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I think I understand why people agree with this course of action. I get why at some point you'd be for a proper cleanup of the place you live in.

The main problem I see with it though is that soon someone will say you are a drug dealer. Or that weird people are coming to your house. Or that at some point the actual evil people will arrange drug deals near people they want to get rid of. And then you'll really want a fair process. If you start a red scare equivalent, then suddenly every neighbour may be a communist.
This seems like a really good resource but as another poster mentioned, it is unfinished and going from the GitHub there hasn't been any work done on it since December 2015. Of course, the developer may well return to it or a fork may overtake it. Let's see.

https://github.com/hal3/ciml/graphs/contributors?from=2015-0...
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Essential life habits: reduce, reuse. Do I need to buy a new thing? Do I have space for the new thing? (housing floor space costs a lot here) Am I really going to get good use out of it? Can I just use the old one or buy something good enough from a charity shop? Can I make do with the $2 Chinese electronics solution?

Beyond that, review your regular expenses. Anything daily or monthly. Is that subscription still good value? Mortgage interest rate and payment schedule optimal?

About once a year or two I'll pile my downloaded bank transactions into a spreadsheet and look at the biggest categories.

I'll also reccomend moneysavingexpert.com to anyone; UK-focused but great general advice. I'm not a big fan of coupons as they're mostly a way of getting me to buy things I wouldn't otherwise, which isn't actually a saving.
Pray tell, what context justifies arbitrary lynchings, summary executions, extrajudicial capital punishment, and an overall disrespect for human life?

Probably the same one that justifies invading countries on flimsy excuses, setting up your own local dictator, and then continuingto bomb the shit out of people when things do not go as you promised your subjects. Shall we roll the clock back a bit and talk about the wonderful "arbitrary lynchings, summary executions, extrajudicial capital punishment, and an overall disrespect for human life" that were the hallmarks of European colonialism?

Perhaps it's the view from the high horse I'm sitting on, but when I look throughout europe I don't see nations with major drug problems, and they haven't fixed any problems they had with assassinations.

Your high horse stands upon a hill of corpses. When I look throughout Europe I see nations that have spent millenia creating problems for other people outside Europe, then washing thier hands of the problem when no one is looking, moralizing to each other about those poor stupid brown people, and then repeating the process.

Physician, heal thyself or STFU.
Austrália and US are a great example of democracy and miscegenation. Bad lucky to the "rhodesian people", they didn't killed enough natives to win the land and Institute "democracy".
SQL uses a natural language syntax.

Regarding your first question - In English, most people would agree that "grab the beer from the fridge" is more natural than "from the fridge grab the beer". For what it's worth I've always considered this aspect of SQL maddening and I always start with SELECT * and work my way back later.

Regarding your second, this is probably because FROM means something different from JOIN. FROM indicates you are starting a block of JOINED tables. Technically if the syntax wasn't natural it might look like:

SELECT *
FROM
JOIN FOO ON NOTHING
JOIN BAR ON FOO.ID = BAR.FooID

Given how annoyingly verbose the syntax is already I'm happy to go with what we were given.
If you like audio, Stonebreaker's interview on Software Engineering Radio is opinionated, excellent, and I think it will answer that question:

http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra...
I just really don't understand the whole self-driving car craze. What is so attractive about it? Why do people want it so badly? Personally, I like driving, rarely even use cruise control. I would never fully trust these auto-pilots. Ever. So what's the point? If I can't crawl into the backseat and take a nap and wake up at my destination, then what's the use?
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The most likely reason I see for them disabling the feature in OTA would be if countries pass legislation forcing them to. In that case, the car owner would likely not have recourse like in the PS/Linux case since they were legally required to remove it.

To be honest, I'm really surprised this hasn't happened in EU countries. If you'd asked me 10 years ago whether the EU would allow their entire road system to be used for a public beta test of half-baked semi-auto driving systems, I'd have said there is no way. Yet tesla just went ahead and pushed that feature out in a firmware update and noone really seems to have challenged them on it. I expect with this recent coverage, we'll see that.
Suppose I'm driving a "normal" car. I have my hands on the wheel, but I am reading a book. I hit a tree.

Is the auto-maker responsible? They advertised the car as having cruise control.

Call me old, but I remember similar hysteria when cruise control systems started appearing. People honestly thought it would be like autopilot or better - and ploughed into highway dividers, forests, other traffic, you name it, at 55mph.
There are some tweaks from airline to airline, but anyone who flies regularly has seen this general outline of events occur countless times.

An attack can be designed against any vulnerability. Whether that attack becomes practically executable remains to be seen.
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Let's get to some definitions here. Is a country democratic if it has local elections and at the same time segreggate their own and drone other nations - while removing democratically elected presidents ?
Okay, so a Chrome Extension that interrupts the user at the checkout stage when buying luxury items?

The interruption could range from a simple nag screen, to an enforced cooling-off period before you can proceed with the purchase. Perhaps in the future the user could opt to move the money from their current account into a savings account instead of making the purchase.

Or maybe not even let them purchase at all so you have to use your smartphone to buy anything online. PITA; makes you think twice.
Plus - if the police /really/ know he's guilty, he'll be watched, and probably caught again.

Especially for drug crimes. The customers still want the product and the sellers still need to pay their bills so if they don't clean themselves up (which is a win-win since it didn't require prison or some else that's expensive or disruptive) they'll come back to the attention of authorities.
Agreed, but there's also a fine line between frugality and being cheap. You should optimize what you get for the money, not lower your quality of life in an unsustainable way.
I upvoted you because you're right with regards to UBI as it's argued for in places like this forum. The same arguments were true the first time these ideas were proposed when it was called Social Credit. However, I suspect that replacing patchwork welfare and social programs with a simplified negative income tax[1] or expansion of the earned income tax credit is a plausible path that could lead towards something like a UBI. This would be welfare-level support, not provide a 'living wage', and not pay out money to anyone who was earning above a basic threshold (at which point they would be paying a positive income tax, just like today).

Once something like this is in place I could see the needle being moved over time if the sort of automation that machines give us in the coming decades really is categorically different from the sort of automation that machines have given us in the past 2 centuries (debatable).

[1] http://www.economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/11...
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you might look into helping people save people money on their work commute. i save something like 232 euro each month by commuting outside of peak rail times (meaning i spend just 99 euro each month on this). but I'm not sure what the costs are for other options (if i bike it would cost more time, if i get a car then there is a number of costs to take into account). an app might analyse all the options and give people a good overview of the pros and cons.
This app changed literally my life. YNAB! https://www.youneedabudget.com

It takes time to get used to, but after 6 years on and off, I am using it for the last 8 months regularly, and I already saved enough money for the next 4 months in advance.

This, and in addition, read https://www.amazon.com/Early-Retirement-Extreme-philosophica...

You don't need more, trust me.

But, of course, what these two have in common, is simply:

1. Spend much less than you earn
2. Try to just spend 30-40% of your income, but an emergency fund which stores 6 month worth of money, and then invest the saved money.

What I recommend, is a little game:
1. Don't eat out for a whole month
2. Don't do any big purchases for a whole month

You will see how much many you usually spend, and how your mind is triggering you to buy things. It will be really hard, so instead of thinking about "oh no, I shouldn't buy this", just write a note on a piece of paper everytime you want to buy something.

At the end of the month, you will see how "stupid" you were to want a certain things. If a certain things come up on this list over and over, then maybe it could be useful.
> THE BOSS, vigilante or his partner. Who knows...

You don't see a problem with that?

How do you know he even was a drug lord (other than that conspicuous sign)?
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This is cool. Jupiter is easy to spot with the naked eye, as it's the second brightest object in the night sky after Venus (obviously, excluding the moon when lit). You can even see some of its moons with some basic optics.

To think there is a probe there now is a pretty powerful image to inspire children. Something we couldn't do with the recent Pluto visit, as awesome as that was.
I think you mean the Daschner-case in your last paragraph, if so, small correction: He only threatened the suspect with torture and didn't actually do it, and reported himself for doing so. He was sentenced very mildly, but the court made clear that there was no way for it to be legal.
"A dozen or two per year" is one or two a month. Do you not consider that a lot?
The issue is that the data was gathered without a warrant, making it inadmissible.

In cases like this where it sounds like a number was found in a known drug dealer's phone, I can't imagine they would have had much trouble getting a judge to sign a warrant to track the phone?
> Is a country democratic if it has local elections and at the same time segreggate their own and drone other nations - while removing democratically elected presidents ?

I assume you're referring to America. And my answer would be that yes, as abhorrent as segregation, drone strikes and backing coups in other countries is, that doesn't nullify the elections held within that country. It's still a democracy.
I look for the critical bottlenecks in the application where the cost of failure or mistakes is fairly high. This is where I feel I will get the most "bang for the buck" so to speak.

You don't have to specify the entire application to get the benefit of high level specifications. Even specifying the protocol between two communicating channels can bring benefits.
It's their BAC and amount of sleep I don't trust. Also the prescription medication, the status of any relationships they might have, and the competency of their managers.
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True but what presidential nominees are willing to say has very little to do with what they will do if elected. The biggest danger of Trump is probably that he doesn't seem to have any consistent agenda.

Clinton seems rather straightforward: you can look back at her political career and what she did as Secretary of State to figure out where she's headed; you have no such luxury with Trump.
Even then, the pilots usually have more than a second to react. As fast as planes fly, they're high enough and there's plenty of empty space around them when they're cruising.
How do you get that from the article? 30 killed since June 30 and calling on people to kill addicts themselves as it would be too hard for the parents. Describing addicts mothers as whores. How does this indicate judicial process?
That's 400 stacked images, but still, very impressive.
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The cost of swerving is very, very minimal (especially in a modern car that won't go sideways no matter what you do).

Imagine a two lane road with a car traveling toward an obstruction in its lane. The distance required to get the car out of the obstructed lane via the steering wheel is much less than stopping it via the brakes.

There's a reason performance driving has the concept of brakes being an aid to your steering wheel as opposed to being operated as a standalone system.
The 3DS is a huge success too.
Everyone is ultimately responsible for themselves. You can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped and isn't willing to take responsibility for themselves.
Could you explain this further? The president's comments are straight up scary and the police actions seem to way overstep human rights.
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The problem with the hypothesis DB Cooper died is that, where was the corresponding missing person report a few days later? The FBI profilers think that the hijacker held a job, and that's why he picked the day leading into a four day weekend; so he had time to return to the job without raising suspicion. Assuming that's an accurate profile, then surely at least one person (workmate or family member) would file a missing person report within days of the hijacking. But there's no mention of this on the DB Cooper wiki page.
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The number of apologists for what's happening is pretty alarming. When did these sorts of things start getting justified here? It's happening with anything mentioning China too.
How's that work when you set passwords according to id?
Upvoted for the mosquito-killing billboard. According to the article, plans are freely available and you can build one yourself for a couple hundred dollars.
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Wow, I found that surprisingly difficult. I noticed that when I read code, I optimize my attention for bugs _I_ make, which are often of a different nature than the bugs that this static analyzer finds. Clearly, I have to work on my bug awareness.
> Judicial process
30 killed since June 30. Things seem to move fast in those judicial circles.
Yeah, not at all convinced. As I mentioned in another comment, where was the corresponding missing persons report a few days later? Surely someone as "professional" as DB Cooper, who the FBI even insisted picked the day prior to a four day weekend so he would have time to return to work, would have at least one relative or colleague that would notice when he went missing.
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The illustrated guide to law is fascinating and enjoyable [1] . For americans, at least, the whole thing is pretty wonderful.

There is a whole section on criminal procedure. The gist is, the police are expected to cross the line, infringing on rights on a fairly regular basis. It's up to the courts to throw out the excessive or egregious uses of power. Which, when you think about it, makes a lot of sense. They shouldn't step way over the line, ever. but you want police to push hard to find the "bad guys". sometimes they go excessively far and the bad guys go free. The thinking is, sometimes pushing to hard, and letting people go (innocent or not!) is preferable to timid officers that don't approach the line at all. We all want the "bad guys" to get caught.

It's whole different sections of government that decide where the line is. The police should push using every tool they have until the courts or the legislature say it's to much. You won't find a police officer, DA, defense attorney or judge that says the system is perfect. I think it's a pretty good heuristic though, the innocent pay a (hopefully) small price from time to time, in exchange more "bad guys" get caught.

[1] http://lawcomic.net/
The freedoms that you are asking for necessarily involve the coercion of other people in order to ensure them.

That's suspect to me.
Reminds me a bit of Groupon etc - its easy to get revenue when you're selling dimes for dollars.

Fixed costs are presumably low, so it can't be scale that would lead to profitability.

Utilisation rates? I've not heard a lot on if rates could come down to compensate for more passenger-miles. But of course a fair bit of the cost must be tied to passenger-miles.

Intentional avoidance of profit by acquiring or R&D? I suppose this could be the play for self-driving cars in the future. As you say, automated cars seem to be the easiest way to drop the passenger-mile cost. But I don't know if automated cars will be a winner-takes-all market, at least globally and in a way that would lead to monopoly-like profitability.
> You can't _claim_ guilt, you need proof, and to get proof you need due process.

You don't need it when you are at war. Killing people is normal during a wa even without evidence.
I did a test for VMWare player verses Virtualbox and its no competition, VMWare is hands down a lot faster especially on anything GUI. I like what Virtualbox gives us but the performance is a problem.
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I despise bureaucracy as much as the next person, but replacing welfare programs with negative income tax will not work. There are just too many people and too little money. Welfare programs are specific and target select audience; targeting broad audience will just spread the money to wafer-thin levels.

Concerning the automation and sudden increases in productivity — but this was exactly the very same promise that full-scale Communism was expected to deliver in Soviet Union. It was reiterated in internal propaganda endlessly (I still remember that). As every ex-Soviet person knows well, the full-scale Communism (with free basic income, fully automated factories and cities of the future) was promised as early as 1980. Now it is called "post-scarcity".

It wasn't delivered then, and I doubt it will be delivered this century.
A major problem is that since many of the police are involved in the drug trade it becomes open season on their adversaries. Same thing happened in Thailand when Thaksin first because prime minister and declared open war on drug dealers. There were 2,500 extra-judicial killings, many of which were retaliation for drug deals gone bad and some just revenge killings of people who weren't even involved in the drug trade. There's bound to be a lot of the same thing in the Philippines.
> I know that one of those structures was renamed after Ed Koch

Just in case it was bugging you: The 59th St bridge is officially the "Ed Koch Queensboro bridge," but totally correct that nobody calls it that. Sometimes you'll hear it called "Queensboro bridge," though.

They also keep trying to get everyone to call the Triborough bridge "RFK bridge" (they even officially renamed the bridge), but I think it'll be a cold day in hell before people actually start using that name.
Also some of the drug dealers have surrendered and been killed anyway http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/09/16/oplan-tokhang-surrende...
This still seems to have a water to go, but it looks quite promising. Thanks.
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It sounds like IOCP on Windows. For example, asyncio.ProactorEventLoop and multiprocessing's PipeConnection can use it.
So You're agreeing with me that this is bullshit and US is not a democracy? After all, Obama was elected to halt Wars and we are on the brink of WWIII. You vote but don't get what you elect. Now, if we add big money to the sum, I would say the American polítical regime is the worst in the world.
Anecdotal, but the people I know who have messed with brain hacking did not do it to treat anxiety but because they believe it makes them better at learning stuff. Precisely because of the effect described in this letter - they read a couple of studies that sound very positive and think this is something they could easily do at home.

I doubt we can get any real numbers about the motivation behind DIY tDCS. But I'm glad this was written.
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Could this new marketing tech change the way people sell online?
Why is it whenever we're discussing UBER/Lyft, everybody forgets the shared rides model(2+ passengers per car)? a model that has pretty strong network effects once achieved, and that may be a decent alternative to the private car, even without self-driving.
>Is the auto-maker responsible?

Why would the auto-maker be responsible for your distracted driving, and what does it have to do with cruise control?

Some of the uproar about these incidents is related to the fact that Tesla marketing is implying far more automation and safety here than the technology can actually provide. And apparently it can cost lives.
From NASA (no paywall, more info on mission):

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-spacecraft-send...
You could contact a well known security expert that does this kind of stuff professionally, unless you want to make a name for yourself.
I am using this spreadsheet https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2tymvf/poo... for budgeting
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There is no war. There is nothing even close to a war zone. If you consider the society threatened on such a level there are steps to be taken, like declaring the martial law and such. But this... is just madness to me, covered by populist propaganda!
That's a luxury! Try finding a bug in an obfuscated binary, without access to the source code or even header files, that implements anti-debugger techniques to crash or behave differently upon first detection of a debugger.
I don't see any ethical problem with people doing experiments on themselves. That said, they should know what they're getting themselves in for, so I applaud these researchers for highlighting the dangers.

> One could say "they shouldn't be doing that", but don't researchers want their results to be used for something, or is it just about publication?

I imagine they would like their results to be used for positive purposes. If people are misapplying the methods and permanently damaging themselves, I doubt the scientists are super happy about that just because their research got applied somewhere.
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I've always liked artists' sketchbooks and planning/draft work. The book Revlations: Diane Arbus with her daughter Doon Arbus' commentary includes notebooks, letters, assignment briefs and other ephemera. You might be able to see a copy in a good bookshop's photography section.

Arbus used a twin lens reflex film camera that took large square negatives for her later work - the work mentioned in the OA. You look down into the viewfinder of a TLR and you see an image already framed and abstracted from your surroundings, and the perspective is that of an 8 year old (waist height camera position usually).
The thought of running out of money can often be a great motivator.
I don't think mine ran at 10fps, but definitely felt laggy. Especially rendering Firefox.