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Then, the governing body of the United States, which is to say (nominally, anyway) the people of the United States are utterly unable to determine the effectiveness of this organization under their charge. Close it down.
The ones with Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli in them.
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For the longest time I didn't even know LA had a Metro.

I guess I just went there to visit friends/family and we ended so much time stuck in traffic it really got to me after a while. (Usually visit a week at a time). One day the friends had to work and suggested we take the Metro around town. Except that Metro didn't seem to go where we wanted to go. We opted for a bus. It worked out ... ok, the bus ended up stuck in traffic just as well as the other cars.

With that level of traffic, unless there is Metro and it is effective or some other public transportation system, I would go crazy. (Note: I haven't visited SF so not comparing it with, maybe it is just as bad there).
This is actually a very good point...I wonder if there will be a religious exemption. Some Orthodox Jews can be exceptionally strict (I once was on a delayed flight where we had to offload some of the passengers, since due to the delays their connecting flight would have taken place on the Sabbath).
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> When I look at a field like sports, I assume the genetic advantages are not so direct to the routine tasks.

I assume that larger samples produce more extreme outliers, even as sample variability falls. This means more dominating freaks of nature.

The Russians, Bulgarians and Chinese dominate Weightlifting. They also happen to have far more lifters than other countries.
Oh?

Up to 180 miles included per day; additional miles from $0.45

http://www.zipcar.com/nyc/check-rates

Hooray, $750 in additional miles fees to visit my parents.
Let me share how I am trying to work more per day and still have better focus than I even had in my life.

I have always considered working lower hours per day to stay more focused. I have many failures in projects, many of them I could relate to my issues with being able to focus and finding love in my work.

Recently I have been ill and was without work for about 4 months. I used to lead a stressful like, like many entrepreneurs. But my physical issues started making things more problematic. Thus I started figuring out how to solve them and yet work at decent 8 - 10 hours each day with very good attention.

After trying a different timing routines, I finally am working with this - I get start work at about 9:30 - 10 AM. Work till about 2 PM. Then I take a good break till about 5 PM. I take my lunch and a short but comfortable power nap. I take a shower before heading back to work at 5 PM. Then I work till about 9 - 10 PM as my situation permits. I sleep usually at 11 - 11:30 PM and wake up at about 7:30 AM.

The major benefit I get is that I have 2 * ~ 4 hour slots every day. I understand it is difficult for many folks to commit this much time. But I have very few options left. I need put in good, focused work each day and the amount of work I have can not, sadly be finished in 16 hour work weeks. Hope this helps someone.
I believe hands are cuffed and retained inside a black (plastic?) box so you really can't do anything with them.
Observant Jews don't fly on planes, drive in cars, or use money on the Sabbath, either. So it's fairly unlikely that someone who observes the Sabbath would be asked to turn on a cellphone by the TSA at that time.
The EU has developed an XML standard for CVs years ago: http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/data-model/xml-res...
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Only in the Bay Area do people say "Well, if your household is making half a million a year it's affordable!" It reminds me of the Wall Street Journal disconnect last year [0] regarding taxes (those single mothers making $250k a year are really suffering). The Bay isn't the real world by a long shot.

I just moved away from the Bay Area for this exact reason. I went from making $120k a year to $85k a year, but in Washington I can get a decent family home for $150k. The Bay Area can't come remotely close to matching that kind of deal, even with the ludicrous salaries.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/bdgZa.jpg, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732368960...
Yes, exactly. More generally (and for the same reason), any sequence of iid random variables will form a Markov chain.

For an example without the Markov property, consider the sequence of random variables X_1, X_2, ... with X_1 being either -1 or 1 with equal probability, and X_t being normally distributed with mean X_1 and standard deviation 1.

Knowing the history X_1, X_2, ..., X_{t-1} gives you the exact distribution of X_t (since you know X_1), while only knowing X_{t-1} gives you much less information. This fails to be a Markov chain because the state X_{t-1} doesn't "remember" which of the two possible distributions is being used.
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Two common solutions:

- They bought their house fifty years ago when everything was peach orchards

- Split the apartment as many ways as mattresses will fit on the floor
16 year old here, I've got a few thoughts on this from being in the middle of it. Background: I live in a moderately sized urban center (Austin).

First, some anecdotal data: roughly half my friends have no plans to even get a license before they're 18, many of the rest (including myself) regularly borrow a parent's car, a smaller sub-set have parents who bought them cars, and a couple have bought cars with earned money.

> Yup, the road trip is as dead as the western

This is plainly wrong. Myself, and most of my friends grew up going on road trips with parents and now we're starting to take them ourselves.

> To the younger generation cars are transportation, nothing more. They take you from a to b.

This is 100% on-point. They're a convenient tool, and not much more. Granted, we still appreciate a Porsche, but we don't fantasize about them in the way I think previous generations did. They still represent some freedom, because they provide a space that's not controlled by authority figures in our lives, along with mobility. But we feel no need to own that car, it can just as easily be a parent's.

> So long Ferrari. So long Aston Martin.

I'm not sure this is true. My friends and I occasionally talk about, and appreciate things like the Model S, McLarens, and Ferraris. I don't doubt that several of my friends would buy them as successful adults. But given the choice of a nice apartment in NYC or SF or the nice car, almost all of us would take the better living location.

My job is three miles away, and my other work is all remote. Enough of my friends have cars, or access to family cars, that for any social outing someone can get access to a car. So buying a car doesn't provide much value to me. It's expensive, stressful, and any car a teenager can afford is mediocre at best. So instead of buying a car, I'm spending time in Europe with my two best friends next summer.

Cars are still viewed as a nice thing to have, but to us they're not worth working for months and months to buy. Driving is still very much a thing that many teenagers are interested in.
It would be really useful for the people making the resume also. Right now the current mainstream advice is to use Microsoft Word for creation and editing and then (typically) to submit as PDF. Both of those document standards are proprietary and opaque. If you two computers that don't have the same operating system, you're probably SOL for tweaking your resumes across computers as well.
Can someone summarize the article? NYTimes not letting me read without logging in. Thanks in advance. What are the new limits?
In Europe, at least in Germany and Switzerland, it's normal and expected to state your birthday and place of birth. You also include a passport-sized photo of yourself, usually in the top right corner.

See for example this guide to resume writing by a German university [pdf]:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/math_nat_faku...
Although the problem right now is that for remittance to work you need to be very certain that the amount you're sending is going to be equivalent to the amount being received. It wouldn't be unusual for BTC to have periods of extreme volatility (compared to regular currency exchange). You'd also hit issues because the IRS won't classify BTC as a currency, so there's a whole world of tax pain waiting to be uncovered.
You've forgotten:

* DOCTYPE

* Namespaces and namespace collision handling.

* The likelihood that you will receive badly formed XML and be forced to parse it anyway.

* The multiple different ways of escaping characters.

* Language identification

...I could go on.

Oh, and your parser has to handle ALL of this. It's no good assuming that "since the basics are fairly basic it doesn't matter". It doesn't matter only when you're generating XML, but somebody SOMEWHERE is going to have to consume it.

Wanna know why it's typically possible to blow up an XML parser with a memory leak or a buffer overflow but not a JSON parser? This complexity is why. Just using it creates an increased attack surface for your internet facing API.

>Just curious, do you hate HTML for similar reasons as well?

I'm not its biggest fan, and I feel like it could have been done a lot better. However, A) there isn't much alternative so bitching about it it somewhat pointless and B) at least I never have parse it (want an exercise in frustration some time? try doing THAT...).
You are right, it is a mess, we are working on the specification at the moment and deciding on correct data types and semantics. If you think with a bit of love it can be made into a usable standard please come help us out at https://github.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/issues
Yes. And I'm hoping the more countries that apply FOIAs to their intelligence/security services, the more likely we are to get a robust solution to these problems.
You must be a neoliberal, Koch-funded corporate stooge, amirite? Everyone knows private companies can't run essential services.
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This is how failing nations pay the bills. Print a bunch of money, and then stop letting people take it out of the country on bogus national security claims.
Kickstarter's standards for acceptance of projects appear to have declined precipitously.
I don't know how death duty works there, but if it's like here, I presume that means you would be inheriting something asset worth a lot more than $130,000 but didn't want to sell it. Thus you would end up richer than before, just with an illiquid asset. In which case it would not harm your middle-class status.
I see some problems with this. Okay, moving bitcoin is effortless* and almost free. That part works great, but what happens at each end?

Exchanging between bitcoin and local currency is somewhat difficult and incurs fees. In fact, in the US one of the key reasons it is difficult is that government is naturally trying to close off this potential loophole, because that's what organizations of this nature do -- really this brings us back to the issues of control that are raised by the original link.

It would be interesting if this kind of increasing pressure on financial gateways led immigrants to start demanding payment in bitcoin, but there's no sign of that happening yet. They need to be familiar with it first.

Immigrants have an extremely limited selection of places to spend bitcoin in their home countries. Though if the demand existed, then the market would grow. Ironically, the most developed bitcoin economies are the US and Europe. In the US, there is a pretty wide selection of goods available, thanks to big retailers like Overstock and Newegg, but even there, one is still limited to a small subset of stores.

* edit: I should add that, with the current state of the software, it's not the safest way for an average person to handle large amounts of money. Obviously, there's lots of potential for improvement there.
Mental health isn't cancer. Many people were blaming our healthcare system (or lack thereof). I disagree.
How the IRS classifies BTC is irrelevant for people sending BTC out of the US, unless they make a huge paper profit in the window from buying the BTC and sending it. But that can be done minutes apart.

Extreme volatility is also irrelevant if the alternative is for your money-less family in some other country to receive no money, or once the hoops you have to jump through to do it legally with USD gets too difficult.
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It means their handcuffs are fitted with one of these covers:

http://www.handcuffwarehouse.com/cs5thmoblbox.html

It covers the key holes to prevent tampering attempts, and it looks like it'd also increase the rigidity of the handcuffs (versus just the chain), further restricting movement.
Should you maintain separate versions of your web-based interface and APIs?
As I said, don't quite recall what those fees are, generally haven't affected me because I don''t have to travel over 180 miles very frequently. If I do, I generally get on a bus or on a plane, but I can see how someone else's use case would be vastly different.
Put your browser into porn mode and NYT will let you read without registering.
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this will mess with your credit.
I'm extremely confused as to how people aren't able to find anything for less than $4k/mo. It didn't seem all that unusual to find places for mid 1000s if you're sharing a place and not living downtown, and this is when I was looking less than a month ago. I ended up going with a 2.7k place downtown to myself, junior 1 bed.

It's more than I wanted to pay initially, but 4k minimum seems like a bald-faced lie.
Sure, but this is exactly how Titan Quest (not a roguelike, but an action-RPG) works. Animals will never drop spears, but if you see an enemy with a bow, you will most likely find a bow on its corpse (or nothing).
But will they care about them? The article acknowledges the utility aspect, but that doesn't mean they will form an emotional bond with it, as previous generations have. If so, then it will be a difficult future for the automakers who play on that aspect.
How many times per a car lifetime are you visiting your parents? Perhaps these $750/trip would be more economical if you don't drive much.

Also, I am curious, why don't you take a plane for such a long trip?
JSON is the problem, so this will continue to be a mess. Especially if you have hopes for this to be used by many many people and especially if you hope this can be ingested by many many different systems (e.g. every resume submission server for every company). You need to formalize the structure, so you need some sort of a formal schema. You may pretend you don't need one, but you kinda have one right now. The schema you have right now is your example structure and JavaScript comments.
> Driving is still very much a thing that many teenagers are interested in.

> Myself, and most of my friends grew up going on road trips with parents and now we're starting to take them ourselves.

> we feel no need to own that car, it can just as easily be a parent's.

> buying a car doesn't provide much value to me

I must say that many adults (older than you, but younger than the boomers) feel exactly the same. Driving is fun. Traveling is fun. No amount of web browsing and online social networking can replace the actual, physical experience of traveling and seeing the country for yourself. Moreover, there are so many cool places in America that you can only get to by driving. So the road trip is definitely alive and well.

And yet, many people in their 30s and 40s have chosen to forgo car ownership. Because they aren't going on road trips all time. They rent a vehicle when they need one, or maybe lease a car for a while. This is the grown-up equivalent of borrowing your parent's car, and it comes with all the same benefits, too: renting can be less expensive, less stressful, and lower maintenance than full ownership, even if you rent a car every single weekend. (A rental location near my University used to have a special where you could rent a mid-size car for three weekends for less than $200.)

tl;dr: Cars are still cool. Car ownership isn't.
That's possible, but it should also be easy to test, shouldn't it? Just measure how much people improve over time based on practice. Or how "naturals" compare to people who weren't very good at first, but kept practicing.

Competitive multiplayer video games would have this kind of data. Or even all types of video games.
They've also done a remarkably good job of pissing off a lot of their neighbors.
You didn't take his statements as he said them. He said, "as a rule, I think", but you dropped that part, increasing the drama and giving you something to yell at. The guy was clearly indicating a general skepticism of Gladwell, not saying that every single sentence he had ever written was false.

Protip: If somebody apparently smart says something that you interpret as being completely idiotic, take some time to see if you can find another interpretation.
>and then stop letting people take it out of the country on bogus national security claims.

What is the motive for keeping the money in the country? I'm not disagreeing I'm just unsure why that is a stipulation.
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Money transfers internationally incurs fees too. And if the US banks close the opportunity to do it at all, that incurs an even higher cost for people who need to support their family for example (forcing them to e.g. take trips to hand over cash).

It's not going to happen overnight, but if USD transfers gets too expensive and difficult, it's a natural outlet. And I'm sure illegal money transfer services will spring up to (have a pile of drug money in Mexico and want to move it into the US without the complexity of moving the cash? Sell money transfer from the US to Mexico)
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can you get a loan or credit cards to pay them off and then pay on the credit cards? might look at prosper.com or something like that. friends, family. combination of all of the above.
Summary: Banks are; 1) Afraid of getting hit with fines because of the crack-down on transferring money to shut down terrorist financing. 2) When they do monitor transfer activity closely it makes it unprofitable to run low cost transfer services.

1) & 2) are hitting peoples ability (largely immigrants sending money home) to send money to many countries cheaply and getting occasional blockages.

IMO seems like a short term issue. Larger players are stepping back as the profits are not worth the risk/effort, so smaller players have the opportunity to step in. I recently put a small amount into the fund raising of a company doing just this as I see it as a great area for disruption. I don't want to be seen as commenting for a plug so won't mention the name.
I don't do traffic either. Been lucky I guess, but I have two strategies that have worked out. One, live in walking distance to work. Two, work remotely from a walkable neighborhood.
Is it possible to use paypal for this? It seems like both parties could just sign up for a paypal account, and a bankless immigrant could load their account with cash, right?
The verbosity of reserved words seems like it would get annoying quickly, both in writing and readability("shared actual X"? C'mon!).

I think that conflating clarity of keywords with the clarity of language is a huge and pointless confusion, especially when touting metaprogramming, comprehensions and variadic function arguments.

It doesn't look like a bad language; its features seem well rounded, yet there's a lot of stuff out there that's both more capable, with features that are more orthogonal. There's less feature mishmash than Scala, certainly, but it doesn't seem that far up in the power spectrum to justify learning another language, especially when compared to Kotlin, its closest competitor.

Kotlin just seems to be better in most regards: much more compact syntax, similar features set without some of the questionable overhead of Ceylon, and extension methods.
>"Consciousness in the philosophical sense", to the extent that it's a meaningful thing to talk about, is part of reality.

Stronger statement: "consciousness in the philosophical sense" is either part of reality, or a meaningless construct invented by philosophers to justify metaphysical speculations, thus obtaining job security by having a permanent claim that some phenomenon actually exists that can never be reduced to science.
Renting a car for a long trip is almost always more cost effective, if you plan to drive the max every day, due to maintenance/depreciation. Highway miles are relatively soft miles, but they still add up.
I currently do take a plane, but how about when you have a spouse & kids? That's 4.5 airfares for the average family. Have you ever noticed your co-workers who have kids, very rarely fly places?

4.5 airfares to visit family would run me ~$1400.

Families seems to be the biggest absence in the echo chamber that has built up around car-free lifestyle. Families don't have to have a car- but it doesn't seem like worrying about more than just one person (themselves) has even crossed the mind of many of the car-free advocates I have read.
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Valuable criticism and the bile I read here are two very different things.
Most regular rentals in the US (Hertz, Avis, Dollar, Thrifty, etc.) are fixed-price daily rate, and generally <$50/day.
how many employees? what kind of price range are you looking to pay? maybe you could get something custom built?
I'm extremely introspective. I'm also made of meat. The fact that you think these two things conflict is your problem.
I'm also 16. To be completely honest, the only reason I haven't got my license is due to laziness, but living in Denver, my needs are served by Uber, Lyft, and public transportation (buses/lite rail). Many would say that it would be cheaper in the long run to just buy a car, but personally there isn't much of an ROI for me.
> Some Latin American immigrants say they regularly send three remittances a week to pay for last-minute school supplies or rent.

One solution is making up for rising transaction costs with lending. Someone reliably transferring money can just as reliably service a loan.

Suppose an American is sending $100 three times a week to Mexico. You lend the American $1 200 at the beginning of the month. This is sent to a Mexican bank with instructions to disburse, in $100 installments three times a week, to a beneficiary. The American, instead of sending money to Mexico, services the domestic loan. You retain a lien on the funds deposited in the Mexican bank, which would revert to you in the event the American defaults on their loan. Similar cash flows, one international wire.
This was my opinion..and I was silenced as a result of it. I wish the progressives on HN were more about being open and free, rather than closed.

If I say something that anyone here even remotely disagrees with, I am down voted.

This is why people like me will stop coming here and eventually leave the HN community completely.