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> What would happen if one of those states made it illegal to order a drone strike without the approval from one of their courts...could the President be arrested and charged in that state for violating that law?

Probably not, because Supremacy Clause. Federal officers operate in the states fairly regularly, and this general issue (not the specific issue involving the President and drone strikes in particular) has been litigated extensively.
You really used facebook as a best practices example? Where is the source code of facebook's function that deals with case insensitive passwords? How can you be sure such source code is actually being used in production? It's as good as plaintext without any of those assurances...
Voters have an ethical responsibility to gauge the goodness of the viable choices. It was clear in 2000 and 2004 what the best choice was.

It isn't hypocritical to be for drone assassinations where that's the best viable way to prevent greater violence.

> If you truly believe anyone who voted Republican supported torture, you must admit anyone who voted Democrat supports assassinations.

No, I've said many times here that whoever votes for the lesser evil is blameless for the things that party does that they disagree with. Voting for the lesser evil gives you line-item support, because you made the best possible choice. You can't be made "bad" when you couldn't have done more to support good.
Can't set a bit with more than 1 adjacent (north/south/east/west) bit set.

Then you couldn't make a T (or + intersection) because as the newly incoming line was about to attach to the existing wall (regardless of any other connectivity), the final "bit" that would attach to the line and existing wall would have 2 adjacent bits set. ex: assuming a wall that travels east/west, and a line coming from the south northwards, when drawing the last pixel of the line before it attaches to the wall, the test would fail. The "south" bit would be set because that bit was set just one step prior, and the "north" bit would be set because that's where the wall is.

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Can't set "x" because there is more than one "adjacent" bit set (north and south).
As of 2012:

* Lack of documentation about QML itself (first and third party)

* Unhandled or unsupported corner case like trees that are a pain to implement using recursive rectangles

* Very limited set of widgets (this has improved)

* Ubuntu/Blackberry/Sailfish/PlasmaActive SDK are incompatible

You can hack your way around and get back a good old imperative QPainter and be done with it, but it kind of void the whole point.
I think there is qualitative difference between comparing OS, which in case of Microsoft is ubiquitous[0], and a web site. Effort to use different from Google search is minimal, most people don't because Google is actually very good at providing relevant search results.

In the end it is a feature, that will stop abuse of some lyrics websites[1] and make you be able to find lyrics you care about faster.

Now a problem with this is that it gives Google more control over information we are presented with as they prioritize resources in their steadily expanding domain. In the long run I do not know whether this will be better for the users, but meanwhile immediate quality[2] of search results will definitely improve.

[0] Especially 10 years ago when "user friendly" and "Linux" had no business appearing in the same sentence. There was much work done in that area since then, and now there are distros with much more focus on layman usability.

[1] Shady SEO is very easy due to how repetitive lyrics is, it makes for perfect keywords. So you either need manual intervention to moderate the search results[1.1], or extensive tweaks to the search engine algorithm just for this niche, which is a hack. I rather think this feature is an elegant solution to that problem. Not quite same as prioritizing youtube helped reduce number of people going to shady sites to download songs, but in the same solution space.

[1.1] Which is widely done for some of the other terms such as "credit" and "loan".

[2] In the future Google could potentially censor some of the results which will lead to the decreased quality of search.
If you run your CSS files through Autoprefixer[1], it's possible to use the latest syntax, and have it automatically converted to all necessary older ones.

[1] https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer
I do my cat litter manually, but the author seems to have overlooked the Litter Robot: http://www.litter-robot.com/ My friend has one and it works very well (for years now). It just uses off the shelf cat litter. The mechanism is 'brute force' rather than optimized, but it works: after the machine senses the cat has stepped out by the change in weight, it slowly rotates the entire cat chamber, causing any deposits to be covered by falling litter even if the cat hasn't buried them by choice, before hitting the mechanical filter that diverts any solids into a disposal drawer. It's purely mechanical, so the odor control/dust level is as good as your choice of litter product. Downsides are that it's a bit bulky and noisy. but there's no DRM and it's so mechanically simple that there's not much that can go wrong with it - it certainly won't bake the cat poop like the machine described - yuck.
Unless your target is stupid enough to connect their SCADA systems to the Internet.
Of course, you shouldn't let anyone be an affiliate. I think with JVZoo and Digiresults you get to approve or disapprove affiliates.

You could ask the potential affiliate to fill in a form with some information about their site, how they will promote before you accept them in.

You can also build relationships on the forum, so you know who can be trusted with your brand. There are plenty of OK marketers, who may have a popular website on there. But you are right there are plenty of get-rich-quick types you have to filter through.

I think the affiliate idea has merit even if you don't use the Warriorforum. You could for example run your own affiliate program using a script, and then contact sites you like directly.
> it seems to me that your null hypothesis was selected due to ideology.

It's not a null hypothesis (we're not talking about conducting an experiment but deciding on a policy) but a value statement. Like all values -- including those at the core of startup culture and "disruption" -- it, too, is based on ideology. I believe this ideology is far superior to an alternative one (that would choose to preserve the current power structure where whole groups of people are allocated less power than some others).
If someone is going to spend a lot of money in order to provide a more palatable free service, it just seems sensible to take advantage of that?
Nothing disturbing about these things. Depressed people think about that a lot and blurt it out on occasion.
codepen.io would be a good place to learn by example. You will see many isolated code samples with the clearly separated HTML/CSS/JS.

As you wrap your head around 'what is happening' as you put it, you can start to combine what you see to make new creations of your own.

For the basic timeline of when things happen, research how a website is rendered. Here's some info to get you started:
http://frontendbabel.info/articles/webpage-rendering-101/
Thanks for that link. It seems to me that what that data says is: Americans are for torture, pretty much across the board. That's good to know...
That twitter account is banned. What's to stop me from creating an "Anonymous" account and acting like "them"?
> Ruriko ... does not love Ogaki ... and wanted a change.

Did she consider US cities?

Tokyo is very expensive and an unusual choice to move into for family with a child.

Any US city would put you in a better touch with your business and would be less expensive than Tokyo.
His sci-fi book "Encounter with Tiber" was pretty neat. Loved it, and it had me hooked the whole time.

Michael Collins "Carrying the fire" was also a very good book. Collins is a great writer with a great subject.
Yes and there's the difference between training someone to kill quickly and efficiently for a military objective and training someone to slowly inflict cruel forms of extreme suffering on another human over and extended period of time.

The former you may be able to rehabilitate afterwards. The latter is Hannibal material.
> Many differences have been proven to be biological.

Absolutely none that are pertinent to the matter at hand.

> What if the problem of parity is that there is something intrinsic in women that they're just not stupid enough to work 80 hours a week for 3-5 years to have a chance at a few million dollar exit?

Sure. And what if it's impossible to find intelligence in the universe, create true AI and extend life? There are good signs that that's indeed the case. I guess you would argue we should stop pursuing those goals.

> I do believe that half(ish) of the women on any sort of government body should be women.

And don't you think Silicon Valley is a center of concentrated power?
Wait.. who attacked the first amendment?
I've typically seen teams that look like this: Designer, Front-End (or "UI", or JS) Developer, and Back-End (or Python, or Ruby, etc.) Developer.

Designer is responsible for all UX tasks that don't involve writing lots of code, Front-Ender writes all client-side code "above the API." API code, devops, and DB admin falls to the server-side engineer. You might create a separate mobile role too, if you're working on a mobile client. If one of these roles gets contracted out, it's usually the designer or the mobile dev.

Then again, I'm most familiar with small teams. You see more specialization at larger firms.
I have seen this line of thought some times now but I can't help but having a hard time believing it to be true. The notion that in other countries people have the right to express themselves freely is not particularly hard to grasp and pass on, even if told otherwise by state media (which are probably not very well respected under oppressive regimes.)
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Would you feel bad if person you found turned out to be unrelated, you had him confused with someone else? And then after keeping him locked in your basement for a few years and torturing him a bunch, maybe a little bit of rape too, you accidentally killed him? And it turns out it was just some dude?

Would you feel bad? Would you feel guilty? Would you think about the family of the guy you accidentally killed, because you thought that was how to save your family somehow, would you think about the family of the dead guy in your basement, and how they must feel? Would you think that, it turns out, maybe your methods had been disastrous, monstrous even, and should be revisited?

Not if you're Dick Cheney.

Okay, now let's say you're not the one who had the wife and children kidnapped, you're the brother of the guy THAT guy picked up accidentally thinking he was a kidnapper, locked in a basement for a few years, tortured, raped, and killed.

NOW what would you do?
However, the reason for that is that the majority of people keep roughly the same hours. And the current system at least has the advantage that cars are generally near their owners rather than driving additional miles to get to centralized locations. Given various assumptions, utilization could certainly be increased--though we already have the ZipCar and taxi options--but I'm unconvinced that the pay-per-use economics are going to be as compelling as you think.
All that said, I think there is more room for the UI Developer role in a company that does lots of client work on a frequent basis (this person might work on 5-10 new projects each month), not so much in a startup or web application shop (4 months to a year in between projects/redesigns with a small amount of template and style work required for features after the initial work is completed). No hard evidence beyond my own experience to support this reasoning, but thought it was worth adding to my above points.
I looked only at the first one. It contradicts sources I saw back in the day. Regardless whether I'm right, the point stands that good 3rd party voters can hand the election to the greater evil.
This, of course, is the irony of the higher education debate. Those having the debate very likely did not go through the voc-ed tracks (which is effectively the "revolutionary" model the Flatiron School is providing).

That doesn't mean there's no value in providing education that leads directly to career opportunities or salary improvement. As an American I know our culture loves to yell "But!" and provide an example of a VC or entrepreneur who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule.
> the Norwegian Nobel Committee (which is a private organization which awards a private prize, despite having some members selected by Norwegian parliament)

The Peace Prize is a bit closer to the Norwegian government than that. Alfred Nobel left that part of his will directly to the Norwegian Parliament, not to a private organization, and he tasked the Parliament with using the money to establish a peace prize. The Parliament established a committee, the Nobel Committee, to administer the award, and traditionally its members were a subset of standing members of Parliament, with the partisan makeup of the Nobel Committee reflecting each party's representation in Parliament.

In recent years they have instituted a rule that current parliamentarians can't sit on the committee, and instead retired parliamentarians are chosen, to given it slightly more distance. But they're still 100% selected by Parliament, and allocated to each party in proportion to party representation in the Parliament.
i would suspect that if it was a retaliation and secret to the public, it would certainly not be secret in negotiations and what not.
> Forget your kids... I'm baffled. I'm baffled that people are willing to squander so much money on cars, especially people who have relatively little of it. If you think about it I'm sure you pay tens of thousands of dollars on a thing that moves you around but ultimately, sits around way more than not.

It's a status symbol. If you don't understand them or why cars function as such...you probably don't understand people :)
They'll likely start expensive, and mainly be viable for short-term rental services, which are mainly used by people living in cities, etc. Then, as prices drop, some people will start to own them for convenience, but I expect car ownership to drop. Maybe people will only own one car to cover the situations you described, and rent when they need more than one.

As a young person living in a city, I'm looking forward to getting rid of my car, and not having to worry about maintenance, etc. I expect it to be competitive with the cost of owning your own car.
No, he's 100% correct because in his case the keyword is the same as his brand name. And when you search for a brand, Google shows you the brand homepage 99.9% of the time.

In his case, his brand is also highly relevant to the term 'appointment reminder', which pretty much locks up the #1 spot for that term.
Acts of the executive branch (or of anyone the executive branch agrees with) can escape criminal prosecution (whether or not they are technically crimes) simply because (1) the executive branch controls prosecutions, and (2) the executive branch has the power of the pardon.

Criminal law, except from a political standpoint, does not constrain the policy of the executive branch.
>From this perspective nothing beats BASIC.

From what I've seen by teaching my kids to program, Logo has Basic beat. And it is not just for kids, I've been consistently impressed by the number of great books I've been reading which have incidentally used Logo.

Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics

Exploring Language with Logo

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I am not opposed to the tax, I simply think it's pointless to talk about what it's "for". That's what I meant to convey with the second line. It's a tax. If you don't pay this one, you'll pay another. And the government will spend the money where/how it sees fit.
Painting this as a "government versus citizens" situation is simple minded. Latest polls show support for the CIA methods by 2:1 margin after the Senate Report: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-po....

I'm not a big fan of Obama, but he's gotten an unfair shake on the national security front. The fact is that the broader electorate is indifferent about drone strikes and enhanced interrogation, but would pillory him if a terrorist attack happened "on his watch." If your theory of the world depends on Obama being duplicitous and going against the will of the people to do these things he promised he wouldn't do, I submit that it's not just republicans that may fairly be accused of ignoring reality when it comes to politics.

The issue isn't why won't the government do what we want it to do. The issue is: why do we still want revenge after 14 years, after Iraq and after Afghanistan?
> My alternative to being exploited by the greedy capitalists is revolution, but for that to work, a bunch of my fellow oppressed have to agree.

And that's exactly what happened in our history, and that revolution was the Marxism itself :)
Also, in that same startup, the same person writing the HTML, CSS, and JS is very likely also writing the server communication and building the production infrastructure, making the entire "front-end" distinction rather moot. Honestly, even in larger companies, the front-end/back-end specialization makes little sense to me. If you can write a good front-end javascript application, it's very likely you can write a good back-end in pretty much any stack.
I am not aware of any limitations, except for the static linking caveat noted in the README. The build process is also a bit involved; see the Makefile for details.

My use case involves shipping Haskell plugins for C programs to end-users, without requiring any Haskell to be installed. Hence, statically linking all Haskell libraries into the plugin binary. On Linux, this is slightly inconvenient, as GHC packages are not usually compiled with -fPIC, so some recompilation is in order. On OS X, all code is always position-independent.

As for your other question — calling C from Haskell is very easy, and there is a lot of examples.

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/search?terms=bindings
It seems like this is a great example of the problem that Google faces. They have built up a good product line based off of the revenue from search and those products support search in turn by providing content and/or more opportunities for interactions(read advertising money). This in turn takes away from the sites that they are listing, making them the lifeline and the competition at the same time. The problem is making a search engine has evolved from listing the best websites for the user's request, it is about providing information as easy and quickly as possible. This optimization in turn takes away from sites dedicated to relaying that information. It makes Google seem as they are practicing monopolistic business, but they are really just trying to improve their product.

It appears as if resolution can only come from splitting up the search part of the company with the rest (assuming it is split into only two entities). I think Google can resolve this by splitting up the knowledge graph results from the rest of search by making the feeling lucky button analogous to showing only what knowledge graph and information cards. They still would have a very dominant share of search, mobile, etc. but it would alleviate the connection of Google the search engine provider and Google the 21st century thesaurus.
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It very much seems to me the case of using its monopolistic position in one market to take advantage to enter into another market.

But I also see that many people here do not crunch through it even though I would expect contrary - we should see here more people who after a little thinking would see form of such behaviour as a threat to their (future) business.
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> And what if it's impossible to find intelligence in the universe, create true AI and extend life?

These are scientific endeavors. If you want to try and get to the heart of why men are so much more prevalent than women in successful SV exits, be my guest, but that would be a scientific goal.

Trying to force the model of what you think the world should be is not scientific, it's ideological - even if that ideology were to be backed up by science. In your case, it isn't.
Or not:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/traffic-engineers-say-slowing-do...
TFA was published in 1994 - 20 years ago. We can't expect the author to update it for today's audience, especially given that he's been dead for almost 10 years.
he's down voted but not too far off base. The US has already used hacker organizations to inadvertently act in the interests of the US government. Considering that the US almost certainly has moles in Anonymous, it wouldn't be hard to influence them to target Korea
The article is about prosecuting people not just because of the torture was depraved but also because it was illegal. The Senate report finds that the CIA knew its actions were illegal and acted to cover them up. The fact that the majority of the populace approves of an illegal action in polls should not make the perpetrators less worthy of prosecution.
His website is legend among UX designers because it's such a great example of how to do a portfolio creatively.
No I don't. It's "good" to support the best viable way to prevent greater violence, even if that way involves violence. These things are clear: torture is rarely the best viable way, and it's been used unnecessarily.
Cosma Shalizi on this very good:

http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/bulletin/homo-...
Then offer me a +33%, DRM-free Keurig and let me decide what to buy. I would have much less aversion to the company if the choice existed. Except things are not that easy, for them to make up what they would lose in branded refills, they'd have to jack up the price not by 33%, but by >= 1000%. If they did this, you could extrapolate how long a tail they expect from each sold unit.

The problem is, it's not simply selling the machine at a good profit; they are not selling you a machine, they are inexpensively buying your ability to choose...and that is worth a whole lot of money.
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I totally agree. Most startups have one or two people wearing all 5+ hats (which is OK, of course). I've found it especially helpful to think about these different roles when building out the team (and, in earlier stages, considering if there is sufficient coverage amongst the founders).
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Kudos to the interviewer, Franco Folini, as well as Salvatore; these are excellent questions.
Tokyo is a wonderful place to live, and I can assure you there is nothing unusual about families with children in Tokyo.

Life is about making choices.
It's not so much the domain name, but the brand name, which in most cases is the same as the domain.
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The harm is that DC is already "the capital" from hunger games. Housing prices going up while the rest of the country suffers. People here don't need the vote. Heck, we should take it away from NoVa and Maryland for good measure.
> Self-driving cars will be on-demand

Nonsense. That's just like saying taxis/cabs will negate the need for your own car.

Sometimes you need a car now to goto the shops, drop your kids at doctor etc. without having to wait 10-30 minutes for a car to arrive from the other side of town.
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