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> This way, isn't money (up to 100k euros) considered safe in your view?

Not if they're in a greek account, for sure. They're better off in an account in a north-western EU country, but the Euro may still fail catastrophically.

Anyway, it's not about weighing risks, the GP was making a rhetorical point about being perfectly safe. Nothing is perfectly safe. For anything less that €100k, a bank account is a very safe place, and you can probably get a savings account that tracks reasonably closely to inflation. But it's not "making just a bit of a money while taking zero risk", it's "possibly breaking even with inflation, while taking microscopic risk". Unless you're only holding the money for a very short period of time, you're almost certainly better off sticking it in an investment vehicle with an acceptable (non-zero) risk profile.
WikiQuote is quite reliable, despite what you'd think. If I hear a quote and want to know who actually said it, WikiQuote usually has the answer, or can at least tell me it was misattributed.
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Well. I think you might be getting a little bit too eager with your reductionist approach to mental illness. Sure there is a large genetic component to schizophrenia - I was terrified for years that I might have it because my mother did. I think it more likely that shizophrenia is a heterogenous illness - there are many pathways to the same disease state. It is quite a bold statement to say that none of these pathways are in any way effected by the environment in which we develop. Especially given what we know about the association between early traumatic experiences and various disease states.

It may not fit nicely into your mental model of the world, but biology is extremely messy business. It appears that biological systems, although heirachical and modular are, unlike human engineering, highly interconnected across all the levels. Particularly: The health of the mind effects the health of the body and the health of the body effects the health of the mind. If you do not believe this you have not learnt enough, or like many, you have ideoligical issues with this reality.
It's an old city, with a lot of old infrastructure that was never updated, corrupt government, and no money. Have you seen some of the stories about the Detroit public schools? No heat, leaking roofs, infested with rodents and cockroaches, etc. The place has so many problems that it's hard to focus on any one of them.
Think of how easy it is to spin that politically. "Why did crime rates go up? Because 20% of our patrol officers were stuck in a garage waiting for camera techs at any given time."

Also remember that many American cities finances are in a shambles (and Chicago is a prime example). Hiring enough techs or more officers to make up the difference your rules will require is simply not an option.

I don't disagree with the sentiment, and I hope federal law starts to treat police camera tampering as a major offense, but there is not an easy technical fix to the problem.
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>I think it is good he cannot see secrets, he doesn't need to, he has staff for that.

I think you're underestimating how important classified material is in the day-to-day operations of the military. He doesn't have access to any classified material, even down to the CONFIDENTIAL level. Every U.S. Navy officer has at least a SECRET clearance as the "default," and a ensign would be hard-pressed to work without a clearance, let alone a 3-Star.
Sounds kinda familiar. No medication for me, but I'm a software engineer, focused driver, commercial multi-engine pilot. Not sure ADHD is a disability, just some traits that evolved that helped ensure survival.
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Maturity?

You see this as a prank?

I think you're on the wrong foot here. The premise of the cameras was not that they were there for decorative effect as some sort of symbol to be vandalized.

I see it as a majority of the Chicago police force destroying evidence and equipment necessary to investigate their actions. This is open rebellion with the intent to escape justice - though for what crime specifically we may never know.

Any proveably "deliberate" tampering should end in a firing, revocation of pension, and then court case brought against them. Any deliberate tampering during which the officer sustains a complaint against them? Enter this into presumptive evidence against the officer and recommend prosecution. We started monitoring the officer because it turns out they can't be trusted as much as we thought - slipping our monitoring and destroying our property is an overtly hostile act, the same as openly slitting the tires of an Internal Affairs agent in the process of investigating the officer.

To deter it in the future: ramp up the random checks (you did have random checks... right? I should be able to pick a random time and download footage) and enter in punitive fines for poorly maintained or operated cameras; Raise salary slightly to make it budget-neutral, but pay for prompt repair first.
I'm also intrigued, and seemingly let down, by folks with degrees in "Cyber {defense|analysis|warfare}". These degrees are always laid out on a resume with other super-sexy sounding credentials and accolades. Unfortunately, the interviews always seem to reveal a lot of (sometimes serious) technical gaps. The only reliable indicators I've come to find for technical and engineering acumen are curiosity and experience. These sexy sounding degrees are starting to become indicators of candidates that don't meet requirements.
A big part of the problem is our system is set up to favor the governent-- when there's a trial, the judge, the prosecutor, the cops (who handle and control all the evidence) the lab (many scandals in the past 40 years about fraudulent lab work) all work for the government. Even your lawyer is compromised by not being allowed to make certain arguments and the risk of offending the judge (Who there will be future cases before.) The jury are given blatantly tampering instructions from the judge, eliminating much of the value of an independent jury system.

So, who is going to try cops when they are corrupt?

By what mechanism can we the people enforce the law on our own government?

It seems silly to go before our own government and beg for them to obey their own laws.

Sometimes we get lucky- like gay marriage- but how many decades did that take? It was 1980s when the supreme court ruled that sodomy could be criminalized on the basis of "a thousand years of christian tradition" (namely NOT on the basis of the constitution.)

So of course, we will continue to see more and more corruption until like AIDS is now, and the wars overseas -- the news simply stops reporting about it, because it has become the background noise of the society we live in.

That's going the wrong direction.

I'm far more afraid of being killed by a random cop than I am by Walmart or anything in walmart. They all have an incentive to keep me safe so I'll keep buying. They would face consequences (not even criminal, just market consequences) if they were killing people.

Cops on the other hand, they get away with it. And blatantly do day in and day out.
In the US, the success of big-pocket troll-crackers is a a body of legal precedence that smaller defendants can use to more easily defend themselves.

If you don't have the money or bad-ass legal team to break new legal ground, you cheer from your soul that big firms with the money and bad-ass legal team are going to go and do it for you.

That's why I'm encouraged.
Complete eradication of mosquitoes would be counter productive, especially given that mosquitoes are a major reason some places such as tropical forests have low human activity - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35408835. Selectively countering the harmful traits of mosquitoes appears to be the best way to go about it.
While the modern state is indeed stable, environmental change has an impact even if not through apocalyptic natural disaster.

A long term drought contributed to the civil war in Syria[1]. It may be the first of many around the world.

Both Ebola and Zika are exacerbated by global climate change[2][3].

According to the link, Egypt survived as a state for a century longer before it too fell. That was after transforming from a civil society to martial law. With the threat to pregnancy posed by Zika, I'm reminded of the propaganda in "Children of Men": "The World Has Collapsed: Only Britain Soldiers On"

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links-...

2. http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2014/09/04/how-climate-change-i...

3. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/20/10795562/zika-virus-cdc-mosquit...
Until police are jailed for this, nothing will improve.

What's the US equivalent of the Independent Police Complaints Commission?
I upvoted the issue :D
Author here. So yeah: site seals link to useful info, but their UI doesn't encourage users to click on it: instead it expects users to use the presence of an image in the browsers content area as a source of trust.

Most of HN already knows that, so more importantly:

- The reason the site seal uses JS (rather than a simple link) is that the link is actually to the CA's sales page, not the site report - there's no 'nofollow' so it's a massive search engine rank boost to the CA.

- There's a bunch of studies from non-security industry sources about how 'site seals' actually impact conversions. Some are positive, some are negative, but the biggest takeaway is that 'site seals' increasing conversations is by no means a foregone conclusion:

http://info.usertesting.com/OnDemandWebinarOptimizeYourWebFo...

http://www.widerfunnel.com/conversion-rate-optimization/do-m...

http://www.getelastic.com/best-practice-gone-bad-4-shocking-...

https://vwo.com/blog/website-credibility-and-conversion-kill...

http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/10/31/the-7-things-every-gre...

http://blog.optimizely.com/2013/12/08/ab-test-assumption-sec...

https://econsultancy.com/blog/5499-why-good-checkout-design-...

https://econsultancy.com/blog/7941-which-e-commerce-trustmar...

http://baymard.com/blog/site-seal-trust
It seems that Brazil likes a lot to modify insects, they did it too with the Africanized bees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee
Imagine going on a road trip in suit and tie! Culturally, it is such a different landscape, but it is not so many years ago!
"He adds that no one counseled him not to attend, and nobody has questioned his right to call himself a doctor."

This is the second or third article I've read (from Vice) on this subject, and there's never any discussion of the process of getting a PhD. You don't get one for taking classes, or for taking tests. If I can't find a copy of your dissertation and at least one published article, I'm very much going to question your doctorhood.
I think it's also worth noting that (at least in the United States) Psychiatrists and Neurologist share a certifying body -- The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. What's the big difference between the two specialties? When we understand the mechanism it slowly becomes neurology. This "slowly nibbling away" is by design.
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Looks really very intriguing, I'm not about to install Windows to play it though - it doesn't seem there is a Mac / Linux version available?
Many people think that but archeological evidence says the contrary. Caries only started showing up in humans 3000-4000 years ago when we started doing agriculture and eating cereals.

Before that we practically didn't had caries (just like wild animals also don't).

Throughout human history humans would have the full set of teeth in the vast majority of cases, until we started settling and switched from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society (which is a very recent time in human species development).
It's actually fairly common for military members to lose their clearances temporarily pending the results of an investigation.
Apparently it's coming to iOS some time in the future.
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And lose...

If they have to pay the other side if they lose, there would be a lot less lawsuits, so in the end it probably evens out in terms of strain on the legal system.
I've spent enough time with psychiatrists that I just rattle off "I have ADHD Inattentive Type" to avoid riling feathers.
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Thanks for the information. I've also got some healthy skepticism that they've really figured out this last mile problem. But even if it ends up being an option with drawbacks, hopefully the competition turns the current monopoly market on its head.
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The problem is he's not yet cleared from the still-ongoing federal case. The feds need to release him from that before the adjudication authority can make a decision.
Here, cheated doesn't mean "cheated at chess", but rather "cheated at having the computer play Kasparov unaided"
That's perfectly normal.

If you don't like something, you are much more likely to vent than when you like it. Besides, it's a new release, so those who like it are still busy playing it.
I had a lower back injury at about that age resulting in a ruptured disk. It was debilitating and required surgery. The surgery worked wonders but, unsurprisingly, I've had intermittent back trouble in the decades since then.

I've had two periods of my life where I've been free from back problems for extended periods. The first was when I was doing aikido. There was some minimal warm up stretching, but the main thing was that practice involved a lot of range of motion. Despite seemingly bad things like awkward positions and getting thrown and hitting the ground hard, I had no back problems at all during that time. The second time was when I was lifting free weights. Squats and deadlifts (done correctly) strengthen the support infrastructure for the back (and everything else). During both of those regimens I also lost a fair amount of fat. (I actually gained weight while lifting but my wife remarked that I looked thinner).

I think that many kinds of exercise could have similar effects. Yoga, anyone? Maybe Tai Chi? Man, I need to get back to doing something regularly again!
if you want multiplatform support (or just really like c#/VS), xamarin can be a good choice for an hobby app.

Otherwise, Kotlin borrows many niceties with c# and allows you to directly use the platform APIs.
The biggest advertising agency holding WPP spent $1 billion with Facebook and $4 billion with Google in 2015 [1]. Both figures are up compared to 2014, by 56% on FB and by 38% on Google, so the growth of advertising budgets on Facebook was faster, but Google still dominated.

What's impressive is that WPP alone brings in around 5-6% of both internet giants revenue. I wonder how the few multinational advertising giants (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis etc) compare to a long tail of local agencies and individual advertisers.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/wpp-google-and-facebook-spend...
This sounds like a problem with how contracts are written. They should be requiring that any degrees cited to fill contract qualification requirements come from an accredited university. That would at least take care of the worst cases. Some accredited schools with well known and prestigious names also operate diploma mills because they know large companies will pay for students to get advanced degrees.

In the wider sense I don't think this is a problem just in government though. Dubious and outright false credentials are a problem in industry too (ie: An HP CEO had to resign after it was found his advanced degree was fabricated.)

The bigger question maybe that if the person can perform at a certain level does it really matter what degree they have? At the same time dishonesty shouldn't be allowed just because the current system isn't ideal.
Coming to iOS "in a couple of months", other platforms later.

Currently Windows and PS4 only.
Boring:

1. Meetings

2. Waiting for an hour or so every other day before you can leave the work since you already done everything for today and don't feel like coding anymore today.

Frustrating:

1. Corruption

2. Incompetent people (see 1)
Ask HN: Can a Federal Security Clearance Help Me Get Work in the Dev Field?
I worked for the fed for about five years in a non software/programming analyst position out of grad school. I had my analyst job and because of Agency policy they let me spend 20% of my time on side projects in the Agency if I wanted. I chose software development for that because I learned to program on the side and wanted to get a little experience. It was mostly database stuff, rewriting super old internal database software, nothing fancy and I was just learning.

I left the fed to move to a new location to take another job in my actual field. But the new job also give me a lot of downtime to learn on the side, just not officially. So I have continued my programming learning. I would say I'm pretty good in languages like C/Python/JavaScript and some various associated frameworks.

The end goal is to be able to move around and work remotely totally, not to move back to the DC area.

I have a "Secret" security clearance, and I'm told it will last 2 or 3 years (it's been 5 months since I left). I've heard these clearances can help get jobs, especially in the DC area (where I am not going back).

Given my situation, can a clearance help me get remote work in any way?
Isn't it like those ill-defined puzzles where you need to say what number comes next? Any number can come next.
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> However, individuals who buy and hold investments, including those who invest in index funds that trade infrequently

Wait, how is that possible? Are the underlying trades that make up the index not taxed? Do the funds receive some sort exemption? If so, how do I become an entity like that?

Seems to me that as an "average" investor I'm going to get taxed 3 times now. The underlying index trades, my own entry and exit from the index and on the gains from the trade (hopefully). Wouldn't it be simpler to just tax the gains as we do now at a higher rate?

[Later] On second thought this is even worse for folks like me (whether I count as "average" or not I don't know). Most of my trading portfolio exists in the form of index funds in tax deferred accounts. My long hold of those index funds now acts as a back door for lots of taxation that is less obvious.
Why would they need an incentive when they already continue to work on their own?
You're going to have to wait a long time ... the problem is would you develop something on a OS that represents 0.5% of your market ? it often doesn't make sense financially. Things may get better, ironically, since MS seems to be invested in porting its tools and frameworks to Linux, so popular game engines and SDKs might finally be available on the platform.
Mine is waiting for ElasticSearch reindex after changing one number to see actual difference in fuzzy-matched search results. 7 minutes is a long time when you need to do it multiple times a day. (While I am typing this, ElasticSearch is reindexing - again)

Also, coffee machine is too far away.
I think his point is that it's very easy to create a lossless input representation of the Go board, and the ultimate loss function is obvious. We're then left with a large sequential prediction task. Previous learning algorithms were stumped by the non-linearities, but this is exactly the situation where deep learning shines.

The problem changes dramatically when the AI is supposed to take arbitrary input from the world. Then the AI needs to determine what input to collect, and the path length connecting its decisions to its reward grows enormously.

I still agree with your take though: there's an important milestone here.
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That's not the irk. Rude behavior isn't suddenly polite just because I have great security. The spirit of donating server time to the ntp.org pool is not to use the data for your own self promotion.
There is no national body that oversees police, but Chicago has the Independent Police Review Authority. However IPRA rarely upholds complaints against police (it's staffed by ex-cops and other people connected to the police), and recently an investigator was fired after finding a shooting unjustified[1].

[1] http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-investigator-who-found-c...
I have read somewhere about a theory that the invulnerability of Achilles might have been down to iron armour being used against bronze weapons.
The spin on the other side would be just as intuitive: "Our police officers are more concerned with getting away with abuse of power than following the law they're supposed to enforce, and as a result, tens (to hundreds) of millions in taxpayer money is being spent on lawsuit payouts, essentially a bailout for bad behavior."

While I agree that cameras should be required and intentional tampering a crime, I think behaviors would change much more quickly if laws were put in place to dock pensions and pay across the board to compensate for lawsuits of wrongful death and the like. Suddenly the "blue wall of silence" would become a very vocal supporter of police reform to identify and get rid of bad apples that threaten everybody's pension. Incentives are very powerful tools for changing behavior, much more powerful than blanket force by bodycam laws.
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"A long term drought contributed to the civil war in Syria". Maybe. However, two planned competing and mutually exclusive major oil pipelines, both routing through Syria, each sponsored by a different superpower, are likely to have led to the civil war even if the area had been an environmental paradise.
Pretty much this. It isn't a very good game. It's padded to kingdom come, there is a lack of motivation to keep going and no music kills any atmosphere it might potentially create.
Yes, reindexing ES is a pain in the ass. While it is reindexing, I constantly stare at the screen asking myself "Why the f* do you have to reindex, I just added a field to the mapping you f* piece of sh* moronic database".
For anyone getting up to date with language AI, taliesinb recommended this paper as "a real eye-opener" in the discussion about Google's Go AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984973 :

"A Cognitive Neural Architecture Able to Learn and Communicate through Natural Language"

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourna...

It uses a more complex (I daresay more advanced) model than the LSTM paper you linked, a model that can be trained to learn and use language constructs (in his words, "mimic certain kinds of child-level cognition with TINY amounts of training data"). Definitely worth a read.

This ANNABELL model doesn't require much training input to go from blank slate to conversation-capable (1587 input sentences -> 521 output sentences; see Appendix S1 for examples). This high learning efficiency might imply that it indeed resembles language-processing architecture in humans (which it was modelled after). At the low level it's also neurons, but organised and connected into specific, planned subsystems.

A key point is that the central executive (i.e. the core, which controls the flow of data between slave systems) is a trainable neural network itself, which learns to generate the "mental actions" that control the flow of data between slave systems (like short-term and long-term memory), rather than rely on fixed rules to control the flow. This apparently allows the system to generalise.
I hear his account got hacked but I don't know whether it was before the quote or before the denial
Not even remotely.