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"I don’t doubt that Mr. Awlaki committed treason and deserved the most severe punishment"
And yet has anyone heard exactly what is was that he did? All I ever heard is that he put out propaganda about how America sucks. But I have never actually heard any of it.
Yes; although war has rules. It's not clear whether this is part of a war or not.

Is the United States at war with Yemen? No.

Are the Yemenis being bombed civilians or military? Well, they're not the military of any particular state. We're in a murky territory here now, where the US gets to unilaterally declare war on individuals and deem them "not civilians" so it's ok to bomb them.
I'm pretty far removed from this world of crime and only relay what I read coupled with my biased experiences but I suspect crimes build on top of one another. If you get away with a small crime earlier you'll end up breaking the seal and moving on to higher risk crimes. If you keep on getting away with it you end up taking on more and more risk. At the same time there are not enough resources to enforce a low level crime so fixing the underlying problems is a much better idea.

If you're interested in this topic take a look at When Brute Force Fails (http://www.amazon.com/When-Brute-Force-Fails-Punishment/dp/0...) - I found it a good take on crime in the US.
Thanks for responding!

I did use the DisallowOverscroll in my config, I still had to manually add has-bouncing=true to every ion-content tag.

These are the values I tried:

<preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />
<preference name="webviewbounce" value="false" />
<preference name="UIWebViewBounce" value="false" />
<preference name="DisallowOverscroll" value="true" />

The issue with the status bar is even using that plugin (which I have working now thanks to the forums) there is a flicker on initial load of the app when it hides. Still can't figure out how to get rid of that.

Thanks again though for answering!
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I can't sort out if this is an option already, but I think it would be a smart move for Square to have in store kiosks (locked ipads) that let people enter their orders directly.

This has good outcomes for both the store and Square.

For the store, having the kiosks helps reduce entry errors and waste (no order takers missing the customer saying 'no-mayo') as well as being able to keep less staff on hand.

On the Store's backend - tickets just come out of the printer (or show in their view of the app) so it's not so jarring when an order-ahead entry gets thrown into the mix. Plus each person using the Kiosk entry can get a very natural 'up-sell' to the order ahead app.
It takes the right book, the right mood and the right stimulus. I used to think like you. I can tell you that after you enjoy the first novel, you "get" it. You get why everyone says the book is better at the end of a movie session.

What changed my perception of fiction books was the passion of a friend of my mom about a particular book, and the fact that the book was around during some particularly boring summer vacations.

I imagine such a collusion of events in nowadays fast paced world is more difficult. I do understand where you are coming from, though.
I am pretty sure everyone is aware of that particular rule.

But the devil is in the details. How does the US define 'clear threat', exactly, I think would be useful for an enemy to know and possibly exploitable.

And I don't think the US is hiding the overall justification which is "These are people who wish to use violence to act against the United States and its citizens to push their own political agenda. In short; terrorists."

I mean, these are not people who are running for Mayor in their particular part of the world and we don't like their policy decisions. They are doing things like running training camps where they teach others how to make IEDs.
Note that,

that being said,

breaking a sentence across multiple lines

does help with comprehension

when you break on clause boundaries.
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Why ask? This is why we have a judicial system. It may be (very) unfair in some cases, but for the most part they are there to dole out appropriate punishment.
Unlike Nest, which I've always seen as a gimmick sold on false advertising, I believe this has legs. Making these kinds of air conditioning units into intelligent devices could have significant effects.

Why do think I Nest is a gimmick almost bordering on a marketing scam? Because in only works in a relatively narrow range of applications (i.e.: small one or two room apartment). In a larger family home --and particularly a two story home-- it is worthless. You could save money with a cheap programmable thermostat. In order to really save money in such settings you need a zone system with one thermostat/sensor per zone, a multiple stage compressor (or multiple condensing units), a variable speed air handler, a high efficiency HEPA filter, attic exhaust fans and, ideally, a filtered outside air bypass system to take advantage of cool night air.

I am in the middle of renovating my home and have done all the research. Nest is a waste of time and money. You'd save far more money --FAR MORE-- buying a relatively cheap whole house fan to cool the house down at night (at least in my region). But, hey, everyone believes that technology is magical. Damn the math and physics. Hence the hype and sales.

Automating window units is a different game. These are devoted mostly to cooling single rooms. So now you have the equicalent of a highly granular zone system. If you have a home or office with several of these units an intelligent control system could, depending on traffic patterns and the daily flow of people in and out of the various spaces, have a big impact. This is different.

EDIT: I see the cargo-cult HN down-voting got started right away. You can't say anything bad about Apple, Tesla, Nest and others on HN. Of course, they never back-up their downvote because it's purely emotionally driven.

So, here's the challenge: If you think I am wrong about Nest tell me why and back it up. The comparison is between Nest and a cheap programmable thermostat. People's lives are reasonably regular and heat cycles in the summer are too. If you are intent on saving money a programmable thermostat will do wonders. I've been experimenting with this for three years knowing that we would have to redo our cooling and heating system in 2014/15. I've gone two full summers without running the air conditioner but for two weeks by rigging and intelligent $200 fan (meaning, I hooked it up to a $5 timer) to exchange air out of the house when outside air was cooler than inside. That move alone represented a savings of around $500 PER MONTH. See my point?
I don't think he's stupid, but he was subconsciously pretending to be. I think maybe wealth can interfere with identity formation. When you can purchase an identity as a kid, you become something of a cypher for awhile. Maybe he was a nerd that tried to purchase cool. I don't know, but it's interesting how someone so smart can lack self awareness (even as a teenager) to the degree displayed in the video.

I've got a lot of respect for the guy. He was the director of animation on two excellent, Pixar-level films. He's obviously super talented.
If their value proposition is true (the customers would otherwise not have come to you), then it is 8% off sale that you otherwise would not have received. Paying typical card fees, but receiving no sale is a far worse proposition.
Wow, does your last sentence turn 180 from the (otherwise excellent) analysis. If class actions don't help plaintiffs enough, shouldn't we be looking for a stronger solution?
Full time job and start-up project works fine together for me. Things become more complicated since I have a family and studying computer science. I don't touched my project for one month and can't do it for at least one or two next months because of a seminar. I hope, I release my project at decembre-january. Emotions? I don't have time for emotions :D
Our country has one of the best snatch-and-grab military outfits in the world. Go get this guy and try him. It will probably even cost less than sending a drone with a hellfire attached to it, and it's his right as a citizen to be tried before execution.
Reading for pleasure is a skill that works like a muscle that must be exercised. The more you train it, the easier it becomes. If you never read as a kid, I can understand why you'd find it difficult as an adult.

I'm curious, though: do you watch TV for fun, i.e. not to learn something but just to enjoy the story?
I don't know Kurzweil's real position, but I believe in one of his books he expected singularity by 2045. A lot of people don't protest the idea itself, but the optimistic schedule.
The problem I see with that approach is that there is no guarantee it will bring in new customers. Seems just as likely that it will actually bring existing customers. Second, if they are trying to get traction, then they need the merchants on board to create enough supply side to have ordinary consumers want to download an app and use it. They just created friction for merchant sign-up.
"Every nation has the sovereign right to kill people in other nations."

I'm fairly sure that if we were discussing Iranian intelligence blowing up airliners of US nationals you'd not be using that argument.
Subtext:

"About 46 percent of white children are considered “proficient” in reading, compared with 18 percent of black children and 20 percent of Hispanic kids.

Those gaps remained relatively unchanged over the past 20 years, according to the report."

I.e., it's likely that the change in the average is driven by a change in the proportions of the components, not a shift in the by-component means.
Sometimes you start with the clear case, then extend the conclusions to murkier cases. That citizens have certain enumerated rights makes violations of those rights easier to debate to a meaningful conclusion. It's not that "nobody else counts", it's that if citizens don't have those rights protected, others surely won't.

In the case of the "late unpleasantness", "war of Northern aggression", "war of secession", "civil war", whatever you label it: those targeted had declared themselves a separate country, wore uniforms thereof, and operated in clear cooperation for military ends. Be that deemed international war, insurrection, etc it was clearly under conditions where individual trials were infeasible, akin (at minimum) to police attempting to take down an armed gang violently resisting arrest: trials only work when the defendant is engages in docile participation in the judicial process.

And yes, if one is not operating under insignia (usually of a nation) in war, to wit a citizen acting treasonously out of uniform and out of organized conflict, largely independently, there is indeed the option of "trial in abstentia" and sending in special forces to extradite - with extreme prejudice if necessary.
I am sorry but that CV needs some spacing. The font rendering might be top notch but it's way too cramped.
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At the risk to my karma, I must state:

Please tell me the US government had the foresight to avoid choosing---as the name of a core algorithm employed by its covert services---a name shared by the fictional criminal organization for world domination in the Marvel Comics universe, which is itself opposed by that fiction's analog to America's covert services.

Someone in the chain of command is either deeply ignorant of Marvel Comics (completely understandable) or deeply, deeply cynical about the state of the world (completely concerning).
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Shogi programs only match up in the standard 9x9 board. They fall far behind the moment you introduce a larger variant.

As to go, computers have a hard to time with 9x9 and a handicap. 13x13, 19x19, or larger is even further out of the question. The fundamental issue is that the problem must be solved entirely with heuristics. We have trouble modeling cat brains. We are a long way away from human-level pattern recognition heuristics.
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This reminds me of the movie Sphere, when they discuss the ramifications of the unknown object having emotions:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120184/quotes?item=qt0360936
Here's a fun test I like to do with people who want me to get started with OpenStack, the system that HP is backing:

Starting from the home page (http://openstack.org), try to download something that will let you run a test stack on your local machine, and run it. Time how long this takes.

For me, it took over 50 clicks, searches, etc. and two hours of time before I figured out how to get the stack up and running. It was one of the most frustrating technology experiences I've had in recent memory. The website is a labyrinthine, confusing morass of marketing gobbledygook that I found difficult to get important details from, at least for developers as an audience.

I think OpenStack has a long way to go in terms of technical usability before I'd consider trying it out again. That was months ago (August 2013), so maybe things have improved, but I haven't worked up the courage to try again just yet.

P.S. OpenStack devs: I'd be happy to have a conversation about it! I would love to be told that my experience was anomalous and get a reason to give it another shot.
That is interesting (but also sadly over my head too).

I think some of the theory there is starting to get into operational transformation territory [1]. If that's the case then a really interesting application might be applying the same semantics indexing a stream of events to expressing events as a diff against state and propagating them to clients...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
Even if you believe in international law, that doesn't mean that U.S. courts are always the appropriate jurisdiction for contesting violations of such law. Nobody doubts federal law exists, but that doesn't mean that a state court in Kansas is the right forum for a violation of federal law that happened in Nebraska.
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> (Or show me your repo and I show you all the bugs you now have)

this would be great. Show me! I'd love to know:

https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/sqlalchemy/

https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/mako/

https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/

I'm guessing you'd go for Mako first since it has the most unicode intense stuff going on (and it uses lots of your code).
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> I don't know why so many people seem to think tougher prison sentences/three-strikes laws, etc. will deter much crime.

Not only that, but once you go to prison, at least in the United States, you'll likely go again. Going to prison makes you unemployable, makes you lose certain federal assistance, and leads to close contact with gangs. When you finally get out, you often won't even be able to vote, you can't find a job, and you'll probably get evicted. You're pretty much a second-class citizen at that point, worse off than you were before. If we want people to commit fewer crimes, prison should be the last resort (at least for non-violent offenders), not the first step. Better alternatives exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Drug-Related_Crime
I'm going to guess it comes from the frustration of getting dumb results rankings that don't take into account the likelihood that the result is actually something you wanted.
I certainly would. And I would support bombing Iran in retaliation, and I would assert that those actions would not be reviewable by an American federal court.
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It's true that story-telling is important for society, but I also find this view a bit... utilitarian.

Story-telling and reading are important because they are enriching, pleasurable activities; among the best there are, in fact. That they also make you a better person is a welcome bonus.
Why not keep your resume as pure git repo? That's more in the spirit of git, no? That way you could even track ppl's CV for updates. (More of a joke than a real CV https://github.com/kidd/Me )
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http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart

Found that in about 30 secs from the OpenStack site.
Is there any other charity that acts differently?
If that someone is residing outside your territory, and if you act outside the law of the country that someone reside in (or have a formal declaration of war against that country), then it is definitely not warfare. The most fitting word I can think of that describes the action of killing the person would be 'terrorism'.

Seriously - sovereignty of other countries is a thing. Learn to respect that.
Does it matter how they got on a kill list or what the criteria is (in determining whether there's a difference between these two scenarios. Yes, it matters overall)? You're comparing killing an armed hostage taker and saving a person whose life is in imminent danger to bombing someone halfway across the world when we have no idea what they're doing or what they will be doing; all we know is what we think they have done and what we think they will do.

If there's a hostage taker pointing a gun at someone's face, I can see what we're trying to do: step in at the last minute and prevent someone who is already visibly committing a crime (brandishing a weapon, threat of lethal force) from killing a person. Some unarmed guy outdoors, though? From a mile away? Because a committee put him on a list? What was he about to do that we stopped?
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Do note, this will not work if you for example have unbound (or any other DNS resolver on your network) setup to enforce privacy of certain addresses.

private-address: 127.0.0.0/8
private-address: 10.0.0.0/8
private-address: 172.16.0.0/12
private-address: 192.168.0.0/16
private-address: 169.254.0.0/16
private-address: fd00::/8
private-address: fe80::/10

Here is the comment in the config file for the option:

# Enforce privacy of these addresses. Strips them away from answers.
# It may cause DNSSEC validation to additionally mark it as bogus.
# Protects against 'DNS Rebinding' (uses browser as network proxy).
# Only 'private-domain' and 'local-data' names are allowed to have
# these private addresses. No default.

The reason I have this enabled is because it can help stop certain attacks against the local network!
The bubble may be helping, but see this:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=go

Also, I think there might have been some tuning by search engines/web pages (a couple of years ago I remember it was more difficult getting a good result)
As a programmer who also happens to be a photographer, that's flat out wrong.

The M8 produces a very crappy imitation of out of focus blur of what the bokeh of an camera with a thin depth of field looks like. [1] The linked article is actually being "neutral" and fairly generous; the pictures, frankly, look like shit.

It is difficult to properly do DoF, even if you know the Z-distance of every object in the scene. It's not just a simple blur of things that are deemed out of focus; things like spherical differences in the lens to produce hard/soft bokeh matter. [2]

"So easily simulated" couldn't be further from the truth. A bunch of academic papers have been written about this, [3] which include ways to reproduce effects that are similar to the "thin DoF" effect in large sensor cameras, but few try to tackle _all_ of the issues and nuances present.

[1] http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/htc-one-m8-camera-vs-...
[2] http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/bokeh/
[3] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2389316.2389318
Krebs notes in TFA:

"I received a phone call from the local police department. It was early in the morning on Apr. 10, and the cops wanted to know if everything was okay at our address.

Since this was not the first time someone had called in a fake hostage situation at my home, the call I received came from the police department’s non-emergency number, and they were unsurprised when I told them that the Krebs manor and all of its inhabitants were just fine."

At least in his part of the world, it seems the cops are exercising a healthy level of discretion.
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Meta data does not mean 'lesser data'. Meta data could paint a very clear picture.
Thanks both to you and thenomad for your replies.

vijucat, your answer reminds me of Eckhart Tolle[1]. I have a tendency towards depression. And among other things I have listened to Eckhart in past to deal with it. And he helped me greatly.
I feel like you are right. Intuitively I feel I need to simply acknowledge that these folks are better than me at this thing and I should admire their skill without envy. I feel like it will be a great weight off of me when I am able to do that. And I understand what you mean by you don't know what would follow after that. I have found that in situations where I have stopped fighting 'what is', things have turned out such that the cause of my struggle was removed. 'What is' became 'what I wanted'.
Maybe this is what will happen again. I do feel I have the ability to master this frontend development but comparison with others has become a debilitating factor. In any case, I have decided to make my goal #1 to become able to acknowledge others' achievements and skill without pangs of envy.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Eckhart-Tolle/e/B001H6GZ5K

EDIT: added link to Eckhart Tolle.
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