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The reason is largely historical [1]. Before about 100 or so years ago, almost every serious scientist or mathematician was effectively a philosopher as well (hence the Ph in PhD). Aristotle was (and still is, albeit augmented with more modern interpretations) foundational to almost every scholastic curriculum. "Philosophy" literally means "the study of knowledge", and for much of human history, it has been where big ideas came from.

Philosophy gave us many of the things we consider science: the scientific method is the direct result of many of the enlightenment philosophers' quest to determine "what is real" versus "what is not real". Once you have an agreed upon, repeatable definition of a process to get to "real", you can move on from there.

Once the total knowledge of our species began to expand toward the middle of the 19th century, it was no longer sufficient for a scholar to be a "philosopher". You had to specialize in something. So philosophy became dominated by the left-over "soft" topics like ethics and personal philosophy, leaving many people working in "hard" disciplines to shun the label of "philosopher".

Interestingly enough, the classification problem is still one of the most hotly debated problems in philosophy. How much of our classification comes from a truly singular concept versus linguistic commonality? I don't have the answer, but we've been asking the question for a long time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy#History
And who gets to foot the bill for all of these new addicts?

The cigarette companies have been used for years for killing people. Imagine he amount of people using for ods.

Tort reform would also be need for this to ever work.
Punches to the face are better than holes in the chest. If I had to pick from "will get punched in the face with 90% certainty" or "will get a hole in the chest with 0.01% certainty", I'd pick the first one. Heck, I'd punch myself in the face once for good measure, too.
Apparently it has been asserted that this special border region extends inward 100 miles from borders and coastlines. This swath includes around 2/3 of the US population.

http://rt.com/usa/court-upholds-laptop-border-searches-041/

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone...
They give an idea of what's all that about without reading dozens of pages.
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I've heard many research scientists say, "Science is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
The the police will get tanks and shell their way into your bunker. The police is engaged in an arms race. But they are the only ones who are in the race.
Solstice was just added! :)

http://sndtst.com/Solstice
Here is a good link to start from http://somerandomdude.com/2012/01/10/transition-from-develop...
Docs: https://support.google.com/webdesigner/#topic=3178270

Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gwdbeta/
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I'm not sure if this is the type of documentation you're looking for, but here's a link to the relative Help Center:

https://support.google.com/webdesigner/#topic=3249465
I mean it generally, high as in "people who can't control their behavior due to recent drug use". If you know someone who just ingested "a bunch" of LSD, should that person be on an airplane for 8 hours? Can they control their behavior and not be a nuisance to others or difficult for staff to give instructions to?
I really can't see the need for premature bans. Has there been a significant amount of accidents involving the use of delivery drones? I don't think so, so why potentially limit your competitiveness? :(
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Fair enough. But towards the original point, dismissing a solution to a problem because of the relevant campaigning, and not the relevant changes seems like a pretty poor argument. Additionally, you could also take my statement as meaning, "if the campaigning isn't succeeding, perhaps trying to change the message will help". Which, encouraging STEM for all children, would be a new message that would also likely increase the number of women in STEM (eventually). This is actually a pretty common shift in the "women in STEM" movements as of late.

As a counter argument: There has been lots of campaigning on fixing the problem of limited numbers of women in STEM, but relatively few changes to the media portrayal of women in STEM or education of children to fix the problem. Perhaps more importantly, a vast number of STEM fields are in high demand, and our education system seems to be poorly equipped at encouraging students (in general) to enter (any) STEM field. So perhaps we can hit two birds with one stone and change how we teach STEM to be a more integral part of school, like the original post suggested with a relatively provocative title.
Well, I didn't expect _that_ to get downvoted.
This is true to some degree, though I think legalizing many drugs would still not take away a large portion of the associated criminality. People with bad coke or meth addictions just don't care very much who they hurt.
As far as I know, there is no actual evidence for this being a result of innate differences between boys and girls.
Ah yes that is obviously much better than extrapolating from anecdotes.

But of the few European countries compared, at least two have deregulated pricing for generics which is exactly the point we're talking about isn't it? The others may or may not (I don't know). But why were Norway, Sweden and Denmark omitted from that comparison when they are in every other comparison on the original page? It's a strange omission because generics in Scandinavia are lower than western Europe. Inside of Europe, countries that have deregulated their generics simply have higher prices.
Alipay payments will all be nominated in Yuan (RMB). How does Stripe convert this back to USD? The laws of converting currency in China are very restrictive.
The funny thing is we just had this trial in 2010 and lost. I suspect 9/11 hysteria is dying down, so now we can have real adult conversations about things like this.

Not to mention ending or deeply cutting the drug war. Or our constant talk of FISA, NSA, etc powers. I really think the conversation that would have been unthinkable in 2001-2005 is finally happening.

Sadly, social progress happens one funeral and a time and as the older generations die off, we'll move towards shifting the pendulum back to sanity. Heck, we may even see Bush and Cheney arrested for war crimes someday. Perhaps I'm too much of an optimist, but living in constant fear and endlessly burning up our dollars fighting terrorism is just not an option, especially when we compete on a global scale with nations with 1/20th our military spending, higher standards of living, and rising economies.
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@Bootvis

You could also just rig an external reservoir (or have a full bucket lying around) to rapidly refill the back tank. Though that would of course be fairly incriminating.
I had a professor in college who was adamant that we do not have free will. His argument basically boiled down to this: we are who we are because of our genes, our environment, and random events that go on in the brain. We can't control any of them. Sure, you may be able to control your environment, but how we choose to do so is influenced by everything in the past. We think the way we do because of events we couldn't control.

Here's an interesting paper he wrote on the subject: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/10/4499.full
Guys who write HFT systems in Java are basically programming them like one would in C or C++. They pre-allocate byte buffers for everything and never run the GC. If you write C-style code in Java, it's going to run pretty quickly. They aren't doing architecture astronaut AbstractMetaClassFactory stuff or using much of the provided libraries for latency-sensitive code.

FWIW, I don't think Jane Street is a competitor in the "ultra HFT" space where every nanosecond counts. AFAIK they are more of a statistical and quantitative trading group, so they may have less need for things like talking directly to hardware, keeping tight control over memory layout, deterministic latency w/o GC pauses, etc.

Almost everything that is popular has evolved over time, and making these changes once you have established users results in compromises that can be sort of ugly. C++ has patina.
You have to admit, it's hilarious that the most natural swap implementation you could possibly write (and the one used in C++03) is now "standout terrible." It's not wrong to point that out, but it is wrong to assign blame to the hapless programmer instead of the language.

And even if we make it not-generic, and add some C++11:

std::vector<bool> foo = ...;
auto tmp = std::move(foo[0]);
foo[0] = std::move(foo[1]);
foo[1] = std::move(tmp);

We've fixed nothing. The problem remains!

(It works if you use std::swap, I think because whatever type tmp resolves to happens to overload std::swap to do the right thing.)

So why is vector<bool> the "real problem?" It's because its operator[] doesn't return a bool&, but instead some type "convertible to bool," that may do lots of other stuff too. But the standard is chock-full of language like that. For example, with iterators: `str.begin() != str.end()` Is that a bool? `str.begin()[2]`. Is that a char? The standard doesn't require either. Care to roll the dice by assigning one to auto?

Type inference works well in other languages, but it is more dangerous in C++ due to the risk of implicit conversions. C++ does so much stuff for you under the hood that it can be quite hard to figure out what is really going on, and auto only makes that problem worse. Use with caution.
Under "Region" (with raised_total), what is the region between Atlanta and Seattle with no label?
That reminds me of the baby getting a flash-bang grenade thrown in his crib. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/23/toddler...
If so, how AOSP still has email, camera or keyboard apps?

Can you show just one service that has been pulled off from AOSP?
It can reach speeds of 240km/h ?
I'm assuming you're referring to FAA v. Pirker.

Isn't the case still undecided?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2014/04/12/faa-files-...
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I'm very much against changing kernel settings in production servers without really understanding the implications. Take for example the "swappiness = 0", most likely what you think it does it's not what it does.
I don't think it's just "9/11 hysteria dying down" - post-Snowden, people are a lot more willing to accept that our government is abusive towards its own people, and thus it's harder to just wave off questions of the no-fly list with "well they're just doing what's good for us".
More accurately, the U.S. Constitution applies to the US government, not to the people it interacts with. Some of its rules are preconditioned on dealings with certain classes of people, however, so citizenship is sometimes relevant to Constitutional considerations.
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Really? So you could cut open whatever's holding it, throw all the powder in the toilet (1 kg will be more than 1 flush also), dispose of the bag, clean the knife/scissors and there be no trace?

I'm sceptical. The police don't need to find 1 kg of cocaine, to find a bag with powder in and powder around the toilet should be sufficient.
Where is your testable evidence that you are not actually dreaming right now? Can you "prove" it?

The point is that certain things are logically axiomatic, I could give you many more examples. So the logical axiom that we exist is used in modern society. To suggest that is is untrue and that science cannot proceed while accepting the existence of the self will only backfire and scientific endeavors in that direction will prove increasingly futile.
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I've been developing for about 4 years now, 'seriously' building fairly complex web and mobile apps for about 2. Yet, every day I run across articles here and comments that make me feel incredibly useless and inexperienced.

How do I bridge that gap between where I am now, and being able to spend time browsing through modern php, ios, (whatever language I know) articles and not feel under water and under the average knowledge bar?
Some countries have experimented with state supply of heroin to addicts - it's actually a really cheap policy and seems to work well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment

Obviously, the taxpayer is footing the bill for this, but total spending reduces (through the reduction in drug related crime).
Trying to derive technical details from a business press release or an article in NY Times is silly. Unless you know about the tech and know how to read between the lines it will not make much sense.
People don't do it because there is very limited ability to do so currently. Only certain websites accept it and it only works with certain financial institutions.
I'll raise you this [1], 11 years before Bloody Sunday.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961
This is already being done in Portugal. I don't think the new addicts you're imagining would materialize. If you want to do meth, it isn't hard. Legalizing it doesn't make it that much easier. You get addicted to meth because it complements your personality, not because you have access to it.
Thanks very much for the feedback. (Feedback helps! As you may remember from the previous thread, we did change the Remember Me + phone number fields to be optional, in large part because of the feedback we got on HN.)

Each new payment method comes with its own constraints. We'll always try to give our users as many options as possible while working within those constraints. The constraints with Alipay are particularly tight, and for now the only way we can satisfy them is through checkout.js - but over time, if we can relax that, we will. We're definitely not moving to a model where Checkout is always the first or only way to integrate a new feature. For example, the two other alternative payment methods we have in beta right now are ACH and Bitcoin, neither of which are built into Checkout. We do hope to eventually support both of these in Checkout, of course, but in those cases, it was easiest to do the API first; in the Alipay case, it was by far the easiest thing to do Checkout first.
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vm.swapiness is not magic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness

People should of course learn about these setting as they change them, but many of the suggested values really are improvements for lots of use cases.
Funny that they aren't mentioning the 983 rentals in Manhattan that rent out the entire apartment, nearly all of which are illegal (any without a proper bed and breakfast license). Compare that number to the 967 private room and shared room listings in Manhattan, most of which - while not violating state law - are operating in violation of their lease. So, Airbnb is just glossing over the fact that the vast majority of their rentals in NYC are illegal. It's also interesting that they make no mention of the fact that their insurance policy only covers the renters personal possessions... not the building, common areas, appliances, etc.
Hows about children? Seeing as they legally they can't accept any amount of responsibility - can we ban them too?

I mean toddlers have to count as either high or insane and probably would try crash the plane if they weren't restrained. Plus imagine how peaceful flights would be ..
> You asserted that crimes where the police might need to barge in without knocking in order to prevent destruction of evidence are most likely nonviolent crimes. In fact, that kind of situation is almost exclusively drug crime, and the drug world is a violent place.

> As I said, the fact that no-knock SWAT teams are sent in indiscriminately is bad, but it doesn't mean that crimes where evidence can be flushed down the toilet are "a non-violent crime, probably."

http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/causes.h...

Alcohol is more dangerous than all drug related crimes combined to LEO. Not just raids. anything.

Please provide statistical evidence that a drug arrest is more violent/dangerous than other arrests. Please also provide evidence that a large percentage of these arrest involve violent offenders.

And nothing you've said precludes what I said should happen [ search the premise when its unoccupied ].
Nobel Laureate: You are a simulation and physics can prove it.
The more I think about it, the more convinced I am it was satire. So, good work.
Well, get Windows Phone and you wont have that problem. Even the ridiculously huge Lumia 1520 is quite usable with one hand.
"Working with @FictiveCameron and @fictivekin on a new Svpply. Kickstarter coming soon."

Ben Pieratt, Svpply founder: https://twitter.com/pieratt/status/481524249522216962
Broke is a circumstance. Poor is a state of mind/being.
It appears to be a bunch of industry people who think that Google doesn't enforce the DMCA well enough...
But then you need to check if you need to alter the flag that says whether the array is full of holes, which is itself an extra cost. It's hard to know what's an overall win, adding cost to save it elsewhere.
Police militarization has many causes and many bad effects. The pointless and faintly racist "drug war" is one that has been noted in many comments here. There's another that deserves mention, not because I believe it's most significant but because it seems strangely absent from those same comments.

>>> Police go in armed to the teeth in part because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that there's a high probability of the people inside being similarly armed. <<<

It's a classic arms race. Yes, the police should stop encouraging further escalation. So should others.
I'll point out that someone who is high on marijuana could be a potential hazard during an incident, although may be less likely to cause one themselves.
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Key Points

1. Removes windowing, unless you give youtube offers within reason (but what reason?). (Part 4/3b)

2. Google forces you to offer them comparable offers.

3. Parts of the contract are Illegal in many countries.

4. Prevents future sales through multiple means.

Major Paragraph:

“Catalogue Commitment and Monetization. It is understood that as of the Effective Date and throughout the Term, Provider’s entire catalogue of Provider Sound Recordings and Provider Music Videos (including Provider Music Videos delivered via a third party) will be available for the Premium and Free Services for use in connection with each type of Relevant Content, (excluding AudioSwap Recordings, which will be at Provider’s option) and set to a default policy of Monetize for both the Premium and Free Services, except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement. Further, Provider will provide Google with the same Provider Sound Recordings and Provider Music Videos on the same day as it provides such content to any other similarly situated partners. The foregoing will be subject to reasonable quantity of limited-time exclusive promotional offers (in each case, with a single third party partner) (“Limited Exclusives”), as long as a) Provider provides Google with comparable exclusive promotional offers and b) the quantity and duration of such Limited Exclusives do not frustrate the intent of this Agreement.”

Meaning:

YouTube not only forces artists to make their entire catalogs available on its free service however, it also demands that it happens on release day, online AND off-line.

This prevents future sales — i.e. YouTube users can now download all songs for free, which means there’s no need for anybody to buy music from iTunes anymore.

Side notes:

3. Rate Change. To the extent that any major label agrees to any rates for the Google Services that are lower than the rates set forth in Exhibits C or D, including with respect to bundling, Google will have the right to reduce Provider’s analogous rates accordingly, following thirty (30) days written notice (via email will be sufficient) to Provider.

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But bilayer graphene has an induced bandgap!! What? The mobility goes to shit as soon as you touch it with a substrate? Well that's not a problem, we'll design vacuum suspended GFETs, but I'll get right back to you when I figure out how to put an oxide around that sucker
New research on gender bias in STEM careers
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And yet cigarette use is in decline.
its just data that wasn't provided :(
Is group brainstorming more effective if you do it standing up?
How hard is it to just wait until the suspected dealer leaves the house, and then use the warrant?

It seems simultaneously safer and more effective than a no knock warrant.
Yes they hurt the taxpayers, which means the taxpayers should be concerned that their police department is acting so flagrantly and apply more pressure to get that fixed.

Sometimes the only way to get change is to make it painful to not change.

One incident will not be enough, but if this becomes epidemic and they're spending $50M a year on lawsuits...
You'll want to explore a number of potential Independent Sales Rep firms in order to find a good match.

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> I work at Nest and it may be a little unclear at the moment (we're working on it), but The Nest API does not guarantee that if you send an ETA of 15 minutes (docs: https://developer.nest.com/documentation/eta-guide), the home will heat to the appropriate level in 15 minutes. It's actually filtered through our algorithms to determine the best course of action to not waste energy but also provide the appropriate level of comfort.

So you're accepting the ETA request not as a demand to obtain a certain temperature, but as a request, and then still taking utility demand information into account. Excellent.
>> Being blocked from air travel is indeed a violation of liberty.

Very much depends on how permissive your definition of liberty is. Not trying to be pedantic, this is actually a pretty big issue in constitutional law. It does seem to be a violation of due process, at the very least. An aggressive attorney may even allege a violation of the Equal Protection Clause in skirting the rebuttal of "there is a way to challenge it by appealing directly to the court," as well as the cases where citizens only discovered their inclusion by arriving at the airport.

This is a pretty important case in terms of defining the scope of federal agency's power (can agencies create regulations that burden various classes of people differently without providing notice or a way to contest your inclusion simply?) that could ripple out to non-law enforcement and homeland security agencies.