illiterate all their life. One Lady I know who is from Mexico doesn't even teach her children English. Doesn't want them to speak English in the US. But blames US for her shitty job and standard of living.

This is a little bit too much even for me (an immigrant) to stomach, you know?

If they voted Obama into Presidency… what racism? Bunch of racists and secret Ku-Klux-Klan lovers voted for a Black President? Like really, some people have way too much time on their hands. If I can be consulting for 60-100usd/hr after 6 years of living here, why some people need to steal and deal drugs instead is beyond me.

There is equality in Cuba and Canada. If these people are for real why don't they just immigrate there?

I will be honest. I see a Pole in the US I think he is doing construction or picking up garbage or baby sitting, taking care of elderly. I see a Mexican I suspect he doesn't speak English. I see a black person I check if my wallet is safe.

Everybody does that. Trying to change the way we think about Blacks without them changing their ways is never going to work. Not all Poles in the US are in the construction business. Not all Mexicans in the US are illiterate. Not all Blacks in the US are criminals. But big chunk of all these peoples are, so it's good to be opened minded and don't pretend that things like AIDS epidemic in DC being on levels with Sub-Saharian Africa aren't true. Because they are. And this isn't fault of anybody else but people who live there and make choices they do. I came to this country with 300usd in my pocket. I could have excuses to do nothing and portray myself as a victim too. But who does that in this country?
That is pretty cool. I think generally that the components themselves should be more limited in functionality to the point where it's just not that big of a deal to write out `textfield` two more times. As in, I think it's optimizing for a case that isn't that important. If you write a component, the number of times you're going to change the root class name of the component is very small, so it doesn't need quick rename-ability. And then the number of nested elements inside of it should also be small, so you don't have that many gains there either.
Oh, that's how you read what I wrote. What my comment actually was meant to convey (and what I still think it actually says) was "there's still the occasional good talk now, but back then we regularly had truly excellent stuff like this talk by Clay Shirky (which admittedly is one of the best TED talks ever)."

Back in the day when TED's internet presence was pretty new and Google Reader still was alive and kicking and had a social sharing aspect (remember those golden years?), almost all of the TED talks were shared and debated heavily among my friends. Then we started sharing less and less of them, to the point were one friend shared a talk saying "finally, a good one again" and we all chimed in on how it got too popular and big for it's own good.
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The question isn't whether it's fair for motorists to contribute to general revenue, it's whether it's fair to say that motorists are being subsidised.
It really depends on what you're "making an example of".

The words "making an example" are just a way of describing deterrence, which is a core function of the criminal justice system.

Deterrence is intrinsically neither good nor bad. It depends on what you're deterring. If it's arson, deterrence makes a lot of sense: it's fun and easy to set fires, and very easy to underestimate or disregard the harm those fires will do to others. If it's political tagging, deterrence makes much less sense. The justice system needs to extract a penalty for damaging people's property, but politically-motivated tags are a low-intensity problem.

Beyond deterrence, criminal penalties must account for the inefficiency of policing and the rewards to crime. A 1:1 damage/penalty system is intrinsically ineffective; it makes crime a rational decision.

It's easy to agree here that 3 years of probation for tagging in a deliberate attempt to get arrested to make a political point is abusive.
"It satiates intellectual curiosity without providing any real mental nutrition."

i take issue with that. You're saying that it's better to do /absolutely nothing/ with your time then stimulate intellectual thought, even if it's just surface? If you're not getting people interested in the pursuit of solving problems, then you're never going to have any problem solvers.
What is cool with price gouging is that it makes standard pricing appear like an innovation premium user would pay for.
It sure doesn't seem weird to me. Breathalyzers are invasive.
One thing that's been nice about the popularity trend concerning APIs, is that it's made is so much easier for programmers to prevent NIH syndrome. Things used to be a lot more difficult so developing large things in-house seemed more defensible. And we suffered for it...

Not too many years ago, it was much more difficult to find quality, pre-built software. Github did not exist. Some APIs were available, but they were generally complicated or miles of WSDL files to get anything done. Implementing one of them was difficult! You could head to the search engines and rummage through all sorts of libraries, package managers, paid sites, SourceForge, and so on. Finding packages that were not only up to date, but functional, and able to run on your OS and version, was more of a chore than it is now.

These days, anyone who is paying attention to trends in startups or software would scoff at the thought of having to implement complicated server-side software for payment gateways.

And why shouldn't they? There are excellent services available that do not require knowledge of software to implement! If you can craft an HTTP request in your language of choice, you're off to the races! Database design? Storage? Encryption? OOP? MVC? TDD? Who cares? Since you don't have to write or install software you are up and operational with builtin scalability and functionality in: possibly minutes.

Awesome.
> All the money I win for anything goes back into my research, for what it's worth. Perhaps because I'm on the poor end for an academic mathematician.

Wait ... you were not sarcastic? (Inverse poe law, here I come!)

> I have no idea how on earth I could ever win a prize for math since I'm not in line for the Fields, Abel, or Alfried Krupp prize.

There are no smaller prizes in mathematics? (I don't have any knowledge in that area)
did you read the whole article?
> what the community tends to use for SO and blog posts

As a tag in the tag section, not as a name in prose.
I'm just guessing that it'll be much harder for them to lobby when the issue is more transparent and easier to grasp, as oppose to thousands of complicated laws where only tax lawyers and accountants can truly see the big picture. What we have now doesn't work. What makes you think going down the same path will magically fix things?
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People keep saying this. But, it is BS.

When you ask them for a link, they trot out something from 30 years ago from the DOT, or a recent study, with no real numbers, from PIRG, a decidedly left-leaning and biased source.

Want REAL numbers? Look up the CAFR financial report for any toll road or turnpike.

Dig into it, find out the actual maintenance costs (not the cost of everything else like hiring people to take toll money), divide by the miles of toll road covered. Then, you will have an actual handle on what maintenance of roads costs.

Hint: it is a lot less than you think and far less than the total amount of road fees, vehicle taxes like the sales tax, registration costs, fuel taxes, etc. that the govt takes in each year.

Don't forget, every 18 wheeler you see has a 12% Federal excise tax on its first sale (and such trucks are usually over $100K, thus at least $12K taxes); and each year, every commercial truck has to pay a sliding scale under Form 2290 to even register their vehicle for plates, from $100 to $550.
It may be better to see if you can find someone who is blind and studied mathematics to some degree to see how to proceed.

I know most universities have an accessibility department which might make it easier to take a math class than trying to read a book with obscure concepts.
You most certainly can unless you are a greedy, lazy producer who can't be bothered to do the same time consuming painstaking breeding and selection that has gone on for centuries with other more common crops and simply picks one and clones the hell out of it globally almost certainly ensuring that it's going to meet something that will kill it off entirely due to the lack of genetic diversity.

Few things on earth are as weak and helpless as a cloned monocrop.
Skipped the introductory stuff, because the usual first paragraph is just a summary of the content, not an explanation.
Any clue as to scale? I suspect more businesses might be interested in funding a $5K/year project than a $50K project.
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Thanks god we do not use statistical correlation in justice. I would not like to live in that world.

And I'm not arguing for laissez-faire, but simply for justice, which should be the same for everyone.
If you have to wear a business suit to avoid police harrassment then your society is fucked. And large sections of society adopting prison fashions doesn't tell you that those people are all criminal, it tells you that your society jails too many people.
Do you mean Hip Hop PHP, not VM?
a lot of people will make an upfront investment and get burnt out by their loss

This is not a bug, this is an essential feature. This effectively generates matching funding, and thus multiplies the amount of money and effort spent on a problem.

It is hard to figure out which idea works best; some inevitably won't work out and result in a loss -- but in this case much of the loss is covered by outside investors (including those investing their own time), competing with each other for the prize.

Also, I would trust people putting their own money down more than a grant committee, and people in general tend to be far more efficient when trying to beat competition, not when working on a set project.

Also, a smart graduate student is likely to be better at producing research, not at writing grant applications. Let the results speak for themselves.
My main clue so far is how tight-lipped the email is.
Mongodb is 'free' too. Does not mean it will work for you in production. Mongodb does for us. Do we have a half year to figure whether mysql would? No we don't, and it probably won't meet our expectations anyway.
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What if there was no minimum wage -- would someone pulling in $10 a month be above the poverty line in that case? The poverty line is the minimum income you need to get by, not the minimum you can pull in with a full-time job.
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You know, I pay my own phone bill, but I don't really care if someone's mother paid their phone bill.

I can't understand articles like this one that want anything and everything to appear as a scathing indictment of millennials (or perhaps only millennials in the US).

Even if it were, so what? Parents don't live forever and if some are too dependent, they won't always have the luxury.
Unfortunately in SF $ can apparently mean $15 for a sandwich and says absolutely nothing about the price of their happy hour beer. The thing is that I really don't want similar places, I want to know which places have a happy hour and how much a beer is. More specifically, I want to know the closest place offering dollar beer.
I didn't check for profanities, but I quite like "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaaaasa-aaaaasaa-aaaaaaasa-bbbbbbbbbbb".

https://pypi.python.org/simple
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One downside to this is it makes grepping for code a little more difficult. (Sourcemaps are one solution.)
That's disappointing. One thing PHP should be really good at is serializing/deserializing JSON.
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I think there should be kind of mystery shoppers for justice system. They'd commit misdemeanors and get arrested so they can report how they were treated to improve operation of police and justice system and to weed out personnel that doesn't obey the law or neglect procedures.
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This looks like another one of those shallow statistics that people use to say "Ha, look at these kids, they're lost without us!"

I feel like a lot of people think like that because they don't realize that working with computers IS a job, even if you aren't working 9-5 every day unclogging sinks.
>despite the White House declaring in advance that it would focus on ways of improving the functionality of the troubled health insurance website, healthcare.gov, among other matters.

I'm sure a bunch of tech CEOs and politicians are going to come up with a fantastic scaling solution for the beleaguered website. Let's see, how would that go?

Obama: "I was thinking about migrating to Mango and getting in on some of that sharting I keep hearing about".

Mayer: "No Mr. President, you need more nginx servers to do SSL termination, your Apache servers can't handle the load".

Then Biden: "That's what she said..."

At which point every one stops and looks at him.
Maybe your stereotypes don't help all that much. The guy who filed the suit against the NSA, aka the one that was recently vindicated, was filed by a Republican.
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Do you honestly think that I have never tried Linux? Seriously? The first time I installed Linux I had to download the floppy images over a 2400 baud modem connection to a bulletin board.

I'm not bashing people for using Linux...I'm saying that its not good security to say..."Linux is secure"...and not review your security needs from the standpoint of what you are actually trying to accomplish. I'm not making it out to be a holy war...I'm saying that people are just accepting that "Linux is more secure" on blind faith.
This is a good example of the promise of distributed learning where "admissions" is based on progressively better performance. In a world where anyone can take an intro Harvard class online and their performance(s) earn them more access (e.g. actually physical enrollment/credits --things that use real resources), grade inflation would make such a system fail.

But until then, I think there's a general feeling that the admissions process accepts those who basically only do "A" work, and subsequent grading within the school follows as such. Brown does P/F and Yale Law School omits grading too.
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It shows a sort of artificial dependence imposed by society, but these teenagers could otherwise be independent in terms of emotional maturity and personal responsibility.

My father and his brother both 'ran away' from their (abusive) family when they were 16 and 15 respectively, in the late 60s. Bought a car with cash they had saved up, drove across the country, rented an apartment for a few years and worked various jobs before joining different branches of the military and eventually going to college.

A few decades later, I imagine this sort of thing as being near impossible for today's teenagers. Not because they are "wussier" or immature for their age, but because the world has changed and expectations that people have of teenagers and young adults have changed. Everything has more paperwork, everyone seems to expect background checks and credit checks. Teenagers and young adults seemingly need cosigners for damn near everything for their first few years away from home.

I had a lot of friction with this stuff in the 90's/early 00's when I was that age as my father's philosophy towards cosigning was "tell them that you can afford it yourself, and them to go fuck themselves." As late as 22 years old I had landlords that were hesitant (although ultimately not unwilling) to rent to me without a cosigner, even though I was gainfully employed and had fine credit. Even for that age range a lot of them seem to think that people being dependent on their parents is the norm.
What's your theory for why competition doesn't solve this problem?

That is, if I am opening a new Wendy's in this area you're postulating, and the deal is that I can have generous profits despite a substantial increase in my employee's wages, why don't I offer $1 more than the other fast food joints in the area and steal all of their best employees?

I see a few possible explanations:

1. Fast food employees do not substantially differ in quality. The best fast food employee in the world is not really better than the median, in terms of their ability to drive additional business to a location.

2. The owners of the fast food restaurants in the area have formed a cartel, and are (flagrantly illegally) engaged in anti-competitive practices.

3. There is simply no competition among fast food restaurants -- the field is so sparse that when I open a new restaurant, there are no competitors to steal from.

4. The labor market is incredibly overpopulated such that every fast food restaurant can fill its ranks with employees who are first-tier, without raising their wages.

What's your theory?
This reminds me of the work I read about Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) doing around mental health and institutionalization in the late 19th century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly#Asylum_expos.C3.A9). It's not a complimentary comparison for our criminal justice system.
One of the things that bothers me about online newspapers as a medium is that you don't get the same cues that this is in the "Opinion" section of the paper that you'd get from a dead-tree newspaper.

It would have been more apparent that this was satirical for someone scanning if it had been surrounded by other Opinion articles on a page, and/or had a large political cartoon nearby. But these don't translate well to a deep link on a newspaper's website.

After reading this and the linked Boston Globe article, I had to come back to this page and look for "Opinion" (and found it in the URL before I found it on the web page itself).
I have a small suggestion for the Ember.js team. When I was trying to learn Ember, I was looking at the source code of the Discourse project and I noticed that they do some things that are AFAIK discouraged (e.g. referencing App.__container__ directly).

Idk how much effort it would be to keep an eye on the project and submit an occasional pull request but doing that might be a good idea. Discourse is probably the first place where people go once they have read the docs and want to see Ember in action. And seeing these hacks might reflect badly on the framework even though it's not Ember's fault.
I read somewhere a few months ago on HN that humans didn't start sleeping 8 hour cycles till the late 17th century.....

Wish I could find that article....
I worry that "culture fit" leads to group think.
argh.......
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No, because you can have different numbers of people supported by a single minimum wage job. A single mother might have to split her income among three people (herself and her kids), but an older woman who takes a job just to get out of the house is obviously not in the same category.
Depending on the size of the family, buying a normal nexus tablet for each child eventually isn't exactly ruining. (Speaking for a developed country, at least)
Because a blanket statement saying that "[non-criminal] riding dirtbikes in a city is clearly antisocial behaviour that needs to end" isn't being disingenuous?
It's a PITA to get a SIM card when visiting the US -- for example, I had to order online from T-mo's website, and they limited the number of SIMs to some arbitrary limit per calendar year (so good luck if you are in shared housing and the previous set of interns/tourists has exhausted the limit for the year).

Getting a SIM card in store seemed to require signing a multi-year contract, so I ran as far as possible before I could figure out whether they wanted my SSN or not.
How so?

I have a T-mobile Sim for visiting the US. The plan is 2USD per day for unlimited calls and 2G-speed data, and I only top up the amount I need each trip (11 days means I top up 22USD).

If I were to get new SIM card each time I went the cost would be similar, if I were able to get a free sim (with no credit) or more if they don't have a free sim offer at the time.

Is there some deal with new sims of which I'm not aware?