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Marriage is simply a human need as long as it still takes 20-30 years to raise children. If you do not at least promise your partner to be there until the end of life, there can be no (perceived?) certainity that you are not shooting yourself in the foot by getting children.
And because raising kids takes so long, and needs full energy by a couple, society (religion, state, etc) supports being loyal to each other in many ways.

And it is good that way.
Government funded stickerbombing for driving on a public(?) road.
Can a Startup Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-l...
It lets users specify their config directory.
> Atlassian started in Australia, a country where technology is generally considered a scam to separate idiots from their wallets.

Perhaps ironically, when I was in Australia a few weeks back, every merchant assumed my credit card supported NFC.

They got a kick out of my explanation that American credit cards just finally caught up with Smart Chips, and now Australia has moved on.
Medicine:
I was really excited when I stumbled up on the idea of generic medicine. When open source model is adapted in medicinal field it would improve the research and reduce the cost of medicines.

Government:
I think all democratic nations should adopt open source model in their government.
Some countries we can get information through (Right to Information), But that too have limitations.
When national budget is made. There should be an open system linked, where anyone can track every single penny being spent.
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Iran cyberspy group hit in coordinated European raids
Nigeria denied entry to an art memorial for environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
Rifles as a Service?
I'm glad someone is finally saying this. Gaming seems to suffer from a serious inferiority complex, where they hope by mimicking the dominant art forms they can gain legitimacy. So a game like Bioshock is seen as superior to a game like Ms. Pacman because it has all these "movie-like" qualities. It has nice production values, and a narrative, a soundtrack. In reality I think 20 years from now you will still have people trying to break high score records on games like Ms. Pacman and Donkey Kong whereas Bioshock will be seen the same way we look at games like Night Trap today.

I think the most damaging idea to ever enter gaming is the myth that it's primarily a 'narrative' medium. That is horribly reductionist and limiting. Games are about narrative generation, not narrative delivery. That's the beauty of it. Each starcraft match is a narrative in the same way a professional chess match is a narrative. I think this is why let's plays are so popular. You aren't watching to get the game's story, you are watching to get the specific narrative that is created by a certain person playing the game.
Correct me if I'm wrong but that example doesn't seem quite right. If you lift one piece of cardboard the person now sees roughly where Waldo is, right? Sure the cardboard could be HUGE to obscure the size and position of the book but then asking to lift both pieces will show you the position and size of the book making it immediately obvious where Waldo is.
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The CEO's comments about 457 requirements reminded me of my recent experience working in Sydney on a 457. Not having access to the public health system was annoying (though luckily not too expensive because my family was generally healthy). What really annoyed me was having to pay the Medicare tax every fortnight, then claiming it back at the end of the year when I filed taxes. I don't like giving an interest-free loan to the government. Either give me access to the system, or don't tax me because you know I can't use Medicare!

The changes to LAFHA policy would have affected me very dramatically had my employer not given me a large raise to cover the difference. It completely boggles my mind that while I was paying the same tax as an Australian citizen, I had to pay out-of-pocket for my daughter's education (this was a NSW thing but is slowly spreading to other states). The mediocre local public school was $5k per child, so I spent $10k instead and sent her to a great private school.

It is clear to me that the Australian government is only interested in soaking foreign workers for as much as they could get away with. They clearly are not interested in anything other than digging stuff up out of the ground and selling it.
A hash function with a fixed output length and arbitrary input length necessarily implies that collisions exist. So in a very strict sense, you are correct that equality of hash output doesn't prove equality of input. But that's much too limiting for the real world.

As optimiz3 already pointed out, a critical property of crypto hash functions is extreme difficulty in finding collisions, let alone meaningful ones. So if a hash function passes muster cryptographically, then we can use it to practically assert equality of inputs.

In other words, it's so improbable that we treat it as if it's impossible. When that assumption is not safe to make anymore, that's when we upgrade to a new hash function.
Flip 5 coins and stop when each turns up tails, record the number of trials until the last coin is tails (just use # trials for the last coin...). Repeat this 100 times. Does the probability of ending on a given trial keep increasing with trial#? No, it will peak depending on the number of coins and probability of tails for each coin (here always close to 0.5).

This is the same as accumulating n number of modifications in a cell until it grows into and gets detected as a tumor. Instead of accumulating "tails" you are accumulating mutations or whatever it turns out to be.
The idea of representing a program by a declarative computation graph of matrix transformations has been big in deep learning research for a few years. Theano [1] is the canonical example, though more recently the space has gotten bigger with other frameworks including CGT [2] and now TensorFlow. The computational graph abstraction is really nice in part because it gives you very straightforward automatic differentiation, which dovetails very nicely with the trend in machine learning of casting a wide range of algorithms as (stochastic) gradient ascent on some loss function.

[1] http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/

[2] http://rll.berkeley.edu/cgt/
Who Wants to Be Fired? Smoking Drugs? Hungover? Or New Phone Number?
Coal, at least, sounds like something that requires a great deal of upfront capital to establish. A business like Paypal, less so. The hard part for that is tying into payment systems, but that doesn't require a lot of upfront money, more a network effect.

So the question remains, where did this initial capital come from?
What the hell is this thing, then? Why is private money involved?
I feel there is another source to our earth's temperature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle#/media/File:Carbon...
Contratto+preliminare+improprio
It is all low tech. I've been undergoing significant dental work over the past year and I always come back to this same thought. The reason the "brutal" techniques works is because of the amazing resiliency of the mouth. Wounds heal quickly, and teeth are rooted so deep they take a ton of punishment before giving out.

I've been lucky to find an orthodontist whose not afraid to do something advanced. Previously, I had 5 or 6 consultations from different orthodontists who, in some cases, wanted me to return within the hour to install metal braces.I knew that my mouth was a bit of a special case (impacted canine), but I refused to believe that metal was the end game. I always asked for Invisalign, but they all said it wasn't possible - until I met my current orthodontist. After a quick consultation, he comes back saying "we're going to try something different".

The man is a genius, as far as I'm concerned. He proposed a solution to straighten my teeth with Invisalign while making space to pull the canine into place with a cantilever. The cantilever is hidden behind my teeth, attached to my molar and secured with trans-palatal arch. He actually bent the wire around the top of my mouth to minimize its obstruction of the tongue. Painful, simple, but effective. I barely notice it. He cuts my Invisalign retainers by hand so they still fit in.

In the dental world, this is really advanced. I had to repeat the procedure several times to my oral surgeon (who did great work) before he understood that the chain pulling my tooth into place isn't destined for a metal bracket, and must be sutured to my gum pending installation of the cantilever. Quick call to my ortho cleared everything up. Likewise, my dentist was equally surprised. Both said it was a great idea. According to my orthodontist, my treatment would be the subject of a paper, if he was still inclined to write them.

None of it seems very modern to me.
Tensor is a much better term than multidimensional array:

- It's not as verbose

- The concept of tensor has linear algebra operations associated with it while multidimensional array is just a programming term without any attached Math operations.
How was it possible to hold still while having a large nerve drilled out?
Interesting.

There was another unique treatment that hit the news perhaps ten years ago, but didn't happen apparently? The idea was awesome, they genetically re-engineered the "tooth-decay" bacteria in your mouth to stop producing acid, combined with a mild antibiotic to out-compete the original form. I've been waiting a long time for it, unfortunately.

I think this was it: http://www.oragenics.com/?q=cavity-prevention
Still, g-hardening may not be a showstopper. Artillery shells routinely have electronics in them nowadays. It doesn't have to be reusable, but needing only 2km/s from outside the atmosphere basically.

Edit: have you looked at these people's work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicklaunch
Interesting, it does appear to be gone...

Basically, old NVIDIA marketing material used to state that GPUs double in performance every year or so whilst Moore's Law is slowing down w/r to CPU performance because clock speeds have been the same for a long time

This strictly isn't true because core count, SIMD width and vector unit counts in CPUs have all been increasing. However, from the perspective of a single-threaded C application, this is indeed so. CUDA/OpenCL OTOH automagically subsume multi-core, multi-threading, and SIMD into the language itself so the hypothetical "single-threaded" CUDA app just keeps getting better(tm).

The reality though (IMO of course) is that Intel promises and delivers backwards-compatibility at the expense of free performance beer. In contrast, NVIDIA delivers performance at the expense of 100% backwards-compatibility beer for optimized code (but read each GPU's whitepaper and spend a week refactoring your code per GPU generation and you get both, also IMO and of course experience). Of course, to be fair, if you refactor your code every time they improve AVX/SSE, CPUs are a lot mightier than what Python/Javascript/R usually imply.
What is Haskell actually useful for?
Thanks—we have a long way to go!
This is government failure 101

Maybe we need a startup that reduces the cost from $1500 to $150
As does Vancouver.
Interestingly, I find that on my bicycle I can trigger the sensors in roads (which in the UK seem to be marked by a line of tar, where the sensor has been cut in and sealed up) by angling my front wheel directly along the line - my belief is that it gives a pretty strong signal because the rim of the wheel is a lot closer than a car would be even though they are a heavier chunk of metal (inverse square relationship). In fact my impression at one place I worked was that the sensor gave a stronger signal doing this as the barrier to get out went up quicker for me than it did for cars. I have extrapolated this belief and also believe that the sensors that detect vehicles before traffic lights also give a stronger signal when the rim is close by and the lights choose to turn my way quicker as they think I'm a bus. I can't really verify this though, because I only ever travel by bicycle.

Anyway, I guess motorcycles are not quite as maneuverable as a bicycle, so would find it harder to trigger the sensors in this deliberate way.
I always enjoyed how it would instantly peg the CPU to 100% on every system I ever ran it on.
Because patients will flock to the dentists who do embrace it, and others may even sue the ones who don't.
During one portion of the year, my neighborhood has small hordes of visitors due to a large wildflower field across the street. Mostly I find it charming, and my worst confrontation involved telling a guy "Hey, please don't park on my lawn", and him replying "oh, sorry, I'll move immediately".

I don't see why seeing people taking pictures of a landmark in your neighborhood should be tiring.
No dialects in German then?
Sunshine, a Crowdsourced Weather App, Goes Live
I'm in the opposite situation - recently moved back to the US after many years living abroad. Not having Chip & Pin or those neat wireless card terminals is weird. Signing for everything just feels so archaic!
> Are there typically countermeasures in place for this?

The cost of the zip car + the hassle of booking the zipcar, walking from to it to grab the card, driving your car out and finding parking, then walking back to the car.

I would emphasize that this method requires finding parking outside the parking garage. Around where I live, that could be a long walk back to the garage (and paying a meter...)
True, maybe I should rephrase that as "he wrote down details for how he tested them..."
Validation/crowdfunding – Thanks for your help iOS developers
Since most of the current/future apps will be adding location based events, we have just finished building an SDK that will allow developers to easily integrate the SDK and use it to set notifications they would like to send out based on users proximity to an event / place / person.

This will work with the user's consent; the SDK will even work when the app is brought to background or killed by OS (which is a HUGE problem for iOS)

Along side - we're developing a very simple associated dashboard for visualization.

We're currently in the crowdfunding stage - Please let us know your thoughts/ideas/pricing model etc.
Email - team@offerbook.co
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CVE-Raptor - Tool to monitor CVE announcements and automatically notify the user when a binary/package/library/domain is affected by a newly disclosed vulnerability.

Current MVP fetches the public CVRF database, parses it for any newly disclosed CVEs (since the previous run) and reports the results.

Current MVP also supports searching for any newly published/modified CVEs containing a specific keyword.

- Built with love using Python3.
- Licensed under CC BY-SA.

Feedback on the current implementation or other modes of usage is most welcome...
First off, 3.x is happening in science. I'm a scientist, and I use 3.x, and as of this fall, every single scientific package that I use has been ported to 3.x. Using @ for matrix multiplication is also a pretty big deal to me.

It's worth remembering that most scientists don't do any machine learning, because it's not all that useful in many domains. A lot of science is trying to find an explanatory model for the observations. Machine learning is much better at finding a good predictive model for the observations that may not offer any insight to what is happening behind the scenes.
How Small Manufacturers Can Thrive in a Shifting Industry
I find it more readable up until the difference in key lengths becomes larger (font and text-decoration for example), at which point I have trouble matching the values with the shorter names.
Not that I have any real comparison but I feel like our tech scene is pretty weak. While there are jobs, and companies, they are mostly monolithic fortune 500 dinosaurs. Who in tech wants to work for General Mills?
I second an audio only approach. To me this would filter out a lot of the potentially scandalous video conversations you might have.

Audio also forces both users to focus just on the conversation and takes away the worries of how you look, lighting, etc.

With audio, you remove some of the friction of having a webcam, laptop, etc for video unlike for audio you could potentially integrate it to a cell service.
It seems to me to be one of the many laws we have which favor safety & security over the principles on which the country was founded. It doesn't help that it also seems to be one of the many laws we have which are enforced "sometimes".
Hipchat is a horrible application. Just bad.
Perhaps a good intuition pump is this: after every guess the person claiming to have found Waldo gets to position three things: the book, the waldo mask, and the covering cardboard.

This then means the subsequent trials don't reveal any side channels about Waldo's location in the book. (And of course in practice the "pieces of cardboard" are big enough to obscure all book information.)
I believe the blue is the second stage igniting. Heavy nitrogen content in the Titan II's solid fuel, which lends it that color. There is a prima facie decent analysis and a different, good video over on Reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/3s06dt/op_delive...

Interestingly you can see 'flip turns' in the video, a maneuver the missile repeats 14 times to disperse its MIRV payload.
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The adage that a lie told enough times becomes fact comes to mind. Goebbels was a master and his methods are still being used today.
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This a 100 times. I'd wish more companies would dump Sharepoint and just use Confluence.
Yup, that was it (pbnjay linked the paper above).
Web Playground is command line tool for quick prototyping, demo, tutorial or presentation in the browser. It works by quickly scaffolding just one HTML, one JavaScript and one CSS file, and opening a browser with live reloading. Optionally, you can update playground.yml to enable common preprocessors such as Babel or SASS, or add additional script/style tags to the page.
The dose makes the poison (or the cure). According to the article they gave daily injections containing 300 oranges worth of vitamin C (which google tells me is over 15 grams of vitamin C, an order of magnitude larger than the daily recommended dose for adult humans).

Certainly being skeptical is still warranted, as OP is correct, there are significant differences in how this particular compound is handled species to species. However, simply that mice produce ascorbic acid does not imply that they produce it in quantity great enough to impact this kind of tumor.
"Jia probably didn't sell the tax bureau to anybody."

Well not in the normal sense of "sell"...
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And they can't rent bikes, create a locally-staffed concession area, sell tchotkes, and pull some $$$ out of the tourists? Tourists gonna tourist, and might as well beat them at their own game, and put the money back into trail infrastructure, and then take the cream off the top for local services.
How did you know what he meant then?
Looking back at 9 years of Hacker News
Maybe I missed out on the news about the US and UK, so please fill me in. What free speech has been limited? What political opposition has been banned? Which dissidents have been arrested? Who has been persecuted for their sexuality? Which neighboring countries have been invaded?
Looks really good! Another benefit of this approach is that it will probably be quite obvious to your users that the messages are not canned.
Type classes and generic derivation
Plenty of homosexual couples have children, either through adoption, IVF or surrogates, just like heterosexual couples often do.
The study of criticism teaches one to crack open cultural artifacts like novels, paintings, plays, movies, etc. and look for the motivations and influences of their creators. It is a very useful way to examine a culture, including a culture you might find yourself in, even if it is a culture that you grew up in and would therefore be sort of blind to.

And it provides a set of mental tools that can be useful for the rest of your life, to answer questions like "why did he write that email?" or "why did that politician say that?" or "what does this news article really mean?" This is why I recommend that even technical track students like engineers take a few liberal arts classes if they can.
OTOH code completion is still only mediocre for most programming languages! Of course, those things aren't really related, but it feels easier than self-driving cars.
Cool. I also did this using curl at first, before switching to php for more flexibility. It's not as neatly concise as yours, but I think its pretty similar: https://gist.github.com/lyoshenka/6257440
Paperwork-wise, either you have never met France, either you didn't compare.

- Flat rental applications contain 2 years of tax return forms, 3 months of salary proof, for yourself and for a third person (or bank) who will guarantee you.

- As a self employed there are 18 different organizations to whom I must lodge contributions: VAT, retirement, retirement 2, training, universal income, disability, elderness 1, elderness 2, elderness 3, illness, health insurance, health insurance 2, workplace safety, help for housing, help for various institutions who went bankrupt, Commerce chamber, CSG, corporate tax, land tax. Employed people pay the same, plus unemployment, the employer handles half the paperwork but employees who don't cross-check are penalized.

- Each of them have an application form and half of them are monthly. Most of them apply on weird rules ("7.23% on 98.5% of revenue within limit of 1200 PASS if the revenue is ... and 1400 PASS if ..."). Some of them are taken, but don't give you benefits because you don't fit the rules (as you talked about pumping money from workers). Some are taken and refunded later.

- There are lunch tickets and holiday grants, for about 200€ per month, your employer must fund the employee bureau for this, but you need to apply to get them granted. Most usually you'll have to lodge an application for that, with your tax return and salary sheet, and you'll have fewer benefits if you don't have children. For example you'll be offered a rebate on a house rental for 5 people, which exactly fits the family of the employee managing the appcations.

- If you were a foreigner, you would also have to file for a visa and work permit, which means in average 0,5 day per trimester queuing in person at the Prefecture for various reasons.
This Surveillance Drone Never Needs to Land
I dislocated a limb, once, while playing some sports ball. The fix at the ER? A heavier doctor wrapped some ropes around me and leaned back with all of his weight, while the other doctor grabbed my limb and pulled really damn hard. Some medical treatments feel absolutely medieval...
I think that is usual for any large project. Take for instance the papers published by CERN.

Also consider that a single "order" might not make any sense. How do you determine if somebody "contributed" more than anybody else?
With ETL, usually you start out with handmade scripts, and then depending on how rich you are and/or how complex your situation gets, you possibly move up to either an internal tool or a vendor tool.
Using the fade out makes it trivial to detect. Listening closely with headphones it's fairly easy (i.e. get 9+ right) to hear it in the first couple of seconds and throughout the song as well. I guess there's a reason we use 16 bits. Now I want to try it with 24 bits, maybe with a song that has more quiet parts in it.

Edit: The other test using Gangnam Style is much harder to detect (for me), I scored 6/10 on my first attempt (and I won't try again, hearing that riff 10 times in a row is plenty): http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_16vs8bit.php