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>Germany's technically younger, by the way. Their Constitution was written in 1949, and arguably Germany became a new state after reunification in 1990. Does that mean it's okay for it to be dissolved again on a whim?

In short, and disregarding the loaded word "whim", yes I do. Do you not believe that people have the right to self-determination? If so, what is the cut off when a population no longer is eligible?
My favorite way to generate a maze (imperfect, but fun):
http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Maze

quickstart:
https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life/blob/master/rule_stri...
The early unification movements were also liberal - they rebelled against tyrannical monarchs. There are of course some bad experience from nationalism, but it was also much better than the system it displaced - Absolutism. The new nation-states had constitutions that protected human rights, there was some representation and the new common languages were established by promoting literacy. Not all bad, I say.
The actual written Constitution has far more text about handling the cases of treason, rebellion, and domestic violence than it does about individual states seceding.

And if you would read the Declaration of Independence you'd see that the "tyranny test" (such as one was ever conceived in American jurisprudence) is very strict indeed. Even from the first days of the American Revolutionary War we were claiming that the government deserved a great deal of "benefit of the doubt" and that it would take a very severe set of circumstances to cast off a government.
Yeah except this time they absolutely deserve it.
The author forgot about the fact that high quality/quantity data comes from good sensors. The cost of the LIDAR sensors (the one google using and this is the one which rotates on top of the car) is pretty high (around $50K AFAIK). This is one of the reasons Google is holding back in the hope that after few years the cost of such sensors would drop dramatically.
Self driving car by just using CV just wouldn't work (atleast with the current state of the art).
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Incredibly brutal but probably dead on.

A printed t-shirt generally costs $5+, much more if it's a one-off. I don't think it's possible to approach $30 for a custom dress shirt.
I think he's saying that after six years of leading the country, the President needs to step up and take responsibility for what his administration has done. He won his first election by running against George Bush, but that act has gotten really old really fast.
A klaxon goes off in my head whenever I see phrases like "Italy is a made-up country." All countries are made-up. How else would they exist?

What's objectionable is when an outside empire comes in and says "You guys are all one country now." But that's not the case with Italy, or Europe in general, who are the ones who generally did that to others.
I always liked how the Japanese apologised. There is no excuse as its irrelevant, all you get is an apology, compensation and how/why it wont occur again.
Not sure if that was an industry specific thing but it sure was effective.
You can't change the California state borders without getting the affected states' legislatures to also ratify the change, as well as Congress. Simply splitting California up would also require action by their legislature in addition to approval by Congress.
Reinventions that are cross-platform (this actually matters).
We used DreamHost at first since it was practically free. Then moved over to WPEngine once we got a bit more serious.
I can't speak for other secession movements, but I lived in Catalonia for two years and some of the loudest arguments for independence there were economic. The province has the highest standard of living in Spain. There was definitely a feeling of resentment, based on their perception that they were carrying a disproportionate percentage of the tax burden of trying to dig Spain out of its economic crisis.
This is really useful and fun to use. At first I din understand how to solve the problem, then realized the plate is related to the puzzle. Great work!
While that's true in this case, it's considered a bad practice to eval json to get a javascript object. Most browsers (all modern ones) have a JSON.parse method that will safely evaluate all json strings to js object. The really old browsers have libraries to accomplish this.

It seems that this article hasn't been updated in a while by the very fact that the next section is called "JSON-in-script output" and not jsonp, keep in mind this article even has a reference to json.org on the bottom of that page which includes a library to do said function
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/veneto-would-like-to-be-italy...

It is translated into English; you can search for the other Vice articles, if you like.
TBH that's surprisingly low. I know engineers making this in Phoenix at mid-size companies and even more in specific industries like financials. Cost of living is much lower than many of Google's offices here. These folks are good engineers, but probably couldn't pass the kernel/syscall level questions people have shared from Google SRE interviews.

The whole culture of those colluding companies seems pretty feudal - "you should feel honored to be a member in our court"
Why don't more cities secede from their surrounding areas? For example, New York State takes so much more from New York City (in the form of taxes, mostly) than it gives back, and it prevents the city from things that are in its own interest (e.g., congestion pricing or a commuter tax).

So why didn't the city break away a long time ago?
I disagree. Monopolies can only exist in free markets when force is applied, eg by a corporation hiring thugs or militia to restrain the free market, and the government fails to stop that use of force.

The only way a corporation can acquire de facto authority in a free market is with violence (in which case they become a competitor with the government as it regards rule of law). There is no other way they can literally hold back competitors.
What's really misleading is when people try to push the question aside by saying "AI techniques should work." It's dodging the question. What I ask is whether there is an efficient algorithm to determine if one player can force a win, given a position on an arbitrary size board. Forget whether the game is imbalanced. It's just a mathematical question.

You say this game is less complicated than chess, but what measure of complexity are you talking about? Might it be computational complexity? Computer scientists of all people know that simple rules can provide arbitrary complexity.
Well, they're just conceptual entities, they don't actually exist in reality, like numbers. People make them up, other people confuse them reality, and then you have major problems, like nationalism.
It's not my argument. I'm one of those wackos who believes the government should get out of the marriage game (i.e. I want to end straight marriage), stop favoring the immobile over the mobile, and stop favoring people with risk preferences that result in the purchase of health insurance.

I'm simply trying to square the standard left wing position that the government can and should regulate anything on the slightest pretext with the other standard left wing position that the government has no right to regulate gay sex. But somehow, in spite of regulation of gay sex being illegitimate, regulation of incest or polygamy is still perfectly legitimate.

Note that I'm attempting to reason from first principles here, not appeal to consequences.
You can use hola against cencorship.From reading a bit around the web, it seems that most of the time it does work in china, the country with the most advanced censorship tech.
Really well done. I'd love to see one of these teaching the CSS animations they use.
Well supported: http://caniuse.com/json

Use JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() - only gives issues in IE8 with an incorrect doctype (go figure?!?!).
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That's a relief. Thanks for the update.
I miss his videos.
The issue is the number of people who said no.

I work in a state government and personally failed at least twice to consolidate agency email systems -- a slam dunk if ever there was one. We made progress... Eventually getting about 55% of the target. It went nowhere until someone had the balls to consolidate the staff along with the email.

The issue here is the same. The people examining these records need to figure out where everyone worked, who was a veteran, who is entitled to X or disqualified for Y. All of this data requires records kept by another agency, and the folks between the retirement people and the records don't really give a shit.

The difference between the private sector and government is that the people "in charge" can't change the rules. Think:

Does it make sense for people processing retirement paperwork to work in a CAVE a few hundred miles from that Capitol? No. But congress said put it there. Does it make sense to have a system so complex that you need thousands of people to figure out what to pay a retiree? No.

But at the end of the day, the political appointees come in and say "Wow, the old crew was a real bunch of muppets!" Then they try to fix a people and organizational problem with computers and consultants. Then it happens again.
Navigation is pretty handy, but the thing I really love about a smartphone is having a decent portable camera always with me. To quickly take a snap to share with family (mms, email or social media), when you otherwise would have missed that is pretty cool.
I made the down payment on my first house selling my ISO shares, and then when we sold that house and moved to a slightly larger house my wife and I both sold shares we had in ISOs to make a larger downpayment. Neither time did the bank consider it a 'gift' (nor did the IRS, they took their pound of flesh too)

During the dot.com boom there was an interesting series in the newspaper about people who took their IPO proceeds and immediately sold them and bought a house. The question was "Gee, look at all the future growth they are giving up by converting hot stocks into stodgy real estate."
How is sexual orientation anything other than a preference? Note that whether or not a preference is "casual" is not relevant to either my post or the post I responded to.

You can demonize me all you want, but it's not a substitute for carefully thinking through your views. I imagine it's more fun though, and less risky - after all, careful thought can result in discovering you are wrong about something.
+1 for using the mbed, my new favorite micro controller!
A lot of reactions to Obama’s decisions seem to remember that he was the guy on the Hope posters, but not that he was the guy who told PolSci majors how politics was heart-wrangling, soul-blackening compromises, all the time -- and that you needed to keep the eye on the bigger prize, because you’d have to sacrifice everything just under it.

Obama promised to save tens of thousands how American lives (and ten times as many Middle-Eastern) and the budget by scaling down physical operations. To do that, he had to grant the intelligence and military personnel everything else, if only to avoid a coup. I hate the compromise, but I can’t imagine making a different choice.

Yes, that appears to be extremely disappointing, but more than actual deescalation of the surveillance apparatus, what he is working on is to make the Intelligence community realise that they went too far, and that the fact that Snowden could get so much information was a problem in itself. You don’t tear things away from people when you want them to contrite, not significantly: that comes later. Right now, most people in that community want to drop a Hellfire on the guy: saying he was right to do what he did, and to follow his recommendation would be akin, for the US operatives, to have the US adopt Sharia law on Christmas 2001 because Ben Laden asked for it.

Give them time.

Show a guy who is articulate, considerate and criticise his actions ‘but his ideals where not far off…’; show how targeted collection help keeping focus, show how judicially-sound investigations help avoiding mistakes… The NSA will feel confident to take off the side-wheels (still ‘protect the Homeland’ without the all-access) but that’s later, alas.
I bet the article was one of the first to cover JSON and was only updated two years ago to the new stylesheet.
I think frankly there's a lot of techies I know who are so burnt out they don't even remember what it feels like not to be burnt out. There's a lot of people who could really do with putting every electronic device in a box for 6 months and just breathing fresh air, thinking new thoughts, and doing things in the "real" world for a while. I hope that's what Ryan is doing and I hope it's working out for him.
I'm really surprised by the downvotes and reactions you're getting.

Seeing people scream and faint, having to be carried out on stretchers upon hear the news, is not a reaction that North Americans are used to seeing. It is not "normal" to see North Americans react that way. That's not a condemnation against those who do, it's just a statement of fact. OP then asked if it's "normal" for Chinese families, without any implication that they're wrong in doing it. I suspect there would have been slightly less backlash if he asked if it was common.

I was immediately curious about the same thing. I pondered whether or not China's "one child" restrictions could make these losses that much worse. Upon reflection, I thought that I might consider having at least two children in order to make such a tragic event slightly more bearable.

Or, perhaps the media singled out the most extreme reaction and it isn't typical.

The difference is noteworthy enough to make one curious, and there isn't anything wrong with that.
Fair enough, but the comment you had replied to had assumed quite reasonably that DDoS is a criminal act, and I can only assume your response quibbling about that was $SOMETHING-centric. Apologies for the downvote but that impression changed my interpretation of your later comment.
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I think we should stop using the word "poach" when describing these job changes. Use of this word suggests that we (technology workers) are the property of our employer, and that other employers are "stealing" that property away. I don't consider myself akin to a cow owned by my previous employer, stolen by my current one. I hope you don't either. My relationship with my employer is one of equals, freely and mutually entered into, and does not imply any ownership of my person.

Hate to be the PC police, but I personally feel offended by the use of this word, and I'm surprised that more people aren't. I'd like to propose using a more neutral phrase, like "hire away" to describe this practice, instead of "poach". I hope, upon reflection about their own role in the employer-employee relationship, others might come to this conclusion and stop using this word as well.
I agree. But, hypothetically speaking...
Here's what's saddest to me about this. There isn't really a labor shortage. These companies colluded for years on salary and poaching to make it possible to selectively hire from choice schools and people with a certain "pedigree" -- which artificially limited the pool of people they felt were "acceptable"...which drove up the salary of people from this pool which of course caused them to want to collude to keep wages down. This is why discriminatory hiring practices are bad for everybody.

Now years later Google, using the power of massive data, has figured out that it didn't really matter all that much that they were hiring from this artificially limited pool. Which means it didn't matter all that much to start with for any of these companies.

If they hadn't colluded on pay and poaching, but stayed selective, they would have been eventually forced to either reach outside this selective pool and end the "shortage" or suck up the higher wages.

Basically the market would have resolved the issue of higher wages for them.
Please ask your separatist friends if they would support independence from Spain if they carried a disproportionately small part of the tax burden. I'm guessing they still will.
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So according to the report, Obama is going to propose legislation that:

- Would end the NSA's authorization to collect bulk call records from telephony providers under §215.

- Would require the NSA to require court approval prior to every §215 call record request. Up to 2 hops worth of call records would be included.

- Won't require that telecoms maintain anything more than the 18 months of call records that they are already obliged to hold.

The devil's in the details, but it sounds like a big change from the existing call records program. If Congress passes something along these lines, it'd be a major win.

But the §215 call records program is just a very small component of the objectionable surveillance programs. Here's just a sampling of the others:

"Upstream" collection: The sort of thing that happens in AT&T's Room 641A - fiber optic cables intercepted, data captured (under program names Fairview, Blarney, Stormbrew, Oakstar). Auth'd under Executive Order 12333 and the various FISA laws [1]. Searched using the XKEYSCORE frontend. GCHQ has similar program called Tempora which the NSA has access to.

MUSCULAR: Jointly run by GCHQ and NSA, collects data as it passes between the backend servers of services like Yahoo and Google. [2]

PRISM: Auth'd under §702, allows NSA to request data from tech companies about anyone who might be "reasonably believed" to be outside the US.

BULLRUN: Various efforts to break encryption, including attempts to insert vulnerabilities into encryption standards. Snowden's security clearance wasn't high enough to get any real details on exactly what the NSA has achieved as part of BULLRUN [4].

I think the scariest of those is Bullrun. We don't (and likely won't) know to what degree the NSA has managed to break or circumvent encryption [5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream_collection

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret...

[4] http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/nsa-bullrun-911-an...

[5] https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/376481848760606720
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I assume it will be adopting Dogecoin as its currency.
But... but... some of us our doing our development on Windows and loathe Sharepoint.
Yeah, it says updated in 2012, but if you go to the articles section, for instance, they're all 5-7 years old.

Though it's poor form even back then that they'd link to JSON.org (which has the JSON library which we all used before native browser support) and then not use it in the actual sample code.
Why? It's the exact same plugin code. The. same. plugin. code.
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Why don't you use strawberry? I love strawberry.. :)
With newer-gen high-level consoles and emulators, is that really the case? Having cycle/instruction accurate emulation only seems to be an issue for older consoles (PS2 and before?) where programmers actually relied on all sorts of things to eek out every cycle's worth.

On the Xbox, is that really the case?
I don't make 250k, but I am pretty frugal overall. I'm not a foodie, so I'd rather spend that money elsewhere. I cleared just under $200k with bonus last year
From your wiki link:

"The Supreme Court decided the case on the basis of lack of standing."

...meaning the proponents weren't allowed to defend it in court.

I've already stated my feelings about the ruling in the Michigan. In fact, I have deep misgivings about the kind of research presented in that case on both sides, especially when it comes to making policy decisions.
It's weird seeing comments from anyone who knows the YouTube world on HN.

Did you reverse engineer annotations?
Some countries are more made up than others.
Most of the countries in Africa and the Middle East were not formed by popular movements for self determination, but rather the result of foreign (mostly West European) political considerations, the people living in many of those countries - in aggregate - have no common ground, they associate with some ethnic group that does not identify with the state and are often seriously opposed to their union with other ethnic groups (Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda are one extreme example of this; Sunnis, Shias and Christians in most Arab states are another).

Most European states are less made up than almost all non-European states, but Italy is much less a result of a group of people who chose to unite (or secede) than, say, the Balkan states in their current form.
If they tried to break away from the USA they would have the military knocking on their door. If they somehow managed to operate as an independent city like DC, they would lose the right to vote for senators and president.
I would be really really cautious about taking anything from Mike Davidson's blog, for one if you notice the dates it was during the worst Mortgage Meltdown in history (july 2008, and may 2009) and he was attempting to get a construction loan which is an entirely different sort of transaction than simply buying a house that already exists.
In late 2008, Facebook seemed to ramping up hiring (and recruiting aggressively, with good reason, from Google). Any "truce" would have been severely one-sided for Facebook.

I'm sure they weren't worried about bleeding employees to Google if they said no, especially when you remember $GOOG was near a 3-year low and FB growth was exploding..
If Glass needs to be in every mall in America while being covered by a major insurance plan than partnering with Luxotica can make that happen.
The secessions were unlawful. After all, when the Northern states were compelled to return fugitive slaves to the South, that was done on the basis of text in the Constitution that was binding on all of the states (namely, about returning those fleeing from bondage to their masters).

In fact the Constitution included many regulations and prohibitions regarding the power of individual states, so it can't be claimed that the Constitution wasn't the ultimate arbiter of power within the federal framework of government.

So with that in mind a unilateral decision by a single state to change the Constitutional government for all of the states can hardly have been legal. And even the parts of the Constitution talking about the territorial integrity of a single state all include the clause the Congress must approve the change in addition to the state itself.

If a state really wanted to secede it would have to have come up with some legal procedure at the national level from which to even make that change possible. Probably by using the Constitutional Amendment process (which is, after all, the built-in designed mechanism for altering the federal framework of government).
As a native Californian, I'd love to break from the union more than the idiotic "6 Californias" currently scheduled for the next election. Yes there are differences in the state, but as a whole it is way more suited to be self sustaining than a lot of states sucking on the Federal largess.
This is exactly correct, loan to value differences change both your APR and whether or not you need private mortgage insurance (PMI). If your loan to value allows the bank to give you their best rate and waive PMI (which they do because they believe if you default they can sell your property at a profit) then you will save a tremendous amount of cash over the lifetime of the loan.
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> You could argue that, but you'd have to be pretty deluded to think anyone would believe you.

It doesn't matter, courts need to prove you're guilty. My point was that this sentence in an email doesn't get the prosecution any closer to that goal.
With Adobe Reader it's probably even worse, to be honest.