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If you think about it, in principle, the best you could do is make a device that 1) controls the acceleration of the head assuming it will reach a certain displacement e.g. d=10cm with final velocity v=0 ) transfers the forces from the skull to elsewhere.

So the absolute best protection you could get would be some kind of cage around the head not linked to the head at all -- maybe you couple this cage directly to a vest akin the HANS device you mentioned, and actuate a separate mechanism smoothing the head movement, with the largest radius possible around the head to provide the least maximum acceleration ( a_maxmin = initial velocity^2 / 2 * d ). Normal head movement could be completely unhindered.

Now since this is a sport this could devolve into a bunch of people just bashing pieces of plastic into each other, which may or may not be desirable over the current situation; how much such a device would cost (not accessible to amateurs); and as others mentioned it's also possible their velocities will increase to compensate, maybe not changing the number of injuries at all.
The skills to excel in Google are different than the skills to excel building a startup. For starters, it's not about solving a problem creatively but choosing the right problem to solve.
The (admittedly unstated) context here is that you're not just hiring someone competent for a job, you're hiring an early employee for a startup. The employee will have a massive influence on the company's future. They will not only be doing the job, they will be defining the job.

(Edit: The table of contents lists this under "other startup essentials.")
Ok how does this work in Europe. In Amsterdam, high salaeries are around 72000 per year. Of which 50% goes to the tax. So you only have around 3k per month...
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In England you don't have malaria or dengue.

But if you did the council would forbid you from doing anything about it, because hey, mosquito borne disease is historic.
It's not a zero sum game, the football leagues are businesses engaged in maximizing revenue while minimizing liabilities. Injured players are a liability.
> I also find being rich around 60 years pointless, since you've wasted too much of your life working for "the man" at that point.

Most people in the US will die having never been rich by any measure and having never done any better than living paycheck to paycheck, at best. 25+ years of wealth at the end of your life puts you solidly near the top of the pile.

And financial independence anywhere in the world is a whole different ballgame than living "rich" in a developed country (particularly the US).
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Wasn't it little less direct than this? I thought that the US/UK installed the Shah to replace the democratic Iranian government. He was overthrown by the revolution in 1979 and it was following this revolution (which included elements of secularists as well as islamists) that the ayatollahs took control? The US/UK never backed the ayatollahs and started supporting Saddam in the Iran/Iraq war.

I.e. standard western fiddling about going catastrophically wrong for everyone.
> RISC created a huge local minimum by speeding up C code to the exclusion of other languages

Would you mind expanding this.
Part of the benefit of living in the US is the relatively low tax climate (California notwithstanding, its state income taxes are 4x what I pay) which generally leads to increased socioeconomic mobility (a disputed statement, I know).

I imagine the advice for a European with a salary cap of approximately 70-80k is the same for an American with a salary cap of 85-90k: wealth is most likely only going to come from entrepreneurship or blind luck.
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>Now imagine that it's more than just a poor choice, but that all the books on programming are at written at that level.

Hmm, I personally found the "Dragon Book" very accessible. And I'm someone without formal CS education.
In the UK and Ireland (Australia too), there are a few different ways to place a bet.

If betting with a bookmaker you can take the current odds or the Starting Price (SP). If you take the current odds, you're locked in to that price, regardless of which way the price moves. If you're taking the current price, you need to be quite sure the SP is likely to be shorter. The SP, as the name implies, is basically the price of the horse when the race starts.

One can also place a bet on the Tote (totaliser), which is common in many parts of the world and often government owned/run. For example, Hong Kong, the jurisdiction with the biggest gambling turnover on horse racing, only legally allows bets on the Tote. This is a form of parimutuel betting. All bets go into a pool, the winning dividend is the amount available in the pool, divided by the total number of bets on the winner (less the operator's commission). Therefore, the price will fluctuate with the number of bets placed and the monetary volume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parimutuel_betting
> To answer the GP's question: if you are in Iran, you are likely to end up in prison for any form of openly displaying an unwillingness to follow Islamic rules. If you should find yourself in Iran, my best advice is to leave at the earliest opportunity.

I don't think that's correct. Apostasy though is banned by law(not just for muslims).

Also whether it's true or not that there is a strong relationship between Baha'i and Israel the world center is in Haifa. You don't need to be a genius to know that doesn't play ball with the Mullah's.

Any of the downvoters care to explain their downvote? Saying 1800 doesn't properly capture that it was founded in 1844 and that by 1853 he the main guy left, because after the previous guy was executed after he declared himself the messiah and wrote a new sharia law, and in '50 his followers tried to assassinate the shah.
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> Most people softball deficiencies in people they've worked with when they do reference calls.

Everything these days is so PC that I wish people would even softball the deficiencies. We are in the age of recommendation inflation. Everybody is "great". There is no "but...".
higher value and experience?
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People interested in how the NFL has been trying to ignore the concussion issue for decades should watch the Frontline program League of Denial. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/league-of-denial/

It ties directly into the film Concussion. Will Smith stars as the Dr. who first noticed CTE in retired NFL football players. Smith is not quite the box office attraction that he used to be, but, nevertheless, the NFL is probably not too thrilled about the release of this movie.
> You can work around some of the debugging complexity by outputting each stage to a suitable format so you can test each transformation individually, but it's still hard to keep track of exactly what each stage expects and delivers.

Honestly this sounds like a good case for a type system - which of course isn't available in ruby.
I was all set to roll my eyes about another json/markdown/whatever resume tool, but just seeing the console screenshot[0] made me rethink that.

[0] https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/blob/master/assets...
Yes, I am using this approach exclusively. Nanopass (or similar frameworks like MBase) is making it very easy to introduce as many languages as you like in between your passes.

It really helps that they are different, you always know which stage you're in.
Maybe. Non-turing-complete type systems seem to be very limited.
You'd need an interface more robust than the console and json at that point, right? In order to select which aspects of your LI profile are appropriate for which level? But I agree it's probably a good next step.
A read-only memory device for firmware would be helpful. Not flash, not something erasable, but hard ROM, in a socketed device. All the firmware would go in that ROM, and you could take it out if necessary and compare it with other ROMs. There are simple hard-wired ROM comparison devices.

This is the approach mandated by Nevada Gaming Commission slot machine regulations.[1]

[1] http://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=33...
My thought was to try ragel with the intersection operator, but for most of them it just result in something that'll match any character... maybe I'm doing something wrong.
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Confused by this. Can you expand on what "higher value" and "experience" the audience would gain from this being on Twitch?
I had a system nearly like what the author describes after the internal SSD drive on my first generation Acer Aspire One died. There didn't seem to be an easy way to replace the drive with a generic SATA SSD (at least none that I was aware of), and a replacement drive was like $80. This is for a $200 netbook, and it wasn't a very good SSD to begin with. So I put Knoppix on a USB stick and basically used that. Since all my stuff is either on my personal server or in the cloud anyway, it was a workable solution. In my case it worked reasonably well, and if I went though the trouble of identifying or putting together a bootable Linux distro with a desktop I really liked I could probably live with something like that as a permanent solution.

I'm not nearly as privacy conscious or paranoid as the author, so I'm satisfied with the convenience of a stateful laptop. I don't even have a screen lock when it wakes from sleep. If you want to use a stateless machine like the author describes, you're going to need a personal server or a cloud provider you really trust to keep your stuff.

Edit: ge0rg had already posted link to non-PDF version.
I use a combination of local git repos backed up using JottaCloud and GitHub Private Account.
His point was that sometimes business owners can get used to applying a template. It's a bookstore so it gets the bookstore template -- 4000 books and a coffee shop, right? Instead of applying this template, an owner with a pulse on the business can see what their customers are doing/buying/wanting and can change accordingly rather than apply a template.
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Exactly what I needed to read. Thank you!
The data that goes into the plot is unrelated to it's visual complexity.

The "problem" is that ggplot also takes care of the transformation/reduction step for you.

For example, a KDE plot can source potentially a limitless amount of data while still generating a very simple plot. Likewise for most smoothers.

However, if I have to produce the kde/smoothed line myself, I lose almost all advantages of using ggplot (I have to manually calculate the visual density, scaling and attaching labels is another PITA).

On top of that, as other have said, ggplot really struggles already with thousands of entries. A simple 5x5 faceted scatterplot with ~10k points might take seconds to render on recent hardware. When I plot data interactively for exploration, I might do this hundreds of times a day. I lose all the convenience just in the time wasted for rendering.
The ayatollahs got into control because the Shah used them to overthrow the parliament (Behbahani and Falsafi and finally Kashani), used them to attack the left etc. In fact, as I mentioned in another post, one of their first acts (1955) were the Shah and Falsafi conspiring to start an anti-Bahai campaign which caused riots which killed Bahai.

The US and shah and Savak did too well stamping out secularism, left-wing ideas, even liberal ideas about parliament, democracy etc. Eventually the ayatollahs and Bazaari etc. amassed great power, and turned on the Shah.

Mossadegh was never in the pocket of the ayatollahs, but he did try to qualm moderates like Kashani. But Kashani eventually turned on him (the hard-line preachers had far before).
Interviewer here: This profile features deepart.io founders Łukasz Kidziński & Michał Warchoł. They are both academic researchers by day. Possibly the most interesting part of our discussion was Łukasz' points about the use of Agile methods in academic research. At one point he asserts

"I believe that github is a better validation of scientific value than any journal peer-review process."

Hope you enjoy the profile article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_database

Mind you, in several programming languages objects can have instance-specific
methods (Ruby and Python being notable examples). This alone makes object
more than merely a sum of a predefined structure having data fields and (also
predefined) schema having functions to operate on those fields.
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Find a place that's easy to return to, buy +/-1 size, and return the ones that don't work. Bonus points if the extra sizes get you free shipping by inflating the order total above some minimum.
You will have a generous overall pension (public plus private/collective) and about 850K in additional savings if you save an additional 900/month. I'm being somewhat conservative in my estimates.

The pension alone should be enough to live and even travel on.
yea no funding for this project at the moment, just something I've been working on in my spare time.
The Imagenet-based networks already have bounding boxes to identify the region of interest. It's important, because many of the training images have multiple "things" in them, but in the '12 dataset, only one label. It's not as much "feature engineering" as "object discrimination in the training set".
The reason the Baha'i world center is in Haifa Israel is because the Persian authorities in the 1800's banished its founder outside its borders to the Ottomonan Empire next door. there was no Israel at the time. The mullahs just find it convenient to use as an excuse to discriminate and treat any non muslims as 2nd class citizens.
For that kind of task, you might want to filter out other things.

We should just be realistic.
We want to take real image, except it might be tinkered with, and make neural net tell us what we see on it, except we also want it to see what we can't see, and we want it to answer as accurate as possible, except we also want short and definitive answer.

We also kind of want it to admit that image always contains more than one thing, but kind of don't.
I can see that for a slot machine, but a laptop probably needs to do something more than that. Don't you want to run a browser? In this case you're locked into a specific browser version, and if someone figures out an exploit that allows an attacker to hijack your browser you have to replace the ROM.

Or do you only run SSH/VNC/RDP and connect to a desktop someplace else?
John Oliver did a segment on this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq785nJ0FXQ
Great comment. So, as I understand:

strategy 1 = idealism

strategy 2 = realism

strategy 3 = pragmatism
Or market volatility.

.... or much of anything, really.
absolutely you can connect to remote database. In the connection manager (cmd-o) click the 'Create' button, enter the remote address to your database in the host field and the port, username, password etc.. let me know if you have any issues
Also from the TV show Portlandia, which had an episode about shops selling a single item.
Don't bother. Don't even try. It will never happen to you.
I'm not sure you read the paper? The concern centered on all the flash/firmware compnents such as SPI flash and wifi/BT firmware, not just the OS or hard drive.
The idea proposed was to have SPI and all device firmware on a secure USB stick that you always keep with you..
This has been noted in the western press too. For example:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1...

Well, it says that an Islamic militia backed by the US gave up its arms to Al-Qaeda. Although two things to note with the sub-title "Moderate rebels in Syria that the US have armed and trained to fight jihadists have surrendered to al-Qaeda".

#1 - the adjective "moderate" is applied to the group. This is an Islamic militia whose origins were backed by the Muslim Brotherhood to create a government mimicking that of Mohammed's during the time of the caliphate. Would that be called moderate if they weren't in a strange alliance with the US?

#2 - not mentioned any where in the article is that some Harakat Hazm went over to Jabhat al-Nusra.
Once upon a time, most/many PCs had physical BIOS protection in the form of a jumper on the motherboard that would allow you to put the BIOS into a read-only state. However, we have now had many years where such control cannot be manually asserted by the end user, and the flash just sits there writable (although there are chipset-level firmware write protections, various hacks, like Dark Jedi, have found ways around them). Plus, apparently even when you pull down the WO pin on some flash chips, the hardware setting can still be overridden by software commands. The paper suggests, particularly with the more recent versions of Intel ME, that the PC architecture has now evolved to expect, and perhaps require, access to a writable BIOS (in part, because the ROM stores not only firmware, but also things like configuration settings and data for the new ME-implemented TPM).

Thus, we may not be able to simply go back to a ROM with today's architectures. However, we can give today's systems something that behaves like a writeable flash chip, but is readily (and automatically) reset to a clean/factory state.
yup exactly right, for now you'll have to do this until we do a real release of the app and codesign it Apple
Moving the bar from "This machine can be subverted by anybody who can access the SPI bus" to "This machine can be subverted by anybody who can solder on additional hardware that intercepts and modified bus activity" is still significant.
I really wish there was a good laptop that runs Qubes OS and has no BLOBS/closed code/firmware at all.
I do some research on this every now and then and always come up short. The Librem 15 was the last one I looked into but it had closed components. Something like the Novena can't run Qubes but would otherwise be ideal (I'd gladly give up some battery life, looks and whatnot for pure freedom)

If anyone happens to know a suitable candidate let me know. Wouldn't mind a bit of hardware replacing etc. if the lone closed component could be swapped out etc.
> The odds are several magnitudes greater that you'll get rich creating a technology business than playing the powerball.

This, of course, depends on the individual. Many people are completely inept at running a business and would do much better at powerball.
yea great idea, thanks! I'll submit a PR and see if the Electron guys will add it.
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I'm an African-American male based in Seattle. Code fellows is only a bus ride away from me but can't afford it. College is expensive. CodeFellows is expensive. Can barely live off Mim wage warehouse job.

Trying to jump-start your career and get into Web development as a low-income African male is a tough mission. Everyone else seems so privileged comparing to me. I want a career in Web development but see no hope right now. Financial barrier, even Udacity is charing now $200 per month per nano course! and I thought Udacity was the only way to make it into tech for someone like me until they got money hungry.

what is your advice?
yea edit document is a very new feature I'm just starting to work on, one of the last couple of things I'm hoping to finish up before a v1 release.
If you haven't seen Kelsey give a talk, well worth watching - really funny guy and intelligent. He gave one on Nomad and Kubernetes that's good.
Salaries in the US are much closer to those of in the EU once you factor in the cost of financing your own safety net. That's the counterpart of lower taxes.

Now if you're in the US and pretend to have an EU salary by stashing away a big chunk of it, then yes that is most desirable.
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The first major bloodletting of the Bahai in Iran was in 1955 - two years after the US and UK conspired to overthrow Iran's secular parliament and install the Shah, with the backing of the ayatollahs. In 1955, the Shah and his strong supporter, Ayatollah Falsafi, conspired in an anti-Bahai campaign which led to riots in Iran, Bahai deaths etc.

It's not surprising to me at all to see Americans overthrow a secular democracy, install an ayatollah-back dictator who less than two years later starts a bloody campaign against the Bahai...

...and then to see those same Americans shaking their heads in moral outrage how the Iranian ayatollahs (who they empowered) are persecuting the Bahai in the modern day.
In American football at all levels there are already severe disincentives for dangerous hits such as helmet-to-helmet collisions; these usually start at a 15 yard penalty and escalate to ejections and suspensions.
> The stick being external doesn't seem to provide much advantage otherwise, since if the laptop hardware is malicious it doesn't help, and if it is not malicious then an internal trusted stick equivalent works just as well.

You can take out the external USB and keep it in your pocket when you go someplace you wouldn't want to carry a laptop (eg. public bathroom). Whether this is necessary depends on how paranoid you want to be.
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I'm not from the US, so didn't know that, but it is stupid. Gambling and game of skill are not mutually exclusive. Gambling means that there is some variance, some risk involved. You gamble on the outcome. That doesn't mean you cannot develop a skillset which will make taking the risk profitable, over the long term. Any law that says otherwise is ill-written.
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> if you are in Iran, you are likely to end up in prison for any form of openly displaying an unwillingness to follow Islamic rules. If you should find yourself in Iran, my best advice is to leave at the earliest opportunity.

The problem is not only Iran, most countries with Muslim majorities have this problem. Yes, there are some exceptions though.

Also where should this people leave to? Just because they'd like to leave they are not entitled to be let in.

If you ask me: Stay in Iran or where ever you are right now and work on improving your own country and society.
Socioeconomic mobility in the United States is much lower than in other comparable counties.
We use something like this, and some of the issues we've had is that 3rd party libraries or such will kind of break as they will still read the device language - creating a mismatched experience for the user.
In portuguese we don't pronounce the "h" in some occasions, "hodor" is one of them.

"Odor" means "smell" in portuguese.
Yes, Intel might do that, but "circumventing the circumvention" is practically describing Intel making the change as some kind of malicious/hostile actor that wants to facilitate you being the victim of a BIOS hack. I don't think that is what is happening, but the current architecture does have undesirable consequences. Rotkowska's proposal doesn't really "circumvent" anything Intel is doing - it mainly allows the end user to assert a clean BIOS state.