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Long term? Make these sorts of stories public, demand change, write to your representatives, write to the media. Takes about 40 to 80 years.

Short term? 1/2 meter thick concrete walls and doors, barred windows. Though that might set off alarms for the police, so a better solution would be a bunker space under your house where you sleep and spend your time indoors. Of course also have a bedroom above ground so you can claim you slept in your bunker because you were working late on a project that day and they just caught. When they knock, put on riot gear. I mean, your welder suit.

Or maybe it would be safest to get sent to prison for life, at least there the most danger you have to look out for is getting stabbed by someone doing it for fun, rather than blown up by a guy doing it for the good of society.
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So I checked this out back in 2013, and it has gotten significantly better. For one, it doesn't include a giant script at the top of each document this time around, so that's a major plus. I haven't used it very extensively, but I have high hopes for products like this. Game engine map editors have been around for decades. It would be really cool if we could create tooling that is able to spit out complex web app designs in the same way.
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I can't wait to see this PowerDrive device.
Love that Namecheap is making it easy to pay!
I don't really think entropy is relevant to the war on drugs...
That's intuitive, and a bummer. I don't think it has any bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim, though. I wonder if "soft pessimistic" (fixed limits) view creates as much depression as the "hard pessimistic" (fixed level) one (assuming the causal arrow points in that direction in the first place.)
Thanks. I have a bit of an... obsessive streak when it comes to these kinds of threads. It works out, though it also means I didn't get a whole lot of other stuff done yet today...

I hope we can keep the Rust community mega positive and no-bullshit. Please let me know if I'm ever not being so.
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From a technical perspective, I have found 'The Mature Optimization Handbook' invaluable: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-matu... (HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6763683)

'Team Geek' is a great primer on technical leadership: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018025.do

Another recommended book is 'Shipping Greatness': http://shippinggreatness.com

Assuming you're already familiar with 'The Lean Startup', there has been a series of excellent 'sequels' on many more specific disciplines that you will likely find useful: http://theleanstartup.com/the-lean-series

A recent addition (that I am still digesting) on Agile processes beyond Scrum is 'Unblock!': http://www.continuousagile.com/unblock/ (Posted to HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7921200)
I am, in fact, aware of the difference between local, state, and federal government. Much like the US federal government, state governments are also divided into multiple branches, with law enforcement part of the executive branch. Municipal governments tend to be a little less well-defined, but still nominally respect a separation of powers.

The author did not specify, but the news article linked below suggests that the "SWAT team" was composed of a mixture of town and county officers. I'm not sure what the jurisdictional situation is, but if it were me I would try to contact the mayor of Cornelia first and, if that did not address my concerns, the governor of Georgia.

But maybe there's a better way. For instance (as has been discussed elsewhere in these comments) if no-knock warrants were declared unconstitutional, or if there was a well-defined process for redress of unjustified force complaints, perhaps the situation would improve for everyone.
He's getting that argument from good ole Kant and his Critique of Pure Reason from 1781 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason). The basic argument, so far as I understand it, is that there must exist certain "structures in the brain" that make all our understanding possible. Since these are brain structures they must be a priori (everyone is born with them). On the side of aesthetic senses he boils these down to space and time. From our sense of space it is possible for us to reason about geometry and therefore much more abstract forms of mathematics without having to have recourse to the "outside" world. So we can envision and prove new geometrical proofs and our internal brain structures for understanding space ground these proofs in a sort of sense certainty. To go to your example of 2 + 2 we can say that nowhere in these symbols is contained the meaning 4 - so no amount of analysis (dividing these symbols up, reducing them to more primitive symbols, etc) will get us to the equality - we have to perform some operation internally and that operation has to be grounded on something a priori - these would be our sense of space where we can envision two things and two more things and perform the count and arrive at 4 - all done outside of experience.

Now there are plenty of philosophers who came later who have tried instead - following in the shoes of Hume - to perform a materialist grounding of these faculties not in the brain but derived from sense experience itself - sense experience somehow constitutes the structures of the brain and changing external sense experiences can reshape or reconstitute these brain structures. For example, Gilles Deleuze seems to me to do something like this.
I like to think that the usage of a 2.2mb (which took 1.7 minutes to load on a 15mbit connection) background image was meant as an illustration to the article's point.
According to the FAA, they clarified this in 2007. No flying a UAS for commercial purposes, only one case has ever been approved.

http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/?newsId=76240
Reminds me of an anecdote: for a long time, when faced with the non-intuitiveness that is quantum theory, physicists had one simple rule shut up and do the math.
can someone explain? is this secret?
>Cryptography is readily available to anyone who cares to use it.

Really? It was my understanding that True crypt was done for and I don't know of any other similar software that is open source (ie trust worthy).
Mobile MBA by Jo Owen - less empty words, more practical advice. My absolutely favourite management book.

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>> individuals listed under the policy may ultimately petition a U.S. appeals court directly for relief

Why isn't it the other way around? Shouldn't they have to prove to a judge that there is reasonable suspicion you are or have been engaged in terrorism before they can interfere in your affairs?
I don't agree — library functions can more easily be used as first-class functions, whereas instance methods cannot. You can partially apply with a library function:

```
var startWith123 = _.partial(_.concat(1, 2, 3));
```

and you can more easily pass them around without having to create anonymous functions, which is a lot more fluid in my opinion.
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Now if only we'd get a similar ruling for no-warrant "border" searches, where border can mean tens of miles from the actual border.
I was under the impression PayPal does allow charges with their Direct Payment API (i.e. Payments Pro). Are you specifically referring to the fact you have to be redirected to their site for login to do so?

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-pr...
I've enjoyed great success by symlinking the various history files to /dev/null

That way the history for the current window remains but after the window closes any accidental password-on-the-command-line mistakes will vaporize.

for i in .sh_history .bash_history .lesshst .mysql_history etc
do
ln -s /dev/null $i
done
This is a huge deal. I'm currently in Shenzhen and Alipay (支付宝) is a common and convenient way to make payments, on Taobao, in person, or otherwise. Alipay is an interesting product in its own right, even if examined independently of the Alibaba Group. It has a money market service, Yu'E Bao (余额宝) that is currently a top 3 global money market fund with $89B AUM. That's a taste of the scale of the market in China.

http://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/internet-trends-201...
>You're very fortunate. I'm guessing you're probably in a high-performing, relatively well-to-do school district (please correct me if I'm wrong).

You're 100% correct. I work in a UK grammar school, so we have a predominantly middle-class catchment area, and students are selected on academic ability.

TBH I didn't know what OpenStack was a few months ago. I went to my tech, after issues with running Python on the network, and explained that I wanted the kids to have root access to 'something'. I wanted them to play around with a CLI and be able to explore different tools.

We explored RaspberryPis with KVMs, dual booting and paying for VPSs from a third party. My Tech did his research and came up with the OpenStack solution.

My point was that these things are possible, but I agree that to many IT admins the concept is terrifying. The sad thing is that offering students such an experience is well within the budgets and technical capabilities of all schools in the UK.
About time.

There's no human being on Earth so dangerous they can't be safely put on an airplane.
More than anything, these kinds of performance tests point to ways in which the VM can be improved, not best practices for performance.
A "large proportion" of airbnb is sub-letting - either a flat for a week while away, a room for months or other types banned in the original lease contract. Even some people who own their own leasehold in the uk don't have rental rights.

The BBC estimated that was 40% of rentals on airbnb - it is my contention that airbnb is doing a YouTube - basing its growth on breaches of copyright / lease law whilst hoping to grow big enough fast enough for it to not matter.

I think a better analogy is ticket touting - you buy a ticket at the baseball game and then sell the seat again, leaving when the next buyer turns up. And you only buy at "public good" rates and sell at "market rates"

This app would also go out of business if SF city sold parking places at market rates - there would be no margin.

In all, it's a silly app trying to create an after market in something where they and their customers have no legal rights and no practical enforcement, and I think they were hoping to scrape enough and not get noticed.
"The 13 plaintiffs - four of them veterans of the U.S. military - deny they have links to terrorism and say they only learned of their no-fly status when they arrived at an airport and were blocked from boarding a flight."

This truly fits the definition of a Kafkaesque system -- you are put on a list and you are denied justice and never told what your crime is.

Great work by the ACLU.
Nope!

http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/media/model_aircraf...

UASes fall under the guise of "model aircraft" when operated as a hobby, but as soon as they're operated commercially, they're in their own, specifically defined class of aircraft, as clarified in 2007 (and linked in this comment's sibling).

That's why quadcopter video operators often employ humorous (and probably not legally workable) workarounds to sell footage into commercial projects - for example, flying "as a hobby" and then later selling "found footage" back to production companies, or renting some related-but-not-flying piece of hardware like memory cards to the production company at an exorbitant rate (which is really the cost of flying the drone).

EDIT: Oh, and 'baddox above reminded me that there's question as to whether any of the FAA's regulations about what is and isn't a model aircraft are enforceable, since they seemed to do an about-face about what counts as a model aircraft as soon as UAVs came onto the scene.

One court and most observers said no, the FAA can't suddenly decide some things are model aircraft and some aren't based on whether or not they're used commercially ( http://www.dronejournalismlab.org/post/78814729933/judge-rej... ), but the FAA appealed and based on my understanding their appeal means the ruling isn't in effect.
Except that simply not true. Do you know how much a kilo of coke costs? We're talking ~20k USD. You could easily flush that, and low level street guys don't have kilos lying around, not even close. If you have access to that kind of quantity you know people who are pretty high up.

Not to mention the fact that the penalty for such an amount is on the order of 10 years in prison (of course, that depends on a lot of factors like where you live, how good your lawyer is, etc., but it's quite a large amount of cocaine.)
So... they caught the nephew eventually and took away his meth. Now we don't have to worry about meth anymore. They have taken care of the problem. Oh.... wait a minute. They haven't even put a dent in the problem.

Maybe they should requisition some of those unused cold war nuclear warheads from the military. THAT should take care of the problem. So... just how far are we willing to take this madness hmmm?
Sshhh.. It's not allowed to talk in that way about the graphene "transistor". You may upset certain funding sources.

But you know, it is really fast! Just almost useless transconductance and no off state, but we can fix it later!
The author seems to be saying that the main reason physicists should pay attention to philosophers is that philosophy can be useful in the study of physics.

I think he could have made his point better by noting that pretty much any thinking about why we study physics leads directly to philosophy. What is the point of doing science? What is knowledge, and why should we be interested in it? These are just the sort of questions philosophy as a discipline is intended to answer.

Any physicist who is interested in any 'meta' questions about his/her work is necessarily interested in philosophy. One can disagree with the particular methodologies of modern academic philosophy, but it is hard to see how any intellectually curious person can dismiss the field entirely.

It seems to me that this is a stronger argument for the relevance of philosophy to science.
How much bootstrap your website uses is not at all related to the quality of your product.
I don't understand. If I say
Define L to be a thing of type J.
Where j is a J, define T j L to be j
Define T L j to be the same as j.
Where j is a J define W j to be a J.
And where a and b are both J, define T a W b to be the same as T W a b
Define a K to be a J and either be L or W L or where k can be determined to be a K, W k.
I think these definitions are sufficient to show that if a and b are both a K then T a b can be shown to be the same as T b a.
( though this does not neccisarily make addition over the natural numbers because I did not include the requirement that if a and b are both a K and are not the same then W a must not be the same as W b)

And while I'm not totally sure about the definition of K ( specifically the whether something can be shown part),
I think this would be based just on definitions, without really any axioms?

Although I suppose it is possible that I included an axiom and just wrote "Define" before it.

(tangent: I suppose one could say "define a system with the following axioms" and then make a proof about that system, and claim that it was a proof by definition?)

Maybe I don't really understand what a priori really means (this seems fairly likely) but I don't think definitions are considered a priori?
>Hospitals are not required to treat, but most do. It is general knowledge in the industry that if you can't afford treatment for your cancer you go to a local hospital where you will be treated regardless of ability to pay.

Do you have a source for this? I can only speak from personal experience, but when I was sick and didn't have insurance I had to come up with a pretty significant upfront payment to see a specialist.

You may get to see a doctor, but try seeing a true specialist with insurance. So yeah, I agree with yequalsx, you will be stabilized, and that's pretty much it.
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This seems like the right decision to me. Being blocked from air travel is indeed a violation of liberty.

I think the U.S. government has a right to keep a list of suspicious persons, watch and monitor them, block them from visiting the United States, but there should be a way to appeal your inclusion on that list especially if you are a U.S. legal resident or citizen. You can't just remain on that list forever, unable to travel, with no evidence or justifiable proof of criminal association with terrorists. That's limbo.
Wait, so the police only arrest criminals?
Ok, the only Deleuze I've read were his cinema books. Kant definitely sees mathematics as synthetic a priori.
Somewhat related: I'm currently enjoying Scott Aaronson's "Quantum computing since Democritus". A snippet:

Not every branch of science was scouted out ahead of time by philosophy, but some were. And in recent history, I think quantum computing is really the poster child here. It's fine to tell people to "Shut up and calculate," but the question is, what should they calculate? At least in quantum computing, which is my field, the sorts of things that we like to calculate — capacities of quantum channels, error probabilities of quantum algorithms — are things people would never have thought to calculate if not for philosophy.

For more: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/ — it's been posted here a bunch of times, although without any comments.
I dropped out of college to accept a job in my desired field of software development. It continues to make sense in hindsight, especially with NPR running frequent stories about the high cost of financing education, market value, etc. My work experience IS my resume. YMMV.
At a minimum challenging these systems is a good thing. Most were put into place with zero debate, no serious judicial challenges, and zero input from the general public (whom they have the greatest impact on).

Whether or not the no-fly list can really be stopped through a normal judicial means at this point, I think that's up for debate given how far the US Government has gone past concerning itself for the rule of law.
Oops. Thanks for the clarification. That explains the yo-yo voting patterns I'm seeing on my post, I suppose.
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The ruling only applies to U.S. citizens. As mentioned in the article, the vast majority of people on the list are non-citizens.

EDIT: Or perhaps it does apply to non-citizens when they are on U.S. soil. I'm not sure.
Does this ruling imply some sort of "right to travel"?
It seems so judging by the scarce amount of leaks. At least I haven't seen it prior to this published one.
It's not lobbying - it's 'political hacking'.
I experience more like this: Have a great idea, and the more I try to write it down and articulate it, either the idea has a major flaw I did not already see, I realize its already been built and its called something else, or the idea is generally useless or unprofitable.

Add some ADD in there, and lots of "ideas" a day, and I'd say it can get fairly distracting...
Not quite dynamic typing, but the Mill CPU stores a lot of metadata in-CPU (which is lost when written to memory)- things like size, vector width, validity of the value (as opposed to faulting immediately) or ALU status bits (overflow, zero). The particular interpretation of the bits is still left up to the opcode used, but it does enable some neat tricks that vaguely remind me of dynamic typing.

http://millcomputing.com/topic/metadata/
I might question that statement. Being a passenger on an airplane requires you to accept a certain amount of responsibility. A person unable to behave properly and/or refrain from harming others in some way (angry, drunk, high, insane, actively trying to crash the airplane, physically abusive, having a communicable disease, etc) should probably be banned from air travel until their behavior and/or ability to harm others can be controlled.
> Money does not a revolution make.

When has it ever? Unless we're talking about Cold War sponsorships, which I don't think would count for these purposes.
The same, for Sweden!
It really isn't an issue as long as there is only one package manager named Babel. If you can't find Babel by Googling "babel" then search for "babel package manager" instead, you will likely be doing that anyway.
I'm friends with a former state senator who's a forensic accountant. She used to read bills from back to front, because they put all the shenanigans in the back. They'd be written really obscurely, and time was always short, but she'd still catch stuff. One small example was public money going to fund a party at some senator's home. She wouldn't give either side a pass, which probably helps explain why she lost the support of her party and got voted out.

Later she ran for state auditor, so I did some campaigning for her. But she lost in the primary to a woman whose qualification consisted of some time on her local school board, but who talked tough and described herself as a "pistol-packin Mama."
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What about rent increases for everyone else? Not everyone wants strangers in their homes you know.
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My domain is coding2learn and my first name is marc, so feel free to email me and I can put you in touch with my net admin. Alternatively I'm @coding2learn on Twitter, so we can DM if you like.

We're starting the whole OpenStack/Linux experiment in September, so I can't give you concrete evidence that it works yet, although I can't see any issues at present.
Sorry, I think you're missing my point that is even if somehow they could flush the entire amount of the illicit substance in time, they probably have other items on hand that would be just as good from an evidence perspective.

For example, you can't flush a scale down the toilet.

If we're talking low-level or mid-level dealers, chances are they have a quantity of pre-packaged amounts of their product on hand and maybe even a firearm or two. Unless they can quickly melt-down and/or liquify all of that stuff, it isn't going down any toilet pipe while the homeowner argues with the cops at the door about the status of a warrant.
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Can you enlighten us what is so disgusting about this in your opinion, this seems to be a straight forward agreement to use the content provided to Google. Not worse than any other EULA I've read.
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You're absolutely correct. They should have to provide evidence proving legitimate concerns about the person in question, preferably to a civilian judicial court that is public, and each person has to be manually confirmed to be a danger and then put on the list.

Then there should be a transparent, straight-forward way to challenge it.
Nimrod is _easily_ the most exciting up and coming language out there. Python syntax, compiles to pure ANSI C, or C++, or Obj-C, or JavaScript. Produces static binaries without dependencies like Golang. It seems to me like Go with improved syntax.
And motorcycles with defective mufflers should be banned.

Airplanes are already heavily restricted in where they can fly.
Knocking down the door, okay fine. But did they really need to throw in a flashbang? Maybe they could have used some kind of thermal vision to see through the wall for children.
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