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Hey, I'm from Minnesota. Here is a merge spot that I take pretty often:
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.008271,-93.203054,3a,75y,63....

Unfortunately, this spot still has lots of early merging. Some high traffic areas have special lanes for zipper merging, but I think the emphasis is on changing drivers' habits through public service announcements rather than redoing the lane structure.
I'm going to reply here singly, rather than to each of the three that replied to my post above.

Please be clear that the article described the description of pedophilia as a sexual orientation in the DSM was an error - not a mind-changing. There was no "credence" lent to it being viewed as such; it was mistake and was admitted as such, and corrected. It was intended to read "sexual interest", not sexual orientation.

“In fact, APA considers pedophilic disorder a ‘paraphilia,’ not a ‘sexual orientation.’ This error will be corrected in the electronic version of DSM-5 and the next printing of the manual,” the organization said. The error appeared on page 698, said a spokeswoman.

The fluidity of the APA DSM is not something that is worth arguing; we can all agree that definitions change and have changed. I'm operating under the current set of definitions and primarily wanted to make the point that likening paraphilic disorders as "sexual orientations" is typically hurtful for reasons that probably don't require explaining.
It sucks because the speed limit through there should probably be 40 not 55 when traffic is heavy. The problem then is people on the interstate still tailgate and/or don't leave adequate room to allow zipper merging.

Edit: to clarify, the slower speed should be that low only now during construction and lane closure.
Unless you live in one of these states: http://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblock...
SF drivers are great at the waiting till the end of the lane part, but not about the letting you in. Sometimes I have to wait for three or four cars to go by before someone notices me.

Then again people also try to pass on the right by entering the merging-in lane and immediately getting stuck. More than once I've seen people try to pass inside the merging lane by going on the shoulder. Is it something about the 358i?
There was no visible policy. As far as I'm concerned, it was free Wi-Fi for User-Agent X, so I used User-Agent X.
Can we stop talking about this app yet? I'm starting to get self conscious about being in this industry.
I think your emphasis on the "purpose of data" is spot on, and I agree that it's very much needed in this age of "big data" when data collected for one purpose can be easily stored, crunched, and used for completely different purposes. The U.S. sorely needs a similar guideline, if not a hard law.

But this has nothing to do with free speech in general. The two issues are orthogonal to each other. They're not "basically the same idea". It's entirely possible for a country to regulate the direct collection, use, and distribution of personal information in one way, while regulating free speech in general in another way.

My phone company's collection of my personal information has little to do with free speech, it's a contractual obligation that they incur in exchange for getting my information. It's just like when Hertz rents me a car and tells me "you can only use this car for 7 days, you can't use it to drive for Uber, and you can't sublet it to other people." Hertz can charge me a hefty fee if I use the car in a way that they disallow. Similarly, I can sue my phone company for damanges (or have the government fine them) if they use my personal information in a way that I disallow. And if the law provides standard rules on what is allowed and what is not, well, that could be convenient for all of us.

On the other hand, if someone publishes embarrassing facts about me on their website without my permission, now that's a matter of free speech, and whether or not I can tell them to delete those posts should depend on how much actual impact those pieces of information are expected to have on my life and the lives of people around me, as well as the potential impact that a system of censorship might have on the general quality of public life in the country. It's probably a good idea to let citizens hide the list of sex toys they bought. It's probably not a good idea to let the President hide the list of bribes he took.

Since these judgments are cultural, reasonable people can disagree about them. In America, flying a Nazi flag doesn't count as a harmful thing, only a disgusting thing. In Germany, due to its unique history, it's considered a very harmful thing. But I don't think this shows any disagreement "on principle". Both agree that harmful speech is not protected; even in America, you can be punished for shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Different cultures simply have different ideas about what is harmful.

Again, this has nothing to do with the usual collection and use of personal information that your excellent "purpose of data" law is concerned with.
The standard solution (via Coase's theorem of economics) is that they should just buy out the contracts, but it seems this isn't happening. I wonder why this is.
So, how can other apps using Parse prevent from leaking keys?
He really does do that...
What I really wish someone would explain is why the EU seems to be focusing on Google's indexing of other people's content, rather than the content itself.
NIST's latest FRVT results for commercial face recognition (FRVT 2013) is available here:

http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2013.cfm
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If it weren't for a recent retirement pre-funding mandate, the USPS would still be profitable. http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/financials/annual-reports/f...

Edit: Wait, that page says they'd still be at -$3B in 2010 without the pre-funding. And it looks like they haven't been paying into it since 2011. http://www.opm.gov/news/testimony/112th-congress/us-postal-s... So I guess I have no idea how profitable they are.
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I believe the three nurses referenced are Mbalu Fonnie, Basidatu Sheriff and Princess Iye Gborie and there is also another health worker, Mr. Alex Moigboi, who died at the same time.

source - http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_200525821.shtml
Or if you just don't have room for a 3d printer in your apartment, or your landlord won't let you install proper ventilation.
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I thought the same. My friend introduced me to RoboRally with the words, "you'll enjoy this, since it is all about programming." I'll have to check out Robot Turtles with my 4 year old.
Incidentally, he did serve in the military. :)
I'd read Yudkowsky's popular "An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem" as well as a few others, but the article on this site made me feel like I actually understood it for the first time. The examples were clever, short, and simple, while still demonstrating how powerful Bayes' Theorem can be.

The concise explanations here seem more helpful than semester-long university courses I've taken. I definitely look forward to exploring his other articles on math and programming.
People's particular needs for housing are personal and detailed. Houses are complicated objects with complicated, unique financial, legal, and physical histories. It is the single largest financial transaction most people make. And the people involved are generally novices, which makes it yet more complicated.

I get that you'd like it to be simple, but it's coming across like this to me: http://xkcd.com/793/
Glad someone pointed out the really weak "Hacker News" tie in. I thought I left global warming wars behind at slashdot.

Why is it global warming warriors decide to invade every tech board? Isn't there a global warming board somewhere they can argue on?
Whereas it's obviously silly to suppose that gaining access to Wi-Fi is a criminal act worth worrying about, it's also worth pointing out courts reject arguments like this.

In particular, in more serious legal matters, the fact that you admitted you understood the intent of the policy would be held against you. Courts simply don't buy into the idea that "if something is technically allowed, it's authorized", any more than it's legal to enter through a window if a door is locked.
The most interesting part of the article, for me, is that they moved the nexus of their corporation from two tax free states to California. I doubt they realize the tax and legal implications of being residents rather than just visiting CA on holiday.
Zipper merge is synonymous with late merge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_merge

If you move the merge point back, then by definition it becomes an early merge, right? I don't understand your disagreement with what seems like a totally reasonable statement by Justin.
Well, I've lived/worked in a couple of the locations on your list. I'll just say this: I think we have very different notions of what "large tech industry" means. I don't consider Tampa, FL or just about any of the VA listings to have "large" tech industries. Tampa's is especially slim, driven mainly by a couple of hospitals, the university, and a few defense/government contractors. VA's are driven mainly by defense/government contractors (having been there once, I'd not choose it again except as a last resort, and then only reluctantly) and some finance.
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Lots of the USPS's financial woes can be laid at the feet of anti-government republicans and libertarians offended at the idea that a government agency can do its job well, and determined to make it the case that the agency won't be able to.
Just to make things clear, I agree that these 2 concepts are somewhat orthogonal. But in the history of law in EU, that's how one lead to the other, which was my point. It's the idea that data doesn't exist in vacuum, but is always tied to something or somebody and that the rightful owner has a say on how it's managed.

I agree that these things should be decoupled, though.

As for limits to the right to be forgotten I can't find sources right now, but I'm pretty sure that you can only invoke this right on things related to "private life" (ie not public figures).
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I know the reasoning. Das Mädchen is one of my pet peeves, largely because of personal cultural bias. Portuguese has no neutral gender, and I got introduced to neutral genders when learning English. Because of English, my association is that neutral is for inanimate stuff (and, strangely, pets). It fits poorly on little girls :-)

Now, imagine the fun in Portuguese, without neutrals: Every noun is either masculine or feminine, with near zero rules. A bike is feminine, a car is masculine, as is a plane or a boat, but a speedboat is feminine. Bottle is feminine, but glass isn't. Fork is masculine, unlike knife. I couldn't learn this today if I hadn't learned as a toddler.

For all the cursing I say at German when learning, we're in no position to criticize...
These scenarios are why AirBnb can make money (IMO).

If you think about it simplistically, AirBnb sidesteps regulation. As a result, the biggest use-case for AirBnb is leases that are supposed to be against regulations.

AirBnb can't avoid messes AND regulations. Avoiding regulations is their profit model! With that comes messes. But that's OK for them- they have pretty successfully outsourced the risk to their hosts.

That's the thing that annoys me the most about Uber and AirBnb. They are no fools; they know what they are doing. And when you boil it down, what they are doing smells a lot like what the banks did running up to 2006- socialize the risk, privatize the profit.
Perezpaya, guarro :)
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You have to be careful doing this. If your blur tool happens to be of the variety that conserves total brightness (i.e. the blurring is accomplished by 2D convolution with a kernel that has a volume of 1, so sum of all pixel values remains constant before and after blurring), it can still be dictionary attacked pretty easily no matter which random ways you blur, since each digit in the cheque font probably has a different amount of total black area, and your blurring preserves that information perfectly.

If you blur tool is of the variety that doesn't conserve total brightness, such as most "smudge" tools, and you use human randomness to blur it, then it would probably be pretty hard to reverse.

I still recommend cutting out the sensitive information rather than blurring it, just to be safe. Also, leave a generous margin, (1) to avoid giving information about length, and (2) because lossy compressors may have left tiny artifacts of the sensitive information in the areas around it.
Obviously you think the staff does not represent Sheraton in any way, shape or form. With that thought in mind, no one at Sheraton represents them except ... whom?

You also seem to want to ignore the fact that, on a 4000-mile, 10-day journey, they were the only hotel that charged for internet. This doesn't include the multitude of business trips I take every month where, again, I never get charged for internet.

So, iow, charging for internet service is not the norm. Nor is charging for telephone service. And don't mention it to the front desk. It's not their fault.
Creating a top app for iOS and Android? Ionic.

Creating a top game for iOS and Android? UnityScript.

Javascript rules.
Does prison time deter murders? I'm guessing no, considering the death penalty apparently doesn't. Does that mean should we not send murders to prison?

My rationale for supporting the death penalty is justice. If you, with malice and forethought end the life of another human being, you don't deserve to live.

In practice, there issues with it, but I don't think it should be written off completely, just held to the highest burden of proof provided by the law.
:) Good advice, but I think `LispEx` seems to be more short and elegant. Thanks for your attention.
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I'm pretty sure they don't allow users to rate one another though as the OP is suggesting. Instead it looks like you can create an account for yourself, verify who you are, and run criminal/sex offender checks against yourself. Then you can share your Repp profile with others (when selling on Craiglist, for exampe) so that others know you aren't a psychopath (or at least not a convicted one). It wouldn't really have prevented the squatter's issue unless the squatter has a criminal record.
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Badmouthing of hybrid languages is the order of the day by extremely prominent members of the FP community, even if they end up using said languages in their presentations.

Those hybrid languages (e.g. Python, F#, and Scala) are great for new development but awful when you have to maintain low-quality legacy code. That said... I think that observation applies far beyond functional programming. (It's rare, but certainly possible, for bad Haskell code to exist.) A common impetus behind language churn is the programmer's desire to justify green-field development (which is fun, even in C++) instead of career-damning legacy maintenance (which is unpleasant, even in good languages).

Haskell and the like will remain used only by people that just think there's no way to write any useful program without first learning all about category theory.

This is an exaggeration of that prejudice. I do think that the Haskell community has failed (but is it a failure or a deliberate choice not-to?) to package a not-that-hard language as something average programmers can understand. Functor, monoid, and monad sound a lot scarier than they actually are.
On the other hand, when everyone does it by hand every time, it's easy to make mistakes and bad design decisions.

When it's a distribution, we can all contribute bug fixes.

Security vs obscurity is bad!
The only one I can think of was when people could write letters to soldiers in WWII by having them scanned onto microfilm, flown to a closer post office, then printed and delivered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail
On the 1st of every month there's a "Who's Hiring" thread, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970366

Just post there.
Read about some of the crimes committed by those on death row. Then look the victim's families in the face and tell them that the perpetrator deserves to live.
Monopoly? Do Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes all not offer streaming products? Not to mention their Asian market equivalents (pptv, tudou, youkou).
Temporary traffic lights is definitely an interesting idea. It would however require a long barrier, otherwise, what is to stop people at the end of the stopped lane from trying to merge into the moving lane.

Another idea is a temporary speed bump in the lane that is not ending.
Remind me again why execution is a valid punishment? And if you think it's valid, isn't reducing pain by morphine as you say going against the reasoning for being a valid punishment?
Except that red means "stop", so presumably that whole "you don't have to stop" thing wouldn't work.
There are different rules for hotels/motels. In particular, if the manager has a right of access and control, and all of the following are true:

• occupancy of less than 7 days is allowed (this doesn't mean your occupancy has to be less than 7 days)

• a fireproof safe is provided for residents' use

• it has a central telephone service

• it has maid, mail, and room service

• it has food service provided by a food establishment on or next to the hotel/motel grounds and that is operated in conjunction with the hotel/motel,

then California classifies you as a guest, not a tenant, and no matter how long you stay there you can be kicked out as soon as you fail to pay, with no need for any kind of eviction proceeding.

More details here: http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/whois.shtml
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Perhaps because the perpetrator's victims didn't get a "hearty dose of morphine" when they were shot, stabbed, raped, buried alive, burned alive or tortured.
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He starts talking about Trello and his expectations for its exit at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJf8KrvJXU#t=27m43s .
Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into this.

I may be asking for too much, but if you can email me a screenshot to alex@destroyer.io, I'd appreciate it. If you want, send your address too and I'll mail you a Destroyer.io sticker.

Thanks again and sorry about the bug. Cheers.
Sure could have used this site a couple years ago when I was in school!
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All laws contradict someone's freedom. So the issue is always more nuanced than that.
You simply move up the half-merge of each lane to suit. It's rather clearly explained in the diagram, where you can see it does end in one and only one lane actively in use. You'd do the "merge half of each lane" part while the road still supports two lanes, just as you already have to account for with current temporary traffic control devices.
My impression is that it is making a difference amongst top programmers. When I learned Scheme way back when in college, there was no pretense of it being practical. My AI professor said, "AI is reduced to LISP hacking" and that was to denigrate AI, not raise LISP.

Nowadays people see the value of recursive thinking, and hence the value of functional programming. The convergence of many technology trends seems to suggest that the idea of "The program can be the data, and the data can be the program" is no longer so far fetched.
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For running gists like bookmarklets, check out backtick.io, which is an inspiration for starlet.
No problem. I totally understand.

I intentionally made it really easy to override the default values that I chose for port numbers. It wouldn't be difficult to mix those up in the future, if necessary.

I did my very best to make sure that I was configuring things in a secure way. My approach to installing OpenVPN involves several additional steps that harden its security, like setting up an HMAC firewall and changing the default cipher from Blowfish to AES, for example. I take this seriously and I want to do it right. I'm looking forward to getting contributions from the community too.

I think that automation has the potential to significantly increase security because painful tasks that might be tempting to skip when someone is setting things up by hand can become painless. In an ideal world every task can be performed correctly and repeatedly.

I also did my best to fully document every single action that is taken. You can see what is happening at at all times throughout the process. Ansible's syntax is also very readable, so you can examine the steps before you run anything too. I am optimistic that things will only get better :)
The death penalty does deter murders, just not any more than a long prison term. And a long prison term doesn't deter crime much more than a medium length prison term. The thing that deters crime most dramatically is a high perceived likelihood of being caught. If we moved money away from killing people and into improved policing, we might wind up with less crime.

Should we send murderers to prison at all? Of course - it deters crime (and murder is an awfully important kind of crime to deter). Should we send murderers to prison for so long that the marginal increase in deterrence is tiny? Maybe, maybe not - that depends on just what the increase is, just what the costs are, just what the recidivism rate is, and how these things change over time.
The culture between Microsoft and a startup couldn't be more different. 2 years seems like a very long time. Either he was super-dedicated to pushing the dream, or (your more likely scenario) he had a 2 year lock-in.
Aka "being Googled by Google"
"Optimal" means different things to different people. What the DoT may be trying to maximize (safety, lack of frustration) is generally not what drivers want to maximize (overall speed) and I think there's confusion about that when zipper merge is discussed. The linked article uses the word 'faster' but the Minnesota pdf they cite actually says "Our analysis has shown that the Zipper System has no effect on travel time through the work zone."

Here is a Michigan DoT paper[1] from 2007 that analyzed zipper merge studies in various states and countries. Only 1 out of 6 showed statistically significant increase in throughput.

"It was found that the system did not increase the throughput or decrease the length of the queue." (Netherlands)

"It was found that the throughput did not increase, but the queuing was more efficient and there were less frustrated drivers." (UK)

"Beacher, Fontaine, and Garber (12) found that there was an increase in the throughput and a decrease in the queue length; however, the difference was not statistically significant." (Virginia)

"However, flow did not appear to be significantly affected by the dynamic late lane merge system." (Kansas)

"The data from both of the studies shows that the typical queue length decreased and the lane usage were nearly equal, but the throughput decreased slightly." (Minnesota)

"The results from Maryland’s deployment show an increase in the overall throughput, a reduction of the maximum queue length, and a more even distribution of volume between lanes."

1: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_Research_Report_...
For help selling the company? I'm sure there are a few VCs that know all the corp dev people and could more than double the final price.