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> They haven't been caught yet fucking over innocent people

Yes, they have been:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...

I also think you're incredibly naive. I don't understand how people can give such a massive organization funded by tens of billions of dollars a year, that doesn't even let Congressmen properly audit it, the benefit of the doubt. Even Feinstein said she doesn't know about all of of NSA's programs. Why would you assume then that they are trust-worthy? Just because we haven't found out about some super-secret stuff that they wouldn't allow you to see anyway "because national security"?

You know what they say - trust, but verify. Except the NSA doesn't let you verify. If the NSA ever does anything against you, you're never going to know about it. They can spy on all of your communications and online activities (which can include e-commerce and other stuff), and then set the IRS on you. You'll just think the IRS caught you, not the NSA.

What about running Congress or presidential candidates? They can spy on all of their activities from 10-20 years ago until now, then send an "anonymous tip" along with all the data to a newspaper to destroy that politician's chance of winning. That politician may have wanted to rein in on NSA's powers or simply do anything those who really run the NSA wouldn't have liked. Again, you're never going to know it was NSA behind something like that.

Those are just example of what they can do with their extreme, unaccountable, overboard and secretive spying powers.
Many of the common traditional english names drop off around 1995. Tried a few to find what's taking up the slack. Jack[1] was an unexpected one. Lots of J names in general, but few that pick up around 95.

[1] http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
This is great. Thanks for sharing.
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Yes, but by the same token, the fairness of he judicial system is also subject to factors you can't know. It is unreasonable to assume hat the crim justice system
Is an island of unbiased rationality, considering the steady stream of corruption revelations.
The problem is that the word "may" covers a wide range of probabilities. Yes, there is a small but non-zero chance of adverse reactions to the vaccine. But it's orders of magnitude less dangerous than contracting one of the diseases it prevents.
This and the other replies just seem sort of ironic to me given the course that people are trying to sign up for:

Stoicism:
the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of
feelings and without complaint.
In Northern Virginia, you can get a pretty nice house in Fairfax for $500k - the SF and Silicon Valley market is special for its terribleness (NY too).
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Considering that they have to almost force them into these houses, there's a pretty good chance this won't happen in any significant amount...
Cancer isn't the only smoking related illness, I wonder what it would do for someone with emphysema or the like..
I used to keep up to date on my IntelliJ, Rubymine, and PyCharm licenses. Rubymine and PyCharm are lighter weight.

It is mostly to save money, but now I only keep IntelliJ up to date and install the relevant Ruby and Python plugins. I also stopped using the separate free Android version of IntelliJ and have the Android plugins installed also.

I did go through my IntelliJ settings and removed all the plugins that I don't use - something I recommend.
This doesn't really make sense to me. C# is oriented towards imperative programming while F# is oriented to functional programming. The style of programming that best solves the problem and fits your teams' expertise should dictate the choice.
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IMHO Python gets strings very right. The internal representation is variable, depending on the string's content (to save memory), and the external API only gives you access to code points.
So all SIP phones, BitTorrent uTP, Skype, and pretty much anything P2P infringes?
There is definitely something to this. From my experience(American), nobody writes their specs.
From http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0251-0300/sb...: Diphtheria, Hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis (whooping cough), Poliomyelitis, Rubella, Tetanus, Varicella, and "Any other disease deemed appropriate by the department, taking into consideration the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and
the American Academy of Family Physicians."

Judging from the article, I assume that last clause was removed in the final version, but I'm guessing the rest stayed the same.
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A city has to come up with the money up front and the effectiveness is not that easily proven to average voters.
UK police also usually wouldn't respond with two officers for a situation like this.

There was an assault outside my house a few months back, and they sent 3 cars and 6-7 officers despite no indication weapons were involved.

People tend to respond very differently when thy face a group of officers spread out - turn towards one of them in a threatening manner and three others will be slamming you to the ground.

What struck me about the video in the article was how there were just two of them, and despite that one was getting in the suspects face. You don't get in the face of an expected dangerous assailant if you want to avoid violence.
There's nothing special about lobbying that needs to tie it to corruption. Plenty of countries without legalized lobbying are even more corrupt.

Politics is power, money is power, the two will invariably be linked. It's human nature. Very, very few people are "uncorruptable". Usually, it's just a matter of "how much".

The way to fight this isn't by trying to enforce more unenforceable laws or to make new rules/regulations. It's much simpler than that - voter education.

The problem lies squarely with the voters. Time and time again we elect these people to represent us. They didn't usurp power through a military coup. And our only legal recourse of punishing this behavior is to simply not elect them.

Making lobbying illegal will not make the problem go away - it just won't be in the open.
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I assume this is motivated by heap analysis done by Oracle on their could/SAAS/... applications. They may have quite a few large strings in old gen. To give you an example, for every application deployed Tomcat builds an retains a 200kb String. Other candidates are SQL queries, manifests or in-heap caches.

But I agree with you on the performance side. My impression is that a lot of Java applications are simple data pumps. They read data from a database and send it to a client. It's hard to see how this JEP helps in that case:

- read bytes from the network (probably UTF-8)

- convert bytes to Java Strings

- compress Java String (ASCII, Latin-1, UTF-8) new

- "render" String to Writer (HTML, XML, JSON, ...)

- decompress Java String for Writer new

- encode to again UTF-8 for OutputStream/browser

In this case this would increase allocation rates and increase CPU load for a potentially smaller old gen.

The only real way to optimize this would be to redesign the String class to be encoding aware and update the Writer classes accordingly. This is unlikely to happen and would hurt other use cases.
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> Why do you want to move out of academia? Get a tenure and you'll be doing your research plus you'll secure a job for the rest of your life.

In short, the privatization (education for profit) and adjunct (severe labor exploitation) issues are horrible in that sector and I want no part in these.

These are the same issues both the non-profit and private non-academic sectors deal with too, but the private and non-profit sectors do not have the same amount of hypocrisy and blindness as academia when it comes to sticking a ten-feet pole on fire up one's ass.
There are people who waste money on toys, eating out, clothes and all that -- but those expenses pale in comparison to the really big costs:

- Child care (necessary if both parents work or there's just one parent)

- Larger apartment/house, in an area with good schools

My wife and I live in a large midwestern city. Prior to having kids, we had more than enough space in a 2-bedroom apartment. We had in the past (as students) lived comfortably on less than $20k each a year.

Putting an infant in a day care costs between $1200 and $1600 here. It drops a few hundred when the baby moves into the toddler room, and a few hundred more when the toddler moves into the older kids' room. With two kids in day care (an infant and an older kid), that still costs in the ballpark of $2000-2500 per month.

The 2-bedroom apartment is too small for 2 adults plus 2 children, plus visiting family members who help with kids, and moving to a bigger place in an area with good schools also increases monthly costs substantially.

Even if you're not spending money frivolously, having kids is expensive compared to not having them.
In many cases, I've always wondered this:

Why not just shoot the legs? Why does it have to be "deadly force"?

Just asking. My knowledge of this subject ends at watching Schwarzenegger target legs in T2.
Does an up to date IntelliJ offer the same full set of functionality as PyCharm? As in, is PyCharm just IntelliJ minus some stuff, or does it have features IntelliJ doesn't have?
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> which has the distinct advantage that the symbol/identifier foo is not nested one level deeper

Why is that an advantage?

I actually like the aesthetics of the extra parens in the CAR. It provides a clear visual distinction between code and markup (at least in Common Lisp, where ((...) ...) is defined by the standard to be a syntax error) which I think is a feature. e.g.:

((:div :class "toplevel" :style "display:block")
(:h1 "This is a heading")
"This is content")

I think it looks kinda nice.
Guy makes promise.

Guy keeps promise.

PR piece shows up on fortune.com.
Why isn't the military counted as part of the work force? its not like people are drafted into it in the US.
Presumably because unemployed men would blame their predicament on women.
Lotus 0.3.1 for Ruby is out
I really at this point only check /r/haskell as that is the "best" spot for learning about new things for that language.

Otherwise most of my reason to go there has dropped off. Even the above can be mitigated by following the right twitter accounts (and I hate twitter but it has its uses).
My parents were ahead of the curve, apparently.

~25 when I was born, ~750 and climbing now.

If only I had a trust fund that looked like the growth curve on my name popularity...
Last year I saw him perform on stage. Halfway through the show a child walked up to the edge of the stage. B.B King stopped in the middle of his riff said hello to the child, smiled big and handed him his pick. The band played on during this exchange and he quickly pulled out another pick and started in again, never losing a beat. Several more kids flocked to the stage and B.B King stopped for each and every one of them and did the same thing. He probably went through 50 picks that night. Although a bit disruptive to a great performance it was touching to see his engagement with kids.
Well, this is likely where any of NASA's potential funding for the past 20+ years has gone.
I get paid to do css. If you write your own CSS for a while, get used to the syntax and solving certain problems that popup. display:block and position:relative for example are always things I try when something doesn't behave. Then make sure you are able to code around bootstraps constraints and defaults. bootstrap is very popular. I tend to do smaller sites where performance / downloads isn't an issue even on mobile. For a site with a lot more users, people can optimize all day and it will all be worth it. If you can get very familiar with bootstrap out of the box you can start to rip out the things you won't / never use.

one way I deviate from a lot of the popular frontend trends is I don't really like using preprocessors (LESS SASS) for projects. I totally get the benefits but the drawbacks of confusion within a collaborative environment offset the benefits. My experience, teams of coders have various skills and build processes and have to pick up slack across many projects, I don't want to enforce another level of abstraction unless I'm certain it will pay off for everybody and be easy to get going. So far, I see enough drawbacks that regular CSS is better when you're out for the week sick, or bringing on some outside help for overflow work.

But if you've got a small team and every one agrees on it and can and will back each other up with that same process, have at it. I've never met those people though.
That makes the police officers damned fools for approaching in the first place. If that's what you mean, then I agree.

The answer first became to shoot the guy because the officers were reckless enough to get that close without more backup rather than getting pedestrians to back away and trying to de-escalate the situation.
Under "Clinical Pharmacology" it reads that Measels, Mumps and Rubella MAY be associated with serious complications and death. Which "may" is better?
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I'm not sure that I agree. This is more than just some people estimating off the cuff, there are many studies in the US, and more instances and evidence world wide. Fortunately it's an experiment that is being run, so we will be able to see more hard data in the coming years.

http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/cost_of_homelessness
http://usich.gov/usich_resources/research_and_evaluation/cos...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/mar/...

The biggest costs are pretty concrete. They are 'after the fact' emergency services like emergency room hospital care (vs cheaper preventative care) and jail (instead of housing). It's clear that these costs are higher for the homeless than average, but that leaves the question of housing changing that for this specific group of people (e.g. maybe they are just inherently more likely to end up in an emergency room) which is a valid question.

The evidence is that people with housing are more able to get the help they need earlier (such as preventative care), and are less likely to commit crimes out of desperation, because they have housing. This leads to a much lower rate of using these expensive services, leading to a clearly lower cost to provide housing vs concrete cost of emergency services.

That's why I believe this approach is both humane and effective. This is why I believe housing first is better for everyone.
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Do you have a video of the presentation?
Tim Bray said pretty much the same thing: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/20/Erik-Nagg...
Amen. What bothers me about the "AirBnB is taking housing units off the market" line of thinking is that the people claiming this is a Big Deal almost always ignore policies that prevent larger amounts of housing from ever being built.

1000-2000 units is peanuts compared to the number of units that could be built if single-family zoning was ended in SF.
A normative statement isn't necessarily an attempt to censor someone. You can be for someone having a class of freedoms, which includes the freedom to do things you don't approve of, while disapproving of the manner in which they choose to exercise that freedom.
I'd definitely say that's on topic, just not a very important detail

This comment is much more off topic
I believe his point was that what you are losing there does not really carry any extra information
So how will Particle prevent name clashes better than Spark?

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4803%3Am...
I'm having a hard time believing you are not willfully misreading this document.
If you're ever in Alberta, you might want also want to visit the museum at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump).
It's easy enough (as others have mentioned) to wrap d3.xhr() in a promise. I actually like that d3 uses callbacks here, leaving async control flow concerns to other libraries.

No, my main quibble here is that d3.xhr() is still short on convenience and flexibility as compared to $.ajax(). (For instance: you have to build GET URLs manually? No .contentType() as a shorthand for the header? No automatic JSON.stringify() when POSTing application/json data? No HTTP basic auth support? etc.)
HTML is a locale specific encoding by default. (No, really.) Most locales default to windows-1252, not ISO-8859-1.

That said, all conforming HTML documents must now use UTF-8.
last time i looked (without much effort) i learned they have it just like any other (but with their quasi-communist dressing on names), but they didn't recognize international ones that easily.
Not sure what's ironic about that. If I was already skilled at being stoic, then why would I need a course on it? :)

And I intended to sign up for it because I was curious, not because I was already sold on the concept.
The trouble is, the purpose of the exemption supports traditionally "Republican" ideals of government not getting involved in their religious beliefs. However, there are large numbers of people taking advantage of the exception and they tend to fall into the more "crunchy granola" crowd typically aligned with liberal politics.
Hopefully SSH itself does not depend on this exact implementation, and can be updated to use something non-infringing?
> Is that a bad thing? I claim: not in any way.

It seems like a bad thing for Medicine Hat, which makes it a bad thing for the future of initiatives like this.

(However, another possible scenario: some homeless people move to Medicine Hat, and Medicine Hat is still better off than it was before because it's better to have the greater numbers in houses, than the smaller number on the streets.)
I agree with you that we've trained users to expect UITableView Cells to be swipeable, yet I'd argue that the comments on MiniHack don't fit into a "standard" UI for cells (they don't look like a table view cell from Mail and Reeder, especially since a cell can take up more than a screen of height).

As such, I wouldn't expect my users to know to swipe them. I do agree that a help pane would do the trick, but personally I would probably lean towards an AlienBlue type of indication that the "cell" is actionable (the triangle showing Compressed or Uncompressed, and a row of icons that appears when you tap the cell, instead of the popup from the bottom).

That said, a JazzHands[0] type tutorial would serve perfectly fine too!

[0] https://github.com/IFTTT/JazzHands
I largely agree, though I think professional lobbyists ideally would have a place as a representative of a large group. What needs to be done is campaign finance reform. If we get money out of running for office, most of these soft-corruption problems will disappear.
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Again, you're missing the point. He's saying that those two things shouldn't be different. He's clearly well aware that they are different.

His very first sentence is:

As long as we think aloud in alternative syntaxes, I actually prefer to
break the _incredibly_ stupid syntactic-only separation of elements and
attribute values.

His entire post is a hypothetical in which you 1) need a structured markup language and 2) are willing to break compatibility with XML.
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sigh... and tomorrow lyft will adopt worse printing tactics than uber. that guy makes uber founders look like madre Teresa
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. In our example, none of these questions about the suspect are known. So the officers have to assume that this attacker can (and in fact, he was in the process of).
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That's only Python 3.3 and above; before that it was an under-defined mess, in CPython depending on compile-time options and often broken with the same UCS-2/UTF-16 mess as numerous other languages.
Because (a) the legs are much harder to hit and (b) a hit to the legs is much less likely to incapacitate an attacker.

The whole premise of them shooting is that there's an imminent threat. If they're shooting, it's supposed to be because they MUST incapacitate the attacker.

From what I've read, not only are they supposed to aim at the center of the target, but they're also not supposed to shoot just once. A single gunshot will kill someone, but not instantly, and in the time it takes for that wound to incapacitate them, they might go on to kill someone else.

Which when you think about it is the worst of both worlds: the police kill someone, and that person still manages to kill someone else.

A little later.

I was curious enough about this to make sure I wasn't just making this up (power of false memories and all that). Some arguments against "shooting to wound":

* It supposedly takes ~250ms to fire a round under optimal conditions, and just ~150ms to rotate/translate a limb from one side of the body to another; the target moves faster than the officer can shoot.

* Increased likelihood of missing the target also implies an increased likelihood of hitting something that isn't a target (again: something I would agree militates for officers not shooting at all, but still).

* The places on limbs where you're most likely to hit a target are going to cause them to bleed out anyways --- just not in a fashion that immediately incapacitates them. The bulk of the mass of an arm or leg is also where you're most likely to hit a huge artery.

* You shoot the legs of an armed attacker and you've left their arms and hands functional. Which means that the option (which doesn't really exist but stipulate that it does) to fire at the legs is situational; maybe it's something you could do with an attacker some distance away from the victim and carrying a hammer, but it would be totally ineffective against a target with a gun. You want rules that work in all situations.

* Assuming optimal conditions in a police shooting incident is silly, because everyone involved in that situation is completely and unavoidably overloaded with adrenaline. Police are going to fire multiple times, even if the guidelines say otherwise. They are going to turn in their worst firearm performances, not their range performances, because they're impaired. Stipulating that, you want them picking the part of the target where they're most likely to hit what they're aiming at.

There are other less credible arguments against "shoot to wound". For instance: police are equipped with rounds designed to penetrate but then mostly be stopped by the mass of someone's chest and surrounding clothing, and those rounds won't be adequately impeded by an arm or a leg. Ok, so change the ammunition.
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Jobs are not a zero-sum game. If you were working, you'd be spending more money so more jobs would be available. And the money you are spending is either coming from the other people's taxes, decreasing the number of jobs available, or it's coming from your savings, which reduces your banks float, which decreases the number of jobs available.
It certainly makes the expected value of equity in new start-ups that Woodman does about ten times more valuable than what you see at most places.