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> You can find a list at literarydevices.net

Under ad hominem, this example is given:

2. A classic example of ad hominem fallacy is
given below:

A: "All murderers are criminals, but a thief
isn’t a murderer, and so can’t be a criminal."

B: "Well, you’re a thief and a criminal, so there
goes your argument."

OK, first of all, A's argument is terrible. He's asserting that all murderers are criminals, but to support the second half of his argument he really needs "all criminals are murderers". But the issue here is B's counterargument, so I'll let A get away with that.

How is this an ad hominem fallacy? B is not trying to discredit A's argument by appealing to a logically irrelevant characteristic of A. Rather, B is using A as a counterexample for A's argument. If instead B's argument was:

B: "Well, C over there is a thief and criminal,
so there goes your argument."

that would clearly not be an ad hominem. C provides an example of a person who is both a thief and criminal, which is a class of people that A claimed could not exist.

I see no logical reason that a person cannot serve as a refuting counterexample to a claim that they themselves made. If B had said:

B: "Well, the jerk store called and they are
running out of you, so there goes your
argument."

that would be an ad hominem, because B is trying to get us to not believe A's argument because of the irrelevancy that the jerk store does a brisk business in A.

Another example to illustrate my point. Suppose A is a woman.

A: "Women do not fart."

(A then at once lets fly a fart as great as
if it were a thunder-clap, and B is nearly
blinded with the blast)

B: "That's not true. You just farted!"

Would literarydevices.net claim that this is an ad hominem fallacy?
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Everyone else who touched the feature is going to also say they added it, on their resume. You have as much of a claim to it as they do. Your job title and the size of the company is clear, so the reader can infer the size of your contribution from that.
Circle Medical founder here. We like One Medical. They have really moved the ball forward in terms of patient experience. But why stop there?
That wasn't what I meant at all in my original post, and apologies for not expressing myself clearly. But it's good that those manuals are preserved, as they capture the original context of the system's use.

I have another post on this thread where I talk about some uses I've had for old manuals. That's the sort of thing I'm getting at. The GE engine manuals, for instance, aren't arcane in the context of CH-46 maintenance, but in the broader context of printed material they are extremely arcane.
I feel that profitable Division 1 athletic teams should pay their athletes the same as top tier internship contracts (GOOG, MSFT, FB, etc). Why is one student allowed to profit from talent and hard work while another is explicitly forbidden to do so?
Poker hand analyzer in 4 rows of JavaScript using bit and mathematical operations
That’s really the great mystery about bureaucracies. Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that, like the manager of the Central Station, you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going.

What great writing.
please view the response comparing JSON API to JSON Graph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL54eYbTJUw&feature=youtu.be...
Are VC returns really poor on average? I thought their hit rate (1 company out of 50 being successful) was poor, but their returns are stellar because of the few unicorns.

If your conclusion is correct, how are the VCs staying in business?
I cant believe I have not heard of ngrok....

WHERETF have I been???
No real good reason from either TS or Google, just want to try/learn something new. I still hangout with my old manager/teammates and might come back some days, who knows.
I think the expectation of digital is not unreasonable, here. Most photos that get taken are taken on digital cameras.

Using a digital sensor would have several advantages in prototyping - you get a faster iteration loop of 'build camera, take picture, evaluate result', you can actually check for light-leaks in real time without removing film, and so on.
New privilege escalation exploit discovered in OS X Yosemite
Musk’s Mission – How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
FWIW, I haven't seen a doctor in years and I like the concept. I have a compromised immune system. I stopped going to see doctors in part because sitting in the waiting room with other patients tended to leave me horribly ill. Using a public bathroom used by other patients was also a serious problem. Etc. I have long lamented that doctors going to see patients was something we no longer did.

I hope you are very successful.
That's a pretty advanced topic. Like a lot of advanced (and some intermediate) topics, you read a bunch of varying documentation and play around with it yourself before you get a good grasp.

For me, one of the more useful things were these slides that talk more about the when and why instead of the how:
http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/metaclasses.pdf
Are you using chrome? I ran into the same issue (wouldn't respect audio settings) plus it burned 100% cup on all four cores and the audio kept breaking up.
It turns out that IE 10 is good for something! Not only do the hangout plugin audio settings work but the sound itself works (no more disrupted streams) and cpu hangs out around 50% across 4 cores. Much better!
So true. There is certainly skill involved, one of them is almost certainly the ability and willingness to exploit your fellow human beings. I'm completely lacking in that skill so, woe is me, I will never make a billion.

It seems I will have to settle for doing the things I love, enjoying life, as I strive to avoid screwing people.

You do seem to be the sensei of trolldom and to have found your one true skill.
> Quality only happens when someone is responsible for it

When our test aircraft were being delivered, me and the other guys who work on the instro systems would ask, "Who was the asshole?" In other words, who took it upon themselves to be the person who made sure that things came together properly during buildup and checkout? The one aircraft we got where no one had stepped up for instrumentation and been the asshole has proven to be the most problematic of all the aircraft.

Maybe not the most elegant way to put it, but there you have it.
How do you even manage to land such internships? It baffles me. How can somebody after their first year of CS bachelor's education get an internship with Pixar, and then with Google in the second year, and then with (bloody) TWO SIGMA in the third year? Stuff like that is just ... incomprehensible here in Europe (Netherlands). Crazy!
Yes. One MD told me that non-compete is not enforceable if you don't pay. I don't think anyone want to pay six figures and lots of good wills for no good reasons.
I think it's more likely you're seeing a survivor bias. If your app runs well on Lollipop, it's very likely gigantic and slow as molasses on older phones due to the compatibility shim bloat.
How do you reconcile that with your claim elsewhere that "staff turnover is very very low?"

I worked in the Mountain View office. Transferring is indeed easy, and people did transfer frequently. As a result turnover was high, and it was hard to build friendships, or gel as a team.
How so?

College football seems to be pretty popular among both college students and college alumni.
Example Ansible scripts for building a full, multi-AZ AWS stack
There is a chrome app that I use for hangouts that seems pretty perfect to me.
It's true the sales people do out number us here in Chicago, but we do have O(100) engineers in the office. We are working on lots of cool stuff: Ads, Search, and Privacy to name a couple.
Side note - that is the most relatable explanation of ARP probing I've ever seen.
The Mate 2 is a HUGE 6.1" phone and nearly twice the weight of an iphone. This is not a solution for most of the phone market. I own a N6 and I have huge hands and its a bit much for me. Its uncomfortably huge and heavy. I can't imagine most people being on board with a heavy and huge phone because google can't get its shit together on power savings.
Chief executives earn '183 times more than workers'
In my opinion, project hosting is not the most important. But, a network connection for developers, around keywords or ideas are the best.
Maybe, a platform to brainstorm, discuss ideas, implementation would be awesome.

Project hosting is maybe reinventing the wheel: GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, there are too many providers which do this job perfectly.

Let developers do their stuff on those ones.
And let them come back to find new contributors / friends.
I'm sure they would also be moderately successful running a lemonade stand or using their students to staff a call center (especially if they didn't have to pay them). Just because a university can operate a profitable enterprise in some field doesn't obligate it to do so. What does having a profitable football program have to do with providing education services?
> oh XMPP, you mean the protocol that required a TCP connection, and thus battery-draining maintaining a persistent connection ?

I ran my XMPP client on a UNIX server, to which I connect using mosh. As it happens, I tend to have this mosh connection open all the time to do actual work, so there's no additional overhead from running an XMPP client remotely.

(Still, there's no particular reason that a persistent though quiet TCP connection needs to drain battery any more than any approach; a TCP connection can stay open indefinitely without traffic if nothing in between the applications decides to time it out.

There might be complications on actual mobile platforms like phones, if your platform's push notification system does abstraction-crossing magic with the cell networks, such that you can shut down your data connection entirely until it needs to be woken up. But my use case is a laptop, so a constant IP connection is assumed.)
There's plenty of those out there, they just have the same problem as any social network ever - network effect. Diaspora is useless as long as people aren't using it.
You could try to integrate one of these into the project: http://www.bigshotcamera.com/

The only problem is that the sensor is probably tiny and any old lenses you might want to play with would have a massive telephoto effect, making focusing very difficult.
There is a danger as an individual ascends whatever latter of success to believe that they are there because they are right and everyone else is wrong. The linear nature money makes this measurement becomes especially problematic. If someone falls in to this trap it will be evident because they begin to have trouble solving problems, or they solve them in disastrous ways. Many, many examples especially if you look outside the U.S. at countries with high corruption levels. (In the U.S. too with very high profile con men and tax evaders.)
Artificial leaf could soon fuel the planet, Melbourne researchers say
Are ClinicalTrials.gov p-values clustered around .05?
Everything new is old already.
I've grown weary of these "here's a thing you haven't heard of, and now here's some misinformation!" articles. (Shame on you Gawker, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed!)

But this is how it should be done. It's brilliant. Take 11.5 minutes and enjoy it.
"Falcor automatically traverses references in your graph and makes requests as needed."

This seems like it could be as much of a curse as a blessing. I hope 1.0 ships with a good development/debug mode to gauge the efficiency auto-generated requests.
I haven't done any digging, but I'm assuming this uses etcd for membership? How does that work - how does a server know whether its a leader, and how does failover work?
Show HN: Heman – Tiny C library for working with height maps
The trailing 10-year average of VC returns is approximately the same as the S&P, but with orders of magnitude more volatility. http://www.inc.com/kimberly-weisul/venture-capital-funds-mak...
I find this concept of petitioning to be allowed to unionize to be weird. What stops them from just doing it? Form an organization, select some leadership, and go.
Note that for some time, trade agreements have been implemented in U.S. law via Executive-Legislative Agreement rather than via treaty ratification.

Thus TPP or TTIP will require (under "Fast Track") a majority vote in both the House and Senate, rather than 2/3 in the Senate alone.
Currently, how your team is organized?

Do you have at least a developer?
Do you have a designer?
how about decertifying the entire political process that originally certified the machines?
Thanks for the love!
Trump's policy sounds like affirmative action for US citizens.

Yes, the H1-B visa system need to be policed so it's not used entirely to drive down wages of local specialized employees. I'm under no allusions that foreign H1-B workers have any right to work in the US, but neither do unemployed US citizens -- which is what Trump is advocating. This is blatant pandering to those working class voters who have been forced out of the US economy for macroeconomic reasons. Trump's message is for the working class, despite the fact that he is specifically talking about the H1-B program in this instance.

In any case, Trump has no evidence that he will be capable of lobbying Congress better than corporations do. He even complains in his immigration policy document[1] that "Completion of a visa tracking system – required by law but blocked by lobbyists" has allowed foreign citizens to overstay their visas.

A vote for Trump is a vote to show frustration with the current political system, not a vote to fix the current political system.

For anyone who wants a radically different idea from a presidential candidate, look towards Lawrence Lessig[2].

[1] https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/politics/who-is-lawrence-lessig-and-wh...

*edit to clarify the "working class" reference, despite the article not touching on working class.
They essentially did that (hence the petition). This is a federal regulator deciding not to recognize them.
thanks! that looks super easy. last time i tried, i rage-quit.
so the real question is where is the startup with the solution of $35 tablet "voting machines" on $10 stands and a $30 SBC "voting server" in a $15 lockbox that can deliver 4 "deluxe voting terminals" with a "server" for $2,000? (89% profit)

The references of the current players in the industry I see talk upwards of $3,000 per terminal! The industry standard pricing for this would be $12,000. $12,000 for buggy, insecure, closed-source, non-updateable, unverifiable, crappity crap. Awesomes.

How about this ... a voter walks into the polling station and can either use a terminal or their own smart-phone - connect to the open wireless "voting hotspot" where they can enter in an anonymous token at something that we use as the "hot spot sign-in page" that they are given by the people who volunteer the polling station that they can use to cast their ballot without waiting in line.

It's not like secure voting is an open problem. There just needs to be some crotchety capitalist company with people in suits selling it. Open source, anonymous, verifiable voting machines on open hardware with an optional paper trail (cups + network printer). We can do this making comfortable profits and at atleast a 60% savings to the tax payer.

The best part is that if the company goes out of business, everything is open source and documented, so we don't put communities at risk of the security issues with code rot.

So ... who wants to make some money? email me: kristopolous (at) gmail
I suspect this is temporary. A lot of the big OEMs from just a couple years ago are massively losing money on Android. HTC, Sony, LG, etc all reported signficant losses. I imagine the market will tigheten up with one or two premium OEMs (Moto, Samsung) and some bottom feeders selling super budget phones. When things finally tighten up there will less incentive to make these difficult to maintain Android custom distros and more incentive to get closer to the stock as a way to make updating easier. Google may also put in a full theming engine to help this along. Marshmallow has a basic theme engine form what I've read, so that's a start.

I think Google knows that the status quo with Android is unsustainable and will need to migrate to a more tightly controlled business model. Samsung's flirting with Tizen hasn't paid off and they're more or less stuck with Google dictating policy now. The monthly security updates thing sounds promising as well. Its time Android got serious about security and updates.
Pretty sure that was exactly his point; major issues until the point one release so why wouldn't they wait?
I'm curious, what security measures are in place for human vote counters?
Their results may be significant to VCs, but likely aren't to anyone else.

They get about a 4% increase in good outcomes, from 23% to 27%, for a 1 sigma increase in expert positive response. This is significant at the 5% level.

It's enough to say that "Experts do slightly better than chance in IP-heavy fields", but about 3/4 of those businesses will still fail, and that remains true regardless of expert evaluation.

If you're a big investor this could make a difference to your bottom line. If you're a small investor or entrepreneur, it is pretty much irrelevant.
I read this to my team. The laughs and tears are flowing
Isn't that what Amazon echo does?
It sounds like:

• Docker is really cool! Everyone is talking about Docker!

• We at Microsoft like Docker, too! (But Docker obviously screws us pretty hard, since the whole ecosystem is built around the Linux kernel. Windows isn't great at this type of isolation.)

• We don't like being left out of the Docker container party, so we're going to create _two_ things that are Almost As Good As Docker Containers!

• (1) A new package format, "Windows Server Containers," that we're calling a container, even though it doesn't actually offer containment. Containers can mess with other containers.

• (2) The same old Windows Server virtual machines, but we're going to call them "Hyper-V Containers." Yeah, they're just VMs. Separate kernels in memory and all of that.

• We know neither of these offer what you wanted. But good news! You can use the same container format for _both_ of these new almost-a-container systems.

Yikes.
Where on that spectrum fall laws that are hostile to employees forming unions?
No longer an issue. MIT License.

https://github.com/Max00355/HTTPLang/blob/master/LICENSE.md
Ubuntu Linux is coming to IBM mainframes
Presidential Innovation Fellows 2015
Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish
The Myth of Chastity Belts
by law they report a lot of things, you can use this to search through: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Search_Visa_Sponsor.aspx
Using Haskell's Alex lexer generator to parse comments and strings
One member from each party, minimum of two, involved in the count.
Any electric heater will be approximately 100% efficient, but electricity is generally much more expensive per unit energy than than natural gas or oil. If you have decided that electricity is your best option, you should compare convenience, installation cost, and whether you want to heat specific areas or the entire house.
There are all kinds of gaps even then. For example, you can't invite a google organization (company) to the event directly in any smooth fashion. The solution is to copy the link and e-mail it to your list. After that, there's no way to restrict viewing of the recording to an organization.

This is just one example of a poor integration between two Google products, but those few little gaps in permissions and utility made it a product that didn't work for my needs at least.
Being able to use Docker tools to deploy these Windows containers is a win, though. Companies with mixed data centers right now (aka many enterprises) are reluctant to use Docker-ecosystem tools for deployment because they won't work for Windows applications. If you can package up Windows apps in ways compatible with Docker orchestration tools, now it's a cross-platform tool that can work for the whole datacenter.
Part of the problem is that the system is quite chaotic. A measurement change well within our instrument tolerance can give incredibly different simulation of the evolution of the climate.
Heck the whole chaos theory was basically born from observations of the instability of weather models

What I noticed mostly is that our forecasts are getting sensibly worse even in the short period. If I had time for a serious research, I'd look more at how some climate change happened to modify the patterns that we previously used successfully in our models because with confidence in forecast simulations dropping is gonna be very hard to make sense of any data. Especially since dire predictions from the seventies eighties and nineties all turned wrong and people is desensebilizing to the problem, even if the risk is about the unknown unknown more than the actual known
How about this: A voter takes a paper ballot. The voter marks the ballot with a felt pen a deposits it in a bin. Polling place staff mark the voter's thumb with indelible ink.

Electronic voting is a problem looking for a problem. You need voter verifiable ballots with a high degree of tamper resistance. As far as trustworthiness goes it's hard to complete with ballot boxes and adversarial observers.
It likely speaks to my ignorance, but my gut reaction to using electronic voting machines has always been that they are inherently insecure and can't/shouldn't be trusted to provide an accurate tally. There is so much money (available) and motive to cheat an election count that I have a hard time believing large and significant races haven't already been victims of tampering in the US (even if we haven't seen hard evidence of such).

Is this cynicism misplaced?
Does that have a cellular modem/wifi module? Seems like you'd need to connect it to a Photon or Electron to get connectivity.
Did you implement minimax algorithm?
Will a $30 voting machine be accessible by those with vision/motor disabilities?
I kind of feel like "worst voting machine in the US" is a meaningless standard without knowing how much better the "best" such machine is. Or, to restate, are there any of these electronic voting machines that aren't crap?
Google Hangouts Gets Its Own Site
Slackbot vs. Siri – Battle of the virtual assistant
Y Combinator, Tim Cook Back Nebia, a Shower That Uses 70% Less Water
How does the baby like the button? (I love this article!)
Simple real-time Reddit/HN-inspired social network crafted with React and Meteor
Sure it's important that people grok that there's more stuff, but for pete's sake, pick one affordance.

That just looks as clunky and indecisive as a drawer with both a knob and a handle.
So I'm not familiar with Canadian law. Does royal assent mean it passed?